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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
SEPTEMBER

10-British bombs hit Reichstag building In
heart of Berlin.
11-Buckingham palace in London damaged
by air bombs.
12-Italy opens drive against Egypt.
14-Italy invades Egypt; takes two towns.
19-British fleet blasts Italian forces invad
ing Egypt.
23-British warships shell West African
port of Dakar.
24-British bomb Berlin for three hours.
25-Germans depose King Haakon: end Nor
wegian monarchy.
27-Germany. Italy and Japan sign war al.
lance.
OCTOBER
british planes bomb Krupp plant in
aNeville Chamberlain resigns from Brit
ish cabinet.
4Hitler and Duce confer on war crisis.
Serve notice there will be no let up
on Britain.
15-British cruiser sinks three Italian de-
stroyers.
17-British reopen Burma road.
18-Axis demands on Greece include abdica.
ton of king, pro-axis government and
yielding of land.
23-Six weeks Of attacks baked invasion.
Hitler and Franco meet at French Dor.
der.
Spain arrests former King Carol and
Magda.
27-Greece and Italy declared at war.
Canadian destroyer sinks after collision
with merchantmen; 40 lost.
28-British put war resources at disposal OF
Greece.
s1-First Greek counterattack shoves back
Italians.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
APRIL

4-Winston Churchill given general super.
vision over Britains fighting strength.
9-Germans occupy Denmark, which sub.
Thits, and invades Norway, which re.
sists. Oslo. the capital, is taken.
12-Germans capture more Norwegian ports,
while British feet tries to cut supply
line across Skagerrak.
16-British expedition arrives on Norway
coast and Is battered by German bomb.
ers.
3o-Germans capture Dombaas. key rail
town In Norway.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
FEBRUARY

1-Russians start heavy assault on the Man.
nerheim line.
0-President sends Sumner Welles to confer
with rulers Of Britain, France, Italy and
Germany.
1e-Sweden rejects Finnish plea for aid with
troops.
17-British raid German prison ship In Nor
Wegian waters, rescuing 1926 captives.
+Prime Minister Chamberlain declares
Britain never will conclude peace with
present Reich rulers.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03

3-Norwegian army in central Norway
seeks peace as British and French with
draw.
11-Allies rush aid to low countries; Church.
Ill succeeds Chamberlain as prime min.
lister.
1+Dutch armies cease resistance.
16-Nazis mass for Balkan raid; believed
aimed at Rumanian OIL
19-Weygand replaces Gamelin as French
commander; Germans within 80 miles
Of Paris.
21-Germans reach French channel coast,
cutting off ritish.Belgian forces.
22-Britain votes dictatorship; Churchill
given supreme power; labor and WeEith
to be drafted.
Allies check German drive on 200-mile
front.
A-Germans tighten net around British,
French and Belgian troops.
25@Germans claim Calais.
France shakes up general staff.
N-Belgium gives up on orders OF King
Leopold.
30-Battered British troops reach England
from Flanders.
Belgian cabinet deposes Leopold for
surrender.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
MARCH

1-Russians enter Vipuri, key Finnish city.
11-Allies offer full aid to the Firms.
12-Soviet- Finnish peace treaty signed Rus.
STA getting Karelian isthmus' and naval
base at Hangoe.
17-Nazi bombers raid British anchorage at
Scapa Flow.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
FOREIGN

PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE
General scene Of assembled delegates from
81 american Republics participating, as
this important defense congress opened
in HaudnG, Cuba.
JANUARY
22-Japanese warn America against exert.
ing pressure.
28-Japan tightens blockade on British.
French concessions at Tientsin.
31-China proposes that siX-year-old boy be
named ruler Of Tibet.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
EUROPEAN WAR

SWASTIKA OYER PARLS-Mnk Of
the Nazi conqueror, the ssOGstka, floats
Ouer crushed Paris following inUasion.
Famed Eifel TotOer can be seen in back.
ground.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
JUNE

