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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
Meaningless
GESTURES
Annoying
BY DONNA GRACE

SINCE ACTIVITY is the rule
for the modern girl and woman,
one should be sure TO avoid
reaching the restless habit.
There are far too many who
seem never to relax but even
when seated move their hands
or feet or fidget from side to
side. This restlessness detracts
so much from the stability and
charm of any one. Look sat the
girls and women you admire,
the attractive and popular ones,
and you will note they can be
perfectly still.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-27
The Inevitable Problem

New England resorts.
Evening star., 1940-03-03

of crime as though the place were
haunted.
Returning from court, Edith Tate
wandered from room to room. Memo
ries! Not ghosts for her but memories!
Hers alone. shared with no one, they
gave the silent walls voices. Twenty
years they went back, to her first
meeting with Leonore McAllister in
this little reception room - Your
name is Mrs. Tate. Are you widow"
81 consider myself widow. My
husband was drunkard He took my
money and left me soon after we mar
ried. haven't seen or heard from him
in seven years" "You poor thing!
Did you love him?" "Yes. loved
Evening star., 1940-03-03

him. May have the position? I'm an
economical housckecper and I'd like a
good home" In that little room
she had started new life, empty of
emotion. empty of hope, but sure OF
enough to eat, somewhere to sleep.
And here in the breakfast room,
how often had she served Cornelius
McAllister on winter mornings before
the servants were about He had liked
the way she crisped bacon and
Drowned toast without burning it. He
had liked her self-etfacement, leaving
him to enjoy his quiet early meal with
out clatter of china or other unneces-
sary noises. And before light broke
through the gray sky he was in his car
being rushed over the short distance
to town She had stood in the doorway
and watched him drive away huddled
in his greatcoat. cold in body. cold in
soul.
He had not known she was standing
there; he had never looked back. His
head was always bowed as if lost in
thought. absorbed with the days busi-
ness ahead of him. But she knew. The
robot, Edith Tate, knew his aloneness.
She knew what he so carefully guarded
from the eyes of others. Toward noon
his lovely wife would toss the silken
blond hair out of her sleepy eyes, ring
for orange juice and tea, sing lifting
scraps of song while she dressed. then
skim on her way to meetings with
younger men who could play as gam
blers with life, game she understood
to perfection but of which Cornelius
McAllister did not know the first
rules 49,.
Evening star., 1940-03-03
Uy4yLtllY;S WAGON

you about Bumps Rafferty,.
toughest truck driver in seven
states. Six bucks of work for
Bumps is a days job about the
size of one of them labors OF
Hercules you read about.
Bumps was air-conditlonin
his second cup of coffee when a
pinch-faced little gal, who might
have been seventeen. or maybe
thirty you wouldn't care
which came in the side door.
She fished out a nickel and
bought a cup of coffee. Shucks.
cookies amt very expensive and
so l stacked handful on a plate
and showed 'em out MY birth
day - on the house." told her.
can't recall whether she said
thanks or just looked 'em. Then
she asked me if that gentleman.
meanin' Bumps. was the driver
of the truck outside. Said she
needed to get to Carroltown,
about a hundred miles north.
started to say he was headed
south and had only swung around
to come INTO this hOrseradish
hostelry. But somcthin stopped
me.
"Ill ask him." said.
Bumps amt noted for tact and
tenderness but he took one look
and said, Tell her to wait -
got a better idea" Then he went
out.
He was back in a few minutes.
Then he comes over and speaks
to the girl.
Look, sister. | happened to
think of this ticket my outfit
bought me from here to Carroll
Evening star., 1940-03-03
Girl Goes Home

= HOPE this world stays full of
softhearted folks. Take MIR.
Wasson. He was grocer in
the little old town l was born in.
MIR. Wasson finally gave away
his grocery store in gumdrops
to kids.
That must have been back in
1907 at about the time four bits
wasn't a fifty-nine-cent dollar;
it was a manhole cover.
Well, sir. remember MIR.
Wasson's close-out sale. l was
about gumdrop age. Ma went
and bought quite batch of stuff
Il guess all our budget could
stand. One thing she bought was
an enamel pan for nine cents.
You might get a better one to-
day in the dime store. but | bet
you wouldn't get it full of gum
drops.
Probably shouldn't say that.
because last night. right here in
the big city, l saw nearly the
same thing happen. Maybe | told
Evening star., 1940-03-03
uaqQ1H H~~

