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Evening star., 1945-11-25
Former Orderly Admits
Taking Doctors CIothinq

William Edward Colvin, 48, a
former orderly at Doctors Hospital
pleaded guilty in Municipal Court
yesterday to seven charges Of lar
ceny involving the theft of coats
and suits belonging to doctors at
the hospital.
Judge Thomas d. Quinn post
poned sentence pending report by
the court probation Office. Bond was
fixed at $1,000.
Police said Colvin was arrested
Thursday after he was discovered
trying on an interne's topcoat. Most
of the clothing was recovered from
a secondhand store where Colvin
admitted lie had sold it, police
reported.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Legion to Honor
Col. Devereux Tuesduy

The gold life membership card
OF the Bethesda Chevy Chase Le-
gion Post will be presented 1t. Col.
James p. S. Devereux by John C.
Batham, commander at the annual
ladies night at $3.50 pm. Tuesday
at the Bethesda Womans Club.
New officers will be installed by
Department Comdr. Joseph A. Can
trel. Following this program buffet
supper will be served, after which
there will be dancing.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Panamanian Ambassador
To Speak at Meeting

DR.. Don j. j. Vallarino, Pana-
manian ambassador, will be guest
speaker at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at
the Interior Department auditorium
when Panama Night" will be spon-
sored by the Pan American Club of
the YMCA and washington We'll
come YOU"
Following DR.. Vallarinos address,
a motion picture, Wing Over Latin
America" will be shown. Miss Mary
Grubb, pianist, will play both the
Panama national hymn and the
Star Spangled Banner.
The committee in charge is headed
by Ramon Ramos.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Sight-Sovine Conference

A panel discussion on Problems
of the Visually Handicapped" will
feature the sight saving" confer
ence of the District Society for the
Prevention of Blindness at 8 pm.
Thursday in the auditorium of the
Potomac Electric Power Co., Tenth
and E streets NV. Business will in
clude election of society trustees.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
81, Found Unconscious
In Bathroom, Dies

Pvt. Charles Francis Kelly, so, OF
1743 Kilbourne place NV, was pro-
nounced dead at Gallinger Hospital
yesterday after being found un-
conscious in the bathroom of the
house.
Other roomers at the residence
told police Pvt. Kelly had moved in
November 10 and that they knew
little about him, but thought his
home was in Catonsville, Md. The
roomers said Pvt. Kelly had told
them he had served in both World
Wars, had re-enlisted and was on .
90-day furlough.
The body will be sent to Walter
Reed Hospital, where an autopsy
will be performed, Deputy Coroner
Christopher J. Murphy said.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Retired Businessman
Found Hanged in Home

Michael Freeman, 81, of ASIA
Connecticut avenue NV. was dis
covered hanging from the top of
door leading to sun parlor of his
home yesterday afternoon by his
wife, Mrs Esther Freeman. A cot
ton bathrobe belt was fastened
from the door iamb to Mr.. Free
mans neck, police said.
He was pronounced dead by DR..
Samuel Dessoff, $500 Sixteenth
street NV, short time after dis
covery of the body.
Mr.. Freeman, a former owner of
the Chevy Chase Supply Co., $500
Connecticut avenue NV, had re-
tired about year ago.
The death is being investigated
by the coroner's Office.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
.Bi|bo Serves Notice
Hell Fight Proposal
For 'Dinky' Stadium

