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Evening star., 1942-02-20
Senators Ask Report
Comparing Arms Flow
With Appropriations
MeKeIlor Hopes to End
Hearings on 81 Billion
Measure This Week
Bx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Senate Appropriations Sub
committee, studying a $32, ,o7o ,9o1 900
Army Navy money bill, asked re-
port today from Robert P. Patter-
son, Undersecretary Of War, on
how far military expenditures are
tagging behind congressional ap-
propriations.
Pointing out that If Congress ap-
proves the pending bill in its pres
ent form it will have voted military
appropriations and authorizations
totaling ST. 1856, GAG, ,702 since Janu-
ary S, committee members said they
wished to learn whether the pro-
duction program was being speeded
accordingly.
Last fall william s. Knudsen,
then director of the ONCE of Pro-
duction Management, reported to
the committee that while Congress
had appropriated $50 6,000. 900, 900 up
to that time only about 81 1000, 900 900
actually had been spent then to pay
for delivered goods.
Gen. Arnold Testifies.
Other War Department officials,
including 1t. Gen. H. H. Arnold,
chief of the Army Air Forces, were
said to have given an encouraging
report, at a closed session yesterday,
of the stepup in manufacture of
all types of equipment, especially
airplanes. Senators said that while
they could not disclose plane-pro-
duction figures, they considered
them highly encouraging"
The pending measure carries $22,-
888, ,901 900 for the War Department,
mostly for ordnance and expediting
production.
In reply to committee members
queries as to whether production
work was being spread among
smaller firms, Gen. Arnold was said
to have cited the fact that the
number of companies participating
in airplane contracts had been in
creased from an original Is to Al.
This was only an example, one
committee member said, of results
that were being accomplished In
efforts u turn as much as pos
sible OF the Nations productive ca
pacity into military channels.
Hearings May End This Week.
Senators were said to have been
assured by the Army officials that
every possible step was being taken
to rush men, machines and supplies
to vital defense posts in all parts
OF the world, including the South
western Pacific.
Chairman McKellar said the sub
committee hoped to complete hear
1ngS on the measure this week and
have 1t ready for Senate considera-
ton early next week.
Besides the large amount for the
War Department, the measure car
ries SIS, ,430 ,000, 900 for lease-lend op-
erations and $3,852 ,0O0, 900 for the
two-ships-a-day merchant marine
construction program, as well as
smaller items.
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sionally they were guided by Bur-
mese natives, it was alleged.
Details of how the Japanese at
tack, which began from Paan. on
the east bank Of the Salween River,
early on February II and finally
overran fiercely fighting Indian in
fantry, now can be revealed.
The Baluchis held their ground
throughout that day and night. At
6 am. on February II. when they
were running out of ammunition,
the enemy withdrew to an outer
ring about the defending position
and began heavy artillery and NOR
tar fire supported by dive-bombing
attacks.
Another attack then was launch
ed, with the Japanese holding a
numerical superiority of at least 3
to l. In hand-to-hand fighting
heavy casualties were inflicted on
both sides. But at last the Balu-
chiS were overwhelmed.
Highly Trained Regulars.
One Baluchi officer who escaped
after being taken prisoner said he
saw a full japanese battalion. COM
plete with mules, infantry and guns,
marching in column formation.
The troops were said to be highly
trained regulars, who had an excel
lent system Of communications with
their supporting aircraft.
This ofi1cer. who was defending
the flank of a British position with
a small force, was attacked by two
companies. which lost at least 100
men in killed alone.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Jops Using Bicycle Scouts.
AIono BiIin River Front

