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tanic. AS "a leg man" his repor-
torial assignments often took him
to police headquarters and his work
on crime stories gave him an en-
thusiasm for murder stories, fact
or flctional, that he never lost.
AS dramatic critic for the Times,
Sun and World in New York, his
reviews of Broadway shows were
penetrating, witty and frequently
devastating. When he was enthu-
siastic, as he always was for such
actresses as Mrs. Fiske, Helen Hayes
and Lynn Fontanne, no one could
sound the drums of praise with
such vigor.
And when he thought a show or
performance was bad his pen
oripped vitriol, The Shuberts were
so angered by one of his reviews in
1916 that they banned him from all
their theaters. He sued them to be
re-admitted, but the courts ruled
against him. Later the Shuberts
lifted the ban.
With George S. kaufman he wrote
The Channel Road in 1929 and
The Dark Tower" in 1898. Both
had satisfying runs on Broadway.
In 1881 he made his first appear
ance as an actor in Brief Moment"
in which he played a humorously
sardonic kibitzer.
Played in Comedy Hit.
He also played on tour in the lead
ing role of the hit comedy, The
Man Who Came to Dinner" The
character was one which playwrights
had based on Woollcott's own per-
Sonality and experiences.
In 1882 he took part in a cam
paign to elect the late Newton D.
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Baker President of the United
States. 1T was a single handed
campaign unassisted even by
Baker" he explained later.
Served in AEF.
He served in the American EXpe-
dictionary Force in the World War
and was a member of the staff
Of The Stars and Stripes" a part
Of which. including Woollcott, re-
turned to found the magazine
The New Yorker"
He never married. He had home
in New York city and a summer
home at Bomoseen, Vt. He was
famed for his hospitality to celebri-
ties in both places
He was the author of number
of works and "Woollcott Readers"
were best sellers. He had a large
following in this country and Eng
land on the air waves as 'the Town
Crier."
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Woolcott wrote. I'm feeling sick"
in note to DR., Harry Gideonse.
president of Brooklyn College and
acting chairman of the discussion
group.
Motioning to Rex Stout, writer
and chairman of the Writers War
Board, DR.. George N. Schuster,
president of Hunter College, and
Marcia Davenport, also a writer, to
continue the program, DR., Gideonse
helped Mr.. Woollcott to a lounge
in the lobby.
Had Attack I'm California.
DR.. De Vol said Mr.. Woollcott had
a heart attack two years ago in
California He said he was with him
at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and
that he appeared to be in excellent
condition, despite yesterdays heart
attack.
The ebullient Mr.. Woollcott lived
a happy, crowded life as newspaper
man, actor, playwright, author, "a
contour and radio commentator.
While he was recognized as one
of the most discerning critics of the
modern theater, he always insisted
that his most important job was
that of being a good newspaper re-
porter
He radiated good humor. There
were few things that he liked better
than subtle humor and usually at
the expense of himself. Once, when
he was sailing for Shanghai. New
York ship news reporters spied him
strolling the deck looking a good
deal like Chinese Junk with its
fat sails full
Joked About His Weight.
Il wish to emphatically deny"
he beamed, pointing to his bulky
figure, that all rickshaw boys plan
to go on strike when I arrive in
China
That voyage was being made
merely to visit his long time friend,
Harry Kean Yuan, son of Yuan
Shin-kai, President of China from
1912 to 1916. The two had been
students at Hamilton College.
Born in Phalanx, N. j., January
l9, 1887, he went to school in Phila-
delphia, graduating from Central
High School there. Then he went
to Hamilton, graduating in 1909
Years afterward he returned to his
college as professor of literature.
His newspaper career began as
a cub reporter on the New York
Times. One of his first assign
ments was as rewrite man on
the story of the sinking of the I'll
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lIfIzens' Federation
Asks Congress Probe
VI Civilian Defense
executive Board Also
directs Committee to
Make Own Inquiry

