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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10

Apple Festival King
And Queen Crowned
As Thousands Watch
Miller and Miss BuIIurd
Enthroned in Ceremony
At Mortinsburg

MARTINSBURG. w. Va, Nov. 8
Several thousand persons from
this big apple-producing section
acclaimed q new king and queen for
the apple realm here this afternoon
when Gov. Holt of West Virginia
placed the crowns tn the heads of
Henry w. Miller, jr,, of Paw Paw
as king, and Miss Mary Lou Billiard
of Wheeling. junior at West Vir-
ginia University. as queen.
Master of ceremonies was Repre-
sentative Randolph of this district.
The royal court was presented by
West Virginia Commissioner of
Agriculture James B. Mclaughlin.
John l.. Lightner, festival president,
introduced Mr.. Randolph.
The Governor and Representa-
tive both emphasized the impor-
lance of the apple production to
this section economically. and
praised the cooperative effort to
advertise it by coronations and
otherwise.
A patriotic and historical pageant,
involving more than 200 characters
was given Immediately following
the coronation. The first duties
Of the king and queen and court
were to review the pageant.
Tomorrow's program includes an
other pageant presentation in the
afternoon and a band concert by
the 100-piece West Virginia Uni
versity Band at a local theater in
the evening.
The public demonstration will
reach its climax Monday with a
parade, with more than 1000
musicals in line. Part of an anti
aircraft unit from the 260th Regi-
ment, District of Columbia National
Guard, will be in the line of march.
Monday morning the American
Legion will hold its annual me-
mortal service. with an address by
Attorney Seton Darr of Washing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10

The American Jewish committee
estimates the world Jewish popula-
ton at 15,290,983 in 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
Greeks on Threshold
Of Being First TO Halt
Axis, Club Is Told
DR.. Maynard WiIIioms
Points to Difficulties
Of Transportation

Mountaineering Greeks are ION
the threshold" of winning this wars
"frst important victory against the
axis powers" DR.. Maynard Owen
Williams, chief of the foreign edi-
torial staff of the National Geo.
graphic Magazine, said yesterday.
A man whose roaming of the
world has carried him repeatedly
into the most remote Balkan regions,
DR.. Williams treated as a matter for
laughter the italian claim-made
public yesterday-that Roman gem
erosity' has slowed up invasion of
Greece.
He treated as more significant
these factors:
Abominable transportation con-
ditions. Even the best military high
ways are muddy, looping country
lanes"
The ancient democratic tradi-
ton of Greeks-maintained even
into the days of their own dictator
sehips."
Addresses Columbia Club.
In speaking before the Columbia
University Alumni Club of WASH
ington at the Army Navy Club, Dr.
Williams indicated that an Italian
fiasco in the Greek peaks may
change the course of the war.
When dealing with a bully, if
you get in one lick, the next is
perhaps easier" he observed.
DR.. Williams flashed these side
lights on hostilities:
Many an American World War
Army uniform can be seen now in
the ranks of Greek guerrilla soldiers.
The United States sold or gave
away stocks of uniforms when the
A. E. F. cleared out of Europe. They
have been worn ever since-Ameri-
can eagles flashing on the buttons.
Most of the Greek fighters inherit
the martial spirit of ancient Hellas,
but they know few facts about their
past.
Except to invaders, they extend
a hospitality that warns your
heart"
Salonika Almost Bombproof.
The heart of strategic Salonika
is almost bombproof. The city was
destroyed by fire in 1917 and rebuilt
of reinforced concrete.
Before Mussolini created Incl
dents" the Greek-Albanian frontier
was as wide open as is the Cana
cian-American
The alumni luncheon meeting was
presided over by the retiring club
president, Col. Lester G. Wilson. In
elections he was named to the Co.
lumbia Alumni Federation, New
York City.
Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat. of
wyoming was chosen new presi-
dent. Other officers include Edwin
L. Rogers. National Broadcasting
Co. announcer, first vice president;
Frederick L. Benton, second vice
president; Archie R. Sabin, treas
urer, and Herald L. Stendel, secre-
tary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
Diamond Dam Dies;
Was CoIorfuI Figure
OF Bowery's 9Os
Operated Saloon and g.
Managed Jim Jeffries;
Wore Gems on Gurters
b. the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Diamond
Dan ORourke, one-time prize fight
manager who ran the biggest and
best saloon on the Bowery in the
gas light era and who wore Jewels
on his carriers for fun, died today.
Death came quietly to 7s-year -old
Dan as he read his morning news
paper in his Park Row apartment
directly above the famous old gath
ering place that fourished high.
wide and handsomely in the gay
COS.
Dams age hadn't stopped him
from going downstairs every day to
greet a few of the old-timers who
continued to frequent his place even
though he closed it for business with
the advent Of prohibition and never
sold a drop since.
Managed Jim Jeffries.
The popularity of the saloon keep
er, known to everybody who was
anybody in New York's flamboyant
days, was ttributable to the fact
that he managed James j. Jeffries,
heavyweight champion. at the turn
of the century and also was one of
the most Colorful figures of the time.
He was at home, with a big, genial
smile on his florid and f1eshy face,
to good fighters and bad, gyps and
promoters, gangsters and gentlemen,
actors and politicians-all of whom
used his saloon as a rendezvous.
You couldn't miss Dan in any sized
crowd-300 pounds, he was, and
aglitter with "sparklers" He wore
them on his watch fob, stickpin and
cuff links, and9 Just to make it Of
fetal, on his garters. too.
Diamonds Chief Delight.
Diamonds we're his chief delight
once, for gag, he sent one of his
two sons of to school sporting all
eight-carat diamond ring on his fin
ger-but Dan also liked other things,
including good food, wines and beer
in moderation, horse racing, prize
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10

