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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
10 Diplomas Are Awarded
To Landon School Seniors

Sixteen students received di-
plomas today from Headmaster
Paul Landon Banfeld at final eX-
ercises of the Landon School.
Dr. Stringfellow Barr, president
of st. Johns College at Annapolis,
Md made the address to the grad
yates in the Memorial Activities
Building.
The following prizes were award
ed: For best use of the school Ii
brary, Edward Glover Chalkley;
Harvard prize for most outstanding
boy in Junior class, Edgar N.
BraWner history prize for best stu
dent, Edward Glover Chalkley:
Landon News for best editorial in
the Landon News. 194O-41, John
Harner Sager; headmaster's award
for outstanding boy in upper school,
Charles Ambrose Nicholson Sd;
headmaster' award for outstanding
boy in lower school, Richard Huff
man; prize for boy who has shown
the most improvement during year,
Robert AmuSser; best sixth form
athlete. Paul Baker; best inter-
mediate athlete, Stanley Sager, and
Carroll Marbury award for integ-
rity of purpose to Devol Brett and
Edward Glover Chalkley.
Graduating were:
Afford. Theodore c. jacobsen LOUIS
Baker. Paul r. Jackson Gardner
Brett Devol Nicholson Chas A.
Boteler. Charles NJ. Patch, Joseph d
Buchh0lZ. John z Pafrh Richard <
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

Originally Quaker Eagle abandoned his
home at the outbreak of the Black Death and
roamed the streets at night denouncing the
people. He was tall, gaunt man with long
black hair. He wore a sheepskin twisted
around his loins in imitation of St-John in
the Wilderness. and bore on his head a bra
zier of flaming Goals.
At the end of the plague he perched him
self on the roof of st. Pauls Cathedral
screaming curses and denunciatlons on the
people Of London.
1t comes" would howl his deep voice.
The wrath of Heaven Is at hand"
Probably there were many crazy men IN
the City at that terrible time Solomon
Eagle is not the only one credited with set
ting the fire, for one Robert Hubert native Of
Rouen, confessed that he threw a fireban
through the window of Thomas Fl arryner,
baker, in Pudding Lane, between London
Bridge and Cannon Street
Within two days 1t had followed almost
the Identical course of the fires set by Nazi
bombs; the Royal Exchange, Cheapside the
Guildhall and st. Pauls.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

bombed the Cheshire Cheese the favorite re-
sort of DR.. Samuel Johnson and much fire.
quented by Americans in recent years They
also bombed DR.. Johnson's house in nearby
Cough Square.
The Nazi organs have reported that they
bombed that important military fortress the
Tower of London, which forms the eastern
boundary of the City where 1t faces the
Thames. The Tower Is said to have been
first built as fortress by Julius Caeser In
its present general form it was built by
William the Conqueror about 1886 1t would
be a useful defense in a riot, but Is not
serious military work 1t is chiefly interest
ing for its association with some of the most
romantic characters in English history, such
as Lady Jane Grey and the little Princes MUIR
dered in the Tower.
Northwest of Fleet Street the Nazis
bombed the district around Drury Lane The
atre. 1t was there that Mistress Nell Gwynn
favorite of Charles II, made her debut
Nell Gwynn was brought up in the narrow
streets around Drury Lane and frequented
the notorious establishment of Madame Ross
in LewlInors Lane what is left of Mack
lin Street. 1t was by that enterprising old
barridan that Nell and other young creatures
were inveigled into sin. and sent dressed as
orange girls to sell fruit and attract attention
IN the adjoining theatres.
Nell made her debut in Drury Lane the
year before the Great Fire Little is heard
of her during that tragedy, it is supposed
that she fled to the country with her current
protector Pepys mentioned her frequently.
And so to the Kings House; and there,
going in, met with Knipp. and she took US up
to the tireing rooms; and to the women's
shift. where Nell was dressing herself and
was all unready and is very pretty, pretter
than 1 thought"
King Charles II had often seen Nell at the
theatre; during the Plague when the thea
tres were closed she had acted before him at
Whitehall
She acted all persons in so lively a man.
ner and was such constant diversion to the
King, that even new mistress could not
drive her away" says Pepys.
Etheridge wrote of her:
When he was dumpish. she would still
be jocund
And chuck the Royal Chin of Charles the
Second"
Her cockney wit and unfailins good hunlor
kept her at his side until his death in
February, 1885. Tradition has It that the
Kings last words 10 hts brother James were:
Let not poor Nelly starve"
But although Nelly received much from
the King she had never much money sense
and had little enough to leave her many bene-
ficiaries when she was buried at st. Martins
in-theFields two years later.
The bombs have stirred up the ghosts and
memories of old London but can never de-
stroy them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
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the Nazi bombs Among them are St Brides
Church. St Lawrence Jewry, st. Vedast's,
st. Stephens Wabrook St. Mary Aldermary
st. Andrews-by -the-Wardrobe st. Anne's and
st. Agnes's Church st Mary Woolnoth and
Christ Church.
Old St. Pauls Cathedral about which
Ainsworth wrete-pFa completely destroyed
in the Great Fire of 1906. II had been in
Jured by previous fires and was an unsatis-
factory cathedral for London Wren replaced
II with the magnificent building that still
stands The Eazi bombs haze struck II twice
but have not yet succeeded IN demolishing it.
II seams as II the Nazl bombers were
bent on w1ping out memories of Shakespeare.
II has already been mentioned that they de-
stroved the Hall Of the Middle Temple where
Twelfth Night was performed in the poets
lifetime They also wrecked the building on
the site of the Mermaid Tavern, where he and
other Elizabethan worthless used to meet. The
Mermaid has long disappeared the site,
just off Cheapside is we'll known.
Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe, Ben
Jonson, Robin Greene, the poetcal partners
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

