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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-21

sims, Lansing.
Kirkland Field
sgt Eug c n e
{ O m IN e n I,
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Camp Polk, La.
To sergeant
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Polk, La. To
e o rpor a Is
Pvt. Harry T..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-21

adv anCCd flying
school. Donald
= " o O nn er.
Flint Stockton.
Yield Cal adj
vanced flying
school Cad" I
Henry CNash-
burn, 1923 Ca
halan avenue
Jack +. Durie,
9225 y CIV . n
shire avenue
and Georpe n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-21

3013 Cortland
avenue; Capt.
John III. Wax.
1929 s o u I h
Clarendon ave-
nue.. Detroit,
and 1t. Rudolph
J.. Mccullough,
Ypsilanti
Naval Train
ing d Q 8 @ /
school Chicago,
Firemen Hayne
III. Ieung. 1902
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-21

MadieI. 1914 Beechwood avenue
Lubbock, Tex. Army flying school
Second 1t. James ;. Connolly
1SIOi Parkside avenue.
Fort Belvoir. Va. engineers
school John Hamilton Bodine.
MuSkcgC1. William Warden Com
stock. Peacock William Byron
Dickens. Ann Arbor Luke Ray
nond Flemal, Ssult Ste. Marie,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-21

Robert In n q =
Hunter. l ) 6 )
Elm street. De-
troit; Edward
Stanley Aiish,
Bay City; Rob-
ert Il h q m "A =
4 st h u m u =,
Grand Rapids;
Edward T. IN IL
X sc h X e, st.
Joseph; James
Albert Richard
SON II Hipb.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

across on knoll the Young home,
beautiful Colonial house torn down to
make room for the present new bureau.
Just down from the Allmans house to
the river ran a path, which we traversed
eagerly many Sunday to witness the
"baptizing" of the colored folk, who
came in omnibuses, the men in decorous
black and the women in sort of laven-
der calico. the preacher standing waist
deep for the immersions and those on
shore joining in the "Hallilujahs!' Just
around on c street lived Mr.. Hessler,
whose daughters still occupy the home
their father built. This is No. 1858.
Near them lived Mr.. Glass and Henry
Stahl and across on the corner the Cor
corans and Cullinans and dear Miss Sally
Shea, who kept what would now be called
department store" Until recently the
house next door was occupied by Miss
Annie Culliman of this same family. I
remember this house, No. 1853, quite we'll,
for we lived in it for number of
years after the commissary was no more.
Just beyond, in the middle of the block,
lived John j. DAILY and family, who con-
Quoted a grocery store for many years"
Pettibone Dwelling
On the east side of the block between
Independence avenue and C street (and
Independence avenue was formerly B
street, once stood picturesque-lookin
dwelling called the Pettibone, because
here lived at one time John Pettibone, a
dealer in fertilizers, and whose daughter
Laura, a handsome girl, married Col
Thornburg of Tennessee in 1875. Just
when this house was built is not known,
though it was undoubtedly pioneer in
this section.
1t was two and one-half stories high,
with an upper and lower porch on the
side, which must have afforded an I'M
obstructed and beautiful view of the
river just to the south, for there could
not have been many houses In this
vicinity at the time this dwelling was
built.
Where the South Building of the De-
partment of Agriculture stands, on the
Evening star., 1943-08-15
He's the Will Rogers of New York's Bench

