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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Arlington Mothers
Soldier Son Killed,
Sailor Son Wounded

A Virginia mother received a tele-
gram from the War Department re-
Gently telling her that her 18-year-
old son had been killed in action.
Then, last week, another telegram
from the Navy Department-in-
formed her that her 17-year-old son
had been wounded seriously. Both
boys had left school when they were
under the draft age to join the serv-
ices, and they were together for the
last time a year ago.
Their little brother Bobby, IL, is
a student at Thomas Jefferson
Junior High School in Arlington.
Mrs. Bette E. Purser. 2O24 South
Fifth street, Arlington, is the mother
of Pfc. Richard T. Howell, jr., 10,
killed in France on August 10, and
Seaman Second Class Rex Howell,
now in Navy hospital after being
wounded in the Atlantic the first
of this month.
The boys stepfather is 1t. Paul
j. Purser, U. S. A.. and he and Mrs.
Purser moved to Washington from
Albemarle, N. c., two years ago. The
two older sons stayed in Albemarle
to finish school. But they wanted
to get in," Mrs. Purser said.
So last November they left their
classes and came to Washington.
Dick asked to join the Army and
Rex wanted to go In the Navy"
their mother said. She signed their
papers. They were here with her
until almost Christmas. Then Dick
left for his basic training and the
first of the year. Rex left for the
Navy.
Pvt. Howell went overseas in June.
He wrote his mother regularly until
the day before his 18th birthday
August 10. On that day he was
killed in action. Mrs. Purser has
the certificate of his Purple Heart.
Seaman Howell was at sea then. He
too wrote his mother. But since last
month she has received no letters
at all from overseas. Her second
son was wounded then, and she has
not heard from him since.
mo news is good news" she says,
land as long as I don't get any more
kilograms, I won't worry. At least,
Bobby is still home with me-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Maryland Farm Group
Urges Local Control
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Nov. 13-The
Maryland Postwar Agricultural Com
mittee's peacetime farm program
today urged greater local autonomy
in conducting projects and a return
by the Federal Government to the
use of State Immigrant institutions
as clearing houses for Federal State
work.
The program, covering Is phases
of farm activities, was developed
by subcommittee, considered by
county and community groups and
approved by the committee.
The tobacco program proposed
20 per cent increase in acreage.
The vegetable and canning crop
program asked promotion of a
growers plan" to improve grading,
packaging, handling and merchan-
dizing, improvement in manage
ment of grower owned action mar
kets, and expanded use of supple
mental irrigation.
Vigorous action to assure ade-
quate marketing facilities in Balti-
more, an active part in foreign trade
resumption and information on
preparation of frozen fruits were
envisaged as fruit industry needs.
Shifts in acreage of crops fol-
lowing expansion of some crops to
meet war needs was predicted. as
we'll as increased use of labor saving
equipment to reduce the amount of
required labor.
DR.. T. B. Symons, University of
Maryland Extension Service direc-
tor, headed the committee. The
program was announced by Gov.
O'ConOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Sunday Schools
OfLittIe Value,
Professor Says

LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. 13.-In
the opinion of DR.. David Spelt, Mary
Baldwin College psychology profess
sG, the average Sunday school is
practically worthless to children.
In presenting his views to the
Lynchburg Womans Club, DR.. Spelt
said recent survey to determine
the effectiveness of such schools
showed a .002 ration between a
child's development and what he
learns in Sunday school-almost
the lowest possible ratio.
IF religious instruction is i'm
portant," he said, 1T should be as
well presented as the other phases
Of learning" He added that many
adolescents experience a religious
crisis because of the inanequate
church school instruction they
receive.
Mary Baldwin College, with which
Or. Spelt is connected, is member
d the church school" group, deriv-
ing some support from the Southern
Presbyterian Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Three All Clubs Name
Officers in MONTGOMERY

Three Montgomery County All
Clubs have chosen officers, Miss
Edythe M. Turner. county home
demonstration agent, has an
nounced. They are:
Rockville-Edward Kern, presi-
dent; Harry Baker, vice president;
James King, secretary; Donald Butt,
treasurer. Clarksburg--Cha Lin
thicum. president; John Linthicum,
vice president; Robert Huff, secre-
tary; John Warfleld, treasurer;
Peter Wilbur, reporter. Jamestown
John Thomas Kelley, president;
Sumner Wood, vice president; David
Wood, secretary; Peter Beall,
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Shipments Stort
Wednesday From
San Francisco

