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Evening star., 1941-10-12

subject, Vacation Reflections"
Thursday, 10 am. to 3 pm, Red
Cross section, Petworth Library
Building. Friday, l pm, home
section luncheon, with Mrs. Anne
Printz, 419 Shepherd street NV;
speaker, Mrs. Oscar H. Nelson,
South American Homes"
Park View Woman's Club-TueS-
day, 8 pm, business and camp
fire." with Mrs. w. o. Gale. 4911
Illinois avenue NV. Thursday,
1890 pm, Art Committee tour Of
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Women's Club of Sixteenth Street
Highlands-Wednesday. 2 pm,
with Mrs. Reese F. Lukei, 1417
Longfellow street NV; program
subject, Brazil"
Woman's Community Club of Ken
sington-Tomorrow, 1890 pm,
Masonic Temple; speaker, DR..
Lewis Merriam of Brookings In
stitutiOn,
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Future Meetings of Women's Clubs Announced

National Council Of Jewish Women
Tuesday, l pm, vestry rooms,
Washington Hebrew Congregation,
Eighth and I streets NV, lunch
con; speakers, DR.. Robert H. Con-
merry, Rabbi Edward L, Israel and
Rev. j. Hillman Hollister. The
World We Want to Live In"
P. E. o. Sisterhood-Tuesday, 8 pm,
Chapter J, at 1901 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. Saturday. 8 pm,
Supreme Chapter Convention rally
at D. A. r. Chapter House.
District Daughters of 1s12-Tuesday,
3 pm, 1851 Rhode Island avenue
NV.
United Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy, Stonewan Jackson Chapter
Tomorrow. 8 pm, Confederate
Memorial Hall.
Daughters OF the American Revolu-
tion-Today. 4 to 6 pm, tea with
Mrs Charles H. Plotner. honoring
chapter chairmen of Correct Use
VI lllC i lag SOIlllllllOCC. 4OIllbl lON,
Army and Navy Chapter. Army
and Navy Club; speaker, William
Tyler Page: 8 pm, Student Loan
Fund Committee. Chapter House;
8pm., American Chapter. Chapter
House. Tuesday, Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter. luncheon meet
ing, Woman's Democratic Club:
8 pm, Louisa Adams Chapter
Chapter House: speaker. Mrs
Arthur c. Houghton. Wednesday
2 pm. Sarah Franklin Chapter
Chapter House; 8:15 pm, Fort
McHenry Chapter, Chapter House
speaker, Mrs. Arthur G. Houghton
SPIN. Marcia Burns Chapter with
Miss Esther McDevitt, 4006 Illinoi.
avenue NV: review of Mexican
trip. Saturday. 8 pm, keystone
Chapter with Mrs. Robert L. Will
Iiams. 1902 Stanford street. Chevy
Chase. Md; pictures of the South
Evening star., 1941-10-12

ton in civilian defense. Mrs. Roose-
welt is TO preside at the session.
Others on the speakers platform
will include Mrs. Curtis Shears, U.
w. o. president; Mrs. Edward z.
Gam, U. w. o. vice president; Miss
Eloise Dawson, assistant director Of
the Office of Civilian Defense in
charge of integrating women's ac-
tivities, and Miss Alice Marble, di-
rector of physical training for women
in the o. c. D.
Mrs. Edward w. Sturdevant, pub
lie relations chairman Of the Dis
trict Girl Scouts. is chairman Of ar.
rangements for the rally.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

Feet on the Ground?"
Convention to Elect
Officers Wednesday.
Election of officers Wednesday
morning and the report OF the Dis
trict president, Mrs. Earle Whitley,
Wednesday afternoon, will be other
high lights Of the tWO-day meeting.
Mrs. B. L. Collins will report for the
Nominating Committee on Tues
day morning.
Morning and afternoon sessions
will be held both days, beginning at
10 am. and 1:30 pm. Mrs. Wilf1ey
will preside Tuesday and Mrs. Belle
r. Pickett, first vice president, We'd
neSday.
DR.. Howard Stone Anderson,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church. will extend greetings to the
delegates Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Everett Eaton will have charge of
devotions and Mrs. Marie N. Brlnley
will lead the saluate to the flag.
A song service will be led by Mrs.
George Cook, and Mrs. Marjorie
Brett will sing, with Mrs. Ruby
Smith Stahl playing the piano
accompaniment.
Among the officers to report
Tuesday following Mrs. Smiths ad-
dress will be Mrs. Darrell C. Grain,
treasurer; Mrs. Harry Warner,
auditor; Mrs. Clifford Hurley, cor
responding secretary, and Mrs.
Frances Winters, treasurer for the
Board Of Trustees.
Others reporting Tuesday morning
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Business, Professional Clubs

