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Evening star., 1944-06-15
Weddings Hold Spotlight

The marriage Of Miss Ann du
Pont Huidekoper. daughter of Mrs.
Reginald S. Huidekoper and the
late Mr.. Huidek0per. to 1t. COmdr
Travis Taylor Brown. son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude W. Brown Of
Charlotte. n. c.. is of more than
usual interest in Washington, where
the brides family has been prom
inent for several generations. The
ceremony was performed yesterday
afternoon in ST. Adams Episcopal
Church, the rector, the Rev Dr..
Charles T. Warner, officiating at
) o'clock and the Organist. MI Wal
ter Nash playing the wedding
music.
Nj Peter G. FuidekODer escorted
his sister and gave her il marriage
and her wedding gown was OF white
tullc made with very long train
and Ions sleeves, Her long tulle veil
was edged with rare Old rose point
lace worn by her mother on her
bridal costume. White orchids
decorated the prayerbook which
the bride carried.
Miss Elizabeth G. HuidekOper was
maid of honor for her sister and the
bridesmaids were Miss Marion
Hodges Of New York. Miss Sue Cole
man of Baltimore. and Miss Mar
garet Burke of Washington. Their
frOCks were white jersey bodlceS
with full tulle skirts. their wide
brimmed green hats trimmed with
roses. the maid Of honors white
and the others deep pink matching
the flowers in their ld-faShlOned
bouquets. The maid of honor car
ried a tulle fan with white orchids.
Dr., Allen Walker was best man
for Comdr. Brown and the uShers
included Maj Joseph Greenwood.
Maj. Robert Graham, 1t. COmdr
Richard B. Griffin. 1t. James Ke-
nan. and Mr.. Robert McConnaughey
all wearing white
The reception was held in the
IlOIIle VI IIit VI lut . IllotiiSA, ollO
later Comdr. and Mrs. Brown left
on a short wedding trip. They will
live at $500 @ street on their return.
Mrs. Brown was graduated from
Westover School at Middlebury,
Conn: made her debut in Wash
ington in November. 1910, and is a
member of the Junior League.
Comdr. Brown was graduated from
the University of North Carolina
and from the law school there and
is a member Of the Chevy Chase
Club.
Mrs. B. Gardner du Pont, grand
mother Of the bride, with the for
meT'S SOn-in-laW and daughter. Mr..
and Mrs. Ebert Dent. came from
their home at GTeenville, Del, with
Mrs. William w. Hopping of New
York, godmother of the bride, and
Mrs Brown and Miss Dorothy
Brown, mother and sister of the
came for the wedding
The Chapel of the Holy Com
forter was the scene of the wedding
yesterday afternoon of Miss Dor
othy N. Larner and Mr.. Edward
Clark Allen. the former a daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Larner of
Blackstone, Va, and the latter a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c. Allen
of this city. Mrs. Thomas H. Lar
ner, sister-in-laW of the bride.
played the wedding music, and the
reception for members of the two
families was held in the home Of
Mr., and Mrs Russell Sloat at Lam
ham Park. Md.
The ushers. Mr.. Joseph StranleyI
and Mr.. Keith Petrof, led the
bridal procession, followed by Mrs
Sloat, who was matron of honor,
wearing brown and shell pink and
carrying pink gladioluses. She i'm
preceded the bride, whose
costume was of powder blue with
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|BnSineSSavO1nen Plan
To Erect Clubhouse

Plans for a clubhouse for the
steadily increasing membership of
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club of the District were dis
cussed at meeting this week when
Mrs. Meta Fay, chairman of finance,
brought concrete suggestions for i'm
mediate consideration, resulting in
the appointment of a special COM
mittee to study the proposals. Vol
untary donations amounting to
81, ,125, to be contributed to the club
house fund. were reported received
at the annual June dinner by Miss
Marjorie Webster. club president.
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Visiting Grandm0the,

Mr. Randolph D. zelov has been
with his grandmother, Mrs. Ran
dolph D. Hopkins, in her home on
Biltmore street for several days, on
his way to Annapolis where he will
enter the Naval Academy. His
brother. Mr.. Victory Hopkins Zelov
who also has been a frequent visitor
Of his grandmother in Washington
is a navigation cadet in the Army
Air Forces stationed at Kingmar
Field, AriZ, and he expects to re.
ceive his wings this summer.
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Sponsor for Ship

