davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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ing bishop Of the Episcopal Church:
the Very Rev. william H. Mes, dean
of Nashotah (Wis0 House. and
Charles p. Taft, president Of the
Federal Council OF Churches Of
Christ in America.
"a Denominations.
There will be a American Protes-
tant denominations among the 1875
Protestant churches to be repre-
sented by $50 clerical and lay
leaders at the world council gather
ing.
A native of New York, Bishop
Dun was consecrated as the fourth
Bishop of Washington on April 49,
1914. He is a graduate of Yale Uni
versity and of the Episcopal Theo-
logical School at Cambridge, Mass
He came to Washington from his
position as dean of the Episcopal
Theological School at Cambridge,
where he served from 1910 until he
was called to his present post.
To foil "fur thieves" Brixton,
England, householders have been
asked to label their cats.
Evening star., 1948-06-20

first meeting OF
the World Coun-
Gil of Churches
at Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
He will be ac-
companied by
Mrs. Dun. They
plan to leave
washington for
New York Tues
day.
Bishop u u n
will be one of so
Episcopal bish-
OBS Of t h e
United States at
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Bishop Dun 10 Leave
For Lambeth Farley,
World Church Council

The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
Of Washington, will sail from New
York Thursday to attend the Lam
beth Conference in London and the
Evening star., 1948-06-20
Anne Mclaughlin Sehoo
Awards II Diplomas

Diplomas were awarded to 81
graduates of the Anne Mclaughlin
School for Medical Secretaries in
exercises at the Wardman Park
Hotel yesterday.
Graduates were Barbara Ann
Bailey, Dorothy Fox, Mary Alice
Dean, Mary Giebel. Betty Biebel,
Mary K. CLANCY, Norma Gill, Nancy
Hale, Janet Hunter. Marion Kuehl,
Maryetta Leveau, Jean Lyons, Helen
Mckee, Mary Ellen O'Connell,
Muriel Remers. Jane Schwenck,
Mary Stavrakas, Betty Sullivan,
Joan Stanley, Lucille Thompson and
Dorothy Ward.
India has flown crOcOdileS to the
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Funny Stuff?
Untapped knowledge

THE old farmer was doing in the
shade of his front porch, when a
high-pressure salesman hustled up
the front walk and awakened him
with a CHEEKY "Good afternoon. a"
He had a sample book of a 10
volume set on scientific agriculture
he was selling.
The old farmer was at length per-
suaded to page through the speci-
men volume.
Nope" he objected; "ain't got
no use for it"
''But you ought to have it," the
salesman insisted. "It will teach
you to farm twice as good as you do
now"
Hell, son." barked the ancient
agriculturist, 81 don't farm half as
good now as l know how"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Renewals Of CT Insurance

Maryland veterans have been re-
Installing their CT insurance poll
cies at rate Of about 100000
worth monthly, a Veterans Admin
istration report reveals. July 81
has been set as the deadline for the
reinstatement of these policies The
average policy reinstated is around
$500, the report shows.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
To Hire More Teachers

DR.. Edwin r. Broome, Montgom-
cry county superintendent of schools,
says the Board of Education will be
able to hire so more teachers this
year and continue all school serv-
ices despite its budget cut. The
school board requested $3,429,969
for the ensuing year but the county
commissioners approved only ST.
818,402.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22

Tears dubbed in Dina's throat,
but she tried to laugh through
them. Grant, wasn't it silly
thought"
away. Orders that meant long hours
of tedious work piled up, but with
the time lengthening from that
spring morning she arrived In
Hampton with the intention of
starting life anew, she'd come to
feel that the unexpected success
was better for her. She had less time
to think.
Her busy routine however was
disrupted one day when call
came from her old home town
across the state.
"This is Linda Price," the pleas
ant voice said. you don't know me,
but I saw you several times when
visited Hampton not long ago. I'm
getting married" she went on, "and
want you to make my wedding gown.
I've heard so much about your orig
inal creations"
Dina laughed "Thank you. hope
I please the lucky man."
ooh, Grant couldn't help being
pleased, I know. I'm marrying
Grant Shay-but maybe you don't
know him. He's very wonderful"
Her ecstatic sigh came distinctly
over the wire, and Dina's small hand
frightened on the phone.
She didn't say she knew Grant
Shay. She said, HE must be very
fine. And now, about the size"
you'll have no trouble at all,
darling" Linda said. "Just make 1t
to fit yourself. We're about the same
size, which is indeed most fortunate.
I'll be in Hampton about the tenth
of next month, and you can make
necessary alterations then. I'm send
ing gobs of the material want and
a letter listing a few minor details
I'd like done to the gown. I hope
I'm giving you enough time. But
we're planning long trip East and
don't want to put the date off later
than the GOTH"
"I'll have the gown finished when
you come" Dina said.
Without a doubt Grant didn't
know where his intended bride was
getting her wedding gown. Bride
grooms usually didn't. Or did Grant
know? He'd say to himself anyway,
If he knew. "Dina1l laugh this one
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Plentiful supply OF Farm Labor

