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Once Busy Place.
Continued From Page B-1.)

feet peace. and that military victories
which are not confirmed by the arrange
ments of peace which is more satisfac-
tory to the victor than were the ar
rangements leading up to war are in
deed meaningless. Such arrangements
must eventuate in an organization of
both local and world society which seeks
to be constructive rather than descruc-
tive, for such Is the definition of peace"
AS to Russia the guide book has this
to say:
1T is not necessary or desirable to de-
fend communism in order to enlist the
sympathetic interest OF the American
soldier in the defense of Russia. We
hold for ourselves the right to determine
our own form Of government and cannot
consistently maintain that any other
people has lesser right. Whether their
present government is the kind of polt-
ical system that is most satisfactory to
the Russian people has been sufficiently
answered by war in which the political
faith of the people as we'll as of the
armed forces has stood the trial by fire.
''The Russians are under attack; they
are fighting to maintain their right to
determine how they shall be governed.
Though we do not agree with their
political ideas (and they do not believe
in ours) we believe utterly in the defense
OF the principle for which they are
fighting"
An educational must" from the Sec
retary Of War requires that in the three
months of his basic training each soldier
shall take an orientation course of from
Z to Is hours, designed to give him the
background Of the war. The lectures in
this course. which the Special Service
Division fully admits have often been
sleep producing, are now being largely
supplanted by motion pictures showing
why We Fight" These are docu-
mentary films of the highest order.
Under another order Of the Secretary
OF War. each company commander, or
commander Of an equivalent group, in
training camps must talk to his men
half an hour each week about the war.
This Is the least publicized of the
methods used by the Army to instruct
soldiers In the significance and progress
OF the war, but 1t IS potentially the most
valuable. Everything depends on the
officer.
The Special Service Division recognizes
the Importance of these discussion
periods by supplying, in addition to a
well-arranged outline of the war, an at
tractive weekly news map to be used as
sort of textbook. The map not only
shows the development of the war, but
carries explanatory text. An officer can
make this map the starting point for
discussion of almost any connected
subject he pleases. In enabling him to
get close to his men, these talks as the
Special Service Division points out, have
definite combat value.
The division is particularly proud of
its news maps, and justif1ably SO. It
sends out some $4,000 each week and
would need to add substantially to that
number II 1t needed all the requests for
maps that have come to It.
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to reach Washington by water. But the
latter were perfectly satisfied to stop at
Alexandria, with the fleet that came up
the Potomac, and marched overland
from another direction to wreak their
havoc upon the Federal City, and though
the Arsenal did not participate in a
defensive way, yet it materially con-
tributed to the enemy slain during that
memorable August, 1914.
Indeed, this event marked the first of
several tragedies that occurred on this
military reservation, for, according to an
account printed at the time, imme-
diately after entering the city, the Brit
ish sought out all the military stores
to destroy them, and it was in doing
this that many were slain at the Arsenal.
DR.. James Ewell, Capitol Hill prac-
ticing physician at the time, cared for
the wounded and in his recollection
tells the following story OF the disas-
trous explosion that occurred at that
time:
There were also Al of the British
soldiers who were most miserably man
gled by the terrible explosion at Green
leafs Point, the greater part of whom
Evening star., 1943-05-23

