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The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-08-16
SOME FACTS OF NTESEST
CONCERNING OUR ARMY;
ITS PERSONNEL AND DUTIES
Matter Issued BY the Defense Advisory Commission To Ae
quaint Citizens With Salient Features of Our
Land Forces and Defenders

me Constitution az the United
states gives Congress the power 20
raise ard support armies. and drs-
ixnatex the President rs Command
er-tn-chSef.
TIE Army Is divided into three
main sections The Regular Army
tsae National 0unrd ard tlse OrEan-
irsd Reserves Under the PreaA.
Dent the Secretary a War Is ~
sponsibe for running The Army
Under him Is tne Assistant 8ecre-
taTy of War. responsible for getting
uhe military supplies for the Army,
and for adequate provision for mo
htlixtng materials and Industrial
organizations ESSENTIAL 90 wAyttms
ne~xG Il l. the a8epFtnt ard een-
erel outlines laid down b. the As
k1ktAni Secretary o. War over a
period az years that form the baSiz
q what are known a& Wa Plans
To facilitate TIM carrying OFT Of
these plans the President appointed
the National Defense Advisory
Commission
Ths General staff
The soldier head Of uae Arnsy Il
the Chief Of Staff. lie Is rezpon-
Stblt for planning. DEVELOPERS. and
executing tire Army-s program for
national cefense He has % train a
million nsw men. 20 make an army
Of them There are five Divisions
un1e. the Chief OF Staff. each re-
xpozzxthie sor 3 separate function
The Personnel Division takes care
OF the fighting men al the Army.
II enltst&. eiA3sitlex. assigns, pro-
notes pays transfers. retirex and
discharges II i responsible for
making thu best use Of our man
nourr. The Military intelligence
Division Is responsible for furnish
ma ali kinds o. military infosma-
uon
The Operations ard Training
Division handles the training OF
men from the time they Joan TN
they are ready fer duty. and beyond
THAT carries out the vocational and
educational work to ct the meu for
80 AA@4NA n&AA AAEN H6~3fkiEMAEHa
The supply rHTizon provides for
al equipment buildings. storage.
transportation. and distribution OF
supplies. care OF the SICK. and for
keeping track Of army equipment
Tne War Plans Division is
responsible fer the use Of our armed
forces II war. the location az forti-
fAcaftcnss and for the general stat
ey OF defense.
Directly under the CHIEF OF Staff
comes the Regular Army. which Is
TIE fuii-ttnie professional part Of
Cur land forces II Is always ready.
a. The drop Of 3 bomb. 70 20 into
sEtlon. as the xrearhead OF our
initial protective force. II Is de-
signed % Be- augmented ny the Or
gaiaixeI Reserve and the National
Guard IN time Of need Together
uaeSe forees make Up our initial
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-08-16

and other groceries In this way
she stated. q check can b. kept on
ho0 The money goes and more bal
ancea meals can b. provided at =
lower coat.
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-08-16

Thlrty-one percent Of The worlds
railroads mileage Is controlled By the
United States
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-08-16

Butterflies generally have slender
bodies whereas the larger moths
are stout.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Arrest Of 1000 Czechs
Revealed in Prague

BY the Associated Press.
PRAGUE, Jan. 3.-Arrests Of near
ly 1000 former Czecho- -Slovak Army
officers, two journalists and several
members of the Skoda Munitions
Works central office were disclosed
today.
The arrests occurred during the
week Of December 1923, but were
not made known at the time.
Most of those arrested were men,
bers of the Czech Legion. Authori-
ties said they were suspected of
having given Poland information on
the movement of German troops
during the Nazi invasion and of
smuggling an unidentified former
minister, aviators and others to Po-
land, France and England.
The Skoda employees were suspect
ed of stealing plans for the manu-
facture Of munitions, it was said.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Russian Troop Train
Is Reported Wrecked

