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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Star-News Program

Consolidated CityCounty Government.
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Sho1cs.
Seaside HighaDay from Wrightsvfne
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-foot Cape Fear River channel. uid-
er Turning Basin, teith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
orion Plantation.
Developme nt OF Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina,
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY ons.
countrywide tau.
%Shipyards and Drydock.
Neoro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm ent OF ndtiue grape 0roactng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdnatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
16, Not IS, Died In County
Automobile Accidents In 1920

The Star-News yesterday had to
revise it's total of automobile IA
talities for New Hanover county
during 1899 when statistics com.
piled by Keith Saunders, under the
direction of Ronald Hocutt, director
of the state highway safety divi-
sion, proved to be more accurate.
The figures submitted by Saun.
ders, promotional representative of
the division showed a total of 16
fatalities in the county for the
year, whereas the count Of the
Star-News showed only IS.
Statistics compiled by Saunders
were based entirely on reports re-
ceived regularly throughout the
year by the state highway safety
division from city, county. and
state officers who investigated the
fatal highway accidents.
The names of those persons who
were killed in the county last year,
together with the dates on which
they died, were listed by Saunders
as follows:
Theodore A. Futch, January l.:
s.. Marshburn, January 25;
Houston Ray Mintz, January 4:
Lille Sutton, February 10; Helen
Crimson, Selma Costin, Roger Ro.
chelle, and Luther Thomas Russ
April rs; Leroy Green, Nav Is.
James Dudley Loftin, May -.
Emma James, June 1; Robert
6raden Lewis, June %; Edgar
Cramer, July %; Mack A. Scott.
July ~; Frank J. Jarman, Novem.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
House And Home
Who can utter a sweeter word

Who can utter a sweeter word
than that one s~yllabIe-Home.
Its four letters are the Gospels
in the story of human exper-
fence. 1t suggests the glow of
the hearth, the prattle of chill
dren, the romance of youth, the
activity of daily duty, the Incl.
dents of family discipline.
The real home must have a
place, a habitation, not merely
for sojourning, but as a perma-
nent dwelling. This doubtless is
the objective of h recent
movement on behalf of better
housing. 1t is to be hoped that
better equipped houses will
look toward a higher degree of
culture; that modern convent
ences will lead to contentment;
and sanitation toward sound
ness of mind. In short the be-
lief is that external improve
ments ought to develop internal
efficiency d happiness; al
though the normal process is
the reserve. However there may
be refinement and contentment
iii a hut. The writer observed
this frequently while pioneering
OIL the plains and in the forests
of the Pacific northwest. On the
contrary many a palatial resi-
dence may conceal some grin.
ming family skeletons. The gla-
injurious Hollywood boasts of
quite a procession. The study
of biography tells us that
many of the worlds greatest
characters have been reared in
poverty-stricken homes and sur.
vived other h%ardships.
Quite reasonably our homes
should serve as shelter against
inclement weather, as reflector
les to replenish bodily nourish-
ment, as dormitories for rest at
night, and as Ravens for p%rotec-
ton. But is that their sole OBJ
jective? Do not the fowls of the
air and the beasts of the field
enjoy the came cOnVenienceS?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
PLAY BALL

