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Evening star., 1941-02-22

of the war, the rocky little island OF
Malta off the Sicilian coast was
generally considered so small tar
get it would be untenable under
aerial bombardment, despite the
strong defensive batteries of guns
which protected it from naval at
tack.
italian bombers raided it in vain.
Later ReichSfuehrer Hitler maSsed
his bombers to show Premier Mus
solini how a proper air blitzkrieg
against Malta should be conducted.
But there was the Malta garrison
ready to give the next visit another
hot reception.
Those interested should also take
note that Singapore is on an island
twice the size of Malta, as is Guam,
but relatively small target COM
pared to Great Britain This, as
the experience of Malta shows, en-
ableS anti-aircraft guns to conCen-
trate in a small area, and also their
fighter planes on short notice of an
air attack.
Singapore's Power.
Singapore commands the Strait
of Malacca, joining the Indian
Ocean on one side and the China
Seas on the other, with Johore
Strait cutting it off from the main
land 1t is the great free port for
trade in Malaga whence comes most
of the worlds rubber and tin, in
cluding most of our own supply.
No warship could afford TO ap-
proach within 25 miles of the ports
defense batteries, the most powerful
in the world. Within the Johore
Strait there is anchorage for a
battle fleet larger than that of the
japanese, a craving dock second only
in size to that of Southampton, ca
pable of receiving the largest of
battleships, and supplemented by a
50,000-ton floating dock. A huge
airdrome is prepared for resistance
to bombing siege.
All this is we'll known as a matter
of pre-War preparation. Britain has
continued to strengthen the de-
fenseS.
Difficulties of an Invasion.
The Australians, thinking of
Singapore as the bastion which
guards their lifeline to the Suez,
have not ceased asking: Are there
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Singapore Believed Secure
Fortress Held Nearly ImpregnobIe;
Invasion Offers Great Difficulties

enough guns? How about more air.
drome space and still more planes?
Wouldn't it be we'll to do more
dredging to make room for more
Warships? The Netherlands Indies
oil fields may be near, but are we
sure that bombproof reserve tank
age for 100000 tons of oil and gaso-
line will be enough?
Compared to a Nazi invasion Of
Great Britain across the English
Channel or the North Sea. any at
tempted japanese invasion Of Singa-
pore Island will have to come $500
miles. Scouting planes will apprise
the defenders, hours, even days,
ahead of the approach of troop con-
voys.
In place OF a long coast line, the
choice of beach heads for a landing
will be on short and peculiarly diff
f1cult one, ribbed with defenses Of
every kind. Just as at Malta, and
as it will be at Guam, the garrison
defenders will be secure against
bombs or shells except when they
expose themselves to meet the at
tacl,.
There are few japanese in Singa-
pore. Nearly half of the popula-
ton is. Chinese who are too busy
sending money to aid GeneraliSsimo
Chang Kai-shek and the Chinese
Army to listen to the dulcet tones Of
any fifth columnist about a new
order in Asia.
Alternative Also Is Difficult.
An alternative to siege by direct
invasion is an army advance from
French Indo-China through Thai
land, down the long narrow tongue
of the Malayan Peninsula. Japanese
soldiers will have to make their way
ona narrow front through the thick
est of tropical lungles among noun
tains which rise 1000 to 5000 feet.
In q land where the average rain
fall is 100 inches, not only floods
and tropic growth will impede them,
but the Australians will be on hand
well north of Singapore. The Aus
sizes will be fighting to hold Singa-
pore in the same spirit as the Cana
dams if the Nazis were to get foot
hold on the shores of the st. Law
renee.
How much Of Japan's 5600,0O0
tons Of shipping which is not COM
mitted to the service of her army in
China or home needs will she have
to transport her army as far as
across the Atlantic from New York
or Boston to Liverpool? II she does
move tc the South, her evident plan
will be to try to mask Singapore by
a naval blockade and go for the
Netherlands Indies. Meanwhile,
from impregnable Singapore as
base. her convoys will be under
f1anking bomber. submarine and
| commerce destroyer raids.
Should she further extend her
already wide area of patrol to Guam
she will be within the range Of our
| own battle feet. We should pro-
ceed promptly to make this island
as impregnable as Singapore, Malta
or Hawaii.
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc.
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10 De OH Lle
safe side-if this
mighty modern
fortress can ever
be conquered.
Let him, or
a n y o n e e ] S e
who is interest,"
ed, consider that
Malta still holds
out. and that we
can m a k e an
other and great
er Malta, such
as Singapore, by
the fortihcation
of Guam.
A. ~ -411k
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Pershing Numesoke
Volunteers for Army
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 22-John J.
Pershing volunteered in the United
States Army today. Pershing, %, is
a third or fourth cousin-he isn't
sure Uhich-of Gen. John j. Persh-
ing, commander of the A. E. F. in
the World War.
I'm volunteering because I want
to get it over with as soon as pos
sible," the practical youth declared.
Named after Gen. Pershing, the
young volunteer said:
when I get to camp expect
they'll kid the life out of me because
my names PerShing. I'll be pretty
hard to live up to
Evening star., 1941-02-22

