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Evening star., 1942-02-28
Taxi Passenger Shot
By Policeman After
Speeding Argument
J. c. DoIIur Wounded;
Officer w. v. Wilson
Suspended by Kelly

June C. Dollar, 43, a cab
driver riding as a passenger in
another taxi, halted for alleged
traffic violations, was shot and
critically wounded today by Po-
liceman Warren Vinson Wilson
of No. 13 precinct, police re-
ported.
Although Policeman Wilson said
his revolver was fired accidentally
Police Superintendent Edward J.
Kelly quickly announced his suspen-
sion and promised thorough inves-
tigation with no special treatment" "
According to the policeman's ac-
count, he was of duty when he
stopped the taxi for speeding and
for using only it's cowl lights. at 2:25
am, in front of 1401 Fifteenth street
NV. Mr.. Dollar was sitting in the
right front seat.
Tell of Argument.
According to police, who quoted
Policeman Wilson, Mr.. Dollar
started to curse" and the officer
went to his side of the car. Mr.. Dol
lar demanded of the policeman who
was in civilian clothing, that he
show Identification. At the same
time, police said. he rolled up his
car window so the policeman's left
arm was caught,
Unable to reach for anything else
Policeman Wilson pulled out his
revolver - repeatedly intending il
only to establish his authority. What
happened next is in question.
According to Maj. Kelly. Policeman
Wilson tapped on the window glass
(SaA SHOOTING page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-02-28

The first unofficial reaction in
Bandoeng was that the Dutch
communique was the most cheer
ing since the battle for Java
and therefore for the Neither
lands Indies-loomed.
Two Previous Defeats.
Twice before the United States
and Dutch fleets have teamed to
inflict resounding defeats on the
japanese sea power-in Macassar
Strait and in the Strait OF Lom-
box off Bali.
In other areas, the Dutch COM
munique reported Dutch successes
in fighting on the Southern Celebes,
northwest of Java, in Central Su-
matra, where the Japanese are at
tempting to consolidate their posi-
tions for an assault on Western
Java, and on the half-Dutch, half
Portuguese island OF Timor east OF
Java
The Dutch said their troops had
inflicted serious losses on the jap
anese on .Timor.
The war report also told of raids
on the port of Batavia and an air.
field In Western Java.
But it was the massed battle OF
Java Sea which held the attention
of the Dutc hand their allies.
Began Friday Afternoon.
I'm the afternoon of February n
Q strong Japanese feet which cov-
cred a convoy approaching from
the north was attacked in Java Sea
by an Allied squadron.
TN the course of the fighting,
which also continued after darkness
had fallen, losses were sustained on
both sides. The extent of these
losses however, is not yet known be-
cause complete reports have not yet
been received.
For the same reason, no review
Of this naval action can yet be
given. The reports received indi-
cate, however. that the convoy,
which consisted of tens of ships, re-
treated to the north in the course
of the battle"
Word that the enemy fleets had
met and that the important en-
gagement was on was flashed with
(see INDIES, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-02-28
Russians Shoot Down
Nazi Planes RUSHING
Troops 10 East Front
Desperate Attempt Made
To Send Men and Supplies
To Trapped 10Th Army
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Feb. 28.-The Rus
slams reported today that they
were shooting down big troop
transport planes jammed with
NaZi soldiers fresh from training
in Germany for a spring often
sive but who, instead, were
rushed to the front in desperate
attempt to reinforce and save
the trapped 18th German Army
near Staraya Russa.
Dispatches declared that Russian
gunners and flyers were frustrat-
ing repeated Nazi efforts to get such
troops through and to drop supplies
and ammunition to more than
81, 900 Germans virtually doomed
within the Tightening Red. Army
ring.
The German position was i'm
periled further by an outward thrust
from the Red Army's position at
Lenngrad and by the activity of
guerrillas there who were said to
have killed 10,480 Germans, includ-
ing two generals in the last six
months.
Pressure on Both Ends Of Front.
Increasing Red Army pressure at
both ends of the long eastern front
was indicated today in reports Of
the Red Army's winter-end offen-
sive.
On the north, where the soldiers
of Leningrad are laboriously break
ing down the Germans offensive
Notifications virtually gun by gun,
broadcast said 1,140 more Ger
mans had been killed and an artil-
lery battery and six more pill
boxes destroyed.
In an undesignated sector on the
same front, where the encircled
Nazis are reported faced with the
choice of death or surrender on
the frozen marshes OF Staraya
Russa, the radio said a counter
attack by the Germans had been
repulsed.
Two Divisions Routed in South.
This, presumably, was an attempt
by the trapped Germans to break
out of the Soviet pocket.
Two Axis divisions-the German
113th and the Rumanian 1st-were
routed on an undisclosed sector in
the south and $500 of their soldiers
were killed, the Soviet Information
Bureau reported.
Against these troops, it said, "our
troops dealt vigorous f1anking blows
'*s overwhelmed them and forced
(See RUSSIA, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1942-02-28
Betsey c. Roosevelt
Soon to Wed, Report
BY he Associated Press.