ON THE BILIN RIVER FRONT,
Burma, Feb. 18 (Delayed) R.-
Japanese forces now engaged by the
British in the offensive along the
lower Bilin River are using bicycle
scouts dressed in native Burmese
costumes, the British asserted today.
(Similar reports came from the
British during the Japanese drive
through Malaya.)
First accounts from British oficers
and men who fought near Duyinzeik,
across the Salween River west of
Paan, before it was evacuated early
last Sunday also described how the
enemy fired tracer bullets at night
trying to make the defenders reveal
their positions.
The Japanese, dressed in khaki
and wearing peaked caps, concen-
trated in detachments Of 200 to 1000
and advanced only at night, follow
ing jungle trails or keeping close In
the cover Of wooded hills. Occa-
Evening star., 1942-02-20
300 Women Inducfed
Into Feeding Corps
OF D. {. Red Cross
Heads of Units for 19
HospitoIs Also Welcomed
In Defense Setup

The chiefs of the District Red
Cross Casualty Unit feeding corps
for 10 Washington hospitals were
inducted and welcomed into the
city's defense services at a meeting
last night in Memorial Continental
Hall. At the same time, 300 women
took pledges of service for the feed
ing corps.
Frederick P. H. Siddons, vice
chairman of the Disaster Relief
Committee of the Red Cross, an
nounced that more than 1000
women will be trained as members
of the feeding units, which will
work in conjunction with the Dis
trict's emergency medical Service.
The heads of feeding units of the
hospitals are: Episcopal, Miss Caro-
line Lee Hendricks; Garfield, Mrs.
T. c. Carr Soldiers Home, Mrs.
Twyla Ferguson: Sibley, Miss Inez
Tatascore; st. Elizabeth's, Mrs. w.
w. Eldridge;; Navy Dispensary and
Army Dispensary, Mrs. Robert Cor
don; Doctors. Miss Frieda Baird;
Emergency, Miss Sara Hall; Freed
mems, Mrs. Helen Curtis Jordan;
Homeopathic, Mrs. Charles Zeller;
Providence, Mrs. Charles Dewey;
Casualty, Miss Faustine Dennis;
Georgetown, Mrs. Henry King:
Gallinger, Mrs. Dorothy Jackson;
Walter Reed, Miss Alice Caughey;
Children's, Mrs. Edwin Platt: Co
lumbia, Mrs. H. Stewart-Richard-
son, and George Washington. Mrs.
Edward Goring Bliss.
In emergencies, members Of the
Red Cross Casualty feeding corps
will report to their respective hospi-
tails and join the medical units.
They will be sent wherever there is
need for them on orders of the Gen.
tral Control Bureau.
Training in the canteen corps has
been recommended to all members
of these units.
The women who received identifi-
cation cards and Red Cross arm
bands last night were led by Mrs
Howell Moorhead, vice chairman of
the casualty unit feeding stations.
Among the speakers was DR.. John
A. Reed, director of emergency
medical services for the District.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Bishop Henry Mike|I
OF Atlanta Diocese
Dies Of Heart Attack
Noted os Scholar, He
Wos Chancellor Of
University Of South
By the Associated Press.

BY the AkSOcieteo ffe38.
ATLANTA, Feb. 20.-The Right
Rev. Henry j. Mikell, 6s, Bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese Of Atlanta
and chancellor of the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tenn. died
early today.
He had been i'll since February o,
when he suffered q heart ailment
after returning from q meeting Of
the House Of Bishops at Jackson
vile, Fla.
Noted as an administrator, schol-
ar and speaker, he was an author
ity on the liturgy and English his
tory Of the church.
Became Priest in 1899.
Born in Sumter, s. c., August 4,
1873, he became a priest in 1899
and served as rector OF churches in
Charleston. S. c.. and Nashville,
Tenn, until his election as Bishop
of the Atlanta Diocese In 1917.
He was past national president
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Recognized as one of the lead
ers Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States, Bish-
op Mikell was among the best
known Of Southern churchmen.
Mishop Mikell was educated at
the University Of the South and was
awarded an LID. degree by Ogle-
thorpe University in 1928.
Was Married In 1905.
Long interested in young per-
sons activities, he founded a sum-
mer camp at Toccoa. Ga, eight
years ago. He was chairman of the
Board of Directors OF George Pea
body College at Nashville and a
trustee Of the Dubose Church
Training School at Monteagle,
Tenn.
Bishop Mikell was married to
Miss Henrietta Campbell Bryan of
Charleston in 1905. She died several
years ago.
He Is survived by his granddaugh-
ter. Henrietta Mikell Jones of Sa-
vannah, Ca; two sisters, Miss jamie
Mikell and Mrs. Frank M. Spann,
both of Sumter. and a brother, DR..
William E. Mikell. dean of the Penn
sylvania School of Law at German
town.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
First Air Raid Is Made
On MondoIoy, Jops Say

