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Evening star., 1944-02-26
Wheel Of Progress
TO Hear Bender, ).
Mrs. Vandenber,gs

An interesting program will be
sponsored by the Wheel of Progress
at . meeting at 8 pm. Monday 1T
the Washington Hotel. Music md
addresses will be high lights Of the
evening with Representative Bender,
Republican OF Ohio and Mrs. Arthur
n. Vandenberg, wife Of Senator
vandenberg Of Michigan, as princi-
pal speakers. Representative Bender
has not yet announced his subject,
but Mrs. vandenberg will speak on
the Red Cross Camp and Hospital
Service, for which she is public
relations chairman.
I. The musical program promises to
be Of outstanding interest with the
well-known Indian singer, Chief
White Feather. expected from New
York to present several vocal selec-
tions. Chief White feather is q
full-blooded Sioux Indian from the
Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota.
instrumental numbers of her own
composition will be offered by Miss
Wilmuth Gary and an original
poem, "A New Year Thought" will
be read by Mrs. Dollie K. Gibson.
Mrs. Gibson has dedicated her poem
to the officers and employees of the
Navy Yard.
The Wheel of Progress, national
educational and patriotic organiza-
ton, was founded in 1924 by Mrs.
Margaret Hopkins Worrell, who has
held the office of president since its
founding. Mrs. Worrell explains
that the group originally was or
ganized for the purpose of urging
women to use the franchise but it
has since expanded to include num-
erous civic and patriotic activities.
Members have contributed to the
blood plasma bank, have assisted
in sales Of War Bonds and have
been active In Red Cross work.
Mrs. Worrell, who will preside at
the meeting Monday, is now hold
ing her third term of office. Elec-
tions are only held every eight years.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Miss TOrbert
Recent Bride

The wedding of Miss Mildred
Parke Torbert and Mr.. Ralph
Knight Pickles took place in the
National Baptist Memorial Church
February IL. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Parke Torbert and was given in
marriage by her father. The pastor
OF the church. the Rev. Cove G
johnson, offlciated and the brides
costume was OF white crepe en-
broidered with gold and she car
ried bouquet Of red roses.
Miss Doris Claxon was maid of
honor and 1t. Noise johnson, U. S.
NJ, was best man.
The informal reception was held
In the church and later Mr.. and
Mrs. Pickles and the members of
the wedding party were given a
reception in the home of the brides S
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. War
wick Miller Torbert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pickles will make
their home at 1341 Meridian place
Mr.. Pickles is a son of Mrs. Kath-
ryn Pickles of Richmond.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
announce Marriage
Held IN Ge0rgia

Announcement is made Of the
marriage of Miss Kathryn Elaine
Thompson, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Barnes Thompson, to 1t. Will
liam W. Wardle; jr., A. A. F., the
ceremony taking place January 26
at the Presbyterian Church in
Thomasville, Ga, where the BRIDE
groom now is stationed. The Rev
Richard T. Gillespie, pastor, off,
ciated at the double-ring ceremony
In the presence of relatives and
intimate friends.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her mother, was attended
by the bridegroom sister, Mrs. Al
bert Kaye of Washington, as matron
OF honor and 1t. H. B. Toilet OF
Magnolia. Ark, served as best man
The ushers were 1t. J. j. Jeresek
and 1t. N. W. Kirkpatrick.
The bride attended George Wash
ington University. where she was Q
member of Kappa Delta Her father
is program director of the American
Red Cross and now is stationed in
Australia. It. Wardle received his
wings at Foster Field, Victoria
Texas, in November.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
18th 4 nniversary
viii Be Marked
By Dinner Meetiue

The 18th anniversary Of the
founding OF the University of Ne
braska will be celebrated by the
Alumni Association at a dinner
meeting March at the Unitarian
Church. Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
A high light of the program will be
talk on THE Changes War Has
Brought to England" by Hugh Cox,
Assistant Solicitor General of the
United States. T. L. Tsui of the
Chinese Embassy will also speak.
L. WEIGH Pogue. president of the
association. is in charge of arrange
ments and will preside over the
program and business meeting for
election OF officers.
Nebraska servicemen corvalescine
at Walter Reed and the Naval Hos
pital at Bethesda will be special
guests
All former students of the uni
versity are urged to make reserva-
tions through Rowena Miller, Du-
pont 9631. before Friday.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Newport Wedding
Is announced

