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Evening star., 1941-08-29
Blond Explorer Hopes
Fair Skin Will Awe Natives
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-Blue-
eyed Mrs. Karena Shields hopes that
her fair skin and small stature will
hold in awe the natives she may en-
counter on trek into a section of
the Central American jungles where
five previous expeditions have per-
iShed.
The La Crescenta (Calif) woman
left by plane yesterday for Mexico
City on the first leg of an adventure
intended to throw light on the
Mayan civilization.
Mr.. Shields, a blond, will go to
the huge plantation of Palenque,
bordering Campeche and Guatemala.
where she spent her girlhood. From
there she will set out Saturday, ac-
companied only by the Palenque
plantation manager and several ma
tive boys.
No white person, she said. ever
has returned to tell of the forbid
den cities of the jungle.
THE natives there have been
warped by something, and practice
terrible ceremonies akin to voodoo-
ism, which perhaps originally de-
stroyed their civilization" she added.
Mrs. Shields said her initial voyage
would take only a week and half
and would serve to inspect ground
she had flown over and photo
graphed many times. Later she will
return to dig for buried temples and
other evidence.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

The ATTEMPTED assassination of
Pierre Laval in Versailles and the
widespread sabotage directed against
the Nazi overlordship in France,
may be the grim outward signs OF
a rebirth of the French nation.
It is too soon to determine that
point yet. The land of Lafayette is
desperately i'll and the crisis has not
been reached. Only time can tell
what the end may be.
If there is any surprise attached
to the attack on Laval, 1t surely
must lie In the fact that 1t didn't
come sooner, for he walked in the
shadow of death This pro-Nazi
politician, who had been the Premier
of free republic, has been standing
for collaboration with that Hitlerian
regime which for time appeared
not only to have crushed the body Of
France but to have killed her spirit
as we'll.
Aimed at HitleriSm.
The bullets which tore at Laval's
flesh probably weren't fired at him
because of personal hatred. but be-
cause he symbolized the hob-nailed
boots of military might which had
trampled the republic. The shots
were aimed at Hitlerism and not at
Laval in particular.
In any event, taking the broad
(and some might say cynicaD view,
the wounds of Laval or any other
individual matter little in this situa-
ton. What does matter is whether
this does, indeed, mark the rebirth
of the great republic.
1t may be unfortunate for France
that events should have taken such
an explosive turn at this juncture.
1t can only result in the exaction OF
Evening star., 1941-08-29
By CONSTANTINE BROWN,


Iran has collapsed and the new
government has surrendered un-
conditionallr to the British and
the Russians. This Is a great
victory for the Allies not be-
cause of any military feats but
because it gives them ample
time to organize the defense of
the rich oil country against a
German attack.
The Iranian population Is
malleable. 1t has no strong feel
ings against any particular ma
tion.. Once the British and the
Russians are in the saddle, it
will cooperate heartily with
these forces and will give no
trouble.
The Teheran political men
know that this Is only a tenn
porary occupation of their coun-
try and that when the war is
over the cards will have to be re-
shuff1ed. They rely on the CEN
tury-old rivalry between the
Russians and the British over
the gateway to India and expect
that in the re-shuffle the Rus
slams will have to give up North
ern Iran and the British will re-
main the real protectors of the
country. The Iranian politicos
like the British methods; they
always involve a large expendi-
ture of money. Furthermore the
British occupation is always a
mild one using in all cases ma
tives to run the country under
the higher supervision of
British official who takes good
care to save the face of the gov
ernment selected to rule the
country.
Tale is Not Told.
But the surrender of Iran does
not close the Middle Eastern
chapter, it just opens it.
The Germans who have been
caught unprepared to assist their
Persian friends have swallowed
their defeat by denouncing Brit
ain as an aggressor and the Rus
slams as spreading Communism.
They are too busy on the Rus
sian front and with the revolu-
ton seething in western Euro
pean countries to act imme-
diately. But the German high
command Is expected to act
within a few weeks-possibly
earlier. Reports from Ankara
indicate clearly that the Ger
mans intend to push Turkey to
declare itself now. AS soon as
Odessa falls and the Germans
can bottle UP the Azov Sea and
the Crimean peninsula the Nazis
will be ready to operate in the
Black Sea.
According to reports, a force
is being prepared now to be
transported from the Black Sea
ports to Batum and in all like
lihood to the Turkish ports of
Samsun and Trebizond. Once
the Black Sea has been cleared
of all enemy craft the Germans
are reported to consider an at
tack against the British and the
Russian forces in the Middle East
through Northern and Eastern
Anatolia.
What means Of transportation
the Reich has for such an opera
ton is unknown here. But as
far as it is known the Rumanian
Evening star., 1941-08-29
The Attack on Pierre Laval
Assassination Attempt May Be Sign
Of Rebirth Of French Nation