The Navy Department announced
last night that, beginning Wednes-
day, it will fly regularly to Pacific
battlefronts whole blood urgently
needed for emergency transfusions.
To help supply the blood, the Red
Cross sent out a plea for several
hundred donors to fill the weekly
quotas here.
Blood will be available to wound
~ men as far away as Leyte Island
hours after it is taken from a
nor, the Navy announcement said.
18th the use of the preventative
luton and lightweight portable
rigerator, blood can now be kept
81 days after being drawn from
donor. preserving rs per cent of
s efficiency.
Need of Blood Explained.
Shipments starting Wednesday
will be from San Francisco. Both
blood and plasma are urgently
needed, said Vice Admiral Ross T..
McIntire. Navy surgeon general. He
explained that transfusions of whole
blood are needed particularly when
there has been a great and rapid
loss of blood.
This plan marks new milestone
in medical history" Admiral Nc
Intire said. 1--WE sincerely trust that
the American public will continue to
see to it that the needs of the armed
forces are fully met"
Only 20" type blood will be &C
cepted for the whole blood trans
fusions. This is the only type that
can be given to all casualties be-
cause it blends with all blood.
In appealing for more donors, the
District Red Cross donor center re-
ported it is still behind in it's quota
of 5000 pints month. Mrs. Loretta
Bickford, center director, appealed
for hundreds of new donors to tele-
phone the center, District 5000, for
appointments.
Some Flown to Europe.
Part of the blood procured here
is flown daily to military hospitals
in Europe and the rest is immedi-
ately processed into plasma for use
on the front lines. Mrs. Bickford
said
Regardless of which way the
blood is used, the fact remains that
thousands of donors are urgently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
One Killed, Another Hurt
While Playing With Guns
BY the Associated Press.

by lHe ASSOCIHIen PIeSS.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1.-TWO
children were shot-one fatally
when rifles with which they were
playing discharged accidentally yes
terday, police said.
Darrell Rogers. 9, of Hanover,
Howard County, died in South Bal
1imore Hospital of wounds received
when gun he and another boy
were examining went off. The
bullet entered "the boys abdomen.
William Poston, Is, of Baltimore,
received minor face and shoulder
wounds when gun with which his
younger brother was playing was
DISCHARGED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Baltimore Election Board
Checks Duplicate Votes
,y the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 13-The
Baltimore Board of Election Su-
pervisors expected to finish today
a check of service personnel who
mad voted twice by absentee ballot
and in home precincts.
Board President James L. Hen
negan said the number of such
Implications would be probably in
the hundreds"
Mr.. Hennegan added that the
approximately 10000 absentee serv-
ice ballots cast by Baltimoreans
probably would be counted by the
end of the. week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13

Naval Command, Rear Admiral F.
L. Reichmuth, 102 per cent; National
Academy of Sciences, National Re-
search Council, G. L. Wade, 10l per
cent; Veterans Administration, Gale
Feaster, 101 per cent; United States
Court, Henry p. Chandler, 100 per
cent; Selective Service System, An
gus j. Gallagher, 100 per cent, and
Emergency Court Of Appeals, Her
man G. Beasley, 100 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
VPI Alumni to Dine

The Fort Belvoir chapter of the
Virginia Tech Alumni Association
will hold a dinner dance for all
alumni in this area at 7 pm. No.
vember Is at the Woodlawn Mess.
Former students of Virginia Poly
technic Institute wishing to attend
have been asked to get in touch
with Maj. c. E. Duvall, headquar-
tiers, 4th Battalion, ASFTC, Fort
Belyoir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
RiverdoIe PTA to Meet

The Riverdale Parent Teacher
Association will meet at 8 pm. to-
morrow In the Riverdale School
auditorium in Riverdale, Md. This
will be the second meeting of the
fall season and the president and
vice president for the coming year
will be elected. The reinodeled
cafeteria will be inspected by the
members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Club to Hear WuIdrop

