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Evening star., 1940-04-21
Music Events
Featured by
Pen Women
Composers Group
Active Here in
Convention

New music will be featured by the
composers group Of the National
League Of American Pen Women,
whose biennial convention began
Friday and will continue through
Thursday. The opening program
was given on Friday at the Con-
gressional Club. Yesterday they
were heard at the celebrity break
fast, Willard Hotel, and at the presi-
dental reception in the Grafton
Hotel.
This morning sacred numbers will
be presented in several churches,
Mount Vernon Place Methodist,
First Congregational, Foundry
Methodist, Wallace Memorial,
Woodside Methodist and Chevy
Chase Baptist, while In the evening
a children's operetta and an anony-
nous program Of manuscript songs
by the composers will be presented
at the Washington Club at 800
pm. Following this presentation, an
audience vote will be taken for de-
termining the prize song.
Tuesday afternoon the composers
will be guests of Droop Music Co. to
meet the public and autograph
music. Any one interested in COM
ing will be welcome. On Wednes-
day from to an afternoon
musicale will be held in the fourth
floor assembly room of the Y. w.
G. A., to which the public is invited.
On Wednesday evening at at
the ofIicial composers banquet, open
only to Pen Women; Fletcher
Hodges, jr., curator of the Stephen
Foster Collection of the University
Of Pittsburgh, will give an address
on stephen Foster and His Music.
At $50 in the bamboo room, Hote
Willard, the composers will present
the first evening program of ensem.
BILE music. Invitations have been is
sued for this affair.
Thursday evening the second ma.
jor musical program will be hele
at the Women's City Club by in
vitation. A reception will follow
The composers in attendance arr
Harriet Ware, national chairman o.
music: Elizabeth Merz Butterfield
convention chairman; Pearl Adams
May Arno, Iris Brussels. Bonita
Grove, Lulu Jones Downing, Clara
Edwards, Dorothy Radde Emery
Phyllis Fergus. Anna George, Mari
anne Genet, Mary Howe. Katharine
Luck, Alma Grayce Miller and Mary
Pickens Opie.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Saengerbund
to
Be eGiven
80th Anniversary
To Be Observed
Here Today

The Washington Saengerbund,
one of the oldest if not actually the
oldest of Washington's musical Or
ganizations, will present its 89th an
niversary concert this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock in the ballroom of the
Willard Hotel.
The Saengerbund. Herbert Herr
field. conductor, will be assisted by
the Ladies Chorus, DR.. Kurt Hetzel,
director, and the Baltimore Arior
Society under the leadership OF
Theodore Hemberger.
The mixed chorus, consisting of
the ladies' and mems groups of the
Saengerbund, will sing, among sew
eral songs, Cadman's THE Builder"
and the male chorus, a Bohemian
folk melody, "Czecho-Slovakian
Dance Song" There vii be also a
first performance of Harvest Song"
a modern work by DR.. Felix Guen-
ther. who wrote the music for the
production of "St. Joan" in which
Luisa Rainer starred.
The Baltimore Arion Society and
the Saengerbund will unite in a pre-
sentation of Beethoven's die Ehre
Gottes."
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have gone into the making of the
symphony should not be wasted.
The important thing to remember
is the number of people, including
the children, who have gained a
richer cultural life because an Or
chestra of their own supporting gave
it to them. 1t is important not to
forget that we all need every spirit
ual aid possible to keep the finer
things of life alive in this day when
they are ruthlessly trampled under
foot elsewhere. 1t is important to
realize that the cultural and spirit
ual advancement of the world is our
responsibility right now and there
is no time for material considera-
tions, petty qusrrels or excessive
demands. We should not sacrifice
what we have of such great value
at this crucial period nor speak of
a time when it can be taken up
again in the future. When that
time arrives it may be too late.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Choral Festival

