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Evening star., 1943-03-19
w Walsh Club Plans
Reception Sunday
To Benefactors
Honorary Membership
Cards viii Be Giueu
To IS U0mcu

Turn about Is fair play, so the
Walsh Club for War Workers, which
was established recently through
the interest Of a number of public
spirited residents, plans to entertain
on Sunday afternoon at reception
in honor of those who were instru-
mental in making the club possible
In special gesture Of apprecia-
ton, the club also plans to bestoW
honorary membership cards on Is
Of the women who have worked for
the club.
These Will include Mrs Roosevelt
who provided the original impetus
for the club when she called to-
gether group Of prominent women
last fall to discuss the need of some
recreation here for war workers;
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, who
donated renovated and furnished
the quarters for the club, which is
located in the old Walsh stables at
the rear Of l5y Twenty-second
street NV. and Mrs. James M.
Lands, who heads the committee OF
women which grew out of the meet
ing With Mrs Roosevelt.
Others to receive honorary men,
berships include Mrs. Eleanor Pat
terson, Mrs Leon Henderson, Mrs.
Byron Price. Mrs. Nathaniel How
ard, Mrs. Beatrice Sherman. Mrs.
Prentiss Brown, Mrs. Herbert Leh-
man, Mrs. John Ihlder. Mrs. John
NJ W0lyerton, Mrs. Izetta Jewell
Miller, Mrs. Harold Smith and Mrs.
John Blandford
Others invited to be guests of
honor at the reception include Rich
ard s. TennvSon and Milo Christian
sen of the District of Columbia
Recreation Department which makes
operation of the club possible by
the provision of staff workers.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs Stuart God
frey also will be honor guests. Mrs.
Godfrey, who is chairman of music
for the services, supplied the en-
tertainment which was given con-
tinuouSly during recent open
house and kitchen shower for the
club.
Club officers, all of them war
workers, who will be on hand to re-
ceive their guests, include Miss Edith
Leppanen. the president: Miss Agnes
Gervais. secretary; Miss Marian
Squire, treasurer. and the following
committee chairmen: Gilbert Parks,
entertainment; Miss Dorothea Eren-
reich, publicity; Mrs George Frelin,
hospitality; Miss Betty Murphy.
kitchen. and Miss Helen Kantor,
membership.
A program of music will be pro-
vided during the receiving hours
between 4 and pm.
Evening star., 1943-03-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Albion w. Tuck, Mrs
Richard A. Allen. DR. and Mrs
Ralph Stevens Pendexter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Livingston Vann, jr,; Mr.. and
Mrs. Garnett Lee, Mrs. Anne Etten-
ger Howell, Mrs Clara Gaines Full
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Richey and
Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Moffet.
The birthday party for the junior
group Of the Mai. Charles Stedman
Chapter will be held at 3 pm
March 27, with the Williams Chap
ter serving as hostesses.
The Stedman Chapter. an auxil-
iary to the Williams Chapter, was
organized II years ago by Mrs.
Charles Fisher Taylor at the George
Washington Inn, where Maj. Sted-
man lived while serving in Congress
from North Carolina.
Evening star., 1943-03-19
ENGLAND Today Talk

England Today" will be the sub
ject of talk by Mrs. Rex. Benson,
wife of the Military Attache Of the
British Embassy, at meeting of the
Huguenot Society of Washington
Monday evening: The affair, which
will be the last one this season. will
be held at the Arts Club with Miss
Carolina V. Sudler, the president,
presiding.
Evening star., 1943-03-19
Librarian to Speak

Miss Gwendolyn Kidd, librarian OF
the British Information Services,
will be guest speaker at a dinner
meeting of the technology
group Of the Washington Chapter,
Special Libraries Association, Tues
day at the Highlands. Miss Mildred
Benton is chairman Of the group.
The dinner chairman, Miss Jane
Brewer, is handling reservations.
Evening star., 1943-03-19
lithuuniuns to Meet

