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The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
GLASS AIRPLANE WINGS

An airplane with glass wings has ben built - and has been flown.
 This radical development still is in the experimental stage a3d must be approved by government authorities before it can be made use of commercially, but the builders are confident 1t will l;vz up to advance expectations.
 Highly fire-resistant, the cover ing of the wings is a materisi woven from pure fibrous glass The same glass fabric can be adopted to cover the fuselagz and contro,-surface framework of a plane.
 Advantages listed by the man ufacturers for the glass fabric in clude: That 1t is fre-reSistant to such degree that a torch vii. cause only a smudge; that 1t is lighter and stronger than oths now used for wing cov-rings; that it absorbs little moisture, thus lessening the accumulated weight danger in flight.
 The material is designed for use only on planes of lower horsu power classes. It will bs tested for six months or more by gov ernment experts to determine is safety in use.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
.Honored Guests
 Are Encouraged

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - In his inaugural address, President Roosevelt said that the Democrat ic faith "sp- aks to us of other nations of this Hemisphere and also from across the sea where there are enslaved as well as free people,
 To two honored guests on tho inaugural platform, these words were of special import. The two honored guests were Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, of Norway, exiled from their homeland by the German invasion.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
Armed Man
 Is Seized At White House
Barber, Wearing Legion Uniform Claims He was Helping to
 Guard President

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - The Secret Service reported their agents and local police had ar rested an unidentified man carry ing loaded revolver in the square fronting the White House just before the President return ed from taking the oath at the Capitol.
 The man was sent to a hospital after a lengthy questioning. Sec ret Service officials said the man was a Washington barber wear ing Legion uniform. He told them he helped to guard the President four years ago." The man also asserted his command CT sent him down 10 help again this year.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
Japan Disturbed
 Over Rissh iss hway U. s. To Alaska
Road Would be Continuation of Horseshoe Shaped En-
 circIement of Japan

TOKYO. Jan. - The newspa- per Hochi said that Japan l5 greatly disturbed over ported plans for building military highway from the United States to Alaska through Western Can ada.
 The newspapers said that the Tokyo foreign office was inform ed that a string of airbases will be built along the highway by the Unitsd States and Canadian governments.
 Strategic Bases
 Hochi declared; American measures in this direction will be regarded as a continuation of the horse-shoe-shaped encircle- ment of Japan by the Washington government. Military bases of the United States would thus be $ rategic from Singapore, via Australia, the Philippines, flaw al and the Unit d States to Can ada and Alaska
 Tie Western-most islands of the Alaska territory are closer than Hawaii to Japan. The news paper assumed that the United States would be given joint use of British air bases in the South Seas.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
Capt. Wood Loses His Grid Post

WEST POINT, N. Y, Jan. - Capt. William II. Wood, head football cosch at the Army for the last tbr years, has been ordered by the War Department 10 duty at Fort Bliss, Texas.
 Lieut.. Col. E H'bbs, graduate manager of athletics who made the announcement said the poor showing of the Army team last fall had no bearing on the trans fer. Th2 Cadets beat only Will Hams and tied Harvard while losing to Cornell, Lafayette, Notre Dame, Brown, Penn, Princeton and Navy for their poorest season in fifty-one years of football
 Last year the Cadets won three lost four and tied two while in 1888, the first year under Capt. Woods direction. they won eight and lost only two.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
At Point Since '31

Wood. who won twelve letters in football, basketball and base ball Wh.le a cadet after attend ing John Hopkins, has been at the Point since 1881 either as as sistant or head coach.
 After graduating in 1925, he re turned to West Point as assistant under Maj. Ralph Sasse in 1881. H then served as head back field coach under Capt. Gar Dav- idson until 1887, when he was named head coach.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-24
Mention Civilians

The War Department ordered Capt. Wood to sail on a trans port for San Francisco, February 6 and then motor to the Texas station.
 Several names were mentioned as the successor to Capt. Wood, among them civilians, but Col. Hibbs said "our athletic board hs msde ID decision as yet
 Br:gadire Gen. Revert L. Eieh alberger, superintendent of the military acadsmy, said that Maj. Gen. John K. Herr, chief of cav airy in Washington had request ed that Wood be assigned to act i've duty and that the retiring coach wanted the assignment. Most of Woods corps of assist ant coaches have left for perman ent stations.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Aluminium Firm Leaders
Confer Here on Defense

