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Evening star., 1943-12-01
EAST RIVERDALE, Md.
Dear Sir:

"Dcar Sir:
Several of your recent articles in The
Evening Star have taken the words right
out Of my mind. First, concerning blue
birds. Where I moved from, a suburb
of Pittsburgh, the only bluebirds we ever
saw were pictures on birthday cards,
and such.
About the first of october, I decided
to set up the bird bath and fill 1t to see
how it looked. Within half hour, I
was both amazed and pleased, when q
flock of bluebirds arrived and had
regular picnic splashing around in the
bird bath. There is a perfect location
such as you describe for a bluebird
house, back of our house, but have q
cat, a Persian, yet wide awake.
Next, I wondered about the cardinals.
Until we moved here, operated year.
round feeding station for birds. In the
winter there would be as many as
dozen cardinals at time. incidentally,
I spent a lot for sunf1ower seed Late
in the summer, the parents would bring
their babies to feed, and I once saw q
cardinal feeding a cowbird.
X
1.-THE people Of the neighborhood
where I lived were bird lovers, but had
no time for cats. Although I knew bells
on cat didn't protect the birds any, I
kept three small bells fastened on mar
row elastic band on my cat all summer.
Contrary to the opinion of lots of per-
sons, cats don't spend their lives hunt
ing birds.
Last summer there was a nest OF four
robins low In our maple tree. We
watched them grow up and leave and
the cat didn't even know they were
there. Also, a pair of thrushes had q
nest at the back OF our yard, and spent
lot Of time on the ground below.
But how the wrens did poster my
poor Silver!
What gets me is this II cat
catches rabbit or q chipmunk or even
an English sparrow, he is 4 hero but If
he catches one songbird, he is
scoundrel
Your daily column has helped relieve
touch of homesickness I have expert
enced for my home town. After having
lived so years within radius OF miles
in one town, 1t is hard to break away
from the familiar scenes, and ones life
time friends.
Sincerely yours, F. E. c."
4 y =
Interest In birds and animals can
mitigate inconsistencies.
This has been proved many times.
1t happens this way because birds and
animals are everywhere, and the same
birds. too. The squirrel in Pennsyl-
vania looks very much like the one in
a downtown Washington park.
The cardinals Of Pittsburgh are blood
brothers to the ones in Riverdale. In
fact, the ones in Riverdale may have
flown down and over from Pittsburgh.
Thus We are tied to those we love,
no matter where we are.
The love of God continues. Just a few
years ago new edition of the Bible
was issued, In which the editor linked
Evening star., 1943-12-01
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TraceUel.

up the ancient happenings with the
events Of today.
Standing at the gates OF Jerusalem, in
the last war, he saw the same daisy
growing as he had left behind him in
England. At least 1t seemed the same
to him.
No doubt today, in some place he GER
tainly never saw, and probably never
even heard Of, many an American
doughboy sees q bird, or an animal, q
shrub or tree which reminds him Of
home.
Many persons are homesick in little
ways. They do not think of it as home
sickness, perhaps just as persons suffer-
ing slight vitamin deficiency do not
realize what is the matter with them.
They feel "out of Sorts" they say.
The animals and the birds, the shrubs
and the trees, the insects and the fishes
the clouds and the rains-all these, and
many more factors OF the nature of
which we form a part, are more con-
slant, in way, than man.
Human beings have their ups and
downs. There are whole ages, such as
the present one, when suspicion and i'll
will overcome whole races and nations at
time, with resulting confusion.
The bluebirds are never that way.
A bluebird is always a bluebird.
He Will not greet you gladly one day,
and then fail to see you the next, as
some humans do, unfortunately.
He Is the same old bluebird wherever
and whenever you see him.
This constancy Of everything except
man is refreshing to man when he is
low-spirited
The Psalms were an early expression
Of this feeling, an expression never ex-
celled, and seldom equaled
The water brooks and the oceans, and
the creatures in them, the green
pastures, and the tall mountains-these
and hundred more were the same 5000
years ago as they are now.
Any one, by trying to understand them
Io0oy, poto lllIIlSc1 III uItlc Time DdCk
thousands OF years, in his understanding
Of the universal human heart.
1t is this heart seeing seeking, thirst
ing after Righteousness, which alone
makes living worthwhile.
II we are merely the animals the
Nazis and the Japs say we all are, then
We are all definitely homesick for some
thing better. something glorious which
men knew and appreciated thousands of
years ago.
They are wrong these enemies of ours
The prophets and the bluebirds are
right.
They would not have told us so, In
noble ways, If life were truly joke and
all things showed it; the prophet in the
book. and the bluebird in the tree, each
told us a better truth than the leader
ship principle" and the rest of the
Naz jargon. The truth of the prophet
and the bird is the principle of uni
versal brotherhood and the fatherhood
OF God, in which there is no homesick-
ness at all.
Evening star., 1943-12-01
The Manned Men

