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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Jew Caused WiIIkie
Family TO Leave
Reich, Nazis Say
Grandfather Forced to Go
After Being Cheated in
Deal, Press Alleges
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 13-The German
press today gave prominent position
to stories alleging that Jew was
responsible for Wendell L. WILKES
grandfather leaving Germany.
The Berliner Zeitung said vital
statistics of the town of Aschers-
leben, examined on press tour, in
dicated:
First, the grandfather earned his
living as workman in that town,
and second, that he was forced to
emigrate from his homeland be-
cause he and his entirs family had
been cheated by Jew.
DNB, official news agency, said
Mr.. WILKES family was traced in
an effort to refute a statement by
the American that his grandparents
migrated to the United States as q
protest against tyranny.
Disagreement Over Will.
The Berliner Zeitung said Mr..
WILKES grandfather was listed in
the records as Joseph Wilhelm
Willcke, a copper smith who had
hoped to carry on business in his de-
ceased fathers shop.
A family disagreement arose over
the will, the newspaper said, where
upon the widow of the deceased,
stepmother of Joseph Willcke, sold
the property to a Jewish neighbor
named Bernhard Gerson.
The article detailed an involved
financial transaction in which it
was alleged, the widow received none
Of the purchase money but was dis
possessed.
"Willcke had enough" the account
continued, and August IA, 1860, he
embarked alone on the steamer Bav-
aria in Hamburg for America"
Speaking in Amsterdam, Ger
many's commissioner in the Neither
lands, Arthur SeySz-Inquart, was re-
ported to have warned Netherland-
ers that I'VE are going to strike Jews
where we encounter them and who
ever favors them must bear the con-
sequences. The Jews are our en-
enies"
Political Freedom Cited.
He further proclaimed to Neither
landers that the German watchWord
is with us or against us" and
claimed the majority of the Dutch
wanted to share the German destiny.
THAT there is freedom of political
activity In the Netherlands" he as
serted, lis evidenced by fisticuffs and
broken windowpanes because at least
two political elements are necessary
for such evidence"
Mr.. Willkie, in a statement in
London before he ended his tour of
England February and broadcast
by the British Broadcasting Corp.
in its German news transmission.
said:
Il am of purely German descent.
My family name is not Willkie, but
Willicke. My grandparents left
Germany 80 years ago because they
were protestants against autocracy
and demanded the right to live as
free men. I, too, claim that right.
Il am proud of my German blood,
but hate aggression and tyranny.
Tell the German people that we
COMMUNICATIONS reject and hate
the aggression and lust for power of
the present German government"
The London Daily Herald at that
time said the message would be
printed and spread over Germany
in o "leaflet raid"
Evening star., 1941-11-02
"Is that gun loaded?"

"gin mills" where you can't buy drink,
but you can see a machine that IN one
sweep sucks cotton of wagons and trucks
of growers, seeds the cotton and packs
1t in bales for shipment to all corners
Of the earth.
For many of us Stephen Foster melo-
dies in the years to come will bring an
unexpected nostalgia. When our regiment
arrived at its allotted base camp a few
miles above the South Carolina boundary,
we found the area to be cotton field.
Before we could pitch a tent We most
of us never having seen cotton before
except in pictures) bad to pick all the
cotton in the field. While we picked,
our regimental band, knee deep in cot
ton, played some torrid modern interpre-
tations of Foster melodies.
When we first arrived, some OF the
colored folk who don't read the news
papers were taken aback by the tnf1ltra-
ton of soldiers, trucks. armored cars
and other military vehicles, and many
meekly asked us, "Is that gun loaded?"
We hesitate to contemplate their dis
may when the tanks and parachute
troops are throHn into action.
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Women of Nation Rally for Defense

