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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

To the presidents and members Of
the H. B. A, greetings;
For many years some of us have
been strong supporters of the H. B.
a. 1t has been and is the best organ
ization to US in this section that has
been our privilege to be members of.
There are times when our homes, be-
cause Of the growth of the family,
must have new rooms added to them.
The grand old H. B. A. has grown so
large that it has been necessary that
we add some new attachments to the
Association. Lets so out to get 250
members or more by the September
Board
Yours to serve,
NJ. Y. B. Pitts, President Of H. 3.
A. IS and member of the Execu-
tive Board
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

For many years | have been an H.
B. A. In many storms have | been,
but when the storm was over the sun
began to shine bright. There must
be storms and there must be calms.
Somebody must save US in the time
of storms. We have always had some
body to save us when the way was
dark. Let us add all the members We
an by the September Board
Rev. r. w. Radclif, Member Ex-
ecutive Board and Pres. No. and
A, Toomsuba, Miss.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

The Meridian District Conference
was held at Dalevla Mississippi
August 2nl and 3rd. The Conference
was quite success financially and
spiritually The amount If money
raised through reports was $4,000.
Total number oil subscriptions to the
Christian Advocate was AS.
Among the visitors present were:
Rev and Mrs. r. L. Young, Rev E. F.
Young, Rev. E. A. Wilson, District
Supt. eff the Hattiesburg District and
Rev. G. W. Williams, District Supt.
'of the Outside District.
The next District Conference will
be held at Lawrence, Mississippi.
Rev. J. d. Wheaton, Dist Supt.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

Dear Rev. Young: This is to notify
the many readers through the Echo
that Lodge No. 1914 has lost one of
its faithful members in the person of
Mrs. Hattie Mcdonald Was a mem
Der of West Point NJ. B. Church. She
leaves a husband, one daughter and
five sons together wit h a host of
friends.
c. W. Mclaughlin, Pres.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

To the members and presidents of
the H. B. A.; Since the General Sec
rotary has been excnerated of all the
accusations brought against him, l am
with him 1905 with the new set-up
that we now have. May I say to the
presidents: lets 90 and help make the
H. B. A. what it should be-
Respectfully yours,
A. c. Drummond, President H. B.
No. 337 and 484 and Member
Executive Board, Newton, Miss.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17
ON THE SICK LIST

Mrs. Josephine Johnson, wife Of Mr.,
s. L. Johnson a veteran of World
War No. ,, has been on the SEX list
for the past several days. We hope
for her speedy recovery.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-08-17

To the H. B. A.: We have the best
organization of its kind in the State
or colored people. The General Pres
ident honored me in the Convention in
appointing me Chairman of the pro
posed Executive Board, a group of
fine presidents assisted me and the
Convention accepted our recommended
ton with Prof. A. c. Drummond, Sec
rotary. Let us see how many mem
bers each president can gain by the
September Board.
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
SAFETY

It isn't something that you can buy, Nor the laughs you got from pass ers-by, When you played a joke with speedy tug. Or the liquor you drank, and were put in the jug. It isn't the guard that wasn't in place, Or acid burns and disfgured face, Nor a protruding nail you didn't remove, Or a greasy floor. even though you didn't approve. It isn't the times that you drove like hell, Gliding along, thinking all was When just ahead there was an open hole, What a bloody mess When you lost control. It isn't the NO Smoking" signs that you ignored, And safety lectures when you said you were bored". Nor the static grounds you didn't connect And when you were told you said "Oh heck. It isn't the careless things we do, And the damages material, although we knew, That accidents can be prevented, if you're not so dense, SAFETY IS PRICELESS, JUST USE COMMON SENSE.
 by CPL. L. C. NOBLE,
 Ground Safety N.C.O.
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
SAILING, SAILING!

