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United Nations
Lecture Series
Monday Evening
Russia Subject
OF the Fourth
of Discussions

Miss Minnie Mae Fleming, who Is
a member of the Sponsor Commit
tee for the United Nations Today
and Tomorrow Discussions Series,
will return from New York in time
for the fourth in the series which
will be held Monday evening IN
Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot Is chairman
of the Sponsor Committee and the
Executive Committee includes Mrs.
Raymond Clapper and Mr.. Charles
Child, co-ch a IN n with Mrs.
Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Arthur H.
Vandenberg, Mrs. Ralph o. Brew
ster, Representative Sol Bloom, Mrs.
Wayne Chatfield- Taylor, the AS
sistant Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Oscar L. Chapman, Rabbi Nor
man Gerstenfeld, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon, Mr.. James S. Beattie, Mrs.
J.. Borden Hartman, Mrs. Stanley
K. Hornbeck, Mrs. Anne Hartweu
Johnstone, Mr.. William Crane
Johnstone, jr., and Mrs. Pinchot.
The discussion Monday evening
will be Russia and the United Ma
tions" and single admission tickets
are obtainable at the United Ma
tions Relief headquarters at 1918
Connecticut avenue and at the Will
lard Hotel agency.
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Beulah NJ. Tracy,
1t. Savidge Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Matthias Tracy Of
Compton, Calf, have issued cards
announcing the marriage Of their
daughter, Miss Buelah Mae Tracy.
to 1t. Ralph Eugene Savidge, U. S.
N. R. The wedding took place Satur-
day, February q, in the chapel OF
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, the Rev. DR.. John w.
Rustin mciating.
Miss Marion Thompson was maid
of honor and Mr.. Ray vanHorn OF
Wilmington. Del, was best man. An
informal reception was held in the
apartment of the bride after which
1t. and Mrs. Savidge left for we'd
ding trip to California. 1t Savidge
attended George Washington Uni
versity AND the law school of Column
bus University. They will return to
Washington to make their home. and
after 1t. Savidge's service with the
Navy is terminated he will return to
his position with the Civil Service
Commission.
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Mrs. Forbes Feted
At Lunch Today

Mrs. Allan Forbes Of Boston, ma
tional chairman of the Women S
Committees of the Washington
Cathedral of st. Peter and st
Paul, was the guest of honor at a
luncheon today at the College OF
Preachers on the Cathedral grounds
Mrs. Forbes, who heads the Nation
wide women's organization that is
raising funds for the building and
maintenance of the Cathedral, ar
rived yesterday from Boston to con-
fer with Cathedral authorities on
plans for the coming year.
Attending the luncheon were the
Rev. Charles w. F.. Smith, canon
chancellor of the Cathedral, and
Mrs. Smith; the Rev. w. Curtis
Draper, acting canon precentor, and
Mrs. Draper; Mr.. A. G. Stoughton
executive secretary of the National
Cathedral Associa ton, and Mrs
Stoughton, and Mr. William r
Castle, a member of the Cathedral
Chapter.
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Mrs. Thatcher
Back in Takoma

Mrs. Melville George Thatcher, jr.,
better known to her friends in Ia
koma Park as Miss Virginia Leach,
has returned to her work as desk
clerk at the Washington Sanitarium
after her marriage to Pvt. Thatcher,
U. S. A., in Abilene, Tex.
The wedding took place in the
chapel at Camp Berkeley. where Pvt.
Thatcher was stationed. in the pres
ence of about so guests. The Rev.
A. M. Ragsdale ofhciated.
The bride was attended by Mrs
Glenn Schaeffer, who accompanied
her to Texas, and Pvt. Schaeffer
U, S. A.. was the best man.
Mrs. Thatcher is the daughter of
MI and Mrs. Harry P. Leach of
Jacksonville. Fla, and the bride
groom is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Melville George Thatcher of Santa
Cruz, Calf.
Pvt, Thatcher has now been trans
ferred to Camp Maxey, Tex.
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Chilean Senator
Honor Guest at
Dinner Party

