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MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1944 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3B ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A. MA HEAD URGES SOCIAL ACTIVITIES BISHOP HOLT EXPECTED TO BE ASSIGNED HERE TWO IN TANK CORPS UNITS KILLED IN ITALY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER Invading France Without Frenchmen CUT IN MEDICAL COSTS SEEMS a pity and a mistake that few Frenchmen are par I ticipating in the liberation of their country from the very begin- ning. It would have been fitting to have had French troops among the first seaborne invaders.

There were first-class French soldiers 1 peremptory orders from the Presi i. yw i available. It seems a pity and a mistake that there was not a Frenchman sitting in London with the leaders of the other governments-in-exile. But none 'was available except Charles de Gaulle and he is still so disliked by the American President that, to get him there at all, Winston Churchill had to send his personal airplane to Algiers and British Ambassador Duff Cooper had to employ his arts of persuasion to the fullest For it is hard to make any Frenchman believe that he and his country are second-class. Where Eisenhower Stands.

It is good for Americans to know that in all this Gen. Eisenhower is innocent. For many months now, the General has believed that we should do business with Gen. De Gaulle as the representative of Underground France, whatever the title we wished to give him. Marshal Petain has called upon Frenchmen in France virtually to oppose us and help the Germans.

It is all very well for a man in Washington against the views of most of his own people in London to insist that Gen. De Gaulle "probably" does not represent the mass of the French people and that, even if he does, it is not our business to help foist anyone upon France. A General commanding hundreds of thousands of troops in a difficult invasion enterprise understands the immense advantage of being able to rely upon a single integrated civilian organization. He must know that for Allied commanders in France to deal with one sort of Frenchman here, with a rival or an adversary there, is a fine way to stir up confusion nd strife positively dangerous to the safety of allied military operations. "Gen.

Ike" Co-operates. Therefore, once Churchill had managed to persuade De Gaulle to come to London and broadcast, General Ike started co-operating with him in whatever ways he could. He discussed his military plans and received De Gaulle's full approval, something which, coming from one of the founders of modern warfare, was undoubtedly pleasant to receive. If the Commanding General did riot expressly approve, he certainly did not object to hearing the head of the Algiers Committee call upon the French in France for "perfect obedience to instructions given by the French Government and by those whom it has appointed to national and local leadership" meaning to Gen. De Gaulle and his friends.

At the same time, because of Casualties ill BURGER RAINES FOUR FROM. THIS AREA Lieutenants E. W. Magness, L. G.

Brown and C. Mueth Decorated. Second Lt. Earle XV. Magness, navigator of a Flying Fortress based in England, has received a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal, a dispatch received today from an Eighth Army Air Force Bombing Station announced.

Lt. Magness, 28 years old, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Magness, 2234 Madison avenue, Granite City, 111., nnd the hunlmnd of Mm.

Ln Verne Anne Magness, 1931A East Warne avenue. Second Lt. I G. Brown, 25, copilot of a British-based Flying Fortress, has received the Air Medal the War Department announced. He is the son of Mr.

H. F. Brown, 3210 Hebert street and the husband of Mrs. Maxine Rose Brown, 4216 Oano avenue. Second l.t.

Charles Mueth, 24, member of a bombardment group in India, has received the Air Medal. His mother, Mrs. Margaret Mueth, lives at Mascoutah, 111. Staff Sgt. Richard P.

Helm, member of a Liberator crew stationed in England, has been decorated with the Air Medal, the War Department announced. His address was listed in the dispatch as 3018A Marcus avenue. RED CROSS WAR WORK REPORT WASHINGTON, June 12 (AP). The American Red Cross reported today that it had provided more than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of goods and services during the first 26 months of the war. The organization spent in Red Cross funds and 951,368 as agent for the Government and other agencies.

