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Evening star., 1945-12-29
|EmboIism That Killed
| Patton W WasIneyitabIe,
Col. Squirting Says

The pulmonary embolism that
caused the death Of Gen. George s.
Patton, jr., was inevitable and his
death could not have been pre-
vented, Col. r. Glen Squirting, the
Army's chief neuro-surgeon and the
man who attended the dying gen.
eral, said today.
Formation of an embolism (usual-
ly q blood clot blocking circulation)
is a frequent development In such
cases. Col. Squirting said. and the
likelihood that one will occur in
creases with the age Of the patient.
He described the 60-year -old gen.
erals critical injury as a fracture
Of the third and fourth cervical
vertebrae. "The embolism," he
said, probably was owing to an in
jured spinal vein"
Flown to Bedside.
Col. Squirting, who was flown to
the bedside of his former command
ing officer, returned to Washing
Ion yesterday. His plane from Eu-
rope was forced down in Baltimore
because OF bad weather and he COM
pleted the journey by automobile.
He is at the Hay-Adams House.
Col. Squirting praised highly the
nghting spirit Of Gen. Patton and
the efficiency of the Heidelberg
Army hospital where he died.
The general knew the seriousness
OF his condition." Col. SpurAng said.
He was calm and fearless. Every
thing that could have been done
was done"
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Two Cruisers Battered
In Atlantic Gales
Arrive in New York
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The cruiser
Portland arrived here yesterday with
soldiers and sailors who told of ter
rifle gales on the Atlantic that took
toll OF two soldiers dead, one miss
ing and % injured,
The 20,000-ton vessel, which saw
10 engagements in three years of
Pacific warfare, docked with her
radar antenna bent back against her
foremast and her starboard hangar
hulkheads ripped off by the storms,
She carried 1,159 troops.
The Portland's captain, Lowe H.
Bibby Of Alexandria, Va, described
the weather as "the worst storms I
have seen in % years of naval sea-
faring."
The skipper of the light cruiser
Boise, Capt. Charles c. Hartman of
Santa Monica, Calf, said it was
certainly the worst crossing I ever
made"
No Casualties on Boise.
The Boise, originally due to arrive
by Christmas, docked yesterday with
1,l89 servicemen. No casualties
from the storms were reported
aboard it.
The Portland's two dead, killed
when a giant wave hit the starboard
hangar, were Sergt. Noah L. Daniels
of Amity, Ark, and Sergt. Louis S.
Csuries, Steelton, Pa.
The missing man was Sergt. j. M.
Lewis of Springfield, Colo.
Capt. Bibby estimated waves so
feet high and winds of 80 miles an
hour had struck the Portland.
Comdr. A. D. Jackson, Bryan, Tex,
the navigator, said he believed some
OF the waves had been more than
100 feet high and the wind "rluch
more" than 80 miles an hour. The
vessels wind indicator broke at
about As miles an hour.
Soldiers Praise Sailors.
Scenes Of horror and confusion
IN the blackout Of the starboard
hangar were described by men who
slept there when the mountainous
wave roared in, causing the casu-
alties.
The troops praised the quick ac-
ton OF Navy men and the calming
speech of Capt. Bibby, which quieted
men who believed the vessel was
done for"
The 12-yeaf-olc Portland de-
toured to the Azores on December
IL and the more seriously injured
men were removed at Ponte Del
grada. The stopover and the neces-
Sary zigzagging to avoid the brunt
OF the waves added 1000 miles to
her crossing from LIE Havre.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Navy Will Help Draft
bill 10 Consolidate
Military Services
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The Navy Department, bitter op-
ponent of merging the armed forces,
will help draft a bill to bring the
unification about.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah explained to neWsmen it was
only to be expected that the Navy
would 60 along with recommenda-
tions of the President as Com
mander in Chief. Mr.. Truman has
asked that the services be placed
under a single civilian secretary.
Senator Thomas, who is chair
man of the Senate Military Affairs
Committee. said yesterday his group
will have ready bill embodying
the Presidents proposal when Con-
gress reassembles January IA.
Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will
represent the Navy. Maj. Gen. Lau-
ris Norstad the Army. They will
work with Senator Thomas and
Senators Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama and Austin, Republican, of
Vermont to shape up the measure.
Senator Thomas said the admiral
would be free to express any opin-.
ions.
The chairman has been outlining
draft during the holiday recess
with the help of congressional leg
islative experts. He said this will
be used as the basis of the admin
istration bill
Previous lengthy hearings by the
Military Affairs Committee have
been on differing merger proposals
sponsored by Senators Hill and
Johnson, Democrats, of Colorado.
Senator Thomas said he would use
only the number of the Hill meas
ure, substituting a complete new
text.
Senator johnson, a sponsor of the
plan outlined by the President, was
not appointed to the unusual Legis-
lative- Executive Committee, which
will draw the administration bill.
II will support the new bill," he
told reporter. But I want to take
a critical look at it first to be cer-
tain it retains all the civilian con-
trolls that President Truman asked"
Evening star., 1945-12-29
BY the Associated Press.

