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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21

FOR many centuries, Cstend, picturesque seaport and pleas. ure resort on the coast of Belgium, was the helpless buffer between nations struggling for a shelter on the North Sea. It was the last stronghold of the Dutch in the 18th century. Spain held it for a while, then came France. In 1918, when Germany forced her way to the coast, in the World War, the British loaded the old warship Vindictive with cement and sank her in the mouth of the harbor. In this way the port of Ostend was bottled up during the war.
 Until today a quiet fishing and resort center, Ostend again may become a thriving modern port. Its harbor is to be improved, q hydroplane base built, and a bid entered to make Ostend the west- ern terminus of the proposed transcontinental highway to Istan- bull. Turkey. An airview of the port appears on an airmail stamp issued by Belgium in 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
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Il nit because he was her guest of hon. or. Daphne scratched her ear below the sculptured curlS.
 "Oh, dear" she said and took liner first sip of the champagne, q guess wasn't cut out to be 8 lhostess. I never do seem to know where to place people"
 want any help?" Kit said.
 Don't let's bother" Daphne wanted only two things. One that Herberg would be at her side and away from Jenifer. And the other, that if Larry were there he would be far enough away from her so that she wouldn't have to look up and have him see her eyes, but now Larry was not coming and that
 The waiter whispered, Miss Brett"
 She rose. "our men seem to have arrived"
 She followed the waiter toward the lounge to welcome her guests.
 He was standing with his back to her inspecting print on the wall.
 She knew his name but she couldn't say it. Tin glad you de- cided you could come" she said and held out her hand to him.
 Daphne" Larry chung to her hand but he didn't say anything else.
 This was a new Daphne. This | ctftHrV1fVHcr ct frfrI vfyfftH tI1A O1&eNvrNSl voice and the manner of 8 Stran- ger. If she had known how these past months he had
 "Jennifer is a little late arriv- ing Poor child, she had to work tonight. She's been doing some posing for photographer"
 Has she?" he asked interestingly in that completely feigned man. ner that people often assume when words are really important just so long as you keep talking.
 "Yes, she has. She's been doing a lot. For a cigaret account" she offered.
 "Oh, that's splendid" Tt keeps her occupied" Daphne was conscious of the inanity of il all but the furious pounding ir her bosom, the close tightness irl her throat seemed to block off hel mind. She couldn't think of any, thing to say. She couldn't ever ask him about himself. She would have found herself bleating some thing about his looking well anc he wasn't.
 1 The doors to the rear swung open to let in an icy blast and g radiant Jennifer with man.
 "Oh, darling, there you are She went right to Larry and tool his arm. Daphne this is MT Herzberg. My sister, Gordon"
 Daphne gave Gordon Herzbere her hand and a smile as radiant as Jenifers. She was glad to sec that he was young; that gave hei a line of attack.
 I'm so pleased that you could join us," she said and, taking his arm, led the other two with nary a backward glance, back to hel table.
 I'm monopolizing you,' she said, MT. Herzberg; you're going to sit at my right"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21

"How did you know that was where I wanted to be? I've heard lot about you, Miss Brett. Your sister tells me you are a very in- tefesting person and that you know @ bit about the theater your self"
 Do you mind talking about the theater? I want you to tell me so much"
 Jules Carteret, Douglas Lock- heed and Frank Rossiter arrived at the same time and for few minutes Daphne had no oppor- tllnity to pursue her course.
 But when the other had gotten up to dance = Larry and Mrs. Hammer were the last-she said to Herzberg. we can dance later. I want you to tell me about your self and your new play. The the ater was my first love, you know. Do you mind?" He didn't mind. There were few men who could resist the flat tering attention, the intelligent re- sponse that Daphne had to give him. He found himself return ing eagerly to her side to go on with their conversation.
 twill you dance with me, Daphne?" It was Larry. All even- ing she had avoided looking in his direction. Now there was no escape. But there was. The lights were dimmed. Carita, the Spanish sensation, was going into her dance.
 Sorry" she said to Larry sweetly and returned her attention to Herzberg.
 Would it would it be ask ing too much to let me read your new play?"
 "I'd be charmed" he said. "I'll send it over to you in the morn ing. I'd like to know what you think of it."
 If you really mean that" she said softly, "I'll ask you to tea with me on Sunday"
 At four?" he asked.
 (To Be Centinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
THE STORY SO FAR