Senator Eduardo Cruz Coke of
Chile was the ranking guest at din
ner last evening Of Mr.. Charles J.
Brand who entertained at the May
flower. Sharing honors with SEN
at0r Cruz-Coke were Mai. Gen.
Arturo Espinosa Muiico. Chilean
member of the Inter American De-
fenSe Board, and the First Secretary
of the Chilean Embassy, Senior Mario
Rodriguez.
Senator Cruz Coke is a former
Minister of Health for his country
and is an authority on physiological
chemistry AS we'll as an outstanding
physician Of Santiago, the capital
Of Chile. He has been counselor of
the Bank of Compulsory Insurance
one Of the earliest of the social Sc
Curlty agencies in the world. and he
also has served as president of the
National Dietary Council. as well as
representing his country at various
foreign conferences.
Other guests of Mr. Brand at din
rer We're the president Of George
Washington University. Dr.. Cloyd
Heck Marvin; DR.. Tomas Caugas
Dr.. Charles l., Parsons, DR.. Luther
FelChelderfFr. Dr.. Walter A. Bloc
corn. Dr.. William Earl Clark, Mr.
Walter J. Murphy. Mr.. Joshua Evans
tr, Mr. Frederic P. Lee. Prof. r. H.
Lush Mr.. Robert H Encle, Mr.. F.
5, Lodge and Mr. J. w. Wizeman.
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|Mavis A. Baker,
Capt. Patterson
TO Wed April 3
Plans Announced
For the Marriage
Saturday a Week

The marriage of Miss Mavis Ann
Baker, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Charles Baker of Wayne, Nebr
to Capt. Charles o. Patterson,
U. S. A., son of Mir. and Mrs. Will
liam F. Patterson OF Fort Worth
Tex, will take place Saturday, April
3. The ceremony will be performed
in the Memorial Chapel at Walter
Reed, Chaplain Richard Braun
stein officiating at 7 o'clock, and a
reception will follow in the Wash
ington home of the bride.
Corpl. Donald c. Baker, U. s. A.,
of Camp Butner, N. c., will give his
sister in marriage, and Mrs. Baker
will be her matron of honor.
Capt. Patterson will have as his
best man 1t. Archibald M. Harri-
son, PMGO, and the ushers will in
clude the bridegroom's fellow Off
GERS, Capt. Norman R. Seidle, jr
and Capt. Cameron F. Woods. Miss
Wilberta Hyatt of Pierce, Nebr., will
oIAA6 PlCCCulllS Vic CCi CIllOlIy
Capt. Patterson and his bride will
have a wedding trip to New York
after which they will return to
Washington to make their home
Miss Baker is graduate of the
Wayne State Teachers College In
Nebraska and is an employe of the
Board of Economic Welfare. Capt.
Patterson is military personnel Off
Ger in the office of the Provost
Marshal General and before his
service with the United States Army
he was practicing attorney in Fort
Worth and Austin, Tex. He is a
graduate of Texas Christian Uni
versity, the University of Texas
and is member of the Texas State
Bar.
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Miss Sutclife
Is Recent Bride

The marriage of Miss Marion Iva
Sutcliffe, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Legrand Sutcliffe of Long Island
formerly of Memphis, to Sergt. Clay
ton Wilford Cooper, Coast Artillery
U. S. A., son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
w. Cooper of Washington took
place Thursday evening, March 18
The ceremony was performed in the
Little Church Around the Corner in
New York, the Rev. Charles A
Weatherby officiating at $50 o'clock
Mr.. Roy Burkart, uncle of the
bride, gave her in marriage and her
costume was blue with white acces-
sories and she had a shoulder bou-
quet of white roses.
Miss Aline j. Kahn of Memphis
was maid of honor and Sergt. Sidney
Mann, U. S. A., was best man.
Sergt. and Mrs. Cooper will make
their home on Long Island while the
former is on duty there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper, parents of
the bridegroom, and his brother, Mr.
Carlton Cooper went to New York
for the wedding and also from
Washington we're Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Mason.
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Eloise Williams
Guest in TakOma

