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Evening star., 1944-08-07
Girl, Bitten by Snake,
Recovering in HOSPITAL

Miss Adele Swenson, %, Navy De-
partment stenographer bitten Sat-
urday night byNa snake near her
home at 2930 Upton street NV,
is recovering in Emergency Hospital,
Pfc. Jack Lyons, 1926 Upton street
NV, was credited with staving off
more serious complications from the
poison. He applied tourniquet and
slashed the fang marks on Miss
Swenson's left ankle with a safety
razor blade before a physician ar
rived.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

in the 5th Army's crossing of the
Volturno River in Italy, Sergt. Snead
left position of cover to save a
wounded man lying exposed to en-
emy fire. The youth dug a slit
trench for the mans protection un-
til he could be reached by aid men,
it was said.
The infantryman, who was listed
as missing once before but turned
up again, was featured last Easter
Sunday in The Stars Heroes of
the Washington Area" series by
Staff Artist Newman Sudduth.
Sergt. Snead entered the Army in
February, l943. after graduation
from Central High School He went
overseas in June Of the same year
He is survived also by a sister,
Betty Lou, of the Gallatin street
address.
First 1t. James Wentworth Free
man, jr., son of Col. and Mrs. James
w. Freeman of 1542 Forty-fourth
street NV, was killed in action In
France on June %.
1t. Freeman was born at Camp
Pike, Ark, where his father was
stationed, and spent his boyhood
in various Army camps in the
United States. He was appointed
to West Point from Pennsylvania
and was graduated In the January
class of 1943. While at the acad-
emy he was member Of the soccer
and wrestling teams, earning the
nickname Of Phantom"
His first assignment was the In
fantry School at Fort Benning, Ca,
where he later attended the Para
troop School, qualifying as an off,
Ger of paratroops. He gained a
temporary promotion to first lieu
tenant in May, 1943.
He went overseas in February of
this year and was first stationed in
Northern Ireland before being trans
ferred to England. He was with the
paratroopers when they established
the beachhead in Normandy on D.
Day.
Besides his parents he is sur
vived by four brothers, Ensign John
B. Freeman, Cadet George A. Free
man, USCG, and David and Robert
Freeman, who are attending schools
here. His father, Col. Freeman, is
with the ONCE of the Chief of Ord
nance of the War Department.
Pfc. Dan Somerville Higgins, 10
died of wounds received in action
in France on June rs, the War
Department has notified his aunt
Miss Clara A. Higgins, 5522 Ninth
street NV.
Pfc. Higgins, an infantryman, at
tended Mckinley High School be-
fore entering the service in August
1943. He went overseas in April
A native of Washington, he was an
artist, and while attending Stuart
Junior High School was awarded
an art scholarship in a Work Prof.
ects Administration sponsored prof.
ect. Some of his painting was ex-
hibited in 1910 in the annual Lafay-
cite Park display.
He Is survived also by his mother
Mrs. Elizabeth Beery Higgins, 1916
Meigs street NE; q sister, Mrs. Lucy
Higgins Staub Of Washington, and
two brothers, Pvt. Shelton c. Hig-
gins, jr., and Pvt. Foster B. Higgins
both In the Army.
Pvt Jack r. Vegel 10, son eE Mr.
and Mrs. ]. H. Vogel, ITO Cedar
avenue. Takoma Park, Md, was
killed In action July 5 in the South
west Pacific area, probably In New
Guinea, his parents have learned
He was serving with the bush
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Rival Measures Insure
Congress Fight Over
How 10 Pay JobIess
BY the Associated Press.


