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Evening star., 1942-01-04
It's Open House for Men in Uniform

Maybe they shouldn't have done it,"
said Betty, "but it was sweet Of them
and it made us love the Navy all the
more"
That's how it is at the recreation
clubhouse. The people In charge there
have a real affection for service men-
and vice versa.
Not the slightest whiff Of "case
worker" atmosphere fingers about the
place. Instead smiling young women
put life into the committee slogan:
New York Is Friendly Town"
This committee, like many others in
big cities throughout the country, out
did itself for the holidays. The man in
uniform beloved at anytime, at holiday
time is king.
He hardly checks in at SO Park be-
fore he hears:
(Which show would you like to see
tonight? A musical? play? We can
give you two tickets to almost any
thing in town. What's that, you pre-
fer opera? Opera it is"
There's a dance Tuesday night
Powers models are giving 1t. Want to
go? What do they look like? They
look wonderful. You'll like them"
You're afraid you can't dance well
enough? That's easy. Take q few les
sons at Arthur Murray's. No, no
charge"
Your mothers in town? Here are
tickets for soup-to-nuts meal for you
and her at the Waldorf"
Mrs. Julius Ochs Adler, COMMITTEES
co-chairman, says, 1--WE do our best to
make the boys on leave have . good
time, and all Of New York helps US
hotels, theaters, restaurants, individ-
uals. New York really Is friendly
town."
Since July Z, 4S5,0O0 men have
stopped at committee headquarters-
and not one has left empty handed. At
present, 5000 men troop through 80
Park each day.
For the holidays, the committee sur
veyed all possibilities for sports, meals,
music, dancing, hotel accommodations.
They gathered up about $4,000 free
tickets to the best shows in town.
1T gives these boys q great kick TO
see a Broadway show" said Mrs. Adler.
About IS per cent-including many
Evening star., 1942-01-04
BY Irving Perlmeter.
MA. yE1r1A Name

The Nation was taking out $4,000
900 of insurance today to make sure
Johnny has job when he comes home
from the Army.
It's not really down in black and
white, but everywhere from Sauk Gen.
ter, Mimi, to New York City, from Vir-
ginia to California, governmental
agencies-cities, counties, school dis
tricts, States and the Federal Govern
ment-are preparing backlog of work
to be done by them after the war.
In Alabama, it's a series of State Of
flee buildings. Detroit has some impor-
tant street repaving on the list, Dallas
an auditorium, Omaha a school build
ing, Sacramento flock of projects. The
idea is just catching on, but officials who
are working overtime to put it across
look for q shelf" of $1,000, 100000 worth
of needed public works ready for exc
cution when the war is over.
And by having these projects ready,
they mean that the plans and detailed
specifications should be all drawn, that
sites be determined, that the money
should be in the bank, if possible. For
instance, the Federal Administration is
behind g. bill pending in Congress to
appropriate $5OOOO,OOO to do the
blueprints, although it hopes the States
and municipalities will pay for the ac-
tual construction themselves.
The men doing these things remem-
ber the disconsolate soldiers who looked
in vain for jobs in 1919. They also re-
member the hasty made-work projects
Of the w. p. A. in its early days.
One of them said, There is no limit
to the work the Nation really needs
to have done. If we plan, we'll never
60 back to leaf-raking."
This theory of doing right by the
men in the armed forces is just the
more obvious part of what's going on.
Saving materials and labor for defense
industry is also important. Stemming
imitation is another reason.
The Federal Government, under the
leadership of Budget Director Harold
D. Smith, is fostering the movement,
Evening star., 1942-01-04
TObS for Ex>SOldierS

