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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
McDOnOugh Rally
Tuesday Night at
Pioneer Hall

A John J. McDonough for Mayor
rally will be held at Pioneer hall,
588 Rondo St., Tuesday night,
April 20, at 8 p. m.
The meeting is being sponsored
by the Negro Volunteer Commit
tee, ]. Louis Erwin, chairman. The
public is invited to hear Mr.. Nc
Donough and other candidates.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

Friends of the suicide said he had
been respondent for several weeks
and in poor health. They said he
had large debts about which he
worried. His wife was confined to
Parkview Hospital.
His remains are at the Neal
Minneapolis Funeral home await
ing word from relatives in anoth-
err city for completion of funeral
arrangements.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

Mrs. Josephine H. Hagen, head
resident at Welcome Hall, attend
ed the Lexington Conference of
the M. E. Church at Cincinnati,
Ohio, recently. She was gone ten
days.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
ERWIN REELECTED TREAS.
URER MINNESOTA JEFF
PERSON CLUB

J. Louis Erwin, st. Paul attor-
ney, was reelected to his fifth
term as treasurer of the Mime
sofa Jefferson Club this week.
There are only three Negro
members in the club.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
BELToN RECITAL APRIL %

Mr.. Robert E. Bolton will appear
in a program Tuesday, April %,
at Pilgrim Baptist Church at 8
p. m. This program will consist
of his most popular radio songs,
poems, and friendly philosophy. All
are cordially invited to attend this
grand program. Advance tickets
on sale at Welcome Hail.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
Jimmie LuncefOrd Orchestra
Comes Back to I. c. Tues. to
Play for Swing Fans at Eagles
epeaL Engagen
Minneapolis

Famous Orchestra Do Repeat Engagement Eagles Ballroom
Minneapolis
Columbia recording his played
January they the Twin Cities
&c. Tuesday night the Eagles
Ballroom lit E. Fourth Street. Minneapolis the band will again
Minnesotans a musical treat.
still purchased
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
DESPONDENT MAN COMMITS SUICIDE
Dependency Given AS
Possible Motive for Mans
Act; NeighbOrs Smelled Gas

Harry Warren 635 Seventh Ave NJ IS old Mnneapoan
committed suicide Monday closing tightly
in his house and turning the gas
His body discovered the gas filled Monday morning
Neghbors who live Investigated
fumes which they smeled in building.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

hSoA OAhAAAACs AdAAy WIN u1u HUI
hear him in January plan to at
tend.
Advance tickets for the second
engagement in the Twin Cities of
Jimmie Lunceford and his orches-
ira are now on sale at several
places in the Twin Cities and the
sale is reported brisk.
Tickets may be purchased in st.
Paul at Field Schlick, Jim's Place,
G q G Barbecue and Majestic
Drug.
In Minneapolis at: Downtown
ticket office, N. w. National Bank
Bldg, Bells Cafe, Dreamland Cafe,
Cleo's Beauty Shop, Bill Freeman's
Smoke Shop, 10th Century Clean
ers, Project Economy Market and
Roseler Drug Co.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
Zef's Market
Employs Fred
Weston as Clerk

Performing duties as a clerk and
delivery man, Frederick Weston of
the 400 block of Aurora Ave., be-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19
First Consideration

Merchants who advertise in this
paper want the patronage of the
readers. You know your patron
age is appreciated when you trade
with any of the merchants listed
below.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

here. Tickets at the door will be
90c. A huge crowd is expected to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

May FESTIVAL Dance College
WOmen's Club. Halle @. Brown
HOuse.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-19

Jimmie LuncefOrd and His
Orchestra Tuesday night,
April %
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
FRANCE lNDICTS
ITS WAR Mako,
Continued From Page w.,

