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Evening star., 1942-07-26

some brilliant silver paper bought at
the stationer's.
Above the slit in the top, I let
tered carefully: Shower Journey"
and below it ''For Mary" Well over
into one corner of each of the other
five sides, I pasted small cut-out
colored pictures from travel folders
- little scenes in trains and at sta
tons: also few separate figures of
soldiers here and there. The reason
for putting the pictures in the cor
ners is to leave plenty of space for
each of Mary's friends to sign her
name ON the outside of the box as
soon as she has put in it the amount
she would have spent on a present
or possibly a little more.
The idea is for those who plan
this kind of shower to give tea or
stand-up lunch or whatever else is
customary. But then, instead of
leading the bride to table piled with
many boxes or packages, a single
specially decorated strongbox will be
handed her. Everyone - except
Mary, of course ~ will be urged
to stop in ahead Of time to add
her money and name. Those
who can't come in earlier, will be
taken, as soon as they arrive at
the party, into the room where
the box is being kept out Of sight.
When it is finally presented to
Mary and she is told that it is for
a journey to Fort &, she reads
the names of the givers scattered
over the sides of the box, but she
must not be allowed to open it at the
party. Needless to say, there should
be no checks or clipped cards or
notes that give her any mixing of
how much - or how little any
one put in.
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Evening star., 1942-07-26
A cash shower? Yes.
during wartime IT'S
permissible, says
Emily &od<

|" HIS morning brought me one of
those applecart-upsettin war
time suggestions that is much
too practical to turn down with the
unreasoning reply: ut isn't doner'
This suggestion comes from the
friends of a soldiers bride who, be-
cause of special circumstances, want
to make up a purse" to give her
at shower party instead of the
usual presents. The brides best
friend writes me as follows:
THE bride we want to honor -
shall call her Mary - was married
so suddenly (because the bridegroom
had to leave for training camp) that
there wasn't time to give her the
shower beforehand - an unbreak-
able custom here. We haven't made
definite plans for it yet, because
the only thing Mary really wants
is to go to Fort x: to see her
husband, and she hasn't the money
for such trip.
$50 what we hope we can do,
Mrs. Post, is to find q way to con-
tribute the money we would
otherwise spend on presents.
Just how to do this we don't
know. Should it be in cash in q
purse or a bank check? Several
girls in our group think we should
buy a round-trip ticket to Fort
X, but this plan means we
would have to collect the exact
amount of the ticket, which would
Seem like collecting dues. Also, if we
give her just the ticket, there would
be no chance of anything being left
over for extra expenses.
Meeting the EnaerQency
HE point OF this is that Mary
is one of the best-liked girls in town,
and there will be at least thirty of
US to make a success of whatever
kind of shower we have for her. In
tact, she is certain to receive a
number of real presents. But we
know that these will mean nothing
to her compared with going to see
her husband. We feel sure that
everyone here will be enthusiastic
about our making up purse if only
you will start us off by approving
OF this wartime emergency idea"
do agree that providing the
wherewithal for her journey is a
beautifully sensible idea. But it is
Evening star., 1942-07-26

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Evening star., 1942-07-26
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Evening star., 1942-03-31
Deud|ine Set for President
House VrtuoIIy Serves Notice on Administration
Thot Labor Issue Must Be Solved Shortly