DAPHNE BRETT loved LARRY SMITH, architect. Larry had re- pea&edIy asked Daphne to marry Mlsl. But always Daphne refused, m@G telling Larry, however, that n1ae first wanted to lay aside suf- @eient money to launch JENNI- FER her young sister, on 2 e@reer.
 ycuniEer had proved the selfish sister from the start, defying Daphne at every turn. Finally Jennlfer meets GORDON HERZ- BERG, theater producer, and ap- nsFentIy finds her work.
 Then Daphne Is sent on a twO- asa0nths' sales tour. Before she leaves, Larry again asks her to marry him, and again she refuses. So Larry says gOOdby, assuming &Ihat Daphne cares more for her bareer than his love. And then e climax the situation, Daphne eimlGs 0N her return that Larry Is dating Jennifer!
 It is cruel blow. For a time Gt .staggers Daphne. And then she decides to play at tn c game heryelf. Her first step is a din- ner party at the FlamlngO Club, for close friends. Herzberg, and Larry, as Jenifer's beau. But Larry can't come.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
CHAPTER XXI

Daphne lifted her vanity and looked into it with her head thrown back and the fingers of her other hand deftly touching her hair.
 "Just which man are you going after tonight?" Jennifer inquired shortly.
 '.Must I be after a man?" Daphne asked, snapping the enamel case.
 "Aren't you usuallyP" Jennifer got up and greeted Anne briefly. Then she went into the bedroom and closed the door after her.
 Daphne took of the cape with a gesture of hopelessness. I wonder If really we do hate each other, she thought. And then instantly she was sorry that she had per- l1aitted herself that small question. She knew that she loved Jennifer. Wasn't she doing this for Jenni- fer?
 'So far, so good,' Anne said from the window. I'd call that test No. l. And here comes our second victim. The Carterets are arriving"
 Daphne called through the closed bathroom door, "Jennifer the Carterets are on their way up and we've got to go on imme- diately. Shall I ask Jules to re- turn for you?"
 Don't bother" Jennifer said ''I want to rest. I'll be along about 11:3O."
 Ia the CarteretS car on their way to the Hammer apartment, Daphne said, T wish I had asked an extra man. I'm afraid we're going to be one short" She didn't say that man was Larry.
 Jules said, ''if you mean that l know a gentleman who would be charmed. Douglas Lockheed is at our apartment right this minute longing to meet beautiful girls"
 "PleaSe go and get him, Jules" |" Daphne was afraid that with a man short, she would have little chance to work out her plan.
 They had to stop for cocktails with the Hammers and Daphne pleaded with them to hurry. She was having three guests who were to join them at the Flamingo and she didn't want to be late.
 Daphne with her guests, the Hammers, Kit Carteret and Anne, arrived at the Flamingo to find that Jules and the other men Daphne counted them again - Lockheed, Frank Rossiter and Gordon Herzberg, had not yet ar- rived.
 Her table was in a corner not too near the orchestra. The can dles were lighted and the cham pagne cooling the silver buckets when she arrived. And while they toasted her in their first glass Daphne arranged the place cards. Gordon Herzberg was at her right That was the important thing.
 As a matter of form, she had placed Mir. Hammer at her left, Mrs. Carteret at Herberg's right Anne opposite her and Frank Rossiter at the next place. That meant that Larry, or now Lock- heed, would have to be between Mrs. Carteret and Jenifer with Mrs. Hammer next to
 But would it be 8 good idea tc throw this unknown man into con- veTsation with or should sht switch MT. Hammer; no, she could.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
Brain TwizzIers By Prot ,. D, Flint