intended to create socis, disc.
international revolution. "
Bitterly, Petain added tb..
causes of Frances plight bs, ~ s'
yet disappeared; would no ,''a not
pear until there is "a cb.. N'ss'
men," 'se y
Enemies of the state, hs ~,
still We're operating in the nass
pied part of France, and h. ulocca
ed the nation there would ba ,a'oFa
shortly to wipe out the "tras aas:
executive agents who, he ssiS A o
prevented some of his .u' had
from bearing fruit. "e'su'a
He promised that the rero,,.
which started among bipbauaa''
with the shift from parliama tS.sr.pa
AUTHORITARIAN regimes would %
scend'' to embrace all tbosa q
should be carrying out the s,. s'
orders but because of '~'inconn s,sI''
or treason" are not doing 50, '''Fa'
The reference tied in with r.,.,
shifts in departmental prefacts es'a,
with charges that men in MAJ an
partmental public posts are M. V
operating with the new regims .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
EXCESS PROFITS
TAX DELAY ASKED
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legislation permitting defense con-
tractors to deduct from their tax
able income the full cost of new
plant installations.
Meanwhile, Alvord argued, the
pending Is to 40 per cent excess
profits tax, with which plant amor
tization is joined,z could be sub
jected to 'simplification and i'm
provement." This, he said, was
more essential than speed.
Carl N. Osborne, vice president
of the M. A. Hanna company.
Cleveland, and vice chairman Of
Mans government finance COM
mittee, came out for an excess
profits tax applicable to this years
earnings. He said, however, that
the tax should not be made per-
manent because it involves in
equities"
Both Alvord and Osborne testi-
fled at a joint hearing Of the SEN
ate finance and house ways and
means committees on a proposal
by the house tax subcommittee t
enact an excess profits levy, pro.
vide defense plant amortization,
and repeal the Vinson-Trammell
acts 8 and 7 per cent limits on
the profits from warships and mil
itary aircraft.
Both objected to details Of the
proposed profits tax and Alvord,
unlike Osborne, declared that the
levy should not in any case apply
to this years income.
Despite objections raised by var.
ious interests to the excess profits
proposal, Chairman Doughton Cd
NC)predicted to newsmen that a
measure along the lines laid out
by the subcommittee would be
ready for the house by next week.
Doughton said that bill drafters
we're having some difficulties in
wording the complicated tax but
forecast that they soon would have
completed their job. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
SEVERAL HIGHWAYS
CLOSED BY RAINS
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small bridges and covered highways
with a foot or more Of water.
Rain was reported as still falling
at Newland late this afternoon but
had ceased in Asheville.
Chief Highway Engineer W.
Vance Baise hurried to the damaged
districts and t%elephoned here that
repair efforts, wherever permitted,
had already been launched.
Damaged roads were being patrol
led heavily tonight, he said, for the
protection of unwary motorists.
The following detailed report of
Ninth Highway Divisional headquar-
tiers at Shelby and the Tenth district
headquarters at Asheville was re-
ceived here last this afternoon:
N. c. 26 closed between Woodlawn
and Linville, with water over the
road at Woodland.
N. c. 104 between Spruce Pine
and Red Hill closed on account of
slides.
U. S. 70 blocked east Of Asheville
and at Swannanoa and Grovestone,
with bridge out between Black
Mountain and Ridgecrest.
U. S. "a blocked two miles east Of
Asheville at Swannanoa river.
U. S. Is open between Asheville
and Hendersonville.
U. S. Ga under water at Pisgah
Forest west Of Hendersonville.
U. S. % under water at Canton
and Clyde.
U. S. % and 10 under water west
Of Dillsboro.
N. c. 2so under water at Mills
river between Asheville and Brevard.
U. S. 81 blocked at Fairfield; also
in three places between Franklin
and Highlands.
N. c. LOT blocked in two places be.
tween Sylvia and Cashiers.
U. S. ICE blocked at Micaville.
U. S. 10. closed between Barnes
vile and johnson City, Tenn, ana
blocked by slide between ingalls, and
Cranberry in Avery county.
All Mc4Gays out Of Spruce Pine
and NeMland were said to be impas-
sable. |
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
MRS. MARY

,CHADBOURN, Aug. 13.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Mary Ann Millette.
80, who died at 1920 o'clock yester-
day morning at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Early Millette, in
Chadbourn after a short illness, were
held at 8 o'clock this afternoon from
the late residence.
The Rev. I. T. Newton. assisted
by the Rev. Donald Myers, both
Baptist ministers, conducted the
services. Burial followed in the Chad
bourn cemetery.
Active pallbearers were:
George Blake, Herman Blake, Will
liam S. Edmunds, Garland War.
rem, Ralph Rooms and R. c.
Bowles. Honorary palbearers
were: Frank Wooten. DR.. J. F.
Blake, DR.. W. F. Smith, DR.. W.
B. Walton, E. Britt, c. L. Tate.
Wayne Bailey, W. M. Macarthur,
]. H. Land, ST., ]. J. Hendren, DR.,
w. F. Yates, j. r. Blake, John
Yates, Dick Yates, V. E. Smith,
M. D. Edmunds, DR.. j. E. Koonce,
B. H. Collier and Elroy Bailey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
MRS EMMA v. MINTZ

