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Evening star., 1942-09-13
Deaths Reported
Ida Talbot, ss, 5000 !

Ida Talbot. ss, 5000 New Hampshire
Mamie Phelps, 81, 1912 Staple st: ne.
Edwin ]. Grifith, 81, Bethesda, Md.
Ida M. Crawford, 81, 1S45 Lamont st. NV.
Morris Greenblatt, 7S, Riverdale, Md.
Belle C. Clark, n, 400S 14th st. NV,
Charles r. Mann, 70, 2440 Foxhall I'd. n W.
Frank C. Haines. 72, 1901 T st. Sc.
Katherine B. Treadwell. 20, 3462 Macomb
Lucy e Inscoe. es, 2913 Olive ave. NV.
Hattis B. Crafster, 65, 20l3 New Hamp-
augusta &. Key, e5, a1o1 Connecticut ave
NV.
Rebecca L. Blaine. "a. 54l6 18th ST. NV
Steve Nowakowitsch, 5S, Alb 9TH st. s.w
Charles s. Goetz, A.. 413 Farragut st. NV.
Virginia Kelley, 27, 210S Pennsylvania
ave. NV.
Janet Ercolani, infant, 1863 L st. Sc.
Annie Mango, "A, 800 Kenyon st. NV
Lucy Martin, 90, 324 Bryant st. NV.
Susie Washington. 65, N st. NV.
Blanche Masterson, 80, st. Elizabeth's S
Clifford L. Gorham, 80, 402 New York ave.
NV.
Elizabeth N. Anderson, "a. 11s Massa-
chusettS ave. NV,
Bennie Williamson, %, 239h 4th st. sw.
Harold Minor, 13, 314 M st. s.w
Geraldine Hunter, 10, 1902 r st. NV
Sylvia e. White, infant, 1908 5th st. NV.
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Order of the Eastern Star

