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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Retail Trade Volume
Is Holding Up Well

NEW YORK, June IA -(R-The
nations retail trade during the
past week. held close to the pre-
vious weeks improved level de-
spite less favorable weathr con-
ditions for the movement of sea-
sonable merchandise, the Dun &
Bradstreet weekly review reported
today.
Compared with a year ago."
said the survey, Retail volume
was estimated 7 to 10 per cent
greater.
"As a rule gains were broader
than this in highly industrialized
areas, particularly those devoted
to heavy goods. For the fourth
consecutive week, the middle west
showed the largest year-to-year
improvement in the country, the
estimated change being between
8 and 16 per cent.
1.-The East followed with a gain
Of 7 to 10 per cent and the south
with 7 to II per cent. New England
was estimated 5 to 9 per cent
above last years total"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
FIGHT PROMISES
CROUCH CONTEST
Louis To Adopt South
American Way Against
Arturo The Arrogant
BY SID FEEDER

GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y,
June IA -RE For the entertain
ment of the cash customers and
the agony of Arturo Godoy, Joe
Louis is planning to adopt tn e
South American way himself for
his heavyweight title defense
against the %crouching Chilean in
Yankee stadium n e Thursday
night.
Still as peeved as all get-out over
the way Godoy made him look
bad" in going Is rounds in their
first meeting last February, the
champion and his brain trust
have figured out a plan of battle
whereby the Bomber will crouch
for crouch with Arturo The AFRO
gant-and maybe even try to out
crouch him for a point or two.
Then, from this position, for all
the world like a couple of over
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

army and navy, in the event of
war.
Between 60 and rs per cent of
the 1876 air line pilots in the nation
are members Of either the army or
navy air reserve corps. In peace
time, members of the resrv can.
not be called to the colors without
their consent; in war, or in a time
when the President has proclaimed
a national emergency, they can
be called. By calling all of these
reserves to duty the government
could, in effect, ground most of
the nations air liners.
PRIVATE AIRLINES NOT
LIKELY TO SUFFER IN WAR
Nobody is worrying too much
over this possibility, however. The
army and navy consider the air
transport business a highly essen
tlal industry, which probably would
have to be maintained and posi-
bly, even expanded in time of war.
AS one high army officer puts it:
I'VE wouldn't be any more likely
to pull the air line pilots back into
the service than we would be to
take engineers off the crack trans
continental trains and put them
to work running switch engines on
military spur tracks,"
|, One aeronautical proposal which
leaves the service people almost
completely cold is the suggestion
women flyers be formed into some
sort of auxiliary defense corps to
junction in war time so that men
could be freed for combat duty.
The answer to that is there are to-
day only Sc women flyers in the
United States with commercial rat.
lngs. Until there are a lot more
than that, the projected auxiliary
won't draw much serious atten-
ton. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Complete Victory
Is Hitler's Goal

douis P. Lochner, chief of
the Associated Press Berlin bu-
reau, in his third trip to the
front with the German forces.
sent the following dispatch by
special courier to Cologne.
from an unidentified point be.
hind the German front line,
and thence by telephone to
Berlin.)
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY
EN- ROUTE TO PARIS, June IS.
delayed -RA Countless thou.
sands of fresh German r. o D S
were being speeded into the zone
OF operations today as DR.. Otto
Dietrich, personal press chief OF
Adolf Hitler, rejected all talk Of
peace and said Germany's only aim
Addressing foreign journalists
Dietrich said:
Germany is simply unbeatable
no matter what may yet come.
The fuehrer towers high above all
our enemies. Nothing can avert
their defeat and disaster"
Ridiculing earlier assertions by
the leaders of Great Britain and
France that Germany would be
forced to her knees, Dietrich point.
ed to Germany's present military
tic and pessimistic opinions could be
heard.
The advance to Romilly placed the
Germans 80 miles south of the Marine,
and about 100 miles northwest of Di.
jon.
With the German sweep in mind,
the French worked at removal of Ct.
ficials and press services from Tours
throughout the day. Tours, which
has been one of the seats Of govern
ment, is about 12O miles southeast of
Paris.
By nightfall almost all persons con.
nected with the government and the
press had left. (Here one line was
censored.)
The German drive deep into France
between Paris and the Maginot line
threatened the fortified line from the
rear. It was said that the great for.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

