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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16
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\ NEW YORK HEARTBEAT The Big Parade: Betty Hutton
 hut-sut guttin' on the Leon 6S Ed
 dies ringside de-lookin brawlah,
 brawlah cu-et Grace Moore
 being inconspicuous at a rear Stork
 Club table {. The former June
 Blossom, who (when she acquires
 her abrogation and weds Harold
 Moon) will have the legal handle of
 June Moon .. Ned Alvord, the road-show man, who patrols Times
 Square in a black and white full dress suit plus derbyl Peggy Fears, the song-juggler, on Madi- son Avenue, day-dreaming .. George Jean Nathan dining with Julie Haydon, the leading lady, and Bubbles Schinasi planting long kiss on his mustache-Wth Julie nodding approval Geraldine Fitzgerald. the elfin cellulady, who could make even Q heat wave wave back N. The shy Paul Lukas, star of watch on the Rhine," deeply concerned about the state of the world Senator Thomas, or his double, (of Okla.l among the passersby, studying the headline ribbon electrics on the Times Bldg. .. Lewis Lawes, the retired Sing, Sing Warden. Howz about doing your memoirs, Warden, and calling lem: "Ossining and Old Lawes"? Ha, ha.
 SaIIies in Our Alley: Dick Him. ber's latest panhandler quip. He was asked if he'd give a nickel fer a cuppacawfee. Timber gave him the nickel and the bum handed him a cup of coffeel i. Boris Karloff's greeting to Allyn Joslyn, after Allyn came backstage with | the $257 winner at Empire: "Who wrote that improbable script you just playedp" George Jessel says the way things are going--be- fore you know 1t the Nazis will be playing Loew's, Leningrad z. And Ozzie Nelson says the Reds change their arguments SO often that you | can't tell whether they're Commy ! or going.
 Broadway Bitter-Sweet: She looks like a potpourri of Bette Davis and Taliulah Bankhead-a savory dish They planned normal" child hood for her. Then, if she wished, she could tan family tradition along the stage-door alley .. She wished 4. On star Accordingly she was graduated by the No. Dramatic Seminary .. MT. Wooll- colt would give her A-Plus. For America has seen eight of her ac- tress grandmothers since the tribe packed their rouge paws and trouped to this side of the Atlantic about 150 years ago ditto seven grand pops Too soon after gradua- tion che had to make that decision .. Between ART and APPETITE That is, her recently widowed mothers appetite and hers Which explains why she is the hat check girl at that small French Restaurant on 45th Street West of Madison Avenue.
 Memos of . Midnighter: Billy Gilbert observes that there's one comforting things about repeated failure. The only thing left is Suc- cess (. Maxie Rosenbloom is now referred to as "rhe Great I. e." The whispers are getting too noisy to ignore--about Hess be- ing in Ontario A. J. Cronin's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16
CHANGE MADE IN
 CONFERENCE DATE

Rev. s. W. Weller, pastor, n- nounced that the annual members conference of the Mount Olive A. M. D. Zion church, which was slat- ed for tomorrow night, has been postponed to Monday.
 The date was changed because of the defense meeting called for Thursday by Mayor Vincent A. scully, MT. Weller said. The first quarterly conference will be held at the church on July 24, II. R. Jackson, presiding elder, informed MT. Weller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16

Sausages, 6 leading food item in workmen's families of Switzerland, now cost over 40 per cent mora than before the war started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16

Brazilian scientists have cooked up a sturdy coffee bean plastic called "cafelite" which holds great promise for aeronautical use.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16

Alcohol is being produced from frozen potatoes in Sweden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-16