which formerly went to city officials.
Next, he got to thinking about all the
crests and crows and castles and roos-
ters and unicorns that decorated city
stationery and decided it was a fearful
display of heraldry. Besides, a uniform
standard of printing would save the city
SIS 900 a year.
When the officials said they wanted
to keep their crows and castles, he re-
buy two eggs week for breakfast for the
inmates of the old peoples home over on
Blackwell's Island.
At that time the cid people had no
eggs at all.
The public took an interest and every
body began talking about the eggs The
resolution went through.
Corporal in First War.
Mr.. Currans political career was In
terrupted when he volunteered for ac-
tive service in the first World War. He
says that no title that he ever had-and
he's had SO many he's like an old trunk
as being called corporal" He still has
the cheVrons.
He worked hard, was under fire. got
diphtheria, paralysis, erysipelas. 1t was
while in bed recuperating that he de-
veloped his famous appreciation Of.
cockroaches.
Il spent hours watching them, trying
to forget the suffering around me. II
they came too close to my plague ridden
head. l would whisper, Hey, Bill, Jim,.
back up a little--please' Pausine, wav-:
ing their feelers at me, they invariably
withdrew. 1t is too little understood that
the cockroach is the soul of courtesy.
the Chesterfield of the sink, silent re-
proach to Americans in hurry"
When he returned to America, it was
to inherit the job of U. S. immigration
Commissioner. 1t was time when every
one in Europe seemed to want to come
to America, but Curran felt it was time
for our American family to know itself
little better to shake down among our
selves without having a new arrival
rushing in every five minutes. We had
to take time Off and practice this thing
called democracy.
AS chief magistrate. Curran never has
allowed the letter of the law to dictate
his distribution of justice. In the cele-
brated case of couple who complained
that the city was permitting drilling at
night outside their apartment, he offered
them dinner and good nights sleep
in hotel--at the city's expense The
epilogue to that story is that Curran
paid the bill himself-s65-and he says
it was for "the best dinner l never ate"
There was another result, too: A prof.
ect of Christmas dinners for New York's
poor grew out of the episode. And no
one was happier than Magistrate Cur
ran who says that lawyers and poll
ticians should remember that politics
are transitory but that Human nature
u here to stay.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
By Villa Martin,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

NEW YORK.-Henrv Curran is Will
Rogers in judges robes. AS New York's
chief magistrate, he has devoted past
WITNESSES to such diverse subjects as eggs
for old folks homes and the courtesy of
cockroacl1es. Just now. he has wayWard
minors on bis mind,
The New York girls of Is or there
abouts who want to be a soldiers cor a
sailor s. sweetheart have the conscien-
tious Curran opening court early and
staying late.
His technique in these cases is to in
vite confidence without giving the i'm
preston that he's an old softie The
Curran touch is evident in the box Of
handkerchief tissues he keeps on the
bench ready for Offering when one of
the girls is moved to tears by the threat
of the house of detention The box is
labeled, For Cry Babes"
Henry Curran, 66. slender, gray-haired,
always has had ready label or name
for everything. Words, he SAYS, can be
more misunderstood lhan people Only
few weeks ago he stirred the public
prints III a dither over a word that is
at home in court reports but is unknown
to most OF us blIsSfully untechnical peo-
pie: SiDllngs.
When the word popped up during
court session, he asked the probation
officer: How would you like to be called
slbhng?" And he wen, on, Who wants
10 be called a scarab? Or scamp or q
coystrel? Or tatterdemalion?"
Are You Shilling?
You do not call eacho other most of
these things, Mr.. Curran continued,
but I see that every Gay or two YOU
call somebody a shilling The most in
nocent and unSuspecting people in the
world wake up on a hot morning. start
the day off by getting hotter, when all
Of sudden they find they are siblngs
and that finishes them"
The dictionary produced this definl-
ton of shilling: "One of two or more
children Of the same parents but not
necessarily of the same birth" In other
NcI''n, n HlDlillS ~ SDllItOllt WHO mas q
sister or brother. but not twin
But Judge Curran who has a strong
respect for onomatopoela says it sounds
much worse than that. And from here
on, no talks of siblings is welcome at
100 Center street.
When l went downtown to talk with
the amateur photographer in his neat
court house office he leaned back in his
chair, cooked his head to the side and
talked cheerfully of other and bloodlel
fights he's had over words
The judge considers his best contri-
button to the board of estimate was the
excision from its formal resolutions that
verbal felony, "and or"
ITS neither reading, writing nor 'rith.
metic," he emphasized with q grin. y
Evening star., 1943-08-15

the son of Sheppard Solars Church and
Eliza Cherry Church. He received his
final education at Prof Wells Institute,
at Norfolk, Va. When IA years of age
Tin 1840) Mr.. Church came to Washing
ton, where he entered the firm of Will
liam A. Harris to learn the carpenters
and joiners' trade. At this time Mr..
Harris was residing on Eleventh street
between E and F streets S.W., and on
March 4, 1847, Mr. Church married Ma
tilda S. Harris, the daughter of his en-
ployer. and, after having finished his
apprenticeship, he embarked in business
on an independent basis in 1845 and car
lied on the carpenters and joiners' busi-
less until 1876.
The Harris family Of whom Malta
married Charles B. Church is one of
Vashington's largest families, and the
southwest still has many residents who
can trace their ancestry back to Will
liam A. Harris, whose children were:
Sarah, who married Richard Wimsatt;
Henrietta, married William Walton; Ade-
laide, married George White; Margaret,
married John Stephenson; Mary, mar.
ried Joseph Stephenson, father Of AM
brose and William Stephenson, the we'll
known coal merchants; Elizabeth. who
married - Vernon; Gwynne Harris
and william Harris.
Adelaide Harris, who married George
White, pioneer foundryman, became the
mother Of some prominent and WELL
known children, including Charles STAN
ley White, the noted Washington sur
geon. In athletics, another son-the ia
nous Doc" White, or. to be more exact,
DR.. Guy Harris White-distinguishe
himself number Of years ago as a
southpaw pitcher for the Chicago White
Sox and materially assisted that club.
while he was with 1t, in landing the
championship of the league.
Until about 10 years ago the White
family resided in the old homestead situ-
ated on an eminence at the northeast
corner of Eleventh and streets SOUTH
west but since then the old dwelling
was removed and Is now thing of the
past.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

