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Highland Park Press, 1 Feb 1945, p. 1

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Graduating from Northwestern university in 1941, he joined the navy and was commissioned an enâ€" sign in December of that year. He is survived by his parents and four brothers: John, of Chicago, Capt. Howard, Jr., and Sgt. Eugene, both with the army air forces now setvâ€" ing in the European area; and Martin, a student in the loca? high Lt. Edward J. Detmer, 25, was lost in action on Jan. 15 in the Pacific atea as the result of an airplane transport crash, according to an official report received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Detmer, 555 Bob O‘ Link, on Wednesday of this week, Executive officer of a torpedo patrol squadron, Lt. Detmer had served nearly two years in the Paâ€" cific theater of war. Mrs. Elmer E. Mills, Mrs. E. R. Wible, Mrs. Alain R. St. Cyr and Mrs. Laurence O. Olesen will be hostesses for the afternoon. The human side of life will be shown also, how our men live, their food and shelter, the care of the wounded. . Daredevil youths and shy young heroes will be met and appreciated. _ The team work of our Australian and Dutch allies will be transformed from mere words to living actuality. In short, Aloha Maker brings authentic acâ€" tion on the sereen, giving it reality wlth‘ her own unique personal touch, Lt. Edward Detmer Since Pearl Harbor she and her husband, Walter Baker, have deâ€" voted their talents toward the proâ€" duction of films that familiarize Americans with the war effort of «their allies in the Pacific, Mr. Baâ€" ker acting as editor and producer. "Their pictures dramatize the viâ€" tal stepping stones our troops are pursuing in winning their way to Tokio. â€" They show our Aperican fighting ‘men in action in New Guinea, Rabaul, Australia and the Netherlands East Indiies. They make it possible for us to witness the Japanese defeated in a stupenâ€" dous sea battle, whipped by a suâ€" perior &ir armada. â€" They show the Japanese outmaneuvered and outâ€" fought . in the steaming jungles. Paratroop attacks, seaborne asâ€" saults and aerial conquest will be made real. " Italy. She has lived in 85 foreign countries and speaks six languages. This, together~with ‘years in the field of exploration, has given her a background of authoritative information. whose edu: in the Pacific." ~With the allies on the offensive in the:Southwest Paâ€" cific and‘the drive for the Philipâ€" pines and China Coast moving rapâ€" idly, â€" Aloha©Baker‘s~lecture more than ever is vital to a better unâ€" derstanding of our war strategy. Mrs. Milton Youngren presen ' her second book review for the club at 12:45. Her subject is "Anything . Can _ Happen" by Ggorge and Helen Pastashvily. Mrs. George Barnes, chairman, wishes to remind members to give their ~friends the "opportunity of hearing Mrs. Youngren. Guests are always welcome to the book ‘This will be the climax of an eventful day, beginning with a talk on ‘"‘The Golden Age of Valenâ€" tines" at 10:80 a.m. What more appropriate subject could have been planned. by the chairman, Mrs. T. L. Osborne and her comâ€" mittee, for collectors during Febâ€" ruary? (Mrs. L. D. Sasscier, who has become a favorite with the Colâ€" Tectors‘ Study group, will be'thei speaker. * ‘ Luncheon will be served at noon. Reservations must be made by Monday night, the 5th, with Mrs. Baker Hamilton, H.P. 921, or Mrs. C. J. Haynes, H.P. 1657. » "Victory in the Pacific‘ is the challenging title of the illustrated lecture to be presented by Alohs Baker, called the world‘s most travâ€" elled woman; on Tuesday, Februâ€" ary 6, at 2 p.m., at the Woman‘s elub, reports Mrs. B. K. Goodman, chairman of theâ€"program commitâ€" Vol. 34; No. 49 «"Victory in The Pacific‘ Topic at Club Meeting Now for the climax â€" "Victory the H. P. hospital "m' ;"""'j";"o' .