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Evening star., 1943-03-28
Speaker to Describe
Capture by Japs

Mrs. Franklin Harrington will dis
cuss her experiences as a Jap pris-
oner before members of the Argo
Lodge B'nai Birth Auxiliary at a
dessert luncheon meeting at lis
pm. Wednesday at the Jewish Com
munity Center.
A feature of the program will be
the presentation by Red Cross OFF,
cials of plaques for day and sun
rooms which have been furnished
by the organization. A Red Cross
movie short will be shown and a
vocal selection, Angels of Mercy"
will be sung by Mrs. Herman Hertz
berg. Members are requested to
bring used playing cards to be dis
tributed to service men.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Dietitians to Hear
Red Cross Officials

A Red Gross meeting will be held
by the District Dietetic Association
at BIS pm. Tuesday in the solarium
of Doctors Hospital. Speakers will
be officials of the American Red
Cross.
international Background of
Prisoner of War Relief Work. will
be the subject of talk by Maurice
Pate, assistant director of insular
and foreign affairs.
Others who will speak are Miss
Dorothy Bovee, assistant to direc-
tor of nutrition service, whose sub
ject will be Prisoner of War Pack
age; Miss Mary Lindsey, special
assistant in the nutrition service,
who will discuss Training of Over
seas Club Directors" and Miss
Melva Bakkie, director of nutrition
service, who will speak on Train
ing of Volunteer Dietitians Aid
COrpS,"
Evening star., 1943-03-28

An old fashioned tWo-horse shay
will carry officers of the Community
War Fund on tour this afternoon
of Washingtons nine USO clubs,
which will observe a national "USO
open house" from 3 to 8 pm. today.
This is your USO. Come and
see it." is the slogan for the re-
ceptions today, which are arranged
in order to give relatives and friends
of men in the service an opportunity
to see programs and facilities pro-
vided by the various clubs.
Bruce Allen, Community War
Fund chairman, will head the party,
which will use the shay in order
to conserve gasoline. The group will
include Serge Benson. chairman of
the War Fund Speakers Bureau;
Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, Mrs Clarence
A. Aspinwall and John S. Gorrell,
vice chairmen, and Charles B. Dull
can, sr., Executive Committee men,
ber.
No Special Programs Set.
NO SpeCla1 programs nave Deen
arranged at the various clubs, be-
cause the receptions are to demon
strate how the USO serves as a
home away from home" for men
and girls on Sunday afternoons
Activities to be carried on as usual
will include informal games and
dancing in recreation halls, arts and
crafts in hobby shops, reading and
letter writing in libraries. music
around pianos and refreshments in
kitchens and at snack bars. Visi-
tors will be conducted through the
various clubs by soldiers, sailors,
WAACS, WAVES and war workers.
Doughnuts will be served at the
USO Club operated by the Salvation
Army at 606 E street NV. The club
has found that "sinkers" are as
popular in this war as the last.
"Doughnuts is what we want
right now. Big. brown, old-fashioned
doughnuts with holes in them" ran
the request which was recently sent
to the USO from unit of marines
fighting somewhere in the Pacific, I"
according to Mrs. Lisle Shackelford,
Evening star., 1943-03-28
DR.. Strausz>Hupe
To Address Y.
Forum Tuesday
Author and Educator
To Speak on Nations
Territorial Aims

DR.. Robert Strausz- Hupe, author
and geopolitician, will speak on
Peace: Ideals and Realities" at the
second forum in the series on "A
Free World: Its Responsibilities and
Privileges" to be presented by the
World Fellowship Committee of the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton in Barker Hall, YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV, at 8 pm.
Tuesday.
The speaker who was born in
Vienna came to this country in
1923, representing several European
banking firms. In 1887, distressed
by world conditions and being a
student of international affairs, he
turned to writing and teaching. For
two years he was associate editor OF
Current History magazine and is
author of the book, "Geopolitics: the
Struggle for Space and Power" pub
lished last year He is on leave of
absence from the political science
department Of the University Of
Pennsylvania while in Washington
working for the Government.
In his forum discussion DR..
Strausz-Hupe proposes to deal with
the geographic and territorial as
pirations of the great powers.
Mrs. j. Parker Van Zandt. world
traveller and lecturer, will preside.
The following experts will make
up the panel: Representative Nc
Murray, Democrat, of Wisconsin,
former member of the department
Of political science at the University
of Wisconsin and freshman member
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee; DR.. Margaret Mead, anthro-
pologist and author of And Keep
Your Powder Dry" and DR.. Charles
E. Martin. head of the department
of economics, American University.
The program is open to the public
free of charge,
Evening star., 1943-03-28
National Defense Rally Tonight
National Defense Rally Tonight
OAR Opens 42nd Annual
Conference Tomorrow
By Frances Lide.
Women'S Club Editor.