Grand Comdr. of knights Templar
Past Patron Fred E. Blood.
Mrs. Clara T. Wright, matron of
Chevy Chase Chapter, announces
Tuesday Evening Gard Club at her
home on September Is.
The Thursday Afternoon Card
Club at the home of Mrs. Mary Bopp
on September IT.
New Couple Club at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Purcell on September
10.
The Ways and Means Committee
of Areme Chapter will hold a crab
feast next Saturday night at 613
Gallatin street NV. Call Adams
8700, extension 523, or Randolph 0919
for reservations.
Loyalty Chapter on Wednesday
will have grand visitation. Mrs.
Bulah Boniface, matron, announces
the chapter will be opened at pm.
Ruth B. Wertz, matron of Trinity
Chapter, announces rehearsal for
initiation on Tuesday at pm. Reg
ular meeting Thursday. followed by
initiation.
Mrs. Grace F. Dietrich, chairman
of the General Auxiliary Home
Board, announces a meeting at the
Masonic Temple on September %
at 1:30 pm.
Matron Helen DuChaine an
nounces meeting of Bethany Chap
ter on September IS.
The Auxiliary Temple Committee
will be cosponsors with several
chapters to hold card party at
$500 Sixteenth street NV. on Sep
tember 10 at pm.
A meeting of the Auxiliary Home
Board will lunch downtown and
attend the General Home Board
meeting.
Grace Minnick, matron of Gavel
Chapter, announces initiation on
Tuesday. Birthdays for August and
September will be celebrated.
Mrs. Mildred B. Haste, matron of
Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chapter,
announces the degrees will be con-
ferred Thursday evening. The after
noon Bridge Club will meet Tuesday
with Mrs. Katherine Kyber; Boost
ers Club, September 10, with Mrs.
Katherine M Kyber, and the Home
Board on September "a.
Matron Lana Diamond announces
Temple Chapter will have its grand
visitation tomorrow. Tableaus de-
picting the war activities of the
chapter will be presented. Refresh
ments will be served.
Mrs. Jane Duvall, matron of
Cathedral Chapter, announces the
Temple Board will meet tomorrow
night at 1910 Tuckerman street
NV, with Peggy Burgessand Evan
geline Mcdaniel as hostesses.
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c. L. Schuettler, third vice COM
mander; the Rev. Howard E. Snyder,
past commander, reelected chap
lain; Thomas r. Manning, quarter
master; Samuel r. Crump, sergeant
at arms; Judson K. N. Knappen,
master at arms; DR.. M. H. Darnall
surgeon, reelected; Past Comdr,
Howard S. Fisk, historian, re-
elected; Past Comdr. Bernard c.
MCGEE, reelected, and Ralph A.
Werner, color bearers.
Past Comdr. James j. Murphy will
be reappointed adjutant and Past
Comdr. Lew S. Mohler, will be re-
appointed finance officer.
They will be rendered reception
at the meeting on october 6, which
will also be ladies night, at the
American Legion clubhouse.
The post will inaugurate War
bond drive today in honor Of Gen,
Pershings birthday, he being a life
member of the post.
Bureau of Internal Revenue Post
will hold election of officers at
Stansbury Hall next Wednesday
This will be known as Mount Alto
Hospital Night. Several members of
the Hospital Staff will be present.
Second Division Post met at the
New Colonial Hotel, with Comdr'
Frank Griffin presiding. The fol-
lowing were nominated for officers:
Commander, Robert Snow; senior
vice commander, John Stranahan;
Junior vice commander, Robert
Jacobs; finance officer, Maurice
Kohner; chaplain, c. L. Dawson,
color bearer, Wilson L. Jones;
sergeant at arms, Comrade Gleason
The next meeting will be held
September %.
Lincoln Post will meet in the
American Legion clubhouse tomor-
row at pm, with Comdr. John D
Germer presiding. There will be
nomination of officers.
Adit. Albert L. Dunlap was elected
commander of James Reese Europe
Post last Tuesday night.
Other officers elected were:
Girard Edmunds, first vice COM
mander; Walter A. Jackson, second
vice commander; J. D. Williams
third vice commander; Joseph Hall
chaplain; Thomas Talley, sergeant
at arms; Robert H, Brown, master
at arms; George N. Jones, historian
Toliver Dabney, senior color bearer
Raleigh Roger, Junior color bearer.
Public installation will be held
at $50 pm. on October 13 at the
Garnet Patterson Junior High
School.
Delegates to the national conven-
ton of the Eight and Forty from the
District of Columbia are making
preparations to attend the annual
marche to be held in Kansas City
Mo. Mrs. Virginia Mccarthy, Mrs
Mary Corwin, Mrs. Helen Ware, Mrs
Rae Zaontz and Mrs. Ethel Wilt will
leave on the $40 pm. train on Sep
tember 16.
Mrs. Virginia Mccarthy, chapeau
departemental, recently retired, will
serve as a national page, and she viii
also be a candidate for the office OF
national vice president for the East
ern Division.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

