I 4 PAGE 18-THE NASHVILLE BANNER, FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1944 Local Methodist Group To Attend Cincinnati Meet local representatives of the Methodist Board of Education will attend a series of meetings on educational problems be held Januto 11 in Cincinnati, 0. Dr. H. W.
McPherson, executive secretary division of educainstitutions of the Methodist Board of Education, will head the group, and be accompanied by the following other representatives of the Board of Education: Dr. John O. Gross, secretary of schools and colleges; Dr. H. D.
Bollinger, secretary of student work; H. A. Ehrensperger, editorial secretary; Boyd M. McKeown, secretary of public relations; Miss Ruth Beyer, associate secretary; Dr. W.
K. Anderson. editorial director of the commission on courses of study; Dr. Harvey Brown, secretary of the Wesley Foundation. and Dr.
M. S. Dayage, secretary of Negro institutions of learning. Hugh C. Stuntz, president of Scarritt College, will address the joint committee on public relations Monday morning, January 9, and will participate on other programs.
"Postwar Problems in- the Colleges" will be the topic of the Association of Schools and Colleges of the Methodist Church when they hold discussions on Tuesday. Four Metropolitan Areas in State Gain in Population The population in Tennessee's four metropolitan areas increased by 40,069, or 14.4 per cent, from April 1, 1940, to March 1, 1943, according to an estimate of civilian population of metropolitan counties released today by the Bureau of Census at Washington, D. C. Davidson County has recorded a gain of 3 per cent, or 7.647. On April 1, 1940, the county's population was 257,267, and on May 1, 1942, this had increased to 272,605.
On March 1, 1943, a survey disclosed the population was estimated at 264,914. The Memphis metropolitan county (Shelby) had an estimated civildan population on April 1, 1940, of 358,151, 85 compared with the March 1, 1943, figure of Knoxville's population was 178,468 on April 1, 1940, and 183,345 on March 1, 1943, and Chattanooga (metropolitan counties of Hamilton, and Walker, Ga.) had 211,344 April 1, 1940, compared with the March 1, 1943, estimate of 216,522. Harry Lane Gets Navy Commission Harry Merritt Lane, with Happ Brothers Company in Nashville since 1931, was recently commissioned a lieutenant (jg) in the United States Naval Reserve. He will report at Fort Schuyler, N. Y.
on January 28 for indoctrination training. Lieutenant Lane graduated In 1931 Mercer University, where he played football and basketball and was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was a factory representative for Happ Brothers In Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. His wife, the former Martha Mayo of Waycross, now resides with Merritt, on Clearview Drive. He is the son of Mrs.
Andrew Washington Lane and of the late Maj. Andrew W. Lane of Macon, Ga. Former NPC Employe Promoted in Seabees Ewing Goostree, son of Mrs. Fannie M.
Goostree, 1074 Zopfi Street, was recently promoted to the rank of seaman second class in the Navy Seabees. He is now at Camp Peary, Va. He was employed as a printer by the Nashville Tennessean from, 1936-1937, and by the Newspaper Printing Corporation from 1937 until he entered the Navy four, weeks ago. wife is the former Mary Elizabeth Englebert. Brandon Lewis' Mother Dies at Dover, Tenn.
Mrs. 8. C. Lewis, 65, mother of Brandon Lewis of Nashville, secretary to Federal Judge Elmer D. Davies and former assistant U.
S. district attorney here, died shortly before noon today of heart attack at her home at Dover. Born near Ripley, Mri. Lewis was the daughter of the late Dr. A.
J. and Mra. Marietta Meadows. She attended schools in Ripley, and was a member of the Methodist Church. Mrs.
Lewis' husband, the late Senator Lewis, practiced law In Dover more' than 40 years. Surviving in addition to her son here are another son, 8. C. Lewis, Jr. a daughter, Mrs.
Charles E. Walter, both of Dover; two sisters, Mra. W. H. McLeskey, of Nashville, and Mra.