Price and supply problems in con-
nection with scrap aluminium and
national defense were discussed here
today in a conference attended by
about 65 representatives of the in
dustry and C. A. Bishop. acting di-
rector of the price section Of the
Price Sterilization Division of the
National Defense Advisory Com
mission.
Recently Mr.. Bishop charged
some concerns were boarding scrap
aluminium TO the detriment of the
national defense program. To help
safeguard the Nations supply of
this vital metal the Office of Pro-
duction Management asked airplane
companies to return their scrap
aluminium to the original source of
supply, and requested industrial
users in non-defense fields to en-
ploy substitutes for aluminium when
ever possible.
The meeting, called by the COM
mission at the request of aluminium
company executives, was held at the
Washington Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Fighting in Chisimoio Area
Continuing, Italians Say

ROME, Feb. 18 (P.-Italian ma
tive troops have abandoned the
Somaliland port of Chisimaio, but
heavy fighting is continuing in that
sector. the Italian high command
announced today.
(The British previously had
announced their troops entered
Chisimaio last week.
German planes, meanwhile, were
reported to be keeping up a heavy
bombardment OF British rear lines
and supply bases on the Libya front
in Northern Africa.
British warplanes were acknowl-
edged by the high command to have
struck back with raids on the italian
Dodecanese Islands in the Eastern
Mediterranean.
Before withdrawing from Chisi-
maio, the daily war bulletin said,
the native garrison completely OBJ
structed" the harbor to prevent the
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Sharp British Blows
On Italian Peninsula
Viewed as Possible
Step Seen as Possibly
Forcing Nozis TO Delay
Western Front Plans
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 18.-Sharp blows
by British air, sea and land forces
against the italian peninsula itself
were viewed in some quarters today
as possible second phase Of
Britain's campaign in the Mediter-
ranean.
With italian invaders ouSted
from Anglo Egyptian Sudan, Kenya
Colony and Egypt, and all operations
in Africa now going on in Italian
possessions, Britain's Army of the
Nile has completed the first phase
of its offensive.
Despite the presence of a British
spearhead menacing Tripoli, the
only major port in the hands Of the
Italians in their Libyan colony, Gen.
Sir Archibald P. Wavell has given
no indication that his army intends
to reduce that city as they have
Bardia, Tobruk and Bengasi.
Series of Local Attacks.
Instead, with Bengasi as a west
ernmoSt base for operations, series
of local attacks on italian ports,
communications and industrial
centers was viewed in Informed
circles as likely to have better re-
suits than extension of British lines
some 600 mites farther west to
Tripoli.
The italian railroad system with
thousands of miles of tracks hug
ging the coastline, it was pointed
out, is we'll within the range of
battleship guns, as we'll as bombers.
Such coast artillery bases as Civ
itavecchia, port 38 miles from Rome,
would be another obvious objective,
it was asserted.
Might Force Nazi Action.
Quick but jarring stabs at such
points, it was said, would hamper
Italy's efforts to reinforce her
armies in Africa and Albania and
might require Germany to divert to
Italy additional men, planes and
defense guns from the important
western front opposite England.
The widespread attack by the r.
A. F. Saturday night on objectives
in Sicily, where German dive
bombers have been based, and
Brindisi, at the southern end of the
Italian boot, would fit into the pic
ture drawn for the second phase of
operations, it was said. So too
would the February 9 naval assault
on Genoa.
Quiet has been reported the last
few days on the North African land
front, while the British have said
continued advances were made into
Eritrea, italian Somaliland and to-
ward Gondar in Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1941-02-18

British from using port facilities
there.
At another point, in the Juba dis
trict of Southern Somaliland, Italian
troops were said to have repulsed
violent enemy attacks to force a
passage across the (Juba) river"
On the Kenya colony front, British
tanks and motorized equipment were
said to have been put to flight" by
an Italian column.
Operations in Eritrea were limited
to local actions" the high COM
mand declared.
The Italian air force was said to
be playing a major role in develop
ments in Africa and Albania.
The empires air force, for its
courage and generous bloodshed
since the beginning of operations
and particularly for the audacity
and sacrifices lavished in the cycle
of recent battles, has merited the
admiration of the Italian people, A."
the communique said.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Youth Is Released
After Questioning
In HoIdup Staying
Police Test Two Guns;
Neither Used in Killing
Of Dress Shop Owner

