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Evening star., 1944-10-01
Our Airborne Troops Are Expert Now

United Nations troops stormed Southern
France.
The vertical development" plan Is
the landing of sky troops behind enemy
lines to disrupt communications and
prevent the arrival of reinforcements
from the rear-a method of attack which
spearheaded the advance into Holland.
In fact, borne troops only recently
have gotten their first tests in strength.
although they have been employed on
lesser scales in Sicily, Italy, New Guinea
and Burma.
The TCC now is active in every thea
ter, from the Aleutians to the South
Pacific or the Canal Zone, where sup
plies are flown under weather conditions
often as dangerous as enemy opposition,
Strange Cargoes
The men fly some strange cargoes at
times. In the Aleutians last Christmas
they landed Christmas trees and turkeys
at isolated outposts. In Burma they
few Army mules behind the Japanese
lines, even evacuating some mules when
they became sick. TCC planes carried
German and Japanese aliens out Of
Bolivia. where the highest landing field
in the world is located.
Under the guns of the Nazis, the Too
planes transported wounded Partisans
and orphaned babies from Yugoslavia
to Italy.
In the three weeks following D-day,
the TCC few $500 casualties from
France to England while resupplying
and reinforcing ground troops.
The far-fiung network of training
bases in the United States is commanded
by Brig. Gen. William D. Old, veteran
of the Burma campaign with 80 combat
missions to his credit.
On one occasion Col Old led SQUAD.
ron OF United Nations troop carriers
into the Arakan area on a stormy night
when several other fight leaders had
turned back
The delivery of ammunition and SUP.
plies to British division cut of by
the japanese was believed to have been
the turning point In the offensive
against the Japanese in that area.
The motto Of the command Is sHe
conquers who gets there first
Evening star., 1944-10-01

Naturally, this presents some prob
lens, and in wartime they become
little more acute. Take the matter of
laundry, for example. You learn to prize
your clean, white shirts, for the laundries
90 whizzing by along with the trees.
The newspaper corps, of whom there
were approximately go on the Dewey
train, found a partial solution to this
weighty problem by carrying along two
or three somber shades of blue or brown
to work in on the train, blossoming out
in white only when they left the train to
cover the political rallies.
You also develop new appreciation
for that convenience of modern civili-
zation-the shower bath-at those rare
intervals when you stop long enough to
find one, in between your journey from
the train to the hall where the political
issues of the day are debated.
Evening star., 1944-10-01
BY w. H. Shippen, Jr.,


A successful attack maneuver by
10000 borne troops in North Carolina
last week demonstrated the fact that
the American Army is now master of
what was once a great military asset OF
Germany - complete mobility of air
transport.
The speed and precision of the mass
movement of men who descended upon
Camp Mackall Airport by parachute,
glider and transport was possible only
with command of the air like that now
enjoyed by the United Nations in almost
every theater of the global war.
The spearheads Of the winged assault
force landed at night and probably could
have done SO against strong opposition.
Armed with rifles, bazookas, land mines,
grenades and mortars, some 2,500 para
troopers fell through clouds obscuring
the half moon and descended in COM
plete darkness with surprising accuracy.
Pathhinders had gone in from high
altitude to mark the jump zone limits
just before their main force arrived.
They fell free for almost mile before
pulling rip cords some 1000 feet above
the ground. But some airmen were
confused by what they at first thought
was a marker flare on the field below.
Plane Catches Fire
This was burning transport which
carried IL men to their deaths when it
became fouled by an ammunition para
chute. Scores of official observers ana
newsmen along the edge OF the field
saw stick" after stick" of paratroopers
hitting the silk" in the red glare Of the
fire.
Many sky troopers who jumped over
the blaze drifted out over a dense,
swampy pine thicket and settled in the
trees. They were able to reassemble,
however, and make ready for the ar
rival of the gliders, 20 of which landed
in the darkness, with the 200 others
coming in after dawn.
In addition to eight paratroopers and
four crewmen killed in the crash of the
transport, one paratrooper was fatally
injured when he struck a tree and So
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G. i. Hospital
Continued From Page CAY

