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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

He uncrOSsed his
long legs and watched
her pace the rug.
You're living in the
middle of history"
Il want to live in
the middle of Amer
ica." The words tum-
bled from her lips. I'm
sick of watching shore
lines drop behind my
ship. of earth falling
away from my plane,
of landscapes flying by
50 fast l can't see the
homes or the people
who live in them. l
hate being cooped up
in an embassy - din
ing every night with
foreign cats"
He was on his feet
shaking her. Make
sense" he said harshly.
You've got a ringside
seat to the greatest
show on earth"
You can have it,"
she flung at him. I'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

Then it was too late.
The Ambassador
wife was sweet and pa
tient about it, as one is
sweet and patient with
a backward child. But
there was an Embassy
dinner that night, and
Susan wondered in
what sly way Elena
would m anage to
humiliate her. Kelly
had impressed upon
her the Importance of
keeping things smooth
between the legations.
Nerves were on edge
waiting for the inevita-
bic blow, not knowing
from which direction it
would strike.
Kelly came in her
room, that evening,
handsome in full dress.
Her fingers trembled as
she fastened an emer-
aid necklace set in
heavy Finnish gold
about her throat. She
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

"Jimmie's fever was l04. rushed right over
You see, she said hopelessly, I'll never learn
that an artificial code comes before human
sympathy
He strobe to the window. Through her
mirror she could see him staring down at the
rumbling cavacade below. Finally he gave
short sigh and turned back to her. stop fret
ting, Sweet" He dropped kiss on the top
of her head. Kelly can fix
Sure Kelly could fix the stupid blunders
his wife made! Bitterly she watched him do
ing it, later, with his adroit mixture Of wit
and impudence.
After dinner the huge Soviet general with
whom Susan was dancing gave an abrupt
turn, and she saw through the archway, red
hair against black. Elena, tall and beautiful,
with her Slavic cheekbones, over-ripe lips
and thick creamy skin, was pressing her cheek
against Kelly's as they executed slow turns
to waltz time Her slumbrous green eyes were
half closed. Susan could almost hear her purr.
kelly's lips moved and Elena smiled.
Jealousy drove through Susan. why do 60
on?" she asked herself. Its going to be like
this all my life. Only I'll be getting older,
and there will always be an Elena"
Back in their apartment living room, silence
had hung like heavy black curtain between
them. In her eardrums the ever marching
boots outside made hammers of sound;
through the open windows drifted odors COM
pounded of earth, body smells and the stri-
dent perfume that all Moscow affected
In sudden revolt she rushed to the window
and slammed it down. Kelly took long
drag on his cigarette and lifted questioning
eyebrow. Nervously she began to strip off her
bracelets, earrings, necklace.
I'm sorry l didn't buy you that ruby
pendant we saw in kiev," he said. Too late
now"
Il don't want rubies," she cried Il want
an American gas stove, and refrigerator
that works. want to belong to garden clubs.
l want to bake pumpkin pies for Thanksgiv-
ing, and trim trees at Christmas.
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was forever picking up at commission

