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matches may be staged aboard ship. This
naturally has attracted to the Navy dis
proportionate share of young men who wanted
go at the sport Also. when the services
began to expand, Commander Gene Tunney
went up and down the country seeking
recruits.
But he didn't get Private J. L. Barrow.
more familiar to you as Joe Louis, worlds
heavyweight champion. And now, with Louis
IN khaki and scheduled to train as we'll as
inspire interest in boxing, the tables may start
to turn.
But these three major sports constitute
only a part of the Army's vast athletic
program. Actually it calls for competition in
every game in the book The slogan is
Every soldier an athlete" and of course the
real purpose is to whet the fighting spirit of
the uniformed forces and harden their mus
cles for the desperate battles ahead.
They're Ready
0Y COMPARISON. Army athletics last sum-
mer and winter were sadly small-time Neces-
sarily so. Actual military preparations had
priority at the camps. The War Department,
hard pressed for facilities to care for the
incoming troops, wasn't able to think about
sports installations. But now everything is
virtually ready - baseball diamonds playing
fields, tennis courts and, for indoor events.
great arenas on the Madison Square Garden
pattern, all on scale that surpasses anything
the Army ever has undertaken before
Each camp has its own directional set
up, largely composed of professional college
coaches. But to insure uniformity these
coaches work with the Special Services Branch
of the War Department in Washington, with
the athletlc-division head - square -shoul-
Evening star., 1942-05-24

ASEBALL is back stronger than ever this
spring. We have brand-new league
- the worlds largest You might call it
the United States Army League And its
1900 member clubs, in our camps here and at
foreign OutpOsts, wear the colors of their units
They're starting off on long schedule for the
service championship, the most amazing series
OF games ever projected in the history of our
national sport.
The old major leagues had better look to
their laurels. Many of their best players are
in the Army now - Hank Greenberg of the
Detroit Tigers, Cecil Travis of Washington
Hugh Mulcahey of the Phlies. to mention
only few. Big and little colleges have yielded
their best. Hidden talent from the sand lots
that scouts never visit will get its first real
chance.
Company teams will play one another to
determine the regiments best Then the
regiments will play to decide the division
champs. In the end, pennant winners for the
entire Army will emerge, but this might be
delayed. With our numerous far-flung fronts,
the schedule may be disrupted Nevertheless.
eventually the champions will be chosen. even
if it is necessary to wait until peace is restored
Baseball is the Army's most popular game,
just as it is the nations. So baseball and
particularly the new league, will be the
feature of the Anmy's new athletic program
But next autumn when baseball is on the
wane, the Army will go in for football also.
on very large scale Squads of 40 or so will
be outitted in each regiment or similar large
unit.
The program calls for the eventual selec-
ton of Army football champions. the same as
with baseball. The service contains vast
array of tiptop football material including
many former All-Americans, like John Kim
brough. Tom Harmon and Dave Allerdce.
Meantime, the Army will make major
effort with boxing. which is & year-round
sport. It will select champions in all the
weight classes, might even challenge the
Navy. In the past the Navy has outboxed the
Army. The bluejackets have specialized in
boxing because, since it requires little space.
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throws, not discus, but a grenade into a
10 foot circle from distance of 30 feet. He
dashes SO and 100 and 22O yards not in
running trunks. but in a uniform, and fire.
quently fully equipped. He engages in high
and broad jumps and mile and half-mile relav
races the same way.
All soldiers must participate in at least one
event. Happily. the desire for sports seems to
thrive in the American soldier under all cir
cumstances. Many who participated in last
autumn's maneuvers amazed their officers
when. back in camp after highly strenuous
day, they got up games such as softball.
Valuable
NlANY sports. such as soccer, football and
boxing. are valuable in training for combat
even without special military application
Soccer, universally played by the British and
growing more popular here. teaches the SOL
dier to kick with either foot, to dodge battle
field dshell holes. Football develops correct body
contacts. As for boxing. every position and
blow has its counterpart in bayonet exercise
lHc hIIHy new Sports arenas TESTIFY 10
its keen athletic interest They're remarkable
frame structures, roughly normal city block
long half block wide and free of posts.
Their knockdown bleachers, erected for box
ing basketball games and similar events -
and also for certain types of shows - seat
1900. With the bleachers out, they're huge
gymnasiums, fully equipped.
The cost of the Armys athletic equipment,
- for outdoors as we'll as in - has been very
great. The money has come. and is coming,
from various sources - Army training funds,
the Red Cross, the United Service Organiza-
tons. baseball's Bat and Ball Fund, profits
OF post exchanges.
But whatever the cost, in the long run it's
cheap. The young men of the Army, with
those of the Navy and Marine Corps - who
are doing similar job - were the most
physically fit in the nation when they donned
their uniforms. Their athletic training, now
Will make them doubly fit. And the whole
country will profit in the end
The End
Evening star., 1942-06-13