Here in the library was where he sat
night after night alone while Lconore
danced. Occasionally he had gone the
endless round of galeties with her. But
he was excess baggage and he knew 1t.
Yet not until that handsome South
American appeared had he known
actual fear.
There had been scenes in this room
with books as silent witnesses: scenes
that must have been torture to
Leonore's husband because he wanted
peace and her happiness above every
thing. Edith Tate could only guess
at those scenes, but her mistress S
petulance and the sunk look of her
master next day always told the true
story
And then that night of doom.
Exactly eight it had been. She had
brought coffee to the library and
found Cornelius McAllister sitting at
the desk with the telephone receiver
dangling from his hand Tate.
there's been an accident. My wife -"
And his voice. then, had sounded dead
too.
Morning papers reporting the trag-
edy had printed his statement that his
wife and Mr.. Manuel Ricardo were
speeding to town to dine and 60 to
theater and he had expected to join
them later. But Edith had noticed
that he was not in evening dress at
dinner. And when he called her after
the message of death came. he had
shakily covered large square enve-
lope of Leonore's violet stationery. his
name sprawled in purple ink across it.
(Continvsd on pogs 14)
Evening star., 1940-03-03
WITHOUT
SENTIME
Continued from poss nine

knocked on his door. said. Miss
Clarke is dead Her voice was fiat
as her eyes. She might have been an
nouncing the state of the weather.
Did you say it just like that -
Miss Clarke is dead?'" asked the
prosecutor facetiously.
"How else should have said it?'
The judges gavel halted the burst OF
laughter.
when there was no answer, what
did you do?"
Il went back to my room and read
my Bible"
Did you ever discuss the killing
with your employer
Only once. when he drove up that
day with police officer in his car
What did he say"
MIR. Neil seemed stunned and kept
asking ME who could have committed
such a hideous crime under his root.
Repeat his exact words.
For a second the thin black brows
came together in an unbroken line OF
concentration. MIR. Neil said, In the
name of pity, Tate. who could have
done such hideous thing? y Again
her empty monotone made horror
sound like an understatement.
WAS that all he said?" Knocked the
prosecutor with emphasis on all.
That was all the police gave him a
chance to say to me"
Are you asking the jury to believe
that the authorities did not leave
McAlllster free to hold any conversa-
ton he pleased?"
Over Max Conrick's instant "Objec-
ton, Your Honor. That remark is
prejudicial" came Edith Tate's: Il
don't ask the jury to believe anything
except the truth"
The district attorney had an actors
feeling for a scene. He knew when to
make his exit. tie knew tneSe nnal
words clicking like coins on pave
ment could not be topped. So he
excused Edith Tate.
She passed the counsel table where
the prisoner sat between his attorneys.
Eagerly the boy tried to catch and
hold her vagrant eyes as if one brief
glance might be link with the life
he had never valued, but now was
perilously near losing. But she passed
him by as shadow passes from sight.
without sign of interest.
The house might have been tomb,
so still it was. Not one of the staff was
left. They had all fled from the scene
Evening star., 1940-03-03

town last week when l broke
down on my last trip. My pal.
Jake, the taxi driver, is outside
and there's a train leavin in
about ten minutes. You see.
bummed a ride and this ticket is
lust goin' to waste If you don't
use it -
She took it and looked around.
kind of like a kid when pie is
bein' cut. guess she said thanks,
and then she was gone.
knew Bumps didn't break
down last week. If he had he'd
probably have carried his load
in anyway. The fare to Carroll
town is $3.50 and | guess Jake
got the other forty cents out of
the half of Bumps pay tonight.
"How-de-do. Mr.. Rockefeller"
| SAID to him.
Shut up" said Bumps to me.
and went out and jerked that old
truck onto the road.
That's what started me
thinkin' of Mr.. Wasson.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03
Dr.. (lendening Explains the
Mysteries Of Acids, A|ku|ies

