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Evening star., 1941-12-02
Women in Lime|iqht
As Bridge Tournament
OPENS al Richmond
Teum-of-Four Event
Gets Under Way Today
In National Contest
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 2.-Femi-
nine bridge experts take the lime
light as the 18th annual National
Bridge Tournament gets under way
here this afternoon with the play
ing of the first round in the women's S
m-of -four championship.
This is the first serious competi-
ton of the week-long tourney, last
nights record breaking gathering Of
468 players being in the nature OF
preliminary get-together and
"warm-up" game Traditionally a
night when the host city turns out
to welcome and play with the Ma
tons blue-ribbon bridge players.
Richmonds hospitality contingent
exceeded those of Philadelphia
Pittsburgh and Cleveland where the
winter tourney has been held the
last three years.
Defending their title against what
is expected to be large field in the
women's team event are Mrs. Lottie
Zetosch and Mrs. Adelaide Neuwirth
both of New York; Mrs Helen Levy
of jersey City, N. j.. and Mrs. Will
kinson Wagar of Atlanta.
This event will be played in two
sessions. this afternoon and tomor-
row. This evening, first of three
rounds in the mixed pair champion
ship-for man and woman comblna-
tions-is scheduled.
The three other national cham
pionships to be decided during the
week are for open pairs, open teams
OF -four and amateur pairs.
Evening star., 1941-12-02
Abandoned Abbatoir
Is Scene Of Two Fires

Two fires within five hours drew
firemen to an abandoned abbatolr
at Bennlng road and Minnesota ave-
nue. yesterday afternoon and last
night. Both started in rubbish and
gained appreciable headway before
alarms were turned in by persons
seeing the flames.
On the first alarm, fire fiared in
a barrel Of trash in the rear Of the
structure while firemen were fight
ing the principal blaze in the front.
The second alarm, sounded at 9:40
pm. was for a fire in the wooden
housing of the fertilizer pit
Thousands were attracted to the
scene by flames which shot as feet
into the air and were visible mile
away. Residents of the area re-
turning home from theaters or late
evening shopping excursions caused
a traffic tieup when they halted their
automobiles 10 view the fire.
A Fire Department officer on the
scene gave the opinion the blazes
were incendiary in origin.
Evening star., 1941-12-02


in
of
Evening star., 1941-12-02

ready is developing lignin CONNER
cially in the plastics field. Lignin
already is utilized as a source for
vanillin, the flavoring for vanilla.
but DR.. Bailey said only a. minute
fraction OF the available supply is
used.
Difficult to Isolate.
The lignin mystery has continued
because chemists could not learn its
structure. Reagents used in at
tempting to isolate lignin have
changed the lignin preparation so
drastically as to make them chemi-
cally inactive and insoluble.
The new types to come from Uni
versity of Washington test tubes
remain readily soluble and reactive
and therefore available for study
One of them is isolated by butanol
a common solvent. The butanol
lignin is removed from wood more
rapidly than in commercial proc
esses. DR.. Bailey reported. For that
reason it may hold interest as new
process in pulp making.
Evening star., 1941-12-02

that further very definite curtan-
ments of the amenities We have
hitherto been able to preserve will
be demanded"
Britain plans three important
changes to boost man power. the
Prime Minister said. and listed:
l. Adjustment of the present sys-
tenn of block reservation of certain
classes of persons in favor of one
Of individual deferment on indi-
vidual merits.
2. Raising the age for compulsory
military service to so years. 1t is
now Al.
3. Boys and girls between is and
18 will be registered and those not
already in special organizations will
be encouraged to join organiza-
tions to fit them for national serv-
ice"
He said that the age for military
service would be lowered from the
present 19 years to l8l2. bringing
into the armed forces another 10000
men. While raising of the age limit
to so would bring under review an
additional 2.750,000 men"
BOYS now register at l8, but are
not called on for service until they
reach l9.
Present Powers Cited.
In disclosing the government
planned to ask powers to compel un-
married women between 20 and 80
. to Join the uniformed forces. he
pointed out that the government at
present has power to draft all wom
en- more than 18 into industry. He
said, however, that married women
even childless ones, would not be
| conscripted.
| He said the government would as
sumo power to direct men to the
home guard in areas where 1t is
necessary and require them to at
tend drill"
The first half of the new class Of
| 1872 -year-olds is to register Decem-
ber /, he said, and will be called uI
beginning in January, with the sec.
ond half registering early in 1912.
Mr.. Churchill said 10000 womer
were needed for the auxiliary trans.
port services. of whom 100000 wer,
wanted for air defense forces. The,
will have the right to volunteer
for combatant service. he said.
Two vultures will hang over u
until the end of the war;" he said
we do not fear them.
Invasion and Air Raider.
The first is invasion, which ma,
never come. but which will only b,
held off by having a large. well
trained mobile force and many othe
preparations in a constant higl
state of readiness.
The second is our old acouaint
ance, the air raider, of whom W
have already know great deal"
He said that in the 9th mont
of the present war the same numbe
of women were employed in indus
try and various services as in tn
43th month of the World War.
!; He added that Britain had 1000,
900 more men in the munitions in
Evening star., 1941-12-02

