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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08
NEW YORK HEARTBEAT

Faces About Town: Betty Comp Son, the silent cinema star, dem- Onstrating her line of cosmetics in 8 tcn-cerlt store Former blond Errol Flynn, now brunei Ex- Ziegfeldarl, Mildred Darling, now a Club IS hatcheck girl Betty Bruce. the Central Park" baller- ina, and It. Jack Lawson Ensign Gabriel Dell, one of the original Dead End kids :. Lisette Verea trousscau shopping for her Soon-due marriage to a gentleman whose name she will not reveal. :. .. Lovely Loretta Duffy of the George M. Conan, Shubert and other shows, who Gas Mrs. Ray WesD is in the war at the B'klyn Navy Yards elec- trical repair dept M. Am 8terdam, who wrote Rum and c. C." spurning $5O,0OO for his share. Expects to make 100Gs from the offers as high as $2,500 for an ar- click =. Fred Allen, who refused ticle from many mags, doing book review for the Times for $40 Frederic March, star of "A Bell for Adano," who was asked if it would be all right for Gregory Peck to re- place him. He replied: "No, that would be like letting someone use your totohbruShI"
 SaIlies in Our Alley: Little Mar garet O'Brien gets crushes on grownups. Clark Gable and Robert Young, frinstance. More recently Jose Iturbi had to cancel two lunch dates with her. The third time he invited her, she was heard saying to 8 playmate: Don't you think ' ought to break 1t thi stime? really shouldn't seem too anxious" |. Joe E. Lewis toast to friends: "Rich or poor-may you always have moncy!"
 Midtown Vlgnette: witnesses tell you it happened and that it put them in stitches. She was de- Scribed as a Park Avenue doWager apparently weary of hailing un- responsive cabs and probably late for an appointment. She finally submitted to the indignity of stumb- ling into a dark subway en- trance during the rush hour, whero crowds pushed her into a waiting train She insisted on keep ing her slow, dignified pace = ever while the doors were closing .. "Oh, lady!" parked an impatient man. Hurry upv'-giving her a shove She summoned the last remnant of her poise and said: Fl beg your poddon. but you cannot pack us in like-like-anchovies!"
 MemOs of a Midnighter: Hope for the Best" the new play last night, deals with a writer with two women in his life. One trying to make him stick to writing fol-de- rol, the toher wanting him to fol- low his inclinations to do more serious things. One critic on the road said the plot cartoons No Time for Comedy" in which a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

throughout het world should be free to get their news from any source.
 This platform is one for which the United Press has fought and campaigned ever since 1t was found ed nearly forty years ago. Today we serve more clients outside the United States than we did when the war began. In France and in the liberated portion of Italy, United Press service again is being used by newspapers.
 'The universal desire for truth after this war must not be frus- trated, but must be satisfied by re- moving the Instructions from the flow of news among the nations of the world"
 Turkey will spend nearly $l1 1,000,- C0O to increase its heed t1roflllction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

American W h 0 fought for the Republicans in Spain, emerged disillusioned, and ignorng his own country's ar, came to Argen- tina where life W as prosperous and easy. He falls more or less in love with Carol, American wife of Hans von Bulow, GorYVNop diTO1OY1a at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

playwright was similarly torn be- twixt two charmers So you wanna be a bandleader2 Jimmy Dorsey's booking at the Pennsyl- vania will cost him $1,000 week Because band must have ai- time :. Warmers are batting Mari- on Hutton with heavy coin to be their Betty Grable |. Flo rthe first time Der Gingle won't warble in his next film, "The Belle of St. Marys" |. At the Copacabana (Miami Beach. the fine girl show features a good song, Too Bad You Haven't Got a Heart" by El- liott Eberhard. The wordage IS word for word from a recent Don Wahn verse in this colyum. VIII MT. Eberhard kindly notify his at- torneys to explain to the attorneys of The Daily Mirror?
 Broadway Ballad (By Don Wahn) You'll meet him at the swankiest of bars He stands alone-and drinks away the night The same old plaint-he scared among the stars. Before he found that love was dynamite A little girl came by-a quiet thing t. And yet her charm was like a breathleSS dawn He had the choicest gift that life could bring. Then someone else stepped in-and she was gawnl-. So now he plays the martyr with an air And speaks of her. as of a lovely ghost He VOWS that it will be his last affair. And drinks to her with many q poignant toast And yet, if he imagines he is harried-he toughtc meet the lucky guy she marriedl
 Times Square Ticker Tape: Le"
 lore Lennon has not decided whether she will file against Jakie Webb in Florida, where she is now. She hears he has been busted in the army and is in Federal jug for a long stretch Howcum the YMCA and YWCA are not listed in the Manhattan Classified direc- tory, but the Japanese Christian Assn is? The new Boca Raton Hotel (between Palm and Miami Bach) is now the most luxurious. One of the sights to SC in North America :. Seven mags (three nationally circulateO will front cover Eleanor Parker, the next star le tthe Warmers plan to publicize after Betty Bacall. The latter has two uncles (lawyers) devoted to her. They intend to see that she is not given any fast counts in Hollywood Louella Parsons publishers
 Doubleday -Doran) have ordered sequel to her 'The Gay Illiterate," which sold big Major G. Day. mond is the No. boy in Dolores MoranS life now The chorus boy who killed himself by hanging back stage at hit musical was not the first in the troupe to take his life.
 The Big Time: Kate Smiths Co., lumbia record of Suddenly My Heart Strings" Victor Jory's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08
B0OKMARKS
By Bread Alone" Employs Argentine Back Drop ARTIST BURBANK TELLS OF EXPERIENCE WITH INDIANS

