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Evening star., 1941-03-22
Hershey and Gu||ion
Mentioned for Post
Vacated by Dykstra
Selective Service Head
Resigns to Give Time
To Mediation Board

Two Army officers who qualify as
experts on CONSUMPTION, both through
their World War service and their
first-hand knowledge of the present
draft law, were being mentioned to-
day as possible successors to DR..
Clarence A. Dykstra, who has re-
signed the post of director of selec-
tive service.
The White House announced yes
terday that DR.. Dykstra, president of
the University of Wisconsin, had re-
signed so he could give his full time
to the Craftsmanship of the National
Defense Mediation Board.
The announcement gave no in
dication who would take over the
draft job, but unofficial discussion of
possible appointees included mention
of Maj. Gen. Allen w. Gullion, the
Army's judge advocate general, and
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, an
expert on operation of the draft who
has been Dr.. Dykstras assistant
director.
Gen. Gullion, a Kentuckian, was
directly connected with operation of
the World War draft. He was en-
route today to Havana to attend a
session of the nter-American Bar
Association.
Gen. Hershey, native of Indiana,
had leading role in drafting de-
tailed plans for the current selective
service system in advance of its
approval by Congress last year.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Annapolis Sports Fields
Appropriation Approved
D, tire Associated Press.

~ VII hSSOClhteu FItee'
The Senate has approved ap-
preparation of S350,000 for the
purchase of additional land to be
used as athletic fields at the An
napolis Naval Academy.
Approval came after Senator Tyd-
ings, Democrat, of Maryland, had
asserted that the academy, with
$500 midshipmen, now had less
ground for each student than "any
college in the United States
"The average" he told the Sen
ate, "is one acre for each 100
midshipmen."
The Senate's action. subject to
House approval, added to the naval
appropriations bill funds for pur-
chase of the land which the House
Appropriations Committee earlier
had refused to approve. In the
House an appropriation of s650,0OO
had been requested, and it was ex-
planned that at that time money
for construction of stadium also
was included. The Navy Athletic
Association now plans to build the
stadium with funds derived from
athletic events participated in by
Navy teams.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Ethiopian Cities Rombed
Anna J. Bell Dies at 83;
Teacher Here 3 Years

Miss Anna J. Bell, 83, teacher and
principal in the public schools here
for 80 years and a Sunday school
teacher for As years, died yesterday
after an illness of three weeks at her
home, 1901 Farragut street NV.
Miss Bell was born in Paterson,
N. j., and came to Washington in
1890 after teaching in Cleveland
She taught here in the Gales, Ar
thur and Pierce Schools. In 1901
she became principal of the Webb
School, a position she held till her
retirement, in 1923.
Joining Calvary Baptist Church
as soon as she came to Washington
Miss Bell started a young women's
Bible class, which she taught until
her health failed few years ago
She was member of the Christian
Endeavor Society and active in the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
She is survived by two brothers
A. w. Bell of Vermont and William
c. Bell, York, Pa, her twin.
Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow in the Calvary
Baptist Church, with burial in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
More Than 4 Junkers Bombers
Produced Dolly, Nozis Claim

we are losing-and we don't care
if the whole world knows it."
Schultze, writing in the Berliner
Zeitung, declared that aircraft pro-
duction was too heavy to be absorbed
by the air force and that many
planes were being taken to concen-
tration points.
He said he saw Junkers produc-
ton plant where planes were SO
numerous that II couldn't count
them"
The Junkers bombers, it was said
were being built piece-meal in five
different plants leach many kilo-
meters removed from the other"
Reporters said the dive bombers
were equipped with new devices
which automatically cut their diving
speed and caused the bombs to
maintain a horizontal position ir
the racks.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Michigan Head Objects
To Draft Of College Men
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Dr. Alex
ander G.. Ruthven said last night
that the University of Michigan-of
which he is president-objected to
conscription for military service
which takes men out of college train
ing "at least in certain professional
fields"
In an address before the Univer-
sity of Michigan Club he suggested
summer encampments and stepped
up R. o. T. C. programs for men of
college levels in place of a year, S
Army training.
He said the university agreed that
II a large Army were necessary, mass
training of all available manpower
would be essential, but until mass
training became essential to ma
tional welfare" the institution would
continue to ask if there is not bet
ter way to give basic military train
Ing to men at the college level than
that which is now in prospect"
Evening star., 1941-03-22

