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Evening star., 1940-01-29
By BARBARA BELL.

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Evening star., 1940-01-29

Clinging vines are out. The Drags'
Handbook says don't hang onto the
boy friend, or expect help across a
street unless it's necessary.
Fleecy mittens, scarves and sweat
ers are don'ts for drags, too CThe
lint looks lousy on blue serge uni
forms)
Coy maidens who keep their es-
corts waiting don't come back to the
academy again. Cupid must con-
form to the spnt-second schedule,
infexible as sailing orders. Hops
begin at 9 pm, and midshipmen are
forbidden to arrive later than $50.
1t means no dinner if drags dawdle
dressing, so the regular drag de-
velops the proficiency Of a fireman
in making quick changes.
Debbie walks to the hops, too. She
catches up her formal train and
hits the bricks of the old Colonial
sidewalks If she wants to 60. The
bar against entering autos during
| the academy year is inflexible.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Advice for
Leap Year
Proposal
Finesse Necessary
If You Desire to
Get Your Man
BY DOROTHY DIX.

For the last few weeks my mail
has been filled with letters from
marriage-minded young women who
assert that they intend to take ad-
vantage of their leap-year privileges
and pop the question, and asking
me how to do it.
Well, of course, each case will call
for individual treatment When a
girl undertakes to break down a
mans sales resistance to the holy
estate she must make study of
her prospect and find out the best
way to approach him.
Sometimes this calls for one
method, sometimes for another. If,
for instance, the man is one of
those dilly-dalliers who has been
monopolizing a girl for years and
years, wearing out the parlor chairs
and eating up her mothers good
cooking, but who backs and fills
away from any mention of a we'd
ding, as a bridle-shy horse does
from halter and the hitching post,
try the knock-down surprise meth
cd on him. Come out f1at-footed
and ask him his intentions.
If you fancy some man with
whom you have become a habit,
break it. Tell him that you once
loved him, and as you and he were
so congenial you thought perhaps
you might marry some day, but
that the old romance has worn it.
self out and you have decided to
60 West for a couple of years and
look 'em over there. That will stun
him into silence at first, but after
you get away from him and he finds
nothing has any flavor in it with
out you he will fly to you and weep
on your breast.
But these tactics would be fatal
with shy man who never proposes
because he can't screw his courage
up to the point of doing so. Do it
| for him. Just assume you are en-
gagged and ask him if he doesn t
think June is a lovely month to
be married in, and you will be. It
is always safe to say Eyes" when
q baShful man murmurs something
to you that you do'not catch. He
may be proposing.
Don't ignore the value of back
ground. There is nothing in a night
club, with a jazz band shrieking In
your ears and a waiter with q
watchful eye upon you, to turn a
mans thoughts toward domesticity
1t is the home atmosphere that
does it. Still another good setting
for a proposal is to inveigle young
man out into looking at the cum
ming cottages built for two that the
architects are erecting as come-on
for Cupid.
If after you have popped the
question and it is met with a flabby
I'll-be-a -brother-to- reception
burst into tears. BY the time yol
have wept on the second button o.
his vest and he has tried to comfort
you you will be engaged. Naturally
so far as proposals 60, every woman
has to roll her own, but here's hop
ing these few suggestions will b'
helpful. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1940-01-29

But official red tape has failed to
decrease the week end crowds OF
finishing school lovelies who flock
to CrabtoWn for hops. Regulations
or no, Debbie still rates Navy date
as tops. (There's something about
a uniform)
Drags who date regularly at the
academy must be a hardy crew to
fit in with the rigid rules. If they
arrive before l pm. nobody meets
'em. The middies are still at for
nation. Regulations frown on chiv-
airy while in uniform and middle
is always in uniform.
Carrying the girl friends baggage
isn't forbidden, but it's disapproved.
Respect for the uniform again.
The same reason bars greeting the
GAO (navy slang for one-and-only
Crib with a kiss when she arrives.
No cap tipping, either. They salute
instead
Evening star., 1940-01-29
By JOHN S. GROVER.