By he Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Betsey
Gushing Roosevelt, former wife OF
the Presidents eldest son, James,
will marry John (Jock) Whitney In
q week or two somewhere In the
South. the Daily News said today.
The paper declared the nuptials
probably would be held at one of
the Whitney estates near Thomas
vile, Ga.
Mr.. Whitney, who also has been
married before, Is now In charge of
the motion picture division of the
Once Of Inter-American Affairs.
Evening star., 1942-02-28
laps Claim Repu|se
OF Force Attempting
To Recapture Wake
Two Worships Damaged,
Five Planes Downed
Feb. ~, Toxic Says

(The following dispatch was re-
ceiyed from an enemy country. whose
motive in releasing news is likely to
be propaganda. Axis claims should be
credited only when confirmed by Amer
ican or Allied sources)
BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts), Feb. 28.-Imperial head
quarters said today that guns on
JapaneSe-held Wake Island set
fire to an enemy cruiser when a
naval squadron, consisting of an
aircraft carrier, two cruisers and
six destroyers, was sighted near
it at dawn February "a.
The announcement did not give
the fleets nationality.
A destroyer was hit with bombs, 1t
said, while Japanese naval planes
also dropped bombs on a large
cruiser and shot down five planes.
1t acknowledged only the loss of a
(See WAKE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-02-28
Switzerland Closes
40 Poper Factories
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 28.-Be-
cause of an electric power shortage.
the Swiss government today ordered
40 paper factories to shut down for
two weeks starting tomorrow.
About 1000 persons will be out of
work.
In other conservation measures
zinc was substituted for copper in
coins. and hunters were ordered to
turn over skins of deer, stays and
chamois to the leather industry for
use in Shoemaking.
Evening star., 1942-02-28
tuesday BIackout
Ordered Officially
By Commissioners
10-Hour Test to Permit
U. S. and D. c. Buildings
To Maintain Lights

