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Evening star., 1941-12-10
British Ship Losses Alter
AustraIia's War Plans
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY. Australia. Dec. 10
Prime Minister John Curtin de-
clared today that Japanese striking
power in the air had given the
enemy IAN initial momentum which
only the maximum effort can al
rest" and called on Australia 70
concentrate on war production and
war necessities.
News of the loss of the battleship
Prince of Wales and battle cruiser
Repulse altered Australia's whole
conception of preparations.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
British Lose Air Base
In North MaIaya;
Others Unchanged
japanese Drives
Baked 200 Miles
North Of Singapore
Continued From First Page,)

Joined British, Australian and New
Zealand air units which have been
pounding japanese transports and
land bases in Southern Thailand
since dawn Monday.
(The Netherlands Indies has
ordered general mobilization of
all able-bodied men, c. B. S.
Correspondent John Raleigh re-
ported today from Batavia)
Informed sources expressed belief
that the japanese threat to kuan-
tan was not likely to become serious
unless the enemy is able to gain
air superiority and put overpoWer-
ing land forces ashore. They eX-
planned that a movement south or
west would be possible only along
the roads, because they cross Wild,
impenetrable jungle.
Singapore had two night AFRAID
alarms and one this morning, out
no hostile planes appeared. AT least
five raiders were downed yesterday
in an air battle which developed
when the japanese attempted a
strong attack on Butterworth, an
important station on the Western
Trans -Malayan Railroad on the
mainland opposite Penang Island.
accommodating Flights.
Several japanese aircraft were re-
ported accommodating over Southern
Malaga, although none appeared
here.
Malayas organized manpoWer was
fully modified last night with the
mastering of the local defense corps
for fulltime service.
Asiatic populations continued to
leave congested downtown Singa-
pore, but neighboring Johore state,
linked to Singapore by causeway
yesterday refused entry to any per-
sons without relatives or definite
destinations there because of fear
that an influx of homeless would
hamper defense and upset long
made food plans.
Authorities said the food situation
on Singapore Island was good but
urged the populace to buy only rea-
sonable requirements.
Reports from the Burmese capital
of Rangoon said Burma was ready
for any eVentuality.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Red Cross Unit Picks OfficioI

Mrs. Alvin L. Aubinoe, chairman
Bethesda CMd) Branch of the Red
Cross, yesterday announced the Sc
lection by the Executive Board of
Roger P. Hollingsworth as treasurer
to complete the unexpired term of
Mrs. j. Fred Imirie, resigned, who
recently moved to Frederick County
County in the last few months.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Chinese Open Offensive.

SINGAPORE, Dec. 10 CP).-Chinese
news dispatches declared today that
Chinese troops had launched an
offensive against the rear OF Jap
anese forces attacking Hong Kong
and also were creating diversion
bv attacking Japanese-occupied
Canton.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
1,270 Allied Nationals
Are Seized in japan

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Dec. 10 (Oficial Radio
Pickup The Home Ministry an
nounced today that 1870 British and
American nationals, including Cana
dians and Australians, had been
taken into custody throughout Japan
since the outbreak of the war.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

Studies of Army recruits at Fort
Bragg, N. c., indicate that Negroes
can see better in dim light than can
white men.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
laps Development
OF Stronger Aerial
Torpedo Suggested

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-The pos
sibility that Japan has devel-
oped a new and far more power
full aerial torpedo than had been
in use before was suggested here
today by the work of her airmen
against ships at Pearl Harbor
and off Malaga.
Authorized sources, however.
said they had no official infor-
nation.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

