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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08
u. s. ArSenalS
BY MAJOR PAUL L. REED
NEA Service Special Correspond

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u. S. Army capacity for pro-
ducing small arms-badly neglect
ed before start of the new defense
programs expanding so rapidly
that IL, 1000 rifles a month are In
sight.
The arsenal situation as a whole,
however, is not too good. M o S
equipment is old, has not been re-
laced or modernized since h e
World war. Many techniques are
outmoded, and production bottle.
necks" hold up mass production.
The army has only six arsenals.
Right now the Springfield, Mass,
arsenal is manufac curing 1000 Of
the new semi-automatic M or Ga
rand rifles a month and this rate
is being doubled Immediately. Man.
ufacture of the Garand Utilities all
new equipment.
When production at the Winchest.
err, Conn.,, private plant begins
in October, the total will probably
reach IL, 900 or $4,000. And this does
not take into account a third source
to be added shortly, according to
Chief of Staff Marshall.
SPRINGFIELD
SETS THE PACE .
The Springfield arsenal-keeping
abreast of b est manufacturing
methods-has set a pattern for 9th.
er U. S. arms plants.
A small armory was first estab.
lished there in 1777 at the insis.
tence of Col. Henry Knox, chief
of artillery in Washington's army.
From the beginning muskets were
the principal product. The famous
Springfield rifle, Model 1908, was
developed and built there.
interchangeable parts manufac-
ture, commonplace, was first
applied to army rifles at Spring
field. The arsenal there is a test
ing laboratory and a standard or
guage of precision parts manufac-
ture.
Equipment at Springfield for the
manufacture of rifles, machine gun
and pistol parts clearly shows the
effect of periodic buying and long
neglect. Except for World w a r
equipment, most heavy metal
working tools are obsolete.
From 1925 to 1884 only four new
machines were added to more than
1000 tools. Since 1894 approximately
275 tools have been introduced, but
many operations have time or pre-
cision "bottlenecks" because con-
tinued use of inadequate equip
ment is necessary.
Watervliet arsenal in New York
safe is the gun factory of the
Ordnance Department. 1t does all
machining work on the army's big
gun barrels and finishing opera.
tons on the 3-inch anti-aircraft gun
barrels. All breech mechanisms are
made there.
A good deal of modern equip
ment has been added for anti-air-
craft gun work, but 80 per. cent
of the machine tools are more thar
20 years old. Principal value of
this arsenal to the defense program
is to furnish small groups of high
ly trained workers to the indus
trial shops which will build field
guns and the the new anti.
aircraft guns.
Frankfort arsenal in Pennsylvan.
ia manufactures small arms and
artillery ammunition and fire-con-
troll instruments. Small arms man.
ufacturing facilities are good, par
t~icularly for making so caliber cart
ridges for machine guns. Some eff
ficient new machines have been
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08
Powder Plant Blast
Kills Three Worker.

LEBANON, Ohio, Aug. 7.-(F)-
Three men were killed today in a
terrific explosion that wrecked a
powder-processing building of the
King Powder company, at nearby
Kings Mills.
Steve Resirois, a workman, said
the dead were Charles Resibois, Is.
his son; Hobart Combs, So, and Will.
liam Reed, As.
The cause of the explosion was
not Immediately apparent.
The powder plant, one of the oldest
in the United States, occupies scores
of small buildings along a one and
one-half mile frontage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08
Major Fletcher Pleased
With ~ e. Cooperation

RALEIGH, Aug. 7.-R-Major
A. L. Fletcher, regional director for
the wage and hour division, said
today that results obtained from the
cooperative agreement between the
division and the North Carolina la
Dor department had been SO sue
cessful that the division has speed
ed it's plans for similar state-federal
agreements.
Forrest H. Shuford, state labor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

