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Evening star., 1942-06-27

dress OF pearl gray mousseline,
made with a full skirt. fitted
bodice, and a cascade of ruffles
falling from the high throat line.
Deep in a political discussion
the other evening was Mrs. Rob-
ert Bacon. strikingly gowned in
a bouffant frock of white, thin
material. painted with black
fringe In a band below the hips.
and about the neck and short
sleeves. About her shoulders was
a filmy scarf of white, edged
deeply with white ostrich feath-
ers tipped in black. Sonora de
Oreamuno, who has the longest
eyelashes in Washington, looked
enchanting the other evening in
a pure white gown. with halter
decolletage, and banded in deep
fringe. Mrs. Wilder Baker
sets of her dark good looks in
a dinner frock printed with
great, tropical flowers in vivid
colors. Mrs. Robert Herrlck,
who amazed her friends by NOV
ing all her lares and penates
down from Boston into an apart
ment here. and getting complete
ly settled in one week, gave her
first dinner in her new home few
nights ago. She wore striking
gown of garnet red. with low de-
coletage, the color being perfect
foil for her black hair and gar
denia- like skin. incidentally, 1t
is interesting to note the increase
in low-cut evening dresses seen
recently, as compared with the
covered up" fashion that has
been so popular.
Subdeb Joan Tucker, whirling
about the dance floor on the ter
race at Chevy Chase Club the
other night, looked cool and crisp
in blue and white dotted eve
ming dress, made with a full skirt
and becoming round neckline.
She tucked an orchid back of her
pompadour as a finishing touch.
Orchids were all over the place
that evening, and Mrs. Conway
Hunt sported two; one on the
shoulder of her severely tailored
gray crepe dinner gown, and the
other poised in her dark hair.
Mrs. John Ide defled one Of
Washington's hottest days in a
navy and white print daytime
frock, topped with an cf-the-
face hat of navy blue.
The rowing fashion reporter
also noted a smartly costumed
lady on a local hotel roof the
other evening. Her white pique
dress was worn with purple shoes,
gloves and jewelry-and even the
wearer's fingernails were the ex-
act shade Of plum!
Evening star., 1942-06-27
By Helen Voef

plunging necklines were unheard
of. One fashion column COM
mented, Many of the French
blouses are made without collars,
but the rather trying line Of the
collarless blouse is not as becom-
ing to the American woman as
is the softer line OF collar that
rolls at the back"
Then, even as now. women were
planning to make the most of
their clothes. The fashion pages
featured suggestions for "remod-
eling"-including one frighten-
ingly complicated illustration of
Evening star., 1942-06-27
'dity a Hardship

ties, and you can't take on other
activities, keep as busy as you
can at home. Not necessarily
hard manual labor, and, for good
ness sake, no extra kitchen police
but get busy at one quiet task
or another-even II 1t Is making
out budgets and clothing lists
and lunch box menus for fall.
Catch up on your reading
there's bound to be a circulating
library in your neighborhood.
And as a good American, it is
up to you to be on the alert
mentally.
Aside from keeping your mind
off the heat. there are a few
other things you can do to make
1t bearable. Quick cool showers,
sponge baths or cool tub baths
are magic pickups. and even If
your bathroom facilities are
crowded, they take so little time
that you should be able to man
age a quick splash morning and
evening to freshen you. If you
find-as we old-timers have
that makeup is next to i'm
possible to apply in the heat,
try putting it on while your body
is still slightly damp from the
bath, or after spray of cooling
cologne, before putting on your
clothes. Once on, good make
up will stay quite well-but get
ting it affixed to a wet face is a
hopeless procedure.
Keep your underthings washed
just as often as you possibly can,
so they are crisp and dry when
you put them on. If you like
bath powder, use it, but the ma
jority of Washington gals seem
to prefer cologne as more re-
freshing. Have your hair cut
short. and brush it often during
the day. to get the feeling OF
air and GOODNESS to the scalp.
Take meticulous care of your
feet and exercise your ankles
occasionally while sitting at your
desk.
If you have a slim figure. 60
without a girdle on the hottest
days-if you have to wear a
foundation garment, choose one
that is as light and cool as posi-
BILE. There are plenty Of them
on the market if you will look
for them. Wear clothes that are
loose, with short sleeves and low
necks. (No low backs for the
Office, please, and keep that neck
line a discreet "V" or moderate
square,
Eat sensibly, drinking plenty
of water, fruit juices, milk, lem
onade and so on-but little or
no alcohol. Salads. jellied soups,
fresh fruits, whole wheat breads.
and fresh vegetables are good
choices for the hottest days.
Water ices and ice creams are
recommended, too-but not to
the exclusion of the other items.
Above all-take it easy and
don't get mad about it. Wash
ingtonians learned long, long ago
that cussing the heat and the
humidity only made them hotter,
and did nothing to ease the pain.
Keep cool mentally and you'll
feel a lot cooler physically. And
remember, it usually gets better
by October!
Evening star., 1942-06-27