Congress comes to grips this
week with reconversion legisla-
ton, with States rights fight
brewing in the Senate on un-
employment compensation and
House Republicans condemning
what they called an accent on
unemployment rather than on
ways OF creating employment"
The fireworks will be touched OF
in the Senate tomorrow when the
Murray Truman-Kilgore unemploy.
ment bill and a rival measure by
Senator George, Democrat, Of
Georgia come up for debate.
At issue Is the amount to be paid,
and who shall pay 1t.
Backed by a large segment Of
organized labor, the Murray-Tru-
man-Kilgore measure calls for bene-
Ats ranging as high as $35 weekly
for jobless war veterans and civilian
unemployed. The Federal Govern
ment would pay the excess over the
current $18 weekly average of State
compensation laws.
Southern Democrats Approve.
While broadening coverage by
State programs and bringing under
them some 100000 Federal en-
ployes, the George proposal leaves
administration to the States, with
smaller payments than are pro-
vided by the rival measure. 1t has
the backing of most Southern
Democrats and the Republican
Leadership, who have assailed the
Murray Truman-Kilgore bill as too
costly, likely to encourage prolonged
iidleness, and an attempt to federal-
ize State unemployment programs.
The Senate leadership hopes to
dispose of the fight, one way or the
other, this week. The House Ways
and Means Committee already has
called meeting for Wednesday In
the hope of taking up the Senate
bill so it can be rushed to the House
floor early next week.
While unemployment legislation
has the right of way on the Senate
f1oor-there is no business before the
House proper this week-committees
In both branches expect to whip into
shape, for action possibly next week,
bills deatig with surplus property
disposition and establishment of the
machinery for managing the overall
reconversion job.
Prediction Recess Desired.
The goal of the leadership in both
branches is to dispose of all urgent
reconversion legislation by Septem-
Der so a prediction recess may
be taken.
Meanwhile President James G.
Patton of the National Farmers
Union has called on Congress for
immediate legislation authorizing
the Federal Government to spend
up to SAC, 1000 10000 a year to help
provide full employment not only
during the period of industrial con-
version to peacetime production but
during future years.
The money would be spent on a
vast public works and services
program.
Mr.. Patton, often a White House
adviser on agricultural matters,
proposed an amendment to the
Murray-Truman-Kilgore bill which
would direct the Government to
invest and spend on work-making
projects the amount by which pros
pective private investment and con-
struction expenditures in each year
fall short of 50, 100000 ,DO0.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Vermont Republicans
Hold Primary Tomorrow

BY the Associated Press.
MONTPELIER, VT, Aug. 7.-Ver-
mont Republicans, whose primary
choices normally are tantamount to
election, will ballot tomorrow after
a campaign that has produced little
in the way of political fireworks.
There are only two contests for
nomination to Statewide Office in
the Republican primary and there
are no Democratic Statewide con-
tests.
1t. Gov Mortimer r. Proctor and
Arthur w. Simpson seek the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Mechanical Calculating Marvel
To Be Presented to Harvard

In operation 1t makes no more
noise than the clatter Of a few
typewriters.
The operator does not have to be
a trained mathematician, although
an expert must prepare the code.
When the device return to civil
ian use it will be of the utmost
importance in solving problems
from simple "math" to astronomical
equations.
A typical problem, solved by the
machine in l9 hours, took four girl
experts three weeks to compute.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Wirephoto from Marine Corps.

Masters" unit, a group Of men
trained especially for jungle fight
ing.
Pvt. Vogel, a graduate of Coolidge
High School, had finished one year
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
when he was indicted into the
Army in June. l943. He trained at
Fort Riley. Kans.. and Fort Ord,
Calif,. before going overseas in
March, 1914.
Pfc. Day Canterbury, %, whose
wife, Mrs. Alice Pixton Canterbury,
lives with her parents at 1928 Min
nesota avenue Sc, was killed in
action In Normandy July II. He is
the son Of Mrs. Ida Mae Hunter, 277
Carroll street NV.
He was a native of Braddock.
N. D., but had lived here most Of his
life and had attended schools in
Virginia. He entered the Army about
two years ago and had been over
seas about Il months. Prior to this
he ives employed here with. the
Tolman Laundry.
He has two brothers and a half
brother serving in the armed forces.
They are Pfc. Whitney Canterbury
paratrooper on duty in England;
Sergt. James Canterbury, U. s. A.. on
duty in the South Pacific, and Pfc.
Paul Hunter, a Marine stationed in
San Diego, Calf.
Pvt. Charles Butler, "a, was killed
in action in France on July 4, the
War Department has informed his
wife, who lives with his mother,
Mrs. James Butler, 1912 Kansas
avenue NV.
Pvt. Butler was a native of WASH
ington and had attended Gonzaga
High School here, where he played
left end on the football team in
1936-37-38. He entered the armed
forces in November, 194l, and has
been overseas since last December
as a paratrooper. Prior to entering
the Army he was an engineer here
with the Haughton Elevator Co.
Missing in Action
Sergt. Huntington Peyton Paul,
son Of Maj. John Gray Paul, OF Nc
Lean, Va. has been missing in
action in France since June 80. He
landed in France on D-day as
private and was promoted to SER
geant June 26.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Ang|o-American Oil
Agreement Expected
Early This Week
By the Associated Press.

