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Evening star., 1942-02-06
Three New Warships
Ready for Navy, Far
Ahead Of Schedule
Two Destroyers, Cruiser
To Be Launched Feb. II
As Lincoln Tribute
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.-Four to
six months ahead of schedule, two
destroyerS and cruiser will be
launched here and in nearby Cam
den, N. j., as a Lincoln's Birthday
celebration next Thursday, the Navy
has announced.
Ceremony will be held to a mini
mum because of wartime conditions.
Only few guests will be admitted
to the heavily-guarded yards and
most of the spectators will be the
men who built the ships.
Between 1870 am and IL noon
the cruiser Montpelier will slide
from the ways of the New York
Shipbuilding Corp. into the Della
ware River at Camden, and the
destroyers Butler and Gherardi will
be launched at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard.
Mrs. William F. Cory, wife of
the mayor of Montpelier, VT, will
christen the cruiser named for the
city. The Montpelier is one of
about 80 ships of the Cleveland class
authorized in 1939-40 1t is more
than six months ahead of schedule.
The destroyer Butler, named for
the late Maj. Gen. Smedley D.
Butler, will be sponsored by Mrs.
John Wehle of Lansdowne, Pa,
daughter of the famed Marine Corps
commander.
Mrs. Christopher Robinson of
Rock Cliff, Ontario, will christen
the Gherardi, named for her IA
ther, the late Rear Admiral Ban
croft Gherardi.
The keels of the destroyers were
laid simultaneously September 16
Under ordinary conditions. ship
yards require nine months between
the keel-laying and the launching
for this type of vessel.
The launchings originally we're
scheduled for February IA, but the
date was advanced because of the
change to wartime and certain tidal
conditions.
Evening star., 1942-02-06
French Church PIuns Fete

The French Church of Washing
ton will hold a reception at pm.
tomorrow in the parish hall Of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. DR.. Samuel Terrien OF
Union Theological Seminary, New
York, will lecture in French.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
CANDACE PROPOSES
CHAPTER V

Martins letter was perfect,
Candace decided. She rushed
home and locked herself in her
room. there to read and reread
its contents through the long
afternoon. She left it only once.
to go down to the kitchen for a
talk with Mrs. Hobbs; and after
a conference during which she
felt it necessary to explain shyly
not once but several times that
the expected guest was Peters
friend, she felt sure of a dinner
fit for Martin.
She had now only to invite
him. That would be the natural
thing to do. invite him for din
ner, since in that country there
were few places for public dim
ing. But she must make the
reason clear, in nice way of
course; she must not let him
think her too eager. In her re-
lief she was now swinging the
other way and was wishing she
might punish him a little for
those days he had made her
wait.
She told herself she would
have liked TO wait day or so
before answering his letter, but
decided against that as being
discourteous; she refused to ac-
knowledge fear that if she did
he might get it too late and
might not then be able to come
on Sunday after all.
She spent the evening COM
posing a note that in primness
and formality equaled his own.
When it was finally sealed and
ready she thought she was being
very severe when instead of
dashing out Immediately she de-
cided to wait until morning to
post it.
They met primly, too, Martin
trying to live out his fiction that
he had just happened" to be
in the neighborhood = even
though the train on which he
arrived was virtually an express
out of New York--and Candace
hers, that it was as Peters
friend that she was extending to
him the hospitality of Tucka-
ways And there was little in
the atmosphere that would help
to break them down into a
more normal attitude.
The big dining room, intend
ed for large groups, seemed
empty with only two people in
it; and Mrs. Hobbs, the import
ance of the occasion having
been impressed on her, had
placed them at either end of the
long table so that each was as
though marooned on a tiny is
land of propriety, conversing
forlornly across a frozen sea of
white.
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maple, Martin still holding her
firmly, possessively, she with
her head resting on his should
or. She asked happily, Martin?
You didn't just happen TO be in
the neighborhood, did you?"
Martin laughed. mot much, !"
he admitted. II had to practical
~ sandbag a few people TO get
the day off to get out here
She sighed. IF you felt that
way, why did you make me wait
so long for a letter.
$50 long," he repeated, amaz-
ed. why. wrote so soon 1t was
hardly decent"
"Oh. Martin, decent, after the
way / limited 10 you, i won't ev-
en- bulge from this place! | said.
What was that but hint I'd be
waiting for letter.
Martin drew her closer, he
buried his face in her hair.
Sweet" he said softly, my
sweet
Abruptly his mood changed;
he grew bitter. Il have hell of
a nerve" he said, coming here,
behaving like this! You ought to
tell me to get out of here, you
ought TO send me packing"
Cand ace asked fearfully,
"Why? Why, Martini" as though
half expecting him to admit a
wife and several children hid
den somewhere; and when he
said savagely. why" A guy like
me, with not a penny to his
name, daring to be in love with
a girl like you" She sighed with
relief
Martin, as if anything like
that could matter" She looked
thoughtful. I've been thinking,
Martin I'll go into training, I'll
get to be a nurse, maybe / can
even manage to get into the same
hospital where you'll be intern
ing. And then afterward, after
we're married, | can be your of
flee nurse, | can be of some help
TO you, can share your interests
-"
Martin said grandly, THAT
won't be necessary. I'm going to
be a fashionable physician and
make mint OF money. I'll have
squads of office nurses, and
you'll have maids by the dozen
-"
But though he spoke lightly he
was inexpressibly touched and
stirred Brought up in a hard
school that had taught him wari-
ness of people and their mo-
tives, the manner in which Can
dice had shown her utter in
terest in him. disdaining CO.
quctry, he found deeply moving.
He drew her fiercely close and
kissed her. He had not believed
he would ever feel so deeply
about anything.
Go Be COntinued
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
COPYRIGHT. teAx.
NEA SGRvlCE. INC.

