davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1944-12-17

department to handle the enlarged pro-
gram is suggested.
1t Is advised that all administrative
authority over recreation be vested in
the department and that its powers and
duties be defined in the city code.
In addition, an advisory committee
should be appointed to include three
citizens at large, a representative of the
Board of Education and one of the Plan
ming Commission.
Appropriation Increase
From standpoint of financial sup
port, Alexandria will have to increase
greatly its appropriation for recreation
In order to come close to meeting the
expenditures of cities of similar size, to
say nothing of approaching the recon-
mended figure of SO per capita.
According to the 1914 budget. Alexan-
dria's per capita expenditure for recre-
alton was 43 cents, and with a substan-
tlal increase proposed in the 1945 bud
get, the figure will still be only SIS cents.
No estimate as to the capital cost of
carrying out the proposed program has
been made because Of the difficulty In
estimating the cost of acquiring needed
land, but City Manager Carl Budwesky
has stated that it is reasonable to sup
pose that s5o0,000 would cover the en-
tire plan.
The development of the George WASH
ington High School playfield has al
ready begun, and improvements at all
existing Fairgrounds are now under vay.
City officials have indicated, however,
that carrying out of the program In
some measure is inevitable as an inte-
grail part of the citys postwar develop
ment into one of Washingtons finest
residential suburbs.
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melody melted the soul into all the
tenderness of woe.
Funeral Services
When the procession had arrived
at the bottom of the elevated lawn,
on the bank of the Potomac, where the
family vault is placed, the cavalry
halted, the infantry marched toward
the mount and formed their lines
the clergy, the Masonic brothers and
the citizens descended to the vault,
and the funeral service of the church
was performed. The firing was re-
peated from the vessel in the river, and
the sounds echoed from the woods and
hills around
Three general discharges by the
1nfantry-the cavalry and II pieces of
artillery, which lined the banks of the
Potomac back to the vault paid the last
tribute to the entombed Commander
in Chief of the Armies of the United
States and to the departed hero.
"The sun was now setting Alas! the
Son of Glory was set forever. No-the
name OF Washington-the American
President and General-will triumph
over death! The unclouded bright
ness of his glory will illuminate the
future ages!'
Another account gives as the prin-
cipal mourners, Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Law,
Nancy and Sally Stuart, Miss Fairfax,
Miss Dennison, Mr.. Law, Mr.. Peter,
Mr.. Lear, DR.. Craik, Lord Halifax and
Ferdinand Fairfax. The Masonic bodies
represented were: Alexandria Lodge
No. %, with its worshipful master,
Elisha c. Dick; Brooke Lodge, No. At,
of Alexandria, and Federal Lodge, No
Is (now No. u of Washington. The
Rev. Thomas Davis of the Episcopal
Church, conducted the burial services.
DR.. Dick conducted the Masonic rites.
The bier upon which the coffin was
conveyed from the mansion to the
tomb was in the Alexandria Museum
until destroyed in the burning of the
building in which it was housed in
1871. 1t was of oak, 6 feet in length
and painted a lead color. The handles
hinged to the bier had leather pads
on the under side, fastened with brass
nails. Upon the outer lead coffin was
silver shield 3 inches long, on which
was inscribed:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Born February %, 1892,
Died December II, 1799
Transfer of Tomb
The first removal of the bodies from
the old to the new tomb took place
on April 10, 1881, and the transfer of
the bodies of Gen. and Mrs. Washing
ton from the rear of the latter to the
front Of the tomb, as we see them
today, took place seven years later.
Mr.. Dodge's Reply
Back in 1920, the late Dr. William
Tindall, on behalf of the Columbia
Historical Society, wrote to Harrison
H. Dodge, then superintendent of the
Mount Vernon estate, in an effort to
obtain the facts regarding the removal
OF the distinguished dead, of which
several versions have been printed from
time to time, and the following is Mr..
Dodge's reply:
MOUNT VERNON, Va,
MAY 8, 1920.
"Dr. William Tir,ddH.
MY Dear DR.. Tinddl:. Possibly / nady
be able to throto bit OF light on the
subject mentioned IN the communication
Evening star., 1944-12-17
BY Walter McCallum,
Star War Correspondent,