but the individual States and communi-
ties are doing it on their own initiative.
Politics is expected to defeat the idea
here and there, but large number of
State and local governments are today
putting millions of dollars IN the bank
for the coming rainy day, although the
easy way to please the taxpayers would
be to cut taxes Official reports show
the State of California recently beat
off a tax-reduction move in spite Of a
$4,000, 900 surplus. The State of Vir-
ginia made a series of long-range ap-
propriations to make sure a $6,000,000
surplus is kept for the purpose. New
York State has adopted enabling legis-
lation to make it legal for its cities to
accumulate such reserves.
Sailing this money away and keeping
tax rates up is designed to help keep
down the amount of money in circula-
ton which might cause initiation. In
flation is high prices. High prices
come only when people have lot OF
money to bid higher and higher for the
things they want.
That's why, defying political conse-
quences, the council of State govern
ments end the conference of governors
recently sent to all State and local gov
ernments this message: Where tax
rate reductions are considered it is i'm
portant to weigh the consequences that
such a further release of purchasing
power will have upon prices"
These organizations have no oonnec-
ton with the Federal Government, but
the Washington people are playing on
the same team. New postofices are out
for the duration. Only defense prof.
ects or other projects already in process
Of construction are being encouraged.
In addition the Federal Works Agency
and National Resources Planning Board
have sent 500 engineers and other ex-
perts out to help the cities and States
prepare their long-range plans.
"It is this consistent action by all
governments-Federal, State and local.
said Budget Director Smith, (which I
hope will successfully counteract the
forces Of unemployment and deflation IN
the post-defense period"
Evening star., 1942-01-04
BY J. D. White.
Wide World News

PEIPING, North China.-Do you beat
your wife when she asks you how to
pronounce Shihchiechwang or HUI Shih?
Then you may be glad to know that
the common or garden variety OF
American can learn to pronounce Chi
nese names and live to tell the story.
Pronouncing Chinese is really quite
simple. 1t just seems so hard to pro-
nounce because foreigners have saddled
the Chinese language with one Of the
worlds wackiest systems of spelling.
If your friends laugh when you sit
down to pronounce Chinese name, fol-
low our easy method (this is it. and
surprise them by rattling of words like
Peiping, Tzehsien and Chengchow.
Want to try? Let's 60.
To begin with, here's the background:
Chinese was never designed to be writ
ten with an alphabet. 1t is written in
photographs, each representing an idea
expressed verbally by an intact syllable.
The idea of breaking these syllables
down into consonants and vowels is en-
tirely foreign and unnatural, which is
why foreigners got into such deep water
when they tried to spell Chinese words
out.
At first the confusion was appalling.
There were as many systems of SPELL
ing as there were foreigners trying to
spell Chinese words.
Finally Sir Thomas Wade. famous
British chief of the Chinese maritime
customs. set up a system of spelling
which is most generally used today.
System Most Used
If you think the Wade system is
cockeyed, you ought to see some that it
replaced. And it Is at least fairly con-
sistent.
Now, then, first we take the con-
sonants. Get q grip on yourself or
the consonants may take you first.
Sir Thomas found number of initial
conSonant sounds in Chinese which
were not as hard" as their nearest
equivalent In English or European
tongues.
For instance, . D was really halfway
between T and D.
He therefore threw out altogether the
hard initial consonants of G, D, B, and j..
They do not appear in his alphabet at
Evening star., 1942-01-04

change of nationals. The same thing
had happened to correspondents in
Rome, Toxic, Shanghai and Saigon.
Up in the hills of Massachusetts, near
the little town of Methuen lies the grave
OF Eddie Neil.
Eddie was big, blond, laughing giant
of a man with a lusty love for life and
the things that make 1t tick. He was
one of the best known sports writer's
In the Nation-but that wasn't enough
for Eddie. He wanted to be war cor
respondent.
He went to Ethiopia to see Signor
Mussolinis legions conquer the black
tribes of the Lion of Judah When the
Spanish Civil War began he went to
Spain. Wherever the action was heav-
lest, Eddie was likely to be there.
On the last day of 1887 a shell ex-
ploded near his car. It was wars end
for Eddie Neil-but the story he
started In the desolate hills Of Ethiopia
Is still being written.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

