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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-06
One State Appropriation
Was Figured Closely
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 6.-The States
$4,000 appropriation for the Toll
chester ferry literally was figured
down to the last pennies, a fiscal
year summary by the controller
office showed today. Total amount
spent, $1,000 90; appropriations bal
ance on September 80, cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-06

To increase the standard of ma
tional health and work capacity
Mexico's public health department is
studying plan for scientific feeding
of the masses.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Savings Looms Advance
34.4 Pct. for Month

The increase in November volume
Of savings. building and loan as
sociation advances over the same
month Of the previous year was 34.4
per cent. the largest Improvement
over 1898 business reported for any
of the first II months Of 1899. A. D.
Theobald, assistant vice president
OF the United States Savings and
Loan League, says that this was
the sixth successive month that saw
more lending business than its
counterpart month in every year
since 1880.
A total of s86,o76 900 was loaned
for new home construction, repairs
and modernization, purchase Of
homes, refinancing and miscellane-
GUS purposes, practically two thirds
of it being for the buying and build
ing of homes. Volume was 66 per
cent less than in October in line
with seasonal expectations, but the
fall-of was considerably less than
between the two months in 1898.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Permits
Continued From First Page.)

to make repairs, $50 Twenty fifth
street NV; to cost $1,000.
Fanny I. Leese, ct al, owners;
Dana B. Johannes, jr., designer; to
make repairs, ITO Eleventh street
NV; to cost $1,750.
Dave Herson, 303 Rock Greek
Church road NV, owner; Columbia
Sheet Metal, 1718 Seventh street
NV, builders; to make repairs,
17O6 Seventh street NV; to cost
5000.
Herbert Isham, owner; George
Dulaney, 3116 E street Sc, designer
and builder; to erect one 1-story
frame addition, 1920 Ely place S.E.;
to cost $700.
Sanitary Grocery Co., Inc, 1845
Fourth street NE, owners; Edward
w. Dreyfuss, architect; H. S. Ward,
1402 Spring road NV, builder; to
make repairs, 3178-3180 Mount
Pleasant street NV; to cost $500.
Central Visible Lunch Rooms, 720
Thirteenth street NV, owners:
Bernard Lyon Freshman, 513 Bu-
chanan street NV, builder; to make
repairs, 720 Thirteenth street NV;
to cost $795.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Has Its Points

SEDALIA, Mo. R)-A Sedalia busi-
nessman Is wearing. house slippers
In his office. He purchased q pair
Of overshoes but when he got them
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Real Estute Boards
To Meet in PhiIodeIphio

Next annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards will be held in Philadelphia,
with the Philadelphia Real Estate
Board as host, the executive commit
tee of the association announces.
The convention will occupy the
week of November II. The Bellevue
Stratford hotel will be convention
headquarters.
Boyd T. Barnard. Philadelphia,
has been named by Charles J.
Mitchell, president of the host board,
as general chairman of its local
committees for the convention. Mr..
Mitchell, as president Of the board,
and John F. McClarren, as executive
vice president, will be ex-ofiicio
members of all these committees.
Newton c. Farr, Chicago, presi-
dent-elect of the association for the
year 1910, will be ex-officio chairman
of the general national committee on
plans for the convention.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Vornish Job Requires
Patience and Care

Care should be used in preparing
and applying varnish. Never store
varnish in q room where the temper
ature Is usually low. When you pour
1t from the can, pour it carefully
so that no air bubbles will form.
Be sure that there is no dust pres
ent on the surface to be vanished
and that minimum of dust Is in
the room. Use a first quality fiat
brush and dip it gently into the var.
nish so no air bubbles or froth may
form. When the brush Is not in use,
preserve it by soaking in raw oil.
Before using, however, work all oil
possible from it and then clean it
in turpentine and shake dry. When
applying the varnish lay 1t on with
out brushing it out too much. II
two coats are necessary, use quick
drying, harder type for the first coat
than you use for the latter. Two
coats of the same type are frequently
used, however, with good results.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

national rental index will make It.
self felt. There seems to be little
or no reason to expect any sudden
leap up in rental costs.
Home building will have to fight
its way through one barrier that is
arising, VIZ, higher costs. The in
terest Of the people In home owner
ship today, however, is sufficient to
combat considerable reactionary in
nuences in the price line. Rises in the
average family's income because of
business expansion will be enough,
In most cases, to Offset the antic-
ipated higher costs. so that ability
to buy will be about the same in
1910 as 1t was in 1889. taking 1t as a
whole. There will be an increased
demand. however, because Of the
emphasis upon . larger number Of
small. unpretentious homes which
will appeal to . wider market"
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Camera Thut Shoots