PARIS (By iD.-Fanatical Ger
man 1t. Gen Ramcke, commandant OF
the Brest fortress, which held out for
weeks in an isolated pocket before
high over the harbor of Cherbourg and
said in cultural German, MY God, how
can this be?"
Below him were the tunnels and
stacks of literal forest of ships, Allied
ships of all kinds and sizes bringing the
material of war to France. They told
us Cherbourg could not be used as a
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bearing your postscript.
Some years ago, remember, one OF
the Washington newspapers published
an account of 1ohat happened at Mount
Vernon in 1887, When the remains OF
Gen. Washington and his Dite Uere
trans terred from the inner Dault' OF the
tomb and placed Utthin the marble sar-
cophagi Which had been provided, and
Which haze euer since been in plain
sight of uisitors standing before the
tomb entrance.
"On that occasion quite large party
of Senators, members OF Congress and
Others came to lDitnesS the transfer to
the last resting place
"Among them tDds a little boy name
forgotten by me) ,ptose father raised
him ON his shoulder that he might see
oper the heads of the cro,Dd in front,
aohat there aous of the ceremony. The
published account latter this child had
groDn to old age and died. 1Oas, in effect,
that the lid OF the leaden casket 1.-THE
generaPs) 1DGs opened for a tetD moments
before being placed in the sarcopha-
gus. -
"The most reliable authority, haze
had many occasions to quote, aOas an old
man (William Burgess, a Stonemason Of
Alerdndria) aohom employed at Mount
Vernon from 1885 until he died, 1893.
Burgess ,oas an apprentice bricklayer
and helped build the 'neaD tomb and
1oas present 1phen the remains of Gen.
Washington, and others, Dere noped
(AprH 19, 1881 from the old tomb to
the neD. Only fen members OF the
Washington family pere present then
and this 1S-year- old lad fBurgess) pas
NTH them Uhen they determined to
open the leaden casket to assure them
selUes OF the identity of Dhat 1t in
closed. They all expressed astonishment,
,Oten the face of the general 1oas re-
Dealed, to obserDe hotU little his facial
expression Judging from portraits) had
changed in the 30-odd years since death.
But the sealed leaden cdsket had been
the reason for preservation of form.
Yours,
HARRISON H. DODGE,
superintendent"
Originally, it had been intended by
Congress to have the bodies of George
and Martha Washington placed in the
crypt in the subbasement of the Capitol
Building, erected for that purpose dur
ing the period of 1820-1829, and before
the death of Martha Washington her
consent for the removal of the remains
Of her illustrious husband was obtained.
But Congress was some time getting
around to the matter, and did not make
further request until 1882, when applica-
ton was made to John A. Washington
of Mount Vernon for the removal of
Gen. Washington and to George Wash
ington Parke Gusts for the removal of
Martha Washington.
Mr.. Custis agreed to the wishes of
Congress, but Judge Washington did not,
stating as his reason the wish expressed
by President Washington that his re-
mains repose in the vault at Mount Ver-
non with those of the rest of his family
And thus all plans for the removal were
dropped.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

