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Evening star., 1941-07-01
Maj. Eliot Answers Hoover
Military Writer Charges Inconsistencies to
Former President in Sundays Broadcast

Commissions statement, made in
letter to Senator VandenSerg, was
subsequently shown to concern only
sinkings reported in the press, and
the chairman of the commission
stated that there Is reason to be-
lieve that actual losses run substan-
TALLY greater than reported losses"
Double Figure Indicated.
As for the Red Cross, it's ship
ments form so small percentage
of the total transatlantic traffic
as to afford no ground for forming
a judgment. Mr.. Hoover does not
give details as to his Government
departments" However, a careful
analysis of reported losses, checked
back over a period of time adequate
to give basis for estimate, very
strongly suggests that the actual
losses of cargo-carrying ships
loaded in whole or in part in
American ports for British destina-
tions runs at least twice Mr..
Hoover's figure for the first four
months of this year And this
estimate does not include losses in
shipments of American goods from
Canadian ports, nor does it include
losses of west bound ships in cargo
or in ballast.
go Furthermore, many of these
ships are being sunk from the air
No amount of American naval pro-
lection could stop that" Naval
protection includes the operations
of naval aircraft; experience has
shown that the presence even OF
small numbers of defending aircraft
are an almost absolute assurance
of safety to convoy as far as air
attack is concerned; to this must
be added the results to be obtained
from the patrol and scouting activi-
ties of naval patrol planes.
90 Trying to show that Britain
is still quite safe and comfortable.
Mr.. Hoover says; She still draws
a large part of her food supplies by
long voyages from the Southern
Hemisphere. She has apparently
not found the need to concentrate
her lifeline on North America,
which was done to economic ship
ping in the last war"
But Mr.. Hoover must know, from
his close connection with the food
problems Of that day, that the con-
sideration which compelled a certain
proportion of British shipping to be
withdrawn from South American
runs in the last war was the need
for giving priority to maintaining
the enormous war effort in France
1000 900 men-and that no similar
consideration now exists.
Misconception of Sea Power.
CD One result of this shift"
Grom seapower to airpoweD has
been to assure a sort of zone around
the shores of nations where bomb
ing airplanes render attack by naval
vessels very much more difficult and
often impossible. The shift has
added greatly to the powers of
American defense" Here we have
again the ancient conception, ap-
parently ineradicable from the mind
of the uninformed, that the major
task of naval vessels is to attack
(See ELIOT, Page A-18D
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BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The National Youth Admins
tration, under the terms of the
labor-security appropriation bill,
just completed by Congress and
ready for the Presidents sig
nature, will redouble the ef-
forts to train young men and
women for jobs in essential
defense industries. Indeed, the
N. Y. A, through its new pro-
gram, is expected to play an i'm
portant part in cracking the
bottlenecks existing in Ship
building, aviation and machine
tools, by preparing young people
to do specific jobs in those in
dustries. The defense program
must have more and more
workers in these industries as it
speeds toward maximum pro-
duction.
In the new act, 0,000.000 is
appropriated specifically for the
new N. Y. A. defense program.
Administrator Aubrey Williams
Of the N. Y. A. has all plans in
readiness to push ahead training
work. This particular program is
under the direction of Col.
Frank j. McSheery. It's objective
is to prepare $4,000 young
people for vital industries during
the fiscal year which starts to-
day and ends June 80, next year.
II 1t is successful in attaining
this objective, the program will
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clude broader category of
operations and types of work
than will be undertaken under
the specialized defense program.
At present the N. Y. A. is op-
Grating approximately $500 work.
shop production units which con-
tain more than 10000 work sta
tions. They are to be found in
every county in the United
States. Several thousand of these
workshops. comprising $4,000
work stations, will be devoted to
the new defense program.
The N. Y. A. has presented
needy young men and women
with a two-fold opportunity in
the past. 1t has enabled thou
sands of them who were out of
school and in need of jobs to
work for wages on useful public
projects and to acquire training
which they need for private en-
ployment. 1t has made it pos
sible for thousands of others who
were students to continue to
work in schools and colleges and
to earn some of the money they
required to continue their edu-
cation. To these opportunities
the N. Y. A. is adding a third
an opportunity to help the ma
tional defense to expand.
