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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Army Calls Off Test
OF Newest Big Guns
Without Explanation
Invitations to Newsmen
And Photographers to
Aberdeen Cancelled
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ABERDEEN, Nd, April Pub
lie tests of two of the Army's new
est big guns at the Aberdeen Prov
ing Grounds were abruptly called
of last night by the War Depart
ment.
The tests were to have been held
today under the supervision of
Army ordnance officers.
Capt. Harvey Rivkins, post press
relations officer, said that the War
Department had Cancelled invita-
lions to newspapermen and photog-
rapherS to view the guns, first pub
lie showing of. the new weapons.
The officer said no reason was
given for the order and declined
comment, but indicated a public
test might be arranged later.
The guns are expected to be two
of Uncle Sans biggest talking
points in his argument with the
Axis.
The 240-mm. howitzer, brought in
convoy from the Wisconsin factory
where it was built, is the largest
field piece in the United States
Army and, some officers believe, the
largest in the world.
The Army expects this gun to
throw huge shells into enemy posi-
tions far beyond the range of pre-
vious howitzers.
The 155-mm. gun, field equiva-
lent of the 6-inch coast defense gun,
Is one of the most highly-regarded
weapons in the United States
arsenal. The chief feature of the
gun is the mobility it is given by
its tank mounting.
The superstructure Of the tank
was ripped down and the muzzle
now projects from what would have
been the turret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Killer Suspects Transferred

LYNCHBURG, Va, April tP.-
Charles Lovett, 81, of Philadelphia
and James Edward FISHERMAN of
Clinchburg, Va, who are under
indictment on a charge of killing
F. B. I. Agent Hubert J. Treacy
at Abingdon, have been transferred
from the Lynchburg City Jail at
Bristol. They are scheduled to
60 on trial before the United States
District Court at Abingdon at the
term commencing April Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Prince Georges Arrests
4 Garbage Truck Operators

Operators of four garbage trucks
were arrested yesterday in Prince
Georges County for violation of the
county's garbage ordinance.
The arrests weer made through
the efforts of Charles L. Wood, chief
county sanitarian, who is seeking
enforcement of the law, passed by
the State Legislature, to force hog
raisers in the county to feed swine
with grain or other foods instead of
refuse.
The ordinance provides that gar
bage brought into the county MUST
be disposed of on a recognized dump
or must be taken out of the county.
1t also requires that the garbage be
packed in waterproof containers,
The four truck operators posted
500 bond each. Two of them will
appear Monday in Police Court at
Upper Marlboro. The other two
will aDpear FRIDAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
300 Quail TO Be Released
In Montgomery County

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, April Good
results from a propagating stand
point are expected from liberation
of 300 quail in various sections of
Montgomery County, w. Carroll
Waters, chief deputy game warden,
said today.
The birds were obtained yester-
day from the State Conservation
Commission and will be released in
appropriate spots throughout the
county. The game warden will be
assisted by Izaak Walton League
chapters at Rockville, Silver Spring
and Bethesda and interested ind1-
viduals.
Recently about $50 rabbits we're
released at various points in the
county and so mallard ducks were
turned loose along the upper Poto-
mac River. They also we're provided
by the State Conservation Commits
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02

Prisoner Digs Out
Of SpotsyIvonio Jail
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April
flames Baxter, IS, of Paytes, held
In the Spotsylvania County Jail on a
non-support charge, dug his way out
in five hours. He opened hole be-
meath the front wall.
Another prisoner, who watched the
Job, decided he would not try to
escape.
The Spotsylvania Jail recently was
described by James v. Bennett, di-
rector Of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons, as ONE of the five worst in
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Fans Welcome Circus Train
In Brief Pause at Alexandra

torney, were on hand to renew
acquaintance.
Advance arrangements had been
made for a refrigerated meat truck
to supply food for some of the
animals.
Did you get that order for a
filet mignon?" the driver was asked.
He had no f1let mignon.
There was some discussion as to
whether the truck could make an
other trip before the train left and
whether it would for one filet.
Finally a concerned man set forth
to find a butcher shop.
III see what I can do" he said.
Those monkeys must have their
f1let mignon."
- One of the animal crew set up his
portable table and began cutting up
big sections of meat into sizes which
could be showed through cage bars
to the impatient lions, tigers and
other beasts.
Will Return May Is.
Only elephants, camels and horses
were permitted to stretch their legs
beside the tracks while being watered
and fed. The work went on to ac-
compartment of shouts for such in
dividuals as "Popeye" and Dough-
belly"
Some of the workmen, making
their first trip North, found small
snow mounds still unmelted, made
balls and carried them excitedly to
others who were to see the white
stuff for the first time.
After about two hours, the circus
train moved on. 1t will not reach
this area again until May Is, when
it is scheduled to open a six-day
run here, featuring a patriotic
"super-spectacle" but bringing also
all the things that delight young
and old year after year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Camp Lee Captain
Personally Delivers
Privote's IS Letters

