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Evening star., 1941-01-12
Assistunt Dean Named

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. Jan. II
Py.-John Ritchie, Sd, has been
named assistant dean of the Uni
versity of Virginia Law School, Dean
F. Deane G. Ribble announced today.
Mr.. Ritchie succeeds Hardy c. Di-
lard, who resigned to devote his time
to teaching and to the directorsnlp
of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Bryson Will Speak

Representative Bryson, Democrat,
of South Carolina, will speak Tues
day night at the Maury-Lee-Jackson
celebration under the auspices of the
Arlington CVa) Chapter, United
Daughters of Confederacy, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton
c. Jones, North Wilson boulevard.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Can't Spare Cups For Tea.

Mr.. Connahey said he suggested
to Mr.. Haskell, that tea and crackers
be served to the inmates late in
the afternoon. He was told by the
steward that cups and saucers
couldn't be spared.
The 1912 budget estimate sub
mitted to Congress last week calls
for an increase of $3.50 over the
1941 appropriation. The item for
clothing would be increased from
$4,000 to $1,000; for furnishings and
equipment from $1,000 to 5000; and
for medical supplies from $3.50 to
s2,650. The estimate contains a
$1,000 item for equipment at the
power plant, but the item for re-
pairs would be reduced from $l2,350
to $500.
Welfare Director Robert E. Bondy
has asked the Commissioners for
more than s165, 900 increase in the
appropriation to give the plant a
'face-lifting" He explained. how
ever, that he had submitted his esti-
mate before the Commissioners de-
cided to propose a new welfare CEN
ter in Virginia or Maryland on
which four institutions of the Dis
trict, among them the Blue Plains
Home, would be located.
The Commissioners put a $4,000
item in the welfare estimate to pur-
chase site for the center and de-
leted the requests for major repairs
at the Home for the Aged and In
firm. The center would be part of
f1ve-year building plan for Dis
trict institutions.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Blue Plains Home
Lacks Facilities
Urged Year Ago
Institution Mrs. Roosevelt
Criticized Still Waits
For Improvements
BACKGROUND

FOLLOWING Mrs. RooSepelfs un-
announced inspection tour OF Blue
Plains Home for the Aged and
Infrm last January, columns and
columns OF publicity resulted and
q congressional investigation 1Das
launched. Mrs. Roosevelt, Dis
trict officials and health authori-
ties criticized the institution dur
ino hearings before House sub
committee. Medical examination
OF all infrmary patients at the
home uus ordered and a $40,
600 increase in appropriations ,Das
granted.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

are to be furnished as part of the
District share in the enterprise.
The workers have been bringing
their own materials down and some
remnants have been sent from the
w. P. A. sewing rooms.
Clothing Provided.
First gesture made by the w. P.
A. was the provision of two sets of
clothing for every inmate, but COM
parable to this in the opinion of
some of the women inmates were
the two sewing machines that ar
rived from the sewing rooms.
The reporter found a woman at
a sewing machine altering dress
she had had for two years but
hadn't been able to wear because
it needed fixing and she'd never
gotten needle or thread.
A half dozen colored women were
in the room now set aside for sew
ing. A W. P. A. worker was show
ing them how to run the sewing
machines, how to knit and crochet
and make rag rugs.
A cripple, resting in her ward,
showed the reporter pillows, aprons
and crochet work she had done. The
matron commented that the women
quarreled less since they had been
given something to do.
Less active are the white women.
The worker there said every time
she got the women interested in
sewing or knitting she found they
avoided her the next day when she
came back.
Little Done for Men.
Little has been done with the
men. Corridor after corridor is lined
with them and groups of them sit
around doing nothing in smoke
filled recreation rooms"
Henry Connahey, liasion officer
for the w. P. A. at Blue Plains,
said he is going to get cigar boxes
for the men to fix up into shaving
kits for themselves. He had found
only one mirror in all the mems
wards. The shaving kits would have
mirrors.
Two singers from the w. P. A.
come down twice a week and the
w. P A. orchestra has played for
the inmates. Mr.. Connahey wanted
the orchestra to come down every
week but the Blue Plains truck
would have to transport it and
Frank Haskell, who is still in charge
of the institution, said that once
every two weeks would be all the
time he could spare the truck
Only effort to make the rooms
more ivable has come from the
w. P. A. Pictures from the w. P. A..
art projects have been hung in the
sun parlors.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

Besides having complete knowledge
of fixed-station transmitters, opera
tors must also be thoroughly familiar
with all the intricacies of aircraft
units; sets especially designed for
tanks; portable field rigs carrying
their own hand-cranked generators;
tiny "walkie-talxie" sets. Specialists
must be trained in additional ramifi-
cations of weather reporting; inter-
cepting and deciphering enemy mes
sages; locating enemy stations with
direction finders; handling teletype
and automatic transmitters, facsimile
transmission - and what have you?
All in all, it is easy to realize that
amassing this fund of knowledge in
three-months' course is no picnic.
That is why a recruit cannot even
enter the Signal Corps school without
passing a flock of the stiffest kind of
aptitude tests.
Clearly. current events have taught
us that military communication today
has attained an importance never be-
fore dreamed of. Observers who wit
messed the Polish blitzkrieg suddenly
realized that modern mechanization
would bog down under its own cum
bersome weight were it not for sensi-
tive and instantaneous contact be-
tween the commander and his numer-
Gus arms. Radio is the answer. And
with all our advances in the gentle
art of mass murder, it is interesting to
realize that we are back again to the
frontier days when the commander
gave his verbal orders direct to his
men and they executed them imme-
diately.
The difference, of course, is that
today those orders go over the radio
to the tanks, the armored cars, the
motorcycle troops, the trucks full of
infantrymen and machine gunners,
the swooping planes overhead, the
booming artillery behind, all of whom
can go into concerted action minute
after the officer makes his decision.
That, in nutshell, is modern war
fare as blueprinted in Spain and put
into production in Poland, Belgium
and France. 1t is the brand of war
fare for which we are gearing our
forces. Its backbone is Power - its
spinal cord is Radio. And that is why
the Army and the Navy are calling
all hams
The End
Evening star., 1941-02-16
CALLING ALL HAMS!
Continued from poge four

perfected themselves for defense serv-
ice either with the armed forces or at
home - and it is the good luck of the
nation that they have done so at
time when we need them most ur-
gently.
In the World War radio was still
in its infancy, yet even then it rem
dered vital service. Final plans for the
St. Mihiel drive were based on evi-
dence from the goniometric (direc-
tion-fnding) stations that enemy sta
tions were still active at their old loca-
tons despite surface indications to the
contrary. And during the Meuse-
Argonne offensive, the Allies estab-
lished false radio net on the Beau
mont-Fresnes front and transmitted
fake messages that indicated general
. offensive along this line. AS result,
the Germans diverted two full divi-
sions from the Meuse-Argonne front
to act as reserves in the Beaumont
Fresnes section.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
WesferIy's Plight

In THE midst of that gale two anna
teurs of Westerly, Rhode Island, went
on the air for fifty-six hours on bat
terry power; they were Westerly's only
contact with outside relief. Through
their set went more than 300 messages
to the Red Cross, state police and
other agencies for bread and blankets.
cots and caskets, while in scores OF
other stricken communities similar
drama was being enacted.
On top of this disaster work, the
''hams" are also well equipped for
another defense feature, the frustra-
ton of subversive activities by air.
The League has more than 400 men,
ber-observers, provided with precision
equipment, who cooperate with the
Federal Communications Commits
sion's monitors in patrolling the ether
day and night. AS consequence. any
attempted espionage work by raAo in
this country will enjoy a startlingly
brief existence.
In such fashion have the amateurs
Evening star., 1941-02-16

thirty-six hours of highly competi-
tive transmission. Last June more
than l,500 of these groups from coast
to coast competed in the event. Many
cities where emergency defense or
ganization is already under way are
making full use of these groups, not
ably Boston, Portland (Oregon),
Oklahoma City and Los Angeles (the
daddy of them alD. So also is the
American Legion in its development
# warning nets" for the detection
al ! reporting of approaching enemy
aircraft.
OF course, the willingness and abil-
ity of the hams" to fit into such
programs have been demonstrated
beyond question hundred times. In
the California foods of 1928 it was
seventeen-year- old boy Excused from
school for the duration) who handled
the Santa Paula communications
problem for three days.
And in the frightful Mississippi
Valley floods and during the Ohio
foods later, hundreds of communi-
ties sole contact with the outside
world was through local amateur
operators working night and day,
many for eleven days at stretch.
In Portsmouth, Ohio. just to cite a
single instance, one amateur station
worked necessarily for thirteen days,
handling 1876 written messages and
many times that number of oral ones.
Power gone, these stations operated
by means of various ingenious hook
ups: on automobile batteries, on stan
dard gasoline-driven generators. on
hookups of old cars and even farm
tractors - in short, by every expedi-
ent so we'll known to these fans who
compete in the annual field day.
Thus in more than fifty major dis
asters since 1919 have the radio
"hams" demonstrated their worth.
The last big occasion was during the
New England hurricane of 1888,
which put a half-million telephones
out of commission in the northeast
alone and wreaked havoc with hun
dreds of miles of power, light and tele-
graph lines.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Better Thon Code

obviously, one outstanding advant-
age of radio communication - the
ability to talk from point to point -
is also drawback inasmuch as the
enemy can also listen. This was met to
some extent in the AEF by the en-
ployment of Choctaw Indians at the
front, who relayed and translated oral
messages in a tongue that only a
handful of white men understand. On
one notable occasion an impending
attack by the crack Prussian Guards
was tipped off to Headquarters by
one of the Choctaws in an advance
post. The Yankee colonel forthwith
issued orders for his detachment to
go over the top full hour ahead of
the German schedule. All orders to the
supporting artillery and the infantry
were given in the Choctaw tongue
over the radio. Caught flat-footed by
this surprise move, the Germans lost
500 prisoners and a countless number
of dead in less than half-hour!
So successful were the Indians in
this type of work that thirty members
of another tribe are now being trained
in signal work at Atlanta for the same
type of service in the present emer-
gency.
Except where speed is more vital
than secrecy (as it probably will be
in most armored-division movements),
most radio communication will be in
code and cipher, and for an operator
to master this one phase of the work
is a tall order in itself. But beyond
complete proficiency at the key, men
must be trained in the maintenance
and repair of equipment under diff
cult field conditions. 1t is staggering
to a layman to see all instructor at
the Signal Corps school at Fort Mon
mouth completely dismantle a large
fixed-station transmitter, scatter its
innards all over the floor and depart
with instructions to couple OF stu
dents to put the whole thing together
again.
The courage to make even start
on the job bespeaks technical ap-
titude and high type of training
and intellect, which are the earmarks
of the Signal Corps man.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17

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Home Heating and
Water Heating

The permanent plans of heating and water heating
specify dependable, economical Gas for fuel and
Sunday The Gas Company will install Tappan
range and Serve Eectrolux refrigerator to complete
the details of a modern and efficient kitchen.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17
Opening Sunday

A new, modified Georgian Colonial,
home built by Eugene Hartshorn. Lo-
Gated at 1142 Granville Road, this
beautiful house contains six rooms and
large recreation room with fireplace
The first floor is finished in Birch and
the second in white enamel-doors will
be open for public inspection, Sunday,
from till 9 p. m.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Victor 0verP ,Hoya
Golf Team Tackles
Navy Tomorrow

Georgetown University golfers,
victorious in their opening match of
the season, will move to Annapolis
tomorrow to clash with the Naval
Academy in a contest which Tony
Sylvester. Hoya coach, views with
foreboding. Those Navy boys look
tough this year." says Tony.
The Hilltoppers licked visiting
University of Pennsylvania team at
Bannockburn yesterday, winning G
to 3. Jack Donohue of Sioux City
Iowa, runnerup in the District
championship last September,
thumped out SO to top the scoring
The summary:
Bunnell PENN beat sharkey &c. ",
l up Myers &c. o. beat Merkle PENN
2 and !. Best ball-PennsylVania l up.
Donohue &c. u beat Crosson penny,
band 4; Harris &c. u beat Uphouse
lPenn,) 5 and 8. Best ball-Georgetown
3 and g.
Holligan &C. u beat Raymond PENN,
and 1; Muende PENN beat Lou Checas
&c. u. up. Best ball-GeorRetown up.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Card Nefmen Defeat
Bridgewater, Then
Take Holiday

Catholic University's tennis squad
knocked off for the spring holidays
today with the satisfaction of having
won their first full-length match Of
the year.
1t happened yesterday at Army
Navy Country Club where the Cards
captured two or three doubles duels
to nose out Bridgewater, 5-4. The
teams broke even in singles.
Catholic does not play again until
Tuesday when Johns Hopkins comes
here.
singles-Dorsavage &C. ", defeated
u defeated G. Nipe, so, SO; ].
Nipe (Bl defeated Soufront. 4-6. 6-1,
"a 81; Myers lB3 defeated JoeTs'
6-3, 81; Clague CBD defeated calcote,
6-S. 60. 60.
ssefe1ated B0rtels and J; NiDe; 1eei 80, a
tsated Eyer and Myers, g., 81; g,
and Sheridan, 6-2, 3-6. IS.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Track Duel Between
BourIand, KIemmer
Pops Coast Meet
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 11-Clif
Bourland has run 44O yards only
once this spring, but Trojan fans
won't be surprised if he breaks a
record or two in the California
Southern Cal track meet today.
He'll have plenty of competition
from Grover Klemmer, who pinned
his ears back last Junt at 400 meters.
Their meeting will pit the national
A. A. U. junior 400-meter king, Bour-
land, against the National A. A. U.
senior champ, Klemmer.
The Trojan speedster won his
crown at Fresno in 1910 in Ala Sec
onds. Next night, he was third as
Klemmer won in At fiat.
The Bourland-Klemmer duel will
continue through 1943, with world
record their goal. Each is a soph-
omore. They'll meet in the 220 also,
with Bourland favored.
The meet figures to be the closest
between the Trojans and Bears in
at least two decades. California has
not won since 1924.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Nucleus Of Six Vets
Giving Blair Hopes
For Strong Nine
Pair of Tested HurIers,
Good Rookie SIobmen
Are Telling Assets

A group of six veteran players,
two of them pitchers, forms the
nucleus for what is expected to be
a better than-average baseball team
at Montgomery Blair High this sea-
son.
Joe Thompson and Herbert South
gate are the experienced twirlers,
with such promising rockies as War
rem Perry and Bill Taylor, both left
handlers, and Jimmy Fisher to give
them help.
Other holdovers are Charlie Ridge
way and Gilbert Thompson in the
outfield, Bill Linkins at first and
Bill Cassidy at second. Leading
candidates for the other infield posts
are Johnny Benedict at short and
Nick Carter at third.
Catching probably will be divided
between Russ Greene and Gene
Haugh, with Dick Sabin leading in
the race for the third outfield posi-
ton.
The schedule:
= April %, Sherwood; 90. at Briarlsg;
Anacostia; 80 Landon.
May l. at Laurel; g. at Bethesda: 8,
open: z, at Charlotte Hnl; 9, Gonzaga:
13. Laurel; IA. at Gaitnersburg; Is, at
Eastern: 49, National Training; sd r. Char.
90. at Landon; 81. at Sherwood; %, Briar-
lev
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Aberdeen Puts Relay
In Service Contest
at Penn Carnival
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 11.-Entry
of a team representing the ordnance
training center of the Aberdeen
(Md.) proving ground in a special
mile relay for service teams has
been announced by officials of the
47th Pennsylvania Relay Carnival
to be held April Is and 26.
Other Army centers which have
indicated they will enter teams in
clude Indiantown Gap, Pa; Naval
Hospital, Philadelphia; Langley
Field, Va; Fort Meade, Md; Fort
Ontario, Oswego, N. Y, and Fort
Dix, N. j.
Aberdeen's team will be composed
of 1t. Glenn Funk and 1t. Stanley
Haight, both former University of
Nebraska runners; 1t. Selby Frank,
former Maryland athlete, and 1t.
Chester Ross, who once competed
for Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology.
1t. Funk will captain the quartet.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
School Children Guests
At Browns Inaugural

ST. LOUIS, April II (P9.-Heroes
TO thousands of youngsters between
the ages of 10 and 16, the st. Louis
Browns returned today to prepare
for their weekend series with the
Cardinals.
The Browns invited the city's
school children between those ages
to see Tuesdays opening game with
Detroit, and the Board of Education
approved the plan by granting the
students a half holiday.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
ST. AIban' S Net Team
To Seek Honors in
Pair Of Loops

st. Adams School tennis team
opens its 14-match schedule on Mon
day against st. Johns in Private
School League match.
The team also will compete in
the Interstate Academic Conference.
The schedule-games marked CP)
are in the Private School League:
those marked Cd are Interstate
Academic Conference:
April IA, st. Johns P); 16, at
Landon (P) Cd; 18, Dewitt P);
10, Baltimore Friends Cd; %, Con-
zaga P); %, at Gilman; 29, West
ern.
May 1, Sidwell Friends (P) Cd;
3, at Woodberry Forest; 7, st. James
Cd; 10, at Georgetown Prep P);
u, Roosevelt; IA, Episcopal; II, at
st. Andrews %.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Illinois Gymnasfs Out
To Clean Up Before
Draft Gets Them
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS.
CHICAGO, April 11.-A sensa-
tional Illinois gym team, which
holds a monopoly on the Nation S
leading titles, soon expects to trans
fer its acrobatic talents to the
Army.
Before the draft makes inroads
on Coach Hartley Prices squad
however, it has some unfinished
civilian business.
Current holders of the national
collegiate, national amateur, Big
Ten, Central States A. A. U. and
Northwest championships, the Illini
will seek its third straight n. c. A.
A. title tomorrow night at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Later in the month it will at
tempt to duplicate it's 1910 ma
tional A. A. U. achievement.
Last year it became the first
college or university to win the
national A. A. U. crown in the S.
year history of the event.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Montgomery Organizing
SoftbuII Circuit

A softball league, as yet unnamed,
is being organized in Montgomery
County, with five teams already
signed for the season.
In the loop are Green Acres, Glen
Cove, Brookdale, Westmoreland Hills
and West Haven. Other teams in
terested in joining are invited to
attend meeting next Wednesday
at the Westbrook School, Baltimore
avenue and Massachusetts, avenue,
West Haven, at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Weimun Sees Grid
Attack Revision
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Head Football Coach Tad VIE
man of Princeton predicts that
the new rule permitting the ball
to be handed forward behind the
scrimmage line may "revolu-
tioniZe the game"
The Tiger coach says the new
rule may mean that all reverses
in the future may be run forward,
and this naturally would bring
about a change in assignments
and open up a wider front for at
tack"
in fact" he thinks, at may
eventually do away with the spin
play, for it may provide all the
deception on other plays that
the spinner gave"
Evening star., 1941-04-11
HomiIton, james Clash
For Squush Honors

Il. T. j. Hamilton of Naval Ali
Station and r. H. James of the
Naval Academy were to clash fol
the District A. A. U. squash rack
cts championship today at the Y
M. c. A, with Edward Adelsheim
and Nat Rogg meeting for the
third-place medal.
Hamilton whipped Adelsheim
15-12, 15-17, 1913, Ills, while
James defeated Rogg, 15-12, 15-8
l5-10, in matches Yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Colonial Netmen Hope
To Make B. T.. Team
Their First Victim

Showing slow, but steady improve
ment, George Washington's netmen
hope to break into the victory
column the first time this season
when they face Boston Colleges
racket wielders tomorrow at Colun.
bia Country Club.
The downtown crew dropped a ia
decision to Richmond yesterday for
its second straight loss. Davey
johnson whipped Bill Snyder in the
No. singles engagement and
teamed up with Bus Fleming to win
their doubles match for the Co.
lonials' only points.
Summary:
Singles.
johnson &c. W. defeated Snyder, g.
81; Shackelford CRichD defeated Zeller.
o. 90; Jones IRich.) defeated Flen.
ing. 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Gordon RichO
defeated LefschultZ 60, 6-3: Croxton
tRlch.( defeated Gee, 60, 6+3; Philips
tRlch.) defeated Mann, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2,
Doubles.
johnson and Fleming (G Wy defeated
SNYDER and Shackelford, 81 6-4; Jones
an6 Gordon (RichO defeated Mann and
Leller, SIS, O.; Croxton and Philips
defeated Newell and Lefschultz, 6-3, 6-I
Evening star., 1941-04-11
6. ". High Nine Finds
Beating Falmouth
lis Tough Task

George Washington Highs base
ball team is gratified at having won
its opener, but hopes it can muster
easier triumphs in future engage
ments after spilling Falmouth High
To, through the medium of single
two stolen base and an overthrow
to third base.
The Presidents manufactured the
winning run in the ninth inning
when Johnny Shelton singled, stole
second and third, and romped home
on Pitcher Roses overthrow to
third.