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Evening star., 1949-11-07
Diplomats
Are Sponsors

The Nicaraguan Ambassador,
DR.. Don Guillermo Sevilla- -Sacasa,
heads the list of diplomats who
are sponsoring the new Washing
ton Town Hall lecture series which
will open at Constitution Hall on
November 81.
Other diplomats who are spon-
soring these discussions on cul-
tural developments are the Iran-
ian Ambassador, Mr.. Hussein Ala:
the Brazilian Ambassador, Mr..
Mauricio Nabuco; the Mexican
Ambassador, Senor Don Rafael de
la Colina; the Peruvian Ambas-
sador, Senor Don Fernan n d o
Berckemeyer; the Ambassador Of
Israel, Mr.. Eliahu Elath; the
Cuban Ambassador, DR.. Oscar
Cans, and the Minister Of Luxem-
bourg, Mr.. Hughes IeGallais.
Evening star., 1949-11-07

The social calendar over the
week end was sprinkled with in
formal parties, and prominent
among these were those given in
honor of visitors.
The popular former Hondran
Ambassador to the United States
and Sonora de Caceres arrived in
the Capital Saturday afternoon
for a stay that will be all too
brief for their many friends. In
fact, there will be quite a number
OF their friends who will not even
get to chat bit with them. Some
time today the Caceres will be of
for the Argentine, where. DR..
Caceres is to be his country's ann
bassador.
DR.. and Mrs. Tomas Cajigas,
however. did learn a little in ad-
vance that the Caceres would be
In Washington this week end. so
they got busy on the phone to
round UP some .s'of their closest
friends for supper at their home
on Charleston terrace.
The Ambassador of Ecuador
and Sonora de Dillon and the
Ambassador. Of the Dominican
Republic and Sonora de Thomen
were among those at the informal
get-together. Others included the
Assistant Air Attache of the
Canadian Embassy and Mrs.
Birchall.
The Caceres came. to town to
see their two children, Miss Gloria
de Caceres, who is associated
with the Pan American Union,
and their son, Cesar Augustus
Caceres, who attends Georgetown
University Medical School. OF.
course, they were at the supper
and SO were the sons OF the
Cajigas'.
Another delightfully."- informal
affair ona the slate over the week
end was. the very small dinner
party given Saturday by the Eco
nomic Director of the World Bank
and Mrs. Leonard Rist. They
entertained in honor Of Mr.. Drew
Dudley, who will be leaving some
time the end of the week for
Europe. He the new head of
public relations for the World
Bank. -
Among those at the fete were
Mrs. Florence Beck, Mrs. Eleanor
Dulles, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene De-
Evening star., 1949-11-07

Pikeville, KY. The Rev. c. L.
Stillwell ofiiciated at the double
ring ceremony. #~ ..
Krikorion-Bo Bososion
The Rev. Torkom Manoogian Of
Philadelphia officiated at the we'd
ding of Miss Esther Bogosian.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bogosian, and Mr.. Ashod Krikor-
ian, son of Mrs. Ovsana Krikorian
of Bagdad. Iraq. and the late Mr..
Aram Krikorian. The ceremony
took place recently in Ascension
and st. Agnes Episcopal Church
in this city.
Evening star., 1949-11-07
June Wedding
Being Planned

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. John E. Sawyer Of the
engagement of their daughter,
Joan Elinor. to Mr.. John Cald-
well Huntington, jr., son Of Comdr.
Huntington. U. s. N. R., and Mrs.
Huntington of Chestertown, Md.
The wedding will take place in
June.
Miss Sawyer Is q graduate of
Washington College. Chestertown.
and is, now doing national work
with Der sorority. Zeta Tau Alpha.
Mr.. Huntington was graduated
from the same college and is q
member Of lambda Chi Alpha and
Omicron Delta Kappa fraternities.
Evening star., 1949-11-07
By Betty Beole

August. the former Alexandra
Ewing, who are living in the vicin-
ity of Yale while Harry attends
same.
Come Wednesday, Col. Theodore
Pozzy of E. c. A. in Paris will
arrive in town for a visit with
the Whitneys. will be here for
only few days.
4 4 X 4
1t looks as though the doors Of
the United Nations Club will stay
open. At the meeting last week
committees were appointed to pre-
pare tor its continuance, the two
most important at this stage of the
game being, the Finance Commit
tee and the Legal Committee.
Frank Salisbury, one of the
guiding lights of the Friday
Cotillion which has its next dance
December 2, is now counsel for the
club in the place of Garland
Taylor. He is chairman of the
Legal Committee which will in
vestigate the liability Of previous
officers regarding the clubs pres
ent financial troubles. and which
will deal with any legal problems
that arise.
The Finance Committee, which
will figure out the ways and
means, is headed by Matthew
Jones and includes Everett Walk
and Bill Morse. Other commit
tee heads are: Mrs. Theodore
Babbitt. membership. Mrs, Paul
Magnuson, house; Mrs. James
Ward Sinclair, activities, and
Beverly harrington, the informal
Sunday night dances that are one
Of the clubs most popular
features
Evening star., 1949-11-07
Capital Items
Of Interest