Miss Eloise Williams of Trenton
is guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Mencken in Takoma
Park.
Miss Williams, who is an educa-
tional secretary, has charge of a
dozen church schools in New Jersey
Mrs. Floyd Rittenhouse with her
young daughter, Miss Dana Ritten-
house, spent few days in Columbus
Ohio, with her husband, Prof. Rit-
tenhouse, who has been studying in
the Ohio State University. He is
returning with Mrs. Rittenhouse and
will resume his duties as dean of
Washington Missionary College in
Takoma Park.
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Betty A. Mills
H0n0red at Tea

Miss Betty Ann Mills, youthful
portrait painter, was the guest OF
honor at tea yesterday afternoon
at the Woman's National Democratic
Club where some Of her ikenesses
have been hung for a week. In the
exhibit there are number of oils
and pastels and include her portrait
of Mrs John Kittell, formerly Miss
Polly Wirgman, which was done
three years ago and is the first
which Miss Mills executed. The
canvas was loaned by Mrs. Kittel
for the tea yesterday afternoon and
was made while the subject was
visiting at Blowing Rock, N c..
where Miss Mills has done much OF
her work.
Hostesses yesterday and assisting
at the. tea table were Mrs. Charlie;
C. Clark, mother of 1t. Gen. Marx
Wayne Clark; Mrs. Benjamin H
Dorsey, Mrs. Ollie James, Mrs. Stan
ley j. O'Conner, Mrs. Irene Caldwell
Mrs Raymond Clapper, Mrs. Jane
Kittle of Chicago, Mrs. Ernest
Humphrey Daniel, Mrs. McCooE
Knox and Miss Virginia Price.
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Hospital Train Turned Over
To u. 5. Army by Britain
By ihe Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 26. .- The first
hospital train built in Britain for
the United States Army Medical
Department was formally handed
over Yesterday to Brig. Gen. Paul r.
HaWley.
The train of six ward cars and a
car for sitting-up patients can carry
nearly 300 wounded.
1t also includes a pharmacy car
and operating theater, two kitchen
cars and other cars for stores, Of
fees, medical officers, nurses and at
tcndantS.
Gen. HaWley said this lis an ex-
ample of the close cooperation we
have received throughout. I wish
the people in the United States could
see for themselves this example of
reverse lease lend"
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Mrs. Wallace Will Be Guest of the Biddles
At Concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Mrs. Biddle's plain
Chant for A merica
VIII Be Presented

Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the
Vice President will be guest of the
Attorney General and Mrs. Francis
Biddle Tuesday evening at the con-
cert of the Philadelphia Orchestra
in Constitution Hall
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Biddle have a particular interest in
the program that evening, as the
latters work, Plain Chant for
America" will be given
AS Katharine Garrison Chaplin
Mrs. Biddle has made a name for
herself through her poems, and the
orchestral setting to the Plain
Chant for America" was written by
William Grant Still in Los Angeles.
The composition was written by Mr.
Still for the centennial anniversary
of the New York Philharmonic So
cietv during the winter of 194l-2
Eugene Ormandy will conduct Tues
dav evening.
Mrs. Biddle is a native Of Water
ford. Conn. and spent her youth at
MurraT Hill. New York, attending
private schools. She was graduated
from Columbia University, and did
settlement work in Harlem until in
1918 she married Mr.. Biddle, then
one of the leading liberals of Phila-
delphia, where he was practlclng
law
Mr.. Still also has written musl-
cal setting to Mrs. Biddle's poem
And They Lynched Him to a
Tree" He is a gifted composer and
has received both the Guggenheim
and the Rosenwald fellowships. He
is the composer of The World of
Tomorrow" which was used as
theme music for the New York
Worlds Fair. The performance
Tuesday evening is not the first
work of Mrs. Biddle's which the
Philadelphia Orchestra has pre-
sented, for her Lament for the
Stolen and its orchestral setting,
written by Harl Mcdonald. was on
one of their programs in 1888, con-
Quoted by Mr.. Ormandy.
The plain Chant for America"
Is rugged forceful, non-senti-
mental affirmation of faith in
democracy and is the outstanding
poem in a volume of her verse
which bears that name. 1t is the
fourth collection of her works to be
published in book form "Outside
Of the World" Bright Mariner"
and Time Has No Shadow" being
the earlier books of her writings.
The Military Attache of the Ar
eentlne Embassy and Sonora de
Parodi were hosts at late after
noon party yesterday entertaining
in their home on Sixteenth street.
Their $50 guests were the heads of
diplomatic missions of the Latin
American Republics. military at
taCheS of those Staffs as we'll as
a number of ranking officers of the
United States Army and their wives.
Col and Sonora de Parodi re-
celved their guests in their attrac-
tive drawing room. although the
host frequently wandered away from
his post to chat with various groups
of guests.
The hostess wore a dark blue
froCk, street-length. and with ac-
CeSSories Of White-a very becoming
costume to her blond hair.
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Miss Jane Warren.
1t. Walls Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs Lewis E. Warren of
Chevy Chase announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Jane
Wilson Warren, to 1t. Phillip R.
Walls, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.
Miss Warren is a student at the
Bethesda Chevy Chase School and
will continue her studies at Michigan
State College next year.
1t. Walls made his home in Caro-,
Mich. before his enlistment and he
is graduate of the Engineer School
at Fort Belvoir.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Byrnes
Honor Guests of
Mr.. Johnston

