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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-09-13

hances mans chance. Lillian
Evanti sang in Italy in opera. but
not here.
So. Leonard's plight as 70 home
town popularity is not much diff
ferent from that OF others. In
proportion as he goes places out
OF K.C. his folks will want him
bacn, al least now and then.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-09-13

really an Ethel waters masterpiece,
help save the legitimate stage sew
eral seasons ago. Cabin in the
Sky" just last season, brought out
folks who even crowded the long
empty boxes.
And the great man OF the stage
lust now is Rochester" The name
"Rochester' is enough 10 make
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-09-13
Stage Folk Must Quit Home Town,
Seek Success Among Strangers

We dare not invoke that parable about prophet for
use on the stage page but simply paraphrase our ideas
into saving that man usually has to Skip town. if he
talent and LET the other folks say good before he
can get his own people to like him That's old story
Evening star., 1941-07-07

CHICAGO. and Brig. Gen. c. w. Kutz,
Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict Miss Mary C. Duffy, supreme
regent, will respond for the dele
gates.
The Right Rev. Michael J. Ready.
general secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, will
give an address on the National
Catholic Community Service. Ad-
dresses also will be given by Fran
els p. Matthews, supreme knight
OF the Knights of Columbus, and
by the Most Rev. John Mark Can
non. D. D., Bishop of Erie, Pa. and
State chaplain of the Pennsylvania
Catholic Daughters.
Miss Bernice Rickman, soprano,
will be soloist at the banquet. The
Most Rev. william J. Hafey. D. D.,
Bishop of Scranton, Pa, and ma
tional chaplain of the Catholic
Daughters. will offer the invocation
and the Most Rev. Eugene J. Nc
Guinness, D. D., Bishop Of Raleigh.
will deliver the blessing.
Peace" Luncheon Planned.
Tomorrow morning. delegates will
attend a solemn pontiflcial mass
at st. Matthews Cathedral. The
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Jealousy Is Believed
Motive in Staying
OF Indiana Official
Woman Who Helped Him
Through College Held
For Grond Jury
D, the Associated Press.

D. tnt hSSOClhteu
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July T.
Prosecutor Floyd E. Cook of Monroe
County today advanced the theory
that the pistol Staying of Charles
P. Mattingly, Al. attorney-examiner
for the Indiana Public Service Com
mission. was motivated by the jeal-
ousv of woman friend OF college
DAYS.
The Indianapolis lawyer was shot
i've times through the back Satur-
day night as he sat against
screened kitchen window in the
home of Gus Nickas, a confectionery
owner. with whom he and his 33-
year-old wife were visiting He died
in a hospital within two hours
Mrs. Caroline Payne, 43, tall,
dark haired business manager of the
Bloomington Daily Telephone, whom
officials described as a one time
very good friend" of Mr.. Mattingly,
WAS taken in custody at her home.
Coroner r. A. Denote ordered Mrs.
PAYNE, divorce, held for the
County Sidilu jury WllIIi Will toil-
vene September 3.
Threats Charged.
Mr.. Denote said that Mr. Mat
tingly on his deathbed had told him
Mrs. Payne had threatened his life
several times. Mr. Cook. who re-
ported he found letters written by
Mr.. Mattingly to Mrs. Payne in her
purse, said her jealousy over Mr..
Mattingly's wife was the cause Of
the shooting.
Although Mrs. Payne made no
statement. Mr.. Cook said her niece,
Mrs. Myrtle Forth of Bloomington.
told him that Mr.. Mattingly for
several years had roomed In the
home Of Mrs Payne, the divorced
wife Of a State Senator
"She helped put him through
school" the prosecutor quoted Mrs.
Forth as saying. set him up in prac-
tice and helped him get the job
with the Public Service Commits
sion
Pistols Found in Home.
Mr. Mattingly, who graduated from
Indiana University law school in
1925 and had a law Office here un-
til 1896. was married on Nav 5, 1910,
10 Luravne Oberholtzer Witchen.
who worked in his Office He was
appointed secretary of the commits
sion in 1886 and two years later was
named attorney-eXaminer
Mr.. Cook said that two new auto
matte pistols, of 80 and .3S caliber,
we're found in Mrs. Paynes home.
and five OF the six chambers in
the .3s weapon were emptied. He
also said that her shoes fitted the
casts of footprints outside the
Nickas window.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Shin Owners Accused
'Smearing' {. o. Union
3, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, July THE Com
nunist issue came to the front to-
day while more than 300 delegates
assembled for the opening of the
c. I. o. National Maritime Unions
third biennial convention.
A report prepared by President
Joseph Curran and other officers
says shipowners inspired charges
that the union is Communist domi-
mated and that 1t is attempting to
sabotage national defense through
unwarranted strikes.
The statement. which will be pre-
sented to delegates early this week,
declared the owners acted in ef-
forts to break the union and beat
down wages and working conditions.
Ferdinand c. Smith, secretary
and M. Hedley Stone. treasurer,
both Of New York City, helped pre-
pare the statement to the dele
gates. Delegates are here from
ports on the East and Gulf coasts,
the Great Lakes and inland water
ways as far West as the Rocky
Mountains.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Catholic Daughters
OF America Register
For 18Th ConcIave
Peace Is Meeting Theme
White House Reception
Will Be Feoture

