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Evening star., 1944-09-08
Lewis R. Stuyyesant, AZ,
Veteran Of Two Wars, Dies
By The Axsociateipr.s,

BY the Associate Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8.-Lewis r
Stuyvesant, AZ, of Tranquility
Farms, Allamuchy, N. j., formerly
OF the United States consular serv-
Ice in India, died yesterday at the
Knickerbocker Club.
Mr.. Stuyvesant served in the
World War and was a member OF
the De Gaullist force in the curren,
war after being in the American
f1eld service. Returning to this
country. he entered the Marine
Corps. from which he was dis.
charged last year.
A graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity In 1927, he was the son of the
late Rutherford Stuyvesant anc
Princess Karaman Chimay of Bel.
gium.
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Independents Swinging
10 Dewey, BrowneII SAYS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 8.-Much in
dependent support, particularly in
New England and along the Eastern
seaboard, has been gained by Gov
Thomas E. Dewey's call for a mon
partisan peace program" Repub-
lican National Chairman Herbert
Brownell, jr., says.
Making the statement at a press
Hconference yesterday, Mr.. Brownell
also revealed he had conferred with
Wendell L. Willkie three weeks ago.
He said they discussed campaign
issues, but declined to say whether
the 1910 Republican presidential
nominee had been asked to support
Gov. Dewey.
Mr.. Willkie, in a hospital for q
physical check, made no comment.
Saying he had made an optimistic
report on the campaign to Gov
Dewey, Mr.. Brownell declared the
Republicans needed only an average
4 per cent voting shift over 1916
and the polls indicate greater
strength than that"
4
Evening star., 1944-09-08
Jim Reed, Bitter Foe Of League
And Prohibition Dies at 81

Hos came TO Kansas City IN 1887 tc
make his career. Thirteen year,
later he was elected Mayor after .
memorable career Is county prose
cutting attorney.
Compiled Amazing Record.
While prosecutor. he compiled the
amazing record OF 285 convictions
out Of 287 felony cases.
As Mayor OF Kansas City, Mr.
Reed represented his State at Demo-
cratic national conventions and In
1911 he was elected to the Senate
where he quickly earned Nation
wide prominence early in the Wilson
administration by his prosecution
OF a lobby investigation and his ef-
forts In behalf Of the Federal Re-
serve Act.
But the same motives which led
him to fight lobbying interests and
to battle for Federal control of the
Nations financial structure. i'm
PEELED his savage opposition to the
Treaty Of Versailles and the Leaeue
OF Nations, which he charged was
sponsored by international bankers
headed by the Morgan interests. Uu
and down the country he waged re-
lentless warfare, declaring the
League "a villainous conspiracy
against the liberties of the nations
Of the world"
Remained in Spotlight.
After the League fight was over.
Senator Reed remained in the spot
light due to his frequent outbursts
against prohibition and his activ-
tiles as chairman of the Senate
Election Investigating Committee
Hearings which he conducted cost
William S. Ware, Senator ELECT from
Pennsylvania. and Frank B Smith
Senator-elect from Illinois. their
seats.
When Congress set out to enact
the Volstead law to carry into force
the 18th amendment. Mr.. Reed
brought all his skill as a debater
into play in a vain effort to block
the measure. He attacked not only
the bill itself, but its author. Rep
resentative Andrew J. Volstead OF
Minnesota.
Il have seen some of the conspira-
tors OF the past" he told the Senate
the countenances Of those who have
led fanatical revolt, the burners OF
witches, the executioners who ap-
piled the torch, and see them again
when look upon the author of this
measure"
Such a structure on a member of
the other branch of Congress vio-
lated the rules and raised furor in
the House with demands that ii
be expunged from the record. But
Senator Reed had gone back to Mis-
souri, and the statement stood for
several weeks until he returned and
asked that 1t be eliminated.
In 1928 he became a candidate for
his party's nomination for the pres
idency. His name went before the
Houston convention with the solid
backing of Missouri and with scat
tering support from other States
In the ensuing campaign he took
the stump for Gov. Alfred Smith OF
New York and made some of the
most telling speeches Of his career in
appeals for religious tolerance.
He stepped aside at the expiration
of his third term in 1929. Soon he
began to appear in big cases ano
there was talk of mammoth. fees
Notably he appeared In the defense
Evening star., 1944-09-08
Requiem Moss Held
For Mrs. Susun Curry