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Evening star., 1941-06-08

his heart on a Navy career for Don. Mr.
Douglas has since decided that his sons
switch from the sea to the air was not al
together step in the wrong direction. The
Douglas Aircraft Company sold $6O,OOO0OO
worth of airplanes last year, and it has
orders for S3700O0,000 worth yet to be built;
and the elder Douglas has become assistant
treasurer of his sons company. Quite rise
from that day in 1914 when Donald, having
left the Naval Academy and graduated from
NIT, landed his first aviation job as
assistant professor of aeronautical engineering
- salary $500 year.
At NIT. Douglas helped build the first
wind tunnel to take the guesswork out of
airplane performance. The year after, he was
with the Connecticut Aircraft Company work.
ing on the D-l, the Navy's pioneer dirigible.
Next he joined the Glenn l.. Martin Company
at Los Angeles as chief engineer. Then he
served as chief aviation designer for the Army
Signal Corps returned to the Martin COM
pany as vice-president and chief engineer;
helped design bombers and pursuit planes for
World War |.
At twenty eight, already an outstanding
authority on aeronautics, Douglas decided to
strike out for himself as builder of aircraft
His dream, at the time, was completely
streamlined plane with engines and other OBJ
structions to the wind completely concealed
in the teardrop fuselage.
In Los Angeles, where Douglas moved with
his growing family, wealthy young Holly
wood sportsman, David r. Davis, became
intrigued with the idea too The pair formed
the Davis-Douglas Company and rented an
unused half of a barbershop for their drafting
room Here Douglas designed the original
''Cloudster." Finished in a planning mill in
1921 the Cloudster was the first effectively
streamlined arplane, and the first completely
equipped with instruments to tell the pilot
how the craft was functioning. Davis proposed
to make cross country hop in this plane the
feat had never before been accomplished) but
when couple of Army flyers beat him to it.
he got dsgusted and sold the plane. Douglas
found himself without job.
Evening star., 1941-06-08

turn trip faster and at less risk than seacraft.
As one of his colleagues put it, Douglas is
a man who dips into the future with the
mind of poet and the slide rule of an
engineer"
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1892,
young Don Douglas won an appointment to
Annapolis to please his father William E.
Douglas, New York banker, who had set
Evening star., 1941-06-08
A risky" Deal

j AKING his designs to Washington, he
landed an order for several Cloudsters from
the Navy, which wanted them for torpedo
carriers. The Navy agreed to pay for them
as they were completed and delivered Young
Douglas needed $4,000 to build the first
Cloudster. The bankers he approached con-
sdered the deal too risky Discouraged, he
told his story one day to Bill Henry, sports
writer and aviation enthusiast, who had
dropped into the combination barbershop
and aircraft designing room for a haircut.
Henry took Douglas to see his employer,
Harry Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles
Times. Chandler listened to Douglas s story,
his eyes sparkling.
Il don't know anything about airplane de-
sgn," he said But do know that this town
needs new industries"
Reaching for his pen, Chandler scribbled
a note on sheet of paper and signed it, The
note stated that as soon as nine other Los
Angeles capitalists added their signatures, the
group would guarantee the $4,000 that
Douglas wanted to borrow Chandler assigned
Reporter Henry to escort the diffident young
aircraft builder from capitalist to capitalist
until all ten signatures had been obtained
The tenth happened to be a banker. Hesi-
tatingly, Douglas asked him if he would put
up the $4,000.
Il guess can do it, laughed the banker.
You've got at least $l5O,0OO,OOO worth of
collateral on this piece of paper"
The episode launched the aircraft industry
in Southern California, where almost half the
country's commercial air liners and military
planes have been produced. Hurriedly gather
ing a staff, Douglas finished the Cloudsters
for the Navy. Their performance brought
still larger order. Paying off his loan, Douglas
organized the Douglas Aircraft Company,
rented an abandoned motion-picture studio
near Santa Monica for plant, and launched
an ever-expanding program of aircraft build
ing. There are now plants at Santa Monica,
Ell Segundo and Long Beach, California and
Tulsa, Oklahoma, with 10000 designers, en-
gineers, shop workers and test pilots under
his direction. The Douglas pay roll last year
was S27, 100000, and the plants are now hir-
ing new men and training them at the rate of
$50 week
CONTINUED on pose 1O)
Evening star., 1941-06-08
Thirty-Two Years of BUiIdinq

