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Sponsors a Destroyer Mrs. W. A. Littell Smashes Traditional Bottle Over Bow of New Lavallette When the destroyer Lavallette Kearny, N. at 3:15 p.m.

today, of a sweet-faced, mild-mannered William A. Littell of 515 Argyle To Mrs. Littell came the high honor of christening a warship, because she was the direct descendant of one of America's most picturesque sea heroes. Her great-grandfather was Rear Admiral Elie A. F.

Lavallette hero of the War of 1812, the first rear admiral of the United States, appointed by President Lincoln, and one of the founders of the United States Naval Academy. heca second destroyer named for him. The first Lavallette was scrapped during the economy period of the depression. Mrs. Littell, who was a lieutenant in the Red Cross Motor Corps durthe World War and continues her interest in Red Cross affairs, was inclined to discount her own importance in the launching.

She is not one to boast about her a ancestors, either, but she confesses she would be less than human if she weren't proud that her greatgrandfather was commander of the first steam frigate of the United States Navy to enter the Mediterranean. He was commander -inchief of the Mediterranean fleet in 1858. Rear Admiral Lavallette was many times termed the inspiration of another great naval hero, Admiral George Dewey. Young Ensign Dewey, fresh from the Academy, was assigned to the Wabash where Rear Admiral Lavallette was In command. Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft appointed Rear Admiral Lavallette a member of the board that established the Naval Academy.

A native Virginian, he was retired before the Civil War started and refused to identify himself with the war of the States. served 50 years in the navy. Mrs. Littlel has always been keenly interested in her greatgtandfather's history and her 'mother, who lives with her in Flatbush, cherishes many heirlooms from the hero. Her mother is Mrs.

Elie A. F. Lavallette; her husband was named for his grandfather. Among the treasures are a gold sword scabbard, silver pitcher, tray and and goblets, a mariner's watch presented to the Rear Admiral by the Sultan of Turkey and lovely dishes from Egypt. Mrs.

Lavallette the treasures should be in feels Annapolis. The lovely little town on the Jersey coast, called Lavallette, was named for the family, Dorothy Sweatt to Be Wed to Lt. S. M. Grafton Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Butler Sweatt of Garden City and Washington, D. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Rita Sweatt, to Lt. Samuel Meeker Grafton, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Diamond Grafton of Brooklyn and Bayville. Miss Sweatt attended Hempstead High School and Adelphi College. Lieutenant Grafton was graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic High School and Lehigh University, class of 1940. He was associated with the Sperry Gyroscope Company before joining the ordnance division of the United States Army. slips down the ways at she will carry the blessings Brooklyn woman, Mrs.

Road. Illuminati Candlelight Concert Illuminati held a successful candlelight concert in the studio of H. Charles Pantley at 110 Remsen St. Mrs. Arthur Gelston, chairman of drama, was chairman of program and introduced the artists.

Mr. Pantley gave two groups of tenor solos and two groups of piano selections. Mrs. Edward Everett Roberts, one of the club's talented readers, gave excerpts from "The Mrs. Clara Rice, in costume, gave "Vacation in the chairman, Mrs.

Gelston, gave several interesting numbers including "The Telephone Conversation," "A Man's Way" and "A Woman's Way." The president, Mrs. William Hays Lawrence, welcomed the guests. Following the program, there was an informal reception, the guests meeting the officers and members of the reception committee. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Edward Wallace, Mrs.

H. C. Mecke and the hospitality committee and the Juniors. Mrs. William Swift was in charge of the tickets.

Proceeds will be presented to the club at the first Fall meeting in October, The board voted to give a money donation toward payment of teacher to keep the Daily Vacation Bible School open during the Summer at the York Street Center. Talk on China The dinner meeting of the New York City Quota Club will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Parkside Hotel. Mrs. Marie K.

Angier is president. Mrs. Helen Cory Bliss, director in the Orient of the International School of Art, will speak. She has lived in China for 11 years and was there in the Summer of 1937 at the outbreak of China's war with Japan. Her talk will be 11- lustrated by movies taken at the time.

