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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-16

Rowena expresses the hope that
the Wilherforce University senior
will continue to run after her COL
Iegiate day ends this June, because
she (RoWena) has burning de-
sire to show the celebrated Ohio
girl a thing or two about sprint
ing.
HAS RUN .10e' IN lis
And if you don't think Rowena's
chances for beating the touted
Miss Lane are good, remember that
jeans best mark in the 100 meters
at the Tuskegee Relays is 121, her
time in the senior division back
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-16

Wyonna Holiday, Ruth HOrn)
third; Fort Valley, Team B, CWad-
die Davis, Mamie Blayford, Ber-
nice Clay, Mamie NewelD fourth.
Time 524.
FIELD EVENTS.
SENIOR WOMEN
POUND SHOT-WOn by Hattie
Hall (Tuskegee) Mary Veal tTus-
kegee) second. Mary Wallace, Tus-
kegee) third; Willie Mcclure (Tus-
kegee) fourth. Distance 81 feet, 8
~ inches.
RUNNING HIGH JUMP-Won
by Alice Coachman (Tuskegee)
Leila Perry (Tuskegee) second.
Cleo Davis (Tuskegee) third.
Height S feet, inches. New Meet
Record.
DISCUS--Won by Hattie Hall
(Tuskegee) Mary Veal (Tuskegee
second; Willie Mcclure tTuske-
gee) third; Neal MacFadden( Tus-
kegee) fourth. Distance 80 feet, Z
"a inches.
BASEBALL THROW-Won by
Christine Long (Tuskegee); Veda
Medlock prairie View second ;
Mary Wallace (Tuskegee) third;
Neal MacFadden tTuskegee)
fourth. Distance 21O feet, 8 inches.
JAVELIN-Won by Christine
Long (Tuskegee); Mary Wallace
(Tuskegee) second. Distance IA
feet, inches.
+ RUNNING BROAD. JUMP-WOn
by Leila Perry (Tuskegee). Betsy
Carey (Tuskegee) second; Theodo-
cia Crenshaw prairie View third
TenOla StOney prairie View
fourth. Distance Is feet, 6 inches.
TRACK EVENTS
JUNIOR WOMEN
SO METERS RUN--WOn by Alfre-
da Ford Fort Valley; Lille Puri-
f0y (Tuskegee) second; Evelyn Car
ter (Madison) third; Clifford Jes-
sic Fort Valley fourth. Time 6.8.
Equals Meet Record.
100 METERS-Won by ROwena
Harrison (Tuskegee); Annie Blu
chana prairie View second. Inez
Smith prairie View third; Han
nah Brundige (Andalusia) fourth.
FIELD EVENTS
JUNIOR WOMEN
RROAn JTIMP-Won nv Rowena
Harrison fTuskegeel TiII;e Purifnv
lTuskege4l second: Minnie AIex-
ander prairie Farms) third; Gus
Gle Edwards lMadisonl fourth Dis-
tance 16 feet AZ inches 1EouaIs
Meet Record
POIJND SHOT-Won bv Nellie
pearson lTrov High SchooIl. Edith
smith fTroy High, second: Inc,
smith Sam Swartz High third:
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-16

SCOTLANDVILLE, La (SNS)
Attorney E. Alexander LOBBY de-
livered the keynote public address
before the general public during
the annual Delta Sigma Theta So
rority and Omega Psi Phi Fratern-
ity regional held at Southern Uni
versity, Scotlandville, La. last
weekend
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-16
XAVIER TOPS In TUSKEGEE RELAYS But
PRAIRIE VIEW CATCHES FANCY OF OR OVID
PRETTY LITTLE STAR OF TUSKECEE'S
NATL CtiAMPIO NSHIP TRACK SQUAD
BEGAN CAREER AT TENDER ACE OF 13
By LUCdUS JONES
(Sports Editor

