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Evening star., 1945-03-08
Coast Guard Photo.

| Virtually all, however, had accom-
panied the ship participating in the
recent battle to liquidate Nazi
weather ships and stations along
the northeast coast of Greenland
only a few hundred miles south of
the North Pole. They handled
themselves like veterans.
AS the work gained headway, the
boatswain's pipe went again over
the loudspeakers, followed by
orders calling up the specialists
the electronics and sound experts,
the cooks, messboys and helpers.
Stragglers on the Double.
This brought out a handful of
stragglers on the double.
Here come the feather mer-
chants" grinned a 17-year -old from
Boston, turning to a new arrival.
Sorry to turn you out of that warm
sack. cousin" he said, "it was softer
than this ice, wasn't it? Not that
I blame you. If I'd listened to my
mother I'd be home in my sack
right now"
What the hell are you doing out
here then?" demanded the other.
We'll, it's long story" grinned
the kid, hauling into the lea of the
deckhouse to rip off his gloves and
clap his hands together.
But the boatswain's pipe inter-
rupted him.
Hear this; now hear this! Sc
cure ice-breaking party; secure ice
breaking party! Get below for
chow; get below ="
Pipe down, cousin" shouted the
kid from Boston against the wind,
pipe down, and we heard you
the first time!"
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Prosecution Is Urged
In Theater Ceiling Fall

In a report on the Mid City
Theater ceiling collapse, Brig. Gen
John w. Oehmann, director Of the
District, today asked the District
Commissioners to recommend that
the corporation counsel's Office in
|stitute prosecution on grounds a
permit was not obtained in making
acoustical improvements which are
believed to have caused the accident.
Twenty persons were hurt by fall
ing debris when the metal ceiling
|of the theater, at 1928 Seventh street
NV, caved in last Saturday night.
The repairs to the theater included
the addition of the metal ceiling to
an already overburdened load, it
was said.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Unfit Bacon Sale
Costs Dealer $50

The sale of bacon unfit for hu.
man consumption" cost Leslie E
Young of the Economy Market. 1901
H street NE, $50 in Municipal Court
yesterday.
The fine was imposed by Judge
John P. Mcmahon after M. w
Moore, Health Department inspec-
tor, exhibited bacon he said he pur-
chased at the store February 16, and
which was found to be mouldy in an
analysis at the department that day
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Guy Wilton Of Arlington
Dies While on Sea Duty

Guy Wilton, ~, Of 1901 N. Irving
street, Arlington, Va, died while
serving with the Merchant Marine
on ship in the Persian Gulf, it was
learned today.
Mr. Wilton was born in Columbus,
OhiQ, and came to Washington in
1887. He was working for the Man.
haitian Laundry Co. in the District
at the time he entered the Merchant
Marine in July, 1913. He subse-
quently made trips to Russia, Eng
land and France. He was on the
Normandy beachhead during the
invasion last summer.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Anne Wilton, and 2-year-old
daughter, Sandra, both of Arlington.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Col. Hartsock Dies;
Served Al Years in
Army Medical Corps

Col. Frederick MacGregor Hart
sock, SO, of 3817 Calvert street NV,
for Al years a member of the Army
Medical Corps until his retirement
in 1889, died yesterday at his home
after brief illness.
Col. Hartsock was born in Fred
erick, Md, and was a graduate of
Central High School here. He was
an honor man in his class at George
Washington University School of
Medicine, enlisting soon after his
graduation in the Medical Corps and
serving during the Spanish -Ameri-
can War. He was in the Philippines
during the insurrection and later
was attached to the American En-
bassy at Peking, China Col. Hart
sock subsequently took additional
medical work at the University of
Vienna and at Harvard University.
From 1880 to 1884 Col. Hartsock
was chief surgeon at Soldiers Home
here. He did research on cancer at
the time, many of his papers ap-
pearing in the Journal of the Mill
tary Surgeon. He was stationed at
Fort Monroe, Va, as chief surgeon
from 1884 until his retirement in
1889, when he returned to Washing
ton to live.
Col. Harstock was fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, a
member of the American Medical
Association and the George Wash
ington University Alumni Associa-
ton.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Helen Hartsock; a daughter, Mrs.
Charles K. KENNEL; two sons,
Frederick B. Hartsock, senior at
George Washington School of Medi-
cine, and Sergt. Richard NJ Hart
sock, now with the 9Th Army in
Germany, and granddaughter,
Kathleen KENNEL of Washington.
Private funeral services will be
held at II am. tomorrow, at Fort
Myer Chapel Burial will be in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