first time it's not going to be easy
to take. There's a certain mental
attitude that Is imperative. If one
is to get through the scorching
days-and several definite meth
DDS one may employ to ease the
misery.
To begin with, at the risk of
having many Of you say-"Here'
where We came in"-try to forget
the temperature. You can't, OF
course, but II you have a lot of
Evening star., 1942-06-27

When you come right down to
It, of course, the days Of 1917 are
hardly to be thought Of as a pre-
historic era-but so great have
been the changes in daily living.
in customs and in fashions that
the time of World War I seems
definitely remote.
Looking through the news
papers of six months after the
start of the last war. and COM
pairing them with those OF today,
six months after our entry into
this one, the reader is likely to
be startled by the sharp contrast
of ways and ideas.
The lovely ladies of 1917 had
silk galore-we have none to
speak of. They wore voluminous
costumes; ours are to be on the
WPB restricted side. Their cor
set covers, ankle-length skirts
and high shoes look.
frankly, silly in comparison with
the streamlined styles OF today.
But it is very possible that Is
years hence some other fashion
writer will dig out our words
about snoods, leg makeup, green
fingernails and culottes - and
finds the reports as laughable as
we find those which in 1917 cited
red as the millinery color OF the
hour-but only subdued red with
mahogany overtones. If you
please. AS for the gay shade of
crimson that you and I have
been wearing for the past few
seasons, the fashion reporters
cringed in horror at the very
thought. Said one, Every one
knows that it is only a daring
woman who will put on bright
red hat. Only those who are ut
terly careless and entirely negli-
gent of their appearances rush
into the field of red millinery
So. 1t was the more subdued.
rich tones of red that made news
in the millinery world six months
after this country entered the
First World War. The stores Of
fered dark red hats in roll shapes,
mushrooms. side rolls and tur-
bans, created them in Panne and
LYONS velvet and trimmed them
with ostrich, fur, flowers and rib
bons. A little later there was
great trend TO the more simple
type of chapeau with little or no
trimming and much talk of the
draped Rembrandt style, de-
signed to fit the head so closely
that quite a bit of the couture
was daringly exposed.
It all sounds rather familiar
six months after Pearl Harbor-
for, If you've noticed, there first
was a great trend to giddy, bright
bonnets with much trimming.
Now the millinery world is brag-
ging about It's smart but simple
fashions that are utterly fem
mime" and often "non-priority."
This same trend to the ultra
frilly was evidenced in other
accessories of the 1917 era. You
could have a Hudson seal stole,
cape or "coatee," plus a muft and
a full-length seal coat trimmed
with skunk. Although there was
some mention of curtailing the
width Of coats, the experts advised
collars more tremendous than
ever.
The covered up" look was good
then as now, and the sheer blouse
vogue flourished. Dark styles in
eeorgette and other fiimsy ma .
teriak were all the rage, but
Evening star., 1942-06-27

If you're the wife Of war
worker and haven't any outside
Job, our advice is-first, get one:
second, stick to it. despite heat
and humidity. Your keeping
busy doing volunteer work will
make the day pass just as quickly
as if you were getting paid for it
that is. If you are a conscien-
tious volunteer. II you're not,
you deserve to swelter.
If you have home responsible
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Fashions of Two Wars Compared
Reuies of Styles 1911 Brings Interesting Facts to Light

a street dress combining satin or
velvet with chiffon, georgette or
net. Fur trimming around the
uneven skirt line was the final
touch, and the whole thing was
described as a natty little num-
Der and in this fabric combina-
ton an excellent suggestion for
making over a last season dress"
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Summer in Capital Hard on Newcomers
Recent Aye4 May Humidity Hardship
Bv Betsy Cas,veH

DJ DP7SJ L 0YtCPH
work to do, and settle down to
really do 1t, with all your mind
on it. you'll find that the day
DOES pass. somehow. and the
hour for the bathtub and the cool
negligee arrives without dawdling
a hundred years or so. You may
mop your brow just as much
while you typewrite as you would
while you're cussing the weather.
man, but the time will pass lot
faster with the typewriter system!
Evening star., 1942-04-10
W. H. Kushnick Named
War Personnel Director

