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Evening star., 1940-03-21
Just II Solid Maple
$l4.95 Wing
Chairs
s.

Splendidly built, roomy wing
chairs that look equally we'll in
a maple bedroom or living
room. Covered in gay floral
chintz in green blue or null
berry.
(Chairs. Fourth Floor.
The Hecht Coz
1-S9.95 Solid Maple Cricket
Rocker in wine - $500
2-S9.95 Solid Maple Wing
Cricket Chair in green S5.95
3-s9.95 Solid Maple Wing
Cricket Chair in blue S5.95
1-S12.95 Maple Platform
Rocker in wine S7.95
1-S24.95 Boudoir Chair and
Ottoman in rose cotton more,
S12.95
4-S49.95 ArmIess Tufted-
Back Chairs in green cotton
tapestry .- S29.95
2-$49.95 Fan Back Chairs in
burgundy ---S S29.95
1-S79.95 Sofa in blue gabar-
dine " $685.
1-S129.95 Tuxedo Sofa in
mulberry - S49.95
Living Room Furniture,
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Just 5! Listed S5995
GENERAL
ELECTRIC
Washers with
Pumps
s36.95

Brand new sold In their
original factory crates. Equip
ped with the famous long
life mechanism that never re-
quires any oiling.
NO MONEY DOWN! Con-.
penient monthly payme enfs,
plus small carrying charge.
On approved credit.
(Washers, Main Floor. The
Hecht Coz
3-Listed S139.95 Brand New
1889 Universal ~ Gu. IT. Re-
frigerators ~ S89.95
2-Listed s159.95 De Luxe So
Gu. #. Electric Refrigerators
S99.95
Refrigerators. Main Floor.)
Evening star., 1940-03-21
10 Orig. IS and S5.95
WOn1en'S Hats
88c

ALI fabric, straw and fabric,
all felt; brim and turban
styles. Black and colors.
millinery Dept. Third Floor.)
Evening star., 1940-03-21

Shorts are Of woven material,
in gripper style with elastic
In sides. Shirts are of combed
cotton yarn. Sizes 26 to "a.
(Boys' Furnishings,
Second Floor, The Hecht Coz
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Brig. Gen. Seaman
Is Elected Grand
Paramount Carabao
Annual 'WuIIow'
To Be February 8
At Willard