In daydreaming forward to
this occasion she had imagined
herself and Martin exchanging
light banter, herself a fascinat-
ing hostess and Martin an impoS-
sible blend of suavity and boyiSh
charm; the reality was bitterly
disappointing. She felt very
young and gauche, and Martin
was an embarrassed youth who
ate absent-mindedly in silence,
or who frowned and cleared his
throat as though about TO say
something portentous and then
ended up as likely as not with
an insane remark on the weather
She was relieved when the meal
was over and they could leave
the table.
But the w h o lie afternoon
stretched ahead, yaWning gap
that had to be filled. 1t was so
hot a day that the cool north
terrace beckoned invitingly, but
that would mean trying TO make
conversation and the thought of
that in her tongue-tied state was
appalling. Golf was out of the
question since that meant green
fees and she didn't want Martin
to have to spend the money;
but tennis?
They had their own courts,
and there was sure to be an ex-
ira racquet of Peters some
where about and a pair of his
shorts or Stacks. The alacri--
ty with which Martin accepted
left her feeling unhappily that
he too had been dreading their
afternoon alone together; the
occasion was scarcely living up
TO her romantic dream of it.
Out on the courts, away from
the anxious solicitude of Mrs.
Hobbs and the empty oppressive
ness of the house, things were
better. They grew hot and their
clothes chung damply to their
sweating skins, but their frozen
self-consciousness too had melt
ed. They rallied each other
cheerfully, they even jeered an
unlucky or poor shot BY the
time the game ended the last
vestige of constraint between
them had vanished.
One ball that been knocked
over the wire netting into the
woods eluded capture. 1T has
to be just about here" Candace
insisted, 81 lined it up with the
maple tree and that old stump"
Having retrieved the others,
Martin had come over TO help
find this one. The ground where
they stood was covered with a
creeper and they were swishing
the vines gently back and forth
with the heads of their racquets.
They both saw the ball, they
both stopped at once; their heads
met violently, and their hands
and though their heads pull
ed Immediately apart in natur-
al reaction their hands chung.
Martins other arm went about
her shoulders and he bent his
head, half laughing, to kiss her
forehead where he had bumped
it. 1t was her mouth, however,
that his lips somehow met. He
strained her to him abruptly and
she chung. Her arms crept about
his neck.
They sat at the foot of the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
OH, EFFICIENCY!

KANSAS CITY-Sgt. Ray
mond Beeler of Kansas City,
now at Camp Breckenridge,
Ky, has rugged up a slide-rule
gadget that tells how much ra-
tions will be needed to fill any
specified number of army men.
Unofficial reports are that
the results satisfy both mess
Sergeants and men.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29

SALT LAKE CITY. - The
army turned down two would
be recruits because they had
been fighting Japs.
They were convicted of an
assault on Joe and Nobuyuki
kuaZura.
Judge Albert II. Ellet sus-
pended sentence SO they could
enter the army.
But army regulations forbid
the enlistments of persons con-
victed of felonies.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
By The Associated Press
HOME WANTED

