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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-11
Contract Bridge
CORNELL CONTRACT CLUB

CORNELL CONTRACT CLUB
Top scorers in the womens pair
city championship for the Ely Gull
bertson trophy conducted last eve
ming at the Cornell Contract club
at go Linden street under the direc-
ton of Mrs. John C.. Moriarty
were: Mrs. Thomas Bane and Mrs.
Joseph Wolff, 1888; Mrs. Edward
Balthazar and Mrs. Walter Wood,
13O1s; Mrs. Frederick Bell and Mrs.
Edward Cookson, 129A, and Mrs.
Harry Standiford and Mrs. Law
renee Ryan, 1861.
The standing to date is as fol-
lows: Mrs. John Ivory and Mrs.
Louis Schmidt, $685.; Mrs. Clifford
Petitjean and Mrs. James Bolger,
$685.; Mrs. Thomas Bane and Mrs.
Collins and Mrs. John Conlong,
Joseph Wolff, 800, and Mrs. Timothy
$751;.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-11

WATR- NBS hghlghts tonight. Carthage Capela Choir
5:45 Little Orphan Annie $780, Lawrence SalernO baritone
5 Movie Reviews. $780, ut Pays to Listen" quiz g.
Sports Writers Quiz $780, Madrguera. 1O5 Foreign News
1880 Frank Gagens ditto
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-11
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cashed and East thrown in the lead
by playing another diamond.
You can see East's helpless situa-
ton. He must lead either a heart
or spade, in either case into de-
clarer's tenace position. The other
loser will be discarded on the fourth
club, thus making the optimistic
Six-diamond contract.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-11

Arrangements have been COM
pIeted for the sixth annual dinner
dance Of the Phi Kappa Gamma
Sorority. Definite plan for the event
Evening star., 1940-11-03

staff of radio annOuncers especially trained for
the purpose of providing you with the returns and
wel-founded comment upon them, will be on the air
through Station WMAL beginning at 500 Tuesday
afternoon. AS the marvellous election gathering ma
chinery of the Associated Press flashes results from
every voting precinct in the country, The Star men
will step to the microphone and tell you the results
Not merely the figures, but what the figures mean;
how the doubtful" States are going; how the ma
orties piled up by one candidate or another compare
with the votes of 1885, how the congressional cand-
dates faring and whether the earliest trends will
continue or show evidence of change
At regular intervals during the evening there will
be recapitulations and round-ups of the count
Tune in WMAL early in the evening and stay
tuned in until The Star bids you good-nght
Evening star., 1940-11-03
IN c0UeryMg The
On 1MAM:.. I'm 7MAW:. (. By Telephone

\ S IN former years, The Star once again
IA employs all the latest Developments in
the art Of news.gathering to keep you accu.
rately Informed ON the progress of the Ma
tiOnal and State elections.
As the ballots are counted next Tuesday
evening, The Star will be ON top of the
latest news of the election returns.
Through arrangements with Station
WMAL and the National Broadcasting Com.
pany, The Star will be on the air with Asso-
ciated Press bulletins and returns as they
are flashed from coast to coast by the worlds
greatest news-gathering organization.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Hear Authoritative Comment

Men who have specialized for years in the observa.
ton and analysis of political trends will be hand
tell you the significance of the results they
flashed to The Star by the Associated Press
Presented by The Star and Station WMAL Tues
day evening, their trained minds will grasp every
significant trend of the and enable you to make
a fairly accurate guess to the final results.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

For the benefit of Washngtonians kept away
from their radios .. . en- route to and from their
homes :. The Star again provides election news
from the skies.
ming the Goodyear blimp Enterprise will soar the
Washington sky flashing the latest election returns
in neon lights as they received.
If you're out. :. look up, Tuesday evening!
Evening star., 1940-11-03

The Goodyear blimp Enterprise will
circle over Washington-weather permit.
tingg-aashing the returns in neon lights as
they are received and radioed to the airship
by The Star.
To the best of it's ability, The Star will
answer your specific questions on election
trends, when you call National 5000 and ask
for the returns.
Join The Star on election eve-on the air
-. in the air -. by telephone, and watch
this dramatic story of next Tuesdays elec-
ton as it unfolds in The Stars city room.
Evening star., 1940-11-03
Meet Interesting Personalities