1 ABOAtGD A FAlhOL IUNbOA1
OFF GREENLAND (DelayeO -
Chopping ice off an icebreaker roll
ling in freezing gale may be a
Igood workout before chow. but
there's no future in it for a be-
Iginner.
Even the bos'n whose shrill pipe
over the loud-speakers broke the
crew out of their sacks before dawn
today was willing to admit as much
later, but there was no hint of
solicitude in his orders booming
through the ship:
Hear this; now hear this! Up all
hands; up all hands! To break ice
on the fo'csle; to break ice on the
fo'csle!"
Not too many of the crew were
asleep anyhow, especially those on
top hunks with quite a way to fall
if the ship had rolled them out.
Speaking for myself, I had spent
the night scrubbing back and forth
under my blankets trying to keep
one knee hooked under the guard
rail.
Powerful New Unit.
This powerful new Coast Guard
unit of the North Atlantic Fleet, in
addition to its function as a gun
boat. has a round hull designed
to plow through ice instead of the
open sea, and has no stabilizing fins
that might carry away in the ice
pack Every little bit of unsecured
gear aboard will clatter and bang as
long as waves run high.
All hands, or most of them any
how, followed by this spectator,
stumbled into foul weather gear
and skidded out on the icy deck.
The workingmen carried heavy
wooden mallets or snow shovels as
they spread over the bow, clutching
at the swaying, coated life lines.
The bow alternately scooped the
tops off the combers or drove
through them in plumes of spray
reaching up to the bridge. It made
quite picture in the chill dawn
light.
The forward turret guns were
frosted and draped with. icicles
cracking away in the gale, and the
whole forward section was festooned
with ice patterns some eight inches
thick 1t was just another winter
morning on the North Atlantic for
the old salts, but their ship this
morning to closely resembled a wal
lowing iceberg for the comfort of a
landlubber.
Work in Freezing Spray.
Working in freezing spray that
coated their boots, parkas and gloves,
the men slipped and skidded over
guns and superstructure, or grabbed
at their mates who now and then
spun by toward the rail on the
fitting deck. Many of the crew were
from California, where the ship was
built and commissioned; others
among the several hundred on board
represented almost every State.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Russia
Continued From First Page J

S.t
and were only II or IL miles south
of Stettin.
The Russians last night an
nounced advances to places within
13 miles northeast of Stettin.
Farther north they had pushed
even closer. After capturing Ste
penitz, Gollnow and Massow, they
reached the narrow canalized sec
ton of the Oder linking Dammscher
Lake and Stettin Bay
Berlin reported that the Russians
had invaded Violin, first of the
steppingstone islands separating
the bay from the Baltic Sea. Mos
COW dispatches said reconnaissance
patrols were believed to have
reached the island and that prep
arations were under way to storm it
Many Cleanup Battles.
Scores of cleanup battles were be-
ing fought eastward along the Baltic
where up to 100000 Germans have
been encircled in Pomerania, Danzie
and the old Polish Corridor, ano
Berlin said there was a terrific
bloodletting" in these fights.
Moscow dispatches said the rem
nants of half a dozen German divi-
sions were cornered in by-passed
Kolberg on the Baltic. Berlin said
the Russians had broken into the
city.
Polish-born Marshal Konstantin
Rokossovsky was reported from
Moscow to have reached positions
about 10 miles southwest of Danzig
The boom of German guns defend
ing SkarszeWy, only 3 miles from
the frontier of the old Danzig Free
State, presumably could be heard
In Danzig.
Skarszewy is miles northwest OF
fortress Stargard, captured by the
Russians yesterday. The Russians
had also spanned the Wierszyca
Vistula tributary which had formed
one of the chief defenses of Danzig
Evening star., 1945-03-08
IS. Percy Oliver, II, Dies;
Was PRIMER Here 26 Years

S. Percy Oliver, n. of 270l Four
teenth street NV, for 26 years a
printer here until he retired in 1914,
died yesterday at his home after an
illness of year.
Mr.. Oliver, a native Of New York
City, attended Baltimore City Col
lege. He came to Washington in
1900 and worked as manager for
several large restaurants until the
World War. He started in the print
ing business in 1918 with the WASH
ington Printing Co. He subsequently
became afhliated with the Courant
Press, serving as president from 1881
to 1899 and as treasurer until his
retirement year ago.
He was member of the East Gate
Evening star., 1945-03-08