Observation-Disclosures. That's the way
1V1 Youngsters the country over arrange
their spring play program.
1t just happens that way. When frost goes
out of the ground and boys HE forth for tun,
they want to get their knuckles in the dust.
That means marbles. Then, When Marchs
strong winds yield to the gentler zephyrs OF
April, kites take to the air by the thousand.
When the fun of flying kites begins to pail,
the weather is hot enough for baseball and
it's contemporary diminutive, diamond ball.
Thus, without a steering committee to draft
a program, young America adapts its recrea'
ton to the weather.
In Wilmington, spring ripens so quickly it
practically contains all the most pleasurable
elements of summer from the start. Save for
rare exceptions, winds are not too strong for
good kiting along with marbles, and right
now, three days after it's arrival, spring is
sufficiently summerlike for ball playing. If
there is any doubt that boys are already at
it, a visit to any open space, however uneven
or overgrown, will set it at rest. They are
having a grand time with bat and ball, and
perhaps with the umpire, too.
But it is all undirected, unsystematized.
The youngsters in a neighborhood or in a
school get together, choose up sides and go
to it for dear life as long as daylight lasts.
It's fun all right, but not as much fun as it
would be if regular teams, as many as they
can form, played regular games, on regular
schedules, in regularly constituted loops with
box scores and percentage tables and league
standings, and even a post season champion.
ship series.
There's something to stir young ambition
and pride and generalship. And it can be
done if some agency gets promptly on the
job. The city administration has promised to
clear, and perhaps grade, any vacant ground
obtained for the purpose. The recreation de-
partment has said it will direct the play. All
that remains to do is to secure use of the nee
ball the fields need not be so large.
Here is where one or more of the civic
clubs can take a hand. Or some beneficent
with time available to spot eligible
land and negotiate its surrender for the sum.
mer to the budding BABE RUTHs, ct al.
Say there was a Southern and a Northern
and a Central loop, in which the boys of those
districts could do their stuff not merely to
pass away an afternoon agreeably but to prove
their mettle and train their skill. Wouldn't
that be better than having them play in the
breaking windows, interrupting traf.
fic, creating accident hazards, and having
their play a mere chaotic tumble of running
and bowling? You bet it would,
With the season at hand, it would seem
that the clubs of Wilmington could do no
kinder or more helpful thing for the boys
who must spend the summer at home than
to see that they have elbow room, and dia.
mond room for their favorite sport.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Workers Urged To File
Under Security Program

All workers and beneficiaries N
Southeastern North Carolina who
come under the old age and srr
vivors insurance program must take
definite steps to insure for them.
selves the financial protection viii il
the system provides. George W, jeff.
reys, manager Of the Wilmington
office of the Social Security board,
said yesterday.
Each worker must apply for a
social security account number, re.
ceive such a number, and furnish
it to every employer he works for,
and a prospective beneficiary must
file a claim for insurance payments,
in addition 20 meeting the othef
qualifying requirements, in order %
become entitled to these payments
Jeffreys said.
To file a claim. the worker or any
other beneficiary should 90 or WFI,e
to the local office located on tie
first floor of the customhouse, where
he will receive all the help he neeiS
to make out the necessary clam
papers. After the application forms
and essential proofs are completei'
the claim will be forwarded to WaS'
ington for adjudication.
When the claim mas been adjlo'
Gated and the amount of INSURANCE
payment determined. the applicant
will be advised when he may e&Pe.'
the first payment. Jeffreys said L
is not necessary to consult an at,o'
ney or any legal adviser in obtain
ing insurance payments.
Residents of the following cQuN'
ties of Southeastern North CaTo!-a
will be served al the local on'''
New Hanover, Brunswick, BlaasD'
Columbus. Robson, Hoke, CO1NosP'
land, Sampson, Pendor, DupIN III,
slow, Jones, Craven, Pamllco a'
Carteret.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
New Bern Is Allotted
NYA Funds For ten''

RALEIGH, March 2$'- s1,d. To-
Bern was allotted NfA . rec
day for the construction 0 .L,, q
reational building cos'"'- robn 4
and employing 60 YOUTHS , 3 %.rra.ge
Lang, state NYA admins"
announced today. ;oc,s ctH.
ing ss1,4S1.61 and s''''s
ment to $50 persons
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Two Negroes Sentenced
In Staying OF Officer

ELLINGTON, March 23.1R-
Two negroes, Dave Lilly and Alex
Williams, alias Bud Grady, were
sentenced yesterday to enght to
twelve years for manslaughter in
connection with the Staying of Po-
liceman Martin Underwood Of Dunn
February II.
Buster Hargrove, 16, Erwin negro,
was acquitted.
Underwood was struck by a
brick after he had made an arrest
al a Dunn cafe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Funeral Services Held
For William l. Moore

Funeral services for William l..
Moore, who died Friday at the horne
OF his sister, Miss Lucy B. Moore,
we're held yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock from the residence.
The Rev. Mortimer Glover, rector
Of st. James Episcopal church, con-
Quoted the services. Interrnent fol-
lowed i'll Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Hubert
Latimer, John Carter, Harmon C..
Rorison, Frederick Graham, r. N.
Williams and Louis Poisson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24

