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The guardian., 1940-12-14
ANNA BOBITT-GARDNER Mus.B.s


Who will give lecture on the Prin-
ciples of Pano Teaching, with demon
stration,s Sunday afternoon, Dec. Is,
at Shiloh Baptist Church, under the
auspices of the B.Y.P.U., Russell
Stokes, precedent, in West Medford,
where she is contemplating opening
Branch Studio in Piano, the first of
the incoming year. The Main Studio
building at 3 Claremont Park now con-
tains three studios, three teachers,
private secretary, large enrolment
of beginners, Intermediates, junior and
senior students in piano, an adult and
mothers class in the study of the
piano, a group of dramatic art stu
dents, music history class and a
Race history class who had at their
meeting on Sunday past, Mrs. Mary
MoorS, of the Recreation Project, who
gave very interesting and timely
talk on Race History, while Dan Cot
man, Harvard sophomore, was in
the lower room speaking to the entire
boys class in piano, Mr.. Cotman spoke
on chemistry. The students enjoyed
both speakers so much, that, to the
surprise of Miss Bobitt, they rose in a
body and asked for the return of the
same speakers at their January meet
ing. This is the first time that speak
er has been asked to return by the stu
dents themselves. The number pres
ent in both groups was seventy eight.
The president of the senior class is
Dorothy Holt, of the junior class is
Lucille Deans while the president of
the boys class of twenty-five members
is Wade Paris. Miss Bobitt's slogan
is "The Advancement of my pupils in
the study of the Pianoforte, is my
chief concern"
The guardian., 1940-12-14
ARMY ONE TENTH COLORED

WASHINGTON - Eighty thousand
colored men will be inducted into
Uncle Sans new army within the next
six months.
c. A. Dykstra, director of Selective
Service said that approximately $500
colored will be called in January and
that the number will be increased to
$4,000 for call in February. The total
number of white and colored selectees
to be called in these two months will
be approximately 238,000.
The Director said: "The January
call for selectees will show smaller
proportion of colored but in February
the percentage will substantially in
crease as additional facilities and
training cadres of non-commissioned
The guardian., 1940-12-14
N. Eng. Interracial
ROmances Swept
Entire Nation

Last weeks widely publicizd story
of the former society belle, Jennie Tis-
chauer, who eloped and married Mr.
Ray, her colored coachman, ,alls to
mind trio of New Englan inter-
racial romances.
A few years ago it was the omance
CONTINUED on Page A
The guardian., 1940-12-14
Boston Trade
Association
Elects Officers

Bu unanimous vote the entire slate
of officers for 1910 was returned to
lead the Boston Trade Association for
the year of 1871. The December meet
ing of the organization really made
Boston history in that the overflow,
enthusiastic group of members wildly
acclaimed the various reports by the
elected officers covering their steward
ship of the past year. Gertrude Chand-
Ter, financial secretary, reported that
all outstanding bills were paid up and
Continued on Page a
The guardian., 1940-12-14
The WINGS OVER JORDAN CHORUS that attracted huge crowd at
Mechanics Building Thursday night

better known spirituals. There were
16 spirituals on the program. Many
encores were given and the audience
demanded several songs be repeated.
The choir, of about 35 members, com
prises interesting family units-hus-
bands, wives, sons, daughters, cousins.
Rev. Settle first conceived the PROPOSE
ton of the choir in July of 1887.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
RACE ATTORNEY
TOLD TO GET
OUT OF TEXAS

BEAUMONT, Texas-Attorey H.
W. Gray, editor of the Port Arthur
Observer, a colored weekly was
arrested by several Texas police at
Port Arthur, taken for a tn-mile
ride, and then told to get out Of town.
Organizer of the Port Arthur Colored
Chamber of Commerce, AtornG Gray
had aroused the jealousy q Port
Arthur white officials.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
HUGE COLORED QUOTA IN NEW ARMY
Throngs Hear wings Over Jordan" Choir
3z2nd Party Not Postponed NAACP Leader To Speak Here
- NAACP Leader TO Speak Here
Is Ii True?