Judge and Mrs. David n. Kin
cheloe were hosts at a buffet sup
per last evening, entertaining in
honor Of Mrs. Arthur Yewen Of
Owensboro, KY, who is visiting
Col. and Mrs. Ashton Hayes. The
company numbered H..
Mrs. Davis, wife Of Navy Comdr.
James H. Davis, and daughter Of
Judge and Mrs. Kincheloe, Is In
Nice. France. having gone abroad
to meet Comdr. Davis when his
ship docks. During her husbands
days at sea, Mrs. Davis continued
her studies in voice, piano and In
French. She spent the late sum-
mer at Cannes before going to
Nice.
Mrs. Claude M. Houchins left
today for st. Louis, Mo-. where
she will be at the Jefferson Hotel
until Thanksgiving.
Wives Of the Annapolis Glass Of
1888 are invited to attend a lunch
con Wednesday at Allison's Lit
tie Tea House, Arlington. Reser-
vations for the o'clock affair
must be made by tomorrow with
either Mrs. John Burkhardt,
GLebe 5876; Mrs. c. r. Calhoun,
Otis 9454. or Mrs. o. B. Parker,
Owens 6089.
Evening star., 1949-11-07
Photo.

White Ph0t0!
Miss Sarah Ann Patane, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Patane,
and Mrs. Charles Victor Dessez,
jr., son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dessez,
were married yesterday afternoon
In st. Martins Church. the Rev.
Louis F. Miltenberger officiating.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. - DR..
Axel Munthe, physician to t h e
late Queen Victoria of Sweden,
and a lifelong friend of K n g
Gustaf, died here recently at the
royal palace, where he had made
his home as the guest of the King
since 1913. Equally successful as
a doctor and a writer, his greatest
claim to fame is his fictionized
autobiography, The Story of San
Michele" which twenty years ago
became a best seller in m n Y
countries. In a brilliant and vivid
style it tells about the home he
acquired on Capri, in Italy, where
he lived for many decades and to
which he always had hoped to re-
turn after having been forced to
abandon it shortly after the out
break of the Second World War.
Born in OskarShamn. Sweden, in
1857, DR.. Munthe studied medicine
at Uppsala University and later in
Paris, where he established him
self as a practicing physician in
1881. A few years later he moved
to Rome. Queen Victoria, w h o
went to Italy every winter for
her health, long maintained a resi-
dence in Rome In 1908 DR.. Munthe
became her physician, a post he
kept until her death in 1880.
A lover of animals, he estab-
lished a bird sanctuary on h e
grounds of his villa on Capri, and
pleaded against tn snarling o.
birds in Italy. He gave a fund of
100000 kronor to King Gustaf to
be used for the benefit of blind
Lapps and fer the protection of
the Lapland fauna. His sympathy
for blind people derived from his
own eXperience-he lost one eye
in World War 1, during which he
served as a French army doctor
While working on his sutobiogra-
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01
Cleaning for Oslo

Oslo will be a busy place during
the first week in May when state,
municipal, and private organiza-
lions join in general spring
cleaning Sire S, sidewalks.
empty lots, and railroad grades
in the municipal area will be
cleared of the winters trash and
fires will burn night and day at
II huge trash-disposal centers. Ac-
cording to plan, the capital will
be clean and bright in time for
celebration of Norways Constitu-
ton Day on May 18th.
Home owners will be held re-
sponsible for cleaning up their own
lots while the city's Association
of Apartment House Owners has
already mapped cut its part OF
the campaign.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01

