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Evening star., 1944-01-21
Tito Retakes Jajce,
Patriot Headquarters
In Western Bosnia
BY the Associated Press,

oy thc hsSOSidteQ FEebA.
LONDON, Jan. II. Marshal
Josip Broz (Tito> announced to-
day that his Yugoslav Partisan
troops had recaptured the town
of Jajce, headquarters of the
Patriot army in the mountains
Of Western Bosnia, which the
Germans said fell on January IL.
Smashing on to the west. the
Partisans cleared the area between
Mrkonjicgrad and Glamoc, 80 miles
southwest of Jajce. Of German
troops, including units of the lst
German Alpine Division and a mo-
torized division. and drove them
back toward the Dalmatian coast.
Jajce occupies a strategic position
at the confluence of the Vrbas and
Pliva Rivers. 30 miles south of
Banja Luka. and is a chemical CEN
ter. Tito's headquarters are on the
summit of q conical hill overlooking
the Vrbas Valley, 100 feet below.
Partisans Take Offensive.
Tito's war bulletin. broadcast by
the Free Yugoslav radio, said the
Partisans had gone over to the Of
fensive on several other sectors of
the widely scattered front.
Partisans smashed back at a
strong force Of Germans who had
penetrated the town OF Prozar in
the Rama sector and threw them
out with a loss of more than 300
killed.
Northeast of Sarajevo. Partisans
were successfully battling German
forces in the Doboj- -Tuzla-Zvornik
sector and had preached enemy de-
lenses at Tuzla. where street fight
Ing was reported Yugoslav troops
occupied the nearby mining towns
OF Kreka and Zivinica, the bulletin
said
Mani Column Hurled Back.
Modric and Gradacac. two towns
northeast of Doboj in Central
Bosnia, were taken by the Partisans
and a German column marching
south from Brcko in an attempt to
relieve the Tuzla garrison was hurled
back.
A recapitulation of damage done
to German communication and
supply lines during the last IL
months, compiled by Tito's head
quarters. shows that railway wreck
ing units have destroyed 800 truck
loads of wheat, 80 locomotives, 480
freight cars, Is bridges and 3 tanks.
They have killed more than 1000
enemy troops.
In addition they interrupted traffic
on the Zagreb-Belgrade trunk rail-
way. one of the Germans main
supply and communication lines, for
a total of 1900 hours.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Ilekes ExpIoins Delay
In Little Big Inch
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes said yesterday q
two-month delay in completion of
the Little Big Inch" oil pipe line
from Texas to the East has been
caused partly by a good many
breaks" in the pipe and partly by
difficulty in getting pumps, but that
the line will begin limited operation
any day now and no later than next
week..
Despite the increased now of Pc
troleum products now in prospect,
Mr.. 1ckes said emphatically the gaso-
limo situation In the East lis going
to get worse before it gets better.
When the 20-inch line opens, it
will have to operate at first with
only about one-half the pumps II
will eventually have, Mr.. Ickes told
his news conference.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Capt. SWEET, South Pacific
Flying Hero, 10 Marry
By the Associated Presss


REDWOOD CITY, Calf, Jan. 81.
Capt. James E. SWEET, marine
flying hero, who has IA japanese
planes to his credit, will marry Miss
Lois Anderson, 10, of Oakland Sat-
urday night.
Capt. SWEET. %. of San Mateo and
Miss Anderson received q marriage
license here yesterday. They will
make their home in Santa Barbara
where the Pacific war ace expects 20
be stationed.
The flyer won the Congressional
Medal Of Honor for shooting down
seven Japanese dive bombers in a
single engagement last April over
Tulagi He also holds the Distin-
guished Flying Cross.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Pool Urged for Paying
u. ). and British Troops

Py the Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. Ala members
proposal in the House of Commons
yesterday that British and American
soldiers be paid from pool to cor
rect inequalities was greeted by the
cry from another member, do you
want to start another WARP"
w. j. Brown, independent, said
there was grave feeling in the
British armed forces" over the dis
parity in pay, and Capt. Leonard F.
Plugge, Conservative, suggested a
common pool for the payment of
British and American troops.
The idea was not elaborated.
Maj. Clement Attlee, Deputy
Prime Minister, said it was quite
impossible to arrive at an adjust
ment in view of the different rates
of pay and different costs of living"
in the various theaters.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Army Bomber Crash
Kills Seven in Arkansas
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CAMDEN, Ark. Jan. 2l.-A heavy
Army bomber crashed in a cutover
field about miles south of here late
yesterday, and bodies of seven men
were found in the wreckage.
Army Air Forces refused to discuss
!e crash.
Ray Parham, general manager Of
the Keystone Lumber Co., near the
scene of the crash, said the plane
went into a dive, crashed and
burned. The intense heat prevented
woodsmen from reaching any Of the
men.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
New Control Agency
Set Up in Indo-Chino
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2l.-A new cen
tralized control agency has been set
up in Indo- China to supervise "all
aspects Of production and Of rubber, !"
the Toxic radio said today In .
broadcast recorded by United States
Government monitors.
Four days ago the controlled
Saigon radio announced . sharp de-
cline In both production and export.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Chile Will Liquidote
Nozi Banking Chains
By the Associated Press.

