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Evening star., 1941-09-07
Late Vacation Season
Still Draws Residents.

The vacation season is nearly
over. but there are still a few get
ting off to a late start, among
whom are Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford J.
Durr, who are spending several
weeks visiting in Tennessee.
Miss Gladys Crawford Ramey is
on motor trip to Courtney Lake
N, Y, and will 90 to Scranton, Pa.
to be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Graves before returning
home.
Mrs. George M. Quirk is in
Evening star., 1941-09-07
ILLNESSES Return

Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Hines, sr., of
Arlington, Va, and Mrs. Hines
mother, Mrs. Cornelia White, have
returned from stay at the Tray
more Hotel in Atlantic City.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Mrs. J. Harold De Veau
Returns From Wisconsin.

Mrs. J. Harold De Veau has re-
turned from a visit of six weeks in
Madison, Wis, where she was the
guest of her mother, Mrs. Knight
Cochran. She was joined by Mr.. De
Veau for a week before the end Of
her Northern vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E. Covel
had as their guest this week Mr..
Arthur Vernon Woodwork of Bos-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Winthrop
Blodgett, Sd, have returned from
summer vacation in Vermont,
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island.
Miss Anne Garter returned We'd
neSday evening from Chester, Pa,
where she has been visiting her
mother. Mrs. George Carter, for the
past month.
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Tampa, Fla She will be joined later
this month by Mr.. and Mrs. Everette
Roscoe Clarke, who will go South for
a visit
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Elsie de Wolfe MendI Asks
Law TO Repafriate Her

Lady Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, one
time American theatrical star who
renounced her citizenship to marry
British diplomat, is seeking re-
patriation by congressional action
so inheritance taxes on her for
tune would go to the United States
rather than Great Britain upon her
death.
Lady Mendl, now 70 and not know
ing whether she will live the five
years necessary to regain her citi-
zenship under the present law,
asked Representative Baldwin, Re-
publican, of New York to introduce
a bill granting her citizenship.
Although born in New York, Lady
Mendl spent much Of her early life
IN Scotland with relatives before re-
turning to America for a stage
career. She married Sir Charles
Mendl, British diplomat, renouncing
her American citizenship because of
a British Foreign Office prohibition
against members of the diplomatic
staff marrying aliens.
Lady Mendl returned to the
United States last year and an
nounced her intention of spending
the rest of her life here.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
BY w. Fl. SHIPPEN, Jr.

Americas claim to vast Western
Hemisphere section of the Antarctic
Continent is now pretty thoroughly
staked.
The men who helped to consoli-
date the result of 100 years of ex-
ploration are returning to Washing
ton to report on the II months they
spent surveying the foggy, ice-locked
land lying far south of Cape Horn
and New Zealand.
They are certain that Americans
have done more work than any other
nationals in the area whose north
ern coast line stretches some 1900
miles between Little America on the
west and Palmer Land on the east.
Palmer Land, lying some 800 miles
south of Cape Horn, was discovered
in 1920 by Capt. Nathaniel Baker
Palmer, sealer from Massa-
chusetts, who was at home in those
waters when the first Russian ex-
plorer arrived. Capt. Palmer, it
was said, guided the Russians about
the vicinity and pointed out land
marks long 1amlllar TO MIN.
Uncertain on U. S. Claims.
Whether the United States, how
ever, will lay formal claim to the
land discovered by Capt. Palmer and
surveyed by subsequent American
expeditions is up to the Government.
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd,
commander of the United States
Antarctic Service, said yesterday he
did not know if formal claim
would be entered.
The consensus among the return
ing explorers, at press conference
yesterday afternoon in the Interior
Department Building was that Pal
mer Land and the islands extend
ing toward Cape Horn might have a
Western Hemisphere utility in the
future. Both Argentina and Chile
have claims to land in that vicinity.
Islands lying south of the Horn,
1t was pointed out, would be of
strategic value to hemisphere de-
fense should closing of the PAN
ANA Canal force naval craft around
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as all who favor going agree, we
better be there before the Germans
are ahead of us with warplanes,
tanks and guns.
Getting TO a strategic point first
by surprise through any form of
deceit Is no new practice for Adolf
Hitler. AS the latest example we
know that German bombers were
already in Syria before aged Mar
shal Henri Philippe Petain sum-
moned the French people to follow
him, without mental reservation"
and before Rudolf Hess arrived in
Scotland. Establishing powerful
base in Dakar is no small job, with
out waiting on the presence of a
large German force to dispute our
landing.
While Britain hoped that Vichy
would not yield to Hitler, she has
long been making preparations in
anticipation that she eventually
would have to regard France as an
enemy. We, too, had made prep
arations for that grievous eventu-
ality. So we we're ready to take
prompt possession OF French ships
in our harbors, and, if need be. of
Martinique and other French colo
MES in the Western Hemisphere,
and to meet any greater emergency.
u. S. Attitude on Record.
President Roosevelts quickly
timed reply to Marshal Petain put
the American attitude on record for
future reference in any action we
may find essential. Those among
the French people, probably very
few, who were able to hear him must
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Effect of Nozi Move in Syria
U. S. Seen Drawing Nearer to Entry in War;
Speed in Tokinq Dokur Before Axis Emphasized

