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Evening star., 1941-08-31

Thomson, son of a Hamburg banker
and at that time Vice Consul at Naples
Thomson, who had served five years
in the German Army. became intrigued
with the picture of the girl as it de-
veloped under the painters brush. Soon
he wanted to meet her. Annelise had
become interested in the sculptor's sub
ject. So the artist gave a party and
introduced them. They found they had
interests in common-music, horses,
sports. They were married in 1921
Frau Thomson, who was educated in g
girls school near Lake Geneva in Swift
zerland, speaks four languages-Ger-
man, French, italian and English. Hel
English has an American accent.
She learned to ride as a child and
grew up to be an expert equestrienne
She once owned a fine, English-bred
race horse that had won three grand
prizes, and she rode him to several VIC
tories in women's races in Germany.
Riding Expert
She has ridden in horse shows in
Washington and to the hounds in Vir-
ginia and Maryland She likes to re-
call that one year she was the only wom-
an asked to join a small hunting grour
that puts a premium on horsemanshir
And it is all right with her if the fc
gets away.
Although she has been thrown man
times-her left shoulder, ankle. wris
and fingers on her left hand have been
broken-she has never become fearful
of horses. The horse she now rides
Kitty-Carr. chestnut mare, shc
trained as a jumper.
Her picture collection includes severa
taken from the top of Longs Peak. Mex
to riding she likes mountain climbing
1t amuses her to relate that she be
came the second woman in 10 years to
scale Longs Peak the most difficult waI
because the man with her. skilled Al
pine climber, wouldn't heed her sug-
gestion that they had taken a wror"
turn.
There are snapshots of a tame re
squirrel, Bienchen, which she brough
from Germany and which later ESCAPED
into the trees in the garden back
the house 1t is here that Frau Thorn.
sen spends much of her time these days
Birds and squirrels have found wher,
they can count on food.
Evening star., 1941-08-31

Thirty thousand girls tell 10000 stories
about what it's like to be one of the new
comers brought to Washington in the
past year by Uncle Sans expanding de-
fense activities.
It's fur" It's luIiesume noIe:" rs
terrlf1c!"
The way to beat the game on S1,260
or 81 1,440 a year is boarding house!"
"No, it's a room with meals out!" mo,
it's an apartment =. with a couple of
girls you never saw before!''
You can't possibly get date!" What
do you mean? I'm going to be married
next week to boy I met at a church
dance and I've only been here six
monthsI"
You can't save a penny!" You can,
too. I'm living on $50 month, sending
$50 home to pay doctor bills, and buying
q defense bond with the other $20!"
This reporter didn't interview all 30,-
900. That number is based on civil serv-
Ice figures of $4,000 new Government
employees here in the year ending June
30, with a 60-40 ratio of women to men.
But she sampled enough to be sure that
the living patterns of the new Govern
ment girls are as varied as the girls
themselves. And they're from 10 to "over
40" petite and huge, poised and "coun-
try'-wearing the brands of all 48
States, Hawaii, Alaska and the Virgin
Islands. In general they're younger than
girls of former years. Some have just
finished high school in small inland
towns.
Living Costs of Past
They like it and they don't like it-this
being superimpoSed on a boom town
where the highest salaries they ever re-
ceived have to be stretched to cover bare
living costs. few go back home. Some
Just complain. Others are making lark
of it and loving the chance to do sight
seeing, catch glimpse of headline max
ers, and live on their own.
Most common fly in the ointment
seems to be the impossibility of getting
private bath at rents they can pay. But
. even living six or eight to a bath, wait
ing endless hours for door down the
Evening star., 1941-08-31

roommate, Dig bay window, non-work-
ing fireplace and makeshift closet. But
the dining room looked like tearoom
and the printed menus indicated really
well-balanced meals.
Evening star., 1941-08-31

hall to open, and hanging last nights
wash on a hanger from the chan
delier, can be funny to some. Others are
plaintive.
I'D just as soon take a bath after a
Evening star., 1941-08-31