Daisy Hicks, of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren, Patricia and Brandon Lewis, Jr. both of Nashville. Funeral arrangements are incorplete. New Year's Service At Waverly, Methodist A New Year's candlelight service will be held Bunday evening at 7:30 at the Waverly Place Methodiat Church. Following the theme, "Let Your Light So Shine." those in the congregation will light, candles from a cathedral candle on the altar.
The Junior Choir of 40 voices will sing. I has upon of Headquarters, in Cooper who of 8. will by a S. local last 10 will will of C. Funeral I 80, be o'clock County hospital services night's held who at will for Map Air Cadet Recruiting Drive Three members of the U.
S. Air Forces, returned after 50 combat missions each, arrived in Nashville today to begin a statewide recruitment drive for the Army Air Forces Reserve. Shown above at the Nashville Army Recruiting Station studied the routes they will take over the state with Capt. Paul Turner (right, seated), group commander of the Middle Tennessee Civil Air Patrol, they are (left to right): Lt. Paul R.
Hall, Capt. Boyd F. Herman, and Lt. T. R.
Tate. Bringing first hand information from the aerial battlefields North Pacific, Africa three and the Southwest Army Air Forces officers were in Nashville today prepare for the intensive statewide recruitment drive that open Monday giving every junior and senior high school boy an opportunity to take the first step entering the Army Air Forces. The campaign, to be conducted under the joint sponsorship of the Army and the Civil Air Patrol, will be carried out through a series of screening, or mental tests, in every high school In the state. Tests will be given by the three veterans of 50 combat missions each and CAP officials, and are to be given to provide a potential "pool" from which the Air Forces may draw in the future. Capt.
Paul Turner, group commander of the Middle Tennessee Civil Air Patrol, will direct the CAP's activities in the campaign. He said that the CAP and the Air Forces officers would go in groups to some of the schools, but in other instances one of the three veteran combat men, or a Civil Air Patrol officer, will give tests alone at two schools a day. Battle Veterans Lt. T. R.
Tate of Hindman, who returned about three months ago after months of overseas duty, holds the Purple Heart award and a cluster to the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. He was SHE of the first group of American men to operate with the British Eighth Army in Egypt. A bombardier on a B-25, he started flying over the El Alamein line. and helped "chase Rommel out North Africa and Sicily," he said. He was wounded when enemy fire smashed the glass of his plane, sending a shower into his arms and legs.
He received a shrapnel wound during a mission over the Mareth Line in Tunisia. Tate's outfit of medium bombers operated at times only a few hundred yards in front of the armored forces, he said. At times the 88 mm. fire from the enemy tanks. "was thick enough to walk on," Tate clared, adding that some of the planes came back with as many 400 holes in them.
Buna, Lae, Salamaua, Wewak, Cape Gloucester, and Rabaul are listed among the targets of the B-25 on which Capt. Boyd F. Herman Cleveland, was flight commander. During 18 months of combat since He went to New Guinea July, 1942, Captain Herman has come down in three crippled planes, making crash landings in jungles. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with two clusters, the Silver Star, and three presidential citations.
Lt. Paul R. Hall, Jr. of Alhambra, Calif. has been awarded the Air Medal and Nine Oak Leaf Clusters, signifying his 50-conibat missions in the North African area, Including Tunisia, Sicily, and Pantelleria.
A bombardier on a B-25, he recalls as a narrow escape for the whole crew a sweep over the Mediterranean when four ME-210'8 almost succeeded In shooting up the ship. Capt. W. F. Sims, head of the Nashville Recruiting Station, said today that an auxiliary.
WAC redruiting station had been opened at Knoxville and that WAC recrulting drive would be carried on in connection with the Army aviation campaign. Meanwhile, CAP and WAC officers announced that free airplane rides would be given to both boys and girls at Gillespie Air Field Sunday. Girls interested in taking the aerial tour over the elty may apply to the WAC office in the Third National Baik Building for transportation to the field. Real Estate Transfers Maude Corlette to J. C.
