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81 can move out" he finished
savagely. well, l won't. If you
think Pm going to give up my
room TO that goofy-looking idiot"
He pulled his green beret over his
vanished black hair and banged
out Of the house.
What next?" Jan demanded of
suddenly capricious Fate, and
Fate, on the job, prompted Derek.
still in his bed quilt, to peer over
the baluStrade and say:
Il listened. 1t serves you right.
] hope you'll stop to think twice
before you 60 jerking more peo-
pie from the wateri You asked
for me and Pm all yours. Miss
Merrinerl You wanted to save my
life and I hereby donate it. free
Of charge. to you"
Time OF His Life
LIE was still in Lance's room
l. when she went through the
hallway in the early afternoon.
From the sound, however. Lance
was doing all the talking. It was
good for Lance to talk to a man.
she thought. AS much as she
loved him. she knew she was not
much of a companion to him, for
she shuddered away from talk of
flying and he cared little about
art Although she offered, he pre-
ferred TO do his own reading. and.
too. she OWNED. he dreaded bur-
dening her any more than was
necessary. He was now probably
having the time of his life telling
Derek of the ships he'd flown and
the adventures he'd had. Despite
his injury his love for ships and
flying continued steadfast. With
every nickel she could spare she
bought aviation magazines to add
TO the piles he already had
stacked in his room. He did i'm
pose one taboo, however-diScuS-
sion or mention Of his last tragic
flight. He could not. would not.
talk Of it to anyone.
Usually, in the evening, Norma
would take her sewing O. knitting
or school papers in process of cor
rection. and 90 in to sit with him.
Jan knew Norma loved Lance,
although, if told, he would have
been astcunded and unbelieving.
de himself apparently had no
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GAMES TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Open date (All-Star game at
St. Louis).
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Today's Horoscope

Today gives an elastic nature
and success will probably be at
tanned by diplomacy as much as
by the force of energy or action.
As the day advances the energy
becomes less, but in most cases
this does not operate to the detri-
ment OF the native since it does
not provoke so much opposition.
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PEPPERS AND
MARINES WON
OPENING TILTS
NEW SoFTBALL LEAGUES
STARTED PLAY LAST EVE
MING AT BAYv1EW PARK:
GAMES THURSDAY. FRIDAY

The opening games of the
new SoftbaIl schedules of the
American and National Leagues
were played last night at Bay
view Park. Peppers Plumbers
won the first game and the Ma
rines won the nfghtcap.
National League opening fea-
tured loose playing, mixed with
timely hits. Final score was II
to 2 in the Peppers favor.
In the American League, the
game was close. The Gees put
up a last-minute rally that net
ted them three runs, one run
short of tie.
In the curtain-raiser of the
night, Nelson was the outstand-
ing player at bat with homer
and a triple, scored three runs
himself and drove home four.
His circuit clout came In the first
inning with the bases loaded.
Barcelo also poled a fOur-bag-
ger with two men on. Albio
Acevedo hunted safely twice to
lead the Blue Sox hitters. Ros-
ANS hit through short and c.
Garcia's safety to left were all
the hitting the Sox were allow
ed. besides Acevedo's two safe
blows.
Clarence Gates, Plumber pitch
er. struck out nine batters-
/. Higgs. Baker and Carbonell for
the victors and J. Garcia and Ar
mando Acevedo for the losers
were the outstanding players on
the field.
Score by insings: r. H. E.
Sox - 600 900 p 4 8
Plumbers $50 032 XII 8
NJ. AriaS, c. Rosam and ]. Fer
nandez, G. Garcia; C. Gates and
Ingraham-
+ Score by innings of the second
game: R. H. Z,
CCC - ia 001 80 Is
/ Marines 221 400 XII 6 8
Mccarthy. BarfieId and Pardo
White; Spakes and Yelochan
Thompson.
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of Law, born at Colorado Springs
Colo, 50 years ago.
Hans V. Kaltenborn, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, broadcaster. born in
Milwaukee, 81 years ago.
William D. Anderson of Ma
con, cotton goods manufacturer,
born at Marietta. Ga, 81 years
ago.
Leo r. Sack of Washington,
D. c., public relations counsel,
former diplomat, born at Tupelo.
Miss. 81 years ago.
Prof Samuel Eliot Morrison OF
Harvard. famed historian, born IN
Boston, So years ago.
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Today's Birthdays

