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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
SLOVENIAN AMERICAN
NATIONAL COUNCIL
MirkO G. Kuhel Secretary.

dull OUSlIIlO SpOIlenlcO Je
SANS predlozil drzavnemu de-
partmentu ter zunanjim mini
sterstvom Sovjetske zveze Bri-
tanije Francije in Kitajske re
augusta meseca. Isto spomenico
81 je osvojilo tudi NarOdno VIE
ces ameriskih HrvatOv in poslalo
ma pristojna mesta, kakor tudi
Zdruzeni Odbor Amerikancev
jugOslovanskega porekla. Zdru-
zeni odbor je obenem posvetil
obsezni del tekoce Stevilke svo-
jega biljetina trzaskemu vpra-
sanju ter V 10000 izvodih ma
tisnil broSurico z naslovom
TRIESTE, katero je spisal velik
slovenski prijatelj professor A.
J. P. Taylor, decent angleske
universe V Oxfordu. SANSov
castni predsednik je poskrbel,
da so clani ameriske delegaciie
prejeli iztise tie brosure Sc pred
zacetkom conference zunaniih
ministrov. Ia brosurica Sc izcrp-
no peca z vsemi panogami pri-
morskega ~vprasanja in prepri-
cevalno dokazuje da lei srecna
bodocnost Trsta v faktorju, &c
DO pripadal Jugoslaviji.
Podobne brzojave so p~oslale
naSemu drzavnemu tajniku v
London tudi druge organizacije,
med mimi Sc obsirnejsi tele-
gram Slovenska narodna pod
porna jednota.
Razume Sc, da je vlozila pri
%zunanjih ministrstvih omenje-
nih petih velesil svojo spomeni-
co tudi jugoslovanska ,vlada ter
obenem odposlala v London DO
sebno komisijo, kateri nacelju-
je general Vladimir Velebit, iu-
goslovanski podminister "a zu-
mamie zadeve in bivSi nacelnik
Titove vojaSke misije V Londo-
nu. Ia delegacija je neuradne-
ga znacaja in ne DO prisostvo-
vala ma sejah zunanjih mini
strov. Vsekakor pa Sc pricaku-
je, da DO Jugoslavija uradno po-
zvana ma posvetovanje glede iu-
goslovansko italijanskih mel,
kot je predvidno v potsdamski
deklaraciji.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
New Churches in Ctys Fast Growing Suburbs Planned
To Fit Religious Pattern Of Future Washington

cerning the moving Of churches. An
other aspect thinking oficials are
pondering is the merger Of many inner
city congregations.
Silver Spring and Bethesda
An even graver condition Is arising
in the tendency Of ochurches on the
periphery Of the District to attract
members from congregations within the
city. Mr.. Widenhouse said this Is
condition frequently encountered, in
growing urban centers. The children
OF loyal downtown members tend to join
churches near their homes For exam
ple," the director said, "the Silver Spring
Congregational Church and the Bethesda
Christian Church are composed almost
entirely Of children. whose parents be-
long to downtown congregations"
Washington presents . more hopeful
situation than other urban centers, Mr..
Widenhouse said. This is a result Of
the more adequate distribution of
churches and the development OF de-
nominational policies seeing that down.
town churches are properly protected.
The Comfy Commission, with its
planned program and its spirit Of CO.
operation, is pointing the way for the
churches to answer the future problems
Of Professionalism in Washington. The
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cases it is transported by natives or
dropped by parachute.
Blood Donor Service files are filled
with dramatic testimony to the elective
ness of plasma. One soldier, badly
wounded in the Pacific. becams con-
scious in hospital. when woke up
they were giving it to me, shot after
shot, seven pints in all" he recalled. II
never expected to come out Of it alive
and asked the doctors to send my ring
home. They told me they had an ace
In the hole. That ace was plasma."
Inaugurated at the request Of the
Army and Navy. the service Is now the
largest single controlled undertaking in
medical history.
The Need Is Great
Donations may be made BY any one
IN good health between Il and 60,
Weighing 1l0 pounds or more. Persons
between ls and II may donate With the
written consent Of parents Or guardian.
The Red Cross is the sole agency
through which the blood Is collected.
On reaching the processing laboratories,
It becomes the property of the Army
and Navy ana 4 quickly sped on IT.
way p the noht1ug fsonts
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Capt. Wards suggestion was never
acted on, so far as is known. But in
1925, q young pathologist. DR.. Max M.
Strumia, Bryn Mawr, Pa, who had
fought with the Italian Army in the
World War, began to experiment with
blood. He had seen thousands Of men
die from shock and hemorrhage and
wanted to find q safe way to make
transfusions 80 practical that needless
loss Of life could be prevented.
He started to use plasma for trans
fasions into rabbits to test his theory.
Scores Of tests were made successfully.
from that beginning, the present plas-
ma program developed.
Compressed for Shipping
Astounding q It may seem, the IL
100000 pints OF blood contributed
through the Red Gross service in four
years could be poured into square con-
tainer having 57-foot sides.
4 Hut Ii the dry. fiaky state Ia which It
y sent abroad to ~ mixed with dis
titled water Just before II soes into the.
veins a rounded soldier IT requires
much ~ spacs
At ptssent. the Hsd Cross has blood
Evening star., 1945-02-04
100000 Pints of American Blood
Donated to Save Our Soldiers Lives