Brig. Gen. A. Owen Seaman, U.
s. A., who served with distinction
In the Spanish-American War. the
Philippine Insurrection and the
World War, was elected grand para
mount carabao-nationa command
er-at the annual meeting last night
of the Military Order of the Cara
bao at the Army and Navy Club.
At the same time the order set
Saturday, February 8, for the an
nual dinner, or "wallow," at the Will
lard Hotel.
Along with Gen. Seaman the order
elected Gen. John j. Pershing, one
of the founders, to head los conse-
jeros en- boSque-councilors in the
feld-and other officers. Sir Will
mott Lewis, correspondent of the
London Times, and Frederick SIM
pich. assistant editor of the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine, war
correspondent in the early days in
the Philippines, were chosen asso-
ciate carabaos. Col. Henry L. Slim
son, Secretary of War, is the only
living honorary Carabao.
Gen. Seaman is the holder of the
Distinguished Service Medal.
Other officers include: Grand pa
triarch of the herd, Rear Admiral
Walton R. Sexton; bell carabao,
Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb; grand
councillor of the herd, Maj. William
T. Davis, M. c.; grand jefe de los
banos, Col. Joseph F. Siler: grand
jefe de los babidas, Rear Admiral
Raymond Spear; grand jefe los car
gadores, Col Charles R. Sanderson;
main guard, Col. William H. Clop-
ton; winder of the horn, Comdr.
Joseph j. Kaveney; carretonero,
Capt. Luther Sheldon, jr.; gambol-
ing carabao, Brig. Gen. James A.
Ulio; veterinario. Maj. Richard D.
LaGarde; jefe de la quadra, Col.
Charles G.. Mortimer; directore de
fiesta, Col. Harry F. Cunningham;
grand lead and wheel carabao, Col.
Joseph M. Heller.
Councillors in the field, Gen. Pey-
ton c. Marsh, Gen. George C. Mar
shall, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Ad-
miral James o. Richardson, 1t. Gen.
John L. Dewitt, Maj. Gen. James
G. Harbord, Maj. Gen. Thomas @.
Ashburn, Maj. Gen. Louis McC. Lit
tie, Maj. Gen. Frederick w. Boschen,
Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward,
Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, Rear
Admiral John w. Greenslade, Maj.
Gen. William P. Upshur, Maj. Gen.
Guy v. Henry. Brig. Gen. Nathaniel
F. Mcclure, Rear Admiral Russell
r. Waesche, Brig. Gen. Edmund l..
Gruber, Brig. Gen. Oliver L. Spauld-
ing, Col. Charles c. Allen, Comdr.
Charles R. OLeary, Comdr. Francis
M. Furlong.
The order was founded in Manila
in November, 1900, by officers of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The
name is derived from the beast of
burden of the islands, which drew
the first field artillery into action
in the Philippines.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
London
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Bristol, the important west coast
port through which supplies have
been going into the industrial Mid
lands, was hardest hit.
Many fires were set of, 1t was
said. hospital and many other
buildings damaged and an unstated
number Of persons killed or injured.
Britain withdrew her bombers
from their regular German patrol
last night and early today and sent
them over wide areas OF occupied
France in counter offensive against
the bases from which Hitler is con-
ducting his coventry raids on
England.
While the German raiders were
eubjecting Bristol to another ter
rife pounding, strong squadrons OF
heavy bombers famed far inland
from the French coast, the Air
Ministry disclosed, and spread into
both Belgium and the Netherlands
to blast at airdrome after airdrome.
At Melun, 81 miles from Paris,
planes dropped explosives which
threw masses of debris into the air
and a pilot could clearly see frag-
ments of building flying in every
direction" the Air Ministry news
service reported.
Direct hits on hangers at Char
tres were followed by a Spectacular
fire.; gasoline tanks were blasted
near Lille, in Northern France, and
other inland airports were bombed
and machine gunned, officials said.
One bomber, they said, dived down
to 500 feet over the airport at lie
Touquet, a former gambling resort,
on the Channel coast, 80 his gun
ner could spray the field with accu-
rate fire"
Low-fying bombers also were re-
ported to have attacked other coast
airports and invasion ports
Flying fields at Brussels and Hars-
kamp, in Belgium and at Rotterdam
and Eindhoven in Holland were re-
ported "straddled with bombs"
. At Chateaudun, near Chartres in
the Plain of Orleans, the airport
was attacked twice and fires were
seen in the wake of the bombs, the
ministry said.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

already been told Of the return route
Of the bombers.
Splash! We're into the water!
Down, then up like a cork as our
life jackets lift us. Are we lucky!
There's boat picking the other two
up. Now it's my turn. They're
minesweeper boys. Thank God fol-
the navy. A glass Of rum and we're
as right as rain. What about our
skipper? Not a sign of him. He
didn't come out, the sailors say.
Took Plane Onto Water.
They were quite right, we learned
after. That Yankee stuck to his ma
chine until there was stu-tut-tutter
and then a whistling silence. The
juice had gone, the Merlin engines
will fly no more, and the bomber tore
down in a lovely glide straight at
the water. That young American
calmly decided to take this heavy
land plane right down on the water
He was banking on a -in-ten-
million hope that he might get her
to float long enough for her to be
saved. or perhaps just her costly en-
gines to be saved, by some miracle
Of naval salvage.
So she glided down and smacked
on the water after a last-second stall
which did not save her, and the
plane came tail up and sank in
stantly.
Everything went green-the pilot
moving heavily. deep down under the
sea. inside his harness, but that fatal
parachute got caught under the slid
ing roof-back again-faint, SUBJ
merged strugglings-the light in his
eyes went black-the tail-plane
smashed of, drifted by in front OF
him :. and up-up-he went, out OF
the water and splashed back like q
jumping fish, feebly undid his para
chute, tried to tread water, fumbled
to get his helmet of.
Then, or half an hour later-we
don't know-there was q beating OF
oars, a yell-and he was dragged like
dead rat into a boat among the
bluejackets.
"My-my-my!" he breathed, very
feebly blowing salt water out of his
mouth, and trying to move hi,
leaden arms. so the navy-is
here?" And he tainted.
But that wasn't the end of him
not by chalks! He was fit and about
again within "a hours-landed home
before we did-and anxious to take a
new grand tour any old time
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Evening star., 1940-12-08
the abruptness Of waking from .
nightmare, the light goes out.

