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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Love- Is Discussed
In The Lesson-Sermon

Love" was the subject of the les
son-sermon in all Christian Science
churches and societies, yesterday.
The Golden Text was from Ro-
mans SIS. THE love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto u.s."
Among the citations which com
prised the lesson-sermon were the
following from the Bible, eff a man
say, I love God, and hatch his
brother, he is a liar; for he that
loveth not his brother whom he hath
seen, how can he love God WHOM. he
hath lot seen? And this command
ment have we from him, That he
who loveth God love his brother
also" Il John APO, Ply.
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health With Key to the Scrip
tures," by Mary Baker Eddy, "The
understanding, even 10 a degree, OF
the divine all-power destroys fear,
and plants the feet in the true path,
the path which leads to the house
built without hands, eternal in the
heavens Human hate has no legi-
innate mandate and no kingdom.
Love is enthroned -. Love inspires,
illumines, designates, and leads the
way. Right motives give opinions
to thought, and strength and free
dom to speech and action. Love is
priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait
patiently for divine love to move
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
SAMUEL VAUGHAN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Chairman Of Board Of Bald
win Locomotive Works Dies
At Rosemont Home

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.-P-
Samuel NJ. Vauclain, chairman of
the board of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works and one of the coun-
try's foremost industrialists, died
today at his suburban Rosemont
home afer a long illness.
Death was ascribed to heart dis
ease and a complication of other
ailments. His condition for about
a year had been such that he was
in a hospital frequently and was
unable to take an active part IN
the management Of the company
he directed for II years.
Vauclain, who once estimated
that he helped build $4,000 locomo'
tives, typified the American tradi-
ton of a poor boy fighting his way
to the top in the industrial world
He started as an apprentice in a
railroad shop at Altoona, Pa, at
the age of Is.
During the World war, he turned
his inventive and executive ability
to work that won him the dlstln-
guished service medal from his W
country and decorations from
France, Italy and Poland. He was
chairman of committees on the coun-
Gil of national defense.
AS vice president of the Baldwin
works, he expanded its activities
during the war to produce mum
lions. At peak production the
firms two plants at Eddystone'
Pa, and Durham, Pa, produced
1900 rifles and 25,9G0 shells daily.
Vauclain, a super-salesman, otter
returned from Europe and South
America with contracts running as
high as SO, O00, 900.
Starting with Baldwin is an In
spector, Vauclain worked his way
up, becoming vice president lr
1911. He was named president ir
1919 and resigned that post II
years later to become chairman Of
the board.
He was a member Of the board
of several banks and other indus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
PEACE SUPPORTED
BY B'NAI BIRTH.
Head Of Organization Pledges
Members To Full DevO-
ton To Cause

TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 4-R-Henry
Monsky of Omaha, president OF
B'Nai FIRTH, today pledged the 1885,
900 members of the organization TO
full devotion to the cause Of peace
In America"
Monsky's appeal for the United
States to keep out of war was con-
tanned in a report prepared for the
opening here of the 96th annual
meeting of the executive committee
of the Oldest and largest national
Jewish organization in the United
States.
The paramount importance of
reace and unity in America" he
said, "emphasizes the need for I'M
relenting efforts to preserve demo-
cratic traditions and to protect our
free nation from the impact of philo'
sophies incompatible with the Amer
lean concept of a race of free men.
To the accomplishment of this OBJ
jective, the B'Nai Birth has de-
Dictated ITSELF"
B'Nai Birth, which represents "a
cross section of the American Jew
tsh community, realizes the blessings
of peace and the tragic consequences
of war" he said, "and joins with the
great mass of the American public
in the fervent prayer and hope that
our country may be kept out of the
war"
The committee heard reports from
other leaders and throughout tenor.
row will work out policies and pro-
grams for the coming year. The or.
der holds conventions triennially but
its executive committee meets an
nually.
Maurice Bisgyer, of Washington,
D. c., secretary, reported ar in
crease of $4,000 in membership or
a total of 80, 86O-the highest in his
tory. Wonen's organizations have
S5, 900 members and there are other
affiliates.
The organization. Bisgyer said,
spent $4,000 in 1879 for aid to refu.
gees from Germany, Poland and for
emergency relief in Poland, Finland
and Chile.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
ROOSEVELT, MACK,
TOWNSEND CONFER
Nations Chief And Friends
Discuss. Politics In Duchess
County And Trees