Edith Sackett of Baltimore will
conduct junior choir festival serv-
ice in Grace Lutheran Evangelical
Church, Sixteenth and Varnum
streets NV, at 4 pm, on May 4.
Miss Sackett is well known for her
work with junior choirs and has
had charge of such festivals in many
parts Of the country. She also has
held several courses for junior choir
trainers in Baltimore and other
cities.
The junior choirs taking part In
this festival are from the following
churches: Trinity Episcopal, Ruth
Farmer, director; Georgetown Pres
byterian, Nancy Poore, director; !;
Mount Pleasant Congregational,
Mrs. D. r. Wickes, director; St.
Adams Episcopal, Mabel Davis, di-
rector; Wallace Memorial United
Presbyterian, Ene Collamore, di-
rector; Lewis Memorial Methodist,
Mrs. John A. Trader, director;
Woodside Episcopal, Jean Slater APP
pei, director; Westminster Memorial
Presbyterian, Mrs. Harry Porter, di-
rector, and Grace Lutheran, Mar.
garet Wambganss, director.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
St. Alban's Choir
Offers Mozart
ReQuiem Mass

Mozart's Requiem Mass will be
sung by. ST. Adams Choir on Tues
day at $3.50 o'clock at st. Alpan's
Church, Wisconsin and Massachu-
setts avenues. The mixed choir will
be supported in this performance
by additional singers who CO.
operated in the National Choral
Union which produced. among other
major choral works, the Mozart
Requiem" several years ago under
the direction of Hugh Ross Of New
York.
Soloists will be Charlotte Ridley
Watkins, soprano; Teresa Shrader,
contralto; H. Granville Leef. tenor,
and Thomas N. Leef, bass. E. Will
liam Bracket, organist and choir
master of st. Johns Church,
Georgetown, will furnish the organ
accompaniment in an arrangement
especially prepared from the or
chestral score. The performance
will be under the direction Of Wall
ter H. Nash, organist and choir
master of st. Adams Church. No.
cards of admission are necessary.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Concert Schedule
TODAY.


Washington Saengerbund, Her.
bert Herzfeld, conductor; Ladies'
Chorus, DR.. Kurt Hetzel, con-
ductor; Baltimore Arion So
ciety, Theodore Hemberger, di-
rector, assisting, Willard Hotel,
$3.50 pm.
University of Cincinnati Glee
Club, Sherwood Kains, director,
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church. 8 pm.
Takoma Park Presbyterian
Choir, Mrs. Albert Volkmar, di-
rector, musical service, Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church,
8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra, Marine Barracks, au-
ditorium, BIS pm. Navy Band,
Sail Loft, Navy Yard, 2::30 pm.
TUESDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 2::30 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, Marine Barracks,
BIS pm.
Alba Rosa Victor, violin re-
cital, Washington Club, $3.50
pm.
THURSDAY.
Navy Band, Sail Loft, Navy
Yard, 1915 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Bar
racks. 2::30 pm.
A Capella Choir, Upsala Col
lege, East Orange, N. j., Aug
ustana Lutheran Church, 8 pm.
FRIDAY.
Shirley Levin. piano recital,
Washington Club, 8:15 pm.
Mount Pleasant Chorus, Nor
ton M. Little, director; Susan
G. Barbee, violinist assisting,
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, 8:15 pm.
Duquesne University Tam
buritza Orchestra, DR.. Matija
L. Gouze, director, Knights of
Columbus Auditorium, 8 pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army Band Au-
ditorium, 1880 am.
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Review of Recordings