There was plenty of room to enter
tain dates in the living room, but when
it was crowded, it would be all right to
have boy in your room with the door
wide open until IL o'clock. The attractive
landlady had been singer and at one
time tearoom manager. Her current
frown, she said. was brought on by the
rising cost of food.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Advocated by Others

trying to move together.
Advocated by Others
Other girls are ardent boarding house
advocates, and the GEMS Information
for New Employers advises single en-
ployes making from $50 to s120 month
who have not made other plans to get
board and room together either in pri-
vate house, boarding house or club. Many
advisers declare that unless board" is
bought by the month, some girls will
deny their stomachs for a new dress or
get unbalanced meals because of lack
of nutritional knowledge.
Many of the boarding houses try to
furnish some sort of community life and
the new Government girls are intrigued
with tales of Cupid'S inroads on the
ranks of co-educational boarding homes.
A. A. Wren of the Washington Room Ex-
change tells of bachelor technical
engineer who accompanied 40-year-old
spinster to mail letter and a boy who
asked the next girl at the boarding house
table to teach him shorthand. The
finale IN both cases, he says, was mar
riage.
Marriage Record
Ralph Scott, whose % co-educational
guest homes on Twenty-first street house
$50 girls and $50 boys who all eat in the
same dining room, get free doughnuts
the day before pay days and share in
free boat rides, movies and the like, says
there are five or six marriages month
there and 10 or Is every June.
Scott, who, with his brother Harry,
will run the r. F. Enhanced nine-story
home, now in the blueprint stage, for
$50 girls in defense jobs, said there
already have been 200 applications. All
rooms will be singles and cost $50 a
month. Atop the four wings will be q
sun deck, party deck, dance deck and
sports deck for residence. There will be
a soda bar, but no meals.
Tired room-hunters among the new
Government girls grudgingly admit that
he new hotel will be swell for the 81 $40
year group, but ask what they're going
10 do about living if they make only
81 ,260 or $1,000 The housing experts
agree that there is shortage of rooms
Tor girls who can't spend more than $50
to s35 q month for room and food. They
worry also about reports that three
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

POWER HAS MADE THE
UNITED STATES IN
PREGNABLE TO SEA-
BORNE INVASION.
If this country takes adj
vantdge OF the detenSire
pOuerS giUcH to it By THE
BON B A X ID MENT AIR
PLANE, its iDcpregV0biIity
to military inrosioR is AS
SURED in the tOreSeedbie
future"
n BORROWER, with our
WI great industries EN-
gaging in mass produc-
ton of military aircraft, we
can be INVINCIBLY ARMED
b elieves this expert
LONG BEFORE WE CAN
BE ATTACKED ON OUR
SHORES.
doubt as to the AVAIL
ABILITY Of ar pOWer can
be dismissed, so far as the
United States is cOncerHcd,"
Colonel Phillips explains.
I'VE shall ALWAYS hare
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
Mexican
Workers
I'm Riot

MEXICO CITY. Sept. "a
- QNS) - Authorities today,
counted a toll of five killed and'
-four wounded in a clash between
soldiers and munitions workers
near the home of President Man.
uel Avila Camacho at Tomas de
.Chapultepec.
Scores of shots were fired by
the soldiers who were guarding
the presidents estate when the
rioting began.
Fears were expressed the list OF
dead and injured would increase
when a complete count is made
Red Cross workers said some OF
the dead and injured had been
carried dff 10 their homes instead
of to hospitals and morgues.
The munitions workers had
gathered in front of the presi-
dents home TO protest against
their INFLAMMATION. A guard or
dercd them 10 dispense, but the
workers began throwing stones,
according to military authorities.
Versions of what followed are
conflicting. but most accounts
agreed that the 10th Battalion
came 10 the scene on the run with
fixed bayonetS and opened. fire.
The workers broke and fed.
leaving their dead and wounded
behind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
The Weather
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

The sun VII set a. s.27 D m today.
and rise tomorrow a. s ~ a n
The moon sets today a, SIS o m.
and rises tomorrow AZ At a. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
Argentina Acts
Against Ndzis
International New, service csbl.