The Anglo-American talks on oil
that have been proceeding at the
State Department have resulted in
an agreement which will be signed
early this week, 1t was learned today.
Negotiations now will be undertaken
with Soviet Russia, Venezuela, Co.
lomb1a and other countries inter-
ested in oil to obtain their co-opera-
tion in its orderly postwar market
ing.
After only a week Of discussion,
the American and British delega-
tions, headed, respectively, by Sec
retary Of State Hull and Lord
Beaverbrook, reached an under
standing which is expected to pre-
vent a revival Of the old "oil war"
between the two nations in the Near
East.
The result will be the establish
ment of an Anglo COM
mission on oil moving in interna-
tional trade. There was some di-
version of opinion on the powers of
the commission, with the British
contending that 1t should be able
to enforce its recommendations on
oil production and markets and
the Americans holding that the
commissions views should be merely
advisory.
Advisory Powers Granted.
The final decision was to give the
commission purely advisory powers,
and the plan Is that it will make
recommendations to each govern
ment, which can then pass them
along to private oil producing COM
panies either as advisable plans or
as law, If Congress or Parliament
sees fit.
The Aaglo-American agreement,
which aims at orderly development
Of the worlds oil resources within
the framework of free competition
but with safeguards against COM
petitive waste, is considered pri-
marily an interim pact until other
United Nations can be brought in.
The agreement is considered a
valuable beginning to further pacts
on other important commodities
which assume military and political
Importance in international trade.
The United States already has be-
gun exploratory talks with Britain
and the Netherlands on synthetic
rubber, and such commodities as
wheat and cotton probably will be
reviewed later.
Americans Shun Restrictions.
While the American policy gen.
orally Is to avoid restrictive agree
ments which smack of monopoly or
production limiting cartels, it is felt
that the various agreements can be
a long step toward avoiding destruc-
tive postwar Anglo-American trade
competition which might endanger
international cooperation in the
field of peace and security.
The State Department has kept
other governments Informed of de-
velopments in the oil conferences,
and the attitude is to put the en-
phasis on multilateral agreements
wherever possible, broadening the
pacts beyond their initial two
power status.
The military Importance of oil
has not been overlooked in the talks,
and establishment of an oil COM
mission is recognized as ready
means of imposing sanctions if a
world security organization finds
them necessary.
The commission could recommend
that all member countries stop SELL
ing oil to an aggressor, when the
proposed peace league declared that
International security was menaced., :,
At the same time, it would make
possible the orderly development of
accessible reserves for wartime use.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

y I Z v - uoly dS
missing for the
second time on
that date, the
War ar t.
ment has In
form e d h / s
m o t h er, Mrs.
Halle Newman.
Sergt. S n e a d
was awarded the
Silver Star by
1t. Gen. Mark
Clark on Jam
uary Is for gal
lantry in action.
In October his
citation relates,
Evening star., 1944-08-07

charging him with assault with
intent to kill has been issued by
Prince Georges County authorities.
Mrs. Glazer, mother of q 4-year-
old girl, was at home at 6126 Mon
trose drive, Cheve;ly, when Heinle
called on her, police said. They said
Heinle confessed the shooting, but
that he insisted the woman entered
a death pact when they could not
reconcile their differences. This was
denied by Mrs. Glazer, who insisted
she had rejected Heinle's attentions.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Racing at Cumberland
To Sturt Tomorrow
Rx N. Assoe,ated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. T.
Fairgo, half mile track located near
here, will open a Today meeting
tomorrow with indications of .
near capacity business.
Approximately $50 horses from
Charles Town are on hand, includ-
ing those owned by G. Palmer
Sowers Of Washington, leading
winner there.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Six Men From Capital Area
Killed in Action; One Missinq

A Washington Silver Star hero and
five other District soldiers have
been killed in action overseas, and
one man is missing. according to
information provided local families
by the War Department.
Killed in Action
Staff Sergt. Earnest H. Snead, 20.
Of 1905 Gallatin street NV, has
been reported killed in action in
Italy on May "a, after being listed
Evening star., 1944-08-07
John Polmer Dies