Requiem mass for Mrs. Susan
Frances Curry, who died Tuesday
at her home, 1908 Third street NE.
was celebrated today at the I'm
maculate Conception Church, Me-
chanicsville, Md. Burial was in st
Joseph's Church Cemetery, Nor
ganza, Md.
Widow of John r. Curry, she is
survived by five sons and six daugh-
ters.
Evening star., 1944-09-08
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Sunny and
cool today, high in mid 70s: clear
and cool tonight; low near so. Clear
and little warmer tomorrow; fair
and warmer Sunday.
Maryland-Clear and cool tonight;
sunny with moderate temperatures
tomorrow.
notwithstanding slowly and be-
coming cool in south portion; clear
and cool elsewhere tonight. Sunny
with moderate temperature tomor-
row.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
clear at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1944-09-08
University to Honor Porron

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 8 lPl:-
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran of the
United States Public Health Service
will receive an honorary doctor Of
science award Sunday at the Uni
versity of Utah Medical Schools
first commencement. -.., XII
Evening star., 1944-09-08
Semiconsiderote Burolor

OKLAHOMA CITY P).-A semi
considerate burglar paid a visit to
the home of Miss Vivian Salmon.
In place Of her set of silverware, he
left five old, rusty knives.
Evening star., 1944-09-08

OF Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, who was
acquitted in March, 1881, of a charge
OF numbering her husband after. q
quarrel over a game of bridge. The
case attracted national attention.
Evening star., 1944-09-08

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest. II, 3 pm. Year ago, 81.
Lowest 55, 6:54 am. Year ago. GA
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, IS, on June 49,
Lowest, II, ON January g.
Evening star., 1944-09-08

ALICE I. JACOBSON, Secretary.
TURNER. MILLICENT r. On Tuesday
September 3. 1914, at Montgomery County
@ General Hospital. MILLICENT R. TURNER,
beloved mother of Randolph M. and James
Turner, daughter of Josephine Ruth
Ml!stead: Remains resting at Chambers
funeral nome, SIT 11th st. Sc, until IL
noon Thursday, September Z; thereafter
ct her late residence, Sandy Spring, Md,
where remains will rest until pm Sat-
uTday, September 8. Services in Free
Methodist Church, Spencerville, Md. at
80 pm. 1nterment Union Cemetery.
Burtonsville, Md. Baltimore papers plea Sc
copy)
WEBB, c. CORNELIUS. On Tuesday,
September 5. 1914. at Johns HOPKINS Hos
band Of Katherine Webb, father of CorneIia
K. Williams, william c. and Corpl. John
A. Webb, grandfather of Doris K VIII
liams; brother of Mrs. Esther M. Faunt-
OF HUNTINGTON, w. Va Many nieces, neph-
eWs and other relatives also survive. After
Pm Friday, September 8, friends may
call at his late residence. 1773 T st. NV,
where where funeral services will be held on Sat
mTday, September 8. at l pm, Rev j. e.
Elliott of1ciat ting. Interment Lincoln Me-
moral Cemetery Friends invited. Ar
rangements by Thos Frazier Co.
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Report for Last ~ Hours
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Inc Sun and Moon
ptSor Co.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
CAPITAL (current month to dateT.
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Humidity Repo

FURNISHED by United States Coast an
Ceodetic Survey
Evening star., 1944-06-12
good" deserves the highest hope for
its success, the President wrote.

