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Evening star., 1942-05-20
Fighting Spreads Like Fire
AIono Southern Flank

MOSCOW, May 20 (P).-The Red
Army still was smashing closer 10
Kharkov despite stiffened German
resistance and sharp counterattacks,
battlefront dispatches reported to-
day, declaring that fighting was
spreading like wildfire along the
entire southern flank of the battle
line.
At the same time Pravda, Com
munist party organ, denied Nazl
claims of a cleanup on the kerch
Peninsula of the Crimea and said
Russian forces were barring the way
to the Caucasus there in a stand
which was likened to the long
American defense on Bataan IN the
Philippines.
Silent on Nazi Offensive.
Although Russian dispatches re-
ported that the Germans were strlV-
ing with tank and plane-led counter
attacks to break up the thrust at
Kharkov, the midday communique
made no new mention OF the NaA
onslaught against Soviet lines 30
miles south of Kharkov in the Bar
venkoka and Izyum sectors.
CA British source in London SAID
that if the Germans succeeded
in their counteroffensive it would
be serious threat to "a very
tender spot" in the Red Armys
drive on KharWov.
HE called German claims to
have taken 149, 900 prisoners on
the Kerch Peninsula absurd,
pointing out that that would
mean Russian strength OF about
25o,ooo men on 2o-mile front)
Greater Battles Ahead"
"The Red Army is breaking the
fierce resistance of the Hitlerite
beasts and pushing them back to
the west, liberating Soviet soil step
bv STEP" Pravda declared in a sum-
mary of the latest dispatches from
the front.
Meanwhile, our troops are carry
ing on intensive battles with supe-
rior enemy forces in the Kerch Pen-
insula in the ,cinity OF Kerch.
Even greater battles are ahead
Red Star, mouthpiece OF the
Soviet Army, said that in one sector
on the Kharkov front German and
Russian tank forces and infantry
were locked in terrific battle at
such close quarters that German
planes dared not risk supporting
their own ground units for fear OF
hitting them.
In this clash alone, As German
tanks were left, burned and ruined,
on the battlefield, Red Star reported.
The army newspaper said that in
another test of mechanical power,
Evening star., 1942-05-20

base has not yet been fully devel-
oped, he added.
THE objective is expansion so
great that on any night with good
weather conditions we will be able to
send 1000 aircraft to bomb Ger
many" he said, pointing out that
this would not mean every night.
R. A. F. bombing squadrons re-
turned to their prime job of blast
ing German war production with a
heavy attack by powerful force"
last night on Mannheim, in West
(See RAIDS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Roman Puz Dies in BoIivio

LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 20 (P.-
Roman Paz former Bolivian foreign
minister, died today. He was 80.
Paz was leader of the Republican
party and had served several terms
in the Senate.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Commando Threat
Reported Driving
Nozi Offices Inland

By Radio TO The Star.
BERN. May 20.-As q sequel
to British Commando raids on
the Channel Coast of Holland,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich
commissioner for the Neither
lands, has removed his head
quarters from The Hague to an
unknown location inside the
country, according to reliable
information received here to-
day.
(Copyrisht, 1912, By Chicaro Daily
News)
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Leaflets Dropped on France

BERN, Switzerland, May 20 (P.-
British flyers dropped leaflets over
France four days ago telling the
populace that President Roosevelt
had pledged the return Of French
colonies after the war, 1t was re-
ported here today.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Axis Forces Withdraw
In Libyo, British Soy
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, May 2o.-Brltish
general headquarters said today
small groups OF Axis infantry and
tanks were engaged by British forces
in Northeastern Libya yesterday and
forced to withdraw.
visibility conditions in this sec
tor were bad" its communique said.
"On the southern sec sor enemy ar
mored car patrols were active"
ROME (From Italian Broadcasts)
May 20 tP).-Axis artillery salvos
against advanced British positions
started big fires on the Libyan bat
tie front, the Italian high command
said today.
Seven British planes were declared
shot down In operations over North
Africa. the Mediterranean and
Malta.
Evening star., 1942-05-20

