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Evening star., 1942-06-06
Plans Rushed
To Meet Need
Of Nurses Here
Mason Told Shortage
Is Acute; Congress
Funds May Be Asked

Definite proposals for meeting the
pressing nursing shortage in Wash
ington hospitals-which already has
caused some rooms or wards to be
closed despite service demands-are
to be filed with the Commissioners
within 10 days by hospital, medical
and nursing leaders.
Commissioner Guy Mason, who
conducted round-table review of
the situation yesterday afternoon In
his office at the District Building,
suggested that II necessary the city
heads would appeal to Congress to
appropriate funds to permit an in
crease in the pay of student nurses,
to encourage the training of in
creased numbers. He added that
housing facilities for these addi-
tional workers would have to be pro-
vided.
Agree on Shortage.
About 40 spokesmen for private
and public hospitals, nursing and
medical groups conferred with Mr..
Mason and from them he drew the
same general stories: OF the short
age of trained nurses, of student
nurses and of hospital orderlies and
other attendants.
The wage and salary scales for
these workers were recognized as
affecting the total picture in addi-
tion to the war draining profession
ally trained workers from the STATS
of private and municipal institu-
tions. Several spokesmen referred
to the unusually high turnover OF
workers prevailing.
Summarizes Needs.
After listening for about two
hours, Commissioner Mason said he
might summarize the situation as
showing the need for an increase
in facilities for training of student
nurses; the possibilities of speeding
Increased numbers of nurses by in
tensifying and shortening the course
of training; increasing compensation
for student nurses; need for Govern
ment funds for meeting increased
student nurses pay, and provision
for housing facilities for student
nurses and hospital workers If in
creased numbers of these are
brought to Washington.
Commissioner Mason said it ap-
peared emergency steps were needed
and he was prepared to present the
situation to Congress on phases
which were beyond the control of
the Commissioners.
Evening star., 1942-06-06

unwise to further deplete the Water
Departments reserve fund, which
was built up to meet future capital
improvements, in order to take care
of present emergency needs. 1t
therefore cut out House provision
authorizing the Treasury to sell Sc
curities held for the water fund. 1t
took this action in view Of the fact
the Senate District Committee has
begun a thorough study OF the
financial needs of the Water De-
partment and the fact that water
is furnished free to the Govern
ment.
Small Increases Allowed.
Among small increases allowed
we're: For new engineering person
mel in the Motor Vehicle Depart
ment, $6,160; for four new employees
at Gallinger Hospital, $500; for two
elevator inspectors, $4,000; for an
assistant in the District Repair
Shop, 5000; for District Militia
personnel services, 81 800.
The Senate Committee struck out
SIC, 200 allowed by the House for the
new motor vehicle parking agency
believing the parking problem would
not be as acute next year.
The committee gave the Health
Department $29,890 for Is more
nurses and supplies to improve the
public nursing service.
Evening star., 1942-06-06

pleted, in about four weeks, 1t will
accommodate about 100 colored
soldiers.
The FSA official reported the
Washington Provisional Brigade had
indorsed the Banneker project and
that the Federal Works Agency had
been asked to proceed Immediately
with the work Delay in starting
work was attributed to priority dlfh-
culties on heating equipment. The
committee took the stand that work
should 60 ahead since heat would
not be needed for some time.
Equipment to Be Supplied.
In the event cots are not yet
available from FSA the field house
will be equipped with material from
the leave area, Comdr. w. P. Corley,
chairman, said.
Hugo Wolter announced that
missionaries to be sent out to
churches, social agencies and settle
ment houses in a city-wide canvass
of housing space had been drawn up
and would be sent out Monday.
From this survey Is expected 10
come a number of new places on
which the committee can depend
for housing Servicemen.
Chairman Corley reported that
with the opening today of the city's
municipal pools, a large number Of
colored and white servicemen will
be allowed swimming privileges free.
The places were listed as follows:
East Potomac Park Pool, $50 men;
AnacoStia, $50; Takoma, $50, and
Mckinley, 750, all for white enlisted
men, and Banneker. $50, and Fran
els, 750, for colored.
The pools are operated by tbs
Welfare and Recreational Associa-
ton.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Pearl Harbor Avengers
lake Oath tomorrow
Py thf Associated presx

