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Evening star., 1940-07-11
A A K 3 2
y 10 5
8 @
> A J 9 8 s 3

West opened the king of clubs,
and my partner won with the ace.
He led one round of trumps, dis
covering the bad news about that
suit. Then he tried to set up the
diamonds, but got nowhere with that
suit too.
The upshot was a two trick set,
and he then said I should not have
bid past game. Can you settle the
argument?"
Well try to settle it, but we're
afraid your partner won't like our
decision. The hand was bid quite
well, and the failure to make the
contract was due not to bad breaks
but bad play.
After winning the opening lead,
your partner should have counted
his tricks There were four high
cards in the side suits and eight
trump tricks The fatal error con-
sisted in drawing even one round
of trumps
Correct play is to win the ace of
clubs and cash the three top cards
in the red suits. South then ruffs
four diamonds in his own hand and
four clubs in the dummy.
\ X X x
Yesterday you were Merwin
Maiers partner, and, with neither
side vulnerable, you held:
NK So
o A Q 1885
+K 80
The bidding:
Maier Schenken You Jacoby
IA Pass 20 Pass
~ Pass (?)
Answer-Bid four hearts. This
Is the time to show the full strength
of the hand in the hope that partner
can make slam try.
Score 100 per cent for four hearts.
so per cent for five hearts, 20 per
cent for two no-trump.
Question No. 496.
Today you are Oswald Jacoby' S
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you hold
y 2
8 A @ J973
b 4 6 3
The bidding:
Jacoby Schenken You Maier
IA Pass 20 Pass
% Pass 90
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Evening star., 1940-07-11
GUMS
HHtIAfN

happy privilege. I am grateful to
you for making it possible.
You have elected these as the most
beautiful 10 words:
mother belladonna
memory f1amingo
cellophane wilderness
bellboy tambourine
Test your pronouncinx /. @.
For free Prsnouncing Test, send
stamped t3-cent), self address
ed envelope to Frank Colby, care
The Evening Star.
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Cror biography section of your scrapbook.)
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D. Maier.
Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken world
leading team -of-four inventors of the
system that has beaten every other syS-
TEN in eXiStence)
Evening star., 1940-07-11
Not Bad Breaks; Bad PIoy

please tell us where we went
wrong" writes A. j. of Galveston,
Tex. WAS the bidding bad, or was
it simply bad breaks? Here's the
hand:
South, dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
a Q j 10 9
y A K 8 4
q T
Evening star., 1940-07-11
Capture of Maid of Orleans

BY this time, however, the French
leaders felt she could be Of the
greatest value to them IN later bat
ties. They pressed her to stay with
the army and at last she agreed.
As I have said, many French
men were fighting alongside the
English in the war. The duke of
Burgundy and other French mobiles
felt that the Dauphin was not the
rightful heir to the throne.
1t was the Burgundians who
brought. about the downfall of the
Maid Of Orleans. In fighting which
took place outside the fortress in
Compiegne, they captured her.
So was broken the spell of her
victories. No longer the a1l-con-
quering heroine, she was to suffer
as prisoner.
book
Rides, games and puzzles win
be found in the "Funmaker" leaf
let. II you would like . copy send
3-cent stamped, self-sddressed
envelope to me In care Of The
Evening Star.
T~e& nad
Tomorrow: Jodn's Trial.
Evening star., 1940-07-11

watched with happy eyes while the
event took place.
That, she thought, was to be the
end of her work. She had done all
the voices had told her to do. She
wanted to go back to her home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
Accurate Prophecies by
Five-Year-Old Child

