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UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Six million feet of steel pipe went
into the making of the Irak pipe
lines. The figure gives an idea of
the great task which was finished
with success.
Irak is bordered on one side by
Arabia, and on another side by
Persia or Iran. Turkey and Syria
also touch Irak.
Through Irak flow two rivers
which played big part in ancient
history. They are the Tigris and
the Euphrates, and on their banks
the main cities of olden Babylonia
were built.
Present-day Irak is a kingdom
which is not very important in the
worlds life. 1t is the home of about
100000 persons, who are largely
of Turkish, Arab, Armenian and
Persian descent. It's chief city is
Bagdad, where one-tenth of the
nations people live.
Irak is, for the most part. q fiat
country with few trees. Here and
there are date palms, but it is hard
TO find shade in either city or coun-
try in Irak.
Long ago there lived beside the
Euphrates River a king who had
married a. princess from a hilly
country. She did not like the fiat
ness of the ground around the CITY
of Babylon, SO the king ordered a
hill to be built for her. When that
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South contended that he couldn't
bid five diamonds because North
might have held some small spades
and the ace of clubs instead of what
he actually held, and then South
would surely lose couple of spades
and a heart. North maintained
that he couldn't bid five diamonds
because he had already made two
bids with only one ace and one
queen in his hand-and not even
q singleton or other remarkable dis
tribution.
Obviously, however, two good bid
ders should get to game which de-
ponds only on one successful flnesse
out of two. Decide for yourself who
was to blame before you read on.
South was the criminal, and his
crime consisted in bidding four
diamonds. His correct bid was three
spades. If North happened to be
short in spades, he could bid four
diamonds; so, trying spade rebid
couldn't really cost anything. That
ree-spade bid would give North a
really difficult decision. But, being
a fine player, he would have bid
four spades on the theory that South
was prepared for four diamonds and
should have some play for four
spades, as long as the suit was
almost as good a fit as diamonds.
The contract of four spades, OF
course, is just as easy to make as
five diamonds and a great deal
easier to bid.
y:
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D.
MaieT, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-
ken. worlds leading team-of-four. in
ventors of the system that has beaten
every other system in eXistenceO
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of Iruk Oil

Russia, but it is enough to think
about.
Markets for the oil of Irak were
to be found in Europe, and there
was a question as to how to trans
port it there. It could not be
transported by camel train across
the deserts of Arabia or Syria, and
there we're no highways which
could be used by trucks.
The need for transport Of oil
brought the start of the Irak pipe
lines. The work was begun in 1881,
and it went on for three years.
Thousands of men were set to
work laying the pipes, They had to
labor in the hot sun, and there was q
great problem to keep them sup
piled with water.
Trench digging machines were
employed in performing some of
the work, but much of it could be
done only by hand labor.
For general interest section Of your
scrapbook)
If you want a free copy OF the
illustrated leaflet on the Seven
Wonders of the World" send me a
3-cent stamped, self addressed
envelope in care of The Evening
Star.
I~eAs 'a>d
Tomorrow: More about Irnk's
pipe lines.
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ton addressed to The Four Aces, care
The Evening Star If you desire the
pocket outline of The Four Aces sys-
TEN of contract bridge. send with your
request to The Four Aces, care The
addressed. large-size envelope and you
will receive an outline without anS
sharge.
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hill was covered with soil, and when
trees and shrubs were planted on
its soil, the Hanging Gardens of
Babylon came into being.
There are no Hanging Gardens
of Babylon today, and Irak would
be even less important If oil had
not been found there. AS it is,
there is enough oil to supply about
1000 900 tons to the worlds markets
each year. This output is not large
as compared with that of Persia or
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Answer-Bid three hearts. Game
should be easily made, even if your
partner has only minimum open
ing bid; and if he has more, your
bid allows him to suggest slam
without much risk.
Score 100 per cent for three
hearts, so per cent for four hearts,
20 per cent for two no-trump.
Question No. 597.
Today you are Howard Schenken's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you hold:
AK7
VI 5 80
. A J85
A543
The bidding:
Schenken Maier You Jacoby
- Pass 10 Pass
10 Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.
The Four Aces will be pleased to
answer letters from readers II
stamped (3-cent). self -sddressed enve-
lope is incloSed with each communica-
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Case 80

