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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
CRIMINAL TERM
OPENS MONDAY
Judge Burgwyn To Preside;
Sinclair To Prosecute
6O-Case Docket

The September criminal term OF
New Hanover superior court will
open Monday morning, with Judge
W. H. S. Burgwyn, of Woodland,
presiding.
District Solicitor David Sinclair
will face a heavy docket of more
than 60 cases, including one Of
criminal assault and four charges
of murder.
If the crowded docket is not
cleared next week, Solicitor Sin
clair has indicated that he will
ask Governor Hoey for a special
term of court here.
A charge of criminal assault on
a ten-year-old girl against Dave
Mills, stoop shouldered, crippled
white man, who sold pencils on
the streets here, tops the list of
cases to be tried.
Defendants facing trial on
charges of murder include: James
McFadden, inexperienced; Plum
mer Mcdonald, James Lee Mel
son, and William Dudley Peoples.
There is also a crime against ma
ture charged against Wilton
Thorpe. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08

The Sudan is the chief source Of
the worlds supply of gum arabic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
FSA;S Tenant Purchase Loans
Help Farner;S Dreams Come True

am also raising more food and
feed crops, and raising my own
workstock. That's part of my farm
plan"
A year ago, Carver traded his
$500 mule for two good mares.
The mares had been bred to a
registered Clydesdale Stallion. He
now has two fine colts.
Carver is also one of several
farmers in the county participating
in a jack service made possible
through a Farm Security group
loan. Next year Carver hopes tc
raise a pair of mule colts.
whats the use to pa $500 fol
a mule when you can raise him.
he said.
Carver has a new pasture start
ed, two nice milk COWS, and some
good hogs. He is a successful to-
bacco man, but doesn't trust all
his eggs in one basket.
His crops also include corn, soy
beans, a small amount of cotton,
small grain, strawberries, and pea
nuts.
The farm already is quiet diff
ferent from what it was a year
ago, but in the words of hard
working Carver Hood, Our work
for a better farm has just be-
gun"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
BY BOB

are coming true.
His father was a blacksmith.
Carver and his mother used to
rent land and grow cotton while
his father ran the shop.
why couldn't we have our own
FARM" he used to ask his mother
as they worked side by side under
hot summer suns to make a crop
of which they got only a part.
Carver vas only a small boy
young in years and small for his
age-but Carver could think as
well as work. Working the other
fellows land had something to do
with his mother having to work
so hard in the field, he thought.
Later on when he had the chance
to 60 to high school, Carver re-
allied that rent money wasn't all
his mother and father had been
working for, but this did not les
sen his ambition to own his own
farm.
Farming appealed to him and
the last two years in high school
he studied vocational agriculture
i nthe Whiteville school, where he
was one of Professor Frank Goss'
star students.
His family h a d moved from
another county to Columbus so
that he might be near enough to
attend the school. But the de
preston had begun. Many who
had been well-to-do farmers were
no longer riding in automobiles.
At that time certain well-known
horse-drawn carts were not un-
common vehicles. Money was
scarce and jobs were scarce. Gar
yer got a job milking COWS, be-
fore and after school.
Night and morning he MIXED
nine cows and got $1.40 a week.
He gave a dollar to his mother
to help with the groceries and
kept the rest for himself for
pocket change.
That was about six years ago.
The more Carver learned about
farming the more he dreamed of
a farm of his own. His marriage
about the same time to a comely
Columbus county girl did not les
sen that ambition. But for the
present owning a farm had to be
only a dream. At first he had to
be content as a sharecropper.
Then, three years ago, he went
to see c. D. Pickerrell, county
supervisor of the Farm Security
Administration at Whiteville, and
borrowed money to buy workstock
and farming equipment. In a cou-
pie of years he paid for a $500
mule, a wagon, disc harrow and
other equipment. That was a step
forward.
With his FSA loans all paid, he
then applied to the same agency
for a loan to buy a farm, under
the tenant purchase" program.
is application looked good to the
local Up committee and last sum-
mer Carver bought a ISL acre
farm on the Whiteville- Elizabeth
town road.
Last fall the Carver Hood fam.
lily Mr.. and Mrs. Hood and four
small children moved in to a
brand new, coy white cottage.
The FSA loan included money
to build the house, pasture fence,
a modern stock barn, tobacco
barn, and other outbuildings.
Under terms of the loan, Carver
will have 40 years to pay for the
place, at three per cent interest.
For his protection in bad crops
years, his payments will vary each
year with his earnings, but pay
ments are expected to average
$26.
'Td be willing to pay that much
rent for this farm" Carver said
recently.
When asked what he is doing
on his own farm different from
what he used to do, Carver said,
81 am praticing a soil building
program, rotating crops and plant.
ing legumes and cover crops. III
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
REALTY TRANSFERS

