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Evening star., 1939-07-28
Snow to Wind

MINNEAPOLIS (P).-Judge Vince
A. Days court sounded a little like
weather bureau when he con-
sidered the divorce case of Mr.. and
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier.
Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken.
worlds leading team of four, inventors
system in existence
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Just One Mistake


- Dbl.R Pass Pass
Pass
That one slight slip on defense
can prove fatal is demonstrated in
todays hand Against four dia-
monds doubled, West opened the
spade king, which held the trick
While this play might seem in
nocuous, the fatal slip had already
been made! East should have over
taken with his spade ace and re-
turned a heart. AS it was, South
trumped the second spade, led club
to dummy, then trumped the re-
naming spade. Declarer next played
two more rounds of clubs, then
led a diamond from dummy and
when East showed out, played low,
allowing West to win the trick with
the 10. West was now forced to
lead a heart, which declarer easily
captured with his 10-spot. Now
South played the ace and another
diamond and West was then forced
to lead hearts once more, so that,
strange as it seems, declarer lost no
heart tricks.
South had executed a double end
play which could have been frus-
trated if East had made the proper
play to the first trick.
Yesterday, with both sides vul-
nerable, you were Merwin Maier's
partner and held:
Axe 1Oxx
vAxx
<Axx
AK
The bidding:
Burnstone Maier Schenken You
Pass Pass INT CD
AnsWer-Pass At best you can
only hope to make a partial score
against an opening no-trump bid.
At worst two-spade overcall may
be doubled. A double is unsound.
Score 100 per cent for pass, 40 per
cent for double, 20 per cent for two
spades.
Question No. 1877.
Howard Schenken is your partner.
You hold:
* Jx
vQ 10x
"A XXX
@AXx
The bidding:
Schenken Jacoby You Burnstone
Pass Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
Clothing Budgets

Fifteen per cent of the total fam
lily income is considered an average
allowance for clothing, according to
authorities on budgeting family ex-
penses. On the basis of this esti-
mate, total annual expenditure for
family clothing in the United States
approaches the $4,000, 900, 900 mark.
With such large portion of income
spent on clothing, two important
items worth considering are how in
diligently we select our clothes and
how well we care for them Every
homemaker will find it enlightening
to check on the clothing costs of her
family. BY adopting better buying
practices and more effective pro-
gram of clothing upkeep, nearly ev-
eryone can reduce this item of ex-
pense.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
New Dye in Use

A brilliant blue dye, one of new
class of blue-to-green pigments
known to scientists as the pthalo-
examines, is showing such excellent
fastness properties that it is re-
placing some of the older dyes used
in the coloring of printing inks,
paints, lacquers, rubber, wallpaper,
and linoleum. The pthalocyanines
are closely related in structure to
chlorophylI, the green coloring mat
ter of plants, but scientists have dis
covered no evidence that they occur
in nature.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
THE NEW SOCIAL SECURITY ACz
Chapter vi
How to Figure Old-Age Insurance
and Survivors Benefits

In calculating benefits provided
under the revised old-age insurance
system, a new formula, based on the
workers average monthly wage, has
been adopted.
To find this average wage" we
take a workers total wages In COW
cred employment, as reported in his
social security account, and divide
this total by the number of months
he could have been in. covered en-
ployment from 1886 on. To figure a
workers benefits, we take 40 per
cent of the first $50 of his average
monthly pay. To that we add 10
percent of the remainder of his aver
age wages. (Not counting average
wages in excess of $3.50 per monthly
In addition, for each year that he
worked in covered employment and
earned at least 5000 per year, he
gets one percent extra ON his
monthly benefit.
For example: Jim Blank is paid
500 month on a job covered by
the old-age insurance program. Sup
pose he works from 1886 until the
end of 1889. At that time he reaches
age SIS and decides to retire and
collect his monthly benefits, begin
ming with January 1910. Jim's
monthly benefit will amount to
$25.75 and here's how we figure it:
Forty percent of the first $50 of his
average monthly wages is $40. Add
10 percent Of the remaining $50, or
SIS. That makes $25.
He will get an additional one per
cent of this $25 for each year that
he was covered (1O37, 1888, and
1880. One percent of $25 is Csc,
and three times 25c is Use. So,
Jim's monthly benefit will be $25.75.
When the beneficiary has an aged
wife, she also will be paid month
ly benefit amounting to half of her
husbands annuity. Now, how much
will Mrs. Blank receive? When she
is IS or over, she will receive
monthly payment of $12.87, or half
of $25.75. Then together, the old
couple will have 1852 every month
as long as they live.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17


