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Annapolis man, 33,

is killed crossing I-97

A 33-year-old Annapolis man
was killed late Friday on
Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel
County after he left his car to
check on a friend, Maryland
State Police said in a statement
Saturday.
Shortly before midnight
Friday, Maria Ines Cortes-
Gutierrez, 40, of Glen Burnie
was driving on I-97 when she
stopped her car, which did not
have its lights on, near the
Crownsville exit. Her friend
Victor Antonio Diaz Aguilera,
who was driving a separate car,
stopped and ran across the
highway to check on Cortes-
Gutierrez, who was seated in
her vehicle, police said.
At that time, the driver of a
third car swerved to avoid
Cortes-Gutierrez’s car but
struck Aguilera, who was
declared dead at the scene,
according to the statement.
Cortes-Gutierrez was arrested
on charges of driving under the
influence of alcohol and t aken
to the Anne Arundel County
jail, police said. The driver of
the third vehicle was not
charged.
The case remains under
investigation, and s tate police
request that anyone with
information c all 410-267-5800.
— Jenna Portnoy

Man is fatally shot

in Prince George’s

Prince George’s County police
are investig ating a f atal
shooting in Chillum, police said
Saturday on Twitter.
About 7:45 a.m. S aturday,
officers went to the 2400 block
of Chillum Road and found a
man on the ground suffering
from a gunshot wound. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are asking anyone with
information about the incident
to call the Prince George’s
County Crime Stoppers at 866-
411-TIPS.
— Jenna Portnoy

Freight derailment

causes Amtrak delays

Amtrak service between D.C.
and Philadelphia was
temporarily halted early
Saturday because of a f reight
derailment north of Baltimore,
aut horities said.
Twenty Norfolk Southern cars
loaded with coal derailed in
Harford County early Saturday,
the company said in a
statement and tweet. No one
was hurt and the material does
not pose a danger to responders
or the community, the company
said.
Representatives of Norfolk
Southern and Amtrak, which
share the track, and federal
authorities were on-site
Saturday, according to the
statement. The cause of the
derailment had not been
determined.
— Jenna Portnoy

LOCAL DIGEST

use. Before it was at Holabird, it was at Fort Meade, supposedly pulled from a salvage area near the fort, Bigelow said. Throughout the 1960s, Fort Holabird served as the hub for numerous intelligence organizations, not just the school but also the U.S. Army Intelligence Command. For all those years, the sphinx stood guard. In 1971, the Pentagon moved the school to Fort Huachuca, an installation in Sierra Vista, Ariz., 15 miles north of the Mexican border. The sphinx was briefly relocated to Fort Meade before heading west. Today it sits outside the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence. The se tting is not quite Egypt — that’s where you’ll find the biggest sphinx of all, the Great Sphinx of Giza — but the sphinx must have welcomed the desert setting after 20 years in the Mid-Atlantic. After Fort Holabird closed in 1973, the property was transferred to the City of Baltimore. Today, the site houses an industrial park. The mythical sphinx continues its association with Army intelligence-gatherers. In 2018, the Military Intelligence Corps Association established the Order of the Sphinx, an award recognizing civilians who have contributed to the great cause of solving riddles and unraveling mysteries.

from a circle, at the center of which is the figure of a sphinx. “The sphinx is the symbol of knowledge and strength, and the 13 stripes add a patriotic meaning to the device,” wrote the Boston Herald. Many a d raftee passed through Fort Holabird, which was in southeast Baltimore, adjacent to Dundalk, Md. Established in 1917, it was named after Brig. Gen. Samuel S. Holabird, the Army’s quartermaster general from 1883 to 1890. It is known to many veterans as the training and testing ground for military transport vehicles, including the Jeep. A more secretive part of the installation did another kind of training. A 1 957 Associated Press story about Fort Holabird began: “A golden sphinx ... stands guard at the entrance of an inconspicuous building tucked away in a corner of this tiny military post.” The sphinx, the story continued, symbolized “the silence and knowledge taught the trainees who enter the building — which houses the Army Intelligence School.” Students there took classes on “detecting espionage, sabotage, treason, sedition, disaffection and other subversive activities.” It’s unclear where the five-foot- long, pot metal sphinx statue came from. It seems unlikely that it was made specifically for Army

legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening? Anyone who answered incorrectly was devoured by the monster. Only crafty Oedipus got it right. The answer is man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks upright as a young man, and leans on a cane in old age. Even so, things didn’t work out so well for Oedipus in the end. In 1924, the War Department announced an insignia for officers of the military intelligence reserve corps: a shield with 13 stripes radiating

symbol for Army intelligence, said Army historian Michael E. Bigelow. “You’ll find it on many of the intelligence unit insignia and flags,” he wrote in an email to Answer Man. Why would the sphinx appeal to the men and women who work to understand an inscrutable enemy? Because the sphinx is associated with wisdom and mystery. It was an enigmatic figure, most famously in the story of Thebes. In legend, the sphinx laid siege to the Greek city, demanding that travelers solve this riddle: What walks on four

