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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-25
BY JACK sTINNETT. AP

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Dis-
patches tell of Japan's bombing
of the Burma Road. but to more
than 100000 Chinese coolies who
froze and sweat to build it, bomb
ing is no more than nature has
been doing for years.
Less than year ago. Nelson 7.
Johnson, U. S. ambassador to
China, was permitted to travel
over the new Burma road in
car. From his reports and those
of a few who followed him can
be pieced one of the most amaz-
ing stories of any road in our
time.
The Burma road has its begin
nings at Rangoon, runs north TO
Mandalay. and on to Lashio.
There the railway ends but for
another 120 mileS-to Wanting on
the Burma-Yunnan border-there
is a good British-built road
Two-Week Journey
At Wanting, the real Burma
road begins. 1t writhes and
weaves like a snake through $50
miles of jagged mountains and
mile-deep gorges. Torrents, snow.
ice and landslides hammer at it
all the year round. Throughout
the rainy season, just ending
now, the road is impossible much
OF the time. Even in good
weather il takes a motor truck
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-25

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Workers Storing Cotton
Exempt From Labor Act

RALEIGH, Aug. 3O.-REWork
ers storing raw cotton in bales may
be exempted from the maximum
hours provisions of the fair labor
standards act during a 14-week sea-
sonal rush, it was indicated here
today.
Leland S. Reid, acting regional
director of the wage-hour division
for North Carolina and South Caro-
lima, said Col. Philip B. Fleming,
national administrator, had issued
a preliminary ruling that such en-
ployes are engaged in seasonal,
work.
They will become exempt from
the 42-hour maximum within Is
days unless objection is filed be-
fore the end of that period. They
then would be allowed to work up
to Sc hours a week without owe
time payments. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
HOEY ASSERTS REDS
SHOULD BE OUSTED
Governor Wants Congress To Out
law Subversive Elements
In The Country

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 30.-R-
Governor Hoey said today in an
address at a celebration of the 50th
anniversary of Balm academy, at
Mint Hill, that Congress ought to
outlaw the communist party, the
German NaZi bund and every 9TH
er s~ubversive element in the coun-
try"
"Our government" he asserted,
lis dedicated to the preservation
of popular rights, and we will not
tolerate the policies of Berlin or
Moscow in this nation. We must
prepare to defend ourselves, we
must be willing to fight, if neces-
sary, to preserve peace. When a
mailman is at large, we need ade-
quate national Defense" 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
YOUTH INTERESTED
in G. MEMS WORK
Scheidt, Head Of FBI In
Carolinas, Addresses Tar
Heel Boys State

CHAPEL HILL, Aug. 30.-RH
Evidently a goodly number Of the
youth of this state are bent on be-
ing Omen, if ingenious answers
to hypothetical questions by Ed
Scheidt, head of the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation in the Caro-
linas, are an indication.
Mr.. Scheidt asked delegates to
the 1910 Tar Heel Boys State here
today to help him track down a
mythical criminal and suggested
'1eads" by the boys prompted him
to predict that TT looks as though
we're going to have some good
law enforcement officers in five
or ten years"
Declaring there are great pos
sibilities for rec in the FBI
now" Mr.. Scheidt said a man
needs a touch of fatalism and a
love of adventure to be successful
in the field of law enforcement.
Citing qualities required for be-
coming a member of the FBI, he
said You must be between % and
IS years of age, a graduate of an
accredited law or accounting
school, and have good health and
vision, good character and a good
school record" He also described
the procedure for filing applica.
tons and taking examinations.
Robert H.. McNeill, republican
nominee for governor, addressing
the boys this afternoon, discussed
the various issues which the Re-
publican and Democratic parties
will face this fall. He cited ma
tlonal defense, agriculture, the
wage and hour law, the national
debt, unemployment, and federal
taxes as vital questions with which
both parties will come to grips.
Referring to the state election,
Mr.. Neill said IT want to make
you boys of this great state more
useful by giving you jobs when
you finish school-not relief"
Other speakers today included
DR.. Clyde Erwin, state superinten-
dent of public instruction, who dis
cussed democracy as it is related
to the schools, and Major John
Armstrong of the state highway
patrol, who described the organi-
cation and functions of that de.
partment.
Major l.. P. McLendon, Green's
boro attorney, and Sherwood
Brockwell, state fire marshal, ad.
dressed the boys tonight. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
CAROLINA MOOSE
OPEN CONVENTION
AT BEACH TODAY
CONTINUED from Page One)