William H. Kushnick has been
appointed director of civilian per-
sonnel and training in the War
Department, it was announced to-
day.
This new Office co-ordinates all
civilian personnel actions and pol
icies and merges two former Offices,
those of the director of civilian per-
sonnel, formerly held by A. H. Ont
hank, and the director of civilian
training, which had been headed by
Mr.. Kushnick since September %,
1941.
Mr.. Onthank is a lieutenant COL
onel of military intelligence, as
signed to the Office of the combined
chiefs of staff.
The War Department has more
than 500 900 man and woman civil
ian employees. 1t is estimated this
strength may reach 100000 before
the end of the year.
Mr.. Kushnick, a New Yorker, for
merly was employed as managing
executive of industrial plants in
both New York and Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
Allied Planes Will Turn Tide
Against Jops, Air Official Says
William [. Bond Sees
Foe Checked Sooner
Than Expected Here

Growing air power in the Far East
should turn the tide against Japans
far-fung invasion armies sooner
than is generally believed in Wash
ington, In the opinion of william L.
Bond, vice president of the Pam
American operated China National
Aviation Corp.
Mr.. Bond, who returned recently
from Burma, China and India, where
his transports have been evacuating
refugees ahead of the Japs, was
much impressed by the fighting
spirit and proved ability Of United
Nations flyers, particularly the
American volunteer group. Wher-
ever the group had half chance
the Japanese got the worst OF 1t, he
said.
The visitor flew from India to the
West Coast of Africa en- route to
Washington, with American volun-
teer pilots who ferried new fighter
planes from Africa back to the
Burma front. He was impressed
both by the quality of the flyers and
of the planes. which but recently
had rolled off American production
lines.
Bombers, Fighters Move East.
Bombers and fighters are moving
toward the Far East, Mr.. Bond said,
and their weight soon will be
brought to bear against Japan's ex-
tended invasion bases and commu-
nication lines. Mr.. Bond has spent
the last II years in China, directing
c. N. A. C.'s operations before and
during the Chino-Japanese War.
He directed the evacuation Of
Americans, British and Chinese
from the bomb-pocked airport at
Hong Kong to the interior of China
on December 8, and later estab-
hshed emergency routes between in
vaded Burma and China and India.
Hundreds of refugees, including
women and children. were enabled
to escape the japanese.
The Japanese, he said, do not hesi-
tate to attack unarmed commercial
transports loaded with non combat
ants. Two of the lines transports
have been shot down by Japanese
pursuit ships with a loss of about
20 lives, and some 20 employees have
been killed, mostly by enemy bonn
bardment Of airports.
The transports, whose numbers
have been more than doubled In the
last two months, fly by night and
in the worst possible weather when
Evening star., 1942-04-10

near enemy lines. The vast major
ity of the flights have gone through
as planned. The passengers lost
were mostly Chinese, it was said.
Occidentals Removed.
Mr.. Bond said virtually all Amer
ican and British civilians had been
removed from threatened areas OF
Burma, flying either to Calcutta or
Chungking. Indian and Chinese
residents are now said to be crossing
the mountains on foot or by ele-
phant caravan to their native lands
The japanese, he said, now con.
troll the Burma road from Tungkoc
to the outlet port of Rangoon, but
the Chinese already have begun
construction Of supply route from
India which connects with the
northern section of the Burma life
line.
Mr.. Bond, who is in this country
on vacation, is known in China a.
Pan-American's mo. l Boy" anc
the head of the Middle Kingdom.
Space Machine Family" He plan,
to return to China and India in 9
few weeks.
At press interview today he said
From what I have seen I DOM
think the Japs are so tough. Where.
ever we had the opportunity W,
showed them up. Give the Ameri'
cans half q chance and they'll licl
them every time. .....
And that time may not be as fa,
OF as most people think"
Evening star., 1942-04-10
For q Stronger America
Navy Is Counting on Schools
To Step Up Physical Education
Admiral McIntire
Stresses Need for
Fitness in Youth
(TUenty-second OF a Series.)
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON, Jr.

