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Evening star., 1940-02-10
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Don't Take Ny
Word for II
Pin,ento
Pimento
Noun. The Spanish paprtka,
used for stutfng olives.

Question-Which Is correct, pi-
mento or pimiento? I have noticed
both. D, B.
Answer-Pimento is the Angli-
cized version of the Spanish pim-
iento. Either is correct; the first,
however, is the form most fre-
quently used in the United States,
except, perhaps in California.
Note-The first choice pronun-
citation of paprika is "PAP-ri-kuh." :"
Second choice is 'pap-REE-kuh."
Correct pronunciation: Pimento,
pim- -EN-toe; pimiento. pee-MYEN-
toe. Capitals indicate syllables to
be accented0
Question-Will you please tell us
how to pronounce Pinocchio?
F.W.
Answer-In Italian the combina-
ton "cch" has the sound of "k";;
the q" has the long "e" sound of
unique; co. is long as in toe. Ac-
cent the second syllable. Correct
pronunciation: Pee-NOEK- -yoe.
QueStion-1s business a three
syllable word, as "bus-i-ness?"
G. r. D.
Answer-No. The correct pronun-
citation is "BIZ-nesS."
For a personal answer to your
question about words, send a
stamped (3-cent), self addressed
envelope to Frank Colby, care
The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
By Fronk Beck
By WiIlord
By Mormon Marsh
By Bud Fisher

thump way up where I was sitting.
But it didn't even knock the wind
out of him, and the way he scam
pered out of sight was funny to
see. He started for home just as
fast as his legs would take him,
and there wasn't a sound from that
usually noisy tongue of his. I sup
pose Chatterer will boast the rest
of his life about that big jump. but
1t was something to boast about.
It certainly was. Any one who can
make q jump like that has . right
TO boast"
Evening star., 1940-02-10

Among the provisions advocated
for the constitution are: Indemnity
for false arrest and erroneous prison
terms, a ban on holding prisoners
incommunicado in any circum-
stances, and a ban on forcing any
person to confess or to testify
against wife, husband or parents.
Evening star., 1940-02-10

BILLY couldn't have made that
Jump. He would have broken his
neck If he had tried it. In the
first place, he couldn't have fiat
tened himself out as Chatterer did.
Then his tail wouldn't have helped
him bit. Billy's tail is round,
and q round tail wouldn't have been
of any earthly use in such a jump
rs that. Nothing but fiat tail
would have been any help there,
and that is the kind Of tail Chat
terer has.
eWhen he landed he hit the
ground pretty hard. ! heard the
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Cuban Move Seeks End
Of Death Penalty

Abolition of the death penalty
and life imprisonment will be de-
manded by the Association for the
Protection of Prisoners when the
Constituent Assembly meets to
frame q new constitution, officials
of the organization have announced
in Havana, Cuba.
The maximum prison term should
be 20 years, the asNociation urges.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
jolly Polly
4 Little Chat on Etiquette
BY JOS. j. FRISCH.

v. c. S.-A man takes his posi-
ton next the curb, whether walking
with one woman or two. He does
not sandwich himself between two
women, regardless of the fact that
many artists illustrate this incor-
rect arrangement in comic strips
and advertisements. When two
men and woman walk together,
the woman walks between the men.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Children Sing During Fire

While firemen fought a blaze in
the hall where several hundred
children were attending a Sunday
school concert of Middle Church in
Paisley, Scotland, the children sang
popular choruses. The blaze had
started under the platform. When
it was extinguished the children
drank the health of the f1ref1ghters
in tea.
Solution to Yesterdays Puzzle
Evening star., 1940-02-10

But that red scamp did it, and
didn't even get hurt.
when he left the top Of that
tree he jumped straight out as hard
as he &C lid, and then he flattened
himself right out. He stretched his
arms and legs out sideways just
as far as he could. That nat red
tail Of his helped him. 1t helped
him keep his balance. I never be-
fore saw any use for that tail Of
his, but now I understand why Old
Mother Nature gave 1t to him.
Never In The world could he have
Evening star., 1940-02-10

made such Jump as that without
the help of that tail.
"He flattened himself out so that
he didn't go down as fast as any
one would have expected him to.
OF course, he didn't sail down any
thing like as easily as his cousin,
Timmy the Flying Squirrel, would
have done, but neither did he go
down as fast as any one else I
know of would have done. You
ought to have seen Billy Mink. He
stretched 50 far out watching that
1t was + wonder he didn't tumble
out Of hat tree.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.