Coulee water will provide
homes for half a million.
What is going en- now is a
huge study to make sure that
the settlement will be order
ly and will be handled in the
wisest possible manner.
Study is being made by a
committee sponsored by the
Bureau of Defamation. In it
are all sorts of public and
private agencies-representa-
tives Of the Department Of
Agriculture, of the army en-.
gineers, of the Washington
state planning council and
state college, of local cham
bers Of commerce, irrigation
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Bruce Cations
In Washington

WASHINGTON, March 23-Although it will
be more than two years before anybody moves
in, elaborate preparations for a vast immigration
of peoples to the Grand Coulee basin are being
made now.
Eventually, the area made fertile by Grand
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Truck, Melon Acreages
Increased In Carolina

RALEIGH, March 23.-R-Indi-
cations are that lettuce. cabba ge
watermelon acreages in North
carolina will be larger this veal,
tnan In 1899, the federal-state crop
reporting service said today.
The indicated paintings this wear
ana last, respectively, were listed
as lettuce. 1000 acres and 2.1oo
acres; cabbage, 5000 and $500:
ano watermelons. 1920 and H.
900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
SPAN LIMIT

RALEIGH, March 23.-AP-A
state highway patrolman will be
posted at the Wright Memorial
orloge. connecting Dare county
with the mainland, to help highway
commission officials enforce a
tnree-ton load limit yer the span,
T. +. Taylor, bridge maintenance
engineer, said today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24

Der l; and Johnnie Holder, Deem
Der %.
The largest number of highway
accident fatalities - four occurred
during April of last year.. January
was next with three deaths. Sta.
tlstics showed that two fatalities
were reported for each of the
months of November, December.
and February.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
HOUSING ON THE LAND
Raleigh News and Observer

In the growing movements for better hous-
ing in America the one big point of need to
which too little attention has until recently
been paid is the rural housing on the American
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
TOP O. THE MORNING

If ne then be risen With Christ, seek those
things achicb are dboue, srhere Christ S1tteth
on the right hand of God.-CoLossIANs 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Everybody Wants
To Work For U. 5.

Civil Service commissioners are beginning to
wonder if the whole population wants to worl
for Uncle Sam. During the past year thew
have received approximately $500, 900 letters in.
curing about jobs-not work relief; real civil
service Jobs. One queer angle is the number
of letters from women who figure a var 10
coming and say they'd be glad to take the ioh
Of the young postman, for instance, so 90 ~
release him for the army
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
Work Will Be Done
Slowly And Orderly

Slowly And Orderly
Big point the committee agrees on is that
there'l be no rush about the job; the whole
thing likely will take 30 years, maybe longer.
Probability is that the area will be developed
in blocks, a little at a time; there'll be moth.
ing resembling the Oklahoma land rush of a
generation ago.
President Roosevelt has said a majority
OF the settlers ought to come from the dust
poWl migrants. Whatever is done about that,
MY about a third of the 100000 inhabit-
ants will be on farms; past experience on
projects indicates that when
one family takes up a farm, two other
families get opportunities in city and town.
incidentally, past experience in settling dust
bowl migrants in western reclamation area
Is being gone over with a fine-tooth comb
so mistakes can be avoided.
Political Motives
Seen In Chavez Speech
While the Hatch clean-statep politics bill was
under debate, Senator Shaver (Hatch's New
Mexico colleague) jumped up with a stirring de.
Tense of the motives Of Hatch and Congress.
man Dempsey in sponsoring the legislation. He
waved a newspaper clipping which limited that
the two were really trying to take the vote
away from citizens of Mexican descent, and
said such a hint was outrageous; he knew both
men, he said, and knew their motives were
lofty.
All of which is funny when you know
the background. Chavez is up for re-elec-
ton this year; the one Democrat conceded
a chance to beat him for the nomination is
Congressman Dempsey, whose chances are
very good indeed. Come campaign time, and
= Chavez can make fine use OF his defense"
of Dempsey, if Dempsey does run.
And there's this: few senators have a tighter
state machine back of them than Chavez.
Chavez voted against the new Hatch bill-which
riled Dempsey so much it may be the determin.
ing factor in persuading him to run for the
Senate,
Evening star., 1940-01-13
A Little Saturday Talk
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