Capt. Chapman C. Todd, U. S. N
and Mrs. Todd announce the mar.
riage of their daughter, Miss Eliza.
beth Norton Todd, to Ensign vii.
liam Tovey Taylor, U. S. N. r.. sor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard S. Taylor
of Hamden, Conn. The wedding
took place February Is in Newport
r. I.
The bride, who is the grand
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pau
Evarts johnson of Washington, at
tended Sacred Heart Convent here
and in Detroit. Ensign Taylor wa,
graduated in 1943 from Lafayett,
College and he later attended tn
midshipman school at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Maj. Gen. D.. D. Porter,
Former Marine Corps
Inspector, Dies al m

Maj. Gen. David Dixon Porter, sc
descendant Of one OF the most fam.
GUS families in American naval his.
tory and retired adjutant and In.
spector of the Marine Corps, dice
yesterday in the Naval Hospital al
Philadelphia after a long illness.
Military rites will be conducted
Tuesday from st. Johns Church
here, with burial in Arlington Gene.
terry.
Born in this city, son of Col. Car.
lille Porter, U. S. NJ c.. and a grand.
son Of the famous Admiral Davie
Dixon Porter, Gen. Porter won tn.
Congressional Medal of Honor fol
extraordinary heroism in the Philip.
pines in 1901, and a letter of com.
mendation from the Secretary of thu
Navy for his services at Marine
Corps headquarters here during thu
World War. He also served in the
Boxer rebellion In China, in Cubs
and in Panama.
Retired in 1897.
Gen. Porter was promoted to ma.
]or general when he retired from
active duty in 1897. He had beer
In charge of the Eastern recruitine
division from June, 1922. to October
1888. Since his retirement he hac
made his home in Philadelphia.
Appointed second lieutenant ir
1893, he was promoted through the
various ranks until he became 8
brigadier general in 1884.
At the time of his retirement he
made his home at 1919 Nineteenth
street NV.
The destroyer Porter was named in
honor of this distinguished family
1t was christened in 1885 at Camden
N. j., by Miss Carlile Patterson
Porter, daughter of Gen. Porter.
Family Is Famous.
Gen. Porter was seventh in a fam
lily of seamen. dating from the
earliest days of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony. Thence it runs back
to the days Of William the Con-
queror to William de la Porte, 9
Norman knight whose name stands
on the rolls of Battle Abbey.
John Porter was first in the Amer
ican line. Alexander, his son, was
present at the Boston tea party. His
son David, born in 1854, was made
captain in the Continental Priva-
teer Service by Gen. Washington
His son David became the com.
modore of 1912 War fame. The
second Of his six sons became Ad-
miral David Dixon Porter, one of the
three admirals of the American
NAVY.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Luther Wins Contest

Lawton w. Luther was awarded
first prize in recent feature article
contest conducted by the Society of
Free Lance Writers.
According to an announcement by
Parke A. Arnold, vice president, Sec
ond prize was won by Mrs. Gertrude
Mackenzie, third by Jerome Cow
den, and honorable mention by Mrs.
Agnes D. Wright and Mrs. John G.
'Kellar.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Lecture on MEXICO

Miss Elizabeth Harding of the
Cleveland Art Museum will present
an Illustrated lecture, Mexico ir
Color" at meeting of the Twen-
tieth Century Club Thursday fol-
lowing business session at II am
at the YWCA.
The speaker is being presented
under the Joint auspices of the
Program Cornmittee, with Mrs
James K. McClintock as chairman
and the art section, with Mrs. Har-
old North Fowler as chairman.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Official TO We'd
VwqiniQ Burk

Maj. and Mrs. Walter Scott Burk
of Washington, formerly of Troy
N. Y, have announced the engage
ment of their daughter. Miss Vir-
ginia Berdsley Burk, to Mr.. Stewart
w. Warm, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Kline
o. Warm of Fort Meade, Fla. Nc
date has been set for the wedding
The prospective bride is a gradu.
ate of National Park College in
Forest Glen. Mr.. Warn attended
the University ct Florida before
coming to Washington as an official
of the War Production Board.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Clubs Bond Sales
Total Sl4,I32.8O

A total of s14.132 80 in War Bonds
was sold in the recent drive by the
Clarenford Women's Club of Arling-
ton. according TO an announcement.
Mrs. B. NJ Miller, chairman of the
clubs Stamp and Bond Committee,
was chairman of the committee in
charge of the drive. Others included
Mrs Kenneth Pearson, Mrs. c. o.
Thomas, who recently made her
seventh contribution to the Blood
Bank: Mrs William j. Schock. Mrs.
J. Y. Welborn, Mrs. William Ander-
son, Mrs. Bennett White and Mrs.
Julian Wendell.
Sales amounting to 81 325 are
credited 20 Mrs. Thomas and sales
of 81 7,450 to Mrs. Pearson.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
WPBSynphonyG Gives
Ambitious Program
BY ELENA DE SAYN.