In the Green Forest they still tell
about the great Jump Of Chatterer
the Red Squirrel. Sammy Jay, who
saw it, has told the story Of it over
and over again. Il wouldn't have
believed it possible if I hadn't seen
1t with my own eyes," Sammy de-
clares. Il wouldn't have believed
that any one without wings could
Jump from the top Of that tree to
the ground and not kill himself.
Evening star., 1940-02-10

In spite Of damage to the mines
by last years earthquake, Chile's
1899 production "a coal was nearly
as great ss In the previous year.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Points for Parents
RY EDYTH THOE

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
With a little planning. children's
desire for actiDity can be satisfied
,Dithout allo,Ding then, to abuse the
furniture.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Two Men Using Gasoline
To Clean Floor Burned

Two men were burned yesterday in
a fire which broke out in a fourth
floor apartment at 1888 Newton
street NV. Firemen battled the
flames for some time before bring
ing them under control.
The burned men are Newlan
Wyvill, A. of Silver Spring, Md,
who was taken to Garfield Hospital
with third-degree burns, and George
w. Fritts, SIS, also of Silver Spring.
who was treated for burns to his
hands and forearms.
The two had been cleaning a
floor in the apartment, using gaso-
line and rags. Apparently. friction
started the fire, routing the work.
men, and Miss Mary E. O'Connor,
an occupant. Her sister, Miss Mar
garet M. O'Connor, who shares the
place with her, was at work at the
time. Other occupants of the
building fled to the street.
Furniture in the apartment was
burned before firemen could get
the blaze out. j. M. McInerney,
fireman off duty who was passing,
received f1rst-aid treatment for an
injury to his hand, suffered while
he was helping fight the blaze.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Swiss Army Closes
Canton of VoIois

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 5
RD.-The Swiss army today closed
the southern Valais canton, COW
ering the st. Bernard and Simplon
passes in the Alps and bordering
on what might be battle-ground
between France and Italy, to all
civilians not living in the zone or
not equipped with special army
passes.
Foreigners by an earlier order of
the Valais cantonal authorities must
keep out of the entire canton unless
provided with special authorization.
The area affected, military observ-
ers pointed out. would be vital to
the Swiss in event of any invasion
from Italy.
The new order covers all Swiss
territory south of Lake Leman and
the Rhone and includes the st.
Bernard Monastery, the Simplon
pass and tunnel. Zermatt and other
resort towns and the Matterhorn
and Monterosa-the highest peak in
the Alps.
Strict military road control was
established at all entrances of roads
leading up from the Rhone on the
south.
One purpose of the new order. it
was said, is to prevent any possible
fifth column activity on precipitous
mountain roads where a few we'll
armed men might halt many troops.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Suspect in S|ashing
OF Three Held for jury

Waving hearing and pleading
not guilty, Arthur P. Davis. %, COL.
ored, of 705 Fairmont street NV.
yesterday was held for action of the
grand jury on charge of assault
with dangerous weapon in connec-
ton with a fight at Ninth and H
streets NE. Saturday night.
Police Court Judge Walter ].
Casey set bond at $4,000. Three
additional charges will be brought
against the defendant before the
grand jury, police declared.
The prisoner is accused of slash
ing three white men in a running
hight following an argument be-
tween the drivers of two automobiles.
The victims were Reginald T. Will
Kins, "a, of l704 Sixteenth street
Sc; Morgan A. Kieffer, 80, of 322
street NE, and Albert Wing, 35,
OF 144l Chaplin street NV. Police
said that Mr.. Wilkins and Mr.. Kief-
fer were reported to be in serious
condition at Casualty Hospital. Mr..
Wing received only a minor cut on
his right hand.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
London Newspaper
Charges Woodring
Blocks Aid 10 Allies
Intrigues With Dissidents
To NuIIify Lifting Of
Embargo, 1t Declares
BY WILLIAM H. sTONEMAN,