position and after single cup OF tea
repaired to his library, where. he re-
manned writing until between II and IL
o'clock. Mrs. Washington retired about
the usual family hour, but, becoming
alarmed at not hearing the accustomed
sound of the library door as 1t closed
for the night and gave signal for rest In
the well-regulated mansion, she arose
again and continued sitting up, in much
anxiety and suspense. At length the
well-known step was heard on the stair,
and upon the generals entering his
chamber the lady kindly chided him for
remaining up so late, knowing himself
to be unwell; to which Washington
made this memorable reply: I came so
soon as my business was accomplished.
You we'll know that, through long life,
it has been my UNMARRIED rule never to
put off till the morrow the duties which
should be performed today
Having first covered up the fire with
care, the man of mighty labors at last
sought repose, but it came not, as it had
long been wont to do, to comfort and
&CoUClC GC1 Gl1C 41loAly dl1O CoI 1lCoV w
cupations of the well-spent day. The
night was passed in feverish restlessness
and pain. Tired natures sweet restorer,
balmy Sleep was destined no more to
visit his couch, yet the manly sufferer
uttered no complaint, would permit no
one to be disturbed in their rest on his
account, and it was only at daybreak he
would consent that the overseer might
be called in and bleeding restorted to.
A vein was opened, but without affording
relief. Couriers were dispatched to sum-
mon DR.. Craik, the family and Drs. Dick
and Brown, as consulting physicians, all
of whom came with speed. e
might approached. ** To DR.. Craik
his earliest companion in arms, longest
tried and bosom friend, he observed: 4:
I am dying, sir-but am not afraid to
die To Mrs. washington, he said: Go
to my eScritoir and in the private drawer
you will find two papers-bring them
to me- They were brought. He con-
tinued: These are my wills-preserve
this one, and burn the other which
was Immediately done. Calling to Col.
Lear, he directed: Let my corpse be
kept for the usual period of three days
The Hour Had Come
"The patient bore his acute sufferings
with manly fortitude and perfect resig-
nation to the Divine will; while, as the
night advanced, it became evident that
he was sinking. and he seemed fully
aware that his hour was nigh He in
quired the time and it was answered,
a few moments to IL. He spake no
more-the hand Of death was upon him
and he was conscious that his hour was
come With surprising self-possession,
he prepared to die. Composing his form
at length and folding his hands upon
his bosom-without sigh-without q
groan-the Father of His Country ex-
pired, gently as though an infant died.
Nor pang or struggle told when the
noble spirit took its noiseless flight;
while SO tranquil appeared the manly
features in the repose of death, that
some moments had passed ere those
around could believe that the patriarch
was no more"
An early account Of the funeral,
dated Georgetown, December 20," has
this account of the entombment:
On Wednesday last, the mortal part
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
Democratic Platform Calls
For "Jewish Commonwealth

ton of 1917 and the Resolution of
a Republican Congress in 1922,
Palestine may be constituted as
a free and democratic Common
wealth"
Inclusion in the Republican
plank of criticism of President
Roosevelt has been denounced by
DR.. Stephen S. Wise and Henry
Monsky, president of the B'nai
Birth.
With both major political par
ties on record supporting Zionist
aims. observers here were analyz-
ing the wording of the Republican
and Democratic statements on
Palestine. The Democratic refer
ence is directly to a Jewish
Commonwealth" while the Re-
publican plank does not contain
the word jewish. The Democratic
platform, on the other hand, con-
tains no references to past Amer
lean policies on Palestine, as does
the Republican plank.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
HULL PLEDGES RESCUE
OF DEATH-MARKED
HUNGARIAN JEWS

Washington (JPS)-Corrobor-
alive reports have reached here
from many sources and through
varied channels were confirmed by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull in
a statement pointing out that "the
entire Jewish community in Hun
gary, which numbered nearly one
million souls, is threatened with
determination" that already "the
number of victims of these fiend-
ish crimes is great" and stimuli
taneously pledging that "this gov
eminent will not slacken it's eff
forts to rescue as many of these
unfortunate people as can be saw
ed from persecution and death"
and that the killers Cannot es-
cape the memorable punishment
which will be meted out to them
when the power of the evil men
now in control Of Hungary has
been broken"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
WELLES BACKS MAGNES
PLAN ON PALESTINE

New York (JPS)-Describing
DR.. Chain Weismann, president of
the Jewish Agency, as one Of the
most able statesmen Of our time
and depicting in glowing terms
Jewish achievements in Palestine,
Sumner Welles, former Under
secretary of State, concludes in
his book Time for Decision" that
a bi-national state along the lines
proposed by DR.. J. L. Magnes,
president of the Hebrew Univer-
sity, Incorporated in a federative
system to include Syria, Lebanon
and Transjordan, is the only pos
sible solution for the Palestine
problem.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
Jews In Leading
Guerilla Armies

New York (JPS)-A large
number of Jews, many of them
in positions of command, are
among the 1,O25,0OO armed guer-
rillas estimated by authoritative
military sources in London to be
actively engaged against the Nazis
in Europe.
Earlier reports by the Independ-
ent Jewish Press Service told of
large numbers of Jews among the
principle guerrilla bands. which
include $4,000 patriots under
Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, $780,
900 Frenchman under General
Joseph Koenig, and 100000 Polish
guerrillas,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
HUNGARY FORMULATES
APOLOGY FOR MURDER
1.2O8 RUMANIAN

