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Evening star., 1943-04-14
Homage 10 Jefferson
Paid at Virginia u.
Founder s Day Rites
DR.. Beord Emphasizes
-Four Freedoms of
Sage Of Monticello
BY the Associated Prses.


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
14-The American freedom Thomas
Jefferson labored to establish was
emphasized here yesterday as peo-
pie of his native Charlottesville and
students and faculty of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, which he founded
paid homage to the sage of Month
cello on the 2O0th anniversary of his
birth.
Jefferson's own four freedoms
freedom Of expression, freedom OF
inquiry, freedom of discussion and
freedom of decision by the common
reason of society,"" were emphasized
by DR.. Charles A. Beard, prominent
historian and biographer, in the
founders day address at the univer-
sity.
Ceremonies at Grave.
BY upholding these four freedoms
DR.. Beard said, Jefferson insisted
that the people of the United States
could escape the recurring despotism
that had plagued the nations Of the
world from time to time
Jefferson's grave on the western
slope of Monticello was the scene OF
memorial exercises made brief by
wartime transportation difficulties.
Taking as his theme the words
jefferson wrote to be inscribed on his
gravestone, DR.. Beard said that these
testimonials grow in majesty as we
dwell upon them. To have proclaimed
the principles and ends of just gov
ernment, to have drafted the Vir-
ginia statutes for religious freedom
and to have founded the University
of Virginia would have won the ever
lasting gratitude of the Nation II nc
other words or deeds had been added
to them"
Patriot Feared Tyranny.
DR.. Beard, who said he had read
thousands of pages" of Jefferson's S
writings and had scrutinized hun
dreds' of books and articles dealing
with him, stated that strongly at
tached, as Mr.. jefferson undoubtedly
was, to the doctrines of popular
government, nowhere in his writings
now extant. if anywhere, did he ever
espouse the numerical formula OF
democracy in its logical COM
pleteness.
HE refused to place all the values
of civilization, including life, liberty
and the advancement of learning, at
the mercy of majorities in legisla.
lures or at the polls. He feared the
tyranny of the many as we'll as the
tyranny of the one.
Jefferson" he said, understood
better than most of his con-
temporaries that popular govern
ment, If it is to endure, must have
an economic underwriting and the
most certain underwriting for repub-
lican institutions, he early decided
was freehold agriculture.
Evening star., 1943-04-14
By the Associated Press,

Some wounded heroes Of this war
are having battle scars virtually
erased and some are being re-
habilitated for return to the fight
through plastic surgery.
Men with certain types OF early
stage cancer are being enabled to
return to the battle line after treat
ment by powerful X-ray.
Aviators with swollen adenoids,
who become partially deafened by
dive bombing's effect on these Or
gans, are having their adenoids
shrunk by radium so they can get
back in action quickly. -.
Soldiers with injuries to the jaw
which once would have required the
wearing of rigid plaster casts, now
can work their jaws almost normally
during treatment, with the aid of
appliances rigged from elastic bands
and even coat-hangers. :.
Short Wave Aids.
Veterans of the African campaign
are receiving heat treatments for
injured limbs through the emana-
tions Of short wave radio trans
mitters near their hospital beds
and it's even possible that the
'broadoasting" 05 meters) aimed
at hero's leg can be picked up
as static-on your radio set. +.
These are few samples of the
things which American military doc
tors are accomplishing and which
were disclosed for the first time in
comprehensive detail today at WAL
ter Reed Hospital at the Army Med
ical Center.
Soldiers are being brought from far
flung conflict areas-from Africa,
from India, from Alaska, from Ice
land-because, with the advance of
airplane transport of war casual
ties, the Medical Center is linked to
the front lines by the long range of
the hospital plane.
Recently, a group of officers and
enlisted men was brought to Walter
Reed from a station hospital in In
dia-10,000 miles away, but little
more than 100 hours as big plane
flies.
Doctors at the front line are doing
great job, the Medical Center Of
ficers declare-pointing out that
they're being aided by such develop
ments as new, mobile X-ray ap-
paratus which can mark and CAL
culate the depth Of a bullet or a
piece of shrapnel in a wound in one
minute. Weighing only $50 pounds,
the apparatus can be transported
deep into battle area by airplane If
necessary, and can be assembled in a
short time by a couple of men
There also is a smaller unit for
actual use in airplanes.
Salvage Human Bodies.
But here, at the medical center,
there is equipment for more extern
sive treatments.
In the words of Brig Gen. Shelley
U. Marietta, commanding general of
| the center, the mission her is ito
save lives and salvage human bod
les"
Take a walk along the corridors
at Walter Reed and this is what
you'll see. go.
Patients who are convalescing
wear maroon pajamas, mono-
grammed with the initials of the
Medical Department., which make
them look like college boys in a fra
ternity house. There are no dreary-
looking, ill-f1tting bathrobes that
make a man look sicker than he is.
Doctors say that maroon just hap
pens to be the official color of the
| Medical Department. but they admit
the duds brighten up the landscape
A boy wounded in the invasion at
Oran cranks big exercise wheel in
the physical therapy gymnasium
to bring life back again to his weak
Evening star., 1943-04-14
Navy Chaplain to ToIk
At CupitoI Easter Rites