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THE EVENINGS HIGH LIGHTS.

WlsV, 7:oO-The Peoples Platform: An In.
formal discussion Of The points made in Vie
President WaIIates speech on The Price Of
Free World Victory.
Wpt. 7.30-ElIeV Queen Conrad Thibault
and Joan Edwards are the arm chair detectives
trying 10 solve The Adventure Of The Coli
Murder" --
VOL. 7:3o-plthard Eaton interviews the
King Of Greece.
WJSV, 8;30-Hobby Lobby: Josephine zoqbY
brings her slIkwormS 10 The lobby.
WNAI, o;00-Frank Black directs The Sum-
mer symphony in the first Of series Of three.
WINK. 90S-U. S, Army and Navy flyers and
The Raj heroes. along with group Of
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Evening star., 1942-06-13
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

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four. inventors Of the system that
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Evening star., 1942-06-13
Points for Parents
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACI

Getting a small child to finish
eating his food is surely not i'm
portdnt enough to justify the en-
courngement OF a dog-in-the-
mdnoer attitude.
Evening star., 1942-06-13
EVENING STAR FEATURES.

Star Flashes Latest news with Bill Coyle,
kIte daily; WNAl, i:40 and SIS pm.
Evening star., 1942-01-22

Business establishments In the
Southwest section are being asked
this week by AFRAID wardens tc
turn of neon signs.
Other lighted signs should be re-
duced by so per cent during the
war, it was said today by Joepeth
Cara, chairman of special defense
committee. The program is in line
with instructions received from
Chief Afraid Warden Clement
Murphy and Robert A. Hull, jr.,
deputy warden for the area.
A civilian defense meeting will be
held by the Burroughs Citizens As
ISOLATION at the John Burroughs
School, Sixteenth and Monroe streets
NV, at pm. tomorrow. Capt. Will
liam l.. Clemens. pablic relations
officer in the District Office of Civil
ian Defense. will be the principal
speaker. Brief talks will be made by
William j. Byrnes, first aid chair
man; Zeb T. Hamilton, assistant
deputy AFRAID warden: DR.. A. F.
Heath, first aid chairman. and Mrs.
Marie Cuthbertson Mold, emergency
housing chairman.
Hechinger Co. has installed what
Is believed to be the first service flag
in the city. There is star for each
man in the service.
William Hallman mas been ap-
pointed new deputy afraid warden
for the Brentwood area. He succeeds
Louis Block, who was compelled to
Evening star., 1942-01-22

p
their naval and air base facilities
would prove Of great value In
combined conveys.
Although none of the Latin Ameri-
can republics has sizable air force,
they have a combined total of more
than 1000, 900 trained soldiers, in
cluding regulars and reserves. Natu-
rally the manpower available to meet
threat to any one point would be
limited by transportation difficulties,
but the local forces would have the
advantage of familiarity with the
terrain. With sufiicient warning they
could expect heavy air support from
the United States.
The inter American trade which
the conveys would be organized to
protect would involve shipment of
needed raw materials to the United
Evening star., 1942-01-22
THURSDAY JANUARY 22 1912

