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subjects as plumbing and how to
make repairs about the house.
Newcomers Sought.
In an effort to reach women who
are newcomers to Washington and
who might be interested in joining
clubs here, Mrs. Poss H. Snyder
and Mrs. Lee D. Ritter were in
structed to get names and addresses
from the personnel division of one
of the war agencies.
Mrs. T. S. Tincher, poetry chair
man, reported that poems are being
received from convalescent soldiers
to be included in the poetry scrap
books being made up for servicemen.
Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, the fed
Grafton president, urged cooperation
of members in the Red Cross war
faund campaign
Presidents attending included Mrs.
Herbert Bowling of the Washington
Group of Hotel Greeters of America,
which has just become affiliated
with the federation. Mrs. Bowling
explained that her group Joined
the larger organization in order to
contribute more effectively to the
war effort.
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AAUW Open House

Open house for officers of the
service will be held by the junior
group OF the American Associa-
ton Of University Women from 4
TO 7 o'clock Sunday at the club
house, 1884 I street NV.
Hostesses will include Miss Bar
bara Ottinger, Miss Sally Regar,
Miss sgd Lybrook and Miss Mar
gerry Hull. Mrs. James Johnson is
chairman of the group.
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Church Society
Plans Card artv

The midwinter card party of the
Altar Society of st. AIMS Church
will be held at 8 pm. Tuesday in
the church auditorium.
Mrs. Arthur R. Pilkerton, chair
man, will be assisted by Mrs. Fred
E. Redman, co-chairman; Mrs.
Robert c. Mccarthy, Hostess Com
mittee; Mrs William F. Troy, Tick
cts and Chance Committee. Mrs.
Francis c. Langdon and Mrs. Emil
Schnellbacker, Refreshment Com
mittee; Mrs. Stephen German and
Mrs. Joseph L. Mullins, Card and
Tally Committee, and Mrs. Alex
ander Whiteman, Prize Committee
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Club Federation
Prepares to Fly
Service Flag
Reports Are Made
On Var Projects
At Monthly Session

A service flag in recognition oil
members of the District Federation
of Women's Clubs who have hus-
bands, sons or daughters in the
armed services was planned at the
monthly meeting of the federation
yesterday at the Gilbert. Mrs.
Timan Bacon Parks will be in
charge of the flag which is to be on
display at all sessions.
Reports were made on a variety
OF war projects, while the afternoon
program featured a discussion of
the importance Of federated organ
AatlonS at the present time.
Mrs. Charles P. Keyser. first vice
president, announced that approx
mately Sl70 was raised from the
benefit card party last week held
to raise funds for student nurses
scholarships and for other war work.
Political Study Club.
The Political Study Club took
honors for the day in the amount
OF discarded silk and nylon hose
turned in at the meeting for the
Salvage Committee. Attention also
was called to the fact that the
Takoma Park Woman's Club, after
turning in more than 1000 hose re-
Gently, is continuing its collections.
Miss Lucia Chase, national de-
tense chairman of the Political
Study Club, reported that this club
has sold more than $4,000 worth
of War Bonds at its monthly meet
ings.
Plans were made for an Easter
party for the patients at Mount Alto
Hospital to be given under the gen.
eral direction of Mrs. Parks, who
heads the department of American
citizenship.
Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands, con-
sumner problems chairman of the
federation, announced that she is
lining up chairmen in the individual
clubs for a sort of speakers bureau
toJhandle requests for talks on point
Yatloning price control and such
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Benefit Party

A benefit party will be held by
the Washington League of Women
Shoppers at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at
the Haylcft, 1926 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. The program will in
clude dancing, professional and
amateur entertainment and a home
talent quiz show. Refreshments will
be served.
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the Walter Reed group will be held
every Monday, Thursday and Sat-
urday at Walsh House from 10
a m. to u noon. The March %
class will be the first of a series of
special classes starting every month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Food Sent to Norway

Swedens Help-for Norway organ
ization has shipped s240,000 worth
of food and other supplies to Nor
waV
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ORANGES Sent to Reich

Spain shipped $4,000 tons Of
sweet oranges to Germany and only
$4,000 to Britain in the 1923 sea-
son.
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Nurses Aides 10 Serve
Al Walter Reed
Sturt Duty March IS;
Training Class Scheduled

