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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
NORWAY TO ALLOW
ALTMARK TO, SAIL
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the %7,S5O-ton motorship Sangstad was
mined in the North sea. The Sang
stad's crew was saved.
Capt. Dau said that so far as he
was informed nc official restraint
had been placed upon his vessel and
he felt free to leave at any time with
the good graces of Norwegian au-
thorities.
He said, however, that the Ait
marks propellers were broken when
she was jammed against the rocky
shore of Gjossingfjord Friday night
during the British seizure Of 299
prisoners aboard, and that he had
received no orders to r%econdition her.
The Altmark now is in Estate serv-
ice, but is not a warship," Capt
Dau asserted.
His contention was backed up by
Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdar
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21

cluded: 252nd Regimental band
which headed the march; Battery
A, 252nd Coast Artillery; Head
quarters battery, 252nd CA; Com
pany I, 10th Infantry; Company
A, 1O5th Medical regiment.
Captain Reginald Blomme was
marshal.
Reviewing Stand
Those on the reviewing stand, 10
Gated in front of the ~postoffice
were: Col. R. H. McClelland, Col
+. Deb. Walbach, Commander O
F. Cooper, U.S.N., retired; Capt
F. O.. Fay, Lieutenant Hamilton
Hicks, Major William VanDyke
Ochs. Major C. S. Stroup, Lieut.
Sam Sweeney. commander of the
naval reserves communications sys
tenn for North Carolina; Mr.. Nc
Ginnis, Louis T. Moore and city
and WPA officials.
Members of the board of county
commissioners were unable to be
nresent due to an engagement in
Raleigh.
The line of parade Of the mill
tary units was from Front and
Orange to Red Cross to Third ano
Walnut streets.
Row Scouts Of the Wilmington
district assisted city police IN
handling the. crowds.
Following the dedication cere'
monies a dance was held in the
street, between Chestnut and Prln'
cess streets, until u o'clock, with
musical being provided through
electrical recordings.
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plans FOR HORSE
7 SHOW DISCUSSED
a.octor H. H. Mitchell Con
fors With Members Of
BOARD Of Directors

II mitchell, who will direct
b. .nnual Cape Fear Horse Show
The ,nril 5 and 6 conferred yes
de's with members of the board
telua' ,o+ors OF the Cape Fear Horse
Ssow association.
SNOW ~s;s year, Mitchell said, there
10 more jumpers and hunters
VII show that in any year prev
ID I here, assuring those who at
lOus'' tho show of plenty of action
' ,zrins the two afternoon and two
sirbt ' performances.
F5n' on effort to make it possible
ouilies to attend the show in
' oroun and to make the horse
q communicative affair,
shv~ will be no charge this year
A"N obildren II years of age and
si who are accompanied by an
s'a't lief of the prizes which will be
..i,.d and the classes which will
annn in the show will be an
" ,aced within a few days, Mitchell
sa ,s.so lists will be mailed to
.,ars of horses over the entire
"..orn section of the United
e Tho horse show ring at Legion
-.ld is being made ready for the
'.or as are the stables.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
REDS OUSTED

PARIS, Feb. 20.-P-The cham
Der of deputies tonight adopted unan-
imously a government bill to eN-
pei 60 former communist from par
Lament. The bill now goes to the
senate. Under the terms of the bill
~ former members of the communist
rartv who have publicly renowned
communism will be allowed to retain
their seats.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21