The Commissioners today off,
cially proclaimed the practice
blackout previously announced
for Tuesday night, but excluded
Federal and District buildings,
among others, from complying
with the order.
The proclamation also noted that
certain sections Of the city's black
out regulations would not be in force
on Tuesday, including the regula-
ton giving police officers and air
raid wardens the right to enter
premises to extinguish lights.
Since this section also gives po-
lice officers, special police and war
dens the authority to require citi-
zens to observe the blackout, the
procedure Tuesday, according to
the Interpretation Of the Corpora
ton Counsel's office, will be for
wardens to make a note of persons
not complying and report them to
police who can then issue warrants
for their arrest.
Regulations for Tuesday.
Regulations announced today to
be effective only during the Tues
day night practice bIackout follow:
I. 1t shall be unlawful In the Dis
trict Of Columbia from pm on
March 8, 1912, to 6 am. on March
4, 1912, for any person to allow or
permit any light inside any building
to be visible from the outside, and
it shall be unlawful for any person
to burn any outside light, except:
(a Street lights, traffic lights and
all exterior warning lights and sig
mails under the control of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
(b) Navigation lights and aids to
navigation, both air and water. in
cluding airport, pier and wharf
lights.
(c) Driving lights on vehicles.
I'd Lights on or incident to the
operation of military equipment.
(e) All lights customary for the
normal operation Of railroad and
bus transportation, including term
inal and other facilities thereof.
Outdoor Smoking Allowed.
90 Exterior illumination due to
lighted pipes. cigars, cigarettes, in
cluding lights from matches and
other means of lighting the afore-
said.
(g) All lights customary for the
normal operation Of any public util-
ity and of any industrial plant en-
gagged during the prohibited period
in essential war activity, including
all facilities thereof.
(h) All lights emanating from
Federal and District government
operations, institutions, buildings
and equipment.
Any person violating any of the
foregoing provisions shall, on con-
viction, be punished by a fine not
(See BLACKOUT, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-02-28
Huwuiiuns Volunteer

HONOLULU, Feb. 28 R.-Army
authorities said yesterday 10221
civilians had volunteered for emerg-
ency military service on this Oahu
island in the event q last ditch
defense became necessary. The
volunteers are being classified and
later will be instructed as to what
to do II summoned.
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(See CEILING, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(see SHOOTING, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(See CALIFORNIA. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(See RUSSIA, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1942-02-28

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X Of this edition Of
The Star, experimenting the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(See WAKE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1942-02-28

(See PHILIPPINES, Page A-4D
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
WAR IS YORK
(Ben syndicate-wNU Service.)

American tUomen are tUiIIing,
even eager, to volunteer for ,oar
service of one kind or another.
But after a little time many Of
them begin to question the au-
thority of those in command, to
demand smartly tailored uni
forms at the price of efficiency,
to find it more convenient to
plead a previous engagement
iOhen that inevitable emergency
call comes and finds them just
too tired to make the effort.
Var is ,Oork-hard ,oork-for
Everyone, and Kathleen Norris
believes that unless ,Uomen uoI-
unfairly toe the mark, they ,oiH
haze to submit to the draft and
to military RECOMMENDATION. The
bombs ,oon't toait for you to fin
ish that rubber" And the cry
of human suffering ,UiH not be
stiLted by promises. Var is work,
and that york must be done no,U!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26


Office through the window, and de-
manded to know where Lilua was.
"I don't think so. I don't think
it's even interesting. I went to the
trouble to find out because I wanted
to know what you were talking
about. I can't remember now why
I thought it mattered."
"And I still don't think it mat
ters," Dick said. 81 don't think it
matters at all what either one of us
has said or thought or DONE"
Gin Short" Karen said, "you
haven't leg to stand on; so, that
being the case, you favor calling
the whole fight off,
81 have no doubt" Dick agreed,
'that I am a complete fool. Worse
than that-much worse-I am also
unlucky. I simply don't get the
breaks-and I suppose that's the
worst thing you can say about any
man."
"You get as good breaks as any,
one does. The principal trouble with
you is that you don't show any
sense"
81 think it's time for both of us
to show little sense. People never
get anywhere trying to dope out who
was to blame for what. If people
like to be together, that should de-
eide what they're going to do"
"Such as-?"
"What's the sense in going to Hon
olulu? I don't have to 60 to Homo
lulu, and neither do you. The Holo-
kai can just as well put about and
lay course for Nuku Hiva. How
do you know you wouldn't like Nuku
Hiva? I'll bet any amount you'll
think it's a whole lot prettier than
San Francisco"
"My word" Karen smiled family.
81 believe it's meant to be pro-
posal!"
"Cal it what you want to-" Dick
said. Don't you think-don't you
| think"
"Would you like to know what I
think? think you're tiresome.' You
sit there talking on and on, when all
a person wants is to 60 to sleep.
Now, you can sit there talking to
yourself as long as you want to,
but I'm going to sleep, anyway"
said Karen.
Dick stood up. GIVE got great
| mind to set a course for Nuku Hiva
anyway, and make you like It'll"
Karen laid her head on her arms
and closed her eyes. you're al
ways shanghaiing somebody" she
said. "But ask yoursef-what does
it ever get your"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
CURFEW uNGLES