Ttah border on June IL, 1914. The
0 coast on July go, 1914.
extension of the line, spoke of some
of the problems involved and how they
were overcome. At the conclusion Of
the formal program, the telephone line
was made available to all present, so
that old friends might chat back and
forth from city to city.
A feature of the anniversary pro-
gram was a conversation held between
the Voders which are part of the Bell
System exhibits at the Worlds Fairs
in New York and San Francisco. This
was the first time in history that these
man-made voices were transmitted
from coast to coast. Voders are those
marvellous machines developed by the
Bell Telephone Laboratories which
actually create speech out of cleo
trical circuits and filters when their
keys are manipulated by the skilled
fingers Of trained operators.
Although the first test conversation
was held between New York and San
Francisco on July 20, 1914, the trans
continental telephone line was not
made available for public use until
January Of 1916, In that year it
carried an average of three calls per
day, Today there are four transcon-
tinental telephone lines, and they
handle an average Of 100 calls day
between the Pacific coast and points
east Of Denver.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Soul and Body" will be the
subject Of the Lesson-Sermon In all
Churches of Christ, Scientist, on
Sunday, November 10.
The Golden Text will be from
I Cor. 6:19, What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you, which
We have of God, and ye are not your
OWN"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible; Eph. ass:
There is one body and one Spirit,
even as We are called in one hope Of
your calling"
The Lesson-Sermon also VIII in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook. Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy. among which
is the following. page ESQ, Finite
belief can never do Justice to Truth
in any direction"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
SUBSTANTIAL GAIN In SALES
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-P

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-PrOs-
poets for substantial gains in the
sale of commercial cars and trucks
are better than for several years.
200 members of Chevrolet's whole
sale truck organizations were told
today by members of the Central Of
flee staff who addressed the COM
pany's two-day truck convention,
just concluded here. Regional and
zone truck managers and their as
sistants, from all over the United
States, attended the meetings.
T. H. Heating, assistant general
sales manager, w. e. Fish, truck
sales manager, A. r. Cosgrove, F. l..
Mcclure, F. w. Fleischmann, J. w.
Burke, and G. J. Metzger Of Mr..
Fishs staff, and e. F. Hayes, Chew
rolet retail sales promotion manag-
er, were among those who discussed
the various phases of truck activity
for the coming year.
Chevrolet's truck sales of 1867
600 units in 1889 will be exceeded
in 1910, in the opinion of Mr.. Fish,
who marshalled an array of favor
able business factors to support that
view. Business in general is in need
of vehicles, not only for replacement
but for extension of existing faci.-
tiles, he said, and Chevrolet's rec
ord in the hands of users is such as
to assure large share of this
volume.
Mr.. Fish also cited the agricul-
tural outlook as basis for his con-
viction that the coming months will
see steady gains in the sales of
commercial units. To meet the re-
quirements which it anticipates, he
said, Chevrolet is providing the most
comprehensive and diversified line OF
trucks in its history.
Truck sales are already proceed
ing at a fast pace" said Mr.. Fish.
Chevrolet was in production with
trucks before passenger car assem-
bly, lines started, and by the time
the new passenger car models were
announced ON Oct. IA, thousands Of
the new trucks were in the hands
of buyers throughout the country"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