Frank Waldrop. Washington
newspaper columnist, will be the
principal speaker at a luncheon
meeting of the Organized Women
Voters Club of Arlington Wednes-
day at the Community Methodist
Church, North Bryan street and
Key boulevard. All members are
urged to be present for the business
session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Mrs. Rosa ChiIds Rites
Will Be Held Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa
McCeney Childs, SO, lifelong resi-
dent Of Burnt Mills, Md, who died
at her home there Saturday, will
be held at 2:30 pm today at Grace
Episcopal Church, Woodside, Md,
with burial in the church cemetery.
The Rev. Walter w. Gale, pastor,
will ofhciate.
Mrs. Childs was the widow of
William H. Childs. She is sur
vived by q son, Joseph Childs. and
brother, William H. McCeney,
both of Burnt Mills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Citizens Group to Meet

The Capitol View Park (Md.)
Citizens Association will meet at
8 pm. tomorrow at the home of
Robert E. Curtis, 1868 Capitol View
avenue, Forest Glen, Md. Resi-
dents Of the community are in
vited to attend to hear a report
on progress on a proposed sewer
for the community.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Bethesda Alumni to Meet

An organization meeting of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
Alumni Association has been called
for $3.50 pm. November % in the
school gymnasium, at which time
a constitution will be presented by
a committee headed by Floyd Davis
and Christine Schneider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
PTA Group Will Meet

{ The Thomas Nelson Page Parent
Teacher Association of Arlington
will meet at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Page School and will hear Miss
Florence Gravatte, junior school
supervisor, talk on whats Right
With Our School," A musical pro-
gram will follow the business -,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
PTA Unit to View Film

The motion picture Desert Vic
tory" will be shown at a meeting
OF the Oxon Hill High School Par
ent-Teacher Association at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Health Group Oroonizes

A Lay Health Committee. has
been organized in Damascus, Md,
and has elected Mrs. Bradley M.
Woodf1eld president; H. beats War
field, vice president; Miss Hilda
Hyatt, secretary, and Mrs. Herbert
Hyatt, treasurer,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Central PTA to Meet

The Central High School Parent
Teacher Association will meet in
the school library at 7:30 pm. to-
morrow. At $3.50 pm. the group
will move into the Morgan room to
see film of last years competitive
drill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
PTA Group PIuns Supper

A turkey supper will be spon-
sored by the Rockville Parent
Teacher Association at Richard
Montgomery High School, Rockville
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
Prisoner
Donors Needed as Navy Plans
To Fly Whole Blood to Front
Blood Quote
UFor Dlstrlct, Pentagon and
Mobile Units.)

District quota per
week -------- 1900 pints
Donations last week 1922 pints
Donations Saturday BIG pints
Today's appoint
ments ---- 674 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center,
in the Acacia Building, 81 LOU
isiana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 8 am.
and $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13

needed to keep the forces fully sup
Piled" she said.
The Nays request for more
whole blood Is in addition to the
100000 pints of whole blood and
plasma required weekly, Admiral
McIntire said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13

Corwin drive, Silver Spring, Md.
The Navy Department announced
today that 1t. Andrew F. Thibadeau,
whose wife lives on Overlook drive,
Hillandale, Md, was wounded in
action. A story about 1t. Thibadeau
also was carried in The Star re-
Gently.
Wounded
1t. Carleton Penn, jr, %, U. S.
M. G. r., son of Col. and Mrs. Carle-
ton Penn, ST., Marine Barracks,
Quantico, Va, was wounded in
action September % in the Pacific,
according to an official announce
ment of the War Department. 1t.
Penn was graduated from the Uni
versity of Virginia in 1913, and ems
listed in the Marine Corps while
he was in school, but was called to
active duty in May, 1943. He was
sent overseas in April, and is now
in a naval hospital in New Gale
donia. In a recent letter to his
family he reported that he was
progressing satisfactorily. Before he
was wounded he participated in the
battle for Pelelui. He was awarded
the Purple Heart.
COrpl. Robert E. Sine, %, member
of the 9th Air Force ground crew.
was wounded in France by a Ger
man incendiary bomb, ne wrote his
family September 81. He was hos
pitalized for leg wounds, but is now
back on active duty.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. C..
Sine, and wife, Mrs. Margaret Sine,
live at 1119 Robinson street S.W.
His mother works in The Star Cafe
terra.
Corpl. Sine attended Mckinley
High School and worked for the
Navy Yard before he entered the
service in February, 1913. He was
sent overseas last March.
Prisoner
Second 1t. Orville r. Simmons, 80,
who was reported missing in action
in France August Is, is a prisoner
OF, war in Germany. according to
card he sent to his brother, Myrl
V. Simmons. 5000 Fifty-third place,
Hyattsville, Md. The Star on Sep
TENDER 8 reported he was missing
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
SIX CANDIDATES
FILE FOR OFFICE