Koht who declared that "as a state
ship the Altmark could not be con-
sidered a commercial ship or war
ship"
The foreign minister's comment
was made after hearing Prime Min
lister Chamberlain's declaration that
Norway showed complete indiffer
ence'' to her obligations as a neu-
trail and that Britain could "in nc
circumstances accept" the Norwegian
view that the Altmark had a right
to transport prisoners through Nor
wegian territorial waters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
MAN IS INJURED
IN EXPLOSION AT
GASOLINE STATION
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,+sa nm all parts of his body by
The flying glass,
other persons in the vicinity,
,,r,o of whom were inside the sta
linn escaped serious injury. Wood
NM Vow was burned On M leg
and Leon Robson escaped with
or1v his clothing being burned.
No other injuries were reported.
F;remen were summoned to the
s,orp. hut little actual fire was
fmnd in the place. Firemen said
mast of the blaze was blown out by
The force of the explosion.
In addition to the destruction of
all the plate glass in the stations
fron+. most of the merchandise in
side was ruined. No estimate of the
damage could be obtained yesterday.
Williams said last night that the
stock was not insured. The station
is owned by the Sinclair Oil COM
rany He said that Pope was not
emploved at the station but had Of
fered 10 help clean up the place yes
terdav morning.
pope is the son of Mrs. Ida M.
Pope, of 1925 South Front street.
Firemen said doors and windows
of the station were closed while
the gasoline was being used inside
and the fumes became confined in
the closed place and were ignited.
Pope went out of the station
through one of the glass windows,
and witnesses could not say whether
he Jumped or was blown out.
Pope was rushed to the hospital
Immediately after the blast and
following a short examination he
was taken to the operating room,
was taken TO the operating room.
Later he was admitted for treat.
ment.
The gasoline in the tanks in front
Of the filing station did not catch
fire or explode, and no other build
ings in the vicinity were damaged.
The station is located on the north
west corner of the intersection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21

signed for nose
and upper throat.
What's more,
when used at first
Sniffle or sneeze,
Va-tro-nol actu-
ally helps to pre-
uent many colds
from developing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Charters Of $50 N. {.
Firms Are Suspended

RALEIGH, Feb. 20. - @ - Thad
Eure, secretary of state, today ln'
formed $50 North Carolina firms that
their charters of incorporation had
been suspended for failure to file tax
reports and pay franchise taxes.
Officials said that the number was
lower than usual. Normally $50
to 1000 lose their charters at this
time of the year for failure to list
and pay the levy.
The firms have 10 years in which
to seek reinstatement under their
charters,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. R-
Weather bureau records of tempera-
ture and rainfall for the "a hours
ending 8 p. M, in the principal cot
ton growing areas and elsewhere:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
HOW DUMB ARE
THE GERMAN PEOPLE?

they aren't dumb, these Germans. Most
of them are pretty intelligent. Most of
them think pretty clearly, in a single
track way. Most of them have memories
as long as that of the average person in
England, or America, or anywhere else.
Most Of them are as able as the next per-
son TO put two and two together, and get
the answer.
Herr Hitler knows all this as we'll as
anybody does.
Herr Hitler must be wondering today
how the average German reacted to his
speech of Tuesday afternoon. He can
not do anything but wonder, because the
average German must be fairly adept
by now at concealing his inner thoughts
from NaZi officials.
A lot of people outside of Germany
are wondering, too, what the real reac-
tion of the German people was.
Hitler said Tuesday that Germany
must bide her time for victory How
many Germans remembered that a few
short months ago he was promising them
immediate occupation of England - i'm
mediate victory?
Hitler said that Germany has not acted
to bring victory yet because she has
wanted TO aVOlQ unnecessary Sacfl1lce.
How many Germans remembered that,
not many weeks ago, he was telling them
no sacrifice was too great for German
to make, if it brought victory?
Hitler defended himself against charges
of having ordered too much ammunition
manufactured How many Germans re-
called the huge continental army they are
supporting in idleness?
Hitler, who has ended every other
speech with the shout, Hail victory"
ended this one by saying simply, 81 thank
you How many Germans noticed the
ommission?
How many Germans are beginning to
wonder if their fuehrer is the invncible
leader they at first believed him to be?
There is no seeming basis for any be-
lief that the German people are begin
ming to crack 1t is too early for that
But, if in their minds is planted dawn
ing doubt, growing distrust of their die
tator, then the first step has been taken.
And it is hard to see how any people,
no matter how censored their daily news
may be, can fail to see in Hitler's speech
of Tuesday a real cause for doubt and
distrust.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
DRIVING HABITS
FOR AMERICANS
Nevada State JournaD

