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Evening star., 1945-11-22
In the Ne1Vs

Mr.. and Mrs. Willoughby Chesley
have as their guests their sons and
daughters-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Willoughby Chesley, jr., of Larch-
mont, N. Y, and 1t. Comdr. and
Mr.. Castleman De T. Chesley, with
their daughter, Jacquenette, of
Philadelphia.
Comdr. Chesley, who spent II
months in the Pacific as a Com
bat Intelligence officer and re-
turned to this country in September
after nearly four years service, is on
terminal leave and will be discharg-
ed December 90. He has been rec
commended for the Presidential Unit
Citation and the Bronze Star.
Comdr. and Mrs. Chesley will re-
side in Philadelphia, where the
former will return to his position
with refining company.
Mrs. George P. Hilderbrand and
her l6-month- old son, George
Denning Hilderbrand, Of Arlington,
went by plane to Memphis, where
they are spending two weeks with
Maj. Hilderbrand's mother, Mrs. E.
D. Hilderbrand, and with Mrs. Hill
derbrand's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. T. Denning, in Union City, Tenn.
Mrs. Mary McCawley and her
daughter, Miss Catherine c. Nc
Cawley, have left for Fort Walton,
Fla, where they will remain
through the Christmas holidays
with the formers son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo McCawley.
Mrs. Walter P. Burke and her
small daughter, Susan, are spending
the winter with the formers par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart P. Heit-
muller. Mr.. Burke, who is in the
service, is stationed in San Diego.
Mrs John William johnson, new
ly-elected president of the District
Division. United Daughters of the
Confederacy, is attending the or
ganizations convention in Houston
Mrs. George A. Cook entertained
members of Constitution Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, Tuesday. at her home in Ia
koma Park. Mrs. Harry r. Fulton
made a speech and Mrs. Jeannette
Wettergreen gave piano selections.
1t. Thomas w. Smith of Fort
Mcclellan, Ala, is visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Smith
in Chevy Chase.
Miss Martha Virginia Smith has
returned from visit in New York.
Mrs. Amber Stewart of BROOKLYN
is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Vina
E. Opdycke.
Mr.. and Mrs. william I. Dennine
are visiting in Jacksonville.
Mrs. Carrie White Cumberland is
visiting her son-in-law and daugh.
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Tashof.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Drummeter
are spending the winter in Florida
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Je1Visb Relief Unit
Hears Talk byClark
Bv Gretchen Smith

The Nuremberg trial is significant
as "a milestone in general eman-
cipation from intolerance" Attor-
ney General Tom Clark declared
yesterday in an address before the
Washington Ladies Auxiliary of
the Jewish Consumptives' Relief
Society of Denver.
Guest speaker at the annual
donor luncheon of the society at the
Mayfiower Hotel, the Attorney Gen.
eral asserted that Germany's down.
fall had been hastened by perse-
cution of the Jewish people.
History shows that those who
have prosecuted the Jewish people
have been dogged by ill luck" he
said.
The lives of the 20 Nazi leaders
now on trial at Nuremberg are worn
and worthless" he added, but the
truth of their conviction as inter-
national bigots and gangSters will
long endure"
The trial was also visualized by
Mr.. Clark as a beacon of hope to
all minorities."
The Attorney General paid high
tribute to the work of the Jewish
people in fighting tuberculosis
through accomplishments of their
medical men and the establishment
of the sanitarium in Denver.
Senator Edwin c. johnson of
Colorado, who also was to have
spoken, was unable to attend. The
Attorney General was accompanied
to the luncheon by Col. Timothy
McInerney, head of public infor-
nation for the Department of JUS
tice.
Following Mr.. Clark's address a
musical program was given, with
Citta Rapoch Kaplan, dramatic So
prano, featured in group of songs.
Allison Sanderford entertained with
piano selections.
Mrs. Louis MintZ, president of the
local chapter. presided and intro
duced the speaker
Approximately l,200 persons at
tended the luncheon, which was
held in the ballroom and the Chi
nese Room Of the hotel. More than
So, ZOO was realized, to be contrib
luted to the sanitarium in Denver
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Double Wedding
OF Interest

