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Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
Man Goes by Parcel Post

THE HAGUE.-Packed neatly IN
a large and correctly labeled case
an Englishman arrived safely Il
Amsterdam from London by parcel
post on board a machine of the II.
ternational Air Freight, Ltd.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
Ninety Miles An Hour,

Charles NJ Upham. first head Of
the Delaware State Highway De
partment, the man who put North
Cardinals roads on the map and
now head of a national highway
association, visions highways
across the continent over which
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
History of Inn Found
Within Walls of 1850

WEST BROOKFIELD. MASS
While tearing away the inte-
rior of Ye Olde Tavern, swept bv
fire, workmen found a history of
the inn written nearly a half
century ago by the late George
E. Messenger, former landlord.
The history dated back to tie
founding of the inn in l760 BIT tts
first landlord, David Hitchc5ok
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
Corporation Fees Paid

TIE Delaware Stat. d
department Of the 81
State Office. Dover ,sr-|
tai of 129 charters SD
last month. Fees pad |
fling Of the charters 4
S16343.30 A t5ta d 4
was paid TO the n9tn Il
ment Of the State iii
partment during tie M
uary for gasoline taza; 4
cember. 1
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16

A statewide survey will be
started March / by wardens of the
Board of Game and Fish Commis-
sioners to see that all dogs are
registered. Leonard K. Yerger,
president of the board, urged We'd
nesday that all owners cooperate
in obtaining tags. Licenses expir-
ed December 81, but owners are
given to March I, outside Will
mington, to obtain new tags. Nine
wardens will make the house-to-
house canvass. All unregistered
dogs will be impounded There
were $4,000 licensed dogs outside
Wilmington last year.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF 50 YEARS AGO.
Continued From Page Two)

ed the reception committee: Alex.
C. Cummins, w. w. Tschudy, W.
III. Janney, E. M. Fowler, A. l..
Hudson and Samuel Cats.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know i'm and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Efforts are being made by inter
ested parents and patrons of the
Delaware City High School, as
well as members of the board of
trustees. to have commercial
course established in the school be-
ginning next fall.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16

be rctofiop, 5oa 'gs1 's,. -
s which destroy ~es 1a..t =
ed5 eI9 often cause y59 Ut !,
s.sd gistosy 5ag oyer .a,s, H..
else that is vs,,s.. !. ! 'Fs
fo''s 9ae'-s ,lls has been r,gg
5o'5a eyer the sane =
a a. decisive victory s.s III
Bat there is y.ctsr 7
every one VINO ps,..,..,
not the ScriDtIlrs sS. :.
sGao5eta So to The end ia
cherished above ~ 'as' -
I winning a victory or W
s Of the self within i. +
"ard q tasting The ~
of the Divine Mini H,
MO a personal expe1as
promise H. q Scripture vs
Iaou wilt keep hin
?. peace whose mind i
What must have tea
90 peacefulness Of NH.
as He walked along aa
shores Of the blue "a /
and 4Lr,,,..l. i
sunny GaliIee. What n
delight must have III
mind Of Him Who 8aid /
in Thee and Thou ii M
Conscious Of a retss
with the Divine Nai i
lived in a peace that p.
understanding a peaa
could impart to distrsz
tions about Him, as vss
command Peace, Be j
the wild winds and Il.
waves obeyed Him.
This is indeed q IeE. T
while the seyerest srug :
perience that peace ID
vine, /
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16
PERSONALS

T. B. Moore and wife, and Miss
es Nellie Bounds and Nellie Gra-
ham Of Quantico, Md, were the
guests of Rev. Mr. and Mrs White,
from Friday until Monday.
Miss Kate Roe, Of Grensborough
is the guest of Mrs L. A. Cotton.
Miss Elva Wilson has been ap-
pointed to a position in the second
ary department of the public
school of Salem, n. J., and will
leave for that place on the 25th
inst. While regretting to lose her
from thi community she goes with
the hearty congratulations of her
friends.
Miss Laura Bell is on two OF
three weeks vacation to friends in
Wilmington.
Edward Farrell's two sons ar
rived from San Francisco last ev-
ening. They would have reached
here on Saturday but for a smash
up on the road.
Miss Cecil Dwight and Ter friend
Miss Austin, of New Haven, have
been on a visit to Washington the
past week.
Miss Bertha Price has returned
home from visit Of several weeks
in Maryland and Miss Minnie ReeC
likewise in Pennsylvania.
Reese j. Bell, Of Philadelphia
has been on a short visit to hi.
uncle William M. Bell.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16

Construction of a highway de-
partment headquarters in Dover,
building of a new highway con-
Meeting Elsmere with the Lancas-
ter Pike, and conversion Of the
Governor Printz Boulevard into a
dual highway, are among the rec
concentrations of Chief Highway
Engineer w. w. Mack in his an
nual report submitted to the State
Highway Commission Wednesday.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16

The Middletown Fire Company
has extended free use of the fire
house to representatives of the
Delaware Unemployment Compen-
sation Commission each week so
that local workers can enter their
claims. A special meeting of the
company will be held tomorrow
Friday to make final decision on
whether to buy a fire truck at the
present time or postpone the pur-
chase until Fall. A special com
mittee has selected fully enclos-
ed sedan type truck which will be
purchased when the board of di-
rectors decides.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-16

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Extensive repairs are soon to be
made on Cape Henlopen Light
house.
A high license and Local Option
bill will be introduced in the Leg
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
FEW SURE THINGS

NOT MANY ABSOLUTE "sure
thing" propositions are offered to
bridge players. But there are a few
which can be grasped, and which
should be grasped, when the alter
native involves any risk which is
not commensurate with the possible
gain. Among these may be included
the cashing of the crucial trick
which makes the contract for the
declarer, or which defeats it for the
defense. The same principle applies
to bidding, in the selection Of a con-
tract which can not possibly be
beaten, in preference to one which
may be defeated.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
BY Shepard Barclay
ID Of s-spades and North IN,
''The Authority on Authorities"

rebid Of S-Spades and North the
obviously proper bid Of 3-No trump.
Right there is where South went
wrong. He bid 4-Spades, which
everybody passed. No possible de-
velopment, outside of a revoke by
the opposition, could enable him to
make that contract, which was set
one trick.
The simplest of counting would
have shown. South that at no trump
he could run six spade tricks, bar
ring a most freakish distribution
Of the outstanding ones, and could
add on three more tricks for the
side aces. Passing the 3-No trump
call by North would have consti-
tuted the acceptance of virtual
sure thing, whereas bidding A.
Spades amounted to hoping for q
trick of some kind from North with
out any basis for the expectation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. d.

ny LOOAN CLENUEN1NG, M. -.
REDUCTION of overweight is
best accomplished in a hospital where
the diet can be carefully supervised.
Some doctors of my acquaintance
who have a large practice among
overweight people will not attempt
to treat them unless they enter a
hospital. This is a difficult imposi-
ton and most people would rather
remain the way they are or try to
accomplish something by home
treatment.
The trouble with home treatment
ior overweight is partly the doctors
lault and partly the patients. The
PATIENTS are constantly tempted and
break over. Where the doctor errs is
IN trying to carry out as strict diet
IN the home as he would in the
hospital.
A simple plan that works for the
nome reduction Of overweight, is
that practiced by two ST. Louis
doctors. They do not try to force
the patient to calculate a compli-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30

Gated system of diet, but they make
their Instructions very simple, as
follows: The total caloric daily in
take is about 1850 calories, divided
INTO $50 calories at breakfast, 400
for luncheon and 600 for dinner.
These are approximate estimations
and no attempt is made at exactness.
Instructions
The patient is instructed thus:
For breakfast you can have a
small orange or a half a grapefruit,
or, in fact, any kind of fruit, two
pieces of dry toast, and a cup OF
coffee with SKINNED milk.
For luncheon you can have an
egg or a lean meat sandwich, let
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
a A KQ j 10 8
y A 5
. A 2
- A 4 3

dealer: South. East-West vul-
nerable.)
1t isn't often that any player sees
such hand as South held on this
deal, containing all Of the horors in
no trump and a suit, especially in
the ranking suit of spades. The par
tcular rubber player who had this
one let it go to his head.
After starting the bidding with
2-Spades and hearing North's cor
rect strength denial Of Pho trump,
South made the perfectly correct
COPYRIGHT 1899. bv Kin
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30

Dr.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
TOmorrow's Problem

dealer: South. East-West vul-
nerablc.)
What is the best bidding of this
deal, in a rubber bridge game In
which everybody is playing with a
unfamiliar partner?
Features Syndicate, Inc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-30
Hospital Treatment
Best to Cut Weight

tuce, cole slaw or radishes or celery,
and cup Of tea or coffee.
"For dinner have an ordinary
helping of anything that is served
for dinner: for instance, piece OF
meat the size of an ordinary lamb
chop; two slices of bread, a vege-
table, a small piece of pie or jello,
and cup Of tea or coffee.
"Fats, such as butter, cream, ice
cream, and fat on meat, and graves
are forbidden. Vinegar, salt and
pepper may be used. Mineral OIL
should be used instead OF olive Gil
in salad dressings. Water may be
taken as desired but beer, wine and
soft drinks are prohibited"
Does the Job
This seems simple enough and
easy for anyone to follow. Simple
as it is, the method removed more
than a ton, 1888 pounds OF fat, from
rs women in four and a half months.
There was some additional treat
ment with extracts of the -ductless
glands and three types of obesity
were recognized.
In overweight due to lowered
function of the pituitary gland, the
fat is distributed in the middle Of
the body especially. The abdomen
and chest carry most of it, the ex-
tremities are tapering and the
hands and feet small and slender.
In overweight due to lowered
function of the thyroid gland, the
fat is generally distributed all over
the body;-legs, arms, hands, feet
and neck all sharing.
EDITORS NOTE: Seven pamphlets by
DR.. Clendening can now be obtained by
sending 10 cents in coin, for each. and
self-addressed envelope stamped with
three-cent stamp. to DR.. Logan Clenden-
ing. in care of this paper. The pamphlets
are: "Three Weeks Reducing Diet, In.
digestion and Constipation, Reducing
and Gaining, Infant Feeding: In
structions for the Treatment of Diabetes.
feminine Hygiene" and 1.-THE Care o. the
Hair and Skim"
Evening star., 1939-11-30

Discontinued makes from a famous
maker. Rayon and Isle in clocks, vertical
stripes and figures. Reinforced heel and
toe. Sizes 10 to IL.
The Palais Royal, Store for Men First Floor
Evening star., 1939-12-16

of Ross and La Pierre, he the master
of those funny noises, she the sing
er; Nash and Evans, chatterers,
dancers and rope artists, and Jack
Dalton, WJSV cowboy singer, who
represents the find Of the month.
J.C.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Joe E. Brown
In Comedy
At the Met
Beware, Spooks,'
Has Him CHASING
Criminals

Admirers of the Joe E. Brown
comedy manner no doubt will be
very happy indeed with his newest
picture, Beware. Spooks." Quite
few people dn the Ambrose Bierce
sense OF the phrase) sat in the Met
ropolitan Theater's audience last
night and laughed and laughed at
Mr.. Browns Illustration at the hands
OF fate, or his own Illustration of
himself, indicating these adventures
are the sort which please the comics
fans nightly.
But this Is only for ardent Brown
followers. A member of that same
audience yesterday evening who, at
the time, found Mr. Browns por-
trait OF dim -witted policeman too
unimportant to be tragic and too
boring to be funny, is having trouble
at the moment in the suppression of
a public yawn.
Mr.. Brown this time is cast as a
Policeman Clifford, who is on the
force only because his father was
1amed for his exploits as an officer
OF the law. He finally is booted
from the ranks when he unwittinelv
watches a strangers automobile
while the stranger calmly pulls a
payroll job, then later he lets an
other criminal escape because he
does not remember the lads gun is
not loaded.
The rest of the film he spends
tracking the boys down in the crazv
mouse OF an amusement resort where
ne mas gone on a honeymoon with
ms wife. who is Mary Carlisle bear
ing up nobly under the strain. He
has gone to a hotel at the resort on
his honeymoon and not to the crazy
house, thought you might suspect
even that, but something is get
ting all complicated here. Besides
II this Is funny we are going out and
read Bob Benchley and weep.
H. M.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
La Dietrich
Returns to
Violence

