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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
MRS. ANNA LAKEWOOD

Mrs. Anna kirkwood, IS, of 214
No. K st, died Thursday In local
hospital. She was 4 native of
Minnesota and had lived in Ia
coma 81 years. coming here from
Oregon. Mrs. Kirkwood. a men,
Der Of the Lutheran church. leaves
one son. William of Lakota beach;
three sisters. Mrs. Helen Ellis OF
Seattle. and Mrs. Hilda WILDER
and Mrs. Emily Aubry OF Santa
Monica. Cal, and a brother, Carl
Larson Of Robbinsdale, MINI.
Mellinger's will announce the
funeral.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
MRS. JENNIE M. TAYLOR

Mrs. Jennie NJ. Taylor, 70, pio-
neer resident of Tacoma. died
Wednesday at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. John P. Watson in
Wenatchee, Wash. Mrs. Taylor,
who was born In oquawka, Ill,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-01
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
N,heot Calemei-And Ysu'Tl jump Out d
Bed n the Mernins Ram Ia Go

The liver should pour out two pints IT
Hquid bile into your bowels daily. IL Ibis
bile is not flowing freely. your food nay
not digest It NAV just decay IN the hovelA
Gas hlosts up your stomach. You get eonFu-
psted- You feel sour. SUM and the world
looks punk.
IL taxes those good. old Csr;er's rittls
liver Pills 20 get these two pints Of bile
flowing freely 10 make you feel .'up and
up." Amazing in making bile flow freely,
Ask for Csrter's Little Liver Pills by nar1s.
~ end 2St. stuebornly refuse anything else
adv
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Southport

Federal authorities in charge of locating de-
tense projects will pass up a major opportunity
for increasing the national security if they
fail to utilize the advantages and resources
OF Southport.
This Brunswick county town on the Cape
Fear river is situated ideally for any Of several
types of bases required in the rearmament
effort. With great areas of level land in the
vicinity, with Fort Caswell and it's many build
ings near at hand, its freedom from dense
population and its accessibility by land and
water, Southport deserves serious considera-
ton in the defense program.
1t is hard to believe that it will not be
chosen for one or more of the projects now
being considered for the Carolina coastal area.
When the favorable decision is reached-as it
ought to be-the state will owe it to the COM
munlty and TO the area promptly to under
take the improvement of the Old River road,
not only as a military necessity but for the
accommodation of foreseeable increases in
civilian traffic between Southport and Will
mington.
Present highway communication between
these cities is none too adequate. It will be
utterly Incapable of serving the greater need
when Southport has a part of the defense
effort.
Furthermore, the military effectiveness of
any base is vastly increased when served
by alternate highways. This Old River road
Improvement project deserves a place on the
state highway program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30

where there are no sidewalks in the vicinity
of schools"
The saving grace of this last provision mus
he obvious to all Wilmingtonians who recognize
tho need for giving children the security Al
forded by sidewalks while on their way to
and from school.
At present there are several stretches near
school buildings where the sidewalk area IS
overgrown with weeds and so impossible that
are compelled to walk in the street,
where they are endangered by passing motor
traffic and where they create hazards OF &C.
cident.
1t is gratifying to note that the commission
will correct this bad situation in the present
street improvement program. 1t would be IN
the interest of safety to improve the sidewalks
near schools first of all. Wilmington's school
children deserve this consideration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30

suppose that the defeated presidential candi-
date, Senior Almazan, had anything to do with
it. He had previously acknowledged defeat and
stepped aside. But it was his followers who
attempted to mob the American embassy, who
cried Down with the United States-Down
with Wal1ace-Viva Almazan,'' and other pro-
vokative slogans well calculated to breed
frenzy and lawlessness among the city's tenn
peramental people.
It was a regrettable occurance in view OF
the fact that the United States government
has recognized Camacho as the duly elected
president and has displayed a willingness to
meet him half way in composing differences
between the governments and peoples of the
two nations. Certainly, it placed a new handi-
cap on the good neighbor policy We have tried
to apply in Mexico as well all the Latin
American republics.
But it serves at least one good purpose.
We may now know for certain that whatever
surface indications of friendship are exhibited
south Of the Rio Grande there remains a deep
current of opposition to this country and its
official decisions among a large section OF the
Mexican population. 1t also indicates that the
Russian and German influence is great in
Mexico. Both Red and Nazi strategy leans
heavily upon demonstrations to create in-feel-
ing for g nation not in their good graces.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
THERE is A PURPLE ON
New York HeraId-Tribune

i knew there was a purple on. so l didn't
hurry for my train" One finds this illustra-
i've sentence In a brief-a much too brief
glossary OF war slang supplied by News From
the Outpost" a news letter issued by Ameri-
cans in Great Britain. It seems that a ''pur-
pie Is a preliminary warning of the enemy's
approach, and, since trains run at only fifteen
miles an hour during raids, it eliminates a
commuters need for haste. Apparently war
slang is still too small a thing to get much
into the cables, yet in this one word and the
explanatory sentence there is packed more
vivid information about the morale of the
British, the nature of air raids and the social
impact OF modern war than could be put into
a column of the best reporting. A ''red" is
the succeeding stage in the attack, when the
sirens are actually sounded. The noun ''yel-
low is already obsolete; it referred to the
situation when enemy planes were known to
be over some other part of the country. This
state says the glossary, 'is now PERPETUAL
so there are no more yellows.
A modern historian of ancient Rome would
give his soul for one such fragment of the
argot that was actually talked in the legionary
camps, the fora or the thermae of the empire
If, that is, he were able to interpret it.
What would a historian of a thousand years
hence make out of this scrap of the vocabu-
larry OF totalitarian war? He might under
stand how 'blitz' should be a term Of en-
dearment for the evening raid''-as in the
expression II left early to get home before
the blitz." What would he do with "de-quisle,"
even when told that this meant to disable
ones automobile in order to prevent its use
by fifth columnists?" Only if some frag-
mentary record still preserved the name of
Quisling would he have a clew. But the richest
find, if he could decipher it, would be 'abris
wallah"-'term used by retired Anglo-1ndian
AFRAID wardens for those faint-hearted enough
to take cover"
'Abris Neutrality-suspicious. yet heroically
humorous compound, offspring of the first
World War in France and memories of Indian
empire, joining in supreme contempt for Hit
ler's bombs-has everything. 1t has the whole
past and present of Britain in it; and, one
suspects her future. The abris wallahs may
get nervous when there is a purple on, but a
people which can defy disaster in such terms
as these is surely indornitable. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
British Strategy

The British parliament, cabinet and pubic
are ernestly debating the ACCESSIBILITY and the
drawbacks of a strong offensive against Italy,
now that Mussolini's navy has been seriously
crippled and his troops in undetermined num-
bers have been defeated by the Greeks with
the aid of British warplanes.
There are prominent members OF the London
government who insist that this is the time
to strike. Others equally prominent declare
that Britain must move cautiously in the
Mediterranean area with an eye slngly on the
possibility of so weakening Italian war
strength through constant hammering at land
and naval forces that Mussolini will be forced
out of the war. This view seems to find favor
with the war command, as is evidenced by
the recent attacks on Italian warships and
the rumored transporting of British reserves
and supplies to Greece.
What Britain's final decision will, OF course,
not become known generally until it is being
demonstrated on the war stage. But it is ap-
parent that the London regime is concentrat-
ing all sparable troops, planes and naval craft
in combat zones in the Mediterranean sector.
It is reasonable to expect that, whether now
or next spring, this area will see an offensive
which will overshadow all previous military
operations since the Hitler juggernaut rolled
over the Low Countries and France.
Italy's place in that battle is difficult to
determine. Italy entered the war with large
military and naval strength. That Mussolini
has accomplished little of importance is to be
attributed in large measure to the low morale
of his forces and lack of military leadership.
But Italy had numerical power at the begin
ming. Her land forces consisted of $500, 900
actives and 1900, 900 reserves, of whom 10000
were mechanical troops with 5000 tanks. In
the air force there were 5000 pilots and LOG, 900
other actives, with 1O2, 900 reserves. Their
equipment was 300 bombers, $50 pursuits, 4OO
reconnaissance planes, and $500 obsolete war
planes. At sea, she had 70, 900 actives and
IS, 900 trained reserves. There were six capital
ships (three or possibly four have been sunk or
beachedl with two more nearing completion.
There were % cruisers, IS destroyers, is
torpedo boats, $50 mosquito boats and 118 SUBJ
marines-possibly the largest sub fleet in the
world, not excluding Russia.
How much Of this great war machine is
still operative is not known, but heavy losses
in each division would still leave Italy with
great striking power, if Italy knew how to
strike. With an inherent weaking there, how-
ever, it is obvious that whatever campaign is
launched in Italy's zone of operations will
have to be fought on the Axis side under Nazi
leadership and largely, we may assume, by
Nazi soldiers. 1t is to be prepared to meet
the best, or the worst, that Hitler can do
there that seems to be guiding British strategy
now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Two Important Matters

There are many things to think about in
connection with this afternoons gridiron game
between The Citadel and Davidson. Two, in par
ticular, invite emphasis.
One is that the game, in every respect, is a
community project. The American Legion post
is merely the agency through which Whining
ton and southeastern North Carolina are offered
a chance to witness a major football contest.
The post has merely taken the responsibility
for arrangements, for attending to the ire
mendous amount Of detail work that such an
engagement involves. 1t has also accepted the
responsibility for the guarantee required by
the competing teams-no small matter. Other
wise, from kickoff to closing play, the game
is yours.
The other point-and it cannot be over-em-
phasized - is the need for careful driving.
There will be some congestion along the high
ways, as well as in the vicinity of the field.
1t need not be troublesome or risky, if all
drivers observe the common rules of safety.
Ordinary courtesy, such as one instinctiveIy
employees in the routine of life off the roads
and streets will make the avoiding of accidents
an easy matter.
Drive carefully, considerably, obediently
and the afternoons entertainment will not be
marred by accidents.
And if you have not purchased tickets, re.
$ consider your decision. Further fine football
games in Wilmington depend chiefly on the
attendance today. Buy tickets now-as many
as you can afford-and hel1 to assure future
games for yourself and the entire section you
know as the best in the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30

alog. His idea is this: If you had
to live on a desert island, which
ten Victor records would you
choose to carry along
1t seems to me that this can be
productive of no real cross-current
of public opinion unless all popu-
lar brands of records are used.
Using Victor only makes it a pub
licity stunt. Using Columbia, Dec.
ca and the others would yield
some interesting results.
l remember a similar proposal,
though non-commercial, advanced
by drama critics of New York sew
eral years ago. The idea was this:
If you had to live on a desert
island with ten actors and actress
es, which would you choose.
The reviewers composed their
preferences. One critic, in turning
in his list, commented: Going
over these names, 1 seem to have
selected the ones I have PANIED
most in my recent reviews. If they
ever actually got me on a desert
island I probably would dive over
board and take my chances with
the man-eating sharks"
Which leaves just space enough
to relay details of a belated post
election conference between B e r
Bernie and Carol Bruce. :. 81 votec
in a place literally swarming with
celebrities" Ben was saying
First, there was Fred Allen"
"How thrilling" commented Ca
|rol.
There was the Shadow"
'"How exciting"
"There was Bill Stern"
"How romantic"
There was Ben Bernie"
That's all brother" interrupted
|CarOl. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Increase In Department
Store Sales Reported

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-RA
The Federal Reserve board est.
mated today that department store
sales in the week ended November
% were nine percent higher thar
in the corresponding week last
year. Some of the comparisons
were axected by different Thanks.
giving dates last year and this
year.
Sales in the week ended Novem.
Der l6 had been Is percent above
a year ago, and the average gain
over last year for the four weeks
ended November % was five per-
cent.
Increases by Federal Reserve
districts, for the week ended Nov.
ember % over the similar week
last year, were: Boston 8, New
York 10, Philadelphia IA, Cleve-
land 9, Richmond II, Atlanta 7
Chicago 10, st. Louis 4, Kansas
City 2, and San Francisco IL per-
cent. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Editorial Comment
ON THE TIMING OF A PROPOSAL
Greensboro News

In the midst of an industrial boom, when
employment generally is repeatedly picking
up sharply and relief expenditures as such
are on the decline the department of agricul-
ture steps forward to urge a $400, DOC, 000-a-year
appropriation which would permit extension
Of the stamp program for distribution of sur
plus foods to all relief families.
Some idea of the extent to which the pro.
gram would be expanded is seen in the esti-
mate that the proposed appropriation would
enable application to Is, 000, 900 people. At pre-
sent approximately $500, 900 relief clients are
being issued stamps through a 500, 900, 900 an
nual expenditure. We are not herein consider.
ing the stamp plan as such, for it appears to
have worked admirably as an experiment and
to have proved worthy of continuation so long
as the need exists for food distribution. What
interests us, however, is the timing of the
proposal for a quadrupling of the fund devoted
to this purpose at a moment when employment
is picking up so sharply and the relief need is
expected to drop accordingly.
1t is recognized that agriculture is probably
reaping less benefits from the defense program
than any other vocation. Especially is this true
OF our own cotton and tobacco producers who
have been largely dependent on lost world
markets. Military requirements are resulting
in consumption of more and more cotton, how
ever, and as buying power generally increases
the products of the farm are certain to feel
the effects. incidentally, neither cotton nor
tobacco rates classification as a food or inclu-
sion in the proposed extension. Food SURPRISES,
with the exception of wheat, have rarely gone
into export to any marked extent.
Stressed by the sponsoring department of
agriculture in its argument for the 500, 900. 900
appropriation is avowal that farmers, low
income consumers and food dealers would all
benefit substantially from such an expansion.
Thus the proposal widens the subsidy front,
from which we are going to have to retire
one Of these days, or else, and arrays a com.
bination of beneficiaries who are capable of
providing quite an impetus indeed when the
scheme reaches the purely political stage of
congressional elaboration and expression. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30

those of certain other institutions
of correction" . .
The original "Boys Town. gross
ed three and a half million without
a foreign market, indicating, as
Taurog says chuckling, that some
pictures can get along without wo-
men very well.
It's small thanks to a great ca
reer, but it shows how practical
and hard-headed the movie bust
ness is: Shirley Temples final pic
ture, before her short retirement,
Young People," is bottom-billed
here with THE Mark of Zorro" .
Bette Davis, whose annual trip
to New England has been the usual
tonic for her, is modern again in
Far Horizon" and Obecause of the
rising tide in skirts is showing
more of the shapely Davis legs
than were seer even in 1.-THE Let
ter" or Dark Victory" her only
up-to-dates in a long string of per-
iod films. Mary Aston, by the way,
is the "other woman in this Polan
Banks novel, and George Brent the
man.
Having reported that Olivia De-
Havilland a bark like a dog,
I've run into other stellar accom-
plishments. James Cagney, for in
stance, can go like a horse, trot-
ting and snorting and champing,
when he's telling a horse story.
And Chris-Pin Martin, the stout
sldekick of the Cisco Kid, stands
on his head for five minutes be-
ore studying his script. He says
IT'S the rush of the blood to the
brain that helps. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Star-News Program

Consolidated City.CoAnty Government
under ConncilMd Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, pid-
er Turning Basin, With snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, vta
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustatned-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
mottonal Agency. supported by one
Countrywide tar
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, deys!oped around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF nattne grape grouing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Txbercu1osts sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
St. Marks Church
Plans Homecoming Da'

rF-+ NIl'
Sunday, which is me ui otra,ed
day in Advent will be csiT mark;
as Homecoming Day at ST. M Iac's.
Episcopal church, with sps' H.
services at II a. m. ano rcics
A feature of the mornlnS ~ -1,o1
will be the corporate comT ss,.res,
of the men and boys OF 'Ne 10 nj.
in keeping with the natioh|los d d
servance of the Brotherhood
St. Andrews. .,o Glib.
The rector will speak on me sS s~J
ject "A Holy and LlvlnS py.
flee" A cordial nVl'd'I0'
tended to all.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 3d. Wayne
Morris, who seemed in a fair way
to be knocked out by his domestic
breakup, is on the highway again
where he started-as the fighter in
kid Galahad." The new one, aft
err 81 Wanted Wings" is called
"Knockout.".
Mary Boland was testing for Sis
ter Bessie in Tobacco Road" be-
fore that auto accident.
: Louise Campbell and Horace
MacMahon, nice people, are going
east for Christmas, for SHOWS and
shows. Their Irish setter, Mike,
has Travelled as much ss they. Re-
Gently, en- route to Skowhegan.
Me-, for summer stock, Louise and
Mike ran into a dog ban on the
train. At a loss, she appealed to
a station attendant, who carefully
picked the official to whom he
should take her appeal MIR. Sulli-
van.
"An Irish s~etter?" beamed MIR
Sullivan. "Sure!".
Those reports that the movie
Boys Town resulted in cutting
down donations to Father Flana,
gan's worthy cause must have
been exaggerated or premature
Since the pictures release tn a
Omaha home for boys has bull
three new dormitories and a mess
hall besides a new chapel.
For Men of Boys Town." Mick
ey Rooney, Spencer Tracy a n d
bobs Watson are playing their for.
mer roles, but a new juvenile
threat is added in Darryl Hick-
man (from the Cranes nf
Wrath'') who looks exactly like
Jackie Coogan as The Kid" Nor
man Taurog is again the director.
but much of the action takes place
outside Boys Town, to show con-
trast between its methods and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Man About Manhattan
BY Georqe Tucker

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Anchoreu
in the bay here are half a dozen
tankers and freighters of Scandi-
navian registery. They have beer
here for months, condemned to a
Notwithstanding inaction because
their homelands have been over
run.
These ships are cramped, small,
dirty. Their crews are not allowed
on shore. The men wear matted
boards and their clothes are rag
ged. They have had no word of
their families and friends.
They can look over the water
and catch an ironic view of the
Statue of Liberty. They e great
ships, mostly in South American
trade, come and 60 each day.
1t was reported recently that a
murder has been committed on
one of these ships. Although in
vestigation failed to bear his out
it did disclose a sullen, shifty-eyed
attitude on the part of some OF
the men. They answered questions
in monosyllables, their eyes glued
on the deck. Their answers in part
were "cued'' by a ships officer
who was none too happy to have
Investigators aboard. One mar
blurted out: 81 haven't heard fc
my wife and sister in four months.
I don't know whether they are
alive or dead"
No one knows how long this will
go on Perhaps until the end
of the war.
Mr.. Richard Proskauer of the
RCA Manufacturing company
wants editors who review n e W
photograph records to come uI
with their selections of the ter
best records in his company's cat
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
ENGINEERS DIRECT
AIRPORT PROJECTS
District Engineer Here May
Be In Charge OF Char
lotte Work

The direction of all work per-
tanning to construction at Air
Corps stations has been trans
ferred by the War department from
the Air Corps to the U. S. Army
Engineers according to an an
nouncement by the office Of the
local U. S. engineer in the Gus
tomhouse.
The transfer was made accord
ing to the law approved by con-
gress on September 8 stating:
The Secretary of War may, I'M
til June 3. 1912, allocate to the
Corps of Engineers any Of the
construction works required to
carry out the National Defense
program and may transfer to that
agency the funds necessary for
the execution Of the works so al
located"
Details are now being arranged
between the War department and
the office of the Quartermaster
General. At present the plans are
in the nebulous stage, according
to the U. S. engineers office, but
the Wilmington customhouse will
be advised from time to time as
the different programs are adopted
in North Carolina.
Under the new provision there
is a possibility that the custom
house in this city may receive the
permit to direct the costly i'm
provements to the Charlotte air.
port, although Charlotte is official
ly in the Charleston district. En-
cheering districts are set up with
watersheds as boundaries rather
than state lines. Thus a river that
has its mouth in South Carolina
although a good part of it origi-
mates in North Carolina gives the
region south of it to the South
Carolina engineers office. How
ever, the airport construction pro-
jects may not be awarded accord
ing to districts bounded by water
sheds but to the engineers office
nearest the project proposed.
Even in the event the local Of
flee does not receive the Char
lotte project, the National Defense
program will in all probability in
clude several airports in the long
stretch of unprotected coast from
the South Carolina border to Nor
folk.