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CONCERTS.

" CONCERTS.
r National Gallery of Art, o'clock
!, tonight.
:" Soldiers Home Military Band,
bandstand, $3.50 am. tomorrow.
~ ururs
National Capital Parks: History
tour OF Fort Stevens, meet on Ritten-
house street, between Georgia ave-
nue. and Thirteenth street NV, 3
pm. today. Nature walk through
Glover Archbold and Foundry
Branch Parkways, meet at Forty
fourth street and Reservoir road
NV, 3 pm. today.
40 RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers, l to
10 tonight. Hike, meet at club,
pm. today.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Il Stage Door Canteen. Belasco
Theater, tonight; Candlelight Trio,
Navy School OF Music dance band.
Army War College dance band and
"A Soldiers Dream" presented by
Junior hostesses. Open house for
men and women in service, to S
pm. today.
.- Tickets to shows and sports events,
s.ssseThe Hut" E street at Pennsylvania
avenue NV, II am. to $50 tonight.
Pepsi-Cola Center, $50 am. to-
day to 1890 am. tomorrow. First
three floors open to servicewomen.
Masonic Service Center, pm. to
10 tonight.
Officers.
Officers Club of the United Ma
tions, Burlington Hotel, 10 am. to
1890 tonight. Introductory cards
to concerts and entertainment.
Dance, SCOTS Hotel for Girls, 3
pm. today.
Dance, Sulgrave Club, 1905 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, pm. to-
day.
Swimming, Red Gross Embassy
Club, 2034 Twentieth street NV, 7
tonight.
Enlisted Personnel.
Bicycle trip, 8:15 am: supper
dance, s tonight; NCCS CUSO), 1914
N street NV.
Swimming, light breakfast, dis
eussion. 9:15 am; sightseeing trips,
10 am. and 1:30 pm; recorded
symphony hour, hostesses, pm. to-
day; YMCA (USO).
Swimming, games, Jewish Com
munity Center CUSO), $50 am.
Refreshments, hostesses. Salvation
Army CUSO), COG E street NV, noon
today.
Picnic and fishing party, games,
1:30 pm; dancing, 2 pm; concert
and tea, pm. today Servicemens
Club No. /.
sightseeing, Washington Fedora
ton of Churches, meet in YWCA
lobby 2 pm. today.
Dancing, pm; supper, 6 tonight:
Arlington Recreation Center, Tenth
and North Irving streets.
Sightseeing, 2:30 pm; commu-
nifty sing, tonight; NE. USO, Sixth
street and Maryland avenue NE.
Dancing, supper, hostesses, Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation (USO),
3 pm. today.
Dancing, 3:15 pm. to II o'clock
tonight; dinner, 6 tonight; NCCS
USO). e1S Tenth street NV.
Music, dancing, refreshments,
N. E. USO, 1912 North Capitol
street, pm. today.
Vespers, refreshments, hostesses,
Salvation Army CUSO), 4 pm. today
Supper, Concordia Evangelical and
Reformed Church, 6 tonight.
Supper, Church of the Epiphany
{EpiscopaD, 6 tonight.
Supper. Mount Vernon Methodist
Church, tonight.
Supper. Temple Baptist Church,
6 tonight.
Supper, $50 pm; entertainment
$50 tonight; forum, $50 tonight;
YWCA CUSO).
FOR COLORED SERvICEMEN.
Brunch hour and recreation, 10
am; open forum, tonight; YWCA
(USO).
Java hour and transportation to
cnurCneS, III m, sightseeing tour,
3 pm, forum and recreation, to-
night; YMCA (USO).
'Open house, refreshments Lei
sure Lodge, noon to midnight to-
night.
Tea tunes, recreation, Banneker
Service Club, pm. today.
WAR workers invited.
For further details call USO in
formation booth, National 1881.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
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Evening star., 1943-07-11
Court Aids Sleep

SPOKANE, Wash. (P.-Federal
Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach dis
missed his jury early in the day
because one member, Lincoln Will
liams, works a night shift at an
aluminium rolling mill. Mr.. Williams
had to have some sleep, the judge
pointed out.
Evening star., 1943-11-14
ROB HOPE KEEPS 4 promise

