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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
Scandinavian Americana
By Scan da HOOvian
A Lost Star and A Lost Audience
By Scan da HOOVian

Swedish position to get the
DOPE literally speaking didn't taste So good So
they threw it away.
It's bad enough that ngd Bergman
that Greta Carlo hiding There may be many
other
jaunt to Italy and Sombol originally silent
revolt against the stereovped scheme 90 th;n T.; II, -
Garbos silence is another arranging
good story leading and role for according
liable The latest represent up
andcoming set they flavor of
American The best
nibbes the cheesecae They
their teeth into substance
In the end Hollywood proved to be
The first of these upon arriving
America from Sweden few virtually
Using future the basis
actress Last summer she left the Hollywood
offer her suitable and interested artistic
than playing ball with
her big play, canonzing
admitting
had right story push
the high fence At rate Hollywood
but her revolt and the accompanying publicity undoubtedly
proved profitable.
According to ALI Kelln alias Christopher
Kent who had in the late Madame Bovay is also tired
chewing his fngerna He repeatedly with the
movie kingdom left native
Sweden He drawing pretty good salary while he in Holly
bright got
factory least would
bring the him. He well be lost"
cheap of
office in U. S.
movie houses has averaged 80 percent the past few
Some people, like Hollywood producers themselves to think
Holoods problem That's to face the facts
Of
obvious obvious WHAT'S
violent
the last juicy drop the situations in picture after
they their
Identification Holywood's form Of entertainment
long people something they can recognize
intimately going
barber banker plain
opinions troubles and live little
protesting Puritan thriving tickling
Look at the ads Hollywood looking patronage
lions of people, reveals in the detry i spoiled
pepOsterously
about ashy bars and make cynical with raised eyebrows
live perfectly
carries occasionally
messing things When boy girl he often
sentimental
anything like
fascinating world relationship with
inferior. place
sentiments of those that believe they
about their business feel at home
that the against
Is hard feel like a big hunk Of
The movie by far
the most powerful reaching
outside world Hollywood
ackeers gangster doing virtually every
foolish contemplate thing
only to look at the majority of to find
ganda material We have right demand
presenting picture of America at
time when we desperately In of
standing from all picture tell
the story Of America simple
people that normally pretty
experiences its thrills excitement
within the framework living
largely untold
against the peris of totalaranism
telling sqarey Hollywood
audience and Its lost as
A fuil-me partner is Mrs township IN
Enar Ostby of Vnge who
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Charles County 10 Choose
Youth Commission Officers
Spseiol Dfspofeh 10 The Stor

LA PLATA, Md, July B.
Charles County will cooperate
with the State and Federal gov
ernments in a program designed
to build the youth of the land
into respectable, responsible citi-
zens."
The County Commissioners
named committee to nominate
officers at a meeting Thursday of
the newly formed Charles County
Youth Commission.
Tho organization will function
as part of the Maryland Commit
tee For Youth and will be repre-
sented at a National conference at
the White House in December.
Members Of the nominating
committee are Circuit Judge j..
Dudley Digges, DR.. William A..
Harris, County Health Officer. and
Mrs. Anna Wills, County Home
Demonstration Agent.
Miss B. Lucille Bowie was named
temporary chairman and Mrs.
Thomas c. Edwards of Indian
Head, secretary.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

was always around. too, to keep
the boy at work when his inter-
est might stray to his hobbies of
music and sports.
When Davis weight started to
increase alarmingly, his mother,
Mrs. Opal Wrinkle, suggested he
step up his baseball playing to
shed some excess poundage. Da-
Wis wanted the weight of his car
and himself to total 249h pounds
"a half pound less than the max
imum allowed. At inspection time
the combined weight was 248.
The quiet, studious youth, who
bettered his time with each heat,
said after the race he thought he
would make a good showing this
year. But he never let his hope
of winning the championship get
in the way of the business at hand
winning each elimination heat.
Just before the last race got off
Davis was the calmest of all the
officials, friends and Derby drivers
gathered at the starting ramp. He
paid no attention to encouraging
shouts from the .sidelines, but
quietly checked his car for any
flaws.
When his streamlined, plywood
car drove across the finish line a
scant half length ahead of run
ner-up Walter B. Morrow, jr.,
Davis was still the calmest of the
hundreds of people who broke
through police lines to shake his
hand or pat him on the back.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Polio Cases Running High
In Early Part Of Season

