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Evening star., 1939-12-12
U-Bout Guns Sink
Ship After Three
Torpedoes Miss

LONDON, Dec. IL (NA.NA).-
Survivors here tell of a U-boat
commander who fired three tor
pedoes, missed them all, and then
lost his temper. In his anger he
came to the surface and shelled the
defenseless ship for 2ha hours, killing
two Of the crew.
He had to fire so shells before
he succeeded in sinking the ship
the Newport freighter Uskmouth,
2,483 tons.
Soon afterwafd the U-boat, which
was in the Bay of Biscay, fired three
torpedoes without effect at French
destroyer. Then the U-boat dived,
and the destroyer attacked with
depth charges.
Twenty-Five survivors of the Usk-
mouth were landed on the southeast
coast. They had sailed ITO miles
in IS hours in one boat before
being picked up by an Italian mo-
torship.
They said Third Officer J. Robe
was on the boat deck when he was
killed. The chief mate, who was
standing by him, was struck on the
head by shrapnel as he tried to
pull the dying man away.
''The U-boat commander showed
us no mercy he said. II doubt
whether the ship was worth the
amount of money it must have cost
to sink her.
Shells were exploding all around
us as we got away. No attempt
was made by the U-boat commander
to pick us up"
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Potocki May Resign
As Polish Envoy,
Capital Hears
Three Other Members
Of Stoff Shifted by
Provisional REGIME

Count jerry Potocki, the Polish
Ambassador, may resign in the
wake of the departure of three
members Of his staff and the chief
of the Polish Information Service
here, it was reported today.
The shake-up was ordered by the
provisional Polish government in
Paris. This government is grad
ually eliminating from important
official life all the appointees Of the
Josef Beck regime in the foreign
office, which died with the elimina-
ton of Poland as a country.
Count >Potocki was a Beck ap-
pointee, as were those who were or
dered yesterday to give up their
posts. The departing officials are
Counselor Witold Wankowicz, who
is to join the Polish Commission of
the New York World Fair; Rafal
Lepkowski, Second Secretary, and
Count Antonio Tarnowski, Secre-
tary, who plan to join the Polish
Army in France. Edward Weintal,
chief of the official Polish Infor-
nation Service, also has resigned.
Hereafter, the Polish information
facilities here will be incorporated
directly within the Embassy, in
stead Of being separated as they
were under Mr.. Weintal. The new
information head is to be Jan Dro-
hojowski, editor of the Polish Ian
guage Catholic Guide in New Brit
ain, Conn. He will assume charge
Evening star., 1939-12-12
DR.. Holmes to Speak
At Teachers Institute

DR.. Chester w. Holmes, assistant
superintendent of schools in charge
of senior high schools and the Will
son Teachers college, will be the
first speaker of the year before the
teachers institute Thursday. dis
cussing articulation for the District
schools.
DR.. Holmes will speak to colored
teachers in Dunbar High School
auditorium at 3:45 pm. and to white
teachers in Mckinley High School
auditorium at pm.
Supt. Frank w. Ballou has de-
ferred discussion of some aspects
of the curriculum revision plans
to later date.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
World Wars Toll
Exceeded in China,
Yarne|I Declares
Nations Need for Credit
Greater Thon FinIond's,
He Asserts

0S the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 12.-Rear Admiral
Harry E. Yarnell, U. S. N, re-
tired, said last night that the Sino-
Japanese war 'has caused in the
two years and more of its duration,
more death. destruction, misery and
suffering than resulted from the
Great World War of Is years ago"
He declared that 100000 per-
sons in China have been driven from
their homes and added, as "con-
servative estimate, that between
100000 and 100000 have died
of disease, privation and starvation"
In an address prepared for the
Massachusetts, branch of the Ameri-
can Bureau for Medical Aid to
China, the former commander of
this country's Asiatic fleet said
that before the present war be-
gan, China was making definite
progress in establishing a stable and
progressive government"
Had they been granted few
more years of peace" he said,
there is no doubt but that China
would have become one of the
stable nations of the world and a
stable democratic government in
China would have been the greatest
factor for peace in the Far East"
DR.. Edward H. Hume, former presi-
dent of Yale in China, said Chinas
four chief needs were credits, edu-
cational aid, medical supplies and
"above all, relief"
Americans" he said, respond to
the need of those who suffer aggres-
sion as we have seen during the
past week when so many have been
urging credits for Finland. What
ever is done for Finland, China's
need for credits is even greater"
He declared that I'VE, in the
United States of America, are pro-
viding Japan with the major part
OF the supplies she uses in her as
sault on China. We, champions Of
democracy and national integrity,
for the sake of profit, pour war ma
terials into the treasury of the
nation that is disturbing the peace
OF the Far East and the peace of
the entire world"
Evening star., 1939-12-12

Aftonbladet today reported Russian
troops in Finland were advancing
rapidly near Suomussalmi, where a
Soviet force is driving westward at
Finland's narrowest point. His re-
port was telephoned from Hyry, 13
miles west of Suomussalmi.
Nearby Hyrynsalmi has been
cleared of civilians and taken over
by the Finnish military. A major
engagement is expected in the
region shortly, he said.
The Russians also were reported
advancing southwest from Sallo
toward the head of the Gulf of
Bothnia.
Highways of the east central part
Of Finland were crowded with refu-
gees fleeing the war zones.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Reds Reported Advancing
Near SuomussoImi

COPENHAGEN, Dec. IL LP.-The
correspondent of the Stockholm
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Walker, Former Yale
Athlete, Joins Marines

Anthony Walker. former Yale ath-
lete and son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
R. Walker of 2107 S street NV, has
enlisted in the Marine Corps as a
candidate for second lieutenant's
commission, according to corps
announcement today.
Mr.. Walker, who was sworn into
the service in New York City. was
graduated from Yale In 1887. At
the university he won his football
letter as an end and was a member
of the boxing and track squads.
To be eligible for commission
a Marine must have served two
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Will Discuss Parks

Dutton Ferguson will make a re-
port on proposed recreation and
park reorganization before the Dis
trict branch of the National Associa-
rion for the Advancement of Colored
People at the Twelfth Street Y. M.
C. A., 1916 Twelfth street NV, at
$50 o'clock tonight. The proposed
civil rights bill for the District also
will be discussed.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
HeIsinki
Continued From First Page.)

inal point of attack, the Firms gen.
orally were holding their own. Seven
more Russian tanks were said to
have been destroyed along the Tar
pale River, on the eastern side of
the isthmus.
Neutral foreign observers in
Moscow professed to see evidence
that the Russian campaign thus
far had demonstrated the mis-
take of trying mechanical ad-
vance over Finland's rough ter
rain in the lake country.
CThey predicted a faster ad-
vance when the Russians resorted
more extensively to cavalry and
infantry. Russian newspapers
printed stories of how Finnish
peasants welcomed Red troops as
''liberators
Finnish shore guns and Russian
naval pieces doomed in frequent
duels. The Finnish communique
said one of these exchanges, between
batteries at Koivisto, at the eastern
end of the Gulf of Finland, and Red
warships, lasted nearly two hours
yesterday.
Fighting in the Petsamo region,
above the Arctic Circle in northern
most Finland, was reported in lull
Official Finnish sources said three
fourths of the Russian casualties so
far in the war had been caused by
exposure and cold.
Only one Russian casualty in four
has been due to bullets or shellfire,
they declared.
The Firms, the officials said, have
economical in ammunition by wag-
ing a sharpshooting war in many
sections. Expert marksmen are
placed in trees and hidden dugouts
to pick off advancing soldiers.
An unconfirmed report said one
Finnish sharpshooteA in tree had
dropped II Russians
Another unconfirmed report from
Petsamo said Russian political pris-
oners in labor camps in the Muir
mansk area had revoted, causing
trouble for Red Army troops in the
north.
Reds Reported Advancing
Near SuomussoImi
COPENHAGEN, Dec. IL [R.-The
correspondent of the Stockholm
Evening star., 1939-12-12
British Troops Stop
Three Nazi Attacks
In First Action
Germans Thrown Back
In Fighting Sunday
Near MoseIIe
Bv the Associated Press.

Br the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 12.-British troops
were disclosed today to have re-
pulsed an attack by three sections
of Nazi troops in the first reported
direct engagement on the western
front between British and Germans.
Military dispatches said the Brit
ish threw back the Germans Sum
day in an attack south of Busch
dorf, near the Moselle Valley, in
the sector recently taken over by
British "Tommies."
Comparatively heavy German
losses were reported.
The British reported no dead,
wounded or prisoners.
Military advices reported German
patrols in three sectors had been
driven back from French advance
posts with hand grenades.
Despite rain and heavy fog. the
German scouting units we're re-
ported particularly active near the
MOSelle River on the extreme north
ern flank and in the Saarbruecken
and Bitche sectors.
The quiet along the Southern
Rhine front was broken by brisk
rifle fire.
This mornings communique of
the allied high command said:
Patrol activity at several points OF
the 'front.'"
BERLIN, Dec. IL (P).-Minor allied
artillery fire and isolated German
reconnaissance flights over Eng
land yesterday were reported by the
German high command.
Its communique today said:
East Of the Moselle, slight artil-
lery annoyance fire aimed at the
region in front Of the fortification.
The air forces carried out individual
scouting flights against Britain"
Evening star., 1939-12-12

also Of the Embassy's emigration
relations. Mr.. Wankowicz's place
will be taken by Machal Kwapis-
zewski, vice commissioner OF the
Polish Pavilion at the New York
fair.
Evening star., 1939-12-12

9-MONTH-OLD SAVES FAMILY-Holis Hopkins, jr, months
old today whose coughing shortly after midnight family
blazing home shown with his rubber dolly which
in fire Blaze started in basement Oglethorpe Me-
where parents Mr. and Mrs Hollis Hopkins
living room floor The family fled to neghbors home while
fremen brought blaze under control in less than
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-12-12

years and have won a warrant as
a commissioned officer. Selec-
tions are made through competitive
examinations.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Losses in War at Sea

The following abulation shows the known
midnight Saturday, December
Evening star., 1939-12-08

this dolly definite but simple
daetesod cnterpiece for table But there's
the inside border finishing edgng
and make dolly about half just In want smaller
one, too.
pattern envelope contains dec
crochet hook whate materials
pattern
service and postage AAdsos ss the Neewk
Evening star., 1939-12-08

vision Of the Indian Bureau, only
the very best is offered for sale. You
will also find there very fine pieces
Of pottery which when wired and
fitted with plain parchment shade
would make delightful lamps.
X r
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
have q small bedside table on
which I place my telephone at
night. The telephone is large, black
and clumsy, and 1t seems to me
that coat Of paint would help its
appearance. Do you think paint
would stick on its surface? If so,
what kind shall I use?
MARY T. q.
Answer
The telephone company has many
very attractive designs that you
might get for your bedroom. These
cost a little extra, but they are
charged to your telephone bill and
after while you find that you own
them. They probably would not
like the idea of your painting the
telephone hand-set unless it belongs
to you. In that case, any of the
good quick-drying enamels would
cover the surface. Better ask the
company first, though!
Questions on household fur
nishings, interior decorations,
ETC., should be addressed to
Margaret NOVEL; at The Evening
Star. The answer will appear in
this column rs quickly IS space
permits.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Manners
of the
Moment

When your tablemate gets that
faraway look in her eyes in . res
taurant, so that you know she isn't
listening to word you are saying,
chalk it down to the conversation
at the next table. A fight, or even
d small alteration at a neighbor-
ing table, is far more intriguing to
some people than a fascinating
story of life in Zamboanga at their
own table.
OF course it is not exactly polite
to listen to conversations at the
next table. But one who is an eX-
pert at it can manage it quite well
as far as the people at the next
table are concerned. But it's rather
mean to the people she is supposed
to be with.
It would be much nicer of these
expert eavesdroppers to give up
their hobby except when they are
eating alone. But once the habit is
acquired and the hobby started I
understand it is very hard to drop.
So you who 60 out with restau-
rant eavesdroppers might just as
well resign yourself to their pc
culiarity. There's just no sense in
trying to keep up conversation.
You might as well go ahead and
eat and save your conversations for
quiet places like the movies.
JEAN.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
7 the Approach Of Vacation Time Chdrens Parties Gain Attention
Portieres Are Often Used
To Soften Harsh Edges
Of Your Door Frames
Choose Corresponding Drapery
Material for Bedroom and
Porch in Line of Vision
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

DEAR NOVEL;
living dining q
opening between the living dining consider
putting poeres the poeres
could advise what material
Evening star., 1939-12-08

melts beautifully into your waistline,
assuring your fitted dresses the
smooth, slick foundation they de-
mand. The bra-top is darted under
the arms, to give you made-to-order
exactness of fit, and a little added
support, over the bust. For your
dressy clothes trim it with lace
in the new Victorian manner, and
have some plain ones, too, for tai
lored things.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1877-B
is designed for sizes IA, IS, 18, 20;
40, AZ, A and 46. Corresponding
bust measurements 80, "a, SO, SO, 40,
AZ, A and 46. Size 16 (34) requires
3A yards of 39-inch material; l
yard ribbon for straps; ~ yards
lace or embroidery.
It's smart to sew your own! It's
easy to do! Send Is cents for our
fascinating Pattern Book. Choose
from more than 100 new designs for
all occasions and all sizes. Make your
own becoming clothes, with these
simple patterns. step-by step sew
chart With each 0ne.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Turkey Stumng

A pound loaf of bread, with crusts
discarded, when shredded, will make
about eight cups of crumbs for
stuf1ing to fill an 8 to 10
pound fowl. Try this stuffing trick:
Cut bread into one -half-inch slices.
discard the crusts and cut each
slice into half-inch pieces, brown in
bacon fat melted in a frying pan.
Lightly blend in the seasonings and
other ingredients called for. No ad-
ditional fat is required.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Dorothy Dix Says >>>
There Are Eight Good Reasons
Why Men Leave Their Homes

When a married man fades out
of the picture of his not-so-happy
home, his wife always processes to
be unable to even guess why he
did it, but Mr.. Daniel Eisenberg,
who is the founder and chief sleuth
of private Missing Persons Bu-
reau, knows the answer.
He says that there are eight good
reasons, all traceable directly to the
wife, for any single one of which
a man will up and vanish without
trace, and that the thousands of
unwilling husbands whom he has
restored to their wives arms in
the last IS years left home because
of their wives nagging, extrava-
gance, poor cooking. bad personal
habits, mother-in-law trouble, hus-
band neglect, jealousy or unruly
children.
He further says that Jealousy ac-
counted for the least number of
disappearing husbands; nagging for
the most, and in between were a
few cases of husbands who hoped
train and headed for the wide
open spaces rather than be dragged
out to places of amusement every
night. And there was one man,
married to bridge fiend, who ran
away and was found working in a
distant city for a fanatical anti
card movement. Strangely enough,
Mr.. Eisenberg has been asked to
find only IL wives. His explana-
ton is that most wives have no
money of their own with which to
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Health Rules
Preserving
Beauty
Correct Exercises
And Right Food
Clear the Skin
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

Beauty salons, sad to say, have
helped to spread damaging diet fads
through their eagerness to give Miss.
America what she wanted. You all
know the result. A few years passed
and the feminine world awakened to
the fact that through freakish diets.
health was lost and beauty greatly
impaired. You cannot defeat nature.
That they learned. Skin and hair
and eyes need nourishment to be
beautiful and the nourishment they
depend upon must come from a
healthy blood stream. Make the
blood anernic through silly eating
and your beauty suffers.
SO then there was q frantic dash
for q sound diet-not q slimming
one. A diet which would give the
body the energy it needs and eyes
and skin and hair the nourishment
they need.
The salons, sadder but wiser, were
quick on the trigger-they borrowed
menus (or food cures) from the ia
nous sanitoriums Of Europe and ad-
vocated that American women learn
how to eat correctly. Their next
step was to serve this food to their
clients, with the result that all the
leading salons Of Fifth avenue today
have health food restaurants. At
least their offerings are complete
and well rounded. Proper food, cor
rective exercises, skin care, scalp
care, and all the dressings. Days Of
beauty are offered for q price and
surprising as 1t is women now strive
for beauty through health, rather
than beauty from out pretty jar!
My scientific diet briefly tells you
about the foods these famous salons
serve for beauty. 1t is your guide
to healthful eating and as it does
not involve any cost I wish more of
you would avail yourself of 1t. The
model menu given there is served
for fancy price in one of our lead
ing salons. You can prepare it at
home at little cost, confident that
you are giving your body what it
needs and bringing greater beauty
to it. If you request it, write me care
of this paper and inclose self
addressed envelope bearing 3-cent
stamp to cover postage cost. Learn
how to eat correctly! Lose extra
pounds or gain needed pounds.
Keep your weight normal, your
figure nicely proportioned and your
beauty up to par!
Evening star., 1939-12-08

give the youngsters creamed chicken,
fresh peas and so on-give them
shepherds pie-ground cooked beef
or lamb, topped with baked mashed
potato in individual ramekins. Nicely
cooked stringbeans, bread and butter
and jelly sandwiches and cocoa or
milk will round out a nice menu.
AS for decorations-the gayer and
harder the better. You don't need
flowers for a centerpiece-the cake
will be that. Or you may use toy
figures depicting some topical scene.
If you're spending a little more
money, buy or make a Jack Horner
Pie" with little gifts for the guests
tied to ribbons reaching to the place
card.
The decalcomanias that are hav-
ing such terrific wave Of popu-
larity are fine for children's parties.
They may be used to decorate just
about everything. AS they come in
any number Of designs it Is easy
to find something that Ats your idea.
Here are our suggestions for
Christmas party:
For table-runners and place-mats
we suggest that you get about 20
cents worth Of green or cream
colored oilcloth, have the edges
pinked, then decorate them with
those clever little Christmas decal-
comania transfers. White and sill
yer candles shaped like Christmas
trees take on brilliant color when
decals are applied and they burn
evenly without spelling the designs.
For your centerpiece just place
the birthday cake in the middle of a
huge glass plate, decorated with
border of decal snowmen, Santas
and holly wreaths. Let's take a
square piece of white cardboard
and fold it in half, apply the desired
decal decorations and write the
guests name on the folded card. Now
you have an individual place card
that's easy to make and sure to de-
light the little ones.
Ordinary ice cream plates, party
favors and even the clear glass tum-
blers come in for their share of decal
decorations. These tiny, brightly
colored decorations are inexpensive,
fun to use and after the party is
over they may easily be scraped
off your china and glassware with
a razor blade or kitchen knife.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Ny Neiqhbor Says:

Pack plenty Of oak leaves
around the roots of acid-soil
plants, such as daphnes, aza-
leas and rhododendrons. The
leaves rot and make an excel
lent fertilizer. They may be
mixed with the soil in the
spring.
If polished furniture becomes
scratched, rub with butchers
wax and polish. The scratches
will soon disappear and the fur
niture will take on a dull finish.
If you do not wish to spend
the time required to make cup
cakes, make your cake in a loaf
and when cool cut In squares.
Frost with different colored
frostings and you will have at
tractive individual cakes.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

Inc younger une cIlllu, IIlc SlIilpleA
the party, of course. Very little
children have not yet become blase;
the mere fact that they are dressed
up, in crowd, and fed with ice
cream and cake is enough thrill.
Later on they become suspicious of
everything, heckle the magician or
criticize the movie; the boys get
restless, throw food at the ceiling,
tease the girls, and make them
selves generally little fiends. Then
10 when mother needs all the
patience she can scrape up, and
marvellous control over her temper.
This tough attitude is usually
found in the group Of children
whose ages run between and II.
(No, there's nothing significant in
the figures0 And the troublemakers
aren't always boys. At recent
party I saw one charming young
damsel of about 10 slap a whole
paper lace dolly full of ice cream
down on the head of the boy sit
ding next to her.
What to do about these menace
guests? In my opinion, when a
group Of youngsters gets to this
stage the less elaborate party
should be. Especially for boys,
something else should be devised.
Fathers could take a gang to a
ball game, hockey game, on a
hike, or to some spot of intense boy
ish interest. This pleases them a
lot more than being cooped up with
girls at a "dressed-up" party. and
they viii! thank you and your son
with real appreciation.
Girls can be taken to the movies,
and fed hot chocolate and cookies
afterwards. Or a girl can always
give a luncheon for her feminine
friends, with games later on.
The point is, that all parents
should try to do something in the
way of entertaining for their chill
dren-if they have the means. And
1t doesn't cost much to give party
that children enjoy. You don't
have to have magicians or movies
to amuse them. Plan a few games,
and act as leader for them your
self-they'll like it just as well. The
main thing is to have your child
feel that his friends are welcome
In your home, and that you see
that he repays all the hospitality
that has been extended to him by
others. It is bad for a child to
feel that always he must take, but
can never give.
The matter Of refreshments is
the easiest part Of any childs party.
Ice cream today is so inexpensive
that even the fancy molds won't
strain the budget too much. Cake
Is easily made at home, or fine
decorated cakes may be bought for
. small sum. It isn't necessary to