Meet Interesting Personalities
Arrangements being made introduce inter.
esting personalities to you, via the microphone of
WMAL.
Gould Lincoln, recently returned from a Stately.
State of the Nation, will give you his usual we'll
qualified political comment
Other staff members and election night visitors to
The Star office will join him in flashing the bulletins
and commenting the news.
Star staff men assigned to the candidates will
speak from Hyde Park and New York City during the
evening to tell you what the candidates are doing and
how they getting the returns.
Evening star., 1940-05-04

and too damp in the summer. How
can we overcome these troubles? i?
There are two south windows with
shrubbery in front. Would this
cause dampness?
A. For heating in winter you
could remove the covering from the
pipes where they 90 through the
room, provided your heater is of
sufficient capacity to carry the ex-
ira load. If it is only large enough
Evening star., 1940-05-04
Many Now Pay Taxes
In Painless Poyments'

Many home-financing institutions
In the District area are now ad-
herring to tbs so-called painless
payment plan Of meeting taxes, by
which the mortgage holding insti-
tuition collects for taxes in monthly
installments from the home owner.
G. H. Ellingson, vice president of
First Fedora, Savings and Loan
Association, recently turned over to
the District tax collector q check
for III 500 tn payment Of the last
half Of 1910 taxes on homes on
which the institution holds first
mortgages.
AT least this is the least painful
method Of which We know to date, /"
said Mr.. Ellington. I'm line with an
Evening star., 1940-05-04
STAR, WASHINGTON D. c. SATURDAY MAY T. 1e4o
Cut them back or remove

tion. Cut them back or remove
them.
Q. In our new cottage at the lake
the dining room and kitchen are In
the basement. There Is sweating on
the basement walls for the lower
feet. Is there any kind Of paint
that will waterproof them?
A. As the sweating walls are un-
derground. they are kept cool by
contact with the earth, and conden-
sation takes places when warm and
damp air is chilled by them. The
remedy is not in waterproofing, but
in applying insulation. This can be
in the form Of sheets of Insulating
board, set on furring strips, inch
thick, to give the added advantage
Of dead air space between the boards
and the walls. To prevent rottine
from possible seepage through the
house walls, these should first be
given a coat Of melted tar or liquid
asphalt.
Evening star., 1940-05-04

to heat the house, it could not be
expected to supply heat for an addi-
tional room. Dampness in the room
can be reduced by insulating the
walls so that warm and damp sum-
mer air will not be chilled by con-
tact with them. For information on
this. see my answer to the following
question. with the heading, Damp
Cellar Walls" Shrubs outside the
windows may interfere with ventila-
Evening star., 1940-05-04

rubbing with finely powdered rotten
stone and a drop or two of light oil
applied with your finger tip. If the
spot has gone too deep for this, the
damaged place should be scraped
and refinished. This can be with
varnish, or possibly with two or
three thin coats of paste floor wax
A Limp Rug.
@. I had a rug cleaned. Since
then it has become very limp and
does not lie properly on the floor.
Is there anything I could paint on
the back to restore its original stiff
ness?
A. Stretch the rug upside down on
floor where it can remain for "a
hours, first placing newspapers over
the floor for protection of the wood
Tack the rug lightly into place.
Make a solution of u pound of chip
glue in two quarts Of water: spray
this on the back of the rug, and allow
to dry thoroughly. Another and
easier method is to brush on a thin
coat of white shellac. The shellac
can be thinned with little dena-
tured alcohol, but should not be so
thin that it will penetrate through
to the face of the rug.
Heating a Basement Room.
@. have a room in my cellar
used for all purposes. Heating pipes
going through it are jacketed. The
room is too cool in winter for sitting
Evening star., 1940-05-04

agreement between the association
and the borrower, the association
collects taxes in monthly Install
ments, In advance (along with the
monthly payment on the loan) and
then pays the lump-sum when the
Evening star., 1940-05-04

taxes become due. In this way not
only Is the tax burden lessened for
the individual home owner-bor-
rover, but the matter of collecting
taxes by the District is also faciu-
tated,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
New Element In The War

