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Evening star., 1941-05-12
u. ). Soldier Killed
By Tijuana Officer
After Auto Chase
Corporal Slain on Way
Back to Comp After
Celebrating Birthday
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, May a.
Roscoe K. Davis, Camp Callan cor
poral from Mason City, Ill, was shot
and killed by a Tijuana special off,
Ger yesterday while celebrating his
25th birthday across the interna-
tional line.
Varying versions came from Amer
lean and Mexican officials investi-
eating the Staying which Juan Mora,
"a, the special ofacer, said was ac-
cidental.
Mora was held in Tijuana by
Mexican authorities pending hear
ing.
ConsuPs Version.
Gerald A. Mokma, American con-
sui at Tijuana, reported that the
slain man and two soldier COM
panions had been at drinking
place.
when the three were getting into
their car. a policeman told one of
them that he shouldn't drive" Mr..
Mokma said, "One soldier, appar-
emily the one whom the policeman
said was the drunkest, took the
wheel and the soldiers drove off.
"The policeman fired several shots
m the air. He was joined by an
other officer and they pursued the
men In an automobile.
1.-THE Tijuana officers caught up
with the soldiers, who had stopped
and were replacing the driver with
more sober member of the trio.
Then Corp. Davis was shot
through the head.
"The policeman has said that his
gun went off accidentally"
Police Chief Quoted.
Felix zavala, Tijuana police chief,
was quoted as saying the. three SOL
diers had been stopped once on
Tjuana's main street for fast driv-
ing.
A second officers order to halt was
ignored, he said, and the men drove
out the road to Aqua Caliente.
Mora and regular officer, Mendoza
Manriques, pursued and the chase
turned back through Tijuana and
toward the border, Mr.. Zavala said.
Mora said he shot twice in warn
ing to prevent the soldiers from es-
Gaping into the United States, and
fred third time with no intent of
killing Corpl. Davis.
Evening star., 1941-05-12
Running Is Roided
By Joponese Planes

RUNNING. China, May II 0P.-
Six Japanese bombers yesterday
raided Running, the Chinese ter
minal of the Burma road, and Sc
verely damaged business and resi-
Dental areas in the vicinity of the
Big Southgate."
A bank and office buildings re-
ceived direct hits and the Running
Theater was damaged slightly
Casualties were few because the
alarm gave ample time for evacua-
ton.
Evening star., 1941-05-12

because there was no one to attend
to them.
This country" it adds. "is at the
climax Of the struggle for its life.
Therefore the weekend habit has
got to 60. One way to speed its
passing would be the establishment
of a permanent watch on every
building in our cities and towns.
That means watchers on duty every
hour, every day, every night"
1t may be mentioned that when
this correspondent visited West
minister this morning he failed to
enter the House of Commons be-
cause the person in charge had not
arrived and Westminster Abbey
across the street because nobody
could find the dean.
Only Big Ben. despite its shat
tered face, seemed to be working
(copyright. 1e41, Chicago Daily News. Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-05-12

CLEVELAN D.-SLAIN BY
SUITOR-Miss Josephine
Scott, IS, assistant club editor
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
was shot to death in a parked
car by her suitor, William
Haltenberger, jr., 80, research
student at Tulsa University,
who then killed himself, &C
cording to Coroner Samuel r.
Gerber. The bodies were found
last night in a parked car in
a fashionable section. A re-
volver was on the seat. The
coroner was unable to find a
motive. A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1941-05-12

Maybe we had better listen.
This fellow is kind of convinc-
ing. He says he's more interested
in what we may need tomorrow
than in what we'd like today"
Well-this is tomorrow. Only
I will watch him graduate -. 1t
is two years since pneumonia
caught you at thirty-seven and
left our world in turmoil.
It has been a hard two years,
of adjustment, of cruel loneli.
ness-but, thanks to your wis
dom and foresight, there has not
been added to it the fright of In
security. The monthly income
policy that the agent suggested
sees us go on much as we always
did.
: We stayed in our home, our
son graduates with his class,
then goes on to college, goes to
prepare for his tomorrows, just
as you had planned h..
This Is an institutional advertisement
BY the Institute Of Life Insurance, 90
East 42nd Street, New York. NY.
Evening star., 1941-05-12
Mutsuoku and Hirohito
Confer for Two Hours