have felt their unarmed helpless
ness.
Marshal Petain's assurance that
France is to preserve in the world
her work as a European and
colonial power" can have no more
real basis than another presently
convenient Hitlerian promise.
We are told that France is not to
take an active part in the war on the
German side. Hitler hardly can find
that necessary at this time in the
process of his "squeeze-play" on
France What he wants now is a
pathway through French ter
ritory and facilities for his soldier
horde In fighting for the control of
the Mediterranean.
Well-informed quarters have long
been aware that German submarines
were being sent down the Rhone to
Marseille and German submarines
were through the Dardanelles in
the Aegean and Eastern Mediter-
ranean.
French merchant ships can be
impressed for the transport Of Ger
man troops to North Africa. Ru-
manian ships have been brought
through the Dardanelles from the
Black Sea to join the Italian which
have slipped into the Aegean. They
would make a bridge across the
narrow Aegean to Syria for the Ger
man mechanical divisions, which,
after finishing their job in Greece,
were concentrated on the coast of
Asiatic side of the Suez Canal. To
protect the bridge the Germans
were able to occupy the Greek is
lands in the North Aegean as plane
and submarine bases.
Syria Becomes Enemy Territory.
Inevitably the British had to
strike at the German air and army
concentrations in Syria. This puts
Syria in the position of being enemy
territory. In due course Hitler can
say the British are making war on
France which is now under German
protection from brutal and unwar-
ranted assault. Only enough French
IlOORO III Ia AlCCd NC CAl6dSCo
against the British to make propa-
gandic showing that Germany's war
has become Frances war in Frances
own defense.
What applies in Syria will apply
also in French North and West
Africa. For the Germans to move
through French North Africa to
Dakar before our landing would be
small operation in occupation COM
pared with the immense task be-
fore them in conquering the Suez.
AS another step in the defense OF
France against British attack Ad-
miral Francois Darlan might assign
the French Navy to "collaborate"
with Hitler.
Meanwhile the first lot of our
merchant ships which went by way
of the Cape of Good Hope should
arrive soon in the Red Sea which
Hitler has proclaimed as under Axis
blockade with the threat to sink any
ship bringing supplies to the British.
The first ship under our flag to be
sunk by German fire may be in the
battle for the Suez instead of in the
battle OF the Atlantic.
We now better understand the
reason for the British campaigns in
italian East Africa, which made sure
of Red Sea ports; the British need
of American tankers in case the
Iraqi oil fields fell into enemy hands
and Prime Minister Winston Church.
ills statement that heavy reinforce
ments had been set to Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell's army for
determined defense of the SueZ.
(ReIeased By North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc.)
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the men South and returned with
a supply ship, was high in his praise
of the explorers VINO remained
through the long Antarctic winter
to carry on the work he began in
1928. DR.. Paul A. Siple, veteran OF
two previous trips to Little America,
was in command of the West Base.
and Richard Black was commander
of the East Base.
Tells of Anxious Hours.
Comdr. Black told of the grave
and anxious hours at East Base
when it was uncertain If his men
could be evacuated across the IS
miles of pack ice in Marguerite Bay
which separated them from the sup
ply ship. Time was growing short
ard the Antarctic winter was clos
ing down.
When the supply ship radioed that
a landing place had been found on
Mikkelsen Island, the men cleared a
runway for the big biplane at the
Ease Base. They had to leave all
food and equipment, which they
cached as carefully as possible
against the elements. Every man
was stripped down to essentials.
Seven sled dog puppies were
saved, however, and Smithsonian
Institution biologist. Herwill Bryant,
was allowed to carry out big sea
bird he had captured for the Wash
ington Zoo. The overloaded biplane
made two flights to carry the 26
men to a landing near the ship.
The Bear Expected Tomorrow.
Among those who returned in the
North Star, which arrived at Boston
a fortnight ago, was Roger Haw-
thorne, press representative of the
Antarctic Service and formerly with
the Associated Press in Washington.
MIR. Hawthorne accompanied a sup
ply ship on both voyages South. Ad-
miral Byrd said the other supply
ship, the Bear, Is expected at Bos-
ton tomorrow.
The admiral complimented DR.. F.
Alton Wade, senior scientist of. the
expedition, on the work Of a score
of biologists, meteorologists and ge-
ographers and other scientists on
his staff.
Many members of the expedition
will continue their work here, clas-
styling scientific data collected dur
ing the Antarctic winter,
Evening star., 1941-05-17
II. S. Claim Well Stoked in Vast
Potentially Useful Antarctic
Byrd Party Explorers Tell of Consolidating
Results of Century of Exploration