heavier on the farmers. Already
hard hit by the draft, their remain
ing hands are being drawn away by
defense and non-defense city in
dustries alike.
The impression abroad in the
country. the returning members Of
Congress say, Is that while other ele-
ments Of the population are being
dealt with drastically, the Govern
ment has been either unwilling or
afraid to curb the exactions Of Or
ganized labor. The popular demand,
they assert, is by no means confined
to the 40-hour work week. It Is Just
as inSistent that strikes be forbidden
by law. the present status as to the
open and closed shop frozen, and
that labor unions be compelled to
abolish initiation fees for Govern
ment workers forced into their or
ganization and open their financial
records to inspection by some public
authority.
Leiserxon. Suggests Plan.
One thing that might be done by
the administration to allay this pop
ular attitude was suggested some
time ago In a speech by william M.
LeiSerson. senior member OF the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board, and,
as such, . member OF the admins
tration. DR.. Leiserson declared that
the all important thing was to es-
tablish national labor policies re-
specting the wage increase and
closed shop issues. He prophesized
that the present War Labor Board
would fail because these issues would
prove too big for 1t to handle, and
that either the President or Congress
would be compelled to act.
When DR.. Leiserson made this
statement. more than five weeks ago,
the War Labor Board had before it
both the wage increase and closed
shop issues IN a number Of cases,
including the whole little steel"
group. 1t Is still considering these
cases today.
Possibly bearing on the congress
sional attitude also in the impend-
ing action of labor unions on re-
linguishment OF double time for Sat-
urday, Sunday and holiday work, al
ready asked Of them by the Presi-
dent. Top flight leaders OF organ
lied labor have indorsed this re-
quest, but action respecting it is up
to the specific labor unions whose
contracts with employers contain the
double time provision. There has
been no rush Of labor unions so far
to give up even their double time
perquisite.
Released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance ns)
Evening star., 1942-03-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Nazis have taken a lesson
from the secret radio broadcasters
who heckle them and have set up
an American freedom station.
Last week. for the first time over
the short waves, station DEBUNK
was heard. 1t purported to be an
underground American station wag-
ing a gallant struggle against the
war-mongers of Washington.
It's programs open with THE Star
Spangled Banner" sign off with
America" and denounce, in the
folksy oratorical style of some Amer
lean politicians, the Jewish crowd
running the show in Washington" ;"
Traced to Europe.
Unfortunately for deception pur-
poses. the signals of DEBUNK were
traced easily to Europe. It's slangy
arguments, slanted toward the rural
districts, follow precisely the Berlin
propaganda line This was true to
such a marked extent that listeners
in this country believed Berlin was
making no serious effort to conceal
the fact that the transmitter was
operated in Germany.
It's arguments apparently are
aimed at the Middle West and are
anti-British in appeal. Americans
are told that Yankee farm boys are
being sent to their death for the
red coat snobs.'
Chief speaker is "Joe Scanlon, "
who noting that elections are COM
ing again and our people will have
a last opportunity to reasseIt them
selves" urges that American citizens
organize ito fight the dictatorship
being set up in Washington"
"America First" From Toxic.
The Office of Facts and Figures
reported last night that Toxic has
named new shortwave broadcast,
the America First" program The
super patriot" from Toxic pro-
claims: The iSolationists were right
whatever their stand may be,
they have the whole world standing
behind them in full sympathy and
admiration"
Another japanese propaganda
declared:
Practically all the leaders of
various parties in the United States
are strongly denouncing the Wash
Evening star., 1942-03-31

the Nazis are hanging on by
their teeth in the Leningrad
sector, where the Reds have
hammered them back. Remem-
Der how some seven months ago
Hitler boasted that he had in a
sack this great industrial city
which is at once the gateway to
the Baltic and the heart of
Communism?
Southwark lies Staraya Russa,
where the Bolshevists have what
Is left Of a Nazi army surrounded
and in sorry state. Below and
opposite Moscow you will see
Rzhev and wanna, which lie
unhappily within deep salien.
and are threatened with encir-
clement. Next we have Orel.
KurSk and Kharkov-the latter
two-thirds surrounded by the
Reds-strong points in the line
protecting the Nazis in the Uk-
raine. Below this trio a great
Russian salient reaches out
toward Dnieperopetrovsk and
then swings back to Stalino.
Nazis Need Oil and Grain.
And finally there is Taganrog.
German key position on the Sea
of Azov along the route to the
golden Caucasus. It's into the
Caucasus that Mother Hubbard
Hitler would 60 in search Of oil
for her badly lowered cruet. and
Evening star., 1942-03-31