blood pressure, which may sink disas-
trously when man is wounded or
burned. Thus 1t prevents shock" and
saves lives.
1t took scientists long time to realize
that plasma could be used instead of
whole blood. During the last war, a
Capt. Gordon r. Ward came through
with an idea which could have advanced
science thousand leagues overnight.
But hts suggestion fell on a deaf, dumb
and blind world
In letter to a British medical
journal, he said:
Il have been reading recent articles
on blood transfusions in casualty clear
ing stations. Apparently one of the
chief troubles Is whether the recipients
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! Suitl1nd road Sc.
erly supported. The church was then
built and today there are IS communi-
cant members with 135 families inter-
ested.
How Committee Was Organized
Steps to meet future problems in
church growth were first broached at
meeting of Episcopal ministers at st.
Johns Church, Lafayette square, on De-
cember 10, 4941. Anticipating the rapid
population growth in Washington as
result of the war, the ministers sug-
gested that a religious census Of the
District be taken. A conference with
the federation, then directed by DR..
Worth Tppy, resulted In q preliminary
committee consisting Of the Rev. c.
Leslie Glenn, pastor of st. Johns; Dr.
Rufus Weaver. District Baptist Conven-
ton. executive secretary, and DR.. Tppy
being formed. DR.. Glenn was chairman.
The Comfy Committee was discussed
at meeting of the federation on jan
uary q, 1912. and decision was made
to organize it. That April the first meet
ing was held, budget was adopted and
DR.. Albert T. Rasmussen of Chicago,
who began his duties in May was called
as director. Dr. Rasmussen left in May,
Evening star., 1945-02-04