Two men, lost at sea after deSert- ing a sinking boat, ran onto an island in the small dinghy which they had taken. The dinghy hit rock and lost a board from the bot tom which measured eight by thir- teen inches, an area of 65 inches. They found piece of wood eight inches square, an area of sixty-four inches, on the island. One of the men found a way to cut the square Into pieces so that with re-arrange- ment the pieces would form a rect- angle which would be eight by thir- teen inches and would patch the boat.
 In the diagram above only one more cut must be made. Can you make 1t and then rearrange the four pieces to it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
AnaWer to Yesterday,s TwlzzIer

Colonel Carpenter couldn't have hsam shot when he telephoned hls Aase, The shot, the police found. gas through his heart and he could- n'k nave called after that. The case nBaee policy became invalid. (C0py- sssht John ?. pille col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-21
By THOMPSON and COLL

IUp6EKNIs JHE pooR c1AsAEs opEN AMD q ynLD. :.
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The Washington times., 1937-07-16

Sultan, Engineer Commissioner.
The meeting will consider arbi-
Iration of the walkout on public
school jobs, called yesterday by
the Washington Building Trades
Council in protest against the
hiring Of nonunion workmen on
two school projects.
The various unions involved
have threatened to withdraw their
men on all District structures un-
less the school situation is ironed
out satisfactorily to them.
Organizations expected to be
represented at Mondays confer
ence include the Building Trades
Council, the Master Builders Asso-
citation and the Association Of Sub
Contractors.
Unions involved in the walkout
are affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor.
The five projects halted are:
The Alice Deal School, Paul Junior
High School, Charles Young
School, Eastern High School and
Grimke elementary school.
With work scheduled to start
Monday On two painting jobs at
the City Post Office and the In
ternal Revenue Building, union
officials intimated the strike also
may spread to these jobs. Other
building projects which may be af-
fected by the strike are the new
Police Court Building in Judiciary
Square, and the new Chain
Bridge. It was stated that build.
ing projects at the Bureau of En-.
craving and Printing, the Apex
Building and the Government
Printing Office are manned solid.
ly by union workers and will not
be affected.
Connecting on the situation,
Colonel Sultan stated:
"I'm afraid this is going to
be n hard problem to solve.
The union men have walked
out because nOnuniOn men have
been employed by the cOntrac-
tors. This is the sole issue be-
tween them.
"The law says we must
award the contracts for these
buildings to the lowest respOn-
sible bidder and the law was fol-
lowed in each case. We have
no authority to say whether the
men employed are union or nom
union"
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
MRS. ROBINSON
.ARRIVESHERE
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a moment on shoulders that shook
in betrayal of a grief they made
no attempt to conceal.
Mrs. Robinson alighted from the
National Limited on the arm Of
Grady Miller. her brother-who,
with other members Of the Little
Rock delegation, had accompanied
the stricken widow to the Nations
Capital.
Grizzled trainmen and Scurrying
redcapS paused to watch the slow
procession through the station,
barring their heads as the party
passed.
The Arkansas group was met
at the train by dozen or more
intimate friends of the late Sen.
ator, headed by Joe T. Robinson,
jr.. his nephew, Bernard M. Ba.
ruch, noted financier, and several
personal secretaries.
The party left by automobile for
the Robinson apartment in the
Methodist Building and then to
pay private respects to the dead
majority leader of the Senate,
whose body was in the Hysong
Funeral Home. It was transferred
to the Capitol at 10 a. M, where
it lay in state until the funeral at
noon.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Sultan Seeks
TOHNH Strike
On BuiLdinQS'

Efforts avert general strike of building tradesmen
on all construction projects of the District of Columbia
eminent will be made Monday when representatives OF
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Girl, 5, RecOuers
After 81 Days
In Lung