Lewis et on Louisiana 7. 1.000 at ux to Alice Grimes. on Chicamausa Ave 800 Morton C. Babney at to E. UR 90 fL.
on Carolya Ave 4.500 Georgia At. vir to Virsinia Eaten. 100 on Grandview Drive: 50. 00 Mayfair Ave. Value $11.8001 Harvey Huches el ux to Ruth Lenda Carlton.
10 ft. on Radnor Terrace 1.800 Marz. W. Horde to Benjamin Ivy et 95. 100 IL on Calvert Ave.
(Value 10 Morton C. Dabney et to W. D. Puller el Carolyn 5.300 50 ft. on Gallatin Rd 2.000 ax Wood.
acres in and Ray lamon to George C. Whitley ft. on Clifton Lane. (Value Joe ux. Koraman 25 el on us to Summit Robert Ave Hayes 1.350 Lena Jaynt to Homer Bricht el ur.
so ft. on Main AL 1.400 J. C. Macaball et us to William Moore el UX. ft on Campbell Road 1.900 H.
B. Jordan at ur to Willie West ax, Late on Penneck Penn Mutual Insurance Com-. pans 10 M. Dussap el 100 it. on Central Ave.
7.000 Total 433.375 Marriage Licenses Eugene and Lueille Favors William Edward Cienner and Alma Aaron B. Huber and Jacqueline Millard O. Pearson and Martha Claude E. Pose and Mrs. Thelma HazelFelix and Vincent.
Goears Virginia, Nashville Man Aboard Liberty Ship Which Sank C. M. Wilcox, 17, a member of the Merchant Marine, was aboard one of the five Liberty ships which foundered and sank in Alaskan waters about December 21, his father, M. C. Wilcox, a resident of the Noel.
Hotel, said today. Mr. said that he had not been able to learn whether there were any survivors from his son's ship, which he believed was carrying troops from the Gilbert Islands. He said, however, that he did not believe the boy could have survived, because he himself had sailed in those icy waters. The youth, who had been in the Merchant Marine since this summer, had joined the Army Air Forces at the age of 16.
He served almost a year until it was discovered he was under age, and he was honorably discharged. He then attended Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, until this summer. His mother and other members of his family reside in California. His father is in the refrigeration business here. Workers Sought For New Type Landing Craft To recruit workers for production of a new type landing craft, U.
S. Civil Service representatives will be in Nashville tomorrow through January 15 with headquarters at the U. S. Employment, Service, 110 Cotton States Building. Some 6,000 workers are needed at the Charleston, S.
Navy Yard where the new vessels are being built, according to A. L. Jouret, group foreman at the yard; who is member of the recruiting party. The building project, which is described as "a challenge to home front production" in view of the invasion plans, calls for workers of all trades. The new LSM, Landing Ship, Mechanized, is a large ocean-going ship which, under its own power, can carry tanks, jeeps, and armored cars across the sea and discharge its cargo directly onto the beach.
The needed workers must be recruited by March 31. 57 Soldiers Get Naturalization Papers in State Fifty-seven soldiers, representing nationalities, became citizens of the United States in naturalization ceremonies conducted by Judge Elmer Davies in U. S. District Court here today. Majority of the group is from the maneuvers area, and a few were from nearby Army posts, including Thayer General Hospital, Smyrna Army Air Field, and Municipal Airport.
Countries represented Include Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Scotland, China, France, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Portugal, Norway, Bahama, Ireland. One Indian and one Mohammeand were naturalized. The naturalziation ceremony preceded the hearing of several cases, set over from the last term of court, and which were scheduled to of Nashville. heard this afternoon. Actress Visits Thayer Patients Sgt.
Hulan Coursey, a Texan who received a fractured vertebrae while on Army maneuvers gratifyingly to film star Miriam medical treatment- -friendly interest, nine charm. The star spent in the wards at Thayer General patients, whose smiles of interest By MARY ABERNATHY Hatless, and wearing a chic grey and black sult over flame-red blouse. Miriam Hopkina, known stage and screen actress, arrived at Thayer Hospital yesterday afternoon to spend hours with the soldier-patients In ita many warda. Giving generously of her charm, with an obviously sincere desire to leave a bit of cheer behind her, she chatted cordially and warmly with each patient. That she was succeeding in her mission was proved by the smiles and sparkling Interest that followed her about the room.
didn't come with any planned program of entertainment: I leave that sort of thing to Bob Hope and those who, more or leas, have flair for vaudeville. I'm dramatic actress and I just came to visit with the boys; I only hope don't bore the actress. commented. One patient, whose wife and baby. were visiting him, came in for A special bit of attention from the atari another, Pvt.
