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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-08

eBERLlN. April s-(AP)-0ermons eIoimed todoy that
their troops from Bulgaria and Runono bod odvoneeo 10
Skople important industrial and nitoy eente! IN so"e"
Yuooslovo obout 100 miles northwest OF Soonko.
MISSING Bomber is Sighted
eNoRFoLK Va, April e-tAPl-Novol authorities re-
obot noon todoy the weeooe Of big naval potro bomber
missing since yesterday morning.
Germans Press Balkan Drive
.ReRl IN Aprl 8-(AP)- Germonys offensive on the
eek and Yuoosov fronts being kept under odverse
conditions the air and the ground the n9n eomono
reported todoy.
Serbs Take Albanian Town
eBERN, Switzerland, April s-tAP)Adviees received by
the Yoosov eooon here today sold hot Yueosov forces
bod captured Scutor, Albania.
Trak SeiZes British Base
evCHY Fronce April 8-(AP)-A dispatch from Beirut,
Lebonon to the French information office todoy soo rok
toops last noht seized the British eviction bose OF Cn'de-
bone near Boedod.
Axis Takes Port Of Derna
.RoMe April s-tAP)-An Official announcement sold to-
dov thot toon and German troops had occupied the loyon
port Of Derno
Hungary Enemy Territory
eLONDON, April s-tAP)-Brtoin has DECIDED to regard record
Hunoory "os territory under enemy occupoton the ministry
of economic warfare announced todoy.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

and much cultivated land fell into
disuse. Only in comparatively re-
cent years has irrigation again be-
come important. Farming still is
one Of the most primitive occupa-
tions in the Bible Lands.
Wheat and barley grow we'll in
some sections, but there is not al
ways enough grain to feed the en-
tire population, small as it is. Cot
ton and tobacco are being raised in
increasing quantities for export
Syria, with groves of mulberry trees.
cultivates SilkWormS.
The lower mountain slopes near
the Mediterranean are covered with
olive and fruit trees. Oranges make
up nearly half the exports from
Palestine, whose groves. orchards,
vineyards and red-roofed houses give
the country resemblance to South
ern California. From Basra. Iraq,
the home town Of Sindbad the
Sailor, is shipped more than three
fourths Of the worlds date supply.
These products bring a measure Of
trade to the Near East. but there are
other geographic factors even more
important in restoring its early
prominence.
Because of its position between
two continents, the region has been
crossed by trade routes ever since
the first camel caravans. For a
time, after Portuguese ships found
way around Africa to India and
China, land travel across the Near
Evening star., 1941-11-16

East dwindled. Then the Suez
Canal brought increased shipping
to the Red Sea and the Eastern
Mediterranean In 1910 railroad
was completed from the eastern
shore of the BoSporuS opposite
Istanbul, Turkey, through Baghdad
to Basra. This is the Asiatic portion
of the Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad
by which Kaiser Wilhelm II once
hoped to connect Germany with
oriental trade routes Planes from
England to India serve as modern
magic carpets" over the land Of
the Arabian Nights.
The machine age, which gave the
Near East better transportation. also
created demand for its most valu-
able natural resource-oil. There
were signs of oil in ancient DAYS
Legend says that Noah calked his
ark with asphalt from springs near
Hit The Biblical fiery furnace"
near Kirkuk in the present Iraq oil
fields, may have been burning
natural gas.
1t took English, American. Neither
lands and French companies to de-
velop the oil deposits. The wells
are inland; it would be stupendous
enterprise to haul the oil across the
desert by trucks or railroad tank
cars.
So pipe lines were laid. Okla
homa and Texas workers con-
structed two-forked line from Iraq
to the Mediterranean; other lines
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Wilson Teachers Group
Makes Tour of Virginia

Sixty-one students from Wilson
Teachers College. accompanied by
parents and faculty members. are
returning this afternoon from a
week end trip through Colonial Vir-
ginia.
Sponsored by the social science
division of the college, the trip
started at pm. yesterday. From
Washington the group drove to
Fredericksburg and then on to
Wakefield. going through the George
Washington Memorial Mansion and
taking a tour of the grounds. At
Stratford Hall, after visiting the
building and grounds. the group ate
a picnic lunch and then continued
on to Yorktown, where the points
of interest seen included the ship
museum and the battlefield.
jamestown was the next stop and
included visits to the monuments,
markers and other places of interest
on the island.
Late last night the group reached
Williamsburg. and this morning was
to make a tour of the restored Co.
lonial city.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