good time to eaten Up d: nm.
cations if they have moi beer d..
before. Some physician pr.ie- i,
vaccinate against SmaliIot i =;
spring OF autumn but Ch1i. ;,leI
not seem to be any scicntih- &C
son advanced why o. how ao.
weather affects a vaccinatio!. n.
favorably. Perhaps a little no,
precaution about infection f tno
vaccination wound is require i.
the summer on account CT the pos
sibility of sweat injecting it or the
more moist condition of the skin
predisposing the maceration and
slOughing, but these are easy to
overcome.
One other precaution is for the
doctor to remember - smallpox
vaccine dies readily in very hot
weather and if the stock is not
kept in refrigeration the VAGINA
ton will not take" But vaccine
virus is so regularly kept refrig-
Grated that this reminder seems
hardly necessary.
If for some reason a child has
not been vaccinated against diph-
liberia, whooping cough, typhoid
fever and smallpox before enter.
ing school, the first vacation pc,
Rod is an excellent time to remedy
this.
If camp activity is planned, it
should be remembered that the
child who is being immunized may
Re deprived Of swimming or play
ing in the sand for a week or two
after any vaccination, but this,
again, is an easy matter of adjust
ment. :
Essentially - that isl scientifi-
cally-thcre is no reason why vac,
cination should no. 70 done in the
summer. - - tNI
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03

rather than soothe, whereas if they
turned to alkalies they should ncu-
tEahze the acidity that is present
iAstomach ulcer and make the con-
lHtion better"
4 1t is true that fruit juices are
aeid. 1t is also true that they are
tHnrned to alkaline salts and do not
EProduce real acidity. 1t is also
kfrue that they irritate an acid dys-
pepsia whereas an alkali should
spothe it.
~ Change Comes Later
&: The answer is that fruit juices
I. do not act as an alkali in the stom-
ach. All fruits have organic acids
and these acids form alkaline salts
but they do so in the intestine.
While they are in the stomach they
are still acid and, therefore, irri-
tate or make worse an acid dyr
pepsia or a stomach ulcer.
"A great many people are afraid
t&sat tomatoes or lemons because
they think they will produce 4 con-
dition of acidity and cause symp-
toms like rheumatism or stiffness
OF the fingers and joints. This is
not true. These juices are rapidly
put out of the stomach and turned
to alkaline salts in the intestine
and in that condition enter the
blood.
The only exception to this state
ment is that prunes and cranber-
ries do turn into acid salts.
Summer Yaccina ion
is 1t safe 10 vUccindte c!tjldyeH
m the summer?
Yes. In fact, summer is very
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03

EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Clendrs ing has
S"Tcn p;mE..s.ets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For an one pamphlet desired. send 10
cents it, coin. and self addressed uvelope
STAMPED with a thrcr-c"nt stamp. to DIR.
Loan CicndcninP. in care al this paper
Ge pamphlets are: Three Wec,,s' Er,iuc-
inG Diet 'lndiEes ti"n and G"nstipat ion =.
Reducing and Gaining. INFANT Feed
ing Instructions for the Treatment oil
Diabetes Feminine Hygiene" and The
Care VI the Hair and Skin.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03
4 A 10 9 6
y s
= X J s 8
= X J 6 3

II your partner leads the A Of
,.ur heart suit against SOuth'S
Spades. and the above hand is
aid down as dummy. the correct
caCi for you to play on that trick
is clearly delineated if you hold
any OF the following hands:
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
THE Authority Authorities
1.-The Authority on Authorities

partner has nothing 10 guide him
except the card YOU play.
You urgently wish I diamond
lead in the case g hands No. l
and No. 3. and command its lead
~ playing the heart 5 N the first
trick. With Nos. , and I. you
lust is urgently desire a lead Of
clubs. which you indicate with a
play OF your heart ,. the lowest
YOU can give him.
The low signal is not quite as
Clear-cut as that of the high card
asking for diamond lead. for the
simple reason that there is a
slight amount OF ambiguity at
tached to it. Your partner might
think you were merely telling him
not to repeat the suit and there
fore preferred a lead Of trumps
to cut down the ruffing possibil-
tiles for the declarer. However. if
your hand happened to be such
that You preferred a trump lead.
your best play would be the 4.
neither cmphatically high nor low.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03

With any of these. You stand a
very good chance OF beating the
contract if your partner makes
the correct Shift. and apparently
hardly any chance if he makes the
wrong one Since the dummy
shows exactly the same holding in
both diamonds and clubs. your
Distributed by King 7
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03
By LOGAN CLENDENING. MI.

