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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
HIGHWAY DEATHS
SHOW REDUCTION
Onlv 80 Pedestrians Killed
By Autos During First
Four Months
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY I'M AVERILL

RALEIGH, May 2S.-Either North
C%arolina,s automobile drivers are
losing their accuracy in running
down pedestrians or those who
walk in the streets and roads are
beginning to show greater ability
at ducking and lodging.
For the first four months of
1910 records of the state highway
safety division show that there
were only so pedestrian fatalities,
as compared with SO through April
80, 1939-a fine reduction of ap-
proximately 20 per cent.
This far surpassed improvement
in all other types of fatalities,
though only train-car collisions
show an increase over the first
four months of 1889. The figures:
Pedestrians so against SO last year;
over vehicles 126 against 1872 in
1889; bicyclists 7 compared with 9.
Trains 18 compared with IT. Grand
total 231 for the first four months
of 1910 against 257 for the cores
ponding months c. last year; giving
an overall reduction in motor We
hicle fatalities Of 10 per cent this
year-a rate which if maintained
would cut the years death toll by
almost a hundred. (There were 957
fatalities in all during 1880
Percentage of pedestrian deaths
to all motor vehicle fatalities fell
from 80 per cent to 35 per cent in
the state as a whole, but in many
counties the pedestrian deaths ran
much heavier in proportion.
In Is counties, for example the
only deaths were of pedestrians.
Beaufort and Lincoln had three,
each; Brunswick and Surry two
apiece; and the following had sin
gleton pedestrian deaths as their
only motor vehicle fatalities: Ashe,
Avery, Cleveland, Granville, Hert-
ford, Macon, Madison, Orange,
Pamlico, Stanly and Swain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
Speedy Languages

Frenchmen speak the speediest
language in the world, emitting $50
syllables a minute. japanese rank
second fastest, Germans third, Chi
nese fourth, and Italians fifth. Eng.
fish is comparatively slow with its
220 syllables a minute, but Soutl
Sea natives have the slowest tongue
of all, emitting only SO syllables a
minute in ordinary conversation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

WASHlNGION.-Ihe lopg-Stand-
ing row between C 1 O's National
Maritime Union and the Bureau
of Marine Inspection and Navigat-
ion is beginning to break into the
open.
Biggest Maritime Union COM
plant is the charge the bureau
its powers under the navigation
laws to discipline militant union
men while letting Steamship own
ers off with a slap on the wrist.
Early this month the union dis
tributed about Washington a pamp-
hlet, cumming up its charges, de-
handing a revision of policies by
the bureau, and calling for dis
missal of the bureaus director,
Commander R. S. Field. This will
touch off some fireworks.
The bureau is a part of the De-
partment of Commerce, and hence
is responsible to Harry Hopkins.
1t is an open secret that top de-
partment people aren't wholly sat
isfied with the bureaus record,
and that certain changes are in
the cards.
There will be an immediate
backfire, however, if anything OF
the kind comes on the heels of the
unions pamphlet. For the rumors
of an impending shake-up in the
bureau sound to some congress-
men like advance announcents OF
a surrender to the c. I. o." and
some ardent anti-NeW-Dealers are
already collecting ammunition.
Right to Strike
Basic cause of the trouble is
disagreement over when and how
a sailor may strike.
It's pretty generally agreed a
strike while a ship is on the high
seas is either mutiny or something
very much like it. The union, how.
ever, argues that while a ship is
st anchor or at dock in a port
the seamen may strike without in
curing any more. penalties thar
factory hands ashore would incur,
Commander Field doesn't see it that
way.
AS Field interprets the law, once
a sailor has signed articles aboard
ship he is under contract. Under
that Interpretation a sit-down
strike by men who have signed on
is illegal, even though the ship
may be tied up at a wharf.
Field points out, however, a man
may not be held to involuntary
servitude aboard ship; if a crew
wants to strike it's members may
simply 60 ashore, or desert ship,
without suffering any penalty other
than forfeiture of pay.
BUREAU CAUGHT
IN OLD UNION ROW
To a certain extent, the bureau
has been caught in the old A. F.
L.-C. 1. O. crossfire. Under the
navigation laws as revised in 1886,
merchant seamen r supposed to
possess continuous discharge books
giving a record of each voyage.
The c. I. o. sailors have denounced
this as a fink book" asserting it
makes possible black-listing of
union sailors; they carry certificat-
es of Identification, instead. A. FL.
sailors, on the other hand, use the
book.
Don't overlook the fact that the
Dies committee has been gather.
ing a good deal of testimony about
| alleged Communist influence in the
National Maritime Union. That will
be drawn on heavily, if the unions
scrap with the bureau comes to a
| showdown,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
SMALLEST TOWN

