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PAGE 3B THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 'ON THE RECORD' By Dorothy Thompson AMERICAN LABOR AND NAZI PROPAGANDA SS Noted Writer Dead Ji THE statement made by a high authority, reported to have been Gen. Marshall, that the Nazi propaganda machine has used the threatened railroad and steel strikes to rally morale in Germany and the satellite countries, is not supported by a study of Nazi domestic and foreign broadcasts. Only brief and noncommittal references have been made to any of the strike, threats, so far as I have been able to check.

ST. Sgt. T. C. Link of Post-Dispatch Staff, Now in Marines, Hit by Shrapnel.

The following story teas writ-ten by Technical Sgt. Theodore C. Link, 5322 Savoy court, a Post-Dispatch reporter now serving as a Marine Corps combat correspondent. In it he tells of the death of a civilian war correspondent and the wounding of himself and a civilian correspondent in an air raid. CAPE TOROKINA, Bougainville (Delayed).

The silence that fol lows a punishing bomb attack is eerie and unnatural. There is a deathly hush for what seems an interminable time. Then shadowy figures rise from foxholes to see if their friends were hurt. The smell of cordite fills the air. In the early" hours of Nov.

7 a 550-pound bomb, one of a number dropped during a Japanese air raid on invading Marines, killed two persons and wounded more than 10. In the utter darkness one youthful Marine set up a wail "Help! My buddy is dying." The call had hardly begun when stumbling figures worked their way slowly around the foxholes. They were the Nnvy medical corps-men. The steadying voice of Lt. Comdr.

Warren E. Page, Oakland, came through the darkness "Take it easy, son, we'll be there in a minute." Calmly in the darkness the coros- men and volunteers made the rounds of the stricken area, obtaining" blankets from survivors and placing the wounded upon them, them in foxholes to await dawn. Comdr. Page reached the "Bougainville Press Club," officially the Marine public relations office, to find the tent had been blown to shreds by the explosion. It took him only a few minutes to pro nounce dead Jrt.

Keith Palmer, correspondent of the American Magazine, Newsweek and the Melbourne (Australia) Herald. He found Rembert James, Associated Press correspondent, suffering from severe concussions and shrapnel wounds in both feet and in the legs. This correspondent WRITES OF AP AIR RAID Associated Press Wirephoto. IDA M. ARB ELL received shrapnel wounds of the right leg, thigh and back, burying his face in the sand just before the terrific blast which blew off his helmet after shrapnel struck.

The huge bomb tore a crater in the earth 20 feet across and about five feet deep and leveled the weeds, undergrowth and trees for 25 yards around the crater. The typewriters and other equipment in the tent were blasted. The crater was 10 feet from the tent entrance. The bombing followed a night of alerts. As the night wore on the anti-aircraft fire Increased in crescendo and the pyrotechnical display of tracer bullets and large gun bursts was amazing.

An antiaircraft battery near the war correspondents' tent split the night with terrific din. Palmer was only a few feet from his foxhole when struck. This correspondent's last frantic impression of Palmer, who was near to him, was his peering skyward as the bombers neared. The thunderous crashing of the guns must have interfered with his timing. CLEARANCE LINENS and BEDDING IDA M.

TARBELL DIES; Author of Lincoln Biographies and History of Standard Oil Succumbs at 86. BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan. (AP). Miss Ida Minerva Tar bell, dean of American woman writers, died today at Bridgeport Hospital of pneumonia. She was 86 years old.

She was admitted to the hospital Dec. 27 from her home In nearby Easton where she lived with a r'ster, Sarah. Miss Tarbell, first becoming widely known in the "muckraking" era of magazine writing when, she indited scathing articles on John D. Rockefeller Sr. and the Standard Oil later was recognized as a biographer and especially as an authority on Abraham Lincoln.

She devoted five years to the research on which her oil articles were based and during that time was an associate editor of Mc-Clure's Magazine. The work later was edited, collated in two volumes and published in 1904 as "A History of the Standard OH Company. Miss Tarbell severed her connection with McClure's in 1906 when she and several other writers organized The American Magazine. She was an associate editor of this publication until 1915. All the time, however, she was busy with data on Lincoln.

Her first books, biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte and Mme. Roland, had been published in 1895 and 1896 respectively and in the latter year she appeared as a collaborating author of a life of Lincoln. Four years later her chief work on the martyred President, a two-volume affair, was published. In 1907 she put out "He Knew Lincoln" and la 1909, "Father Abraham." "In Lincoln's Chair" appeared In In 1921 and "In the Footsteps of Lincoln" in 1924. Olive and Taylor (8) ev II wnm rih.

