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Evening star., 1942-03-01

meets your buzzer to line and ground.
To receive, throw the switch to "re-
ceive," which connects the phones
to line and ground.
Learning the code is easy If you
remember that you are trying to
memorize sound groups rather than
dots and dashes. BY listening to
code on any radio, which you can
do by tuning it on the short-wave
band, you will notice that the sounds
are "da" and dee" "da" represent
ing a dash and dee" a dot. For
instance A, which is dot-dash, sounds
like dee da." You can get a copy
of the International Morse Code
from any Boy Scout handbook or
from the encyclopedia in your pub
lie library. Learn your code letters
by singing them aloud to yourself.
For instance, you can easily remem-
ber that the letter I is two dots by
singing dee dee" over and over.
It's lots of fun to talk to a pal by
singing the code letters to him in
low voice. This greatly mystifies
your friends who don't know the
code.
Try for Accuracy.
Don't try to learn too many let
ters at once. Try for accuracy in
sending rather than speed. The
speed comes only with long prac-
tice. The important thing is to be
able to receive accurately and with
fair speed The other set may be in
the next room or as far as a quarter
OF mile away, If you have enough
line wire.
If you have been lucky enough to
get hold Of two good sets of 1000
ohm phones. the sort ordinarily
used for radio, you will find that you
can talk to your friend through the
phones by both stations placing
their switches in the receive" posi-
ton. Speak clearly and slowly into
the phone while your friend listens
on his. OF course, to hear his an
sWer you will have to hold your
phone to your ears.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Girl Earns Money
Making Pennants
Agnes streff's customers should be

Agnes Streff's customers should be
very happy, for Agnes not only
turns out an excellent novelty prod
uct. but let's the buyer set the price.
The product is small pennant.
Agnes, IA, explains how she makes
them. ITO begin with. I take a piece
Of colored felt, usually red, blue or
green. I cut it in triangular
shape
Then get piece of contrasting
material, usually white felt. Any
light color will do, however. I cut
1t in small letters to form the name
of my customer, our town or state
or anything else desired.
After I paste the letters on the
pennant, the job is finished" Agnes
lives in Juniata, Nebr.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Wings for
Youth
BY I. r. HEGEL.
GIRLS AND THE FLYING
FUTURE.

~ L o4e35.
Ann Gardner of Floral Park, N.
Y, wants to know how she can
teach flying. Ann is not out of
high school yet, but she wisely looks
ahead to what she hopes will be her
real vocation.
Girls are no longer eligible for
civilian pilot training courses be-
cause all training centers are need
ed by the men. At the airport,
boys in training as Army pilots
come first. Girls wait in vain for a
turn that does not come.
Excellent flying schools are avail
able In every state, however. One
must merely make sure that the
school is licensed and properly rated
by the Better Business Bureau. No
girl contemplating a flying career
should be scared off by emergency
changes or by those who insist it
costs a fortune to fly. If a flying
school is out of the question, get a
Job, join private flying club and
pay for the lessons as you go along.
In one New England flying club
the initiation fee is S100, monthly
dues $40 and the cost of flying the
plane rs cents per hour. That's rea-
sonable enough. You might even be
able to do better.
Look ahead, you air-minded girls!
More women are going to be needed
as ground-school teachers. Others
are going to be asked to shuttle
training ships back and forth. Still
others must serve as co-pilots. In
commercial flying you will find
new fields are constantly opening
up. Where men drop out to take
defense positions, women are asked
to fill in. Certainly the way of the
pioneer is not easy, but the rewards
are there, waiting.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Russian unlaced Sohrab's coat-of-
mail, and saw the ruby-and-emer-
aid bracelet he had sent as gift to
his child.
Woe is mel" the old hero cried.
my son! have slain theer"
He tore his hair and beat his
breast, but Sohrab said:
Calm yourself, my father. 1t
will do no good to regret. In love of
me, allow my soldiers to return to
their homes in peace"
After Sohrab died, Russian gave
free return to the army of Touran,
but his heart was broken.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Orange Crates Make
Good Doll Houses
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION.
BY WINIFRED HALL, ii,
Hilton School.

