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Evening star., 1941-05-01
Fund Drive Is Begun
By Greater National
Capital Committee
S62. 500 to Be Sought
In Months Campaign;
First Report Tomorrow

The Greater National Capital
Committee of the Washington Board
of Trade today opened its annual
campaign for funds to support its
activities for another year.
Campaign workers under the di-
rection of Chairman Wilmer j..
Waller hope to raise S62,500 this
month. First report luncheon will
be held tomorrow at 1890 o'clock at
the Willard Hotel.
ut is absolutely essential that We
reach our goal this year." said
Chairman Waller today, so that the
committee can continue the very
excellent work of bringing tourists
and conventions to the National
Capital
IF businessmen will examine the
fine 10-year record of achievements
by the Greater National Capital
Committee I am sure they will rec
ognize the desirability of investing
in this activity"
E. D Merrill. president of the
Capital Transit Co., is vice chair
man of the campaign and the fol-
lowing are the committee chair
men:
David S. Bethune, life insurance
group; Samuel S. Blick, coal, ice and
fuel group; B. B. Burgunder, de-
partment stores; Harry C.. Davis,
taxicab companies: Arthur G. Dezen-
dorf, service stations: Frank M.
Doyle, real estate; Earle R. Hough,
miscellaneous and professional
group; P. Y. K. Howat, construction;
Wayne Kendrick. accountants; Mil
ton Kronheim, beverages; Ralph w
Lee, jr., fire insurance; Archibald
McLachlen. bank group; Mr.. Merrill,
public utilities and transportation;
L. Gardner Moore, hotels; John J
Payette, amusements; William N
Payne, jr., building associations;
Kirk Miller, miscellaneous retail out
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Mrs. Alice 0ffferdinger
Dies of Heart Attack

Mrs. Alice Templeton Offterding-
er, "A, widow of Henry T. Offterding-
er, cigar manufacturer, died Of a
heart attack yesterday at her home.
1927 Kennedy place NY. She had
been in excellent health.
A native Of Vermont. Mrs. Offer
dinger had been a resident of Wash
ington since shortly before her mar
riage. She was a member of the
Dolly Madison Chapter, D. A R.;
the Sixteenth Street Women's Lit
erary Club, and the Vermont State
Association.
Mrs. Offterdinger is survived by
three sons. Theodore T. J. Fred
erick and Harold P; two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Anita o. Spain and Mrs.
Mildred o. Brooke. all of WASH
ington; a brother, Fred Templeton
of Vermont ano a sister. Miss
Blanche Templeton of Washington.
Mr.. Ofterdinger died last June.
Funeral services will be held at
$50 o'clock tomorrow morning from
the S. H. Hines Co. parlors and
burial will be in Fort Lincoln Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Anzocs at ThermopyIoe Faced
Enemy Force TO Times Greater
Bombed Every Day, Allies Were Fire-Weory
Even Before the Final Onslaught

nika. Unmobile and without trans
port, the Greek Army broke because
it could not move quickly. In AL
baria you could walk over noun
tains in advancing, but in Greece
against the Germans, every quick
move possible by motorized trans
port was the only chance of beating
them. And the Greeks could not
move quickly.
1t must be said here and now
that the Greek soldiers and the
Greek people did not let the British
down. To the last they fought
against odds even greater than
these Anzacs had to contend with.
Whatever is the end of the cam
paign, whatever is revealed and
whatever is not revealed, the only
people who will feel and know and
appreciate what it has been like
are those who have come out of 1t
and those people in Australia and
New Zealand who have lost some
one in it.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
200 Attend Dinner
To Further Work OF
Palestine Committee
Senator Burkley Joins
Effort to Make Area q
Refuge for World Jews