Catholic Daughters of Americs
were registering today at the May.
flower Hotel for the 10Th biennia
national convention Of that or.
ganizataion. which has about 200.
900 members.
Peace is the theme of the con.
vention, which will end Friday with
a reception at the White House
and a moonlight cruise on the Pc.
tomac. Representative Mary T
Norton of New Jersey. one of the
convention guests, will be hostess
at the White House reception.
First event on the convention
schedule is a banquet at the May
flower, with Miss Frances Maner
vice supreme regent, presiding. Miss
Augusta E. Uhl, territorial deputy
of the District and national con-
vention chairman. will deliver the
address of welcome.
Bishops to Take Part.
The delegates will be greeted by
the Most Rev. John NJ. McNamara,
D. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Baiti-
more: the Most Rev. William D.
O'Brien, D. D.. Auxiliary Bishop of
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Col. Baker Is Ordered
To Attache Duty in Chile

Col. Lester d. Baker, now on duty
with the organized reserves at
Georgetown University, was desig-
mated in Army orders today as mill
tary attache to the American EN-
bassy at Santiago, Chile.
He will report July II for tenn
porary duty in the office of the as
sistart chief of stafY, ca, before
departing for his South American
post.
Col Baker was assigned only tenn
porarily at Georgetown University
In charge OF the r. o. T. c., pending
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Marine Privote Rescued
From Hotel Roof

Bernard Boundelier. marine pri-
vate from Quantico, Va, was ar
rested on a charge of drunkenness
after he had attempted, police re-
ported, to leap from a roof adjoin-
ing a hotel in the TOO block of G
street NV. yesterday.
Policemen T. C.. Sullivan and D.
G. Gregor. who oyerpowered Pvt
Boundelier and restrained him from
leaping, said he already had jumped d
10 feet from his hotel window to
the adjoining roof and was
threatening to leap farther when
they arrived at the scene in answer
to a summons. He had registered
at the hotel with a companion
Saturday night, they reported.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON MONDAY, JULY T. 1e4

Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicos.
mani d. D.. Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, will be the cele-
brant and Biship Hafey will deliver
the sermon.
A peace luncheon" honorins
District of Columbia Day will fol.
low at 1890 pm. with Representa-
tive Norton and DR.. John X. Cart
wright. chaplain Of the organiza
tion's Cort OF the District. as guests
The oficial opening of the con-
yention is scheduled for tomorrow
afternoon. Bishop Hafey will spe.k
at the spiritual conference and the
evening session Is scheduled as
founders night.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

appointment of a successor to 1t.
Col Charles e. Ravens. who was
ordered relieved about two weeks
ago Col. Rayens, who had been on
duty at the university for four years,
left Washington yesterday for his
new post at 1st Army Headquarters,
Governors Island, N. Y.
Col. Baker is one of the best
known officers in the Sd Corps Area
staff Of the organized reserves. 1t
was expected q new r. o. T. c. officer
would be assigned to Georgetown
when he reports for his new tenn
porary assignment.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
L. W. Douglas Mother
Dead in California

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July Mrs
Josephine Leah Douglas. wife Of
James Stewart Douglas. retired
president of the United Verde Ex-
tension Mining Co., and mother Of
Lewis w. Douglas, former director
of the budget, died yesterday oi
pneumonia.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Line Leeds to Joil

NEW YORK R.-When DR..
Abraham Axelband received a bill
for s76.25 worth of long distance
calls, ne put in . complaint. Tele-
phone company investigators and
police nailed a former patient who
had sneaked into the dentists ONCE
while he was away and telephoned
his girl In Miami.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