Maryland farmers apparently
won't have to worry about labor
shortage this summer and fall. The
State Employment Service reports
that enough migratory farm hands
are on hand in the state to see grow
ers comfortably through the season.
The labor picture, it is pointed out,
has not been so favorable for some
years.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Well Taught

A little girl about six years old
went into a bank and asked to see
the president. A smiling clerk
showed her into his private office.
She explained solemnly that her
girls club was raising money, and
would he please contribute?
The banker laid a dollar bill and
a dime on the desk and said, "You
take whichever one you want"
She picked up the dime and said,
"My mother always taught me to
take the smallest piece" but pick
ing up the dollar bill also, she add
ed, "but so l won't lose this dime,
I'll take this piece of paper to wrap
it up in"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22

ok months ago she had the metal
- sign put up across the walk In
front of her small house. 1t read, in
gold letters on dark metal: DRESS
DESIGNING, Dina Case. She hadn't
expected to rise above modest sue
cess in this new business venture in
Hampton, because the town was
small; and certainly least Of all did
she expect any acquired popularity
to go beyond its limited bounds.
But it wasn't long before Dina be-
gan to receive orders by phone and
letter from people great distance
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Hole In Tooth Foils Kidnapers

Go Konghau, 23-year-old Chinese,
was too smart for his would-be kid
napers. Recently five armed Chin
csc and Filipinos snatched Go from
his home in Manila, forced him to
sign ransom note to his father and
then made him take a sleeping tab
let. Go rammed the tablet into a
hollow tooth. Then he pretended
to sleep. When his captors relaxed
their watch, Go went.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
WEDDING GOWN s s;ssPiTia sn6 5TDE

off In good fashion. She was such
sport about our affair"
And ne, Grant, wouldn't feel at
an that there was anything uncOn-
ventional about having his old girl
make his fiancee's wedding gown.
They'd both agreed, "There's no
sense to parting enemies just be-
cause we've had this quarrel and
we're not getting married"
Dina sat for q long while by the
phone after Linda left the wire,
looking down at her hands. Time
had had way of clearing the blur
in her mind about Grant and max
ing the quarrel they'd had seem like
silly pickering between ten-year
olds. But he'd never know that she
had changed, that regret swept all
ill-feeling away-and made her look
like some had told her, you're
working too hard"
She went to her drawing board,
but rose almost Immediately and
opened the drawer of her filing cab
met. She couldn't explain why she
wanted to reproduce Linda's we'd
ding gown from the sketch she'd
Iabored over for hours nine months
ago and then had put away with the
VOW that she'd never reproduce it
for anyone else, after she and Grant
broke up. Did time have way with
sentiment, too? Or was this the I'M
expected twist of past folly guiding
her in crashing finale to dream
lost to her now forever?
She didn't know.
She only knew that the wedding
gown when finished was everything
that she had planned it to be nine
months ago-and it was waiting for
Linda Price.
But 1t was Grant who came for
the wedding gown, and Dina
watched him come up the walk to
her little house with tears of humili-
alton singing her eyes. Hadn't he
an ounce of consideration, regard
less of their parting vow2
She was stiff with defiance when
she went to the door.
LINDA couldn't make the trip for
other things" he had the nerve to
say, after greeting her. He stepped
inside the house. $50 I'll take tho
gown" He laughed tits an ILL.,
omen for bridegroom to see his
flancees wedding gown, so I hope
you'll box it completely"
Dina fought for her usual light
Indifference. you'll not see this
gown till Linda walks down the
aisle in it," she laughed, turning
away quickly. Over her shoulder
she added, "But it may need alter
atoms"
"Linda's aunt is a very good
seamstress," Grant said.
Dina fumbled with the gown in
the boX, thinking She would never
get the package tied with cord.
Something was crumbling miserably
within her.
Grant came into the room and
said at her shoulder, Nov that the
wedding gowns made, Dina, when
shall 1t be?"
Dina looked up quickly, not know
ing that tears shone in her eyes
like a tumble Of stars with dew on
them. eff you think this is hurting
me, Grant :"
"It is, Dina" Grant contradicted,
smiling strangely. II thought it all
along. That's the reason I took a
long-shot at this idea. Linda Price,
my landlady, is plotting little soul
bless her heart. Dina, wasn't 1t a
silly quarrel?"
Tears dubbed in Dina's throat,
but she tried to laugh through them.
Grant, wasn't it silly thought"
And they reached for each other,
launching
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
TOE-PRINTS

