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Evening star., 1941-06-09
-Four Are Killed
In D. T.. Area
Auto Crashes
Rockville Youth
Dies as TRANSMISSION
Is Being Rushed

Four persons we're killed in traffc
accidents in the Washington area
over the week end.
Paul Anthony Miles, 81 colored,
of the 1900 block of Walter street
Sc, died yesterday in st. Marys
County Hospital. Leonardtown, Md.
He was injured when a car in which
he was riding with several others
overturned on a curve, State police
reported.
Other persons fatally injured in
cluded a Rockville youth, who died
in washington hospital yesterday
of injuries received Saturday and a
Washington couple who died in
bus-automobile crash on the Balti-
more boulevard at Muirkirk.
Others Injured.
Others who were injured in the
Leonardtown accident were still
being treated at the hospital. They
are Warren Herbert, Al, of Maddox,
who suffered broken leg: George
Scriber, 55, of BrushWood. slight con-
cussion; John Herbert, also of Mad
doX, undetermined condition; How
ard Miles, 2502 E street NE. Another
man who has not yet been identified
by police, remains unconscious.
Howard Miles was charged with
reckless driving, Leonardtown police
said, and was released on 81 900
bond.
Thomas Conway Burriss, Is. the
son Of c. Earl BurrisS Of Rockville,
Md, died in Georgetown Hospital
yesterday from internal injuries
suffered when he was thrown from
the rumbleseat of an auto in which
he was riding on Avery road near
Rockville Saturday afternoon. The
car. driven by another youth,
crashed into a tree.
After young Burriss had been
taken to his home. it was discov-
cred his injuries were serious and
he was removed to the hospital
where a blood TRANSMISSION was or
dered at once. Members of the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment. headed by Chief W. Valentine
Wilson, hurried to the hospital to
act as blood donors but the youth
died while pint of blood was being
drawn from Fireman Thomas
Weedle.
Meanwhile, Harry Miller. 80, driver
of the bus which figured in the bus
$4,000 bond for hearing June % at
Hyattsville. Carl L. Owens, 80, a
Navy Department employe living in
| the 1900 block of F street NE. and
/ his bride-to-be. Miss IneZ Monnett,
who lived in the same block. we're
burned to death and several Fort
Meade soldiers were injured when
/ the bus and the auto collided
Earl Crismond. 81. of Marbury,
Md. was in fair condition at Provi-
dence Hospital today after his arm
was torn off in an accident at Mar
bury Maryland State police re-
ported that Georoe Wassman. driver
of the truck which collided with
Crismond's car, had been charged
with reckless driving.
Hospital attaches said Mr.. Cris-
mond's life probably had been saved
by the quick thinking Of o. c. Wood
son. %, of Indianhead. Md. who
applied a tourniquet to the injured
man just after the accident.
Mr.. Crismond is the son Of E.
NJ. Crismond, justice of the peace
at Marbury Mr. Wassman was at
liberty today under 500 bond.
Paul Rothgeb. II. 641 Kenyon
street NV, who was injured yester-
day when struck by truck in the
1900 block of Georgia avenue NV,
spent fair night" in Garfield Hos
pital, it was reported this morning.
The boy suffered a fractured leg
and collarbone and was in serious
condition.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
$40 Scholarships Woit
MARYLAND All Girls

Five $40 scholarships will be given
again this year by the Associated
Women of the Maryland Farm Bu-
reau Federation to girls of the
Senior Council All Club of Mary
land who plan to attend club week
at the University of Maryland in
August. Miss Dorothy Emerson,
girls club agent, announced today
Applicants for scholarships must
be members of Senior All Club
Councils, Is years of age or older
and unmarried, have a record OF
achievement in club work. COM
munity and home service, and be
able to speak publicly.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Virginia Road
Head Continues
Work
~ the Associated Press.