Comfort rather than luxury is the
keynote, of the 1850 gross ton
diesel-driven liner, built for a
speed of 10 knots, making the run
between New York and Gothen-
burg in little less than 8 days.
Promotion of tourist travel to
Scandinavia is being stressed
through the film expedition spon-
sored by the Line. The films, in
color, with sound, present to AM
erican audiences the historical,
industrial, scenic and recreational
attractions of the Scandinavian
countries.
In an endeavor to commemor-
ate the Swedish Pioneer Centen-
NAL of 1913 the Line sponsored
an Essay Contest on the subject
of The Influence of Swedish Set
tiers on a Community or Region"
The Contest, which closed April
/, 1913, attracted considerable at
tention throughout the country.
More than 1000 manuscripts,
many of them of high quality,
brought to light much new histor-
ical material A book entitled
THE Will To Succeed Stories of
Swedish Pioneers" published by
Bonniers of New York and Stock
holm in 1913, contains a selection
of thirty of the best essays. Many
of the other stories have appear
ed in periodicals and newspapers.
Long range plans include adj
ditional tonnage to supplement
the two passenger liners Grips
holm and Stockholm now in serv-
ice between New York, Gothen-
burg, and Copenhagen, and 16
modern cargo vessels carrying up
to II passengers each, which
make up the White Viking Fleet.
The American management of
the Line is under the direction of
G. Hilmer Lundbeck, Jr. as AM
erican Managing Director. George
E. Hanson is Passenger Traffic
Manager, and Roy c. Samuelson
Assistant Passenger Traffic Man.
ager.
The ,SW edish American Line
maintains offices or general
agents in Boston, Detroit, Chicago,
San Francisco, Seattle, Los An
geles, Calgary, Halifax, Montreal
and Winnipeg.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01
A Short History Of The
Swedish Line

The swedish American Line
founded November 80, 1914 inaug-
urated the first direct passenger
service between the United States
and Sweden with the departure
of the first S. S. Stockholm from
Gothenburg on December II, 1915.
In a little over three decades
the Line has carried more than
three quarter of a million pas
sengers in it's regular trans-At-
lantic service, cruises to the West
Indies, North Cape and South AM
erica and the exchange voyages
of the Gripsholm and the Drott-
ningholm during the second World
War.
Plans for a transatlantic steam
ship line were first advanced by
VIM. r. Lundgren in 1900. How
ever, it was not until October II,
1913 that Observation-Disclosures Sver-
ige-Nordamerika was incorporated
for the amount of eight million
kronor.
Within a year stocks had been
sold on both sides of the Atlantic
and leading shipping men in Swe-
den including Dan Brostrom, its
first president and Axel Garland
er, who took over on Dan Bros
trom's untimely death in 1925,
headed the new company.
Due to the first World War
service was slow in getting start
ed. While the Stockholm made
several trips during the war years,
many time consuming delays were
experienced. Early in 1920 the
Line acquired the turbine liner Vir-
ginian, renamed the Drottning-
holm, which, after reconditioning,
entered the service on May 20 that
year.
To accommodate the increase in
traffic during the Gothenburg Elk
position in 1928, the Line charted
the Holland American Line SIS
Noordam which under the name of
Kungsholm operated for nearly
two years between New York and
Gothenburg,
In >the meantime the Line had
placed a contract for the now ia
fous Gripsholm, the first motor
driven vessel to cross the Atlantic
in 1925. The Kungsholm, also a
motorship, but larger than the
Gripsholn. entered the company's
service in 1928, and became one
of the best known cruiseships
afloat.
The Stockholm, after complet-
ing 9S roundtrip voyages, during
which she carried more than one
hundred and ten thousand pas
sengers. was sold in 1928 to Nor
wegian whaling concern and end
ed her career as one of the many
ships sunk during the second
World War.
In 1886 the Line ordered THIRD
motorship, but shortly before COM
pletiQp in 1888, the ship was prac'
tically destroyed by fire. An en-
tirely new ship, named the Stock
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01