A soft pad of the famous Firestone resilient
latex covers the springs. Millions of tiny air
cells trapped by blown rubber give new
floating comfort! Perfect body support
smooth n ndestructible germ repellent -
dust free
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
PooIesviIIe to Hold
Community Fair

ThegPoolesville MIDI Chapter of
the Future Farmers of America
and the Homemakers' Club will hold
the annual community fair Tues
day at the school.
Exhibits will be on display from
9 am. to pm. Bill Kuhn and
Mary Offutt are presidents of the
F. F. A. chapter and the Home
makers Club, respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
KidweII Funeral Rites
Held at Goblin John
snecisI Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CABIN JOHN, Md, Nov. e.-Fu-
neral services for George w. Kid
well, 81, who died in Washington
hospital following a long illness,
we're held yesterday at the funeral
home of w. Reuben Humphrey, Be-
thesda. Burial was at Lewins-
vile, Va.
Mr.. Kidwell was a native of Vir-
ginia and had been a resident Of
Cabin John about four years. He Is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice
Kidwell and two small children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10
Woman Dies Of Auto Injuries

Beulah Barnes. 81, of Wildrose
Shores. Md, died last night in
Emergency Hospital, O, neck and
spine injuries suffered. fn. an auto
mobile accident last month near
Columbus. Nebr. She was brought
here October IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-10

Germany and Japan are reported
to be combining cellulose. starch and
sugars from the ordinary potato into
high explosives.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27

'In the evening we hear a
radio forum. Two sides of n
highly controversial question
are discussed by men of oppo-
site convictions. Before we go
TO bed, we send wire to our
congressman urging him TO do
something about specific law.
I'VE go to sleep without fear
that during the night secret pO-
lice will invade our home and
carry of a member of the fam
lily to concentration camp. No
policeman can enter our home
without n warrant issued by a
court through due process of
law"
And that. too, is an incontro-
vertible argument. line for line,
why we should stay out of this
war.
If we go in. every one of those
liberties will disappear. some
Immediately. some later on; but
go they will.
Mr.. Bernays' book is not only
an exposition of democracy but
ii puts forth a concrete plan of
how to preserve it.
Those of us who are not in the
army must do our bit TO pre-
serve our institutions.
We are all--or should be-in
the army of freedom.
Is THE male disappearing?
L According to the census bu-
reau, we're on the shoots just
as we males have been slipping
in Europe for many years.
According to the bureau, the
male population of the United
States is declining at the rate of
100000 a year.
Now, if you've got nothing
else TO do you might calculate
the number of years that it will
take to blot out the 65,000,000
of us like a snowflake on the
Atlantic. In five years, say the
census sharks. there will be
more of the lipstick sex than
the suspender sex. We shall
then join Germany, France and
England. where the women out
number the men by nearly D.
000000 in each country.
The census bureau tries TO
tell us. rather pathetically, some
of the reasons for this-heart
disease. suicides, pneumonia,
etc.-but none Of those reasons
goes down with me.
l think the declining birth
rate of males in the United
States can be aScribed to Just
one thing we eat too many
sweets. That breeds girls
don't you know IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27