the address of acceptance being made
by the president of the university. Rev,
Alphonsus j. Donlon. Mr.. John Joy
Edison, president of the Board of Chari-
ties of the District of Columbia, spoke,
commencing the university for its medi-
cal service, the hospital being more
remarkable by the fact that its develop
ment had been achieved without Gov
ernment aid for building purposes.
In 1911 and 1912, two lots of ground
on Prospect avenue were purchased.
Upon one, quarters for pupil nurses,
also laundry plant, were put, and in
the rear of another adjoining old build
ing central heating plant was in
stalled. In 1912, the maternity service
was added to, building 48 by 81 feet,
adjoining Riggs Memorial on N street,
being erected. 1t was used partly for
colored patients and partly to provide
semiprivate accommodations for white
women in moderate circumstances.
During 1912, also, a four STORY build
ing, 80 by Ito feet, was erected on the
corner of Thirty-sixth and N streets.
1t was for the treatment of acute mental
and nervous diseases in persons able to
pay, the incentive for this being the
excellent results that had followed the
institution Of q similar service for in
digent patients in 1908 by the Board
OF Charities at the Washington Asylum
Hospital.
Equally satisfactory results were not.
however, to be the experience of the
Georgetown University, for couple Of
years OF operation emphasized the fact
that families who were able to pay
preferred to send such patients to
sanatoria located elsewhere" Sc the
two unfinished floors OF this building
were not completed until 1918, when
they were fitted up as wards and private
rooms.
After the death OF Sister Pauline, in
1914, the Ladies' Board, wishing ito
perpetuate her memory and good
works." decided to raise $4,000 and
with 1t erect charity ward. This prof.
ect was successful and on June q, 1926,
the ward was opened, dedicated and
. memorial tablet unveiled.
Since then other hospital improve
ments were made and during the Civil
War Federal military hospital was
conducted at Georgetown University
from 1862 to 1869, but after this it was
abandoned.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

The American people like to see and
hear the men who offer themselves for
the highest elected office in the land as
evidenced by the way they gather at
every hamlet where the word gets out
the train is passing that way. And they
show some disappointment when it rolls
by without stopping, as is sometimes
necessary to keep a schedule.
Large Staff Required
A candidate and his official staff
could probably journey across the coun-
try in a couple Of coaches, but a presi-
dental election is a major news event,
requiring political writers for newspapers
and magazines, radiomen, newsreel
representatives and still photographers.
Gov. and Mrs. Dewey and the Gov
ernor's secretary, Paul E. lockwood,
occupy the rear car, which serves as
Evening star., 1944-10-01

home and ONCE. 1t also contains the
speakers on the rear platform.
The car behind the candidate is a
miniature reasearch laboratory, where
Elliott v. Bell, Gov. Dewey's closest ad-
wiser on economic and financial prob
lens of government, helps compile the
data from which Gov. Dewey writes
speeches. The two men have been close
personal friends for 20 years. After
studying economics at Columbia Uni
versity, Mr. Bell became assistant finan-
cial editor of the New York Ttimes.
but is now superintendent of the State
banks of New York. He was one of Gov.
Deweys close adviers in his first bid for
the Republican presidential nomination
in 1910. He later acted as an adviser to
Wendell L. Willkie in the 1910 campaign,
so that he brings to Gov. Dewey this
year the experience gained on the
Willkie train.
Busiest Spot on Train
The third coach is lounge car for
the conferences, and next to that is one
Of the busiest spots on the train-the
presswork car. In place of seats. 1t has
two long boards running lengthwise
against the windows on each side. Here
the clicking of portable typewriters
blends with the rumble Of the wheels
on the rails, day and night, as first the
afternoon and then the morning news
papermen pound out their stories.
On the wall at one end of the work
car big map OF the United States was
pasted, and each day the steady prog
Evening star., 1944-10-01
BY ]. A. O'Leary,
Star STAT Correspondent.