AoIlllN1 ~
the Roosevelt administration is 60
inc to be. forced to make up its
mind whether it considers the anti
trust law an obstacle or an asset
to it's great rearmament program.
The decision will be forced on 1t
partly, at least, by the energetic
official now charged with enforcing
that law Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Thurman Arnold, head of the
antitrust division.
Arnold argues that full-capacity
high-speed production OF essential
goods and materials cannot posi-
bly be had until combinations
which restrain trade in the interest
of stabilized prices and orderly
marketing are broken up.
He argues, further, tn such
combinations exist in almost every
great industry-with a few impor-
tant exceptions.
Despite a lot of %undercover op-
position, he is going ahead as fast
as the men and money at his dis
posal permit, his record-breaking
oil trust suit being only the most
recent move.
ARNOLD DUE
TO HIT HARDER
At the other pole is the National
Defense Committee.
No direct or indirect protest at
Arnold's activities has come from
top Committeeman Stettinius or
Knudsen. From lesser lights there
has come a good deal more. This
is natural enough. The commit
tees job is to place a lot Of orders
and get quick delivery, which is
also what the army and navy are
interested in if antitrust suits and
investigations make manufacturers
jittery and seem likely to cause
delay, protests are inevitable.
So far, things have not come to
a head. During the next few
months, however, Arnold's shafts
are going to hit various firms which
make essential war materials on
government order. Complaints will
increase, and the administration
will have to choose.
PRICE PACTS
AID TO HITLER
Meanwhile, Arnold cites current
British experience as bearing out
his argument.
The ultra-conservative London
Economist, in its June Is issue, re-
marks that only now is Britain
realizing how badly its war effort
has been delayed by the network
of marketing and production agree
ments and price-maintenance de-
vices built up in British industry
in the last two decades. The mag
azine comments that this lis en-
phatically not a set of ideas that
can be expected to yield the max
imum of production" and adds:
British industry, by and large,
has until recent weeks been max
ing the maximum effort compati-
VIC WILL I1O ~ w us GUS
toms now OF to its profit-making
capacity hereafter"
The same sort of thing, says Ar
mold, is true on this side of the
water.
He also argues that monopolistie
practices in America (and in Eng
land) have been of inestimable val
ue to Hitler in recent years. That,
as he sees it, works out like this:
A given industry "stabilizes" it's
domestic price structure, limiting
its yield to keep prices up. Its sur
plus is dumped abroad-to fall in
to Hitler's lap, to the vast benefit
of his bolstered economy. Or sur
plus capital, instead of being in
vested at home-there's no place
for it, because increased produc-
ton is not wanted-is invested in
Germany, to increase the produc-
tive capacity of the German indus
trial machine. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08

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REIDSVILLE - Carter Darrow
governor of the 5sth Rotary dis
trict, will speak before the Reds
vile Rotary club Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-08

commissioners, signed The t.
the Cooperative AGREEMENTS .
Der l and the division ua,,b., '
see the results. L
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

long drawing room, which had
been a double parlor before we
removed the partition, but this
had even more deserted look.
At the foot of the stairs called
out to Aunt Maggie several times.
Only the empty echo Of my own
voice came back to me. Leaving
my bag on the landing, / hurried
up the stairway, wondering if in
deed Aunt Maggie had taken one
of the third-story bedrooms as
she had insisted and if for this
reason she did not hear me.
Aunt Maggie is really a dear,
but 1 had not been too pleased
when she decided to join the i'm
promptu house party. Hearing our
plans when she dropped in to see
my two-year-old daughter, Aunt
Maggie had insisted that this was
just the time for her to check over
family records at Wisteria Hall.
Although she is what some peo-
pie would call rich, Aunt Maggie
adds considerably to her income
by working up family histories for
ambitious ladies who wish to be-
come members of the D. A. R.,
the u. D. c. and similar organ
iZations.
'It amuses me-" she often said.
NOW that l am a widow" (She
had been a widow ever since l
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

marrying Claire. He could devote
himself to architecture without
having to bother about the fnan-
cial returns. Claire said their
wedding trip would take them
around the world, in order that
Bob might study various types
of architecture before settling
down.
Reclaiming my box of flowers
from the ground, l went back to
my car, removed my keys and my
bag and struggled up the back
steps. l found the kitchen door
locked, but fortunately I had a
key. Once inside, everything
seemed to be in order. The place
was comfortably warm, indicat-
ing that Andrew had the furnace
going. The electric refrigerator
was functioning. Meats and vege-
tables and other foodStuffS were
in place. Andrew had even been
able to find some mint at the mar
ket. As hostess, l began TO feel
slightly better.
Passing through the big dining
room with its twin Sheraton side
boards, I went on to the mellow
toned library. But Aunt Maggie
was not doing by the fire. The
fire itself had burned to ashes.
Crossing the wide hall, with the
lovely old Adam fanlight above
the front door, I glanced into the
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
When Two Unasked Guests Come To SaIIys
Party Murder Steals In Behind Them