ANNAPOLIS.-Ro punches
a time clock at the United States
Naval Academy.
The Drags' Handbook, guide
book for dates just published by The
Log, academy magazine, emphasizes
the handicaps imposed on romance
by official regulations.
The midshipmen have to be home
before the girls they date.
They have, at most. $40 month
to spend. Cry orchids on that
budgetD
They can't have cars-cant even
enter cars.
They must dash off to formation
just when the dusk of afternoon is
getting romantic.
Evening star., 1940-01-29

and return to quarters, second class
men so minutes, third classmen 40
minutes. That's rushing romance.
And the Drags' Guide warns omin-
ously the worst thing drag can do
is late-date (accept another date
after her midshipman has been
forced by regulations to return to
beddy-bye).
st. Johns College boys, who have
no time-clock regulations, chuckle
at the Drags' Handbook declaration
that late-dating simply isn't done" I"
They amt talking, but they know
better.
So maybe it's no wonder dates in
Annapolis are so popular. There's
glamour and the uniforms and the
lure of old tradition at the Naval
Academy hops, in company with a
handsome midshipman, even if the
regulations are rigid.
And if girl is simply too, too
weary to cope with any more regula-
tions after her midshipman has gone
home, there's always st. Johnnie
handy.
Evening star., 1940-01-29

terious no longer.
Many Items
Included.
Made by expert chemists, this new
line is the first to stress the i'm
portance of labels which tell all,
and to give definite assurance to the
public that the products are all that
they should be. Nor is the line in
complete, for it contains just about
every item that could be desired for
a thorough makeup.
All the items are packaged in at
tractive containers, simple in design
and having a clean, antiseptic ap-
pearance. No fancy bottles or jars
add needless expense to the price OF
the products, but don't think that
the containers are not nice enough
looking to grace even the most elab-
crate dressing table Cause they
certainly are. Resembling a very
expensive line in the design of the
package, they still manage to lay
stress on the contents, which in this
case is the most important issue.
This is really something for women
to get excited about, for it's time
they knew where the millions OF
dollars that they spend yearly for
cosmetics go, and certainly they
deserve to know what they are
putting on the only faces they'll ever
have. And we venture to predict
that this will be the leader in a
movement to even finer cosmetics
and safer, better aids to beauty.
Fingernail Shields
Excellent Idea.
One of the items in the "gadget
department that seems to be the
answer to prayer are the new
shields for fingernails. Made Of
metal, they are designed to be Slip
ped on your fingers, over the nails,
to facilitate freedom of action
while newly applied polish is drying.
Evening star., 1940-01-29
q cat can oMo4s back

ously. For recreation he watched the
public move by in the street, hissed
passing dogs and wrestled with
Pups.
The only trouble was when he
began to shed. After a bit of in
vestigation we found that it was
natural because of the constant
warmth. That shedding meant
that the boss had to look pretty
sharp for fur balls. She brushed
and combed Henry every day. And
she put a bit of white vaseline on
his paws once a week to help handle
what escaped her. Then she plant
ed seed grass in little pot and let
him at it. So far alls we'll!
And about cets sleeping on beds.
We've just fiished reading a des-
sertation on how to train your cat
to sleep with it's head out from
under the covers, like a person.
And it's not as silly as it sounds.
Many a suburban dWeller has found
it more comfortable to reach out
and pull the cat under the covers
on cold night than to get up and
look for an extra blanket!
Evening star., 1940-01-29
oUT OF q har1esr
By MARY ALLEN HOOD.