between the first google eyed glimpse of
the Wrghts' fragile biplane in 1909 and the
completion of that majestic B-19 superbomber
for the United States Army Air Corps in
l941, Donald Douglas has done more than
any other individual to give man mastery of
space. Today his glistening air liners girdle
the globe, over 500 of them flying the routes
of twenty-four air lines in fifty-two countries.
Today the demoCracies count the minutes as
bombers and pursuit planes roll off the assem-
bly, lines of the four huge plants in which
Douglas directs the top-speed efforts of 10000
aircraft workers. But though his ideas have
revolutionized plane construction, and Douglas
air liners bombers, interceptors and amphib-
ians are famed the world around, little is
known about Donald Douglas the man who
built them.
Douglas, scholarly, retiring engineer of
Scotch extraction, has Stunned the spotlight
Even in Southern California, where he is
regarded as sort of symbol of the oppor-
tunity America offers men to lift themselves
by their own ideas, few people know him per-
sonally. Almost no one knows that one of his
hobbies is writing poetry, that another is
sailing yachts in the Pacific, or that he located
what is now the world largest airpane plant
at Santa Monica because he wanted to live
near the smooth sailing water.
Lean, athletic, still in his forties, with a
finely -chiseled face bronzed from the sur and
sea breezes, Douglas looks more like sports
man than an industrial magnate. Apart from
his love of the outdoors, he is ravenous
reader - and confirmed daydreamer. But
he differs from most daydreamers in that he
Evening star., 1941-06-08

is always working to make his dreams come
true. Take the fabulous BIG dream, for
instance. He poured So, 1877 600 of his earnings
into the superbomber because he believes that
in pinch fleet of these great craft, each
making $50 transatlantic round trips year.
could carry as much food to England as an
equal number of ocean freighters, and bring
back l25 bomber-ferrying pilots on each re-
Evening star., 1941-06-08

aeroplane for the first time before the United
States military authorities at Fort Meyer,
Virginia. The exhibition was to be solely for
the eyes of high-ranking Army and Navy
officials, and cadets were definitely unlimited.
Nevertheless, when the Wrights' flimsy aero
plane chugged noisily off the ground, scared
over a circular course, then landed safely,
Midshipman Douglas, A.W.O.L. from classes,
was watching it with wide-eyed fascination.
On that day, the United States lost poten-
tial admiral, but gained master of the skies.
On another spring day, in 1941, this same
Donald Douglas told assistants to pull aside
the high canvas curtains in the vast assembly
hangar of the Douglas Aircraft Company at
Santa Monica, California Behind this canvas
wall, picked crew of tight-lipped engineers
and craftsmen had worked for two years on a
job mysteriously known as project D. AS
the curtains rolled back, even Donald Douglas
blinked at the silver monster he and his men
had fabricated so secretly - a flying battle
ship with 2l2-foot wingspread, capable of
carrying tank-car load of gasoline and
flying nonstop for $500 miles. from Chicago
to Europe and back to Chicago, with
eighteen tons of bombs or thirty-ton cargo
of foodstuffs. The largest airplane ever built.
an aerial dreadnaught representing the last
word in mans conquest of distance by air.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-18

iihh,'s popular ecrrsd beef
hash. NaLss an idssl
1uickish supper fof these
hot da,s,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-04
ond Silent" Is the word for the
New ELECTRoLUx

The SERVEL Cos Refrigerator will omaze you. Abso-
utey silent in its operotion because it has moving
ports this scientific marvel will give you years
Of service in protecting your food supplies The low
operating cost and the absence Of costly repoir bills
will bring you savings sufficient to pay for it,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Arranging Rites
For Lake Victims

Funeral arrangements for Pri-
Yates Jack D. Matlock and Thomas
e. MCGUIRE OF the 116th Engineers,
Camp Murray, both Of whom were
drowned early Tuesday morning in
Spanaway lake when rowboat
capsized. are being made by the
c. c. Mellinger funeral home.
Private Jack Dempsey Matlock.
% years old, was born in West
Mills, n. c. He enlisted in the
military service Sept. IL, 1910. at
Boise, Ida He is survived by his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben S. Mat
lock, Ri. l. Boise.
Pet. Mcclure, also %. was born
in Burns, Ore. He enlisted on
Sept. Is, 1910, at Boise. Survivors
include his mother, Mrs. Verda l..
Doan, Smiths Prairie. Ida, and a
brother. James s., of La Grande,
Oregon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
To Be Returned
To Reformaiory