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go a long way toward helping to
build up a labor supply for
national defense.
The defense program of the
N. Y. A. is to be carried out in
connection with the State en-
ployment services and the
public vocational school sys-
tenn. All N. Y. A. workers, in this
special defense program, will
register with the Bureau OF
Employment Security, through
its State services. These services
will help to determine their
qualifications for the work to
be done.
Three day Shift Basis.
Young men and women who
are not employed, and who de-
sire this practical training. are
now presented with an oppor-
tunity not only to fit themselves
for work in industry, but also
to play a valuable part in the
national defense. They must be
from II to "a years of age to
be eligible, must be citizens of
the United States, out of school
and in need Of employment.
They will be paid for the work
they do during this period of
training-the pay, however, will
necessarily be moderate, so that
the greatest number may be
given training with the appro-
priation at hand. The new
defense program will be oper-
ated on a three-day shift basis.
1t is planned to have an average
monthly employment of not
more than 100000 youths, with
a complete turnover once every
three months, making it possible
to give employment and train
ing to $4,000 during the fiscal
year.
Each young man and woman
will be given an opportunity to
develop a single skill and to do
a specific job. For example, to
operate a lathe, a drill press or
a Welder. officials at the
N. Y. A. say there have been no
protests from labor unions over
the program. They point out
that labor not only realizes the
need for more workers with
training for the national defense
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operation in any of the German
occupied territories in Western
Europe is excluded for the time
being. The British now have a
large trained army in the Island.
1t is adequately equipped. But
the defenses organized by the
Germans on all points facing
the Atlantic and the North Sea
are such that it would take more
strength than the British have
today to make a successful land
ing at any of the available
points. 1t is true that some of
the newly-trained British para
chutists might attempt some
sort of a demonstration. But this
would be sheer waste of man
power if it could not be followed
by large-scale operation. And
a large scale operation by the
British forces alone is incon-
ceivable within the next few
weeks-when the Russians need
it most.
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the opponent lacks sufficient
mechanized forces and equal afr
strength.
The hopeful element in the
present situation, as far as it
can be judged from here, is that
the famous German COM
munique which would "baff1e
the imagination" of the world
has never materialized unless
the German high command con-
siders that the announcement
of the Russian losses in planes
and tanks is battling.
If we could be sure that the
German figures are correct, this
would mean the end of Russias
resistance. At the rate the Ger
mans say they have been de-
stroying the Russian mechanical
forces and planes, the U. S. S. r.
will soon find herself as dis
armed as Yugoslavia was a few
months ago. But in responsible
quarters the German COM
munique is looked upon with
skepticism. 1t seems inconceiv-
able that half of the total Rus
sian mechanized forces could be
lost In less than seven days of
battle.
Nazis Can't Spare Planes.
All the same the situation OF
the u. S. s. r. Is far from good
and Russia does need some
powerful demonstration to draw
at least part of the German air
strength from the Eastern
battlefields.
So far the R. A. F. has done
Well-on a small scale. From
reports received in Washington
it appears that the British have
damaged industrial areas in the
north of Germany and in
France.
The LuftWaffe has made few
attacks on British territory be-
cause it needs all its planes for
defensive purposes. 1t cannot
afford to sacrifice a single plane
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played by manyMaj. G. Fielding Eliot.
men prominent in political life on
both sides of the Atlantic to grasp
the simplest military facts. The
most recent example is Sunday eve
ning's radio address by Herbert
Hoover.
Describing his observations as be-
ing those of cold reason in contrast
to feverish emotion, Mr. Hoover pro-
ceeded to offer the following state
ments, among others, as the con-
sidered advice of a former COM
mander in chief to his fellow coun-
trymen in the greatest crisis OF their
history:
ID I'VE could give Britain more
aid if we stayed out of the war" In
the single field of morale alone,
spoken of by Napoleon as outweigh
Ing the material three to one, has Mr..
Hoover calculated the effect on the
German people, now suddenly at war
with Russia, of finding themselves
also at war with the United States?
Enemy the Same.
(2) IF We join the war We must
retain large part of our immediate
production for our own defense"
Our defense against whom? Our
enemy will be the same, and our
method of defeating him the same.