surprise blow against Americas Pacific
outposts.
He thought at first it was merely a
big-scale war game until bomb fell a
few yards from the ship. Some one said
this was the real Mccoy. So Yarbrough
pitched in to help report the battle of
the Pacific.
Middleton and Anderson
Remember the "phony phase" of this
war? That was way back in the early
days of 1910 when the French and Ger
mans eyed each other from the sup
posedly impregnable Maginot and Seig-
fried lines.
But the Germans struck through the
lowlands and one May day Drew Mid
dleton sat in a dingy little bomb
shaken hotel somewhere in Belgium and
wrote: Allied troops, ready for storm.
found themselves in the path Of a hurri-
cane today the hurricane rides on
the wings of the German air force"
Confused, hopeless days followed as the
French and British vainly tried to stem
the first rush of the German assault
that was to end at Dunkirk and Paris.
Drew watched the terror mount among
the people and this lad who once flunked
an English course in college wrote some
of the most moving stories to come out
of the war.
There was two-way traffic on the
roads," he said, moving toward the dis
tant sound of guns were British men,
materials and munitions in trucks . . q.
moving painfully away from the guns
was another army, the army of the
homeless and stricken . their voices
haunt you
Ordered with other correspondents to
leave Belgium, Drew returned to Lon
don. But London wasn't refuge because
the bombers followed On one occasion
Middleton watched the Germans pour
tons of explosives on Croydon Airport,
but even among this destruction he noted
that "one mother herded her brood Of
Evening star., 1942-01-04

other single war correspondent mas
watched the naval warfare that Larry
has seen.
He saw the British shell Tripoli. He
was aboard a flagship when the fleet
knocked a hole in Mussolinis seapower
by sinking three Italian warships in .
day-long battle. He rode with the Brit
ish when they slipped past the heel Of
the Italian boot into the Adriatic and
battered Valona In one Of the most dar-
Ing naval adventures Of the war.
Allen was on hand for the Bardia
siege which lasted for 18 days and he
was aboard the Ilustrious as she took
a terrific battering from the NaM and
Italian bombers. Wherever the fleet
went, Allen was there.
This is the toughest Annapolis In
the world" he once said. and told how
it feels to watch a bombing attack on
a battleship: Nov lie nat on the deck
and hope bombs won't come too close.
I cannot imagine any greater he'll on
earth than when the thousand pound
bombs hit the warship. My heart =
beating like heavy pendulum. -"
With Cassidy and O'Sullivan
And there are many others =. ].
Reilly O'sullivan, who halls from Kan
sas City. seems to attract war like q
magnet. He was in Amsterdam
when the Germans invaded the low
lands. -. He went 10 Budapest in time
to see the Balkans aflame. He
ducked into Greece and helped write
the story of Greece's fall. And now
he's in Ankara, another troubled spot.
A Harvard vocational adviser told
Henry C. Cassidy, 32year ar-old Bos-
tonian, that he was "too bashful' to be
a newspaperman and advised him to
take up q teaching career. But
Cassidy's the Associated Press veteran
covering the Russian campaign. He
took the assignment after watching
France fall. -.
Lochner in German jug"
One day last month q message came
from Berlin over the Associated Press
printer in Bern, Switzerland, saying:
We're being jugged. Gotta 20 now
Goodby"
1t meant that Louis Lochner, dean OF
the Associated Press European Staf1,
and his men were being taken into GUS
tody by the Germans pending an ex-
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Kew to Chinese Pronunciation

