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Evening star., 1940-06-25
Lightning Bolts
Like Game of
Follow Leader
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SWANPSCOTT, Mass, June 25.-
A flash of lightning resembles
swift game of follow the leader"
G. D. McCann, an engineer of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Co., said today.
Reporting that his company had
undertaken research designed to
protect electric power lines against
lightning's damaging effects, Mr..
Mccain told the summer conven-
ton of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers that investiga-
tors had used a fast camera to get
data on how lightning operates.
He said a weak, almost invisible,
preliminary stroke, known as a
leader or pilot, picks its way halt
ingly through the air at the "rela-
lively slow speed of 100 miles per
second"
When the path to earth has thus
been broken, he added, full
fedged, powerful stroke comes
charging along the same route at
nearly 10000 miles per second. On
its heels comes another, and perhaps
another, at the same speed-the en-
tire process lasting about second,
and constituting single flash"
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Chart Now Shows 'FIutter'
Cause Of Many Plane Crashes

Baltimore presented their findings
at q meeting of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences.
"Flutter," the scientists explained,
is vibration, which has become
more destructive as airplanes have
grown larger and faster, and which
builds increasing force until a wing
or aileron or tail falls off.
Vibration ''pickups," apparatus
giving warning of the approach of
dangerous 'flutter" conditions, have
been in use since 1887, the scientists
said, adding that so much has
been contributed to known data on
fiutter by mathematicians and
engineers that the recognition of
theoretical critical conditions in a
given design is extraordinarily
exact"
"One. of the chief remaining diff
culties," they said, "has been the
toilsome methods of arriving at it..
1t Is this need that is answered by
the graphical solutions presented
here, which substitute at-a-glance
charts for tremendous mathematical
calculations"
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Nazi Armistice Office
To Occupy frances
1918 Headquarters
Wiesboden Designated
By Hitler in New
Dramatic Gesture
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 25.-Adolf Hitler,
in another dramatic gesture appar-
emily designed to wipe out bitter
memories of 1918, today desig-
mated Observation-Disclosures of
Frances World War Army of Occu-
patton in the Rhineland-as the
seat of new German French
Armistice Commission.
Gen. Heinrich Won Stuelpnagel
was named chairman of the COM
mission, which will be charged with
governing and supervising the ex-
ecution" of the armistice signed
last Saturday in Compiegne Forest.
1t was expected the French gov
ernment would notify Berlin today
Evening star., 1940-06-25

Farm tractors in England and
Wales total 10000.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

the French peace emissaries were
ushered into the same railway car
in which the Germans accepted
the 1918 armistice terms which
they have regarded as black spot
In the history of their country. The
car, long cherished by the French
as memorial of their World War
victory, is now en- route to Berlin.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Doom of 5000, 900 Jews
Seen if Nuzis Win
BY the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 25.-Dr. Ma
hum Goldman, Administrative
Committee chairman of the World
Jewish Congress, said yesterday
that If the Nazis should achieve final
victory IS 5000, 900 jews in Europe are
doomed to destruction"
Their only hope for future ex-
istence lies in the ability OF Great
Britain to resist the Nal conquest" !"
declared DR.. Goldman, who ar
rived here Friday from Geneva.
He issued a statement calling
upon United States Jewry to take
leadership in mobilizing Jews in
North and South America for an
organized defense program.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

Of the appointment of its delegates
to the commission. Informed
sources expected the commission
to hold Its first meeting next week.
These sources said the commits
sion would limit its work strictly
to German-French armistice af-
fairs and would not deal with Ital-
ian aspects Of the situation.
A special Italian-French COM
mission, they declared, will be es-
tablished to work separately on the
execution of the joint German
Italian armistice provisions agreed
upon by Hitler and Premier Mus
solini at Munich.
VIII Use Same Building.
The same sources said the Wies-
baden commission will meet n the
same Hotel Wilhelma which housed
the headquarters of Frances Army
OF Occupation 20 years ago.
Last week at Compiegne Forest
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Refugee Sculptor

