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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01
KERMIT ROOSEVELT
WILL LEAD BRIGADE

LONDON, Feb. 29.-R-Kermit
Roosevelt, son of a %crusading father,
today threw in his lot with Finland's
weary armies as commander of an
international brigade. Only the
kings signature on an order releas-
ing him from his majors commits
sion in Britain's middlesex regiment
remains before he formally accepts
his new command.
Looking like anything but a soldier
of fortune, the paunchy, heavy JoWl'
ed second son Of President Theodore
Roosevelt marched solemnly from
the swank Ritz hotel to the war of.
flee to resign his commission. AL
though failure of the king to sign
the release shut his mouth today
Roosevelt did not mind when re-
porters and photographers saw him
yign for new buttons for the British
army uniform which he will wear in
Finland.
These included a whopping, shiny
outstanding for International
Brigade-which are to go on his
tunic collar. Volunteer wags jibed
that the buttons upside down stood
for mon Intervention"
London newspapers, decorously
Joyful at the spectacle of an Amer
lean commanding an expedition
dear to British hearts, splashed
front pages with his picture. Some
confused him with his brother,
Theodore, Jr., and said he once was
assistant secretary of the navy and
candidate for governor of New
York.
At the United States embassy it
was said that Roosevelt still has
an American passport and Ameri-
can citizenship and that he was
admitted to the British army with
out swearing allegiance to King
George, which would have cost him
both.
There is ample evidence here that
the International Brigade will con-
tain titled soldiers of high rank.
1t is to total some $500 men and
a quarter of these are said already
to have left here.
At supply headquarters needle
women sewed on a volunteers tunic
insignia of the British Orders of
knight. of the British Empire, COM
mander of the Order of the Bath.
commander Of the Order of St.
Michael and st. George, the dis
tinguished Service Order with bar
and the French military medal. This
makes the wearer Sir" and raised
speculation as to whether General
Sir Hubert Cough, World war vet
eran who wants a British war on
Russia, might not have Joined the
brigade.
Along with the others at Finnish
aid headquarters were score of
Europe's army of soldiers of for
tune. Spaniards and Italians, Eng
lish and Irish lined up for uni
forms - Britain's familiar battle
dress - underclothes, rifles which
looked like Rritain's regulation lee
~enfield-and orders as to how to get
to the northern front.
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RUSSIAN FORCES
NEARING VIIPURl
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cupied on the Viipuri-Valkjarvi the
railway line the stations OF
Ayrapaa, Heinjoki and Pero nine
kilometers (about five miles) east
of Viipuri; also the town of
Ylasainio and summer cottages on
the eastern coast of Viipuri Bay
two kilometers (about IL miles)
south of Viipuri.
ION Feb. % and 20 Soviet troops
captured 270 enemy defensive for
t1fications, including sc iron and
concrete artillery forts, besides AZ
mentioned in the communique Of
Feb. %. In other sectors on the
front there were no important
changes.
"Soviet aviation acted against
enemy troops and military objec-
tives. Thirty-six enemy airplanes
were destroyed at airdromes AMI
in air combats."
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Russian-Turkish border incident
were untrue.
The premier did not mention
Germany in his speech.
Turkeys policies always have
been frank" ~Saydam continued,
Turkey v has yielded and
never will yield to any combination
contradictory to her own line OF
conduct
Diplomatic circles took the view
that that statement meant Turkey
is ready to hold to her obligations
as a acknowledgement ally of Great
Britain and France, but is not will
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01
WILL

NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-P)-The
will of the Rev. John Samuel Braren,
Lutheran minister of Jamaica.
Queens, who died February 16, be-
uueathed an estate valued at more
than $500" to his widow, a daugh'
ter, and three sons. Requests in
cluded $500 to a son, Herbert Bra
rem. W%aynesville, N. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01
USES UP CREDITS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Up -
Warren Lee Pierson, president of
the Export-Import bank, said today
that Italy has received and used up
$ 6 5000, 900 of credits for purchase of
American cotton. The credits were
made during 1888 and 1889.
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FRANCE BOOSTS
FUNDS FOR WAR
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will receive for a nominal capital
Of 10000, 900, 900 francs, treasury
bonds of three months duration
bearing interest at the tax in
force for ordinary treasury bonds
Of Is to los days limit and nego-
table on the market"
Furthermore, "the Bank of
France agrees to ADVANCE the
state, on the demand Of the min
lstry of finance, and in addition
to the advances foreseen by the
first article of the convention Of
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TURKS CLAIM RED
RELATIONS NORMAL
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for anv emergency, he insisted, had
been Interpreted falsely by Ger
tain agencies" as meaning that
Turkey wanted war.
HAS Soviet Russia any inten-
ton of acting against us?" he
asked. "Up to the present there
have been no events or evidence
to support such an intention"
He asserted all stories Of any
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01
REPEATS