1t was defeated by smaller and
numerically inferior British war
ships, cannot be counted on as a
real asset to the Nazis.
The French feet, according to
information received by the State
Department. will not join the
Axis against the British and
American forces in North Africa.
The best chance the NaZis have
of getting the French warships
is to prove to them that the
Axis has naval superiority in the
Mediterranean, and that can be
done only If Nazi surface war
ships begin to operate there.
Hence, everything indicates that
the Nazi high command must
take the risk Of rushing its Meet
now stationed in Norwegian ports
TO the Mediterranean.
The run from Norway to the
straits of Dover should not take
more than 80 hours. If they
have dirty weather all the way
they could make a dash before
the British discovered their
whereabouts.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Experts Suspect Sabotage
In lehigh Cement Blast
BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa,

BY the Associated PRESS.
HARRISBURG. Pa. March 81
Representative Charles McFan,
Northampton County Democrat, told
the Pennsylvania Legislature last
night powder experts believe sabo-
teurs we're responsible for the dyna-
mite explosion which killed 81
workers at the Lehigh Portland
Cement Co. plant last Thursday.
This accident has all the ear
marks of being caused by some force
not known or controlled by the ex-
perts sent out bv the "ercules
Powder Co." Mr. McFall said.
1T does not seem possible all of
these men would make or allow to be
made the one fatal mistake that
could have caused this terrible acci-
dent" he asserted. There is no
proof of sabotage because all evil
dence is destroyed but all the
powder men are skeptical.
Many say caps were placed in
the boxes somehow-timed to go
off-perhaps to blow up the plant
at Kenville, N. j., and it just hap
pened the boxes came out with the
shipment to the Lehigh Portland
Cement Co."
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Russio's Strategic Points
Reds Hummer at Positions Hitler Needs
As Sprinqboords for Grond Offensive

OF grain for her emptying cup
board.
So there you have some 10
positions along the attenuated
line, each the crater OF q flaming
volcano into which the Nazis are
feeding men and material with
frightful profiigacy. If the Boil
shevists get those springboards
they will have imposed a mighty
handicap on Hitler for his Of
fensive, which may easily be the
turning point of the war.
But whether the Muscovites
capture all these citadels or not
and this should be emphasized
they are making the Germans
pay a huge price in lives and
equipment. Oh yes, the Mus
covites also are losing many
men, but their reservoir OF man
power is unlimited, and their
loss Of material has been nothing
like as heavy as that Of the Nazis.
There was time early in the
war when mems lives meant little
to the German high command,
and when the Nazis were flush
with war machines, but that day
OF plenty is past. We have
reached period when every man
and every machine and every
ration Of food is Of much conse-
quence. That's why 1912 is likely
to be the crucial year.
Winter Still Grips North.
Winter still grips the battle
line along the northern two
thirds Of it, between Kiev and
Leningrad, but in the southern
sector the snow and frost are
giving way to some of the most
terrible mud that Europe knows,
and that's something. This will
last for some weeks, and will de-
velop farther north as the frost
goes.
Probably the soldier would pre-
fer the mud to the subzero
weather, but the gumbo presents
heart-breaking obstacles. We
used to get mud Of this variety
in Flanders during World War I.
and I've seen it so bad that it
took stretcher bearers half an
hour to struggle hundred yards
with a wounded man. Movement
of guns and other equipment is
a Herculean task.
With the fighting in such
critical stage on the Russian
front, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook,
who is In this country to speed
aid to the Allies, is urging that
supplies be rushed to this most
critical battlefront In the history
of civilization" He maintains
that the hopes Of humanity are
centered there.
Evening star., 1942-03-31

ening to call up his pending bill,
which contains a provision to freeze
the existing open and closed shop
status and might be amended on the
floor to include more far-reaching
provisions. But the best bet at the
moment is that the Senate also will
mark time on labor legislation un-
til the House returns.
The crux of the situation Is that
the President has been told by his
congressional leaders that unless he
can find a way to appease the rising
public demand for restrictive labor
legislation during this two weeks.
such legislation probably cannot be
averted short Of presidential veto.
Claim Capital Misses Point.
More specifically, the President
has been told that If the proposal
to increase the statutory work week
from 40 to 48 hours were to be
voted on presently. 1t would be like
ly to pass In both the House and
Senate. Members OF Congress re-
Gently returned from the South
and West, where protest against
the 4o-hour law Is strongest, de-
clare that Washington discussion so
far has missed the points that chiefly
are responsible for this popular up
rising. All public officials who have
been called to testify have asserted
that the 40-hour law is not OBJ
structing production Of war ma
terials and even the president OF
the National Association Of Manu-
facturers, William P. Witherow
echoed this opinion. In view OF the
fact that all labor cost in defense
Industries is paid from the United
States Treasury. there Is no reason
why manufacturers in this line
should complain.
The really big kick, Representa-
tives and Senators report, comes
from producers, still largely in the
ma jority, who are engaged in nom
defense work, and from consumers
of all classes who find their cost
of living rapidly rising.
Hits Farmers Hard.
The 40-hour work week still ap-
plies in all non-defense industries.
Employees Of these rapidly are being
weaned away to more lucrative de-
fense jobs Small businessmen
cannot afford to pay time and half
for overtime and they cannot find
workers to replace those they are
losing. The burden falls even
Evening star., 1942-03-31
This Changing World
Nozi Fleet Expected to Try Another Dosh
Through Channel and Thence to Gibraltar

the Nazi high command Is more
cunning than the Kaiser's. Few
American naval men would be
surprised to see the entire Naz
fleet dash for the Channel again,
and thence through the Dover
Straits to Gibraltar and into the
Mediterranean before the bulk of
the British feet. which on the
whole is slower than that of the
Nazis, has caught up with them.
A few days Of intense fog and
bad weather, it is explained,
would give the Nazis ideal condi-
tions for such An attempt.
Convoy Attack . Blind.
The fact that the Nazis' sole
plane carrier is still in home
waters seems to confirm this
theory. The Zeppelin is slower
than Germanys battleships,
cruisers and destroyers; conse-
quently, she may be ordered to
Join the rest of the fleet after
It reaches Dover Straits. The
fact that Nazi destroyers and
cruisers have attacked an impor-
tant American British convoy on
the way to Murmansk may be
only a blind to lure the British
warships farther north and facil-
itate the eventual dash of the
Nazis warships.
This belief of American naval
officers is supported by those who
think the main Axis effort In
the next few weeks will be
directed toward the Mediterra-
mean, where feverish preparations
for an all-out attack are now
being made. 1t Is pointed out in
competent quarters, however. that
planes alone will not be sufficient
this time to bring about a decision
In battle in which the United
Nations will throw all they have.
The Italian fleet. judging from
its performance 10 days ago when
Evening star., 1942-03-31
By CONSTANTINE BROWN,


Opinion Is divided in Washing
ton naval quarters as to what use
the Nazis will make Of their fleet
in coming weeks. The bulk of the
German fleet, which has left its
sheltered bases, is at Trondheim,
in Norway.
The Tirpitz and a number Of
other battleships and cruisers,
minus the Scharnhorst, which is
undergoing repairs at Kiel, are
concentrated In the North Sea
and are making forays against
Allied shipping lanes to the Rus
sian port Of Murmansk. A large
number Of British men -of-war are
now concentrated in those waters
to give battle to the heavy Nazi
ships If they come out. The ex-
periences Of last year with the
Bismarck taught the British that
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Underground Nozi Radio Aims
'Fo|ksy' Propaganda at u. S.