4tSo1 p1opS4
corded during the past week al
the office of Adrian B. Rhodes,
register of deeds, follow:
James P. Mallette to Carl W.
Korb, lot 10, block 3, addition to
No. 2, Wrightsville Beach extern
sion.
Callie L. Winner to Car D. Win
ner, lot 4, block 81, Carolina Beach.
o. O. Whitlock to c. c. Craig,
tract of O.. R. Craig property In
Masonboro township.
J. W. Reaves to Smaragda Pap
pas, lot 3, block Is, Kure Land
Development company property.
Southeastern Realty company to
Herbert Bluethenthal, lot q and
part of lot %, Wrightsville Beach.
Leon F. Andrews to N. E. Riven-
bark, part of lots 2 and 3, block
STA, cioty.
Isabelle B. Hughes to Jessie Al
len Lowe, part of lot 2, block o23,
city.
Home OWENS Loan Corporation
to Glenn M. Tucker, part of lots
l and 2, blocok 10, city.
Ruth Lane Nixon to Thomas H.
Wright, lot /, block ITS, city.
George T. Swain to Iva McNair
Avinger, lot 9, block E, Wrights-
vile Beach extension.
E. c. Isle to Iva McNair Avinger,
lot /, block E, Wrightsville Beach
extension.
B. F. Rathjen to Solomon Check
ner, part of lots l and 2, block 307,
city. ..
H. M. Durham to P. M. Greer,
tract in Masonboro township.
Heirs of H. c. Twining to Luke
Grady, four ere tract on Blue
Clay road in Cape Fear township.
E. M. Toon to William M. Hill,
part Of lots 4 and 5, block 1888,
city.
H. E. Russell to Edward B.
Ward, lot 812, Magnolia Place in
Oileander.
Edward B. Ward to Sidney J.
Rivenbark, lot 812, Magnolia Place,
in Oleander.
Sidney j. Rivenbark to William
M. Hill, lots 146 and 148, Brook
wood.
Kenneth c. Winstead to RI.
Biddle, lots 40 an As, Idlewild, in
Harnett township.
Annie C. Xanthos to James E..
Moore, tract in East Wilmington.
Christ Economics to Bessie G.
Hollowell, part of lots 81 and 49,,
block J, Carolina Beach.
Bessie G.. Hollowell to i s t
Economics, part of lots 81 and
38, block J, Carolina Beach.
Forest Hills Development COM
pany to S. A. VAIL, lot 1874, Sec
ton, B, Forest Hills.
F. M. Mcdaniel to c. w. Davis,
lot As, Manhattan.
Lucy jenkins to C. w. Harvell,
n n tract on Carolina Beach
highway in Federal Point town.
ship.
). A. Carter to l.. H. Nance, part
Of lots l and 2, block IS, city. 8
Ethel S. Powers to Addison Hew-
lett, Jr., lot 106, Brookwood.
B%rookwood Realty corporation to
Daisy Reid Dock, lot 6, Brookwood.
L. Kenneth Primer, Jr., to e. B.
Loughlin, lot 160-B, section B, For
est Hills.
F. M. MCGOWAN to Carl Penning.
ton, part Of F. M. MCGOWAN tre t
in Harnett township.
N. R. Horrell to George W. H.
White, farm II, Kerr tract, in Cape
Fear township.
Joseph Weneut to Charlie T. Flow
ers, lot %, block a, Fox subdivision,
in Harnett township.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
Machine Gun Factory
Contract Is Awarded

