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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
Couples Dilemma:
They Rent a Room
| And Forqet Address

Third precinct police are turning
their sleuthing energy to the case
of the disappearing lodging house.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Mcqueen of
St. Louis arrived in the city Thurs
day night and established them
selves in a rooming house. Friday
morning they went sightseeing, leav-
ing their baggage behind.
Now they can not remember the
location Of the lodging house, and
after two days still are unable to
discover 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18

Of cable and q winch. 1t Is only
necessary to rig this to stout tree
and run the winch with the motor
of the truck. Literally the truck is
made to pull itself out. The Army
has merely adopted the principle of
Archimedes who said he could lift
the world with one finger, if given
a lever long enough and some place
outside the planet on which to
stand. AS far woods, simply go
around them. If an enemy is in
them let him stay there.
The triangular division will in
clude at full war strength not more
than $4,000 men. Its peacetime
strength never runs beyond 5000.
There is one less regiment Not so
many men are needed for man
power, without contributing any,
thing to fighting power. These re-
auctions eliminate a lot of odd jobs
which, in turn, reduce the person.
mel still further. The World War
divisions of more than 10000 men
will be about as extinct as the
dinosaur, and Just about as clumsy
when they face the battle require
ments of today.
The triangular division with less
than half the men is absolutely
better than the old square division,
its officers say, and the men left
over can be used to form other tri-
angular divisions to carry on war
over larger area. Using the same
weapons it would have less fire
power than the square division but
this is more than compensated for
by the newer type weapons.
Operating Space Vital.
In other words. it seems. the
fighting power of the American
army can be doubled without add
ing a single recruit.
But It automatically enlarges the
scope Of war. The army made up
of such divisions must have space
in which to operate, which was one
reason for the German invasion OF
the Low Countries. 1t isn't ideally
fitted for pint-sized battles-so It
eliminates pint-sized battles. 1t can
determine the scope of war, not
be limited by It.
1t passes lightly over the country
side. Thus it is far less destruc-
tive to civilian populations and
their property but far more destruc-
tive to resisting enemy.
And If this sort of thing keeps up
even Battles of France may be
picayune affairs and the advances
of science to greater and greater
mobility might conceivably end in
Battles of the United States or
Battles of South America. In that
case the model Of the Marine would
be as obsolete as the model OF
Bunker Hill.
National Guard colonies and
majors, many Of whom served In
the ranks or as Heutenants and
captains In the World War. look
with wonder at the new tactics
and wonder what triangulation will
do to their square brigades In the
hectic days ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
Fec lures.
st. EIizobeth's Patient
Is Found Honqed

An Army private, Joseph P. Little,
25-year-old Philadelphia who had
been undergoing treatment at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital since May %,
was found hanged at the institution
last night. officials said he was
suspended over the side Of a third
floor porch from belt attached
to a grillwork. Before entering the
mental institution he had been q
patient at Walter Reed Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
Weather Report
FURNISHED BY the


Columbia-PartY
tomorrow; gentle east winds
Mayand-Party cloudy slightly interior followed
by local showers tonight and in west portion and
tomorrow afternoon.
portion:
n portion
cloudy
cooler
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
AnqIers to Feast

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. II (Spe-
ciaD The Rockville Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League will hold a
crab feast on the old fair grounds
here on September 7. Adolph Guide
is in charge Of arrangements, as
sisted by Reuben Riggs, George H.
Darby, Owen Knight, James w.
Berrier. Paul Wire, Alvin Higgins,
Frank Dement,, Bradley Van Hoes
sen and Humphrey Cissel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18

weather Conditions Last n Hours.
The disturbance that was over North
Carolina Friday night has advanced slight
ly eastward to the VirGinia Capes. Cape
Henry Va. 10l0.S millibars t29 IS inches)
A trough OF low pressure is moving slowly
eastward and extends from lower Michi-
gan, Detroit. 10l3.5 millibars t29 90
inches), southwestward to the Rio Grande
the AtIantic Coast Nsntucket Mass.
1913 o millibars 5000 inchesl, and pres
sure is nigh and rising rapidly over the
Northern Rocky Mountain reEion and The
Northern Plains States. EaTre. Mont,
the list "a h,urs showers have occuIIe ed
in tine Middle ATLANTIC; the South At
States. the lower Ohio. the Mississippi
and lower, Missouri Valleys. and in the
upper Lake region and Pennsylvania.
Temperatures have fallen in the Northern
Plains States the upper Lake region
Ind the middle Mississippi Valley.
River Report.
Potomac River cloudy: Shenandoah
very muddy this pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18

Injuries to pedestrians last year
in the District from March. when
pedestrian control regulations were
placed into effect. to December
showed q decrease of 1lS from the
total pedestrian injuries during .
similar period In 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
Readers Guide
ond
News Summary
PART ONE.
Main Ne11s Section.

