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...Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout...
...life he has lived politics. A stripling lawyer out of Atlanta Law School, he went to Washington at 21, became chief clerk in the House post office. He learned more ropes as secretary to a Congressman, went back to Georgia to be a deputy U.S. marshal, city attorney of Decatur, and State Representative. In 1929 he returned to Washington as a Congressman, has been there ever since. Slowly he built up a reputation as a fair, sound, open-minded man, a debater able to take care of himself, and a man who tended to business...
Stretching its yearly budget of $75 to $315 by getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged...
...year, 1776. He went to sea just like anybody and got to be a bosun's mate. In the fighting against the pirates of Tripoli in 1804, he did his big deed. There was a fierce hand-to-hand fight one day. James's boss, Captain Stephen Decatur, was knocked down by a Tripolitan. Another pirate lifted his scimitar to kill the Captain. James dived and took the blow on the back of the head. Captain Decatur said if he would only recover, Reuben James could have anything he wanted. Decatur expected his bosun's mate...
...such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...