\SUIlUlIlutu lEUIu IdS OUEJ
E. Cooper, mayor of Wilmington,
will make addresses of welcome.
Ben Hill Brown, member of the
supreme council of the Spartan
burg, S. c., lodge will make the
response.
Walter L. York, district deputy
supreme governor, of High Point,
will make the principal address of
the evening.
The Women of the Moose, led
by Mrs. Annie Neighbors, of Honor
Chapter 179, will conduct a pledge
of allegiance to the flag.
Charles A. Kirby, regional di-
rector, will make a membership
report.
Wade will sing "Just A-Wearyin'
for YOU" and members of the
High Point lodge will present a
Dance Travelogue.
Another address will be made
by Paul P. Schmitz, director of
the membership enrolment de.
partment of the Moose.
Committees will then be appoint
ed and the banquet will be con-
Guided with a fancy drill by the
senior regents escort of N o r t h
Carolina, Mrs. Clara Charles, of
Charlotte, captain. Kirby will be
drillmaster.
Following the banquet, a dance
will be held in the main dining
room at the hotel.
The conclave will continue
through Monday and officers will
be installed on that day. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

out of the coded territory within
two weeks; to hand it over "in or
derby condition"
8. Rumanian citizens now living
in the ceded area to become Hun
garians automatically" with the
provision, however, that they be
given six months to select one cit
izenship or the other. If they de-
eide to remain as Rumanians they
must leave the new Hungarian
Transylvanian state within an adj
ditional period of IL months, TAX
ing all their movable property and
''liquidating" that which cannot be
moved. For this '1iquidatic>"
they are to be compensated by
Hungary in a ''broad-minded and
conciliatory fashion,"
4. Hungarians who now are Ru-
manian citizens may do the same
thing in reverse-go back to Hun
garian citizenship under the same
conditions.
5. Hungary is to give to Ri
becoming Hungarian cit
liens 1.-The same rights" as Hun
garian citizens, Rumania to do
likewise for those going the other
way around.
6. Questions arising under all
this to be negotiated directly be-
tween Rumania and Hungary.
z. If settlements cannot thus be
made, the issues will be settled by
Germany and Italy. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
WILKES DEMAND
REJECTED BY F. R.
Declines To State Position
On u. S. Commander
ing o. Private Plants

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 30.-A
'-Dodging what he termed an attempt
to get him into a political discussion,
President Roosevelt rejected today
Wendell L. Wilkes demand that he
state his position on government
communicating of private plants for
defense purposes. :
The republican presidential nomi-
nee, in a statement at Rushville,
Ind, yesterday, visualized a ''poten-
tial dictatorship" in an amendment
to the CONSUMPTION bill which under
certain conditions would enable the
government to take over industrial
establishments and make defense
materials. He called upon the Presi-
dent to say whether he was for or
against the amendment.
But when reporters sought an ans
wer at the Presidents press confer
ence today, Mr.. Roosevelt cited what
he said was a 1888 rule that the chief
ooSo 11OL COtlllllGUl jill maJ-
tiers pending in congress.
Sometimes he does" a reporter re.
marked, but there the discussion
ended.
In Rushville, meanwhile, Willkie
was advised of the Presidents ans
wer and he, in turn, repeated his
demand without regard to my mo-
tives" that Mr.. Roosevelt state his
position).
The President also declined to say
whether he concurred in Secretary
Wallace's assertion that the repub-
lican party was the party of appease-
ment in the United States today.
The speech in which Wallace, &C.
cepted the democratic vice-presi-
Dental nomination at Des Moines,
Ia, last night, Mr.. Roosevelt said,
speaks excellently for itself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
TWO LUMBERTON MEN
ARE ROBBED OF $3.50
Stanton And Leggett Held Up BY
Unidentified Men While
Changing Tire

LUMBERTON, Aug. 3O.-Three
unidentified men held up and
robbed two Lumberton men of ap-
proximately $3.50 last night when
the two stopped to change a tire
on the Lumberton-Fairmont high
way. Sheriff Clyde Wade reported
today.
John D. Stanton and H. W. Leg
gett were changing tires after a
puncture, the sheriff said he was
informed, when three men rode
up in another automobile and of.
fered assistance.
When their help was declined one
of them drew a pistol and held up
the Lumberton men while his COM
panions searched their pockets and
made off with the cash.
When the bandits had d r n
away, the Lumberton men ran to
a filling station and telephoned Of
ficers, who continued a search for
the three men today. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
DAY FETE
PLANS COMPLETED
Continued from Page One)