TOXIC (From Japanese Broad
castst, Feb. 20 (P.-Domei reported
today that Japanese bombers made
their first air raid yesterday on
Mandalay, scoring direct hits which
inflicted heavy damage on military
installations.
The Burma city Of Kiphng's song
Is $50 miles north of Rangood on
the railroad to Lashio, terminus OF
the Burma road.
Serious damage was caused to
military installations in. the town,
direct hits being registered" Domei
said.
Meanwhile another military
squadron yesterday afternoon at
tackled the station at Pyinmana,
south of Mandalay, setting on fire
IS trucks.
"An Japanese aircraft returned
without meeting a single enemy
plane"
Pyinmana also is on the Rangoon-
Lashio railway, near the midway
point between Mandalay and Ran
COON.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Dratha

rbW.oGI' WOOD ROBERT w. Suddenly. on
dence, Vienna, Va, ROBERT w. WOOD,
beloved husband of Letticia G. Wood, IA
ther OF Mrs. Maude Gunnell and Walter,
Bentley and Richard Wood
Services Saturday February 81, at Q
PM at the Episcopal Church, at Vienna.
va 1nterment National Memorial Park
Cemetery, near Falls Church. Va.
WOOD, ROBERT w. Oficers and mem
3!
~ bers Of Metropolis Lodge. No IS.
IN !; O.: o: F.. are hereby notified of
ruary 81, 1912. lat ,2:3O pm. from
NX Episcopal Church, at Vienna, Va.
TI Burial at National Memorial Park
w Cemetery. By order of
" PHILIP LOWENTHAL.
Noble Grand.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Hull Leaves for South

Secretary of State Hull, who has
been kept away from his off1ce for
several days by a slight attack Of
grippe. left yesterday for a Southern
resort to recuperate and rest. Dur
ing his absence Undersecretary of
States Welles is Acting Secretary.
You'll drive the Nazis nuts II you
buy Defense bonds,
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Burma
Continued From First Page)

River. 80 miles to the west and last
natural barrier protecting Rangoon.
100000 Believed Evacuated.
The Sittang is only 20 miles from
Pegu, which is barely so miles north
of Rangoon on the railway connect
ing this port with the Burma supply
road to China.
With the menace to Rangoon
clearly defined, it was estimated
that approximately 100000 Indian
residents already had departed from
the city, bound mostly for India.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Garh nf Uhanka

PAMELA, NANCY PEARL, Mr.. ana
Mrs. Saverio Puglisi and family wish to
thank their many friends and relatives for
tneir kind expressions Of sympathy and
Of their daughter and sister. NANCY
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Deatha