From two official sources-one In
the field and one in Washington-
have come grim warnings that the
American people must prepare
themselves for the me-coming of
mutilated soldiers in numbers far
exceeding anything that this coun-
try has ever known.
Colonel Joseph I. Martin, who is
IN charge of American medical
services in Italy, believes that an
unfortunate psychological shock"
awaits many families in this coun-
try. The implements of modern
war-land mines, BOBBY traps,
bombs, etc.-are producing a great
many manning injuries, wounds
that require the amputation of arms
and legs, and which often cause
terrible damage to the face and
other parts Of the body. In former
wars many, If not most, of these
men would have died. In this war
medical science is saving them from
death, but for the rest of their lives
they will be totally or partially in
capacitated.
"The folks back home" Colonel
Martin said, must prepare them
selves to accept this tragic part of
our victory. For these wounded men.
the fight will not have ended with
their discharge. 1t will only Begin
Palmer Hoyt, retiring as director
OF the domestic branch of the Office
OF War Information, has been work
ing to the same end. One of the
major tasks confronting the Owl, in
his opinion, is to prepare the Amer
ican public for the influx of physi-
cally and mentally incapacitated
men returning from the battle
fronts. Mr.. Hoyt has been working
with military authorities to con-
vince them of the necessity of ac-
quainting the public fully with these
stark facts of war. Unless this
effort succeeds, he says, the return
from the wars of these mutilated
men will come as such a shock to
the public that the wounded will be
IN danger of winding up as misf1ts.
All of this, no doubt, is necessary
phase of educating the American
people to the real meaning of this
war. They must be prepared for the
coming of these manned battle sur
vivors, but it would also seem that
something more is needed. How are
these terribly wounded men to be
received? What attitude toward
them is best calculated to bolster
their morale and encourage within
them the will to overcome their
Evening star., 1943-12-01

handicaps? The preparation OF the
public for the shock Of facing these
designations Is doubtless the first
step, but there will be many relatives
and friends Of the wounded who
would welcome sound guidance in
methods OF helping these veterans
through the fight that will only be
beginning when they return home.
Evening star., 1943-12-01
December Is q Puruqruph

December Is paragraph complete
With careful punctuation OF her
lines:
The sudden exclamation Of the
sleet
BetWeen the .oind- bent brackets of
the pines;
The question marks Of ,ctspy smoke
that lift
Into the sky; the ,Dhtte dpostrophes
OF snot0; the ,oind that slo,oly curpes
each drift
into its place to mark pdrentheses.
Each "f' is dotted and each "t" s
crossed
With 1Dhtte preciston on each post
and fence;
And ,uires that sin1 Dith syHables
OF frost
SerUe to compound Dscsmbsrs sJo-
Quence.
Thas does the ,otntsr hrisoosv e.
press
4 shapter IN IT. exsst iocs1tmsss.
coeErfE MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1943-12-01
Whot-No Sorghum?
From the Chanuts Tfibuna.

Prom the Chanute Tribune.
No fall in Kansas can be complete
without its homemade sorghum. The
persimmons are ripe, the nuts have
commenced to drop, the corn is getting
In the shock, the ducks are scurrying to
their winter home and not . report has
reached this ofice about the progress Of
sorghum making.
Surely. war. foods. postwar planning
or anything cannot disturb oas Of our
observation-disclosures time,
Evening star., 1943-12-01
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1Driter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication Is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters ,Uith
a UieU to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-12-01

Q. How did the Romans mark the end
OF the period of education?-I. M.
A. BY a change OF costume. Free
born boys and girls wore the toga prae-
texta. 1t had a broad, purple stripe,
with the Bulla Aurea, spherical orna-
ment OF two concave gold plates con-
tanning an amulet. Later children Of
rich families or bullati wore it.
Evening star., 1943-12-01

@. What are some Of the notable
paintings included in the Widener COL
lection in the National Gallery?-A. L. P.
A. Rembrandt's ''The Mill" Raphael's
superb Small Cowper Madonna" Bel
linis Feast Of the Gods" Ell Greco's
"St. Martin and the Beggar" and ver-
meers Woman Weighing Gold"
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13
COMM & COIN