BY lle ASSOCldleQ tI6SS.
If Hawaii becomes the forty-ninth
State, as Interior Secretary Ickes
has recommended, what will happen
to the United States flag?
A star will be added, of course.
But where? Will there be seven
rows of seven stars, instead of the
present six rows of eight? And
who will decide where to place them?
In an effort to answer these ques-
tions various flag authorities were
interviewed and a reporter delVed
deeply into flag lore at the Library
of Congress. These are the flag
facts:
The law says there should be a
star for each State, but it doesn't
say how they're to be placed. The
President can name some one, such
as the Army's and Navy's special
lists, to design a new flag.
These specialists said today that
until the President actually picks
his flag remodelers any attempt to
predict the makeup of 49-star flag
would be guesswork.
But, they added, the law Is spe-
Evening star., 1945-12-29

he said "All the lingering fila
ments of Catholicism were torn from
me as 1 read Huxley; and Spencer's
First Principles blew me intellect
ually to bits.
1.-THE months and years that fol-
lowed until I completed Sister
Carrie were marked with bitter
despair. lived in wretched quarters.
For time worked at manual labor
on railroad outside New Yok, and
later still became editor of a small
magazine. Occasionally I was able
to publish something which really
pleased me, but as yet there was no
place in the larger magazines for
my reactions to life.
TT was five years after T came
to New York that I finished Sister
Carrie Q900). But when it went
from one publisher to another with
out any success, I was in the
depths"
Rebuffed by Publishers.
Finally, publishing house ac-
cepted Sister Carrie" on the advice
of Frank Norris, their chief reader.
Said Mr.. Dresser:
ut seemed that at last I was to
have recognition. But this, with
what followed, proved to be the
greatest blow was ever to know.
when Norris was met with re-
buffs from the publishers (Who did
not read the book until it was ready
for distribution), he admitted its
merit and suggested that limited
number of copies be sent to critics
who were certain to recognize its
worth. But instead of the expected
praise, there were shouts of derision
And subsequently the books were all
stored in the basement.
1T was not until seven years later
that another publisher agreed to
publish Sister Carrie But even at
that time the outraged protests far
outnumbered the plauditS."
When his second novel, Jennie
Gerhardt," was brought out in 1911,
Mr.. Dresser was considered by some
menace to the moral standards of
the country. The New York Society
for the Prevention of Vice in 1916
threatened the publishers of THE
Genius with prosecution if it were
not withdrawn from sale. Sale was
suspended for a time, but the book
was finally re-iSsued.
Mr.. Dreiser's other books include
THE Financier" and The Titan
which with The Genius form a
trilogy; "a Traveller at Forty" plays
of the Natural and Supernatural, ="
"A Hoosier Holiday" Free and
Other Sories,' Twelve Men," 1.-The
Hand of the Potter" Hey Rub-a-
Dub Dub" "a Book About Myself, "
The Color of Great City" Moods,
Cadenced and Detained" Chains, "
Dresser Looks at Russia" and "A
Gallery of Women"
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Hampton Roads TO Become
Support in Army Change
BY the Associated Press

Py the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 29.-Army
spokesmen here said yesterday the
Hampton Roads port of embarka-
ton will become a SUPPORT of the
New York port of embarkation Feb
ruary /, and as such will come under
the authority of the New York port.
The spokesman said he did not
know what effect this change would
have ON troop movements through
here or whether it would result in
discontinuance of installations in
Hampton Roads.
Approximately 10000 men have
sailed overseas from Newport News
and some 100000 men have returned
to this country through Newport
News since the Hampton Roads port
of embarkation was activated.
Spokesman for the New York port
Iof enbarkation said it would soon
be the only official East Coast port
lof arrival for homecoming troops,
adding that Boston would cease to
tbe an ofhcial port Monday.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
British Supply and Air
Units Will Be Meraed