Chicago Daily News FOREIGN Correspondent.
LONDON, June 5.-Failure Of the
United States to act more swiftly
IN providing the Allies with guns
and materials is attributed, by the
Washington correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, largely to
Harry H. Woodring, American Secre-
tary of War, whom he describes as
the leader of the obstructionist
group.
Political mischance," he writes,
"has placed him at the head of his
country's War Department at the
most critical stage in world history.
Before the war began, Woodring
was working with isolationist lead
ers in Congress to prevent the sale
OF planes to the French and British
Purchasing Commissions. After the
war broke out, he began intriguing
with congressional dissidents to
nullify the lifting of arms embargo
and make it impossible for any
modern planes to be sold. Not until
March 81 was this plan defeated
and the policy adopted of releasing
modern planes for export.
Though thWarted over plane
sales, Woodring has been able to
maintain the departmental order
of March IA, blocking any sale by
the War Department of its surplus
goods to any Allied agent or any
one suspected of being an Allied
Intermediary. Actually, there is
nothing in international law, nor in
the United States Neutrality Act,
forbidding such sales.
About 100000 Enfield rifles,
l, 800 field guns and other arms In
smaller quantities would be avail
able If this departmental order were
withdrawn. The President, as COM
mander in chief of the Army. could
rectify this anomalous situation by
stroke of the pen"
tCopyrisht, 1910. Chicago Daily News, Incl
Evening star., 1940-06-05
-Four Swiss Planes FeIIed
In Battle, Germans Soy

BERLIN, June S (Pp-A Swiss
German air battle was reported to-
day by German spokesman to have
resulted in the shooting down of one
German and four Swiss planes. The
spokesman asserted that the Swiss
attacked first.
The battle, which occurred either
Monday night or early yesterday.
was said to have taken place over
French territory where the Germans
were carrying out operations.
The Swiss high command an
nounced that two or three" Ger
man planes were believed to have
been shot down by Swiss fighters
over the Swiss Jura Mountains. The
loss of one Swiss plane was acknowl-
edged.
The German planes were believed
by the Swiss to have strayed from
squadrons attacking the Rhone VAL
ley in France. They were said to
have crossed the Swiss frontier in
the face of anti-aircraft fire
The German spokesman said the
battle started when the Swiss force
shot down one of the German
planes.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Annenberg in Court
Awaiting Sentence

CHICAGO, June 5 (P.-The Fed
eral Government told Judge James
H. Wilkerson today M. L. Annen-
berg's desire to evade his income
taxes was as keen as it was to make
the income"
His net worth, the Government
declared, climbed from s7.858,34335
in January, 1880, to s19,496 .308. rs in
June of 1898, an increase of $11,-
637.965.41.
The Government submitted a
108-page statement in its vast in
come tax case against the Phila-
delphia publisher prior to his
scheduled sentencing on a plea of
guilty to having evaded $1,2l7,296 70
of income taxes for 1896.
Also in court for sentencing was
Joseph E. Hafner, business associate
of Mr.. Annenberg. who pleaded gull
ty to having aided and abetted the
1896 evasion.
Mr.. Annenberg, 81, who emigrated
from Germany as boy and rose to
a position OF one of America s
wealthiest men, came to the packed
courtroom with his son Walter: Ar
mold w. Kruse, Chicago. secretary
of Mr. Annenberg's main holding
company and a co-defendant, and
counsel.
William j. Campbell, United
States district attorney, briefly
summarized the long statement for
the court and said the publishers
civil tax liabilities and those of his
many corporations from 1923 to
1888, inclusive, had been settled for
So 900 900.
Before submitting the statement
to Judge Wilkerson Mr.. Campbell
declared "It has been the policy OF
the Department of Justice to make
no recommendation to the court as
to sentence" The maximum is five
years imprisonment and $4,000
fine.
An assistant to Mr.. Campbell
continued reading an abstract OF
the statement.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Decision 10 Give Aid
IsUp 10 Americans,
Says Lord Lothian
Hitler Is Pictured as
Wanting British Fleet
To Goin World Dominance
BY the Associated Press.

0y tne associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-The Mar
guess OF Lothian, Britain's Ambas-
sador to the United States, told
Americans yesterday that "of course
We want your help-any help in
munitions you can give us-and
without delay but added that
what you do about this is for you,
yourselves. to decide"
In an address at Columbia Uni
versity before he received an hon
orary doctor of laws degree, he de-
clared that England believed that
the very essence of free civilization
is individual and national response
bility. We therefore accord to YOU
exactly the same freedom of deci-
sion as we claim ourselves"
Then he added: What Hitler is
now after, of course, is the British
fleet, for if he can seize that, he
steps from the domination of Eu-
rope to the domination of the
world. 80
If the British Navy were to dis
appear the communications of the
British Commonwealth would be at
HltlerS mercy, and there would be
no superior armed power to prevent
Hitler and his friends from thunder
ing on your doorsteps if they wanted
to do So"
In the long run Hitlerism cannot
Wln-provided there are enough peo-
pie to resist it," he said. The brutal
savagery of the National Socialist
movement will destroy itself. But
Hitler may we'll be the scourge of
God which will force the free world
to abandon the selfshness and ma
terialism which have been its un-
doing"
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Annenberg
Continued From First Page.