The fact of being at war would en-
able us to increase our efforts for
psychological as we'll as other rea-
sons.
80 II proposed we should send
over to Britain the same convoy
warships that we would use if we
Joined the war. If she operated
them it would do her as much good
as If we do it," This does not take
into account the British shortage
of naval personnel, nor the delays
incident to transfer as already ex-
emplified by the so destroyers traded
for bases. Nor does Mr.. Hoover ex-
plain why transferring more ships
to Britain would not weaken our
own defenses while using those ships
under our flag would do so. Mr.
Hoover calls this calculation "just
plain mathematics"
"a The figures now disclosed
by the Maritime Commission, the
Government departments, the Red
Cross, all of them show that less
than per cent of the supplies
shipped from America to Britain
have been sunk" But the Maritime
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of Government control would be
substituted for the competitive sys-
tenn, the measures now being pro-
posed would be logical precursor
and would do no harm. But If the
system of free competition is to be
preserved, some method of pro-
tecting patent rights and secret
formulas must be devised so that,
on the one hand the Government
can get the quantity production it
wishes and, on the other hand, the
patents will not be allocated to
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Bv CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Despite contradictory commu-
niques military quarters in Wash
ington are inclined to believe
that the Russians have virtually
lost the first game of the. rubber.
The Russian general staff is now
looking anxiously for power
full British demonstration to di-
vert the attention of the Nazt
air force which has been chiefly
responsible for the present Ger
man successes.
If the reports of the occu-
patton of Minsk are confirmed
the next fortified Soviet line
before Moscow extends from
Vitebsk to Smolensk and Bry-
ansk. According to the little that
Is known about Russian military
matters, this line has been
strongly fortified in the last two
years and would ordinarily pre-
sent a serious obstacle to the
advancing NaZi columns.
Unfortunately the quick
moving German mechanical
columns and the sWarms of air.
planes now can apparently turn
almost any fortified position if
Evening star., 1941-07-01
This Changing World
StuIin Declared First Round Loser in War;
Soviets Pinning Hopes on British Thrust

to destroy British port and in
dustrial facilities.
But it is believed that large
number of intercepters and
fighting planes are maintained
on the airfields in western Ger
many, France, Belgium, Holland
and Norway to meet serious
British attack.
Despite the speeding up Of
American production and the in
creasing large number of air.
planes which are being rushed
from this country to England,
the British high command can
still i'll afford an "all out" blow
at the Reich. Such an attack
would involve thoucands of
units. The anti-aircraft defense
of continental Europe and the
number of German fighters re-
ported present in that region
is such that major air offensive
might jeopardize Britains
future position.
For the time being the British
general staff must count, for Of
fensive purposes, on American
production. 1t is possible that
within tAe next six weeks the
number 6f airplanes which we
can ferry across the Atlantic
will have reached such a number
as to enable the British to take
the offensive seriously. For the
time being British activities are
considered by the Germans as
mere mosquito bites-unpleasant
but not mortal.
Stain Can't Wait Long.
We are correct in assuming
that the German communique
of the devastating losses in
flicted on the Russians is exag-
gerated, the Russians will in all
likelihood be able to hold their
own either before or behind
Moscow. But if the German
communique happens to be any
where near the truth, then it
will be difficult for Stains S
forces to wait until the British
can launch a large-scale air
offensive.
In military quarters the pos
slbility of British landing
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national affairs
that he pulled
down a sort Of
mental shutter
" h e n military
C o n S iderations
were discussed,
excluding them
/ r o m h / S
thoughts. This
habit, hardly to
be encouraged in
statesmen, may
account for an
inability dis
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istration to pre-
vent the taking
of s t e p S which
unduly a | arm
the Nation and
play n o the
hands of the iso-
lationist groups.
Thus, recently
the announce
ment of a dras-
tically W or d e d
bill to seize pri-
v a e property
gave the oppo-
nents of the ad-
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defense organ1-
Zation such as
the American
Volun-
tary Service to
know that cour-
age runs high
b e n e a t h t h e
jabots of the
Nation, and that
girdles can en-
c o m p a SIS q S
much bravery as
a Sam Browne
belt.
rE
Evening star., 1941-07-01
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

A distinguished British general
once told me the late Neville Cham
berlain so detested the very thought
of force as an instrument in inter-
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HE opinions the lDriters page
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to giDe all sides questions interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
McLemore-
Oh! For the Doys
Of Flo Nightingale
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

The mice of America must be an
unhappy lot these days, now that
there are no women to scare.
