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Evening star., 1942-08-31
Schools in Arlington,
First in D. {. Area,
Open Tomorrow
Principals Meet Tonight
To Make Yeur's Plans;
No Action on Buses

The first schools to reopen in the
Washington area will start classes
tomorrow in Arlington County.
Principals of the County schools
will meet tonight at the Fontaine-
Maury School to arrange plans for
the year, Supt, Fletcher Kemp an
nounced today.
Opening dates for other school
systems in the Metropolitan Area
are: Fairfax County, September g..
Alexandra and Prince Georges
County, September 9; Montgomery
County, September IA, and the Dis
trict, September 81.
Registration OF students attend
ing night classes at Westinghouse ZEE
High School will be held at I o'clock
tonight at the school. Regular high
school subjects will be offered in
the night school. Glasses will be
held three times a week.
Day Students Registration.
Students attending regular day
sessions will register TOMORROW at
the schools they plan to attend. Mr..
Kemp said classwork will begin as
quickly as conditions permit after
registration.
Although some increase is ex-
pected in enrolment, Mr.. Kemp
said he was unable to estimate ex-
actly how large it would be. He
also said the number of teachers
would be increased but that the
total could not be announced until
all appointments have been made.
School hours will remain the
same am. to $3.50 p.m.-with no
changes to be made in the bus
schedules for the present, Mr.. Kemp
said.s
No Action on Change.
1t has been suggested that the
schools open and close a half-hour
later In order to relieve congestion
on buses. Mr.. Kemp said no action
has been taken on this proposal
following a number of conferences
with Arnold Bus Co. officials.
The Arlington school system usu-
ally is the first to reopen in the
washington area. Last years fall
term opened on September 8.
1t. Harry w. Porter has resigned
as member of the Arlington County
School Board. He will report for
active Army service Friday.
1t. Porter, an attorney, was ap-
pointed to the board in July to fill
the unexpired term of Arthur Will
son, who resigned. He came to
Arlington County in 1886.
A native of Loudoun County, Va,
1t. Porter attended Virginia Mill
tary Institute, the University of Vir-
glnia and Fishburne Military Aca-
DENY. He is a member of the Vir-
ginia State and Arlington County
Bar Associations and the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce.
Guide for Parents.
In response to numerous calls for
information concerning the opening
OF District schools, Acting Supt. of
Schools c. r. Reed has issued a
guide for parents and pupils.
The guide contains requirements
Tor admission to elementary, voca-
tlonal and junior and senior high
schools as well as night schools.
1t notes that pupils from the
Iakoma-Silver Spring area should
attend Calvin Coolidge High School;
pupils from Virginia may attend
Central Or Western High Schools.
whichever Is the more readily acces-
slble and no pupils outside the
Bethesda Chevy Chase area may be
Evening star., 1942-08-31

Stamp, stamp, stamp, the boys are
maTching-and so are the girls-to
the War savings stamp windows of
post offices everywhere. Are you in
the parade?
Evening star., 1942-08-31
POWDERS,
TALCUMS

'Johnson's BODY Powder,
2le ond 39c
'Bobcock's CoDIopsis Tolc-- -2le
'MoWs ToIcum, Jorge SIZE Sc
"Mennen's Koro Konio------43e
'Bobex Toilette Powder---A9c
'Cutleuro Tolcum Powder -2le
'Coty's Arspun Foce Powders,
$1.00
'MoVls Both powder-- Sc
der Kiss Both Powder Sl.OO
@Vontine's Both Powders in Apple
Blossom, 0ordenio and Honey
suckle froeronces ------50 soc
Evening star., 1942-08-31
HAIR
PREPARATIONS

Voselne Hair Tonic 37e and sc
lie Doris Observation-Disclosures,
Compound 800 and $500
kren! t7o'r Tonic, large size,
$l34
Fltch's Oil Shampoo Sic
VitoIis 34c and 59e
FI5ch's Dondruff Remover Shom-
DOC Tic
Donderine -------2oc ond 45e
Conute Water for grey hoir,
sll5
Packers Olive Oil Shampoo, 35e
Cont CostiIe Shompoo---34c
Jordeou Woterless Shampoo,
55e and Sl.N
Evening star., 1942-08-31
Deodoronts,
DepiIotories

