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mai Birth Argo
Luncheon Meetiue

The B'nai Birth Women, Argo
will honor Mrs. Arthur G. Laufman
president of the Womens Supreme
Council, at a luncheon meeting on
February at the Hotel 2400.
Mrs. Laufman, who is in charge
of veterans rehabilitation work ir
Chicago, will speak on the New
Adopt European Family Pro.
gram" which is part of B'nai Birth s
postwar service work.
Mrs. Louis Dubit, president, will
preside, and Mrs. Nat H. Levy will
be in charge of reservations. Mrs
Lawrence Koenigsberger, program
chairman, will introduce the speaker
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Chevy Chase Women
To Hear DR.. Truitf

DR.. R. " Truitt will speak on the
Conservation of Natural Resources"
before the civics section of the
Woman's Club of Chevy Chase fol-
lowing an informal luncheon at 1915
pm. Friday.
DR.. Truitt is a former professor of
zoology at the University of Mary
land and is now director of the
Maryland Department of Research
and Education. He has done grad
uate work at the University of Ber-
lin and visited conservation centers
and laboratories in Europe and
North Africa.
The program has been planned
and arranged by Mrs. Donald Simp-
son. Mrs. John Beveridge, section
leader, will introduce the speaker.
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GeorgetOwn Board
To Hold Luncheon

The Ladies Board of Georgetown
University Hospital will hold q
luncheon meeting at l pm. tomor-
row.
Mrs. William D. Willcoxon, presi-
dent, who will conduct the meeting
will explain the new cradle roll tc
be inaugurated for all babies borr
at Georgetown Hospital.
The Rev. Wilfred j. Parsons, S. J.
will address the group. Other guest
speakers include Mrs. William R
Knoblock and Mrs. Margaret Gard
ner who will speak in behalf of the
Christ Child Society.
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Women's college and study groups
throughout the Nation will await
with interest announcements of this
years awards by the Fellowship
Awards Committee of the American
Association of University Women
meeting at national headquarters
1884 I street NV. from February
to 10.
Headed by DR.. Hope Hibbard of
Oberlin College, Ohio, the eight
members of the committee will con-
slider approximately rs applications
which have been received from
women scattered throughout the
countries of Europe, desirous to
study in the United States.
No other project of the AAUW
has met with such enthusiastic re-
sponse as the International Study
Grant program, inaugurated last
April, in spite of pessimistic predic-
t1ons by many members that the
arrangements for contracting appli-
Cants in Europe and bringing them
to the United States would be so
complicated, it hardly seemed worth
the effort.
Through the perseverance and
1Antiring efforts of Miss Mary
Smith, in charge of the Fellowship
Awards, innumerable obstacles were
overcome last year with the result
that a half dozen earnest young
women from four different coun-
tries are now studying at different
institutions of learning in the
United States. Those enjoying the
AAUW fellowships include Miss
Anne Sofie Oestvedt of Oslo, Nor
way: Miss Elsa van Diem of Hol-
land; Miss Karen M. Dannevig, also
of Oslo; Miss Elizabeth Jansma of
Holland; Miss Simone Daro of Bel
gium, and Miss Cecile Rabut of
Paris.
No more dramatic story has come
out of the war than that of 25-
yesr-old Miss Oestveldt, who was
second in command of 5000 under
ground workers in Norway during
the war and was hunted so extern
sively by the Germans, that she as
sQmed a disguise so complete that
efen her own father could not rec
ognize her.
THE young girl, now a student at
the University of California at
Berkeley, where she is studying the
chemistry of foods. preparatory to
doing nutrition work on her return
to Norway, entered the underground
as editor of a resistance newspaper.
Sh7 also served as a courier with
important messages to Sweden and
later functioned as proxy to the
chief of the South Norway under
ground.
HsWhen the Gestapo intensified ef-
forts to arrest her, she disguised
herself SO completely that from a
blond she became a brunette with a
set of new eyelashes and brows.
For two and a half years, she did
not even let her family know of her
identity and she tells of one occa-
sion where she stood beside her
father in a streetcar without his
recognizing her.
Miss van Dien, now enrolled at
Radcliffe College and studying as
tronomy at the Harvard Observa-
tory, was in hiding from the Ger
mans since September 1912.
A JeweSS, she wrote at the time
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St. Johns Mothers
4 nnuaI Gard Party