city officials led Army officers "
declare the area "out OF bounos'
City officials, after conferring WIZ
Army authorities. agreed last nlgIt
to drop court charges Of disoroel'y
conduct against five officers ana oii0
enlisted man. arrested by city po-
lice after a disturbance early SUN
day.
The arrests were followed yester-
day by an Army order forbidolng
air base troops from entering oo"h,,
town Augusta with the exception Oh
the Young Mems Christian Assocla-
ton and the country club. The or
der came as 100000 in pay was be
ing distributed to approximately
$500 soldiers.
Promises of full cooperation be-
tween the two groups and reopenlng
OF the military police headquarters
in Augusta were announced.
Evening star., 1941-12-02
R. {. 4. Is Accused
OF Hoarding Copper
Needed for Defense
Federal Aeeney's Action
Constitutes Sabotage,
Winter Tells House

Charging that despite defense
needs. the Rural Electrifcation Ad-
ministration has "hoerded" millions
of pounds of copper to construct
power lines that will duplicate prl-
vate facilities, Representative Win
ter, Republican, of Kansas. yester-
day told the House that the Federal
agency has "sabotaged national de-
fense"
while 0. P M. wringS its hands
for copper. while the Navy launches
ships deficient of copper, while the
War Department is begging for cop
per for shell binding, and while
many small business concerns are
forced to cease operations because
they cannot get copper, r. E. A. like
a dog in a manger boards its copper
on vacant fields in Texas" the Kan
san declared.
Further, he added wire is being
denied for thousands of miles dis
tribution lines for farm homes.
The copper, Mr.. Winter explained,
is heavy cable of three and seven
strands which was unloaded in open
fields at Gilmer, Quitman, Emory,
Troup. Mount Pleasant and Hender-
son. Tex early in October from a
Oscar train-load.
Misuse Charged.
The R. E. A" he continued,
bought this copper to serve as a
transmission line to connect seven
Texas electric co-operatives center
ing around Gilmer. Tex. These CO.
operatives are already being served
with electricity The only possible
justification R. E. A. can put for
ward for this misuse of badly needed
national defense copper is that they
wish to establish competitive
plant the better to control rates.
But this argument falls down
on two scores: In the first place the
private power companies are selling
them power at rate Of 8l2 mills
This is 40 per cent lower than the
national average wholesale rate to
r. E. A. co-operatives from private
sources. and even far below the
national average from wholesale
rates from subsidized public power
agencies"
These transmission lines. Mr.
Winter added. cannot be energized
in less than two years.
Wider Control Called Aim.
Asserting that the r. E. A. was
seeking to 'perpetuate and expand
its control over large segment of
the farming population" by enlarg-
ing its power operations Mr.. Winter
said that the true friends of farm
electrification may as we'll realize
that this Federal agency has fallen
into the hands of gang of Com
munists. fellow travellers and po-
litical second-story workers who do
not hesitate to sabotage the ma
tional defense program in the inter-
est of preservation Of their political
theories and perpetuation of their
payroll"
He urged a congressional investi-
cation.
Evening star., 1941-12-02
Washington and Lee Kin
Revive Old Tradition