The Netherlands Minister and
Baroness van Boetzelaer were in
Jacksonville, Fla, Yesterday for the
launching of the Liberty ship Henrik
Willem van Loon in memory of the
famous Netherlands-American au-
thor. Baron Won Boetzelaer was the
guest of honor at the small and in
formal dinner following the cere-
mOny.
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Miss Robbins to We'd

Mrs. C. A. Robbins announces the
engagement Of her daughter, Miss
Marian Nanette Robbins, to Avia
ton Cadet Edward G. Villalon the
wedding to take place the latter
part of June, after the prospective
bridegroom receives his wings
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Plan Picnic. SMbber

A picnic supper will be served to
so servicemen from the Salvation
Army USO Club by Manor House
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, tomorrow in Rock Creek
Park
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taken jobs for the duration to re-
lieve the manpower shortage and
with few exceptions have con-
tributed sons and daughters now
serving overseas.
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Wild Ducks

The ,Oild ducks 1Dheel against bur-
nished moon
Abope cloud-banded hills that cro,pd
the lake;
The Dind, a faint suggestion in the
stars,
Scrapes lightly on the sound that
feathers make.
The ,Dild ducks turn upon an iuory sky
And teet the moons thin fingers on
their 1Dings;
Pine lances pierce slim loops OF silper
clouds
Abope the nights sott-pedaled whis-
pcrings.
The 1oild ducks slant against the brittle
stars,
Aoare OF frost behind them as
they fy;
They sweep into the pale foam OF the
ddDn
And leaps behind an empty crps-
tai sky.
VIRGINIA ELIzABETH BLACK.
Evening star., 1944-06-12

Ten thousand people, we are told, knew
the approximate invasion date. Yet the
enemy was surprised. Only one person
has been reprimanded for letting the
cat out Of the bag, Maj. Gen. Henry
j. r. Miller, former commanding general
of the United States 9th Air Force, who
is accused of saying at cocktail party
that ION his honor" we would invade
before June Is. He has been denoted.
Actually, when q great operation is
being prepared, the greatest security
lies in confusion. Unless the enemy OBJ
tains direct information from trusted
agent. statements made in public may
confuse the enemy rather than inform
him, for he cannot know what is slip
OF the tongue, and what is a definite
plan. Mr.. Churchill himself promised
In speech, There will be many de-
ceptions."
There has been no major operation
I'M which one or another person has not
made the correct forecast. Scores have
predicted that we would invade before
June Is. Invasion weather has been
discussed in the press. Leading mill
tary authorities, including Gen. Eisen-
hover, have predicted European victory
in 1874, which obviously meant invasion
early this summer. Since, in war, every
body distrusts what he hears, the exact
truth may be more deceptive than q lie.
Once during this war I was the re-
cipient of prime information. 1t was
in the spring of 1910. As neutral, in
a neutral country, was accosted in the
lobby of a hotel by a German, who
identified himself as some one I had
met years before. In the manner of
an Oppenheim plot he sought few
minutes alone with me, and asked me
whether I was proceeding to Paris. I
said yes, and he then said, Tell the
French authorities that the Germans
will invade in May, before the 18th,
and simultaneously through Holland
and Belgium" He said he believed I
could be trusted and he hoped the
NaZis would be licked.
1t is impossible to convey why be-
lieve that he was telling the truth. He
was q person who might have known.
There were obvious reasons why he
could not safely convey 1t through an
Allied embassy. The measure OF my
credulity was based upon his expression.
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Red Cross Pictures