In miniscule Trucksville, Pa,
(pop. 200), near Wilkes-Barre, live
Harry Harding, manufacturer of
rubber typewriter pads, his wife,
and their four children. The young
est child is 412-year-old Faith Hope
Charity Harding. Mrs. Harding and
her daughter were in New York and
photographers fiashbulbs were pop
ping around Faith Hope Charity as
thick as firef1ies.
Little Faith Hope Charity was in
New York to be examined by an
assortment of psychic researchers
and mediums who were excited by
her alleged powers of prophecy. A
bright little child who looks like any
normal girl, she has startled the
world by her series of remarkably
accurate prophecies, all duly record
ed by her mother. Among them:
The war in Europe, the Hitler-Stalin
pact, the burning of the TruckSville
school, the attack on the duchess of
iburton.
Faith Hope Charity first disclosed
her gift, says Mrs. Harding, at the
age of Is months when she ex-
claimed: Mummy, Frank McWig-
gin is dead" McWiggin was friend
of the family. Upon calling his of
fee, Mrs. Harding was assured that
he was on trip to New York; next
day, she learned he had fallen dead
the day before in a New York hotel.
eve got so now, that when
Faiths predictions seem important
I have them notarized," said Mrs.
Harding ''As a rule the most i'm
portant prophecies come to her at
night. She may be almost awake,
in trance or just on the borderland.
Whoever she speaks through calls
herself an Entity. Often she uses
words I've never heard and usually
talks in old English"
Since she came into the national
headlines, Faith Hope Charity-or
The Entity-has made one predic-
ton that can be checked by mil
lions of persons. Franklin Roose-
welt, she said, would be drafted for a
third term, and will run. She did not
forecast the name of his opponent
or the outcome of the election.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
'Nickelodeon Talkies'
Forseen for the Future

Since the juke-box (coin-operated
photography craze hit the United
States, it is estimated that more
than 100000 of the machines have
been installed. This number, opera
tors believe just about represents
the saturation point.
Juke-box operators have lately
been looking around for a new field,
reported Variety, omniscient journal
of the amusement business. Both
Wurlitzer, biggest juke-box manu-
facturers, and Mills Novelty COM
pany, makers of slot machines,
Variety said, were interested in the
nickel-in-the-slot talking movie ma
chine.
Many people have been tinkering,
off and on, with the idea of nickel
odeon talkies" that could be operat-
ed in bars, cafes, railroad and bus
stations, and barbecue stands. The
projectors, automatic in operation
and requiring no projectionists,
would use 16 nm. sound film-far
less expensive than the SO nm. film
used in modern movie projectors.
The subjects" one nickel's worth,
run about three minutes each.
Present Is nm. projectors hold
about Is minutes of playing time.
AS each subject ends, the motor and
light automatically cut off, requir-
ing another nickel to restart the ma
chine.
Men who have surveyed the field
estimate that there is market for
100000 machines the first year.
Each installation would cost about
81 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
CAPITAL CHAFF

IVA is proud of the fact that the
state of Tennessee led the nation in
sales of electric ranges during the
first six months of this year.
Super-sleuth j. Edgar Hoover, who
has solved many a thorny crime
problem, is a collector of cactus
plants. Several of them decorate
his office, also his home.
When Big Bill Knudsen was asked
to explain the difference between
his work and that of Stettinius in
the defense commission, Knudsen
said: 'Stettinius gets the stuff;
make the pieces"
To learn what effect u. S. short
wave broadcasting really has in
Latin America, NBC has sent expert
Guy c. Hickok to make a survey in
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and
Bolivia /. =. At the rate of $50 a
day, state department receives ap-
plicationS for expectation of arms,
gasoline, iron and steel scrap, chem
icals, metals, and machine tools.
Ambassador Bill Bullitt is 40, but
he still plays fast game of tennis.
Pressure by the state department
has caused the National Defense
commission to order a supply of
diamonds from Brazil. This will
be part of the "stock pile" of emer-
gency materials to be accumulated
in this country in case of war, since
diamonds are essential for drills and
machine tools. The defense COM
mission wanted to buy them from
South Africa, but the state depart
ment interviewed in favor of a Pan
American neighbor.
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otherwise; but such charter shall al
ways be in harmony with and subject
to the constitution and laws of the
state OF Minnesota. The legislature
may prescribe the duties of the COM
mission relative to submitting amend
ments of charter to the vote Of the
people. and shall provide that upon
legal voters of any such city or VIII
lage, by written petition, such COM
mission shall submit to the vote of
the people proposed amendments to
such charter set forth in said petition.
The board of freeholders above pro-
vided for shall be permanent. and all
the vacancies by death. disability to
perform duties. resignation or removal
from the corporate limits, or. expira..
by appointment In the same manner
as the original board was created. and
said board shall always contain its
full complement of members. II shall
be feature of all such charters that
there shall be provided. among other
things. for a mayor or chief magis-
trate, and a legislative body of either
one or two houses: IL of two houses,
at least one of them shall be elected
by. general vote OF the electors. In
submitting any such charter or
amendment thereto to the qualified
voters of such city or village any al
ternate section or article may be
presented for the choice of the voters.
and may be voted on separately
without prejudice to other articles or
sections of the charter or any amend
ments thereto. The legislature may
provide general laws relating to
affairs of cities, the application OF
which may be limited to cities of
over fifty thousand inha bitants, or to
cities of fifty and not less than twenty
thousand inhabitants. or to cities OF
twenty and not less than ten thou
sand inhabitants or less. which shall
apply equally to all such cities Of
either class, and which shall be para
mount while in force to the provisions
relating to the same matter included
in the local charter herein provided
for. But no local charter. provision or
ordinance passed Hereunder shall
supersede any general law OF the
state defining or Furnishing crimes or
misdemeanors."
Purpose and Effect
The purpose and effect of the proposed
amendment is to require publication o
to home rule charters ono,
each week for four (4) successive week.
In a legal newspaper Of general Sircula
tlon In such city or village instead O.
publication In three (3) newspapers o.
general circulation In such city or viiIag,
Tor at least thirty 500 days as now re-
quired.
There are many cities and village.
which do not have three local newspapers
In such cases, under the present provl
sion, publication must be made In news
papers printed elsewhere and circulating
publication will be required II
only one qualified newspaper, thereby re.
duclng the difficulty and expense Of
homo rule charters.
Very truly yours,
J. A. A. eURNoUisT,
Attorney General
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24