Only six office seekers have
filed their nominating petitions
for the July primaries, it was
revealed this week by the county
clerk and recorders office.
Those who have filed are
Thomas Macleod, Republican,
county commissioner; Bert w.
kronmiller, Republican, county
attorney; Charles A. Corkins,
Republican justice of the peace,
R. P. Ross, Democrat, clerk of
the courtc j. R. Boyd, Republi-
can, state senator and George
c. Cormack, Republican, state
representative.
Kronmiller, Ross, Corkins and
Macleod are incumbents in
their respective offices, while
Boyd and Cormack are seeking
office for the first time.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
PRIVATE BEARSS
ONLY SURVIVOR

Private First Glass Edwin c.
BearSs was the lone survivor of
his squad in an engagement
with a Jap machine gun nest,
according to a letter written by
his mother, Mrs. Omar C. Bearss,
to her sister, Mrs. Robert E.
Jones of Billings.
Pfc. Bearss is now at a hos
pital in Vallejo CAL, receiving
treatment for wounds received
in the encounter. His mother is
with him, and his father, Capt
ain Bearss, is stationed at San
Diego.
ALI others of his raider squad
persisted in a landing operation
last winter in New Guinea. They
were within 80 feet Of a Japan
csc machine gun nest before the
enemy opened fire. Bearss kept
firing until his gun was shot a.
way, Mrs. Bearss' letter said. He
got three Japs that he knows
Of"
Bearss finally made his way
back to the American lines. His
lett shoulder was shattered, his
left elbow wounded, his right
arm broken, and he had a bull
let wound in the foot. He was
later taken to a hospital in
Australia, where he received the
Purple Heart and was inter-
viewed by a commentator.
The Marine has participated
In five major engagements. He
Is a graduate of Hardin high
school with the class of 1912. He
enlisted shortly after gradual
ton and went overseas in the
fall of 1912.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
WAGE WAR ON
PRAIRIE DOGS
determination Of Ro-
dents Is Hoped for
Within Next Yen

A rodent control program to
rid the county of prairie dogs
has been started, according to
George w. Gustafson, county ex-
tension agent.
Two crews have been employ
ed and are now spreading poison
bait in the most heavily infested
prairie dog areas in the county.
The control campaign is car
ried on in cooperation with the
Big Horn county board of COM
missioners and the fish and
wildlife service of the depart
ment of agriculture.
E. F. Grand, state rodent con-
troll supervisor for the state of
Montana, is assisting and super
viSing tine work in this county.
The number of prairie dogs
has increased immensely in re-
cent years and they are now a
serious menace to crops and
range land in many sections of
the county. Officials are looking
forward to complete eradication
of this rodent within another
year,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
PLAN VACATION
BIBLE SCHOOL

Plans are rapidly going ahead
for a three-Weeks community
Vacation Bible school, to be held
June 5 to %. AS was done last
year, classes will be held in tine
Hardin grade school, with some
sessions in the Congregational
church.
At a recent meeting of rep
resentativeS from the various
churches, the Rev. j. D. Smith
of the Methodist church, was
elected director of the school.
The need of workers from the
community was stressed. Last
years enrolment was 200 chill
dren. Present Indications are
that this years enrolment will
be as large or even larger.
Mr.. Smith says, Here is a
splendid opportunity to give a
real and lasting service to the
children of our community, and
I call upon you to volunteer
your services" All persons in
terested are asked to see either
MI. Smith or their own pastors
Churches which will unite fol-
the school this year are First
Baptist, First Congregational
Four Square, First Methodist
and Church of the Open Bible.
There is a likelihood of one or
two others also cooperating in
the project.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
All LEADER TO
ATTEND MEETING

