The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 30

r4 1949 WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER THIRTY LLOYD J. SLAWBON WHY WE SAY night. Thursday night she will speak at Freedom House and Friday night she will go to New Britain, to address a league of women voters meeting. "She never takes a day off," Miss GREEN BACKS" to write and speeches to prepare.

Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary said her boss was in perfect health and showed no signs of letting up on any of her Roosevelt gave a speech at a National Arts Club dinner last Mrs. Roosevelt Turns 65, Discloses She's Reducing NEW YORK. Oct. 11 (U.R).

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt disclosed on her 65th birthday today that she is reducing, just like her successor in the 'White House, Mrs. Bess Truman. The former First Lady drew applause in the United Nations when Dr. Carlos Stolk of Venezuela wished her a 'happy birthday.

And when one delegate remarked she must be working -too hard because she seems thinner, Mrs. Roosevelt told it on herself: Thompson said. "I don't think she would know what to do with it." By Lichty GRIN AND BEAR IT "Oh, that's being done has dedicated the rest or ner active. I'm reducing." Tooerville Folks Every now and kin the car runs over a Skunk. 1 life.

Wearing a dark flowered print dres with a big chrysanthemum pinned to it. she smiled broadly at applause following Stolk's remarks to the General Assembly social committee. He said "Mrs. Roosevelt been of constant assistance to this assembly and she has cooperated brilliantly in the work of the UN. On Uehalf of this committee, I con Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs.

Roosevelt's secretary, said later that the-former First Lady was not using Truman's reducing method, however. Mrs. Truman said she lost weight by not using any salt. "Mrs. Roosevelt is just counting the calories," Miss Thompson said.

At an age when most great-grandmothers sit back and relax, she has no plans for retiring to her Hyde Tark home to knit for her five children. 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her 17-hour day began at 7 a. m. nd her schedule gave her precious few minutes for relaxing before midnight.

Promptly at 9 a. she reported for the meeting of the United States delegation to the UN, of which she Is a member, and then she went to Lake Success to continue working for. peace, the cause to which she gratulate her and wish her a very happy birthday." The only birthday observance she planned was a quiet dinner in her Greenwich Village apartment with her son, Elliott, the only one of her children in town. But that was the only breather on the agenda of the tall, gray-eyed widow of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

She had stacks of mail to answer, newspaper and magazine columns v. Cnpr. Soft T1tw Cik 1 Greenbacks, our present slang for paper currency, was first used by the Honorable S. P. Chase, Secretary or the Treasury, in referring to the legal tender notes first issued in 1862.

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11 (U.R). The arrest of Esteban Facundo, jco-owner of a well-known travel agency here, and of his two employes, Luis Blanes and Angel Luis Alonso, on charges of transporting Puerto Rican lottery tickets to New sYork, was announced today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation." ArxfweY7 DoO patch -air fifty "ElAST MAMA- million of us.T BUStB, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS Facundo 's brother, Salvador, by Ernest Hix MEMfcSefc OF C01UM3U4' CRSW INTEOrXEOTWfc HAMMOCK To HI arrested by the FBI here a few days ago on similar charges and another brother, Rafael, was held New York, charged with trans-j porting lottery tickets, An announcement by the FBI said: "These arrests, in addition to AT CANDY ru COUNTERS FRED FOX BY CHARLES rLUB and WHAT FOR, ELLA? ELLA CINDERS TffT those made by FBI agents recently in New York and Miami, are the result of an intensive investigation which disclosed large scale tLlTJ 1 CAN'T A LAW- AB'DiNG I ELuA, WHY li WE WXS WOUNDED, IT OS. CKAwVNE, WOULD shipments of Puerto Rico lottery tickets to the United States for re VC NOW fw'T WANT 'OU BOTM TO C'Ti-ZEN DOESN'T DO OU TA-E SUCH OCASTiC lOO SO 1" WSASUSES WHEN CONCERNED A HE seeevxed SEEM (NOvl sale, principally in New York." DO XJU THiN. THE THIS PIACE A GO MO.VNE I r-' V-T-ET ittcni. I I II o.

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11 m.A postal clerk was sorting mail today when out of a brown paper bag rolled a shrunken head adorned by long black hair. The head, about the size of a big apple, was that of a Peruvian Indian. It was stolen from the Academy of Science two weeks ago. Reaction of the clerk working in the dead letter section was not OLD LEAF BY ERNIE USHMILLER TURNING OVER AN NANCY HSN'T THAT CUTE NANCY WILL. VOU RAKE THE LEAVES OFF ALWAVS SHARE WHAT yOLf rl or ID 1 AWN HAVE i it i.

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