The American Lithuanian Society
of Washington will meet at pm
Sunday at the Immaculate Concep-
ton School Hall, Eighth and N
streets NV, it was announced to-
day by Miss Anne Gavelis, presi-
dent. Plans will be made for a
bowling banquet.
Evening star., 1943-07-05

an oStentatiouS mark OF our favor,
will do huge recruiting job for
de Gaulle.
Correspondents in Africa have, in
some alarm, noticed what they call
an emerging spirit of French ma
tionalism" around de Gaulle. They
are surprised by this. They should
be equally surprised by the fact
that fire Is hot or that water is
almost always wet.
The French feel French. They
do not feel American, they do not
feel English; they feel French. As
to their reaction to the de Gaulle-
Giraud situation, ask yourself what
the American reaction would be if
we, following a national misfortune,
had two contenders for leadership.
one of whom was favored by brace
Of foreign countries.
Take it even further: Suppose
that one of these two would-be-
fathers-of- their country had fought
the enemy every step Of the way
had organized the resistance against
him, while the second had been
picked out of q hat by two foreign
governments.
Suppose that one Of these men
was we'll and favorably known to
every enslaved patriot, while the
second was hardly known at ALL
But suddenly it becomes a great
big, burning issue that unity must
be established with the second man.
He is a man who, in the political,
did not even exist eight months ago.
This is a vital movement for unity
Evening star., 1943-07-05
III Duce Tells Fascisfs
Italy Must Hold Out
BY the Associated Press,

BY the AsSoclAted Press.
LONDON, July 5.-Belatedly, the
German radio quoted Premier Mus
solini Of italy today as having told
his Fascist Party Council June "a
I'VE must hold out. That is the de.
mand of honor"
The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, said Mussolini as
serted the italian people now were
certain the war was matter OF life
and death, remarking:
"The enemy must not be proved
right in his despicable allegation
that the Italians are unable to re-
sist to the twelfth hour, but would
give in at a quarter to twelve"
The italian leader also confirmed
reports that strikes had broken out
in italian industry during March,
but shrugged them OF as short and
based on economic grounds; no
where was 1t possible to make q
political case out Of them," the Ger.
man broadcast said.
He warned his party directorate,
1t was said, "either we win this war.
as myself believe we will, with all
determination, together with COM
rades Of the Axis and the tripartite
pact, or Italy will have the peace Of
shame and will be pushed back to
the rank OF . fourth or fifth rate
power"
The directors were reported to
have presented q nine-point de.
mand for a more rigorous prosecu.
ton of the war.
Mussolini was said to have agreed
to demands for moro severe meas.
ures against black market opera.
tors.
Evening star., 1943-07-05
I'd Rather Be Riqht

with Smith, but 1t might just as
easily have been a movement for
unity with Jones. or Brown, If we
had happened to pick Jones or.
Brown, instead of Smith.
Under these circumstances, 1t Is
about as astonishing as sunrise that
French national movement should
be developing about de Gaulle.
In fact, the law Of compensation
is now hard at work. The more We
snub de Gaulle, the more we con-
vince Frenchmen that he is their
leader. After three years of snubs,
his prestige is at its zenith.
The kinder we are to Giraud, the
more partiality and preference we
show for him, the more we persuade
Frenchmen that Giraud is merely
our man. 1t has been incredible
innocence on the part Of our State
Department to invite Giraud to
come to America, obviously on the
theory that such visit will help
him. That may make Giraud look
like Churchill to us, but with de
Gaulle left behind. it merely makes
him look good to Frenchmen like
our white-haired boy. And the
French are so tired of white-haired
boys, selected wonders, picked lead
ers, careful arrangements. and be-
hind-the-scenes conversations!
The people of France want to
do; they are weary of being done
to. We have waited three years for
the voice Of France to arise again.
Now that it is heard, we are child
ishly startled to find that it speaks
French, and not English. At once
we begin to mutter nonsense about
the dangers Of French national
ism" We are surprised to find that
the French have a will Of their own.
Maybe some Of our agitated diplo-
mats would like a tame, conserva-
tive French government, largely
stated by familiar old friends,
relics of failure. But the French
have their own opinions. And
am not alarmed. I like the kind
of a world in which there is
France with a mind Of her own If
I'm allowed to pick worlds, I'll pick
that one. I don't agree that 1t
means trouble.
say that Frances rambunctious-
ness is proof that she is reborn.
I did not expect France to come to
her feet, only to lie down again.
Evening star., 1943-07-05
Moscow Radio Reports
French Attacks on Nazis

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 5.-A Moscow
broadcast recorded by the Soviet
monitor today said French patriots
at Marseille recently blew up Ger
man military barracks. killing and
injuring at least 80 Nazis.
The report, given out by the Soviet
Information Bureau, said that in
other patriot attacks, group halted
a column Of German trucks near
Toulouse, killing 20 Nazis and de-
stroying II vehicles.
In Haute Savoie party of armed
Frenchmen forced their way into
German arms depot, killing the
guards and capturing number Of
machine-guns, the broadcast said.
They burned the building when they
left.
Evening star., 1943-07-05
Giraud Due Here Soon;
May Be al Martinique

