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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Appalachian, Elon Tilt
Tops North State Slate

BOONE, Feb. 4-CP-Appalachian
States basketball team, North State
conference pace-setter which won its
eighth consecutive victory last night
by trouncing High Point college,
will meet Elon at Boone Friday
night in the loops top attraction of
the week.
Last weeks play in the circuit
saw Elon take two victories over
Atlantic Christian college, Catawba
defeated Guilford and Elor wallop
High Point. Appalachian won games
with Guilford and High Point. Out.
side the conference, Guilford lost
too Davidson. Lenoir-Rhyne won a
game from Lynchburg but dropped
two to Roanoke and the McCrary
Eagles.
Games this week will send Lenoir.
Rhyme against Atlantic Christian at
Wilson Thursday night; Appalach.
ian against Elon at Boone Friday
night and Guilford against Lenior.
Rhyme at Guilford Saturday night,
and Catawba will play Elon Satur.
day night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Mrs. Laura Ann Roberts
Dies At Daughters Home

Mrs. Laura Ann Roberts, 90. died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Duncan McFayden, at Phoenix. yes
terday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock.
Funeral services will be held from
the late residence at Phoenix this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, with the
Rev. H.. S. Strickland officiating.
Burial will follow in the Chinnis
cemetery, at Phoenix.
Active pallbearers will be: M. D.
Chinnis, J. c. White, G. O. McFay-
den, Herbert S. King, E. E. Chad.
wick, and R. S. King.
Mrs. Roberts is survived by n
daughter, Mrs. McFayden; three
brothers, 2. E. and Warren Muir.
rell, of Wilmington, and John Muir.
rell, of Leland; one sister, Mrs.
Jane Carter, of Lancaster, S. c.;
and five grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
SIZZLING SATIRE
FEATURES RALEIGH
GRIDIRON DINNER
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who could scarce put my name
to paper in England, and look
We, now I am the author of
5000 volumes, all engraved on
granite"
"Brudder Gregg Cherry" com.
planted of "infidels" who say
mama came from ode tax.pay-
ers" instead of heaven" and
DE Lawd Hoey" confronted
Or. Ralph w. Mcdonald" with
his admission he is supporting
no less than seven guberna.
torial candidates. Il don't know
which of us is in de wuss
spot" "De Lawd" remarks.
"Heah I is, amt suportin' no
body, and heah you is. sup
portin' eve'body."
Jake Houston of the Char
lotte Observer, secretary of the
photographers organization, pre-
sided at 2 dinner which preced-
ed the program. The skits were
enacted by j. B. Clark, Wesley
Wallace, Sharpe, Bob Bowers.
Miss Virginia Tatum, Louis H.
Wilson, Woodrow Price and
Bill Baker.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05

WARD WILL NOT
ENTER CONTEST
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dates for the democratic nomination,
all of whom I consider my personal
friends. I welcome the support of
every democrat in North Carolina,
regardless of political faction.
This is a campaign Of important
public issues rather than one of
organizations or personalities. Times
and conditions change, and govern
ment must change to keep the pace.
The incoming governor must look
ahead to 1941 and 1913, and not
backward to 1888 or 1896.
II have offered the people a sound
workable and honest program in
Which, if elected, I pledge the great
power or the office of governor and
my own energies to encourage bust
ness, promote education, protect
labor, develop agriculture, stop .di'
version of highway funds, permit
the people by their own votes to de.
termine the policy of the state on
liquor, simplify the state govern
ment to ave millions of dollars and
revise the revenue structure so as
to abolish the unfair sales tax.
"Subject to acceptance or rejec.
ton at the polls by the will of
every sovereign democrat in North
Carolina, my candidacy is based up
on a long record of legislative serv-
ice to the people and upon the pub.
lie reforms which I have presented
and which I propose to carry out
if honored by election to serve as
governor"
Broughton, saying he had been
asked to comment on Doctor Nc.
Donald's statement, said:
"The relationship between DR.. Nc
Donald and Mr.. Paul D. Grady in
this campaign is, of course, no con-
Germ of mine. However, in view Of
the mention of my name in the
article, I wish simply to repeat what
I said in my formal announcement:
I am running on my own respon.
sibility, and have not made or at.
tempted to make, and will not make
any alliance whatsoever with any
group or faction within the demo.
crat party. My candidacy is ad-
dressed to all democrats In North
Carolina, regardless of whom taev.
may have supported in the last
gubernatorial campaign, or in any
previous contest. I shall appeal for
and welcome votes of all democrats
whether they supported Hoey, Ora.
ham or Mcdonald in the last cam
paign.
Furthermore, as stated in my ar.
nouncement, I have not made and
will not make any commitment
whatsoever to any group, faction of
individual with respect to appoint
ment to public office or with repect
to the future candidacy of any per.
son for public office in this state"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
u. S. RETAIL SALES
MAKE BIG INCREASE
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vious high marks of both 1887 and
1929.
Food sales were up two per cent
to $9,O95, O00, 900 and gasoline station
sales gained one per cent to $2,42S,-
900, OOO. Beer and liquor sales of
$41S, 900 600, were recorded, an in
crease of six per cent, while eating
and drinking places had indicated
sales of $2,77O, O00, 900, a gain of S.5
per cent.
Other indicated gains: Furniture
and household appliance stores,
12.5 per cent; lumber, building and
hardware. stores 10 per cent; Jewel.
ry stores, 10 per cent; department,
dry goods and general merchandise
stores, SIS per cent; apparel stores,
SIS per cent.
The department also reported that
exports of farm equipment declined
nine per cent during 1899 to a total
of $6S, sos ,716 despite a sharp in.
crease in December shipments,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
Miss Addie J. Peterson
Dies At Her Home Here