Girls in England are being advised
to eat more pota toes. then take
calisthenics to keep down unwanted
fat.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

Not one American motion picture
has been shown in Manchukuo since
Japan invaded China.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
UNION HOSPITAL DRIVE
BROUGHT TO CLOSE
Combined Efforts Of Teams Show An Aggregate
Of 100000 Pledged For Building Fund

Building Fund since 1t contains by
far the largest percentage of the
population of Cecil County among
the nine districts. The total produc-
ed by the teams, both men and wom-
en- in the Third District amounts to
$7,761. The Fifth District ranks
second with total of $4,000. The
Second District ranks third with q
total of $3.50. The Seventh Dis
trict ranks fourth with a total of
$1,904. There may be change in
the rank of these Districts after the
returns from Thursday nights
meeting are counted.
The teams covering the Second
District have won an unusual dis
tinction so far in the campaign.
There are no men teams in the Sec
ond District but the five teams work
ing there for the Union Hospital
Building Fund are under the leader
ship of Miss Kathryn T. Schaefer,
Mrs. Frank Briscoe, Mrs. James
Mackey, Mrs. Nellie Reed and Mrs.
Edward Stapp. In addition to bring
ing in almost $4,000 for the Build
ing Fund, these ladies have secured
21O subscriptions from a total
prospect list of $50 persons.
The final meeting for workers in
the Union Hospital Building Fund
was held Monday evening, May 18th.
At this meeting the captains as
Sembled and rendered their final re-
ports.
The campaign closed on Monday
evening, when the final reports of
the teams showed subscriptions
pledged aggregating $4,000.
Sixth district chairman Norris
j. Reynolds or Mrs. r. G. Dodson
will be glad to receive any further
donations from persons who wish to
assist in the good cause.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Hunaphry--Krauss

Miss Fife Humphrey became the
bride of Mr.. Albert Lewis, Krauss,
Jr., eldest son Of Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Krauss, ST., of Reading, Penn
sylvania, on Saturday, May 10,
Reading, Pa, on Saturday, May 10,
at 900 p. M, at the home of the
groom's parents. The impressive
ring ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Herman F. Miller, pastor of
the Trinity Lutheran church.
They were attended by Mrs. Ira
Johnson, sister of the groom, as
matron of honor; Stanley Krauss,
brother of the groom as best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Krauss will reside
at their newly furnished apartments
at 1892 North 10th street, Reading,
where the groom is employed as SUI
pervisor of the assembly line of the
Parish Steel Co. of that city. The
groom's parents formerly resided at
Colora, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Commencement
Week At Academy

The commencement week pro-
gram at West Nottingham Academy
opens Friday, May 80, 10000 A. M.
with Tennis Tournament; 900 p.
M. Golf Tournament; 1880 P. M.
Oratorical and Defamation Contest.
Saturday, May 81, 1900 M.
Alumni Luncheon and business
meeting. 200 P. M. meeting of
Ladies Auxiliary, Gayley Hall. 2:30
baseball, Academy VS. Alumni. 500
IN" Club supper. $3.50 Commence
ment Dance.
Sunday, June /, 1900 A. M. Bac-
calaureate service, sermon by Rev.
Sidney J. Venable, D. D. $500 p. M.
recital, Academy Musical club. 700
P. M. Vesper Service, address by
Rev. G. Malsolm Van Dyke, pastor
First Presbyterian Church, Lans-
downe, Pa.
Monday, June 2, 1000 a. m.
meeting Board of Trustees. 1880
Graduation Exercises. Eastern STAN
dard time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Date For Wedding
Announced

Miss Frances Angela Trettin, of
Baltimore, daughter of Mrs. August
Trettin and the late Mr.. Trettin has
chosen June Z, as the date for her
marriage to Mr.. Stanley Deibert
Jeffers, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
H. LETTERS of Elkton, Md. The cere-
mony will take place at P. M. at
the Crisp Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn, Md, the Rev.
Raymond Day, pastor of the Church
officiating. Immediately after the
ceremony a reception will be held at
the home of the bride.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
CECIL COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCA-
TION REORCANIZES