Dorothy Thompson, columnist,
born at Lancaster, N. Y, 46 years
ago.
DR.. Franz Boas of Columbia
University, famed anthropologist,
born in Germany, 80 years ago.
Edward Heating, editor-mana-
ger of Labor. Washington, D.
C., born at Kansas City, Kans., IS
years ago.
DR.. Marion r. Kirkwood, dean
Of Stanford Universitv's School
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YESTERDAY. While Jan goes
to the salvage store to buy Derek
blue jeans, he explores the house
IN his pink guilt and learns that
Jan Is sea captains daughter.
The Gdditio" of Derek to the
household arouses Johnny's pug
nacity.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
FIGHTER JOINS
us. AIR CORPS
Bv Associated PrexSp

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July g.
Steve WilkerSon was good enough
as fighter to win a national in
ter-colIegiate title for the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
In the last two years he has
fought professionally.
Now Steve has put away his
gloves to join the U. S. Army air
corps. where he figures my
fighting might do some good if
it's needed.
Subscribe to The Citizen-2Oc
weekly.
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Games scheduled for Thurs
day:
First-Naval Station VS.. Key
West ConchS: second-VP53 VS..
Sawyer'S BARRIERS.
Friday nights games:
First-Pepper's Plumbers VS..
Sawyer's BARRIERS: second-Key
West ConchS VS.. CCC.
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Standings of the leagues:
National LeadIie
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Mccarthy. BarfieId and Pardo,
White: Spakes and Yelochan,
Thompson.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

Pigs of Germany are threatened
with an epidemic of German mea-
sles." -..
Evening star., 1940-05-19

that United States defenses must
be built up with the utmost speed
and care if they are to do us much
good.
If the world has learned any
lesson, it has learned that the
modern aggressor does not wait for
his prey to prepare a defense. If
Britain and France are going to be
conquered at all, they will be con-
quered in the very near future, most
military authorities agree. If they
can stave of the tremendous Nazi
rush and weaken its force, they
probably can win.
Should the Nazis win. it is re-
garded as certain they will win this
summer. If there is to be any ag-
gression against the United States,
IN view of our belated decision to
arm against the new menace, it may
be expected to come within a year
or less, in the opinion of military
leaders. If prolonged much beyond
that time, our defense program will
be pretty we'll under way and the
difficulties of an aggressor will multi
ply rapidly from that time on If this
country presists in a determined
defense policy.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
By the Associated Press.