NEW YORK, Feb. 29-UP-Four
years ago today Mrs. Gertrude But
Ter of Brooklyn, gave birth to a baby
girl. Today she became the mother
Of a second leap year daughter, in
the same hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01

.e are HOO international
relations clubs in schools and col.
leges fostered by the Carnegie
ENDOWMENT for International
Peace. ~
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ing to be led by them into war
before her own security is threat.
ened.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01

United States dairy n.y..
is highly stabilized, the p pspaae'aa
output Of milk products 's' capita
varied no more than c par @nayins
fifteen years, Pel cent ID
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-01
bkAlTAIAyER DIES

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-lp
Ernest Braitmayer, &C. r.. ~o,a
president of international u Vice
Machines corporation, died %10s'nss'
mona today in Raleigh, \, = ''s''
came i'll. wien he ts.
Evening star., 1940-03-03

my name is Dave. I'm unmarried. hate
spinoch and | don't ton-iust get red
and blister. Now you know the worst"
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue
~ERHAPs because the report from the
laboratory was due the next day she was
d more wakeful than usual. Latterly she'd
been sleeping too much like a top; which
might be one of the sinister symptoms. AS she
sat up sleepily in bed she saw Dave. half
dressed, on the other side of the room.
Whats the matter. Dave DEAR"
Hungry" He didn't look up
Her wrist watch said it was one O'Clock.
You don't have to put on all your clothes
to go to the icebox."
'Ithought I'd take a turn outside. couldn't
sleep" His voice was edgy and he must have
realized it. for he came over to the bed and
kissed her,
Dave. are you nervous and restless:?'
I'm nervous and restless
1t was problem that couldn't be lodged
any longer Probably it's time we were off,
Dave Maybe we've been here too long"
Sure we've been here too long
I'VE couldn't stay forever" She tried to
Evening star., 1940-03-03

keep the 1unereal touch out of her voice. I'VE
knew that when we came here. I'll be glad to
CO." If Joan of Arc ever said anything more
heroic than those last five words. it never got
into the histories; but she hoped he wasn't
reading her thoughts
Time to move on" he said looking at the
floor. Tomorrow III get For Rent sign
painted That's only fair to the fellow who
owns this bungalow. chopped up his the day
we moved in here Well, on to Bojador.
''On to Bojador," she echoed.
He dumped out of the room and moment
later she heard the outer door close softly.
0HE parted the window curtains. patterned
with rocking horses and came!s. and breathed
deeply the perfume of the pinks in her garden
below the window The leaves of the oak tree
set up little whispering. while fainter came
the murmur of the river as it flowed over
pebbly shadows. In the distance she could
see the sky cut by black peaks,
Now from the living room came MacPhalr-
son Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan to rub his
cold nose against her palm and nuzzle her
fingers Even if the laboratory said the coast
was clear. even if she could forget this blissful
valley where they had spent their five months
honeymoon what could they possibly do
about Angus except give him away or shsh-
shoot him? Despairingly she dropped back on
the pillow But before she could taste the
poignance of this ultimate grief she was once
more sound asleep.
Dave was her kind. She had known that at
first glimpse when she had seen him in the
cafeteria lineup. He had friendly eyes,
shock of dark curly hair. and an easy smile
that seemed to come of its own accord. His
hands were strong but finely moulded.
do you like Milwaukee in February?' he
had asked. after her maneuver had placed
them at the same table mot that care I'm
from Delphos Ohio. Looking over the hired
hands,"
"Oh, no. I'm demonstrating new kind of
salad dressing, down in Groceries. You own
the store. don't you?"
Gave it away Monday. Now I'm doing
show cards. All for art - that's my motto.
That is all for art so long as don't have to
stay too long in one place
Move on and be happy. Me too
when get nervous and restless pack
the old suitcase. I've done it for four years.
Right now I'm making for California. You
headed anywhere in Particular"
oh" she said with elaborate nonchalance,
lust Bojador'
''Bojador? Where's that
Don't you know? Africa" Which was
neat climax for the end of lunch period.
That night in a little German restaurant
Evening star., 1940-03-03

