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Evening star., 1941-11-21
CoIored Baritone PiIoted
Elevators to Further Career

A June graduate of Howard Uni
versity, Mr.. Whisonant returned
here this week to visit his college
friends Before going back to New
York today, the young baritone, who
apparently would rather use his
voice'for singing than talking about
himself. told a little about the
years that preceded that broadcast
Mr.. Whisonant's vocal mentor
when he came to Washington as a
high-school boy from North Caro-
lima was Miss Mary L. Europe, sis
ter of the late Jim" Europe, who
was band leader of HarlemS 369th
Regiment during the World War.
Held Many Odd Jobs.
After graduating from Dunbar
High School. Mr.. Whisonant wanted
to study voice at Howard University,
but there was the problem OF
money.
1t was then he embarked on his
odd Job career. He ran elevators,
operated switchboards, did janitor
duty and ran errandS as porter in
drugstore among other items.
Meanwhile, he was studying at
Evening star., 1941-11-21

Howard University under Todd
Duncan, the original Porgy in
George Gershwin's "Porgy and
Bess."
It took him six years to earn
his way through, but Mr.. Wilson
ant was graduated last June. In
New York, he was engaged for a
leading role in the all-colored pro-
duction of La Belle Helene" From
that, he went into revival OF
"Porgy and Bess' in MapleWood,
N. J.
Became Singing Waiter.
To tide himself over lean period,
he became singing waiter at a
New York cafe where, with group
of other walters, he sang ''Old Man
River" and Garry Me Back to Old
Virginny."
With many others. he was audi
toned for one of the four singing
roles in Beethoven's Ninth SYM
phony" and was chosen by StokoU-
ski for the N. B. C. Orchestras
Armistice Day broadcast of the
symphony.
After his Washington visit, he
will continue to study in New York
and to sing on other radio broad
casts and IN concert.
The best part of the broadcast.
he said, was the long distance call
that followed it from North
4 Carolina.
IA My mother and father eAlled
! me up to congratulate me-" he said
"We talked for Is minutes. That's
a long time from North Carolina
to New York"
Evening star., 1941-11-21
Terminal Power House
Fireman Seriously Hurt

Richard Reynolds, 25, of 213 Chan
ming street NE, was injured serious
ly yesterday when struck by heavy
steel rake in the Washington Ter
minal power house, police reported.
He was admitted to Emergency Hos
pital for treatment of a fractured
skull and cheek bone.
Police said Mr.. Reynolds, a fire.
man, had been raking coal into an
automatic conveyor.
Evening star., 1941-11-21

Lawrence Whisonant, 26-year-old
colored baritone whom Leopold
Stokowski launched as a soloist in
his Armistice Day broadcast. mixed
elevator operating. errand running
and furnace cleaning with his vocal
training here
Evening star., 1941-11-21

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Evening star., 1941-09-14
WiIIkiie
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belief is that unless the G. o. p.
shows we'll in the 1912 elections, it
may hit the toboggan and never
come back. In that event the coun-
try would either become a one
political party country, with all the
attendant evils-or a new party,
perhaps the Socialist party. would
spring to the fore. Mr.. Martin will
fight his hardest to see that neither
of these possibilities occur.
Too Far Ahead Now.
Frankly the Republican national
chairman admits to associates that
no one can foretell at this time
what the situation of the country
will be when the congressional
campaign rolls around, or whether
the issue of intervention and non-
intervention of internationalism or
isolation, will be an issue, if the
country is at war.
He does not intend to let the grass
grow under his feet, however, in
bringing the Republican party into
the political fray next year. He
plans to call a meeting of all Re-
publican State chairmen in Wash
ington next January, to discuss
plans for the campaign, and to call
a meeting of the national COM
mittee here at some later date. 1t
is his purpose to have the national
organization give all possible aid
to the Republican nominee for the
House and for the Senate.
Mr.. Willkie believes, it is said,
that the Republican party is doomed
if it attempts to become the party
of isolationism. In this he takes
much the same view as does Will
liam Allen White, the sage" of
Emporia, Kans. There are many
other Republicans who have the
same belief. Apparently Mr.. Willkie
and Mr.. White are hoping that the
rank and file of the G. o. P. may be
aroused to take away leadership
from those isolationists who have
been dominant figures in congress
Sional districts and in the States.
The 1910 Republican presidential
nominee is crusader, as he has
demonstrated in the past. He Is
not likely to be intimidated by con-
sideration of his own political
future. For that reason it is be-
heved here he will not let himself
be turned aside from his proposed
fight to keep the party away from
the isolation label and to elect more
internationally minded Republicans
to the Congress.
What Mr.. Willkie may do in the
coming congressional elections is
likely to have a strong bearing on
his chances for the presidential
nomination in 1914 He may, if he
is successful, build up strong fol-
lowing in the party and in the
country. On the other hand if he
attempts to purge" men in dis
tricts where they are strongly en-
trenched, he may burn his fingers
badly. But that Is not likely to
deter him.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
IN. MISS RITA HUNT.

