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Evening star., 1941-01-05
Mrs. Speel to Speak
On Party LOYALTY

Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Re-
publican national committeewoman
for the District, will speak on Party
Loyalty" at the monthly meeting of
the District League of Republican
Women tomorrow at 2:30 pm. at
the Mayf1ower Hotel A board meet
ing will be held tomorrow at II
am, at the clubhouse, 1901 Seven
teenth street NV.
The first of a series of book re-
views will be presented by Mrs. May
NORM at the clubhouse Tuesday at
$3.50 pm. She will speak on World S
End by Upton B. Sinclair.
Mrs. Roy o. Woodruff, wife of
Representative Woodruff of Michi-
gan, will be the guest of honor at
the tea to follow. Mrs. Henry Albers,
Miss Grace C. Burton. Mrs. G. Louis
Weller and Mrs. Charles w. Warden
will preside at the tea table.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
.One.Act Melodrama
To Be Given Before
Chevy Chase Women

A One-act melodrama directed
by Mrs. Harry F. Lowe will be one
of the features of a meeting of the
drama section of the Woman's Club
of Chevy Chase tomorrow at 8:15
pm. at the clubhouse.
A demonstration of theatrical
makeup will be presented by Mrs.
Irving M. Day, Mrs. Ross Gum and
Frederick M. Kerby. Members of
the music section, directed by Mrs.
Gum, will present an "entr,acte."
A joint meeting of the art, in
ternational relations and nature
section of the club will be held
Wednesday at $3.50 pm. for a show
Ing OF technicolor films by Mark
Lansburgh, with Mrs. Lansburgh
giving an explanatory talk. The
pictures, which were taken by Mr..
Lansburgh, show scenes in Yellow
stone Park, Victoria, British Co.
lumbia and the Lake Louise country,
The meeting is for all club mem
bers as we'll as their husbands and
guests.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
A. u. Guild to Hear
Catherine Nimitz

Miss Catherine Nimitz, chief of
the music division of the Public
Library, will review The Critical
Composer" by Irving Kolodin, be-
fore the Women's Guild of Ameri-
can University at II am. tomorrow
in the Womens Residence Hall.
Records will illustrate the lecture,
it is announced by Mrs. Herbert
Breaky, Book Review Committee
chairman. Light refreshments will
be served.
Mrs. Edward Sturdevant will speak
on Beauty Counseling" before the
Junior Women's Guild at 8:15 pm.
Thursday at the university. Mrs.
Daniel S. Terrell is in charge of
the program.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
WOmen's Volunteer
Services Will Start
Classes Tomorrow

The winter series of classes in q
variety of subjects directed by the
American Women's Voluntary Serv-
ices will begin tomorrow with the
Inauguration of morning and eve
ming courses in standard first aid.
All sessions will be held at the
A. w. v. S. headquarters at 1905
Connecticut avenue NV.
Miss Lillian Smith of the Amer
ican Red Cross will conduct the
morning first-aid course Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays from 10
am. to noon, while John Gates of
the Red Cross, will have charge
of the evening courses on the same
days from 7:30 to $50 o'clock.
An advanced first-aid course will
begin Tuesday, to be held Tuesdays
and Thursday of each week from
$50 am. to 11:30 am, with w. w.
Nicely, assistant first-aid director of
the Red Cross. in charge.
Enrollments also are being taken
for a daytime food and nutrition
course to start in the near future.
The present nutrition class, which
has been extended because many
of its meeting days fell on holidays,
will be graduated January 81. DR..
James Cumming of the Public
Health Service will address the final
session. Mrs. Lenice Sartell, as
sistant dietician of st. Elizabeth's
Hospital who directs the course,
will present Miss Sue Frick, super
intendent of the w. P. A. school
luncheon project, at the next ses-
sion. Tuesday.
New classes in automobile repairs
will commence January II and die
ton classes also will begin soon.
Another course in map reading,
Army Engineer School, will be Of
fered later in the season.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Miscellaneous Clubs