A recent Alaska Steamship vessel brought q number of pass engers for Kodiak.
 Mrs. Jessie Nelson, accom- panied by her mother, Mrs. Mary Petellin, of Afognak, re- turned after some time spent in San Francisco.
 Mrs. Grace Gardner, arrived from Seattle and will be employ. ed at Wodlinger's drug store.
 Other passengers included Mack Abston, Albert c. Naugh- ton, Mrs. Dora Naughton, Mrs. Bessie Price, Mrs. Galena Me Elsein, Sharon and Donna Me Elsein, Erne t Hill, Samuel w. Funk, Mrs Fay Burnett and grandson Richard.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13
PERSONALS

Herbert Pope, former assist ant cashier at the Bank of Kodiak, is now in the Rainbow Division and is in training at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13

NOTICE IS HEREBY CIV FEN that Frieda Kraft Blinn, ad- ministratrIx of the estate of Otto Kraft, deceased, has filed hereln her final account of such admin istration, together with a peti- ton for the final distribution of said estate, and that Monday, November 8, 1943, at 200 D. m. of the said day at the office of the Probate Judge in the city of Kodiak Alaska, has been set for the settlement of the said ac count and the hearing of the petition for distribution, and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the sald account should not be settled and allowed | and any distribution of said es- tate should not thereupon be i'm mediately made to the persons thereto without further notice of proceedings
 Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this 2th day of October, 1943.
 Charles c. Naughton,
 United States Commissioner
 and Ex Oficio Probate Judge
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13

Mrs. Margaret Gibbons is now employed at the Bank of Kodiak.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13

George Williams arrived by plane this week from Anchorage after a months residence there to assume managership of Bert's Drug store for owner L. K. Wodlinger.
 MT. Williams is from Billings, Montana, where Mrs. Will ans and their twin daughters, g years old, are located. After the end of the December school term MT. Williams family will join him here.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13

Skippy, spaniel belonging to MT. and Mrs. Dick Clifton, was killed instantly Monday when hit by a vehicle in the road in front of the Clifton home.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13
Legal Notice

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION
 KODIAK PRECINCT In the Matter of the Estate
 of OTTO KRAFT, Deceased NOTICE of FINAL HEARING
Kodiak mirror., 1943-11-13

NUMBER 0362O1 NUMBER O36221 NUMBER O35858 NUMBER O35895 NUMBER 03593O
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
JhitePzant
Guard Here

After celebrating for an hour. q
coroner's jury last week exonersted
a white plant guard. Charles Z.
Matthews in the fatal shooting Of
Augustus T. Miller. scrap collector.
shot in the chest at Colonial Breach
company. l43 Jos Campau. March Z
Miller was shot, so police learned.
as he approached Matthews after
he (Miller) had been told TO put
out a fire in the plant yard. Miller,
so the jury learned. was armed with
a shovel. as the jury ruled Matthews
shot in self-defense and acted In
the line Of duty.
Lieutenant George Branton Of the
homicide squad told the jury that
Matthews had told Miller, who was
keeping warm by the :ire while
loading his truck to put out the
fire. which Miller repeatedly re-
fused TO do.
A short time later, Miller started
towards Matthews with a shovel In
his hand and was fatally shot by
the white plant guard
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
CHURCH GROUP
BRINGS PEACE
TO 3 MILE ROAD
Inter Racial Committee
Led BY Rev. Hill
Gets Results