E sounds like UH; Fen (cent) is pro-
nounced Fun.
I sounds like EE; Ii (plum) is pro-
nounced Lee.
o sounds like GA; Wo u, me) is pro-
nounced Woah.
U sounds like 90; WI Cive) is pro-
nounced Woo.
OW sounds like o; Chow County
seat) pronounced 10.
OU is the same as OW.
III sounds like IR; Shin (scholar) is
pronounced Shirth.
Then there are the diphthongs, or
compound vowels, merry lot If there
ever was one. In the Wade version OF
Chinese there are Ell, Al, lie, IA, UE,
and 40.
Ell is never pronounced like the Ger
man Ell but has the value Of long
A in English Thus Pei, the word mean
ing North, is pronounced Bay.
Al has the value of long in English,
so Lai rhymes with My.
IE occurs in such words as T'ien
(heaven) which is pronounced approx
IldlCly dS 1 sOll. 1IlC = lIClC iluo eltS
value of short E in English.
IA has roughly the sound of Eeah. or
Yah, so that Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek is pronounced Jeeahng Kye-shek.
The in Shek in this case is a normal
English short E as in Pet, but that is
only because the Generalissimo is a
Southerner and the victim of both Wade
and another system of spelling.
UE is not very common diphthong,
but you run into 1t occasionally in such
names as Chang Hsueh-Liang. the
young Marshal of Manchuria. His
name is properly pronounced Jahng
Shooeh-Leeahng Notice the way that
Hsueth is spelled. HIS, instead of SH,
is just another of Sir Thomas bright
ideas.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

seven before her like a scene from a
Mother Goose book"
During one particularly savage air
raid, G. H. P. Anderson, reporter for
the A. P. Of Great Britain, watched on
the rooftop while Middleton and the
others worked below.
They're dropping q goodish bit Of
stuff" Anderson called down. A few
minutes later bomb fell on the Asso-
ciated Press Building. Operations were
shifted to another previously prepared
building and the work continued
The boys in the London bureau took
a terrific pounding at the height of the
assault on England. Bureau Chief Bob
Bunnelle, late of Asheville and Atlanta,
was knocked out of bed by bomb and
each of his mates had similar expert
ences.
Anderson later was transferred to the
Libyan front and was captured by Axis
forces. He Is believed to be held in
Rome.
Middleton has transferred his opera
tions to Iceland. He was on hand
w SCG GAlC l1loV CyC-WiIAlCoc StO1y VI tllC
U-boat attack on the U. S. destroyer
Kearny. It's lonely vigil, but things
have a way of happening wherever Mid
dleton may be.
Eddy Gilmore in Russia
In London apartment phonograph
was blaring night and day" and Eddy
Gilmore was drumming out the rhythm
with his fingers when the Luftwaffe paid
one nocturnal call.
Eddy grabbed tin hat and ran out
in time to see all hell break loose. He
got his story and rushed back to write:
"If my heart would just get out of my
mouth for a few minutes, perhaps
could write this story
Eddyis a guy who finds something
funny in everything. even war. He's
given his a touch of the ridiculous Fat
and "a, he hadn't been in England long
before he reported that the R. A. F..
pilots we're making low altitude recon-
naissance flights-over nudist camp.
A Selma, Ala, product, Eddy became
a war correspondent after newspaper
experience in Selma. Atlanta and Wash
ington. One day in London he listened
respectfully to official warnings that a
stranger wandering about England S
blacked-out countryside was in danger
from vigilant home guards, police,
troops and other defenders of British
soil
Eddy wasn't convinced. He had to
see for himself. And one night he
travelled $50 miles with friend through
England asking dozens Of questions
and even visiting an anti-aircraft sta
tion-without getting q single challenge.
Eddy's In Russia now where even a
fat man can get cold, but the bets
are that not even the sub-zero weather
can freeze the Gilmore humor.
Allen Follows Fleet
For two years 33-year-old Larry Al
len of Mount Savage, Nd lived a
charmed life riding the blue waters of
the Mediterranean with the British
fleet-but his luck almost played out a
few days ago when he was wounded by
a German bomb.
They call Larry the Darling of the
Mediterranean Fleet" and when all the
returns are in the story Of Larry AL
len will be volume by itself, for no
Evening star., 1942-01-04

boys from New York-never have seen
a stage show before"
The committee makes no rules at all
for service men. Not . single don't"
sign dishgures the clubhouse walls.
Service men can smoke where they
please. put their feet on the table. They
can even play the clubhouse tuke box
oh, happinessl-without putting nickel
In the slot.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

