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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-12
CHAPTER 3S1.

CHAPTER SOL.
AN ACT to. propose amendment to Section
l. of Article II, title Executive Depart
ment'' of the State Constitution, to provide
that Governor shall not be eligible to Sue
coed himself for the term directly following
that for which he was elected and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters of this State for
adoption rejection.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-ffths of all the
members elected to each Of the two Houses
concurrng), That Section l of Article IL, title
Executive Department" of the State Con-
stitution, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enGcted with amendments to read as
follows: f''f E'.f-'
Section l. The executive power of the State
shall be vested in Governor, whose term of
office shall commence on the second Wednes-
day of January next ensuing his election, and
continue for four years, and until his success
sor shall have qualified; and he shall be ineli-
gibe to succeed himself Governor for the
term directly following that for which he was
elected.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that the
aforegong section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State
shall be, at the next general election to be
held in this State in the year 1940 submitted
their adoption or rejection in pursuance Of
directions contained in Article IA of the Con-
stitution of this State, and at the said general
election the vote on the said proposed amend
ment shall be by ballot. and upon each ballot
there shall be printed the words For the Con-
stitutional Amendment" and Against the
Constitutional Amendment, as now prescribed
by law. and Immediately after said election, due
returns shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
ment as directed by said Article IA of the Con-
stitution.
Approved: April &c. 1889.
CHAPTER TIL. t"
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Article
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-12

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND
The GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE
OF Maryland. DONE AT THE
CITY OF ANNAPOLIS, THIS 10Th
DAY OF JULY, IN THE YEAR OF
OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE
HUNDRED AND FORTY.
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That a
new. section be and the same is hereby added
TO Article ~ of the Annotated Code of Mary
General Measurers and Inspectors" said new
section to be known as Section 81, to follow
Immediately after Section S3 and to read as
follows:
81. In addition to the certificates required
by Sections 81 and so hereof every packer or
commission merchant buying oysters in the
State of Maryland shall furnish to the inspec-
under oath showing the number of bushels,
bags or barrels of oysters purchased by him
during the preceding week.
Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That
Section 1919 of Article ~ of the Annotated
Code Of Maryland u995 Snpplement), title
Oysters" subtitle Oyster Culture" be and
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CHAPTER TIL. +'.
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Article
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hereby certify that | have this date in
spected for Captain. -............ schooner
:...:......., cargo of oysters caught with
in the limits of the State of Maryland. sold
to .1...,...... and found the same to contain
'.....,.,,..... bushels of understandable oysters
oysters,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
LETTERS
ARE TAKEN OUT
Silver Shirt Chief Says He
Is Ready To Talk Be-
fore Committee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-R-The
Dies committee ordered a public
hearing today to question William
Dudley Policy about his activities
as leader of the Silver Shirt Legion
Acting Chairman Starnes Cd
Ala.) made the announcement af-
ter he and Representative Mason
(R-Ill.), another committee mem
Der. had talked to Policy privately
for almost two hours. Neither
Starnes nor Mason would say what
was discussed.
The soft-spoken, goateed Policy,
who had been sought for months
by the committee and it's agents,
popped up yesterday and was re-
ported ready to testify on commit
tee charges that his organization Is
probably the largest fascist group
in the United States.
First, however, he helped bring
about a quick announcement of the
furore over the letters used by
Rep. Hook (D-Mich) in a recent
house statement designed to show
a connection between Chairman
Dies (D-Tex) and Policy.
The latter told a house rules SUBJ
committee yesterday that the doc
uments were rank %forgeries and
tina he gave Dies "a clean hill IF
health"
David Mayne of Washington, a
one-time aide of Policy who had
produced the letters, followed him
on the stand and calmly said that
he had manufactured them right
out of the clear air."
1t wasn't long before Hook arose
in the house, said the letters were
the Pigment of somebody's imagi-
%nation,' and withdrew them from
the Congressional Record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
HERE'S
WHO ADMITS MISTAKES

