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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
sit Co. He lived at 1716 Shepherd

sit Co. He lived at l7l6 Shepherd
street NV.
He was a member of the Hiram
Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A. M; Jappa
Chapter, No. 81. Eastern Star, and
of the Sons of Veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
He is survived by his wife, Sadie
Sthreshley Miller; two daughters,
Virginia Lee Miller and Mrs. John
A. Amos; two sons, Maurice j., jr.,
and Richard Tabb Miller, and one
grandchild, Barbara Lee Amos.
Natives of Bolivia are wearing hats
and shirts made of tree bark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

says, Mr.. Finely took him gently
by the arm and using only such ]
force as was necessary. assisted andf
accompanied plaintiff to the Office
door and returned to his confer
ence."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Girls Play Toys
. Girls Shorts
. Girls Slocks
. Tots OveroIls
. Tots Sun Suits

Just the play clothes
every girl wants for
S u m m er comfort.
Tots sun suits, also
overalls of seersucker,
chambray, and per-
Gale, 2 to 6. Girls
toys, include Stacks,
shorts and sun suits,
z to IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

The easy, comfortable
way TO dress for hot sum-
mer days. Play suits of
spun rayon and cotton in
prints and stripes and
slack sets of spun rayon
in two-tone effects. Sizes
IL to 10.
Second Floor
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Victim Of Attack
In Apartment Dies;
Suspect Seized
Police Think Injuries
Were Inflicted by Two
Mysterious Callers

Leslie K. Mann, 45-year-old
civilian employe OF the Coast Guard,
died today in Emergency Hospital
from head injuries which police be-
lieve he received at the hands of two
mysterious men in his apartment,
1918 Fourteenth street NV, early
last Thursday.
A 34-year-old District government
| employe has been arrested, homiciIe
squad detectives announced. He y
being held at police headquar,s-
Police declared their investigation
had been hampered by reticence Of
the victim while he lay in critical
condition at the hospital They Ie-
ported he told Detective Sergts.
Charles Carver and Richard Felber
he knew the identity of one of his
assailants, but would not name him,
however
Sergt. Carver said a woman who
| occupied an apartment near Mr..
Mann's told him she heard three
men enter the Mann apartment
| about midnight and few minutes
later she heard sounds of a fight
Later two of the men left, he quoted
her as saying.
A roommate of the victim, Charles
j. Bolton, found Mr.. Mann sprawled
on the floor, battered about the
head as if by sharp instrument,
when he returned from work about
a m, police said.
In another case Alfred p Cham
bers, 43, colored, l4l0 CorOcran street
NV, died in Freedmen's Hospital
last night about an hour after he
was stabbed, according TO police, in
the 1900 block of Fourteenth street
NV. His wife Drusilla, 80, also was
stabbed, and treated at the hospital
| for deep arm cuts.
In this case police reported they
| tracked down and arrested "a
/ year-old colored woman. At the
18th precinct no charge had been
placed against her early today.
In a third case Charles J. Bent
ley, %. colored, BIT Twenty-second
street NV, is in a serious condition
at Emergency Hospital, as the result
Of being shot in the chest during
an alteration in Greens court NV.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

