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Evening star., 1933-12-24
FULLER TO SUBMIT
REPORT ON HAITI
Marine Major General Re-
turns Here Following Trip
of Inspection.

Maj. Gen. Commandant Ben H.
Fuller of the Marine Corps has just
returned here after an inspection trip
in Haiti. He will render a special
report to the Secretary Of the Navy on
his observations
Gen. Fuller is much concerned re-
garding the Scant Fleet Marine Force
which Is now under command of Brig.
Gen. Charles H. Lyman.
Brig. Gen. Randolph c. Berkeley and
Island, S. C., are on temporary duty
at headquarters in connection with the
board examining Lieut.. Col. Lauren 6.
Willis for promotion to colonelcy. Gen.
Berkeley and Maj. Griffin are stop
ping at the Army and Navy Club Col.
r. p. Williams is temporarily at head
quarters as member of Examining
Board.
Col. Louis McLittle, who will be ele-
vated to the grade of brigadier general
on January l due to the retirement per
age of Brig. Gen. Dion Williams, will
remain In Haiti pending decision Of the
State Department as to the status of
the Marines now stationed in that
republic
Col. Richard Macolm Cults is now
the senior line colonel of the CORDS
and probably will be elevated to a
brigadier generalcy unless the vacancy
which will have occurred March l will
have been filled by selection instead
Of by seniority.
Col. Charles B. Taylor, commanding
officer of the headquarters barracks,
Eighth street southeast, has directed
the men of his command permission
to draw special money acquisitions and
has granted leaves of absence to SO
per cent of the strength of the en-
listed force. First Lieut.. John R.
Lanigan will be in charge of the
Christmas dinner arrangements.
Lieut.. Col. Holland NJ. Smith COM
manding the Navy Yard barracks, has
likewise directed that men of his COM
mand be granted leave to visit relatives
over the holidays and in addition
granted money acquisitions against pay
due. Capt. Willet Elmore is in charge
OF the commiSSary arrangements
Mrs. George Barnett, widow of the
late Maj. Gen. Commandant George
Barnett, was not to be forgotten by
the corps veterans to whom she is
and will have ever been remembered
as the mother Of the Marine Corps.
She received greetings.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
More Minor Suit Bidding.

IF YOU bid a minor suit in first or
second position on a shorr-suited
hand YOU do so because, defensive
in type, your hand is so strong in
q primary values that you wish the
hand played at three no trumps II
volr partner can make any response;
or possibly you may have a major Sult
TO bid secondarily, and would welcome
a game contract in it if your partner
could now raise it, knowing 1t 10 be
a four-carder because you bid 1t sec
ondarily.
The rebidding of these hands is far
easier than those of aggressive type,
because it is generally almost auto
matte From the start you can foresee
your own rebidding. If you cannot,
Won should not have opened the bid
ding. as in that case you had defen-
sive type of hand which you should
pass. With, for instance,
81; 81, ASx g 3f: cf: ( kkSsx kkSSsx
YOU bid a diamond, hoping to hear
a heart one-over-one, to which you
reply with two no trump. II. In
stead, the response Is one no trump,
pass. Game is very unlikely. II the
response is two no trumps, bid three
and hope that the hand will not play
too unluckily. The odds are ten to one
that your partner will make three no
trumps, probably helped by the open
ing lead. If his response is two clubs
or two spades, raise his suit. This
gives the inference that there Is one
suit in which you are wide open. Un-
less he can next bid no trump, the
game chances are in his suit rather
than in no trumI- If his first re-
sponse is two diamonds, bid three
Aisyncnds. This indicates that you are
wide open in some SUB, otherwise you
would baYs bid two no trumps. Your
s,arrner is now enabled to bid a very
weak higher-ranking suit In the effort
to bridge the gap in your no-tr1mp
protection-Q j x or even x 10 x.
If he Should on this basis bid three
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Conquering Contract
BY P. HAL SIMS

