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Evening star., 1947-10-28
Miss PoIIitzer Tells
Court Of Learning Of
Rival Convention

Only when the printer called
about getting out supplement to-
the official publication did Miss
Anita Pollitzer of New York, who
contends she is the legal head of the
National Womans Party, learn of a
rival convention. according to her
testimony in District Court,
Justice James M Proctor is being
called upon to determine which of
two sets of officers is the legal one.
Miss Pollitzer, defendant, who was
on the stand yesterday, is expected
to continue direct testimony today.
Convention plans of rival group
were carefully concealed from her,
Miss Pollitzer told the court. She
learned of them only when the
printer telephoned her. she said.
The printer declined to bring out a
supplement on her orders, she de-
clared. but the rival group had an
alleged convention call printed any
way. The rivals, she said, brought
out publication called Equal
Rights, although this name of the
party's official organ is trade mark.
Miss Pollitzer testified the min
utes showed a legal New York meet
ing of the national council Sep"
tember %. 1916. fixed the conven-
ton date for January, 1947, III
Washington and the exact dates of
January 25 and 26 were fixed by
the chairman and officers. An over
whelming national executive coun-
Gil vote favored DR.. Agnes E. Wells,
University of Indiana dean, as the
convention chairman, she said
The plaintiffs want the court to
rule a slate of officers elected last
January in the Mayfower Hotel.
headed by Mrs. John L. Whltehurst
of Baltimore, is the legal one. The
defense maintains that owing to the
confusion caused by the "insur-
gents" setting convention dates of
January 10, II AND II, the dates OF
January Is and 26 were Cancelled.
Later, the defense pointed out, a
date in April was selected but be-
cause of the lawsuit, that conven-
ton was not held. In accordance
with the partys constitution, how
ever, the defendants. maintain, Miss
Pollitzer and her group were legally
elected for two years.
In the tiny neck of sparrow
Evening star., 1947-04-13

#Carmelite House az studies ID
Washington: the Very Rev. John r.
Nitterl. oCD, prior Of the Wash
ington Carmel. chairman Of the
committee sponsoring the lectures,
and the Rev. Cornelius Byrnes and
Rev. Milton Schellenberg, Baltimore
and Washington Lay Retreat direc-
tors, respectively, are members Of
the Advisory Committee. Registra-
tion blanks may be obtained from
the Discalced Carmelite Fathers,
2131 Lincoln road NE.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Invalid, SO, Bequeoths $500
To VOL News Broodcoster
Friendship Lasting
Three Years Began
With Fan Letter

A Washington news broadcaster
is richer by $500 because an S8-
year-old invalid in Brookline, Mass,
liked his voice and considered him
my friend"
The broadcaster, Ray Henle OF
Station VOL, has been notified that
Miss Lydia G. Wentworth of Brook
line remembered him in her will.
The friendship between Miss
wentworth and the Washington
broadcaster began three years age
when she wrote him fan letter
He answered, and correspondence
began that continued until her death
last month.
"She wrote Charming letters" Mr.
Henle recalled. "She was bed
ridden but she brought the world te
her door through radio and cor.
respondence. She was great advo-
cate of world peace and once she
wrote me she wished she had more
money to help the cause.
Every time I made some COM
ment she didn't think supported
world peace, she would write and
raise cain. Shed send me clippings
to urge me on, and when I said
something she liked she would write
to tell me so"
Last year she sent Mr.. Henle';
wife a pair of vases her father
brought home from China on one OF
the old clipper ships. AS a return
gesture, the Henles sent her a
photograph.
The last thing Mr.. Henle sent hei
was a clipping from The Star with
a letter to the editor written by
Miss Wentworth. She was very
pleased at the idea that members
of Congress might see her letter
she wrote Mr.. Henle.
The other day letter came from
Brookline signed by Miss Derinda
Macarthur, who had been Miss
Wentworth's companion for eight
years. 1t said that Miss Wentworth
had died at the age of SO and "she
requested me to send this notice
to you" The notice was of the $500
beouest to my friend, Ray Henle.
Evening star., 1947-04-13
CurmeIite Order to Hold
|6-Week Lecture Course

A six-week lecture course on men
tai prayer under the sponsorship Of
the Disca1ced Carmelite Fathers in
Washington will open at pm. to-
morrow at Carroll Hall, 924 G street
NV.
The Rev. Angelus Kopp, O.C.D..
editor of Mount Carmel and pro-
fessor OF spiritual theology at the
Evening star., 1947-04-13
Correspondent to Speak