line of least resistance and attempt
to occupy Northern Borneo which
belongs to Great Britain.
Whether it will attempt to oc-
cupy Dutch Borneo at the same time
is uncertain yet but those who have
been following Japan's policies close
ly in the last few months believe
that after the occupation of British
Borneo the conquest of the Dutch
part will be a natural sequel. The
island is relatively undefended and
could not oppose a landing under
the protection of the japanese Navy.
Borneo has much oil and also
offers three excellent naval bases to
the japanese Navy.
From Saigon (Cape st. JaCuues)
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Woqe-Hour Law Ruling
Covers Trucking Firms
By The Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Feb. 22-Judge
William C. Coleman ruled yesterday
in United States District Court that
n-driving employees of trucking
concerns engaged in interstate COM
merce come under the provisions of
the wage-hour law.
The ruling. which Wage-Hour Di-
vision officials called of national
Importance was given in the case
Of William H. Missel against the
Overnight Motor Transportation Co.
Of Baltimore.
Mr.. Missel. a rate clerk, instituted
the civil action. claiming he was
due time-and-a-half payment for
certain services.
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Non-White Population
Totals 13,455,o88

On April l, 1910, the United States
had a non-white population of 49,
ASS, 988, an increase of 967, 682 since
1880, the Census Bureau reported
today. In both census years non-
whites constituted approximately
10.2 per cent of the country's total
population.
Negroes comprised 95.2 per cent
Of the non-white population in 1880.
For hundred years the records
show a predominance Of females
in the Negro population. In 1910 the
non-white population had 96.s males
for every 100 females.
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Blessed Sacrament Club
To Present Comedy

The Young Peoples Club of
Blessed Sacrament Church, Chevy
Chase. will present musical
comedy, up in the Air" tomorrow
and Monday for the benefit of the
building fund of the parish.
The comedy will be staged at
Leland Junior High School, Forty
fourth and Elm streets, Bethesda,
at pm. tomorrow and at 8:15
pm. Monday. Featured singers will
be Ruth Sauter and Ed Bresnan.
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Has Message for Americans

selected
Speaking the winter of 4o
This book is the
help build the morale OF which speaks
fessness 1t has, dlstnc S
the of America today who not at war o VINO
defense and for whom the lesson
Mauer has included "A
o
the horror OF air
dead its homeless victims ano l opna
standing Inc spirit OF
people triumphant the old lazy every
thing OF the past
h testing time of buaon We believe that side by
fighting another battle Inc oatue
Won we can
world order founded not
unity
of America never
the battle against human sesesS
that by In
little You Will hno nenl
among the pioneers you to buid
These stories-true Miss du MauTier has written
struggles Whcn
Upon the out
integrity Of the front II the
crumbes little in the end what happens on ne
Evening star., 1941-02-22

w AICL CON HILAC-
leans were in
vited to send
radio messages
collect telling
the NaZis what
kind of broad
C a is t h e y
wanted to hear
from Berlin was
doubtless d e
signed to do two
things: First, to
let as many peo-
pie as possible
in America know
that the Nazls
had a short
Evening star., 1941-02-22