Work of the American Palestine
Committee to save Palestine as a
refuge for Jews of the world was
given impetus at dinner last night
in the Shoreham Hotel, attended
by approximately 200 prominent ma
tional officials and other interested
persons.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley,
who said he had broken a rule of 26
years standing to become a men,
Der of the committee, was toast
master, and said: I'm a world of
justice to the small nations which
we in America envision, a place
must be found for the Jewish
people. That place is Palestine"
Millions of Jews will be forced to
migrate and seek a new existence in
postwar Europe, DR.. Chain Weiz-
mann of London, President of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, told
the meeting. He reviewed the plight
of Jewish communities that have
fallen under Nazi rule abroad.
Palestine Able to Absorb More.
Palestine, DR.. Weizmann said, is
able to absorb over a period of years
large numbers of Jews who will find
themselves uprooted and displaced
even after an Allied victory.
You can dump Jews anywhere, :"
he said. "in Abyssinia, in Madagas-
car, in the jungle, in the Cobb Desert
but they will never create there a
national home, nor will the Jewish
problem be solved thereby"
Maj. Victor Cazlett, chairman of
the Palestine Committee in the
House of Commons, told the group
that in his opinion the Jewish
problem is a Christian problem"
Palestine's Society Praised.
Reminding the meeting that peo-
pie had said that Jews would not 60
to Palestine, Maj. Cazlett remarked:
They have gone, and they have
stayed. They have given the Arabs
a higher standard of living than
ever before, and they have rest and
peace and a chance to build UP a
new life. They have founded and
created a state of society which, in
cultural and labor conditions, COM
pares favorably with that of the
United States"
A statement from Senator Wag-
ner, Democrat, of New York, was
read, describing work of the Amer
ican Palestine Committee. Sen
ator Wagner assumed Craftsmanship
with formation of the group more
than a month ago.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
MacDougaII Appointed
Assistant W. P. A. Head
Hz the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Appointment of Robert L. Mac
Dougall, Atlantic regional w. P. A.
director, as assistant commissioner
in Washington, effective May l, was
announced today by Howard O..
Hunter, acting w. P. A. commits
sioner.
Mr.. Hunter said Mr.. MacDougall
would assist the commission Office
on special problems.
A graduate Of Georgia Tech, the
Albanian was in a private construc-
ton business before becoming di-
rector of operations for the w. P. A.
In Georgia shortly after the works
program was launched. He also has
served as technical director for the
Atlanta Housing Authority, assist
ant to Charles F. Palmer, United
States housing co-ordinator, and
Georgia w. P. A. administrator. He
became regional W. P. A director in
1910 with supervision over Georgia,
Florida, Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Puerto Rico.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Defense Savings Bond Sales Launched
With Painter HunefeId First in Line
Better Than Shaking
Hands With the
President He Says

The people of Washington began
lending money to the Nation in the
city's 81 post Offices and 81 banks
this morning as the Government
launched without fanfare its great
est popular borrowing program since
the World War.
First in line when the window
was thrown open in the main post
Office at 8 o'clock was John w.
Hunefeld, 75-year- house painter.
He plunked down $19 for a Defense
bond costing $18.75, and said the
privilege was better than shaking
hands with the President"
Mr.. Hunefeld should know. Ever
since 1924 he has been early in line
for the Presidents New Year re-
ception-even appearing at the
White House in years since 1882,
when the Misunderstanding custom was
terminated.
He got out of bed this morning
at o'clock, had some milk and
biscuits in his house at 225 c street
NE. and hurried right over to the
post Office for an hours wait-his
smile almost hidden behind his
handlebar mustache
Have Quarter Left"
I'll have this Defense bond &c
years from now, if I live" he said.
Now I've got quarter left. think
Ill walk around the town and may
be take in show"
Youngsters in the line behind Mr..
Hunefeld found their Uncle Sam was
willing to accept as little as dime
for a riVet in a roaring tank For
older and Wealthier citizens certain
bonds valued up to $50,000, were on
order, too, but the Government is
counting heavily on small change.
A distant cousin of Abraham Lin
coin, 11-year- Hartzell Lincoln
Dake, 1880 Peabody street NV, was
among the buyers. The boy, fifth
grade Brightwood School pupil,
bought an $18.75 bond with money
he had saved and made start to-
ward another bond by purchasing a
25-cent defense stamp.
Figuring that patriotic response
might be large, Postmaster Vincent
C. Burke announced that his city
stations have $5,000,00O in savings
bonds available for delivery today
and S150,000 in small denomination
savings stamps. A. NJ. McLachlen,
president of the District of Colum-
bia Bankers Association, estimated
that the banks have at least S3,000,-
900 in bonds and proportional
amount of stamps.
President Gets First.
Defense savings bond No. and
the first postal savings stamp of the
defense series were to be delivered
to President Roosevelt at the White
House. He accepted them last
night from Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau and Postmaster
General Walker during broadcast.
But the sale started at 8 am. today,
so he couldn't place hands on them
Immediately.
Several thousand dollars in other
advance orders have been received
here. Postmaster Burke reported.
The historic drama of the first
Evening star., 1941-05-01
AyIesworth Accepts
Cultural Relations Post
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Office
of coordination of cultural and
commercial relations among the
American republics last night an
nounced appointment of Merlin H
Aylesworth as head of the radio
section of its communication di-
vision.
Mr.. Aylesworth will succeed Don
Francisco, who has been named
chief of the communications di-
vision, succeeding James w. Young,
resigned.
The new radio section chieftain
was an organizer of the National
Broadcasting Co. and its president
until 1886. From 1882 to 1886 he
was also president and chairman of
the board of R.-K.-O.
In 1886 he resigned all these posts
to join the management of Scripps-
Howard newspapers and in 1888 be-
came publisher of the New York
World Telegram.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