Miss Pauline Bunting, assist
ant state All club leader, will
attend a meeting of the Big
Horn All club leaders next
Monday afternoon, May %. The
program of work for the coming
year, special projects and con-
tests available to club members
for 1914 will be discussed.
It was announced this week
that Kelso Mueller of Bozeman
has been appointed assistant
emergency agent by the state
extention service, and has been
assigned to work in Big Horn
county. Mr.. Mueller will devote
most of his time and work to
the All club in the county in
cooperation with George w.
Gustafson, county extension a.
gent.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
LIONS CLUB TO
MEET ON MONDAY

Members of the Hardin Lions
club will hold a regular meet
ing Monday, May %, at $50
p. m. in the banquet room of
the Masonic temple, it was an
nounced this week by DR.. j. w.
Schubert, president.
A nominating committee COM
posed of Bert w. Kronmiller
George w. Gustafson and J. N.
Thompson will nominate officers
for the ensuing year.
The lunch will be served by
Austin G. Slattery, Robert B.
Saunders, Murt R. Sullivan and
DR.. Schubert.
Other important business
matters will be discussed, it was
stated.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18

the army. His main job here is
filling up shell craters. He does
MT seem to mind living in An
40. (The same can't be said for
his nameSake)."
Pvt. Dygert was born on a
farm IS miles from Hardin and
lived here until 1925, when his
parents moved to Red Lodge. He
has made several visits here.
prior to being sent overseas two
years ago. He served first in
A1rlca, then in Sicily and Italy.
Relatives have been Informed
that of late he has been al q
base hospital receiving treat
ment for maleria.
Mrs. Gray says young Dygert's
parents received clippings Of the
Pyle column from almost every
state in the union, many Of
them from total strangers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
POPPES TO BE
SOLD IN

The annual Poppy day sale,
sponsored by the American Leg
ion Auxiliary, will be held here
May ~, according to Mrs. Will
bur Dow, Poppy chairman.
The symbolic flowers will be
on sale on Hardin streets be-
ginning at 8 a. m. It is hoped
that all of the $500 ordered
will be sold.
The Auxiliary also announced
the winners in the annual Poppy
poster contest. Miss Lois Cass
received first and George Dorm,
second. Prizes, awarded by the
local unit, were war stamps.
Judges were Mrs. Lura P. Strand
Merle Martin and Mrs. Della
Terry.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
COLUMN1ST PYLE MEETS MONTANA
NAMESAKE AT ANZIO BEACHHEAD

Ernie Dygert of Red Lodge,
brother of Mrs. Earl Gray, Clyde
Dygert and Albert Dygert of
Hardin, met his namesake, Ernie
Pyle, during a quiet moment on
the Anzio beachhead, and as a
result, a paragraph in a recent
column of Pyle'S was devoted to
an account of the meeting.
Says Pyle, Il was riding
through the wreckage of Anzio
and saw a big bulldozer in a
vacant lot. On it was the name
Ernie, spelled out in big blue
metal letters wired to the rad
iator. So I stopped to look into
this phenomenon. The displayer
of this proud name was Pvt.
Ernie Dygert of Red Lodge,
Mont. His father owns a big
ranch there.
Young Dygert has driven
trucks, ducks and bulldozers in
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-18
ZIER KILLED IN
SOUTH PACIFIC

According to word received
here by his brother, Fred Zier,
Private Pete Zier was killed in
action in the South Pacific area
May 8.
Pvt. Zier entered the service
In April of 1913 and was sent
overseas on Oct. 16 of the same
year.
The message received by Fred
Iler reads as follows: THE Sec
rotary of war asks that I assure
you of his deep sympathy in the
loss of your brother, Pvt. Pete
Iler. Report received states that
ne died 8 of May in Finsch-
hafen, New Guinea as a result
OF wounds received in action.
Letter follows. Dunlap, acting
Adjutant General"