LONDON. Aug 7 R.-John Pail
mer, 50, member Of the British dele.
cation to the Paris peace confer
ence In 1919 and member Of the
permanent secretariat Of the League
OF Nations from 1870 to 1889. died
Saturday In Hampstead.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

i cllldklicu Z l ! t-
ical ay in
Casualty H os-
pital.
Russell Heinle
80, of Glassboro
N. j., who, ac-
cording to po-
lice, turned the
gun on himself
after firing at
Mrs. Glazer, is
reported to be
r e c ov e ring in
the s a m e hos
pital. He Is un-
der police guard,
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Routine session.
Military Affairs Subcommittee
opens hearings on surplus property
disposal bills.
House:
Routine session.
Expenditures Committee starts
hearings on surplus property dis
poSal.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Opera Cancels Schedules

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Z (P.-The
Philadelphia Opera Company yes
terday Cancelled all scheduled per-
formances for the 1944-5 season, in
cluding appearances in 20 cities. The
reason: Scarcity of young male
singers"
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Russians Like Chuucer

Ten thousand copies Of the first
Russian translation of Chaucer,s
Canterbury Tales were sold In
Moscow IN . few days.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Missing in Action
Matron Shot by Suitor
Still in Critical Condition

The condition of Mrs. Evelyn
Glazer, 80, said by police to have
been shot Saturday by a frustrated
suitor in her Cheverly (Md) home,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-04

southern Negro is encouraged by
outsiders to assert himself socially
that trouble arises between men,
bers of the two races. 1.-TWO groups
of Negroes are attempting to take
advantage of these social equality
directives from the war depart
ment and from New Deal bureaus:
the northern Negro who finds pro-
lection by virtue of his military
uniform; and the southern Negro
with taste of academic education
and touch Of low-class white So
ciety' in the north. Thus far the
south has been pretty we'll able to
handle both groups. It is in the
north and east, where white men
do not understand Negroes, that
The race riots take place."
In conclusion he writes "before
the south will ever submit to out
side intervention of any kind which
will try to force the white man to
mix and mingle with colored peo-
pie socially-well, the south would
simnly fight another Civil war !!
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-04
Mondoy. December 4, 1914

And, if social equality among the
two races were the issue of such
a conflict, the south would never
surrender in it's Civil War II. 1t
might be obliterated, but the south
would die with it's boots on, it's
head high, it's honor unsullied, it's
principles untouched by those who
would try to change the customs
and practices of the centuries, the
traditions of revered generations,
the common-sense laws of human
nature.
''For in the south-yesterday,
today and tomorrow-w white is
white and black is black, and meier
the twain shall meet Tin social
relationships though God himself
should decree it so from His great
Judgment seat"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-04

Tillery states that what the
average southern white man
thinks about the average southern
Negro is something very few peo-
pie but southerners understand.
He points out that not even the
white 1'reformers and educated
Negroes in the north understand
the southern Negro. whether the
idea is right or wrong, the fact re-
mains that to the average southern
white man the Negro's place is
that of an inferior-and a colored
inferior at that. A colored inferior,
regardless of the reasons why, who
is filthy, trifling, Of a low order
of mentality, and Of very short
moral stature. He does not use his
higher wages to improve his living
conditions. He does as little work
as possible. He spends his money
as a little child. Intellectually he
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-04
CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLE ON NEGRO IN
''NEW5PApERMAN" FOR DECEMBER 1914

BOSTON, Dec A. (ANP)-The
contains controversial article by Floyd T What the Average
Southerner Thinks About Negroes Nwpapeman monthly
written published Tribune
Publications. Hyde Park Mass circulated nationally The
of the article THE South Looks Negro
West Point Ga News and Georgia social worker The the
article will be written for the January
Garlngon city editor of the News
born educated N the south
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-04