If you had just been discharged
from Glenn Dale Sanatorium, how
would you feel if the doctors kept
urging you to buy milk and nour-
ishing food for yourself and your
five children, when you were not
even able to buy enough food of
the cheapest kind? Mrs. S. knows
how hopeless and inadequate
mother in this situation can feel.
She worries most about 3year-old
George, who is still at Glenn Dale.
She has letter from Glenn Dale
asking her to send snow suit, warm
stockings and underwear. She reads
this letter every day.
Mrs. S. cannot provide for her
children herself She is a hunch-
back and has been crippled since
birth. She cannot look to her hus-
band. He might not be too old to
find job, but he has hernia
which the doctors say cannot be
helped by an operation. The relief
agency can only give S42 monthly.
The law prevents a larger grant,
even though the most meager bud
get calls for s75 month.
Lester is Is, so no relief can be
given for him. He tries to clothe
himself by selling papers. and wor-
ries because he cannot support the
family He is small for his age and
even his serious expression and de-
termination fail to convince pros
pective employers that he would be
of much help to them.
Mrs. S. knows that the 13-year-
old girl should not have too much
responsibility. Young children mean
long hours over the washtub, many
dishes to wash and constant looking
after. Esther knows that her moth
er is sick and is afraid she will have
to go back to Glenn Dale if some
body doesn't help her. Helping, with
her mother at home to give direc-
tions, is much easier than looking
after the household with the mother
away. Esther knows, for Mrs. S.
has been home from the sanatorium
for only one month.
Mr.. S. dreams and talks of going
back to a farm. He remembers his
own childhood, where at least there
was enough to eat, almost every
day. Mrs. S. is more realistic. She
knows how weak her husband is
and now few of his dreams come
true. Her hope for the future lies
in her children.
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table while Mrs. z sews in the
shadow of the basement room.
Out of the s42 comes another ex-
pense, carfare for Mrs. T. Every
week, every month Mrs. 2 goes to
the clinic. The doctors can't
understand how Mrs. z keeps on
living. They know that she has
cancer
Evening star., 1940-12-13
U.S.. Most Vulnerable
Nation i Britain
Loses, Says Douglas
Ex-Budeet Chief Warns
lndustrioIists We Might
Be Alone in World

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Lewis w.
Douglas, former director of the
budget and now president of Mutual
Insurance Co. of New York, told
the Nations industrialists today that
If the British were defeated I'VE
will then be the most vulnerable of
nations"
Speaking before the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, Mr..
Douglas said that If the forces of
organized violence" were able to
sweep the British fleet from the
seas and dismember the British en-
pire we would be encircled in
the Pacific, restricted in the Allan
tic, circumscribed to the south Of
us. either by the establishment of
the puppet governments taking or
ders from Central Europe or by
governments openly swearing al
legiance to Berlin"
Sees U. S. Alone in World.
Mr.. Douglas continued:
I'VE would then be alone in the
world, confronted by powers aimed
at recasting the civilization of the
world, controlling all of two conti-
nents, a part of third, holding
under their dictation all of the raw
materials necessary, not only to SUBJ
sistence but to the successful en-
forcement of their will, operating
industrial facilities with a capacity
greater than ours. shipbuilding IA
cilities many times in excess of ours
production possibilities and by what
one might almost call conscript
labor
And all of it-raw materials,
industries, shipyards, airplane fac
tories-all of it-controlled by a
state whose purposes are world
power. willed revolution. =
The issue for America to decide
is not peace or war. Others will
make this decision to suit their
pleasure and to serve their purpose.
- The issue for us to decide is
whether this Nation. conceived in
liberty, should be left alone to face a
brutal, revolutionary world; whether
We can afford to let the axis powers
win; whether it should not be our
policy to do whatever may be neces-
sary to insure the defeat of those
powers"
The associate believes proper
national defense insurance" can be
obtained without reduction of liv-
ing standards only if labor, capital
and management work together
with a united purpose for produc-
ton, more production and still more
production"
Pledges Full Help for Defense
The organization, representing
1900 firms. adopted platform of
American industry yesterday pledg-
ing fullest cooperation with the
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l. Ambassador, Eighteenth and Columbia I'd. NV
Freddie Bartholomew Thomas MITCHELL Edna Best in the
production Swiss Family Robinson"
q Avalon, 5612 Connecticut avenue NW-Russel Hayden
in the Paramount picture, knights of the Range"
g. Beverly Fifteenth and streets NE-MarX Brothers
Metro Godwyn- Mayors Marx Brothers at the Circus
Calvert 1924 Wisconsin NW.-Penny Singleton
and Arthur Lake Coumbias Blonde Brings Up Baby
S. Colony 1895 Georgia N.W-Laurel and Hardy
R-K-O's Flying Deuces"
g. Kennedy, Kennedy Fourth NW-Billy
Lee in ParamountS THE Biscuit Eater"
T. Penn Pennsylvania Seventh SE.-Wal-
lace Beery in M-G-Ms Thunder Ahoat"
g. Sheridan Georgia and Sheridan NW-udy
Garland Jack Haley, Ray Boger in MGMs Wizard of
g. Silver Georgia and Colesvle pike-Knights of
the Range"
10. Takoma Fourth Butternut NW-Dead End
Kids in Warner Bros Dead End Kids Dress Parade"
II. Tvoli Fourteenth street and Park NW-Errol
Flynn and Miriam Hopkins in Virginia City
Wizard of Or
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Thomas c. Murray, ID,
Dies Following Operation