81 the Assoclated PreSS.
TOXIC. May 12.-Foreign Minis
ter Yosuke Matsuoka conferred with
Emperor Hirohito for more than
two hours today and Qomei, JAP
anese news agency, said the talk
was related to foreign affairs, in
Guiding "the China affair"
Evening star., 1941-05-12

he Is soon to be entering college,
the last ap-then a man.
Remember how we laughed at
ourselves for trying to decide a
few hours after he was born
where he would go to college?
Our folks laughed, too, and as
the years rolled on and we still
believed in the things tomorrow
would bring, they called us
dreamers. Perhaps 1t was be-
cause tomorrow was so real to
you that you finally let that
young life insurance agent really
talk to you. I wanted youto keep
on saying no; we had so little
money, and there were so many
wonderful things to buy. But
you said:
Evening star., 1941-05-05
(FirSt OF q SerteS.)
By JOHN T. WHITAKER,

Foreisn Correspondence of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE.-The
German occupation Of France, Spain,
Portugal and much of North Africa
now appears certain unless the
United States enters the war and
joins Great Britain in preventive
action before Hitler's plans can be
developed and completed.
Except for the Iberian Peninsula,
Hitler already controls the whole of
Europe, but he plans to make the
new order" all-embracive not from
personal vainglory, but for sound
strategic reasons based on a war
plan that never leaves the initiative
to others.
Vichy, or unoccupied France, in
vites Hitler because he needs a con-
tiguous stretch of German-ruled
territory from the Reich itself to
North Africa, because occupied"
Italy is insufficient to this purpose
without the naval bases at Toulon
in France and Bizerte in Tunisia
and because he sees the possibility
of seizing the French Navy.
Spain invites him because G1bral-
tar remains the rock of British sea.
power in the Western Mediterranean
and must be isolated whether Hitler
is able to take the Suez or not.
Indeed, it may not be possible to
take Suez until the Straits OF Gibral-
tar are closed.
Portugal invites him-though his
first step there will probably be the
rupture of the Anglo Portuguese
alliance rather than immediate occu-
pation-becauSe he needs air and
submarine bases on that flank of
the British Isles if he is to win
the Battle of the Atlantic" which
Prime Minister Churchill foresees
as the decisive engagement OF the
war.
More important than any Of these
considerations however, is Hitlers
theory that he must have control
of Africa and the bases which ex-
tend from the Azores through Dakar
this simultaneously with the clos
ing Of the Mediterranean. which,
together, would halve the efficiency
of Anglo-Saxon naval power. For
Hitler thinks strategically.
If the war is viewed strategically
Great Britain is already defeated
and hangs on not only through the
heroic stubborness Of her people but
also and indeed primarily through
American help and the ultimate
promise OF American victory. In
former circles in Berlin and Rome
describe Hitler as confident of VIC
tory over America.
American defense can be thought
OF graphically as lying along the
New York-Dakar-London triangle.
BY confirming his hold on Dakar
with control Of the African bases
down the coast and down the islands
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Suffrage Hearing Due
To End Tomorrow

A special subcommittee Of the
Senate Judiciary Committee will
make an effort tomorrow to bring
to q close its series Of public hear
ings on the Capper-Sumners reso-
luton providing for constitutional
amendment empowering Congress to
grant national representation to the
District.
The subcommittee, headed by Sen
Ator McCarran, Democrat, Of Ne
wade, will meet at 10 am. to give
both opponents and proponents Of
the resolution an opportunity to
present final arguments. The clos
ing legal argument for the prepo-
nents will be made by Paul Z. Lesh,
an attorney, who will serve as
spokesman for the Citizens Joint
Committee on National Representa-
ton.
Evening star., 1941-05-05

