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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Card Tourney
Will Be Given
Here Saturday
Ladies Auxiliary Of Lions
Club To Give Benefit Party
At Sorosis Clubhouse

A benefit bridge tournament will
be given Saturday afternoon, May 4,
at the North Carolina Sorosis club
house on North Third street. This
event is being staged under the aus
pices of the Ladies auxiliary to the
Lions club.
Bridge will begin promptly at 3:15
o'clock. Many attractive prizes have
been donated by merchants of the
city. A prize will be given. to the
high scorer at each table.
Players are asked to bring their
cards.
Reservations may be made by call.
ing Mrs. Edward B. Ward, 1851:
Mrs. W. B. Campbell, 1925; Mrs. H.
E. Russell, 1881; Mrs. Donald
Sewell, 1465-J, or Mrs. A. E. Jones,
1887.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
State Garden
Club Officers
Are Selected
Mrs. Sudbury To Continue
Office AS President, Mrs.
Lybrook Vice-President

WINsTON-SALEM, May i.-P-
Mrs. D. J. Lybrook of Advance was
elected first vice-president of the
North Carolina Garden clubs yes
terday.
Mrs. Charles Griffith of Winston
Salem was elected treasurer; Mrs.
Charles Rice of Candor, recording
secretary; and Mrs. c. S. Black OF
Wake Forest, custodian. Mrs. j.
Buren, Sudbury, the president, will
continue in office another year.
District directors named were Mrs
]. NJ. Tyler of Greensboro, for the
Piedmont district; and Mrs. C. F.
Strosnider of G%oldsboro, for the
Coastal Plains district.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Minstrel Will Be Staged
Friday Evening At High School

In a setting more lavish than any
previously used in a Hi-Y minstrel,
is g~aily-dressed girls will perform
a sweetheart waltz when the Viii,
mington Hi-Y clubs presents its
twenty-siXth annual minstrel in the
High school auditorium tomorrow
night at SIS o'clock.
This is the first time that girls,
members of the local Hi-Y, have en-
gagged in the production, which is
the largest project of the year for
the Hi-Y organizations. Fourteen
of the lasses dressed in gaily-decorat-
ed red jackets and white skirts, will
appear in the second row of the
chorus, which will consist of two
tiers of white faces and one of black.
THE addition of the girls is expected
to greatly increase the entertain.
ment ability of the performances"
Charles Taylor, former end-man
with the famous Lasses White Min
strels, who is directing the local pro.
duction, said.
Jimmy Davis, Bynum Shaw, Billy
Small, Sam Josenhans, Adrian
Rhodes, and Tom Polvogt, with their
antics as endmen, will provide the
jokes and pranks for the first sec.
ton of the show. Sam Behrends will
act as interlocuter.
, Jimmy Davis, singing the Dark
town Shutters Ball." and Bynum
Shaw, rendering the minstrel
Strut" will present part of the mu
steal score. Jane King will sing
"Gwine to Heaben," another old fav-
orite, and Adrian Rhodes will liven
the performance with his hoarse in
depreciation of "Heah Comes Miss
Hannah" In the modern trend, Sam
Behrends will render DO I Love
You?" and Sally Prevatt will sing
with the Wind and the Rain NIn
Your Hair" Tessie Finch will pre-
sem "Playmates' and Billy Sudbury
will sing You'd Be Surprised" Ken
meth Davis will complete the fore
piece as he goes "Steppin Around"
In the middle-piece Willie Jones
and Kenneth Davis will stage a
short dialogue and ten boys will be
seen in an army skit for the after
piece.
From the way the production is
whipping into shape, I expect this
performance to surpass any of those
staged in recent years." Taylor stat
ed. He is being assisted by Walter
| Coleman and Cameron Sinclair. War.
rem Pennington is student manager
for the show.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
SERIES OF
BEING CONDUCTED AT
TRINITY

DR.. John C. Glenn, of Raleigh.
who is conducting a series of serv-
ices at Trinity Methodist church,
will preach tonight at 8 o'clock on
the topic, Sin and It's Forgive
ness" The topic for the sermon Tor
this morning at 7:45 o'clock will
be THE Essence of Christianity"
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Efforts To Strengthen
British Regime Talked

LONDON, May 1.-CP-The vs,
informed British Press asso.i,tt1
said tonight there had been q
deal of talk about strengthenjn, -,
Chamberlain government anav,
the result of different views As 10
recent war policy" "
The view has gained ground, # 81.
ded, that the war cabinet Should b..
made up of ministers withopt d.
partmental responsibilities.
David Lloyd George is beino M.
toned in some quarters for such ,
non-departmental office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
PERSONALS

Mrs. Albert Summey has return
ed to the city after spending the past
week in Charleston, S. c.
Mrs. w. o. Page has as her guest
at her home at Fort Fisher Beach,
her sister, Mrs. C. H. Palmore, OF
Lakeland, Fla.
Mrs. A. B. Dinwiddie, of New Or
leans, has left for Greenwood, Va,
after a visit here with her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Summey.
Mrs. Frank Fletcher and daughter,
Mrs. Lillian Shelton, of Morris,
Conn.,, and Miss Helen Solberg and
niece, Miss Edith Solberg, of Bos'
ton, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. E. Allen at their home on Princess
street.
Miss Helen Weathersbee, who has
been attending school in Washing
ton, D. c., this past winter, has re
turned to her home in the city. Miss
Weathersbee attended the dances al
Davidson en- route to her home here
this weekend.
Mrs. J.. A. Raynor has as he1
guests at her home on Woolcott ave
nue., her two sisters, Mrs. Howard
r. Krinbill, of Rutherford, N. j., ane
Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Jr., Of Wash
ington, D. c.. En- route here they
visited friends and relatives in Rich
mond, IAocky Mount, Kinston ant
Richards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
RATES DOUBLED

