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LetJt Burlingamc-THE TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER-San Mateo, Calif. Telephone 1900 TUESDAY, M37 The Times Platform tta to follow. projects, which It believes Indispensable to the prosperity tod happlneM ff the pctftbi Emrly construction by HaU ot San hiehway, (I) Development of Industrial posalbllltlii ot Skn AUteo county, and especially alonr bay (I) Solution ol i water probUra by Ihi formation of wattr trlcte which will usiure supply when and where II needed. Rigid economy In federal. and local vovarnaeat to reduce Iho ta burden and to cipltal to productive cMnneli, ol Butano torn I by tbk and creation of a park, Improvement ot transportation facilities to -A, San and ttia creation of an ICMVQ terminal In San Francisco for the benefit of San Maleo county commuters.

7J Prosecution of work on the Coaal highway until completed from San Franclico Santa Cruz. (S) Creation of a public beach and yacht harbor at Coyote Point. (9) Establishment of pubUc parks now at ad- vnntagocua points In San a and llngame before tha price of real cornea prohibitive. (10) Extension of EUsvrorlh avenua and San drive 'n San Mateo. Community Spirit joint senior and junior chamber of commerce parly Saturday night last has stnrtnil us auspiciously into the i a season, and already the city, with ils street decorations by (lay; and ils new i i a i by night, 1ms on a distinctive holiday atmosphere.

Busy crojrds on the streets and colorful store win(flows give more and more zest to the yuletidc 'enthusiasm. We await only the coming the Chnslmns trees on sidewalks and in vacant lots the cily the final touch of the season. to the joint chamber of commerce effort we are off to an early and successful start this year in onr observance of the holiday. Cojninunity of this kind are doubly useful, not only in stimulating public interest in tlieZparticular event sought to' be publicised, butXchicfly in marshalling toward a common goal the forces which are and should he constantly active for the progress of the city. The two chambers are to be congratulated upon Ihei.r efforts and upon their success on Satur- datf night.

The Chnstmns party performance standard for high class entertainment thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Peninsula Forum Organization of the Peninsula Forum this week in connection with the adult center of the jnixior college fills a real need in the i the past few months these community forums have been springing up all over the country. They are an indication that our people are Becoming more interested in the many problems facing us. These problems are too complicated and too numerous for individual to cppVwith alone. Yet it is vitally important if are to retain our democratic form of government that we all be intelligently informed.

X-community forum can serve us toward this presenting qualified interpreters of quBiproblems, by encouraging open discussion amltby fostering the interchange of ideas and Opinions. The truth on every public issue is concealed among conflicting views. To ge.r*at this truth--in so far as it is humanly possible--and to use it as a basis for practical solutions should he the aim of the forum. We have all met the individual who frankly admits that there are two sides to every ques- own and the wrong side. Host of us are" a little broader minded but, as individuals, we-lack the time and opportunity for effec- tiveTstndy of social problems.

"We rely upon chance scraps of information and often upon the-comforting assurance of pet prejudices. Conflicting elements in the community drift farther apart, and the majority of citizens, puzzled and wearied by the clamour, relax into indifference. The results of this indifference we know too The Peninsula Forum should be welcomed as an of the community's intelligent interest in their own government. Whether or not it accomplishes its aim depends upon its intelligent direction and the intelligent co-operation of the public. i Letter Daily Washington Merry- Go -Round DREW ind ROBERT I.

ALLEN LONDON--(LP)--Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of fireat Britain, Is with gout. Because of a severe attack, he waa unable to appear when King George VI opened his first or to make the important annual "prime minister's speech" in the house of commons, is news today, bat AS one British writer commented, "a hundred years ago it would have been news if we had a minister who was free from gout." Lord Burghley, the great prime minister of the Vfrgin Queen, suffered severely from gout. So did the great statesman, the Earl of Chatham, the elder Pitt. Drove Pitt lo Frenzy -Gout drove Pjtt to such frenzies that for days at a time he would lock himself away from his family in a solitary room. meals, when could eat, were parsed through a hatch in the door.