Grand visitations will be made
this week to Temple Chapter. Sep
tember IA, at $50 pm; to Fidelity
and Mizpah Chapters on September
Is. The officers will visit Fidelity
Chapter at $50 pm. and they, with
the officers and members of Fidelity
Chapter, will conclude the visit in
Mizpah Chapter at 9:15 pm, when
a joint program will be presented.
A dual visitation will be made to
Loyalty Chapter September Is at
$50 pm. and the visit concluded
in Areme Chapter at 9:15 pm, fol-
lowing which, Areme Chapters
birthday will be celebrated. Mount
Pleasant Chapter will receive the
officers on September 18 at $3.50 pm.
The Masonic Service Center at
the Masonic Temple at Thirteenth
and New York avenue is now open
to provide rest, refreshment and
entertainment to service men. A
Cookie jar and a doughnut crock
will be kept filled at all times. The
center will be opened with appro-
pirate ceremonies on September 10.
Miss Maybelle Randall is the
hostess.
The Grand Chapter officers will
attend the 50th anniversary of the
formation of the first Eastern Star
chapter in the District of Columbia
Ruth Chapter No. l, on Septem-
ber 81.
Mrs. Esther B. Lyvers, matron of
Esther Chapter, announces the de-
grees will be conferred September
IT.
The choir will meet at the home
Of Mrs. Emily Sutton on September
IA.
Miss Anna Park will entertain the
Auxiliary Temple Board at the Bel
levue Hotel on September 81. The
board is sponsoring dinner at the
Fairfax Hotel on September Is.
The Auxiliary Home Board will
meet at the home of Mrs. Sue
Stringfellow on September "a, Mrs.
Margaret Pack assisting hostess.
4Sli o. OuttOl1 WILL
the Dramatic Club on September %.
Mrs. A. Naomi Cooper, matron,
announces Miriam Chapter will
meet September IA
The Star Point Society will meet
September II at the home of Elsie
Frederick.
La Fayette Lodge Chapter Card
Club will meet next Saturday eve
ming at Joppa Hall, with Norberta
Bromell, Joy Allen and Kathleen
Bradbury hostesses.
Joppa Lodge Chapter will confer
the degrees September Is. Those
having birthdays in July, August
and September will be honored.
The Auxiliary Home Board will
meet September %. The matron,
Mrs. Sarah Jarvis, has set the night
of october Z to honor Right Eminent
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Daughters of Isabella

A business meeting will be held
tomorrow night at the Washington
Club, Seventeenth and K streets
NV. The circle meets the second
Monday of e .onth. Out-of-
town member of the organization
in Washington for the duration are
welcome.
Evening star., 1942-09-13


recruiting duty for combat service,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States will take over
such duty whenever possible, ac-
cording to Richard Burton, COM
mander of the District Of Columbia
Department.
This action was taken at the ma
tional convention last week and has
the Endorsement of Secretary Of the
Navy Frank Knox.
1t is planned to set up recruiting
stations throughout the country
manned by members of the organi-
zation.
There will be a joint meeting of
National Capital Post and it's aux
iliary Tuesday evening at Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth street NV.
Comdr. Richard Fowler will pre-
sent Public Printer Augustus E.
Giegengack and E. D. Merrill, presi-
dent of the Capital Transit Co., with
citations for their work in the in
terest of the community.
At the last meeting of Follow Me-
Defense Post Philip Belt, president
of the Veterans 1880 Club, Inc,
reported the club had purchased
property in Woodbridge for a home
and that it would be operating
within 80 days.
Members of the VFW may obtain
associate membership In the club by
applying to any member of this
post.
The department president, Mrs
Dorothy Lohman, escorted by the
department chief of staff, Mrs. Ethel
Sendlak, presented the department
commander, Richard Burton, at the
Council of Administration last Fri
day evening a silk service star
flag. Each star on the flag repre-
sented a member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the District of
Columbia who is serving his country.
The following were elected ma
tional officers at the national en-
campment in Cincinnati, Ohio: Ma
tional president, Marie c. Dewitt;
national senior vice president, Amelia
Kane; national junior vice president,
Hazel Miller; national treasurer,
Grace H. Davis; national chaplain,
M. Frances Anderson; national con-
ductress, Sallie Cannon, and ma
tional guard, Nell Moody.
Past Department President Mrs.
Florence Armstrong of the District
of Columbia was appointed national
legislative chairman.
A meeting of the Armistice Day
Ball Committee was held last Thurs
day evening at the Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Lohman is serving on the COM
mittee as vice chairman, and Past
| Department President Mrs. Ethel
Sendlak is serving as publicity
chairman. A contest is being held
in conjunction with the ball for
young women between the ages of
18 and 25eyears. The contestant SELL
ing the most tickets will be crowned
Miss Liberty" and awarded a $50
Defense bonds. Second prize will be
a $25 Defense bond and third prize
will be SIS in Defense stamps. Nc
relative of member of the V. F. w
or member of the Ladies' Auxil-
iary or a relative of member of
the Ladies Auxiliary will be per-
mitted to participate in this contest
Those wishing to enter the contest
should send their name, address and
telephone number to Mrs. Sendlak,
1907 I street NV. The contest starts
September IA and ends November g.
The District of Columbia ranked
third among the States in defense
work. The essay that won first prize
in the District of Columbia was
awarded a $5 honorable mention in
the national essay contest.
Treasury Auxiliary will meet Sep
tember IA at 1878 Rhode Island
avenue NE.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
.VFW Will Recruit
For Navy 10 Release
Men for Combat
National Capital Post
Meets Tuesday; Veterans
1880 Club Buys Home
Meetings This Week,

