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THE SWARTHMORE
VOI* XV, No. 1
SWARTHMORE, PA., JANUARY 8, 1943
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COLLEGE BRINGS
MET. OPERA STAR
SINGS HERE TONIGHT
Russian-Born Basso Will Feature
Mozart, Brahms and Native
Folk Songs Tonight
This evening, Friday, at 8.15 under the
auspices of the William J. Cooper Foundation and the music department of the
college Alexander Kipnis basso of the
Metropolitan opera will give a free.reci-
tatl in Clothier Memorial.
Called "one of the real mastersingers
of the twentieth century," as a youth in
Russia Mr. Kipnis sang coloratura soprano arias at musical gatherings but
now has "one of the lowest pitched voices
in the entire world.
He studied singing and conducting in
\ Warsaw and Berlin and came to America with ac Wagnerian festival company
after touring the continent for many
years.
He has become a citizen of this country
and upon his debut with the Metropolitan
Opera Company two years ago was acclaimed the most notable acquisition of
the season. Among his singing roles have
been leads in "The Marriage of Figaro,"
"Lohengrin," "Die Meistersinger," and
\'Fidelio." He recently appeared in concerts with Arturo Toscanini in Buenos
Aires, and has made recordings for Victor and Columbia.
Accompanied by W. Ros4, Mr. Kipnis
will present the following program here
this evening:
Aria: "In diesen Heiligen Hallen" from
"The Magic Flute," Mozart; Aria: "Ma-
damina" from "Don Giovanni," Mozart;
"O wiisst ich doch den Weg zuruck,"
: "Sonntag," "Feldeinsamkeit,,' "Verrat,"
"Vergebliches Standchen" all by Brahms;
Aria: "II lacerate spirito" from "Simon
- Boccanegra," Verdi; Aria: Finale from
Secoaa^Act   of   "Rosenkavalier,"
2|& intermission Mr. Kipnis will
ffSjtip df-Rttssian folk songs —
&^*«TnV lUng^f "Night," "Sol-
iXSohg*; an4 - the ;folJ«wjng: "The
■by TscTiaikowsky;:?As the King
fotin to war," Koenemann; "The
^-^tive," Gretchaninoff;  "Death Scene"
from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky.
FONDA FILM AND
VARIETY SHORTS
College Resumes Week-End Moving Pictures With Full
Program Tomorrow
"Blockade"  starring  Madeline  Carroll and Henry Fonda will be the feature picture at the college movies tomorrow night, Saturday, January 9, at
7 and 9 o'clock.in Clothier Memorial.
On the same program will be an assortment of shorts: "Little Hiawatha", one
of "Disney's finest cartoons; "Bomber"
and  "Tanks",  two  government  documentary   films;   "Laughing   Gas",.. a
Chaplin short subject and "Les Hous-
ards de la Garde", a French surrealist
cartoon. The movie programs are open
to residents of the borough and other
friends of the college.
■^Blockade" is acclaimed Hollywood's
only important film to date to be based
.^omthe Spanish War, "For Whom the
r%-Mn Tolls" having not yet been released.
cfWith story by John Howard Lawson
: atfd music by Kurt "Weill, it was pro-
educed by Walter Wanger and directed
William Dieterle. Although this 1938
seems tepid in its denunciation of
Fascists, at its time it took courage to
duce it. Actually the Loyalists' and
Fascists' leaders are not named, but
the light of recent occurrences it
:es little guessing to tell who repre-
ts who in the picture. Based on the
raids on Madrid and the siege of the
que country, the film yet places the
phasis to a large degree on the war
ind: the  lines  rather  than at the
nt. The love story wfiich is the core
the picture is conventional and melodramatic.  Henry Fonda plays a young
"triot and Miss Carroll a spy.