These figures do not include the millions of dollars' worth of services performed by volunteer workers. All but a fraction of the Red Cross expenditure is directly war connected. Sklnker Going to Milwaukee. Director of Public Utilities Thomas Sklnker will leave this evening: for Milwaukee to attend a three-day conference of the American Water Works Association, to discuss present and post war water problems. The confer ence will be attended by representatives of United States, Canada, Mexico and some South American countries.

iOflH vOOO TOLIE MANN TT 31? RECEIVE Al AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT was made yesterday afternoon at a tea D-tvAn at tViA HntYifl at AT onri Mrs. Henry W. Reller, 4514 Clarence avenue, of the engagement of their daughter, Dr. Helen Reller, to Dr. Louis August Gottschalk, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Max Gottschalk, 6000 Waterman avenue. Guests were received by Dr. Reller, her mother, and Mrs. Gottschalk, who stood before the fireplace, which was banked with candles and spring flowers.

Tall candles and spring flowers decorated the tea table, where Mrs. Charles M. Reller, sister-in-law of the bride-elect, and Miss Thelma Taylor served. of the engagement was disclosed by mock prescription blanks which were given to each guest. Both Dr.

Reller and Dr. Gottschalk are graduates of Washington University and of Washington University Medical School. Dr. Reller was elected to Alpha Lam-da Delta, freshman honorary society, and to Delta Phi Alpha, honorary language fraternity. Bothhe and her fiance are members of Sigma XI, honorary science fraternity; Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical society, and Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity.

Dr. Gottschalk is serving his Interneship at Barnes Hospital, while Dr. Reller is in her second year as assistant resident dermatologist at the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital. The wedding will take place late next month. Lt.

and Mrs. W. L.Hadley Griffin and their young Hadley Griffin II, named for Lt. Griffin's brother, have been here for 10 days with the parents of Lt. Griffin, Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph T. Griffin, 39 Kingsbury place. Lt. Griffin has been with the Navy in the South Pacific for nine months.

His wife and baby have been liv ing in Coronado, Cal. They left here Friday for Asheville, N. to spend a week with her father, W. Lockwood Perry, before Lt. Griffin returns to active duty.

Miss Watson Engaged. THE engagement of Miss Mary Comstock Watson and Lt. Bernard Herman Ross, a Marine pilot stationed, at Cherry Point, N. was announced late yesterday afternoon at a tea at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Philip J. Watson 275 Blnckmer place, Webster Groves. Lt. Ross is a son of Dr. Emmy Ross Brockelmann, 6901 Princeton avenue, University City, and the late Dr.

Herman Ross. From a small model airplane, suspended over the tea table, two dolls, on which were the names of the engaged pair, appeared to be parachuting into a mound of white spring flowers which formed the centerpiece. About 80 guests were present at the announcement party. Miss Watson attended Mary Institute, National Park College, VHashington, D. and Washington University.

Her sorority is Kappa Kappa Gamma. She has two sisters, Mrs. William N. De Ramus III (Patricia Watson), whose husband, a captain in the Army transportation corps, is in India, and Mrs. William N.

Fetner Jr. (Jean Watson), who is at Raleigh, N. with her husband, a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces. Lt. Ross attended Haverford.

Preparatory School, Haverford, and was graduated fromi John Burroughs School. At the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps he was at Westminster College, Fulton. He belongs to Phi Delta Theta. His elder brother, Lt. (jg) Renneau Herman Ross, is overseas with the Naval Reserve and a younger brother, Pvt.

Herman Charles Ross, is with the Army Medical Corps, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Miriam Stith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taylor Stith, 4434 West Pine boulevard, has returned home from California where she visited her brother and sister-in-law, Capt. and Mrs.

Richard Taylor Stith in La Jolla. When Miss Stith returned to St 'GOOD NEWS' SECOND OFFERING AT OPERA The Municipal Opera's second production of the season, a revival of the musical comedy "Good News," will open tonight at 8:45 o'clock at the outdoor theater in Forest Park, and will be performed nightly through Sunday. Pvt. John Tyers will make his farewell St. Louis appearances singing the leading male role in this week's production, opposite 16-year-old Adelaide Bishop.

Pvt. Tyers leaves next week for Hollywood for a part in the motion picture, "Winged Victory." Laurence Schwab, co-author and producer of the original "Good News" in New York and former productions manager of Municipal Opera, assisted at rehearsals here last week. A jitterbug chorus of 16 St. Louis high school boys will take part In a dance number. Songs from "Good News," besides the title tune, include "The Best Things in Life Are Free," "Lucky in Love" and "Varsity Drag." Mrs.

