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down to the paper. 1t was big enough for
nice long letter from home, suit of summer
underwear and razor. us it far to the Golden
Glow Country Club?" he said
I'll COULD take you two ways" told him
with the utmost frankness. "One way hits
all the red lights and detour. The meter
op that runs about two-fifty. The other wayl
stand you about buck sixty-6ve."
SIS there bus?"
l might have dumped the guy then and
there But didn't Don't ask me why. May
be it was the uniform. I'm sensitive. When
fare gives me that why-weren' t-you-in-the-
Army look, can't take off my vici kid and
show him what happens to set of toes when
an automobile jack lets 60. Anyway, instead
of giving him the brush, and before know
what I'm doing l come up with an idea:
1--WE have a spare bedroom, Mac. 1t amt
the Ritz But it's clean And there's only my
old man and my sister l own my own hack.
III be tooling out to the tournament and back
all the time. Call it room and ride for two
bucks a day.. Well?'
Il couldn't impose - l mean you are aw-
fully kind -" he stammers.
Take it or leave it," says briskly.
Then he smiled - like a puppy that has
found friend. Know what mean?
am just about to open the door of the
cab when hear voice: Taxi
twisted my head and there he was In tan
gabardine pants, fancy brown sports coat.
snap brim and ALL Behind him a strictly
glossy dame and redcap dripping bags and
boxes. ''Mr. Sunderland!' shouted.
Benny Sunderland won the first Golden
Glow Tournament drove him out to Moons
the first morning. Because of the transporta-
ton shortage, he fixed it so Id see that he got
out and back to the golf course every day
of the tournament On account of this am
getting to know him intimately.
We'll are we in luck!" Benny bubbled to
the dame The best cab and the best driver
in town. Gloria, our transportation problems
are settled. Mouthy Noonan, meet my wife.
Gloria, meet Mouthy."
GLORIA gave me two seconds of her front
teeth and slight shudder, and says, How
nice!
Mrs S. is here to collect her percent
age" Benny explained to me with smile.
Il get new mink coat if he wins" this
Gloria explains. with the first real animation
she has yet displayed
The redcap has the cab door open. "Okay.
let's CO." Benny was saying. Then he no.
ticed the soldier: "You got fare?"
The soldier stopped down and started to
pick up his bag. Hey wait" l says. Then
to Benny: This guy is here to play in the
tournament also" l winked, 50 Benny'd
know there was nothing personal about the
guy Hes staying at my house because of
Evening star., 1945-09-30

HERE is what the newspaper guy says the
morning after the tournament: Private
Ethan Allen Carter will probably never get
anywhere in standard medal professional
play, where the total number of strokes de-
eide championship; but his grim delibera-
ton, which seemed to exclude the outer world
for hours at time, is competitive weapon
in match play the like of which has not been
seen in these golfng parts since the days of
Harry Vardon's pipe"
Not that get chance to show Sheila all
this expert evidence of what happened until
several days later. In the first place, have
to drive Benny and his wife back to the hotel
after the final match; and, Mac, was that
some hunk of hacking!
Now I'm not saying that Benny is a good
loser And maybe he does like himself too
much. But does that mean he has to sit back
and take it while some dame who happens
to be his wife says: 80 nerves and golf don't
Continued on poge Is
Evening star., 1945-11-30

(Lett to Right
ROYAL ALL WOOL
robe. blue or maroon
with contrasting collar
and belt ------lo.95
SCOTCH PLAID oil
wool robe with slash
pocket, shawl collar,
sosh beft-------25.O0
"MIRON" FLANNEL,
very lightweight i'm
ported virgin wool in
blue or maroon with
contrasting piping
90
R AVON F FAILLE
LOUNGING 6 jacket,
blue or maroon with
contrasting belt and
collar. Fully lined,
BROCADED RAYON
robe, fully lined, with
frineed sosh> belt. Blue
or maroon ----19.95
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Wiekard's Mother Dies

8 LoGANSPoRT, Ind. Jan. 5
lNSl Funeral services were be-
ing arranged today for Mrs. Nora
Wickard, 20, mother of Secretary
OF Agriculture Wickard, who died
at her farm home in Carroll
County.
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Belgian Journalist
To Talk Thursday

Betty Barzin. prominent Belgian
journalist. speaks next Thursday
night at McGregor Library, 1924
Woodward, Highland Park. Her
is sponsored by the
Detroit Branch OF the Belgian
War Relief Society.
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Evening star., 1945-01-07
Philippine Isles
Looked Familiar
To Avenqer Pilot