time a partner in the firm of Rudolph
d West Co. Mr.. Handy employed
George Dearing, contractor, to erect the
structures, and when the Civil War came
on, the first floor of both houses were
used by Gen. Casey as his headquarters.
In 1908, No. 238 was sold to Alfred Co.'S
tella.
At one time Mr. Handy was engaged
in business in two-story store at the
corner of Fourteenth and c streets
Southwest, but later moved to Pennsyl-
vania avenue to the site afterward oc-
cupied by Cornwell's grocery store, over
which the Grand Army of the Republic
met for many years. A man named Alt
man is said to have once resided in the
200 block of Fourteenth street, where is
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Was Playground

II was born in a house which stood
at the southwest corner of Fourteenth
and B streets, where the old Bureau of
Engraving and Printing now stands. 1t
was part of a Government reservation
under the jurisdiction Of the War De-
partment, devoted to the Quartermas-
ter Corps and took in the area from B
to the alley on the middle Of the block
and west to the Government green
houses. This 'commissary' held all the
varied activities for the needs of the
Evening star., 1943-08-15

Army officers and rationing of pension
ers of the city. There was storehouse,
where groceries were dispensed; a bak-
cry, supervised by Mr.. John Gately; a
wheelwright and blacksmith shop and
forge, and a butcher shop, under the
care Of Jesse and Oliver and Rose
Varnell, and the cabinet shop, in charge
Of my father, afterward resident Of
Indian Head, Md.
These buildings were all frame, and
our house faced Fourteenth, and on the
north we had all the Monument Lot for
a front yard. We looked out upon the
work of building the great shaft as an
everyday affair, and the monthly coming
of Army men for their ration was an
other familiar event. Opposite us, still
Evening star., 1943-08-15

low the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing This must have been at an early
date since he had cows hogs and every
thing that goes with rural life. Where
stands the old red-brick building of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at
the southwest corner of Fourteenth
street and Independence avenue, was in
the Cos the Armys corral. Regarding
this ste and its vicinity, a correspond
ent in a communication to the writer,
and at bis request, said:
Evening star., 1943-08-15

reau of Engraving and Printing, stood
until about 10 years ago two three-story
brick dwellings with lawns in front.
They were numbered 238 and 240 and
were built in 1853 or 1859 by Samuel w.
K. Handy. whose daughter Virginia mar
ried the late Charles E. West, at one
Evening star., 1943-08-15
We Counld Use Fewer Words

Curran thinks We all could get along
with fewer words and better handling.
He abhors with a scoIn that is beau
tiful to witness such abortiOnS as va
cationing" "hospitalize."
"Words.' the quiet-spoken gentleman
in the conservative dark blue suit said,
misunderstood words, start half the law
suits and half the quarels OF the world y
In his autobiography, Pillar to Post, "
bright with humor poked at himself, he
tells how the Bible struck him as young
boy of the Gay NineticS:
The Lords Prayer l liked from the
beginning. 1t was manly and direct with
no business about miserable sinners
And the 23rd psalm brought vision OF
green pastures and still waters that
carried me forward into vacation days
every time I heard it
While III college, Henry Curran spent
his vacations writing up case histories
for summer camp fund of the New
York Tribune--to encourage the wealthy
of New York to furnish green pastures"
for New Yorks poor.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