BY JOHN w. THOMPSON, Jr.
The Navy is counting on the
schools and colleges of the Ma
tion to step up their health and
physical education programs so
that the Nations man power will
enter the armed services in con-
dition to match or surpass that
of the Axis, Rear Admiral Ross
T. McIntire, Surgeon General of
the Navy, said today.
Experience of the Navy in ex-
amining men for service, he said,
has shown clearly the need for
greater physical fitness. Many
men otherwise well qualified for
officer or enlisted service have been
turned down for physical defects
which might easily have been de-
tected and corrected earlier, he
added.
I'VE are relying upon the edu-
cational institutions to give our men
the mathematics, medical and other
training to become good officers and
enlisted men," he said. The duty
to make them physically fit to serve
is inescapable."
Explains Requirements.
Admiral Mc1ntire explained that
the physical requirements Of the
Navy have been worked out over a
long period of years and represent
the accumulated experience of ex-
perts.
They are strict, and rightly So"
he said, because it takes physically
At men to stand up under the rigors
Of service, whether under the sea,
on the sea or in the air"
Schools and colleges of the coun-
try can be of great service to the
Navy. he said, by stepping up their
physical training programs. by see
ing to it that remediable defects are
detected early and corrected before
the men are called or volunteer for
service.
Admiral McIntire has for a num-
ber of years been President Roose-
velt's physician.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
Jury Quizzes Wife
OF Publisher Jailed in
Propaganda Case
Nebroskon Starts
Three-Month Term
On Contempt Charge

While his wife was called to testify
today before the additional District
grand jury inquiring into foreign
propaganda and agents, Charles B.
Hudson of Omaha, Nebr, publisher
OF a series of publications entitled
America in Danger" began serving
three-month contempt sentence
on a charge of failing to answer a
question before the grand jurors
relating to the printer OF q card.
Mr.. Hudson was brought up by
authorities this morning from the
District Jail and it Is understood
that he got word to the Government
prosecutor that he is willing to 60
before the grand jury again, ap-
parently with a view to purging
himself of the contempt
A procedure arranged was to have
Mr.. Hudson appear before the grand
jurors this afternoon and then the
Government would take up with
Justice Bailey whether the jurist
considered the witness answers
satisfactory so as to purge him of
contempt.
Half a dozen witnesses were sub
poenaed before the grand Jury for
today's session, including Guenter
Hansen-Sturm of the Romanoff
Caviar Co, New York City; Mrs.
Hudson, H. D. Kissenger of Kansas
City, Mo-; Gerald Winrod of
Wichita, Kans., said to be publisher
of "The Defender" and Mrs. David
Stanley of Cleveland, Ohio.
Justice Jennings Bailey sentenced
Mr.. Hudson to three months in Jail,
with the right to purge himself of
the contempt in 10 days by answer
ing the question put to him before
the grand jury.
Special Prosecutor William Power
Maloney yesterday afternoon told
Justice Bailey that Mr.. Hudson had
failed to reply to question before
the grand jury. Mr.. Hudson had
been told to be in court with his
attorney, but said that he had had
only about an hour to get lawyer
and had not obtained one.
After Lawrence La Charity, off,
cial shorthand reporter, who had
been taking notes of the proceedings
in the grand jury room had been
called to the witness stand and read
an account of the proceedings.
Justice Bailey asked Mr. Hudson if
he desired to answer the question,
which related to the name of the
printer of the card that Mr.. Hudson
allegedly distributed, opposing war
prior to Pearl Harbor. A few had
been distributed since, Mr.. Hudson
conceded.
Mr.. Hudson told Justice Bailey
that he felt that as citizen of the
United States, called as a witness
under John Doe subpoena-court
parlance for blanket summons
he did not see why his friends
should be drawn into it. Justice
Bailey told the respondent that the
grand jury had a right to ask the
question. but Mr.. Hudson declared
that IT have hunch that this is
the beginning of series Of ques-
tionS."
Evening star., 1942-04-10
Etchers' Travelling Show
On View at Howard u.

The annual travelling show of the
Society of American Etchers went
on view today at the Howard Uni
versity Gallery of Art where 1t will
remain for a week.
Included in the zone Hundred
Selected Prints of 1892" which were
chosen from the 26th annual ex-
hibition of the society, are etchings
drypoints, aquatints and engravings
OF the artists whose pieces are in
cluded in the travelling art show
about IS are newcomers.
Howard University was selected
for the first showing Of the prints
outside Of New York.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
LITER Pleads for Freedom
After Serving 50 Years
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, April 10
Please. judge, please don't send me
back. Let me hang"
1t was white-haired Samuel
Moore, colored, tearfully pleading
for his release after serving so years
of life sentence for murder.
Moore killed Henry Jandorf, an
alleged white SLAYER, in 1891 while
the two were in Jail at Washington,
D. C. His sentence to the gallows
was commuted to life imprisonment
by President Harrison.
There were few dry eyes in the
courtroom as the aged man, seeking
release under writ of habeas cor
pus, pleaded his own case.
Judge Albert L. Reeves explained
sympathetically there was no
grounds for a habeas writ. He sug-
gested an appeal to the Parole
Board and the Attorney General.
Moore, a Federal prisoner, is con-
fined in the medical center here.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
D. T.. Births Increase
1S% for Il Months
Ending March 81
Rote for First Quarter
OF 1912 Is 27.1 Per
1000 Population
washington's birth rate is making
a bid to set all time records.