the abruptness Of waking from q
nightmare, the light goes out.
Round we go for the last time to-
night, flying at tremendous speed In
a powerful dive across the target,
just to check upon results. Once
more the whole inferno Of defense
smashes out death; but it is no good
homing without accurate details of
the report. And the report Is very
good-so good that the pilot mur-
murs his typical MY, my, MY" as
he Stares down through the glass.
In one place, where, apparently,
truck of munitions has been hit,
is a hole in the track big enough to
bury Goering in.
Right out of the zenith of night
comes noise like a giant tearing
calico; and as our bomber turns
away, one two three fighters
thunderbolt down in a screaming
attack. But our big bus isn't simply
bomber; it is among the most
formidable fighting machines flying
today. Although there is a nasty
jarring shudder, one fighting turns
suddenly out of the battle, sways,
and glides down. Its compatriots
zoom about the sky and fire un-
availing shots with their cannon
that explode here, there and every
where.
"Check Like H."
And then-the clouds swallow us
up, the noise dies away behind, and
the pilot is passing something back.
"Chew!" he says abruptly. Chew
like HI. you devils. Get it soft and
hand it back" And each man gets
a piece of awful chewing-gum.
THE tanks!" the pilot says Look
sharp!"
Bullets from somewhere-prob-
ably one of the multi machine guns
on the ground-have made lot Of
little holes in the fuselage and
wings, and punctured the petrol
tanks in three or four places. That
inspired fool wants to patch the
holes with chewing gum.
So, while the engines thunder, as
we leap through the storm-riven
skies at nearly miles minute,
and the pilot stonily eyes his guages
that tell of swiftly sinking petrol,
and the red thought of fire fills the
cabin-we chew and chew, and some
one tries to plug leak-and an
other-and another.
There is no doubt the pilot has
put his skates on" as we say-for
the machine is jumping the heavens
at speed that is nightmarish; but
it won't be enough.
"She won't quite make it, boys!'
says the easy nasal voice. Better
bail out"
So one man after another looks
to his pack and makes adjustments;
there are muttered "cheerios" as if
they were parting for an afternoon S
fun instead of stepping down a mile
or two through a black abyss OF
screaming air on the queasy sur
face of the stormy North Sea. One
man walks of into the chasms OF
the night, and then the second, and
then the third.
A terrific rush of wind, then the
jolt as the 'brolly opens, and we are
gliding down. I can see two under
meath. There's q decent hope We
| will be picked up, for the navy has
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Cardinal 0'ConneII
Assai|s Agitators
For u. :. War Entry
Certoin Expotriotes' Hit
In Interview on Eve
OF 81st Birthday
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 7.-William Car
dinal O'Connell, declaring this Ma
ton should keep out of war and
work for = permanent peace, today
denounced "propagandists for wsr"
at home and certain expatriates"
he said were seeking to have
America became a sort Of tall
end Of q foreign empire"
mot only should we keep out Of
war as the best thing for America
and Americans" said the dean Of
the Nations Roman Catholic hier-
archy in an interview on the eve
Of his 8lst birthday, "but we might
well be turning our thoughts to-
ward speedy and permanent peace
among the nations.
Notwithstanding the too-preva-
lent propaganda from all sides,
the hope and prayer of the Ameri-
can people today is that we shall
be spared the horrors Of war. They
have taken for granted that the au-
thorities at Washington meant
what they said and said what they
meant when they promised to keep
us out of war"
Peace Based on Justice Urged.
Alternately raising his right hand
In a gesture Of blessing as he called
for peace based on justice" in
stead of on the power politics in
Europe" and pounding his great
fist on the arm of his chair as he
scored "propagandists," the arch
bishop Of more than 1000 900 Catho-
lies in 300 parishes said:
ITS hard for me to understand
why some of these ,propagandists
are allowed to cry down the normal
wish of the American people for
peace What is their purpose? They
cannot be real Americans. because
real Americans think of their own
country first"
There are certain expatriates-I
think you know whom l mean"
he added, who are raising their
voices in loud accents with the pre-
posterous proposition that America
sink her individuality and become
sort of tail-end of a foreign
empire II this is not an example
of exalted hysteria I don't know
what could be-"
'Expatriates" Not Named.
He said 1t was still mystery" to
him that the voices Of people who
haven't found this country good
enough to live in although they got
their incomes here" should be "al-
lowed to be raised and even ap-
plauded."
(The Cardinal would not say for
quotation whom he meant by the
"expatriates
Declaring the United States needs
"the greatest unity and defense" and
that I'VE should not frit away our
energies on these useless chimeras,'
he said the Nation should strive tc
weld all its races and religions "in
the strongest bond of brotherly love
In the defense of our country" He
said we should help provide IAN
oasis, an island. Of peace" to which
the warning nations could turn for
an example Of religious justice
when they have laid down their
arms, and he added:
I'VE can't have permanent peace
without justice. That was the
trouble with the Versailles treaty
1t was not just. Power politics In
Europe is not basis of justice. It's
a basis of imperialism which Is the
cause of all their troubles"
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Tonk-Corrying PIone
Tests Plunned in U. S.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7.-Daniel
Sickels, New York engineer, arrived
today to act as ''liaison officer" be-
tween the Douglas Aircraft Co. and
the American Tank Co. of New York
in the development Of a tank-carry-
ing plane.
"Of course, the plan is in the for
NATIVE stage and might take year
or two to work out" he said. But
Russia has been trying out the idea
and reports from Europe show that
Germany also is making experiments
with tank-carrying planes"
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Fred Lee Duken Dies;
Funeral Is Tomorrow