BY courtesy of the national head
quarters of the American Red Cross
the Library of Congress has come
into possession of what probably is
the most comprehensive collection
of photographs relating to Red Cross
activity ever assembled anywhere in
the world. Approximately fifty thou
sand individual prints are included
in the gift and some of the more
notably interesting of them already
are on exhibition. The display
proves again the incalculable value
of the work OF the Red Cross in times
of peace as we'll as in those of war.
Pictures of the San Francisco
earthquake and fire in 1905 are
shown to demonstrate the Red Cross
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'hich Colonel Craigie has advocated

which Colonel Craigie has advocated
for 50 many years-compulsory serv-
ice in the cadet corps for all boys.
His advocacy has not been based
on any desire to produce goose
stepping young militarists. but to
inculcate in young men something
Of the idealistic spirit of patriotic
service and respect for authority
which are among the finer attributes
of the soldier. As for the trappings
the chevrons and the medals and
the prizes at drills - the Colonel
knows they are the natural accom-
paniments of military service, and
they help maintain the morale of
healthy competition.
Colonel Craigie has rendered fine
service to the schools and the young
men of Washington and he will
take into his coming retirement the
affectionate good wishes of the COM
munity.
Evening star., 1944-06-12
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

the manner Of telling, the strain he
seemed under, as though engaged In an
internal struggle. Yet what government
would believe that kind of information.
I conveyed it--and it was received, and
naturally, with an amused smile. For
II the Germans were not going to at
tack through Holland, what could be
more reasonable than to plant, with an
independent journalist, the impression
that they were? At that time, in q
phase Of the "phony" war, they were
apparently trying to force negotiated
peace by dire threats.
~ 44*
Our landing in North Africa was
known to many, yet 1t came as sur
prise. The reasons were again the same
the war of nerves, and confusion. In
the case Of the German attack on Rus
sia the facts are notorious. Early in
May, 1941, Prof. Karl Bonner, then head
of the Foreign Press Department of
the German propaganda ministry, told
a number of people at q cocktail party
attended by foreigners, amongst them
a member of the Bulgarian Embassy,
that Hitler was going to attack Russia
in June. The information suhstantiated
what Anglo-American agents had all
ready reported. But apparently the
Russians were the most incredulous.
The attack was surprise.
That did not help Prof. Bonner. He
was fired in May, 1941, sentenced to
two years imprisonment, released early
in 1912, sent to the Russian front as
a private, and killed. Yet, the mere
fact of his being fred, In advance Of
the attack-ans action amounting to
confirmation of his revelation
was interpreted in just the opposite way.
The case of Joan Ellis and her tele-
type mistake" raises immense specula-
tions. Was it really an innocent error?
A false alarm might also be deception
Yet at the time she made it, our men
must have been aboard the ships.
1 am not writing in defense of Gen.
Miller. His is disciplinary case. Loose
talk can cost lives. But what appears
to be loose talk may be clever deception,
which mixed up with genuine loose talk
confuses confusion.
In the final analysis, every good OBJ
server, for whichever side, has to de-
pend upon his eyes and brains-not on
his ears.
Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
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We have entered the critical week Of
the invasion when some advantage for
about 10 days will be on the side of the
Germans, but with more than q go per
cent chance that their efforts to dis
lodge us from the conquered territory
will fail.
The NaM high command has concen-
trated strong forces, but the progress of
the battle still is in our favor The
Cotentin Peninsula with the important
port of Cherbourg is by way of being
cut off from the rest of France. Cher
bourg itself is strongly defended and
cannot be taken by sea. But II all COM
munications between the interior and
the peninsula itself are cut of the Ger
man divisions placed there for the de-
fense of that vital harbor eventually
will have to surrender.
OF course, there still is strong pos
sibility that Marshal Won Rundstedt
may bring in enough troops for coun-
terattack to prevent the severance Of
communications between the Cotentin
area and his main bases. In that event
we must expect q series of bloody
battles.
Although there have been several days
Of bad weather, Gen. Eisenhower Is
reported to have succeeded in transport
ing large number Of troops and sup
plies to the occupied areas and more
reinforcements are being poured in daily.
The Germans, on the other hand, al
ready are experiencing some difficulty
in concentrating their own forces be-
cause of the tremendous superiority of
the Allied air armada which not only
is covering the ground forces with a
permanent umbrella but also Is destroy
ing the lines of communication behind
the fighting front and harassing the
enemy.
The Luftwaffe thus far has fought
only sporadically. There is, however,
large German Air Force in France which
the German high command may be
compelled to throw into the battle sooner
or later
According to latest reports the move
ment of the boardwalk across the
channel has not been disrupted by the
Nazi submarines.
There are so many thousands of ships
Of all types from the heaviest battle
Evening star., 1944-06-12