LEXINGTON, KY. R.-Dr. A. S.
Hendrick has two hobbies-photog-
raphy and the collection of old fire.
arms-so he combined the two in
a new telescope camera he now uses
to take pictures at long range. The
camera was made Of a sardine can
and an old fashlight. It is construct
ed so it can be held and aimed like
a pistol
Evening star., 1940-01-06
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plaster. The dealer from whom you
purchase the tile is equipped to in
stall 1t for you, or you can have it
done by your own tile setter.
One room serving the purpose of
two is popular these days. Living
room and dining room In one is
the most popular manifestation, al
though bedroom and dressing room,
two children's rooms, and bedroom
and study also are found.
Whenever you have two rooms in
one, your problem Is how to divide
them into two rooms on the special
occasions when this is necessary. OF
course, draperies or curtains will do
the trick, but not as we'll as the
new accordion-folding partitions
which were seen at the New York
World Fair and set house planners
scheming.
These new folding walls, which
operate on steel track in the CELL
ing. are the perfect answer to how
to divide one room into two easily
and attractively. The walls draw
out from two sides of the room
where, when not In use, they fold
in on themselves as a self-contained
unit adding, instead Of detracting,
from the decorative effect of your
room. No floor track is required, so
the partitions do not interfere with
carpets.
They are made Of a sturdy pre-
cision-built metal frame, covered
with fabric to harmonic with the
furnishing of your room. The metal
frame makes a firm foundation, the
fabric brings color and texture to
the room. Say you had one be-
tween q dining ell and the living
room proper. While the table was
being set for company dinner you
would draw the accordien-pleated
walls together. and your guests
could not see preparations going on
nor hear them. either. When it
was time to sit down, the walls
would be opened and pushed back to
make two or three feet of what
looks like drapery fabric at either
side of the entrance to the dining ell.
The frame and tacks and clip-on
jambs are made in stock sizes; each
covering must be specified by the
prospective owner. They cost from
81 so to $3.50 square foot, depend
ing on size and kind Of covering.
Because of all that steel and an
insulative layer between the fabric,
they are sound-resistant, too.
Evening star., 1940-01-06
Hard Come, Easy Go

BUENOS AIRES R.-Poor old
Sarmiento Thompson, all his life a
plunger, still doesn't know what it
feels like to have 1,5l0 pesos ($380
to spend he won that sum in the
races at Palmero race track here
and five minutes later some one
stole his wallet.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

transformed living room were so de-
lighted with their "Cinderella" room
that they continued working their
color magic on other rooms in the
house. The game challenged their
ingenuity and did not prove great
strain on their pocketbooks because
the work could be paid for monthly
out of income. They found that
the pleasure and satisfaction
derived far exceeded the cost of the
Transformation.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

Editors note: For further in
formation about products de-
scribed here, write the Misses
Ducas and Gordon, 80 West
Forty-flrst street, New York City,
and inclose stamped, sek-ad-
dressed envelope.
Evening star., 1940-01-06

on he discovered he couldn't remove
them without taking of the shoes
at the same time. He just dohs both
and settles down to solid comfort
at his desk.
Evening star., 1940-09-24