Geneva (JPS)-The Hungarian
Government will shortly issue an
official statement admitting tne
deportation of Jews to Poland but
disclaiming responsibility for their
fate once they are delivered INTO
German hands, according TO re-
ports received here from usually
reliable circles. The Jews tne
government statement in reply 70
worldwide protests will point OUT
are deported in accordance WIN
the German-Hungarian treaty
which requires Hungary TO supply
war workers for Germany. Inc
Hungarian Government will re-
nounce all intention OF premeol-
tated murder.
The same report tells of the ar
rival in Hungary of 1000 speclal
sendarmes assigned to ferret out
Jews still in hiding and to prevent
their escape into the provinces
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01

Chicago (JPS)-The Democratic
National Convention went I'M
equivocally on record in favor of
a Jewish national democratic
Commonwealth" The Democratic
platforms reference to Palestine
reads:
1--WE favor the opening of Pal
estine to the unrestricted Jewish
immigration and colonization and
such a policy as to result in the
establishment there of a free and
democratic Jewish Common
wealth"
The Palestine plank of the Re-
publican platform reads:
"Tn order to give refuge to MIL
lions of distressed Jewish men,
women and children driven from
their homes by tyranny, we call
for the opening of Palestine TO
their unrestricted immigration
and land ownership, so that in ac-
cordance with the full intent ana
purpose of the Balfour Declare
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
EWISH SURVIVORS OF
LIMA: l OLD MAN,
WOMAN, 1 CHILD

New York (JPS)-Nightmar-
my symbolical in it's factual
prior is an Associated Press dis
Ptch from Moscow reporting that
ply three Jews survived the Nazi
laSSacres in Wilma. The three,
no greeted the Red Army on it's
ntry into the city, were ian old
IAN Who walked with outstretch-
hands. a woman and a small
Oy."
Vilna, famed in Jewish lore and
STORY, had a prewar population
$4,000, of whom 300 were
ews' No figures are available as
! lne number of Wilma Jews
'acuated into Soviet Russia dur
q the Nazi attack in 1941.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
Florida Catholic Paper
Warns Anti-Semitism
Is "Un-CathoIic"

st. Augustine (JPS)-Declaring
that mo person processing to be
a Christian, certainly no Catholic,
should need reminders that anti
Semitism violates the basic tenets
of our religion" the Florida Cath
Ole, publication of the Diocese Of
st. Augustine, warned in an edi-
torial that the most dangerous
form of spreading anti-Semitism
is subtle innuendo, rather than
the ridiculous crackpot argu-
ments of Berlin-inspired Jew
haters.
Expressing alarm over the
strange Indifference" on the part
of some Christians to the spread
of anti-Semitism in this country,
the editorial says, "it is disquiet-
ing to find otherwise ex-
emplary Catholics at social gath
erings contributing freely to the
exchange of the latest so called
Jewish jokes and trafficking in
gossip
1T should be comparatively
easy to eradicate the doctrinaire
form of anti-Semitism styled on
the Berlin pattern. The real
danger that we are facing arises
from the more subtle brand of
anti-Semitism that is rapidly be-
coming fashionable in, our midst"
The editorial warns that 'the
most insidious feature of anti
Semitism is that it so easily be-
comes habit forming"
Recognizing anti-Semitism as
largely a Christian and American
problem, the editorial states that
to curb the activities of anti
Semites is a task for Jews as well
as Christians.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01

London (JPS)-Field Marshal
Viscount Gort, with a long dis
tinguished military career to his
credit and at present Governor
and COMMUNICATIVE Chief of Malta,
will succeed Sir Harold Mac
Michael as High Commissioner of
Palestine and Transjordan when
the latter retires in August. He
is believed to be open-minded as
regards Palestine.
Zionist leaders in the United
States hailed MacMichaeps depar-
ture, but had no comment to Of
fer on the appointment of Wis
count Gort. Although he had
visited Palestine on the eve OF
the current war, in connection
with a military survey he was
making of the Middle East, his
opinions or attitudes as regards
Palestine were not known.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
los Refugees
|rrive In Palestine