(See RUSSIA, Page A-60
Evening star., 1942-05-20

(See PENNSYLVANIA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-05-20

tSee RAIDS, Page A-6.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
Elsie Robinson
We Kill Love by Trying
To Mold Lives Of Others

doubtless men would feel the
same way II they were not so
busy bringing home the bacon.
Wreck ihs Mystery
We know each other SO well
and so pitifully little.
We fall in love because we
are mysterious to each other;
there is something in that other
soul which we lack. Then we
turn around and ruthlessly
wreck all the mystery. What a
pity!
II only we were half as con-
siderate Of the other fellows
privacy as we are Of our
precious lawns! But no. We
just got TO romp all over the
premises and know each hidden
nook and Granny.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
WhyWonnen
Love TO Move
The Furniture

WHEN A MAN gets the wan
derlust at this time Of year land
who DOESN'T. he can take a
weekend and 60 fishing. He can
wander up and down UNEMPLOYED
streams and unfamiliar wooded
paths and get that farawsy feel
ing. He can get a change.
Or II he's not that type. he
can roam around the golf-links
or 90 to baseball games or walk
up the avenue and let his eyes
wander over new girls. His heart
and emotions follow where they
win. Something's the best tonic
for that faded feeling is a new
heart-interest.
BUT THE average woman
particularly if she's marTied) is
tied to the mast OF domesticity
and surrounded by four walls.
and has to take her wanderlust
out via her imagination and her
vision.
That's when she begins tor
menting man with vacuum
cleaners paint-brushes. decora-
tors and paperhangers. That's
when he never knows just which
bedroom or what bed he'll sleep
In when he comes home nights;
or what floor he can walk on
without sticking to the varnish;
or when he'll fall over a bucket
and mop.
JUST PAINTING or papering
the walls In new colors and
shutting the pictures around
give 3 woman a sense of novelty
and a new little surprise every
time she glances up. Merely
changing the mans favorite easy
chair from the left side to the
right, painting the kitchen red
and-white instead of blue-and-
white and hanging a new orchid
shower-curtain In the purple
bathroom peps her up like a
dose Of vitamins.
Nothing brightens up a
woman's life like a new coat Of
polish on the kitchen linoleum
or a new shade of paper on the
pantry shelves.
AND NOTHING torments a
man quite sosmuch as woman's
annual passion for shuffling his
desk, his papers, his clothes and
his armchair around, where he
has to look twice for them. It's
sabotage, that's what!
Man hates changes around the
house. He may wander away
from home, but he wants the
home to be there, exactly as IL
was, when he comes back. He
may transfer his affections
from blonde to brunei, from
woman to woman, but he will
hang onto the old armchair or
an old pair of slippers as faith
fully and tenaciously as a bull
dog hangs onto a coat-taill
Dtstnbotsd BY King Features synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
WALL HANGING

THE NATIVITY beloved
subjects richly told in this
pauel--an art treasure that you
can EN- broider in simplest
stitchery.
Pattern $50 contains a trans
fer pattern of a picture 15x20
inches; illustrations of stitches:
color chart and key: materials
required.
Send IL cents in coins for this
pattern to The Laura Wheeler
Pattern Department. 1225 Times
SQUARE. Detroit. Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
Introducing
.Our New
Artist
Ny JOAN DEAN

MAY WE introduce our new
fashion artist? She Is Connie
Bolton, daughter of Mrs. Grant
Cook out in Sherwood forest.
To US, her talents are extra
special and thus rate some elab-
Grafton.
To date she's been schooling
for a fashion career and dab
bling on her own, except for
six-morth period Of designing at
a dress manufacturing house in
Kansas City. which was sand
WICKED In between courses at
Stevens College in Missouri and
the Fashion Academy in New
York City.
BUT THE creative flair was
In evidence long before her trek
to college. When the strapless
evening gown was yet q new
born babe, unknown 10 most of
us, Connie had her heart set on
having one.
She searched the town inside
out, but no such pattern was TO
be found. So without pattern,
picture or directions, she and
her little sewing machine pro-
1duced q strapless charIner and
wore II to q Cornell prom. Peo-
pie stared. asked questions and
to this day are reminding her OF
that pioneering venture.
STRANGELY ENOUGH. she
sketches with her left hand and
writes with her right. Outside
Of that trait. she II most normal
-. likes riding, swimming. tai
red clothes. peasant styles and
Evening attire that startles you
stiff.
Her only hobby. says she, Is
sketching new designs for other
people. But occasionally her
own wardrobe gets a break, as
ID proved by the plaid wool cas-
ual Connie wears In the photo
graph. It's a non-priority. wrap
around, fastened only by two
hooks no buttons or zippers
required
FOR A taste of Comics
talents. look TO the sketch Of
the two shantung shirtwaisters.
III you're town-bound for the
summer or travelling somewhere,
these tailored tubables are tF,-
excelled. For they're simple for
the office or street wear and
sleek enough for evenings. The
wn-the-front dress
comes In six colors. including
chartreuse and white.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
Elsie RObinsOn