81 HEAR a good many questions
which show a puzzled state Of
mind, and go something like this:
Fruit juices are acid; there
fore, they should produce condi-
ton of acidity in the body. Yet
doctors say that they really turn
to alkaline salts and produce aka
Unity rather than acidity. If this
is so, why is it that in cases of
ulcer of the stomach they irr'tate
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-06-03

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04

which opens at the Royal Theatre
today.
The famous speed plane is seen
as a model pursuit ship around
whose construction the lives OF
three men and a girl revolve with
dramatic as we'll as romantic re-
suits.
Designed by Hughes himself and
built at a cost of $500, 600, tn e
speedy little ship scarcely more
than a flying motor, also holds the
American non-military speed rec
ord of 352 miles an hour. Its use in
the film is said to add much to the
realism as well as to the interest
of the offering.
In addition to the four principals,
the cast in "Men Against the Sky"
also includes Granville Bates,
Grant, Withers, Donald Briggs and
Charles Quigley, Leslie Goodwins
directed.
Chapter Nine of Red Ryder head
lines Royal Varieties which also in
clude an Our Gang comedy and
Movietone News. ?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04

cade of the advance of the oil bust
ness, not from the viewpoint of big
business but from that of the men
who gamble on their ability to pry
wealth from the earth's boWels-an
of the women who love those big,
tWo-fisted, una: laid men. Yet the
theme does sweep broadly with
flashes carrying from brakes Fol-
ly in Pennsylvania, the first well
drilled in 1850, through great oil
strikes to the opening of the story
in those oil-frontier days of 1919.
Through the story runs the human
ness of men who tear mucky
wealth from deep veins in tn
earth and spend that wealth with
the same reckless abandon with
which they sought it.
Boom Town" has been h e
ever by the Carolina theatre, where
it will be presented through Sat-
urday. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
First Christian Church
Department Will Hold
Retreat Or October 6

The Senior Young Peoples De-
partment of the First Christian
Church will hold its annual fall re-
treat at the La Marsh cottage,
Carolina Beach, next Sunday, o.
tober 6. The group will leave the
church at Third and Ann streets at
IL noon Immediately following the
morning church service. They will
return at $50 o'clock. During the
afternoon some of the items of
business to be taken up will be the
election of departmental officers
for next year and the planning of
the program to be followed in the
new years work.
Directors and adult advisors OF
the group that will accompany
them on the retreat are: Miss Ruth
Ingram, Miss Hazel Overman and
Rev. James Lawson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
Movie Revues
RANGERS"
is OFFERED AT BIJOU

Charles Starett, one of the
screens most popular stars. re-
turns to the Bijou theatre today
in what has been hailed as his
most exciting western, Columbia
''Two-Fisted Rangers" is said to
be filled with exciting situations
which roar across the screen with
all the flaming sureness of a blaz-
ing six-gun; it possesses, In addi'
ton, more than it's share of COM
edy, romance and light, tuneful
range music of the kind which
have helped to make Starrett's
films so popular.
Iris Meredith plays the hard rid
ing swift-shooting stars pretty
leading lady. She is ably seconded
by the Sons of the Pioneers, Dick
Curtis, Kenneth Macdonald, Hal
Taliaferro, James Craig, Bill Cody,
Jr., and other well-known action
drama players.
winners of the West and Char
lie Chase in His Bridal Fright
complete the program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
SAFETY PICTURES
Are SHOWN HERE
Exhibited Before WPA Safe
Driving School And Tide
Water Company Workers

Two safety motion pictures, en-.
"''ea The Truck and the Driver"
anu Safety On Two Wheels a bi.
'Scle film, We're shown yesterday to
WA safe driving school and
employees Of the Tide Water com.
pany,
Inc PICTURES were presented by G.
w. l~o'nlinson, of Raleigh, a repre-
N'@tiVe from the office of Ronald
loVutt' director of the state high.
w. SAFETY division, and George w,
d.1. I' state supervisor of the safe
'lIVihg schools.
me films were shown last night
lno ''e recorders courtroom to the
noa sale driving class and in the
h. 'I'"s and evening in the assem-
wall of the Tide Water Power
'"pahy' for bus drivers and other
employees. ""0 0'
l'iks on safety were made bv
M ''!son and Smith, who cited the
II, 0vcloent record of bus drivers in
ssis Guy during September. Thew
n.,a Pamphlets on correct hand sig.
and udo been posted in all taxicabs
ca 10y ousses in promotion of a
corraaS to teach the public the
SoFfect hand signals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
'BOOM TOWN. MARKS
CAROLINA HOUSE BILL