A 20-year-old Kelso youth who
has spent six of his years behind
bars of institution was in the
county Jail here Wednesday re-
solved that he has no further in
terest in cars which are not his
own.
Roy L. Nearing, the oft Offend
ing youth. was picked up by
Deputy Sheriffs Clay and Kittle-
son Tuesday on his completion of
a term in the federal prison on
Mcneil island for driving a stolen
car across the state line to Port
land. a violation of the U. S. Dyer
act.
He is waiting now to go back to
the state reformatory at Monroe
as parole violator. with Is years
owing on a former 15-year term
for auto theft. When doing his
previous time at Monroe for theft
of his second car. Nearing told the
deputies, he already had put in
more than a year at the state
training school in Chehalis for
taking his first one.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Catholic Women
Honor Tacoman

SEATTLE - The 18th annual
convention of the diocesan council
of Catholic women closed late
Tuesday with a plea to President
Roosevelt to keep the nation out
of war.
Consumption of women for
national defense or war serv-
Ice was condemned.
Deanery elections resulted as
follows: Central-Mrs. V. ]. Haus,
Seattle. reelected vice president,
and Mrs. w. A. Morrow, Bremen
ton, treasurer; weste Mrs.
George Christensen. Tacoma, vice
president, and Mrs. j. r.. Merrick,
Tacoma, treasurer; northern
Mrs. A. A. Owen, Everett, vice
president, and Mrs. W. E. Wasley,
Bellingham. treasurer: southern
Mrs. Roy NJ. Wilkinson. Vancou-
yer. reelected vice president, and
Mrs. J. A. Connolly. Olympia,
treasurer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
ATTEMPT To KILL
IRAQ REGENT FAILS

Budapest dispatches reported
that a vain attempt had been made
to assassinate Prince Abdul Illah.
the former regent of Iraq.
Scattered dispatches from lraq
and nearby points said that the
Iraqi troops besieging and Smelling
the British air base at Habbaniya
had been driven from their posi-
tons by Raj bombers and that
the British generally were gaining
the upper hand.
Dispatches by way Of Ger.
many, however, reported that
IL British airplanes had been
destroyed in fighting Tuesday
in Iraq and that there was a
serious engagement under way
at Basra, where the British
imperials had been concen-
trated and where more trans
ports arrived Tuesday.
Reports of developments in Iraq
were meager because of disrupted
communication lies and the fact
that Turkey appeared to be more
seriously concerned about possible
German aid to the Iraqi.
On the North African front, the
axis communiques reported that
the British continued to make
forays from the besieged Libyar
port of Tohruk in counter-attacks
on the Germans and Italians, but
added that these attacks had
failed. The axis forces recently
drove a wedge into the outer de-
lenses of Tobruk and it was pre-
sumed that the British were at
tempting to push them back again
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

Junior Red Cross MEM
bers OF 0oult school, extend
inc the services of the Pierce
County chapter of the Red
Cross, recently collected
10000 magazines which
ore TO be distributed TO SOL
diers Of Fort Lewis, Nc
Chord field and Comp Muir
roy.
Above ore three 0ouIt
students tying, reporting
and sorting some OF the
mooozines being mode
reody for delivery to the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
RAQ DEVELOPMENTS
IMPORTANT To SOVIETS

Developments in lraq. however
were coming close TO an area Of
greatest Importance to the Soviets
Although Germany appeared to b'
attempting to circle around Tur.
key and thus avoid an immediate
showdown on the Dardanelles
question, the British indicated in.
creasing fears of Nazi interven-
ton in the Near East.
Dispatches from Beirut de-
MED that German planes had
landed or flown over Syria.
But there were reports of Ger
man pressure on the French
government at Vichy and re-
cent dispatches seeplng
through the censorship have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Great Britain Promises Axis Powers
'Fiuhi 10 Death" in Middle East

suggested that France would
not ~ able % offer much OPP
position N the Sazis moved
suddenly into syria by way Of
the captured Greek isles tn
the eastern Mediterranean.
On the actual fighting front in
Iraa. the British reported that
they were gaining IN eupper hand
rapidly and they appeared to have
succeeded in getting started with
formation Of a rival Arab regime
to fight the pro-axxis government
Of Rashid Ali Al Gallant at Bagh-
dad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Soldier Ends
Life at Fort
Body Discovered
Hunging on Tower