The fatal shooting of Mrs. Fannie
Cohen, S. in her dress shop at 1912
U street NV. last Saturday night
remained unsolved today as police
released an 18-year-old colored
youth held for questioning.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
announced that coroner's Jury
would be sworn in at 11:3O am. to-
day. Date for the inquest has not
been set, DR.. Macdonald said.
Through extensive ballistics tests
it has been established, police said,
that neither of the two revolvers
found yesterday was used in the
killing Of Mrs. Cohen. The dress
shop proprietor was slain about clos
ing time Saturday night, when she
screamed as the bandit demanded
money
The man released by police had
been held after the only eyewitness
to the Staying declared him ito look
like the man" he had seen in the
shop.
The revolvers examined were OF
the same caliber as the one used il
the shooting. One was found in &
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Communists at Aroyut
Must Retake Oath
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, Feb. 18-Communist Of
fcials of Arayat, Pampanga Prov
ince. have been ordered by President
Manuel Quezon to retake their oath
of Office in the prescribed form
right hand raised with the palm
open. instead of with the fist
cIenched.
The solicitor general Roman Oza-
eta, informed the secretary of JUS
tice that the Communist officials
originally took their oaths with
clenched fists, a form derived from
Soviet Russia and thereby chal-
lenged the existing form of govern
ment.
The secretary of justice recon-
mended to Quezon that the officials
be sworn in again in the proper
form. If they refused, Quezon said,
they would be suspended.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
International Officer
OfY. M. G. A. to Speak

Addresses on What Latin Amer
leans Think of Us will be delivered
tomorrow, Thursday and Friday by
Frank B. LenZ, International Y. NJ
c. A. secretary, at luncheon meet
ingS here.
Tomorrow he is scheduled to speak
before the Lions Club in the May
flower Hotel, Thursday the Rotary
Club Of Arlington County, and Fri
day the Loyal Knights of the Round
Table in the National Press Club.
Mr.. Lenz is to speak at q
Central ~" staff conference Thurs
daV morning
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Virginia Motorist
Indicted in Death Of
Man Hit in Safety Area
Second Degree Murder
Also Is Charged in
FotoI Shooting

Harrell M. benson, 35, Arlington,
Va, was indicted by the District
grand jury today on charge of
manSlaughter in connection with
the traffic death of a 51-year- old
man struck by an automobile while
standing in a streetcar safety zone.
Mr.. benson was accused OF being
the driver of the car which hit
Harold johnson of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who was fatally injured on the
night of February at Pennsylvania
avenue and Twenty-sixth street
NV. Mr.. johnson died the next day
in Georgetown Hospital.
Another indictment returned by
the jury was that of second-degree
murder against John A. Swami, 26,
colored, TOO block of Lamont street
NV, in connection with the fatal
shooting of Porter A. Jackson, 80,
colored, 1900 block of Marion street
NV. Mr.. Jackson was shot at his
home on the night of February l
and was pronounced dead by an
ambulance physician.
Other indictments returned were:
Benjamin F. Stith, Leroy Hender-
son, Herman c. Murray. Thomas B.
Brown and Luther McGinn, JOY rid
ing; Roscoe Brown, JOY riding and
grand larceny; Josephine Bias and
Arthur c. Hall, grand larceny: Afford
G. Evans, James L. Harris, Lawrence
L. Gill, Charles H Jackson, Nelson
r. Lawrence, James Bell, Milton
Winfield, Alexander E. Phillips. John
Wesley Henson, David Flemming
and Robert E. Smith, housebreaking
and larceny; James Brown and John
S. Henry. houSebreaking.
Willie Newton and Robert E. Min
mis-, larceny from the District of
Columbia; Ross James Lucas and
Bernard A. Flynn, receiving stolen
property; Richard A. Particle. forg-
cry and uttering; Edward S. Harris,
Dorothy Dalton, James Murray, Jo-
seph E. Harris, Kelly Edwards, jr.,
and Raymond r. Woody, robbery;
Lee Norman, assault with dangerous
weapon; Charles F. Alexander, as
sault with a dangerous weapon and
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny; Rich
ard Taylor, carnal knowledge; Alma
EXum, manslaughter, and Hattie E.
Triplett, abortion.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
North African Recruits
For Air Service Sought

By the Associated Press.
TANGIER, Feb. 18.-France con-
tinues to occupy an important po-
sition in the world thanks to her
empire" the French Moroccan press
commented yesterday as the gov
ernment launched a recruiting cam
paign throughout North Africa for
the air force.
Dispatches reaching here from
French territory said the press pub
lished articles inviting French youth
to enroll in the air service for duty
in the colonies. Alongside these ap-
peals were editorials entitled long
live the empire"
One Arab language newspaper
commented "it is gratifying to note
that French policy toward the col
onies is inspired by the same prin-
ciples as internal policy-to live and
work for the best interests of France
as if the adversary does not exist"
Significance of the word "ad-
versary" was not explained.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Three CoIored Youths
Named to Academies
By the Associated Press.