In a double wedding last evening
at o'clock Miss Janet Jordan
became the bride of Capt. Ivan
w. Oberhelman and her brother,
Mr.. Alan w. Jordan, was married
to Miss Dorothy Jane Hansen. The
ceremonies took place at 6 o'clock
in Christ Church, Alexandria, with
the Rev. Conner B. B. Lille officiating
in candlelight.
Mr.. and Mrs Paul H. Jordan,
parents of the former Miss Jordan
and Mr.. Jordan, reside in Airing
ton and the former Miss Hansen is
the daughter Of Mrs. N. P. Hansen
and the late Mr., Hansen of Mil
waukee. Capt. Oberhelman is the
son of Mrs. John F. Oberhelman
and the late Mr.. Oberhelman of
Topeka.
Mr.. Jordan and Mrs. Hansen gave
their daughters in marriage before
a flower-banked altar. Both brides
wore street-length crepe dresses,
Miss Jordan in aqua and Miss Han
sen in gold. They carried shower
bouquets of chrysanthemums in vel
low and bronze corresponding to
the flowers in the hair.
A dinner for the wedding party
and immediate families followed at
the Statler Hotel. After a honey
moon in New York Capt. and Mrs.
Oberhelman will reside at Living
ston Manor in this city and Mr..
and Mrs. Alan Jordan will be at
home after honeymoon in Rich
mond, Va, at darlington, Arling-
ton.
Mrs. Oberhelman, mother of the
bride, and Miss Lucille Oberhelman
came from Topeka for the event
and Mrs. Hansen was accompanied
here from Milwaukee by Mrs. Will
liam Gdocher.
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H announcement

The engagement of Miss Eleanor
F. Tabor. daughter of Mrs. Hen
rietta Tabor of this city and the
late Mr.. Edward Tabor to DR.. Ar
thur j. Linenthal of Brookline
Mass, has been announced by he,
mother
Miss Tabor studied at the Insti-
tute of Musical Art and the New
England Conservatory of Music. Sh.
was graduated from Radcliffe Col.
lege. At present she is doing grad.
uate work at Cornell University
where she is assistant in the De.
partment of Government.
DR.. Linenthal was graduated from
Harvard College and the Harvard
Medical School and is on the staf
of the Massachusetts, General Hos.
pital
Evening star., 1945-11-22

Nine. Hurban with their honor
guest received in the hall at the
head of the stairs, the Ambassador,
who is recuperating from an illness,
sitting not far away. Nine Hurban
wore a very becoming frock of off,
white crepe, its only trimming being
small golden nailheads in the ma
terial. White and gold is favorite
combination with Nine. Hurban and
is particularly becoming to her black
hair and eyes.
The Lebanese Minister and Mrs.
Malik entertained several hundred
guests, the hours being to and 9
to II o'clock. The legation at 1880
S street, which the Minister and his
wife recently leased from Mrs.
Harold Walker, is still in the process
of being completed as to furnishings.
So far the new occupants have only
succeeded in getting their very hand
some Oriental rugs down, but most
of the furniture and the hangings
which they plan to use in the lega-
tion will come later. 1t is the inten-
ton of the Lebanese government to
purchase ground and build their
own legation patterned after some
native home and furnished in keep
ing with the Lebanese mode. When
this is done the legation will be one
of the unusual and outstanding
homes of = foreign diplomats in this
Capital.
The legation was established in
April of this year and the Minister
stayed in Washington only long
enough to open an office and present
his credentials before going to San
Francisco where he was a delegate
to the United Nations conference.
He and Mrs. Malik have been oc-
cupied with getting suitable house
and trying to settle into their new
abode since their return from Cali
forria. However short time they
have been here they already have
a wide circle of friends which they
have made for themselves and for
their country. This was attested
not only at the reception yesterday
but at the dinner the evening be-
fore which the Syrian American
Club gave in their honor.
The Minister and Mrs. Malik
stood in the wide reception hall at
the top of the stairs to receive and
the long buffet table was laid in
the long dining room at one side.
Roast lamb, served with rice, a very
popular dish in the Arab countries,
was served during the afternoon
and again during the evening.
There also were typically American
roast turkeys. and chickens, with
salads of both countries, and ices.
Also, there were long tables where
stimulating liquid refreshments
were served.
Officers Of the newly organized
Arabian League, with others of the
Middle Eastern countries. were
prominent among the guests, who
also included officials of this Gov
ernment, heads of diplomatic mis-
sions, a number from the services
and a few from resident circles
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Diplomat Actipities