Miss Addie Jane Peterson died at
her home at Alt North Third street
yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
after a short illness.
Funeral services will be held from
the Yopp funeral home Tuesday
morning at II o'clock with the Rev.
Sankey Lee Blanton, pastor of the
First Baptist church, officiating.
Interment will follow in OakdaIe
cemetery. Active p~allbearers will be
members of the board of deacons of
the First Baptist church.
Miss Peterson is survived by two
nieces, Miss Mary Lorenzo and Mrs.
Rosa Tharp; and three nephews.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
REIDSVILLE MAN
IS ARRESTED ON
RACKET CHARGES
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NSo1ll1A1uCu L ASO OAANJ
post, and then going on about his
business.
"The persons who gave him the
orders and made the deposits, u.s.
ually from 81 to So or sometimes
IS, never heard from Brown or the
heaters" Sergeant Smith said.
The highway patrol and practi-
cally every police department or
sheriff's office in the eastern part
of the state has been looking for
Brown since last June, he said.
The man would give the per-
sons from whom he received an
order a receipt, but when ques-
toned about what he did with the
duplicates, Brown replied. "They
were soon gone with the wind"
Sergeant Smith said.
The officer said that Brown read
lily admitted the charges, said he
never sent any of the orders in to
the company and blamed it all on
unemployment"
The hot water heater which
Brown showed customers is a
small aluminium gadget with an
electrical cord attached. He claim
ed, officers said, that the gadget
when placed in a bathtub would
heat the water to a boiling point
in a few minutes.
Sergeant Smith said that the
man was wanted for charges OF
false pretenses or obtaining money
under fraud in Greensboro, Fay
.etteville, Brunswick, Bladen, Pen
der, New Hanover, Snow Hill and
numerous other places in this Sec
ton.
Brown, he said, had sold a num-
Der of his orders in Wilmington.
He worked both rural and urban
territories.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
OBITUARIES

.HEEK.-Mrs. Mary Pierce Cheek,
widow of Eugene Mitchell Cheek,
died at her home, 20 N. Fourth
street, Saturday night at 7:o5
o'clock, after an illness of two
months. Funeral services will be
conducted from st. Paul's Luth-
eran church Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock, with the Rev. Walter
B. Freed, pastor, DR.. Edwin F.
Keever, pastor emeritus, and DR..
sankey Lee Blanton, pastor of the
First Baptist church, officiating.
Interment will follow in Oakdale
cemetery. Pallbearers will be, &C.
tive: Louis Hanson, J. Henry Ger.
DIES, w. B. Bellois, Carl Olden-
buttel, George F. Tienken, and c.
B. vessel. Honorary: Robert
Scott, Lloyd Croker, W. A. Nah
Ter, Jimmy Oldham, Adolph All
rens, L. A. Raney, W. F. Car.
penter, Raymond Christman, B. F.
King, Emsley Laney, Clayton Bel.
lamy, DR.. Barefoot, DR.. W. Hous-
ton Moore, and DR.. v. T. sulli-
van.
Arrangements by Andrews NOR
tuary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
TERRELL TO FACE
STRONG GOLFERS