A congressman who has intro
duced bill to require ten O'Clock
curfew for all female employees OF
the government in Washington in
the interest of efficiency puts his
idea in verse:
Early to bed and early to rise
Will help your complexion and
brighten your eyes.
It strikes. us that this doesn't quite
get the point over. How about these?
Promptly at ten leave your sky
larking chumS;
Next morning when tipping you
won't be all thumbs.
Cut out late suppers and scorn
syncopation
And you won't fall asleep while
taking dictation.
Get lots of rest; keep your head
very clear
And your written Dear Sir"
may not come out cdr
Scar"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26

If they draft women, our sex will
learn more about discipline and au-
thority in six weeks than most of us
experience in a lifetime. Life to
some women will seem one long out
rageous injustice. How many wom-
en- would have been silent, as the
boys were silent, over the conditions
in our first enormous army camps
few months ago?
The conditions have been changed;
they are being steadily bettered, but
at first they meant almost constant
discomfort for the draftees. Cold,
boredom, mud, poor food, uncertain
ties of every sort were their life. But
they were in the army, and they
took it as matter of course.
Are you ready, as a woman, for
that sort of thing? Or can't we
women do our full share of war work
without being hammered into line?
I am afraid it will have to come
to that. I believe that within six
months or year every woman and
girl will have to register; there will
be training camps for officers, and
there will be no more room for the
petty squabbles and jealousies that
threaten women's war work today.
Quarreled for Power.
I say this because of my own ex-
perience in an enormous organiZa-
ton of women a few years ago.
These women were first of all for
peace, and, secondly, almost all
mothers of sons. But from the be-
ginning they quarreled for place,
power and title. They wrote me
endless letters complaining of each
other. On several occasions they
took petty cases to court, once try
ing to prove that one of their lead
ers hadn't really been the first one
to think of the ideals of the league,
and at another time to challenge the
citizenship of valued charter men,
Der.
Months were wasted while they
argued and threatened; on the occa-
sion of our first annual convention
certain disaffected members threat
ened the delegates with warrants,
and warned us all by wire that our
meeting would be broken up by the
police. The millions-they were ac-
tual millions-of peace-lovipg mem
bers faded away.
Men can't get along and take or
ders without definite. unquestionable
authority. When the top-sergeant,
or the pip-squeak lieutenant, or the
unreasonable captain speaks, they
obey. In the ranks of our armies
today, humbly taking orders, are
some of the boys who, if they live,
will be our great men tomorrow.
The President of 1862 probably is
doing KIP. duty, turning out early
and gulping his camp coffee and
beans with the rest of them.
The loosening of Axis bonds, a
successful strike here, a successful
resistance there, just so will come
the cracking and breaking of the
powers that would destroy freedom
and faith in God. And then will come
the dawn of a happier day.
But that day may be long way
ahead. So that if things aren't 60
ing any too harmoniously with your
branch of the Red Cross, Bundles,
War Relief, have patience. Plod
along, doing your best, waiting for
chance to make changes and in
crease efficiency, and realize that
you inevitably will find your place.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
CHAPTER XVII