A recent article in The Junior
Star told how a Holyoke Mass)
boy makes chairs from orange
crates. Well. it is also possible to
make attractive doll houses from
such crates and here's how:
Nail two crates together with the
openings on the same side, so as
to make four rooms. Paste wall
paper on the inside walls and paint
the floors and the outside walls.
When the walls are dry, paint on
front and back doors and as many
windows as are needed. After the
floors have dried, paint on rugs.
To make your house look nice,
paste pictures from magazines on
the walls. You can also cut out
curtains and drapes and paste them
on the windows. You can either
make your own furniture, or else
buy some at any toy store.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

formed a class
for those who
wanted to learn
to m ke and
re a d military
maps.
Twenty . eight
cadets enrolled
for the class,
which Is meet
ing every We'd
nesday a after
n o o n IN JQe
teachers lunch
room of the
school cafeteria
for a period OF
10 rIyonEc
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Boy Earns Money
Lighting Way With
Phosbh0r0us Paint

Some residents of Greenfield,
Mass, don't have to spend several
minutes trying to find the keyhole
when they come home at night. And
their visitors can spot house numbers
and doorbells without difficulty,
thanks to Louis J. Graves, IA, OF
"a Conway street.
Several months ago I sent away
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Tomorrow Is
Another Day
Prize Contribution

By LEONARD c. HERR, Jr, IA,
surrsttsville (Md) High School.
When trials and sorrows enter
through your door
They should not drive you to
dismay,
For Father Time" heals every sore
And tomorrow Is another day.
When you seem weary of this sordid
life
And for it's ending almost pray,
Just smile and bear your share OF
strife,
For tomorrow Is another day.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Riddles

/. Why is the sun cruel?
2. What men are strongest?
g. What has neither flesh nor
bone, but four fingers and a thumb?
4. Why should a horse never be
hungry when he's working?
5. Why Is bread like the sun?
Evening star., 1942-03-01

pictures. The bare trees etched
against the cold sky, or traced in
lacy patterns on the snow, are truly
beautiful, while snow-tipped ever
greens, frost-coated shrubs and
grasses make wonderfully effective
settings.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Scouts in serving
their country at
all times. When
war was declared
this pledge was
renewed, and the
Senior Ser v ! C e
Scouts IS. S. S.
have been desig-
mated as the spe-
cifc group to up
hold it. This plan
gives the Senior
girls and the
Mariners an op-
portunity to play
a respons i b / e
part in the de-
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Father and Son Fought as Champions

his soldiers. He did not know the
name of the man who was sent to
fight him.
The combat proved to be a close
match, but at length Sohrab was
knocked to the ground, mortally
wounded
1T shall be avenged" cried Soh-
rab. MY father, the mighty Rus
tam. will slay you'll"
What" shouted his opponent.
"I am Rustam! What have you to
do with me?"
st am Rustam's son! You will
find the proof on nv arm!"
Evening star., 1942-03-01

BERT SACKETT. ).
radio the block
radio? Then you'll build this simple wired wireless The
materials assembled
the code you'll getting ready the examination that
required all
able do something for relieving for active
ordinary dry
Besides you'll copper wire
old headphones will will
double double switch either
from Perhaps neishbor furnishes
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Let Freedom Ring!
Prize Contribution

Prize Contribution
By MARY THERESA SCHWARZ, IL,
Calvert School.
We have blackouts for air raids, and
shelters and guns;
And our brothers, and nephews, and
husbands, and sons
Are joining the Army, the Navy, Air
Corps,
Till we've almost forgotten how
things were before
All peaceful, and quiet, till some
nations greeds
Got all the men fighting, all races
and creeds.
For we wouldn't give up our freedom
For a German dictator or king,
And from rev'ly to taps, in spite of
the Japs,
Well fight till we hear freedom ring!
Those stars and stripes aren't for
nothing,
For we're ell patriotic and true.
And we'll fight, and weTl save, and
we'll buy bonds and stamps
For that is the least we can do
To try to pay back our swell coun-
try.
And in it we always will dwell
Rejoicing In freedom and justice,
And hearing that Liberty Bell
Evening star., 1942-03-01
By KATHERINE HOUISON.

Did you ever have a camera
party? All you do is ask your
friends to come dressed for a hike
and bring their cameras. It's really
a lot of fun.
Winter is a grand time for taking
Evening star., 1942-03-01

for some phosphorus paint Louis
explains. Then I started asking
people if they wanted their house
numbers, doorbells and keyholes
painted so they would glow at night.
I charge Is cents for house numbers
and slightly less for keyholes and
door bells. because they are easier
to do"
Just to illustrate how good his
money making idea is, Louis adds,
"I average between four and six
dollars a week"
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Young Quail
Saved From
Family Kitten
Bird Freed After
Regaining Health
In Canary Cage
Priss Contribution
BY ALICE HARPER, Q,
Benning School.

