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Evening star., 1942-06-14
elders for the Army.
BY r. Hendrix Chandler,
Wide World News.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-That legendary
character the Arkansas Traveller, made
internationally famous by the tinkly jig
time tune of the same name. Is doing a
glad-hand job for his native State.
Since the 194l Legislature designated
him as Arkansas official goodwill am
bassador, Arkansas Traveller" commits
sions have been issued by Gov. Homer
NJ Adkins in such numbers that some
day they may rival Kentucky's "colonels." y"
The original Arkansas traveller, so the
story goes, was either salesman or
political campaigner who charmed the
Arkansas hill folks of the middle l800s
with his dry humor and expert fiddling.
Statesmen and politicians are num-
bered among the 200-odd modern-day
Arkansas Travellers. Others are baseball
players, beauties, crooners, movie stars,
business executives and comedians.
President Roosevelt was commissioned
Arkansas Traveller No. /. His 1886 visit
was the high point of this States CEN
tennial celebration. Other prominents
include Donald Nelson, Paul V. McNutt,
Jesse Jones, Lon Warneke, Bill Dickey
and Schoolboy Rowe.
The idea originated with State officials
Evening star., 1942-06-14
American Flag Symbol Of World Freedom

unity, our power, our thought and pur-
pose as a Nation. 1t has no other
character than that which we give 1t
from generation to generation. The
choice is ours 1t floats in majestic
silence above the hosts that execute
those choices whether in peace or war.
And yet, though silent, it speaks to us
speaks to us of the past. Of the men
and women who went before us and
OF the records they wrote upon it.
We celebrate the day OF its birth, and
from its birth until now 1t has wit
messed q great history, has f1oated on
high the symbol Of great events, Of
a great plan of life worked out by a
great people. We are about to carry
it into battle, to lift it where it will
draw the fire of our enemies. We are
about to bid thousands, hundreds of
thousands, it may be millions. of our
men, the young, the strong, the capable
men of the Nation, to 60 forth and
die beneath it on fields of blood far
away-for what? For some unaccus-
toned thing? For something for which
it has never sought the fire before?
American Armies were never before sent
across the seas. Why are they sent
now? For some new purpose, for which
this great flag has never been carried
before, or for some old, familiar, heroic
purpose for which it has seen men,
its own men, die on every battlefield
upon which Americans have borne arms
since the Revolution?
For us there is but one choice. We
have made it, Woe be to the man or
group of men that seek to stand in our
way in this day Of high resolution when
every principle we hold dearest is to
be vindicated and made secure for the
salvation of the nations We are ready
to plead at the bar of history, and our
flag shall wear new luster. Once
more we shall make good with our lives
and fortunes the great faith to which
we were born. and . new glory shall
shine In the face Of our people"
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Wide World News.

MIAMI, Fla-Anne Kathryn Porter
conducted an uphill battle for seven
years and today has realized her ambi-
tion-to be an air line radio operator.
She knew what she wanted to do at the
age of Is. and started to study interna-
tional Morse code and elementary elec-
tricity then.
She wanted to sign up for radio engi-
neering at college, but her parents
wouldn't hear of it. So she studied the
subject in her dormitory at night. She
built two-way radio telephone set there,
too. and talked regularly with her brother
so miles away.
After her first year at the University
OF San Antonio, her parents realized that
Anne really wanted to be an air line radio
operator. So she and her brother, Bill,
enrolled In Kansas City radio school,
Even there I was denied operators S
training" said Anne. Il had to study that
on the side while taking radio engineer
ing in the school, Today that same
school has large classes Of girls studying
to be operators"
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Bv Basil Gordon.