Academy Award out in Holly
wood. That is if we may believe
the assurances of our Hollywood
friends (both of them) that
downright merit in the eXposi-
ton of the art of TheSpis enters
into the calculations leading up
TO the distribution of the acco-
lade, and not, as some of the
bestowals in the past have caused
us to think. exceptional luck in
drawing the right numbers out
of a hat.
Indeed, if it comes to our ears
that the Academy has left Mr..
Mitchell out, we will personally
award him something, if it is
only the stubs of our tickets TO
Fantasia"
Mr.. Mitchell should treasure
these as mementos of one pic
ture in 1910 in which he did not
appear with a message. We saw
him in four that we now recall.
"Our Town" the very Long
Voyage Home" angels Over
Broadway and the new one.
Ills biggest message was in
IL the exceptionally Long
Voyage Home" This was ire
mendous critics picture and we
hope and trust that the critics
are still bearing in mind Mr..
Mitchell's broodings on the
futility of human existence.
1t will do them no end of
good. He had little B-message
in Angels Over Broadway"
Ben Hecht's personally sur
rounded picture, which inciden-
tally just missed being a lily.
We do not remember much
about Our Town" but we sup
pose Mr.. Mitchell-must have. had
at least a smallie message in
that one. too. In fact, We do not
know what the movie makers
would do with their messages if
they did not have Mr.. Mitchell
to deliver them.
We can scarcely imagine Mr..
Walter Wanger riding around in
his quilted limousine delivering
messages to us cash customers
on the futility of human exist
ence.
Copyright. 1910, King Features synd., Inc.
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
Still a Circus

COME anxiety has been expressed by ofd-time circus
~ habue about the result of Norman Bel Geddes nten
ton to streamine the Ringing circus.
The doubt in many minds to be whether
circus be unless built along the old trad
tional lines.
Well the circus already has been considerably altered
since the palmy days of Old John Robinson and p Bar
mum, and at least the young people much pleased
thereat.
OF course the old delights still there-the queer
mixture of pleasantly unpleasant odors the remarkable
acrobats the obeden wild beasts the magnificent horses
and their daring riders the freaks the very brassy bands
the races and the clowns.
Mr. Bel Geddes present task is not to eliminate any
of these but to add something
We are thrilled at the thought of what may
next year!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
The Hidden Burden

THE steady drain of hidden taxes is graphically illus
trated by the report of the Automobile Club of New
York this year the total of gasoline taxes in this
country will be S1,l6O0OOOO0.
No, that's not typographical error-it's one billion,
one hundred and sixty million dollars.
You pay it-you and every man or woman who drives
car Only you don't reazeit because you pay it few
cents at time That's why it is called hidden tax"
If each of you had to pay your share in lump sum
there would undoubtedly be set of taxing officials
But then politicians don't expect you become that wise
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
TO THE EDITOR.

