davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Allies Spending 7wice As Much
On War As F. r. On Depression

cents of every dollar the French
men earn.
German costs are largely a mat
ter of conjecture. The best esti'
mates at which experts can arrive,
however, prodeee Tie rounded con-
clusion that so cents Of every dol
lar earned in Germany Is being
sent by the state. Three-fourths OF
this is being raised by taxes, cen
tributions and profits from state
enterprises.
Figures from Russia and Finland
are hard to get. Nor is any over,
all figure available t o neu'rai
spending. Belgium and h Neshef>
lands, each with less than one-four-
teenth Of the population Of the
United States, are spending $780,
600, 900 to maintain their armed ne"'
trality, in addition TO their regular
governmental operating expenses.
Sweden, with a population half a
million less than that Of Ohio, Is
spending s475,o 900. 900 this year. half
of it to keep from being swept into
the maelstrom.
Recalling their financial troubles
of the last war, the nations involv-
ed are turning promptly to heavy
taxes to finance the shooting. Pri-
vate savings are being drafted, too,
through forced loan subscriptions.
Already the individual income tax
in Britain has been hoisted to 81 IL
per cent,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
ENGINEERS STUDY
DAMAGE TO ROADS
Baise Believes Cost OF Win
ter Repairs Will Not
Be Lower

RALEIGH, March 11.-R-Win'
ter damage to North Carolina's
state highway might be slightly
less than original estimates"
Chief Highway Engineer w. n
Baise said today.
First estimates were that winter
road damage was in excess OF 3d.
0OO, 900.
Baise, T. v. Fahnestock, bitumi-
nous engineer and B. w. Davis,
maintenance engineer, have Just
completed the first leg of an inspec-
ton trip which carried them over
2,4O0 miles of the highway system.
They inspected roads in the
western and Piedmont sections of
the state where the severe winter
wrought the greatest damage to
the highway system and will leave
tomorrow to inspect roads in the
eastern part of the state.
Heaviest roadway damage, as
thus far revealed by the inspection
trip, was in the fifth district, large
ly comprising the tier of counties
north of Greensboro, and in the
Asheboro DIVISION" Baise said.
A 50, 900, 900 fund Governor Hoey
alocated from the highway surplus
to repair winter road damage will
be divided among the highway divis-
Ions after the engineers finish their
inspection trip.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Nv w r. RAGSDALE

WASHINGTON, ZACH 11.-f0
The cost sheets Of Europe's war,
forming a scenic backdrop for
Americas political drama, are con.
vincing bankers and federal officials
that it will be the most expensive
conflict in history.
Great Britain already is spending
at the rate of $4,000, 600. 900 a year.
That amounts to 40 cents of every
dollar it's citizens earn. On a popu-
lation basis, it would equal a $27,'
900, 100000 annual budget for the
United States, more than double
that of any of the high spending
depression years.
Britons figure the cost will go up
a third for the second year and will
double by the third year If war
goes on. The third year would
reach a point which, if the bud
get were met out of pocket, would
take 80 cents of ver. dollar earn
ed in Britain-if the earnings came
up to those of 1889.
The French costs are a little low
err than those Of Britain, but still
are high enough to wrench h e
souls of thrifty French taxpayers.
France is spending at the rate OF
81, 400, O00, 900 a year, which would
be equivalent to s23, 000,000,000 for
the United States. Compared to
French earnings, however, t h e
spending works out to more than 40
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

study of the costs Of war materials
such Is are being purchased in the
governments huge rearmament
program.
The budget sent up to Capitol
Hill by the President had the anti
trust outfit slated for a 500, 900 cut
from this years $780, 900. This
would have pulled the teeth Of the
famous building costs investigation.
Arnold estimates that at the least
it would have meant pulling grand
jury Investigations from five cities.
After a good deal Of debate, the
senate voted to restore the cut and
add another 500, 900. This isn't by
any means as much money as Arm
old thinks his division could use
profitably, but it makes some ex-
pansion possible.
I'VE ought to have another mil
lion, but a hundred thousand is bet
ter than a kick in the pants" he
says, philosophically.
MANY REQUESTS
FOR FOOD PROBE
Arnold looks on the food cost
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
WHITE RUSSIANS
HOPE FOR MOVE
Anti-Soviet Groups Conf
dent Allies Will At
tack Soon
Ry CHARLES S. FOLTZ, Jr.