Reviving an old custom of the
Washington and Lee families OF
Virginia, a crepe myrtle sapling
from Stratford, the Westmoreland
County birthplace of Gen. Robert
E. Lee. has been transferred to
Kenmore, the home of Betty Wash
ington Lewis. at Fredericksburg, Va.
it was announced yesterday by the
Robert E. Lee Memorial Founda-
ton.
For generations the two families
followed the custom of exchanging
plants once year, it was said. The
sapling presented to the Kenmore
Association this year grew from an
old tree in front of the kitchen at
Stratford.
In ceremonies at Kenmore Mrs
Charles D. Lanier OF Greenwich
Conn, president of the Lee Foun-
dation. presented the traditional
gift, which was accepted by Mrs. C
OConor Goolrick, vice president OF
the Kenmore Association, and
Claude PARCEL, president of the
City Council.
Evening star., 1941-12-02
New Lignin Tests
May Eliminate Much
OF Industrial Waste
University Of Washington
Reports Progress in
Solving l00-Yeor Mystery
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsocia ted Press.
SEATTLE, Dec 2.-Enigmatic
lignin, the earth's second most
abundant organic matter and its
greatest industrial waste, may be
giving up the key to its mysterious
nature.
From the University of Washing
ton today came an announcement
that three new types Of lignin had
been created in the laboratory to
serve as key for unlocking the
chemical mystery that has defied
science for more than a century
DR.. A. j. Bailey, assistant chem
istry professor who has supervised
the experiments, commented:
1T is expected that research now
in progress will eventually lead to
the successful use of this huge
lignin waste"
Used in Plastics Field.
Utilization of lignin would be a
godsend to the Pacific Northwest,
where it is wasted in vast quantities
in the lumber industry. Lignin con-
stitutes one-fourth of the weight
of wood. 1t is found in all COM
mon plants.
The university announcement said
that one large industrial concern FL
Evening star., 1941-12-02
Churchill
Continued From First Paee.)

will hang over us until the end OF
the war"
100000 More Under Review.
Evening star., 1941-12-02

dustry at this moment than we had
at the end Of the last war"
What We have to do now is some
thing more than that" he said
despite the flow of war materials
from the United States"
He explained that men from Al
to so called to the armed services
would not "be posted to the more
active duties" but would be used
for sedentary duties to liberate
Younger men"
Evening star., 1941-12-02

will hang over us until the end OF
the war"
100000 More Under Review.
The expanded military conscrip-
more men and women under review
for armed service with the British
forces.
Very definite curtailments of the
amenities we have hitherto been
able to preserve will be demanded" ;"
he said
Another change would permit l9-
year-old youths to serve overseas. a
duty which now is limited TO those
20 and over
Mr.. Churchill coupled his call for
increased man power and woman
power with the warning that lat
any time Hitler may recognize his
recover his disaster, visit US with all
his fury"
I'VE are ready for him. We shall
receive him when he comes. by day
or night, by far greater forces and
with every modern improvement. but
We must always be ready"
Observers believed the measure
would be passed speedily after de-
bate, but Thomas Horabin, opposi-
ton Liberal, pointed out that the
Prime Minister made no reference to
"conScrlptlOn Of property and de-
clared: There will be disappoint-
ment that the Prime Minister has
not gone much farther in organizing
us for total war"
Il am convinced that this govern
ment cannot organize our war eff
fort to the degree required to defeat
Hitler" he said
Sacrifice in Living Standards.
Mr.. Churchill warned that the
measure meant sacrifice in living
standards.
Mr.. Churchill said Britain would
have to call on her people for "a
further degree Of sacrifice and exer.
ton, although 1941 has seen the
major problems of creating wal
production capacity and manufac.
turing equipment largely solved o.
on the high road to solution
The crisis of man power and uom
an power of 1912 was expected. h,
oecIared, because great suppl,
plants have been largely con
structed."
They are finished. They mus
be fully stated"
Air Force Expansion.
we must prepare for the eypan
sion OF our air force in 1912 ant
for far great expansion in l943,
he added.
tConscription of both man pow
er and woman power still avail
able for war work was proposed
by Mr. Churchill in a motion
introduced November 27 in the
House of Commons. The object
was described as the securing of
"the maximum national effort in
the conduct of the war and in
production
We must maintain our armie
In the East and be prepared for
continuance and the expansion O
hcd'S lighting lilcIt- Ac ucCldlc CT
I'VE must face the continuou
growth of our navy. We must pro
vide modern equipment for ou
army"
Britain has been at a diSadvan
tage in the past, he said, in hav
ing to fight a well-armed enem
with i'll or half armed forces
In the future our men will fight o.
equal terms in technical equipmen
and, a little later, on superio
terms"
Another drain on Britain, he saiC
is the need to keep "our engage
ments to send substantial suppl
Of tanks, airplanes and other wa
commodities to Russia"
II served notice on the peopl
Evening star., 1941-12-02
Science Academy Bors
Public From BUILDING