Thomas Connolly Murray, IA, the
son of DR.. Joseph L. B. Murray,
dean of the school of dental surgery
at Georgetown University, died yes
terday at Providence Hospital fol-
lowing complications of an operation
performed Monday.
He was a first year student at
St. Johns College, where he was a
corporal in the cadet corps Young
Murray also was president of the
freshman class. He was born in
Washington.
Surviving, in addition to his par
ents, are two brothers, Francis and
Joseph, ir., both students at ST.
Johns.
Evening star., 1940-12-13

Is boys and girls of the Eliot Junior
High School Chorus Club. Directed
by Miss Hannah Bonell, their music
teacher, the youngsters serenaded
passersby with Christmas carols.
Edward j. Kelly, administrative
assistant to the superintendent of
National Capital Parks, brought a
SIG gift from employees of the In
terror Department. the second con-
tribution from this department. In
cluded in the gift were $50 pennies,
collected in a penny box six en-
ployes in the education division of
the Office of Indian Affairs.
Letter Accompanies Gift.
Another gift sent to Christmas
House yesterday came from Joseph
Cherner of the Cherner Motor Co.,
who wrote:
Every once in while business
is halted in its feverish motion of
attending to its affairs and takes
time out for reflection upon it's
success.
This usually occurs as a result
of some strong and fine appeal by
one of our good-fellow business in
stitutions for those who are less
fortunate.
Your Christmas campaign for the
poor has awakened a desire in our
organization to join with you in
your effort to bring happiness and
increased faith to those who, with
out assistance of this kind, would
probably lose hope in their future
and confidence in their fellow men
We know that thousands of Ameri-
cans have been helped in their
times Of need by our great Ameri-
can spirit which practices the gold
en- rule.
so in an effort to be of practical
assistance I am inclosing a check
for your Christmas campaign fund
May we both be able to do our
share again in this land Of the free
in 1914"
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Case SO

Case 80
Widow 2 is rearing five children
on S42-a-month grant. Out of
that must come $50 rent month
Occasionally Mrs. 2 can find a
roomer but the last one stole the
only overcoat her son ever had. She
feeds the children surplus COM
modities, hiding prunes in pud-
dings so they won't know they're
getting prunes every day. She
bakes her own bread. but you can't
expect white flour every month.
To fire the cook stove her sons
search the neighborhood for pieces
of wood and chop up boxes they
collect from the stores. Mrs. z
makes over James dresses to fit
Margaret and Margaret's dresses
to fit Mary. She can't make shoes,
so that comes out of the s42 a
month. To dress up the basement
rooms. Mrs. rs sons dug up the
plants from the patch of garden
when summer was over and put
them to grow in homemade window
boxes. Scraps of cretonne some
body gave her decorate Mrs. rs
chairs The two yougest girls share
rag doll and sometimes Mrs. z lets
them play mothers" with her
clothes if they're careful not to
tear them. At night all the chill
dren study around the dining room
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Christmas Fund Donors
Contributions Will Provide Cheer
For Many Needy Children

Just how many needy families be taken Of Christmas Da,
depends the number Of appear in
Here dollars
things
contributing funds
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Government in the preparedness