and to get to the next entryway
into Luxembourg I should have had
to travel about IS miles through
Germany.
An artillery captain with whom I
lay in a ditch dodging shells while
the eager Heinies tried to blow the
car off the road chased me out Of
there. His argument at least was
something out of the sort of war
everybody used to know about
nothing at all novel about it. He
said ne didn't mind whether I COM
mitted suicide, but I was civilian
and civilians attracted fire and
would I please 60 somewhere else.
A farewell salute was fired by the
Germans, who didn't hit anything
that also seemed to be char
acteristic of the sitzkrieg.
Then there was the incident of the
taxicab through the Siegtried Line.
C"Have you any dirty washing,
mother, dear?"y. That, of course,
couldn't have happened in any other
war. 1t couldn't have happened in
this one after May 10 and some
times you wake up at night wonder
ing if it ever did happen.
1t was a simple thing, thanks to
the philosophy of the people in
charge OF the sitzkrief. Walter
Kerr New York Herald -Tribune)
and 1 were in Luxembourg City on
Nctohor 1910 NNo ,aiI a co,,pla of
dollars to the local German consul
and got two visas We went in my
car to the Wasserbillig Bridge.
walked across. received the blessing
of the Nazi guardsmen, and rode in
'taxicab through the outer de-
fenses OF Hitler's army Of the
Moselle, the tank traps the con-
cealed machine gun outposts and
through rank and rank of we'll
camoufiaged field artillery and anti
aircraft guns. We spent an after
noon in the headquarters town of
Treves attended by a personal
Gestapo agent. We came back
again. And the next day the
frontier closed up with clunk and
stayed that way for a couple of
months.
Saw War From Terrace.
Somebody in Berlin told somebody
in Luxembourg that We might just
as we'll have been spies. Which was
a point we'll taken. 1t called atten-
ton to the outstanding virtue of
the sitzkrieg-the ingenious faith
that everybody seemed to have in
everybody else, including Hitler.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Prof. lajoye, IS, Retires
From Annapolis Staff
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, July l4-prof.
Paul A. Lajoye has retired after "A
years Of teaching French in the
Naval Academy's department Of
foreign languages.
Prof. Lajoye joined the Academy
faculty in 1917 after . teaching
career that included the Berlitz
School, preparatory schools in Ohio,
the University of Cincinnati and
Columbia University.
The 65-year-old French professor,
who said he was proud of having
helped form at least one generation
Of officers whose sons are now enter
ing here" plans to return to An
napolis to live after q summer of
travelling.
Prof. Lajoye won his bachelor Of
letters degree in Paris. He was born
there February. IL, 1876.
He came to the United States in
1898 and settled permanently in this
country two years later. He mar
ried Miss May Spinner In Cincin-.
natl in 1910 and since 1917 they
have lived In Annapolis. They have
four chill ZEN.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Man Is Held in Staying
OF Snow Hill Fisherman
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SNOW HILL, Md, July l4.-Wor-
cester County Sheriff j. William
Hall said today that Avery Mel
son, SO. has been charged with the
murder OF Harry Adams, jr., 81 year.
old fisherman.
Mr.. Adams was found yesterday
morning aboard his boat in the
Pocomoke River with a shot gun
charge through his abdomen.
Sheriff Hall said Nelson confessed
the killing, climaxing an 1s-hour
grilling which ended early today al
the Worcester County Jail.
Sheriff Hall declared that jealousy
over alleged attentions of Mr.. Adams
to his wife caused Nelson to commit
the Staying.
He added the shot gun used in the
killing had been recovered from
the bottom of the Pocomoke River.
The dead man was found in q
crouching position, q coffee cup
clutched in his hand.
DIR. John L. Riley, deputy county
medical examiner, said the water
man, who was unmarried and lived
alone, met his death some time
Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

OF the sum proposed Tor the
Ordnance Department, it is learned,
no less than 81 100000, 900 is destined
for the creation of the country's
first pool of critical armored force
equipment.
Since it is calculated that the cost
of outfitting one mechanical divi-
sion is s25 900, 900, the plan contem-
plates the accumulation Of a re-
serve of medium and light tanks,
guns and ammunition equivalent to
the needs of 40 armored divisions.
This is in addition to eight such
divisions which the Army has either
organized already or hopes to ac-
tivate within the next year.
This is the first time" said a
high military official, that the
Army has really cut loose on mech
anized equipment
To Serve as Huge Reserve.
the magnitude of the program
may be judged from reports that
Germany possesses something like
25 armored divisions. When and If
the American schedule is completed,
the War Department will possess
enough armored force equipment to
convert its present 33La divisions
into an exclusively mechanical
army, with furnishings for 141a divi-
sions left over.
The War Department does not
think of the billion-dollar estimate
in terms of definite divisions. Some
of the equipment may be required
for lease-lend aid. The remainder
Is regarded as pool which will be
at hand in case eventualities compel
rapid organization of additional
armored units.
THE War Department" one of its
spokesmen declared, has always
recognized the trend toward mech
anized warfare. No one at this stage
can tell how far it will go. We do
not wish to be caught in a position
where we might want to 60 further
and not have the stuff to do it with.
Therefore we are asking Congress to
provide a reserve of tanks. guns and
ammunition on which swift and ade-
quate expansion, in case Of necessity,
could be based"
$103,033,557 for Motor Transport.
The estimate of So, ,486 ,034, ,036 for the
Ordnance Department, including one
billion for mechanized equipment, is
the largest item on the supplemental
list of projected appropriations. Next
comes the Quartermaster Corps,
with $638, ,486, 1852, Of which $103, ,033,.
557 is earmarked for military motor
transport: >As.liP.27S for clothing
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Japan Tightens Control
OF Communications