so THERE'S a war. But we
can't--mustn't-think about IL
constantly. We've got to keep
our grip on the old familiar
world we once knew and are
tying to save. We've got to
work at the same old unfinished
problems.
Marriage, for instance.
There's a job that none Of us
has done perfectly. Many Of US
don't even understand what it's
all about. This strange business
OF a man and q woman trying
to know each other when they
don't even know themselves.
trying to become one when, to
the end of their lives, they will
always be partially strangers.
It's one of the deepest mys-
teries Of the human plan, this
thing we call marriage; yet one
of the most urgent necessities.
Life is so lonely. We must have
some one, even ut a great price.
Leave Them Alone
But, having united our lives
with that other one, we can
never be content to let him or
her follow his or her own pat
tern.
We must possess them, peer
and pry and poke into the most
secret recesses of their spirit,
and all the time we kill the
thing we would most cherish,
the mystery and sanctity Of
love.
There's a deep and wise para
graph in John Steinbeck's book
The Moon Is Down." As you
know. IL you've read it, this is
a heart-rending book about war.
But there are small detours
In II that help you forget the
guns.
Remember the old mayorwho
had been Mayor so long that
he was the Idea-Mayor In the
town?
So simple and kind that few
ever suspected his tremendous
wisdom. And now he must do
the hardest thing in all his life:
he must meet the steel-helmeted
men who had conquered his VII
lage. But he was not to face
this difficult passage alone.
thought. Him Up
From behind him Madame
emerged, small and wrinkled
and fierce. She considered that
she had created this man out OF
whole cloth, had thought him
up, and she was sure that she
could do a better job IL she
had IL to do again.
No little appetite or pain, no
carelessness or meanness IN him
escaped her; no thought or
dream or longing in him ever
reached her. And yet several
times in her life she had seen
the stars"
she considered that she had
created this man out Of whole
cloth"
Was there ever q woman who
did not think she could make a
man over altogether IL only she
had a free grip On him. And
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
Girls. Food
Habits Need
Correcting.


THE WAY. some Of you teen
age girls eat you're going to be
old and gray at 80.
You make q habit of skipping
good. wholesome meals and then
you fill up on sweets. That is
just about the quickest way
there Is to lose your health
and your looks.
Now. honestly, what do you
eat between meals! ] asked this
question at a girls school re-
Gently and the answers gave me
Indigestion: Chocolate bars In
the morning. strawberry sodas
or banana splits In the after
noon and peanuts and soda pop
after dinner!
Maybe that Is q slight exag-
geration In your case. But I
suspect Il might hit an average
for the teens.
II II does strike home, all you
have to do to be healthier, pref
tier and normal weight and cut
down on your skin troubles Is
stop eating between meals.
Beauty Foods
II you know what's good for
you, you will eat your meals
and you will make sure you eat
all the food you need.
Nobody should have to coax
you twice to drink your quart of
milk a day. 1t Is your best
beauty food.
And you win have a glass of
fruit Juice, along with two or
three other fruits: a green, leafy
raw vegetable, another green
leafy cooked vegetable: a yell
low vegetable and any others
your mother serves.
There Is no such thing as too
many vegetables and salads.
You're young and you learn
fast, so learn to like whole wheat
bread. That Ia the best kind.
And eat your whole grain cereal
in the morning.
Just to round out the days
protective and beauty foods,
have an egg At one meal or an
other,
Trim Down Csloriss
If you are too chubby. don't
get the idea this list doesn't
apply to you. You need the same
foods but you can trim down on
the Galleries.
Here n the way to do Il:
Leave off the fat part of the
meat and pass UP the gravy.
Have only, one slice Of whole
wheat bread and one pat of
butter at a meal.
Restricting the bread means
you are also restricting the
Vitamin Band you need that
and plenty Of 1t for good nerves.
So have some wheat germ mixed
In with your breakfast cereal,
or take yeast tablets. That will
fix you up with Vitamin B.
Clears Skin
From any standpoint. you can
get along without pie, cake,
cookies and candy.
II your skin Il forever break
ing out, keep away from choco-
lates, fats and pastries as you
would from poison ivy.
Instead Of these, have fresh
fruits for dessert and nothing be-
tween meals except fresh fruit
and milk.
Make II q hard-and-fast rule
to eat 4 hearty breakfast and
an adequate lunch, and never to
stuff, even at dinner.
Get into the habit OF eating
regular meals and choosing the
foods that make for health and
good looks. II you do that you'll
never have to worry about your
waiUnf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09
Evolution Of the Wedding
And Engagement Ring
. BY IRENE M. HAWKINS
Women's Editor, Tho Detroit Times