is a moron. And he lies, cheats, and
steals without any moral scruples.
He is product of long, long past.
Only a long process of education in
the broad sense of the term will
produce any marked changes in his
status.
"Only the southern white man
= h patience to endure all these
shortcomings of the Negro. Only
the southern white man has the
tolerance to put up with the
Negro during his long transition
period from savage to civilized.
Only the southern white man un-
1erstands that for the Negroes own
good he must be kept in his place
until he can advance sufficiently
20 stay in that place on his own.
''The southern white man is kind
and friendly to the Negro. He
wants to help the Negro and is do
ing so constantly in many ways.
The common relationship between
white housewife and her colored
servants, between white employer
and colored employer, is one of
friendliness. Never is there mani
fest any spirit of hatred or antag-
onism on the part of the superior
toward the inferior. And the south
ern white man never fails to en-
courage any Negro who is trying
to improve himself.
"But just as the southern white
parent knows that he must not be
TOO indulgent toward his own child,
'1nows that he must discipline and
train the youngster, knows that he
must keep him in a child's place
so does the southern white man
know that he must see to it that
the Negro for his own good grows
gradually in his entire racial de-
velopment."
Continuing, Tillery states that
the white man is cooperating to
help improve the Negroes status in
the south, and it is only when the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14

baby. was hoping the babies would sleep through my talk. In the States many grown up used to so why not the babies?
 Babies, Dogs
 I didn't ask for silence. That would have been useless. I began to preach. The first two para graphs went of in fire order. It was the third paragraph which marked the beginning of my humili- ation. I uttered three words, My dear friends" when from out of no- where, or else the shawls of the women. came about six or seven dogs. They began to roam about the church as if it were the dog pound. One came close to the altar rail. Knowing Bolivian dogs I stopped my sermon ard asked the men to put out the dogs. While I was in- tent on this duty. one little Indian child had come up to the altar rail. There is no obstacle to prevent anyone from climbing oyer the rail or getting under the rail. This child got under the rail as I had my attention focused on the dogs. Soon I felt something tugging away at my cassock. All of a sudden the preaching stole was yanked from me and the child just ran to the other end of the altar before I knew what happened. The noise of putting out the dogs woke up the thousand and cne babies in the church. Now the fun really began. The noise of the crying was almost Geafering. And I, like fool, tried to scream louder than one thousand babies. To make matters worse some of the people in the seats, in order to get away from the crying infants, started to move their seats and I mean MOVE their seats for these pews are only chairs which you would find in any hall. Soon the place looked like a live game
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14

Rev. Francis "Pete" Murphy, Washington H:ll native who left Maryknoll N. Y. last August for a permanent assignment in Santa Ana Calacala, Bolivia, says Wash- tngton Park playground, where he was supervisor for many years while studying for the priesthood, is very quiet compared to his present as- signlnent, in g letter to a member of the Democrat staff.
 Father Murphy writes it is hard to imagine spending Christmas there with the thermometer over % and the sun terrifically hot.
 His letter in full follows:
 An of us in our life have had humiliating experiences. It's a good thing we have had them, otherwise our life to this point would have been drab and monotonous exist ellce. None of us minds these em- barraSsing moments if they come singly and in widely spaced inter vals. When they come in one, two three order then it's time to fret. Right now I am fretting.
 First Sermon
 I was asked to give my first ser mon last Sunday. I thought 1t was to be delivered before congrega- tion such as you would find in the States. You know-one composed of men, women and grown children. had no idea the nursery and the menagerie were to be admitted also And I like to preach at the altar rail where there is no pulpit. I didn't know what the other priest meant when he told me not to. Experience is great teacher.
 To realize just what I had to go through let's go over to church be- fore the Mass starts. There's a reason. The Indians here love to bring their dogs to church big, small, medium, hot and cold. And I love to kick the dogs out of church. So much so that the people call me ''Matador de perros' which means. Murderer of innocent dogs. Now these Quechua Indians never sit in the pews in church. They prefer the floor to the coziest seat. And the woman is never seen without her long shawl It's this same shawl which causes the trouble. Because underneath it the Indian woman can hide a fairly good sized pup. On this particular day it seems they all did I put out few dogs but should have made better in- vestigation.
 Anyhow the time came to preach As I stood before this strange con- gregation for my first sermon in Spahish. how I longed for the quiet and attentive audiences met with iii the U. s. A Before me was an audience which didn't know what the word, silence meant They didn't mind talking to one another in the least. I am almost sure they were talking about me. On each of the wopten's backs was strapped baby am convinced now an Indian will never come to church without her