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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

Club Clock

hS U~SuA
The w. H. S. class Of St.
Andrews Presbyterian church
will meet with Mrs. j. L.
Roberts, 805 Ann street t,
w e d n e S d a y evening at 8
o'clock.
The South Wilmington Home
Demonstration club will meet
at the clubhouse on Wednes-
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Following the business meet
ing a Christmas party will be
held.
The Castle Haynes Service club
will meet Friday night at 8
o'clock at the clubhouse.
The New Hanover Council
Parents and Teachers will meet
Wednesday afternoon, December
4, at $3.50 o'clock at the Isaac
Bear school with the president,
Mrs. W. P. Roudabush, presid-
Ing. The Rev. Mortimer Glover,
rector of st. James Episcopal
church, will conduct the devo.
tional. All members are urged
to attend.
The monthly meeting Of the
Carolina Beach Home Demon.
stration club will be held Thurs.
day afternoon, December 5, at
2:30 o'clock with Mrs. M. A.
Sly. Members are asked to re-
member their dues for 1871, also
some suggestion for Christmas.
After a short business meeting
a Christmas program will be n
joyed.
The Tileston PIT. A. will
sponsor a bingo party this eve
ming at s o'clock at Whites Hos
tess room. Those desiring tickets
may secure them by calling Mrs.
Walker, 6967.
An executive meeting of the
Tileston PIT. A. will be held in
the library of the school this aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock. All officers,
committee chairmen and grade
representatives are requested
to be present.
The Happy Helpers circle of
the Junior Kings Daughters
will meet Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock with Miss Thelma
Davis, 2o13 Creepy avenue.
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service Of the Epworth
Methodist church will meet at
8 o'clock this evening at the
church. All members are urged
to be present.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Train.
men will meet Thursday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock. All men,
bers are urged to attend.
The board Of managers of the
North Carolina Society of Colo
NAL Danes Of America will meet
Wednesday morning at 1880
o'clock in the society assembly
rooms.
The regular meeting Of tn
Ladies auxiliary to the Veterans
of Foreign wars, Post No. 2573,
will be held tonight at 8 o'clock
in the dug-out.
The Wilmington Camp No. 8,
United states war veterans will
meet Friday night at 8 o'clock
in the dug-out.
The Euphian class Of st. A.
drew's Presbyterian church will
meet at the church Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock.
The Beta Sigma Phi sorority
will hold its regular meeting to-
night at 1880 o'clock at the Cape
Fear hotel. All members are ask
ed to be present.
The executive board of North
Carolina Sorosis will meet at 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
monthly business session will be
held at 4 o'clock the same after
noon at the clubhouse on North
Third street.
The Woman's society of Chris
tian Service of the Seagate Meth
odist church will hold a mission
study at the church Thursday
morning at 9 o'clock. The men,
bers are requested to bring san
wiches.
Birth Announced
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Todd,
Wilmington, announce the birth
a son, George Buchanan, on Decor
hor 1 ot the Johnston Willis hi
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The w. H. S. class Of St.
Andrews Presbyterian church
will meet with Mrs. j. l..
Roberts, 805 Ann e t,
w e d n S d a y evening at 8
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

An executive meeting Of the
Tileston PIT. A. will be held in
the library of the school this aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock. All officers,
committee chairmen and grade
representatives are requested
to be present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The Tileston PIT. A.. will
sponsor a bingo party this we
ming at s o'clock at Whites Hos
tess room. Those desiring tickets
may secure them by calling Mrs.
Walker, 1857,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The Beta Sigma Phi sorority
will hold its regular meeting to-
night at 1870 o'clock at the Cape
Fear hotel. All members are ask
ed to be present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The regular meeting Of tn
Ladies auxiliary to the veterans
of Foreign wars, Post No. 2573,
will be held tonight at 8 o'clock
in the dug-out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The board Of managers of the
North Carolina Society of Colo
NAL Danes of America will meet
Wednesday morning at 1880
o'clock in the society assembly
rooms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The Ladies Auxiliary to the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Train.
men will meet Thursday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock. All men,
bers are urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-03

The Wilmington Camp No. 8,
United states war veterans will
meet Friday night at 8 o'clock
in the dug-out.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