This is the day set aside to COM
memorate the birth of the Stars and
Stripes.
Now, more than in any previous year,
Flag Day should be observed with
solemn, but not gloomy. thought.
The flag has a meaning that, not so
long ago, was hidden in peace. and is
now evident enough for all Americans
1t is Just as evident to other nations,
too. both Allied and enemy. To count
less oppressed millions in other lands,
our flag is their ultimate salvation. To
the oppressors, whether they yet realize
It or not, our national emblem is a
symbol of their eventual destruction.
1t all started on this date, 165 years
ago. when the Continental Congress
adopted the flag whose form has re-
manned unchanged except for the addi-
ton of more stars to the original 13,
each star representing not a bloody
conquest, but a peaceful and legitimate
expansion. The mind Of no less per-
sonage than George Washington himself
had conceived the design and the first
sample had been made a year before
by Betsy Ross, at whose Philadelphia
home, 23e Arch street, still standing, the
general had called with sketch.
For 120 years no formal commemora-
ton was given of this significant act OF
the Continental Congress. though in
that interval America went through
three more wars-the War of 1872, the
Mexican War and the Civil War. 1t
finally came when the country was at
peace. The Governor of New York
issued a proclamation effective June IA,
1897. ordering the display of the flag
over all public buildings in the State.
This is sometimes called the first official
recognition, but not by Philadelphians,
who are proud of the fact that four
years earlier the Mayor of Philadelphia,
in response to a resolution of the So
ciety of Colonial Danes, did the same
for mis- city. The State of New York.
however, covers more territory than the
Evening star., 1942-06-14
By Charles E. Planck
(Author Of Women With Winrs"D

tAuthor Of Women With Winrs).
To a full-fedged enthusiast. a com"
mercial plane without glider is like
tug without barge.
This may be looking too far forward
or it may be simplifying the thrilling
story Of gliders and planes too much, but
the enthusiastically OF them-have
almost adopted it as their watchword
for. the chapter of aviation which they
are about to write.
If this is putting 1t too strongly, these
enthusiasts will tell of new factories
being built to turn out nothing but glid-
ers; of growing schools where gliding Is
the sole subject; Of plans, which are still
under wraps, for immediate use OF
freight-carrying gliders in the prosecu-
ton OF the war. and of little airplanes
rolling slowly along their assembly lines
ready to be born either as airplanes or
as gliders at the bat Of generals eye.
As before-hundreds of times before
there are people in the aviation indus
try by the dozens who are entitled to
beat their chests and scream, I told
you So" But. also as before, they won
do it. because they suddenly find them
selves saddled with job that will take
all the energies and leave little time for
chest-thumping.
Earl r. Southee, now head of the
standards division in the pilot training
program of the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration, is one Of those who could
say Il told you So" He and Richard c.
Dupont. Levin Barringer and whole
choir of others could work it into a
song which would have verses for all the
years back to 1884, when they persuaded
the Federal Aviation Commission to see
gliders as they saw them and to make
recommendations which were ignored in
this country while Germany vaulted
ahead in that field Of flying. But Southee
and Barringer have their jobs cut out
for them and, besides. they are not the
kind of men who brag when their side
wins. especially when it's gliders and
gliding
Barringer, long a gliding expert. au-
thor of interesting books on the subject
Is now major in the Air Corps and Is
working with the Air Force Training
Command to produce corps Of glider
pilots
Southee. who began gliding in 1881, Is
marshaling civil aviation's glider train
ing facilities to supplement the Army's
program, and both men are recruiting
pilots from hither and yon for service
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the sinister swastika is in view, even
on alley walls Americans must have no
patriotism" Germans have argued. They
do not even revere the flag OF their
country. With no more spirit OF unity
than that, we shall conquer them
German reasoning, hopelessly warped,
fails to see that the reverse is true. Ordi7
narily we speak little of our flag, but we
think too much of it to display it in
inappropriate spots at inappropriate
times. Even in military posts. the flag
is taken in at night. for It's own preser-
vation. that it may be brighter when the
time is right to display it.
Francis Scott Key had seen many an
American flag before September IA, 1914.
and had silently revered it; but when he
saw the Stars and Stripes in that dawn's
early light still floating from battered
Fort McHenry, after a night Of violent
assault by the enemy. the time and the
place inspired him to write the immor-
tai words that became our national an
them
Another beautiful tribute to the flag
was given in 1878 by the Senator from
Massachusetts,, George Frisbie Hoar: Il
have seen the glories of art and archi-
lecture, and mountain and river; have
seen the sunset on the Jungfrau and the
full moon rise over Mount Blanc; but the
fairest vision on which these eyes ever
looked was the flag of my country in a
foreign land. Beautiful as flower to
those who love it, terrible as meteor
to those who hate it, it is the symbol of
power and glory and the honor Of fifty
millions of Americans"
Can any one doubt that the 10000 ,0OO
descendants of those 50,00Q000 feel the
same, though few have the Senator'S
eloquence to show it?
Our last wartime President, Wood
row Wilson, took advantage of the cele-
bration of Flag Day. June IA, 1917. to
justify the declaration of war against
Germany in April. He said, in part:
I'VE meet to celebrate Flag Day be-
cause this flag we honor and under
which We serve Is the emblem Of oui
Evening star., 1942-06-14