Five-year-o Joseph Nixon Marx,
jr., caused considerable excitement
in which police, the Civilian Con-
servation Corps, Boy Scouts, news
papers and radio stations figured
yesterday afternoon-but throughout
it all Joseph played contentedly with
other youngsters within four blocks
of his home at 1928 Rittenhouse
street NV.
The commotion began around
lunch time, when his mother, Mrs.
Joseph N. Marx, noticed Joseph,
who was sporting proudly a new
pair of rubber boots, had strayed
from the yard. AS time went on,
police were notified, go C. C. C.
boys from the nearby camp in Rock
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Arr Show preview
To Be Held Toniqht
Al Corcoran Gallery
kotobIes Are Expected
To Attend Opening
OF Exhibition

The Seventeenth Biennial Exhi-
bition of Contemporary American
on Paintings will be presented
at 8 o'clock tonight to a dis
tinguished assembly of Washing
ton art lovers in the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art. Many persons promi-
nent in Government, diplomatic and
residential social circles will attend
"the private view" opening the
Ehow, always considered one of the
outstanding local art affairs.
One or more of the w. A. Clark
award winners is expected to be
present, as are several OF the jury
which distributed the honors last
week. Prizes will be presented to
those of the winners attending the
private view.
The exhibition will be open to the
public tomorrow from 2 pm. to 5
pm. Thereafter, it will be open
daily through May 4. 1t is designed
to present an authentic picture OF
present artistic thought in this
country and includes works OF all
schools and by artists living in every
section of the United States.
Approximately $500 paintings
were submitted to the gallery for
consideration by the jury of five
prominent American artists. which
chose the exhibits, served as
hanging committee and named the
Clark winners.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

The weather over most of the Eastern
half of the United States is dominated by
an extensive anti-cyclone which is accom-
panied by cold dry air of polar origin. Mar
auette Mich, 1892 millibars (304S
inchesl. However. there have been hght
rains in portions of the South Atlantic and
minor disturbancs that is eentered this tnns
Beach, Fla, with lowest pressure about
1.O12 millibars cess inches. Another
minor disturbance that is advancing east
ward over the Red River of the North VAL al;
ley, Fargo, N. Oak. 1,023 millibars go II
inches), has caused snow in the Dakctas
and Northwestern Minnesota The snowfall
was heavy in portions of North Dakota,
Devils Lake reporting 8 inches of snow on
the ground this morning The stationary
disturbance over the Southern Rocky Noun
tain region, Engle, N Mex. 1905 milli-
bars C29 "a inches). has caused precipita-
tion, mostly in the form of rain. in West
ern Texas and the Southern Rocky Noun
tain region. Rain has fallen also in the
western portions Of Washinston and Ore
and portions of the Daketas and along the
ioaa.5 miiiibars i3o.40 inches, and
Eureka. Calf, 1927 millibars 5000
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Commander at Giorobub
Wounded in Fighting

ROME, March % C49.-Surrender
of the Italian garrison at the Libyan
oases Of Giarabub, after four months
resistance, was reported today by
the Italian high command. 1t said
Col. Castagna, commander of the
garrison, was slightly wounded in
the final fighting.
In Eritrea the fighting continued,
the high commander declared. with
Italian forces counter attacking to
improve their defense positions
around Cheren.
A new attempt by the British to
ford the Dabus River, which paral-
lels the Sudanese frontier about so
miles inside Western Ethiopia, was
reported repulsed.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Defense Moneuvers Uproot
Family From Ancestral Home
War to Bloze Over Peaceful Farm,
Tended for Generations by Forebeurs