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Henri Graud, co-president
Of the French Committee Of Ma
tional Liberation, is expected to ar
rived here in a day or two, French
sources said last night.
While Government spokesmen dis
claimed any knowledge of the French
military leaders whereabouts, there
was the possibility that he might
have stopped at Martinique, French
Caribbean island. on his way to
Washington Admiral Georges
Robert, Martinique commissioner is
negotiating on a change of French
authority there.
Gen. Giraud was reported Satur-
day to have passed through Natal,
Brazil, en- route here in response to
an invitation by President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1943-07-05
Five Found Dead in Wreck
Of Army Training Plane
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN MARCOS, Tex, July s.
Wreckage of a twin -motored naviga-
tion training plane overdue since
Saturday at the Army Air Forces
Navigation School was found yester-
day 4 miles south of Pine Valley
with its five occupants dead.
Public relations officers of the
school said last night the plane had
been on routine training flight.
The dead were listed as: Second
1t. Floyd Eugene Koblentz, %, of
Chester, Ohio. pilot; Second 1t.
Philip. Bean Harris, 26, navigation
instructor, Walpole, N. H., Second
1t. William John Antoine, student,
Toledo, Ohio, Second 1t. Robert
Rosenschein, 81, student, New York
City; Second 1t. Jan P. Bogdan,
Is, student, New Britain, Conn.,;
Its. Rosenschein and Bogdan were
married, their wives residing at New
BraunfelS, Tex.
Evening star., 1943-07-05

taxes mount, the conviction grows
that while the waste of public
funds is indefensible in peace
times, it becomes intolerable un-
der present conditions.
Taxed as never before, 1t is un-
natural for people not to feel
that useless and costly agencies
must be abolished and those who
squander the tax dollars re-
strained. Unless they feel that
way, then nothing makes sense.
The fact is they do feel that
way very strongly, and their feel
ing was reflected in the session
OF Congress just about to recess.
1t saved a good many millions
Of dollars. Despite personal ef-
forts of the President to keep it,
the National Resources Planning
Board, Of which Mr.. Roosevelt's
uncle was chairman, has been
wiped out. The old WPA, after
expending over So, 900, 600, 900, has
been liquidated. Expensive func-
tions of Owl and OPA have been
curtailed, and the Senate gave
up its fight to save the NYA.
Could Have Done Better.
All this Is good, but the cur
tailment could have been much
greater. Many more millions
could have been Topped OIL with
out damaging any essential gov
ernmental agency. This being
so, the taxpayers do seem en-
titled to know why so little was
done when 50 much needed to
be done.
One outstanding fact Is that
the House has done a better econ
omy job than the Senate. The
record shows the House did the
cutting, the Senate the restor-
ing.
For this there are three rea-
sons. The first is that all men,
bers Of the House were elected
less than a year ago and all will
come up for reelection next year.
But only one-third of the Senate
was chosen tn 1912 and only one
third will be in 1914. Thus the
House, fresher from the people
and closer to an election, reacted,
as always, more quickly to public
sentiment than the Senate.
The second reason is that it is
always easier for entrenched job
holders and the White House to
bring pressure on the Senate than
on the House. For one thing, it
is easier to get at the Senators.
For another, it is easier for the
administration to do them indi-
Wdual favors. For another,
every Senator has more job
Evening star., 1943-07-05

1ncy WANT C0nstSntAne nToWn.
to prove that the United States
is backing-in the person Of
Gen. Giraud-a "Vichy general.
According to reports received in
high Government quarters, the
anti-Giraud French organiza-
ton In New York, after long
discussions as to how to point
an accusing finger at Gen. Gil
raud has decided to make public
a letter which the general al
legedly wrote to Marshal Petatn
when he reached French soil
after escaping from the Ger
man prison at Konigstein.
Letter Is Released.
This letter is said to contain
a sentence in which the escaped
military leader promised Marshal
Petain he would do nothing
which might embarrass the mar
shall in his relations with the
Germans.
A photostatic copy Of the let
ter was sent some time ago by
some Of Gen. Giraud's political
antagonists to certain French or
ganizations in America to be pub
lished "at the psychological mo-
ment."
1t appears that Gen. Giraud
had indeed written to Marshal
Petain something to that effect
at q time when he had decided
to settle in France and long be-
fore the Allies had decided to
enter North Africa and enlist his
military services.
The fact that President Roose-
welt extended an invitation to
Gen. Giraud without including
Gen. de Gaulle was naturally an
noying to followers Of the Fight
ing French general. They re-
garded this as an indication Of
i'll will on the part Of the Presi-
dent particularly since Gen. de
Gaulle had made serious efforts
last winter to come to Washing
ton and pay his respects to Mr..
Roosevelt.
Gen. de GauIle Discouraged.
When the White House was In
formed, it decided to discourage
such q visit and notified Gen.
de Gaulle that his trip at that
time would be untimely.
The United States Government
wishes to push all politics into
the background, at least until
such time as the enemy has been
defeated. Discussion of who will
run France after the Nazis are
crushed or what will happen to
Poland or the Baltic States is not
considered advisable now.
Gen. Giraud is coming to Amer
lea not as the head of a political
Evening star., 1943-07-05
The Great Game Of Politics.

