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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-15

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10. (UP)--
Former Spanish Loyalist leaders liv-
ing here, admitting that the popu-
lar front no longer exists. today were
reported TO be moving toward a
general reconciliation of all factions
so Spain may recover its national
sovereignty.
Diego Martinez Barrio, former
president of the Cortes tparlia-
ment, and eight onr-time Republi-
can cabinet ministers have been
comforting on the draft of mani
festo which they will seek to have
signed by other prominent exilcs in
the Americas. France and England.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-15
Spanish Radicals in Exile admit
Popular Front Dead, Make New Move
~N4W

Tho main theme Of the manifesto
lis that the Spanish popular front
has ceased to exist and that all
SpaniardS should work together to
restore Spain's sovereignty and le-
gality under the constitution OF 1881
That constitution was abolished
by GCneralissimo Francisco Franco
early in the Civil War as far as
territory controlled by him was
concerned, and the abolition was
continued after he had established
the present government of Spain.
The manifesto. addressed simply
ito Spaniards" proposed that af-
ter constitutional legality" has been
re established, national plcbiSCitc
should be held 10 allow the people
to decide on the type of govern
ment they want.
The wording of the draft indicated
that if a majority should vote for
restoration of the monarchy, the
Republicans would be pledged u
accept it.
The manifesto charged that "leN
galty was suspended violently dn
SPAIN with the humiliating aid Of
interested foreign arms" and the
country was urged to free itself
from the foreign yoke and the pos
sible consequences German and
Italian domination that might result
from the European war"
All Spaniards were asked TO for
get political hatredS and Join hands
TO make Spain common, habitablp
and friendly home"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-15
It's WPA AGAIN

LA JOLLA Cal. Feb. ID. fUP)-
This little resort city was without
telephone service for two hours
late yesterday when w. P. A.
worker defed custom and swung his
pick too hard, cutting through A
telephone trunk cable
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
Souvenir Snotchers

SEATTLE, Oct. 1.-R-Sou.
venir snatchers cost the nations
hotels an estimated $40, 600, 900
last year-and the towels, blank
cts, silver and knickknacks are
still disappearing.
It's really a staggering total
when the hotel managers add up
the missing items at a years
end, commented Mrs. Grace H.
Woolley, manager of the nation
al membership division of the
American Hotel association, who
estimated the figure. It's a head
ache for her because the opera
tors write for advice on how to
cut the loss.
She still has to advise them not
to try "%frisking" the guests on
the way out. A first class hotel
has to grin and bear the in
roads of it's first class patrons.
eff guests would stop doing
it," Mrs. Woolley admonished,
and if they would save electri-
city and water, rates could be
lowered a%ppreeiably. We hope
by publicity some day to con-
vince guests of this truth"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
F. R. 'PR0-WAR'
POLICY ATTACKED
Willkie Says President Get.
ting u. S. Closer To
War For Reason
BY THEODORE F. KOOP

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN EN-.
ROUTE THROUGH MICHIGAN,
Oct. 1.-R-A republican campaign
tour of Michigan industrial centers,
where the labor vote is heavy. to.
day followed Wendell L. Wilkes
assertion that the Roosevelt admin
%istratiol is pushing Gus ever closer
and closer toward war"
Facing a cheering audience which
filled the bulk of the 10000 seats in
Detroit's Olympia stadium, the re-
publican presidential nominee said
last night:
"The closer Mr.. Roosevelt gets
us to war, the more people say that
we ought not to change horses in
the middle of the stream.
"Well, for one thing, what are we
doing in the middle of the stream?
How did we get there? The man
who got us in is not the right one
to get US out"
Wlllkie was addressing the Nat
ional Federation of Women's Repub.
lican clubs, whose members ave him
a long rising ovation and interrupt
ed his half hour address frequently
with applause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
MUNITIONS
PAINS

Munitions makers make mon.
ey, but they also collect head
aches sometimes. Sample is the
case of a midwestern manufac.
turer who got a government order
for shells-very much against his
will.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
GATE RECEIPTS
INDICATE PICKUP
r.ueral Fund Revenue In
,reases 80 Per Cent
In September
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
pv- HENRY AVERILL

