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Evening star., 1945-09-11
Wainwright, Visiting Pentogon,
Signs Papers and Draws Pay

called out, rs everybody here?" and
began to read the citation:
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright,
commanding United States Army
Forces in the Philippines from
March IL to May 7, 1912, distin-
guished himself by intrepid and de-
termined leadership against greatly
superior enemy forces At the re-
peated risk of life above and beyond
the call of duty in his position, he
frequented the firing line of his
troops wehere his presence provided
the example and incentive that
helped make the gallant efforts of
these men possible.
The final stand on beleaguered
Corregidor, for which he was in an
important measure personally re-
sponsible, commanded the admira-
ton of the Nations Allies. 1t re-
f1ected the high morale of American
arms in the face of overwhelming
odds. His courage and resolution
were vitality needed inspiration to
the then sorely pressed freedom
loving peoples of the world"
AS he finished reading the cita-
! ton, President Truman added, 1T
gives me more pleasure than most
anything I've ever done to present
Gen. Wainwright with the Congress
sional Medal of Honor"
Orderly Shakes Generals Hand.
Then T/Sergt. Hubert Carroll, the
generals orderly and only enlisted
man in the party of>liberated with
! the general, stepped forward to
shake Gen. Wsinwright's hand.
If the day was a triumph for Gen.
Wainwright, it was a dream come
true for his wife. They had had a
chance for only one long embrace at
the airport before she had to share
her reunion with hundreds of thou
sands. She watched him from the
galleries of Congress as he spoke
and held his hand in the car as it
moved at a professional pace
through town, but at the press con-
ference he paid her the greatest
tribute
| With her at his side, the general
told of the meeting at the airport
with my beloved wife" Then he
added. Il have waited for many
long months, nearly Az years. since
I have seen her. and I have waited
for that moment"
Refers to Blacked out World.
The general referred several times
during the days speeches to the
"blacked-out world" in which he
lived for more than three years.
Sergt. Carroll illustrated just how
isloated the world of Jap captivity
was when he put a question to
Brig. Gen. Robert N. Young. COM
manding general of the military
district of Washington. who escorted
him during the days reception.
Sergt. Carroll wanted to know
what all those women were doing
with uniforms on. Gen. Young
explained they we're WACs. Sergt
Carroll was surprised but en-
/ thusiaStic.
The Wainwrights will stay at the
Shoreham until early Thursday
when the generals party leaves for
New York and another reception.
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George Expects Arna|I
To Be Solicitor General

Senator George, Democrat, of
Georgia told newsmen today that
he takes it for granted" that Gov.
Ellis Arnall is to become solicitor
general.
"I know he has been offered the
place and / think he is going to take
it, but not before 80 or so days."
Senator George said.
Some question about succession
to the Georgia Governors Office is
understood to be responsible for the
delay.
Senator George discussed the mat
ter with reporters after a conference
with President Truman, but said he
did not take up that subject with
the Chief Executive
Evening star., 1945-09-11
William 7. AIdrich
.0ne Of ; Named 10
Fine Arts Commission

William Truman Aldrich. native
of Washington. now living in Brook
line. Mass, was one of three men,
bers whose appointment to serve on
the National Commission of Fine
Arts has been announced by Presi-
dent Truman.
The other two members appointed
are L. Andrew Reinhard. architect
of New York. and Maurice Sterne
artist, of Mount Kisco, N. Y.
Mr.. Aldrich, who was born Febru-
ary l6, 1880, received his degree ir
architecture from the Massachusetts
Institute OF Technology in 1901 arc
was graduated from the Ecole de,
Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1909.
| A former member of the firm O.
Bellows & Aldrich, Mr.. Aldrich ha.
been in independent practice Of
architecture in Boston since 1923
Among his principal works are tn,
Museum of the Rhode Island Schoo
of Design in Providence and thu
Worcester Mass Art Museum.
An Army captain in the Worle
War, Mr.. Aldrich is a trustee Of
Wellesley College, Northeast Con
servatory of Music, the Museum Of
Fine Arts of Boston, the Rhode Is.
land School of Design and the
American School of Classical Stud.
les in Athens. He also is mem.
ber, among other art associations
of the American Institute of Archi
tects and was decorated a Chevalel
of the Legion of Honor of France.
| Mr.. Aldrich succeeds the late Johr
A. Holabird of Chicago. Mr.. Rein.
hard succeeds william F. Lamb OF
New York, whose term OF service has
expired, and Mr.. Sterne succeeds
Henry Varnum Poor of New York
whose term has also been completed
Evening star., 1945-09-11
; District Navy Men
Arrive Home After
Liberation in Japan