BUENOS AIRES. Sept. "a
The Argentine government took
precautionary measures TO main-
tain order today in an apparent
move 10 prevent any activity by
pro-Nazi elements.
The minister Of marine and the
acting minister OF war announced;
THE government has taken
adequate measures 10 insure
order and maintain 10 through
out the nation"
Later acting President Ramons
s. Castillo told correspondents.
Tranquility rcigns through
out the nation. The measures
that have been taken are merely
precautionary. There il no need
for alarm.
Argentina has been stirred IN
recent weeks by a legislative in
NeSugation OF alleged pro-NaZi
activities Last week the cham
Der OF deputies adopted a re-
solution declaring German
Ambassador Baron Edmund Won
Hermann exceeded his diplo-
matte privileges and calling
upon The government 10 expel
all leaders of Nazl organizations
from the country
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
Counterthrusts
HurL Ndzis Back
Across Dvind
$500 Dead Claimed
by Russians After
a Days of Battle
Is.eruatisu.I Now service Cable

MOSCOW. Sept. "a. - Russian
counter-attacks continued today
on both hte western reaches of tho
Dvina River nj the northern sector
and close TO the mouth OF the
Dnieper in the far south. IL was
announced officially.
Military spokesman s a d that
bitter fighting was going on in the
neighborhood of Kherson, 10 miles
from the mouth of the Dnieper
Soviet forces on the south CEN
trial front were credited with de-
feating two Nazi infantry
regiments. hurting them back
across the western reaches OF the
Dvina after four days OF heavy
fighting.
A supplementary high command
Icommunique announcing this VIC
tory said the Germans left tho
bodies of $500 slain officers and
soldiers behind.
RED CONTRIBUTIONS
Earlier Soviet advices told OF
Russian counter-blowS h a in
flicted about $1,000 casualties or
the Germans, including $4,000 in
the sector south of Lake linen
$50 miles below Leningrad.
The siege Of Leningrad itself
was said to have been relieved by
a Russian bayonet charge h a
threw the Germans into a seven
mile retreat
The official Soviet spokesman,
Vice Foreign Commissar S. A. Lo-
zovsky, in a talk with correspond
entS. denied the German claim
that the Nazis have surrounded
-four Russian armies east Of Kiev
He also dismissed reports
abroad that Marshal Sefnyon Blu
denny. Russian commander on
the southern front, has been re-
placed by General Koniev or that
% units of the Soviet Baltic fleet
went 10 Sweden and have been
: interned.
LoZovSky also ridiculed the
German casualty figures and
stated on the basis OF captured
documents that total German
losses in the RusSo-GerInan war
total approximately 100000 men
The spokesman said he believed
Budenny would be able 10 cxtri-
cate his forces from the area east
of Kiev TO defend KharkoV, RoStov
and the Donetz Basin
An official announcement sale
two German planes penetrated
Moscow's defenses during the
night, dropping several small higl
explosive bombs and a small mum
Der Of incendiarieS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