To. 1t. Melville Lc Combte, 33, o1
1927 Holbrook street NE, pilot of a
NavysAyenger torpedo bomber plane
the storming of the Philippines at
Leyte was something of a home
coming.
1.-THE islands certainly looked
familiar from the air." he said. He
served with the Asiatic and Yangtse
patrols during the prewar days o1
japanese incidents" Navy dis
patch reported.
1t. LIE Combte has participated ir
Torpedo Squadron 8's record
breaking 954 combat missions IN a
total of 1,G85 sorties in eight months
1t. LIE. Combte recalled that CT
the first and last trip in a plane
No. 13 he managed to get "dunked.
The first time the motor went dead
On the last trip his torpedo gea:
jammed and his mates wanted nc
part of the landing on our nice car
rier with the torpedo apt to fall
loose any minute"
Evening star., 1945-01-07
DC. WOMEN
IN UNIFORM

+ X A N & L IurpI. Wlnltreu
Thompson, l104 Twelfth street NV.
and Pvt. Edith M. Quinn, 4l03 Third
road, Arlington. are among the
group recently organized as the first
all-WAC traffic regulating outfit in
the European theater.
Second 1t. Helen M. Finks, 1861
Gales street NE, was a member Of
the nurse staff of an advanced Army
hospital in France that was COM
mended for its outstanding work
under trying circumstances" by Col
Henry S. Murphey, commanding
officer of the hospital.
The nurses arrived at the hospital
only nine days after the Nazis had
been driven out.
LEDO ROAD.-First 1t. Jenny
sMensh, 2022 Klingle road NV, has
been stationed in the China-In India
Burma theater for the past 16
months with the Army Nurse Corps
Lit. Mensh is assigned to a hospital
unit located along this military
highway through Burma from India
to China. She has experienced the
monsoon, heat, mud and mosquitoes.
The nurses living quarters are
crude bamboo bashas at the edge
of jungle.
Lit. Mensh is a graduate of the
school of nursing at the City Hos
pital, Welfare Island, N. Y. She
entered the Army August Is, 1912,
and received training in this country
at Camps Polk and Claiborne, both
in Louisiana.
ENGLAND.-Pfc. Bessie McCul-
laugh, daughter of Mrs. Ida McCul-
laugh, 1405 Quebec street NV, is
on duty at an 9th Air Force unit
headquarters in England as a tele-
phone operator.
Second 1t. Madaleina Labofsh,
1400 Seventeenth street NV, is in
charge of an orthopedic ward at an
Army hospital. She supervises pa
tients and ward personnel, in addi-
ton to maintaining records.
Lit. Labofish was graduated from
Gallinger Hospital School of Nurs-
ing in 1914 and entered the Army
Nurse Corps shortly afterward. Her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Labo-
fish, live at the Seventeenth street
address
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Vir-
ginia Howell, 1862 N street NV,
has been commissioned a lieutenant
Gunior grade) in the WAVES and
assigned to duty under the chief of
naval personnel at the Navy Depart
ment in Washington.
1t. Howell attended Radcliffe Col
lege, University of Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvania State Teachers Col
lege. She was employed at the
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Crossing Equator
Is Ordeal for
D. C.. Printer

Chief Printer Edwin L. Murray,
U. S. N. R., 572l Ninth street NV,
formerly employed in the composing
room of The Evening Star, was in
Quoted into the Ancient Order of
the Deep" while crossing the equator
in the Pacific recently. He was
hailed before King Neptune's court
on special charges of selling She'll
back certificates to ''pollywogs" (ne-
ophites of the order) and mot
maintaining the proper and meek
demeanor of chief petty officer
pollywog"
In addition to regulation punish
ment, such as wetting from the Pa
cific Holy Hose and paddlings by
the Royal Guard, he was prodded
with an electric fork by the Royal
Devil while being padded hard by
the Kings Elite Cops, he wrote in
letter. The most spectacular of the
punishments was a severe haircut,
administered at various points along
the gantlet of paddle wielders.
Later, Murray was dumped back
ward into the Royal Pacific Pool,
three times unceremoniously ducked
and finally sent down a creased
chute to the deck, padded the while
by veteran Shellbacks.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Wilets Given Medals
For Aiding Air. borne
Invasions of Burma