The best way to sail is, of course, in a boat and not through the pages of a book. You supply the boat and we'll tell you how NOT to be a land-lubber. THE ABC OF SAILING, by Herbert L, Stone is the book we recommend for you. Illustrated with many diagrams, it enables one to wis ualize the usual maneuvers he will be called upon to make, so that they are more readily understood than through the medium of words alone. The author gives the novice the benefit of his long experience gained through sailing on yachts of all sizes and types on the At lantic Coast and the Great Lakes, as we'll as on the Pacific.
 HAPPY DAYS!
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
A Victory Pledge

maket worthwhile.
 will the remembering only valuable path through which I have walked into the
 will of this pledge bestw with interest and enthusiasm. will mt with a cool head and a heart when I'm tempted to scold.
 Iwilt of myself and emotions will intendl will do. will be fair and because there other win will do right it is right. will defeat if a medicine. health honor.
 will help this with whom ontact
 wils by all times will work because have job do. will the which with all knowledge the lies the glory and myself. will maket this worthwhile
 PFC. JOHNSON
 c Squadron
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
THE CHAPLAIN
 Writes Chaplain Wm. J. Van Cleve
Susiie's Green-Eyed

Dear Gertrud:
 We'll Gertrud, I wonder where do we go from here. The other night Jim and me went over to the PIX before Jim was going to get Susie, and while we were sitting there at table drinking cokes this girl we know and a friend of hers came in. They saw Jim and me and come over and we all kidded a round for a while and then we in- vited the girls to sit down and have a coke with us. We had just got nicely settled and what should happen but Susie walks in. Jim was scared so bad he fairly turned white and Susie just walked on past like she didn't see him.
 Jim got a way as soon as he could gracefully or otherwise and explained to the girls about what caused his hasty exit. Jim evi- dently found Susie later but from the way he acted when he got back to the barraks a little earlier than usual his mission had evi- dently not been too successful. He reminded me of some of the mops we use in KIP, or more like he had been used the way we use them, except with a lot more power than we put out on one.
 The next day Jim was still in a sort of daze and i'm afraid he is going to go syko on us unless something changes. He is so ir- ritable that everybody takes the hint and leaves him alone. I wish there was something i could do but he don't appreciate any sugges- tions like told him i'd get the girls together and let them go tell Susie just what happened, but he vetoed the idea immediately. Then i told him he had better Ego see the chaplain"
 On second thought that m1gnC not be a bad idea at that. The chaplain said to some of the sol diers that if they had troubles they had better come round and tell him about them, and if they didn't he wished they wood come round and tell him how they managed it. We are working hard on this redeployment just now and the chapel services are not as we'll attended since the men and the Wacs are awful tired on sunday. But this is an emergency and we have to work hard to get these men back from overseas. So that
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
SPEAKING o e BOOKS
JoE PRIVATE SAYS

Orchids to the new feature de- partment, OUTDOOR RECREA- TON. It's a challenge to the Base Library, for how can we hope to get you back indoors after reading that? But this is Connecticut, and the weather is due to change any moment. Swimming, boating, golf, tennis, baseball-where's their ap- peal then? In the Base Library, of course, where you can brush up indoors on your outdoor. sports! E PRACTICAL SPORT BOOKS
 If you are not acquainted al- ready with the Barnes Sports Li- brary this is your opportunity. This series of practical sport books covers the fundamentals, tech niques, coaching and playing, hints and equipment for each of the major sports. Leading coaches and players have been selected to write these books, so that each volume is authoritative and based upon actual experience. Photo graphs, drawings, or both, illus trate techniques.
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
SUMMER SPORTS

To cite a few appropriate vol umes for this season of the year, there's BASEBALL, by Daniel E.. lessee, SOFTBALL, by Arthur Noren, BETTER BADMINTON, by Carl Jackson and Lester Swan, SWIMMING, by Robert J. Kip huth, and GOLF, by Patty Berg.
 MT. lessee, baseball and football coach of Trinity College, Hart ford, Conn.,, explains all the funda- mentals of baseball. Clearly and concisely each position is dis cussed. True-false questions con- clude each chapter, so that ones knowledge of the sport may be checked.
 In SOFTBALL, MT. Noren, Edi- tor of the Softball Guide, shows the differences in technique be- tween it and baseball. He also in- cludes chapters on Team Play, Base-Running, Batting, as we'll as the Official playing rules.
 Returning soldiers from World War 1 are responsible for the re- vival of Badminton. Messrs. Jack son and Swan have relied largely on a visual presentation of their material in BETTER BADMIN- TON. The book is organized in pro- gressive teaching or learning steps, and it is expected that the reader will attempt to apply these suggestions in their order as he progresses. The appendix includes a glossary of Badminton terms, and the laws of the game, with regulations for tournaments.
 Robert Kiphuth, Yale Universi- tvs famous swimming coach, wrote the book on SWIMMING. It is not so much for the beginner as for the more experienced swimmer, with especial emphasis on com petitive swimming You'll be Olympic material when you have finished his general program for speed and pace.
 Patty Berg, a headliner in the field of golf, has many helpful suggestions in her book. It has al ready circulated around Bradley Field golfers this season and is on our signup list-that's as good a recommendation as we can give!
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30

