Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 10

bA—10 ARMY FLYERS EVEN SCORE WITH ‘BLUES Theoretically Put 32 Sea- planes Out of Commission in Maneuvers. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, February 9.—Army pilots with the “Black” force defend- ing Hawaii in the annual Army-Navy joint maneuvers were ‘“on the line” today, awaiting the expected arrival cf navy planes of the *“Biue” force, whose appearance would be the signal for a battle in the air over Honolulu. When a hundred “Blue” fighters swept down out of the sky upon this Island of Oahu Sunday and bombed the “Black” defenders in the first real engagement of the “war,” the island fiyers were kept on the ground because the attacking air force was overwhelm- ingly superior. But today it was dif- ferent. Even Basis Is Gained. ‘This was because 12 army attack planes climbed into the sunlit Hawaiian sky at noon vesterday and breasted a Stiff wind toward the Island of Hawaii, a flight of nearly 200 miles. When they roared over Honolulu again at sunset on the return flight they had theoretically put out of commission 32 “enemy” seaplanes found unmanned in the harbor of Hilo, a “Blue” base. The army planes swooped down and attacked the seaplanes with bombs and machine guns—in theory, of course. The surprise attack and its successful result—provided maneuver umpires agree with the Ar estimate—placed the island attackers and defenders on vir- tually an even basis in the air. Bombardment Expected. A battle in the air today was expected to be followed tomorrow by a concerted bombardment by long-range fleet guns and a simultancous attempt to land *“Blue troops. That attack, too, is con- fidently awaited. When it comes, the island’s defenders expect to turn upon it full force of the most powerful coast defenses in the world. The immense guns of the permanent fortifications in the Honolulu sector can wheel a full circle, and even if an at- tack comes at the opposite end of the island can fire over the island and 7,000 yards beyond. This in addition to the field artillery and lighter weapons set up in fields and woods along the coast- line And if the playing the Test secure enough year! HEARING ON M’BRIDE MURDER SCHEDULED Temple Biggs of Camp Springs to Appear Before Justice of Peace This Afternoon. Navy attackers persist in me long, the defenders | the thought they have ammunition to last them al By a Staff © oncent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February 9.—Temple Biggs of Camp Springs, ac- cused of being an accessory to the murder of Barney McBride, wealthy| Oklahoma oil man, is scheduled to be given a hearing before Justice of Peace Thomas D. Griffith here this afternoon. Only three witnesses will be called at the hearing, according to Sheriff W. Curtis Hopkins. Two of these, he said, will be the persons who have given him written statements alleging Biges told them he helped dispose of McBride’s body after the man had been murdered in a county road house. Biggs has steadfastly denied any| knowledge of the crime. He has been | in jail for the past 10 days. McBride's body was found beside a culvert near Meadows, Md., August 10, 1922, Police of several jurisdictions have worked on the 10-year-old murder mystery without success. FIRE FORCE AUXILIARY PLANS COLONIAL BALL Event Is Scheduled by Riverdale Heights Group for Feb- ruary 22. Special Dispatch to The Star RIVERDALE HEIGHTS, Md.. Febru- ary 9 —Elaborate plans are being made for the Colonial ball which the mem- bers of the Auxiliary of the local fire ment are planning for Febru- projec. under the leadership of newly installed president, Mrs. Regena Kohlmer. The 6th birthday anniversary of the auxiliary was celcbrated with a birth- day anniv y party, which was ar- ranged by Mrs. James P. Morris, Mrs. T. C. Gardner and Mrs. Margaret O'Brien, The retiring president, Mrs. Clara Taylor, and Mrs. Genevieve Stewart, who has cen re-clected secretary- treasurer, were presented with tokens of appreciation for their faithful service. Mrs. Anna Williams will serve as vice president. Mission to Devil's Island. Gen. Higgins, head of the Salvation Army, has announced that a number of Salvation Army officers will go shortly to Devils Island to try to better the existence of those who have been dis- charged from the French penal settle- ment, but are forced to spend the rest of their lives on the island. Our offi- cers inspected the island and mads a report on conditions which I cannot possibly describe to you,” Gen. Higgins added. ; Teaching “Talkies” Will be Tried Out With 2,538 Pupils 3 Tests to Be Conducted in Natural Science and Music. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—The ef- fectiveness of talking pictures as an aid to education will be tested on a wide scale in a number of public schools in the East, starting this month. The tests, which will involve 2,538 pupils and 64 teachers, will continue eight weeks, an announcement by the Western Electric Co. yesterday, said. At the end of that time pupils who viewed the “talkies” will be subjected to a comparative examination with those who did not. i The experiment will be conducted in New York, Schenectady, Baltimore, Camden, N. J., and Elizabeth, N. J. Col. Frederick L. Devereux, general manager of the education department of electrical research products, which developed the pictures to be used, ex- pressed belief the results would be of “tremendous value to education.” Tests in Baltimore will begin Febru- ary 19. Pupils of the fifth and seventh grade fevels will be involved in the experi- | oney’s Worth er ment. For the seventh grade four pic- tuses designed for use in music appre- | ciation courses have been prepared and for the fifth grade a similar numi matural science films will be used, ! NEW SPRING A Nation The writer of this article, the third in a series of siz. recently spent 10 months in’ Russia. Having been born in that country, and returning at frequent in- tervals.” he is particularly qualified to observe what is happening there and to establish facts. BY ELIAS TOBENKIN. In the Iobby of one of the largest pic- ture theaters in Moscow, between per- formances, a man in military uniform stepped upon an improvised platform and addressed the waiting crowd: “Citizens,” he exclaimed, “the im- perialists of the world are pointing | their guns in the direction of the Soviet Union. They are uniting our neighbors into a military ring about us. | “The ‘period of grace’ from capitalist attack of which Lenin spoke has ended. We must prepare, every mother’s son and daughter.” Then the patrons were given information how they could aid in the defense of their country. They were directed to a table where another | speaker, promptly linked them with the | branch of the Soviet's citizen army in their districts. Marchers Drill in Streets. During my recent 10 months in the Soviet Union, daily between 4 and 7 p.m., the streets of Moscow resounded th the tramp of marching men and women. The marchers were between 18 and 40. They wore civilian clothes, | but the rifles over their shoulders were | army rifles and their carriage was that | of soldiers. As they marched they man, wearing the same uniform as the | ° sang the songs of the red army. From one end of Russia to the other, | at the same hours, similar bands of | men and women, workers, clerks, pro- | fesstonal people, were undergoing the same type of military practice. There are 60,000 “military circles” through- out the Soviet Republic in which ci- vilians train for “the next war.” The organization diresting this mass mili- | tary training is the Osoaviachim, Soviet | National Security Society, whose full | name is the Association for the De- | fense of the Soviet Union and for the Promotion of the Chemical and Avia tion Industries. Every factory in the Soviet Union, | every large commercial or professional establishment, every mine or mill, every | collectivized or government-owned farm | forms the nucleus of such a military | educational circle. It has an arsenal which supplies the population with regulation army weapons. Sometimes these arsenais are in one of the factory buildings. More often guns and other equipment are stored in a workers' club or sport club. In such rural communities as have not vet built a “Dom Oboroni.” or de- fense houre, the villags “reading house™ is used as an arsenal. Equipment Is Furnished. ‘The Osoaviachim furnishes rifles and equipment to each military circle. It provides instructors for both practical and theoretical branches of the serv ice. Its representatives select a sl for target practice and do all the exec- utive planning. It organizes classes and lectures and keeps unbroken con- necction between civilian companies and regular army units in the district. The citizen soldiers make regular visits lo the red army barracks. The red army returns this compliment by send- ing officers to address those military circles and to visit and fraternize with their members. To keep the enthusiasm of the popu- lation tor military training at high pitch, contests are arranged between military circles of different cities, dif- ferent regions and even republics, with worth-while prizes and distinctions for the winners. The commanding personnel of the citizens’ army consists very largely of officers and soldiers of the reserve. Its educational and disciplinary regime fol- lows closely that of the red army. Despite the mechanization of modern warfare the individual soldier remains the backbone of every battle, and the rifie and machine gun are still con- sidered the most effective weapons. The citizen soldier is therefore trained in the first instance to shoot and to shoot effi- ciently. War authorities in the Soviet Union have statistics showing that in the last war 24,000 Russian bullets were expended to kill a single enemy. The shooting circles conducted by the Oso- aviachim are designed to better this record 1n the “next war.” Gun Practice Is Primary. Rifle and machine gun practice is the primary training the citizen soldier re- ceives from_the Osoaviachim. _But the | Folks:- Stop! LOOK!! LISTEN!!! Tonitel 7:30, WMAL Tinfoil Contributors’ NITE "l § Bi-Centennial | TUXEDO $ 15 |SPECIAL 23 and plenty good, too! SUITS & § .75 {TOPCOATS 1 9 Extra Pants, 4 Bucks 1$95.830-935 $1 (.75 |O'COATS 1 6 USE YOUR CREDIT Pay Y, Cash Balance