off Grand Avenue he asked her again. IT
you re not kidding - why Bojador?"
Uncle Whit gave me the idea.
"Well, lets have the details, il you think
I'm old enough to know.
First - she demonstrated with the
menu-'you open an atlas and pick out
name
What sort of a name:
Any name at all Any name that appeals
70 you Then you pack up and get under way.
Only you mustn't aim at the place too di-
rectly"
why not2"
Because that would spoil everything.
You've got to zig and you've got to gag,
Time mustn't count Then one day you'll find
yourself there"
How far have you gone to date?
After two years I'm eight hundred miles
farther from Bojador than when | started.
But I've loved every hour of it,
Did your Uncle Whit get to Bojador?'
Oh he picked Beatrice Nebraska. 1t took
him twenty-eight years.
What did he do walk there on his hands,
NO but he had to fight his way through
three wars and be shipwrecked in the Persian
Gull and lost in the Cobb Desert; then. when
he was off the Australian coast shark nlpped
off most of his left foot Two days after he
reached Beatrice he married widow and
they've both lived happily ever after.
He stumped out his cigarette and brought
the flat of his hand down on the table. "I ou We
sold me the idea. except for the widow. think
III go to Bojador myself.
But Bojadors mine
You take everything west of Main Street
and III take whats east. III meet you under
the coconut palm in front of the postoffce.
If there's lion around look for me up the
tree: But you know believe your technique
is wrong. Bojador's getting away from you.
Ever think of sneaking up on it from the
vest"
Sounds interesting" she said.
6EFoRE the coffee and abtelkuchen came they
were old friends.
'Show cards are my bread and butter" he
said, but l really know lot about adver-
Using - training and experience both - and
can make bluff at four different manual
trades Get me a third class dance orchestra
that's bad enough and can fake the piano.
My name is Dave. I'm unmarried. l hate
spinach and don't tan - just get red and
blister Now you know the worst"
She returned confidence for confidence.
MY name is Sue l love to cook and to sell
kitchen gadgets though I'm pretty sure some
where in the family tree there must have been
a gypsy can run typewriter and I've got
ideas about shorthand. My ambition is to
Evening star., 1940-03-03

teach rope spinning to rajah and can swim
mile in thirty-eight minutes
He said You get the Job.
They met again in St. Paul. In Butte there
was another reunion and she showed hel
nerve when as they climbed a bit OF hill. he
almost went over the steep side. At Salt Lake
City. in so many unashamed words he pro-
posed marriage. She was weakening when She
remembered Uncle Whit S advice to travellers
and in loud voice said mo" After that she
took the first train for Stockiord.
But he followed her there and carried her
off to the nearest marrying minister. The
next day they found the bungalow.
"Oh. Dave. look
He stopped the rented car and whistled.
They were out past the outskirts OF the city
at the far end of sparsely built-up suburb
The bungalow lay in the middle of a green
lawn, as white and charming as new-lald
egg. But Sue saw it not as an egg but as
smaller and more beautiful Tai Mahal: and
once she had so seen it. BoJador dropped out
of her cosmos like a star which explodes and
is gone forever.
'All that front yard. Dave. and the little
picket fence and the green shutters and that
old oak tree by the side window
And the river. Sue. Look at the river
He pointed to its svery spread not two fur
longs from the back door.
And those eucalyptus trees. And there
are flower beds Oh, Dave. isn't that For
Rent sign on the house,
lHEY got out The bungalow was For Rent
- Furnished. For Sale on Reasonable Terms.
DO you like it, Dave? Do you like it,
Swell, Sue What say we wangle couple
of temporary jobs in Stockford and treat
ourselves to stationary honeymoon.
She shifted the April buds and said, Sun
day afternoon in the Garden of Eden"
Hands in pockets head cooked on one side,
Dave meditatively surveyed the layout. "A
nut friend of mine always claimed he'd be
perfectly happy if he could get the right boat.
the right pipe, and the right dog all at the
same time. Add the right girl to that comb-
nation and I'll bet l can stick this out for
three months anyhow.
"Sure, Dave?"
Certain. But well only rent from month
to month so when we feel like it we can re-
sumo the march to Bojador. Let's locate the
agent tonight
They moved in the next morning.
For a total of $57 50 Dave bought two cars;
after three days of work with borrowed tools
he had those prehistoric monsters purrine
like kittens and eating out of his hand. Nov,
he said, I'VE can hunt our Jobs in style
(Continved on pooe io)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21