ia A, Fla, Feb. 4.-R-
Champion Yves Terrell had better
be on the lookout for dark horses
when the 1910 Baseball Players
National golf tournament gets under
way over the Palma Celia course,
here Feb. Is.
Henry Bolesta, golf professional
at the Palma Celia coure, has been
clocking the warm-up rounds OF
some of the contenders, and says
at least four entries may trip up
the champion.
In addition, Terrell, who took the
title from Paul Waner last year at
Lakeland in a wild exhibition OF
extra hole golf, will find the Pitts
burgh o%utfielder, his perennial.
finalist opponent, all set for re-
venge. Waner, also a former Ma
tional southpaw links titlist, is
considered no worse than ever
money to take FerrelIs measure.
Bolesta gives this report on some
of the major league stars.
Waner is hot. Sos Terrell. Both
have been playing regularly at
Sarasota. But don't fail to watch:
Senior AL Lopez, Tampa's own,
who catches for the Boston Bees
when he's away from his Ybor City
hacienda.
Jimmy Foxx, Boston Red Sox in
fielder who operates a winter golf
course at st. Petersburg and is out
there chipping them every day.
Joe Medwick, the St. Louis Card
inals' clouter who's been polishing
up his game at st. Petersburg.
And Paul Derringer, the big Gin
cinnati mound star who has been
playing in the mid-seventies at
Sarasota since December.
Another top-flighter is likely to
be Dick Bartell, now with the De-
troit Tigers, who has never been
in the Florida baseball links
classic.
A field of 100 golfing baseballers
is expected. For one reason, prize
money and such amounts to about
81. 900. For another, there will be
% major and minor league teams
training in Florida this spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
BEEKEEPERS' MEET
PROGRAM DRAFTED
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bv E. B.. Meacham, assistant pro-
fessor of zoology and entomology
at State college and secretary and
treasurer of the association.
Meacham announced a tentative
program for the convention, which
will begin at 9 a. m. and con-
tinue through an evening session
at which a dinner will be held
and a motion picture of beekeep-
ing shown.
Among the speakers will be c.
L. Sans, extension apiariSt OF
State college and a member of the
executive committee of the Bee
keepers association, who will tell
of the fine results obtained ly
demonstration beekeepers as COM
pared with the state average OF
honey production in 1889 and other
years. E. S. Prevort, extension
~apiarist of South Carolina, has been
Invited to talk on Competition in
South Carolina; A. D. Hiett of
Lynchburg, Va, will discuss Co
operation Among Beekeepers"; and
H. J. Cary of Norfolk, Va, who
will bring a message on Mar
kets and Marketing"
others who have been invited
to appear on the program are: P.
lG. Graddock, chief apiary inspec-
tor for North Carolina; H. W.
Weatherford, extension apiarist of
Virginia; George Z. Curtis, F. L.
Higgins, J. L. O'Ferrell, F. R.
Jordan, Paul Kendall, J. R. Carr,
and T. G.. Vickers, all recognized
leaders in their respective fields
of beekeeping.
Prof. Meacham also announced
that cont IT'S in bee catching,
honey judging, queen finding, bee
counting, and story telling will be
held
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
cats WILL PLAY
ROCKY MOUNT HERE
Locals To Try For Conference
Win Against Blackbirds
Friday Night