BY the Associated Press.
CAMP LEE. Va. April a.
Pvt. william J. Doyle, former
Weymouth Mass.) school teach
er, Of Company c. 7th Quarter
master Training Regiment, re-
ceived his mail from Capt. Paul
D. Hinkel, the company COM
mander-65 letters.
II wanted to see the man who
could get IS letters at one time"
the captain said.
Pvt. Doyle admitted the ma
jority OF the letters were from
girls, but explained that they
were his former pupils in high
school who decided to deluge
him with correspondence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
$4,000 Winchester Fire

WINCHESTER, Va, April q
(SpeciaD Il. L. Hickman indicated
today his intention of rebuilding a
large warehouse burned yesterday
along with its contents of fertilizer,
entailing a loss of about $4,000,
partly insured. Several nearby
dwellings ignited, but damage to
them was slight. The merchandise
destroyed belonged to the American
Agricultural Chemical Co.. of which
Mr.. Hickman is manager. Origin
Of the fire had not been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Enlistment Rule Set

RICHMOND, Va, April 2 (R.-
Although an act of the recent Leg
islature permits enlistment of boys
as young as l6 years In the Virginia
Protective Force, Gov. Darden said
yesterday he would require the per-
mission Of parents before sanction
ing such enlistments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02

(See CHURCHES, Page B-5)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
LATIN-AMERICA:
Crotcs More Solid

Historians, pointing to the fact
that 81 Latin-American nations Ell
Their have declared war or have bro
ken relations with the Axis, as COM
pared with Is in the last war, had
expressed the belief that Chile would
be the next one in, and that Pan
American solidarity was on the in
crease, boding well for hemispher-
ic unity in the postwar period.
However, as President-elect Juan
Rios had reached the threshold of
his Office following the election,
Adolf Hitler had cabled him ex-
pressing the hope that German re-
lations with Chile might become
even closer"
Chile and Argentina, at this point
had remained the only two still
maintaining relations with the Axis.
Hitler was quoted as cabling:
II take this opportunity to express
the desire that the relations Of sim
cere friendship between Germany
and the Republic Of Chile will be
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
GATHERING SCRAP
FOR WAR EFFORT

AROUND EVERY GREAT steel
mill, where materials for ships,
tanks and guns are being produced,
will be found a large, but rapidly
diminishing pile Of scrap iron. That
scrap iron is first essential in
making steel, and the piles grow
less each day.
On every farm and in every town
home can be found one or more
pieces of old iron. In every COM
1nunity, hundreds of pounds Of such
scrap could be dug up if the people
but looked for it-enough scrap to
help build a battleship or tank;
enough to build gun.
Why not a community scrap party
that would dig out all the old iron,
old paper, rubber and rags? A local
committee could quite easily ascer-
tain the name OF a scrap dealer and
a price paid for each class of waste
material. Children could be en-
couraged to dig it out.
The effort would turn into cash
waste material that is Of no use in
the community. It would help to
replenish the diminishing supplies
so badly needed, and it would give
people Of the. community q definite
war job. They would be doing some
thing tangible toward defeating the
enemy.
Paying for the. scrap with war
savings stamps would induce many
to buy additional stamps.
It is job aachurch, school, Amer
lean Legion post, service club,
All club, or any other organization
could easily do, carrying on house.
toulouse and farm-to-farm canvass.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
The AnssOers

I. Red on top and bottom.
2. A total of 56.5 per cent.
8. Fruit.
4. The United States spent
$3.50, 900 on the pedestal and erec-
ton of the Statue of Liberty in
New York harbor.
5. BY the day.
8. Die.
z. Partial shadow.
8. 1867.
8. The Fahrenheit temperature
Of the oceans varies from ~ to SO
degrees, while that Of the air
varies from 1870 below to 149
above zero. Thus the natural tenn
perature Of the air can become
157 degrees colder and 81 degrees
hotter than sea water.
10. Lemons, oranges, grapefruit,
lines, tangerines and citrons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
ASK Me -
ANOTHER {
A General Quiz
The Questions
q. 60. 90