One day recently, my black kit
ten, Puss-in-Boots, was stalking
something underneath a thicket Of
scrub pine trees on the wooded hill
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Prize ContrJbution
BY MAX MICHAEL, II,
AnRcostia High School.

Practical training for boys in the
Anacostia High School Cadet Corps
advanced another step when 1t.
L. P. Parmele, their instructor,
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Girl Scouts
Are Ready
For Service
Senior Group Will
Take the Lead in
Upholding Pledge
Prise Contribution
BY ERNESTINE ROLLS, 16,
Roosevelt High School,

In July, 1910, Mrs. Harvey Mudd,
national president of the Girl Scouts,
pledged in q letter to President
Roosevelt the help of the Girl
Evening star., 1942-03-01

near our house.
Daddy and I
went to see what
1t was. We got
there just as
Puss pounced.
She came up
with a young
quail in her
mouth.
Daddy caught
Puss, made her
open her mouth,
and took the
bird away. 1t
was not hurt ex-
cept for some
feathers torn
from its back. ]
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Riddle Answers

Riddle Answers
l. 1t tans people. 2. Photogra-
phers-they're always developing
3. A glove. 4. He always has a bit
in his mouth. S. When it rises, it's
light.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Mother - Horace. If you eat
another thing you'll burst.
Horsce-Well, pass the cake and
ret out Of the way. |
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Cousewoy Blast
Grim Reminder
OF War Horrors
Much-Bombed
Singapore Used
To Explosions
BY DOUGLAS WILKIE.

SINGAPORE, Jan. 81 (By Wire
less to N.A.N.A).-The first siege
of Singapore began today as tons
OF high explosive, touched off by
the wave of a British officers
hand, shattered the causeway
linking the island with the Ma
layan mainland.
1t will be unlike any siege the
world has ever seen.
After eight weeks of war only a
sting in the tail of Britain s
wealthiest and most prosperous
colony remains. Facing the island,
on the mainland, along the banks of
30-mile long straits divisions of the
japanese army already are massing
within potential range of the Japa-
nese artillery in sight of Britain's
$400, 100000 naval base.
Echos of the explosion, which
hurled thousands of tons of rock
masonry into Johore Straits, were
heard by many of the three quarter
million civilians crowded in Singa-
pore city.
These civilians are used to explo-
Sions, they have been bombed day
and night for weeks. They have
heard the sound of other demoli-
tions. They have heard the prac-
tice thunder of Singapore's great
fortress guns mounted to repel in
vasion, some of which are now
(See CAUSEWAY, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Five Persons Killed
In ; Auto Crashes on
Baltimore Boulevard
Heud-on Collision Claims
Three Lives, Critically
Injuries Another Person

Five persons were killed and a
sixth was critically injured yes
terday in three automobile acci-
dents on the Baltimore boule-
ward.
Three of the five victims were
killed instantly in a head-on col
lision between two automobiles
near Elkridge, according to
police. They were James H.
Brown, IS; his wife, also IS, and
John H. Crist, all of Baltimore.
Police said Mr.. Crist was driving
the car in which the Browns were
riding. Mrs. Charlotte C. Beckwith,
81, of Connecticut who, police said.
was driving the other car, was taken
to st. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.
Attendants there said her condition
was critical. She suffered a frac-
tured ankle and leg and possible
internal injuries.
Car Sideswipes Truck.
Alonzo Harris, 81, colored, Of Will
mington, Del, was fatally injured
near Beltsville when the car he was
driving sideswiped another and
struck a truck. He died shortly
afterwards in Casualty Hospital.
Miss Olean Prince, 18. colored,
1l21 Holbrook terrace NE. died in
Casualty Hospital nearly II hours
(See ACCIDENTS, Page A-1o)
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Rush Holt Is Called
For Draft Examination
Bv the Associated Pres

By the Associated Press.
WESTON, w. Va, Jan. 31.-For-
mer United States Senator Rush
Dew Holt, an isolationist before the
outbreak of hostilities, was among
40 draftees called up by the Lewis
County Draft Board today for ex-
animation.
The preliminary examinations, be-
fore DR.. c. r. Davisson of Weston,
will be made next Thursday and
those passed will be sent on to
Clarksburg for a final checkup
Mr.. Holt, who will be 81 years old
June 10, was IS in october. 1910,
at the time of the first selective
service registration. The former
Senator, who waited until June,
1895, to take his seat, retired from
the Senate in January, 1941. He
married Miss Helen Froelichs OF
Gridley, ILL.,, last summer.
At Mr.. Hollis home 1t was said
he probably was en- route to Weston
from Washington and expected to
arrive tonight or tomorrow. In the
last few months he had spent Q
considerable amount Of his time In
his home town.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
British Vessel
Torpedoed;; "a
Reach Bermuda
32Lunded in Conodo
After Sub Attack; in
Open Boot 18 Hours

