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Evening star., 1946-07-20
Juvenile Delinquency
National Conference
|ndorsed by Truman

Warning that the problem OF
juvenile delinquency is of serious
concern to the whole country, .
President Truman today expressed
enthusiastic support" of the Ma
tional Conference on the Control OF
Juvenile Delinquency, to be held
here from October 81 to % at the
suggestion OF Attorney General
Clark.
I'VE are agreed, I know" the
President told the Attorney Gen.
eral in letter made public today,
that the time for discussion has
passed and the time for action has
come"
While recognizing that the Fed
eral Government has important re-
sponsibilities" in juvenile problems,
President Truman emphasized that
"the roots of the problem lie in the
Evening star., 1946-07-20
rs Secretaries Needed
For MIA Veterans Plan

The National Housing Agency
needs Is secretaries for officials
working on the Veterans Emergency
Housing Program. Applicants will
be interviewed next Monday and
Tuesday.
The interviews will be held at 1901
Eye street NV, from 8 am. to
pm. on both days. Persons also
may apply to room 5-20l, Temporary
Building E, Fourth street and Ad-
ans drive S.W.
Experienced applicants would re-
ceive $2.753 for a 44-hour week, and
less experienced, $2,493.
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Builders Charge U. 5.
Stalls Veterans HOUSING

Failure of the Government to as
sure q flow Of building materials"
has resulted in completion of less
than 10 per cent of the houses
started under the veterans housing
program, the National Association
of Home Builders charged this week.
The association said it had made
"telegraphic check" of active
builders in % States and found the
program badly stalled everywhere. u
Ninety-two per cent of houses
started since the beginning of the
program "are either at a st&ndstill
or seriously delayed because of lack
of materials" the association said
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First Aid
Continued From Page B-1.)

loose, you had better take it all of.
But before repapering you should
always put on coat of glue-sizing
Building a Porch Roof.
@. Is there any publication that
would give instructions on building
a porch roof. gable or otherwise?
A. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria,
Ill, and Theodore Audel 81 Co., 49
West Twenty third street, New York,
publish many books on construction
work of various kinds. suggest that
you write to these houses for their
catalogues. But if you have had no
experience it would be far better to
have carpenter do the work.
tReleased, Consolidated News Features, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-07-20
FHA Builds Up Favorable
BuIunce of S7O,OOO,OOO

The Federal Housing Administra-
tion now has favorable balance of
income over operating expenses of
more than $4,000. 900, and current
income is almost three times op-
Grating expenses, the agency an
nounced today.
From the establishment of FHA
in 1884 through 1945. gross income
totaled $198,224,123, while operating
expenses totaled $128, ,130,017. In
come has been greater than oper-
ating expenses since 1898.
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use in s to room houses and
the largest size up to IA average
size rooms. The first model is al
inches wide, So inches long and only
80 inches high. The second model
is the same width and length, but
6 inches higher. The largest size
has the same width but the length
is 68la inches and the height just 8
feet.
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Godgets
Continued From Page B-1)

in two minutes. This means quick
service if the repair man is needed
and all mechanical appliances re-
quire him once in a while.
These oil burners are very com.
pact indeed. There are three
models. One will take care Of tht
average house with 4 to rooms
the next size Is designed fol
Evening star., 1946-09-08
New Book on Atom
Bores Many Facts
By William L. Laurence. (Al-
fred A. Knopt; So
Reviewed by
DAWN OVER ZERO
1VNFIO" "OU UN
NUGENT SHARP,