The room amd door may still be seen at Pitt house, Hempstead. His son, William Pitt the younger, inherited the dtsafe, Charles James Tax, Horace Walpole, the fourth Zirl of Oxford, and Sydney Smith, the essayist, were other sufferers, Smith wrote of gont: if were walking- on my eyeballs." At another time he wrote: "It seems as if the stomach JelTdnm to the feet." Ctnttrn In Gout is excruciating pain in the chief joint of WASHINGTON--Tho Inside story of Viscount Halifax's conversations with Hitler has been cabled here In official reports and makes another chapter in the long series of rebuffs the Nazis have handed the British. Before telling it, however, the other chapters in the story should he kept In mind. They make significant history. Chapter 1 took place in April, 1035, Hitler up the disarmament sections of the Versailles treaty by declaring universal conscription nnd an army limited by no one.

This convinced the British it was time to get friendly with Germany, so Sir John Simon and Capt. Anthony Eden Jtlcw to Berlin. Hitler had been persuaded by his advisers to receive the British visitors In a friendly manner, and to let them do the talking. (Hitler hns the habit of lecturing all visitors for hours on end.) Hitler went even further, and as a special honor, sent his personal bodyguard of Brown Shirts to the airport. But when the two Englishmen stepped from their plane, they walked by without even giving the gimrd a nod, let alone returning, the Nazi salute.

This snub wns immediately repotted' to Fuehrer, who hit the ceiling. So instcnd of receiving Simon and Eden as he had promised and letting them do the talking, he launched into one of his usual lectures lasting three hours, in which he preached page after page of "Mein Hampf." The two Britishers returned to London with not one conciliatory pebble turned in their search for friendship with Germany. TWO REBUFFS Chapter II was written in the spring of 1930 aitec Hitler had sent his troops "goose-stepping into the Khinelnml, thus tearing up the last military vestige of Versailles. The Britsih immediately sent a questionnaire to Berlin, asking the Nazis to state their futurn -intentions. The note was an opener for a Western Euro- a conference.

But the Nazis never answered it, have not answered it to this day. Once agnin the British were rebuffed. Chapter III was penned last summer when the British invited Foreign, Minister von Neurath to London to discuss problems affecting the two countries. The Natis kept the British in suspense for several weeks, then just before Von Neurath was scheduled to arrive, telegraphed thnt he was indisposed. HALIFAX VISIT Against the background of these three rebuffs came Viscount Halifax's visit to Hitler.

His trip it should wns opposed by the British foreign office, which maintained thtit the more olive branches held out to Germany, the more high-hnnded her attitude. Foreign Minister Eden, who held the same view, hurried back from Brussels when he heard the cabinet had gone over his heart. Premier Chamberlain, however, WHS adamant. Convinced that Britain must co-operate with Germany until the British rearm'ament program is finished spurred Halifax to Berlin. The ensuing conference, hoilcd down to three things, once again with Der Fuehrer doing the talking.

Hitler demanded: 1. Not immediately (he recognized that the transfer of colonies would tnlce two or three years), but he wanted an immediate promise that all Germany's pre-war colonies would be transferred- 2. Free hand in Austria: Should the Austrian people decide through plebiscite or otherwise that their future lay with Germany, Hitler wanted no interference from any western nation. 3. Freedom for minorities in Czechoslovakia: For restive Germans in land of the Czechs, and also for the Slovaks, Hitler demanded complete freedom.

return for this he was willing to give Great Britain non-aggression pact respecting the borders of Western Europe. Once again the British had turned the other cheek --and once again they hod been smacked. The British have now taken up the German proposal with the French, and the latter, diplomatic-ally hard boiled and realistic, have replied to this effect: The only time, the Germans and Italians have listened to us was at the Nyon piracy conference, when the British and French fleets were pooled in the Mediterranean. Immediately, submarine piracy disappeared. The only thing the Germans and Italians understand is force, and the fewer olive branches they get the better.

GREENBEL-T ROMANCE At least one newly installed tenant of resettlement's $14,000,000 suburban housing project of Greenbelt, is dissatisfied with the experiment. When the first families moved in, they were met by a small army of photographers. In one picture, the cameramen grouped little Eddie Ashley, 4, and little Lavon Bordenet, aged 2, for "the first Greenbelt romance." "Talk to her, Eddie," the news reel "photographers kept shouting. "Ask her how she likes it out here." Eddie complied, asking the question of the a dozen times. But finally the situation became too much for him.