Fort Holabird in Baltimore was once used as an Armed Forces Examining & Entrance Station for local draftees. In October 1965, during the Vietnam War, I was sent to Fort Holabird for my pre-induction physical for the Army. As things turned out, the Army was not meant to be as I flunked my pre- induction physical. I was sent to wait out the remainder of the day before being taken back to my local selective service board and returning home to Southern Maryland. In the meantime, I noticed a curious statue in front of the Army Counter Intelligence Corps building: a sphinx. What happened to the sphinx when the Army’s CIC Group was transferred to Fort Huachuca in Arizona? — Larry Milstead, Annapolis The sphinx went along for the ride, though presumably in a truck and not by padding along on its lion paws. You will recall that the sphinx — a mythical creature dating to ancient Egypt that was also common in Greek mythology — had the body of a lion and the head of a human. Some versions sported an eagle’s wings and/or a serpent’s tail. The sphinx is an enduring

Symbol of wisdom and mystery: The sphinx of old Fort Holabird

John Kelly's Washington

U.S. ARMY INSCOM A symbol of the Army intelligence community, the sphinx spent years outside a military training site at Fort Holabird in Baltimore.

BY DENEEN L. BROWN

Mary McLeod Bethune walked into the White House, carrying an urgent message about the plight of Black Americans. The year was 1943, and the country was roiling with racism, segregation, Jim Crow laws and terror lynchings. Bethune, the only woman in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” a council of African American presidential advisers, had demanded a meeting with the president. Tall and well dressed, Bethune was an architect of the early civil rights movement. She was a Black woman with power, with access to the White House, when few Black people were allowed in. She was often greeted on her White House visits by f irst lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who would embrace Bethune warmly at the White House gate. The two women would walk arm in arm down the circular drive, into the White House, past the hostile stares of White Southerners, many of whom made up the White House staff. Inside, Bethune would talk privately with the president about “the problems of my people.” “I discussed with him the problems of my people in many an off-the-record private talk held in the President’s study in the White House,” Bethune wrote in an arti- cle titled “My Secret Talks With FDR,” which was published in 1949 in Ebony magazine. “I often expressed to him my impatience with the slowness of the demo- cratic process.” She recalled visiting the president one evening in 1943. “I was feeling particularly distressed that day over reports I had re- ceived on flagrant bias shown against Negroes seeking to enter the National Youth Administra- tion in certain parts of the South,” Bethune wrote. “I called him di- rect that afternoon, and must have sounded awfully agitated.” He invited her for dinner that evening. Bethune was escorted by an attendant to the president’s private ele vator, she wrote in Ebo- ny. The president was waiting for her upstairs in his private study. Bethune found him sitting in a chair near the door, holding “his famous cigarette holder,” she recalled. He waved to welcome Bet- hune, whose parents had been enslaved. She had become a famed educator, the founder of a college and one of the most politi- cally influential figures in history. “What can I do for you?” Bet- hune recalled him a sking. She told the president about the persistent racism in the country and the lack of training facili- ties for “Negroes in certain South- ern states and the refusal of state governments to allocate funds” for the National Youth Adminis- tration to help Black youth. “I was visibly disturbed and made the President aware of how I felt,” Bethune wrote. “I caught

his arm and clung to him. ‘The Negro people need all of the strength that you can give, Mr. President, in opening up opportu- nities for them.’ ” Roosevelt, she recalled, “looked at me seriously for a few seconds, and then said, ‘Mrs. Bet- hune. I shall not fail you.’”

A statue in the Capitol A statue of Bethune, representing the state of Florida, will soon be installed in the National Statu- ary Hall collection at the U.S. Capitol Building. Bethune will be the first Black American to represent any state in the collection, according to a statement by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.). Each state has two stat- ues in the hall, and Bethune’s will replace one of a Confederate general that had represented Florida there since 1922 before being re- moved in September. (A statue of Rosa Parks in the hall was com- missioned by Congress and does not represent a particular state.) Bethune’s statue was carved from a large piece of marble quar- ried in the Italian Alps. “The statue is more than a commemo- ration,” said Jill Watts, a professor of history at California State Uni- versity-San Marcos and author of “The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt.” Watts, who spoke at a U.S. Capitol Historical Society panel discussion in January, said Bet- hune’s statue represents her ac- tivism and is “an extension of her political presence that she established in this ‘Black Cabinet’ peri- od.” Watts said that Bethune was “critical to the Black Cabinet,” a self-organized advisory group to FDR. The statue, created by sculptor Nilda Comas, weighs 6,129 pounds and stands 11 feet tall, according to the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Statuary Proj- ect, which raised money for the

statue. According to the sculptor, the Bethune statue is carved from the finest marble in the world. In- scribed on its pedestal are Bet- hune’s name and a quote for which she is famous: “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it may be a diamond in the rough.” The statue depicts Bethune in a cap and gown to honor her role as an educator and one of the first Black women to found a university. In 1904, with $1.50 and five students, including her son, Al- bert, she opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.