Cat collars are loose and easily
broken. This may make the Scotch
part of your ancestry vince, but
the truth is the truth just the
same. For feline collar is solely
for the purpose of carrying identi-
fication. And it's much better to
have a live cat come home minus
the collar than to identify the
corpse.
Kitty will climb. There isn't any
way of stopping her. You may re-
move the object, but you can't
change her intentions. Just as soon
as she has a chance up she goes
again And she'll hang herself as
surely as an unbreakable collar
catches on an unbreakable projec-
ton.
That's why real cat collars are
designed to break when any weight
is thrown against them. We don't
mean that they'll fall apart at the
touch or anything like that. But
they're sensitized to snap if the av-
erage kittens weight drags on them.
They are made of fabric with place
for Kitty's identification tag. This
gives her name, address and home
telephone number. CA good plan
is to get several tags stamped at once
as they're cheaper that way. Most
dime stores have machine which
does the job at three for so cents,
or something like that, and gives
Kitty two eXtra)
A loose collar is more flattering
to her feline type of beauty. And
there'd be no point in Tightening
it if she were as homely as mud
fence. For you can't keep a cats
head in a collar by pulling it snug.
Not without strangling her, any
way.
Harnesses are made for cat walk
ing. Or for any other time that it
is necessary for the feline to be held
by a lead. But don't let Kitty
maneuver behind you. She'll rise
up and pull herself out of harness
like boy coming out of a sweater.
The idea is to keep her in front.
And it isn't so hard. For leading
a cat just isn't done. The cat goes
before Gf she goes at alb, and the
human trails behind. But, by and
large, a harness is leather object
which, when supplemented by a
lead, gives person a degree OF
control over the feline. How much
or little depends upon the cat per-
sonally.
Washington's first snow storm OF
the winter season scared Pups, the
boss, and Henry Cat into town. AS
far as Pups and the other party
were concerned, they were frankly
enthusiastic over the idea. But they
weren't so certain about Henry
He'd had the run of the country
for over a year, and sometimes
well, you know how cats are.
They needn't have worried. Hen
ry Cat moved in on top of the
radiator. He stretched out full
length on blanket placed over the
warmest spot. And he ate vigor-
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Cosmetics Insure Washington Women Finest Aids Beauty
Labels in Very New Line
List All Ingredients
For the Consumer
Fingernail Shields Will Prevent
Running Fresh Manicure;
Repairing Liquid Help
Nv HELEN VOGT.

walk through downtown
toilet standing emitting
alarmed She'll doing handpngs
something that
that destined with the aunces
anti-make-up addict
all
pure designed strictly
of cosmetics and the ingredients which into them There have
controlling production
ALL insure and and the safest and
efficient cosmetics possible So all this talk banded
enterprisng
especially bearing
gradients which
cleansing
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Party Name Plates

Youngsters enjoy festive parties.
For your next one that you give
try pinning large name cards on the
backs of the chairs at table, writing
the names with colored crayons. 1t
helps the effect if you also tie on
favor.
Evening star., 1940-01-29

child will be amused
this adorable infant embroidered its
this silent playmate embroidered on his crib
will designs
attractive and suitable.
The pattern transfer designs OF five In
directions with
restions what materials and how
you will need.
To obtain this is cents
stamps postage Address orders to the Needle
Editor Of The Evening STAR
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Are You a Navy Drag?
If You're Headed for Your First
Annapolis Hop-Read This!

After the dance there's no let-up
in regulations. First classmen get
an hour to take their drags home
Evening star., 1940-01-29
Did You Know That?

If frequent hand-washing during
these winter months is making
your skin chapped and rough,
softentng the water with the follow
ing simple glycerin mixture will
help to solve this seasonal beauty
problem:
Evening star., 1940-01-29
SMEE1HEAMC SOAP
RXGES QEFEASHE..
LEAVING NO
JQAPXM'EEAZXp

CRIME, surface impurities-and
1inses off easily to leave your
skin really clean. So why let
sticky Soap Film" bother you!
Many delighted users say
Sweetheart Soap is unlike any
other. Discover why! Get eco
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Evening star., 1940-01-29