they could not be watched. What
''le country feared we're saboteurs,
hlsperer' of treason and under
miners G morale. Defence Minis
ter Morrill, Rogers had a partial
answer to "e public demand.
A Vote Home Guard, 5000
strong, AS organized from the
Canadian Legion. Armed, uniform
ed and stationed at vital wal in
dustries, electric power plants and
other public utilities, the Guards
took care of any saboteurs.
AS for the rest of the fifth col.
umnists, Justice Minister Ernest
Lapointe assured the House OF
Commons that Canada be guarded
against subversive elements, that
the Mounties and their secret ser.
vice are in complete control of
the situation, both present and as
it may develop"
THE law and the regulations as
they stand over all possible even
ualties," he continued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

many newcomers. The ~green-eyed,
Interestingly = proportioned 19-year
old isn't very sure of anything
except that she likes to act.
Sch agrees she has a lot to learn,
on and off the set.
Her acting career is the outcome
of many months Of quiet conflict
with a wealthy father-Howard S.
Tierney, New York insurance
broker-who once declared that
he'd rather see her dead than in
pictures.
Following her education, which
included a school in Switzerland,
and a social debut and three
months of parties, Miss Tierney
convinced her father that she was
going to have a try at the stage.
He assented gracefully enough to
accompany her, one day a week,
on the rounds of the producers
down, he frightened visibly.
donw, he brightene dvisibly.
FINALLY MADE
THE GRADE
Finally, though, she got into a
George Abbott play, Mrs. O'Brien
Entertains." That was in Jan.
uary, 1889. 1t a only four weeks
but won the ingenue a six-months
contract in Hollywood, q Column
bia..
Nothing happened. She'd drop in
to the studio occasional and visit
fully ask if a part had been found
for her. Impatient exec utives would
answer: Now look, Miss Tierney
you're getting your check each
week, so what are you complaining
about? Why don't you do down to
Palm Springs and get a nice sun
Back in New York, her second
chance in a play was equally dis.
appointing. Then, though, whe was
handed the ingenue lead in 1.-THE
Male Animal" the James Thurber
nit that's still going strong. After
weeks of it, though, she had
to come here on her 2Oth-Fox on
tract.
Miss Tierney looks a little like
Leigh and, when she smiles,
a little like Deanna Durbin. She
writes a little poetry sometimes
and reads the war news avidly
because she has Travelled every
where in Europe. Once, after
watching a newsreel of the Ger
nan invasion, she rushed home
md wrote a long, scathing letter
Adolf Hitler. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Posse And Bloodhounds
Hunt Cobb, Blackburn

ENFIELD, June IA. - up Two
desperate criminals who escaped
from a prison cage-truck near here
yesterday were hunted by a posse
and bloodhounds today.
The fugitives we're Eddie Cobb,
80, and Wade Blackburn, q. They
were being transferred from cen
trail prison at Raleigh to Caledonia
prison farm when they escaped by
saving through the roof of the
truck.
Three years ago Cobb, with seven
other long-term prisoners tunneled
out of Central prison, and was
recaptured a few months later in
Richmond, Va.
He was sentenced in 1885 in
Wake county to 80 to 40 years for
burglary with explosives and pos
session of burglary tools.
Blackburn was sentenced in Cat
awba county to Is to 30 years for
a taxi triver and rob-
berry with firearms. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
In HOLLYWOOD
BY PAUL r

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD-The James boys
were not what you'd call first-rate
citizens, but their fictionized ghosts
have performed some notable ben.
efactions. With a story remotely
based on the life of Jesse, Goth
Fox made the biggest money-gross-
ing picture of 1889. The same epic
launched Nancy Kelly or a COM
Portable flicker career.
Jesse gave everything he had to
that film, dying and being buried
even beyond the restrictive mira
cles of the cinema. So Brother
Frank now is coming to bat for
Daryl Zanuck and the stockhold-
ers. The Return Gin Technology
of Frank James" also will serve
as an Introductory vehicle for an
other promising young actress. her
name is Gene Tierney.
Your correspondent watched
Miss Tierney play her first scene
before a camera and then took
her to lunch. For me, both ex-
periences were notable. I never
have observed greater composur
on a set. She talked right up to
dour Henry Fonda (he's Frank
James, and didn't muff a line or
piece of business. 1 asked, aren't
you scared?" and she said, mo, l
love it,"
SURE ONLY SHE
LIKES TO ACT
This was not the overconfidence
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