By tdk ASbOc1oted FfSS6.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 2l.-The
Chilean government yesterday an
nounced liquidation proceedings
against two major German banking
chains In Chile In 4 move to CO.
operate with the United Nations
effort against the Axi&
The liquidation ordde was made
effective from December 81, 1913.
This was presumed - be . move to
invalidate any maneuveas the banks
may have made recently to evade
control.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Resignation Of Z Aides
To Petoin Reported

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 21-A Vichy dis
patch broadcast by DNB last night
reported that two of Marshal Pc
tain's aides had resigned.
They were identified as Jean Jar
del, secretary general to Petain,
and Gen. Jaques Campet, chief Of
the marshals military cabinet.
fJardel was secretary general to
the late Admiral Jean Darlan when
the admiral was vice premier in
l941. There was no record of
Campet in Associated Press files.)
Evening star., 1944-01-21

TOM HARMON TELLS OF RESCUE Showing effects
gruelng experience It. Tom Harmon Qeft Michigan
football star tells Capt Mike Frankovitch, u
gdder how he rescued after being missing in China
nearly month This picture country
1t HarmonS safe return made in mid-December
sent by Comedian Joe E. Brown friend Angeles
A P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Library Has Many
Books on Belgium
And Netherlands
Bv Ruth A. HnbbeU
Reference Librarian, GEORGETOWN Branch
Public Library.

Reference Librarian, GEORGETOWN Branch,
Public Library.
The human spirit eventually tran
scends all barriers. Belgium and
Holland have withstood in turn the
tyranny of Spain, Austria, France
and Germany. Nations with battle
fields like Waterloo and Ypres and
heroes like Albert and William of
Orange have tradition to maintain.
A portrait of "The Dutch" by A.
J. Barnouw, and the prolific writings
Of Hendrix Willem van Loon are
among the many books in the Public
Library on the Unconquerables
''The Royal Ladies of the Neither
lands" by L. ]. Power, Is closeup
of Wilhelmina and Juliana. "The
Keystone of Europe" by Emile Cam
maerts, surveys Belgium,s last hum
dred years, and Belgium" by Hugh
Gibson, offers q pleasant blend of
history, art and tradition.
The statesmen, scientists, writer's
musicians and artists of the Low
Countries are outstanding. Maeter-
nnck is one Of several Nobel prize
winners. Among painters stand the
Flemish Van Eyck, Memling, Rubens
Van Dyck and Brueghel, and the
Dutch Halls, Vermeer, the incom-
parable Rembrandt and the modern
Van Gogh. For details read Wilhelm
Won Bode's Great Masters Of Dutch
and Eemtsh Painting" and &milai
books.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
T1Ventietb Century French Art
At Phillips Memorial GaUery

vais weavers, from cartoons by lead.
Ing artists Of the School of Paris
q project conceived and carried
out by Nine. Cutton, wife Of q
French Senator from Algiers. She
felt that tapestry was q dying art
and that 1t might be revived If the
weavers had living designs to trans.
late in their superb technique. Four
teen completed tapestries in this
series are on view in the main gal
lery of the Phillips Memorial.
Criticism is disarmed by the fact
that the excellent foreword to the
catalogue (reprinted from Fortune)
points out the major defect of q
majority of these tapestries: The
designs are for paintings, rather
than for loom work. Such Is the
skill of the weavers, that to an OBJ
server seated on one side of the
gallery, the tapestries on the op-
posite wall appear to be paintings
This is particularly true of the
tlve by Rouault and Picasso's "ln-
spiration.' They are nearly per.
feet reproductions. Yet one doubts
that it was worth while to devote
so much labor to achieve in q
textile, the same effect that the
painters have gotten directly on
canvas in a fraction Of the time
Jean Lurcat's heroic-sized pair
"The Seasons and the Arts" and
George Braque's two still life com
positions, impress one as success
full tapestries. Every square foot
of the surfaces is interesting, the
colors are harmonious and not toe
insistent. Jean Miro's Guessing
Game" and Lurcat's Rocks and
Brook" are least successful, as they
have very large areas Of single
colors.
In two other galleries on the
second floor, there are paintings
mostly from the permanent col
lection of the Phillips Memorial
Gallery by some of the artists who
designed the tapestries. These ex-
hibitions remain to February o.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
British Lord Mayor Thanks
Washinqtonians for Gifts