Her husband, Dr. Theodore Bliss, was director of a large hospital in Wuchang during their residence in China. First Anniversary Luncheon of AWVS The first anniversary of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Tenth Division and the Motor Transport Service of Greater New York will be observed at a luncheon to be held Tuesday, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf- -Astoria. Twelve hundred guests are expected, including many U. S.

Army and Navy officials. Mrs. Donald B. Tansill, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Commander Margaret Furst of the Motor Transport Service and Mrs. Anthony A.

Paterno, co-chairman of the Tenth Division, head the committee in charge. Miss Benay Venuta Is to be toastmistress, and the invocation will be given by Chaplain Thomas B. Thompson of the United States Navy. Aid Children's Home Because of expanding activities In conjunction with the new plan of operation of the Brooklyn Home for Children in Forest Hills, the Junior Auxiliary is being increased to a membership of 50, according to Mrs. George H.

Dayton, chairman of the Junior Auxiliary, who yesterday announced the appointment of five new members to the group. The new members are Mrs. Albert Bonynge, Mrs. John V. P.

Lassoe, Mrs. Irving Idler, Mrs. Raymond Pendleton and Mrs. A. Reynolds Crane.

Mrs. Peter V. D. Voorhees L3 chairman of membership. During the Summer months the members of the auxiliary have set themselves the task of raising a fund of $1,000 by next Fall to meet special needs at the home outside of operating costs.

As its contribution to the five new cottage type buildings of the home which were dedicated in March, the Junior Auxiliary purchased desks for the children, picture frames for their rooms and lamps, to add to the homelike character of the furnishings of the cottages which accommodate 18 children each. The new buildings occupy a twoacre site overlooking the Flushing Meadow Park. The home was located in Brooklyn for 87 years before going to Forest Hills. 1 JUNIOR AUXILIARY GROWS -Mrs. Raymond Pendleton (left) and Mrs.

A. Reynolds Crane are new members of the Junior Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Home for Children. BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1942 B7 IT'S NO LONGER considered cute for women to be utter idiots about fixing things. Camp Fire girls know it is important to be able to care for household equipment and here is how they are learning to do so. At the right, Camp Fire girls are learning proper way to repair an electric cord.

Left to right are Mimi Sterm, Estelle Freedman and Eileen Kane and Miss Grace Deibig, home economist. so Photos by Westinghouse MISS DEIBIG shows Estelle Freedman and Ruth Trotsky how periodic cleaning of the vacuum cleaner and proper handling of the cord will extend its life. Kings Highway AWVS Juniors to Rally el A rally to organize the Junior Auxiliary of the Kings Highway AWVS will be held Thursday evening in St. Brendan's school hall. Monsignor Timothy A.

Hickey, pastor of St. Brendan's, will speak and a minister and rabbi from the neighberhood will also be on the program. Miss Margaret M. Sheahan, vice chairman of the Brooklyn AWVS in charge of juniors, Mrs. S.

Potter Bartley and Mrs. William R. Lasher, also AWVS vice chairmen, will speak. Others on the program will be Mrs. Mary E.

McCrimlisk of AWVS Juniors, Mrs. Ethel Wilder, senior chairman of the Kings Highway Unit and Mrs. Edna Crowley, junior chairman of the new unit. The film, "What About Air Raids?" will be shown and Maestro Beggs will direct St. Brendan's High School orchestra.

Wayside Auxiliary The Auxiliary of the Wayside Home School for Girls will have a business meeting, luncheon and installation ceremony Wednesday, at Chef's, Rockville Centre. Committee in charge of the program sists of Mrs. Walter Wenk, Mrs. Harry Schaefer, Mrs. Catherine Strang and Mrs.

James Haggerty. No Time for Play This Summer Mrs. S. Potter Bartley to Remain in City For Her Duties as AWVS Vice Chairman This will be the first Summer the S. Potter Bartleys haven't taken a place on Long Island.

The big, old-fashioned home at 164 Clinton St. is going to be a busy place these warm June, July and August months, closed only when the Bartleys feel they can steal time from their many duties for an occasional weekend on their cabin cruiser in nearby waters. For Dr. Bartley, distinguished surgeon, it will be months of added work teaching junior and senior surgery at Long Island College medical school, which will continue its sessions this Summer, the quicker to provide young doctors for Uncle Sam's fast growing army. For Mrs.