-. me Federation of Citizens Asso-
oiaVions' Executive Board last night
so'eo unanimously to demand in
designations by the House and SEN
s'e District Committees of the
defense organization here.
En- ne BOARD directed its Police and
-. protection Committee To
.aunch its own investigation and
fspare report to present to the
euefation at its next meeting.
81. In other actions, the Executive
5oard took these steps:
l. On resolution from tho
housing and Rent Control Com
tnlttee, headed by Joseph H Deck
t uian' 1t vigorously opposed acouisi-
t .soh by the Navy Department of
slis l38-family unit apartment
ouiioing at Eighteenth and G
efeees Tor use as a WAVE dormi-
oory and called attention to the
heed of housing for Washington
residents in view of the order re-
strlcting new building projects to
war workers. "
Pedestrian Control.
D. IN response to a request of
the Commissioners for action on
the proposed regulation to prohibit
peoeStrlans from crossing streets in
the middle of blocks with traffic
1ights on adjacent corners, it
unanimously opposed the regula-
tion and urged vigorous enforcement
OF existing pedestrian control regu-
lations.
s. On a resolution from the Con-
sumers' Interest Committee. headed
by Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan. it ap-
proved brief including recon-
mendations to be submitted tomor-
row to the Food Distribution Ad-
minlstration on the proposal to in
crease the price of milk from the
producer to the distributor. The
recommendations included subsidies
10 farmers where necessary instead
OF increasing the price of milk.
eliminating luxury items. rationine
mix If shortages become acute. and
aHecting economies in deliveries.
Police, Fire Pay Increase.
4. 1t approved a $3.50 a year in
crease for police and firemen up to
and including the grade of captain.
3. 1t urged the Commissioners and
Congress to join in insisting that
the War Production Board release
materials for the extension of the
fire alarm system in inhabited Dis
trict areas, for which money has
been appropriated.
8. 1t approved the report of the
police and fire protection subcom-
mittee, headed by Percival j. Able
man. asking that priorities be
granted to make possible the con-
struction of firehouse in Fort Tot
ten Park at North Capitol and Crit
tenden streets, for which money has
been appropriated.
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w. & L. Graduation
Takes Place Today
By the Associated Pre-

By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Va, Jan. %
Climaxing q week of examination
with the two-dsy fancy dress dance
Friday and Saturday, Washington
and Lee University will hold it's spe-
cial midwinter graduation ceremo-
MES tomorrow in Lee Chapel. Fifty
seniors will be graduated.
The exercises, a combination of
the baccalaureate and graduation
ceremonies, constitute the first mid
winter graduation program in the
history of the school About one
half of the senior class will be given
diplomas, while the other half will
be graduated with the regular pro-
gram at the usual time in the
spring.
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China, but must leave to the flu
ture those which will face India.
F. McCracken Fisher, chief of the
owl Chinese Division, and Robert
Aura Smith, chief of the India owl,
were the speakers.
Very definitely the Chinese do
not belong to the school who urge
that we win the war now and worry
about what to do with the victory
after we have attained it, Mr..
Fisher declared.
He said that if we are to keep
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China fighting with us, We must
show that We have plan. a policy
for the postwar world. and that
We believe in it enough to work at
it now"
Mr.. Smith said that midas post
war problems must be left to the
future because of the complicated
task of defending her now.
1T is the concern of India, of
Great Britain and of the United
Nations" to see that her course is
wisely charted," he declared.
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WooIlcott
an author, had appeared frequently
In radio performances.
Continued From First Page.

an author, had appeared frequently
In radio performances.
Put in Oxygen Tent.
He was taking part in discus
sion of the topic, rs Germany In
curable?" when he was stricken to-
night. His physician, DR.. Edmund
De Vol, was summoned to the studio
and called a heart specialist, DR..
r. Stewart Hart Later. Mr. Wooll-
colt was moved to the hospital and
put in an oxygen tent.
The radio audience was unaware
Mr.. Woollcott had been stricken.
Mr.. Woollcott sat in chair in an
ambulance on the trip to the hos
pital. and DR.. De Vol. at first, gave
him a $3.50 chance" to recover.
An emergency police squad was
called to administer oxygen to him.
After the broadcast had been in
progress about 10 minutes, Mr..
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Immediate Offer 10 China
OF Postwar Aims Urged
Py the Associated Press.

P, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23-The For
eign Policy Association was told here
today by two ONCE of War Infor-
nation chiefs that the United States
must begin Immediately to offer
concrete postwar detectives to
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answered,

answered, 1T doesn't help us that there
are people worse of. Most of our mutual
acquaintance regard themselves as worse
off, than Irma because they lack her
houses and servants and cars, but my
wife's different view still seems to me more
reasonable
By far the greatest evil of the posses
sions that we gradually come to require
is that the luxury of today grows to be
the necessity of tomorrow.
WHAr l never had l never miss"
Ebert Hubbard, who wrote "A Message
to Garcia" once said to me at his home in
East Aurora, N. Y. He had an ak in his
hand, and we were standing before wood
pile on which there was sign reading
Gymnasium 81 could hire man to
split these logs" Hubbard continued,
but then it wouldn't be long before
should regard wood cutting as hardship.
Self-indulgence creeps up on US and be-
fore we know it, we must have what we
wanted only vaguely before. Our muscles
soften. and we become increasingly vul-
nerable l think this is as true of nations
as of men"
We are not the richer in any way for
Evening star., 1943-03-21

planned, land adds to our monthly invest
ment in victory. We're living on three
acres of land near here, and George comes
to town every morning in the bus. We've
chickens and COW and grow most of what
we eat I've learned to milk, and yesterday
l churned enough butter to last us several
weeks George cuts our own wood for the
freplaces, and you should see the whole
family sitting around in the evening read
ing or playing cards, 1t seems wicked to
say 50, but we're having lovely time
through the emergency. It's given us
new sense of self-reliance and of relative
values, and taught us how we had clut-
tered up our lives with lot of things no
body really needs
If the war does nothing more than that
for us, it seems to me that it will not have
been fought in vain. The price paid in
human life and actual suffering entities
US to more, of course, and we shall win
that, too, but so many of us needed to
learn self-reliance and relative values, and
to disentangle ourselves from the web of
spurious wants we have woven around us.
We had come to depend, not only upon
what New Englanders used to call "cat
comforts" but upon numberless toys
Evening star., 1943-03-21
SlDEl,lAEs

TRADING. We hear from one Of our
young soldier friends, who is serving in
one of the little islands under General
Macarthur, that I'VE spend part of our
time bartering with the natives, but they've
become acquainted with the liberal pocket
and absorbing curiosity of the Yankee
troops They hold out for outrageous
prices and get them, too, in spite of the
advice of more experienced traders. But
when the American soldier comes out of
the pay line he's got to buy something or
bust And neither of the storybook fail
ings - liquor and women - are on the
island" This ought to comfort the home
front
PUNlSHED. Even the Nazis in Norway
are being affected by the food shortage.
They've killed, raided, plundered and now
they're increasing their demands on Nor
wegian farmers. One farmer, for example,
who had 80 hens, received a stern, threat
ening letter from the Nazis. 1t ordered him
to deliver eggs to the Wehrmacht. Two
weeks later, the invaders got an answer
from the farmer:
Your letter of the instant was
put up in the hen house, so that the hens
themselves could see it. When. in spite of
this, the hens after ten days still had not
resumed laying, have had them all shot
for sabotage against the German Wehr-
macht Yours faithfully ....."
The Nazis apparently didn't approve
of the farmers poultry technique. He's
now in a German prison.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

