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Evening star., 1944-07-29

order the formation of another, even II
all It's members are carefully selected by
Moscow, such . government would be
constitutional and Its acts, including .
drastic boundary revision of Poland's
eastern borders, would be legal.
4 ~
Unless such a compromise Is ac-
cepted by the Kremlin, the picture at
the forthcoming international confer
ence IN Washington Is going to be very
gloomy. Mr.. Churchill Is said to have
stressed this point to Stain and the
TACT that the Russian premier has
agreed at the eleventh hour to receive
the Polish leader and his advisers has
given renewed hope to Washington and
London that . compromise is possible.
Following Mr.. Churchills advice,
Premier Mikolajczyk will avoid discus
sing the question Of Poland's future
borders. This, 1t has been agreed by
all concerned, will be q matter for the
peace conference to decide at the end of
the war. The only real problems which
exist today between Moscow and the
Polish government in exile are the
question Of personalities In the new
government, the legality Of such q
government from the international point
of view and the administration of the
liberated territories once they cease to
be q "war zone" Whether Stain is
disposed to make these concessions to
the Polish government in exile and to
his two major allies Is matter of
conjecture.
High ohicials in the State Department
are optimistic about the prospects Of
the discussions between the two Pre-
miers. They point out that unless Stain
has decided to make some concession
he would have persisted in his refusal
to receive Mikolajczyk All previous
American and British attempts to ar
range a heart-to-heart talk between
them had failed. 1t Is probable that
the Russian Premier may have mellowed
on the surface at least, toward the
government in exile with which he
abruptly broke relations 18 months ago.
Mikola jczyk himself is a realist. He
understands fully that unless he goes
long way in meeting Russia's terms
he will be abandoned by the United
States and Great Britain. But while
he is reported to be willing to yield to
almost everything asked of him in
Moscow he is stubborn enough to refuse
to sign any agreement which would
make his country a mere dependency of
the U. S. S. r. He is aware that the
future of Poland will be closely linked
to Russia, but he is endeavoring to
obtain at least a nominal recognition
of Poland's sovereignty.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

rangement which seeks to center the
control Of news in a governmental
agency. no matter what bright
promises that agency may hold out
for a free press 'later on" It is
Allied arms which support the
French Committee of National Lib
Grafton. Should the State Depart
ment enter such protest, 1t is
assured the backing OF American
journalism, whose strong convic-
tions on the subject are reflected in
the party platforms so recently
adopted.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

Reading over the list of fortresses and
communications centers on the eastern
front which have fallen into Russian
hands during Thursday and Friday, it
Is difficult to resist the conclusion to
which most headline writer's appear to
have jumped: That the entire German
front in the East has collapsed. This
is, however, probably far too optimistic
conclusion, as careful analysis tends
to show.
The list is certainly impressive
Dvinsk, Reheekne, Bialystok. Brest-
Litovsk, Lwow, Jaroslaw, Przemysl,
Stanislawow. But it is list which must
be examined piece by piece in order to
determine its significance.
First let us look at Dvinsk and
Reheekre on the northern sector of the
front. These two places probably were
evacuated by the Germans in the course
of major readjustment Of their whole
northern front, which now seems to be
in progress.
This readjustment has been forced by
the deep penetration between Dvinsk
and Kaunas of Gen. Bagramian's 1st
Baltic Army group. which on Thursday
reached the important rail junction of
Siauliai, controlling the only remaining
main line of railway connecting the
Baltic States and East Prussia. This
appears to have brought to the German
High Command the conviction that
Gen. Lindemann's northern group of
armies must be split up.
\ *
What the Germans now appear to
be contemplating is steady withdrawal
by Lindemann into an isolated bridge
head including most of Estonia, with
his left flank on the Gulf Of Finland
and his right flank on the Gulf of Riga.
1t might then be possible to evacuate
some of his troops by sea through the
Port Of Tallinn, and he could be supplied
by sea as long as the German feet is
able to maintain its present command
of the Baltic.
The advantage to the Germans of
this curious strategy seems to rest in
their continued ability to bottle up the
Russian fleet in the Gulf of Finland by
the use of aircraft and light naval craft
based on Tallinn, whereas If the whole
Of Estonia and Latvia were lost, the
Russians would be able TO come out
into the Baltic and cut the German
communications with Finland. More
over, II the Germans had to get out
Evening star., 1944-07-29
ALLEGES Discrimination

TO the Editor of The Star:
I read the article in The Sunday Star
for July l6 about the landlady who pre-
ferred not to have in her home a
soldier who had lost his leg at Salerno
I also read the article in The Star for
Monday which reported the telephone
calls Of women offering their homes
to this couple.
1t is reading articles like these that
makes it so hard to believe what one
sees with ones own eyes, happening to
Negro soldiers. Don't you think that
these apparently fair-minded white
women should see, also, the unfairness
Of Negro soldiers, who have already
lost their legs or are likely to do So
being treated as badly and worse all
over the country How do you sup
pose such fair-minded people can see
Negro soldiers, American soldiers.
crowded into already crowded Jim
Grow" cars, or see them go miles out
of their way for living accommodations.
because of the ''for white only" signs?
Could it be that these seemingly fair
minded people restrict their fairness to
white only?
believe that the majority of women
who read those articles felt as the
women who called or wrote to you. and
yet they do not see the very same in
justice when a Negro is involved. It's
incredible!
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Our Victory in Normandy


tionary Force Headquarters de-
scribes the American offensive in
Western Normandy as "a smashing
tactical success" This seems to be
an accurate characterization Of this
operation in its initial stages. The
opening hammer blow. delivered in
the st. Lo sector on a ten-mile front,
broke the crust of German resist
ance there and enabled our strong
tank formations to race southwark
on three parallel highways and a
network Of country lanes, reaching
lateral highroads and driving along
them westward toward the German
base at Coutances, which is now
reported in our hands. Coutances
is a bottleneck through which all
roads near the base of the Cotentin
Peninsula pass. Although the town
is some miles inland from the sea,
its capture may trap large number
of Germans to the northward, re-
treating under American pressure
from Lessay to Periers.
This sudden deep penetration
comes as distinct surprise after the
slow progress of recent weeks and
the rather discouraging dispatches
OF correspondents who depicted
"hedgerow" warfare coupled with
what appeared to be pronounced
caution on the part of our high
command. The new tactics consist
of massive tank attacks under an
umbrella Of planes and followed by
motorized infantry to mop up by
passed German. strong points and
snipers' nests. The battle area is
thus extremely fluid, with our tank
led Spearheads far in advance of
the main infantry and artillery
forces. These are certainly bold
tactics involving considerable risks
taken for commensurate stakes.
Assuming that the immediate OBJ
Jectives are attained, the tactical
Importance Of the victory will con-
sist in the widening of our zone of
maneuver in Western Normandy
and the size of the bag of prisoners
taken in the encircling movement
on Coutances. The operation will
acquire a larger strategic signifi-
canoe If our offensive continues
southwark far enough to cut main
lateral German road and rail COM
munications which run from the
coastal town of Granville eastward
along the entire Normandy front
to Falaise and Argentan, the Ger
n IN bases south of Caen. It is that
lire of communications which has
enabled the Germans rapidly to
shift their forces against Allied at
tacks. The German high command
seemingly weakened their lines fac
ing the Americans in Western Nor
mandy to stop the recent British
assaults from Caen From the Ger
man viewpoint, British advances
southwark on Falaise or eastward
toward the mouth of the Seine
would be more serious strategic
threat than American gains far to
the westward along the coast. Not
until the American offensive turns
eastward and begins to roll up the
German front towards Caen and
their rear communications will that
threat become a major one to the
Germans. Then, indeed, the pres
ent battle of Normandy would
merge into the consequent battle
for Northern France.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
rom the Detroit News.

Hitler's prohibition of dancing while
q single German soldier remains at the
battle fronts betrays curious quirk In .
character admittedly full of quirks. 1t is
not Of great interest, of course, that he
sets himself up as arbiter of German
morals; he has been doing that for years,
and his ideas of morality are neither
conventional nor admirable. But why
pick on dancing in particular as a sub
ject for national self denial?
Evening star., 1944-07-29

The Breton Woods monetary
conference is overlooking the most
urgent fiscal problem of the day
the invention of flexible pay en-
velope that will stretch from one
pay day to the next.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

Hitler Is learning the hard way
that three-front war is very like a
three-horse parlay. II any one
blows, he loses the works.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
1t Had Teeth, Anyway

To the Editor Of The Star:
In your front-page cartoon July Is
note that Clifford K. Bergman has
drawn the saw used by Carpenter Nc
Cormack in building the Democratic
platform as a most unusual saw, with
the teeth pointing backward.
Was 1t the intention Of the artist to
indicate that the tools Of the Democratic
party can be used only with pull and
not with push?
L N. THOMPSON, N. D.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

raises LIZ DTOOkS ATuCIS
To the Editor of The Star:
All those who missed reading the
sermon of the Rev. DR.. Walter H.
Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church, in The Star of Sunday,
July 16, missed an opportunity for
weighing a pronouncement which the
heads of the governments of the earth
would do well to translate into action.
Never in the history of the world
has there been so much need for conse-
Grated spirituality.
EDWARD M. SYPHAX.
Jeremiah on Der Fuehrer?
To the Editor Of The Star:
Hitler's doom?
"Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,
and the pride of thine heart, O thou that
dwellest in the clefts OF the rock, that
holdest the height of the hill: Though
thou shouldest make they nest as high
as the eagle, will bring thee down from
thence, said the Lord"
jeremiah 1916.
That is what found today opening
my Bible at random. A. T.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Praises DIR. Brooks Article

EVELYN H. SHUFFORD.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
HitIer's New Quirk
By David Laurence

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Evening star., 1944-03-10

ISOL Bloom Feted
By Colleagues
at CabitOL

A gay interlude in busy day for
Representative Sol Bloom was at the
luncheon hour yesterday at the
Capitol when members of the For
eign Affairs Committee of the House
got together and gave him a surprise
luncheon in one of the private din
| ing rooms. The occasion was to
celebrate the 74th birthday anniver-
sary of Mr.. Bloom and every men,
Der of the committee had a Jingle OF
poem to recite as his part of the
celebration.
Speaker of the House Sam Ray
burn Joined in the fun, as did Acting
Secretary of State Edward r. Stet-
tinius, Majority Leader John w
Mccormick and Minority Leader
Joseph w. Martin, jr., of the House
Representative Frances P. Bolton
a member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee. acted as chairman of
entertainment for the merry affair
and 1t was her honor to read several
messages to the honor guest. One
was from President Roosevelt and
among others were those from Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, British
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
Canadian Prime Minister William
Mackenzie King and still another
from King George of Greece. There
were but two other ladies at the
party in addition to Mrs. Bolton
They were Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers, a member of the
Foreign Affairs Committee, and Miss
Vera Bloom, daughter of the pop
ular member of Congress from New
York.
Evening star., 1944-03-10

TUNED alike in gowns of dusty pink
chiffon, made like that of the maid
OF honor, and they also carried
the same kind of flowers which
matched their headdresses.
Mr.. Gerald Paquin was best man
for Mr.. Wood and the ushers were
Maj. Howard Miles, 1t. Kenneth
M. Failor, Mr. Stanley Ewell and
Mr.. George Wilson.
At the reception which followed
the ceremony the couple were as
sisted in receiving by Mr.. and Mrs.
SpinkS, parents of the bride, the
latter wearing an aqua-color gown
with gold beading on the bodice,
a small purple straw hat trimmed
with veil and fuchsia color flow-
ers, and corsage bouquet OF or
chids. Mrs. Wood, the bridegroom
mother. who also was in the re-
ceiving line, wore an orchid gown
and her bouquet was of violets and
with small hat of purple violets,
pink roses.
Following the reception, Mr..
Wood and his bride left for a short
wedding trip in New York, the lat
ter travelling in a fuchsia-color wool
dressmaker suit, with a small black
straw hat and silver fox jacket.
They will reside at 2728 Ordway
street on their return.
Yesterdays bride is a graduate
OF Holton Arms School and she
later attended George Washington
University. She made her debut
several years ago at a luncheon at
the Mayflower.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Gen. O'DOnneIl
Dinner Host

The newly appointed Brig. Gen.
Emmett ODonnell gave a dinner
party Wednesday evening at the
Statler Hotel with Col. Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney and Mrs. Whit
ney as his guests and Mrs. ODon-
nelPs brother-in-law and sister. 1t
Wilfred Lilly and Mrs. Lilly of New
York, who have been the guests OF
Gen. and Mrs. O'Donnell for several
weeks.
Gen. ODonnell left yesterday fol-
New York TO join Mrs. ODonnell
and their baby son Terry, born
March 3, the same day that Brig
Gen. O'Donnell was notified of his
appointment.
From New York Gen. ODonnell
will 60 to his new post for further
duty. Mrs. O'Donnell will return
early in April to Rollingwood, where
they have lived for the past year
and after few days here she will &c
to New York to make her home
there for the present.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Minister'S Wife
To Launch Sbib
On West Coast