Fred Lee Daken, 81, an employe
OF the Tariff Commission, died at
Providence Hospital Friday.
Born near Charleston, w. Va. De-
cember 20, 1888, he came to Wash
ington in 1882. He was member Of
the American Legion, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled
Veterans of America. He is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Allie Daken
Angel; his wife, Nell v. Daken, and a
daughter, Virginia Lee Daken.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. tomorrow at Chamber s
funeral home Burial will be In
Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Flyer
fool" comes contrite groan
through the telephone.
Pilot Sees Bomb Effects.
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fool" comes contrite groan
through the telephone.
Pilot Sees Bomb Effects.
The pilot does not agree. He
sees, as the great machine goes
round in a wide. fast bank for an
other bombing dive, the effects of
that last visiting card-a huge
crater in the railway track and a
section of line curled and twisted
and bent out of all use. But the
bomb -aimer is a careful, economical
man, who always wants lot for
his money.
Round and down again in a tear
ing dive, with a great string of
flaming onions whistling by like a
red-hot chain from the hand of a
giant-and a shell-burSt to port
that staggers us but does no harm
to notice-and then away goes
another top-sized bomb.
MY, my, my!" Murmurs the pilot
in dreamy applause.
Far down below, trucks have
jumped over on their backs and a
big goods shed has disappeared
all but some ragged girders-and the
shed next to it is billowing with
flames and smoke.
AS the bomber glides along, escap-
ing the shells as if by a miracle,
another great shape drops from
the zenith-the attacker No. has
arrived bang on schedule. It's first
bomb-another direct hit on the
railway sheds-attracts to it, so
that, for blissful moment, gunf1re
results switch to another part of the
sky.
And then, as we turn away, ac-
cording to plan, far over to port,
crawling along road, Is sort of
ant-army of tiny gray backs. Tanks!
There is a turn so abrupt that
every one aboard suffers momentary
''blackout" as If hit on the head.
Then the moving concourse Of light
tanks is below and ahead-and the
bomb -aimer whistles through his
teeth and straddles the target with
a long stick of bombs.
Tanks Lean Sideways.
Tanks roll over on their backs and
rear like horses shying at paper,
and seem to leap sideways off the
road into the bitches like scared
rabbits. AS we leave it all behind,
the R. A. F. No. 2 machine, greedy
as one old hen trying to rob an
other of popcorn, comes flying and
screeching over, and puts down a
5OO-pound bomb ever so neatly
right in the middle of it all. Nos.
3 and 4 are diving in from opposite
sides.
A searchhght from the ground
has pinned" us. Turn and twist
as that Yankee pilot may, the
beam holds us like the beetle on q
needle; other beams leap greedily
across 10 miles of sky and center
on us.
With ice-cold courage the pilot
turns the nose of the big machine
straight into the binding light and
the forward gun-turret fires some
bursts directly down the beam. With
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Wallace Visits Mexican
Agricultural College

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7.-United
States Vice President-elect Henry
A. Wallace today visited the Federal
Agricultural College at Chapingo
near here.
The former Secretary of Agricul-
ture, special ambassador at last
Sundays presidential election, will
leave with Mrs. Wallace tomorrow
for q two-week vacation.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Panama Vessel Detained
BY japanese at Huinun
By the Associated Press.