The interrscial committee Of the
Detroit Council OF Churches which
is headed by the Reverend Charles
Hill Of the Hartford Avenue Bap-
list church. is credited with allay-
ing the racial tensions which came
dangerously close 20 exploding in
a race riot in Ferndale last week
following the stsbbing II a white
student by a Negro youth during
fight.
The committee called upon the
Reverend William Moulton OF the
First Methodist church OF Ferndale
and the Reverend C. Hamilton OF
the Ferndale Baptist church. both
qof whom conferred with the Fern
dale chief OF police and superinten-
dent Of schools and arranged q
meeting OF Ferndale citizens. A
group OF white parents met wedne,-
day evening and the parents Of the
Negro children held a similar meet
irg that evening at the Grant
school.
The church leaders brought both
groups to understand the vicious
forces at work in the community.
particularly the Khan. which seeks
10 drive wedge between Negroes
and whites in an effort 10 precipi.
tate a riot The whites and Negroes
passed resolutions condemning the
terroristic tactics OF the Klansmen
who shot up the Negro stores on
Eight Mile road. which almost re-
suited in widespread violence be-
tween the races
A report was made Of the forma-
ton OF a student council at the Linz
coin high school. which consists OF
eight Negro students and eigh,
whites. This council will concern
itself with racial and all other stu
dent problems Of the school with the
active cooperation OF parents and
teachers. II was agreed that a Negro
counsellor in the school might be
able TO solve many Of the Difficult.
ties Reverend Hill. who made q re-
port Of the conditions in the area
praised the efforts OF various or
CARNATIONS and '-sders In the Eish,
Mile community who seemed an
xious TO formulate a program OF &C.
ton for the citizenry that would
forestall the recurrence OF racial
conflicts.
The white youth who was stabbed
is recovering and he ease of hi:
alleged attacker is expected 10 b
heard shortly.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
100 Negro Officers
At Selfnidge Field

Two of the most famous Negro
units in the United States Army
Air Forces now are stationed at
Sclfridgc Field. Mich "a miles
northeast OF Detroit. They are the
332nd Fighter Group and the 96th
Service Group and component or
CARNATIONS. The 332nd Is the first
sh-Negro Fighter Group in aviation
history.
These units joined the 44th Avis-
ton Squadron to make Selfridge
Field one OF the largest Army Air
Forces training centers for Negro
soldiers. The 44th has been sta
toned here for nearly q year.
Both the 332nd Fighter Group
and the seth Service Group came
10 Selfridge Field from several
stations in Alabama and now are
together al the same post for the
first time.
The Office OF Censorship. Wash
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
Seek Two Boys In
Hat Shop Stabbing


Two young boys sought this week
for the stabbing Of it-year old
employee Of a Hastings street hat
shop. were reported by the police
TO have created a disturbance with
the hat shop proprietor. a few min
utes before re-entering the place
and slashing the young boy.
Sam Davis OF 500 East Warren
avenue was treated at Receiving
hospital for a stab wound TO the
upper part Of the abdomen. He was
employed by Allen Pulliam at s03i
Hastings street
Police learned that two as yet un-
identified young teen-age youths
were In the shop and had an alter
cation with the proprietor over .
hat The boys were elected. but re-
turned q short time late. so police
say. and slashed at the proprietor
with . knife. However Sam Davis
was injured during the alteration.
The youths escaped and were
sought for questioning this week by
police.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
ACQUITTED, She
SUIT to-
ASK 100000
Judge Cleared M r S.
FELTON,, She S ues
GOOdwin's Store

After she had been acquitted by
a directed verdict by Recorders
Judge Joseph A. ellis. Mrs. Lucille
FELTON,. war worker. filed suit in
Circuit Court. TO collect 100000
damages from Goodwin Dress
shoppe. 81 Gratiot avenue, and Es-
telle Ramsey, store operative. u
The suit filed this week. by the
law .tirm of Bledsoe and Simmona
''1la&19 thtae ecunts y 90 pfeselR
q M JsIsoA ehsfs . al AZ Ms
embarrzssed ana Humfliated rs she
vas arrested and disrobed In full
view OF several hundred spectators
after she had been accused by Es-
telie, Ramsey. the store operative.
OF being q shoplifter.
Mrs. FELTON, was arrested and
charged with assault and battery
after no evidence had been found
on her person following the disrob-
ing. She had been found guilty OF
the assault charge by Judge ellis
March 10. before whom all the evil
dence in the case was not presented
by the prosecution. Aware OF the
fell details Of the case, Attorneys
Harold z. Bledsoe and Edward A.
Simmons interceded on Mrs. Fell
tons behalf. Judge ellis. on his
own motion. granted Mrs. FELTON,
a new trial, which was heard last
Friday.
Testimony disclosed that at the
first trial the reported store opera
tive, Estelle Ramsey, gave testimony
which she contradicted at the Sec
ond trial last Friday.
Points of contradiction in the
testimony were that she had seen
Mrs. Feltor take a nress off hang
or in the store. drop a part OF Ii
in a bag and then take it to the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
So SIZE TAXES
HIS LIFE HERE.
Claimed He III ad Knife;
Cops Fin d It In
Mans Pocket