The st. Mark Congregation is to be
given some good news next Sunday,
Dec. Is, at the morning service, so its
minister said last Sunday. There is
rumor that Rev. Laviscount has his
dream coming true.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
PARALLEL ACTION
BY NEUTRALS SEEN
Koht Arrives In Copenha-
gen For Talks With Den
mark And Sweden

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 24.-P-A
program of parallel action" to en-
able Denmark, Norway and Sweden
to guard their neutrality under the
most threatening conditions h e y
have faced in years was visualized
by Norwegian Foreign Ministe r
Halvdan Koht as he arrived today
for talks with representatives of the
other two Scandinavian nations.
Talks With Munich
Koht, who said that "the sharp
ened sea warfare would be one of
the principal topics discussed, went
into conference at once with the
Danish foreign minister, DR.. Peter
Munich.
The talks are expected to get I'm
der way in earnest after the arrival
of Sweden's foreign minister, Chris
tan Gunther, who was detained in
Stockholm by a special meeting of
Continued on Page Nine; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
SWEDISH RICSDAC
WILL MEET TODAY
Grave Monetary, Neutral.
ity Problems Face Fin
lands Neighbor

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 24-G)-The
Swedish government today summon
ed an extraordinary special session
of parliament for Sunday to revise
foreign exchange regulations and
hault the flow of Sweden's gold re
serves to foreign banks.
Whether the rigsdag also will dis
cuss the critical foreign political sit
uation growing out of the bombing
of the frontier town of Pajala last
Wednesday, was problematical. How
ever, Soviet Russia's denial that Rus
sian planes carried out the raid-as
alleged by Sweden-was believed tt
have been one of the matters which
caused Foreign Minister Christian
Gunther to defer his trip to Copen
hagen, where Scandinavian foreign
ministers are meeting.
The lawmakers will be asked to ex
tend existing gold export regulations
to the end that all export and i'm
port of foreign exchange will be con
trolled by a central bank. (Sweden
has been off the gold standard since
September, 1881, and since then has
had a managed currency
Finance Minister Ernest Johan.
mes Wigforss explained the change
Continued OH Page Nine; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Bankhead Calls On FDR
For .3rd Term Statement

should make his intentions known.
It would be better for all concern
ed, including the President, if he
would make a statement"
Bankhead. asserted that if Mr..
Roosevelt should seek denomination
then he can have it without much
question:" The Alabama senator
added:
"People don't like second choices
and as long as Mr.. Roosevelt is at
large in the situation there is no
way for the people to make up their
minds on other candidates. There
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
F. R. WINS AGAIN
IN FIRST BALLOT
Georgia County Gives Him
841 For Third Term;
Garner Gets Is

DONALSONVILLE, Ca, Feb. "a.
-LR-President Franklin D. Roose,
welt received a vote of Landslide
proportions to head again the DEM
ocratic ticket in a make-believe Sem
mole county preference primary here
today.
The President was the first choice
of S41 voters with Vice-President
John Garner second with IS. Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull received
3 votes for first choice; National
Democratic Chairman James A. Far
ley 2; Senator Wheeler of Montana
2; Social Security Administrator Pau
V. McNutt 2 and Senator Walter
f. George of Georgia 1.
Hull Second
The George vote was a write in
on the printed ballot.
AS a second choice candidate, in
case Roosevelt should decline a third
term, Secretary of State Hull was
given a substantial lead totallinS
.145. The President received only one
vote for second choice, Chairman
Farley 154, Garner IS, Wheeler II,
McNutt 9, George 8, and former
Governor Eugene Talmadge of Geor-
gia 1, a write-in.
The vote, although unofficial and
not binding in any way, attracted
attention in that it was the first
public expression by actual ballot
on potential democratic presidential
candidates. So keen was the local
CONTINUED on Page Nine; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Eastward Russian Forces
Seek To Close Pincers
On Viipuri
HEAVY RED LOSSES
Finland Reports Russians
Falling AT Rate OF g.
600 In Two Days
BY PAUL

HELSINKI, Feb. 81. LP - A
strategically-spread Red army, its
dead littering the snow at the rate
of 5000 in two days, was reported
tonight by the Finnish high COM.
mand to be striking massively at
the island environs of Viipuri from
a captured coastal base only Z IL
miles away.
From Kaislahti, nestled on the
w-ar-wrecked Gulf of Finland rail.
way Just below Finland's erstwhile
second city and from Koivisto, 17R
miles farther south, once the west.
ern anchor of Finland's Manner
helm line, the Soviet offensive
stretched out over the gulf ice to
hammer at Finnish defenders on
the remaining islands in Viipuri
bay.
In Combat Area
Eastward, other divisions pressed
on against the Finnish land de.
lenses between the gulf and Lake
Muola, striving to complete a pin.
GERS action on Viipuri.
This city, nee a modern town
of $4,000, now is a virtual combat
area, it's buildings wrecked by
shells and it's noncombatants moved
away. .
The Firms said these gulf and
land attacks, directed at Vlpurl
from five points, resulted in heavy
Russian losses; that six tanks anc
six batteries were destroyed. Bui
the Films did not, this time, say
the attacks were repulsed.
On the Firms left flank, east OF
Lake Muola, two Russian detach
ments, of ~unspecified size, were
declared to have been "wholly an
nihilated'' Friday after piercing the
Finnish lines. More specific Soviet
losses were totted up to over 2,S50
as follows:
salmenkaita. east of Lake Muola,
more than 1000 dead; machine
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
MAN C0NFESSES
TORCH Staying
Tacoma Fireman Admits
Brutal Wedding Night
Staying