Staff Sergt. Chester A. Willets. ir.,
lo3 West Grant avenue, Takoma
Park, Md, pilot in a haison plane
squadron, has received the Distin-
guished Flying Cross and the Air
Medal for ''meritorious service with
a group that operated with Gen.
Wingate and Col. Cochran in their
spectacular air-borne invasion be-
hind the enemy lines" Sergt. Will
lets now is in the India Burma Sec
tor
The Distinguished Flying Cross
has been awarded two other Wash
lngton area men. They are:
First 1t. Angelo F. Elmo, 25, 1903
Kennedy street, HyattSville, Md,
B-24 pilot. now in Burma.
Capt, William E. Chickering, jr..
%. Lightning fighter bomber pilot,
son of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. w. E.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Marines Ice Cream
Dreams Come True

SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
Delayed. - While Marine Pfc
George A Cavano. 20, OF Arlington
Va, was at the front on Guam for
"a consecutive days, he often
thought of ice cream.
Recently his dreams came true
when he took part in the opening OF
an American Red Cross recreation
center at a Marine transient camp
somewhere in the Pacific" Pretty
Red Cross girls in crisp, blue uni
| forms saw to it that he felt at home
in the large recreation center. He
got all the ice cream and cake he
wanted.
Pvt. Cavano landed with tbs
third wave, as radio operator. On
the second day of the fighting his
unit captured the Pitt Navy Yaro
and then advanced inland Three
days after organized resistance
ceased on Guam, Pvt. Cavano was
evacuated with dengue fever.
| He is also veteran of the
Bougainville campaign.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Chance Prevents Capture
OF Machine Gunner

Pvt. Norton Brodofsky, 1923 M
street NV, would have been cap
tured by the Germans, if his platoon
sergeant hadn't suddenly ordered
him to another post, a 5th Army
dispatch said.
In machine-gun squad in the
9th Armored Infantry Battalion in
Italy, Pvt. Brodofsky and his squad
were in a house on the edge of q
small town when his platoon SER
geant moved him to another house
That night the Germans raidec
the town after two-hour artillery
barrage. In his new house, Pvt
Brodofsky fought for three hours
the dispatch said, before the Ameri-
cans drove the Germans away. After
the fight, Pvt. Brodofsky found al
other members of his machine-gur
squad had been captured.
Evening star., 1945-01-07


head against counterattacks." =" Capt
Curtiss also holds the Purple Heart
for slight shell wounds received on
September 25, it was said.
Mai. Wafer was responsible for
the preparation of all acquisitions
for signal supplies to be used for
the ambhibious landings and spe-
cial projects coincident with the
operations in North Africa, Italy
and Southern France from Febru-
ary / to August 18, 1914, the cita-
ton said.
1t. Rigg was decorated tor
"meritoriouS performance of duty as
commanding officer of U. S. S. Lei
OD SO during the assault on the
beaches of Normandy on June E.
He maneuvered his ship and affected
a Bleaching during heavy artillery
and mortar fire, and at time when
the hazards we're such that other
ships were ordered to delay their
beachings," the citation said.
Air Medal Awards.
The Air Medal has been presented
to the following:
First 1t. Pauline B. Curry, flight
nurse, 2700 Wisconsin avenue NV.
now in India.
Sergt. Walter r. Benedict, jr.
pilot with liaison-plane squadron
1918 H street NV, now in Burma
Staff Sergt. Wilson E. Bongers
Evening star., 1945-01-07