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Ala
Is N $40 track observers gen.
orally she seemed too tiny and deli
cate to pick up baton. let alone
shoulder the point-making burden
Of her team, but, just the same.
pretty little Rowena Harrison.
baby member of Tuskegee's five
time national women's track cham
pions. began q glorious cinderpath
career with the Golden Tigerettes
at the tender age of 13--, and is
still going strong. se
The past Friday afternoon, Pc
tite RoWena, who's a senior pre-
paratory student at Tuskegee High
now, stole the show in the junior
division of the fourteenth annual
track and field championships for
women here.
HIGH-SCORlNG HONORS
The youthful cinderpath queen"
won the classic 100-meter dash in
13 seconds flat, leapt Is feet, 4 Ia
inches to equal the meet record
in the running broad jump, and
then climaxed a busy days work
by running the third leg on the
A0-yard relay team which shatter-
ed the old mark in the event and
established new one of 51.9 sec
onds.
Aiding in the rd-breaking
performance were Lille PurifOy
and Alleree Harrison, cute little
sister of Rowena, who ran the
first and second legs, and Alice
Coachnan, the famous national
and Tuskegee Relays high jump
champion, who operated in the
anchor slot.
VETERAN AT EIGHTEEN
Now eighteen, Rowena is in her
fifth year of competition with
Coacn Christine Evans Petty's
classy squad. She has represented
Tuskegee in five national outd Dor
Aevents and in one national indoor
. meet.
While Rowena's speciality is the
1O0-meter dash, which qualities
her for impressive leg and baton
work in the 440-yard relay, her 9TH
Ter pet event, she has run the So
meter dash and broad jumped with
outstanding success.
} CONCERNED ABOUT FUTURE
: The young lady has firm iceas
about her future too. ALI edy cap
able of making most OF the gar
ments she wears, RoWena'S chief
vocational interests are in tailor
Ying, millinery, knitting. sewing,
home economics.
Avocational.y, The impressive
ilittle track star finds reading,
badminton and softball among
her most diveiting pastimes. though,
as you would guess. she loves to
dance.
RoWena is a native Ttlskegeean
Her guardian is Mrs. Ola A.
Woods, an ardent follower of her
niece's track career and the fates
and fortunes of Tuskegee in ath-
letic generally.
TO REMAIN AT TUSKEGEE
The girls graduation from high
school in a few days viii be Tls-
kegee's gain, because she has al
ready announced her intention OF
remaining a Golden Tigerette.
Though she admires Jean Betty
Lane, feminine fastest human
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-05-16

Handicap: $50 to GAS p. M, EWT.
The broadcasts will originate
through the facilities of WILM,
Wilmington, Delaware. Fred Capos-
sela will describe the races.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
WIS w.; :; 5;
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MUSIC.
The Chocolate Soldier" by Oscar
Strauss. presented by the San Carlo
Opero Co. Potomac Water Gate,
$50 o'clock tonight.
MEETING.
National Catholic Welfare Coun-
Gil. Hotel Hamilton, $50 o'clock to-
night.
DANCES.
Dance in honor of the staff of
the President of the Philippines.
Manuel Quezon, the Willard, 10
o'clock tonight.
All States dance. Hotel Washing
ton. $50 o'clock tonight.
YMCA, 1876 G street NV, $50
o'clock tonight.
OUTING.
Cruise down the Potomac on the
City of Washington and hike
through the woods around Marshall
Hall; boat leaves Wilson Line pier.
Seventh street wharves, at 10 am.
tomorrow and at pm. returning at
$50 pm. and again at 10:45 pm.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dinner at Reformation Lutheran
Church, 212 East Capitol street, $50
o'clock tonight.
Dinner at Fellowship House of
Covenant-First Presbyterian Church.
1868 Massachusetts avenue NV.
$50 o'clock tonight.
Dinner at Foundry Methodist
Church, Sixteenth and P streets
NV. $50 O'Clock tonight.
Dancing, refreshments and fun,
Parish Hall Of ST Margarets Episco-
pal Church. Connecticut and Ban
croft place, 8 O'Clock tonight.
Swimming, Jewish Community
Center. $50 o'clock tonight.
Dance, YWCA, 7:30 o'clock to-
night.
Drop-in-hour at Calvary Meth
odist Church. 8 O'Clock tonight.
Women's Battalion dance, Consti-
tuition avenue, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets NV, 8 o'clock
tonight.
Dancing, games, refreshments at
the parish house of ST. Johns Epis-
| copal Church. Sixteenth and H
street NV, $50 o'clock tonight
! Dance. National Catholic Com
munity Service Club, o'clock to-
night.
Party, informal dance, Service
mems Club No. l. 8 o'clock tonight.
Dance, YMCA, 9 o'clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
! HometoWners' club for servicemen
and war-Workers, Freedom House.
l701 Eleventh street NV, 7 o'clock
/ tonight.
Entertainment, Mount Olivet
! Lutheran Church. 3 o'clock tonight
| Games, bowling, billiards. dancing
Twelfth street YMCA, 8 o'clock to-
/ night.
/ Robin Hood party, Phyllis Wheat
| ley YWCA, 8 o'clock tonight
Informal dancing and party,
Lichtman Leisure Lodge, 8 o'clock
| tonight.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
u. 5. Jury |ndicts
Factor on Million
Mail Fraud Charge
II Others Also Named
In Probe Of Whisky
Warehouse Receipts DeoIs
3. the Associated Press.