The Washington Navy men came
home from japanese prison camps
today.
Their uniforms didn't fit, they
were extremely thin and their faces
reflected the treatment they re-
ceived from their captors, but all
three wore grins as they climbed
from a Naval Air Transport Serv-
ice plane at the National Airport
this morning.
1t. James w. Condit, %, of 35la
Quesada street NV, torpedo
bomber pilot, couldn't talk much
at first. A smiling wife. a puzzled
3-year-old daughter and beaming
parents kissed and Rugged him re-
peatedly. !
Starved by japanese.
Wartertender lIc Hollis M Scales
%. of 1404 Park road NV, cap
tured in Manila Bay May 6. l942
after japanese shellfire sunk his
patrol craft, the U. S. S. Luzon
had no one to meet him The
Japs didn't do much to him. he
said. just starved him out of 40
pounds in his more than three years
Imprisonment
The third Washingtonian, Avia-
tion Radioman &c Edward C. Cur
tin. 81. OF 223 Bryant street NE.
radioman- gunner in a Helldiver shot
down over Kyushu last March, still
had the scars of burns he received
when enemy antiaircraft fire brought
him down. He lost "a pounds before
the Navy freed him August 30.
1t. Condit suffered more than the
other two, probably because he is
an officer. He didn't know what the
Japs hit him with when they
knocked out one of his front teeth
because was blindfoided."
Shot Down During Raid.
He was shot down during a carrier
strike on Marcus Islands Septem.
Der /. 1943. 1t was his first mission
The plane crashed into the sea
halfway back to the carrier York
town, after Jap antiaircraft crippled
the craft, but 1t. Condit and hi.
two man crew managed to initiate
rubber boats.
| ARM &c Curtin, graduate ol
st. Paul's High School and sailor
for more than two and a half years
rushed home to see his mother ane
/ to ask her If she knew that hel
other son, Marine Pfc. Walter Cur.
tin, was now in Tokyo.
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Field, San Francisco, today His wife
who has been living at 1901 Con-
necticut avenue NV, flew to San
Francisco yesterday to meet him.
Mrs. Drake is the former Maud
Gates of Independence, Mo. and is
first cousin of Mrs. Harry Truman
according to Mrs. Clarence Riner, a
close friend
Wife Lived Here.
Gen. Drake Is native of Brockton.
Mass. His wife came here to live
after she was evacuated from Manila
in l94l. Her last letter from her
husband was dated November, 1914,
Mrs. Riner said. Mrs. Drake lived
for some time with MRS. Riner in
Cabin John, Md.
Gen. Drake is expected first to
visit daughter. Mrs. Douglas Will
liams, in Santa Ana, Calf, and then
to come here, Mrs. Riner said An
other daughter, Mrs. G. B. Green,
lives in Tampa. Fla.
A member of the Wainwright
party. 1t. Col John R. Pugh yes
terday brought additional news OF
her husband to Mrs. Sally Glattly
of 1016 Sixteenth street NV. Col
Harold W. Glattly. chief surgeon of
American forces on Bataan. is COM
ing home soon-maybe Saturday.
according to Col. Pugh, an old
I friend of the Glattlys.
Blond, blue-eyed Mrs. Glattly re-
ceived coded message from Manila
signed by her recently liberated
husband, yesterday morning just be.
fore the Wainwright party arrived
here. The brief message instructed
her to contact Johnny" Pugh i'm
mediately. She caught up with Col
Pugh at the Capitol.
Il was with him at Formosa un-
til February Col. Pugh told her, 81
think he's all right" The two of
flcers were captured together in the
Philippines. Mrs. Glattly's chill.
dren. Robin. Is. Capitol page. ano
daughter, Jan. 18, watched as theil
mother was presented to Gen. Vain.
wright. "the most wonderful person
on earth
Holds Silver Star.
Col. Glattly was attending sur
geon at Walter Reed Hospital be-
! fore the war. He holds the Silver
Star for his work among the wound
ed at Bataan.
Maurice Connor. 1921 @ street
NV. yesterday was assured by the
War Department that his son, Pvt
John NJ Connor, 25-year -olo
Bataan survivor and former Gov.
ernment Printing Office worker, was
! on his way home by ship from 9
japanese camp. Pvt. Connor, 9
former Gonzaga High School ath.
lete, was one of Washington first
! inductees.
Mrs. Helen Newman, 2440 Six.
teenth street NV. wife of 1t. Comdr
S. Arthur Newman, who was taker
when Guam fell in December, 1941
expects her husband home tomorrow
i from Oakland, Calf.
] Sergt. De Shazer at Walter Reed
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|BeIvoir Commander
Is Awarded DSM;
Dutch Honor Five
XXX

