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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
SEVEN

Ludwig Lewisohn, the author. was
declared today by a state supreme
court witness to have been so &c.
Vermont store before a pop-eyed
group of men INC women.
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president of the AFL's Interna-
tional Association of Machinists.
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CALL TO I,AROR

WASHINGTON, March. 14.-R-
A call to labor to oppose the Smith
committees Wagner act amend.
ments lock, stock and barrel was
issued today by Harvey w. Brown.
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ECCENTRIC

NEW YORK, March IA. TO-
Thelma Bowman Spear, unwed
mother of the six-year-old son Of
Evening star., 1940-03-10
tuberculosis Lectures
In Schools to Continue

Two more lecture sessions in the
series being presented at public
schools on tuberculosis prevention
were announced yesterday by the
District tuberculosis Association.
DR.. N. p. Nelson, executive sec.
retary Of the American Association
Of Health, Physical Education and
Recreation, will speak at Roosevelt
High School at 3:45 pm. Tuesday,
with DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent Of schools, presiding at the
meeting.
The second meeting will be held
at Banneker Junior High School at
$50 pm. Wednesday, with Dr..
Garnet G. Wilkinson, assistant 81.
perintendent Of schools, presiding.
Speakers will be DR.. Numa p. O..
Adams, dean Of the Howard Univer.
sity school Of medicine, and Mrs.
Ernest r. Grant, managing director
Of the tuberculosis association.
Evening star., 1940-03-10

the great metal transport planes
which fiy the airlines.
The United States Navy II 70 In
terested In the production methods
Of the company, from the stand
point Of quick fabrication for na-
tional defense, that several times
It has sent officers to West Trenton
to watch the winged mites roll OH
the assembly line.
Many Of the 10000 0-odd students
being given rudimentary flight
training by the Government are
earning their wings In the ITS
schools by journeying to West Tren-
ton to fly the planes away after
mechanics give the final tune-up
to the motors.
Luscombe was not always that
prosperous. It's origins were
troubled by financial worries. Some
Of the employees mind the time
when everybody, including the boss
was 20 broke that the hired hands
descended on his house en- masse
for Christmas dinner-purchased on
credit at the corner grocery.
Luscombe was founded at Kansas
City, Mo-, in 1888 as the Luscombe
Airplane Development Corp. BY
! the time the plant had moved to
West Trenton, bag and baggage, in
1895, 1t had assumed its present
name. And 1t may be noted in pass
ing that while employees in those
early days frequently went from
six to eight weeks without their pay
Don A. Luscombe put the firm on
its feet before he retired to become
a gentleman farmer in Pennsyl-
vania.
Luscombe's goal was q light air.
plane which could be put together
at minimum cost from pre-fabri-
Gated stampings and metal sheets
Evening star., 1940-03-10

Moreover, he wanted . metal plane
for maximum strength in the event
. novice made . violent landing.
Today's plane, In Use in 10 for
eign countries, was the result. It Is
all metal, except for the fabric COW
ering on the wings. Using fabric
for the wings Is q common practice
among manufacturers to save
weight. Even the great trans
Atlantic flying boats have wings
partly fabric covered.
The metal Is only one-thirty -sec-
ond Of an inch thick, and the empty
weight Of the plane only 739 pounds.
yet the fuselage will bear q load Of
more than four tons without dam
age.
This vest pocket edition Of .
transport plano has q cabin which
looks like the front seat Of the fam
lily sedan. II q pilot wants speed,
1t is capable Of more than 100 miles
an hour. It was flown to q national
-kilometer record of 1887 miles
an hour in January.
Singularly enough, neither John
H. Torrens. one-time export repre-
sentative in Peru OF several large
American manufacturers and now
Luscombe's president, nor Leopold
Klotz. an investment banker and
the vice president, ever had any,
thing to do with airplane making
before joining the company.
But they have an idea how air
planes should be sold. In q good
many instances they are selling not
through pilots, but through auto
mobile agencies. Their theory is
that to the general public an air
plane should be not only an air.
plane but, like the automobile, per-
sonal transportation as well.
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Aircraft Plant Makes
Transpot-Like Planes
For 'F|ivyer' Market
Navy Shows Keen
Interest in SmoII,
AII-MetoI Product
By the Associated Press.