- URING a recent journey, had two
interesting conversations one with
- a woman in New York and another
with woman in Georgia. The former COM
planned bitterly of the ''hardships" brought
about by the present crisis. I'VE can't go
out now" she said, ''and I've given up
entertaining at home. It's difficult to get
taxis and even more difficult to obtain
supplies for dinner party. What does one
have for dessert nowadays? You can't buy
ice cream or butter to make pastry. Any
way, the government takes all we earn.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

and gadgets better-suited to children.
The allusion of my Georgia acquaint-
ance to her milking made me think of a
remark once made by Ralph Waldo Emer-
son: MY cow milks me-" What Emerson
meant was that we are possessed by our
possessions, many of which give us far
more trouble than pleasure. l also recall
a remark that my wife made many years
before the current struggle. She was re-
belling against the accumulation that lit
tered our fiat, cluttered the closets, and
had to be guarded and cared for and
Evening star., 1943-03-21

It's simply absurd to expect
people to keep going and have
enough left for War Bonds.
The second woman had let
her home in Macon to an Army
officer for the duration. The
rent navs Our taxes" she ex-
Evening star., 1943-03-21

most of the material things we acquire.
| own many books, but do know more
than Lincoln with the half-dozen good
ones he thumbed again and again? have,
and you have, countless other objects of
whose possession we are almost unaware,
and that, when we are aware OF them,
become chiefly nuisances. There is that
d-illumined Koran in Arabic that |
can't read. and glass dinner decoration
lugged home from Venice and that leaks
all over the table, and the dust-gathering
ancient brass-and-silver water pipe that
show so proudly, but that could be seen
equally well and would be much less
trouble in one of the museums.
HE world cannot support us in the
style to which we were growing accus-
toned, and l, for one, devoutly say,
Thank God we are becoming accustomed
to another way" Which of our "cat COM
forts" was as precious as the tranquility
and independence and liberty we jeopar-
died for it? Even our much-talked-of
security, think, can have roo high a
price. In his Berlin Diary" William
Shirer wrote, The average German Graves
security, and he will give up his indie
pendence and freedom if his rulers supply
this" Hitler bought his peoples birth
right for mess of pottage and gave them
more mess than pottage. They might have
pondered the greatest of La Fontaines
fables, The Fat Dog and the Lean
Wolf" why do you starve and freeze
queried the dog, while live in good
house and feast on chicken bones?'
why, indeed?" the wolf wondered, and
then asked, What's that bare spot on
your neck?"
That" answered the dog, lis the mark
of my chain"
Thanks the wolf said. Il prefer cold
and hunger"
We shall be wise, l think, to give up
our chicken bones rather than risk chains,
either of alien forging or those fashioned
by our own self-indulgence.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

YRPEE! Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox reports that in the Southwest Pacific
battle zone Texan told him, Everything
is going to be all right now, because the
Australians and the Americans are fighting
shoulder to shoulder with Texas"
As proof of Texas's martial spirit, the
Secretary points out that the Lone Star
Republic" has higher proportion OF her
population in the Armed Forces than any
other state, and far greater percentage OF
volunteers. And on the officers side, the
figures are impressive: twelve Navy ad-
mirals, including Nimitz, two Marine
Corps generals, and 80 Army generals,
including Eisenhower, are natives OF
Texas. M.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

carried about. MINK OF
Irma," | said, with her house
in town and her house in, the
country, and her collection of
servants and motorcars and
frocks and shoes" My wife
looked at me solemnly and
Evening star., 1943-03-21
WHAT PRICE COMFORTS? ?

Let's pass up luxuries and get down to
essentials for the duration. A famous
writer tells how you can like doing il
by Claiming Pollock
Evening star., 1943-03-21
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Evening star., 1943-11-13
Flyer Hitch-Hikes From Tunisio
ToLoseSe|f' 'inNewYork Goyety