n Saturday evening of next week
, Russian film "We Are from Kron-
;dt", a story of the attack on the
ess defending Leningrad, will be
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Alexander Kipnis, Russian-American Star of Metropolitan Opera to
perform in Clothier MemoriaL
NAVY PATIENTS
BROUGHT HERE
Service Branch Takes Over Fashionable Girls' School
Units
Following purchase of the Mary Lyon
School and Junior College properties on
Harvard and Yale avenues last week by
the United States Navy, some 80 to 85
girl boarding and day students and about
20 full-time members of the faculty of
the' girls' institutions will return from
holiday vacations Monday to hurriedly
pack their possessions and leave that
evening to finish their term in New York
where the schools, are establishing new
headquarters. The Navy moved in on
Wednesday with the first 30 patients to
be quartered at this new convalescent
branch of the Philadelphia Naval Hos-
Navy League Mans
Local Headquarters
Local "Nells" Trained to Direct
Women to Suitable
War Industry
The Navy League Service will officially open its Swarthmore Branch Headquarters, Friday, January 8 in the Old
Bank Building. Headquarters will be
open between the hours of 10 A.M. and
4 P.M. from Monday through Saturday.
Women interested ' in either paid or
volunteer war work may call here for
any information concerning the many
and varied activities of the "Nells."
In view of ,the crying need for women
war workers to replace men who have
gone into the service this new. suburban
headquarters will undertake to interview
and register women for .the various vocational schools where pre-employment
supplementary free training' is given in
the operating of milling machines, drill
presses, power saving machines and welding apparatus. Still other courses open
are radio inspection, army signal corps,
drafting, ship' fitting, blueprint reading,
detailing and tracing. If any preliminary
training has already been had, anyone
registering will be referred to either the
U. S. Employment Service, the Navy
Yard, or the Civil Service Commission.
Anyone 18 or over may apply. For
older women, with little education who
do not know just what they would like
to do, there is the Trainee Acceptance
Center, whose address will be given upon
inquiry.
Women interested only in the volunteer service, may by joining the "Nells"
assist in any or all of the following activities: knitting, selling of War Bonds
and Stamps, the Transportation Corps
which serves the army and drives convalescent service men, the Hospital Corps
for nurses' assistants with no preliminary'
training, collecting of salvage, jobs as
hostesses at the Officers' Club at the
Bellevue and Day Nursery work
SEN. WELDON B. HEYBURN
Delaware County legislator who
assumed his duties as Majority
Leader of the State Senate Tuesday.
Anderson Named
Trinity Rector
Vestry Announces Appointment
of Chester Clergyman in
Quick Action
The Rev. George Christian Anderson
acting rector at St Paul's Church, Chester until January 1 has accepted the election to the rectorship of Trinity Church,
Swarthmore it was announced late Wednesday night by the vestry of the local
church. Mr. Anderson will fill the place
of the Rev. J. Jarden Guenther whose
resignation placed in the hands of the
vestry six weeks ago was accepted at
Christmas time to become effective January 31.
FOUR FILE FOR
LIBRARY BOARD
Prominent Citizens on Ballot for
Two Vacancies to be Filled   .
Late in Month
P*^It>issrepttrted that^Hillecest/tone**^ Shaving salvage; mdum^M
of the schools' dormitories, across' the
street from the main administration building, will be converted into a nurses' home.
Founded in 1913 by Haldy Miller Crist
and his wife Frances Leavitt Crist who
died within the past year, the two schools
until the current term were called The
Mary Lyon School and Wildcliffe Junior
College. They comprised a total of six
large stone buildings covering dormitories, classrooms, studios, study halls,
gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis courts
on a high bluff overlooking a rocky,
wooded section of the Crum Creek.
Mrs. Mary Crist Fleming, daughter of
the founders of the school who has been
acting as assistant director, will take
an apartment in Philadelphia with her
husband William and young daughter Gay
for a month or so before rejoining the
school organization.
It is said the gym, pool and studios
will be used by the-Navy for occupational
work, that there are accommodations for
around 300 men in the dormitory buildings which are being prepared for their
new use.
silk stockings, magazines and books,
playing cards, old furs, may leave them
here between these hours. Navy League
Service gadgets and War Saving Stamps
and Bonds will also be available here.
Mrs. William H. Collins of Walling-
ford is chairman of the work with Mrs.
W. E. Hetzel of Thayer road as co-
chairman.
