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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28

This letter was turned over to
us for publication by Mrs. An
drew Schneider of Cleveland, O.
Hello Ohio! - This is Berlin
calling all stations in the good old
U.S.A. Now to come to the point ::
I am an American from Pasadena,
California in other words :
Gods Country What | am doing
here? can hear YOU ask ! Well |
love to travel and come abroad
often. | came in October 1887
when Mussolini was in Berlin.
and wanted to stay here over X
mas - having many American
friends here. Then | stayed on
went to France for 6 weeks and
came back here to see Cal. friends
who came on my invitation, then
another NmaS passed and was
greatly enjoyed here in the land
of Xmas trees and Silent Night
etc. | made reservation to &C
to N. Y. on the Bremen Sept. u
then came Sept. 3rd and no Ger
man ships were operating. | had
lot of German Marks, but no SIS
Waited to have my daughter wire
me some from Cal Had met Mrs
Wandel quite some time ago, she
is jolly and for the time being
am staying here while Mr.. w. is
at the front. He will be home or
Dec. 2lst. | also have many rela
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
THE Grab Bag u
Bv William d. Trausch excellent
ly written.

Diverse as its title suggests is
"The Grab Bag, by William D.
Trausch, a sparkling collection Of
short stories just off the press.
pegasus, n. W. Love. adven-
ture, detective, outdoors, humor
-many moods march across its
pages in characters skillfullv
brought to life.
This first work by a new Cleve-
land writer of Saxon decent offers
entertainment of wide appeal to
please the most discriminating
reader. Superlative in plot, cha
racterization, and narrative style
the stories unfold with delightful
surprise. The Grab Bag marks
the first literary career OF Sax,
/ on descendant in this country.
Altractively bound, excellent,
ly written, The Grab Bag sells at
Sl.OO per copy and may be OBJ:
tanned at the following book
stores:
In Cleveland at Schroeder's
Book Store and Halle Bros. Ir
New York at Baker & Taylor anc
Brentano's. Readers may alsC
send their remittance tOgethe
with name and address to Pega
sus Publishing Company, 81 Yves
44th Street, New York City: a
we'll as to the author, William
Id. Trausch. 1O2Ol Loretta Ave
Cleveland, Ohio.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
St. Johns News
By Louise Roth

Cleveland. O., March 2S-An-
other week must elapse before
the Luther League will present
the comedy "Something Old,
Something New at the Eastside
Sachsenheim on April 7. Admis-
sion is IS cents. Dancing to the
music of the Little Saxon Band
under the direction of amiable
George Horvath will follow i'm
mediately after the play.
A banquet in honor of our latest
Confirmation Class of St. John S
Lutheran Church is to be held
Sunday, March 81, at $50 p. m
The Congregation is cordially in
vited.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28

tives here - but they live out in
residential suburbs. shall visit
them all too as soon as | get all
business details taken care of.Am
to speak over radio short-wave to
U.S.A. this weekend, handed in
my manuscript today. Speak in
English - 9 p. NJ. Listen in no
timc-they have weekly broad
, casts over their own station from
Berlin direct. Now I should in
troduce myself - my name Mrs.
Martha Lawrence. | am SO years
cid. white, fairly good looking -
am getting too stout on the good
| German Malt beer, Have been
a grandmother for Is yrs. and a
widow - but strictly respectable
Ia member of the PasadenaPres-
lbvterian Church - this informa-
ton. so you will know whom to
iexpect should | knock on your
Idoor, or ring the door bell unex,
Irectedly. Am supposed to stay
here another Xmas-then will
leave for n. Y. via Genoa, Italy
am getting dreadfuly homesicl
for the kidlets and sunny Calf. Sc
II will say Good bye and freund
lliChe GruesSe - unbekannterwei
/! Sc - Won Martha Lawrence. Mrs
Nv. gave me silk scarf which
am to deliver to you for your Ii
brary table.
| Write to Wandel's via Clippe,
- only way to get mail over -
the British held mail. daughters
letter from August 10Th received
seen much while her till now. -
Nov. llth. pardon thisD Tv'
seen nulh while her till now. -
Here since 1887. The Yankee
Clipper operates now between N
~. and Lisbon instead to France
M. l..
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28