A young top turret gunner on
one OF Maj. Gen. Jimmie Doolittle S
bombers. who hitch-hiked halfway
around the world to return here
on furlough, admitted yesterday
that after two days and nights in
the little home town of Babylon
Long Island, he had the whole Army
Air Force headquarters searching
for him while he lost himself" in
the gayetv of New York CITY.
He is Technical Sergt. Kurt J
Hermann. I'd, who has flown SO
combat missions with the Northwest
African Air Forces in six months of
combat flying and is crdited officially
with shooting down one German
plane and with two "probables"
At a press conference at the
Pentagon Building yesterday, Sergt
Hermann, 25, made light of his
record hitch-hiking trip by air
from Tunisia on October 7 to La
Guardia Field, N. Y, where he ar
rived October 25 An 11-day sight
seeing trip in London was squeezed
in there, too.
His commander had ordered him
TO proceed without delay by COM
mercial aircraft or surface vessel
belligerent or otherwise But, faced
with long wait for a boat to the
United States, he took a hitch nike
in his own bomber from Tunisia to
Algiers. Then he managed to hitch
hike from airport to airport on vari-
Gus military aircraft going in the
Evening star., 1943-11-13
Fears Servicewomen May Lose
Femininity Called Ground|ess

hours of hard work every week and
not great deal of glamour as fal
as the opposite sex is concerned.
The young women quickly gel
into step. however, and even the
most glamour minded turn into
good soldiers"
Many of those in Comdr. Mildred
McAfee's organization have held
positions of responsibility and are
women of real technical and ad-
ministrative ability who have Joined
the WAVES to dedicate their knowl-
edge to the country. They form a
steadying background for the
younger, more adventurous types.
There also are number of women
who have joined the auxiliary serv-
ices with the intention of remain
ing in them after the war.
Long Watch Reduced.
In order to avoid complaints to
Senators and Representatives from
their WAVE constituents now sta.
toned in Washington, these young
women are forbidden to contact
their members of Congress. This
did not prevent a WAVE from being
chiefly responsible for the change
from a 12-hour watch to an g.
hour watch, through senatorial in
tervention. Originally the WAVES
stood a l2-hour watch which proved
to be somewhat too long for during
the last few hours attention wan
dered and efficiency took a sharp
downward plunge.
A WAVE stationed in Washing
ton happened to have a relative In
the Senate. There was no ban on
seeing relatives and the Senator
heard about the l2-hour watch
which was soon reduced to 8 hours
released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
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DANCES.

DANCES.
Polish Polka dance, Stansbury
Hall, 58c2 Georgia avenue NV,
$50 o'clock tonight.
Get acquainted dance, National
Press Club auditorium, 8 o'clock to-
night.
All States Club, Washington Ho-
tel, $50 o'clock tonight.
HIKES.
National Capital Parks bird walk
in Fort Totten Park, meet at Hawaii
avenue and Allison street NV, 8
am. tomorrow.
Wanderbirds' Hiking CLUB,
Georgetown to Chain Bridge. meet
at corner of M and Twenty ninth
streets NV, 10 am. tomorrow.
Center Hiking Club to Upper
Rock Creek Park, meet at Sixteenth
and Kennedy streets NV, 1890
am. tomorrow.
RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers. to
midnight tonight. Dance, 8 o'clock
TRIPS.
IOlOilldC llOSUClo UlhC zip W
Washington Grove and Gathers
burg, Md. leave Wisconsin and
Massachusetts, avenue NV. at 9
am. tomorrow. Also trip to Mount
Vernon, leave Lincoln Memorial at
10 am. tomorrow.
National Capital Parks barge trip
along C. g. o. Canal, meet at Thir-
tieth street south of M street NV,
at 10 am. and pm. tomorrow.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, tonight; Mariellen Marko.
Buddy Henderson, Military District
of Washington Dance Band and
Romo Vincent
Tennessee State Society party
Wardman Park Hotel, o'clock to-
night.
Entertainment tickets, The Hut"
E at Pennsylvania avenue NV,
to $50 o'clock tonight.
Pelsi-Colo Center, $50 am. to-
day TO 1890 am. tomorrow First
three floors open to servicewomen.
Masonic Center, l to III o'clock
tonight. Dance, o'clock.
Arlington Center. $3.50 Wilson
bouevard, to midnight tonight.
Officers.
Officers Club of the United Ma