everybody will have a chance to attend chapel services if they want to the catholics are still holding their mass at six o'clock and the protestant hold their service at seven-thirty on sunday evening.
 Your tired,
 PFC Joe.
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30
All Americans

like him. But his dog told who he
 He's not an Unknown Soldier And Protestant Catholic Jew? He fought He American He wasAm He makes prouder that American his brothers-by miiono blood of creed?
 Are they different eyre alive? Is the only democracy in uniformed deahP Let's the prejudice enemies By obvious enem-he Hun the nacal Jap and our insidous one, the unAmerican American. When find included speaking acting with racial religious prejudce-STOP IT!
 Beacb"P
Bradley beam., 1945-06-30

miles of which extends from Canton north of world importance under skin deep extending the Npponese Navy few the Chinese control Some szeabe
 
 by thousands of islands Typhoons often range blow all Hong Kong lies about the latitude than Savannah
Evening star., 1945-04-14

he was the greatest performer before
camera or microphone they ever
had met. The world was his stage
and his sense of the dramatic was
adequate to its dimensions. They
knew it and admired it profession
ally. They envied it, too!
He was enormously proud of the
fact that he was "one-take" per-
former before the newSreel camera
that is to say, performer who
muffed neither his lines nor the ex-
preston that gave them final mean
ing in merely single appearance
before the lens. On the microphone
he could turn fluff" into a mas
terpiece of simple human charm.
X X
His pride in this enviable ability is
the basis of an incident that none
who saw it will forget. The occa-
sion was one of the Presidents
birthday celebrations, one of those
in the prewar period when the
strain was off such affairs. A group
of Hollywood's most glamorous per-
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Falls Church Group
Lists MelOdrana

"Only An Orphan Girl" an old
fashioned "mellerdrammer," will be
presented by the Falls Church Com
munity Theater at $3.50 pm, April
"a through q, at the Madison
School Auditorium on the Lee high
way.
The play was written by Henning
Nelms and directed by Maj. Leslie
Young. In keeping with the spirit
of the production, the audience will
be seated at tables, cabaret style
and served refreshments by singing
walters. Any one so inclined is in
vited to boo the villain and cheer
the heroine.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
|Neighborliness Better Now

ting for Hollywood movies. They
have provided colorful grist for the
film mill for number Of outstand-
ing pictures of the past, among
them being Thunder Over Mexi-
CO." viva Villa "Tropic Holiday"
"Juarez," Hold Back the Dawn"
and "Tampico."
In addition to these pictures with
a Latin background or plot, Holly
wood has made extensive use of the
border country as the screen To-
Gale for such Western thrillers as
the "Cisco Kid" series and Wally
Beery's The Badman,"
Meantime, producers are keeping
their fingers crossed and hoping for
the best. They've hired top tech
nical experts to see that our south
ern neighbors aren't slandered wit
tingly 1t will take Hollywood a
long time to erase the memory of
such films as Down Argentine
Way" which drew only Kisses and
screams of indignation.
Evening star., 1945-04-14