BETTY DE SHERBININ set herself writing By Bread Alone" MOOw $25O which group problems complicated by the mixed
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

This Sunday has been set aside by
our church as Seminary sunday
The subject of the sermon will be
Bearers of the Light. We will
consider the work that our semin-
aries are doing in preparing young
people for full-time service in the
Presbyterian Church. All mem
bers and friends should be present
as we worship God and as we con-
slider how our seminaries are Civ
ing the Light to young men and
women so that they in turn may
take it to churches throughout the
country and world
This evening, Thursday, Oct. %.
we wiADegin Bible Study group.
We will meet in the evening at the
Manse at 1880. Parents need to
learn just as the children and young
people do and the Released Tine
program has just begun for them.
and so we invite you to join this
Bible Study group.
CLAYTON M. SHOTWELL,
Minister
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FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
I. C. Hjortllolm,

Reformation Day will be observ
ed next Sunday at the morning
worship at 1900 a. m This will
be Communion service. Sermon
theme. Partaking Of the Lords
Supper According to Gods Word.
| Cor. II:23-25. The Sunday School
will begin at Gas a. m. The Young
Peoples L. H. will meet at the
Geo Baeth home at 7:30 on Sun
day evening. Program topic, Chris
tian Understanding Of the Econom-
ic Groups in the Community The
Junior Ladies Aid meets, with Mrs.
Hiortholm at the parsonage on
Thursday evening, November /,
at 7.30 The confirmation class
will meet at the church on Saturday
at 1920 a. m. Those parents who
want their children to attend the
Wednesday Bible study classes at
First Lutheran Church should in
form the teachers so that the chill
dren can be released from schoo
for the cla1es. No pupil is releas
| ed without written request from
the parents. The Wednesday class
es are open to all, whether attend
ing our Sunday School or not.
fl. c. HJORTHOLM, Pastor
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ST. MICHAEL'S, EUREKA
fEpiSconan

NLVISCUVdIT
Sunday October 28th:
Holy Eucharist and sermon 100
a. m
Presentation Of the United Thank
Offering
Church School 10 a. m.
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THE WESTERN NEWS, LIBBY, MONTANA

being on duty in the Pacific and
Southwest Pacific He took part
in several amphibious landings
while serving on two air craft car
riers. He was also on various adj
vanced bases. He was released in
September from active duty.
L. B. Chick Kemmis. BM-1/c
recently returned home to Libby
after receiving his honorable dis
charge at Bremerton, Wn. Chick
has been for the past years with
the Seabees, and saw service in the
PHILIPPINE Islands.
M/Sgt Jimmy Rubard arrives
home Thursday, October 25. He is
accompanied by his sister, Betty
from Spokane. He will enjoy a
much deserved furlough
with the 18th Air Force during his
80 months overseas.
The AAF has awarded him the
Presidential Unit Citation and the
European Theatre ribbon and bat
tie stars.
Before entering the service he
was a logger for the Montana State
Forestry Dept.
Santa Ana, Calif.-S/Sgt. Cecil
H. Elliott, Eureka, was honorably
discharged recently from the separ-
alton center maintained here by the
Army Air Forces.
Sgt. Elliott is veteran of forty
five months service in the Army
Air Forces He served in North AT
RIGA, Sardinia, Corsica and Italy as
radio operator and PHOTOGRAPHER
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Eureka, Mont.
Sunday Services
1000 a M. Sunday school, with
classes for all ages.
HOO a. M, morning worship. Ser
mon topic: "A Man Pleasing to
God"
$50 p. m, Baptist Youth Fellow
ship. Helen Alavana is the leader
7:30 p M, Evening Praise. The
sermon: "A Thankful Heart
Midweek Meetings
Tuesday evening, choir practice
is held.
Thursday evening, prayer meeting
and Bible study.
w. R. HODGES, Pastor.
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The Sacrament of Penance-Eu-
reka, Saturday at 4 and 1880 p. m.
Rexford, 4th and 5th Sundays at
9:15 a. m.
The Sacrament of Baptism-Sun-
day afternoon by appointment.
The Sacrifice of the Mass on
Holydays of obligation in Eureka
at o'clock and $50 o'clock a. m.
No Mass in Rexford.
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News From Those
In The Armed Forces
Continued from page II