The Director OF Economic Stabil-
lzatlon and Mrs. James F.. Byrnes
were the guests In whose honor the
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, Mr.. Eric
Johnston, entertained at dinner
last night. The party was given at
the Mayhower and Mr.. Johnstons
other guests were Senator and Mrs.
Homer T. Bone, Mrs. Charles L.
McNary, Senator and Mrs. Kenneth
S. Wherry, Senator Hugh A. Butler
Senator and Mrs. Edward V. Robert
son, Representative Fred Norman
Representative Henry M. jackson
Representative and Mrs. John M
Coffee, representative and Mrs
Walt Koran, Representative and
Mrs. Hal Holmes and Mr.. and Mrs
James IngebretSen.
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Mrs. Leroy Barton
Is Luncheon Guest

Mrs. Barton wife Of Col, Leroy
Barton. U. S. A., Of Port Washing
ton, Long Island, was the guest in
whose honor Mrs. Robert Whitney
Imbrie entertained at luncheon yes
terday at the Carlton. Mrs. Barton
is visiting her sister. Mrs. Fred
erick Mcmahon, in Arlington for
short time.
Col. Barton and the late Mr..
Imbrie were intimate friends and
served together in France during
the First World War.
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Dorothy Madert,
Mr.. Siesk0 Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Kiefer an
nounce the marriage of the latter's
daughter, Miss Dorothy Margaret
Madert, to Mr.. Walter Michael
Siesko, of Wilkes Barre. The we'd
ding took place Wednesday in Alex
andria and Mrs. Siesko will retain
her residence at 2l4 Emerson street
NV. while Mr.. Siesko is on duty
in the United States Army.
Mrs. Siesko is an employe of the
Civil Service Commission where Mr..
Siesko also was employed before
entering the Army Mr.. Siesko is
a graduate of the Bloomsbury, Pa,
State Teachers College, did post
graduate work at Bicknell Uni
versity and studied law at the
Columbus University in WASH
ington.
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Notables to Attend the Dance
OF the Officers Service Club

The Officers Service Club dance
to be given tomorrow evening will
take place in the large ballroom of
the Mayf1oWer Hotel at o'clock.
Mrs. Nicholas LongWorth will have
as her house guest Miss Elsa Max
well, who will be present at the
dance, and both Miss Maxwell and
Miss Constance Bennett, who is also
coming for the dance, will be guests
at an informal dinner to be given
by Mrs Arthur Fowler before the
dance.
Sonora de Cardenas, wife of the
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Spanish Ambassador, will also be
among the guests at the dinner and
others will be Mrs. Longworth, Mrs
Dorothy Norman, Mr.. and Mrs
Deering Howe, 1t. Col. Robert Nc
Kay, 1t. Col. Walter Pew, 1t. Gilbert
Roland, husband of Miss Bennett;
Capt. Inglis Jones and Mr.. Walter
Thayer.
Maj. r. A. F. Williams, Assistant
Military Attache of the British EN-
bassy, and Mrs. Williams will attend
the dance and will take a party OF
friends with them.
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Ndjerus and Others Entertain
At Performance of Rigoletto'