3. the Associated Press
CHICAGO. Aug, 22.--John Jake
the BARBER Factor, who made mil
lions by his wits. including a few
dollars at cards from the Duke of
Windsor, faced Federal indictment
today charging him and IL others
with a 81 900 900 mail fraud.
Bench warrants issued here dis
closed that 24-count indictment
was returned Thursday In Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, alleging the II de-
PENDANTS swindled some 300 per-
sons. mostly Midwesterners, of ST.
100000 since 1899 In whisky ware
house receipt transactions.
Thomas B. Hart, regional director
for the Securities and Exchange
Commission, said the Government
alleged that Factor and the others
persuaded holders of receipts to sur
render them on the promise that
whisky would be bottled and sold at
dig profits by three now defunct Chi
cago companies, United Bottling a.
Distributing Co, A. A. Slater & Co.
and the Old Oak Bottling Il Dis
tributing Co.
Warrants Issued.
United States Commissioner Ed
WIN K. Walker issued warrants here
tor the arrest Of Factor, Henry and
Leo Bernstein, Albert A. Slater. Sid
ney Epstein and Sam Seinfeld. all of
chicago. Mr.. Hart said the others
indicted were Edward Mallon. Los
angeles; Maxwell Oxman.' Joseph
konwiser and Sidney Davis, New
York; Edward L. Sloan. st. Paul,
and Frank Husak, Cedar Rapids.
Factor, once a barber in Chicago.
had the law on his heels for nearly
~ years but 1t never convicted him.
Federal warrants in 1925 charged
him with defrauding investors in the
Florida land boom, but the charges
eventually were dropped.
Kidnapped in 1888.
In 1881 he surrendered here on
warrants charging him with fleeing
thousands of British investors of
s7,OO0,000 by manipulating mining
stock prices. He finally avoided ex-
tradition to England and In 1896
settled civil claims in the case for
81 300 900.
On July !, 1888, Factor was kid
naped north of Chicago and held for
II days. Court records showed he
paid $4,000 for his release. Four
members of the Touhy gang went to
prison for long terms for the kid
naping,
Factor reputedly broke the bank
at LIE Touquet in 1890. taking $685.
900. He once told reporters he took"
the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of
Wales, for $500 at chemin de fer and
said he didn't think the Prince had
much card sense.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Arlington 10 Notify FBI
OF Missing Registrars

An increasing number of selective
service registrants from Arlington
County Board No. are failing to
report for physical examinations,
Mrs. Katharine Stevens, chief clerk,
said today.
Heretofore, she said. board clerks
have been trying to contact all de-
linquents but the number has in
creased so much that from now on
all those falling to report will be
turned over to the District Attor-
ney's office In Richmond and the
FBI.
Out of ISL men sceduled to take
physical examinations last night at
Washington-Lee High School, SO
failed to report.
Mrs Stevens said, The men
could be failing to show up because
they have changed their addresses
and consequently do not receive
their cards telling them to report
Evening star., 1942-08-22
This Changing World
Meoeer information Keeps Public in Suspense
On Details Of 12-Doy SoIomons Bottle

amount to more than hundreds.
The Solomon Islands operation
was the first American offensive
victory In this war. Yet. the
space given In the press and the
time given on the air to this sig
nal success represent barely 20
per cent of that devoted to the
Dieppe raid.
Meager Information.
This does not mean that the
newspapers and broadcasters do
not want TO tell the public what
our men have done down un-
der" They did the best job pos
sible, considering the meager in
formation placed at their dis
posal.
While British publicity organ
izations got busy soon after the
Dieppe raid started and launched
a formidable news offensive, our
own public relations outfits re-
leased news on the Solomons
battle which was gathered in
scraps from Government sources.
Even though the Solomons bat
tie is over, we still do not know
whether a thousand or $4,000
marines and infantrvmen were
involved. We know there must
have been acts of heroism, but
none Of them have been men
toned. We are not told what
kind OF resistance the Japs of
fered and how they behaved
under fire when they were placed
on the defensive for the first
time since the outbreak of war.
Belated Communiques.
Now and then some Army or
Navy officer who may knov-or
may be merely guessing-whis-
pers that the Japs fought we'll.
1t is probable that sometime this
month or next. after other bat
ties have begun, an official re-
lease will belatedly give the de-
tails OF the l2-day battle.
Some high-ranking officials
contend that this is not a war to
provide good stories to the news
Evening star., 1942-08-22
New Jap Move Expected
ReversoIs in Chino Moy Force Toxic
To Chonee Strategy in Poetic War