lead from the Iranian mountains
to the Persian Gulf. Pumps force
the oil through the pipes to seaports,
where flexible hoses pour it into
tankers. So rapidly has the indus
try grown that Iran ranks fourth
among the countries of the world
in oil production, and Iraq is eighth.
Few other natural products, how
ever, are found in the Bible lands.
Potash is extracted from the Dead
Sea. lowest spot on earth. At the
south end of the sea are large salt
works.
Look at the change that the Oil
business and other industry has
wrought in cities of the Near East.
Basra is bustling port where oil
we'll equipment is brought for ship
ment TO the inland fields. Across
the Iranian border one of the
worlds largest oil refineries stands
at Abadan. In Palestine, Haifa has
become a manufacturing center for
-four. soap and cement. as we'll as
being the southern terminal of the
Iraq pipe lines.
1t is in such cities that moderni-
zation Of the Near East has been
greatest. But changes are spread
ing even to the nomad Arab tribes.
Goat-hair tents which serve these
desert wanderers as homes also
shelter their shiny new automobiles!
INERT Sunday: Japan, an empire
spun from silken Threads
Evening star., 1941-11-16
{. u. Classes 10 Stage
Annual Tug-of-War Today

The traditional yearly contest be-
tween the freshman class of Catholic
University and the sophomores-the
tug-of-war staged annually in the
stadlllm-is scheduled at 1920
o'clock this morning.
A committee for the contesting
classmen inspected the rope, the
nose and terrain of the stadium yes-
terday and pronounced the field of
combat in shape. Approval also was
given to the rules set up by the
Student Council which stipulate that
the. winner will be the side which
pulls Its opponents through the
stream of water played on the center
OF the rope two out of three times.
plus the grand finale which pro-
Vldes that the members of the losing
SIDE must go under the stream in
dlvidually for their annual ducking.
II the freshmen win. they will be
permitted to doff their freshman
caps and Immediately be given other
upperclassmen privileges which nor
mally they would not enjoy until
December l.
For the 18th consecutive year.
Bandmaster Paul Leman has begun
rehearsals of the Catholic University
Band in preparation for the annual
concert program and the other
campus activities in which the
musicians take an important part.
Although several capable musicians
are missing from the ranks this year
chiefly through graduation and the
operations of the Selective Service
Act, Director Leman has enrolled
new men to fill these vacancies
Among the newcomers to the band
this year are Martin Imbach. Henry
Jordan. Joseph Nagoski. Barton
Pairo. Robert Spindler and Anthony
Chastka
DR.. Roy j. Deferrari. secretary
general of the university, and DR..
Richard j. Purcell, professor of his
tory. will attend the sessions of the
Middle States Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools and affiliated
associations in Atlantic City Friday
and Saturday. DR.. Deferrari is a
member Of the commission on insti-
tutions Of higher education. DR..
Purcell, as president of the Middle
States Association of History and
Social Science Teachers, will preside
over the sessions of that group
Joseph D. Scrocco, a senior from
Orange. N j., has been elected vice
president of the Architectural So
ciety of the university to fill the
vacancy created when George Nc
Cauley volunteered for service with
the Army Air Corps. Under the
leadership of President Bernard
Kelleny of Eatontown. N. j., the club
Is now preparing busy season of
social activities
Evening star., 1941-11-16
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

When they enter the doorway Of
the District of Columbia Florence
Crittenton Home at 4759 Reservoir
road NV, an affiliate of the Com
munity Chest, very few of those
who seek its shelter fully realize it is
a threshold of hope as well as a
place of refuge.
Almost uniformly they are bitterly
rebellious. A few are sullen and
defiant. All are terrified at the
manner in which life has trapped
them.
The expression on the faces of
these girls is not mature; 1t is pitt
fully young, for their average age Is
only II.
Yet they are facing the future
and the ordeal of motherhood with
out benefit Of wedding ring or
clergy-many of them without even
the security OF q home to take their
nameless babies after they are born.
Trained in Service.
The aim of the Florence Critten-
ton Home Is to teach unmarried
mothers that their lives are not
necessarily wrecked. The home does
this, not by precept alone, but by
definite religious, educational and
recreatienal programs which help
them in useful service that will
enable them to earn a living for
themselves and their babies when
they leave.
Training is given. whenever possi-
BILE. to fit each girls capacities, tai
ents and previous educational back
ground.
Names of the girls are never given
to any one except Miss Anne Rogers,
the homes case worker, and her
staff. They know one another SIM
ply by their first names.
Since most of the girls are wholly
unprepared to cope with the practi-
cal aspects of life, instruction is
given in small and large quantity
cooking, menu planning, meal buy
ing and budgetins. as well as nutri.
ton and the proper serving Of .
mGA sTh9eo aro glasses n sWing.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
American j. Students
0pen Drive for Funds