sides Aranha and Rossetti. those
present were United States Under
secretary of State Sumner Welles,
Argentine Foreign Minister DR.. En-
rique Ruiz Guinaxu and Peruvian
Minister Alfredo Solf Muro.
Text Of Resolution.
The text Of the four-point de-
clsration follows:
Article /. The American repub-
lies reafflrm their declaration
against any act Of aggression on
the part Of . non-American state
against one of them as an act of
aggression against all of the, since
such an act constitutes an act of
aggression against the liberty and
sovereignty Of America.
Article 2. The American repub-
lies refIiarm their complete soli-
darity and determination to Coop
crate together. for mutual protec-
ton until the effect Of the existing
aggression to the continent shall
have disappeared.
Article 3. The American republics,
consequently. declare that in the ex-
ercise OF their sovereignty and in ac-
Evening star., 1942-01-22

businesses throughout the Americas
and establishing blacklists Of in
individuals and businesses linked
with the Axis.
Defense Committee Suggested.
The committee also is considering
a substitute for the original proposal
to establish an all-American general
staff. Instead it was suggested that
defense committee be formed
thus avoiding the impression of
purely military purposes-withe each
nation naming one representative.
The committee would operate at
Washington.
Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela
introduced last Friday the original
resolution calling for rupture OF
relations with the Axis, a measure
against which Argentina and Chile
baked.
The agreement. as rewritten from
that resolution, did not stipulate that
the break must be immediate and
eliminated the original provision for
a simultaneous cutting of economic
ties with the Axis.
1t stated In q carefully worded
section that the constituted powers
of the governments signing it must
be in accord, indicating that the
Argentine Congress would have to
pass on it for that nation. The
Argentina delegation accepted the
compromise resolution without res
ervation.
However, the Chilean delegate,
Foreign Minister Juan Bautista Ros-
setti. who has insisted that Chile's
special geographical situation af-
fected her position, specifically
stated that the agreement would
have to be put before the Chilean
Congress.
The next regular session of the
Argentine Congress begins May /.
Acting President Ramon S. Cas-
tillo1 thus far has refused to call
a special session. -
The meeting at which the five
nations threshed out their problem
was at the Office Of Foreign Min
lister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil. Be-
Evening star., 1942-01-22
10 Planes Destroyed, Japs Say.
Pun-Americun

Continued From First PaeeJ
American resolution for sever
ance of relations with the Axis
nations in order to make it COM
pletely acceptable to Argentina,
Buenos Aires sources close to the
Argentine government declared
today. They did not specify the
nature Of the modif1cations)
Brazil May Act Speedily.
An authoritative source said Brazil
might sever relations with the Axis
powers even before the end OF the
conference as 6 move to encourage
other American nations to ACT
promptly to fulfill the resolution.
The conference Committee on
Economic Cooperation, meanwhile
began work on its agenda, topped
by separate proposals for American
nations to end all financial, COM
mercial and economic dealings with
the Axis.
Among recommendations before
this committee were proposals for
freezing funds of Axis nations and
Evening star., 1942-01-22

10 other American republics in q
declaration Of intention to sevel
diplomatic relations with the Axi.
was received with relief in Washing.
ton today.
Even tho conditional nature Of the
Argentine and Chilean. acceptances
failed to dim the qualification OF
many In the Capital who had feared
a less favorable outcome. They re-
garded the Chilean representative s
reservation that his government
would have to be consulted and the
apparent Argentine insistence on
ratification by the Argentine Con-
gress as not insurmountable bar
riers to a permanently unified dip
lomatic front.
New Significance Of Plan.
On the military front. the Rio de
Janeiro agreement gave new sig
nificance to the hemisphere war pro-
duction plan disclosed in Washing
ton yesterday, especially to its pro-
posal for pooling Of ships and joint
conveys to protect them.
Argentina. Brazil, Chile. Cuba,
Evening star., 1942-01-22

Mexico, Peru. Uruguay and vene-
zuela have merchant vessels total
ing 1,ls8.566 tons to add to the
United States merchant marine of
II 900, 900 tons. OF the total, Brazil
has the most shipping with 487 800
tons and Argentina Is second with
312,970.
The Latin American countries
could provide battleships, 10 cruis-
ers, 20 destroyers and 20 submarines
for any joint effort to keep the sea
lanes open. The battleships and most
OF the cruisers are Of pre- World War
construction, but a number of the
destroyers and submarines are up
to-date craft. In addition, the south
ern republics have many coastal
patrol vessels and gunboats, and
Evening star., 1942-01-22