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others received first-aid or hospital
treatment for injuries
None of the troops arriving in the
long glider trains was injured. The 13-
man gliders were towed, two each, be-
hind CAT transports. Some brought
jeeps, light field artillery and ammuni-
tion in addition to the men.
All but two of 222 gliders taking part
in the attack arrived at their objectives.
These two gliders were forced to fall out
when their tow ropes parted on the
take-off.
Military observers were impressed with
the precision of the gliders as they ar
rived in assigned areas according to an
exact timing schedule worked out in
advance. A number Of huge, 30-man
gliders brought in complete evacuation
hospital
The troops assembled in the early
daylight and moved overland to bring
their flrepower to bear on the airbase
and its approaches. BY midafternoon
on the day following the night landings
the ground umpires ruled the base was
, In the hands Of the attackers.
Immediately, squadron after squadron
OF Troop Carrier Command transports
began to land men and equipment on
the captured airport to consolidate the
position and hold on while a simulated
ground force crossed the Pee Dee River
100 miles to the south and moved up
to relieve the air-borne troops late this
week.
Meanwhile, the division and its sup
porting elements were supplied from
the air.
Has Important Role
The Troop Carrier Command, which
carries men and supplies into battle
zones and evacuates the wounded, has
played an increasingly important role
In the war since the Germans began to
lose their great feet of Junkers trans
ports at the battle Of Stalingrad and
IN the African campaign.
The worlds greatest invasion was led
by laundering sky trains towing gliders.
Men who landed from them were given
much of the credit for driving the Nazis
out OF France. A few months later
similar pattern was followed when
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In Local Music Circles

Pasquale Tallarico, pianist, will
give recital in the east garden
court of the National Gallery of
Art this evening at pm. Born
in Italy the artist lived in this coun-
try since he was eight years of age
and received his entire musical edu-
cation in the United States. He
was pupil of Joseffy and a winner
Of contest for American trained
pianists in 1914. held in Chicago.
Since then he appeared with leading
symphony orchestras His program
will consist of Mendelssohn's "Prel-
ude and Fugue in E Minor" Bee
thovens Sonata in G Major, Op.
3d." Schumann's Sonata in F Sharp
Minor" Debussy's Reflects dams
lEau," Strauss Gieseking's "Sere-
made" LISTS "Valse Oubliee," Son
net No. 104" and "Tarantelle."
The YWCA will present the
United States Navy School Of
Music, under the direction Of 1t.
q. g. J. M. Thurmond, this after
noon at 400 Haydn's Quartet in
G Major" opens the Music Hour
Angelo Borghi will then appear as
soloist in the Mozart Quintet in
A Major" for clarinet and strings.
Schubert's Quartet No. in G
Minor" is last on the program.
Jean Slater Appel, Dean Of the
District of Columbia Chapter, Amer
lean Guild of Organists. will be
heard in recital at the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church on
"Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Her
program inclues Kienzi's From the
Depths of My Heart" "All Men
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Enlisted Musicians
To Help Aid Society

The District Of Columbia Chapter
Of the American Guild Of Organists
is sponsoring a concert for the ben
eft Of the Armed Air Forces Aid
Society, q permanent organization
giving help to needy air forces
families after the war, on Thurs
day, 8:15 pm, in the Washington
Cathedral. A program including
new works TOR instruments with or
gan will be presented by STAT Sergt
Virgil Fox, organist; Corpl. Glenn
Darwin, baritone; Pfc. Emo Valasek,
violinist, Corpl. Robert Weatherly,
Sol Trumpet Tin D. with brass sex
tet (three trombones, three trumpeta
and tympanD which will include
Staff Sergt. Gordon Pulls, formerly
first trombone OF Philadelphia Or
chestra, and Corpl. William Long,
tympanist Of Eastman School of
Music.
The program will consist of Pur-
cells Trumpet Tone and Air in F.
for solo trumpet and ensemble,
Brahms -Four Serious Songs" for
baritone, Slavensky's Sonata Re-
ligiosa" for violin and organ and
short selections for organ by Mozart,
Schumann, Mary Howe, Bach and
Roger.
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Pianist.Diseuse
In Novel Program