Foreign.
Somaliland battle won, italian Army
says. Page Al
U. s. flyer with r. A. r. killed in
battle. Page Al
Nazi warplanes renew attack on
Britain. Page Al
Cheering thousands welcome Wind
sor to Bahamas Page Al
U. S. to hold Reich to pledge on
refugee ship. Page Al
Reich proclaims total blockade of
Britain. Page Al
National.
Dynamite found in culvert in path
of Roosevelt party. Page Al
Willkie backs draft, challenges
Roosevelt to debate Page Al
U. S. Army to use deadly triangle
drive in next war Page AT
Roosevelt reviews LIST Army troops
in New York. Page A
Washington ond Vicinity
Rules group may act tomorrow on
Summers resolution. Page Al
District Marine Reserves leave today
for Lakehurst camp. Page B.
Miscellaneous.
OL;t,,o,,, nona
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
UlUUUy tIlS VIM
~. - M o.xL

Record Until 10 P n. saturday. =
Hghest, 80, $40 pm. Yesterday. year
aso, "a.
$50, II.
Record Tsapsfatures This Year.
Highest, 100. on July a..
Lowest, z. on January 20.
Tide Tables.
Furnished BY United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
To-day Tomorrow.
Hish - 500 Am. S:42 q m.
Low - 2:36 An. 500 m.
High - S:27 pm. eos IN.
Low --- 1857 pm. 3:37 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18
PART TWO.
PART FOUR.

Sports.
Bimelech hurt, Fenelon annexes
Travers Stake. Page Ell
Bosox pound Leonard in routing
Nationals, II to g. Page Ell
League-leading Tribe and Tigers
both are beaten. Page E-2
Flaherty "muzzles" Edwards team
for Seattle game. Page E-3
Worsham, Larkin held outclassed in
p. G.. A. tourney. Page E-4
Classified advertising. Pages E-5-16
PART FIVE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-18

Bothering with them at all. say
some of the younger officers. prob
ably is a gesture to tradition but
they cannot absolutely prove that
some situation might not arise in
which horses could cover a rough,
tree-covered countryside more eff
GENTLY for short time than trucks
Road Tests Successful.
They are confident that the mo-
torized triangular division can get
anywhere. They have given it Sc
we're road tests without any failure.
Take, for example, one problem"
worked out in Georgia last winter.
It was to cross an impossible
swamp through the middle of which
ran an unfordable river" There
were not even cowpaths through the
swamp which was 20 miles thick on
each side of the muddy stream. In
fantry hardly could have struggled
through and horses quickly would
have become mired 30 that it prob
ably would have been necessary to
shoot them and abandon most Of the
euuipment. The motorized infantry
went through without losing q single
truck. It doesn't sound so much
like q fairy story when the officers
explain how 1t was done. There were
considerable stretches which the
trucks could pillow through at fair
rate of speed but at other times they
became mired In mud 30 that their
wheels were completely buried and
even the bodies were sinking.
Each truck carries - part Of it,
standard equipment . long length
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Hfec1p1tAtl0n.
Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Police Try
To Ha|ve Population
To Meet Air Raids
UnessentiuI' Residents
Due to Move Into the
Suburban Areas