BY the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda passed
by British Censor, Jan. 81
Thirty-four survivors of Brit
ish merchantmen torpedoed
early today were landed here
this afternoon by a United
States destroyer.
The crewmen said that after
sending three torpedoes into
their vessel the submarine tried
unsuccessfully to smash the
three lifeboats in which the
ships hands escaped.
Those arriving here we're from two
of the lifeboatS. The third was un-
derstcod to have been picked up by
another rescue ship.
The survivors said their two life
boats, lashed together. were sighted
by an Atlantic patrol plane which
guided the American destroyer to
the rescue.
AS they drifted through the bit
terly cold night a portable radio
brought along by one of the men
was turned on and ironically, the
first thing they heard was a New
York station broadcasting furrier's
announcement: Now is the time
to buy your winter coats
Evening star., 1942-02-01
MacArthur's Troops,
Holding Off Japs, Take
Some Prisoners
Sporadic Fighting
Reported as Foe Gets
Ready for Big Assault
Ey the Associated Press,

~ the hosoSA%tc0 ficoc.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur re-
ported yesterday that in addi-
ton to holding off the Japanese,
his forces have been taking some
prisoners.
After a 48-hour lull, during which
the enemy made ready for another
large scale assault, there had been
sporadic fighting" he advised the
War Department.
Determined efforts to infiltrate
the Batan Peninsula defense line
were rebuffed, and in the course of
these actions the prisoners were
taken. AS for number of days
past, there has been virtually no
enemy activity in the air, he said.
1t was Gen. MacArthurs first re-
port of prisoners captured, and some
thought the effect might be to re-
strain the japanese from such brutal
treatment of American prisoners as
the General complained of a week
ago.
On January %, he informed the
War Department of several in
stances" of japanese violation of the
international convention relating to
captured prisoners of war. Japan
had announced her intention to
abide by that agreement.
Gen. Macarthur said that on
January IL the body of a Filipino
scout, Fernando Tan, had been
found face down in a stream. His
hands had been bound behind his
back and he had been bayoneted
several times, and he had obviously
been thrown into the stream to
die
In reporting the mistreatment of
Pvt. Tan, the department said:
However foully the enemy may
act, the general states that he will
abide by decent concepts of hui
manity and civilization.
The text of yesterdays COM
munique follows:
There was sporadic fighting on
the Batan Peninsula during the past
"a hours Determined enemy at
tempts at infiltration through our
lines were frustrated. Some Japan
ese prisoners we're taken.
practically no hostile air activity
was noted"
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Fineerprintine Is, 900 Liquor
Store Workers Stymies Police

Fifteen thousand District liquor
licensees and employees must be
1ngerprinted in order to obtain Ii
cense renewals under regulations
by the Commissioners effective to-
day-and the police, who do the
fngerprinting, were frantic" last
night over how the job is to be done.
According to police sources, the
identification bureaus six man
staff under Sergt. Viggo H. Larsen
has present backlog of work that
would take almost three months
to dispose of.
The main job, it was said, is not
taking impressions but classifica-
ton and filing of prints which con-
sumes anywhere from five minutes
to half an hour due to blurs or bad
prints.
The new regulations require all
Evening star., 1942-02-01
81 Freighter Survivors
Landed in Canada

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN
PORT, Jan. 81 (P).-Thirty-two
survivors of the crew of a British
freighter, the latest victims in the
German submarine war against At
lantic shipping, have been brought
here after U-boat sent three tor
pedoes into their ship killing 10
men.
They spent 10 hours tossing in
an open life boat in the freezing
cold of the North Atlantic before
being picked up. They said the
second torpedo came as they were
lowering the life boats. One of the
boats was shattered and six men
died of the conclusion or were so
stunned they drowned. Four were
pulled aboard the second life boat
Four of them died later of wounds
or exposure.
Survivors said the submarine sur
faced briefly, then disappeared.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Meat Ration Is Reduced
By Italian Government