States and shipment to the Latin
American countries Of essential I'M
ports to meet defense requirements.
Included in shipments to the
United States would be coffee, cop
per, bauxite, rubber, tin, nitrates,
phosphates. cinchona for manufac-
ture Of quinine and quebracho, which
Is important in tanning leather.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Defense SideIights ).
Southwest Neon Signs to Be Dimmed;
Burrouqhs Citizens PIun Meeting

made by Herbert Yocum, chairman
Of the Executive Committee OF the
area.
Fort George G. Meade, Md, will
have a blackout tomorrow between
7:l0 and 7::30 pm. Fire sirens al
strategic points will sound an alarm
of five series of rising and falling
walls Of 80 seconds each. All trafiic
within the post will move OF roads
stop and turn out lights.
What the War Means to the
Consumer" will be discussed by Mrs
May Thompson Evans, chief Of con-
sumers relation section OF the Ma
tional Defense Commission. at pm
tomorrow in the Phyllis Wheatley
Y. w. C. A., 901 Rhode Island avenue
NV. James B. Browning will be the
discussion leader.
A civilian defense meeting Of Zone
A, Hampshire Heights area. will be
held at o'clock tonight in the audi
torium OF Barnard School, Fourth
and Decatur streets NV. Zone A
includes the area between Decatur
and Webster streets NV. and be-
tween Rock Greek Cemetery and
Fifth street NV. A motion picture
Of London bombings will be shown.
and there will be talks by Sherrard
Tupman, deputy warden for the area,
and Robert Mohr, zone warden.
resign owing to pressure Of other
defense work. The appointment was
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Oil Installations
Al Great Borneo
Pot Destroyed
Dutch Expect japanese
To Make BoIik Popon
Next Point of Attack
~ tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies
Jan. 22-The oil wells and oil
plants at Balik Papan, most pro-
ductive in all of Dutch Borneo, have
been destroyed completely lin view
of the clearly distinguished Japa-
nese intention" to make the oil port
the target of their next major as
sault in the Netherlands Indies, 1t
was announced officially today.
The oil installations at Balik
Papan employed some $4,000 of the
towns population of 10000 and were
operated by the Batavia Petroleum
Co, a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch
Shell.
Balik Papan and Tarakan in 1899
had combined production OF
l.68O,377 tons. Since the outnum-
bered Dutch garrison at Tarakan
had destroyed the oil stores and
machinery there before surrender
ing to the japanese, army head
quarters regarded it as inevitable
that the japanese next would at
tempt to move on Balik Papan, 3l5
miles airline to the south.
IF the enemy attacks Balik Pa
pam today's announcement said,
"he will not find there anything
that would be useful to him
except for establishing base there
the Japanese may just as well for
get their plans for Balik Papan."
Today's communique from the
Netherlands Indies high command
reported a slackening in japanese
aerial operations, with slight ac-
tivity" over various parts Of the
outer possessions but number of
attacks on Northern Sumatra.
Belawan, east coast town on Su-
matra and seaport for Medan, again
was bombed this morning and ship
ping off the Northern Sumatra coast
presumably in the wide entrance
to the Strait of Malacca between
Sumatra and Malaya-was raided.
10 Planes Destroyed, Japs Say.
CThis dispatch was sent from an
enemy country whose motive in re-
leasing news is apt to be propaganda.
Axis claims should be credited only
when confirmed by American or Allied
sourcesD
TOXIC. Jan. % (Ofhcial Broad
cast) [P.-Imperial japanese head
quarters today claimed destruction
OF 10 Netherlands Indie& aircraft, in
cluding six flying boats, in attacks
on Dutch bases since January Is.
The announcement also asserted
that last Monday Japanese naval
planes destroyed harbor installations
and blew up 2,000-ton vessel in at
tacks on the ports of Sabang and
Medan, on the island Of Sumatra.
Evening star., 1942-01-22

cordance with their constitutional
institutions and powers, provided
that these arc in accord, they can
not continue diplomatic relations
with Japan. Germany and Italy,
since Japan has attacked and the
others have declared war upon 4
country Of our hemisphere.
Article 1. The American republics
finally declare that before they re-
establish relations referred to in the
previous paragraph they will con-
suit together in order that their de-
cision may be collective and unan-
imous.
With the redrafted resolution pre-
pared for the full session OF the con-
ference, there was only one major
defense question for consideration
the declaration Of all allies Of the
United States Is non-belligerents.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Pon-Americon Accord
Hailed in Woshinoton