4ENaZis take Dunkirk; Hitler vows to de-
stroy foe.
Last allied troops leave Dunkirk.
8EFrench forced back by onslaught of
million Germans.
9-Allies evacuate Narvik; Norway surren-
ders to Germany.
1O-.Italy declares war on the allies. Ger.
mans cross the Seine.
13-French decide not to defend Paris. Ger.
man troops march in.
14-Germans attack Maginot line in effort
to trap million French
17-Petain becomes premier of France and
asks Germany for armistice. Britain
declares 1t will fight on alone.
20-Germans pick Compiegne. scene Of
1918 armistice. for parley.
22-France signs German arnistice.
23-NaZi terms strip France of arms and
land; navy interned.
French government repudiated by Brit.
ain.
24Germany ends war on France; cease
firing order issued.
26-Soviet and Rumania planes clash.
27-Rumania cedeS BesSarabia and north
ern Bukovina to Russia.
28-French colonies in Asia and Africa
give up fight.
Rumanians fight Red troops, kill many
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03

Cincinnati Reds as they defeated the De.
TOit Tigers in a seUen game series. Above
-jubilant Reds are pictured in clubhouse
after victory.
JANUARY
1-USC defeats Tennessee In Rose bowl
football game, IA to 0.
11-Clark Shaughnessy appointed football
coach at Stanford for five years.
14-Landis frees 90 baseball players in $780,.
600 ruling.
24-Armstrong keeps welterweight title. stop.
ping Montanez in ninth.
29-Jock Sutherland appointed coach of the
Brooklyn professional football team.
FEBRUARY
s-Joe Louis wins over Arturo Godoy in IS
rounds.
MARCH
EPurdue wins Big Ten basketball title.
29-Joe Louis knocks out Paychek in second
round
APRIL
6-Willie Hoppe wins three-cushion billiard
championship, winning all 20 games.
13-New York Rangers win Stanley cup in
hockey.
16-BasebaIl season opens; Bob Feller,
Cleveland. pitches no-hit game against
Chicago White Sox.
1s-Kid Mccoy. old-time boxer. commits
suicide.
MAY
4Gallahadion. IS to /, wins Kentucky
1o-Lew jenkins stops Ambers in third
2s-cesr;ais Wood wins Metropolitan open with
3o-Wilbur Shaw wins 5Oo-mile automobile
race at Indianapolis.
JUNE
5-Altus Allen knocked out Johnny Pay.
chek in tenth round.
6-Buddy Baer knocks out Valentine Cam.
polo in first round
9-Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen in ma.
tional open golf playof.
Wis from Cardinals.
20-Joe Louis stops Godoy In eighth round.
30-Babe Didrickson Zaharias wins womens
open golf title.
JULY
Jack Dempsey knocks out wrestler in
second round.
9-National league all.stars defeat Ameri.
can league all-stars 4 to 0.
17-Armstrong stops jenkins in sixth round.
AUGUST
6-Dr. Eddie Anderson elected head coach
29-Green Bay Packers defeat College ALI
Stars As to %.
SEPTEMBER
2-Byron Nelson wins professional golf title
Chilly Conn knocks out Bob Pastor in
Is rounds.
1+Dick Chapman wins American amateur
1s-cincinnati Reds clinch National league
2s-M Max Baer stops Pat comiskey in the
27-Detroit Tigers clinch pennant in Ameri.
can baseball league.
OCTOBER
5-FritZie Zivic wins welterweight boxing
crown from Armstrong.
6-Chicago White Sox win city baseball Sc.
rieS from Chicago Cubs.
6-Cincinnati wins worlds SERIES defeating
Detroit games in 2.
NOVEMBER
13-Frank Mccormick of Cincinnati voted
most valuable player in the National
"Gabby" Hartnett let out as manager
of the Chicago Cubs.
FLAMES T. Gallagher named general
manager OF the Chicago Cubs.
T-Jimmy Wilson appointed manager OF the
Chicago Cubs.
DECEMBER
8-Chicago Bears defeat Washington Red.
skins for professional football champion.
ship 70 to 0.
12-Three.cornered trade between Boston
Red Sox, Washington and Cleveland In.
wolves seven players.
16-Joe Louis wins over AL Mccoy on tech.
meal knockout In sixth round.
17-Ohio State accepts resignation Of Francis
Schmidt, football coach
20-Captain Wood leaves Army coaching job.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
JANUARY

e-Finland claims destruction Of Russian
division.
20-Winston Churchill warns Europe's neu.
trails they cannot keep out Of war and
asks them to join the allies.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
AUGUST