The War Production Board Sym
phony Orchestra under Van Lier
Lanning, director, last night gave
another exhibition of its endeavors
at the Social Security Board Audi
torium. The ambitious program in
cluded Brahms Symphony No.
in c Minor" and two compositions
written in modernistic idiom
Wayne BarloW's "Sarabande" and
Kent Kennan's Promenade" the
latter conducted by the composer
who Is member of the Army
Music School at present.
The different types of works
offered gave in turn prominence to
woodwind, strings and brass. To
the first category belongs Motifs
scoring of Gretry's 18th century
Ballet Suite" consisting of three
dance forms, "Tambourin," Men
uetto" and Clique" To the second
Bach's "Preludium," transcribed by
David Larson from an organ work
OF the master, composed in the be-
ginning Of his career, and Vivaldi's
Concerto Crosse in D Minor" for
solo strings and string orchestra
Alan Martin Ellis Chasens, Virginia
Rouse. violins, and Herbert Cock
cello, gave creditable performance
to the concerto, accompanied by the
string ensemble.
Not unlike other American mod
erniSts, Mr. Kennan favors the
sonorities of brass instruments
which lend a martial touch to his
promenade" This piece, extracted
from Dance Divertimento, not
intended for terpsichorean display
however, sounds a triumphant note
throughout to which one cannot
help but react with a mixed sense
OF courage and hope The orches-
ira and conductor were well re-
ceived and will repeat the program
tonight.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
DR.. Etr0m to Sbeak

Present Day Conditions in Argen-
tina" will be the subject of talk
by DR.. David Efrom, Of the Eco
nomic Planning Commission. at q
meeting of the Washington Club a,
ii am. Tuesday Other activities
of the club next week include a book
review at II am. Monday by Mrs
w. E. Stafford: luncheon al l pm
Wednesday. and a talk on foreign
affairs by Miss Clara w. McQuown
at IL m. Thursday,
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Kwsch to Address
Mothers Catherine

The Rev. DR.. Felix M. Kirsch,
o. S. NJ, professor at Catholic Uni
versity, will address the Mothers
Club OF St. Johns College at a
meeting at 1880 pm. Friday In the
school auditorium.
A talk will be delivered by Miss
Marta Reddington, representing the
United Homefinding Campaign,
sponsored by the Council of Social
Agencies.
Mrs. Herve LHeureux, chairman
|of education, is in charge of
arrangements and Mrs. John F..
Greaney, president, will preside.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Return to Florida

Capt. and Mrs. Robert Evarts
Clark, who have been visiting the
formers mother, Mrs. Bert F.. Clark,
for 10 days, have left to return to
Florida. They came to Washington
for the christening of the infant
son of Capt. and Mrs. Sydney Lomax
Crook of New Hampshire, who also
have been the guests Of Mrs. Clark.
Mrs. Crook, before her marriage,
was Miss Frances Annette Clark.
Mrs. Clark will go to Florida shortly
for visit with Capt. and Mrs.
Clark.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
4 nnOunCe M0rriuqe

Mr.. Harold B. lie Roy announces
the marriage of his sister, Miss
Catherine E. LIE Roy, to Capt. Paul
l.. Miller. U. S. A., of Winchester
ruary 10 in the post chapel at Fort
ruary 10 in the Post Chapel at Fort
Benning, Ga.
Miss Marie Swami of Washing
ton was the maid of honor and only
attendant.
Evening star., 1944-02-26

The engagement OF Miss
Yuette Werner Sperling to Mr..
William, hDarts is an
nounced by her mother, Mrs.
Joseph Sperling. The BRIDE
groom-elect is the son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Martin SchUarts.
Miss Sperling attended Gen.
tral High School and is q
member OF Theta Chapter of
Iota Gamma Phi Sorority. Mr..
SchUartz attended Roosevelt
High school and George
Washington University and
National Ld,D School. He is q
member of A. z. A..
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Henry 6. Reiss, 90,
Frontier Scout, Dies

BY the Associatei Press.
BOHEMIAN, Mont, Feb. 26.-
Henry G. Reiss. 80, a scout under
Gems. Reno and Gibbon, died yes
terday.
Mr.. Reiss, a native of Wilhelm
shaven, Germany, came to Montana
IN 1874, and enlisted in the Army.
He often recalled the day of the
Custer massacre when he served
under Gen. Reno, and the battle OF
the Big Hole when he secuted for
Gen. Gibbon.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
William Peelle, Jean Barlo1V
Wed in Plaimfeld Church