But for volunteer hostesses, the girls
the boys date at committee dances, there
are several rules. To get her name on
the list Of 1000 hostesses, . girl must
be Il or over. an American citizen, with
two character references.
For good measure the girls are gen.
orally good looking. their average height
Is s feet 2; average weight lis to 120:
average disposition, fine.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

q war correspondent. A native of
Chickasaw, Okla, he was graduated
from the State University and served
q hitch with the Oklahoma City Times
before Joining the A. P. in 1885. He
worked in Kansas City, st. Louis and
10 see this war for himself.
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
Put Victory First On The Fourth

Aparade of last-fling drivers will jam the nations
highways over the Fourth Of JULY the National Safety
Council has predicted.
The council believes that the threat of nationwide
gasoline ratoning, plus the long holiday weekend
will prompt motorists by the thousands to make that
trip to Aunt Minnes to visit the boy in camp or to
Susies baby while they still have the chance
Added to these last-fling pleasure drivers will be
legion Of war plant workers who will stay on the
job this Fourth of July, many of whom will be driving
to and from work.
Contrary to general expectations the net result
will be traffic volume only slightly less than in
NAL years. in the councils opinion.
Backing up it's prediction the Council has launch
ed nationwide campaign against accidents that will
result from the heavy traffic and other recreational
activities. The need for safe celebration of the
Fourth is especially acute this year, since every acci
dent wastes manpoWer, time and material vital to
victory.
For those who use their cars, the council recon-
mends slower speeds and unusual caution both to
rubber and to avoid accidents that costly
this year to the individual and the effort alike.
National organizations and government officials
joining with the council in the campaign to "Put
Victory First on the Fourth"
The public is being asked to contribute to the safe
celebration of the independence Day holiday by being
extra alert for the hazards of motoring, swimming
fireworks and other recreatonal activties-all the
ingredients of the 'accidents that help the Axis"
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
Copyright 1912, B.P. O. ELKs
Where To Go On The 4th And Fifth

Where shall we spend the two-day holiday to-
morrow and Sunday?
Some folks may ask that question today as they
face double holiday over the weekend
1t is easily ansWered-spend the 4th and 5th
attending the rodeo and horse show at Sonoita
There is no 4th of July celebration in Nogaes,
there never s but always there is one at Sonoita up
to and including 1912.
The Santa Cruz County Fair & Rodeo Association
has completed plans for the greatest celebration at
Sonolta ever staged In the county-rodeo and races
tomorrow, dance tomorrow night, horse show and
races Sunday, BARBECUE military exhibits, and music
by the Fort Huachuca band, both days.
The largest crowd ever at a celebration in this
county IS expected to be hand principally for the
reason is the last show to be staged at SonOa until
after the Waryour last chance to greet your host of
friends at big community celebration in Santa Cruz
County until Hitler is no more
Drive out to SOnoita both days-you'I enjoy meet
ing your friends from throughout southern Arizona
and get lot of pleasure and thrills from the splendid
program which has been arranged by officials of the
Fair & Rodeo Association, the hardest-working and
most congenial group of its kind in the West
You'll enjoy the drive through some of Arzona's
finest ranching country for the road is now paved
beyond Rail Ranch and within few miles of Son
Oa and that short stretch will be scraped and nut in
fine shape today
Don't miss the rodeo and horse show!
When you're not at work the best way to stand
summer heat is to sit it out.
If crying makes baby healthy we know one who
can get job as moving van driver when he grows
UP.
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
LEGAL NOTICE
JONES CHAMAS.
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
and required to appear and defend
in the above entitled action in the
above entitled court, within TWEEN
TY DAYS, exclusive of the day of
service, after service of this sum-
mons upon you if served within the
State Of Arizona, or within THIRTY
DAYS, exclusive of the day of
service, if served without the State
of Arizona, and you are hereby
notified that in case you fail SO to
do, judgment by default will be
rendered against you for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
The name and address OF PLAIN
tiff's attorney is RUFFO ESPINOSA,
Western Union Building, Nogales,
Arizona
GIVEN under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
State of Arizona in and for the
County OF Santa Cruz, this 11Jh day
of June, 1912
DOROTHY TTTCOMB,
Clerk
BY HAZEL WISE,
Deputy Clerk
(SEAL)
pub. June IL, 10, 26, July 8, 1942)
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Justice OF The
Peace of Precinct No. 2, subject
to the decision of the voters at
the primaries September 8.
CYRIL L. FORSYTH
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF The State Of Arizona In And
For The County Of Santa Cruz
TONY CHAMAS,
Plaintiff
VS..
o. D. JONES CHAMAS,
Defendant
No. 1927
S U M IONS
THE STATE OF ARIZONA to the
above named defendant O. D.
Nogales international., 1942-07-03