at all, except for the fact that I
had been so acutely aware of the
surrounding silence. Thinking that
perhaps it was Aunt Maggie,
turned and walked over to where
l could see beyond the lockwood
hedge and into the front drive
way.
Beyond the house and hurrying
as fast as he could go toward the
gate was man. Although he was
now nearly the length of a city
block away, was almost certain
that he was Kirk Pierce, who was
to be one of our guests that eve
ming.
''Kirk!" called. "Yoo-hoo-oom
Did l imagine it, or did he
really hesitate for a moment be-
fore breaking into a run?
Dropping my box, I also began
to run; but ne had disappeared
around the turn and was out of
the gate before l had covered half
the distance. When l myse elf
reached the turn, l heard the
sound Of motor starting up. This
was even more strange. l had seen
no car outside the gate as I drove
in, though one might easily have
been concealed behind the shrub
berry.
Car Tracks
PY THE time l reached the gate,
- there was no car anywhere in
sight, but on the fresh country air
there was the unmistakable odor
of gasoline. And on the fresh red
earth, where a section of our pri-
vate roadway was being worked
over, there ere tracks showing
that car had turned in from the
side.
This private road extends be-
yond our gate for nearly a mile
before it runs into an unpaved
country road leading to the con-
crete highway which is still
mile or so distant. 1t seemed un-
likely that the intruder had made
a mistake as to destination, be-
cause our private roadway is
plainly marked as such and also
by the name, Wisteria Hall, on
the mailbOX.
Our property covers more than
five hundred acres and the near
est farmhouse is three miles dis
tant. With Roswell five miles
away and Atlanta only twenty,
within easy driving distance of
my husbands Office, Wisteria Hall
had seemed ideal when we de-
cided to make certain improve
ments with the idea of using it
as summer home. But now as
the silence once more enshrouded
my city soul there seemed some
thing sinister about the place.
Retracing my steps down the
long driveway, l noticed that even
the sun was hidden by clouds and
that there was a hint of rain in
the air. Rain would be bad with
that piece of road under construc-
| ton, for cars would surely get
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
HATS ARE WHAT
THEY ARE

If Lilly Dache didn't say, This
is hat, you wouldn't always be
sure. In the hand, some of the
confections from her new resort
collection look like bouquets in
search of a vase, the fringe from
an old-faShioned lamp shade, the
prism from a chandelier. Madame
Dache can make anything into a
hat, and does.
Here are descriptions of some
of the hats certain to influence
what you'll wear next spring:
THE HALFWAY HAT, de-
irving from Hawaii. 1t is held
on with a bicycle clip. This and
other flowery halfWayers are
supposed TO cure hatlessness.
WESKIT AND HAT SET-sen-
sation at the Dache show. It's
made of multicolored ribbon, in
tended for wear with a plain
black street dress.
THE HATPIN is the most ex-
citing. It's topped with a butter
fly OF Chantilly lace, and II may
be removed from the hat and
worn on the lapel, or as part of
an evening headdreSs. The hat
itself, like many others in the
collection, was inspired by South
American styles It's of black
felt.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

ing Thanksgiving accessories.
Scoop out spiced apples or crab
apples and stuff with cranberry
jelly. Chill Serve on a shallow
tray. Or put several on the tur-
key platter TO dress it up.
PIcKLED PEACHES in gelatin
are grand. They give just the tang
needed for a bountiful meal Soak
2 tablespoons of granulated gela-
tin in Z cup cold water. Dissolve
in cup of boiling water. Add Il
cup orange juice, 2 tablespoons
spiced peach juice and Il cup
lemon juice. Pour TO the thick
ness of 2 inches in a shallow pan,
Chill until partly firm and then
arrange spiced peach halves. hol-
low sides down. Surround with a
cup of seeded grapes mixed with
2-3 CUP diced celery. Chill until
firm. Cut into squares and serve
on lettuce No dressing Is
needed.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
WOMAN'S CORNER
(By The Associated Press Feature Service)
THERE'S POPULAR APPEAL
IN TODAY'S PIROUETTES
Bv John sELBY. AVIS Editor