NEW YORK. - There's a
young man in New York who s
going into the army-and wants
a home for his cat.
He put this public notice in
the Herald Tribune,
will some kindly old lady
give a good home TO my young,
gray and white tom cat, affec-
tionate and intelligent? Am in
Quoted into service. Call Rector
2-4036."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
FOOLHARDY HOPPER

SPRINGFIELD, IlI.-A grass
hopper which plotted fool
hardy course sent Herman Stock
to the hospital.
The insect jumped into the
Arenzville residents mouth and
lodged deep in his windpipe.
Stock was brought here,
where a specialist removed the
hODDer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
CAMPAIGN PROMISE
DE LUXE

RENO, Nev.-Walter S. Oar
ing, candidate for the Nevada
assembly, is making a serious
campaign-to get his support
ers TO vote for someone else.
Daring enlisted in the navy,
now finds Nevada laws won't
permit him to withdraw as a
candidate.
If elected, he promises to re-
sign.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
JUDGE TAKES A RUBBING

LONG BEACH, CaIlf.@Judge
Leslie E. Still sits stiffly on the
bench. And il isn't altogether
judicial dignity.
The judges 190-pound son.
Bill, tried to hurry his dad off
to football game. Bill grabbed
the judge, gave him a bear hug.
The judge did his yelling at the
doctors office instead of the
game.
Tape keeps two cracked ribs
in place.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
(TO Be COntinuedD
LOVE FEAST

KANSAS CITY. - Organized
labor took industry out to lunch
yesterday.
More than $50 loads of in
dustrial plants were guests of
the A. F. of l.. and c. l. 0. at a
luncheon honoring Catholic dig
nitaries here to discuss Catho-
lie charities.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29

THE STORY; Al commence
ment dance 1s-yesr-oid Candaee
Beeh falls in love with Martin Cor
by. a medical school friend OF her
cousin, Peter Frazier. The three 20
TO the Frazier home where Candaee.
an orphan. has been reared by Pc
ter's father, Bruce, and Candaees
Aunt Belle. Bruce's second wife. Pc
ter suddenly discovers that he loves
Candace and is jealous Of his friend.
He trumps up an excuse To take mar
tin and himself away the next morn
ing. Candace il furious until letter
comes from Martin In a few days,
asking IL he may call.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
NOE SOLDIERS

VALENTINE, Neb. - There
were no Noes" from tine Noe
family here when Uncle Sam
asked for men TO battle the
Axis. Six sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Noe are in the service,
and father Noe has passed his
physical exam and expects TO be
called to the navy within
month.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29

Only survivor of Clusters ar
my, after the battle OF the Little
Big Horn, was Comanche, a
buckskin horse. His mounted
skin now stands in the museum
Of the University of Kansas.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Bombing Demonstration
Will Be Held Toniqht

The seventh of a series of bomb
ing demonstrations for $500 civilian
defense workers of Washington
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania will be staged at 8:15 O'Clock
tonight at the University of Mary
land by the Chemical Warfare
Service of the Army.
Among the guests at the demon
stration will be James M. Lands,
executive director of the Office of
Civilian Defense; Air Marshal D.
S. C. Evil of the Royal Air Force
George Roundwhaite, chairman of
the Canadian Purchasing Commits
sion; Brig. Gen. u. S. Grant, Sd;
Brig. Gen. George Wilson and Brig.
Gen. Paul English, all of the Chem
ical Warfare School; Maj. Gen. Will
liam NJ Porter, chief of the Chem
ical Warfare School. and Col.
George j. v. Fisher, chief of the
civilian projections section of the
school.
Several methods of preventing
bomb damage employed in Europe
and hitherto not shown in this
country will be demonstrated, Army
planes from Boiling Field will en-
gage in simulated bombing attack.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Fire Department
Raises Il. baber
To Captaincy
Capt. John R. Moore,
81 Years in Service,
To Retire August ]