1T targets. Men can fire at them
all simultaneously.
Then there's the 1,00O-inch ma
chlnegun range with 100 targets,
the pistol range with the same
number of targets: four anti-air-
craft and one anti-tank range. The
anti-aircraft, anti-tank and the
several artillery ranges necessarily
are for sub-caliber firing, with
smaller calibre bores placed in the
rlf1ing, since safe distances for fir
ing these long-range weapons are
not available. Ranges for 60 and
81 nm. mortarS have been pre-
pared So has one for .5O-caliber
machineguns.
A Six-Week Course.
1t will take five or six weeks for
the whole division to 60 through
the prescribed firing course for the
various brances of the service, with
their varying weapons.
Workmanship is part of the
training program directed by 1t.
SOA' Sd4C y al llldIl, dSSlSGdllt CIllCI
of staff for G. H. @. The staff su-
pervising the firing will include 1t.
Col. Elmer S. Munshower, 115th
Infantry, former superintendent of
Maryland State Police; Capt. Mont
gomery c. Jackson of Petersburg.
Va, and 1t. Col. Thomas Shryock
of Baltimore, executive officer of
the 54th Field Artillery Brigade.
Four Washington men were
among selectees assigned by the re-
ception center here to various posts
in orders made public today.
Marshall R. Bell, 33 Rhode Island
avenue NE was sent to Langley
Field, Va, detailed to headquarters,
2lst Engineers.
Albert Carballo, 419 Randolph
street N. W. was assigned to the
74th Coast Artillery, Fort Mon
roe, Va.
Two were sent to the 21st Signal
Company Irregular Army at Fort
Meade. They are Charles N. ALL
red, AIT Burlington place NV,
and Straty N Matthews, 1417 Har-
ward street NV.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Missing Girl Found
In Park Is Unable 10
Remember Acts
War Department Clerk
Sobs Hysterie1!iy
During Questioning

Miss Ruth Egoscue, 22-year-old
missing War Department clerk found
in a semi-conscious condition in
Lincoln Park last night, told police
today she could not remember where
she had been or what had happened
to her since she disappeared from
her rooming house here early
Wednesday.
Mrs. Dorothy Douglas, police in
vestigator, reported after questioning
Miss Egoscue at Casualty Hospital,
where she was resting after treat
ment for shock and exposure, that
the girl did recall that she was in
Washington and that she had a Job
in the War Department, but that
she Sobbed Historically in answer to
other questions.
Donald E. Kersteins, Is, of 81
Eighth street NE, and Joseph Roll
man, Is, of 1923 Park place NE, who
discovered Miss Egoscue lying on the
sidewalk in front of the women's
lavatory in Lincoln Park, reported
that her dress was wrinkled, her hair
unkempt and that she apparently
was unconscious when they bent
over her. They said they placed
her on a park bench while one of
them ran to the nearby home of
DR.. Christopher Murphy, deputy
District coroner.
Unable to Arouse Girl.
DR.. Murphy was away. but Mrs.
Murphy went to the park with the
boy. She said she tried unsuccess-
fully to arouse the girl and then told
the boys to get car to take her to
a hospital. Grafton Harper, %, of
2912 Seventeenth street NE, a pass
ing motorist, was halted.
Mrs. Murphy reported that, as she
helped place the girl in the automo-
bile, she looked up, gave a brief ex-
clamation and dropped her head.
Mr.. Harper said she did not speak
en- route to the hospital.
At Casualty, she was treated by
DR.. j. r. Jung of the hospital staff
When the physician attempted to
get information from her after treat
ment. she became hysterical and a
sedative was administered.
The girl was identified by cards
in her purse. in which also were
found S1.95 in cash and two travel
erS' checks, each for S10 according
to police. She was reported to have
had s25 with her at the time of her
disappearance.
Fears Allayed by Letter.
At Forest Grove, Greg, where
Miss Egoscue lived before she came
to Washington a week ago to 20 to
work in the War Department, her
mother, Mrs. Laura Egoscue, re-
ported she had received an air-mail
letter, delayed in transit, that al
layed her fears as to the daughters
safety. The letter, she said, in
formed her that the girl was quit
ting her job because she had been
put to work as clipping and filing
clerk instead of as a stenographer
or secretary.
This information conforms to the
statement of friends living at the
rooming house at 1706 Nineteenth
street NV. from which the girl dis
appeared, who revealed at the time
they talked with police that she had
been heard to complain over the
assignment she had been given at
the War Department.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