The Mexican Ambassador and
Sonora de Castillo Najera and Rep
resentative and Mrs. William H.
Wheat were among those entertain
ing guests at the performance last
evening which the San Carlo Opera
Company gave of "Rigoletto."
The San Carlo Company has pre-
sented a different opera each eve
ming this week and will close the
short season of music dramas Sun
day evening when they will present
Aida"
Patrons and patronesses for the
weeks presentations included the
Netherlands Ambassador and Nine
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Loudon, the Chinese Ambassador
and Nine. Wei, the Undersecretary
of the Navy and Mrs. James v. For
restal, the Undersecretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-
Taylor, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Har-
old Gardiner Bowen and Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Edwin M. Watson.
During their stay in the Capital
various members of the company
have done their bit at the Stage
Door Canteen in the Belasco Thea
ter. Here Villa Stewart, soprano
who will make her debut Sunday
evening met her cousin, now a
sailor in the U. S. Navy, whom she
had not seen for some years.
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Hosts at Dinner

Mr. and Mrs. Albert kaufman
were hosts at dinner Tuesday eve
ming entertaining at the Shoreham
Their guests were Mr. and Mrs
George Quirk. Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Fannon, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Boyle
DR.. and Mrs. Samuel Shah and Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Cantwell.
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Mrs. H. w. Beatty
Is Given artv

Mr.. Henry w. Beatty was the guest
of honor at surprise birthday ami
versary party Sunday when a group
of her friends and neighbors ar
ranged the surprise.
Among those present were hel
three daughters, Mrs. J. Clement
Mrs. c. Wells and Miss Evelyn CropI
and her grandchildren. Also at the
party were Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Tuffey
and Mrs, K. Best.
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Fete at Embassy

The Spanish Ambassador and
Sonora de Cardenas entertained at
dinner last evening at the Embassy
in compliment to Mrs. Cary Grant,
who formerly was Miss Barbara
Hutton, and is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, and Mr..
Davies.
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Frontier Nursing
Benefit April IL

The Washington Committee OF
the Frontier Nursing Service an
nounces that at its annual benefit
to be given at the Mayflower Hotel
April II at 4 o'clock.
Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner will
present eight monologues
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Home Is Occupied
By Five Generations

PH he Associated Press.
DARLINGTON, S Give gen.
eratlons Of one family live in a
home here
There lis West Broach, 81; his
daughter, Mrs. Maggie Dixon. Sc;
her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Camp
bell, 38; her daughter. Mrs Lille
Farmer, 81 and her daughter, l.
mOnth-Ol Sylvia Anne.
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| D. 6. Red Cross
| Workers Arrive
| In North Africa

Three Washington Red Cross
workers are among 81 whose safe
arrival in North Africa was disclosed
yesterday by the American Red
Cross.
They are Carolyn Chaplin and
Catherine NJ. Hitchcock. both lin
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Catherine NJ. Hitchcock. Caroline Chaplin.
guistic secretaries, and John H. Har-
rls. club director
Miss Chaplin formerly was with
the Army Ferrying Command here
as news analyst, Miss Hitchcock
had been secretary in the Office
OF the Army Air Forces ,headquar-
ters here.
Mr.. Harris, a graduate of Dunbar
High School and Howard Univer-
slty, was secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee in Phila-
delphia.
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Old Cossyru