donor centers in 81 cities, plus 43 mobile
units attached to the centers, which
visit communities within radius Of ap.
proximately IS miles
Contributions now total approximately
100 900 pints week. Most Of the blood
is processed into dried plasma. At 10 cen-
tiers, type o whole blood also is procured
to be flown overseas daily. Five centers
on the East Coast-Washington, Balti-
more, Boston. Brooklyn and New York
are procuring approximately 1000 pints
of type o blood day to meet the need
of wounded servicemen in Europe for
whole blood. The West Coast centers--
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Oakland and Portland-obtain from 300
to 500 pints of whole blood a day for
the Pacific theater.
DR.. G. Candy Robinson
Director of the service, which is un-
paralleled in any nation at war, is DR..
G. Candy Robinson of Baltimore, for
mer president Of the American ASso-
citation of Physicians now on leave Of
absence from the department of pre-
ventive medicine at Johns Hopkins
Medical School
The most remarkable thing about the
Blood Donor Service" DR.. Robinson
said, "is the extent to which the idea
of donating a pint of blood to save .
life has captured the imagination of the
public. Thousands of donors come in
every eight weeks. as often as regula-
tions permit, frequently bringing others.
Thousands have friends or relatives
In the armed forces. Others donate
simply because they consider this the
most personal contribution they can
make Just such support. coupled with
the cooperation of business firms and
other organizations which send in .
regular number of donors each week.
has made possible the success Of tho
project"
From DR.. Robinson's Office at Red
Cross National Headquarters in WASH
ington, the program is guided to meet
the needs of the services as set by Maj.
Gen. Norman T. Kirk and Vice Admiral
Ross T. McIntire, Surgeons General Of
the Army and Navy.
The country has the word of those two
men that blood plasma has AA-1 priority
right up to the front lines. In many
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chapel and education building were con-
structed later. The church today has
300 members. The rest of the church
will be completed after the war.
In Cheverly, Md.
Cheverly Community Church orig
mated in April, 1942, when five people
gathered in the home of C. E. Bentley
at Cheverly, Md. They held meetings
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. D. H.
Wells in the town. They learned the
Evangelical and Reformed Church
wanted to add church in that section
and combined forces. A community sur
vey showed no Protestant denomina-
ton preference.
The next move was to consult with
the commission. A location at 2700
Cheverly avenue was approved for a
church, affiliated with the Evangelical
group but operated as a community
church. The Rev. Lewis A. Briner came
in February, 1943. when the congrega-
ton was worshipping in the American
Legion Hall A building fund was
raised, the community being aided by
loans and grants from the Evangeli-
cal Church, and the church was built
in October. 1943. 1t has ZIG members
today.
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ACC. IILILIp " MCUItOuSc.
Rev. DR.. j. W. Rustin, president of the
federation, states the committee is con-
vinced of the need to set up churches
in new communities not on a basis of
competition but on one of meeting the
needs of the people. As q result" he
says "our new communities are well sup
piled and yet do not have 50 many con-
gregations that individual churches cap
not be supported"
Model Plan for the Nation
The Rev. Dr. O. F. Blackwelder. presi-
dent of the Committee on Religious Life
in the Nations Capital, emphasized an
other aspect Of the problem. 'aThe
commission has acted as brake by
preventing the erection of churches in
locations that seem good today but will
prove to be the opposite when arterial
highways planned by the Government
are completed tomorrow. The commits
sion has prevented much spending on
bad future situations"
Observers are all agreed that the
churches of the Washington Metro
politan Area have pointed the way for
other urban centers in the Nation to
follow. The postwar prospect for Dis
trict congregations appears healthy in
the light Of future plans. H. Lawrence
Choate, board of directors member
of the federation, summed the situation
up by declaring 1T is the only way to
operate intelligently and to provide for
a sound postwar period for Protestant
churches in the area"
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lives Of 81 Of every 100 Of our wounded
lies the discovery that the liquid part of
the blood could be used for transfusions
The program was made possible by
this landmark in medical progress, that
plasma-the liquid part of blood-could
be sent to the rescue no matter what
the blood type of the patient.
Can Be Safely Stored
Whole blood is highly perishable.
Plasma, however, can be stored for
years. Thus it can be kept on hand for,
use when needed.
What is a blood type? What Is q
universal donor?" These and other
questions are left unanswered by every
day discussion Of the blood donor pro-
gram.
Talk to DR.. Henry S. Blake, national
technical director Of the Blood Donor
Service and lieutenant In the Navy's
Medical Corps, and you get lost in the
exciting labyrinth of blood transfusion's
scientific aspects. Boiled down, it's
fairly simple.
What Are Blood Types?
First of all, there are four major
blood types: o, A, B. and ABB. Biggest
grouping is Type O, which is found in
approximately As per cent Of us. Next
comes Type A, characteristic to 43 per
cent; Type B, per cent, and Type AB,
per cent.
The epochal discovery made In 1900
by young viennese, Karl Landsteiner,
was that not all blood is the same.
Unless the transfused blood matches the
patients blood. corpuscles will dissolve
or clot and cause death.
Exceptions are two: Persons with
Type o blood are what medical men
call universal donors"-their blood can
be transfused into bodies OF virtually
anyone without Ill effects. Second, per-
sons with Type ALB blood are known as
universal recipients" can receive
almost any type OF blood.
Plasma Fills the Breach
On the battlefronts. there's not time
to- make the tests to establish blood
types and 60 through the complicated
process of finding proper donors. save
under exceptional conditions Plasna
nils the breach. It IS used to maintain
Evening star., 1945-02-04
BY Caspar Names,

Forty-nine Protestant churches have
been established in the Washington
Metropolitan Area since 1910. Today
they all have good-sized congregations
and promising futures, thanks to careful
planning by the Comfy Commission of
the Washington Federation Of Churches
which has taken postwar as well as
present conditions into consideration
before permitting church to be built.
The step to plan church ALLEGATION
resulted from the more than $50 900 in
crease in civilian population in the
period between 1910 and 1943. Old Sec
tions bulged with newcomers; quiet out
lying communities became heavily pop
ulated open country spaces changed
into bustling towns The demand for
churches grew with the rapid growth
in the metropolitan district and the
tendency to rush in and build was great.
Building Program
Construction was carried out under
the guidance of the commission, which
decided the building program for Dis
trict Protestant churches. The Comfy
Commission was guided by the fact
finding department of research and
planning of the federation, directed by
the Rev. Philip M. Widenhouse. This
department furnished the material upon
which the commission made its deci-
sions as to when, where and how many
churches were to be built in a given
locality
The fundamental basis of selection
is to set a ratio of $500 persons for
one church. The Is Protestant denom-
ination committee representatives then
decide requests on the basis of priority,
readiness of denomination to enter field,
denominational background of area and
the likelihood of the church's success.
To protect minority groups, special con-
sideration as to their needs are given
when an application is filed.
How Churches Are Located
The system can best be explained by
two Illustrations. In promising subur-
ban community five denominations
wanted to establish churches, all within
a half mile radious. and three of them
on the same corner Denomination
representatives met with the commission
and discussed the situation. Two re-
quests were Immediately withdrawn.
The research and planning department
then surveyed the neighborhood to check
the denominational background. con-
ferences were held with representatives
Evening star., 1945-02-04
BY Robert J. Lewis

