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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19

Rub down the surface with fine
sandpaper to get smooth finish
Use a good quality floor paint, fol-
lowing the directions on the can as
given for painting new wood floors.
A good house paint will do.
Painting Cement Floor.
@. We want to paint the cement
cellar floor in our new house. What
do you suggest in the way Of pre-
pairing and painting 1t?
A. Allow sufficient time for the
new concrete to dry. Clean the
floor thoroughly. then paint 1t with
a synthetic resin or rubber base
paint.
Furniture Finish.
@. A walnut bedroom suite has
been treated with several kinds of
oils and polishes, including several
coats of wax. There is white film
on it. How can I bring back the
original finish?
A. Take off all of the excess polish
and wax by wiping with cloth
damp with turpentine. You will
probably find that the original
finish is still in fairly good con-
dition, and can be brought to a good
polish by rubbing with dry cheese
cloth. Otherwise. put on a thin coat
of paste wax and rub 1t well after
a half-hour for drying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19

is the skill, integrity and perma-
nence in business of the installer.
Ask your oil burning friends for their
opinions of the local installers and
agencies, especially on the interest
shown after the burner has been
paid for, and on their promptness
and satisfaction in giving service in
time of need. Get the recommended
ton of the man, who has the best
reputation as to the type and size
of the burner best suited to your
boiler.
Book Worms.
Question: A set of books has been
in my basement for the past two
years. There are worms in them.
How can I clear them out?
Answer: Put the books in box
that can be closed, scatter a pound
or more Of moth crystals-paradi-
over them, close tightly, and allow to
remain for several days.
Hot-Water Heat.
Question: I am contemplating the
heating problem OF new mouse on
an exposed hilltop. I am committed
to hot water as the medium, but
would like your opinion as to the
adoption of the so-called one-pipe
hot-water system, or the older two
pipe system.
Answer: The one-pipe hot-water
heating system has proved salts
factory, but the job should be done by
a heating contractor who is reliable
and understands all phases of the
system. A thorough knowledge Of
the one-pipe hot-water system, and
accuracy. are essential.
Ping-Pong Table.
@. I have just bought an un-
painted ping-pong table and would
like to paint it. What kind of paint
should I use and how should apply
it?
A. Paint the table a dark green.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19
Home Funds Invested
Show Coins in AUGUST

People put $s3, lo2 900 into savings.
building and loan associations in
August, continuing the 1910 margin
over 1899 in money set aside for
future use, the United States Saw
ings and Loan League reports.
August was a Is per cent better
month than its counterpart in 1889
and 1t made nearly twice as good
showing as July in proportionate
gains over last year, Morton Bodfish,
executive vice president, said.
Seven out of the first eight
months in 1910 were better savings
months than in 1899, and from
January through August 16 per cent
more money than last year flowed
into these thrift and home financing
institutions. Only two months Of
1899, the seasonally top-heavy Janu-
airy and July, saw as much money
come in as did August of this year.
while some OF these dollars are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19

invested in lump sums for the pur-
pose Of earning cash dividends, the
great majority Of the people who
put money into savings and loan
associations in August are INSTALL
ment savers, building up funds for
some objective in the future" said
Mr.. Bodfish. He said that these
funds are used by the associations
to make loans on residential proper
ties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19
Many Uses for Attic

With a sufficient number of win
dows for good ventilation and a
practical stairway from the floor
below, attic space may be used as
an extra bedroom, as a playroom
for the younger members of the
household or as a storage room for
clothing and furniture which may
not be in immediate use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19
kay Jewellery Opens Brunch

The Kay Jewelry Co. has opened
branch store at the corner Of
Eighth and H streets NE. The
main store of the firm, which Is
celebrating its 26th anniversary, Is
at 400 Seventh street NV.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

element Koski slipped and fell de
rectly in the path of my swinging
axe The blow caught him just be-
low the elbow. 1t almost took his
arm off.
I'VE stopped the bleeding as 'wcil
as we could, bandaged his ar,a ny
and put it in splints. 1t VAS six
miles to the highway whsre we
had parked our car-six miles Of
rugged country. along trail that
was hard to follow under the best
of conditions. By the time we SET
out the night was black as ink. The
wind was bending trees and bushes
about like storm in an animated
cartoon movie
"We stumbled on, sometimes
carrying Koski and sometimes
helping him walk, up hill and dowa
hill, wading through streams. step
ping over blow downs. BY the beam
of my flashlight, we kept on the
trail-and, somehow, we made it to
the automobile. But for the ligh,
of that flashlight. which fortu-
nately / had taken care to loa.!
with batteries that were fresh, We
might have wandered for hours,
while our friend bled to DEATH"
Despite the rough trip, Koski
was in fair condition when he a..
rived at the hospital.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