border between Chile and Argentina,
is $500 feet higher.
The worlds highest mountain Is
Mount Everest in Asia, at the SOUTH
ern edge of. Tibet. Everest rises
511a miles, and is more than a mile
higher than the top peak of South
America. Several other peaks in
Asia rank above the tallest in South
America.
Another reader, Mr.. w. Westdyk,
gives notes on Holland. He writes
in part:
II was born in Leiden, Holland,
and since my mother is English, I
have been interested in everything
that concerns the English. The Pill
grim Fathers lived in Leiden, and
I know the place where they lived
very well. Opposite that place is a
church with a wall on which is a
large bronze plaque marking the
stay of the Pilgrim Fathers.
October 3 is a local holiday for
the city of Leiden, in remembrance
of the release of Leiden from the
Evening star., 1940-01-13

The postman has been bringing
me more and more letters with
questions. One of them reads:
Recently I had an argument with
some business associates about the
relative heights of mountains. I
said that Mount Chimborazo in
Ecuador was the highest mountain
in the world, but they insisted
Mount Everest in the Himalayas
was the highest.
"One of the fellows later brought
an Uncle Ray clipping to the office
and handed it to me as though to
prove their statement. Will you
please clear up this question about
the highest mountain in the world?"
The writer of that letter was
wrong in thinking South Amer
ican mountain to be the highest
Chimborazo is an extremely high
peak, rising almost miles, but it
Is not the highest even in South
America. Mount Aconcogua, on the
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Symphony Will Play.
Fcr ARLINGTON Students

Students from ~ Arlington County
(Va.) schools will head a concert by
the National Symphony Orchestra
at pm. Thursday in Washington
and Lee High School, it was an
nounced yesterday by Assistant
Supt. of Schools L. w. Brown. Buses
will transport children to the per-
formance, which will be directed by
DR.. Hans Kinder.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

Spaniards. have no knowledge OF
Thanksgiving day being kept in
Holland except at church services. "
The October 3 holiday Of Leiden
grew out of q feeling of thanks
giving" The people of Leiden were
happy when the Spaniards gave up
their attempt to capture the city,
and this led to the keeping Of a
holiday year after year. Such a
holiday was observed while the Pill
grims we're in Leiden, and it may
have given them the idea for their
later Thanksgivings in the New
World
Evening star., 1940-01-13

CdSS -TaSS
The four no-trump is the Black
wood convention" explains Mr.
Goodwin when Mr.. Walker
showed three aces, the North player
didn't even ask for kings, but
jumped to seven spades"
After the opening lead of the
Jack Of hearts, the only fear Mr..
Walker had was finding all oppos-
ing trumps in one hand. and even
this could be overcome if they were
placed with East. On this assump-
tion, Mr.. Walker carefully trumped
the opening heart lead in his own
hand and followed with a spade to
dummy's queen. Sure enough, his
supercaution was justified for West
showed out. A trump was led back,
forcing East to split his honors. A
diamond was then led to dummy
and another heart trumped This
procedure was tried once more and
third diamond played to dummy.
East followed and Mr.. Walker, with
a sigh Of relief, gathered in his con-
tract by his ontinued lead of high
hearts. A perfectly timed grand
coup. Failure to trump a heart at
the first trick would have resulted
In defeat of the contract"
Our congratulations to Mr. Walker
tor his fine bidding and play.
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner and held:
"A
VKQJxxx
HAxx
&Kxx
The, bidding:
You. Schenken. Jacoby. Maier.
- Pass 81 Pass
&?
Answer: Your correct bid is three
hearts. You are probably going to
get to seven with this hand before
you are through, but there is no
hurry.
Score 100 per cent for three hearts,
none for three no-trump. We are
not going to mark ths various other
bids, since practically any bid that
partner cannot pass will lead to no
trouble with this fine hand.
Question No., 342.
You are Merwin Maier's partner
and hold:
Asa
AK6432
GA
&5432
The bidding:
You. Burnstone. Maier. Schenken.
- Pass l Mt Pass
20 Pass 2NT Pass
ca
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Winning Contract
By THE FQIrR ACES,
BUTTONING UP