DR.. Carl c. Dauer, director of
the Health Departments Bureau
of Preventable Diseases, said yes
terday that this years polio cases
more than double the number last
year at this time, it is impossible
to predict this summers total.
''In four previous years when
100 or more cases were reported.
the number reported increased
rapidly from one or two cases a
week to eight and ten. That has
not occurred this year." DR.. Dauer
said.
Polio cases this year have been
widely scattered with no two COM
ing from homes within dozen
blocks of one another. There have
been 10 cases reported as against
four for the same period last year.
One death from polio was reported
this week. The victim had been
in a respirator almost constantly
since last September.
There were II children with
polio in Children's Hospital Friday.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Fomily's Cooperation Helped
Success of Derby Champion

Winning the Washington Soap
Box Derby was a cooperative
affair for the Wrinkle family.
The major burden, of course,
fell to 13-year-old Davis Wrinkle,
who spent seven months building
the two-toned green coaster he
piloted to victory in yesterdays
annual Derby.
But during the long siege of
construction, when the basement
of the Wrinkle home at 4815 North
Sixteenth street, Arlington, was
filled with lumber, plans, and
sheets of drawing paper, the in
f1uence of the rest of the Wrinkle
family was an incentive to Davis.
Before starting his car. Davis,
who raced his way to the semi
finals last year before being elimi-
mated, consulted his father, Noble,
an employe of the Rural Electro
fication Administration. The two
decided streamlined "tear Drop
design would be best for the
1850 car.
AS the car began to take shape,
Davis turned his attention to his
wheels. He and his father agreed
that the more "breaking-in" the
wheels got, the swifter they would
roll. Davis borrowed his fathers
la-horsepower hobby shop motor.
looped a rope around the drive
shaft and around the axles, and
spent more than 100 hours spin
ming his wheels automatically.
Davis sister, Patricia Sue, Is,
Evening star., 1950-07-09

commissioners; Mrs. Camilla o.
Bowman, wife of Silver Spring
Postmaster william Bowman;
Warren Browning, Bethesda, a
member of the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission and
a former trial magistrate for Be-
thesda; Mrs. Mary Helen Gin
gerry, Rockville, wife of Don Gin
gerry, a member of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission; Ward w. Cad
dington, Silver Spring, clerk to the
Board of Election Supervisors, and
j. Ingram Medley, Bethesda, a
real estate man. The latter two
are incumbents.
Delegates to the State conven-
tion-Philip Thorson, Glen Echo
Heights; James A. Lynch, Silver
Spring: William Lloyd Burdette,
Hyattstown; Blair Lee III Silver
Spring, vice chairman of the Park
and Planning Commission and son
of E. Brooke Lee, long time county
Democratic leader; Mrs. Elizabeth
Assay, Bethesda; Nathaniel T. Ely,
Silver Spring, and Leonard j. Will
! liams, jr, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Rockville Firemen Vote
To Purchase Ambulance

The Rockville Volunteer Fire
Department has voted to buy an
ambulance at an estimated cost
of $4,000.
The department now has a res
cue truck and four pumper trucks.
Purchase of the ambulance was
decided upon in view of the in
creasing population of the Rock
vile area, according to Marbery
Gates, president.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Sc Million Program
Backed for Arlington
School Construction

Although no final action has
been taken, the Arlington School
Board and the County Board have
agreed that about $6 million will
be needed for school construction
in the two-year period ending in
1854.
The school board yesterday re-
leased a report on the county's
debt structure which contained
statements by its chairman, Mrs.
Edmund D. Campbell. and Daniel
A. Dugan, County Board chair
man. regarding the county's pros
pective needs.
In addition to the Sc million re-
quired by the schools, an addi-
tional $2.5 million will be needed
for the county's general improve
ment program. according to the
report prepared primarily for
financial houses.
Covers 2-Year Period.
The Sc million would cover a
two-year construction program
and compares favorably with a
recent proposal by citizens groups
for SO million sum for a three
year building program.
AT 10 am. Thursday, the School
Board will receive bids for $780,
900 in bonds representing the re-
mainder of a $4,750.000 issue ap-
proved by the voters in November,
l948. The first block of $2.5 million
was sold in November, 1949. An
other issue Of $1,776,000 was sold
in October, 1948.
From the total of Sc, ,526, 900 there
has been, or will be, constructed
a total of 129 classrooms, plus
other facilities including gymnasi-
ums and home economics and
health facilities at high schools,
Mrs. Campbell's statement de-
clared.
Mr.. Dugan said the County
Planning Commission is preparing
a detailed study of the county's
needs which will be divided into
three two-year periods. The study
is expected to be completed by the
end of this month.
Vote Due in November.
"At the present time it appears
that the earliest time for present.
ing the matter to the electorate
would be at the regular November
elections. 1t is therefore considered
that any bonds to f.
nance these programs will be Of
fered for sale within the next six
to nine months"
At it's meeting yesterday, the
School Board voted to purchase
a house and three-acre site adjoin-
ing Washington-Lee high school,
from Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis I. Gilbert,
for SAT 1856. Tt is at the northwest
corner of Thirteenth and North
Quincy streets.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Fairfax, Falls Church
Involved in Dispute
Over Sewage Bills