Beaumont and Fletcher, Philip Massinger and
many others used to gather at the Mermaid
and talk over their plays and ideas. Francis
Beaumont in a burst of enthusiasm wrote:
What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid, heard words that
have been
So nimble and so full of subtitle flame
AS If that every one from whence they
came
Had meant to put his whole wit in jest,
And resolved to live a fool the rest
OF his dull life"
One of Shakespeare's particular friends
was Rare" Ben Jonson who honored Wills
memory with that wonderful line:
He was not of an age, but for all time"
After reasonable amount of refreshment
and some excellent conversation Shakespeare
would quietly steal away home to think about
his plays. He did not care TO acquire a skinful
like many of the others. AS the night wore
on the poets often became quarrelsome All
of them carried swords or knives and were
ready for a fight.
Marowe killed in a tavern brawl.
One of the most interesting buildings
wrecked in the last raid is the ancient Guild
hall In the Middle Ages the citizens were or
ganized IN guilds. which are today called COM
panies They form the basis of the peculiar
form of City of London government The
freeman Of the companies elect the Common
Council, who elect the Aldermen. who elect
the Lord Mayor annually. The Guildhall up
to the raid was the meeting place of the City
Fathers. The building was nearly Quilted in
the Great Fire of 1856
In the Guildhall stood two strange statues
called Cog and Magog wooden figures of
wild men, ten feet high with tremendous clubs
and bushy whskers. The present statues
were carved by Richard Saunders in 17OS. but
they were copied from much earlier ones
The names Cog and Magog were taken from
the Bible Ezekiel: 1922 and given to the
original statues in Medieval times, but the
old statues themselves apparently represented
the gods of prehistoric race of fireworshipers
who hourished in England about the time
Stonehenge built.
Another treasure of the GuildhaH vas the
little wooden mace which originally made
for the Mayor of London, then called the
Portreeve. in the reign of King Alfred the
Great about 100 years ago
In the vicinity is the Royal Exchange
not the stock Exchange-above whose portico
are inscribed the words from the Bible.
The earth Is the Lords and the fulness
thereof
A French author much impressed with the
wealth Of the City, went home and reported
that the Londoners inscribed over their
Bourse the words:
THE earth is the Lord Mayors and the
funess thereof"
Flying westward from Sc Paurs Cathe-
dral the Nazi bombers devastated Fleet
Street, the home of newspapers. There they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