hose discerning moviegoers who
always knew Marlene Dietrich was
too marvellous a hellcat ever to be
turned into a silky she devil will
find their case beautifully proved
at Keith's, where "Destry Rides
Again" is being held over a second
week. In that picture, after all
those years wasted in luxurious sin
ming professionally speaking, of
course), Miss Dietrich is back to
earth again, a damsel in a dance
hall, having the knockabout time
of her life and clearly back at her
old place in the hearts of the peo-
pie. Her presence glorifies a picture
which proves that, properly made,
there is still nothing like a rip
snorting Western to make even a
sophisticated movie audience up
roariously happy.
For the proper making of "Destry
Rides Again" Universal hired not
only Miss Dietrich but such other
skilled performers as James Stew
art, Charles Winninger, Una Merkel,
Mischa Auer and Brian Donlevy
All of them, with numerous others,
were dumped pell-mell, or maybe
helter- -skelter, into a story that
combines the qualities of being a
jest at the expense of Westerns
with the movement and violent ac-
tion that belongs to the straight
Western. 1t is a fetching combina-
ton, played for every rich ounce in
its veins of humor and drama.
Rescuing Miss Dietrich from the
fate worse than death which over
took her in so many of her later
pictures, this one gives her oppor-
tunity to wear tights, sing, dance
and stage the widest all-feminine
brawl the cinema ever has SEEN
Miss Merkel is the other participant
in the saloon-wrecking struggle, a
combat sprung from the fact that
Miss Dietrich won his pants from
Auer in suspect poker game.
The exciting comedy of "Destry
Rides Again" is not ali as physical
as that between its outstanding
women players. Stewards share of
it, which he contributes as a young
sheriff who thinks guns are bad
things for a public official to carry,
Is quite in keeping with his reputa-
ton for being a droll fellow.
On the same bill is the latest issue
of March of Time, News Fronts
of War-1939," a dramatic pictorial
account of the Associated Press war
coverage in this dying year of death.
j. G.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Lust Theaters Set
TOV Matinees

Children of nearby Maryland
communities will flock to Sidney
Lust theaters Monday afternoon at
o'clock for the annual toy matt
nees, which brighten the lives of
less-privileged youngsters of Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties.
Toys, articles of clothing or food
stuffs will be the price of admission
to any of the shows.
At the Bethesda Theater. in Be-
thesda, the youngsters will enjoy
the antics of Mickey Rooney in
You're Only Young Once" a Pop
eye cartoon and an Our Gang COM
edy. Organizations cooperating
with the theater in sponsoring the
event are the Bethesda and Chevy
Chase Volunteer Fire Departments
and w. Prescott Allen, publisher of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Tribune.
"Blockheads," Laurel and Hardy
feature film, will be the offering at
the Arcade Theater in Hyattsville,
together with Popeye cartoon and
Our Gang comedy. The Kiwanis
Club of Prince Georges County, the
Welfare Board and the Hyattsville
Independent will cooperate in
sponsoring the event.
In Mount Rainier the Cameo
Theater, Under the sponsorship of
the Charles F. Huntemann Post,
American Legion, and the Prince
Georgian, will present Shirley Tenn
pie in "Susannah of the Mounties," !"
with suitable short subjects, includ-
ing Popeye and the Our Gang kids.
The Marlboro Theater, in Upper
Marlboro, will have the co-opera-
ton of the Marlboro Lions Club and
also will offer Shirley Temple in
"Susannah of the Mounties," Pop
eye and Our Gang on its screen.
The matinee at this theater will
start at o'clock instead of 4.
The Milo Theater, in Rockville, in
collaboration with the Holiday Ex-
change, will present Laurel and
Hardy in "Blockheads, together
with an Our Gang comedy and Pop
eye cartoon.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Two Performances
For Prince of Peace

"The Prince of Peace" which has
been presented II times by the
Prince of Peace Players, including
once at the Temple of Religion at
the New York Worlds Fair, will be
staged twice next week. Tomorrow
night at o'clock it will be pre-
sented at the Asbury Methodist
Church, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV, and Friday night at
the same hour it will be seen at
the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, Fourteenth Street and Co.
lumbia road NV.
Cast of the play with only two
changes since the New York pres
entation) includes Maud Howell
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Clayton Ba-
con, Mrs. Kathryn Logan Tracy, Mi
riam Berkovitz, Dorothy-Ann Yock-
ey, Jane Snyder and Phyllis and
Audrey Rands.
"The Prince of Peace" by Mrs.
Minnie Frost Rands, is "a plea for
peace and good will among the ma
tions, for tolerance among our di-
verse religious groups and for more
understanding and sympathy be-
tween individuals"
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"The Hot MiKado." with
Bill Robinson: 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Wardman Park - Awake and
Sing" Civic Theater production:
$3.50 pm.
Palace "Ninotchka," Garbo goes
gay in Paris: 1l:40 am, 2:10. 4:40,
ITO and $40 pm.
Earle-"The Amazing Mr.. Will
liams,' mystery in the Zany manner:
II am, 1875, 4:25, tbs and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 1875, 3:25, 6:10
and pm.
Capitol-"Barricade," Alice Faye
VS.. Chinese bandits: 11:05 am. l AS.
4:30. tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows:
1880, 3:35. $40 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan - Beware Spooks, {"
Joe E. Brown tracking down GRIM
inals: 1850 am, 1:50, $50, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Drums Along the Mo-
hawk" preRevolution adventure in
the Colonies: IL, ,2:25, 4:50, 7:10
and 9:35 pm.
Keith's - "Destry Rides Again" :"
Marlene Dietrich among the cow
boys and Indians: 1880 am, LBS,
3:35, $40, TAO and $40 pm. March
of Time: HIS am, rs, 3:15, $50,
7:20 and 9:25 pm.
Little-"The Lady Vanishes," spy
yarn by Alfred Hitchcock: II am,
las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. The
Life and Loves of Beethoven" with
much of his music: 1925, $40, 5:55
and 8:45 pm,
Evening star., 1939-12-16