TO THE EDITOR:
ENGLAND helps to start the
European war without dis
cussing the matter with US at
all, and now is trying to make
us believe that she is fighting
our war.
Next month the story prob
ably will boil down TO the fact
that England is not even fight
ing for herself, but only for the
United States, and that We,
therefore, must take more
definite part.
Evidently the world is chang
ing again. Now. instead of a
nation fighting its own war. 1t
may have another nation do thes
deed Cor misdeed) if it so likes.
In other words, in 1910. we now
are able to fight war by proxy.
Such tommyrot!
Our President also stated, in
discussing the matter of aiding
Britain further in this war, that
if he were British he certainly
would not want to take gifts, so
he devises the scheme of renting
our arms to England. If that is
not a gift. he must have a new
name for it.
. If the British can't afford 10
buy our arms, how can they af-
ford to rent them? And even
if they do repay. US in kind after
the war, what good will the
ornaments be to us then?
Also, when the war ends, Brit
ain will have to exert every
energy toward producing the
needs of peace rather than the
needs of war when there is no
war and Hitler is destroyed,
should England be victorious.
Also. if England loses regard
less of our rental of arms to
them, il is cinch the victorious
Germany will not permit Eng
land to repay us with arms.
The word, gift" along with
the words, patriotism and
neutrality" seem to have taken
on new meaning since Septem-
Der, 1889.
EDWIN f.. PRONG,
OOon IIa rHinn aUpnnP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
British Wait
February
7
Invasion
Estimate 5000 Bombers
Massed TO Attack
Bv PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The
w British think they know
how and when Hitler's desperate
about blow will come. Their
official eyes in the air and I'M
official ones on the ground in
France, Holland and Belgium
twhere their intelligence service
is eXcellent) have noted signifi-
cant preparations.
Rather definite information
has reached the Londoners indi-
eating Goering has massed more
than 5000 bombers near stra-
tegic takeoff spots. The num-
Der is almost unbelievable, but
more than one person Is sup
posed to have counted them.
The obvious deduction is that
Goering will hurl these upon the
British flying fields in continu-
Gus assault TO "neutraliZe" the
British air arm and clear the
way for the invasion. The same
tactics We're followed by Ger
many in Poland.
AS soon as Goering can report
the British air arm sufficiently
weakened, the invasion across
the channel. and probably also
from Norway around to the
northwest coast of England, will
start.
The British figure the airfield
demolition activity will be in
itiated several weeks in advance
of the invasion time, and there
fore, they expect first signs of
the terror to become noticeable
by the middle of February, per-
hans sooner
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
Mitche|I-Fi|ms' Top Man
For 'Fu+i|ity Of Life Talks
BY DAMON RUNYON

WHENEVER the movie max
W ers of Hollywood, such as
the Warmers and the Coins and
L. B. Mayer and the Schenks
and Zanuck and Nate Blumberg,
have a message especially one
on the futility of human exist
ence, they generally hire Thomas
Mitchell to deliver same.
The movie makers are too
busy to go around delivering
these messages in person. Be-
sides when you are making the
kind of money they are. you are
not likely to be completely sold
on the futility of human exist
ence.
But it is something the cash
customers must be told, hence
Thomas Mitchell. through a pc
culiar facility for delivering
messages of this nature, has be-
come the biggest message man
in Hollywood.
TT IS said Mr.. Mitchell was
L once a newspaper reporter.
We suppose he had his first rev.
elation of the futility of human
existence one day after he had
worked like a hound on story
only to be bawled out by city
editor. However, as he balances
his books for 1910 we doubt
that he now believes in the fu-
tility of human existence, save
as a theme for messages. The
message business has been good
to Mr.. Mitchell.
On the other hand, Mr. Mitch
ell has been good to the mes
sage business. When he is given
a message to deliver, he does
not dillydally. He goes right out
and delivers it.
Sometimes he is so convincing
that the cash customers get the
impression that the message is
Mr.. MitchelPs own, but OF course
this is quite erroneous.
He is invariably just standing
in for the movie makers. We
have heard him deliver mes
sages that we know he would
not fool with if he were not do
ing a general message trade and
therefore has to take run-ol-
mill messages.
WELL, anyway, as a result OF
w his industry and reliability
in delivering messages, Mr..
Mitchell has won our attach
ment. We are speaking as a
cash customer of the movies,
of course. He is in his mid
forties and is not beautiful but
he is a whale of an actor.
We recently saw him in a pro-
lection room showing of a pic
ture vet to be released in which
he gives sensational perform
ance. With a message.
However. the message is
worked out in such thrills that
il is no bother. Mr.. Mitchell
does not have to carry a soap
box with him in this one. When
we saw it, the picture was called
Invitation to Murder" but we
understand the title has been
changed to Flight From Des-
tiny"
This may be great picture.
The theme is morbid, yet MIR.
Mitchell's performance is SO
exact that we were not upset
by that phase. We were en-
thralled.
IT ought to win for Mr.. Mitch
L ell what is known as the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
u. S. Must Avoid War
To Preserve Democracy
BY BENJAMIN BEeASSERES