Running 1 back to a photographer, he. stood on tiptoe and shouted into his ear: "Her says 'no! 1 MERRY.GO-ROUND During the president's toothache, the White House received hundreds of letters suggesting all kinds of remedies--all the way from gargling corn liquor to rubbing his jaw with onion. The ambitious undercover campaign of Gilbert E. Hyatt, postal clerk union official, to make himself assistant secretary of labor has come a cropper. Hyatt hired a publicity agent who circularized labor leaders to write the president urging Hyatt's appointment, John F.

Gateless, president of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, has responded to this request with a letter to his -units advising that they cold-shoulder Hyatt and endorse Robert Watt, secretary of tHc Massachusetts organization, Among alleged civil liberties infractions being secretly probed by the LaFoI- lette committee is a charge that hostile political and business forcts forcibly tried to suppress the Bellingham, Plaindealer Press, a labor newspaper. New Jersey's one-time Republican Senator W. Warren Barbour has told former senate colleagues that he will make another try for a comeback in neirt year's elections, the great toe which thrr-bs, cuts, and stabs. The joint swells and becomes purple; the slightest movement is agony. Nothing seems to bring relief.

The attack must wear itself out, and it may last a few dys or weeks at a time. The trouble is caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood. Its cure, or rather treatment, is dieting. The actual trouble is irritation caused by deposits of uric acid and its sodiuni salt in the joint tissues. Why this deposit centers on the grtat toe is a mystery.

In the days of the trencherman at groaning tables, when it was usual to drink three or four bottles of port after a huge mealj gout was common. With the decline of such heavy eating and drinking, physicians firat realized that not all gout came "out of a bottle," and the phrase "poor man's gout" was horn. Now only the non-alcoholio variety iy said to exist. ALL IN DAY By Mark Hellinger Broadway yiewpoint Thia little yarn concerns two gentlemen whom I will "term Bob anil Leo. Bob is a hard guy.

He ninkes bis living as a racketeer, admits it freely and never has hesitated to shoot his way out of a jam. Leo is smaller fish in the Broadway puddle and his way of earning a living must be seen and not heard. At any rate, Bob and Leo became semi-friends. Leo admired Bob tremendously and wns awed by trm fact that he used a gun every'now and then. Bob, on the other hand, never saw very much in Leo but-as one racketeer to another--he liked to watch the man wriggle his way out of difficult situations.

One night, after he had not seen Leo for several months, Boh was awakened by phone call at ,4 in the morning. "This is Leo, Bob," came the Kurricd reply. "Your old Leo. Listen, Bob, I'm in terrible jam. My girl is gonna be arrested right away if I don't fix it up for her.

"You can do it, Bob. I know you can. Get her off and I'll repay you again and again. Please, Please, Bob muttered something under liis breath but promised Leo he'd do what he could for him. "I'll call you back, Leo," he said.

"Stick where you are." Some twenty minutes later, Bob called him hack. "I can spring this gal of yours," he informed Leo, "but it's gonna cost you $160. Get the dough right over here and I'll lay it on the line." A hurried cough from Leo. "Listen, old pal," cried Leo. "You're really one of the awellest guys-I know.

Now it happens that 1 I'm just a little strapped right this minute and I simply gotta get my girl outa this mess. "Help me out this once, willya, Bob? Just this once. I'll have the money over to you before tomorrow afternoon. Sure I will. I promise you." Leo kept whining for assistance nnd Bob finally agreed to take care of the matter for him.

He hung up, took $150 in cash, sent it where it was most needed--and the girl was never arrested. So, having saved girl, Bob tumbled into bed again and went back to sleep. For nearly seven months after, Bob never saw Leo at any time. If he ever burned up about the loss of his $160, he snid nothing to anyone. Suddenly, upon entering hideaway night club the other evening, he saw Leo sitting alone at a I abl and obviously wait in for some girl to return to him.

Next to him was an ermine wrap. On the table was an attractive pocketbook. Leo was wearing a tuxedo and looked very prosperous. In the bucket alongside of his chair stood a large bottle of wine. Leo spotted Bob and hailed him enthusiastically.

Bob, old boy!" he shouted, clapping him on the shoulder. "I'm certainly glad to see you ngain. Yes, sir, it makes me very happy. I'm in the money now. Bob.

Very well." Bob regarded him skeptically. he said. "Well, since you're doing so great, maybe you'll remember the time I got your girl out of a jam. And how about the you were going to pay me back the next day?" Leo smiled easily. I I By Jtfferson Machamer "Oh," he murmured, "you want to forget all about that, Bob.

