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Evening star., 1941-12-21
P. E. O. Chapter B
To Follow Luncheon
With Yule Program

A luncheon followed by Christ
mas program will be given by Chap
ter B. P. E. o. Sisterhood, for Off
GERS of the district chapter and pres
idents of the 20 local chapters
Tuesday at 1890 pm. at the club
house of the American Association
of University Women.
The program will include an orig
inal reading, The Story of Christ
mas" by Miss Alice Hutchins Drake,
and a group of songs by Mrs. Emily
Marsh Withers, soprano, and Mrs.
Helen Turley. contralto. Following
the program gifts will be distributed
from a tree.
Hostesses for the luncheon are the
officers of Chapter B, including Mrs.
Edgar B. Merritt. president; Mrs.
Robert H Young, vice president:
Mrs. E. F. Mckay. recording secre-
tary: Mrs. J. F. Albert correspond
ing secretary: Mrs w B. Cafky
treasurer; Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler,
chaplain, and Mrs, Nathan B Will
liams, guard.
SHdpleI - Will HDlO SIlI lSluldS
party Tuesday at the home of the
president. Mrs Roy L. Cobb. 1900
Iris street NV. Piano selections
will be contributed by Miss Alice
Applegate. a member of the chap
ter who will also accompany the
group in the singing of carols. The
B. I. LIS. who are husbands of mem
bers, will be special guests at the
party.
A check to be used for shoes for
needy school students has been sent
by the chapter to the student loan
fund of the District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers.
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fathers served in the Revolution
arv War, are Mrs. Annie Knight
Gregory of Williamsport, Pa, and
Mrs. Caroline p Randall OF
Claremont, N. H. Mrs. Randall,
who is 81 years old, has been Ill
recently, but the 9S-year-old Mrs.
Gregory is reported to be as
sprightly as ever.
Accorded every honor possible
bv the D. A. r. membership, the
two are provided with pensions
bv the national society.
City Club Starts
March of Dollars"
The Women's City Club has
started march of dollars
which. it hopes, will earn as much
for the treasury as a similar
project last year.
Miss Lois Garlock, ways and
means chairman, turned over 81
each to a group of members, who
we're instructed to multiply the
funds to the best OF their re-
spective abilities.
Good cooks in the club prob
ably will use their dollars to buy
ingredients for cake and candies
and then sell the finished product
at handsome profit. Other dol
lars will buy materials for such
articles as aprons, which also will
be sold.
One ingenious member last year
invested her dollar in gasoline
and then chauffeured friends who
were willing to pay for ride.
Reports on the project will be
made at q meeting early in Feb
ruary.
Occupational Council
To Continue Job Clinic.
Declaring that war does not
solve the problem of the older
worker" the Women's Occupa-
tional Council announces that it
will continue its job clinic for
unemployed mature women.
Council officials believe that
the industrial expansion resulting
from our entry into war will in
crease job opportunities for ma
ture workers in certain fields.
Older women in Washington,
however, have not so far found
the labor market receptive to
them, it is said.
They are securing poorly paid
jobs in the stores and a few have
obtained clerical jobs in the Gov
ernment," according to the Or
ganization's latest reports.
IF older women are to take ad-
vantage Of the openings that may
become available. they will need
counsenng about job = finding
techniques and help from en-
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The annual Christmas program
of the Washington Council OF
Church Women will open at 5
ously with the lighting of the
Presidents Community Christmas
Tree on the White House grounds.
Mrs. George A. Ross. president of
the council and member Of the
Presidents Tree Committee, has
sent invitations to pastors of
churches throughout the city asking
their cooperation in promoting
community carol singing on church
steps at twilight Christmas eve.
AS the President presses but
ton. which will light the tree and
release Christmas chimes, it is
planned that the bells heard over
radios placed in alleys and churches
will provide the signal for singing
the carols
Miss Eta Mai Russell. executive
secretary of the council. expressed
the hope that passers-by will pause
and join with church members in
the carol services.
The councils customary carol
program in Washington alleys also
will be carried out Many Of the
neighborhoods which will have
Christmas trees have prepared for
the services by cleaning and white
| washing areas where festivities will
| be. centered. =
Gifts for families In these com ;
munities will be delivered by men,
/ bers of the council to the individual
| homes instead of at the tree Miss
| Russell explained that this arrange
ment enables each family to open
! the gifts around its own hearth
stone Christmas morning. Names
and ages of children in the families
to be remembered are listed several
weeks prior to Christmas so that
each child is assured of receiving
an appropriate gift.
! Last year. according to Miss Rus
sell, over 5000 gifts were distributed
and this year the list will be larger
she says.
The council also Is sponsoring its
adopt a boy custom which has
proved so successful in years past
This plan provides funds for new
clothing for underprivileged boys.
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Party for Soldiers and
Defense Workers