the OAR Continental Congress, to
be held in Cincinnati.
The colorful program tomorrow
night for presentation of reports
by local chapter regents will be
preceded by a concert by the United
States Marine Band Orchestra un-
der the direction of Capt. William
F. Santelmann. Instead of the pro-
fusion of flowers which customarily
has marked this occasion, Victory
corsages made of War stamps will
be worn by the regents.
Program Tuesday Morning.
Tuesday mornings program will
include an address, Faith for Vic
tory" by DR.. Peter Marshall, min
lister of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church, and a talk on the
"Recollections of My Grandmother"
by the grandson of the second presi-
dent-general of the OAR, Adlai E.
Stevenson, special assistant to the
Secretary of the Navy Mr.. Steven
sons grandmother was Mrs. Adlai
Ewing Stevenson.
In the afternoon the Junior
American Citizens Clubs will pre-
sent a brief program and members
of Girl Scout Troop 164 will sing.
There will be no large entertain
ment in connection with the con-
ference this year. The formal din
ner which has been the traditional
closing feature has been Cancelled
because of the war. State officers
and visiting national officials will
be entertained at small luncheon
tomorrow by the Chapter Regents
Club, headed by Mrs. Herbert l.
King, and Tuesday afternoon men,
bers of the State Officers Club will
meet for tea honoring Mrs. Creyke
at the Chapter House. Mrs. Donald
M. Earll is the president of the
State Officers Club.
A Red Cross canteen unit will
serve a simple luncheon Tuesday at
Memorial Continental Hall for
members of the conference.
War Projects Being Shown.
A war projects exhibit in the war
service room opened yesterday under
the sponsorship of the National De-
fense Committee Mrs. Hubert E.
Paddock, vice chairman of the COM
mittee, is in charge of the display,
which shows the work of II State
committees. The public is invited
to visit the exhibit from to 8
o'clock tonight and all day tomor-
row and Tuesday.
National officers in addition to
Mrs. Pouch who will attend the con-
ference include Mrs. Henry M. Rob-
ert jr., of Annapolis, honorary presi-
gent general; Mrs. Joseph G. For
ney of Lancaster, Pa, first vice pres
ident general; Mrs Howard L.
Hodgkins, honorary vice president
general; Miss Lillian Chenoweth,
vice president general, and Mrs.
Eliza abeth M. Cox, corresponding Sec
retary general.
Two visiting national chairmen,
Mrs. c. A. Swami Sinclair and Mrs.
Elmer E. Woollen, are among others
expected. Mrs. Harry C. Ober-
holser, former State regent now hv-
ing in Cleveland, will be on hand
to serve as chairman of the Reso-
lutlons Committee.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

An address by Mrs. William H.
Pouch. president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
ton, and presentation of mobile
blood donor unit and station
wagon to the American Red Cross,
are among highlights of the pro-
gram tomorrow which formally will
open the And annual State con-
ference of the District Daughters
of the American Revolution.
In the meantime, a national de-
fense rally sponsored by the State
National Defense Committee of the
District will be held at o'clock
tonight in Memorial Constitution
Hall, featuring three prominent
speakers.
Gen. Reybold to Speak.
Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold, U. S. A.
chief of engineers, who has just
returned from the front lines, will
discuss Our Army Goes to Africa;
1t. Comdr. Mildred H. McAfee, di-
rector of the WAVES, 'Women's
Part in the United States Navy"
and DR.. A. Loudon, Ambassador
of the Netherlands, War and Post
war Problems"
The Marine Corps will be repre-
sented at the rally by Chaplain
F. w. Faux, who will give the
invocation. Mrs. Arthur c. Hough-
ton, State national defense chair
man, will preside.
At 3 p. m. today, the Daugh-
ters will honor the memory of those
who have died during the year at
a memorial service under the direc-
ton of Miss Viola Reece, State
chaplain, and Mrs. Geoffrey
Creyke, State regent.
This service, as we'll as all con-
ference sessions, will be held in
Memorial Continental Hall
The mobile blood donor unit for
the Red Cross is being presented
in honor of Mrs. Creyke, the regent,
while the station wagon is in honor
of Mrs George C. Ober, ir., vice
chairman of the National Defense
Committee, who heads the War
Projects Fund. The blood donor
unit was purchased from contribu-
tions of dollar from individual
District Daughters, raised through
the Defense Committee as part of
the program sponsored by the ma
tional society.
John Clifford Folger, representing
the District Chapter of the Red
Cross, formally will accept the unit
which is to be given in the name
of the national OAR. Put into
operation several months ago, the
unit travels within a radius of 100
miles to meet groups OF blood
donors.
The program tomorrow afternoon
will feature the Girl Home Makers
Clubs, as we'll as local high school
students selected for good citizen
ship medals. Dresses, slacks and
shorts made by the Girl Home
Makers will be on exhibit and prizes
awarded
Mrs. Pouch will present the good
citizenship medals Miss Myree
Blue, chosen as this years pilgrim"
for the District by the Good Citi-
zenship Committee, will receive a
500 War bond in lieu of trip to
Evening star., 1943-03-28