A new dispute developed be-
tween Falls Church and Fairfax
County yesterday as both juris-
dictionS started billing about 100
county residents for sewer service.
Residents of Walnut Hills, Tim
ber Lane and Poplar Heights sec
tions of the county. who custo-
marily have paid sewer bills to
Falls Church, yesterday got bills
from Fairfax County. Most said
they already have paid the city
for sewer service during the period
for which the county seeks to
collect.
Lien Power Emphasized.
The Fairfax bills, of Sc for three
months, bear stern reminder
that the law permits the county
to enforce liens against properties
involved if bills are not paid by
July 81.
Fairfax County Sanitary Engi-
neer James ]. Corbalis, jr., said
all residents who started receiving
bills from the county yesterday
live in areas sought for annexa-
ton by Falls Church.
Mr.. Corbalis said sewers that
serve the affected homes were
built by private developers, feed
into the city sewage system and
then flow into the county-con-
trolled Holmes Run trunk sewer,
as does most sewage from within
Falls Church. The Sanitary engi-
neer said the city has been billing
the 100 county residents although
the county is responsible for main
tanning their sewers.
According to Mr.. Corbalis, the
county had tried to reach an
agreement with the city so that
Fairfax would make payments to
the city for the portion of the city
sewer that serves the homes, and
Falls Church in turn would pay
the county for emptying the sew
age into the county controlled
facility. Mr.. Corbalis said Falls
Church had been unwilling to
make any agreement while its
annexation suit against the county
is pending.
County Rate Is Lower.
The county sewer service rate
of So month is a few cents lower
than the city rate. Residents Of
the three subdivisions also pay
water bills to the city, which sup
plies their water.
Observers expect the issue will
wind up in court, where two other
disputes between city and county
are pending. One is annexation
and the other involves how much
debt the city should have assumed
from the county when Falls
Church became an independent
body.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Maryland P1A Opens
Summer Session al
University Tomorrow

The summer conference Of the
Maryland Congress of Parents and
Teachers will open at the Univer-
sity of Maryland tomorrow.
Registration will be held at the
university's Education Building at
$3.50 am. followed by the first
official session of the conference an
hour later. Mrs. Emil Smith of
Silver Spring, president Of the
Maryland Congress, will preside at
this session.
The morning program also will
include remarks by Mrs. George F.
Burton of Dundalk, Md, confer
ence general chairman, and Mrs.
William II. Barnett, College Park,
program chairman; talk on par
liamentary drill by Mrs. Lewis P.
Ditman of Berwyn, former chair
man of the Committee on Pro-
cedure and Bylaws for the Mary
land Congress, and presentation
of a skit, Blueprint: PTA," writ
ten by Mrs. Joseph 5. Yu1ll OF Lam
ham.
Mrs. Thurman Warf1eld of
Woodbine, District second vice
president, will preside at the after
noon session, which will include
two roundtable discussion periods.
One will be led by Mrs. Nicholas
w. Smith, president of the Clara
Barton Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion of Glen Echo, and the second
by Mrs. Wells Harrington, mayor
of Greenbelt, first vice president
of the State organization.
The days activities will conclude
with a general session at 4 pm,
and social hour at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
z Hog Auctions Planned
Next Month in Virqiniu
By the Assoeioted Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, July g.
Two auctions of registered hogs
have been scheduled next month
by the Virginia Purebred Swine
Breeders Association.
Secretary George C. Herring Of
Blacksburg said the first sale will
be held at Briggs Stockyard, Suf-
folk, on August 8, and the second
will be August II at the Farmers
Exchange Market, Winchester.
Virginia's 1850 spring pig crop
is up 2 per cent from last year.
but a slight decrease is expected
for the coming fall crop, accord
ing to Mr.. Herring.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
D. c. Bid Lowest on Hospital