tionists Ito air their views without criti-
cizing and belittling those In power and
without stirring up racial and religious
hatreds," she asked:
when will we awaken to the fact that
in order to sell democracy we must praise
it-not criticize 1t, appreciate it-not de-
nounce it, and then bestr ourselves in
order to fight for 1t, yes, die for 1t II
necessary?"
That women are bestirring themselves
to build stronger democracy's defenses
is evidenced, in Mrs. Whitehurst's
opinion, in reports coming to her desk.
The South Dakota federation's ma
tional defense chairman has written in
that clubwomen in that State are out to
break all records in the sale of stamps
and bonds for national defense. They
are organizing volunteers to staff de-
fense savings information booths.
This federation, as well as other State
federations and local clubs, Starkville
(Miss) Woman's Club. for example. have
reported that they are giving defense
bonds as prizes in contests they conduct
which vary from awards for the best
canned peaches to reports on taxes.
The general federation has invested
its limit for one year, $50, 900 in defense
bonds, Mrs. Whitehurst said
The Allentown (Pa) Woman's Club
has raised enough money to buy a
mobile kitchen. which it sent with "a
surgical kits to England. The Prince
ton Ull0 Womans Club has sent 500
comfort kits to English women.
Evening star., 1941-11-02

out for national defense. 1t is the key
note of her three-year term, and she is
building the general federation's pro-
gram around it and Is asking State and
local federations to do the same.
She promptly set up a new division
in the general federation-the depart
ment Of national defense-and she Sc
lected Mrs. Harold v. Mullgan OF New
York as chairman. Fourteen committees
were appointed and Mrs. Whitehurst
called on their leaders to get busy.
There is no time to lose" Is her motto
A large, handsome woman, she has some
OF the same tireless energy that has made
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt national
wonder. In addition to the leadership of
100000 women in the general fedora
ton, Mrs Whitehurst is women's director
of the Maryland State National Defense
Commission.
From the first, Mrs. Whitehurst has
been outspoken in the need for national
defense. To an Organization more used
to gentle talk on womanly subjects, Mrs.
Whitehurst issued a challenge to her
fellow club women to follow her in "a
crusade to prepare our country and our
people to defend themselves"
She coined new term, sixth
column" to include women apathetic to
the need for national defense and who
Evening star., 1941-11-02
BY Ruth COWan.

II Herr Hitler should read this he
probably would sputter the Nazi equiva-
lent OF so what? But that is because
he has never met the American club
woman en- masse and in action
II he had, he might do bit of worry
ing that an army of tens of thousands Of
women, organized In small town sewing
bees, big city study clubs and rural can
ming contests, was falling in line in the
national defense program of the General
Federation of Women's clubs.
The worlds largest organization Of
women is moving up to strengthen weak
spots in Uncle Sans armor. Their way
Of doin. this may be by baking cookies
for soldiers, training as nurses aides,
raising defense stamp money, or as
mothers and housewives becoming
alarmed that one-half of their men
folks have been found under physical
par to tote rifle.
Each day letters are received at the
general federation headquarters here
from federation clubs throughout the Ma
ton reporting on what the members are
actually doing-not just planning to do.
From the day she took Office as gen.
eral federation president, Mrs. John l..
Whitehurst of Baltimore has been all
Evening star., 1941-11-02
BY Pvt. Harlan Althen
(Of tie H5fh Isfosfry.)

to six days, and increasing in length and
scope as the program progresses.
When a problem" is completed, the
grimy soldiers return to their base field
camp, where they are quartered in pyra-
nfidal tents, each accommodating six
men. In order to accustom themselves
to field conditions, cots have been dis
pensed with, and for bedding the men
use straw-filled mattress bags. When
the soldier returns to base camp ne can
get shower bath, but he must be con-
tent with cold shower in the open air.
When thousands of men move into ru-
raj area with no large-scale water facili-
ties, the engineering units must pump
water from nearby streams into canvass
inclosed areas containing as many as
100 shower spouts.
BY metropolitan standards the water
we drink is pretty vile-tasting. But here
Evening star., 1941-11-02

believe or contend that there is no rea-
son for such a program-and she de-
clared war on it.
To test the temper of her fellow club
women and to see first hand how they
were responding to the general fedora
tion's program, Mrs. Whitehurst re-
Gently made a seven-State Midwestern
tour which she described asa fighting
crusade to 60 after the isolationists"
She said her audiences were some
times "a bit chilly" But she said she
was encouraged by the interest the gen.
eral federations defense program was
getting and the pledges of cooperation
by State and local clubs as we'll as the
instances she saw in strongly isolationist
territory of women at work In phases of
national defense.
That some women may be apathetic
or unbelieving regarding the danger she
envisages to democracy seems plausible
to her. Women have worked for peace
and prayed for peace for so long that
they are reluctant to give up the idea of
peace and to settle down and prepare for
defense. which in their minds means
war" she said.
Mrs. Whitehurst is not afraid of the
word war and what it might mean. In
speeches from State federation platforms
in the Midwest she besought the isola.
Evening star., 1941-11-02