Bon HOPE came home more tired than he'd
ever been in his life. But he had something
much more important to do than rest. He had
promised dozens Of boys to call or write their
families and tell them their sons were fine.
That's how he spent his first days home.
That's why he agreed to write his story for
THIS WEEK Magazine: he thought we could
help him talk to those he couldn't call in per-
son. saw him at Paramount Studios in Holly
wood. He said: 'tI've got a million people on
my neck. Can We do the story in an hour?"
had two stenographers with me. He went to
work. The phone rang steadily. We finally
picked up the phone, buried it in the bathroom.
The hour was up, but Bob didn't stop. Three
hours later, he quit. He left nothing unsaid.
This is his story, told for the first time. It's
real story from the heart of q real American.
JERRY MASON
Evening star., 1943-11-14

The StukAs Coane Over
" AIrING inside for us was General Patton.
We talked for while and told him all about
the trip. The General asked all of us - Fran
ces, Jack Pepper, Tony Romano and me -
for dinner that night. And what an evening
we had! Patton is one of the greatest wits I've
ever met l never opened my kisser that ne
didn't top the gag.
Twas 50 sleepy when got home, l wasn't
worried about air raids. sleep just as well
under the bed as on top.
was just getting into bed when l heard
shots. 1t was the antiairuaft starting up.
Then the bombs began coming - right next
door, Your thoughts 60 crazy. You begin
talking to yourself: ''What1l do?" ...
Evening star., 1943-11-14

want to do is roll yourself up in little ball.
Then, just about this time, dive-bomber
came down and you've never heard anything
like it. He began strafng - the noise was
the worst in the world Finally they quit, and
Jack Pepper came up from the shelter, wear
ing nothing but white shorts and helmet.
He said: 81 thought we had air suprem-
acy around here" 1 said, ''Maybe we'd
better remind Doolittle that we've cap
tured this part Of the island.''
There was also the night when so much
flax was thrown up that one pilot said: Its
silly to have plane. You can get out and
walk on the stuff
At our first big show in Sicily, 1900
rugged, tan kids sat there in ravine. watch
ing us and eating grapes out of helmets filled
from the vineyards of Sicily. They had their
guns resting on their laps. finally said:
Don't point those guns at me. thought you
boys were my Allies"
After while we were flown back to Africa,
and another plane took us to England. 1t
was tough leaving. We'd done 70 shows in our
three weeks there We were tired, but mighty
glad we'd come I'll always think of Africa
as Texas with Arabs.
We rested in London for few days and
then off for what was supposed to be quick
stop at Iceland But as soon as we came down
at the airport - about six at night - the
officer said: Sorry, Hope, you can't possibly
get out tonight. Bad weather" Just then the
phone rang and he says: do you want to
ILL &: L., ,,,:<L .a1
Services
Home Again
DO, RIGHT away, we were booked for three
shows Nobody can ever tell me those two
guys didn't cook up deal between them.
And was glad they had, because those boys
need few laughs. Twelve hours later, we
were flying to New York. As we got closer
and closer funny. empty feeling came over
us. The feeling of leaving all the excitement
behind, the feeling that from now on life is
downhill. Without actually getting into bat
tie, we had almost been part of it. The
smallness of the world fightens you - you
travel 50 fast you find yourself suffering from
jungle fever and frostbite at the same time.
For the first time in my life, knew what
war means. And it didn't seem quite real to
be whipping down to New York and seeing
the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings and
the river again. None of them SCARED,
none of them touched. 1t doesn't seem
too real, either, to be talking to people
back home who haven't been touched
very much.
can't get over the optimism I've found
here. Don't think we've been winning every
thing You read in the morning papers that
1000 planes have bombed Germany. And
you say: That's swell" But you ought to
see the 100 planes that don't get back. Or
maybe the SO planes that had to fly into
straw piles with broken landing gears. One
hundred and fifty planes with men dead or
half their heads shot away. People just don't
seem to realize the extent of the sacrifices still
to be made in money and supplies - and
lives l didn't either, until saw it myself
Evening star., 1943-11-14