During the night, two burglars en-
tered the bank. One approached the
safe, sat down on the floor, took off
his shoes and socks and started to
turn the dial of the safe with his
toes.
whats the matter?" said his
pal. Lets open this thing and get
out of here"
NAV, it'll only take a minute
longer and we'll drive them finger
print experts nuts"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
571 Cases Of Violent Death

A final survey reveals that the
three-day Fourth of July week end
brought violent death to some ST.
persons. Actually, the overall safe
ty showing was the poorest since
1941 and the third worst in twenty
years. The survey grouped the ia
talities as follows: traffic, 306; fire.
works, 4; drownings, 1872, and mis-
cellaneous causes, SO.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
WANTED TO GET EVEN

| When the little mink died and
went to heaven St. Peter told him,
lssWe haven't had any minks up here
before, so we don't know exactly
what to do for you. However, you
were a good little mink on earth
and we want you to be happy, so
we will give you anything you like.
"Piease, st. Peter" pleaded the
little mink, could ! have coat
made out of chorus girls?"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Legal Tangle

Legal Tangle
A Bridgeport, Conn, judge has
ruled that a fraudulent adoption
made in a New York court 10 years
ago by boys grandparents makes
his unwed mother legally "the fos-
ter sister of her own son." The judge
awarded the woman, Katherine T.
Hill, the $4,000 estate which the
boy, Robert, left when he was
killed in an auto accident.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Items of Interest
From Entire State
Real Estate Tax Cut

The Caroline county commissioners
have reduced the tax on real estate
for the fiscal year beginning July l
from last years $1.3O to $1,25 per
500 assessment.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22

berland. The members expect the
draft to be ready for consideration
by the voters in October or Novem-
Der. Prior to starting work on the
new charter, the commission made
an intense study Of Cumberland's
present municipal government and
the organization of other munich
palities.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Youth Severely Burned

A nine-year-old Baltimore lad,
Lawrence Downs, was severely
burned the other day when he light
ed a match to see whether the gas
tank of an old, abandoned truck was
empty. In the resultant explosion,
Lawrence received second-degree
burns of the left eye, face and hands.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
SimnIe Arithmetic

A Sunday school teacher had been
telling a class of little boys about
crowns of glory and heavenly re-
wards for good people.
''Now tell me-" she said at the
close Of the lesson, "who will get the
biggest CROWN"
There was a silence for a while,
then Johnnie replied, Him wot's
got the biggest head"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
University Professor Retires

DR.. Arthur NJ Shipley has retired
after 28 years as professor and head
of the surgery department of the
University of Maryland Medical
School in Baltimore. DR.. Charles
Reid Edwards, a member of his
staff for several years, is now act
ing head of the department.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Definite Proof

Mr.. and Mrs. Newbride we're
nearing the fearful stage of their
first tiff.
"You talk of possessing judg-
ment," shifted Mrs. Newbride. my
judgment is superior to yours!"
"Oh, unquestionably," retorted
Mr.. Newbride. "Our choice of life
partners proves that"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
SHORT TRIP

A missionary, newly arrived at
the Cannibal islands, asked
where his predecessor was.
"Your predecessor" replied
the cannibal chief, "has taken a
trip to the interior"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
Grammatical

Sadie - And when Mrs. Gubbins
SEE you wasn't no Idly, wot did yer
say?
Judy - I SEE, 1.-TWO negatives
means an infirmary," and I knocks
FER down. She's in the 'orspital now
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22
To Draft CumberIand Charter