houses.
Jewels and embassy intrigue! When all
she'd ever wanted, from the very beginning,
was plain American home with kitchen in
which to hang her red curtains. How impor
tant those few yards of red and white ging-
ham had become to her! She had bought them
for their first apartment, when Kelly was on
language detail at Columbia University.
She'd sewed every stitch of those curtains by
hand, and was perched on top of kitchen
stool about to hang them when Kelly had
burst in, waving an official envelope. I'm the
buggy, Susie" he cried, swinging her off the
STOOL California, here we GOMEZ
"Oh, Kelly" she walled against his chest,
lust when had my curtains inished!'
He'd kissed the tip of her nose. 4 wouldn't
be surprised if they had windows in Califor-
MA" He was impatient to be off.
BY the time Susan had re-shaped the cur
tains, Kelly had been ordered on foreign
service.
The day I get to hang these" she said
fercely, "I1l know I've got a home at long
last
1.-The nesting instinct dies hard, y he teased.
1--WE had sparrows in the ivy at home, she
said. Father was always pulling their nests
down. The minute he went in the house,
they d pick up the scraps and begin building
back. felt sorry for them. Their nests grew
50 ragged"
He looked at her, his voice oddly soft.
Lets take them along for luck. People carry
old coins and ivory elephants. Why shouldn't
we carry kitchen curtains?"
SUsAN glanced at her watch again: $40.
She held her breath as tall officer with
majors leaves came into the cocktail lounge
- but no, it wasn't Kelly.
Edward looked up from the design he'd
been making on the table with matches.
"Your mother thought you might come home
now" he said I'm leaving on the midnight
Susan twirled the stem of her glass between
her fingers. II must see Kelly first, she said.
''Kelly?"
II left word at the desk for him to meet US
here" she explained. Hes flying from Lis
bon" His cable had read, Am bringing You
riolets from Portugal0
Edward seemed troubled.
Didn't you know Kelly had been recalled
to Washington for conference" she asked.
EYES," he admitted, but that was some
time ago. When he didn't arrive with the dip
lomatic corps, wondered -
Didn't arrive? What do you mean?" Her
heart skipped beat
Didn't you know" said Edward. Then
his face cleared "Of course not. You were at
sea-"
Tell me-" Urgency sharpened her voice.
He wasn't on the plane with the others
when it left Kuibyshev. The newspapers said
he'd returned to Moscow. If Washington
knew why. they weren't putting it out.
But the Germans were Smelling Moscow
them" she cried why should he 60 back?"
Had Kelly been wounded? His cable hadn't
said. Just that nonsense about violets.
Then she laughed at herself, for being
naive little fool Kelly" she said dryly,
D,,% ebo Ivoipod hor ol2Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

of an uneasy dream, where everything is seen
upside down, like images in mirage. She
could still feel the blazing heat of the Arabian
Sea, where every deep breath scared the lungs.
Little Jimmie, who had barely survived the
sunless, killing cold of a Russian winter, had
a sunstroke. Looking at the childs small
bones thrusting through his skin, she had
asked Zelda: Suppose big Jimmie won't buy
that small-town paper? Suppose he insists
on roaming the world? What will you do?"
Zelda had gazed over the rail, where pitt
less sun danced on copper sea, and spoken
simply: Then should say, like Ruth in the
Bible, Whittier thou goest, will CO."
Sitting here in the New York cocktail
lounge with Edward, Susan put that answer
resolutely out of her mind. What she couldn't
put out of her mind was the bout of fever
she'd had in Bombay. Aware, in lucid inter-
walls, of dark faces and strange tongues, she
had wondered what was to become of her.
Nor could she forget the sub off Capetown
that finally turned out to be English - but
not before Polish refugee standing beside
her had gone suddenly mad and thrown her
self into the sea. Least of all could she afford
to remember the bitterness of that night
before she left Russia.
1T HAD started in the afternoon with cock
tail party. Elena, the wife of an important
foreign minister, was giving it. She was red
Persian cat of woman. That she was half in
love with Kelly was an open secret, amusing
to everyone except Susan.
The Ambassadors wife let it be known that
she was going to call on Susan, and together
they would 60 to Elena party.
Susan was dressing when Zelda Higgins
phoned - frantic, distraught. Little Jimmie
was ill., 1t looked like an emergency appendix,
and she couldn't locate doctor. Would
Susan come over and stay with the child
while she tracked one down?
Susan could and did; forgetting the Ambas-
sador's wife; forgetting Elena's party - until
Zelda arrived finally with doctor in tow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28