Florence Fraser, well-known
pianist and diseuse, will present q
recital of original pen and Piano
Portraits" at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery tomorrow evening at $3.50
O'Clock. Miss Frasers programs are
unique in that she combines the
gifts of musician, actress and au-
thor. 1t is an interesting coinci-
dence that during four years in
Paris she not only studied piano
with Phillip and won the piano
diploma of the American Conserva-
tory of Fontainebleau with special
mention at the age OF 16, but also
worked with the famous French
diseuse, Yvette Guilbert.
Returning to this country, Miss
Fraser spent five years at the Curtis
Institute Of Music in Philadelphia
and graduated with the degree Of
bachelor Of music. She has been
special music lecturer for the Met
ropolitan Opera Guild of Phila.
delphia, as well as concertizing ex-
tensively. Miss Fraser's program is
entitled Three Soirees and q Sou
venir" and includes: ''Dr. Burney
Entertains." London, 1913, music by
Arms, Clark, Dibdin, Peter Lee of
Putney; 1.-The Mendelssohn's Music
Room" Leipzig, 1871; Variations
Serieuses," by Mendelssohn; Soma
tine in Summer" Monfort, rAmaury,
1926; Ravels "Sonatine" and 1.-TWO
Artists Meet" Paris, 1886, Chopin's
"ScherZo, B Minor"
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Must Die" and "a Mighty Fortress
Is Our Cod; Floyd's "Antiphon on
Litany," Goldberg's Prelude" (man-
uscripD and Rogers Invocation"
and Introduction" from the Son
alta in D. Minor"
Members Of the Lovette Choral
Club will entertain Saturday night
in honor Of the associate members
of the organization in the studios of
the League of American Pen Women
1851 Columbia road, at $780, On the
program will be Hazel Cake and
Helen Dunbar, vocalists; Betty Bug
bee, reader; Jean Diane Fullemann,
pianist; Elsie Cranmer, accompan-
list, and the choral club.
On Friday at 11:30 o'clock, Barker
Hall, YWCA, the Friday Morning
Music Club will present Mrs. Henry
T. Parrett, soprano, and Dorothy
Guion, pianist, and the string en-
semble under the direction of Linda
Sool DENLY. The members include
Elma Bergman, Gigja Bjornsson,
Lenore Bryan, Virginia Houghton,
Alice Hayes. Jean Hers, Carolyn
Hopkins, Virginia Harpham, Grace
Hudson, Helen Laise, Cecilia Ma
honey, Marcella Ravel, and Fran
ces Vandersluis.
This program will be followed by
a luncheon for active and associate
members with called business
meeting of all active members
The Victory Symphony Orchestra
has changed its day for rehearsing
from Wednesday to Tuesday night,
pm. AS heretofore the rehearsals
will be held at the Phillips Gallery.
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Notes
Noted Oratorios
To Be Sung by
Choral Society