Benno Elkan, until 1888 Ger
many's leading sculptor, now q
refugee in London, watched Dean
le Labilliere dedicate his master
piece, a massive bronze candle
labrum, in Westminster Abbey.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASs0clated PreSS. -
LOS ANGELES, June 25.-Two
Baltimore (Md) aeronautical tech
nicians offered a graphical chart
today as shortcut to the detec-
ton of "fiutter," the cause of many
mystery" airplane crash.
w. B. Bergen and Lee Arnold of
the Glenn l.. Martin company at
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Board Member Asks
Pupils Be Allowed
To SpIit Infinitiyes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 25.-School
Committeeman Joseph Lee
thinks school children and
teachers in Boston should be
permitted to split infinitives
amy damn way they wish"
He proposed in a motion at
a committee meeting last night
that School Supt. Arthur L.
Gould be instructed to issue an
order advising the teachers and
pupils that split infinitives are
all right.
Too often" he charged,
language is. taught by a set
OF rules, rather than as a means
OF conveying thought"
The committee, however, de-
clined to Immediately act (ah,
tnere) on his motion.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Ambulance Driver
Reveals Minufeness
OF Nazi Spy System
Tells How Enemy Radio
Described Luncheon
Of French Officers
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 25.-So thor
ough was the German espionage
system that they knew of planned
French scouting sorties and even
warned their foe against them, all
American ambulance driver on leave
from the western front said today.
"By short-wave radio one time
on the 24-mile unprotected sector
of the Maginot Line between For
bach and Sarreguemins the Nazis
advised us certain section was
well guarded and suggested another
route" declared Kenneth G. Ban
field, jr., 26, of Baton Rouge, La.
Another time on the same Sec
tor the radio asked if a certain
colonel and half a dozen officers
eating with him were enjoying their
lunch.
Names Mentioned in Order.
'The French officers names were
mentioned in order, each described
as sitting at his exact place at
the mess table.
Several spies were later caught
and shot"
Mr.. Banfield, who served at the
front for four months until June
l with the American Volunteer AM
bulance Corps, said he planned to
return to France, If possible, after
short visit home. He was a stu
dent at the University of Paris at
the outbreak of hostilities. He came
here on the United States liner
Washington.
He declared that the French Army
thought they would win even after
the evacuation of the British at
Dunkerque, but were overpoWered
by the swiftness of the German ad-
vance,
Troops Overlook Refugees.
''The German advance in my ter
ritory (Alsace-LorraAe) was so fast
that even marching troops overlook
refugees fleeing from French towns
on 10 minutes notice." he said.
"The Nazi strategy was most ef-
fective-first they sent planes to
bomb and strafe French protecting
troops, then tanks, moving at speeds
of 40 or more miles an hour, and
then the infantry"
He said the morale in the French
Army was very high" and that they
would have fought to the last man"
had the government not surrendered
James Wood Johnson, president
of the A. V. A. c., said he had had
no word since June 10 of the other
so American ambulance drivers in
France.
Our work is going to go on" he
declared. "If it is possible, we are
going to send more volunteers to
France and England to lend assist
ance."
Evening star., 1940-06-25

Russia is reported to be prepar-
ing to exhibit on a large scale in the
German Eastern Fair in Koenigs-
berg in August.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Notes From the Social Calendar Of Washington
By the Way
Beth BLnine=

So enchanted with Washington life
that really settle down.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
News Notes of the Official
And Diplomatic Sets
OF the Capital
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Returning
From New York Today;
Guest at Luncheon

Mrs Roosevelt returning to the
where yesterday she the
Association of Foreign Press Correspondents
formal speech Mrs Roosevelt
bers Of the organization.
The Presidents wife dined with
When the President Springs
she will fly TO Seattle WASH where she will
Yer, Mrs John Boetg
The Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Sea Island spend They joined
their Robert Morris Morgnthau
herst College their
Miss Maderas School, Morgnthau
his parents for brief holiday visit
Mrs Henry Wallace
yesterday
Wardman Park apartment.
Mrs Daniel c. Roper the Mrs Thomas
NJ Craig
Peacock, Mrs Walter Walden
mother OF
Harlee
Turkish have
stay Embassy
Minister the
Atlantic yesterday Monday
Col N who
10 the Wardman Park Hotel they have taken
commissioner for the Polish Pavilion New York Worlds
Fair Wankowitcz daughter
here spend the Easter holidays with their parents.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Miss Elinor Butler Berry
MarrieS Mr.. Clark d. Hill.

The marriage of Miss Elinor But
Ter Berry, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Berry, to Mr. Clark D.
Hill, took place last evening at 7:45
o'clock at the home of the brides
parents. The Rev. Enoch M. Thomp-
son of Nativity Episcopal Church
oficiated. The ceremony was fol-
lowed by reception.
Miss Vivian Berry, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor, and the
best man was Mr.. j. Major Shirley
The bride was given in marriage
by her father and wore a gown of
white lace and net. She carried
Colonial bouquet of white roses and
lilies of the valley
The maid of honor was in aqua
lace and net and she carried
Colonial bouquet of talisman roses.
The house was decorated in spring
flowers and palms. Mrs. Berry,
mother of the bride. wore blue chif-
fon and a corsage of pink roses, and
Mrs Hill, mother of the bridegroom,
wore blue lace.
After the reception, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hill left by plane for New York.
Miss Hannah Bonell, played for the
ceremony and Mr.. Benedicy Genoa
sang. Other wedding music was
rendered by Miss Mary Berry, sister
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Miss Eve German
To Marry Sunday