Business and Professional Women's
Club Of the District Of Columbia
Tomorrow. 7:3e pm, Admiral
Club. Wednesday, pm, tea, Sill
yer Bowl, 1914 Connecticut ave-
nue..
Professional Writer'S Club-Tomor-
row. 8 pm, Y. w. c. A: speaker,
Dr.. Joseph Lowry Fendrich, How
to Write a Novel"
Evening star., 1941-10-12
G.. d. A. Unit to Meet

Court Our Lady of Lourdes, Catho-
lie Daughters of America. Bethesda,
will meet tomorrow at the Chevy
Chase Woman's Club. Plans will be
discussed for study groups to attend
the Carroll lecture forum at the
Willard Hotel. Mrs. Richard Spencer
is court regent.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Democratic Women

The annual election of officers for
the Women's Democratic Club OF
Leland, Chevy Chase, Md, will be
held Tuesday at the home Of the
president, Mrs. Philip j. Fischer.
Delegates for the convention of the
United Democratic Clubs in Balti-
more in November will be selected.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
National President
To Address u. G. Session
9th Annual Convention to Be
Held in Capital Tuesday
And Wednesday

"Our Common Defense" will be the subject
Smith,
peance
held Tuesday and Wednesday
Church, Tenth and street NV
Evanston, Ill,
annual of lie c. t
Miss A. national legislative director
u will the Wednesday.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Pictures of Trip
Will Be Shown.

Pictures of a trip through the
Southwest taken recently by Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Williams will be
shown at a meeting of the keystone
Chapter at 8 pm. Saturday at the
home of Mrs. Williams, 1902 STAN
ford street, Chevy Chase. Md.
The Sarah Franklin Chapter will
have group of State officers head
ed by Mrs. Oberholser, the regent,
and Mrs. Geoffrey Creyke, vice re-
gent, as guests of honor at its meet
ing at 2 pm. Wednesday at the
Chapter House. Mrs. Charles Tav-
enner is chapter regent.
At a meeting Of the American
Chapter at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Chapter House, Mrs. Jean R. Kelley
will talk on Red Cross work, Mrs.
M. Louise Brooks on entertainment
and Mrs. Madeline c. Nickles, press
relations.
Mrs. Arthur c. Houghton, State
chairman of approved schools, will
speak at 2 meeting of the Louisa
Adams Chapter at pm. Tuesday
at the Chapter House. Mrs. Brink
ley E. Callicott will be hostess.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

Club. Mr.. Page is clerk of the
minority of the House of Repre-
sentatives and author Of The
Americans Greed" The chapter
will hold its annual benefit card
party October 81 at the Shoreham
Hotel.
Plans for starting new loan fund
will be discussed by the Student
Loan Fund Committee at pm. to-
morrow at the Chapter House. An
endowment fund of $4,000 set as a
goal by this committee was COM
pleted last year. Four students are
at present being assisted by this
fund.
Molly Pitcher Chapter
Will Be Entertained.
Members of the Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter will be entertained
by Mrs. Bates Warren at luncheon
Tuesday at the Woman's National
Democratic Club. Guests of honor
will include Mrs. Harry c. Ober-
holser, State regent. and Mrs. Ed
ward R. Stitt, wife of Rear Admiral
Stitt.
Plans for a reception in Novem-
Der honoring new members will be
discussed at a meeting of the Fort
McHenry Chapter at 315 pm
Wednesday at the Chapter House
The goodwill tour" to Mexico
sponsored last summer by the D.
A. R. will be reviewed by members
of the Marcia Burns Chapter at 8
pm. Wednesday ct the home OF
Miss Esther McDeyitt, 4006 Illinois
avenue NV. The graduation Of
the chapters scholarship student
at Crossnore School in North Caro-
lima will be officially announced and
the selection Of another mountain
student for the scholarship will be
discussed.
Evening star., 1941-03-15

