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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
SELECT GREENSBORO
Resolutions Thanking Com
mittees, Churches, Press
And Others Adopted

The 5oth annual convention of
the Baptist Women's Missionary
Union of North Carolina closed at
the First Baptist church yesterday
afternoon with the reelection OF
all state officers featuring the fin
al session.
Greensboro was named as the
site for the 1941 convention, which
will be held the second week in
March, the exact dates to be set
later by the executive committee.
Officers reelected were: .
Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, of Green's
boro, president; Mrs. Wesley N.
Jones, of Raleigh, president-emeri'
tus; Mrs. j. S. Farmer, of Ra
leigh, vice-president; Mrs. Earl G
James, of Elkins, vice-president;
Mrs. W. D. Briggs, executive Sec
rotary; and Miss Ora Afford, of Ra'
leigh, treasurer.
Many Attend
A total of 1913 delegates to the
convention were registered during
the three-day ms eting.
At the final meeting yesterday
afternoon, resolutions thanking the
churches and people of Wilmington
for their hospitality and the press
and individuals for their coopera.
ton during the convention were
adopted by the organization.
A resolution of thanks was also
adopted, expressing appreciation for
the efforts of the local women's
committees, headed by the follow
ing: Mrs. G.. B. Phillips, general
chairman; Mrs. H. A. Handy, well
come; Mrs. J. D. Freeman, hos.
pitality; Mrs. D. M. Darden, regis
tration; Mrs. John A. Stevens,
Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
Northern Defense Treaty
Is Given Fresh Support

STOCKHOLM, March II Up -
Support for a defensive alliance
among Sweden, Norway and Finland
grew today out of the ashes of the
Russian-Finnish conflict which left
powerful Russia ~startegically poised
over all three.
Official statements in Stockholm,
Oslo and Helsinki drew the issue to
the fore following the Russian
dictated peace, the Swedish foreign
office and Norwegian Foreign Min
lister Halvdan Koht making almost
identical announcements that their
countries were considering the PCS
sibility of such ar alliance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
Norway Explain
Troop Passage Refusal
Knew Germany Would In
tervene In Effort To In
tercept Allied Soldiers

OSLO, March IA. Up Foreign
Minister Halvdan Koht declared in
a broadcast tonight that Norway
and Sweden had refused a last min
ute formal request of Britain and
France to send troops through
Scandinavia to Finland's aid be.
cause it was learned that Germany
would intervene.
The Norwegian foreign minister
said the French and British issued
feelers as early as March 2 but
made no official request for pas.
sage of their troops until March y
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Firms LEAVE SECTION
Hundred Thousand Women
And Men March From
Land Coded To Reds
STATE PAYING COSTS
Families Are Not Forced To
Leave But Do Not Want
II Live Under Red Rule
BY LYNN H~EINZERLING

HELSINKI, March IA Up A
new army was on the march tonight
in saddened Finland an army Of
100, 900 men, ome and children
forsaking their firesides in ceded
territory to find strange homes
within Finland's newly-shrunken
frontiers.
By foot, in autos, wagons, and on
trains they moved through the snow
clad country taking their pigs.
horses and cattle with them. They
carried what clothing and family
heirlooms they could gather on short
notice before their land is turned
over to Russia.
Thousands In Centers
Approximately 500, 900 other per-
sons are in refugee centers, having
fled there for protection early in
the war.
About 100000 of them may return
to their homes what Russian
bombs have left of them-but Fin.
land must find new homes and new
livelihoods some place in the rock
bound land for about $50, 900.
Julio Koivisto, assistant minister
of agriculture who is in charge of
moving the people, said that no
pressure had been brought to force
families to leave the ceded areas,
but that experience showed prac-
tically none of them wanted to live
under Russian rule.
Most of those to be moved are
from the regions north Of Lake
Ladoga since the ceded Karelian
isthmus was efnptied Of civilians and
turned owe to the army almost com.
pletely during the war.
Only 1000 persons are remaing in
Hanko, the south coast port leased
to Russia as a naval base.
State Pays Costs
The state has been paying the en-.
tire cost of feeding and sheltering
refugees and will stand the
cost of moving them to permanent
homes. 2
Koivisto said that an effort would
be made to keep friends and neigh
bors with common traditions and
customs together but that very
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
COOPER OPPOSES
ROAD DIVERSION
Wilmington Mayor Expect
ed To File AS Guberna
torial Candidate Today