thor1t1eS nave n elr nnRerS
crossed They keep in view the
possibility that the japanese are
fighting merely rear guard ac-
tions while taking out the best of
their assault troops for use else
where, perhaps Siberia, perhaps
far Southern China.
There have been interesting
shifts of japanese forces recently
in French Indo- China and the
Chinese are preparing to meet
a possible assault on their south
ern border. perhaps on Kwangsi
Province. The japanese have had
little luck in their southern cam
paigns against China this year
and may be looking for a new
field of operations.
The prospect of Japanese at
tack on Russia remains an ever
present danger. one that might
alter the whole strateeical posi-
tion of the United Nations. All
reports agree that Japan's Man
churian army IS ready and eager
to go. BuJ the most favorable
time for such bow would be
right now and every day that
passes seems to make 1t more un-
likely, at least for this year.
Autumn in Northeastern Asia
comes early; already the hot,
steaming summer is giving way
to clear. dry days and briIiid Mt,
crisp nights. Winter comes early,
too. a winter as punisning As that
which helped save Moscow last
year. Also~there is Russia's mill
tary situation, with Hitler's COL
umns thrusting toward that Cas-
pian-Caucasus corne.' where Eu-
rope merges into Asia. 1t may
never be quite as inviting to the
japanese again.
U. S. Aid Inspires Chinese.
The other possibility, that the
Chinese really hold the initiative
in Chekiang-Ki suggests
changes In the China war no less
dramatic than those which would
follow an attack on Siberia. Some
things support the hope that this
may be the case. Certainly the
coming of American air forces
has greatly altered China's mill
tary spirit and hopes. Gen.
Chennault's squadrons-stilI far
too small for the job there is to
do-have freed Chungking of
raids for the first time in four
summers and given the Chinese
ground forces such support that
there is no doubt there Is a new
ferocity end aggressiveness in the
attacks that have driven the
enemy from his Kiangsi gains.
If this combination of Air and
land strength could continue it's
progress toward the coast and
free those potential bomber bases
again, new phase OF the war
certainly would have opened.
Then there might be Flying For
tresses and Liberators based only
fp~
Ruhr, the heavy industry area
Of northern Kyushu; only 1000
miles from the Osaka area; only
1900 miles from Toxic itself.
Evening star., 1942-08-22

Ofdef 10 use them as bases for fur-
ther offensive operations.
The Navy Departments communi-
que to the effect that the islands
originally attacked undoubtedly
Tulagi, Florida and Guadalcanal,
and perhaps Malaita as weln have
been captured" indicates that our
possession is sufficiently complete to
allow us to use these positions as
stepping stones for the next move.
This seems likely to be directed
against Bougainville Island. in the
western Solomons, where the Jap
anese are present in considerable
strength. We will have the advan-
tage of close support by land based
aviation operating from our new
footholds, but 1t does not seem
probable that We shall-as we GER
tainly did in the Tulagi area-be
able to effect strategical surprise.
The japanese will expect us to at
tack them at Bougainville: they will
know as we'll as we do that a seizure
Of the Tulagi area has little future
except as a step in an offensive of
greater dimensions, and they will
make such preparations to receive
us warmly as their available re-
sources permit.
Even Bougainville Is only the sec
ond step in an operation which
must, in the end, include within its
objectives all the japanese positions
on the northeast coast OF New
Guinea and in the Bismarck and
Admiralty Islands.
Not until these have been retaken
can we consider our situation de-
clsively improved in the Southwest
ern Pacific. Not until then will we
have eliminated the japanese from
every base from which they can
threaten Port Moresby and the cities
and seaports of the east coast of
Australia.
May Strike at U. S. Supply Routes.
When We have accomplished all
Evening star., 1942-08-22
By GLENN BABB,
uyi9a yrnrl1