Capt. Robert D. Workman, chief
of Navy chaplains, will be principal
speaker at the special wartime Eas-
ter morning service to be held on
the steps of the Capitol under the
sponsorship Of II Senators and Rep
resentatives. Music will be supplied
by the Navy band.
Capt. John E. Carruthers of the
Army Chaplain Corps will give the
invocation, and DR.. Glenn E. Wag-
ner, president OF the washington
Bible Institute, viii pronounce the
benediction.
Evening star., 1943-04-14
Montgomery Police Dance

The Montgomery County Police
mems Association will hold its
annual dance at 10 pm. May 8 at
The Silver Spring Armory.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Bedtime Stories
MOON MULLINS
THE SPIRIT
FLYNN JENNY
DlNKY DINKERTOk
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

My, how thin you are!" exclaimed
Peter Rabbit, as he and Johnny
Chuck sat on the iatter's doorstep in
the far corner of the Old Orchard
and watched Redtall the Hawk SAIL
ing up in the blue, blue sky over the
Green Forest.
What did you expect?" grunted
Johnny Chuck. Did you expect me
to be fat after sleeping all winter
with nothing to eat?"
No" replied Peter. But you
were so dreadfully fat the last time
I saw you, that you looked as if a
long breath would burst your coat
right open, and now your coat looks
as if you might feel lost inside of it.
l suppose it's very nice to sleep all
winter, but think OF all you have
missed"
"B-r-r-r. l haven't missed much
II 1t has been any colder than it is
this morning replied Johnny
Chuck, with Shiver.
Peters eyes opened wide You
don't call this cold, do your" he ex-
claimed. Why, bless your heart
this is warm 1t isn't winter any
longer, for sweet Mistress Spring Is
here. II you call this cold, wonder
what you would call real winter
weather."
If 1t was any colder than this
I'm glad I slept through it" re-
torted Johnny. Has anything hap
pened since I went 10 bed last fall?
Has anything happened" Peter
exclaimed Why, something hap
pens every DAY in winter just as il
summer So many things have
Evening star., 1943-02-18
BY Fronk Willard
BY Art Huhto
BY PouI Foqorty

They are members of the heath
family and cousins of the mountain
laurel.
Some of the rhododendrons reach
a height of 40 feet, though the aver
age is from s to 20. All possess
branches that twist and interlock.
This accounts for the almost solid
mass Of pink when the shrub is in
bloom.
The leaves are evergreen and in
great demand for winter decora-
tions. They are lance -oblong, dark
green on both sides and leathery in
texture. Some are 10 inches long.
They are poisonous to cattle.
There are few more glorious sights
to be seen than a hillside, mountain
slope or woodland in bloom. The
newly opened flowers are deep rich
pink the older blossoms fading to
almost white. They have green
| throats spotted with orange or yell
low. They are in broad clusters set
like handsome bouquet among the
glossy leaves.
Americans have such a wealth OF
floral displays that they have not as
yet set special days aside so that
thousands may have the opportunity
to spend day in the country en-
joying the sight Of massed flowers
in bloom This oversight will be
remedied when peace is established.
The bees are important partners
of the rhododendrons. They are very
fond of the nectar provided by this
flower, and they transfer the pollen
As they travel from one open bios
som to another. The honey is unfit
for human use, but the bee babies
thrive on it. Ants are famous pill
ferers, but in this flower they meet
| their doom The sticky center is
| too much for the ant to overcome;
she is held prisoner until her death.
The floral display of this shrub is
! from June till late July. The range
is from Ohio and New England to
Nova Scotia. 1t is abundant from
the Alleghenies to Geogria The
Western cousin takes up where the
Eastern cousin leaves off
Private lawns and estates nov
may have their beautiful hybrid
| rhododendrons More and more, we
| are using this handsome evergreen
as a background for colorful flowers
| in spring and summer.
Evening star., 1943-02-18

happened that If I should try to tell
you all it would take me week. The
most astonishing thing was the way
Farmer Browns boy caught Reddy
Fox"
Johnny Cnuck's face frightened
up right away. You don't say so!
You don't mean to tell me that
Reddy Fox actually was caught" he
cried.
Peter nodded. Il certainly do"
said he.
That's good news, Peter" replied
Johnny. Either Reddy Fox must
have grown stupid, or Farmer
Browns boy must be getting very
smart. That's news worth waking
up to hear. 1t takes a great load OFF
my mind TO know that l haven't got
to be everlastingly watching out for
that relocated scamp. I wish it
had been old Granny Fox instead
of Reddy, because she is smarter and
more to be feared than he is, but
with one Of them out of the way it
will be lot easier TO keep a whole
skin. I'm glad you happened along
to tell me this this morning. You
see, when fellow has slept all win
ter he doesn't know just what he has
got TO look out for when he does
wake up. My, but it certainly Is a
relief to know that Reddy Fox has
been caught at last!"
Peters eyes twinkled and twinkled
as Johnny Chuck talked Yes
said he, "Reddy was caught, and
Mrs Peter and | saw him caught
and carried of by Farmer Browns
boy As nearly as we could make
out, Reddy was frightened to death
! The last we saw of him. he hung
stiff and still over the shoulder OF
Farmer Browns boy. Poor Reddy
| 1t did seem too bad" Peter paused
and then he began to chuckle.
What are you laughing about?'
demanded Johnny Chuck.
Il was thinking Of the way Reddy
! celebrated that night with feast
on one OF Farmer Browns chickens,
replied Peter.
Johnny Chuck's face fell What
/ that?" he cried, so sharply that
, Peter laughed right out
Il said that Reddy celebrated that
night with a feast on one of Farm
er Browns chickens" repeated Peter
But / thought you said thai
Reddy was dead!' cried Johnny.
Il didn't say anything of the
kind" retorted Peter IT said thai
he was caught" Then ne tole
Evening star., 1943-02-18

Johnny the whole story. When he
had finished, Johnny Chuck sighed.
Il thought said he. that l
should have one less worry this sum-
mer. but if Reddy Fox was as smart
as all that, I guess l shall have to
keep a sharper eye on him than
ever But I'm rather glad, after all
that Reddy wasn't killed. It wouldn't
seem quite the same without him
about Now, tell me the rest OF the
news
So Peter told him how Mrs
Grouse was caught in a snare and
set free again, and all about the
hard times and everything else he
could think of. When he could think
of nothing more, he bade Johnny
hood-by and started for the Green
Forest TO see If any OF the other
sleepers we're awake, while Johnny
hustled around to try to find a bite
to eat.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Natures Children
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
AMERICAN RHODODENDRON

HNI1IltIOHN 1t11OOOOEIVI1ftON
(Rhododendron mnrium)
The exquisite beauty OF the rho
dodendron appealed to both the
Legislature of West Virginia and the
State organizations OF womenis clubs
in Washington as a candidate for
Evening star., 1943-02-18
the DAYS HIGH li6nTS.

Star Flashes: Latest news, WMAL at $50 an.
and ass pm.
News for Schools: Prepared especially for
classroom listening. WMAl at 2:i5 pm
WINK S:05-capitaI Motoring: Howard
Wentworth, traffic education director, on How
10 Get 1913 Auto Tags"
VOL, 8i5-Women Correspondents Blood
and Plasna," forum DISCUSSION.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Take Ny Word for 1t
By FRANK COLBY.
Points of Grammar

Bexley: When reducing speed
does one SLOW up" Or slow down?
w. K. B.
Answer: Both idioms are sane
toned. To me, however, slow
down" is more logical since 1t is
expressive of lowering, q. descend
ing. I should prefer slow down
as the antonym of speed up"
Osnaan: Why do we say "as 1t
were"?-J. L.
Answer: It is shortening OF
'as If it were. +"
Columbus: Is there any differ
ence between Continually" and
"continuously"?-B. B. B.
Answer: The words are treated
as synonyms by many good writer's
Strictly speaking, however, "contin-
ual" designates that which is often
repeated or renewed, as He was
annoyed by continual (repeated) in
terruptions." The word "continu-
Gus" expresses action that is un-
ceasing, as THE continuous (never-
ending roar of the surf"
Los Angeles: A network COM
mentator recently said, We've got
to get along with what we've got"
Isn't that rather OVERRIDING the poor
word "get"?-J. w. H.
Answer: Yes. Get" like ''fix,"
is a word of -all-work. The COM
mentator would have expressed the
thought more precisely and with
fewer words thus: We must do
with what We have.
Tacoma: Please discuss the ex-
preston "the automobile careened
'or: careered?) down the street,
l.. c.
Answer: Most writers confus,
careen and career. Careen, from
the French GARNER" is a nautical
term meaning Ito heel over; to tip
or incline" Career, from the French
"carriere." means Ito run at full
speed" Hence, If the automobile
went down the street swaying from
side to side, 1t could be said to
"careen." If it merely went along
a straight and normal course, how
ever fast. the word career" would
be proper.
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Evening star., 1943-02-18

