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Evening star., 1944-01-04

AlCllUCl VI SOipGy SodAt'
No date for the wedding has been
selected.
Col. and Mrs. Paul Henderson OF
Hollow Rock Farm at Chapel Hill,
N. c., announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Miss Josephine Hem
derson, to Mr.. Charles o. Hum
phries, U. S. N. r., son of Mrs.
Wofford F. Humphries and the late
Mr.. Humphries Of Asheville. Col.
and Mrs. Henderson formerly lived
In Washington, coming here from
Chicago when the former was ap-
pointed Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral in charge of the transportation
of mail. They moved to Chapel Hill
two years ago.
Miss Henderson is a granddaugh-
ter of the late former Representa-
tive Martin B. Madden, for Is years
a member of the lower house Of
Congress from Chicago. She was
graduated from the National Ca
thedral School and now is in her
junior year at Vassar College, where
she expects to graduate in Decem-
ber.
Mr.. Humphries through his moth
er is a descendant of Brig. Gen.
Oliver Edwards of the War Between
the States. He was graduated from
the University of North Carolina
and is a member of the senior class
at the medical college of Cornell
University. He is member of Beta
Theta ri and Phi Chi medical fra
ternity. He will 60 into active serv-
Ice on the completion of his intern
ship.
No definite date for the wedding
has been set.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry P. Kidder
of Concord, Mass, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Josephine Burnett Kidder, to 1t.
q. g. George Ramey Wadleigh, son
of Mrs. John Winthrop Wadleigh
of jamestown, R. l., and the late
1t. Col. Wadleigh, U. S. M. C.
1t. Wadleigh is grandson of
the late Rear Admiral and Mrs.
George H. Wadleigh and the late
Rear Admiral and Mrs. George c.
Ramey. He is attached to the
U. S. S. destroyer Wadleigh which
was launched last year and chris
tened for his grandfather. Another
destroyer launched last year was
named for his grandfather Ramey.
1t. Wadleigh was graduated from
st. Georges School at Newport in
1887, from the Institute of Tour,
France, in 1887 and from Harvard
University in 1912. Since then he
has been on active duty at sea.
Miss Kidder was graduated from
Concord Academy and is a member
of the senior GLASS at Vassar Col
lege. She made her debut in the
winter of 1940-4l and is a member
of the Junior League and the Vim
cent Club. She is granddaughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles
A. Kidder of Boston and of Mrs.
George D. Howell of Concord.
Another engagement that is OF in
terest in Southern Maryland as we'll
as in Washington is announced by
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Smyth of
this city and Wyoming, whose
daughter, Miss Mary Virginia Smyth,
is to be married to Mr.. Charles
Whitney Abel of Leonardtown
though no date has been set for the
wedding.
Miss Smyth attended Trinity Col
lege Preparatory School at Leicester,
Md, and was graduated from St.
Mary's Junior College in st. Marys
City. ..~ :.
Mr. Abel attended Newman Pre-
Evening star., 1944-01-04
VIII Give Tea

Mrs. Geof1rey Creyke will be guest
of honor at tea which will be given
Saturday by Miss Aileen Havlin
Harris at her home on Woodland
drive
Evening star., 1944-01-04

paratory School in Lakewood, N. j.;
st. Mary's Academy in Leonardtown
and the University of Maryland.
Evening star., 1944-04-23
10 Ice Cream for Two Years
BY Elton C. Fay
Associated Press Stan Writer.

rage and landing gives the enemy a
chance to come above ground.
They must not push the bow too far
ashore, for once the tanks, guns and
men have gone down the ramps at the
bow and ashore, the landing craft must
get aWay-fast.
There is particular skill about this.
The preparations for getting off the
beach are made even while the ship Is
still running in. When still a hundred
yards or so offshore, huge and sturdy
anchor is let go, paying out on hawser
and winch. The purpose is twofold:
To help, with the power of the winch,
20 haul the ship off the beach and to
hold it against swinging broadside onto
The beach while discharging men and
cargo.
AS if these navigation hazards weren't
enough, the LCI, with it's coming tower
and low freeboard, has the misfortune
to look like U-boat, especially when it
strays in heavy weather from a convoy
and comes poking back in fog or night.
Then the Lei crew prays that the
watch and gun crews on escorting de-
stroyers have learned their ship identifi-
cation lessons.
That's subject in which the amphib-
ious forces personnel themselves get q
thorough training. Because they sail
into enemy territory 1t is vitally essen
tial that they be able to identify ships
and planes. in a flash Of lightning.
Evening star., 1944-04-23