I have a ness- girl now!" Newspaper University OF AMERICA (IteglitereJ U. S. PRlcnf Cop. H. lUckrftch, QUESTIONS COLLEGE GEOGRAPHY--First Year 1--How many islands has the United a outside the boundaries of the 48 states? ASTItONOMY--Second Year 2--How any moons has the planet Saturn HISTORY--Third Year 3 --What was the Gunpowder Plot? LITERATURE--Fourth Year 4--What were the two simple rules of conduct laid down by i Louys, the great French writer? HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY--First Year 6--Who was Good Queen Bess? GEOGRAPHY--Second Year 6--Into what body of wnttw does the river Nile flow? PHILOSOPHY--Third tfear 7--Name three great philosophers of Greece.

BIOLOGY--Fourth Year 8--Where does chinchilla come ELEMENTARY SCIENCE--First Grade 9--Why Is yeast mixed with flour to malcu bread? NATURE STUDY--Third Grade JO--From what are raisins made? ZOOLOGY--Fifth Grade 1--What wild animal Is noted for its curiping? SPORTS--Seventh Grade Who was the first woman to swim the English ANSWERS 1--About nine thousand, according to the NatJon.il Geographic So- 2--Nine moons. 3--A jrtoi to blow up James I and tht English Parliament, Nov. 1605, 4 (1) Do no wrong to thy neighbor, (2) Observing this, do thou pleasest. 3--Queen Elizabeth of Knglancl. S--Into ihe Mertllerrnncan Sea- 7--Sacrates.

Ftalo. and Artalotlc. 8--From tno chJnrhllln, a rodent found In Peru and Chill. 9--To make Ihr hreart rise. 10--Prom gnipes.

11--The fox. 12--Gertrude Fr. Couhlin May Return to Air Soon DETROIT, Dec. Rev. Father Charles Coughlin, whose militant nationwide broadcasts regarding President Roosevelt's appointment of Hugo Black to the supreme court caused his archbisliop to "discipline" him only last October, today looked forward to returning to the air soon after January 1.

Archbishop Mooney said the resumption "represents an exercise of the liberty of action he has always enjoyed in this matter, and marks no change in the conditions under which they are conducted 1 The number of cities in the United States of 10,000 or more population in which motor buses have entirely replaced street cars increased last year from 393 to. 431. I THE SCENES IN By HARRISON CARROLL of Hollywood's most devout superstitions is tlic lucky number. Lily Pens' lireference for 13 is well known nnd Sidney Blackmer tolls HID it also is a good omen for him. Blackmcr was born on July 13 in North Carolina, which was one of tlie 13 original states.

Tlie number has popped up many times in the nctor's Hfe. He joined the army during the war on November 13 and his first npneuronec alsa was on November 13, One of the biggest stnge hits was in "The Thirteenth Chuir" nnd his Twentieth Century-Fox contract was signed May 13. Now, he is getting a leave of absence to return to the footlights in the ploy, "A Truce With Tomorrow," which is scheduled to open December 13. Mae of course, likes nny combination that mitts uu tp eight. The license number of her car is and her apartment number 110.

All the papers noted that Hymie JMiller, the cafe man and movie bit player, just shot to death here, was working in'a film called "A Slight Gust- of Murder." But it's a further coincidence that Miller was supposed to be rubbed out in (he film, Incidentally, since the murder, half the extras on the set arc now able to recall that Miller looked morosu ami worried for several days prior to the killing. Mireille Balin, red-headed French nctress, arrived here the other day to join M. G. foreign contingent, ami was taken directly from the train to lunch at the Brown Derby. For her first mcnl in Hollywood, she downed two cocktails, a largo bowl of soup with rolls broken up in it, a snlad, a full order ot spaghetti, an order of hash browned potatoes, a cup of coffee And two bananas.

Her escort, M. G. M. Casting Director Billy Grady, almost fainted but Mile. Balin pointed to her trim 113 pounds and announced that she never had to diet.

Remember an item hero about Alice Brady rescuing dogs from the pound and giving them to her film colony i Well, Tyrone I ower took police dog, gave it several months' cnro and just sold it to an insistent bidder for $200. Jle.Jl devote the money to rescuing r.iore doga irom the pound. Hear that an automobile accident suffered by Warjorie Weaver may be more serious than was sus- rccted. the southern actress, is milled ns white hope by Twentieth Century-Fox, got banged into on her way to the studio. Her car was wrecked but she apparently escaped with a couple of bumps on her head.

