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and took out plaid skirt and red pullover
sweater which fitted her perfectly, being only
couple of sizes too large. An upswept hair do
and dash of lipstick would make her look
seventeen at least, and seventeen was almost
eighteen and eighteen was practically adult
ANN, hugging her housecoat over her knees,
was sitting on the front steps.
"If you'll excuse me -" Ruth Mary said,
and stepped essssiiy around h@r. 0-ss IS, --,s
Sidewalk she turned to the north. Guy viii
q whisfle, she thought contemptuously, and
the contempt was all for Hub. She could
think of lots of words to describe the young
man in uniform standing in the middle of
the street, and -with-a-whistle wasn't any
of them. Neither was un-aroused - which
was her secret word for Hub. The soldier was
fair-haired and sun tanned. and there was
bigness about him that couldn't be measured
in terms of his muscular six-foot frame. 1t
was the bigness of the United States Army,
of Democracy on the move, and Ruth Mary
knew that when there was job to do he
wouldn't be found sitting on his shoulder
blades eating an ice-cream cone. Like Hub.
There was no waiting crosstown traffic at
the moment, and Ruth Mary's heart started
pounding like drum in jam session when
he held up his hand and brought the Army
to an abrupt halt Then he turned smartly
on his heel and walked over to the curb and
offered her his arm MAY I?'' he said. His
smile made the gesture quite complete.
Ruth Mary was 50 overcome by it all that
she couldn't think of word to say; could
only pray silently that her upswept hair
wouldn't start to slide. Then, almost before
she could make up her mind whether she was
walking or floating she was standing on the
opposite curb and the young man had re-
turned to his post and started the Army roll
ing south again. 1t was not until she was sit
ting on the steps of the First Baptist Church,
two blocks away, that she recovered sufi-
GENTLY to murmur reverent 'Yippee?
Without doubt, this marked the turning
point of her life from dizzy and somewhat
empty headed youth to mature young won-
anhood. 1t was time, now, to make decision
as to her lifes work, and without hesitation
she made the choice between air -stewardess
and Red Cross nurse. Au-stewardesses just
had to look pretty and hand around little
cups for people to be sick in Almost anybody
- Beanie, for instance - could do that.
! HEN suddenly came thought that brought
Ruth Mary swiftly to her feet She had left
Ann sitting on the front steps with good
view of the entire proceedings at the corner.
1t was quite conceivable, in gruesome sort
of way that she was now standing on the
curb in her housecoat, confidently expecting
to be escorted across the street.
1t was worse than she had thought The
green-gray cars had vanished without trace
except for their traffic-director, who was sit
ting under a tree in one of the Millers' dining
room chairs. Beside him, on the ground.
sat Ann II small, blue -fowered figure with
an expression on her upturned face that made
Ruth Mary slightly i'll.
Crocciuo the street this time Ruth MaryS
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what she wanted him to say - every line,
every word To be remembered just by you,
Just by the girl whom Fate had sent walking
into his life one fine spring day. She would
write and tell him how much it meant to her.
hardly dared to think that OUT chance meet
ing and the few precious moments ,oe spent
together -
Ruth Mary sat up suddenly, shifting the
air Could it be that Ann was trying to smoke
her Uncle Henry's pipe? She ran to the door
and opened it. The smell of smoke was
stronger in the hall. and the air was def
nitely gray Her eyes burned sharply as she
groped her way downstairs to the telephone.
There was no one at home except Ann and
her She called the fire department, then
dashed upstairs to AIMS room.
Hello" Ann said She was sitting on the
floor. completely surrounded by bottles. I'm
Evening star., 1944-04-09

1t was worse than she had thought! The
green-gray cars had vanished without trace
except for their traffic-director, who was sit
ting under tree in one of the Millers' dining
room chairs. Beside him, on the ground.
sat Ann - small, blue e-howered figure with
an expression on her upturned face that made
Ruth Mary slightly i'll.
Crossing the street this time, Ruth Mary's
sandals hit the pavement with every step.
The young man jumped to his feet. Won't
you have my chair?" he said. Though. as
matter of fact, believe it's yours"
"It's mine," said Ann. Its the one l
always sit in. at the table. The Army has been
held up by freight train or something" she
told her cousin airily. 1T happens"
Ann had curiosity that led her straight
to the bottom of things. Maybe it had kept
her 50 busy she hadn't had time to tell the
Evening star., 1944-07-13
Girl Suing 5uitor Charges
Attack Hun Social Status
Nv tho Asxoc,ated pr.x.