6-Housc approves overlapping to trap fifth
columniStS.
7-House votes permission for American
Army arSenalS ordered to use three daily
Shifts
8-Senate gives President power to call
National Guard
Farley resigns as postmaster general
10-Farley becomes sales executive for a
:. soft drink concern:
12-Russia demands America recall all its
15-House passes bill for Guard call
16-Army buys Sc bombers and orders huge
17-Wendell Willkie accepts the Republican
nomination for President before a vast
throng at Elwood, Ind.
18-RooSeVelt announces pact with Canada
for a joint defense board.
20-Claude r. Wickard nominated to sue
coed Wallace as secretary OF agricul.
23-President approves plans for transfer
of destroyers to Britain.
A-Harry Hopkins resigns as secretary of
commerce, Jesse Jones his successor.
Frank Walker named to succeed Farley
as postmaster general.
27-McNary formally accepts Republican
28-Senate passes draft bill including con.
scription of industry.
cratic nomination for vice president
Senate votes billions more for defense.
3O-Army orders 687 planes: 10000 engines.
SEPTEMBER
l-Roosevelt calls up go, 500 National Guard
for year service with u. S. army.
3-President announces exchange Of so de.
stroyers to Great Britain for air and
naval bases in British Western hcr,i.
sphere possessions.
4-Secretary Hull renews warning to Japan
on Indo.China.
6-Congress passes 5Iz billion defense BILL
7-House passes draft bill; sets ages at 81
to As.
9a-NaVy orders 200 warshfps.
H-Conscription bill passes congress.
16-War department calls out $4,000 more
Guardsmen.
Sam Rayburn elected speaker Of the
house to succeed Bankhead.
19-Senate passes excess profits bill.
House votes third of billion to house
draft army
20-Marc de Tristan. three-year.old son of
Count Marc de Tristan. kidnapped in
Hillsboro. Calf: held for 100000 ram
som.
21-Census bureau reports population Of
u. S., 131, 409. 1881.
22-TWo hunters capture kidnaper and res.
cue Marc de Tristan In California hills.
26-Roosevelt bars export of scrap metal to
japan.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
DECEMBER

5-Jan Kubelik. violinist
12-Lord Lothian. British ambassador tc
u. S.
19-Kyosti Kallio. foremost Finnish states
man.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03

10-Neville Chamberlain. former prime min
lister of Great Britain.
Sen. Key Pittman of Nevada.
24-Viscount Craigavon. prime minister Of
Northern Ireland.
Prince Salonj. last Of Japanese elder
statesmen.
26-Lord Rothermere. British journalist.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
APRIL

10-Neutrality proclamation issued by Pre-
ident bars American ships from Nor:
coast
l1-State department arranges to evacua
United States citizens from Scandinavia
15-America releases fastest and most seer
planes to empires.
l6-Navy chief asks congress to increa:
fund for warships to billion 10 millic
dollars.
l7-Secretary Hull warns world that Dute
East Indies must not be overrun.
22-U. S. Supreme court kills state laws pr
hibiting picketing.
25-President puts neutrality law in effe
for Norway.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
JANUARY

1-USC defeats Tennessee In Rose bowl
football game, IA to o.
11-Clark Shaughnessy appointed football
coach at Stanford for five years.
14-Landis frees 81 baseball players in $780,.
600 ruling.
A-Armstrong keeps welterweight title, stop.
ping MontaneZ in ninth.
29-Jock Sutherland appointed coach of the
BROOKLYN professional football team.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03

16-Survey plane hops to British Hondurs
in hours, IS minutes.
30-Cuba captures seven Japs In fish boat
with maps of U. S. bases.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
DECEMBER

1-Gen. Manuel AVila Camacho sworn in
as president of Mexico. pledges to de-
fend Americas.
18-Actual work started on Latin.America
air and naval bases.
20-Five thousand Cuban workers on naval
base 60 on strike.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-03
OCTOBER