Promotion of 1t. Thomas S.. Baber
to captain in the District Fire De-
partment and the retirement of
Capt. John r. Moore August for
physical disability, were approved
today by the Commissioners with
other personnel changes.
Capt. Moore, 54, who has had 81
years of service. for some years was
manager of the Fire Department
baseball team which annually staged
a benefit game with the police at
Griffith Stadium. He was COM
mended for his services at the Kann
warehouse fire in 1925 and in the
Knickerbocker Theater disaster In
1922 Capt. Moore has been in
change of Engine Co. 25. Nichols
avenue and Esther place Sc.
Will Fill Vacancy.
1t. Baber is promoted to fill q
vacancy caused by absence of Capt.
Leo B.. Wilson. now on military
leave, serving with the Coast Guard.
Its Baber So, has been in the de-
partment for 81 years and is as.
signed ct present to Engine Cont
pany u, North Capitol and Quincy
streets. He probably will be trans
ferred to Engine Company Is, Four
teenth and w streets Sc. where
Capt. Wilson was in command
Lit. Baber, who also holds COM
mendations for Knickerbocker and
Kann services, was made sergeant
In 1924 and lieutenant In 1880.
Sergt Theodore w. Martin was
promoted to lieutenant. He Is 80
and has seen nearly Is years serv-
ice. He was made a sergeant in
1885, He has been on duty at En-
CINE company 81. in Benning.
Used Diving Equipment.
Sergt. Martin was commended by
the Commissioners for recovering
drowning victims body from the
Potomac River, August %. 1884,
using his own diving equipment to
search the river
Pvts Everett T. Haas and Will
liam H. Yonce were promoted to
sergeants. Two new rookie firemen
were given probationary appoint
ments. They are Curtis G.. Millar
and Pasquale E. Ciufolo.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Boys and Girls Given
Awards for Efforts
In AAA Rubber Drive
Youth, Ia, Is First
With 2,0l9 Pounds;
Girl, 5, Wins Proise

Boys and girls of all sizes and
types received prizes yesterday for
their collections in the scrap rubber
campaign conducted by the District
branch of the American Automobile
Association.
Francis Pilkerton. IA, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. G.. Pilkerton, 141l S
street Sc, won the first prize of
s25 for collecting 2,ols pounds of
scrap rubber.
Pointing proudly to the huge
pyramid of rubber tires, mats,
gloves, shoes, bathing caps and hose
piled on the empty parking lot at
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, Francis said:
Il collected my part of that main
ly from neighbors and friends. They
were glad to give it to me-"
His Good Deed Of Week.
A Boy Scout, Francis feels that
his prize -winHing rubber pasan dAge
was his good 1deed of taie-week 1t
too1s him, to- collect it. mas
Setot1d prizs, SIS wet toi Lloyd
Hughe 10, 1886 T streetNW., who
collected LBS pounds in the AAA
drive. Third prize of $40 went to
Claude Ford, 2417 Shannon place
Sc, for 1,176 pounds.
In addition to the three first
prizes, IS youngsters with high rub
Der collection records won athletic
equipment ranging from baseball
bats and gloves to skates and tennis
rackets.
Leading all her elders in the
Barney Neighborhood House con-
tingent, the youngest competitor in
the entire AAA contest was Carol
Ryan, S, who beat the sturdy IL
year-old boys, even, in getting lit
pounds. Carol, whose parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Vincent Ryan, live at GIT
Maine avenue S.W, blushed and
giggled when asked how she COL
lected so much scrap rubber.
Her Daddy" Helped Some.
Daddy helped me some" she
said with her head down. But her
companions from Barney immedi-
ately chimed in and said, "She got
most of it herself, though. And
she's led in the tin and paper COL
lections, too"
Prizes were presented by Wash
ington l. Cleveland, manager of the
AAA in Washington. The IS young
sters who were runners-up in the
collection went according to rubber
poundage to the two boxes of ath-
letic equipment and chose what ar
ticle they wanted.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Bo||es Asks End
OF B|ackout
Short Cuts
Warns Citizens Who
Just Turn Out Lights
Eventually Will Suffer