S:., L 3 ssS tss4 SssRsie'R
Services at Chambers funeral home.
400 Chaplin 81. nv. on SATURDAY,; Feb
washington Memorial Park. ~
LEWELLEN, WILLIAM: :, On THURSDAY
February 10, 1912. at hts residence. 623
Carroll ave. Takoma Park, Nd. WILLIAM
LllEWElLEM. beloved husband Of Ads Rob-
Friends may call at the Takoms funeral
services G6e .nS s aom m
vile. Pa.
Thursday, February 10. 1912. at her resi-
6oz SsSss dHsor zas 1ns5sSe% ss . Thomas. AfE
Frank Iishtfoot. Mrs. Evelyn ELY r. SUM.
s ss Ss s s:F s
invited ai nteTm.nt Rsssazs' esd.a fnS
Cemetery. 20
MANN, LEWIS W. On Thursday. Feb.
ssiah It nv. IE%I{ W %SkSs r. bs!eS:d
Of Patricia. jean % and Ralph Mann. -A'''
pbnsr MT rests At tss
Silver Spring. Md. where services will be
held on Saturday, February 81. At 2 pm.
Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Wednesday. February Is, 1912. ct her resi-
sfRSi iba beloved s Wife viz. q rev w.fsE S
Maydeld and daughter Of John Dunning of
Fredericton, Prince Edward Island. Cam
ada. She also is survived BY two sisters
Of Prince Edward Island and one sister OF
Jersey City, N. J.
Remains resting at Hysong's funeral
home, 1900 N st. NV, until / 80 .. m. Sun
day. February. %: thence to Roberts Me-
morial Methodist Church. 18th and N SITS.
NV. where Mrs. Mayfield will lie in state
until 3 Pm, at which time services will be
held. Interment Greenville. III.
McLAIN. EvERLYN LEE. Departed this
life Wednesday, February 18, 1912, in
Adams Private Hospital. after o brief Ill
ness, Mrs. EVERLYN LEE McLAIN. She
Smith and Mrs. Mary Mitchell: two broth
ers. Aaron Lee and Jules Santos Avalino;
other relatives and friends.
Remains resting with L. Z. Murray &
Son, 18th and SITS. NV. where services
will be held Saturday, February 21, at
pm, Rev. e. c. Smith ofnciating. Inter-
terment in Falls Church. Va. 20'
MOORE, MARY ELIZABETH. Suddenly,
H MooRs beloved Saashtea Il
the late James T. and Elizabeth Moore and
sister of James T. Moore.
Funeral from her late residence. 1922
35th st. inv. on Saturday. February 81, at
$40 am. REQUIEM mass at Holy Trinity
Church ct am. Relatives and friends in
yited. Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery, 20
Evening star., 1942-02-20

of Court District Of CO.
lumbia, No. 212, Catholic
Daushters of America, are
of the death of a
beloved member. MARY z.
MOORE. on Tuesday, Feb
ruary II. 1912. and are re-
quested to assemble for rec
itation of the Rosary at
pu nm Tridoy Fehrllary
Evening star., 1942-02-20

February ~! I84Z WhItEh = hMsbanr
of Mae Med. Frisbie and father OF John
Services at the g. H. Hines Co. funeral
home, 29O1 l4th st. NV, on Saturday
February 81, at pm. Interment Mer.
iden. Conn, Il
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1922 35th st. NV. on Friday. Februar
30, at 7:15 pm, and to attend requiem
mass at 8 am. on Saturday, Februar
81. at Holy Trinity Church. 36th an
Miss CATHERINE RUPERT,
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Hi Mrntnriant

Attest: JOHN J. KELLY. Sec.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
GAINES, WILLIAM EMBREY.

day. February 20. 1912. at his residence,
1927 Adams Mill rd. NV, WILLIAM EN-
BREY, GAINES. beloved husband Of Sarah
Grundy Gaines and father OF Ruth o.
Services at the s. H Hines Co. funeral
home. 290l 14th st. n.w' on SATURDAY,
friends invited. Interment Glenwood
Cemetery
Evening star., 1942-02-20

mems Hospital, JENNIE CARTER; wife
Lucina Casey. Mrs: Rosetta Scott. sister Of
and Thomas Williams. She also leaves
MI, Herbert Scott and Mr.. Harry Casey
Funeral Saturday. February Fl: at
pm, from Tenth Street Baptist Churcn,
viewed at Miiler's funeral home, 1856 18th
st. NV Interment Rosemount Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-06