iron enough money to buy a num-
Der of smart new accessories for
her living room.
She discovered that a diagonal
dart, which took up the curtains
at the back, threw more fullness
to the front, thus giving the new
high drape a smart line. Tie
backs and valance were made of
lowered chintz in rose and plum
tones, lined with plain plum col
ored chintz. One yard of each
kind of chintz was required for
each window.
NOTE: The chintz covered lamp shade
and the spool table also add interest to
this window. Full directions for making
a shade like the one illustrated are In
SEWING. Book /. Directions for the spool
table are In Book S; also descriptions Of
the first four booklets in this series. There
are 30 homemaking projects in each num-
Der; for which there is service charge
of 10c each to cover cost and mailing
Send order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
GERMAN OCCUPATION

Intelligence reports from Europe
indicate that it is not the German
army but German civilians in
France who are causing trouble.
These reports state that the Nazis
already have begun to create their
Wanted unification of Europe and
their reduction of France to a mere
agricultural state.
Following the conquering Nazi
armies, there came German civil
ians in numbers almost as great.
They settled down in evacuated
French homes and began to operate
abandoned French shops and fac
torieS-and to take over others
which had not been abandoned. All
this in the vital industrial area of
north France.
Reports about the conduct of Ger
mans in France make a sharp dis
tinction between the German mill
tary and civilian elements. Little
complaint was heard of the conduct
of the German military, but when
the Gestapo and the Brown Shirts
followed, together with civilian
groups for the management of in
dustry, real friction developed.
British victory over Germany
would require not only success in
staving off invasion but also driving
the Germans out of the Low Coun-
tries and France-and this means
not only the German soldiers, but
the hordes of civilians who have
taken over management of French
industry as if it were their own.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
SmeIl-Sound Pictures

Two Swiss inventors claim they
have an invention that synchronizes
20 smells with sound and sight in
modern screen epic. They call
their invention the Tolerated talk
ing picture"
They are enthusiastic about the
way their invention makes movie
dramas more vivid. They claim they
can produce 5000 smells with odor-
ated apparatus but they don't adj
wise any producer to put them all
in one film. They refuse to tell
how their device works.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
Inattention, Not Old Age

If your memory is poor, it is not
because you are getting on" in
years, but. because you are more
attentive to other interests, away
from the immediate environment,
according to a scientific study re-
Gently made.
How often has ''my most embar-
RAISING moment" come to you be-
cause you didn't remember the
name of a companion, that you knew
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rM1adl{aQa
EMERRfG0-R0uND
Washington, d. C..
OPPOSITION COOLS OFF
JAPANESE