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Feb. 4.-CP
President Roosevelt had a leisure
ly chat today with John E. Mack
one of his political allies of Ions
standing. and James Townsend
Dutchess county democratic chair
man.
But the serenity of a Sunday aft
ernoon was not disturbed by any
mention of national politics or a
third term, Townsend saId. Rather,
he said, the discussion was con-
fined to two entirely unreiated
topics-politics in Duchess county,
and trees.
Mack. an attorney at nearby
Poughkeepsie. twice placed the chief
executives name in nomination for
the presidency at democratic ma.
tional conventions.
Spending the Sabbath quietly
with members of his family, Mr..
Roosevelt chose to ignore, so far as
any public reaction was concerned,
me POLITICAL 0lOplllClllS "hAS
marked the close of last week.
Neither from him nor his aides
was there any comment on the fill
ing in Illinois Of petitions to put
his name on the state democratic
advisory primary in Ap l, the en-
dorsen-ent of a third term by the
Pennsylvania democratic state CON-
mittee, or reports OF a. :vities on
behalf of Vice-President Garner in
Georgia and New lork.
While the democratic national
{ mmittee meets in N%ashington to-
morrow, the President will be spend
ing another day in the seclusioE OF
his country home. He will be back
in the capital Tuesday morning,
however, and receive the national
committeeman at the White House
Because he expected to be busy
in Washington, Mr.. Roosevelt ad
vanced to tomorrow the press con
ference scheduled f. Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
BY GLADWIN HILL

NEW YORK, Feb. A. Up Leap
year slipped into reverse gear last
week.
A Rochester, N. Y, man adv =.
tised that he would marry any WON.
an of good character with financial
standing" and a Wildwood, N. =,
fisherman advertised that he would
marry any girl with money enough
to buy him a boat to fish in.
And after leap year lapses, there
came a cavalcade of other cockeyed
occurrences.
If, for instance, you thought th1t
cold weather was tough on you,
what about the ducks in Evansville,
Ind, which, observers swore, kept
swimming furiously in circles for
two weeks to keep their pond from
freezing over?
The ducks were a little smarter
than a hen down in Asheville, N.
c., which stood on some damp
ground too long and froze to it. All
III oil, lllO SASllSNlllS dlllll1dl llle lOOh
a beating. A mouse there got so
~preoccupied eating that his tail froze
into a pan of water.
And if you don't think it was that
cold in North Carolina, be advised
that they found a man in Hender-
sonville wearing three pairs of
pants, a SN eater, three jackets and
two ov~ercoats!
exico, Calf, mar made 30 parachute
jumps in 10 hours 80. The congrega
ton of a York, S. c., church put out
a fire by throwing snowballs on it.
-. The mayor of Charleston, S. c.,
pulled out of his teeth with a
pair Of pliers -. And a Springfield,
Mass, woman sat through two
straight performances Of Gone
With The Wind"
Things were pretty upset down
in Buenos Aires. A swimming meet
called off on account of rain, and
seven houses burned down while
two fire companies squabbled about
who was going to put out the fire!
Complaint Dept: The fire chief
Of Weatherford, Okla, demanded a
new fire truck on the ground that
the old one was always being pass
ed, enroute to fires, by little boys
on bicycles . And a Minneapolis
lunch room proprietor demanded a
divorce on the ground that his wife
had gone into business in competi-
ton with him - and lost all his
money!
Progress:-In Nettleton, Mo-, a
horse had to be pulled out of a we'll
by an auto wrecker . And a New
ark, N. j., woman explained the
cash on her head was where her
husband hit her with a statue of
the Dove of Peace.
In Vermillion, S. D., a store adj
vertised that it had mislaid a 24-foot
step ladder, reports jim Fowler.
(Anybody else got any0
And there's a new dance called
the Boomps-A-Daisy, in which part
ners bump bustles. Well, a man in
Stanford-Le-Hope, Eng, put a box
of matches in his hip pocket-and
started dancing the Boomps-A-Daisy
49,. -!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Associated Press Photographers
Win First Prizes In Exhibition

