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Evening star., 1947-02-02
Stables Liquor License
Is Applied for by Mail

The Stables restaurant applied by
mail Friday for its liquor license to
cover the year beginning yesterday,
J. M. York, manager, said last night.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board. in disclosing that when its
Offices closed Friday, 1895 liquor
licenses had been issued for the
coming year, said no application
had been received from the Stables.
Alan w. Payne, chairman of the
board, said, however, that an ap-
plication postmarked by midnight
Friday would meet the deadline for
receipt of applications. The ABC
Board Offices were closed yesterday
Mr.. York, in announcing that the
application had been made, said q
change in ownership had been re-
sponSible for a delay.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

the other Junior League members
have visited the girls every week
for the last month and had brought
along materials for the village the
week before.
II just have to put the roof on"
Jane answered, "and ! can't decide
whether to make it yellow one or
a red one. The building is purple
and I guess child would like any
color on it."
Sitting in a chair and watching
the girls as they concentrated on
building the village was Miss Gen.
rose Gehri, director of the House.
She smiled as a small blonde girl
walked hesitantly into the room,
then picked up sheet of red paper
and said, Guess I'll make some
flowers for the front yard"
Miss Gehri Long a Social Women.
A professional social worker who
has spent many years trying to
help unmarried mothers straight
en- out their tangled lives, Miss
Gehri was glad for the friendship
offered by the Junior League mem
berS.
The talk in the living room turned
from the model village to the cur
tains and slip covers the Junior
League members have volunteered
to help the mothers make for their
rooms.
I'D like rose and gray striped
draperies for my room," Ann said.
That's a smooth combination to
me-"
II want plain blue with wide
ruf11es," commented blue-eyed Betty.
Others spoke up for anything with
Evening star., 1947-02-02

,ne mothers to make houses Tor
, Children's Hospital.
Parks, who holds the chair Of OBJ
stetrics at George Washington Uni
versity Medical School, is medical
consultant. DR.. William Howard
and DR.. John H. Peacock are the
attending pediatricians.
Most of the girls attend weekly
clinics at various hospitals. Trans
portation to the clinics used to be
serious problem but Junior League
volunteers recently have been driv-
ing the girls to the hospital for their
appointments.
House Is Non-Sectarian.
Alice met one of these volunteers
when she was taken for her first
visit to the clinic earlier in the day.
Perhaps that is why she came into
the living room when someone told
her the Junior League girls were
there. She had been at the home
only a few days and was still shy
and timid, still little bewildered
at the surroundings. But when
Miss Suzanne Hume, 3114 Forty
fifth street NV, one of the visiting
Junior Leaguers, asked her if she
would like to play a game of Chinese
checkers, she nodded, grateful for
the chance to join the activity.
&. Alice happens to be Methodist.
Perhaps she does not even know
the home was founded by the Dis
trict branch of the Woman's Auxil-
iary of the Board of Episcopal Mis-
sions and is under the direct super
vision of the Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop of Washington. 1t is entirely
nonsectarian in operation.
AS IT. grew late-and o'clock is
late when rules require the young
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Writer Tells of BuIIitt's Role
In BIockino Fronco-Bnitish War