WASHINGTON, Sept. Z. Up
The War department announced to-
day that it had awarded a contract
to the Savage Arms corporation of
Utica, N. Y, for the equipning of
a machine-gun plant at an approx
mate cost Of SIT, SOC, 200.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

cording to police, was Miss Mary r.
Cosgrove, q, of ATOP Hunt avenue,
Chevy Chase, Md.
The drivers. according to the po-
lice, had different stories to tell.
Mcdowell, they said, told them he
believed he struck the Fentress
youngster, but that Margaret Ann
was hit by the other car. Miss
Cosgrove, they said, told them Nc
DoWell had struck both girls, toss
Ing Margaret Ann into the path Of
her car. Margaret AIMS body, ac-
cording to police. was picked up be-
meath the wheels of the Cosgrove
car
Both drivers are to appear at an
inquest Tuesday at II 80 am, Cor
oner A. Magruder Mcdonald an
nounced.
Margaret Ann is the forty-eighth
traffic victim of the year.
The same intersection, Nebraska
and Connecticut avenues, took an
other life May 25, when Vincent
Bergin, %, of 3218 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV, was killed and his wife
seriously injured.
Three Hurt Near Alexandria.
Three persons were injured in an
automobile collision on the Mount
Vernon boulevard about 8 miles
south Of Alexandria, Va, last night.
They were Miss Lottie Mae Hin
ken, "a. of 2806 Douglas street NE,
abrasions to the knee and head
lacerations; her companion, Thomas
Rhine, member of Company B at
Fort Belvoir, Va, head lacerations,
and in the other car, j. w. Dickson,
4o, OF Alexandria, lacerations of
face and arm. All three were
treated at Alexandria Hospital.
In another Virginia accident, IA
year-old Duncan Mcleod, of Lynch
purg, received two fractures of his
left leg in a crash near Warrenton.
He was treated at Emergency Hos
pital.
Miss Catherine Housen. 20, of
800 Eleventh street Sc, was ad-
mitted to Providence Hospital with
a possibly fractured pelvis after she
was struck by car as she crossed
Eleventh street just south of South
Carolina avenue Sc.
Mrs. Jessie Brayton, ST, of 1877
Jefferson street NV, received a
head injury and lacerations in an
accident on the Baltimore boule-
ward near Laurel, Md. A. Casualty
Hospital her condition was termed
fair.
Evening star., 1940-09-01


fair to middlin,' which means, from
our point of view, that they are very
good"
All-Around Defense.
Implying that they might not be
so good If certain dire political de-
velopments occur, the President
continued:
I'm all this work that has been
referred to on defense, there is one
point that should be made very. very
clear. and that is defense, of course,
against enemies from the outside,
and also defense within our own
borders, our own communities,
against things that can happen to
take away from us what we have
accomplished in these latter years.
I'VE are not going to go back. I
hope, in the next few years on what
we nave accomplished That is
going to be the big problem, but it
is a very simple problem and
think there is a pretty good pros
pect of having the good work go
on"
In opening his address-after the
band had played, the cowboy
quartet had sung. and there had
been readings" ETC., Mr.. Roosevelt
reminded the audience that if pro-
ceedings were in strict accord with
the Hatch Act "I would not men,
ton politics"
But, of course, after being intro
duCed by the new, acting postmaster
of Hyde Park (Arthur Smith, son
of Moses, who. by his very pres
ence here today as president of the
club is violating the act, all I can
say to you is that. honestly, there
are exceptions to every law"
Mack, Preliminary Speaker.
Addressing the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt as Franklin and Eleanor, !"
Judge John E. Mack of Pough-
keepsie, who twice nominated Mr..
Roosevelt for the presidency, was
one of the preliminary speakers.
Revealing that the Chief Execu-
tive had told him six months ago
that his work in the White House
was done and that he was coming
home to Hyde Park, Judge Mack
declared that the will of the Demo-
cratic convention and the demands
Of the Government in an emergency
period had decreed otherwise.
But he'll come back in another
four years. the judge promised.
He wants no fourth term"
Earlier in the day, the President
had sounded the political keynote
OF his week end in a special Labor
Day statement calling for the dedi-
cation Of labor, management, farm
ers and Government "to a common
purpose so that this great democ-
racy" shall be preserved.
Mr.. Roosevelt plans to leave here
tomorrow morning for a swing into
the Tennessee Valley, Labor Day
speeches at Chickamauga Dam and
the Great Smoky National Park,
and an inspection on Tuesday of
the naval ordnance plant at Charles
ton, w. Va.
A large delegation of Democratic
officials, including Secretary of In
terror Ickes and Federal Security
Administrator McNutt, are due to
board the train in Washington to-
afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-09-01