In a letter addressed to "The
Worshipful the Mayor, Washington
D. c., U. S. A." the Lord Mayor OF
Kingston Upon Hull, England, has
expressed his thanks to Washingto-
mans for gifts received for children
through the British War Relief So
ciety.
These have arrived in time for
Christmas" wrote Lord Mayor F. R
Fryer, "and will help a great deal
to brighten this festivity for our
children who are evacuated from
Hull and have to spend the holiday
away from their own homes.
81 should be glad If you would be
good enough to pass this message on
to all concerned, together with our
best wishes for the New Year and
hope that it may bring US all q
victorious and lasting peace"
Dated the middle Of December
the letter was received almost Z
month later by the Commissioner.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
By Florence s. Berrpman

Twentieth century French art is
the major offering Of the Phillips
Memorial Gallery this month and
the first fortnight in February. OF
several exhibitions which opened
last Sunday, a retrospective disp' ~
of work by Roger de La Fresnaye
is foremost. It is the first in this
country, and comprises practically
all available and known works by
him, in the United States. It was
organized by the Arts Club of Chi
cago.
La Fresnaye, an early convert to
Cubism, was a Norman aristocrat
of ancient lineage, born at LIE Mans
in 1885. In his Dos he was fol-
lowing the course charted by Ce-
zanne; but he was not a slavish
adherent of any school. He de-
rived inspiration from many
sources. Unfortunately, during his
service in the first World War, he
was badly wounded and died from
the effects in 1925.
Because of the premature end
of his career, he is not ranked with
the leaders Of Cubism and other
branches of Goth century art. But
the layman will doubtless prefer
his work to that of several more
exalted modernists. 1t has a clarity
and warmth that lead the OBJ
server to feel that had La Fresnaye
lived, he might have created paint
ings not only contemporary and
experimental, but also ineligible
to the average person. But such
speculation is improbable.
We can study and admire the
works he left, Of which the Phil
lips Gallery is exhibiting nearly 80
They range from about 1908 to
1922. Outstanding are "L'Artillerie'
"a large oil, 191D, with striking
composition Of semi-abstract horse
drawn gun carriages, officers, men
and flags, and feeling of time
lessness, despite the dated equip
ment; 'Mappemonde." an over
mantel (oil, 1919 belonging to the
Phillips Gallery, in which a globe,
books and a violin are arranged
against background of rose-tint-
ed clouds in q blue sky, suggesting
universality: a landscape of 1912,
semi -Cubistic, yet appealing, with
its picturesque village of red-roofed
houses on a hill rising from a lake,
and large still life "Diabolo, 4"
partly abstract, its theme a kind
of spinning top.
Many other words by La Fresnaye
on view convince the visitor that
he was truly free in his search for
expression. This show, occupying
three galleries, remains until mid
February.
Cnffoi TAPESTRIES
OF exceptional interest is the ex-
hibition OF tapestries dons by BsaM-
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Mixture of Moods
Enhances Tale of
Flying Tigers .
The Lady and the Tiqers
By Olga S. GreenldU. (Duttc

By Olga S. GreenlaU. (Dutton.) }
Olga s. Greenlaw first met the
Flying Tigers" when her husband,
Harvey K. Greenlaw, was placed
second in command to Brig. Gen.
Chennault in July, 1941. The day
after Pearl Harbor, Gen. Chennault
made her the only woman Tiger"
and asked her to act as war diary
statistician and editor of the AVG
News.
Her story covers AVG operations
as she saw them from the day Of
organization till the group was dis
banded in July, 1912.
1t Is a fascinating tale, written in
a personal and always vivid style.
Mrs. Greenlaw describes the dare
devil Tigers by reproducing the con-
versations she recorded in her diary.
Adding little comment of her cwn,
she uses the same method to &C.
claim the greatness of Nine. Chang
Kai-shek. She also gives an un-
forgettable impression of the repor-
torial technique of Clare Boothe
Luce
Through anecdote and factual
quotation from the AVG News, Mrs.
Greenlaw also tells much of interest
about the flying methods of the
Tigers, and conditions in China and
Burma after Pearl Harbor. The
most striking part of the book, how
ever, is the poignant grief expressed
by the author for the fallen Tigers.
Mrs. Greenlaw could never grow
used to the death of boys she knew
SO well. Her mixture of the moods
of laughter and tears is excellent
reading.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
\~urrent
Books
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.
Behind the Steel Wall