DELLVIEW, May %. -fp-
Every resident bears the name
Dellinger.
This CASTOR county town claims
it is the smallest municipality
in the United states.
Latest census reports show
eight persons within DellVleW's
corporate limits, a loss OF TWO
from 1880.
The town, whose charter was
granted by the 1925 legislature,
has electric lights, water and a
brick municipal building.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
Medical Care
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. d

How much attention should
the expectant mother give to
her teeth?
She should give a little more
thought to her teeth than usual.
The old adage For every child, a
tooth is ar exaggeration, by no
means necessarily true; it applies
almost always to infected teeth or
teeth that were in a suspicious con
dition before pregnancy began.
Certainly the expectant mother
should consult the dentist fire.
quently. This is part of regular
moderate prenatal car Foci of
infection about the mouth should
be treated, although severe opera
tive procedures had best be left
until later.
Under diet, for the good of the
child and the mother both, it is
well to see that there is plenty OF
vitamin D and vitamin C in the
diet of the expectant mother. A
diet built up around the five man
articles-meat, eggs, milk, vege-
tables and fruits-will supply these
essential elements. One or t w o
legs daily will correct a deficiency
of vitamin D. A quart of milk sup
plies IL grams of calcium, which
is adequate for normal demands.
If the expectant mother is unable
to drink milk and eat o e r
amounts Of green vegetables, it be.
comes necessary to add calcium
powder to the diet. In months
when there is little sunshine, some
form of cod-liver oil should be add
ed to the mothers diet.
Art of Brushing
Oral hygiene is doubly import
ant. A clean mouth contributes to
the comfort and health of the
mother at this time. In many
cases where it is evident that the
mother has not learned the proper
way to brush her teeth, this should
be carefully taught her.
There is nothing different in this
from ordinary personal hygiene.
PROPER prenatal care should make
an expectant mother feel not that
pregnancy is some terrible disease,
but that it is simply a normal phys.
iologic process.
Prenatal care is tn greatest
safeguard, not only to the safe de.
livery OF a healthy child and to the
safety of the mother at that time,
but also to the health of her whole
future life. If mothers lost a tooth
for every child they bore in the old
days, it was because they did not
call the doctor until the last min
ute. And what is true of the teeth
is true of all the rest of the body,
Disgusting the Taste
of Unpleasant Medicine
nc" can n disguise the
fGCfn nf
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
Mass Watch Production

Henry Pitkin, Hartford, Conn, be.
gan the use of duplicating machin.
cry for mass production of watches
in 1898, but it was not until 1858
that a Boston watch company pro
duced them in quantities,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
TalIest In Europe

Sweden is the home of Europe's
talIest men. Here the average height
is five feet nine inches. Scotland
ranks second, with the average
height being just one-quarter inch
less than that Of the SWedes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

counter-jinx to offer against the
precendents that the high man in
the first gubernatorial primary has
always won in the runoff. Horton
finished behind Paul Grady for
lieutenant governor, but came
through handsomely in a second
race.
The first after-electioa statement
issued by Lee Gravely gave alb
solutely no indication of what stand,
if any, he'll take during the second
primary.
1t was a straight word of thanks
and appreciation to his workers
and supporters:
Il am eternally grateful to my
friends throughout the state for
their loyalty and their support, and
am happy over the expression OF
approval of my candidacy by more
than sixty thousand Of my fellow
citizens.
eve have done nothing during
this camaign for which we have tt
apologize or which we regret. Neve,
has a man had more loyal friends
than those who went down the line
for me, and I shall oe under ever
lasting obligation to them for thei,
%unselfish efforts in my behalf.
IF I, as a private citizen, car
in any way be of service to the
people of this state, I am at thei,
command. I want to thank my
supporters and express to them my
genuine gratitude"
List of prospective speakershir
candidates was reduced by as a re.
suit of Saturdays voting when Joe
Carruthers Of Greensboro failed O.
denomination to the house.
This confirms reports repeated
in this correspondence more thar
once, that powerful factions hat
the knife open for Carruthers.
Rupert T. Pickens will be thu
only repeated from Guilford, tn,
High Point man leading the coun
tvs house ticket despite the fac
that he had incurred the ire of hi:
city's generally accepted boss,
Wade Renfrow.
The next house will miss tn,
noise that U. S. (Bombshell) Pag.
used to make, but it is doubtful
that his absence will affect the fate
of any important piece of legisla.
ton. He was finally beaten in his
native Baden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
THEY RUN, SING, KNIT
WHEN BOMBERS ram

CHEYENNE, Wyo-a
that she's out of the v..~ w CIV
Helen Moore, visitor fra ~1 zone,
burgh. Scotland, can zen Ld2'
knlttlng or your sewing and E o.,
Tor the shelter she Save v,'' fa
People who can afford ~.
nave private shelters; otbsr. Nae''
tor public shelters that aroa I'll
date from Is to SO people T 7,..,
they sing hymns and ponnI,, llISioe,
fol amusement. SoNgl
Miss Moore says she saw
enemy plane only once cr r@ a.
German ship that crashed Pps s
ing the crew. Kill
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
RAL E G II
B r E rs
Star-NeWs Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY HENR AVERILL

RALEIGH, May 28.-Final re-
suits may change a few Of the
county leads, but on a basis of re-
turns available as this is written,
j. M. Broughton led in A counties
in Saturdays first primary; " p.
Horton was top man in 25; A. j.
Maxwell was first in 16; Lee
Gravely was high in IL; Tom Coop
er captured three; and Paul Grady
was plurality choice of the voters
in his home county. Col. Arthur
Simmons, therefore, was the only
one of the seven candidates who
failed to lead in a single unit.
Your Raleigh reporters county
by county survey probably wasn't
all it could have been worse. In &C
Of the 100 counties the proper lead
er was selected; in rs others the
man chosen by this correspondence
to finish first wound up second; in
eleven this corners choice for first
place come In third; and In only
three counties was the prediction
so completely haywire that the
f~orecaster's first-place choice drop.
ped all the way to fourth position.
Vernon Sechriesr, Gravely publici-
ty chief, was around Monday not
in the least downhearted. from al
outward appearances.
Asked how long he'd be around
Raleigh, he cracked:
II believe I'll go back where
can take off my shoes"
On all sides Sechriest is being
credited with doing a very fine job
under big handicaps.
inJ,to,o~% v W.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

the gossip mongers can say any
thing they like"
Tyrone Power from the April,
1888, fle): Marriage? That's far
in the future. After all, I've really
only begun to be an actor"
Carson Kanin: She (Ginger
Rogers has one of the most ma
ture feminine minds I've ever en-.
countered. I'm going over to her
house tonight"
Carson KAHN (the following
day.: She's Ginger Rogers the
biggest kid 1 ever saw. She had
us playing charades two minutes
after we took off our hats and
when we stopped for breath she
fixed us chocolate ice cream So
das."
INTERSECTIONS
MAKE MONEY
Fuzzy Knight: Il never have
to worry about getting work when
Henry Hathaway is making a pic,
ture. I'm sort of his lucky stone,
He has used men in every picture
he has made since Trail of the
Lonesome Pine I hope 1 bring
him good luck on Brigham
Young 1t looks like I have sc
far, because we're three days
ahead of schedule"
John Decker, Hollywood artist:
About Is per cent of the movie
stars in Hollywood make thei1
living by their physical imperfec-
tons. That's one of the reasons
that so many artists don't get paic
when they paint movie stars
They paint what they see, no.
what the movie star thinks they
should see"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

A symptom of disorder Of the
thyroid gland is a distaste
meat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

slxty-seven inches of ran tsr .
Assam, India. in a single va l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

Lieutenant Governor w. P. Hor-
ton evidently figures that he has a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
In Hollywood

Bill Porter is batting for Paul
Harrison while the NEA Hollywood
correspondent vacations.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
typographical Union,
Will Hold
AIoof in Labor War
A. +. of L. Demands
1t Pay Special Levy
To Combat C.'I. O.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated FfeSS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 30.-Leaders
Of the strong, wealthy International
Typographical Union, under suspen-
sion from the American Federation
of Labor, indicated today it would
follow a middle of -the-road policy
until labor's civil war was settled.
In Miami, Fla, yesterday the
A. F. Of L. executive council imposed
the suspension for the I. T. US
failure to pay special assessment,
levied on A. F. of L. affiliates more
than two years before, to raise
money to stop the Congress of
Industrial Organizations.
The I. r. U. will be expelled, the
council said, unless it pays the
assessment by the time of the
federations next annual convention
in Atlantic City in August.
1T. U. Will Stand Firm.
President Claude M. Baker, at
I. T. U. headquarters here, gave his
opinion later that the union would
"go its way until there is healing
of the kreach in the general labor
movement" He expressed belief it
would stand pat on its refusal to
pay the assessment
Other union leaders, tracing the
A. F. Of LII. T. U. estrangement to
Evening star., 1940-01-30