The National Academy of Sciences
has closed its building at Twenty
first street and Constitution avenue
NV. to the public because of emer-
gency defense work being carried on
there. it was announced yesterday
A number of exhibits popular with
sightseers have been on display.
Evening star., 1941-12-02
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Evening star., 1941-12-02
Cos Properties Sold

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 lP)-The
American Gas Service Co. of Ohio,
subsidiary of the Blaw-Know Co.,
announced today sale Of its assets
and operating properties to the Pro-
Evening star., 1941-12-02
Augusta Again in Bounds
For Army Air Base Men
Z, the Associated Press,

Z, the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Ga. Dec 2-The way
was paved today for soldiers at the
Augusta Air Base to re-enter down
town Augusta after differences with
Evening star., 1941-12-02

tame Corp of Erie, Pa, which sup
plies liquified petroleum gas TO
homes and industries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Strikes Out Side

NewSom struck out three In
dans in a row in the home half
of the second. First TO bat when
the Tigers came up in the third,
Newsom was given a nice hand By
the crowd and he responded with
single to left. With a sacrifice.
Croucher nudged Buck up to sec
ond and the pitcher moved over 10
third on Gehringer's out. McCosky
drew a walk. but weak grounder
to Mack was Greenberg's best.
retiring the side.
There were two out when. in
the third heat. Greenberg dropped
Weatherly's fly ball. paving the
way for two Cleveland runs.
Boudreau and Walker followed
with doubles that scored Wealth
erly and Boudreau. Then Newsom
struck out TroSky. figuring per-
haps that that was the only sure
way of retiring an Indian.
With one out in the fourth.
Mack drove a two-bagger againS.
the right field fence. but Newsom,
bearing down. whitfield Peters for
the second time and forced HENS
ley 10 ground out. There was one
out when Newsom. in the fifth.
got his second single of the day.
but the big South Carolinian died
on first as Croucher whitfield and
Gehringer grounded TO Mack.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Wood Beats ValbOe
in Yacht Club Races
By GEORGE e. VAN

Leander Kelly Wood won the
feature catboat race at the Detroit
Yacht Club Saturday, squaring the
count of week ago when he lost
to Per Valboe. the clubs champion.
But this was not in the nature
of a surprise. Wood is an old timer.
Neither was the fact that the
clubs commodore. Elliott Shu-
maker. finished last in the third
race.
He's Just learning how.
He said, unblushingly:
But watch me later this year.
I'm going to improve. I'll be get
ting the winning guns"
OF such stuff are commodores
made.
Undeterred by his setback the
commodore came out for the
fourth race and this time made a
sparkling showing, finishing ninth
again. But in this start 10 boats
crossed the finish line.
The tenth and last ship was
Robert Dodds ##a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Times Classic
Meets tuesday

Detroit Times All-Star Classic
bowling league will hold its an
nual Spring meeting at the Recre-
alton building, fourth floor,
Tuesday at us p. m.
Election of officers for the en-
suing year and distribution of the
prize fund for the past season will
feature. Harold Allen, president,
and Herbert Mertens, secretary
treasurer, are expected to be re-
elected.
The 10 teams which will share
in the prize fund are Stroh's,
Mineralites, Norton, Ekhardt and
Becker, Detroit Gasket, Schmidt,
Chene Trombly, Goebel, Paris,
Krakow. Ritefire, Pepsi Cola, Yer
nor's, Coca-Cola. Twentieth Gen.
tury and Risdon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

Where did Dodds come from?
Some one started the story that
the commodore had bought him
off. This the commodore heatedly
denied.
Saturdays races, the second
series of the season. were sailed
in light easterly winds which faded
as the afternoon waned.
For the final race of the after
noon the course was shortened TO
quarter mile for novices and the
time s minutes so seconds was just
about the fastest ever turned in,
in a yacht race on the Detroit
River and it was, Sid Wood who
got the gun.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Tartars Take Mile
Race in Penn
Carnival