the cape in their passage from ocean
to ocean.
The explorers made aerial maps
of the longest unknown coastline
In the world, extending between
the East and West bases, and tied
them in with ground observations
of surveyors travelling by dog and
motor sled.
Admiral Byrd said that on the
basis of this and other surveys, the
United States justly could lay claim
to at least a million square miles
of territory, and perhaps 100000
miles more, extending all the way
to the Pole. In the area are vast
coal deposits which might prove a
useful fuel reservoir, Admiral Byrd
said, in 40 years or more"
The admiral, who accompanied
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Bostoniun to Return
His Medal to France
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May Hudson Han
nigan, former president of the Mas
sachusetts Republican Club and
prominent Boston attorney. an
nounced yesterday he was returning
to the French Ambassador a medal
of an officer of the Legion of Honor
awarded him by the French repub-
lie in 1881.
In letter to Ambassador NJ. Cas-
ton Henry-Haye, Mr.. Hannigan
said:
My action is deeply painful be-
cause the decision of the present
French government to collaborate
with the Axis is a shocking disavowal
of everything which the Legion of
Honor symbolized."
Evening star., 1941-05-17
$4,000 Americans Left Asia
And Europe Last Year

More than $4,000 Americans who
had been living in Europe and Asia
came home last year in the face of
spreading war dangers in those
areas, State Department estimates
disclosed yesterday.
The department estimated 50,501
Americans were resident in Europe
January /, as compared to 63,235 at
the beginning of 1910. The Ameri-
can population in Asia fell off from
33,118 on January l, 1910, to 28,946
at the first of this year.
The largest American exodus from
Asia involved Japan, where the
number of Americans decreased
from BIAS to 5,295 during the year,
Evening star., 1941-05-17
No Issue on National Defense