extending from Portugal through
Dakar, Hitler will have broken that
defensive system. The Battle Of
the Atlantic" will be half won and
the way will be opened to South
America. This is the way Germans
and Italians have been talking for
some weeks now.
Panic swept Berlin twice in the
last two months and became more
acute with the American occupation
of Greenland. The Germans thought
that the Americans would beat them
to the punch. Twice there were
rumors that Washington planned a
swift occupation of the Azores and
a joint action with the British
against Dakar.
Such action would have upset
plans which Hitler laid early last
winter, as your correspondent
learned following one of Hitler's
conferences with Mussolini. Such
moves would have been virtually the
first instance of Hitler's being
beaten to an initiative by his foes.
Action Is Hitler's Fear.
Since then Germans to whom cor
respondents and diplomats have
access indicate that Berlin has re-
gained its confidence. Much is made
there of the activities Of Col. Lind
bergh and others with the America
First Committee. They are expected
to paralyze American action and II
is action alone that Hitler fears.
II Hitler can get the African
bases, break the New York-Dakar-
London triangle and close the
Mediterranean before America
enters the war he can win the
battle Of the Atlantic" reach
Middle Eastern oil and bring Japan
into the balance. according to every
German with whom your corre-
spondent has talked.
In this situation the French
Spaniards and Portuguese are ready
to welcome the Germans with open
arms. Individual Frenchmen
Spaniards and Portuguese hats
Hitler, are sick at the thought OF
being brought into the New Europe
Evening star., 1941-05-05
La Guardia Urges Revision
OF Draft Age Limits
py tie Associated Press.

Ry tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 5.-Mayor La
Guardia, writing in the New York
Times yesterday urged that the
ages for selective service be changed
to Is to % inclusive and expressed
criticism of administration Of the
act.
The revision Of the age uimits,
he said, would prevent dislocation
Of families and would cause little
II any disturbance to industry,
agriculture, business and educa-
ton"
The Mayor said Congress did
a good job in the first selective
Service Act" but that 1t was in
dicated by now that changes were
needed and Congress should pro-
vide the necessary legislation"
The administration of the act
has not been particularly good and
has been most unimaginative," he
said. He charged "unpardonable
stubbornness and lack Of vision"
He said local boards have not
received the help and encourage
ment from Washington they need
and deserve"
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Cadets
Continued From First Page)

there was a quick manual Of arms
drill and an exercise in right, left
and backward steps. Following that.
there was a march, company mass.
stacking Of arms and then the ex-
tended order drill In which the COM
panies advanced In squad wedges,
squad columns, and made their gains
across the field by the 'intiltration
method" Each company ended with
a rush against the south wall where
electricians were setting up the
lighting equipment.
U. S. Ohicials to Attend.
The remaining companies will per-
form tomorrow in q days session
Of drills that will be clmaxed with
the brigade review at 3:45 pm.
DR.. Chester w. Holmes, assistant
superintendent Of schools in charge
of senior high schools, is reviewing
ofdcer this year He will present
the medal to the proud captain Of
the winning unit.
Other awards include q copy OF the
Allison Nailor medal, presented by
the Central Lions Club to the win
ming captain; a captains Saber from
the National Defense Committee OF
the Junior Board Of Commerce;
Bunker Hill Post No. 81, American
Legion, sergeant's medal. and va
rious other awards to drum majors
and other competitors.
Col. Wallace M. Cragie. professor
of military science and tactics for
the white cadets, and Maj William
E. Barkman, his assistant, are IN
general supervision of the drills.
A number of Federal Govern
ment, War Department and Dis
trict of Columbia ofdcials are ex-
pected to attend the drills at some
time during the two days.
Judging the drill competition to-
day were First It. Richard Mosu-
hegian, Second 1t. Richard j.
ONeill and Second 1t. Merle
Preble, all Of the 18th U. 9. In
fantry at Arlington Cantonment.
Evening star., 1941-05-05

and armored equipment which will
be superior to any thus far utilized
in the war.
"8. 1t is imperative that we take
account of moral factors as being
an inherent part Of the military po-
tential. "a consideration
OF "imponderables" and a nom
defeatest attitudeD
Others joining In the analysis
were James P. Baxter, Sd. presi-
dent of Williams College; Cy Cald-
well, editor, Aero Digest; Clarence
D. Chamberlin, aviator; Col. William
J. Donovan. World War commander
of the 165th United States Infantry;
DR.. Edward Mead Earle, Institute
for Advanced Study. Princeton, N
j.; Livingston Hartley, author of
Our Maginot Line"
Also Walter Mills, author; Ma
tionel PETER, Columbia University
associate professor Of international
rela ations; Fletcher Pratt, military
and naval correspondent; Lindsay
Rogers, Columbia University pro-
fessor; Raymond Gram Swing, au-
thor and radio commentator; Theo-
dore p. Wright Of the Once OF
Production Management.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Report for Last 48 Hours.