OF Lou Gehrig taken by Murray
Beck and a baseball picture by
Thomas Sande.
It was a repeat performance for
both Harris and Camerano. Last
wear Harris won first place in the
snorts picture class, while Came,
rano had first-place entry in the
feature picture class.
First prize in the feature class
tn g wear was won by Jesse Strait
O. the New York Mirror. Top hon.
ors in the spot picture in the pic.
torial class went TO Alan Fisher of
the New York World-Telegram. Joe
Costa of the New York News won
second and third places both in the
spot picture and feature picture
G SIS.
Nearly 600 pictures taken during
1899 were entered in the competi
ton by more than 100 news pho
tographers in the New York metro
politan area. Judges were members
of the Press Photographers associa-
tion of philadelphia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

trial concerns and held honorary
degrees from the University of
Pennsylvania, Villanova college and
Worcester Polytechnic institute.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

American automotive taxes are
about az times higher than those
of England.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-P-Asso-
ciated Press photographers won
first prizes in the spot news pic
ture and sports picture classes of
the fifth annual exhibition of the
Press Photographers association Of
New York. Awards were made
public today.
Harry Harris became first winner
of the Harvey Deuel. award, a tro.
phy designed to perpetuate the
memory of the late managing editor
Of the New York Daily News, by
winning the blue ribbon in the spot
news class with an action picture
taken in February, 1899, during a
demonstration outside a German
American Bund meeting in Madison
Square Garden.
In the sports picture class. An
thony Camerano took first place
with one of his pictures Of the
Louis-Galento fight.
APP photographers also swept sec
o. ' and third places in the sports
picture competition, with a picture
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Coal Shortage Shuts
Down British Factories

LONDON, Feb. A. Up A coal
shortage-due to bad weather which
disrupted traffic - has shut down
some steel and cotton plants in
Britain as we'll as leaving many
homes without fuel.
The mayor Of Manchester tele-
graphed the minister of mines en-
phasizing the desperate positions"
of the citizens in his city.
Manufacturing plants forced to
shut down are in Sheffield.
In Glasgow police distributed free
logs from trees felled in seven pub.
lie parks to ease tie shortage.
Huge stocks Of coal were awaiting
delivery in the South Yorkshire
minefields but transport was slow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Clash With Nazi
Scouts On Western Front

PARIS, Feb. 4.-lR)-The French
high command evening communi-
que today reported:
early this morning a sharp en-
counter with an enemy scoutirs;
party turned to our advantage"
The morning communique said:
"Patrol activity on the western
slopes Of the Vosges."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Horton Plan To Make
Fiue Talks This Week

RALEIGH, Feb, 4-R- 1t. Gov.
w. P. Horton of Pittsboco, candi-
date for governor plans to make
five speeches this week.
His publicity representative, Gran
berry Dickson, today released the
candidates schedule:
Monday Siler City Rotary club at
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

sller City; Wednesday, ~,
civltan club at jackson; rb"" 's'a
Dunn Lions club at Drnn; ESQ
Veterans of Foreign Wars ,''aE
perton; and Saturday A'A
May Chapter of the Dsuyb+ s'ai'
the American Revolution 81 ct
vile. a1 Farm,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

During the Middle Ages, some of
the master bookbinders O. Italy
were held in such high regard that
they we1 granted titles of no.
bility, in addition to recet wing ex-
tensive properties as 4 reward for
their expert craftsma 1slip.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Leap Year Slips Into Reverse
On Nations Dizzy News Front

Important interests in several
iron works were owned by the ia
Their of George Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

upon the waters Of mortal mind,
and form the perfect concept"
page 454).
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
p BUTTER SS,c,.

Apple butter as a .ling fo, T.
ham crackers will mako -' Gra.
tween-meal snack or a ms sUoa b.
filler for the youpgstsrs Ds
healthful, too. ' 1t,
Evening star., 1940-12-13

