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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22
SALAD WHEN YOU LIKE IT

Dear Mrs. Post: In a restaurant,
if the salad is brought in on in
dividual plates and stood at each
place at the beginning of the meal,
are we expected to eat it then or
when we prefer it?
Answer: In this circumstance,
you may eat it whenever you
choose. The waitress won't take
this salad away until you have
either eaten it or told her that you
don't want it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22
Young Man Asks About Manners

Young Man Asks About Manners
Dear Mrs. Post: Please tell me
whether you think it impossible
for a boy to blow the horn of
his car to signal for a girl to come
out of her house? Would this be
different for A and B situations:
A-when she expects him and they
are late, and B-when he is just
dropping around unexpectedly to
invite her to go with him to visit
friends she knows.
Answer: (A) Questionable. OBJ
Impossible.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22
Unusual Breads on
Breakfast Table

Wake up the spring appetite
with unusual breads for breakfast.
Bacon bread will surprise a dull
appetite and pineapple jam corn
bread viii startle it pleasantly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
FOLKS
BEST READERS
Scientist Discovers Why Some
Readers Smarter Than
Others
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor

EUGENE, Ore, Nov. II. - To
be r~ight-eyed makes reading east
er.
Furthermore, this advantage is
Sc marked that being left-eyed
largely accounts for many persons,
particularly children, being defec-
tive readers.
Right-eyed, or vice versa, means
that n or the other eye is Used
mainly in the work of seeing. Most
persons in using their eyes favor
one, much the same as being right
Or left-handed, although the eyes
do not necessarily class the same
as the hands.
The discoveries about the effect
Of eyedness on reading were made
by DR.. H. R. Crosland, associate
professor of psychology, Universe
ty Of Oregon. A mirror device
showed what was happening.
In the mirror there was flashed
a short line of printed matter.
Each flash lasted one-eigath of a
second, just long enough to be
seen clearly.
The lines, however, were not full
length. Each contained some let
tiers grouped in one of three posi-
tons, either at the left end where
printing starts, in the middle, or
near the end of the line. .
The mirror could be used so
that only one eye at a time could
see these flashed lines.
] When this was done the right
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
WARMER WEATHER
EXPECTED TODAY
Minimum Temperature Of Al
Degrees Forecast For City
This Morning

After dropping into the freezing
zone Friday night, the mercury
started an upward climb in Will
mington yesterday and weather bu-
reau officials last night forecast
further rising temperatures for to-
day.
A low temperature of Al degrees
was forecast for early this morn
ing.
Yesterday the temperatures ran
ged from a low of IS to, a high of
SO degrees, with the mean ten be-
low the 55-degree normal.
Today will be fair and slightly
warmer, weathermen said.
Meanwhile, it was reported from
Fayetteville that rains which had
caused the Cape Fear river to
swell close to the overflow point
were gradually decreasing.
Saturday the river stage was
close to 80 feet, but a check yes
terday afternoon revealed that the
stage was between Is and 26 feet
and gradually falling. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
ROLL CALL
TO Be CONTINUED
Approximately Half Ut S.
900 Goal Raised By Workers
In Annual Campaign

The annual Roll Call Of the Will
mington chapter of the American
Red Cross will be continued
through November 30 in conform.
ity with the membership drive Of
the National Red Cross, local off.
Gals of the drive said last night.
Due to rain last week and the in.
ability of workers to contact the
various business firms and indi-
viduals in the city the officials de-
cided to extend the campaign.
Approximately half of the S., 00C
goal for the ensuing year has been
raised and every effort will be
made to reach the goal in the
next two weeks.
Officials in charge Of the drive
pointed out last night that due to
the great number of young men
being called into military service
in the next year that the need will
be much greater than heretofore
for the Red Cross, which acts as a
liaison agent between the soldier
and his home.
Henry Gerdes is general chair
man of the Roll Call here. Any Or
g%anization or business firm which
desires to enroll in the Red Cross
and which has not been contacted
may secure membership by calling
at the chapter office in the Gus
tomhouse and a worker will be
sent out with the proper cards and
information.
From each subscription given To-
cally only 30 cents is sent to ma
tional headquarters. This applies
whether the subscribed member
ship be 81 or S..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18