TOXIC, July IA OP.-Japan tight
ened control Of her telephone and
telegraph services today with orders
that the languages used in messages
abroad must be restricted by areas
to Japanese, German, English, Chi
nese or Manchu and further limited
within the empire.
The measure was explained edi-
torially by the Japan Times and
Advertiser, organ of the Foreign
Ofhce, as a precaution which must
be taken "in this time of national
tension everywhere.
The Toxic bureau of Havas,
French news agency, is to send its
dispatches in English, although re-
liable sources said the French Am
bassador would protest the Japanese
measure on the grounds that French
Is the international diplomatic Ian
guage.
The exclusion of Spanish was ex-
pected by reliable sources here to
draw a protest from the embassies
OF Argentina and other South
American nations.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

and equipage, $4,000, 900 for con-
struction of military posts and ST.
O54, 4,s1O for the purchase of cavalry
horses and pack and draft animals
To the Sigal Corps is allotted
$34e ,290, ,S52; the Air Corps. $204. .007.-
800; the Engineer Service, $61,118.-
97O; the Chemical Warfare Service,
S27,275, ,168, and the Medical and
Hospital Department, $3,S52,437.
These estimates of nearly five bill
lions are in addition to the first
regular military appropriation OF
$40, 900 900 900 for the fiscal year
1941-42. OF the latter sum, nearly
all, except $1,000, 10000 for aircraft,
will be spent not for combat equip
ment but for maintenance, including
pay, rations and travel. With ap-
/, propriations of $11 900 ,000, 900 for the
fiscal year 1904, this makes total
of $4,000, 100000 thus far which
the country is devoting to the Army
alone during the first two emergency
years.
Still Some Deficiencies.
OF the 81, 600, ,000, 900 of appropria-
tions for the year ending last June
30, the Army has contracted for all
except $400,000. Deficiencies still
existing in its program of procure
ment. particularly in small arms
ammunition, are ascribed in part
to overall priorities imposed by the
Army and Navy Munitions Board.
They rank as follows: l. Machine
tools. 2. Navy and air force, and, 3.
Ground troops.
1t is pointed out that the Army's
program for the first emergency year
was full equipment for 1,500,000 SOL
diers, critical equipment for 2,000, 900
and production capacity for 4,000,-
600. The estimate was that IL
months would be required and the
belief is that the schedule will be
completed ahead of time. A second
program, for the second emergency
year, is full equipment for 1,750, 900
men, critical equipment for 5000
600 and production capacity for
1000, 900. 1t is hoped to complete
this second program . year after
the first Is disposed Of.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

We watched such action as there
was in that phase of the war from
Lucen Klopp's terrace on the Mo-
selle. We watched the shelling of
German battery positions from
points above Sierck. We watched
little infantry wrangles on the Lux
embourg corner. We saw, and heard,
officers of the German high COM
mand teaching lovely blond girls
how to swim in the river. We
wrapped ourselves in beautiful
unreality while summer went out
of the valley and the snow came
to make a landscape like those we
used to see in magic lantern slides
We were quite sure there had never
been any war like this before. We
still are.
Our favorite character in those
days was Albert the aviator, tall
ented screwball who used to fly up
and down the Moselle every day
about 4:30 pm. and plague the Ger
mans. He had no regard for the
limitations of his plane, the law
of averages or the underwriters
statistics He flew SO low that the
throngs of Luxembourgers on the
river bank could see him wave to
them-or SO they said. He fire.
quently tried to roll his wheels on
the head of the sentry at the Rem
ich Bridge. He became a character
like do Guesclin or Rene Of Provence
or la Hire and-to the Germans-a
pain in the neck
1t was the Luxembourgers who
gave him his name. And they built
up a dossier for him. They said
that he had French father who
was in business in Thionville: that
his mother was a native of Diekirch
Luxembourg. That he had attended
a school in Luxembourg City.
Tempo Increased.
They said their night prayers for
him in Luxembourg and made no.
venas for him and burned candles
in the churches in petition for his
safety. 1t was the saddest day in
the Grand Duchy's recent history
when the news was spread in Febru-
ary that he had been killed in the
swamp near Koenigsmacher, where
he still is. The oldest part Of the
news lay in the fact that 1t con-
firmed the dossier built up on the
barbed wire wireless Of the frontier
He did have a French father and
a Luxembourg mother. His name
was John Albert Schmitt and his
father was a cutler in Thionville.
You could see the sitzkrieg's prog
ress best in Luxembourg. From Mr..
Klopps terrace you could see it
coming to its end. You noted the
increased tempo Of the artillery.
You saw the 2l0's blasting in villages
across the river. You saw the pom
toon bridges stretching halfway
across the Moselle And as you sat
in the dreamy peace Of the loveliest
springtime this enchanted country
had seen in a decade you knew the
attack was coming and you knew 1t
would 60 through the low countries,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
So, one night when the Gestapo
called on the telephone and sug-
gested that I leave the Grand Ducy,
I took the hint and said thank you.
The warning turned out to be good
although whether this officious
agent knew it or not can't say.
II he didn't know it he was unique.
Few people in that neighborhood
we're military experts. including
luite a lot of brass hats on both
sides of the line. But 1t was per-
mltted to every man to see what
he could see.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
night and tomorrow.