,.rE1GH. Oct. North Caro-
~ reral fund revenue for Sep
III" cared more than 80 per cent
'S"u'V che same month of last year,
"e,nrc to the department of rev.
aV..y comparative collections re-
eI1V - practically all induces point
PV', continued business improve
. en In rar Heel business.
i'a Two sep.ember increase was the
a.a.f tsgeaking in terms of per-
a..css} since December, 1889, and
b.sr surpassed only twice in
no, v-r,r.one months since De-
asr 1855. December, 1889 was
''' yer cent over December,
, p aAile January. 1889, topped
I"m,s,1. 1898. by 1917 per cent.
=, n, same time that the general
n,nd lax collections reached this
.aav nehway fund collections prac-
r:,.,,,, marked time-the seven-hun-
5r.L, 5s Of one per cent decrease be-
tns. g., .nall as to be negligible.
rive general fund collections total
- uiNs35.34 last month as COM
nsr.1 win $2,370,243.97 in Septem-
b.r 1899. Highway fund collections
.mo,sted to S2,622.554.39 against
% sg4SS2S7 for the corresponding
month last year.
Every category of general fund
taxes produced more money than
last wear except the unpredictable
inheritance and gift levies. In the
highway division, gasoline tax col
Lotions barely held their own, while
there were decreases in license taxes,
driver license sales and title fees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
Durham Women Winners
OF 'Hair-Do' Contest

DURHAM, Oct. 1-LP-A trophy
fo, the best demonstration in
hairstyling was awarded last
night to Mrs. Doris Smith of Dur
ham. Second place was won by
Mrs. Selma Ellis, also of Durham.
They took part in a contest
staged before the North Carolina
Associated Cosmetologists. T h e
convention ended with a dance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
u. S. Housing Replaces
Sums In Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Oct. 1.-R)-Broad,
glistening smiles lit up the neighbor-
hood over west Of Pennsylvania
avenue today.
The last of 298 negro families were
moving into the huge new $1,107,5 500
Edgar Allan Poe federal housing
project on a site that 18 months ago
was one of Baltimore's worst slum
districts
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
In Washington

WASHINGTON-One of the New
Deals subtlest campaign plans
went sour when a federal iudg~
in Illinois slapped a no talking
order on the grand jury investiga-
ton into the affairs of the Union
Electric Co.
Union Electric was accused of
having raised and used a vast
slush fund, to the corruption of
politics in Missouri and adjacent
areas. Union is a subsidiary OF
North American, one of the bigger
holding companies; and while
there is nc Wendell Wilkie money
in either outfit, the investigation
(Which began about a fortnight
ago. looked like the best chance
in the world to spread word Of
the evils of utilities and utility
holding companies all over the
front pages.
But it hasn't happened. Judge
Brieggle, before whom the grand
jury is converting at Springfield.
ILL.,, started by ordering the names
of witnesses kept secret. He for
bid witnesses Or government Of
ficials to make any statement
about any angle of the affair until
the cas- is finished. AS a result,
the big expose is taking place be-
hind tightly closed doors.
NO INVESTIGATION
OF CRASH OR SENATOR
Queerest tale to go the rounds
here in many a moon is tn e
one o being whispered in con.
nection with the Pennsylvania
Central Airlines crash which
killed Senator Ernest Lundeen of
Minnesota. Whispers have it that
the crash was caused by sabotage;
sabotage is supposed due to Ger
man agents, who acted because
Lundeen was allegedly being trail
led by Omen on suspicion of fifth
column activity.
Fact is that Lundeen wasn't I'm.
der investigation at all. Attorney
General jackson made this clear
at a recent press conference.
Later, j. Edgar Hoover announced
fatty that the Omen weren't in
vestigating Lundeen at the time
of the crash, hadn't Investigated
him previously and are not now
Investigating either Lundeen's re-
cord or the crash itself.
The crash remains a puzzle.
Aeronautics Board men have
heard the sabotage story, but SO
far have uncovered nothing at all
to substantiate it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02