BALTIMORE, Md, July 16.
Five.year-old Betty Sue Martin, Of
Ash county, N. c., who has been
in the Johns Hopkins Hospital
since March 81 where she was in
a respirator for 80 days, has re-
covered from paralysis of the arms,
legs and diaphragm, but physi-
clans there fear that the little girl
may contract pneumonia after
leaving the hospital.
Explaining their fears, phySi-
clans said that persons who have
been "respiratorized'' are in par
ticular danger on contracting
pneumonia if they catch a cold
within year after treatment in a
respirator.
Doctors think that the child
should be sent to Florida for the
next year, after she has been dis
charged from the hospital in the
next few weeks, where there would
be less cold or pneumonia risk,
but the child's parents cannot af-
ford this, so it is expected that
Betty Sue will go back to Ash
county, N. c., when she leaves here
and hope for the best.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
NOTED MOURN
SEN. ROBINSON
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Court-uStice Pierce Butler
was able to attend the state fu-
neral of Senator Robinson.
Justice Butler, who is spending
the summer at Blue Ridge Sum-
init, Pa, less than 100 miles from
Washington, motored to the city.
Marshal Frank Green. OF the
court, notified all justices. He
said that all other justices replied
regretting that they could not
reach Washington in time for the
services.
Police Court Judge Edward
M. Curran recessed his court for
several minutes today in tribute
to the late Senator Robinson.
Family Present
Members of the family sat
in front Of the sopen caSket.
They are Mrs. Robinson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Grady Miller, and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Miller. and
Charles Miller. jr.. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Robinson, jr. Across
the aisle was the President
and his Cabinet. Other reserved
seats were occupied by members
of the diplomatic corps, the House
of Representatives, and officials
of the Army. Navy and Marine
Corps.
More than 400 chairs were
placed in the Senate chamber,
while each Senator was assigned
two seats in the galleries to care
for the throng for the unusual
ceremony. Admittance to the gal
leries was by special card only.
FavOrite Hymns Sung
Services began promptly at
noon. The Rev. zeBarney T.
Phillips, chaplain of the Senate,
will officiate. Benediction will be
pronounced by the Rev. James
Shera Montgomery, chaplain OF
the House. RobinSon's favorite
hymns, abide With Me" and
Lead Kindly Light" were sung
by a soloist.
Members of the family arrived
from the family home in Little
Rock, Ark, early Uouay. 44AoJ
were met at the railroad station
by Senator Barley and Mrs. Hat
tie M. Caraway, Senator Robin
sons colleague and the only wom-
an member of the Senate.
Gallery to Close
Following the services, the gal
lery was closed and guards
placed at the doors. The body will
remain in the chamber until the
special funeral train leaves fol
Little Rock in the evening. Some
so Senators and 80 Representa-
tives will join the family in &C
companying the body to Little
Rock, where final services will be
held Sunday afternoon. The body
will lie in state at the State CAPT
toll before public services are helc
in the family home and burial II
the family cemetery.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Embassy Guards
In Peiping Strengthened

4 PEIPING, July 16 Q.N.S).
,Reflecting fears of an imminent
explosion in north China. the
japanese Embassy guard in
Peiping was doubled today and
other precautions were taken by
japanese officials to protect
their nationals.
These protective measures,
japanese authorities stated, were
instituted "in view of the posi-
bility Of breakdown Of discipline
Of the Chinese Twenty-ninth
Route Army"
Other embassies took similar
precautions.
In the British Embassy COM
pound $40 officers and men Of
the East Lancashire regiment
were stationed to prevent possible
: clashes with Japanese, who have
constructed Sandbag barricades
outside the Japanese Embassy
compound.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Coast Guard Ships
Asked by islanders