Arthur1 F. Barnes Dies. Mrs Ivy Barnes, widow of Arthur F. Barnes, former president of the Manufacturer's Bank and Trust died yesterday of a heart ailment at her home, 425 Algonquin place, Webster She was 58 years old. Surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs.

Mildred Shannon, Springfield, 111., and a niece, Mrs. Eugene F. Kuhn, San Francisco, Cal. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. tpuis cmpet co.

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TEARS REWOVEN OITICE. 239 N. EUCLID. St Louis (8). Ho.

3ste 71 Privates J. Schwable and W. Borrowman Lose Lives in Action Other Casualties. Vtc. rhlllip J.

Schwable 20 years old, member of a tank corps unit, was killed in action May 25 in Italy, his parents, who live at 6227 Wilson avenue, have been officially notified. rvt. William Borrowman, 21, member of a tank corps unit, was killed in action May 26 in Italy, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Borrowman, 3955 Shaw boulevard, have learned.

Staff Sgt. Taul J. Thuesen, tail gunner on a Flying Fortress based in Italy, has been missing in action over Austria, since May 24, the War Department notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank N.

Thuesen, of Hematite, Mo. His aunt, Mrs. George Strickland, lives at 1293 I'urcell avenue, Wellston. Muff Hut. Alvlit I.

ItiilncN, tail gunner on a Liberator bomber based in Italy, was reported missing in action May 27 following a raid over France, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Raines, 624 Qirson road, Ferguson, have learned. Sgt. Lloyd L.

Neuhaur, 20, tail gunner on a bomber, has been missing in action since May 25 following a raid over France, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Neu-hauf of Carpenter, 111., have been notified.

Lt. Robert E. Ryan, 20, navigator on a Flying Fortress based in England, has been missing in action since May 28 following a raid over Germany, his father, M. A. Ryan, 2001 State street, Alton, has been notified.

Utility Crewman Donald D. Steele was reported dead in a telegram from the United States Maritime Service to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Steele, 2015 Alfred avenue, l.t.

William K. Muiiu 20, navigator of a Liberator bomber, has been missing in action since May 5, following a raid over Romania, his parents have learned. They live at 724 Alhambra court, East St. Louis. Sgt.

Edgar C. Nabe, 24, gunner on a bomber based in England, was reported missing in action May 27 following ft raid over enemy-occupied Europe, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Nabe, 4264 West Pine boulevard, have been informed. Pfc.

John N. Tolie, 21, member of a quartermaster unit, has been reported missing in action since April 29 in the European area, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Tolie, 4511 Pope avenue, have learned. Pvt.

Edward W. Burger, 19, an Infantryman, was wounded in action May 23 in Italy, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burger, 5722, Prescott avenue, have been Informed. Sgt.

Willard Finn, 20, waist gunner on a Flying Fortress, who was previously reported missing In action April 23 after a raid over Yugoslavia, is now listed as a prisoner of war of the German government, his sister, Mrs. J. A. Duffin, 114 West Felton avenue, Lemay, has been informed. TRAVELERS' GROUP MEETS The fifty-fourth Annual meeting of the Travelers Protective Association of America opened today at the Melbourne Hotel.

Delegates went on record as demanding disposition of Government foodstuffs through regular trade channels, and preferably through the processors or manufacturers from whom the Government acquired the commodities. The meeting will close tomorrow. Mrs. B. Landis Elliott Dies.

Mrs. B. Landis Elliott, former Instructor of French at Washington University, died at her home in Kansas City, yesterday of meningitis. Funeral services will be in Kansas City tomorrow. Mrs.

Elliott, 47 years old. who resigned from the Washington University faculty in 1923, is survived by her husDana, Jjr. is. Xj. H.11101X, ana iwo sons, Landis B.

and Charles Elliott. Henry A. Wallace In Grandfather. DKS MOINES, June 12 (AP), A daughter was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Brown Wallace, son and daughter-in-law of Vice President and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace. The baby is the Vice President's first grandchild. WASHBURN'S CK COOKING NO SOAKH SPLIT PEAS It's fun to paint with SPREB THf NEW PAINT INVENTION "111 U) WW aetata 111, ZZZr-M.