Richard Reynoide, from the actress' native state of Georgia, was greeted with lingering handclasp, Patienta in wheel Driver Arrested After Taxicab Sideswipes Auto A man listed as Charles Houston Cantrell, 34, of 1035 Third Avenue South, faced trial in City Court this afternoon on charges of failure to stop after an accident; being drunk and disorderly, and carrying a pis tol and attempting assault with the weapon. Cantrell, who was arrested last night by Detectives E. (V. House and John Burgess, was released or $1,150 bond. Identified as a taxicab driver Cantrell reportedly sideswiped car owned by Mrs.
Homer English of 914 Fourth Avenue, South, about 11:30 last night, and failed to stop driving off at a high of speed Mrs. English told officers. She said also that a car to have been driven by Cantrell struck an other automobile parked a short distance away, ripping 8 fender off. Prosecutor on the carrying pistol and attempted assault charges was listed as Ben Osborne of 2 Carroll Street. Police said their records show Cantrell has been arrested previously on the following charges: May 23, 1936, drunkenness; September 26, 1936, highway robbery grand larceny, and carrying a pistol; May 26, 1937, assault and battery; May 25, 1940, drunkenness; June 8, 1940, drunkenness; July 22, 1940, drunk and disorderly; August 27, 1940, vagrancy and loitering: October 26, 1940, drunkenness; May 1, 1943, disorderly conduct, and June 18, 1943, drunk, disorderly, and offensive conduct.
Negro Preacher, Nine Others "Get 3 Years In Draft Evasion Jackson, Jan. 7-(Special) case which may reach the United States Supreme Court, Judge Marion S. Boyd in Federal Court here last night sentenced each of 10 Negroes convicted of Selective Service violations to three years special institution. The Rev. Marshal, who was also fined $1,000, was convicted on charges of obstrueting the draft by counselling, abetting failure of the other nine defendants, all members of his: church, to report to their draft board for final type examination prior to assignment to work of national importance.
Defense Counsel Martin Exum and P. L. Harden, indicated that they will take the case to the Court of Appeals at Cincinnati and to the Supreme Court if necessary on claims that an order to unwilling work is a violation of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. On the witness stand Marshall deciared "If this government standsfor making these boys not serve God according to the dictates of their conscience, we may just as well quit talking about free govern-1 ment our country and start worshiping that Mrs. Mary Kelley Funeral services for Mrs.
Mary Ellen Kelley, 30, a native of Giles County, who died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital after a long illness, will be conducted tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Home. The Rev. P. W. Hamlett will officiate, and burial will be in Zion Cemetery near Pulaski.
Mrs. Kelley was born and reared in Giles County and had lived there until about eight years ago. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Halalip of Lewisburg: and an aunt, Mrs. Rachel Williams ROTARIANS SPONSOR SCOUTING AT TIS- a recent New Year's party, Scouts and Scout leaders from the seven troops sponsored at Tennessee Industrial School by the Nashville Rotary Club gathered for a program of music, contests and refreshments.
Rotarians who serve as scoutmasters pictured (top) with Boy Scout, club, and school officials are (leftt right), front row, J. D. Baldridge, Troop 57; Ernest Hardison, Troop 53; Mrs. B. Lewis, Rotary Club secretary; Ernest Moench, Troop 50; and Mr.
Lewis; and back row, William Fleming, Troop 54; C. C. Menzler, superintendent; Cecil Richardson, chairman of the Rotary Club's scout committee; Aubrey O. Maxwell, Troop' 55; William M. French, Troop 51; Thomas Hedrick, alternate scoutmaster; Roy Saxton; and Charles Mitchell.
Shown below are the troop, members. The local club organized scouting at TIS 21 years ago, and the troops have met regularly since, Referring to the more than 200 TIS boys who are now in the armed service- about 30 of them commissioned Menzler said, "Scouting has meant a great deal to the boys at TIS and the credit should go to the various scoutmasters who have served with great interest and efficiency." Students To Play Major Role In Fourth War Loan Drive Nashville and Davidson County School children will play a major role in the Fourth War Loan Drive as members of the Junior Citizens Service Corps, under the leadership of J. H. Cochran, be cipal of Hume-Fogg Technical Vocational High School, and Mary Sneed Jones, supervisor Davidson County Elementary Schools. Simultaneously with the nouncement of the organization Davidson County elementary high school students for Fourth War.
Loan Drive, the State Finance Committee announced of that 650,000 letters, carrying of the January-February campaign, "went to press" today a be distributed to 635,312 school children in Tennessee, enlisting their aid. Dudley Gale, director of Citizens Service Corps, announced the appointment of the cochairman of the recently activated junior corps, at a meeting held at HumeFogg this morning for organization of the school's War Bond campaign. E. T. Proctor, chairman of Davidson County War Finance Committee, attended the meeting and outlined the bond selling procedure to representatives appointed to lead the school drive in various school divisions.
Proctor emphasized the advantage of havbe ing the school sell bonds as coordinated group, and stated that the students would be especially helpful in the sales of Series bonds. Dr. J. E. Windrow, principal Peabody.
Demonstration School, was put in charge of bond sales private schools of the city county. William E. Barclay, superintendent of parochial schools, the meeting as chairman attended drive in those schools. C. C.
Menzler, superintendent of Tennessee Industrial School, heads the drive the state supported schools. Gale said that the chairmen named today would hold permanent positions in the Junior Citizens Service Corps, which will take part in all wartime activities. The cochairmen announced that similar setup would be organized In the Negro schools. and would be headed by J. A.
Galloway, principal at Pearl High School, Carrie County Denny, supervisor Schools, of and Davidson Negro Crutcher, Proctor said the Davidson County War Bond headquarters would be opened Monday on the mezzanine floor of the Hermitage Hotel. and that all campaign leaders would receive material and Instructions there, and would make their sales reports, at the weekly report meetings to be held on Wednesdays after the drive opens officially. The Davidson County chairman suggested that the junior corps be especially concerned with "calling out" the unfinished War Savings Stamp books for conversion Into bonds. He said that there are now 10,000,000 stamp books outstanding in the United States. Cochran stated that all youth organizations in the city and county are Included in the Junior Citizens Service Corps, and that the Individual groups- such as Boy Scouts -who might prefer to sell bonds group, would be encouraged to do so, and report sales through the corps.
Grady Huddleston, executive manager of the State War Finance Committee, said the message to the state's school children will go out with the approval of the State Department of Education, granted by A. W. Carroll, assintant atate commissioner of education, who serves as atate school chairman for the WFC. Composed by the state committee on behalf of the United States Treasury, the letter points out that they and their parents are asked to give their money, but only to lend it by Investment In War Bonds. Davidson County has an overall quota of $28,518,800, and a Series goal of $4,348,800 in the campaign which opens January 18, and closes 15.
The state's goal 1s $126,000,000, with $37,000,000 of the overall designated for Series In the Treasury's campaign manual, issued for the winter campaign, it is stated that in White and War(ren, Counties in Tennessee the N. C. Governor Says South To Back Democrats of schools were asked to take responsibility for the entire Series Bond quota of the community during certain months, and that the plan "went over with flying use of the schools was suggested in those cases and strongly recommended by Judge Harold H. Earthman of Murfreesboro, the Treasury reports. Judge Earthman serves as chairman of WFC for the public officials groups, Rites Set Tomorrow For Mrs.
Washington Mrs. Anne Pigue Washington, 76, of 2007 Belmont Boulevard, died this morning in a local infirmary following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 a. m. at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Home, with Dr.