CHUNGKING, China (Corre-
spondence of the Associated Press -
Chungking's police are striving
against strong popular opposition
to make this wartime capital safer
from bombing raids, already re-
sumed, which killed several thou
sand civilians last year.
Because existing air raid shelters
can accommodate fewer than U.s.
600 persons, police program calls
for departure of all "unessential"
residents. BY the middle of April,
however, not more than $4,000 had
taken advantage of inducements
such as free transportation and
5000 low-rent houses built in out
lying suburbs.
After the seasonal cloud bank set
tied over the upper Yangtze Valley
last fall Chungking nearly forgot
the danger from the air. Residents
who fled during the air raids
f1ocked back by the tens of thou
sands, shops reopened and the
theater and restaurant business
doomed.
With the springtime lifting of
the fog and the approach of the
"open season" for bombing, however,
the police, spurred by. orders from
Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek,
stated to enforce a program of
compulsory removal of civilians, de-
signed to halve Chungking's esti-
mated wintertime population of
100000.
Japanese warplanes, apparently
operating from bases in Hupeh
Province, near Hankow, opened the
bombing season" this week, making
several raids on Chungking's out
skirts and towns in Szechwan Prov
ince, including the provincial capt.
tai, Chengtu.
Chungking was enjoying greater
prosperity than at any time since
the arrival of the government after
the loss of Nanking and Hankow
Evening star., 1940-04-28
THE STAR, WASHINGTON c. APRIL 49, 1s4o-pARr ONE
Political DespoiIing
OIL. ). j. Is Told in
Report Of Audit
New Administration
Has Wiped Out Deficit
And Has $4,000 Surplus
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La, April 27.-
The story Of the political despoiling
Of Louisiana State University, which
led to the downfall of the Huey
Long dynasty, was unfolded today
In the first comprehensive public
report on L. S. us tangled affairs.
A State audit for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1899, showed the
practices which left the school on
that date with more than $4,000 900
squandered and $600000 deficit.
Revelations Of Audit.
These are some of the recitals
studding the audit:
George Heidelberg, in charge of
the student employment ofiice, COM
mitted suicide the day after ques-
tioning concerning student pay rolls.
Subsequently, records in his office
could not be found.
L. s. U. paid professor for teach
ing extension courses in another
State, Mississippi. A former men,
ber Of the university's Board of
Supervisors still owes the school
5000 for a radio.
DR.. James Monroe Smith, former
president now serving a long prison
term imposed when he admitted
forging a dead State Governors
name on university bonds, kept the
schools group insurance dividends
and maintained life insurance
policy from the university cash till.
An artist was paid $4,000 as visit
ing professor; but the sum really
represented commission for paint
ing the late Huey Longs portrait.
Deficit Wiped Out.
Under new administrators, the
deficit has been wiped out and audi
tors said L. S. U. would end the
current fiscal year with approxi-
mately $4,000 working capital.
Example of savings shown under
the new system: The years supply
of soap for coed dormitories is
bought for $4,000 less, at wholesale,
than before, at retail. -
Gov. Earl K. Long, brother of the
slain Huey, has declined to partici-
rate in the May IA Inauguration of
Gov.-Elect Sam H. Jones. He ex-
pressed appreciation of an invita-
ton. but said something. might
arise which might be embarrassing
to me and Gov. Jones'"
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Indiono House Member
Talks to Siqmu Nu Phi

Problems facing the country were
discussed last night in an "off the
record" speech by Representative
John w. Boehpe, jr., of Indiana, at
the annual initiation banquet OF the
Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter of
Sigma Nu Phi, international legal
fraternity. The banquet was held
at the Continental Hotel. James L.
Whitaker was toastmaster.
Prior to the banquet, an executive
meeting was held at which the fol-
lowing new members were initiated:
Robert B. Power, Elmer H. Amund-
son.. Francis M. Divilio, Theodore G.
Craver, Theodore S. Outfits, Henry
r. Kempka, Thomas A. Mcdonald,
Frederick K. Renner, Wilfred j.
Serpas, Alex S. Ward and Glenn
Winner.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Yacht From Baltimore
Surprises YugosIoviu
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBROVNIK, Yugoslavia.-Yugo-
slav newspapers treated as an i'm
portant-and surprising-event the
arrival Of an American yacht at the
little port of Pirovac.
William Shirley of Baltimore
dropped the anchor of his yacht
Baltimore in Yugoslav waters at a
time when the government was clos
ing most of its tourist Offices.
Accompanied by his wife and
child. Mr.. Shirley announced he
would stay several months, despite
the fear of Balkan countries that
the European War may spread.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

After the sounding of the first air
raid alarms of the year in nearby
cities in West China, however, the
police started to crack down.
Uniformed squads went from
house to house examining the domi-
cile permits required of all residents
and Cancelled the papers of all
civilians who could not prove that
their presence in the city was in
dispensable. Merchants who re-
fused to move their families and
their shops to the suburbs had their
street doors boarded up by the
police.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

opposition. Nothing in sight war
rants the thought of Mexico's set
tling with the former owners in
the near future on mutually salts
factory terms. Argentine opposi-
ton, on the other hand, is an arti-
f1cial barrier erected by politicians,
on both ends, which can be done
away with by businesslike dealing.
Once this plug is removed, Amer
ican trade with South America in
general is sure to spurt.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Republican Women
Of MARYLAND to Meet