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3 R.-Dis-
patches from Sweden to the Ma
tionaltidende said today it was per-
sistently rumored that the wreck of
troop train on the Murmansk
Railroad had contributed to the
confusion of Russian forces on the
Northern Finnish front.
Confirmation of the rumors was
lacking.
Similarly unconfrmed were tecur-
ring reports that Finnish suicide
squads" had reached the vital rail-
way, on which Russian troops in the
far north depend for their supplies
Among the dispatches from Swe-
den was one asserting that the Firms
had seized considerable quantities OF
war supplies of Swedish manufac-
ture from the Russians.
It was explained that the supplies
originally had been sold by Sweden
to Poland and appropriated by the
Russians when they occupied that
country.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

late them. They told how she had
written letter after letter, but still
had received no answer since he
had been taken by the Red Army
in October; how she had sent five
rubles this time and 20 rubles an
other; how she had sent picture
of their little boy Loonja: how the
bills could not be paid and how they
waited for him to come home.
II spent the holiday (November
y very badly" wrote the soldiers
wife. II cried all the time. Loonja
keeps asking when is daddy coming
home. He asked Uncle Pete,
Haven't you seen my papa?' Uncle
Pete said he had not seen you, but
that you were coming home soon.
Loonja said, Well, tell mother that
daddy is coming home and that if
he comes at night, she must wake
me up as soon as he comes"
I hope that I did not see this
Russian soldiers face. We left him
there, with countless hundreds of
other proletarians of the Soviet
Union, in Tolvajarvi's snow-bound
forest of dead. There must have
been many Finnish dead also,
though we did not see them-per-
haps because they had been the
first to be carried away. On almost
all these rigid, frozen bodies there
must have been similar letters. But
they will never be read again. In
this vast solitude, all will return to
the earth when another inevitable
spring Dungeons the pine and spruce
forests Of Eastern Finland.
(Copyright, 1910, Chicago Daily News, Inc }
Evening star., 1940-01-03
90 Firms Sail for Home
To Help fiqht Russians
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Ninety Firms
bound for home and war-one Of
them a Park avenue butler. an
other Canadian radium miner
who used a dog sled to get here
are on the passenger list of the
Norwegian liner Bergensfjord, sail
ing today.
The butler is Martin Heino, 38
who came to the United States 10
years ago. His wife will stay here
He said his employer had offered
to hold his job for him.
Heino said: I'll be back next sum-
mer. That's when the war will be
over"
Herman Nykanen, the miner,
fought with Baron Mannerheim 20
years ago. became a lieutenant; later
represented Finland at the 1924
Olympic games and won second
place as q middleweight wrestler.
Working at the Eldorado Radium
Mines near Great Bear Lake In
Northwestern Canada, when he
heard of the war, he packed up and
in three days covered 100 miles by
dog sled to Yellowknife, flying from
there to Edmonton.
Although his English was not too
good. he managed to say:
"One Finn worth five Russians
We chased them all the way to
Ural Mountains"
Evening star., 1940-01-03
British and nazis
In Air Fight Over
He|goIand Blight
One English PIone Lost,
Another Missing, Third
Safe, Says London
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 3-Britons today
read accounts Of a battle over
Helgoland Blight in which three
raiding British bombers were en-
gagged by IL German pursuit planes.
The air ministry acknowledged
that one of the British planes was
down and another missing but said
the third was safe. The ministry
added that one of the German
planes was "shot down in flames
and two others we're "likely to have
been lost"
The Belgian defense ministry an
nounced last night that several for
eign planes were attacked by anti
aircraft guns and pursuit planes
when they appeared over four prov
inces of Belgium.
Aviation experts found the Hell
goland fight an illustration of the
efficacy of the power-driven gun
turret of the British Vickers-W Wei
lington bombers against the faster
moving German Messerschmitt
planes. The turret permits firing in
almost any direction.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