good" deserves the highest hope for
its success, the President wrote.
The text Of his letter follows:
"It seems to me that the WASH
ington Municipal Theater will serve
Ia helpful purpose in promoting the
cultural life of the National Capital.
II have always wished that great
er use could be made Of the Sylvan
Theater in the Monument Grounds
because of it's easy accessibility and
the opportunity it affords for large
crowds to attend dramatic perform
ances with entire comfort and con-
venience, The idea Of q Municipal
Theater is praiseworthy from many
points of view. Besides offering an
opportunity to Government workers,
teen-age groups and children for
developing latent talents by associa-
ton with professional performers,
the wholesome entertainment thus
afforded will counteract other and
balefuk influences which encourage
Juvenile delinquency.
"All success to a movement so
potent for good.
Very sincerely yours,
"(S) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1944-06-12

many Jag-alOngS, ana SO, OF course,
would young DR.. Kildare" and his
half-hearted successor series star
ring old DR.. Gillespie.
The movies could not have taken
over the Testers to accomplish this
purpose for the obvious reason that
they are not nice people. The
Hayes Office allowed them to pass
once, In a modified version which
turned blasphemous old Jeeter in
to a sort of clay-splattered mystic,
but its endorsement was nothing
to encourage a second installment.
The theater is subject to no such
restraint, or obviously there never
would have been Lester family
to keep the public absorbed for
nine long seasons. Author Jack
Kirkland should have known that,
perhaps, and done something about
it out of a kind of loyalty to the
Testers and their public, who have
been good enough to have made
him rich.
X 4 X
In lieu of reviewing Tobacco
Road" which has outlived many
of the critics who originally gaped
and growled at it, it is interesting
to speculate on where its people
might be by now had some one con-
nected with it been attacked by a
desire to write sequel.
Clearly Jeeters dramatic posi-
bilities were by no means exhausted
in the version now at the Nation
al for the ninth time. Those turnips
he has eaten clearly are a food to
keep a man virile for an indefinite
time, and one with Jeeter's tenden-
Evening star., 1944-06-12

cies and temptations could live
| through a dozen episodes as dra-
matte as the one still engrossing the
republic. If ever a man earned the
seed for a new tobacco crop, and
one more chance to atone for his
lecherous laziness, Jeeter is the
man. With a few dollars in his
pocket, few turnips that he did
not have to steal and a shirt that
wasn't so much "tored" as his pres
sent one, there is no limit to where
he might go. All he needs is.
playwright to give him the chance.
Sx
And then there is Sister Bessie,
the second most dramatic character
In the Nationals enduring charade.
There is something endlesSly ar
resting in the spectacle of Sister
Bessie trying to corral her wayward
emotions into some kind of religious
expression. BY now, had the movies
taken her over, or been able to-,
she would have been a tremendous
character in the saga of the Les
ters, a revivalist perhaps with q
private temple as big as Aimee
Semple McPherson's.
Dude, the wild Lester lad who
marries Sister Bessie, and who has
spent his incorrigible youth chunk
ing" tennis ball off the family
hovel or wrecking the car his bride
gave him, is another who deserves
a break on the part of the play
wright. He could have been in
and out of six reform schools since
he first told his mother and father
where they could go in the second
line of dialogue in Tobacco Road"
The others, purity Publ" who was
sold in wedlock to Love Bensey;
Love, himself, who found he had
made a bad bargain, and poor Ellie
May with the split lip and the ad-
died brain also deserve to move
along toward their implied destinies.
If Mr.. Kirkland won't write the
sequel, maybe he would turn the
Testers over to some young, am
bilious playwright.
They are people with possibilities.
Furthermore: The Curtis Bay
Coast Guard Band which played
two-week tribute engagement to
DR.. Corydon M. Wassen during the
run of his picture biography at the
Earle, remained over to play a spe-
cial concert Saturday night at the
Stage Door Canteen Yesterday
afternoons party brought together
the new Willard Roof Music Hall
company and director and the
dramatic press Host was the Will
lard's Marshall Jones, who thought
the two groups should know each
other before the former opens its
season Wednesday night :. The
Earle's Bond Wagon will give its
first entertainment tonight, SIS to
10 pm, in front of the theater
The theater's Roxyettes, musicians
and stage headliners will parti-
cjpate PIN Up Girl" as it
properly should be, was the favorite
May picture of service personnel
up in Mabel's Room" which was
not critics choice by any means,
was second Maryland Univer-
sity's Footlight Club will present
three performances of "Cry Havoc"
at the school, June 1917 The
cast is all-girl, as you no doubt
already know Both Mai. Clark
Gable and Metro Goldwyn Mayer
are saying nothing about the for
mer picture stars future until he
is officially placed on the Army Air
Forces inactive list That may
not be for several weeks Lester
Cowan has a spectacular idea for
casting the Ernie Pyle role in Here
Is Your War" But he does not
know whether it will work.
Evening star., 1944-06-12
Unusual Recital
Given at Gallery by
lHarpist and Pianist
BY ELENA DE SAYN.s