Chairman Bilbo of the Congress
sional Stadium Commission served
notice yesterday he would make a
Senate floor fight, if necessary,
to kill any project "for a stadium
which is not big and fine enough to
be self-sustaining, instead of white
elephant.
His ire was aroused by the action
of the Citizens Stadium Committee
last week in suggesting new hgisla-
ton to authorize use of the stadium
site at the foot of East Capitol
street with private financing for
making architectural, engineering
and economic studies.
He also had some criticisms for
yesterdays editorial in The Star
which discussed the stadium project
d. C. Handicaps Cited.
The editorial said in part: "Hav-
ing seen the commission and the
commission bill run into a political
blind alley, the citizens are now In
terested in obtaining legislation UNI
der which the, Government would
lease or otherwise permit use of the
land which has been designated by
agreement as the future site of
stadium. -
THE situation provides another
example of the unusual handicaps
facing the people of Washington in
attempting to obtain improvements
which in other municipalities are
the result of local initiative and
drive"
Senator Bilbo, who heads the
Senate District Committee as we'll
as the Stadium Commission, saw in
the proposals of the citizens sta
dium group move to develop here
"a local" instead of a national
memorial" project and one that
would be small, dinky affair"
instead of one of grand proper
tions.
Fears Some One Is Sniping.
There is a dead cat along the line
somewhere" he declared. And if
we got stadium seating 10000 or
10000 or 100000 it would be dinky
affair which would be a fizzle and
failure and prove a white ele-
phant, If they got it.
Somebody has been sniping.
Maybe it is the local architects who
want the contract to draw the plans.
I don't know.
The stadium which we have
planned would cost more but it
would be big enough to have facili-
ties for all kinds of events and
exhibits which bring in steady an
nual revenue. believe we could get
it, and if we can get Federal loan
to finance the plans I believe we
can sell it to private bankers. Then
it wouldn't cost Uncle Sam one
dime"
Want 100000 Capacity.
Senator Bilbo has championed a
plan for covered all weather"
stadium building which, for some
events, would seat 100000 persons.
Other commission members have
held out for something not so large.
"They still will have to come be-
fore Congress for legislation to au-
thorize use of the stadium Site"
said Senator Bilbo, land I shall have
to fight it unless the stadium is to
be big enough and have enough
facilities to make it self-paying."
He said he would go ahead with
his plan to ask Congress to author
ize the Federal Works Agency to
advance necessary funds for draft
ing of detailed plans for the project.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Honor Society PIons
Tea at Dunburton

The Washington Chapter of Kappa
Gamma Pi honor society will honor
Juniors and seniors of Dunbarton
College of Holy Cross at a tea, which
will be held in the college from 3 to
5 pm, Sunday, December 8.
The 'Fantasians," dramatic club
of Dunbarton College, will present
their first production of the year at
9:15 am. Wednesday In the college
auditorium. "Xingu," the play is
an adoption by Thomas Seller OF
Edith Whartons story of the same
name.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Bette Duvis' Mother Weds

PALM SPRINGS, Calf, Nov. "a
R.-Mrs. Ruth Favor Davis, mother
OF Actress Bette Davis, was mar
ried here late today to Robert Wood
bury Palmer, Boston businessman.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
w. & l. Alumni to Meet

The District Alumni Chapter Of
Washington and Lee University will
hold its annual smoker in the Ham,
ilton Hotel Blue Room at pm.
Friday. Ohcers will be elected and
the university's football question
will be discussed.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Girl Reserves to Meet

The Junior High School Girl Re-
serve Clubs will have a party from
to 7 pm, Friday, at the YWCA,
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13

degree. According to my informa- ton, which is dependable, Goering was the only higher-up among the Nazis to know and approve von Rundstedt's preparations to go the whole way in offering equalization. Goering supposedly was in constant contact with von Rundstedt and certain industrialists who backed the generals plans These indus trialists fled from Germany before they could be captured.
 Himmler wanted to arrest Goer- ing, but Hitler himself interfered and saved him. Everywhere there were rumors that Goering, after a hysterical scene with Hitler, had committed suicide in Berchtesgaden, but while I was in Germany Goer- ing was still alive.
 In order to show his innocence, Goering had started large scale purge of high officers of the Luft- waffle, who were court martialed. The idea was to find those responsi- ble for the collapse of German air defense"
 The largest of these trials, which was not written up in the press, dealt with 85 accused officers. Gen. eral Bader, former leader of Airgu 30 (southeast), nine of his staff officers, IS commanders of the File gerhorsts," and 60 other officers were tried.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13