The Atlantic Wall was no myth, as
some hastily written dispatches from
the front have suggested.
1t was grim reality, and it's forward
defenses have been preached only by
hard fighting, grim determination and
superior weapons.
OF course, 1t Is not actually a wall.
1t was just about what one would ex-
pect in the outpost zone Of coastal
defense system. 1t included. first of all,
submarine distractions. These were
destroyed by naval gunfire and by
assault engineers, Next came obstacles
on the beaches themselves. and anti
tank obstacles on the roads and paths
leading inland. together with land
mineR,
All these had To be removed or blasted
by the engineers and by assault in
fantfp equipped with special demolition
autfitA,
Clearly, the German purpose was to
save men by substituting material OBJ
stacles az far as possible: but since no
military ohstacle Ia worth much unless
IL Ia covered by fire. 80 that toll may be
taken Of the assailant while he Is held
up by the obstacle, the Germans pro-
vlded sufIieient number Of strong
points In order to bring enfilading ma
chne-gun f're across open beaches and
across stretches of open ground farther
inland
For dead ground"~-that is, beaches
and other terrain which were sheltered
from low-trai iectory fire by cliffs, steep
hillsides and the like.-they placed NOR
tars in positions which would enable
them to command such areas. They
supported this system Of small fire.
groups with a certain number of bat
teries Of artillery, largely self-propelled
guns which could move from point to
point quickly and so avoid the counter
battery fires of the naval guns.
Finally they added considerable
number of snipers.
Examining this system of defense, you
will readily see that 1t does not take
much in the way of manpower to run
it. 1t depends on obstacles and weapons.
1t Is obviously not designed to stop
powerful attack-it could not hope to
do that-its purpose is to inf1ict loss and
impose delay. But the effect of our
powerful air support and of the naval
gunflre, the remarkable accomplish
ments OF our assault engineers and the
determined bravery of our infantry
overcame this delaying plan of the
Germans. There is no doubt whatever
that we accomplished in hours what the
Germans had calculated would take us
days.
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method of dealing with disasters not
attributable to the perversity Of
man. There also are scores of pho
tographs Of civilian relief enter
prises in China, India, the Balkan
Peninsula, Russia, Poland, North
Africa and other areas in which ma
ture has been unkind. Floods,
famines, epidemics. sudden accidents
involving whole communicative
the Halifax catastrophe of 1917.
occur in a reasonably predictable
sequence for which the Red Cross
organization constantly must be
prepared. The graphic record indi-
Gates the scientific efficiency of the
planning technique developed
through nearly eighty years.
But, of course, the acid test of Red
Cross policies and methods is that
which is supplied by global conflict.
The pictures exhibited at the Library
of Congress dramatize the service
afforded to sick and wounded mill
tary and naval personnel in the bat
tie zones and subsequently in hospi-
tails and rehabilitation centers. Like
wise they illustrate the less colorful
but still imperatively necessary en-
deavor for civilians-hurt babies,
starving adolescents, crippled old
people, the blind, the shellshocked-
who are innocent bystanders" of
the struggle between nations.
The Library Of Congress IS the
proper depository for the collection
Of Red Cross photographs, but mere
preservation of them would be not
enough. They should be displayed
and the public seeing them should
be quick to understand their mean
ing in terms of cheerful and gener-
Gus support of the universal labor OF
mercy.
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This Changing World
BY Constantine BroWn