THERE COMES TO my desk
history of the engagement
and wedding ring. which I think
interesting enough to pass on
to you. -
Imagine having to be reminded
that you're engaged Yet that
was the reason for the first
betrothal rings. The tribesman
tied a band of sweet grass, or
a narrow thong of leather, on
his sweetheart's finger, to re-
mind her to behave while he
was out stalking game.
In earlier times, when fiances
were even more fierce, they tied
the girls hands together with
plated rushes.
Those were the days, girls ).
imagine the blessed comfort Of
knowing that he WOULD be
back. Now they just make love
blithe spirits that they are
-. darling will you be mine -.
and before you can answer -.
away they go, never to return.
Only One
The engagement ring. il seems.
is much older than the wedding
band and for centuries a girl
only got one ring per man, per
marriage.
The old grass band wasn't
much to show off to the village
maids, so gradually engagement
rings were carved from ivory.
amber or flint the gold and
silver bands emerged during the
middle ages.
And now nothing short
Of a sparkling diamond will
do French troubadours
twanged their lutes and sang
about the diamond as early as
the 1400s the diamond
was transparent and could hold
no secrets.
No Fibs!
In a love ring II stood for
purity, fidelity and no fibs.
If your hero could give you a
gem. he went to Venice for IL.
Venice was the jewel mart of
Europe il was also famous
for dungeons, canals and poison
cups. But who cared so he
brought back the sparkler!
Did you ever stop to wonder
why the third finger of the left
hand was chosen as the engage
ment finger? Because, we are
told, the Egyptians claimed that
a vein ran from this finger
directly to the heart.
The Egyptians had never
taken a first aid course.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII ii seems, kept a
stock of rings on hand just
in case he wanted to get married
again tomorrow. In his personal
inventory for 1880, he listed pa
finger rings including "a
table dymond, a triangular dy-
mond and a rocky dymond."
Let us not speak lightly Of
Henry. He was an honest man.
When he told a girl he'd marry
her he did but from
then on, she better behave her
self or he'd chop off her
head and he did that, too.
Gregory Of Tours
But the engagement lore goes
on and on. Gregory OF Tours
tells about the six century Gus
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-09

tom of man giving his betrothed
a ring, a kiss and q pair of shoes.
The ring was supposed to keep
her hands out of mischief /.
the shoes to keep her from being
footloose and the kiss, IL was
hoped, to cure her Of talking too
much. Poor Gregory he
must have been an innocent
lamb!
Then came what was called
alliance rings" two rings
hinged together so they swung
apart to form two hoops or
closed to form a single band.
Made of silver. one side was
jeweled with a diamond and the
other set with a signet.
The bride wore the diamond
ring and the bridegroom the sig
net, during the wedding cere-
mony. Thus their hands were
joined together by the invisible
hinge.
And Now!
Then came the cleaning gold
bands half an inch wide, such
as your mother or grandmother
wore. All me, there was no mis-
taking a married woman in those
days.
And now. glory be it's a
glistening circlet of diamonds
that proclaims to the world that
a girl has got her man.
Something to be justly proud
of, we can tell you! To snag q
man these days is no mean
achievement In itself -. to
snag one who says II with dia-
monds ). well, you got some
thing that's all.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Lino!eum Covers Walls