spot in the world It's literary memories are
connected with Shakespeare and almost every
writer of note in the English-speaking world
down to VIII Rogers and Sinclair Lewis
The Old City ravaged by the Great
Fire of London of 1866 which began at Pud-
ding Lane and ended at Pye Corner The
fire followed a terrible epidemic of the Black
Plague and may have been useful in sweeping
away centers of infection.
There is an ancient tradition that the fire
was started by a fanatic named Solomon
Eagle, perhaps driven msd ny the terrible
sights he had witnessed. Londoners are now
saying that it is curious that the latest fire
has been started by another homicidal maniac
Adolf Hitler.
Harrison Ainsworth in his thrilling ro-
nance. "Old st. Paul's." describes the rawlings
of Solomon Eagle, who roamed the streets
shouting:
Awake, sinners, awake! The grave yawns
for you Awake and repent! Plaques shall
come upon you, and desolation And you
shall be utterly burnt by fire! For strong is
the Lord who judgeth itl'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

aAANAs - 49, - - - =" =
mer gate in the ancient
city wall. South of
Temple Bar. overlook
ing the Thames Ia the
group Of buildings
known as the Temple,
for enturies past
given over 70 lawyers
but before that the
str nghold of the
Knights Templar.
The beautiful Hall Of
he Middle Temple was
the only place standing
in London where a play
by Shakespeare was
played In his life
time. The play was
Twelfth Night" The
hall was wrecked by
the bombs and may
never be reconstructed.
The City contains no
war in d ustries, no
places Of any strategic
or military Importance.
1t is filled with historic
m onu M e MT S, banks.
taverns and memories
of the past. There is
an impression that the
NaZis were bombing
the memories. for these
are thicker in the City
than in any similar
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

- TRANGELY enough the most desperate afraid
by the Germans made against the City
~ London that small but important part London
was surrounded by wall in the Middle Ages 1t
the metropolis,
II stretches along the Thames from
in the East TO Temple Bar in the West. Temple Bar
represented by curious symbocal animal called Griffin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

Nivacious Nell
Gwynn, FavOrite
of King Charles
III, and Actress,
Whose Theatre,
Drury Lane, and
Other Early
Haunts, Were
Destroyed in the
Fire. Painting by
Sir Peter Lely.
Many were Of the
opinion that Hubert
was mad. But he was
hanged.
gorge Fox,
{ ounder of the
Quakers, actually
witnessed the Great
Fire and declared he
had foreseen it in a
vision. Il saw the
city lying according
as the word Of the
Lord came to me con-
corning il raj
years before, he
writes in his journal.
The old fire de-
stroyed or wrecked
fifty churches in Lon
don as we'll as some
of the most prom
inent buildings, in
GLIDING n = : ate
Prison and the Guild
hall. Sir Christopher
Wren re built the
churches and left the
City much as it has
looked for the past
go years. The beau
tiful churches which
he built have been
mostly wrecked by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

Enemy Explosives Shattered
the Ancient Inner City. But
Revived It's Rich Traditions Of
Art. Literature. Shakespeare.
and Old Solomon Eagle. Cred.
tied With Starting the Great
Fire ITS Years Before Hitler
Got the ideo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16

1871. by weekly Rights
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
US. Work
Tied Up
Strike
ByuJAeK- VINCENT
IntT Sew, Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. March 21.-
The two-month-old CIO strike at
the Allis Chalmers Company in
Milwaukee is seriously delaying
completion Of United States Navy
destroyers and preventing the
army from starting operation of
its new smokeless powder plant at
Radford, Va. a checkup disclosed
today.
Navy officials refused TO con-
firm or deny reports that the
strike had delayed QUILTING Of
some new destroyers by three
months. However, it was learned
that the navy is keeping a close
check on the delay caused by ma
tional defense strikes. This re-
port later may be made available
to Congress.
The OPM. meanwhile. was ad-
vised by the army that the Mil
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
N Y BusestoRun
Tomorrow
international New. Service wire

NEW YORK. March 21.-The
11-day bus strike, New York
City's greatest transit tieup in IS
years was at an end today with
the acceptance by both sides of a
compromise agreement whereby
buses will begin operating to-
morrow.
Announcement Of the agreement
was made at the City Hall, where
il was reported that the Go
Transport Workers Union repre-
sentatives and operators of the 81
idle bus lines had settled all issues
except that of wages.
An arbitrator will be named by
Mayor F. II LaGuardia later today
TO settle the remaining point in
the controversy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Clio Local Backs
Industry Council