RALEIGH, March 14-R-Mayor
Thomas E. Cooper Of Wilmington,
arrived in Raleigh tonight presuEi-
ably for the purpose of filing tomor'
row as a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for governor.
Cooper said he was taking a stand
against highway diversion, and ad'
vocating SIS license tags for automo-
biles and lower gasoline taxes.
IF I'm elected governor, I won't
have to worry about diversion" ne
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WOULD FOLLOW POLICY
Some Think Soviet Repub.
lie, With Local Govern
ment, Will Be Set Up
PRESS UPHOLDS PACT
Papers Claim Peace Saved
Northern Europe From
Alleged War Plots

MOSCOW, March 15.-(Friday)-
B-The supreme soviet of the
|U.S.S.R., Russia's parliament, was
convoked today for March 20, and
many observers predicted one Of
the most important items on it's
agenda would be formation of a
Soviet socialist republic in the ter'
ritory ceded by Finland under the
new peace treaty.
These observers said formation
of such a Soviet republic would
be in keeping with the Soviet pol.
icy toward national minorities, as
worked out by both Lenin and
Stain.
If created, this republic would
have local self-government, it's W
language, and cultural institutions
and a council of peoples commits
sars.
May Enlarge District
In some quarters it was believed
possible, however, that Viipuri and
the Karelian isthmus might be in.
corporated into the Leningrad dis.
trict and that the northern shores
of Lake Ladoga and that part Of
northeastern Finland coded to Rus.
STA might be taken into the exist.
ing Soviet Karelian republic.
Official comment was not avail.
able.
The decree calling the supreme
soviet into session was signed by
President Michael Kalinin, and cir.
culated by radio and by Tass, the
official news agency.
The last session Of the supreme
soviet, which is Russia's parlia-
ment, was held early last Novem.
Der, while Finnish delegates en-.
gagged in futile negotiation of Rus.
sia's first demands were in Mos.
COW. On the 30th of November.
Russia invaded Finland.
At the November session Of the
Soviet, the members unanimously
approved the incorporation of the
western Ukraine and western White
Russia-those parts Of Poland oc.
cupied by the Red army-into the
Soviet union.
Treaty Upheld
The treaty Of peace which ended
the ~undeclared war between Soviet
Russia and Finland was presented
Russian newspapers as saving
(COntiuua1 IN DoUo Tom. fol ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
BURNS ARE FATAL
TO MAN AND GIRL
Willie Corbett, Atkinson
Negro, Dies After Effort
To Save His Daughter

BURGAW, March 14-Willie Cor
bett, rs, negro, of Atkinson, died
yesterday as a result Of burns sus-
tanned at his home yesterday morn
ing when he tried to extinguish the
burning clothing of his daughter,
Josephine.
The girl cought fire while playing
around a stove in the house. She
was carried to a Wilmington hos
pital for treatment but died upon
arrival there.
Corbett received severe burns
about the hands, face and body when
his clothing caught fire while he
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JERSEY CITY, N. j., March
IA, R - A man tentatively
identified as a former theatre
cal publicity writer today 1ouno
in spectacular manner the dea'n
which police said he sought "nen
a plane fell into New York naI'
Dor following a dramatic Dat'ie
between passenger and pilot
half mile up. 90
Pilot Joseph Rosemarin, 90,
Brooklyn. was rescued but New
York harbor and local ponce
worked into the nlght u"
fIoodIights, graphing Tor me
body Of the passenger where '"o
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
DRAMATIC BATTLE IN PLANE FLYING
OVER NEW YORK ENDS IN MANS DEATH