The Washington Club will have q
festive air this afternoon when
members. in cooperation with the
United Service Organizations will
hold open house from to s o'clock
for young women defense workers
and service men.
Supper will be served and
program of music will be presented
by Miss Ruth Brunner, soloist, ac-
con1panied by Mrs. Carvel Hall.
HostesSes are Mrs. Frank F. Bunk
er and Miss Mabel Cook. director OF
the U. S. o. for the Y. w. c. A.
Those assisting will include Mrs,
Gregg c. Birdsall, Mrs. Douglas P.
Birnie Mrs. James Farmer, Mrs. w.
z. Stafford. Mrs. Henry c. Hall, Mrs.
Marcus w. Price, Mrs. Arthur H
McConville. Mrs. Edgar Smith, Mrs
Ancher Lynne. Mrs. Benjamin w
Porter. Miss Josephine Polrer, Mrs
Dale Drain and Mrs. r. Winston
Holt.
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had gone Of to lunch. so the boys
went away. When the police re-
turned to stage the demonstration
there were no students around. The
whole affair intended to be dramatic
was a farce" Mrs. Marquis laughed.
Tells Of HitIerS
Slapping Ciano's Face.
Pointing out that relations be-
tween Hitler and the Italian dictator
had not been entirely happy she
said. 1T was common gossip IN
Rome that when Count Ciano visited
Hitler during first negotiations
Hitler lost his temper and slapped
Ciano's face"
Nazi pressure upon the Italians
has become so great that now every
bank in the country is under NaA
control, Mrs Marquis said. Food
stuffs and supplies are conflscated
and sent to Germany without the
formality Of asking Italian CO.
operation, she added.
italians are rationed closely on
sugar and olive oil" she continued,
which is ridiculous as there Is suffl-
cient for home use and for export. 5"
Potatoes are so scarce, Mrs. Mar
uuis said, that messenger from the
American Embassy, after standing
in a market line for five hours, was
able to obtain only 10 for the entire
embassy staff.
Strangers passing through Rome
might be surprised at certain condi-
tions which appear anomalous, Mrs.
Marquis remarked.
Italian Women
Invest in Jewelry.
Although food is scarce, one will
see many Italian women laden with
| Jewels" she explained. Il have seen
their arms covered with gold and
/ jeweled bracelets. They are putting
all the money they have in such
| things. They have no faith in their
currency and fear the lira will blow
up at any time. They are also
buying antiques and other such
valuables which a few years ago
sold for little money" she added.
Moving picture houses do thrlv-
ing business in Italy. Mrs. Marquis
said, and the opera continues ex-
cellent programs.
A successful playwright. whose
productions have appeared in
London as well as this country and
also a former actress, Mrs. Marquis
speaks with professional praise Of
Italian moving pictures.
They are wonderful" she said
"and I believe that the future OF
Italy will be in moving pictures. The
people are so artistic and their idea
of color and direction is perfect"
After the closing Of the Interna-
tional Institute last spring Mrs
Marquis returned to this country
with her husband. who is now ad-
wiser of foreign affairs at the De-
partment of Agriculture. Her home
at the Dorchester Apartments Is
filled with interesting and unusual
antiques which she collected during
her residence abroad.
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Personal and Impersonal >>> By Frances l">

ployed women" officials contend.
Furthermore. the long time
social problem of the older work.
er is obscured, not solved, BY the
war
Jobs Found for Some;
Advice Is Its Aim.
The clinic. which has been
meeting at headquarters of the
Washington Board of Trade, sus-
pended its weekly sessions during
the Christmas and New Year hol-
idays. but Christmas party was
held last week.
Sponsored by the Women's Oc-
cupational Council. the clinic has
been able to find positions for
some of the women who attend,
although its original purpose vas
to provide job counseling.
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Riverdale Club Plans
Christmas Theme