and the ranch in Wyoming, as we'll
as other property"
The $8OOO,OOO settlement was
much larger than the approximately
$5,500000 evasion total of which
Mr. Annenberg was accused in a
Chicago case. Mr. Helvering ex-
planned that the discrepancy ap-
peared because the Chicago indict-
ment covered only the years 1886
| while the civil settlement covered
1923-38.
In every case of tax evasion, he
continued, the Government has two
courses of action, one criminal and
one civil Even though the taxpayer
is punished on the criminal action
the Treasury still claims the taxes
for which he has been punished and
demands a civil settlement
One of Largest Settlements.
Mr. Helvering said the only diff
ference between this case and many
others regularly handled by the
Treasury was the size of the An
nenberg claims. He said that as far
as he could recall, the Annenberg
settlement was the largest in any
individual income tax case.
Mr.. Helvering said Mr.. Amen
berg was given permission, if he
chooses to take a long time to pay,
to remit slOOO,OOO a year in 1910,
l94l and 1912, after which he will
owe about $6,0O0,00O because part
of the first three years payments
will be devoted to interest. The
last S6,OOO,OO0 must be paid with
interest by the end of 1916.
Although Mr.. Helvering did not
discuss details of the Annenberg in
come, the Chicago indictment re-
vealed that much of it came from
the operation of a horse racing in
formation service.
Elements of Fraud Cited.
1T was case" Mr.. Helvering
said, which contained elements of
fraud of almost every description
and showed gross evasions of in
come tax. When the taxpayer and
those associated with him had been
indicted, astonishment and in
nocence were at once expressed, but
ultimately Mr.. Annenberg entered
plea of guilty.
Immediately following a plea of
guilty entered by Mr.. Annenberg on
April %, negotiations were begun by
the taxpayers attorneys for set
tlement of the tax liability.
This civil liability was arrived at
without any reference to the tax
payers criminal liability.
The agreement which has just
been entered into between the tax
payer and the Treasury Department
is a result of the conferences held
here and disposes of the civil liabil-
ity in this case. The tax liability
was in the amount of $8,OOO,O ,OO0.''
Evening star., 1940-06-05

Of personnel losses-30,OO killed,
wounded and missing.
Lengthening newspaper lists of
deaths in active service" brought
home the grimness of the Flanders
battle even more than communiques
and the Prime Minister'S words.
The Times said Mr.. Churchill's
speech "breathed the spirit of Shake
speare's England" and added that
whatever happens to the English
and Frenchmen, Great Britain and
France are unconquerable."
The Manchester Guardian, COM
menting on the possibility of help
from across the Atlantic, said: al
ready the more far-seeing minds of
the new world realize that they can
not hold aloof from the struggle in
which we are here engaged. Their
freedom also is challenged if 1t is not
also at stake"
Evening star., 1940-06-05

Gastroscopes Reveal
Stomach U|cerCures
By Proper Feeding
Good Food and Vitumins
Are Effective Medicine,
Doctor Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Underfeed-
ing causes stomach ulcers, and good
food, plus vitamins and especially
vitamin C, cures the ulcers very
quickly.
Discovery of the existence of these
heretofore unknown ulcers was re-
ported to the National Cas-
archaeological Association yester-
day by DR.. A. L. Levin of the
Louisiana State University School
Of Medicine.
The discovery was made possible
by virtually new medical instru-
ment, the gastroscope-the long,
sword-swallower tube through which
physicians look directly into the
human stomach
DR.. Levin can take motion pictures
in color through his gastroscope. He
showed one of the underfeeding
ulcers in still color pictures. A week
of good food and vitamins caused it
to disappear.
This kind of ulcer is not detachable
with x-rays, he said, but they are
common among the undernourished
The existence of syphilis of the
stomach has been definitely estab-
lished with the gastroscope, DR..
Levin further reported.
Evening star., 1940-06-05