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
V. Mintz, 81, of COS South 18th
street, who died at 3:45 o'clock Mon.
day afternoon in a local hospital
after a long illness, will be held at
5 o'clock this afternoon from the
Yopp funeral home.
The Rev. F. S. Johnston will con-
duct the services. Burial will follow
in the Oakdale cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
F. L. Mintz; four daughters, Misses
Geneva M, Emma Dorothy, Marga-
ret E., and Mary Lou Mintz; four
sons, Norman, Fred L. Jr., S. A.,
and Arnold P. Mintz; and one broth
err, L. F. Garrison, all of Whining
ton.
Active %pallbearers will be: Arthur
I. Maynard, Louis W. Harrison, John
F. Wolf, w. r. Hadley, George ~.
Gore, and David J. Patrick.
Honorary: DR.. David r. Murchi-
son, Dr.. J. w. Hooper, DR.. G. B.
Barefoot. W. T. Brown, N. J. Owens
and W. A. Wylie.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Averages Apparently Better
Than 18.43 Cents Set Dur
ing Opening Sales

VALDOSTA, Ca, Aug. 13.-R-
Bright leaf tobacco prices moved
skyward today as buyers bid brisk
ly for medium grade stock.
Unofficial r e p S indicated a
steadily Strengthening market, with
averages apparently better than
the is. 43-cents-a-pound set for the
first two days Of sales.
At Waycross the Journal-Herald
reported a definite upturn'' with
medium quality grades and Tugs
bringing advanced prices, and the
average well above the 20-cent
mark" The range was from four to
% cents a pound, with the bulk 60
ing for from 20 to 26 cents.
Sales Manager Joe Spence at
Pelham reported early sales today
averaging about 10 cents. Yester-
day the market moved 342, $40
pounds at an average of 1854. The
range was from six to % cents a
pound
A scarcity of good tobacco and
heavy offerings of low and medium
leaf were reported from Hahira
by Sales Manager w. R. Salter.
Today's sales ranged from six to
% cents a pound, with the bulk at
from 10 to 20 cents. Yesterdays
official report s 1--WE 283, 036
pounds sold for $50, 965. 25-an aver.
age of 1871.
The Triton m a appeared
firm, with an average near 20 cents
and a range from five to "a cents
a pound. Yesterday 1871, 238 pounds
yielded $171, 1923, an average Of
20. IS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
pretty full" and it was conceded
that area might well be next. l

pretty full" and it was conceded
that area might well be next. l
Southampton - normally about
1870, 600 population-was the most
important city officially acknowl-
edged to have been hit by the
raiders, but bombs also fell on the
Isle Of Wight and on several"
Raj airdromes in southeast Eng
land. At one of these a number"
of casualties were acknowledged.
It was the fourth successive day
of unending attack and, adding
the 400 to 800 raiders that ap-
peared last Thursday in a bloody
overture of what has come since,
it raised to a total of about 1000
the number of German pplanes
that have struck in the fosur days
of big scale fighting.
This time between 400 and 600
Nazi craft-bombers and fighters
-loosed their projectiles of death,
pounding particularly across the
80-mile defense corner" between
the estuary of the Thames-which
leads to London-and the Sussex
Hampshire coast, and striking
along a 2O0-mile stretch of the
channel.
This broad attack upon the chan
mel coast, acros but 20-odd miles
of water at some points from the
Nazi-held French coastline, went
on Tuesday evening in a screen
Of low clouds which hid most OF
the activity from the silent OBJ
servers on the ground.
But that it was a large-scale
combat was made clear beyond
question in the echoing roar of
many motors. Now and then a
plane could be seen to burst into
flame and spiral into the. sea, or
into some anxious little backwater
village near the coast.
Air raid warnings were put into
effect over a big area, including
even the inland gunnery stations
one of which was within half a
mile Of a Nazi bomber which fell
with her bomb racks still partly
loaded.
Mobile batteries and strong troop
concentrations were scattered
about and ready, from the coast
to several miles inland. Modern
barricades, intended to block the
invader but to permit free move
ment of the defenders, were
thrown up along all roads. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
FLEET COMMANDER
REACHES SHANGHAI
Hart Expected To Preside
Over Meet To Consider Re-
assignment OF Zone

