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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
A Thought for Today

For as by one maS's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shah many he made righte0us.-ROmans 5:l9.
 That men so universally disobey God be- speaks alienation and enmity of mind, for as obedience proceeds from love so disooedience proceeds from enmity.-John Howe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

I'm going to ask him to take me around Yes, still have the flu, or is 1t what they call after effectsp Anyway, it's nob pleasant .. Yet, I'dislike talking about 1t, because I've noticed that the most unpopular person. in any company anywhere is the winner I spent @ miserable day and night in town recently, and though it was this old grippe that made me so unhappy. Well, yes, I knew that my wife had gone up to Provid- ence to visit with Mary at Penn broke. And I hate to admit 1t, but I found that the grippe was prac- tically well the very moment my wife was back in the house. Y. No sense in that kind of doings, but its too late to ssart learning now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
RUBIN WRITES VERSE

Benny Rubin, noted comic ap- bearing in M-G.M's miniature mus sical, Happily Buried" Is currently writing c book of verse in his fam ous dialect. It will be called "The Great So Heeb."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

elCVbVtu uato Au over town. They thought they had all been wrec ked l. Bernard Sobel is Q Hoosier, and most loyal to his home state and his De Pa u W U niv ersity, at 0reencastle . .. He represents @ movie company in Manhattan, and knows the
 town SO well A.hnk annnA flaV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

In these modern days of workless Sat- urdays, or Saturday afternoons, the old man gets time to mend the chicken coop and to listen to opera from the Metropol- itan. What price Lawrence Tibbett!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
Washington Merry Go-Round
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

ertyl levied on motor cars and motorists go simply to the state2 Diversion is now proposed and logic used; no more 60 than for cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
New York Day by Day
px CHARLES D. DRIsCOLL

New York, Jan. 2T-Thinking out loud: Passing of the Sixth avenue el means SO much to most New Yorkers that the thing has been overpublicised, I find that most strangers are surprised to see
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27
Questions
 and Answers
By FRRDERrCK N. KERBx

EnCloso Q three-cent stamp fof reply when addressing any ques- tlOn ce fact or information Co Che Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research Do un- dertaken. Be sure ail mail is nd. dressed to Che WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. o.
 THE EDITOR a. How did Alec Templeton, the blind pianist, lose his sightp A. He was born blind.
 O. How far can tarpon lcapf A. Louis L. Babcock, eminent au- thority on tarpon, has noted hori- zontal leaps of 22 feet.
 @. How many commercial and municipal airports are in the United States?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

Charles Atlas, was in my work shop just now, and I'm feeling all caved in. Atlas, of course, is Q strong man. Like that fellow Swo- boda, who used to advertise in all the farm papers, with his right arm doubled up ct the top of the ad.
 Yes, Mir Atlas admitted freely that he made up that name, or took 1t over from the fellow who was supposed to have held the earth on his shoulders until he got sick and died, leaving the earth floating around aimlessly, His real surname Is Siciliano, but nobody could remember that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

MutHluttNA uheSpSAy A wv AVS me-"
 MT. Atlas, e tall, handsome, dark man, with high forehead and in- telligent eyes, looked bored.
 would you like to see me bend a big spikep" he asked. Yes, I would, provided the spike were biz enough to make 1t worth while, and If the exercise wouldn't wear him out SO that he couldn't tear Q telephone directory in two.
 MT. Atlas took out of his over coat pocket Q ten-inch, spike such as they use In bridge con- struction work. He handed 1t to me, and l couldn't seem to bend 1t even c little bit. I handed It back.
 Atlas put the spike across his left leg, leaned on the two ends Of it, picked 1t up and squeezed 1t to- gether between his two hands. He handed 1t to me, doubled up like 0 hairpin.
 We went on talking. MT. Atlas, who runs Q correspondence course in how to get strong or some such thing, told me ought to exercise regularly. I told him that I never walk when I can ride, and haven't had five minutes real exercise since I did the pole vault for Lew is Academy. told him how my athletic friends oil die on the golf course, or while swimming or row ing, and how glad am that I can't afford to play,
 A little exercise is oil that's necessary for e person who sits in 0 chair all the time, he told me. Then he got close and started what the boxers call in-fighting. He asked about my dog. Docs he stretch c good deal" he asked,
 That was unfair, but didn't count him out. I was off on the subject of Captain Kidd, his stretching, his chasing c ball, and all that. And Atlas drove home his lesson. Stretch. Tense the mus cles. Make 1t simple, but don't be too lazy.
 Atlas is 4e, and looks exactly 46, He weighs over two hundred pounds, lives quietly with his wife and two grown children in queens Borough, and exercises quietly in his own room, using no gym equip ment. He doesn't believe in weight-lifting or in violent eXer- cises with arms above the head. He was 0 delicate boy, sickly, in fact. One day he went to n1u- scum with his class and saw plas- ter casts of Greek gods and heroes. He started exercising every day, to become like those gods and heroes. Well, I think Q lot of those Greeks would come down out of the galleries and bow to MT. Atlas, If they knew how.
 I handed him . Manhattan tele- phone directory as he went out "Now, please take c few exercises for your health's sake," he said. As he turned toward the door he tore the thick book squarely in two and tossed the halves Into the wastebasket. We want to keep on reading that column Of yours for 6 long time yet" he said, as If he had just crumpled up c telegram.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

Said I: Gan you tear e Man. haitian telephone directory In two?"
 "Yes, but that's too easy,' he answered. Anybody can do that, and the telephone company doesn't like 1t Q bit."
 "oh, pleasel" I said. "I'll get George Wellbaum and MT. Clifford on the phone, and they'll give their permission. Please tear c Manhattan directory in two for me-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

c. How many positions are there in the British Cabinetp
 A. The number Is flexible. JuSt now there are 2i members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-27

\, Commercial 4ss and municipal
Evening star., 1939-10-29
City of Flint Memorandum
Developments After Capture Of Vessel
Released by Stote Department

noon press conference to the effect
that the fact that the Russians have
freed the German crew indicates
that the Soviet authorities have con-
firmed the view Of the prize crew
that the City of Flint was unsea-
worthy and it was therefore permis-
sible to take the ship into a neutral
harbor.
Testimony of the American crew
as to the full facts pertaining to
the taking of the City of Flint into
Murmansk Is not yet available.
1t seems manifest that even If
1t Is assumed that the German crew
was proceeding legally prior to the
entry OF the City Of Flint into the
harbor of Murmansk, the known
facts and circumstances support
the contention of the American
Government that the German crew
did not at the time of entry offer
any reasonable or justifiable
grounds such as are prescribed by
international law for taking the
vessel into this port. and that
therefore it was the clear duty of
the Soviet government to turn the
City of Flint over to the American
crew. This has been the major
contention of the American Gov
ernment.
In view of the foregoing facts
and circumstances, each person can
judge for himself the question as
to how much light is shed on this
entire transaction by the action of
the Soviet government in withhold
ing adequate cooperation with the
American Government with respect
to assembling and disclosing to the
American Embassy in Moscow the
essential facts pertaining to the
landing, the whereabouts and well
fare of the American crew; by the
fact that it was first alleged by the
German authorities that the need
for charts was the ground for
bringing the vessel into port; and
by the fact that later this ground
seems to have been abandoned and
a new ground or theory relating to
defective machinery was set up.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Swiss Deny Alarming
Nozi Strenqth on Border

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. % lP)
The Swiss government issued a
communique today denying reports
Of alarming German concentrations
on the Swiss frontier. 1t said Ger
man strength in that area gives
no reason for special anxiety"
Paris and London reports of con-
centration of II German divisions
in this area led some observers to
wonder whether they might indi-
cate the British and French them
selves were planning some action on
the Rhine frontier north of SWitzer-
land and chose this means of finding
out what the Swiss thought was the
German strength in that area.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
ship proceeded via Tromso, Norway,
to Murmansk.

ship proceeded via Tromso, Norway,
to Murmansk.
During the attempts of the Amer
ican Embassy in Moscow to learn
the facts In the case, the suspicion
developed in the State Department,
1t was stated authoritatively yes
terday, that the Russians and the
Germans found grounds for Coop
Grafton against the interests of the
United States after the Russians
originally ordered the internment
of the German prize crew.
This cooperation. it is suspected,
has extended to the point OF en-
abling the German authorities to
have information about the ship
which has not been made available
to the American Government. No
American has had access to the
boat or the crew.
Crew Reported Aboard.
In his telegram reporting that he
had been told the ship was still in
Murmansk, Charge d'Affaires Kirk
reported yesterday that the crew is
on board the Flint, according to this
information. Furthermore, "it was
also said that if, following the COM
pletion Of repairs, the ship were
taken to another port. the American
crew would presumably be kept on
board to operate the vessel"
Mr.. Kinks reference to repairs"
aroused interest here, but whether
it was significant and meant that
repairs really were being made on
the Flint or was just a mystifier
was unknown. The Germans en-
deavor in this case, if they intend
to bring the Flint to Germany, is
to be as misleading as possible in
order to facilitate the dangerous
trip through the British North Sea
blockade.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
City Of Flint
Continued From First Page.)

that when the City of Flint entered
the harbor at Murmansk, any plea
relating to the chart requirements,
If advanced, must have been
ignored, since the German crew
was interned"
On this ground. the American
Government holds that it is up to
the Soviet government to return
the ship to its American crew.
Ambassador Steinhardt reported
to the State Department yesterday
that he was unable to reacl. any
members of the City of Flint's crew
on the telephone when he sought a
connection between Moscow and
Murmansk midnight Friday He re-
ported that he had been given to
understand by the Soviet govern
ment the crew was well and that no
illness was reported.
Union Head Critical.
Internal pressure for Government
action in the interest of the sea-
men on the freighter and other
American ships held by the British
for contraband search came yester-
day from Joseph CurrAn, president
of the National Maritime Union.
Testifying before the Dies Commit
tee of the House. Mr.. Curran said
he was registering his protest
against the treatment being accord
ed American sailors aboard the de-
tained vessels.
The difficulties placed in the path
of Ambassador Steinhardt toward
obtaining information about the
American citizens making up the
Flint's crew were the subject of a
tart paragraph in the State De-
partment communique. After re-
citing the story of the Russian
change of attitude toward the Ger
man prize crew and listing, the an
nouncement stated:
In view of the foregoing lacts and
circumstances, each person can
judge for himself the question as to
how much light is shed on this en-
tire transaction by the actin of the
Soviet government in withholding
adequate cooperation with the
American Government with respect
to assembling and disclosing to the
American Embassy in Moscow the
essential facts pertaining to the
landing, the whereabouts and well
fare of the American crew; by the
fact that it was first alleged by
the German authorities that the
need for charts was the ground for
bringing the vessel into port; ard
by the fact that later this ground
seems to have been abardoned and
new ground or theory relating to
defective machinery was set up"
Captured by Deutschland.
The City of Flint was captured by
the German pocket battleship
Deutschland on October 8, about
1850 miles from New York, from
where it was bound for British ports
with a mixed cargo which the Ger
man captors contend contained more
than so per cent contraband. The
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Wilma Crowds Cheer
Lithuanian Troops
Occupying City
Ancient Capital Seized
l9 Years Ago by Poles
Returned by Soviet
BY the Associated Press.

oF lIlt ASSOCldteO TIeSU.
WILNO, Oct. 28.-Ancient Wilno
(Vllna) today came back into the
possession of it's Lithuanian found
ers-the gift of Soviet Russia
which took the 616-year- old city
from Poland.
Cheering crowds, with here and
there old men and women weeping
and kneeling' in prayer. greeted the
Lithuanian troops who marched
down raln-spattered streets to ef-
feet the occupation made possible
by Lithuania's military concessionI
to Russia.
Lithuanian flags. horizontal bars
of yellow, red and green, were waved
Justify by the welcomers. Some
of the flags were fashioned crude.
ly from paper.
Flowers Thrown to Troops.
Those who still had flowers
winter is setting in here-tossed
them down on the marching troops
as they entered at II am.
Repossession of the old capital
founded in 1923 has been the Of
ficially indorsed dream of the Lith-
uanians through the centuries. A
section of the Lithuanian consti-
tuition states specifically that Wilnc
is considered a part of the nation
But for 120 years after l795 the
city was under Russian rule alone
with the rest of the country. Fol
three years during the World War
from 1915 to 1918, the German army
controlled it.
Held for Two Years.
Lithuania got it back for two
years, along with its declaration
of independence, when the Russian
Czarist regime crashed.
But on October 9. 1920, the Poles
occupied the city. They held it fol
10 years until the present European
war crushed the Polish armies in
defeat. Then the Germans moved
across Poland from the West and
the Russians from the East, the
latter taking Wilno, which they
controlled for the past month.
The Soviet Russians handed the
capital over to Lithuania in return
for permission to establish Rus
sian military bases in Lithuanian
territory.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Purdum Dedicotes
EIkton Post Office
By the Associated Press.

Oy tue hSSOCldteu
ELKTON, Md, Oct. 28.-Smith w.
Purdum, Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter General, dedicated the new post
office building today with a re-
minder that Elkton was one of IS
post Offices established when the
Constitution was adopted.
Other speakers at the dedication
of the two-story building of Port
Deposit granite were Senator George
L. Radcliffe, Representative David
Ward, Mayor Henry H. Mitchell,
J. Mercer Terrell, Elkton postmaster,
and Judge T. Alan Golosborough of
the District of Columbia Federal
Court.
The $4,000 building will also
house the county agent. recruiting
Offices and an Office for the collector
of internal revenue.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Vienna Girl B|ind|y Picks
j. ). Town for Aid Plea
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FREMONT, Nebr., Oct. 28.-A
1000, ,000-to-1 shot gave Midland
College oniciais foreign relations
problem today.
Mia Grunberg. 13-year -old Jewish
girl in Vienna. appealed to them for
aid because "the government forces
me to leave Germany as fast as I
can"
You will asks how chose FIRE.
mont for the end of the way of this
letter." she wrote. well, took the
map Of the United States of Ameri-
ca, shut the eyes and pulled down
the finger and 1t was Fremont!
hope to find there pitiful human be-
ings who are willing to help me-"
Midland officials to whom the let
ter was referred said they have no
means Of helping her, but would
turn the letter over to any one will
ing to aid the girl.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
New Pocket-Knife Use

ARKANSAS CITY, Kans. LP-
Pruning knives are new pocket
equipment for males. At a recent
basketball tournament here a
sports fan calmly reached into his
pocket, pulled out a knife and
quietly pruned the vision -obstruct-
ing feather from the bonnet of the
female in front of him.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Silver Teu Planned

A silver tea will be given Saturday
at the home of Mrs. E. Francis Nc
Dewitt, 780 Dale drive. from 3 to S
pm. for the benefit of the Woman S
Democratic Club of Silver Spring,
Md. Mrs. Louis A. Yost, ST., and
Mrs. Willard Smallwood are CO.
chairmen Of arrangements. Mrs. R.
M. Poole is president of the club.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Sewing Demonstration
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, Oct. 28.-Annan.
dale Home Demonstration Club
members will hold a demonstration
on sewing in connection with the
meeting of the club Thursday at
1:30 pm. according to Miss Lucy
Blake, home demonstration agent.
Three All Clubs will also meet
during the week. Groveton Club will
hold its session Wednesday at 10
am: Annandale Club will meet
Thursday at 1890 an. and Hern.
con Club will meet Friday at pm.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Five-Peoked Mountain

"The five treasure houses of the
great SHOWS is Kinchinjunga, third
highest mountain of the world,
which New Zealand mountaineers
will attempt to scale next year. The
name refers to the mountains five
peaks, in Nepal, north of India.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
u. S. History Uroed

Pointing to "Australia's future
place in the Pacific, her very ex-
istence perhaps" Prof. Stephen
H. Roberts urges the New South
Wales government to teach Ameri-
can history in it's schools.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Hospitals Prepare

Since the population Of New York
City is expected to reach a total
Of 100000 by 1860, the hospital
system must replace 24,30O beds and
provide 25,500 new beds within the
next Is years.
Glacier County chief., 1939-10-06

A certain amount Of oppositiou
b Q great help to q man. Kites
rise against, not with, the wind.
Even . head-wind II better. than
nothing. No man ever worked his
voyage In dead calm. The best
wind for everything in the long
run p 4 side wind.-John Neal.
Glacier County chief., 1939-10-06
sIsTERLY LOVE

Mrs. Berzan-There's hat in that
shop I'd give anything for.
Miss Petzing-Would you, really?
Mrs. Berzan-Yes, really; and
won't you be sport, my dear, and
let me catch my husband kissing
you?
Glacier County chief., 1939-10-06
Secret?

Little Jaclkie-Oh, mother! Just
look at that mani He hasn't a hair
on his head.
Mother-Hush, dear, he win hear
you.
Jackie oh, doesn't he know it?
Glacier County chief., 1939-10-06
First Onenss

Business Man-Hello operator, I
want to speak to my wife.
Observation-Disclosures. please.
Business Man-Numberf ! amt
got but one.
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SYNOPSIS

Sally Gordon Is on her way to Hill
House fer a vacation. at the inStlga-
ton ot her friend. Rhoda.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-23

/ matically declaimed. Il told Mrs.
Peake that you'd never eaten clam
pancakes and that blueberry pie
is your favorite dessert, and she's
giving us both for dinner. Just you
wait"
For PHYS sake, have a heart,
Rhoda," I begged. "You stay as
thin as a lath while you eat like
pig, but I have to count my calories
or when this month is ended I'll be
a stylish stout instead Of a size
sixteen"
"You won't count them here"
she giggled. mo one ever does.
This air makes one as hungry as
bear. BY the time you've been here
a week you'll wish Lone Pine hill
were in England, where you get
four or five meals day."
I groaned aloud. I have disci-
plined my appetite ever since was
twenty. Red hair and freckles are
liabilities enough for one girl to
stagger under. If you add fat to
that-well, I've yet to see a man
who, in his heart, likes fat wom-
an, and though I was fancy free
when I entered Hill House, I al
ways have intended to get married
and have a home of my own with
one Or two or three little redheads
running around I knew I had a.
problem on my hands, for no one
likes to eat any better than I do.
"Come on, lazy bones," Rhoda
cried now. Get dressed. It's al
most dinner time and I am fam
ished. There aren't so many board
ers here now, but can they eat!"
"Oh, Rhoda," I cried as I fairly
flew into my clothes. do listen to
what dumb thing I did,"
AS I told of my looking and
laughing at Miss Ivy's odious
decoration, Rhoda first laughed;
then her expression subtly changed.
You know, Sally" she said as
I finished. I'm afraid there's more
trouble coming from that darned
thing"
Trouble ?" l looked at her in
surprise. Trouble over the spite
fence after all the years it's been
there. How do you mean?"
II don't know" she confessed.
Mrs. Peake hasn't said q word,
but she's not so jolly and full Of
fun as she always has been. Two
or three times I've come upon her
unexpectedly and she was looking.
at that fence with the most wor-:
ried look on her face, though she
Immediately tried to conceal her
apparent anxiety"
II can't imagine why she should
be worried about it at this late
date" I persisted.
Nor I" Rhoda persisted, "but I.
wish that hurricane last fall had
blown Miss Ivy Newcomb and her
spite fence straight across to
SPAIN"
| (To Be Continued)