The Chinese Ambassador and
Nine. Wei will entertain at cocktails
tomorrow evening at the Embassy In
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Tibbett.
Mr.. Tibbett will sing the title
role in Verdi's "Rigoletto" with the
Philadelphia La Scala Opera at
Constitution Hall tonight.
Maj. John Baron Melvill van
Carnbee, Royal Netherlands Army,
accompanied by his daughters.
Elisabeth and Consuelo, has arrived
from Holland and taken house in
the Sleepy Hollow section of Falls
Church.
Maj. Melvill formerly was A. D. c.
to Gen. Kruls, the present chief
of staff of the Royal Netherlands
Army, and he has been detailed in
Washington to the Office of the
Netherlands representatives to the
Combined Chiefs of Staff. His daug-
ters are attending Holton Arms
School.
Their many friends in Washing
ton will be interested to hear that
the former assistant chief of the
diplomatic department of the Min
istry of Foreign Affairs in Santiago,
Chile, Senor Don Mario Rodriguez.
has been promoted to chief of that
department.
Senor Rodriguez, who formerly
represented his government as
Counselor of the Embassy in Wash
ington, received his masters de-
degree at Georgetown University
foreign service school and was
graduated from the law school OF
the University of Chile. His wife is
the former Miss Marjorie Talman of
this city.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

LaFoHette Speaks to
WOmen's Id Club

Justification for legislation max
ing the Fair Employment Practice
Committee permanent commits
sion, which would adhere to the
principles upon which this country
was founded" was voiced yesterday
by Representative Charles M. La
Toilette, Republican, of Indiana. be-
fore the Womens Advertising Club
Mr.. La Toilette, who was one OF
the original sponsors for the legiS-
lation which would prevent racial or
other discrimination in employ
ment, declared 'it is basically sound
that society, acting through Con-
gress, is performing a democratic
function in enacting legislation de-
claring discrimination illegal"
"A policy that denies fair play to
100000 people will eliminate a
large segment of the countrys pop
ulation in the event OF another war;
the speaker also warned.
Attacking the arguments of op-
ponents to the legislation, many Of
them business groups, who chal-
lenge the subpoena authority such q
commission would have, Mr.. La Fol-
lette declared it was nothing new
and substantiated his argument
with examples of other Government
agencies cloaked with that authority
such as the ICC, FPC. GAG and
FTC.
He also declared that the public
good would be little advanced If
the fact that the proposed commits
sion would make mistakes and er-
roneous decisions would be accepted
as an argument against passage of
the legislation.
+ The luncheon meeting was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Ruth Grain
Schaeffer, president of the club.
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Cifv Club Plans Tea

Yongjeung Kim. president of the
Korean Affairs Institute, will be
guest speaker at tea to be given
by the Women's City Club from 4:30
pm. to pm. Sunday.
Mr.. Kim, who was one OF the first
to escape from Korea after the Jap
invasion, will speak on postwar
problems that face Korea. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Kim.
The club will celebrate its 26th
birthday Saturday evening with a
quaint and unusual program Of
French songs and stories by the
French diseuse, Germaine Goineau
Johnson
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Wheel of Progress

A meeting of the Wheel of Progress
will be held at 8 pm. Monday al
the Washington Hotel. Mrs. Caro-
line E. Coates, president of the
District of Columbia WCTU, will be
guest speaker, taking for her subject
1.-TWO Important Problems of the
Day.
A musical program will be pre-.
sented by Mildred Spatts. vocalist
accompanied by Sarah Cline Will
liams. Mrs. Margaret Hopkins
Worrell, president general, will pre-
side,
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Diplomats Entertain at Receptions
Czech Pianist Is HOnOred;:
Lebanese Mdebemdence Fete

Czechosovakan Ambassador Nine Hban delight
Rudolf
this Fkusny
gifted sclo with the National
second subscription of the Kinder
OF
the music diplomats officials
residents the Capital Many the
attended reception which the
Charles Mk celebrate the first anniversary
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Bethesda Club Plans
Garden Dish Gifts

The Bethesda Community Garden
Club will follow its annual custom
of making dish gardens as Christ
man gifts to Children's Hospital at
its meeting at 10:30 am. tomorrow
at the Battery Park clubhouse.
This year, Mrs. Edward Matteosiar
is chairman of the committee which
will supply the plants and containers
for the gardens. Members are urged
to bring extra plants and containers
to supplement those supplied by the
committee
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Garden Club Talk

Prof. Mark Shoemaker OF the UNI
versity of Maryland will address the
Brookmont Garden Club at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Castle, 4104 Maryland
drive in Brookmont.
The subject of his lecture, which
will be illustrated with colored slides,
will be Common Mistakes in Land
scaping the Home Grounds"
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Miss Duggan Bride

The wedding of Miss Frances l.
Duggan and Mr.. Morris Scott Vern-
er, jr., took place Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock in the Shrine of the
Sacred Heart. The Rev. Lawrence
Wempe oficiated.
A wedding breakfast followed at
the Statler Hotel with the guests in
cluding Mr.. and Mrs. James Ber-
nard Duggan, Mrs. Morris S. Werner
ST.; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles ODonnell
and the Rev. Mr. Wempe.
Mr.. Werner is formerly from Pitts
burgh and Mrs. Werner is from
Chicago. They will reside in Wash
ington after q trip to Florida.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