Government in the preparedness
program.
TT Is to the free enterprise sys-
tenn" the platform said, that the
people must look If the Nations de-
fenses are to be provided in a man.
ner which will preserve, and not
destroy, the way of life they are
designed to defend"
The Nation should begin now to
map a program to avoid a possible
depression after the defense emer-
gency is over and millions of defense
workers and soldiers are released,
the platform emphasized.
The association elected Walter D
Fuller, president of the Curtis Pub
fishing Co., Philadelphia, as its 1941
president, succeeding H. w. Prentis,
jr., president of the Armstrong Cork
Co., Lancaster, Pa.
Evening star., 1940-12-13

varied items as woolly dog, a
ventrlloqulst' dummy and warm
socks.
In the Northwest, the Ambas-
sador Theater's film operator spends
his spare moments playing with a
blue-eyed doll, soon to 60 to a
lonely little girl. Nearby, the Tivoli
is all prepared to cook a toy dinner
| on a toy stove, enameled in gayest
! hue
Is Toys From One Store.
At the Avalon Theater, a gift of
IS new toys will oe presented by the
Chevy Chase Novelty Store, 56O8
Connecticut avenue NV, for the
toy matinee"
Teddy bears, jigsaw puzzles and
many a mysterious wrapped gift
have been turned in at the thea
ters. Some Warner houses are not
holding "matinees" but these are
also serving as collection centers
for toys and clothing At the Earle
Theater, for example, a host of
games, small bedroom slippers and
babies rattles have heaped up.
The TOY matinee" shows have
been chosen especially for young
people but last year a lot of mothers
and grandmas, too, enjoyed being
part of an audience full of children
GroWn-ups who prefer to make cash
gifts can bring their contributions to
Christmas House or mail them to
Christmas House in care of The Star.
The cash gifts will be sent to the
mothers of needy families so they
can buy for themselves the things
that make Christmas.
Members of Washington Lodge
No. IS, B. P. O. Elks, poured out
their generosity today by sending d
$500 check to The Stars Christmas
drive. w. S. Shelby, secretary,
wrote:
May say that we heartily ap-
prove OF this splendid method of
distributing needed relief and we
hope that it will continue in future
years, and that we will always be
able to have a part in it.
1T is my privilege to incloSe here
with our check, $3.50 of which is 10
be expended for food and clothing
for the needy families you have
listed and $50 to be expended for
the purchase of toys for poor
children"
Government agencies are finding
steadily increasing number of cash
contributions coming in for the cam
paign. The Navy Department today
transmitted s100, it's second ma jor
gift. This amount was donated by
employees of the Bureau of Naviga-
ton, it was announced by Verne
Simkins, chief of the supply division
and Navy Department representa-
tive
The Treasury Department also
sent along another installment on
its contribution $757.
Gifts Acknowledged Over Radio.
Those who come to Christmas
House during one of the frequent
daily broadcasts may hear their gifts
acknowledged over the air and can
see the radio shows put on from the
street in front of Christmas House
at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
Stellar attractions of tonight's
show will be Sharkey, the trained
seal which tapped his fins to fame
in the Broadway stage hit, Higher
and Higher" and Harry Stockwell,
the voice of Prince Charming in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." +"
Prince Charming and Sharkey are
appearing at the Earle Theater this
week.
One of the radio shows from
Christmas House yesterday featured
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Ice Crockup PIunees
Two Skaters to Death

By the Associated Press.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Dec. 49,
Cracking pond ice plunged two of
a group of 13 youthful skaters to
death last night, while the others
were hauled from the water by res
cuers summoned by their screams.
Shouts of merriment gave way to
cries OF terror as six first went down
Seven other youngsters, quick to
form human chain in an effort to
reach the first, followed them into
the water. The boys who drowned
were Elihu Kaplan, IS, and Richard
Ostertag, IA.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Nozis Will Send 10000
BeIgions Home by YuIe
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. l3.-Twenty thou
sand Belgian prisoners of war are
to be returned to their homes before
christmas, authorized sources said
To-Day. They will be moved from
germany as soon as transportation
is available.
Alter Christmas an additional TO-
600 are to be sent to their homes,
winch, 1t was pointed out, are mainly
in agricultural districts.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Christmas
Continued From First Page)

be given candy by the association.
A special treat is also on the
schedule for the Silver Theater to-
morrow. Children who attend the
TOY matinee will be offered free
cart and pony rides before and
after the show.
The u Warner houses that will
SHOW the "matinees" are scattered
all over town and in some outlying
areas, and folk in these neighbor-
moods have already begun to bring
IN their gifts. For instance:
In the Southeast section, the
Penn Theater has accumulated such
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Here Are Two More Families
WHO Need Help at Christmas