Nevada State Journal)
Why are drivers whose passengers are
not related to them more likely to speed
than are drivers who have their own
folk along? The answer is anybody's
guess. Perhaps wifely back-seat admonl-
ton is a factor Maybe desire to show
off is stronger when strangers are along.
The observation is one of many from
study by the Yale University Institute of
Human Relations, of the habits of auto
mobile operators. Here are others:
Younger persons with ears they do not
own drive faster than do car owners.
New vehicles are in more accidents
than are older ones. But against this is
set the fact that newer cars travel more
miles yearly.
Drivers on long trips travel faster than
those on short trips.
Drivers travelling faster than so miles
an hour are involved in more accidents
and commit more traffic violations than
those travelling 35 to As miles an hour.
From the above, it may be concluded
that those who get new cars and start on
long trips should remember statistics
and let up on the accelerator.
In California, however, motor ifflclalS
have come to the conclusion that the AS
mile speed limit, which is enforced in
some places and not enforced in others,
is too slow and 65 miles an hour has been
recommended as the top limit.
In Nevada. where there is no speed
limit and automobile drivers are suppos-
ed to use common sense in applying
pressure to the accelerator, the accident
rate is probably less per automobile mile
than it is in California.
Whether the speed limit is set at 45
miles per hour or 60 miles per hour or
not established at all it is the person be-
hind the wheel who has in his hands the
safety of his passengers, himself and the
other fellow on the road.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
by Willis Thornton :,
Welfare GROUPS Given New Army Task

installations on military reserva-
tions." Permanent installations, like
the US elaborate one on Governors
Island in New York, will not be
disturbed. But as a general policy
new ones will not be set up. Or
ganizations seeking to contribute
to the spiritual and physical we'll
being of the soldiers will do 1t in
town, not in camp.
The field for such work is a
large one. 1t is hard for military
authorities to control the activities
of men on pass, harder still to con-
troll the places of entertainment
which cater to the soldier trade but
which are outside military juris-
diction.
A large field for beneficial welfare
work among soldiers is still open
to private organizations. But the
sooner that field is defined, the
better, for important facilities are
probably being held up simply be-
cause welfare groups do not yet
know exactly how they may be OF
the greatest service.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
TRAVEL BY BLASTS

A giant airliner-or bomber-powered
by eight or ten small engines in the trail
ing edge of each wing, firing alternately
like cylinders in a conventional internal
combustion engine, and attaining speeds
and payload capacities as yet undreamed
of.
This is the vision inspired by the an
nouncement of E. B. Myers, New York in
ventor, that the U. S. army has ordered
another experimental model of his blast
engine" an aircraft engine operating on
a principle similar to that of rocket ships,
but capable of being controlled as a rocket
cannot be-
The vision is not one to scott at. Ser
lous scientists and inventors-men with
high reputations-have been working for
years to develop such an engine. That
they will succeed cannot be doubted.
What their success will mean in the fu-
ture Of transportation, not even an H. G..
Wells nor Jules Verne could imagine
Those who wall that progress is dead,
that the world must stop where it is and
spend all of its future consolidating"
gains, should learn a valuable lesson
from this ''blast engine development.
for it is only symbol of the development
that lies in mankind's future, if only he
faces that future with courage
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Uranium Crackers

The two great factions of organ
lied labor in the United States re-
Gently held their conventions. Here
are five questions dealing with those
organizations.
l. Who is the new president of
the Congress of Industrial Organ
iZationS?
2. The new president of the c.
I. O. and his predecessor both rose
through the ranks of the same un-
ion. What is it?
3. Who is president of the AM
erican Federation of Labor? In
what city was it's recent convention
held?
4. Climax of the differences
which led to the formation OF the
G. I. o. came at an A. F. of l..
convention in Atlantic City, same
city where the C. I. o. recently
met. In what year did that split
come?
5. One of the issues discussed
at the A. F.. of l.. convention was
that of alleged racketeering among
union leaders, and one of the lead
ers in the discussion is president of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union. Who is he?
l. Philip Murray.
2. United Mine Workers of AM
erica.
8. William F. Green is president
of the A. F.. of L., which met re-
Gently in New Orleans.
d. In the fall of 1885.
5. David Dubinsky.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