the powder magazine. On reaching the
spot they found the magazine empty, the
powder on the day before having been
taken out and thrown into dry well.
The British, being strangers to this fact,
threw lighted match into the well. A
most tremendous explosion ensued,
whereby the officers and about 80 of the
men were killed and the rest most
shockingly mangled. Some of these un-
fortunate victims of gunpowder were
seen flying in the air to great distances,
and others were totally buried alive
under tons of earth thrown upon them.
The survivors were carefully brought up
on the Capitol Hill, and those in the
most distressed situation were lodged in
CAROLS Building, adjoining my house.
II never saw more endearing marks Of
sympathy than were here exhibited on
the countenance Of Gen. Ross. He OBJ
served, looking at me with an eye Of
searching anxiety, 7 am much distressed
at leaving these poor fellow behind me.
I do not know who is to mitigate their
sufferings.'
II understood his meaning, and in
stantly assured him that he need not
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with the gun who does the most effective
work, nor the only one who makes the
supreme sacrifice, and so we find in the
explosion which took place at this plant
on June II, 1864, that the lives of 81
women were snuffed out in the twinkling
of an eye, and the marvel was that any
lives at all were saved.
The explosion took place at 10 minutes
to II in the main building of the labora-
tory, one-story structure, which had
been divided into four rooms, and in
which 108 girls were at the time en-
ployed making cartridges for small arms.
The accident, it is said, was due to the
placing of q large quantity of Red
Star" fireworks, in course of preparation,
out in the yard attached to the laboratory
and right in the sun. 1t became ignited
by the extreme heat. From the fireworks
piece of fuse floated through an open
window into one Of the rooms in which
were seated 20 girls, and landed in some
loose powder from which the cartridges
were being made. 1t is reported that the
explosion which followed was terrific and
as the ensuing fire spread there were
further explosions, though of milder
character.
Those of the girls who were not killed
outright or who were not manned too
seriously, jumped from the windows and
sought places of safety, but with the
injured who were trapped the suffering
was intense until they were relieved by
death. Naturally the scene was most
heartrending, many had limbs broken,
besides being badly bruised and burned.
The explosion took place on Friday,
and on the following Sunday, June 20.
the funeral took place from the north
side OF the old Penitentiary Building.
where, report tells us:
Funeral Ceremonies.
Fifteen bodies were placed on plat
form covered with duck, and trimmed
with black; over this was a canopy
draped with the American flag. Eight
bodies were on the north side of the plat
form, and marked unknown" several
were on the south side, each coffin bear
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Old Arsenal Grounds Have Historic Past

Chalmers had che on the lower end of
Arsenal Point, where as early as 1903,
building for use as ali arsenal was
designed by George Hadfeld, one of the
architects of the Capitol He also drew
the plans for the Meridian Hill residence
of Commodore David Porter which stood
about on the site of Hotel 2400 on Six
teenth street, surrounded by ITO acres,
which extended from Florida avenue,
then Boundary street, to Taylor's land,
now Columbia road.
Mr.. Hadfield also designed the court
house, the Washington assembly rooms,
erected by Lewis Carusi, at Eleventh and
c streets NV; the branch banks which
occupied the site of the present Riggs
National Bank, the old Washington Jail
and other buildings.
Chalmers rope factory on the Arsenal
is said to have been near the barracks,
where small detachment of the Regu-
lar Army was stationed and where in
the year 1903 building for use as an
arsenal was erected. And w. B. Bryan
tells us:
ITO the Washington Arsenal were
brought as a distributing center guns
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of Europe as their British colleagues
They believe that If the Germans begin
to hammer at the Russian front and
threaten to break it this summer while
we confine our main activities to the
Mediterranean the realistic Russians
might cause us trouble by making a sep
arate peace with Germany. This our
on the theory that the hatred of Premier
Stain for Hitler is such that he will
never come to terms with that arch
criminal. Our diplomats may be right,
although they have been known to be
wrong.
The British point of view is less emo
tional. The English believe that the
Russians are so strong that, while the
Nazi high command unquestionably will
make a desperate effort to beat the
Russians into a negotiated peace this
summer, the Red Armies might yield
some ground but will not be defeated.
It Is possible that the British have
more and better information about the
Red Armies than we have. This should
not be difficult, since we have none. We
know neither the strength Of the Rus
sian forces nor the Soviet's production
capacity beyond the Volga River, where
they are said to have organized impor-
tant production centers.
We know what we are sending them
from this country and we also know
that the amounts received in Russia are
not satisfactory to our eastern associates.
Pledge Held Given.
Therefore, any argument as to the
potential Of the Russian forces this sum-
mer must remain-as far as our strate-
gists are concerned-a purely academic
question.
But what we do stress is that second
front in Western Europe unquestionably
will be Of tremendous assistance to the
Russians. Even II the operations In that
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Army Seeks Teach Troops Problems Of War and Peace