$0.98 JZ, GAL mod from Soy Boont tiy 4 Former Pastor of St. John's May Return as Successor: to Bishop Broomfield. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, who was pastor of Su John's Methodist Church, Kings- highway and Washington boulevard, from 1918 to 1938. will probably return to St Louis as the episcopal head of the Missouri area of Methodism. Reassignment of several bishops is to be made by an eight-state jurisdictional conference meeting tonight and through the week in Tulsa, Ok.

Church leaders hers have learned that the conference will probably assign Bishop Charles C. Selecman, a former St. Louis pastor, now stationed at Oklahoma City, to the Dallas area, and that Bishop Holt will be trnrTaf erred from Dallas to St. Louis. He would succeed Bishop John C.

Broomfield, who has been In charge of the St. Louis area slnca the merger of the northern and southern branches of Methodism in 1938-39, Bishop Broomfield retirement, at the age of 72 years, was announced at the General Conference in Kansas City, last month. The Tulsa conference is to elect two bishops, following the retirement of Bishop Broomfield and the recent death of Bishop Charles L. Mead of Kansas City. The Rev.

Dr. Frank Tucker, present district superintendent of the St. Louis district. Is one of thoa likely to be considered. The new bishops, when elected, will be subject to assignment by the conference.

Bishop Holt, now 58 years old, was elected a Bishop of the Methodist Church, South, In 19.18, shortly; before the union of Methodism, since which he has held the same office in the united church. His pastorates were at University Church, University City, and at Centenary Church, Cape Girardeau, and he taught for three years at Southern Methodist University, Dallas before beginning: his 20-year-pastorate at St. John's. He is a former president of tht Federal Council, Churches of Christ in America- While at Dallas he has had charge of Methodist work in South America. His son, Ivsn Lee Holt assistant circuit attorney of St.

Louis, is now in the armed forces. Union Memorial Pastor Consecrated a Negro Bishop. The Rev. Edward W. Kelly, pastor of Union Memorial (Negro) Methodist Church, Pine boulevard and Leffingwell avenue, 'was one of three Negro Methodist ministers who were consecrated as bishops yesterday at the quadrennial conference of the central jurisdiction of the church in Greensboro, N.

C. The others-were the Rev. Willis J. King of Atlanta and the Rev. Robert N.

Brooks of New Orleans. NUTSHELL NORCROSS GREETING CARDS BUY YOUR Loon Insurant Corporation Organization to Ask Roosevelt for More Deferments of Students. CHICAGO, June 12 (AP). Dr. James E.

Paullin of Atlanta, president of the American Medical Association, today called on its house of delegates to take the lead in making good medical care more generally available and at lower cost. "The recent survey of the National Physicians' Committee," he said, "has made clear that what the people want most is a better distribution of medical service at lower cost. "Conceivably the. Federal Government might wish to encourage compulsory sickness insurance by offering subsidies to states in which such programs are developed, and it is also conceivable that Federal aid might become available for the encouragement and expansion of voluntary insurance plans. "The rapid increase in the numbers of those who are insured against hospital costs, medical costs, accidental injury and sickness is evidence that the American people still desire to express their own independence and provide more care for themselves." The total number of Americans now receiving some sort of voluntary, prepaid medical protection is estimated at nearly 40 million.

The House of Delegates voted to go over the heads of selective serv-and appeal directly to the President or Congress to obtain more deferment for medical students. The House adopted a resolution that "the present policy of the Army and the selective service system will inevitably result in an overall shortage of qualified physicians, with Imminent danger to the health and well-being of our citizens." $12,500 WAR MEMORIAL DRIVE TO BE PLANNED WEDNESDAY A meeting to arrange for a cam paign for raising the $12,500 bal ance needed for construction of the temporary memorial to the dead of the present war, in Me morial Plaza, will be held in Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann's office at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Mayor, in announcing the meeting today, said 515,000 had been pledged. Those invited are George C.

Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Edgar M. Queeny, board chairman of Monsanto Chemical J. Wesley McAfee, president of Union Electric Co. of Missouri; L. Wade Childress, president of Laclede Gas Light Arthur B.

Baer, president of Stix, Baer Fuller; Fred Z. Sala-mon, treasurer of Famous-Barr; Walter W. Smith, president of First National Bank; Jere L. New ton, vice-president of Falstaff Brewing Corporation; Walker Pierce, president of Missouri Brewers' Association; Eberhard Anheuser, vice-president of Anheuser-Busch, Arthur G. Drefs, president of McQuay-Nor-ris Manufacturing and Ernest W.