tlflcations were fast being turned"
from Montmedy, their northern an.
Choir.
While she will take all that Ameri-
ca car send, and urges the cutting of
tape, these sources said that Bri.
taln's own stepped-up production had
vastly expanded her purchase of
machine tools from the United States
and that she would continue to take
such tools up to the United States
capacity to send them.
The policy is to put into the field
at once the biggest army possible
briefly: A>maximum of soldiers in a
minimum Of time-they said, but the
Allies must look across the Atlantic
for a large part of the equipment.
They expressed belief that it was
the United States duty to herself to
do the best she can in the hope her
aid will turn the balance for demo-
cracy.
They emphasized that the need is
now, next week and the week after
not next year-although they cellar
ed that thos. charged with supplying
Britain's army were not forgetting to
look further ahead also.
Primarily what Britain wants from
the United States, these sources said,
are the weapons that country manu-
featured al the close of the last war
to replace those she obtained from
the Allies.
(This would indicate a grave threat
to the 1000, 0O0-odd French troops de-
Tending the line.)
If the fight goes on, the Loire river
line running through Tours and Or
leans would be the next really strong
natural barrier behind which the
French could defend themselves.
NEW YORK, June 14.-R-Co-
lumbia Broadcasting corporation re-
ported that a dispatch from it's cor
respondent at Tours said today the
French government had left Tours, to
which it moved from Paris, and
would establish an emergency capital
in Bordeaux, near the southeast coast
of France on the Garonne river.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Medical Care

NJ logan M. D.
:. what extent is disease spread
Nv mclean eating utensils?
There is no question that a great
,,nv bacteria are left on eating
r+snsils both in public restaurants
and in homes even after thorough
cleaning. But they cannot do very
much HARM
hydrologic survey of public
r,,ces in which food or beverages
rpre sold was made in a small
tovn. The cleanliness of the kitch.
ems was good; metal sinks were
used; clean towels were used for
diving. Bacteriologic swabs taken
tm the edges of glasses, spoons
md forks which would come in
INTACT with the mouth were made
specially after the noon or eve
ming rush period. Temperature OF
The wash water was from about
100 to 40 degrees with a rinse
water Of from about so to $50 de-
gees,
Naturally, as all psychologists
know, a certain number of bac.
terra would be present. B u t the
amount Of bacteria on these uten-
sis and in the rinse and wash
water was very much higher than
would be considered normal, even
though the temperature of the
wash and rinse water was high
enough to kill many bacteria.
Chlorine Added
t was found that if a chlorine
aNentration of 100 parts per mill
ai water is used, however, that
be results are very much different
md highly gratifying. Every other
f'fre the temperature of the
water, the cleanliness of the towels
and the care of washing was the
ane, the only change was in the
aadIHon Of a small amount of chlo-
te 10 the water.
a great many people cling to a
sao'0rn dislike of the chlorine
TASTE Of water, but it has been
proved over and over again that
ID aS concentration it is harmless
aa certainly it is valuable, especi-
aly IN the summer time, in pre-.
,FnIhg epidemics of food infec-
tn,
Use of vitamin b
Is vtamin B useful in neuralgia
! well as neuritis?
!, We haven't very many reports
L. ae use of Vitamin B in the
, sHilal form of neuritis, generally
s "a. neuralgia" Its usefulness
~ ,ss been demonstrated when the
h, a'es are involved on the muscu-
a. u SIDE causing paralysis, but
M, s,l On the sensory side, causing
: Vltamin B does not seem
work quite so well.
w., n a great many of the late re.
n %s on the usefulness of vita
r. a', :! seems to me evident that
H., h. aetlon of the vitamin is like
|I Il. VI a drug rather than a re.
\ ss,il1 factor. In other words,
hin rOq ! not be said that the Vita.
sb m these cases of neuralgia
h. auSence caused the neural
rbi,, sa'ner that thiamin chloride,
Ri ao4a IS concentrated vitamin
apd r rv's IN neuralgia as a drug
h I, must be given by the physician
t,ar; ssr Quantities than would or.
Ntsoe taken in the food. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

The average time taken by a
telephone operator to answer a
subscribers call is 4.8 seconds,
according to official tests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

Shakespeare himself spelled his
name in rs different ways, so the
correct spelling always has been
a matter of argument.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

Only one-third of l per cent of
the total area of Iceland is under
cultivation
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

By a blow of their wings. swans
are capable of breaking a mans
leg.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