BOSTON, July 16 UN.S.).
Governor Charles F. Hurley today
appealed to President Roosevelt
and Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau for Coast Guard YES
sells to provide a transportation
link between Nantucket, Marthas
Vineyard Islands and the mainland
during the strike of Seamen which
has tied up four steamboats, ply
ing between the islands and New
Bedford.
The request followed the second
all-day conference between repre-
sentatives Of the seamen and Off
Gals of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, operators
Of the steamboats,, which failed to
bring about a settlement.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
international News Service

The last order issued by Sena.
tor Joe T. Robinson as Demo
cratic leader of the Senate will
be carried out by his followers,
it was learned today.
The order. issued at a confer.
ence last Tuesday morning-juSt
IA hours before he dropped dead
in his apartment from a heart
attack-waS:
Prepare speeches. We must
90 ahead and defend the Presi-
dents bill In debate"
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Japanese Empire
,on War Footing
VANErS u vnTnJG
BY JAMES r. YOUNG
Copyright. 1897. by International
News ServicO)

News servicO)
TOKYO, July 16.-The Sino-
japanese dispute in North China
entered its most serious stage to-
day as partial mobilization OF
troops progressed in Japan ana
the entire empire was placed on
war footing for crucial weekend.
On all sides the opinion pre-
vailed that the next two or three
days will determine whether the
Far East faces war or peace.
Ominous official reports reached
the war office. stating 30 divisions
of Chinese troops are massed
along the ShanSi province borders
and along the Haichow-Sianfu
railroad, awaiting orders to ad-
vance and resist Japanese troops
in North China.
100000 Reserves Ready
; Crack expeditionary forces were
rushed to North China from Japan
proper, and 100000 reserviSts
were instructed to hold themselves
ready to form a second line Of
defense. Economic measures were
taken in anticipation Of possible
war.
Officials made it clear that I'M
less China backs down in the
Hopei-C hahar area. Japan will
answer fire with fire"
The government here received
with marked disfavor reports Of
a proposed demarche, suggested by
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden. aimed at restraining
Japan"
Z Intrusion Resented
Officials said it would be wise
to bear in mind" that the present
dispute with China is in the
hands Of the military, not the
diplomatic corps"
International News Service was
informed that gestures by for
eign powers for a peaceful settle
ment are unwelcome.
These foreign powers, it was
stated authoritatively, do not I'M
derstand Japan'S mission on the
ASiatic mainland, in the Japanese
view.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16

With Japan on war footing
and partial mobilization Of
troops under way, officials ex-
pect weekend to determine issue
Of war or peace.
Shanghai hears Japan's major
offensive in North China will
begin tomorrow or Sunday.
japanese officials state inter-
vention of foreign powers Is not
wanted and Japan will answer
fire with fire"
Peiping excited as japanese
embassy guard is doubled for
fear Of an explosion.
Chinese sources report with
I out confirmation that agree
: ment is reached calling for with
: drawal Of Chinese troops.
Chinese troops surround and
isolate japanese concession at
/ Hankow, according to reports in
> Hong Kong.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
300 Business Men
Hold Beach 0utinQ

More than 300 members Of the
Federation of Business Mems AS
SociationS took the day off yester-
day to frolic, swim, and dine at
Broadwater Beach, Nd, on the
Federation'S annual summer out
ing.
The feature event Of the day, q
baseball game between the Central
Business Mems Association and
the Northeast group, was won by
the former, 6 to 2.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Major Offensive
Expected Soon
Copyright, 1897. by International
News ServicO)

(copyright, 1887, by International
News Servics)
SHANGHAI, July 16.-Japan's
major offensive in North China
will get under way tomorrow or
Sunday, well-informed sources in
Tokyo revealed in adviceS to
Shanghai today.
International News Service
was informed $4,000 Japanese
troops, comprising one division
from Japan, one from Korea
and q third from Manchukuo,
Japan's puppet empire, will be
used in the forthcoming often
sive, which now is regarded as a
virtual certainty.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
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