polo pony at a nearby Army post. During
the holidays she'd gone home with Dot
Graham, classmate.
Kelly had ridden up to their car. He'd
been her blind date for the post hop that
night Susan remembered with painful vivid
ness the quick charm of his smile. Gray eyes
in lean brown face; black triangular eye
brows that sharpened in jest.
Blondes should have blue eyes," he re-
proved her. I'll have to get you yellow and
brown orchid. ordered violet corsage.'
love violets, she assured him laughingly.
I've just planted whole border of them in
my garden"
you have garden?" he asked incredu-
lousy. as if she'd said she had two noses.
PEOPLE hare gardens" Dot said. Homes,
too!' She turned to Susan. Kelly doesn't
believe that. He tucks his head under his
wing and goes to sleep like duck on pond.
That should have warned her. But it had
mt. He rode back into the game carrying her
heart with him.
The magic of that spring night! She'd worn
white frock with tiny pulled sleeves and
a billowy skirt The violets were perfect,
with cluster of sweetheart roses in the center.
By the lake, in dawn-flled moment, he'd
kissed her
But I'm engaged" she protested.
He lifted his dark head, and she could see
the laughter mounting behind his eyes. Il
don't want to be engaged" he said. Il want
to be married"
And they were Within the week she was the
wife of Capt William Kelly Westbrook,
Military Intelligence. At that time CO was
just letter in the alphabet and number
from one to ten.
1t was later that the full force of her own
inadequacy struck her - three years later.
when Kelly was made military attache to
Russia kelly. darling" she mourned, Il
can bake hot rolls, but I'm stupid with Ian
guages."
Learn to say, I don't know and you'll
get along"
Il can sew fine seam, but I'm dumb about
foreign affairs"
Never speak unless you have absolutely
nothing to say. That's diplomatic axiom"
Then she'd made mistake She tried to
get him to resign from the Army. 1T isn't
as if you didn't have private income. Aren't
we ever going to put down roots? Are we
always to be wanderers on the face of the
earth?'
She had wept, but he didn't take her in
his arms Get this straight Susan" - his
voice was rough Il don't walk around
draped in the American flag But when 60
out of the United States Army it will be
with taps playing"
30 MANY things had happened since then -
so many things. Again she pulled her mind
back to this day, this hour. Edwards face
swan into focus, and she realized she was
talking quite coherently. 1--WE left the plane
at Baku and crossed the Caspian by boat ~
"We?"
Zelda Higgins wife of foreign CORE
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30 MANY things had happened since then -
so many things. Again she pulled her mind
back to this day, this hour. Edwards face
swan into focus, and she realized she was
talking quite coherently. 1--WE left the plane
at Baku and crossed the Caspian by boat -"
"We?"
Zelda Higgins, wife of foreign CORE
spondent at Moscow, and her little boy The
three of us stayed in Teheran until the news
grew worse and the American consul advised
us to start working our way south"
It was in Persia that Zelda had talked
about how her Jimmie was going to. buy
small-town newspaper as soon as this fracas
was over. 1--WE don't want little Jimmie to
spend his life dragging from pillar to post
1t puts mark on them, don't you Think
Susan didn't think She knew. Kelly bore
that mark.
The long voyage home took on the quality
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Citizens Head Blame,
GaI|inger Conditions
On Lack Of Suffrage

Conditions found in the Gallinger
Hospital kitchen, if discovered in a
privately owned restaurant, would
have cost the restaurateur $500 and
the revocation Of his license" Harry
S. Wender. president Of the Fedora
ton OF Citizens Associa tions, de-
clared before the Dupont Circle As
sociation yesterday
The Government should never be
the exception to the rule, but should
be the leader in complying with
rules and regulations 1t has set for
individuals. he added.
He told of cases where the District
government has had certain health
and safety measures relaxed, due to
the lack of proper sanitary facilities
and proper safety precautions. Cases
Evening star., 1943-10-05

OF all, "the needs of the District
should be divorced from the ma
tional budget he continued.
Calls for Action Now.
The next chance the District gets
it should try to straighten out as
many of its problems as it can
Mr.. Wender said. instead OF wait
ing for a war to awaken people to
the city's needs and then discover
ing 1t is too late.
Citizens Of the Dupont Circle As
soCiation also heard an address by
Eugene Ditto, member OF the speak
ers' bureau of the Community War
Furd, who urged them to con-
tribute all that they can to the
drive until their conscience is
clear This drive, he said, would
be the only one besides the Red
Cross campaign to which the public
would be asked to contribute during
1914.
The meeting, which was held in
The Mayfiower Hotel, was preSided
over by William Clark Taylor, presi-
dent
Evening star., 1943-10-05

he cited were the tuberculous
shack" Of Gallinger Hospital, the
old District Building and old Jeffer-
son Junior High.
Blames Lack of Suffrage.
Only because the citizens of Wash
ington have no active part in the
District government" is the main
cause of the situation, he said, add
ing, "a delegate in Congress or a
representative government" would
end this plight.
Another way for Washington to
get out of its predicament is
through planning for the future, :"
Mr.. Wender declared With the
District at least 10 years behind the
times, he said, it was up to the peo-
pie of this city to correct conditions
to bring it up to the standards of
a modern city.
The population of Washington
will not decrease after the war, but
will increase and certain measures
must be met to keep the District up
to date" Mr.. Wender declared.
Recreation facilities must be kept
up, yearly scientific surveys of the
schools should be made, and, most
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Victoria Vunczu Wins
Law School Scholarship