hearts, all is well, and you play the
hand at three no trumps. If three
spades, you know that the heart suit
is solid against you, and should seek
safety in four diamonds. Your part
ner might still be able to bid five dia-
monds for you. There is, of course,
no question of four spades, since you
know your partners spades were not
good enough to justify a one-over-one
response on the first round, and his
subsequent bidding has disclaimed no
trump protection where you need it.
Over a Jump Raise.
If your partners first response was
three diamonds, you may be very
hopeful of slam However, you can
not make any constructive rebid with
these holdings, and can only bid four
now come from him, and you can CO.
operate only by showing that they fit
your hand in eliminating losers. The
hand is now safe in five diamonds; but
six diamonds should be bid only if
your partner bids either black suit,
permitting you to raise that suit to
show that there are no losers in it;
or, If he bids four no trumpS, bid five
no trumpS to confirm your original bid
and show distributed high cards. Such
bid by him definitely proclaims con-
troll Of the heart suit and probably you
will have a fineSse for seven odd BY
rebidding your diamonds, you do not
necessarily show five-card suit; you
merely disclaim ability to make any con-
structive rebid; and by not bidding
three no trumps you give the infer
ence that there is a wide-open spot in
your hand. Do not shrink from re-
bidding four-card suit after your
partner has raised it before you could
rebid it. The vital point is to help
your partner to avoid duplication and
not to lead him to read you for values
which you do not possess. With this
hand your responses should do no more
than confirm your original bid until
he bids a black suit, obviously requir-
ing to know for slam purposes only
whether your outside top cards are in
that suit. Any such bid by him re-
duces the losers to two heart losers;
If he knows they are not losers, he will
include this knowledge in his next
bid-six or seven.
(Copyright, 1889
Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con-
tract that are addressed to this newspaper
with self-addressed. stamped envelope.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
LEGION AUXILIARY
DISTRIBUTES GIFTS
Veterans in Hospitals Are
Notwithstanding Club
Is Formed.

An Executive Committee meeting of
the department, American Legion Aux
iliary, was held at the Willard Hotel
December IS, the president, Mrs. Edythe
M. O'Connor, presiding. Plans were
discussed regarding the rehabilitation
work among the service hospitals and
the following units were assigned to
distribute the Christmas packages to
the World War veterans in them:
SSHangler and James r. Europe, ST.
Eliza.,!h,s: Costello. Victory and Nc
James E. Walter, Walter Reed, and
Nash and Killeen, Mount Alto.
The department Child Welfare chair
man, Mrs. Mary E. Kolhos, -eported
work being done by several units in
securing clothing, lodging and milk for
ex-service men and their families.
Schools have been contacted for in
formation regarding absence of vet
Grams children due to lack of clothing.
The chairman of James r. Europe
Unit has organized a reading club,
composed of IL mothers, who are max
ing clothes from material furnished by
the Red Cross.
Mrs. Mary E. Kolhos reported the
names of several members who vciun-
teered in the sale of Christmas seals
at the booth in Dulin & Martins store.
Mrs. Smallwood of James r. Europe
Unit has been assigned the booth in
the Howard Theater.
Radio Program.
Radio Chairman Mrs. Louise Warren
in which Department Comdr. of the
American Legion Rice w. Means and
Department President Mrs. Edythe M.
OConnor of the American Legion
Auxiliary will be the principal speakers.
The vocalist will be Henry NeStor.
Time, station and date will be an
nOunced later.
Mrs. Edna Mcintosh, Membership
chairman, called meeting Of all unit
chairmen December Is, when plans
were made to carry on the member
ship drive for the year.
Victory Unit Meeting.
Victory Unit met Thursday night at
the Mayflower Hotel, with the presi-
dent, Mrs. Catherine August, presiding.
Mrs. Amelia r. Quinto was elected as
sistant secretary.
Mrs. r. w. Bywaters, Entertainment
chairman, spoke on gifts and refresh
ments for the Christmas party. Mrs.
Emma Grouse, Ways and Means chair
man, submitted a report of her activi-
ties. Mrs A N. Schroeder reported
on the distribution of the Thanksgiving
baskets. Mrs. P. E. Doleman, Ameri-
canism chairman, also spoke. The unit
will present baby spoon to the newest
member of its cradle roll, the infant
son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. Gallagher.
Mrs. Marie Gorsuch and Mrs. Mary
Sweitzer were appointed by the presi-
dent to select the gift.
The next meeting will be held Janu-
ary IL at the Mayf1ower Hotel
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Jobs Daughters.

PETHEL NO. at their last meeting
installed the following officers
Helen Hepp, honored queen; Mary Vir-
ginia Conway senior princess; Betty
Nevius, junior princess; Dorothy Smith,
guide; Doris Brattain. marshal: Gladys
Gaub. chaplain; Marguerite Berkeley,
recorder; Evelyn Chase, treasurer
Irma Pierce. pianist; Helen Kirk, IL
brarian: Grace Parks, Louise De Law
der. Mildred Birch, Margaret Bittinger,
Mary Hamilton, messengers; Virginia
Haight, junior custodian; Shirley Dairs,
senior custodian: Mary Long, inner
guard Sarah Inman, outer guard
The installation was at an open meet
ing, with Helen Manning, retiring hon.
ored queen, as installing officer. She
was presented with a jewel of the past
honored queen by Mrs Cola Maholm,
Bethel guardian.
Boys from Robert lie Bruce Chapter
of De Molay paid a visit and gave an
exhibition drill, after which there was
dancing.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