Linoleum wall coverings are recent
innovations in house interiors. When
properly installed they have the ad-
vantage of high durability and are
easily cleaned.
Evening star., 1942-02-21

full silvery-white wool In which the
crosiers are clad. No neighbor can
boast as fine. As the warm weather
comes along these fronds expand,
the wooly covering turns . tawny
color and gradually falls to. the
ground, though bits Of the coat will
remain on the fern throughout the
summer, scattered along the stipe
and in small punches at the base
Of each pima.
The fertile fronds are the first
ones to appear. Long before they
have reached maturity, the sterile
ones will come along and overtake
them.
Only one crop of fronds is pro-
duced annually unless something
happens to the first ones. The
plant Is determined to hold its own.
II you will inspect the fern. you
will find, hugging close to the crown
Of the rootstock, many buds Just
for this purpose and enough for
several years to come This central
part is to be found In all the
Osmundas and is called "the heart
Of Osmond." Furthermore, 1t is
tender, crisp and edible-is delicious
In salads and has the flavor of a
delicate bit Of cabbage. But to
gather these buds Is to destroy the
plant. Our experience in using them
was when swamp was being
Evening star., 1942-02-21

Fifteen per cent Of the enlisted
men in the Navy wear the crossed
cannon of the gunner's mate.
Evening star., 1942-02-21

The paper that you waste-if You
force the stores to wrap Jour pack
ages-wont do Hitler any harm.
Save paper and rap Hitler.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
carved or plain as illustrated above
MANY had cabriole feet while other

carved or plain as illustrated above,
many had Gabrielle feet while others
had a closed base which rested on
the floor.
Reproductions of the kneehole
desk are available at moderate
prices today and lend an interest
ing note to the furnished room.
Some are finished both front and
back so that they can be placed in
the center of a room, others, which
are put against the wall, are not
finished In the back.
Some kneehole desks are made to-
day with compartments to accom-
modate small typewriter for home
use, with provisions for filing papers
and with trays for pencils, pens and
inkwellS. The kneehole desk with
a mirror over 1t Is very often used
IN the bedroom as q vanity.
Note: Further information re-
garding the kneehole desk may be
had by writing to Leo Jiranek in
care of this paper.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Permits
Continued From Page B-1)

signer; to erect three 2-story brick
and cinder block flats a units each) !,
44O0 Eads street NE. and 503-505
Forty fourth street NES to cost
$4,000. ....
Fred Ugast. Investment Building,
owner; Martin Bros, 1341 Connecti-
cut avenue NV, builders; George
T. Santmyers, 1410 H street NV.
designer; to erect two 2-story brick
and cinder block flats, 1863 Cor.
coran street NE. and 1862 Kendall
street NE: to cost $4,000.
Potomac Electric Power Co., Tenth
and E streets NV, owner and de-
signer; to erect one 2-story brick,
concrete and steel electric substa-
ton addition, 2415 Nichols avenue
Sc; to cost $500.
o. F. Shearer, 4311 Burns street
Sc, owner; D. P. Berry, SIS Dorst
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, builder;
Clyde E. Phillips, designer; to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling, 3l30 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc: to cost $500.
Fred Ugast, Investment Building,
owner; Martin Bros, 1341 Connecti-
cut avenue NV, builders; George
T. SantmyerS, 14l0 H street NV,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and cinder block fiat a units), 1916
Kendall street NE; to cost $1,000.
National Savings & Trust Co.,
trustees, Fifteenth and New York
avenue NV, owners; M. Cladny
Construction Co., 635 F street S.W.,
builders; Edmund w. Dreyfuss, de-
signer; to erect one 1-story brick
store addition, 1409 Sixth street
NV; to cost $500.
Leighton v. B. Marschalk, 1921
Longfellow street NV, owner and
builder; Marcus Hallett, 6525 Piney
Branch road NV, designer; to erect
Evening star., 1942-02-21
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

Ferns are wonderful soil-erosion
preventives. They are also soil
makers. We glance at them in the
summer, when they are In their
prime, or admire the fiddle heads"
in the spring, when they make such
an heroic effort to push their way
through the heavy blanket of soggy
leaves and debris. Other than such
brief notice, we are likely to forget
these fascinating flowerless plants.
The cinnamon fern is the best
known Of its family. 1t is found
in almost every piece Of boggy
ground N our Eastern States. You
often find it neighboring with the
early bird" among plants, the
skunk cabbage, and also with the
wild hellebore. When conditions
are just right-that is, shady swamp
lands. wet open woodlands and hot
sunshine-the cinnamon fern grows
so fast that it forms jungles re-
sembling those found in the tropics.
Early in the spring 1t Is fun to
go out and see how the young cro-