A rather unusual recital of harp
and piano music was given yesterday
afternoon at the Phillips Gallery by
Daphne Hellman, harpist, and
George de Svirsky, pianist. In addi-
ton to such familiar numbers as
labels Fountain and Zalzedo's
Dams La Mutt" for harp solo and
Albeniz's "Sonate" and Grandjany's
lie Petit Roi d'Yvelot," Miss He'll
man successfully eSsayed several
clever arrangements for the two in
lstruments of well known classical
numbers.
Among the latter, Bach's t'Pre-
lude" from the Sixth Unaccom-
panied Violin Sonata" deserved spe-
cial mention, the two parts compli-
menting each other in an exacting
ensemble. introduced first by the
piano, the theme is carried on fur
them by the harp, giving good op-
portunity to the latter to show the
finger velocity of the player.
Evening star., 1944-06-12

Throughout the recital Mr.. De
Svirsky gave Miss Hellman strong
support, perhaps too strong at times
for the comfort of those who sat
close to the performers. The effect
|of Respighi's "Gaillardo," Laura
|Soave" and "Bergomesca" at dis
tance was more pleasing.
Other ensemble numbers included
Vivaldi's Allegro" Haydn's "Alleg-
ro," Schumann's "Berceuse," Wal
lenstein's Polka" Albeniz's Tango
and Tschaikowsky's "Trepak." Mr.
de Svirsky's contribution Of piano
soloes included "Bach's Clique" and
"Cantante," Scarlatti's Senate" and
ChopinS "Mazurka."
Evening star., 1944-06-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
and Time Of Showing

stage.
National-"Tobacco Road: $50
pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Meet the People: 10:15
am, 1:10, 4:05, and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1925, $40, Sis and
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Broadway Rhythm"
1880 am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10 and Gas
|p.m.
Earle - Uncertain Glory: II
am, las. 4:30. 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage shows: ITO, 3:55, $40 and
$3.50 pm.
Little-"MayerNng":: 11:25 am.
|1:25, $40, $40, tbs and s:15 pm
Keith's-"Show Business: Ills
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, TAO and 9:4s
Ip.m.
Palace-"Pinup Girl: 10:45 am.
1855, $40. 5:25, TAO and 9:55 pm
Metropolitan--"Ihe Story OF DR.
Wassell": '11:10 am, las, 4:20, I
and $40 pm.
Pix-"When You're in Love. 2
4:05, 6:15. 8:25 and 10:30 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-06-12
President Gives
His Praise to
New Theater