80 planned that the planes went out
and returned at regular intervals
like well-organized trains" the
commanding onicer Of one large air
drome said.
The Air Ministry indicated in a
special news bulletin that the first
strong raiding force left Berlin's
main power ststion and gas works
flaming beacons to guide the later
arrivals.
"One aircraft alone started large
fires which were visible 80 miles
away" the bulletin said.
After striking at the power works,
the British flyers swerved to the east
to bomb a railway junction, said
the bulletin.
Pilots also reported that a large
fire was burning steadily in the area
of the B. M. w. airplane engine
factory after incendiaries were
dropped. The Siemens Gable Works
also was set on fire. they said.
Associated Press correspondents
along the coast reported seeing Ger
man and British planes throughout
the night and in the early daylight
hours in ceaseless patrols over the
invasion danger zone"
During the hours of darkness re-
lays of German planes streaked
across for the 17th consecutive
dusk-to-dawn attack on London
ond rofds II, tho eo,,thooet rnrtb
west, the Midlands and Wales.
Waves Of British planes swept the
other way, returning to the aerial
pounding of German held coast
bases with bombings which Jared
watchers on the Kent cliffs and lit
the distant horizon like heat light
ming.
Striking through intense German
anti-aircraft fire, the Royal Air
Force hammered the French coast
from Dunkerque to Boulogne. 1t
was the second successive overnight
bombing Of the bases where massed
ships and barges have been seen
and German troops have been re-
ported.
Bombs Fall In Mid London.
London's own anti-aircraft guns,
firing up one of the heaviest bar
RACES Of the battle of Britain, held
OF most of the overnight raiders
from the central part of the city,
but some big bombs fell In mid
London shortly before dawn.
During most of the night the
suburbs were bombed more in
tensely than Central London. The
raids on the capital and elsewhere
were regarded as somewhat lighter
than other recent attacks.
A high-explosive bomb struck an
office building, smashing through
the top two stories. No one was
injured. A dozen other heavy ex-
plosives and fire bombs fell within
a short time in the central 'city
section.
Earlier the southwestern edge of
the city. business district in the
northwest and suburbs north Of
London were bombed. In the busi-
ness district two banks, a post Of
flee and an apartment house were
damaged. Fires apparently started
by a "Molotoff breadbasket" of in
cendiary bombs were extinguished
in a northern suburb.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
Spoin's Interest Spurred
By Attack on Dokor

MADRID. Sept. "a LP.-Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's French and
British attack on Dakar heightened
SPANS interest today in the war in
Africa.
Spanish observers expressed be-
lief that If the move to divorce Sem
egal from the French government
at Vichy succeeds, it might be fol-
lowed by strong agitation to sepa-
rate French Morocco from the Vichy
control also. Any such agitation,
they said. would concern Spain.
Meanwhile the Madrid press pre-
dicted that matters OF "transcenden-
tai Importance" would develop from
renewed interviews of Spanish Min
lister Ramon Serrano Suner with
German Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop in Berlin today and
tomorrow.
i, One dispatch from Berlin said the
interview would be definitive for
the great destinies whereto our
country is called" Some well-in-
formed sources. however. insisted
that Serrano Suner was not author
lied to make commitments for Spain.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
British Will Ask Jopon
To Explain SheIIing
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 24.-The Brit
ish Embassy announced yesterday 1t
was asking Japan for a full ex-
PLANTATION of the shelling Friday
by a Japanese warship of the 593-.
ton British steamer Marie Moller
as it rode at anchor in the Yantze
delta port of Haimen.
The embassy also disclosed that
three other British merchantmen
the 530-ton Jessie Moller, the 645-
ton Edith Moller and the 789-ton
Kong So-were reported detained by
the japanese.
A Reuters, British news agency,
report to London said the Marie
Moller started to leave Haimen
after a shell hit her, but was de-
tanned by the Japanese outside the
harbor.
The soil should be well aerated
when growing blueberries.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
Insurance Firms Increase
j. :. Bond investments
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24-Aid-
ing in the release Of capital for ma
tional defense purposes. American
life insurance companies have
sharply increased their investments
in Government bonds, says Holgar
]. johnson, president Of the Insti-
tute Of Life Insurance.
He told members Of the National
Association of Life Underwriters at
their annual convention yesterday
that:
"The American life insurance
companies are trying to do every
thing in their power to aid the ma
tional defense program. They have
invested $4,000, 600, ,0G0 in Govern
ment bonds during the past decade,
as compared to only $500, 1000, 900
prior to that time.
This investment permits release
Of capital for risk enterprise, such
as extension of factories for direct
preparedness purposes"
Evening star., 1940-09-24