BY fbe Associated Press.
PARIS, May 18.-Germany's dras-
tically new methods of invasion,
with emphasis on the parachutist-
NTH column combination, took Hol-
land entirely by surprise and set
at naught her great system of wa
ter defenses, Dutch and allied mill
tary men said today in reporting on
the German conquest of Holland.
These authorities disclosed how
the modern "blitzkrieg" method and
complete disregard Of "the rules
accomplished the task In five days.
In Poland and Norway the Ger
mans had given no real inklng of
what they had in the bag. On Hol-
land they turned loose tricks that
In any circumstance short Of the
actual proof would have been
termed fantastic pipe dreams.
Flood Defenses Made Useless.
At one bold stroke, for instance,
the Nazis rendered the flood-water
defenses Of the Rotterdam Hague
Amsterdam area useless. After that
there was little hope in continuing
the fight. The Dutch surrendered.
Parachute troops dumped out of
the skies from planes which had
detachable bottoms fell by the hum
dreds in the Rotterdam area.
Big hydroplane transports alighted
on canals, rivers and in the ports.
German agents discarded their dis
guise in the city proper and the
three forces combined.
The Rotterdam airdrome was
seized. Stiff fighting ousted the in
vaders. but more parachutists and
more transports arrived. Again the
airdrome was seized by the NaZis
Evening star., 1940-05-19
u. ). Could Produce
All lis Rubber From
OIL: Scientist Says
Home Wells Also Able
To Supply Material
For Explosives r
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, May 1s-The
United States can produce all its
own rubber from its oil wells, DR..
Gustave Egloff, Chicago petroleum
scientist, told the American Institute
OF Chemists today. The institute
presented him its annual medal for
his fuel research.
The potential supply of synthetic
rubber from home oil wells, DR..
Eglon said, was 200, 1000 900 900
pounds, or nearly 200 times more
than the amount Of natural rubber
used IN this country last year.
Furthermore, he added, it would
not be necessary to wait 10 wears
as would have to be done in getting
sufficient rubber from plantations
proposed to be set up in South
America. The synthetic rubber
processes already are in operation
and there are several standard re-
flnery processes which yield the raw
materials for rubber.
The American oil industry, he
said, also could produce ANY con-:
ceivable amount" of the basic ma
terials for the high explosives, picric=
acid, INT and trinitroxylenes, and
still have enough gasoline left over
to be more than sufficient for any
form OF transportation on land, sea
or air. :
The entire world production Of
crude oil since its discovery would
not fill a cubic mile hole, he said,
adding that this was an insignificant
volume compared with what nature
must have produced and still is
producinp
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Allied Defeat Would Chonqe
Entire u. S. Defense Concert
Continued From First Page.)

\SOIlLlIlu6U TTOUl T1TSJ FdRC.)
from a Nazi victory might well
create an emergency as grave as any
this Nation ever has been called
upon to face.
There is no reason to get excited
or hysterical, but there is every
reason to become seriously con-
cerned," the writer was told by a
War Department general staff
officer.
American Citizens Awakened.
1t is probable that events of the
past two or three days have acted
more powerfully to awaken Ameri-
can citizens in every walk of life
to the fact that our national de-
fense has become matter of grave
concern than have the events of
months in any past period of our
history. The immediate Nation
wide, non-partisan support given to
President Roosevelt's $1,000 900 900
national defense plan is evidence of
this aroused concern.
The mere appropriation of the
funds requested or of many times
this amount, however, carries in
itself no assurance of protec-
ton. Unless these defense funds
are used to carry out a carefully
worked out defense plan based upon
tedays realities, 1t was pointed out,
they may be wasted, leaving us still
unprotected.
In the light of air power and the
devastating effect with which it has
been used by Germany, it has be-
come apparent that If the United
States is to protect itself against
aggression it must not permit any
potential enemy to establish base
within attacking range of his avia-
ton. In other words, military strate-
gists hold, the United States must
fight with every weapon at its COM
mand any enemy encroachment N
the Western Hemisphere.
Canada, Greenland and even Ice
land, the West Indies, Central
America and South America, Alaska
and Hawaii have become outposts
of the United States. They may not
become enemy bases If the people
of the United States are to enjoy
even the fiction of ease and security.
To this end, the strategists hold,
our defense plans must be dedicated.
Safety Hangs on Two Points.
Under present conditionssend in
view of the present development of
weapons" it was explained by Brig.
Gen. George v. Strong, assistant
chief of staff of the Army, this
hemisphere is safe from any aggres-
sion abroad just as long as two
conditions maintain: First, that the
Panama Canal is open for the tram
sit of the United States, and, second,
that an aggressor from abroad has
no bases in this hemisphere from
which to operate"
A major problem facing the
United States today Is to guarantee
the maintenance of these conditions
Evening star., 1940-05-19