great penalties by the Germans
Already they are speeding their
roundup of enemies Of the Nazi
regime. The glittering blade OF the
guillotine again is in operation.
This column recently reported
that Britain seemed worried lest
the growing spirit of revolt among
the peoples of the occupied coun-
tries might result in premature up
risings against the Germans. This
could only hurt the Allied cause,
since the punishments inflicted by
the Nazis would tend to intimidate
other conquered nations.
Suggested Sabotage.
Since my report, but before the
Laval incident, London broadcast
warning to the French not to revolt
too soon and thereby risk their lives
unnecessarily. This appeal, which
was picked up by the Columbia
Broadcasting System in New York,
advised France not to undertake
open resistance, but to do every
thing possible to slow down the Nazi
war machine by sabotage. '
OF course, the British have been
cultivating the spirit of revolt in
all the occupied countries by per-
sistent propaganda-the v for vic
tory campaign being rather effec-
tive part of this. However, the Allied
plan has been to work for a CO.
ordinated revolutionary effort when
the right moment arrived.
The way the pot has boiled over
In France is an interesting COM
mentary on how effective propa.
ganda can be. In this case the
British were so good that they now
must devise propaganda to keep the
French in hand until the appointed
time has come.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Woshingtonions Buy
Homes in Maryland
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. 29.-
The purchase of two homes by
Washingtonians in this area was re-
ported yesterday. Mrs. Anna Pea
body purchased the brick house and
about Is acres of the farm, Rose
Bank, on Brettons Bay, formerly
owned by Hervey Knight, sr.. Wash
ington patent attorney. Mrs. Thomas
E. Harwood Of near Glynmont re-
Gently sold her estate on the Po-
tomac, Long Shadow, to Col. Thomas
F. McNeill, U. S. A., retired, who
is expected to come here soon to
make his home.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
This Changing World
Turks Moy Hinder Hitler If He Attempts
To Offset AneIo-Russian Coup in Iron

and the Bulgarian merchant ma
>rine have not enough ships to
enable the Germans to send a
large force across the Black Sea
even II the menace of an attack
from the Russian air force and
navy has been completely re-
moved.
In the Istanbul harbor there
are only relatively few ships.
These could be sabotaged by
the Allies should the Germans
threaten the former capital
of the Turkish Empire which the
Turks are in no position to de-
fend for a longer space Of time
than the Persians defended Ia
briz.
Italian Call Expected.
In naval quarters it Is believed
that the Germans will be COM
PEELED to draw on their Axis
partner-the Italians-to pro-
vide them with the necessary
tonnage to take German troops
from Southern Russia to the
Black Sea coast of Anatolia. This
means, however, that this ton
mage will have to get through
the Dardanelles under the guns
of the British Navy. If Turkey
refuses the passage of those
ships the heavy guns at Chanak
could make their passage i'm
possible.
While not even the British ex-
pect the Turks to defend the
European portion of the Turk
iSh Republic, the Ankara gov
ernment can cause severe head
aches to Herr Hitler by oppos-
ing him in the Dardanelles and
even in Northern Anatolia. The
principal ports along that coast
-Samsun and Trebizond-are
inadequate for large ships. Land
ing parties must be taken ashore
in small boats and the heavy
seas for which the Black Sea
Is known make such landings
difficult even in normal times.
If a Turkish force were to op-
pose the Germans, they could
certainly make things difficult
for the Reich.
Reich's Only Strategy.
Yet according to military ex-
pertS the only way for the Ger
mans to hit their foes quickly
after the Iranian setback-is to
attempt to land in Northern An
atolia, occupy the Sivas-Erze-
rum Railroad leading to Ar
menia and prepare themselves
for a campaign next spring in
Iran. Weather conditions in
that section of the world make
fighting after the middle of Oc-
tober impossible.
In diplomatic quarters it is be-
ieved that the Turks are going
to stick to their neutrality pol
icy. This suits the British and
the Russians perfectly. Neither
Of these Allies wants to fight the
Turks. All they wish them to do
is not to permit the Germans
to land and threaten the Russian
and British forces in the Middle
East. If the Turks insist on
their policy of strict neutrality
there is little that the Germans
will be able to do in the Black
Sea. The Russian and the Brit
ish forces can reach Anatolia to
support the Turkish armies in
much shorter time than the Ger
mans can land.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