Others heard yesterday were
William S. KnudSen, director OF the
Office of Production Management,
and technical Army and Navy ad-
viSerS.
Representative Woodrum told re-
porters the group received from the
witness a breakdown of the cate
gorieS in the Presidents appropria-
ton request, covering all items in
each amount to be spent for ships,
planes, tanks, guns and other arma-
ment
These items, kept secret, appar-
entity were made up from list of
British needs furnished the Army
and Navy and Budget Bureau be-
fore the appropriation request was
sent to Congress.
Mr.. Knudsen told reporters he
still believed, as he had said to the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
previously, that it would be two or
three months before the aid program
could really get going.
Among critics of the lease-lend
plan Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana, who said he would not
oppose the appropriation told re-
porters he was sitting hundreds Of
requests to make speeches over the
country warning against entry into
the war
He said he had not decided yet
whether to make one cross-country
speaking tour or to divide the Ma
ton into regions and send one Dem
ocrat and one Republican speaker
into each.
Evening star., 1941-03-15
Woman Convicted
OF Reckless Walking;
Sentence Suspended
Judge Mcmahon Rejects
Motion Challenging
Pedestrian Control

In the first such case brought be-
fore court in the District, Mrs.
Lucille r. Ritter or Arlington, Va,
was found guilty in Police Court to-
day of reckless walking" Judge
John P. Mcmahon suspended SEN
tence, declaring that Mrs. Ritter, who
had been injured, had suffered
enough.
Judge Mcmahon overruled a mo-
ton by Attorney Reeve r. Hilton
which contended that the law was
unconstitutional. Judge Mcmahon
declared the District Commissioners
have right to regulate traff1c, in
cluding pedestrians.
In the warrant Mrs. Ritter was
charged with using the roadway
between intersections when vehicle
was approaching and so as to con-
Stitute a hazard for her own safety"
AS a result Of the incident, she
was injured by an automobile in
the 300 block of Fifteenth street NV.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Edward w. Thomas, who prosecuted
the case. said in brief to the court
that a pedestrian faces a so per
cent greater chance of being killed
crossing a roadway between inter-
sections. He also declared the real
answer to traffic control rests with
the pedestrian as well as the
motorist."
The traffic and motor vehicles
regulation, under which the case
came, says:
mo pedestrian shall use any road
way between intersections when a
vehicle is approaching from either
direction so as to constitute a
hazard for his own safety or use
such roadway at any time in a
negligent or reckless manner"
Evening star., 1941-03-15
Arms Work Monopoly
By Few Companies
Attacked by Davis
Defense Board Member
Sees Serious BottIeneck;
Says Duto Shocked Him
By the Associated Press.

6S the AeSOSldNeU FLCSS'
NEW ORLEANS, March Is
Chester C. Davis, Defense Advisory
Commission official, told Southern
Governors today defense contracts
are being absorbed by handful of
concerns" threatening "a bottleneck
which must be broken"
Sharply critical of present defense
tendencies in his prepared address,
the former Agricultural Adjustment
Administrator said "the very small
ness of the number" of concerns get
ting defense contracts threatens to
be a serious bottleneck on the full
use of our industrial and human
resources"
IN the first stages OF the defense
program I must frankly say i'm
portant opportunities have been
missed" he said.
Defense Data Shocked" Him.
Expressing his dissatisfaction with
the role given the South and West
in defense expansion, Mr.. Davis said
he had been shocked" recently to
see a tabulation of the distribution
of defense orders to date mot as
between areas but between industrial
concerns"
Included in the tabulation were
s11 500 900 900 of prime contracts
awarded between June l3, 1910, and
February IS, 1941, and included all
types of contracts" he said.
"Of this vast total between one
fifth and one-quarter had gone to
two groups of companies of closely
interconnected ownership. Between
40 and As per cent had gone to six
closely interconnected groups. A
total of 80 per cent had gone tc
81 companies or interrelated groups
of companies.
South's Share Discussed.
There is rich food for thought
in these figures. I believe they are
closely related to the mediocre sue
cess we have had in apportioning q
part of this new defense industry tc
the States represented here today
Mr.. Davis spoke before the South
ern Governors Conference, meeting
in Louisiana for the first time since
its organization four years ago. II
embraces the States from NORTH
Carolina to Arkansas, Oklahoma ant
Texas. Central theme of the meet
ing was the South's part in nationa.
defense.
Japan's exports of electric lamp;
are declining
Evening star., 1941-03-15
Duke Heir Right Guy
As Buck Private
At Fort Lee, Va.
He's Starting Training
At Model Comp Army
Is Watching Closely
ny NELSON M. SHEPARD.
Star Staff Correspondent.