hearted: mocking Paris, eventually
proves too potent, however, and the
lady's stern Marxism succumbs to
romance and the insinuating shop
windows.
The conquest of Paris over her
political idealism Is accomplished in
one Of the most deft passages Miss
Garbo ever acted or Lubitsch ever
directed. Its scene is a cheap Paris
restaurant, its situation one in which
the gay Douglas bombards the
gravity Of Garbo with every joke
he knows that might make her
laugh. The climax is too adroit for
exposure here, but 1t is something to
be watched with every sense alert
to cleverness which all too infre-
quently creeps into movie making.
Next of the many bright moments,
and almost as startling, Is that in
which new-found love and forget
fulneSs of her social conscience in
spire M. Stains agent to get beauti-
fully drunk on champagne. With
absolutely no alcoholic experience,
Miss Garbo manages this interlude
with an inoffensive gaiety that
should move other actresses to a
suicidal envy. The resignation with
which she accepts Douglas re-
fusal to let her make a speech in
that ritzy night club is superlatively
fine proof that she can make her
public laugh as violently as she used
to make 1t weep.
The satire of "Ninotchka" is not
confined to the slow detection of
Miss Garbo alone, but is supple
mented handsomely by the antics of
the three bewildered, bearded Red
playboys whose ineptness in the
jewel deal she is trying to undo.
The four make the Communist faith
look pretty silly, not merely in the
Paris passages but in several others
laid right in Moscow, where Lubitch
happily is not above letting his pic
ture take on the qualities of forth
right burlesque.
Next to Miss Garbo, acting honors
belong to the redoubtable Ina Claire.
Against lesser competition, Miss
Claire might have had to apply the
brakes to her ability to make her
Grand Duchess, lady of sleazy
motives, so memorable a character.
She does not have lesser competition,
however, so her contribution to the
excellence of "Ninotchka" is one of
those full, rich things which prove
that acting is not incompatible with
the basic purposes of the screen. Mr..
Douglas as the urbane, love-bitten
Partisan, makes an excellent foil for
the two great ladies with whom he
IS associated in one of the genuinely
fine comedies of the wear
Evening star., 1939-12-16

bill Is not nearly so strenuous as the
picture, but 1t is a welter of activity
all OF the time, or most of the time.
1t has Cinda Glenn, the comedienne; !;
Everett West, Troy and Linn and
Franklyn D'Amore, this latter being
the name of novelty act from
Europe which is performed by a
strong young man and a healthy
young girl. And all of these people
should make you happy.
Miss Glenn is the one who made
us exceedingly happy. Her satiric
lmpersonation Of various types of
glamour girls is something which
should send glamour packing back
where 1t came from, with its face
crimson. When she gets amazingly
acrobatic while singing a song atop
piano, or when she tosses her arms
about and starts wrestling with her
self, Miss Glenn is what the French
Evening star., 1939-12-16

call "magnilque" You can Just call
1t magnificent If you want to. But
you will have to think up your own
word French or American) for the
tango Miss G. dances CD with Ralph
Fox, the Capitol drummer man.
Mr.. West is that fellow with the
baritone voice which will knock
your hat of and then make you
forget to pick it up until he is
through singing and it is a pleasure
to hear him, all the way from Good
Night My Beautiful" to Irish Eyes"
Troy and Linn are pair of dancers
with witty routines and the novelty
turn OF Franklyn D'Amore is fine,
too.