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Evening star., 1944-12-10

Growing Up With Chicaso $3.50. Carter
II. Harrison; Seymour.
Christopher Columbus 49, 500, Seraphim
@. Canoutas. st. Marks. =
Yo1ng Art and Old Hector ($2.50}yNeil M
Gum: Stewart.
The Sun and the Moon, Judith Cape; crea-
tive Age.
No Imitation Coming! tSI, william J.
Baxter; International Economic Research
Bureau.
Treasures From the Bible s2.50). selected
BY chaplains and pastors of America;
United Nations Calendar. edited by viii
Schaber; Unaar.
A Solder, Poems tsp, serst. Robert A
| s. r. o. tstandinR Room ONLY (S375)
compiled By Bennett Cert and Van II
- Cartmell; Doubleday
The American Story (S2). Archibald Mac.
Lefsh: Duell, Sloan & Pearce.
MARY Cassett t$3, Margaret Breuning:
Ce1.nn. ess,. Edward Alden Jewell; Hy.
Renoir fSa,. Rosamund Frost; Hyperion
what Am Laughing At? (cartoons), (S2)
Sergt. Ralph Stein: Whittlesey House
Little Itchy Itchy (cartoons), fS2), Rel
Manning; Augustin
Beside the Point tS2) Jean Shepard Ma
guire; Stewart
PeriIs in Provence tS2),s Theodore Pratt
Duen. Sloan & Pearce
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| Public Library
| Book Pointers
AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE
COLD COUNTRIES.
By Jane Page,

Librarian. Woodridse Branch, washinEton
Public Library.
American troops have been trained
to combat the elements and to adj
just themselves TO life In all parts
of the world from the frozen North
to the jungles.
Families and friends Of troops
stationed In the cold countries will
find many interesting books at the
Public Library descriptive of this
part Of the world.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has pre-
pared new edition of "An Arctic
Manual" under the direction of the
Chief of the Air Corps, giving prac-
tical information, from building a
snowhouse to the correct way to
fish for seals.
Our Hidden Front" by William
Gilman, is a closeup view of our
troops uphill fight against the
weather and the Japs in Alaska and
the Aleutians. THE Far North
Country" by Thames Williamson, is
the story of Alaska from the days
of the Russian fur traders to the
fight for the Aleutians.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson also pro-
vides an excellent account of Tee
land, the First American Republic, +"
and Greenland" a history traced
from the early voyages down to its
strategic Importance in this war.
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Books Received

Many watchfuI Nisht ts275), John
Mason Brown: Whittlesey House.
Battle Report $3.50, Comdr. Walter
karig, Y, 8. y. R.. and 1t. Welbourn
My Life TO the Destreyers ts2, ,75). Capt
L, A. Abercrombie and Fletcher Pratt:
Firhtinr Wings tS2.75), Gilbert Faust and
Milton Lancelot: Essential
Balkan B.cksreund ts2.5O, Bernard New
man: Macmillan.
An Inteilirent Americans Guide TO thy
Peace tS3.75), Sumner Welies; Dryden
The Ukraine: A Submerged Nation t$1.75),
william Henry Chamberlain Macmillan.
Soldier to Civilian tS2 .50, Georse K Pratt.
MD; Whittlesey.
Our FLYING Navy tS3.75). Introduction:
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.
Preface: Rear Admiral Arthur w. Rad
5S5a TSom.. sSant the pictures
George Riddles War drawings, Hyperion.
The Negro In American Life (S1), John
Becker. with . preface by Lillian Smith
Mission ssnef ef the University tsa,. Jos. ortesa
y Gasset. translated by Howard Lee Nos
u trand; Princeton uniyersity;
Dueil. Sloan K Pearce.
Cooperative Associations In Europe and
Their Possibilities for Postwar Recon-
struction t35 eents). Florence z. Parker
and Helen /. Cowan: United States Gov
ernment Printing once.
One God ts2), Florence Mary Fitch;
MY Happy Days ts2.15), Jane Dabney
Shackelford: Associated.
The Christmas Book Of Legends and
Stories t$2.5O). Elva Sophronia Smith
and Alice Isabel Hazeltine; Lothrop.
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Brief Reviews
ART.