NUGENT SHARP.
Had the atomic blomb Topped
at its debut in New Mexico, had the
war dragged to an end after costly
amphibious landings in Japan, the
ensuing probe of the Manhattan
Project would have made the war
profits recently exposed seem to be
legitimate returns for effort ex-
pended. The aim of the project was
SO fantastic, the amount of money
SO great, no one could have justified
these expenditures.
But the scientists were right the
abstract theories verified, we had
spent two billions and had got our
moneys worth.
Mr.. Laurence, the science re-
porter of the New York Times, who
scooped' the discovery that the
uranium atom could be split, releas-
ing energy millions of times greater
than the energy released by ordi-
nary chemical action, skillfully pre-
sents the nuclear theories in lucid
form, explains why we spent so
much on this project, shows where
the money was used.
Many months before the New
Mexico test the inner sanctums of
atomic research were opened to Mr.
Laurence. The only reporter ac-
corded such privileges, he visited
the plants where the fashionable
materials, U.235 and U.239. were
prepared, witnessed the test ex-
plosion in New Mexico, and few
with the crew that dropped the
bomb on Nagasaki.
Toward the end of the book, he
evaluates the potentialities of
atomic power, logically notes its
limitations, but is enthusiastic about
its application to peacetime living
POINTING out the usefulness of
atomic energy in the treatment of
cancer, Mr.. Laurence goes on to
say that through the facts discov-
cred during the research on the
oomo 1t may be possible to discover
the causes of cancer.
1t is his opinion, backed by sound
economic reasoning, that our pres
ent sources of power will not be
supplanted by, but will be supple
mented by atomic power. He is not
so foolish as to estimate the date
at which devices utilizing atomic
power will be ready for demonstra-
ton, but obviously he is confident
that mankind is intelligent enough
to invent these devices before de-
stroying himself, for he ends the
chapter with the statement, I'VE
stand at the gateway of a new
world"
AS citizens of the world we must
cope with this latest of human dis
coVeries. Dawn Over Zero will give
you the facts and avoid the manv
iancles that have been promulgated
by men less competent, less accu-
rate, and less comprehensive than
Mr.. Laurence.
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orgo Vessel
In Troubled Waters
MISTER ROBERTS
By Thomas Heogen. (Houoh-
ton Mi61in; s2.50.)

-
ton Mi61in; s2.50.)
Reviewed by
CHRIS MATHISEN.
Most of the excitement was in q
minor key on the average NAVY
cargo vessel in the Pacific War
Theater. The bulk of it was pro-
Vlded by shipboard plot and counter
plot rather than by action with the
enemy. Thomas Heggen has written
OF lie aboard such a ship, at anchor
IN the steaming harbors of the is
lands and on its regular run-"from
Iedlum to Apathy and back"
Inc reader Is introduced to its ID
ofncerS and some of the "charac-
ters among the bluejackets. The
author, who had duty aboard an at
TACK transport, draws an authentic
sketch OF boredom to the nth power
as experienced by thousands of
Navy men whose ships rested and
rusted at Ulithi, Manus and dozens
OF other anchorages.
Those who served on auxiliaries
anu oil tiie small cOmbatant ships
will find much that is familiar here
and PROBABLY will see in some of the
personalities the images of onetime
shipmates. Readers happily uniniti-
ated to the way of existence chron-
icled will find the thin volume easy
but undiverting going. They we'll
may see little excuse for the book.
This novel. undoubtedly including
anecdotes amassed by Mr.. Heggen
during his own service as an officer.
is concerned principally with the
doings Of wardroom country, but
there are some glimpses of enlisted
personnel as all hands engage in
continuous sparring with an uncouth
and incompetent captain.
AS for Mr.. Roberts, a young lieu
tenant serving as first lieutenant
and cargo officer and the only
person aboard capable of maintain
ing semblance of organization, he
appears as the most admirable
character of the book. Unfortunate
ly, he also emerges as one of the
least interesting.
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YOUR HOME IS YOUR
CLASSROOM

