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SEVEN WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940 NEW YORKAA Day by Day by Charles B. Driscoll Charles B. Driscoll NEW YORK Our Mayor La Guardia recently cracked down on the sellers of indecent literature in New York. He said.

among other things, that for the next 18 (the unexpired portion of his term) these fellows would be treated roughly if he caught them peddling their filth. To be exact, he said he would "run them to hell out of town." This is all to the good. of course. But I can't see for the life of me why this heroic attitude wasn't struck earlier in the administration of our explosive mayor. As I have repeatedly stated in 1 this column, the Althy and debauching stuff has been sold all over town, openly.

every day of the week, for I wonder why Mr. LaGuardia waited until 18 months before the next mayoralty election to step on the rats. It must be nearly two years now since the same mayor put on mighty act of rage and denunciation about the strip-tease shows. He suddenly discovered that town was full of this form of entertainment, though it had been going on notoriously and openly all the time. In that wave virtue, Mayor LaGuardia closed all the burlesque houses for a few days.

They all reopened and have been running the very same strip tease acts ever since. But virtue is satisfied because the mayor has forbidden the purveyors of nakedness to use the word burlesque on their marquees. The strip shows are now advertised as girlie shows. West 42nd Street is crawling with them. For a couple of blocks the whole street is given over to honkey-tonk ballyhoo for the girlie shows.

Nothing secret about it, any more than there was two years ago. Commissioner Valentine's order to the police to fingerprint all proprietor's and employes of night clubs is a wise police move. So many strangers are robbed, slugged, pushed about and insulted at clip joints operated by gangsters or ex-convicts that the evil odor of the places is beginning to be recognined, one throughout little feather country. for the cap: No reader of this column can say that I even enticed him into one of these phoney joy palaces by writeups, plugs, or favorable mention. I would be a willful party to the crime if I were to help lure Americans visiting New York into any of these dives.

A recent visit to the World's Fair saddened me. On one of the finest evenings of the year, the place was practically deserted. There were more people on Main Street in Wichita or Portland that day than there were to be seen on one of the immense esplanades of the fair. I was unable to find anyone to give me information about the way to get here or there. For a brief ride in a wheel chair, from the entrance to the Swedish pavilion, I paid 80 cents, which was decidedly too much.

Although a good many exhibits have closed, there is still more to seen at the fair than any one person can see in ten days of steady sightseeing. The place is beautiful piece Weather Conditions Delaware--Fair Tuesday and Wednesday, little change in temperature. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8:00 a. m. .71 5:00 p.

m. ....79 1:30 p. m. ....78 Midnight 68 Maximum ....81 Minimum .63 LENGTH OF TIME TODAY (Eastern Standard Time) Sun rises, 5:29 a. sets, 6:29 p.

m. HIGH TIDES TODAY A. M. P. M.

Lewes 8:59 9:22 Kitts Hammock 10:07 10:31 Bombay Hook 10:24 10:47 Port Penn 10:37 11:01 Mouth of Christina 12:26 Wilmington 12:30 General weather conditions at 7:30 p. m. (Eastern time) last night, reported by the United States Weather Bureau at Philadelphia: Temperature. Lowest Last Rain- Place 24 Albany. N.

Y. Atlanta, Ga. City, N. J. Bismarck.

N. D. Boston, Mass. N. Y.

Chicago, m. Cleveland. O. Denver. Col.

Detroit, Mich, Eastport, Me. Galveston, Tex. Harrisburg. Pa. Hatteras, N.

C. Indianapolis, Ind. Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, Mo. Los Angeles.

Calf. Louisville, Ky. Fla. Nantucket, Mass. Orleans, La.

New York City Norfolk, Va. Oklahoma City, Okla. Philadelphia Phila. Airport Phoenix, Ariz. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Portland, Me. Portland. Ore. Richmond, Va. St.

Louis, Mo. Salt Lake City, Utah San Francisco, Calif. Savannah, Ga. Scranton. Pa.

Tampa. Fla. Washington, D. C. Winnipeg, Man.

reported. Hrs. High fall Weather 83 73 .04 Cloudy 69 91 Pt. dy 95 Pt. dy 65 79 Cloudy 55 75 Pt.Cl'dy 58 73 Pt.

CI'dy 57 87 Cloudy 57 74 Pt. Cl'dy 53 62 .61 Pt.CI' dy 76 92 Pt.Cl' dy 62 82 Clear 70 84 Pt.Cl'dy 52 75 Pt. 71 93 .76 Pt. CI'dy 64 79 Cloudy 50 Clear 57 Clear 78 Foggy Pt. CI'dy PL.CIdy Cloudy Clear Clear 95 Cloudy 58 74 Pt.Cr dy Rain 70 .06 Rain 60 86 Clear 62 83 56 83 Pt.cId; 56 67 Clear 94 Pt.CI dy 78 PL.CI dy 91 .35 Pt.

dy 64 85 Pt. CI dy 56 87 Clear The tropical storm has continued to move northeastward and it was central at P. m. about 50 miles east of Eastport. Me.