~ tus hSAoclalen ffeSS.
NORRISTOWN, Pa, July 13.-
Miss Margherita Clement. 22-year-
old Philadelphia socialite and former
Powers model. SAYS her eligibility as
a marriageable young lady and her
social class was affected when she
was stabbed by her suitor in FASH
ionable Philadelphia hotel in May.
1913.
She made the allegation in q suit
for $25,000 filed yesterday against
the suitor, socially prominent Sidney
Bullen Dunn, jr., q, former soldier
now serving three to seven year
prison sentence on a charge of
aggravated assault and battery by
Stabbing with intent to kill. He
pleaded guilty
Miss Clement said her eligibility
was damaged by unpleasant pub
licity'' attending the incident and
tnat she was Scared apd suffered
shock to her nervous system. She is
a daughter of J. Browning Clement.
Vlllanova, a broker, and Mrs.
Clement.
Dunn. son of Mrs Dora A. Dunn
Of Haverford. was accused Of follow
ing her into the powder room of the
Barclay Hotel during a fashiona BILE
party and stabbing her with two
knives and broken whisky bottle.
Miss Clements family said he had
been jealous of her other escorts.
What did you do today to help
win the war?-Buy War Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-07-13

even hard boiled eggs and wrap
each one separately in pieces of
paper.
Children seem to understand how
to be refugees. They stay close by
their families and when they go
after biscuits or gum or cigarettes
thrown them by troops. they dart
quickly back into place without COM
mand from their parents.
The emotion of the people is in
tense. 1t seethes like a ferment in
soggy. dripping air. 1 watched a
grandfather and two grandchildren
poke patiently among ruins of their
nome to which they returned in St.
Sauveur lc Vicomte. He showed me
photographs of his 35-year-old son,
prisoner in Berlin four years now.
AS l studied the photograph. he
put frail hand on my shoulder and
his lips close to my ear and shouted,
Prisoners Of war await YOU in Ger
many" His whole face trembled as
ne spoke and his old. thin hand
trembled on my shoulder.
'CopyrshL ls44, by North American n
Newspaper AllisnceD
Evening star., 1944-07-13
BY IRA WOLFERT.

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, July
9. Delayed For this generation
of Americans the road to the west
ern front is pretty much what it
was 26 years ago.
1t Began to Rain.
That's France for you,' the
master sergeant said 1T always
spits on customers" At least that
was the gist. He did not exactly
say spit.
Then there were tracers running
red-dotted lines up into the black
sky and shell bursts and choked
rumble from distant guns.
That's France for you, too," the
sergeant pointed out when he
slipped on mud and fell. His pants
made sucking sound as he lifted
them out of it. He said mournfully,
Well. well. If 1t amt still the same
OLD France"
And SO it proved to be the same
old, indomitable France. Germans
have not changed it. nor have we,
nor will We be able to should we try.
Prices Change Quickly.
Naturally" the village Shopkeep-
er'S wife explained. we bled the
Germans. They sought to be cor
rect and friendly. They were paid
80 francs day. We sought to
charge them 80 francs whenever
they came in. 1t was for France.
That way they took nothing with
them when they left
She had the face of a beautiful
grandmother and sold famous calva-
dos at prices of her own devising.
When you asked her how much 1t
was, she said 6 francs drink.
When it came to pay, it turned out
she said Is francs.
But you said 6 not l6," wagRed
my finger in her shining checked
kindly, blue-eyed face. She snatched
my finger playfully.
Il knew your father in the last
war" she cried. You are Just like
Evening star., 1944-07-13
French Rain, Mud and Shops
Like Boys Found Them in '18

him" My father. I said, had not
got to France in 1918 Then it was
his twin brother" she insisted. He
was formidable man just like YOU"
When l counted my change, 1
found she actually had charged 2l
francs.
Madame, tried to say, you are
like France, wonderfully rocklike
and as magnif1cently Interchangeable
as earth is. 1t seemed to me superb
that in the huge catastrophe that
had smote and nearly leveled civil
lzation, that the French, standing
nearly in the center of it. should
remain what they always had been
But my French was not equal to
my ideas and I compromised by
saying merely, Madame, love
you
Know How to be Refugees.
But certainly knew your
father or his twin brother at least. g"
She grumbled her eyes twinklins
as she put 81 francs into her apron
1t was 26 years ago today that
Americans rode toward the sound
OF guns. They ride today hockdeep
in mud and old men who once were
soldiers stand proudly erect behind
their buShy muStaches as if pre-
senting arms, and families, who
know well how to be refugees. trun-
die their carts patiently among
them. They pack securely That is
the expertness in them. They take
Evening star., 1944-07-13
| |Nazi Combat Reserves
Melt With 3-Front
Drives, Patterson Says
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