Washington's Municipal Theater
today received the blessings Of the
White House in a letter from Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt ad-
dressed to Commissioner John Rus
sell Young. honorary head Of the
new project.
The movement, so potent for
Evening star., 1944-06-12
Tall Girls in Demand
For Movie Musicals
BY the Asscciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Tall girls, once unwanted in films
because Of the scarcity of lofty ac-
tors to play opposite them, are pop
ular now in musicals. There's
scarcely studio without q tall
chorus at work.
The next Tarzan adventure, 10
Gated among the tabled sAmazons,
will use 100 tall beauties, here in
quantity because of the demand for
them in pretentious musicals like
THE Ziegfeld Follies" and Belle
of the Yukon"
Evening star., 1944-06-12
Tobacco Roads, Odd People
Clamor for SEQUEL Drama
Nv Jay CARMODY.

to thinking today
family would
that
by in Hardy,
Homes
Evening star., 1944-06-12

Help win the war by saving waste
kitchen fats!
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Free Press Vital 10 Peace,
Kent Cooper Tells Australia
BY the Associated Press.

ny INC hS90Cl4IeQ FTeS8.
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA.
June 23.--Kent Cooper, executive
director and general manager Of the
Associated Press, told Australians in
a Tebroadcast address torisht he
hoped Australians and Americans
would work steadily together to fe-
move basic cause Of wars--pers,
verted presentation of international
news.
His message was delivered In a
Transcribed radio address via the
Australian National Broadcasting
Station, as guest speaker on the Ma
tion-wide America Talks to Aus
tralia" program.
Mr.. Cooper said the ideal of free
press In a free world should be
sought.
Should we achieve this goal or
even approach it, the tremendous
sacrifices of this hour won't have
been In vain"
Control Of news Is the first tool
any national leader requires to drive
his people to war, Mr.. Cooper said,
adding that Hitler's first move was
to take control of information agen-
cies.
The most powerful thing In the
world is truth. If news may flow
freely. If controls permitting sys-
tematic distortion are rigidly pre-
vented, we may have an abiding
faith that the truth will prevail"
Evening star., 1944-06-23
PeniciIIin Supply Arrives
Al Bethesda HOSPITAL

The Suburban Hospital at Be-
thesda now has On hand supply of
penicillin, allocated to this area re-
Gently by the War Production Board,
j. Dewey Lutes, hospital superin-
tendent, said today.
MIR. Lutes said the Bethesda hos
pital Is among several Maryland in
stitutions designated by WPB as
depots for penicillin distribution
He said a report of the drugs use
must be made to the WPB.
Mr.. Lutes also announced receipt
of $3.50 and a painting by the hos
pital The $500 was donated by
Christ Lutheran Church, Old
Georgetown road, Bethesda, to equip
a hospital room. and $50 was given
by Henry Brown, 1902 Avondale
street, Bethesda. to provide a sink
In the kitchenette at the nurses
home.
A painting of the Holy Family by
Stella Brown was presented by the
Catholic Daughters of America,
Our Lady of Lourdes Court.
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Britain Executes Belgian
As Spy for Germans
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tnC hsSVttdtE0 I1SSo-
LONDON, June 23.-Execution OF
a 28-year-old former Belgian Army
officer convicted of being a spy In
the pay of the German secret service
was announced today by the British
Home Office. The Office identified
him as Pierre Charles Neukermans,
and said he was found guilty under
the Treachery Act last month.
Neukermans was the 18th spy
executed in Britain during this war
and the second this year. The Home
Office gave this account:
He was discharged from the army
in Belgium in 1888, and after the
German occupation Joined up with
the German secret service, who
trained him in sabotage, wireless
transmission and secret writing for
the task of getting military informa-
ton in Britain.
He came to London by way of
Lisbon, posing as loyal Belgian
who had escaped Nazi oppression,
and found employment as q clerk in
the Belgian government Office. Ar
rested few months later, he ad-
mitted he was a German secret
agent,
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Bolivia
Continued From First Page