Memos of 8 Midnighter: Billy Gilbert observes that there's one comforting things about repeated failure. The only thing left is suc- cess Maxie Rosenbloom is now referred to as '@rhe Great [. e." The whispers are getting too noisy to ignore-about Hess be- ing in Ontario A. J. Cronin's
Evening star., 1941-12-07

de France. and a feet somewhere in the
background. and treless, shrewd Naval
Attache who prowed the waterfront, to see
that this did not happen.
There were. however. disturbing Incidents
Too much rubber was arriving in Martinique
and not enough was going out. Half the gold
OF the Bank of France was buried up in the
dungeons of Fort Bourbon. but there were
rumors that some had filtered away And there
were. definitely, sixty six Germans who had
dlsembarked from CasablanCa ship, and
then had vanished. The State Department
hoped that the Germans were not avators.
because of the American built pursuit planes
and dive bOmbers on the hill behind the fort.
1t hoped they were not navy officers, because
the aircraft carrier Bearn still lay moored
in the bay, and the cruiser Bertin was still in
dock. The department hoped they we're not
number of other things. and since the depart
ment didn't know who and what they were.
the department was littery and had to find out.
Under no circumstances, Lockhart had
emphasized, was he to ask help from the
Naval Attache or the consul. Vichy was
oSShiliS oil SAluSS W cllIIllIldtc tne American
listening posts on Martinique, and they were
not to be involved in any trouble Homer
Jones might stir up for himself
So far, Homer hadn't been able to stir up
any trouble, but he had been in Fort de
France only six hours. She was obviously an
American, and what is so rare as an American
girl on the island of Martinique? What
would any tourist do?" he asked his con-
science. He stepped under the shower, dressed
quickly, and then took time to perform little
trick he had learned from a friend in the
FBI. He arranged three toilet articles so
carefully that if they we're moved fraction
of an inch he'd know it. E.
She was half through her Cisco punch when
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Illustrated BY Woltss Bovmkofsr

Il have one like that" said Lockhart.
Homer Jones.
What's he like"
He is. said Lockhart, as average Amer
lean as siroin steak. Sometimes | think he
has sense. Other times wonder
The Undersecretary thought this over.
How is his French he asked,
"Execrable
That's fine Jones - Jones" The Under
secretary played with the name, Jones. utter
ing it to the somber oils on the walls. Jones"
he said. Somehow it ought to be Hallowell,
or Pettybone. Jones is almost too good a
name for an American tourist However -"
In short time Homer Jones found himself
in Room 81 of the Grand Hotel de la Paix in
Fort de France, on the French island of
Martinique. He was staring at hairy spider
usurping his shower, and wondering how he
could shake k comte Andre Fouget, and
at the same time meet the girl in the white
dress. Since both of them were in the bar
be.ow, he could not very well avoid one and
approach the other.
There was nothing in the agenda, he knew,
that called upon him to meet girl His
instructions were explicit. He was to find
out what was happening to all the rubber
coming from South America. He was to seek
out the anti-Vichy element and discover the
truth about the gold. He was to find out what
happened to the sixty-six Germans.
Martinique was still chink in the arrnor of
bases guarding the Caribbean. but it was
fanked. now. by thernew American bases at
Dominica and St. Lucia. 1t was uncomfort-
able, having Martinique under the control of
Darlan and Laval but it was not dangerous
unless it fell into the hands of the Germans.
The United States kept destroyer patrolling
outside the scimitar- shaped harbor of Fort
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue


VYoU think of Foreign Service Officer as
y Groton and Harvard, and striped trou-
- sers and morning coat at tea in Lord
Halifax's gardens. but Homer Jones was Cen
and wore herringbones. and despised starched
shirts He ate at Casey's Chop House across
from the State Department, and he lived in
tiny apartment in the lower reaches of Massa-
chusetts Avenue, which is really all Foreign
Service Officer, Class 8. can afford.
You'll never get anywhere in the depart
ment," Lockhart, chief of the European Divl-
sion, told him. until you get yourself chic
wife - rich - who knows how to seat sixteen
at dinner according to protocol. and who can
persuade you to wear clothes
What's wrong with my clothes?"
Nothing, except that they make you look
like an airedale after a run through swamp"
Me, I'm just country boy. Homer would
then allow his sx-foot-four frame to collapse
into the best leather chair in Lockhart S office,
50 that his elbows and knees projected at
impossible angles. and Lockhart would groan,
and sigh. and shake his head. He remembered
that Homer Jones had displayed knack for
obtaining excellent information in the most
unlikely places. He remembered that he was
young in the department. and there hadn't
been time to knock off the rough edges But
Lockhart had practical suspicion of home
spun diplomats. They got themselves, and
the country into trouble.
One day the Undersecretary called Lockhart
into his Office, and asked whether the European
Division could produce man who had been
stationed neither in France nor the Caribbean
and who could pass as a tourist You know
just an od-fashioned, pre- 1899 American
tourist"
Evening star., 1941-12-07