The training school would merge with Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Fla., in 1923, to become the Daytona-Cookman Col- legiate Institute, which in 1931 was renamed Bethune-Cookman College. In 2007, it became Bet- hune-Cookman University after adding a graduate program. “Dr. Bethune was a visionary, an entrepreneur, a business exec- utive, a friend and adviser to five US Presidents, including Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge, President Herbert Hoover, and President Harry S. Truman,” Bethune-Cook- man University says on its website. “She was close friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, who actually had her own guest room in Dr. Bethune’s home.” The statue shows Bethune holding a black rose. “Dr. Bethune was captivated by the beauty of a

rose with a particular dark hue,” the Bethune Statuary Project ex- plains on its website. She would often refer to her students as her “Black roses.” The statue also depicts Bet- hune holding a walking stick, which, according to the Statuary Project, symbolizes a gift from President Roosevelt.

A life of firsts Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, near Mayesville, S.C., according to the National Park Service, which operates the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a national historic site in Washington. Her father, Samuel McLeod, and her mother, Patsy McIn tosh McLeod, were born enslaved. As a child, Mary attended the Presby- terian Mission School in Mayes- ville, according to her résumé. She graduated in 1893 from Sco- tia Seminary in Concord, N.C. In 1898, she married Albertus Bet- hune, and they had one son. Mary wanted to be a missionary, but the mission told her it was no longer sending Black Americans to Afri- ca. In 1895, she began teaching at the Haines Institute in Augusta, Ga. She taught at schools in South Carolina and Florida before founding the Daytona Normal and Industrial School, which became B ethune-Cookman College. She served as p resident of those institutions from 1904 to 1942. “At the time, it was one of the very few institutions below the Mason-Dixon Line where African Americans could receive some- thing higher than a high school diploma,” the National Park Serv- ice says on its website. According to the Women’s His- tory Museum, Bethune became the highest-ranking Black woman in government when Roosevelt appointed her in 1936 as director of Negro affairs for the National Youth Administration. A year later, Bethune organized

a conference on “The Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth,” according to the Women’s History Museum. In 1940, she became vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons. She helped create the Women’s Army Corps and ensured it was racially inte- grated, according to the museum, and in 1945, she was the only woman of color at the founding conference of the United Nations. Bethune, who was also an entrepreneur, co-owned a beach re- sort in Daytona, Fla., and co- founded a life insurance company. She also founded the Mary McLeod Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Daytona Beach, which, according to Bet- hune-Cookman University, was “the only school of its kind that served African American women on the east coast.” Bethune and Carter G. Wood- son were friends, and Bethune became the first female president of Woodson’s organization, the Association for the Study of Ne- gro Life and History. In 1927, Bethune met Eleanor Roosevelt when Roosevelt invited her to a meeting of the National Council of Women of the United States, according to the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site. Roosevelt was embarrassed when White women attending the meeting refused to sit next to Bethune, the only Black woman invited. But then Sara Delano Roosevelt, Franklin’s mother, whom Bethune would later de- scribe as “that grand old lady,” took her by the arm and put her in the “seat of honor” to the right of Eleanor Roosevelt. “I can remember, too, how the faces of the Negro servants lit up with pride when they saw me seated at the center of that impos- ing gathering,” Bethune wrote later. “From that moment my heart went out to [Sara] Roosevelt. I visited her at her home many times subsequently, and our friendship became one of the most treasured relationships of my life.” Through that relationship, she became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt. Their friendship “soon ripened into a close and under- standing mutual feeling.” Accord- ing to Bethune-Cookman Univer- sity, Bethune advised Eleanor Roos evelt to use her influence to integrate the Civilian Pilot Train- ing Program and bring it to his- torically Black schools, leading to the graduation of some of the country’s first Black pilots. During their evening meeting in 1943 at the White House, Bet- hune and President Roosevelt spoke for 40 minutes, “touching on such subjects as anti-Negro discrimination, and the progress our forces were making in the war abroad,” Bethune wrote. Roosevelt promised Bethune that he would implement pro- grams to help train Black people. “Your people and all minorities shall have their chance,” Bethune recalled Roosevelt saying. As she le ft the room, Bethune wrote, he shook her hand. “Mr. President,” Bethune recalled telling him, “the common people feel they have someone in the While House who cares.”

RETROPOLIS

Famed educator advised R oosevelt on ‘ problems of my people’

AFRO NEWSPAPER/GADO/GETTY IMAGES Mary McLeod Bethune, center, j oins USO Junior Hostesses as they entertain service members at the Young Women’s Christian Association in Washington in 1944.

Mary McLeod Bethune statue, representing Fla., to be installed in C apitol

Bethune was the only

woman in Roosevelt’s

“Black Cabinet,” a

s elf-organized advisory

group to the president.

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