WHAT does our American
w democracy mean TO you in
your everyday life?
II means almost everything.
Eve often think of democracy
as only a political abstraction
or figure Of speech" says Ed
ward L. Bernays in his vigorous
Speak Up for Democracy"
CViking). actually every
American benefits "a hours a
day
That is true, and Mr.. Bernays
pounds that in-democracy Is a
something we i've by.
Here, in Mr.. Bernays' words,
Is one of the most vivid and
convincing pictures of what this
country means to you:
I'VE read our morning news
papers and know that our news
comes 10 us uncensOred by the
government. Freedom of the
press exists. We may read an
outspoken attack on the Presi-
dent. Or we note that the de-
PENDANT In a sensational trial Is
tried openly In court before his
peers.
I'VE turn on the radio. Again
We know that what we hear
has not been censored by our
government.
we call up a friend on the
telephone. He is free TO express
himself as he desires. He knows
that no secret police, such as
the German GestapO or the
Russian GPU, Is listening.
I'VE get n letter uncensored-
our right under the constitu-
tional amendment on freedom of
expression.
"The doorbeIl rings. We may
be annoyed. but we are not ter
rified. We fear no Gestapo,
GPU, or other secret policemen.
We know that no legal kidnap-
Ing exists In America.
I'VE go to work and carry on
our business. We buy and sell
to whomever we want, restricted
only by law arrived at through
democratic processes.
"DURING the day we express
~ ourselves freely about
proposed government tax. We
get appeals In the mail for
funds for two political parties,
and we send contribution TO
one of our choice, or throw
them both In the wastebasket.
ION the way home from work
we may listen TO a soap-box
orator praising a political party
not In power. We may think the
speech is rot, but are glad we
had the right 10 listen To II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27

Let the new year be year of
freedom from sin, a year OF
service. a year of trust in God,
and il will be a happy year from
first to last. 1t may be the
hardest year we have known,
but it will be the happiest-
Buckley.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27

MADAME PERKINS is maxi
A'A ing no preparations to leave
the cabinet January /. To the
contrary, she is selecting a new
first assistant who will be Dan
Tracy, head of the Transfers
Union, with whom she will run
the department :. those legis-
lators who have had an advance
squlnt at portions of the budget
say Mr.. Morgenthau'S treasury
department is the only one TAX
ing very seriously Mr.. Roose-
veltS proposal to cut non-mili-
tary expenditures.
The treasury budget is cut
slightly :. extreme expansion
of personnel in the war depart
ments export control admins
tration forecasts sharp expan-
sion of embargoes indis-
putable signs are evident that
Mr.. Roosevelt has definitely de-
cided not to make the British
use their billions of investments
IN ms country to pay for future
His economists all around the
government are contending if
we strip British investments
they will be permanently down
and out of international trade
after the war =. . about rs House
members and 25 senator's. far
less than quorums, will be on
hand until the new Congress
conveneS after the holiday.
Several defense authorities are
counseling Mr.. Roosevelt TO take
I'm Phil Murray's production
Speed-up proposal. Although
they know nothing of its details,
the psychological fact that labor
is proposing il and therefore
would work ardently for it. is
70 per cent assurance of its
success :. the New Dealers
have forgotten how TO spell
Willkie already.
When Leon Henderson went
up from the audience 10 write
names on the blackboard for
magician in a press club show,
he thought of Willkie as one, but
he spelled il with one '1".
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Reproduction in whole or in part
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27

If this be a happy new year,
a year of usefulness, year in
which we shall live to make this
earth better, it is because God
will direct our pathway. How
important, then, to feel our de-
pendence upon Him!-Bishop
Mathew Simpson.