Bartley it will be a Summer of AWVSing. She is vice chairman of Brooklyn AWVS in charge of public relations and a more fitting person could not be found for that spot. She is friendly, breezy, attractive and knows how to deal with people. And Charlena Nichol, AWVS chairman, adds that her public relations director is a hard worker and a good sport. Full Time Job In her job, which is a full time performance, every day but Wednesday, from early morning to late at night, and frequently evening speeches, Mrs.

Bartley is in charge of publicity, the Speakers' Bureau and contacts with other organizations. She serves, too, on the steering committee for nurse's aides and is so proficient at it that she will steer you instantly to that form of service it you show the slightest inclination and can give the time. "To serve as a nurse's aide offers the most constructive war work a woman can give," says Mrs. Bartley, Mrs. Bartley is an interesting combination of talents and interests.

She is fun-loving and full of spirit and at the same time is a purposeful young woman, with a social and civic consciousness. She believes it is her duty to serve any community in which she lives and she is convinced that it is the leisure women who should carry the burden on the home front. "If we don't do it, who can?" she asks. She loves to play bridge and golf, but they are out for the duration. "I feel this is the biggest job we've ever had to do," she says, "and not one group can do it alone.

The only way we are going to get any place is for all of us to work together. The more we put into this, the quicker we're going to win the war." Early in AWVS Mrs. Bartley was an early AWVSer; she joined last September, three months before the war started. She brings to the organization the sane judgment of a career woman, the fresh point of view of a woman who has lived in other cities, the social sense of a physician's wife who takes seriously her duty to help others, a pleasant personality and a supreme ability to get along well with others. Tall, slender, with dark brown eyes set in a perfectly oval face, and dark brown hair attractively Women Volunteers Realistically Speaking, a Woman Works Because She Has To-Child Care Discussed By ALICE COGAN However much we all may feel that the place of a mother of young children is at home with her babies, nevertheless the realistic fact remains that this ideal does not always exist.

In rather few years knocking around the newspaper business, prying into other women's lives, always objectively, of course, but just the same intimately, I have yet to find one working mother who gets up at dawn every morning because she "just loves a career and hates housework." Most working mothers I know, by the way, are excellent homemakers, good cooks and fine mothers. When mothers work, 98 times out of 100 it is because they HAVE to, and most often it is a matter of plain dollars and cents. There are other than economic reasons, of course, to account for the number of working mothers but this is not the time to go into that. What is important is the fact that the war is multiplying the ranks of mothers who are working, and it is natural that this should happen. And with more and more women finding Jobs in war industries, the problem of caring for the children becomes more and more pressing.

Mayor LaGuardia has appointed a committee consisting of the Commisioners of Welfare and Health and an official of the Board of Education for the wartime care of children in Long Island Clubs Install Officers Mrs. Joseph L. Ryan has been installed as president of the Rockville Centre League for Mercy Hospital. Other new officers are: Mrs. George Legatt and Mrs.

C. B. Corbett, vice presidents, and Mrs. A. E.

Hart, Mrs. L. B. Nielson and Mrs. Walter Cohen, secretaries.

New officers have been installed by the Nassau Choristers as follows: Mrs. Rosalind Forn, Mrs. Isabel Andrews, secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Scheffer, librarian; Mrs. Regina Killea, treasurer, and Mrs.

John MacClure Chase, director. William Dawes Chapter, D. A. Rockville Centre, has installed Mrs. Ervin D.

Johnson as its new regent. Others inducted follow: Mrs. Louis M. Waaddell, vice regent; Mrs. Leslie O.

Carr second vice regent; Mrs. Marion: E. Browe, recording secretary; Mrs. E. R.

Baylis, corresponding secretary; Mrs. L. I. Harrison, registrar; Mrs. Herman Warnken, treasurer; Mrs.

John D. Clark, historian; Mrs. Walter J. Ebbels, chaplain and Mrs. F.

W. Williams and Mrs. Adelbert G. Wright, directors. Newly-installed officers of the Oceanside Jewish Sisterhood are: Mrs.

Isadore Silverman, president; Mrs. Ben Stern, vice president; Mrs. Walter Davis, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Jack Ames, recording secretary and Mrs. Alex Shapiro, treasurer.