Final plans for the annual card
party and dance to be given by the
st. johns Mothers Club February
% at the Shoreham Hotel will be
formulated at a meeting at 1:30
pm. Friday in the school auditori-
um, 1925 Vermont avenue.
Mrs. Robert J. Silk will be in
charge of the meeting, following
which Brother F.. John, student
counselor, will speak on compulsory
military training. a subject of spe-
cial interest to parents at this time,
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Youths Will Honor
Miss Vard0ulakis

A reception honoring Miss Mary
Vardoulakis, author of the best
seller, Gold in the Streets" will be
given by the Youth League. an Or
ganization of Americans of Hellenic
descent, at 8 pm. Thursday in the
Community Center, Sixteenth and G
streets NV.
Miss Vardoulakis will recount
some Of the amusing experiences she
encountered in the writing and
eventual publication of her book. A
technicolor film on Greece will be
shown following her talk.
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X eSher Israel
SiSferh00d IusfaUs

Mrs. Louis Amend was installed
as president of the Sisterhood ot
kesher Israel Georgetown Shule)
in a recent installation of officers
ceremony,
Other officers installed include
Mrs. Harold Goldin. vice president
Mrs. Henry Rosenblatt, second vice
president; Mrs. Charles Potter
financial secretary; Mrs. Morris
Shulman, treasurer; Mrs. Harry
Brooks, recording secretary; anc
Mrs. Louis Yockelson. correspond.
ing secretary
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Librarians to Meet

A meeting of the legislative ref.
erence group of the Washington
Chapter, Special Libraries Associa
ton, will be held at 7:30 pm. Tues
day in the Law Library, Fedora
Works Agency, on F street between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets
NV. Miss Minnie Wiener, law IL
brarian, will act as hostess. The
topic of discussion will be "Legis-
latiYe Histories of Laws"
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Pen W0men Called

The District Branch, Nationa
League of American Pen Women
will hold its monthly business meet
ing at pm. tomorrow in the studio
1851 Columbia road NV, with Mrs
Augustus o. Thomas, president, pre-
siding.
Following the meeting. Mrs
Thomas will present Harold Tharp
young Washington tenor, in three
groups of songs.
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Sigma Tau Gamma

A Victory dance will be given by
the Sigma Tau Gamma Sorority at
$50 pm. Wednesday at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Receiving guests and friends will.
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CrittentOn Home

The Board of Managers, Florence
Crittenton Home will hold its
monthly meeting at II am. Friday
at the home, 4759 Reservoir roao
NV. Mrs. Frederick Kirby, presi-
dent, will preside.
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be Ruth Swinburn, Afino Cristaldi,
Laura Luckus, Maria Tiches, Mar
guerite Kluh and Hazel Hillerich.
Miss Kluh, Taylor 5697, and Miss
Tiches, Dupont o629, will be in
charge of tickets.
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Business and
Professional Clubs
Miscellaneous Clubs

Woman's National Democratic CIuh-To-
morrow. 12:30 pm. luncheon, Educa- =
ton Committee, panel discussion. The
World Emergency: speakers, Mrs. J.
Borden Harrim an, Miss Josephine Schain.
Mrs. Millard Tydings: moderator, Mrs.
Charles w; Tillett: legislation Commit
tee, Mrs Ned z Enalv
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Civic and Study Clubs

Speaker, Or, Nstla 1zzeddin, The h Arabs ,
in the Modern World
Washington Branch-Today, 4:30 m.
to 7:30 pm. officers tea dance To-
morrow, pm, club tea; speaker. Mrs,
NLli. Marjorie Spikes Women of Today in
womens City Ciub-Today, 4:3O D m, tea
speaker, Mrs. Marjorie Spikes.
Argyle Study Club-Tuesday, | pm. with
Mrs; sfrset EEoWaro NV NORWOOD 5000 lliden
voteless District League of Women Voters
Tuesday, neighborhood group meet
ings.
Business and
Professional Clubs
Soroptimist Club - wednesday. pm.
Willard Hotel, luncheon; Mile o Dimes
Zonta Club-Tuesday. $50 pm, 1908
Twentieth street NV, dinner and bust
ness meeting. election of Nominating
Committee.
Community Clubs
woman's Club of Chevy Chase-Friday
meeting speaker, Dr., r. v. Truitt, Con
cGS H5
1915 Dale drive, Htn Woodside s d'f Nd p'foneF
silver sprinE Woman's Ciub-Tomorrow
avenue, Silver Spring. Md Tuesday
9;30 am; arts and crafts group. with
Tskoma Park Women's Club-Tomorrow
1870 pm. homemskers' department,
nut street NV, dessert luncheon; speak
er, Dr.. Kenneth E, Pohlmann. Medical
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