policies Of the late President Charles
P. Howard, held forth hope their
organization eventually would be
taken back into the federation fold
Mr.. Baker predicted ar eventual
peace in the labor movement, but
expressed doubt it would come soon
Meanwhile, he said, the I. T. u
probably will stand aloof from both
the G. I. o. and A. F. of L. and dc
nothing to bring the warning fac
tions together.
The I. T. U. was formed in 1852
% years before the A. F. of L. II
now has more than 750 locals in the
United States and Canada, some
10000 members and immense finan-
cial resources.
Leader in A. F. of L. Revolt.
Mr.. Howard, I. T. U. president
nearly IL years, was a leader in
the revolt against A. F. of L. officers
that produced the c. I. o. in 1895
and became c. I. o. secretary.
In Denver, Colo, two years later
the A. F. of L. put cent-a-month
tax on every member of every
affiliate for an anti-C. I. o. war
chest. Mr.. Howard opposed the levy
and his union voted not to pay it.
In 1898, Mr.. Howard lost to Mr.
Baker for reelection and a few
months later he died. But A. F. of l.
and I. T. U. meanwhile had drifted
apart. Last year the federation
rejected the I. T. us monthly con-
tributions to its support and, in
Cincinnati in October, refused its
delegates convention seats.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Finland
Continued From First Page.)

but were repulsed with heavy cas-
ualties."
Supporting this action, naval
forces attacked the Finnish fort at
Mantsi, on Lake Ladoga island
f1anking the northeast front. The
Firms said this blow was Tended off
The MantSi attack was believed
to have been an attempt to cover
reinforcements being brought TO the
northeast front to assist badly bat
tered Soviet divisions.
Unofficial reports averred that
Red leaders were continuing unsuc-
cessfully an attempt to reorganlze
the Lake Ladoga offensive.
In yesterdays raids the COM
munique said a hospital was bombed
and a church in the village Of
Kuhmo was bombed several times.
The text of the communique fol-
lows:
Land: On the isthmus (of Ka-
relia) the usual harassing artillery
fire on January 20, which at times
became intensive.
Northeast of Lake Ladoga the
enemy carried out a few attacks
which our troops repulsed, again in
flicting heavy casualties on the
enemy and destroying two tanks.
Elsewhere on the Eastern frontier
patrol activity.
Sea: The enemy launched at
tackS against defense positions on
Fort Mantsi all day, supported by
aircraft and artillery. The attacks
were repulsed On the isthmus our
coastal forts silenced several enemy
field batteries Elsewhere on the
naval front nothing of Importance.
200 Red Planes Attack.
Air: Over 200 enemy planes are
estimated to have flown over the
home area January 20. In the
South and Southwestern Finland,
Turku, Hanko, Tammisaari, the Dis
trict of Pernaja, couple Of coast
towns on the Gulf of Bothenia and
a certain hospital we're bombed.
In Northern Finland the church
and village of Kuhmo and the
Nurmes district were bombed sew
eral times.
according to reports received
thus far, over 30 civilians were killed
and about so wounded in yesterdays
raids.
Our own aircraft carried out sue
cessful fighting, reconnaissance and
bombing flights, in the course OF
which a certain harbor and vessels
lying there, enemy motor lorry col
umns, troop quarters and certain
railway stations were bombed.
According to reports hitherto re-
ceived, our fighters and anti-aircraft
troops shot down 81 enemy planes.
Our own losses were one plane shot
down.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