brocatella coverings in blue. mul-
berry and cocoa.
Living room lamps are the new
LES. indirect style fashioned
Lightolier.
The dinette is featured by a
blonde mahogany table and chairs,
carrying out the wheat finish TO
match the exposed wood surfaces
Of the living room.
The master bedroom is finished
in smart modern blondewood en-
semble with a neutral broadloom
rug, which according to Fahs, Is
admirably suited to a bedroom of
this character.
The kitchen is featured by a
chrome finished table and chairs
with a plain orange linoleum floor
covering which is an attractive
contrast to the two toned wood
trim of the built-in features of the
kitchen A Norge electric range
and refrigerator complete a well
arranged and efficiently designed
kitchen.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
Repair Loans
Create Work,
Improve Homes

AS modernization insurance pro-
ceeds at the rate of approximately
l,500 cases every business day, with
a minimum of two or three men
being put to work directly on each
project, the contributions to en-
ployment being made by the Fed
eral Housing Administration Mod
ernization Credit plan are enor-
nous, it has been pointed out by
Administrator Stewart Mcdonald.
More than 2300,000 American
families and small businessmen have
been enabled to modernize and i'm
prove their properties with loans
insured by the FHA under Title
I of the National Housing Act The
number of these loans crossed the
two million mark in the early part
of summer and has continued its
increase. The loans represent ad-
vances by qualified private lending
institutions for undermining, re-
pairing, altering, or otherwise I'M
proving properties.
IF we take into consideration
the number of workers removed
from relief through these activities,
along with taxes paid into the
Treasury by business stimulated
thereby, it seems to me the small
loss record represents an excellent
investment on the part of the gov
ernment," Mr.. Mcdonald said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21

house and other concerns indirect
ly connected with the building in
dustry.
1.-THE association also encourage
the elimination of "cutthroat" COM
petition, Lowdermilk explained,
land encourages instead a stricter
code of ethics, and a better under
standing among contractors. Those
factors are important aids to the
industry and will further improve
conditions in the future"
Nom Contractors
Lowdermilk put out his cigarette,
then explained his own connection
in the association.
"a good many of the association
members are not contractors" he
said. I'm my case for instance I
am only indirectly connected with
the building industry, yet in my
business I can aid in the promotion
of building activity and my con-
nection with the association aids
my business.
Association members are divid-
ed into three classes" Lowdermifk
said.
There Is the regular member,
all general contractors. Then there
are the sub-contractors who are
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
Furnishings Add To
Beauty of Citys First
Home

Clothes don't make the man and
neither does furniture make the
house-but it certainly helps.
FL Centro's first demonstration
home Of 1910. which was opened
Saturday for public inspection at
lO4e Hell, reveals a number of
interesting and practical innova-
tions in the way of home equip
ment that makes the residence one
OF the most attractive among new
homes in the city.
Furniture and electrical equip
ment have been installed by the
Imperial Hardware company under
the supervision of j. R. Fahs.
Spacious Living Room
You might catch your breath on
first entering the living room be-
cause the spacious combination liv-
ing and dining room is the type that
nearly every housewife has pictured
in her dreams of a new home.
A full wall to wall carpet of lux
urious broadloom serves as a splen-
did background for the attractively
arranged furniture. The furniture
ensemble is decidedly American
moderne, but the throwback to
century old European influences
are evident.
The davenport and companion
chairs in the living room are set
off by the popular wheat finished
rail and framework and by the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21

through investigation. enumeration
of restrictions and other complica-
tions
Most OF the Il homes completed
by King have already been sold.
Kaiser said.
The last home to be completed,
located at 1O49 Hell street, will be
on display Saturday and Sunday
from l p. m. TO 4 p. m. and from
7 to 8 p. m. The house will also be
open for inspection during next
week
Imperial Hardware has furnished
the home with newest design fur
nishings. according to Harry Hovey.
advertising manager for the firm.
The four new homes started by
King this year are to be five room
$1,000 residences, according to Kali
ser, slightly higher in value that
the average home built in the tract
last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
Contractors Association
Boasts Remarkable Record.
EnIists Large Membership