Men who go into the new army
will never know one feature that
was a commonplace to the men
of 1917-18 That is the welfare
centers conducted by the Y. M. c.
A, Salvation Army, K. of c., Jew
ish Welfare Board, and similar or
ganizations.
AS the new cantonmentS rise,
each has a recreation center, but
it will be army-built and army con-
trolled. The writing paper, the
exhortations to write home, the
piano in the corner, the dog -eared
magazines and books, the lounging
chairs and checker sets will be ad-
ministered by the army itself,
through Morale Division in Wash
ington. Social workers and Ma
tional Youth Administration en-
ployes will take the place of the
Y-Workers" and Salvation Army
Lassies of the World War.
Religious organizations are being
urged TO do their part no less ac-
lively than before, but in another
way. They are being urged to min
ister to the recreational and spiri-
tual needs of the soldiers outside
the military reservations, in the
hours when the men are on pass
and not under direct military con-
troll. The army considers the prob
lem of the young man on leave in
a large and strange city with no
place to go and nothing constructive
TO do as one more worthy the at
tention of the private welfare Or
ganizations than that of recreation
during off-hours in the camps them
selves
There has been considerable con-
fusion among welfare groups will
ing and anxious TO offer their serv-
ices. yet uncertain as to just what
they may properly do. Only the
general lines have been laid down
that Legitimate ind appropriate
services by civilian welfare agencies
are TO be solicited, with the only
stipulation that there be no more
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
by Bruce Cation -.
The Inside Track in Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Pres-
sure of a snow-balling reserve fund
is likely to force a change in the
unemployment compensation sec
tions of the social security set-up
this winter.
Under the present law money is
coming in just about twice as
fast as it is going out. The un-
employment insurance reserve fund
today stands at about $1,700, 900 900,
and is figured to reach $2,25O, ,0O0,0 ,000
by next July.
This reserve fund is invested by
the secretary of the treasury in
government bonds, each states own
contribution being held to its ac-
count.
Thus, instead of contributing to
an increase in the national debt,
this piling-up of the insurance fund
provides market for some of the
bonds. which the increase in the
national debt puts on the market.
LABOR FAvORS
LIBERALIZATION
From labor and important New
Dealers comes a demand that bene-
fit payments be liberalized. From
business interests comes demand
that the employers burden be light
ened-either by a lowering of the
3 per cent payroll tax, or by ex-
tension of the experience rating
system. Or perhaps both.
Whole future of the unemploy-
ment compensation system may de-
pend largely on how this scrap
comes out.
The Social Security Board is
inclined to liberalize benefits, both
on the theory that in many states
the sums now paid are inadequate
and iE the belief that anything
which would increase mass buying
power would be all to the good
Under the general heading of lib
eralizing benefits would come short
ening of the waiting period, ex-
tension of the time over which bene-
fits can be paid, and hiking of the
amounts paid out.
In general, both the A. F. of l.
and the c. I. o. would back such
move. Interesting point is that
the final rallying point of the lib
eralizers may be the Mccormack
bill (backed by Majority Leader
John w. Mccormack which woulo
write minimum benefit standards
into the federal law Each result
of such a step would probably be
more or less complete liberalization
of the whole system-which, as il
now stands, is actually a state af-
fair operated under a degree oi
federal supervision. -
EXPERIENCE RATINGS
CENTER OF DEBATE
Real center of the argument, how
ever, will be the business abou
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

experience ratings.
This is system, now IN eilect
in a. number of state, whereby tne
unemployment insurance lax when
an employer pays depends on ms
record in regard to stabilizing his
own force. An employer who can
show that over a three-year period
he has kept his force from fluc-
tuating very much and has dis
charged few persons pays lower
tax than the employer who lays OH
a large number every so often.
For years the National Association
of Manufactures has urged ex-
tension CT this system. Argument
is that it. offers powerful incentive
toward the stablization of employ
ment, forces the employer who Is
most responsible for unemployment
to bear the heaviest part of the
load, and tends to make the whole
system a means for helping to
reduce unemployment.
Labor organizations and the So
cial Security Board don't like ex-
perience ratings much. They con-
slider this a means of stabilizing
unemployment, assert it works out
in favor of corporations dike util-
ities) whose labor requirements are
fairly steady, and say that 1t pro-
notes the replacement Of men by
machines.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