to do right by the aspirations of incoming
registrants ''Goldbrick'' - meaning Stacker,
braggart, phony or general o-good - is itself
a sort of informal classification to which the
final assignment is made by the man himself.
Take Gilbert c., for example. Gil told
the Army interviewer that he'd been thou
sand dollar -a-week radio gag man. Maybe he
was But the Army has as little need for gag
men as for Sanskrit scholars, as such. 1t also
happens that radio operators are badly need
ed, and Gil scored high in the Code Aptitude
test. However, that didn't please him.
Gil could easily have become one of the
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LERNK1

wants to be reclassifed. He's moon-faced
mama's boy who had been piano tuner. The
test showed that he has perfect ear and
about everything else it takes to become an
advanced specialist in the operation of sound
detector apparatus - if only he would work
at it. Instead, he wants a job in the recreation
service, although there are 100 better enter
tanners for every available job.
A couple of weeks ago Pat was shipped
across as an apprentice sound-locater opera
tor. still protesting that the stupid classical
ton service had wrecked his life.
Desire b Learn
ALONG with Pat went gangling hillbilly
whom Selective Service had taken off two
mule farm in North Carolina eight months
ago. Hank K had quit high school after
the first year. In the General Classification
Test he got low Grade 3, which is little
below average, and his Code Aptitude score
was barely passing. But Hank had what Gil
lacked passionate will to learn his job.
This kid came to me with tears back of
his eyes," says the classification lieutenant
who had handled Hanks case. "Said he'd
dreamed about being radio operator ever
since he was kid. On the record of his tests
and educational background, Hank didn't
have prayer. but we decided to take chance
on him anyway. The first month he was ter
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Moreover, the system does not wait for
personal complaints from the men. 1t goes
out of its way to dig up and rectify possible
errors During the early weeks in the 40
training centers - while the recruit is learn
ing the basic skills every soldier needs -
there is opportunity to watch him at various
types of work and, if necessary, to reclassify
him. In addition, orders come at periodic
intervals to re-interview and reclassify all
men who seem to have been unassigned, or
who fell below certain score when they were
first tested, in the eternal hope that good
material, temporarily lost in the induction
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diers have reason to curse convivial friends
who on the last night at home literally f1oated
them into the Army on an ocean of liquid
good cheer. The General Classification and
Mechanical Aptitude Tests are usually given
the first morning after the soldiers arrival.
And hangover is no help in either examina-
ton!
There are other reasons why the Classifica-
ton Service misses - or seems to. Men come
to US from civil jobs for which they were never
fitted, and the tests show that they are not
fitted for those jobs. And often the tests re-
veal latent talents the men themselves were
ignorant of, and land them in unexpected
fields.
Sometimes the emergency compels us to
ignore the results of tests entirely and assem-
Bile group of men for given task because
they happen to be most readily available.
And in other cases the training of a man in
one Army speciality may have progressed so
far before he is reclassi6ed that to transfer
him would disrupt the team in which he has
become vital cog.
The Classification Service knows these
things But it also knows that at least two
thirds of the men it is alleged to have mislaid
or crucifed represent very ancient Army
phenomenon.
The goldbricks always want to be reclassi-
fed" sigh the disillusioned non-coms who try
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rible, even though he worked like Trojan.
But after that he got into the groove and
came through in the first two-thirds Of his
class. Now he's bent on getting his sergeant's
stripes - and can't see what can stop him"
Not many civilians realize that the ground
work for this service was laid back in 1917,
but the war ended before it had advanced
far beyond the skeleton state In May, 1910,
we began tooling up for World War II. 1t
wasn't, soon enough, but that's water over
the dam. Today, despite all the fearful pres
sure of hurry. the Army has developed
frst-rate personnel classification system.
Wsx II Experts
WHIT all this means to the individual SOL
der is simple. This is new kind of war -
