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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
Of Interest To Women

Have you a household problem
 to solve? Write your question
 clearly, sign your name and ad-
 dress, enclose a three-cent post
 age stamp and mail to The
 WOm ans Editor, Washington
 Service Bureau, The Democrat,
 1913 18th Street, Washington,
 D. C., for a personal reply.
 Q. Can you suggest means of breaking child's habit of wetting the bed?
 A. A little child vii need to be taken up once at night when the mother goes to bed. If he continues to wet the bed after he is 3, doc tors advice should be sought. It is most important to begin teaching the dry habit when he is very small. It is necessary to start by taking him to the toilet at regular inter- vals throughout the day, say every hour. If he is found sometimes to be wet at the end of an hour, shorten the interval to 40 minutes. Increase the interval little by little.
 o. What is a simple filler for an old floor that is uneven and has never been painted?
 A. Melt one pound of glue in hot water and mix it with five pounds of yellow ochre paint, to make a mixture of the consistency of paint; while being used, it should be kept in a dish of hot water. Af- ter this coat dries thoroughly, it is followed by the regular floor paint in the desired color.
 (See our general Question and Answer colum in page 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

caller came, a lady with no c h il d ren, who talked m o S t y a b out color schemes and her trials a b ou t matching t h e blues for her bedroom.
 "Oh, d e a r." thinks mother, "how long does it take for chil- dren to grow up !? I wish it were ten years from pouy g
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
GRAND LITTLE ACTRESS

Eleven-year-old Virginia Weidler, whose popularity with film fans is only equalled by her unusual ability as an actress, plays featured role as a circus waif in "Fixer Dugan," RKO Radios new vehicle for Lee Tracy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
THE GOOD OLD DAYS

A sparkling cavalcade of songs and dances of yesterday, RKO Ra- dio's "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" brings Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the screen in a musical dramatization of the cl- reers of Americas two world fa- nous dancers of pre-war days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
GEORGE ROUTs FEM

In his latest RKO Radio film, Trouble in Sundown," George o. Brien is cast as a rancher who tracks down a gang of bank robbers responsible for blaming a $9,C00 bank theft on his sweetheart's father.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
TOMORROW'S MENU

BREAKFAST: Grapefruit juice, hot cross buns, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Black bean soup, croutons, French bread, rhubarb tartlets, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Beef stew with veg etables, baked potatoes, aspara- gus, apple and celery salad, hot gingerbread, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
One Mother Has to Be a Dozen Things At Once
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

By OLIVE ROBEKTS BAKTON
 Mother drops into bed with a weary sigh. It has been a trying day all around. The baby has been fretful, and Jimmy into all the mis- chief a little boy can think up.
 To add to her troubles, just when the house looked its worst,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
BY BILL PORTER AND GEORGE SCARED

Lupe Velez will be 29 July IS 7. her mother was an opera singer and her father colonel in the Mex ican army educated at a con- vent in San Antonio, Tex. . brought to Hollywood for the stage production of 'The Dove" but she was too young t. went into a musical revue has many pets, and always has Chihuahua dog with her is constantly dancing and playing on the set now working in "The Girl From Mex ico."
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a great relief. Now my brother has it and would appreciate .. (Mrs. F. w. T.)
 Answer - Send 8 three cent < stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress and ask for monograph on foot itch (epidermophytosis, ring- worm, fungus infection, athletes foot). No clipping, please.
 Copyright 1889, John F. Dille Co.y
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CALLING A SPADE

Featuring Sally Eilers, Allan Lane and Fritz Leiber in it's principal roles, RKO Radios "They Made Her Spy" is an expose of the activi- ties of foreign espionage agents in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
Latest Styles
H0zc To Keep WeU
B. DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

health hygiene not
  letters received a William  Waterbury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
Caroline Chatfield Saps Today

Common Sight But None the Less Tragic to See Fam lily Split Up Over Property.
 DEAR CHATFTELD:
 children Tell me fair Five winter and insisted that and stay spring mortgage winter when income down mighty low Finally which brothers the home her with her pension They come to mother and spend quang have of them is always My worried to death and mother
 w.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

HUMAN NATURE Money happiness but the glitter of gold sometimes people to what money won't buy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

spring attract plenty of the right kind of attention puon gloves of the oorfu silk print the smart day dress To go with them Ec Paris socaed Mad straw is finished with tall feather leaves For sheer novelty
 neither he Trimming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
ANSWER:
nEAR MIss CHATFTELD:

ANSWER:
 probably take lawyer and good to settle family property will settled to
 
 hadn't right and mothers off claim Not unless had offered brothers and opportunity with and they had declined would you be in tenable position.
 right couldn't expect sisters and broth pretending legal advice but suggestion don't satisfy 1t them which invested the will precious than ownership of the place.
 think the mental anguish children fighting her small possessions Ma home relieved of obligations her other children the for the paid bills having this time shouldn't be will her hairs in sorrow to the grave" the tragic to family split Millions don't compensate lose when members of family fall out with they consider deal So it's better to go the second mile satisfying brothers financial flee than to their lifelong enmity.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
T. M. REG. U. s. PAT. OFF.

lDIsccNEReo DANCING IN MUSICAL
 COMEDY lN MENCo csTY. WHEN CNS 5ssPLEYE0A A WILD MOUNTAIN GiPL- IN%1hE GAuCHc..N FILMS EyEp crNce
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

will this cOiun
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

RAISING A FAMILY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03

or Baby is little tyrant? mean, why make mountain of things that must be expected where there are chi1dren9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06

I should have been the last off the
ice. 1 had to do what the aviator
said and be rescued first. He had
his orders and he was intent on
carrying them out But In the end
they said I was wrong.
Got Blame From Others.
my friend Amundsen is gone.
Others are gone. All went wrong.
And they blamed it all on me. But
did have chance to defend my
self? Never. The commission said
l acted in poor judgment. But
Behounek wrote book! Viglieri
and Biagi wrote books. And they
agreed with me-"
Mobile became silent and his eyes
watered. He had said more than
he had said for years. He walked
from the room, apparently sorry he
had let himself talk so freely. But
he had been sincere and convincing.
These last II years have definitely
made their impress on the physical
and mental being of Mobile. Yet
today he really looks forward to
new life in America, country chosen
for his remaining years of life by
Pope Plus XII, who followed the re-
quest of Mobiles close friend, Pope
Plus XII, that he be taken care of.
Mobile was Willing away his years
in small fiat near the Tiber. He
was attempting to endure the fate
of failure and few dared visit him.
Pope Plus XII appealed to Cardinal
Mundelein in Chicago to find place
in America where the ostracized No
bile could work and find peace and
happiness. 1t was at the little Cath
olic aeronautical school IS miles
southwest of Chicago, where under
privileged boys are given an oppor-
tunity to become educated in avia-
ton mechanics and flight. The for
mer Italian general took the job with
delight and came here last month.
He is finding already the happiness
and friendships he desired so much
in his native land The students at
the school, who refer to him as "the
general" are lending sympathetic
spirit to this lonely man of the world
whose knowledge of aeronautical en-
cheering, backed by his years of ex-
perience ir dirigible building for
many nations, will be impaired to
them in class work. He is learning
to call the 100 boys in the school by
their first names.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
Plan 10 Modify Bidding
On Planes Blocked
By the Associated Press

BY the associated PreSS.
A single Republican objection yes
terday blocked the administration S
plan to modify the competitive bid
ding requirements in connection with
the current expansion of the Army
Air Corps.
Representative Clason, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts, objected
when last-minute House considera-
ton of the measure, already ap-
proved by the Senate, was sought by
Representative Harter, Democrat, of
Ohio.
The bill would have permitted the
War Department to allocate orders
for the new war planes among the
three lowest bidders instead of only
to the lowest bidder, as required by
existing law.
The War Department at first
sought complete freedom in award
ing the contracts without COMPETE
tive bidding, contending it might
otherwise be handicapped in COM
plotting expansion of the Air Corps
to $500 planes by the projected date
July !, 194l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
Variations in GRAVITY
Interpreted as Sign
Of Earth UpIleaya|s
Geophysicist Studies
irregularities in
Pacific Area
By the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calf, Aug. 5.-A
noted scientist suggested today that
strange, localized variations in the
force Of gravity might be signaling
the birth movements of island
chains, earthquake faults and pos
sibly even Of volcanoes in the dis
tant future.
DR.. F. A. Vening Meinesz, geo.
physicist of the University Of
Utrecht, Holland, told the Pacific
Science Congress these irregularities
seemingly conceded with great
changes in thick layer of the
earth's crust, particularly below the
ocean around Sumatra and the Phil
ippines.
DR.. Vening Meinesz and his COL
leagues for years have been observ-
ing gravity anomalies. He invented
complicated machine for infinitely
computing gravitational force from
rolling ship.
Variations in Pacific.
For practical purposes, the pull
Of gravity is constant. We depend
upon 1t for measuring time down to
q variation Of about one second in
30 years.
To the geophysicist it varies as
between one place and another.
This variation is measured in frac-
lions of a dyne. A dyne is the
amount of force necessary to cause
an object weighing about 1928 of an
ounce to gain speed at the rate OF
four-tenths of an inch a second.
DR.. Vening Me. nesz's numerous
measurements showed gravity read
ings both above and below the nor
mali of given areas in the South
western Pacific Marked out on a
map, the negative" readings formed
streaks and arcs In areas where the
earth's crystal movements are fire.
quent.
Pressure Buckles Layer.
The geophysicist interpreted these
negative anomalies" as evidence
they marked places where the earth S
relatively light crustal layer had
been subjected to enormous hori-
zontal pressure and had buckled
downward into the heavier, hotter
substrata. This lesseEed the total
density of a little section between
the surface and the core of the
earth. The decrease weakened the
gravitational pull measured at the
surface directly above the break
Since this crystal wedge intensi-
fles the surrounding substrata, re-
sultant increased gravitational pull
can be noted elsewhere at the sur
face.
DR.. Vening Meinesz suggested this
added horizontal tension in the sub
strata might also cause nearby up
heavals. eventually taking the form
of island chains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
Lee Highway Widening
Is Topic of Meeting
Special Dispatch to The Star.


LURAY, Va. Aug. Sin the in
terest of widening the Lee highway
from Washington, D. c., to New
Market, Va, committees from Luray,
Warrenton and Sperryville met this
week with Kenneth Gilpin. repre-
sentative of the State Highway
Department.
Declaring that the Lee highway
was carrying the greatest traffic load
in the State with the exception of
route l from Fredericksburg to
Washington and that fatalities were
mounting. the delegation said action
was imperative. Mr.. Gilpin agreed
to bring the matter before the COM
mission at an early date.
c. C. Louderback of Stanley, men,
Der of the House of Delegates, acted
as spokesman for the committees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
Woman Slain, Man Shot
Durinq Argument

A colored woman was shot and
killed last night during an argument
near a beer tavern in Marlboro,
Md, a colored man was critically
wounded and the woman's husband
was being held for investigation in
the Marlboro Jail, according to
police.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, %, was killed
and Samuel Barnett. %, is in Freed
mems Hospital in a critical condi-
ton with a bullet wound in the
chest. Francis Ford, %, the woman's
husband, is being held. All gave
their addresses as Marlboro, police
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
French Plane Hits Peak
Killing Seven Aboard
81 the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MADRIL, Aug. 5.-Civil guards
in the town of Montroig reported to-
day an airliner en- route from Tou-
louise, France, to Casablanca crashed
in the Llaveria Mountains in
heavy fog, killing seven persons
aboard.
The plane was reported to have
struck the highest peak of the noun
tains. The craft lost a wing, glided
over the mountains and crashed.
Civil guards said papers found in
wreckage of the tri-motored craft
indicated 1t was a French plane.
The names of the victims were not
learned Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-06

Shipyards Of Italy are busy on
vessels for other countries.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Famous Careers Told in
Biographies at Library

ters on the many personalities In
today's headlines.
Aviation, also prominent in to-
days headlines, is represented by
Il Wanted Wings" by Beirne Lay,
jr. A World War aviator who has
kept up his flying says this is an
excellent book for men who want to
know how to go into the flying
game and what it will be like when
they are in.
One of the brightest stars of
sports, Helen Jacobs, the tennis
champion, has written her autobi-
ography, Beyond the Game" This
book shows championship athletics
as way of life so thrilling as to be
worth the years of work.
In the arts there are acting and
music exemplihed by Katharine
Cornell's Il Wanted to Be an Ac-
tress" and Lotte Lehmann's Mid
way in My Song" That other art,
writing, needs sentence to itself,
because two of its current auto
biographies are so readable, Vincent
Sheean's Not Peace but Sword"
a successful American travelling in
1889 Europe, and Edna Ferber's "A
Peculiar Treasure" the story of an
American writer growing to success
in America.
There is "a vast activity of writer's,
a vast and hungry passivity of read
ers. And when the two come to-
gether, what happens?" CA Huxley)
In the case of young person read
ing biography, an adventure in
reading may turn into an adventure
in living.
Evening star., 1939-12-17

There are many fields of activity
now open to young people. and in
all OF them are outstanding persons
whose lives are worth reading for
information and entertainment. 1t
is impossible to mention more than
few in each field, but the follow
ing references. which may he found
at the Central Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, and its branches,
will give an idea of the great variety
of such lives.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Victor
Heiser are two doctors who have
made their knowledge of medicine
and human nature do more than
heal the sick. They have taught
health Their books. Forty Years
for Labrador" and An American
Doctors Odyssey" are difficult to
put down. Country Lawyer" by
Bellamy Partridge, and "Brandeis," 4"
by Alfred Lief, show the hardships
and triumphs of the legal profess
sion in very different settings.
"A Goodly Fellowship" by Mary
Ellen Chase, presents the joys of
teaching. and From Teaching to
Plumbing With Hardly a Wrench"
by H. A. Milton, in the Forum of
May. 1889. presents the experiences
Of teacher who became a plumber
and preferred the work
In the field of politics Andrew
Jackson" by Marquis James, is an
illuminating background for Jackson
Day dinners and G. o. P. rallies.
Inside Europe" by John Gunther.
brings politics up to date with chap
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Knight of the Seas
By Valentine Williams. Ne

oy VukcUtttC w HttuUtS. NcU
York: Liueright Publishing
Corp.
The reviewer would not like to
have to write a life of Sir Walter
Raleigh. She would not because
she knows what would happen if
she did. She would fall in love
with the doughty hero. Such an
eventuality. she feels, would be in
evitable. For all too often do women
writer's undertake a biography of
some colorful, romantic being and
end up as victims of the charm
which they have set out to analyze
That, unfortunately, is what has
happened to Miss Williams in the
case of John Paul Jones.
She has done good piece of work
in putting before us the exploits of
the great sailor and in drawing the
background of his times. But, in
dealing with Jones himself, she has
slipped into absurd sentimentality.
She yearns over him, poetizes him,
signs and smiles with him-obvious-
ly, she loves him.
1t is, perhaps, an emotion to be
respected-anyhow, the reviewer
sees nothing against it. But it does
not contribute anything worth
while to biography. Instead, it
makes it perilously near maudlin
at times. Indeed, it just about
spoils an otherwise good and. in
tereSting book MGR.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is based on information
obtained in Washington by The
Star and in New York, Chicago,
Boston and San Francisco by
the North American Newspaper
Alliance:
Fiction.
kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley; Moment in Peking,"
Lin Yutang; The Nazarene,"
Sholem Asch; "A Sea Island
Lady" Francis Griswold;
Grapes of WRATH" John Stein
beck; Escape" Ethel Vance;
Christmas Holiday" w. Som
erset Vaughan; Live and
Kicking Ned" John Masef1eId;
Paul Revere Square" Louise A.
Kent.
Nom Fiction. p
Abraham Lincoln" Carl
Sandburg; The Pressure Boys"
Kenneth G. Crawford; Life Of
Greece" Will Durant; "A
Treasury of Art Masterpieces"
Thomas Craven; Inside Asia"
John Gunther; Statesmen of
a Lost Cause" B. j. Henrick;
Country Lawyer" Bellamy
Partridge: "Thoreau," Henry
Seidel Candy; "A Goodly Fell
lowship." Mary Ellen Chase:
THE Revolution of Nihilism,"
Hermann Rauschning; Days Of
Our Years." Pierre Van Paas-
sen; "Maude." Richard Lee
Strout; II Lost My English
Accent C. v. R. Thompson;
Land Below the Wind" Agnes
Newton Keith; Wind, Sand
and Stars" Anotine De st. Exu-
perry; Jack London" Joan
London; THE Scrame t o."
Julian Dana; Bonanza Inn"
Oscar Lewis and Carroll D.
Hale; New Roads to Riches"
Edward Tomlinson.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Men, Wind and Sea
By Riley BroUn.