rard or are the hOrbOr de-
lenses being prouided TO
COVER THE FIT Y
YEARS WHICH HAVE
JUST PASSED?'
Ell PHILLIP;
/ cOncretely illust a I e
- his thesis by discussin,
our defense position in tn
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
Sea.
He says:
an the Julg-AuguSt 1871
issue If Army Ordnance
General HGgood care
13-poiHt program for coast
dcfcasc n, lchich $500, OOO,-
OOO lo0uId be spent.
There lc0S HttIc TO CARL
ut IN this program Crccpt
that it appears to hare been
based on THE OBSOLETE
missions of coast defense.
For example,, General
HdgoOd recommended nelO
hdrbor dcfCHScS IN the
H0HStoH-Be0uuoHt area of
TGrOs NTH special refer
eHce to the prOtcctioa Of the
oil felds
This proposal obriouSlB
tcos intended to preUent a
SEA-BORNE INVASION
from capturing the oil fields,
since they are not close
enough to the coast to be
bombdrded.
"AIR POWER not only
HAS MADE SUCH AN
OPE TION IMPOS-
SIBLE, bat nec American
defenses closing the gaps
into the Caribbean through
the greater and lesser An
titles 1OiH make this sea,
through Which the gulf
ports Of the United States
mast be approached, a
TRAP 1Chich NO HOS
TILE NAVAL FORCE OR
TRANSPORTS WOUL d
DARE TO ENTER.
"The West Indies, II fully
exploited to close the Cdrib-
bean. furnish COMPLETE
PROTECTION for the
American gulf coast
mot only are no pe,C
hdrbOr defenSes needed,
BUT THOSE NOW IN EX-
ISTENCE HAVE LITTLE
FURTHER REASON FOR
BEING MAINTAINED"
n VEN mOre-the same dc
r. Tense arrangements
now being establishes
on the islands, would - &C
to Colonel Phillip
All AIR NVA
sion of the South.
Not only do American
defenSes along the Antilles
protect the gulf coast"
Colonel Philips remarks,
"but they ALSO secure the
northern shores Of VcUe-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

It in the future az ample
quantity, and instead Of A
DOZEN or TWO DOZEN
guns defendiHg a hdrbor nee
shall hare 1000 OR 1000
BOMBERS ready to be con-
centrated for the defense Of
ANY POINT not of har-
b0rS atone but Of ALL THE
BEACHES and ALL THE
COASTS.'
The accuracy of Colonel
Phillips analysis of lair
power and coast defense"
seems to be unquestiOnable
since it is based upon data ac-
cumulated from the actual
experiences OF the European
war.
Therefore, the DOGGY of hos
tile armies descending upon
us and bIitzkrieging our cities
into ruins ought to vanish
forever if we are properly
prepared in the air TO defend
our coasts and country
against any invading fleets OF
ships or planes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

-uelo. and Colombia, THE
PANAMA CANAL. and
the eastern coast Of Central
America and McricO."
In other words, No OLD
WORLD POWER could OBJ
tain and hold the LAND
BASES necessary to launch
and sustain an AERIAL at
tack upon us.
In time of peace, of course,
this cOuntry-in order to up
hold the Monroe Doctrine
would PREVENT the estab-
lishment of such bases by any
European or Asiatic country.
III in time of war such bases
were started, our air and
naval forces would simply
DELIBERATE HEM al
their beginning.
IETOWENER, Colonel Phil
IT lips does not argue that
ALL existing land for
tifcations should he dis
mantled, or that no new land
defenses should be erected
anywhere.
On our mainland, exposed
harbOrs and naval shore sta
tons need TO be guarded
against naval commandments
and raids against "in-
vasiOn."
Likewise, our new insular
defense posts and seaplanC
bases "are subject to naval
bOmbardment during raids
and must have seacOast guns
to keep enemy raiders beyond
range"
Also
against some Of orr
/ FOREIGN POSSESSIONS
an attacking ndrOl force
might be able to bring
SUPERIOR air pOWer ON
! CARRIERS: hence all the
old missions Of hdrbOr de-
/ tense apply rith fuH force
| to them.
But these strategic consid'
eratiOns NO LONGER APP
PLY a. of old to the MAIN
LAND of this country, Colo
mel Phillips insists.
"Eren If the United
States had NO HARBOR
DEFENSES, it iCouId be
I IMPROBABLE TO IN
/ VASION." he asserts.
And thiS stu UOuid be
true II our nary Were IN
FERIOR TO that Of an IN
rdding pOtCCr -.
"LAND : 3 ASED AIR
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
Ndzis Prepare
For leningrdd
Street Fighting
Infantry Units Push
to Within Rife
Shot, Says Berlin
BY PIERRE j. HUSS