Py TIE Associated Press.
Exactly six months to the min
ute after Japanese war planes
dropped their first bombs on Pearl
Harbor, Navy. Marine and Coast
Guard recruits in hundreds of
American communities will take
their oaths tomorrow afternoon as
avengers of Pearl Harbor."
At 2:25 pm. Eastern War Time
7:55 am. Pearl Harbor time-the
oath will be administered over the
Columbia Broadcasting System from
the Sail Loft at the Washington
Navy Yard
The ceremony. Navy officials said,
will make radio and recruiting
history. for it will be the first time
such a mass swearing in by radio
has been attempted"
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Recreation Area Has
Free Beds for 500

Free lodging for servicemen
Is available each week end at
the Washington Recreation
Area. south end Of the Memo
rial Bridge, the District Service
mems Lodging Committee re-
minds men on leave here. Ap-
proximately 500 beds are offered
this week end.
Arlington Fairfax buses
marked Special" leave Tenth
street NV. just south Of z
street on the hour and half
hour and the fare is 10 cents.
Taxi from the downtown zone
costs so cents for up to two, 10
cents for three and 80 cents for
four passengers. according to
Recreation Services. Light
breakfast is served each Sunday
morning.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK,
INida Wnrld

NEW YORK, June 6,-Refugees
from famine -scourged Greece re-
port that Athens is a starving city,
subsisting principally at public
soup kitchens with an average of
500 persons dying daily from slow,
torturing starvation.
The puppet government OF Gen.
Tsolakollov, serving the interests OF
the German conquerors, has de-
serted the Greek people in their
crisis, report observers who re-
turned with me to the United States
on the Drottningholm.
Only with American assistance in
the importation of thousands OF
tons of food monthly can the fam
inc be held in check, relief workers
say. German and Italian authorl-
ties have promised to respect relief
shipments from the United States
German authorities disclaim re-
sponsibility for the feeding of con-
uuered nations like Greece. Yet
thousands of Greeks have died fol
lack of fats while Germans have
blocked all Greek olive oil and re-
fused to release it for civilian con-
sumption.
One refugee reported that when a
Greek woman asked a German Off
cial for permission to use some local
milk for babies she was told the
Greek milk supply was hardly suf-
ficient to meet the wants of German
aviators stationed in Athens. Ger
man soldiers raid the potato patches
which the Greeks plant for them
selves
Italian authorities have been less
indifferent to the needs of the Greek
populace. but the severe food short
age in Italy has left little surplus
for relief work among the Greeks.
The italian army of occupation
like that of Germany, has been 6
burden to Greece. But, arriving two
months after the Germans had con-
fiscated or blocked visible wealth
the Italians had little opportunity
for private exploitation of the
Greeks. They have been seen te
share their food rations with the
civilians.
Italy, however, has been able tt
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Beds Promised
1900 Visiting
Servicemen
1850 Available This
Week End; $50 More
By Next Saturday

The gymnasium of George WASH
ington University will be available.
beginning next Saturday. for sleep
ing approximately $50 enlisted men
on leave here, to bring available
low-cost quarters for servicemen
to 200 beds.
This newest addition to the Dis
trict Servicemens Lodging Commit
tee list of sleeping places for SOL
diers, sailors and marines visiting
the Capital was disclosed yesterday
at meeting of the committee in the
District Building.
Members counted about $50 beds
available for this week ends Wis
itors. Coming so soon after pay
day, it was expected that tonight
would see a record number Of men
on leave here.
Largest single group Of cots again
would be at the Washington Recrea-
ton and Leave Area. an encamp-
ment operated in Arlington by the
Army, the committee said. Five
hundred beds will be available.
Association to Operate Project.
Arrangements to use the university
gym, similarly employed last sum-
mer, were made by Winfree john
son, committee member, through
the cooperation of DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, university president. The
Welfare and Recreational Associa-
tion, of which Mr.. johnson is a
member, will operate the project.
Cots will be available for the gym,
it was said.
The committee also discussed
utilization of the Knights of Co
lumbus gym on Tenth street NV.
Further discussions will be held with
K. of c. officials and the District
United Service Organization Council.
Robert C. Cubbon. regional head OF
the Federal Security Agency, re-
ported that work long delayed on
renovation of Banneker Field House
would begin Monday. When COM
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Mrs. Bradley Named
Bethesda Publisher