Ger commanding military district No.
10 at Regina, as Canadian Minister
to Japan will be announced soon, 1t
was learned last night on good au-
thority.
The Toxic post has been vacant
since December, 1898, when Robert
Evening star., 1941-08-29
War; Is Forging New Britain by Revolution
Based on Reason, Realism and Humonism

tionalism that has divided the
world since the 18th century.
1t is, therefore, a revolution of
all-European and worldwide sig
nificance. 1t is occurring in a
European stronghold and for the
liberation and equality OF all
European nationalities; but it is
also occurring in an island, of
Europe and yet not in it, an
island that is the heart-center of
world commonwealth, and
allied with Russia, China and, in
all but a technical sense, with
the United States.
Fresh Eye Sees 1t.
1t must not be inferred that
these developments are occurring
without bitches or opposition.
that they proceed equally on all
fronts and in all places, or that
they are in any way complete.
Actually they are more apparent
and appear more coherent to the
fresh eye than to Britons them
selves. Britons have neither the
time nor the opportunity alb
stractly to analyze what they are
doing or its probable effect on
the world at large.
The visitor to England enters
a besieged country, cut off from
the wider contacts with either
Europe or America. He is eagerly
received and eagerly questioned.
If he has known Britain before
he is more conscious than his
hosts of the radical sweep of
change, that is the more remark
able because it has left the char
acteristic forms and traditions
intact. The House of Commons
functions continually, property is
not being appropriated but being
socially used, the courtesies do
not relax, the amenities are more
modest but not more boorish, the
press is as free as it has ever
been and much more free than in
the Munich era, criticism Is
candid, the Prime Minister is a
prime minister and not fuehrer,
the crown and the constitutional
monarchy are unchallenged-the
most popular woman in England
is the Queen, and popular in the
exact meaning Of the word.
Idealistic Revolution.
1t Is the sense Of the progress
of revolution longed fora
revolution based on reason,
realism and humanism that en-
cages the enthusiasm of the
visitor. 1t is not that one is, or
becomes more "pro-British," it
Is that one sees so much in be-
sieged Britain that can be emu
lated. One is constantly asking
oneself, why don't we do this?"
why must a nation be driven to
the wall in order to act with
intelligence, energy and brother
hood?"
And yet one also asks oneself,
What If it should have to sur
render to superior brute force?"
No Briton asks this question of
himself, as far as I can find, but
the visitor asks it. The visitor
asks: What if, in the ultimate
showdown, America should wash
her hands and say 'enough!'"
Only in the beclouding doubt of
that still dubious question does
the heart sink, knowing that were
that enough" to be spoken too
soon the ark of mankind might
tumble broken into the flood, and
the brazen- n-browed tread here and
everywhere-until in some far,
far future, out of slavery and
bloody rebellion, humanity should
be rediscovered. as one must be-
lieve 1t always would be.
CReleased by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-08-29

q III yuOCh ".
at Kearny, N. J.
Being desirous
of, according to
the c. I. O., the
union mainten-
a n ce contract
for W hic h i t
called the strike,
the adminiStra-
ton realizes that
It cannot do so
If the Navy De-
partment oper-
ates the plant
y O r q II c a this
Evening star., 1941-08-29