Lodge Of Masons, the optimist Club
and the Episcopal Church Of Our
Saviour.
Mr.. Oliver is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Oliver: two
sons, c. Percy Oliver. jr., OF Arling-
ton, Va, and Sidney M. Oliver Of
Silver Spring, Md. and two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Grace Stevens and Mrs.
Lois Neuhaus, both Of Washington.
He also is survived by seven grand
children and three great-grand-
children.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at Hines funeral
home, 290l Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be In Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Boys Loot Cigarette Cache

SEATTLE P).-William Kroegel,
a tavern owner. told four youths:
mo, I haven't any cigarettes, but
I'll get some out of my car when
I'm not busy" When he went to
look he found the car trunk pried
open and nine cartons gone.
Evening star., 1945-03-08

"Wishful thinking won't win the
war-buying Bonds will do much
more
Evening star., 1945-03-08

fTraUeling By Many and Army
planes, patrol gunboat and ice
breaker, Mr.. Shipper OF The
Star staff is Uisiting advanced
Nary bases as far North as
Greenland under the commander
in chief OF the Atlantic Fleet to
report on sea-air operations as
a correspondent assigned to the
Coast Guard.
fFth OF q SerieS.)
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28

General feeling among whites
questioned is that the play which
has been performed in America
more than any other play is pro-
Negro by virtue of it's being anti
slavery. By showing how Negro
slaves were mistreated and stirring
up sympathy for them, the Harriet
Beecher Stowe classic presented the
case for the Negroes freedom and
certainly should be welcomed with
open arms by Negroes, the major
ity of whites believe.
A very small group agreed with
the majority of Negroes who felt
that Uncle Toms Cabin presents
the Negro in a submissive, docile,
cringing role which portrays the
Negro as less than a man.
These whites and Negroes agree
that the play was fine in its time,
that it served as a valuable weapon
in past era but that with the new
manhood and militancy of the
Negro today, it has no place on the
American stage.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
Judge Who 0ut|aWed Restrictive
Covenants Get Insulting Letter

LOS ANGELES, Dec. % (ANP).
AS unmoved as he was on that
memorable morning two weeks ago
when his decision gave Negroes the
right to live in the Sugar Hill'' dis
trict or anywhere else, Judge Thur
mond Clarke has been the target of
a poison pen" barrage, from fas-
cist-minded individuals ever since.
But to offset these race-baiting
blasts, there have come many others
from white correspondents praising
his stand.
A large number came from min
listers, repeating the fearless jurist's S
statements that the Negro had
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
READY THIRD NEGRO
DRAMA FOR BROADWAY

NEW YORK, Dec. % (ANP).-
Rehearsals will start Jan. for Ro-
bert Ardrey's "Jeb," which will be
the third Negro drama on Broad
way this season. The other two are
Strange Fruit" and deep Are
The Roots"
Herman Shumlin will direct
"Jeb" with 10 Mielziner doing sets.
The cast will be 80 per cent Negro
with Ossie Davis, ex-soldier from
Georgia, signed for the leading role
in his first professional appearance.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
DINING CAR WORKERS FINED
$500 FOR MEAL FRAUD

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. % (ANP)
Guilty pleas to charges of meal
swindling on trains brought "a din
ing car employees Of the Erie rail
road fines totaling $4,000 in U. S.
District court here.
| The men also received suspended
sentences of three to six months. In
order to make the suspension eff
fective, they must pay fines ranging
from 500 to S400 by Jan. A and
have been placed on parole from one
to two years.
Meal swinding charges against
Is Erie railroad employees were re-
Gently dismissed by a federal court
in Chicago.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
GEN. B. 0. DAVIS TO
RETIRE DECEMBER 81