RICHMOND. Va, June 9-High-
way Commissioner Henry G. Shirley,
confined to his home by illness since
the first of the year and to his bed
much of that time, has kept right
on looking after Highway Depart
ment business.
Members of the commission go to
his home, in Ginter Park, to hold
their meetings, and department en-
gineers and his secretary make regu-
lar visits, loaded with papers and
problems that require the commits
sioner's attention or approval.
Mr.. Shirley, suffering of back
ailment, is improving and has made
several trips downstairs, although
friends say it probably will be some
time before he has recovered sufh-
ciently to resume his place at the
efice. =,
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Richmond Annexation
Wins Court Approval
BY the Associated Press

WYTHEVILLE, Va, June 9.-The
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
today approved with notifications
Richmonds proposed annexation of
8.29 square miles of Henrico County
territory.
One of the notifications makes
the effective date of annexation
midnight of December 81, 1941.
The other notifications provide
that the city be required to take in
all of the county's sanitary district
No. / and to assume about as per
cent of certain Indebtedness Of the
County School Board :
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CuIpeper Man Faces
Hearing in Staying
,lecjsl Dispatch to The Star.

CULPEPER, Va. June 9.-Alton
Carpenter, 80, lumber firm employe,
was to be given a hearing today in
connection with the fatal shooting
early yesterday of Joseph Beasley,
about 35, colored
Special Officer billiard Petty and
Night Policeman w. w. Carter said
the shooting occurred on the street
here after an argument between the
two men.
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Juns IS June II June II June III
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In June, Beware OF:

In June, Beware of:
/. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in June last year.
2. Crossing an intersection
against the proper signal. Two
pedestrians were killed while
committing this act during
June, 1910.
The seven other traffic vic
tins were fatally injured while
either crossing a street at an
uncontrolled intersection, at
tempting to hitch a ride on a
moving vehicle. playing in the
gutter, riding in a truck or drtv-
ing an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-06-09

Warner, professor, Westminster
Theological Seminary; F. C. Rey-
nolds, chaplain, U. S. Army: J. R.
Esaias, chaplain. U. S. Army; H. c.
Lambdin, chaplain, U. S. Navy.
Bertinius Oakland, Missionary
seamans Bethel Foundation.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Veterans Name ]. B. Brown

RICHMOND Va, June 9 tP,.-
John B Brown of Norfolk has been
named department commander of
the 29th Division Association, De-
partment Of Virginia. to succeed J.
Earl Jones of Staunton.
Evening star., 1941-07-27

Japan over the threat" to the colony.
French authorities said the British were
concentrating troops along the Malaga
and Burma borders of Indo-China-the
threat"
The die was cast on Thursday. Vichy
announced that France and Japan had
agreed in principle on basis for Jap
anese aid in protection of French in
terestS in Indo-Chlna. Nothing had
been signed, and no details were an
nomced. But the world understood that
Japan had won the right to bases in
Southern Indo-China, around Saigon
cutting by 2,4OO miles the length of the
sea lane from Japan to Singapore.
Well-informed sources in Saigon re-
ported that japanese warshipS had ar
rived off two strategic points Of French
Indo-China, Camranh Bay and Cape st.
Jacques, between Camranh Bay ION the
map and Saigon, and that II Japanese
transports were on their way to Saigon.
Vichy's decision aroused Washington
Mr.. Welles, condemning Japan as an
Evening star., 1941-07-27

ing to observers, the ecclesiastical attaChe
exercises a kind of blackmail on the
Brazilian Catholics. He offers certain
advantages for the oppressed clergy in
the Reich and in exchange he expects
cooperation in Brazil. How successful
he has been so far is difficult to say.
The Brazilian government is worried.
President Vargas is following careful
policy; he wants to avoid trouble if pos
sible. So far he has been able to do SO.
He knows that a substantial proportion
of the officers of the army are in SYM
pathy with the German philosophy
They figure that Germany can help
Brazil when the war is over and that
it might be a good policy to hop on the
Nazi band wagon
Vargas does not want to go that far.
He believes in hemisphere co-opera-
ton and is a stanch advocate of such
policy But he wants to be supported
in the event that trouble breaks out.
Like most countries which don't have
a full dictatorial regime, there is a
danger that military men with political
ambitions might join up with any WELL
organized force to upset the present
regime and place themselves at the
head of the country. These men don't
mind the totalitarian theology if they
can become dictators with the assistance
of the German legionS in Brazil,
Brazirs Army Improved.
The Brazilian Army is better than it
used to be- the navy is improved and
so is the air force But it is still lacking
in adequate war material. There is not
a sufficient number of planes nor enough
artillery and machine guns For the
time being we can sell our friends IN
South America only limited quantity OF
war material. In spite of the increased
production of our factories they still
won't produce enough for all the needs
of the American Army and for Great
Britain.
Under these conditions the question
is likely to arise in the near future:
Can and will the United States dispatch
force able to cope with a major revo-
luton of the Nazi forces in Brazil? The
flrst part OF the question can be ans
Wered Immediately in the affirmative.
The American Air Force ESPECIALLY the
bombing force) and the American Army
with the Marine Corps can provide a
force to be placed at the disposal of
any President of South America to cope
with the existing Nazi and Fascist
military organization. Well organized as
these alien legions are, they cannot cope
with the regular American forces, and
at the present time we have enough
forces to dispatch a substantial expedi-
tionary corps to help keep America for
the Americans. Even the difficulties of
transportation, that serious handicap
to our effort to help Britain, can be
overcome in the event of real emerg-
| ency.
Whether this country will send such
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ForEost