The Special Service Division is doing it's
part in telling the soldier what the war is
all about. 1t is getting out wealth of
education material of high quality and is
on the lookout for new ideas. The rest
is up to the officers in the field-to the
company commanders more than any
others-and to the men themselves.
Apart from those mentioned, the di-
vision carries on a multitude of activities
directed toward improving the mental
and physical health of the soldier. 1t is
responsible for Yank, the Army's weekly
newspaper, and has supervisory control
over the 900 official camp newspapers.
Each night it send a news summary of
from $500 to 1000 words to the task
forces overseas and to the camps in this
country whose commanding officers ask
for the service. This is a straightaway
news report, like the A. P.s on a small
scale, and is used by the commanding
officers as they see fit; some of them. in
addition to having it posted on bulletin
boards, give it circulation over loud
speakers.
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name given to this neck of land, followed
by Youngs Point and Greenleaf Point.
For more than a century, however, the
James Greek Canal-Which once flowed
Immediately to the east of the Arsenal
grounds-has been regarded as the sepa-
rating line between Greenleaf Point and
Buzzard Point. the latter being at the
extreme southern end OF land between
First and Half streets S.W.
Duddinston Pasture.
The Arsenal was part of Duddington
pasture, owned by Motley Young at the
time the city was designed by LEnfant.
Buzzard Point was subdivjded into lots
by Charles Carroll, jr., and named Car
rollsburg, to the north of which was
Daniel CAROLS property, upon which
now stands the United States Capitol.
Motley Young's property adioined on
the south the farm of David Burnes,
upon which are now being erected
number of new Federal buildings.
Originally the Arsenal grounds ex-
tended northwdrc only to about T street,
but they now take in as far as P street,
about 1712 acres having been purchased
by the Government in 1857, when an
appropriation Of 10 cents square foot
was made for this purpose, thus bringing
the whole area up to about 81 acres,
including land reclaimed from time to
time
Just when the Arsenal was first forti-
fed is question of uncertainty, though
the year 1897 is given. However, it is
known that the Government. realizing
its strategic position, did at an early date
establish a military depot ct this point
under the control Of Andrew j. Willard,
Frenchman. who saw service in the
American Revolution under the Marquis
Lafayette, and this was probably the
nucleus of what later followed here in
military line.
The Rope Walks.
In the days when sailing vessels were
used almost entirely, rope making was
universal industry and there were
several rope walks in this city. John
Evening star., 1943-05-23

to mend and clean guns and to provide
fittings and carriages for the cannon"
Fortifying the Point.
Perhaps the first real effort at forti-
flying this point was made in 1913, when
the construction of earthworks was be-
gun to mount battery of heavy guns.
Furnaces we're also built at this time,
we are told, to supply the guns with
red-hot balls, in order to give the British
warm reception should they attempt
Evening star., 1943-05-23

ing name, and the whole were covered
with flowers. Friends had taken some of
the bodies home and held private
funerals.
On the way to Congressional Gene
terry, President Lincoln Secretary STAN
ton and the latter's son, rode in a car
riage as chief mourners, and upon ar
irving at this metropolis IA coflns were
lowered into two large pits, each being
feet long, Is feet wide and 5l2 feet deep.
OF these, only six bore plates of identifi-
cation, namely, Julia McEWin. Mrs. Col
Inns, Elizabeth Branagan, Lizzie Brahler,
El1zer Lacey and Maggie Yonson.
The remains of Miss McElfresh were
inferred in a grave nearby, and those
OF Catherine Koran, Johannah Connor,
Bridget Dunn and Catherine Hall were
buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The monument to the memory of the
victims in Congressional Cemetery was
placed there by the people Of Wash
lngton and is the work of Lot Flannerv.
who designed and made the statue of
Abraham Lincoln in front of the court
house
On December 18, 1865, just year and
half later, another explosion occurred
at the Arsenal in which eight persons at
least were killed outright-Jeremiah
Mahoney, Patrick Reardon, James
Moran, Michael McDermott John Feely,
Marshland Whiteley, John Meehan and
Peter McGariehey.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