6-Henry Horner, governor of Illinois,
Sir Wilfred Grenfell. good Samaritan q
Labrador.
12-W. H. Dietrich. former senator from I'LL
noiS.
23-George B. Cortelyou. financier and for
mer cabinet member.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
Souelch Mrs. Malicious"
 Appeasement Just Won't Work

his wife. If she can't dig up or manufacture story proving that he has started looking around she wonders, out loud of course, if the picture of martial bliss isn't just little too good to be true. RULES BY
 FEAR ALONE
 She gets almost as much satis- faction out of the good luck that comes to her friends as out of the bad. For when good luck strikes she can either show how stuck up it has made the lucky person, or predict that he is riding for a fall.
 Mrs. Malicious would be easy to deal with, if everybody weren't so scared of her. She ought to be squelched every time she starts in another woman. But all the other women thinks that by being friendly" they can keep her from picking on them.
 They can-until they leave the room for five minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
HAVE SOME WHEAT, IT'S GOOD
 TO EAT,

There is no justification" says R. H. A. Trimmer, distinguished British authority on nutrition, flor the statement so often made that white bread eaters get plenty of vitamin B from the rest of the mixed diet. The chief natural supply of this vitamin is in the seeds of plants, and if the germ and bran are re- moved from our staple cereals in the milling, the vitamin B is re- moved and its loss can be compen- sated only by the addition of some specially concentrated vioamin B food such as yeast extract. The amount of yeast used in ordinary bread is too small to be of any ac- count"
 A distinguished American author ity, G. A. Cowgirl says: Students of nutrition now emphasize greater use of the so-called 'protec- tive foods which are primarily milk, green vegetables and fruits. Taking the distribution of foods characteristic of the average Amer ican diet described by Sherman as a basis of estimation, Jolliffe finds that one would have to consume daily 8 combination of 625 Gm UA pounds of fruit, 500 Gm. of potatoes, 880 Gm. of other vegetables and 1260 co. (41z pintS) of milk. This combination is, of course, im- possible because of its bulk"
 It was Jolliffe, by the way, who made this comment on the change in food habit in this country in the past century, referring to the mill- ing of wheat especially:
 Tt seems, therefore, that 55 per cent fraction of the calories in the American diet of 1840 containing a minimum of 600 international units of vitamin B1" (and of course proportionate amounts of all of the other entities or factors in the nat ural viatmin B complex) 'has been replaced in the contemporaneous American diet by like fraction containing only about 50 interna- tional units"
 The old fogy practitioners who assure people that a reasonably varied diet provides all the vita mins one needs and the half-in- formed chemists who assure people that consumption of the "protec- tive foods compensates. for any vitamin shortage in other fods, have some explaining to debut they never explain nor apologize for their mistakes. Like the great Pooh Bah of the A. M. A., these experts who insist the grocery store and dairy and market is the place to buy vitamins can do no wrong. If they make mistakes they know the public is too dumb to remem- Der. They have to explain also their inconsistent attitude in regard to getting the vitamins we require to maintain good health and functional efficiency in the natural form (that is, as the vitamins grow, in food, such as vitamin B complex in wheat, aand on the other hand bestir them selves SO actively in promoting the so-calied restoration" of white four - adding synthetic thiamin, which, they imply. will give people the vitamins our ancestors got rom whole wheat four Q century ago.
 Men, women or children who caii- not or will not eat one-qnartet pound of wheat germ daily should at least manage to cat that much or moro plain wheat daily. For in- structlonB and recipes send stamped envelope bearing your address. and ask for pamphlet "wheat to Eat"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Shenanigan

Shenanigan
 About month ago, noticing small lump in my breast, I went for a checkup, as I had heard such a lump might be cancer. The special ist gave the urine a close check and said there was no sign of cancer. I am 43 and I am still worried-can a specialist determine by urine test whether one has cancer?
 (Mrs. H.) AnSwer-Certainly not. Isn't there a reputable physhician in your conn., munity?
 Well, Who Cares?
 You said that after dilution through several tions the offspring of the union of white and an octoroon is practically pure white. Elsewhere I have read that about ten thousand persons with a trace of negro blood pass the color line and are accepted members of white society every year. Isn't this g. serious situation? (H. c. W0 AnSwer-I can't see anything Se- rious about it. I think it would be better for the world if there were much more mixing of all races. The idea of racial purity is rather s senseless fiction anyway.
 Protected by John F. Dille Co0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
0Auae2sNin
Home Shorthand Course
 May Help You To A Job