By mid-day, however, her eyesight became affected (sho could only see things that were directly in front of her) and they bud to let her go home from the "Sally, Irene and Alary" set. Studio believes condition temporary but is worried. Eyc-wifnesscg were just as pend able in the old days as now. The M. G.

M. research department has found half a dozen versions oC what King Louis XVI wore at his marriage. So, in "Marie Antoinette," you'll see him in a costume is a composite of the various accounts. The French nclroas lost no time in making good connections. She met Joseph M.

Schenck on the trnin Britisher's Book To Be Reviewed "They Seek a Country," South African novel of action and expansion by Francis Brett Young, will ha reviewed tomorrow morning at the library at 10 o'clock. Young is a well-known British writer whose works are characterized by frankness and realism of treatment. The review will be led by Lida O'Banion Peck, Saratoga hook critic and special lecturer of the San Mateo Junior college adult center, under whose auspices the book news and reviews series is conducted. Adults of the community may attend Wednesday's review the last of the current series until January- Bethel Choir to Hold Practice Tomorrow Practice of the choir of Bethel No. 7, order of Joh's Daughters, will be held in tke Olivet Memorial park cemetery 5 o'clock tomorrow night.

The practice is preparation for the installation of officers which will be held Saturday night at the BurlinKame Masonic temple. Mrs. J. R. Spnnn is director of the choir.

Members witheut transportation will be taken by mothers of other girls. ARMSUY SUIT TRANSFER Trial of the divorce action of Sirs. Burmister Armsby Jeffrey K. Armsby, Pen- insian polo j.Iayer, today had been transferred to Santa Clara county by Superior Judge C. J.

Goodell of San Francisco. Armsby, charged with cruelty, sought the change of venue on the grounds he-is a rcsi- dent of Santa Clara county. coming out and spent the week-end looking over Paint Springs under his guidance. Brief but choice Clifford Odeta wants Edward G. Robinson to play John L.

Lewis in his play about the CIO leader. On the opening night of the opera here, ths bar at the Shrine auditorium featured a Negro trio who played swing music. Freddie Bartholomew gets $1000 for appearing on M. G. radio show.

The cameramen finally caught up with Benita Hume and Ronald Coleman at the opera. He's Hollywood's shyest swain. Spencer Tracy is giving up his European trip M. G. II.

can rush into production with "Teat Pilot" And Ethel Merman, who didn't click so well on her other trip to Hollywood, now refuses to even lease an apartment, though she's under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox for three iiicluros. Xmas Cards by I Camera, Theme "Unking Xmas Cnrrls WHh a Camera" will be the thomo of nn unusual demonstration ut lecture' tonight at the Snn Mnteo Junior colleijo nt 7:16 Richard Kecble, Palo Alto commercial photographer, wilj demonstrate methods and ideas in taking: Xmas photos by setting up various Yuletide arrangements and photograph- rag them varied lighting conditions. Tlio negatives will then lie immediately developed in the college dark room and will be available for examination within a few minutes. The demonstration tonight concludes, for the fall, the pictorial: photography series sponsored by the San Mateo Junior college adult center. The series will be continued early in January, Adults of tho community who have not yet attended the photographic series may attend tonight as gucats of tlie college.

Coast Residents tt Wed in San Franciaeo AUrcd L. Biagini, 24, member of a pioneer Constsido family, and i 0 TMthy K. Springer, 18, both of Half Moon Bay, yesterday filed notice of intention to wecl in San Francisco. Also applying for a ban Francisco Riarrmge license were Clarence K. Resen, San Francisco, and B.

Martin, 27, San Bruno. COLLEGE OF OZARKS PKOUD CLARKSV1LLE, Ark. (IP)-The College of the Ozarlis here attracted a student miles away. Aaroon Raphael Cook of Klawock, Alaska, cams atl the way to Arkansas to attend this year's term at the college, according to officials. APOPU-AIL fORM sii5Nifi -fBp OM EACW S1PE.

WHEN tSr Tomorrow: Theatrical Stage Curtains; Anzacs you nave any other ideas as to HOW IT BEGAN, write Retain care of tne Ran Mateo Times. If you want to see how some other particular custom or saying began, let him know, nnd the answer will bt illustrated in thia aeries..