on our right, came q burst of bull
lets. In the Arctic stiffness 1t sound
ed like artillery. We heard the
whine of bullets, but 1t was too
cold to move fast or dive into the
snow, so we stayed where we were
The firing stopped as suddenly as 1t
began, and the Arctic silence seemed
the loudest silence had ever heard
The silence here Is tremendous
the trees, snow-covered and frozen
never move, and on the smooth snow
no animal life is seen. Everything
gives the impression of death every
where. When the moon comes out
and the snow is painted blue, the
beautiful scene becomes q men,
ory too quickly.
Finnish patrolmen on skis sud-
denly appeared from the nearby
woods with an expression of ur-
gency They saluted 1t. k, said
something in Finnish and dashed
of again. The lieutenant said, That
firing was done by 10 Russians who
had sneaked up on us. Luckily tor
us the Finnish patrol you saw 60
ing out was there at the time.
They got couple of Russians. The
others fed"
Moving down the hill, we came
upon camouflaged tent before
realized it was there. These tents
have been the only living quarters
of this northern army for six weeks
A tent is set up over a hole dug in
the ground and in it stove gives of
light, warmth and smoke-and
warmth here means comfort, no
matter what else goes with 1t.
Live With Little Rest.
These Firms live day in and day
out with little rest, fighting against
odds. and yet every time I put my
head into a tent the soldiers in it
smile cheerfully. I try to smile
back, but my face is usually frozen
into immobility.
In this particular tent the men
were wrapped in blankets and
slipping hot soup, and joined them
for few minutes. Then I went
to a field hospital in a deserted
farmhouse, where two first-aid doc
tors were looking after two wounded
men just in from a patrol One had
been shot in the leg and one in the
hand. There was also a Lapp boy
who had been on long patrol along
the Russian border to the Arctic Sea
and then down the Norwegian side
all this way without seeing a single
Russian, for they were all on the
roads, which he avoided He had
frozen feet.
Many Lapps are fighting here with
the Finnish Army. Most of the
soldiers are from Petsamo, the nickel
mines or farms in the area we all
know as Lapland. These men can
stand the intense cold All the
officers are noticeably young. but
efficient. They all say, None of us
here counts on foreign help. We
don't expect it,"
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Ten More Villages
Reported Razed by
New Turkish Quake
Euphrotes Out Of Bonks.
Spreading Terror in
Southern AnutoIiu
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Jan. "a new earth
quake was reported today to have
leveled 10 villages in the Yozgac
area, adding to Turkeys quake dam.
age of last week as the River
Euphrates broke its banks, spreading
terror in the region of Southern
Anatolia.
The Yozgad region, scene Of wide
spread suffering from previous tire.
mors, was thrown into panic by the
latest shocks. Hundreds Of buildings
collapsed. Nearly a thousand per-
sons we're made homeless.
The death toll, however, was ex-
pected to be slight, since the people
had sufficient warning to flee to open
spaces.
With scores of villages in Western
Anatolia still submerged, flooding
of the thickly populated Euphrates
Valley was expected to increase the
estimated 46.200 dead in the COM
bined disasters.
First reports from Brink said II
was impossible to estimate the dam
age or loss of life from the flood
waters. The Euphrates still was ris-
ing, sweeping houses, cattle and
whole settlements southwark toward
Syria.
Meanwhile the crippled nation
battled bitter winter temperatures
to get food, clothing and medicines
to hundreds of thousands of sur
vivors in the distressed regions
which now cover the major part OF
Asiatic Turkey.
Mobile hospitals reached the Err
zincan area, scene of the greatest
suffering from last weeks quakes
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Bishop Tucker Says
War Aids Christian
Cause in China
Bishop Freeman Also
Addresses Epiphany
Auxiliary Meeting

The Rt. Rev. Henry st. George
Tucker, presiding bishop Of the
Episcopal Church of America, told
800 members Of the Washington
Diocesan Auxiliary yesterday the
Sino-Japanese war has strength
ened the Christian cause in China.
India, China and Japan, he said
were ready for Christianity, and
especially in China has the evange-
listic program progressed.
Addressing the annual meeting OF
the auxiliary at Epiphany Episcopal
Church, Bishop Tucker concurred
with the Rt. Rev. James e. Free
man, Bishop of Washington, who
also spoke, that the new decade Of
fers unparalleled evangelistic op-
portunities."
Paramount Issue.
Bishop Tucker pointed out that
the paramount issue facing the
church today is whether it is
spiritually prepared to take ad-
vantage Of its evangelistic oppor-
tunities.
Appealing for evangelism of the
world In our own generation" he
warned that the witness of a living
church is the only thing keeping
Christianity alive.
An attitude of infinite hopeful
ness and high expectations" was
voiced by Bishop Freeman, who ex-
planned he was optimistic for the
future of Christianity because that
Is the way Christ taught"
He urged the women to seek great
er avenues of Christian service and
to dare great things"
Communion Rites.
Assisting Bishop Freeman in the
communion rites were the Very Rev
Noble c. Powell, dean of Washing.
ton Cathedral; DR.. Ze Barney
Phillips, host rector and chaplain
Of the United States Senate; the
Rev. Duncan Fraser, Epiphany as
sistant rector; Canon Raymond l.
Wolven, minister in charge of As
cension Episcopal Church here; DR..
F. J. Bohanan, rector of st. Paul's
Episcopal Church. Rock Greek par
ish; DR.. Oliver j. Hart, rector of
st. Johns Episcopal Church, Lafay-
cite Square: Canon Edward s. Dun
lap. executive secretary of the
Washington diocese; the Rev. F.
Bland Tucker, rector of st. John S
Episcopal Church, Georgetown, and
brother of Bishop Tucker, and DR.
Paul Wilbur, rector of st. Stephen s
and the Incarnation Church.
Mrs. A. Guy Reiber, president of
the auxiliary, presided over the an
nual sessions after the addresses
Mrs. Paul Herring was elected chair
man for Prince Georges County
auxiliaries and Mrs. Roderick Wat
son for ST. Marys County. Mrs.
Frederick Strine was appointed
chairman of junior auxiliaries. A
$500 budget for 1910 was approved
Pernambuco, in Northern Brazil,
{e q nitu nf a 1y,,net Io1f q x,,;l1iov,
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Csoky to See Italians
On Possible Red Attack
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Jan. 3.-Hungarys
foreign minister, Count Stefan
Csaky, will leave this week end
for a vacation In San Reno, Italy
during which, informed quarters
said, he is expected to confer with
Italian leaders on a possible Balkan
thrust by Russia.
Diplomatic quarters asserted the
talks would take in the possibility
Of Russian march into Rumania' S
Bessarabia.
Hungarian leaders asserted Italy
would support Hungarian advance
into Rumania's Transylvania to OBJ
tain Carpathian Mountain bull
wark against Russia if the Red Army
moved into the Balkans.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
-Four Burned to Death
On Spanish Liner
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain, Jan. 5.-Owners
of the Spanish liner Cabo San An
tonic said last night four persons
including a girl, were burned to
death when the vessel caught fire
en- route from Buenos Aires to Cadiz
The victims included the first
officer, two walters and an unidenti-
fed girl.
A French destroyer rescued 279
passengers and crew members and
brought them to Dakar, French
West Africa. The warship shelled
and sank the burning liner as a
menace to shipping.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Uruguay to Prosecute
Italian Vets Society