make himself uneasy on account of his
wounded soldiers. The Americans Gen.
Ross said I, are of the same origin as
yourself. We have, trust, given you
many splendid instances of our humanity
in the course Of this unfortunate war;
and you may rely on it, sir, no attentions
in my power shall be withheld from
them He gave me look of gratitude
which I shall never forget, and then,
turning toward his men where they lay,
burnt, bruised and margled, on the floor,
he silently gazed at their deplorable state
with that Godlike sensibility, near melt
ing into tears"
Once Busy Place.
During the Civil War the Washington
Arsenal was very busy place, employing
many people in the manufacture of mu-
nitions of war, and the women, eager for
the employment to help to support them
selves and families, accepted even haz-
ardous positions, such as in the making
OF cartridges and the like
OF course, it is not always the man
Evening star., 1943-05-23

coffee, tea, milk, rice, arrow root, bread,
meats, vegetables and fruits, was early
applied to sustain their exhausted
frames
The Great Explosion.
ut may crafty the generous readers
on more accounts than one to hear the
tragical history of that affair. About 2
o'clock on the 25th a British captain,
with company of soldiers, marched
down on Greenleaf's Point to destroy
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dressed up in colorful sports outfit.
Bob" Lenore said. you look very tacky
- like shark"
Bob was hurt, deeply, until he realized
that Lenore was fattering him by trying to
say sharp as tack"
Look, Lenore," Bob explained, 1.-The
difference between 'tacky' and sharp as
tack is something like the difference be-
tween a Venetian blind and blind Vene-
tan" JENNY MASON
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year ago. dead broke. But that didn't bother
her either She had decided that Hollywood
was good place to make living. She went
to work as a dress model - she has the
figure for it saved her nickels, ignored the
rumors that American movies weren't ex-
actly the easiest thing to crash, got ticket
to California. She decided she needed a
showcase. So she enrolled i'm . dramatic
school, played = couple Of parts ON its
stage. A Coldwyn talent scout saw her
- and that was that.
BY some odd coincidence, the sultry
ALBERT damsel was cast as sultry siren
for They Got Me Covered" She turns up
as glamor-laden spy to disturb the peace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-31

Hitler moved into Austria. And she moved
out. She went to Paris. So did Hitler. She
reached Marseille, hitch-hiked and walked
most of the way to the Spanish border and
on to Lisbon.
She had to wait eight months for passage
to the US. She didn't waste the time
though - when she finally pulled out she
had added Portuguese to her stock OF Ian
guages: English. German, French. Spanish,
Italian She reached New York about
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Iul, dSluIlBIOIl"SWAC
spondent life of young
Mr.. Hope. Altogether,
it's a perfect debut
part.
Lenore is tall, dark
and lovely. Her hair is
bronzish - a shade the
French call "chatain."
Her eyes are blue-gray
- it was his first look
at them which made
Coldwyn reach for his
pen and a contract,
quick. She bla1nes part
of her success on the
white streak in the
middle of. her hair.
Born with it, she says
that it's one of the best
of all good luck ornens.
She looks as soft as
old Viennese chocolate
but she's an expert
rider. swimmer, tennis
player. She speaks her
six languages fluently
but she has trouble
with US. slang.
One afternoon on
the set of They Got
Me Covered" she
walked over to Bob
Hope, who was all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-31

Lenore for the first time in They Got Me
Covered" the latest Bob Hope aisle-roller.
Lenore is the newest example of how
quickly all the Hollywood rules are dropped
when somebody comes along who has what
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Say "howdY" TO Lenors
Aubezt, new film find.
A 6o-second closeup

MANUEL GOODWIN thinks
- Lenore Aubert is his best
discovery in years. And Sam
has quite a reputation as a dis
coverer. He's showing off
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the bOx-offlce boys
want. Coldwyn signed
her because he's sure
she can make all the
reigning glarnor girls
look like Little Evas.
She has the back
ground for it:
She is strictly a pre-
war Continental -
which means, in her
case, a tantalizing ac-
cent, a walk like a
waltz, a TINT charm.
Lenore - now a %
year-old siren - was
born in a Yugoslavian
town called Gill (pro-
nounced, she says.
"silly"). She was
raised in Vienna and
first hit the movies =
few years ago when =
Hollywood crew ar
rived to take back
ground shots for 4
CIaudette Colbert
movie. The director
needed a girl who would
look - from a distance
- like Colbert. Lenore
got the job, followed it
with a few bits in Aus
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-06-18
Diva nejvetSi nemecke dolly
byly zatopeny.