on June 80, 1884, on account of serv-
ice ineligibility for promotion, and this
Will result In promotion on that date
Of Comdrs. Stephen r. Mckinney,
Louis F. Thibault, Baxter H. Bruce,
additional number), George G. Logan,
John B. Earle, and Harold v. Nc
Kittrick. This will leave 10 COM
manders, Thomas A. Symington, Robert
c. Giffen, Richard E Cassidy, Clarence
N. Hinkam2. Riley F. Mcconnell, Ezra
G. Allen, Emanuel A. Lofquist, Henry
c. Gearing, tr., Herbert B. Risbe, and
Thaddeus T Thompson, of the old list
to be promoted at later dates
Lieut. Comdr. Henry NJ. Briggs Will
become due for promotion on JanuarS
|, and Lieut.. C0mdrS. Paul CaSSard
and Hamilton v. Bryan on March l,
of the 1888 list of seIectees. Lieut..
Comdr. Elroy L. Vanderkloot is the
next thereafter TO be come due for pro-
motion. and it is estimated that by
June 80 the promotions from that list
will extend down to and including Lieut..
Comdr. Carl H. Jones. leaving the fol-
lowing four for promotion at later
dates: Lieut.. Comdrs. Carlton H.
Bryant, William j. Larson, John H.
Buchanan and Herman A. Spanagel.
1t can be seen. therefore, that none of
LlLC II NOl IlOlc II duOlIlOIldl NUMBERS
are included) to be selected by the
board to convene in February, will be-
gin to advance to the higher grade
until after June 80, 1884. and the pro-
motions on this date will be incident
to the retirement on that date of Is
commanders for service ineligibility
for promotion.
AS result of the selections made by
the recent line board, promotion in
staff corps may be made as follows
Twelve to rank as captain in the Medical
Corps and one each to captain in the
Supply Corps and Construction Corps.
English Beer Opposed.
Public hcuses ceiling Fnplisb heer are
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Meetings This Week.

Tuesday-Victory Post, No. 4,
419 Seventh street, 8 pm.
Wednesday-Henry G. Spengler
Post, No. IL, 1926 Massachusetts,
avenue, installation of officers. 8
pm.
Thursday-Department Execu-
tive Committee, District Building,
8 pm; Eight and Forty, recep-
ton and dance, Marine Barracks,
8 pm.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

Mr.. Sims is universally acclaimed
the greatest liDing contract and auction
PLAYER. He tCaS captain of the renowned
-Four Horsemen" team, not0 disbanded,
and has iron "a national championships
since 1924. These articles are based on
the Sims system, phich includes the
one-oUer-one principle, which the Sims
group Of players tDaS the first to employ
and deUelop.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Legion Congress Program
Puts Defense Foremost
Vigorous Campaign for Army of $4,000 Officers
and $4,000 Enlisted Men
Planned.

TINE convening of Congress jan
uary will be the signal for ac-
tivities on the part of the Amer
Il ican Legion in carrying out the
mandates of the recent fifteenth
annual national convention in Chicago
and the presentation of measures OF
interest not only to veterans, but the
Country at large.
Foremost is the matter of national
defense, which will be vigorously sought
~ legion officials. The Legion favors
a regr~zr Army of 1000 officers aid
of 10000 enlisted men with proper
tionate officers and with adequate pro-
visions for 40 weekly drills and Is days
annual training. A Reserve Corps of
10000 officers. which is felt is the
minimum number to meet initial mob
ilization. with a cycle Of training so
arranged annually as to maintain a
standard reasonably efficient throughout
the corps and with provisions for the
training Of at least $4,000 Reserve Of
ficers for the next fiscal year, is advo-
Gated.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

indicated: Second Lieut.. Robert W
Hicks, from the 627th Engineer Bat
talon, and Second Lieut.. John F. COL
Inns, jr., from the 428th Infantry.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
RAINS LASH HAWAII

Two Inches of Rain Reported in
Honolulu.
HONOLULU, December % R.-
Pelting rains accompanied by high
winds, which have lashed Hawaii for
three days, continued unabated today.
Two inches of rain had fallen in
Honolulu and twice that amount in
several parts Of the islands Gales did
some damage on the Island of Hawaii.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

English Beer Opposed.
Public houses selling English beer are
being raided in the Irish Free State.
Evening star., 1933-12-24

Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on con-
tract that are addressed to this newspaper
with self.addressed. stamped envelope.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-07