Occasions to hear Mozart 4
Requiem" have been rare and when
a performance was given 1t was an
experience of a lifetime. Through
mechanical means the public now
has the long-awaited opportunity to
become familiar with it. A new
recording of Mozart's celebrated
work has been placed on the market
by the Victor Co. recently, made by
the University of Pennsylvania
Choral Society with the collabora-
ton of four soloists and the Phila-
delphia Symphony Orchestra, con-
Quoted by Harl Mcdonald, noted
American composer and the new
business manager of this organiza-
ton.
In this somber work there is
hardly trace of Mozart's familiar
style, distinctive for its gaiety and
alriness. Compact and majestic,
consisting of Is parts arranged on
six discs. the Requiem" differs little
from oratorios written in a style
generally associated with that of
odSll VI Illo ~ lSuCCCSSOIS. 1cu IIle
music is of more exalted type,
probably due to a higher tessitura
used.
Impressive is the first chorus,
Requiem Aeternam,' as we'll assthe
subsequent ones, "Confutatis Male
dictis" and Domino Jesu Christie. F"
The tenor has a solo in "Dies Irae,"
which stands out more than those
of other soloists because of a better
quality of voice. On the whole, the
soloists have not been chosen with
the discrimination a work of such
magnitude should command, but the
orchestra and the chorus assume a
greater Importance and make up for
the deficiency.
There are many opinions as to
how much of this composition be-
longs to Mozart, whose death pre-
vented its completion All the
choruses except those in "Sanctus,
"Benedictus' and "Agnus Del" came
from Mozart's pen. Requiem
Aeternam" is Mozart's in its en-
tirety, while the remainder of the
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Tamburitzas Color
Yuaoslav Concert

The Duquesne University Tam
buritza Orchestra, under the direc-
ton of DR.. Malta L. Gouze, will
give cocert in full costume Friday
evening. at o'clock, in the knights
of Columbus Auditorium. 920 Tenth
street NV. Soloists on the program
will be Marie Jaksich, violinist and
former member Of the Canton SYM
phony: Mary Werlich, soprano;
Allan Ostervik. violinist, and George
Vrbanac, dancer. This is the Or
chestra's fourth American tour. and
the concert on Friday is being
sponsored by the Yugoslavic Amer
ican Association of Washington.
DR.. Gouze, who while specializing
on the first brach, plays all the
instruments of the tamburitza fam
lily, is a pioneer in bringing the
tamburitza and its music to recog-
nized position in the music world.
He has made extensive researches
into the untouched field of tam
buritza musical literature and mas
made arrangements of it for his
orchestra. In 1888 he was concert
master of the Chicago Worlds Fair
Tamburitza Symphony, and from
that time has been active in intro
ducing this music to the American
public through concert and radio
performances.
The Tamburitza Orchestra was
founded with the intention of de-
veloping the folk music of the native
Croatain tamburitza, in order to
present it to the general public in
its highest forms, as well as to pre-
sent educational opportunities to
the young men and women who
comprise the organization and who
come from many different parts of
the country.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
G. w. u. Concert

The George Washington Uni
versity~ Glee Clubs will be heard In
the annual spring concert on Friday
evening, May 10, at the Willard
Hotel. This year marks the 2lst
anniversary of the clubs founding
and the 10th year that they have
been directed by DR.. Robert Howe
Harmon, assisted by Mrs. Harmon
A full program Of music of the
great composers will be presented
Groups will be sung by the mems
club, by the women's club and BY
the combined clubs. The George
washington University Glee Clubs
were organised In 1919.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
In Local Music Circles

Dorothy Radde Emery, composer
pianist, played Schumann, compo-
sitions. Mrs. Emery also accom-
panied Mrs. Simonson.
Lillian Harmon Burke presented
group of her piano pupils at a
studio tea at 5004 Fifth street NV,
Sunday afternoon, March 81. The
program of solos and two piano
numbers was given by the following:
Joan Sheetz, Frances Farley, Anne
Sheetz, Thomas Farley, James
Green, Peggy Deanell, Charles
Sheetz. William Glew and Ruby
Lee Williams.
Last Sunday Mrs. Burke presented
the following group of pupils: Jane
Hanson, Elsie Mae Ernst, Nancy
Jonscher, Billy Ernst, Elizabeth
Graeff, Joanne Jonscher, Evelyn
Jeanne Thomson, Rodney Hanson,
Peggy Anne Ernst, Ruby Williams
and Betty Ruth Ernst. The pro-
gram was given as mock radio
program with the announcer and
commentator Peggy Ernst. Mr.. Han
son sang two baritone solos &C
companied by his small son, Rod
ney. and Elizabeth Graeff was ac-
companied at the second piano by
her mother, Mrs. Earl Graeff.
Maria Conway Coffey, coloratura
soprano and artist student of Will
liam Webster, sang a recital in
Elizabeth, N. j.. at the Eliza
beth Carteret Hotel auditorium,
April II. This was a return en-
gagement where she sang last year
under the auspices of the G. R. A.
of that city.
Helene Gilliaert was soloist for the
Women Writers Club at Barker
Hall on Saturday evening, accom-
panied by Nine. Correa. Violet
Breeding was the artist illustrating
the early Italian operas of the 14th,
18th and 18th centuries, recently at
the Chevy Chase Womens Club, for
the lecture given by Nine. Gurle
Luise Correa.
Edmund Serene Ender resumed
his teaching at his Washington vocal
studio. 920 Seventeenth street NV.
yesterday after acting as judge of
the singing for the Federation of
Music Clubs throughout Maryland.
In response to many requests
Andrea Kristen will present an
other group of songs at the Meth
odist Home, Connecticut avenue and
Ellicott streets NV, on Wednesday.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