REPORTED JAPANESE
PRISONER
Four Swarthr.iore residents have agreed
to stand for election by members of the
Swarthmore Public Library Association
to the two vacancies to be filled on the
Library Board. Mrs. Sewell W. Hodge
and Guenther E. Froebel present incumbents are standing for reelection. Mrs.
Henry I. Hoot and Dr. Charles B. Shaw
complete the ticket which reflects community-wide interest in the growing operation of the Library. Election will
take place Saturday, January 23 during
Library hours and Monday, January 25
from 2 until 5:30 P.M. and 7 until 8
P.M. when the annual meeting will be
called to order.
Mrs. Hodge was a founder of the
Public Library in 1939 and has served
continually on its board since that time
as secretary and as chairman of adult
books.
She heads the work of the Red Cross
in Swarthmore.
Mr. Froebel has served the Library
Board as its president for the past five
years. In his first year on the board he
was chairman of properties. Mr. Froebel
lives on Swarthmore avenue here and
is an executive with Baldwin's as Sales
Manager of Ordnance and General Products.
Dr. Shaw is the Swarthmore College
Librarian. He is a founder of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Library Council
which includes 154 libraries, having served
as its president for one and a half years
ending last October. He is a member
of the Council of the American Library
Association and vice-president of its Association of College and Reference Librarians. He is a past member of the
Association's College Library Advisory
I Board as well as its editorial committee.
The vestry which  is  responsible for  For five years he has taught a course
Administration  in
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Mrs. Strong in Australia
The many local friends of Mrs. Paul
T. Strong will be happy, to learn she
has arrived safely in Australia, according to a wire from die Red Cross
received by her sister, Mrs. John D.
McCrumm of Riverview road, on Sunday.
KITE HEADS INSURANCE CO.
W. Stanley Kite was named president
and director of the Manufacturers' Casualty Insurance Company at a meeting
held in Philadelphia late in December.
For the- past two years Mr. Kite^has
been vice-president of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and had
charge of its eastern department. For
18 years before that he was Philadelphia manager of the Hartford Accident
and Indemnity Company. He is- a past
president of the Casualty Underwriters'
Association and the Surety Underwriters' Association of Philadelphia, and
was president of the Insurance Society
of Philadelphia in 1937 and '38.
Mr. Kite resides with his wife and
two daughters on Ogden avenue here.
Mrs. Gilbert E. Youmans of North
Chester, road received word Saturday that
her son Lt. Joseph MacArthur Youmans,
cavalry, is a prisoner of war of the Japanese government in the Philippine Islands.
Coincidentally this word was received
one year from the day on which Mrs.
Youmans had last heard directly from
her son. At that date she received his
letter telling of his escape from Manila
on New Year's Eve and his joining the
Army.
On the last Sunday in January, 1942
Arthur Van Landigham, author of "I
Saw Manila Die," told Lt Youman's
wife, who with their year-old son lives
in South Orange, N.J., that he had talked
to Lt. Youmans on Bataan. In April
Mrs. Youmans received official word foam
the government that her son was reported
missing.
Another son, Lt. Edgar E. Youmans,
is serving with the U. S. Army abroad.
In Africa
Mr. and Mrs. R. Chester Spencer of
Swarthmore avenue received a letter during the holidays from their son Lt. Robert C. Spencer, Jr. who is in the northern
part of Africa with the Photo Reconnaissance Squadron.
^ Defense Council Bulletins ^
Office: Borough Hall — Telephone #351
Open Weekday* 1:3*-3:3* Daily
On Monday, January 11, a meeting of chairmen of Air Wardens, Police, Fire,
Medical Transportation Services will be held in the Defense Council office from
7 to 8 P.M.
. A meeting of Senior Post Wardens will be held in Borough Hall on Tuesday
evening, January 12 at 8 P.M.
Tin Can Salvage
' Tin cans to be properly prepared should be thoroughly washed, have paper wrapping removed, top and bottom cot out and put inside the cylinders and then flattened by stepping on cylinder/ -Such prepared cans can be left in container at Coop
or in case of larger quantities can be deposited in rear of Co-op, the entrance: of
which is on Railroad-avenue. -,.'/,r   -
this quick action is composed of: George
W; Casey senior warden, William' B.