A new element entered the European war
when hordes of Rumanians revolted against
the partition of Pennsylvania.
It may mean little that pictures of Adolf
Hitler are torn down and trampled upon, that
an Italian consul is beaten, that the swastika
is torn from a racing automobile, that pitch.
forks and hammer handles fly and blood flows
in cutters. Certainly such rioting does not
compare, in a military way, with the heavy
bombings of British areas or the blasting of
Nazi industries by British fliers.
But, again, it might mean a great deal. for
a people aroused is a powerful agency OF de-
s%truction not only of physical property but OF
armed strength. It was thus the French revo-
luton started.
It becomes more and more probable, as
days pass and the crisis grows more acute,
that the Balkans may be a deciding factor in
the combat between the last remaining power
full democracy of Europe and the totalitarian
powers of that continent. Competent observers
have long commended that revolt, once started,
would do more to restore peace in Europe
than any armed force the enemies of Hitlerism
could muster.
Up to the present, revolt has been prevented
by intimidation and diplomatic juggling. But
once it spreads, as it now promises to do,
there is no foreseeing to what lengths it may
go. Angered people, starving people, disil-
lusioned people, seeing only death ahead, are
likely to choose the quick way out, SO long
as it offers a possibility, however remote. of
liberty regained, rather than lingering torture
under a despotism already experienced.
Hitler's soldiers are capable of suppressing
Rumanian riots. They are expert with ma.
chine guns. But not even they can kill the
mass madness that has seized the Rumania
people.
And it is not to be supposed that the conta.
gion of revolt will be confined to Rumanian
peasants. Other peoples in conquered coun.
tries, in other Balkan states, in Greece, even
in Germany itself, are %inoculated and need
only an example to rise in revolt as Rumanian
mobs have done.
Nor is it to be supposed that Josef Stain is
while the Balkans send out remor of
revolt. Russia has a tremendous stake in SOUTH
eastern Europe and, if secret maneuvers by
Russian armies and fleets are a true sign of
the times, is about ready to draw cards in
the table-stakes game Hitler is playing for
of the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Word For Recruiting

That North Cardinals National Guard will
contribute its quota under the Presidents or
der which will mobilize $4,000 for a year OF
training on September 16 is so probable that
Adiutant General j. Van B. Nets, who has
been a guest of Thomas Wright at Wrightsville
hurried back to Raleigh on Monday to initiate
the routine work Of assembling member when
the call comes.
It is expected that Wilmington will send 500
men into training. AS the local units are below
authorized strength there will be continued
effort to enlist recruits so that the units may
participate in the preparedness program with
full rosters.
Young men of the city and vicinity should
seriously consider e~nlisting now SO that they
may 60 through the training period among
friends. If they wait for the draft they will be
placed among strangers, in units composed Of
recruits from many sections, and find less
that is congenial in those surroundings than if
they had joined the National Guard now.
Another good reason for enrolling at once is
that the National Guard will rate a step higher
than the draft forces and that young men
with special talents or with experience in
business routine will find the path to advance
ment already paved for them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Home Gardens

Word come that in the campaign for early
gardens there is fine cooperation among the
elements in Wilmington's population, but al
most complete Indifference by the middle class
of citizens. The line of demarkation, it ap-
pears, lies between those listed for free seed
and the others able to buy their own.
There can be no doubt that the use one
makes of his own back yard is his own bust
ness. He may plant it to flowers or vegetables
if he wishes. Or he may turn it over to
weeds, or to the children for a playground,
and if he does the latter he deserves general
commentator. But it is worth his while to
contemplate the future and its needs, and if
he comes to the conclusion that the year
ahead places him under obligation to utilize
his yard for the production of vegetables for
home consumption, he will find himself in ac-
cord with the nations best economists.
Whether the European war is prolonged or
endsAshortly. the world will be in need of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Editorial Comments
From Other ANGLES
AUTUMN HAZE
Charleston w. Va.) Gazette