Un1e ol CIVILIAN Defense as the
assistant chief of the allocations
unit before entering the service
Ruth Christine Yoke. 402 Rose
mary street, Chevy Chase, Md, was
ordered to attend another naval
training school here upon her COM
mission as an ensign in the WAVES.
Ensign Yoke received her B. A.
degree from Pennsylvania State Col
lege and was employed at the De-
partment of Agriculture prior to
entering the service. Her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Stanford Yoke,
live at the Chevy Chase address.
CAMP BRECKENRIDGE, KY
Helen V. Gould, 1908 Sherman ave-
nue. NV, has been promoted to
technician (f1fth grade). She is a
member of the 1570th Service Unit
at Camp Breckenridge with the
WAC.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-Pvt.
Elizabeth Y. Suverkrop, daughter OF
Mrs. Mary B. Young. 1912 High
land place NV, followed her two
sons into the service when she en-
listed in the WAC in October. War
service is nothing new to Pvt. Suver-
'krop who sang at Army camps
during the World War. She is a
former employe of the Bureau of
Standards.
FAIRFIELD, Pa.-Pvt. Irene Ma
loukos, $40 Newton place NV, has
been assigned to duty at this Air
Transport Command air base. A
graduate of Roosevelt High School,
Pvt. Maloukos was formerly en-
ployed as an engineer draftsman's s
aid.
BRONX, N. Y.-Seaman (second
class Jacqueline Boggs, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. Boggs,
1909 Taylor street NE, has COM
pleted her basic training at the
Naval Training School here and
has been ordered to report for
further instruction at Newport. R. I
FORT WORTH, Tex. - Ruth
Darby, pharmacists mate third
class, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward E. Darby, 3811 Fulton street
NV, is on duty in the Station Dis
pensary at the Marine Corps Air
Station here.
AUSTRALIANS J. Rassin,
400 Georgia avenue NV, has been
promoted to technician, fifth grade,
in the WAC. She is attached to
the information and education sec
ton at a higher headquarters of
the Army. A graduate of Roosevelt
High School, Corpl. Rassin has been
overseas since last June.
Technician (Fifth Grade) Doris J.
La Marche, 2Ol4 Thirty
street Sc. is on detached service in
New Guinea.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Mai. Hanson Makes War
On Mountain Goats

Marine Maj. Arthur B. Hanson,
%, of Bethesda, Md, has earned a
reputation as a mighty hunter OF
goats, as we'll as of Japs, according
to dispatch from Tech. Sergt. Dick
Tennelly, Marine combat CORE
Ispondent and former Washington
reporter.
Mai. Hanson and his party OF 80
marines, supplied by plane and light
equipment, clambered over trails
previously untraveled by humans
and in five days slew 3l9 mountain
goats which were running pasturage
for cattle.
Six of the marines became sep
arated from the main party and had
to spend two days and nights with
out food or water-until they killed
a goat.
Maj. Hanson, son of the attorney,
Elisha Hanson, was graduated from
Episcopal High School, Alexandria,
and William and Mary College. He
is a member of the Virginia bar and
the bar of the United States Su-
preme Court. His wife, Jane, lives
with his parents at 940l Old George
town road, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
els in New Delhi Enjoy
De Luxe Personal Service

Thanks to native bearers" Amer
ican soldiers in New Delhi, India,
enjoy luxury laundry and shoe
shining service, Sergt. James t. Nc
Ilwee, "a, writes.
In letters to his mother, Mrs.
Branson G. McIlwee, SIT Peabody
street NV, Sergt. McIlwee said his
barracks sported electric lights and
ice water. The bearers" make their
beds, sweep, shine their shoes and
perform other little duties which
raise the doughboy's routine closer
to that of a high-ranking officer.
Sergt. McIlwee, Corps of Engi-
neers, does secretarial work in the
executive Office of headquarters. R
was pleased. he wrote, to discover
1t. Gen. Dan L. Sultan, former Engi-
neer Commissioner for the District,
works in an Office across the hall.
Gen. Sultan is now head OF the
India Burma theater of operations.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

on new meaning for we who had
been adopted into the family of God.
1t gave additional courage to those
who had chosen to be known as
children of God. Separated from
home, homesick and longing for the
sound of tender voices, we were re-
minded afresh that really we we're
not away from home-childrep Of
God, initiated into His family
through the rite of baptism, and
wherever His children are, there is
the loving Father.
''Twenty-one men kneeled in a
'semicircle tC receive the application
of water in the name of the Father,
and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost. AS each mans name was
pronounced the water was placed
upon his head one couldn't help but
think of the many prayers that were
being answered. Here was the fruit
age of all those influences which
draw men to the foot of the cross.
Here in Gods open church men
were not ashamed to own Christ as
Lord and Savior.
One of those baptized summed
up the SacredneSs of the service
when he told me weeks later, chap
lain, l had feeling as the water
was applied on my head and ran
down my face that l never wanted
it to dry so that it would be con-
.stant reminder of the VOWS I had
taken
Darkness threw about us its
cloak of privacy and we were re-
turned to our bivouac areas with
the words ringing in our ears-bap-
tized in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost"
Chaplain Bear preached at the
Presbyterian Church in Herndon for
five years before he received his
Army appointment in 1943.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Leyte invader Returns
To Scene of Boyhood

