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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07


Lakes Naval Training Station fol-
the holidays, returned to his Sta
ton there and has since been
transferred to another Training
Station. Guests at Christmas din.
ner, given for him by Mrs. Walls,
1920 Fifth Ave. S., were Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Woodland, Mrs. Hal
lie Ewing, Mrs. Mary Pateman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Alexander,
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Vaughn and
Louis McGaugh, who is also sta
toned at Great Lakes.
Miscellaneous Shower: Miss Mar
celia Hogan, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Hogan, CPS Oak Lake
Ave. NJ, received an assortment of
useful gifts at a shower given by
Mrs. Charlotte Davis at her home,
1928 Olson Blvd, Tuesday, January
4. Guests were Mines. Margaret
Campbell, Pauline Moore, Gerald
inc Withers, Mildred Lacy, Doro-
thy Whitaker, Gertrude Taylor,
Misses Eleanor and Suzette Har-
ris, Evelyn Miller and Wanda Cuff.
Miss Hogan and Mr.. Russell Ev-
erette, son of Mrs. John Everette,
SOB Colfax Ave. n, will be married
soon.
The Minneapolis Urban League
auxiliary met at the Phyllis Wheat
ley House Tuesday, Jan. 4. Most
of the evening was spent planning
a program for the New Year. Miss
Essie Mason and Mr.. W. NJ. Smith
were presented gifts by the gift
committee chairman, Mrs. Helen
Smith. The next meeting will be
the first Tuesday in February.
William Walker, Jr., son of Mrs.
Viollettia Walker, returned to
Great Lakes, ILL.,, after spending a
nine day furlough in the city visit
ing his mother. En- route he stopped
in Milwaukee and Chicago to visit
his aunts.
New Years Party: Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Carr, 2O21 Smelling Ave. S.,
entertained Sgt. and Mrs. Juan
Cortez of Chicago, H., at a New
Years party at their home. The
evening was spent in playing
games. Mrs. A. Washington of St.
Paul won the first prize. Other
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. F. Wing
ington of St. Paul, their house
guests; Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bell and
Mrs. V. Davis of Omaha; Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Cobb, Mr.. L. Albright, Mrs.
Bertha johnson and Miss Villa
Booker. The out-of-town guests
received gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carr served a buff
fet dinner. Sgt. Cortez is the
brother of Mr.. Carr.
Mr.. Jerry Evans, student in cleo
trical engineering at the University
of Minnesota, has returned from
his Christmas vacation spent with
his parents at Kansas City, Mo.
Miss Dorothy Amos, student at
Northwest Institute of Medical
Technology, has returned aft e r
spending her Christmas vacation
in Bridgeport, Conn.,, with her par
ents.
Mrs. Robert w. Kelley, wife of
the pastor of Border Methodist
church, is expected in Minneapolis
this weekend. Her mother, to
whose bedside she was called, is
convalescing satisfactorily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Coleman,
1923 Olson Blvd, who married re-
Gently, left Tuesday, Jan. 4, for
Detroit, Chicago and California for
a postponed honeymoon. Mrs. Cole
man is one of the proprietors of
California Kitchen cafe. She and
her sister, the other partner, came
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-01-07
Social and Personal
On ST. PAUL An

Mr. and Mrs o. c. Drizze 962 st. Anthony were hosts
to an early New Years breakfast held following the Open
House at the Sterling Club New Years eve Guests were
Messrs and Mines. Ollie Gunn Earl Brent Charles Har-
grave Mrs. Anna Blair and Mr. Odel Smith
Christmas Bridge Party: On December % the home of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-14
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
 APRIL IA, 1943
BY UNITED PRESS

BY UNITED PkESS
 Allied aircraft bag 73 planes in raids on the CastelvetranO airfield and at the Milo field i'm Sicily.
 I'm TuniSia, Allied forces score advances on all fronts; British Eighth Army reaches German de- fcnsc positions between EnfidaviIle and the Grand DOrsal Mountains.
 Russians hold initiative In the Southern Caucasus, capturing for titled positions on the outskirts of NOvOrOssiisk.
 Swedish anti-aircraft guns fire on about three German bOmbers that circled the Swedish naval sn- chOrage at KarIshrOna.
 Japanese attack Milne Bay, Al- lied base at the southeastern tip of New Guinea, with 7E to 100 planes in daylight attack.
 U. s. Army ana Navy planes raid KIska 1sland In Ghe AIeutisnS 9AR NHAnAA. F
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Potomac Pollution
Studied by Experts