Right after his nomination Candidate
Willkie sought to assert his independence
and made some poorly considered statements
that rebounded. Quickly campaign managers
put the brakes on him. They did it so effec-
lively that his acceptance speech lacked color
and force. The hand of the censor was evident
all through it.
About all the candidate stands for now is
the contention that although President Roose-
welt has done a lot of fine things, he has done
them all wrong and ought to be replaced by
Willkie so that they can be done over as they
ought to have been done. Just what he would
do, and how, is not explained. A candidate has
to be careful what he says, especially if he is
inexperienced.
Some form of selective service is the only
democratic way in which to secure the trained
and competent man-poWer we need for nation
al Defense" said Willkie. In other words, he
announced with formidable vehemence that
you can't have an army unless you have SOL
diers. The real commotion over the conscrip-
ton issue is what sort of %selective service the
country requires.
But the candidate had to be careful of what
he said. He might incur disagreement with the
limited draft advocates or the all-the-way pre-
paredness voters, so he carries water on both
shoulders and thus maintains his equilibrium.
Graceful, but not impressive.
Candidate Willkie is for preparedness but
the details Of procedure must wait until he
gets in the White House. 1t wouldn't be good
politics to 60 into the things now; he, being
without experience, might make some wild
statements that would be used against him.
And thus he stands in regard to all the serious
problems that our country faces today.
Meanwhile President Roosevelt and his ad.
visers are facing these problems and are work
ing so hard solving them that they have little
time for the campaign. Roosevelt has seen the
menace coming for several years. He has been
in position to gain intimate knowledge. He
has more detailed and coordinated informa-
ton on foreign and domestic affairs than any
other person in this country. He knows what
must be done and he knows how to 60 about
it. America knows that and has placed its
faith in him..
The issue is whether we shall hold on to an
intelligence, experienced and hard working
executive or change to another who has had
no opportunity to become informed and who,
perforce, can only utter generalities and not
even is allowed to voice any personal convic-
tons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Tobacco Warehouse

Among projects which the Star-News is con.
WINGED would result in substantial regional
advancement is a tobacco warehouse for ex-
port buyers.
If such a warehouse were built it would
benefit southeastern North Carolina in that
growers in neighboring counties, as well as
in New Hanover, would be saved long trips
to existing markets, and it would inevitably
stimulate business at the Port of Wilmington.
Furthermore, the acreage planted to tobacco
in this and Brunswick counties would expand
as farmers who now pass tobacco up because
Of the long haul to markets would be quick
to avail themselves of the short trip to Will
mington to dispose of their crop.
Proponents Of public port terminals here
would find wider support for their project if
they could show the farmers of this region
that the proposed facilities would include ware
ouse and sales space for tobacco.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
REMINDER

Just because yesterday was La
Dor Day and a holiday is no rea.
son for members of the Rotary
club, or arriving at work TODAY.
to think that today is Mon
day and forget to attend the
weekly meeting of the Rotary
club, Dave Howes, attendance
committee chairman of the club,
reminded members yesterday.
That's what usually hap
pens" he said. 1.-THE fellas get
to their offices on Tuesday
morning after a holiday Mon
day and just because they don't
have a days work behind them
they think the day is Monday
and forget to attend the club
meeting"
Members attending the meet
ing today, he said, are as
sured OF hearing a very inter-
esting talk by Churchill Bra.
gaw, manager of Orion planta-
ton and planner of the work
done at Greenfield Lake drive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Star-News Program

Consolidated C~ity-County Government
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
ma Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsuiHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Did-
err Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Pared River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
DeUelopm of Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustained yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported By one
countrywide tao.
~Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of ndtiUe grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtoriunt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Checked