IntI SeMs Ssrvtee star Correspondent
BERLIN. Sept. "A. German IN
fantry today pushed within rifle
shot Of Lcningrad proper accord
ing 10 military advlccs m Berlin
as Chancellor HllcrS armies
shifted Their major blows from the
Kiev front 10 capture the second
CITY of the L. :. : T.
A double Iron ring mean
while, closed in on POE 900 Red
army troops pockcted cast OF KEY
in the Ukraine. and Hitlers field
Headquarters said complete liqdi-
dation OF these forces can he OK
pectcd within a few days
All approaches 90 Lcnincrad,
with its milhon-man defense were
reported closing in, while out in
the Gulf Of Finland the major
forts of Kronstadt were believed
70 have been crippled.
ARM FOR STREET BATTLES
Ready for street fighting in Len
incrad with m hi e gun and
bavonet. the Germans were able 20
scan the Soviets' chief port with
field glasses.
From the Arctic 20 the Black
Sea. the luftwaffe continued 10
lash al the Soviet rear lines. aid
inc the Nazi advance through the
Crimea and along the north shore
OF the Sea of Azov towards Rostov,
the Russian port az the mouth Of
the River Don
German military authorities in
Berlin predicted, on the basis of
word from the Ukrainian front,
that the humiliation of the re-
manning 100000 of Marshal SEM
yon Budenny'S army would be COM
plete within the week.
These 100000. according 10 the
Germans. will be added 10 an
equal number said 10 have been
destroyed in the previous 10 days
fighting beyond Kiev.
German victories or major char
acter were claimed also on the
sea. An official German announce
ment said the 23.606-ton Soviet
battleship Marat-one OF the three
known Russian capital warships-
has been sunk in the Gulf of Fin
land Her sister-ship. the October
Revolution, was reported damaged
once again.
In other far-f1ung attacks,
authorities declared. stukas blasted
the Crimean lsthmus, where Red
Army positions were declared 10
have been shattered.
An official announcement said
a Soviet air base in the Crimea
was heavily damaged and that &c
Red planes were destroyed on the
ground. Other bomber forma-
tons were declared TO have ham,
mered the eastern Ukraine in the
opening phase of a blitz against
industrial Kharkov, in the Donetz
basin.
kharkov was reported already
partially cut of as German land
columns advanced toward the city
from captured Kiev.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
IN THE NEWS
from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
that the ancient order Of mill
tary bureaucrats and back
numbers will accept Colonel
Phillips conclusions.
Yet those conclusions were
foreshadowed by General Viii
liam l.. Mitchell 20 years ago,
and have been amply con-
hrmed by the varied expert
ences of the present war.
The attitude of the ante
deluvians, however. is shown
in the opposition voiced by
our sOmnOlent secretary of
war to the proposal of Con-
gress 10 vote a medal to Gen
eral Mitchell as posthumous
recognition of his farsighted-
ness in realizing and predict
ting the effectiveness of the
airplane in the destruction of
naval vessels and in the de-
Tense of the nation.
Recognition Of General Nit.
chell's progressiveness would
have been, in the view of the
moSSbackS, a reflection on
their own power of vision
or lack of it.
Therefore, their own re-
dictionary attitude will prob
ably be maintained in spite of
convincing argument and es-
tablished fact. |
EVERTHELESS Colo
~ mel Phillips, deriving
his findings from his
own training and experience
and from actual operations
in the war zones, presents his
argument with telling effect.
He says:
The bomber has made /
the American coast I'M
PREGNABLE TO MVA-
SION.
"This is THE MOST I'M
PORTANT FACT that can
be deduced from the Euro
pedn Wdr.'
Colonel Phillips voices a
warning that this country is
about to undertake a huge
scheme of coastal fOrtifca-
tons. at an enormous cost,
WHICH AVIATION HAS
A LR EADY RENDERED
OBSOLETE.
"A great program Of hdr-
Dor defense construction IS
proposed and IS partially
under Wdy," he observes.
zone Uonders If this pro-
gram has been deUised nth
fuH realization of the dbiL-
ity of AIR POWER to per-
form many functions Of
hdrb or defense tnstdllG-
tons.
"The United States is
about to build hOrbOr de-
lenses to make the country |
secure for ffty years to
come.
rs this really looking for
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
Famous Sayings

Like STRENGTH L, felt from hope and from despair.
Homer
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
WHO ARE THE ONES
THAT ARE LOST?