no you sometimes feel
-" sticky" too soon after a
bath? If 50, perhaps your pres.
ent soap doesn't rinse away easily
enough. Soap Film" can make
you feel untidy as dirt itself!
Try pure, gentle S,0eetHert
Soab! Its rich lather foams away
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Bank CIearings Fall
Sharply Below Total
For Previous Week
New York Figures Are
2l.l Per Cent Under
Similar Period in 1889
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The volume
of bank clearings fell sharply this
week from both the preceding week
and the corresponding 1889 period,
with New York City leading in the
decline. The shrinkage as compared
with year ago may be partly ex-
planned by the fact that first-of the
month settlements were included In
last years total, but did not figure
in the current weeks transactions.
Total clearings for % leading
cities during the week ended July 81,
as compiled by Dun IL Bradstreet,
were $4,745, ,932, 900, decrease of 14.2
per cent from the S. 500 ,348 900 for
the corresponding 1899 week.
The aggregate for this week was
1921 ,576 900 less than that for the
week preceding, whereas gain of
$287 ,730 900 was recorded between
the two similar weeks of 1899.
New Yorks clearings for the week
were only s2,665, ,143, 900, or 21.1 per
cent under the like 1889 week, with
$3.377 100000. The turnover for the
% outside cities equaled $1,000, ,789,-
900, as compared with s2,151 ,848, 600
last year, or a drop of 33 per cent.
Except for decline of 159 per
cent at Philadelphia and a rise of
27.4 per cent for Portland, Oreg..
gains or losses at outside centers
as compared with year ago were
generally small and almost equally
divided as to number.
Clearings at leading cities with per-
| centage change from 1889, and daily av-
eraae clearinss for May, June and July
| follow:
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Heavy Export Decline
Feared as New Cotton
Season Opens Today
Only Great Britain ond
japan Remain os Large
Customers for U. S. Crop
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
After gaining sales peak, a new
cotton marketing season began to-
day with prospects of a dip that
worried producers and Federal farm
officials.
BY custom, the cotton marketing
season opens August l--about the
time that the new crop starts to
market in volume.
In a decade Of sharp ups and
downs, the season which closed
yesterday was one of the best.
Sales totaled about 13,8O000O bales,
or 100000 bales more than in the
previous season. Exports amounted
to 100000 bales, the largest VOL
ume since 1888, after having fallen
to 1927 900 in the previous season.
Predict Exports Drop.
But cotton experts in the Agricul-
ture Department predict q tobog-
gan-like slide for foreign sales dur
ing the new season. They expect
exports to drop below the 5000, 600
bale mark because countries to
which the United States normally
sells half its exports cannot be
reached on account of the European
War and the British blockade.
Only Great Britain and Japan re-
main as sizable customers, and
neither is likely to buy heavily this
season. Both have accumulated
large reserves and are curtailing
civilian consumption of cotton
products.
See Federal Program Needed.
Officials said the dark export
prospects would necessitate a Fed
eral program under which unex-
portable surpluses of this years
crop would be withdrawn from mar
ket channels and stored under Gov
ernment loans.
Uncle Sam now has about $780,
000, 1000 invested in 100000 bales
of surplus cotton stored under SINH
lar programs in previous years. A
year ago loan stocks totaled H.
250,000 bales. This reduction
which may be wiped out this season
Game about as a result of the
sharp increase in exports during
the past season.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Chicago Livestock

CaIcAeo g Aug ,,vs.1 paos prices
were spring lambs and yearlings also.
Packing sows advanced Is to % cents
1000 direct to, packers. Best wholesale pork
loins shared in the advance, moving "a
cent % hisher ,I to l6 cents 2 pound: ou.u a.,
little change. Choice to prime pound
steers topped at l .S5. with the next high.
est price at no Best fed heifers sold
United States Department Of Asricul-
ture,:-salable hoss. 5000; total 10000:
Wednesday, average; packing sows. 1925
up; top. 665; bulk good and choice. 190-
,Esey ae POUNDS esSse moei "5" 4"5" pounds bounds
$4,000; 3Oo-33O- pound averages. $50
So: most packing sows. $50 pounds down,
5.35-6o; 3GO-5G0 pounds generally. 4.40-
salsble cattle, $500; calves, 500; kill
ing classes all fed cattle. 1875 higher ac-
round of steer and yeanss sGHi and Valued al to
sell at $50 upward: heifers trading at
800 and better: choice to prime. l.a40-
ppee sIfe5 ssvsra loads ne*
965-pound yearlings at outside price; trade
little better than steady. however, on grassy
some $50 up, to 900: all, fed steers so
cents over weeks low turn but grassy kind
not. much change: stockers dull; best fed
heifers. 1880; weighty cutter cows, 515:
heavy sausage. bulls to 6.75;, 1000 paid
rather freely for strictly good and choice
vealers. these 70 higher.
~, salahle sheep. 1000; total 1000. Late
lambs. s.s5; bulk lightly sorted, 1885,
$40: small packages good shorn native
lambs and yearlines. 1925 higher: most
small lot natives lightly sorted, s2a:
better kind held S.35 and UP; one double
"a -pound Western Snrjneers g So5: he st
handyweisht dry-fed yeariings 125; fat
sheep scarce. around steady.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Department Store
Sales Are 7 Per Cent
Above Year Ago
Fifth Federal Reserve
District Reports Job
Situation Improving

