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Evening star., 1942-07-24
Sorority Alumnae
To Fete Servicemen

Continuing a series of Kappa
Delta alumnae entertainments for
servicemen, Mrs. H. B. Rowe will
give dance tonight at her home
in Kenwood. Mrs. D. A. Fitzgerald
will be co-hostess.
Mrs. I. r. Devonald will be
hostess at a picnic for the men in
uniform August IL at her parents
farm.
The alumnae association also is
planning to entertain $50 guests
at dance August rs at the Amer
ican Legion Home-its largest dance
of the season.
Active Kappa Deltas at George
Washington and Maryland Univer-
stiles are invited by the alumnae to
attend and serve as dancing part
nerS,
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Club Leaders S0n-in-La,u
Lauded for War Effort
Bv Frances Lide.

IF a poll were taken to deter
mine the Yakima man most use
full to the Nations war effort ."
not a few persons would vote for
Frederick G. Leasure, head of the
Perry Trade Institute"
This tribute, published a few
days ago in newspaper of
Yakima, Wash, is Of special in
terest to friends Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur c. Watkins-for Mr.. Lea
sure is their son-in-law and his
wife spent most OF her girl
hood here.
A structural engineer and a
well-known vocational educator,
his profession carried him for
several years through many parts
Of Africa.
Even more exciting than edu-
cational work In the African jun
giles, however, is Mr.. Leasure's Job
now as head of the institute,
where $500 young men are pre-
pared every three months in
ground aviation mechanics.
Mrs. Leasure-who was Olive
Lucy Watkins-is widely travelled,
too. and WAS for four wears a
student In Paris.
While In Washington, she at
tended the Friends School and
the National Cathedral School
for Girls.
Her mother. Mrs. Watkins, is
president of the District Fedora
tion Of Women's Clubs and is
active in other organizations. in
Guiding the Congress Of Parents
and Teachers.
The Leasures have two sons
aged 7 and 4.
Responding to the urgent ap-
peal Of the District Red Cross for
more volunteers to make surgical
dressings for the Army, members
. of the District Branch, League Of
American Pen Women are open
/. ing a new surgical dressing unit
this afternoon at the Walsh
, mansion.
Mrs. George G. Gaydash, chair
man of the unit. and Mrs. Bertha
shanks CLANCY, defense chair
man Of the branch, hope to enroll
I the membership 100 per cent.
Mrs. Nathan Hurwitz is to in
struct the unit, which will meet
from / to S pm. each Friday.
The national league president,
Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson,
and the District branch presi-
dent, Mrs. nellie Van D. Smith,
are among those joining up for
the work
In the meantime, Red Cross
officials emphasized today that
volunteers may come in any time
s from 8 am. to 9 pm Monday
through Thursday and on Friday
until pm. 1t is not necessary
to Join a unit
One thousand additional work
Evening star., 1942-07-24

They also went down to the
docks where the refugee ships
come in and were shown how this
work Is handled. When word Is
received by the Red Cross that a
refugee ship Is about to dock,
ambulances are sent down, also
mobile canteens and motor pro-
duction units loaded with nee
essary supplies and garments
of every size and shape, guar
anteed to fit anyone. When refu-
gees are in need Of immediate
disqualification the Motor Corps i.
girls see that they are taken
directly to a hospital. First aid
in minor cases can be admin
istered on the spot. Farther
back In the middle Of town there
is an old beauty parlor that has
been donated and which has
been equipped by the Red Cross
with a playroom for the smaller
children. Those pastel wash
basins, that before the war were
used exclusively to brighten mi
lady's fair tresses, now are kept
busy scrubbing the smallest
refugees in their first real bath
in a long time.
Mrs. Dougherty must have
been pretty much impressed by
the six different kinds of dough-
nuts which the canteen work.
ers provide and deliver to the
men on night watch every night.
Steaming hot coffee goes along
with the doughnuts-all Of which
is prepared with the help Of
restaurant workers who have
volunteered their services) by =
large staff Of Red Cross workers
in a central canteen. The Mo-
tor Corps saw that the visiting
ladies didn't miss a thing In see
ing every phase of Red Cross
work as it is done in California.
They had round-table discussions
too-and even a few festivities,
such as the special showing Of
Mrs. Minivar," which Actor
Walter Pidgeon arranged for
them. And after all the tours
and meetings, they all were pref
ty well pleased for few hours OF
such pleasant relaxation.
The trip must have been an
inspiring one. And not least
inspiring by any means, the sim
pie words that Mrs. Davis used
in saying "goodby"-words that
somehow brought q lump to
every throat. She said, There
is no longer a West Coast or an
East Coast, q North or q South
In this, our country. There Is
only America"
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Mrs. Donk Hostess
At virginia Beach