Mrs. Evelyn Patterson is the new president of the Etude Club of Rockville Centre. Miss Grace Fiske and Mrs. Ida Hernan are secretaries; Miss Florence Brill, treasurer and Mrs. Ida Milbank, chairman of music.

Church Groups The Women's Guild of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Rockaway Centre, 1s to have 8 dessert -bridge tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Seward George Sherwood. Hempstead Ave. The Social Group of the Church of the Ascension has planned dessert-bridge for Thursday at the home of Mrs.

Howard Leonard, 1 Cornwell St. A luncheon meeting to close activities until Fall will be given by the Young Women's Club of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of Oceanside Thursday. By the Yard "Clothes by the Yard" will be the topic of the last in a series of three fashion talks presented at the Carroll Club Wednesday at 8 p.m, Mrs. Virginia Carter, dressmaking consultant, who is head of Macy's Sewing Center, will present the talk.

Mrs. Carter has a wealth of interesting experience in the designing and tailoring of clothes for dress firms in Florence, Paris and London as well as formerly managing her own clothes shop in New York. Year Day Year Day Year Day will be observed by the Lucia Balcam Study Club on ThursIn the home of Mrs. William Hull at 463 Hempstead West Hempstead. Gado- Phillips Gado- Phillips The engagement of Miss Elsie Gado to John B.

Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Phillips of Rockville Centre, has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

N. F. Gado of Hempstead. Peters- -Mahland Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs.

Charles N. Peters of Oceanside, of the engagement of their daughter, Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Peters, to F. William Mahland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mahland, also of Oceanside.

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. X.

Ryan of 2614 Grand the Bronx, formerly of Brooklyn, announce the birth of a daughter, Angela Ryan. Mrs. Ryan is. the former Miss Kathryn Gallagher of Flatbush. The Ryans have two other children, Regina and Edward.

New York. Welfare Commissioner William Hodson, speaking at the conference of the Committee for the Care of Young Children in Wartime, outlined the purpose of the Mayor's committee. He warned against the possibility that war preparations might cause the disintegration of family life in millions of homes. "What a tragedy it would be if we ourselves, in the process of carrying on the fight, destroyed the very group that we are seeking to protect and defend through our military right," Commissioner Hodson said. Whether or not our day nurseries and nursery schools are now adequate to meet the needs they must face or whether their facilities must be extended and expanded on a broad scale was brought up by the commissioner.

"The whole problem of recreation facilities will also have to be reviewed in the light of special wartime needs," he said. "Our parks, schools, churches, settlements, neighborhood houses and recreation centers will all have to be geared into a single program for this purpose." Certainly a big subject and one that requires plenty of thought. It's an Art -Women working in Civilian Defense Volunteer Office the recruiting of Mr. and Mrs. defense through spirited posters and A cross section of talents includes woman, dental hygienist, commercial director, secretary, publicist, receptionist pitch in, too.

the art department of the Brooklyn at 123 Livingston St. are aiding in America, Junior and Jane for civilian displays. copywriter, salesgirl, newspaperartists, file superviser, advertising and fashion designer. Students Dine Legion Leader -A dinner will be given to Mrs. Deborah Rich, junior past county chairman of the Kings County American Legion Auxiliary, Thursday, at Tappan's, Sheepshead Bay.

Mrs. Florence McInnes is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Florence Milde, Mrs. Rose Goldberg, Mrs. Helen MacCormack, Mrs.

Mamie Gross and Mrs. Gertrude K. Palumbo. Mrs. Jennie Rollo is Kings County chairman of the auxiliary.

For Soldiers' Kits--The bi-monthly iliary of Brooklyn Council, 60, K. of noon at the club, 373 9th St. The create funds for the purchase of in the armed forces. card party of the Ladies will be given Wednesday afterafternoon card parties are given to necessities to fill kits sent to the boys wound round her small head. Mrs.