Frank j. Gervasi. who was Col
lier's war correspondent in the Near
East and Italy, will speak on
Struggle for Power in the Medi-
terranean" at a cooperative lunch
con of IA educational societies at
1890 pm. April 26 in the Mayf1ower
Hotel. Lawson j. Cantrell, assist
ant superintendent of schools, will
be chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23

In loving memory Of my wife and
our mother, Mrs. Oda. Kempf, who
passed away three years ago, Octo-
Der 24, 1914.
No one heard the footsteps
Of the angel drawing near
Who took from earth to heaven
The one we loved SO dear.
No one knows the silent heartaches
Only we who know can tell
Of the grief that's borne in silence
For the one we loved SO well.
Sadly missed by her husband and
daughters, Harold, Susanna, and
Jean Ann Kempf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23
Richland Center

Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Basinger and
daughters and Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald
Basinger and daughter were Sunday
eve supper guests of their mother,
Mrs. Martha Basinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Matter
and family spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Helm
linger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Moser were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Warren Moser and sons.
Chas. and Misses Lucy and Minnie
Bessire spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Amstutz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Faye Isham of Lima
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son were Friday evening supper
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Mar
quart and daughter in honor of Mr..
Isham's and Francis birthdays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Marquart
spent Sunday eve at the Amos and
Weldon Luginbuhl home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bame and Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Gerber and family
called Thursday eve at the Amos
Gerber home.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Rupright and
daughter Sandra Kaye and Miss
Alice Balmer were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mar
quart and family. Afternoon callers
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son.
Mrs. Addie Graber spent last Wed
nesday eve with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emanuel Boutwell,
and daughter Barbara, Mr.. and Mrs
w. c. Schaublin and Mr.. and Mrs
Chas. Stryker we're Sunday dinne1
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Strain
of Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Luginbuhl o
Marion were week end guests of thei
mother, Mrs. J, /. Luginbuhl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Burkholder o.
Lima and Mr.. and Mrs. John Burk
holder of Pa, called Thursday after
noon at the Amos and Weldon Lugin
buhl home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. |. Dennis of Bow
ling Green, Mr.. and Mrs. Ear
Nourfe of Detroit, Mich; Mr.. ant
Mrs. Ralph Snyder and Mrs. Glars
Pankhurst of Fostoria and Mr.. ans
Mrs. VIM. Clouser of Miami, Fla
were Sunday dinner guests of Nh
and Mrs. Dwight Daley and sol
James and Mrs. Harry Clouser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Eikenbary
Miss Mabel Davis and Mrs. Heller
| Peifer of Tifin were Sunday. Dime
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Eiken
barry. Afternoon callers were Mr.. an,
Mrs. John Nonnamaker and son O
Lima and Mr. and Mrs. Kennel
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23

to mention corn at around $3.50 a
bushel it'll still be Halloween
but times have changed since the
days when the grade school steps
were piled high with debris or the
morning after and homecoming
at the college Saturday with old
grads thronging the campus for the
week end and Sophs and Frosh
figuring who is going thru the wat
ers of Riley creek in the tug-of-war
. and real varsity football in the
afternoon when Burcky's Beavers
tangle with Findlay's Big Orange
SQUAD on Harmon field and that
all day rain Saturday gave flip
to the fall wheat which was needing
it badly and speaking of wheat
the tale is going the rounds of a
farmer who isn't selling his grain
until after the first of the year be-
cause it will put him in a higher in
come tax bracket and warm
weather - midsummer temperatures
or a reasonable facsimile thereof as
the radio announcers say-and re-
ports coming in of fruit trees in
blossom-and even some second crop
red raspberries-and householders
happy because every day like this
means a saving of coal-or oil, if
you're lucky enough to be on deal
er's list -. and high school grid
followers mourning the good old days
when Schmidt could be depended up
on to pull a rabbit out of the hat
and put the game on ice . how
ever, Coach Cotterman is still doing
a good job with the limited material
availabIe-it takes half Of the boys
in senior high to make up his foot
ball sauad-what we need is more
enrollment-right now he can't be
too choosey and housewives dust
ing off all those wartime meatless
menus-latest is that we're to have
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23