SHANGHAI, Aug. 14.-(Wednes-
day)-R-Using a sea-going SUBJ
marine as a flagship, Admiral
Thomas Charles Hart, commander
of the United States Asiatic fleet,
arrived here this morning from
Tsingtao amid Japanese demands
for control of the British defense
sector of the International settle
ment.
Britain's decision to withdraw
her troops from China will leave
Rear-Admiral Moriji Takeda, COM
mander of the Shanghai Japanese
naval garrison, as senior foreign
officer, but Admiral Hart outranks
him and as such it was expected
he would preside over a meeting
Thursday at which foreign defense
chiefs will consider reassignment
of the British zone.
Those here who oppose the idea
of Japan controlling the British
sector, containing some of Shang-
hats largest business interests and
best residential districts, hoped
the American admiral would block
the Japanese.
Tang Leang-li, official spokes-
man for the Japanese-controlled
Chinese administration at Nan
king, echoed the Japanese mill
tary when he expressed the hope
that the United States would fol-
low Britain's example by with
drawing the Fourth marine regi-
ment stationed here.
1.-The Chinese won't tolerate" the
transfer of the British sector to
American troops, he said. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
FACES
WATER SHORTAGE
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meet with the main lines from the
watersheds.
Since no water was coming into
the reservoirs tonight, these users
apparently were without water.
or a time today the Bee Tree
reservoir dam was threatened by
high water, but the flood began to
recede about 5 pm.
Many Homeless
Scores Of families were forced
from their homes and rail and
highway traffic was virtually par
alyzed in western North Carolina
as swollen mountain streams in
undated bottomlands, swirled over
bridges and. threatened to spread
over low-lying towns and indus
trial plants.
Heavy rains that sent mountain
streams rushing from their banks
continued intermittently tonight
and weather officials S the
crest Of the flood was yet to come.
The French Broad river at Ashe-
vile was three feet above bankfui
stage early this afternoon and still
rising with the crest of five feet
expected sometime tonight.
Residents Of Biltmore, suburb of
Asheville, were being evacuated
late this afternoon and a number
OF homes along the Swannanoa riv.
err were reported washed away.
Slides and floodwaters blocked
at many points through
out this area and local hotels
guest homes and motor courts
filled to capacity with straAd.
ed travellers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
RELIEF AGENCIES
AID STORM VICTIMS
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prevent water contamination
were badly needed at Beaufort.