New Hanover High schools bas'
hetoali team will play it's first con
ference game at home Friday night
IN the Cape Fear Armory gym,
with the Rocky Mount Blackbirds as
thelr opponents.
Inc R~ailroaders downed the 10.
caS last Friday night in the Rocky
Aounters' hangout by a 25 to %
score In the closest played game OF
Inc conference so far.
Inc Wildcats made a great come
'"ch drive late in the game and
pulled to within a point of the
"-Hners' but a long aerial from the
center of the floor with a minute
=" pay stopped the rally and their
tory.
captain Allison Alderman led the
S1oills attack of the Wilmington
cOAllhgent with nine points and
Soa'n Pepper is expecting his
.aDsy forward to continue his sharp
quoting this week. The usually
nlsn'sooring Billy Pieper was almost
.A'o'hered by BlackLirds and had
~ De satisfied with a mere seven
markers.
i4ahs for the largest crowd of the
sasoh are being made and every.
attending the game will have a
eoou seat in the Armory audito-
'n. The High :chool floor is not
Die for a conference game and
mpp 'he advantage of a wood floor
onu more playing space the Wild
ws ~ should repeat their home court
winch they fashioned last wear
pN, dropping their first game to
t oeAy Mount in the latter city. The
ta llis are about evenly matched al
Jug, a the visitors Jill enter the
thain e with the victory margin on
HHuc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
TURKU IN FLAMES
AFTER RED ATTACK
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have lost nine tanks at Summa in
four futile attacks.
Despite efforts of Finland's small
air force to fight back, droves of
Russian planes continued to keep
the interior of Finland in a state
of almost constant alarm, with 40
ci. ilians officially reported killed
in yesterdays raids. Viipuri was
heavily damaged in a series of
raids, three squadrons of Red planes
attacked Kuopio and go planes Of
ficially were reported to have
killed Is, wounded A and Destroy
ed IS houses at S%ortavala, a port
on Lake Ladoga, Friday.
Eleven Russian planes were re-
ported shot DOWN. Both the Firms
and Russians blasted away along
the Karelian isthmus defense lines
with heavy artillery and the Firms
asserted they had silenced several
enemy batteries.
Northeast of Lake Ladoga where
Heavy fighting has been reported
within the past few weeks only
minor engagements were reported
but the Films said their patrols
were successful against enemy
supply lines"
Soviet planes roared over most
of Finland yesterday continuing
attacks which have reduced the
sections of many cities and towns
to fire-blackened wreckage.
"Bombs caused fires and mate.
rial damage in some localities, the
communique said. According to in
formation available about 40 civil
ians we're killed and about so
wounded in the home area"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
SAYS STREET
WORK WILL BETTER
TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
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stops will be painted on the
street, Lieut.. Davis said.
The work of removing the
street car rails, tearing up the
old street and laying a new
surface was started at Front
and Orange on January 10. The
street will be repaved all the
way to the Atlantic Coast Line
station. Cutters were. laid a
few weeks before Christmas.
aside from looking better,
Front street will be better all
the way around and I hope that
it will expedite traffic consid-
erably," Lieut.. Davis said, add
ing that although the street
will be new ut is not for
a speedway - the law has rot
been changed and will be en-
forced" The speed limit in the
business districts is 20 miles
per hour.
A big help to pedestrians will
be the elimination of low or
sunken places where water
would longest during rainy
weather, he said. Removal OF
t., rails should prevent acct
dents such as slipping and fall
ing on the part of pedestrians,
he added.
Pedestrians are due as niue
consideration as the motorists, the
need protection and they USUAL.
cooperate with the police in its e1
forts to keep down accidents,
Lieut.. Davis declared.
During the past several day
while the street has been unde
construction and while parking
space was at a premium, the polio
department has not enforced tn
overtime parking laws on secon'
street and other nearby areas. h
said, but after the new Front stree
has been opened, all regulations VIII
be enforced.
Lieut.. Davis praised the coopera
ton of the workmen, especially tn
foremen on the paving job, in help
ing the traffic problem. The mer
chants along Front street were ais
praised for their spirit of. coopera
ton. Realizing that the work ha'
to be done they did not complain O.
the inconvenience" he said.
The veteran police lieutenant
who has been guiding the city,
traffic forces for many years, wa
in general well pleased with tn
new street.
"I'm not an old man by an.
means and I've eel Front stree
paved three times" Lieut.. pavi'
said, adding that this time it look
better than ever before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
CLAIM IA
SHIPS DESTROYED
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man raiders, believed to total IL "at
most" to have sunk that many
ships.)
The official German news agency,
DNB, said the first of yesterdays
raids came when German bombers
sighted three British minesweepers
off Kinnaird Head, on the northeast
Scottish coast. One was sunk, the
agency said.
Three conveys Of merchantmen
protected by British ~destroyers, aux.
iliary vessels and submarines next
were sighted off Newcastle, Flam.
borough Head and northeast of the
Humber estuary.
All Immediately were attacked,
the agency said, and nine merchant
ships and four patrol boats sunk.
Despite respectfully vigorous" an.
t%i-aircraft action, German filters were
said to have pressed attack after at.
tack, scattering the merchant ships
which zig-zagged desperately to
avoid bombs.
planes Joined the battle. Two Ger.
man planes were shot down, pro-
sumably over the sea.
One badly damaged German plane
made an emergency landing on
British soil. DNB said that Though
part of the crew was killed or Sc.
riously wounded, survivors set the
plane afire" to avoid it's being cap.
tured.
Recounting the North Sea foray,
a communique of the German high
command declared that according
to reliable reports" British, French
and neutral ships sunk between Jan.
q and Jan. 81 totalled 145,6 03 tons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
GERMAN WARPLANES
ATTACK NINE SHIPS
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by a fishing boat which was guided
to the scene by a Royal Air Force
plane.
Captain Edward Wiley said a Ger.
man plane machine-gunned the Har-
iey's ~forecastle, dropped a bomb
ahead of her and then returned to
drop additional bombs.
The crew rowed five hours before
being rescued.
Survivors said "the bomber was
pretty decent" to give them time to
take to a lifeboat.
Lifesaving craft reached the Har-
ley after the crew had gone and
stood by all night, putting men
aboard to take charge.
The Harley, and the 223-ton trawl-
er, Rose of England, which also was
attacked, subsequently reached port
and were reported to have suffered
little damage.
Sailors Missing
Six of ten crew members Of the
Belgian steamer Charlotte were
missing following an attempt to
reach land on a raft during the
night. Four made land, but hope
dwindled for the others when the
raft and INT body were washed
ashore.
Fifteen survivors from the 3,S77.
ton British steamer Kildale, which
sank after a bomb crashed into the
engine-room, were landed at an east
ern port. They reported that six
crew members were killed in the
bomb attack.
The Norwegian steamer Tempo,
629 tons, was sunk after a machine
gun attack which killed at least four
of her IA crew members.
Other ships were attacked but
managed to make port.
The S23-ton British Collier Yewdale
was machine-gunned a mile off the
coast by two planes.
The 3,431-ton steamer Cortland
reached port yesterday after coming
through an aircraft attack.
The Swedish steamer Mertainen,
4,531 tons, also arrived in port and
reported she had been machine
summed and bombed off the east
coast Saturday. One bomb hit her,
but no was injured and the crew
stood by in lifeboats until the
bombers had left.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
WILL SEEK PARDON