Fresh, cream deodoront---43c
'Odorono Creou Deodoront,
39e and 59c
'Nonspi with opp|icotor cop,
29e and 49c
Quest Deodoront Powder--. 3le
ZIP Fociol Hair Remover----49e
sBeIIin's Wonderstoen,
$l.25 ond $500
Meet Cream Deodoront- -29e
'Tussy Deodoront Cream, REQ.
D W ---------------
'ttlouet Cream Deodoront---3 39e
Arid Cream Deodoront,
39c ond 5ee
'Inro DepilotoY Cream Sl.M
Evening star., 1942-08-31
CREAMS, LOTIONS

Jefoe0 Nl-pUrpOSe IreOn,
Sc and o7c
'Woodbury's Cold Creom, Jorge
SIZE -----------o7c
'Woodbuy's Focal Creom,
Sc ond 97e
'Jereen's Lotion, large size -79c
%Or ChorIes' Creom ,--42c
Philips Moenesio Skin Cream,
27e ond 53e
'Bolm Areento Hand Lotion,
Soc and $l.00
'Compono's BoIm--- 3ee
sJeon Notes Hand Tone Sl.W
'Toushoy's Hand Lotion, reg. SOC,
39e
'Botony lonoln Lotion----SI.W
Evening star., 1942-08-31
SOAPS

Lifebuoy Soop III eokes 75e
WlIiom's Apple Blossom Soop,
II cokes 55c
Lux Toilet Soop----12 eokes 75e
Rnso Soop FIokes---3 boxes sc
Lux Soop FIokes---3 boxes sc
0orden Bouquet Soop,
II cokes 49c
CoIeote's Big Both Soop,
II cokes &c
Conoy Toilet Soop, II eokes 75e
Sweetheart Soop Flakes, reg. 5oc,
47e
Ivory Soop, medium size,
II eokes lie
FocjoI Soop, loroe cokes. Gor-
denio. liIoc or Pine frooronces,
20 cokes 93e
WrlsIey's Buttemik Soop,
II eokes 59e
Evening star., 1942-08-31
3 TYPES OF
Dorothy Groy
$500 CREAMS

DRY SKIN CLEAN SER
Cream 683) for dry skin.
Lubricates as 1t cleanses.
SALON COLD CREAM for
medium-dry skin. Pure, bland
and refreshing.
LIQUEFYING CLEAN SING
CREAM for normal or oily
skin. Thoroughly removes dust,
makeup.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
BODIES OF COAL
 MINERS FOUND
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 The gas explosion could not be heard at the surface. First word miners who escaped through an air of the disaster came from the four ventilator. They had not pene- trated the shaft as deeply as the victims.
 Bill Pickle, 35, Hayden, said We saw the smoke pouring toward US and we knew we'd never make it by running up the regular shaft" He said the work shift for the 38 men would have ended in two hours
 All four of Us felt pretty sick" Pickle said, but we got to the en- told everyone who had happened" trance in about 20 minutes and
 Pickle was among the first men to volunteer for rescue trip into the gas-filled shaft. Mike Atansoff, 55, Mount Harris, another of the four who escaped, joined Pickle in the search. Their fortunate com panions were Joseph Gall, 40, Mill ner, and Elmer Everson, 23, Hay den.
 Black damp" is formed by a combination of coal dust and moist ule accommodating in the shaft. Gas from this mixture explodes, exhaust ing the supply of oxygen. "Black damp" itself does not explode but chokes persons attempting to breathe the Xygen-spent air.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28

cruit 100000 soldiers. He paid tribute to British youth for its part in defense of this country and added:
 "There are no better young people in the world than the youth of America-none braver, none more generous, better equipped or more determined to see this fight through to finish. And there are great many of them"
 "If necessary the women of Amer ica will scrub, man transports and aircraft batteries and pilot planes and whatever else they do they will do gladly" Winant said.
 likeness has no part in our na- tional life. Too many people have been influenced by a screen flash of easy living that 1t presumed to paint life at home for your am.lse- ment. That is not America"
 The ambassador said the United States navy had been taken by sur- prise in the Pacific but that it would reestablish naval supremacy there.
 we never had better navy" he said. Its fighting quality al- ready has been measured in the Straits of MacasSar, as also have the marines at Wake Island ard the army under General Macarthur ill the Philippines"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28