Starnes himself is a slim, friend
ly chap of 40-odd who believes de
voutly in the value of the commit
tees work but is quite willing t.
admit the committee has made mis-
takes.
Were not the smartest guys ir
congress, or a bunch Of supermen.'
he says. Il do say, though that we
made fewer mistakes last year thar
the year before"
He lacks the bull-in.a-china-shoI
brusqueness of Dies but has a good
share of combativeness. Che served
in the AEF.)
Fritz Kuhn parked back at him,
while t%estifying, and Starnes offer
ed to erAse the bund leader then
and there with bare hands. That
tickled his constituents; a number
of them tried to send brass knuckles
in token Of their appreciation but
couldn't get 'em through the mails.
One mountaineer carved a set out
of hardwood and sent it in; Starnes
uses it as a paperweight in his Of
flee.
Among other things, Starnes
serves as a sort Of liaison man be.
tween Dies and Jerry Voorhis, the
committees lonely le~ft-winger.
Dies finds it's hard to be pally with
a man he disagrees with; Starnes
doesn't, and is friendly with Voor-
his despite frequent clashes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Mardi Gras Festival
Ends At New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7.-lR-
The stroke Of midnight today
brought curtains to the final rhine.
stoned glory on Mardi Gras and
the return of sanity to a city fraz
lied by a weeks playing.
1t meant jobs and school rooms
and Lent, the penitential period.
New Orleans hung up the cos.
tune in which, on the final day OF
the famed celebration, it had es.
capped into a land of clowns, beasts
oaoles story book heroes and funny
paper characters.
For yesterdays celebrants-and
hon-celebrants too-who felt peni
tent1al, there were Ashe Wednesday
services in many churches today
IN catholic churches these includ.
ed the ancient custom of marking
n worshiper with a cross in ashes
ana reminding him that, sprung
from dust, to dust he must return
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
REPUBLICAN VOTE
EXCEEDS DEMOS
COP Total Larger In Two
Districts Once Led By
Democrats

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 7.-GP-
HI names of Ashbrook and Bolton
ve,e entered again t day for Ohio
district congressional elections.
Roth relatives-one a nephew,
the other a widow-of Ohio con-
oressmen who died in office, they
were nominated in Tuesd- US special
nrimaries which saw republicans
bring out the larger vote in each
of two districts where democrats
previously took most ballots.
Byron B. Ashbrook, 4~1-year'old
.Johnstown banker, was nominated
over five other democrats in the
18th district to complete the term
of his uncle, William Ashbrook who
was serving his Goth year in the
house when he died January 1. ].
Harry McGregor, of Coshocton,
speaker of the Ohio house of repre-
sentatives, won the republican nom
nation in a three-way rae
Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, widow o.
Rep, Chester A. Bolton who repeat
edly represented the 22nd district
was nominated by republicans with
| out opposition. Bolton died October
20.
Anthony A. Fleger, Of Parma
only democrat ever to capture thu
22nd seat, swamped his lone oppo
nent to oppose Mrs. Bolton in tn
February 27 ~by-elections.
Complete unofficial ret rms:
18th District
Democrats - Ashbrook 4,427; B
F.. Mcdonald, Newark, 1853; Bel
A. Arneson, Delaware, 1,574; Franz
Cave. Mansfield, 1884; William
Haas, Delaware, 1892; Burch Feren
baugh, Danville, 242.
Republicans - McGregor, 7,64s
Col. oliver H. Dockery, Newark, 3,
113; Walter B. Woodward, Bellville
5000.
22nd District
Democrats - Fleger, I'LL; Mer
rift A. Vickery, Lakewood, 1929.
Republican - Mrs. Bolton Gun
opposed) 1O,334.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
DIR. KARL RO0S
PUT TO DEATH
Alsatian Autonomy Leader
Found Guilty OF Spy
ing For Nazis

NANCY, France, Feb, 7.-R-
DR.. Karl Roos, ~60-year-old Alsatlan
autonomy leader, convicted OF Is
pionage for Germany, was e2ecut-
ed at dawn today by a firing squao
President Albert Lebrun had Gus
ed his plea for clemency.
On last Oct. 20, Immediately after
Roos was convicted, hhe was report
ed to have been snot, but actually
the execution had been delayed
pending action on his appeal.
A soldier named Lobstein was
sentenced to death with Roos by a
military tribunal. He too, previous
ly was reported executed, but 1t
was disclosed today the sentence
had been committed by President
Lebrun to life Imprisonment at
hard labor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
clio CHIEF HITS
AT ALL. AGAIN