The disturbance that developed over the
northwestern Caribbean Sea Wednesday is
moving northeaStward with increasing in
tensity and was centered this morning
about latitude 25 degrees north, and longi-
tude &c degrees West. with lowest pressure
about 1902 millibars -(29.59 inches), ac-
companied by strong shifting winds over
wide area. Rather cool air Of polar origin
was spreading slowly southwark over the
Lake region and the North Atlantic States.
accompanied by rising pressure with
maximum OF 1923 millibars (3e.16
inches) at Sault Sainte Marie. Mich. Air
pressure continues relatively high over the
Central Valleys, Terre Hause,. Ind. 1020.3
millibars (30.13 inches. while pressure is
low over the Rocky Mountain and Plateau
regions, Great Falls, Mont, 1003.7 millibars
(29;64 inchesl. and Phoenix, Ariz. .10Q3.1
millibars I2962 inches). During the last
"a hours there have been scattered rains in
portions of the west Gulf States, the upper
Mississippi. and lower Missouri valleys the
the Plateau and Rocky Mountain regions,
and the Pacific States Some light rain
occurred in the northern Appalachian re-
gion. Temperatures have fallen consid-
erably in portions of the North Atlantic
States, but rather high temperatures con-
tinue over much of the interior of the
country east of the Rocky Mountains.
Report for Last "a Hours,
Evening star., 1941-05-01
S. H. Horne Heads
Woodside Park Group

S. H Horne was elected presi-
dent of the Woodside Park Civic
Association at a meeting last night
at the Montgomery Hills Md
Junior High School. He succeeds
Ernest F. Klinge.
Other officers elected are C. ..
Sanger. jr., vice president; Mrs.
r. F. Pfafman, secretary, and E.
C.. Weeks, treasurer. Delegates to
the Montgomery County Civic Fed
Grafton are Allen H. Gardner, Frank
G. Beatty and Mr.. Klinge. Alter
mates are z. M. Thore, c. D. San
ger, jr., and Wayne Birdsell.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
BY JAMES ALDRIDGE,
Correspondent of The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance

WITH THE AUSTRALIAN I'M
PERIAL FORCES, Via Cairo, April
80 (By Wireless) There will be
no more front-line dispatches from
Greece. Instead there is an un-
writable story of unknown men
fighting on unknown soil, of their
blood seeped into this unknown soil,
an unwritable story of the bitter,
lonely battle far away from their
homes.
1t is not a story of belief, of their
faith, of their patriotism, of their
glory. Anybody can write that. In
fact, it is better written far away
from battle.
Their written story is not their
full epitaph. 1t is only the unwrit-
ten story that will be the cold let
tiers on their memorial. For today
this war has excelled itself in its
complications.
Holding a spreadout line at Bralos
Pass. looking down on the plain of
Thermopylae, the Anzacs waited for
at least six German divisions, ten
times their number, to come Up the
pass and blast away at their posi-
tionS. Bombed every day as they
had never been bombed before, the
Allied soldiers were fire-weary even
before the brunt of German artil-
lery and heavy machine guns hit
them.
They began their third battle In
eight days against fresh German
troops. Spread out over a wide
area, with less than one-fourth the
fre-power of the Germans, they
waited for the enemy to build up
its guns and send men in from four
sides.
Even the supply columns moving
up were in battle 100 miles behind
the line. They were bombed and
strafed day and night. I have never
seen such bombing. Every move
ment, every dumphouse and tent
visible was strafed and bombed. The
actual damage was small for the
outlay in bombs. But DELAYING
transport and dumping of supplies
has its effect.
In these last days that I was at
the front, 1t was this reversal of
the situation that haunted us all,
Miles upon miles of empty fields
were bomb-scarred.
There was a depressing sight of
Greeks moving back on foot from
Larlsa, from Albania, from Salo-
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Tank and Mechanized
Divisions Linked 10
Bombers Due by Fall
Huwoiion Air Defenses
BoIstered; Alaskan
Forces to Be Increased
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A mechanized Army force of divi-
sions, teamed with bombers, is con-
templated by fall, according to War
Department estimates awaiting ap-
proval by Congress.
Authoritative sources reported to-
day that plans are for six armored
divisions of tanks such as formed
the spearhead of German drives in
Flanders and Yugoslavia, supple
mented by as many fully motorized
divisions.
At the same time it was disclosed
that the aerial defenses of Hawaii
have been bolstered in the last two
months. The situation at the fleet
base in February was officially
deemed critical, but since then
scores of the latest type fighter
planes and bombers have been sent,
and the transfer of other planes, in
cluding long range heavy bombers,
has started.
Substantial reinforcement of
Alaska also is contemplated in War
Department plans, congressional
committees have been told. Pend
ing the completion of housing and
other facilities, force at Clatsop,
Greg, is to be built up to some
10000 men.
The expanded striking force on
wheels will be development of ex-
listing divisions. Two armored divi-
sions are to be added to the four al
ready operating or being formed.
By October five motorized divi-
sions are called for in official plans,
in addition to the existing partially
equipped 4th Division at Fort Ben
ming, Ga.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Preston
Are Set Tomorrow
DR.. Leslie Glenn Will
Officiute ar Rites
At II O'Clock