war of specialists. of experts, of skilled pro-
fessional soldiers for whom the Army's Ape
tite is Unsuitable. Opportunity never stops
knocking at the modern soldiers door, and
those who will listen can 60 far. To the selec-
tee whose call is imminent, therefore, let me
offer few words of counsel:
!. Take your entrance into the Service
seriously rather than with the casual flippancy
displayed by some recruits. The interviews
and tests they will give you are not whimsy
nor child's play: They are the best guarantee
that you will advance in this Amy Just as fast
as you brore your ,0orth.
Z. If you must have going away party
with liquids, have it few days before you
leave so you can come into the Army cold
sober and in your right mind. You'll need all
your wits that first morning - unless you
plan to be yardbird for the duration!
;. When you sit down with an interviewer,
be yourself. Don't hide your talents or try to
fake any. Don't try to kid these fellows BE-
cause you'll only be kidding yourself. Play
ball with them and they'll see that you get
all the breaks - plus.
4. Don't expect to be assigned to the Cen
eral Staff until you've at least completed your
13 weeks of basic training. But if you have
honest reason to question the classification or
assignment you get, take up the matter
promptly with your commanding officer Or
with the Personnel Consultant Officer q
your training center or division. If you wait
too long - or get too well set in your 'mistit"
job - it may be more trouble than it's worth
to the Army to transfer you..
No matter what the wise guys tell you,
can assure you. that if it's at all feasible, the
Army would much rather have you happy
in your job than disgruntled.
Not because it has suddenly become maud
lin over its citizen soldiers. But simply be-
cause, as l said before, this Army is no more
anxious to make a company clerk out of an
expert welder than it is to use trench mortar
for antiaircraft defense!
The End
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wont wait. Pushed from behind and pulled
from ahead, the Classification Service is
bound to make some mistakes. And those
mistakes occasionally explode like fireworks
from Walla Walla to Washington.
For example, there was that consignment
of scholarly but Notwithstanding Chi
nese who were deposited one damp night on
the doorstep of a dismayed Quartermaster
officer, for service in the laundry detachment.
The Chinese were furious about something.
When the frantic officer finally dug up
Cantonese who could speak their dialect,
their outcries were translated to mean: who
said we were laundrymen? We are Chinese
the Japs."
The Classification Service had been hasty
in this case. but the blunder was caught and
rectiied. These Chinese friends and allies
have now been re-interviewed and assigned to
duties more adapted to their training - and
infinitely more serviceable to the Army.
Or consider Ebert "a village nitwit -
who sailed right by everybody into Signal
CORPS training SCHOOL, The catch was, Ebert
had ducked across his county line and regis
tered with Draft Board where he was I'M
known. Looking good on the surface, he
proved so dumb in the tests that his inter-
viewers were sure he was malingerer. So
thew classified him high on his looks.
Mistakes? Soznetiznes
lHosE who knew Ebert doubtless snorted
in derision during his first triumphant surge
through the Army - particularly if they also
knew somebody with marked talents who at
the same moment was cleaning kitchen pots.
Yes. there have been few glazing mistakes.
But four or five million men already have been
processed. and the vast majority of them have
been put into the right jobs.
What can be done about the slip-ups?
As far as the individual soldier is con-
cerned, there is a simple, clear-cut course
of action The man who feels that he has
been misclassified or has had talents
overlooked may consult with his COM
manding officer, and through him, with
the Personnel Consultant Officer at
tached to every training center for pre-
cisely this purpose. But let me emphasize
here that request for Redistribution should
not be made before the soldier really knows
what is in store for him. Take the case OF the
expert photographer who thought that his
skills had been passed by when he was as
signed to the infantry, but who found HIM
self - after his basic training had been COM
pleted - making maps in the great infantry
school at Fort Benning. Or take the case OF
his pal who forgot his resentment about be-
ing in the infantry after his first chance to
fire an antitank gun. Both of those men de-
cided that the Army had known better than
they where they would fit.