eyed persons saw the left, or start
ing-line position better.
In reading, these eye habits
would mean that right-eyed per-
sons could a little more easily and
quickly read the start of each line.
That this actually happens and
that it is an advantage appears
to be substantiated by tests of
superior and inferior readers. The
mirror showed that right-eyed per.
sons dominated the group of SUI
perior readers. Conversely, he
left-eyed people made up a MAORI
ty of the inferior readers.
DR.. Crosland was able to put
this evidence to a dramatic test
with the Hebrew language. Hebrew
is written from right to left, op.
posite of English. He tested a large
number of Jewish children in read
ing Hebrew.
Among them, the superior read
ers were punched largely among
the left-eyed persons, exactly the
opposite of the good readers OF
English.
He concludes that a left-eyed per-
son has difficulty in fixing the
eye on the left or initial side of
the printed line. His eye move
ments seem to skip back from
time to time in the opposite direc-
ton of the flow of printed words.
Eye defects in early life, he says,
can play roles in fixing either left
Or right-eyedness, and in bad hab-
its in reading.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
WILMINGTON PLANS
FOR SANTA CLAUS
Arrival Of st. Nick Will u.a.
Opening Of Christmas
Shopping Season

Wilmington yesterdey st....,
making its plans for the .rs"'
visit here Friday, November % =,
Santa Claus, the patron s.;,. "
children, and officials in cbsrga :. "
the visit have issued an ;nvito.S "
to every child and adult in s.n~
eastern North Carolina to bo :.
Wilmington on that dav II
St. Nick. 0''''
Arriving here by plane from =.
North Pole, Santa Claus vii, ;"
rade through the streets of tbs a,s,
in a specially built and decor..,;
float. A volunteer committee nv,
posed of Herbert Harrell. Ns,.
Helen Setter and Henry Rebd.,
will prepare the float for tho Wa
The entry of Santa Clans ,,'
mark the opening of the Chris,r WIN
holiday season for Wilmington a nay
Southeastern North Carolina ''
Both North Fourth and F,,.,
streets will be lighted this v ,.a'
with the current to be pror $Sa.'
free by the Tide Water Power co as'
pany. The City of Wilmington % b.,
cooperated with the merchants .s s
businessmen in having the n ..
elaborate display of Yuletide ,i i,-S,
ing that the city has even Seen 'D'
Wilmington this year will nro,
ably have more city blocks ligb,s,
for the Christmas season than NV.
other city in North Carolina f.
erything to make the holiday 60,
son one of festivities and one tbs,
will long be remembered has hoo,
don, it was said.
The complete schedule Of ssr,,
Claus route through Wilmjnp.o.
will be published Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
BY w. B. RAGSDALE

WASHINGTON, Nov. e.-R-The
third term election of President
Roosevelt, cracking tradition as it
did, lodged him upon a political
pinnacle to which no other man in
American history has been able to
climb.
Its electoral sweep left him with
fewer party debts to pay than any
other President since long before
the Civil war. And at the same
time, it demonstrated that if the
republicans are to wrest power
from the democrats, they must
develop either an issue or a tech
nique by which they may present
a broader and more pointed per-
sonal appeal for votes than any
they have yet uncovered.
Draft or not, by what ever name
his nomination at Chicago may be
called, the fact remains that there
were strong men in the party,
bound to it by tradition and habit,
who objected to his having that
nomination.
They not only opposed the nom
nation at the convention, but some
of them muffled their fists with
pillows when they went out to fight
for his reelection. And some Of
them did not 60 through the mo.
tons of fighting. To this wing Of
the party, Mr. Roosevelt coulo
hardly be said to owe any debt.
Beyond this, the fact that he
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
YUC0SLAV PLANES
CHASE INVADERS
Anti-Aircraft Batteries Also
Fire On Four For.
eign Aircraft

BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, Nov. 17.-uf
-Yugoslav pursuit planes CAV
chase and anti.aircraft batteries 1lr
ed on four foreign aircraft OF uni
Identified nationality which BOMBED
this neutral country's soil today lol
the third time since the opening u
Italian-Greek hostilities.
Just before dawn the invading
planes bombed Kicevo and two near
by villages, some 40 miles from the
junction of the Greek-Yugoslav-Al
bantam borders. The two previous
attacks were on Bitolj, about II
miles north of the Greek border.
The raiders dropped 26 bombs %
day. an official announcement ala
some of which fell near Kicevo's rail-
wav station. The announcement said
that for the most part they fell in
open fields, however.
There were no casualties and only
minor damage, the government said,
although there were unofficial re-
ports that many persons were IN
iured at KiceVo.
There were conflicting reports as
to the direction from which the
planes came; some said they came
from Albania, others that they were
from the direction of Greece.
Several persons were killed and
injured in the first raid on BltolJ
Nov. 5. There were no casualties IN
the second raid last Friday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
US. WarshipsB Believed Enemy
Ships That Frightened Germans

had been loading lead and was about
to be escorted from Tampico through
the neutrality zone by the American
vessels.
Nationality Of the warships which
frightened the German captains
never has been definitely establish
ed but the German captains said they
believed them to be British.
Tampico reports indicated the Ger
mans who said they were signaled by
the warships to surrender, erroneous
ly interpreted the signals. In sup
port of that theory, it was pointed
out by the Tampico reports that the
weather vas cloudy Friday night.
Capt. ]. Schurt of the German
freighter Phrygia ordered his ship
scuttled because he believed he was
about to be CAPTURED.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
Third Term Puts Roosevelt
Upon New Political Pinnacle

carried state after state which
elected republican governors
would seem to demonstrate that
the vote getting magic lay in his
own name and not in that of the
democratic party. Senate losses
might be said to illustrate this,
too. The President apparently won
in spite of party lethargy and dis.
affection.
And n this sense, the new vote
of confidence, ignoring tradition as
it did, puts him in a position tc
forget about party lines, even more
than he has in the past, and to
steer his course during the next
four years by the guiding star OF
the national good, his compass un-
disturbed by the magnetism of
party tugs.
Save for Washington and Monroe
in their second elections, the one
unanimously and the other with
only one electoral vote against
him, no other President has ap.
preached such starry political
heights.
Yet, the size of the popular vote
rolled up by Wendell L. Willkie
gives ample evidence of a living
opposition such as did not proper
ly exist in the case of either Wash
ington or Monroe. In the case o:
Washington, the new JeffersQpiar
party was just taking root. Ane
when Monroe came along, Jeffer-
sons democrats had trodden the
federalists under foot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.-LR-In-
formed sources said tonight they be-
lieved three U. S. warships off the
port of Tampico were the enemy"
ships which caused one German mer-
chant captain to scuttle his ship
and three other vessels to scamper
back into the refuge of Tampico
where they have been marooned
since the war began.
The three U. S. warships were
sighted recently by the Mexican gun
boat Queretaro a few miles off Tam
pico, these sources said.
Unconfirmed reports from Tampico
said that units of the U. S. neutrali-
ty patrol Friday night-when the
Nazi ships attempted their vain dash
to open sea were signalling the
British freighter Olivebank, which
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
UNITED SERVICE
PLANNED SUNDAY
Rev. J. F. Herbert Will Preach
At St. Paul's Lutheran
Church Sunday

Five churches of the city will
hold a united service for Thanks
giving next Sunday, November "a.
at 8 p. m. at St. Paul's Lutheran
church, it was announced last
night.
The Rev. j. F. Herbert, pastor
of Grace Methodist church, will
preach the sermon.
The churches participating in the
service are st. Paul's Lutheran,
Grace Methodist, First christian,
Church of the Good Shepherd and
Trinity Methodist.
The choirs of the various church.
es will be represented in a special
music program and the ministers
of each church will participate.
The public is invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
ARMY GETS FIRST
DRAFTEES TODAY
Continued From Page One)