Randolph Bruce resigned because of
i'll health.
A reliable informant said the de-
cision to send Brig. Foster to Toxic
had been reached following Prime
Minister Mackenzie Kings arrival
last week in the United Kingdom.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

Is II that Is
SO peculiarly
impr e S S " e
about Britain
at war that it
has made the
whole crowd
ed experience
a continual
lntelle C I u a !
eXcitenle n t =?
What reveal
ing clue runs
through t h e
epic story, as
it unfold S
Evening star., 1941-08-29

mas trouble turn
ing out n e W
weapons of war
fare.
For some OBJ
scure re son
W h ich I n o W
can't recall, I de-
C id e d a W h / le
back to take a
ride in as many
of the Arm y S
and Navy's COM
bat machines as
I could, and tell
you of my expe-
Evening star., 1941-08-29
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Evening star., 1941-08-29
.McLemore-
New Torpedo Boot
Trickier Than Whale

NEW ORLEANS.-I'm as patriotic
as the next fellow. But it will be all
right with me If the defense pro-
gram lags bit and the Governm Mt
Evening star., 1941-08-29
On the Record
By DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In "a hours of quiet and soli-
tude In Lisbon I have reviewed
my mind in search of the an
swer to a leading question: What
Evening star., 1941-08-29

THE opnions OF Drers this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to glue all sides OF questions of interest to its
readers although opinions may contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Death for Violation

Violation of government prics
regulations In Germany is consid-
cred a felony punishable in extreme
cases by death.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Subterfuge
Can Intensity
Strike Grief
Possible Tactics
By Administration
Can Spreod Woe
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The administration is seeking a
way to circumvent the situation in
which it finds itself because of the
seizure of the Federal Shipbuilding
Evening star., 1941-08-29

Most of the demand for women's
hosiery in India is from Europeans,
Anglo-Indians and Parsees.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

from so many angles and
through so many groups and
characters? What is 1t that I
have found and put no words to
yet?
The answer, I think, is this:
This war is not destroying Brit
ish civilization. 1t is re-creating
it. 1t is shattering buildings, but
it is also testing in fiery fur
mace all social habits and polit-
ical and economic institutions
and modifying them at breath
taking pace. Despite the rubble,
the Britain of August, 1941, is
infinitely more civilized than
the Britain Of September, 1899.
This particular and unique war,
that invadeS every phase of life,
is the greatest purge in human
history, and with all its destruc-
ton and misery, it is blasting
windows into minds as well as
glass into the streets. 1t is caus-
ing things to be done that the
intelligence of the few long ago
recommended, but that never
would have been done had not
imagination and intelligence be-
come welded by a shotgun mar
riage to the ultimate necessity
survival.
Evening star., 1941-08-29

New Cunodiun Minister
Expected for japan
BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Aug. 29-Appoint ment
of Brig. w. w. Foster. district ON
Evening star., 1941-03-09
AH-Ovt Drive

f1oLLYwOOD'S cooperation is not
limited to the studios themselves A
few days after the producers had vol
unteered their assistance to the Army,
the several highly unionized movie
guilds met for confirming action. Each
of them - directors, actors and writ
ers - agreed to join in. Famous stars
are to appear in some of the training
films without pay. The Army had
expected to pay minor players. but
the ones called for the early pictures
wouldn't take the money.
professional stunt man was Of
fered $50 to jump from the second
floor of a burning building. portray
ing a soldier who didn't follow orders.
Chats another of Hollywoods inno-
vations - to inject dramatic enter
tainment by showing the penalties
for disobedience The stunt man held
out for SIS until he learned it was for
an Army training film. Then he did
it - twice - for nothing There have
been dozens of less spectacular but
no less sincere evidences of patriotism.
Hollywood. as might be expected.
is bewilderingly crisscrossed with COM
mittees and subcommittee on the
project. They head up in the Signal
Officers Photographic Advisory Coun-
Gil. which consists of Lieutenant
Colonel Zanuck as producer and
Evening star., 1941-03-09