Chidester and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Dillman and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Dillman
and family and Mrs. Ella Dillman
were Sunday eve supper guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Sharp and son
of NorwaIk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Keltner of
Col. Grove spent Sunday eve with
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz.
Noah Hochstettler and daughter
and Miss Marie Imbach called Sun
day afternoon at the Amos Gerber
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Matter and
daughter spent Saturday night with
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Anderson and
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Schaublin
called Sunday eve on Mr.. and Mrs.
r. M. Schaublin and family of Col
Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Harmon of
Col. Grove, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Core and family, Miss Mary Gratz
and Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Gratz
and sons called on Mr.. and Mrs,
Ernest Gratz, Sunday.
The Willing Workers S. S. class
of Emanuel Reformed church sur
prised Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Matter,
recently married, Sunday eve. Those
present were Rev. and Mrs. v. c.
Oppermann, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Balmer and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Moser, Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly
Moser and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Matter, Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Leiber
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford
Gratz and daughter Sharon and Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Creegor and sor
Larry.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Schaublir
spent Tuesday eve with Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Wingate and daughter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23

tion-keep out of situations in which
your identity and intentions might
be mistaken.
This is a good time for the prae-
tice Of forbearance by everyone.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23
Locker Alarm

An alarm thermostat for. frozen
food cabinets is designed to avert
costly food losses through mechani-
cal or power failures.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23
Moi>sL
Oea4onaI

Halloween in the offing but
the high cost of living is going to
hit apples cider and pumpkins-not
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23
Our costs have gone u b, too!

SOME PEOPLE get along under higher
prices by using less or doing without. Some
have more income to help meet higher costs.
All can adjust outgo to income, to large
extent.
But railroad cannot skimp or do with
ouz and still provide good, efficient and safe
service adequate to the needs and desires
of the public. -
The chart at left shows why the Eastern
Railroads have had TO ask for an increase in
freight rates. The simple reason is that the
increases allowed since 1889 are nowhere
near enough to meet today's costs. The rev.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
"l LIKE 1T BEST OF ALP
How little boy found the Christmas spirit for himself
by George Barnes
by George Barnes

1T WAS Christmas morning in England the last year
Il of the war.
The little boy sat crosslegged on the floor near the
Christmas tree showing his toys to the two American
visitors from the cottage down the hill.
He was chubby and blond and his blue eyes were
merry and excited He all that Christmas morning
ought to be- Very proud he was, of the toys he had
found awaiting him. He showed them to us eagerly,
his round face beamng with expectancy as one by one
he held them out for our approval.
We didn't let him down. We said the picture books
were wonderful, the blocks lust like the bricks in
real houses We tried to adorn his treasures with gilt
terlng adjectives they didn't deserve
For the box of colored modelling clay went all out:
Gee, you're lucky Think of the things you can
make You know, always wanted box of clay like
this but never got one
He regarded me with sympathy. Il like it best of
all, he said.
WALKING back to the cottage, we talked about the
little boy and his toys and war and kids We couldn't
help thinking of the shining toys we had seen in New
York little while before Our small friend had never
such toys He four years DID, The war was six
That afternoon, the little boy and his mother repaid
our call We did our best to entertain him in the spirit
of the season. He loved the American goodies we had
received from home - the hard candy in cellophane
bag canned orange juice timed hot dogs toasted over
the open fire. When his mother put him up to it, he
took the center of the floor and sang some Christmas
carols, enjoying the limelight and applause
But something was wrong. We sensed it. He had
something on his mind. He'd walk to the window as
Evening star., 1947-12-14

often as poiteness would allow and stand there looking
out. His mother noticed too
It's your car, she said That beautiful new Ameri-
can car We stopped to look it we came down the
hill He's fascinated. The chromium and the red seats
and the lovely tan color he simply can't get over
them. He's never seen car like that before"
So that was it,
Come on" said That car needs exercise
he came, all right, dancing with excitement
Whose car is it?' he asked as we got in
ELL" told him, 1T belongs to my rich uncle e
Uncle Sam. He told me to use it for business ony but
I'm absolutely he'd want you to have spin in her
today"
We drove through the Bucks countryside for twenty
minutes, perhaps, the little boy beside me on the wide
front seat. At first expected questions, or maybe
expressions OF delight After the first few moments
didn't quite know what to expect He uttered not
sound He just sat there wideeyed and Serious looking
around Very tentatively he touched the chrome
rmmed clock, the radio dial buttons the redleather
seats He watched me drive But he never said word
We ended up at his house by prearrangement with
his mother
The little boy waited for the car to stop. Then
quickly, ne opened the door, jumped out and rushed
INTO the house. Not word of thanks, not a smile
not even good-by!
His mother, astonshed, watched him 90 Then she
turned to apologize for him. But she had scarcely begun
when he reappeared, flushed and breathless.
Straight to my side of the car he came.
Gravely he handed me a cardboard box had seen
before. 1t was his box of modelling clay.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
This Week Magazine