If the Senate approves his NOM
ination, Frank G. Walker will be
the United States 5lst Postmaster
General.
The bald Montanan who found a
gold mine in the pursuit of business
along the eastern seaboard is headed
for the Cabinet just 10 years after
he helped start Franklin D. Roose-
welt toward the presidency. In
1880 he was one of four men who
put up $4,000 each for the cam
paign that won Mr.. Roosevelt the
Democratic presidential nomina-
ton in 1892.
Mr.. Walkers is a familiar name
around the Capital. He has been
in and out of the administration S
higher councils for seven years
He was treasurer for the Democratic
National Committee in 1882 and
1888, raising so much money that
Mr.. Roosevelt, who benefited most
from the collections. praised him
publicly. He resigned as treasurer
and took the almost fabulous Job of
co-ordinating the governments op-
erations as of 1933-a job which at
the time won him the informal title
Of Assistant President"
Served in High Posts.
Off1cially he was director of the
National Emergency Council He
left the post In 1884, only to return
to 1t in 1885 when the N. E. c.
was made the funnel for the ex-
penditure of the first 5000, ,000, ,0OC
Of w. P. A. funds. This was an
administrative job which kept him
out of the public eye. A job he
performed even more quietly was
that of secretary of the executive
council. the super cabinet" that
advised Mr.. Roosevelt in the New
Deals early days.
Mr.. Walker left the N. E. C. in
December. 1885. There we're re-
ports then that he would take
James A. Farley's position at the
Postofflce Department when Mr..
Farley should decide to give all his
time to his Job Of national chair
man. Mr.. Farley never reached this
decision. Mr.. Walker dropped out
of the public ken and he did not
bob back into it again until this
spring, when reports began to cir
culate that he would succeed Mr..
Farley, not as Postmaster General
but as national chairman.
Pennsylvania Son.
The story of this rich man friend
OF the New Deal begins with his
birth, at Plymouth, Pa, May 80, 1886,
two years to the day before Mr.
Farley arrived in the world. When
he was 3 years old, the Walker
family hit out for the Montana
frontier and he grew up in rough
and rugged Butte He studied at
GonZaga University. Spokane, Wash,
and was graduated from Notre
Dame University Law School in 1909.
In 1887 Gonzaga awarded him an
honorary degree of doctor of laws.
From South Bend he went back
to Butte and began to practice law
with his brother, Thomas. Rich
clients in that rich country, beneath
whose mountains lies a fortune in
copper. started him toward a good
sized fortune. He became the right
hand man of John D. Ryan, the cop
per king. He became counsel for the
Anaconda Copper Co., the Northern
Pacific Railroad and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad.
In 1925 M. E. Comerford, Mr..
Walkers uncle, needed expert legal
guidance in running his 100 theaters,
scattered through New England,
New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. He called his nephew to
Evening star., 1940-09-01
French Indo-China
And West Africa in
Revolt, Vichy Says
Gen. Cutroux Leeds RISING
In Far East, Colonial
Ministry Declares
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Aug. 3l.-The
French government acknowledged
tonight that rebellion has broken
out in French Indo-China and
French West Africa, following the
action OF French Equatorial Africa
in going over to the British war
cause.
The extent of the Indo- Chinese
revolt--said by the colonial ministry
to have been under the leadership of
French Gen. Catroux-was unknown
here. The uprising in French West
Africa, the government maintained,
was confined to certain Europeans"
and had not yet spread to the native
population.
The French communique said the
government had received assurances
from High Commissioner Boisson at
Dakar, Senegal, that the greater
part" of the West African territory
under his command was remaining
loyal and that he had rapidly
gained control of the situation
there.
The government attributed the
African troubles to lack Of under
standing of conditions in the
motherland and the action Of the
British blockade.
This was the same reason given
officially for the revolt in French
New Caledonia, Africa, early in
August.
Admiral platon, one OF the de-
tenders of Dunkerque in the Allied
retreat from that French port. ar
rived in Vichy tonight by plane
from Dakar. 1t was understood he
had come to report directly to the
government on the uprisings.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Mexico Sets Value
OF Oil Properties
AT S35,4O0,0OO
Order lnstructs Firms
To Sign Transfer Of
Title Within IS Duys
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3l.-A value
Of $35,40o,000 was placed on the ex-
propriated producing and processing
properties of foreign oil companies
today in an order signed by Judge
Ponciano Hernandez of the First
Civil Court.
The order instructed the firms to
appear within Is days to sign a
transfer of title to the nation for the
properties. Should they fail to ap-
pear, the court will sign the transfer.
There was no immediate an
nouncement of the companies plans,
although they are expected to fight
the order. With the exception of the
Consolidated Oil Co. (Sinclair) the
companies never have accepted the