Slow talking Herbert Lowdermilk,
who acts in the capacity of field
secretary for the Imperial Valley
Building Contractors association
when he isn't tending to his own
immediate business interests, prop
ped his feet on the office desk,
lit a cigarette and proceeded to
outline the history Of the valleys
youngest cooperative organization
Less than one year ago, the
Imperial Valley Building Contrac-
tors association got its start at an
FL Centre meeting" LoWdermilk
said. THAT was on Aug. II, 1899.
The association adopted its consti-
tuition, patterned after the state
contractors constitution, at the De-
cember meeting so the association
is actually only one month ola.
Large Membership
Despite the short history of the
association, LoWdermilk declared,
we have more than 25 per cent OF
the valleys builders in the asso-
citation.
THE purpose of the association
is to improve building conditions
both for the homebuilder and for
the contractors, building material
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
FHAW will Earn
All ANExpenses in
Year I94O-4I

The Federal Housing Admins
tratlon will be entirely self-sup-
porting in the next fiscal year,
even to the extent of adding sub
stantial amount to its insurance
reserves, Administrator Stewart
Mcdonald has told Federal Loan
Administrator Jesse Jones.
Estimates of the Administrations
income in the year beginning July
l, 1910, show revenues of more
than $22,000,000. This amounts will
be sufficient to cover expenses which
probably will equal the $13,8O0,000
spent last year, and to add more
than $8,500,000 to the Mortgage
Insurance Fund and the Housing
Insurance Fund, maintained to
meet possible losses on mortgage
insurance, and to reserves for loss
es under Title I (modernization-
loan insurance).
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
Book Shelves
Brighten Room

In furnishing living-rooms or
bedrooms, don't overlook the dec
Grating power of books. In the new
houses, provision is being made for
books in wide variety of built-in
arrangements. such as shelves on
either side OF fireplace, thanking
a large window, or at the ends of
built-in window seats and sofas.
II your books are colorless and
shabby, it's smart idea to recover
them in attractive plain colored
papers. Old-fashioned glass-in book
cases can be brought up to date and
made to display their books and
decoratives more effectively if the
doors are removed and the backs of
the shelves painted or papered in
some striking color,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21

associate members. Materialmen
and other concerns connected with
the building industry are B asso-
ciate members"
Fred G. Smith, FL Centre. was
elected president OF the association
at the December meeting. Robert
Mcdowell was chosen first vice.
president; Charles Wigg OF BraW-
ley, second vice-president; w. A.
Fluss, Ell Centro, treasurer; II. r.
Johnston, Ell Centro. secretary and
Lowdermilk was elected field secre-
tary.
Committees Chosen
COMMITTEES were appointed in
all crafts at the January meeting"
Lowdermilk said, Ito go over build
ing codes of valley cities to clarity
and adaptability of the codes to
this locality.
There is uniform building
code throughout the state Low
dermilk explained, "and in some
cases special cases develop in the
valley because of soil conditions
and other problems.
1.-THE association meets the first
Monday in each month. Instructive
entertainment is provided at each
meeting" Lowdermilk concluded
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-21
Portable Clothes
Closet Handy

There are two new portable
clothes closets on the market that
should be interesting to any home
maker whose closet space is limit
ed, or who lacks a safe storage
place for clothes.
The most convenient of these has
q strong redwood frame, and a
heavy composition door that rolls
up and down like the. lid OF roll
top desk. 1t Is high enough for long
evening gowns, and has moth-re-
pellent humidor within, to protect
furs and woolens. This sells for less
that $4 complete.
A second style of portable closet
is also of composition board, with
wood reinforcing, and holds twenty
garments. 1t, too, has a refillable
h-repellent humidor and is pri-
ced under So. Either of these will
take the place of big clothes clos
ct, in on attic, basement, or bed
room that lacks second closet.