Creek Park began securing wooded
sections in the neighborhood, and
radio lookouts were broadcast.
Shortly after pm. the boys
father, 1t. Col. Marx, Cavalry Re-
serve, employed in the General Ac-
counting Office, and leaders of the
c. c. G. party came across Joseph
and his playmates in the $500 block
of Thirty-second street NV.
Somewhat bewildered by all the
attention but as healthy as when
he left home, Joseph was brought
home to a relieved mother (who
had been dividing her time between
checking on the search and caring
for his infant sister, joy, to a hot
supper and to bed.
He had no comment.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Britain Confident U. S.
Will Deliver Munitions
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRISTOL, England, March o.
1t. Comdr. Reginald Fletcher, par
liamentary secretary of the First
Lord of the Admiralty, said today
that since the United States had
decided to supply Britain with muni-
tions, Americans could be trusted to
see that they were delivered.
Uncle Sam" he told his towns
people, "is a good postman. He will
not have his mails robbed or parcels
delivered to the wrong address"
He suggested that his hearers get
out pictures of President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill, take
a look at them and ask yourself if
they have the appearance of two
men who get together on job and
fall down on 1t"
Evening star., 1941-03-22
te-County Pension
Proposals Studied
soeciaIDisnatcb tn The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, March 22.-A study
of various proposals for retiring
State and county employees with pay
at a certain age has been started by
the Committee on Personal Admin
istration and Retirement for State
Employees, Francis P. Miller, chair
man of the committee and member
of the House of Delegates from
Fairfax County, has announced.
The committe, which has been
asked to make report at the next
session of the Legislature, is con-
sidering the possibility of establish
ing a pension plan or contributory
retirement system which would in
volve the participation of both the
State and the employees.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Tax Expert to Help
Citizens With Returns
~ 4 Staff Corresponds

- D Staff Correspohut SIaT'
UPPER MARLBORO, March o.
A representative of the income tax
division of the State controller S
office will be available at the court
house here to assist taxpayers in
making out their State income tax
returns beginning today and con-
tinuing through the next week.
Dates on which the representative
will be at the courthouse in addition
to Saturday are Monday, March "a;
Wednesday, March 26; Thursday
March 27; Friday, March %; Satur-
daay, March 90, and Monday
March 81.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Husbands Threats Win
Stunt Girl q Divorce
~ the Associated Pr

Hs the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 22.-Fran-
ees Miles, film stunt girl, had to leap
OF burning buildings, ride in crash
ing automobiles and dive under
moving trains.
That requires steady nerves, but,
she told Superior Judge Roy V.
Rhodes, my husband worried me
20 much with his staying out nights,
threats to leave me and boasts about
being big shot, that had to pass
UP several jobs"
Judge Rhodes granted her a
divorce from Duke York, movie &C
tor, and hoped it would restore her
peace of mind.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 22.-German
newspaper men, after tour of air.
craft factories, reported today that
the powerful JU-88 dive bombers
are rolling now out of assembly
plants at the rate of more than
four per day, adding to the Reich's
reserve of air power.
Only German hewsmen were per-
mitted to make the tour. They
said tens of thousands of workmen,
from 15-year-old apprentices to 81
year-old master craftsmen, were
helping to speed production of the
warplanes.
One of the visitors, Hans Georg
Schulze, declared, "even If the
enemy multiplies our losses by 10,
we produce more planes daily than
they can make the world believe
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Careless Smokers Cause
200 Fires in u. S. Parks

Careless cigarette smokers caused
more than 200 fires in or near ma
tional parks in 1910, the largest num-
ber since establishment of the Ma
tional Park Service Is years ago,
Director Newton B. Drury revealed
yesterday.
Lightning was responsible for the
second highest number of fires, ac-
counting for "a per cent of the total
of 551 reported, it was said. The to-
tai number of fires was the third
highest in the history of the Park
Service, having been exceeded only
in 1886. and 1899. Forty per cent Of
the fires occurred in July and Au-
gust.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Coust Area BIucked Out
In Big Defense Test
By the Associated Press.


EVERETT, Wash, March o.
Most of Snohomish County was
blacked out for Is minutes last
night in one of the most extensive
tests of the aerial defensive ma
neuver yet tried in the Nation.
The blackout extended over an
area about "a miles by II miles
and observers said the smaller
towns and the rural areas, where
numerous chicken plants normally
keep their lights burning, were
almost in total darkness.
In Everett the blackout was
nearly complete except along the
water front where lumber mills
continued to hum on orders needed
for another phase of the Nations
national defense drive.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
First Tornado FutuI

The first tornado in the men,
ory of the oldest inhabitants Of
the native State of Kapurthala,
India, was fatal to five persons
and wrought great havoc. 1t up
rooted all except few trees be-
tween Chehru and Phagwara. At
Phagwara of II persons buried
under fallen house were fatally
injured. Dozens were hurt in the
city and its environs. Crop de-
struction was vast.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Fireman, 70, Is Sure
London Can Use Him
By tht Associated Press,

By tht Associated Press.
EVANSVILLE Ind, March o.
Snyder Carter, Evansville fireman
for 40 years and former chief, must
retire on pension a week from to-
day, when he'll be 10. But he doesn't
want to.
Maybe Evansville can't use fire
man 10 years DID," says he, but I
know q city that can.
That's London, and London's my
next STOP"
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Giarabub Captured
By British After
IS Days Of Siege
ltoly's Lost Armed Stond
In Eastern Libyo Broken,
Cairo Command Reports
Ry tie Associated Press.