Four years ago the American Red
Cross Blood Donor Service went to work
to procure blood for the armed serv-
ices. Since then more than l1,0O0, 900
pints Of blood have been donated in re-
sponse to the appeal "Give a pint Of
blood and save q nfe" Used on every
battlefront. blood plasma has been
hailed by the Army and Navy as the
greatest life saver Of the war Supple
menting its magic is whole blood con-
tributed by the home front and rushed
by plane to the European and Pacific
theaters of war.
Behind the amazing accomplishments
credited largely with helping to save the
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of other churches in the section and
decision was reached that only two
churches should be built. The third one
was ruled out.
The two churches chosen were located
so there would be minimum of COM
petition and overlapping between them
and the established congregations. One
was built at the corner originally re-
uuested and the other erected in Sec
ton, more than a mile away.
In Parkfairfax
Where new communities have sprung
into being, the executive representa-
tives of the commission decide how many
churches are to be allowed in these 10
calities. Applicants are brought together
to decide where locations should be
granted In Parkfairfax, Va, allo-
cation were granted the episcopal
American Lutheran, Baptist, Presby-
terian and Methodist Churches. Rep
resentatives of these denominations met
and selected sites at proper distances
from each other, the density of popula-
ton deciding the spacing of the con-
gregations.
Typical examples of how individual
churches have responded to this selec-
tive method may be- cited in the cases
of the Arlington Forest (Va) Methodist
Church, the Cheverly (Md) Com
munity Church and st. Timothy Epis-
copal Church, Suitland road and Ala
bama avenue Sc.
In Arlington Forest
The Arlington Forest church was
started in October 1912, when the Rev.
Harry p. Baker was called to take
charge by the Virginia Methodist Con-
ference. The church had one member
and an option on a vacant lot The
member was Mr.. Bakers wife, Mrs
Martha H. Baker, and the lot was at
Henderson road and Lee boulevard, Ar
lington.
Services were first held in the Glen
Carlyn CVa) schoolhouse, the congrega-
ion moving into the social hall of the
resent building in November, 1913. The
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Education
Continued From Page CAY

student where he stands In relation to
others, but also may be. taken into
account by his college for academic
credit. The veteran. therefore, need not
necessarily sit through his senior col
lege year just accommodating credits. II
the GRE shows that his educational
status Is sufficient for graduate work.
And his status may very well have
changed, DR.. w. S. Learned Of the Car
negie Foundation points out, because OF
knowledge acquired during his period of
service.
May Change Whole Future
The examination score may change
the whole future the veteran has mapped
out tentatively for himself. It may. for
example, show . former social science
student that he has become proficient
in engineering because Of his military
job.
"As practical service at time when
members Of the armed forces ind their
college careers interrupted, or their cur
ricula narrowed for war purposes" Q
foundation booklet points out, "the ex-
animation will furnish an authoritative
measure of attainment. Not q few
students viii have had opportunity dur
ing the war to advance their knowledge
by special courses or by individual study
and observation. =. The tests already
show that considerable number Of
students who left college as juniors, or
even as sophomores, scored at that time
above the average Of beginning graduate
study"
On Return to College
Because It shows the veteran where he
stands in given field, DR.. Learned be-
lieves, the GRE also can have definite
steadying psychological effect upon :
veteran who may return to college un-
certain OF his talents.
The GRE was constructed In 1887 for
four universities Yale, Prince
ton and Columbia and was developed
and used experimentally for five years
At 10 graduate institutions. The actual
tests we're put together BY committees
Of scholars Ia the various fields, and the
advanced tests. which now number II,
are being added to as the need arises.
IN June, 1914. the United States armed
forces institute requested the Carnegie
Foundation to make the GRE available
to men and women Ia the services who
wish to resume their education after
being discharged from the armed forces.
Il has already been taken By more than
1900 students II colleges ana uni-
versities around tle cosint1y.
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members at the opening though the
pews were filled.
The Episcopal Church City Missions
Committee had purchased the lot at
Suitland road several years earlier. The
committee had allowed building plans to
lapse until Mr.. Widenhouse advised
them on January 10, 1874, that surveys
indicated such church would be prop
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lens in Washington. One concerns the
movement Of innercity churches to out
lying districts and the other the MAIN
tenance Of innercity churches in the
fact Of moving membership.
Denominational executives have al
ready called upon the 34-year-old di-
rector to provide facts for decisions re-
garding UNCONVENTIONAL strategy con-
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Star Stah Photo.