Students at the College Of Arts
and Sciences of American Uni
versity will open their annual fund
drive November "a. On November
% reports will be presented to the
student body.
American University students each
year participate In a drive for
money to be distributed among the
various charitable organizations In
Washington. The drive, under the
general direction of Carl Byham,
president of the student body, will
have as it's chairman Miss Judson
French, who will be assisted by the
Misses Ruth Geran, Mary Lou
Courtney and Margaret Harmed.
Included on the program during
the week will be a fencing demon
stration by Miss March Walker,
fencing coach; a dramatic perform
ance by the faculty, under the direc-
ton of Prof. Charles M. Clark OF
the English department. and a dra-
matte skit, How to Get Your Man
and Hold Him." by the students.
The final program Saturday night
will be a stage show and dance in
the college gymnasium.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

about seven months. No girl is
permitted to leave until both she and
her baby are in good health.
Occasionally marriages take place
in the home. 1t Is more often a
childhood associate who comes for
ward and is willing to give the
child a name, than to the actual
father.
After their babies are three
months old. girls who have shown
an aptitude for practical nursing
and baby care may be entered in
the homes special course in these
subjects under Miss GLADYS Phipps,
R. NJ. and her assistants. These
girls remain year or more-and
when they leave usually experience
little difficulty in securing positions.
According to Miss Jean S. Cole,
who has been superintendent of the
Florence Crittenton Home for the
last II years. "the roster of girls
who must seek its help and protec-
ton has been drawn from all walks
OF life and is absolutely no respecter
OF any particular scale of society"
63 Institutions in Country.
There are So similar institutions
in the United States. All of the
homes are in the broadest sense
a memorial to Florence Crittenton,
4-year-old daughter of Charles Crit
tenton, a New York merchant. On
the death of his daughter from scar
let fever the grief stricken father
gave generously from his fortune
and retired from business to give
his life to the cause of aiding un-
fortunate girls and of inspiring 9TH
ers to help.
Launching Of this work and initia-
ton of its rehabilitation and edu-
cational programs, which are its
chief strength today, are closely
linked with the Nations Capital
through the vision of Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett. In 1898, when her
husband, the Rev. Robert S. Barrett.
was general missioner of the
Episcopal Church here, she was the
leading spirit in obtaining a ma
tional charter for the Florence Crit
tenton movement as federation of
autonomous units.
Mrs. Barrett also carried out an
idea OF Mr.. Crittenton's in organiz-
ing the Florence Crittenton Circles
consisting of groups of women,
usually connected with churches,
who hold meetings and invite their
neighbors and friends to help the
work of the home. Among the first
OF these circles here were the
Helping Hand, Sunshine and Chevy
Chase. The Community Chest
finances the day programs of the
home.
The president of Washington's
Florence Crittenton Home is Mrs.
John c. Freeland. Mrs. Frederick
G. Umhau is chairman of the Pro-
gram Committee; Mrs. Paul F.
Loehler is in charge of its home
making unit; Mrs. Richard Sauer
sponsors the girls club; Mrs. Ben T.
Webster directs the needlework, Mrs.
H. A. Swanson the sewing school,
Mrs. Robert HAZEL the religious pro-
gram, Mrs. Thornton Owen, business
instruction, and Mrs. A. J. Somer-
Vile the securing and wrapping of
the daily cheer" packages given the
girls during disqualification. Mrs.
Edwin L. Yates is chairman of pub
licity.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
crocheting, knitting and weaving.

erocheting, knitting and weaving.
Twice a week the home conducts
classes in typing and stenography.
Emphasis is placed on spelling,
tipping and Office accounting in all
of the homes business practice
classes. Girls also are trained for
sales work in stores.
Helped to Get Job.
In every instance. the girl Is
helped to establish herself in some
kind of a job when she is ready to
leave the home.
Miss Elizabeth Whisner, the
homes director of recreation, sees
to it that the girls are benefited by
a variety of cultural and recrea-
tional programs. When they are
near the end Of their stay, they
are taken to the Y. w. c. A. to
visit such Of its clubs as may prove
d help and guidance.
Up to it's capacity of approximate
ly so girls, the homes policy is never
to refuse place to any girl who
Is worthy. Each case is investigated
solely on its own merits, although
there Is the closest possible co-opera-
ton with other welfare agencies.
Complete hospital facilities for the
mothers, and the baby nursery, oc-
cupy separate wing at the home.
The site of the institution formerly
was known as Castle View, and
the red brick house, which now
constitutes the main building, was
the home of Benjamin. Lamar Miner.
Its purchase for the Florence Crit
tenton Home was chiefly possible
through the generosity of the late
Jacob H. Lichliter, a native of Lam
caster, Pa. who practiced law here
and was master Of Lafayette Masonic
Lodge.
Minimum Stay Is Three Months.
The minimum stay of girl in the
Florence Crittenton Home ordinarily
Is three months, but In cases where
her family will take her back into
her own home, or make proper pre-
may bs shortened. Most girls stay
NG,on 1oe har elsswhsra, The time
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Georgetown 10 Send
Delegates 10 Farley
Atlehigh University
War and Peace to Be
Discussed by
intercollegiate Clubs