Funeral services for Mrs. Carolyn
Murray Preston, wife of Ord Pres
ton, president Of the Union Trust
Co., will be held at IL am. tomor-
row at thf. Preston residence, 1922
r street NV. Burial will be in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Mrs. Preston, member of a family
long prominent in military circles,
died early yesterday at her home
after an illness of several months.
On Tuesday she had marked her SD
birthday anniversary.
The Rev. DR.. Leslie Glenn, rector
of st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, will officiate at the funeral
services, assisted by the Rev. John
Magee of the same church.
The list of honorary palIbearers
includes:
Gen. Malin Craig, Brig. Gen.
Joseph P. Tracy, G. Thomas Dun
lop, George E. Hamilton, jr; Charles
F. Wilson, Archibald M McLachlen,
Frederick H. Brooke, all of Wash
ington, and Mai. Gen. James E.
CLANCY of Mitchell Field, N. Y;
William E. S. Griswold of New York,
James NJ. Magee of Pittsburgh, Pa;
Carroll F. Sweet of Grand Rapids,
Mich, and Charles H. Welles, jr., of
Scranton, Pa.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Preston
is survived by two sons, 1t. Ord
Preston. jr., Marine Corps Reserve,
and Ensign Arthur Murray Preston.
United States Naval Reserve, both of
whom now are on active duty, and
two daughters Mrs William L..
Ritchie, whose husband is a member
Of the staff of General Headquarters,
Air Force, Boiling Field, and Mrs.
Linton r. Massey. Charlottesville. Va.
A sister, Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt,
and brother, Brig. Gen. Maxwell
Murray, former commander of the
Washington Provisional Brigade,
now on duty with the Hawaiian
Department, also survive.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

actual sales at the City Post ONCE
today was broadcast over America
by a network hooked up with Sta
ton WMAL. Speaker Rayburn was
on hand to comment.
Mechanics of the loan campaign
have been huge, with presses at
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing running day and night; with
loaded trucks rushing to postal SUBJ
stations; with bankers holding meet
ings and clerks grubbing through
piles of bonds and stamps. Postal
officials had a staff in readiness to-
day to hurry to any point where a
crowd might develop.
No High Pressure" Sales.
But the quotas, Stacker lists" but
tons and high-pressure sales tech
nique of the Liberty Loan and Vic
tory Loan period from 1917 to 1919
were lacking.
The Treasury says that Govern
ment borrowing is greatly needed
for three purposes. First, for de-
fense production. Second, to pre-
vent imitation Third, to provide a
financial cushion" if hard times fol-
low the emergency production boom
If you can spare al dime or more
for the good of your country, here
Evening star., 1941-05-01
MorIene Dietrich
And Husband Win
| $4,000 Tax Refund
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Marlene Dietrich, film. actress,
and her husband, Rudolph
Sieber, yesterday, won a sos 900
income tax argument with the
United States Treasury.
The Treasury disclosed that
not only did it drop claims that
the couple underpaid their 1885
and 1897 income taxes by
$71 900, but admitted that in
stead Marlene oVerpaid by
$23 ,952. She was given: a credit
for that amount against any
taxes she owed for subsequent
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were not revealed t-....,: Z. ". So.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Woman Found in Como
On Floor Succumbs