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 24.-P-
U~ndersheriff Clyde Knowles said
tonight John Ord, AZ, tall, gaunt
Tacoma fireman, had confessed the
brutal wedding night Staying of
the man who successfully had
courted his common law wife.
He denied, however, the officer
added, any connection with the
fire that turned the couples honey
moon cottage into a funeral pyre
after the bride and a third mar
had been wounded.
Woman Lives
The body of Hale r. Nosler, Sc,
former president Of the Washing
ton State Elks association, was re-
moved last night from the ruins OF
his suburban home. His bride,
Myra, reported by Knowles to have
lived with Ord for ten years, chung
to life in a Tacoma hospital, a bull
let wound in her abdomen.
King Pomeroy, so, who lived IN
Nosler's home, was beaten severely
with a poker.
Ord was arrested after taking
Mrs. Nosler to a hospital.
Knowles said both Mrs. Nosler
and Pomeroy signed statements
that Ord invaded the home, killed
the bridegroom and injured them.
He gave this summarized version
of their Statements:
"Mrs. Nosler and Pomeroy said
last night Ord came to the Nosler
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
NAILS BAN NEWS
ON WELLES VISIT
Nation Prepared To Wei
come Roosevelt's Fact
Finding Emissary
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER

BERLIN, Feb. "a. Up NaZi
Germany tonight placed a strict Of
fetal ban on publication of news
of the impending visit of United
States Undersecretary Of State
Sumner Welles but, nevertheless,
put it's best foot forward to well
come President Roosevelt's fact
finding emissary.
Although it was emphasized that
the program for the visit-whlch
includes an audience with Adolf
Hitler next Tuesday or Wednes'
day-would be carried out without
the press getting so much as a
peek at it, authorized sources dis
closed the schedule was complete.
There is little doubt but that
the American will get a dignified
and hearty welcome.
AS the war goes on, German
statesmen see more and more that
the United states neutrality law
has many good points to it, and
(Continued on Page Nine: Col, y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Italians Sign
Turks, Nazii
Trade Pacts
II Duce Personally Follows
Discussion With Ger
l.. man Envoy
EMENT REVISED
Protocol With Turkey Will
Bring Nations Closer
Together

ROME, Feb. 24.-LP-Italy sign
Cd a new trade pact with Turkey
today while another agreement was
reported by Informed sources to
have been completed between Italy
and Germany revising their 1884
commercial accord to cope with
wartime conditions.
COmmunique
One communique said an Italian
Turkish commission completed its
work of determining the exchange
between the two countries for the
current year. and that a protocol
had been signed by Senator
Amadeo Giannini of the italian
foreign ministry and Turkish Am
bassador Huseyin.
A usually well-informed Italian
source said it was believed the
action would bring the countries
closer together.
Authoritative informants said the
revised pact between Germany and
Italy was signed by DR.. Karl Clo-
dius, German economic plenipoten-
tiary, and Giannini.
A second communicate, however,
said merely that the German
Italian mixed commission met "to
determine commercial exchange be-
tween the two countries for the
current year"
"Also examined were other eco
nomic and financial problems
which interest the two countries
and in which solid collaboration
was continued" it added I'll Duce
followed the discussions and in.
tervened personally to impart some
instructions"
This statement said a conven-
ton for frontier traffic also had
been signed by Germany and Italy
An informed German source said
the pact probably would lei tc
increased commercial exchanges be-
tween the two countries but that
further discussions likely would be
held on that matter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TRADE PACT VETO
POWER IS URGED
Check Or FDR's Power Is
Proposed; Senate APP
proval Unlikely