ORANGE, N. j., Feb. 4.-R-At.
torney Harry Green said today he
would seek a posthumous presiden-
tial pardon for Ellis H. Parker, for.
mer Burlington county detective
chief who died in a federal prison
at Lewisburg, Pa.
IT will continue my attempts to
get a pardon for the purpose of
indicating an old mans name"
Green said, adding he also expected
to move for similar clemency in the
case of Ellis, Jr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
COL. DIES

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 4.-H9-
Col. Patrick H. Callahan, who was
the first American to be appointed
by the late Pope Plus XII a knight of
the order of st. Gregory the Great,
died today at his home. He received
the honor in 1922. Callahan, 70,
head of the Louisville Varnish COM
pany, also was awarded in 1881 the
Newman Medal of the University Of
illinois for work in the sterilization
of industry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-05
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P Q R T S
Duke, Carolina Tied For
Lead In Southern Loon
re,ms Hold Seven Wins In
rioht Starts; W. & L. And
Richmond In Second Place

DrrHMoND, Va, Feb. 4.-R-
and North Carolina, far in
load of the Southern conference
,sketball race, were tied today
~. seven victories each in eight
loop starts.
r,o two close rivals meet Satur-
H., at Chapel Hill in the game-of-
ueek. Carolina has the best Of
ns;re record with 4O1 points to
M, for the opposition. Dukes
,.ore books show 1863 points to 2S2
tor the Blue Devils foes.
The lone setback for Duke came
..r1,, in the season at Maryland,
.rt this reverse a avenged last
uaek when the Furman cagers
,o1,od I'D a 4S-37 decision over the
,o,ring Terrapins. Wake Forest
s+onned North Carolina after IA
aonsecutive triumphs but the White
pbantoms came back last night to
,bip Clemson's defending cham
MONS 1881. Dukes victory margin
nyer Clemson was 54-49.
Washington and Lee and Rich.
mond are deadlocked for the third
sro+ with three successes in four
conference games. other first-di-
vision clubs I Wake Forest, Glenn
son. The Citadel and Maryland.
William and Mary, at the head Of
the second division, has broken even
in four games. The eight ranking
SQUADS at the end of February will
compete for the title in the annual
most season tournament at Raleigh,
n. C.
Aside from the important Duke.
Carolina scrap, few of the eleven
contests carded for this week are
likely to change the standings. The
MARYLAND tilt at Washington and
Lee on Thursday and Clemson's
test at The Citadel on Saturday
will bring together top-flight teams.
Davidson, led by the sharpshoot-
ing Jim Cowan who scored 81 points
against The Citadel last night, plays
Duke and North Carolina on Tues
Go,, and Wednesday William and
Mary travels to N. C. State for
Monday nights only family engage.
ment.
The standings: