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Evening star., 1944-09-30

carried out exactly, the Chinese
servicemen and women and their
civilian guests will have an i'm
provised figure of dragon, they will
eat mooncake. some sort of pagoda
will be burned, and a Chinese play
with Chinese characters and cos
tunes will be presented by a group
OF the soldiers. The hostesses serv-
ing will wear Chinese dress.
The Chinese USO is the only one
OF its kind in the United States. In
the past year it has served more
than so men and women from China
here in the armed forces. Girls
from the Chinese Embassy, and
other Chinese groups, serve as
hostesses at the weekly parties.
Madame Wei. wife of the Chinese
Ambassador, will serve tea, and Mrs.
Henry Wallace and other Washing
ton persons interested in or con-
nected with China will be present.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

"HOWDY NEIGHBOR"As feature Washingtons GOOD
Will Week. which began Thursday old Washingtonans greet
newcomers to the city at Union Station official salute
OF the week Howdy Neighbour Left to right
Popoo chairman of the Government program
Good Will Week; Jean Rabenod Superior Wis and Carol
Smythe from New Orleans La employees and
Miss Louise Nichols employees counselor the Ofce of the
Quartermaster General. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1944-09-30

tiers around the burning of a
pagoda to symbolic prosperity. A
figure of dragon is present, as the
dragon mythically is the creature
of prosperity and appears only at
times of great happiness. Romance
enters the festival, as the young
people watch the pagoda and ex-
change mooncakes, a food symbolic
of the moon festival as turkey is of
Thanksgiving. Those who exchange
the cakes are called cake-eaters,
which translated into modern Amer
ican jargon, means wolf" according
to Joseph Chang, editor of the
Chinese News Service, who is in
charge of the festival here. A Chi
nese play, complete with elaborate
costumes, also is presented.
Although the trations will not be
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Businessmen 10 HeIp
Church Observance
OF Good Will Week
Letters Of Approval
Are Received From
Mony CIereymen

Washington's pastors will have
the help of the Junior Board of
Commerce in promoting city-wide
church observance tomorrow of the
boards good will week" program
designed to promote courtesy, good
Will and neighborliness.
Many letters of approval have
been received from clergymen of all
denominations and the defense
commission of the Washington Fed
GRAFTON of Churches has indorsed
good will week"
Alan Bruce has been appointed
as the boards chairman for
churches and religious organizations
OF the city for tomorrow's program
Comedy to Be Presented.
The washington Welcomes You"
project. sponsored by The Star, will
present the American Cartoon" a
comedy in three acts, tonight at
Walter Reed Hospital with the CO.
operation Of the American Red
Cross as part of good will week"
One OF the features of the week
will be an information program. to
be presented at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
IN the United States Chamber of
Commerce Auditorium, 1915 H street
NV. under the leadership of Mrs.
Gertrude Parks. president of the
District Federation of Women,s
Clubs.
Charles Dana Beaschler, director
OF music at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, will lead the
audience in choral singing. This
Will be followed with a flag DISPLAY
In tribute to Washington men and
women In the armed forces. The
Columbia Orchestra, under the di-
rection OF Edward A. Carey, will give
a concert.
Program Arranged at Chapel.
THE Cavalcade of America" a
composite word picture of some of
greatest men, will be pre-
Sented in narrative form with organ
accompaniment at 8 pm. Wednes-
day IN the Washington Chapel, 2slo
Sixteenth street NV. The program
Is open to the public. Government
workers, visitors and newcomers who
nave never attended any of these
recitals at the chapel are especially
invited.
Last night 1e Washington girls
who have given 500 hours or more
OF their free time to volunteer camp
SHOWS were presented honor badges
by the Office of Civilian Defense
and the District Recreation Board
m the departmental auditorium,
They appeared before an audience
Of Government workers and service
men to see a sample camp show.
rs part OF Recreation Day in the
Good Will Week" program.
Girls honored last night were Inez
Draft, Nellie Boyd, Hazel Morton
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Contests Announced
For War Bond Drive
Store Displays
All Stores Being Ureed, ,
Regardless Of Size. to
Enter Competition

To spearhead the Sixth War Loan
drive which begins November 20,
a national series of window display
contests has been arranged, it was
announced today by Granville GUIDE,
chairman of the retail division Of
the District War Finance Com.
mittee.
All Washington merchants, re-
gardless of store type or size, are
urged to enter the contests, entries
for which will be judged at three
levels, State, regional and national,
with 10 prizes at each level. Mr..
GUIDE said judging will be on the
basis of sales appeal, originality and
the cleverness with which a window
display is constructed
In the District five prominent
authorities will act as judges for
the prizes of s25 plus the right to
compete regionally. One Judge from
each Of the State committees, in
cluding the District, will compose a
geographical sectional judges COM
mittee to award regional prizes Of
$50 plus the right to compete ma
tionally.
A national grand prize committee.
composed of one judge from each OF
the nine geographical sections, will
award the grand prizes, which will
range from a first prize of $1,000
and Treasury citation to a 10th
prize Of $50 and a citation.
The sponsors prize fund con.
tributed by II national manufactur.
ers totals more than $4,000 and
more than 5000 awards will be made
to retail outlets in the drug, jewelry,
grocery, hardware, floor covering.
gasoline, radio. mems clothing.
women's speciality, variety and de-
partment store fields.
Specific details regarding the local
contest will be announced at an
early date, Mr.. GUIDE said.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Red Cross Correspondent
Awarded Silver Star

Richard M. Day of Kirkwood, Mo.
Red Cross correspondent has been
awarded the Silver Star for GAL
lantry in action while accompany
ing an American landing force on
Wakde Island last May "a, the War
Department announced yesterday.
When enemy fire killed the
coxswain of the landing craft in
which he was being taken to the
beachhead, he seized the wheel and
kept the boat under control. He was
relieved by one of the engine crew,
but not until two other men in the
craft had been killed and 81 others
wounded
Evening star., 1944-09-30
b|andford Asks Smith
To Supply Evidence
On Priority Racket
Housing Chief Promises
Prompt Action in Cose
Irregularities Are Shown
BY DON S. WARREN.

National Housing Administrator
john B. Blandford, jr., today de-
clared there is no reason at all''
for anybody to pay an priority holder
anything for his right to build low
cost war housing.
Reacting to charges by Represent
ative Smith, Democrat, of Virginia,
that some so-called builders who
have "cornered" low-cost housing
priorities are selling them for as
much as 500 a house to legitimate
builders, Mr.. Blandford told The
Star his agency would take prompt
action in any case in which evidence
was offered.
III Representative Smith or any
ore has evidence" he said, I'VE will
be glad to receive it. In an obvious
case there is an answer: First, to
withdraw the outstanding priorities
involved, and second, to ask the War
Production Board to start the prose-
cution machinery"
Main Job Is to Provide.
Mr.. Blandford added: Our main
Job now is the provision of needed
low-cost housing for war workers.
particularly for colored families,
rather than the business of policing.
But we have not been sleeping on
that situation, either. We have been
watching it for the past three or
four years, and making such checks
as conditions of time and staff per-
NIT.
After all, while we have found
some irregularities in use of prior
tiles. we have placed emphasis on
the constructive side of the picture.
and have built more than 100000
housing units in some 1000 cities"
Mr.. Blandford denied that de-
lays IN use of granted housing
priorities indicated anything i'm
proper. Some prospective builders.
he said, had over-reached, some en-
countered neighborhood opposition,
some had difficulties in obtaining
sites, and some had trouble with
zoning regulations.
III any legitimate builder wants
to build low-cost housing for war
workers where it is needed, he need
not pay anybody anything for the
right. With the approval of WPB
outstanding priorities can be can
celled, or additional builders can be
given priorities if they can turn
out needed housing at rent levels
meeting the situation"
Smith Tells of Protest.
Representative Smith said he had
protested to an official of the MIA
after receiving information about
the racket" and that he was told
the agency knew about the alleged
priority sales but had no way to
stop it.
Mr.. Smith said the practice has
delayed war housing in this area,
at the expense of the legitimate
industry and low-income families
who thereby were deprived of de-
cent living quarters.
There was no indication from
either the executive or legislative
branches as to how extensive the
reported racket" nipht he
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Chinese Cake Eaters to Mark
Festival of Moon at USO

A group Of American servicemen
and women will gather tomorrow
afternoon in USO center here to
give one another round, sweet moon
cakes, drink tea from small, han
dleless cups, watch a paper pagoda
burn and smile at visiting
dragon.
They also will eat birthday cake
and dance to American music.
They are Americans of Chinese
birth or ancestry, and they will
meet in the Chinese USO in the
YMCA building, 1875 G street NV,
to celebrate the festival of the moon,
an old Chinese harvest holiday.
similar to the American Thanks
giving, and to celebrate the first
anniversary of the Chinese USO.
The moon festival in China CEN
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Egyptians Awarded
U. S. Typhus Medals

Three Egyptian health officials
have been awarded the American
Typhus Commission Medal for their
cooperation with American scien-
lists in the study of typhus fever,
the War Department announced
today.
The recipients are DR.. Ali TeWfic
shousha, Undersecretary of State
for Health; DR.. Abdel Hamid Sadek.
director of epidemic diseases, and
DR.. Mahmoud Abou-Baker Demer-
dash, director of the governments S
hospital for infectious diseases.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Where 1t Laos

The District probably will 60 over
the top today in total bond sales
to meet its money quota in the
Fifth War Loan campaign. While
response in the sale of "E" bonds is
disappointing. it is known that de-
lays in auditing receipts and in
reporting sales may be responsible
for the lag and there is every hope
that the final figures again will show
the District we'll over its quota in
this category. Even now, the Dis
trict Is ahead of the national
average and stands we'll toward the
top Of the list in cities.
The failure. II there is any failure,
will be in individual bond sales, of
which "E" bonds are only 4 part.
This would be a repetition of past
failures, for the District has never
yet met its quota in individual bond
sales. There must be q reason. It
probably lies in the nature Of the
Districts nonindustrial population,
where average income Is relatively
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Clever Candidate
By Dapid laurence
From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
n,,itc ny;daot l.. C~ D,

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Quite evident is Gov. Dewey's intent
to carry the war to Africa, so to speak,
on the subject OF youth. The Democrats
will make much of the Governors COM
paratively tender years. They will re-
peatedly ask the country If it should
send boy to do a mans job" Several
references in the Governors speech (of
acceptance), such as his justified asser-
ton that the New Deal has grown old
IN ofice." shows that he intends to make
capital Of his own youthfulness.
We believe that Gov. Dewey will be A
clever, resourceful candidate. alert to
take advantage of every opening. He
has long way to 60 to capture the
confidence of the country. though he
seems to have strong confidence in
himself, but there will be plenty of op-
portunities between now and November
for him to show what stun he is
made of,
Evening star., 1944-07-06

knocked out great many German tanks
without losing any ground he has taken
and without comparable losses of his
own. He passes over to the offensive
locally whenever he sees fit-thus re-
tanning full possession of the initiative
and ne is gaining ground toward Caen.
perhaps not very rapidly, but certainly
very definitely
This Is. Of course. only a single
phase of the action. What Gen. Mont
gomery is doing is keeping the Germans
busy trying to defend Caen while he
awaits the full flood of reinforcements
that Will begin to reach him as the port
OF Cherbourg gets back into active use
and while the Americans deepen their
foothold south of the Cherbourg Pen
insula.
1t is interesting to note that the
troops in Normandy are now oficially
slated to include the British I'd
Army (Gen. Dempsey and the Ameri-
can LIST Army Gen. Bradley These
have been joined to make the 2lst
Army group, which Gen. Montgomery
commands. It will be recalled that in
Tunisia the British 1st and 9Th Armies
were Joined together to create the 18th
Army group, which was placed under
the command of Gen. Alexander. The
American I'd Corps and two French
corps were attached to this Army group,
but no American Army as a tactical
unit was present in Tunisia, though the
I'd Corps formed (administratively)
q part Of the American 5th Army.
The formation of thu Dict Arrov
group might suggest that for the
present, at least, no additional COM
plete armies are to be sent to Nor
mandy. Since there is q limit to the
expansion Of any single army, beyond
which it cannot function efliciently, and
since there are, according to of1icial re-
ports Of the number of American troops
overseas, far more troops available than
will serve to MI the 1st Army to the
very outside strain of those limits, 1t
Is difdcult not to feel that other blows
against the Germans may be impending.
tcopyfisht. 1e44, New York Tribune. Ine)
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Bronch Library Monument

Sentiment already is developing
in the direction Of making sure that
the memorials raised for the fallen
heroes of the Second World War
shall be living monuments in terms
Of service to mankind. The men
and the women, the boys and the
girls now In the fighting forces over
seas have made 1t plain that they
do not wish their comrades or them
selves remembered in impracticable
ways. 1t follows that the suggestion
that the projected Cleveland Park
branch Of the Washington Public
Library ought to commemorate
those whose lives have been con-
cerned with the perpetuation Of the
ways of democracy" has added
strength to the original plan for the
acquisition of the site and the erec-
ton of the building.
The impact of events, in other
words, has given a new and an en-
larged significance to the proposal
as it first was formulated. As long
ago as 1903 the lot on the west side
of Connecticut avenue between
Macomb and Newark streets was dis
cussed as the proper place for such
a structure as even then was con-
templated. The need, naturally, has
grown with the passing Of four
decades. 1t was because Of the DEM
onstrated demand that the House
Of Representatives Appropriations
Committee put into the 1944-5
budget an item of $4,000 to pay
half the cost OF the stipulated land.
A volunteer committee of Cleveland
Park residents has obtained cash
and pledges in amount of approx
mately $1,000. The amount still to
be subscribed is roughly $4,000.
Such a campaign, OF course, should
succeed. 1t would be a reproach to
the entire community if it were
allowed to fail. The actual money
wanted is nothing as compared to
that which day by day is wasted on
ephemeral investments. With the
business groups, the churches OF
every denomination, the schools,
many social units and consider
able number Of individuals Cooper
ating, 1t seems certain that the goal
soon will be reached.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

ocrats have their toughest opposition.
One Of the well-kept secrets of the
White House. up to the present. is the
Presidents choice for the vice presiden-
tial nomination. Mr. Wallace has been
an tn-and-outer in the speculation One
day he is regarded as certain of renomi-
nation with the President and the next
he Is not. His denomination, If it is
attempted, will be fought by some of the
delegates. 1t was fought in 1910. But
Mr.. Wallace was nominated. 1t Is un-
likely the President will keep his hands
on and leave to the convention the
nomination of his running mate.
The Democrats in administration
circles say that the coming convention
will be short and sweet. The Republi-
cans have just set record for recent
years With three-day national conven-
ton. The Democrats would like, if they
could. to cut their convention to two
days. with great show Of unanimity.
This hope may never be realized. There
are some angry Democrats due to attend
the convention
The Democratic leaders largely at the
instance OF the President himself, in the
past have clamored for brief national
campaign. 1t begins to look as though
Republican Candidate Tom Dewey may
accommodate them so far as campaign
speaking Is concerned. But Mr.. Dewey
Will let no grass grow under Republican
feet so far as party organizat ton work
Is concerned. Under his leadership one
of the most perfect party organizations
New York has ever seen has been set up.
II he has his way, the whole country
will be similarly covered.
The Republicans have the bulge over
the Democrats in this matter-despite
widespread Federal patronage and ONCE
holders. For the COP controls State
governments in 26 States outside of the
Solid South. This means nearly all of
the States with the big blocks of elec-
toral votes. 1t is vastly different pic
ture from that which has confronted the
Roosevelt leaders in the last two ma
tional campaigns.
The Democrats no longer have the
WPA to look to for support. In its place
it has the CIO Political Action Com
mittee-but that may turn out to be
mixed blessing The CIO is pressing
hard for the denomination of Vice
President Wallace
Evening star., 1944-07-06
This Changing World
By Constantine Brosvx