have nice piece of air conditioning there
he laughed like the devil started to laugh
too, but then had to turn away.
You leave those wards, incredulous at the
miracle of work being done by the doctors
and nurses. You realize, too, what it means
to the men to have somebody come from
home to entertain them.
The last show we did in England was at
hospital. We were in the wards and was fin
ishing by doing soft shoe dance up and down
the aisles. turned too FAST slipped and went
right down on my wrist. thought those boys
in bed would kill themselves laughing. Every
doctor in the joint rushed at me. They hauled
out the X-ray machine, took pictures, rubbed
me down. thought for a while I'd get
Purple Heart out of it. But all l got was
sprained wrist.
A big four -motored bomber took us from
England to Africa. We went over to Algiers
to do Red Cross show and as soon as we
got there G.I. ran up and said, Major Hill
wants to see you" BY this time was used
to military titles 50 said, Who the dickens
is Hip" And the boy said, ''Oh, he's one of
Eisenhower's aides"
Meeting the General
80 WE rushed in to see Major Hill. The
Major Immediately took us out to the car
and in few minutes he was ushering us in
to see the General try to tell people about
him now and all can say is, What guy"
He has voice like Clark Cables - you
know, that lone tone register. We asked him
to have picture taken with us and then he
autographed one of his own pictures for me.
He told me to select the pose l liked best.
l did. and he looked at it and disappointedly
said, Nobody ever takes the one like"
/ remember he asked if we'd done much
work for the British and the boys in the
RAF. When told him that we'd done quite
bit, he said I'm consider it personal
favor any time you can do show for the
English boys because we're fighting together
and we must laugh together"
That General Doolittle is another man you
and can be very proud of. When walked
in on him, he looked up and said: Hello,
Jack Benny" l took a chance and said:
why, hello, General Spaatz." So we spent
the next four hours swapping stories to
tell the boys. He has a Lou HOltz talent
for telling dialect jokes.
But Africa wasn't much of a joke. Particu-
larly the mosquitoes. Everybody sleeps under
a mosquito net, but that's not enough. You
wake up with bumps the size of eggs Those
were the only mosquitoes have ever seen
that come in with a fighter escort.
We flew over to Sicily just three days after
the Allies took Messina We came down about
40 miles out OF Palermo and after our first
show, the head of the M.P.'s said: I've got
orders to stop by with you at the office"
What we pulled up to was no Office. 1t was
the Kings Sicilian palace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
Baldwin Would Lend Trucks

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 21-(UP)-- Gov. Baldwin said today the kero- sene shortage was so acute in Con- necticut that he telephoned the office of Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes in Washington and offered to send @ fleet of trucks to New York and New Jersey if the fuel were made available.
 The governor said he suggested that If he could release some sup~ plies in New York or New Jersey, we will immediately organize a fleet of trucks to go get it. I told his office that we can't keep up our war production if the workers have to go home to cold homes."
 Gov. Baldwin said there was "a most acute situation" in the state and that 300 families were without fuel in New Haven last night. In Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, New London, South Norwalk and other cities, he said, there was a 48-hour supply on hand.
 Primary dealers have supplies to last from three to five days, he said, and 32,000 barrels were enroute to the state-a matter of three days supply.
 A few barges have arrived. said the governor, but the available supplies virtually put the state on a day-to-day basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
Radio News

"The Treasure Hour of Song", weekly half-hour evening program popular with listeners last season, returned to WATR and the Mutual Network tonight at 9:30 to 10 p. m. EWT, co-starring soprano Licia AL banese, baritone Francesca Valeno tino, and Alfredo Antonini's concert orchestra.
 The programs will be sponsored on approximately ten stations by Cont Products.
 Licia Albanese and Francesca Valentino are both members of the Metropolitan Opera Company. To- gether with the 25-piece orchestra they'll be heard in well-known operatic arias and musical comedy songs.
 The first program will feature Miss Albanese singing "Si, Mi, Chia- mano, from Puccini's La Boheme, ? Rogers ''The Star" Valentines so- los will be the Prologue from I, Pagliacci" by Leoncavallo and Vim cent Youman's Through the Years" The orchestra will play Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" Viva Navarra." Spanish dance Romberg's "Serenade" from "The Student Prince" will enlist the en- tire company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
PRESIDENTS WIFE
 CHRISTENS CARRIER
Yorktown Launched at Newport News, Va.; Ship
 DispIaCes 25,OOO Tons