0y the A&oo28too k1oo0s
NEW YORK, March s-over on
the New jersey flstlalIds. where .
hillock to the native residents as
sumes the proportions Of . noun
tain, . small group Of men Is max
ing iiivver planes for the general
public with on-line, automobile
production methods.
They haul in big pieces Of metal,
punch holes In 1t and rivet 1t to
another piece to form q fuselage in
the time 1t takes q housewife to
do the breakfast dishes.
The planes roll along on an over
head conveyor belt and emerge from
the factory door ready to take to the
air and deliver an honest 100 miles
an hour on cross country trips at
cost which will carry two persons
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast for $780,.
Silver r-hued. sleek and swift-as
fiivver planes go-the putt-putts
manufactured by the Luscombe
Airplane Corp. Of West Trenton.
N. j., resemble nothing 20 much as
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HyottsviIIe Fire
Coused by Oil Stove

The fire which damaged . Hy-
attsville CMd) building housing an
office of the Griffith Consumers co.
and other establishments Thursday
was caused by explosion Of . kero.
sene stove on which a janitor was
cooking food in the basement, IRE.
men learned.
The blaze previously was reported
as having been attributed to q de-
fective oil burner. An automatic
stoker was used in heating the build
Ing, however, and 1t was not In
volved, the firemen found,
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Social Council Meetino

The March meeting of the Coun-
Gil Of Social Agencies at 1915 pm.
tomorrow at the Y. w. G. A., Seven
teenth and K streets NV, will be
sponsored by the Neighborhood
Council Division The work of the
councils.w be illustrated by short
play entitled 'Neighborhood Coun-
ellis In Action"
Evening star., 1940-03-10

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KITCHlN ADDRESSES
BAPTIST MEETING
College President Says Min
lister Must Be The Ply
stefan To The Soul

CHARLOTTE, Nov. 18-R-It is
a far cry from the priest-physician
in the temple Of A%esculapius to
the doctor in a modern hospital
and the preacher in the great ur-
ban church, said DR.. Thurman D.
Kitchin today, but human nature
remains pretty much the same.
The president of Wake Forest
college spoke before the pastors
conference, a forerunner of the
Baptist state convention which
opens tomorrow.
DR.. Kitchin said that there al
ways has been an idea that the
frame of mind of the patient in
fuenced his illness; that in spite
of the effort of both the physician
and preacher to divide man into
two hemisphere the body and the
spirit, nevertheless there always
is the unconscious knowledge that
the two cannot be disassociated
and that each Influenced the other.
While the diseases of the body
are being brought under control,
he continued, the diseases of the
mind are on the increase, that the
increase in mental diseases is due
largely to the increased complex
ity of living. Increased nervous
Embellishments, he said, will re-
suit from changes in rural, agri-
cultural life to urban, industrial
life. Along with the industrializa-
ton and urbanization of the south
there are emerging new problems
of mental health with which the
doctor and preacher must deal.
The minister, he said, must be
the physician to the soul.
Another speaker was the Rev.
T. E. Walters of Gastonia. His SUBJ
ject was Hear the word of the
Lord"
The pastors met tonigh to hear
takls by DR.. M. L. Banister Of Ok
ford and DR.. w. w. Hamilton,
president of the New Orleans Bible
Institute, and to elect officers.
Officers whose terms are expir-
ing are the Rev. Oscar Creech of
Ahoskie, president; the Rev. J. A.
Sullivan, vice-president; and the
Rev. R. c. Foster of Leaksville,
secretary.
R. N. Sims Of Raleigh, state
president, will preside during the
meeting and M. A. Hug
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IL Duce Promises Italv
He Will Crush Greece

ROME, Nov. 18- Up -Benito
Mussolini promised the Italians
tonight that he would "break
Greece's back" if it takes a year
to do it and that he would make
no peace until 'the modern Car
thage-England" is annihilated.
From the BATTLEFRONT of his Pa
lazzo Venezia, II Duce spoke pub
licly for the first time since he en-
tered the war against France and
England last June 10. The occas-
ion was the fifth anniversary of
the imposition of sanctions upon It.
aly's Ethiopian adventure, sane
tons imposed under Britain's lead
ership. His immediate audience
was made up of 1taly's Fascist
party leaders. :
He insisted that the British lied
when they reported the Gripping
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War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Mussolini's roaring assurance to
his people that the Nazi-Fascist
bloc ALREADY has victory in its
fist" would have sounded more
convincing if it had not Of neces-
sity been accompanied by an apo
|logy for the poor showing of his
armies against little Greece.
He explained to the Italian PEG.
ple what had been clearly demon
strated in Greece; that the noun
famous Albanian-G Greek border did
not lend itself to "blitzkrieg' tech
nique.
with absolute certainty I tell
you we will break Greece's back.
whether in two months or IL
months, it little matters" Mus
solini said.
Open To Dispute
Considering the odds against
Greece, that boast Of her ultimate
defeat would seem a statement
of the obvious. The declaration,
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Hitler Talks
With Spanish,
Italian Chiefs
Nazi Press Says Conference
Means He Holds All
The Trump Cards
CAMPAIGNS DISCUSSED
All Newspapers Hint That
This Will Be "A Highly
Political Week.
BY O U p. HNE

BERLIN, Nov. 49, Up Adolf
Hitler met with the foreign minis.
ters Of Italy and Spain at his noun
tain home today, and the German
press said their conferences meant
that Germany has all the trumps in
her hand.
Neither the press nor official
sources offered even a guess as to
the concrete ground covered or pos
sible new agreements reached be-
tween the Fuehrer, Ramon Serrano
Suner Of Spain and Count Galeazzo
Ciano of Italy.
Drives Discussed
(1n Switzerland, however, diplo-
matists expressed belief the three
talked about plans for axis drives
from Rumania through Bulgaria to
Gresce and through Spain to Brit.
aims Gibraltar).
The newspapers, with one voice.
[hintedthat this will be "a highly po-
litical week." One of them, the
Hamburger Fremdenblatt, described
Spain and Rumania as "the two geo.
graphical corner pillars marking the
space within which the great fight
Of the axis powers against England
in the Mediterranean Is being
fought"
German troops already are in Ru.
mania.
The Dienst Aus Deutschland, an
authoritative commentary service,
likewise said the three-cornered con.
versations disclosed that the axis is
interested equally in western and
southeastern European matters. It
was believed this might f%oreshadow
a visit to Hitler by General Ion An
t%onescu, the dictator of Rumania,
who has been in Rome.
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, the Ger.
man foreign minister, functioned as
Continued on Page -Four; Col. ~
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STIMSON SPEAKS
Says That Workers Will
Have Ia Make Sacrifices
Under Arms Program
BY JAMES

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18.-R-
President Roosevelt's desire for a Ia
Dor peace move, to begin in the
White House, was communicated to-
day to the American Federation OF
Labor convention which also was in
formed by Secretary of War Stimson
that workers will have to make sacri-
fees under the defense program:
AFL President William Green,
deeply skeptical that a labor settle
ment was brought any closer by
John L. Lewis announced intention
of resigning the CLIO presidency, told
the applauding convention of the
Presidents desire for unity in labor
ranks.
Willing To Help
Green said:
"The President Of the United
States is willing to help us and as
sist us and he has asked if commit
tees (AFL and CIO) can be as
sembled and put to work, that they
meet with him first Of all and ex-
plore with him the situation at the
White House, there to receive his as
surances Of good will and coopera-
At the same time Green outlined
a settlement plan which he admitted
not new and which he charged
without using his name-that Lewis
had already blocked by refusing to
let committees from the Congress Of
Industrial Organizations treat with
ALL representatives.
Urges Peace
Urging industrial peace as an alb
solute need for re-arming America,
Secretary Stimson, who flew here to
address the convention, stressed the
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Bomb African
Attack
Base
R1aziue Guns OF Naval
limits %Inflict Consider
able Damage AT Dante
ARMY SUPPLIES HIT
Raj Strikes Through Gale
On English Channel,
Pounds Nazi Guns