ington policy in connection with
American strategy"
And from Toxic, also, comes this
assurance: Japan would be
charming partner to any nation
which would understand Japans
ideals correctly. Japan will share
with the United States its newly
rubber and tin if Americans
will get rid of Roosevelt"
Evening star., 1942-03-31

informal recess
Of the H sc,
which b e ga n
yesterday. Sup
porters Of dras-
tic labor legisla-
ton in tha t
body agreed not
to press tn e ir
proposals before
April l3. Sena-
tor Connally Of
Texas caused a
furry in the
Senate yester-
L
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Mass Immunizution
Bequn in Honolulu

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, March 81 - Mass
immunization against typhoid fever
and smallpox was started in Homo
lulu yesterday and gradually will be
extended throughout the Hawaiian
Islands.
DR.. James r. Enright, Board OF
Health bureau director, said the
islands entire population - more
than AS ,0O0-soon would be immu-
niZed.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
By DEWITT MACKENZIE.

We talk a lot about Hitler's
spring attack along the Russo
German front as though 1t were
an event which would arrive on
schedule like the S O'Clock ex-
press, but actually the Fuehrer
and Stain are already ironing
out their differences in string
of bloody battles whose outcome
will vitally influence the trend Of
the much heralded offensive.
What is going forward now is
a series OF ferocious encounters
for control of key positions which
the Nazi chief now holds and
Evening star., 1942-03-31

n e e d S a S
spring. boards
for his grand
offensive. If
Y Ou W ! III
glance at your
maps of the
fighting front
we will name
llleSe SUTdIe-
gic points on
W h ic h so
n,r,h -
pends.
Beginning G
ot tha rorth
Evening star., 1942-03-31
W. r. C.. to Meet

Phil Sheridan Relief Corps will
meet Thursday at pm, with Mrs.
Ada Gray presiding
Members will participate in the
services on Army Day, April 6, at
the Grand Army of the Republic
Monument, Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, at 1890
o'clock. On April 81 the birthday
of Gen. u. S. Grant will be observed.
Evening star., 1942-03-31

To date about
$40 900 900 900
has either been
requested from
or appropriated
by Congress, and
this is for an
Army Of only s.
500, 900 men when
the plan is to
raise and equip
a n Arr my OF
S,000,0 900 men.
The figure OF
5000 600 900 900
tlho toto1 o,,t
Evening star., 1942-03-31

where I have
enrolled for a
day as q student
In the SEVENTH
grade geography
class.
Curiosity as to
how this subject
was being taught
these days, when
nothing is per-
manent saw .
m o u n t a | n
ranges, rivers
a n d climate,
Evening star., 1942-03-31
War in Retrospect

BY the Associated Press.
One Year Ago Today.
British fleet reaches Alexan-
dria unscathed after battle of
the Ionian Sea; at least five
italian warships sunk.
Two Years Ago Today.
Soviet Russia creates new re-
public of lands won from Fin
land.
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today.
British capture seven villages
In Northern France; French re-
pulse German counterattacks
near Scissors.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
BY JAY G. HAYDEN.

President Roosevelt has been
given two weeks in which to set his
own labor relations house in order.
This is the real meaning Of the
Evening star., 1942-03-31

THE opinions OF the wrers this page their on not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to gDe all sides OF questions interest
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Stounton Cir Honored

STAUNTON, Va, March 81 (R.-
Miss Ruth Peters of Staunton has
been elected president of the 1943
senior class at Mary Baldwin
college.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Overtime
Paid by
Toxpoyers
Day Of Reckoning
For Spendthrift
Policies Seen
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The cost of the war is growing to
fantastic figures. The trend is to
spend and spend and spend. The
sky seems to be the limit.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
McLemore
They Don't Roise Coin
In School Any More
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

BY HENRY McLEMOHE.
This Is being written during re-
cess.
Not recess Of the Senate or House.
but recess Of the Junior high school