Whenever you re so inclined.
put a record on your phono-
graph, turn to the proper
page of the Conversation
Manual. Then make yourself
comfortable in an easy chair
and listen following the
spoken words with the printed
material. That's all there is
to it.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Two Marriages
Broken by War
THE DARK W0ON
THE DARK WOOD
By Christine Weston. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; S2.75.)
-,
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
The author of Indigo" deals in
this novel with two marriages
broken by war. Death has destroyed
one. unfaithfulness the other.
The two women involved are in
sharp contrast. Stella, the widow,
was a helpless mouse before she
married Alec. With his death she
becomes desolate shadow, un-
willing even to admit he is dead.
She goes as far as the gates of
the American cemetery in Italy
where he is buried, but she cannot
bring herself to go to his grave.
The other woman is Regan, beau
tiful, cruel and loved by two men.
Regan has been in love with another
man for two years by the time her
husband Mark comes home from
war. She skaters his homecoming
by demanding a divorce.
Miss Weston has carried the two
stories along with alternate chap
ters until, halfway through the
book, she dovetails the two by max
ing Stella suddenly realize that
Mark looks exactly like her dead
Alec. Stella Immediately becomes
the determined pursuer Mark, the
unloved husband, ultimately sue
cumbs. and all appears to be smooth
sailing until Mark grows restive
under the idea that Stella is loving
him for his resemblance to Alec,
not for himself alone. This. too. is
resolved after Mark forces Stella
to accompany him to the grave of
her dead husband.
Like the craftsman she is. Miss
Weston has written so readable
story that it is only when the last
page is turned that the reader be-
gins to wonder If so much coinci-
dence is credible. Every ma ior
character appears to be overdrawn
AS for regarding the novel as
study of the problem of war
widow, there is no reason to believe
Stella is typical. She was spine
less creature before Alec came
along to give her life strength and
purpose and act as a crutch to her
happiness. With that crutch re-
moved, she was once more a spine
less creature. Marks resemblance
to Alec was pure coincidence. She
needed crutch to live and Mark
became the crutch.
Evening star., 1946-09-08

AS a matter of fact, the Living
Language Courses have been pre-
pared by staff of experts, includ-
ing many of the men who pro-
duced the U. S. Army courses, and
employ the same successful prin-
ciples with many Improvements
adapted to civilian life.
1t is the opinion of college pro-
fessors, heads of Spanish and
French Departments in great uni
versities, famous teachers and
many grateful students that the
LIVING LANGUAGE courses
are the easiest, quickest, most sue
cessful way to learn a language.
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Best Sellers
Nation UyUnE

according to Publishers Weekly.)
FICTION.
1st-The Hucksters, Frederick Wake
man
sd-This Side Of Innocence, Tay-
lor Caldwell,
3d-Brittania News, Margery Sharp.
4th-Rhubarb, H. Allen Smith.
5th-We Happy Few, Helen Howe.
NONFICTION.
1st-Peaee Of Mind, Joshua L. Lieb-
man.
2d-The Egg and /, Betty Mac
Donald.
3D. Chose Freedom, Victor Krav-
chenko
4th-The Great Globe Itself, William
c. Bullitt.
5th-Last Chapter, Ernie Pyle.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
Donald Nelson's Own Story of How We
Grded Our Industrial Might for War
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
By Donald NJ. Nelson. (Harcourt, Brace e. Co. S4J
Reviewed by JAMES Y NEWTON

book Donald race weapons with
which overwhem the almost
lost He tells the story of Americas
from vantage point enjoyed by handful
only OF the tremendous accomplishments
ntues leadership in the
which surely must stand the interesting history,
AS Americas production chief
selected by President Roosevelt wartime economy
the OF the
hungry armed forces Mr. Nelson qualified
The book has sufficient the attention of the
textbook
those guide
II this Nation mbroid conflict Mr.
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PHOTOGRAPHS.

The Inhabitants, by Wright Nor
ris. (Scribners.) Fifty-two very fine
photographs mainly of distressed
areas or people. combined with an
incoherent text. the point of which
might perhaps be that the country
is in bad way.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
IN AN AMAZINGLY
SHORT TIME
Try This "seeond-Best Woy"
Without Cost For 10 Doys

With reasonable amount of
concentration, you can learn
to speak Spanish or French
in as little as ONE WEEK. Or
if you prefer to be more
leisurely about it, decide how
much available time you have
to spend on the course and
set your own pace.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
MATH.