Bartley looks especially smart in the trim AWVS uniform. When she isn't in uniform, she is prone to indulge a fancy for gay shoes red leather, brassstudded all around. Terribly jolly. Oklahoma is her home State and she is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where she took basketball and running honors, not to mention swimming medals. But she laughs that off: was athletic in my youth; now I'm falling apart." For two years she was supervisor of sales for a large pattern company and for ten years she was A stock and bond trader in Los Angeles one of three girls on the West Coast who traded in stocks and bonds.

She is on the board of the Long Island College Hospital Guild, member of the Social Service Committee of the hospital, member of Urban Club, and she sat as the AWVS representative on the Planning Council of the OCD. Given Her Blood She has given her blood to the Red Cross Blood Bank. She has taken AWVS courses in motor mechanics, map reading, and first aid, standard, advanced and the instructor's course. She expects to teach. She was originally in the AWVS Motor Corps, working at Floyd Bennett Field, but the public relations work at headquarters claimed so much of her time she couldn't do escort duty.

"There's no point spreading yourself so thin, you don't do anything right," she reasoned. A. C. Mrs. Potter Bartley Refugee to Teach-Chana Bat-Baruch, graduate of the Mizrachi Women's Organization institute in Jerusalem, will conduct classes in nutrition, Mrs.

Harry Model of Brooklyn, chairman of the defense committee of the organization, announced. Miss Bat -Baruch, a refugee German girl who was rehabilitated in Palestine by the Mizrachi women, is completing post -graduate work at Pratt Institute on a scholarship. She has been certified by the American Red Cross to give instruction in nutrition, her specialty. She eventually hopes to make nutrition her life work in Palestine. Classes in nutrition under her guidance will be conducted in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.

Mrs. Model said this is but another phase of the Mizrach women's war work. A vigorous war bond campaign has raised a quarter of 1 million dollars, with pledges of another $250,000, she said. Oh say, did you know that the AWVS enrolls women for nurse's aides, too? If you are interested in taking the course that enables you to perform this most valuable service a woman can give in war time, apply at your local AWVS office or at the main headquarters, 147 Pierrepont St. Mrs.

Gene Kunst of 30 Clinton who has just completed the first unit at the Long Island College Hospital, has been an active worker with the AWVS in headquarters. For nine years Mrs. Kunst was the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities worker. Her mother is past president of the American War Mothers, New York State Chapter. Mrs.

Kunst has worked on all AWVS drives and registration. Don't Try to Change People's Food Habits Supplement people's diets, don't try to change them! That's the policy advocated by Dr. Max Igloe, director of the Williamsburg- -Greenpoint District Health Center, at 151 Maujer in his drive to teach his charges to do their bit in the war effort through proper nutrition. Twenty different nationalitieseach with its own food habits and prejudices- created exactly 20 special problems for the doctor when he attempted to work out a nutrition program for the district with the co-operation of the Nutrition Committee of the Brooklyn Civili a Defense Volunteer Office, headed by Mrs. Anthony J.

Greco. A survey showed Poles, Irish, Italians, Jews, Germans, Lithuanians, Porto Ricans and Gypsys populating the congested area. And most of the groups were in need of nutrition information. "Some races concentrate on some foods to the detriment of others," the doctor declares. "To have asked them to change their diets would only have antagonized them uselessly, "I advocate letting them have what they want.

But show them where they can add to their menus to get a more complete diet." Nationalities Luncheons, DE. Igloe's own idea, are the medium through which he hopes to spread the doctrine of health through nutrition. Nurses, who have the task of going into the homes, gather once a month at a luncheon at the Health Center. On each occasion a meal consisting of the food of one nationality is served -spaghetti one day, corned beef and cabbage another, gefuelte fish, rinde brustand so on until all the nine natonalities have been covered. Served amid the proper decorations the meals are colorful affairs.

During the repast staff nutritionists analyse the diets and show how they can be reinforced with vitamin and mineral rich foods. Representatives of the national groups are invited to help clarify points for the staff. Two luncheons- one Italian and one Polish-have thus far been given at the Health Center. So successful have they been, Dr. Igoe declares, that the staff is looking forward eagerly to the next one tO consist of Jewish food.

The nutrition program which has been put into effect by Dr. Igloe 1S one example of a wide-scale effort by the seven He alth Centers in Brooklyn working in cooperation with the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office to bring into Brooklyn homes the lessons of sound nutrition..