Nazis q democracy. Certain contra
ceptives are on sale publicly, however.
Immediately after the Nazis came In
power. they attacked the so-called 'one
and two child system" Previous agita-
ton to wipe the law against abortion of
the books subsidized under the Nazis, who
enforced the law strictly. It provides
imprisonment up to five years for
mothers and one to fifteen years for the
doctor performing the abortion.
Fine or imprisonment up to two years
is provided for persons who advertise or
commend abortive means or methods, or
place such means where they are access
sible to the public.
Breaking pregnancy for reasons Of
health is made dependent by law on the
findings Of . medical commission.
Evening star., 1941-11-02

stated purpose was not only to en-
courage marriages and boost the BIRTH
rate, but also to reduce unemployment,
which was prevalent at that time. In
order to open up new Jobs. therefore.
the prime condition of the loan was that
the future wife was a worker who prom
ised not to work after the wedding.
BY 1898, however, the swing was the
other way. There was shortage OF
labor. The law, therefore, was changed
to permit the granting Of marriage loans
in cases where the wife continued work
after marriage.
German statisticians argue that
couples subsidized by the state-those
receiving marriage loans-have greater
will" to raise big families than those not
20 aided. The latest available figures
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Want a N0iseless Soup Spoon!

oddities before civic clubs, and his fame
spread until today he is In demand from
New York to Hollywood. The last three
years he has appeared as "The Willy
movie shorts.
His hobby now takes up most Of his
spare hours. But 1t has proved profit
able. Sometimes, he says. 1t has helped
Evening star., 1941-11-02

given by Fritz Reinhardt, secretary IN
the Ministry Of Finance, show that from
January, 1884, to June, 1887, the state
subsidized couples produced twice as
many children as other marriages con-
cluded In the same period.
Reinhardt said 100000 families had
benefited from this plan since October.
1885, and that at the present time aid
is being granted to 2,50O,ooo families
with 100000 children. To carry out
these measures, Reinhardt said, the
Reich 50 far has expended over 5000 ,000,- :
600 marks
Under the Nazi system Of encouraging
big families by granting special privi-
leges and financial assistance, the birth
control movement, as such. naturally
finds no footing. It's a. taboo to the
Evening star., 1941-11-02

him In his business because It has given
him an applied course in audience re-
action. And it hasn't scared away his
clients-quite the opposite. 1t seems.
The financial returns on his many
appearances make him laugh when he
thinks back to the time ne and his wife
debated the advisabiity of investing in
. suitcase to carry his props.
Evening star., 1941-11-02

sold out Some of the natives are re-
sourceful enough to fill their cars with
candies and sandwiches to sell the soldier
along the roadsides.
At night, when a suitable bivouac
area has been reached and security and
gas sentries have been posted, units
lose no time in rolling ouA their blankets
Evening star., 1941-11-02

for what sleep can be obtained before
the next order to move is received. The
soldier carries two blankets rolled neat
ly into a canvas shelter half If it rains
he can button his shelter half to that
Of buddy and pitch pup tent. Other
wise the shelter half is used as a base
for the blankets. The men seem to
welcome the opportunity to sleep under
the stars.
At first the soldiers were bit panicky
over stories that the area abounded with
rattlesnakes and copperheads and blact
widow spiders. While many have bee1.
found, there have been few cases of
men being bitten, and we have come to
take more fatalistic attitude toward
the creatures, as far as sleeping out in
the open is concerned.
When the soldier goes INTO the field
he carries a pack on his back which is
his wardrobe for anywhere from four
to IS days. There is premium on every
cubic inch, for into it must 60 his rain
coat, field jacket, change of summer and
winter underwear, extra handkerchiefs.
socks, toilet articles Living out Of
pack makes compactness requisite, and
to those of you who are wondering what
gift to buy for friend in the Army,
hasten to recommend such things E
small, compact leather cases for toile
articles, or small waterproof bags
which to keep handkerchiefs or to
articles.
Chance to Write
A writing kit narrow enough to
into q pack will give the doughboy
chance to write letter now and the.
when he is in reserve" or when tao
tical stalemate gives him an hour or SO
to kill. The same goes for reading mate
rial. Pocket-sized magazines. novels, or
anthologies are godsends In those mo-
ments when tie-up comes.
Through the shuttle method the
Army is able to transport all troops by
truck on larger marches, but when an
area has to be evacuated quickly infantry
companies are often forced to walk as
far as 10 or IL miles along dusty roads
to new assembly point. In the stand
ard infantry regiment, the service, head
quarters, anti-tank companies and the
three heavy weapons companies have
enough trucks to carry all their person.
mel, but the remaining nine rifle" COM
panies must depend upon transporta-
ton from these companies and artillery
and quartermaster units. when 1t can
be had.
Like most of my buddies. this sojourn
to Dixie is being enjoyed because we
never realized that the region could
be 50 different from our homeland in
the North We Yankees" are amazed
to find such mild weather in late Octo-
Der. We are amused by little animals
we have never seen before, such as
chameleons, which change their colors
under our very eyes. We have visited
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Gratitude Won