LSIH i UNNS NOTED WOMAN WRITER Casualties PFAUTCH CASE MORRISEY CROCKER CASUALTIES INCLUDE 2 Donald E. Ward of Marines Killed Sgt. Kirkpatrick Missing on Bomber. Marine Pvt. Donald E.

Wardwss killed in action in the Soutli Pacific area early in December, his father, Edward J. Ward, 111 Kenwood lane, Collinsville, has been informed by the Navy Department. Pvt. Ward, 25 years old, enlisted two years ago, and had been stationed in the South Pacific since November, 1942. Pvt.

George F. Wood, 20, was killed in action in Italy Dec. 16, the War Department informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wood, 3017 Mayfield avenue, Alton.

Wood was inducted in February, 1943, and was serving with an infantry company. James Charles Ette, seaman first class, who was reported missing in action last January, has been dead since Dec. 11, 1942, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Ette, 6921 Lexington avenue, were informed today by the Navy Department.

Ette, 20 years old, enlisted in the summer of 1942, and was serving as a gunner on a ship which did not reach its destination. He attended Normandy High School. Staff Sgt. Lynwood Kirkpatrick a radio operator and gunner on a Flylne Fortress, has been mif.sing since December 11 when he participated in a raid over Germany, his wife, Mrs. Frances Britt Kirkpatrick, 217 South Seminary street, Collinsville, was informed by the War Department.

Sgt. 22 years old, is a son or Mr. ana Mrs. R. B.

Kirkpatrick, Homer, La. He enlisted after graduating from the Southwest Louisiana University. Marine Pvt. Robert S. Case, son of Mrs.

Ruth Case, 3318A Wyoming street, has been wounded in action in the South Pacific, the Navy Department reported. Case enlisted two years ago. Andrew Engler, carpenter's mate second-class of the Seabees, is in a naval hospital recovering from an Injury of his left foot and leg, he informed his wife, Mrs. Helen Engler, 837 Tower avenue, Belleville, in a letter recently. Engler, 34, enlisted in November.

1942, and has been serving in the South Pacific. Other men from the St. Louis area who have been listed as casualties include Seaman Orland R. Pfautch, 3034A Pestalozzi street, who died of burns suffered on shipboard. First Lt.

John C. Mor-risey 3411 Magnolia street, was wounded in Italy Dec. 15, and Pvt. Maurice W. Crocker of Caseyville, 111., a paratrooper, was wounded in the South Pacific area.

MRS. MARY ANDREWS COCHRAN FUNERAL SERVICES HELD Private funeral services were held today for Mrs. Mary Andrews Cochran, who died yesterday at Barnes Hospital after a fall Sun day in which she suffered a broken hip. Mrs. Cochran, who would have been 94 years old Jan.

29, was the widow of Alexander G. Cochran, lawyer and Congressman. A native of Allegheny City, she came with her husband to St. Louis in 1878. She had lived at 7 Westmoreland place since 1890.

Mrs. Cochran's father was Col. James Andrews, who assisted Capt James B. Eads in building Eads Bridge. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Greenfield Sluder, 4935 Maryland avenue. Louis Glazer Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services for Louis Glazer, a decorating contractor in St. Louis for more than 40 years, will be held at 10:30 a. m.

tomorrow at the Berger undertaking establishment, 4715 McPherson avenue, with burial in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. He died yesterday at Jewish Hospital. He suffered a stroke Dec 31 at his home, 5137 Lotus avenue. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena Glazer; two sons.

Jack E. and Herman and two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Lazaroff and Mrs. Freida Gelfer, all of St Louis. OUR 49th YEAR SPECIA11STS for the who wiihei it; 7 yi i FROM COLLINSILE MRS.

HENRY T. SCHLAPP Who, with Lt. Schlapp, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe C.

Hobbs, 265 Union boulevard, with their young daughter, Sally. Zoe Leuer and her daughter. Miss Zoe, and a cousin, Mrs. Don L. Sterling, all of Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Mr. Sharp and his bride both trace descent from Ferdinand Rozier, who became Ste. Gene vieve's first Mayor. In 1935 the former Miss Rozier was queen of the bi-centennial celebration of Ste. Genevieve, the oldest village west of the Mississippi River, an event which attracted nationwide attention.