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WMAl. 9:30-Spoilieht Band; From IN Army
air field al Albuquerque. N. Mex.
WHV, 9;30-Stags Door (saieen; Mary Mar
lin, Jean Hershot and Waller 0keeis.
WRc, to:30-Msrh Of lime: Petroleum I'd
minisiraior likes on the oil situation.
WEV. t030-Senaior Andrews Of Florida;
Why We Are Fighting"
WRC, ti:30-kew World Music: Birth o
grand opera in The Americas.
Evening star., 1943-02-18

WkAl. S;30-Town Meeting: Plans for re.
lesing the food shortage are considered by
Clifford townsend Of the Agriculture Depart.
ment and Louis Bromfield, su'horisrmer.
WEV. S30-VseY Days; About Swedish
prospetior.
Wpe. 9:00-husit Hall: Alan Hale and Fay
Mckenzie.
VOL. 9:30-Sonq TTssSures Bi1ets "0uWe
ion Coeur" and others.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
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Evening star., 1943-02-18

Lost-minute changes in radio pro- THURSDAY
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Evening star., 1943-02-18

Bonds, like bombs. come In many
sizes. Even the smallest one gives a
jolt to the Axis-f you buy it.
Evening star., 1943-02-18

Adolf, Benito and Hirohito-the
three blind mice. Make them run
with War bonds.
Evening star., 1943-09-23

enough arrnor. The failure forced
the Germans into high-level, day
light. pattern bombing in which they
didn't believe and which proved toe
vulnerable to disruption
This indicates why the British
originally were bearish about the
American Flying Fortress and Lib
orator high altitude, daylight preci-
sion bombing, which subsequently
proved not to have the same weak
nesses.
The rigid five-week invasion sched-
ule, geared to the tides and the
weather, forced the Germans to stop
bombing the coast just when it was
having some effect. They then went
after the airfields, and again left
them just when they were making
some inroads to go after London.
Reprisal Bombing Ignored.
Vital railroad communications to
the capital were just beginning to
sustain heavy damage when the
Germans shifted to scatter bombing
They hoped in this way to demolish
the city, arouse the people against
the government and classes against
each other, and provoke a demand
for reprisal bombing of Berlin, which
would divert the Raj.
Actually, scatter-bombirg on the
scale they employed (before the
winter night blitz) would have taken
years to destroy a city such as
London.
BY subjecting all groups of citizens
to the same hazards, the Nazis ac-
tually brought all classes together
Evening star., 1943-09-23

solidly behind the government, and
the natural clamor for bombing
Berlin was wisely ignored by the
RAF.
The big day Of September Is, 1910.
when of an attacking force of 400
German planes 1856 were shot down
with loss of only IS British planes
and IL pilots. was considered es-
pecially significant with regard to
the United States. Just after that
an American military mission re-
turned from England with an opti-
mistic report which was believed
to have done much to influence
American opinion Of Britain's
chances.
The day the Raj repelled the
Nazis' second big attack with $50
planes on September a., the Ger
Evening star., 1943-09-23
Military Secrets Kept
By Correspondents,
But Told by Churchill
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Sept. 23.-Prime
Minister Churchill gave the United
Nations lot of news in his address
to the House of Commons Tuesday,
but he also broke the hearts of lot
OF war correspondents.
He disclosed, among other things,
that the Germans were employing
new radio-directed glider bomb
against Allied shipping. Don White
head of the Associated Press sub
mitted a story about the same bomb
a week ago and the cerlsors in North
Africa finally released it only yes
terday.
He told the world that American
troops had landed on Sardinia.
Correspondents here knew that some
Allied forces were in Sardinia before
the German evacuation Of the island
was announced, but they were un-
able to write a word about it. Yes
teroay, 30 hours after the British
Prime Minister spoke, official spokes-
men at headquarters here failed to
give tIle press any QeJdliS.
DivuIged Warships' Role.
The correspondents were even
more unhappy to learn that Mr..
Churchill disclosed that Italian and
British warships participated in the
Corsica action. They knew the facts.
but had been refused permission to
mention anything In that connec-
ton except that some unidentified
French warships participated.
The correspondents had been
warned against saying anything
about an inter-Allied commission to
deal with Italy, but the Prime Min
lister let the whole world in on what
they had been told was a military
secret.
To fill the correspondents bitter
cup, Mr.. Churchill, who once was
considered pretty fair war corre-
spondent himself, related how plans
were laid to rush an American divi-
sion to Rome on the heels of the
italian surrender. That was part of
the big secret which correspondents
in North Africa were told could not
be divulged. Punishment awaited
any one who disclosed it.
Revealed by Stimson.
Although Mr.. Churchill is the only
one in high Office who enjoyed initial
prestige as war correspondent and
who still likes to scoop the working
press, he is not the only spokesman
for the United Nations who has been
telling stories which correspondents
knew but could not send home.
The press was told on the eve of
the landings in the Salerno area the
approximate strength of German
forces in Italy, but was warned
against even limiting it to any one
else. The next day Secretary of
War Stimson told a Washington
press conference the same thing.
Evening star., 1943-09-23
Invasion of England Thworted
BY Fewer Than $50 Planes