Eastport reports maximum velocity of 44 miles an hour from the northeast. Pressure is low and falling over most of the western half of the United States. Pressure is relatively high over the north central states and over most of the western Atlantic Ocean. EVERYDAY MOVIES By Denys Wortman 363 Go. Cape.

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08- At rights reserved "I got the toughest break in the weather on my vacation Every day the sun shined and the fellers would be of playing golf or tennis and you couldn't find one of 'em around till the evening." of construction and display, and has been kept in good condition, despite growing discouragements. The simple truth is that New York thought it could make the swallow a lot more than the country was willing to digest. I for most of failure of the fair to blame the hotel, gyp of last season click. There was some little gyp at the fair itself, too, and there was a lot of falsifying of reports. Grover Whalen gets most of the blame for all this, though I suppose the entire management must have been at least partly responsible.

This year the fair management changed in important respects, and admission charge was cut to what it should have been from the beginning. The hotels, teetering on ruin's brink because of last season's sins, advertised much lower prices. But the crowds didn't come. The people are wary. Helene B.

Warner, of Middletown, sends me words of the old song I was wondering about in this column some time ago. "Garden of Roses," I think the song was titled. and it was sung in thousands of parlors to the accompaniment played by many pretty pairs of hands, about the turn of the century. My correspondent gives the first verse thus: Come into the garden of roses, dear, And stand where the sunbeams fall. Sweet perfume arises like incense pure To one who is fairer than all.

Released by McNaught Syndicate, Inc. Small Child Slain PLATTSBURG, Sept. 2 (INS) -The slayer of 14-month-old Bertha Lorene Aitken was sought today, and more than 200 volunteers joined in the search. Dr. A.

D. Templeman, coroner, reported that the child, taken from her parents' yard yesterday morning, was found dead under a railroad trestle last night. The information was kept from her mother, Mrs. Fred Aitken, wife of a WPA worker, who on Friday gave birth to her sixth child. Man Injured in Auto Crash John Walsh, 40, of 716 East Seventh Street, was injured yesterwhen the car in which he was riding and another automobile colday lided at Fourth and Jackson Streets.

He was treated the Wilmington General Hospital for lacerations and released. Police said Bruno Addesi of 224 Madison Street, driver of the car in which Walsh was a passenger struck the rear of a car operated by Samuel Pedicone of 1820 West Fifth Street. Baering Down On The News By ARTHUR (BUGS) BAER Well, in another two months the school children of the United States will have another President to name and will be wondering who the is. Affairs in Europe always have a big effect on our elections. Considering how independent this nation is we sure respond quickly to hints that aren't quite so well veiled as Salome.

We don't know who did the neat splicing job on the apron strings. But we do know that both the Democratic and Republican Parties watch Europe as closely as a cat eyeing a butcher's block. There's a lot of politics we don't understand and that's the part they call diplomacy. That's where you carry water on both shoulders, borrow from Peter to pay Paul, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing and act with all the frankness and candor of an ace up a sleeve. -seven of the 73 most injurious insect pests in America have been imported.

Ring of Cash Registers Booms Autumn Spending Merchants Look for Biggest Retail Turnover in Decade as Payrolls And Farm Income Tilt Upward NEW YORK. Sept. 2 (P)-Citybound crowds of summer vacationists and Labor Day week-enders made cash registers ring today with aollars industrial payrolls fattened by war spending. The influx of holiday visitors and theater goers gave Broadway a golden sample of the country's freer spending mood. Many merchants counted on the biggest retail turnover in a decade in the post-Labor Day shift to autumn trade.

Retail analysts said a combination of expanding payrolls and higher farm despite the factore. loss of important European promised to make trade hum in many cities. The U. S. Department of Commerce, they noted, recently estimated national income was running about $3,000,000,000 above the 1939 figure.

Rated in trade circles as having particularly good prospects in the autumn outlook were central industrial and seaboard centers feeling 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 expected to continue as defense billions flow out of Washington at a faster pace into business channels. Farm authorities figure the barvest this month and next will put more cash into the pockets of rural spenders, despite severe shrinkage in foreign markets for such important crops as cotton and tobacco. Government loans to bolster internal prices, increased nome consumption and a wartime rise in staples were expected to contribute toward the second largest cash farm income of the past decade.