Pacific coast. Some other corps
areas will begin receiving men
Tuesday while in others the draf-
tees will not bee allied until liter.
Draftees will report to Undue
ton centers in all six of the New
England states. Due to the time
difference, they probably will be
the first in the nation to enter the
army.
At Chicago, the Army said, its
sixth corps area would swear in
an even 100 men, the only ones to
be called in Illinois this year. On
the West coast, the 9th corps area
will begin induction of 1880 men,
a task which officials said would
take until Nov. %.
The men in the 9th corps area
will be sworn in at army stations
in Sacramento, Los Angeles and
San Francisco, Calf; Fort Mis-.
soula, Mont; Portland, Ore, Ia
coma and Spokane, Wash; Boise,
Idaho, and either Cheyenne, Wyo.,
or Salt Lake, Utah.
The Army originally expected to
call about 80, 900 men under the
selective service program by Dec.
l but officials said this number
had been reduced, largely because
OF the number of volunteers who
had been accepted in the interim.
Draft officials said almost the
entire number of men taken in on
the first call under the draft pro-
gram would be registrants who
volunteered.
A poll of state selective service
officials showed, they said, that
approximately II, 1000 of the men
already classified and found eligi-
BILE for immediate service had vol.
uteered. =
The men called tomorrow will
get their first contact with the
Army at the induction stations.
There they will undergo a second
physical examination-in which the
Army doctors will check the find
ings of the examining physicians
of the local draft boards.
Those accepted will be finger
printed, start their service records,
get an Army serial number and
then swear:
THAT I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the United States Of
America; that 1 will serve them
honestly and faithfully against ali
enemies whomsoever; and that ]
will obey the orders of the Presi'
dent of the United States and the
orders of the officers appointed
over me, according to the rules
and articles Of war; ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
TWO ARE KILLED
in TRAIN WRECK
Engineer And Fireman OF
Southern Train Lose Lives
At Pine Grove, Ga.

PINE GROVE, Nov. 17.-LP-Th
engineer and fireman of the South
ern railways Kansas City-Jackson
vile passenger train No. Z We.
killed when the eight coach trail
was wrecked here early today.
E. B. Mercer of Mecon, 81, the en-
gineer, was killed instantly, and
Paul M. johnson, 40, fireman, also
of Macon, died later in a HazlehuH,
Ca, hospital.
The engine overturned when i
struck a switch at the outskirts d
this small town near Jesup, Ga.
Chief Dispatcher E. H. Lawler SAIL
and five cars were derailed, Til:
three sleeping cars on the train Il
manned upright.
Lawler said the wreck occurred al
2:30 a. M, but that no passengers
were hurt.
1--WE don't know exactly what hap
pened," Lawler said, beyond the fact
that the train was wrecked at .
switch. An investigation is undI'
way"
Traffic was tied up for about i've
hours but the 70 passengers WeH
transferred to another train an
taken into Jacksonville, where I'd
wrecked train had been due arOlH
7 q. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
SWEDEN NEXT?

- Joachim Joesten, fugitive Ger
man newsman who arrived here
today aboard the Japanese liner
Ginyo Maru, said he believed Swe-
den was next on the list of Ger
man absorption. So imminent is
Sweden's complete domination by
Germany that an enemy of the
Nazi regime is no longer safe
there, Joesten told reporters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
DIR. PEARL

BALTIMORE, Nov. 17.-R-Dr.
Raymond Pearl, 81, biologist who
gained worldwide fame for his
studies on longevity, genetics, and
population, died in Hershey, Pa,
early today of a heart attack.
He was professor of biology at the
Johns Hopkins university school of
hygiene and public 1ealth, a post he
held 10 years while directing and
initiating research into the influence
Of environment and constitution or
mans chances for longer life.
DR.. Pearl was stricken after a din.
ner party which, with a group of in
innate friends, was held annually in
some town close to Baltimore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
Round fable Luncheon
Scheduled Here Today

The Wilmington Round Table OF
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews will meet at a lunch
con at the Crystal restaurant this
afternoon at 1 o'clock.
All persons who have been asso-
ciated with the Round Table in pre-
vious meetings are expected to be
present. The Rev. James Lawson,
secretary, announced that all men
and women interested in the organi-
zation are invited to attend n
participate in the discussions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
Charles F.. Rights, SO,
Killed When Hit By Train

TAMPA, Fla, Nov. IL R -
Charles F. Rights, SO, a retired
poultryman was almost instantly
killed last night as his small auto
mobile was struck by a Seaboarc
Air Line passenger train near
here. A. c. Forni, riding with him,
was injured slightly.
County Traffic Officers P: c.
Martin said Rights apparently
did not see the locomotive.
His survivors include a sister,
Miss Anna L. Rights, Winston-Sa.
lem, N. c., and a brother, William
Rights, Denver, Col.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
Obituaries
MRS. EVA M.