LONDON. Nov. 18.-REThe
,o.vv bombardment of an Italian
.ort in Africa and a bomb attack
IN an Italian base in Albania were
renorted by the British tonight in
e, series of Arranging blows ap-
rarently intended to h e p their
Greek and Ethiopian allies as well
~ IN defend the empire against
The Axis.
The admiralty announced that
blazing guns of light naval units
took a heavy toll of port services
Al Dante. Italian Somaliland. Hits
we're reported on oil tanks and
coastal and anti-aircraft batteries
and on the landing pier.
Mogadiscio Attacked
The admiralty only yesterday
said light naval units had bonn
barded Mogadiscio, principal port
Of Italian Somaliland, and well
down the Indian ocean coast from
Dante.
Almost simultaneously today, the
Air Ministry new service an
nounced that Raj bombers raided
Elbasani, an Italian base in Al
bania, south Of Tirana.
There, the news service said,
military supplies and dumps were
hit and a fire was started.
Far to the north, British bombers
struck through a gale on the Eng
lish channel and pounded German
batteries on the French coast while
the bad weather cut German air
attacks on London almost to zero.
The Empire capital had its regu-
lar nightly air raid alarm much
later than usual, but insted OF
the customary all-night "alert,"
there were two all-clear periods
before midnight. Then the Nazis
ttled for a third time to penetrate
The city's defenses.
London enjoyed long periods
Without air activity but the I'M
Usual situation affected few people.
1n0Se settled in shelters for the
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CALL FOR PLANES

ATHENS, Nov. Is. Up More
than 10000 italian troops fighting a
desperate defensive battle to save
themselves and huge military stores
in the fascist base city Of Koritza in
Albania called up their airmen to
cover their retreat, a Greek govern.
menr spokesman said tonight.
italian counter-attacks against the
Greek mountain troops who threat.
ened to cut the only road Of escape
for the fascist legions had ceased
late today, the spokesman said, and
added, 1--WE continue to crush sue.
cessively the enemy lines"
Prisoners Taken
More Italian prisoners and wal
equipment fell into Greek hands, and
the italian air onslaughts were Of
mo Importance" the fascists losing
an average of eight planes to one
In the fighting, the spokesman re.
ported.
Fighting still was very heavy, he
said, and gave this esum of the
days developments:
"All I'VE the entire front Greek
troops continue their offensive &C.
ton. We continue to crush success.
sively the enemy lines of resistance
afforded by the CONFORMATION Of the
terrain.
I'VE still are taking prisoners and
war materials. Near Koritza we
captured about 10000 blankets and
quantities of grain. Among the booty
taken there also were ten guns, 80
guns, and Is mortars.
1.-THE fight continues in the Ko-
rita sector. The Italians, though
Continued on Page Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-19

of half of 1taly's SIX ~battleships
and four other war vessels by tor
pedo planes in laramie harbor a
week ago. He declared fatty that
the Italian high command told the
truth when it said that only one
warship was damaged seriously
enough to require extensive re-
pairs, although three were hit.
1T is false, I say, that two other
warships and two auxiliary yes
sells were sunk or hit or damaged
even slightly in any way" Mus
solini cried. 'It is a sign of bad
conscience, this enlargement and
multiplication by six of the sue
cess which we acknowledged"
Italy, said II Duce. has the
strength alone to crush Greece and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-19
DR.. R0NDTHALER
TALKS AT Y HERE
Work OF Association In
Building Character Prais-
ed By Twin City Man

Work of the Young Mems Chris
tan association in character build
ing programs for youth was
praised by DR.. Howard E. Rond'
thaler, president of Salem college
at Winston-Salem, in a talk before
a meeting launching the annua
budget appeal of the Wilmington
Y. M. c. A. last>night.
DR.. Rondthaler cited numerous
cases in the activities of the asso
citation the world war over in
moulding the character of all types
Of youth in the Christian way Of
living.
"Since June 6, 1914, when the
worldwide movement Of the Young
Mems Christian association actu.
ally started, the organization has
reflected the joyousness of group
Christian activities" declared the
speaker, who was introduced by
J. Wilson Smith. interstate secre
tary of the Y.
DR.. Rondthaler told his audience
to practice the presence of Jesu:
Christi and make the local drive
more than a mere acquisition OF
funds in which will be reflected i
"buoyant, i~nvigorating expert
ence."
E. A. Laney delivered the ad.
dress of welcome, the Rev. Charl-
ton Storey gave the invocation, the
Rev. Mortimer Glover presided
and pronounced the benediction,
and j. B. Huntington, secretary,
gave final instructions to the cam
paign workers. Approximately go
attended the supper, which was
served by the ladies of st. James
church.
"A great deal depends on what
is in us when you go out in this
campaign" said DR.. Rondthaler,
"as you must have a joyous inner
consciousness of the presence OF
Jesus Christ when you approach
another person..
The speaker said he was won.
dering 'how in the terrific pres.
sure and confusion of the present
youths are going to know Jesus
Christ lovingly, gladly, admiringly,
and enthusiastically" It is a tire.
mendous problem to put this pro-
gram across, he said, and work OF
the Y as part of the influence OF
the church has never been more
difficult.
II am indebted to the Y. M. C.
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Nations First Draftees
Are Indicted Into Armv

WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. 49, R-
In scattered communities from New
England to the Pacific coast, little
groups of men raised their right
hands today. swore to bear true
faith and allegiance" to the United
States. and became soldiers under the
nations first peacetime CONSUMPTION
program.
The historic ceremony. to be re-
peated day after day in hundreds Of
draft centers until SOC, 900 men have
entered service by next June 30, was
believed to have taken place first in
Boston.
There. John Edward Lawton. 81.
year-old unemployed plumbers help.
err, and single, was credited with he
ing the first to qualify for service
Of the nearly 100000 men from
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ALL Given F. RS Labor PeaceAppea1;
Lewis Steps Down AS Leader Of CLIO
Negotiations Resumed
In Plane Plant Strike

DOWNEY, CAL, Nov. 18-
@-Wage negotiations were re-
sumed today between Vultee
AIRCRAFT factory executives
and leaders of the CLIO United
Automobile and Aircraft work.
ers whose strike closed the
5,200-employee plant last Fri
day.
The new conference followed
a two-hour meeting of two gov
eminent Representatives from
Washington with union officials
and consultation with company
heads.
Vultee has domestic and for
eign military planes orders to-
falling $84, DOC, 900.
Some 5000 union members
were called out on strike for
minimum wages of IS cents an
hour insead of the present 50
cents. The company rejected
a union compromise proposal
of IS cents an hour a few days
before the strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-19

21 to 35 years Of age inclusive who
registered under the draft law last
October 16.
you are the first man in the
United States to be indicted under
this program" Capt. Harold e. Lin
derson told him. you've got a
whole lot to live up to and we're ex-
pecting a whole lot from you"
The first inductions were limited
to three army corps areas-the LIST,
embracing the six New England
states, which had a first quota of
984; the 9Th, where 100 men were
called in Chicago. and the 9th, which
called 1880 men from a group of far
western states.
1t was expected to be the end Of
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CHRISTMAS SEASON
WILL OPEN FRIDAY
Santa Claus Will Paw An
nual Visit To Wilmington
On Friday Afternoon

Wilmington. the shopping center
for Southeastern North Carolina.
will open its Christmas season Fri
day afternoon when Santa Claus
pays his annual visit to the city and
parades down the streets with bands
playing and colors flying.
Arriving at the airport in a fast
plane from the North Pole, st. Mich
olas will be met by a delegation
which will escort him through a tour
of the bright light business district.
At the airport a special committee
which is now preparing his festival
float. will greet him and the pageant
will then begin.
Taking his place on the regal
float, Santa will proceed at once to
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CALLS FOR UNITY
Tells Atlantic City Meeting
He Is Fulfilling Pre-
Election Promise

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Nov. IL
the mist of tears in his
eyes, John L. Lewis solemnly told
his CIO legions today that he was
stepping down as their leader and
fervently bid them to carry on
with unified leadership the mill.
tant organization he founded five
years ago.
In a hall packed with 500 dele
gates to CLOS third national con-
|vention, Lewis gave notice he was
fulfilling his prediction promise
to retire as CLIO president if Presi-
dent Roosevelt was reelected.
Leaving
Shouting, marching delegates
who gave Lewis a 4O-minute dem
onstration of acclaim for his lead
ership, sat hushed as he said Il
won't be with you long. I have
done my work. In just a few days,
l will be out of this office which
at the moment I occupy.
IT shall hope that whoever you
elect as my successor, that you
will give him your support without
stint and 60 back to your member
ship and ask them to give him a
break also, because he will need 1t.
I ought to know"
His voice filed with emotion, he
went on to say, This is the way
of life. Some are able to carry
through and some fall, but there
is nothing to worry. about. We
should not dwell in the past.
yesterday is gone and tomor-
row is another day. I am con-
cerned with tomorrow and I care
-