Acting Secretary of War Patter-
son declared today that German
combat reserves are diminishing as
the iron ring" Of Allied ground and
air forces are tightening and re-
stricting the enemy on three fronts.
The Allied attacks in Russia, Nor
mandy and Italy, he told a press
conference, give the Nazis very
little leeway to practice strategy
|of concentrating at one point and
then shifting to another in an effort
to throw back and relieve the Allied
pressure"
Evidence in Italy, particularly, he
said, indicates the Germans are
faced with sharp manpower short
age. Military commands have been
forced to decree 20 per cent reduc-
tion in the strength of rear echelon
combat units and IS per cent re-
duction in the strength of all supply
units. That is resulting, he declared,
in the immediate transfer without
requirements OF all men under 30
years of age from the rear supply
units.
Despite the situation on all fronts,
he said the enemy in Normandy is
making Allied troops sweat" for all
their gains. The substitution of
Field Marshal Won Kluge for Field
Marshal Won Rundstedt may have
something to do with the present
type of German resistance, he
pointed out.
Won Kluge is following Mar
shall Rommels tactics OF making
the Allies fight for every little ad-
vance right now he added. The
alternative for the enemy once we
had successfully landed, might
have been to withdraw to a battle
ground Of his own choice. One re-
suit Is that the Germans are still
committing to action in Normandy
all their troops available in that
region. However, they have been
able to feed more infantry into the
line to support their heavy accu-
mutation Of armored divisions.
Mr.. Patterson =. declared that
French guerrilla warfare has served
to tie up the equivalent of four
German divisions in their wide
spread operations. That explains
why some German infantry have
had to walk 100 miles to reach the
Normandy battle line.
In reviewing the Chinese situa-
ton, Mr.. Patterson said the Japa-
nese Army will continue to be able
to maintain the initiative for the
present, despite gains made by the
Chinese ground forces The situa-
ton in China he warned. remains
serious current danger"
Evening star., 1944-07-13
Two Meneneitis Cases
Reported in Alexandria

Alexandria has had two cases of
spinal meningitis this month. the
City Health Department reported
today.
One child died OF the disease dur
ing the month and the other case
an adult, is under treatment at the
Alexandria Hospital, health oficials
reported.
Evening star., 1944-07-13
i. 5. and Britain Plan
Conference on News
And Communications
~ the Associated Press.

bs the Associated Press.
The United States and Great
Britain are planning conference
here this fall on international COM
munications and news exchange. 1t
is regarded as an opening move
toward this Governments objective
of gaining worldwide press free
dom after the war.
The conference will be one of a
series between the American and
British governments on subjects
ranging from oil to aviation. The
meetings are being held first with
the British because officials here
feel there is more chance of con-
crete accomplishments based on
similar British-American interests
ana ways of doing business.
In the base of communications it
Is also true that British interests
control the means of communicat lion
over much of the earth's surface
and generally have applied their
policy OF empire trade promotion to
AK rates favorable to British serv-
ices in competition with the nom
British.
British Control CommuniCA a tions.
State Department officials said
they were unable to say exactly
what percentage of communications
facilities is under British control.
The broad American objective Of
promoting international freedom of
news and information also is be-
ginning to take shape in other ways
Some diplomatic officials now are
talking about seeking an interna-
tlonal agreement guaranteeing re-
porters free and equal access to the
news in all countries, unrestricted
movement and the right to transmit
their information at rates fair to all
Such an agreement may come up
for discussion at the British-Amer
lean communications conference, at
least informally.
Should it eventually be worked
out with the British, it then could
be extended to other nations as
they became interested Russia.
with its complete control OF news
sources and transmission, is re-
earded as an enigma in this re-
spect.
Axis to Be Included.
Less difficult, it Is expected, will
be imposition on Germany and
other defeated Axis countries of
surrender terms providing that the
people OF Axis countries may not
be prohibited from listening to ra-
dio news and other programs re-
gardless Of where they originate.
This is designed to destroy for
mally the present Axis bans against
listening to the radio except for pro-
grams the governments arrange for
the people. A proposal for free
dom to listen" provision is under
stood to have been included in the
American draft of surrender terms
and to have been accepted by the
British and Russians. through the
Europe Advisory Commission in
London.
Evening star., 1944-07-13
Jap Vice Admiral Killed
in Action, Berlin Reports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 13.-Vice Admiral
Kiichi Hasegawa of the japanese
Navy has been killed In action, the
Berlin radio said today in a dispatch
from the japanese naval station
of Yokosuka.
Berlin said Admiral Hasegawa
had been attached to the technical
staff OF the fleet air arm head
quarters since 1942.
He may have met his death in
action around Saipan in the Mari
anas where Japanese naval air.
craft, flying from feet carriers, met
an important defeat.
Around the clock bombing requires
arOund the ~ m h Wa n and haavSu~
Evening star., 1944-07-13

