Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 23

Sheean Says Allies’ Hopes in Pacific Lie In Aid fo China Separate Peace Might Follow Closing of Burma Road, Writer Warns ‘The hope of an Allied victory in the Pacific lies in “intelligent col- laboration with our Chinese ally,” in the opinion of Vincent Sheean. In speaking before a Bryn Mawr College scholarship benefit yesterday at the Shoreham Hotel the writer gave a realistin estimate of Japanese victories and prospects i1 the Pacific on the basis of an extensive tour he made of danger spots shortly before the outbreak of the war. Mr. Sheean warned that China might be forced to accept & separate peace if Japan succeed in closing the Burma road, now the last source of supply from the outside world. He expressed the hope that sub- stantial numbers of bombers and fighters are en route to re-inforce Rangoon, and Singapore. Co-crdinated Plan For Congquest. apan and Germany are pressing | & “co-ordinated articulated plan for world conquest” which appears to be “working perfectly, with neither making an important move DISCUSSES WAR IN THE PACIFIC—Vincent Sheen, author and lecturer, is shown talking with man of a Bryn Mawr College scholarship benefit meeting, which Mrs. Sheen addressed yesterday on “The War in the Far East.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 25, 1942. Mrs. Howell Moorehead, chair- —Star Staff Photo. without the knowledge of the other,” he declared. Mr. Sheean said Japan, no less than her Nazi ally, is embarked on | a program of world conquest. an idea inherent in their belief in | “racial superiority.” He said this long-range plan of conquest was launched as earlv as 1895 when Japan took the island of Formosa from China. ‘The rise of Japan's military power in the Far East is now sustained | by a trained and equipped army of irStar-P.-T. A. Paper Campaign Nets 100,000 Pounds in Week $700 to Be Realized From Public School Collections Pupils in Washington's public Paper Collections For Tomorrow The following is tomorrow’s | schedule jor paper and magazine paign which is being adopted as a national model by Government sal- vage officials, judging from -last week’s total, which was almost half of the entire campaign’s collections, is about to swing into high gear and become a smopthly running, regular source of vitally needed scrap paper. Boy, 7, Accidentally Shot In Hip at East Riverdale - Seven-year-old Donsld Marion, 1 Massey street, East Riverdale, Md., was in an undetermined condition in Providence Hospital last night, suffering from a bullet wound in the left hip. e Washington police said the boy was brought to the hospital by his father, Arthur Marion, 36, who ex- plained he was wounded when a 32 csliber revolver was discharged accidentally in the rear of the Marion home. Navy Believes 2 Flyers Crashed Into Atlantic B the Associated Press. The Navy Department expressed | belief\yesterday that two of its air- men who have been missing since their plane took off from the New Fork Naval Air Station on a routine flight January 21 may have crashed into the sea off the New York coast. No trace of the men, Ensign Hugh Alexander Walker, Jr., 26, Houston, Tex., and Aviation Machinist Mate William Sebastian Lawnicki, 51, a graduate of the Rice Institute at Houston, Tex., has -been found, de- spite an extensive search. Law- nicki listed as his guardian his brother, Ligouri at St. Mary'’s School in Baltimore. Bonds buy bombs. Stamps buy | bullets. Buy United States Defense bonds or stamps every payday. 1 A District Red Cross R $214,038 for War Fund The District Red Cross War Fund rose yesterday to $214,038.70, dis- trict headquarters Em- ployes of the Agriculture Depart- ment contributed - $876.50. Returns beginning to come from Oov.ern- ment departments indicate that the ‘Washington quota of $750,000 will be raised without too great a delay. Miss Gertrude Rest, in the office 410 NEW YORK AVE. OPEN EVES. TiLL 8 of the Secretary of Agriculture and | terday included one from Morris vice chairman of the drive in that | Cafritz for $500, handed in at the department, sald the $876 donation | booth of the Ambassador Hotel, and was only a fraction of the sum she | one for $100 from H. A. Thrift, wha hopes to raise. made his contribution through the Other donations announced yes- | Pirst Congregational Church. to remember if you have & young baby. You will find Dy-Des Wash less expensive than washing dy-dees st home, besides siving you the assurance of ihe uwimest samita- tion previded by leasing had pitals. If yow're s yeusg mother, ecall Dy-Dee Wash snd get s free copy of “BABY-TALK.” the menth- Iy magasine deveted to babies. DY-DEE WASH 418 New Jersey Ave. N.W. | schools last week turned in nearly | 100,000 pounds of paper, magazines | and cardboard in The Evening Star- | | P.