She was graduated from Villa Duchesne and Trinity College, Washington, D. C. Mr. Sharp attended St. Louis University and Springfield Teachers' College and was graduated from the University of Illinois.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Charles Birdsall, 38 Crestwood drive, have announced the marriage of his daughter, Miss Martha Virginia Birdsall, and Sgt. Charles A. Vos-burgh.

The marriage took place Dec. 28 in a post chapel at Camp Bowie, where the bridegroom is stationed. An Army chaplain officiated. The bride's mother is Mrs. Lester D.

Goebbels, 8121 Pershing avenue. Sgt. Vosburgh is the son of Mrs. William Burt Cathcart, 55 Fair Oaks, and the late Dr. Charles A.

Vosburgh. c- be gentle Inferior Tly dirt but the break down, oure ST. LOUIS friends have received invitations for a reception to be given' by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Overton Watts late Sunday alter noon.

Jan. 16, in celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Watts, who are at their winter home at Miami Beach, will give the party at nearby Indian Creek Club.

In Louis thev live at 33 Portland place. Mr. and Mrs. Watts' son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Gentry Shelton, 5940 Waterman avenue, will leave Saturday for Miami Beach. A few days before the party, the Watts' son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson M.

Watts, 4931 Lindell boulevard, will join the family group. Mrs. Shelton's daughter, Miss Helen Moore Jones, accom panied her grandparents to Flor ida last month. Mrs. Charles W.

Moore, 36 Port land place, returned just before the holidays from Trumbull, where she visited her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Serge Gagarin. The Gagarins are the parents of a six-weeks-old son, their first child, born in Harkness Pavilion, New York. The baby has been named Andrew.

His mother was Miss Frances Wick ham Moore. Comdr. and Mrs. William Hamil ton Gardner, who have been liv ing at 27 Black Creek lane for the past year, will leave Saturday for Key West, where Comdr. Gardner will be stationed with the Naval Reserve.

They will be accompanied by their daughter, Miss Mary Louise Gardner. Their son, William Allan Gardner, who has been at home for the holidays, has returned to Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. The Black Creek lane house occupied by the Gardners has been bought by Mr. and Mrs. William H.

Bixby who for the present are making their home with Mr. Bixby's parents at 13 Portland place. Mr. and Mrs. Leo de Smet Carton have closed their home, Longueuil, in Squires' lane, Hunt-leigh Village, and have taken an apartment at the Park Plaza for the rest of the winter.

Wedding in Old Cathedral. MISS MARY ELIZABETH ROZIER, daughter of Mr. and cwaic9 avuxici ui Ste. Genevieve, whose ancestry dates from Jean Baptiste Valle, last royally appointed commandant at Ste. Genevieve before the Louisi ana Purchase, became the bride this morning of Louis James Sharp III.

Because of gasoline rationing, which would have prevented many friends from attending the wedding in Ste. Genevieve, the marriage took place at the Church of St. Louis of France (Old Cathedral). The pastor of Ste. Genevieve's Church, Msgr.

Charles L. van Tourenhout, performed the ceremony, after which Mr. and Mrs. Rozier gave a reception in the Tower Room of the Congress Hotel. Large vases of white snapdragon and white gladiolas on the candle-lighted altar were added to holiday decorations already in the cathedral.

Pews In the center aisles were marked with clusters of feathery green plumosa tied with white satin bows. The bride, escorted by her father, was attended by her two sisters. Miss Zoe Valle Rozier was maid of honor and Miss Jane Rozier, bridesmaid. The three young women have shared an apartment at 4515 Maryland avenue. Heavy Ivory lace was combined with satin for the wedding gown.

From a lace bodice, designed with a heart-shaped neckline and lone tight sleeves, the full satin skirt swept into a wide train. Small ivory tinted ostrich tips secured her full length veil. The bride carried a white prayer book covered with white orchids. 1It sisters were in blue taffeta frocks, Miss Zoe Rozier in French blue and Miss Jane, powder blue. Their gowns had fitted bodices with heart-shaped necks and bracelet sleeves.

Full skirts were marked at a low hipline with crisp taffeta ruching. The maid of honor wore deep red ostrich tips in her hair and carried roses of the same shade, while the bridesmaid's bouquet of Hollywood roses matched her pink ostrich lieaddress. Mr. Sharp, whose parents live at 266 Plaza drive, had his father as best man. Ushers were William Bodley Lane and John Lee Dinan.

