Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
ID. t.. Area Infernees
Reach Los Angeles
From Philippines

IWenty-three persons, who former
| ly lived in or near Washington or
who have relatives here, were among
about $500 American, British and
Canadian evacuees from the Philip
pines who arrived in Los Angeles
yesterday, the largest number of re-
patriates to be evacuated at one time
from war theauer since Pearl Har-
Dor.
The State Department said that
the group, which included more than
| 1900 Americans and their depend
ents, reached the West Coast on an
unnamed transport.
The department also said that it
had been impossible to send the Gus
tomary notice to relatives of return
ing evacuees because of the large
number. Interested persons were
urged to consult the nearest chapter
of the American Red Cross for as
slstance in getting in touch with
passengers.
Listed Among Arrivals.
| Listed among the arrivals were:
DR.. Luther B. BeWley, former COM
missioner of education in the Philip
| pine government. whose wife, for
mer resident of the Roosevelt Hotel,
is in California.
Mr.. and Mrs. John K. Pickering
hncQ lonnhtor
lives at 5152 Manning place NV.
The Rev. Henri B. Pickens, whose
wife lives at 1901 Hamilton street
Hyattsville, Md, and son of Mr.. and
Mrs Claude l.. Pickens, 1873 Webster
street NV.
Miss Mary Ogle, formerly aSso-
ciated here with the Seventh-Day
Adventist General Conference.
Edward Klippert, whose mother
Mrs. Catherine klippert, lives on
Route 5. Washington.
Col. James M. Love, jr., U. S. A.,
retired, whose SiSter-in-laW, Mrs.
Thomas B Love, lives at 2l29 Flor
ida avenue NV.
Mrs Winifred Hoffman. wife of
w. E. Hoffman of 1908 Newton street
NE, who is with the National Mu-
scum.
Miss Leila " Dingle, sister of Mrs
Alfred Stedman. 1113 Seminary road, |
Silver Spring, Md
Glen w. Lambeth. Washington.
Mrs Walter Loving, who, accord
ing to Mrs. Bruce Evans, 1910 YER
mont avenue NV, lived in Wash
ington at one time and later in
California.
Cleo, Merton, Helen H, Alice I
and Helen E. Morrison, Arlington,
Va
Ernest j. and Rose Necker, Wash
ington.
Charlotte Whalen, Washington.
Experiences Are Told
Mr. Hoffman, professor at Ling
nan University in Canton, China.
for 20 years, said he and his wife
were returning to their home there
in 1910 after a furlough in this
country when she was stopped at
Manila because of war conditions
Mrs. Hoffman remained at Manila.
to be interned later at Los Banas.
while her husband continued to
China. Mr.. Hoffman was returned
to this country in December. 1943.
on the Gripsholm, and since has
. been connected with the National
Museum here.
While the parents of Mrs Gibbs
returned yesterday to California,
She has been informed her hus-
bands father Allison D. Gibbs, was
killed March Is. when American
planes bombed Baguio He was in
the Notre Dame Hospital there He
was an attorney and active despite
his IS years.
Mrs. Gibbs husband. Maj. Gibbs
of the Judge Advocate Generals
Department, former Washington
attorney, is in the Philippines. His
brother, Allison J. Gibbs, an attor-
ney of Manila who was interned. is
remaining there, but his wife and
three children have returned and
are in California.
Mrs. Stedman said her sister, Miss
Dingle, was Methodist missionary
attached to the Harris Memorial
Training School for Girls in Manila
when the Philippines fell The
school escaped destruction and after
Miss Dingle was released, she wrote
home she had returned and collected
her personal belongings. Although
her home formerly was in Seattle
Miss Dingle has visited her sister
here.
Col. Love is brother of the late
Thopooc q oyo If INoeL;notor