Mrs. J. Reed Bradley, editor of
the Bethesda Journal. yesterday was
announced as that papers new
publisher to succeed Day Thorpe,
son of Merle Thorpe, editor of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce official organ, Nations Busi-
ness.
Mrs. Bradley had published a
newspaper in West Virginia for two
years prior to becoming editor of
the Bethesda Journal three years
ago. She said she would run the
newspaper as an independent"
Evening star., 1942-06-06
DooIittIe to Take Port
In Baltimore Parade
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSoCldlcu TTcSs.
BALTIMORE. June 6.-Brig. Gen.
James H. Doolittle, who led the re-
cent bombing attack on Japan, and
other war heroes are scheduled to
participate in military parade
here June H.
Others in the military group will
be Lord Louis Mountbatten, COM
mander of Great Britains Com
mandos: 1t. Col Boyd NJ Wagner,
this country's first ace of the war !:
1t. John D. Bulkeley, whose torpedo
boat squadron took Gen. Douglas
Macarthur from Corregidor to
Australia. and 1t. Comdr Edward
H. O'Hare, naval flying ace who
shot down five japanese bombers.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Two Divorce Pleas
Granted in Rockville
snecial Disnatch tn The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
r. ROCKVILLE, Md, June 6.-An
absolute divorce from Joseph W.
Barrett of Bethesda has been
granted to Mrs. Avis E. Barrett, also
of Bethesda, by Judge Stedman
Prescott. The decree allows her to
resume her maiden name of Hard
ing. Desertion was charged
Judge Charles w. Woodward has
signed a decree granting to Mrs.
Joan H. Winship of Washington a
limited divorce from Gilmor Mere
dith Winship of Silver Spring, on
the grounds of desertion.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Ship Survivors Reach Spuin

VIGO. Spain. June 6 (P).-A fish,
ing vessel arrived here today with %
survivors of the 903-ton Irish steam
er City of Bremen, sunk recently in
the Atlantic. Uloyd's Register lists
the ship as British-owned. operating
out of Dublin)
Evening star., 1942-06-06

zone OF the most tragic stories
OF the ,Dar is the suffering and
starvation imposed on Greece by
the German and italian armies
OF occupation. Richard G. Mas
sock, CHIEF OF the former As
Socidted Press and Wide World
Bureau in Rome, obtained this
graphic story ,Uhile interned in
Italy and from refugees and relief
workers returning to the United
States on the repatriation ship
Drottningholm.)
Evening star., 1942-06-06
WiIIkie on Hampton Boord

HAMPTON, Va, June 6 (SpeciaD.
Wendell Willkie has been elected
a member of the board of trustees
of Hampton Institute. institution of
higher learning for Negroes, it was
announced yesterday by J. Henry
Scattergood, chairman of the board.
Evening star., 1942-01-09
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THE OBJECTIVE:

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of rubber Of
meeting this through the collection and reclamation of all
kinds of scrap rubber throughout the Nation.
June Is and continue At the Presidents
be of the
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who has rubber of kind take gasoline station
and the Dealers acting agents. will pound There
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and gather all and bring
will be helping causeVCTORY
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-13