Washington's birth rate is making
a bid to set all time records.
J. B. Irvine, chief Of the Bureau
of Vital Statistics of the District
Health Department. reports that the
number of babies born here in the
four months between last December
l and April l. was 16 per cent higher
than in the corresponding four
month period of a year ago.
In the last four months, births
numbered 6,598 as against 5,687 in
the four month period of a year ago.
For the last IL months, ended
March 81, the number was 18 per
cent above the number born in the
IL months from April l, 1910, to
March 81, 1941.
In contrast, there was but a 6.5
per cent increase for a four month
period ending March 81, 1918, as
compared with similar period
ending March 81, 1917.
For the calendar year 1910 the
Washington birth rate was 22.9 live
births per 1000 Of population, and
for 1941, 24.2. Figuring the popula-
tion on the basis of the estimates for
last July, the rate for the first
three months of this year would be
27.l live births per 1000 population.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
Air-Ruid Siren Blasts
Ignored by Residents

The electric siren atop Janney
School to warn of air raids sounded
for five minutes this morning, but
no one paid any attention to it.
Some thought an automobile horn
was stuck. Passersby walked on
without an upward glance.
Residents of a nearby home and
the nearby Washington Home for
Foundlings said they thought it was
q test.
Afraid control center officials
said some of their men had been
working on the siren and appar-
emily set it off unintentionally.
Evening star., 1942-04-10

ftSIOs
Meanwhile District school and
health officials are anxious to step
up the program here and are hop
ing the hearings on the 1943 budget
opening at the Capitol Monday will
give them q chance to state their
needs. The desirable program con-
templates stepping up the physical
activity and health education course
in the public schools while the
Health Department increases the
number Of physical and dental ex-
aminations given school pupils and
boosts the follow-up of defects by
public health nurses for correction
by parents.
The increases will require addi-
tional funds not now contained in
the 1943 estimates, but the House
subcommittee of the Appropriations
Committee is planning to revise the
estimates-prepared months before
Pearl Harbor-to help meet the war
responsibilities of the Capital.
The War Department has already
asked the schools and colleges of
the country to undertake a physical
toughening program, for which the
department has neither the funds
nor personnel to spare.
Evening star., 1942-04-10
Mother of Flyer, Killed
Abroad, Carries On in Rodeo
Receives Letter
From Only Son
After His Death

The creed among actors that "the
show must 90 on" is holding
Georgia Sweet to her role as rider
with a rodeo at Riverside Stadium,
despite the fact she received word
10 days ago of the death of her
only son, member of the Royal
Canadian Air Force in England.
Miss Sweet, who Is Mrs. Georgia
Sweet Gillian in private life, said
last night as she prepared to 60 on
with her act that earlier yesterday
she had received letter written by
her boy, Philip Sweet, on March 10.
According to a cablegram. she re-
ceived from British authorities, her
son was killed March ~ in some
manner undisclosed. He was buried
in Scotland three days later, on
what would have been his 22d birth
day anniversary.
Miss Sweet was in Chicago when
she received the cable, but came
on to Washington with the show
Col. Jim ESkew's Rodeo-when 1t
left the following day.
Her son, she said, was a squadron
leader who was principally engaged
as an instructor in night fighting.
He received his training in Canada
last spring and has been in Scotland
seven months. With the recent
agreement for transfer Of members
OF the armed forces of Britain who
are Americans to this country's
forces, Squadron Leader Sweet had
been anxious to join Uncle Sans
air force and had planned on max
ing the change soon.
For a number of years she and
her son had been members OF an
acrobatic team. Miss Sweet said. He
was born in Huron, S. Oak.
Also surviving the flyer are an
aunt, Mrs. Hazel Blake. and her
daughter, Miss Bonnie Blake, who
live at 949 Shepherd street NV.
here.