I. What color is the bottom
stripe Of the American flag? And
the top?
2. According to the 1910 census,
what percentage of the U. S. popu-
lation lives In urban centers?
8. A frugivorous man subsists
on what?
A. While France spent $3.50, 900
on the construction of the Statue
of Liberty, how much did the
United States spend on its cree
ton?
S. A man who works per diem,
does so by what?
6. What is the singular Of
''dice"?
Z. What is meant by the astro-
nomical term Penumbra?
8. In what year was the Domin-
ion of Canada established?
9. How great does the tempera-
ture Of the oceans vary?
10. Can you name six kinds Of
citrus fruits?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
RUBBER SHORTAGE
AND SPEED DEMONS

ANU OF G6W UEMVNS
THERE IS NOT pound Of rub
Der that can be spared for other
than war purposes" is what Leon
Henderson told senate committee.
Owners and drivers Of American
passenger automobiles win realize
before many months that Mr.. Hem
derson's statement meant just what
it said. As sit at window, over
looking a popular drive, I wonder
at the thoughtlessness of drivers
who are burning up tires as though
no shortage existed.
Cars 60 whizzing by at 40 to
70 miles an hour, and / venture Q
guess that time saved does not mean
q thing to one in ten drivers. It is
the American craze for speed. Our
desire to 60 fast, to beat and pass
the fellow Just ahead The car 60
ing so to 20 miles an hour will burn
up tires in half the number Of miles
that can be covered by a car trav-
cling from Is to 40 miles per hour.
There is one satisfaction in 1t all.
The speed demon will be the first
fellow to walk. II having to walk
while the conservative driver still
rides should teach speeders a lesson,
the rubber shortage might be con-
sidered a blessing. It would reduce
the number of deaths and maim-
ings for which the speeders have
been responsible.
I, for one, will not be sorry when
the speed demons have to walk.
May it be soon!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
BY VIRGINIA VALE

By VIRGINIA VALE
(faelsased By Western Newspaper union.D
TAXICAB business doomed
i recently at one Of Holly
woods major studios, unaf-
fected by the rubber short
age. Richard Carlson and
Martha O'Driscoll drove off
in one to be married, with
Cecil Kellaway at the wheel.
That was in New York. Then
Burgess Meredith and Louise Plat
rode TO railway station in Newark.
N. J., in the same cab. Finally
Allan Ladd and Bonita Granville
took the same cab to Brian Donley's
home in a Middle Western city.
Same cab-mounted on q fixed plat
form, never turning wheel; 1t had
no wheelsi
In case you're interested, the pic
lures for which that taxi worked so
hard and so faithfully are my
Heart Belongs to Daddy" ''Street
Of Chance" that being the new title
for "The Black Curtain" and "The
Glass Key"
~
Almost ten years ago Red Shelton
played his first vaudeville act in
Wooster, Mass. June Earle danced
and played straight man" for him.
Tommy Mac was also in the act.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
GREEN-COLOR OF
SPRINGTIME

GREEN, the glorious green Of
the trees and the grass! Not pri-
mary color, it is made Of mixture
Of the golden rays Of the spring
and summer sun and the blue Of
the skies, mixed with the rain. What
can be more glamorous than the
stately tree with its crown of spring
and summer green? Though old in
years, it represents the springtime
Of life. What more restful than the
green carpet Of wide, spreading
lawn as a setting for the spring
and summer flowers? +.
Green, natures backdrop for our
stage Of life. Each spring it drops
into place to cover the agonies and
tragedies Of winter in the drama
of living. 81
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
LABOR:
Picture Con.pLicated