The story which Rosemarin
had previously told Police Cap
tain Fred Drewen was that of a
man who became terror stricken
and cleaned over and hit me over
the head with pliers"
II struck back and knocked
him unconscious" ROsemarin
said. II was unable to control
the plane and had to land"
The pilot, an instructor for the
Standard Flying School at Floyd
Bennett airport in Brooklyn. SAID
the man went to the field this
morning.
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plane fell near the Statue of
Liberty.
A friend of the pilot, Attorney
Mortimer Rabson of New York
city, and a woman told police the
missing man was apparently
Emanuel Eisenberg, IS, of New
York city. Kabson said Eisen-
berg resigned last year as press
agent for the Group Theater in
New York and went to Mexico
to write a book. He said he had
seen the man in New York re-
Gently.
Miss Ruth Eisenberg telephon-
ed that her cousin Emanuel had
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15

Finland's president, Kyosti Kallio,
described a defensive alliance as an
Unacceptable necessity"
Traditionally neutral Norway and
Sweden have become distinctly con-
scious of possible future dangers as
Opposition is voiced to any alliance
or definite commitment binding
Sweden and Norway to give Finland
direct military aid but some form Of
precautionary action generally is
expected.
In both Sweden and Norway
anxiety is felt that Finland might
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gone up with a pilot named
ROsemarin.

eOAo ~ avn " P1OU AAoIlACu
ROsemarin.
After hearing Rosemarin's graz
phic, tense story of the strug.
gle in the skies at Jersey City
Medical Center and questioning
Kabson, Police Inspector Henry
Gautier said terseIy: ~
ut is simply a case of suicide"
Rosemarin was treated for
shock and submersion.
Police Lieutenant William Cur
tin said the pilot told him that
while the two men were strug.
Cling and the small training
plane spun earthward, Eisenberg
attempted to jump out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
GEORGE flick OUT
AS RESORT CHIEF
Resignation Is Accepted By
Wrightsville Board; Sue
cessor Not Named

The Wrightsville Beach board of
met in the courthouse
and accepted the resigna-
ton of George Flick as chief of po-
lice at the beach.
The resignation read: IT hereby
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
Soviet,
Bloc
is Proposed
Project Presented To II
Duce By Won Ribbentrop
During Visit To Rome
WILL INCLUDE OTHERS
Germany Reported To Have
Obtained Pledge From
Reds To Spare Rumania

BELGRADE, March 14.-R-
High Yugoslav officials were in
formed tonight that German For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop on his visit to Rome last
weekend presented Italy with a
Nazi project for erection of an eco
nomic bloc of Germany, Russia,
Italy and call small states between
these powers"
AS reported here, the German
foreign minister painted a rosy pic
ture of the mutual advantages of
an economic federation of the three
largest totalitarian powers which
also would embrace the small Bal,
tic, central European and south
eastern European states.
Trade With Powers
The latter, including Yugoslavia.
already do most Of their trading
with the totalitarian powers.
Benito Mussolini was reported to
have viewed the plan with strict
reserve, but the subsequent an
nouncement that Ribbentrop con.
cluded an agreement for Germany
to supply Italy with coal by rail
to circumvent the British blockade
deeply impressed Yugoslavs.
German coal trains Italy-bound,
now rumbling through northern
Y~ugoslavia, are being given the
r~ight-of-way over local traffic.
Yugoslav officials expressed the
view that the Rome-Berlin axis is
functioning strongly in the eco.
nomic field, but they doubted that
Premier Mussolini would consider
working hand-in-glove with Russia,
OBTAINS PLEDGE
BERLIN, March 14.-R-Ger
many, anxious to avoid a southeast
ern battlefront and determined tc
strengthen her economic ties with
the Balkan nations, has obtained
from Soviet Russia a definite pledge
to spare Rumania, come what may
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SOrth FORECAST
;Sshtiy c 1oa5aSoIlna: Partly cloudy
'>e''' fair, slowly rising sas' te rn1aay i,
aiag 7 :s6 data for the "a hours
r.. IN, Yesterday.
l50 a. temperature
r.; In ~ 80 a. m. "A: 1:30 y.
>ilnum -. p. m. 81; maximum 81:
IN, mean 81 normal 50.
.I:N a, m Humidity
. 50; i,,s a. 50; 7:3o a. m. %: 7.so n.
10Y p. IN. Sc. LOU F.
Total fl, Precipitation
~ Inches: q lou aours ending 7:so D. m,
OS5 inches. ''ee 1lrst OF the
Tides For
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''svine, lar 1has river stage at Fay
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Evening star., 1940-12-18