lMPEkIAL.
No. 3156
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plicatiOn for Letters Testament
airy.
In the Matter of the Estate of
w. H. BROOKS, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton for probate of the will of w. H.
BROOKS, deceased, and for the is
suance to GRACHIE A. BROOKS
of letters testamentary, has been fill
ed in this court, and that Friday
the Goth day of December, 1910 at
2 o'clock pm, of said day, at the
courtroom of said court, in the City
of Ell Centro, County of Imperial,
State of California, has been set
for the hearing of said petition,
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and contest the
same, and show cause. if any they
have, why said petition should not
be granted
/ Dated December 9th, 1910.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk,
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
D. B. ROBERTS,
Attorney for Petitioner.
(Dec. 9-l9 incl0
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY and SOUTHERN
PACIFIC COMPANY hereby give
notice that on the 26th day of No
vember, 1910, they filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
at Washington, d. c., an applica-
ton for a certificate of public con-
venience and necessity permitting
abandonment by the former and
abandonment of operation by the
latter of that portion of the So
called Laguna Branch extending
from Milepost 732.623, at or near
Colorado, TO the end of the branch
at Milepost 744.367, at or near Pot
holes, a distance of approximately
l1744 miles, all in Imperial County,
California.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD COMPANY, SOUTH
ERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
D4-l1-l8)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

lest he choke, and temperamental
stars with fancy tastes have upped
picture costs as much as $500 for
special blends The custard
pies tossed these days are more
photogenic than edible. Max Fac
tor, a company specializing in
makeup and wigs, also whips up
an oil-base meringue which is de-
lightfully ploppy and far better
than anything ever smeared in a
Mack Sennett comedy.
The comically ly-dependable old pie,
incidentally, still holds place in
the new pictures. Or have you
seen Arizona" which has every
thing from sputtering custard to
a sputtering dynamite fuse beside
the bound and struggling heroine?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
CHANGED ARCHITECTURE
(Redl.ands F.acts)

(1leQlaNuS FdClS)
Widespread disaster to community
has often resulted in its rebuilding on
better foundations, better architectural
lines, with the kinks taken out of crook
ed streets Fires, earthquakes, hurri-
canes have often been the agents to bring
this about. Chicago, and San Francisco
following their great fires, found them
selves rid of fostering sore spots and
with opportunity to modernize vast areas
of the city that for long had been dis
graceful sections.
Our thoughts turn to the ruined cities
of Europe, destroyed not by natural
forces, but by the inhumanity of man.
British architects are already busy de-
signing dwellings for the future JLst
now their plans are taking into account
a factor of safety that no inhabitant ever
before had to give a neutrality-suspicious.
from falling fire and bombs.
Some of these plans are absorbingly
interesting architecturally
Tourists from America in future years
will find in Europe a different land, a
strange contrast to what they became
accustomed in the peaceful '20s.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. IA StuulO
may spend 100000, as Warner
Brothers has, to rock a boat. And
vet. for scenes inside a ship or
whenever the horizon does not
show. sea-sway is simulated for the
cost of one mans wages. Such
great differences in cost, to obtain
similar effects, are what drive Hol-
lywood efficiency experts screWy.
On the sea Wolf" set, the
schooner Ghost is pitched by mas
sive hydraulic jacks built to lift
half a million pounds. Inside a
cabin, though, technicians merely
hang the camera by a cable and
swing it. The camera is swung
in a figure 8, a regular pattern
traced on the floor by a pointer.
If the motion were only lateral,
it would look phony. But with the
forward, backward, sideWise and
fitting movement of the camera,
people standing on a level floor
seem to lurch in an effort to balance
themselves.
The shimmering of background
waves in the sun is an effect which
in ordinary circumstances can be
produced by rear-projection on a
translucent screen of an actual film.
but on this indoor ocean. and with
a full-sized ship, the background
vista is many times larger than
any process shot permits.
So the waves are made with three
enormous sheets of celluloid, each
about 60 by 80 feet, and each striped
with horizontal dashes of black
paint. Hung together and slowly
shuffled by a machine, and with
flood lights blazing through them
from the rear, they produce an
effect of tapping waves you can
almost hear.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

Flanagan, H., voted for a new high
school but defeated the bond issue to pay
for it. Even the teachers can't solve that
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

A serious shortage of people without
colds is reported in numerous sections
of the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

An Oklahoma man deserted his wife
and II children. They'll probably find
him in some nice, quiet spot