An appeal to citizens to stop
"short-cutting" blackout facilities
was made today by Col. Lemuel
Bolles, executive director of Dis
trict Civilian Defense, as the Metro
politan Area awaited its severest test
of afraid precautions.
The test, an unannounced black
out drill, will come for a half hour
sometime between o'clock tonight
and 6 pm. next Thursday.
A great many people and estab-
lishments in previous tests, Col
Bolles declared, have merely
suspended all operations and turned
out the lights.
That's short-cutting. the colonel
declared. THE individuals who do it
are the ones who will suffer, for
some day the necessity to black out
will really be there and they won t
be able to get along under those
conditions"
Danger to Community.
) Col. Bolles also pointed to the
danger to the community in merely
putting out lights instead of pre-
pairing light-tight windows. Citizens
stumbling around in a darkened
house may be tempted to turn on
the lights for just minute and that
may be just what the enemy is look
ing for like the third light on a
match" he said.
He recommended that at least
one room where the family can
read, change their clothes, eat and
continue the other phases of nor
NAL living be completely BACKED
In this weather he said. 1t woulc
be uncomfortable to black ou.
the entire house. In rooms other
than those chosen for permanent
blacking out, the lights can be
turned out and the windows left
open.
He advised the citizens to go in
doors and keep away from windows
in the surprise blackoJt The in
dividual faces 100 times as l1uch
danger from falling fragments of
anti-aircraft shells and unexploded
anti-aircraft shells as he does from
bombs, Col. Bolles said In other
blackouts, particularly during warm
weather, citizens have remained on
their front porches or crowded IN
doorways.
Rules for Motorists.
Rules for motorists are the same
as in former blackouts. Operators
OF non-emergency vehicles must
stop at the curb, leave their keys
in the car and the car doors un-
locked and seek shelter in the
nearest building as
Col. Bolles said he had been as
suftd by the Capital Transit Co
that interior lighting Of its buses
and street cars would be materially
reduced"
The exact time of the blackout
will be kept secret until the alarm
sounds. a fuctuating signal for s
period of two minutes. The all
clear, which will allow traffic to be
resumed, Is continuous, non
fluctuating sound for approximately
l minute and 40 seconds.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Gas Dealers 10 Discuss
Rationinq With 0PA

With a conference with the Offce
of Price Administration scheduled
for pm. the Executive Committee
of the Eastern States Gasoline
Dealers met here today to discuss
rationing problems.
A spokesman said 1t was likely
they would ask that some quota
system of allotting gasoline to filling
stations be retained when permanent
rationing begins Wednesday, and
that limitation of hours be con-
tinued.
The talk with OPA officials was
to follow session in the Office of
Harry Wainwright, member of the
committee and research director Of
Washington Gasoline Retailers.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Jan Struther Sees :
'ts ze-1FasE ].
War Being Waged fol
Future Of Nations
Author, Here on Tour,
Finds Middle West
Most Like England

Keeping a good stiff Mrs. Mini
yer" upper lip despite the fact that
her husband, 1t. Anthony Maxtone-
Graham OF the British Scots Guards,
has just been taken prisoner by the
Nazis in North Africa, Jan Struther
talked with the press yesterday
afternoon. She wasn't concerned
over her husband and son, but for
the millions of people involved in
the war against Fascism today
This war is entirely different
from the First World War" said the
brunette and attractive Miss
Struther, author of Mrs. Miniver, F"
a best selling novel which has been
made into a successful movie.
According to Miss Struther. this
war is being fought mot for a
return to some nostalgia past" but
for brilliant and full future for
all the people fighting it.
Today" she said, I'VE are fight
ing to go forward, not backward, as
in the last war
Pleads for Aid to Russia.
Since she arrived in this country
in July, 1910, Miss Struther has
been an unofficial lecturer for Euro
pean war relief.
I'm the last months, however, I
have been speaking great deal
most-for Russian War Relief" the
youthful-looking British author
said. "You see I think it very i'm
portant that all people here and in
England realize that any help to
Russia will help us"
Though she has not been in Eng
land since 1910, Miss Struther keeps
informed on the situation there
through her 13-year -old son who is
joining the Scots Guard shortly.
The people in England" she
said, like the people in the United
States are thoroughly aware of the
war and working to win it. In Eng
land they are longing for the i'm
mediate opening of a second front,
and they are giving millions of dol
lars to foreign war relief despite
the heavy taxation"
Not content with seeing the east
ern part of the Nation, Miss Stru-
ther has since her arrival here in
1910 seen most of the 48 States and
feels that the Middle West is most
like England.
She is very we'll satisfied, she
says, with the treatment Hollywood
has given her Mrs Miniver sketches
in the film. She did not help in
the adaptation. but feels that the
spirit of the stories which she orig
inally wrote for the London Times,
has been faithfully followed.
Evening star., 1942-07-17

Girl Scouts in groups OF six and
eight are assisting, during July and
August, in the mailing of material
to last years Community Chest
Campaign solicitors, many of whom
will become part OF the army OF
10000 volunteers needed for the
Community War Fund campaign to
be started in late October.
THE girls are earning credits for
community service in helping the
Community War Fund" said Mrs.
H. A. Mariner, chairman of the
Service Bureau of the District Girl
Scouts, "but they wanted to help
anyway when they learned the war
fund was to include the Community
Chest. the USO and foreign relief
organizations"