against the flicker of gunfire from q
naval battle down over the horizon, or
in the gray, uncertain light of daybreak.
Night vision is prime requisite Re-
cruits at the amphibious force schools
are screened to filter out those HOPELESS
ly night blind Ia small percentage occurs
IN any group. The remainder are
trained to use the night vision they DOS
sess but never have used. Taught that
an object is seen in the dark not by
looking directly at it but slightly away.
how to grope through a maze by in
stlnct and memory where error means
a barked shin or mild shock from elec.
trically charged walls.
They are taught a thousand things
about their ship, its fittings, machinery.
malntenance-much of it not quite like
any other craft that floats. The enlisted
men and officers learn these things as
individuals in shore schools or, short
training cruises in sheltered waters.
ihen, as is done by the Army Air
Forces with bomber crews and by the
Navy for few other specialized types of
craft such as minesweepers, a crew and
Its officers train as a unit.
Ihey are given their ship and pro-
ceed to find out as team-the per-
sonalities, strong and weak points of
each. And, too, they learn the peculiari-
ties of their ship.
Ships may be built from the same
olueprints to exactly the same lines,
power and tonnage, yet have their own
individual ways Of getting around in the
water.
Evening star., 1944-04-23
Landing Craft Call for New Seamanship

WASHINGTON.-T war has bred
new kind Of seamanship, the kind that
specializes in running pell-mell through
predaWn blackness and deliberately
piling onto beach. It's the seamanship
of the amphibious forces.
The ship is as new as the tactics. She
didn't behave like any other on her
way across the acean. She didn't bury
her nose in heavy sea, but went slap
ping and banging over the tops of the
waves with nasty little lurches an skids,
living up to the name the sailors gave
her, "the floating bedpan."
She's landing craft, perhaps a big
LST-"landing ship. tank, perhaps a
somewhat smaller LCI-"landing craft,
infantry" Whatever type, she is
specialized product of today's war of
machines, movement and seaborne in
vasion.
I1Sl oinSeio anu CieW HluaI nave Ine
seamans lore, the warship sailors tech
nique-and then know something about
how land battle is fought because it's
their mission to get the soldiers and
marines there to start it.
They must have the trick of hitting
the beach at precisely the right minute
hot so early as to run into the barrage
OF their own lighting ships and aircraft.
not so late that an interval between bar
Evening star., 1944-04-23

the American clubs now, over the re.
port that ice cream making machines
are on the way, and soon may be set up.
II 1t Is true and ice cream appears on
the menu at the American messes the
crush to become invited to them may
kill some Londoners. They haven't had
Ice cream for two years and their milk
supply is much restricted.
Jerry doesn't help the eating situation
at the messes. There are strict orders.
signed by general, that the American
messes are to be evacuated when an air
raid alert sounds. All too frequently, Just
as you are to sink tooth into sue
culent chunk Of beef. the alert comes,
you rush to the cloak room, leaving your
food and vanish into the noisy dark,
The gun sounds, and distant bomb
drops, and you 60 home hungry with
only memories Of the meal you didn't
get.
Yes, London is an exciting place. Cos.
mopolitan, urbane, crammed with uni
forms of all the Allied nations, and
mean crammed, it Is still one of the most
exciting cities Of the world.
Always a Laugh in London
Life in the big town is anything but
dull, from the humblest CT private up
to the man with stars on his shoulders
eating in the swanky officers clubs.
Americans have a habit of getting q
smile out of everything. They haven't, Of
course. been affected by more than
four years of war, and normally the
American is an ebullient soul, who
bounces back with grin. And there's
always laugh in London.
There was the American major, for
instance, who took tasty dish of fried
chicken out onto the curbstone on q
swanky West End street and ate it there
because Jerry had come over the coast
with some bombers, the sirens had
sounded, and every one had to clear out
OF the officers club. Jerry has disturbed
lot of meals. The crush in the cloak
rooms when the sirens wall sometimes
Is fairly rough, for there isn't much time
to get coats on and get going.
But the major didn't want to pass up
that luscious dish of fried chicken.
When the sirens walled, he picked I'D
the dish, placed thereon his knife and
fork and bit of bread, walked with dig
nifty to the cloakroom, got his coat and
proceeded out into the street. There on
the curb he finished the chicken. When
the an-clear blew little while later,
he stalked back into the club and gave
the waitress the cleaned dish.
The little matter of smokes is some
thing to make man tear his hair, and
without much doubt the eastbound
transports carry lot of cigars and
cigarettes for officers and men who can't
get along on the military ration here.
At the big officers post exchange,
where pretty English girls wait on the
eager customers, the ration Is seven
packs of cigarettes week, or IL cigars
and three packs of cigarettes.
Evening star., 1944-04-23
By. Walter McCallunl,
Star Staff Correspondent.