Send us officers as technical ad-
visers." they proposed, land We will
make all the training pictures you
want"
Money was an immediate stumbling
block. The Army had only 100000
for training films. AS everyone knows,
Hollywood's production costs are
scaled along proportions that might
modestly be called colossal. Two hun
dred thousand dollars would hardly
produce even one good-sized Class B
feature. Yet actually it may be enough
to produce 100 or more training films.
for the studios contributions will
absorb about four-ffths of pictures
normal cost. The Army pays only for
ordinary labor and materials. Its
release prints - about 300 from each
negative are being made in its
own laboratory in Washington.
One of Hollywood's noteworthy
innovations is the inclusion of little
showmanly entertainment in each
film. For example, the script of pic
ture on hygiene called for an Army
doctor to stand before the cameras
and read lecture. To Producer
Daryl F. Zanuck it seemed dull
Let's make it entertaining" he
proposed. Instead of a doctor, let a
Evening star., 1941-03-09
Continued from pose four

couple of rockies talk it over. They
might even crack few jokes about
it"
This was a revolutionary thought
for the Army men, but they agreed to
try. saw the finished picture. 1t is
at once amusing and solid. Soldiers
remember it and talk about it, thus
emphasizing it's lessons.
The Army has taught Hollywood
some tricks, too, particularly in the
matter of fast action. A picture in
volving infantry drill was being made
one morning when the director de-
Cided he needed 100 more trained
doughboys.
We'll have to call it off for a few
days." he said. Normally it would
take quite a while to uniform and
train leo extras. But to the technical
adviser on the set, an infantry officer,
it seemed a ridiculous waste of time.
He stepped to a telephone and
called Fort Macarthur. twenty miles
away. Early the next morning a fleet
of transport trucks rumbled onto the
lot bearing 100 picked men with full
equipment.
Evening star., 1941-03-09
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
MOVIES GO TO WAR
Continued from poua four

Colonel Nathan LevinsOn and Major
John Aalberg, sound experts. They
have been newly appointed reserve
officers to advise Major General
Mauborgne.
Meantime Hollywood proceeds with
another quasl-educational effort -
the production of entertainment films
aimed at arousing patriotism.
In 1918 the nation was deluged
with horror films depicting German
atrocities. Producers assured me we
could expect few of this type in the
present crisis. Rather, the emphasis
is upon stimulating national pride
through such stirring features as Land
of Liberty, a saga of Amerlcanism
compiled by Cecil B. DeMille from
ll2 different historical features, shorts
and newSreelS and presented by the
unified industry on a nonprotit basis
Proceeds of its showings go to patri-
otic charities, and we shall have more
films of that type.
Whether the Army's adoption of
training films will launch a national
wave of visual education in our schools
is a puzzling question. Many eduCa-
tors hope it will. DR.. Clarence A.
Dykstra on leave as president of
the University of Wisconsin to act as
Director of the Selective Service Ad-
ministration, stated over national
radio hookup in January: II hope it
is going to be possible for the Army
to teach the schools the art of visual
education"
Other educators with whom talked
were equally hopeful but not too
optimistic. There are two basic OBJ
stacles. The first is that educators
seem unable to agree as to precisely
what they want. The second is that
no agency or individual appears will
ing to invest any considerable sum
in producing educational pictures, as
such, since the prospect OF recouplng
the cost, to say nothing of realizing
a profit, is extremely dubious.
Pennsylvania pioneered in the
field two decades ago. The philan-
thropist who backed the venture is
reported to have lost S3,0OO,0OO
Some time later, under the pressure
of zealots who pointed out that
225, 900 American schools form a vast
potential market as compared to the
$4,000 movie theaters, the Holly
wood producers attempted to do
something about it. After Sitting
through 1900 films they selected
l.2OO and re-edited 500; these are
CONTINUED on pose 20)
Evening star., 1941-03-09

Look at this photo of Bill. That
q wild hair! Same old story, he
uses water TO comb it and water
washes away natural oils. Pity
he didn't use kreml before hav.
ing a picture taken intended to
keep me interested.
Evening star., 1941-03-09

o Now, at home, YOU
can quickly and easily
tint telltale streaks OF
gray to natural ap-
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