ereignity rests beneath his hat. Make
him self-respecting, self-reliant and
responsible.
"Let him lean ON the state for
nothing that his own arms can do.
Let him cultivate independence to the
point of sacrifice, and learn that
humble thing with unbartered liberty
are better than splendcrs bought with
its price.
"Let him neither surrender his in
dividuality to the government nor
merge it with the mob.
"Let him stand upright and fear
ess-a freeman born of freemen,
sturdy in his own strength, lowering
his family in the sweat of his brow,
loving to his state, loyal to his repub-
lie, earnest in its allegiance wherever
it rests. but building his altar in the
midst of his household gods and shrin-
ing in his own heart the uttemost
temple of its liberty"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

+ With his left arm almost severed
by an accidental blow of an axe,
a member Of a party camping in the
Huron Mountains Michigan, was
-arried by his companions six miles
over wilderness roads and through
. raging blizzard before he could
be put imam automobile and rushed
40 hospital.
1t was six hours after the acct
dent before the gravely injured
man. Robert Koski, reached the
nearest hospital. in Marquette,
Mich. He owes his life to excellent
medical care and to flashlight by
whose beam his friends found their
way to the automobile which car
r;ed him to Marquette.
koski and the four other men,
bers of the party were in their tent
when the storm came up. The wind
rose i'll intensity until the sound of
; crashing trees could be heard in the
distance. John l.. Polvi, of Even,
Mich, the only experienced woods
man in the party, then decided that
safety demanded they cut down
some of the nearby trees.
This was intended as a safety
measure" said Polvi, "but it almost
brought tragedy. 1t was getting
dark, and the wind was still rising,
SO we had to work fast. In the ex-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
DISTINGUISHED CHOIR
WILL SING AT WILBUR

Pacific Lutheran colleges distin-
guished choir will be heard in con-
cert throughout the Inland Empire
during the first week in April, sing
ing masterpieces from some Of the
greatest choral works known to man.
Thine choir Of the west will appear
in Wilbur high school, April 6. This
choir Of fifty voices is being spon-
sored by the Lutherans of Almira
and Wilbur. The personnel will be
housed in the various homes of that
community.
This group formed the official
choir for the Washington Golden
Jubilee last year, and is well known
up and down the Paiific Coast and
as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, where
they appeared on tour in 1881. They
won laurels with perfectly blended
beauty and richness of voice.
The program to be given at Will
bur will include masterpieces from
some of the greatest choral works
known, that represent church music
Of all ages and in many countries in
Europe as well as America.
Each spring the choir makes a
tour of from ten days to three
weeks. 1t reaches various parts of
the country and leaves pleased audi
ences who have marveled at the per-
fectly balanced blending Of the
youthful voices.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
l. W. tBLsl HI1soN. Editor
entered at the postoffice at Coule~
Jity, WASH. as second-class matter
Published Every Thursday Morning
In the Interest 1T Coulee City and
the Neixhboring Vicinity.