American soldiers in Burma, Iran. Cyra-
naica, Russia, Norway or China, nobody
will say.
The only facts available are that there
are gliders on the drawing boards and
in the course Of manufacture that can
do these things. There are also pilots
who can fly those gliders. And there is,
among the people at the top. dis
position to use gliders to their fullest
capacities.
Evening star., 1942-06-14

Do you want 10 Be a Glider pilot,
The Air Forces is recruiting pilots between
IL and rs years OF age. Any licensed pilot.
any man who has participated in 200 glider
nghts, any oficer or enlisted man in the
Army who has pilots license. is eligible.
Vision may be e0-40. correctible to 600
Training will require about six weeks.
Graduates are graded as stan serHeants and
will be in line for commissions. Full details
can be obtained from Army recruiting sta
tions or c. A. A. representatives.
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Signal Corps Needs Men.

But even this does not make allowance
for the production of Army training films
and "newsreels" of actual operations.
valuable as records for the future and
as instruction for the Army and informa
tion for the public right now; the never
ending experiments carried on in ex-
panded, closely guarded Laboratories here
by huge staff of officers and civilian
scientists, the job of deviSing new codes
for our Army'S use, and of intercepting
and breaking down enemy messages.
At the moment the Signal Corps is
having trouble getting enough men, and
more particularly the right type of men.
All too rare are such recruits as the bank
clerk who came into the corps with some
amateur radio experience and now lis
one of the happiest men I've ever seen
in the Army-and surely a far better
radio man than he ever was bank
clerk" Col. Reeder adds with broad
grin.
Proportionately, the Signal Corps is
being expanded perhaps more rapidly
than any other branch of the service.
Every three months 1t now must turn
out several thousand radio electrians
alone. 1t has had little or none of the
glamourizing publicity of the Army air
forces. and to those eager for action the
marines or a tank brigade may have
more appeal.
Evening star., 1942-06-14

that will be novel, adventurous and, they
feel confident, highly effective.
elders for the Army.
The Army has not yet announced its
glider plans. Whether the pilots to be
recruited will be taking troop-filled glid-
ers across the English Channel to spear
head the new western front. or dropping
down on Chungking with costly cargoes
of war supplies, or setting up cells OF
Evening star., 1942-06-14
BY Bill Boni,
Wide World.

Yet the corps can direct the femme at
i'm lads to its first World War record
when its casualty rolls were third in all
the Army. For the men with an eye to
the day when the Axis is beaten, it offers
a chance to help gain that victory and
at the same time learn trade that will
be valuable in the future.
Even the raw recruit who goes through
only the replacement training center
will learn at least how to drive a truck
or keep it in good repair, how to operate
a teletype, or some of the fundamentals
of radio or telegraphy.
Training Experts.
If he shows sufficient aptitude there
he goes on to the enlisted mems depart
ment of the Signal Corps school where.
working with equipment Of the latest
commercial design. he becomes an ex-
pert radio, telegraph or telephone repair
or maintenance man, cable splicer, or
a high-speed radio or telegraph operator.
Carrier pigeons? Sure, the Signal
Corps also has carrier pigeons. In fact
it has more and smarter pigeons than
ever before. BY secret methods de-
veloped at Fort Monmouth, some have
been trained to fly at night pigeons
don't like to fly at night) and others
even have been trained for two-way
flights-theyll take your message and
wait for a reply.
But, perhaps because even the bright
est pigeon can't fly from Washington to
New Caledonia. not so much is being said
about pigeons these days.
Fort Monmouth is both the head
quarters and the university" of the Sig
nal Corps-a university with a present
enrolment of many thousands (exact
figures, of course, can't be given) and a
bad case of growing pains.
The attack is so severe, in fact, that a
frantic program of emergency barrack
construction can't keep up with the
mounting flow of new students and even
that mounting flow can't keep pace with
the demands for qualified signalmen. AS
a result, two new schools capable OF ham
iling additional thousands have just been
opened. one in Florida and another In
Missouri.
The Junior College.
Junior college to this university is the
replacement training center. where hum
dreds of selectees arrive each week from
reception centers all over the country
and in l3 weeks are given the Army S
Basic School course-military courtesy
and discipline, how to make pack and
make a bed how to handle rife, and so
mentary Signal Corps work.
That qualities them for assignment to
Signal Corps units in the field. But the
brighter boys-several hundred out of
each class-are chosen through examina-
Evening star., 1942-06-14