Newport News, Va, Jan. 21.-(UP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt re- turned here today and christened a new carrier Yorktown.
 The new ship, 8 namesake for the flat-top sunk in the Pacific after 1t had helped win the battle of Midway, was of the Essex class and reportedly displaced 25,000 tons
 The old Yorktown also was chris tened by Mrs. Roosevelt on April 4, 1886.
 Artemus L. Gates, assistant sec- retary of the Navy for Air and prin- cipal speaker at the launching, said that tour aircraft carriers have been given credit for damrning the rag ing flood of Jap aggression that was surging so strongly last spring and summer, threatening Australia and Hawaii with invasion"
 Gates said that carrier planes played a major role in covering the November landing operations on the west coast of North. Africa.
 "Our carrier-based planes neu- tralized strong opposition which might otherwise have made the ex- petition an exceedingly costly af- fair" he said. "Our landnig forces were actively opposed at sea by sub- marines and warships, while fixed batteries and large numbers of shore based aircraft further threat ened the success of the impending action"
 Gates revealed that at one of the most critical points of the operation, an opposing cruiser and four de- stroyers were driven off by carrier based Grumman wildcat fighters He said the planes dived into strong anti-aircraft fire from the ships, strafed them repeatedly and inflicted SO much punishment they were forced to turn back.
 During this action," he said, "our dive bombers took of from the carriers to attack a battleship which was smelling our flagship. On this battleship were dropped several thousand pound bombs which si- lenccd her for that engagement"
 Gates said that many enemy air. craft were shot down or destroyed on the ground by squadrons of car- rier-based fighters, while other fighters were employed with great success against anti-aircraft batter les, gun emplacements and tanks.
 "Thus once more has the con- ception and patient development of naval aviation as an integral part of the Navy justified the far sight edness of its champions" he said.
 The r'3w Yorktown, built in the same yard as its predecessor, was the second of its type to be launch ed here since Pearl Harbor.
 Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, who as captain commanded the old Yorktown also spoke briefly.
 T1s paid tribute to the men who fought on the earlier ship, warned that more losses probably would come, but said that "the harder we fight, the harder we work, the soor1- CT we win the victory"
 "After that victory, don't let our enemies believe they have changed" !" he said. Human nature does not change. Remember what they were today, and what they stood for. Their natures will not change any more than those of the wolf, the fox, the skunk"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21

tions at Munda, but results were not observed.
 Text of Navy communique No. 257:
 "1. On Jan. 20:
 "(A) During the morning Flying Fortress" heavy bombers (Boeing BID scored one bomb hit on a Japanese destroyer off Cape Friend ship at the easternmost tip of Bou- gainville Island.
 "(B) Flying Fortresses' with fighter escort attack two enemy cargo ships and two destroyers on the Shorthand Islard area. A num- Der of enemy 'Zeros' and float type biplaneS intercepted the attack and eight of these planes were shot down. No hits on the enemy ships were observed. One U. s. fighter was lost. Several Fortresses were dam- aged.
 8. On Jan. 21, during the morn ing, Marauder medium bombers (Martin B-26) dropped bombs on Japanese positions on Munda. Re- suits were not observed.
 A. Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, U. s. Army, has recently assumed command of the U. s. forces sta- toned on Guadalcanal. Maj. Gen. Patch relieved Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, U. s. Marine Corps. who had been in command since the initial occupation of positions on the island by U. s. Marines in early August, 1942. The Marines have been operating jointly with Army troops in this area for several months dur ing which period most of the Ma rines, who made the original landing on Guadalcanal. were replaced by Army personnel"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21