‘;‘ sist in this important workâ€"for hospital: the Mesdames R. R. Wible, M. R. Mlo.DQ-HNiebol-,A.lxs;:: LMM‘M en K. Stewart, Herman Zischke, "“'D.e:""l' Geo. .l‘ow.l:, ley Hall and Chas. Rubens. UNITED STATEs WAR sonps BUY THEMâ€". . . KEEP THEM:! Auxiliary Members Mrs. Maurice Graves and Mrs. Wamn. Bangs are in charge of the making of surgical dressings at the Highland Park hospital every Wednesday morning from 9:30 to noon. A 1943 alumnus of the.Jocal high schodl, Pfe. Farina entered the servicesshortly after his gradâ€" uation, received his basic training at Camp Fanning, Tex., was trainâ€" ed for maneuvers in a California desert, and left for overseas about a year ago, having received no furâ€" lough. â€" His parents had not seen him since he entered the service. Other than‘his parents, he is surâ€" vived by one sister, Mrs. Mary Dowling of Highwood. Official notice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Angelb Farina, 325 Ashland, Highwood, that their son, Pfe. Joseph, aged 20, lost his life in action inâ€"Belgium on Jan. 3. Pfc. Joseph Farino ® Is Lost in Action On the last day of the year I wrote Mrs, Simms a note asking if she would come to this meeting if she were well enough to and before mailing it, read ‘of her death in the morning papers. _ Would that we had more women of her calibre in the Republican party! .. During 1944 we also lost a good Republican from the ranks of our (Continued on page 5). <But Mrs. McCormick Simms (for she married again) still carried on her work for the Republican party and four years ago ‘began herâ€"wotk for Thomas E. .Dewey which continued through the 1944 election. Park and we had agood turnâ€"out with musiec by the.chorus of the Highland .Park Music club and homeâ€"made cake and other refreshâ€" ments by the Mothers club of the YWCA. Mrs. McCormick went down, however, in the Democratic landslide in Illinois that year. tion ~for about a "hundred women in the foyer of the Highland Park _ _I remember that in introducing ‘Mrs. MeCormick who was then running for representative, I spoke‘ of how splendid it was to have such & capable womah runâ€" ning for Congress anrd said, "Who knows but what she may be runâ€" ning for Senator some day?" . She gave me a mprh.dm look and, ;!- ter she had representative for o wike e n en My interest in working for the Republican party in Highland Park was stimulated ‘by reading an article in one of the women‘s magâ€" azines about Alice Roosevelt Longâ€" worth and Ruth Hanna‘ McCorâ€" mick and what they had done for the Republican party. Not long afâ€" ter reading this article when I was in the office of the Highland Park. Press in regard to some revisions for the byâ€"laws of the Ossoli club, the manager said to me, "Mrs. Mcâ€" mick is going to be in Lake county soon and I wish you could get one of ‘the clubs to let her speak from their platform." I replied, on the spur of the moment, "I don‘t think they. will take her because she is mfiun. but if they won‘t, I will," elubs wouldn‘t take her soâ€"I arranged a luncheon here for 12 people, mostly club presidents, and Highland Park women repreâ€" senting various town organizaâ€" tions,. Later we arranged a recepâ€" Following is an address by Mrs Florence Dingle before the Highâ€" land Park Woman‘s Republican club annual meeting Jan. 27: Mrs, Dingle Talks Before Women‘s Republican Club On of the Woman‘s auxiliary of The Higbland Park Press Jan: 24 the following mem Highland Park‘s NEWS Paper for 33 Years A huge fourâ€"hour "Cavaicade of Stare," featuring ‘headline .perâ€" formers of stage, screen and radio, wl:‘ b;. b’nn-hd mgl eveâ€" m Truary 22, at icago stadtam under mufi"&. of the State Dept. of Disabled American Veterans, the official organization of the wounded, and disabled reâ€" turning veterans. Proceeds will go to the depart ment‘s service fund. ,_ All women age invited to attend. Further details will be published w. & .° BENEFIT FOR DISABLED VETERANS AT STADIUM A World Day of Prayer, sponâ€" sored by the Women‘s Federation of Churches, will be held the first Friday of Lent, Feb. 16, 1:30 p.m., at the YWCA. The program is beâ€" ing> planned by various church groups.~ WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FEBRUARY 16 AT YWCA There also will be short reports of the talk by Dr. Robert Weaver at the annual meetinig of the counâ€" cil of social ‘mgencies on "Minoriâ€" ties in the Postâ€"War World" and on the recent high school P.T.A. meeting on "Democracy Begins at Home." Interested residents are welcome to attend. book, both from a theoretical and from a practical standpoint, and :ur review will be well worth hearâ€" ng. & At the February meeting of the Interâ€"Faith group, at the local "Y" on_ Tuesday,â€"Feb. 6, at 10 a.m., Mrs. George Wallace Carr will reâ€" view this book. As Mrs. Caryl Cody