representatives of press and radio,
huddled around the sound truck at
the southeast corner of the field.
AS soon as all the men were
down, the two officers in charge,
Col. Edward l. Sachs, G.. F. Board
No. l, Airborne Test Section, and
Col. j. A. Wallace, veteran of the
famous 82nd Airborne, who had
brought the men up from Fl. Bragg,
went down the field on the double
The rest of the group walked to
the hangar apron where the C-82
was due to land. And what a walk
that was!
Hard on our heels the truck with
the paratroops pulled up and 10 and
behold there were FOUR - BEAM
ing from ear to ear! Sgt Alfred
Hargraves, Gloucester, N. J., proved
to be the lad who had defied the law
of averages by popping out of the
sky onto the high tension wires and
breaking one wire with his feet so
that a circuit could not be COM
pleted. Trained to do this by hold
ing their legs tight together and hit
ting the wire squarely with their
feet, it still seems fortunate that
Hargraves was one of the heaviest
of the paratroopers. The big ser
geant, who with all of the men
scheduled to jump, was up for dis
charge Monday or Tuesday of this
week, seemed to regard his narrow
squeak as unremarkable, merely all
in the days work.
Young Sgt. Joe Waterman, of
San Pedro, Calf, got birds-eye
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
Iowa Congressman
Lincoln Day Orator
Congressman Cunningham To
Speak At Annual Banquet.

Announcement has been made
that the guest speaker at the an
nual Republican Lincoln Day ban
quet on Tuesday, February IL, will
be Paul Cunningham, member of
the House of Representatives from
Iowa.
Congressman Cunningham, who
is serving his third term in Con-
gress, is familiar with the prob
lens of the returning war veteran,
being member of the World War
Veterans Legislation committee of
the House.
Topic for his address will be
"Henceforth America"
A member of the Army in World
War l, Rep. Cunningham was dis
charged in 1919 as First Lieuten-
ant in the infantry. He has also
served as a Captain in the Iowa
State Guard. Before being elected
to the national Congress, Rep. Cum
ningham served in the State Legis-
lature.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
Council of Layrnen
Plan For Future

At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Council of Christian Lay
men of Washington County, held on
Sunday and presided over by John
j. Porter, newly elected president of
the organization, it was decided to
hold mass meeting sometime in
the spring, at which a speaker of
national prominence will address
the gathering.
The council, organized last No
vember, is composed of laymen of
the various Christian churches in
the county. Committees have been
formed for such activities as: Youth
welfare; membership, civic affairs
and religious advertising and pub
licity, and the council is looking for
ward to full years program in
furthering Christian work in the
county.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
Youth Week Being
Observed Here

National Youth Week, which be-
gan on January q, is being observed
here, under the Sponsorship of the
Washington County Christian Youth
Council. Special services were held
in the local churches on Sunday
and brief devotional services are
being held daily at the junior and
senior high schools, in each home
room.
A radio script, written by study
group of the Youth Council, on the
pros and cons Of peacetinne military
CONSUMPTION, was broadcast over
WEI on Monday evening. The com
mittee in charge of the program
was: Jean Hite, chairman; Mrs. Ann
Buterbaugh, Harris LeFew and
Marie May.
A Community Recreation Night,
to which all young people were in
vited, was held Tuesday evening in
the basement Of the First Presbyter-
ian Church. Plans for the affair were
in charge of a committee of which
Early Bates was chairman. He was
assisted by Ferman Smith, Clarence
May, Ruth Hollingshead, Beatrice
Myers, David Baker, Peggy Banzoff
and Mildred Bowers.
The Washington County Free
Library has on exhibit a number
of books pertaining to the aims of
National Youth Week and has in
addition prepared a list of avail
able books, which will be distribut-
ed in mimeograph form for inter
ested young people, at Sunday even
ing services in all local churches.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

view of what was happening to "Big
Hump, as the men call Hargraves
in fact his chute caught on the
same wires and dropped him onto a
barbed wire fence, The back of his
trousers looked as if he had been set
upon by ravening wolves. A veteran
of the jump onto Corregidor, the
blond young sergeant had some in
teresting things to tell about that
celebrated jump-unfortunately off
the record.
All the men expressed great en-
thusiam for the C-82 as an airborne
medium. They preferred it, they
said, to any plane they had ever
jumped from and that covers a lot
of territory, since they were for the
most part Test Section men who
bad jumped from every kind of air
craft in all parts of the world.
Tech. Sgt Charles Burns and Staff
Sgt. Edward Carlin jumped from
the bomb bay doors of the cargo at
Bragg last week and in line with the
strange WITNESSES of paratroopers,
found it great fun"
According to Colonel Wallace,
who was sporting a game leg picked
up in landing from a jump at Bragg
the week before, AZ men in full
equipment were jumped out of the
C-82 in 1872 seconds at Pope field
an impressive achievement. Colonel
Sachs, expressing regret that unfav-
orable weather necessitated cancel
ing the rest of the jump, announced
that the exhibition will be sched-
uled at later date, when weather
conditions are more favorable.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