David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D.
Maier. Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen-
ken, worlds leading team-of-four in
every other system in existence
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Planning a Grand Coup

Richard T. Goodwin of Baltimore
Md, writes: ct is rare, indeed
when an opportunity for a grand
coup presents itself, but when it
does and its execution is planned
In advance of the first card declarer
plays, the successful declarer has
scored real triumph. Such is the
play of Ronald Walker of Balti-
more"
South, dealer.
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Mr.. Walker.
The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
"a Pass 80 Pass
3A. Pass Ant Pass
5A Pass IA Pass
Pass -- Pass -..-.s --- ~--
Evening star., 1940-01-13
What do you bid? (Answer Mon
day.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)

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Evening star., 1940-01-13
G~eA R4

If you wish to obtain . copy
Of the New War Leaflet, send .
Scent stamped envelope, care
fully addressed to yourself Mail
to me In care Of The Evening
Star.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Group Named 10 Arrange
Columbus u. Senior Prom

Appointment of a committee on
arrangements in charge of Colum-
bus University's annual senior prom
was announced yesterday by Rob-
ert Berman, senior law class presi-
dent. The prom will be held Feb
ruary 3 at the Washington Hotel
and proceeds will be donated to the
university's school expansion fund.
Registrations for the January
freshman class in the law school
will be closed tomorrow night when
the new class begins, Dean John
r. Fitzpatrick has announced.
Glasses of the new freshman class
will continue through August and
students will be eligible for second
year law work next fall A gradua-
ton from four-year high school
course is required for admission,
Dean Fitzpatrick said.
Registrations for the new fresh
man course in accountancy, which
begins on January 20, will be con-
tinued throughout this week, Dean
James D. Cushman announced. This
freshman course will terminate with
the regular course in June Stu
dents in this course will be required
to attend classes three nights a
week, thereby completing a full
years work by June.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Georgetown Alumni
To Attend Banquet
For Archbishop
Very Rev. Arthur OLeory
And Other Jesuit
Leaders to Attend

Georgetown professors and alumni
generally are planning to attend
the banquet in honor of the Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore and Washington,
which will be tomorrow evening at
the Willard Hotel. The sponsor is
the Washington Section of the
League of Laymen's Retreats.
In addition to the very Rev. Ar
thur A. OLeary, s. j., president Of
the university, who will be one of
the principal guests, two important
Jesuit leaders will attend. They
are the Very Rev. Jacheus J.
Maher, American assistant to the
general of the Society of Jesus in
Rome, and the Very Rev. Vincent
L. Keelan, vice provincial of the
New York-Maryland province of
the order. Father Keelan, a new
appointee, is stationed at George
town and has general supervision
over the Jesuit schools in the
southern portion of the province,
including Maryland and the Dis
trict.
Father Maher is in this country
temporarily. He is directly respon-
sible to the head Of the order in
Rome and all Jesuit activities in
this country come under his au-
thority.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., re-
gent of the Foreign Service School,
is to announce this week the sched-
ule of his 1910 series of public lee
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Columbia Needs Space
For DRAFTING Classes

Paul J. Leverone, principal of Co.
lumbia "Tech" Institute, announced
yesterday that to accommodate the
new group Of drafting students now
registering for the midyear semester
1t will be necessary for the school
to obtain additional space either in
the annex at 1921 G street NV. or
in the schools main building at 1919
F street NV.
The school has recently added
much new equipment and reference
material, including manufacturer
catalogues, samples of building con-
struction materials furnished by va
rious supply houses of the city and
samples of drafting work performed
by the various drafting sections of
the United States Government and
private concerns.
George E. Morris, in charge of the
schools employment service, which
Is operated without charge for the
benefit of students and graduates,