man, national parliamentarian:
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Tilton, national
historian, and Dr. Mary Meek Alike
son Moore, national corresponding
secretary.
Most of the members are engaged
in some kind of war work. con-
trlbutlng time, talent and money to
many projects. Many spend sew
eral hours at the Walsh mansion on
Tuesdays. rolling bandages for the
Red Cross, under the direction of
Mrs. Rosamond Gaydash. national
chairman of art. Mrs. Gaydash has
been in direct charge of the fur
nishing of the clubroom at the cere-
monial headquarters at Fort Myer,
which is a project of the District of
Columbia Branch.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
DR.. Marjorie Shearon
To Speak at Dinner

"Occupational Problems OF Wom-
en- in Washington" will be the sub
ject of talk by DR.. Marjorie Shea
ron at a dinner meeting of the
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
of Washington at $50 pm. Tuesday
in the Kenesaw Apartments. Six
teenth and Irving streets NV. The
speaker is president of the Women S
Occupational Council, which has
sponsored the Women's Job Clinic
for two years.
Mrs. John Rustin. president OF
the Washington alumnae, will tell
of her recent visit to the college in
Decatur. Ga Miss Ann Martin. Sec
retary and treasurer, will report on
the joint Agnes Scott Emory Uni
versity Alumni banquet.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

personal experiences were coming of
the press but not much fiction.
And there is scarcely any poetry,
she added.
Miss Kidd, who came to Washing
ton in January, received her library
training in London and Toronto
where she lived for several years
She was engaged extensively in
child education work and was with
the Children's Art Center at the To-
ranto Art Gallery for some time
Since coming to the United States
she says she has found much en-
joyment in visiting historic places
such as Annapolis. and in observing
the development of British customs
introduced many generations ago by
English settlers.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Catholic USO Work
Will Be Discussed

Frank E. Cane, assistant director
OF the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, will discuss catholic
Church in the USO" at meeting
OF the St. Johns Mothers Club at
l:3O pm. Friday. The meeting will
be held In the school auditorium,
1925 Vermont avenue NV, with
Mrs. Harold Sinton presiding.
Mr.. Cane will be introduced by
Mrs. John F. Greaney. educational
chairman. The school band will en-
tertain with several selections un-
der the direction OF the Rev. F.
John, F. S. C.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Junior League
Elects Officers
Of Committee
Miss Virginia Flannery
Named Vice President
OF Executive GROUP

Officers OF the Junior League Of
Washington to serve as the Execu-
tive Committee Of Mrs. Robert
Whitelaw Wilson during the second
year of her term as president were
elected at the March meeting and
will be installed next month, &C
cording to an announcement yes
terday.
Miss Virginia Maury Flannery, a
former secretary and more recently
placement chairman of the league,
has been elected first vice presi-
dent. In the past Miss Flannery
has headed Red Cross committees,
sat on the Advisory Committee at
Children's Hospital and been dele
gate to two national Junior League
conventions.
Mrs. Kenneth Holland, the new
second vice president, has served as
war projects chairman and lately
as chairman of provisional Junior
League members.
Mrs. Francis Almirall, formerly
assistant secretary, has been elected
secretary, and Mrs. William S. An
derson, treasurer.
Although the leagues president
serves a two-year term, the Execu.
tive Committee is elected annually
Business at the March meeting
held at the home OF Mrs. Alanson
B. Houghton, included reports OF
the chairman of the Thrift Shop
and OutgroWn. Miss Elma 0. Phil
lipson, director of the social service
department at Children's Hospital,
reported on the work of that de-
partment.
Evening star., 1943-03-28
CiUic and Study Clubs