Remember-Red Cross serv-
ices such as this depend on your
contribution to the $1,555, 400
Red Cross war drive.
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Auxiliary to Meet

Members Of the Izaak Walton
League Auxiliary will meet at $50
o'clock tonight at the Washington
School of Music, 1741 K street NV,
according to an announcement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Too Much Complacency

During the group discussion at the second
organizational meeting Of the Civilian Service
Corps held Thursday afternoon, the frequency
with which reference made to reluctance
of persons in directorial positions to attend
meetings regularly was impressive.
The size of a central administrative body
to direct the affairs of the corps was being
threshed out AS the men and women in at
tendance voiced their views, 1t was repeatedly
said that large central group would be un
wieldly and would accomplish little because
only small percentage of the membership
could be depended on to attend meetings and
so decisions of the board would represent
a small minority, rather than large major
ity opinion.
1t was obvious that the speakers spoke
from experience. They hold positions on other
boards and administrative or executive agen-
cies and knew whereof they spoke. The best
evidence of the accuracy Of their views was
offered by the attendance at this meeting
itself-a mere corporaPs guard.
The case is cited to direct attention to the
are inclined to forget, and that the Civilian
Service Corps is wartime organization
which must function at 100 per cent efficiency
or fail When its executive board is fully
organized and its subsidiary committees ap-
pointed, their members will be expected to
answer all calls as regularly as soldiers heed
the bugle when it sounds Assembly.
This does not apply to the Civilian Service
Corps alone, but to all organizations and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Luxuries of War

Although there may be a little off-stage
grumbling, most civilians seem to find in the
challenge and stffening of the moral sineWs.
But perhaps we haven't reflected with suf-
ficient gratitude On the comforts of body and
spirit that are bequeathed us as other COM
forts are taken away. For instance, an asso-
citation of BARRIERS has banished for the dura-
ton the scalding suffocation of hot Turkish
towel with your shave. And when you buy
a new shirt, it's no longer the trescherous,
bristling BOBBY trap of yore. It's now folded
with the help Of only three pins.
Let us hope that when the peaceful world
of tomorrow returns us our old luxuries, it
will also include some of these new ones.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Red-Flannel Hash

What is this ''red-flanne hash" we hear SO
much about these days?
Apparently it can be most anything and
everything left over from previous meals.
Some say it has no meat in it. Others say
it has. Still others insist it is merely the
leavings of a New England boiled dinner,
which has corned-beef foundation.
The only point on which all agree is that
the color comes from beets cut fine and ap-
piled internally to the frying pan in which
the hash is cooked
OF all the arguments and contrariness in
viewpoint, nobody denies or confesses that
it tastes like red flannel
Everybody agrees that it is the best way to
meet the food situation in these ration days.
At least it eliminates customary wastes, and
might be palatable if adequately seasoned.
Probably it tastes all right if the ingenious
housewife finds how to destroy its taste Which
is not as paradoxical as it sounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06

capable of being treated so that IL Will pro-
duce good vegetables and beauutul 1lo"ers'
In some locations top soil is required or
fertilizer or lime or any Of the chemical
compounds prepared for successful gardening.
Because we need all the vegetables tnat
can be raised for home consumption in yards
and vacant lots. it is eminently fitting that
we consult experts and learn, by actual
analysis if necessary, just what our soil IS
good for when brought up to its greatest poss-
ible productivity.
1t would be lost labor to work over garden
in sterile ground. Worse than that, it would
be an economic loss.
Let us have as many home gardens as
we can. But let us be sure when we start
them that we are doing the right thing, plant
ing the right seed in soil right for harvest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Raymond Clapper Says:
10, 500, 600 Man Army
Causes Apprehen

those who win the war will die
tate the peace. We cannot take
the position of doing less than we
are able to do. The Army says
we can raise, equip and transport
the force it has in mind. Some
question is raised in Congress as
to whether the Army is correct
in this. That's where most of us
have to check out.
If General Marshall and his gen.
eral staff associates can convince
a committee of the Senate in clos
ed session that their estimates are
plausible, then that ought to take
care of it. On this sort of thing
criticism ought to be cautious and
reluctant. 1t is different r m
criticizing political policies, be-
cause you can smell them when
they are bad-all the way from
Africa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Boy Scout Week