Monday-Front Line Post,
1903 Fourteenth street NV.
Tuesday-Military Order of
the Cootie, 935 G place NV.
Junior Drum and Bugle Corps,
Eastern High School Armory.
Wednesday-Equality- Walter
Reed Post, 1912 Ninth street
NV; Gen. Clarence r. Edwards
Post, Commerce Department
Building; H. L. Edmonds Post,
1903 Fourteenth street NV;
United States Naval Gun Fac
tory Post, 209 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc,
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Royal Neiqhbors of America

Fidelis Camp will meet at the
Thomas Circle Club on September II
at pm.
The camp will hold a benefit
luncheon at the Fairfax Hotel to-
morrow at 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

PhiIatelic note: The one stamp
always sure to be worth the price
paid is the War Savings Stamp. Buy
il now.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Masonic News

King David Lodge will confer the
E. A. degree Tuesday night.
Myron NJ. Parker Lodge will de-
vote Tuesday night to business.
National Lodge will have busi-
ness meeting Tuesday night.
Master Ralph Brauner of East
Gate Lodge announces the M. M.
degree Wednesday night.
Charles G.. Weber, master of Will
liam F.. Singleton Lodge, has ar
ranged for the NJ. M. degree Thurs
day night.
Hiram Lodge will devote Thurs
day night to business.
Lebanon Lodge will have busi-
ness meeting Friday night.
Joseph H Milans Lodge has
scheduled business meeting FRI
day night.
Naval Lodge will confer the NJ. M.
degree Thursday night.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

War bonds are the best buy on
the market today.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

Rush S. Young, illustrious master
of Adoniran Council, No. 2, r. and
S. NJ, announces the assembly Sep
tember II will be celebration Of
the 350th stated assembly Of ADO
miran Council with entertainment
and refreshments.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. C. laU, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, t0ait three tuu days and
receiUe their license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

The District of Columbia ranked
third among the States in defense
work. The essay that won first prize
in the District of Columbia was
awarded a $5 honorable mention in
the national essay contest.
Treasury Auxiliary will meet Sep
tember IA at 1918 Rhode Island
avenue NE.
Evening star., 1942-06-10

all other matters in disagreement,
the House accepted compromise ver-
sions.
Farm bloc members contended
that the Senate parity proposals
would lead to ruination of the par
ity program, which is designed to
give farmers the purchasing power
they enjoyed between 1909-19l4.
You're going to torpedo the
farmers" asserted Representative
Dirksen. Republican. Of Illinois
Your market will 60 to hell and
nothing can stop it"
Chairman Cannon of the Ap-
preparations Committee declared
the Senate amendments would have
"a devastating effect on the coun-
try as a whole" and would "abso-
lutely destroy parity forever"
The Senate amendments would
have permitted below-parity sales
of Government-controlled grain
that has either deteriorated In quail
ity or Is sold for feeding or for
the manufacture OF industrial alco-
hols and related products. They
limited to l25,00000 bushels the
amount OF wheat that could be sold
for feed and stipulated that the
price be not less than IS per cent OF
the parity price OF corn, competi-
tive feed.
The House originally had agreed
to permit the sale Of deteriorated
surplus grains below parity provided
they were used for feed or for the
manufacture Of alcohol.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
B, the Associated Press,