ss35I2N :''' zA '<IIlAA28
 Symbols Learned in Spare Time
 Dreaming of a good secretarial job = and doing something about 1t!
 As shorthand may so easily be learned at home, no girl need re- main unskilled-at a disadvantage in job-seeking. And if you long to enter some fascinating field-fash- ion, buying, advertiSing-remember shorthand usually opens the door.
 Besides, it's really fun to scrib- ble the curves dot and dashes that represent English soundsl That's all the Putnam method is, writing brief symbols for the sounds of the words you hear in dictation.
 "Etch," for example, has two sounds, "e" and "ch." You write only a dot and down stroke!
 To make you even more efficient, Putnam devised the short forms mere wiggles, you might call them. for longer words commonly used. Remembered" with its EIGHT sounds is a simple fish-hook. Nevertheless" is just two over- tapping curves!
 It's like playing & clever game, especially after you've practised 8 bit. Then your pencil fairly flies across the paper.
 Fit yourself for well-paid work! Our 32-page shorthand manual gives IS easy step-by-step lessons, dozens of short forms, tips on ac- quiring professional speed.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of SELF IN STR CTION IN SHORTHAND to Waterbury Demo- crat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y.' Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
} McKENNEY
 ON BRIDGE
This is the last of a series of six articles on the McPherran No Trump.
 BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY
 Americas Card Authority

In bringing to close this series of articles on the McPherran Nc Trump, again let me warn you that this convention can easily cost you more points than it will gain, if it i miSuSed. Those who try it out will learn through experience how tx handle interference bids on the part of the opponents.
 Always bear in mind that the only unqualified forcing response is two no trump. If you open with one no trump and the opponent bids two hearts, the bid of two no trump by your partner is forcing. Natural ly, if your partner were to make a cue-bid of three hearts, you should not pass that either.
 You can appreciate also that If the overcall of two hearts is doubted by your partner. and if you have the overcall of two hearts is doubled by your partner, and If you have the freak type of hand, you should show your suit; while If you have the sub-minimum type of hand, you can probably let the double pass for good penalty.
 There is one more point that I want to bring to your attention. If the opponents open the bidding with one of Q suit. the McPherran No Trump can be used at this point In exactly the same manner as If it were an opening bid. and the re. sponses are exactly the same as out lined in these articles.
 From time to time in the future I will give you Eome hands taken from both rubber bridge and tour nament play. in which the McPher. ran No Trump iS employed, but . thorough study of this series of articles will teach you the basic principles of the only new c0nven' ton developed in i040
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
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 Pattern BIO is cut in Junior miss sizes ii, i2, i3. i4. ib, i0. i7 and ia. Size i3 requires 2H yards 90 inch fabric and 6.8 yard lace edg' Ing. -.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
Glor1ing Yourself
nv Alicia Hart
(NEA Service Staff Writer)

(NEA Service Stan Wr1tef)
 A famous male reporter, who is also the lone brother in family of seven sisters and has therefore had plenty of chance to observe, recently told me:
 Nothing is so annoying as to see 8 woman fooling with her hair in public-brushing it, arranging 1t, combing it, or whatever"
 IN POWDER ROOM
 NOT IN PUBLIC
 Of course he is right. Perfect grooming means that every detail not only starts the day faultlessly, but remains perfectly neat through out the day. If it doesn't, the powder room is the place to rem edy the situation.
 Part of the difficulty comes from the fact that many women try to wear a sophisticated coiffure with out realizing that one hair out Of place will ruin it's entire effect. Make up your mind that if you are going to wear your hair in the lat est, most sophisticated manner, it's going to take time and energy to keep properly.
 ONLY CLEAN HAIR
 HAS SOFT QUALITY
 It's going to mean that you have to spend extra time brushing 1t ln the evening and again in the morn ing, to give it that extra sheen and luStre.
 It means that you're going to have to go to the beauty parlor oftener than you otherwise would or that you'll wash your hair at home oftener to give it that soft quality that only clean hair has.
 It means that you're going to have to spend extra time every day arranging it, keeping it in place perfectly.
 If you haven't time for these added routines, don't try to wear