WASHINGTON, Dec. % (ANP)
Brig. Gen. B. O. Davis Sr., will
retire from active duty in the army
Dec. 81. Gen. Davis was promoted
to brigadier general, Oct. 25, 1910
and retired in July, 1941. He was
Immediately recalled to active duty
and has served with the inspector
generals office, acting as a trouble
shooter principally on problems in
volving colored troops. He will re-
vert to the status of colonel as is
customary upon retirement.
Gen. Davis is the first Negro to
serve in the regular army of the
United States as a brigadier gen.
eral. Illinois has had two brigadier
generals in it's state militia, title
given them when they retired as
colonels of the old 9Th Illinois in
fantry. They are the late Gen.
Franklin Dennison and General
Spencer G. Dickerson, Chicago ply
sician.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28

earned the right to live where he
chooses, by his sacrifices during the
war. Others came from mothers of
boys who had fought beside colored
buddies at the front.
Touching the political angle, 9TH
ers predicted an ignominous defeat
for Judge Clarke at the polls when
he comes up for reelection in 1913,
several predicting that he would
wind up eking out meager exist
ence "practicing law on Central
avenue among his Negro friends"
But Clarke, 43-year-old native
son, former athlete, and son of a
superior court judge, now deceased,
said, whatever the public reaction,
| could have decided no differently.
When the time comes to evade an
issue, | shall no longer feel | am
able to sit upon the bench"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
CHURCH RACE RELATIONS
GROUP TO HOLD pARLEY

NASHVILLE, Dec. % (ANP).
The National Committee on Race
relations and Negro Ministerial ed
ucation will hold it's annual session
on the campus of the American
Baptist Theological seminary here
on Jan. %.
The committee, organized sew
eral years ago in Atlanta, held it's
last session at Virginia Union uni
versity.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
Is 'sUncle Tom Cabin'' Anti-Negro?

CHICAGO, Dec. % (ANP)..-
Sharply divergent views separate
Negro and white opinion in Amer
lea in the controversy over whether
the popular, often-performed play
Uncle Toms Cabin is anti-Negro.
Negroes themselves are pretty
much on opposite sides Of the fence,
the January Negro Digest poll re-
veals. Only by slight margin does
the Negro population generally feel
that the famous Abolitionist play
by Harriet Beecher Stowe is re-
Election on their race. On the other
hand most whites expressed the be-
lief that the play is for the Negro
rather than against him.
Results in the poll on the query,
"Is Uncle Toms Cabin anti-Ne-
gro?" as tabulated among whites
choxuad.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
KATHERINE DUNHAM
DANCE STUDIO Opens

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (ANP).-
Katherine Dunham, world-famous
dancer, has just recently opened her
new school of dance in the heart of
Broadway. Here, in beautiful new
studios designed and decorated by
George Bengal, Miss Dunham, as
sisted by a staff of talented teach
ers, presents full curriculum in
dance for both adults and children.
Miss Dunham's staff includes
Todd Bolender, we'll known ballet
dancer and choregrapher who has
appeared with the American ballet
both in the United States and South
America. His recent ballet, Comedia
Balletica, which he choregraphed
for the Bale Russo Monte Carlo,
earned high praise from critics as
we'll as audiences. Another staff
member and supervisor of the
school is Miss Syvilla Fort, a grad
uate of the Cornish School of Art,
Music and Drama who instructed
her own company in Los Angeles.
She has performed with the Roper
tory playhouse in Seattle as well as
with Dunham. Another prominent
staff member is Miss Mario Bryant,
now appearing in "Are You With
It?", latest Broadway musical hit,
and formerly with Duke Ellington.
Miss Eleanor Guy, school secretary,
did concert work with Hans Weiner
of Boston and appeared before the
Boston Symphony there. Other
teachers are Lucille Ellis, Henri
Augustin and Lenwood Morris, all
prominent members of Miss Dun
hams permanent company.
Miss Dunham's school is COM
pletely interracial both in its staff
and its student body. And, like the
theatre in general, this school pro-
vides living proof that the races of
mankind can live and create in COM
plete harmony and understanding.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-28
LIBRARY GROUP FORMING
TO BACK new BUILDING