would make all the difference. But,
he warned. and he struck the table
for emphasis, If there should be a
declaration of war at this hour
against England, Americas historic
| friendship for France would change
| to undying ennity.
See Petain's Lieutenants.
BY the end Of the interview, Mar
shall Petain was calmer and he said
he would consider Mr.. Bullitt's
views, but the American envoy was
mot at all sure he had convinced
the French leader. So he set out to
interview, one by one, every mem
ber of the new government. He
managed to see most of them, in
cluding Mr.. Chautemps, Darlan,
.Weygand and Baudoin, before pm,
and talked to them forcefully.
Fortunately Mr.. Bullitt enjoyed
extraordinary prestige He was one
OF the beSt-liked and most respected
Ambassadors Washington ever sent
to France. And less than month
before he had done something
which earned him the deep gratitude
of the French: He had stayed in
Paris to protect the capital with
the high prestige of his ofiice when
the government had fed to Tours
and Bordeaux.
Not having advance knowledge of
the German tres correct" policy,
Mr.. Bullitt had feared that the city
the whole world loves might be
sacked by the invading armies Of
Hitler. His gesture proved unneces-
sary, but was nevertheless ap-
preciated.
So, no matter what their views,
all the Ministers listened to him
with friendly attention. Some
promised they would do all in their
power to forestall a declaration of
war. Among these was former
Premier Camille Chautemps, who
today is more or less in exile in
America. Others were noncommittal
and Mr.. Bullitt was afraid of them.
When the cabinet went into session
that evening, the Ambassador told
an aide he hoped things would turn
out all right, but that it was
touch and co.
Relations Were Severed.
1t was with immense relief that
he learned late in the evening that
the vote had been Is to 10 against
war. However, the government did
break diplomatic relations with
Britain and sent Foreign Minister
Paul Baudoin to Vichy, which was
to become the capital. to announce
the break with "the country re-
sponsible for the bloodshed of our
sailors"
This government, OF such ILL
starred memory, was composed of
the following: Marshal, Petain,
Prime Minister; M. Chautemps,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of State; Gen. Weygand, national de-
fense; Gen. Colson, war; Admiral
Dsrlan, navy; Gen. Pujo, air; Bau-
doin, foreign affairs; Pomaret, in
terror; Premancourt, justice; Bouth-
iilier, finance and commerce;
colonies; Rivaud, education:
Frossard, public works; Chichery,
agriculture; Fevrier, labor; Ybar-
nagary, veterans and families.
I asked my informant, who wit
messed the Fourth of July drama, if
he felt Mr.. Bullitt's Intervention had
blocked the declaration of war.
1T is possible" he said. "Ambas-3
sador Bullitt's action that day had
a tremendous effect. 1t may have
made the difference; who knows?
Anyway. a declaration of war by the
French government that day would
have changed the course of history"
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Scientists Report Heat Layers
In Frigid Upper Atmosphere

Of hot and cold air above the earth
which remain in permanent position,
never fluctuating widely in altitude,
although they may become hotter or
colder with the seasons.
The National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics is an official Gov
ernment research agency. 1t as
signed subcommittee last April to
prepare new standard" chart of
the air to supplement the 1925
chart. The old one showed the
atmosphere from sea level only to
SIS, 900 feet.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

him but don't feel that way any
more"
It's not just the Junior League
that can keep the girls at the House
of Mercy.
Every year at this time. all Wash
ington residents are given a chance
to express their friendship for girls
who need help in readjusting their
lives. Through the month of Febru-
ary the annual Phantom Dinner
drive gives everybody a chance to
contribute to the House Of Mercy.
Since there actually is no dinner,
none Of the money is spent for food.
All of it goes to the house.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

mothers get to bed early-the Junior
League visitors helped put the con-
struction paper, the scissors and the
paste in a cupboard, and slipped on
their coats.
Mother of Boy. 2, to Leave.
Three of the mothers walked to
the door with the visitors.
See you next week." one of the
girls said to Helen.
NO" Helen said, II won't be here
My son Is almost two months old
now and we are leaving tomorrow.
They have taught me here how to
take care of him and I'm going to
work and keep him with me.
thought once I'd never want to see
Evening star., 1947-02-02

pink flowers" green and white
stripes and '1emon-yellow" cur
tains /
When the house was redecorated
last year the bedrooms were painted
various soft pastel shades instead of
the former white. Miss Gehri said
the girls liked that because it re-
minded them of their own rooms at
home. Only the infirmary on the
second floor is white.
With the health of the girls and
their babies one of the primary con-
Germs at the house, DR.. John Louis
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Admiral Mitscher's
Condition UNCHANGED
By the Associoted Press

NORFOLK, Va. Feb. Admiral
Marc A. Mitscher, commander Of
the Atlantic Fleet. spent "restful
day" with no change in his condi-
ton, the Naval Station Hospital re-
ported. Admiral Mitscher suffered
a heart attack a week ago tomorrow
Evening star., 1947-02-02
By Kenneth T. Downs
,,,.h An.,i,nn N.v,uopsr AIllone