Problems of pollution in the Po-
tomac River and recovery of valua-
BILE materials from industrial wastes
were being considered today by the
executive committee of the Potomac
River Interstate Commission, meet
ing in its Offices in the Transpor-
tation Building
E. r. Cotton, engineer secretary OF
the organization, said discussions
would be merely exploratory, since
any program would require approval
of the War Production Board. The
meeting may decide locations al
which it would recommend the work
be done.
Raymond v. Long, Virginia State
Planning Board director, who rep
resents that State, said the com
mittee probably would assign the
proposed studies to various colleges
and universities in the States rep
resented.
The commission was created sew
eral years ago with congressional
sanction to work on the pollution
problem. WPB, Mr.. Cotton said, is
interested only in recovery of val
liable industrial wastes.
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger. assistant
health officer, represented the Dis
trict.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
S4,O4S, 769 Allotted TO Aid
War Prisoners in 9 Months

Edwin c. Graham, general chair
man OF the Washington Community
war Fund, announced Yesterday
II at s4,048, 1863 48 has been allocated
nationally to War Fund member
agencies for aid to war prisoners
during the first nine months of this
year. OF this, S2,057 ,978.98 will be
used for morale and recreationa]
material.
A total of sl,99O, 100 so will 90 to
other member agencies for material
AID for men of the United Nations
who are prisoners of war, which will
include supplementary food pack
ages. medical kits, clothing and COM
fort articles.
The agencies that will provide
recreational and morale material
Tor American prisoners of war in
clude War Prisoners Aid of the
YMCA, World Student Service Fund
and War Relief Services National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
Member agencies that will pro-
vide for other Allied prisoners are:
French Relief Fund. Queen Will
helmina Fund for Dutch Prisoners
Belgian War Relief Society, Polish
War Relief, Greek War Relief Asso-
clation, Norwegian War Relief and
the United YugoSlaV Relief Fund.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Mrs. Speaks, Seeking. House
Seat, Is Native of District
COP Candidate Would
Be First CoIored
Woman in Congress


A Washington native who now
is a New York attorney may re-
turn here this winter as the first
colored woman ever to be elected
to Congress.
Mrs. Sara Pelham Speaks, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Robert A. Pelham, 153
T street NV, is Republican candi-
date from the 22d congressional
district in Harlem. The election
will fall on November 7, exactly AZ
years from the day Mrs. Speaks
was born just across from Howard
University.
A key to the initiative which led
Mrs. Speaks to take up law after
completing an education in chem
istry and to achieve recognition as
an attorney and a politician lies in
an incident of her early childhood,
related by her family here:
One day when Mrs. Pelham
thought 5-year-old Sara was at
play, the child and a playmate went
over to the Howard University
Teachers College practice school
and entered themselves in kinder
garten. Thus her schooling began.
Changed School for Teacher.
When she reached the eighth
grade at Lucretia Mott School, Mrs
Speaks was among a group of STU
dents who insisted upon transfer
ring to another school because they
did not wish to give up their
teacher, principal of the school, who
was making the change.
After graduation from Dunbar
Ugh School, she entered Howard
The university was an ever present
part of her life during her girlhood
1t was yearly ritual for her to
attend its Thanksgiving Day foot
ball game, from the time she was 6
and her father padded her coat
with newspapers to keep out the
November cold.
But after year at the college she
left to attend the University of
Michigan, being graduated in 1924
with a degree in chemistry. After
teaching year in Orangeburg, S.
c., she returned to Howard and
did graduate work in chemistry.
Mrs. Speaks became right-hand
man to her father (who died last
June) in his Capital News Service,
Inc. Later, after her marriage in
1926 to DR.. Forest Douglas Speaks,
a physician in New York City, she
left Washington to live in Cincin-
natl.
They moved from Cincinnati,
where Mrs. Speaks interested her
self in social service work, and went
to New York in 1882. There she
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Navy Annex Worker Held
In Embezz|ement Case