formers were here for the show,
Robert Taylor, Jean Harlow, Fred
ric March and dozen others. The
neWSreel camermen were shooting a
scene at the White House, the form
al part of which involved a brief ad-
dress by the President.
It was finished in few minutes,
upon which the President looked at
the crews and said, as a statement
of fact, not question:
"Okeh!"
"Okeh," they said.
'Humh, one-take Frank, eh?'
said a womans voice, very pleas
ant young voice.
who said that?" the President
asked laughing.
Marsha Hunt, who has gone on
to become an outstanding player In
Hollywood, the youngest one at the
party that day, admitted with NOR
tification that she had said it.
Her embarrassment lasted only
so long as it took the President to
tell her how f1attered he was by
the remark.
That is one ancedote out of hun
dreds that will be remembered and
told of Franklin D. Roosevelt by
actors, playWrights, producers and
others who met him in a social
semi-professional, or professional
way.
His interest in their profession
made it possible for hundreds to
meet him, each to go away with
their stories.
The largest group, or course, were
those who came here to participate
in the annual birthday celebrations
for the benefit of the Presidents IA
vorite fund, that of the Infantile
Paralysis Foundation. From the
visit of a single star, Ginger Rogers,
the annual event blOssOmed into
the greatest show in Washington,
one whose cast was the nearest to
an all-star group Hollywood could
assemble each January,
No Hollywood star who could find
the time was ever known to turn
down an invitation, not merely
those native to America but for
eign-born as well. In addition to
those already mentioned, others
who have come for the event in
clude Olivia De Haviland, Paul
Henraid, Brian Aherne, James
Cagney, Joan Fontaine, Pat OBrien,
Elsa Manchester, Gene Autrey,
Mickey Rooney, Deanna Durbin.
Maureen O'Hara, Vera Zorina, Flor
ence Eldridge, Veronica Lake. John
Garfield, Margaret OBrien, Jose
Iturbi, Nelson Eddy, Ray Bolger,
Eleanor Powell and scores of others.
The birthday celebration with its
scores of events run on to the most
rigorous of schedules over period
that lasted as long as three days,
never was an easy routine. Stars
who made it were forced to admit
as much, sometimes rather vehem-
Evening star., 1945-04-14
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
uNI VWN0n

More than at any other time,
Hollywood film tycoons are applying
the hands-across-the- border policy
so enthusiastically that today their
biggest stages are cluttered with
door-neighbor country.
The war has frightened the bonds
of Pan American friendship and
brought about a better appreciation
and understanding of the Latin
American countries. This is cur
rently reflected in the many new
pictures about Mexico.
Paramount. for example, recently
put before the cameras one of the
biggest on its 1945 schedule, Mas
querade in Mexico" Dorothy La
mour and Arturo de Cordova, the
Latin lover from south of the Ric
Grande, are starring. In it the So
phisticated and fashionable Mexico
which the socially proud Mexicans
love, and which Hollywood hereto
fore has neglected, is being pictured
+ + Y \
American film makers past por-
trayals of the Mexican scene and
character have caused Goals of criti-
cism to be heaped on the heads OF
producers, whose ideas of life be-
low the border have centered on
siestas, senoritas and the Cisco Kid
But today's films not only are CLAM
orizing the land of manana, but
also are being extrascrupulous in
presenting an accurate picture of it.
The movies are paying their re-
spects to their closest neighbor with
orchids. They are capitalizing on
the newborn interest of the United
States public in Mexico and all
Latin America by presenting them
in the best and most entertaining
OF all possible lights.
Mexico is the background and
theme of two of MGM's most i'm
portant pictures of the year. Early
to Wed" which is set in Mexico, is
now before the cameras, with the
bobby-soxers' delight, Van johnson
and Esther Williams at work. A
musical, Holiday in Mexico" will
follow soon and much of the pic
ture will be filmed down there. Jose
Iturbi will contribute his talents.
The great Mexican comedian, Can
tinflas, will make his Hollywood de-
but at RKO in the picture which
is being written especially for his
skill as a pantomimist, The Mag
nificent Tramp" The same studio
recently finished filming of another
Mexican ackground movie, Pan
Americana" with Phil Terry, Au-
drey Young and Robert Benchley
The latest of the popular Falcon
detective series went south for The
Falcon in Mexico"
Twentieth Century-Fox is giving
it's lovely Latin, Carmen Miranda
a Mexican part and locale in her
new film, Three Little Girls in
Blue" a large scale musical. En-.
couraged by the success of its
Brazil" set in the worlds greatest
coffee stage. Republic is going to
make as its companion picture
to be called "Mexicana" and fea.
ture it's South American star, Tito
Guizar.
At Columbia they are keeping ur
the spirit of the occasion with "A
Gay Senorita," in which Jinx Fal-
kenburg will play the heroine in 6
story about Los Angeles famed ano
picturesque quarter on Olvera street
Walt Disney's novel combination
of live actors and cartoon charac-
tiers in The Three Caballeros" i;
proving not only box office hit
but also delightful contribution
to United States Mexico friendship
4 X Il
Neighbor Mexico is not a new set
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Gene Knows a Trick
For Keeping Cooks
HOII,YWOO]