Woman's National Democratic
Club-Tomorrow, 1890 pm,
membership luncheon. Thurs
day, 7:30 pm, dinner.
District Branch, League of Ameri-
can Pen Women-Today, 8 to
pm, art tea. Exhibit of oils and
water colors by DR.. Florence A.
Everhart. Tuesday, 8 pm, jour-
nalism group. Wednesday, 3 to
6 pm, celebrity tea; speaker,
Dean Ernest Griffith, Religion
and the Crisis in Democracy.
Friday, 8 pm. non-dction group;
workshop hour.
National League of American Pen
Women-Tomorrow, 10 am, Ex-
ecutive Board meeting, Willard
Hotel.
Washington Alumnae Chapter OF
Winthrop College-Friday, pm,
founders day banquet, the Kene-
saw. Mrs. P. A. Chiere, 3107
Nineteenth street NV, in charge
of reservations.
Phyllis Lyman Colony, National
Society of New England Women
Tuesday, 1890 pm, with Mrs.
Claughton West, SLOT Forty fifth
street NV. Program, reading,
"West Point" by Mrs. Warren c.
Kendall; vocal solos. Mrs. Marie
Marques.
Women's Guild of American Uni
versity-Tomorrow, II am, Wom-
ems Residence Hall; speaker,
Catherine Nimitz, review of "The
Critical Composer"
Junior Women's Guild of Ameri-
can University-Thursday, 8:15
pm; speaker, Mrs. Edward Stur-
devant, Beauty Counseling."
Pro Bonata Club-Tuesday, 8 pm.,
meeting with Mrs. Sally Ritter,
1924 Fourth street NV.
Faculty Women's Club of George
Washington University - Friday,
1890 pm, luncheon meeting of
Goodwill Industries, 1918 New
Hampshire avenue NV. Mrs. E..
C. Albritton in charge of reserva-
tions through Tuesday.
League of Republican Women Of
the District-Tomorrow, II am,
clubhouse, board meeting; 2:30
pm, Mayfower Hotel, monthly
meeting; speaker. Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, Party Loyalty"
Tuesday, $3.50 pm, clubhouse,
opening of book review series fol-
lowed by tea; reviewer, MRS. May
Norm, "WorldS End: honor
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Editor to Address
Jewish Women

Carl Alpert, managing editor of
New Palestine, will address the third
monthly meeting sponsored by the
Jewish Women's Joint Institute,
Wednesday at las pm. at the jew
ish Community Center.
Mr.. Alpert, who is national presi-
dent of Young Judea and a lee
turer as well as a writer, will dis
cuss The Attitude of the American
Jew Toward Zionism."
Thirteen prominent Jewish wom-
ems organizations compose the in
stitute sponsoring the lecture. Mrs.
Maurice Bisgyer is chairman.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Mrs. West Hostess

A paper on West Point will be
read by Mrs. Warren c. Kendall
at meeting of the Phyllis Lyman
Colony of the National Society Of
New England Women TUESDAY a.
1890 pm. at the home of Mrs.
Claughton West, SLOT Forty fifth
street NV. Mrs. Mary c. Great
house and Mrs. Leonard Norsworthy
will assist as hostesses. Mrs. Marie
Marques will sing group of solos,
accompanied by Mrs. West.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Mrs. Push to Speak

Mrs. E. c. Pugh, director Of the
motion picture department Of the
District Womans Christian Ten.
perance Union, will be guest speak.
er at a meeting of Chapin Union
Wednesday at 7:30 pm. at District
headquarters. 522 Sixth street NV.
Her talk on motion pictures Will be
followed by a motion picture ques-
tionnaire.
Mrs. Frank Gregory and Mrs. Ed
NJ Willis will be hostesses. Mrs
Darlington Richardson is the pres.
dent.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Speakers Announced

Mrs. James Shera Montgomery,
wife of the chaplain of the House
of Representatives, will speak on
Mediterranean Mosaics" before the
Washington Club Tuesday at II am.
The lecture will be illustrated.
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin will re-
view Life With Father" by Clar-
ence Day, at the club book chat
tomorrow at II am.
Evening star., 1941-01-05

lQQlCdUc CIlOI lClIlIliiiC ~
sonality. A native of Memphis, she
spent most of her young girlhood
there, coming to Washington after
she was grown.
How did you ever take up law
she was asked.
my father was a lawyer" Mrs
McElroy replied, land as he had no
son, it was suggested that carry
on his profession"
Admitted to Practice
Before Supreme Court.
The answer appears simple, but
the accomplishment itself was not
so simple. Law schools for women
students were scarce at the time and
there was none in washington when
she decided to study law. She had
been privately coached for one year,
however, when the Washington Col
lege of Law was founded and she
became one of its first graduates.
Several years after her graduation,
she became the 28th woman to be
admitted to the Supreme Court OF
the United States.
Mrs. McElroy climbed steadily
both in the professional and club
world, a success not difficult to un-
derstand considering her love OF
work.
Work has been my hobby and
my life" she explained. Il am really
like a little dog finding a bone when
it comes to problem" she laughed.
II have a motto" she added, "A
problem a day keeps the cobwebs
away"
Mrs. McElroy has been a member
of the Washington Zonta Club for
10 years and served twice as vice
president of Zonta International,
which has a membership of approx
mately 4,5OO women filling executive
positions.
Mrs. McElrOy Visits
Canadian Zonta Clubs.
One of her recent trips took her
to Canada, where she visited Zonta
clubs in Toronto. Windsor, St.
Catherine, Hamilton, Ottowa and
Montreal.
The Canadian clubs at present
are making every effort to raise
funds for the Canadian war relief
found, she said. The money, she ex-
planned, is not to be used for NUM-
tions, but to help evacuees and the
bomb-stricken areas of England.
The Canadians are wonderful" !"
Mrs. McElroy commented. What
impressed me so much is their
cheerful courage. They do not even
admit an "if' regarding the ultimate
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Chinese Press Reports
Soviet Trade Agreement