OF particular interest in Washington where the bridegroom and
his family have lived wedding
William Ravenel Peel
late Mr. Peene which
brides parents last evening
The John ceremony
held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs Barlow Immediately followed
Given in marriage father,
with scoped neckine
slightly bouant skirt which
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Dr.. }, A. TiIIinghost Dies
Southern Educator
5y the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
SPARTANBURG, S. c., Feb. 90
DR.. Joseph A.. Tillinghast, 70, for. AZ
years a member Of the faculty of
Converse College for Women and
also an editorial writer for various
newspapers, died here yesterday
after several months illness.
Among papers for which he had
served in an editorial capacity are
the Spartanburg Herald. the Spar
tanburg Journal, and the State, of
Columbia.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Guard Battalion
VIII Give Dance

A dance will be given Monday
evening by the United States Marine
Corps Guard Battalion of the Navy
Department for enlisted men, Of
f1cers and their friends. -
Music for the dance, which will
be given at the Elks' Club, will be
furnished by a girl orchestra and
buffet supper will be served.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
David B. Mills, 86, Dies;
Noted for Spark PLUG

BY the Associated Press.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla, Feb. 26.-
David B. Mills, 86. of Montclair, N. J..
wealthy inventor of an automobile
spark plug, died at his winter home
here yesterday following a long. i'll.
ness.
Mr.. Mills was a native of st. Cath
crimes, Canada, where the body will
be sent for burial. He established
the Davella Mills Foundation
through which large sums were
given for charity and educationa,
purposes.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
SisterhOOd Meeting

The sisterhood of the Adas Israel
Congregation will hold a board
meeting, followed by luncheon, at
10:30 am. Monday at the home Of
Mrs. Leon Tashof, 1915 Webster
street N. w.
Evening star., 1944-02-26

STROBERT, WILLIAM H. In sad but
grandfather. WILLIAM II. sTRoBEKT, who
departed. this life hve years ago today
February 26. 1899.
Loved in life, remembered in death.
HIS DAQGHTER, ELSIE. AND GRAND
DAUGHTER, BETTE.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Mansfield, Patton
Trailing in Texas
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 26.-Two Con-
gressional Representatives from
Texas trailed tonight in their races
for reelection, on the basis of in
complete unofncial returns from the
second Democratic primary today.
They were j. j. Mansfield, chair
man of the House Rivers and Har-
bors Committee, who has served in
Congress q years, and Nat Patton
who has served 10 years.
Representative Sam Russell, seek
ing his third term, held lead in the
incomplete returns.
The 1880 pm. (C.W.T.) tabula-
ton of the Texas Election Bureau
follows:
Ninth district, returns from II of
Is counties. 4 complete: Mr.. Mans
field, S,846; State Senator L. j. Su-
lax, La Grange, 9,814.
Seventh district, returns from IL
Of IL counties, complete: Mr.. Pat
ton,. 13,647; District Attorney Tom
Pickett, Palestine. 1S,30s.
Seventeenth district, returns from
IL of II counties, S complete: Mr..
Russell, 17,276; Clyde L. Garrett,
former Representative, 1876.
Today's primary was q runon In
races in which no candidate re-
ceived q majority in the first pri-
mary July ~.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Radio Programs, Pe. CO
Complete Index, Pa. Az


A quick tour of the city showed
Paris was virtually unscarred by
war. The greatest damage was to
buildings in the Luxembourg Gar
den area where the Germans made
q last stand.
When the sun rose this morn
ing, all was quiet and Paris was
going her serene way again.
Eighty-year-old flower girls were
selling multihued blossoms on Seine
bridges, all seized intact by Pa
triots. Before the Eternal Flame
which burned throughout the war
sisters and nuns in white held q
mourning ceremony at the Tomb oi
the Unknown Soldier before the
Arc de Tiomphe-
The usual bouquet Of flowers
brilliant red sladion-was at the
head Of the fame with 4 note read
Ing:
France lives after Hitler"
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Star Reporters See Paris Freed
|AndWotchU. S. 'BEtz in Action
.Yonks Smothered
With Kisses, DeIueed
With Wine in CopitoI
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