Mrs. NJ. G. Donk and her daugh-
ter, Miss Neeltje Virginia Donk, are
spending some time at the Cavalier
Hotel at Virginia Beach and enter
tanned in the Pocohontas room there
yesterday Their guests included
the Misses Courtney Prettyman OF
Kenwood, Dorothy Conan of Chevy
Chase and Sallie B. Drummond OF
Washington. Mr.. John Cornwell OF
Washington also was in this party.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
By the Way
Beth Blaine

On the West Coast women
have been working under war
time conditions for more than
six months now. 1t was to these
women, in particular, that Mrs.
Dwight Davis, national director
OF Volunteer Special Services.
said at the recent conferences
held in Los Angeles and San
Francisco:
I'VE have come to get a first-
hand report as to how efnciently
our Red Cross system works un-
der pressure-not in a phantom
emergency, but in a real emer-
gency."
1t was at the invitation Of the
Los Angeles Chapter Of the Red
Cross that these women jour-
neyed to California, and it was in
Los Angeles that the main meet
ing was held. Counting the Cali
fornians, more than 1000 women
attended the conferences. From
our National Red Cross Head
quarters there were about
dozen workers. Besides Mrs.
Davis there were: Mrs. Trubee
Dawson. head of the Motor
Corps; Mrs. Graham Dougherty,
head Of canteen; Mrs. Mckee
Dunn. In charge Of hospital and
recreation; Mrs. S. Sloan Colt,
head OF production; Mrs. Will
marth Lewis, head of staff as
sistance; Mrs. Archibald Mac
Leish. who runs the camp and
hospital service, and Mrs. Hen
bricks Eustis, who edits the Vol
unteer and publications. Also
Miss Adelaide Whitehouse, nurses
aide; Mrs. Richard Bissell. Mrs.
Charles Henderson, Mrs. Kath-
crime Lewis and Mrs. Cordeha
Wolf of Alexandria, who joined
the Washington group.
They were given a royal well
come by the California women.
And they returned to Washing
ton tremendously impressed with
the efficiency and ease and in
telligence with which these wom-
en- have gone to work-and the
excellent results of this work.
While in Los Angeles and San
Francisco they were shown air
raid shelters and disaster GEN.
ters. They found especially in
teresting and amazing the enor-
nous air-raid shelter In the crypt
Of the Grace Cathedral in San
Francisco - with its emergency
operating rooms with auxiliary
lighting system and its huge rec
reation room for servicemen.
Evening star., 1942-07-24

Fisher, and Mrs. Kenneth LaVoy.
They wore matching dresses of Or
candle, the former in yellow and
the latter in pink, with coronets
and bouquets of orchid gladioli.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her father. Mr.. Clarence
M. Fisher. wore gown of white
marquisette trimmed with chenille
lace and fashioned with long
sleeves and a full skirt which end
ed in train. Her flnger-tip veil of
Illusion was held by coronet of
seed pearls. She carried an arm
bouquet of white gladioli which
were tied with white satin ribbon.
Capt. NJ. B. Robbins acted as best
man and the ushers were 1t. Louis
j. Zupet and 1t. Robert j. Sollen-
berger
Following the ceremony, recep-
ton was held for relatives and close
friends at the home of the bride in
Takoma Park.
The bride wore as her going-away
costume a yellow suit with white
accessories.
Mrs. Skillman will be graduated
from Pennsylvania State College in
December. The bridegroom Is a
graduate of the School of Mineral
Industries Of the same university.
The marriage of Miss Marjorie
Wilma Aldridge to Pvt. William E.
Everdale, jr, took place Saturday in
the First Lutheran Church at Eli
colt City, Md, the Rev. Carl Num-
ford oflciating.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Charles H. Aldridge Of this city and
the late Mr. Aldridge and Mr.. Ever
dale is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Everdale, also of Washington.
Mrs. Frank Aldridge, sister-in- law
Of the bride. and Miss Sophie Cat
sonia were the brides attendants
and Mr.. Aldridge served as best
man.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Mrs. Bird Hostess
At Sandy Spring

Mrs. J. w. Bird was hostess at
luncheon at the Olney Inn Tuesday
in honor of Miss Hannah Wilson of
Philadelphia, Miss Bertha Wilson
OF Wilson, N. c., and Mrs. Cyril
Urbas of Westville, Ill. Other guests
were Mrs. Warren J. Haines, Mrs
Charles V. Stiefel, Mrs. Everett B
Wilson, sr., and Mrs. Roy Bridger
Miss Bertha Wilson and Miss Han
nah Wilson, who have been visiting
Mrs. Everett B. Wilson at Manor
Club Park, left Wednesday for
Kansas City, Mo.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
TwoEngagements
Are Announced
Here Today
Mrs. COburn TO We'd:
Patricia Le0nhard
VII Be Bride