In 1918 the Boy Scout movement in America
was only eight years old. Today-and this
is Boy Scout Week-it is 33.
The important difference to the nation at
war is apparent when one realizes that in
Uncle Sans great Army, Is per cent of the
selectees are former Boy Scouts. The per-
centage is still higher in the enlisted brackets
and more than two-thirds of the professional
military leaders who attended West Point or
Annapolis were Scouts in their boyhood.
The Boy Scouts of America is not a military
organization The ideals for which it stands
are the antithesis of militarism. But Scout
training produces men-men of character and
decency, men who corporate for the common
good, men who have known freedom in the
fields and on the waters. Discipline and de-
votion are not new to them, and initiative is
at the core of their being.
Colin Kelly was a Scout. So were John James
Powers, John Bulkeley and Butch O'Hare
Scoutings roll of honor lists countless more
BE Prepared!' was their motto, when they
were Scouts. We honor Them and their ex-
ample, when we share with today's Boy Scouts
another birthday of their organization May
it live long and wax nightly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06

units engaged in any form OF war work on
the home front. II we are to perform our
duty as we should we must shake OF the
1ethargy that has prevailed SO long and get
up On our toes, alert for the call whenever
it may come.
The fact that Hitlers armies are on the run
in Russia does not signal Axis defeat nor
justify complacent thought. There is bitter
fighting ahead, days and months OF hard
work in which the armed forces will take the
leading role and we the supporting roles. The
drama cannot close successfully unless we
do our part as capably and faithfully as the
armed forces do theirs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
The Literary Guidep0st

me. than most writer's have done
so far. Gippencott $2.75.>
Believe it or not, Joseph Bor.
KIN and Charles A. Welsh have
evolved somewhat different an.
proach TO the German world
plan' 1t began many years ago in
E-e mlnss of the industrialists
they believe, who had developed
ana lmplemehted a great indus
trial world domination through the
1ear and the stupidity of the
worlds business interests. But
'hese German schemers needed
something to crystalline the Ger
man mind about their plan thew
chose Hitter for their agency and
Hitler struck too soon-accord-
ing to Messrs. Borkin and welsh
'Dueii' Sloan & Pearce; $2.75.)
And Gaoriel Javsicas has orig.
MAJ ideas in his SHORTAGE Of
victory" He believes that mod
ern war Cannot be waged with.
out premeditation, that the totaI-
.arlan state prepares best for war.
that democratic nations are thus
virtually disarmed when totali-
tarlan states are ready for war.
that any nation which accepts or
endures totalitarian govern
ment the, e1ore commits an act of
aggression against its neighbors
Ano More. Appleton-Century: S3.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Civilian Defense
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSES
New Hanover High school, room
100 at 8 p. m.
Fire Defense A-Monday, Feb.
and every two weeks thereafter
General Course-February %
and every other week.
GAS DEFENSE B
February "a and every two weeks
thereafter.
FIRST AID 10 HOURS
Discontinued until 1urther notice.
FIRST AID 10 HOURS
Each Tuesday night, at Trail.
er Camp at p. m. Lewis Vein
ourg, instructor.
FIRST AID 20 HOURS
At U. S. o. 5th and Orange ST.,
beginning Thursday, February 4th
and each Tuesday and Thursday
at 7:30 P. M. Mrs. Bishop Willis,
Inst.
NEG" CLASSES
Fire Defense A
Wednesday night February 10,
U. S. o. building at n t h and
Nixon streets at $3.50 p. m.
II you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report 1t
promptly to:
Wilmington Police. 5244.
Wrightsville Beach Police, 1904
Carolina Beach Police 2231.
Carolina Beach Clerk, POOL.
Captain OF the Port. 2-2278.
County Defense Council, 1928.
Sheriff. 1857.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
BY JOHN SELBY