Brig. Gen. Lewis T Ross, COM
manding, officer at Fort Belvior, Va.
received the Distinguished Service
Medal yesterday at Fort Belvoir as
five appointments and decorations
in the Order of Orange Nassau from
the Netherlands government were
made and four additional American
honors were given at special re-
treat parade.
Officers receiving the Netherlands
awards, and their appointments and
decorations, were Brig. Gen. Edwin
A. Marks. former commanding Off
Ger of Fort Belvoir and now assigned
at Dallas, Tex, Commander in the
Order of the Orange Nassau; Col.
Lee D. Mark, chief of the DEPART
ment of mechanical and technical
instruction, Engineer School. Off
Ger in the Order of Orange Nassau.
and lst Sergt. C. C. Fowler, now as
signed at Camp Claiborne, La.
Medal of Honor in Gold of the Or
der of Orange Nassau.
Awards of Officer in the Order Of
Orange Nassau were given in ab-
sentia to Col. Joseph S. Gerlinski of
Arlington, Va. and Col. Julian v.
Sollohub of Springfield Center, N. Y.
Both are overseas.
/ Trained Netherlands Unit.
| The Netherlands appointments
said that when the men were called
/ to organize and train the first Meth
erlands Oil Rehabilitation Unit for
overseas duty in 1912 their "faultiess
technical knowledge, sound iudg-
ment and planning contributed
greatly to the war effort of both ma
tons"
! The American awards were given
as follows: Brig. Gen. Beverly c.
Dunn, now on special duty in the
Office of Chief of Engineers, Dis
tinguished Service Medal; Col. Al
bert G. Matthews, chief of Military
Intelligence Division. Office of Chief
of Engineers, Legion of Merit; Col.
Robert R. Herndon. readjustment
section of Office of Chief of Engi-
neers, Bronze Star Medal, and 1t
Col Harry D. Temple, personnel sec
ton of Office of Chief of Engineers.
Bronze Star Medal
The citation for Gen. Ross, a ma
tive of Washington. who was grad
uated from West Point in 1918, stat
ed ''he was responsible for furnish
ing the engineer logistic support for
the widespread military operations
in the Southwest Pacific, together
with construction activities vital to
new base development"
Overcame Many Obstacles.
The citation further said under
his direction the building of roads,
bridges, warehouses. hospitals. air.
strips and port facilities was accom-
plished despite adverse weather con-
ditions. difficulties imposed by ter
rain and shortage of personnel and
equipment" and through his efforts
he achieved fullest possible engi-
neer logistical support of combat OPP
erations.''
The Netherlands awards were pre-
sented to Maj. Gen. A. G. Van Tricht,
Netherlands Army representative to
the combined chiefs of staff in
Washington.
Evening star., 1945-09-11
Mason Gave Key
To Wainwright in
Absence of Younq

1t was incorrectly stated in
yesterdays Star that Commits
sioner John Russell Young pre-
sented the key of the city to
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
at the Monument Grounds.
Commissioner Young, who has
been away from the city several
weeks, was unable to attend and
the key was presented by Com
missioner Guy Mason.
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.2-MiIIionth Servicemon
To Get $100 at Center

The 1000 .000th serviceman is ex-
pected to enter under the flags of
the United Nations Service Center,
500 North Capitol street, tomorrow
morning, it was disclosed today. He
will be presented 500 War Bond
by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works administrator, in a
)rief ceremony at noon.
The center, property of the FWA
and operated by Recreational Serv-
ices, Inc, for the War Hospitality
Committee. has been in operation
less than two years. it was said.
Evening star., 1945-09-11
Victim Locutes Thief

SALT LAKE CITY R.-Keith
Perry, before leaving for Ogden
Utah, told police that suitcase had
been stolen from his parked car. At
Ogden he called at police headquar-
ters. En- route he had picked up two
l7-year-old youths, one of whom was
carrying Mr.. Perry's suitcase.
Evening star., 1945-09-11
Business Association
Will Meet Tonioht

The American Business Associa
ton will hold its first fall meeting
at BIS o'clock tonight at 1917 +
street NV. on the fourth floor.
Guest speaker of the evening viii
be John Clagett Proctor. historical
writer for The Star and acting
president OF the Association of Old.
est Inhabitants.
Vincent c. Walter, nominating
Committee Chairman, will present
the groups slate of officers for the
new year. Refreshments will be
served.
Evening star., 1945-09-11
Minor BIoze Damages
Apartment BuiIdino