Because SO many people contribute
their time, Office space and other
assistance, War Bond sales cost to
the Government Is only one cent for
every thirty-three dollars raised.
Evening star., 1944-07-13

Around the clock bombing requires
around the month War Bond buying.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Rutland Favors Plan
To Name Committee
On Hospital Needs

Health Ofiicer George C. Rutland
today declared his full agreement
with the findings of many public and
private leaders that Washington
needs many more and better" pri-
vate hospital beds.
He said he was joining with
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parron of the
United States Public Health Service
IN suggesting creation of a post
war hospital commission to plan de-
tails of the proposed development of
"a modern and efficient Washington
hospital center.
Proposed in Bills.
Such a center, to be built under
a Federal grant but thereafter oper-
ated as private institution on a
nonprofit and sustaining basis
is proposed in bills being sponsored
by Senators Tydings of MARYLAND
and Bilbo of Mississippi, and in the
House by Representative D'Alesan-
dro of Maryland
Mr.. D'Alesandro last night made
public reply he had received from
DR.. Parran on Washington's post
war hospital needs, suggesting crea-
ton of representative commission
to propose details of plans.
Mr.. D'Alesandro had called for
comments from the USPHS, the
Commissioners and DR.. Rutland on
his then pending proposal for a
medical center to be municipality
operated. Later he joined with Sen
ators Tydings and Bilbo in the plan
for private hospital center.
Questions Advisa ability.
Writing both to Senator Tydings
and Mr.. D'Alesandro, DR.. Parran
said:
I'm view of several recent develop
ments, including the introduction of
legislation by Senator Tydings, l
seriously question the advisability of
the District Health Department TAX
ing upon itself the burden of plan
ming postwar development which
would affect both the public and
the private voluntary hospitals OF
the District.
Il feel sure that any plan which
is to carry weight and bring about
co-ordinated action must be evolved
by a group having, considerably
wider representation than that OF
the District Health Department and
the Public Health Service.
Proposes Commission.
ITO this end, have proposed to
Senator Tydings that in my opinion
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Nozis Hint of Quitting
If They Can Get Terms
ne Associated Press.

6S tne Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 3O.-Germany
would be willing to stop fighting
if the Allies would relax their
war aims and substitute IAN
attitude of reason and better
understanding" 1t. Gen. Kurt
Dittmar, German high command
propagandist, implied last night.
Gen. Dittmar's gloomy review of
the Nazi war picture was made in
a broadcast to the German people.
He acknowledged German re-
verses in France and deplored de-
velopments in Romania, but said
that nevertheless Germany has to
continue as long as our enemies
stick to their war aims" and "as
long as reason and better under
standing have not replaced this
determination" to destroy Germany.
If this determination did not
exist" he said, If the world we face
had been ready honestly to recog-
nlze the living rights of a great.
capable and hardworking nation,
no reason could have been seen why
this misery had to fill the world
once more for half a decade, and
will continue to fill it,
Gen. Dittmar said the develop
ment of the war situation may GER
talnly have raised the hopes among
our enemies that his objective, the
military defeat Of Germany, is no
longer as far away as only three
months ago"
The outward DEVELOPMENT of
Evening star., 1944-08-30