CAMP LEE, Va, March 15.-The
possessor of Army Serial No. 32008525
at Camp Lee answers modestly to
the name of Pvt. Angler Biddle
Duke.
Until publicity made him the
camps No. / celebrity, the 26-year-
old tobacco heir succeeded in spend
ing his first day in camp as just an
other buck private to the 5000 selec-
tive service men of the Quartermas-
ter Corps replacement center. He
failed to reckon, however, with 1t.
v. L. Cary of the public relations
staff.
So last night in the mess line the
abashed young man was pointed out
as the nephew Of A. j. Drexel Bid
die, IT,, former United States AM
bassador to Poland: distant rela-
tive of Doris Cromwell Duke, and
as the great-grandson of the late
Washington Duke, founder of the
American Tobacco Co. dynasty.
Ready for 13-Week Grind.
From now on, however, Pvt. Duke
Is determined to ignore his private
life and apply himself to the 13-Week
grind in the various quartermaster
courses offered here. He has been
assigned to the company that will
be Headquarters Salvage Depot and
Sales Conamissary Company at the
camp.
At the end Of his training course
officers at Camp Lee said. he prob.
ably will be transferred to another
Army post.
His service record shows that h,
volunteered under the Selectiv,
Service Act in New York Februar.
"a. Before then he was a New
York produce broker. He was gradu
ated from Yale in 1887 with major
in history and economics, is married
and has child years old.
This isn't young Dukes first tast,
Evening star., 1941-03-15

Force struck hard overnight at Glas-
gov objectives and several steel
plants and an armament factory in
the English manufacturing center of
Sheffield, the German high COM
mand said today.
Other attacks were directed at
London's Tilbury docks, port facili-
ties at Plymouth and Southampton
and targets at Leeds.
Numerous big fires resulted in
port. wharf and provision facilities
of Glasgow, the communique said,
and "the last squadrons confirmed
that objectives were enveloped in
extraordinary smoke clouds"
Two merchant vessels, totaling
1000 tons, were sunk, and another
was damaged in an attack on a con-
voy off the British east coast, the
high command added.
weak units of the enemy dropped
explosive and incendiary bombs last
night in various places in Western
Germany" the communique said.
Damage TO industries was neg.
ligible. Some civilians were killed
or injured"
Evening star., 1941-03-15
New Gifts Increase
Fund for Wounded
Youth 10 S343
Readers of Stur Donate
SAG More to Help
Jon Francis

The fund for Jon Francis, who was
wounded in a downtown gun battle
last month, was swelled today by
more contributions from readers of
The Star.
Yesterday S46 more was received,
bringing the fund raised by Star
readers to S34395. This money will
be turned over to Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police, for
administration.
The money contributed through
The Star is TO be added to sub
scription fund raised by members of
the police force and others to pay
medical expenses of the wounded
youth.
Jon. 20-year-old baggage clerk,
was shot while aiding police in pur-
suit of a man with gun. The man,
after shooting Jon, engaged police
man in a duel. then committed sui
eide. Jon has been in Emergency
Hospital since, with bullet wound
in his chest.
Following are the latest contribu-
tions received by The Star:
Evening star., 1941-03-15

tons of other perishable foodstuf.
The shoe repairing shop will have
a mending capacity of 2,400 pairs
a day.
Col. John A. Warden is the COM
manding officer of this replacement
center, which is divided into four
regiments. They include one Negro
regiment which eventually will be
increased TO a strength Of $500
selectees.
The men came here from practically
every large post east of the Misss-
sippi River including Fort Meade.
Md. to get schooling according 70
their fitness for special duties.
When that training is complete
they are dispatched with the quar-
termaster unit to which they have
been assigned to Army organizations
throughout the country.
The Quartermaster Corps of 194i,
with its modern field equipment.
has gone a long way since 1918 to
provide and care for the men in
the field.
The automotive school is one OF
the most important and in addition
to the Regular Army personnel
serving as instructors, A special
instructors are to be provided by
the civil service.
The replacement center, like other
centers in the Army, is tagging in
equipment. While every man in
the Army is supposed to sleep be-
tween sheets, some of the officers
must sleep between blankets only.
The selectees arrive at the re-
placement camp from reception
centers so they are uniformed when
they come here. Even more than
the Camp Lee reception officers, the
quartermaster officers are chagrined
over the number of World War uni
forms and overcoats that give the
new arrivals a strange appearance.
There seems to be no standard
uniform among the new issues now
coming from the mills, except in de-
sign. The reason is due to the fact
that in the belated rush TO clothe
an army of 1,418,0O0 men, all the
mills aren't equipped TO put out the
same kind of cloth. One result Is
the Army is getting lot of new uni
forms that are better than the speci-
| 1cations.
In the stockroom of the reception
center can be found hundreds of
blouses and pants for enlisted men
made from material that usually
issue is all Grade A stuff, but there
seems TO be no end to the World War
supplies. When that end is reached,
the Quartermaster Corps, no doubt,
will hold big reception,
Evening star., 1941-03-15