uled to give a lecture to members of the Nazi 'Rechtswahrerbund," which is the party organization for justices and lawyers, On that date. The lecture was to take place in villa in Bad Schandau near Dres- den.
 When Lautz appeared 10 minutes late, a time bomb planted under the speakers table exploded, killing his partner lawyer Standartenfuehrer Karl Floeter. If Lautz had been on time he would have been dead. He suffered only nervous shock. Plan- ners of the assault were sought among the officers.
 Until now two executions" of those connected with the Witzleben trial have been effected, namely, that of President Volksgericht Ro- land Freisler and General Walter Schroth, who was member of the Special Court of Honor which sen- fenced Witzleben.
 There is general nervousness everywhere in Germany about whether the officers will strike at the Nazis or the Nazis at the off, cers first. In this connection, the whole complex von Rundstedt affair is of great interest. Now that the Allies have admitted that they were dealing with von Rundstedt {this correspondent wrote as early as No vember, 1943 that von Rundstedt would turn out to be possible Ger man Darlan) one can speak openly of the case. Won Rundstedt had sev- eral dealings with the Allies. He ap- preached them first shortly before his last counter offensive in Decem- Der, through a middleman in Lis bon. Some of the negotiations were known to the highest Nazis and were approved. Some weren't. Won Rundstedt was never supposed to go as far as he finally went, name ly, to offer equalization.
 GEN. WON RUNDSTEDT
 HELD BY GESTAPO
 At first von Rundstedt was at his estate near Kassel under supervision of physicians. He is guarded by Gestapo agents, although there has been no formal arrest. Before Kassel fell to the Allies, he was moved to Woerishofen in Bavaria. Accompanying him is s. s. Ober- sturmbannfuehrer Juergen Neu- mann of Himmler's security de- partment. Neumann already has &C., companied several generals who lat CT suddenly dropped dead. That is why his nickname is General Ex- ecutioner of Generals" Won Rund- stedt's son still is held in Castle h. goldstadt for reasons unknown.
 Of late von Rundstedt has fright ened Kesselring, his successor, in no small degree. Kesselring, who took over the hopeless military situa- tion, tries hard to "collaborate" with the Nazis and prove his "poli- tical' loyalty. In spite of the urgent need to spend all his time deciding military matters, he has long daily meetings with the Gauleiters. Rep resentatives of Bormann also are present at these meetings.
 The most important angle of the von Rundstedt affair is that Goering was evidently mixed up to a certain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13

lywood, Cal, had no previous ex- perience, but the boys swear he's natural.
 Bookings are made by Sergeant Don Perkins, Los Angeles, sharp character" who sees that his men get their deserts even though they are not allowed to accept money.
 Manager Horton commented, "If we aren't good, at least we're aw- fully loud. People around here ask us to play more than we have time for. They must like us."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
BY CURT RIESS Copyright, 1945, NEA Service, Incl

BERNIE April 13The shadows still Germany Everyone talks of what happened then and what happen inside would 
 sympahzng involved the affair inactive official the trial of Field Marshall Won Wben General Attorney within hairs breath assassination March
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13

second day since the invasion or June 6. Of these 165 generals, 67 were killed and 98 are prisoners. The number of generals removed by Hit Ter since 1888 is 187. This doesn't include participants or alleged par ticipants of the assassination att tempt on July 20.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13

About the result of this trial al- most nothing became known ex- cept that there were many death sentences. Baber himself was exc cuted on March 31 in Castle Span dau.
 Altogether the German armed forces have lost one general every
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
Tall Tower Topics
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Heard i'm Passing . {. At the moment of the sad broadcast last evening new Paul Revere was born, for Tod Barnes-the sixyearOd son of Dr. Barnes Of Fern Circle-tOured the neighbOrhOOd, announcing to each and every hOusehOId-"The President Just Died and like flash on to the next house. Some of the seriousIy-but all were shocked beyond words when they realized the awful truth So after hour of hard going the little lad sat down to his dinner too exhausted to eat He had done great job one he will never forget in the death of His first presdent-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
' SAD SACKS' HOTTEST BAND
 ON MAR!ANAS
By LTsLE SHOEMAKER

United Press War O0EresponaentD
 With the 2lst Bomber Command. Marianas U.PD Seven Sad Sacks" who work all day and play all night spread American tive from coast to coast as they tour this good-sized island in a dump truck.
 The Sad Sacks hottest swing band on the island consist of master of ceremonies, a piano player, a base fiddle, two trumpets, drummer and a service Sinatra' vocalist.
 Their indispensable piano causes the men more misery than a tough top sergeant as they travel from officers to enlisted mems clubs and hospitals. Guam's roller-coaster roads send the bandsmen flying to the front on downgrades. They grunt and shove to keep the piano from running through the cab of the truck. A snappy reverse on up- grades finds the boys all at the back to keep the upright from whishing through the tailgate.
 Suggests Pack Rats
 A1OAACOAAAACo 14UCA O. 0dQ O4AH WAuA1 that piano I'm tempted to sug- gest we rename ourselves the Pack Rats" said pianist Staff Sergeant John V. Major, North Little Rock, Ark. Major, who formerly played with Pinky Tomlin,s band, has trou- ble with his last name too.
 Sergeant Robert Horton, Phila- delphia, Pa, is arranger and man. ager. He led several bands of his own = once. Doubling on drums, he is bothered by Guam's damp weather. Horton's wife mails him orchestrations.
 Base fiddle is Corporal Paul Bal duo, Hawthorne, Nev. The weather is hard on his strings. His history includes experience with West Coast orchestraS.
 Trumpeter Played Big-Time
 Several years with big-name bands won Corporal William Whip pie, AnacorteS, Wash, his trumpet spot with the Sad Seekers. Corporal Mike Anton, Providence, R. T., handles the other trumpet. Vocalist Private Bot Garrett, Hol-
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