sat down at the table, and laid out
a hand of solitaire; but when it was
laid out he sat staring vacantly at
the cards. He had reason enough
to be sick of solitaire. Then pres
emily he became aware that he was
infinitely weary, and that he had
as much reason as Karen to be in
need of sleep. He laid his head on
the table, convinced now that there
was no longer on the face of the
sea any uncertainty worth keeping
a man awake; and was almost inn
mediately asleep.
He must have slept a long time,
for when he awoke daylight was
coming in the ports. In front of
him on the table had been placed
tray containing wilted sprig of
celery, and glass of cold water
that sloshed about with the Holo-
kai's roll; but it didn't seem to him
much of a joke.
Then as he shook the sleep out Of
his eyes he was suddenly aware that
something was wrong. The sun ap-
peared to be rising in the west; and
when he had thought about that for
a minute he knew that they should
have been in Honolulu many hours
ago. He could hardly believe that
the Holokai had been into Honolulu
harbor, and set Karen ashore, and
put to sea again, without waking
him up; but that was the only ex-
PLANTATION he could think of at first.
Certainly the Holokai was tearing
southwark at roaring clip.
He went on deck and found In
yashi at the wheel. whats the idea
of not waking me up in Honolulu"
Honolulu"
Don't stare at me like a block
head!" Dick shouted. what time
did we leave Honolulu"
"We-we haven't been to Homo
lulu, Captain"
"You haven't been-well, where
do you think you're going?"
"Why-Why-Oh, I was afraid of
this" Inyashi moaned.
'Well, speak up! What do you
think you're doing?"
"Miss Waterson-Miss Waterson-
she said you had changed the
course, Captain. She said you want
ed me to bring about and lay for
the Marquesas. She said you had
decided not to 60 to Honolulu. She
said you were asleep, and she said
I was supposed to"
Dear heaven" Tonga Dick said.
"You 60 ask her yourself. She's
up there in the bow. Captain Ton
ga, try to set what course you say.
But I didn't know what to do when
she came and"
The mainsail was partly to blame;
the Holokai's low-swung booms
made part Of the deck invisible
from the wheel. But the real rea-
son that Dick had not found Karen
before now was that he had not ex-
pected her to be there. It had been
very definitely fixed in his mind that
she was gone from his ship, gone
altogether out of his life.
He went forward hesitantly, part
ly humble, partly dazed by his luck.
He stood close beside her at the
rail, and drew her against him with
one arm.
"Well, good morning!" Karen
said. ''Do you always sleep in your
clothes? Because I don't think it
does them any good"
Dick said stupidity, "We-we didn't
60 to Honolulu after all, did WEI"
Certainly not. Silly effort Of
yours-chasing off to Nuku Hiva.
Did you think you'd get away from
me as easily as that?"
A great cloud of flying fish went
up before the bows of the Holokai,
making a Pickering rainbow on the
face of the warm sea.
THE ENID
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
EXPLAINED!

An inquiry into fatal auto acct
dents in a small American town
shows that 81 per cent of the school
children have figured in at least one
auto crash and that % per cent drive
without licenses. Now we know why
all those rural motorcycle cops hide
in the side streets and behind shrub
berry. They're afraid to come out in
the open.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
NSTALLMENT NINETEEN

THE STORY so FAR: Karen Water.
son, believing herself to be the heir to
Alakoa, the island estate of her grand
father, finds herself no heiress at all,
when the old gentleman, Garrett Water
son, turns up after long disappear
ance. Meantime she and her lawyer
have been engaged In a dispute over
the rights to the property with the
Wayne family who have been In posses
sion since the old man left, many years
before. Richard (Tonga Dick) Wayne
has fallen in love with Karen, as has
also the lawyer, John Colt. Karen and
Dick quarrel and after she leaves Ala
koa, with Colt, Dick overtakes them and
forces their boat to return. Garrett Wa
terson has arrived and is very i'll. Kar-
en- nurses him back TO health, but she
and Dick have never become reconciled
since their quarrel. One day Karen's
grandfather tells Dick that Karen is go
ing back to Honolulu, possibly to marry
Colt. Dick asks him what he thinks of
that. Soon Dick discusses il with Karen
herself. He found her strangely aboard
the HoIokai, his ship. She presents him
with a document.
Now continue with the story.