"A lew w d1 OOOhS@
There ale still more books on
the war than reviewer, or the
public, can possibly digest. Here
are some recent ones
Edwin A. Falk's From Perry to
Pearl Harbor" is an excellent per
spective book" 1t is the story of
the fissure that developed between
the Japanese and ourselves, largely
told in terms of sea power. The
author is New York lawyer who
has written mich about naval at
fairs; his books have had the in
dorsemert Of admirals and even of
President Roosevelt, who some
years ago wrote the introduction
for MIR. Falk's Fighting Bob Ev-
ans" doubleday, Doran; $3)
The Silent War" is another, and
useful, book on the underground
movement in Germany. Both Jon
B. Jansen and Stefan Weyl, its au-
tthors, are writing under pseu-
donyms Both were members of
the underground in Germany. and
each escaped at different times,
the Gestapo. They decr;be the
methods used to circulate tie
truth in Germaas; they also get
deeper into the ioots of the move.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
You re
Telling Me

This is certainly the Turkey sea-
son - complains Zadok Dumpkopf
upper case on Page One and low
er case in soup and hash.
After years of vain effort by the
family, it took the fuel shortage
to make Dad keep his coat on at
the Ginner table.
Nineteen-forty-two was a year of
bumper crops one of the biggest
being Washington inspired uues-
Hunters may now obtain a pock.
ct phonograph which utters a duck
call. Grandpappy Jenkins thinks
this is carrying mechanical war
fare bit too far.
Judging by the direction in
which many German soldiers are
headed these days-could their next
objective be Berlin.
The Borneo cassoWary, according
to Photographs, is very effective
rat killer. Hope they're doing a good
Job with the slant-eyed variety in
that area.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Photographs

The possibility of successful COM
mercial production after the war of
a wool that won't shrink, that
can't be destroyed by moths or car
pet beetles, that won't fade from
sunlight, was reported recently by
the research department of the
Textile Foundation in WASHINGTON.
d. c. The report came through an
announcement of a new laboratory
process for modifying wool.
According to the United States
treasury department, the average
life of a dollar bill is just nine
months, and at the end of that
time 1t has to be replaced.
more than 1000 Canadian woman
nave joined the Cwacs; thew wear
small duck as part of their in.
sigma,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON. - Some appre-
hension exists in Congress over
the plan to have $500, 900 men in
the Army and Navy by the end
of this year, but it is not likely
to bulge the administration.
President Roosevelt is sold on
it, and that is about all that is
necessary to fix the policy. The
question is whether the A m y
should have as many as 100000
enlisted men, and the Army has
the backing of the commander in
chief on that.
You are not likely to see any
weakening, short of an uncondi-
tional surrender by Germany or
an act of Congress pulling down
the figure by law. No such veto
on the size of the Army is likely
to be passed by Congress, regard
less of the apprehensions which a
number of members hold.
Senator Bankhead, who is con-
Quoting an investigation of h S
matter in the Senate Appropri-
ations committee, says the country
will come to the brink of starva-
ton if this big-army plan is carried
out. He wants to prohibit the fur
ther drafting of essential f a m
workers. In the House, there is
agitation to stop by legislation the
new policy of drafting family heads
who do not shift into essential
war jobs. A bill by Rep. Kilday
of Texas would prevent induction
of married men with children SO
long as there are single or child
less men in the same state. That
has been the policy of Selective
Service, yet some sentiment exists
of congressional mandate. Some
other members of the House Mil
itary Affairs committee have in
dicated support.
The plain forecast of the gov
ernment's policy is found in the
order just issued listing nonessen-
tial occupations and plainly warn
ing men of military age to get out
of them into essential industry if
they wish to be deferred on
grounds Of dependency. The pol
icy is that dependents will no long
er bring deferment-unless the de-
ferment contributes to the war ef-
fort at home. Paul McNutt, man.
power chairman, has said this will
put 20 out of IA fit men between
18 and 38 into uniform.
This is going to raise many ques
tions. Baseball has not been clas-
sified. Many kinds of twilight-zone
activities are faced with uncer-
tainty. The changes that will be
forced in six months or a year
may be startling, because It h
Withdrawing of 100000 men
month into military service is
bound to make a difference.
The Army is being firm about
this, without regard to the civilian
impact, just as it has been asking
for the most drastic action with
regard to rubber, such as the req
uisitioning of all spare tires and
of some 100000 passenger auto
mobiles.
Recently, Senator Bankhead
questioned the advisability of rails
ing such a large army by remark
ing that Russia had plenty of
troops in the field and asking whv
we shouldn't get along with a
smaller army and devote ourselves
chiefly to sending arms and equip
ment to Russia and to our other
allies on the fighting fronts
The Army is dead against anv
such idea. Mrs. Roosevelt has de-.
clared against it in her column
Presumably the President also is
against 1t, as he backs the ARMY
in its present estimates of neces.
sary strength.
The thought most often expressed
around here by those favorinp the
administration position is h
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu'
ton of the war to complete vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Let lis never treat as fanciful the
teaching concerning angels. The writ
er of the book of Hebrews says: Are
they not all ministering spirits, sent
forth to minister for them who shall
be heirs of salvati0n?' (HebreWs
1:14) If this passage of Scripture
means anything, it speaks to us not
merely of heavenly host of
angelic heings filling the courts of the
eternal dwelling above, but also of
those who are able to minister unto us
here below.
FRANCIS POTT
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Home Gardens