Georgetown University will send
an official delegation 10 the Middle
Atlantic Conference of Intercol-
legiate Clubs to be held November
1929 at Lehigh University.
Students from 100 or more COL
leges and universities will attend
this conference to discuss war and
peace. Last year the Georgetown
International Relations Club was
host to the conference, when approx
1mately ITO institutions sent dele
gates.
Under the direction Of Dr.. Thor
Kerekes, who has directed the club
for IA years, the members are
making a close study of events con-
nected with the World War. George
H. Cain is president.
At the Lehigh conference Mr.. Cain
will read a paper on "Japans New
Order" Other delegates from the
university will include Frank Mat
thews, jr.; Charles w. DAILY, jr., and
Peter King. DR.. Kerekes also hopes
" LldKe tne Trip.
Leads Peace Federation.
The Georgetown club has been Sc
lected as leader of the local Capital
Peace Federation, which is affiliated
with the Catholic Association for
International Peace. Organization
was perfected at recent meeting
at the Georgetown Visitation Con-
vent.
The group is representative of the
Catholic colleges and schools in the
District of Columbia, Baltimore and
number of other places in Mary
land, Meetings are to be held
monthly.
The Thanksgiving holidays start
at Georgetown on Tuesday and will
continue the remainder of this week.
1t is rather long vacation but al
lowance was made for students in
distant States who wish to return
home
Despite the holiday, many George
town students and local alumni
Will go to New York for THURSDAYS
game with Manhattan College.
There Will be a special train leay-
Ing on Wednesday which will arrive
In ample time for the students to
attend a Georgetown smoker that
evening at the Biltmore Hotel.
Officials of the university will attend
and the New York alur<i will be in
charge Of entertainment.
Freshmen Elect Officers.
The freshman class elections re-
suited IN the choice of Robert Byrne
OF Syracuse, N. Y. as president.
Other officers are John Conron of
Jersey City, N. j., vice president:
Thomas Costello of New York CITY.
secretary. and William Monahan
OF NorWalk, Conn, secretary.
Now that the new radio station
Is in operation on the campus the
Georgetown Broadcasting Club is
looking forward to a busy season
and eventually to the time when it
can. give regular programs over local
hookups. Carl Bunje. president,
has arranged for regular program
OF coming events" which will keen
campus residents in close touch
with Hilltop affairs. 1t will be
broadcast for 10 minutes daily at
$40 am. from Monday through
Friday
Starting today there will be reg
ular Sunday broadcasts at 1890
a m. OF popular and classical music.
1t will extend for IL hours.
Station GBS, as it is known. is
the only local radio station affiliated
with the Intercollegiate Broadcast
ing system, which represents some
OF the largest universities.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Juvenile Book Exhibit

An annual event of the pre-
Christmas season. an exhibition OF
juvenile books, will be held at pm.
tomorrow in the new library of the
primary department of Friends
School. Mrs. Vesta Eales, represent
ing the Cornerstone Library for Boys
and Girls. is in charge of the affair.
During the afternoon, Miss Lillian
]. Bragden. juvenile editor of Alfred
A. Knopf Co. will talk. Tea will be
served, Mrs. C. Irving Brown, Mrs.
Miles Colean and Mrs. Emmet
Gudger, officers of the Parents
Auxiliary of Friends School, presid-
ing at the tea table,
Evening star., 1941-11-16

A table of death rates for de-
fciency diseases. prepared by the
Census Bureau. shows that few
deaths are reported due to made
quate diet. The death rate per 100,-
900 population for rickets and other
bone diseases decreased from OF in
1915 to OIL in 1899. Pellagra fell from
~ n lol3 70 - IN 1899.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

trouble, the Kurds and the AS
syrians. There are many religious
diputes and Baghdad has a big
gangster element. Iraq's wealth in
oil and other undeveloped resources
attracts covetous glances from
abroad.
So perhaps it is just as we'll that
the boy does not yet know about
the job that awaits him.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