Pfanstichl, Mrs. Carr was well known for ‘her keen insight into sociological questions and for her charm in book reviewing. A graduate of the University of Chiâ€" cago, with a master‘s degree, Mrs, Carr has been student counselor for girls at Northwestern universiâ€" ty. and vocational counselor of the Chicago Y.W.C.A., and the underâ€" standing mother of four children. With such _ a background, Mrs: Carr is well fitted to discuss this This is the question posed by the young Canadian author of a curâ€" rent "best seller," already read by half a million readers â€" "Earth and High Heaven" â€" by Gwethaâ€" lyn Graham. With a courage in posing a sympathetic understandâ€" ing of it, Miss Graham has written a significant book which has been provoking much thought and disâ€" cussion since its publication. ~DFIC a.rea lt3 â€".._.UXâ€"104%.0GL» sonal< happiness be sacrificed to existing prejudices fostered by igâ€" _nor:nce and ‘lack. of understandâ€" ing Review Best Seller At Interâ€"Faith Meet Friday, Feb. 9â€"Central and Berkeley road north to city limits, west of tracks, Empty cartons will not be taken unless they are flattened and tied. _ Newspapers _ and _ magazines should be tied in bundles. Wastebasket paper,; including _all scraps, should be packed down Thursday, Feb. 8â€"Central and Berkeley road to County Line road west of tracks. Tuesday, Feb. 6â€"Central Ave to Beech, east of tracks. Wednesday, Feb. 7â€"Beech to County Line road, east of tracks. Anotherâ€" appeal to save waste paper was sent out from Washingâ€" ‘ ton on Jan. 27 by the War Producâ€" tion board, â€" "Severe winter conâ€" ditions have slowed collections and increased the need for paper and without enormous quantities of waste paper and cartons to take theâ€"place of wood pulp no longer available, buttlefront quotas canâ€" not be filled, for containers carâ€" rying food, ammunition and mediâ€" cal supplies to our fighting men." Collection Routes Monday, Feb. 5 â€" Central Ave. and north to city limits, east of tracks. Monday, Feb. 5, through Friday, Feb. 9, will see trucks stopping at every curb in the city for the piles of ‘waste paper put out by all householders. "Or at least we‘re hoping that every single house will have a pile in front of it," said Mrs. Nathan Corwith, Jr., salvage chairman. â€" The regular monthly schedules will be followed as usâ€" ual. Find your route in the list given below. Waste Paper Curb > , Pickâ€"up Starts Monday ; Is the "One World" so eloquentâ€" Highland Park, Illinois, Thursday, February 1, 1945 or LOCAL BLOOD DONORS AT CHICAGO CENTER 4 â€"Edgar Pedderson 1314 Marion. 2 Gordon A. Humphrey 1321 Judson Robert Edmonds 487 N. Il..Joh- 7 Raymond B. Anthony â€"â€"â€" 270 Cedar Ave. 3 â€" Isadore Zimmerman 17 Visitors to the club last week included _ Arthur Swanson, Jr., USN, Walter Metcalf, John ‘ Picâ€" chietti and Frank Spannraft of Deerfleld>and E. J. Fucik of Highâ€" land Park. Monday noon, Feb. 5) the Roâ€" tary club will hear Capt. Jack Marâ€" ietta, who is stationed at Ft. Sherâ€" idan. The captair will show some war films. Jan. 29, the club heard Walter Gardiner, mechanical engineer. Capt. Jack Marietta to Be Speaker at Rotary Receiving his military training at Camp Blanding, Fla., and at Ft. Mead, Md., Pvt. Turelli, who is 24 years of age, spent a 12â€"day furâ€" lough at home in November, before leaving this country. He arrived at an European base two days beâ€" fore Christmas, and had been staâ€" tioned in France and Luxembourg. Highwood Boy Reported Missing Since January 6 Pvmnobert Turelli, of the U.S. army infantry, son of Mrs. Olimâ€" pia Fabbri, 125 North, Highwood, has been officially reported missâ€" ing in action since Jan. 6. classes," said Hiram B. Loomis, president of the board of trustees, ‘is suggested by the general anxiâ€" ety about jobs aftér the war. The depression all of us fear is inevitaâ€" ble unless we remove its cause; Economic study will enable the citizen to understand the cause of depression and put him in a posiâ€" tion to help prevent a postwar colâ€" ‘lm." . Registrations for the Highland Park classes are being received daily at the school headquarters, 236 N. Clark St., Chicago, by mail, and phone, Central $348. Enrollâ€" ment may still be made at the secâ€" ond lesson, Feb, 5. The class is sponsored by the Henry: George School of Social Science, now in its