Miss Victoria Vancza of 1909 Irv-
ing street NV has been awarded
the annual four-year scholarship at
National University School OF Law
sponsored by the Omicron chapter
of Kappa Beta Pi. international
legal sorority, Mrs. Ruth Hagerty,
dean Of the chapter. and Mrs. Eve
lyn Krupp, chairman of the Schol-
arship Committee, announced today.
Miss Vancza is employed in the
once OF the Alien Property Gus
todian as secretary and assistant to
the legal consultant. The scholar
ship covers books, tuition and re-
quired fees.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
sale selling of beef, veal, lamb and

sale selling of beef, veal. lamb and
poultry as alleged.
The OPA sought total of ST.
0l582 for treble damages" from the
D. G.. S. The suit also asks for an
injunction against the corporation
to prevent any future violations.
The corporation in its answer yes
terday said it is a non-proflt organ
ization and that it was organized
solely for the mutual benefit of its
members who own and operate gro
Gerry stores in the District and near
by counties" 1t claimed that what
it charges its member stores is for
the purpose of defraying expenses
only
The answer also claims that the
transactions referred to in the suit
against t Z corporation were
wholly between defendant and its
members and do not come within
the pUrview of any Office of Price
Administration regulations.
The OPA suit against Morris
Fuchs charged him with retailing
various edlbleS at above ceiling
prices and asked that his license be
suspended The OPA suit also
Evening star., 1943-10-05
Two D. {. Groceries
Deny Charges Filed
In 0PA Price Suits

The District Grocery Stores, Inc,
and Morris Fuchs. described as the
operator Of the Farragut District
Grocery Store Market, 1904 First
street NV, yesterday denied viola
tionS of OPA regulations in an
swers to civil suits filed against
them in behalf Of Price Administra
tor Brown.
The suit against the DGS cor
poration alleged overCharges in con-
nectlon WITH selling at wholesale,
and the one against Mr., Fuchs al
legged oVerchalges in connection with
retail sales. Dismissal of the suits
was asked in the answer.
The District Grocery Stores firm
denied oyercharges in the whole
Evening star., 1943-10-05
PEPPER YOUlG'S
FAMILY
at 2::45 p. m.

War has nodded Peppers fu.
t,rre. twisted the cords of destiny
for his childhood sweetheart
Linda, and Nick, their pal :. in
this story of life in America today.
The cast includes Betty Wragge
and Thomas Chalmers (righD.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
REPORT TO
THE NATION
at $50 p. m.

The story Of Montgomery's
army in North Africa. 1.-The drama
Of Sicilian invasion .. they have
lived on Report to the Nation.
From London. Cairo, Algiers...
Paul White (Ieh) gets the facts,
produces the vivid report for
American listeners. of each
week of America at war.
Evening star., 1943-10-05

charged that he failed to post prices
properly. All Of the charges are
denied in Mr.. Fuchs answer.
The answer to each suit was filed
in behalf of the defendants by the
law flrm Oh Whiteford, Hart and
Carmody, through John j. Wilson,
a member of that Arm,
Evening star., 1943-10-05
BACHELORS
CHILDREN
at 1O::45 a. m.