Those AIIleS nave ItC us uUWH.
Yet think a moment of the real
cause of failure, in war or in peace.
Is it not always, in every walk of life,
amongst the rich and the poor, be-
cause we put self first?"
These stories of the British men
and women back of the lines point
up and give the answer to the ques-
tions of many American men and
women who today are asking what
mart thew NAV nlaV in bringing
Evening star., 1941-02-22

premise that un.
der no circum-
stances Will they
a lloW America
to become in
volved in other
peoples wars"
In a orld
ruled by force
and in a world
diplomacy based
on threats Of
violence, t h Is
premise is an in
VltatiOn to dis
aSter. It reSem-
bles the action
Of a householder
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which, persist
a conflict is
the title OF her book to
England ITSELF when Bnyan
wrote:
would vaor
hither,
will constant be
weather."
Evening star., 1941-02-22

more than bUU,UUU have been DIS
tributed in England. The first Amer
lean edition was published here yes
terday.
These are the stories of ordi-
nary folk, the miner, the shopkeeper,
the charwoman, the physician, the
typist, the women who are behind
every man who goes down to the sea
in ships, and every man who has
his place in the army. They tell of
zf al sx.
Evening star., 1941-02-22
This Changing World
Officials See Slight Hope Crisis in Orient
May Be Postponed Due to Stiff Resistance
Nv CONSTANTINE BROWN.

reliable information from Sofia the German troops are
within the next 4s hours Yesterday the
Bulgarian small
protecting fed guard those bdgeheds against
any surprise
japanese important the Southern
Judging obanabe observers the
has decided tackle the
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Isolutionists
Accused of
IlIogic
lnsistence on Peace
At Amy Price Held to
Invite Disaster
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

The deep-seated weakness Of the
Little American doctrine, the fatal
fallacy Of the 0eacemongers, the
illogic Of the isolationists is theil
Evening star., 1941-02-22

sarawak the capital of British Boneo less than 700 miles The
safely anchored in the French Indo
China and in the Gulf of Siam The purpose of taking possession of
Foreign Office spokesman explained last night that Japan
has compelled naval force Gulf of Siam
the of
ThaianderS arbitrate their boundary disputes.
the
The distance
10
Evening star., 1941-02-22
By Col. FREDERICK PALMER.

The prophet who says that Singa-
pore should be able to hold out for
two or three months had better
multiply his estimate by 10-and 20
Evening star., 1941-02-22
Nuzi Trick
Suggests
Opportunity
U. S. Might Use Radio
To Tell Germun Public
Of Aid to Britain
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Herr Hitler has some one over in
Germany who knows something
about the art of publicity and the
tricks of press agentry. The stunt
Evening star., 1941-02-22

HE opinions OF the pers this page their o,Dn not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to gDe all sides questions interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1941-02-22
The Political Mill
EneIond's Experience in Moral Reormoment
Contuins Lesson in National Unity for U. S.
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Moral earmamen has ceased be mere figure Of speech in
bobngs directed against nation than sufficient
testimony With moral rearmament national unity.
Maur Rebecca put together volume
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Answers Make for National Unity
Miss du Maurier Sa

Maurer I'VE all be soldiers We cannot all
keep upon fight freedom in the skies Many OF us
selfish interest
that throw away Oe
people are to blame this!
Evening star., 1941-02-22
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Evening star., 1941-02-22
Planes Rushed to Singapore

obvious that the japanese will attempt coup
British rushed available
Middle
The Dutch aviation stationed mainly Srabaya,
standing While
body determined defend their Asac with
available the sufficiently
in the Pacific there slight hope in official Washington
military officials
while wait further developments
operation before they decide to tackle the British and the Dutch
Archipelago.
This has happened before As far back 1893
decided
when it definitely certain that the British would
intended changed
there
Based these peceden responsible officials in Washington cling
to the slight that the quick the japanese threat the
postponed
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Britain Sends Supplies to Turks

the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden believed
have personal appeal President Isme Inonou stick
equipment likely
According to Cairo reports part Of the tanks and motorized units
Itaansa excellent shape quays being
possible
hesitation eventual
Greece by Germany bell only the lack Of
British willing that deficiency Of the Turkish
a
being no IN Eastern
unhampered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
Hail And. Farewell