ART.
The Modern Dilemma in Art, by
/. j. Belmont. (Harbinger House
A survey of the present scene in art,
with reflections on q future day
when increased knowledge of phys
les, chemistry, psychology and math-
ematics may bring merging of the
arts into a simultaneous effective
ness. Sometimes intensely interest
ing, sometimes precious.
BUSINESS.
The Great American Customer, by
Carl Crow (Harpers)-A popular
history of the beginnings of the
present American business system.
Interesting.
Gold, the Real Ruler Of the
World, by Franklin Hobbs (Busi-
ness Foundation)-A book in de-
fense of gold as business stabilizer
CRIME.
Homicide Squad, by Frederick L.
Collins (Putnam)-A veteran detec-
tive writes the histories of a num-
Der Of famous crimes. Fascinating.
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sfao
By Emily Hahn. Doubleday,
Doran. $3)
Emily Hahn is best known to
Americans by her book on China's
Soong sisters, which appeared sew
eral years ago. She went to China
in 1885 and remained until after
Parl Harbor, being repatriated from
Hongkong via the Gripsholm. Her
present book is her story of her life
in that period. One reads it with
rather mixed feelings.
AS autobiography, 1t is extremely
frank. Miss Hahn belongs to a
generation of women who have
grown up with their rights and
liberties assured them. She has,
therefore, the natural attitude to-
ward phenomena which in the past
has been the exclusive property of
young men. On her arrival in
Shanghai she got a newspaper job
and plunged into the city's life with
an explorers zest, quite uninhibited
by feminine fears. Her friends, she
reports, included native policemen,
sing-song girls, prostitutes and other
unconventional types. She also ac-
quired large group of substantial
Chinese acquaintances With one of
these, for business reasons, she con-
tracted a purely formal marriage.
When she was caught by the Jap
anese in Shanghai that marriage
saved her; she was able to claim
Chinese citizenship and so escaped
Imprisonment as an American.
Apart from certain extremely in
innate material, the book contains
some very pertinent stuff. Miss
Hahns objectivity toward her own
career is equaled by that which
she uses toward telling what she
knows about China. Particularly in
teresting are her statements about
the Chinese co-operatives, Commu-
nists and guerrillas. AS she remarks,
these are the. three things which
have been given the American pub
lie as characteristic of fighting
China. She denies that the impor-
tance of any of them approaches
what we have been told. The co-ops
-InduSco-are very weak, she says.
The guerrillas are scattered bands
which achieve little. And as for the
Communists, though she believes
they are busy in China, she declares
that none of the writer's who have
so glowingly reported their activity
know anything about them. Nobody
knows about them, In her view. The
famous Chou En-lai, she says. whose
interviews have formed the base of
most reports on the matter. is a
figure set up to guide investigators
from the real thing. She accuses
such writers as Edgar Snow and
Agnes Smedley of wishful thinking
in their reporting on these subjects.
And the truth is that, to one who
Evening star., 1944-12-10
By Bertha Shafer.