he entered the bar. She was snallish girl,
well-made, with the grace of competence you
see in trained nurse or an airline hostess.
She looked up when he came in, and his long
legs carried him to her table. Hello" he
ventured. Aren't you from home?"
Il was hoping you d come down. she said
You know, we're the only American tourists
in Fort de France, and knew we'd have to
meet sooner or later. So just waited here for
you. Sort of an ambush"
I'll take tall one, )" Homer said, sumping
into chair. This heat knocks me out
You won't find it so bad tomorrow"
the girl said, when you go over the noun
tains to St Pierre
Homer jumped. How, he asked, did you
know was going to St Pierce"
oh, know all about you You're an
amateur volcanoogst, and you came to
Martinique to take look at Mt Pee Your
name is Homer Jones, and you're from
Hyannis, Nebraska. That makes us practically
neghbors. I'm from South Dakota. origi-
nally.'
At the next table Homer knew, the two
officers were inspecting him. They wore the
duck shorts and shirt of the French Navy on
tropical duty, but they weren't Frenchmen
They were memorizing his face.
How did you learn all that" Homer asked.
oh, Andre told me- The count, Homer
was relieved to find. was not at his elbow.
The count had been at his elbow ever since
he stepped off the clipper dock. The count
had been very courteous, explaining why
military laws made it necessary for him to
leave his camera under seal and offering to
obtain car for his trip to St. Pierre and
Mt Pele - even volunteering to change dol
lars into francs at above the legal rate.
Does the count" Homer asked, make it
point to meet stray Americans"
He's met the only two who have strayed
here in the last year. But even if he hadn't
given your history. Id have found out any
way. Radio Sapane.''
What, Homer inquired, lis Radio Sayaneo"
1 HE girl slipped her drink, and lowered her
head, and Homer saw that her lashes were
long and dark. Then he noticed that they were
concealing her eyes as they cut at the next
table The Savane,' she explained, lis that
big park between Fort St. Louis and the town
'he one with those trenches in it, mas
queradlng as AFRAID shelters. People meet
there, to talk
Continued on poos y
Evening star., 1941-12-07
MISSION TO MARTINIQUE

Lifting the curtain, for moment, on the dead
city, the lost gold and the sixtY-six Germans
by Pat Frank
Illustrated Wohs@ Bovmkofsr
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Bus Driver Is Robbed
And SIuqqed by Gunmen

Two colored gunner forced q
Capital Transit Co. bus driver to
turn of his route last night and
robbed him of $83.67 in cash and
$62 worth Of passes, according to
police.
The driver, Raymond John Hall.
81, of 713 Fifth street NV, told
police the men boarded the vehicle
at Fifth and w streets, flourished a
.38-caliber automatic, and after the
robbery struck him on the side of
the head. He was not seriously
injured.
A purse containing $27 was re-
ported snatched yesterday from Miss
Eva L. Rannie, 2420 Sixteenth street
NV, by a colored man as she walked
in the 2100 block of Fifteenth street
NV.
Naval attaches of two embassies
reported thefts over the week end.
Comdr. Yoshimori Terai, assistant
naval attache at the Japanese En-
bassy, said his automobile was taken
from a parking space in front of
1901 Connecticut avenue NV.
Comdr. Denis de Bourgoing, attache
Of the French Embassy, reported
his home at 2025 Belmont road NV.
was entered and two quarts of gin
and one quart Of sherry removed.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Site Of Army Chapel
AtAr|ington, First
Of SIS, Dedicated
Ceremony Inuueurotes
$4,000, 900 Church
Building Program