patrols, the occupation of new bases
in the Atlantic extending finally to
Iceland, the Roosevelt Churchill
conversations, all these were steps
taken under the compulsion of
events not OF our making, but
brought about by the determination
of the leaders of Germany to pro-
coed on their chosen career Of con-
quest and domination.
Now a reshuff1e of German pol
icy, made necessary by the slow
progress of the Russian campaign,
has made it necessary for the Ger
mans to turn increased attention to
the interruption of the North At
lantic sea lanes. Their purpose is
to avoid the worst consequence of
a two-front war; that is, to prevent
the accumulation of formidable Of
fensive striking power in the British
Isles while they are still engaged
with Russia, as they may well be
for long time to come.
NaZis Weighed Peril Of Clash.
In taking this decision, the Ger
man high command undoubtedly
weighed the danger of a clash with
the United States Navy. They hoped
no doubt to avoid the worst conse-
quences OF this by trying to accentu-
ate internal divisions and confusion
of thought in this country. to judge
from the trend taken by their prop
aganda. Certainly their decision
meant increased destruction of
American goods, with imminent
peril to American lives and ship
ping. Our choice is either to with
draw from the North Atlantic alto
gether in face of this German chal-
lenge, or to use our available and
wholly adequate naval forces to
protect our interests in that mari
time area.
To do this is not to get into war"
or stay out of war" 1t is to use
our naval forces for the purpose
for which those forces we're in
tended-the protection of the vital
interests of the American people on
the high seas. Hitler. in commenc-
ing a new Atlantic campaign, acts
under the pressure of military ne
cesSity, We, in defending our in
tereSts which he is thus compelled
to attack, do likewise. There is no
other course We can take except
ignominious retreat.
(CoDyrisht. 194l. New York Tribune Inc
Evening star., 1941-09-14
American Armed Action at Sea
Was Inevitable, Eliot Holds
US Has No Other Choice Than Defense
Of Interests Against Nozis, He Holds

in the field and at sea, under war
conditions and war losses. air units
adequate for the defense of the
United States. This being the case,
it was necessary to give protection
to our industry and our vital GEN.
ters while an adequate production
rate was being attained, while in
dustry was expanding and person.
mel, both industrial and military,
being trained.
Obviously, while this process was
going on, the actual production
from day to day should be sent to
the place where it could help in
holding back the only menace we
were arming against: The power
of Germany. This is plain cold
logic, and it shows up in not too
favorable light those who tried to
persuade us that we were endanger-
ing American defense by stripping
America of her air armament. AS
a matter of fact We were taking the
only possible course which could
have given American defense time
to get on its feet.
Just as it was inevitable that We
should soon send weapons TO Brit
ain, so was it inevitable that Ger
many should try to prevent those
weapons from reaching their desti-
nation. Germany had two means
of doing this: Air attacks on Brit
ish ports, internal communications
and industrial centers, and combined
sea and air attacks on ships in
transit. The only means available
to us to check the former was to
increase the flow of planes, guns
and ammunition to the defenders of
the British Isles. To check the
latter. if We had to. we possessed
much more formidable means.
Most Formidable Sea Force.
We possessed, in fact, naval
force which was on the whole the
most formidable in the world. in
cluding a naval aviation which in
size and efficiency and in training.
in cooperation with surface units.
had nothing to match it any where
on the seven seas.
In the face of long continued
German attacks on shipping carry
ing American-made war material
to the British Isles, of heavy losses
running into millions of American
dollars and untold man hours of
American labor, losses which
threatened at one time actually to
defeat the whole purpose and aim
of our policy, the wonder is that
we refrained for so long from using
the force available to insure the
safe passage of these vital supplies
to the place where they could be
put to the uses for which we in
tended them.
The extension of American naval
Evening star., 1941-09-14
MISS FRANCES DONELON.
By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