GENEVA, March 11-QP- The
refugee anti-Soviet governments"
Of the three transcaucasian states
of Georgia, Azerbiajan and Armenia
are becoming increasingly confident
that Great Britain and France, by
striking at the rich Russian oil
fields and manganese deposits there.
viii free" their homelands.
For almost 20 years, absentee ma
tional governments" have been
maintained by Georgian, Azerbaijan
and Armenian refugees, and now
they feel their days Of waiting are
over, that with allied assistance
they will seize the regions now
grouped in the union Of Soviet 10
cialist republics as autonomous
states.
Kama Chavichvily. a Georgian
delegate at Geneva since 1921, told
the Associated Press today that the
Georgian nationalist government
held a secret "rebirth" meeting in
Paris last Thursday. Elected "pre-
mier" was Euythyme Takaichvili,
former vice-president Of the Geor-
gian constituent assembly. who
said:
I'VE have reason to believe that
we may soon get allied support"
The leaders Of the exiled govern
ments say they believe the develop.
ments of the European a. soon
will force Great Britain and France
into action against Russia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
German Tobacco Acreage
Is Reported On Increase

WASHINGTON, March 11.-R-
The agriculture department has re-
ceived reports indicating that Ger
man experiments with production
of American types of tobacco have
been sufficiently successful to war
rant further expansion.
Trial paintings Of American-type
flue-cured tobacco was started in
southern Germany in 1886.
1.-THE acreage of flue-cured leaf
in southern Germany was increas-
ed from $50 acres in 1888 to 247
in 1885," the department said. "As
a result of improvements in both
cultivation and curing methods, the
quality Of the 1899 crop was bet
ter than that obtained in the pre-
vious year."
Favorable results also were re-
ported in the growing of both bur-
ley and flue-cured types in Austria.
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study as fully as important as the
present investigation Of building
costs.
The antitrust division has receiv-
ed numerous requests for work in
this field. It has been asked by con
g mel groups to study price spreads
in the distribution Of ice a and
cheese, by farm organizations to look
into the costs of containers used in
canned foods, and a group of sena-
tors and congressman representing
farm states have asked it to dupli-
cate in the nation as a whole the
milk.cost study made in Chicago
where, before the case even got
through the courts, retail milk
prices fell from 10 cents to eight
and one-half cents a quart.
Both commerce and agriculture
departments have recently turned
attention to the innumerable state
laws which impede interstate traf-
fic in foodstuffs. Arnold suspects
that a number Of these laws would
promptly collapse if they were TAX
en- into court; with others, he be-
lieves, it is the method Of admins
tration which needs to be attacked.
WOULD BE EASY
WITH MORE MEN
The matter Of keeping down war
material prices has had a promi-
nent place on his calander for
months.
THE government is going to
spend enormous sums for these
things" he says. THE question is,
will that money be a stimulus to
business, or will it simply raise
prices-as the housing subsidies
did in New York;"
Arnold has hit on a new slogan.
He no longer talks about monop-
oily; instead, it's free trade within
the borders of the United States"
He asserts this free trade" could
be made a reality if the antitrust
division had a permanent staff of
400 trained men.
Most Of this stuff Is a push.
over" he declares, "if you've got
enough men,"
More girls than boys were born
in Leap Year day, statistics show.
Naturally, If it were the other way
around there'd be no need Of Lear
Year.
Russian troops, we read, fired on
a white flag of truce. That's under
standable. They probably were
afraid it was a camouflaged Finnish
machine gun nest.
Science. we read, has developed 8
device which overcomes gravity. AT
last the st. Louis Browns may have
a means to keep themselves from
slowly but surely sinking into last
piece each year.
Cuba maintains a world-famous
model prison on the Isle Of Pines
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure
Island" 1t covers more than 5000
acres, all cells are outside rooms
and private baths" and all inmates
are required to take the program OIL
education and rehabilitation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Settlement With Babe
Is Denied By His Wife

RICHMOND, Va, March 11.-R
r. Pinkney Sewers, attorney for
Mrs. Glennis Young, denied today
that his client had reached a n y
agreement with Norman (B a b e)
Young, New York Giants first base
man, now in Winter Haven, Fla.
Neither Mrs. Young nor I have
been in communication with Mr.
Young or anyone who represented
him in the past few days." Sewers
said. "As far as I know, Winter
Haven authorities should be serv.
ing Mrs. Young's warrant on him
today or tomorrow"
Mrs. Young had sworn out a war
rant for her husband, charging him
with desertion and non-support. The
warrant had been forwarded to au'
thorities at Winter Haven where
the Giants are training.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Jewish Refugee Prob1.n
Held Society's PyoI %