Record for Last - Hours.
urom noon yesterday to noon todsy)
Highest, 70. $50 Pm. yesterday. Year
Lowest. 81, e:15 am. today. Year
go, ~.
Record Tsmperatufes This Year.
HigEest, o.. on April 20.
Lowest Is, on March Is.
Humidity for Last a Aeurs.
tTrom noon yesterday to noon today
highest, 90 per cent, at 80 I'm. today.
Lowest Is per cent, at $40 Pm. yes
eerday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Aaypefs Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tias Tables.
FURNISHED b. United States Coast and
0eodetie Survey
Today. Tomorrow.
k2E -----~----- S.op IN. 1u.V1 Eli.
6lkn -------- S'SS p'm. c'SC y N.
Low ------- S.S6 PIN. 4U.oo pm
The Sun ans s,,s. Moon. Sat-,
Gun, today ---- sos 7;04
Sun, tomorrow - SOB 7:Q5
Moon today .--- 12:4e m 80 pm.
s.a ssaf sss.H '" 'ua.ss 4'' ''n'' on one
Evening star., 1941-05-05
17U. 5. War Experts
See Victory Chances
Favoring British
SEQ Power Held Chief
Factor; Sieners Include
4 Retired AdmiroIs
BY the Associated Press.

BY lne ASSOCldteO FIebS.
NEW YORK, May 5.-An analysis
of the war situation by II students
of naval and military affairs and
world politics" made public today,
said factors of fundamental i'm
portance still operated in favor OF
the Allies and there is no warrant
for presupposing German victory
Signers included four retired ad-
mirals of the United States Navy,
Admirals William V. Pratt and
William H. STANDBY, formerly chiefs
of naval operations; Vice Admiral
William L. Rodgers. formerly presi-
dent of the Naval War College, and
Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell,
formerly commander -in-chief Of the
Asiatic Fleet.
The analysis, summarized In a
broadcast over the Columbia Broad
casting System by Maj. George
Fielding Eliot. military analyst and
one of the signers, included the
following facts:
81. BY reason of British sea power,
Germany is denied access to the
essential resources of the non-
European world, both in industrial
production and in raw ma
| terials.
Nazi Plants Within Reach.
80. The industrial plants of Ger
many are within reach of the Royal
Air Force. whereas Britain can
draw upon the enormous industrial
plants of the United States and the
Dominions, which are safe from
air attack. .
"3. If the war becomes one Of at
triton and exhaustion, the Axis
powers will be at a serious dis
advantage as compared with the
British Empire and the United
States. ."
=. The essential element of British
survival and ultimate victory, there
fore. is the maintenance Of q sum-
cient flow of shipping across the
Atlantic. -
IS. American naval and air forces
now possess the necessary striking
force, as in 1917, to equalize and
perhaps turn to our definite ad-
vantage the struggle now wagine
along the convoy routes. We
realize that. in the event of Ameri-
can intervention for this purpose. q
major effort would be required
IS. Adequate American produc-
ton of aircraft and their safe de-
livery to Britain would alter this
situation possible serious impair
ment of British ability and will to
fight because Of German lombard
ments) in at least two Fundamental
respects: 1t would make possible
effective countermeasures and 1t
would raise British morale.
81. If We so will, we can produce
for Britain and ourselves motorized
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Whitaker Reports
On German Plans
In France and Spain