Endorsement Of the CIO "in-
dustry council plan for national
defense was voted today by the
executive board of Chrysler Local
No. l (UAW-CIO).
The industrial council plan was
presented TO President Roosevelt
by Philip Murray. CIO president. 1t
calls for a joint board of union
and management representatives,
with a government man as chair
man. to govern production in each
defense industry.
The Chrysler local statement
said:
National defense demands
the complete cooperation Of all
groups - government, industry,
agriculture and labor-for its
successful and speedy execu-
ton"
Representatives of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO) and the General Motors
workers in the UAW-C1O, also
endorsed the plan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
TIES UP FoRTREssEs

SEATTLE, Wash, March 21.-
A spokesman for the Boeing Air
plane Company of Seattle said to-
day that future deliveries of fly
ing fortresses to the United States
Army air corps and Great Britain
will be delayed by the strike at the
Harvll Airplane Die Casting plant
in Los Angeles.
"Parts from the Harvill plant
are needed for completion of as
sembIies." the spokesman said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
u. 5. Acts 10 End
Strike After
Planes Tieup
international New. service wlrs

WASHINGTON, March 21.-
Deeply concerned by the prolonged
strike at the Harvill Die Casting
Company plant at Inglewood. Cal,
the Office of Production Manage
ment today sent Thomas +. Burns,
special labor consultant, to Los
Angeles by airplane in an effort
to settle the labor dispute.
Although only 400 workers are
involved m the strike. the plant
products are vital to the airplane
industry, and the strike already
has caused delay in aircraft pro-
duction. OPM officials have in
formed Congress.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Midland Steel Strike Threatens
To Close Lincoln Plant

State Labor Mediator Edward
Owen said the Lincoln factory,
employing about 1000 men, would
have to close tonight or Monday
unless it received a supply of stecl
frames for bodies from the Mid
land company.
Owen and Federal Labor Con-
ciliator James F. Dewey held an
emergency session last night with
representatives of the company
and the union.
"Mr. Dewey and I submitted
q proposal to the management"
said Owen. The company people
said they wanted to discuss the
matter further. I expect . call
from them some time today
which may mean the resumption
of negotiations"
Owen refused to reveal the
nature of the proposal, but said
that for the first time since the
strike started he is hopeful" of
a quick settlement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

waukee strike. which has thrown
5000 men out of work, was pre-
venting full operation Of the
Radford powder plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Two Prison Inmates Die
TImes stan Corre.pondenl

JACKSON. March 21-Two in
mates Of Jackson prison died in
the penitentiary hospital late yes
terday. John Saunders. 46, SEN
fenced from Wayne County. Feb
Il, 1888, to serve l to Is years for
breaking and entering. died OF
tuberculosis. and James Fullerton
81. sentenced from Jackson. Jan
u, 1881. 10 serve 20 to 30 years
for criminal attack, died of q
heart ailment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

turned back at the entrance after
he exchanged angry words with
Edward T. Cheyfitz, international
secretary-treasurer of the CIO Die
Casters Union. Harvill said Chey-
fitz threatened to call for 10000
pickets to throw a Gordon around
the factory if police escorted
Harvill and his group inside.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

treSs. One medicine you can
buy that's made especially for
tDomen.
Also in handy tablet form
with added iron for women
who also need to build up red
blood. WORTH TRYfNGl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
White Cane Week Set

The week of March "a TO 30
today was designated as White
Cane Week in a proclamation
issued by Mayor Jeffries in CO.
operation with the Lions Clubs OF
metropolitan Detroit, who are
promoting a drive to show con-
sideration in traffic for the blind,
who use the white canes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
APPEAL TO KNUDSEN

CHICAGO. March 21.-QNS)-
The Progressive Steel Workers
Union, an independent labor group
employed at the Wisconsin Steel
Works in Chicago. today appealed
to William S. Knudsen. co-director
of the Office of Production Man.
agement, for aid in ending the
International Harvester Company
strikes which have made 1900
idle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