Christmas in Other Lands" will be
the theme of the Christmas meeting
of the Woman's Club of Riverdale
Tuesday at pm at the home of
Mrs. w. A Turner, 4209 Sheridan
street University Park. Guest
speakers will be Mrs. Peter Legin,
county chairman Of American cit
izenship. and Mrs Harold Benjamin
Christmas music will be featured.
The program will be in charge of
Mrs. H. F. Mitchell. chairman of
the department of American citi-
zenship. Hostesses assisting Mrs.
Turner will include Mrs 0. n Eaton,
Mrs. A. J. Perry, Mrs H. C. McPhee.
Mrs. J. S. Caldwell Mrs. H. F.
Mitchell and Mrs c. A. Magoon.
Evening star., 1941-12-21

and expressions OF Official ledSut
opinion on measures upon which it:
knowledge permits judgment were
among the techniques outlined BY
the committee.
"A new direction, a new tempo
are asked of the League Of Women
Voters by a country at war, ac-
cording to a formal statement made
by the committee. This means
new methods of work.
Must Share knowledge
With General Public.
THE comfortable safety of being
sure of the wisdom OF every small
detail before expressing an opinion
even our own education by eXhauS-
tive, careful study groups-these we
must temporarily sacrifice. The
league. to pull its oar today, must
stop boarding its experience and
knowledge within its membership
1t must share this experience and
knowledge with the general public;
it must reach not five but five hun
dred times as many as in the past
Study groups and perfectionism
cannot do this
The league council consists OF the
national board OF directors, the
president and one additional repre-
sentative from each affiliated State
league.
Mrs. Eugene Callaghan. president
of the VotelesS District League OF
Women Voters, is planning to at
tend. Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, first
vice president of the national or
ganization, also will go from here
The January meeting will be an
extraordinary session of the coun-
Gil which has never before felt the
need of departing from its schedule
of biennial gatherings on alternate
wears from the biennial conventions
A program of war work is new to
the league. however. for it came into
being in 1920 shortly after women
had won the right Of suffrage.
Local League Schedules
Several Emphasis Programs.
In the meantime, the local vote
less league is following the lead OF
the national and has arranged sew
eral programs on subjects already
listed for emphasis.
The series, which opened with a
discussion of civil liberties III war
time on Friday, will be continued
in January with a special program
devoted to the conduct and obJec-
tives Of the war
A February session will take up
the subject of conserving social
gains in time of war and March
meeting will present the findings
Of study group on Federal and
local taxation.
Evening star., 1941-12-21

Mrs. Jean Bennett smiles phil
osophically when she remembers
an invitation she received IN
Spokane, Wash. shortly before
the japanese attack on Hawaii.
AS national president of the
American Federation of Sorop-
timist Clubs. she was on an Off
cial West Coast tour which in
cluded regional conference IN
Spokane.
Talking over with one Of the
members the possibility of var.
she received a cordial invitation
to return to Spokane for the
duration" should this country be-
come involved in the conflict,
Mrs. Bennett related.
My friend argued that the
National Capital would be the
first target of an enemy air raid"
Mrs. Bennett said. "and she
wanted me to go on with my work
under peaceful conditions
Shortly after her return home,
the reports came in that Spokane
was in a blackout and its radio
stations temporarily silenced.
At the time, of course, the
city of Washington was able to
continue normal activities.
Now Busy With Plans
For Christmas Party. .
Mrs. Benefits Western tour
was both literally and figuratively
flying trip. Taking plane
here she attended the regional
conference. installed the officers
of four new clubs in Idaho. Ore
gon and the State OF Washington
and was back home five days
later.
She is nov busy with plans for
the annual party given at the
Capitol Theater on Christmas
eve for Central Union Mission,
Of which she is superintendent.
Two Real Daughters
To Receive Cash Gifts.
IN line with the trend of max
irr Christmas gifts this year as
practical as possible, the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
haze adopted new plan for re-
mcnbering the two surviving
real daughters" during the hcll-
days.
Instead of the customary deluge
of post cards and trinkets from
thousands of society members,
the two will receive small cash
fits. according to the arrange
~A c. lined by Mrs. William H.
r3r--si|ent general Of the
- r." whose
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A. w. Y. S.
to
Enroll Aides
Group to Move
Its Offices and
Training School