RALEIGH, March :,
Charles Edward Russor ~. ~
lnston' president of the p :, wash
tlne federation, told the s tv.Pslss
nual convention of the Ss an
Mlzrachl Zionist region bo. ssa00a'i
rely r%efur gnas 1ne late of 100000 J Jsst,,'
hraus ices was S;s not a Jewish p 'sy,,a
of society,"" problem
He termed foolish" all sps,.,,.,
which he said was the losio s,es,lne,
Tor them to rest. IF You c.n Place
american public opinion n a. S.Oa''
tent of demanding that croa we t'
ain open the gates TO tbosa 0n'
gees the British government nt rF','
So" he said. Will %
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Cooper Gives Pledge
To Gust Raleigh Gang

HIGH POINT, March 11.-@
Thomas E.. Cooper, mayor OF
Wilmington, promised here to-
day that if he were elected gov.
ernor of North Carolina he
would "sell centralized govern.
ment in Raleigh short"
Said Mayor Cooper: "When
King Aneas told Hercules to
clean out the stables where
they had kept 5000 oxen for
thirty years, he felt it was an
impossible task. But Hercules
turned two rivers into the
stables and cleaned them over
night.
Raleigh Doesn't have the
two rivers to be diverted
through the stables where there
has been an accumulation of
parasites for 30 years, but I
have the intestinal stamina to
clean out the Raleigh gang -
the stables as it were-as Her.
cules cleaned out the stables
centuries ago."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

BERLIN, March 1.-THE pre-
vailing impression in Berlin today
was that Germany would mark
time on any move Of her own in
connection with the Finnish-Rus-
sian peace talks pending definite
word on the course o fthe Moscow
negotiations.
Uncertainty and silence charac-
terized the Berlin visit Of Per Evind
svinhufvud, former president Of
Finland. He was reported to have
had several private" conversations
with Germans but with no top rank
officials.
In Finnish quarters it was said
he likely would go on to Rome for
talks with Premier Mussolini but
the time of departure was undecid-
ed.
Adolf Filters ION . to = victory"
speech yesterday in observance of
Gernany's memorial day contained
no reference to the Finnish-Rus-
sian situation. It was rather a proc
lamation Of undying sirius gle
against Germany's enemies-"im-
perialist England and France"
1.-THE world desires dissolu-
tion," the fuehrer told 600 invited
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
N. {. Building Program
Is Progressing Rapid,

RALEIGH, March 11-B-Goy.
ernor Hoey said today that the
states biggest building program in
history would be completed late this
year.
During the three years of his ad.
m'nistration, Hoey said, more than
10 new buildings have been built
at various state institutions. He in
cluded complete modernzation of
several structures at the Morgan.
ton and Goldsboro state hospitals
for the insane.
The governor said he could not
estimate the Money involved but
it apparently was well in excess
Of $40, 000, 900.
o Of the buildings have been
completed or will be finished by
June but delayes in getting some
work underway will mean it will be
late in the year before the entire
program is completed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
British To Try u. S.
Army's Canned Chou

WASHINGTON, March 11.-R-
British "Tommies" in t h e French
front line soon will be eating a new
emergency ration developed by diet
airy experts of the United States
army-and so will $4,000 American
soldiers.
The British government, it was
learned today, has placed an initial
order with an Indianapolis firm for
a consignment of the new canned
Chow"
The United States army will give
field ration, type C" a two-day try
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
State To Open Bids
On Supplies Morcb ,,

RALEIGH, March 11.-lR-n
DIVISION of purchase and cor,, I'M
asked today that bids be subn,,.s
by March II for supplying tho sts,
with 1900 gallons of White Nj. a'
for highway center lines, Cost 's Vs..
estimated at $3.50
The division also will buv a.,
pounds Of smoking tobacco, es,in,,
ed to cost $1,000, and other irsr,
such as metal pipe, lubricants. sto.,
drugs, rice, big hominy, catsun. NM,
and beans, radiator hose and VIII.
fence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Screen Writer'S Wife
Plunges From Window

HOLLYWOOD, March 11.-R-
Maxine Ruric, 81, wife of Screen
Writer Peter Ruric, plunged from a
window Of their third floor apart.
ment today. Hospital attendants
described her condition as critical.
Radio Police Patrolmen O. W.
Kriewald and H. r. Johnson report
ed Ruric told them he and his wife
had been estranged, that she re.
turned to the apartment and that
he left, only to hear h e r body
strike the sidewalk as he entered
his al outside.
Physicians said she suffered a
fractured pelvis, a possible broken
back and other serious injuries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
TUESDAY, MARCH - w..

out during the big nsc.,-
1eSas next month. u'ers D
It'll Inc ration, designed f.,
sioie three'day emerpan .of a ps,
1lgntlng, is packed in rr.i. dura,
each with its key opene erH tin cans
Each man will carry
can of pre-cooked mea, TIE ~l5-ouno.
one OF beef stew, one .. sao beam.
vegetable hash, and thru. meat an
ION cans each of which eonpaa,
ounces of crackers, ono s'a.alAs III
eosaf' and "a ounce Of n Vpnse .,
c01fee' soluble even in oI p9olvsFipt
inc new ration costs wv, ), Water.
gay las against the pres ~ cent ,
ratlon allowance Of a. 81 daily
put the price is expected :, cents,
duced by quantity nro tvu 10 be +.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

can be real and
earnest. And al
for t h e gals -
he has decided to
shun 'em!
IT j u g t don't
have any dates"
he declares. When
you a S k h o W
come, he turns
on an expression
of %round-eyed sin
certify and says.
Il never did have
many. That was
all publicity"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

. WASHINGTON, March ia
broad expansion Of Assistant Attor.
ney General Arnold's antitrust
is likely to follow the
senate's action in voting additional
funds for his division.
This expansion, Arnold says will
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
ABsENT.MINDED PROF

SEATTLE = Psychology PROBES.
sor Edwin Guthrie Of Washington
university went to Harborview hos
pital to lecture nurses on Mem.
ory".
A puzzled senior nurse turned the
platform over to him when he ex-
planned why he had come. T b e
nurses gave him enthusiastic - but
neutrality-suspicious..
Back in his office, Guthrie looked
in his date book. He had given the
address a week too early-and to
the wrong audience.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

probably b r ing
about two new
nation - wide in.
vestigations:
1. A study Of
the costs of food
distribution, in.
GLIDING an inves
tigation into milk
costs all over the
country, and a
thorough survey
Of the problem of
interstate trade
barriers.
2. An equally
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
PROTOTYPES FINISHED.

LINCOLN. I'll. - When a burglar
in a warehouse started to make off
with a piece of copper wire he was
blinded by the glare of an exploding
bulb on a hidden camera.
He wrecked what he thought was
the live" camera only to discover
later that the object Of his destruc-
ton in reality was a dummy.
Officers, equipped with t h e
Photographic evidence, arrested
Mike Lutzyn, "a. They said he ad-
mitted the picture was his.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Flag Of Russia Flies
Over Charlotte School

CHARLOTTE, March 11.-R-
The flag of Red Russia waved over
Central High school here early to-
day.
It was the work of a p%rankster
and, when he took it down, Janitor
K. H. Freeman did not even notice
that the "old white cloth" carried a
crudely drawn hammer and sickle.
In fact he turned il over to an
assistant who began using it for a
dust cloth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, March II. - An
astonishing change has come upon
Master Mickey Rooney. After sew
eral suggestions from his studio
bosses, the No. 1 Box-Office Star
has discovered for himself that life
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
DOGS ON STRIKE

WATERFOWL, Mass-Police an
swered an emergency call from a
telephone operator that the receiv-
er was off in James Dellville's gaso-
line station and she could hear a
dog barking.
They found Gypsy" a two-year-
old English setter, and her two
puppies hungary. A a of dog food
remedied tho situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
FLASHES
OLLIE
(By The Associated Press)

ROCHESTER, Ind.-A three-day-
old calf on Wallace Morris farm
hsa double protection against flies.
The calf, a pure bred Durham,
war born with two tails. The extra
one is on his left hip.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

The "kick" or recoil of a modern
sporting rifle is powerful enough to
break the shoulder of the shooter
unless he assumes a free-standing
position.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

Long, lean girls, according to a
physicians research, are likelier to
succeed in tennis than in swim
ming.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

A wife may not mention her
husbands name among the high
caste people of India.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

Well, well! And Paul Harrison
why isn't the Great Mugger having
dates?
because there are so many other
interesting things-my work, my
music, my home. I really have very
little time for relaxation. And lately
I've met a lot Of interesting people
senators, and ever the President.
I'm collecting photos Of really
worthwhile American men-Henry
Ford, whom I'm proud to call my
friend. j. Edgar Hoover-guys-ah,
gentlemen like that. I don't collect
pictures of movie stars; that's kid
stuff"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
No Google Eyes
Now From Mickey

Before he adopted this routine,
every female between the ages Of is
and so got the old double-o from
Mickey. Women reporters visiting
his sets would find him sitting on
the base of his spine, hat on the
back of his cowlick, feet crossed.
After a leisurely u%p-and-down sur
vey Of the interviewer, he'd drawl,
Hello, dear-r-r. What can I do for
ya?"
You scarcely could believe it If
you saw him now in a similar situa-
ton. He wears neat business suits
instead Of his former hot-stuff
sports outfits. He sits erect. re-
moves his hat, is gravely courteous.
He whips out matches for others
cigarettes, rises when women rise,
smiles cordially at intervals. Gen.
orally, though, his expression is that
of an innocent man who is about to
be hung.
First signs of the reformation
came during his swing through the
east and south. The 1~9-year-old
Rooney was gracious about making
all sorts of appearances, but he
kept away from girls near his own
age. Instead of handing him the
keys to their cites, he said, majors
along the route trotted out their
daughters.
Metro simply had to do some.
thing about safeguarding its won.
der.boy because his ~off-screen e
sonality was getting completely out
of key with his picture roles. There
were %indecorous hee.haws, for ex,
ample, when one of his ex-girl
friends, Diane Lewis, upped and
married 50-year.old William Powell,
Mlckey's mother once admitted tc
me that she had to have the house
telephone number changed about
Twice a month to cut down the calls
at all hours from h i s stable OF
cuties.
Also, until a few weeks ago., the
studio maintained a relay of deputy
guardians at Santa Anita race track
to keep Master Rooney away from
the $50 betting, windows. s u c b
splurglng didn't look good.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

Will Graham headed senatorial
districts and is probably glad he
will not even be in the senate next
year when reapportionment comes
up. Here's the biggest headache in
the general assembly, in the humble
opinion Of your Raleigh reporter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
'Cincy' Has Great Idea

years management the Baseball Club has
invited guests Tiger ball many boys and
organizations Other major league clubs both loops make
similar setting aside certain days of the
Kids But of all of these setups have
probably the most highly developed is in Cincinnati.
The Reds youths baseball organization which Is
without the country II known the "Knohole
Leagues dedicated urtherance
of boys baseball activities
Cinnnas knohoe differ from other cities because
they embody participation by boys regularly SEIZED
ued supervised games addition the opportunities of
watching league play at Croey Field home Of the
world champions.
Membership in the Cincinnati Knohole Leagues consists of
approximately $4,000 children in the range IS years Of
These memberships divided into three casscation
white blue each has its aside to permit
Croy Field upon presentation of the membership
card
the $4,000 boys is eligible compete in the
knohoe leagues which divided into three cassicaions A.
Class takes in boys from ~ to 15 who have
sixteenth birthday Class extends IL
years old to Class II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
Cue Experts Vie
Aiidldyton
International New, Service Wire


CHICAGO; Dec. 27.-The men
with whom he matches his skill
as one of the nations best billiard
players came today to the aid Of
Johnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo.
who was injured seriously in a
street accident in Chicago Deem
Der Is.
To aid Layton, who is in Angus
tana Hospital, in critical condition
with a brain clot. Joe Chamaco of
Mexico, world three-cushion bill
lizards champion in 1899 and Jake
Schaefer, the Cleveland cue expert.
scheduled two exhibition matches
for today. All the proceeds will go
TO Layton. Additional exhibitions
for Layton's benefit are planned
by other leaders in the game.
For Scfracfer; todayis rndtrtrs
were in the nature of warmups for
the challenge series he will play
with Willie Hoppe, the current
world champion, starting January
6. and he and Hoppe. as well as
Chamaco, also are entered in the
1871 three-cushion world title
tourney starting January 13.
1t was announced today that
Charles McElligott of Chicago will
referee the Schaefer-Hoppe series.
as well as the world tournament.