About 150 guests attended the reception. Mrs. Rozier wore a purple crepe daytime costume with a hat of the same fabric trimmed with feathers. Her flowers were yellow dancing girl orchids. Mrs.

Sharp was in black crepe trimmed with black sequins with which she wore a black hat and a gardenia corsage. Low bowls of white spring flowers decorated the reception table which had a large wedding cake as the centerpiece. Out-of-town guests included the bride's uncle and aunts, Mrs. Henry L. Rozier and Miss Valle Rozier of Ste.

Genevieve, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Harrison and their daughter, Miss Rosalie; Mrs BROADLOOM RUGS Ravrlkl tor Doubl. Wtr) Turn In Vour Old Cirpt nd Wool at Part Paynuitt ST.

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4S51 Display Room, 239 N. Euclid, St. Louis (8) in FABRICS woman in JivtJu a fitt 10TH ST. (1) DAILY 8:30 to 5:30 CLOSED THURSDAY I laundress cisely whatever measure of social security it has given the German people. It is patently good Nazi propaganda for home consumption to describe the Anglo-American world as "plutocratic" and bad propaganda to describe the New Deal in anything, ever, except anti-Semitic terms.

The Beveridge -report was bad for the Nazis from a propaganda standpoint it was attacked in Germany as belated, a fake, forced only by the war, and bound not to be carried out when the "plutocrats" didn't need labor any more. The famine in India, on the other hand, is useful Nazi propaganda, as is all imperialism. Hitler referred at length to the hunger in India; the German press has played It up for months; and all Europe is being pictured by the Nazis as another India, if the "plutocrats" and "barbarians" win. In Hitler proclamation the only reference to American labor was apropos the postwar world that America had not yet succeeded in securing work and bread for millions. What Hitler Promises.

HITLER is not the German masses' the maintenance or restoration of "free enterprise" as the result of victory. He is promising them social security and State-built homes two to three million of. them, In his New Year's proclamation. The Nazi press refers continually to "social gains." Even more startling is the line Mussolini is taking. His new State is called "the Republican Socialist State," dropping the word "Fascist." Thus In Germany the Nazis are stressing the Socialist line, in competition with Russia, trhile trying to keep the industrialists whom they need happy, while in Italy where the surrender is described as a "reactionary" plot, the Anglo-Americans are taunted as "imperialist exploiters" and the pro-labor line is even stronger than in Germany.

These observations are not made to condone in any way strike threats. But it is completely false to create the impression that a visibly strong labor movement is a propaganda liability to us. Exactly the opposite is true. ST. LOUIS WAC AND BROTHER MEET IN ITALY, 00 SHOPPING A WAC private, Martha Seward, and her brother, Sgt.

George T. Seward, who has been in the European area for the last 17 months, met recently In Italy where he now is stationed in a rest camp, Miss Seward told their father, J. F. Seward, 5340 Murdock avenue, in a letter received yesterday. "We went shopping, had lunch at a small restaurant, and even stopped at a small photography shop and had our picture taken together," she said.

"George was taller and broader than I had remembered him, and has a mustache which curls at the ends." Sgt. Seward, 27 years old, attended Washington University and was employed by the International Business Machine here prior to induction in December, 1941. His sister enlisted in the WAC in December, 1942. Another brother, Lt. William Seward, also is overseas.

ALBERT SPALDING IN WAR POST WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP). Albert Spalding, noted composer and concert violinist, will abandon his musical career for the war's duration to assist the psychological warfare branch of the Office of War Information in Italy. The OWI announced yesterday that Spalding has canceled his spring concert tour. He will soon be sent overseas as assistant to the head of the psychological warfare branch in Italy.

Spalding was educated in Florence. In the last war, Spalding joined the Aviation Corps and served in Italy. MRS. MARY D. KIEL DIES; STEPMOTHER OF LATE MAYOR Mrs.

Mary D. Kiel, stepmother of the late Mayor Henry W. Kiel, died today of infirmities of old age at the home of her daughter, Mr.s Minnie K. Dyas, 5575 Chamberlain avenue. She was 95 years old.

In addition to Mrs. Dyas she Is survived by a son, George F. Kiel, of Webster Groves. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

Saturday at the C. R. Lupton Sons undertaking establishment, 7233 Delmar boulevard. University City, with burial in St. Peter's Cemetery.

Sister Mary Melania Funeral. Funeral services for Sister Mary Melania, who was preparing to celebrate her golden jubilee this year as a member of the Sisters of St. Mary, will be held Saturday at 9 a. m. at the Mother House of St Mary of the Angels, 1100 Bellevue avenue, Richmond Heights, with burial in Old SS.