The Safety Man says: You only
have one life; take GOOD car, of it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
In Hollywood
BY A u HARRISON

os~A ~bPOA4uSA1G
case you'd
like to look over a new crop of
movie cuties, the Warner lot is
the best place these days. Eight
glimmer girls are under stock con-
tract, and r working, to. They
are mostly doing bits, but tc
studio calls these parts 'condi-
tioning roles" implying that bet
ter jobs r coming.
1t might be interesting to survey
these eight, along with their back
grounds and qualifications.
HERE'S AVERAGE
PICTURE
Let me present, then, the Misses
Joan Brooks, Lucia Carrc", Suzan-
ne Carnahan, Mildred Coles,
Peggy Diggins, Anne Edmonds,
Phyllis Hamilton and Maris Wrix-
on. Put 'em all together a n d
you've got a 19-year-old gal who
is 5 feet 5 10 inches tall and
weighs 16 pounds. Light brown
hair, blue eyes, large mouth, ex-
cellent teeth, and the kind of fig
ure that has done so much for the
sweater industry.
Nothing unusual so far. Severa,
other averages are easy to strike:
Our composite ingenue didn't GO
to college, can't cook, doesn't diet,
is mediocre at sports, doesn't want
to get married until she has had
more of a career, comes from a
middle-class home, is crazy about
clothes, likes music hut can't real
ly play, never studied singing or
dancing, is superstitious, wants to
be a second Bette Davis, and
thinks Hollywood is perfectly won
derful.
FOUR WE'RE MODELS
Only three ever set foot on a
professional stage, and their ex.
periences were not impressive.
Miss Brooks, only Is now, appear
ed in vaudeville and night clubs
with her two sisters. The precoci-
Gus Miss Diggins, who is Is, dis.
played thisa-and-thata as a show
girl in Broadway's International
Casino. Miss Hamilton had a small
role in a short-lived play in New
York following a little-theater ap-
preticeship in Connecticut.
The Misses C%arrole, Brooks, Dig
gins and Carnahan all did model
ing, although the latter got her
screen test and contract on the
strength of her performance in a
local little theater.
Miss Coles and Miss Wrixon also
are little theater products.
Only contest winner is Phyllis
Hamilton. She entered a movie
doubles" competition in Ohio and
won $50 for looking like Loretta
Young. She didn't realize it at the
time, but close resemblance to any
established star is the toughest
in Hollywood. Fortunate
ly she headed for the stage, and
by the time Director Edmund
Goulding spotted her in New York
she had changed her makeup and
NEEDLEPOINT
AND TOLSTOI
In an effort to learn interesting
biographical details, all studios
submit questionnaries to new
players. Most of the eight ingenues
claim painting and sketching
among their hobbies. One, who's
best known for her fitting about
night clubs, says she does needle
Apparently none of them
reads anything trashier than
Shakespeare, Tolstoi or Dostoev-
sky. AS her suppressed desire, one
To tear up the sides OF
mountains to music like Wagner's
Die Walkure."
The youngster in whom studio
executives see most promise is 49,
year-old Joan Brooks (real name.
BrodelD. She already has played
adolescent bits in several pictures,
and now she can qualify as a
genuine glamorist. Best of all,
is the fact the kid seems
to be a natural born actress. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02
R. J. Reynolds Is Named
Demo Finance Director

NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-CP-Ap-
continent of R. j. Reynolds, to-
bacco manufacturer, of Winston
Salem. as finance director in North
Carolina for the democratic natio-
nal committee was announced to-
day at the committees headquar-
terS,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02

North Carolina had a seven per-
cent reduction in traffic deaths the
first eight months of this year,
compared with the same period fof
last year
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02

Better buy dozens because
you'll seldom find such attrac.
tive glasses for such a little
price. A square fluted design
that will look well on your
table.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-02

Speed excessive for eonditions is
the chief factor in fatal accidents
on North Carolina streets AID high
ways.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
Timber Fires
Under Control

PORTLAND fighters ap-
peared today TO he winning their
battles in Oregon's drouth parched
forests.
They controlled a blaze that
started in a dismantled sawmill
at Westimber and destroyed II out
OF Is homes In the tiny logging
village. 1t also swept into rich
timber in the coast range back of
the town.
The Wolf Creek highway. short
cut route to the sea. was open to
July 4 motorists but visibility was
poor because Of smoke. Weary
fighters appeared TO have checked
blaze that destroyed 800 acres
OF slashings and green timer on
the Sunset Logging company land
at the converging point of Wash
ington. Columbia, Clatsop and
Tillamook counties
Walter Ciltner, AZ. of Timber.
president of the Timber Light &
Power company, was reported Sc
riously injured when pole on
which he climbed To repair a
power line toppIed to the ground.
He was taken to Forest Grove
hospital.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
Harvard President Urges
Compulsory Training Now