James H. Fowle. 1869 Columbia
road NV, civilian employe at
Federal Office Building No. 2 at the
Arlington Navy Annex, was free on
81 900 bond today on a charge of
embezzling Navy Department funds
following a hearing before United
States Commissioner Stanley King
in Alexandria.
Detective William c. Curtis of the
Public Buildings Administration
charged that Fowle embezzled $3.50
lntruSted to him by a Navy lieu
tenant and $3.50 intrusted to him by
a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel
FoWle will be tried in the United
States District Court at Alexandria
A date for the trial is expected tc
be set at the opening of the June
term on June 5.
Evening star., 1944-05-25

studied law, receiving her degree in
1896 and taking up the practice of
criminal law.
Won Murder Trial Case.
Once when she was contemplat-
ing accepting a murder case, her
family recalls, a friend warned her
she would be ruined" if she took it.
What if I win it?" Mrs. Speaks
replied, and did SO.
Meanwhile her interest in politics
grew, and in 1887 she was candidate
for her district in the Legislature
Her opponent, the Democratic in
cumbent who had won the two pre-
vious elections by large majorities
was able to conduct his campaign
with far more financial backing
than she, but won by a margin OF
only 131 votes.
BY 1910 Mrs. Speaks was director
for the colored women's division OF
the Republican National Committee
In the coming election, however, she
is counting on a large nonpartisan
vote-that of the women of Harlem
With many men away at war, she
believes there are three woman vot-
ers to every two man voters now.
If she is elected, she probably will
bring her 4-year-old son, Douglas
with her to Washington and reside
with her mother.
Mrs. Speaks sister is Mrs. Dor
othy Beckley, teacher at the Gar
net-Patterson Junior High School
here. Her mother, until her retire
ment 10 years ago at the age of 10
was head of the community center
department of public school divi-
sions 10 to 13. A brother, staff
Sergt. Robert B. Pelham, is serving
in italy,
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Advertising Club Elects
Matt Meyer President

Matt Meyer, advertising director
of the Daily News, yesterday was
elected president of the Advertising
Club of Washington, succeeding
Louis D. Krakow.
w, Frank Gatewood, retail ad-
Vertlslng manager of the Times
Herald, was elected first vice pres
ident, and Donald M. Bernard,
advertising director of the Post,
second vice president Ernest S.
Johnston, partner in the Lewis
Advertising Agency, was reelected
treasurer.
N. Ward Guthrie, who previously
had been elected to succeed Secre-
tary Charles j. Columbus, was
named a director, along with Ben
Baylor jr., commercial manager of
Station WMAL, and j. Raymond
Bell, Pennsylvania Central Airlines.
The new officers will assume their
positions at meeting at the Statler
Hotel June g.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Choice Stock, Found in
\ Auto, Believed Stolen
From 18th St. Store

Police arrested three colored men
early today and found in their car
large stock of choice liquors be-
lieved to have been stolen from the
Empire Liquor Store at 1720 Four
teenth street NV.
The three-Norman Brooks, 80;
his brother, Guy L. Brooks, %, both
of 2728 Sherman avenue NV, and
Edward Webster, 80, of 760 Girard
street N.W.-are being held at No
10 precinct. Police said that charges
would be preferred against them
during the day.
AS Pvts. Charles Lowery and
James M. Jackson were cruising in
their scout car during the night in
the vicinity of Georgia avenue and
Paramount street, two cars sped by
them. Police said the cars turned
south at Sherman avenue after run
ming through stop" sign, and one
OF them turned into an alley in the
rear of the TOO block of Sherman
avenue.
Police followed this car and ar
rested the three men. Police said
they found 76 fifths and 81 pints OF
choice whisky in the car. The
bottles bore the serial number of the
Empire Liquor Store, which had
been looted earlier.
Just after the police had made
the arrest and still were standing
in the alley, the other car appeared
and turned into the alley. Wher
the driver saw the policeman, he
suddenly swerved his car about anc
started to flee Policeman LoWery
fired one shot at the car, which
was later found abandoned half 9
block away.
When police examined it, they
found blood on the upholstery, in.
dicating that the bullet had struck
one Of the occupants. A check o1
all hospitals was being made today
in an effort to locate the wounded
man.
sPolice were unable to say whether
the whisky they found represented
all that was taken from the EN-
pire Liquor Store.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Nearly S2,Oo0,OOO Raised
By Helen Keller for Blind