The road of retreat to Tunisia was a scene of terrible destruction and death. Allied planes screamed down upon the packed Axis trans port, bombing and machine-gun- ming Vehicles were exploding as bombs and tracer bullets hit them. tanning traffic. Returning pilots said the roads were "strafer's paradise"
 London observers did not believe the Axis would make much of an attempt, if any, to defend Tripoli. They were convinced Marshal Erwin Rommel had decided to abandon the city-he really had no choice and that the most the Eighth Army would encounter would be rear guard action.
 RommeI With Arnim
 Dispatches from Algiers said Rommel was in Tunisia, conferring with Col. Gen. Hans Arnim, com- nander of Axis forces in Tunisia.
 Parts of Tripoli, particularly its port installations, were burning tiercely from repeated poundings by Allied heavy bombers. The Allies were determined that the Axis would not evacuate the Afrika KorpS from 1t by sea.
 Further to forestall this poSsi- bility. Allied Naval units were roam- ing the Mediterranean. The Ger mans radio Paris broadcast today that an important British naval unit had arrived at Gibraltar to re- inforce already strong naval units. The Admiralty announced yesterday that IA Axis ships had been sunk in the Mediterranean, 13 by an Allied force of seven destroyers.
 Most observers expected the re- treating Afrika Korps to try to make a stand at the Mareth line, along the Tunisian border. But the Germans and Italians would be con- fronted in such an endeavor by two difficulties. They had ordered the French to demilitarize the Mareth Line when France fell, and the Eighth Army probably could out flank 1t, as the Nazis themselves had demonstrated in the case of the Maginot Line.
 Some London observers believed that part of the Afrika Korps al- ready had reached the Mareth Line and was trying to get it into shape for stand.
 In Tunisia, British armored forces were moving up near Pont Du Fans for an important battle that hinged directly on the Afrika Korps' re- treat.
 The Germans, driving down the road that runs southwest of Pont Du Fans with tanks, had advanced seven miles. Pont Du Fans is 35 miles southwest of Tunis.
 The purpose of the Axis attack was to enlarge the belt through which the Afrika Korps could re- treat into Upper Tunisia. The suc- cess or failure of this maneuver was still in the balance, dispatches from Tunisia said, and if the British should suddenly drive southeast to Pont Du Fans, the advanced Ger mans would be cut off in a long narrow valley, and their coastal line of supply imperiled.
 British artillery was already sehlling the Germans from nearby heights.
 The ground in the Pont Du Fans area was still soft from rain and tanks were compelled to keep to roads or rocky ridges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
LABOR STATUTE
 CONTROL ASKED
Continued from Page 1)

NCUIlClkluCu lEOLIk dkC 4I tenn and report to the governor by Dec. 1.
 Four Greenwich bills concerned the public welfare department, re- presentative town meetings, dis counts to taxpayers and sidewalks. A bill was introduced calling upon the state to give a $25 war bond bonus to all state employees in the armed services.
 Another restricted attorneys fees to $5 for an office call and not more than $25 a day for services in court.
 No Advertised Brands
 That TO liquor permittee sell, offer for sale or dispense any brand of li- quor that has been advertised over the radio since July 1, 1941.
 Consolidating the town and city governments of Stamford.
 Compulsory automobile liability insurance.
 Repeating the Sunday anti-man- ual labor law.
 Appointing Elias T. Ringrose as judge, and Henry Gwiazda as deputy judge of the New Britain city court. Appointing John P. Knox judge of the Greenwich town court. Requiring that history and the development of government of the United States be taught in all state normal schools and that 9th grade pupils be taught at least six months of elementary history.
 Restricting doctors fees to $2 for office calls and $5 for home calls.
 Fight Postponed
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. 21-(UP)- A clerks oversight put off an antic- ipated Senate fight over the gov- ernor'S war council bil luntil Friday, legislative leaders said today.
 The bill, approved by the House, was to have been starred for action on the Senate calendar today. The clerk, however, forgot to so mark the bill, and rather than deviate from accepted practices it wash de- cided to postpone deliberation for another day.
 The measure would create a war | SSNAASAA VI POooAHAJ ~ AtACAAlbSAS the elected state officials and 1C to IA citizens expert in various fields necessary b progress of the war effort.
 The House passed the bill Tues day after turning down three Dem- ocratic amendments. The measure passed on a straight party vott with Republicans supporting anc Democrats opposing.
 Meantime. the joint judiciary committee met late today to vots on a bill granting Gov. Baldwin emergency wartime powers. ThI bill was rewritten by a judiciary subcommittee to define more clear ly the fields in which the governor could exercise his emergency powers
 The military affairs committe' continued executive sessions on third major administration measurI -increasing the powers of the stat defense council.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
BETA HI-Y PLANS
 9TH ANNUAL PROM

William Webster, president of the Beta Hl-Y of the Central Y. M. O. A., and also general chairman of the sixth annual junior prom be- ing sponsored by the club on Sat- urday. January 30, has appointed the following members to the vari- ous committees responsible for the promotion of the affair: Publicity. Thomas Donahue. chairman. Wil- Ham Ryder. Fred Brown. Tom Hor. rigan and Ray Pidge; decorations. Robert Meyers. chairman. Ray War. ner Dave Prescott. Harry Finley, John MeHugh and Donald Bergin; program and tickets. William Moran, chairman. James Hodson. Erie Broadbent. William Culhane. Wil- Ham Elegler and Steve Vedeskis; re- treatments. Tom Mccarthy, ehair- man. Tom KurtA Joseph Stokes, Harold Brew. Martin Meponaid and Pred Murphy.