Emergency Advisory
Committee for Political Defense, To-
Gated at Montevideo, which has now
been apprised of the decision Of this
government"
Diplomatic relations were severed
after Maj. Villarroers followers had
overthrown the government of Pres
ident Enrique Penaranda. This ac-
ton was based on a belief that pro-
Fascists, some of whom had come
to Bolivia from Argentina, had been
among the promoters of the revo-
luton and that the new regime was
likely to be pro-Axis in its SYM
pathies.
The fact that recognition, like
the severance of diplomatic rela-
tions, was taken simultaneously by
all the American republics except
Argentina is viewed as a victory for
Secretary of State Hull's policy of
maintaining a united front" among
the countries of this hemisphere.
Although there is reason to be-
heve that pro-Fascist elements were
active in the original Bolivian revo-
lutionary junta, which included five
army majors and four civilians, Maj.
Villarroel several months ago began
to clean house" The most dra-
matte step he took to indicate his
prodemocratic policy was the expul-
sion from Bolivia of 81 German and
japanese nationals: some of them
prominent businessmen. who had
been carrying on pro-Axis activities.
The entire group was put aboard
transport planes and sent to the
United States for internment.
A decisive factor in the change in
American policy toward Bolivia was
a report made the State Department
several weeks ago by Avra Warren,
United States Ambassador to Pam
anna, who was sent to special mis-
sion to Bolivia to study political con-
ditions.
The. Villarroel regime, apparently
feeling itself firmly in power, yes
terday released a number of its po-
ltical enemies, according to dis
patch to the Bolivian Embassy here.
Included among these was Baron
Maurice Hochschild and several
other prominent Bolivians who had
been active supporters OF President
Evening star., 1944-06-23
London Decision
Bans Poker as
Game of Chance
y the Associated Press.

LONDON, June ga Jury in
London yesterday ruled, in effect,
that poker is an illegal game be-
cause 1t contains the element of
chance.
The jury ruled that the Lyndhurst
Club in suburban Hampstead-
where police. found AZ persons play
ing poker with about SIS 900 in their
pockets and 5,400 chips on the ia
bles-had been kept as a common
gaming house. The proprietor
landlord, manager and attendants
were fined.
The court in charging the jury
said: THE whole thing depends on
whether poker is a game of mere
skill. 1t Is not a question Of wheth-
er skill predominates over chance. "
The defense in summation had
called the case a ''test Of the legalit
OF poker, played in this country for
more than so years" and said the
verdict was Of vital Importance te
all those who are in danger of beiue
deprived of that lawful recreation"
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Reunion Is Cancelled
By Rainbow Division
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 23.-For the first
time since 1919, when their associa-
ton was organized in Germany
veterans of the Rainbow Division
will not hold their annual reunion
this year.
Robert r. Reno, jr., national pres
ident, said the meeting, which had
been scheduled in Chicago for July
1915, was Cancelled after a tele-
graphic poll OF the National Execu-
tive Committee in response to the
Once of Defense Transportation's s
appeal for travel curtailment. :.
Chapters of the association viii
meet July IA in observance of the
26th anniversary of the Champagne
Marne battle when the division
helped turn the tide of the World
War.
Evening star., 1944-06-23
Two Precincts Failed
To Hold Elections
In Close Idaho Race
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STANDPOINT, Idaho, June %.
AT least two Idaho precincts
failed to hold elections in the
June 13 primary in which Glen
H. Taylor, former cowboy, ap-
parently defeated Senator D.
Worth Clark for Democratic
nomination for the Senate by
only 220 votes on the basis OF
unoficial returns, it was re-
revealed today.
Officials of Lakeview precinct
explained they were so accus-
toned to holding primaries In
August that when supplies came
in this year they thought off,
cials "sure were stepping on it"
and tossed the material aside.
A precinct in Valley County
simply forgot to hold the elec-
ton.
An official canvass, to be held
tomorrow. Is necessary to deter
mine the winner.