Stix, president of Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co. WAR MOTHERS, SOLDIERS JOIN IN CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION (Picture In Everyday Magazine.) The annual Corpus Christl procession was held at Florissant yesterday before an assemblage reduced in numbers because of gasoline rationing and other factors related to the war. Three organizations of mothers, the Navy Mothers, Army Mothers and Marine Moms, participated in the procession and service men members of the Sacred Heart and St. Ferdinand parishes formed a guard of honor around the canopy protecting the Eucharist. The Rev.

Patrick J. Holloran, S. president of St. Louis University, carried the Eucharist. Attending him were the Rev.

Albert C. Zuercher, S. rector of St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, and the Rev. Francis A.

Preuss, S. dean of studies at the seminary. FUNERAL FOR ADOLF WALTHER Funeral services for Adolf Walther, a brewmaster for 51 years, who died of pneumonia yesterday at his home, 3917 Shaw boulevard, will be held at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Peetz undertaking establishment, 3029 Lafayette avenue.

Cremation will follow at Missouri Crematory. Mr. Walther, 78 years old, was associated with the Phoenix and Green Tree breweries of the St. Louis Brewing Association, Falstaff Brewing Corporation and the Western Brewing Co. at Belleville before his retirement three years ago.

He is survived by his widow and two sons. MISS HILDA FORSTER FUNERAL Funeral services for Miss Hilda Forster, daughter of the late C. Marquard Forster, founder of the Hyde Park Breweries Association, will be held tomorrow at 9 a. m. at St.

Roch's Church. The remains will be laid in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Miss Forster, who was 52 years old, died yesterday at St. John's Hospital of heart disease. Miss Forster is survived by her mother, Mrs.

Katherine Forster, 6251 McPherson avenue, with whom she lived, and her sister, Mrs. Briggs A. Hoffmann, 4954 Lindell boulevard. Gen. Arnold's Son Weds.

SANTA MONICA, June 12 (AP). Honeymooning at an un disclosed retreat today are the former Barbara Douglas, daughter of plane-builder Donald W. Douglas, and Lt. William Bruce Arnold, son of Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces. They were married Saturday night. MARQUIS CHILDS A Revolt in the House Succeeds dent, Gen. Eisenhower, in his broadcast to the French people, while telling them to "follow the instructions of your leaders' (meaning the Gaullists), also stated that in France "all persons must continue in their' present duties unless otherwise Instruct ed," something he must have known that, in the case of Vichy traitors, the Gaullists would never permit. Yet, although the President's antipathy to De Gaulle could re sult in a terrible mess within France, and the loss of American lives, it probably will not.

Gen. De Gaulle is a good soldier in every sense of the word, and too much of a patriot to allow any affronts to him personally to in terfere with the liberation of his cbuntry. But he must regret the (apparent) absence of Frenchmen in that first invasion wave. Meanwhile, however, Mr. Roosevelt's refusal to recognize the French Committee has awakened great hopes in another quarter.

Recently we read of the "escape" from North Africa to Lisbon of two former Vichyites, both of whom had been chosen by, or who themselves chose, Gen. Giraud; namely, Jacques Lemaigre-Du-breuil and his henchman, Jean Rigaud. Record of De Gaulle Foe. The former, in addition to being a former Vichylte, was a secret partner in the Worms Bank, the financial agent of the German Government. Both were booted out by Gen.

De Gaulle. Somewhere in Ibefia is Gen. Nogues, who Arrested our friend Gen. Bethouart and insisted upon resisting the Allied landing In Morocco. In Madrid is Yves Chatel, chosen instrument of Gen.

Weygand and of Adm. Darlan, who urged the Algerian Arabs to revolt and fire upon our forces. In Lisbon is the arch-conspirator and Vichylte of them all, Paul Bnudoin, head of the fetid Bank of Indo-China (a representative of which has gone to New Caledonia with our permission); he conspired to bring about the French collapse of 1940 and was for years a close friend of Benito the Ham. They are a fine gang cunning, unscrupulous, desperate, looking for anything that can possibly save their property and their lives. But why should they despair? If we refuse De Gaulle, we shall have to look around for some other group not actually connected with Petain, inside France.