This newspaper career was sandwiched
into summers as he worked his way
through Yale (the Judge insists he still
holds the record for the 20-yard dash
with tray in undergraduate mess
Later as a full-time reporter, Curran
like to do some of the things he was
always writing about other people doing.
Money From Marriages
He also got married, to Frances Ford
Hardy of Seattle, and wrote out budget
which his father-in- n-law rejected be-
cause il made no allowance for butter.
The bride and groom arrived back in
New York with all bills paid, a working
account we'll up toward so cents, and a
job on a newspaper.
Graduating from night law school, he
soon gave up his newspaper writing to
practice law. That led into politics. He
became an alderman, and discovered
that its not the honest man, but the
crook, who looks you straight in the eye.
AS an alderman, he persuaded the
legislature at Albany to take the marry
ing power away from the aldermen and
hand it over to the city clerk. whose
duty it would be to marry couples for a
fee of two dollars, the money to
go to the city. This puts about $4,000
. year into the citys treasury, money
Evening star., 1943-08-15

southeast corner of Fourteenth street
and independence avenue. once stood
an old residence occupied many years
ago by John J. Edison and his brother,
Joseph r. Edison, who. back in 1878,
were patent solicitors at I'll G street
NV. OF course, the first Of these Is
none other than our grand old man Of
fond memory, John Joy Edison. The
Robertsons and the Shipmans were prior
residents of the Edsons' Southwest
home.
There are a number of old Southwest
families who have been for many years
identified with this sections develop
ment and growth. One of these Is the
Church family, of which Charles b.
Church, during his lifetime, probably
did more to build up certain sections in
this area than did any other person.
newspaper sketch of Charles B.
Church, printed many years ago, tells US
that he was born in Jefferson, Frederick
County, Md, September II, 1926. being
Evening star., 1943-08-15

standing, were two small bricks, in one
of which family named McHugh lived.
Further down the street was the Handy
home and the Pettibone home, and below
them the Piepenbrings. On the west
side lived John Altman, drover, and
Evening star., 1943-08-15

balls with which we played crack and
crack about of old rubber Shoes Our
golf was handy, and played with sticks
of our own cutting We had our fire.
crackers on Christmas Day, instead of
on The Fourth of July, and we COM
menced to save our Christmas money
Wherewlth to buy them, months before.
A cent was in many respects much big
ger then than now. AS the sale of fire.
crackers was prohibited by law, we en-
ployed colored boys to buy them and
paid them in crackers. Nearly all the
boys went barefooted, even those mod
erately we'll to do, until frost suggested
a covering.
There were no policemen and but one
constable, Mr. Magar, who was in
clined to be tolerant under gruff de-
meanor, simulated to uphold the dignity
of his Office. We were not much afraid,
as We could outrun him.
Easter was our time for picking aggs,
not only even and pint and butt
against the side of goose and keet eggs
but many hens nests were surreptitious-
ly picked before the eggs got cold.
Every game had its season, some to
last longer than others, but all with a
remarkable recurrence. Why this recur-
renee no one could tell, even if he asked
himself the question. Of couse, All
HalloW's eve was set apart by the alma
nae, and this was a night when turnip
and cabbage fields suffered, and those
who had no such fields we're gamers.
Speaking of almanacs, nearly every fam
lily had the HagerstoWn Almanac, which
is still published with the same old illus
trations and the same old predictions
which our fathers religiously consulted
and believed. But few families had
more than the almanac, the Bible, Jo-
sephus and a prayer book, if of one
faith, and a hymn book if of another.
Dwellings With Lawns
Shilling prints with shilling frames
were the only ornamental wall fixtures
in most domicles. Wonderful works of
art were they, but they filled the artistic
soul of the multitude, and were expo
nents of better things to come
In the western part of the Island"
on Fourteenth street, opposite the Bu
Evening star., 1943-08-15

also saw to it that contact as a verb be
hanged, drawn and quartered. In big
business they still contact each other
and lawyers still do it little, but gra-
matically those are catfish fellows Of the
baser sort, and it is to be expected
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

viii hold open house on Sunday
IN their new home on Moregan-
drive Mr.. and Mrs John r.
Poole Mr. and Mrs Raymond
n Hall and Mrs Lee Wlnetroul
Vii heln receive the guests.
Mr. and Mrs Paul r t17nS6t
VIII ne hosts AZ a dinner party
LNeN GeaI lie for u guests.
IN their home on Midland drive
Miss Helen Latham arrived
ELdaA tom nLilshlrCh 70 spnnd
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

Tie holidays Win her mother
Mrs Charles Kellogg Latham
~ef Southfold road.
Pattie Knowles came home
flnm Wellesley on Tuesday after
attending ? house party with
betty Karpcles~st her home in
Glen Falls y. Y. and the regl-
mental hall ai-the Capley Plaza
n Boston with Pfc. John Gil.
.esple NJ Birmingham, Who Is
stationed in the East
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
Symphony
P Party PI ans
Furthered