II you were IN south-centrai
Africa, you might hear a man say:
ABA fasi betu ahahle bayase
benza."
That Is an example of the speech
of one Of the Bantu tribes. The
words mean, Our good women are
working"
There are many Bantu tribes,
and they speak scores of languages.
The languages are more or less
alike, and seem to have come from
. single root language"
Most Bantus are farmers or cat
tle-raisers. They are pleased with
their wives only when the wives
do full share of work in the fields.
The old native custom of Bantu
men is to give cattle to the fathers
of women they marry. One or
two COWS may be given by a poor
man for a bride. A rich man may
turn over half dozen cattle, or
more, to the brides father.
That custom is almost like buy
ing a wife with money. It may
make us think of the dowry in civ
ilized countries, but the dowry is
the other way around. The brides
father gives the bridegroom q sum
OF money, as q help for the new
family.
The Bantus who give cattle for
their wives know what they are
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Buntus Get Wives by Cattle Gifts
BY Fontuine Fox

to his daughters husband.
Bantu couples, however, usually
get along well enough. They take
up life in hut of their own, and
care for their fields and their chill
dren.
Some Bantu homes have cone
shaped roofs. Others are Of . form
which has caused them to be com.
pared to beehives.
The huts are Of one story, but
may rise to height Of 9 to Is feet.
They usually are made Of wicker.
work and reeds or long grass. They
are held up by strong poles. Often
the only Window" are doorways.
In some places where the natives
have had dealings with whites, the
huts are square and have walls
made with sun-baked bricks. The
roofs of such huts may be matched
or may be made with boards.
(For travel section Of your scrapbook. }
II you want . free copy Of
the illustrated Ieadet, "Your
Body 1T Work." send me . T.
cent stamped self-addressed en-.
velope, In care Of The Evening
Star.
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Tomorrow: BantU Clothes.
Evening star., 1940-04-11


The wonder State" formerly
called the Bear State" was admit
ted to the Union in 1896.
The name Arkansas (from the
Indian tribal name Arkansa) is a
corruption of the Indian word
"U-gakh-pa," the downstream peo-
ple," the steps of decay being:
Ugakhpa, Arkansea, Aconsa, Ac-
canceas, Arkansas.
The pronunciation "ar-KAN-sas"
is frequently heard, and it appears
as second choice in some diction-
aries, but, states the Arkansas His
tory Commission, "Arkansans are
insistent. with dignity, that d.
the name of the State be not so
corrupted"
In 1881. by a resolution of the
General Assembly, the pronuncia-
ton of the name Arkansas was
ordered to be:
Correct pronunciation: AR-kan-
saw.
Capitals indicate syllables to be
accented0
Question: What Is the origin Of
the word Yankee?-L. P.
Answer-There are several theo-
fies. Most authorities now agree
that yankees" came from the
American Indians imperfect pro-
nunciation of the word English: !:
~Yengees."
For a personal answer to your
questions about words send a
stamped (3-cent, self addressed en-
velope to Frank Colby, care The
Evening Star,
Evening star., 1940-04-11

doing. A wife is useful to them
in caring for their livestock, and
In raising crops.
Another point about the plan is
its help to the father-in-law. He
may need q few extra cattle to
meet the necessities of his old age.
If q Bantu woman leaves her
husband, the father-in-law must
give back the cattle. This Is likely
70 put him in q hard place. Per-
maps he has sold the cattle, and
must obtain other cattle to return
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Not This

Father-Be quiet, you boys! I
want to read.
Mother-Now, daddy. they aren't
bothering you. They have to play,
you know.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Don't Take Ny
Word for 1t
-~ a~~vr ~-,--,
BY FRANK COLBY.

ny Nfd4Nh VOLb1.
Arkansas
A State OF the United States.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Points for Parents
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.

Children should be taught that
some rooms are for quiet and some
for activity.
Evening star., 1940-04-11

Boys and Girls, Reed the Junior Stor EVER svndoy
Evening star., 1940-09-27

College, and William Lyon Phelps,
professor emeritus at Yale Univer-
sity.
While the delegates were arriving
yesterday by airplane, Senator
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, de-
manded an investigation in the Sen
ate of propaganda agencies" favor
ing more assistance to England
The flying delegates" were calling
individually on Senators and Rep
resentatives today.
Senator Clark told the Senate that
America had recently been put on
notice" OF an organized move to
send its great four -engined bonbers
its mosquito boats, the Army's Sc
cret bomb sight. and finally battle
ships and men to the assistance of
Great Britain.
The principal agency in an inter-
locking group OF propaganda
agencies" urging this program. he
said, was the COMMITTEE to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies" under
the Craftsmanship of William Allen
White. Kansas publisher. Its repre-
Sentatives, he charged, had been
active in building fires" under
Army, Navy and other officials for
the release of our most priceless
military supplies" to the British.
Evening star., 1940-09-27
Group From 81 States
Urges President 10
Speed British Aid
Flying Delegation Holds
HoIf-Hour Conference
With Roosevelt
By w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.