With a shutdown of the Lincoln
plant looming unless the strike of
the CIO-UAW at the Midland
Steel Products Company is settled.
state and federal labor mediators
made new efforts today to end
the 2-Week-old controversy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
ALL wITHDRAWs

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 21.-
UNS)-The American Federation
of Labor through its counsel,
Herbert Thatcher. today withdrew
from a NLRB hearing on a Go
petition for a collective bargaining
election at the Bethlehem Steel
Company Lackawanna plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
ATTEMPT TO ENTER OFFICE

Los ANGELES, March 21.-
QNS) - Possible violence was
averted at the strike-bound Har-
viii Aircraft Die Casting Corpora
ton today when company officials,
thanked by policemen, attempted
to break through a crowd of 80
men and women to remove office
records and dies.
Company President II. L. Harvill
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

Wdukee StIIke, winch mas thrown
5000 men out of work, was pre-
venting full operation Of the
Radford powder plant.
SPECIAL GENERATORS
Built to meet the critical short
age of powder, the plant has a
capacity of turning out 300, 900
pounds of smokeless powder a
day. However. it cannot be put
into operation until special tur-
bine generators ordered from Alhs
Chalmers are delivered.
Defense officials have been asked
by the army to find generators in
some other market, but none can
be located.
Allis Chalmers, besides making
generators for the army and trans
formers, breech housings and load
ers for the navy. also has orders
for tractors an d tanks. engine
parts. leaders and graders, all
products badly needed in national
defense building.
According to OPM. the company
has S10,0O0.0O0 worth of direct
orders from the army and navy
and millions of dollars of subcon-
tracts given TO 1t by other large
corporations.
The OPM also disclosed that il
has been given until today "at
least 10 try to end the strike OF
American Federation of Labor
workers at Wright Field. o.. with
an implication the war depart
ment will take some action if the
strike is not settled.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Home Building Cost
Jumps 10 Pct in Year

1t cost 10 per cent more to build
an average six-room house in June
than it did in June last year, ac-
cording to economists of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board.
Despite this jump in costs-vary-
ing, of course, throughout the coun-
try-the index on the volume OF
residential construction was so per
cent higher in June this year than
in June of 1910. and l6 per cent
higher in June than in May this
year.
Using the average month of the
years 1935-1939 for base of 100 for
its construction cost index, the
boards Division of Research and
Statistics placed the index at ll2.4
in June and 1921 in June. 1910. The
index in May was l116. making the
rise from May to June OF per cent.
The rise in the cost of labor used
IN constructing the standard six
room house upon which the Bank
Board bases its computations was
nearly double that for building ma
tsrials in the II months since June
last year. Building material prices
increased 78 per cent while labor
costs jumped l46 per cent.
The residential construction index
in June was 2021 as compared with
ia in May and 134.8 in June, D40.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
C|arification Urged
For Widening Role
OF Architects
Junking Of Outworn
Restrictions Is Called
For in Report

The national emergency demands
that outWorn restrictions which
narrow the field of architectural
practice be abolished. declares a
report of the Committee on Archi-
tectural Services of the American
Institute of Architects, of which
Frederick J. Woodbridge of New
York City is chairman. New and
broader standards of practice are
needed both in the low-cost housing
and in the industrial fields, the
committee finds
Present conditions have raised
doubts about many long-estab-
lished customs and habits of
thought" it is pointed out "Ex-
animation often discloses that there
is actually nothing sacred about
some of them. This is an age when
ever-increasing service is demanded.
Questions Separation.
Does the professional character
of the architect. as it has come to
be accepted, separate him too much
from the operation of building?
When and why did separation of
architect. engineer and builder
occur? Were not the architects of
the Pyramids, the Parthenon, the
Pantheon, Chartres and ST. Peters
engineers and builders as we'll? Even
in our own land. how about
Mcintyre, Bullfinch and jefferson?
Is modern building too complex to
combine all the functions under
one head. or does it demand the
efficiency of a unified organiza ton?
There seems to be little doubt
that a direct and realistic approach
to the problem of architectural
services in the truly low-cost house
field is essential There is good
evidence that the present standards
of practice here are restrictive by
strong implication if not in fact
This is also true in the industrial
field
Such restrictive character should
(See ARCHITECTS, Page B-3D