eleventh year of classwork in the Chicago area. The school was chartered by the University of the State of New York in 1932 and incorporated not How toâ€"make a lasting and prosâ€" perous peace will be the theme of aâ€" Highland â€"Parkâ€"class in< basic economics started at the Highland Park high school Monday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. *The class will continue once a week for 10 weeks, with free tuiâ€" tion to all. Start Economics Class At Local High School , All members are to be responsiâ€" Ble for a "white elephant" to be added to the Thrift Shop stock. They are invited to the annual Thrift Shop tea Feb. 26. Members were encouraged to atâ€" tend the â€"annual â€"meeting of the Infant Welfare society Feb. 7, at the LaSalle hotel. _ Reservations must be made before Feb. 3. : Mrs. Kenneth M. Jones was elecâ€" ted corresponding seeretary to reâ€" place Miss Barbara Wright, who has taken a position as nurse‘s aide in the government _ hospital < at Camp Custer, Mich. _ Mrs. Joseph H. Myers, president, read the byâ€"laws and announceâ€" ments of officers, after which Mrs. Ralph C. Archer, president of the Highland _ Parkâ€"Ravinia junior group, gave a short talk explainâ€" ing relationship of local centers to the Chicago structure of the soâ€" ciety. ‘ The Infant Welfare Wing, the newly formed and third Highland Park group to be affiliated with the Infant Welfare society of Chiâ€" cago, held its first formal meeting Monday evening at the home of Mrs. LaRhett Livingston Stuart, 411 Lake Ave. Infant Welfare Wing Charles Melvoin 1424 Wildwood Lane Walter F. Hammel, Jr. 251 Cedar t Clarence Goelzer l-!’:fl 8. St. Johns ‘ Margaret Glasgow 740 Marion 285 Park Ave. "l'lo next meeting of the Interâ€" faith group, on , Feb. 6, at 10 a.m., at m‘.‘fl. will feature a review by Mré. G. W. Carr of "Earth and High Heaven," by Gwethalyn Graham. â€" Diseusâ€" sion will follow. This service will be held at 1:30 at the YWCA. REVIEW OF BOOK AT INTERFAITH MEETING Representatives of the different churches met at the YWCA Wedâ€" nesday, Jan. 24, andvoted to join women the world over in a day of mmon Feb. 16, the first Friday in t. WORLD DAY OF PRAYER TO BE FEBRUARY 16 Guido, 31, entered the service in September, 1941, and three years later left for overseas. He formerly drove for the Bartlett Cab Co. z+ The painful duty of delivering the news that his brother is missâ€" ing on the European war front fell to Nello Castallani, cab driver, last week. The telegram, addréssâ€" ed to his father, Frank, 855 North, told that T/5 Guido was reported missing since Dec. 18 in Luxemâ€" bourg. > The meeting of the Woman‘s auxiliary of the society will be held in the Century room of the LaSalle hotel at 10:30 a.m., Mrs. Pope Dodge, president, presiding. Folâ€" lowing the meeting, the society will hold a luncheon meeting in the Grand Ball room, Philip D. Arâ€" mour presiding.. Mrs. Claude Naâ€" than of Highlasd Park is a memâ€" ber of the board of directors. A new center to be known as Infant Welfare Wing of Highland Park was organized in December. HIGHWOOD MAN 1sS REPORTED MISSING Part of the funds raised by the Highland Park Community Chest is allocated to the Highland Parkâ€" Ravinia centers for Alice H. Wood station. In 1944 the two centers turned over $3,900 for the. work of the society. Inâ€"addition to the money contribution the center _members made 593 garments for the babies and gave 388 hours of volunteer service in Alice H. Wood station, weighing babies=irdâ€"doingâ€"clarical work. To Attend Annual Meeting Mrs. Spencer Keare, representâ€" ing the Highland Parkâ€"Ravinia senior center, will report one of the best years in the history of the two centers. The A. R. C. has the privilege, entrusted to it by the government of the United States, of following the men of our armed forces into the theaters of war, where they minister to their wants, stand by them with comfort and cheer, ofâ€" fer them a spot that breathes the spirit ef the land they leff â€"It‘s the job of the A, R. C. to bring a touch of home to men away from home and much of this is a womâ€" an‘s job. v C .7 e s 7 . % of the society at Ee %ie hog_-;l, Wednesday, Feb. 7. Twentyâ€"five â€"members _ of â€"the junior and senior group of the Highland Parkâ€"Ravinia centers of the Infant Welfare Applicants may apply in Chicago at Red Cross headquarters