Did Nou read what ti1e-y>ar-ead Pam
Ella iloiingWorth ot Conway. \. Il. >u.a
Il her father the other da> while s!.t .1N
IN o>pGaI bed recUpcra' ag aItel htHs
lost IN the woods without food anu i'll
freezing temperatures tU eight days
"NilI You Hiss ne, Pana0N. hel father
asked.
Sure She ~aid matter-ot-tuctiy. "Noa
were lost bat knew Id ind yoa.
y ou We're lost -. Wise words. from,
one 50 young. Fer. i'm truth, little PAM
eIa Was not lost; how ca1 one be los.
IL part Of a world when he whole ot .
l. strange. Nou might d we'll say thu.
Il star i lost IN heaven. ~ Il grain o..
sand in the sea. No. Pamela ", re,
losl She Mas merely where her Gl.:.o.~..
steps had guidpd hrr.
Il was b r father Who W"> lo>.. ;.',..
her mother. for they We're not ts~re -
direct the steps which carried Pamela
Is naturally. as normally ~ lie itself
into the forest
There WAS 4 happy ending - H".
Pampla'> niSadNemurc.
Her father NJ .u>. ard >hs to"na
him Il knew I'd tind yo0 .... Childish
faith,
How often is Zach tu;th abuscd@ How
often, do the parents 60 deeper AND
deeper INTO the woods ot neglect and
misunderstanding, stopping their ear> ro
the childish voices crying cut To them
Imperial Valley has many Whose par
cntS are still lost. many who wander
through the ravineS OF delinquency seek
ing the hand that will direct their steps
into SAFE paths again. And the parents.
mSeeing unheeding, find their time too
occupied with bridge and with clubs.
with business and with pleasure t. place
themselves where their children. a long
last, can cry triumpnantiE. Il knew IL
find Nou.
Not ali are 50 fottuuulv =, little Pam
ella. Y, all h;ueWith her one Thing in
common. They are not lost tor they
cannot be lost. They set cat upon paths
unchart,d and unmupped in thu eXpcr-
ience Of their live, Unless it j. placed
there by wiser hands. there j. 10 >.EM-
board t. tell them which Way to 60, no
barrier before the pitfalls. 10 Stairs 70
th1 mountain tops
Ii they wander into the wilderness. II
they stumble INTO the pitfalls, whose j.
-ht faE,t" so. theirs
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
JUDGE, JURY AND
JAIlER

Earl King. f. {. Ramsay and FRANK
Connor are going to be pardoned pretty
soon. Governor Olson h;,> Virtually prom
ised thai he Will say TO them, "IoQl debt
II humanity is DISCHARGED: 60 free,
When he does, hv viii be acting aS judge.
Jury ana iailer ter turnkey, for he will
be rejecting The findings o all Of these.
Governor Olson >ay, the three are gull
II Of no more than assault and battery.
They were convicted in 1886 Of second
degree murder 4 jury convicted them,
a nudge sentenced them, and the state ad-
visory pardon board has recommended
against pardon for them. They. We're
Go labor union members, who directed
q goon squad which boarded ship IL
San Francisco harbor in 1886 and beat
to death man they believed opposed
the union. King RAMSAY and Connor
NAV nol have killed George ". AlbertS
with their own hands. But they "cl1
lust as guilty. morally and before the
law. as if each individually. had struck
the lethal blows
They were sentenced t. 20 years in
prison.
And now the governor declares that
they hava. after five years, almost DIS
charged their debt 10 society.
Is that what the governor means or
has he. himself. a debt u discharge t."
the radical unionistS who are demanding
pardons for the shipboard murderers"