BY lne ASSOCldteu HreSS
Representative Mitchell, Demo-
crat, of Illinois, said he had nomi-
mated two Negro youths for admis-
sion to the Naval Academy and one
to the Military Academy.
For Annapolis, Mr.. Mitchell, the
only colored member of Congress,
said he had recommended Toussaint
Gadsden and Alvin Jerome Thomp-
son, both of Chicago. Gadsden now
is attending Miners Teachers Col
lege here and lives at 2724 Sherman
avenue NV, the Representative
said
To West Point, he recommended
H. Minton Francis of Chicago, who
he said was now attending the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Francis
parents, he said, live at 977 Florida
avenue NV.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Walkers S Career Broke Up
Marriage, Says Betty

By the Associated Press.
KEY WEST, Fla, Feb. 18-The
former Betty Compton blamed
James J. Walkers public life today
for breaking up their marriage.
She charged extreme cruelty IN
a divorce suit against the dapper
one-time Mayor of New York.
Circuit Court was asked to ap-
prove a property settlement and an
agreement for the custody and con-
troll of their two adopted children
Mary Ann, 5, and James j., I'd, 4.
Mrs. Walker asked restoration of the
name Betty Compton, which she
used in motion pictures.
They were married at Cannes,
France, April 18, 1888.
Mrs. Walker said she suffered in
tense mental pain because the de-
mands upon her as wife of prom
inent public figure left her no time
for her friends or for herself.
Mrs. Walker established residence
In Florida in November. State law
requires 80 days residence.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
6. 0. P. Chairmanship
SauabbIe Believed
Averted by WiI|kie
Martin Expected to Keep
Position After Plea by
Presidential Nominee
BY the Associated Press.

A threat of immediate strife over
the Republican national chairman
ship abated today after Wendell L.
WILKES prediction that Represent
ative Joseph w. Martin, jr, of Mas
sachusettS would retain the post.
Mr.. Willkie, the 1910 Republican
presidential nominee. conferred last
night with Representative Martin,
who announced recently he would
hand in his resignation at a Ma
tional Committee meeting March "a
Later Mr.. Martin told reporters
that Mr.. Willkie had been kind
enough to urge me to stay on" and
added that he had taken the sug-
gestion under consideration.
Free-for-All Fight Feared.
There have been widespread re-
ports that if Mr.. Martin resigned,
the committee would split in a free
for-all political fight which might
leave serious antagonisms and en-
danger the party's chances in the
1912 congressional elections.
Senate Minority Leader McNary,
Mr.. WILKES running mate in last
years campaign, was said to have
been working to persuade Mr.. Mar
tin to stay on.
Mr.. Willkie is supporting the ad-
ministrations British-aid bill OBJ
jectives, while two of his unsuccess-
full opponents for the 1910 Republi-
can nomination-Senators Taft of
Ohio and Vandenberg of Michigan
are fighting the legislation.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota has said that Republican
opponents of Mr.. WILKES views on
foreign policy would seek to prevent
him from selecting a successor to
Mr.. Martin.
Calls Martin Fine Friend"
Mr.. Willkie told reporters that
Joe is one of the finest friends
ever had"
'I hope he stays on as national
chairman until the National Com
mittee has ample time to give con-
sideration to the selection of his sue
cessor," Mr.. Willkie continued. II
believe he will"
1t was reported authoritatively
that Mr.. Willkie and other Republi-
can leaders wanted Mr.. Martin to
continue in his post until after the
off-year elections of 1912.
Mr.. Martin said he would carry
out his decision to submit his resig-
nation when the committee meets,
but indicated clearly that he might
accept a committee decision to re-
ject it.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Artillery Officer Asks
Army Conservatives
Be Replaced
Warns U. S. May Suffer
For Failure to Bring
Equipment Up to Dote