The Board of Education met in
regular session on Tuesday, May
13th.g Those present were Mr.. J. e.
Crothers, President; Mrs. Wallace
Williams, Vice-President, and DR.. T.
B. Moore.
The minutes of the regular meet
ing of April 9Th were read and APP
proved, and sundry bills ordered
paid.
The Board then adjourned pro
tenn for the purpose of re-organi-
cation for the school year 1941-42.
The County Superintendent acted
as Chairman while the following
were nominated and elected--Dr. T.
B. Moore, President; and Mrs. Wal
lace Williams, Vice-president.
Upon the recommendation of the
County superintendent, Miss Lidie
D. Sager- was re-appointed clerk for
the ensuing year.
All trustees whose terms expire
this year were re-appointed by the
Board for term of three years.
The Superintendent informed the
Board that competitive examinations
would be held the latter part of June
for the following scholarships-Day
Night or Saturday tuition scholar
ship to The Maryland Institute,
male or female; one tuition and one
Senatorial scholarship to st. Johns
College, both male; Tuition scholar
ship to St. Mary's Female Seminary;
two tuition scholarships to Blue
Ridge College, male or female; two
Senatorial scholarships to Western
Maryland College, one male and one
female and one tuition scholarship
to Charlotte Hall School, male. No
tice of these examinations will ap-
pear in the county papers.
The Board instructed the Super
intendent to secure bids on coal for
the year 1941-1942 provided the
strike situation was settled suffi-
ciently to do this. Bids are to be re-
ceived at the June meeting.
The Board approved the school
budget for 1941-1942 and ordered
it to be sent to the County Com
missioners.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23

The report meeting of workers in
the Union Hospital Building Fund
campaign held Thursday night,
May Is, showed a total of $55,65O
inscribed for new Hospital. The
final report meeting of captains was
held Monday evening, May 10Th, at
$50 o'clock in Elkton.
One of the sensations of the cam
paign has been a subscription from
the Triumph Explosives, Inc, suffi-
GENTLY large to build the first aid
department in the new hospital. The
Corporation subscription will create
a memorial in the new building. In
addition to the company's subscrip-
ton the workers in the plant are
voluntarily subscribing to the build
ing fund.
The workers at the National Fire
works Inc, have come through with
100 percent subscription to the
Building Fund. In addition, the Ma
tional itself has made a handsome
contribution.
Every nurse at the Union Hospit-
al has subscribed to the Building
Fund.
An analysis Of the returns at
campaign headquarters up to the
report meeting Wednesday,, May
14th, shows that the team under the
leadership of Mrs. Miller Hall of
the Ninth District leads all teams,
either men or women, in bringing
in signed subscription cards for the
Building Fund. Mrs. Halls team
has produced $1,187. The team
under the leadership of Mrs. Geo.
Hamilton of the Fifth District is
running a close second with total
of $1,129.
1t is to be expected that the Third
District should produce well for the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Damage Suit Removed
To Kent County

The suit of Mrs. Rose d. Con-
stable and others, against the Wall
er Paving Company, which was to
have come up for trial in the Cir
cult Court at Elkton, has been re-
moved to the Kent County Court at
Chestertown, for trial in October.
The suit was brought to recover al
legged damages to land along the
new dual highway, about two miles
west of Elkton, upon which, it is
alleged, large amounts of dirt were
dumped by the defendants while
building part of the new highway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Group Three Of
Bankers Association

The Spring Meeting Of Group 3
of the Maryland Bankers Associa-
ton comprising Baltimore, Hartford,
and Cecil Counties was held on Sat-
urday last, at Lord Baltimore Hotel,
Baltimore, Maryland. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, DR.. William Crit
fifth Jack, President of Cecil National
Bank, Port Deposit: Secretary, j.
Lawson Gilbert, Havre de- Grace;
Delegate to the Bankers Association.
DR.. Samuel Street. President OF
White Hell Bank, White Hall.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
BRIEFLY MENTIONED NEWS