From all angles Boom Town."
is action. Gable and Tracy r two
of the greatest action stars in
screen history. Miss Colbert has
braved the frontiers in such pic
lures as Drums Along the Mo
hawk as well as in a score Of gla-
mour and adventure stories. Miss
Lamar brings in the exotic. The
picture is directed by Jack Con.
way, who made such action pic,
lures as Too Hot to Handle" "A
Yank at Oxford" Viva Villa!"
and Saratoga"
In part, the story is 4 caval'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04

is it sufficient to have a few seacoast batteries along the
Middle Atlantic and New England coast line. No longer is it
sufficient to calculate that if San Francisco, Boston, New
York and Philadelphia are protected the country is safe and
the rest be hanged. Hitler exploded that theory Gf it was
ever a theory in less than a week. He hit where he was
least expected, which is, as We understand it, a military
maxim at least as old as Napoleon. And after hitting with
modern fighting machines and revised tactics he covered
the distance from the point of penetration to the heart of
his victims before they could rally from the surprise.
Carolina Coast Unguarded And Vulnerable
A look at the map will convince one that the Carolina
coast line is one that may be penetrated at most any point
with perfect impunity. Those familiar with its waters know
that most any day in the year boats can come in close to
the shore and actually make landings along the beach, or
enter the numerous inlets. Simultaneous landings could be
made at many points between Cape Lookout and Charleston.
From our knowledge of existing conditions, we believe an
enemy could be landed under cover of darkness in this area
and in such numbers as to capture Fort Bragg before morn
ing. simultaneously with such an attack would go the only
two deep water terminals between the Virginia Capes and
the southern corner Of the country. Military experts say
that such a penetration in force might even flank the
Charleston Navy Yard, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
COUNTY SPENDING
EXCEEDS REVENUE
Orrell Reports Collections Of
$21,187, Expenditures Of
$64,321 In Month

The New Hanover county govern
ment collected $~21,187.51 and ex-
pended $64, 21.S9 during September
the monthly report of j. A. Orreil'
county auditor, disclosed yesterday.
The county had a cash balance on
hand of s135, s29.45 as of September ]
and se2, s95.o7 as of September 80
Orrell reported.
Principal items of receipts were
listed as follows: back S,
81. 243.21; recorders court, $1,551.36;
and from state of North Carolina,
$s,9s2.s4.
Major disbursements during the
month were: county aid, $~7,552.47;
superior court, $1,260.68; school
fund, six months, $1,000; school
fund, extended term, $4,000; school
books, $2,S66.07; school buildings,
$6,933.67.
County home, $~2,O41.4S; hospital
fund, $1,666.66; old age fund d,
&c. 08.50; aid to dependent children
fund, $3,160.50; public welfare de-
partment, $~1.741.35; new building at
county home. $~1,233.s1; and Com
munity hospital note, $11,100.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04

suit in a paralysis of the southern half of the United States.
It would lay wide open the great textile area of the country
and the great power centers of the Piedmont section. It
would result in the loss of one of the greatest storage re-
servoirs of petroleum in the country. Tobacco may not be
essential to life but we know it was priced highly as a morale
factor during the last World war. The Carolinas produce and
manufacture the cigarette and smoking tobacco Of the
world. 1t is certainly worth considering.
Make Use Of The Facilities We Have
We have a great inland waterway paraIleling the coast
line. 1t was planned for defense as we'll as navigation. This
waterway connects with the numerous inlets. Naval patrol
boats can ply up and down these waters, weaving in and
out of the inlets at will. They could detect fifth columnists
or a First Coumnist. Strategic sites for landing fields and
s~eaplane bases certainly exist along our coast line border.
It seems reasonable to us to suppose that a central airport
should be developed at or near Wilmington with emergency
landing fields at Cape Hatteras, Beaufort, Southport and
Georgetown:
Harbors, Ports And Terminals
Recent emergency legislation contemplates defense
harbors at Oregon Inlet and Ocracoke. We believe this is
wise legislation. It is necessary that we have harbors of