regarded as excellent ships and
more than so Of them have been
reconditioned and now are on
service as part of the neutrality
patrol.
These destroyers, together with
the Atlantic Squadron. created
about the time of the Munich de-
bacle, constitute the chief sea de-
fense of the Americas in the Allan
tic. The Atlantic Squadron includes
three old battleships of the train
ing squadron. unsuitable any longer
for action with the feet, and some
new cruisers, the number of which
f1uctuates from time to time as new
ships are launched and fleet assign
ments are made. There also is a
nucleus of new destroyers with the
squadron.
Our major defense against ag-
gression from the Atlantic, however
is in the air. The giant four -engined
bombardment airplane, type pc
culiar to the United States, has been
developed for just such service
More of them are being built and a
great many more would be provided
under any future major defense
program. These four engined
bombers are capable of CARRYING
great bomb loads for long distances
They can meet enemy forces far
at sea or can act against landing
parties promptly at points as far
distant as Greenland, Alaska, or
the eastward jut of the South
American coast.
Marines Being Strengthened.
! The Marine Corps East Coast Ex-
peditionary Force at Quantico, Va.
also is held available for action
against any enemy who might at
tempt a landing from the Atlantic
This highly trained, very mobile
force of sea-soldiers is being fur
ther strengthened by process of
"streamlining" somewhat similar to
that in progress in the Army. In
creased numbers of semi-automatic
weapons and mobile anti-tank and
anti aircraft guns are greatly in
creasing the fire power Of this sea-
going organization.
Permanent defenses are being es-
tablished wherever possible as a
part Of this country's expanding
safety program. This is especially
true at the Panama Canal and in
the vital Hawaiian outpost and the
new Puerto Rican base. Mobile
Army units are a part of these de-
fenses and these would cope with
sea or parachute landing parties,
while harbor defense guns are avail
able against fleets and airplanes and
anti-aircraft guns against air attack.
A grave menace to the Panama
Canal, however, is sabotage, and
this is the most difficult to guard
against, since the form it might
take is limited only by human in
genuity.
The danger of sabotaging of the
canal and other vital points empha-
size to military men of control and
elimination of the sort of Trojan
Horse" activities which wrecked
Czecho- -Slovakia, Poland, Norway
and contributed to the disaster in
the Low Countries. That similar
element are present, in force, in the
Americas, cannot be doubted by any
but the most blind. Operations
against fifth columns must be re-
garded as an integral part Of Ameri-
can defense.
It is pointed out by military men
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Maverick Warns of Nozi
Activity in Mexico
~ the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, May 18.-Mayor
Maury Maverick of San Antonio
said in an interview today that a
Nazi fifth column" was organized
strongly in Mexico and urged that
the United States prepare "the
greatest war machine ever known in
the world"
Il am strongly worried about the
fifth column activity in Mexico"
he said. ut is strongly organized
In Mexico City and is being or
ganized in Vera Cruz and Tampico
right now"
Mayor Maverick asserted he had
received his information from an
authoritative source on recent
trip to Mexico.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Portion Of League Of Nations Leaving Geneva May Come to
'Chutist-F fifth Column Method
Blamed for Hollands S Conquest
Allies MiIitorists Soy Fontostic
Tactics Made Flood Defenses Useless

and again 1t was retaken by the
Dutch.
Mechanized Unit Appears.
Then suddenly q mechanical COL
umn Of Nazi troops which had been
dashing through central Holland
arrived at the Moerdijk bridge, COM
manding Rotterdam's defense area.
They got on the bridge and, said
Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco N.
van Kleffens, slaughtered the
guards and threw their bodies into
the river.
The city fell. The line Of water
defenses had been turned and its
value was lost.
When the invasion Of Holland
began, literally thousands of para
chutists descended onto the low
lands, mostly by night. The fifth
column inside the country was
estimated to have numbered as high
as 100000.
Fights Started in Interior.
The parachutists and fifth COL
umnists started fights at points
throughout the interior. A large
part Of the army had to be diverted
to mopping up purposes.
Official Dutch sources said Hol-
lands air force was almost ami
hilated in the terrific aerial warfare
that accompanied the invasion.
+ 1t was a hopeless fight, Van
Klef1ens reported after fleeing to
Paris.
Rather than face possible whole
sale slaughter of the country's
civilian populace If the fight had
continued with areial bombardments
and machine cunning, the army
gave up.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