Hildesheim. Caught in a sud
den thick fog. a Junkers transport
plane crashed against tree tops
was seriously damaged. but forced
and able, to continue its flight
without an emergency landing
afterwards, thorough examin,
alton OF the damage by experts
showed that the Junkers all-meta
construction of body and wings
stood up remarkably well under
the terrific force of the impact
which might have been fatal t.
other construction types.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
Auto City Speaks
By June Warnke

Detroit, Mich. March 2S-I asst
week the crowd was very quiet
Everybody celebrated Easter by
themself. I guess they were gett,
ing rested up for the coming
dance given by the Singers at
Carpathia Hall this Saturday
March 80. There is to be a com
cert first and the young folks are
all planning to go. We know that
the Detroiter Junior Saxons will
be we'll represented.
Club Social
Because OF the Singers concert
our club social was postponed un
til April 6, 1910.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
Lutheran
Brotherhood
Organized

A Lutheran Brotherhood was
formed at st. Marks German
Evangelical Lutheran Church on
March l8. Mr.. William H. Meyer
President of St. Johns Lctheran
Brotherhood of Pittsburgh was
the speaker.
Mr.. George Tice was elected
President of the organization with
Mr.. George Humphries peine
chosen Vice President Mr.. VIM
Pelger is the Secretary and MIR
Adam F. Ednie is the Treasurer
Mr.. Otto May was chosen as Pia
mist for the Brotherhood.
The Program Committee i:
headed by Mr.. Frederick Fatf ane
has the following members: 'ohr
F. Orend. John Lang, Jr. w. D
Clark and Peter Theil, j. Other:
who attended the organizations
meeting we're: Sam Guist. Edw
Trinnes, Ernest Mantsch, Henry
Theil, John Kramer, Jr., Michae
! Guist, Jr., Andrew Weber, Jr.
! Frank Vogt and Leonard Elem
ing.
J Future meetings of the St
Marks Brotherhood will be helt
the third Monday of each montl
| at 8 p. NJ.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
YOUTH HAS ITS EYES
OPEN.

"American young people have
confidence in themselves. place
real value in their talents. and
have faith in the future of their
country
In these encouraging words,
Scholastic Magazine" announces
the results of a survey it took re-
Gently among more than six
thousand representative high
school young people throughout
the country. The conclusion
should be haertening, but not
genuinely surprising to anyone
who observed the American spi-
rit in operation before.
Some of the answers, indeed
point to a courageousness and be-
lief in the future that we older
folk would do we'll to emulate
For instance only 10 per cent ot
those questioned expressed the
belief that the best cure for un
employment among youth ano
for young people in jobs they dc
not fit is more preparation fo1
specialized jobs.
! This note OF encouragement
comes at an apt moment. Fo
with industry once again on th'
move and already reporting seri
Gus shortages among the appli
cants for skilled jobs in some
brackets, youth is shown display
ing confidence that will taxi
advantage of these new opport
unities, and that augurs well 70
the future of America.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
Canton Reflector
By A. Rookie.

Canton, O.. March 2S-Well,
I'm prepared for an Egg and
"Hunklich" diet for the next three
weeks. Are You? Yes sir, our
Canton folks will be real people
by the time Farrell holds their
Spring Dance. It's too bad it
couldn't have been a "Hasenpfef-
fer" Diet - but then - Crack an
other egg "Ointzie''.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28

= The yearly cost of govern
ment in the Omitted States now
equals about $500 for each family.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28

- When watches were first
used they were made or iron and
were as big around as saucers.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
Martins Ferry

Wonn ct asi kalt es, en- en-
nichen "Pally" der 'Wentergat-
chen huet mes EN- 10 Darhim
bleiwen. Ma, mer kennen 10 as
Frengt en- Canton, dien met dem
kalde Blead soan, dat Sc warlich
len gead Zegt perpasst hum.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
Sonjen