Quotations furnished by National Asso-
ciatlon of Securities Dealers Inc. which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices and
unless otherwise Indicated are as quoted
BY the sponsors or iSSuerS.
"Asterisk indicates, Not quoted by spon-
kprS or lSSuerS "
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Life eInsuranceChief
SaysS. E. Report
Is Incomplete
Johnson Charges Big
Gaps Remain in
Busic information
BN the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH. Dec. 13-Holgar
J. johnson. president of the Insti-
tute of Life Insurance, described
yesterday as "hopelessly incomplete"
the Securities and Exchange Com
missions forthcoming report on life
insurance.
Great gaps were left in the fun
damental information (and the in
surance men we're allowed only a
very limited opportunity to fill the
gaps" he said in a prepared ad-
dress to the Pittsburgh Association
of Life Underwriters.
He said that when the S. E. C.'s
hearings or the life insurance field
were completed ut was apparent
that many facts had been omitted,
many were CLOSED over lightly,
many were totally ignored, and
many were actually interpreted to
a meaning precisely opposite to their
true meaning"
Explaining that he based his COM
ments on published summaries of
the report. he declared the institute
had misinterpreted the real facts"
in its implication that the in
surance companies sterilize the funds
they receive and prevent them from
flowing into new enterprises where
the element OF venture Or risk Is
present.
He cited figures to show that this
year the life insurance companies
had put more than S3.500,000 900
into such investments as local and
Federal Government bonds rail-
road, industrial and public utility
securities and real estate mortgages.
rs that sterilization-does that
sound like static funds?" he asked.
"As for the angle of venture
money" he went on, 80 life in
surance funds. representing the
most conservatively invested reser-
voir of security and protection in
the country, have never assumed
the role of venture money. That
is another field of investment.
Once a venture has advanced to an
established basis. however. these life
insurance funds enter the field and
release the original venture money
so that it can go back into circula-
ton"
Evening star., 1940-12-13
$16o,00o,oo0| Issues
Placed on Market.
More Scheduled
Appalachian Power
And Other Securities
Are Offered
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13-Roughly
$3.50 100000 in new securities ar
rived in the market today for in
vestors' inspection and at least
$78,000.000 more was scheduled for
the near future
Appalachian Electric Power Co.
offered through national syndicate
headed by Bonbright & Co. $70,00O,-
900 first mortgage ga per cent series
bonds. due 1870, at SLOT. Also Of
fered were 100000 shares of Az per
cent cumulative preferred stock at
Sl06, part of which was subject to
an exchange offer tenderd holders
of the company's 81 and S6 pre-
ferred. In addition to the public
financing, the parent company,
American Gas g. Electric Co, will
contribute S30,670473 in cash.
The Appalachian financing will
provide s134674.378 to be applied
toward redemption of outstanding
securities.
Mellon Securities Corp. headed
syndicate which offered $25 100000
of IL per cent tax-anticipation
notes of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania at figure to yield
is of / per cent. The issue is pay
able in six months.
The Port of New York Authority
issued a call for sealed bids to be
opened next Tuesday on new issue
of $27, 100000 general and refunding
bonds The bonds will carry a 3
per cent coupon, due in 1875, and
will be known as the sixth series of
these obligations. The issue will be-
come callable in 1945 at a premium
Of 3 per cent over par, with the pre-
MUM reduced in succeeding years
Proceeds will be used to redeem out
standing bonds.
Detroit Edison Co. announced it
would file with the Securities and
Exchange Commission a registra-
ton statement covering issuance of
$50,00000 bonds bearing a 3 per
cent coupon. The underwriting
syndicate will be headed by Coffin
e. Burr, Inc. Proceeds will be used
to refund current obligations.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
New Head Of n. A. N.
Started Career as
Pattern Salesman
Fuller Has Been Head
Of Curtis Publishing
For Six Yeurs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 13.-Walter
D. Fuller, who was elected president
Of the National Association of Manu-
facturers yesterday, is one-time
salesman of woman's patterns who
has been head of the Curtis Pub
fishing Co. for the past six years.
Graying, spectacled and So, he is
active in societies and organizat tions
and is "stickler" for close contact
with his office and business. A Re-
publican, Episcopalian and Mason,
he likes photography, boating, gar
dening and sometimes collaborates
on articles.
His most recent previous extra
curricular activity was as chairman
of Pennsylvania Job Mobilization
Committee" which Mr.. Fuller cred
tied with putting 100000 men and
women back to work in Pennsylvania
and saving s33 100000 in relief ex-
penditures.
Mr.. Fuller thrice has made head
lines by threatening to move his
publishing company to another State
because of Pennsylvania taxes, the
latest time last March. But the firm
still is doing business across the
street from Independence Hall.
Born at Corning Iowa, Mr.. Fuller
began his career by ringing doorbells
as a salesman for fashion patterns.
He says that job gave him valuable
training and he believes that young
men seeking a career often can bet
ter themselves by changing jobs in
their training period
Mr.. Fuller joined the CroWell Pub
fishing Co. after a year on the road,
later worked for while for the Nc
Clure Publishing Co. and was en-
ployed by Curtis in 1908 as a junior
officer in the accounting department.
He rose rapidly to office manager,
comptroller. secretary, vice president,
then president.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Christmas Spending
AT Highest Levels
In Several Years
RetoiI Sales Jump
7 to 10 Per Cent
Above Year Ago
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec 13-Christmas
Gift buying throughout the nation
this week rose to the best levels in
several years. Dun e. BradStreet
reported today.
Expanding sales tended to con-
firm predictions Of the Department
of Commerce that Christmas gift
buying this year, both from the
standpoint of unit turnover and
dollar volume, might be the largest
in history.
General buying of all types of
merchandise on the week averaged
between and 10 per cent above
year ago for the country as
whole
Retail trade gained momentum
rapidly as Christmas buying neared
its crest" said Dun & Bradstreet.
City retailers heightened store
hours to handle the heavy influx
of customers. The weeks business
was said to be widely distributed,
with home furnishings continuing
to vie for the spotlight with ira
ditional gift lines.
Holiday buying still stressed
gifts of utility value. The increased
emphasis on quality goods
was noted in all types OF merchan-
disc, with the trend especially
marked in stores catering to the
wage-earner trade.
Active gift lines this week we're
luggage sets, umbrellas, lingerie,
mems furnishings, toys and leather
goods. Many stores rated hand
bags and gloves as leaders in main
floor departments.
In chlldren's wear, demand was
particularly good for snow suits,
sweaters and mittenS. Women's
apparal departments for the most
part had best results in furs, sports
wear and evening wear, with furs
continued in the leading position.
In home furnishings, occasional
furniture pieces were most pro-
minent. There was sustained
activity in floor coverings, with
stress on carpets and small rugs
and in radio sets.
Particularly strong sales in gro
ceries and automobiles were noted
in many part of the country.
In wholesale markets. buying by
merchants continued to taper off
seasonally, but in many lines the
tone of trading was much more
active than usual for this time of
the year" the agency added.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Bankers 10 Speed Up
Defense Loans in
Fifth District
Program Is Outlined
For Financing Small
Manufacturers
b. TIE Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, Dec. ia
Bankers Of the fifth Federal Re-
serve district formulated plans
yesterday to facilitate the granting
of loans to thousands of small
manufacturers who assign Govern
ment defense contracts as security.
j. Harvie Wilkinson, jr., of Rich
mond. vice president of the State
Planters Bank & Trust Co. and
chairman of the American Bankers
Association Defense Loans Com
mittee, told the bankers meeting
here that the Government already
has $4,000 small manufacturers
listed with the Procurement Divi-
sion at Washington.
This list may be expanded TO
l50 1000" Wilkinson said. Many of
these thousands naturally will be
found in this district, comprising
Virginia, the Carolinas, parts of
West Virginia, Maryland and the
District Of Columbia"
Plans were drawn up for organiz-
Ing banking groups in each State to
form smaller groups for dissemina-
ton of Government contract loan
procedure to financial institutions
in the smallest hamlets
No estimate was made by any of
the bankers present as to how many
contracts or the amounts of loans
that might be involved.
Wilkinson said that the authoriZ-
alton this year of the assignment
of claims under Government con-
tracts as security for bank loans
altered a practice of Government
that has endured for 89 years.
He told the bankers that they
should arouse interest" in defense
loans, and make every manufac-
turer. no matter how small, ac-
quainted with the conditions under
which loans may be obtained.
Evening star., 1940-12-13
Glenn |. Martin Declares
Bonus and Dividend

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. l3.-The Glenn
L. Martin Aircraft Co. announced
last night a Christmas bonus
amounting to about s5OOOOO would
be given to the company's approx
imately 1900 workers.
At the same time the Board of
Directors declared dividend OF ST
per share, payable "on December "a
to stockholders of record Decem-
ber 19.'
The bonus will be paid December
% in cash. the announcement said,
on this plan:
AL employees continuously EN-
ployed since December 81, 1899, will
receive one weeks pay at their base
hourly or salary rate as of Decem-
Der l3, 1910 All employees hired
since January l, 1910, will receive
one-twelfth of one weeks pay for
each full month Of employment dur
ing 1910.
1T is estimated that the Christ
mas bonus to employees will amount
to approximately s500000 distributed
to approximately 1900 employees