Gratitude Won
The soldier looks forward to returning
to base camp because 1t offers him an
opportunity to avail himself Of the famed
Southern hospitality, which we know by
now is no myth. The kindness with
which the folk down here-rich and
poor alike-have received us has won our
everlasting gratitude.
To get out of camp to any nearby city,
there is only one way, unless recreation
convoy has been arranged, and that is
by thumb" Ofhcers as we'll as enlisted
men are forced to use such means to get
places. But the Southern motorist sell
dom seems to ignore an appealing thumb
If he has room In cities like Cheraw,
Florence. Darlington and Sumter in
South Carolina. and in Monroe, Wades-
boro and in Charlotte and vicinity in
North Carolina. all you have to do to get
q soft bed and fine Southern cooking in
q private home is to visit a registration
point. But most of the time that isn't
even necessary. If you're standing on
the sidewalk, likely as not motorist will
drive up and invite you to spend the
week end at his home And Southern
cooking is as good as Southern hospital
ity. we have found.
After q week end rest the soldier pulls
out Of bed before dawn Monday morning
to return to the field" If his unit is in
the thick Of combat, he may not eat until
late that night, for his companys
kitchen. travelling in trucks, has never
had an opportunity to set up and serve
q meal. Anticipating such eventualities.
the soldier usually puts stock of candy
bars and other appetite appeasers in his
pack.
With the approach Of more extended
problems, the men are being issued
emergency or Iron rations"-so-called
because they are packed in cans for
eating in the event a soldier or group
may become detached from his unit.
1t is here that goodies sent from home
are most welcome. Occasionally a con-
voy of hungry soldiers will stop near
crossroads store, and 1t will not be long
before the unprepared storekeeper finds
almost his entire candy and food stocks
Evening star., 1941-11-02
By Fred Zusy.

WAUKESHA, Wis, Nov. Ever want
noiseless soup spoon? Or . dripless
doughnut- -dunking gadget7 Or grape
fruit spray screen?
Then Prof. Russell E. Oakes, Wauke-
sha's zany inventor, is your man.
Oakes, who has an advertising business
in Milwaukee, likes to turn out goofy
devices. Among the hundreds Of his
inventions in the last 20 years are such
fancy items as a nose protector for in
dividuals who must keep their noses to
the grindstone, and an automatic sheep
counter for insomnia victims.
The professor knows no limits when
it comes to making life easier for his
fellow man. Let's take q look at his
cigarette lighter.
Prof. Oakes, attired in academic gown,
prop wig and all, demonstrates:
He pours glass of water through .
sponge. As the sponge absorbs weight,
it trips q latch, releasing q rat from
cage.
Mistaking a picture of the professor
for a cheese, the rat springs for it but
lands instead on a platform, which
causes q pin to explode balloon.
Spool Revolves
This drops q weight which causes .
. spool to revolve rapidly. This spool,
covered with sandpaper, scratches and
lights, mind you. q common kitchen
match, which is then applied to the tip
Of ones cigarette.
Just in case the blamed thing doesn't
work after all, box pops open after
every failure and extra matches roll out.
The professor-thats just q title he
adopted-works out his unique solution
to human problems in basement work.
shop.
Recently he's been working on .
mechanism to solve the annoying prob
lem of the telephone that rings when one
is in the bathtub and che dilemma Of
the woman who doesn't know what to do
with her purse in q restaurant.
Oakes began exhibiting his mechanical
Evening star., 1941-11-02
A Soldiers Story Of Army Life