The war map on this page shows the
theater where the Japanese are putting
on their new act They strut on the
Pacific stage, and the gesture toward
1ndo-China shook all the boards on the
stage.
Through most of the week the Far
Eastern situation was in the war of
nerves stage. On Tuesday
Stooe the Navy Department in
IsSet formed President Roosevelt
that the japanese government
had established a radio and cable CEN
sorship on all information sent from
Japan by radio or cable-the links with
the outer world. On Tuesday also
French officials in Vichy revealed that
negotiations over Indo-Chin were under
way between France and Japan.
1t was still unclear on Wednesday
exactly what Japan wanted from Indo-
China. Late that afternoon Admiral
Kichisaburo Nomura, the laughing Jap
anese Ambassador, called at the State
Department and spent 35 minutes in
conversation with Acting Secretary of
State Welles. when he emerged from
the meeting, he told reporters that he
hoped the feeling between our two
countries will become better and better"
The indications are that the admirals
Is vain hope.
One matter which Admiral Nomura
said he took up with Mr.. Welles was the
halting of Japanese ships seeking transit
through the Panama Canal The Amer
ican official told him the canal was
Evening star., 1941-07-27
WADSWORTH FORESAW MILITARY TRAINING
to in Peaceful
By ". B. RaeSdaIe.

of word from the White House. Army
officers were not free to talk. Finally,
the committee sent the bill to the Budget
Bureau to ask if it conf1icted with the
Presidents budgetary plans. Back came
the word that it did not That opened
the mouths of the generals.
Mr. Wadsworth was one 0f the
wheelhorses who helped to tug the
measure through the House, even though
he often had to stray across party lines
to do so.
That did not signify that he had
New Deal He still doesn't like Mr..
Roosevelt's domestic policies.
He looks with wry smile at the days
message from his farm manager up in
the Geneseo Valley, tosses the telegram
on his desk.
This great bureaucracy of ours has
finally given me permission to sell my
own wheat" he says.
Eventually maybe we will learn that
we never get anything for nothing. For
every handout, we yield up a right, a
freedom.
"A long time ago my father told me:
Jim, I hope you never have to borrow
any money. But if you do, remember
that interest runs seven days a week
and you can't work on Sundays
Now, Mr. Wadsworth thinks the first
job of America is to achieve national
unity. He figures that domestic griev-
ances are thin and pale when they stand
up alongside the terrible vigor of out
side threats. Lick the Nazi philosophy
of life. achieve lasting peace, those are
the things he lists as primary.
Wary of Solution.
The world can't go along being torn
apart once every generation by terrible
war. 1t can't endure"
How avoid it?
That. of course, We can't see now. I
suppose we must have some sort of an
English-speaking union when the time
comes. would trust the Canadians, the
Australians, the New Zealanders, and,
finally, the English"
"In that order?"
Eyes. If there is anything good about
us, it is the same quality of fresh, un-
trammeled outlook that the Canadians,
Australians and New zealanders have.
The English have lived so long within
the shadow of Europe and its intrigues.
We, like the British colonials, have had
generations of freedom from it."
Perhaps this helps to explain why
Mr.. Wadsworth voted against the
League of Nations. Article 10, specifi-
cally, was what drove him away and he
still would vote against it if Article 10
were in it, Article 10 was the section
that bound each member ito respect and
preserve as against external aggression"
the territorial integrity and political in
dependence Of every other.
Evening star., 1941-07-27