Det kommitte schaft huart fuer
as konzert dot am 20. Moa oge-
hoaldcn wird. aend mer waessen
dot it es en- siehr hiesch program
gean warren. kut NOR allie keen
Canton un iesem Doch aend mer
wallen Ech asi en- gead Zegt zie-
gen dot er vielmols en- dess nobcr-
Itch Cemin zeraeck WALT kunn.
=. In the Eastern Ohio Natl. For
eign League Tournament one of
our Jrs., Eleanor Botschner, won
in Oratorical Defamation with
her presentation of "The Soldier
Nobody Knows" Your race is
proud of you "Nori" and wishes
you further success in the Natl.
Finals at Terre Haute, Indiana.
Krunkhit
Der Andy Mathes wor lietzt
Woch un "Bleunddarmentzutnd-
| ung" operiert. Ma, moch ct
schnlel Buretz den mer brOchen
dech 20 for EN- "Pinochle Partner"
maer bedrechts de is 10 wei en-
arabisch Jud.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
I'm INITIATION TO the
Tbirtp=nintb amnual
Contention
of the CENTRAL VERBAND der
Siebenbuerger Sachsen of the U.S..
Ubirttetb anniberSarp
BRANCH 38, OF
to be held
MAY 80, and JUNE |, 1910
at Columbus, Ohio


Branch No. 38 of the Central Verband extends the heast
vaon to all Junior Saxon Clubs and other various Junior Ogani
the 39h Convention Verband
held Friday and Saturday May and June e4o the K of
Hall on So. High ST. in Columbus, Ohio.
Juniors you realize, the future of Sick
Benefit Societies and the Central Veband May have the honor
of meeting you in full force at the Convention.
Our Columbus Junior Saxon Club show real Co.
lbu hospitality BY attending the Convention have the
porunity the Ohio University the House. the
Pententiary other of
Please do fail Let be your slogan Lets Cou
bus on Decoration Day.
Sincerely yours:
THE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
George Siegel FestPresdent.
John Farr, Fest-Secretary
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1940-03-28
FROM
GERMANY

This letter was turned over to
us for publication by Mrs. An
drew Schneider of Cleveland, O..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
1Nlsslss1ppi;s Governor Battles
Editor With Cane In Hotel Lobby

J-cKsoN. Miss, May s.-g
governor Paul B. johnson Of Mic
sissippi and Editor Frederick s,,,
lens of the Daily News, bitter enc
mes o years, fought and rolled ~
the carpets of a crowded downtowr
motel lobby last night until nn11ei
apart. puiiec
Both emerged from the scr.,
bleeding. but neither apparently wa,
hurt seriously. Sullens suffered besf
cuts which doctors stitched.
The 6O-year-old overn who ~
tired Immediately to the executiv.
mansion, issued no statement h,,,
friends said on his behalf that ".John
son caned" Sullens because the edi
tor has h~arrassed, prosecuted ar
embarrassed the governor and HI,
family" since 1881.
The 63-year-old editor said the gov
ernor, surrounded by a bodyguard,,
hopped from around a hotel ni,la,
and made a "cowardly ATTEMPT r.
assassinate me from the rear, h1
hitting him on the head with 8
heavy cane.
Witnesses said the two men the,
grappled and the YER fell owe,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

ance was given in a tobacco barn
more brilliantly lighted than any
theater in which he had previous
ly appeared.
He stood almost in the center of
the barn, supporting himself with
one crutch and holding his carbine
under his right arm ready for &C
ton -. In bewilderment he glanc-
ed around and caught sight of a
gun pointed at him through one
Of the crevices. His expression
changed, he dropped his crutch
and carbine and turned in the d.
rection of the door.
He had advanced about 10 to Is
feet, when suddenly he drew his
pistol, placed 1t back Of his right
a and fired. Sardonically, he had
selected a spot opposite the one he
had chosen for Lincoln. This mad
gesture left unmarried the face that
SO often had been spoken of as
eminently handsome. Still clutch
ing the revolver in his hand.
Wilkes fell to the floor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
War Worries
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 2.-Just as Great
Britain, to save foreign exchange,
has practically abandoned purchase
Of American tobacco, so there is
danger that for the same reason
she may cut down drastically her
imports of American raw cotton.
That would hurt quite as much as
the loss of the tobacco trade.
Britain used to buy about $50, O00,.
900 worth Of tobacco from the Unit
ed States. She averages about $685..
900, 900 worth Of raw cotton bought
from the whole world. Of this sum
America has sold from IS to 81 per
cent.
Nothing definite has been decided,
because at present Britain has ample
stocks of cotton. But when these
stocks are exhausted, the whole ques.
ton will have to be considered.
The British government is loath
to buy in America because that
means consuming its stock of Amer.
lean dollars. It needs those for i'm
portant war materials. 1t can look
around the world and shop where
foreign exchange is more in its
favor.
The principal cotton producing
countries in 1898 were the United
States with 2,59o,oo tons; India,
929, 1000; Soviet Russia, $40, 900; Bra
I'll, 405, 900; and Egypt, $4,000.
China in 1887 produced 636, 600
tons, but the war with Japan has
probably greatly decreased the crops
since then.
India, inside the empire, offers a
good purchase market, but India has
begun to be a great cotton manu-
featuring country with less and less
raw cotton for export.
England would probably not want
to buy from Russia at present. This
leaves as Americas principal rival
for the British cotton market huge
Brazil, which in recent years has
given more and more acreage to
cotton and which consumes very
little in home manufacture. The for
eign exchange position is better for
Britain in Brazil than in the United
States.
Much of what will be done will
depend upon the decision Of the cot
ton controller in the British Min
istry Of Supply. More and more un'
~y@A
Britain is approaching the regimen
tation so long familiar in Germany,
Italy and Russia, with their totali-
tartan set-ups.
One Of the first to come under
control in British industries was the
cotton trade. Despite the depression
due to Indian, Chinese and Japan
csc low wage competition-the cot
ton business still remains among the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Policemen And Negro
Killed In Gun Battle