The President, in his great ad-
dress on the freedom of the seas,
has done no more than ask the
American people to accept the in
evitable.
There Is not, nor has ever been
since this war began, any chance of
evading the acts and responsibilities
which are laid on us, not by the
President, not by the British. but by
the inexorable logic of events.
Those who try to persuade us
that there is some magic formula
by which the President can keep
us out of war" or plunge us into
war" are either incompetent to give
advice or deliberately dishonest
From the moment it was clear
that Germany would become master
of all western Europe and that the
security of the British Isles was
threatened, it became essential for
us to give all possible support to
the British people in maintaining
their grip on the sea gates of Eur
ope, commanded by their islands.
We could never endure. as mat
ter of our own security, that the
master of Europe by land should
have untrammeled access to the At
lantic at time when he had freed
himself of military rivals at home.
Since we possessed the only first
class industrial plant outside of
Europe from which munitions
could be sent to Britain, it was
inevitable that the products of that
industry of ours should begin to
flow across the Atlantic in increas-
ing quantities.
To have refused to send them, or
to have failed to take measure to
increase production so that they
might be sufficient in quantity,
would have been not only stupid
blindness to our own interests, but
betrayal of the free civilization of
which both we and the British peo-
pie are essential pillars.
Weight Needed i'm Scales.
Every German bomb which in
jured a British plant or killed a
British workman increased by that
much the need for American mu-
nitions in Britain. The very nature
of modern warfare, in which the
proportionate Importance of the
machine is so much greater than
ever before, made it necessary for
us to throw the weight of our pro-
duction into the scale unless we
were prepared, as We certainly were
not, to accept and face the conse-
quences of British defeat.
In the single matter of air power,
for example, we we're very far from
being able last year or this to pro-
duce enough airplanes to maintain
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Effort 10 Reconcile
Lewis With T.. |. 0.
Leftists Reported
New York Times Sees
Move for United Front
At National Convention
ANGELA GREEN,
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The New
York Times said tonight a move is
under way to reconcile John L. Lewis
with left-wing forces in the c. I. o.
in order to form united front at
the forthcoming national C. I. o.
convention.
The Times said Intermediates
making an effort to heal the breach
caused by differences over the war
were Reid Robinson, head of the
International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers and a c. 7. o.
vice president; Harry Bridges. Cali
fornia c. I. o. director; Joseph Cur
ran. c. I. o. vice president and
head of the National Maritime
Union, and Michael J. Quill, presi-
dent Of the Transport Workers
Union.
Foreign Policy Accord Sought.
These leaders. the Times declared,
were attempting TO reach compro-
mise between Mr.. Lewis views and
the desires of the others to give
all-out aid to Soviet Russia and
Great Britain.
The compromise may develop
through advocacy of a national
C. I. o. resolution modelled after the
one adopted last month by the
United Automobile Workers in Buff
falo, N Y. The Times said. This
called for assistance to those peo-
pie who continue to fight against
Hitler srd his allies but opposed
United States entrance into foreign
wars.
Move to Dust Carev Seen.
The Times said that if Mr.. Lewis
and the left-wingers established
working partnership at the conven-
ton tentatively scheduled to open
November II in Detroit. Allan s.
Haywood, national director of Or
ganizstion. would seek to displace
James B. Carey as national secre-
tarv. Mr.. Carey, who has repeatedly
denounced Communist influence in
the labor movement, recently was
ousted from the presidency of the
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Irish Defense Group
To Hold Second Meetinq