moment the first midnight torpedo
let go-in the vitals of a freighter
bobbing along on our starboard
beam, only a few hundred yards
away.
From then on every ship was on
its own and we did not sight any
OF our convoy sisters the rest of the
voyage.
The most striking thing about the
ordeal that no one of the hundred
passengers will ever forget was their
own remarkable GOODNESS. Perhaps
it was that most of them had been
hardened through living in England
under the death that flies by night.
London-all of the United King
dom, in fact-can take it. Certainly
the merchant seaman can take 1t.
And seemingly so can the passen-
gers they risk their lives to transport
Evening star., 1941-03-15
Convoy
Continued From First Page)

NCOllIlllucO rIOul T II oJ rdScJ
foot. Passengers stood by lifeboat
stations. scarcely able to see even
each other in the darkness, not
knowing when torpedo might tear
the ship from under their feet in
binding flash.
Nineteen hours separated the at
tacks.
If the submarines which launched
the first blow survived the deadly
depth charges which were hurled
from the decks of our naval escorts
it seemed they would signal to
German bomber base the position
of our convoy.
The fact that sky-raiders did not
come may have indicated the depth
charges which rumbled across the
sea like thunder found their mark
The craft known to have gone
under the numbing wintry waves
included the largest of the nearly
two score ships which made up the
convoy. 1t was a massive whaler-
factory craft with the lines of an
outsized bath tub. 1t took two tor
pedoes to wound it mortally. The
other certain losses were two freight
ers and an oil tanker.
5. Convoy Dispersed.
When the second attack came We
were on the fringe of the area which
Hitler'S llnderSea marauders USUALLY
infest. The convoy dispersed the
Evening star., 1941-03-15

Of Army training. Last summer he
volunteered for a four week course
of training in the Businessmen's
Training Camp at Plattsburg. N. Y.
Officers Call Him Good Soldier"
He rolled into Camp Lee Thurs
day night on a troop train bearing
300 other selective service trainees
from Fort Dix, N. j., glad for once
to lose his identity in new camp,
even If it were only for day. Camp
Lee officers described him as "a
good soldier" To the other trainees
he seems to be "a right guy"
They've made him one of them.
Until March 81, Pvt. Duke and
the other 1000 privates who are
pouring into this replacement CEN
ter each day, will receive basic mill
tary training. Later they will be
trained in the special technical units
that are being set up. Formerly,
the Quartermaster Corps was a non
combatant branch of the Army. Now
the men bear arms. That means
two hours a day drill, training in
the nomenclature of the rife. in the
care Of equipment, rifle practice and
other basic essentials.
The quartermaster replacement
center here is distinctive because it
is one of two in the United States
and accommodates all selectees east
of the Mississippi River. The other
is at Fort Francis e. Warren in
Wyoming.
Capacity Is 1900 Men.
BY March q the center will have
full complement of 10,4o0 men.
including 311 officer instructors and
1881 enlisted men instructors. The
capacity of the center is 10000 men.
The General Staff in Washington
will be keeping close watch on the
training at Camp Lee, where the
technical units are expected to serve
as a model for the Quartermaster
Corps. Seventeen of these technical
units or schools will be set up-pro-
yldlng training in housing, feeding
clothing and transporting the men
of the Army.
Pride Of the camp will be the
mobile bakery unit where seIectees
will be instructed in baking breao
/ for 10000 men in a single day. Ir
emergency the capacity can be
doubled to 10000 loaves. Then there
is the mobile sterilizer. better
known to World War veterans a.
the -louSing" machine or "cootit
mill" 1t is designed, of course. tt
provide bathing facilities in the
field. AS many as $500 men anc
their clothes can be sterilized in {
day.
Everything is mobile these days
Even the field laundries will bt
mobile. The unit at which the mer
will train here will have an oper.
ating capacity of laundrying the
clothes of 10000 men a week. The
unit will be stated by five officer
and 314 enlisted men.
For training in the preservation
and handling of perishable food'
there will be a refrigeration plant
which can serve 10000 men. Iti
big enough to carry 80 days STOCK
of meat, or $500 tons; and 1,50(