On Tuesday evening Washington
will have Its first opportunity to hear
two Of the few great oratorios by
modern composers when the WASH
ington Choral Society conducted by
Louis Potter presents Arthur Honeg-
gers King David" and Claude De-
bussy's THE Prodigal Son" In Con-
stitution Hall.
The $50 voices Of the Choral So
ciety on this occasion will be aug
mented by four eminent soloists, the
so men of the Army Music School
Choir, full symphony orchestra, and
j. Russell McKeever. accompanist.
Soloists are Maxine Stellman, Met
ropolitan soprano; Donald Dame,
Metropolitan tenor; Robert Nichol-
son, Australian baritone, and Hen
riette Dagger Plum, Danish mezzo-
contralto. And In addition to the
two major works, the Army Music
School Choir under the. direction Of
Warrant Officer william Strickland
will give four short choral works
composed by students or graduates
Of the Fort Meyer school, three Of
them for the first time anywhere.
Honegger, who last Friday OBJ
served his SD birthday, wrote King
David" at the age Of 20 as incidental
music for the drama by Rene Morax.
Later he revised 1t for concert per-
Torrance and in this form, kind Of
symphonic Psalm" 1t was given its
first performance at the Coliseum
in Rome in 1926. It's % episodes are
bound together by narrator de-
claiming between the various Sec
tons, and in Tuesday nights pres
entation this role will be filled by
Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, chap
lain of the Senate and pastor Of the
Foundry Methodist Church.
Like King David" Debussy's THE
Prodigal Son" is biblical In tnspira-
ton, based upon Jesus parable in
the New Testament. Debussy wrote
it at "a, when he was still q student
at the Paris Conservatoire, and 1t
won for him the Prix de Rome OF
that year. The "Air de Liza" from
the oratorio is familiar to every
concertgoer.
The four short works that the
Army Music School Choir will give
under Mr.. Strickland's direction
are Robert Wards Hush Be the
Camps" John s. Barrows' 1.-THE
Cowboys Lament" Kent Remnants
1.-THE Unknown Warrior Speaks, -
and fanfare for brass instruments,
horns and chorus by Cecil Efinger
Except for Wards Hush Be the
Camps" all these works will be
heard for the first time Tuesday
night.
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.Heifetz to Give
Last Recital

Jascha Heifetz, world-famous vio-
lin virtuoso, will make his only re-
cital appearance OF the current sea-
son in Washington at Constitution
Hall on Sunday afternoon, March 28,
at 4 o'clock, under the management
Of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey. This
will be Heifetz's only full-length re-
cital in the Capital until season
after next at the earliest, as all OF
the Wolinist's appearances next sea-
son will be made with symphony or
chestras as Soloist.
Heifetz will play the Brahms "A
Major Sonata" and the Concerto
No. 5" by Vieuxtemps at his forth
coming recital here as well as three
Scarlatti pieces. the Allegro"
("Suite 1872, the "Minuetto" and
the Non Presto" from Suite 3d."
the Bach "Chaconne" for violin
alone, Schubert's "Impromptu,"
Mendelssohn's "Scherzo," Bee
thoven's Folk Dance" and Figaro"
from THE Barber OF Seville" (Ros-
SIM Castelnuovo Tedesco).
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Wagner Program
With MelchiOr
AS Soloist

Lauritz Melchior, whose manage
ment bills him not modestly but ac-
curately as "the worlds greatest
heroic tenor" will appear as soloist
with the National Symphony Or
chestra under Hans Kindler's direc-
ton this afternoon at 4 o'clock in
Constitution Hall. Since the great
Dane" as his friends call him, Is
today's outstanding interpreter of
Wagner's line Of heroes, the program
will be all Wagnerian.
From "Lohengrin" Melchior will
Sing Lohengrin's Narrative" and
Lohengrin's Farewell" from die
Walkure," "Siegmund's Love Song"
and from die Meistersinger," the
Prize Song" For the purely or
chestral numbers DR.. Kinder has
programmed the preludes to Acts I,
II and III Of "Lohengrin";; the
overture to "Tannhauser," the ride
Of the Valkyries," from die Walk
|ure," and the Introduction, Dance
Of the Apprentices" and Finale
From Act III" Of die Meister-
singer"
It is not uncommon for q young
musicians career to be sponsored by
10 musician who has attained the
heights In his art, but the career Of
Melchior, who is unusual in more
respects than in his singing, was
furthered by a novelist. That writer
was the late Hugh Walpole, who
happened to drop in on Melchior's
first London appearance. That was
IN 1919, and from then on Walpole
helped Melchior with money, sound
advice and encouragement. ~.
Like Jean de Raszke and others Of
the heroic tenor tradition, Melchoir
was originally q baritone. It was
the American-born vocal expert,
Nine. Charles Cahier, who pointed
out to Melchior that he really was
10 tenor while he was singing at the
Copenhagen Royal Opera. Most Of
the other advances In the Melchior
career, however, came about through
the help Of Walpole. It was Walpole
who suggested that Melchior go to
Bayreuth to study under Anna
Bahr- Mildenburg, the famous Isolde.
With her he coached for his first
Wagnerian role, Siegmund, and
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The Sinatra Budget
Doubles Itself
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.
Even Frank Sinatra had to prove
himself to the doubling Thomases
of the film capital before studio
executives were willing to dig deep
into their pockets to finance a
production for THE Voice" His first
film was modestly cast, modestly
budgeted at $4,000. It brought in
two million. Second venture Is being
cast with Adolphe Menjou, George
Murray and Gloria Dehaven. all TOP
names. and is budgeted at a million
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-12
Seminary Play
For Red Cross