Ev the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 3.-The for.
eign ministry ordered court action
today against La Squilla, organ Of
society of Italian war veterans.
The ministry charged that the Or
ganization commented insultingly
on the Uruguayan governments Or
der for the German pocket battle
ship Admiral Graf Spec to leave the
harbor on December II.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Three British Bombers
Shot Down, Say Nozis

BERLIN, Jan. (P).-The German
high command communique today
stressed the air battle over the Ger
man coast in which Nazi flyers shot
down three British bombers yester-
day.
"On the west front minor artillery
and scouting activity, border guard
and reconnaissance flights it said.
During an attempt to reach the
German Helgoland Blight, three
British Vickers- Wellington bonbers
Evening star., 1940-01-03

cf the irost modern type were shot
down by German Messerschmitt
planes. There were no losses on the
German side"
The official German news agency
DNB said the communicates brief
mention Of border patrol flights re-
ferred to clash between IL enemy
planes and German craft yester-
day near Merzig. None was downed.
DNB declared that no enemy
planes crossed into German territory
and that some reconnaissance
planes skillfully evaded enemy de-
fense over France"
Evening star., 1940-01-03

AS IleICe OIlZZdTQ LQTedCcIlS, LIle
Films are jubilant, though this
weather is no picnic even for them.
Two miles away, in the Russian
lines. the cold is killing as many
Russians in the terrible night as the
Finn patrols kill in the daytime.
It is so cold that your breath
freezes before 1t has time to rise
1and your nose ices up inside. When
you centure outside your feet seem
to become blocks Of ice, every move
ment in the wind burns your face,
and your hands become numb in
the thickest mittens.
In such cold I watched a Finnish
patrol of four men preparing to
leave our hut-not only to recon-
noiter, but to attack Russian sup
ply base. Over their army uniforms
the men put jumpers and more
jumpers, then bound their legs with
wool strips over three pairs of stock
lngs and put on reindeer boots
They wrapped thick wool kits
around their thighs and then put on
a "peaky," or bearskin, which
reached to their ankles. Over all
they wore white cloak, with cowl.
No Sun at Midday.
Stepping on thin racing skis,
pointed at both ends, three men
took rifles and the fourth captured
Russian automatic gun, and they
moved into the dimness. Though it
was midday, there was no sun. Here
there is only suggestion Of light
around noon. The rest Of the time
it is dark, except when the moon
comes out at night, and then it Is al
most as light as day.
With 1t. k as a guide. I went
out to see the only visible front line
in any part of the Arctic. 1t. k
in civil life is a priest. 1t. k
and I travelled on skis along road
to hill about Is miles away. The
hill overlooks the approach to Hoy
henjaervi. On the hilltop is the only
visible front line" of the north. 1t
is steel barricade across the road
and on a mound on each side was
a Russian heavy machine gun point
ing toward the Russian lines-for
they were captured material.
From this hill one could look over
the blizzard-swept Arctic no mans
land, which stretched in frozen stiff
ness to the Russian lines two miles
away Pointing with his ski stick,
the lieutenant said: lover at the
right the Russians have occupied a
hill, and also one on the left. They
occupied these only because they
have lake and road approaches and
we withdrew. From the hill on the
right, where the main Soviet supply
base is located. they sent three
seven-ton tanks with column of
infantry to attack us here. They
were easy meat. We just waited
here and let them have it from the
hill. We DESTROYED one tank. What
remained OF the infantry column
turned tail and skipped it,"
Silence Tremendous.
Standing too high on the hill, we
must have attracted Russian rifle
free, for suddenly, about 200 yards
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Airmen Fishing
In Lake for 1908
Bottles of Scotch
By the Associated Press.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sas-
katchewan, Jan. 3.-The staff
Of Canadian Anyways here has
gone fishing In frozen Kings
mere Lake with nooses, try
ing to retrieve zoos bottles Of
Scotch, one at a time. The
Scotch went into the water
when a taxing plane loaded
with 1t fell through the ice the
other day.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Man Hurt in Fall on Ice