These people are smelly. But some people seem indifferent to odors. the other day escaped general preoccupied with news of th great revolution, nothing less. people shall be permitted to debate. Representative Wolcott of Michigan, ranking Republican member on the Banking and Currency Committee, spoke out against this power grab.

So did others. Then the House voted on whether the Rules Committee should or should not be upheld in this latest effort to usurp the legislative function. The vote was 153 against the obstructionists and 64 for them. The revolt had succeeded. Legislation Is Throttled.

Smith of Virginia, Eugene Cox or ueorgla, Martin Dies of Texas these are the men who have built a legislative toll bridge, letting by only what narrowly serves their interests. tactics are. the same as those of their fellow-conspirators who have carefully and cleverly engineered in the South a move to defeat the popular will. These courthouse connivers, who do not represent the South, know they cannot win in an open election. So what are they doing? They're putting up electors who will go to the electoral college to vote for any man but Roosevelt, regardless of whether the people in their respective states have cast majority vote for a fourth term.

What a clever plan! What a way to thwart and frustrate the real intention of the men who framed our Constitution! In South Carolina, Texas, and now Mississippi, this scheme is being pushed. The clever men behind it will see that it is fostered in other states in the South. Significantly, a majority of the Republicans in the House turned against the obstructionists on the Rules Committee, although they would not allow the vote to be of record. For the opposition, it is a heaven-sent opportunity to show that the Democratic party is riddled with factionalism and dissension. But only a few die-hard Republicans seem to want to join the shabbiest Democratic faction.

War Chest Downtown Chairman. Frank E. Agnew Jr, vice-president of the General American Life Insurance has been appointed chairman of the downtown division of the Greater St Louis War Chest Campaign, it was announced today by Straford L. Morton, general chairman. The downtown division is responsible for soliciting about 6000 offices and small firms employing persons or less in the territory from Spring avenue to the Mississippi River and from Park avenue to Cass avenue.

Jules Plerlow photo. ENS. LOUISE GRANT JIILMER Who is spending a short leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August C.

Hilmer, 7324 Maryland avenue. An officer in the WAVES, she js stationed at Clinton, Ok. Louis Capt. Stith, who has been stationed with the Marine Corps in San Diego, was transferred to Corvallis, Ore. He and Mrs.

Stith, the former Miss Ann Carter See, have taken a house in Corvallis. Parties for Graduates. MEMBERS of the senior class at the Academy of the Visitation are guests at a series of parties in connection with their graduation, Wednesday morning. Following commencement exercises Miss Deborah Waring Cha-deayne has invited her classmates to breakfast at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Frost Chadeayne, 4467 Lindell boulevard. Later that afternoon Miss Suzanne Mclntyie will hold open house at the home of her mother, Mrs. W. Kress Mclntyre, 7256 Pershing avenue, preceding a dinner dnnce at Glen Echo Country Club given by Miss Lea Dyer, Miss Lenore Dallavalle, Miss Jacque Kloepfer, Miss Nancy Os-termeier and Miss Pat Carmit-chael. A breakfast will be given the next day at Candlelight House by Miss Betty Kelly, Miss Clara Pechman, Miss June Kieffer and Miss Frances Tinkey.

A luncheon and swimming party will be given later that day by Miss Peggy Mc-Elwee, Miss Jo Hudson, Miss Wilma Fischer, Miss Ann Harding and Miss Elizabeth Ann Burroughs at Norwood Hills Country Club. Miss Shirley Dean will be hostess at a barbecue and dance Saturday night at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dean, 33, the Orchards, Ladue.

Miss Betty Reid will give a luncheon and swimming party at Norwood Hills June 20. A hayride and barbecue was given May 17 by Miss Geraldine Maguire, Miss Mary Beth McNa-mara and Miss Nancy Stead. A dinner dance given by the junior class in honor of the graduates was an event of May 21 at Hotel Coronado. Co-hostesses at a luncheon in the Regency Room of Hotel Chase May 27 were Miss Joan Monti, Miss Mary Ellen Newell, Miss Rosemary Strubel and Miss J'Ann Schuppe, assisted by their mothers, Mrs. Martin Monti, Mrs.