North Arnerieon Newspaper AItiones
PARIS. Feb. l.-Former Marshai
Petain's first government tooh q
vote on whether to declare f. a".
against England nine days attei
capitulating to Germany IN ls1o; , !.
was learned today from H!siny
placed person who was al the eelh
norarv seat of government In Cler-
mont -Ferrand that critical oay.
THE Jote was 16 to 10 against a
declaration of war.
One of the most important fac
tors in preventing a vote of war
was the determined intervention of
William C. Bullitt. then the United
States ambassador to France.
Mr.. Bullitt saw not only Marshal
petain, but almost every member
If the government and warned In
the plainest of terms that If they
dragged Hleir country into the war
against England, France not only
would risk losing the war perma-
nently. but would incur the undying
enn1ity of her old friend and ally,
America.
British Wrecked Fleet.
BY an odd coincidence. the date
of this tense drama in which Mr..
Bullitt, largely on his own initia-
tive. went to bat for Britain, was
July 4-the 164th anniversary of the
American colonies declaration of in
dependence.
1t was the day after one of the
most tragic events in the war-the
attack by a powerful squadron Of
the British Royal Navy against the
French Fleet near Oran. At that
time the French admiral in COM
mand had refused British ulti-
matum to continue the fight against
Germany or retire to French or
British port where the warships
would be safe from German seizure.
This attack wrecked the French feet
and took $500 French lives.
Ambassador Rullitt heard the
news OF the attack on the night OF
the third. He was living then in
the Hotel de Charlan in La Bour-
boule, near Clermont-Ferrand. He
was greatly alarmed. fearing pro-
Axis elements around Marshal Pc
tain might take advantage of the
tragedy to try to swing France into
the war on Germany,s side.
Bullitt Heard of Meeting.
Mr.. Bullitt left early on the morn
ing of the 4th for Clermont-Ferrand
and his worst suspicious soon were
confirmed. He was tipped that
there was a move afoot for a dec
laration of war and that full meet
ing of the cabinet was scheduled for
pm. that day to decide.
The Ambassador demanded and
obtained an immediate interview
with Marshal Petain. He found the
customarily phlegnatic old man in
tearing rage.
They cannot do this to us,
Marshal Petain shouted. 1t was a
mortal affront to French honor, an
unforgivable slap at French sover-
eighty. France should declare war.
Ambassador Bullitt' argued for
nearly ar hour. He asserted again
and again that the war was not ir-
revocably lost, thing Marshal Pc
tain could not seem to understand.
He quoted General de Gaulle's fam
GUS announcement that a battle
had been lost, but not the war. He
pointed out that France had the
entire sympathy and friendship OF
America and that this eventually
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Kenneth r. DoUns, a former
European correspondent for me
United Press. and one-time ch'ei
of the Paris bureuu OF lnterna-
ttonuI Neus SerUice, served daI-
ing the tDdr as a lieutenant coto-
mel in the intelligence sect'o"
OF the United States Army.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

A 230-mile submarine telephone
cable has been laid between Britain
and Germany.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Please make checks payable
to House of Mercy and send to
Mrs. Arthur Macarthur, 2l29
Florida avenue NV, Washing
ton 8, D. C.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Junior Leoguers Help House of Mercy Mothers
For House Of Mercy

should like to contribute to
the Phantom Dinner" for
benefit of the House of Mercy.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Weather Report

Highest, 70, on January 30.
Lowest. 12, on January %.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast and
Geodetic Surrey.)
Evening star., 1947-03-16

Josephine Eckert. no little play
mates except Susanna, who lives
the other side of the tangled
woods and believes in witches ano
spells. So the boy takes up with
Roland, who is invisible, but some
times a satisfactory listener. Then
there's Pooh, the cat, true friend
But there's never any loneliness
where Rinkie, the young poet, his
parents best friend, comes down
from New York. Binkie always has
time for Christopher. and the lad
wbf5hips Binkie. Indeed, some OF
Christopher's more spectacular
escapades-and he's not really bad
boy ct all-result from his efforts,
in collaboration with Susanna, to
disentangle Binkie from the clutches
of a young woman who is making
him very unhappy--a witch, Susan
ma insists. 5.-
The boy has to run away from
home to join Binkie in New York
before Christopher's father realizes
how he has neglected his young son
and not troubled to understand his
little delights and tragedies. The
father patches things up, and all is
different.
This is a pleasant first novel,
filled with subtle humor. The
grown people emerge clearly, mostly
through the eyes of the bewildered
boy.
Miss Eckert won the major Avery
Hopwood fiction award of 1916 for
THE Practicing of Christopher"
r r
Evening star., 1947-03-16

spite of being familiar types.
The working out of the problem
it's more of a problem than plot
is serious and sensitive, tense and
tragic. Yet, the sensitiveness does not
always seem to make sense and the
intensity becomes oppressive. More
than once the book threatens to
crack under the strain of trying to
be too devious and too, too clever
nowhere more so than in a final
offensive sentence which mars an
otherwise dramatic buildup. The
overall effect unhappily leaves trou-
bled furies still fitting around in a
gloomy night. Perhaps Mr.. Kelly,
a Virginia resident and former
FEA economist, will see his talented
way clear to lead his next novel
into a more kindly light.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Robert Payne S
Novel Work of
|'LusciousPros
DAVID AND ANNA