first call Uent through from coast
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
first telephone conversation ever to be
held between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts took place recently when nearly
200 men who had played part in the
planning, designing and building of
this first transcontinental telephone
line met in seven cities from coast to
coast to celebrate this event. That
historic call took place on July 20,
1914, when Theodore N. Vail, then
president of The American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, New York,
talked with G. E. Mcfarland, then
president of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company, San Francisco.
Until this line was completed, it was
possible to talk from the east only as
far west at Denver, Colo.
The seven cities linked by telephone
for the anniversary celebration were
New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Chicago, Omaha, Denver and San
Francisco. First on the program was
roll call from New York, to which
the other six cities on the line re-
sponded, the conversation between
New York and San Francisco re-
calling the epochal first talk in 1914.
DR.. Frank B. Jewett, president Of
the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who
organized the research in transmits
sion which had to precede the physical
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

The shepherd-spaniel of the late
Mrs. Hattie A. Fletcher of San Di-
ego, Calf, knows now what it is
to be treated like q dog. When
Mrs. Fletcher died In 1897 she left
the dog $4,000 in her will, assuring
it an easy and luxurious old age.
Recently a court decided in litiga-
ton over the estate that provisions
for trusts in perpetuity cannot be
fulfilled by dog" ordered the mon
ey turned over to another legatee
And SO the dog, now without pen
ny. an object pf charity, was placed
in veterinarian home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
Printing Paper Money

All the paper money and postage
stamps used by the population Of
the United States is printed at the
bureau of printing and engraving.
Here 5000 expert employees turn
out a daily average of 3,360,000 cur
rency notes. In this institution one
false slip of workman's tool or a
miscalculation of width or depth
of line may destroy the merit of
months of labor and cause a grave
business tragedy. The bureau has
grown since 1862, when it occupied
one room in the attic of the treas
ury, to its present size, covering Is
acres of floor space. Visitors are
encouraged to ask questions in this
building, which carries on labor
most fascinating, perhaps, Of all the
functions of government.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Putting Your House In Holiday
Order, is the title of timely ar
ticle by Mrs. Christine Frederick.
eminent authority on household eff
ficiency. Don't miss this helpful ar
ticle in the November 26th issue of
The American Weekly, distributed
with the Baltimore Sunday Ameri-
can. On sale by all newsboys and
1ewsdselstss
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

A special plaque honoring all Bell
System employees for their loyalty,
devotion to duty, and achievement dur
ing and after the hurricane of Sep
TENDER, 1888, has been awarded by the
National Committee Of Award Of the
Theodore N. Vail Medals.
Said the committee, ut has not been
possible to single out employees for
individual awards. It was rather a
system-wide cooperative effort on the
part of all. The National Committee
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

Standing at lit percent Of pre-
war level, the index of prices receiv-
ed by Maryland farmers in mid
October was points higher than q
month earlier. Ia points above the
index year ago, and. 10 points
higher than the October Is average
for the ls09-1s1s period. says the
Maryland cg0R Reporting Service
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

We restrict our shipping to play
safe; when the Kaiser told us to do
1t, we went to war. We are easy to
handle i nobody gets hossZa
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

1t is only married women who say
that all men are alike. Every girl
knows at least one man who is su-
perior to all others. +
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

Americans are so fond of taking
medicines especially dry prepare
tions (pills, tables and powders)
that they spend $500 each minute
Of the day and night.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

OF all meddlers there are none
who get it in the solar. plexus quite
SO hard as those who NEEDLE with
love.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

If love would only make mems
cash go'round they wouldn't worry
about the revolutions of the world.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

Belgium and Luxembourg ship
precious stones to the U. s. $3S
worth sEsEZ 60 seconds
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

Soviet Russia spends 5000 every
g. sscends on social ineags1Rss
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

believes that this self-sacrifcing devo-
ton to duty under most trying and
difficult conditions conspicuously illus
trates the high ideals which govern
the Bell System policy as to telephone
service"
Replicas of the plaques have been
placed on exhibition in the headquar-
tiers buildings of The Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Companies in
Washington, D. c., Baltimore, Md,
Richmond, Va. and Charleston, w. Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

We spend combined total of SO
every so seeonds--to polish our
cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Roosevelt Visits MuraIs
Display at Corcoran