built in Italy, but the war pre-
vented her release. She was sub
sequently sunk in the Adriatic.
The Kungsholm was offered to
the United States Government i'm
mediately after the outbreak of
the war and officially turned over
on January 2, 1912. AS the U.S.S.
/ John Ericsson she operated as a
troop transport and participated
in the invasion of North Africa
and other American battle areas
in the Atlantic and Pacific In
1947 the Line repurchased the
ship from the Government but the
high cost of reconditioning the
ship to make her suitable for the
companys Scandinavian service
resulted in her transfer to line
operating in the South Atlantic
trade, where under the name of
Italia she runs between Mediter-
ranean and South American ports.
For nearly two years after the
outbreak of the Second World
War the Gripsholm and the Drott-
ningholm We're laid up in Sweden.
In April 1912 the United States
Government chartered the Drott-
ningholm to carry Allied and AK
is diplomats and other nationals
across the Atlantic, the first ship
charted for this purpose. She con-
tinued in similar capacity for
the British Government until the
end of the war, and during many
of her early postwar voyages
made regular calls at Liverpool
on her westbound trips to relieve
the backlog of displaced persons
and refugees anxious to reach
America.
The Gripsholm, similarly chart
ed by the United States Govern
ment in May, 1912, won the graf
itude of thousands of civilians, and
sick and wounded combatants,
whom she carried safely to their
homes again. For nearly four
years, or until April 1916, the
Swedish white ship with "Diplo-
mat Sverige prominently paint
ed along the hull of the vessel
the three golden crowns of the
Swedish American Line on her
two tunnels and the blue and yell
low flag of Sweden, sailed between
the United States, East Africa, In
dia, South America and Europe,
carrying thousands of men and
women uprooted by the war. The
Swedish food, service. and kind
| treatment on board the Gripsholm
earned for her captain and crew
the official thanks of the United
States Government and fame
that has come to no other ship.
The Gripsholm is now back in
her regular service between New
York and Gothenburg.
In February 194s, the AZ year
Ola DrOllnllSHOiiH Hdu NoiiiPietSo
220 crossings in the North At
/ lantic service and was transferred
to a company operating in the
South Atlantic where as the S. S.
Brazil she continues in a service
between Mediterranean and South
American ports.
A new motorliner named the
Stockholm entered the Lines
transatlantic service in Febru-
airy 194S. She is the largest pas
senger liner built in a Swedish
yard, and Incorporates many new
features for the comfort of her
400 passengers. and crew of $50.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01

Mr.. Helmer LeMarr of The
American Legion Post 43, Holly
wood, Calf, left New York in
the stockholm" of the Swed-
ish American Line, to visit his
native Copenhagen, where he
will present the local branch of
the American Legion with an
American flag.
Mr.. LeMarr's mother lives i'm
Copenhagen which will assure
him of a hearty welcome before
he leaves on his tour to other
scandinavian American Legion
posts.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-04-01
Dr.. Axe| Munthe, Author Of
Story Of San Michele" Dies

ply, he become totally blind, but
regained his sight through an OPP
Grafton when he was seventy
seven.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20
KEEPING HEALTHY
The Stigma Of Mental Disease
By Dr.. james W. Barton

nURING World War I, I was
- president of a medical board
examining the various units just
before they went overseas. The
medical examiners of each unit
presented the cases to the board
along with their medical history
sheets.
I regret to state that these medi-
cal officers-and also the MEM
bers of the board-were concerned
almost entirely about the condition
of the recruit from his neck down.
Where they failed was in not sizing
up each recruit from the stand
point of his mental and emotional
balance. Many of the recruits ac-
cepted as fit were unable to with
stand the ordinary discipline and
change Of scene and work of
training camp.
The lesson learned from World
War I was of great value to medi-
cal officers and medical boards of
World War II. Every recruit was
thoroughly tested-in most cases by
trained psychiatrists as to his
mental and emotional balance, so
that hundreds were rejected and
returned to their occupations in
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20

Grantland Rice fairs. In fishing and
hunting the contest is between a
human and a fish, fowl or animal.
All of this is slow preamble to
the fact that both baseball and golf,
two playing games, are running
out of kids. Both sports are looking
for more of the young stars of other
years-kids like Ty Cobb and Babe
Ruth and Grover Alexander-or
such golf kids as Bobby Jones,
Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Fran
els Ouimet and Chick Evans who
were stars at 20 and 81.
The fact is that neither base
ball nor golf has the brilliant
kids of 20 years ago.
Who are baseball's 1949 stars?
Stan Musial, %, Ted Williams, 30,
Joe DiMaggio. a. Lou Boudreau,
80. No kids have reported. 1t is the
same in golf. Most of the stars in
clude players above 81 or 80.
Sammy Snead, Lloyd Mangrum,
Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret are
no longer on the younger competi-
tive side.
They are well over 30. Cary
MiddlecOff is close to 30.
But the point is there are no Ty
Cobbs, Bobby Jones, Walter Hag-
ems, Gene Sarazens, etc., marked
against the skyline. The great kids
of yesterday, for the time being,
are gone.
In baseball they are paying
bonuses from $4,000 to $4,000 for
high-school kids who might finally
be worth $4,000. Or nothing at all.
You can't blame the kids, or their
parents, for grabbing this sucker
cash, the greatest sucker cash in
the history of sports.
The two big leagues have in
vested over $500, 900 in kid bonus
players. They will be lucky to
get $4,000 back in the way of
value.
The age problem is even worse
In golf. Such great kids as Bobby
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20