Although Colonel Albertis Montgomery, con-
structing quartermaster at Camp Davis, has
been in Wilmington but a short time, his trans
fer to Washington will be regretted by the
wide circle of friends he has made here.
Colonel Montgomery's fine attributes, both
as an officer and a man, have endeared him
to all Wilmingtonians with whom he has come
in contact. He goes to Washington for special
service in the quartermaster generals office.
The hope of his friends here is that the new
assignment will include promotion.
There is one compromising element in the
transfer. The officer who succeeds him in he
work at Camp Davis brings to the job wide
experience and proved efficiency. He Will
find Wilmington ready to greet him with
friendship and cooperation.
Captain Karl M. Pattee, new constructing
chief at the anti-aircraft base at Holly Ridge,
recently completed work on a National Guard
cantonment in Massachusetts. Prior to that
project he had been construction quartermas-
ter in the first corps area of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps, with headquarters at Wash
ington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
SENSIBLE AND EQUITABLE
Greensboro News

A retirement fund will be set up for the
teachers, prophets around Raleigh are con-
fident; a prospect to cheer their old age, if
they stick to the profession and can take it
long enough to reach an old age. We trust
that it will be SO, and that by the time any
considerable number of the teachers become
entitled to its provisions, there will be enough
to keep them in comfort. Now the Governor is
reported to be in favor of a pay Increment
for teachers having nine years or more OF
service, which would provide a measure OF
present relief for a fraction of the whole num-
Der.
The Daily News would like to see a sub
stantial increase of the scale of pay to- all
the teachers if the cost of living index whould
rise materially in the next biennlum, they are
likely to need it badly. They need it anyway,
The cost of living is more likely to rise than
to recede, although it has not shifted much as
yet, and perhaps may remain about as it is.
But what with one thing and another, es-
pecially the heavy taking out OF production by
the federal government-nobody knows where
that will end-the legislators may feel that
If is impolitic if not impossible to find the
hie sum necessary to provide Increases all
around. Our own notion is that II is contrary
to the public interest to leave teachers with
reasonably just cause for complaint. There
would certainly be a measure OF justice in
adding to the retirement provision, and the
increment for long service, an annual sick
1eave-with-pay allowance. mat would cost
relatively little, the political effect OF it might
not be great but it would be a sensible and
EQUITABLE thing to do.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
Needless Fire Hazard

When Fire Chief Groom called the city COM
missions attention to a smoke stack which,
because it is not equipped with a smoke con-
sumner, ~scatters sparks in the vicinity of huge
gasoline tanks, it developed that ordinances
designed to eliminate fire hazards are made
quate and provide no safeguard against such
a case as the chief cited. In ordering the city
attorney to confer with Chief Groom and pre-
pare amendments to the ordinances govern
ing fire protection, the city commission took
the right action. Any weakness in the statutes
which prevent the enforcement of essential
provisions for safety from fire need to be cor
rected.
But, considering the fact that the fire de-
partment, under Chief Croom's leadership, has
been so efficient that fire insurance r a t e S
nave gone steadily down and have enabled
business and industrial groups to pocket con-
siderable savings on this usually expensive
item, it is appropriate to ask why any firm
or person should wait to be compelled by law
to install safety devices for the further pro-
lection of Their own property and the property
Of others. Surely the cost of spark-arrestors
or any other device for the further reduction
of fire risks could be paid out of The savings
on insurance premiums and still leave those
who install them "ahead of the game"
During Chief Croom's appearance before the
commission it was brought out that the smoke
stack he mentioned is not the only one in the
city which creates a fire hazard. Other equal
ly dangerous were said to exist, in defiance
of the. spirit, if not the letter of the law. The
operators of plants where they do exist would
serve their own interests no less than the pub.
lie welfare by correcting the fault volun .ariIy
A fair view of the situation is that corrective
measures are a manifest obligation upon them
and a duty that should be met without resort
to the law.
One good turn deserves another, in all trans.
actions of life. The fire department has done
the Wilmington business and industrial com.
munity so many good turns, rendered such
CAPABLE service, that it deserves responsive
and ful-fledged cooperation. The chief wants
the snnoke.stack fire hazard removed. By next
week he will have the law so strong that he
will be able to force their removal. But why
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
AIRPLANE CRASH
TAKES Il LIVES
Nine Passengers and Three
Crew Members Killed in Ac-
cident Near Winnipeg