Please don't put the street adj
dress In the story" pleaded Cath
|erine Drinker Bowen, author OF
Yankee From Olympus"
Beseiged by aspiring writers, au-
tograph seekers and requests to
speak, an author finds living In
Washington has its drawbacks. But,
as Miss Bowen points out, 1t has
its advantages, too, such as the
Library of Congress, "the most
wonderful place to work."
The fortunes of war brought her
husband, Capt. T. Mexican Downs,
to Washington as medical officer il,
charge of the Bellevue branch of
the Naval Dispensary. So Mrs.
Bowen finds herself living in
Georgetown within easy reach OF
the Library Of Congress where she
is in the initial stages of producing
a new biography.
The setting is Philadelphia, the
Iperiod from 174c to 1900. That is
dAl MID. 0oWCA COuIu DC pCISuduSQ
to reveal at the moment.
AS to the task that lies ahead, she
said, Il guess everybody has a diff
ferent system. I read general his
tory around the period and biogra-
Iphical material about the subject
for year. Then I begin to inter-
view people who knew the subject
and go to see the places ! am going
to write about
Sometimes she writes a scene anc
doesn't visit the place until later
She had never seen the interior Of
the White House, which figures ir
the biography of Justice Holmes, un-
til week before last. Mrs. Roose.
welt invited her to lunch and sht
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ing the sometimes dull facts of
geography and history come alive.
The Eastern Shore was discovered
in 1924 by Giovanni da Verrazano,
an Italian in the service OF the King
of France. Bartholomew Gilbert
was the next white man to visit
the peninsula, and he and one of
his men were killed by Indians.
That was in 1903, and five years
passed before another white man
set foot on the Shore. He was Capt.
John Smith, and the islands he dis
covered still bear his name.
It was Capt. Smith who made the
first survey of the country, exploring
some of its rivers and getting ac-
quainted with the Indians who lived
along them. All those rivers and
more besides-17 in all-are de-
scribed by Mr.. Footner, who seems
to have followed Capt. Smiths trail
rather carefully.
The names of the Sho' rivers will
be familiar to most Washingtonians
-Pocomoke, AnnemeSsex, Manokin,
Wicomico, Nanticoke, Tired Avon,
Miles, Wye, Chester, Sassafras, Bo-
hemia, Tuckahoe, Chicamacomico,
Transquaking, Blackwater, Marshy
Hope and Elk. They are not all i'm
portant rivers, but their names are
interesting and their histories like
wise, and Mr.. Footner has done a
good job Of capturing something OF
the tang that distinguishes them
from all other waterways.
Rivers of the Eastern Shore" is
a book to read and to keep-and,
after the war Is won, to take along
on trip through the country it
describes
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or stayed home with their mother
except for one who entered a re-
hgious order Governmental col
lapses plagued them. however.
Spain's throne fell and they went
back to Vienna. Then the Nazis
came in. BY that time the children
had pretty well scattered and estab-
hshed themselves, but the Infanta
fed again, to Italy, where she owned
a wine-making estate. Franz Josef,
one of the younger sons, was thriv-
ing in travel agency and came to
America, where he now lives. Others
presently joined them. They are
utterly democratic, says Mrs. Hard
ing. The significance of her story
seems to be that the Hapsburgs can
take care of themselves. She writes
with her usual gentility, but the
plain fact emerges, notwithstanding.
NC. r.
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befhta hardins children five
boys, five girls-whose births COW
cred the period between 1891 and
1909.
When the empire collapsed they
fled from their 87-room palace in
Vienna and made their way to
Spain. There they lived like an
ordinary family, as Mrs. Harding
assures her readers with some repe-
tition. The boys got jobs-as me-
chanics, transforming pilots or as
businessmen-and the girls married
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AHtb0ress Discovers Working
In Washington Has Adua,1tages

had her FIRST glimpse Of the Blue
Room.
Mrs. Bowen recalled another in
stance when she wanted q scene of
Justice Holmes arriving In WASH
ington at the old Pennsylvania Sta
ton in 1902, after his appointment
to the Supreme Court. The build
ing, no longer In existence, had to
be recreated through guide books
and pictures.
And lot of 1t is rust luck" she
continued. Once, in the case of the
Holmes book, luck took the form of
a Star reporter.
After speaking engagement here
more than year ago she was in
troduced to a member Of The Star
staff. Would Mrs. Bowen like to
hear about the death watch kept by
newspaper reporters in an Office
building across the street from the
Holmes residence, he asked. She
most certainly would.
Il had the scene inside the death
chamber, but what / needed was the
picture outside" she said.
About the middle of gathering the
material, Mrs. Bowen begins to
write-or "overwrite," as she cam
didly expresses it. She says she is
afraid OF leaving something out. The
first draft is mere chronological
sequence Of events. Then she begins
to cut In places and write I'D the
emotional scenes.
The Holmes book, typed four times
personally and at least three times
by a typist was at last ready for the
publisher-almost four years from
the date it was begun.
In capsule, that is how the au-
thor Of three full-length geographic.
describes the process of writing q
best seller
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7 hunder Beats the Drum
By John He,olett. Mcbride }

Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
The result of a fruitless Stanley
and-Livingston type of search, this
book is a record of John Hewlett's
sweeping but somewhat superficial
study of Bolivian life. Fascinated
by stories which he read about Col.
Percy Harrison Fawcett, an ex-
plorer believed by most to have died
in Brazil and by others to be still
alive in the jungles of Bolivia, Mr..
Hewlett set out in search of him.
After many bizarre experiences, he
suddenly gave up the project as
impulsiyely as he had undertaken
it. His relentless curiosity and
vibrant, live-for- he-moment ap-
proach to his adventures, plus the
complete dissimilarity of some Of
his experiences from what most
North Americans have known, make
his book a vividly readable thing.
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to cele te.
T W e n ty nVe
books about an
even larger r
number of rivers
h a We preceded
this one, b u t
none has been
more interesting
and Informative.
That, of course,
Is because no
Wrlter KNOWS nH
subject b e t ter
than H u | b er t
F o o t n er, and
none has greater
falnnt for mak-
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Reviewing | he New Books
BY Mary-Carfer Roberts.
It's Always Tomorrow
By Robert st. John. Double
day-Dordn, $2.50.)

By Robert st. John. Double
day-Dordn, s2.50.)
Robert st. John, having made a
nonfiction best-seller out of his ad-
ventures as a correspondent, now
puts some Of the same kind of ad-
ventures into fiction form. His novel
tells OF the trioulations of a young
American newspaperman in war
torn Poland, France, Rumania and
England. With all due respect, the
reviewer feels that Mr.. st. John is
better at reporting than at fiction.
His hero divides his time about
equally between falling in love and
working on his social conscience,
but In neither occupation does he
carry much conviction to the reader.
In Poland he loves a mysterious
beauty who works for him for a
while as secretary. She vanishes
In the invasion and he yearns ap-
propriately until, in England, he
meets a pretty waitress who helps
him to forget. She naturally be-
longs to the lower orders, as wait
resses IN England do, and through
her he, learns in Mortified amaze
ment of the class distinctions which
prevail in the tight little isle. His
Indignation is boundless and be-
comes worse as he learns how the
rich evade the food restrictions, pat
ronize the black market, enjoy the
best bomb shelters and generally
comport themselves in selfish, un-
patriotic style
His championship of the lower
classes thrives too from his discov-
cry that British peeresses are not
above making passes at young Amer
lean reporters invited down to their
country homes for a cozy weekend
The peeresses, he says, are not a
patch on the mattresses for looks
Then the Polish beauty turns up
and, lo-she has been a German
agent all this time. With great
business German bomb ends her
wicked career and the young re-
porter goes back to his working gal,
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Best Sellers
FICTION.

c1CllN(N.
Forever Amber, by Kathleen
Winsor.
Green Dolphin Street, by
Elizabeth Goudge.
The Raxor's Edge, by w.
Somerset Vaughan.
The Robe, by Lloyd G. Doug
las.
The Green Years, by A. j.
Cronin.
NONFICTION.
The Time for Decision, by
Sumner Welles.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Lees Lieutenants, Vol. Ill, by
Douglas Southall Freeman.
Ranger Mosby, by Virgil Car
rington Jones.
I Never Left Home, by Bob
Hope. :
Evening star., 1944-12-10

Salvador, m o S t
of W h ON are
living tod a y.
T h e archduke
was a nephew of
Emperor Franz
Joseph and in
spector general
of Austrian ar
tillery under the
empire. His wife
was the Infanta
Blanca, daugh-
ter of the pre-
tender to he
Spanish throne.
They ad 10
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his faith in the lower orders by this
time invincible.
Well, it is naive performance,
but one must not be too hard on the
author. He is, after all, a great re-
porter. A man cannot be every
thing.
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has never been there but has only
read the books, her account seems
more believable. But, of course, it is
only an account, too. NC. R.
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Lost Waltz