A field artillery staff officer de.
clared today that the United State.
might have to pay in needless deac
and wounded" and "even lost wars
for failing to modernize its equip.
ment and tactics in the post-WorlC
War years.
The artilleryman, 1t. Col. Thomas
r. Phillips, urged in an article ir
The Infantry Journal that CON
servatives" in the War Department
be replaced by men who could COM
prehend the changes brought about
by new weapons and altered socia,
conditions.
To illustrate his contention, he de-
clared that possibilities of the tank
went generally unrecognized in the
United States Army until the out
break of the present European
struggle.
Here" said Col. Phillips, "is q
weapon ideally suited to the greatest
industrial nation on earth and to a
soldier personnel, every one of whom
is able to drive car and has some
elementary mechanical education
Shortage Our Own Fault"
At the outbreak of the European
war we had some 300 light tanks. We
had no homogeneous armored di-
visions capable of independent ac-
ton. The reasons for the
shortage of tanks are exclusively our
own fault"
Col. Phillips formerly was an in
structor at the Command and Cen
eral Staff School at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans., and now is attached
to the general staff of the Puerto
Rican Department.
He contended that the United
States Army also had Jagged in mo-
torizing supply trains and in re-
organizing its divisions to conform
to the demands of modern war.
"One would think" he continued,
that the United States, which can
manufacture trucks faster than it
AdIl dl dlG IllCIlg "Oh4O oCNS1-
oped the tactics and equipped its
Army so as to make the greatest
possible use of this exceptional mil
itary asset. But not so.
1T was not until 1899 that d.
visional organization was adopted
which discarded horses and mules
for hauling supplies in wagons and
dragging machine-gun carts and
substituted motors for them.
It's Never Never Land"
The officer said that the success
full use of self-contained combat
teams by Germany in 1918 was dis
regarded, "or perhaps hardly even
known" in the American Army.
IN the matter of obtaining a suit
able artillery to keep up with the
infantry" he wrote, I'VE remained
perfectly contented for 20 years after
the World War with the French Is
of World War vintage. 1t
had been known for many years
that European armies we're dis
carding them as fast as their
finances permitted small howitzers
to be manufactured to replace
them"
Describing maneuvers in which he
said troops had marched all night,
when the same troops in motor We
hicles could have motored CON-
pletely around the division being at
tackled three times in a single night"
Col. Phillips declared:
ut is like a fantasy, the nostal-
gia of men who want to return to
q never-never land"
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Justice Hughes Promotes
Wiley TO Deputy Clerk

Harry B. Wiley, for IT years an
assistant clerk in the Supreme Court,
was named deputy clerk by Chief
Justice Hughes today when the
number of deputies was increased
from two to three.
Mr.. Wiley, 40, is married and has
two daughters. He is a graduate of
George Washington University law
school, and resides in Arlington.
The new deputy is the son of the
late James M. Wiley, who was su-
pervisor of accounts in the Bureau
of Valuation of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Evening star., 1941-02-18

cab by a gas station attendant
cleaning out the automobile. Aftef
tests, 1t. John Fowler, ballistic exs
pert, said it was not the death
weapon.
The other gun tested was taken
from a downtown bus terminal
where a 20-year-old colored youth
from Alexandria, Va, was found
shot through the chest.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Rainbow Division Reunion

Members OF the DlStrlCt Chapter,
Rainbow Division Veterans, will
leave for Richmond Saturday after
noon to attend the 18th annual tri-
State reunion and banquet of Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia ex-
service men who were attached to the
42d Division during the World War.
The local veterans will travel by bus,
leaving 1416 F street NV. at 3 pm.
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Tea Planned to Help
Roise Fund for School

A benefit tea to help raise funds
for a concrete runway for wheel
toys will be held at pm. Friday at
the Cynthia Warner School, 1900
Carroll avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
A music program has been
planned. The school was moved re-
Gently from a location on Emerson
street NV,
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Judoe Newman to Return

Judge Hobart Newman of Police
Court is in Florida recuperating
from a respiratory illness and is
expected to resume his duties in
Police Court next Monday, it was
said yesterday. Due to his illness,
Judge Newman has not held court
since January %, but attended a
meeting of the judges just before
to his departure for Florida a week
ago
Evening star., 1941-02-18
Cunteen for Women

Girl Guides Of Glasgow, Scotland,
have organized a hostel and can
teen for service women passing
through the city.
Evening star., 1941-02-18

Britains blind warmly welcomed
100000 phonograph needles from the
United States.
Evening star., 1941-02-18

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