GIBSONVILLE, May s. (P "A
policeman and a negro were killed
in a gun battle here early yesterday.
The policeman, A. S. Williams.
80, died hours later in a Greensboro
hospital.
The negro was Willie James, 32-
year-old negro known as the "Salis.
bury Eel" who had been sought by
officers in several counties.
The officer was found lying in a
pool of blood in front of a store. The
negro. with six bullet wounds in his
left side, vas found nearby.
Williams had been ~buldgeoned on
the head with a AS automatic which
officers said the negro had recently
stolen, and there was a bullet wound
in his head.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
MES PROBE RAID
ON REDS ILLEGAL
c,,{;.cation Of Records Is
Sharply Raped By
u. S. Judge

,nFLPHIA, May 3.-(R-
LaI nudge George A. Walsh rul'
Fsa shst raids made on local offices
Cd ." communist party and the In
d III. iona1 Workers Order by agents
tsr 4ho Dies committee investigating
Of Wv activities last month
we're illegal. xu..
4;on of counsel for the Dies
',snts and Magistrate Jacob Dogole
sg gen. asked that a complaint by the
% .n,r, party be thrown out.
The complaint, made by Car
..r Communist candidate for the
! he' 9 senate, and Frank Hellman,
!,.+rict organizer for the Internal
a sa, workers Order, charged that
msr.nts issued by Dogole for the
v'ias April 2 were Illegal, and de-
IeIu ~aod return of confiscated r.
nudge Welsh deferred ruling on
ether the ~confiscated material
wet he returned. The truckload OF
uone, membership rolls and other
ra.orial was taken to Washington
and later returned to Philadelphia
ahore il is now under police guard
In an II page opinion vigorously
attending civil liberties" Of minori-
.;as Judge Welsh held that the at
sso,,it of George F. Hurley, a Dies
aaent. upon which the search war
s.ts were issued, was defective"
The opinion said the affidavit was
s.so entirely upon information and
belief and not fact.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Book Highlights

It is just Is years since John
Wilkes Booth assassinated Abra-
ham Lincoln. So Stanley Kim
mels study of the greatest fam
lily Of the American stage is
particularly timely, THE Mad
Booths of Maryland" (Bobbs-
Merrill: s3.75). Genius and mad
ness we're the double heritage Of
this amazing family, says KIM
mel, who studied the Booths for
six years before he wrote his
dramatic book, and the final
climatic book, and the final eli
matte act of John Wilkes merely
capped the fantastic story of the
whole group. Just a lot Of the
drama which threads Kimmeps
entire book is given here, de-
scribing the death Of Lincoln's
assassin on a Maryland farm on
April Is, 1865:
Wilkes was advised that he had
only two minutes more to surren-
der, but he repeated the crazy
proposition he had made to come
out and fight the whole command.
There was no answer and sum-
monlng all that was left Of a voice
once known for its dramatic pow
err ne cried in hollow tones, well,
my brave boys, you can prepare
a stretcher for me. One more stain
on the old banner!!" Again Wilkes
was the actor. His last perform
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