By Bertha Harding. fBobbs-
Merrill. $780,
We have here another of BERTHA
Harding's volumes on the Haps-
burgs, in this case a modern branch,
the family of Archduke Leopold
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| Rivers Of the
Eastern Shore

By Hubert Footner. fFdrrdr &
Rtnehdrt.. $2.5OJ
Reviewed by PHILIP n. LOVE.
The Rivers of America" series
has at last worked its way down to
Maryland. and its arrival there is,
In this reviewers opinion, something
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vary Baptist and Third Baptist
reported $408.50 for Third Bap-
fist and $767 for Mt Calvary,
Rev H M Hutchings Of Third
church was guest speaker on
subject, 1.-THE Duties OF an
Usher" Mr. and Mrs John
McCalpin of SO Osgood st
opened their home for a meet
ing Of the Star Circle on Feb
81. ~. i%2 Ss FtssgkI'.
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the mistress OF ceremonies.
A very successful Victory Tea
was given at the home Of Mrs
EStella Smith, president Of the
Whatsoever Club on Sunday
afternoon. Among those ap-
pearing on the program were
the Misses Mary Smith, piano
soloist, Barbara Mason and
Joyce Lloyd, readers, Constance
Bland and Barbara Ellis, SOLO
lists, Mrs Alton Hinton, accom-
PIANIST, Mrs Robert Johnson
Smith was in charge Of the
program. Rev L Earl Jackson,
pastor of the Winter Hill Bap-
fist Church Of somerHlle will
be the guest speaker at the
morning service on Sunday, the
9th, in echange with Rev
Clayton. Private Thelnla o
MacNair is home on a furlough
from Camp Sheridan, Ill,
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SPRINGFIELD
BY OLIVER NJ BUGGS
40 Franklin Street
Tel. 4-8258

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb.
2l-The Western Mass Past Ex-
allied Rulers Council No 70 held
a meeting recently at the Har-
mony Lodges Elks' Home at 81
Hampden st. After a business
session a collation. was served
to members and friends. Spec
ial guest and speaker was
Daughter Laura Mccoy Of New
Haven, Conn, who spoke as a
member of the Purple Cross
and Education Dept of the
Elks. Chief Antler PER John
Golfer acted as Master Of Ger
emonies. Other speakers were
Dgt Ruler Stella Thomas and
Secretary Dgt Letisha Allen of
Forgetmenot Temple. Ex-Ruler
William H Taylor and Bro Paul
Delworth Of Harmony Lodge.
Among those present were Past
Ex-Rulers John Watson, Her
bert Jones, Gilbert johnson,
Geo Moore, Booker Moore, Jaun
Almeida, Oliver Walker and
Geo Clark. Also Forgetmenot
Temple members; Daughters
Ella Fernandez, Alice Pitchett
and friends, Mrs Helen Wilson,
Miss Bette Foster, Miss Helen
Turner and Mrs Nettie Madi-
son. Miss Martha Harrison,
soprano singer Of Greenwood
st was guest soloist at the
Wochague Community church
(white) at Forest Park. The
Ushers Rally between Mt Cal
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Maiden
UNION BAPTIST CHURCH

UNION BAPTIST CHURCH
Req Willard L Clayton, Pastor
MAIDEN, Mass, Feb. 81 -
THE Importance Of Reading
in These Times" was the theme
of Rev Clayton's morning ser
mon. Miss Shirley Hodges was
the Soloist for the service. Eve
ming theme: "Christ's Will"
An interesting program was
sponsored by the For-Get-Me-
Not Club in their program In
observance of Race History
Week. Miss Mary Smith gave
several piano selections while
Miss Janet Richards was in
charge Of the display Of books
and papers. Miss Barbara Ma
son brought out some facts
about the race under the sub
ject did You Know" An essay
was read by Miss Sarah Tan
ner and an original poem by ].
Everett Darlington entitled "a
Colored Soldier Eliminates"
was read by Mrs. Alberta Val
entine. A book review Twelve
Million Black Voices" was given
by Miss Virginia Carter. The
addreSs OF the evening was
given by Mr. Manuel McKenney
on Race Achievement. He
quoted the life Of James We'll
don johnson as an example.
Solos were rendered by Mrs
Rosa Rogers and Rev Williston
Hobart. Mrs Day, the president
Of the club, spoke briefly. Mrs
Alberta Valentine presided as
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WEST NEWTON
MT ZION BAPTIST cYURcH