Mrs. Richard James Howard an
nounces the marriage of her daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth Caroline Howard,
to Mr.. Edward Myles Ries, jr. The
wedding took place yesterday in
Mount Rainier. with the Rev.
Charles r. Pierce officiating.
The bride is the daughter of the
late DR.. Howard, formerly of Green
vile, Va. The bridegroom was a
paratrooper while serving overseas
and has recently been discharged
from the Army. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Myles Ries of
Mount Rainier.
The ceremony was followed by a
reception in the brides home. Only
the immediate families and close
friends were present.
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Exhibition Tea

The Soviet Children's Art Ex-
hibition will be opened with a tea
tomorrow afternoon from 4 until 6
o'clock at the Children's Art Gen.
ter, 1910 Eye street. In the absence
of Nine. Novikov. who is ill, Nine.
Fedor Geranin will be present.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

The two atom bombs that helped
bring ultimate victory cost in the
neighborhood of 81, ,000, ,000, 900 count
ing research and ALL, That is the
same figure as Series "E" Victory
Bond quota.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

Figure out the amount you want to
save each month and put 1t into Vic
tory Loan Bonds. They increase in
value after the first year and mature
at one-third better than the initial
nurchSe nrice
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Auxiliary to Meet

The Woman's Auxiliary to the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers will present
Chen Chih Mai, counselor of the
Chinese Embassy as guest speaker
at a meeting Tuesday at 1880 am.
at the YMCA. The subject of the
address will be Conditions in
Present-Day China"
Evening star., 1945-11-22

to further its fight against tuber-
culosis. The institution is non-
sectarian and has many Washing
ton patients.
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State Continues Search
ForEpes Death Motive

said he had been engaged by Epes.
Clinton T. Graydon, wealthy and
well-known criminal defense law
yer of Columbia, previously was
gagged by the State to prosecute
the case.
In a signed statement, the Army
Medical Corps lieutenant told Of
ficers that he had watched his
wife, former Jacksonville, Ella, }
school teacher, take 10 or IL"
sleep-inducing capsules and that
when he found she later was not
alive he buried her II miles from
here near the Fort jackson mill
tary reservation where ne was
stationed.
Epes' friendship with a blond,
Louisiana war plant worker with
whom ne exchanged letters was
being pressed by police in their
search for a motive in Mrs. Epes'
death.
Also sought as evidence was a
gray cloth purse that Epes told
officers he planted in downtown
Columbia to lend credence to his
January 20 report to police that
she was missing. Heise said
search was being made for a
blunt weapon with which Mrs.
Epes might have been hit while
under the influence Of drugs.
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Warsaw Woman Receives
Card From Jap-Held Son

WARSAW, Feb. ia post card
from her son, Norward, who was a
captive in Japanese Interrnent
Camp No. one in the Philippines,
was received last week by Mrs.
Charles F. Carroll. it was learned.
Carroll wrote that he and his
wife and three children were well,
and that they had received pack
ages from Mrs. Carroll. An en-
ploye of Light and Myers Tobac'
CO Co., Carroll was stationed in
the Philippines before the war. He
and his family had been interned
since Japanese occupation.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Miller, have
been notified by the War Depart
ment that their son, T-Sgt. James
F. Miller, previously reported miss.
ing in action in enemy territory, is
now a German prisoner of war.
Miller, a member of the Air
Forces, has been in service since
April 81, 1913, and has been over.
seas since August 10 of last year.
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my stewardship of the legislative
trust reposed in me by the people
of Wilmington and New Hanover
County. The decisions outlined
above have been reached after
careful consideration of all the
problems involved. I hope that
no injustice has been done to any
individual or group and that pas
sage of such legislation as has
been approved, or the rejection Of
such proposed legislation as has
been refused, will result in fur
thering the best interests of our
community as a whole
The pending early adjournment
of the Legislature will prevent in
PRODUCTION Of further local bills
after this week and anyone wish
ing to propose local legislation will
please publish copy Of the same
in the local press before sending
it to Raleigh
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Mai. McLendon Unable
To Address Bar Group