JAY, Okla. June 10.-Artificial
respiration applied by friends who
have labored increasingly for five
months-night and day-has kept
the spark of life burning in Mason
Williams, 49-year -old school teacher.
To stop pumping breath into his
wasted body would mean stran-
Cling, suffocating death.
DR.. Frank Veroni. Jay physician.
said Mr.. Williams.was suffering from
amyothrophic lateral sclerosE, a
disease causing degeneration of
nerve tracts leading from the spinal
cord to the muscles.
Its first effect, he said, was
paralysis of the muscles of the hands
and shoulders. Later 1t attacked
the muscles used in breathing and
swallowing
When Mr. Williams began to lose
control of his respiratory system,
artificial respiration was applied.
Some of his friends volunteered to
help and for five months they have
kept at it, working in relays.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Friends Keep Teacher Alive
5 Months by Forced Breothing

DR.. Veroni said Mr.. williams
ability to breathe has been impaired
about IS per cent. Without artificial
respiration he cannot speak or
swallow.
When he is sitting upright, his
friends labor over him constantly.
When he sleeps they sometimes are
able to stop for about an hour at a
time. Then he begins to choke and
respiration must be resumed.
We've been blessed with wonder
full friends" said Mrs. Williams, who
is worn and haggard after the long
ordeal, but still hopeful that way
may be found to save her husband.
Recently, she said. he was taken
to an Oklahoma City hospital and
placed in an iron lung, but imme-
diately began to choke and had to
be removed.
His weight has dropped from $50
to 81 pounds and doctors hold out
no hope for his recovery.
But his friends say they'll keep en-
pumping until death ends their
labOrs.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
|BeIow-Pariiy Sales
|0f u. S.-HeId Grain
Again Blocked
House Members See Ruin
Of Form Program in
Such Surplus DISPOSED

The administration, is blocked
again in the effort to get rid OF
Government-controlled grain at
prices below parity.
The deadlock was effected yester-
day when tho House refused to ac-
cede to Senate parity amendments
in the Agriculture Department ap-
preparation bill. Majority Leader
Mccormack told the House that the
administration favored the program
"in the interest of the entire coun-
try" but by standing vote Of 125-
81, the amendments were rejected.
Action came on a conference re-
port when the House also refused to
accept Senate increases of approxi-
mately $10O, 900 900 in funds for agri-
cultural agencies, principally the
Farm Security Administration. Dis
agreement on the two items sent the
bin back to the Senate. On virtually
Evening star., 1942-06-10

News of the forthcoming visit hert
of a group of American and British
war heroes has aroused SO mucf
interest Ia the Capital that the
rally originally scheduled to be held
in Riverside Stadium Saturday
night has been shifted to the Po-
tomac Water Gate.
President L. P. McLachlen OF the
Washington Board Of Trade urged
all business houses to join in the
reception by displaying flags anc
appropriate welcome signs.
I'VE would like them to know that
the citizens of Washington are
proud of them and their accomplish
ments," Mr.. McLachlen said.
The Water Gate welcome, sched-
uled for 8 pm, is expected to last
two hours and will be featured BY
the mems personally-related stories
of their experiences and the reasons
for their special citations.
Several prominent stage ano
screen stars have been invited tc
take part.
The rally will climax Washing
tons tribute to the group. which
will arrive at 10 am. Saturday al
the National Airport on another
leg of the tour they are making
under the sponsorship Of the Treas
ury Department.
The committee handling arrange
ments for the Washington visit an.
nounced that the Army Band anc
the Boiling Field Band would par
ticipate in the program Plans are
being completed for the reception
parade and other details.
The touring heroes will be re-
ceived by President Roosevelt ane
be guests of honor at ceremony
on the steps of the Capitol during
their visit here.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Paul CromeIin Named
President Of D. T..
Bar Association
E. Barrett Prettymon,
Retiring Head, Reviews
Yeurs Activities