FORT BRAGG, N. C.-You wake up
suddenly from your sleep As you hear a
piercing shout: Everybody up; we're
pulling out In few minutes"
BY the light Of the stars and sometimes
. providential moon, you hurriedly roll
up your dew-saturated blankets, extri-
cate from your pack your aluminium
mess gear and make for the Chow line"
You don't see what you're eating or
drinking, but it's good and stimulating
in the nocturnal dampness. What's more,
1t may be the only warm meal you'll
have until the next nightfau. And in a
few minutes you've got your pack on your
back. q gas mask and carrier over your
left shoulder and Q rifle slung over your
right shoulder. and you're moving.
You're in the Army now, and you're on
maneuve-s, taking part in the extensive
war games Of the 1st Army In the Caro-
Inas.
have been getting up at Sis am. In
warm. clean barracks in the Middle At
lantic area. Before we got out In for
mation for reveille We were shaved and
slicked up as trim as any commuter.
Look at us now! Perhaps with q few
days growth Of beard, and clothes bit
smelly and sticky because we've worn
them "a hours . day for quite . few
days. When We do bathe. brush our
teeth and shave, We do 1t with cold water
and We have to do 1t all on one canteen
"a quartz Of water q day. And the bath
depends upon how much Of the 1llot-
ment We want to keep for drinking pur-
poses.
Scarcity of Water
After several hours Of trudging Or rid
ing along the dusty bsckroads IN
drought afflicted Dixie, some of the SOL
diers remark wistfully, Gee. for the good
old days back at camp" Another says
Evening star., 1941-11-02
"It tastes 1Utul""

again we realize that the medical detach-
ments must chlorinate all the drinking
water obtained from springs or streams.
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Scarcity of Water

he wrote home for water, while every
soldier has come to the conclusion that
1t Is easier to buy beer than water.
Maneuvers prove to be . good deal
tougher than you first expected. Grum-
bling Is rampant for the first few days.
but after q while you come to understand
why 1t Is necessary for the Army to move
at the most outlandish times and why
water is scarce, and why meals are SEEM
ingly never on time. Buttonholed, the
great majority of us will admit that
maneuvers, with all their rigors, have it
all over life at camp.
But there are times when you can
luxuriate in the warm Carolina sunshine
for . day or two with nothing to do but
relax, sleep and eat. That Is when your
regiment or division is in reserve" You
have an opprtunity to- get that long
awaited shave, catch up on your corre-
spondence, give your body bath If the
company kitchen can spare q pail of
water or If you can get it from neigh
boring farmer. II it isn't too far away
from last payday, you may see good
deal Of card playing and rolling bones"
Just before retiring there Is the in
evitable group singing to the accom-
paniment Of q guitar-brought along by
q buddy who loves the instrument enough
not to be worried about the added bur-
den. There is time to recount the funny
incidents of the past few days, for In
stance, when one Of the boys fell into the
garbage pit during the blackout supper
the night before.
Not q Lazy Lot
But when your outfit Is In combat"
1t Is quite q different matter. Because
troops march Or conveys move as often
a. possible under the protection Of dark
ness, the soldier in a combat unit can
never be sure OF an unbroken nights
sleep. The soldier must get his sleep
where he finds 1t, and soldiers are not
necessarily the lazy lot an uninformed
observer might think them to be as he
sees scores of olive drab clad men
sprawled out In slumber under q noon
day sun.
While the maneuver period for the 1st
Army In the South covers two months, it
is not one continuous war" The war
games" consist Of . series Of individual
Iproblens" lasting anywhere fIhm four
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-29

She wondered how he had got it. Maybe from Pegs father.
 And yet |.
 Sandy twice in the past winter had let her steer for a moment, his hand above hers. The earth had fallen away above the silver sea and she had aimed at white light trek that led to the moon.
 Well, here she was. Honey moon suite,' she murmured.
 It was later, much later, that she wakened. For Q frightened moment she wondered where she was. Her back ached from the mattress on the iron cot, She was cold, too, for the prickly blanket had slipped to the floor. She felt the white silk slip, the gossamer undertakings that she was wearing.
 The police matron stumbled sleepily along the corridor. Miss Allen, Q young man says he has to see you, A fine young man. Faith, If was younger and hadn't buried my third, I'd make up a dress with lace and catch his eye myself"
 But how did he know that I'm