Women's City Club-Today, 4:30 to
pm, tea; speaker. Miss Clara
w. McQuown, Recent War Books
Tuesday, 1890 am, and 7:30 pm,
Spanish classes.
Twentieth Century Club-Thursday,
II am, Barker Hall, YWCA, reg
ular monthly meeting.
American Association of University
Women-Today. to pm. recent
graduates open house for officers.
Tomorrow, pm, club tea; 5 pm,
speaker, DR.. Henry L. Darner,
Community Cancer Problem"
Wednesday, pm, international
Relations Committee dinner;
speaker. Mrs. Laura Puffer Nor
gan, "l943, The Crucial Year,
Shall We Win or Lose the Peace?'
7 pm. singers group. Friday, 7
pm, Spanish conversation, 7:45
duplicate contract bridge; 8 pm,
sketching group.
Study Guild Catholic Library-Tues-
day, 8:15 pm, 1925 Rhode Island
avenue NV, lecture. Russian
Religious Thought; speaker, the
Rev. DR.. Eugene M. Burke.
Business, Professional Clubs
Womens National Press Club
Tuesday, l pm, Willard Hotel,
luncheon; speaker, Kilsoo K. Ham,
Washington representative for the
Korean National Front Federation,
The Pacific War From an Orien-
tai Point of View"
tion-Thursday. $50 pm, YWCA,
dinner meeting; speakers, Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair. "Women's
Part in the War Effort and Miss
Mary Craig McGeachy of the
British Embassy. contributions
of the Canadian Girls in the
United States to the War Effort v
District Dietetic Observation-Disclosures
day, 8:15 pm, solarlum OF Doc
tors Hospital, Red Cross meeting;
speakers. Maurice Pate, "Interna-
tional Background of Prisoner War
Relief; Miss Dorothy Bovee
Prisoner of War Packages; Miss
Mary Lindsey, "Overseas Club
Directors" and Miss Melva Bak-
kie, Training of Volunteer Die
titians' Air Corps
Zonta "Wednesday. pm.
YWCA. business meeting; election
of officers.
Soroptimist Club of Washington
Wednesday, l pm, Willard Hotel,
luncheon.
Community Clubs
Woman's Club of Petworth-Thurs-
day. United Presbyterian Church,
regular meeting; speaker. 1t.
Hazel Merkel, U. S. N r., Women
Bluejackets" guest OF honor,
Mrs. Arthur c. Watkins. Friday,
10 am. to pm, Petworth Lii
brary, registration for Red Cross
community surgical dressing unit;
luncheon at noon.
Womans Club of Chevy Chase-To-
morrow, pm. clubhouse; music
section. musical tea.
Woman's Club of Woodside-Wed-
nesday, with Mrs. Victor Grot-
lisch; Red Cross sewing from 10
am. to 1890 pm. followed by
luncheon and business meeting.
Woman's Club of Kensington-Fri-
day. pm. with Mrs. r. L. Lewis;
speaker. Mrs Francis Kiep, IN
terror Decoration; dessert lunch
con.
Womans Club Of Greenbelt-Thurs-
day. with Mrs. Roy S. Braden, IF
Gardenway; annual business meet
Ing and election of officers.
Miscellaneous Clubs
Woman's National Democratic Club
Tomorrow, 1880 pm. 1926 New
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Pen Women Officials Begin
Spring Housecleaning' Here

Although cancellation of the mid
administration congress of the Ma
tlonal League of American Pen
Women has relieved officials of some
responsibility. members of the Exec
utive Board are engaged in a little
spring housecleaning' at the ma
tional office in the Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Helen Orr Watson. national
librarian, for some time has been
wedding out" books in the library
not authored by Pen Women to dis
tribute them to the room MAIN
tanned by the league at Fort Myer
and to Children's Hospital and the
Grange at Cabin John. She is be-
ing assisted in the task by Mrs.
Harriet Mitchell Disney.
Mrs. Ellamay Colvin Thomas, ma
tional registrar. is going over an
accumulation of credentials sub
mitted by prospective members, re-
turning them to the senders where
possible, and disposing of the re-
mainder. Mrs. Bess Heath Ohm
stead, national treasurer, is finding
her time almost fully occupied in
receiving and acknowledging dues
and forwarding credential cards to
members. Equally busy is Mrs.
Bertha Shanks Chaney, national
membership chairman, who has the
obligation of reviewing current Gre
dentials and reporting as to their
acceptability.
Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson,
national president. finds her post a
full-time job and is usually in the
national Office a part of each day.
Mrs. Stevenson is celebrating her
release from cast which she wore
for several weeks after she broke
her wrist in fall on icy streets.
Mrs. Anne Manchester, who is in
charge of editing the Year Book
issued bi-ennially, is spending long
hours in the national Office checking
and rechecking the rosters OF names
to avoid errors. She has been as
sisted bv Mrs. Agnes Giles New
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Kensin6tOn Club