.ETNAL arrangement are he
l ing made for thh benefit
bridge party m be ClvCn hy The
WomcnS Association 10 lhe Ne
trojt symphony Orchestra Jan.
A. the Hotel Sfafier ballroom
Mrs. Winfield s Jewell Dr. Is
general chairman Of The party
which will benefit the main.
tonanCc fund ol the orchestra
Mrs Archibald Mckay. chair
man of thr patroucSScS commit
toe. announces the following As'
10 dateg
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

Hop, couples wearing some
matching article of identity
and Mrs~Basit Browns Junior
Assembly Bal, Wednesday
also at the Community House.
Peggy LIND viii entertain AZ
a tea IN her home in kcnneSaw
avenue on Monday and Joan
CrlndleV WllHeHteFt l4tttF4f ~ ~
the Weck Tor nor I0ISG- LuEz1.
Susan TillSbury of Dayton who
will arrive right after Christ
mas
Barbara Jhch vii give A
tea Monday ~ her homo M
Hawthorne. d and Peter
Hoffman and Jane LaIly VIII
entertain Al the Hoffman home
a. ranch party "Wednesday
afternoon
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
&ir",iingham Settling
WzM Uk Rsrtie,
BIRMINGHAM. Dec. 25.

CHRISTMAS week Birmingham has been justly claimed by
- the younger andpafties and dances galore are
occupying every Of boys and girls home from school
Two mig dances will he the D. b. s. sorority dance Mon
dav evening al the Community House which MatchMe'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

Year I've together Will not be
broken even though Mr.. and
Mrs. Nor Williams have moved
10 Cleveland this year, for their
gbod friends. Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward 6. Costello. Mr.. and Mrs
Charles II. Belts and MIR. and
-Alrs-W -Balllette Will-all
boz ard The Mercury Friday
and spend New Years with the
" -TiitI9UTS In-tnrTr now home
Mrs Naomi Usher entertained
AZ luncheon Wednesday for Mrs.
Nohmoyer. Mrs Wetmore and
Mrs Birch AT Devon Gables,
Christmas al Farm
Mrs James + Bullock VIII
entertain The following guests
al dinner Monday eAeninc-
hora-ef hcr niece Irene Don
molly. who has. Just arrived from
Penn Hall Junior College 10
spend The holidays ~ the Rul-
T0TK home on LahSer road e
Gue~ts-'etii include,
MISSES
1srs' Farrell Dorothy Psn
patf. EfeH caro- - Ht-Eh'
Di.rleF m .rrss ka'rer.re 30 man
Far~arA F17F Marion GGores't
NFCuAMFs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
Going TO Cleveland

George Auch'or,dnio entcr-
tanned AZ skating party and
supper dance Thursday evening
e. his parents homo on Nlng
Lake. having tho following
voting peoplc-e@-''to cHes's
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such action made the election IL
legal.
The plaintiffs further charge that
they went to the offices Of the
Riley, Allen and Jones last May
IL and requested to examine the
books Riley, Purnel and West,
who own a large block OF stock
in the company. also made a SINH
lar demand at the meeting Of the
board, in addition TO demanding
that an adequate bookkeeping sys-
TEN be installed under the super
vision OF an accountant.
They further contend that 81 900
Of company stock was not &C
counted for at the fifth annual re-
port which was submitted Dec.
81, 1912.
The plaintiffs charge that the
defendants have ''usurped power
depriving others Of right to see
books. and that the defendants
voted to operate a laundry despite
the grocery store is running at a
loss" The grocery store is at 8400
Oakland avenue.
The company was organized May
81, 1888. and issued shares.
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living close together. There have
been no complaints of disturbances
on the part OF Negroes. and at no
time were police called TO the
Negro quarters. Contrasting this
Rev. Mattox said, were
frequent calls 10 the sheriffs office
in the village to quell disturbances
among white workers.
Wives Walked the Streets
Prior to the orders for Negroes
to vacate the homes. Rev. Mattox
had requested additional units for
use by wives of the construction
workers who frequently made visits
from South Bend. There was no
available housing for these visitors
he said, and because it was i'm
possible TO find rooms in YpSilanti
hotels, these men and their wives
often walked the streets all night.
The Negroes were scheduled TO
vacate their quarters last week,
Many moved into Ypsilanti but still
others went back to South Bend