A flying delegation" of more than
so leaders from 81 States called or
President Roosevelt at the White
House today to press their conten-
ton that Britain is now the first
line of American defense and to
urge increased material aid to
Britain, especially in the things first
and most critically required"
1t was at first planned for 10
members of the delegation to sub
nit the declaration to the Chief
Executive, but when the visitors ar
rived at the executive Offices all
were ushered before the President
The chairman of the delegation is
Mrs. Roland Gray Of Boston.
The White House visit followed
conference with Secretary of State
Hull yesterday afternoon and
policy meeting this morning at the
Willard Hotel.
Approve Destroyer Deal.
Spokesman for the group said
they offered the President their
support in his defense efforts and
their approval Of the recent trans
fer of so overage deStroyerS for At
lantic naval bases in British possess
sions. The committee. it was said.
is not permanent organization but
represents spontaneous movement
on the part of the individuals who
flew to Washington to urge their
views on the administration and
Congress.
Following a half-hour conference
with the President, a spokesman for
the delegation told reporters the
members were enthusiastically en-
couraged The spokesman, Ches-
ter RoWell, editor of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, pointed out it
would be unethical to quote the
President on what he thought of the
petition.
Asked if the delegation favored
the transfer of a number of the
Army's flying fortresses to Eng
land, MI. RoWell replied no such
specific recommendations had been
made by his committee. He eX-
planned that while many members
of the delegation were also members
Of the pro-Brltish committee led by
William Allen White, Kansas editor,
the flying delegation had no Off
cial connection with the permanent
group.
Text of Declaration.
The declaration presented to the
President follows:
Mr.. President, we are here as a
literal flying squadron of citizens
representing every portion of the
United States. who have come to
Washington by airplane to give
voice to what We are convinced is
Evening star., 1940-09-27
Socially Handicapped
Workers Held Harmed
By Social Reforms
Oliver A. Friedman Tells
Conference Employers
Are More SeIective

Social reforms which have brought
increased wages and better working
conditions to masses of wage earners
are working hardships on the
physically and socially handicapped
workers of the Nation, Oliver A.
Friedman, executive secretary of the
National Association Of Goodwill In
dustries, told a regional conference
today at the Washington Industries
headquarters, 1918 New Hampshire
avenue NV.
Employers have been forced to be
more selective in hiring personnel,
thus decreasing the opportunities OF
the handicapped to find jobs, the
speaker told approximately 40 dele
Evening star., 1940-09-27

selective in developing our material
resources. We must emphasize
quality as well as quantity in OBJ
tanning discarded materials. We're
passing out of that period when
some of our Goodwill Industries
stores were described as glorifled
rummage sales"
He said that an average of 10000
persons are employed daily in Good
will Industries, but he added that
many others are in need of such aid.
The conference also planned to
discuss production problems, sales
and salvage and the question of
creating and maintaining 'the
Goodwill spirit" at other sessions to-
day.
Col. A. r. Brindley of Washing
Evening star., 1940-09-27

cial agencies actually are needed to
do pioneering work in many fields
of social welfare" Mr.. Friedman
said. I'VE have a job for quite a
long time to come, I'm sure.
Mr.. Friedman, who is a member
of the Presidents Advisory Com
mittee on Sheltered Workshops and
director of the Milwaukee (Wis.)
Industries, said the Goodwill In
dustries are feeling the effect of the
development in recent years of in
ferior merchandise.
Must Emphasize Quality.
I'VE use to say we'd take anything
except tin cans and broken bottles
for use in our workshops" he said
To-day, we must be a little more
Evening star., 1940-09-27

gates attending the conference as
representatives of the second, third
and fourth regions of Goodwill In
dustries.
This means, of course, that the
field of activity of Goodwill In
dustries has been increased rather
than diminished" he said, because
our object is to aid in rehabilitating
the handicapped"
Need For Private Work.
Despite the rapid development of
public relief during the last several
years, there is still a great need for
private social work because many
individuals not eligible for public
relief can turn only to private agen-
cies for aid.
Its been proven that private So
Evening star., 1940-09-27
now the overwhelming sentiment o

now the overwhelming sentiment OF
the American people. That senti-
ment indorses first the steps al
ready taken by your administration
in making available to Britain so
destroyers recently released and the
other supplies provided for British
defense.
I'VE are also confident that the
same sentiment will support every
additional aid to Britain which you
may find possible on the principle
that Britain is now the first line of
American defense. So long as that
line remain intact, we are secure
from immediate menace and have
time for preparation against what
ever may later impend in the present
dangerous state of mankind.
I'VE recognize, as you have fire.
quently declared, that the present
struggle in the world is between two
ways of life, only one of which can
be ours. The forces now at work
for the undermining of that way of
life constitute a common danger
which we did not produce, but whose
consequences, if these forces pre-
vail, we cannot escape. The most
urgent need is to hold these forces
now at their present line, and to
this end we favor increased mate
rial aid to Britain, especially in the
things first and most critically re-
quired, to the greatest feasible eX-
tent.
Urge Speed and Boldness."
I'VE offer you our support in this
policy; We urge speed and boldness
in it; and we will. with others. do
our several parts toward mobilizing
the support of public sentiment
crystalizing throughout the Nation"
The group included educators,
business leaders, professional men,
newspaper editors and publishers.
Among sponsors of the movement
unable TO come to Washington, it
was said, were James Bryant Conant,
president of Harvard University:
William Allen Nelson, president
emeritus of Smith College; Marion
E. Park. president of Bryn Mawr
Evening star., 1940-09-27

ton, chairman Of the organization's
National Training School Commits
sion, will discuss the industries from
a layman's point of view at q din
ner tonight.
The conference will end tomorrow.
Evening star., 1940-09-27
w. P. A. Concert Tomorrow

The Symphonic-Jazz Orchestra of
the District w. P. A. will present a
concert at 9 pm. tomorrow at the
Jewish Community Center. Dane
ing will follow the concert.
Evening star., 1940-09-27

Cuba is increasing its shipments
of sugar to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-24
Wild Animals Nav
Carry Meningitis, e
Doctors Believe

TUCSON. April "a. CUP)-PoSsi-
bility that wild animals may be the
source of non-epidemic meningitis
among humans was cited today in
a report presented by Edward A.
Breazeale and Dr.. Robert A. Greene
of the Arizona state laboratory at
the southwestern division meeting
of the American association for the
advancement of science.
The scientists said virus which
produced symptoms almost identical
with those of lymphoctic chorio-
meningitis have been found in the
brain tissue of numerous wild ami
mails of the southwest, including
the deer bear. wildcat, coyote, kan
earoo rat pack rat. gopher owl,
buzzard and the eagle.
Samples OF the virus from these
animal, were injected into mice
and Immediately caused the SpincS
of the animals to draw up in the
manner OF meningitis victims. the
men reported
The tact that this particular type
of meningitis is highly prevalent in
the southwest should bring a more
intensive study of these virus car
rving animals as the possible source
of non-epidemic meningitis, Greene
and Breazeale suggested.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-24
Mexican Generals
Plan ReprisaIF For
Political Riotinu

TUCSON. ArIz.. April "a up
Two Mexican generals conferred
with their followers across the Dor
der IN Arizona today and il was be-
lieved they might seek reprlsals on
3C0 armed supporters OF a rival
political party for boarding a train
yesterday at Heumosillo Mex
The genera!s-Gustavo Leon and
Alfredo Iezama- reported the Incl
dent to federal officials and pro
tested TO President Lazero Cardenas
Of Mexico. No investigation was eX-
pecteG. however. Il was said. be-
cause Cardenas is backing Avila
Camacho for the presidency. while
the generals are supporting Gen
Juan Amazon.
General Leon said that the dem
cnstrators who entered the train
had just left a political rally fol
Camacho. Some fired guns in the
air, he said. destroyed baggage o.
Mexican passengers and shouted
viva Camacho' and down witt
Amazon" No other violence va
reported.
There were more than 80 Ameri
cans aboard the train. including 2
students from the Arizona schoo
for BOYS. and Ben Meyer. presiden
OF the Los Angeles Union Bank anc
Trust company. but they believed
the demonstration was a wedding
celebration
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-24
American Seaman Fresh From Narvik
Says Nazis Shot British Consul.
Executed YOUNG Enq|ish Sailor