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, Jan. A.
The Chinese press reported today
the second part of a general Chi
nese-Russian trade agreement, call
ing for the exchange of Chinese
wool for Soviet machinery and mill
tary supplies, was signed yesterday.
The third part of the agreement,
involving Chinese minerals, already
is under negotiation. Conclusion of
the first part, involving 100,000y000
($5 ,000, ,00O Chinese dollars worth of
China tea, was announced last De-
eembe1 IL.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Woman's Auxiliary
Will Give Dinner

The Womens Auxiliary Of the
Panama Canal Society will entertain
at dinner January Is at $50 pm. at
the Y. w. C.. A.
Maurice H. Thatcher, former COM
missioner of the Canal Zone during
construction days, will entertain
with colored moving pictures of the
Canal Zone and Central America.
Friends of the society are being
invited to participate. Mrs. William
D. Wrightson, president of the auxil-
iary, is in charge of reservations.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Father Bunished

ALTON, Ill, Jan. 4 [Py.-Carroll
Short spent the holiday season in
his garage and he wasn't in the dog
house either. His 6-year-old daugh-
ter Nellie had scarlet fever and the
doctor ordered the father to stay
out of the house if he wished to con-
tinue working,
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Future Meetings Of Women's Clubs Announced

Carlos Bell of American Red
Cross.
Kenilworth Ladies' Guild-Wednes-
day, pm. with Mrs. j. G. Veih-
meyer, 1913 Eastern avenue NV.
Co-hostess, Mrs. Mary Veihmeyer.
Womens Club of Sixteenth Street
Highland-Wednesday, 2 pm,
with Mrs. I. j. Riley, 1858 Madison
street NV.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Mothers to Meet

The Mothers Guild of Sacred
Heart School on Park road will
meet at lis pm. tomorrow. Lunch
con will be served in the cafeteria.
Mrs. M. E. Bier Is in charge Of
reservations. An important business
session Is expected.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Work Is Chief Pleasure
To Zonta's President
Mrs. McElroy Makes
Success at Law, as Well
AS Club Work
By GRETCHEN SMITH.

International eecteo Ms
president this
hobby, Zonas president
promptly replied work"
McEoy recently returned from OF her numerous
sun-hed
in the Potomac River The ONCE heo
other indications OF Mrs McEoy legal pro1eSo
something of contrast 10
Mrs McEroy herself gracious
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Community Clubs

Silver Spring Woman's Club-Wed-
nesday, 80 pm, general meeting,
Woodside Methodist Church;
speaker, DR.. Roy Tasco Davis,
Latin American Relations.
Thursday, $50 am, art class with
Miss Nina P. LOeschke, 1908 Dale
Drive, Silver Spring.
Woman's Club of Greenbelt-To-
morrow, 2 pm, with Mrs. S. Hart
ford Downs, 2 T Gardenway road:
speaker, Mrs. Harry E. Harcum.
Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, Md.
Tomorrow, $50 am, folk dane
ing group; 10 am, Clubhouse
Committee meeting; 1890 am,
Civics Section Committee, with
Mrs. Robert H. Spidell, 8 Aspen
street; 10:30 am, International
Relations Committee; II am,
social section business meeting;
8:15 pm, drama section meeting;
program, one = act melodrama,
demonstration of theatrical make
up and music. Tuesday, $50 am,
rhythmic exercise class; l pm,
French section at 1120 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. Wednesday, 9:30
am, Executive Board meeting: 10
am, music section rehearsal; $3.50
pm, joint meeting of art, inter-
national relations and nature Sec
tions: program, technicolor films
shown by Mark Lansburgh. Thurs
day, $50 am, rhythmic exercise
class.
Waycroft Woman'S Club-Thurs-
day, 10 am, welfare department,
with Mrs. Guy Ramsdell, 5163
North Washington boulevard; l
pm, luncheon and bridge with
Mrs. r. S. Kassebaum, 1905 North
Washington boulevard. Friday,
l:30 pm, general meeting with
Mrs. Macon Williams, 1923 North
Frederick street; speaker, Mrs.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Consumer Forum Feature
OF Federation Session;
DR.. Elliott to Speak
100 Representatives of Clubs
Throughout Country to Meet
Here January II to 18
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Womep's Cluh Editor