The World Of Numbers. by Her
bert Mckay. Cambridge Univer-
sity Press) A popular mathe-
matics text which presupposes a
certain knowledge of the subject.
Evening star., 1946-09-08
ECONOMICS.

Reading In the Theory Of In.
come Distribution, collected by tho
American Economic Association.
doubleday Thirty-two authors
tatiye articles.
Evening star., 1946-09-08

Novels with the problem of a
Two Lessons in Love- by Paul Ed Ibis loved
Beechurst PreSs situation
oume la woman beyond humanity
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9be Sunday star
Weekly Book Survey

The Sunday Star has arranged Nth some OF the
leading booksellers OF Washington and suburban
areas to report each wcek the books ,Uhich sell
best as guide to. Uhat Washington is reading
title must be named by at least three stores to
appear ON this chart.
This report is for the week ending September 3
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Pen Women Unit
To Hold Election

A buffet supper for members OF
the Executive Board Of the Dis
trict Branch, National League of
American Pen Women, will be given
by Mrs. Roy C. Potts, auditor of
the District branch, at $50 pm.
Friday in her home, 210 Maple ave-
nue., Takoma Park.
The group will ballot for election
of new officers at its monthly busi-
ness meeting, which will be held at
8 pm. next Monday in the studio,
1851 Columbia road NV.
Following the supper, which will
be served from $3.50 to pm, Mrs.
Augustus o. Thomas, retiring presi-
dent, will open the meeting.
Members whose names have been
placed for election by the Nominat-
ing Committee include: Mrs. Merle
P. Lyon, president; Miss Clara Man.
derscheid, first vice president; Mrs.
Matte L. Smith Jarrott, second
vice president; Mrs. George w.
Moore, third vice president; Mrs.
Howard Strong, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Angela McHugh Barr,
corresponding secretary; Mrs Ar
thur J. Robb, treasurer; Mrs. Rob-
ert Clay Sheriff., auditor; Mrs. Jay
Keim Beachy, registrar; Miss Flea
nor Cox, librarian; Mrs. Richard
L. Disney, historian, and Miss Fran
ces C. Burger, legal adviser.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Parties i'm NeWs

Invitations have been issued by the
Norwegian Ambassador and Mrs
! Munthe de Morgenstierne to re-
ception on Friday, May 10, in honor
of the Secretary General of the
United Nations and Mrs. Trygve Lie.
The affair will be held at the EN-
bassy between 6 and 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Wilfred Robert Drummer en-
tertained at tea yesterday at her
home in honor of Mrs. Eugene
Fugitt, retiring regent of E Pluribus
Unum Chapter of the D. A. r. As
sisting at the tea table were Mrs.
Harry Grove, Mrs. William Schre-
inert, Mrs. Henry Deas, Miss Clara
Brown, Mrs. Francis Curran, Miss
Jessie Coope, Mrs. Contee Ficklen,
Mrs. Harry Boswell and Mrs. William
Sinnott.
Others assisting were Mrs. Howard
B. Allen, Mrs. Donald j. Fugitt, Mrs.
Eugene Apted, Miss Mary Bell Cur
ran, Mrs. Eugene Dixon, Miss Anna
Grove, Mrs. Hector Curry, Mrs. John
Nesbitt, Mrs John S. Jacobsen and
Mrs. David Thomas Clements.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Tribute Planned
To Mrs. Wise

Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, national
president of the Women's Division of
the American Jewish Congress and
wife of Rabbi Wise of New York,
will be the guest of the Washington
Chapter at its first anniversary
luncheon at 1890 pm. next Monday
at the Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Wise, who for the last II
years has been actively engaged in
the work of the congress, organized
the women's division, which, together
with its national and local affiliated
organizations, has membership
of 100000.
She was also responsible for help
ing in the establishment of Congress
House in New York City, social re-
Mobilization center which at first
gave aid to over 1000 exiles from
Nazi-persecuted Germany. Since
then it has been converted into a
center for the use of American and
Allied servicemen of all faiths. More
than 10000 servicemen have been
housed there.
Mrs. Wise is also a founder of the
Free Synagogue for the Child Adop-
ton Committee, which has secured
homes for over $500 children.
Reservations for the luncheon may
be made with Mrs. Betty Schuman
Georgia 1858, or Mrs. Jessie B. Sol
onion, Taylor 1881.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Alpha Phi Plans
.SAbber Meeting