the landing had been effected p.o-
ceeded for the Grand hotel where
they captured the British consul,
took him out in the back yard and
shot him like dog. From theSe
very good reliable sources of men
whose names l woula not lik" to
mention the British consul was
snot for refusing to divulge inl0r-
nation concerning his country.
Next morning l went back to
the seamens' home to get my be-
longings but the German guards
would not return a single item.
You sec, I'm wearing everything
I own. Among other belonging, !,
also lost 83 bucks.
told the German commander
about my losing my clothes amt
cough and he gave me one of those
Jap apOlogieS-Wc are very sorry.
| rctortcd: If you didn't have that
gun Id smack you right in the
puSS out there in the rtJard.'
When the German officer discover
ed l was an American he SalC iii
good English that he was very sorry
and brought out a bottle OF
SchnappS l refused to drink with
him so he asked me to forget tie
whole business. He was afraid of
American neutrality and I told him
tnat Americans were not afraid OF
anybody III the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-24
Ware Puts Office
At FBI Disposal
In Slavery Probe
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white slave market chain was re-
vealed Wednesday when officers
read additional records founa in a
Los Angeles hotel which was said
to be the head office of the white
slave chain.
RamificationS of the vice ring
spread throughout the west DIS tic
officers read through tho rotc-
books found in the hotel Barred
windows. elaborate buzzcr SyStcrlS
and heavy locks protected the III
mates.
Women sent to the various mar
kctS listed in The chain were M llc
to pay the market office one half
of their earnings from nights
work, officers said They were folc-
cd to telephone headquarters ts-
tabliShcd in towns where the mar
kets operated and give the amounts
of their earnings Later they hand
ed half of it through barred wiz
dOWS to persons they could not see.
The one half percentage was paid
for bookings" and protection. Wou-
Ell in the market chain said.
Los Angeles officers described
Montgomery as a talent scout"
The law of aVerageS-Will find you
q buyer if you are willing to take a
fifty tnOuSand-to-on chance and
sell in the Classified Section!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-24

STOCKHOLM. Sweden. April "a.
(UP)-An American merchant sea-
man who was at Narvik when the
Germans invaded Norway told to-
day what he had seen and heard.
He asserted on the word of Nor
wegian friends that the Germans
had shot the British consul. He
asserted that the Germans hao
executed a youthful British sea-
man before the eyes OF his COM
radeS.
He asserted that of a party of
600 Germans sent across the Swed-
iSh frontier before he crossed last
Sunday some were navy men from
sunken German warships, disguised
in civilian clothes.
The seaman, Patrick King, Balti-
more, was aboard a Finnish ship
which put in at Narvik April l.
King was sent to hospital at once
suffering with stomach ailmcnt
Two days after he was released
from hospital the Germans arrived.
Kings story follows:
was in a seamens home when
the sound of firing woke me, king
saidD l jumped into my clothes,
ran to window and later out on
the shore of the halbor, and saw
the Norwegian battleShip Norge
coast defense ship fire warn
ing shot across the bows of a Ger
man warship. The German war
ship retaliated with four torpedoes,
three of which struck the Norge
amidShips. She capsized.
Several hundred men of the
Norge we're soon swimming in the
ice cold harbor, howiing for help.
The Germans opened machine gun
fire on them. Several were rescued
by the Dutch ship Bernisse, which
was also under fire.
Another Norwegian WarShip. the
Eidsvold tsister ship of the Norge)
was sunk in the same way.
When I returned to the Seamen's
home several wounded Germans
were there already. l helped them
get their clothes off. Several were
crying for their mothers. All were
young boys between the ages of 1G
and 18 at most.
One fellow l helped said some
thing in German which I did not
understand. but as he pointed tC
his right arm l cut the sleeve off
and found the arm hanging by 4
thread. l gave him first aid, apply
ing a tourniquet, and took him to
a German officer. Then l was walk
ing out of the hall when l bumped
into another German with his eyes
burned right out of his head arc
SO I helped carry him to the firS;
aid ward. We were then told VIC
must evacuate the hall as it Woulo
be turned into a hospital. German
SentinelS told us to leave all our
gear upstairs and it would be given
us the following day.
l took a walk around the town
and met group of Norwegian pala
They had travelled many seas with
me and we had had great times II
many ports together. They told me
that German patrols shortly after