Cross to Front, south on Front to
Market, east on Market to Third,
north On Third to the city hall where
the exercises will be held.
All participants are requested to
have their units in line by $50 a. M,
with the parade to start at 10 o'clock.
Gordon L. Chastain, of Spartan
burg, S. c., textile labor union Of
fetal, will make the principal ad-
dress in front of the city hall follow
ing the parade.
Those participating in the parade
and the order in which they will
march are as follows:
Band, City Police, City Filemen,
Central Labor Body, Ladies Auxi-
liary, Building Trades Council, Car
penters, Electricians, m b e r S,
Painters, Brick Masons, Railway
Clerks, Tide Water Bus Drivers, Mo-
ton Picture Operators, Post Office
Employees, Transfers and Chauf-
feur-. Longshoremen. Efirds, j.. c.
Anderson. Todd Furniture Co., J. S.
| King, Belk-W Williams. Fender ~Furni-
ture Co., White Ice Cream Co.,
Bucks, Sunshine Laundry, Borden's
Milk, Electric Maintenance Co.,
American Bakeries, Peoples Furni-
ture Co., North-Smith Coal Co., DR..
Pepper, Royal Bakery, O'Crowley
| Cleaners, Jones Furniture Co., Rose
Coal and Ice Co., Batson Service Sta
ton, Shackleford Radio Service,
Whites Amoco Service Station.
Kornegay urged that other bust
ness houses join in the parade as an
expression of "friendliness between
employer and employee" for the holi-
day observance.
Anyone wishing to march in the
parade may contact D. F. Sandlln,
telephone 5547, or r. c. Grant, tele-
phone 6077.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
HOUSE WILL LIMIT
DRAFT BILL DEBATE
Continued from Page One)

11oIl dSC OICJ
liar agreement yesterday for. pur-
chase of $1,000 Pratt and Whitney
motors.
Republican Complaint
The republican C o m p in S
against restriction of house debate
on CONSUMPTION we're aimed par
ticularly at the decision to limit it
to 1.-TWO days"
Representative Kitchener (R-
Pa, and Allen GRID, argued that
the house might remain in session
only an hour or two each day,
and demanded, instead, that at
least IL hours of general debate
be permitted.
Asserting there were many prec-
edents requiring a specific deter.
mination of debate time by hours
rather than by legislative days,
Otter said:
II want to maintain the dignity
Of the house in keeping with the
position of the senate which held
full and free discussion on the SUBJ
ject."
The legislation, closely resem-
bling the bill approved by the SEN
ate except for age brackets, would
require the registration of men
from 81 to A, inclusive, and would
make them liable for a years mil
itary training at a minimum sal
airy. of $50 a month. The senate
chose age limits of 81 to 80, in
elusive. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

The shooting Immediately
aroused speculation as to . mo-
tive, and in some quarters was at
tributed to possible resentment
owe re-appointment of Superin-
tendent Maughon as head of the
four-year college and r m !
school.
Informed persons stated Super.
intendent Maughon had been re.
appointed by the state department
of education despite a majority
vote of the school trustees against
his reelection.
No arrests in the case had been
made today, the sheriff said. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Home Oh Cherokee Colleges
Superintendent Fired Upon

LUMBERTON, Aug. 3O.-Five
shotgun blasts were fired at the
home of Superintendent G. G.
Maughon on the campus of Cher
okee Indian Normal college at
Pembroke last night by an un-
known person or persons, Sheriff
Clyde Wade reported today.
The college superintendent was
away from home, but Mrs. Maugh-
on was there asleep at the time,
Sheriff Wade said.
Five loads of shot, believed to
have been fired from a passing
automobile, ranged across the
front of the frame dwelling, from
corner to corner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
GERMANY, ITALY
RESERVE FINAL
WORD IN BALKANS