While we have every reason in Wilmington
to participate in the Victory Garden move
ment to the full extent of our soil resources
and labor, it would be we'll for house dwellers
to make sure that the soil Of their back yards
OF side lots is adapted for cultivation or needs
to be built up before they plant.
Not all surface soil here is capable Of
yielding crops But very little OF it is in
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-06
Russia's Two-Pronged
Wedge

Hitler attacked Russia not only because OF
supply. Once in the Caucasus, with it's vast
petroleum resources at his command he could
see an advance through the Middle East into
India and stranglehold on Britain's principal
life line, with a wedge driven between the
chief democracies, and ultimate world con-
quest.
With the Mediterranean closed to his enc
mics, the Suez canal in his possession and
the Japanese in control of all eastern ASIA
with the Pacific and Indian oceans blocked
Ito United Nations ships, the Axis would be
Iwell on the way to complete success.
The chief need, as the Leader saw it, was
Caucasian oil So he invaded Russia, swept
through the Ukraine, captured the Crimea
moved into the Don-Volga basin; took over
Russia's rail communications, set up bases
Stalingrad and even drove through Russian
resistance as far, in the south, as the Gorzny
oil fields. More than year ago he declared
Russia beaten and regretted h a Russia
would not admit it.
Then came the second winter of his Russian
campaign and the counter-offensive OF the
Reds the ma magnitude Of which is now becom-
ing manifest. With the aid Russia's chief
allies the United States and Great Britain,
have at last been able to pour into the Eastern
front. Joseph Stains armies have not only
destroyed two great Axis armies in the Don.
Volga pocket and moved to within gunshot
of Rostov but now have Hitler's Caucasian
forces bottled up in a small area skirtin2
the Sea of Azov and the northern reaches of
the Black sea and appear to have cut off
their escape by water.
The Caucasus is safe. Its oil is secure
Hitler will not fill a tanks tank, nor can he
send plane aloft fueled with it. There is
mo reason to doubt that the absence Of Axis
air strength on the Eastern front in recent
months has been due in largest measure to
his lack of gasoline and lubricatng oil which
he had counted on the Caucasus to supply
The conquest of the Middle East, the junction
with the japanese in India, are dreams from
which Hitler has been cruelty awakened.
have cast him off Berlin can count on little
support from Tokyo. The Japanese probably
have only contempt for Hitler. They are
fighting their own war, and have BEEN with
mo actual consideration of the Nazis since
last September l when Hitler had failed to
take Stalingrad, a commitment upon which
hinged japanese invasion OF Siberia to cre
ate second front against the Russians.
1t is not improbable that the battle now
under way in the Solomons area of the Pacific
instead of being diversion to keep the United
States from giving more aid to Russia and
putting greater strength into north Africa, as
some have specuated it might be- is an in
dependent action by the Japanese for their
own purposes, with the hope OF regaining the
advantage they once held in that region and
going on from there to new successes in their
war to control east Asia. The Russian VIC
tories have not only driven wedge between
Axis forces on the Eastern front. They seem
also to have driven one between Berlin and
Tokyo