Col. and Mrs. Roger Shefaelc
Parrott announce the engagement
of their daughter, Mrs. Parrot Co.
burn, to Capt. T. Hughlett Henry
jr., son of Mr.. Henry OF Easton
Md.
Mrs. Coburn attended Emma
Willard School and Katherine
Gibbs School. She is a member o1
the Junior League.
Capt. Henry Is q graduate oi
Princeton University and the Uni
versity of Maryland Law School.
The wedding will take place In
August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar d. Leonhard
OF Rydal, Pa, announce the en-
gagement OF their daughter, Miss
Patricia Leonhard, to Mr.. William
Nelson Morell, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morell of Bethesda, Md.
Miss Leonhard has been a stu
dent at the College of William and
Mary for the past two years and
Is a member of the Chi Omega
sorority there.
Mr.. Morell will graduate from
George Washington University in
August and will be assigned to ac-
tive duty as an ensign in the United
States Navy. He is a member of
Omicron Delta Kappa honorary
economics fraternity and Eta Sig
ma Phi honorary classics fraternity
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Mrs. L. B. Ellis
Arlington Hostess

Mrs. L. B. Ellis entertained yes
terday at a dessert bridge party in
her home IN Arlington. when she
had as her guests Mrs. William
Chandler, Mrs. Eldon Johnson. Mrs
Charles Frazer. Mrs. Fred Ludwig
Mrs. Ernest Luther, Mrs. Harry
Schooler, Mrs. j. J. Reed, Mrs
Marion Anderson, Mrs. John Bert
Mrs. Lloyd Whitehouse and Miss
| Vanita Ellis.
Evening star., 1942-07-24

ers are needed If the organiza-
ton is to meet its new quota for
dressings - the largest in Red
Cross history.
Uniforms aren't necessary, 1t
was said, but volunteers are
asked to wear white wash dresses
or white aprons In the workroom.
Trends in modern poetry-with
special emphasis on the needs for
poems Of courage. patriotism and
inspiration during wartime-was
the subject of an interesting dis
cussion by = small group Of the
National League Of American
Pen Women yesterday.
The occasion was a luncheon
given by Mrs. Stevenson, the ma
tional president, and by members
Of her board in honor of Miss
Ada M. Fits, former president OF
the leagues Western New York
Branch.
Miss Fits, who is a poet, Is
spending some time here. Her
home is in Buffalo.
The luncheon group included
Mrs. Rachel Jones, the guest Of
Mrs. James M. Watson.
4 \ 4
Mrs. Wayne Birdsell, State
publicity chairman of the District
Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution, is leaving tomorrow with
her husband and young daugh-
ter for a weeks country" vaca-
ton in Westmoreland County,
Va. Her destination is the sum-
mer place where her family has
vacationed for many years.
Evening star., 1942-07-24


Mr.. Joseph Sizer was best man
for Mr.. Bialles.
Mr.. and Mrs Bialles left shortly
after the wedding for a honeymoon
trip in the South. Upon their re-
turn they will make their home at
642 Seventh street NE.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Eike of Wood
bridge, Va. are announcing the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Mary Eike, to Mr. Donald Philip
Reeder, which took place at $3.50
O'Clock Tuesday morning in Alex
andria. The Rev. Robert Beattie
officiated at the ceremony, which
took place in St. Mary's rectory.
After a wedding trip to New
York City, Mr.. and Mrs. Reeder will
make their home In Alexandria
where they have new home on
Crossword drive.
Mr.. Reeder is the son Of Mr.
Charles D. Reeder and the late Mrs
Reeder of st. Petersburg, Fla. He
is an artist associated with the
TCQCTdl ouICdu Ol 1HVCSJlRdUlOll
and attended the Corcoran Gallery
Art School and the New York Art
Institute.
The Takoma Park Baptist Church
was the scene of the marriage of
Miss Jean Frances Fisher, daugh-
ter Of Mrs Alma L. Fisher, to 1t
Douglas B. Skillman, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar G. Skillman of
Trenton, N. J. The ceremony was
performed Sunday at 3 O'Clock by
the Rev. H. L. Fendrich who was
assisted by the Rev. william E.
LaRue.
Miss Florence Primm was the
maid Of honor. She was gowned
In aqua marquisette and wore
salmon coronet Of gladioli, match
ing her arm bouquet.
The other attendants were the
brides only sister. Miss Dorothy L..
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Miss Mary Gordon
And Mr.. Page Wed