Federal officials calculated farmers would have nearly $400.000,000 additional to spend this year over 1939 income from both marketings and government payments on crop control programs. Largest farm and factory income, analysts said, probably will overbalance business effects of the transfer of thousands of young men from civilian to military payrolls. GATTI-CASAZZA, WHO RULED 'MET' 26 YEARS, DEAD (Continued From First Page) tention of the European musical world by popularizing German and French operas on a stage where little but Italian opera had been heard before. to this, La Scala, which had previously been closed because of a financial deficit, became prosperous under his direction. When he became impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House, GattiCasazza was again credited with having brought a theater's books "out of the red." He introduced a wider variety of operas to New York audiences than they known heretofore, was said to have squelched the star system.

Giulio Gatti-Casazza was born Feb. 3. 1869, the son of Stephano Gatti-Casazza, a former member of the famous "Garibaldi's In accordance with family wishes, he studied naval engineering, being graduated from Poyltechnic College of Genoa in 1890, although he had little liking for the sea. Inherited Love of Music From his father, who served as chairman of the board of the Teatro Communale in Ferrara where the family lived he -inherited a passionate love of music and the theater. When the elder Gatti-Casazza became senator, he found it sible to devote time to the Teatro Communale.

The mayor of Ferrara appointed Giulio, who had just finished his study in Genoa, in his place. The son's objection that he was too young was brushed aside by the mayor with the statement that he could become a "pupil director," and Gatti-Casazza found himself at 23, one of thee youngest theater managers in world. Under his direction the Teatro Communale became prosperous and known as one of the best small theatres in Europe. On the strength of his work there Gatti-Casazza was appointed 1898 impresario of La 80,000,000 Sneezes On Loose in Gotham NEW YORK. Sept.

2 (INS) -Eighty million odd sneezes are on the loose in New York tonight. An anti- social man, with apparent nefarious designs on the legions of hay feverites or an overwhelming desire to steal, lifted two grams of dynamite a bottle of ragweed pollen--from hay fever exhibit at the World's Fair. Scala in Milan, one of the most important lyric stages in Europe. Ten years later he came to America as impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House. In that capacity he met Madamoiselle Alda, the Australian prima donna.

whom he married in 1910. As a boy, Gatti-Casazze, who had lived in the same house with Verdi, conceived a worshipful admiration for the veteran musician, tagging him about the streets for hours. Many years later, when he underthe debilitated La Scala in Milan he again met the composer. "You have undertaken difficult t- counseled Verdi. "My advice to you is to read the newspapers as little as you can-but read the box office receipts with an ever watchful eye.

Remember the theater is built for an audience--not a vacuum." Gatti-Casazza determined to follow that advice. Later, when La Scala had gained a more prosperous footing, he ventured to present the Wagnerian operas Siegfried and Tristan, despite the loud protests of all Milan that he was a madman and disloyal to Italy. The eventual popularity of the operas justified his experiment. He again braved the wrath of Milan opera goers by reviving the old opera "L'Elisir d'Amore." In that production Caruso, then one of La Scala's comparatively unknown singers sang with such success that he laid the cornerstone of his own fame. Gatti-Casazza was responsible for bringing, Chaliapin he achieved from great Russia suc- to cess.

Both Caruso and Chaliapin eventually became members of the Opera Co. when GattiMetropolitan impresario there, THE BRIGHTER SIDE "Dear Mr. Runyon: I have Leen married for over twenty years. My husband is a fine man and a good provider but he keeps repeating the same stories over and over again. They are stories of his experiences and recollections.

Do you think I be justified in seeking a legal separation? I feel that I am going crazy. Kindly do not reveal my identity. "Mrs. By DAMON RUNYON Copyright 1940 King Syndicate, Inc. Distributed by International News Service Reg.

0. Pat. oft. keeps repeating stories of exterminator. We would not advise the treatment in all cases, but we invite contemplation of the handling of a situation of this general nature by a comparatively young lady who is married to a veteran Broadwayfarer of the type who remembers when there was vaudeville at the Palace and Del's was a grreat restaurant.

and all that stuff. They were dining with a party in Dinty Moore's one evening and the husband said: "That reminds me of a story about Wilson Mizner." The wife picked up a catsup bottle and conked him, and the applause from those who knew the reason was practically deafening. 2 FATALLY HURT AS CAR HITS WALL IN POLICE CHASE (Continued From First Page) be held from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.

Thomas, 2126 Lamotte Street, 2 p. m. Thursday. Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Thomas, a native of Wilmington, was employed at the Hotel Olivere.

In addition to his parents. he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Loretta Tulio Thomas: two sisters; Mrs. Irene Harder and Mrs. Anna Baldwin, and a brother, Charles E.

Thomas, Jr. Brown, who was employed by the National Vulcanized Fibre Company, is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Brown, with whom he lived: two brothers, Leonard and George L.

and four sisters, Mrs. Ann Dougherty, and the Misses Charlotte. Betty, and Jeannette Brown, all of tris city. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. WILLKIE FIRMS BRANDED AS ENEMIES OF LABOR NEW YORK, Sept.