in 10 Weekly or 5 Semi-Monthly Payments Back in Arms Russia’s Demands for Military Preparedness Carried Into Movie Theaters as Streets Resound With Tramping of Marchers. other branches of war are taught the civilian recruit no less proficiently. There are circles designed for those who wish to qualify as tank operators. Other circles prepare experts in gas warfare. Still others train future army aviators. There are engineering circles where various branches of army engineering are taught willing applicants. Special study groups are provided for army telegraphers and radio operators. There are courses for those who would spe- cialize in wartime railroad problems and in army motor transport. The citizen soldier is required to put in 75 hours of military training a year for two years, or 150 hours in’all. Part of each course is devoted to gen- eral subjects in which every soldier must be proficient. The rest is devoted to the specialty in which each man chooses to perfect himself. To make the special courses really specialized, stu- dents are admitted in groups of 12 to 18 nly. Each Fall the red and civilian armies meet and join hands. At this season the regular army conducts its annual maneuvers, in which the citizens army | is invited to join. The citizen soldiers who distinguish themselves are not in- frequently taken from their trades and professions and sent to higher military academies or colleges to be trained for command In the red army. Those who attain distinction, but are not so hon- ored, receive other valuable recognition and privilegcs from the government. Army Is Voluntary. 1t is only fair to emphasize that this army of citizen soldiers is a voluntar: army. But it is equally essential to qualify the s - tention to the speak of is as “w Soviet Union today ich is so tense and inflammable that any citizen who does not “‘of kis own accord” show an enthusiastic interest in preparedness may find himself on the list of suspect- ed and proseribed, which, under a dic- tatorship, is a serious matter indeed At the outbreak of the World War the army of the Czar numbered 1,423,000. Sixteen days after war had been officially declared the Russian Army had grown to 5.338,000. After three years, and just before the revo- lution in Febru 1917, there w in the various or trained citizenry. It is the determl- nation of the Soviet government, how- ever, 5o to manage its industrial and military affairs that every man or wom- an who can hold a rifie will have the training to take part in war. Why such stupendous, feverish prepa- rations for war fi the Soviet Union? Stalin indirectly answered this a few months ago. History Filled With Defeats. “The histoty of the old Russia,” he said, “consisted of an unbroken series of beatings, administered because it was backward. We were beaten by the Mongol Khans. We were beaten by the Turks. ~Swedish feudal lords beat us. We were beaten by Polish-Lithua- nian nobles. British and French capi- talists beat us. We were beaten by | Japanese barons. We were beaten be- |cause we were a backward nation. | We were backward in a military way |and we were backward culturally, in- | | dustrially, agriculturally. We were | beaten because it was profitable to beat | |us and because such beatings went un- | punished.” | Every conspicuous military disaster | during” the last 75 years has exacted a high penalty from Russia's ruling caste and the Romanoff dynasty. The loss of Sebastopol in 1855 brought the abolition of serfdom by Czar Alexander II. The loss of Port Arthur in 1904 forced Nicholas II to grant & constitution. Russia’s debacle in the World War was followed by revolution, with the Keren- sky govermment the forerunner of the | present Communist regime. Might not the next unsuccessful war upset the bolshevist dictatorship the | last unsuccessful war was instrumental in_setting up? ‘The Kremlin leaders in control of | Slav destinies are by no means insensi- ble to such a possibility, and are there- | fore revolutionizing Russia militarily | | as completely- and effectively as it has | Snow Sculpture at Dartmouth WASHINGTON GIRL TAKES PART IN WINTER CARNIVAL. February 5. Kay Shay of Buffalo, N. Y.; Ethel Donohue of Bernardsvill ence Griffin of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dorothy Tobin of Montreal; PAGE TAXES RAISED DESPITE PAY CUTS Five-Cent Increase Is Held Necessary for Repairs -to County Jail. Special Dispatch to The Star. | LURAY, Va., February 9.