of the Chicago chapter, 5208. Wabash, personnel office, Wabashâ€" 7850. Applicants must be American citiâ€" zens with no minor dependents. There is still need for women workers. In the midwestern area, Red Cross must secure four hunâ€" dred and thirtyâ€"three women to work overseas as staff assistants, stenographers and hospital recreaâ€" tion workers and programâ€"direcâ€" More Red Cross overseas workâ€" ers are needed at this time. Apâ€" proximately 20 per cent of the apâ€" plicants for overseas service who wentâ€"into the Chicago chapter ofâ€" fice during the period from Dec. 15 to 31, went as a result of readâ€" ing newspaper publicity, it has been announced. Fifteenth Annual Report At Social Service Meeting Red Cross in Urgent Need of Women Workers _ _Lt. Wm, R. MacKinnon, 23, was lost in action Decemper 19, in the European theater of war, accordâ€" ing to official notification received bvhh-'fo.t{.rmnnm- abeth Glasner, of Chicago, to whom hwn_-rfla&.hum He is the son of Col. and Mrs. R. H. MaéKinnon of Ft. Sheridan. The colonel is director of food service, 6th Service Commi@#hd at the Fort. Other than his wife and parents, the deceased l--rvlvo" by one brother, now attending West Point military academy. & Lt. Wm. MacKinnon Is Lost in Action pleted â€" officer candidate school. She was commissioned in Decemâ€" ber, 1943. She reported to Fort Sheridan and was assigned to the special training unit. Lt. Rosenberg enlisted in the WAC ‘in August, 1943, and took her basic training at Ft. Ogleâ€" thorpe, Ga., where she also comâ€" pleted â€" officer candidate school. She was commissioned in Decemâ€" dan, was the main speaker at the meeting of the Highland Park Amâ€" erican Legion auxiliary Feb. 1 at the Masonic Temple, He said that persons with inâ€" eomes of less than $5,000 will save themselves and the government much time and work by using the simplified Wâ€"2 form. _ Amer. Legion Auxiliary Hears Lt, Rosenberg Lt. Hanna Rosenberg, civilian personnel supervisor of the Speâ€" cial Training unit at Fort Sheriâ€" ‘Eulenberg said that the new income tax form is refreshingly simple and ‘will save time, trouble and money for most taxpayers, but that it may become more complex next year. £ _~Alexander Eulenberg, tax exâ€" pert and professorial lecturer in accounting at Northwestern uniâ€" versity as well as an attorney and certified public accountant, will teach an advanced course in federâ€" al taxes on the university‘s downâ€" town campus beginning Feb.‘7th. Three courses in the fundamentals of federal income taxation: also will be offered. e Course in Federal Tax To Be Given at N.U. Please imagine yourselves in the position of one who stands before you, who for the fifteenth time is called upon to report on the acâ€" tivities of the least understood member agency of the local Comâ€" munity _ Chest,â€" least understood (Continued on page 6) . . port: Reâ€"elected: president â€" Mrs. Charles Mason. fa Secretary: Mrs. George Prindle. Elected: viceâ€"president â€" F. J. McDonough. Treasurer â€" Howard Moran. _ Board of Directors: Mrs. George Baldwin, Lester Ball, Paul C. Beâ€" hanna, Mrs. Douglas Boyd, Mrs. Allen Dewey,J. B. Garnett, Edgar B, Carter, Rev. James D. Gleeson, Mrs. RobertgGoaling, Lyle Gourâ€". ley, Dr. Grover Q. Grady, Eari W. Gsell, Dr. B. A. Hamilton, Miss Marjorie ~Ibsen, Mrs. Annette Hunke, Dr. Irene .Josselyn, Rev. Christoph Keller, E. M. Knox, Mrs. David Lasier, Rev. Lester Laubenâ€" stein, Mrs. Tom Leeming, Mrs. David Levinson, Mrs. George Moseâ€" ley, Roy H. Olson, Rev. H. K. Platâ€" zer, E. C. Reichert, Mrs. Walter Rubens, George Scheuchenpflug, E. C. Schweitzer, Dr. Louis T Sherwin> L. B. Sinclair, Mrs, H. Bowen 321'. Mrs. Carol Baker Summers, Mrs. Herman Zischke. Governing board: Mrs. Charles Mason, F. J. MceDonough, Mrs.; George Prindle, Howard Moran, Mrs. . Weatherton ~Cherry, Mrs. Wilson Kline, Mrs. H. M. Pier, John A..Putnam, E. L Vinyard, A. E. Wolters, Mrs. T. L. Osborne, honorary. _ ; ed the followingâ€"names for offiâ€" cers of the organization and for the board of directors: The 15th annual meeting of the Highland Park Social Service Comâ€" mittee, Inc., was held Monday eveâ€" ning, Jan. 29. Mrs. Charles Maâ€" Mrs. H. M. Pier, chairman of duuominfia‘comnmumb 5¢ a copy; $1.50 per year gave the following reâ€"

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