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. - ~
Senator Brown D-Mich) suggested
today that congress be given the
same veto power over trade agree
ments that it has over presidential
orders reorganizing government
agencies.
The reorganization orders go into
effect automatically after a 6O-day
period unless either house disap-
proves.
Brown is counted as a doubtful"
member of the senate finance COM
mittee, which will start hearings
Monday on legislatio INTO extend the
reciprocal trade act for three years
from next June -, the present ex-
piration date. The house approved
the measure, ZIG to 1853, last night.
Democratic leaders hoped for an
early senate vote. Chairman Harri,
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
FCAA Adopts Broadened
Policy To Aid Farmers

of some officials in protest against
the policy and a recent presidential
order placing the FCA, heretofore
autonomous, under the Agriculture
department.
Latest designations included those
of Peyton Evans, general counsel,
and the president and vice president
of FCA's Federal Land Bank at
Spokane, Wash. There We're reports
that other designations were to fol-
low.
1.-THE FCA is taking the broad So
cial view," Black said, that it's
duty is to help farmers become
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. B-
Amid some internal dissension, the
Farm Credit administration, multi
billion-dollar federal agricultural
credit agency, has embarked upon
a broadened policy designed to keep
farmer debtors on the farm and to
protect them against foreclosures.
Under this policy, strict banking
procedure will be abandoned for ex-
IRENE leniency in cases where farm
er borrowers are deemed to have
a chance of eventually meeting their
obligations.
A. G. Black, the agency's new
chief, outlined the policy today in
"a discussion of recent designations
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
National President Talks
To Carolinas Exchangites
TO NIP ISM
Thurston Urges American.
ism Programs, Extern
sion Activities

Americanism programs, %inter-club
relations, and extension activities
were urged by Newman r. Thurs
ton, of Grand Rapids, Ohio, nation
al president Of Exchange clubs, in
an address before a Carolinas meet.
ing Of Exchange clubs last night at
the Cape Fear hotel.
Thurston appealed for the inaugu-
ration of Americanism programs by
Exchange clubs in TIE Carolinas t.
combat and nip in. the bud the va
rious isms of today that are seeking
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Nazis To
FightToBreak
His Trust God Is
With Him And His
Nazi Reich
DEFIANT WAR SPEECH
To Smash Any
me Who Denies Ger
many Living Space
Bv EDWIN SHANkE

WINCH. Feb. 24.-P-Adolf
HITLER cried out tonight that Ger
MANY will fight until the terror of
kts plutocracies has been broken, -
fea1ared the three might states
\ Russia. Italy and Japan to be
his friends and proclaimed his trust
Iba- God is with him and his nazi
keich.
To his Old Guard, in an hours
kpeech broadcast over the world,
|he fuehrer asserted the hand of
providence" saved him from death
h a bomb explosion in this very
kty last November s and declared
he same providence has specially
blessed us" for six years.
Germany Stronger
DO You think providence would
have blessed US only to drop up
bow he asked -. There is a
G0d-he creates people with equal
tghts."
Today's Germany, he said, is
tronger in every way than the I'M
erial Reich of 1914-but, especially
its leadership.
Preceded by the blood-stained
Jag which headed his marchers in
be abortive beer cellar putsch of
e3 and surrounded by old party
ghters, Hitler came to Munich's
aufbrau hall tonight to commemo-
Pte the founding of the nazi party
rd its adoption of a 25-point pro-
pam 20 years ago.
1t was his first speech in Munich
tContlnued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
ELKS CLUB GIVES
FRACTURE TABLE
Presents Modern Equip.
ment To Hospital For Or
thopedic Work

The Wilmington Elks club.
through subscription by its
members, has purchased and Will
present to the James Walker
Memorial hospital a HaWiey-
Scanlon orthopedic and fracture
xEay table, Donald c. King,
exalted ruler, announced yes
terday.
The club purchased the piece
of equipment, the cost of which
was about $500, after consult
ing with doctors and officials at
the hospital as to the most need
ed facility at the institution.
Continued OH Page Two; Col. 3,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
WAR RUMOR DENIED
ISTANBUL, Feb. 24.-lR-

ISTANBUL, Feb. 24.-tR-
Turkey, virtually isolated by a
storm which swept across south
eastern Europe, FASTENED tonight
to deny rumors of impending
war which circulated in anxious
Balkan capitals as the result of
a prolonged interruption of COM
municatiOns.
The bewildered foreign office
in Ankara issued a blanket de-
NAL of the rumOrs, which incluCs
ed reports that Turkish troops
were mobilizing on the Russian
border and that telephone COM
municatiOns had been shut off
by a decree declaring a state of
emergency.
Spokesman explained that
winds of hurricane intensity had
ripped down five miles of tele-
phone line in European Turkey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TRUCK GROWERS
TO MEET MONDAY
Southeastern N. c. Group
To Be Represented AT
New Bern Meet