Helen Keller, known throughout
the world for her extraordinary
struggle against blindness, deafness
and durnbness, today had almost
reached the goal she has set for her
self in hfe-to raise $4,000 900 for
the American Foundation for the
Blind.
The report came from Mrs. Philip
S. Smith, 3249 Newark street NV,
member of the District Board of
Education, who has been a friend of
the writer for As years.
Miss Keller, accompanied by her
companion, Miss Polly Thompson. is
in Washington seeing wounded SOL
dlers and sailors. Today she is visit
ing the Naval Medical Center at
Bethesda, Md. Yesterday she went
through the wards at Walter Reed
Hospital She will be here until
Saturday.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Action on WASPS Bill
Delayed Pending Report

House action on the bill to bring
the WASPS into the Army Ali
Forces probably will be delayed
pending report on the contro-
versial question of whether better
qualified men are now ready to take
flying jobs for which women are
being trained.
Chairman Ramspeck said today
he expected the Civil Service In
vestigating Committee to meet next
week to frame its report to the
House. The committee plans to re-
view information that thousands of
pilots and instructors are becoming
available for ferrying jobs through
curtailment of various training pro-
grams.
The WASPS at present are civil
liam employees of the Government.
Gen. H. H. Arnold of the Army
Air Forces recently recommended
that they be brought into his COM
mand and defended the WASPS as
means of saving manpower for
combat duty.
Evening star., 1944-05-25

IF you want to get out here, you'd
better use the runway right now, "
he shouted. We're going to blow
up the air strip in few minutes"
The Fortress crew needed no
further warning. Already great bill
lows of black smoke were rising from
oil dumps nearby which had been
destroyed by the Dutch.
And for Sergt. Harmon that flight
was the most vivid in all of his two
years and four months combat duty
in the South Pacific.
Only Ship to Leave.
I'VE were the only snip in con-
dltion to leave he explained. I'VE
saw the airfield go up just a couple
OF minutes after we took off :"
Before we could gain much alti-
tude," he continued, I'VE were over
the Japs and then their guns really
went into action. The flax was
pretty heavy" he admitted, "but
the ship could take It,"
Out over the bay the Fortress took
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Leaflets and Posters
To Tell Unemployed
War Jobs Are Open
Connolly Says Next Five
Weeks to Decide Success:
I of Monpower c Compoien

Predicting the next five weeks viii
tell whether we are going to be abla
to break the back of the manpowel
shortage in this city," Acting Wash
ington War ManpoWer Director
Ernest V. Connolly, today announced
an appeal will go out to every un-
employed worker in the next few
days through 245,000 leaflets and
1000 recruiting posters.
Mr.. Connally reported that re-
cruiting men and women for wal
jobs through a bus travelling abou:
the city started slowly Monday, when
only three persons were referred to
jobs, but increased to 81 referrals
yesterday.
The recruiting bus will make a
stop tonight from to o'clock on
F street between Seventh and Eighth
streets to attract the evening shop
ping crowds.
The leaf1et, sponsored by the
Washington Advisory Committee on
Recruitment, will go into 175,O 900 gas
company bills and 10000 laundry
bills. The posters will go into store
windows, theaters, restaurants and
possibly churches, Mr.. Connolly said.
Mr.. Connolly also announced the
Washington VINO Labor Manage
ment Committee had voted unani-
mously to grant the request of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation for member stores to close
all day Saturday during July and
August. The request, it was ex-
planned, was made to the commit
tee because the stores had to get
permission to abandon the 48-hour
work week, required in critical
areas.
Evening star., 1944-05-25