AZ DA@Ae CuuubOAhahW Ouat bCA
A 14-man Charter Commission APP
pointed by Mayor Thomas S. Post
several months ago, has begun the
job of drafting a new system Of
government for the city of Cum
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-07-22

He was rushed to Johns Hopkins
Hospital for medical aid
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HERE'S YOUR HAT
Continued from page sesen

impregnate not only the fur but
the machines, the air and the very
walls of the plant. The results
frequently were disastrous.
Workers would be seized by a
convulsive palsy which made the
term mad halter" anything but
a gag in Danbury.
Come by here fifteen years ago
and you'd think half the hatters in
town were actually mad" says
Jack Barry. a 79-year-old retired
halter. You'd see big, strapping
fellows walking down the streets
with their hands jerking, their
heads twitching and shaking.
Hatter's shakes, they call it."
Mercury Banned
IF THEY hadn't put through a
state law prohibiting the use of
mercury, there wouldn't have
been halter in Danbury could
have tied his own shoelaces,"
Barry says.
1t was in l945 that a more effec-
tive, non-injurious solution COM
pounded of peroxide and nitric
acid was perfected by DR.. Con-
stantine Fabian, chief chemist for
one of the companies. The Con-
necticut legislature shortly
afterward banned the use of
mercury.
The elaborate process by which
a rabbit skin becomes a fedora
begins in a whirling, man-made
cave of the winds which hatters
call The Devil" To The Devil"
are consigned the raw fur, hair,
dirt and twigs which make up the
average rabbits hirsute covering.
What comes out, after the blowers
have done their job, is the pure,
soft inside fur. Each pelt yields
an ounce.
In the old days. Danbury house
wives would collect a few bob to
supplement their husbands sal
aries by picking the coarse outer
hairs from the pelt with tweezers.
Sorabrexos Take More
lHREE ounces of the almost
weightless, air-washed fur 60 into
the average city-dweller's fedora.
Cowboys who wear ten-gallon
sombreros and dapper types who
60 in for Homburgs get some
what more.
Though hat-making passed from
handicraft to industry a little over
l00years ago. it hasn't yet reached
the push-button, fully automatic
stage. The crucial steps in the
Evening star., 1948-09-12

transformation of rabbit into hat
are still performed in the steamy
back shops" A simple but
magical machine called a former"
fuses the piles of fluffy fur with
live steam. This produces a
cOne-shaped affair of felt. three
feet high and as tough as wet
blotting paper. This monstrous
Ounce cap is rolled and kneaded
and shaped by a dozen machines,
and by men who work with their
hands almost constantly immersed
in water hot enough to scald any
one but halter. As a matter of.
fact, hatters can't take it for long.
They work flanked by buckets
of cold water and every few min
utes, they take their hands out of
the scalding water and plunge
them into the cold.
It's tough work; good men really
earn the 500 to SIPS week they
make during busy seasons. (Aver-
age pay for all hating hands is
about SIS week.
BY the time the bows in the back
shop have finished with it, each
three-foot cone of felt has been
pounded into something vaguely
resembling hat. Then the 'front.'
shop folk take the ugly duckling
and smooth it, shave it, mellow it
and trim it with lining, stitching
and ribbon.
InamigrAnts From Norwalk
PEOPLE have been making hats
in the Danbury neighborhood
since the town was founded in -
1884 by eight families who walked
over from nearby Norwalk. One
of the eight was. of course, a
family of hatters. Within the
next 10 years, the craftsmen of
Danbury and other early hat
making centers, like Norwalk and
Newark, N. J., were turning out
more hats than there were heads
in the Colonies to put them on, so
they began sending their surplus
overseas. BY 1871, the Connecti-
cut hat men had built up a
brisk export trade with Eng
land, Spain, Portugal and
other countries. And the Hat
Makers Guild of London protested
to King George II about the
unfair competition" from the
upstairs across the ocean.
The King promptly clamped an
embargo on the export of hats
from America, with a f5OO fine for
violators. The Danbury version
Continued ON page %
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01
Junk Yard
Playground Planned