Maj. L. P. McLendon, Green's
boro attorney scheduled as main
speaker at the meeting tonight in
the Blue Top Lodge Of the New
Hanover Bar association, has been
forced to cancel his appearance
by the death of a sister elsewhere
in the state, it was announced last
night by Clayton C. Holmes, secre-
tary Of the association.
Mr.. Holmes hazarded the guess
that, in default of another pre-
pared speaker, the time left va
cant might be taken by members
suggestions of candidates for the
Federal District Judgeship to be
LETT open ir the near future by the
announced resignation of Judge
Isaac M. MeekinS.
TO the best of his knowledge,
Mr.. Holmes said, local attorneys
have made no move to endorse any
candidate.
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Henry, Va. In Hawaii, the colonel
was commander Of the Second
battalion of the Third Engineers
from 1884 to 1886. He later served
in the office of the Chief of Engi-
neers, Washington, D. c., in
charge of the construction divi-
sion. He also served as Whining
ton District Army Engineer short
ly before the war started. He as
sisted in organizing the Engineer
Training Center at Fort Belvoir,
Va, and commanded the First
Training group there, later assum-
ing the post of executive officer.
Mrs. Gillette, who is still in
Boston, will join the colonel about
May l. They will reside On the
post.
The Gillettes have two children
"a son, George W. Gillette, Jr.,
lieutenant with the civil engineer
corps, U. S. Navy, who has Just
returned from % months overseas
with the Seabees; and a daughter
in Austin, Tex, who is married
to Maj. J. A. Miller, serving over
seas with the Engineers.
Colonel Gillette, a native of On
slow county, replaces Col. Leonard
B. Gallagher, who has assumed
command of all basic military
training at Fort Lewis.
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INVASION LEADERS

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 49,
UP)-The American command
in the invasion of Two:
Fleet Adm. Chester w. Nimitz,
commander in chief, Pacific.
Adm. Raymond A. Spruance,
Fifth Fleet.
Vice Adm. Richmond K. Tur-
ner, Pacific Amphlbious Forces,
invasion commander in chief.
1t. Gen. Holland M. Smith.
commander of Pacific Fleet
Marine Forces.
Rear Adm. w. H. c. Blandy,
Tactical c o m m n d Naval
Forces.
Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt,
Fifth Amphibious Corps.
Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Gates,
Fourth Marine Division.
Maj. Gen. Keller E Hockey,
Fifth Marine Division.
The Fourth Marines are vet
Grams of the Marshall and Mari
anas Islands invasions. They
won a Presidential Citation for
their work at Saipan and Tinian
in the Marianas.
The Fifth Marines were acti-
waited late in 1913 and Rocky
took command in February,
1914.
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LOCAL TEACHERS
OPPOSE PAY PLAN

No delegation of Wilmington or
New Hanover county teachers is
likely to 60 to Raleigh to join
forces with the Charlotte commit
tee Of five VINO conferred yester-
day with Gov. R. Gregg Cherry
in protest over his recommends
ton of $l25-$200 per-month pay
schedule for teachers, but local
pedagogues are mobilizing whole
hearted opposition to the so-called
compromise schedule" down
here, Mrs. Lucille X. Shuffler, To-
cal branch president Of the North
Carolina Education Association,
said last night.
I'VE in Wilmington have such
long distance to co. she explained,
that We have not formed dele
CATION She added, however. that
MISS Mildred Bradford, legislative
representative of the local NORA
orancn, is in Raleigh in an effort
to find out in what way the New
Hanover contingent's influence can
be applied to the best effect.
I'VE have sent wires and have
contacted Rep. J. @. LeGrand',
Mrs. Shuffler reported, and added
that teachers efforts to rouse pub
lie opinion against what Associat-
ed Press dispatches last night said
Superintendent T. H. Cash, of Win
ston-Salem, called "a raw deal
from Cherry" would continue.
1--WE feel that the $125 to 5000
schedule is the one we should
have Mrs. Shuffler explained.
They are calling the $125 to 1852
schedule a compromise schedule,
but we think it is no compromise,
since it proposes the lowest wage.
scale yet suggested" She explain
ed that the compromise" title
might derive from the governor S
suggestion that during the period
of war-swollen wages and prices
teachers be given, at the end of
each year, a lump-bonus amount
ing to $40 per month for the school
term, if the funds were available.
The maximum yearly wage for
teacher of more than nine years
service on the scale suggested by
the governor would amount to ST..
538, as against yearly maximum
Of $1,000 under the schedule asked
by the NCEA. The latter schedule
would scale monthly pay from
SIPS, for an $40" teacher, be-
ginning service, to 5000 for an "a
8" teacher, with nine years. or
more service to his or her credit.
The present pay-rate gives an
40 teacher $127.30 a month, after
retirement-fund and other deduc.
lions are made.
The Charlotte delegation, chosen
Saturday in Charlotte at a meet
ing Of 400 city teachers, is report
ed by the Associated Press to be