FOR A B'ETTER AMERICA
WILLIAM l. NICHOLS, Editor
MAKING GOOD BY MAIL ........ 4
by Mort Weisinses
WALLYS WAGON. s
by Wojly Bossn
THE BODY HAD A COLD. ............. .
by Louis Berg
sTAkD-ik FOR SANTA CLAUS. .. 10
BY Edword Hope
YEARS BEST hEwsPtcTUREs. ......... ~
DON'T WRITE DEAD LETIERs!. ........15
by Coil Hvnsesfosd
0OtZ EN-. Observation-Disclosures. II
by Tom Henry
THERE OUGHT 10 Be A WAY. .......1s
BY Oseor SeMssuI
A DAY AT THE FRONT DOOR. ....... -
Cover by Waifon BIodsssf
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Names and descriptions of all characters In
action stories and semi-hction articles In this
maEsxino are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same a. that Of any
psrson. living or dead. 10 entirely coincidentai.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
DNnENM;E,r

CIRCULATING. A young lady We
know has an 18-year-old brother who
is freshman at college. Last week
ne sent his laundry home, and when
his mother opened it she nearly wept
his handkerchiefs were all tinped
with lipstick.
"Oh, Mother, be sensible" said
our young lady. "You couldn't expect
him to 60 forever without having a
GIRL"
Il know" fretted her mother, but
look - there's a different color IN
every handkerchief"
Evening star., 1947-12-14

TDBITS. Two weeks ago we pub
ished story about Harry Lind, who
manufactures equipment for jugglers.
After the story went to press we re-
ceived p from him. One of his
customers, who works with the Polack
Bros. Circus, just sent him an emer
gency telegram: arrived Wichita
Falls and discovered elephants had
eaten six of our Indian clubs. Please
rush more"
Mr.. Lind rushed the clubs and re-
marked, "At seven dollars apiece,
they are pretty expensive food for
elephants.
Evening star., 1947-12-14

AMEN. A Harlem barbershop has
the casing of 16-inch shell in its
window, with sign reading:
RUST IN PEACE.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Story TO REMEMBER

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Evening star., 1947-01-26
COLUMBUS, GA.

NOLUMbUS, VA.
W7ELL, thought if was goin'
" to follow in the footsteps
of Christopher Columbus, l would
come here first. l was supposed to
go adventurin'. That was the deal
l made with the Editor. But l
sort of got mixed up.
'How far is it to Columbus?"
ask a fellow at a film station.
He goes an looks at his map book
an comes back.
Columbus, Georgia, Indiana,
Mississippi, Nebraska or Ohio?"
he wants to know. "Oh," l says
airily, "just pick one out"
"Well," he looks at me sort of
Mortified an says, well, Colum-
bus, Georgia, is at the intersection
of Route 30 an Route 81, about
hundred an twenty miles from
Atlanta"
Fill 'er up," l tell him.
Now l find have beat OIL Chris
topher to the punch. He didn't
come up the Chattahoochee River
at all. But a whole lot of other
people must have, because they
got quite a city here. Together
with Phenix City, Alabama, across
the river - where they sort of
claim Columbus as suburb Il
guess there's seventy thousand
people. An this don't count Fort
Benning-which colonel and
sergeant told me is Americas
most complete army post"
l sat on a bench while yester-
day with a Mr.. Walter Richards.
He is in the peanut business.
"You sell 'em in nickel bags?"
ask him.
''By the Millions" Mr.. Rich
Evening star., 1947-01-26
l 60 whole hog