LEYTE, Philippine Islands De-
layed A former Washington man
recently returned to the Philippines
for the first time since boyhood, as
crew member of a marine COM
mando transport-the first plane to
land here with Leatherneck person.
mel.
Son of missionaries, he is Marine
Tech, Sergt. John B. White, who
spent several years in the Philip
pines as youth,
His sister, Mrs. Placidia Field
lives at 3018 Dumbarton avenue.
Sergt. Whites transport, acting as
mother ship, ferried the bat
Eye" unit of marine night fighters
from rear base TO Leyte.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Hospital Near Naples
Aids Many Patients

Five District men were listed as
members of the staff of the 23d
General Hospital, which is given
credit for taking care of 29,362
patients III 10 months operation
near Naples-thousands more than
any other general hospital in Italy
a 9th Army group dispatch from
France stated.
Outstanding work and research
have been carried on in the treat
ment Of hepatitis and jaundice
prevention and care of trenchfoot
and other aspects O. medicine and
surgery, it was said. The men are
Col. John G.. Knauer, command
ing officer, BIT Whittier place NV :
! Tech. Serg5. Charlie R. Bagley, 1851
Piney Branch road NV; Pvts. zoe
S. True. 1920 North Capitol street
and Irving B. Appelbaum, 400d
Kansas avenue NE, and Corpl
Harold b. Gross, 1445 Ogden
street NV.
BY August of this year the hos
pital occupied 256 buildings, huts
and tents, with 100 wards, conva
lescent camp and total capacity
for 3,400 patients.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
D. c. BugIer Is Popular
At Least Once q Month

Corpl. William T. Rawlings isn't
very popular early in the morning,
Reason: He's the company bugler.
But they like to hear me at least
once a month"; Corpl. Rawlings
said. That's when I call them to
the pay line
In addition to his job as bugler,
Corpl. Rawlings is calker, helping
his port marine maintenance COM
lpany repair ships.
He has been in England and
France for six months. Before en-
tering the Army three and a half
years ago he worked in a shipyard
at Fort Story, Va. His wife, Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Rawlings, lives at
2l55 L street NV.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
D. 6. Lieutenant Leeds
Patrol to Kill 5 Jups

1t John Mccarthy, 1915 Seven
teenth street NV, led his field
artillery service battery on an i'm
promptu patrol which netted the
IL Americans five dead Japs dur
ing the fighting in the Philippines
A native Filipino woman astride
a clumsy water buffalo warned that
the Japs were near. AS soon as
her excited message was under
stood the group started out in the
first patrol for any of the men in
the outf1t-and within an hour the
Japs were shot.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Medic Aids in Rescue
of Wounded Engineers

ITALY-Pfc. William B. Russell
of Valley Lee, Maryland, aided in
the rescue of rs wounded engineers
after German shell dropped in a
bivouac area opposite the rear COM
mand post of his medical collecting
company of the 88th Blue Devil"
Division on the 5th Army front.
Grabbing litters and aid kits, the
medics raced out to find the shells
had landed in the area across the
road, killing two engineers and
wounding 26.
Although another shell hit, stun
ming several of the rescuers, they
continued their work and treated
and evacuated all the casualties. r
Evening star., 1945-01-07
D. {. Gunner Can't Dive
Into FoxhoIe Durinq Raids

When Jap planes swarm the sky
every one ducks for his foxhole-ex-
cept the antiaircraft crews.
Pfc. William K. Tiff, 1747 H street
NV, member of an antiaircraft
battery, has stayed above ground and
slugged it oht with the Jap planes
for we'll over 200 raids while defend
ing an air strip on Leyte,- according
to lst Cavalry Division dispatch.
One night the Japs came over 81
times. A bomb landed directly in q
gun pit, demolishing it and killing
one man. Two other bombs landed
in pits. but did not explode During
this period Pvt, Tifft's job was tt
sight through the 40-mm antiaircrafr
gun director and target in" the
planes. His battery accounted fol
four Jap planes.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Falls Church Soldier
Handles Nozi Prisoners

Pvt. Frank A. Taylor. TIC Great
Falls street, Falls Church, Va, took
part in the exchange of American
and German prisoners recently and
wrote that it was swell to see our
fellows free"
A military policeman, Pvt. Taylor
has been guarding German pris-
oners since the first prisoners from
Rommell's Afrika Corps were
brought to America. He has crossed
the Atlantic five times since D day
and the English Channel twice. He
is now in France escorting to rear
areas the Germans who have been
captured by American forces, His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Frank
Taylor, live at the Falls Church
address.