Election Of officers and a white
elephant auction will be features of
a buffet supper meeting of Alpha
Phi Alumnae Chapter at $50 pm.
Thursday in the home of Miss Vir-
ginia Duehring, 1880 Belmont road
NV.
Members viii bring costume jewel
ry, books, clothing and miscellane-
GUS items which will be auctioned to
the highest bidder. Proceeds will
help pay the expenses of the Wash
ington chapters delegate to the AL
pha Phi Diamond jubilee conven-
ton in June at the Chateau From
tenac, Quebec, Canada. Miss Vir-
ginia Christie will be auctioneer.
The Nominating Committee, com.
posed of Mrs. Harold Morrison
Mrs. Samuel B. Maize and Miss
Gladys Fielding, will present a
slate of officers for the coming
year.
Mrs. William C. Hutchinson, al
ternate Panhellenic delegate ano
Alpha Phi vice president in charge
of districts, will leave shortly on ar
inspection trip of collegiate chap.
ters at the University of Wisconsin
Northwestern and Bowling Green
State University at Bowling Green
Ohio. She is the wife of Col. Hutch
inson, u. S. A.
Reservations for the meeting, tc
which all Alpha Phis in the Wash
ington area are welcome. may be
made with any of the officers O,
committee.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
.Ne1V York Sb01Viue 2
of Lee Portraits

Mrs. Truman heads the list of pa
irons for the exhibit "Stratford, the
Lee Family and Their Contempora-
ries," to be held April 80 through
May Is at the Knoedler Galleries
New York City. The President is a
member of the Advisory Board OF
the Robert E. Lee Memorial Founda-
ton, which will sponsor the show
ing. Other distinguished patrons
from the National Capital are Mr.
Bernard M. Baruch, Mrs. Dwight
Davis, Mrs. Hunter De Butts, Mrs
Robert E. Lee III, Mrs. Cazenove
Lee and Mr.. Richard Coke Marshall
Directors from the Washington
area who will attended the previeW
on the afternoon of Monday, April
20, include Mrs. Harry B. Hawes
president of the foundation: Mrs
Breckenridge Long, Mrs. Horace
Van Deventer and Mrs. Richard B
Wigglesworth. Others will be Mrs
H. Alexander Walker, director fol
Hawaii; Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont OF
Delaware; Mrs. Frank H. Griffin
Pennsylvania; Mrs. William F. Mere
dith, New Jersey; Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson and Miss Helen Knox
New York; Mrs. Charles D. Lanier
Mrs. Wilson Norheet Fielder ano
Mrs. I. Newton Lewis, Connecticut;
Mrs. William Davis Miller, Rhode
Island; Mrs. Charles E. Boiling, Mrs
Ambrose c. Ford and Mrs. Granville
Gray Valentine, Virginia; Mrs
Charles w. Kellogg and Mrs. Ed
ward Guest Gibson, Maryland: Mrs
Walter D. Lamar and Mrs. H. Snow
den Marshall, Georgia.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Luncheon Party
For DebHtante

Miss Romona Ruth North, who will
be presented tomorrow by her par
ents, the Assistant Postmaster Ger
eral and Mrs. Roy w. North, was
entertained at luncheon today by
Miss Mary Virginia Rustin. The
party was given in the home of Miss
Rustin's parents, the Rev. DR.. John
w. Rustin, pastor of the Mount Ver-
non Methodist Church, and Mrs.
Rustin. Miss North and Miss Rus
tin are sorority sisters, the latter
being a student at Maryland Uni
versity, where she is a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Miss Rustins other guests were
Miss Carolyn Wendt, Miss Florence
Crawford, Miss Joan Palmer, Miss
Louise Vance, Miss Betty Ring, Miss
Helen Giddings, Miss Betty Jean
Swain, Miss Doris Carson, Miss Bar
bara Coggings and Mrs. Thomas
Turner.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
Miss Hughes
Engaged to We'd