Miss Mary Virginia Gordon and
Mr.. Nathaniel Burwell Page, jr., both
Of Chevy Chase, whose engagement
recently was announced, were mar
ried July 8 in the rectory OF Our
Lady Of Lourdes Church In Be-
Evening star., 1942-07-24

thesda. The Rev. John Baptist
Palm ofnciated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Page are employed
by the British Air Commission and
will make their home here.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Wedding of Yesterday;
Mrs. Nina Leslie Bride
Miss Mary Eike We'd to D. p. Recder:
Jean Fisher and 1t. Skillman Married

days continue hold he popularity the brides
weddings
aracivey
Mrs Nina Christine Leslie Theodore
ST Josephs Church wedding
Mr. Bia the taking o'clock
j l. Kilkenny officiating
Harvey Leslie escorted
blue with white
gypsophla.
attendant daughter,
white
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Party on Sunday

The next party of the Beer and
Skittles Club will be held on Sunday
at the home of Miss Kathleen
OHearn and Mr.. John O'Hearn, 8
Quincy street, Chevy Chase, Nd.
Evening star., 1942-07-24

Leave for Resort
Mr.. and Mrs. Strickland Gillian
left yesterday for Eagles Mere, Pa,
for months stay at the Forest Inn.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Mrs. Corby at Summer Place;
| Other Neavs From the Suburbs

home in Takoma Park, Md, after
a vacation at Rivers, Md.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-27
wo-Ton Block-Bu Buster
 onbsS Smash Hamburg
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is tpSning Oe . second
 k rlsdzing themselves to en-
 o s1Ei0lzs iiarddlips tn support of y Allied invasion.
 ms demands grew louder among a 1EiiAah people despite & warn E from Minister of Labor Ernest Eln thAt the clamor was helping sloE. 4 survey by the British In- sGute of Public Opinion revealed 1aA the number of BritOns approv- ag tho governments prosecution of tIse var hsd dropped 22 per cent in 11s past eAgit weeks, although this Nid not reflect the peoples attitude Nawnr6 Prime Minister winston AurrlaiIl, whose personal popu- saEiiT dropped only from 66 to 78 4sg cent in the same period.
 An air ministry communique on Wzsat was believed to be the big 9snt RAF raid since the l,000-plane sttack said:
 sTaSt night a very strong force of eiKcynft of the bomber command ezaaol1ed Hamburg, the largest port aHd submarine building center in Germany.
 The weather was good and pre- Anainaxy reports indicate that the kaid was most successful.
 ':Airdromes in the low countries also were bombed.
 sTwen*y-nine bombers are miss- ing from these operations.
 "Costal command planes without Ices attacked enemy shipping off the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-27
Russians, Germans
 In Terrific Battle
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ferrocious attack on the enemy on the north bank, but at point after point German engineers sought to push new bridges across the river and enemy trops tried to cross by all means including rafts and rowboats, as well as rubber boats and barges.
 It was admitted that the ability of the Russians on the south bank to smash the bridgehead forces de- pended on the ability of the air force and the artillery to prevent the enemy from throwing across new bridges.
 At Rostov, at the mouth of the Don, the situation was increasingly serious. The Germans were con- centrating their attack for the mo- ment in the northeastern suburbs and while dispatches indicated that they were holding well, the noon communique admitted the enemy had broken through at one point at the cost of 20 tanks and 700 men.
 At some points, the Russians beat of the Germans by their coolness in withholding their fire until the enemy had approached within close range, and then opening up with all sorts of weapons from rifles to d. rect firing field guns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-27
|25O,OOO POLES
 WERE EXECUTED
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 out mass executions and bury their victims In unmarked graves.
 At least 200. 900 Jews have been executed since the German army marched into Poland in 1e3e, Miko- lajczyk said. Since last November. l30. 900 Poles have been slain.
 Indicative of the Nazi attitude toward Polish educational institu- tions was the dispatch of TO Cra- COW University professors to the EaSchenhausen concentration camp where at least 20 died and two went mad.
 A quarter of a million of Poland's best workers have been sent to Germany for enforced labor and l,500, 900 peasants and artisans from the western provinces have been sent into central Poland to build roads and Qualifications without pay, Mikolajczyk said. These work CTS are permitted to send their families the equivalent of 50 cents monthly.
 The Vice-Premier said all Polish industries not serving the Nazi war machine have been closed, either by the Germans or because of a lack of raw materials.
 Because of these closings," he said" and because of sabotage, Polish production is only third Of that before the occupation" Pope Plus Turned Down
 The Germans have refused a re- quest of Pope Plus that Polish Bis hops and Priests be released from concentration camps.
 The Vatican informed the Polish government here that repeated notes had been sent to the Ger man government protesting the barbarous treatment of Poles in concentration camps. All monastries and convents have been closed in 10 Polish dioceses religious build- ings have t'een ransacked and nuns and monks deported to Germany for war work.
 Church leaders also were rebell- ing against the German occupation AcBLIc III NOIWdy, WHCAC oAA DID" hops dismissed from the state church, by orders of Quisling, an- nounced the formations of an in- dependent Norwegian church.
 Bishop Eivand Berggrav, who led the church revolt against Quisling's orders, was not present when the declaration of the new church was signed. He Is under arrest at his home. He was represented by Dean Hygen, who signed for him.
 The declaration established a temporary church administration" which will kc responsible for reli- gious matters throughout Norway but will have no official connection with the government. All recogniz- cd clergymen, regardless of wheth- CT they have been dismissed by Quisling, continue in flee.
 The declaration expr ssed willing ness to negotiate 'roace terms" with the government, but only If Bishop Berggrav is reinstated as the recognized church leader.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-27