FORT MONMOUTH. N. J-The
crossed signal flags and torch which form
the insignia of the United States Army
Signal Corps were truly emblematic in
Civil War days, when the Signal Corps
got its start. Now they are as outdated
as a muzzle- loading rifle, yet 1t would
be hard to devise a more appropriate
insignia because of the manifold activ-
tiles for which the modern Signal Corps
Is responsible.
1t turns out specialists in such rudi-
mentary occupations as truck driving
and digging telephone postholes. 1t
also produces the men who operate the
hypersensitive aircraft warning devices
which guard our coastlines, devices per-
fected by the Signal Corps.
It maintains the intricate communica-
tions lines through which the Chief of
Staff in Washington keeps contact with
his commanders in the field, whether
that field is Australia, Dutch Guina or
Northern Ireland. 1t also is responsible
for installation and repair Of the radios
over which an air force squadron leader
directs his planes in bombing attack on
japanese warships in the Coral Sea
Says Col w. o. Reeder, assistant COM
mandant of Fort Monmouth, which is
Signal Corps headquarters:
I'VE handle all the Armys communica-
tions, and plan, procure. maintain, fire.
quently design and in most cases operate
the eolipment necessary for that task ="
That is as close as one can come to an
overall description of the Signal Corps
duties.
Evening star., 1942-09-23

ton that unidentified planes had
been sighted, were flashed to Nor
ristown, N. j.: Bridgeport and Dan
bury in Connecticut; Middletown
N. Y, and the State Of New Hamp-
shire.
In the metropolitan area, Mayor
La Guardia acknowledged there was
some confusion as air-raid warden!
stopped traffic in midtown and
downtown areas and turned of
street lights in scattered sectors, for
which, he said, instructions were not
issued.
Although no red signal, calling
for the sounding of sirens and q
general blackout, was received, a few
sirens sounded in various sections OF
New York City. One of them was
atop the Forty-seventh street sta
ton of the Third avenue elevated
where police said the siren was set
off without authorization.
Evening star., 1942-09-23
Arlington Blood Donors
Asked 10 Get Appointments

Arlington residents who wish to
make donations to the blood plasma
bank for the armed forces when
the mobile unit Of the District OF
Columbia Blood Donor Center Is In
the county tomorrow should make
appointments at the local Red
Cross Headquarters, 1t was an
nounced by Mrs. Gorham r. Freer,
chairman Of the blood donor service
Of the local chapter.
The mobile unit will be at the
Clarendon First Baptist Church.
Wilson boulevard and North Hart
Evening star., 1942-09-23

lands and, heartened by hopes of
an eventual Allied invasion, the
Dutch are committing almost daily
acts Of sabotage, correspondent Of
the Basler National ZeituAg wrote
today.
The invasion threat, he said, COM
pelled the Germans to strengthen
their coast fortif1cations and to
transfer many of their troops In
the eastern Netherlands provinces
to coast stations.
He wrote that at the same time
almost daily acts of sabotage occur
German road signs are destroyed,
tires on German cars are slashed,
trains Of war supplies and food
for Germany have been derailed and
telephone lines have been cut.
Bombing attacks have been carried
Evening star., 1942-09-23
Swiss, CIamping Lid
On Jews, Put Problem
Up 10 Americas
Justice Minister Tells
Parliament Security
Would Be Endangered
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 23.-
Hospitable Switzerland, traditionally
haven for political fugitives, is
closing its frontiers more tightly
against Jews and other prosecuted
persons In France.
The reason, Justice Minister Ed
ward Won Steiger told Parliament
yesterday, is that with $4,000 for
eigners in the country, Switzerland
has reached the saturation point.
1t could not, without endangering
national security, accept many more,
he said.
Inferentially, the justice minister
passed on to the United States and
other American nations the task of
finding place for Europeans in
Axis dominated countries who face
deportation or forced labor. One
difficulty, he said, is that countries
OF the Western Hemisphere are
granting almost no visas to foreign
ers, so Switzerland has almost no
chance of thinning the ranks Of
refugees she admits. Up to yester-
day, he said, only 80 visas for the
United States have been issued here.
American relief agencies repre-
sented here are concentrating ef-
forts on caring for children Of refu-
gees. In American quarters 1t was
indicated that the United States is
willing to accept and care for 1000
children and Santo Domingo was re-
ported to be willing to take another
thousand.
The Swiss expressed hopes that
the United States could be induced
to permit entry of 5000 children,
but conceded it would be difficult to
transport that number.
Won Steiger proposed strength
ening border patrols, placing new
restrictions on entry into the country
and establishment Of work camps
for those who come in illegally.
Evening star., 1942-09-23