sugar with your coffee, and If you still
are flirting with fortune, you may get
a little weak milk. Usually you just
drink the coffee without milk or sugar
which has prompted some smart Ameri-
cans to carry little packages of sac
charine with them wherever they go.
It Is all different in the American
messes. There you get sugar on the
table, sizable Jumps OF butter and sec
ond helpings Of coffee or chocolate. The
mere job of eating becomes q pleasure
instead of a fight with vanishing food
supply.
Yet Londoners, having lived on rig
idly restricted diet for years, get along
all right. On the whole the national
health is good and they show no signs
OF lack Of a nutritive diet.
But London is queer place from the
trahc angle. Narrow, angling streets
that used to be thronged with aut0ano-
bile trafnc now see little else but the
ubiquitous taxis, crawling like spiders
through daylight and dark, and very
hard to get after dark. II you are smart
you stay put after 10 pm
Or else you walk. Some subways stop
running early. and bus transportation is
spasmodic AL London walks through
the intense blackout, barking its shins
and sometimes fracturing legs on OBJ
structions.
London Waits
1t is all the direct reverse of America,
where lights shine brightly and people
go about their business in automobiles
or taxis. London anxiously awaits the
day when the lights come on again. More
anxiously 1t awaits the day when. food
becomes available again in the right
quality and quantity. and when the ira
ditional beef of old England comes back.
had piece of rationed beef a few
days ago. The grocer said it was choice
piece. My bridgework suffered so severely
had to quit. My host said that was not
only ungrateful, but against the national
economy. Anyhow the cat ate the beef,
thankfully. couldn't. They don't make
bridgework that strong in America.
Jam and sweets? Candy and choco-
late is severely rationed here. YOU walk
into candy store and timidly ask for
some chocolate. The proprietor asks for
your ration book. You are glad that at
the American Army post exchange you
can get two fair sized Jumps of chocolate
per week, although it doesn't last long
IN the sweet tooth of an American &C
customed to buying whenever and as
much as he wants. The average Britisher
gets around 2 ounces of. chocolate per
week.
No Ice Cream for Two Years
Jam and marmalade is much restrict
ed. I bought one-pound jar of jam
the other day. 1t was a months ration.
If used at teatime, and at breakfast il
would last about four days. Jam is a
delicacy here.
There is lot of excitement around
Evening star., 1944-04-23
If You Think Shortages Are Problem
Over Here, You Ought to Be in London

LONDON (Via United States. Army
Air Transport, eggs have sky
rocketed to IS cents dozen? There are
people in London who haven't seen a
fresh egg for two years.
So the steak you had last night was
on the tough side? I had a steak here
last night at a club. It was one Of the
worst that ever touched tooth. The
steer from which it came had outlived
its usefulness, and probably had been
killed out of sheer pity. The little 4
ounce steak cost 50, and the waiter who
served this black market job beamed
and said, isn't it good?" There are
people in London who haven't seen a
steak for three years and more.
So you can't go for spin in the
mountains or up in the Shenandoah
Valley next Sunday because the gasoline
ration board won't give you enough gas
for your buzz-buggy? A warworker in
a London suburb, using essential gaso-
line for his 12-horsepower little car. was
fined $40 for taking an associate 200
yards down lane to his home. They
are that strict here about gasoline.
So you missed your orange juice at
breakfast and complain because oranges
are away up there in price? I know
many people who haven't seen an or
ange for two years and ask plaintively
of the groceryman, when are we going
to get one of those Spanish oranges we
have been promised?"
Everything Rationed
So you need new pair of shoes and
you only get three pairs a year on the
coupon system? The people here (many
of them are wearing wooden-soled
snoes because they get only one pair of
leather -soled shoes year, and they
save them. Shoe coupons are precious.
So you couldn't buy that new dress be-
cause of the price? You should see the
prices here. And all clothes, including
everything, are rationed.
So you couldn't buy that bottle of
Scotch for quickie when you're tired?
You just don't get it here unless you
were on the books of the retailer back
in 1899, which means that most Ameri-
cans don't get 1t at all. The price of a
drink here in the good clubs and hotels
is around 80 cents, American, and
whisky, rationed at the bars, is not
available very long. Soon after open
ing time the signs go up, Whisky off"
You get used to that "off" business in
London. If you happen to be caught at
dinner time far from an American mess
you drop into hotel or eating place
for bite. The waiter comes around
with menu. You don't just order from
the menu. First you ask him what is
left. Usually it isn't too good and often
it isn't enough. Sparrows fare doesn't
suit mcst Americans.
If you are lucky you get a pat of but
ter, just about enough to spread on half
piece of bread. If you are luckier
than usual you get one little lump of
Evening star., 1944-04-23