When Cordell Hull wants to turn
on his Tennessee mountain wrath he
can do magnificent job, and the
word which leaked out of his inner
sanctum is that this was the kind of
job he did when Japanese Am
bassador Horinouchi called on him
just after the United States had de-
cided to recall its citizens from
China.
The Hull dressing down, together
with internal reactions in Japan,
seems to have cooled off the jap
anese somewhat Intelligence re-
ports reaching Washington indicate
that danger of a Japanese declara-
ton of war against Britain, over the
opening of the Burma road, is ebb-
ing. What the Japanese are expect
ed to do is to subject the Burma
road, with its incoming supplies of
munitions for the Chinese army, to
as intensive bombing as is pos
sible from air bases in south China
and adjacent French Indo-China.
AS far as any attack upon the
United States is concerned, all the
reports received in army and navy
circles-and they have been study
ing the situation as carefully as they
know how-are that Japan cannot
and will not risk war with the United
States.
In the first place, her navy has
fuel oil for only 21z months. Her
army has gasoline for only three
months. And perhaps even more
important, there is reported to be
considerable division of opinion in
side the Japanese government
One group, headed by Prince
Konoye, feels that Japan is merely
being used by Hitler and the Axis
to scare the United States away
from more aid to the British. In
fact, Konoye vigorously opposed
signing the alliance, but finally had
to yield to more aggressive Foreign
Minister Matsuoka and the war min
lister. In addition, American observ-
ers detect an uneasy feeling among
the japanese people and increasing
rumblings of unrest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
Frilled Curtains Give
Glamour to Windows
By RUTH wYETH SPEARS

HE newest frilled curtains give
= full, lavish effect. If they
make your old curtains look a bit
detected, like those shown here
at the right, don't be discouraged.
The window at the left uses those
same curtains with a dash Of
glamour added. This economy
trick saved a certain young ma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24

Visual Defects

One-third of the applicants to drive
school buses in five North Carolina
counties were found to have visual
defects. All except one of these
rejected failed in two or more
visual tests. Three applicants were
found to be blind in one eye. Com
menting on these figures, the Better
Vision institute points out that there
are $4,000 school buses in the Unit
ed States and urges that in the in
terest of safety school bus opera
tors should be given periodic eye
examinations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
ABSENTEE SENATE

If the Congressional Record told
the whole story, it would reveal that
congress, during the past month, has
been fed up with its own sessions.
Interest has been low, attendance
slack, and members who haven't
gone home show lack of interest.
When the senate convenes, the
clerk has to run through the roll
call several times before he can get
quorum. This does not appear in
the Congressional Record, where the
roll calls are consolidated into one.
Sometimes, in desperation, the
clerk counts as present some men,
bers who have called up by tele-
phone from their offices, and an
nounces that 40 members have an
swered to their names. But Sena-
tor Vandenberg objects. eve don't
legislate by telephone he says.
Where do you get 40? 1 only see
25." So roll is called again.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
Draft History to Repeat
AS Uncle Sam Gets Busy

The BMke-W ads,Corth BILL
military be,ceen the 81 and 3 inclusive recalls the
scenes Of 1917 hen Uncle Sam drafted his for the World
As in 1917 there enough around and dees
be forced to train oifh wooden Physical m
not be strict those used in selecting for the regular
peaceime but the chosen specimens
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
GEN e RAJ
HUGH S.
JOHN SON
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Washington, d. {
FAR EASTERN CRISIS