ever, the French were replying to
the British cannon shot for cannon
shot" and said all landing attempts
would meet fierce resistance.
1t was indicated the British opera
tions were aimed at trying to sur
round the city by land and cut 1t
of from the interior. This move
was viewed here as prelude to an
attempt to wrest the entire colony
from the Petain regime.
The heavy fog which frequently
shrouds the coast at this time Of
year was said to be hampering the
movements of the British troopships.
Under cover of heavy gunflre
from warships, one transport ap-
preached Rufsque Bay and an
chored shortly before l am, said
dispatches reaching here. A land
ing party of not more than 200 men
Immediately set out for the shore.
They were met by machine-gun fire
and the Dakar dispatch said the
troops were forced back to their ship.
Several other less serious attempts
to land also were warded off by the
French forces at Dakar, said to
total four regiments, or 5000 men.
In telegram to Gov. Gen. Boisson
Marshal Philippe Petain expressed
his entire confidence in the French
African forces.
France is following with emotion
and confidence your resistance to
mercernary treason and British ag-
gression." said the telegram.
Under your high authority Dakar
is showing an example q courage
and fidelity. All metropolitan France
is proud of your attitude and reso-
luton and Of the forces you COM
mand. I congratulate you and ex-
press my entire confidence"
Aboard the transports was mixed
force Of British and French troops
led by Gen. de Gaulle, who has been
condemned to death as traitor by
the Vichy government for continu-
ing the war against Germany as
the self-styled leader of all free
Frenchmen."
Damage Not Known Immediately.
Information concerning the prog
reSS of the action was meager and
the extent of the damage caused by
Evening star., 1940-09-24

The soil should be well aerated
when growing blueberries.
Evening star., 1940-09-24

South Atlantic routes. 1t would play
an important part should the axis
powers begin any movement in
North Africa"
Dakar is about 1900 miles from
Natal, Brazil, the nearest point in
the Western Hemisphere. and about
1850 miles from British Guiana, site
of a United States hemisphere de-
fense base.
Communique Issued.
The Ministry of Information said
this communique had been received
from Gen, de Gaulle's headquarters:
Called to Dakar by numerous
Frenchmen anxious to continue the
fight at his side, Gen. de Gaulle
appeared with French soldiers and
sailors before the fortress.
The naval authorities at Dakar
ordered fire to be opened on Gen.
de Gaulle's emlssaries who had come
without weapons in motor launch
flying the tri-color and the white
4IdS VI k)dl lAdLlCllldl lcS.
These emlssaries were Capitaine
de Fregate Dargenlieu, Capt. Got
scho. Capt. Becourt Foch and Capt.
Perrin.
Fire Opened From Dakar.
"Capts. Dargenlieu and Perrin were
seriously wounded. Later, Gen. de
Gaulle having attempted to land
MS troops peacefully, fire was opened
by the Dakar authorities on the
French sloops Savorgnan de Brazza,
Commandant Duboc and Comman-
dants Domino. -s
Several were killed and many
wounded.
Gen. de Gaulle then withdrew his
troops and ships, not wanting to be a
party to a fight between French
men"
Capt. Foch is a grandson of Mar
shal Foch, allied generalissimo on
the western front in the World War.
He was a pilot in the French air
force and had flown also with the
Royal Air Forces Free french"
squadron.
The Savorgnan de Brazza is armed
with three 5.5-inch guns, four 81
millimeter anti-aircraft guns and
several machine guns. A 1969-ton
warship with a normal complement
of 1856, she is fitted as flagship.
Tho How (of,,
mine and Commandant Duboc. 630-
ton vessels, each mount two 39-inch
anti-aircraft and eight machine
guns.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
Dukur
Continued From First Page.)

Of state, would broadcast q state.
ment on the situation)
Admiral Darlan, in his order to
the naval forces, said the Petain-
Laval government was counting on
the ardent patriotism of the fleet
for the defense of the empire"
The cabinet, meanwhile, was in
urgent session under Chief of State
Petain himself.
French Sub Hit by Shell.
Advices from Dakar said that one
French submarine had been hit by
a British shell and that a British
cruiser had been hit by a French
coastal battery.
This report. reaching here at
noon, did not tell whether either of
the war vessels was heavily dam
aged or sunk. The first casualty
reports put the French dead at
more than 100.'
Besides the land defenses at Dakar,
French defenses include three cruis-
ers and three destroyers which re-
Gently arrived from Toulon, France,
and have been prevented by the
British from leaving. They are the
cruisers Montcalm, Georges Ley
CUES and Gloire and the destroyers
lAudacieux, LIE Malin and LIE Fam
tastique.
British Losses Heavy.
French colonial forces were said
to have thrown back the British
with heavy losses in repelling the
main landing attempt at Rufisque
Beach, just northeast Of Dakar, at
about / am.
A Havas (French) news agency
dispatch said the 'Dakar incident"
began late yesterday morning with
the landing Of two British planes
at Dakar airport.
The pilots we're taken prisoner.
Then, shortly before 2 pm. yester-
day, two launches put out from the
British squadron of Dakar, bear.
ing emissaries of De Gaulle and an
ultimatum, the agency said. The
ultimatum demanded surrender of
the capital of French West Africa.
Otherwise. troops would be landed,
it was stated.
The Dakar high commissioner,
Pierre Boisson. returned a negative
reply, Havas related, and the Brit
ish warships opened fire on the
town, shelling it "haphazardly."
Several shells fell on private
villas and one hit a native hospital,
the agency asserted
Dispatches from Dakar said the
battle ragged all night In a heavy fog.
Government sources said, how
Evening star., 1940-09-24

