Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1942, Page 7

D. C: RetiresFrom Role As Convention City In Wartime Policy Greater Capital Unit of Trade Board Discourages Large Gatherings Washington is no longer a con- vention city, “Washington has voluntarily with- drawn from competition for con- ! ventions so that the Government’s war effort will not be impaired,” Russell Schneider, manager of the | Greater National Capita! Committee 3{ the Board of Trade, revealed to- | ay. Reasons assigned by Mr. Schneider for a lack of conventions include shortage of hotel facilities for large | affairs, a desire not to be thought | unpatriotic by holding conventions | here when the Government does not | wish it, and the urging of other *“convention cities.” . The Government spoke in the per- son of Leon Henderson, who last August said that convention-holders should find some other place besides Washington. However, the Greater National Capital Committee was discouraging conventions of over 500 here before that time, according to | Mr. Schneider. | 75 Still on Schedule. - | In August, 150 conventions were | on the schedule which the commit- ! tee keeps of future gatherings. Seventy-five of these remain; 25 were canceled. This is about half the usual number scheduled at lhls time in previous years. Most of the 75 conventions com- ing up are small, but there are sev- | eral large ones, including the D. A. R. convention in April. Tentatively scheduled for Christmas week, when | hotels are invariably uncrowded, gre the American Historical con- | vention (1,500 expected) and the | Modern Language Association (1,800 | expected). Recently canceled was the con- | vention of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. They moved their convention place to Atlantic City. May Cancel Another. The National Conference on | Weights and Measures may not hold a 1942 meeting, originally scheduled to have been held here, according to Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the Bureau of Standards and pres- ident of the conference. It has not yet been decided whether to cancel the meeting en- tirely or to hold it in some other city. Participation of the Bureau of Standards in a meeting outside the District would be limited, Dr. Briggs pointed out, since defense | work at the bureau must take precedence. The Greater National now on the schedule—which con. tains a convention of the General Society of the Cincinnati—are still liable to cancellation, Mr. Schneider indicated, if the situation here be- comes more acute. Missing Persons Those having information concerning persons reported missing should communicate with the Public Relations Squad of the Police Department, Na- tional 4000. Dick Curtis, 15, 5 feet 2 inches, 130 | pounds, brown hair, wearing green corduroy jacket, has been missing since | from 907 F street S.W. ‘Wednesday. Robert Wentworth, 15, 5 feet 0 inches, 160 pounds, brown eyes and wearing tan zipper jacket, hair, checkered scarf, and James C. McManaway, 15, 5 feet 7 inches, 130 pounds, brown eyes, curly hair, wearing eyeglasses. Both boys missing from Chevy Chase, Md., since yesterday. Evelyn Krouse, 15, 5 feet 4 inches, 130 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair, wearing camel’s hair coat, carrying suitcase, has been missing from Ta- koma Park, Md,, since yesterday. Elizabeth Robertson, 17, colored, feet 5 inches, 130 pounds, wearing gray coat, has been missing from 722 G street N.E. for the past two ‘weeks. Helen Lonny, 14, tall and slender, blue eyes and blond hair, wearing blue coat with gray fur, has been missing from 518 H street N.W. since yesterday. . House Swears in Talbot Joseph E. 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The program involving Haiti and the Dominican Republic will be given at 2 p.m. Monday over Station WMAL by pupils of the Shaw Junior High The hour of the broadcast falls at an open period in all junior high school schedules and the children will listen in their classrooms. schools will pursue the subject further, aided by a prospectus prepared by school officials. map, together with those appearing each Sunday accompanying articles prepared by the National Geographic Society, is ideally fitted for use in scrapbooks for present and future use. School. Following the program, teachers in the various | This (Frank Noel, Associated Press flve thirst-tormented. days in a life- boat with 27 other survivors after their ship' was sunk January 15 in the Indian Ocean by a Japa- nese submarine, has reached Cal- cutta, India, after a hazardous photographer, who spent plane trip from Sumatra.) By FRANK E. NOEL, Wide World News. CALCUTTA, Feb. 6—My three- | day flight from a Sumatra village to Calcutta got a jittery start in a Dutch plane that made an unsched- uled stop at about the same time the jungle tom-toms beat an air-raid alarm. Mountain spocters said a Japanese | plane had been sighted toward the | sea. The plane’s crew fled to the pro- News Photographer’s Plane