Gas rationing no gas rationing, you can bet
your last dollar Americans going some place in
this war;
Nogales international., 1942-07-03
Soldier List
Continued from Page Six

Monroe, Va.
Pedro Silva, Panama.
Antonio D. Sinohui, Panama.
Angel D. Soto, Fort Bliss, Texas.
James Spnoule, Panama.
Edwin Swanson, Everett, Wash.
Sigfried Swanson, Panama.
Manuel Tapia, Fort Bliss, Texas.
Salamon Tena, Ft. Bliss, Ell Paso.
Jack Titcomb, naval air corps,
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Edward Thompson, Hickam Field,
Honolulu.
Daniel Thornton.
Javier Alvarez Tostado, army, at
Camp Lewis, Wash.
Jose M. Trujlllo.
Mateo M. Tapia, Panama.
Jack Taylor, Philippine Islands.
Ralph Telies, field artillery at
Camp Lewis, Wash.
Lieut.. Rodolfo Teyechea, Balboa,
Canal Zone.
Jaime Teyechea, Panama.
Jack Tidwell, 14th Cavalry at
NogaleS, AriZ.
William Tidwell, Ireland.
William H. Todd, Panama.
Miguel Trujillo, Panama.
Cadet John I. Underwood, air
corps, Chickasha. Okla.
William S. Underwood, air corps,
Pendleton, Oregon.
Jose Urena, Panama.
Jose Urquides, Panama.
Moses Valdez, Panama.
Julio E. Valenzuela, Panama.
Marcelino Varona, Fort Bliss.
Liberto L. Villanueva, Panama.
David Villarreal, Panama.
Bernard ValenZuela, Ft. Bliss, Ell
PaSo.
Henry E. Valdez.
Louis " Valenzuela.
Manuel Perez Villa.
Alfonso V. Villanueva, Panama.
Antonio Villanueva, army engin-
GERS at Monterrey, California.
Howard Wetze1, Air Corps, Santa
Monica.
Russell White.
John Widmer, Fort Bliss, Texas.
Walter C. Wingfield, Camp Ro-
berts, California.
Tom Wiggin, Jr., Virginia.
Harold Wizard, Australia.
Russell w. Wininger, F't. Bliss, Ell
Paso.
Leonard Wingo.>
William H. Wingo, Navy, San
Diego.
Joseph Knight Wise, Camp Lowry,
Denver, Colo.
Lewey Wolfe, Ft. Bliss, El Paso.
Ralph Woodhouse, Camp Roberts.
California.
Captain Gray Wright, Balboa.
Canal Zone.
Joe Yanez, Glass 27-42 Air Corps
Tr. Det. New England Aircraft
School, 20 Overland ST., Boston,
Mass.
Jack Stockton Yoas, Ft. Bliss, El
Paso.
Jose Ybarra, Panama.
Robert B. YslaS, Panama.
Gerald zenizo, Cavalry, Fort Ri
ley, Kansas.