II Hitler succeeds in gaining
undisputed control oUer unoccu-
pied France, Spain, Portugal
and North Africa, he tDill mate
rally increase the prospects OF
Ndzi uictory and correspond
ingly jeopardize the security OF
the United States.
Nazi influence in those for
eign countries already is so po-
tent that it is extremely difficult
to Investigate and describe Dhat
Germany is up to in that stra-
teotc area.
John T. Whitaker OF the Chi
cago Daily News foreign stat
has succeeded in getting the
facts about this crucial sttud-
tion.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Noz Occupation Of France, Spain, Portugal
And North Africa Seen Unless u. S. Joins War

and dread the moment Of occupa-
ton. But as nations, all three are
ready to welcome the Germans. As
nations they feel that they can re-
sist the Nazis no better than the
Poles, the Norwegians or the Yugo-
slavs. They are ready to relax and
hope for the best.
Thousands Ready to Fight.
In France, Spain and Portugal I
have heard the same question from
scores-reiterated with the same in
sistence. Will the Americans and
the British come in before the Ger
mans?" Thousands in each country
are ready to die in guerilla resistance
to the Nazis if that fits into an
Anglo-Saxon plan to win the war
In France, Spain and Portugal the
masses are anti-German and they
are thrilled by the heroism Of the
Firms, the Greeks and the Yugo-
slavx
If there is q lead-some action
which gives them confidence in ulti-
mate victory over Germany-they
are ready to prove themselves heroic,
too. But they ask, What will
America do?"
When I answered that at the
moment America did not seem ready
to enter the war a French friend
was bitter. He fought with great
distinction last spring and had come
out with a score Of other French
men to join Gen. Charles De Gaulle 8
Free France" movement.
Il am ashamed of my own coun-
try he said, but yours is worse.
America isn't a great country. Fin
land and Greece are great countries.
America is only big country"
His Bitterness Explained.
The bitterness of this Frenchman
must be measured by the fact that
his own courage has won him the
right to talk in such fashion and
by the fact that he knows occupied
France, unoccupied France and
French North Africa.
Hundreds Of thousands of French
men are ready to rise in those three
places today he said, "but you give
them no hope Of ultimate victory
over Germany They feel certain
that Hitler will conquer America
within two years. They are i'm
pressed with Hitler's Balkan sue
cesses and in such q moment neither
Britain nor America acts.
II know the world and I know
that it is bigger than the Mediter-
ranean and the Balkan lands. ]
know that Germany will be defeat
ed. Most Frenchmen don't. They
say, IL America is paralyzed that
means Germany will win so it i,
better that We should accept our
fate and hope the war will be over
as quickly as possible.
I quote this at length because II
Is 50 like what I have heard from
Spaniards and Portuguese too at a
moment when those peoples expect
the invasion of their lands by Hitler
The Germans know how they feel
and they expect little or no re-
sistance.
(copyriEht 1s41, Chicago Daily News, 1ne.l
Evening star., 1941-05-05

coast c's ssvannah, am Ga. "a ioSI'4 t'" miliibsrs %
lso17 inehes). while it is falling over
the North Atlantic States; Eastport:: Ne.
turbance has developed over the West
Gulf States. Navasota, Tex, 10O3.4 MILL.
bars (29.63 inches). while a trough OF
Plains States, Williston. N. Oak, e9s miili-
bars t29:47 inches). Pressure is high
over Csn,iosnia iact Sacramento, nr l92l mill
hours there have been light rains in the
North Atlantic States and rather general
die and southern Plains. Showers occurred
llso in the Rocky Mountain region and the
North Pacific States. Temperatures have
risen considerably in the Middle Atlantic
States, the upper Ohio Valley and the
southern portion Of the upper Lake re-
zion
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Weather Report
FURNISHED By the United state, Y

udfnshsd United States wsathF Alsau3
with temperature about Sc degrees tonight tomorrow mostly cloudy
gentle winds mostly westerly
Notwithstanding cloudin tonight
followed by slightly cooler in east portion.
Vrgina-Fair slightly portion tonight
tonight
varmer in Westpo rtiOnt tOnp
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Temp. Rain

FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time. todsyD.
temperature. Weather
Horta tFayaD, Asores 63 Cloudy
San Juan, Puerto KicA- 30 Cloudy
s;s:e' a:iss' o.s.I sSs' sss.-! 4 s]ssss5s,
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Congress in Brief
., the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
House:
Considers foreign ship acquisition
bill.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues hearing on tax bill.
Senate:
Takes up s1,l52,372,e32 Treasury
Post once bill.
Defense Investigating Committee
continues study of costs of Army
posts and camps.