DAVID AND ANNA
BY Robert Payne. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.: S2.75.)
Malaga in the years just before
the japanese tore through it comes
to life in all its vitality, mystery
and beauty in book that is more
like long narrative poem than
novel.
For youthful Mr.. Payne, as he
showed in Forever China" and
Torrents of Spring." is essentially
a poet who writes in luscious prose.
He writes verses, too, and will have
volume of them coming out soon.
But I doubt that he could write a
report for the consular service with
out drifting into language that Is
sheer music.
David and Anna" tells of the
love between a young Englishman
who is cultivating rubber planta-
ton and Eurasion girl, who be-
longs to well-to-do Singapore
family. 1t is the story of their
marriage, their children, their life
together on the plantation; OF An
mas sister, Teresa, who is torn be-
tween love for David and deep
feeling that she should enter a
convent.
But you can no more describe
this book in a few lines than you
could "Endymion.' The Malays,
the Tamils, the mixed breeds emerge
from these pages, not only in a pic
ture of their customs, their gods
and taboos, but as individuals. The
forest, always brooding in the back
ground, its colors and odors and
futtering wings so familiar to Mr..
Payne, is almost a person. You are
always aware of the seasons, the
flowers, the animals, the rivers, the
nearby sea.
You may want to lay down this
book and pick it up innumerable
times rather than read straight
through it. There can be surfeit
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coaqins

Clarke Leighton, whose writing OF
'Tempestuous Petticoat" temporar-
fly interrupted her wood carving, is
now busy with illustrations for q
four volume collection of North
Carolina folklore. So far she has
gone on a coon hunt, a cock fight
and to quilting party, in addition
to making visit to the mountains
to get the feel for the Illustrations
A book of her own is going to be
written about her colored gardener
age 78, and it will take its title
from a habit of his. When asked a
question he considers gSavely, spits
expertly and then thoughtfully be-
gins his reply with, "Lemme tell
you sump'hin" That will oe the
title of Miss Leighton's next book
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Life Among German Middle Glass Groups
lis Enoooinq Novel of Era Between Wars
HAPPY MAN !. =
By Hermann Kesten. "A. A. Wyn
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

When Max Blattner vas IA the
First World War was declared
Up until that time Max had loved
England. the birthplace Of his be-
loved Shakespeare and Oliver Crom-
well. But now as all good Germans
did, he went around mutterlng
"Gott strafe England"
In 1918 the Military Medical Boaro
declared Max C3. This meant light
war work twice a week. In 1921 this
cropping and Intellectual dreamer
left his home, and with the financial
aid of his mother, went to Berlin tc
continue his education. The death
of his mother and the liquidation
of the decrepit family business
brings us to 1927.
Max was then in Paris. His tota
assets amounted to 400 marks so he
returned to Berlin. SO far this use
less mortal, lost in the vacuum Of
total lack of ambition, had achieved
nothing in life. Luck, underworld
contacts and self-starvation hac
kept him alive so far, but now some
thing had to be done.
The day he arrived back in Berlir
he met Else Pfleiderer, and theil
love and it's tumultuous conse.
quences comprises the chief sub
stance of this brilliantly written pic
ture of post-World War I Germans
Man wanted only one thing. HI
called it happiness. This happiness
was marriage to Else. He never
achieved this end because Else com.
mitted suicide. The financial quag.
mire into which the Pfleiderer fam.
lily had fallen was too much fol
them.
Later, the emotionally starved anc
frustrated Max married a rich girl
Ella. '"And what are we?' asked
Ella, "lovers or happy people?'
"We," said Herr Max Blattner, full
of dignity and immense satisfaction
1--WE are happy people"
Happy People" has been trans
lated Into IA languages. 1t i
thoughtful study of certain fac
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Collector of American Foiksong Tells His
Experiences in Hunting Musical Gems