A dessert luncheon meeting will
be held by the Woman's Club of
Kensington at pm. Friday at the
home of Mrs. r. L. Lewis. A talk
on Interior Decoration" will be
given by Mrs. Francis Kiep. Mrs.
Lewis will be assisted by Mrs. Ed
mund Noyes and Mrs. Lewis Merriam,
Evening star., 1943-03-28
10th Century Club

Richard Allen. who has recently
returned from Africa where he was
in charge of insular and foreign
operations of the American Red
Cross, will be the guest speaker at
a meeting of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club at II am. Thursday in
Barker Hall, YWCA.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

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with Canute Water. A few appliea.
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similar to its former natural shade
-. in one day, if you wish. Your
hair will retain its naturally soft
texture and lovely new color even
after shampooing, perspiration, curl.
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9 month will keep it youns.lookine.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

Woman's National Democratic Club
Tomorrow, 1880 pm, 1926 New
Evening star., 1943-03-28

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-01
SERGEANT CLARA D.
PONICK. w O m G rs

SERGEANT CLARA D.
PONIC w o m G rs
Army Corps officer.
+ypifies faithful
guardianship over the
United States Flag
while h is moinfoined
by her thousands Of
women comrades. not
only serving in the
WAcS. b I also in
the WAVES, SPARS
and Marines. Ii was
only q year ago re-
Gently that first Amer
iean girls went to war
in the United States
ormed fore es. Now
Americas W o m e min.
arms Gre serVing
Uncle Som in every
quorfer Of the globe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
FBI Chief Pens DUN Role
In Film, Next of Kin

and epilogue which he delivers for
Next Of Kin
Only AZ years old. a young man
for his immense responsibilities,
John Edgar Hoover was born in
Washington, d. C., on New Years
Day. 1895. He was educated in
the primary and secondary schools
of the district. was graduated
from law school ana now holds
three honorary doctor of laws
degrees.
Hoover rose from a clerkship IN
the department of justice 10 his
present position in seven years!
He was appointed director of the
FBI Dec 10, 1924. In the early
and middle nineteen thirtieS,
series Of sensational gun battles,
resulting i'm the decease of such
fabulous bandits as John Dillinger,
Pretty Boy Floyd, Clyde Cham
pion Barrow and MA" Barker
focused the national attention on
Hoover and his men.
With the rise of Hitler to power
and the increase of Axis groups
arl spies in the United States, the
director assun I'd the new duty of
them, job enlarged by
actual war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

A MAN who will be recorded
in history with Allen Pinkerton
Lafayette Baker and the other
heroes of United States secret
service as perhaps the greatest OF
them all, speaks a prologue and
eplloCue written by himself, for
the British war film. The Next
of Kin, coming Friday 10 the
Adams Theatcr as a Universal
release. He is J. Edgar Hoover,
of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Next of Kin" al first banned
from Britain's screens as too
terrifying for civilians, but the
most popular picture in English
cinema history since its first pub
lie showing, deals with the fatal
of careless talk about war
secrets. Hoover probably knows
more such secrets, the danger of
talk about them and the methods
of the Axis agents to collect such
rumors, than any man living
today.
To make the public realize the
terrible peril 10 their loved ones
in the armed forces, that can be
caused by such thouGhless talk,
Hoover composed the prologue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
DEMANDS ATTENTION

This one clicks in every way,
but you will have TO click with it,
by devotlng your complete atten-
ton TO every minute.
You CHn Just breeze in and ret
a load of Chekhov. You must con-
centrate and if you bring your
mind, bring your heart as well and
we don't think any one will have
trouble becoming entirely alb
Sorbed
In conclusion we'd like 10 add
another word about Guthrie Nc
ClintiC'S direction, which is as
moving as 1t is maSterful. He
keeps all the stage alive. He
doesn't Just focus your attention
on one or two characters Ar a
time. for example the birthday
party scene in the first act. where
all are talking at once, yet the
habble is used as background
only for those speeches which you
are intended 10 hear.
The Motley sets and costumes
are right up to the Cornell stand
ard which means they are of the
highest.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
vows Move
In+o Movie Sets

WHAT WITH winter Of un-
conStItutionally heavy rains, R-K-O
Radio movie companies didn't get
a chance to use the standing out
door sets at R-K-O Ranch.
SO there those inviting-looking
houses stood ncighboring war
plants. A l00-acre layout, with a
high fence around it, but only a
Waterman AT the front gate.
Came a day of sunshine, though.
and the Fred Astaire-Joan Leslie
company moved ont 10 the New
York street set 10 film outdoor
scenes for The Sky's the Limit.
And what should they find but
three swing-shift vows from a