Continued from Page One)
These guarantees, according
to authorized German sources,
r directed against nobody
in particular and against ev-
erybody in general"
Take Reds at Word
1t was asserted that Germany
and Italy in no wise thought only
of Russia in this action; that they
took the Russians at their word
when Moscow said its aspirations
had been satisfied by Bessarabia
and northern Bucovina.
1t was indicated they consider
ed, however, that chauvinistic Ma
vars might still hope to realize
their ''unfulfilled dream of tn e
crown of St. Stephen" and seek
more former Hungarian soil, and
also that some supernationalistic
Bulgarians might not be satisfied
with southern Dobruja alone.
Options regarding citizenship
and other formalities were taken
care Of in today's seven = point
award which the Rumanians and
Hungarians agreed to abide by. A
protocol attached to it set forth
that Hungary and Rumania, in
asking the axis powers to arbi-
trate their dispute, would consider
the decision binding and without
reservations. e.,
The protocol said it was on this
understanding that Germany and
Italy agreed to act as arbiters.
They made it plain, however, in
the final of the seven points that
in case of difficulties or doubts
arising from direct Hungarian-Ru.
manian negotiations, Rome and
Berlin would step in and make the
final decision.
The settlement was described as
a sort of ''swap" with Ruma
giving up an extra large slice of
northern Pennsylvania, including
some OF her people, and re-
tanning in return a number of Hun
garians in the South who could not
be returned to Hungary except by
an awkward corridor. Included in
the coded territory is the Seeker
area, which formed a sack in the
very heart of Rumania, and which
the Hungarians particularly were
determined to get.
It was a swap, of course, onl
in the sense that Rumania gave up
a group of Rumanians in the North
for the purpose of consolidating
scattered Hungarians and kept a
number of Hungarians whose re-
turn would have involved surrend-
ering also a large number of Ru-
manians. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Bright Belt Weed Marts
WILDE Opened Tuesday
Are Moving Millions
OF Pounds To Warehouses
In Fourteen Towns

RALEIGH, Aug. 30.-R-Farm-
ers are removing millions of
pounds of flue-cured tobacco to the
IA eastern Bright belt markets in
preparation for the beginning of
the selling season Tuesday, w. P.
Hedrick, tobacco marketing spe-
cialist in the. state department OF
agriculture, reported today.
Growers throughout the belt
have experienced a most erratic
season." Hedrick said. "They ex-
pect weather damage to show up
in the quality Of leaf offered dur
ing the early sales.
There is much green tobacco
in the belt and farmers will be
wise to eliminate the green leaves
during the grading process. Buy
ers this season on the border belt,
which opened August 20, have been
quick to discount for poorly grad
ed, green leaf offerings"
On August l, the federal-state
crop reporting service said that
heat and lack of rains had caused
premature following and some
burning of bottom leaves Qugs),
resulting in some off-color curing.
Growers in the eastern bright
belt expect a crop of 216, 270, 900
pounds, 40 per cent under 1889,
and a yield of 800 pounds to the
acre, three per cent under last
year. The acreage is 243, 900, a
AZ per cent decrease under last
season.
The IA markets last season sold
393, $40, $40 pounds of tobacco for
an average of 1854 a hundred.
In the whole state the average
was $15.66.
Farmers throughout the states
flue-cured belts expects a produc-
ton Of 423, SIS, 900 pounds, Al per
cent under 1889.
Producers sales by pounds in
the eastern bright belt last season
were:
Ahoskie, 1914, 1868; Farmville,
%, 060, 1872; Goldsboro, 1884, 504;
Kinston, Sc, O48, 900; Robersonville,
IL, POI, 656; Rocky Mount $685.
1856; Smithfield, IS, 6o1, $50; Tarbo-
TO-, $500, 100; Wallace, 1881, 1856;
Washington, 6,802, COG; Wendell,
10, 1873, 662; Williamson, 9,791, 284;
Wilson, "a, $50, 500. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
farley PREPARES
70 LEAVE TODAY
oostmaster General Says
Goodbye To 1,2oo Post Of
flee Workers

uAsu1NGToN, Aug. 3o.-RN
master General Farley said
Po sahy today to approximately
sc soo most office department. en-
l.va He is leaving office to-
pos sou to return to private bust
banning, Farley asked the post
a,orkers to plug for the New
aork Yankees if they swerve in
a so allegiance to the Washington
ausators. Farley is expected to
ssrome president of the Yankees as
Is1I as chairman of the board of
w. Coca Cola Export corporation.
'uI r-ank C. Walker, New Y or k
,,uvpr and former democratic ma
Laval .aTs committee treasurer, has
s , mentioned frequently in spec
.,a,ion about Farley's successor.
There have been reports, how
,rer, that Walker did not want the
:ah Edward j. Flynn of N e w
york. who succeeded Farley as
ahoirman of the democratic ma
.onal committee, also has been
mentioned.
Al HYDE Park, N. Y, President
Roosevelt said today that he would
animate a new postmaster gen.
ar.1 this week, or early next
week. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