DItVtIlG w d u COAUdilAAAAapAoh
were badly needed at Beaufort.
The 263rd Coast Artillery regiment
of the South Carolina National
Guard, training at Fort Moultrie,
was ordered home because, officers
said, training no longer was possible
at Moultrie because of the storm.
The stor mover, tides apparently
were receding toward normal.
In its wake, however, came torren-
tial rains inland that sent rivers
surging out of their banks and flood
ing adjacent areas.
Asheville, N. c., appeared tn e
hardest hit by high waters. The
North Carolina highway department
reported that only n rout from
Asheville to the rest of the state was
open, all the others being blocked,
either by inundation or landslides.
The Southern railway was blocked
at Salamanca tunnel near Ridge
crest by a landslide and near Old
Fort at the foot Of the mountains by
a washout. It was routing its traf-
sfic by Spartanburg.
= Flood waters in upstate South
Carolina closed or threatened to
Close 26 highways, State Highway
Engineer J. S. Williamson reported.
= A cloudburst near Augusta, Ca,
-swelled the Augusta canal, and,
when a log damned a water gate,
water backed up over three or four
blocks near the Union station. Harry
Raynes, m~eteorologist, predicted the
river would rise to A feet
at Augusta by tomorrow morning.
= Two airs of a Observation-Disclosures
train were derailed near Toccoa, Ca,
because of a washout. No one was
hurt. More than 7 inches of rain
in the area in the last "a hours,
Southern railway officials aid,
washed out a culvert.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
NAZI AIRMEN WIDEN
RANGE OVER BRITAIN
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NSo1IC411uCu 1IOIH dp6 yyH4I
canes were said to have been brought
down as against the loss Of eight
German Messerschmitts.
Dover is at the mercy of German
bombing ~squadrons and it's British
defenders have been driven out Of
the air." German sources declared
joyfully tonight.
Among British airports attacked,
the Germans listed Detling, Oldham
and Marlborough. They said two
airport buildings and planes on the
ground were destroyed at Detling
while 20 planes were wrecked and
burned at the other two, and numer
GUS buildings set after by bombs.
The ports and Quays in Bourne
mouth and Plymouth, munitions
works in Exeter and Bristol, and
petroleum tanks in North Killing
ham were listed by the German radio
as additional targets heavily dam
aged.
The radio reported that u barrage
balloons were shot down at Folke.
stone.
Merchantmen Sunk
Two merchantmen of Is, 900 tons
each and two patrol boats were de-
clared to have been sunk by air
bombs as they moved out of the
Thames Estuary.
The great Portsmouth naval base
again was pelted with bombs TODAY
and the raids on south coast ports |
have been SO effective, these sources
declared, that it will be almost i'm.
possible for the British fleet to
operate in the channel,
Besides pounding English shore
points for h third successive day.
the swarms of German bombers and
fighters today crowded steadily in
land to a point where thew threaten.
ed the defenses Of London itself.
nazis asserted.
Eastchurch, half way I'D the
Thames toward London, was one of
the main targets as the nazi raiders
went into their I'D hour Of almost
steady bombing and cunning of is.
land strong.points.
German reports indicated that
since Is minutes after ntdnirh+ +his
morning, when Walsend, near New.
castle, was bombed, there had haan
a constant series Of bombing raids
apparently moving ever farther in.
land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
ACCUSE
GREEKS OF HAVING
NEW LAND DESIGNS
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renounce British guarantees Of her
independence. and territorial integ-
rity.
The Suggestion followed a bitter
italian press attack against Greece,
charging her with responsibility for
the beheading of Daut Hoggia, an
Albanian patriot" and fueling of
British warcraft fighting Italy in
the Mediterranean.
High diplomatic sources said Pre-
mier General John Metaxas received
the Suggestion from the italian
charge d'affaires at a meeting this
morning attended by the German
minister and already had answered
no"
After the meeting Metaxas hur-
ried to the palace for a long audience
with King George II.
Metaxas also conferred with the
British minister. The United States
minister, Lincoln MacVeagh talked
with one of the premier's aides at
the foreign office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
GERMANS CONTINUE
RAIDS ON BRITAIN
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essentials as the admiralty de-
scribed the fight:
One small German vessel was
rammed; another fired on almost
point blank by machine-guns and
attacked with hand grenades; two
larger Nazi ships machine-gunned
at very close range" a German
"E-boat," or mosquito torpedoboat
put under fire in two running bat
ties; a German plane attacking
from above set ablaze.
The significant term Il 6 e r
vessels was not amplified. 2
Meet Attacks
The British, fighting with the
curiously calm ferocity which al
ways have shown when this seat
of empire has been threatened,
went up to meet the aerial often
sive with everything they had.
They claimed an ever-growing
number of raiders shot down.
making the figure 81 early tonight
against an acknowledged loss of
nine defending planes.
Then, turning a moment from
the crisis here at home, they an
nounced that British filters h a d
successfully attacked the Germans
from Jutland to the Bay of Biscay.
In this series Of day and night
attacks on Germany and Nazi-held
territory attacks sent home in
some instances Sin spite of ice
and cloud"-the British conceded
the loss of is planes.
Nevertheless, they said, they
bombed II Nazi airdromes, the
Nazi seaplane base at Borkum,
the Nazi-held harbor at Denhelder
on the Dutch coast, various docks
and munitions plants.
But all Of this, however destruc.
tive it may have been to Ger.
many, was only a side issue to the
great showdown here at home
the Nazis' air attacks which al.
ready r sweeping the southern
coast and now threaten to extend
in force to the cargo-choked west
coast.
All Of these western ports were
officially acknowledged to be
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
GERMANS BELIEVED
USING BIG CANNON
AGAINST BRITAIN
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3. British bombers could
soon locate and "make things
warm'' for the gun crews.

warm 1OT tuc gun SACWSs
"It would be surprising if naval
and military authorities are not
already taking steps to deal with
what is merely a nuisance" By
water wrote.
Germany's big Bertha" bonn
bardment of Paris began March
%, 1918, and lasted until August
before French mathematicians and
aerial scouts located it.
The huge gun fired every third
day because of the wear on the
cannon, hurting 303 shells into Par
is which killed 256 and wounded
$50. One shell struck the Paris
church of st. Gervais killing and
156 Good Friday worship
pers. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
MYRA L. CHAUNCEY

Funeral services for Myra Lovelle
Chauncey, 26, who died early Mon
dav morning at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Chaun'
cey, at Lake Waccamaw, were held
at 9 o'clock yesterday afternoon
from the late residence.
The Rev. C. A. Jones, of TABOR
City, assisted by the Rev. N. +.
Adams, of H%allsboro, conducted the
services. Burial followed in the Lake
cemetery.
In addition to her parents. she
is survived by n brother. Winfield
Chauncey, Jr., and two sisters, Miss
Pauline Chauncey and Mrs. Richard
E. Stone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
WOODS INFANT

Funeral services for the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Woods, of Mercer avenue, who died
Yesterday morning, will be held this
afternoon at 8 o'clock. -
The services will be in charge of
Mrs. w. T. Devane, of the Castle
Heights church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

Tobacco Prices Advance
On Markets In Georgia
OBITUARIES
RS BOYD G

Funeral services for Charles Boyd,
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Macill. who died Monday, were held
Yesterday afternoon.