2 (P)-Edward J. Flynn, national Democratic chairman, said today that records of the Senate committee which investigated industrial espionage "disclosed that seven out of ten of the subsidiaries of the power trust, of which Mr. Willkie was president, were clients of the notorious spy agencies that specialize in the destruction of labor's rights and Commenting, formal statement, that "Wendell Willkie, in his Labor Day bow to the workers of this country, congratulated them on the circumstances that only in free America and beleaguered Britain were unions permitted to exist," Flynn added: "It certainly is not Mr. Willkie's fault that that situation prevails. "It is true that in one speech he once described himself as 'a member of big business who never hired a labor spy in my but we have the evidence before the La Follette investigating committee that Mr.

Willkie's Georgia Power Company spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought guns and tear-gas shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work." Red Port Improved BERLIN, Sept. 2 (AP via radio) The German wireless said today that new port facilities, including six piers, a deeper harbor and mechanical facilities, are nearing completion at Belmorek, Soviet Russia's White Sea terminal of the canal connecting with the Baltic. of Young Man -FromTuxedo Junction He needs a room. There are hundreds like him coming to Wilmington from many "Tuxedo Junctions" Mail Order Book Rules WASHINGTON, Sept.

2. (AP) -The Federal Trade Commission announced today 22 trade practice rules which it said were intended to prevent. "misrepresentation and deception" in mail order sales of books. The rules prohibit falsely representing the conditions under which books are offered, the authorship or the source of content, or We regret the lady (a New Yorker) did not mention her husband's occupation and background. This omission handicaps us in offering advice in the situation.

We cannot say that a repetition of stories would warrant giving the' husband the elbow in all cases. We think it depends on the nature of the stories. Also when and where he tells them. If he tells them in company--in social environment--we do not think the wife has any cause for complaint. She can always sneak out of the room.

But of course if the husband insists on telling his stories to her alone, we cannot deny that it constitutes some abuse of the conjugal relations. We believe it ers on mental cruelty. The law makes due provision for relief in such cases. We know one wife whose husband is addicted to repetition who has solved the problem of listening to his stories when they are alone. She stuffs her ears full of cotton.

Thus she does not hear a word he says but she keeps murmuring uhhuh at intervals so he will think she is eagerly drinking in his gab. She does not want to hurt his feelings. This husband is an old soldier and his stories are mainly of things that happened in France. We are of the opinion that as a matter of sheer patriotism, wives of old soldiers should permit their husbands plenty of leeway in the narration of things that happened in France. If repetition sometimes proves a little boring we recommend the example of another wife of our acquaintance whose husband served with Major Bill Corum, the sports writer, in the 26th division.

This wife converts her husband's repetitions from a desperate trial of patience to great entertainment by closely noting the added embellishments that his stories take on with each telling. She reports that from rather hum-drum and colorless sequences when they were first married, these stories have progressed through mild excitement to downright thrills. She says he is now better than reading a novel. Another husband that we think is entitled to great consideration from a wife in the telling of his stories, no matter how often he tells them, is the old newspaperman. We would most certainly deny the justification of a wife seeking separation of a wife seeking separation just because she had grown tired of hearing about the time he covered the Hauptmann trial or the HallMills case, though we will concede that there is something to be said for her if he goes back to the Black Tom explosion.

Political reminiscences, oft reeated, are undoubtedly ample cause for a wife taking a powder on the most devoted husband. While some other ground was set up, know of a case of a wife who got divorce from a husband because kept telling over and again the alleged inside of the Chicago convention of 1932 that nominated Mr. Roosevelt the first time. However, she just jumped from the frying pan into the fire, as the saying is. because she next married a turfman who the sponsorship.

Woman Takes Poison The condition of Mrs. Helen Lynch, 27, of 915 Lombard Street, who, according to police, took poison last night at her home, was reported as good at the Delaware Hospital early this morning. Mrs. Lynch's three-year-old daughter, Lucille Lynch, was killed when struck by automobile at Ninth and Lombard Streets on Aug. 25.

2 ARMED TRUSTIES LEAD 36 IN PRISON FARM BREAK (Continued From First Page) cal officers beat the dense woods and river bottoms around Cummins Farm, searching for other missing prisoners. Prison authorities. said Percy Loftin, Barner, 31, two of the four rifle-armed guards assigned to the field crew, turned on their fellow guards to start the break. They were joined by Dirg Harvey and Walter Magby, 26, shotgunarmed guards, and the unarmed "rank men." Loftin was serving a life sentence plus 52 years for murder, robbery, and kidnaping from Union County. Barner was serving 15 years for murder; Harvey serving six years for armed robbery; and Magby serving seven years for burglary and grand larceny.

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