To Hagerstown, home of Fair
child Aircraft's giant cargo ship, the
C-82, fell the honor of being select
ed as the site of the first public mass
parachute jump anywhere in the
United States since VI Day.
To the thousands of spectators,
jam-packed along the parking
spaces, the edge of the field and
the apron of the Municipal airport,
on Saturday afternoon, fell a variety
of chills and thrills not on the pro-
gram and not entirely due to the
icy, 40-mile blast sweeping across
the wintry fields.
1t went something like this: The
big ship circled the field for the
third time at an altitude of 300 feet
and the four paratroopers - vet
Grams all - jumped (see picture
above). The men hit the silk, the
wind hit the men, and one man hit
the high tension wires in back of
the hangar. And it happened about
as fast as it takes to read it.
Dropped nearly above the center
of the field, the paratroopers hadn't
prayer when it came to avoiding
those things that every good little
jumper is taught to steer clear of =
i. e. hangers, sign boards, highways,
barbed wire fences and high tension
wires.
The terrifying series of bright
green flashes that let the crowd in
on what had happened was all that
was needed to completely freeze the
marrow of the little group of Fair
child officials, Army officers and
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
Motor Transport
Assn To Meet Here

Ted v. Rodgers, president of the
American Trucking Association, will
be the principal speaker at the an
nual dinner of the Maryland Motor
Transport Association which will be
held here on February 20. Many
guests, prominent in transportation,
are expected to attend, including
Walter Belsen, head of international
Relations in Motor Transport, who
has just returned from making a
study of transportation problems in
England. He will present a brief
comparison of methods, procedure
and activities of the two countries.
The local Traffic Club has been
invited to join the Motor Carriers
for this annual occasion.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
70 John II. Sharar
Now Listed AS Dead

Young Officer Was Previously
Reported Missing Since July,
1945.
Flight Officer John Henry Sharar,
20, son of Mrs. Blanche I. Sharar,
824 West Washington street, this
city, and John A. Sharar, Chambers
burg, Pa, who was reported miss
ing July 8, 1945, has been listed
as dead, according to a telegram re-
ceived by his mother.
Shortly after he was reported
missing, letter was received indi-
eating that Flight Officer Sharar was
the co-pilot of a BIS Mitchell
bomber which departed from NAL
lard Field, Dakar, North Africa, on
a ferrying mission to Robert Field,
Liberia, on July 8.
The estimated time for such a
flight was four hours and thirteen
minutes. The aircraft was contacted
by radio approximately two hours
after it left Dakar, but was neither
seen, or contacted after that time,
although an organized search was
carried out. In addition to Flight
Officer Sharar, the plane carried a
crew of four.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
John Dickrnan VIII
Address BPW Club

Radios Influence on Public Opin-
ion" is the topic chosen by John
Dickman, production manager of
VIDAL, Baltimore, who will speak
before the regular meeting of the
Business and Professional Women's
Club at the Hotel Alexander, Mon
day evening. Mr.. Dickman, who has
recently returned from overseas
duty with the Navy, has been par
ticularly active in producing the
Junior Town Meeting of the Air"
series, in which many city and state
high schools have participated.
Following the talk, the Norman
Corwin production of 'The Lone
some Train" will be presented to the
audience by electrical transcription.
Acclaimed as one of the finest radio
programs of our time, the Corwin
script is musical story of the
travels of the Lincoln funeral train
from Washington to Springfield, III.
Copies Of the script viii be distribut-
ed to the listeners so that they may
follow the content closely.
The committee in charge of the
meeting is composed of Mrs. Mar
jorie Hoachlander, chairman of the
radio committee, Mrs. Rachel P.
Baylor, Mrs. Betty VIM Malchen-
son and Mrs. Margaret Towson.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
St. Mary's Alumni
Holds Meeting
Association Considers Publish
ing Annual Edition of Alumni
News; Thanks Dance Patrons