stead of becoming a liability to the
country and a Failure" in their
own eyes and in the eyes of others.
The New York City committee on
mental hygiene recently inter-
viewed 314 men rejected and 3O9
men discharged for mental and
emotional disabilities in World
War II. They found that the great
majority of these cases were made
up of those who had a neurosis
thinking an ailment is present
where no ailment exists) and those
who had an "odd" personality.
An important point discovered
was that many of the men who
were shown that they needed help
from the mental and emotional
standpoint refused treatment "be-
cause of the fear and scorn pop
ularly associated with these dis
ORDERS"
Psychiatriss we're able to help
some cases by assuring them that
they were not crazy, slap happy"
'loco" or "wacky." Even after
everything was explained to them
and that, if necessary, care and
treatment would be free, only 26
per cent accepted treatment.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20
Will a schizophrenic get well
without treatment?

Answer: 1t is not uncommon for
mentally sick person to have
lucid intervals" in which for
some unknown reason the conflicts
that cause his illness have SUBJ
sided for the moment, but where
the change has involved no Gin
sight" into the source of his diff
ficulties, the improvement is apt
to be temporary and uncertain.
Although there's no certainty that
even this will cure him permanent
ly every schizophrenic should
have psychiatric treatment, and
the earlier in his illness he is hos
pitalized, the better his chances of
recovery.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20
HEALTH NOTES

Streptomycin combined with cal
ciferol (calcium) in the treatment
Of tuberculosis of the skin has
proved effective in destroying the
tuberculosis organisms; calciferol
can only do so much and no more.
Blood already does more life-sav-
ing jobs than any one Of our won
derful drugs.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20
Coils Leading Marvel

NVs = sS0Nsu6 u0b vel
It was a matter of just q years
ago over the well-trapped terrain
of Skokie, Chicago, that 2O-year-
old Gene Sarazen won the open golf
championship of the United States.
I followed that final round. In the
same year, Sarazen won the P.G.A.
title at Oakmont.
Twenty-seven years is a long
span in competitive sport. Yet
few days ago, followed Gene Sara
zen at the Masters in Augusta. He
was hitting the ball better in 1949
than he was in 1922. He was longer
off the tee and he was straighter.
I saw good young golfers of 81 or
80 finish we'll in back of stocky
Genes wallops.
spoke to Gene about this
later. "You must be 10 or Is
yards better than you were at
Skokie and Oakmont, when you
were only TO-" said.
"There isn't any question about
that" Gene said, with a well-re-
membered half grin. I'm hitting
the ball much better than l did
when was winning championships.
l am both longer and straighter. I
have control over a greater number
of shots.
YES" he continued, land I
know your next question. Why is
it I'm not winning? That's simple.
There are two or three answers.
One is legs. Another is ambition.
The third is concentration. There
is lot of difference between your
legs at 20 and At. And tired golfers
don't do so well.
"The only urge to win left
years ago. When you've won the
us. Open, the British Open,
the P.G.A. and other titles, the
old ambition of youth begins to
wither.
You are no longer willing to take
the mental and nerve beating. Even
Bobby Jones wasn't.
II kept playing but, like Jones,
Nelson and others who retired,
found it impossible to keep concen-
trating through 70 holes, SO holes
or ID holes. I can concentrate for
a while, but not for too long. l miss
shot or two now and say, Jaw,
what the heck and concentrate on
about every third shot.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20
By Lawrence Gould

Answer: 1t is apt to make you
both more tolerant - and less so.
vt Is easy for you to forgive" or
understand" the way the loved
one behaves so long as his actions
don't affect you, but if what he
does reflects on you-or on your
6amily - it is likely to be harder
to excuse than the same sort of
behavior in a stranger. The more
you love anyone, the more you in
evitably give him the power to
hurt you, and the more surely you
win become frightened and angry
II he exercises that power in ways
which you cannot control.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20

Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sara
zen, Chick Evans and Francis
Ouimet are now ghosts from an
other generation. Frank Stranahan,
at 81, is the best we have left.
In both baseball and golf, the kid
stars of long ago and now almost
forgotten years have moved into
middle age. At least this is now
where most of the headliners be-
long.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-05-20

When the hernia is slight, wear
ing a truss usually keeps the in
testine and coverings from pushing
out and forming lump. However,
because Of the danger Of the hernia
becoming strangulated when hard
work such as lifting Is done, phsi-
clans and surgeons recommend
either injections or surgical opera
tion.