Rep. J. II, Dennis, Pastor
The world needs prayer. Man
should pray always but the
prayers must be Of faith and
faith must be backed by works
These call for action wherever
you are and whatever you 90.
This done, doubt and worry are
crowded out by success. We
are looking for you at Mt. Zion
Sunday, Feb. az, 1o:45 a m.
Subject: "The Root of Evil"
Sunday School 1918. M B and
L 8 p m. At 7:45 p m theme:
He is Coming Back" - sun
day, Feb 20 was another day of
Joy and strength at Mt Zion.
The pastor showed mans pa
per leagues and Peace tables
are carried away with the
wlnd' and wars still go on and
will until these directors of the
battle get inward peace from
God, not only in the head, but
hearts, even In their hands and
feet. Our Sunday School ig
growing each week, also the
B and L Society. At 7:45 o m
theme: '"The Way of Life" It
was brought out that one
can't talk UP a real desirable
ard helpful life; that life must
shine out and touch the lives
of others. They will do the
talking. AS a we'll painted
house or picture, people viii
find the painter. May we keep
in mind what these Holy Days
mean until Easter and on. Live
and do good every day. Come
to Zion and hear Rev Dennis.
In the evening a trio was rem
dered by Mr. Lee Givens, Mrs
Mary Robertson and Miss M
Crutcher. 1t was very pleasing
to all.
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RUSH AME ZION CHURCH
Charles H FoQQie, Minister

RUSH AME ZION CHURCH
Charles H Foggie, Minister
Last Sunday morning the
pastor delivered a very i'm
preSSive and informative mes
sage from the paradoxical
subject, Making Christianity
Christian" Lenten self-denial
banks and Lenten devotional
material was given out. In the
evening Rev Charles McQuary
preached and Rev William Me-
Carly aSsitesd in the service.
Next Sunday morning The
pastor vii lbegin a series Of
seunons on "Lenten Charae-
ters" and in the evening serv-
ice a series will be started on
"Lenten Events. All new
members are urged to be pres
ent Friday evening at 7 o'clock
for the lectures on church
membership.
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CHELSEA
PEOPLES BAPTIST CHURCH
1855 Pearl Street
RevS. Virgis Hill,
Samuel H. Bullock,
Drs. r. T. Reed and
J. E. Jetz,
Committee in Charge

The Servire AT the Peoples
Baptist church, Chelsea, will
be as follows: Morning service
Sunday l0:45, DR. r. T. Reed
in charge and will preach.
Sunday School 1880 p m, Mrs.
LeYina Milliken in charge. Ho-
ly Communion every first
Sunday evening at 7.
Week Day Serpices
Prayer and praise service
every Friday evening at 7 with
DR.. r. T. Reed in charge.
Choir rehearsal every Tuesday
evening at 7. Rev. Virgis Hill,
in charge. Public is cordially
invited. ANA
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Cambridge
MASS AVE BAPTIST CHURCH
Req A L LoUru. Pastor

MASS AVE BAPTIST CHURCH
Req A L LoWry, Pastor
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Morning service 10:45 a M.
Sunday School 1890 p nj,
BYPU $50 p m.
Evening service 7:3o p M.
The young mems program
presenting Rev Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr was very much Il
success. The church auditor
iurn was full and Rev Lowry
was glad to welcome the many
friends and visitors,
Last Sunday morning the
Rev Mr. Howe of Allston was
the guest speaker and Rev
Lowry in turn exchanged pull
pits with Rev Howe as a part
of the Race Relations program,
The choir sang two anthems
and Miss Beverly ] Smith took
the solo part.