Ffisian islands during the night"
 Ooaded to fury by the British aerial offensive which once more. with good weather, was on a 24- ll01r-a-day schedule, the Germans struck back with single-plane at- tacks by daylight today on cities, towns, villages and resorts through out England.
 Lone raiders bombed and machine Stunned the places assigned them and brought two breakfast time air raid alarms to London when the detec- tors signaled that individual planes were crossing to southeast coast.
 By noon tod-s- (6 a. m. EWT) a districts of England, north, south east and west, and in the midlands had reported raids.
 German planes, making Satteree raids on about 9 British targets during the night, killed more thar 70 persons and injured scores ol others.
 Many persons were trapped in bombed buildings and rescue work CTS were still digging for them this afternoon,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-27

heads, isolated enemy forces which had crossed to Caucasian soil and s..,ned the way for fierce counter attacks by Soviet infantry.
 The situation along the l50-nile Don battlefront remained grave, however, with the Germans unleash ing attack after attack without re- gard for casualties in an effort to widen their bridgeheads.
 Hand-t hand fighting ragged in northeastern suburbs of Rostov at the mouth of the Don with the Rus- sians claiming heavy price in Nazi lives and tanks for every foot yield ed to the numerically superior NaN forces.
 (The Germans, in a high com mand com1nunique, said that Nazi troops rolling on southward through captured" Rostov had stormed the town of Bataisk on the railroad to the Baku oil fields, about 10 miles south of Rostov, and that eastward along the Don the Germans had battered their way to the River "along a wide sector.D
 Around Tsimlyanskaya Red army tanks and infantry were said off, cially to be smashing full force in- to the German units isolated on the southern bank of the Don.
 Nazis Made Advance
 The Germans from their two bridgeheadS on the south bank of the Don in the Tsimlyanskaya sec tor had attacked repeatedly in an atempt to expand, and in one sec tor had succeeded in making an ad- vance, today'S noon comnnuniQue admitted.
 Other enemy forces attacked from the north bank, seeking to obtain new footholds on the Caucasus side of the river.
 Marshal Hemyon Timoshenko threw into action reserves of the famous Red Army field artillery.
 Wheel to wheel, the guns put Q terrific barrage on the German brideghead troops, on the pontoon bridges, on the rafts, barages and boats seeking to push more across the river and on the German rein forcements constantly streaming tc the north bank.
 Then 8 fleet of Russian planes raced over the raging battle.
 Stormovik bombers dived on the pontoon bridges and fighter plane: raced, over them at daringly low level, over the bursts of the Russian shells, sweeping bridges and mer with cannon and machine gun fire
 Pontoon bridges were smashed a the Germans were left isolated.
 Tn perfect coordination with tn, planes and guns, Red Army infantr! men and tanks drove into the Ger mans in a counter-attack. The noon communique indicated that as the result, the enemy wer' being held at all points, if only fo the moment.
 Is Terrible Battle But 1t was emphasized that tn battle was Q terrible one. The Ger mans were losing enormously il men and machines, but continued t attack with superior numbers am weight. Tn some sectors tanks tough tank and a communique said 3 : German tanks were smashed in single sector. still the German came on, oblivious to losses.
 The Russian planes, as soon as tn pontoon bridges had been smashe' at the two brldegheads, opened