The five-year -old war in China
recently has undergone start
ling change. Three months ago.
the Japanese opened a campaign
that some feared might knock
China out of the war. Six weeks
ago. most of Eastern Central
China seemed to be falling into
their hands. But today a large
part of their gains has been cam
celed.
On other China fronts they
have been stalemated for weeks.
Their proudly announced plan to
establish an all-rail connection
between Shanghai and Singapore
definitely is on the shelf.
1t still is too early to say
whether this is the result primar-
lily of reinvigorated Chinese strik-
ing power or of change in the
Japanese Army's plans. In either
case, however, evidence points to
the early opening of new phase
of the Pacific war, taking the
form either of a bold new jap
anese stroke or of the passing of
the initiative in China from Jap
anese hands.
Japs Are Silent.
Our information thus far comes
entirely from the Chinese. The
Japanese are silent about what is
happening in Kiangsi and Che
kiang Provinces, where the most
marked change has come about,
as is their wont when things are
not going we'll for them or they
are plotting something new.
Briefly, the Chinese picture of the
situation is this:
In mid-May the japanese, us
ing perhaps 100000 men. began
co-ordinated attacks southwark
from Hangchow, In Chekiang
Province, and southeastward
from Nanchang, In Kiangsi, driv-
ing from either end of the Che
kiang Kiangsi railway. The
avowed detectives were to seize all
the railway and take half dozen
cities which the Japanes believed
to be sites of airbases from which
their home islands could be
bombed. BY the end Of June
these things had been accomp-
lished.
But now much of the japanese
success had been undone The
famous rubber-band defense of
the Chinese armies has operated
with remarkable snapback. The
mid-section of the railway again
is in Chinese hands and todays
reports indicate that some IS
miles have been cleared of the
invaders. At the same time the
Chinese are threatening several
of those bitterly contested air.
base towns, any one of which
might be Shangri La for repe-
tition of Gen. Doolittle's TOXIC
raid. These include Yashan in
Kiangsi and Chuhsien, Lishui
and Kinhwa in Chekiang
Even while their communicates
record the resurgence of their
forces, Chungking military au-
Evening star., 1942-08-22

papers. but a life and death
struggle. This Is true, Of course,
and while a battle is in progress
the newspapers and public must
be patient. But in many quar-
ters, including the Army and
Navy. there is a feeling that an
important link Is missing between
the public and the high COM
mand, and that it should be re-
stored so that when our armed
forces obtain a signal victory, the
public can read more than the
present terse and uninspiring
communicates.
No one wants ballyhoo, but we
have fought some battles in
which facts spoke for themselves.
We should know what those
facts are.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Bahr Espionage Case
Expected 10 Reach
Jury on Monday
Gestopo- roined Youth
Quizzed on FinuI Remark
Made to FBI Agent
By the Associated Press

q! the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j.. Aug. 22.-For
seven hours of cross examination
Herbert. Karl Friedrich Bahr stead
fastly stuck to his story that he
came to this country with the inten-
tion of turning over to the United
States information he obtained in
his relations with the Gestapo.
He insisted yesterday he never in
tended to go through with the plan
he and the Gestapo agreed on in
Germany and had mental reserva-
tions when he told the Gestapo he
would act for them here. The 29-
year -old former Buffalo, N. Y, en-
gineering honor student asserted he
was innocent of the espionage
charge, only accepting the Gestapo
instructions so as to be able to re-
turn to this country.
Quizzed on Final Remark.
Then, Assistant United States At
torney Thorn Lord asked the de-
fendant whether after making a
long statement to the FBI, outlining
his negotiations with the Gestapo,
he had made a final remark to an
FBI agent.
Bahr was silent for some time and
then replied:
Il asked him what do you think
about this whole business? How
much do you think / could be pun
lshed?"
Attorney Lord abruptly ended his
examination and Bahr left the
stand, walked to his seat where for
a few moments he was on the verge
Of collapse.
The Government contends Bahl
came here as a spy. had no inten-
. tion of aiding this country and his
question as to possible punishment
indicated consciousness of guilt.
Seized on Drottningholm.
Bahr was arrested July aboare
the dlplomat exchange inner DrOtt-
ningholm in Jersey City and made
+ the lengthy statement on July
which forms the basis of the Gov
! ernment's case.
/ The broad -shouldered former ath.
lete was born in Germany but be-
came an American citizen by virtu.
OF his fathers naturalization. HI
returned to Germany III 1889 as Ar
exchange student to study engineer,
ing after attaining honors at Rens
selaer Polytechnic Institute.
If convicted, Bahr faces a maxi
mum sentence of death on tn,
charge OF conspiring to commi
espionage with German agents il
several neutral nations.
The trial was adjourned unit
Monday with indications it woult
reach the jury of six men and 81,
women soon afterward.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
by CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The British have displayed tho
efficiency OF their public rela-
tions system once more in con-
nection with the Dieppe raid
at time when the American
Government was showing the con
servatism OF It's own In the
Southwestern Pacific operations.
The raid on Dieppe-of little.
II any, strategic Significance
has been played up in Ameri-
can newspapers for three days,
reducing to subordinate position
all other war news, including
the momentous battle of Russia.
According to reports, between
10 and II thousand men were
involved in the Dieppe opera