BALTIMORE, July 8 GA
Washington construction firm has
offered to- build Maryland's 800
bed tuberculosis hospital at Mount
Wilson for $3,021 900. The bid,
submitted by Cramer-Vollmer-
hansen Co., Inc. is the lowest of
II opened yesterday by the State
Department of Public Improve
ments.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
PTA Concert Tomorrow

The Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton OF Lincoln High School at
Rockville will sponsor a concert
tomorrow night at the school.
The Othello Wilson Carnegie Hall
Musical Arts Choir and Poindex-
ter's Melodiers will perform.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Prayer to Open Council

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
8 (SpeciaD A custom of having
each meeting of City Council here
opened with prayer by minister
will be revived Immediately. Mayor
Carlton L. Stuckey, who took office
last Saturday, said today.
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Rev. {. Griffin
ConvaIescing

Rev. Emanuel Griffin of Cam
den st. is convalescing at home
after having undergone a seri-
GUS operation at the Otis Cen
eral Hospital in Cambridge re
Gently.
He has been treated for ul-
GERS at Boston City Hospital
and by various other doctors
for period of 10 years, and like
the Bible character, instead of
improving, he grew worse.
Rev. Griffin had some x-rayS
made and it developed that he
had defective gall BLADDER so he
was hurried to the Otis General
Hospital and was operated on
the following morning, having
his gall bladder removed Now
he is comfortably relieved from
stomach trouble and he wishes
to thank his many friends for
their visits while he was in the
Hospital and he is very grateful
to Mrs. Alice Clash for those
beautiful flowers presented him
there.
Rev. R. D. Kelly was exceed
ingly faithful in various man
ners in attending the needs of
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COMMUNITY CHURCH
JOHN HANCOCK HALL

MEETING THE CHALLENGE
OF OUR DAY" will be the sub
ject of the address by Arthur
Gaeth at the service Of the Com
munity Church Sunday, Jan. 90,
at 1890 A. M. Arthur Gaeth has
been heard by millions over the
ABC Radio network as common
tator for the U. E. He has also
taken part in the Town Meeting
of the air programs. Brought up
in Milwaukee and third genera
ton of a German immigrant who
left Germany in 1848, Mr.. Gaeth
began his working file as a rail-
road employee. He became a
preacher and went to Germany
as a missionary. He helped to
organize the first Baden Powell"
Boy Scouts among German and
Austrian boys. In 1929 he was
sent to Czechos1ovakia where he
became a mission president among
the Slavs. He left that country
in 1886 and returned to America
where he entered college. The
service will be conducted by the
minister, Rev. Donald G. Lothrop.
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REV. CT. MILLER


handshake and a warm heart.
He wore a smooth HOMEGROWN
skin. He was alive to everything
going on. He easily became the
center Of all interest and the
moments spent with him won
you as an admirer or sent you
away a sworn enemy. He seemed
all-experiencing having done
everything from shining boots to
writing a sonnet. At one time in
his stormy career he made up his
mind to be a professional boxer.
So many of his struggles stem
from following his urge to write.
The Reconstruction years held
no inducements to ebony writ
ers. While he made great head
way as space writer for the
Chicago dailies, his was always q
battle with wolves. His ''Black
Cat Club, a fine bit Of humor-
Gus entertainment! was written
in obedience to the gnawing of
an empty stomach. Later this
was published in book form,
out because Corrothers had gone
into the ministry he frowned
upon this work Of levity. The
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AARMmm
JAMES d. C0RROTHERS
am SPITE OF HANDICAP"

In Cass County, Michigan,
there was a colonization Of ex-
slaves via underground railroad.
James D. Corrothers is the off
spring, of migrant. His was a
dif1cult start and a tragic life.
His grandfather raised him, his
own father having Joined the
boys in blue. Corrothers has
left for our inspiration "In Spite
of Handicap story Of over
coming when two strikes had
been called on him before he
went to the home plate. 1t is
not only well written, but enter
tanning from cover to cover. The
book can be read at one sitting
and you'll like this character
"who took his lemon and made
lemonade"
Corrothers looked the part OF
. poet. There was something
patriarchal about him like
whitman, though he lacked the
flowing beard and the long hair.
He did have a shock of curly
gray hair, an eagle-eye, a warm
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WILLIAM MONROE TRoTTER