NEW YORK, N. "a play
ground where Oslo children can
putter and tinker to their hearts
content IS being planned by park
authorities in the Norwegian cap
ital. Here, youngsters who have
wapted TO play aeroplane pilot or
street-car conductor. or who have
never sat behind the steering wheel
of an automobile will have the
chance of a lifetime. The planned
playground will cater strictly -
old clothes and dirty hands Let
ters have been sent to the cltyS
surface transportation office. used
car firms, airhnes. etc, request
ing worn out street ears, autos and
perhaps even discarded aero
plane. These Will be set up in
3-acre area owned by the city to-
gether with a selection of brick,
pieces of lumber. a few empty
barrels. and whatever else may
appeal To the imaginative young
ster The whole area will be fenced
in and equipped with wash rooms
and sanitary facilities. 4 selection
of tools will be available for the
older children who might want -
investigate the workings Of the
various machines under the guld-
ance of trained playground su-
pervisor The first of these inter-
esting "junk-yard Fairgrounds.
was assembled in Copenhagea,
Denmark in 1913 and has been az
unprecedented success with the
Youngsters Of that city.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01
Norway Cabinet
Changes

NEW YORK, y. Several
changes in the Norwegian Cahi-
net We're announced during the last
week of June. Minister of Church
and Education Kaare Fostervoll's
resignation was accepted on June
2Sth al which time he was re-
appointed rector in the west Nor
wegian city of Aalesund. Minister
Fostervoll has been a member of
the Gerhardsen Government since
June 1915. and Oslo reports indi-
cate that he will shortly be named
director Of the Norwegian State
Broadcasting System Mr. Lars
Moen, member of Parliament
since 1925, has been named to the
vacated Ministry.
With completion of the emer-
gency phase of rebuilding Nazi-
leveled Finnmark province. the
special ministry created for that
purpose has been dishanded. and
former Reconstruction Minister
Peder Holt has been named Dis
trlct Governor of that same area.
The position of Ministry of Social
Affairs, now vacant following the
recent death of Minister Sven Of
tedal will not be filled until Au-
gust 18th, according to recent
Oslo advices, During the interval
Consultative Minister Aaslaug
Aasland will fill the office of So
Clal Minister.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01
Import Of Foreign
Labor Smaller Than
First Anticipated

STOCKHOLM, -l By airmail
Sweden now has 100000 foreign
residents gainfully employed but
the Government will not import
any more labor from abroad. The
greatest part consists Of workers
from other Scandinavian countries
and refugees, principally from the
Baltic states The labor import
sponsored by the Government Is
not large From Italy have come
some HOO men, which is about
one-half of what was originally
estimated. The Sudeten Germans
number 1900 and the Hungarians
all of whom have been placed ON
the farms, do not exceed $50 work
ers.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01
GR|PSH0LM RETURNS MONDAY
WITH 1853 PASSENGERS
Swedish Liner Carries 789 L. 5. Citizens.
Noted Swedish Silversmith On Board

Lindblad is head of the model test.
ing tank at the Chalmers Techni.
cal College in Gothenburg and will
visit various universities and Shin
building plants.
Countess Stella Andrassy, au-
thor of several books; Christian
Jensen, Danish shipowner; Profes.
sor Nils w. Lund, dean of North
Park College and Seminary and
Mrs Lund Mrs. Marika Walhn Of
Berkeley, Calf, 79-year-old wife
of the famous matchmaker. and
Consul and Mrs. Otto Strange.
made up a list of many returning
vacationists and twenty-aae
refugees.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01

The Swedish American liner
"Gripsholm, carrying 1868 pas
sengers arrived in New York
Monday, July u. The ship which
left Gothenburg, Sweden, the home
port of the Line, July 2, locked at
Pier 81, n. r.
Among the 7S9 American citi-
zens was 1t. Col Stanley Connolly,
with his family returning to West
Point after serving as assistant
military attache in Stockholm and
Professor Francis Bowman of Los
Angeles after lecturing at Uppsala
University, travelling with his wife
and daughter
Also Oh board were Baron Erik
Fleming. Court Silversmith to the
King of Sweden, coming here at
the invitation of Handy and Har-
man, refmers and dealers in pre-
cious metals, to conduct the second
national Silversmith Workshop
Conference at the Rhode Island
School of Design. Baron Fleming's
works may be found in museums
throughout the world, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Others included Professor and
Mrs. Anders Lindblad Professor
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-07-01
independence Day Celebration

America: the common people, the
upright, honest, freedom-loving,
Woodworking men and women of
America whom we who live there
have come to know, whom we are
a part of, among whom we feel at
home.
And what it all amounts to, and
what we would like to see ac-
knowledged and appreciated as it
deserves to be is: the living ideal
ism and the great heart of the
American nation.