Continued from page ID
from Oakland, Calf, having re-
ceived his honorable discharge from
the Navy. Lloyd served 2 years,
1874 months of which was in the
Pacific area where he took part in
the operations at Mindonao, Luz
on and Okinawa. The young sail
or was on the USS Gillim. APA
ST. Lloyd expects to re-enter Lbs
and go on with the education which
the war interrupted
Elmer Anderson, Vile is home
on 80 day leave visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ander-
;aon. Elmer has been in Japan and
was the first Libby man to reach
Tokyo.
Mrs. William Hafferman received
word that her husband. Pvt VIM.
Hafferman has landed in Manila.
He expects to be sent elsewhere for
duty.
Pvt Lester Flory is home on de-
layed routing from Lowry Field,
Colorado. He is in the Air Corps
and has been specializing in the
department Of Fire-control, work
ing on B-29's. He reports to Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Kenneth E. Brown. MoMM- lie,
has arrived back in the States. He
returned to the States aboard the
flattop Villa Gulf, which brought
load Of troops from Yokohama
and Okinawa. Kenneth is now in
Bremerton and expects to be there
until he receives his discharge He
is a son Of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood
Brown.
lst Sgt. Lloyd Moe, brother OF
Harry Moe, has recently received
his discharge from the Army. Sgt
Moe made brilliant record for
himself while in the ETO He is
at home at Couer dAlene now
S/Sgt. Blair Ridgeway received
his discharge from the Army All
Forces at Tucson, Ariz., October
Is.
1t. Joe Fennessy, Jr., returned
last week and is reopening his law
-office in the State Bank Building
1t. Fennessy practiced law here
before entering the Navy where
he served 80 months, 28l2 months
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
THE METHODIST CHURCH
Libby and TrOy)
Libby: Sunday School GAS

Libby: Sunday School GAS a. m
Worship service IL a. m.
ST.. Woman's Society Of Christ
ian Service and Jr Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service will hold
joint observance of the Week OF
Prayer and Self-Denial. Wednes-
day, Oct 81 at 2 p. m. in the church
Troy Sunday School 1890 a m
Worship service 1870 p. M,
E. ROY FORT. Pastor
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ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
Mo. SYNOD
The Little Cathedral in the Pines

The Little Cathedral in the Pines
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Divine Service II a. nj.
Walther League, Tuesday Oct
Der 30, 7:30 pm. at the church
Choir Rehearsal, Thursday pm.
Confirmation Glass, Monday and
Friday, 4 p. m.
Release Time Religious Educa-
ton, Wednesday a. m.
RI. HASSKAMP. B. B.
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FORTINE COMMUNITY CHURCH

ArVld Erickson, Pastor
Sunday school. 1890 a. M
Worship service, ll:30 a. m.
Jr. Young Peoples Service, 7:45
p. m.
Evangelistic service, BIS p. m.
Prayer meeting, 800 p. m. Wed
nesday.
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TREGo COMMUNITY SERVICE

Each Sunday morning, 1920 am.
Could you come if you had ride?
If so, write a card TO Harold Erick-
son, Box 1874. Fortine. Mont.
GAS Sunday school.
1900 Morning worship.
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ST. LUKE'S, LIBBY
(EpiScOpal)

Sunday, October 28th
Evening Prayer and sermon TS2
Wednesdays: -
Religious. Instruction during the
morning, grades | through g. Con-
Quoted by the Vicar
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

The subject for the Lesson-Ser-
mon Sunday, October Is, Probation
After Death"
Wednesday evening meeting at
800 o'clock
Sunday school 9 As a. m.
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THE CHURCHES
CHURCH OF GOD