After Dunkirk, the Raj had
only three squadrons that hadn't
been in action on the continent. II
was using squadrons of Defiants
with World War gunner-behind-
the-pilot arrangement, and squad
ron of obsolete Gladiator biplanes.
The fighter command had to borrow
pilots from the coastal and bomber
commands, and even from the fleet
air arm. RAF flying fields were be-
ing guarded with 20-mm. cannon,
awaiting installation in planes.
$50 British Planes in Use.
The force that battled back 400
German planes on September Is,
1910, and $50 on September 27
amounted to only 20 squadrons-less
than $50 planes-some of which
fought three times In a day.
The RATS big assets, besides
courage, were radio location sys-
tenn, an unsurpassed operational
system and the Germans sequence
OF mistakes. Here is how the ex-
perts summarized it for the first
time today:
The Germans counted on dive
bombers, but the evasive tactics
which saved the Stukas in Spain
didn't work in Britain. Against at
tack, their bombers didn't have
Evening star., 1943-09-23
BY GLADWIN HILL,
Associated Press War Correspondent


LONDON, Sept. 23.-The Germans
definitely planned the first aerial
assault on London three years ago
this month to set off the invasion
| of Britain.
The Raj, which had the major
task of breaking up the attack, was
outnumbered more than to l by
the German air forces $3.50 planes.
Now, as England is marking the
third anniversary of the epochal
battle of Britain, it Is possible for
the first time to divulge some be-
hind-the-scenes facts of the struggle
which could only be chronicled
broadly at the time.
The Germans were always known
to have planned to invade England
eventually, but it never previously
was disclosed how imminent that
invasion was or by what a close
margin was thwarted.
$500 Barges Massed.
The sources of this information
cannot be specified, but the date is
authentic.
The invasion-for which $500
barges were massed at ports across
the English Channel and in the
North Sea during the attack on
London-was to have been the cli-
max of a five-week program culmi-
mating in mid-September.
The planned preliminary steps
were to have been the knocking out
OF the RAF and then the bombing
of London to shatter the will and
ability to resist the invasion.
If the invasion had been launched
in June, 1910, right after the COL
lapse of France, it might have sue
ceeded. Here is how desperate
Britain's air situation was:
Evening star., 1943-09-23
Large Conodion Force
Arrives in Britain
BY the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
AN EAST CANADIAN PORT,
Sept. 23.-Safe arrival in Britain OF
a huge draft of Canadian REIN
forcements, including 300 army
nursing sisters, which left this port
recently, was announced last night
RCAF personnel and other United
Nations, forces, including Norwegian
soldiers and airmen and Neither
lands flyers who had been trained
in Canada were with the Canadian
troops There also were Large drafts
of Royal Navy and Royal Canadian
sailors and officers. ssejs1 81
Evening star., 1943-09-23

mans signed q 10-year pact with
Italy and Japan, indicating she had
abandoned all hope Of invading
England and was settling down to
long war.
Evening star., 1943-09-23

The best way to root for victory
is to dig deep into that pocketbook
or purse and buy War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-09-23
Hale and Hordy in Navy

PORT HUENEME, Calf. lP).-On
the Navy stevedore battalion ros-
tiers: Ensign Charles A. Hale, Knox