holding friends than any House
member, and his disposition to
protect them Is stronger.
Coalition at Work in House.
Most Senators feel q certain
obligation to administration ON
cials for favors asked and re-
ceived. Many House members
are resentful over what they
asked and did not get.
The third reason for the House
record is more potent than the
other two. 1t Is concerned with
the Republican leadership. In
the House, under Representative
Joseph Martin, the minority
leader, an effective coalition be-
tween the Republicans and the
conservative, economy m n d ed
Democrats, has been formed. 1t
functions we'll and usually con-
trolls the House. The record this
year has been made by that coali-
ton.
There is no such coalition in the
Senate. It has not been formed
because the Republican leader,
Senator McNary, is not follow
ing a coalition policy. In conse-
quence, it has not been possible
to effect a controlling antiad-
ministration combination along
the House lines and a good deal
that the House has done in the
way of economy has been par
TALLY undone in the Senate, where
Republicans voted more as indi-
viduals than as a party.
Senator McNary is popular
among his colleagues and an
astute politician. He has many
agreeable qualities. but he is in
clined to take a local rather than
a national point of view. Oregon
is usually his first consideration,
and his ability to adapt himself to
conditions is attested by the fact
that he has been twice reelected
since the New Deal began.
Economy Congress Foreseen.
Not many Republican Senators
have gotten more from a Demo-
cratic administration than he.
This session Senator McNary has
cast few economy votes. Certain
ly he has not been q leader in
the economy fight. In this con-
nection 1t is interesting that the
Senators who most solidly and
consistently voted economy at
this session are the nine new Re-
publicans elected last fall. The
other Republicans voted some one
way, some the other, but not ac-
cording to pattern or following a
leader.
Revealing, also are, the anti
economy votes of some of the
conservative, anti-New Deal
Democrats. For example. Sena-
tor George of Georgia. Consider
ing these things, it is easy to un-
derstand why the House has been
the effective body on matters Of
economy.
Most observers believe the real
economy Congress will be the one
that assemblies after the 1914
election. They also believe two
things about that Congress-
first, that, no matter whether Mr..
Roosevelt is reelected or not,
the Congress will be Republican:
second, that, with a new man.
date from the people, it will slash
appropriations as they have
never been slashed before.
Evening star., 1943-07-05

on rich and
poor alike
and will weigh
more heavily
on more people
from now on.
Everybody rec
ognizes that
and accepts 1t
with varying
d e & r e e S OF
c h e e r fulneSS
a n d resigna-
ton. However,
as the war goes
on a n d the
Evening star., 1943-07-05

more Ere n c h
than Cir a u d;
more Ere n c h
in the sense that
he has an inde-
pendent policy,
and is not an
echo Of America
or England.
Thus does our
policy of favor
ing Gira u d
backhre. I be-
lieve that Gil
raud's coming
trip to America,
Evening star., 1943-07-05

full postwar Pc
Rod.
The main evt-
dence Of this
trend is to be
found in q lack
Of unity behind
the Government,
q lack Of faith
in its admins
trative set-up, II
not In its sim
cerity. The ad-
m ministr q tors
themselves eX-
hort and plead
Evening star., 1943-07-05
This Changing World