three companies which will give
New York ballet most of the win
ter.
First Tschaikowsky's "Aurora's s
Wedding. which is Russian and
old School-alSo imperishable, be-
cause Tschaikowsky is the per
feet expression of Russia in the
days when the Imperial Ballet
School was the happy hunting
ground of the Grand Dukes.
Feeble Opera Condensed
Then Cog dor, in which
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. feeble opera
is condensed, the voices amputat-
ed. the Slavic splendor of the
settings and costumes retained
and the fairy story of King Do
don and his court given the
speed and humor it lacks on the
operate stage.
Then Graduation Bali and
down to earth. or perhaps up to
earth is better. This is a good ex-
ample of the slice out of life
trend. although If stops consider
ably short OF social significance.
It's merely a comedy on a uni
verSal situation-boys and girls
and their gyrations when brought
together at a school prom
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
DRESS UP YOUR TURKEY IN ITS SAVORY BEST
By MRS. ALEXANDER cEoRcE

The turkey is the kingpin of a
Thanksgiving dinner
But don't forget that he needs
some colorful relishes, jams and
jellies to make him shine in all
his glory.
Trot out your old-fashioned
china and glass dishes and fill
them with appropriate spreads.
They will give the honey feel
ing needed for this family fes-
tival. Here are some SuggeS-
tiOnS-
CRANBERRY MoLDS. spiced
and raisin filled, introduce an old
favorite in a new guise. They
make sprightly garnishes when
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

can remember.) 'T find out such
strange things about the best peo-
pie. Sometimes ! think they are
more pleased to pay me for what
l leave out than for what ! put
in"
Anyway, Wisteria Hall had been
built around 1886 by my great
great-grandfather, and its library
contains many rare old documents
which Aunt Maggie had itched to
get her plump hands on long be-
fore my grandmother death. But
Grandmother had refused to be
bothered Each time Aunt Maggie
suggested looking them over, she
had put her of, saying there was
nothing of any value on the place
and that it was all foolishness,
anyway. I could picture Aunt
Maggie in the midst of a perfect
orgy since her arrival yesterday.
But where was she now? Ger
tainly she was in none of the
six Second-fioor bedrooms, nor
was she in the sitting room.
Climbing the rather steep back
stairs, the only ones ascending to
the third floor, ! still received no
answer to my call. But papers
and books scattered about in the
study showed that she had been
there.
To be continued
(CoPJris5t. 1859, NsIOra Field Psrkersosl
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
IF EYES HAVE 1T,
so DO YOU
By BETTY CLARKE

Your eyes can keep other eyes
on you if you know the art of
makeup.
Less makeup rather than more
is likely to do the trick.
And it's not easy even to apply
light makeup properly and make
it emphasize your best features.
You should put it on subtly
enough to prevent that harsh,
heavily makeup look.
Even celebrities have to work
to master the art of eye makeup.
This is what the singer. Hide
garde, told me about how she
solved the problem:
During the course of an eve
ming it IS usually necessary for
me to go from bright spotlights
TO the DINNER lights of a night
club or TO the theater.
Looked Like Surrealist
Heavily made-up eyes, coated
with mascara. were fine for the
bright lights. But l looked like a
suTrealist when they were turned
off.
4 had to have something SIM
pie and effective Petroleum jelly
was the answer. It seemed TO
make the eyes look larger and
brighter yet soft and appealing.
This is the way I apply it:
First a light film of eye shadow
TO the edge Of the lid. shading It
toward the edge.
Then over the shadow. with
the tip Of your finger. put a film
of the jelly, heavier at the edge
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

Ballet IS getting down to earth.
Seven years ago when it began
its renaissance in America, peO-
pie used to go TO the theater to
watch the freaks in the audience
as much as the doings on the
Stage-thc Super-elegant males,
the women with dead white faces
split below the nose by a scarlet
mouth line.
Some chi-chi survives. But now
adays the audience contains a
high percentage OF burghers and
their wives. of students and of
ordinary people. These have gone
to see what beautiful things can
be done with the human body
when II IS trained as precisely as
a pianlSt'S hand.
Besides. It's fun.
Expresses Life
There has been a revolution
backStage. too. Ballet is no long
er a succession of solos. duets and
ensemble numbers It's got down
10 expressing life. Sometimes al
most too close for comfort. but
mostly in good-humored style.
Consider the opening bill. of
Col W dc Basil's Original Ballet
Russo here in New York-One of
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
CORN STUFFINc