We learn from the Washington
! Merry Co Roundn that the famous
Glenn Frank Platform committee, af-
ter three years of bordering, is max
ing a report. No, it is not Republic
all platform-just a survey of condi-
lions for the use Of tho Republican Ma
ticnal Convention.
Its first great discovery is that it
was not the New Deal that halted the
depression, but Herbert Hoover. he
had the depression licked in 1882. II
was the wicked Democrats who disrup.
ted his program by electing Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
1t should be noted that during the
eight months following after Mr.
Hoover had the panic down for the
count, and before his successor took
office, there were among the evidences
of returning prosperity these happen.
ings:
A thousand banks closed their
DOORS
There were 10000 business fail
ures.
Unemployment went to 100000
the alltime high.
The national income dropped to
forty billion dollars for the year.
In the first eight mnths of Roose-
Welt after the banking moratorium.
There were 1874 bank failures-all
or nearly all those that were not
deemed sound enough to reopen.
Eight thousand fewer commercial
failures than in the Hoover period.
Two and half million of the un-
employed were back at work.
The national income had jumped
two and half billion dollars - it
reached nearly seventy billions last
year.
Likewise it was Mr.. Hoover who
first acknowledged the obligation of
Government to- relieve those in need.
II is curious that nobody-least of all,
the needy-knew anything about this
We are forced to the conclusion that
there were nearly 23,000,000 chuckle-
heads in the United States in 1882
who did not realize that the depres-
sion was licked and that they were
condemning themselves to diabolical
ruin--and fewer than sixteen million
wise enough to understand that their
salvation lay in rejecting Mr.. Hoo
ver
| For the rest of it, the suggested
platform-whieh is not a platform
is as straddley as anything Senator
Vandcnberg could think of in his high
est moments.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
TRUE AMERICANIsM

Tn these days, when such large
number of our people seem to have
lost their sclf-reliance, and are look
ing to the government for everything
it would be well to consider the words
of Henry w. Grady, the great South
ern editor, who once wrote:
"Exalt the citizen. AS the state
is the unit of government, he is the
unit of the state. Teach him that
his home is his castle, and his SOW.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
| RIGHT OUT OF THE AIR

shows are now picked up from her
living room, before a big fireplace.
When Rochester gets excited
during the Jack Benny Sunday
night bros-icasts, he goes into a
liz which usually ends with the
wallet" down in crapshooting
crouch, going through the motion
of rolling imaginary bones.
One hundredth luminary from
Hollywood to appear on the
Celebrity Program" now heard
Thursdays over the NBC-Red net
work with George Jessel, was
Margaret Lindsay, glamorous
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

with the splitting removed
eny this powerful hydraulic rve IN the modern Dodge
od vets the brake shoe assembly to the axle
vyduy trucks Ali that be heard when the operator
tWnkng steel
securely
permanently
Cold device is claimed results greater
possibilities expansion Of heated
aree eliminated.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

school a few months ago, she's now
starred with Gray Gordon's or
chestra as vocalist and she keeps
mentally alert by beating all the
boys in the band playing the new
wit-testing game, contack.
When warm weather arrives,
Kate Smith plans to move her day
time Kate Smith Speaks" broad
casts outdoors to the terrace of
her apartment overlooking Central
Park. Except for the Friday pro
gram, which originates at the CHS
Playhouse where she rehearSes
for her evening variety hour, all
of the commentators daytime
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
CABRIEL HEATER, pictured here,
will soon take his 1--WE, the
People" program on a coast-to-
coast tour which will include a

broadcast from the Twentieth
Century-Fox movie lot in Holly
wood. Noted screen stars will par
ticipate in the program. \
Hibernians all over the globe
sent letters of thanks to Frank
Black for his salute to St. Pat
tricks Day on his Friday night
concert period. Black devoted prac-
tically his entire NBC hour to
songs of Erin.
Rita Ray, 17-year-old Wilkins
burg, Pa, schoolgirl, shown here,
has made the quickest rise in
music so far in 1910. Leaving
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14

screen star, pictured here. The
celebrity Program snares lead
ing movie names for radio as soon
as they head for New York.
The South showed its apprecia-
ton of Robert L. Ripley for honor
ing that section Of the country on
his Friday night Believe It Or
Not" programs. Thousands of let
tiers were sent to him following his
focusing the nations spotlight on
Florida.
Marek Weber, Viennese waltz
king, pictured here, in New York
discussing fall radio series, told
interviewers at radio station
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22

ghost fleet Of World War transports tho hove been riding
oncho the ronqu Of the Potuxen River those
peuou dogs From the the long, slim Monticello Of the
four seized Gemon liners looks she might still Poy her woy
service she out Of the under tow TO Baltimore But
time ond dene hove token heo toll ond ships Of todoy
efficient In the background of this
Soomon's Isond ships
fixture Of the ondseope Star staff Photos by Evood Baker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22