B: Nht Associated Press.
News that Argentina and Chile
finally had swung into line with the
Evening star., 1942-01-22

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Evening star., 1942-06-03
Gunston Hall Graduates
Hear Senator Truman

Thirty-f1ve graduates of Gunston
Hall School received diplomas in
commencement day exercises in the
school auditorium yesterday follow
ing an address by Senator Truman
of Missouri.
Included among the graduates was
the Missouri legislators daughter,
Mary Margaret Truman, who was
presented a Department of Speech
cup for excellence in written and
spoken English, and Spanish
award for proficiency in that Ian
euage.
Senator Truman spoke on the
privileges and opportunities facing
those who enter a world war.
Honor awards and cups were pre-
sented by Miss Mary B. Carr, prin-
cipal. They included:
Elmira College award to the out
standing junior, Elizabeth McNair,
Washington; Department of Speech
cups to Eleanor Jeanne Miles, Wash
ington, proficiency in dramatics; to
Lucy Page Cole, Charlottesville, Va,
Shakespearean study, and Olive
Andrew Brien, Arlington, Va, ex-
cellence in English; Spanish award
to Miss McNair; French Cup, Jane
Tunstall Lingo, washington, and
tennis awards to Betty Buchanan,
Washington, and Sally Waddell,
Fairmont, w. Va.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Miss Switzer, McNutt Aide,
Sidetrocks War Nerves
Refuses to Get
Excited Despite
Work Pressure
BY MARION WADE DOYLE.

There is one topnotch woman
executive in the war machine who
is determined her nerves won't get
ragged and her voice shrill.
Getting excited about the unim-
portant in wartime is next to high
treason, says Miss Mary E. Switzer,
and she refuses to do it.
Miss Switzer has plenty to get
upset about. As assistant to Fed
eral Security Administrator Nc
Mutt, she always had heavy load
of the Food and Drug Act, public
health matters and general flying
about the country on Federal Sc
curity matters.
Since the war, her duties have
trebled. Mr.. McNutt handed her a
prize package when he asked her
to assist in organization of the
procurement and assignment serv-
ice of physicians, dentists and vet
erinarians. Intended to reach every
physician in the country for mas
ter list of available medical serv-
ices, this committee has sent her
scurrying about the country in ad-
dition to normal wartime increase
of her work.
Cuts Out Parties.
But Miss Switzer will not give in
to war work nerves, war temper,
war depression. The people who
keep their mental equilibrium, she
says, firmly, are the people who are
going to come through the war with
colors flying.
So she has cut out parties. Not
the frivolous type of party. She
rarely went to those anyway. She
still likes an informal gathering of
friends. But she has cut out the
massive formal affairs to which she
used to be invited because of her
high position as Mr.. McNutt's only
woman assistant.
These engagements in advance,
drag one down trying to get to them.
SO she has put away her formal
clothes and abjured gardenia cor
sages for the duration. She slips
into an early show at the movies
instead.
This woman official is different
from lot of officials. She has the
courage to say, Il am absolutely op-
posed to it," And she sticks to it.
Leaves Work at Office.
She takes away the sting of an
adverse decision with a rollicking
smile. She puts first things first
at the Office she works and when she
goes home, she forgets all about it.
For an assistant in the mass of af-
fairs corralled under the wing of the
Federal Security administrator, that
is indeed a feat.
As a Treasury DEPARTMENT execu-
Evening star., 1942-06-03

countrymen at previous hearing
on his case.
Mr.. Mengarini, who came to this
country in 1928 and has made two
trips back to italy since that time,
is the son of Mrs. Fausta v. Menga-
rini Corte, sculptress, who also
has been naturaIzed.
Mr.. Cole said that Mr.. Mengarini
has been classed IA by the selective
service system because he is medi-
cal student.
A Take Oath.
MIR. Mengarini was one of A per-
sons who took the oath. The others
were:
Abe Abraham, Rose Perrier, Julie
B. Colt, Rebecca Tooter, Zena