ROME, January 81 (Andi to Asso-
ciated Press)-The Italian Govern
ment today reduced the meat ration
to three and one-half ounces a week
for each person and restricted its
consumption to one day a week.
Henceforth Italians may eat meat
only at luncheon on Saturdays.
while other weekend meals must
be restricted to vegetables and fruit.
The orders were issued through
the recently formed Inter-minis-
terial Food Control COMMITTEES
headed by Premier Mussolini.
Another edict extended penalties
for evasion Of food regulations to
include those guilty of buying edi-
bles privately and selling them at
increased prices.
The committee indicated the milk
ration which now Is one-tenth Of a
liter (about a fifth of a pint) daily
would be reduced even further.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Allied Poo|ingP Plan
Expected 10 Supp|ant
Lease.Lend Setup
Hopkins and Dill Meet
With Army and Navy
Officers to Map Program
By BLAIR BOLLES.

An early death for the lease
lend program in all but its most
limited functions is being
charted here in Washington by
the American and British off,
cials working out the details Of
the materials pooling scheme
announced by President Roose-
welt. After their work is done
it is expected that the only ma
terials shipped abroad under the
lease-lend arrangement will be
food supplies and the few
weapons, like anti-aircraft guns,
of a type which our Allies but
not we ourselves use.
With the reorganization complete
the lease-lend administration will
exist as little more than a book
keeping agency. From an early date
forward all the United Nations will
be sharing American-made war
goods rather than receiving them
"tIAA eA2C uiloCi IiidG
sort Of future payment is to be
made on them, either in kind or in
cash or in deeds.
Another step toward the reorgan-
ization was taken yesterday, when
Harry Hopkins met at the White
House with Field Marshal Sir John
Dill, the British governments su-
preme military spokesman in the
United States, and high American
Army and Naval officers to discuss
the progress of the three point pool
ing plan, which calls for combined
raw materials board, a munitions
assignment board and a combined
shipping adjustment board.
The full change from the old
system to the new awaits the estab-
lishment Of the Allied supply coun-
Gil, which is the central interest of
the Hopkins Dill conversations at
the present.
Rearrangement Of the British
government, with some steps taken
to place Lord Beaverbrook, now
(See ARMS POOL, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1942-02-01

new licensees obtaining certain
types of licenses from the District
Government and all old licensees as
they come up for renewal.
But the fact that nearly all Of the
liquor hcenses-perhaps $500 of
them-must be renewed as of today,
throws the whole burden of the old
licensees on the department at one
time. -
For the past several weeks, the
following types Of original and re-
newed licensees have submitted to
f1ngerprinting.
Operators of massage, bowling, bill
lard and pool establishments; solici-
tors, private detectives, fortune
tellers, mediums, clairvoyants, street
vendors, junk dealers and dealers
in second-ha personal property;
1see FTNGERPRINTs. Page ADJ !
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Wickard's Farm Price
Views Disappoint
Senate Group
Secretary Indicates
Growers Won't Receive
As Much os They Won't
By GOULD LINCOLN.

Members of the Senate Agri-
culture Committee yesterday
wondered if they had picked "a
lemon" when they insisted on
the Bankhead amendment to the
Price Control Act, which gave
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
the final say on prices for agri-
cultural commodities.
Suspecting that all was not as
it appeared on the surface, the COM
mittee called Mr.. Wickard before
1t yesterday and questioned him
at length at morning and afternoon
sessions.
1t developed that Secretary Wick
ard intended to keep farmers prices
around paHty''-that he felt under
no obligations to see that the prices
paid farmers should go. as high
as 110 per cent of parity or to the
price level Of 1919-1929. These are
among the four provisions OF the
price control act which are to pro-
vide a ceiling" on farm prices be-
fore the fixing of prices can be
undertaken.
The other two are: the price paid
on October /, 194l, and the price
paid on December IS, 194l. In any
case, the higest price under these
four yardsticks must be reached
before fixing by the Price Control
Administration can begin.
His Stand Causes Regret?
The Senators with regret that Mr..
Wickard was not planning to bring
the farm prices to ITO per cent of
parity, and that if the farmers
received parity" for their products
that would be sufficient. Further,
Mr.. Wickard explained that parity
income by the farmer did not mean
getting the actual prices of food
stuffs and other agricultural prod
ucts up to parity, but that if the
prices rose to point where, by
adding the present Government
subsidies under soil conservation
programs, ETC., to the prices received
parity receipts to farmers were ac-
complished, enough would have been
done by the farmers.
Parity is the price at which a
farm product has the same pur-
chasing power in terms Of non
farm products that it had in
base period. usually l909-l4.
1t also was developed that it was
the plan of the Secretary to keep
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