AS the second year of the European war
begins it is apparent that Adolf Hitler cannot
expect to duplicate the easy conquests of the
first year.
He faces a different problem, a different
resistance, a more determined foe, in Eng
land than he has known in the past. His boasts
OF a quick victory have proved, as it turns
cut, the clacking of a bumptious person.
Undoubtedly German air raids have done
considerable damage, but the daily lombard.
ments have neither inflicted Gripping destruc-
ton nor weakened British morale and armed
defense.
AS the Tampa, Florida, Tribune puts it,:
Strong British resistance and vigorous re.
taiiatory raids on enemy territory, striking
Berlin itself, have more than evened the bal
ance Of battle. In his manifest plan to use
his air force to harass and COW the British
into an attitude Of easy submission, prellmi-
nary to actual invasion, Hitler evidently is
by now realizing utter failure and apprehend.
ing ultimate complete Illustration"
The inability of Nazi air raids to subdue
either the British spirit or the British fighting
power is shown in an article by Drew Middle
ton recently appearing in the Star. Mr.. Mid
dleton has been personally with the British
army's southern command in the field. He
says:
Three days travel through military and
naval areas which the Germans have been
bombing nightly 1 have found little dam
age which would hinder Britain's war eff
forf nv ,orLolx.. fa;AI
civilians that they can stick it out"-and
considerable contempt for German marks
manship.
And Edward Bomar, relieving Kirk Simpson
as Associated Press commentator during
Simpsons vacation. has this to say:
The aerial battle Of Britain is obviously
in too early a stage to be decisive, but
what is known Of the results thus far sug-
gests that the defenders are at least hold
ing their own.
Although the immediate nazi objective
is still open to conjecture, if the intent OF
the day and night attacks launched early
this month was to soften the British in
short order, there are no signs of it's
early realization.
On the contrary, a careful reading Of Of
flcial claims and OF reports that profess
obJectivity holsters the conclusion that pri-
mary military detectives thus far have es-
capped vital damage.
With but a short period OF good flying wea-
ther ahead, it is obvious that unless Hitler has
something up his sleeve of which we have
no hint, his present repulse means that his
defeat has become possible, if not actually
probable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
81 Robin Coon,

you and me. A story so frothy as
this has many ways to 60 astray,
but Milestone kept it in the right
key except for one deviation into
the realm of whimsy. That realm
is exclusively Disney's, because he
alone does it well, and l wish 9TH
ers would stay out. I refer to that
sequence where Ginger and Ron
aid meet up with Peter Possum.
THE Great Profile" Screenplay
by Milton Sporting and H ilar y
Lynn, directed by Walter Lang.
Principals: John Barrymore, and
Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Rat
off, John Payne and Anne Baxter.
Imagine a man making fun of
himself. That is what you will see
in this. It is no more and little
less than the story of Barrymore
for the last two or three years,
built mainly around the stage show
in which he ad lbbed and kidded
himself and the audience.
Had Adolphe Menjou been cast
in this, as was originally intended,
it might have been uproariously
funny. He could have made the
character a clown you wanted to
laugh at. Barrymore initiating
himself is, I regret to report, a
pathetic, display. You feel sorry
for the guy. You can't be feeling
sorry and laughing, too, can you?
THE Return of Frank James,"
1t starts with the final scene of
Jesse James and takes up from
there with Franks Henry Fonda)
chase OF his brothers slayers. Just
anOther-WeStern Justification .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Labor Day Vacationists Give
Sample OF Free Spending Mood

NEW YORK, Sept. 2-R-City-
bound crowds of summer vacation
lists and Labor Day week-enders
made cash registers ring today
with dollars from industrial pay
rolls fattened by war spending.
The influx of holiday visitors
and theatre goers gave Broadway
a golden sample of the country's
freer spending mood.
Many merchants counted on the
biggest retail turnover in a dec
ade in the p%ost-labor day shift to
autumn trade.
Retail analysts said a combina-
ton of expanding factory p~ayrools
and higher farm income, despite
the loss of important European
markets, promised to make trade
hum in many cities.
The U. S. department of COM
merce, they noted, recently esti-
mated national income a run
ming about So, 900, 600, 900 above the
1899 figure.
Rated in trade circles as having
particularly good prospects in the
autumn outlook central in
dustrial and seaboard centers feel
ing the war boom in shipbuilding,
aircraft, tool, munitions and allied
lines.
Employment and payrolls in these
sectors have been climbing for
some time. The upswing was ex-
pected to continue as defense bill
lions flow out of Washington at a
faster pace into business channels.