HONG KONG, Dec. 8 Sunday
The Panama-registered collier Hell
lenic Trader, which was damaged
in running aground in Hainan
Strait Tuesday, was detained at
Hollow, Hainan Island, by Japanese
authorities in order to verify her
nationality" according to informa-
ton reaching local agents here to-
day.
The Panama consul general here
protested to the japanese consul
The ship had been scheduled to
leave Hainan yesterday for this
port
Evening star., 1940-12-08

BOSTON. CARDINAL DE-
NOUNCES PROPAGANDISTS'
On the eve Of his 81st BIRTH
day, William Cardinal O'Con-
nell, dean of the Catholic
hierarchy in America, yester-
day strongly denounced prop
agandists," who, he said, were
attempting to get this Nation
into war. He called upon the
American people to work for a
peace based on justice" in
stead Of on the power politics
Of Europe. "A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1940-01-07
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

little rat! What were they doing with
her? How could she know such people!
1t wasn't right!
He sat down with his face in his
hands. I'm crazy, he thought. I've
gone crazy about her. Fifty grand!
Fifty grand is nothing to that guy
that's why he's there. What can l give
her? Slowly he raised his head. I'll
make money! Ill make money! I'll
show those -
He sat by the window, watching.
The big guy was getting drunk. and
the little one wasn't trying to stop
him; he was puttering with a brief
case. She" seemed to think the big
man funny; she laughed often. Then
she went into the house and left the
men together. The little man had some
papers spread out on the glass table,
the big man kept pushing them of.
Then the big man lurched to his feet
and went inside. Henry's breath
caught. "She" was alone in there with
that - Then the little man went in
and closed the French doors.
Henry sat on the edge of his chair
and waited. 1t seemed to him he
waited an eternity. Then the doors
opened and she came out alone. She
switched off the foodlight. Henry
could just see her bare shoulders, then
the dark shadows of her gown as she
stretched out in the reclining chair.
"She" had come back to him. To him!
Through the sweltering heat of
August Henry worked like a slave.
Worked with savage joy. There was
some advantage in being forty-one, he
decided. He knew the business; before,
he had never really applied his knowl-
edge, never realized how much he did
know. Now his brain seemed to be
living thing. his memory clicked, his
job wasn't just job. it was living
thing too.
"T'vehad a letter from Lola, Henry"
Lucille said one night. "She wants to
know whenwe're coming to the shack"
Henry pushed back his plate. Lis
ten," he said, I'm not taking any
Evening star., 1940-01-07

vacation. I've been working like dog,
and I'm just beginning to get places"
"You certainly have worked hard.
You certainly deserve a raise, Henry"
II don't want a raise" Henry said.
That's not what I'm working for.
I'm working to prove my ability -
so that when the big chance comes
along I'll get crack at it. We've been
in rut. Lucille"
Il know" Lucille said, and pecked
at spot on the table cloth so he
wouldn't see the fear in her eyes.
Nov, Lola's all right and the
shack's all right" he said. but we
should have gone to some nice places,
even if just for few days, met some
nice people, made some contacts. We
haven't lived right"
Il know" Lucille said, but we
never felt we could spend the money"
We've lived in the most expensive
way in the world" Henry said. going
toseed. wasting youth, opportunity"
He paused. "You go to the shack,
Lucille. You need change"
Lucille sat very still because she
wanted to cry out. Take her vacation
alone! Why they'd always done every
thing together. Henry! Henry! If only
you'd tell me, I'd understand i it's
thisuncertainty that's killing me. What
has come between US? What have l
done? Instead, she said:
well. guess should go to the
shack on account of Lola. She's not
very well. You re sure you don mind?"
Mind? It's the thing to do! You'll
have good time and I'm too - too
busy to entertain YOU"
1t sounded awfully false, he knew.
But two weeks, three, maybe Lucille
would stay a month - and he could
be with ''Her." Every night he could
sit and watch her, and dream and plan
During the past weeks Lucille's
presence had nearly driven him crazy.
Couldn't a man look out a window
without feeling his wife's questioning
panied eyes?
"Well" - he tried to be hearty -
(Consinvsd on poes 13)