me like star-lit veil He inspired and uplifted
my spirits. And there was little use fighting
against the fever awakened i'm each other.
We sailed on Rudys yacht, the Phoenix, that
afternoon to Catalina Island Only cabin boy
was aboard, SO Rudy and had fun cooking our own
dinner.
1t was really sight our fans would not have
believed true: Rudolph Valentino, the idol of the
screen-we, who had fame, fortune and the ad-
miraton of the world, forgot any other persons
alive; we forgot our careers and laughed over
the intricaces of minestrone soup.
When Rudy produced a thick, raw steak l
cried:
q can't cook that! I only know how to scram-
BILE eggs"
He did not even smile he said:
This steak is an assurance that I'll not be hun
cry tonight
| started to laugh but the haunting shadow in
his serious eyes stopped me. Rudy need assurance
against hunger!
I've been hungry so often he said. I've
lined my coat with newspapers and slept on park
benches at night, ate nothing but stale bread and
coffee for weeks, and every night l dreamed of a
hot, broiled steak--hkc this,
l tried to change his tragic mood by laughing
and promising to have large, juicy steak cooked
for him every time he came to my house.
But some torture he could not put aside drove
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-13

was always the shadow Uf former poverty. Of
working in cheap dance halls until he could get TO
Hollywood, where he haunted casting offices for
miserable, uncertain years until his recognition IN
THE -Four Horsemen."
felt a tender awe There was torture he could
not put aside, and it drove him TO tell me things
he held secret IN his heart.
From now on Rudy, there will be no more sad
memories haunting you! We are going 60 work
hand-in-hand only toward happiness
The sun was going and it would soon be time
for us to sail back. He looked at the horizon and
sighed;
CAS- long as you are with me, everything seems
right-so perfect
He was saddest the night he spoke Of his wife,
from whom he had been separated before we met.
We were dining in a restaurant then. several days
later when he volunteered 10 talk about the sub
iect | had not dared 10 open.
Like so many other distressed human beings
had tried to put out of our minds the thing
which actually concerned us most. Like so many
other mortals. we had tried TO run away instead
of facing the thing which we dreaded to face We
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-13
CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VI
c19i2 by An.rta w,ty Inc Britain Rights
nv RUDOLPH VALENTINES arms l was hum
BILE. Words I had used to other men who loved
me were now too trite But that moonlt night
in my garden l knew pure enchantment as he told
me in intimate eloquence of the things | meant
to him.
"PoHta," he called me, "you are the woman
have always wanted. Why didn't find you sooner?
Tell me why didn't you keep me from marrying
anyone else
"Rudv | know now why have never really
loved I've waited for you
I've waited all my life for this moment and all
your life now belongs To me-
These were our first exquisite moments alone
but it seemed that we had been together through
the centuries.
His voice. warm and intimate, set my being
aflame. I longed to give him happiness, to restore
every dream he had ever lost,
My coat slipped from my shoulders and heard
him catch his breath
Then he held me in his arms and kissed me-
l needed Rlldp,s love-and he needed mine.
There was excitement and yet. something reverent,
in our caresses which even transcribed passion.
Nothing in my life had ever been so impressive
so perfect-as this love.
Until then I had not been complete, My life
had been Intellectual without meaning. But in his
arms became whole.
Time slipped by.
When the sun streaked the sky hours later we
were sitting hand in hand beside the tnkling foun-
tain in my rose garden. Rudy showing me
through a tragic story the part of his life the
world never dreamed AS he talked about his boy
hood in Italy, his hopes and ambitions felt tor
ture in his heart.
was never to forget the things he said They
frightened and tormented me- thrilled and mad
dened me-and yet l marveed because what he
said and did proved that he was everything had
ever hoped and thought and read and dreamed the
man | loved should be.
They call me the greatest lover and yet, I
have perhaps never really loved His sensitive
mouth quivered.
Rudy had been Inundated by affection from
women Every time woman made fool OF her
self over HIM as thousands Of women did, IN the
aires on the streets. his various voyages TO
many parts of the world wherever he was recoS-
nizcd- he was embarrassed. Just as any real man
would be
II want TO share my memories with you, Polta
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-13