Star star Photo.
1943, and Mr.. Widenhouse came as di-
rector the following. September.
Mr.. Widenhouse, graduate Of Wof-
ford College, Spartenburg, S. c., and Of
Chicago Theological Seminary. explained
the Comfy Committee Is anticipating
among others. two major postwar prob
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blood will hemolyze the corpuscles Of
the donor. Surely this difhculty dds
solution of red corpuscles) might be
avoided by not transfusing the cor
puscles at all, but only the plasma,
which would be easy to keep and easy
to give.
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On Suitland Road
St. Timothy Episcopal Church held its
first service on September IT.. 1914, with
the Rev. j. F. Coleman, student of
Bishop Angus Dun when he was dean at
the seminary at Cambridge, Mass, as
pastor. There were no communicate
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-10
Broker Accused
OF Buying Loot

After refusing yesterday 90
testify against Leonard Schultz,
e. a paWnurokcr az isis Dawson,
enc Of -tWo prisoners brought 10
Recorder Court today changed
his mind and accused Schultz Of
buying hot stuff from them TO
take 10 New York.
The prisoner. Arthur Goldman.
80 OF 20l6 Taylor. testified that
he and his fellow prisoner Irving
Goddard. D, of 1881 Nicksburg,
robbed the home of Mrs. Fred C..
Young. 1896 Z. Outer Drive, April
s, 1874. and sold the loot con-
sistIng OF $3.50 in iewclrv 10
Schultz. Judge Christopher t..
Stein is hearing the case.
Goldman is serving a SiY-mOnth
10 l5-year sentence for burglary
and Goddard is serving seven and
a half 10 IS years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-10
Henry Messimer

Funeral services for Henry
Messimer, 81. who died Wednesday
in Henry Ford Hospital, viii be
held al 2 p. m. Saturday in the
Girrbach Chapel. 1O7S3 w. Jeffer-
SON Burial Will be IN Woodmere
Cemetery.
MIR Messimer. who was chair
man Of The River Rouge Republic
can Committee, was also River
Rouge city attorney for several
years.
He is Survivcd by his wife,
Isabel; daughters. Mrs. Phyllis
AShwood, Kalamazoo. and Mrs.
Joan Beaudric and Judith MeSsi-
mer. River Rouge, and a son, It.
Martin MeSSlmor with the army
in Franco
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-10
Mrs. Margaret Upham

Funeral services for Mrs Mar
garct Upham who died WcdncS-
day al nor home. PASS Townsend,
Will he held az , p. IN. tomorrow
in the NanDewCEhc Funeral
Home, Berkshire and Warren.
Bur17i VIII &c IN Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
Mrs. UphBm. rs, was born on
the Isle of Man and lived in De-
troIt 80 Noats. She was a men,
bcr of the Decentralization ManX
Society
Surviving are her husband. Will
liam " two daughters. Norma
X and Mrs. Edward c. HolStein,
and three grandchildren.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-10
Kelly Bills
I'm Senate

LANSING. Feb. 9-Administra-
tion bills. Incorporating the ideas
of Gov kcily's business admins
traitor on consolidation Of state
government. made their appear
anCc today I'M The Senate.
Tho proposed legislation would
. Provide f0ur-Noar terms for
county. legislative and state
officers including The governor.
SCI up a division under the
secretary 81 state 10 issue
frrHyrs and collect fees Cor %
STATE L--L-s thai nov regulate
occupations
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-02-10
VIEW TO Fete
Wounded Vets

Ten anputstion cases from the
Percy Jones Hospital, Battle
Creek. will he guests of me ono
Kern Jr. post. WV. for three
days Of entertainment m Detroit
next week.
This post, consisting entirely Of
veterans OF World War IT. VIII
bring the veterans 20 Detroit
Sunday morning and quarter them
AZ the Barlum Hotel.
Comdr. Joseph Cohen Of the
post said that the veterans would
be returned 10 the hospital
Wednesday.