at the head Of French affairs, at least
temporarily. He desired to enter france
In the wake Of the American British
Canadian Armies OF Liberation and es-
tablish . civil government until such
time ~ France would be sufficiently re-
stored to have free elections. He also
showed definite determination to purge
AL the Frenchmen who have actually
been or were suspected Of collaborating
With the Germans. All the Petainists
ana al the men who have had any Of
ncial positions OF prominence in the
Petain government, including the ST.
year-old Marshal Petain himself, are
said to be slated for drastic purge"
Mr.. Roosevelt and his advisers have
been kept fully informed Of develop
ments In France. They zee the situation
In that country in different light from
Gen. de Gaulle
The French leader hears only what
his personal underground Is reporting
to him. Washington sees the picture
from many different angles. Gen. de
Gaulle believes only in his own UNDER
ground. The American authorities get
reports about the activities of the two
other groups Of resistance-the Com
munists and the extremely efficient
underground Of Gen. George, which is
composed almost exclusively OF officers
formerly on the active or reserve list
OF the French Army and have stayed
behind waiting for D-day These latter
men are militarily, not politically
minded.
From these sources, 1t appears that
the French people do not want 4
"gouvernment de Ia revanche" (revenge
government), in which heads would roll
Unfortunately. They do not want .
regime Of political terror. And, un-
fortunately, the various trials held at
Algiers by the purge committee" ap-
pointed by Gen. de Gaule have def
nitely indicated that q regime of terror
might be established in France If the
Committee of National Liberation were
accepted by the United States and Great
Britain as q provisional French gov
ernment.
The British government has used all
the immense influence it has in Wash
ington to induce Mr.. Roosevelt to receive
the French leader. The De Gaulle
visit may have a good effect on the
future of France. So far Gen. de
Gaulle has met Mr.. Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Hull and the highest ranking
American military men in q French
surrounding. He has never been in this
country and it was an excellent idea
to have him come here and catch a
glimpse at the United States and her
people.
1t may be that even short visit such
as the French leader is paying to this
country may lead him to understand
better the American point Of view.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Progress in Normandy
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The expected American advance
southwark from the Cherbourg PENN
sula to deepen our bridgehead in the
critical area ut the base of the penin-
sula is under way. Progress is slow.
That Is to be expected. because the
country Is partly flooded and Is much
cut up by waterways. which confine
military movement to comparatively
narrow stretches of ground between the
inundated areas. This makes the use
of armor difficult 1t Is an infantry
problem and because of the narrow
frontages an unusually powerful artil-
lery support Is required in order to help
the infantry forward.
The first American effort appears to
have been directed toward gaining the
road junction of La Haye du Puts.
Another American advance seems to
be in the making on the road from
Carentan to Periers and it seems likely
that a full-scale offensive from Caren-
tan and the forest Of Cerisy will pres
emily developed against Saint Lo.
Meanwhile, on the eastern flank Of
the Normandy battlefield, the Canadians
have scored q definite success by the
capture of the town of Carpiquet. only
miles from the center Of Caen. The
Germans still hold the airfield at
Carpiquet. About miles due south of
Carpiquet, however, the British sud-
denly have smashed forward to take
the town of Verson.
This leaves the Germans between
these two towns in q dangerous little
salient from which they may shortly
be pinched out. If 80, the road to Caen
would seem to be open. Two more OF
the piecemeal, though locally violent,
German counterattacks were beaten of
by the British during the early hours
of Wednesday morning, indicating that
the Germans even yet have not learned
the futility of these scattered efforts.
1t begins to look rs though Gen.
Montgomery had deliberately thrust
forward this Odon River bridgehead
with the idea Of attracting to it the bulk
Of the German coslntefedorts. He has
killed great many Germans and