The body Of Pvt Manuel
ArchuietA a. Of Company L. 7th
Infantry. - Lewis. Vas found
Tuesday hanging by the neck
from rope attached 10 the OBJ
servation tower on the posts main
parade grounds
officials Of the army post. after
= preliminary examination. Wed
nc>day expressed the opinion
Archuleta committed suicide.
though IN official investigation
wsz still be conducted.
The body was found about 7:so
p. m. BY military police making
regular rounds. II was stili warm
when cut Down
An unfinished letter from
Archuleta to his sister. Mss
Sophie Of Antonito. Colo. was
found. but IN II authorities could
fund no clue n to why he desired
70 end his life.
He had been in the army since
Feb. 7. 1870, joining At Fl Logan,
Colo.
Besides his sister. he leaves his
father. Frank. also of Antonito.
his birthplace.
Funeral arrangements are being
made by the Mellinger mortuary.
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The white churning waters Of
. waterfall can produce the same
power and energy a. coal. 20 IL Ii
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Divorce Climoxes
One Day Marriage

HOLLYWOOD - Priscilla Lane
youngest of the acting sisters. has
a final decree from her husband OF
one day, Director Grin Haglund,
and she was reported ready We'd
nesday to marry John Barry, Vic
torville, Cal. newspaperman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

II you tired IN vain 70 help The AsoaizinE
burning u eez<aa-to stop the tortzro1s
scratchinF that often Gauss a sieepless night
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helped thoEHands-try ft-ehe cot = snail
fer tks reiisf yea 81 fru-n TIE itehinG- bsrn-
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
SCHOOL OPENS JUNE %

Fourth in a series of two-month
courses for specially selected Of
ficers of the army at large. will
start June rs at the Command and
General Staff school, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans., the war depart
ment announced Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

in the present Red Cross
Roll Coll drive.
Miss Crissie Comeron, 3D.
wiser for the Junior Red
Cross, supervised the 0oult
students nooozine colIec-
tion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

ormy comps. The boys ore:
Billie Mortin, Richard Messo
and John Horvotin.
The Toconno Junior Red
Cross members ore assisting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
BUILDING PERMITS

Building permits were issued
Wednesday to w. z. Craw, 5000
new residence. 1901 So. 10th;
Charles o. Barker. $1,000 resi-
Dental alterations. 1902 Sunset
ave-: Frost Snyder. $1,000 store
alterations. eli Broadway: II.
Ohlinger, $4,000 new residence.
2505 So. 18th.
Adams Peanut Butter is made
fresh daily. The freshest thing
in town. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

Continued From Page Onel
10 keep open the supply lines TO
the British Isles. was described by
London newspapers IS showing
that the "recisive hour" was near.
Daylight raids by Raj planes
along the coast Of France. battles
with Man fighters over the Eng
lish channel where six German
planes were reported downed) and
steady nighttime pounding Of
British ports and shipysrds indi-
Gated the Nazi efforts 10 win a
decision in the battle Of the At
lantic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
n. =. POLICY
GETS SPOTLIGHT

For the time being. the block
ade and counter-blockade as II
involves United States policy over
shadawed British successes In
fighting pro-sxis troops in Iraq
and thes udden change Of high
official titles at Moscow.
The formality of putting
Josef v. Stain in the office Of
premier Of Soviet Russia, also
was regarded In London rs q
sign OF encouragement al
though most neutral observers
were inclined TO regard the
Moscow action skeptically or
n n move to strengthen Rus
sia's armed neutrality rather
than - an immediate danger
to Germany.
So far there have been only sur.
face indications to suppotr the
hope of Britons that Stain might
break with Adolf Hitler or stanc
against the Nazi armies. On tn,
other hand. there continued many
concrete evidences that Moscow
hopes to make herself strong
enough to stand safely aside Will,
Europe's great powers fight oui
| the war,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
Core Of the News
CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY,

Entertainment and refreshments
for all former Montanans and
friends who wish to attend has
been promised at the meeting of
the Neutrality-suspicious. club
Wednesday evening at o'clock in
Emerson hall. 1902 Broadway.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned from the club president,
c. L. Sylvester. at Proctor 1928.
Butter cheaper at Cow Butter
Store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08
ASK SECOND BOARD

A numerously signed petition
has been presented to the Metro
politan park board, asking for the
installation Of another large ce-
ment checker board. similar 10 the
one now extensively used, in
Wright park, TO accommodate the
rapidly increasing devotees OF the
game.
Hospital flowers. HIM, Florist
-(Adv.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-08

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