Members of the Washington Com
mittee for American Irish Defense
will hold their second meeting at s
pm. Thursday at 3012 Thirty second
street, it was announced yesterday.
AT an earlier meeting the mem
bers declared themselves 'uncom-
promising opponents of Hitlerism
and aggression" A resolution de-
ciared that now is the time when
American and Irish interests COIN
eide"
Rosa F. Dowling, local attorney,
is president of the group, and Mrs.
Helen Herbert Peck is secretary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-26
Marriaae
.I;;cenges

Marriage license applications
have been filed with the Pierce
county auditor by George II.
sehmel, "a, Gig Harbor, and
Gladys Nelson. 10. Route 1, Box
i4s, Bremerton; Arlo Grant Nor
ton, %, walla Walla. and Alice
Eurctta Heister. %, Route 3, Box
413, Tacoma; Harold Wilton. "a.
T02 So. X st. and Florence Phili-
pima Hill, Is. 1924 SO. Washington
St; Harry haupin Jones. so. and
Bertha Leona Kennedy, as, both
OF Seattle; Alfred E. Fletcher
copp, 81. 404 Broadway. and
Frances II. Parlsman, "a, u. s.
Veterans hospital; George p.
sutherland. %, ais So. Fife. and
Katherine Persis Banfill. 2s, Route
i, Box SPA. Tacoma: Gerald Ben
jamin Anderson. 81. Box TT. Park
land, and Leola Ruth Lockwood.
p. 700 Ea. s5th; Wayne II. Jack
son. %, and Patricia C. Fucker,
II, both OF Seattle: John Max
orthund. rs. s722ls SO. c st, and
Mary Genevieve Irving. is, 1920
So. Tacoma ave.
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Loses $500 Worth
Oh Postal SAVINGS

Loss Of more than 500 in postal
savings certificates currency and
silver, contained in a purse which
she left on a Larchmont bus Wed
nesday noon. was reported to po-
lice Friday afternoon by Mary J.
Langton. of 1905 No. 18th ST.
She discovered the loss after she
stepped off the bus at saith St
and Pacific ave, but did not report
it until two days later. as she
thought the purse would be found
by then. However. when the purse
failed to turn up. she reported her
plight TO Detective Al Farrar.
The amount included $685. in
postal savings certificates. $50 in
currency and several dollars in
silver. The purse also contained
personal papers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-26
County Hospital Employees
Subject to Merit System

The Pierce county commission
ers and Attorney oilb~rt Z. Peter
son were considering Saturday a
bulletin from Olympia declaring
present and future staff members
at the county hospital and other
institutions are subject to the
merit system and appointment by
the county welfare administrator.
Calvin Nichols. head Of the
merit system in the state depart
msnt Of social security. which pro-
vides most Of the funds for the
county institutions. held present
employees Of the institutions are
covered by the state law and in
case Of dismissal have the right of
appeal.
Nichols implied that County Ad-
ministrator George n. V. Brown
has q right to hire and fire both
regular staff members and direc-
tors of the hospital. sanatorium
and county infirmary, q power
which would remove patronage
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-26
Member Of Parole
Board Quits Post

oLYNPIA-Gov. Arthur 3
Langlis's office to-day announced
resignation q Thomas r. Waters
member Of the state board o.
prison terms and paroles since u,
creation in is3s. lie viii step out
Juns /.
No successor has been selected
IS yet for the post. Waters issued
a statement declaring that when
he took the office he believed as
did the people Of TINS state gen
orally and. think. every member
who has served thereon. such ap-
pointment for a definite term was
IN legal effect the same a. an ap-
pointment 10 a Judicial position. ("
Waters term vas supposed to
run To April Is. is4s.
However, the courts Of this
state have held 10 the contrary.
and the governor Is clearly with
in his legal rights 10 change the
membership in his discretion.
Governor Langhe has been so
busy since taking office that I've
never had the pleasure or oppor-
tunity Of meeting him. II is only
natural for him to desire someone
on the board with whom he is
closely acquainted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-26
Townsend Meetings
Monday - MCKINLEY \