The marriage of Miss Eve Cor
man, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph German of $500 Conduit
road NV, and Mr.. Eugene Green
spun, son of Mr.. and Mrs Maurice
Greenspun of Philadelphia, will take
place Sunday at S o'clock at the
Ohev Sholom Synagogue. The Rev.
z. Green will oficiate.
Miss Selma Chaser of this city will
be maid of honor, and Mr.. Stanley
Greenspun of Philadelphia, brother
of the bridegroom, will be best man.
Mr.. Samuel German, Mr.. Herman
German, Mr.. Jack Brodie and DR..
Herman Brodie will be the ushers.
The brides sister, Miss Ida German,
will be the vocalist. A reception
will follow the ceremony.
Miss CHASER was hostess at lunch
con Saturday in honor of Miss Cor
man.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
California Group
Will Hold Luncheon
Easter SUNDAY

Following the gay Easter parade
Sunday, Californians and their
friends will gather at a l o'clock
luncheon in the Washington
Hotels Rose Room to pay honor
to their Senators and Represen-
tative Clarence F. Lea-dean of
the California delegation, now
entering his 25th year in Con-
gress.
Senator Sheridan Downey will
make a short speech, followed by
Mr.. Nick B. Harris, president of
the International Secret Service
Association of Los Angeles.
The guests at this luncheon will
be seated by congressional dis
tricts at tables presided over by
their respective Representatives.
Justice Justin Miller of the Court
of Appeals, president of the Cali
fornia State Society, will present
the honored guests. Representa-
tive Harry Sheppard will intro
duce Mr.. Harris. Miss Hilda Mel
son has arranged short musical
program.
Evening star., 1940-03-22


dropped for ngtcap the leading
charming
Princess Mdvani sister of those famous
fascinating
Polish Ambassador Count jerry
the British Anne Chauncey
attractive wife Cecilia vaaonng Bermuda
Henry Lodge the small
and Join them for this week end
Higginson Rogers, aunt busy
really BUSY, getting settled her house in
When last talked informed that
furniture finally arrived that
completely showed under" by
that sold burned the
suphuous furniture all her friends CALL
there
Hendricks Eust in town last night with
until will Baltimore
dancer
entertainers the Spanish tomorrow evening"
evening Mrs MondeH returned from of visits
Grande Fla, Sloanes
Thomalle Natchez
McKenney will
Nancy Miller Edward Cavanagh which
will
Saturday March 3d. Mr. and Mrs Eery Hustled New
former Helen McLanhan of Washington wekendng
with Chauncey Parker and Mrs Huds Mrs Noble
0ou McLanahan) spending several
Robert
yesterday for Mexico by plane Mr. Richard
who have been wnerng Florida
Davidsons
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Flower Mart Plans Made
Georgetown Garden and Sandy
Spring Groups Name Committees

Mrs T. Blackwell Smith is chair
man of the Georgetown Garden
Club booth at the Flower Mart,
which will be held May Day on the
Pilgrim Steps of Washington Ca
thedral from noon to o'clock. Last
year, which marked the first Flower
Mart, this club was very successful
with vases and flowers, but for 1910
it plans to have small potted plants
as its booth contents.
Mrs. Louis Mackall, president of
the club, will be an associate mem
ber of the committee chosen by
Mrs. Smith to assist her. Miss
Emily Mackall. Miss Katherine
Dougall, Mrs. John Talbot, Mrs.
j. H. Boyden and Miss Katherine
Poole will be the other committee
members.
Another organization which has
announced its committee to work
for the mart's booth is the Little
Garden Club of Sandy Spring. This
will be one of the most interesting
groups at the market. Many of the
things sold from its booth will be
made from old Quaker recipes IA
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Residential News Notes
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Mclean
Arrive in New York From Bermuda