"A cup chopped bacon
1-3 cup chopped onions
2 tablespoons minced parsley
2-3 cup diced celery
8 cups e9umbled bread
2 cups canned corn (drained)
2 teaspoon salt
Il teaspoon paprika
1-3 teaspoon black pepper
l teaspoon poultry seasoning Top
tionaD
3-4 cup butter, melted
Heat the bacon in a frying pan.
add the onions, parsley and celery
and simmer 5 minutes. Pour over
the rest of the ingredients and
mix. Recipe sufficient for a 12-
pound bird.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22

I stuck in the mud. The idea of
country house party in nIid-win-
ter did not now seem such a grand
inspiration after all.
It is my husbands favorite joke
that l can be talked into anything,
and he once declared that / would
gladly agree to attend my own
hanging if it were to be held out
of town. Looking back to my tele-
phone conversation of the day be-
fore with Claire Harper, it seemed
to me that there was more than
grain of truth in his joking.
had mentioned to Claire quite
casually that the new basement
game room and other remodeling
had just been completed and that
| thought it might be fun to spend
Christmas at Wisteria Hall. Claire,
not usually given to sudden en-
thusiasms, had bowled me over.
"Oh, that's just perfectl" she
cried. Listen, darling, I've been
! trying for several days to get a
chance to run over and tell you
the big news. But can't wait. I've
finally got Bob to agree to marry
me. Yes, that's what I said. We
are going to be married. Sally,
don't wait until Christmas. Let's
go out this week end. You can
give us an engagement party. Just
us, you know. You and Bill and
Bob and I, and, of course, We'll
have to have Alice, since she is
Bob's sister. And. let's see-some-
body for Alice. What about Kirk
Pierce?"
Remembering how long Claire
had been after Bob, it did not
seem just the moment to say that
it might all be too much trouble,
what with the next day being Sat-
urday. Claire has lots of money
and charm and Bob has lots of
charm but no money, so it had not
been easy, l knew, although Bob
had been in love with her for
years.
Bob had studied architecture,
but had never gone very far with
it and had finally stopped trying.
His friends helped him to get
other jobs, but l have often
/ thought friends can be a handi-
cap, too, when someone is as
agreeable as Bob Dunbar. Friends
made it so easy for him to drop
things and go off on hunting
trip to South Georgia or to the
field trials or on a cruise or some
where. HoStesses automatically
put his name at the head of their
lists for cocktail parties, dinners
and dances. They asked his ad-
vice about redecorating their
houses or trading in their cars OF
their husbands.
ReaSSured>
/ WHAT I mean is that when
w someone has so much charm
too many things come easy to him,
so that he loses the ability to put
forth effort along more serious
lines. But, after all, it had not
! been necessary, for now Bob was
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-22
Chapter one
The Rain Threatens

T(HE quiet was little
disconcerting as l
drove around to the
- garage back of Wis
terra Hall. Of course,
its secluded atmosphere and
its inacceSsibility are among
the chief charms of the old
place, but l had expected some
signs of activity. Where was
everybody? Where, indeed, was
the station wagon in which the
two servants and Aunt Maggie
had driven out yesterday to open
the house for weekend guests?
1 had sounded the horn just as
made the turn in the long drive
way where one gets that first
glimpse of big white columns
through the trees. Now / pressed
down on it again, longer and with
more force. It seemed almost sac
religious to Tend the peaceful
stiffness in such fashion. But
nothing happened.
The great white bulk of Wis
terra Hall stood calm and inscru-
table in the December sunshine
and, as far as outward appear
ances indicated, might not have
been disturbed since my grand
mothers death ten months before,
when l first came into possession
Of the place.
No grinning black face ap-
peared at kitchen window or door.
No sign of Andrew, making a
great show of buStling down the
steps and calling back to his fat
wife as he came, Law, Bessie,
here's Miss Sally. Come on, let's
help her get her things IN the
house.
A little impatient at this lack
of response, for surely someone
must be about, decided to leave
my bags and packages in the car
to be brought in later. Perhaps
Bessie and Andrew had gone over
TO Roswell for additional items
which might have been over
looked when they brought out
supplies the day before. That
would account for the absence of
the station wagon. Aunt Maggie
was probably doing in the Ii
brary or taking a nap in her
room.
l glanced at my wrist watch.
1t was ten minutes after three. l
decided l would take the flowers
into the house with me, as there
would just be time to arrange
them, check over the bedrooms
and dress before my husband and
our guests began to arrive.
As 1 reached for the large flor
lists box. l heard a sound near the
side of the house, as though some
one had stumbled on the gravel
walk. l might not have noticed it