Bullock junior warden, Harry C. Barr
secretary, Sergeant B. Brewster treasurer,
Samuel D. Clyde, William L. Cleaves,
Guenther H. Froebel, Richard G. Haig,
W. Minton Harvey, Louis W. King and
J. Burris West
Installation of the new rector will be
made Tuesday evening, February 2, by
the Most Rev. Bishop Francis Taitt who
himself was rector of St. Paul's, Chester
for many years before becoming bishop
of the diocese. This date will be the
60th anniversary of the bishop's own ordination as an Episcopal rector and it is
interesting to note that his first rectorship was at a church called Trinity, too.
He has known Mr. Anderson since boyhood.
Born in Liverpool, England, Mr. Anderson came to this country at the age of
six and was educated in the public and
private schools of Philadelphia, graduating later from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Divinity
School. After his ordination he established a new church called St. Anne's at
Willow Grove.
For three years he was rector of St
Gile's, Upper Darby, resigning that post
to study at Oxford University, England.
While in England he was assistant rector
of St Michael's at the North Gate, the
ancient historic church of Oxford, and
also master of religious education at
Dragon School, one of England's famous
schools for boys.
Returning to the United States a few
days before the outbreak of war in 1939
he was assistant rector at St. Paul's when
the Rev. Stanley V. Wilcox's leaving
for the Army made him acting rector.
Mr. Anderson is vice-president of the
Delaware County Welfare Council, president of the Board of Visitation, chairman of the House of Detention Committee, and a member of the County
Court Special Citizens' Juvenile Advisory
Council. During his rectorship at Upper
Darby he was president of the Township Family Association and an honorary
member of the Upper Darby Rotary. He
is a bachelor.
Lt. Robert B. Little of Park avenue is
now stationed at Camp Tanforan, San
Bruno, Cal.
\n College ; Library
Drexel University's Graduate School and
for 12 summers he has taught in the Department of Library Science of the University of Michigan's Graduate School.
Mrs. Hoot is a graduate of Swarthmore College in the class of '18. She
taught English in the Junior High School
of Ridley Park and social studies, biology, and public speaking in the Swarthmore Schools, doing Junior Chautauqua
work with the former Swarthmore Chautauqua {or. six summers. She is a substitute teacher in the schools here and
a tutor. She has been superintendent of
the junior department of the Methodist
Church School for the past 12 years.
She and her husband have five children
of whom the eldest Polly is a junior at
Oberlin College and the youngest Billy
is in the second grade of the local schools.
According to the articles of incorporation and the by-laws all residents of the
borough who signed the by-laws on file
at the Library before December 31, 1942
are eligible to vote.
HEALTH BULLETIN
Will Take Old Christmas
Cards -
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As for many years past The
Swarthmorcan office will receive
discarded Christmas cards which
are periodically collected and used
for work among shut-ins and convalescents.
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Because of the recent outbreak of
Smallpox, all individuals who have not
been vaccinated within five years should
be revaccinated. Infants who are three
months or over can safely be done.
Because the communicable diseases
will probably be prevalent this year, it
is felt advisable to call attention to the
rules of the Borough of Swarthmore:—
"All children under school age and
all persons attending any public, private, parochial, or other school or educational institution, who live in any
household where there are persons suffering from Measles of -Whooping
Cough, and who have not had these
diseases, shall be quarantined as follows:
Measles — For a,period of lt days
between the 7th and 17th day rafter
exposure to such disease. (Placard shall
be posted.)
Whooping Cough — For a period of
14 days between the 7th and 21st day
after exposure to such disease. (Placard
shall be posted.)
No restrictions are imposed on household contacts of German Measles,
Chicken pox, or Mumps. (No placard
shall be posted.)
(Signed) J. Albright Jones, MJD.
Borough Health Officer.
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Cables From Guadalcanal
Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Brown of Walnut lane received a cable on Tuesday
from their son Jim who is in active service on Guadalcanal in the Solomon
Islands that he n ^sue, sound sad happy.
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