Oe0jHQ the 9Ieej wal
By Aruid Eredborg. viking
Press.J
Arvid Fredborg, from 1941 to 1943,
was Berlin correspondent for the
Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dag
bladet. The book which he has now
published describes a broad sweep
OF events as they were apparent to
a journalist who enjoyed the rare
distinction Of being a neutral in the
capital Of the country which is
enemy to almost the entire world.
OF most significance to American
readers will be the fact that, his
neutrality Notwithstanding Mr..
Fredborg has the identical point of
view as ourselves. He detests the
Germans and makes no bones at all
about it.
The groundwork of his book is a
recapitulation Of historical events
-Germany's successive offenses,
Hitler's various pronouncements,
political moves. On this familiar
material. he spreads the story of the
reactions Of the German people,
insofar as he was able to observe
them. And still further, he gives us
some of his personal experiences in
getting news and dealing with the
German censorship. The most in
teresting stuff is, of course, the &C
count of German attitudes.
He reports them as apathetic,
more than anything else. At times,
he says, there was a brief flare of
enthusiasm-as when, early in The
Russian campaign, reports of enor-
nous victories were given out. But
the basic emotion of the Germans
toward their feuhrer's war was, be
believes, stoical endurance.
For the rest, the book is very much
what We all know. The circumstance
that its author is a neutral observer
adds, however, to the authority of
the statements.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Current War Books
Mediterranean AsSignr

Mediterranean Assignment, by
Richard Mcmillan Doubleday,
Doran-A veteran United Press re-
porter tells how Rommel was chased
out of Africa. First-rate job of re-
porting.
They Made Me q Leatherneck, by
Rowland Vance (Norton)-A marine
now on duty somewhere in the Pa
cific" tells a lively story of his 20
weeks Of Officers training at Guam
tico.
Home Front Memo, by Carl Sand
burg Harcourt, Brace)-A miscel-
laneous assortment of Sandbursiana:
Pieces on Lincoln, written at vari-
Gus times; selections from the au-
thor's syndicated newspaper COL
umns, lectures, poems, stc. Worth
while.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
II Civic Groups Plan Meetings

The Mid-City Citizens Association
will discuss District bills coming up
in both houses Of Congress at its
meeting this week. The Parent
Teacher Association and students
in the upper grades of Thompson
School have been invited to attend
the showing of Land Of the
Maharajas Of India"
Ten other groups also will meet
Lincoln Park and Southeast as
sociations will meet jointly in East
ern High School to review problems
confronting both communities.
The development Of Eastern ave-
nue. will be considered at the Ia
koma Park D. C.-Md) meeting
Wednesday.
The Society of Natives has can
celled Its January meeting owing to
the sale Of the Women's City Vlub
They will meet February % at l733
I street NV.
The list Of meetings follows:
Monday.
Fort Davis - Ryland Methodist
Church, Branch avenue and S street
Sc, 8 pm.
Georgetown st. Johns Parish
Hall, O and Potomac avenue NV.
8 pm.
Mid City-T h SON School
Twelfth and L streets NV, 3 pm.
North Capitol-McKinley High
School, First and T streets NE,
pm.
Tuesday.
Arkansas Avenue - Incarnation
Church, Fourteenth and Gallatin
street NV, 8 pm.
Lincoln Park and Southeast
Eastern High School, Seventeenth
and East Capitol streets, 3 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Ny Fighting Congregation

By Chaplain William C. Tag
CART, U. S. A., and CHRISTOPHER
Cross. doubleday, Doran.)
William c. Taggart is a young
Baptist minister who, shortly before
Pearl Harbor, joined the Army in
the conviction that war was inev-
liable and that when it came his
work as a chaplain would be useful
He was on his way to the Philip
pines on transport when the Jap
anese attacked. His fighting con-
gregation' took part in the defense
of Java, the evacuation of that
island and the subsequent battling
carried on from North Australia. He
remained with them through it all.
His story here is of his own work
Evening star., 1944-01-23

Wednesday.
Takoma Park-Takoma branch of
Public Library, Fifth and Cedar
street NV, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Macarthur Boulevard-Palisad
Field House, Edmunds and Sherrier
place NV, 8 pm.
Friday.
Anacostia-Anacostia High School,
Sixteenth and r street Sc, pm.
Burroughs - Taft Junior High
School, Eighteenth and Parry place
NE, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Among the New Novels
Brief ReUie1US of Current