The top floor of a rooming house
at 919 Twentieth street NV. wa.
damaged by fire early today.
The fire occurred in an apart.
ment occupied by Miss Lucille Las.
sitter, Government employe, &C.
cording to police. She was absent
at the time. The damage was re.
stricted to furniture. and the walls
police said
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pital after three
years of starva-
tion as a Jap
prisoner, said he
wanted to return
to Japan as a
missionary.
Brig. &c n
Charles C. Drake.
quartermaster of
the forces in the
Philippines be-
fore the fall of
Bataan, has been
liberated and is
expected to ar
rive by airplane
Evening star., 1945-09-11

Five more Washington men, re-
Gently liberated from japanese
prisoner of war camps, were on the
way home to their happy families
today
Meanwhile, Sergt Jacob DeShazer,
now a patient at Walter Reed Hos
Evening star., 1945-09-11
fDlC Directors Confirmed

The Senate yesterday confirmed
the nominations of Leo T. Crowley,
Wisconsin, and Phillips L. Colds
borough, Maryland, to membership
on the Board of Directors of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Evening star., 1945-09-11
n D. c. Men to Report
Today for Induction

A group of % District men have
been ordered to report for induction
into the armed forces today. They
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tried to argue with an earthquake
as with these rare but terrible re-
hvings Of the days when she had
been put to the torture. Every time
she thought it would be the last.
But a year later, or two or three
years later, some occurrence too
small to be otherwise noticed would
stir up the fire that she had been so
sure was finally out. There was no
escaping it; that day came back as
though it had been that day and
not this that she was living in. !
Tt was such a cool, shining day,
the trees reddening, and it seemed
that nearly every house in Tulsa had
flag ripping from its front porch.
After spending the day rolling band
ages at the Red Cross headquarters,
Elizabeth came home with her knit
ting-bag on her arm. There was
very little she could do to win the
war, but il knitting sweaters and
rolling miles of bandage was of any
value she was glad to do it. ANY,
thing that might shorten the war by
five minutes would bring Arthur
back that much sooner, and for five
minutes more of his presence she
would give up all the years she had
to spend without him. She ran up
the steps, singing. 1t was a silly
song, but everybody was singing it
about that time, I'D like to see the
Kaiser with a lily in his hand" !"
Their little house welcomed her
brightly as she ran in. She and Ar
thur had lived here for the year be-
fore he went to the army, and she
now shared 1t with girl friend who
was releasing a man for war by
working for the telephone company.
As she opened the door the sun
fell in a long rectangle on the floor
of the hall. Dropping her knitting
bag on q chair Elizabeth turned by
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blank but for note reminding her
self of an appointment with the hair
dresser. She was scribbling "Kess-
ler to dinner $780," when the date
at the bottom Of the page leaped up
at her. and struck her and glared
at her and made her start backward
to put the calendar down quickly.
but she could still see the date and
she put her arm over her eyes as
though by doing that she could shut
it out of sight of her mind. October
s, 1912. Her imagination was max
ing such fierce effort to adjust it
self that even with her eyes covered
she could still see it, October 6, 1912.
For though the figures did not re-
semble each other, there had been
fraction of second when by some
trick Of the light or Of her own mind
1t had looked like October 6, 1918.
And now all her power of will and
reason was insufficient TO hold her
back from the shadow into which
she was slipping, into which she still
went down once every two or three
years In spite of her full life and
happy marriage, impelled each time
by some trivial incident that had no
connection with the pain it brought.
October 6, 1912. October 6, 1918.
Twenty-four years. She tried to stop
1t, but nothing she had learned in
her lifetime could stop this darkness
once 1t began to close around her.
She was remembering that day,
and nothing she could do or think of
could make her stop remembering.
1t was just about this time in the
afternoon, and the autumn sun COM
ing in by the front door glittered
through the han and fell on the yell
low telegram she held in her hand,
with its letters blue-black against the
shining sheet OF paper. a.. regrets
to inform you Sergeant Arthur
Kittredge killed ;"
There was no reason for this, Eliz-
abeth was telling herself angrily.
She had fought and conquered it
years ago, she had rebuilt her life
in the knowledge that she had con-
quered 1t, she was perfectly ra-
tional woman and very happy one,
there was no reason why every now
and then some incident of no impor-
tance should strike her down and
leave her as she was now, quivering
under an assault of pain. Lying on
the chaise-longue. her arms crossed
over her eyes and her hands press
ing against her temples, she fought
it with all the strength she had. But
it did no good and she had known it
would not. She might as well have
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SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER /: Spratt Herlong was q
major producer Of motion pictures. He
called Elizabeth. his wife. to Join him
at lunch. Elizabeth knew that something
was not going right at the studio and
that her husband desired her presence.
more to talk to her than 10 receive any
real assistance.
CHAPTER II: At the start of World
War I. Elizabeth had married. Her hus-
band soon sailed for France and later
was reported killed in action. Spratt was
her second husband. This memory al
ways returned when she thought Of Dick
going To war.
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purpose with Greding and two other
men engaged in maintenance work as
the only ones not directly connected
with the atomic bomb project. Last
February the B-29 crews went to the
Caribbean sea for further training in
bomb teachnique before being sent
to Japan.
DR.. v. H. Altman knows his onions
or to be more exact, knows how to
raise them, as was proven by an ex-
hibit in the News window the first
of the week of dozen onions raised
on the Altman farm south of town on
the Dixie highway which tipped the
scales at IL pounds. Besides his du-
ties as superintendent of the Sam
dusky conference of the United Bre-
thren church he also qualities as a
successful farmer.
Ann Marie Schafer, 9 months old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Scha-
fer of Leipsic will in coming years
treasure Dutch doll she received this
week from her uncle, Pfc. Vincent
Habeggar who is now in Germany.
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| jHExrxO