WASHINGTON, Feb. = Up -
John L. Lewis offered document
airy proof" to the senate labor COM
mittee today that ALL proposals
to amend the Wagner act were
prepared with the aid Of attorneys
for "reactionary and anti-labor" cor
porations.
The CLIO leaders exhibit appeared
in a long statement presented by
Philip Murray, CLIO vice-president.
1t charged that Joseph A. Pad
way, AFL general counsel, prepar-
d the federation's amendments after
a "series of secret conferences" with
Gilbert H. Montague Of New York,
Earl Reed of Pittsburgh, and Earn
est S. Ballard Of Chicago.
The three attorneys were describ-
ed by Lewis as representatives Of
many corporations which have
been the most fragrant and motor
ious violators of the National Labor
Relations act"
Lewis listed IA companies which
he said were represented by Mon
tague, Reed and Ballard and added:
The anti-labor activities Of many
Of these corporations have been re-
vealed through the La Toilette civil
liberties committee which disclosed
their widespread industrial espion-
age and purchase and use of guns
and ammunition in Industrial dis
putes. ...
"These same corporations and
their executive heads have also
been active members Of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers
and actively participated in the de-
termination of the policy Of the
NAM to advise industry generally
to deliberately violate the National
Labor Relations Act
Two of the listed corporations, IN
land Steel and Youngstown Sheet
and Tube, were involved in the
1897 Little Steel" strike waged by
Lewis and the Go in the middle
west.
Lewis declared in his statement
that one Of the "secret conferences
was held July 10, 1889 at a lunch
con in the Union League club IN
New York City and another in Chi
cago November 1, 1888.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Dewey Charges F. D. r.
With 9 Billion Error

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.@tR-Thom-
as E. Dewey who leaves tonight for
the Pacific coast to further his re-
publican presidential nomination
campaign, says President Roose'
welt apparently made a $4,000, 000,-
900 error when reporting on the ma
tional debt for the seven years OF
the present administration.
Dewey said in a statement yes
terday that if the President was
quoted correctly in saying local,
state, county and city debt hae
dropped as much as the fedora.
debt had risen, then the error was
Extraordinary"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
u. S. Seeks To Improve
Relations With Ital,

WASHINGTON, Feb. = Up -
The United States has taken a STEP
toward improving relations with
Italy, officials said today, by agree
ing to remove penalty tariff duties
from Italian silk.
The penalties were imposed last
August -, but since Italy recently
modified it's %purported subsidies on
the products, the treasury has
re~considered it's action. The treas
ury is said to have approved, in
principle, the cancellation Of the
duties, and is expected to announce
the decision as soon as various
formalties are completed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
SPRING FLOODS
NOT INEVITABLE

The unusually heavy snowfall
now blanketing most of the coun-
try does not necessarily mean
heavy floods next spring.
Weather bureau experts point out
that floods are caused, not by the
amount of snow on the ground, but
by what happens when it melts. A
normal" spring will turn the snow
to water at a rate the ground can
absorb. Only if there are very heavy
rains when the thaw starts, or if
the ground is too ice-sheathed to
soak it up, is the run-off likely to
cause a flood.
A hard winter does carry one
other flood-threat. If river ice is
unusually thick, it is likely to form
heavy cakes that will jam, hold the
water back, and cause local floods
when it goes out in the spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

tive cut, the Edison Electric Insti.
tute said today.
Latest output dropped / per cent
below 1855, 958, 900 kilowatthours in
the preceding week but vas III
per cent ahead of 2,2S7, 24S, 900 in
the comparable 1889 week.
The decline was more than cas-
onally anticipated. The Associated
Press energy index declined to 1854
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE

Without Calomel-And You'll Jump Out Of
Bed in the Morning Karin to Go
The liver should pour out two pints OF
liquid bile Into your bowels daily. If this
bile Is not flowing freely. your food may
not digest. It may just decay in the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You get consti-
pated. You feel sour, sunk and the world
looks punk.
1t takes those good, old Carter's Little
Liver Pills to get these two pints of bile
flowing freely to make you feel up and
up" Amazing in making bile flow freely.
Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name.
10e and 25f. Stubbornly refuse anything else.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN
REPORTED LAME