the survivors had escaped in three lifeboats and believed that more either had been picked up or would be soon.
 Sixteen of the survivors were from St. Joseph, Mo. Others included G. Carigelio of Worcester, Mass.
 The survivors were weak but all right otherwise.
 Mrs. Maude Johnson, who was saved with her husband and their small daughter, Janet, 2, said that the ship listed to port and the lights went out after the first torpedo struck. Johnson took the child in his arms and jumped overheard and Mrs. Johnson followed him. They swam to the lifeboat, which was so crowded that Mrs. Johnson said those aboard were forced to stand in order to breathe.
 During the five days that they were in the lifeboat their daily ra- tions were one biscuit, one-quarter of a cup of water and two teaspoons of condensed milk for each person.
 Chief Officer Praised
 Johnson said:
 We owe our lives to the chief of- ficer whose courage and tact kept our spirits up.'
 T cannot tell you how we felt when we saw the Coamo, Mrs. John- son added.
 Little Janet was cheerful and live ly during the days in the lifeboat, her parents said. She was wrapped in a greatcoat someone provided.
 Those who died in the lifeboat in. cluded an aged woman and an eld- erly man. The names of the five were not disclosed.
 William Burton, ships carpenter, of Hamilton, Ontario, said:
 We saw the sub clearly. It was 8 great big one and it came up about 100 yards from us and just laff off there with two white lights on us.
 "A torpedo hit hold No. 2 about one minute later. The second tor pedo hit hold No. 3, and probably reached the engineroom bulkhead. I think that all of the two-to-four watch was drowned.
 "The same torpedo blew up No. 6 lifeboat. I believe that three boats got away but we know nothing of the others"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
RUSSIAN SHOCK
 TROOPS GO AHEAD
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 took the records of the 17th German army corps of the 526th infantry regiment and those of an artillery division in a surprise attack.
 Germans Battle Hurt
 The Germans apparently were de- termined to stop the Russians southwestern drive, which threaten ed their communications with Uk- rainian centers.
 The northern arm of the Russian pincers had reached Velikiye Luki, more than 25O miles west of Mos- COW and several villages had been reoccupied, a communique said. Farther north, the Soviet forces which recaptured Kholm were still pursuing the Germans toward the Latvian frontier.
 In the extreme south, Russian unit in single days fighting re- captured 40 populated places, taking two radio stations and quantities of automobiles, machine guns, trench mortars and other war material, to- days first communique said.
 On the western Moscow front, Russian troops repulsed violent counter-attack by three German companies and put them to rout with heavy losses, it said. In an- other sector of the same front, $50 killed and wounded Germans re- mained on the battlefield after their unit had been dislodged from an unidentified town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
SINGAPORE MAY
 BE EVACUATED
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 Only a mile across the strait from the north side of the island of Singapore is Johore Bharu, north of which the British were preparing defense ring to fight the Japanese on the mainland and, so far as possible to keep Singapore out of the range of Japanese land artil- lery.
 Qn London Lord Privy Seal Cle- ment A. Attlee told the House of Commons that additional British troops and other endorsements were being sent to the Far East.)
 Singapore is connected with Jo- hore Bharu by a granite causeway which is broken only by a draw bridge over a channel navigable by small craft. Tons of explosive would be required to make 1t i'm pasasble to enemy troops and me- chanized transport attempting to reach the island.
 Some 13 miles from the causeway head is the great Singapore naval mase, bristling with long range coast artillery emplaced to defend the island against attack from the sea-
 Because of Singapore's defenses against sea attack, the most seri- olls Japanese threat to to the island would be expected to come from the land side, with artillery bom- bardment supplemented by Japaf1- csc air assaults and efforts to land troops from the sea and by para chute.
 Supporting their drive against the island, the Japanese, at the cost of cruiser and a transport hit by British planes, have landed strong force on the cast coast of Malaga. There were reports also of new Jap- anese landings on the west coast. Four main Japanese columns were now driving down the peninsula on a line which ran northeastward from the Senggarang area, 43 miles above the Tebrau strait, to Mer- sing, 63 miles from the strait, which separates Singapore island from the mainland.
 II WCoOCl 1AllCCU NOAulllll Wdo driving down the coast road from Senggerang, leading to Kukub at the southwest end of the peninsula near the big Tenga air base.
 The second column advanced from Aver Hitam, 15 miles northeast of and inland from Senggarang, along the great highway leading down to Johore Bahru on the strait.
 Japs Have Advantage
 The Japanese, especially on the west coast, now had the advantage of motor roads and it was indicat- ed that the imperial forces were retiring slowly, fighting rear guard action, toward the battlefield they had selected and on which they were massing for the great fight between main forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
D0UCHB0YS ARE
 GETTING ALONG
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they will learn to like the beer.
 There was some difficulty at first when the soldiers offered American money for their purchasers, but that has been worked out in most cases.
 The rate of exchange is half a crown e 1-2 shillings) for half a dollar, which is the same as the official rate of $1 for $4.
 Yankees Quickly Known
 Irish people learned quickly to distinguish the Yankees because of their steel helmets.
 The Tanks, however, still have difficulty in recognizing the rank of British soldiers. In some cases they have made the horrible, to the private, mistake of saluting British emitted men and some of them have solved the difficulty by saluting no- body but looking intently the other way.