III the city. Each of FIVE annual
conferences in the First Episcopal
District will conduct a service in
the Dedication program, Jan. 20
Feb. 8. Rev Sherman L. Greene,
Jr., will deliver the sermon i
the service conducted by the New
England Conference, Friday, Feb.
8, when Rev. C. y. Cole, presj ing
elder of the Boston District, will
preside.
The pilgrimage will include
visit to Mother Bethel A. NJ. E
Church, where the African
Methodist Episcopal Church was
founded in 17a- and where he
body of the founder, the ssirted
Richard Allen rests. Special ar
rangements are being ma : for
the transportation of members
and friends bv Pastor Greene.
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School Poster
Mass. S.P.c.A. f.
Contest Opens

Mr.. Albert A. Pollard. director
of Education for the MasSachu-
sets Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, 1870 Long
wood Ave, Boston, yesterday an
nounced the opening of its 3lst
annual poster contest to pupils
in all schools. The contest, which
is open to pupils in elementary
grades above the third, and in
junior high and high schools,
both public and parochial, will
close March !.
Prizes for this years contest
viii be pins of an attractive new
design, in silver and bronze.
First prize, silver pin; second
prize, bronze pin. In addition,
annual subscriptions to "Our
Dumb Animals" the Society's
monthly magazine, viii be given
for Honorable Mentions.
Each sentry will be judged
equally for its portrayal of q
humane message and \ artistic
merit. at is our belief" stated
Mr.. Pollard, shat no pupil enter
ing the poster contest can fail to
draw a lesson from his efforts to
depict graphically a subject deal
ing with kindness or exposing
some cruel act"
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Mrs. zeIma Clarke
Stricken

Monday, January is, Samuel
Clarke, Of Al Cunard ST., was
rushed to the City Hospital for
an operation which was not
considered serious, and was re-
cuperating there when his wife,
zelma Clark, visiting at his bed
side, Friday, was stricken with
a hemorrhage which rendered
her unconscious. She, also con-
fined in the hospital, has shown
steady signs of improvement,
but, at the present writing, is
still in a state of coma.
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PILGRIMAGE TO PHILA., FEB. 8
The new interest in the moral,
social and religious development
of the youth, and the greater en-
phasis placed uI you'll activi-
ties in the program of First
A. M. E. Church, has placed it in
the leadership among the churches
in New England which sponsor
youth organizations, according to
the report of Miss Peggy Jones,
president of the Junior Missionary
Society and delegate to the Junior
Department of the New England
Conference Branch Missionary
Missionary Society, which con-
vened in Providence, Rhode
Island, Jan. 20-21. She further
stated that First A. M. E. Lad the
largest number of delegates to
register, and made the largest
financial report.
Youth Day will be observed at
A. M. E., Sunday, Jan. 20, when
special selections will be render
ed by the Junior Choir at the
10:45 A. M. worship service, and
1.-THE Pre-eminence of Moral and
Spiritual Values" will be the SER
mon topic of the pastor, Rev.
Sherman L. Greene, Jr. The
Junior Usher Board will present
a Musical Tea at $3.50 P. M. A
special service under the auspices
of the Junior Church at 7:45 P. M.
will conclude the Youth Day pro-
gram.
The Junior Choir will join other
choirs of the church in pilgrim
age to Philadelphia, Pa, to par
ticipate in the dedication service
Of Rufian Nichols Memorial
A. M. E. Church, Friday, Feb. 3.
The church recently purchased
by the First Episcopal District
under the leadership of Bishop D.
Ward Nichols is one of the largest
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world, think, would be all the
richer if there we're a reprint.
His years battling with small
churches and not always under
standing and appreciative con-
gregations definitely slowed
down his production. Corroth-
sr's best work was done in the
last days Of his ministry, the
years of 1912-1915. He died be-
fore the eveningtide of life, a
great loss to the literature of the
race. His last works bear the
imprint of the finished artist. I
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personally feel that if his COM
pleted work could be published
We would not have a literary
star more brilliant. In his life
time he never got a good break.
Disaster had a way of bounding
him and undoubtedly sent him
to an untimely grave. The taste
of the pudding is the proof. I
quote just one verse from his
1.-THE Dream and The Song" as
an example Of poetry at its
best: