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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
K. K. K. FL0CCER
IS FOUND GUILTY
Atlanta Judge Sentences
Cawthon To Pay Fine,
Serve Is Months

ATLANTA, April 26.-R-A
conviction with the maximum pen
atty in the Fulton county (Atlanta,
flogging trials gave the state 6
new toe-hold today in its prosecu-
ton of night rider terrorist charges
against alleged ku Klux Khan lash
wielders.
First of II men scheduled fol
trial, Henry Cawthon was found
guilty Of one whipping ard SEN
fenced 70 pay a $1,000 fire, serve
- months on the public works and
six months in Jail. The red-halred
garageman was acquitted by the
superior court jury in eight other
flogging counts.
The charge upon which the 80
year old father of four children
was convicted yesterday was beat
ing P. S. Toney, a Go textile I'M
ion organizer. Toney identified the
defendant as one Of his attackers,
Judge Hugh NJ. Dorsey took I'M
der consideration Cawthon's motion
for a new trial. Cawthon was re-
leased under 5000 bond.
Another indictment charges Cav
thon with KIDNAPPING Toney from
a nearby cotton mill and taking
him to East Point to be dashed in
August. 1888. A 4-to-20 year SEN
tence is possible upon conviction
of this charge.
Next to face trial is Dan Edison,
charged with five lashings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
RALEIGH HINDU
TO Be DEPORTED
g ration Authorities
Say Jivatode Is Illegally
In United States

WASHINGTON, April 26.-LR-
immigration authorities said today
Ramkrisha S.. Jivatode, Raleigh
Hindu, faced deportation because
he was illegally in this country.
They explained Jivatode entered
the United States in May, 1926, as
a student and failed to leave when
his studies were completed as re-
quired by law.
His status as a student ceased
in 1887, they said, but Jivatode
has been given a number Of extern
sions Of time to leave.
"There seems to be nothing thai
can be done now a spokesman
said. 1.-The law made his residence
here legal only while he was a
student"
He also explained Jivatode was
of a race which bars him from be-
coming an American citizen under
an exclusion act.
Jivatode attended North Carolina
State college at Raleigh and while
here married an American girl.
Informed there were reports his
american wife and two children
could not leave the country with
him, immigration authorities said
they kne of nothing in the law
to prevent this.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Light Vote Predicted
In May Is Primaries

RALEIGH, April 26-(R-North
Carollnians one month from today
will vote in a history-making pri-
mary but veteran observers here
forecast n of the smallest votes
in years.
The state board of elections re
ported today that 1912 polling
places will be operated this year
IN increase of exactly so since
1888 and the largest number Of
precincts in the states history.
But, sage politicians insisted that
the vote probably would run be
tween 1926, 900 and 400, 900 in the
democratic primary, compared with
516,864 in the first g~ubernatoria
primary of 1886. There were All,
OLA votes in the democratic pr
mary for United States senator in
1888.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
BY ROBERT BUNNELLE

LONDON, April 26.-P-Great
Britain is counting on friendly re-
lations with Russia and Japan as
we'll as increased fleet activity in
the Pacific to chink the Waldo
vostok crack in the Allied blockade
of Germany.
Informed sources today said bet
ter relations with Japan were be-
ing sought and conciliatory ges~
lures made toward the Soviet Union
i. an about-face from the bitter
hostility existing during the Rus
sian-Finnish war.
Britain a Japan were reported
nearer an agreement on the dis
posal Of Chinese government-claim-
ed silver which is held in the Brit
ish and French concessions at
Tientsin, scene of British-Japanese
tension for ten mont-s. The Brit
ish also are e~ndeavoring to ma
neuver their Pacific blockade ships
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27

ed Police set. Either in temper or
fun, the Old Master always manages
to provide a laugh. His w~ell-drilled
troop of mounties reported the other
day for some parade and inspection
shots, and they wore new uniforms
with the trimmest and highest of
blue pants. Ordered to mount, all but
two or three found the pants so tight
they couldn't lift foot to stirrup.
Nearly everyone laughed at the
disorder, but DeMille didn't. He
watched for a minute, then screamed
into the public address system:
We'll, what the hell are you going
to do-get bigger pants or teach the
horses to kneel like camels?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Britain Tries New
Tack With Russians

so as not to offend Japanese feel
ings.
In renewing British-Russian trade
pact overtures, Britain sought as
surance Russian imports would not
be trans-shipped to Germany and
tina only a minimum of Russia's
OWE products would be sold the
Reich.
The Russians were said to have
agreed to the first stipulation but
to insist their nations internal
economy requires normal dealings
with Germany in Russian products.
The British, h ever, may try to
cut the ground from this stand by
outhidding Germany for Russian
goods.
Importance to Britain of plug
ging the Vladivostok blockade gap
was emphasized by figures given
out by the ministry of economic
oarfare saying LOCO tons of va
rious goods are shipped daily from
N~ladivostok to Germany by way
Of the trans-Siherian railway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Book Highlights

Vividly revealing, yet historical
Iy sound, is the biographical novel
Gentleman of Stratford" (Har.
pers: $3.50, John Brophy's frank.
human story of the life and loves
of William Shakespeare.
Brophy cIeverly transforms
Shakespeare from a smooth-pated,
bewhiskered marble bust into an
actual being, vibrant, witty, tragic,
who might be a character of the
goth century.
Shakespeare's first love is Anne,
the girl he marries while still in
his teens, Anne inspires his early
sonnets, becomes the heroine of
his first plays.
Tired of living off his family
and providing no support for his
wife and three children, the young
bard goes to London to establish
himself as a playwright. Here he
meets his second love, the lady in
scarlet and white, who gives him
inspiration, nothing more.
Eventually this dream girl mar
ried another and a new woman
enters Sha~kespeare's life-a dark
woman, raven-haired. Latin. Oh,
sessed with his new love, he writes
nothing until he can shake himself
free.
Last love of William Shake
speare is his daughter, Judith, who
comforts him in his last wears.
and, like the others, is recreated
as a dau6hterly character in his
last writings. At middle age. the
bard dies. The Avon flows On
Proper sequel to Brophy's hook
is Helen Ashton's 'The Swan of
Usk" (Macmillan; $3.50, the Swan
being Henry Vaughan, Welsh Row.
alist soldier, country doctor, mys-
tic and poet. His life begins as
Sh~akespeare's ends.
A historical romance. the hook
is notable for it's vivid accounts
of England's civil war battles. IFS
picture of the simple existence en-
joyed by Vaughan, to whom fame
came only after death.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27

is to blow up two sections Of ii
and that, during the last seven
months, Germans have been silent
ly burrowing towards it under
ground. Surely a vast undertaking,
but not perhaps utterly beyond
German industricusness.
Should the Maginot Line once be
conquered, behind it lies a second
eve months. 1t is thinner than
the first, contains more pillboxes,
and behind it is a series of heavily
fortified French cities.
Most important of all, there are
two armies; for the garrison OF
the main Maginot Line comprises
only 800, 600 men, all trained spe-
cialists. The great mass of French
manpower is free to operate in
open warfare as the finest maneu
vering army in the world, brilliant
ly led and thoroughly trained. The
British array in France, now ap-
p~rOdCnlnS oUu, is more SpOlly
in training, but mechanical and
motorized in equipment. 1t is said
to have only four horses, the four
horsemen being brass hats who
need exercise, including Lord Gort
and the Duke of Gloucester.
British and French are ready
for open warfare against the .;ome-
what spottily trained Nazi infantry
if the Maginot Line ever breaks.
PRICE WOULD
BE HIGH ONE
Can it be broken? For years !
have been asking that question
of men who should know. Only
yesterday = asked a young officer,
who lately has been in the line.
He replied, Absolutely not" But
when I asked a general of out
standing judgment and experienced
in breaking lines considered i'm
penetrable, he said, Probably the
Nazis can break the Maginot Line
if they are willing to pay the price
in lives"
I prefer the second answer
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27

to-bed-etc. saw. He gets down to
work, usually, by Z in the morning,
seldom goes out in the evening.
When he's in Roanoke he always
walks to work-three miles. In
Washington, he lives in a hotel
near the Capitol, takes an early
morning stroll down around the
Washington monument before break
fast.
With a different twist of fate
he might have been a professional
singer. A few years age he sang on
a number Of programs with the
army band.
Until comparatively recently, he
directed the choir in Roanoke's big
gest church. He has been too busy
this year to sing much, snapped out
of it recently to sing at a news
papermen's gathering.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
TyreN Auditor, Clerk
Indicted For Fraud

COLUMBIA, April 26-CP-Tbs
Tyrell county grand jury YESTERDAY
recommended that the services Of
G. w. Jones, clerk of the superior
court and acting county auditor.
and ]. c. Meekins, delinquent tax
collector and former county attor.
ney, to be discontinued.
True bills were returned against
both Jones and Meekins by the
grand jury on the previous dav on
charges of embezzlement Of county,
funds. Another true bill was r.
turned against Jones for attempting
to bride Auditor Harry Bundy d
Elizabeth City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Committee Disapproues
Tax Replacing Bill

WASHINGTON, April 26-GP-
A house military affairs sub-com-
mittee voted six to three today to
recommend to the full committee
that all legislation to authorize
the Tennessee Valley Authority to
use part of its revenues to replace
taxes lost by local governments by
tabled.
Representative May (D-Ky),
chairman of the subcommittee and
the full committee, said he would
call the full committee into special
session las soon as possible" to act
on the subcommittee recommen-
dation. The meeting probably would
be held next week, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
keM Laan
COURT
Decision in the Strange Case of
chow BAD IS A COMMUNIST"
CONTINUED From Page Eight

Continued From Page Eight
THE
And SO Jan Vestins lost his case
against the Commissioner of Immi-
grafton of the Port of San Francisco
and In a short time, the little tailor
was sent back to Finland.
This case is typical of many for
elgners, who come over to this
country. Some come with evil in
tentions, actually sent by radical
headquarters abroad, while others,
innocent enough at first, fall in with
evil forces already planted in this
country.
According to the record, there is
no doubt that the little tailor was
interested in Communistic activi-
ties. While, as he claimed, he was
not a real agitator, the court main
tanned that he was a menace and a
carrier of radical germs" 1t is a
matter of record that he advocated
the overthrow of our government
by force of violence. This was def
nltely brought out on cross-exami-
nation and was held sufficient cause
for his deportation.
The American statute provides
for the deportation of all aliens
who believe in, advise, advocate or
teach the forcible overthrow of the
government of the United States"
And Jan Vestins, the little tailor,
fitted all the specifications to the
letter.
This is a true case. Reference of
citation may be had by sending a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
to "Bela Lanan-Court Reporter"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27

it deals in fox.
hunting a n d
steeple-c chasing.
The climax is
provided by t h Q
Maryland Fl u n t
Cup R a C e, an
event which actu-
ally will take place
on April II. T h Q
studio will photo
graph the r e a l
thing and use part
of the film in the
picture. But t h e
horse that Ii a S
baep nbotopranb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Cool Weather Retards
Retail Trade Expansion

NEW YORK, April 20 Up -
Both spring and retail trade were
described as "laggard" today in the
weekly trade review of Dun and
Bradstreet.
The delay in appearance Of warm
weather, said the agency, "con-
tinued this week to check a full
expansion in seasonal trade activi-
ty"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27


drive is no light
matter, to Wood
rum. He says it
is "a question Of
fundamental hon
esty."
Were really
over the debt linz
it right now" he
says. Congress is
n the position of
/ man who writes
checks wit bout
money in the
bank. In a case
like that it's no
answer to say
you intend to de.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
GREENS For SPRING

Get busy and pick spring greens
for your buildup tonic. Young dan
delions can be washed and used in
tossed salad or cooked 5 minute
and served with hard-cooked eggs
and lemon juice. They make a
grand spring food, brimful of min
erals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
In Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, April 26.-All over
the lot: Picture making is a gamble
on a horse race until 20th-Fox began
to produce Maryland This is in
Technicolor and is something like
Kentucky" only farther east, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
HURLEY IS DARK,
DARK HORSE

During the last few weeks a mum,
Der of big-name republicans have
made persistent efforts to get Pat
rick Hurley, secretary of war in
Hoover's cabinet, to come out as a
candidate for the republican nomi,
nation.
These men include some Of the
party's most prominent figures,
from New England, New York, the
middle west and the southwest.
They started last summer, offering
to provide ample finances and a
working organization if Hurley
would undertake a couple of speech
making tours.
Hurley weighed the matter and
refused. The movement died down
only to spring up again in mid.
February. Recently the pressure
has been on again.
Hurley is not going to be a can
didate. Nevertheless, he must be
figured as a dark horse. For this
reason:
Herbert Hoover is going to be
among those present at the republic
can convention. and he is going to
have a lot of influence. Suppose
the present "big three" - Dewey,
Taft and Vandenberg-deadlock in
the convention. A Hoover boom is
pretty certain to be tried. If it fails,
Hoover would be sitting there with
a lot of strength to throw to some
body-and it might be Pat Hurley.
They have been, and are, very
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
THERE'S MUCH IN
THIS NAME

One of the things that started
the Hurley boom is the fact that
Hurley has color-enough for three
candidates. Another is the fact that
he can inspire warm loyalties. He
can even, in fact, be a hero to his
valet. Witness:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Con-
gress is full of men who believe in
economy but are willing to vote
the other way in a pinch. Outstard-
ing among the few who really work
for it is gray-haired Clifton Wood
rum of Virginia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
N%Iasinot Line
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON
NEA Service Military Writer

Can the Nazis break Frances
Masinot Lie? That question is 6
close second i'll Importance to: Car
Nazi air power beat British sea
power?
One answer the world is getting
now in Scandinavia. The other may
come at any moment in France,
for the Germans are showing
signs of attacking the Maginot
Line. Perhaps it will be only a
diversion to hold back Franco
British troops from Scandinavia,
but more likely it will be a ire
mendous attempt to break through
and end the war.
This ~stupendous undertaking the
Nazis would justify by their mill
tary doctrine and even more by
their state Of equipment. For if
ever a host was armed to break
the strongest fortress in history,
that host is today's ReichsVehr.
They have more, better and newer
weapons than any army ever had
in the worlds history. They have
artillery, German am Czech, that
is unequaled for the task of shat
tering the concrete classmates top
ped with steel cupolas that are
the backbone of the famous line.
BIG FACTOR
AIR BOMBING
Those classmates can hardly be
rocked by shell fire as were the
less deeply anchored Finnish pill
boxes. But there r also pillboXes
on the Western Front-outposts of
the classmates. The Firms and Poles
succumbed to air bombing that was
nothing compared to the bombing
Germany would try to give the
Maginot Line. Such bombing has
already proven a demoralizer of
communications behind the front
and the best way to open the way
for tanks to get at ground troops
and pillboXes.
Germany has not only her 10
armoured tank divisions that over
ran Poland, but many more We
Eicles, including a very heavy tank
with tough armor. There are also
fJame-thrower tanks that fling a
c~oaltar or benzine fluid which
bursts into flames when it hits.
This would silence guns by fore
ing gunners to close the pillbox
ports through which they must
fire. Whether pillbox ports only
w.uld be affected OF also the big
classmates themselves, remains to
be seen. Of course, many classmates
could fall without the whole line
breaking; and were it besieged, its
mole garrison of mechanics in
white jumpers has supplies for at
least three months.
HINT AT NAZI
UNDERGROUND ATTACK
Some say the only real way to
break the Maginot Line wide open
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
of the economy

post some next winter"
The Presidents budget, says
Woodrum, aimed to cut the deficit
and keep the nation under the 49,,
900, 900, 900 debt limi by providing
for three things-raising $3.50, 00O,-
600 in new taxes, recruiting new
money for the treasury from the
capital stock of government cor
poratiors, and strict adherence to
budget estimates.
I'VE haven't either voted the
taxes ol stuck to the budget. and
hence I say we're over the debt linn
it," he says.
NO FRILLS FOR
WOODRUFF
For a couple of years now Wood.
dun has been a species of ogre to
all government spenders. If you're
not looking for government money,
though, you won't notice anything
ogre-ish about him. He's a friendly,
u~nassuming man who likes sing
ing, enjoys working in his flower
garden, goes to lots of movies, reads
lots Of detective stories, and makes
a nightly practice Of getting into
bed to listen to the radio.
Woodrum believes in the early
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27

ed at the studio as the race winner
is a bay, and if a white horse cap
lures the cup this month, a number
OF costly scenes r going to have
to be re-shot in Hollywood. CIn the
dust and lather of a four-mile race,
bays, blacks, and chestnuts look
about the same, but a white or gray
winner would spoil everything.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Have Doctor Come
IF GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN
FAILS TO BRING QUICK RELIEF
FROM
RHEUMATIC pain

l.. Take 2 Bayer Tab Z. Relief from rbeu-
lets with a full glass matism usually
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to directions. doctor.
Thousands have found that the
simple method pictured brings
amazingly fast relief from pain of
headache, rheumatism and neural
gla-when genuine BAYER Aspirin
is used.
Try this way first-then, if pain
keeps coming back, see your family
doctor. Let him find the cause and
give you treatment.
Genuine Bayer Aspirin gives
quick relief for two reasons-The
nature of the pain-reIieving element
comprising Bayer Aspirin itself.
And because Bayer Tablets disinte-
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are ready to go to work" with
amazing speed.
Remember to ask for "Bdyer
Aspirin'-not
just for aspirin" /
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-27
Weber And Fields
Still In Trim

VAL LII AAAhA
Joe Weber and Lew Fields live in
Hollywood but don't play in many
pictures there days. They've been
partners So years., won't work sepa.
rately, and insist upon doing their
famed type of heavily accented COM
dy. So there are not many jobs for
them.
But Lillian RUSSELL was a nat.
ural. After all, Weber and Fields
knew the actress well and present
ed her at their music hall. So they
were hired for the picture and slated
to play their comic pinochle game.
Director Irving Cummings thought
he'd have to spend at least a day
on the long sequence, 80 he excus-
ed most Of the other members of the
cast. The old di~alecticians, who are
Y and 70, whipped through their
lines and business like a couple of
Paul NUNS after a months re-
hearsal. Cummings blinked, filmed
it again for safety, then clicked off
a flock of %close-ups and angle shots.
Alice Faye and Henry Fonda were
recalled for work right after lunch.
l can't seem to keep away from
Cecil DeMille's North West Mount
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-06
TWIN TOWN TALK

that certain ST. Anthony Avenue
gent poung everything and everybody but
amt en walking the rain last Wednesday night while
wiley breezg around rubber The that friend WHEY
caught hubby when she spotted his parked the 200
block While she front waiting for him
said hubby with his coat tails ayng made it
the back way all the the pool hail. There with
his breath coming short pants from the fast running he ondenced
him home Guess he'll be quiet spell
but she certainly had mad at her
last Monday night Petite and brownskn and
looking mad enough nails she hudd of
the booth in popular tavern giving her escort stare Don't
her either but she's dark brown skinned TRIM nicely dressed
we'll groomed she like country hurchwas
Sunday afternoon in popular tavern.
The Souh the Border Sunday afternoon and OH
the interesting people and sights Grandma really
suttng her stuff with the joy water We know couple that
they goodbye they call other and talk
and hours phoneher friends still wondering what they
find The other that used do that hubby
and proud papa
old meanie who Switched" linen lady
her lose her job club Now what good did
that do? Did it make YOU feel any better? {?
The well known couple who the parting the
three weeks now billing and cooling again
well known praying each and night for
boy this be like his ilustrous papa.
the Forest Lake trip of Friday before last.