The engagement of Miss Mary
Elizabeth Hughes to Mr.. Robert
Nolte has been announced by he,
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Ed
ward Hughes of New York City. Mr.
Nolte is the son of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert C.. Nolte of New York
and Plandome, Long Island. Miss
Hughes attended the Convent of the
Sacred Heart in Washington and
graduated from Marymount School
IN New York. She is now attend
ing Manhattanville College. The
Hughes family lived in Washington
for many years while Mr.. Hughes
was an official in the National Re-
covery administration, and later
petroleum administrator of the War
Production Board.
Mr.. Nolte attended Lawrenceville
School and Swarthmore College
During the war he served overseas
with the Sd Army and he was hon
orably discharged from the service
in January.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
'Bredenberg-Ray
Ceremony Held

White gladioluses and evergreens
decorated historic Pohick Church for
the candlelight service at which
Miss Leila Tanner Ray recently was
married to Sergt. Robert Wing
Bredenberg. Mrs. Bredenberg is the
daughter of Mrs. Leila Tame: Ray
of Milledgeville, Ga. The Rev. Clar-
ence Buxton officiated.
Gowned in white satin with fitted
bodice and long circular train, the
bride carried a white prayer book
covered with a bouquet of white
orchids and lilies of the valley. She
was given in marriage by her uncle,
1t. Alvin Tanner. Mrs. Betty Bow
dish, sister of the bride, was matron
of honor, and Mr.. Wisner Ray of
Washington was best man. The
ushers were Sergt. Robert Morris of
Atlanta, Ca, and Sergt. Charlie
Francis of Los Angeles, Calf.
Evening star., 1946-04-22
OAR Plans Fund
TO Aid Students
In ndian School

A special fund for American
Indian students at Bacone College,
Muskogee, Okla. is being proposed
by the Daughters of the American
Revolution according to an an
nouncement by Mrs. Julius Y.
Talmadge, president general.
Nine students without money
have been allowed to remain at the
college by the authorities in the
hope that some means would be
found to defray the actual expenses
over and above what the students
can earn. When these facts were
brought to the attention of the
American Indians Committee of the
OAR, Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex, chair
man of the committee, proposed
establishment of the fund.
More. than 365 Indians went from
Bacone to serve in the armed forces
in the war" Mrs. Rex explained.
Sixteen are now represented by
Gold Stars. In memory of these
students who made the supreme
sacrifice, we are raising the fund and
an additional fund is to be set aside
every year to keep this a perpetual
scholarship for Bacone College"
Mrs. Talmade has emphasized the
need for education for many Ameri-
can Indians. To many Indians the
war brought first realization of the
importance of a knowledge of the
English language. Indians who
served in the armed forces wrote
home to their fathers urging that
the younger children learn to speak,
read and write English.
Mrs. Rex pointed out that in
Arizona there are upward of $4,000
Indian children who have never had
any English teaching.
The Col. James Mccall Chapter,
District OAR, will honor Mrs. Roy
c. BoWker, State regent, and OAR
national officers residing in the Dis
trict, at a buffet supper at $50
pm. Thursday at the chapter house
Also present will be Mrs Wilfred
j. Chairman, State regent-elect, who
Is member of the chapter.
Hostesses for the supper will be
Mrs. Wayne Birdseu. Mrs. D. Frank
Grim, Mrs. Bessie G. Sharpe and
Miss Blanche Kyle.
Mrs. George C. Viethers, Mary
land State regent, and Mrs.
Charles Harris. Maryland State
regent-elect, will be guests of the
Erasmus Perry Chapter, OAR, at
meeting at 2:30 pm. Saturday
in the home of Mrs. F. H. Ma
gruder, 729 Dartmouth avenue, Sill
yer Spring, Md.
Members are requested to bring
gift for the Dutch family the
chapter is befriending.