The ancients never heard of Pan
telleria. It was as Cossyra that they
knew the little volcanic island in the
Mediterranean which yesterday was
occupied by troops of the United
Nations.
Forty-five square miles in total
area, the stepping stone" between
Africa and Europe, it seems, was
inhabited in neolithic times. Archae-
ologists have discovered primitive
ramparts of blocks of obsidian, built
to protect village of huts. Strange
tombs, called "sesi," resembling the
"nuraghi' of Sardinia, also are ex-
tant. They consist of round or
elliptical towers with sepulchral
chambers. Fifty-seven of them have
been traced. The largest, built of
blocks of lava, is sixty by sixty-six
feet. Only relatively civilized people
could have created such monuments
or wished to create them. But who
the builders were is a mystery like
that of Stonehenge and Avebury and
the labyrinths of the North and
Baltic Seas.
Carthaginians settled Cossyra at
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TRIBUTE TO BISHOP FREEMAN
By Rev. DR.. Seth r. Brooks.

be remembered. His vision of Washing
ton Cathedral as "a national shrine" and
"a house Of prayer for all people" was
made concrete in thousands of lives
through his direction. His intimate con-
facts with famous men and women did
not deter him from giving himself to a
myriad of tasks which never reached
public notice. Those who met with him
to plan for the abolition of unrighteous-
ness or for the furtherance of common
good saw in him first and last a repre-
sentative of high ethical religion the
church triumphant and the tradition of
the dignity and value of life. Bishop
Freeman made countless lives richer
through the impact of his personality
and spiritual depth. Perhaps such is the
noblest achievement man can attain!
Bishop Freeman was an outstanding
leader in the field of international af-
fairs. The Committee on Religious Life
IN the Nations Capital, first proposed by
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, had the
complete support of Bishop Freeman
from its inception to the time of his
death. He saw the Committee on Re-
hglous Life as another instrument for
making religion real to all people. In
his life there was constant evidence of
his catholicity OF spirit He was an ad-
mlred friend of the Jewish people and
worked for closer and better Judeo-
christian relations. Bishop Freeman
was bigger than any one communion
and all who worked with him knew this.
His leadership was along the main roads
OF the unlversals of religion and not
along the private lanes. Of course, he
was an unfailing servant of the church
he SO dearly loved, but his gifts and
talents were readily given wherever he
could help with the common problems
OF religion. He attracted many people
OF other faiths and denominations be-
cause there was universal appeal in
his message. Even those who perhaps
did not agree with him in doctrine felt
the appeal of his inclusive spirit. At
the services held in the Cathedral last
Wednesday people of all races, classes
and faiths took part AS the cortege
moved into the Cathedral those present
saw men of different colors Christians
and Jews, orthodox and liberal paving
honor to a great spirit The ou,pouring
OF people on that day was evidence that
as the Bishop had given himself to manv
causes, now the people of the Capital
City had come to honor tne memory of
one who stood for the brotherhood of
man through the Fatherhood of God.
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some undetermined date. The Ro-
mans took it in 255 BE-, lost it again
the next year, recovered it in 217 and
used it as a place of Punishment
for prominent persons and members
OF the imperial family" Whether
or not it was included in the Kingdom
of the Vandals in the fifth century,
AID, is matter of discussion. About
700 the Christian community on the
island was massacred by the Arabs.
Later, the whole territory was part
of the Califate of the Abbassids.
Maps of the Dominion of the Fati-
mites show it about 1000. 1t was
held by the Almoravids until Roger
of Sicily took it from them in 1923.
AsSpanish fleet won victory in the
neighborhood in 1911, but both Moor
ish and Italian navigators appear to
have been regular visitors to the
northwest coast thereafter. The
town of Pantelleria, formerly Appi-
dola, was sacked by the Turks in 1858.
Within the experience of living
generations the hidden volcanic
energy of Cossyra has been mani
tested. Hot springs still are COM
mon. The highest point is Monte
Grande, with an elevation of 2,74O
feet. Fine fruit, particularly figs
and raisins, and a special breed of
donkeys are the islands principal
products. The census of 1901 indi-
Gated 8,619 permanent residents.
More recently, the number was not
in excess of 10000.
American soldiers, landing in Pan
telleria probably will not bother with
history very much, but it happens
to be fact that they are treading
soil which successfully has felt the
feet of Phoenicians, Greeks, Latins,
Saracens and Normans in an unfail-
ing procession through at least three
milleniums.