W. F. Powell and Dr. R. Kelly White officiating.
Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The daughter of the late James A. and Pauline Baker Pigue, Mrs. Washington was born in Nashville.
Her father was connected with the wholesale firm, Pigue-Manier, Jocated on the public square. She attended the old Ward Seminary, and In 1899 was married to William T. Washington, who survives. Mrs. Washington was especially active in the work of her church, the First Baptist Church.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, are two sone, William T. Washington, and Francis E. Washington; two granddaughters, and Iris Washington, and a brother, Edward H. Pigue, all of Nashville. Extradition of Curlee Approveed by Cooper Goy.
Prentice today issued warrant requisition of the Governor of Texas for the return to that state Alonza Curlee, alias Charlie Mangum, is wanted on a murder charge. Curlee is now the custody of the FBI in Shelby County. He is wanted in Tarrant County, Texas, on an indictment charging that he killed Gladys Harper on May 30, 1937. Maj. Austin Shofner Wins DSC for Heroism General Southwest Pacific, Jan.
Gen, Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-e let Southwest Pacific area, has award. ed the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action" to Maj. Austin C. Shotner, USMC, Shelbyville, Tenn. The citation not previously been announced for reasons of military security.
Becomes Captain CAPT. HORTON J. DeMOSS, former superintendent of mail in the Stahlman Building, WAS recently promoted to his present rank from that of first lieutenant in the Army. Captain DeMos la now stationed at the Army Air Base, Alliance, Neb. He entered the Army in October, 1942, with the commission of first lieutenant.
He first spent five weeks 'In Boston, and has been atationed in ALI illance since. I Funeral Set Tomorrow for Dr. Handly Funeral services for Dr. James W. Handly, Nashville physician, who died at a local hospital last night following a serious illness of two weeks, will be conducted at the Finley M.
Dorris Funeral Chapel at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Rev. J. Francis McCloud will officiate, and burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Dr. Handly, who resided in the Polk Apartments, had been in ill health for more than a year. A son of Samuel Avery and Mary Cunningham Handly, he was born in Winchester, but had lived in Nashville since boyhood. He- was educated in private schools here and was graduated in 1887 from Cumberland University at Lebanon. In 1889 he was graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and completed his medIcal studies at the New York Polyclinic in 1892.
He interned at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Handly was professor of urology at the University of Tennessee DR. J. W.
HANDLY for a number of years around the turn of the century, and In 1915 became chief surgeon for the Tennessee Central Railway, a post he held for an extended period. He was also medical adviser for the Independent Life Insurance Company in Nashville for many years. For the major part of his life, Dr. Handly realded with his mother at the family home, "Fairview," on Gallatin Rond, the present site of East Nashville High School. He was member of old "the Hermitage Club, the Belle Meade Country Club and the Elks Club.
Dr. Handly, who was never married, survived a sister, Mrs. Anne Handly Wright of New York City; nieces, Mrs. Morton D. Joyce, also of New York, and Mrs.
Harry Logan of Los Angeles, and nephew, Lt. Comdr. Albert Handly, of the U. S. Navy.
New Milk Sales Curb Is Explained At a meeting of Food Distribution Administration officials and local milk company representatives yesterday afternoon, the new order restricting fluid milk sales was read and explained. Effective January 1, the order limita dealers from selling more milk than was sold in June, 1943. It further restricts them from sellmore than 75 per cent of the Ing amount of cream, cottage cheese, buttermilk, chocolate milk and other by-products sold in June, 1943. Methods of complying with the order be left to the discretion the individual dealers. Moses Rosenfeld Funeral services for Moses Rosenfeld, 82, of the Jacksonian Apartmenta, 3010 West End Avenue, who died yesterday evening at his home, were held this afternoon at the M.
Combs Funeral Home. Rabbi Bernard Starkoff officiated, and burial was in Temple Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Mr. A native of Rosenfeld came to Nashville AS young man and was a printer until he retired about 30 years ago. He was member of the Vine Street Temple. Survivors are a slater, Mrs.