New York (JPS)-Twelve humid
and eight Jewish refugees
I'm Rumania, who recently ar
Ied in Palestine on five steam
are rapidly being absorbed
the economic and social struct-
/ of the Jewish Homeland, with
4 aid of funds contributed by
|nerican Jews, it was reported
cable received by the United
|lestine Appeal from Elizear
plan, treasurer of the Jewish
kency for Palestine in Jerusa-
a. The United Palestine Appeal,
hich is supporting the adjust
Int and settlement of newcom-
l in Palestine, is represented
|th the Joint Distribution Com
Ettee and the National Refugee
|rvice in the $32,O00,O0O war re-
L and rescue campaign of the
bited Jewish Appeal for Refu-
es. Oversees Needs and Pales-
he. Funds for the transporta-
IN of these refugees were pro-
bed by the Joint Distribution
ommittee.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
|APTIZED JEWS IN
hungary RETURN TO
lNCESTRAL FAITH

|Ankara (JPS)-Many thousands
Hungarian Jews who in recent
|onths were baptized to avoid
|e Aryan laws, which at first
|emed to be aimed only at those
|ofessing the Jewish faith are
pw relinquishing Christianity and
burning to the faith of their
theirs, according to the official
gan of Hungarian Jewry, Mag
pr Szideklatia.
Within the past two months,
PAS Jews returned to their an.
Pstral religion, the newspaper
|ates.
Partners to mixed marriages,
pildren of mixed marriages and
Fhers, entitled to privileged treat
|ent and even exemption from
hetto internment, have refused
avail themselves of these OPP
Drtunlties and declared them
lives willing to share the COM
on fate of all Jews in Hungary.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
"UNITY MASS MEETING
WILL DEMAND
DRASTIC MEASURES

New York (JPS)-Drastic meas
ures to prevent the deportation to
death camps in Poland of the
four hundred thousand Jews still
surviving in Hungary will be de-
manded at a unity mass meet
ing" in New York City under the
auspices of the Rescue Commits
sion of the American Jewish Con-
ference jointly with the American
Jewish Committee and other Jew
ish groups
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
Wealth ON HERZL'S TOMB
FUTS GESTAPO ON IT'S TOES

HeneVa (JPS)-On the night of
NC Iortieth anniversary of the
'"'n OF DR.. Theodor Herzl, found
VI political Zionism, a wreath
as placed on his tombstone in
" Jewish cemetery in Vienna.
ue Gestapo, according to a re-
VT received here, was put on its
rs and instigated a probe to
icOVer the ''felon" who paid
image to the father Of modern
Fionism.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
NINE HUNDRED JEWS
AMONG TOKEN
REFUGEES" TO u. S.

New York (JPS)-Nine humid
red and eighty-five refugees, most
of them Jewish, are en- route to
the United States to the temper
airy refugee haven at Fort Ontario
near Oswego, New York, where
they will stay for the duration of
the war.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-07-01
ViscOunt GOrt Succeeds
MacMichael In Palestine
u. J. A. Photo

(The Cairo press reported him
as a severe man "who will stand
for no nonsense and will not toll
crate diSSension.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-14

escape damage in the theater but
there is also the matter of check
ing and in New York, the cost Of
checking ones lid night after night
runs into real money.
Other than sheer exhibitionism,
one of the reasons for late theater
arrivals is New York's dining habits.
New Workers who frequent the
smart spots like to inger over their
cocktails. That of course means that
they start their dinners late. Some
hotels and restaurants have spe-
cial theater service, the diner tell
ing the name of the play which he
is to see and the dinner being
speeded up in accordance with
the curtain time. But New Workers
like to linger over their food just as
they do over their drinks. And it
doesn't seem to make any differ
ence at all if they do miss most of
first act, no matter what they may
have paid for their. tickets-or how
much discomfort they cause others.
Traffic conditions are another
cause of theater lateness. With war
time restrictions on the gasoline sup
ply, private cars are not used for
theater going. Those who can afford
high-priced seats as rule do not
want to go to them in the subway.
And there just simply aren't enough
taxis in good weather to say nothing
of rainy nights. So what with one
thing and another I guess there isn't
any hope for those who like to see
a play without being disturbed.
Bell Syndicate.-WNU Features.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-09-14
Hunting, Milking Rattlers
Is Good Business in Texas

Many people in Texas make a
good living by hunting rattle
snakes. The war is greatly ex-
tending the market for rattlesnake
venom.
When the "rattlers" are caught
they are sent to medical labora-
tories, where they are "milked"
once a fortnight Of few drops Of
their poison. Usually they die after
six weeks because their mouths
are easily damaged.
The venom is used for treating
various disorders, and excessive
bleeding, as we'll as being an anti
dote for snakebite.
One oil-field worker has caught
5000 rattlesnakes in a season.