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Department MMem
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
AMERICACTVES ROOSEVELT FOURTH TERM

UNDATED, -(AP)-The Ameri- can people gave President Roos- evelt his fourth term in hte White House by a smaller margin than they voted him in the third.
 A late switchover in New Jer- sey sen this electoral figure to 407. Governor Dewey carried 10 states with 82 electoral votes.
 Under the battle cry of "1t's time for a change, went Dewey's thanks to the voters and bis ex- pression of confidenc that all will join in the hope that Prov idenc ewill guide Roosevelt and tn enation to peace.
 With the presidential vistory the democrats made inroads in the republican House roerobership, and clinched a majority in the Senate.
 Never before in history have foreig nnations displayed so nuch interes tni an American electio'> and indications are that another Roosevelt, Churchill. Stalin meet ing will soon take place.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08

The local report is as fol- lows;
 Children under 15, must have two negative throat cultures before leav- ing Nome.
 The time required for this is four to five days.
 It is requested that the airplane companies do not bring any children to Nome unless absolutely necess- ary.
 Upon arrival parents should register children with the Office of Indian Affairs clinic. Arrange ments must be made to iso- late them for the period of time they are in Nome.
 Adults leaving Nome must have one negative throat culture.
 Airplane companies have been requested to follow these instructions.
 The epidemic here is gradually being brought under control. To date 9 cases have definitely been diagnosed in addition to 25 questionable and
 Continued on page four)
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
CARRIER PLANES DOWN IA LAPS
 SINK 2 WARSHIPS

U. s. PACIFIC FLEET SEAD- QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 8, -(AP)-Headquarters today re- ported that carrier based fighter bombes destroyed A Japanese planes and sank 2 more warships and probably a third in the two day raid on Manila.
 The navy disclosed heavy des- truction spread along airfields, oil stores, and military installa- tions.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
NOME QUOTAS TN WAR LOAN

Word has been received here by Garnet Martin, chairman of the Nome War Bond Sales, from the Alaska chairman Katherine Nordale, that the sixth War Loan is now started, and that Nome's quota is $20,0o0 of Series "E' and $5,000 to individuals other than "E", also $l5,00o to corpor- ations.
 The Alaska total Is $2,500, ,000. of all series
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
F.D.R. WIN SAITH TE| BY
A. P. RETURNS
 SHOW TOTALS POPULAR VOTE

ASSOCIATED PRESS RETURNS from 1O0,414 of the 130,810 voting units showed that the popular went as follows;
 Roosevelt 2O,434, l9U
 Dewey 17,993,64f
 Dewey took an aggregate l40 electoral vote in Colorado, lnd1- ana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mich igan, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon. South Dakota, Vermont, Wiscon- sin, and Wyoming, with Roosevelt netting 391 electoral votes in the other B states.
 Albany, N. Y. Nov. 8,-(AP)- Republican representative, Ham, ilton Fish conceded last night, that Augustus w. Bennett had won his seat in the 29th Con- gressional district.
 Fish was seeking reelection for the 18th time
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
JAP FORCES REINFORCED ON LEYTE

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ. IN THE PHILIPPINES, Nova, -(AP)-The U. s. 24th division is locked in crucial fight in the Ormoc valley on Leyte island with elemen stof four Jap divisions Headquarters announced.
 The reports included a state ment that the Japanese had made landings at Ormoc while American forces were capturing Pinamopo- an.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
FOREIGN PRESS HALLS ELECTION HUGE SUCCESS

LONDON, Nov. 8, -(AP)-Lon- don newspapers hammered the re- suits of the election in editorials and hailed it a huge success.
 Berlin radio commented that the Dewey vote indicated that Roos- evelt's foreign policy was worry ing a wide circle of Americans.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
HEALTH DEPT
 HEAD REPORTS ON DIPHTHERIA

According to recent re- ports on the diphtreria ep- idemic there seems to be considerable resp'onsibdl- ity resting with the public. An army doctor went to Shishmaref and another to White Mountain to check on the extent of he epidem- ic in those and neighbor- ing villages. -...
 .At. Shishmaref has def initely reported a few cases ,- of f'iphtheria, but also that 80 persons have been i'm m n:zed.
 : sorts from Kotzebue st. 2 ',i.at all travel into the vi has been curalled as ~eventative measure, to D the epidemic from : th 7 llage.
 J s.siaer reports will be fo. @.>uning from all the ss1,. :. villages in Northwest ern Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
NOTICE

SATURDAY WrL BE .NRMIS- TIcE DAY AND IN OBSrRv- ANCE OF THAT DAY RETNIg. STORES WILL CLOSE.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08

Around the World News In Pictures" appears regularly in The Nugget.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
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