common defense, but 1t would be
clear signal to those powers from
whom danger comes that we were
alive to the realities in this new
world of force. and ready to meet
them" he said. in so much, it
might serve as a preventative Of
war"
Provisions Of the bill to permit
youths between Is and Fl to train
for home defense at or near the
schools they attend, he said, would
give relatively little disruption to
high school and college courses.
Another provision exempting from
compulsory service those studying
or engaged in engineering, chem
istry. physics, medicine or dem
tistry, he said. is necessary be-
cause these highly-trained profess
sions are essential for national
defense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
Tacoma MethOdists Will
Attend Western Conference

Of representatives to national
boards and commissions. OF chief
importance will be election of a
bishop to preside over the states
of Washington. Oregon and Idaho.
A new program is being built for
the work of the church, following
unification Of the three branches
of Methodism. This conference,
marking the first Of its kind on the
coast, will be in session one week.
Conference Speaker
Glide Memorial church has been
named host church 10 the con-
ference Programs have been plan
ned with a popular appeal and
will be open to the public. Oppor-
tunity Of hearing many of the
prominent ministers Of states rep
resented will be afforded those at
tending
Rev. Albertson, who will leave
Tacoma following Sundays serv-
ices at First church. has been
named among conference speakers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
PUD, Old Age
Measures Filed

OLYMPIA - Thousands of petit
tons bearing an unofficial count
OF 101 ,407 signatures We're filed
Wednesday with Secretary of State
Belle Reeves in behalf of initiative
measure No. 1879.
The initiative, IL approved by
the people In November. would
amend the present peoples
utility district law. providing
that all future bonding pro-
posals for PUD projects he
approved by the district elect
crate.
Sponsors Of the measure said
that at present PUD commission
ers have unrestricted authority 10
issue unlimited amounts of revenue
bonds which must be paid by users
OF politically owned power and wa
ter services.
The initiative provides for the
same voting regulations that apply
now to the issuance Of general OBJ
legation bonds by counties, cities
and port districts.
The petitions were filed by three
sponsors, Walter F. Fisher, Bell
inghsm; Harry Whiteman. Wen
atchee, and Ed Morley, Aberdeen.
A second initiative sponsored
hy the Washington Old Age
Pension union also was filed.
Representative Ed l.. Pettus,
Tacoma, sponsor of the meas
ure. said the petitions carried
an unofficial count of 10000
names.
The proposed measure calls for
several changes in the present old
age assistance law. principally for
a provision authorizing the state
to match the $50 maximum federal
old age allotment.
The initiatives need 10000 Off
cial signatures to get on the No
vember ballot, No other initiatives
are expected to be filed before the
lists close Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05

Four delegates from Tacoma are
scheduled to attend the Western
Jurisdictional conference of the
Methodist church which opens IN
San Francisco Tuesday.
Elected by the Methodists Of
Washington, these four, part of a
delegation of 20 from this con-
ference. are Rev. Cyrus E. Albert
son. pastor of First Methodist
church; Rev. Roy L. Sprague. ex-
ecutive secretary 10 the board Of
conference claimants; and laymen
Charles Robbins. bursar OF c. P. S.
and p NJ. Snider. president of the
Tacoma Methodist union.
Many to Attend
The conference will be attended
by 10 delegates. representing
more than 400, 600 Methodists in
states OF the Rocky mountain
group TO the Pacific ocean. Pur-
pose of the conference will be or
ganization Of work Of Methodists
in 10 western states, and selection
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05

WASHINGTON i Pres d e n I
James B. Conant of Harvard uni
versity told the senate military af-
fairs committee Wednesday that
compulsory military training lis
essential at once to meet the
threat against our entire way of
life"
He urged prompt enactment of
the ke-Wadsworth bill requir-
ing registration of all males be-
tween IS and 65 years of age for
some form of defense training. He
said that plan was an efficient and
just method of building up a
trained military personnel.
Passage OF this bill would, |
believe. not only prove to any
doubters in this country the ex-
tent of the dangers with which we
were faced and the necessity in
cumbent on all ages to unite in the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05