legality of appropriation of the prop
critics, which have been variously
estimated worth up to 100000, 900.
The Sinclair interests settled their
claims for $8,500,000 recently.
The valuation arrived at for the
others followed repeated and varying
appraisals by government-appointed
experts, the third and most recent,
made two days ago, being the one
signed by the court today.
The foreign oil properties were
appropriated on March 18, 1888.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Part in TrotskY Staying
Is Charged 10 Woman
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, Aug 31.-Judge
Raul Carranca y Trujillo tonight
formally charged Frank Jackson
with the Staying of Leon Trotsky,
exiled Bolshevist, and ordered him
held for trial.
The judge also formally charged
Jackson's friend, Sylvia Ageloff of
Brooklyn, N. Y, with completely in
the staying and ordered her held
for trial also.
The decision in Miss Ageloffs S
case came as a surprise, as police
privately had expressed the opinion
she would be released.
Police said jackson, a mysterious
foreigner of still undetermined ma
tionality, would be held in the sta
ton house instead of being trans
ferred to the penitentiary as is
customary. Unofficially, they said
they were fearful of a plot against
his life.
Miss Agelof also will be con-
fined in precinct station cell
when she has recovered sufficiently
from her nervous condition to be
removed from the hospital.
Trotsky died last week several
hours after a blew from a pickax
split his skull.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Wallace in SecIusion
AT Des Moines Home
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 81
Democratic Vice Presidential Nomi-
nee Henry A. Wallace will spend a
week end at home here in seclusion
from political problems, before start
ing his Mid-Western campaign tour,
his aides said today.
Mr.. Wallace will leave Monday for
Chicago, where he is to deliver an
informal address at an Afro-Ameri-
can Exposition that afternoon.
That appearance will be a prelude
to week of campaign talks through
Illinois. No definite plans have
been made beyond his previously
announced campaign tour covering
the next week, James LIE Cron, his
campaign assistant, said, although
Mr. Wallace has declared he would
continue campaigning in the Mid
west.
Accompanying Mr.. Wallace to
Chicago will be Mr.. lie Cron. Rep-
resentative Jones of Texas and Cliff
ford Gregory, editor of Wallace's
Farmer and Iowa Homestead, the
publication founded by the nomt-
nee's grandfather.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
konitoring Stations
Will Be Shifted in
Subversive Cheekup
Sites to Be Moved to
RuroI Areas to Escape
Interference
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
The Federal Communications
Commission is planning to shift
the sites of six Of the seven major
monitoring stations so they might
police more efficiently the air waves
for subversive radio messages. The
work is placed at more. than
SITS 900.
These stations, which originally
were located to measure signals of
licensed stations to ascertain
whether they remained on assigned
frequencies, have been made the
primary stations around which is
to be woven great web of smaller
listening posts as a part Of the
Governments program in searching
out fifth columnist activities.
Most Are in City Areas.
These monitoring stations, it was
said. were located in the carly
days of governmental regulation
and practically all of them except
the main central station at Grand
Island, Nebr., are situated in city
areas, in the midst of heavy man
made interference. Now, it was
explained, the increase in their
functions necessitates their being
located in rural areas, where the
noise-level will be at a minimum.
In addition to a 24-hour scan
ming OF assigned frequencies for all
services. principally point-to-point
and ship-to-shore transmissions, the
stations will listen on the fre-
quencies which have not been as
signed, as these are the ones likely
to be used by unlicensed stations
which might be engaged in dis
patching information to foreign
agents.
During the process of removal the
stations are to be equipped with i'm
proved facilities for measuring the
frequencies of the licensed stations,
but will have installed in them the
most sensitive equipment available
to pick up radio signals under the
most adverse conditions.
Action Being Pushed.
The process of locating and
equipping nearly half a hundred
smaller stations in the policing web
is being pushed, as is acquisition of
equipment for the mobile stations
which will be sent from point to
point. Once the stations are in full
swing, it was said it would be a fairly
simple matter, by triangulation
methods through the use of radio
compasses, to locate any unlicensed
stations.
The monitoring stations will watch
foreign language broadcasts to as
certain whether any of the programs
contain propaganda subversive to
the United States. Recordings will
be made of the broadcasts to have
them translated.
The commission does not have
authority to take any direct action
against broadcasts which might be
subversive, but information obtained
is to be transferred to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation for deter
mination on whether action may be
necessary under the espionage laws.