The Washington unit of the Amer
lean Women's Voluntary Services
will move it's Offices and training
school to 2l70 Florida avenue NV.
next week end and will start classes
in the new headquarters on Decem-
Der 30, according to an announce
ment by the acting chairman. Miss
Anita Phipps.
Enrolment for classes will be
made at the present headquarters
at 164O Connecticut avenue NV.
until the change in location has been
effected, however.
Plans are being made TO open
classes in civilian protection 10 non
members, as we'll as members, with
out cost All other classes require en-
rollment with the A. w. V. S. and a
small membership fee.
Although all instruction Is free
OF charge, the A. w, V, S. requires
60 hours of active service a year
from each of its members.
Mrs. Long to Continue
As Training School Head.
Mrs. Daniel c. Long will continue
as director of the training school
unit. assisted by Mrs. Donald
Church and Miss Murlel Kinds.
Mrs. Dean G. Acheson has been
appointed dean of the training
school.
Glass chairmen have been an
nounced as follows: Mrs. Hubert
BisselIe. Mrs T. o. H JaX. Miss
Gretchen Simmons, Miss Millie
Taylor. Mrs. Sarah Lederer, Miss
Jane Skelly. Mrs Charles Vim,
Mrs. Gordon King Mrs. Augusta
Urouhart. Miss Beatrice Sands.
Mrs. Robert Lovett and Mrs. Alec
Preece.
Current courses offered in the
organization defense training
school include both the standard
and advanced Red Cross course in
first aid. the Red Cross nutrition
/ course. a four hour course in tele-
phone switchboard operation and
classes in afraid precaution, home
gardens and flngerprinting.
+ Motor corps members are required
to take courses in safety education,
map reading, running repairs and
first aid.
Courses the unit proposes TO add
to its curriculum include food and
defense. land army. mobile canteen.
tWo-Way radio. mental testing. care
of refugee and evacuated children
and physical fitness.
The food and defense class will
consist of a course of lectures to be
sponsored by the Graduate School
of the Department of Agriculture
and the Nutrition Committee OF the
District of Columbia.
Volunteer Agricultural
Workers to Be Trained.
Relative to the proposed land
army. negotiations are under way
with the extension service OF the
University of MARYLAND and the
! Beltsville Research Center to train
/ volunteer agricultural workers.
The mental testing course is de-
signed to train volunteers to assist
in draft clinics. and the tvo-Uay
radio course. with instruction By an
Army officer. is planned especially
for the motor corps.
I In its new headquarters, which
will be located in the building re-
Gently donated by Mrs. Sumner
Welles, the A. w. V. S. will be able to
expand its training courses to take
care of its increased enrolment.
More than 400 members have joined
the organization since our entry into
war. bringing the present volunteer
membership TO over 1900.
The organization not only supplies
civilian defense training but places
its volunteers where they can be
most useful to both civil and mill
tarv authorities
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Mrs. ]. c. Marquis Tells
OF Nazi>DOminatedI Italy
Former American Resident of Rome
Declares Mussolini Is Hated Now;
Saws Hitler Slapped Count Ciano
mas tree
By GRETCHEN SMITH.

occupied and dominated as any OF the nations
according Mrs j. CLYDE Marquis VINO arrived IN
Washington recently from Rome
As resident italian capital for years. Mrs Marquis
the happenings IN the
former
American Consul watched the Fascist troops marcn
Mr. Marquis
American Institute of Agriculture in Rome
that institution she excited
Evening star., 1941-12-21

sick in bed, had been ordered by the
police to Join a crowd to cheer and
applaud Mussolini, who was to make
a speech from his balcony that day.
ON another occasion, when Mus
solini wanted to express disapproval
of the United States. he ordered a
group of students to assemble in
front Of the American Embassy" she
continued. The police were to
force them to shout derisions. but
when the boys arrived the police
Evening star., 1941-12-21
League of Women Voters
General Council to Hold
Special Meeting January 7>8
New Direction and Tempo Pictured
AS Need in War Time, With
Partial Sacrifice of Studies

In the belief that new methods
of Women Voters its obligations
the General Council in Indianapolis January
Marguerite NJ Wells, president
nent
Preliminary
the
organization cual
program
Executive Committee recommended less accumulation OF
themselves sharing with the pub
the adopted program
the benefit of the general public
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Carols at Library

A program of Christmas carols
will be presented by the Study
Guild Catholic Library. 1725 Rhode
Island avenue NV, at 8:15 pm.
Tuesday. The public Is invited.
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Exhibit at Arts Club

An exhibit of water colors by
Frances w. Wheeler and DR.. Henry
w Olson will open at the Arts Club
this afternoon from S to $50 pm.
Tea will be served.
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Money to Be Topic