turned to the issues raised by new
books OF the day. In ensuing ar
guments young Wen needed all his
wits to keep up with the keen,
searching minds of his law-trained
parents.
Argument Is another Willkie
love that hangs over from his early
youth.
Today he'd as soon argue AZ eat.
At the end of meal. Willkie is
likely to have no notion of what
he ate because he was carried
away in argument during the din
ner. This may explain his decided
preference for plain food.
Being but one of six children of
busy parents and growing up in
an informal town, IL was natural
that Wen should not become over
conscious of his dress. He was
usually Immediately clean. but
seldom neat. The continuation to
the present Of these characteristics
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
British Fighting Forces
Ready for Blitzkreig oe

of the front held by a division
which boasts that in Belgium and
northern France the Germans
never denied its line with their
blitzkrieg attack.
The sector l visited Is less than
half an hour by bomber plane
from the German air bases IN
France.
Defenses I saw consist first of
cleverly concealed trenches, dug
outs and concrete pillboxes on
bea aches, so situated as to sweep
landing parties with cross fire
from machine guns, Bren machine
guns and infantry rifles.
Secondly there are concrete
road blocks and all kinds of i'm
provised barbados, thanked by
pill boxes. They are designed to
slow mechanical and motorized
forces which get beyond the
beaches and attempt to follow
roads into the interior.
Fast Armored Vehicles
Thirdly, there are platoons of
Bren gun carriers light. fast ar
mored vehicles with caterpillar
treads, equipped with the famous
Bren light machine guns. anti
tank guns and mortars. Their
task is to mop up paraehutists
and forces which penetrate for
ward defenses.
Fourthly. is the field artillery
which is able TO lombard enemy
transports several miles out at
sea and sweep the coastal region
when and il they arrive.
Every officer and man I spoke
to expressed eagerness to meet
the Germans again and expressed
confidence that this time they
would heat them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05
Willkie Can't
Afford Time
For Holiday
NEW YORK

NEW YORK The Fourth Of
July was just another Thursday
TO Wendell Lewis Wnlkie. Repub-
lican presidential candidate, who
has run into the hard fact that
campaigning for high office is a
n-day-a-week job.
WILKES vacation schedule. orig
inally calling for departure yester-
day for some cool midwestern re-
sort, has been pushed back now
into next week. And IL may be
further delayed by a journey TO
Washington 10 confer with Sen.
Charles l.. McNsry. r.. Ore, Re
publican vice presidential candi-
date. house minority leader Joseph
W. Martin Jr.. and other congress
sional Republicans.
Some lake resort in Wisconsin
or Minnesota probably will be Will
ke's vacation headquarters. But
planning for it is a complicated
task because Of the newspaper and
political camp followers who must
accompany presidential candi-
date from the time his name comes
out of the hat until the votes are
in on the morning after election
day.
The candidate is avoiding major
questions Of policy now and hopes
to remain silent on them until he
formally accepts the Republican
nomination on the steps of the
Elwood, Ind, high school. The
acceptance speech will come on or
soon after July 25, according TO
tentative plans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-05

In radio address, Byrnes warn
ed Republicans not to make pre-
paredness an issue in the Novem-
Der elections. He said that Re-
publicans and Democrats must
share alike the responsibility for
failing to foresee 1.-The magnitude
and urgency of the danger of ag-
gression against our hemisphere
interests"
Hints Fifth Column"
In any other nation. he said. the
Republican platform plank under
taking to fasten upon the New Deal
full responsibility for unprepared-
ness and for the consequent danger
Of involvement in war. would be
considered fifth column activity"
He presented statements and fig
ures intended TO refute Hoover's
charge before the COP convention
that under his administration the
government spent about $3.50, 000,-
900 year on preparedness and
that in 1884 President Roosevelt
reduced defense spending to $780,
600 900.
"Petty-Mr. Hoover-petty." de-
clared Byrnes.
He then assailed Republican Vice
Presidential Nominee Sen. Charles
McNary Of Oregon. Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, and Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg Of Michigan. defeated
candidates for the top presidential
nominal ton, and Wendell L. Will
kie, who won No. ! spot on the
ticket
Republicans Opposed
On March 6, 1889, six months
after the Munich pact, he said. nine
of the Is Republicans who voted
on bill TO increase the number
Of army airplanes from $500 10
5000 cast their ballots against the
measure.
Among those opposing IL. he said
were McNsry and Vandenberg. He
recalled that Taft early this year
proposed 25 per cent cut in army
and navy appropriation estimates.