Plans to merge the, British Sup
ply Mission and the British Air
Commission into a British Supply
and Air Commission January l were
announced today by the British In
formation Services.
During the war the two agencies
worked in their respective fields to
stimulate production, share techni-
cal developments and establish joint
standards with the United States
for aircraft and munitions and sup
plies.
H. o. R. Hindley, head of the
Air Commission, will remain as chief
Of the new joint body.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Theodore Dresser, Novelist,
Dies at IA After Heart Attack
Wife Wos at Bedside
Of Author, Noted for
American Tragedy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.-Theodore
Dresser, one Of Americas leading
noveEsts, is dead.
A heart attack last night claimed
the 74-year- -old writer, an outstand-
ing realist who rose to literary emf
nence through critical derision after
abandoning a newspaper career,
which he claimed was too brutal" !"
Physicians said the writer, whose
novel, AN American Tragedy" pub
lished 20 years ago, was one of his
greatest literary works, appeared to
rally after the first attack early yes
terday, but succumbed to the second,
Is hours later.
At his bedside was his second wife,
Helen. His first wife, the former
Sarah Osborne White of ST. Louis,
died in 1912. There were no chill
dren.
Work Often Criticized.
Born at Terre Haute, Ind, in 1871,
the son of German couple, John
and Sarah Dresser, Theodore began
early to brood over the "brutalities"
of everyday life-a despair that soon
etched itself firmly in his writings,
which consistently ran to tragedies.
Beginning in Chicago about 1890
a Journalistic career he once said he
hoped would ''crystallize my vague
and imaginings," he
worked on newspapers and maga-
zines in st. Louis and New York be-
fore he wrote Sister Carrie" a.
tragedy of village maiden. Sup
pressed by publishers at first, it later
became one of his greatest works.
Later he turned out dozens of |
volumes of stories, long and short: |
plays and essays. Rejecting his OBJ
session with the cruelty" of life, |
many were met by public chorus of
adverse criticism.
Left Two Novels.
Since he established his home here
10 years ago Mr.. DRESSER remained
N semiseclusion, but recently COM
oleted two more novels, The Bull
Wark' and THE Stoic." which are
not yet off the press.
In 1912 he was barred from max
ng speeches in Canada after crit
clzing Great Britain's war effort.
He was credited with declaring that
1e would rather see the Germans,
'ather than English aristocracy. in
Britain, but this he branded as a |
Later that year, however, he again |
'enewed his criticism of Great Brit
ain, particularly what he termed |
the titled money class"
A brother Edward and a niece, |
Vera Dresser, both of New York. |
ire among his survivors.
Mr.. Dreiser's late brother, Paul
Dresser, was the composer of many
song hits around the turn of the
century. Among them were MY Gal
oaT and "On the Banks of the |
Wabash"
Cruelty Was ObsesSion.
Mr.. Dresser was deeply impressed
by the hard and cynical philosophy
and manner of life of the news
Qapermen with whom he was thrown
into intimate association.
AT the same time" he wrote, |
Il was obsessed with the cruelty
of life that was all too apparent
about me. Virtue, more often than
not, did not receive the reward the
preachers promised; blackguards
were triumphing every day"
Mr.. Dresser early became ac-
quainted with the books of Balzac
Huxley and Spencer.
''Balzac affected me more than
had any writer up to that time"
Evening star., 1945-12-29
U.S.. Flag Experts Face Problem
If Hawaii Gets Statehood

cific on one point--the flag becomes
official on the first July 4th follow
ing the admission of a new State.
Altogether the United States has
had some Is flags, including one
with Is stars and Is stripes. This
waved in the 1894 to 1918 breezes.
For a while there was new model
each year-in 1845, 1886, 1847 and
1848, as Florida, Texas, Iowa and
Wisconsin popped into the Union.
But flag designers have grown a
little rusty. The present model has
lasted a record 33 years, since New
Mexico and Arizona became States
in 1919
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Ford Windsor Plant Coils
For Full Output Jan. Z
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 90
Full employment will be resumed at
the Ford Motor Co. plant here jan
uary 2, the company announced to-
day.
All employees not yet called back
to work after the end of a 99-day
Walkout for union security by $500
production workers were instructed
to report on their regular shifts on
that date.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Begeors' Roundup Stuqed