invitation IN the evening. Inc green
garland has the same quality by
day. In all lighting, keep it as
simple as possible, and in a con-
centrated pattern so that each point
of light has meaning in the design.
Otherwise you get only a gaudy
flare of brilliance that has no plan.
Light the windows in your house
with the usual room lights. so that
they shine outside, or light each
window with its individual candle.
If you feel that blinds or shades
must be drawn, make a concerted
effort to light each window with
electric candles so that your house
does its share in glorifying the
street for the pasSer-by.
There is nothing more effective
or more generous in spirit than the
decorated Christmas tree set in a
bay window. With draperies drawn
back and candles on the sill it offers
a Christmas greeting to the oc-
cupants and to every one who ap-
proaches the house. Study the
good points of your own house and
decorate to make them more i'm
portant.
Inside your house the front hall
should make a good first impress
sion with a stairway tWined with
green garlands or two small Christ
mas trees in tubs at either side of
the door. The living room manUel
and large windows or the main wall
which meets the eye on entering
should be the focal point of decora-
ton unless the Christmas tree
stands there. If so, everything else
should be subordinate to the tree.
If you are fortunate enough to have
a large supply of long needle pine
or hemlock and plenty of white
tapering candles, you have the most
perfect combination to express
Christmas in decoration. If these
are not available, many new and
unusual effects may be created by
your own hands.
White, in lace, ice or snow, is as
much a part of Christmas as red
and green. Deep green pine is
effective on white tablecloth.
Small logs with holes bored for
three or five candles are doubly ef-
fective when the logs are painted
with white kalsomine busted with
artificial snow and set against a
background of hemlock A demure
angel with starched white lace
wings and gown is lovely when
Evening star., 1940-12-18

placed in the middle of the mantel.
Her halo is a wreath of holly, and
tall candles in a nest of long needle
pine and cones at either side add
interest. If you would have her
glisten, paint her with sugar and
water and shake artificial snow over
her You may create her at home.
Shining Christmas tree decora-
tions are the modern expression of
an old druid custom, so the folk
stories say. Once a year at the
Christmas season the wealthy ladies
came into the forest with their
precious jewels, which they placed
on tree as their sacrifice to the
druid who ruled the forest. The
jeWel-like quality of many of the
smaller tree decorations is more ap-
parent when they are twined into
green boughs over door, on a man.
tel or as center table decoration.
Brush up some of the old FAM
lily customs in your house. Try to
remember the cookies grandmother
made and the way the whole
house smelled a week before Christ
mas. Gather green things and pick
out Christmas tree, just as though
you still believed in Santa Claus,
and make this the best Christmas
in years.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

figures. There are adroit gathers
at the sides of the front panel to
give little roundness where round
ness is needed, and the waist scoops
into beguiling tininess above the
piouant flare of the skirt.
In velveteen or taffeta, with a
white silk pique collar, design No.
1269-B will be the prettiest kind
of party frock. In flannel, spun
rayon or corduroy it will be smart
for classrooms, all in one color or,
as shown in the small sketch, with
wide splash of contrast down the
front.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1898
is designed for sizes II, 13, Is, II
and 10. Corresponding bust meas
urements 20, 81, 80, IS and 81. Size
13 (3D requires Az yafds of 39-inch
material without nap: y yard con-
trast for collar.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