President Roosevelt spent nearly
an hour at Corcoran Gallery of Art
late yesterday viewing the exhibition
of competitive nurals on display
there.
The Presidents visit was at invi-
tation Of Edward Bruce, who directed
the competition under auspices of
the Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department. The murals
selected as prize winners, several of
which have been done by artists in
the Capital area, are to serve as
patterns for decorations in public
buildings throughout the country.
At the time the competition was
arranged about a year ago, President
Roosevelt Endorsed it in a letter to
Mr.. Bruce. Since then he promised
the latter that he would make a trip
to the Corcoran Gallery to see the
display. He made good on his
promise yesterday, later expressing
his pleasure at the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Julius H. Duehrinq,
Retired JeweIer, Dies

julius H. Duehring, 10, retired
jeweler of 919 L street NV, died
yesterday at the home of his son,
Norman E. Duehring, in Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Germany, Mr.. Duehring
came to Washington as child.
After association with several jew
elry firms here, he took over the
business Of Schmidtie Bros. in
the TOO block of Seventh street NV.
He retired about a year ago because
Of Ill health after some 40 years in
the jewelry business.
His son is his only survivor. Fu-
neral services we're to be held at 2
pm. today at the funeral home Of
Joseph F. Birch Sons. BuriA Will
be private. .-'~-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Arlington Man Hurt
In Ohio Accident

Alexander Nuta, %, of $500 South
Sixteenth street. Arlington, Va, was
seriously injured in an accident near
Columbus. Ohio, in which Mrs.
Lottie Tucker, SIS, of Chicago, mother
of local Government worker, was
killed last night, according to the
Associated Press.
Mr.. Nuta, an employe of the Social
Security Board, had been visiting in
Chicago, his former home, and was
returning here with Mrs. Tucker,
who planned to visit her son, Robert
w. Tucker of 1921 Staples street
NE, an employe of the Farm Credit
Administration.
The accident occurred at La Fay-
cite, west Of Columbus. The Nuta
machine was in collision with a
truck. Mrs. Tucker died of a frac-
tured skull, according to Ohio State
Highway Patrol officials.
Mrs. Nuta and Mrs. Robert Tucker
left here by automobile today for
Columbus, where Mr.. Nuta was taken
for treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Ex-Opero Singer, Dancer
Sue Wives for Support
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. ia for
mer New York opera singer and q
professional dancer are suing their
wives for support.
The singer, Frank Yer Treese Pol
lock, declares he spent all his money
lavishly on his wife, Gladys; that
she is worth more than $1,000, 900,
and should pay him $1,000 . month
separate maintenance. His plea Is q
cross-complaint to her suit for d.
vorce.
George Saylor, "a, dancer, wants
q divorce and $3.50 a month alimony
from his wife, Laura, AZ, whom he
claims accumulated $500 900 during
three previous marriages.
Mr.. Saylor charges she sought to
conceal the fact he was her hus-
band by forcing him to cook, or work
u . butler or common laborer
around the house. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Rumania Withdraws
Army From Bessarabia
By the Associated Press.


BUCHAREST, Nov. 11.-Rumania
has withdrawn almost all her troops
from Bessarabia, which once be-
longed to Russia, believing this move
offers a surer defense than If the
area bristled with arms.
Competent quarters said the with
draWal was made because the Bessa-
rabian steppes would be difficult
place to defend and Rumania does
not want to give Russia a pretext
for marching into the territory by
massing troops on the frontier.
Rumania's first line of defense now
runs along the Pruth River, the old
frontier with Russia, which offers q
strong barrier to an invader.
Bessarabia, about the size Of
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, with a population of
5000, 900, was part of the Russian
Empire before the World War.
IN 1917 Bessarabia declared her
independence, but in 1919 decided to
enter into a voluntary union with
Rumania. The Soviets never have
recognized the territory as part Of
Rumania and recently unconfirmed
reports have swept the Balkans that
Russia would like to regain the terri
tory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Weekly Outlook.