Diva nejv6tsi uheln6 dolly v
N6mecku jsou ma cas- V necin-
nosti a tuny uhlf, jehoz Nemec-
ko nutne potTebuje, hoTi nasled
KEN bomb spojeneckych aero
plant, spouStenych ma Porurf,
jak pravf cestujfcf, kterf media
VINO pribyli do Stokholmu z pc
vniny.~
Prorazen1m Mohneske hraZe
dine 16. kv6tna bylo zaskoceno
sta hornfkG V dolech Freiherr
Won Stein a Barbenberg a zp1-
sobilo velke zkazy V Poruri,
jak pravf ocitf sv6dkove.
Mnoho hornfkd zahynulo V
jamach. Zarfzenf bylo posko-
zenO. Jeden z cestujfc1ch w.
pravel, re "peklo Sc otevrelo
pc znicen1 Mohneske hraze. Co
usetTila voda V Dortmundu, to
bylo pozd6ji zniceno anglicky-
mi bombami."
Voda tekla ulicemi mesta ma
tri stopy zvysf. Nasledkem ne
dostatecnych dopravnich pro-
stredkG miliony tun uhlf je V
hromadach V okolf Ruhrskych
dol1. Anglicke bomby zapali-
ly tyto velke hromady uhlf a
pokusy o jeho uhasenf byly
marn6. Jeden cestuj1cf pravi,
re, kdyz videl 1doli Ruhru, by
10 pine kouTe z bombovanych
NEST a dolG.
Take jina m6sta v PoruTf by
la t6zce poskozena vodou. Pr1-
plav Weser-Emsky, jenz je jed
nou z nejvetsfch nemeckych
vodn1ch cest, byl zatopen a
nelze no pouzfvati pc nekolik
meslcG. Jiny cestujfcf vypra-
vel, re celia oblast cd Kolina do
Hannoveru je obrazem zkazy.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-06-18
~OBYVATELSTVO
LIDIC BYLO ~POVRAZDENO
NEMCI.

Bachorka O dopravenf zen do
koncentracn1ch taborG a det1
do "vychovnych 1stavG" podla
nemecka lez. = Lidice zniceny
leteckym bombardovanfm a pr
chaj1cf obyvatele pobiti palbou
kordonu nemeckych tankG.
Londyn (ONA) - Dne 10.
cervna pfipadlo vyrocf jedno-
no z n~ejvets1ch nemeckych
zverstev teto valky: Vyvrazde-
nj Lidic.
Ceskoslovenske kruhy k to-
muto vyrocf poprve oznamuj1,
re vsechno obyvatelstvo Lidic,
tedy muzi, zeny a deti byli
Nemci povrazdeni. Doklady o
tom zfskane cd csl. odbojoveho
hnutf ukazuji, re nemecka YER
Sc o ~postr1leni lidickych muz1,
odvezen1 zen do koncentrac-
mich taborG a detf do nemec-
kych vychovnych institucf je
lez.
Csl. odbtjove hnutf zaclo i
hned zkoumati spravnost ne
meckeho ornament a zjistilo
pravy pr1beh lidickeho masa-
kru pri cemz podrobnosti do
dali sami Nemci, kter1 Sc jej
zucastnili.
Poole teto verse, z rama 10.
cervna Sc objevila mad Lidice-
mi bombardovacf nemecka le-
tadla ktera shodila ma vesnici
zapalne pumy. Zaroven bez-
branne Lidice byly obklopeny
nemeckymi tanky.
Kdyz hruzou zachvacen1 We
snicane zac1i prchati re svych
horic1ch domovG byli stfileni
koncentrovanou palbou kulo-
metz tank1.
An jedina lidska bytost ne
unikla.
Nemci pri ornament lidicke-
no masakru udali pocet obyva-
telstva Lidic ma 483. Csl. vlad-
nj kruhy v Londyn6 odhaduji
vSak pocet obyvatelstva ma
1900 osob.