Department store sales in the
Fifth Federal Reserve District in
cluding the District of Columbia
averaged per cent above sales of
June. 1899. according to the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond Sales
in retail furniture stores totaled s
per cent more than sales during the
same month last year.
Wholesale firms in several lines
sold per cent more than in June,
1899. and registrations of new pas
senger automobiles were substan-
TALLY above registrations in June,
1899.
Less Than Expected Declines.
Normal summer declines in trade
and industry generally throughout
the fifth district have been less than
was expected, with employment
better than in many months
European conditions and the pre-
paredness program were said by the
research and statistics department
of the Federal Reserve Bank to have
Influenced the higher than seasonal
levels.
Shlpyards in the Norfolk and
Baltimore areas are working at ca
pacity on sufficient orders to keep
them busy for several years, and
aircraft plants have all the business
they can handle with present facili-
ties, the report pointed out.
Skilled Workers in Demand.
An active demand was noted for
skilled mechanics and building
tradesmen for work in shipyards
aircraft plants and several other
types of construction.
More coal miners are employed
full time than is usual at midsum-
mer. textile operations are con-
tinuing at a high rate and tobacco
factories are running fully up to the
June and July average. 81
West Virginia mines held their
output substantially above normal
for this season as result of in
creased activity in coal-consuming
industries and larger than normal
exports of coal.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Wheeler Condemns
F. T.. T.. Failure 10
Probe Bribe Charge
Directs Subpoena Be
Issued for Surnoff
To Appear at Hearing
By WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY.

Failure of the Monopoly Commit
tee of the Federal Communications
Commission to investigate charges
of bribery of two former United
States Senators and a court clerk
in connection with the 1882 anti
trust suit of the Radio Corp. of
America was condemned today by
Chairman Wheeler as the Senate
Commerce Committee directed that
a subpoena be issued for David
Sarnoff, r. C. A. president, to ap-
pear before the committee.
Mr.. Sarnoff had been invited to
appear in a telegram sent him by
the committee last night, but he
declined the offer.
The committee is conducting an
investigation in connection with
hearings on the nomination of
Thad H. Brown to succeed himself
as a member of the F.. C. C.
Senator Wheeler rebuked Mr..
Brown who was on the stand this
morning. for not undertaking an in
vestigation of the bribery charges
against a licensee of the commits
sion. He pointed out that the
F. c. c. Monopoly Committee had
gone into the Columbia Broadcast
ing System Paramount Pictures
stock deal, which he described as of
vastly less importance.
Charges Made in House in 1888.
The bribery charges were orig
inally made on the floor of the
House in May, 1888, when a resolu-
ton to investigate the F. c. c. was
pending Senator White, Republi-
can, of Maine. said the resolution
was defeated principally on the
ground that the F. c. c. would con-
duct the investigation.
Senator Wheeler asked Mr.. Brown
if he didn't think it was important,
when charges of this character were
made by member of Congress, that
the Monopoly Committee should
have gone into the matter, partic-
ularly as it was to investigate mo-
nopoly. Mr.. Brown said the COM
mittee sent out notices, but Senator
Wheeler interjected:
Brown, you can't hide behind
that excuse 1t seems to me that if
that commission has got any brains
or any sense at all, when charges
are made of bribery by it's licensees
and you pay no attention to it, that
is pretty weak excuse and dumb u
Ready With Names.
Senator Tobey said he was pre-
pared to present charges, including
names and dates. showing that two
former United States Senators and
an official of a United States court
were bribed to effect the postpone
ment of the R. C. A. antitrust suit
in 1882 until after the new admin
! istration came into power He said