st. Mary's Alumni Association
held meeting at the Parish House
on Thursday evening, January "a,
which plans were discussed for an
annual edition of Alumni News,
which will be published for the first
time this year.
A vote of thanks was extended
the following patrons who contribut-
ed so generously to the success of
the dance held recently by the As
ISOLATION:
Mgr. Francis ]. Leary, Rev.
Charles w. Dausch, Rev. John v.
Ballard, Hon. Richard J. Sweeney,
Mrs. jeanette Bester, Mr.. Tony Brit
ii, Miss Augusta Cearfoss, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Carey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Chambers, Mrs. Victor NJ
Cushwa, Miss Louise Dillon, Mr..
and Mrs J. Frank Elliott, Mrs. w.
o. Fearnow, DR.. and Mrs. Arthur
Foard, Mrs. Mary CARROT, Mrs.
Mary Giegas, Mr.. and Mrs. E. N.
Henson, Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Kane.
Mr.. Frank D. Kelley, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. E. Knott, Jr., Mrs. Hannah Hard
ings, Mr.. Robt. c. Keller, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. ]. Krepp, Mrs. Mary Lui-
persbeck, Miss Margaret Lushbaugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Martin, Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Martin, Mrs. Veron-
lea Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Nc
Kane, Mr.. and Mrs. John Pang-
born, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Pang-
born, Capt VIM. Peters, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. R. Rowe, Mr.. and Mrs. Arley
Q. Sica, Mr. and Mrs. C. w. Stump,
Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Stump, Mr..
and Mrs. a. H. Warne and MIR. and
Mrs. R. c. Wilson.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

Monday, February Is, will give their
concert in the Hagerstown High
School Auditorium on Tuesday
night, February 5, at $3.50 o'clock.
The change in dates was necessi-
tated by the re-scheduling of the
Ensembles tour, which made it i'm
possible for the trio to be in Ha-
gerstown on the original date sched-
uled.
Their programs are divided be-
tween solo and ensemble music, with
distinctly informal atmosphere
prevailing, as though the three
artists had gotten together for the
fun of it, to spend an evening in
playing beautiful music.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
STAMP PROTEST

Congress had been deluged this
week with letters from stamp coll
lectors in protest against the pub
lie sale February 4, of part of the
stamp collection of the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Executors of the
Roosevelt estate had announced
that die proofs of stamps made by
the Bureau of Engraving since the
latter half of the 18th century are
to be auctioned. Protesting phi
latelists hold that this part of the
collection should be regarded as
property of the nation.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
Announce Summer
Store Hours Here
Retailers To Close At Noon,
Wednesdays, Through May,
June, July, August and Sep
TENDER.

At the regular monthly luncheon
meeting of the Hagerstown Retail
ers Bureau, held at the Hamilton
Hotel on Friday, the membership
voted to close their stores at IL
o clock noon, on Wednesdays,
through May, June, July, August
and September, with the exception
of those weeks in which there are
public holidays, such as the Fourth
of July and Labor Day.
During the meeting, which was
presided over by president, A. Harry
Warne, it was announced that the
bureaus annual banquet will be held
on Wednesday, March n, in Frank
lin Court Auditorium. Last years
banquet was unquestionably the
high spot of the Retailers year, at
least as far as social activities were
concerned, but those in charge are
already talking of putting that af-
fair in the shade.
With the exception of Ford "Jeep'"
Bryan, manager of McCrory's, who
will be out of the city most of the
time for the next couple of months,
the banquet will be in the hands of
the same capable committee that
handled it last year. b. H. Warne
will act as chairman; Ode1l Letter
will be assistant chairman; Max
Shoff will handle publicity; Gene
Evans will take care of arrange
ments; Mrs. Harry Steiger will take
charge of the decorations, and Yer
non Grouse is the man to see for
tickets. And talking about tickets,
don't forget that the bureau has
decided to limit the sale to 400, so
don't wait too long, or you may be
left out in the cold.
The full committee held their first
meeting on Monday and while they
were very secretive about what took
place, we learned that they are
planning something "out of this
world IN the way of entertainment.
A high1ight Of the meeting was
Frank Letters report of the annual
meeting in New York, of the Re-
tailers-Dry Goods Association in
which he pointed out that the AS
ISOLATION went on record as not be-
ing against price control, but in
sisted that it be intelligently adj
ninistered, He also predicted that
present shortages would continue
for some time in most dry goods
lines. c. Robert Dean, newly ap-
pointed manager of the Chamber of
Commerce and. secretary of the Re-
tailers Bureau, was introduced to
the membership and Sheldon Oliver,
chairman Of the Retailers Committee
for the Clothing Drive, appealed for
large cartons in which to pack the
collected clothing, after which the
meeting adjourned until the next
meeting, to be held on Friday,
February %.