 The biggest compliment paid the potent Irish whiskey was that by an officer who bought a bottle nothing that because of taxes it COol,o ehASC 1lSAC WAiaU 4V OoCo 0o home-tioWned g. drink of 1t and gasped: Boy, that must have been keeping two Spitfires grounded"
 Least likely to get homesick among men of the AEF are the Shepherds of Minneapolis-Capt. R. Shepherd, his sons, Sergt. Max and Corporal Robert, and his brother, who is private.
 The talleSt man in the AEF is Sergt. F. R. Bradshaw of Minneap- oils, six feet six.
 WINANT MAKES SPEECH
 London, Jan. 28.-(UP)-Ameri- can land, sea and air forces already have taken up stations in the Brit ish Isles in the first step on the highway towards ultimate victory" U. s. Ambassador John G. Winant said today.
 Winant's speech, before the na- tional defense public interest con- mittee, which met for luncheon, was the first mention of U. s. naval and air units in Britain.
 Winant said the United States en- tered this war better prepared than when 1t entered the last World War. Now, he said, 1t is planning to re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
One Flying Fortress
 Lost During Battle
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 cruiser with several sticks of bombs according to communiques from united nations headquarters and the Dutch high command.
 Victims of united nations air and sea attacks include at least one bat tleship, an aircraft carrier, five cruisers and more than a dozen large troop transports, as well as lesser transports and destroyers.
 The toll of doWned Japanese air. craft attempting to protect the con- voy now is at least 15.
 A united nations headquarters communique said the Japanese air craft were roughly handled" by the Americans. Two Japanese planes were shot down today and one was damaged.
 Japs Plunge Ahead
 Despite attacks, the Japanese, 1t was believed, succeeded in ocupying ruined and burned out establish ments" of the East Borneo oil port of Balik Papan. The Dutch have re- ceived no communication from Balik Papan since the Japanese were be- lieved to have made their way ashore.
 Dutch pilots, using American built aircraft, made another series of raids on the Japanese base at Kuching in Sarawak. An airdrome and storage yards were attacked at Kuching, which the Japanese oc- cupied early in the war.
 The Dutch at Kendari on the southeast coast of Celebes still were putting up strong resistance against Japanese landing parties. The fighting has been on there since Sunday when the Japanese made their first landing at Sempara, in southeast Celebes.
 The Japanese air force bombed Emma Haven on the west coast of Sumatra where two merchant ships were fired and third was dam- aged. There were no casualties Ambon on Amboina island was raided again with some casualties and the Japanese also attacked southeast Borneo from the air causing little material damage"
 The communique telling of the latest exploits by flying fortresses was the second since Gen. Sir Archi- bald P. Waven established United Nations headquarters in the south western Pacific.
 Enormous Jap Toll
 The communique, released through the Netherlands Indies news agency said that the attack was made yes terday to swell the enormous tol taken of the Japanese invasion fleet in the strait in a running bom- barding that has now been in prog ress for days.
 Two Japanese planes which fought fiercely to protect the enemy fleet were shot down by the great Ameri- can flying ships and one was dam- aged, the communique said.
 The new successes of the Ameri- can planes brought to 31 the num- Der of Japanese ships sunk or dam aged in the battle of Macassal Strait, and the total of Japanese planes known down to IS.
 The Dutch were credited with the sinking or damaging nine Japanese warships, the Americans with three including the cruiser straddled yes- terday.
 The Dutch were credited with the sinking or damaging seven trans ports, the Americans with 12.
 Of the Japanese planes downet the Dutch accounted for eight anc the Americans seven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
AMERICAN AIR
 MEN AID BRITISH
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(Continued from Page D east of the Salween. Moulmein is on the east bank of the SalWeen, ard is the next objective of Japa- nese forces thrusting toward the Burma road and Rangoon, 100 miles to the west.
 (Radio Berlin claimed today that the British were preparing to eVacuate Rangoon and that the British positions east of the Bur- ma road were being hurriedly re- inforced in fear of being cut off from communication with India.")
 The army communique tonight said merely that the situation on the Tenasserim fronti southeast Burma was unchanged"
 Burma Troops Arrive
 "A number of troops of Burma rifes and also of the Burma from tier force arrived in our lines from Tavoy (which the British abandoned on the Tenaserim pen insula)." The communique said. Tt is reported that contact has been made with enemy advanced forces east of the Salween."
 Unofficially it was stated that American volunteer group pilots had shot down six and probably six others out of 40 Japanese fighter planes in a one hour and 50-minute battle in the Rangoon area this morning, following a Japanese bombing attack last night that damaged fields near the air. drome north of the city.
 Nine other Japanese fighters were reported damaged. The Amer jeans lost three planes but their pilots parachuted to safety.
 The British raid on Bangkok last night started big fires in the dock areas. None of the Blenheim bombers was lost.
 Pilots of the Blenheims-bomb- CTS which may represent air re- Inducements to the Burma com mand-said that large dock areas in Bangkok had been burned out in previous raids.
 The latest attack came as Brit ish and Burmese troops continued to hold back Japanese and Thai forces attempting to advance on Moulmein, Salween estuary port 100 miles east of Rangoon. Royal Air Force planes bombed the Mia Waddy- -Kawkareik road used to supply the invaders of Burma Japanese trucks were set afaire and their crews machine guns.
 British Hit Rommel
 Cairo, Jan. 28 - (UP)-British imperials held German and Italian armored sorces south and east of Benghazi today as the Royal Air Force attacked the mobile columns of Gen. Erwin Rommel's German Afrika troops.
 British general headquarters for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28