Weekly Outlook.
North and Middle Atlantic States: Gen.
eraiiy lair hrst part of week. rain about
WEDNESDAY and again Saturday Some
Tnat warmer Monday. slightly colder Tues
Gay warmer Wednesday. colder Thursday
Ohio Valley and Tennessee: Rain begin
1lng about Tuesday and ending Wednes-
gay and rain again Saturday. Warmer
Dy tuesday colder Wednesday and We'd
nes Ths d mfnt and warmer gar, Friday
Lake region Friday has moved rapidly east
Ward to Maine. Caribou, 999.3 millibars
f6s sc. inches iaa's and trough extends
vile. Tex. It16.e miliibars tsooa ineheS
a minor disturbance is advancing east.
Tard over the Dskotas and Minnesota.
C 1so as LAKE Lake: N Oak: 1873 millibars
s e91 5s Alaska. Kodiak, a9i.5 miilibsrs
from the North paec ststss and Rrf MONS
t Sa southeastward to the Southern Plains
Valley and from the South Atlantic States
eastward oyer the ocean. Pocateilo. Idaho
i ho3l 5 millibars t30;46 inches and WASH
i inst; IND: 1925 millibars go. 40
Texas and Weser Gefn no oahs
and New England The rainfall was light,
fhso however; in and east Of the, Appa lachian
the Lower Mississippi valley. Mont 2ts 9.
Ark. reporting the greatest amount. III
inches, The temperature has risen in
the Atlantic States. the Northern Rocky
Mountain 5seion and the Northern Plains
considerably colder from the Lake region
to Texas and New Mexico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Convicted Sex SLAYER
To Die Next Month
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATH, N. Y, Nov. ia youthful
father of two children began his 9th
birthday anniversary in a Jail cell
today, sentenced to die the week be-
fore Christmas for the sex Staying of
a Penn Yam, N. Y, schoolgirl.
Norman Wheelock, Prattsburg
telephone lineman, was convicted by
Supreme Court jury of eight men
and four women late yesterday of
first degree murder, and Justice
Nathan D. Lapham set the week of
December II for his electrocution.
An appeal is mandatory, however,
since New York law requires that
the Court of Appeals, the States
highest tribunal, review every death
sentence.
Wheelock blinked and swallowed,
but otherwise displayed no emotion
when sentence was pronounced after
the jury found him guilty of Staying
pretty, 13-year-old Evelyn Reed. The
girls partly clad body was found in
wooded section 10 miles from her
Branchport home six days after she
disappeared September 10 on her
way home from school. Wheelock was
arrested within an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Hundreds Dismissed
In New York Ship Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Coastal
shipping companies affected by a
12-day-old longshoremen's strike to-
day began laying of hundreds Of
Office workers and staff employees.
officials of the International Long
shoremen's Association CA. F. L.
estimated 10000 pier employees here
already have been thrown out Of
work. The longshoremen are seek
ing 40-hour week and a SLAM hour
wage scale.
The Clyde Mallory Lines, one of
the largest companies involved, was
expected to drop 400 shore employees
during the day.
Shipping operators were pessi-
mistic over the possibility of an
early settlement Of the dispute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
British Armistice Day
Marked With Restraint
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE peace
that did not last was observed in
Great Britain today under wartime
restraints which Cancelled familiar
ceremonies.
For the first time since the arm
istice which ended the World War q
years ago today, the Nationwide
silence at II am. was omitted be-
cause the siren signaling the time
might be mistaken for an air-raid
warning.
For the first time also, the memo
rial service at the Cenotaph, the
national monument in Whitehall,
was abandoned because the large
outdoor crowd might have meant a
risk of life in case of an air attack.
In King Georges wreath for the
Cenotaph this year French scorn-.
flowers were entwined with. English
peoples. -%ss*9s ,s.
Traditional observances unaffected
by the war included a remembrance
service in Westminster Abbey, where
Britain's Unknown Soldier is buried,
and the sale of poppies to aid dis
abled veterans of this war as well
as Of the last.