M. C. Newell, Mrs. A. W.

Strubel and Mrs. Robert L. Schuppe. Mts Barbara Gafney, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

George T. Gafney, gave a buffet supper for the class at her home, 7055 Maryland avenue, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William J.

Wil-kins, 7747 Kingsbury boulevard, have returned from Sweet Briar, where they attended the commencement exercises at Sweet Briar College June 1. Their daughter, Miss Emily Ann Wilkins, a member of the graduating class, accompanied them home. The American Planning and Civic Association, commemorating its founding in St. Louis in 1904, will hold a three-day Citizens' Conference on Postwar Planning, beginning Wednesday, at Hotel Stat-ler. The program lists addresses by Thomas H.

MacDonald, Federal Commissioner of Public Roads; Charles Gordon, managing director of the American Transit Association; Mayor J. Woodall Rogers of Dallas. whose airport program for Dallas has attracted considerable interest; Thomas S. Holden, president of F. W.

Dodge Corporation; Newton B. Drury, Director of National Parks; Louis Bromfield, the novelist, and others of national prominence. An attendance of 200 from other cities, augmented by many St. Louisa ns interested in planning and conservation problems, is expected. Sessions will be open to the public for a nominal fee of 50 cents.

A special exhibit on city planning, dealing with such problems as housing, parks and community centers, will be on view at the City Art Museum this week in connection with the conference. CLE A HANCE Prints, Dots and Plain Fabrics in Fine Rayon Crapes. Suitable for Summer In Sf. Louis, Vacation and Travel. EXCEPTIONAL VALUES FROM 10 95 Siias 12 to 40 CIVIC GROUP TO MEET ON POSTWAR PLANNING WAR SAVINGS BONDS AX IP STAMPS MERE HAT happened in the House notice because peaple were Datue.

Actually, it was a It was a revolution against the little group of men who have set themselves up as an all-powerful committee to decide what legislation Congress shall consider. There are 435 members in the House. There are 14 members of the House Rules Committee, and six or seven is usually a working majority. This little handful of willful men Southern Democrats with two or three Republicans has undertaken not merely to say what the House shall consider. The members have refused to grant priority to legislation until it has been trimmed and amended to suit their individual tastes.

Here's how they get away with it: Before most bills can be brought tip in the House, they must be granted a rule by the Rules Committee. That is a working procedure which the obstructionists have seriously abused. The other day, they went too far. A legislative committee as contrasted to a procedure committee had held long, painstaking hearings on extension of price control. The Banking and Currency Committee had done a thorough job of study and analysis.

A Hodgepodge Measure. Then what happened? Along came the Rules Committee and disregarded all this work. It gave equal precedence to a hodgepodge measure into which not only price control but labor legislation had been lumped a measure which had little basis in hearings or public analysis of the legislation. This was the work of Representative Howard Smith of Virginia, one of the group of willful men dominating the Rules Committee. When Smith stood upon the floor to complain about criticism of him in this column, he touched off the revolt.

Speaker Rayburn did something he has rarely done. He came down into the well of the House and spoke against the seven or eight men who have given themselves imperial powers in deciding what the elected representatives of the JOSEPH M'C. HQBBS DIES Joseph McCullough Hobbs, former St. Louisan and chief valuator for the Federal Housing Administration, died Saturday at his home in Washington, of heart disease. Mr.

Hobbs, 57 years old, a survived by his wife, Mrs. Lola Hobbs, and two sisters, Mrs. E. W. Har-man, 4917 Hooke avenue, and Mrs.

J. G. Louis, 4916 Hooke avenue. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. a 25 Uncle Sam needs sixteen billion dollars for the big Victory Invasion push.

Let's all work together to raise that money in a hurry. Do your share. BUY MORE THAN EVER BEFORE We solicit your purchase of War Savings Bonds, in any amount and assure you of our co-operation to obtain prcmpt delivery. ROOSEVELT FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION ofSTLOUIS NINTH, NOITH OP LOCUST 1 NOtTH SIDI OrriCI S07 NORTH (ROADWAY grace ashlcy 4904 McPherson Av: (8) Oliv Ualvarslty Car te Poor Member Federal Savlaqt and.