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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, February 7, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february 7, 1t to Bryan daughter Silver tongued too paratroop assault be in joint Alaska game by Phyllis Batte Lenew York one of the most influential figures in the . Delegation to the United nations is the Silver haired Daugh Ter of the Silver tongued orator will it Jennings Bryan. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde whose Tongue is quite As Sterling As her dads won More attention As the 5-year-old braided Darling of 19th Century congresses than she gets  now at 64, she Heads live National boards and committees addresses almost 10,000 persons a month has written seven books received five doctorates and four medals and is a glamorous great grandmother. The Public lost most of its con tact with statuesque mrs Rohde in the late 1930s when she married danish Capi Boerge Rohde whom she met while serving As the first . Woman Diplomat abroad minister to Denmark made headline Sas Ruth Bryan Owen she d made headlines Bryan s daughter establishes american woman s Hospital in  1917 Ruth Owen elected Florida representative to 71st  1929 rep Owen plans permanent National emergency commis Sion " 1929 but the Ever increasing duties of the great commoners Daugh Ter Are lesser known today be cause she works quietly in a Mammoth elizabethan summer Home in Ossining n. Y., or in her cozy Park Avenue Winter part ment. Father she recalls went to Congress when i was 5,  i used to sit there beside him at a big desk and scribble on pads of  after she was graduated from the University of Nebraska Ruth married a briton maj Reginald a. Owen. After he died in Battle leaving her with four children she enlisted As a British army nurse and was sent to Egypt. When world War i ended she returned to Florida where she received her . And a number of honorary doctorates. Later because her friends wanted it and her children were old enough to spare her she jumped into the political Field and was sent to Washington As a democratic representative. Mrs Rohde served As an Aid atthe founding of the in at the san Francisco conference and was later appointed to the Post she holds today . Delegate to the general Assembly chairman of its speakers research committee which gives information to hundreds who lecture on in principles. Beside a these duties she Points out i m kept pretty Busy  chairman of the Board for the Federal prison for women and the National women s forum and vice president of the federation of women shareholders in american  this was mrs. Rohde s year for winning awards. She s received the danish governments highest medal of Merit in Gold and anal Bird Feather Cape of million Dollar lushness from Greenland eskimos la appreciation of by kindness during recent visits. She s also won a Gold medal from the University of Nebraska a special service Freedom train award and a Merit award from the society of be England women. By Charles Corddry refugees at the Gates of Hon Kong refugees from communist controlled areas of China await permission of enter Hie British Crown Colony of Hon Kong the territory where they stand is part of the Region surrounding the Crown Colony and leased by Britain. The Border Between British territory and communist he id China is a few Hundred feet away. 1np a Ashington up the " largest paratroop assault ver made in the subarctic mid Winter will Climax massive . Canadian tests of far Northern defences next week the defense department has disclosed. Exercise Sweetbriar As the joint Man Euver is called will get under Way monday when an Al lied Force tries to repel a sur prise airborne invasion by an aggressor who has seized the Etra Tegi c Fairbanks Anchor age area of Alaska. Defense Secretary Louis a John son said Sweetbriar exemplifies the spirit of Mutual de sense set Forth under the North Atlantic  he predicted it will result in belter joint defense and a deeper appreciation for  More than 5,000 soldiers and air men of both countries will take part in this first joint mane Verand the largest Ever held to test tactics and Supply methods in the subarctic. Mass jump feb. 23 the paratroops drawn from can Ada s 1st Abu in will make their mass jump on North Way air Field in Eastern Alaska feb. 23. Aggressor forces numbering 50q from the . Alaskan command Grid have closed on that area. Allied forces totalling 4,700 troops Are being concentrated a Whitehorse. They Are going in by army Convoy and by of troop carriers from Colorado and Inland Canadian Points. More than 100 planes including . F8q jets and Canadian Vam Pire jets Are being flown from Quebec Anchorage Alaska South Carolina. Purpose of the games a 1to test the Back door Continental defense a to develop strategy tactic and Supply methods for repulsing an airborne attack on Alaska threats to territory of Canada an the a 3. Proper. 3to coordinate army and a operations on an inter nation scale under unified command. To test under . Sometimes ranging to 60 Degreif below Zero latest develop elfin weapons vehicles food and clothing. It if anticipated the detail Merit said that from  May come new coi Cepla in Basic doctrine of Bot nations with regard to contain an the commissioner s office sure of the exact number bee., j there has been no census for years and the last taken do differentiate Between Holla dutch and eurasian who estimated to number 200,000, Smiths top Millers Bethlehem a. A  University officials surveyed school s enrolment records. Came up with these facts a Are 31 students named Smi named Miller. These name the list. But there is Only top Raitsoglou and one anar1 Aranan. I  
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