In religious ceremonies held at
Arlington Cantonment yesterday
the site of the first of 555 wooden
churches planned TO rthe expand
ing Army was consecrated.
The first spade of earth was
turned by Col William R. Arnold,
chief of chaplains. In an address
TO attending chaplains Col. Arnold
reminded them their work is hard,
their dangers many and their pleas
ures few.
Even in your free time" he told
the group, you must act with dig
nifty and restraint so that other men
will feel that their country's defense
and security are in safe and capable
hands"
The chapel, which will serve Ar
lington Cantonment, inaugurates a
$4,000, 900 chapel building program
to be carried out by the Quarter
master Corps. Col. Oswald H. Saun-
ders, commanding officer at Airing
ton Cantonment, pointed out that
all the chapels will be designed to
serve Catholic, Protestant and He
brew communicates.
Col. Arnold represented the Cath
olic church at the ceremonies,
Chaplain Charles L. Lack of Arling-
ton Cantonment, who pronounced
the invocation, the Protestant
church. and Chaplain Aryeh Lev
of the Office of the chief of chap
lains, who pronounced the bene-
diction, the Hebrew church.
The chapel will be built of simple
Colonial design, % feet high, with a
23-foot spire.. The main floor will
seat 300 persons, with room for 81
more in the balcony, where an elec-
trio organ will be installed.
Evening star., 1941-05-05

assume another pastorate, DR.. Aber-
nethy said, he was not going to stop
preaching, but would fill in wherever
he was needed.
Held Many Offices.
During his years here DR.. Aber-
nethy has been prominent in many
religious and civic activities and has
been a prime mover in the promo
ton of nterdenominational and in
terfaith cooperation. He is former
president of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches and the Wash
ington Ministerial Union, vice presi-
dent of the District Baptist Con-
vention, past president of the North
ern Baptist Convention, the Baptist
Home Missionary Society and the
American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society, and is an active member
of the Public Relations Committee
of the Northern and Southern Bap-
tist Conventions.
He served previously for nine years
in Kansas City and for Is years in
Berwyn, Ill. One of his sons is the
Rev. Bradford S. Abernethy, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Co.
lumbia, Mo, and another is DR.
Theodore I. Abernethy, a local
physician.
Prof. L. D. Bliss. member of the
church board, led the tributes to
the Abernethys, presenting them
with large baskets of flowers.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Washington Second
Naval Reserve Unit
To Enter Active Duty
Five Officers and l04 Men
Await Orders to Sail
For Norfolk Wednesday

The second division of the Wash
ington Naval Reserves will sail
Wednesday night for Norfolk, Va,
for preliminary training before as
signment for active duty, it was re-
vealed today.
Official orders for the assignment
are expected at the Navy Yard to-
day. Five officers and 104 enlisted
men will be included in the trans
fer to active duty, Washington Naval
Reserve officers said.
The division leaving Wednesday
will be under the command of 1t.
q. g. Irving Bunevich. Ohcers
and men are expected to be as
signed to duty aboard a transport,
officials said.
Several months ago the third divi-
sion of the Washington battalion
went on active duty aboard a de-
stroyer operating out of the Panama
Canal In the Caribbean.
Several officers and men Of the
division were assigned to Hawaii.
The first division Of the Wash
ington battalion is expected to re-
ceive orders for active duty later
this month. Navy Secretary Knox
last Wednesday said that all re-
manning units of the organized Re-
serve would be called to active duty
before the end of this month. This
includes IS divisions, comprising 230
officers and 1900 men, throughout
the country. Mr.. Knox said the
Reservists would be given posts on
auxiliary ships and naval district
craft.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
1900 Brooklyn Students
See Siqhts Of Capital