Architecture and the Postgraduate
library of the University of Chicago
are among the noted reference IL
braries Of the world.
Libraries and schools and, more
than all, the harmony of environ
ment have made Chicago an educa-
tional center Of North America. At
tendance figures and faculty rolls Of
colleges, or even q world-famed
name, do not determine eminence In
educational facilities; but, in stud
les made by the Association of
American Universities, % universi-
ties were given the highest rating,
and three are in Illinois-North-
western, Chicago and Illinois
while no other state has more than
two.
The unendowed university Of the
streets, where orators always have
an audience, and ideas are more
often bizarre than sound, iourishes
In Chicago. Washington square,
fronting the Newberry library, and
the arteslan springs in Washington
park have the largest attendance of
these open-air night schools.
Some Fine Museums.
"Is there q museum or art gal
lery?" Is a sightseer's first question
in a new city. Illinois has such in
situations to show the passing ages,
several of them outstanding in their
lines. All Of the flowers and birds
that once graced the sand and
marshes which now are Chicago
survive In the glass cases Of the
Academy of Science In Lincoln park.
The State Natural History museum
In Springfield goes back ever far
Their. A wall In one of It's halls is
faced with stones starting with the
Archean age, which the curator says
was more than a billion years ago,
and rising In strata to the Pleisto-
Gene age, less than 100000 years
ago. AT the side Of each stratum
are paintings of the contemporary
animals which roamed the earth.
Two Of the finest Egyptian col
lections in the world are In Chicago.
Field Museum of Natural History,
on the lake front, annihilates both
time and space. It's frozen Arctic,
with polar bears and seals and a
path of chilly blue stretching to the
midnight sun, is only a step from an
Indian jungle, with rhinoceroses
emerging from the marsh or a group
of startled Queen Of Sheba ante
lope on q rocky mountain side of
Ethiopia. They are SC real that the
visitor, the roar of the city's streets
still echolng in his ears, is whisked
into the distant, lonesome wastes,
thousands Of miles from Chicago,
glimpsing life from a forgotten past
and In unknown lands.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-07

81 could get nurses here, Of
course" the physician said thought
fully. But it'll be easier to have
her In the hospital. Besides, want
to get her away from here. She's
been under a terrific strain for two
years. Why some of you don't e
It," he said irritably. "is more than
/ can understand. For two years
now she's carried a load that would
test the endurance of an OK"
you mean the gift shop?" Geoff
asked.
II mean-everything," Doctor Big
ham said largely Look herel Gym
thia's conscious-or partly so, and
she's worrying about something she
calls her household budget. I've
promised you'd take it off her hands
run it the way she does. That
all right?"
Geoff looked startled. "You must
mean the shop. Miss Mona looks aft
er the house"
"She does nothing of the kind.
Cynthia's the purse-holder In this
family-and with reason, as you'll
o o find out. Now just step into
her ROOM" he went on briskly, land
make her understand that you're
prepared to pay all bills, order what
needs to be ordered-that kind of
thing. / can't have her worried
about such trifies."
Geoff, hesitatingly approaching
Cynthia's bed, was startled at the
change In her. The blue eyes
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-07

hotel with 5000 rooms, and one Of
the largest indoor sports stadiums.
Convenient location brings a million
visitors to national conventions each
year. The booster who delights In
bigger also adds that 1t has q pie
beian gas tank that could be
dropped like a candle snuffer over
the 2s-story Times building in New
York.
1t is a city of contrasts. Its peo-
pie reflect 1t, make the throbbing
city theirs. Scholars mix In politics
and business men are artists. The city
Is the same structural panorama. In
the corridors between Chicago and
the Indiana line more industry and
high-pressure recreation are mixed
than In any similar nrea In the
world-steel mills, oil refneries, rail-
road shops, foundries and factories,
with country clubs, two race tracks.
and a dozen golf clubs, wooing de-
voices to fresh air and sunshine. Un-
der Its pail of smoke, smell Of stock
yards, and hum of aggressive ma
teriallsm, Chicago has art, science,
music, education, and other factors
which add to the comfort and con-
tentment of humanity. 1t Is Illinois
intensified.
Chicago Is a musical city. One
of Its music schools is among the
largest in America.
With more students than any
other school Of Its kind, the Art In
stitute gives Chicago an assured
place In art circles, but the fact
that 1t has more sustaining men,
bers than most similar institutions
shows a clty's appreciation of art.
Great City for Reading.
Chicago reads as 1t hustles. The
American Library association CLASH
fles 1t among the great reading cit
les Of the world. Its public library,
revived by q donation from England
after the fire, circulates 100000
books a year, though the number on
its shelves Is smaller than that in
the New York city public library or
In the Library OF Congress. For
completeness In their special lines
and for patronage, students coming
far to consult them, Newberry, IL
brary Of humanities; the Crerar
Technical and Scientific library the
Fine Arts library; the Library of
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-07
CHAPTER VI
cxnthla,s Family.
THAT Sunday fingered in Geoff's
IL memorv for many q long day.