There may have been extra sig
~nificance behind the speed with
which Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn took the house floor to com
bat Hamilton Fish's assertion that
the nation ought not to have ar
ambassador in Berlin. The report
is that FDR will presently appoint
a new ambassador to Germany, and
that he wants enc there in order te
lay the groundwork for a peace
move.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

the committee, sees pretty much
eye-to-eye with him, and a things
last fall during Dies absence. A
Starnes committee would go in the
same direction as a Dies commit
tee and would get there in much the
same style.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE
story that Martin Dies was going
to resign from the famous Dies
committee and give the chairman
ship to Joe Starnes Of Alabama
a plant" according to mem
bers of the committee, started by
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

S O m e o n e who
wanted to slip
hi skids under
the turb | ent
Texan.
AS a matter q
fact, Dies will be
back here in a
few days ready
to take the helm
again.
AS a matter of
fact, even if the
change did take
place it would
not make much diff
ference. StarneS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
| EVEN HAWAII
GETS SHIVERS

Delegate Sam King of Hawaii
looked out a capitol window at the
nine-inch snowfall that had Wash
ington all muscle-bound.
THE people back in my district
are kicking about the cold, too"
he ssid. They say it's quite un-
precedented. The temperatures
down to g."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

Engineers state that auto,,s
fires most frequently are o.ns '''''
backfire into air cleaner and sa by
silencer that happens IN intake
with gasoline from oyer.cboyi, lllst
carburetor, 0A'hS ID,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Your u S.
Income Tax
Normal Tax And Surtax Rates

vides for only one normal tax rate,
that is, 4 per cent Of the amount of
the net income in excess Of the al
lowable credits such as the perso-
nal exemption, credit for depend
ents, etc. The law provides for an
additional credit for the purpose of
the normal tax of an earned in
come credit, that IS, 10 per cent of
the amount of the earned net in
come but not in excess of 10 per
cent Of the amount Of the net in
come. The personal exemption and
credit for dependents a-e also al
lowable as credits against the net
income for the purpose of the sur
tax, the resulting net income being
designated ~"surtax net income" The
surtaX is imposed on surtax net in
N in excess of $4,000. The rates
increase in accordance with t h e
amount of surtax net income in
brackets. On a surtax net income of
$4,000 or less there is no surtaX. On
a surtaX net income in eXcesS of
$4,000 and not in excess Of Sc, coo,
the rate is 4 per cent of such ex-
cess. The surtax upon a surtax net
income OF $4,000 is $50 and upon a
surtaX net income in excess Of &c.
900 and not in excess @ $4,000 the
rate is ) per cent of such excess
in addition to the $50, or a surtax
of $3.50 upon a surtax net income
of $4,000. The surtax on a surtax
net income of s., COO, 900 is SO, 591, 900,
and upon a surtax net income in
excess of $4,000, 900, Is per cent. the
maximum rate, is applicable to such
excess, in addition to the So, 591. 900.
4lany taxpayers make the error of
:-Dplying the maximum rate instead
of the rate provided for in t h e
bracket in which their surtax net
income is included.
Following is an example of how to
compute the tax on a net income of
$500, all of which represents earn
ed net income, the taxpayer being
single and without dependents.
Net $500
Less personal exemption 80 1000
Balance (surtax net income) 1900
Earned income credit $50
Net income subject to normal
tax $3.50
Surtax at 4 per cent on mount
of surtax net income in
excess Of $4,000 but not
over $4,000, 4 per cent on
1000 30
Surtax at 5 per cent on
amount of surtax net in
come in excess of $4,000 but
not over $4,000, 5 per cent
on $500 rs
Total surtax - 155
Normal tax, q per cent on
$3.50 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 266
Total normal tax and sur
Tax 421
Taxpayers are advised to read
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Production Of Power
Drops For 3rd Week

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.@R-Elec-
trio power production in the Unit
ed States during the week ended
February 3 dropped to 2,541, 35S,oo0
kilowatthours in the third consecu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

well have pocketed a tidy $3.50, 900.
So far, however, he hasn't been
named among the big-money earn
ers Of the movies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
Service Staff Corresponds.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7.-Movie
fans are going to be more be"lid-
cred than enlightened if they use
the Treasury Departments list OF
top American salaries in trying to
figure who's really who in Holly
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