Mollie Kornman, and brother, David Rosenfeld, both of Nashville. New York, Jan. 7- (P) -Asserting that the Republican Party WAS "hopelessly divided" on peace and international issues, Gov. J. M.
North Carolina said last night that the "conduct of the was" was the Democrats' strongest bid for victory in the 1944 election. Broughton, who spoke on an America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast with Rep. Jerry Voorhis Calif.) conceded that the Democratic, Party had "lost ground on domestic issues," but predicted that the Southern States would back the 1944 Democratic ticket despite their "great political turmoll." He proposed that Democrats, to help them win this war, should disavow thinking which constitutes a threat to free enterprise, reduce bureaucratic regulations, regain support of the farmer, reassert the principle of state's rights and advance a postwar job program. Pointing to discord in Republican cricles, Broughton said: "Only two weeks ago the most recently defeated Republican candidate for president sharply challenged as isolationist a statement issued by his immediate predecessor in defeat." Voorhis said it was imperative that the Democratic Party take "definite responsibility for a progressive domestic program" and said he favored immediate expansion' of the social security program to the entire population and creation of public health insurance program. Nashvillians Told To Watch Split Currency Police today warned Nashvillians to inspect both sides of currency before accepting it as several cases of persons using split currency have reported here.
been, morning a split bill, $100 on one side and $10 on the other, was passed in a local drugstore, with the man, said to have been dressed in a soldier's uniform, who offered the bill obtaining change for the $100, city police said. Several other similar incidents of persons using split bills with $10 on one side and $1 on the other have been reported by victimized downtown stores. Burnett Is Accepted As Naval Air Cadet Sidney Murray Burnett, 17, son of Mrs. Belle Burnett. 1505 Eightcenth Avenue, has been ac cepted as a Naval Air Corps cadet, and will be Inducted July 1, according to word received from Atlanta, yesterday.
Burnett, scheduled to complete his work at Peabody Demonstration School In June, passed his preliminary physical tests here December 20 and completed his examinations in Atlanta this week. He start training at the Unlversity of South Carolina in Columbia in July, Instructor Named For Vultee School in Middle Tennessee, responds Hopkins' particular brand of a laugh, and rare femiyesterday afternoon and this morning Hospital, visiting the soldierand pleasure soon matched hers. chairs moved into the circle, and those who were lying listlessly in bed perked up with Interest under the spell of her graciousness and friendliness. Miss Hopkins, who was met the plane yesterday on her arrival here at noon by Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Orr, Red Cross worker in charge of the recreation program at the hospital, and Lt. B. C. Rothfuss special services officer, was escorted by them through the wards yesterday afternoon. She returned this morning to complete ber rounds.
The actress said she left Hollywood Wednesday, and must complete her tour of Army hospitals In time to be back there by January 15, in connection with the first of two pictures she la scheduled to make this year. She said, however, that she was not at liberty to make any comment on either of these at this time. Miss Hopkins, who is making the tour alone, under the auspices of the Victory Committee and the War Department, left the city this afternoon for Washington, D. C. Prior to her visit here, she had visited wards in th Kennedy Hospital at Memphis.
At meeting of the Davideon Board of Educa- tion. W. Racigalupo was elected an instructor Vultee War Production Training School. The resignation of Mrs. Ann Woodard Simpson as a teacher at Milla Elementary School was nOcepted.
Three janitors were elected, Chester D. Thomas at Burton Elementary, and Jim McClendon and James Heaton at Central High School. Mrs. Malissa P. Smith Funeral Mra.
Malissa P. Smith, died yesterday at a following a long Illness, tomorrow morning at the Peltus and Owen Home. The Rev. W. Marshall officiate and burial be in Mt.
Olivet. Ceme- tery, A native of DeKalb County, Mrs. Smith had lived in Nashville number years before she moved to Manchester four years ago. She was member of the Presbyterian Church. Survivors are two daughters.
Mrs. H. K. Nelms and Mra: Susie Lane, both of Nashville; two grandsons and four granddaughters. One of the electric senses, an electric eye, seen deviation of a few thousandths an inch in swiftly moving web of steel plate..