Mrs. Walter Nash, wife of the New
Zealand Minister to the United
States, is arranging to go to Cali
fornia In the near future to sponsor
the launching of the S. S. New
Zealand Victory, now nearing COM
pletion.
One of the % Victory ships named
by the United States Maritime Com
mission in honor Of the nations who
signed the Declaration OF United
Nations, the S. S. New Zealand is
the first built ship to bear
a name related to that Dominion
of the South Pacific. No informa-
ton is available here as to whether
any of the small vessels that have
been built in New Zealand ship
yards have been given American
names. but 1t is known that hun
dreds of them have been built and
launched and have played an i'm
portant part In landing opera
tions and III maintaining vital sup
ply lines for the United States
forces in the South Pacific.
The New Zealand Minister, who
is now IN London, may not be back
in this country in time for the
launching, the date OF which has
not yet been disclosed, but If he
should return In good season, he
may accompany Mrs. Nash or join
her in California to be one Of the
honor guests at the launching.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Society News
IOt Interest
In Suburbs

Mrs. James j. Conroy, jr., of Fails
Church entertained Tuesday at g
luncheon with Mrs. William Dunn
and Mrs. Lawrence N. Eveleth a.
co-hostesses. The guests were Mrs
Stephen A. Mitchell, Mrs. Carl Coan
Mrs. William McCauley, Mrs. Johr
Sargent, Mrs. r. E. Stafford, Mrs
Alfred ]. Verhunce, Mrs. Sargent
White, Mrs. j. P. Eakin, Mrs. Reeo
Thomas, Mrs. H. c. Clay, Mrs. Hugh
Hernson, jr., Mrs. John w. Stein
Mrs. w. S. Eaton, Mrs. c. j. Nc
Brearty, Mrs. E. B. Lanz and Mrs
W. P. Fisher.
Another Falls Church luncheon
hostess Tuesday was Mrs. E. w
cCorckle, who entertained a mum.
ber of friends.
Mrs. Daniel j. Martin of Falls
Church entertained Wednesday al
a bridge luncheon.
Miss Catherine Gaynor of New
York is the guest in Chevy Chase
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George v. Graham
who entertained Tuesday at q
luncheon for their guest. Miss Gay
nor also was the guest of honor al
a luncheon given Thursday by Mrs
Albert p Woodson.
Cadet James E. Callan of Glen.
view Naval Air Station, ILL.,, is here
for visit with his parents, Mr.. ano
Mrs. James Callan, who entertained
at dinner Sunday in his honor.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Numerous Fetes
FOR Visitors
On Calendar

The Brazilian Ambassador and
Senhora de Martins gave a dinner
party last evening for the newly
appointed Brazilian Ambassador to
Canada, Senior Cyro Frietas-Valle
who is here for the remainder of
the week The newly appointed
Ambassador is accompanied by his
son, Senior Jose Luis Frietas-Valle,
who was at the dinner. Other guests
included Associate Justice Frank
Murphy, Senator and Mrs. Warren
R. Austin, the chairman of the War
Production Board, Mr.. Donald A.
Nelson; the Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, Mr.. William L. Clayton;
the political adviser to the State
Department and Mrs. James Glenn
ent Dunn, special consultant of the
Office of Strategic Services and
Mrs. Hugh L. Wilson. the chief of
the division of Brazilian affairs of
the Bureau of American Republics
of the State Department and Mrs.
Walter N. Walmsley, jr.: Sir Will
mott and Lady Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.
Carleton Palmer of New York,
Signora Brambilla, Mrs. Nordell
Lloyd, Mrs. Harold Hinton. Mrs.
Douglas Macarthur, II; Mrs Nathan
Wyeth. Mrs. James McBaine, Miss
Maria Frias, Mr.. Norris Mumper
and from the Embassy staff, the
Minister Counselor and Senhora de
Lobo, the Air Attache and Senhora
de Ararigboia and the Second Sec
retaries, Senior Fernando Saboia
de Madeiros and Senior Landulpho
Antonio Borges de Fonseca and
Senhora de Borges de Fonseca.
Another Brazilian festivity last
evening was the dinner which the
Military Attache of the Embassy
Col. Stenio Caio de Albuquerque
Lima, gave honoring the 16 Bra
lillian Army officers who are here
for few days. Brig. Gen. Alex
andre z. de Assumpcaio and Brig.
Gen. Olympic Falconiere de Cunha
were the ranking guests.
Earlier yesterday, Maj. Gen. Es-
tevao Leito de Carvalho. head of
the Brazilian delegation of the Joint
Brazil United States Defense Board,
was host at luncheon for the visit
ing officers.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Miss Sbinks and Roger Wood
Are Wed in HI Souls Church