ards grins. 1--WE think of peanuts
in thousand-ton lots"
''Now you amt kiddin' me?"
ask him. "A thousand tons of
peanuts is two million pounds.
Gosh, that'd make about forty
acres of peanut candyr'
can we also make peanut but
ter" he mods. Il guess we've made
enough this season to spread a
sandwich the size of Muscogee
County"
By THIS time l arm hungry an
so Mr.. Richards takes me to a
place where they barbecue spare
ribs that are out of this world.
Don't measure 'em," l gulp
when look at the pile of rib bones
in front of me, but I bet l ate
both sides of a pig"
Oh" says Mr.. Richards, "I'm
glad to see you like our kind of
barbecue.
"You see," he goes on, NEARLY
everybody around here likes spare
ribs. So we breed special short-rib
pigs.
''When a pig is very youns,"
Mr.. Richards explains, ''we run
his tail through a knothole in
the fence and tie it. Then every
day we move the trough a little
farther from his nose BY the time
he's grown, we've stretched him to
where he has to have as many as
three roller skates strapped along
his stomach to keep him from
draggin'
l give him doubtin' look but
I'm so contentcd, amt even got
the energy to ask him if, by any
chance, he belongs to the Chamber
of Commerce. -WAllY B0REN
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
NEW FIELD SECRETARY ON NAACP BRANCH STAFF
New York, N. Y.-The em.

New York, N. Y.-The en- ployment of a new assistant field secretary, Miss Marion O. Bond, was announced on Feb ruary 26th, by Gloster B. Cur rent, the NAACP director of branches. Miss Bond, who re- places Miss Norma Jensen will take up her new duties with the Association on March list.
 Miss Bond has been national sales representative with the Pepsi Cola Company for the past five years. A graduate of Lane College, Jackson, Tenn, Miss Bond has travelled exten- sively thrughout the country, and has a working knowledge of practically every large city in the United States.
 She will continue the work Miss Jensen has been engaged in since October ,1945, special izing in the field of intercultur- al education for the NAACP. Miss Jensen, in her studies, has visited some forty school sys- tems in over fourteen states. She is leaving the Association to get married. and to take up graduate work at the University of Chicago in preparation for a teaching position.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
67 Center St. Wethersfeld, Conn February 27, 1947

Oi C0nU0T SI.
 Wethersield, Conn.,
 February 27, 1947
 MT. Leo Parsley, Hartford Attorney, will speak on "Weak- nesses of the Governor Fair Employment Practice Bill' at regular meeting of the Hartford Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at 8;3O P.MY Wednes- day, March 5, at the Women s League, 20 Avon St., Hartford MT. Parsley, who is chairman of the legislative committee of Hartford Chapter No. 1, Amer ican's Veterans Committee, will discuss legal loopholes in the Acknowledgements legis- lation through which the intent of the law might be evaded. MT. Percy Christian, president of the Hartford Branch, NAACP, will preside at the meeting, to which all interested persons are invited. The NAACP, MT. Christian stated, is especially interested in the passage of a State anti-discrimination law, and supports the Ward-Gillie bill as the best of such measures now pending before the State Legislature.
 Submittd by
 Robert B. Hart
 Publicity Committee, NAACP
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08
TOP HOUSING ADVISORS GET THE AXE

Washington-What for sev- eral weeks has been merely a ru- ly what to expect, has now be- nor with no noe knowing exact come a clearly defined reality in National Housing.
 Frank Creedon, national hous- ing expeditOr let his axe swing the other day and 1t severed 400 persons from the housing divi- sion payroll While this was expected in a measure, it was hoped that some semblance of effectiveness would be retained in tn eminority group picture. But while Dr. Frank Horne was away on the field trip, Miss Ann Mason, liason representative for local mayors emergency hous- ing committees and Donald Wy att, speciality on labor affairs, were both dropped from the rolls. In MT. Creedon's own office he issued a termination notice to William Clark, infor- nation specialist.
 The dropping of these top persons not only weakens the whole housing picture from the standpoint of the group but it is contrary to the assurances that MT. Creedon is alleged to have given.
 Though there are marked in dicaions that there will be stiff protests over these steps, the fact that Congress seems to be bent on severer budget slashes, makes the prospects for restitu- ton, seem slim.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-08

For the thousands of Negro youth scattered through the country, the Nationa Urban League emphasizes MT. Will sons advice, and it adds: It only happens that MT. Wilson lives in New York. In many cities throughout the country Negroes are succeeding in this profession. It points to the brilliant careers of Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, Califor- mia; the McKissack Brothers in Nashville, Tennessee; Hilyard Robinson, Washington, D. o.; Ferdinand l.. Rousseve, New Orleans, Louisiana; Benjamin McAdoo, Jr., Seattle, Washing ton, as a few examples
 ''The Future Is Yours-Plan and Prepare