front of the bodice There's a
sarong-type skirt. too, with honest
to-goodness pockets on each side.
Impressed pleats fall from the
waistline, which is held snugly by a
narrow belt of the fabric. Other
points of interest about the dress
include short sleeves and a hemline
that is slightly shorter in front than
in back. It's only one model, of
course, but Mrs. z says it can be
obtained in several colors and that
it does indicate the type of thing
that is being sold strongly.
Continuing our style - sleuthing
to include evening slippers we found
them in almost every color, style
and fabric. There are transpar-
ent vinylite sandals, brocades and
Jewel" studded crepes. In the lat
ter, the combination of brilliant
stones on white crepe is something
that could only be called special. -
Equally nice and unusual are the
toeless. backless pumps in black
with colored stones or those in mesh
with topaz encrustations.
The evening bags featured in the
same store seem to indicate that
these evening carry-alls are larger
than in past seasons. "a fact which
should inspire all feminine readers
to offer vote of thanks for this
long needed Innovation Masculine
readers, if any, may also be CRATE
full for a purse in which a woman
can put all the necessities without
cramming an escorts pockets. Gilt
ter is very apparent in evening bags
of bright sequins or those which
use this trim in combination with
velvet. Brocade evening purses are
ample and have space for fittings.
Satin types with pearl embroidery
or those of silver or gold kid are
to be found among these new bags
which are obtainable in envelope
as we'll as pouch versions.
Going on with this fashion foray
we discovered beautiful fitted eve
ming bags, many of which have a
new slide-top feature Without 60
ing into too much detail, we'll just
say that the tops do exactly what
the name implies-slide back and
forth to open and to close securely
The idea is also carried out in street
bags. And speaking of those, our
pet seen recently is a black suede
pouch which opens wide enough fol-
you to find that elusive keyring
It's lined with red and studded or
the outside with the most fasci-
mating gold-colored metal flowers
all carefully clamped on.
Evening star., 1940-12-18

Aids Good
Health
Teach Child to Use
Tissues When He
Has a Cold
BY ANGELO PATRI.

Children should not have to sniff
A sniff means something wrong in
the nose and that means the use
of a handkerchief promptly and
| effectively. The nose is the door,
way to the lungs, Through the nose
travels the air that is to keep the
body alive, alert and active. If it
is clogged, dirty or diseased, the
body must suffer sickness and pain
and loss of power.
Children sniff in cold weather.
They would rather sniff than use a
handkerchief. No reason except that
they are children and children are
! like that. 1t is bothersome to get
at the pocket where the handker-
chief is, if it is there. Usually it is
not. And sniff is not important
to the child who really does not
know he is shifting.
But the teacher knows he is sniff
fing. She sees and hears him. So
does his mother, and anybody else
in his presence. His first sniff
should be signal for request that
he use his handkerchief. He is to
go into privacy and clean the pass
ageway of his nose.
Paper handkerchiefs are a boon
to all children and teachers and
parents. The cotton handkerchief
is not useful to school child. 1t
is soon dirty; it stays dirty: and it
gathers more dirt as the day goes
on. 1t is dropped and picked up and
used. Instead of removing the cause
of trouble it adds something to it..
Washing tbs a chore that nobody
likes.
The paper handkerchief is light
and easy to carry. A bunch of them
will go into one pocket. They are
cheap, so we can use plenty of them.
Once used they go into the basket
and are burned, never returned to
the pocket to be the breeding place
of countless germs of disease.
The child whose nose is clean has
much better chance of coming
through the winter without colds,
than the one whose nose is checked
up with a discharge or with adenoids.
Adenoids are not part of the body.
They do not belong. When they
appear they should be removed
under the careful supervision of your
physician and a good surgeon. The
operation is not serious at all if the
surgeon is experienced, as he must
be. Get rid of the adenoid growth
and avoid all the troubles that it
causes, such as backWardness, dull
ness, defective hearing and lowered
vitality. An adenoid growth costs
too much to permit its staying in a
child's nose. Out with it promptly.
When tonsils are diseased the
physician will order them out. Don't
wait once he gives the order. The
passages must be clean and free if
the child is to get enough clean air
to live and thrive on, and there is
no time to be lost in talking about
the matter. Adenoids, diseased ton
sils and running ears and sore
throats and repeated colds are all of
a piece. A clean nose, an open and
healthy throat, pair of sound ears
are boons of childhood that any child
may have if ordinary care is exer-
cised.
Watch the sniffle. Supply plenty
of paper handkerchiefs. Watch the
breathing, the talking and swallow
| ing, and if there is any indication
of a blocking anywhere along the
| line look into the passages. The
nose must be clean if the child is to
be healthy and to make proper
| growth.