Skims Jungles | In Hide-and-Seek Game With Jap Flyers lowing the steep coastline up the| island. At mid-morning we picked up a radio message which, decoded, ‘told of heavy Japanese bombing of an oil terminal across the island. At the next landing the village magistrate said he had received the | same message via jungle “telegraph.” Though the village was without | radio or wire communication, it re-| lceived the war news steadily by | tom-tom. Warned by Rockets. While flying only about 200 feet above the sea we sighted an enemy plane far to the rear, but escaped detection by climbing quickly into the clouds and flying blind for 90 minutes. ‘When we dipped down to see if all was clear, a rocket went up from the island to indicate the enemy still was about, so we ducked into the Capital Committee is now accepting no more conventions for its schedule, except those of a military nature. The 75 tection of a mangrove swamp, but I was not greatly concerned after having spent days on the Malaya front. I had been hustled aboard the plane with two salvaged cameras after explaining my predicament to the crew. If they had not taken me after I landed from the lifeboat I would have had to cross the island on foot er gone to Batavia and tried to reach Singapore from there. Dodged Japanese Planes. The air trip developed into a con- stant game of hide and seek with Japanese planes conducting exten- sive reconnaissance over Sumatra and smaller islands off the west coast. Once we landed at an unimpor- tant, undefended village where the fires still were burning from a bombing and machine-gunning raid |earlier in the day. The pilot de- cided it was too dangerous to spend the night there, so continued on up | the Sumatra shoreline to a sheltered | cove protected on three sides by jungle-covered cliffs. It was a dangerous landing in waters filled with coral rock, any one of which could have ripped the hull apart. We spent the night in the plane, consuming canned ra- tions and playing cards with the aid of a shaded flashlight. We feared to go ashore in the malarial swamps. At dawn we took off again, fol- | clouds again until a second rocket | told us it was safe to land. On alighting we learned that two Japanese flights had been overhead photographing and testing the anti- aircraft defenses. We enjoyed a good night's sleep in the home of a wealthy resident who had fled the danger zone, and enjoyed a swim in his shark-proof swimming pool. Off again at dawn, we skimmed the jungle top and then roared over endless rice fields. The natives fled into the jungle as we hedge-hopped over their straw huts, but several) water buffalo actually tried to charge us. Approaching the great city of | Rangoon on the tip of Ourma, we picked up news of a heavy raid there, and as we circled the harbor we saw the damaged docks, black- ened warehouses and sunken ships. | U. 8. Volunteers in Action. While we were refueling, the blast of nearby ships warned of another| raid. A speedboat rushed us to a | place of safety on the river, from where we watched the American volunteer air fighters turn back two waves of bombers before the Japa- nese finally reached their objective. 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New 48-Mile Highway To Safeguard Canal Opened in Panama Work Rushed to Complete Laying of Concrete Before Rainy Season Starts President, Martha had four children by her first husband: By the Associated Press. Two died in infancy. BALBOA, Canal Zone, Feb. 6.— A new Panama Canal safeguard has been establishéd in'a 48-mile trans- isthmian highway, over which Army machines can travel oceari-to-ocean in two hours. At places the route is only a one- way graded trail hacked through dense tropical jungle, but Army trucks traversed it for the first time this week, demonstrating its avail- ability in any emergency involving the vital canal and closely paral- 18ling railway. The highway adds a third and well-separated route to the canal and railway which hitherto were the only avenues of heavy transport Plan to Lay Concrete. Begun in December, 1940, as a joint Canal Zone and Republic of Panama enterprise, the highway assumed enormous military signifi- cance after the United States and Panama entered the war against the Axis two months ago. Canal defense authorities promptly | to cleave a trail across 7 miles ravines—last portion of a right of way originally planned for commercial traffic. The Army engineers moved in and after 14 days of relentless labor con- structed a trail over which Army “jeeps” (command cars) and “peeps” (quarter-ton bantams) can slosh and powerhouse their way from At- lantic to Pacific or vice versa. Now it becomes the job of the Public Roads Administration, during Panama’s present “dry season,” to lay a two-way 50-mile-an-hour con- crete highway before arrival of the “reiny season” which would speedily | reduce this strategic highway to the jungle from which it was sa recently reclaimed. 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