the German giants in combat where
they met.
Only the formidable French 75's
were able to penetrate the heavy
armor of the biggest Nazi tanks
and the French were said to be
firing point blank at them with good
effect.
Accompanied by masses of planes
and followed by lighter units and
infantry, great numbers of the Ger
man tanks struck through the Yer
wins region toward the Oise and
through the Avesnes region toward
the Sambre.
The main Nazi effort appeared to
be in the Vervins vicinity. The
French there were pouring tons of
artillery shells against the enemy
tanks and were said to have brought
up enough of their own tanks to
match the Germans.
The French said the experience of
the last few days had taught them
how to deal with German tank
thrlasts.
The Belgian night communique, re-
layed from somewhere in Belgium
by Havas, French news agency, said
The systematic withdrawal exc
cuted in these last days by the
Belgian army has been carried out
in favorable conditions. .
"The prescribed movements were
mades IN good order. The enemy,
hindered by our distinctions, was
not able to put strong pressure on
our troops, who retired and broke
contact without losses.
The operation unfortunately
meant the abandonment of Brussels
and Antwerp. These two cities have
suffered no important destruction.
The Liege and Namur forts continue
their heroic resistance"
Evening star., 1940-05-19
MussoIini Answers
RooseveIt's Plea
To Bar War Spread
Reply Is Reported to Be
Mont -committoI, couched
In Courteous Terms

BY the Associated Press
ROME, May 18.-Premier Musso-
nni has replied to President Roose-
velt's latest efforts to prevent spread
Of the European war, it was learned
from q reliable source tonight. The
nature of. the reply was not disclosed,
but 1t was believed to have been
non-committal without being alarm
ing.
The reply, In courteous terms, was
said in informed. quarters to have
been communicated to Mr.. Roosevelt
through United States Ambassador
William Phillips, who delivered q
personal message from the President
TO II Duce May Is.
italian and American authorities
here have kept tight-liped silence on
the contents of the Presidents mes
sage.
Foreign circles assumed, however,
since it was described in Washington
as '''in the interest of peace" that
Mr.. Roosevelt told II Duce again of
Washington's desire that the war be
hCpC Out Va OtiiCA k)t1A 10 "a cul OPC.
Phone Service interrupted.
Telephone communications with
London were interrupted tonight.
Telephone officials said they knew
only that "the line is interrupted
beyond Paris"
They suggested various reasons
that it might have been cut between
London and Paris because of the
fighting in France or perhaps that
an air raid alarm in London caused
operators there to be of duty
temporarily.
The line to Paris was cut for an
hour during the day, due to an air
raid alarm in Paris, telephone off1-
cials said.
Press Exults at Nazi Advance.
With Italy's entry into the war
believed by most observers to be
awaiting Nazi death blow to the
allies. the Fascist press openly
exulted at the advance of Germany's
war machine into France.
A declaration by Premier Mus
solini's II Popolo dItalia that Fas-
cist Italy must reach its great pre-
destined goal, legitimate imperial
aspirations and Mediterranean des-
tiny now or never" was interpreted
by some as perhaps a sign that italy
was about to strike somewhere.
Italians kept tab on the Balkans
also
Virginio Gayda, Fascist editor who
reflects the views of Mussolini,
called attention in his newspaper,
II Giornale dTtalia, to the natural
naval bases" on the Adriatic coast
from Yugoslavia to Greece, with
the declaration that Italy's protec-
ton depended on conditions along
that shore.
Balkans "Vital Theme"
Gayda drew no conclusions in the
article devoted to the Balkans ex-
cept to say that "the problem OF
the Balkans" was a vital theme"
of the Italian foreign policy.
Britain's relaxation of contraband
control at Gibraltar by letting the
Italian Liner Rex pass without stop
ping her for examination was kept
from the Italians. Instead, news
papers reported that the Italian
liner Roma, which already is in
New York, had been stopped at
Gibraltar and detained 80 hours
without explanation.
Relazioni International. authori-
tive review of foreign affairs. said
it was the unavoidable duty of Ital-
ian people to break the pressure
Of the allied contraband control,
but added there was nothing to do
but await events"
Evening star., 1940-05-19

OHiy JoS fcnetrate AfmOf.
The spokesman estimated that at
least half Of Germany's entire
mechanical army had been thrown
into the battle in northern France
The French declared their own
lighter tanks had proved superior to