The Federation of Republican
Women of Maryland will hold it's
spring meeting tomorrow in the
Alexander Hotel, Hagerstown, Mrs.
Margaret Townsend, Riverdale, of
the Prince Georges County unit,
has announced.
Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Republican
Evening star., 1940-04-28

national committeewoman from In.
diana. will be the principal speaker,
and Mrs. Eva Chase, State chair
man, will preside.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24

s;:|s1a;|| ARD
Jack Dempsey Should Be His Age and Abandon Idea of Betting Decrepit Wrestlers Lest He
 Destroy Ring Reputation That Is Legendary
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor

It would be enough the try being decrepit wreslers.
 is Dempsey training at B for behemohs old hmself2
 guess his fighting the click of the rails which dates back to his Kid days as hobo His separation the oneme Man Mauer what likes best.
 the Dempsey formed the monsyoung and odwho personal the warrior could throw fists like before
 long Dempsey wrestling Luttre Roche rassng handled Dempsey. script Lu make Dempsey and for the former floor him.
 popped Dempsey in the mouth which not in the book at all.
 Somebody up life in rassng he would the with the oughe the mat The first edition is to be in cd the people of the south Atlanta July with Lutre who can't fight al, in the other
 something progressed his closely knit tween Dempsey and the peop.
 And his latest performers makes Dempsey appreciate which has until still living he has become legendary
 It took the king long time to become the joker.
 hope they talk Jack Dempsey out of 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24
SHABBY SUPPORT
 BEATS TONNES,
 STROKALAITIS
New York Police Win 5.z; BorOway In Hospital;
 Harnick Hits Hard

Though held to five hits by pitcher Joe strokalaitis, of the North End Thomas Club, the New York Police baseball team came out of c benefit game yesterday at Hamilton Park 5 to 2 winners. The Tommies not only lost the ball game, due to some am- ateurish playing and weak defensive play, but lost three players as well, due to injuries, one Of them Steve Boroway being sent to a hospital af- ter crashing into outfeiltler dillls as both were making an attempt to catch 6 fly ball. Catcher Felix Longo also injured his hand. The game was decided in the eighth inning when the visiting Coppers scored three runs, and also clicked with three double-plays during the game to stop local threats.
 Even In Fifth
 Tommies started early, getting c run in their half of the first inning, but the New Workers had two when the third was half done, and the game was tied Up in the Tommies half of the fifth, ana remained that way until the fatal eighth, when Smith hit 6 fly ball to Tuckey which got away for a triple stefanlak-- buntod, but Moore dropped the throw and Otsky whacked out C double scoring two runs then count ed himself when Tuckeys throw to Yoska took a bound over the local baseman's head, Otsky scoring the third run of the inning.
 "Bossy" Harnick, local left-flelder was the only gent to hit more than once, getting a for 4" in the Tom- ries nine hit attack while weak sup- port robbed strokalaitis of a win based on five hit pitching. Umpire Dick Tuckey. sr, was struck by thrown ball in G game featured by plenty of hard luck, oil against the local team. Summary:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24
HURDMAN BACK
 FOR SECOND GO
 WITH TURCOTTE
Welterweights Gas $ h Thursday - Doyle
 Brothers to Show