score was partly orchestrated by him
and partly by his pupil, Suessmayr.
who claims complete authorship Of
"Benedictus," "Sanctus" and "Agnus
Del" However, there is ground to
believe Mozart may have dictated
them on his deathbed and had
given minute instructions, since it
Is known that Suessmayr spent
some time with him. All the parts
combined represent a unit, with the
authorities being unable to find any
outstanding discrepancies, which
could give them clue to Suess-
mayr's authorship against Mozart's.
Rossini's "Boutique Fantasque,"
arranged by Respighi for modern
ballet, has been recently recorded
by the London Philharmonic Or
chestra under Eugene Goosens.
Popular in England and with bal
let groups all over the civilized
world, the suite consists of a set of
ancient Italian dance music, noted
for its originality and spontaneity.
The album contains three records,
released by the same company. The
selection of this work as midmonth
classic to be promoted is part of the
new Victor plan to draw attention
to Red Seal albums that might be
overlooked in the amount of fresh
recordings given out each month.
A novel way of winning prizes has
been devised by the victor company,
which offers them for the best snap
shot of home record library. This
does not need to be large or expen-
sively outfltted. It Is the clearness
of the view and the taste exhibited
in the selection of recordings that
may determine the award. The total
of $500 will be distributed as follows: !:
First prize is 500 in records: second,
$75 worth of records; third, $25
worth of records, followed by 10
prizes of five pocket albums or five
single records. In addition there
will be 100 prizes in single records.
The judges will be prominent people
in the line of home furnishings and
interior decoration.
ELENA DE SAYN.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Nine. Victor Gives
First Violin Recital

Alba Rosa Victor, violinist, will
give her first violin recital in this
city Wednesday evening at the
Washington Club at $3.50 o'clock.
She will be accompanied by Allison
Sanderford at the piano. Nine.
Victor, who has now made WASH
ington, D. c., her permanent resi-
dence, studied violin with Cesar
Thomson and Otakar Sevcik and
composition with Paul Benner in
Neuchatel, Switzerland. She OBJ
tanned the first prize at the Royal
Conservatory of Brussels.
The program will consist of
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Anthem Premiere

At the regular morning service
today the National Capital Choir
singing at the Universalist National
Memorial Church, under the direc-
ton Of Jessie A. Masters, director
of music, will give premiere per-
formance of an anthem, Make a
Joyful Noise Unto the Lord" COM
posed by the organist of the Uni
versalist National Memorial Church.
H. Jerome Graham.
Mr.. Graham has dedicated his
composition to the memory of the
late DR.. Albert w. Harmed (or-
ganizer, director and organist Of
the National Capital Choir whom
Mr.. Graham succeeded as organist
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Mt. Pleasant Spring
Concert Arran9ed