out against German officers and
soldiers who venture singly into the
blacked-out streets at night.
He said sabotage In factories
working for Germany always was
considerable but now 1t had been
stepped up in an effort to force
the Germans to withdraw contracts
and leave many Dutch factories
idling.
In reprisal. 1t was reported. many
Dutch workers had been taken to
Germany to work under strict super
vision and>in cities there Is scarcely
q young worker to be seen.
In addition, the Nazis in their
reprisals have arrested and sent to
Germany q thousand hostages, in
cluding writer's, scientists and OH
cials.
Evening star., 1942-09-23
n. Y. Has Blue AIer|
When Unidentified
Plane Is Sighted
Radio Stutions Go OFF
Air, Street Lights
Put Out "a Minutes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-An un-
identified airplane, first reported by
the Army as operating over sea-
ward area brought air-raid alerts
to four Eastern States last night be-
fore 1t was found to be friendly.
The blue signal, just short of a
full-f1edged alarm, was flashed at
8:57 pm. and resulted in some con-
fusion in the New York area and in
some nearby Westchester County
communities. The alert lasted "a
minutes.
Key stations of the major broad
casting stations were silenced at
$50 pm, and within several min
utes blue signals were sent to five
New Jersey cities and some Long
Island communities.
Yellow warnings, preliminary cau-
Evening star., 1942-09-23
Drying TobIecIoth
Brinos Ambulance

A white sheet hung in window,
signal of maternity case in How
ick, New Zealand, brought an am
bulance to the door of an elderly
and embarrassed woman during an
air-raid test.
The ambulance crew learned that
stained tablecloth, washed and
hung to dry, had been the cause OF
their rescue dash and that the
householder was unaware OF the
Emergency Precautions Service sig
nal.
Evening star., 1942-09-23

ford street, from 10 am. to ) pm.
Mrs. Freer said.
At present the Arlington Chapter
Is taking donors to the Naval Hos
pital, but the number that can bs
handled there Il not sufiicient to
meet the increased need since the
national quota has been boosted to
2,500, 900 volunteers.
Evening star., 1942-09-23
Ban on Jews Approved
By Bolivian Chamber

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. % R.-
The Chamber of Deputies yesterday
approved proposal to bar future
immigration ofJews into Bolivia.
On the motion Of Deputy Herman
Siles, Jews were added to the list
Of prohibited races, which includes
Negroes and Mongolians.
The proposal faces probable re-
vision in the chamber before going
to the Senate.
Evening star., 1942-09-23
Sabotage, Anii-Nazi
Bitterness Spread
In Netherlands
Invasion Threat Forces
Germans to Strengthen
Coast Fortificutions

By tie Associated Press.
BERN. Switzerland, Sept. a.
Bitterness against the German con-
querors is increasing in the Neither
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biddIe, Now Ambassador
Calls on Yugosfav King 80
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 3.-Anthony ].
Drexel Biddle, jr., United; States
Envoy to exiled governments of
Nazi-dominated Europe, presented
his credentials to King Peter today
as Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia, to which Mr.. Biddle
previously was accredited as Minis
ter, thus joined Poland, Belgium,
Norway, the Netherlands and Greece
as nations to which he is Ambassa-
dor. Mr.. Biddle still is Minister to
Czechoslovakia.
King Peter in a speech here yes
terday said that an invisible army"
OF his countrymen is tying down 80
to 40 divisions Of Axis soldiers.
Although completely occupied by
Germans and Italians. Yugoslavia
remains a most effective factor in
the war but its invisible army"
needs help, the 19-year- old monarch
declared
He urged that the United States
and Great Britain give much mate
rial assistance as we'll as platonic
sympathy"
The King said that in the post
war period the Yugoslav state will
have to take care Of SOC, 900 orphans
and rebuild bridges, schools, hos
pitfalls, roads and whole villages.