A FroStbug Aegany County Mrs Byrons
Republican He has proclaimed himself for national
the
Speaker Raybmn in his support
alongside Republican members of the Presidents cabinet in his
declaration later this almost arise
materially President Roosevelt
the adequate Congress
will follow him.
only gaop what in the congressional ec
tons No what the situation will
will the
country with that the voters send Democrats Congress to
uphold the and domestic polesbut
similar
recently
without avail Republican elected place Democrat
widow by the Representative.
Maryland Sixth District held by the Democrats
the 1880 elections Before that the Republicans sent Fred zhman to
fighting district between
candidate,
year which Republicans material gains the
Republican Walter Johnson by
Evening star., 1941-05-17

event of the
German occupa-
ton Of airdromes
In French Syria.
AS a sequence
the much moot
ed question of
our taking Da-
kar. the French
port command
ing the narrow
part of the mid
Atlantic from
the West Coast
of Africa. presses
for a decision to
go or not to go.
If we are going,
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rejecting repeated Government
warnings that all citizens not de-
tanned by urgent business should
leave the Orient.
Italy's entrance into the war re-
duced the number of American citi-
zens living there from 1851 to
14,567, while the number in France
declined from 5,927 TO 5000.
There was a comparatively slight
decrease-from 1914 to 6,145-in the
number of Americans living in the
British Isles.
Evening star., 1941-05-17

leadership IN Congress and the
G. o. P. rank and file in that
body, the Speaker said: During
these terrible years we should send
to Washington only men and women
willing to follow leadership that
knows where it is going" He also
asked the Maryland voters to let
Hitler and Mussolini know that the
9th District had elected a repre-
sentative pledged to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mr.. Lee was even
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in district which mas 1or more tnan
10 years consistently returned a
Democrat to the House. How far the
pleas of Speaker Rayburn and other
nationally known Democrats who go
into the district will affect the
electorate can only be determined on
election day, May 81. week from
next Tuesday. So far, the Repub-
licans have imported no speak
ers, but have relied on Marylanders
to conduct their campaign. Mr.
Stewarts campaigning is along the
line of Republican arguments that
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.
by the DEGREES
Of bureaucrats.
The evidence
of this trend is
to be found in
q letter just
made public by
Attorney Gen.
eral j a c k S o n
which he states
has the approx
al Of President
r oos welt. In
that letter-one
of the m o S t
amazing docu-
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Museum Gets Bosketry

Basketry of practically every In
dian tribe from Alaska to Mexico is
represented in the collection re-
Gently presented to the Department
of the Interior Museum by Mrs.
Frona Eunice Wait Colburn of
Washington.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
u. S. Could Use Plane Carrier

ally the this aiplane
badly
Mart
bad shape but they could be fixed up without
still
the planes board the
appears
islands belonging the possible ally Of the
Ax their territorial waters
either
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black than
"dobeying the Vhy
quantities material battaons either
from England the United States This the administration could not
Admiral Leahyudgng from the attacks against him in the Ger
Parshas excellent
umpha marches
all the authorities him. he invariably received
the the villages which visited
he could offer the French nothing hpoads food
than that.
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Nay Take Over French Bases

the United will decide
Martinique
entirely of German collaboration
Should this is unikelyprovide for
economic collaboration only is probable that the administration
will conne itself the seizure of French merchantmen in the American
ports
the facilities
shall compelled
o the Western Hemisphere.
collaboration with object defeating
hec defense to have French stations the Atlantic On the basis
collaboration available
within
republics Martinique Guadalupe have harbo
the Further
between Berlin Vchy
time the existing force from Martinique could be
usedas a hemisphere defense
Americanbui aplan which delivered
airplane
Bearn could give shipping lot trouble set
a raider.
Bearn 220ooton carrier doing % knots and carries full
been laying Fortde France
collapsed is full commission and ready to sail at
a notice.
Evening star., 1941-05-17

the must be relied keep the American life
the light of Wendell L. Wilkes attitude national
aid England
supplies attitude
the administrations policies the demand that only
elected Congress is not impressive Such
1913 when this actually and President
Wilson his aides also appeal for the election
uphold the then Democratic President
Evening star., 1941-05-17
The Political Mill
Democrats Cumpoign in Maryland Sixth
District Centers on Support for President
By GOULD LINCOLN.