Mrs. Frances B.. Daley, IS, of
TIT Upshur street NV, was pro-
nounced dead early today at her
home after her husband, Theodore
D. Daley, had found her uncon-
scious on her bedroom floor yes
terday afternoon.
Police quoted Mr.. Daley as say
ing he had not become alarmed
over his wife's condition until early
this morning when he called a
physician. She had not been In Ill
health, 1t was said, 49, 49,,
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
coroner. said he would perform an
autopsy today.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
BY ]. REILLY O'SULLIVAN.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
TSTANBUL, Turkey, May l.
Refugees waited all night under the
trees outside Rafina, little Greek
port east of Athens, while swarms
of German planes droned overhead
and the trucks of the British Army
rumbled up for embarkation.
The refugees waited for little,
blacked-out fishing boats to take
them to the comparative safety OF
Greek islands or to Turkey.
With another American, Arthur
Langton of Socony Vacuum Oil, and
Stanley Smiles of Saskatoon, repre-
sentative of Racine CWisO farm
implement firm, boarded smelly
sailboat with an auxiliary motor
while the retreat from Thermopylae
was in full swing We lodged safely
across the Aegean to the Turkish
shore while the Germans were oc-
cupying nearby islands.
Trip Began April %.
The trip began at Rafina April %,
few hours after German bombers
had sunk a Greek gunboat at her
pier.
We sailed in short stages and by
night sheltering at islands to avoid
the bombs and machine guns of the
Luftwaffe. A score of refugees and
soldiers returning to the islands were
aboard the boat with us.
The British began to withdraw
from Thermopylae while the Greek
government was clearing out of
Athens. But even as they withdrew,
the losses they inflicted on the Ger
mans were severe.
Scores of German planes were
shot down; thousands of German
dead and wounded Uttered the
ground, but the numerical superior
ity of the Luftwaffe and the German
panZer divisions was overwhelming.
Almost constant air raid alarms
prevailed in Athens while the Ger
man Air Force bombed the edges OF
the city, the port of Piraeus and. to
the north, dive-bombed and ma
chine-gunned the retreating British
dIlu 1ICCh IIOOPo'
Athens Crowded.
Athens was jammed with people
buying up reserve supplies, but this
never reached the point Of Salonika
where, just before the fall of the
city, food warehouses and retail
stores gave away their stocks.
On April II the government
crisis reached its head after orders
had been issued for the demobiliza-
ton of some categories of Greek
troops. The official announcement
Of this demobilization never got to
the outside world. \
Later, after seeing King George
and meeting with his cabinet, Pre-
mier Alexandros Korizis, successor
to Dictator John Metaxas, went home
and shot himself through the heart
Thereafter the Greek government
left Athens.
With a large part of the Greek
Army of Albania caught between the
Germans and Italians and blocked
of from joint defense lines, the
Greeks sent reinforcements from the
Athens area to aid their British AL
lies in withdrawing.
The Germans. striking fast down
through Western Greece, sought to
prevent the British retreat to South
ern Peloponnesos, barely 100 miles
from Crete.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

let group; Charles w. Pimper, stor-
age and moving; E. NJ. Pusey,
graphic arts: Evan Sholl, restau-
rants; A. Burks Summers, financing;
Arthur j. Sundlun, retail stores;
Irving A. Tennyson, drug stores;
Joseph r. TreW, automotive, and
CORTLAND Ferguson, publicity.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Fright Light Saves Lives

SACRAMENTO, Calf. (R).-While
the Bureau of Game Conservation
is protecting wild waterfowl On enc
hand, it is giving them a good scare
with the other. A. revolving light
has been set up to frighten the birds
away from valuable truck crops in
Imperial Valley.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Weather Report
tE,urnished by the united STATED wealth!


District of CombaPart cloudy tonight and tomorrow somewhat
cooler lowest temperature tonight gentle winds mostly
northeast
Maryland-Pary tonight somewhat cooler in
portion
Vgnia-Party cloudy tonight the
West VrgniaParty cloudy and continued tonight and
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Fishing Boats Take
Greek Refugees
To Safety
Crowds Wait Under Trees
All Night as Planes
Drone Overhead

J. Reilly O'SuIliuan, Associated
Press correspondent in Athens,
has reached Turkey Uith the
tollowing account OF his trip and
the Greek collapse
Evening star., 1941-05-01

Fire has made the baking of
white bread illegal.