Ey TIE Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, March ga one
day assault after Is weeks of siege
has captured the desperately de-
Tended oasis of Giarabub and broken
Italy's last armed stand in Eastern
Libya, Britain's African army head
quarters declared. CThe Italian high
command in Rome confirmed the
capture)
An announcement late last night
said the garrison's commander and
800 soldiers surrendered yesterday
afternoon after "a short operation
started the day before by Australian
and British troops.
The oasis. a cluster of sun-baked
native buildings around an ornate
mosque of the Senussi Mohammedan
sect, has held out since the first
Australian mechanical cavalry anc
British artillery units arrived there
December 4. cutting off its defend
erS from retreat or reinforcement.
The garrison, $50 miles south of
Bardia and 80 miles west of the
Egyptian frontier, has had only such
supplies as Italian planes could
drop.
Cufra Yielded March 1.
The nearest Italian force, in the
Cufra oases $50 miles farther south,
surrendered to Free French" forces
March l.
While more important operations
were continuing in Cirenaica," Brit
ish headquarters announced, 1T was
decided not to attack Giarabub but
to leave it under observation only
by night reconnaissance troops.
within the last few days an op-
portunity arose finally to clear up
the situation. A detachment of
British and Australian troops was
detailed for the task. After a short
operation, starting Thursday, the
Italian commander of Giarabub
capitulated Friday afternoon.
Utalian communiques have told
repeatedly during recent weeks of
British attacks repulsed by the
Giarabub garrison, described as
outnumbered 10 to H.
The British said they had re-
Trained from bombing or shelling
the oasis out of considerable f0r
the Senussi brotherhood, whose
founder, Sid Ben Ally rs oenuS. !, ..,a
buried in the Giarabub mosque, a
minor Mohammedan Mec"o
Pressure in East Continues.
British pressure continued on
Italy's steadily dwindling East
African colonies.
A commupique last night said an
Italina counterattack from Cheren,
gateway to the Eritrean capital, was
repulsed with heavy cost to the 35,-
600 defenders, and that British op-
erations there continue to develop
slowly but satisfactorily"
I'm Central and Southern
Ethiopia" the communique added
pressure in al lareas is being MAN.
tanned on the withdrawing italian
forces"
1taly's hold on Ethiopia was re-
ported further menaced by a new
drive from the east, where the Brit
ish are consolidating recaptured
positions in British Somaliland, and
by native revolts against Italian au-
thority in territory north of Adds
Ababa, the capital.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Motsuoku Will Visit
One Day in Moscow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 22-Japanese
announced today that Foreign Min
lister Yosuke Matsuoka, en- route to
axis conferences in Berlin and
Rome, would arrive here tomorrow
afternoon on the Trans-Siberian
Express for a one-day stay.
The Minister, who already has
crossed the Ural Mountains into
European Russia, was met at Kiroh
by a Japanese newspaper corre-
spondent, who acquainted him with
the latest international develop
ments for study en- route to Moscow.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
RozzIe-DuzzIe Four
In Army Air Corps
py tie Associated Press.

~ tEt AsS0cIdItu fItos'
FORT HAYES, Ohio, March o.
The Army Air Corps has an oppor-
tunity to study a razzle- dazzle type
Of attack
Among the exponents of that style
Of football at Ohio State University
who entered the service for prelin-
mary training as pilots were: Bill
Nosker, a guard; Don Scott, quarter
back; Steve Andrako, center, Ohio
player with the Washington Red
skins last year, and Elmo Sarkkinnen,
q halfback.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Weather Report

District of Columbia tonight and tomorrow little
lowest tonight about 80 degrees gentle noery
becoming
Maryland vrgna-Fair continued tonight
cloudne slowly rising
Monday afternoon
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
In recess.
Appropriations Committee ex-
pected to approve $1,000, ,000, 900
British-aid fund.
House:
In recess.
Ways and Means Committee con-
sidera extension of Guffey Coal Act.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Coal Does Mans Work

Two pounds of coal, worth about
one-f1fth OF cent, if properly
| utilized can do as much work as a
man can in day, the Bureau of
Mines estimates.