the shelling was not known imme-
diately.
Government advices, however,
said the British squadron consisted
of two battleships, four cruisers,
Several destroyers and six trans
ports.
The Vichy government indicated
1t would resist to the utmost Gen.
de Gaulle's attempt to line West
Africa up with other French Colo
nies continuing the war against
Germany and declared it would an
sWer force with force.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
New Air Route Approved

Pennsylvania Central Airlines will
inaugurate air transport service be-
tween Norfolk. Va, and Knoxville,
Tenn, November /, under a GER
tificate Of convenience and necessity
issued last week by the Civil
Aeronautics Board for the 500-mile
route, 1t was announced today.
Evening star., 1940-09-24
London
Continued From First Page.

Continued From First Page)
seen patrolling the French coast
and five German torpedo boats
cruised up and down the calm sea
a few miles off Cap Griz Nez during
air battles over the Channel.
The R. A. F. attack on Berlin was
Evening star., 1940-09-24
De GuuIIe
Continued From First Page)

here it was emphasized the expedi-
ton to West Africa was entirely
French undertaking. Informed
sources expressed belief it might be
only the first phase of carefully
planned African campaign closely
related to the whole war in the Near
East.
"Dakar," said the Press Associa-
tion, "is a vital strategic center as
we'll as a terminus for both German
and American planes on North and
Evening star., 1940-09-24

The income of the State of Texas
was $202, ,3006 for the 1889 fiscal
year; disbursements, $l94 1892 ,431 AZ.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-07-05
COUNTY FARMERS
TO REALIZE LARGE
INTEREST SAVINGS
Temporary Rate Of 81 Per
Cent On LIST Mortgage Land
Bank Loans Continued

Farmers in Worcester County will
save about $4,000 a year as a result
of legislation just enacted by Con-
gress affecting interest rates on Fed
eral land bank and Land Bank Com
missioner loans.
The temporary rate of 31A per cent
on first mortgage land bank loans
will be continued for two years end
ing June 80, 1912. During this per-
iod the interest rate on first and Sec
ond mortgage Land Bank Commits
sioner loans will be reduced from 4
to 31k per cent. Land bank and
Commissioner loans were originally
written at contract rates averaging
about 5 per cent.
At present about 100 Worcester
County farmers have land bank and
Commissioner loans outstanding ag-
gregating $419,500.OO. The differ
ence between the contract rate and
the temporary rate thus effects a
substantial saving for farmers.
In a statement from Baltimore,
Charles S. Jackson, President of the
Federal Land Bank, said that the
saving to farmers through the reduc-
ed interest rate will have the same
effect as an addition to the farmers
net income.
"The ultimate purpose of the re-
duced interest rate on land bank and
Commissioner loans is to help farm
ers keep down their fixed charges
and thus leave more income for the
retirement of debt principal, or to
meet necessary operating and living
expenses" he said.
Money saved on interest charges
will thus be reflected in safeguard
ing farm ownership and in helping
to raise farm living standards"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-07-05

and daughter Patsy, Mrs. Watson and
son, Junior, Of Crisfield, Nd, were
visitors at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. P. Long Wednesday afternoon.
Masters Charles and Donald Harris
of Cambridge, Md, is spending this
week at the home of their uncle, Mr..
Edgar Atkinson.
Miss Mamie Taylor, of Onancock,
spent a part of the week with her
sister, Mrs. w. v. Taylor.
Mrs. James Cottman and daughter,
Betty, visited Mrs. Francis Figgs, of
Pocomoke City, last Sunday.
Miss Margaret Covington, of POGO
moke, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Gov
ington.