Mel Ddnelli's play, Schubert Alley"
will be given by the students Of
Mount Vernon Seminary at the
Wardmah Park Theater Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock, proceeds to
60 to the American Red Cross.
Hilary Knapp, recently come to
Washington from London, is direct
ing the production. A graduate of
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,
Miss Knapp is a well-known British
actress, having played with Sir
Cedric Hardwicke and other head
liners. In addition, she has directed
plays for the British Broadcasting
Co.
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Concert Schedule

Today.
National Symphony Orchestra, Or.
Hans Kinder, conductor; Lauritz
Melchior. tenor, soloist; Constitution
Navy School of Music, 1t. q. 81
Ii1ran dSiIHeetor; o, Music Hour.
Pasauale Tallarico, piano recital,
National Gallery of Art. pm.
Tomorrow.
Forence Fraser, pianist-diseuse,
Phillips Gallery: $50 pm.
Heisiey. director: New Post once De-
Roy NJ. barley, organ recital, L.
D. S. Chapel, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Honesger's King David De-
bussy's "Prodisal SON." WASHINGTON
f Th9oa A s11e N 5eq sbo e eStsr viii
liam Strickland, director, soloists;
Constitution Hall, $50 pm.
Jose Figueroa, .violinist;. Narciso
Figueroa, pianist; Joint recital, Stat
ier c oocei ' recorded music. National
H Marine Band 81 S,A Marin. Barracks.
Wednesday.
Jean Slater Appel. organ Recital,
SofcudHI-CISl EiSsoJIclidH SAuaSh'
s pm.
Marine Band symphony orchestrs,
Milton Wohl. violinist, soloist, Marine
Barracks, S:15 pm.
Roy M. barley, organ recital. L. D.
s. Chapel. 8 pm.
Thursday.
Staff Sergt. Virgil Fox, orsanist:
Corpl Glenn Darwin, baritone: Pfc.
Emo Valasek. violinist; Corpl. Robert
Wheatherly, trumpet. pass and tym-
PAM ensemble: Washington Cathe-
dral. S:15 pm.
Stanley Chapple, Illustrated lecture
Beethoven, Schubert sonatas, 1925 G
street NV, IL am.
Friday.
Friday Morning Music Club, Mrs
Henry T. Parrett, soprano; Dorothy
Guion, pianist; string ensemble.
Linda Sool DENLY, director; Barker
Hall YWCA, 80 am.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra,
Oscar Short, cornet; Homer Phillips,
trombone. soloists; Departmental
Auditorium, $40 pm.
National Symphony Forum, Stanley
Chapple, speaker; Pfc. Emo valssek.
violinist; STAFF Serst Virgil Fox
pianist; Phillips Gallery pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks,
Saturday.
Roy NJ. barley. organ recital. L. D.
8. Chapel, & pm.