The labor situation, in the other
big battle which had conferred In
Washington, the fight over whether
the 40-hour week should be retained
or not, had complicated the New
Deal picture tremendously.
On the one hand Secretary OF La
Dor Perkins and the White House
itself had been found apparently UNI
willing to scrap the 40-hour week,
while Thurman Arnold, Of the at
torney generals staff, had issued
the most bitter statement against
labor unions as obstructing the war
effort that had come out OF WASH
inrton since the New Deal started.
Now, the unions were whole-heart-
edly against the move to end the ~
hour week, claiming that the only
benefit their workers had from 1t
was the extra half-time pay for the
usual eight hours Of overtime week
Nv, while business already was be-
ing accused Of getting huge profits
for its share of the wartime boom
in industrial activity.
Congressional leaders were found
urging, against business, that all
profits over per cent be, recap
tured for the government, and at
the same time highly divided over
the 40-hour week.
Tremendous mail was being re-
ceived on the subject, convincing
many congressman that definite
nationwide campaign to have the 40
hour week thrown out was in prog
ress.
One official high in the War Pro-
duction board stated that the 40-hour
week through overtime payments
was adding 8 per cent to the cost
of all war contracts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
HICHLIcHTs :. Is u III. .sssl'. neY.

London: The Times has reported
that German heavy industry Is pay
ing Adolf Hitler a personal tribute
OF $l2, 100000 year for his own
use, and that Hitler devotes a por-
ton Of this to buy support.
Philadelphia: One convict was
killed and others injured In a riot
at the penitentiary, The riot was
started over shortened ration Of
sugar in the convicts' coffee.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
,JAPS:: ! n. !. !. D.
Yarn Aussies :

4
The Japanese, apparently trying
to undermine Australian confidence
and trying to build up a lack Of
unity within the continent, were put
ting out warnings to Australians
before they had tried a landing.
The grim determination Of the
Australians to defend their country,
plus the appointment Of Gen. Doug
las Macarthur to the supreme COM
mand, was ample assurance that
Japanese propaganda would fall on
barren soil.
As the invaders of New Guinea
were moving across the difficult and
almost impossible terrain between
Salamaua and Lac and Port Mores-
by on the southern coast, with pros
pect Of a bitter. battle at the end,
they issued the following warning:
Australia stands at the cross
roads, She must choose between
freedom and the fate Of the Dutch
East Indies. A
.Japan has no territorial aspira-
tions, and wants Australia to be-
come q partner I'M the eastern Asiat-
,ic prosperity realm.
Australia, with a population Of
only 1000. 600 cannot defend her long
eastern coastline.
."The countries, Japan and Aus
tralia, economically. supplement
each other. One way leads to the
end of Australia's existence and the
other to wealth and peace" said
the Japanese.
AT the same time the Japs showed
evidence Of being jittery over possi-
BILE attacks by American planes
from Alaska via the Aleutians, Adm.
Kayozo Nakamura having told the
japanese people in broadcast:
4 .,ssFears that the United States in
the spring will embark on surprise
attacks on Japan by submarines and
aircraft are unnecessary.
.sThe Americans have no adequate
base"
European centers had placed
little importance on the signing in
Moscow Of a renewal Of the pact
between Japan and Russia on the
subject Of fishing rights of the ST.
berian coast.
Refusal Of Russia to have signed
would have been viewed as a prac-
teal declaration Of war. But few
European observers took the sign
ing Of the pact, in existence for
many years. as any special sign Of
friendliness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
ATTACK TOKYO:
Pleads McNutt

Lashing out at disciples Of de-
spair," Paul v. McNutt, social Sc
curity administrator, had urged an
"attack on Tokyo" as the real de-
tense of America"
: He said: d
Americas defense does not be-
gin at wading depth on Coney Is
land, nor on the sundrenched sands
Of San Diego. ~
Americas defense begins with
the attack on Tokyo. It is when
flames roar through Yokohama
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03