yesterday as at any time this sea.
son. Growers appeared well
pleased. A quantity of tips and
common grades appeared on ware.
house floors.
LuMBERTON-The quality of of
1erlngs here yesterday was some
what improved and prices CORES
pondlngly took a rise, j. C. Full
TN, market supervisor, reported.
Farmers from all over the Caro-
hnas made averages that have not
ben beaten here since the market
opened. All warehouse floors we're
cleared.
TABOR CITY-All warehouses
floors were cleared here today with
the price range about the same as
Thursday. Indications are for hea-
Wy sales all next week. 9
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
OBITUARIES
r MARIAN MEGGS

CHARLTON: Aug. 3O.-Mrs. Ma
riah Meggs, SO, died early Friday
morning at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Brooks Little.
She is survived by the following:
Mrs. j. H. Campbell and Mrs.
Little, of Clarkton, and Mrs. j. C..
Hayes, of Whiteville; four sons:
Lacy Meggs, of Elizabethtown, and
Noah, Walker and Robert Meggs,
of Clarkton; one sister: Mrs. Ida
English, of Raeford; and two bro
theirs: George and R. H. Hood, OF
Clarkton.
Funeral services will be h e | d
Saturday morning at II o'clock in
the Western Prong Baptist church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Tobacco Market Reports
(e) Estimated Figures.
l. COMMENT

CHADBOURN-Garland Warren,
sales supervisor, reported tn a t
good grades were selling about the
same as early in the week here.
However, a performance of COM
mon type leaf helped the general
market average down.
CLARKTON-Buying was spirit
ed on better grades here yester-
day with a few of the cutter type
leaf showing a slight increase in
price. Low quality offerings held
the average down, E. c. Clark,
supervisor of sales, said.
for the day were unavailable here.
Warehousemen reported a major
ity of the offerings of common type
leaf.
FAIRMONT-C. B. Stafford, sale
supervisor, said that grade + o r
grade the market here was as high
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

RALEIGH, Aug. 3o.-R-West-
ern North Carolina highways-that
had just begun to recover from
disastrous mid-August floods-were
inundated again today, with more
pavement and bridges destroyed by
the turbulent waters.
The states third serious flood in
less than a month closed scores
of roads and threatened to make
travel difficult for those wishing 10
attend the dedication of the Great
at Newfound Gap Monday. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
FLOODS IN WESTERN
N. e. LEAVE DEATH,
WIDE DESTRUCTION
Continued from Page One)


essary to use detours on several
A large number of secondary road
bridges, many of them replaced
since August IA flood, were washed
away again, isolating sections.
Traffic was being maintained on
all railroads leading out of Ashe-
vile with the exception of the Knox
vile and Murphy branch lines.
The high waters rose within a
few hours after heavy downpours
in the early morning hours.
Burley tobacco crops in Madison
and Haywood counties were feared
heavily damaged, while damage to
farms throughout the area will be
heavy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Experts Seek To Remedy
Onslow Power Trouble

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 30.-Gen-
eral Electric company engineers,
now are working on a plan to de-
wise some means of preventing re-
curing short circuits and the
power Interruptions on Onslow and
Hurst beaches.
Meantime, in the past two weeks,
service on the beaches has been
good, because the wind has been
blowing from every direction but
the northeast. When the wind come
from that direction, it m tans trou-
BILE. Coming in off the ocean, it
deposits a sheet of salt on the pow
err arresters, setting up a path
along which power can flow and
shortcut fuses. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
HEARING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.-R-
The wage-hour administration to-
day scheduled a public hearing for
Sept. 16 on the request of pecan
and peanut growers for a seasonal
exemption from the maximum
hours provision of the w~age-hour
law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
COLUMBIA POLICEMAN
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
j.. T. Rose Suffers Fractured Skull
and Possible Broken Back;
Is In Duke Hospital

DURHAM, Aug. 30.-lPeJ. T.
Rose, of the Columbia, S. c., po-
lice department, was critically in
jured this afternoon near Pittsboro
when his motorcycle overturned
while rounding a curve. Attendants
at Duke University hospital said he
has a fractured skull and probably
a broken back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Broughton, Congressmen:
Discuss State Campaign

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3d. Up -
Plans for the election campaign In
North Carolina were discussed today
at a. meeting of J. M. Broughton, the
states democratic nominee for gov
ernor, and members of the North
Carolina congressional delegation.