The Tilghman Packing Co. report
the smallest pack of picked herring
and herring roe at their Havre de
Grace plant this year, than for twen-
ty years. Actual work began on April
10 and closed ON May IL, from ten
days to two weeks shorter than in
former years.
Members of the Jarrettsville Har-
ford county, Methodist Church have
raised by contributions and other
wise, the sum of $4,000 and paid OFF
the mortgage which has been on the
church property since 1895.
The 1941 class of West Point,
numbering 400 cadets, visited
Aberdeen Proving Grounds on
Thursday last. They will receive
their commissions as second Lieu
tenants in June.
Isaac T. Yocum has purchased
from the administrator of the estate
Of Mrs. e. e. Jacobs the large farm
near Krauss' crossing, on which he
has resided for more than thirty
years.
Mr.. w. N. Haney has moved to
Huntsville, to the property which he
recently purchased from the heirs of
the late, William Nesbitt.
Rural mail carrier Paul Mckee
has been i'll for some time past,
Marion Rawlings substituting for
him on the route from this Office.
Ernest Bradley has been OF duty
from the A & P store for several
days ON account of illness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
TESTIMONIAL
DINNER FOR STATE
CAME WARDEN

Plans for a testimonial dinner
honoring e. Lee LeCompte, who will
round out twenty-five years of SER
vice as State game warden on June
/, have been announced.
Governor O'Conor, Federal and
State officials, sportsmen and con-
servationists from Maryland and
nearby States will attend the din
ner, to be held on Saturday evening,
May 81, at Lord Baltimore Hotel.
Harold s. Kolmer, executive Sec
rotary of the State Game and Inland
Fish Commission, which LeCompte
heads, said LeCompte is one of the
oldest Maryland officials in point of
service, and also has the longest
continuous record of service as adj
ministrative head of State game
department in the country.
The testimonial dinner will be
held under auspices Of the Maryland
State Game and Fish Protective AS
ISOLATION. J. Hammond Brown, asso-
citation president, will open the cere-
monies. Talbot Denmead, of the
United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, will be POSTMASTER. Dem
mead was the first chief deputy game
warden to serve with LeCompte.
The principal address will be
made by former United States Sem
ator Fred Walcott, Of Massachusetts,,
long friend of LeCompte.
Virtually every sportsmen's and
conservation organization in the
State, Kolmer said, twill send re-
representatives. to bear tribute to the
man who has put Maryland in the
foremost rank of States in conserva-
ton, game breeding and fish Gull
ture''.
LeCompte was elected president
of the International Association of
Game, Fish and Conservation Com
missioners in 1925 and FIVE years
later was chosen president of the
American Fisheries Society.
He was made chairman of the
American Game Association in 1894
and is a member of the advisory
council of the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service. He has been
of the United States
Senate Wildlife Committee on Leg
islation since 1925.
LeCompte is active in a number of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Buy A Poppy

Buy a Buddy Poppy to wear on
Memorial Day. Buy 1T in memory OF
men who have died in defense OF our
democracy. Buy it with the prayer
that America will always be, as it
is today, the land of justice and of
human freedom.
Cecil Post, Elkton and SusQue-
hanna Post, Perryville are interest
ed in the observance and sale of
peoples, and everyone is asked to
buy a flower in memory of service
and sacrifice.
The peoples, which have been
made at Perry Point Hospital will
be distributed throughout the coun-
ty by volunteer workers from the
American Legion Auxiliary. All
money contributed for the flowers
will go into the Legion Auxiliary
welfare fund.
For 20 YEARS. the Buddy Poppy
has provided the Veterans Of For
eign Wars of the U. S. with one of
it's principal sources of revenue for
its nationwide program of veteran
relief and welfare. The sale i'm all
its ramifcations, is entirely nom
profit-making. Every cent of the pro-
ceeds, here and elsewhere, is devoted
to local, state, and national service
and rehabilitation work among dis
abled veterans and their dependents,
and the widows and orphans of the
veterans. This organization cares for
more than 200 children whose faith
ers have died as the results of war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
Founders Day Observed

Town schools of Jacob Tome In
stitute, Port Deposit, observed the
fifty-second annual Founders Day
with appropriate exercises on Tues
day, May 20. Mr.. Barclay Reynolds,
of Rising Sun, former instructor at
St. Luke's School, Philada., spoke
and a senior class student gave a
reading on the life of Jacob Tome.
The program also included sports
that embraced an invitation track
meet against Chestertown High
School and an athletic association
picnic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-05-23
State Fire Marshall
Investigating Blaze

A representative from the State
Fire Marshall's Office, in Baltimore,
visited Elkton last week to investi-
gate fire that occurred in that
town. The two-story frame building
in the rear Of the residence prop
erty of Dorie B. Foster was Destroy
ed. The origin Of the fire Is mys-
terry and incendarism Is suspected.
Besides the building, valued at
about $500, Mr.. Foster. who manu-
features burial vaults, lost about
$500 worth Of burial material.