Robert L. Genniney, "a, Of 1921
E street Sc, was in Casualty Hos
pital today with serious injuries re-
ce.ved yesterday in a fall on the ice.
He was brought to the hospital
after slipping on Pennsylvania ave-
nue near South Carolina avenue
Sc. His condition today was said
to be fair"
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, Jr.,
Treated After Crash

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., visited a
dentist here for treatment of a tooth
broken of in an automobile accident
near Winchester, Va, last week. The
former Ethel du Pont and her hus-
band suffered minor cuts and bruises
when their car and truck collided.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Smoke Screen

STUTTGART, Ark. Jan. 3 R).-
Lee Miller. going duck hunting, tried
out an old musket used by his
grandfather in the Civil War.
Each time he fired the battered
old muzzle loader threw out so much
smoke he had to stoop to see il
he had hit anything.
His bag was 10 ducks-the limit.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Charms Fail to Work

Eight Singalese who sold charms
guaranteed to protect the owners
from all forms Of i'll luck and hard
ships" at the Empire Exhibition In
Glasgow. Scotland, have applied for
relief.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Firms Attack Red Supply Base
At III Below on Arctic Front
Writer Braves Russian Fire to Inspect
Defenders Lines in Petsumo Region
Nv JAMES AIDRInCI

THE FINNISH ARCTIC FORCES ON PETSAMO
FRONT, NANA, Rado-Wth
degrees below croucng
headquarters hut with the staf officers commanding
facing the Russians $50 miles north Of the Arctic
Evening star., 1940-01-03

Pernambuco, in Northern Brazi.
is a city of almost half a million.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-06-01
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
OReiHy-KeUy
Wedding Today

Miss ines Mary Kelly, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Kelly Of
Beecher avenue and Bernard J.
o'Reilly OF southmayd Road were
united In marriage this morning at
3 O'Clock at IS, Peter and Pauls
Church. Rev. Michael Heating Of
ficiated at the ceremony and the
nuptial mass which followed was
also celebrated by Father Heating
Palms, ferns, and iris decorated
the altar and Gounod's Mass was
sung by the entire choir OF which
the bride wa 50 member. Mrs, Mae
Parker rendered Roseweig's ave
Maria" and as the couple left the
church, II Love You Truly"
The bride wore a gown Of Ellnor
blue lace, styled with q jacket hav-
Ing short puffed sleeves and the
full skirt fell gracefully In folds
TO the floor. Her horSehair hat OF
corresponding shade was trimmed
with flowers and She carried an
AAA SStN0Nb Va JAAlh AOStS sAtlQ uSA~
phinium. Her only attendant, Miss
Hazel Adams, was becomingly at
tired In q frock OF hyacinth blue
lace styled identical TO that Of the
bride and she also wore q horsehair
hat trimmed with flowers. She car
ried an arm bouquet OF purple iris
and yellow roses. The dress Of the
brides mother was black and
white printed crepe and she wore
corsage OF sweet peas. Henry
Barry attended Mr., o'Reilly as best
man,
A reception for the immediate
families and relatives was held at
the home Of the bride following the
ceremony. Mr.. OReilly and his
bride left on o wedding trip TO
washington, d. c., and upon re-
turning will take up their residence
at SO Beecher avenue. The bride
will wear O poudre blue cashmere
travelling dress with corresponding
accessories.