today for the American Federation
Of Labor's Executive Council in mid
winter convention here.
William Green, president of the
Federation, said he was anxious to
clear the slate as early as possible
The controversy centers around
whether the teamsters or brewery
workers should have the right to
organize beer truck drivers.
The A. F. of L. and the teamsters
are now enjoined by a District Of
Columbia Federal Court from en-
forcing a 1888 convention order di-
recting the brewery workers to re-
linquish the beer drivers to the
teamsters. Efforts are under way
to settle the dispute through con-
ciliation committee.
Before taking up jurisdictional
disputes, Mr.. Green said the council
probably would consider charter ap-
plications from groups of distillery
workers and airline dispatchers.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Vatican Parties
Representations Of
Nazis on Broadcasts
Radio Programs on PoIist
Conditions Are Termed
Insulting by Reich
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Jan. 30.-In-
formed sources indicated today that
German representations to the Vati-
can against radio broadcasts telling
of excesses attributed to German
authorities in German-occupied Po-
land has been fruitleSS.
The only German representation
was made in Berlin last week, they
said, and it was answered with the
statement that Vatican radio broad
casts were entirely private and with
out any official character.
The Vatican radio station last
week broadcast critical account
of alleged conditions in Poland,
charging the Germa authorities with
mistreatment of the population, in
cluding the clergy. Vatican officials
have withheld comment.
Yesterday the Polish Embassy to
the Holy See circulated a pamphlet
containing detailed reports of al
legged persecution of Catholics in
Poland, charging the German au-
thorities aimed at their "eXtermina-
ton"
Evening star., 1940-01-30

in reports that yesterday In the
worst winter storm of nearly a
half-century the flying guardian OF
the coast still could fight when
land traffic was almost paralyzed.
None of the attackers was re-
ported to have penetrated inland,
and of 13 British merchant ships
and one Latvian vessel bombed and
machine -gunned not one was re-
ported sunk, although there were
several casualties among creWmen.
The Germans also were said to have
struck at two lightships.
7 Killed on Latvian Ship.
Seven of the crew of the Latvian
freighter Tautmila, 3,724 tons, were
killed, while the only British IA
tality announced was the death of
a man aboard the steamer Gripfast,
1,109 tons. There were several
wounded on these and other ships.
The German raiders cruised off
the east coast for three hours until
fighting planes, anti-aircraft fire
and lowering fuel forced halt.
On the northeast coast air-raid
warnings were sounded as far as
40 miles inland, and thousands of
persons jammed AFRAID shelters,
emptying schools, factories and
shipyards.
Low clouds enabled the German
planes, mostly Heinkels, to elude
the British fighters, and British
sources suggested that Germany had
gambled that low ceilings and cold
would keep defense airmen on the
ground.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
London
Continued From First Page.)

3,000-ton Danish steamer Fredns-
borg when it struck mine off the
Coast of Scotland was announced
in Copenhagen.
In addition to a continuation OF
the war on shipping-it was estl-
mated that from Is to 20 German
planes took part yesterday, attack
ing IA vessels with bomb and ma
chine gun-German planes appeared
over British coastal towns today.
Two Planes Over Coast.
Two German planes flew low over
the northeast coast of Scotland
while a third craft twice circled
Kentish coast town, in Southeast
England, at a height of less than
100 feet.
Confronted with possibly ominous
stepping-up of German air raids,
Britons wondered if a lightning war
against shipping might be at hand.
A boatman of the Kentish town
said of the invader:
1--WE heard roar overhead and
saw a grayish silver monoplane
swooping down toward the harbor
1t banked steeply around the light
house and went off along the sea
front.
I'm a couple of minutes it came
back again and circled the light
house before disappearing. 1t was
so low 1 thought it must hit the
top of the lighthouse.
New Ship Reports.
Additional reports from shipping
disclosed the extent of yesterdays
widespread raids on at least IA
larger vessels and numerous trawlers.
Two men were killed, one each
on the trawlers Rigoletto and Dur
rant, by machine cunning from a
low-fying raider. The 1,487-ton
British steamer Eston was missing
in the North Sea with a crew OF
18 men.
All of yesterdays victims were
British except the Latvian steamer
Tautmila, aboard which seven men
were killed by German bomb and
machine-gun attack.
Seven Bodies Found.
John Sanders of Yarmouth, sole
survivor of the crew of coastal
lightship machine gunned by a
German plane yesterday, struggled
ashore at an east coast town today
as the bodies of his seven shipnates
were found on the beach near a
wrecked dinghy.
The bomber, he said, sprayed the
lightship with bullets and dropped
nine bombs, one of which struck the
craft.
Sanders said the attack came at
$50 am, whereupon the crew
launched boat.
At 2:30 am. today, when only two
of the eight men still were able to
row, they heard waves breaking on
the shore, but at this point the boat
capsized. Sanders stumbled ashore
while his seven companions were
drowned.
The British found proud comfort