He took her money, 50 she took
his life Is what police say happened
during m argument between . IS
year-old man and q girlfriend,
which according to witnesses,
started after she had accused him
Of taking five dollars from her
purse and refusing to return tire
sulting in the fatal stabbing Of Ju-
Illus Miree Of 21f7 Antietam street
When found by police Miree was
lying on the frontroom floor In his
home. dead. He had been stabbed
in the left neck. lacerated in the
right hand and his left ear was cut
off.
Mary Liza Underwood. %. told
police that Miree had taken the
money from her purse and when
she asked him to give It back to
her. he jumped up off the hed. ran
his hand in his pocket for his knife.
At this time. she drew a knife from
her pocket and fatally stabbed him.
Miree staggered from the bed
room to the front living room where
he collapsed and died. in the pres
ence. so police records disclosed. of
Sweetie Wooten. IS: Oracle Cole
man, 81. OF The above Antietam
street address and in the presence
Of Elizabeth Randall. 81. Of 2325 St
Aubin street.
Witnesses told police they had
seen q knife in the hand OF Mary
Underwood but did not see any In
the hand Of Julius Miree. At the
morsue. the coroner.s office found
a closed knife in 2 pocket Of the
trousers worn by Miree.
Meanwhile police are Questioning
May Underwood in the fatal shoot
Ing Of Miree this week. Lieut. Joe
Wolff and Detective Sergt Maurice
Fullerton If the homicide squad are
assigned 10 the case.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10

ington, DC. in its Code Of Wartime
Practices for the American press.
requests that no publication OF unit
strength be made. Consequently.
the exact number OF persons in the
332nd and o6th is not announced.
or the total Negro Personnel,
however more than 100 are Com.
missioned Officers, many Of them
pilots OF airplanes which they flew
from Alabama. The Negro officers
who have reported for duty here,
to date. with their home addresses.
are listed as follows:
fNote: Each is Second Lieuten-
ant. Air Corps, unless otherwise
designated)
william Allen Banks. cl2 East
56th street. Chicago. III; Howard
Ice Baugtt 900 Lee avenue. Peters
burg. Va; John R. Beverly Jr.. Ru-
uG~See OFFICERS, Pare n
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
Stole Two Rings,
He Lands In Jail

One man whom police say was a
partner In crime Of q man now
serving a three.snd-hah 10 four
year term in prison for jewelry
store robbery. was ar-aigned before
Recorders Judge John p. Scaiien
Saturday on a charge ef larceny
from . store at iisi7 East Jeffer-
son avenue. q
II was disclosed that Robert Join
er. 20. Of $50 Napoleon street. had
stolen two diamond rings. valued
at approximately $500 from the Jew
elry store OF Milton frchenbeau al
the Jefferson street address
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
Young Man Robbed
BY Five Thugs Here

He was robbed OF $50 by a group
OF five as yet unidentified men, Is
the story told police by Powell Nc
Clinton. 80. Of 2i3o McDougsll ave-
nue..
McClinton stated he was assaulted
and robbed while near Hudson and
Roosevelt streets. He was treated
a, Receiving hospital for sbrasions
Of the face.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
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N.EIEC1ION,
sT.MARIE OUT
Percy Llewellyn Is New
President Of Ford
cal

Orville Shelton Tapes. modest.
unsssuming recording secretary OF
Ford Local 600 was reelected to his
s4500 post in a landslide election
that brought defeat to President
Paul st, Marie. il was disclosed this
week.
Running on the Victory Slate"
which was headed by Percy Lew
ellyn for president OF the local,
Shelton Tapes demonstrated his
strength among the rank and file
Of white and Negro workers whom
he has sought to serve in many ca
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-10
HOUSING ROW.
IN HAMTRAMCK
UP FOR TRIAL.
Col. Hamtramck Homes
Is Center Of Legal
Controversy
BY JOHN WOOD

Appai emily believing that pat
tern OF segregated housing will be
forced in Michigan. thus denying
Negro occupancy in the Colonel
Hsmtramck Homes. attorneys for
the City Of Hamtramck sought last
week to have the trial OF Leroy c.
White VS.. the City of Hsmtramck
advanced after falling 10 appear at
q pre-trial hearing.
With this curious turn OF events
in the most important housing case
in the country. attorneys for White
sought an early pre-.rial hearing
and announcement was made that
council for White md the City OF
Hamtramck are scheduled to appear
before Circuit Judge Vincent NJ
Brennan Wednesday. April IA. At
the same time, Elyin Davenport.
council for Leroy q White. made
the prediction thai the govern
ment is dropping out OF the case.
leaving the City OF Hamtramck 10
fight the battle alone
Whites suit against the City OF
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