last year by the
late Senator M.
M. Logan of Ken
lucky. The judi
ciary commit t e e
okayed it unan-
imously, issuing a
report which as
serted that some
of these regula-
t o r 8 C o n s i d e r
themselves above
the status" and
show con t e m p
tous disregard for
both congress and
the courts.
~ H. -.,-e--
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

a chair, breaking it. Sullens bounced
upon the governor, they related, and
pummeled him in the face.
The governor and the editor a
ped bitterly during Johnson's first
TWO unsuccessful campaigns for the
governorship and in the one last
year, in which he was elected,
After the 1881 campaign Johnson
sued Sullens' newspaper for libel
and won a court verdict under which
Sullens was forced to print a front
page apology for articles published
during the campaign.
Sullens intensified his newspaper
attacks on Johnson during the pres.
ent tumultuous session, Of the leg.
%1slature, at which the governor has
sought to enact an average man.
program.
Sullens said the encounter would
not deter the Daily News in its
light to preserve decent govern.
ment in Mississippi and to block the
vicious legislation proposed by Gov
ernor Johnson"
Sullens and his family reside in
the hotel. Many legislators stay in il
and the governor is a frequent visi.
tor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

There's a good reason for
Viennese Actress Vilm a r
Kurer's smile. The "Bathtub
Girl" as she was called after
playing that role in Vienna
from the Broadway hit, "The
Woman" was faced with al
tentative of marrying a U. S.
citizen or being deported to
Germany, from which she
had fled. Recently she an
nounced engagem to
Michael Joffre Lewis, of New
York. "I wouldn't marry for
convenience she explained.
1T love him, and we're going
to have lots and lots of
babies"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

"No-o-o," responded Love. at
to me that those eyebrows are
Paramount's. Tell you what, though
expect we could borrow 'eLi eor
this picture"
And that's what they finally did
called the three different studios and
asked for Mr.. Montague Loves
FACIAL props. And each arrived next
morning in a neat box.
Gable Gets Steak
And More Steak
Clark Gable was hungry when the
sequence began. He was sitting at a
counter on the Boom Town" set de.
vourlng a steak. 1t was very good
steak, hustled over from the studio
commlssary and he ate a couple dur.
ing the long shots and ~closeups.
Presently Spencer Tracy got into
a bra"l with three heavies, so Gable
took a big mouthful of steak and
rose to help out. In the long shots
you'll see Tracy knock down a guy:
then Gable accounts for one and
watches, chewing his steak the
while, as Tracy polishes off t h e
third. This went on for hours.
When the complete fight had been
filmed satisfactorily, Director Jack
Conway moved in for closeups and
angles. For each of these, Gable
would take a huge bite of steak and
then slug at an imaginary opponent
while the camera recorded his steady
ma%stication and grins of triumph.
A little before 5 o'clock, while they
were shooting the part where Gable
returns to the counter to finish the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

greatest Of British manufacturing
industries.
Even in 1898 it employed 1865, 900
persons and exported about $780,
100000 worth of goods. There are
some 100 firms engaged in produc-
ing or processing cotton goods and
1900 in selling the finished articles.
In wartime the cotton trade has
two important tasks which rank
above the job Of satisfying civilian
home consumption.
First, it has to supply the de-
mand Of the armed services for all
kinds Of materials such as articles
Of clothing, bedding, overalls, air
plane and balloon fabrics, bandages
and dressings, material for tires, cleo
trio cables and cotton wool, an es-
sential ingredient in the manufac-
turing of high explosives. Second is
the manufacture Of cotton goods Tor
the export trad
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
DIES TO APPEAL

WASHINGTON, M a y 3.-lR-
chairman Dies (D-Tex.) of the house
%oormittee Investigating un-Ameri-
oor activities said today the commit
tee would appeal a ruling by a fed
oral district judge in Philadelphia
that raids made there by committee
ogents on offices of the communist
Marty and International Workers
Order were illegal.
Informed by reporters Of the rul-
inc by Judge George A. Welsh, Dies
said he would instruct the commit
tees counsel to give notice at once
that the appeal would be filed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

of pictures of the
actor to show him
just h O W they
wanted him made
up. IN o W, have
your hair fixed
this W a "" they
said, selecting one
of the stills.
Well. ah - I
can't, exactly" re-
piled Mr.. Love.
you see, I have
MT any hair" He
lifted his toupee
to o it. That's
Warner Brothers