counters, cashier cages. farm tractors,
Wall Street offices, or lumber camps.
slow our boys from the four cor.
ners of America found themselves
scattered over the four corners of
the earth IS already written into our
history books and hearts
Henscl, whose name might just
as easily have been Jones OF Pulaski,
SvenSon or Pitetti. was born in Vir.
ginia Orphaned there, he was later
reared by an uncle in Kentucky.
where he worked on a farm.
That was Hcnsel. young American
farmer, young peace.lover, married
TO a pretty girl with a charming
southern accent, when the war came.
How he went IN and came out with
a higher wisdom.
This fellow who has come back
lacking arms and legs has found an
inner compulsion that is propelling
him i'm their stead Faced with prob
lens of tremendous stature, HenSel
is surely and quietly making his i'm.
menSe ones. lie is making them out
of homespun grit determination. and
the spiritual stature which adversely
seems 10 have generated within him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
M Luck


and out of the ranks OF war In and
out ofpeacetime, who, come calamity,
lie with face to wall, could sit on
an invisible balcony and listen 10
Hensel, who won't crack up!
why, there are fellows" says the
Purple Heart veteran as he lies on
his bed, who lost both legs and an
arm. They aren't much better off
than l am, and what you bet they
take il standing up"
That is probably true, you say
to yourself, as you cogitate that the
rin-of-the-mili of ottr boys have been
secretly heroic behind their khaki
fronts. But any way you look at II.
wounded or whole, this business OF
being a human being is something
of a lonely business, and man in
Hensel's position, even. with his wife
beside him, wins tough battle when
he can find comfort in his kinship
with others.
And even with HenSe'S lovely
young Jewell his constant companion,
being home from the wars without
arms or legs can, If you allow 1t TO
develop, become a form of immense
loneliness. Hensel doesn't allow.
That was a battle that had TO be
fought and won an the solitary reaches
of the Hensel heart, in the stiffness
of the spirit, in the sanctuary ot
Whatever divinity a man can find.
Well, the Master Sergeant seems
to have found what 1t takes. He
rationaiiZes- The fellows ! feet sorry
for are those men who are paralyzed
and there are plenty of them. They
haven't got as much 10 look forward
10 as ! have. think I'm lucky.
Anyone who can thus dig his way
out Of inner darkness proves that
arms and legs may be part of mans
mortalnesS, but his Immortality scars
beyond them.
Hcnsel is going TO have TO learn 10
use apparatuses for arms and legs
He doesn't need apparatuses, even IL
they were available, for his spirit.
He knows that thousands Of our sol
dier wounded, who, like himself.
found themselves under high explo-
sives in far-away places, have learned,
are learning and will have 10 learn.
how 10 use artificial limbs. He fur
ther knows that a man can live
useful life with these devices.
He intends TO live that kind of a
life.
Farming and soldering are about
all l know. l guess my soldier
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

Like most OF our
boys who have been
tried and not found
wanting, HenSel is
matter-of. fact about
the cyclonic circum-
stances which swept
him in and out of the
fury of war. Laconic
as If he were whit
ling wood on a bench,
he is Iliad. Odyssey
and Americana all
wrapped up in one.
If this fellow can
wrestle with his dcs.
tiny and stand il up
right on its feet. and
give il not only limbs
but wings as well.
then there is gran
deur in this here old
human race, and Ser
gcant HenSel is here
to prove"it.
All of which Hen.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
BY 7aAHie Hurst