entity but merely as the COM
mander of q force which is Tight
ing on our side. In order toieave
no doubt as to the military char
acter of his visit he is said to be
coming to this country alone.
None Of the political advisers Of
the French Committee of Ma
tional Liberation is accompany
ing. And it is said that not even
a military aide is making the trip.
Commander Receives Him.
In order to save space the mis-
sion headed by Gen. Bethouard
will provide him with an officer
as his aide. Mr.. Roosevelt Is not
receiving his guest as President
of the United States but as Com
mander in Chief of the Ameri-
can land, sea and air forces.
It is doubtful whether the vet
eran French general will even call
on Secretary of State Hull or any
other political leaders. He will
confine his calls to the chiefs Of
staff and other high-ranking ON
GERS with whom he intends to dis
cuss the best means for speeding
up the organization of the 3OO,-
600 French troops still available
In Africa.
Gen. Giraud also Is said to wish
to discuss the strategy for 1914
when he hopes that sufficient
modern equipment will be sent to
North Africa to form a French
army which would be of real as
sistance to other Allied forces for
the invasion of Europe.
He is said to believe that in the
event Italy Is not invaded this
year, 20 French divisions could
do the job thoroughly next year,
leaving the British-American
forces for other more important
tasks.
People Opposed to Politics.
There is no question that the
scope Of Gen. Giraud's visit,
which will be deprived Of any
political character, will enhance
his prestige with the American
people who are opposed to hav-
ing politics injected into the
prosecution Of the war.
Some Of the political French
organizations in this country, un-
doubtedly obeying directives from
politically minded persons at AL
giers, look with disfavor on Gen.
Giraud's trip.
Word is said to have been
passed around that the French
in the United States should be
asked to refrain from any act Of
favorable demonstration.
Moreover, the organizations
here hope that unfavorable pub
ucity in some American news
papers might get the better OF
the quick temper of the grizzly
Frenchman, make him lose his
poise and enter into some po-
litical controversies In which he
necessarily would come out Sec
ond best.
Gen. Giraud has no political
sense. He has been a solder all
his life and, unlike a number Of
other French military leaders,
owed his promotions to good
soldering rather than to political
pull.
Much political capital might be
derived by the politicians in AL
giers in the event Gen. Giraud
receives unfavorable publicity in
the United States.
Evening star., 1943-07-05

blast OF ad-
verse public
ity provided
by tn sc
French Or
ganiZations in
the United
States which
still believe
tn a t the
fu ure Of
France lies In
the hands of
political gen.
erals.
MI ->-l
Evening star., 1943-07-05
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The arrival Of Gen. Giraud,
commander in chief of the
French forces In North Africa,
is likely to be greeted with a
Evening star., 1943-07-05

HE opinions OF the rters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to gue all sides of questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-07-05

Counting three to a family, more
than half q million people will read
this issue of The Star. If you have
a want" tell them through a Star
want Ad." Phone MA. 5000.
Evening star., 1943-07-05
BY FRANK r. KENT.

The vast and unmeasurable
cost of the war is inevitably
linked with the great burden of
taxes which now weigh heavily
Evening star., 1943-07-05
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

I have feeling that an increas-
ing number of Frenchmen are be-
ginning to side with de Gaulle,
purely for the reason that he seems
Evening star., 1943-07-05
Home Front
Reforms at
Top Needed
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Something fundamental is wrong
with the home front. Unless cor
rected, 1t can mean a longer and
costlier war and an even more pain
Evening star., 1943-07-05
Nozi Radio in Calais
Denies Hitler, Goerinq III

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 5.-The Nazi-con-
trolled Calais radio said yesterday
that reports of the illness of both
Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarshal Her
mann Goering were completely
false"
The broadcast was recorded by the
Ministry of Information.
Stockholm dispatches said Goer-
Ing was reported very i'll from ner-
vous breakdown and serious heart
trouble.
Evening star., 1943-07-05

Domestic help is hard to find
eut you may find 1t through .
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-01

pleted a total OF 554 hours since
beginning the work on March 10.
IL addition TO the making OF dress
ings the group has inspected all
dressings made,
Students who have put in over
eight hours time on the project
since its beginning are Miss Judy
Austin. Ferndale, Miss Maybelle
Distler Detroit, Miss Patricia East
land, Ferndale. Miss Mildred Hell
weston. Dearborn, Miss Lilyan Hun.
ter, Monroe, Miss Evelyn Lafay.
cite Crosse lie. Miss Jean Lovther,
Dearborn Miss Jeanne Morgan,
Ypsilantl. Miss Betty Parsons. De
tro!t, Miss Barbara Rogers. Fern
dale, Miss Bonnie Rose. Rochester,
and Miss susan stephan. Sister
Vile. W Virginia
During the summer session stu.
dents wishing 10 work on surgical
dressings will work with the city
group in Welch Hall each Wednes-
day and Thursday from 9 10 I o.
clock. Next fall. however. another
student unit will be formed, to
junction throughout the year