On Friday evening, beginning at
BIS o'clock, the Mount Pleasant
Chorus of the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church, under the direc-
ton of Norton NJ. Little, with
Claude Robeson, acompanist, will
give its 25th Annual Spring Concert
in Fishburn Hall of the church. The
chorus will be assisted by Susan G..
Barbee, violinist. Each member of
the solo quartet of the church,
Prudence jackson. soprano; Selma
Last, contralto; Raymond T. Pigott,
tenor; and Carroll E. Robb, bass,
will sing a group of solos. Tickets
are on sale at the church Office or
may be obtained at the door Friday
evening.
The program will consist of the
following choruses and solos: Lohr
Rose of My Heart" Faning THE
Fortune Tellers' Song" Clough-
Leighter MY Lady Chloe" Riker
Vera" Weber Invitation to the
Dance" Arensky The Poison Tree"
Foote "Bedouin Song" Soprano
solos will include Stickles' "The
Birds Have Come" Tysons Like
Barley Bending" Diack's Jack and
JILL" sung by Miss Jackson. Miss Last
contralto, will be heard in Bran
combes "The Morning Wind
Tschaikowsky's None but the
Lonely Heart" and Rummel's &c
stasy.'
Tenor solos by Mr.. Pigott will be
the familiar Wherever You Walk
by Haendel, Charles when I have
Sung My Songs" and Haendel's
Would You Gain the Tender
Creature" There will be bass solos
by Mr.. Robb who will present ST.
bellas Twilight Dreams" Cigars
Pleading" and Flegiers THE
Horn" Miss Barbee, violinist, will
play Wieniawski's Romance" from
the second concerto, Schumann's s
"Abendlied" and Heuberger-Kreis-
ler's Midnight Bells"
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Bruch's "Adagio ma non troppo"
from the D Minor concerto, Cor
elli-Leonard's La Folia." Martini
Kreisler's "Andantino, Dittersdorf's
German Dance" Dina Rosa
"Pezzo all 'antico," "Sarabande
and Tambourin" Leclair, Sarasate's
"Playera," "Romanza Andaluza"
and Spanish Dance" Thomson's
scandinavian Lullaby" Donizetti-
st. Lubin's "Sextet" from Lucia di
Lammermoor, for violin alone, and
Ries' "Perpetuom Mobile"
Tickets for the recital may be
obtained at the Mayhower Hotel and
at 1000 N street, also at the Wash
ington Club on the evening Of the
performance.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Miss Levin to PLAY
At WASHINGTON Club

Shirley Levin, 16 year-old pianist,
will be presented by Lucia Mackenzie
Hendley in a pianoforte recital at
the Washington Club Friday, at
8:15. Miss Levin played with the
National Symphony Orchestra two
years ago, and has also given many
recitals here and elsewhere during
the 10 years she has been studying.
Her program will include numbers
by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and
the first movement of the Schu-
mann Concerto In A minor" with
Austin Conrad, of Baltimore, at
the second piano. This program
has been prepared by Mrs. Hendley
in cooperation with Mr.. Conrad.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Takes COLLEGE Post

DR.. Charlotte Klein, organist and
director of music at st. Margaret's
Episcopal Church, has been ap-
pointed head OF the organ depart
ment at Mary Washington College,
Fredericksburg, Va. :
DR.. Klein played the dedication
organ recital last Wednesday on the
Pitts memorial organ in Georgs
Washington Hall. sp
Evening star., 1940-04-21

Today the program for the Sunday
music hour at the Young Women's
Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, will be presented by
Anita Schade. assisted by Anne
Yago McGuffey, contralto accom-
panied by Helen Grimes, and Irene
Lerch, pianist. Miss Schade will
repeat her lecture on the famous
Lieder composer, Hugo Wolf. and
Mrs. McGuffey will sing several of
the Wolf -Moericke songs. The pro-
gram will begin at o'clock and the
public is invited to attend.
The choir of the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Albert w. Volkmer,
with Mrs. Dudley c. Jackson at the
organ will present the fifth of a
series of musical services this eve
ming at 8 o'clock. Numbers by Pales-
trina, Marryott, Spross, Dubois,
Haydn, Maunder, Stainer, Gounod
and Elizabeth Jacksonwi make up
the program. The soloists are, Wini-
fred c. Clark, Dorothy Skinner
Walsh, Mrs. Volkmer, Franklin Gar
rett. Leo Hubbard. j. L. Stinson and
Raymond Casey, violinist. The pub,
lie is invited.
The program by the quartet under
the direction of Leroy Lewis, sched-
uled for the Arts Club, Tuesday,
will not be presented.
The Lovette Choral Club has been
selected as the official women S
chorus for the convention this week
of the National League Of American
Pen Women. Under the direction
of Eva Whitford Lovette the club
will sing on Wednesday night at the
Willard Hotel two numbers COM
posed by members of the league:
Spring" by Elizabeth Merz Butter
field, and THE Fountain" by Doro-
thy Radde Emery; a trio of club
members, Nellie Barber Brooks,
Francise Bass Wilson and Laura
Wentzel will sing Bonita Grove S
Gypsy Music and Mary Pickens
Cpies Lullaby" and "Hollyhocks. u
Nellie Barber Brooks will be one
of the soloists ct the song contest
sponsored by the league at the
Washington Club on Sunday night.
At the April meeting of the Ger
man Literary Society last night
Norma Simonson, soprano, sang
songs by Hildach, Schuman, Franz,
Haydn, Strauss and Leo Blech, and
Evening star., 1940-04-21