A YOUNG soldier, Master Sgt
~ Frederic HenSel Of Corbin,
Ky lies in the Percy Jones
General Hospital. Battle Creek. Mich.
lie would doubtless be the first 10
laugh off the paraphrase:
Books in the running brooks.
A sermon in Sergeant HenSei,
Good IN everything.
HenSel is the first battle casualty
Of the war TO reach his home country
after losing parts of all four limbs.
While serving with a tank battalion
attached 10 the nth Division, he
S,9pped on a japanese anti.tank mine.
q But let's 60 back further Hcnsel
S5ke up one morning 10 find himself
on an island called Okinawa, of which
he had never heard. He woke up one
morning after Pearl Harbor, just as
thousands and thousands of other
American boys who had never set
foot ou foreign terrain woke up
one morning 10 find themselves in
credib.y :1r from their grocery store
S-..,..g,.- 10 Inf-
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

Jewell. His Wife. Is Not the Least
Of Master Sgt. Frederic Hens0l's
Luck. with Her Aid and Deep
Understanding He Is Going Into
Chicken FaEnning Just as Soon as
He Learns 10 Manage His Arti-
ficial Limbs.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

i II \ q q y y a 7 e
over. But as
soon as / am
able. my Jewell
and I are going
into the chicken
business.
And they can.
since 100000
raised by public
subscription was
given 10 him at
his 9th birth
day party I h e
other day 10 buy
a farm.
Jewell, another
of the unsung
wives who can
take a hurdle. is
S suitin g her
s tride to her
husbands, an d
legs or no legs.
Sergeant Hensel
is in his stride.
War is h ell.
But with Elensel
and his kind as
criteria, you n z
America seems
TO be coming out
of the white-hO
crucible of this
takes to fight
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

sci would consider "highfalutin"
II only those human casualties, in
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

one, with what
off future wars.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

the haplcss countess, only her hair
was made OF hay and zebra stripes
were painted across her face.
The Countess took one look and
tainted
The Prince looked and said,
Comic, isn't it? But it does look
rather like poor Laura"
When the Countess came TO, de
Salm had gone 10 the races. a little
later she took sick and died leaving
this message with her lawyer:
"Marinetti killed me. ! have no
heart to live after that abominable
picture Except for Marinettis art
would today have been { happily mar.
ried woman"
The merry Marinetti spared no
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

her for libeling his reputation and she
finally took a trip around the world
to forget about it all.
The ribald Roman delighted in
scandalizing the stuffy. lie was the
first TO show up at Marquis Farag-
giana's art conference and while
waiting for the others he turned all
the chairs and a priceless clock up
side down.
Then he plated the rug, and when
a plump duchess steamed across the
threshold down she went-and out
popped her new store teeth. Marin
etti picked them up and pinned them
on another WOman's COTsagc.
There" he observed, surveying
the result, that gives us the needed
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04


IN THE art of Filippo Tomaso
Marinetti any resemblance to any
u person living or dead was always
purely coincidentat even when
great lady commissioned him to exc
cute her portrait.
And when that happened execute
it he did.
For Marinetti was the founder of
Futurism. To him a sponge, fish
bone or an omelet was a thing of
beauty. He called for a complete
break with the past and its literature,
painting and music, and said all
museums should be destroyed.
Middle-aged maidens looked on
him as their dream man, and swoon-
ings were not uncommon at his eX-
hibitiOns. long before the practice was
associated with swing bands and
CrOOnCTS.
But for all those who piously
mourned his death recently at the age
of 68 there was an equal number who
had no tears to shed. And il is safe
10 say the impish Marinctti wouldn't
give a hoot, whatever the reaction
on either side.
The elegant Sonora Alice Rifalso
must certainly have been among the
unsympathetic. This fashionable
grand dame was so when she com
missioned the Italian moderniSt to
paint her portrait.
Marinetu told her she was an
Oriental in a previous life and painted
in a desert background. The sonora
didn't mind She didn't even seem to
care when he stuck in a cup of coffee
and a cannon.
But when he gave her purple
checks, full green lips and dangled
her ears over her shoulders, she
almost had a stroke.
Never" boasted the MASTER un-
yelling the portrait with a low and
gracious bow, 'never did l paint so
remarkable a likeness"
The sonora screamed like a wo-
man gone daft. Crowds gathered and
someone called the police
A week later Marinetti exhibited
the portrait, and the middle.aged
swoon-mooners called it too, too
divine"
Sonora Rifalso had a nervous
breakdown and was sent to Sani-
tarium, moaning and muttering that
her face was not purple, her lips not
green. Marinetti threatened TO sue
10 March 4. 1915