For example,
according to the
first batch OF
statistics from
Washington, the
highest-pai per-
son in The entire
picture industry
in 1895 vas Clau'
dette Colbert, the
mos valuab.e &C.
tor was Warner
Baxter, and the
top director was
Roy Del Ruth!
Such classified
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

Cold winter weather may reduce
the cranking ability of a battery 5o
per cent or more.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

from 1918 a week ar,;.
dex, adjusted for SEASON. 1he IN
term trend stood at lis a y yas. long
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Relief At Last
For Your Couch

Circumcision relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm,
1ncrea1e secretion and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw, tender, tnf1am<
ed bronchial mucous membranes.
No matter how many medicines you
have tried. tell your druggist to sell
you q bottle Of Creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly a11ays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

Taxpayers are advised to read
carefully the instructions accom-
panylng Form 104O relating to the
earned-income credit and surtax, as
well as all other instructions there.
on, before preparing their returns.
Your Federal Income Tax
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
Many Salaries Are
Not Yet

The movie industry tries to as
sumo an attitude of modesty in
money matters, but its people, in
dividually, have their pride. They
fear that misinterpretation Of the
treasury reports will give the pub
lie a wrong scale Of movie values,
or else the conviction that Holly
wood is plumb crazy.
Miss Colbert worked busily and
well in 1888, but her s301, 944 can't
be called Movieland's top when the
salaries paid by Metro, RKO and
Warmers have not even been an
nounced. In 1887 the first, second,
the United States went to execu-
tives of Metro and it's parent, Loew's
Inc.
Warner Baxter reached his peak
earnings in 1888 as he neared the
end of an iron-clad, progressively
increasing seven-year contract-an
agreement incidentally, which was
signed before Fox Films became
10th Century-Fox. An unusual fea-
ture of it was a straight, 52-week
payoff, unlike current contracts
which are written for 40 weeks each
year.
Baxters' spectacular $279, 8O7
might seem a bit excessive for the
three undistinguished pictures he
made in 1898. On the other hand, it
was a small part Of the millions he
had earned for Fox and 20th-Fox
during II loyal years az a top.rank-
ing star. His contract now h a S
lapsed, although he still has one
film to make. due to a postpone
ment carly in 1889 because of i'll
health.
Roy Del Ruth, who earned s216,,
TAI in 1898 by directing my
Lucky Star" (pretty good) and
stall Spin" (pretty bad), is an ex
ample of such methods of valuation.
In 1897, at Metro, Del Ruth direct
ed broadway Melody Of 1885,
which made a lot # money. On the
crest Of box office reports, he NOV
ed I'VE to the 20th-Fox at a huge
salary for a year. He doesn't make
t. 1T much these days.
One Of the most misleading re.
suits Of the treasury reports is that
free-lance players are not even
mentioned as long as they receive
less than $4,000 from any one
studio. Basil Rathbone, perhaps the
best Of a dozen excellent examples,
worked in Six pictures for five diff
ferent studios during 1898, and may
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08

simply don't make sense, especially
when you find the names of euual-
ly prominent and buster stars far
down toward the bottom of the list,
where they rub purses with mere
Industry who scarcely know where
their next yacht is coming from.
Also, a considerable number of
famous players are not mentioned
at all, and this is an humiliating
implication that they earned less in
1898 than the President of the
United States. (His salary, $4,000,
happens to be the minimum wage
publicized by the treasury
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-08
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS
We acknowledge with grateful
appreciation the kind expressions of
sympathy extended us in the recent
illness and death of our beloved
husband and father.
Mrs. j. ]. Rackley and family.
The Nome nugget., 1940-12-16

ly pursued remnants of Marshal Graziani's Egyptian invasion army were reported retreating into Libya after futile rear guard attempts to stop the British ad- vance. Unconfmed rumors cir culated in Carlo that General Sir Archibald Wavell's advance units had captured the border post of Salum and crossed the frontier, driving the Italians out of Fort Capuzzo. A spokesman said little fighting continued on the parch- ed sands of northwestern Egypt.
 The British are believed to be consolidating their far-fung posi- tionS preparing to meet any coun ter thrust which might delay the major drive into Libya pending the reorganization of her striking forces. Cai7o said that more than. 30,000 Italians had surrendered.