Mr. and Mrs. John r. Mclean,
who have been spending the past
three weeks in Bermuda, arrived
yesterday in New York on the Santa
Paula. Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean will
come to Washington in time to at
tend the traditional Easter break
fast, which will be given Sunday
by Mr. McLean'S mother Mrs. Ed
ward Beale Mclean, at Friendship.
Miss Anne L. Baden, 1929 Colum-
boa road, has visiting her for the
Easter holidays Mr.. and Mrs. John
D. Doyle and their son of Rock
ford, Ill.
Miss Edith McChesney enter
tanned at tea Sunday afternoon at
her home, 1920 Thirty-sixth street
She was assisted by the Misses
Elizabeth Avery, Lois Bradley and
Evelyn Miller. Miss McChesney is
the daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Frank
McChesney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Richberg
will have 10 guests at a dinner party
tonight at Hickory Hill, their home
in Spring Valley.
Mrs. Charles F. Jackson and Mrs.
w. w. Everett, jr., entertained at
luncheon yesterday in honor CT Miss
Joanne Jarvis of Bethlehem, Pa,
who is to be married to Mrs Jack
sons son, Mr. Frank L. Jackson,
April 6, in Bethlehem.
The guests included Mrs. F.. l..
Jackson of Minneapolis: Mrs. w. w.
Everett, Mrs. Frank Howard, Mrs.
Frances ]. Nickels, Mrs. Hayward
Brown, Mrs. Dwight K. Terry, Miss
Laura Hughes, Mrs Lois Abernethy,
Mrs. John A. Patterson, jr.; Miss
Aileen Harris and Miss Mildred
Chaplin.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Fay Harper of
2440 Sixteenth street NV, will
spend the Easter holidays in At
lantic City, stopping at the Hotel
Claridge.
DR.. Roy F. Dunmire physician
for the Washington Eagles hockey
team, gave a send off party for the
members of the squad, the coach
and a number of friends, Wednes-
day afternoon, at his country home
on the Potomac at Fenwick, Md.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Weddings of Interest
Miss Geneva Helen Surratt
Marries Mr.. Rowland Jones

st. Adams Episcopal Church was
the scene yesterday afternoon of
the marriage of Miss Geneva Helen
Eurratt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Price Pegram Surratt of Spencer,
N. c.. and Mr.. Rowland Jones, jr,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland Jones,
sr., of Gettysburg, S. Oak. The Rev,
Or. Charles Warner officiated.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. She wore navy blue
sheer crepe dress with three-quarter
length sleeves. The bodice of match
ing net had strips of crepe appliqued
from the high neckline to the waist.
The wide sash draped gracefully
around the waist and ended in a
tie at the side, and the bride wore
Q hat of green and red with navy
veil and her flowers were green
orchids.
Miss Mary Jones of Salisbury,
n. c., wore a blue ensemble with
matching hat and veil and carried
a corsage of yellow roses mixed with
blue. DR.. Paul Pearson of this city
was best man.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
the University of Wisconsin and a
member of Phi Kappa Sigma and
the National Press Club. He is
secretary-treasure of the National
Drug Trade Conference and a lee
turer at George Washington Uni
versity. Mrs. Jones is graduate of
the University of North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill; member of Phi Beta
Kappa and of Beta Gamma Sigma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones will make
their home at 1880 Sixteenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

nous in Montgomery County and
the Washington area. The booth
is to be called THE Country Cup
board"
Old ham, unsalted butter. beaten
biscuits, preserves and pickles will
be garnered from the entire COM
munity, Mrs. w, H. Hough, the
cupboard" chairman, said, since the
club itself is so small in member
ship. She also points out that the
Quaker recipes for the pickles and
preserves will be pasted on the out
side of the containers.
She will have Mrs. Mortimer
Stabler, Mrs. Frederick Thomas and
Mrs. Francis Thomas as her COM
mittee. Mrs. Hough reports that
100 articles have already been prom
ised for the cupboard"
Plans are well under way for the
Maypole dance to be given at 3
o'clock in the afternoon of May Day
at the mart by the pupils of Beau
voir, the elementary school of the
National Cathedral Schools of
Mount st. Alban. This pole will be
set up at the foot of the Pilgrim
Steps.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

EASTER HATS as you want them.
Every new deo from halo to coIot,
feotured in the largest Eoster variety
this store has ever shown! Tradition
says that q new hat goes hond-n-hond
with Easter! -. So do see our brilliant
collection that sporkIes with fashion
interest and value enthusiasm! We've
q hot to make you look your prettiest
this Eoster. Prices range from S. to
$500.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Harleigh H. Hart
man of 1920 Iris street have visit
ing them for the Easter holidays
their daughter, Miss Patricia Hart
man of Dearborn, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tillman
Bell have returned to their home
on Massachusetts, avenue. During
the winter the house was leased to
the former Naval Attache of the
italian Embassy and the marchio-
ness of SAINT Orsola.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Lockwood
of New York City have taken an
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel, and will be in residence there
during the spring season.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Missouri Society
Dance Is Tomorrow