To view the sights of the Capital
and see how the Federal Govern
ment operates, about $500 students
enrolled in the evening and voca-
tional high schools of Brooklyn
came to Washington yesterday.
Most of the group were adult aliens,
II years of age and older, who have
been in the United States for only
a short time.
Arriving by special train at 8 am.
the visitors spent busy day. They
visited Mount Vernon and the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington
and many points of interest in the
Capital. Group leaders guided them
in their pilgrimage, answering ques-
tions and helping to make the trip
as instructive as possible.
Yesterday afternoon, many of the
group visited the Capitol, where they
were met by secretaries from the
Office of Senator Wagner, Democrat,
of New York The party returned
to New York last night.
Evening star., 1941-05-05

first street NV, sustained frac-
tured left leg. Fred Bloom, %, of
4205 Ninth street NV. escaped
with cuts and bruises and was re-
leased after treatment.
Struck by a machine while cross
ing Rhode Island avenue in Mount
Rainier, Robert Triplett, 43, colored,
of Brentwood, Md, was brought to
Casualty Hospital with a fractured
right leg. Mount Rainier police were
investigating the accident.
The Branchville CMd) rescue
squad brought George Fagan, 20,
and his wife, Dorothy, Is, of Balti-
more, to Casualty Hospital early
today from an accident on the Balti-
more boulevard at Berwyn. She
received a compound fracture of
the right leg and was suffering from
shock.
Six persons injured in traffic acci-
dents in Prince Georges County
were treated in Casualty Hospital
yesterday, but none was believed to
NC III a SCllouo SollblVAoll.
Young People Hurt.
Four young people were injured
in an accident near Vienna, Va,
last night. Charles Nevasier, II,
with head injuries, and Patricia
Pond. 16, with injuries to head, legs
and back, were taken to Emergency
Hospital. Shirley Wagon, Is, and
Eli Abbott. 10, who suffered three
fractured ribs, were taken to George
town Hospital. All are from Vienna
except Abbott, who lives in Arllng-
ton, Va. None was reported in a
serious condition.
Mrs. Margaret Stello. rs, of 1920
Highland drive, Silver Spring, Md,
was cut on the head in an acci-
dent in Rockville, Md, yesterday
when a car operated by her son,
Fred c. Stello, was struck from
behind by another car and bumped
into a third machine, driven by
j. I. Wahler, 1905 Brothers place
Sc, police reported.
The accident occurred on highway
No. 240 at the stop sign on Mont
gomery avenue, where MIR. Wahler
and Mr.. Stello had halted. The
other machine was driven by A. L.
Weaver of Bridgewater, Va, &C
cording to Montgomery County
police, who charged him with reck-
less driving. Mrs. Stello was treated
by DR.. w. S. Murphy and went
home.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Dr.. Abernethy's Resignation
Stuns Calvary Congregation
Tells of Retirement
On 10th Anniversary
Of Pustorute

DR.. William S. Abernethy, prom
inent Washington churchman and
for 90 years pastor of Calvary Bap-
tiSt Church, surprised his congrega-
ton yesterday with the announce
ment that he will retire from the
active ministry.
He presented his resignation i'm
mediately after members of the con-
gregation had honored him for his
two decades of service to the local
church Only few members of the
church board knew of his decision
to resign, and his congregation was
stunned by the announcement.
Mrs Abernethy said later that her
husband, who will be SO in Novem-
ber had intended to resign on his
goth anniversary with the church,
but the announcement was made
more difficult because of the special
attention his anniversary had re-
ceived from the congregation.
Would Leave December l.
Providing time for the choice of
a successor, DR. Abernethy suggested
that his resignation become effective
December /. The Abernethys plan
to leave Washington at that time
and live year in California before
returning to make their home here.
In presenting his resignation to
the congregation, DR.. Abernethy
said during his 40 years in the min
istry he had been blessed with three
wonderful pastorates, OF which the
present was in many respects the
most satisfying"
He pointed out however, that his
service here had taken something
from him, explaining that the de-
mands of a church of the size and
Importance of Calvary must of ne
cessity mean that.
But if these years have taken
their toll" he added, they have
given back far more and 1 shall ever
hold in grateful remembrance all
that they have meant to me-"
Pays Tribute to Wife.
DR.. Abernethy paid tribute to his
wife, who for 20 years has been
teacher of the Burial Bible Glass,
one of the largest in the country.
Il am sure" he said, that 1 could
not have carried on through these
years without the unfailing support
and the staunch assistance given me
by the lady who has shared the
burdens of home and church for
these AZ years"
While it was not his intention to