THAT Sunday fingered In Geof's
Il memory for many a long day.
IF I hadn't gone sliding-and l
didn't slide, because the snow was
too wetl-would Cynthia not have
got slck?' Tenny demanded, her
small face white with anxiety.
Geof took her on his lap and gave
her a detailed explanation.
Cynthia caught cold yesterday
hunting you-that's true" he said.
But Doctor Bigham says 1t
wouldn't have hurt her If she hadn't
been so tired from working In the
shop. You weren't to blame, Tenny.
The thing we've got to do is to keep
this house running till Cynthia is
well again."
"Who's going to plan the mealsT'
Tenny was a practical child.
Meals? Why, Miss Mona, Of
course. Good heavens, you don't
mean"
Cynthia always plans I'm. And
she gives Marguerite just enough
money to pay for the days supplies
because II you buy things In guam
tity for a colored person they waste
EN-" Geoff could detect all too
clearly Cynthia's pronouncement In
this echo.
His fears proved to be well
grounded. Marguerite appeared soon
after dinner, notebook and pencil
In hand.
Miss Mona say you gwine run the
house, Mist Geof," she remarked.
miss Cynthia she plan Monday
meals fob l go off on Sunday afteh-
noon."
Good lordl" Geoff recoiled from
the task presented to him. Cant
Miss Mona look after that part of
it?"
Marguerite shook her head dole
fully. Miss Cynthia say not. We
all git In debt head-oyer-heels when
Miss Mona housekeep."
"Well, you do it, then!"
Miss Cynthia say | amt got no
sense a-tall bout ordering"
"Oh, the devill" Geoff glared at
Marguerite and she looked back al
him, highly diverted.
Every well!" He drew a chair up
to the table, squared his elbows and
applied himself to the notebook. "Ill
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seemed sunk far back In her head.
Her lips were fever-dry. She
breathed with difficulty and when
she saw Geoff and tried to speak,
she began to cough.
Don't talk" he entreated. II just
came In to say that everything'll be
all right, Cynthia. You're not to
worry. I'll keep track of ex-
%penses--"
"Out of our own money!" she
whispered. "You won't use any Of
your own to pay the billsT"
Il won't use any of mine. Iprom-
ise," he told her, wondering a little
at this request.
She seemed satisfied and dozed off
and Geoff tiptoed out to consult the
doctor.
Look herel What've you let me
In for? l don't know anything about
the Aylesbury's financial affairs. /
don't know what their income is"
"Elsle Dunsmore can tell you,"
Doctor Bigham said absently. "They
live on what Cynthia makes at the
shop"
Geoff stared at him. Doctor, you
must be mistaken !"
The physicians quick Ire rose. Il
must, must II I suppose | wasn't
called when the Captain lost not
only all his own money but what
was left Of Aylesbury's-I suppose
/ wasn't called to look after Miss
Mona then? Cynthia came home from
college"
what"
"Of course. Cary and Miss Mona
between them had run through what
little there vas left. Cary wrote Gym
thia and she gave up her college
work and came home. Opened the
Odds and Ends with what her father
left her. With Tenny's board-and
yours, | SUPPOSED"
Geoff nodded.
with that and the profits from
the shop, Cynthia's kept them all
going somehow"
but the Captains royalties? Mr..
Aylesbury's estate?" Geofrs head
was In his hands, his eyes were bag
gard.
"Those royalties amount to about
eight or ten dollars a month. Ayles-
bury's estate-isn't. Cynthia keeps
up a polite fiction that it's invested
in her shop, but that's just to
soothe Miss Nona's feelings"
'But she-Miss Nona-the Cap
tain, too-they're always talking as
If they wanted Cynthia to give up
the shop; as II 1t was a within on
her part"
"Of course. It's soothing to the
Captains pride to believe that he
has plenty Of money and that the
gift shop Is a fad Of Cynthia's; SO
he does believe It,"
"But Miss Nona?'
The doctor shrugged. Money
means nothing in her life A pretty,
sweet-mannered woman but about as
practical as a pink morning glory
He rose. That's the ambulance
now. I'm putting you In charge at
this end of the line, remember III
look after Cynthia-you look after
! Cynthia's family