ships to the light motor launches that
it would almost be. possible to walk across
the straits. The German submarines
have been concentrated In force In the
area, and had orders to make suicide
attacks" on the Allied craft.
The orders were executed and cer-
tain amount of damage has been done
but not enough to impair our position.
The protection from the air and par
ticularly from our destroyers was so
perfect that the Nazi submarine menace
which before the invasion began was a
considerable worry to our military lead
ers Is now regarded as having been
overcome.
We are landing masses Of supplies
and as many troops as are needed at the
present time along the entire invasion
coast. This is a remarkable achieve
ment, but in order to be able to pour
into France the number Of men neces-
sary to defeat the enemy it is essential
that we capture one or more ports capa-
bic of taking in the largest type Of
transports and supply ships.
-
This viii necessitate the conquest Of
the best situated harbors on the French
coast and the efforts Of the Allied troops
are now centered in achieving this
purpose.
For the time being we have not been
able to read the minds Of the German
strategists. In view Of the fact that the
Germans cannot afford to fight war
of attrition, it is logical to assume that
they will do their utmost to prevent
us from reaching our immediate major
objective Should the Allies succeed in
establishing themselves either at lie
Havre or at Cherbourg the Nazi high
command knows that within the next
two months it will face q force far
superior to that they can possibly
muster in Western Europe. This would
sound the deathknell Of Nazi resistance.
Attacked from three or four different
quarters, Germany cannot afford to
continue the battle.
This reasoning leads to the conclusion
that the German general staff will
strike the Allies with force during what
may be described as the incubation
period" Gen. Eisenhower Is fully aware
of the situation and is expecting the
most severe battles in this second phase
of the invasion to take place this month.
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A Fine Leader

The 17-year-old boys who marched
"a the competitive drill when Colonel
Wallace M. Craigie first took charge
of the High School Cadet Corps are
oldsterS of Al now. Twenty-four
classes of seniors have marched out
into life since then, better men for
having served under him. He re-
tires at the end of this month,
having stayed on for an extra year
at the request of the school author
titles, and when he goes the cadets
will lose one Of the best friends they
ever had, because ne shared in full
degree their own pride in the spirit
and the traditions of the corps.
His work was largely a labor of
love, which became evident in more
than a figurative sense some twelve
or thirteen years ago when, retired
from the Army, he continued to
serve the schools on his retired pay
alone until Congress augmented it
by a salary item for professor of
military science and tactics. And
much of his inspirational value has
sprung from his own deep enthusi-
asm, not merely over the Cadet Corps
as it Is now, but for the possibilities
inherent in this touch of military
discipline for all boys in their for
NATIVE years.
The recent discussion, which be-
came acrimonious at times, over
proposed changes in the cadet rou-
tine did not touch on a change
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Breaching West Wall
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

To this must be added the growing
evidence that our air-porne operations
have delayed the concentration and
forward movement of the German re-
serves. The defense timetable OF
Marshal Won Rundstedt has been upset.
The situation is. therefore, developing
rather favorably for the Allies. 1t now
appears that we have made contact be-
tween our three major groupings-those
around ste. Mere Eglise, on the Cher
bourg Peninsula; those around Bayeux
and those in the vicinity of Caen. We
hold most of the Caen-Bayeuxt main
highway. We have taken Isigny, and
hold most of the road between that point
and Bayeux. We also have taken
the important road junction of Caren-
tan, and our troops in that vicinity seem
to be in contact both with Isigny and
Ste. Mere Eglise.
Our efforts for the moment seem likely
to be directed principally toward the
capture Of Caen, thus establishing our
defensive left flank firmly along the
Orne River.
1t should be remembered that Caen
lies on the main road and railway from
Paris to Cherbourg 1t is by these lines
that the main German effort to relieve
the pressure on Cherbourg would nor
mally come. The Germans are hitting
us harder at Caen, and along the south
ern front of our beachhead between
Caen and Bayeux, than they are any,
where else. These efforts have now been
extended to Conde sur Seulles, which
is miles south of Bayeux.
Thus, Caen-BayeuX is in some sense
the holding area of the attack, cover
ing the offensive front in the area
Carentan-Ste Mere Eglise. where our
operations are intended to give us pos
session of the Cherbourg Peninsula If
the Germans cannot counterattack us
on this decisive front by way of Caen,
they must 60 around and attack us from
the south, where it is obvious that
their forces were not well disposed for
the purpose. They are trying to rectify
this error in their original dispositions,
which Is the reason why our strategic
aircraft are hammering away at such
rail and road functions as Rennes, lie
Mans, Alencon and Laval
We can only hope and pray that
weather conditions will be in our favor,
for we are far from strong enough on
the ground as yet to be able to count
ourselves secure, and we are therefore
still heavily dependent on our air
superiority to redress the balance of
fighting power
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