Brief ReUie1Us OF Current
Works OF Fiction.
White Shore of Olinda, by Sylvia
Leao (Vanguard-First novel of love
among Brazilian fisherfolk. Well
done.
The Waltz Is Over, by Hester Pine
(Farrar & Rinehart)-Story of an
Austrian family in America and
how, in the course Of time, it be-
came American, too. Fairly obvious
stuff
In Time of Harvest, by John l..
Sinclair (Macmillan)-Story of an
"Okie" of quarter of a century
ago who settled in New Mexico, made
a success of his farm and failure
Of his family. Worth reading.
Evening star., 1944-01-23

his description of the old-fashionet
"beef-steaks" have that reminiscen,
touch. In other sketches, however
he is wholly contemporary, some
times with gentle irony.
Above all. Mr.. Mitchell is a gooc
reporter, who writes his features
about people rather than, indirectly
about himself. He is in the sketches
only long enough to perform the
introductions. Then the reader i.
on his own with some of the strang.
est people he ever met.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
Best Sellers
FICTION


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,
by Betty Smith.
So Little Time, by John P.
Marquand.'
The Apostle, by Sholem Asch.
Also the Hills, by Frances
Parkinson Keyes.
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Doug
las.
NONFICTION.
Here Is Your War, by Ernie
Pyle.
Under Cover, by John Roy
Carlson.
God Is My Co-Pilot, by Col.
Robert l.. Scott.
Paris Underground, by Eta
Shiber.
Persons and Places, by George
Santayana.
Evening star., 1944-01-23
The Art Word
Four Fine Paintings Bequeathed
To National Art Collection

personality nil. 1t was this lack OF
interpretative. power which marked
the decline of the great English
school. Or was it perchance dis
inclination on the part of the Eng
lish nobility to be interpreted? 1t
may have been. But what techni-
clans Beechey and his colleagues
were!
The group by Watts-"Lady and
Two Children'-is a simpler COM
position and perhaps a little more
broadly rendered. Presumably it is
an early work for it shows neither
style nor character associated with
Watts works after maturity was
reached. More than any one else
Watts may be said to have bridged
the gap between the art of the ty-
pical English school and that OF
the so-called modern, which gap
includes, it will be remembered, the
rise and fall Of the pre-Rephaelite
brotherhood. That Watts was not
affected by the events and move
ments of the day would be an alb
surd supposition, but it is scarce
ly less remarkable that being af-
fected he still consistently held his
own.
Noteworthy Portraits
Watts came of an old Hereford
shire family of culture. In early
youth his health was SO poor that
his education was desultory, and for
this reason, also, he turned to art
Few painters have had longer or
more fruitful lives than he. Born
in 1917 he lived until 1904, during
which time he produced over 800
paintings, not including numerous
murals in fresco and several works
in sculpture
For the National Portrait Gal
lery, London, he did portraits of a
majority of the noted persons of
Great Britain during his day. Many
OF these are broadly rendered and
most excellent. He was strongly
OF the conviction that artists had
a mission to the world at large
that through art great truths might
be presented in such wise that they
would increase understanding. It
was under this conviction that he
painted his famous Love and
Death and also Love and Life. "
A replica of the latter was given
by the artist to this country and
hung for some time in the Cor
coran Gallery, then in the White
House, and, later still, was trans
ferred, appropriately, to the Ma
Evening star., 1944-01-23
McSorIey's Wonderful
Saloon

By Joseph Mitchell. (DueH,
Sloan & PedrceJ
Mr.. Mitchell, who has few peers
as feature writer, sets the pace
for the 20 sketches in this book by
announcing in a foreword that he
regards the phrase, "the little peo-
pie" as "patronizing and repulsive. Z"
There are no little people in this
book" he adds, deflantly. "They are
as big as you are, whoever you are"
1t is probably because of this at
titude that Mr.. Mitchell wins the
confidence of the characters who
parade through the book. He can
certainly make them talk. Although
his characters range from the couple
who got so used to living in a cave
that they couldn't live in a house
to the "dont-swear man." they all
have one thing in common-per-
sonality.
Mr.. Mitchell has a great fondness
for his characters, particularly those
who share his nostalgia for the good
old days." which might be the turn
of the century or the fabulous 20s.
His Obituary Of a Gin Mill" and
Evening star., 1944-01-23

tional Art collection. This alle-
gorical work is rendered with much
breadth and feeling. 1t marks an
epoch which is now essentially of
the past and witnesses on the part
of the painter a power of trans
scription given to few.
1t is we'll to have Watts thus
doubly represented in our National
collections, so generously, as in this
instance, built up by gifts. For
some time prior to DR.. Denys'
death these paintings were ex-
hibited in the National Museum
as loans.