New Hanover and adjoining coun-
ties plan to send a large delegation
to a meeting of the truck growers
of Eastern North Carolina at New
Bern on Monday, February 26.
Among those planning to attend
from the Wilmington section are:
R. W. Galphin, county farm agent,
James P. Herring, county f r m
agent at large; A. G.. Setter, chair
Continued on Page Nine; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
BY WILLIAM ARDERY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-R-
Senator Bankhead (D-Ala), an ad'
ministration supporter, said today
that 1T would be better for all con
cerned" if President Roosevelt an
nounced at once his attitude toward
a third term.
The Alabama senator, who is sup
porting his brother, Speaker Bank
head, for the democratic preslden-
tial nomination, told reporters:
"The President should give ex'
preston to what he is going to 90.
I don't think there is much dis
agreement on the point that he
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TURKEY PREPARES
FOR WAR in EAST
Takes Steps Amounting
Virtually To Civil
Mobilization

ISTANBUL, Feb. rs Sunday
up - Taking steps amounting vir-
tually to civil mobilization, Turkey
today applied new emergency mea-
sures as the possibility of war in
the Near East was regarded with
increasing apprehension in this
country.
The government coordination COM
mittee, which was formed to place
industry and commerce on virtual
CONTINUED on Page Nine; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TO FIGHT
TO SAFE FREEDOM
chamberlain Flatly Rules
|Out Peace With Present
German Rulers

By ROBERT E.
-oNDON, Feb. 24.-R-Prime
mister Chamberlain today fatty
leu out any peace with the pres
! herman government as incapa-
R'0ntlnued on Page Three; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

Father b,GIoN, Feb. 24.-R-
Pre- n 'uaeau records of temper
ding ~ rainfall for the "a hours
growinpa, M In the principal cot.
ktion wing areas and elsewhere:
H..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
siopa1 Carolina: Cloudy with oc-
w p,sai light rain, slightly colder
esrinn ana central portions Sunday:
bnd.ts ana colder Sunday night:
'4uay' fair and colder.
|urs genealogical data for the "a
ending 7:3o p. m. yesterday.
hao Temperature
G.. !: m Al; 7:3O a. m. 40; 100 D.
him.. " p m. sd: maximum g.:
D'0l4 81; mean 50; normal 40.
hsO Humidity
So. = IN m, "A; 7:3o a. m. "a; 1:3o p.
Frot., Precipitation
!, no n ior "A hours ending 7:3o D.
i i nnb total since first of month.
T.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Tides For Today

9.01n. f0o' sunset 6:U5p; moon
"lp' moonset SODA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

CONTINUED on Page Nine; Col. y
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Continued on Page Nine; Col.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Boom in T.. j. Tennis
Looms With Squad
Led by Sauffrant

Although no definite schedule has
been posted, plans for a boom year
in tennis are under way at Catholic
University and the Cardinals optim-
istically look forward to a successful
season. Matches with Georgetown,
Maryland, Western Maryland, Navy
and Dartmouth are being negotiated
and efforts are being made to aug
mert these with several more.
Keystone in the Cards rebuilding
plans Is John Sauffrant, French
man, who has had a taste Of tour
nament experience and will give the
squad a much needed scoring punch.
Elias shuman, ranking District table
tennis player. and Frank Krawczel,
whose ankle is fully recovered from
a football injury, are next In line
and bidding strenuously for the
No. l berth.
Dorsavage, Bob Maloney, Fran
Murphy and Bob Smith round out
the small squad which is expected to
pick up membership with improved
weather conditions.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Double Court Champs
Al Roosevelt High
Honored al Fete

Roosevelt High School basket ball
players owned statuettes and gold
basket balls today as reminders Of
their sterling efforts this winter that
earned two titles.
Awards were made at a banquet
held at the school last night, when
the team was addressed by dis
tinguished guests. Principal May
Bradshaw of Roosevelt, John Paul
Collins, Anacostia principal; Mike
Kelley, former Roosevelt grid coach:
Birch E. Bayh. director Of health
and physical education in the high
schools; Hull Williams, former
Roosevelt player. and Bill Reinhart.
football and basket ball coach at
George Washington University,
spoke.
Members of the team which got
Roosevelt the interhigh school
laurels for the first time
since 1919 and The Star tour
naments metro championship re-
warded were Hymie Perlo, George
West, Ernie Travis, Frank Ciango.
Tom Robertson. Dick Goodman, Al
Miller and Hal Katz. Coach Herman
Littman and Manager Earl Pruitt
also received trophies.