What is the great crisis off the
coast of China which so plainly
threatens US with war with Japan?
1t is that Japan, Germany and
Italy have agreed that if any other
nation makes war on any one of
them, the three will join to defend
each other. There is nothing new
about that kind of defensive alliance.
That is the kind of agreement that
France and England had with Po-
land which brought on this new
world war when Germany attacked
Poland. That turned Hitler's threat
west when it was headed east. 1t is
the kind of agreement that France
had with all the small nations
around Germany which were Gre
ated by the Treaty of Versailles-the
so-called Gordon Sanitaire, which
didn't work except to destroy Eu-
rope.
But now it is said that a war be-
tween us and Japan is Immediately
threatened because of this very
usual, but not very sensible, triple
alliance. Why? Because our people
want to fight a war against yellow
men in Asia? Ninety-nine per cent
of them don't, 80 per cent wouldn't
even know what the issues are.
We are told that our great danger
is eastward, in Europe, that Hitler
is our menace. Yet here is ''situ-
alton" that threatens to embroil us
$4,000 miles from the heart of that
danger-6,000 miles westward from
our own coasts.
What American interests are
threatened there? Principally some
Standard Oil properties and, so far
as China is concerned, not $500, 000,-
600 altogether-that plus an insig-
nifcant annual trade total. Our
principal trade is with Japan. Such
a war would cost us that and un-
counted billions more, and get us
nothing. Our flag is in the Philip
pines-with our promise to the Fill
ipinos made at their request, to with
draw it. Our interests there are al
most negligible. The argument of
our dependence on Indo-China and
Malaysia for rubber and tin is a
light makeweight for war, recently
greatly discounted or completely ex-
ploded.
Why then are we being showed
to the edge of war without the will
of the people or congress, and with
no more reason than has been stated
here; largely on the support of a
few cocky professional admirals and
a fewer amateur military kibitzers?
Reasons other than political ex-
pediency" are advanced. Our great
naval strategist, Walter Lippmann,
calls what is going on the battle of
oceans. Mr.. Winston Churchill
seems to assume a British-Ameri-
can naval alliance already in being.
Several others of like mind say it
is up to us to destroy the japanese
navy before it can grow further or
receive aid from any other navy.
Why? We are committed to
navy large enough for hemisphere
defense. England may need abso-
lutte naval supremacy not only in
hemisphere but around the world.
She needs it because the "Sun never
sets on the British domain" She
needs it to keep weaker peoples in
subjugation. Is it our policy to do
that for OlIrSelveS2
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
ELLIOTTS CAPTAINCY

ELLIOTTS CAPTAINCY
Elliott Roosevelt says I am eds.
gushing old man." and now, in the
same connection, Ernest Lindley
says I am Mexican jumping bean.
In criticizing the appointment by OBJ
vious favoritism of draft-eligible
young Elliott to a soft, non-com-
blatant job as kiwi air captain,
didn't call any names. didn't even
assess any blame to any of the
Roosevelt family except inadvert-
ence. This column has opposed at
lacking the President for the errors
of his kin and has consistently de-
Tended the latter.
l still insist that Mr.. Roosevelt
did not originate the error of Eli
otis appointment. For one reason,
he is too good politician to permit
this bitter and unnecessary affront,
directly or indirectly, to almost ev-
cry home and mother in America.
Even that political conclusion is
a little bit unfair. F.D.R. likes to
emulate IRIS boys, who in 1917
or before, rushed to combat service.
Some served in England's armies
before 1917. I forget the exact
record, but, as remember, all saw
front-line service; all, l seem to
recall, came away bearing honor
able scars; one, I think, was wound
ed three times; one was gassed,
and one, / know-the youngest and
Observation-Disclosures from the skies in
flaming death, lies buried by his
chivalrous enemies in the fields of
France. When they sought to bring
the honored little that was left of
him home to his mother, T.R. wrote
Gen. Peyton March, who had also
lost son, "Where the tree falls,
there let it lie."
This was the kind of service and
sacrifice, without ''favor or affec-
ton" on which the success of both
the World war draft and the World
war army depended absolutely.
You can't make me believe that
the President doesn't feel all this.
Nobody who knows him can fail to
respect his great personal gallantry.
This action of Elliott's must have
made his heart cringe. He has suf-
fered more hurt from such errors of
others than from anything he him.
self ever imagined.
In general, too, nobody can criti-
CHE his philosophy about that. His
children are all adults. They must
live their own lives. I never saw a
man so shrink from nagging others.
In spite of his political purges and
strategy, he does less personal bull
doing than anybody I ever knew.
There is something so gentle, ap-
pealing, heroic and attractive about
that man that don't know how any
body who knows him can really
''hate Roosevelt" I don't. In spite
of almost complete disagreement,
the fact is just the reverse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-24
New Line

New Line
"What became of the ventrilo-
quist you used to have?" asked
the visitor to the circus.
"He left u.s." replied the man.
ager. 'He found he could make
more money selling parrots.
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False Prudence

There is a courageous wisdom;
there is also a false, reptile pru-
dence, the result not of caution,
but of fear.-Burke.