One has only to visit a civilian
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Seizure Bill
Is Modified
Effectively
Measure Redrofted
After Quiet Plea
By Mr.. WiIIkie
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Many Americans of prominence
who believe in the Presidents for
eign policy are wondering what is
the best way to influence the admin
Evening star., 1941-07-01
The Political Mill
NY. A. Allotted $50, 100000 TO Train
Young Men and Women for Defense

program = but also that the
young people are the sons ard
daughters of workers, many of
them members of the labor
unions.
The N. Y. A. has been training
young people for jobs for the
last six years. The new defense
program, with its $6G,000,0 900
appropriation is merely a speed
ed up, intensive version of the
regular N. Y. A. out-of school
work program. 1t will seek to
turn out quickly young people
who have developed work habits,
including safety knowledge,
which inexperienced workers
lack.
Miss Perkins, Secretary of La
Dor, has just reported that by
the end of November the aircraft
industry will need 100000 addi-
tional workers. 1t is expected,
of course. that the industry will
set to work to find men with as
much training as possible, and
that its forces will be added to
during the summer and fall
months. Shortages in other es-
sential industries, particularly in
the shipyards which are engaged
in a huge building program both
for national defense and for the
program of all-out aid to Britain,
and in machine shops have been
reported by Federal Security Ad-
ministrator Paul V. McNutt.
The N. Y. A. program for the
fiscal year just closed has &C
complished much, as in the years
prior thereto. An estimate was
made at headquarters that ap-
proximately 10000 young per-
sons, given some measure of
training under the N. Y. A. pro-
grams, have been placed in in
dustrial and other jobs during
the last IL months. During the
month of May alone $4,000 we're
placed.
Three-Fold Opportunity.
The regular out-ot- school pro-
gram of the N. Y. A. will be
continued, and also the programs
for the young men and women
still in high school and college.
Congress has appropriated ap-
proximately s90,000.O0O for these
programs. But these programs
will be geared, it is explained, to
the needs of national defense,
too. They will, however. in
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companies which really have no
legal right to them.
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OF Boston, daughter of Admiral ar
MrS Richard F. Byrd.
Continued From Page DID

of Boston, daughter of Admiral and
Mrs. Richard E. Byrd.
Their frocks were Just like the
r1atron of honor's and they carried
arm bouquets of pink roses with
matching coronets of flowers in
their hair.
Reception at Hawthorn
Follows Wedding Ceremony.
Senator Byrd was best man for
his son, and the ushers were the
bridegroom's two brothers. Mr.. Bev-
erley Byrd and Mr.. Richard Byrd
of Berryville; Mr.. Paul Thomson,
jr., brother of the bride, of Win
chester and New Orleans; Mr.. Fair
fax Randolph and Mr.. Maurice Dean
of Richmond; Mr.. Stacy Lloyd and
Mr.. Henry Post Mitchell of Mill
wood; Mr.. John Scully. Sd, Mr..
Thomas Scully and Mr.. Philip Glaze
of Winchester, and Mr.. Charles
Hooff, jr., of Alexandria and Phil
adelphia.
Immediately after the ceremony a
reception was held at Hawthorn,
the home of the brides grand
mother, Mrs. Pembroke Thomson
near Summit Point, which was a
drive of Is miles through lovely
country side. The large old, white
home of the Thomsons was brightly
lit for the occasion when guests ar
rived, the lawn and garden softly
lit with japanese lanterns.
The bridal party received in the
large parlor and the guests spread
out throughout the house, onto the
lawn and garden where seats and
tables were arranged. There was
music and dancing for the young
people. .
The dining room was decorated in
white flowers and in the center of
the long table large bowl Of brides
roses and at one end the brides
cake of several tiers. The lower
floor of the house was decorated
throughout with garden flowers.