-T. A. salvage for victory cam-| District 1 and their poundage to | paign. Nearly $700 will be realized | date: | by the various co-operating schools | Jefferson Junior - | for the projects being undertaken | Buchanan |in each by the parent-teacher | Congress Heights groups. | Randall Junior - The Ben W, Murch pupils set ' Payne record for a single day’s collections | with a total of 4858 pounds and | mercam registered at the same time the first | Randle High- 100 per cent class when every mem- | lands | ber of the kindergarten class arrived | gryan | at school with an armful of paper. A. Bowen Murch, however, was forced to| " share honors with Bancroft, an- other late starter, which in three days of collection, the first totaling only 460 pounds, leaped into the | city leadership with 7.937 pounds to its credit. Roosevelt High School, up near the top almost from the very outset, is in second place with 7609. Lafayette, which turned in | 'ODS: | nearly two tons this week, has| In some areas committees of chil- moved up into third place with | dren are preparing to circularize | 7453, while Jefferson Junior, con- | apartment houses in their vicinity, sistently a leader despite a far less | informing the residents that on col- | productive area in which to work, | lection days pupils will be outside | ' was fourth with 7,159. Just a scant | With wagans ready to receive what- | 3 pounds behind was Barnard, in | ever paper and magazines the resi- | fifth place with 7,156, dents would rather see go into the | During the past week 33 schools | defense stream than in smoke up the collected totals of more than half | incinerators. Other children plan a ton efich. The list, with the|to take up their posts at hus stops, | voundage, follows: * ‘Xfld}' to receive paper and’ magas| Murch ___ _4858 | zines at these places. | Lafayette _3419| The Evening Star- Bancroft - | Chevy Chase | Horace Mann Petworth Shaw Junior Banneker _ Hearst Roosevelt - East Bethesda Powell Junior - Garrison __ Wheatley _ collections in The Evening Star- P.-T. A. Salvage for Victory Cam- paign, with the five leaders in 4000000 and from 12000000 to 15,000.000 trained reserves, he said, adding Japan has some 5,000 mod- ern warplenes and numerous guns, tanks and ships, “the extent of which we have never been allowed to know.” Could Have Had Reinforcements. Pointing out that Australia has gent her trained troops wherever needed by the Empire, and has only a small air force, the speaker ex- pressed the opinion that England could have reinforced the air sta- tions in the Far East without ex- posing the British Isles to invasion Loss of Singapore and Burma, he faid, would be 2 severe blow, but even worse would be a Japanese edvance across the “stepping stone” islands leading to Australia. The United Nations, he said, “must cling to the islands between Australia and Hawaii at all costs.” The speaker was introduced by | Mrs. Howell Moorehead, honorary chairman of the scholarship benefit. Civil Engih—eer;'VSociety To Hear Military Officers The local section of the American Society of Civil Engineers will have ranking officers of the Army and Navy as guest speakers at the nual dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday fn the Washington Hotel. Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold, chief of Army engineers, will discuss the role of the Engineer Corps in mod- ern warfare, and Capt. Louis B. Combs, assistant chief of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, will | talk on functions of the Civil En- gineer Corps in the naval establish- ment. In addition, T. Keith Legare, ex- ecutive secretary of the National | Council of State Boards of Enginee; ing Examiners, will speak on “Rep- resenting the Rough Element.” P \B‘m“"‘l A recepticn for national officers 1“‘”?5 lk‘ will be held prior to the dinner. |V estorool These include (Esymond Co Ernest B. Black, Garnet-Patterson _ president; Fred- fioodliagel == erick Hall Fowl- Cen ol er, past presi- | East Silver Spring ok Buchanan ____ dent; Charles H. Stevens, vice l;u;ison “Juni president; Gus- Te kersonp u,r(a i tav J. Requardt, oo A £ ‘Woodridge .. director; George Thomson T. Seabury, sec- | Rudolph __ retary, and Hal West ! Hale, Washing- | t ton representa- {Shothers i |Janney tive of the na- i - = tionalisciety, So great has been the increase in 5 collections that the dealer who o XTE V;’{flrr SRRy | visits the schools will be forced to BNk wwerally Nax whikel s - add another truck for collections sign and construction of the Armored Division Camp near Fort | Smith, Ark. In the last war he served as chief engineer for the | War Credits Board and later as en- | gineer for the Construction Division | of the Army. When he left the | Army he was a major in aircraft | production of the Air Service. | He has specialized in water supply, 1 ‘water and sewage treatment, power projects, valuations, and h-s worked on numerous projects in the West and Southwest. 35c sise. GROVES BROMO QUININE bt sndes| COLD BN TABLETS STANDARD'S LOW PRICE Greenleat Fairbrother Wallach Van Ness Syphax Ambush this week. 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