Mexico City has just rounded up
all its beggars, sending those in
need of medical attention to the
public charities department and
those beyond hope to institutions,
while all able to work must labor on
various public works.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
| Londoners Need Shoes

Shoe production is rising, but Eng
land is so "down-at-heel" that it
will be an estimated two years be-
fore Londoners can choose the shoes
they want without queueing for
them.
Buying and keeping Victory Bonds
is the safest, surest way to long
term security and independence.
Evening star., 1945-12-29
Dehydruted Orunoe Juice

South African citrus growers have
been urged to reduce orange juice
to jelly form by dehydration
and make it available at low cost
the year round.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25

"A MEXICAN designers are doing
themselves proud in establish
ing definitely distinctive individ-
uality in the fashions they create.
This has come to be recognized and
acclaimed as the American look"
Clothes with a definite American
look are what the young moderns.
including teen-age, college and ca
reer girls, are clamoring for these
days.
The keynote to the new all-Amer.
lean fashions is their striking SIM
plicity, a simplicity that bespeaks a
new era of smartness that gives &C.
cent to the uncluttered silhouettes,
tuned to feminine prettiness in a
most practical way. Such are the
smartly styled dresses here pic
tured. These up-to-the-moment fash
ions by Emily Wilkens, the design
er who is noted for her inirnitable
way of creating clothes for the
campus set, are just the sort that
are bringing refreshing American
look" into the present-day fashion
picture.
Simplicity plus is expressed all
the way through the styling Of the
sWank bolero suit The designer
makes the skirt and bolero of the
now so fashionable wide vale
corduroy. which in this instance is
in striking electric blue, for bright
colors are making a tremendous
splurge this year i'll the fashion
realm. Using the wide vale horizon
tally instead of vertically is mas
ter stroke as it gives a strikingly
original look to the entire costume.
The slightly peg-top skirt has
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Style Notes

Color contrasts were never more
vivid.
Electric and royal blue are in the
color news.
Turtle-top is the smart girls neck
line this season.
Basic dress with wing sleeves is
fashion-right buy.
White fur daytime coats make a
nrw style contribution to the fall
mode.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25

shaped built-up waistline bespeaking
an important trend in the seasons
styling. A blouse of light blue ray
laine completes this definitely all
American costume.
There's outstanding style distinc-
ton also in the page-boy red wool
jumper dress shown to the left. 1t
has all the attributes of youth and
style and feminine charm teamed
with a practically and dependable
variability that makes it ideal for
classroom and campus wear. Also,
it's ever so smart to wear about
town. Its weskit top, soft bow at the
neck, together with the white striped
sleeves of zephyr knit are style con-
vincing. This young original cos
tune has all the qualities that 60 to
make up success fashion"
In sports separates the "Ameri-
can look'' is outstanding in the new
mix and match (more mix than
match is noted this year, outfits that
go in for dashing color contrast.
Noted are the chic jackets, sleeve
less jenkins and separate weskits
with warm knitted sleeves. You will
find in the stores such fetching num-
bers as an aqua wool jersey torso
jerkin striped in fuchsia and black
worn over an aqua crepe blouse
with black sleeves and black collar,
the separate skirt also in black. A
jerkin that has waist depth buttons
across one shoulder and along the
underarm seam. 1t comes in a
bright rust color, also in black, and
it's chic and comfy to wear over
a turtle-neck, long-sleeved sweater
blouse.
Characteristic features Of the i'm
portant american look" are seen
in wide shoulders that round down
softly into the new wing sleeves, in
huC-waist and belted effects with
bulk at the top, in peg-top skirts and
the wrap-around types. Smart as
can be are the dirndl-with-contrast
top costumes. With the dirndl that
is gaily colorful a waist depth black
jersey blouse is top fashion. It is
noticed too, that American design
ers favor gray as color for smart
wool suits and dresses.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Fur-Lined Coats Popular

II you believe in preparedness
now is the time to take up the matter
of buying a fur-lined coat. News
from style headquarters is to the eff
feet that more fur-lined coats than
ever will be worn this winter Many
of the fur Innings are made detach-
able.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Roten0ne Imports

In 1881, the first year In which this
country imported rotenone roots in
commercial quantities. our imports
We're only $500 pounds. BY 1910 they
mad expanded to $500, coo pounds.
Rotenone Is used in insecticides
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Clever WaShcloth