uphold President Roosevelt
the That the burden of the being
waged in the Maryland Sixth Congressional District for the election
of
in
Speaker and Democratic leader
Montgomery speaking rally Silver Thursday
night left doubt about this demand Ccng the Republican
Evening star., 1941-05-17
This Changing World
Leuhy Expected TO Be Ordered Back Soon
To Report on French-Axis Collaboration
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Ambassador
fixed
United
hope France line Frances future policies realized
think
belief that the African
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Mineral Survey

ANGELS CAMP, Calf. lP)-Free
examinations of minerals which
hopeful prospectors believe may
have some place in the defense pro-
gram has been undertaken by the
State
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explicit said Clear thinking today only allows vote for
Democratic candidate for Congress"
a Republican President the White
entirely probable that similar pleas would be going up from Republican
that this
political 1t idle that all the patriotism in the country
either the DenScrac Republican Generally
enacted months for the defense of the country just
division
line ioons and members including both Democrats and
Evening star., 1941-05-17

when the BrltlSh were making
mincemeat out of Marshal Grazianis
forces. The French were suspicious
of the British at all times. but had
the United States then taken an
active step toward Intervention
there was more than fair chance
that the 100000 men under Wey-
gand might have joined in the cam
paign against Italy. The commander
of the North African forces is
soldier who wants everything in
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HE opinions OF the rtters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to all sides questions interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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SPIIU
this country nor in the republics of
the South American continent. But
policies in France are these days
dictated by a handful of officers and
politicians and all conceivable meas
ures to defend the territorial waters
o. the Americas against any un-
pleasant surprises must be taken at
the earliest possible moment. This
feeling prevails even more in the
capitals of the Latin American re-
x,,,hlics than in Wa Shi n nufnn
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the official of the entente
Berlin Vhy made pubcthrows definite light as to
feel
they the Western Hemisphere has come And
military both western continents that
We nothing chance.
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Subterfuges
For Price
Control Hit
Coercion Lacking
Support of Low
Said to Be Planned
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Government by coercion, unwar-
fanted by any statute, has been
formally proclaimed. Instead of a
government of laws, there is to be
q OOUprOn1ont
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BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

How much nearer we are to active
entry into war since Vichy's COM
mitment to collaboration" with
Germany Is crystalliZed In the single
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Only One Office in Contest

situation different There is
contested for and the
will lighter Republicans working hard and they
they hope Maryland before elected
Mrs
Evening star., 1941-05-17

War conditions caused New Zea-
land to postpone its quinquennial
census, due in 194l.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
DR.. Paul B. Barringer,
Once Head Of Faculty
AT Virginia u, Dies
Was Also President
Of V. P. l.; Wrote
On Race Problem

DR.. Paul Brandon Barringer, SO.
former chairman of the faculty at
the University of Virginia and later
president of Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, died early today in Char
lottesville, Va. He had been i'll
several months.
DR.. Barringer was born in Concord,
N. c., the son of Gen. Rufus Bar
ringer and Eugenia Morrison Bar
ringer. He was educated at the Uni
versity of Virginia, receiving med
ical degree there in 1877. The fol-
lowing year he received an M. D.
degree from the University of New
York. He continued his studies in
1880 and 1881 in Europe
At the University of Virginia he
was professor of physiology and
materia medica for several years,
beginning in 1886. From 1896 to
1908 he was chairman of the faculty
and as such was considered the
head of the university. He was
president of V. P. I. from 1907 to
1918.
He formerly was president of the
Medical Society of Virginia and was
a member of the Virginia Board of
Health. He wrote THE American
Negro, His Past and Future" and
other articles on the race problem.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the University of Virginia chapel
at pm. tomorrow, with burial in
the university cemetery.
A son, Thomas Barringer, and a
daughter, Mrs. Joseph Weller, both
of Washington, left here today for
Charlottesville. He also is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Mamie
Irene Hannah Barringer, and six
other children
Evening star., 1941-01-09
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Evening star., 1941-01-09
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