The physicians patient wis.
dom comes to the aid Of DR.. Bob
Graham in his personal / trials,
helps him explain wars purpose
10 those, who like himself, have
lost loved ones. Hear Marjorie
Hannah and Patricia Dunlop
fright } in a fine story.
Evening star., 1943-10-05
'st friend , gredtest adm

FOR Eddie Rickenbocker, deoth he. token more thon
dozen holidays For him, the bell ho. almost toled more
Than for any living At three he hit by street
At seven he fell thirty feet At eight he scorchsd
in school fire. At nine. he fell under switch engine As
racing driver his hoirbreodh escapes we're miraculous
shot-vp. crocked-vp. he emerged from World War
Americas Of His bone shottering Atlanta crash
should have killed him. yet he lived TO endure twenty -one
doys Of hell rubber roft in IRE Pacific lived to Ay
and work and fight oeon for yov, and YOU, and me.
Evening star., 1943-11-06
LOST RATION COUPONS.

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Evening star., 1943-11-06
|Sinotro Looks at His IA Card
And Feels Like 'Ordinury Man

want to get into Army entertain
ment, he said.
Does he want to continue his ca
reer when the war is over.
"Oh, definitely" declared Sinstra
and the melting tones we're very
firm.
Wants to Manage Boxer.
He also lists among his postwar
ambitions the management Of top
night boxer, preferably light
weight. frankie himself it has
been said, is pretty good with the
boxing gloves
The blue-eyed brown haired sing
ing idol does not know when he
will take his final physical, but until
then he wants to continue his work
as usual.
Sinatra, who lives in Hasbrouck
Heights, N. j., has a 31a-year-old
daughter Nancy and said he ex-
poets another child about Christmas
time.
Il hope it's a boy" he added
He has had his screening physical
examination already and was listed
for induction with the first group of
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers to be
called up by his local board. He
may be called to meet the board's s
December quota, Ira W. Caldwell,
board chairman, said.
The feminine chief clerk of his
local board said that we kept it
rather quiet" when he appeared Oc-
tober ~ for his preliminary checkup.
I'VE wanted it that way OF course,
you know what it is when he ap-
pearS"
Evening star., 1943-11-06
Prediction on Wor's End
Impossible, Churchill Saws

LONDON. Nov. 6 (P).-Prime Min
lister Churchill declared that nc
one can tell at what moment tbs
resistance OF the enemy may break ,
but, even SO, no one would be sc
1oolish as to try to fix some point
at which the war would END.
On visit TO his old school. Hsr-
row, he recalled yesterday that or
his last visit in 1870 students hao
been busy putting out enemy in
cendlary bombs, but he pointed ou,
that now this form of entertain
ment" has collapsed.
However hard, however long We
snail go forward" Mr.. Churchill
said.
No one can tell at what moment
the resistance Of the enemy NAV
break. That is not our affair: tha,
is theirs. That is for them TO say
When the war ends, he continued
a great responsibility will fall or
our country with others, but prj
marily with us because we shall
nave TO bear the burden OF sha ping
the future as far as it is in ou,
power or our duty to do so.
You young men here. some OF
you may be in battle. -
Others will inherit it. will bt
heirs TO the victory your elders OF
your parents have gained, and j,
Will be for you 10 assure that what
Is achieved is not cast away. either
for violence OF passion or by shee,
Evening star., 1943-11-06
Jones Indorses Sale
OF u. S.-BuiIt Plants
To Private Business

Secretary of Commerce Jones told
the Senate's postwar Economic
Planning Committee yesterday that
private industry should be given an
opportunity to purchase, on easy
terms, Government-built war plants
which represent a total investment
of 5000, 900, 900 or more.
The Secretary. testifying behind
closed doors, said the Government
financed plants should be made
available for purchase by private
businessmen, to the extent they
wanted such plants and would af-
ford to take them over. To carry
out such policy, Mr.. Jones was
quoted As saying, it would be neces-
sary to permit instalment purchases.
Illustrating the vastness OF Gov
ernment war investments, Mr..
Jones said that approximately 81
per cent of the Nations total alum
mum productive capacity is now
Federally owned
In addition TO industrial demobih-
2atlon and reconversion, the COM
mittee, headed by Senator George
Democrat of Georgia, discussed
cancellation of war contracts and
the disposal of surplus Government
property
Other executive session witnesses
Included James F. Byrnes, War
Mobilization director; Donald M
Nelson, War Production Board
chairman, and Undersecretary OF
War Patterson.
The committee is preparing to
hold public hearings on the oues-
ton.