considered primarily in relation to its
distance from other areas.
Saigon is 1000 miles across the South
China Sea from Manila which hes along
the route between Saigon and Japan. 1t
is 600 miles from Borneo, an East Indies
island divided between the Dutch and
the British. 1t is $50 miles north Of
Singapore which sits across the Strait
of Malacca. one of the richest of the
Dutch East Indies, Sumatra.
The use of the region around Saigon,
then, brings the military power of Japan
close to vast economic riches and to
the key to Britains Pacific strength,
Singapore The Indies and the Malay
Peninsula north of Singapore are rich
in rubber, tin and oil-three necesSaries
for those who make war in the Goth
century.
Indo- China on the west borders
Burma, wealthy, heavily watered seq
ment of the British Empire. Burma is
a plum in itself And from Burma sup
plies via the Burma road strengthen the
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Representative WadsWorth of New
York started arguing for peacetime
military training about the time the
present crop of draftees was born. Now
he thinks it would rob the Army of its
efficiency to pluck out of its ranks those
who are just winding up year of serv-
ice.
He goes over list of Army units on
his desk
Forty per cent of the men in this
unit would go out" he says. Thirty per
cent would go out of this one. Twenty
per cent here. Think of the broad gaps,
of the influx of raw recruits to mar
efficiency"
He leaned back and lit cigarette,
arose and walked around the desk, still
trim and athletic at "a, though almost
as bald as the late Nicholas Longworth
with whom he used to pal. But it has
been 40-odd years since Wadsworth was
the star first baseman for Yale.
Backs Foreign Policy.
WadsWorth is man of contrasts. A
farmer, he moves in the most exclusive
social circles An immaculate dresser
when occasion demands, he often is
seen in his home town of Geneseo, N. Y,
in overallS, boots and tattered sweater
An anti-New Deal Republican he is one
of the stanchest supporters of the ad-
ministration foreign policy And he
voted against the League of Nations,
but is no isolationist.
Twenty years ago, as chairman of the
Senate Military Committee, he brought
out plan for compulsory military train
ing for all youngsters between 18 and 90
But it was a day of back to normalcy,
when treaties were dynamiting battle
ships. The Senate turned up its nose,
said there would be no more wars and
buried the bill
Two decades later Hitler hit high.
Grenville Clark got together the Ma
tional Emergency Committee of the
Military Training Camps Association
Clark helped organize the Plattsburg
movement in the first World War. His
organization was sort of an outgrowth
of that development
Officers Silent for Time.
His committee went to work on a 1910
model selective service bill. 1t collected
advice and information, took the bill to
Wadsworth, who had worked with them
before when he was in the Senate, asked
him to introduce the measure in the
House. He did. Senator Burke, a Ne
braska Democrat, who went out last year,
introduced it in the Senate. Neither
presidential convention had been held at
that time. No word came from the
White House regarding the measure.
During conventions, it lay dormant.
Four weeks after introduction, however,
the Senate Committee was ready to
begin hearings. That was late July.
France had fallen. But in the absence
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a force to prevent Hitler from waging
war on the South American coast de-
pends exclusively on whether or not the
governments of the South American, re-
pubics will ask for effective assistance.
The State Department is definitely OPP
posed to any policy which may lead to
the belief that this country is following
a selfish imperialistic policy. But from
conversations with the heads of the
various governments of the Latin
American republics it appears that in
the event of real danger they would
welcome American forces to prevent the
establishment of local Nazi rule which
is found to be followed by Berlin
domination.
The Bolivian incident is considered
in responsible quarters here and south
of the Rio Grande as a mere prelude
to more important developments to take
place some time in the fall. And the
authorities in Washington are satisfied
that this country will not be caught
mapping as has been the case with the
European democracies in the fateful
years of 1910 and 1941.
The American Air Corps and the At
lantic are ready for any emergency. The
Army can place the necessary men with
full equipment for campaign in the
disturbed areas on short notice. All
this, of course, provided that it does
not get entangled in other adventures.
The situation in the Pacific has be-
come more dramatic, as Japan sets her
course southwark. She has moved to-
ward Indo-Chi and Thailand in order
to straddle the straits and eventually be
in a position to control all communica-
tions between the Pacific and the Indian
Oceans. The settling of large Japa-
nese military, air and naval force within
a few hundred miles of Singapore and
the Dutch East Indies would seriously
endanger the British position.
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Bv Constantine BrOzcn