Members of the Missouri State
Society will hold their Easter dance
and entertainment tomorrow eve
ming in the west ballroom of the
Shoreham Hotel.
Miss Eva Jane Lewis is chairman
of the Hospitality Committee and
is assisted by Miss Mary Ball, Mrs.
Irby Henry, Mr.. Clarence McCune,
Mr.. Eric G.. Jansson and Mr.. Warner
A. Muller.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

of the bride, and Mr.. Maurice
Hughes.
The bride is descendant of Com
mordore Berry of Berryville, Va. Mr..
Hill is graduate of Wilson Teach
ers' College and is now a student at
George Washington University.
Among the guests at the wedding
were the Misses Christine and Chad
we'll Hawkins and Mrs. Felix Haw-
kins of Alexandria, Va; Mr.. Ray
mond Berry, jr., brother of the bride,
and student at the University of
Virginia; Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Hawkins of Roanoke, Va, and Mrs.
M. L. Granville of Alexandria.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Pledges Initiated

Beta Chi Chapter of Alpha Zeta
Beta National Sorority informally
initiated two pledges, Mrs. Julia
Satterthwaite and Mrs. Edythe K.
McGinnis, at meeting this week
at Wardman Park Hotel. The
pledges will be formally received
into the chapter at the annual
Epsilon Province meeting March
30-3l.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Officers Elected

Delta Chapter of Alpha Sigma
Theta Sorority has elected Mrs.
Dorothy Deeck as president, Mrs.
Virginia Tracy, vice president; Mrs.
Mary Mess, secretary; Mrs. Eileen
Kennal, treasurer, and Mrs. Fran
ces Goode, sergeant at arms.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

UCCA living Cu 4WcHty-lOuIGl StTeCL
but she plans to move into her new house
May /.
A sister of Mrs. Warren Bar
bour, Mrs. Lee also is strikingly
good-looking, always impeccably
gowned, plays golf and excellent
bridge, dances beautifully and has
q wonderful sense Of humor. 1t was
she who told us, laughing heartily,
that she had been written up by one =.
Of "us sassiety columinists" as being
the sister of beautiful Mrs. Warren
Barbour-but looking ABSOLUTE
LY NOTHING like her!
At Arthur Krocks cozy little "after
the theater" party for Gladys George the
other evening Mrs. Lee wore stunning
black dress of crepe and satin made very
simply but 5000 beautifully cut and
fitted that its very simplicity made it out
standing. In addition to Miss George and
her husband Leonard Penn other mem
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-18
JAYCEES WILL HOLD
STATE CONVENTION
OPENS NEXT WEEK IN PEN
SAcOLA: AUTO CARAVAN
TO START HERE

Elaborate plans are now being
made by Florida Jaycees for the
1910 State Convention to be held
April IS, &c and q, at Pen
sacola.
According to word received
here from that city, Jaycees will
come here to start the cross-state
caravan which is believed to be
destined to become the largest
this state has ever seen.
Upstate from Key West will
trek parade of Jaycees, gather
ing momentum with the distance.
From the southernmost tip to
the weSternmost point of the
state, Jaycees will join in the
parade and each city through
which they pass will add at least
one car of delegates.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-18
ANTI-CHAIN STORE
BILL IS OPPOSED
PRESS OF FLORIDA RALLIES
IN SUPPORT OF I'M
PoRTANT BUSINESS

MIAMI, Apr. 18.-FNS) The
widely discussed Patman Anti
Chain Bill, brought up in the
house annually by Rep. Wright
Patman, is again before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
According to authoritative
sources, the new bill is even
more vicious than the old Pat
man-Robinson bill. 1t is direct in
purpose, open in attack and all
but states that it proposes to
drive the chain store system out
of existence by seeking the force
of the Federal Government in an
undemocratic attempt TO curb
lawful enterprise.
One Florida newspaper says
editorially:
'"The chain store needs no de-
fense. 1t is a legitimate busi-
ness, operated legitimately, yet
Patman seeks to destroy it. With
out the chain store, Florida resi-
dents would lose annually some
$4,000, 900 in payrolls. Property
owners would lose $6,700,000 in
rentals. Some $4,000 Florida
stockholders in Florida chain
stores would bid goodbye to
their holdings.
Florida Farmers, citrus grow
ers and produce shippers would
be hurt to the tune of $50, 900, 900
annually which represents what
the chains pay to our agricultural
interests for their crops.
Let your senator and con-
gresham know Immediately that
you are opposed to this un-
economic, un-American bit of
meretricious legislation"
Newspapers throughout the
state have expressed similar
sentiments.