Folk Song in the Library of Con-
gress, half dozen books and many
magazine articles.
Adventure of a Ballad Hunter
contains the story Of Mr.. Lomax's
experiences as a collector. It is a
rambling story, enlivened by many
interesting anecdotes relating to
LomaX field expeditions. Most OF
them concern the picturesque ballad
singers who sang for Mr. Lomax
The book bears out the promise of
its title. It is a personal narrative
without scholarly digressions. frank
ly aimed at a popular audience.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

country in search of the peoples
songs. He made his way by walk
ing, on horseback, by buggy, train
and automobile, always breaking
new ground, searching out prospec-
tive ballad singers in out-of the way
and unconventional places, even
those in Southern penal institutions
With the aid of his son, Alan, he
covered half million miles.
The fruits of this extraordinary
project are represented by very
large number of field recordings on
deposit in the Archive of American
Evening star., 1947-03-16

dlC Udllduo VA
the plain peo-
pie his own
kind of people.
Starting in the
cattle country of
his native state,
h e gradually
branched out to
, include t h e
W h ole United
States in his
field of research.
With the intui-
ton and the
flair of the born
coll e C tor, he
med the
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Reviewed by
FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS.

neville CIldIuU6Eldul cluCISCo 1loui
Mr.. FEELINGS book no longer the
personal symbol 6f appeasement on
whom should be placed the blame
for permitting Hitler to achieve the
power to throw the world into Its
most devastating war. The reader
quite forgets the umbrella which
seemed the Prime Minister'S only
armament.
Granted Chamberlain had toe
great trust in Hitler's intentions and
words, he also knew how unprepared
was his own country for war. IN
1888 he wrote to an American woin-
an: "s Our people see that In
the absence of any powerful ally
and until our armaments are COM
pleted, we must adjust our foreign
policy to our circumstances and even
bear with patience actions
which we should like to treat in
very different fashion"
AS chancellor of the exchequer he
began the rearmament of Britain in
1884. The next year he wanted to
fight an election on the question of
defense, not employment, but was
oyerruled by Stanley Baldwin. Bald
win felt that to have asked for a
mandate on rearmament would have
meant certain defeat.
Even in 1888 Labor opposed
Chamberlain's program, calling lit
"the nroyision of immense arna-
ments to further a dangerous and
unsound foreign policy"
Mr.. Chamberlain's Judgment was
wrong when he expressed hope in
the first winter of the war that pos
sibly I'VE can achieve our purpose
without holocaust" But If there
is blame to be assigned for Munich,
Evening star., 1947-03-16

social document, but an epic OF
the individual spirit, with its long
ing and dreams, its burdens and
despairs.
But all who cherish the lovely
patterns into which our language
may be woven, and who are fasci-
mated by the struggle of men and
women, to find meaning in life,
will he delighted. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Reviewed by
EDWARD A. GREENE.

EDWARD A. GREENE.
Here is Shooting history" Of the
Navy's North African amphibious
operation told by Samuel E. Morrison,
as he saw it from the inside.
| Mr.. Morrison, the noted Harvard
historian, was commissioned by the
Navy with the sole duty to write an
eyewitness history of the United
States naval operations in World
War II. This is his first volume to
be published, although oddly enough,
it is the volume two" in series
of ID. Volume one will appear some
time later.
Operation Torch,'' as it is termed
by the Allied commands and which
this book covers in detail, was a
small-scale second front" with two
objectives: (a) To engage the Ger
man ground and air forces in North
Africa, thereby relieving pressure on
the Russian front, (b) and to wipe
out Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps.
Admiral Hewitt, who commanded
the attacks on Casablanca, had only
four months to train a task force
capable Of not only transporting an.
army 1000 miles overseas, but sup
porting, as well its landings on
hostile beaches. It was not until
July as, 1912, that he was ordered
to begin preparations, and the land
ings were to be made mot later than
November g."
Landings were first made on the
beaches of Fedhala, Mehedia and
Saf. These Atlantic side landings
were part of q plan to capture the
port of Casablanca, and protect our
left flank from the powerful French
feet based at Dakar. The story then
moves eastward and brings into the
picture the part the British Navy
played in the winning of Algiers
Tunis and Oran, and the necessary
salvage work that had to be done
before these ports could handle the
huge conveys that followed.
The closing chapters trace the
development of new landing craft
which evolved out of the valuable
experience gained in this first major
amphibious landing, and volume two
ends with the capture of German
and italian forces on the Cape Bon
Peninsula, and the surrender of
bomb blasted Pantelleria.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

of poetry or mu-
sic, of any art;
but if you love
it you'll always
go back to it
when, as we say,
you're in the
mood. Readers
raised on the
rat-tat-tat style
of modern hc-
tion may not
like David and
Anna. S o m e
critics may OBJ
ject for it be-
cause it is not
what they call a