The United States birth rate has
turned upward, census records indi-
cate. Provisional tabulations show
1883 1888 births reported in 1940-an
increase of 9l,260 over final 1899
figures The birth rate per 1000
population Jumped from 17.3 to 179.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Police Raid 19, Close
8 Paris Restaurants
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS. Occupied France, Nov. IA
Delayed Police raided the lar
ders Of 10 luxurious Paris restau-
rants today and closed 8 Of them
for periods up to three months for
violation Of food restrictins.
Others were dned % much -
oio0 900.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
ISL Receive Orders
To Report for Army
Service Tomorrow
Washington SeIectees
Will Go to Richmond
For Induction

Names of Isl Washington selec.
tees scheduled to be inducted into
the Army in Richmond tomorrow
were announced yesterday by the
Selective Service Manpower Divi.
sion The men, all of whom are
white, were listed as follows:
Local Board No 1.
Aker Robert T. Corrigan. Willard ].
Kahn, Raymond L. Jeffries. Daniel W.
Lathrop. Charles r. Head. Earl j.
Navarro, James X. Thompson, ID.
Local Board No. 4.
Friedlander H H. Brown. Harold II
Chaconas, A. ]. Barrett. Leland e.
Lea, John T. McGregor. Robert 8.
Giford, John F. Hubbard. Edward B.
Ament Louis B. Sherman. Charles
Local Board No. 3.
sklar Oscar NJ Clapp willard c..
Chambers, T. T. Edwards. W. NJ, tr.
Pflieger, L. A. Stiller John c. G.
al2se 2'A' &s@s:fss: n
Gottlieb, William Sean, Louis H.
West. Ray c.
Murray. George n. Kemper. william A.
Rutland, Harold A. Hupperman, Morton
Sewards. Charles T. Hester, Ebert H.
King, Jules Holmes. L. E.
Holloway, o. w. Madsen. Niles
Sabitini. John A. Tucker, Paul P.
sss zossn RRss SsoS sdns,
Warthan, John W. Wagshal Lester
Dawes, Herbert 1. Howden. Lloyd q.
LOCAL BOARD 9.
Gibson. Lytton H. Dassenko, G W.
Francesca. VA Blaska. Casimir L.
Hardre, Pierre G. Crabtree, Mack A.
McGinnis. Charles z Tenant. Charles W.
Bower. RayC. Mitchell, Edvardc.
Goldberg. Irving Walters. X. E.
Carroll, Charles L. Burch Gordon H.
Cook, Jean w. Cummings, X. c.
Smith. Donald w. Lindsay. David r.
McAdoo, Olin S.
LOCAL BOARD H.
Noon, Peter T. Pollak, Milton
LOCAL BOARD Is
SchaIer. c. A.
LOCAL BOARD 1s.
Moore Robert H. Howard. Q.
Lane, Charles z. Lowery. James D.
.r Board Of Transfers0
Allen. Harold E.
LOCAL BOARD II.
Lyles, William H. Kern. Dale ".
sRss chsels. sSaa w. eSm.lsssi SS1s sSsp
Russeil, Rse u Joseph SCI p. stsm.t.rs STAN Wson Geo
Allen, James j., n. Mad.oy, Abe.
Ford. Odell Marquette, VI.
Branson, I. B. Girard, B. M.
Mullican, H. c. Golden, Lloyd H.
Bailey, James r.
LOCAL BOARD 10.
Neese, John L. Zancan. Albert
LOCAL BOARD 20.
Purvis, Joseph H. Eastcn, Robert l.
Morris, Daniel H. jr. Niccum, Tony e.
Gossalin, Joseph K. Carroll, Norman g.
Sanford. Roy N. Stebbins, Edw. M.
Kolmaister, 8. F. Loveless. Richard v.
LOCAL BOARD 2I.
Barnes. G. E., jr. Harbourt p B., if.
Barrack. Alfonso w. Heck, James F.
Beatty. Frank E. Hier. Thomas
Camp Ngneli. c. G.. Miller, Alvin p.
Flannery, James r. Mundy, william !,
German, Thomas r.
LOCAL BOARD 23.
Farr, Guy L. Stike. william L.
Reher. Alexandria NJ. Walter George l..
Filman, Samuel Warder, Charles H.
Miller, Edward T. WiSeman, Leon r.
LOCAL BOARD "a
Beard. John K, jr Grifith. Eugene r.
Hunter, Wilbur L. Farri. Joseph A.
Zuraski, Joseph A. Carano. Frank c.
Cullins. william A. Hoffman. Charles Z.
Peterson. M. ]. johnson, L. D.
Dixon, Mai. M. Levin. joseph
Boiling, Robert c.
LOCAL BOARD Is.
Smith. Frank B. Smith, william Il.