~ Hltey 6TO1Cn. NeD YORK..
Carlyle House.
An intense pride of service, the
esprit de corps which makes any
organization great, shines in every
page of this inspiring story OF the
United States Coast Guard in &C.
ton. There is never any peace for
the Coast Guard. It is constantly
at war-its enemies are storms,
floods, fires at sea, all the elements
which make for dangers at sea and
on the inland waters. It combats
smuggling, lawlessnesses of all
kinds afloat. Occasionally it joins
the Navy in full naval warfare.
Any history of the Coast Guard
must necessarily be a history of
self sacrifice. daring and heroism.
Told by a man like Riley Brown, a
radioman, first class, in the Coast
Guard, with deep personal knowl-
edge of the service, a feeling for its
never lending drama and the abil-
ity to spin yarn" it becomes a
vital, moving pageant.
The Coast Guard actually goes
back to the old Revenue Marine,
created by President Washington
when he signed an act Of July 81,
1889, with 10 vessels operating un-
der collectors Of customs. Thus the
Coast Guard is older than the Navy.
Today, with the recent addition Of
Evening star., 1939-12-17
| Brief Reviews
|Of New Books
The Theater.
The Theater.
THE IRISH THEATER. Edited by
Lennox Robinson. New York:

THE IRISH THEATER. Edited by
Lennox Robinson. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
A series of lectures delivered dur
ing the Abbey Theater festival held
in Dublin in 1898. The subjects are
the leading personalities and move
ments comprised in the Abbey The
ater group, and the authors are An
drew E. Malone, Frank O'Connor,
Lennox Robinson, F. r. Higgins, T.
C. Murray, Walter Starkie, Ernest
Blythe and Michael Maliammoir.
Also included is the festival pro-
gram.
SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA. BY
Esther Cloudman Dunn. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
The history of the presentation Of
Shakespearean drama in our coun-
try from Colonial days to the
present.
Holiday Books.
THE AGELESS STORY. Pictured
by Lauren Ford.
Christmas story simply told and
illustrated in color in religious pic
lures.
Lettering.
THE SCRIPT LETTER. BY Tommy
Thompson. New York: Studio
Publications.
A study Of the script letter, how
to make it in various styles. Should
be useful to those to whom such a
work would not be useless.
Nature.
THE GEESE FLY HIGH. BY Flor
ence Page Jacques. Illustrations
by Francis Lee Jacques. Mime
apolis: University of Minnesota
Press.
Husband and wife make trip on
the trail of the wild goose from Min
nesta to the Delta. Somewhat
precious, but interesting, too.
Babies.
WHY BABIES? BY Rachel "
Campbell. New York: The Mac
million Co.
Practical advice on how to treat
them. Humorous but sensible.
Travel.
SEAMANSH1P BELOW DECK. BY
Ruth Brindze. New York: Har-
court, Brace & Co.
Practical, intimate advice on how
to remedy the discomforts of the
small boat, even down to getting
rid of the cockroaches. Seems to
be very complete.
Memoirs.
WITH PACKS AND RIFLES. BY
A. B. Galloway. Boston: The
Meador Publishing Co.
"reminiscences of a non-commis-
stoned officer of the A. E. F. Aver
age good Of its sort.
Reprints.
ANNA KARENINA. BY Leo Tolstoy.
In two volumes. New York: RAN
dom House. Translated by Con-
stance Garnett. Introduction by
Thomas Mann.
Evening star., 1939-12-17

the Bureau Of Lighthouses, the
Coast Guard has q personnel
strength of $4,000. It is charged also
with the training Of officers and
men for the rapidly expanding
American merchant marine.
Mr.. Brown deals with the activi-
ties of the Coast Guard in the va
rious American wars at sea from
1872 through the World War. He
also relates the stories of peace
time disasters in which the Coast
Guard has added to its glorious heri-
tage-the burning of the Moro Cas-
tie, the rescue of the yacht Uvira,
the saving of survivors of the Ten
ny Chandris from a shark-infested
sea, the floating of the Childar in a
terrific gale, work in the Mississippi
Valley floods of 1896 and in the
New England hurricane of last
year. Incidents of the prohibition
war;" including the famous sinking
Of the British schooner I'm Alone,
also are covered.
There is q foreword by Rear Ad-
miral r. r. Waesche. commandant
Of the Coast Guard. USE.