—Despite | sweeping reductions in _salaries county officials, Page County board of supervisors yesterday tentatively raised | the total county tax levy for all pur- poses 5 cents. The increase became necessary to create a sinking fund for repairs on the county jail. Judge H W. Bertram of Harrisonburg came be- fore the board today and stated the ne- cessity, showing by a report that the jail was not safe for prisoners, nor in accordance with State law. A salary schedule was adopted re- ducing the salaries of all road workers 10 per cent and the appropriation for county agent was cut in half, total re- ductions amounting to around $5,000. School levies remained the sime ex- cept for a reduction in one district. Levies were set in executive session | NOW sculpture of Pan reclining on & huge block of snow at Dartmouth's twenty-second annual Winter carnival, which began at Hanover, N. H, In the group around the figure are (left to right) Misses N. J.; Flor- Kitty Burt —A. P. Photo. WASHINGTON | been revolutionized politically and | economically. | = i “There will be no repetition of | huge prosperit | military failures in our history,” a high | uniting against u: diplomatic authority said to this write That the war h: it is impossible to interview a military | is, in part, at an | leader in the Soviet Union. *“In the | by | next war we aim not to be beaten, in | the first place, and in the second place | in the government's industrialization 1 | to maintain ourselves in power regard- | program is doubtless true. But it is|struction connected with the five-y of the outcome of such & war. We | possible to overestimate this phase of | plan because it, too, has In the are determined to give what the world | the Soviet war psychosis. Russia’s war | been easily accessible to enemies of s All Europe seems ‘ fla. but the Soviet government over- looked it in its building program be- teria of the Russians | cause it has on occasion proved too near rate, being utilized | the Polish border. Odessa has shared a the Kremlin to stimulate Russian ! like fate. A port city of major impoi workers and peasants to their utmost | tance in the Soviet Union, it plays pra: tically no role in the industrial con- $10.00 New York lickets g00d solng all dey Saturday, Februery 20. $10.00 Via Market Street Whart e Phitadelphia of | Via Delaware River Bricge All Raf Route | after the be from about rme strator G. H. Clark ve | the board rescinding | January, when_ it appropriation for | A vote of farme that they of the Prov i‘ng heard D2mon- pointed, 1sed to make an purpose, today. ]"_ today showed cimingly in favor | board's reconsidering this matter. | for testing Page County cattle for tuberculosis was made after hearing from State Veterinarian H. C. Givens and aft of the farmers present. The miss meeting was held at the re- quest of the board of supe wanted the sentiniant of t 'mploying a farm Gemons testing cattle. Chairr C. E. Musselman there was a deficit in the count |and that it would be n |5 cents. CRASH PROVES FATAL Hagerstown Man, 27, Killed When Car Turned Over on Road. Special Dispatch to | HAGERSTOWN | Injuries received , when a car | turned turtle on e used rcad near | here, were fatal to Wilbur F. Skelton, 27, of this city. | His father, Wilbur sk at the time, was |but was not se Skelton received s reap] stated fund to add on, with him Special Low Round-Trip Fares ‘s BIRTHDAY WEEK-END EXxC¢URSIONS Atlantic City $7.00 Philadelphia Tickets 500d aoing ell dey $9.50 | is pleased to speak of as our social and | Preparations are genuine and desperate. | Soviet regime. }industrial ‘experiment’ a chance to exist, to survive. We can and are | making our country impregnable to | foreign invasion.” | Cites Neighbor Nations. | “What grounds have we to fear | foreign intervention?” the diplomat re- | the capitals of Soviet industry. Rostov, | Saratov, Stalingrad, Nishni Novgorod, | | peated the question put to him. “Look at our neighbors, Poland and Rumania. Between 50 and 70 per cent of their budgets go for war preparation. Poland’s military industries run to 60,000,000 rubles annually. In addition she is continuzlly jmporting heavy guns from The munition factori of The geography of the five-year plan illustrates this beyond a doubt. Just as Lenin, early in the bolshevist regime, decided on an inland capital for the newly-formed Soviet government, and abandoned Leningrad for Moscow, Stalin has decided on inland cities as Kharkov, Sverdlovsk, Zaporozhie, to mention merely the principal areas con- nected with the fivesyear pian, are well in the interior of the country in order to make the newly-established indus- tries in_them safe from attack by a foreign foe. Tickets g00d leaving on_and ahter | Seturdey, February 20, ridey noon, February 19, end all day Saturday, February 20. Retuning, leave Atlantic Ciy any train prior to midnight of day, February 93 February 23, Tickets honored In ol trains excent The Crescent Limited Good In cosches and Pullman cars on peyment of Pullman cherges No Stop-overs Leningrad is the only city on thc | fringe of the Soviet Union that figure: | strongly in the five-year plan. It doc this very largely, however, because it | has been the seat of some of Russia principal industries in the past. (Copyright. 1932. by the North America: Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Cuban Official's Home Bombed. HAVANA, Cuba, February 9 (#).—A bomb exploded yesterday in the resi- dence of Subsecretary of the Interior | Giordano Hernandez and the interior Returning on il trains from New York up to and including the 12.30 A. M. train Tuesdey, Februery 93, Retur from on all tralns deighia uo to s the 12.55 Tuesdey, on and ves- | A M. train TWO-DAY EXCURSIONS—ov sted each the sas enji Kiev was once a famous city in Rus- was damaged, but no gne w Startling? 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