Monday - Mckinley No. :, 8
p. m. ssT7 Ia. n at. spd Tacoma
No. ]. 2 ?. m. Nornanna hall.
So. 18th and K sts.. business meet.
ing. musical program, refresh
menb and dancing.
Tuesday = Aii-Cty No. 81. q
p. m. Emerson hall. 1901, Broad
way. business meeting. card party
and refreshments: Mckinley No. 9.
s P. m. Sheridan school. 54ol Nc
kinley ave. business meeting.
speaker and refreshments. and
Oakland No II. 8 p. m. club
house. 1872 So Tyler, business
session.
Observation-Disclosures No. 20
clubhouse. 2e10 IA. c ST. bnsi-
ness session: Park Avenue No. 1e.
8 p. m, Park Avenue school an
mex, two speakers. men in charge
OF program and refreshments:
Ruston No. 1. s p. m Rnston
school. business meeting and box
social. and Sumner Ne. /. . ,. m.
L O. o. ?. hall. business meeting.
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1000 Vote
New Strike

EIaean fhauaand rTn wzn.lsY,
vofsd ,oa.v "a s,rsr. :, -,
siUrsfs msnuf.etuI4n. n,sn, ~
lee. their vase aemand. .rs s.,I.
fla ~ A., vv.6,..a.-
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NJ IN, North Au.,,e.n ays.,,o,
corn. NJ Ingi.vood c.us o..r
rhadow,d fsvor.hl, asvelon...,,
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NOR, than s,oo ooo ma ~,or,h =,
wsrplsnss
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lehsm st>>I c.f,. .sf,res !.
accent IN. r.rlflr ca..t ,.n.x
stsbillx.tinr p.et /. . ,am-
promise nav. A AID IN .~ssI,rr
the msehInl.s., .sr,Le wh,eh
Ia. r.y.Ix..S .-.a....s.s -,
"a. Fr.acl.ce shlny.ra.
Bsthlebem,s Announcement CANA
a. a counter-offer 10 an All, nro-
poxai calling for |. closed .hon' n
was reported the unlon would nr~..
the closed nhop demand although
the master asreem.nt containsa
no such clause.
The way was cleared for r.sump-
ton OF work Monday Al IN. Gov.
ernment's ass DOC. 600 ammunItIon
plant At Rayenna q
under an agreement between IN,
ana o,,,cl.,. :, a..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-26
Fern Hill 10 Have
F esiival PROGRAM

a Fern Hin Improvement club will
hold May festival program in the
auditorium Of Fern Hill school
Monday at s p m. with Ed west
wood as master Of ceremonies.
Others who will take part are
Mrs. A. keplinger, Ed Stabbert.
Bob Dsrlsnd. Johnny william, Rob-
ert Dugwyler, Jack Dugwyler.
Randolf Grocott. Miss Georgia
Ann Hafthoe. age four and one-half
years. and Clarence Grocott. Miss
Marilyn Rostedt. Ed Stabbert,
Senator II. N. jackson, Mrs. r.
West, Nels Bjarke. Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. A. Donney. Mrs. L. Oman and
Mrs. Nels BJarke.
Children wiz be admitted only
II accompanied by parents.
Current business OF the club in
cludes purchase Of an additional
two acres. which will be added TO
Fern Hin park through donation to
the Metropolitan park hoard.
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HAPPY
Kirthdau
SATURDAY. MAY "a