Gene Tierney knows the secret OF
how to retain housekeeper in Hol-
lywood
In the first place, she has hearty
appetite and a figure which re-
quires no dieting. On Sunday she
always gives the cook the day of
and does the household duties her
self
Some one suggested on the
"Dragonwyck" set that she was
lucky to keep help with the 6 a m
calls she has.
Il always fix my own breakfast
Gene replied Il wouldn't dream OF
asking any one to get up at that
unholy hour. Why should two OF
us suffer-"
Evening star., 1945-04-14

friends and fans, but it's memories Of
him will remain fresh and vivid as
long as this generation of shoWmen
endures.
The late President was unques-
tionably the Nations No. motion
picture fan. He was a cinema en-
thusiast and in the course of any of
his IL years at the White House,
more motion pictures were screened"
there than in most of the thea
ters in the National Capital. He
could not 60 to the movies, so the
movies went to him whenever the
chance presented
But it is not for his warmness to-
ward their work that people in the
theater and the motion pictures will
remember Franklin D. Roosevelt
most
To a man and woman, the least
or the greatest, they realized that
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Stars Home Town
Is Movie Locale
HOLLYWOOD.

noLL4 WOOD.
Beaver Dams favorite son is see
ing to it that the Wisconsin COM
munity breaks into the movies
After 10 years as star. Fred
MacMurray is producing his pic
ture, along with Leslie Fenton. The
locale of the movie, Pardon My
Past" will be MacMurray'S home
town, Beaver Dam, Wis.
Evening star., 1945-04-14

emily as actors do when they speak
of hard work.
But none who ever lived through
it, or heard of it from those who
had, ever failed to come, a first
time or a second.
The chief actor on such occasions
was too irresistible a drawing card
Evening star., 1945-04-14
|Theaters Closed in Tribute
To Late President TODAY
By JAY CARMODY.

motion its legitimate theaters
President Franklin Delano
machine will revolution down.
Catholic University where THE Two Mrs CAROLS and Peer
Gynt" attractions respectively.
its enthusiastic
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-11-01
Morse Character

Through gray Oslo mists, at 240 in the morn
ing of October "a, Vdkun Quisling stumbled to
death before firing squad in Akershus Prison
He had lived much stolen much, hoped much
betrayed much but now he had nothing to leave
but a dishonored name which he bequeathed to
infamy-and the dictionary
A week before almost the last of American
troops had sailed for home from the Oslo docks
Crowds gathered, shouting cheering crowds. And
there were the fearful
An Oslo newspaper printed an editorial
short, expressive editorial, in English as we'll as
Norwegian, addressed to the departing troops:
''YOu are leaving. You came with the spring.
we gave you the best summer within our recol-
lection, and now, in October. the weather gods
seek to sustain the warmth which symbOlizes
what our sentiments toward you are and have
BEEN"
Nothing could better illustrate the character
of Norsemen. To their betrayer-iustice the
stern verdict of the mind To their deverers-
understanding, friendness, gratitude, hospitality
the generous, poignant outpouring from warm
hearts.
Perhaps this will help us to better under
standing of the poetry and drama of Ibsen and
BJornson, the music of Grieg and withal the
studiness and indestructability of the whole Vik-
ing breed.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-11-01

military leaders debate control of this Secret
shortens by day the time when some ill-disposed
and over-ambitious foreign leader may be in
position to loose atomic weapons against his
objective.
Every day our leaders maintain this fiction
of secrecy adds to the suspicion of other leaders
that our purpose may be to use it against THEM.
The fact that history amply supports our con-
tention we have no imperial ambitions, no plans
for territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT no purpose to die
tate to other peoples, will not help us it, by our
handling Of the atomic problem, we furnish i'm
petus to growing suspicious which peaceful
professions cannot dispell.
In the discovery and development of atomic
power, scientists had the first word in the politi
phase of its control they should have the last
for, better than practcing politicians, they
derstand its potentialities. They are unanimous
in advocacy of placing this control in the hands
of an international body
This, of course would not remove all the
dangers let loose when we developed the atomic
bomb. But it is about all we can do to lessen
these dangers by removing suspicion
And it should be done soon, very soon, else,
before we realize it, some vengeful sky-rider will
look down on America and, grinning fiendishlY,
will give out exutant yell. The language he
will employ cannot now be guessed, but what
the tongue, it will mean
LOOK OUT Below"