the offensive, attacking transport
ships and invasion barges which
were bringing fresh enemy troops to
the beleaguered island.
1--WE sank two transports that
trip" he recounted, ''and then
moved on down to our new base
in Australia"
From there their ship, the Yankee
Payoff, was sent into the Solomons,
Buna and Lai air battles. When
Sergt. Harmon left his crew in New
Guinea to return to the States. the
Fortress was making daily runs
to Rabaul
Tail Gun Good Spot.
Tail gunner on a Fortress is 6
pretty darn good spot, according tc
Sergt. Harmon, although you are
away from the rest of the crew" he
admitted, sort of cut off in case yol
need help" The Japs at first thought
it was the easiest place to attack
he declared, but it proved to be
tougher on them than on us"
The Yankee Payoff so far has 1e
planes credited to her. most of which
came during the Bismarck Sea bat
tie, when her gunners got six.
Sergt. Harman did find time
to get married-to an Australian
girl he met while on leave in Mel
bourne They were married in NTarcb
1912, and he has only seen her once
since, a year and a half ago. How
ever, she's expected in the United
States in the next several months.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Raleigh
Harmon, the sergeant is a native
WaSh1ngtonian. A graduate of Holy
Trinity School and Western High
School, he was employed by the
Western Electric Co. before he en-
listed In the Army almost four years
ago. A sister Betty, is In thekSPARS.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Services Decline
To File Briefs
On BusFares
Lines Relieved
Of Necessity
For Replying

The Army and Navy have decided
not to file briefs in the Interstate
Commerce Commission case regard
ing the ICC order reducing bus fares
between the District and nearby
Virginia, it was learned today.
E. Barrett Prettyman, counsel for
the Capital Transit Co., said this
decision will obviate the necessity
for any of the. four bus lines filing
reply briefs.
He said the commission therefore
should be ready now to consider
merits of the motion he filed to dis
miss the ICC order calling for a re-
hearing. Mr.. Prettyman was
joined by counsel for three Virginia
lines operating across the boundary,
in the contention that the ICC no
longer has Jurisdiction because of a
decision recently in the United
States Court for the District. The
court decision invalidated the ICC
bus fare reduction order on the
grounds that the ICC did not have
jurisdiction.
Mr.. Prettyman's motion was filed
at the ICC re-hearing last week
where witnesses for both the Army
and Navy stressed the Importance o1
the war work being done in nearby
Virginia by the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps. Government counse
argued that the ICC is required tt
supply adequate transportation foi
war workers in nearby Virginia.
The participating lines which
Joined the Capital Transit Co., ir
its move to dismiss the ICC re.
hearing order were the Alexandria
Bancroft g. Washington Transit Co.
the Arlington & Fairfax Motor
Transportation Co., and the Arnold
Operated Bus Service.
The presiding officer at the ICC
hearing last week gave the armed
forces till June to file briefs II
they desired, and the bus lines til
June Is to file answering briefs.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Price Says No Publication
Deliberately Violates Code
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
Censorship Director Byron Price
says he is unable to find a single
case where newspaper or other
publication deliberately" violated
the voluntary wartime censorship
code.
Testifying before the House Ap-
preparations Committee at hearings
made public today, Mr.. Price said:
THE attitude of the press has been
magnificent. There have been soma
mistakes and some inadvertent VIC
lations of the code. I" think the
record is exceptionally fine on that
in view of the manpower situation
on newspapers today, where most
newspapers are being run by green
hands"
Mr.. Price said a free press has
been maintained but it has not been
'criminally careless with military
information in wartime"
Evening star., 1944-05-25
WA TO Build Drain
From Reservoir 10 River

Maj. Gen, Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works administrator, today ap-
proved an FWA plan to build a
blowvoff drain from the George
town reservoir to the Potomac River.
The improvement, about 400 feet
of 35-inch drain and appurtenances,
will cost an estimated $4,000. 1t
will be financed from Lanham Act
funds through an FWA grant of
$34,500 and loan of $34,500.
To meet increased demands on
the water supply and still maintain
sufficient pressure in the gravity
system, a main previously used
exclusively to drain reservoir sedi-
ment now is serving intermittently
as a drain and filtered water supply.
The United States Public Health
Service has stated that this practice
is dangerous to the public health.
The District of Columbia is the ap-
plicant.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Maryland Lists Five Killed
In D. {. Area in April

Five persons were killed and As
injured in traffic accidents in the
washington area during April,
Maryland State police reported to-
day.
The police accident tabulation
listed l death and 16 injuries in
Montgomery County, death and 26
injured in Prince Georges County
and l death and 3 injured in St.
MaryS County.