In with
entitled ASK the Experts will be
meeting
Womens Clubs
of affiliated clubs throughout the
418
Hotel
commissioner of the National Defense
which
representative Government officials will participate
federations will South
Federation
on the agnda includes golden jubilee of the
ton which will next May in Atlantic City.
Preliminary meetings will be the reception January IA
at the Mayhow board annually
prominent
In social and educational circles of the Capital
will the White
January Is.
Evening star., 1941-01-05
Business, Professional Clubs

Women's National Press Club-Fri-
day, l pm, Willard Hotel, lunch
con honoring President and Mrs
Roosevelt
Business Women's Council-Tues-
day, 8 pm, Covenant-First Pres
byterian Church. Subject, For
estry," illustrated by Mrs. H. w.
Gordon.
Evening star., 1941-01-05

sion, Red Cross surgical dressings
unit: 2 pm. Y. w. C. A., nature
section; speaker, R. w. Nation,
Our Native Trees and Some In
troduced Exotics." Thursday, 1890
pm, Y. w. C. A., cs-education
section luncheon; speaker, Ruth
Lamb, Protection of the Con-
sumer Under the New Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act"
Capitol Hill History Club-Wednes-
day, 1890 pm, luncheon meeting
with Mrs. Clara M. Stine, 1882
Columbia road NV.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
Wise Choice
Of Equipment
is ENCOURAGED

For the wise selection Of me-
chanical equipment for the home
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton has outlined q number Of
principles which it advises pros
pective home owners to follow.
The initial cost of the equip
ment must be carefully balanced
against the cost of its operation
and probable returns in comfort,
according to the FILA.
It must be remembered, too,
that the first cost is rarely the
last cost, especially with equip
Ment which contains movable
parts.
Items of repair, operating costs,
and probable length of service
before replacement must be con-
sidered when choosing equip
ment.
Where economy is a factor, it
is essential that q comparison be
made between the different types
of equipment and that all costs
be figured in and the element of
utility be weighed against these
costs.
If it is necessary to forego some
items of equipment, 1t is advis-
able to give up first those items
which provide merely ease OF
service or control or refinement
in appearance without compens-
ating savings in operation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
FILA Amendments
SPUR Conversions
New Legislation
Allows Lerssr Leans

OIn enlarging the amount of a
repair loan which may be in
sured by the Federal Housing
Administration, Congress acted
to encourage private capital to
make loans for the conversion
of large rooming houses or apart
ments.
Instead of loans up to $1,000,
which was formerly the limit on
Title I loans, the new legislation
authorizes loans up to $4,000
where the proceeds 60 to con-
verting single-family residences
into living quarters for more
than one family.
In addition, the repayment
period on loans over $4,000 has
been extended from three to five
years, in order to make the mon
thly payments easier to meet
Since living quarters are in
great demand in towns and COM
munities where the population
has been suddenly increased by
defense activities, the need for
remodeling of this character Is
obvious In cases where speed
is necessary in providing hous-
ing, conversions are often found
the most satisfactory procedure.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
FILA More Than
Pays for Self
Covers Expense
by Wide Mersin

= The Federal Housing Admins
tration's program. which Is max
ing an important contribution to
the supply of moderate-priced
housing needed during the pres
ent defense emergency, Is cover
ing its own expenses BY q wide
margin, Administrator Abner II.
Ferguson announced recently.
During the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1941, the FHA's current
income from insurance prem.
iums, fees, and investments total
ed approximately $24,30O,000.
Operating expenses of the pro-
gram during the fiscal yea :
amounted to $13,253,000 and
were all paid out of income, with
substantial additional sums be-
ing placed on the FHA's insur-
ance reserves.
In the same 12-month period,
Mr.. Ferguson pointed out. ap-
proximately $4,000 new small
homes were started under FILA
inspection. At least IS per cent
of these homes are located In
areas where defense industry
expansion has created an urgent
need for added housing. More
over, the great majority OF the
houses built under the FILA plan
are in price ranges suited to
meeting the housing require
ments growing out of the defense
production program.
The FHA's Title I program al
so has contributed to an en-
larged housing supply at this
time of maximum need, the Ad-
ministrator asserted. Loans In
sured under Title ! have financed
needed repairs and renovations
to q great number Of dwellings,
thereby assuring their continued
serviceability during the emer-
gency, and have also financed the
conversion of a considerable
number of large old houses into
small apartments. Studies have
indicated that approximately 50
per cent of all Title ! loans are
expended in defense industry
areas.
AT q time when an adequate
supply of satisfactory housing in
defense industry centers is re-
cognized as essential to the ef-
fective prosecution of the defense
production effort, the FHA's pro-
gram of loan insurance has mob
ilized private capital to finance
a large part of the necessary
housing construction" Mr.. Fer
guSon asserted.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
Repairs Ensure
Home Protection