PHILADELPHIA, April %
Wayne University's speedy mile
relay quartet was clicked in the
fastest time of a series of college
relay races when they defeated
Tuskegee College in 3:19.5 IN the
Penn relays here today.
The winning team. running in
the order of Bob Wingo, Capt.
Charles Doan. Bob Grant and Lin
Wright. finished three yards ahead
of the second place Tuskegee
quartet.
Wingo, running the first leg.
gave Captain Doan a vineyard ad-
vantage, only to see Swarthmore
College regain the lead. With
Bob Grant turning in 49.4 quar-
ter. Wayne again forged into the
lead and Lin Wright heightened
the gap in the back stretch and
withstood a late Tuskegee bid.
Wright was timed in 4S7 for
his anchor leg, while Wingo did
50.4 and Doan 81 for their quar-
ter-mile runs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Wayne, M Capture
Relay Meet Events
Wolverines Score
First, 2 Seconds
at Drake

DIES MONIES, Ia. April 20
The University of Michig a n
dragged down first place and a
pair of second places in the Drake
relays today as lesser known per-
formers stole the spotlight from
the more publicized stars.
Michigan's team of John Purdue,
Herbert Leake. WILDER Alderman
and Harry K. Wisner brought the
Wolverines home many yards
ahead of Notre Dame in the Uni
versity one-mile relay. The time
was average 1887.
The only other first recorded by
athletes from the state of Michi-
gan was the triumph of Michigan
Normal in the two-mile open col
lege relays. The normal quartet
of George Cole. Joe BrZezinski,
Duane Temper and Tommy Quinn
was timed in a mediocre 1886.
Michigan'S duel with Drake in
the university two-mile relay was
one of the features of the closing
day. which saw two meet records
bettered and another equaled.
That made a total for the meet of
eight new meet records, two
equaled and a new world time in
the sprint medley relay.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Thrilling Finish

Warren Breidenbach of the VOL
verines lost out by half a stride
in a hair-raising finish to Lowell
Ball. anchorman of brakes two
mile quartet. The Drake time was
7:41.S which bettered the former
mark of 7:42.S. Breidenbach was
timed in 1:52.6 for his half-mile,
while Ball. who had been given a
slight lead, turned in a 1:53 per-
Torrance.
Lester Einsenhart of Ohio State
finished strong third in the race.
Ralph SchwartZkopf, Michigan,
trailed Greg Rice. Notre Dame.
and John Munski, Missouri, in the
special one and half mile run for
collegians.
Those three along with Forest
Efaw. Oklahoma A. and NJ, ran
almost in a bunch through most of
the race. Rice moved out with
brilliant finishing kick that sent
him through the tape in 6:41.1-far
behind Glenn Cunningham's world
time of 6:34. which he was trying
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

Totals ~ = u f.tEk
sseason batting average.
%Tram batting average.
3Hatted for Thomas IN seventh.
Slated for Traut IN ninth.
Batted for Peters In NTH.
Detroit ooo ooa 300
lev rland od2 oto ohN-o
RuBs batted tn--BaHdreau. Walker y. 4.
Pamphlet ?. CrnHfher. GrhrinEer 2. Two
base hits-Fsoudreau Walker, Nark, Hiz-
gins Gehrtngrr. sullivan. sacrifice hit
4 raurher stolen base--Bnudreau. frft on
baser--nrtrott .. Cleveland 8. Raises ON
bails-On Neweon &, off Harder :. Oft
RrowH Struck oHt--By New som Z. by
Harder q. by TreHt J. by Brown 1. Hits
off Newsam q IN S innings. off Thomas
In I inning off Harder In innings.
Winning plteher-Harder. Losing pitcher
Newson. Umplres-PassareIia. PipErAs and
(seissI. Time IS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
pDodgers Score
Fourth Shutout
Victory in Row
Blank Boston Bees
as Davis Issues
Only Three Blows
International New. ser,lc. Wire

NEW YORK. April 26.-Brook-
lyn's Dodgers today shut out Bos-
tons Bees for the fourth time in
succession when Curt Davis
twirled the Flatbush fellows to a
Shit. z 10 0, triumph. II was the
Dodgers fifth victory in a row.
The Dodgers clouted the offer
ings of Wes Terrell all over the
lot, scoring five runs in the open
ing frame to- coast along TO VIC
tory. They picked up their other
runs in the sixth and seventh
heats.
Brooklyn. after routing Terrell.
finished off on Sullivan and Pic
chota, gathering eleven hits off
them collectively. Dixie Walker
clouted his second homer OF the
1911 campaipn.