In the living room Of the
suite President Wilson occupied
aboard the George Washington
en- route to Versailles. For Copt.
Fred c. BoiIey, fleet mono9er,
shown above recently at his job
Of preserving the ships. their trip
to the scrop heop means the end
of q lob.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

l pm. Sunday with an address Of
welcome by Fred A. Smith, vice
president Of the Washington Board
of Trade.
One Of the features of the program
will be a demonstration Of aerial
acrobatics by Vincent (Squeek)
Burnett. holder Of national and
international championship aero
batic trophies. Mr.. Burnett, rated
as one of the outstanding stunt
pilots of all time, now is on duty at
College Park Airport, College Park,
Md, as a Civil Aeronautics Authority
instructor to the University of
Maryland unit of the civil pilot
training program.
Two closed course races for man
and woman pilots will be flown, with
local sportsman pilots competing
against flyers from at least five
nearby States.
The newest type private-ow
and sporting type airplanes will be
demonstrated by factory pilots in a
routine intended to display all flight
characteristics, and will be exhibited
to the public on the ground.
Miss Helen Frigo. Treasury De-
partment employe and a pilot, will
make an exhibition parachute jump.
The program will close at pm.
with awarding OF trophies to the
afternoons winners.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
British Naval Experts Claim
Mastery of Nozi Submarines
Air Attacks on Worships Declared
Failure Except on Stationary Croft

The annual, published today, as
serted that air attacks on warships
had been "a complete failure" ex-
eept where vessels were stationary,
and that the activities of the Ger
man pocket battleships Deutschland
and Admiral Graf Spec had proved
the "inadequacy" Of surface attacks
on shipping.
At the same time, it was said, the
airplane had proved to be Of value
against submarines.
The publication recorded compile
tion Of the two 35,000-ton Italian
battleships Littorio and Vittorio
Veneto, armed with nine 15-inch
guns, as compared with ten 14-inch
guns Of the five British battleships
Of the same tonnage now being put
into commission.
Rapid Progress Made.
The annual added that rapid
progress" was being made on Italy's
third and fourth ships of this same
class and that old battleships were
Evening star., 1940-05-03
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 3.-British naval
experts, surveying the first eight
months Of war, today claimed Ger
many's submarines had been mas
tered" and that air attacks on war
ships had proved q complete
failure" except where the ships were
stationary.
In view of new tension in the
Mediterranean additional interest
was aroused by the assertion that
Italy with 106 submarines completed
and 23 building has the worlds
strongest undersea fleet, but for
"the reputed exception of Russia. !"
Air Attacks Held Failure.
Writing in the authoritative
Brassey's Naval Annual, the experts
asserted that the German submarine
menace had been mastered" far
more quickly than in the last war
and contended that British air
planes had proved their technical
superiority" over Germanys.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Japan Has Doubts
About Philippines
New Entry Quota
OfficioI Says LoophoIes
Will Permit Continued
immigration
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May 3.-Japan expects"
the Philippine Commonwealth to
continue admitting Japanese immi-
grants despite passage of a new
measure restricting such immigra-
ton, the foreign ONCE spokesman,
Yakichiro Suma, declared today.
Reading a prepared statement,
Suma said loopholes in the measure
would make continued immigration
possible and that Japan would con-
tinue negotiations with Washington
and Manila to that end
Annual Quota of 500.
The measure sets up an annual
quota Of 500 Japanese, but Suma
said it mot only contains provisions
for free entry of Japanese non-im-
migrants apart from those under the
quota system. but, moreover, the
President of the Commonwealth is
authorized to admit immigrants by
his special permission"
He indicated Japan might be will
Ing W eIlIeT BenClemanS agrees
ment voluntarily limiting immigra-
ton, but that the Japanese hoped
the Philippines would take steps to
preclude any radical change In the
admission Of Japanese immigrants"
Veto Held Possible.
At present, Japan says 1890 Jap
anese enter the Philippines annually
but that the net increase in jap
anese is only 1000 because many i'm
migrants return home each year.
Suma asserted that President
Roosevelt might veto the immigra-
ton measure on the ground that 1t
was matter Of foreign policy which
Washington still controls.
While Suma was discussing jap
anese-Phtlippine relations, the
United States Commissioner of the
Philippines, Francis B. Sayre, was
received In audience by Emperor
Hirohito. and Mrs. Sayre was re.
ceived by Empress Nagako.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