Sunday.
IL a. m. Morning worship.
10 a. m. Sunday school. Glasses
for all ages.
I'd. m. Young Peoples meeting.
8 p. m Evening worship.
Wednesday
s D. m. Prayer meeting.
Everyone welcome to our serv-
ices.
REV. B. H. APPLICABLE,
Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH

Masses every Sunday. 800 and
1000 a. m
Confessions Saturday evenings.
7:30 to $50
Baptisms by appointment.
Holy Days of Obligation Masses
at tbs and 800.
ST, MARY'S CHURCH
Troy
Masses the second and fourth
Saturday of the month at $50 a. m.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
OUR LADY OF MERCY
CHURCH
Eureka Mont

Eureka, Mont
The Sacrifice of the Mass-Eu-
reka. $50 a. m. on all Sundays
except the 4th and 5th. On those
two Sundays the hour is IL a. m.
Rexford, 1870 a. m on all Sun
days except the 4th and 5th. On
those two Sundays the hour is $3.50
q. m.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
TABERNACLE


Sunday school 10 am. Glasses
for all ages.
Sunday morning worship 1900
o'clock.
Tuesday evening prayer, 745.
Thursday night c. A. service, 7.
Friday evening annual Harvest
Home Dinner, to be held in the
American Legion hall at $50 pm.
REV. F. A. DALTON, Pastor
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday Services
10 AN. Sunday school,
IL am. Morning worship service.
$50 pm Baptist Youth Fellow
ship
7.30 pm. Evening Praise Service.
Midweek Meetings
Tuesday evening, 7.30 o'clock,
choir rehearsal.
Thursday evening T:30 o'clock,
Prayer meeting and Bible study
w. r. HODGES, Pastor
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Kusner Electric Shop, Authorized
dealer for Westinghouse; also
plumbing supplies and kitchen
ware. Phone 19J. Troy. 2l-3x
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am representing the Stark
Nursery Co., and can furnish any,
thing you need in fruit trees, shrubs,
etc. Write Henry Noliar, Libby.
lift
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complete. One solid tooth saw SO in,
one lever swage. J. ]. Ross. Eureka.
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ANNOUNCEMENT

We are now handling the complete
line of SPERRY feed. Your pa
tronage will be appreciated. Win
frey Poultry Ranch, your LARRO
dealer. mile west of Libby on
Highway 2. 23-1x.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

Effective October 29, the Fountain
will remain open on Mondays. &c
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

Elmer Anderson, Y-l/c is home
on a 80 day leave visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ander-
;Aon. Elmer has been in Japan and
was the first Libby man to reach
Tokyo.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

1t. Joe Fennessy, Jr., returned
last week and is reopening his law
office in the State Bank Building.
1t. Fennessy practiced law here
before entering the Navy where
he served 80 months, 28l2 months
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

S/Sgt Blair Ridgeway received
his discharge from the Army Air
Forces at Tucson, Ariz., October
IL
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

lst Sgt. Lloyd Moe, brother Of
Harry Moe, has recently received
his discharge from the Army. Sgt.
Moe made brilliant record for
himself while in the ETC. He is
at home at Couer d'Alene now.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25
WANTED

Several good, small radios wanted
Bakers Radio Service 23-2c
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-10-25

Nh Mrs William Hafferman received
word that her husband. Pvt. VIM.
Hafferman has landed in Manila
He expects to be sent elsewhere for
duty
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

fall the street looked like a bomb
crater after a Blitz
Another stunt of Coles was TO
embarrass bridcgrooms by sending
pretty women 10 meet them as they
left the wedding ceremonies with
bridcs-and 10 pretend they were jilt-
ed fiancees. Once he cried stop
thief" as Cmdr Locker-Lampson a
Member Of Parliament. was running
for bus and caused his arrest.
Among such high jinks as these,
Denyse reached maturity-at least in
years. BY the time she was divorced
she had inherited life interest in
an estate of $150.O0O left by her grand.
father, Col. John DAILY, head of the
ancestral home, Blarney Castle, in
Ireland.
Denyse was on her own. SO she
shopped around until she met John
Winterbottom, a man OF means him
self. But, between consulting astrolo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