Here's a clever way to use up
those leftover slivers and scraps of
toilet soap. Put them into a small
turkish toweling bag when taking a
bath; this bag full of soap can be
put into the tub and you'll have
wash cloth and soap in one.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25

A small bag filled with cornstarcl.
when busted on the palm of the hand
will absorb perspiration and prevent
solling when sewing on white or
ight-colored fabrics.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Defeated Nation

For the frst time In modern his.
tory Japan Is defeated nation and
for the first time in all history for.
eign soldiers will tread the ancient
soil Of Nippon.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-25
Japs Like Bas eball

Japs Like Baseba
81 Baseball is more popular In japan
than anywhere else except III the
United States and Canada.
Lacks Nitrogen
The firing Of corn during the ex-
ceptionally wet weather is pcinci-
pally due to a lack Of nitrogen.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Miss Prussine in Chicago

Marilyn Prussing will return
Monday from Chicago where
she is spending the weekend
with her aunt. Mrs. A. d. Pla-
mondon. Capt. II. A. Price
was guest al the Prussing
home during the week, coming
from Stuart Field, n. y.
Mary Rogers and Dorothy
Coleman are planning slumber
party for the Junior class of
KingSwood School on the Mon
day after the close of school,
at the Coleman home in De-
troit.
Mrs. Donald s. Bell Will en-
tertain at luncheon and bridge
Wednesday afternoon in her
home on Mohegan drive. Guests
will be members OF her group
who worked together on The
Seeing Eye drive.
Mrs. Hugh 5. Wagner tGarn-
eron Biggers) has left for Ogon-
quit, Me, 10 join 1t. Wagner.
She has spent several weeks
with her family, the Robert L.
Biggers of Old Salem Court.
Mrs. James A. Grier is chair
man OF the committee for the
ladies' bridge luncheon at Oak
land Hills Country Club, June
13. Her assistants will be Mrs.
Warren Pease Jr., Mrs. John l..
Lander and Mrs. w. Carleton
Scott.
Mr. and Mrs Roy D. B. Moy-
nahaH Of GienhurSt drive Will
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Miss Lind TO Return

Peggy Lind is expected home
next Tuesday from Wheaton
College. She has spent a week
visiting school friends in 7hlla-
deiphIa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward s.
Reid Jr. will entertain the old
and new boards OF directors of
the Village Players at cock
tails in their home in Clifton
road and dinner at Orchard
Lake Country Club
Mr.. Reid is relinquishing the
presidency 10 Walter r. Herd
rich for the coming year Nrw
directors on the board include
Charles y. Mccall. Mrs. George
T. Stevens, Mrs. Eliot S. Kin
ney and Walter r. Skinner.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

the news of Barbara Under
woods engagement to 1t.
William J. Shuman, USAAF,
OF LaJunta, Colo.
1t. Shuman is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. ID. Schooley
of Lakeland, Fla. The bride
elect is a sophomore at the
University of Arizona. 1t.
Shuman has spent more than
two years in the Aleutians.
He will arrive for brief
leave at the Underwood home
next week.
Presiding at the tea table
during the afternoon we're. Mrs.
William b. Stout, Mrs. John
Fisher. Mrs. Spencer ID Hop
kins. Ellen Anderson, Marilyn
ADAMS and Ann llarreil
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Birmingham Raiir )
I,oA Announced
BIRMINGHAM, June 2.

MRS ARTHUR j. UNDERWOOD and her daughter Barbara
m hostesses tea Friday afternoon, in their
Manor road in honor of Barbara Jean Dennson Of
Lansing Miss Dennson the fancee of 1t Arthur j.
Underwood who is duty with field artillery unit in
Austria Miss Dennison is spending the weekend at the
Underwood home.
When guests into the dining for tea and
punch bride and soldier parachuting from BIZ
suspended pink white floral cenerpece revealed
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Guild TO Breakfast

MARILLAC GUILD viii hold
its annual meeting and break
fast on Tuesday at ST. Mary's
Hospital. Mrs. George l.. Van
Antwerp is chairman.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

June 10 the Players will
close the season with their an
nual picnic.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

leave with their family next
week for their summer home at
Northport Point.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

Handy little metal shears can be
used for Getting garden flowers or
to remove SHIN twigs from bushes.
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