the South American continent. The
chief concern of Washington is Argen-
tina. and Brazil-especially Brazil. 1t is
an old story now that the Nazi and
Fascist forces in the latter country are
splendidly organized for guerrilla war
fare and political coupS. Conservative
estimates place that force at between
250000 and 100000 Well-trained men
spread over the huge Brazilian territory.
Military equipment-the type needed for
regional Warfare-haS been pouring into
Brazil for three years and probably
longer At first it came openly from
Germany and Italy in the ocean liners
and the cargoeS which were plying be-
tween the Axis ports and Brazil. Later,
after the war started, it came by the
few German steamers which were able to
slip through the blockade-five large
merchantmen put into Brazil between
January and June this year-and by way
of Japan. Nipponese freighters and pas
senger liners move undisturbed by the
British blockade.
Commercial Travellers" Land.
In addition to these ships, important
consignments of war materiels are being
sent to Brazil in sail boats of 200 to 400
tons with auxiliary motors These don't
bother to put into the important ports
Of the country where the Vargas men
can spot them. They are able to anchor
in the many coves and small inlets along
the huge Brazilian coast without fear of
detection. Nazi specialists" have also
been steadily arriving. Five ships which
brought two commercial planes for the
Brazilian government and a number of
manufactured products to show the
South Americai people that in spite of
the war Germany still produces con-
sumers' goods have landed a number of
young, sturdy commercial travellers
about 1000 of them-Who dispersed
throughout the country soon after their
arrival.
In the meantime the Reich was max
ing earnest endeavors to cultivate those
high-ranking Brazilians who admire the
Nazo spirit and military proweSs. Neither
President Vargas nor Foreign Minister
Aranha is among them. But many of
the leading army men are greatly i'm
pressed by the efficiency and the spirit
of the German Army. The Reich ap-
pointed as military attache in Brazil a
major general who commanded Panzer
division at the Somme and was chiefly
responsible for smashing through the
French forces. The Brazilian officers are
naturally over-awed by the presence of
this general and he is much in demand
for lectures about modern warfare in
Brazilian military organizations.
Because Brazil is strong Catholic
country, the Nazi government appointed
a layman as ecclesiastical attache at the
German Embassy He is talking to the
clergy, proposing ways and means for
the cooperation of the Catholics in
! Brazil and those in Germany. Accord
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Brandt
Continued From Page CID

from seemingly bona fide Latin Amer
leans.
American officials declare that much
remains to be done in Latin America, but
they are generally satisfied with step-by-
step negotiations thus far. Argentina,
within the last few months, has shown
greater interest toward cooperation, and
may sign a trade agreement within a
few months; the Mexican government
is working closely with Washington, and
Brazil and Uruguay, despite pro-Axis
army elements, are almost allies. The
real test may come within few months.
If Hitler offers a generous peace" and
it is scorned by the Latin Americans. it
will be victory for our propaganda and
contemporaries
If his agents succeed in setting up just
one avowedly pro-Nazi regime south Of
the Rio Grande, he will score a notabls
victory-a break in the line OF hemi-
spheric defense.
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aggressor, told the press that the Indo-
China move by Japan threatened Amer
ican national security-endangering the
Philippines, disturbing the peaceful use
of the Pacific Ocean and jeopardizing
procurement of essential raw materials
for the United States arms program
from the South Pacific.
MI Welles said it was evident that
the action which Japan was taking was
aimed at establishing bases for pur-
poses of further and more obvious move
ments of conquest in adjacent areas" A
day later Washington froze the funds
of Japan in the United States and placed
export control restrictions on shipments
of all goods to Japan. Toxic promptly
retaliated.
American appeasement of Japan was
at an end. The United States. the
Netherlands and Great Britain developed
a cooperative policy.
Since Indo-China is advantageous to
Japan from geogra phic and not an eco
nomic point of view, the colony must be