The Wilson Teachers College
Mems and Women's Glee Clubs will
give concert on Thursday eveniq1,
May 8 at the Memorial United
Brethren Church. North Capitol
and r streets. The concert viii be
sponsored by the Young Mems Class.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Loss Of Symphony Means
Disaster to Music Here
Public Should Understand
Labor Involved in Keeping
Organization Under Way
By Alice Eversman.

As this being written there hope adjustment
possible of difficulties that
donmen the National Symphony Orchestra the time this print
there definite information
lures made Tuesday when the association
the Musicians
both
Evening star., 1940-04-21

At the April meeting of the Ger
man Literary Society last night
Norma Simonson, soprano, sang
songs by Hildach, Schuman, Franz,
Haydn, Strauss and Leo Blech, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-20
TUR KEY
 GIVING C
 WARNING

ANKARA, Nov. 20.-Sources close to the Turkish Government said Turkey will regard the passage of German troops through Bulgaria, which nation may soon join the Axis powers, as harmful to Turkish in- terestS.
 These sources said Turkey will re- fuse to approve of any such move ment even though Germany might guarantee Turkey will be in no way involved.
 Moreover, if Bulgaria hers f makes any move toward the Medi- terranean, Turkey will consider her. self bound to take stiff measures.
 The unofficial sources said this attitude of Turkey provides the reply to questions of Turkeys reaction to the news that Hungary has joined the Axis pact and implications the Germans will move through south east Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-20
New Axis Partner Gives Hitler 250-MiIe MiIi-
 fary Corridor MORE NATIONS ON
 "ExpE(TED" LIST Turkey Prepares Public for War; r-BIaekouf Regu-
 Iations Ready
(By Associated Pressi

Hungary has joined the Berlin Rome Tokyo alliance, giving Hitler a military corridor stretching 250 miles deeper into Southeast Europe toward Greece, Turkey and the Suez Canal.
 The protocol was signed in Hit lers presence at Vienna and binds Hungary to the original triple alli- ance signed in Berlin September 27 pledging Germany, Italy and Japan to mutual aid against any new entrance into either the Eu- ropean or Chinese wars.
 Aimed at U. s.
 At that time, the pact was said aimed at keeping the United States from open declaration of war on Britain's side against the snow balling totalitarian bloc.
 Informed quarters in Budapest said Spain, Rumania and Bulgaria may be the next to join the Axl and pressure may fall quickly or neutral Yugoslavia.
 Gigantic Operation
 Authorized Nazi quarters in Der. lin have already indicated a gi' gantic Axis military operation i. in the wind in an attempt to bot. tie up" the Mediterranean by syn chronized attacks at the Suez Cana on the east and Britain's Gibraltar on the west.
 In statistical terms, the entry ol Hungary in the Axis new order o Europe has added 57,000 square miles of territory and a population of about 12,OOO,0o0, mostly Magyar in origin.
 Army experts give Hungary | half million men in arms.
 With Turkey among the possible targets of the new Axis campaign in southeast Europe, the Turkish press frankly warned readers that danger of war is near and the Turkish Government is prepared with blackout regulations