his own admission, went through a
fortune and, 20 the chagrin of his vic
Tins, perpctrated some of the widest
- and most successful - practical
jokes of all time.
While n student at Cambridge
University, Cole impcrsonatcd the
Sultan OF Zanzibar and received an
official welcome by the Mayor of
Cambridge, the Town Clerk. the Town
Councillors and the university's vice
chancellor complete with a process
sion through the streets, a tour of the
university and a champagne luncheon.
Once he came upon a group of
workmen standing around idly as
though waiting for someone to tell
them what to do. Cole told them.
He led them with their picks and
Shovels TO Piccadilly near Bond St,
one of the most congested traffic
spots in London, and directed them
to dig hole. They did, and by night
April q, 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

gists, patronizing Bond st. couturiers
and racing around in automobiles
(she had ten at one time), DenySe
was so much in love she made fl
nancial settlements on her new hus-
band.
Then came the war and, along
with it, bankruptcy for her. She had
money, true, in Ireland but she
couldn't get it out. Nevertheless.
Denyse went right on spending just
as a joke, of course.
Once she gave a lavish party in
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

Denyse obtained bail for later
hearing. But on the specified day,
she didn't appear. 1t was Callaghan's
job 10 fetch her again. He found her
in bed the door locked. Again Denyse
said She wouldn't get up. So Cal
laghan Knocked the door down.
When she pleaded guilty, Sir Ger
aid told her sharply:
You are a woman of education,
good upbringing and complete under
standing. But we will not let you de-
liberateiv flout the law. Six monthsw
THE A..EaaCAN WEEKLY &
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

Callaghan tapped
at her door In Chel-
sea with a warrant.
She said she was i'll
and couldn't move.
Callaghan called a
doctor, who said
she certainly w a S
fit. She demurred
and Sir II enry
Lethby Tidy, the
Kin g's physician,
was summoned. He
agreed that her all
ment was only an
other joke.
Still Denyse said
no. When she re-
fused to dress, Cal
laghan'S men Sug-
gested they'd turn
h er ver tn cir
knees and try a
hairbrush as a per-
aSive. L h a [,
Denyse d ecid G d,
was carrying a joke
too far. So she went.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08

Zlcu Dy Sucn ndTSn treatment
Everybody who Is any
body in London" she sighed,
knows that / am an undis-
charged bankrupt and that !
have plenty OF money coming
TO me. So / have really done
nothing wrong and nothing
underhanded."
But, being 6 feet 2, and the
ex-wife of the late William
Horace de We're Cole. she Is
accustomed 10 having her
head In the clouds.
Denyse, while still in her
teens, developed a passionate
interest in astrology, fast cars
and clothes. At II she met
Cole and, against the wishes
OF her family. became his
wife in 1919, the next year,
after whcedling official con
sent from her guardian, the
Lord Chancellor.
From then until 1923, when
she obtained a divorce, De
nyse received a liberal educa.
ton In spending money and
playing pranks. For Cole, by
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08
LONDON

LONDON
NVELTE Mrs. Denyse Ann Marie
Jose DAILY Winterbottom was
~ only fooling. Much of her life
was spent in the rarefied atmosphere
Of hair Drained hoaxes-so she saw
nothing wrong in the simple preten-
sion that she was in the chips when
actually she was bankrupt.
But her creditors weren't fooling
when her unpaid bills reached more
than $4,000, including about 81 300
at the Savoy. 81 500 at the Carlton
and $500 at her lodgings In Chelsea.
Neither were the police when they
arrested her Neither was Recorder
Sir Gerald Dodson when he sentenced
her at the Old Bailey TO serve up to
ksix months In Jail.
Mrs. Winterbottom, descendant of
landed Irish gentry, was puZ-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-03-24
Deny Patients
Segregated AT
Camp
Says Charges OF
Nazi Prisoners
Are Not True


NEW YORK, N. Y-SNS)-- Jr1o.
j. McCloy, Assistant Secretary OF
War, this week informed the Ma
tional Negro Congress that reports
of Na2i prisoner-of-W influence
upon Army policy st MacDill army
Air Base we're unfounded.
The. Congress had notified I n
War Department ola reported In
cfdent at MacDill Field resulting in
segregation of Negro patients at
the instipatlon of Na2i prisoners OF
war serving as mess attendants.
The War Department, following its
Immediate promise TO investigate,
has now written that no evidence
was developed that the German
prisoners objected to the serving OF
Negro. patients, and no petition or
complaint was made by the prison.
ers to the hospital authorities.
The sole reason for the separation
of mesSeS-the basis Of the reports
of segregation-Was to prevent pos
sibilitieS of determination of Army
personnel and prisoners of war.
'The diet mess serves all of the
hospital patients, both white and
colored, using only Army person.
mel for Kitchen police duty" the
War Department says.