WINNIPEG, Canada, Feb. 6.-LP
Twelve persons died today in the
crash of a Trans-Canada Airlines
plane just one mile from the airport
at which it had been scheduled tc
make a routine landing.
All those aboard-nine passengers
and three crew members-were killed
in the disaster, the worst in Canada's
aviation history, and no one knew
how it had occurred.
This was all that was known to-
night:
At BAT a. m. (4:47 a. m. Eastern
Standard Time), the pilot wirelessed
the Armstrong airport, 391 miles east
of Winnipeg, that he was coming in.
Somehow, presumably almost al
that very moment, something went
fatally wrong, for hours later the
wreckage of the plane was sighted
from aloft. 1t lay smashed in the
snow, a mile from Armstrong.
The dead:
Passengers-Mrs. r. D.. Carter,
Vancouver; E. Malone, Toronto; F.
w. F. CASTOR, Winnipeg; H. Moss,
Toronto; Prof. Robert Mcqueen.
Winnipeg; Lieutenant Commander
H. H. Harlowe. Ottawa; E. C. Man
ming. Vancouver; j. F. Freer, Win
nipeg; L. E. Davidson, Vancouver.
Crew-Captain w. E. Twiss, Win
nipeg; First Officer c. E. Lloyd,
Winnipeg; Miss NJ. G. Mayne, Win
nipeg, stewardess.
Snow was falling thinly at the time
the plane fell, but men at the Arm
airport reported that the
weather was not u~nfavorable.
A rescue party aided by snow
shovelers Travelled by truck to the
wreckage, but it was slow going be-
cause of the great drifts piled up in
the seldom-used road. At any rate,
all were dead when the rescuers ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
= Man About Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-This town
is full of smells.
Not all of them are bouquets.
They i%nsinuate themselves into
your consciousness of frosty street
corners and in bakers shops and
in the dry anterooms of law of
fees. Sometimes they curl out of
the smudgeovens of those poor
scarecrows with icicles on "leir
noses who haunt the doorways
leading to the subways, selling
roasted chestnuts.
To me one of the finest odors OF
all. one that you may savor and
relish and then again, is the
smell of new bread. l also like
creosote and tar. If you care to
go into Chambers street, or in any
Of the streets of this neighborhood,
you can walk for blocks with the
gentle fragrance of Zanzibar Glove
in your nostrils. This is a spice
district. From the Dutch East In
dies, from Spain, and from our
own West Indies have come Glove
and cassia, giner, anise and Gin
namon. They are brought in by
brokers and shippers in hogsheads
and delivered to the wholesalers.
These wholesalers grind the spices
and prepare them for retailer or
consumer use. Sometimes when
the wind is right, the whole mystic
riddle of the perfumed east seems
to lie in a single sniff.
Very few people are careful
enough or know enough, to select
just the right adjectives when de-
scribing smells. 1 do not pretend
to use them' correctly. Sometimes
| say smoke is acrid when prob
ably it isn't acrid at all; not all
smoke has a pungent, or a bitter
or hot smell. But some smells have
a bite, not necessarily unpleasant;
and others are gentle and seem to
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
Lindbergh Says He Does
Not Use Ghost Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-(Ip-Col.
Charles A. Lindbersh told the SEN
ate foreign relations committee TO-DAY
that he employs no ghost writer
for his speeches but does like 10
have his wife, an author in her own
right, look e. them.
Senator Clark O-Mo.) asked LIND
bergh whether it were true ina
somebody else is writing your
speeches.' Lindbergh has made sew
eral radio addresses opposing the
administrations foreign policies.
mo one has taken any important
part in writing any of my addresses
L~indbergh replied. 81 say no import
ant part but I always like to have
nv wife look V them. Beyond that
no one has written a paragraph OF
HEM