PARIS. Aug. 26-Paris seems al
most unchanged from 1929-the last
time I was here.
1t was like holiday town as
entered from Fontainbleau this
morning after night with an
American motor cavalry troop mop
ping up German pockets.
The most striking change Is the
enormous numbers of people riding
bicycles through the flag -draped
streets. We plunged into the
ocean of bicycles, blocking traffic
everywhere.
But the same clerks were in the
Grand Hotel near the Opera, which
left room service unchanged. The
same wine-sipping congregation was
at the street tables before the Cafe
de la Paix The women were
smartly dressed. On the surface
there was no indication of hunger.
Most stores were closed for the
holiday.
I passed the remnants of a few
paving-block street barricades,
which had been torn down hastily.
Three days ago I came with the
French armored column as far as
Rambouillet, French summer White
(See HENRY Page A-40
Evening star., 1944-08-27

From the arch was draped q
50-foot Tricolor. On the sidewalk
beside the arch was an overturned,
burned-out German staff car.
The School of Mines, which faces
the Boulevard st. German, and
the Senate Building were badly
blasted. In the buildings still lay
some Germans. In the streets ap-
preaching Luxembourg the gardens
workmen were dismantling cobble-
stone and sandbag barricades from
which protruded the snouts oi
silent S8s.
The face of the venerable Cham.
Der OF Deputies was SCARED BY
bullet holes and the President &
Palace. standing between the Sen.
ate Building and Chamber Of Depu.
ties, had gaping cannon holes II
the front, and all windows wert
shattered.
The Inyalides Palace, where Ma.
poleon's tomb is located, escaped
damage. 1t was here that Hitle,
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Sidney Weinberg to Resign
WPB Position During Week
Congress Members Fear Impeding Of Output
Nelson Being 'Ditched,' Johnson Suys

The upheaval in the War Pro-
duction Boards high command
took another turn last night
when associates of Sidney j.
Weinberg, a WPB vice chairman
in charge of special problems, "
reported that he will leave the
Washington scene himself this
week.
This development was reported as
members of Congress expressed con-
Germ lest the situation hinder both
war output and reconversion, and
Senator johnson, Democrat, OF
Colorado charged that WPB Chair
man Donald M. Nelson is being
"ditched" permanently.
Mr.. Weinberg, whom Mr. Nelson
recalled last June chiefly to aid him
In whipping the production agency
Evening star., 1944-08-27
BY EDWARD d. BALL.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
PARIS, Aug. 26.-Paris is free to-
day, but the old town has a terrific
hangover.
The final unconditional surrender
was signed at 6 pm. last night in
the dingy baggage masters office in
Montparnasse railroad station, and
Paris greeted it with one of the wild
est nights in its history.
But machinegun and rife shots
played a staccato overture to the
blaring brass bands celebrating the
end Of German rule.
From dusk until early morning 1t
seemed as If everybody was shooting
in all directions, and there was oc-
casional cannonading.
Some Of the shooting was at Ger
mans still fighting after the formal
surrender, but lot of 1t was simply
Parisians letting on steam.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

came in 1910 to preen himself be-
fore the tomb of the man he tried
to outdo, and failed.
The famed Pont Neuf Bridge,
leading across the Seine to the
Palace of Arts, still was barricaded.
The bridge and palace were not
SCARED.
There was one big shell hole in
the facade Of the Home Ministry
Building on the left bank Of the
Seine.
At least 100 American made tanks
were dispersed in park at the
foot Of the Champs -Elysees and
over and inside them clambered
admiring Parisians, young and old
In the Place de la Concorde stat
ues erected in honor Of French
cities were intact. The statue to
Strasbourg, which was draped when
Hitler occupied that city, was un.
draped today. as were all others.
The cream -colored American en-
bassy was not damaged. The Hotel
(see SURRENDER, Page A-5.5
Evening star., 1944-08-27
Flying Column Beots
Nozis at Own Come in
Southern France
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr,
Star War Correspondent

WITH ALLIED FORCES IN
SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug. % De-
layed) For the last five days an
American flying column has been
operating northward in front of the
main body of our forces here, slash
ing deep into territory supposedly
held by the enemy, cutting his lines
OF communication and generally
playing havoc with what normally
should have been his rear area.
It's this force-in the course of a
250-mile journey during which 1t
always has been technically behind
the German line-which took Riez
last Friday. 1t then pushed on
through st. Julien, Peruis. LIE Mees,
Volonne, Digne Sisteron on Sat-
urday. Sunday it continued north
through Laragne and Serres to As
pres, then dashed east to take the
German garrison town of Gap.
I joined the flying squadron Sat-
urday and remained with it until
yesterday. Our main forces, which
had followed as fast as possible in
the wake of this modern version of
Jeb Stuart's Civil War raiders, had
gotten through to us by then. Po-
sitions taken by the flying column
(See MOVES PAGE A.l0