Peter and Paul's Cemetery. Sister Melania, 74 years old, the former Elizabeth Gause-meier, died yesterday of pneumonia at St. Mary's Hospital. She was a native of Germany. Grimm Art Studio Figure Drawing Two Nights Weekly.

Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30 to 10:30 P. M. Call CRand 0825 for Consultation. Actually, the statement shows a lack of understanding regarding the line the Nazi party has been taking for months for bolstering home morale. Nazi domestic propaganda is appealing to German labor and is Leftwing.

The picture of the Allies that Hitler and Goebbels are presenting to the German people is of a coalition between "Jewish- led barbarian Bolshevists" and "Imperialist rapacious capitalist powers." If Hitler had thought that the fight of American labor for higher wages was good propaganda for the German and European masses, he certainly would have mentioned it in his New Year's statement, in which he described the Allies. But there is no mention of it. On the contrary, the Anglo-American world is consistently and contemptuously referred to as "plutocratic" or "capitalistic," in contrast to "the Socialist people's state." The word "plutocratic," as a term of opprobrium, occurs six times in the course of the proclamation; the word "capitalist," in the same derogatory sense three times; the word "bourgeoisie" as an expression of scorn, twice. The word "Socialist" or "Communist" is never used to describe Russia. There is evidently a standing order on this, because the German press for months consistently refers to Russia only as "bolshevik." The connotations built up around "bolshevik" are chaotic, inhuman, oriental, barbaric, Asiatic never an organized stateSocial-lst economy.

"Bolsheviks" are described as "Asiatic hordes," never as social-revolutionaries. In Hitler's proclamation, Russian economy is described as "a national economy only in the sense of organized slavery for the benefit of the Jewish directors-general," and he repeatedly couples the word "Jewish" with Russia. This despite the fact, well known in all countries, there is free reporting of Russia that Jewish leadership is almost conspicuously absent in the direction of the Russian economy. 'Plutocrats Nazi Cry. IT IS necessary to take note of these facts in our own propaganda to Germany, for the Nazis certainly know how the wind is blowing among the German and European peoples.

The most popular thing about Nazism is pre NEW BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT9 IS CALLED ENIGMA Continued From Fage One. "enthusiastically" supporting tne new government. Pro-Allied Actions. Moreover, the new crowd are turning over to the United States the whole crop of cinchona bark that has previously been going to the Argentine; are willing to keep up the deliveries of tin ore and step up the rubber supply; have sequestered German property in Bolivia, hitherto untouched; iiae released the two of the three tin barons. Mauricio Hochschild and Aramayo, whom they have jailed; have promised new democratic elections for May 1, 1944; have ratified the declaration of war against the Axis; stated their willingness to comply with any other United Nations' conditions, which sounds gcod.

Some students of South American conditions feel that failure to obtain recognition from Washington will not immediately drive out the Villaroel regime. It could, -however, destroy the Good Neighbor Policy of ninintervention in internal affairs; it would hinder the emergence of further real democratic governments in Latin America, thus forcing the masses into extremist movements, communist or fascist; it would create the impression that the United States, while taming capitalism at home, Is ready abroad to support 1 the most inhumanly capitalist elements that exist in the Americas, namely the Bolivian tin barons. If. these students feel, Bolivian demands for a Pacific port are alarming Chile, this demand could be met by making Chilean Arica into a free port, something that ought to have been done before anyway. The stakes in Bolivia may be nothing less than the future of democracy in Latin America.

It is in every way commendable that our State Department has turned the matter over to the Inter-American Committee for American Defense, but in view of the magnitude of the stakes involved Americans can be really satisfied Only if the investigations are speedily made public. FUNERAL OF C. W. BURTON Funeral services for Charles Woodson Burton, chief engineer for the Liggett Myers Tobacco Co. here for 38 years before his retirement in 1942, will be held at 2 p.

m. Saturday at the Kriegs-hauser undertaking estblishment, 4228 South Kingshighway, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mr. Burton, 78 years old, died of infirmities yesterday at his home, 3662 Lafayette avenue. He was a licensed stationary engineer in St.

Louis for 51 years. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters. 5,000,000 Rosaries for 17. S. Forces.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP). Two million rosaries have been sent to Catholics in the United States armed forces throughout the world by the National Catholic Community Service. The two-millionth was blessed yesterday by the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States.

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