(Continued from Page D hint that more new factory plants or additions may be planned for this area. Only yesterday the Waterbury Clock Co. announced it is beginning the erection of a $700,000 assembly plant for precision instruments at Park road and Straitsville turnpike, where the Waterbury and Middle bury town lines meet.
 Construction of the Long Hill and Hamilton avenue housing projects has been marked by a series of dis putes between government represen- tatives and city officials. The difTi- culties have still not been finally ironed out.
 The Democrats Washington in- formant said that definite plans for the possible new Waterbury housing project or projects were not avail able but might call for the construc- ton of as many as 500 new dwelling units.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28


 -------------- of Jan. 9. Later, however, he was granted a four-Week respite. Only l5 years old when he committed the crime, he was the youngest person ever condemned to the elec- tric chair ill Massachusetts.
 In the only previous case parallel ing his, Jesse pomeroy, 16, won a communication after being sentenced to the gallows for mutilation mur- ders in Boston Pomeroy died at BridseWater State Farm in 1892 after more than a hall century Imprisonment.
 The handsome curly-haired Wood ward was seized after the hacked body of Hiss Shipp was found last July 19 in temporarily vacant Baptist church parsonage only two blocks from her home.
 She had disappeared four days before in daylight enroute home from a grocery store. Her shorts were missing from her body, which bore 9 hack and stab wounds and teeth marks, and her blouse was pulled over her head. She had not been raped
 Shattered furniture indicated she had struggled with her assailant ne- fore he struck her on the head and stabbed her. A knife was placed in her left hand in an attempt to give the impression that she had committed suicide. The groceries she had bought were on a table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-28
On Battle Front

General Headquarters, United Ma tions Southwest Pacific, Jan. 28- CUP)-American flying fortresses, leading an allied drive to annihilate a Japanese invasion armada in the Straits of Macassar, blasted three more Japanese ships, and booted the total to 31 sunk or damaged enemy vessels, official communiques said today.
 The arrival of American reinforce ments was said by the Netherlands news agency Aneta to have fin creased optimism" in the Dutch East Indies. (An Aneta dispatch from London yesterday said American re- Inducements had arrived in the East Indies).
 In a continuing action which dis rupted the Japanese time table for an invasion of the Dutch East In- does, and which may have postponed landing attempts on Java and Sumatra indefinitely, the flying fort resses sank large transport, set another afire and straddled Q