Simply decorated with white
against background of palms
scene OF the wedding yesterday of Mary Kaheryne spinks
oaugh'er OF Mr. Mrs William
Tayoe Wood and the late Mr. Wood The
Rev. DR. H H Sterret which followed
by small reception immediate families of the
young couple at the home of the parents
escorted to the altar father
wore gown slipper
oooereo IN seed pearls oakleaf
o Illusion 1en from cap of antique
with seed pearls veil She carried an
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Friendship Fete
To Honor SINGER

Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean will
be hostess to small number of
guests at dinner Sunday evening at
Friendship. her home in George
town, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lauritz Melchoir, who will be here
over the week end. Mr.. Melchoir
will be the soloist with the National
Symphony Orchestra at its concert
in the afternoon, after which Mr.
and Mrs. Melchir will be honor
guests at a reception which the
Woman's Committee will give at the
Sulgrave Club following the pro-
gram.
Mrs. Mclean has invited addi-
tlonal guests after her dinner for
music, when Mr.. Melchoir will sing
Evening star., 1944-03-10
By the Way
BETH BLAINE

Training over 1000 young
women to serve as hostesses for
the USO is big job. and that's
what Mrs. Lewis Sycle has done
within the past year. AS chair
man of Junior Hostesses of the
Jewish Welfare Board of the
USO and the open House for
Servicemen" at the Washington
Hebrew Congregation, Mrs. Sycle
puts in 80 hours of volunteer
work every week and that,
when you have a home of your
own and a husband and a small
daughter to care for. is giving up
a great deal of time! But Mrs.
Sycle thinks it's worth it, and it
certainly is to the girls she trains
and to the thousands of service
men they entertain and help.
Born in Milwaukee, Mrs. Sycle
is a graduate Of the University
of Wisconsin. Ever since she was
old enough to know about social
welfare work she has been inter-
ested in it, and what's more she
has worked, and as a volunteer.
She and her husband have lived
in Washington for eight years
and are completely at home in
the Capital.
We asked Mrs. Sycle to tell us
a little of the program of USO
Junior Hostessses :. how old the
hostesseS were, what sort of
young women and just what they
did.
They must be between the
ages of 10 and 30," she said. "All
are working girls and when you
ask me what sort Of girls they are,
I can only say that they're the
most wonderful and cooperative
and incest group of young women
you can possibly imagine"
"The training courses are di-
vided into several parts" Mrs.
Sycle continued. There's orien-
tation of the war hospitality,
philosophy of USO, military Sc
curity, good hostessing (this often
includes appearance-styling and
makeup) and in the last course
the returning wounded soldier is
given special consideration. The
course is a series of lectures
six hours of three sessions each
and the lectures all take place in
the evenings at the Community
Center"
Highlights of the party pro-
gram that the hostesses help
make so successful, Mrs. Sycle
told us, are the parties which
take place in the Red Cross
recreation room at st. Elizabeth's
Hospital every other Tuesday
evening when an average of go
punior hostesses attend. Senior
hostesses and a staff member
of the USO always accompany
the girls and arrange for the eve
ning's refreshments some
times cakes and sandwiches and
punch or Ice cream, but what
ever the refreshments are they
are always good. Then there are
the weekly parties at Walter
Reed and Forest Glen and these
Evening star., 1944-03-10
BAldaf Cites Need
OF Paper Salvage

Approximately 100000 tons OF
paper must be salvaged this year to
relieve the pulp shortage caused by
lack of manpower. Emery w. Balduf
declared yesterday at luncheon
meeting of the Civics- Education
Committee of the Twentieth Gen.
tury Club at the YWCA
The speaker. chief of the school
and college unit Of the salvage di-
vision of the War Production Board,
also emphasized the necessity of
salvaging tin and fats. Production
Of pulpwood Is $500 900 tons below
normal. he said.
Approximately 900 900 900 pounds
Of fats are lost to use yearly, he con-
tinued. Grease traps for sinks in
Germany are now compulsory, he
pointed out.
Japan controls 10 per cent of the
worlds tin supply. Mr.. Balduf re-
called, while the United States has
been forced to draw heavily on its
tin stockpile. Two of every three
cans still are being thrown away,
he warned, urging that volunteers
redouble their efforts to salvage the
4,800 000, 900 cans. each containing
per cent of tin, needed to meet
the Nations needs.
Lady Dixon, wife of the Australian
Minister, also spoke. She said edu.
cation In Australia was compulsory
until the age of IA. and that any
citizen who failed to vote was fined
two guineas or more. When fees
and endowment funds fail to meet
the budgets of the eight universities
In Australia, Government grants are
issued to defray expenses, she said.
Activities of the British WAAF
were described by Section Officer
Peggy Scott. WAAF. Mrs. Edgar B.
Merritt, committee chairman, pre-
sided.