This corners idea of asking for
the millennium, or something like
it, is the North Carolina newspa-
per which suggested editorially
that Bob Reynolds be either ON
sistent or silent"
The present Bulls Eye" type
Sight Glass in use on most North
Carolina gasoline filling station
pumps is not the protection to GUS
toners it is supposed to be, in the
opinion of c. D. Baucom, chief of
the Weights and Measures division
of the State Department of Agri-
culture.
when I discovered that the
Sight Glass assembly was being so
designed and built as to make it
possible to deliver forty indicated
gallons into a five-gallon can with.
out any visible evidence, contrary
to the proper functioning of the
pump as a whole, 1 concluded it is
time for a reckoning" he said in
a recent address on the subject.
Dan Tompkins wasn't nominated
for Lieutenant Governor, but if he
had been there could have been no
kick on the size of Individual con-
tributions made to his race.
In his report flee in the Secre-
tary of States office, Tompkins
listed no less than 16 contributors
who all put together gave him a
campaign fund of $3.50.
Against this he listed expenses
of $76.75.
The law firm of Clark and Clark,
father and son, of Fayetteville, is
composed, according to its letter
head of j. Bayard Clark (who is
the Seventh District Congressman
and Jerome B. Clark, Jr. Evidently
the younger Clark doesn't like to
part his name in the middle. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Fifth Column
BY WILLIAM AUSTIN
Nea Service Snecia1 Corresn0nder

OTTAWA.-Canada has cracked
down on fifth columnists, turning
the Dominion into a no-man's-land
Tor Communists, Nazis or anyone
else consiered likely to disrupt
The war effort.
A little red book called Defence
OF Canada Regulations" was the
big stick swung by Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police and provincial
authorities to smash the Commu-
mist Party in Canada and the Nazi-
inspired National Unity Party. The
regulations, in terms so broad they
can fit any situation arising from
the war, confer on the government
powers usually associated with q
dictatorship.
Disclosure of the treachery of
subversive elements on the Euro.
pean battlefields and h O they
paved the way for German troops
to invade The Lowlands brought
an insistnt public demand that
the Canadian government round
up riders of the Trojan horse.
Secret agents supplied the evidence
and the Mounties swung into &C.
ton.
COURT ORDER BROKE
BACK OF COMMUNISM
First to feel the power of the
little red book were the Commu.
nlsts. A test case here convicted
three young Reds of actions in.
furious to the war effort. They
were sentenced to terms ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000. Immediately.
on their conviction, Cecil l.. Sny-
der, Deputy Attorney General OF
Ontario, received from Supreme
Court Justice E. R. E. Chevrier
an order declaring the Communist
Party illegal.
That court order broke the back
Of Communism in Canada. Defence
of Canada Regulations stipulate
that when an organization has been
declared illegal every person who
thereafter continues to be or be.
comes an officer or member there.
of or processes to be such, or who
advocates or defends h e acts,
principles, or policies of such il
legal organization shall be guilty OF
an offense against this regulation"
Next on the list came the black.
sllirted members of the National
Unity Party. A raid on their Mon.
treal headquarters netted three
truckloads of pamphlets, letters
and documents. Most of the evil
dence Was anti-Semitic propagan.
da, but Quebec's Attorney General
Wilfrid Girouard found grounds to
lay charges under the regulations
against Adrien Arcand, self-styled
fuehrer of the N. U. P. James
Farr, national organizer and other
Fascist leaders. They will be tried
in Montreal shortly.
VETERANS HOME GUARD
PROTECTS INDUSTRY
But sending known Communists
and Fascists to cover was moi
enough to appease the public. The
unknowns, the real fifth column.
lists, were more dangerous because
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
al E H
B R E FS
Star-NeWs Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY N AvERILL

RALEIGH; June Alt no doubt
is a compliment to his really out
standing ability, but c a p M.
Waynick, editor of the High Point
Enterprise, probably gets rather
weary of having his name men,
toned for every vacant govern
mental and political post in North
Carolian.
Every time some high official
dies, or resigns, or is ousted, up
bobs the suggestion that Waynick
will succeed him.
The writer's never need the
slightest basis for suggesting him,
either. They just reach down into
the grab bag of memory and bring
up the name of the former High
way Commission chairman W h o
was later director of the Purchase
and Contract division.
On Thursday morning it seems
that the scribes got their signals
mixed. The News and Observers
Under the Dome" column tipped
Waynick as a possibility to take
owe the Highway Commission
again, vice Frank Dunlap whom it
proposes to get rid of out of hand.
Tom Bost, in the Greensboro
Daily News of the same date, had
now = Governor Clyde Hoey and
NEXT Governor J. M. Broughton de-
batting Waynick as successor to
critically ill Commissioner of Rev
enue Allen J.. Maxwell.
The advocates of legal liquor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15