Many of the inconvenience.
discomforts. and health hazards
experienced in the household
may be avoided if home owners
would abandon, the policy of
giving their houses attention
only when acute trouble, such
as a leaky roof or burst pipe,
demands it =.
Builders declare that 1t is nei-
Their safe nor wise to wait until
something breaks or gives way
completely. They recommend
that trouble should be antici-
pated by regular inspections, fol-
lowed by applying remedies i'm
mediately wherever they are
needed.
The house may be inspected
by members of the family own
ing or occupying it, who are
often aware of some of its de-
fects, or by an experienced work
man whose knowledge and skill
should enable him to discover
defects not apparent to the av-
erage householder.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
Protection

IF YOU HAVE q papered
bathroom or kitchen, you can
protect il from splashes and 9TH
er soiling by covering 1t with
sheets of q thin, transparent
plastic, without spelling its de-
corative effect in the least.
Sheets of this material are mex
pensive, come in a convenient
size and are sold complete with
gummed tape for fastening to
the walls.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
FILA Reports
100000
Repair Loans:

More than v00. 900 property
owners have been enabled to
repair and, improve their homes
or other buildings with loans in
sured by the Federal Housing
Administration since last July
/, when the defense program
began to get under way, Federal
Housing Administrator Abner
H. Ferguson has announced.
In the fiscal year just ended
lending institutions reported
$500, 900, 900 of such loans to the
FILA for insurance, the largest
amount in any comparable IL
months period.
BETTER LAST YEAE
In June, loans reported num-
bered 64,033 in the amount Of
$40, $50, 900, one Of the largest
totals on record and IS per cent
ahead of the same month last
year.
Mr.. Ferguson stated that these
operations illustrate the nation
wide movement to improve and
maintain property investments.
He pointed to the opportunity
now available for the conversion
of older dwellings into multiple
family units, especially in de-
Tense industrial areas where
housing conditions are still over
crowded.
VARIETY OF PURPOSES
Through June approximately
100000 property-improvement
loans, in the amount of $780,
100000, have been insured by
the FILA since the start of the
program seven years ago. These
loans have been used for a great
variety of purposes, notably
painting, roofing, repair and in
stallation of heating and plumb
ing systems, structural repairs of
homes and other properties, con-
struction of barns, agricultural
buildings, etc.
Under provisions of Title as
just amended by Congress, loans
are available up to $500, repay
able in the three years, for repair
and improvement Of single-fam-
lily homes and commercial prop
critics. In the case of homes de-
signed or to be designed for more
than one family, loans may
amount to as much as $4,000 and
may run for five years. About
5000 lending institutions are
qualified by the FILA to make
property-improvement loans.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04

hoods In the face Of extreme
housing demands.
Our efforts ever since the es-
tablishment of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration toward build
ing sound, stable, and attractive
neighborhoods will mean nothing
il builders and developers now
swing away from the orderly
group development of neighbor-
hoods to the speculative subdivi-
sion tactics of the past"
Since experience has proved
that neighborhoods fall to pieces
long before the homes In them
have out-lived their usefulness,
well-c o n Give d communities
must be protected against the de-
teriorating influences which Will
increase with the growing de-
mand for immediate housing.
FILA officials explained that
planning and successful market
ing of q residential community
should be approached with q
thorough knowledge Of the prob
lens involved and the best means
of meeting them. The require
ments of good and convenient
living must be met, costs must be
kept within the buying power OF
those to be housed, and the prop
erty must be marketed in q
manner that will bring a steady
and safe return on the money in
vested.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04

We have at least the advan-
tage of profiting by the expert
ence of the British. or, in other
words, we start where the Eng
lish now find themselves, and
not at scratch.
Mayor LaGuardia of New
York on civilian defense.