Women and Their Money" will
be the subject of a talk by Mrs.
Mabel S. White of local brokerage
firm before members of the current
events section of the Women's City
Club at pm. Tuesday.
A meeting of the Board Of Direc-
tors will be held at pm. Tuesday
Evening star., 1941-12-21

Nine steel minesweepers are to :
constructed in New Zealand.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-25

fnLISBoN, July 25-(R-Sev-
Sral hundred Americans. In
eluding consular officials, en-
ployes and their families order
Cd out Of Germany. Italy Ind
Axis-occupied countries, are
ochaduled to sail from home to-
2ight aboad the u. s. Naval
Transport West Point.
4, The passenger list was COM
pletAd last evening when q spec
III train bearing So tired. sooty
nan, women and children cross
"a into Portugal at vilar For
moso-the last Of 248 Ameri-
cans to arrive from Germany
and German-occupied territory.
STAIN CROSSES BORDER
rs Word that their train had
crossed the border was the sig
nal for 200 German consular
officials and their families
ordered out Of the United Stat
ss-to disembark from the West
Point.
One hundred and thirty-sev-
On Italians, also brought here
from the United States aboard
the transport, had been permit
ted to disembark Wednesday
after q trainload of Americans
arrived from italy.
Among the Americans who
arrived yesterday from the
Reich were Is volunteer ambu-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-25
EVACUATED CITY
FOLK LEARN WAYS
OF RUSTIC HOSTS

MA 00gv0oo usou CoxooooooooS
LONDON, July 26-When
King 0sofge suggested that the
Dean Of Westminster and Mrs.
dc Lahgilliore move into Buck
ingham Palaee when they were
bombed out Of their historic
home, he w1s only doing what
countless hundreds Of his loyal
subjects have been doing ever
since the Germans started their
blitxkrieg.
British hospitality II no long
or q matter Of formal invitations
which require getting out the
best linen and silver. Friends
and even strangers are put up for
4 night, . week, even longer, on
the spur Of the moment. House
wives don't and cannot 60 into
q tailspin because somebody has
dropped In unexpectedly for din
ner or 4 bed They are learning
to take things % thay come and
often w0nder how thay managed
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-25
Group to Leave Lisbon
Aboard the West Point
Al Ordered Out Of Germany. ltaIy
and Axis Occupied Countries

lance drivers, who were bound
for the middle east aboard the
Egyptian Ship ZaInxam when
she was torped6es and sunk
April II In the South Atlantic.
TOO TIRED
Most Of them were too tired
to talk much, but said they had
been treated well BY the Ger
mans during the time they were
held In the requisitioned hotel
ut Lure, France.
At first, one Of the drivers
said, the Germans let them "a
shopping under guard, but he
added:
"They got less kind to VI after
three Of our men-Roy Col
cord. Donald King and william
Davidson - escaped, and our
guard received instructions to
shoot II any Of us tried the
same thing"
The three drivers entered
Switzerland and subsequently
Joined the diplomatic group en-
route from Italy to Lisbon.
Two other ambulance driv-
ers-James Stewart and Thorn
as o. Greenough-previously
had escaped by leaping from a
train near Poitiers on June 20
They made their way across
France, finally reached Lisbon
and sailed for America on the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-25
BIitz Teaches Britons New Neighborness
COUNTRY PEOPLE
BENEFIT FROM
STEADY INFLUX

70 complicate life 70 before the
blitx.
This new hospitality u evident
On . grand, collective scale.
Evacuation from urban areas ID
becoming better organised, with
country towns and villages In
"safe areas" rapidly changing
with the influx Of city folk.
The mixing Of country ''hoets''
and city "guests'' he's henedted
both, and social am1nitieo BE-
TWEEN the Two are beine en6our-
aged hy the government IN the
dsvslepment Of wartime social
contGtS.
PooRxR FAlGILIkS
WE1B SUl18913S
EvacuAtion for the less 1ottu-
nate classes has been thu ooe
sore point, with mothers s9pora-
ted from their children, or 4AIhi-
lies billsted on grudging house
holders. The lack Of companlon-
ship. TOO, made matters worse,
Literally hundreds Of mothers
returned % London apd othsG
large cities because % Loneliness
and lack Of sympathy. STEPS
have bS4n taken, 10 remedy uh4se
important dstaiis. but 6f1lcial-
dom u never fast-movine.
There b one shining exception.
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