After refreshments the bride cut the
cake, danced with her husband,
and went up to the landing of the
stairway where she threw her
flowers to the bridesmaids below in
the hall.
When young Mr. and Mrs. Byrd
left for their honeymoon by motor,
she wore a red and white print
frock, white lined coat, white hat,
red and white shoes and carried a
large red and white pocketbook
They were showered with rice and
confetti and left with the good
wishes of their friends ringing In
their ears
Upon their return from a we'd
ding trip of several weeks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Byrd will live at The Bunga-
low, in the center of one of Senator
Byrds lovely apple orchards, near
Berryville.
Mrs. Thomson, mother of the
bride, wore a gown of grey chiffon
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and lace bodice, and she wore q
large, pale, peach-colored hat
trimmed with velvet ribbon to match
her dress and spray of pale pink
roses. Her bouquet was of pink
roses. Miss Mildred Bates, an
other sister of the bride; Mrs. Doro-
thy Peacock and Mrs. Effie Crum-
mitt of Washington and Mrs. Mar
garet Scott were the other attend
ants. Their gowns were of peach
and aqua marquisette, and they
wore flower bandeaux and carried
arm bouquets of talisman roses.
Mr.. Ormond Peacock was Mr.
Wagner's best man, and the usrers
were Mr.. Robert Doyle Scott and
Mr.. Earold Owen, Doth of Arlington,
and Mr.. Clarence Crummitt and Mr..
Forest Thompson, both of Wash
ington.
A reception followed at the home
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Bible overlaid with white gardenias
and shower of stephanotis.
Mrs. Jameson M. Barton was ma
tron of honor for her sister. and she
was gowned in yellow chiffon and
carried an arm bouquet of yellow
roses and blue delphinium
Miss Margaret Luby and Miss
Mildred Bishop were the brides
maids and they wore apple green
chiffon and carried nosegays of
yellow rosebuds and yellow daisies.
Wearing blush pink frocks and
carrying nosegays of pink rosebuds
and white daisies, Alethea Jeanne
May and Anna Wise Wick served as
Junior bridesmaids.
The bridegroom had for his best
man his brother, Mr.. D. Stewart
Patterson. and the ushers were Mr..
Jameson M, Barton. Mr.. Truston II
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A receptinn followed at the home
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of the brides mother. Mrs. Bates
wore a or-length dusty rose COL
ored lace dress and a shoulder
corsage of pink rosebuds. Miss
Marion B. Sanderson and Mrs.
Germaine Hoag, both aunts of the
bride, assisted Mrs. Bates.
Following the reception, the cou-
pie left on motor trip, the bride
wearing sheer rayon ensemble of
London tan with accessories to
match.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wagner are at home
at 2130 North Monroe street, Airing
ton, Va.
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Miss Priscilla Lawrence Weds
Mr.. Ross Mcknight Houghton.

Miss Priscilla Lawrence, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Page Lawrence of
bingham, Mass, was married yes
terday afternoon to Mr.. Ross Nc
Knight Houghton, son of DR.. and
Mrs. Harry Houghton, also of
bingham, who made their home
here for many years.
The Rev. Mr.. Daniel Magruder
performed the ceremony at 4 o'clock
in st. John the Evangelist Church
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Miss Roberta Mary Clark and
MIR. Douglass Patterson Married.

The marriage of Miss Roberta
Mary Clark, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Hamlet Clark, and Mr..
Douglass Edward Patterson of Flor
ida and Washington son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Montgomery Patterson
of Mineola, Fla, took place the eve
ming of July 80 at o'clock in the
National Baptist Memorial Church.
Palms and baskets of white glad
ioluses and gypsophila decorated the
church and white tapers in the ca
thedral candelabra were lighted by
Maurice Harrison Clark. young
brother of the bride. The Rev.
Clarence Ray Ferguson, pastor of
the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist
Church, and the Rev. A. Lincoln
Smith, assistant pastor of the Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church,
ofhciated. Mrs. Ardis Atkinson
Cannon played the wedding music,
and several solos were sung by Mr..
Charles T. Hitler.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore gown of white satin
with sweetheart neckline, long
sleeves, fitted bodice and full skirt
falling into a long train. A Juliet
cap of lace and pearls held her full
length tulle veil and she carried a