Mrs. Eva Magnolia Hardwick,
88, widow of George Hardwick,
died at her home at 219 IL South
Second street yesterday afternoon
at 1870 o'clock after a lingering i'll
ness.
Funeral services will be held
from HarrelTs Funeral home this
afternoon at 3 o'clock, with the
Rev. C. w. Billiard officiating. In.
terment will follow in Oakdale
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: j. c.
Johnson, C. W. Carlton, M. H.
Canady, D. J. Byrd, Frederick
Moore and P. B. Rhodes.
Mrs. Hardwick at one time was
employed by the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad for a period of about
Is years. She is survived by one
son, G. T. HardWick, of Rocky
Mount, three grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
ARGENTINA BALKS
DEFENSE PLANS
Will Not Cooperate Until 1t
Considers Danger Of At
tack Has Arrived

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov.
17.-(R-A high official said today
Argentina is mot disposed to coop.
crate in any common (hemisphere)
plan until we consider danger Of at
tack is actually here"
Informed sources said the govern.
ment's feeling is that plans of its
neighbors, Paraguay and Uruguay,
to construct air or naval bases with
United States assistance, C h
might be available to all American
nations, would be an intrusion of
Argentina's natural sphere of influ.
ence.
Observers Of Argentina's policies,
in which she frequently has taken a
lone stand in Pan-American affairs,
said the program for hemisphere de-
tense is likely to result in one of
two things: Argentina will attempt
to block development Of such COOP
erative defense bases, or she will de.
velop her own naval and aerial ia
cilities to balance the activities Of
her neighbors.
An Argentine foreign office spokes-
man, however, denied that Argentina
has yet forwarded communications
regarding Uruguayan defense con-
v%ersations with the United States.
The Uruguayan cabinet has unan.
imously approved negotiations with
the United States in which the
question of making Uruguayan naval
and air facilities available to other
American nations is being studied.
The high officials words left the
impression that although Argentina
sign7d the Panama and Havana
declarations of solidarity she would
prepare only for self defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
STORE ENTERED

Police yesterday investigated a
report from S. H. Newkirk that
his store at 1918 Walnut street
had been broken into some time
Saturday night. Police said that
someone twisted off the front
door lock and stole three 12-pound
bags of flour, one bag of meal,
some candy and crackers,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
Rev. Vance Hauner Opens
Revival At Wrightsboro

A series of revival services was
opened at the Wrightsboro Baptist
church yesterday morning at II
O'Clock by the Rev. Vance Havner,
one of the foremost Bible teachers
and evangelists Of the Baptist
church.
Services will be conducted at the
Wrightsboro church daily through
Friday at 2:30 p. m. and 8 p. m.
The public is invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
LIQUOR ARREST

ABC officers yesterday ar
rested Fannie and Isaac Bar
field, negroes, of McCumber's
Station, on charges of violat-
ing the liquor laws and also a
nuisance by permitting and
allowing whiskey to be sold at
their house and also allowing
persons to congregate there to
the annoyance of others.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
DR.. WILLIAM r. WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. IT, R-Dr
William Robert Williams, 70, a
leading specialist on internal medi.
cine who was a consultant physi.
clan to the late Thomas Alva Edi.
son during the inventors last ill
ness in 1881, died today.
A native of Watertown, Wis, he
was a faculty member Of Cornell
Medical school and the College Of
Physicians and Surgeons for many
years. j
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
SUPPER MEETING

The men of the First Presby.
terrain church will hold their No.
vember supper meeting at the
church Tuesday night at $50
o'clock. Ben Sutherland will be
the principal speaker. All men,
bers are urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
FOUND DEAD

Bonnie Edwards, 50-year.old
negro of 11O9 IL Princess street,
was found dead OH Ann, between
Front and Water streets, early
yesterday morning. Coroner Asa
A. Allen said that he apparently
died from natural causes and
that no inquest will be held.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-18
CREW MISSING

OTTAWA, Nov. II. - Up Five
members of the rev of a Royal Ca
madam Air force bomber have not re-
ported after they abandoned the air
craft near East Lake, Que, last
night, r. C. A. F. headquarters an
nounced tonight.