Paul B. Cromelin, prominent
Washington attorney and former
grand master of District Masons,
was elected president of the Bar
Association of the District of Co.
lumbia at its annual meeting last
night in the Mayflower Hotel.
Balloting for officers and direc-
tors was held yesterday in the as
sociation's library in District Court,
and results were announced at the
evening meeting Mr. Cromelin sue
ceeds E. Barrett Prettyman, for
mer corporation counsel for the
District.
Mr.. Cromelin polled 489 votes,
against lis for Rosa F. Downing
Other Officers Listed.
Unopposed for first vice president
was John j. Wilson, former assist
ant district attorney here. Second
vice president elected was j. Edward
Burroughs, jr, former assistant dis
trict attorney.
Wilbur J. Gray and Milton w.
King we're unanimously reelected
as secretary and treasurer. respec-
lively. Named to the Board of Di-
rectors for term of two years were
Hugh A. Obear, Joseph A. Rafferty,
and Henry P. Thomas.
A partner of the law firm of
Cromelin, Townsend, Brooke &
Kirkland, Mr.. Cromelin is a native
of Washington. He Is a graduate Of
the Georgetown University Law
School, class of 1912, and the fol-
lowing year won the faculty prize
Of the postgraduate school there.
Headed Masons in 1887.
Mr.. Cromelin was the grand mas
ter of Masons here in 1887. He is
tees OF Sibley Hospital, member
of the National Press Club and a
director of the Morris Plan Bank,
the Masonic Eastern Star Home and
the Methodist Home for the Aged
He was law partner for II years
og Justice Bolitha J. Laws.
Warning that the processes Of law
must be available to every man,
Mr.. Prettyman in his annual report
to the association asserted that
generations not far distant will see
competent legal service the property
of the poor as readily as of the rich.
The organized bar must see that
the system known as law works he
declared. Il believe it to be alb
solutely inevitable that if the bar
does not find a practical solution
to this problem, the practice of law
as we know it will largely dis
tntegrate. and may disappear"
102 Members in War Posts.
Mr.. Prettyman said he was op-
posed to Government-paid public
defenders, but admitted such sys-
tenn Of law would come unless we
grasp the problem of the poor man.
however thorny, and see it through" ;"
He reviewed the progress of the
organization during the last year
and stressed that the association
had written a pioneer study OF
"blackout law" growing out of the
experiences of Great Britain. He
said that IS per cent Of the men,
bership had subscribed to War bonds
and that 102 members had entered
military or naval service.
Secretary Gray reported the mem
bership had reached 1,346, with
with IS associates.
George Maurice Morris. associa-
ton member and a nominee for
president of the American Bar Asso-
citation, told the group that the i'm
provement of the administration Of
Justice was "our job "a hours
day"
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Siberion-Munchu Border
Is Reported Peaceful
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, June l0.-The German radio
broadcast a Toxic dispatch last
night which said life on the ST.
berian- n-Manchukuoan frontier is
unusually peaceful" ard that the
Russians "are carefully avoiding any
incidents and treating the japanese
most amiably.'
+ The Berlin account said There no
longer is any sign of military activity
on the Russian side of the frontier .
Factories are idle and husky
Soviet soldiers who formerly were
serving as frontier guards have been
replaced by frail- looking young
sters," the German radio quoted the
Toxic dispatch.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
~ Conodion. Women
Released by japanese
B, tie Associated Press.

% ue ASSoClSteo kIeeS.
OTTAWA, June 10.-The External
Affairs Department announced last
night It has been informed that the
Japanese government has released
"a Canadian women from intern
ment In Japan.
The departments information. re-
layed through the Swiss Legation at
Toxic, said the women had been re-
leased May IS after the Japanese
government learned no Japanese
women have been interned in
Canada.
One Canadian woman, the de-
partment said. already had been
released from internment March %.
Names Of the women were not
announced,
Evening star., 1942-06-10
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