Another card of slam m-bang fistic action Is slated for Thursday night of this week when the Waterbury A. 0. has carded five bouts of pro- fessional boxing headed by a re- turn go between Dick Turcotte of Waterbury and Norman Hurdman, swasnbuckling Canadian welter- weight from Toronto. The head liner is listed for eight rounds with ct least four new fighters to show on the card before the principals, including Pat and Tom Doyle of Fall River, Max Minnich of New York and Jimmy Hunter also a New Yorker.
 Two weeks ago, Turcotte was given q whale of an argument for six of the eight rounds he fought with Hurdman, but the Waterbury Frenchman finished strong and won the decision in the last two rounds, Many ringsiders, surprised by the ruggedness and hitting of Hurdman, yelled for Q draw decision, but the nod went to Turcotte. Waterbury A. Q. officials cognizant of the popularity Hurdman ad created, in. cluding a knockdown of Turcottc lost no time rematching the pair who will be at their best this week Thursday.
 Brothers To Box
 Jimmy (Kid) fletcher Of South Carolina who became an immediate local favorite when he outpunched Shocks Lacey of New Haven two weeks ago will be paired with one of the Doyle brothers in Q lS0 puond go that Is promising, to say hte least, as both Doyles are highly regarded in the bay state of fMass- achusetts, Tom Doyle meets up with Max Katz hte red-haired Jew ish rlngman of this city in Q mid- dleweight mlxup.
 Earl Roys of Bristol, one of the classiest little fellows in state rings goes up against Jimmy Hunter of New York in Q four round bout, while another six round bout that may be among the best of the card features Max Minnich, former na. tional A. A. U. light-heavy champ, of New York against Dula Kovach of Naugatuck, Union City and points south. Minnich boxed on the Louis" Godoy card at Yankee Stad- ium last week, losing to Neville Beach,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24

He threw his weight about town, ceiling what great men Adolf Hit Ser and Mosley were.
 People were afraid to tackle him, remembering he had once been . champion.
 But the cops were not afraid.
 Beckett was born in Southamp- Son 46 years ago, and in that great seaport learned q good deal more about the rules of the rnig than about the rules Of grammar and arithmetic.
 BECKETT SPENT FIRST WAR IN THE AIR FORCE
 Beckett became what iS known in England as Q fair booth fighter. The ctlStonn at country fairs is for some mpresario to take around with him . bunch of young huskleS willing to take on any yokels anxious to show what they can do to "them city fel- ierD."
 Graduating from that class in zDl4, Beckett had several successful lights with professionals before en- sering the Royal Air Force as A worker in the ground staff in the ArBt World War.
 Following the conflict, he pro- gressed far enough to be matched with Bombardier Wells, and won, February 27, 1919. Tn the same year he beat Frank Goddard and people began to tout him as the logical man to challenge Georges Carpen- tier.
 1 All saSsiety London, headed by the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, was there when Beckett tackled Carpentier in London, pe- cernber {, 1919.
 Loyal Britons believed victory for eheir man was 6 cinch.
 A BOWLING PIN
 FOR CARPENTER Carpentier, hero of the French Air Force, was good -looking, slender, as shifty aS c dancing master, but did not appear to have the weight with which to put steam behind his swift dsts.
 Beckett, with his features cut as out of stone, his brownish skin, strength and awkward but solid sEouch, seemed most formidable.
 But only two blows were struck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24
Mohawk Indies Blank Avigs, 10; Other Results
wo, close games, Including C one

Two, close ganes including one run shutout and q couple of rum aways" were marked up in Public Parks league play yesterday after. noon, North End Pals won the most one-sided game of the day 6 i3 to 8 decision over StS. Peter and Paul while the Blessed Sacraments set back the Long Hills 6 to 1.
 Close Enough
 Mohawk Indies won the best game of the day To shutout of the strong Aviglianese of hte Itai- n-American league in which the only marked of the game was scored in the first inning. North End Robins gave the Pond Aces quite tussle before the Aces beat them 8 10 c, hte losers getting all hteir runs in two innings.
 Good pitching was prevalent in three of the games. Ralph Bradley of the Sacs held the Long Hills to four hits while Basile of the Aydgs and Holden of the Mohawks were nicked for only five hits apiece and Saranadrea of the Pond Aces gave the Robins five hits. Cronin of Blessed Sacraments hit hard to 4 while shortstop Lombardo of the Pond Aces got two hits in two times at bat. Standing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24
State Amateur
 GolfMeet Today

New Britain, Conn.,, June 24 -tUP)-More than 120 golfers will tee off today in the 36.hole qualifying round for the Con- necticut Amateur golf cham- pionship. Eighteen holes will be played at the shuttle Meadow course, and another 10 at ln- dian Hlll.
 Tony Klsinski of Fairchild- Wheeler course, Bridgeport, Is the defending champion. Other high-ranllng players expected to be in the qualifying list are Holly Mandy, Avon; Bobby Grant, Wethersfield; Frank Ross, Wampanoag; Dom Soc. coll, Wethersfield, and Bobby Walsh, Bridgeport. Match play opens tomorrow, with the finals scheduled for Thursday.