being reconstructed and modern.
lied.
Italy's q submarines under con-
struction include one class armed
with fourteen 18-inch torpedo tubes,
the annual said.
DR.. Herbert Rosinski. q former
lecturer at the German military
academy, wrote that wholesale At
tacks on allied shipping conveys
had been planned as "the CENTER
piece" Of Germany's entire strategy.
He said the strategy had com
pletely failed to materiali1e." though
1t had promised, by combining sur
face attacks with submarine activ-
ity, better success than World War
strategy, which ultimately failed be-
cause Of Inadequate support.
BY concentrating the full strength
Of submarine, surface and air
strength on merchantmen, Ger
many planned to strike mot against
superior strength, but weakness, and
not for illusory military advantage,
but for the real aim Of naval war
Evening star., 1940-05-03

fare-control Of communications, ''
DR.. Rosinsd said.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Mississippi Governor
And Editor Injured
In Hotel Fist Fight
Old Political Feud Flares
Between Chief Executive
And kewspopermon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, May 3.-Gov.
Paul B. johnson of Mississippi and
Editor Frederick Sullens Of the Daily
News, bitter enemies for years,
fought and rolled on the carpets of
a crowded downtown hotel lobby
last night until pulled apart.
Both emerged bleeding, but nei-
ther apparently was hurt seriously.
Mr.. Sullens suffered head cuts which
doctors stitched.
The 60-year-old Governor, who
retired Immediately to the executive
mansion, issued no statement, but
friends said on his behalf that Gov.
johnson "caned" Mr.. Sullens be-
cause the editor has harassed, per-
secuted and embarrassed the Cover
nor and his family" since 1881.
The 63-year-old editor said the
Governor, surrounded by a body
guard" hoped from around hotel
pillar and made a "cowardly at
tempt to assassinate me from the
rear" by hitting him on the head
with a heavy cane.
Witnesses said the two men then
grappled and the Governor fell over
chair, breaking 1t. Mr.. Sullen
pounced upon the Governor, they
related, and pummeled him in the
face.
The Governor and the editor
scrapped bitterly during Johnson's
first two unsuccessful campaigns for
the governorship and in the preced-
ing one last year, in which he was
elected.
After the 1881 campaign Gov.
johnson sued Mr.. Sullens' news
paper for libel and won q court
verdict under which Mr.. Sullens
was forced to print a front page
apology for articles published during
the campaign.
Mr.. Sullens intensified his news
paper attacks on Gov. johnson dur
ing the present tumultuous session
Of the Legislature, at which the Gov
ernor has sought to enact an aver
age man" program.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Frauds Over Million

Customs frauds in Kenya Colony
in Africa totaled over $1,000, 900, ac-
cording to findings of the commits
sion of inquiry. Over $4,000 a
year was lost to the colony since
1881 and the practice evidently pre-
vailed before then. The committee
was unable to 60 back further be-
cause of the system of burning pa
pers after 10 years. Over 100 forged
invoices and entry forms were found
in Nairobi, the capital.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

OF the Washing
ton Air Derby
Association will
begin arriving at
Alexandria Air
port, Hybla VAL
ley, Va, tomor-
row afternoon, it
was announced
today by Noble
c. shit, associa-
tion president.
The meet Is to
begin at Alex
andria Airport.
on United States
Highway / south
0f Alexandria af
Evening star., 1940-05-03
New Dance Banned

THE Handsome Territorial" dance
has been banned at the Mechanics
:. Institute in Otley. England, because
1t is considered a danger to the
structure. When the novelty dance
, is in full swing the floor of the
! hall Is shaken so severely that the
: clubrooms below rock.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
'Cukes' Worry Cooks

Sergeant cooks at the military
camp at Ingleburn, Australia, want
the size Of cucumbers standardized.
1--WE are allowed IL cucumbers for
each 100 men," said their spokes-
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Toby Cot

The term "tabby cat" is derived
from Atab. a famous street in Bag
dad, inhabited by the manufac-
turers Of silken stuf1s called Atabi,
or taf1ety, the wavy markings OF
the watered silks resembling a cats
coat.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

man. "One day they are q inches
long: the next YOU'RE lucky u you
f1nd one over 3 inches. But We stin
GET only . dosen to every 1c0 men,"
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Pilots 10 Begin Arriving
Tomorrow for Air Derby

Sportsman air race pilots and
pilots Of manufacturers demonstra-
ton airplanes participating in the
eighth annual Langley Day air meet