Here two of the thousands families
in Washington who can't afford Christmas Put them
Christmas list by mailing cash
The Star by attending Of the IL Warner Bros maneeS
at 030 tomorrow Details of printed
know the kind homes your gifts go
to brighten Christmas Day.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Carol Tea Set Tomorrow

The Washington branch of the
Agnes Scott College Alumnae Asso-
citation will hold a Christmas carol
tea at pm. tomorrow at the
Women'S National Democratic Club
1926 New Hampshire avenue NV.
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branch called to leave tickets for
their travel project.
Luncheon assistants were Mrs
Jack Ahrens, Mrs. Howard Carr
and Mrs. S. F. Hermann.
Each of the Jayne Garvin branch
members came to their meeting
dressed to represent the title of q
book with a prize being awarded to
Mrs. F. J. Abraham. The meeting
was held at Mrs. II. II. Johnson's
home with Mrs. Preston Clifford
and Mrs. Abraham assisting. Seve-
raj other novel games were played
with prizes being dolls which the
winners will dress and present TO
the orthopedic patients Winners
were Mrs. Sterling Cox. Mrs.
Abraham, and Mrs. Anna Halliday.
Included in the meeting was a
discussion of a food sale which will
be held at the next meeting.
Luncheon was served buffet style
with a gay centerpiece OF daffo-
dis on the table.
Branch IL, under the direction
Of Mrs. George Griggs Franklin
is continuing their organization
work and on Monday were enter
tanned AZ Mrs. z. D. Hodges home.
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AlohanS Hear of
Medieval Doors
Mrs. Charles w. Mason
Opens Home for Art Tea

Mrs. Charles w. Mason,
president of Aloha club, was
hostess to members of the
group when they gathered
Monday afternoon for their
annual Art day. Mrs. Chris.
ten Quevli jr. was chairman
of the afternoon and Mrs. w.
Weldon Pascoe introduced the
guest speaker who came from
Seattle and who would rather
his name be not divulged.
Subject of the speakers ad-
dress was THE Bronze Doors OF
Four European Cathedrals." The
The cathedrals he mentioned in
cluded one in Italy, two In Ger
many and one in Novgorod, Rus
STA. He is a great authority on
medieval art and in his talk ex-
planned the beauty and early
Christian symbolism of the doors.
He has been lecturing at the Art
museum in Seattle. His talk was
illustrated with colored slides.
Spring flowers-iris. daffodils,
sweet peas and narcissus-cen-
tered the tea table and pink tapers
lighted the scene. Tea hostesses
were Mrs. Albert Sutton and Mrs.
II. s. Nettleton.
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Women S Society to
Hear Account Of Opera

Mrs. Charles w. Mason has chos-
en- the opera "Savanarola" for her
presentation to the First Congre-
gational church Woman's society
Wednesday. at a program follow
ing a 1890 luncheon at the church.
The board will convene at 1880
preceding luncheon with the pro-
gram in Mayflower hall following
Reservations are being taken at
MA. 1891.
Assisting Mrs. Mason in inter
preting the scores will be Mrs. Kari
Weiss at the piano. Mrs. Alfred
Grau translated the opera from
the Italian for Mrs. Mason, who
was the first person in the United
States to make a request to Italy
for it.
The opera was written by Mario
Castelnuova Tedesco for a musical
festival in Florence, his native city.
The premier performance was held
in the same place, where the his
toric events in the opera took
place.
Carrying out the program will be
quartette including Mrs. w. A.
Monroe, Mrs. w. A. Coors, Mr..
Robert Houston and Mr.. Herbert
Ford.
Mothers Club. Junior Musicians
Of America, will have a luncheon
and card party at the Broadmoor
Wednesday at 1890. Mrs. Chris
tan Jorgensen, chairman.
Busy Needle Club will meet with
Mrs. George Lockyear, 1924 So.
Clement ave-, at 1890 o'clock We'd
nesday.