mendous popularity "the greatest
lover of the screen" stepped out of his
motion picture contract and went on W.
a dancing tour with his wife.
Now | looked into his dark eyes
and thought | loved him for his weak
ness as well as his strength. He was
plant, easily influenced whore his affections we're
involved.
Yet Poita, know that have not really loved
before" he said
But now he told me that he had made many
tragic mistakes His income had dwindled TO Il
fraction Of what it had been. He had rIn|
heavily into debt. He had plunged made wld|
speCulatiOns.
When at last he stopped talking he sat thcrc|
in a throbbng silence | was so keyed TO hstcnng|
l could hear his heart beating.
Please, darling" pleaded cant you forgot
your past"
Il try" he said ito rise like the Phoenix from
the ashes"
Now his smile was warm as he added but
until we nited-forgve my dark moods
Some resentment, more powerful than any|
words | could speak, took hold OF him. ! SAW III
over his face, like mask.
What am to do Polita ?" he sighed "You|
know | love you that want to marry you. And
/ could Just hear him over the impatient heats|
OF my heart
There was too much to say and yet. why try
TO say it? Didn't he know every thought | had |
Didn't he know how I resented his living in the
same house whore the memory of his marriage
was still alive?
But | spoke of something else
You're worried about what the studio VIII -
if you divorce your wife-if you should become h
aggressor You feel that they have not yet for
given you for stepping out of one contract And
yet-until you can do this we have to be pat(
"Pota know that you have everythinl ,utI
yet-you have not found contentment, either"
Fame and fortune have not brought ne anvil
closer TO my hearts goal, | don't care whc'heI|
you are rich poor. 1t is only you Rudy thatI
l want"
He looked at me SO strangely then as if he !
could not believe me. Did he doubt that wanted
anything from him but his love?
He did not speak
In the peculiar silence felt as if had bcen|
Evening star., 1942-05-27


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Evening star., 1942-07-19
BestSnapshots
Of the week in
The Stars
Amateur Contest

Contestonts receive 81 for eoch
photo published with the weekly
S. prize winner. All photos pub
lished will be considered at the
end Of the contest for The Stor's
five SIS grand owords. VIM
ners Of the erond awards will
compete in the national owords
poying $l2.500, including 9rond
prize worth 81 500. Photos to
be eligible must have been taken
otter January ], 1912, by per-
sons residing in Washington re-
toiI trodine oreo as defined in
contest rules. Photos are not
returned. Do not submit nego-
tives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-05-05
NEW FEATURE I5
 SCHEDULED FOR
 CAPITOL THEATRE
Ladies in Retirement, Stage Success. Opens
 Here Tomorrow

Ladies in Retirement" new Co., lumbia drama based upon the sen- sational Broadway stage success. opens tomorrow at the Capitol Theatre with Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward starred. Supporting the players is stellar cast which in- cludes Evelyn Reyes. Elsa Lam chester, Edith Barrett and Isobel Elsom.
 Charles Vidor directed the new film, lauded by Hollywood as sus- penseful melodrama of strange love and burning hate. The story of Ladies in Retirement" is, essent- ially, that of a fiercely determined young woman whose devotion to her older sisters and her concern for their proper care arouses a tur- bulent desire and a cold, flaming fury A breeding, hauntingly intense quality is said to permeate the en- tire film, fit accompaniment to the fog-bound setting of the picture.
 To be seen for the last times tonight is the clever comedy Our Wife" starring Melvyn Douglas and Ruth Hussey, and the new March of Time, Our America At War
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-05-05
BETTE DAVIS
 FILM TO END
 RUN TONIGHT
The Great Lie," Unusual Human Story, On for
 Last Times

"The Great Lie" is the name of the Bette Davis picture playing for the last time tonight at the Twentieth Century Theatre, and great is the word for both the pie ture and it's star. In one the most magnificent love stories the screen has ever told. Miss Davis rises to the greatest heights of her entire dramatic career, and the result is the years finest screen entertain ment.
 Here is film story, so sensitively directed, so ably enacted that the audience cannot help but live the events as they unfold on the screen Miss Davis in the role of a good and honorable woman, holds the audience in the palm of her lovely hand. It is a perfect blending of star and story, and proves once and for all that Bette doesn't have to play bad role in order to be good. She is superbly natural and likeable in the role of a normal, modern girl who tells one lie to pro- tect those she loves, and nearly loses them because of it.
 George Brent and Mary Astor share honorS with Bette Davis in the film.