.a 7, @ssfA ARfh -
Ralph Uphus, a20s No. Alder.
W. r. Gildart. 5622 50. J II.
Loren Alvin Nelson and Lorene
Ann Nelson, twins, University
place.
shela May Root. Route 8. Puy-
allup.
Karl A. strand, s617 Ea.
Howe ~.
Mrs. Anna Vincent, siI Ea.
saith st.
Louis NJ. (Pete) Love, sand
Point Naval Air station.
Richard ospeburg. Route 3,
Box SIT.
Jerry Siddall. SOS so. NJ 1t.
Richard Charles Gates, 8IIa
No. 2lst ut.
SUNDAY. MAY rs
Lloyd G. Smith. u. s. 4. Arr
xona, Pacific Fleet.
Robert Thomas Harbln, Waller
road.
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Army Orders

WARRINGTON - The War depart.
uent has i.susd fhs folIoNing ordsra
Bfle. Gen william o Ran. Ia.
HHlian dept 20 Hamilton Fieia
eae. Feft wlnfiela scott. 70 Wash
ington. James A Lestes. Fse.. Wash.
inEton. % Port elIl
Mas. James ;. Hamilton. INF. Pori
Custer. Mich. 70 Fort nsnninE O.
Henry l. iuonao inf Port ORD 4
Port nsnninT Herbert 2 Aeo. Matt
hess, inf Port san Houston, % Forl
Port Bliss 70 Port Leavenworth. wll-
am 6, Dolen. &c. San Antonio. Tex-
% heChord Fisla Hiehard =. Prof
sfth. ONE. Camp Bafkeley. 10 Nous
ton. Ttks John y Patrinelis. enc
Aeffett Field. 20 Bakersfield HarrY
schurman Bronson, eac. re- -. Paul.
MIN 20 Omaha. Robert p HuFhss
btnnins. Carl p Dsmberg. &C. Fasa-
eens. CALI. te Wright F1sla Paul
n Dane, &c. Pasadena, Calf. -
NTiEht Field. HOWARD ~ necoy. ae
Pasaoena. % Wright F1eld. John ~
hutehinson, &C. Barksdale Field 70
&c. harksdais Field. 70 Albany. Ga
Arthur n Wilson Jr.. cav. stockton
Calf, 70 Port Riley, Mccovn = Hunt
IA. Port Douglas 70 Port Dlx. Rob-
ert q. Mcdonnell. &C.. Port Bllss, 10
West Point; Emil W Oeitner. chap.
Langley Field. 20 Hawaiian dept.:
John p. Hobbs Jr., IA, Port Bragg. 70
Port sill: Harvey n, zinbeFe dc,
dept; William J. Holsapsl Jr., &C.
MAXWELL Field. 70 Hawaiian dept.
Ronald Emerson Smith. Cd, res. Hen
derson, Ky 70 duty, Henderson:
Clifford Harry Colts. INF. rec, ciarks-
eurs. W. Va. 20 duty Columbus.
Ohio. Roland Haddaway Del Mar. cav.
res. Jackson, Mich to Port Riley.
Otto Carl Person, cac. req. MIME
spolls, 70 duty. Omaha; Newton Dex-
ter smith. ono, res, Rifle. Colo. 10
duty, Port Sam Houston. Homer Hull
Cough. "a. res, Pasadena, Calf. TO
duty, Washington.
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Actions in Divorce

Divorce actions were filed Sat.
urday for Marjorie against cllf-
ford Brown. on grounds Of burden
some homeiifs: and Hortsnse
against Donald ssckmaster. ahsn-
donment ak years ago.
Intsrlocutory DEGREES were
granted to Virginia L. from James
l. Matchett. Mabel W. from clif-
ford I. Howe. Florence from WILL
lam 4. Cro6ey, Mary Virginia from
James p. Lesher, jr.. Anne =. from
Harold =. Nadsen and Ruth II.
from Clyde W. Williams: final de-
erees to Eva from Roy Dopps.
Edith from Robert Carson. Audree
from Eugene stoli. Dorothy II.
from Oscar E. Danghtry and Kath-
crime l. from Lewis H. Adams.