The doll was exhibited in the News
window Monday.
Those patches of white cotton bats
that look like Santa Claus beard ap-
pearing on screen doors are the lat
est idea for keeping flies away.
There's nothing on it no anti-fly pre-
paration of any kind but those who
have used it say it really works and
also keeps mosquitoes away from the
door. Sounds goofy-and we're skep-
tical-but just the same we are going
to try it.
Pfc. Karl Gable now in Germany
who was painter before he went to
the Army is pinch-hitting as a car
penter, according to the newspaper
Blood and Fire., published by the
63rd Division. A recent issue of the
publication states that Karl did the
carpenter work on large sign mark
ing the athletic field used by his
company.
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to prove it, Albert Vermillion put
four ears on exhibit in the News
window. They measure from 9is to
II inches and are the run of the
field with no special effort to select
good specimens, Albert said.
And drought or no drought, it
didn't interfere with a plentiful sup
ply of strawberries which the Fay
Ishams of Mound street have enjoy
ed all summer which is especially
notable since this year the straw
berry crop was the shortest in many
seasons.
DR.. J. ]. Suffer, former Bluffton
physician now health commissioner
of Wayne county who stopped in
town Saturday said Wooster had a
good rain on Friday night. How
ever, Wayne county farm crops have
suffered from lack of moisture, to-
gether with other portions of north
eastern Ohio. DR.. Sutter recently
resigned his position as health COM
missioner, effective as soon as a
replacement can be found and ex-
poets to move to Lima.
Frank d. Anderson, former mana
ger of the Gray & White cream
station here just back from fishing
trip at Tippecanoe Lake near CO.
lumbia City in northern Indiana says
the corn there is green and flourish
ing as the result of plenty of rain
fall and promises a good crop.
With last Saturday one of the
hottest days of the summer, old
timers were recalling the big freeze
of September s, 1883 when this
section was hit by one of the most
devastating frosts in its history. 1t
was so severe that leaves on the
trees were frozen. The corn crop
was ruined-and to make matters
worse many farmers that year had
planted seed corn from Kansas
which required a longer growing
season than the native Ohio varie-
ties. An extra good hay crop that
year together with what could be
salvaged from the stand of corn
provided livestock feed for the
winter.
California climate-beautiful and
hot is the description by Mrs. Edgar
Neuenschwander formerly of Bluffton.
The Neuenschwander family recent
ly moved from Saginaw, Mich, to
Huntington Park, Calf.
Aaron Messenger, veteran school
bus driver, who has been wanting to
resign for the past several years is
dt HIS pO5I-OT TdlIlST dL Ills WIiCGl
again with the beginning of school.
Word of Aaron's impending resigna-
ton got around last summer and a
petition signed by all of the parents
of school-age children on his route
asking him to continue finally kept
him on the job for another year. Dur
ing all the time he has driven a bus
he has never had an accident.
Pictures of the B-29 crews whc
staged the atomic bomb raids on Jap
an contained a lot of familiar faces
for Sgt. Raymond Greding, now in
France. Fact is, that the B-29 crews
did a lot of training for the atomic
bomb work at Wendover Field, Utah,
where the Bluffton man was stationed.
From last November until February
the field was used exclusively for the