Now they're together in the new
"Maisie" film, June and Mac doing
the same skits they did then, and
Red Skelton--or so he insists-telling
the same jokes he told then. But
he's now earning more than 81 q
week for doing it! :.
TX E.fs CSA ~ ss+ =
Basil Rathbone has new con-
tract with Metro, this time) but
he'll continue being villain. In
Crossroads, with William Powell
and Hedy Lamar, he holds the key
to Powell's past, Powell being
French diplomat branded as for
mer underworld character.
Jean Atkinson, stand-in for Mad
eleine Carroll for the last six years,
has been called Hollywo0d's conn
posite woman; she's been stand-in
for Fay Wray, Vivicn Leigh, Frances
Farmer, Claire Trevor and many
others, ''because she looks like
many actresses rolled into one"
She's been q stand-in for ten years,
and says that she has NO ambitions
to be an actress. n'i.
- u
William Powell took time off from
his work to give farewell party for
Richard Barthelmess,, before the lat
ter left for Norfolk, Va, to serve
as naval lieutenant. Years ago
long before they knew their present
wives those two and Ronald Col
man were bosom companions. h
~ ~
With practically all Of Hollywood
doing some kind Of war work, (and
really doing it, too; no fooling) Hedy
Lamar got busy right on her own
home grounds, when she saved her
hairdresser, Eadie Hubner, from Sc
rious burns from an exploding gas
stove.
Bob Hawks having to do . lot Of
explaining. He decided to invest in
a restaurant. Found one, signed
lease, and the sign painter went to
work. The place was to be called
s'The Griddle'-but the painter
made q mistake-and Hawks ex-
planning to friends that he isn't
really in the girdIe business.
y
Columns could be devoted to Nor
man Corwin. A newspaper man,
five years ago he pursued major
radio executives with program ideas
to revolutionize the airwaves. Only
a small independent station in New
York would give him chance. To-
day he's engaged by four major net
works. He directs the government
series, ''This Is War;" heard every
Saturday. Many Of his original
radio dramas have been broadcast.
His recently published broadcast.
1--WE Hold These Truths, celebrating
the l50th anniversary Of the Bill Of
Rights, was heard by 10000, 900 peo-
pie. He directs radio propaganda
for the government. His "This Is
War" is heard round the world.
- e
ODDS AND ENDS-The U. s. Macy
likes Metros tseo-reeler, "The Baftle." so
much that the picture wiu be used for
recruiting purposes :. Director George
Cukor's directing "Her Cardboard Lover"
for the fhird time; once sCith Lauvetts
Taylor, once Nth Jeanne Eageis. noso
,cith Norma SheareT and Robert Taylor
=. Sidney Chaplin, Charles l5-yearold
son, ,yhen nfervies0ed BY Tox Pop AZ his
prep school, said he svanfs % acf and
direct, like his father. He s0eighs us >.
RKO suspended Lucille Bali from salary
for refusing TO play the second feminine
! lead in "Striefly Dynamite,n for phich
they'd lent her to 20ih Ceniury-Fox.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03

l'.More Leatherrecks. jeiOsr lbostlenecks."
and the factories of the Ruhr are
blasted and broken that Wichita,
kansas City and Omaha win be Sc
cure.
aThe leathernecks Of Wake island
taught the Japs what 1t costs to lick
only i few hundred marines. What
this nation needs is more leather
pecks and fewer bottlenecks."
BRITISH: !.
Cain Air Strength .
] The report Of a British-Ge
air fight around Malta, where the
British had been taking q beating
since the war began without giving
Iin, had been a signal for the fact that
the British Raj. had been steadily
gaining strength.
In this assault, British Hurricane
lighters and anti-aircraft gunnery
had brought down IL bombers and
two fighters in 24-hour assault on
the island, the biggest bag In the
war so far. a
Most significant was the fact that
the ''ack-ack boys" the gunners on
the island, were credited with
knocking the two fighters and 8
Of the II bombers out Of the air.
The other four planes shot down
were sfighter-bombers, similar in
plan to our "rnedium attack homb-
lers," and they were all bagged by
Ithe Raj fighting sduadron.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
McNutt Lashes Disciples of Despair
Calls for ALL Out Attack on Tokyo;
Pan American Solidarity Increases;
R.A.F. Reverses Tide in Malta Battle

NoTEwhsn .p.sn expressed hess ssis=ns
IReleased Western Newspaper Union t--
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-03

The sending of d Japanese mis-
sion to the Vatican in Rome and its
acceptance by the pope had brought
statements from Washington and
London that the Allies had direct
ed the attention Of the pope to the
unfortunate effects of allowing Ja-
pan to establish a mission at the
Holy See. "
While there was no direct answer
to these representations from Pope
Plus himself, the pontiff's close friend
and American spokesman, Archbish-
op Spellman Of New York, said:
Leaders Of nations who have
tried to influence the Holy Father on
one side or the other in this conflict
must understand that the Holy Fa-
Their has to be impartial.
''While there can be no neutrali-
ty between right and wrong, and
the church is against atrocities, the
Holy See must keep in contact with
and aid the Catholics of every ma
ton.
"The Holy See must accept the
ENJOYS who choose to make these
contacts"