might be serious, specifically with
relation to the Panama Canal"
One high official later said the
reason Mr.. Roosevelt asked the
power to call out the National
Guard was the possibility that Reg
ular Army troops might have to
cope with an emergency elsewhere
on the hemisphere.
II 1t was necessary to mobilize the
Guard, this official said, it would be
used to believe regulars who might
have to be sent to the Panama
Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, or some
other point outside the United
States.
There was a hint yesterday from
Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Committee that the United
States might be negotiating for mil
itary bases in Central and South
America. This was denied. however,
by Mr.. Roosevelt at his press con-
ference.
A bill providing for a Gordon
OF naval air bases around the con-
tinental United States, plus an in
crease in naval air strength to
10000 planes and 5000 pilots, CALL
Ing for expenditures of s2,250 900 900
to be paid from future appropria-
tions, received Senate approval and
was sent to the House for concur
rnece in minor amendments.
The House, meanwhile, was ap-
proving compromise $I,492. .542. $50
naval appropriation bill for the
coming fiscal year. Senate ratif-
cation of some House changes is
necessary before it goes to the Pres
ident.
AS these two measures reached
their final legislative stages, Presi-
dent Roosevelt made a detailed re-
quest for appropriate and con-
tract authorizations amounting to
$1,277, TAI, ITO. The items were a
breakdown of the recommendations
in his defense message of last week.
The immediate necessity of pre-
paredness, Secretary Wallace said
in an address drafted for the radio,
means that we must move as fast
as we can utilize our idle men, idle
money and idle factories in the pro-
duction of guns, munitions, air.
planes, tanks and ships.
I'VE don't know yet how much
the total cost will be. If we should
have to use as great a proportion
of our income on military pre-
paredness as Germany has been
using Of her income during the last
four years, we would have to spend
perhaps $4,000, 600, 900 a year
While he did not advocate such
a program, he remarked that it
would. during the period that it was
under way. "end the unemployment
problem and that part of the agri-
cultural problem which is domestic"
and would more than make up for
the loss Of our foreign markets.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Bitter Flanders Fight
Costs Both Sides
Staggering Losses
Nozis Complete Conquest
OF Holland and Belgium
In 26 Days
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Conclusion of the great battle OF
Flanders, signalized by the fall OF
Dunkeroue Yesterday, left the Ger
mans in complete possession of all
Holland, Belgium and approximate
~ 10000 square miles of Northern
France after 26 days of the bitterest
fighting the world has known.
Inc price paid bv the Germans
Tor their lightning conquest and the
losses suffered by the Allies are OBJ
scured by conflicting claims, but
neutral military experts agree that
the cost to both sides in men and
materials has been enormous.
This is how the rival claims
stack up:
Casualties-The Germans eSti-
mate Allied dead and wounded at
between 100000 and 100000 men
and place their own casualties at
only 10,252 killed, 8643 missing and
42,523 wounded Allied estimates of
German losses range from 100000 to
100000 dead and wounded, against
10000. The French have not esti-
mated their casualties. Belgian
losses also are unreported. The
Foreign Minister of the Netherlands
on May IS said 100000 men of the
Dutch Army had been killed. Nine
days later, DNB, German official
news agency, said Dutch Army
900 dead and wounded.
36 Allied Vessels Lost.
Naval losses-The British have
acknowledged the loss of Destroy
ers and % minor naval vessels in
the withdrawal from Dunkerque
and the French have admitted loss
of 7 destroyers. The Germans,
denying any naval losses themselves,
claim to have sunk enemy cruisers,
l3 destroyers, 5 submarines, l auXil-
larry cruiser 81 commercial vessels
or transports and 10 lesser naval
ships. In addition, the Germans
say they damaged 10 cruisers. "a de-
stroyers, 3 torpedo boats, % other
war vessels and 1T merchant ships.
Planes: German losses in planes
have been put by Allied sources at
more than $500, against which the
British have officially admitted the
loss of 302 craft: the French have
not announced their own losses.
The Germans put their own losses
at 432 planes and say they shot
down 1.841 Allied craft and de-
stroyed between 1000 and 1,7OO more
on the ground.
Costly in Material.
Losses in war materials-Prime
Minister Churchill yesterday ad-
mitted that British losses in mate
rial in the retreat from Dunkerque
were enormous "-including almost
1000 cannon and all the armored
units and motor vehicles belonging
to the army in Flanders. The Ger
mans say the British lost weapons
and equipment for 10 to 80 complete
divisions, including guns of all cali
bers, armored cars and other motor
vehicles.
Prisoners-The Germans report
the capture Of 100000 prisoners,
including about 100000 French and
British and the entire Dutch and
Belgian Armies, numbering respec-
lively 400, 900 and 100000 men. The
Allies have not announced figures
on the number of Germans cap
tured.