The advocates of legal liquor
stores in Johnston county, w h O
must repel the very powerful chal-
lenge of a militant dry drive,
picked a nice name for the organi-
cation through which they hope to
wage a successful war of defense.
It's the Association for Tenn
perance, Alcoholic Control and Tax
Reduction"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-26
PAID LOCAL NOTICES

FOR SALE-Several Milk Cows. A.
d. r.-Advertisement 31-3t*
ROOMS FOR RENT-Apply at 4S
Green eet,-Advertisement 12-tf.
FOR SALE-Four-roo bungalow
cheap to quick buyer. S. w. Wood,
Mt. Lake Park.-Advertisement 6-tf.
FOR SALE-Three female and one
male Mink and Mink Cages. Call 2-W,
or see A. G. Warwick, Oakland.-Ad-
vertisement 29-tf.
statesmen WANTED-To sell
Kalamazoo Stoves and Furnaces. Call
at 81 Second street, Oakland, Md
Advertisement 30-3t*
FOR SALE-Two 9x12 Rugs, 2
Beds and Springs, 1 Dresser. Apply
to Mrs. w. R. Mealy, Mountain Lake
Park, Md.-Advertisement 30-3t.
FOR -Five-room apartment
-new-with bath and modern conve-
niences. Apply Miss Bertha Warwick,
Loeb Observation-Disclosures 29-3t*
FOR SALE-Allen's Parlor Furnace
in excellent condition; reasonable. APP
ply to D. S. Davis, Liberty street, Tel
ephone 1901, Oakland.-Advertise-
ment 30-2t*
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-26
Garrett County Schools Repaired
By N. Y. A. Labor

Students returning to Oakland high
school this year found their auditorium
had been redecorated during the past
summer by NYA boys. The walls and
ceiling are painted in two shades of
green. Several classrooms have also
been reprinted and much repair work
done. The floors have been oiled in all
parts of the structure.
Seventeen boys, II to 25, have been
assigned by the National Youth Ad-
ministration to the Garrett county
school repair project. According to
Superintendent Franklin E. Rathbun,
NYA youths, under the supervision
of Dwight Mills, worked on at least
forty schools. In workshop located at
the rear of the high school building in
Oakland, furniture for all county
schools was repaired, including the
desks of thirty-fve teachers, and a
number of primary tables. Window
frames were built in this shop. A coat
of white paint was applied to the
Oakland high school economies house.
Superintendent Rathbun pointed out
that in no case have NYA workers dis
placed regular staff members hired
by the board. However, each regular
employee now has three or four NYA
assistants. They are learning trades
which are calculated to make them
self-supporting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-26

FOR SALE-Six room house on new
State road. Apply Mrs. NJ. NJ. Schrock,
Mountain Lake Observation-Disclosures
31-3t*
CIDER NOTICE-Will make cider
and apple butter every Thursday until
end of the season. D. L. Swartzen-
truber, Route 2, acknowledgements
ment 31-3t.
WANTED--A Christian man and
woman to keep house this winter
House rent free. Must have good ref
erences. Apply A. j. Lee, Mt. Lake
Park, Md.-Advertisement 1t.
PIANOS-Prices reduced on used
Pianos until October first, $500 up.
Your organ accepted as part payment
The music Shop, Oakland, Md Tel
ephone Observation-Disclosures 31-2t.
WANTED-Girl for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. Harry Field, Sec
ond street, Oakland, Md.-Advertise-
ment Soft.
DRESSMAKING and TAILORING
All kinds of Sewing, Suit Altera-
tions, etc. Apply 68 Center Street, Mrs.
Beural Casteel and Mrs. Maude White.
Advertisement 25-tf.
FOR RENT-To man and wife (no
children) my farm and residence (fur-
nished) on bennett Road. For partic-
ulars call at farm. J. R. Grove, M.
Lake Park, Md-Advertisement 28-13*
SECOND HAND MACHINERY
FOR SALE-One Model $50" Cater
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22-36 Steel Farquhar Threshing Ma
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