Moderate temperatures prevailed this
morning from the lower Missouri ana upper
Mississippi Valleys eastward 10 the At
lantic coast under the influence of the
extensive anti-cyclone that extends from
Wisconsin to New England The highest
pressure is ] O25 mlllibars COOS inches.
at Burlington, VI. Pressure remains reld-
lively low over the Southern States, Savan-
nah, Ga. 1,Ul49 millibars c9.91 inches,
and Texarkans, Ark lOl5.6 mIlibaTs
t29 90 Inches'. A minor disturbance IS
advancing slowly eastward over the Da-
kotas. Huron, S. Oak. 1885 millibars
t3O0s inches. Pressure remains high
over the northern Rocky Mountain region.
l.0.3.1 t30.23 inches, al Cutbank, Mont,
and from the Bahamas northeastvard over
the ocean. Numerous showers and local
thunderstorms have occurred within the
last "A hours In the Southern States. the
Rocky Mountain region, the Dakotas,
Minnesota and northern New England.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Army Really Cuts Loose
On Mechonized Equipment
Billion in New Budget Estimates Enough
For Reserve for 40 Armored Divisions

This another a OF articles analysing defense
program toloD Stokes Washington
respondent Dispatch.
special permission that
RICHARD L. STOKES.
Budget supplemental military
pratons 0065 88 covering the fiscal 94l2 which
week to there
follows and
plies Army $3,486 034,O36"
phrase according point of represents
major revolution policy the part the War Department. and
victory for the champions of mechanical
version that constitutes
against possible emergencies.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Trial Of zapp and Tom
DELAYED Until Thursday

Trial of Transocean. German nev
service. and Manfred Zapp and
Guenther Tom, officers of the con-
Germ, on charges of failure to regis
ter as agents of a foreign principa ,
was postponed until Thursday in
District Court today.
The trial was put of at the re-
quest of Government counsel, who
said the prosecution was not ready.
The cases came before Federal
Judge T. Whitfield Davidson Of the
northern district Of Texas, sitting
here temporarily.
Zapp and Tom have recently
been held in Ellis Island, N. Y, in
roundup of aliens.
Fire has banned the shipping of
vegetables out of the country.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.

Senate:
May consider bill permitting Gov
ernment seizure of private property
II Military Affairs Committee grants
prior approval
Military Affairs Committee ex-
pected to approve property seizure
bill.
HouSsi
Debates District legislation.
Naval Affairs Committee considers
e565,000,000 shipbuilding facility
Gill.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Attack on Indo-Chino
And ThoiIond Predicted

LONDON, July IA tP.-Usually
reliable sources predicted today a
Japanese attack on Indo-China and
Thailand which eventually would
enguf the Netherlands Indies and
Australia in the war.
Japan, according to these sources,
would seek to consolidate its posi-
tion in Indo-China and Thailand
before launching an attack on the
final objective-the East Indies with
their rich supplies of rubber and oil
which are vital to continuation of
Japans war policy.
The experience of France and
Norway is still vivid" it said. CThis
was a reference to nations which
were undermined by fifth column
activity prior to German invasions.)
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Weather Report
{ Furnished by the


cloudnes little change
degrees gentle to moderate northeast winds.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. oudness and little
change in temperature.
with likelihood
temperature
vgna-Mosty cloudy change temperature
md
Evening star., 1941-07-14

LENINGRAD DRIVE "MOST DANGEROUS" BRITISH SAY
Authoritative British said today they regarded the German drive
Lenngrad the most dangerous Of the German oensves
against Russia Narva o. Esonia reported under SIEGE
Finnish forces attacking the
north claimed Pkov and Vtebsk o. but
Russians reported ecapture of Rogachev and zhobn 49,
To the south Germans asserted their forces hammerng at
the gates Kiev a.. "A. p Wrephoto
Evening star., 1941-07-14
The War From Stzkrieg to BLtzkrieg
Writer Finds Eory Bottle Of Chinese Walls Unbelievable
After Witnessing Fearful Tempo of Later Developments

fThis is the first OF a series OF
articles by correspondent of
the Chicago Daily Ne,Ds, uho has
just returned Dounded from COP
ering the uar in Europe from its
Stdrt.j
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Tuxis Further Restricted

Italy has decreed that taxi driv-
ers must not take passengers to
restaurants and places Of amuse.
ment Or In wedding, funeral q 9TH
q processiops.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
The Home of Agriculture

About 50 per cent of all American
farmer folk live in 13 Southern
States.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 9s. on July 2.
Lowest Is, on March 1s
Humidity for Last ~ Hours
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today1
Highest. 9s per cent al ! . m. yesterday.
Lowest, 20 Der cent, at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac River cloudy and Shenandoa n
muddy at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished BY United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High " 1885 m.
Low 6.31 am. 30 m
High - 1903 Bpm 1854 m.
Low q SO o m. 40 m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun today Abb 1:34
Sun. tomorrow 4.54 1,:53
Moon TODAY HOG pm. 10 SO a m
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset
Precipitation.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Report for Last AZ Hours.

Record for Last 81 Hours.
From noon YESTERDAY to noon today
Highest, e6, a. 3 so . m. yesterday Year
seo, 50.
Lowest. 20. at 8 am today. Year
Aao, As
Evening star., 1941-07-14

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
,anlial n1nnth dafel.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

couldn't last lOng-Whlch shows now
much they knew about it.
In a situation of the sort, OF
course, anything could happen-and
frequently did. One recalls, for in
stance, a casual ride into the mid
die of a battle-the one real battle
the sitzkrieg produced until it quit
oeing a sitzkrieg and the discovery
that with reasonable luck you could
get killed in this play war just the
same as In a real one.
In q moment Of alteration the
military authorities had issued a
pass through the advanced zone to
the Luxembourg border. Everything
was all right about that. The
trouble lay with a clerk in the
Paris Alien Passport Bureau who
didn't know geography. She issued
an exit visa by way of Sierck, an
old Roman village in front OF the
Maginot Line.
Imagine my embarrassment when
I got into Sierck (dodging a couple
of bullets from the gun Of sentry
I didn't know was there) and dis
covered that the French owned only
one end of it. The Germans light
tanks, infantry and artillery owned
the other end. And you realized as
the loss howled overhead and tore
up the hillside behind you that
both sides were playing for keeps.
No Bridge Over River.
1t looked very much as if the
Paris exit wasn't going to work.
Even If the Nazis weren't blowing
things to bits-Even If there weren't
mountainous barriers of wire and
rubble across the main street and
land mines every or 10. feet
There'd have been trouble getting
out that way. For there wasn't any
bridge across the hHoselle at eierck
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-17
Miss Folleii Is Bride
In Quiet Ceremony

Miss Mildred Eloise Follett and
Mr.. Paul p. Rowyer were married
quietly st the home 81 the brides
parents. Mr. and Mrs J. r. Foliett,
the evening ~ March Ia The
ceremony Was performed by the
Rev. J. A. johnson in the presence
Of a few close friends and rels-
tives.
The bride wore a pale blue en-
semble with a corsage Of roses
and gardenias Her only attend
ant. Miss Joan Irwin wore brown
silk with a similar oorsage. Mr..
John rollett. jr.. was best man
for his brother-in-law.
Mr.. Bowyer Is the son Of Mr.
and Mrs J. r. Bowyer Of Gilmore
City. Iowa. Mrs Bowyer. a Lin.
coin high school graduate. Is a
member Of Amity chapter. o r. s.
and the Ladies Society OF the II.
Of l.. r. and F. The couple will
make their home at 701 No. LIN
coin ST. in Kent.
Present also At the wedding
were the hridegrooms uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs u. A. Settles.