at Chicago. Cows. Dwight Griswolc
and M. @. Sharpe will head a group
of Nebraska and South Dakota party
leaders to the sessions.
The party will leave Nebraska
September IA and will arrive in
Occur D'Alene. Idaho. September
l6 for meeting with Gov. C. A.
Bottelfson and lumber and agri-
cultural leaders. Later in the, day
Gov. Dewey will leave for Spokane
for a similar series OF conferences
with Washington State leaders,
thence going to Seattle, where on
September 18 he will deliver his
third major speech.
A second speech on the West Coast
is scheduled for the following day
from Portland. Oreg., while on Sep
tember 81 his Nationwide broadcast
address will be from San Francisco.
His Pacific Coast tour will end at
Los Angeles on September % fol-
lowing an address.
The Dewey party will 60 directly
to Oklahoma City from Los Angeles
arriving on September Is for q
meeting with Oklahoma industrial
and agricultural groups preceding a
speech.
Evening star., 1944-08-30

Pacific Coast. 1t will conclude with
his return to Albany September %.
Other cities where Gov. Dewey
will give chief speeches, each sched
uled for 80 minutes and to be broad
cast nationally, include Louisville
Seattle, Portland. Greg; San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles and Oklahoma
City.
Will Confer With Governors.
During his cross country trip, Mr.
Brownell said, Gov. Dewey will con-
fer with Governors of several Mid
west and Far West States, party
leaders and industrial, agricultural
and other groups during stops in
10 States.
Gov. Dewey's opening NBC-CBs
broadcast address in Philadelphia is
scheduled for 10 pm and the second
speech will be on September 8 in
Louisville, where he will address the
biennial meeting of the National
Federation Of Republican Womens 5
Clubs at $50 pm.
Leaving the Kentucky metropolis
that night, the Governors party will
go to Lansing, Mich, where on Sep
tember 9 series of conferences is
planned with Gov. Harry F. Kelly of
Michigan and State party leaders
That night Gov. Dewey will 60 to
his boyhood home at Owosso, Mich.
to visit his mother.
He will leave Michigan Septem-
Der 10 for Des Moines, Iowa, for
another conference. meeting with
Gov. Burke Hickenlooper of Iowa
and Midwest agriculture leaders
September IL before moving on to
Valentine, Nebr.
Three-Day Meeting In Nebraska.
A three-day meeting with leaders
of ranching and cattle groups Is
planned by the presidential candi-
date at the ranch of former Gov
Sam r. McKelvie of Nebraska, di-
rector of the Western division Office
Of the party's national committee
Evening star., 1944-08-30

the procedure OF choice in solvine
this extremely complex health prob.
lem in Washington is for your Joint
committee to set up postwar hos
pital commission representing the
District and working in cooperation
with the National Hospital Planning
Commission.
Il wish to assure you I am en-,
tirely sympathetic with your objec-
tive of providing approved hospital
and health facilities for the Metro
politan Area and that am especially
anxious that the problem be ap-
preached in a manner which will
prove the most satisfactory"
Mr.. D'Alesandro said he planned
to consult as soon as possible with
Senator Tydings regarding the sug-
gestions.,
Health Officer Rutland said his
formal reply to the Maryland Repre-
sentative now was in the hands Of
Commissioner Mason. DR.. Ruhland
said he was suggesting that any
new hospital center should include
arrangements for medical schools fol-
the training Of student physicians
and nurses.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Apple Authority Advocates
Orchard Irrigation in East
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, Aug. 30.-Car-
roll r. Miller, secretary treasurer of
the Appalachian Apple Service, yes
terday advocated irrigation systems
similar to those used in Western
States for use in fruit orchards of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and West Virginia.
In a service bulletin sent out to
500 growers in the four States, Mr.
Miller said that the 1929-30 and
1894 droughts had taken a heavy
toll of fruit trees as we'll as having
reduced the quantity and quality of
the fruit yields.
Unless we get this additional
water, there is more than possi-
bility we may find ourselves sitting
in ghost orchards, while fruit from
the irrigated West goes past us to
the market.
I'VE cannot control the weather,
but VIE can control the water for
our orchards" he declared
Mr.. Miller pointed out that in "a
Of the last rs years, fruit trees had
suffered from dry weather.