A new group, Friends OF the Ii
brary," is being organized to aid
trustees in developing maximum
services and expansion of the Day.
ton institution.
Two trustees, Mrs. A. F. Shep-
herd and Earl Rowe, have been ap-
pointed on special committee to
assist in the organization of the
group, Roy G. Fitzgerald, board
chairman, announced last night.
Primary goal of the new group
will be the financing of a new
central library building to replace
the ancient structure now being
used.
A large number of civic leaders
long has contended that present fa-
cilities are inadequate for the city's
needs and it is anticipated that the
group will have ample support in
achieving it's objective.
It is estimated that new build
ing could be constructed for ap-
proximately S2,OOO,OO0. A bond is
sue for that amount, which was in
cluded in the city, county, school
"jobs for progress" program was
defeated by a narrow margin at the
polls Nov. 6.
The present central library build
ing serves as a nerve center
through which six Dayton branches
and three others in Vandalia, West
Carrollton and Brookville are oper-
ated, Fitzgerald said.
Additions since the erection of
the original library unit have Gre
ated 13 floor levels in the rambling
building and a structure of mod
ern architecture would facilitate
both administrative and actual
lending-operational work.
The board chairman added that
greater provision must be made fol-
preservation of newspaper files
which reflect a complete history OF
the city.
The annual reorganization of the
library board will be Jan. 9. The
present board is composed of Fitz-
gerald, Mrs. Shepard, Rowe, Dan
iel Blau, DR.. A. F. Kuhl, William
E. Harbottle and DR.. Frank D.
Slutz.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

LINE eating Europe Not far to the there's hot
food and issue of beer.
Sure you miss beer Our Armed Forces getting
ALL Why Because deliver anywhere under the tough
condons-BETTER They don't break They space.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

The germ is a wound parasite,
which after gaining entrance to
the root, stem, or cane of the vine,
stimulates gall formation. These
gals may completely girdle roots
and stems and usually result in
the death of the plant above the
injury. The bacteria may live in
dependently scattered through the
soil or in old gals which may
persist from year to year. They
may be spread from plant to plant
by insects, injuries in cultivating
and pruning, and by irrigation
water.
Since the germ producing crown
gall lives in the soil and within
the tissue of the gals, the disease
cannot be combatted by spraying.
Diseased plants showing gall at
the crown or lower part of the
stem should be dug up and de-
stroyed by burning. The removal
of the gals themselves is not
effective in controlling the disease
since the bacteria will attack the
stem at the point and the new
gall may arise even after the old
gall has been cut out. Where the
gals occur on branches, the latter
should be cut off several inches
below the diseased tissue. In the
planting of new vines, care should
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08
Features Musical
Numbers Sunday

Tho Methodist ladies were IN
barge Of the Sunday Isss = supper . p n0of
nd program at the y. . ~ .--.... :. :,
Nars Carl Bergman arranged
Mt Chile decorations, Mrs. John
I pa;rd and Mrs. /. D. Magnun
served as table hostesses.
rhe vesper service under the
s;ract;on of Mrs. Chas. Hatten
'',.s presented behind drawn cur
was Was radio style. The church
t ehn;r group under the direction
81 LIN Mrs Maude Cooney furnished
~ the vocal selections, with MI.
RaIph Burrier serving as accom-
n.nist furnishing musical back
p prn,,nd for the beautiful readings
Given by Mrs. Hatten. O.
A delicious suppe: was served
80. the Following committee: Mrs.
- n. Ingram, chairman; Mrs.
rIaude Smith, Mrs. Chas. Marvin,
Mrs .John Magun, Mrs. A: Lucas,
NJ T, L. Dale, Mrs. MILFORD
SLinner. Mrs. E. L. Baker, Mrs. q.
n Hibbard, Mrs. Rob: Liner, Mrs.
Sorl Bergman, Mrs. c. I. Hatten'
Mrs G. P. Schaefer, Mrs. Walter
nherst and Mrs. John Beard.
The evening entertainment fol-
lowed with community singing
Games and dancing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-08

Erling Helliesen, native of Norway, came to
Yakima in 1911 and joined his brother, II. M.
Helliesen, in the lumber business. In those
days, lumber dealer had to be combination
of architect, planner and furnisher of building
supplies. All materials were hauled by team,
and . farmer from the Naches or Cowiche
area-1s or 20 miles away-would spend two
days getting load of lumber out to his place.
Through the years this firm has supplied lum-
Der and materials for general building in
Yakima, Selah, Cowiche, Naches, Teton and
rural areas throughout the upper valley TO
house the expanding population.
With his nephew, Harold, son of the
founder, Mr.. Helliesen continues to operate
the lumber company. Their outlook for peace
time is to assist in the planning and building
of homes, business and farm buildings TO
meet the requirements of the modern electri-
cal age. His own home is all-electric, with
range wafer heater, refrigerator, and a num-
Der of small time-savins electrical appliances.