LONDON, May 1.-GP-The Insti-
tute of London Underwriters today
doubled war risk insurance rates for
voyages to the Mediterranean and
the Black sea effective tomorrow,
May 2. The announcement of the
new insurance rate schedule follow
ed the admiralty's diversion of trans
Mediterranean shipping around the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
A OF
OF DANES
TO HOLD MEET TODAY

There will be an important meet
ing Of the board of managers of the
North Carolina Society of Colonial
Danes of America this afternoon at
800 o'clock in the assembly rooms.
All members are requested to be
nrpcpOt
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

During the year ending March 26,
1910. domestic airlines in the United
STATES carried more than 2,OOO,Oo0
passenger some sos, 100000 passen-
Ger miles without a single fatality
IN ma or crew,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

Proceeds will be given to the
World Brotherhood, an organization
for the advancement of Christian
principles throughout the world. La
dies from the Katherine Kennedy
Home will be guests of the Hi-Y's
for the performance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

Lime first was manufactures
Providence, r. l., in 1852, when ,lg,
city granted Thomas Hackleton NJ
liberty to burn lime at a cort,;.
place on the Commons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

The American company hayfnq IL.
largest fleet of trucks, 1920 dno.
no delivering whatsoever, main,,;r
ing the trucks for maintenance worl.
Onlv.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

Every morning at 2 a. m. EST.
small balloons are sent up from
over IS stations throughout the coun-
try for reporting weather condi-
tiOns,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

It is reported by reliable authori-
ties that Germany will lead in total
number of available planes until
early in 1941. at the present rate
of production.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Club Clock

The regular meeting of the
Dorcas society of St. Paul's
Lutheran church will be held
this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the Luther Memorial build
ing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

Members of the U. D. C. chap
ter are asked to meet at the
home of Mrs. J. Hicks Bunting
Friday morning at 10 o'clock to
cut wreaths in preparation for
Memorial day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02

The Ladies auxiliary to the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men will meet this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock in the Junior Order
hall. ALI members are urged to
attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
ct got the best mama

Just what to do for me when
I suffer some of those little ills which come
along when babies like me start teething.
Mama gives me Teethina when I'm tenn
porarily constipated and when gas or a sour
stomach give me collie pains, or when I eat
the wrong kind of food and run off my
bowels. Teethina makes a big hit with ne
because it tastes good, and mama likes it
cause twelve powders cost but SOC. The
drug store man keeps plenty of Teethina for
us babies" Give Teethina according to the
directions in each package. TEETHINA.
Evening star., 1940-07-30
Andrew H. Cannon, 68,
Uniform Expert, Dies

Andrew Hamilton Cannon, 68,
known throughout the service as an
expert on naval and military uni
forms and equipment, died today in
Alexandria Hospital after a two
weeks illness.
Mr.. Cannon, who lived at 812
South Quincy street, Arlington, Va,
for the past 10 years had been man.
ufacturers representative for Kas-
san-Steln of Washington. Before
that he held the same position for
80 years with Jacob Reeds Sons of
Philadelphia.
He was member of Mozart Lodge
OF Masons in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Cannon leaves his wife. Mrs.
Florence Cannon: daughter. Mrs.
Elizabeth Kimball of Washington;
two brothers, w. P. Cannon of
Philadelphia and George Cannon of
Dansdale. Pa, and two grandchil-
dren.
Masonic funeral services will be
held Thursday in Philadelphia.
where he will be buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-07-30
War Jitters Blamed
For Sharp Rise in
j. ). Traffic Deaths
6-Month Death Toll
For l940 Is Reported
As l4,740
Sy the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 30.-"Wartime
jitters"-the wars psychological ef-
fects on American motorists-were
held partly responsible today for a
sharp increase in the Nations traffic
deaths.
Reporting an per cent increase in
traffic deaths for the first half of
1910 compared with the same period
last year, the National Safety Coun-
Gil attributed the rise to greater
travel and wartime jitters"
There were 14,740 persons killed
In motor accidents during the first
six months of 1910, or 1,04O more
than in the like 1889 period.
Ninth Month of Increases.
June also was the ninth consecu-
tive month to show an increase over
the same month of the preceding
year. the council said.
The council found that traffic
deaths began to increase sharply
almost simultaneously with the out
break of war and that the rise
reached peak in June when France
surrendered.
Mileage Picks Up.
Motor vehicle mileage was about
Z per cent greater this year than in
the 1889 period, making the mile
age death rate" for both periods vir-
tually the same, the council said.
Accidents in rural sections were
responsible for most of the June in
crease, the council reported.
Large cities showing decreases in
the siX-month death totals included
Jersey City, so per cent; Oakland.
Calf, 40; Kansas City, 80: Denver,
27; Washington, 81, and Balti-
more, 13.
Evening star., 1940-07-30
$4,000 in Jewe|ry Found
On 7 Young Fugitives

Two young fugitives from the
industrial Home School were ar
rested early today with jewelry
valued at $1,000, which they had
stolen few hours after their es-
cape from the reformatory.
The boys were picked up by
Policeman M. G. Barco of the third
precinct, who saw them asleep in
an automobile near Fifteenth and N
streets NV. AS he approached the
car, one of the boys attempted to
hide package.
Searching the car, the policeman
found quantity of antique jewelry.
He took the boys, one of whom is
is and the other 16, to the third
precinct.
The. jewelry was identified as part
of the loot taken yesterday in the
burglary of the home of Richard P.
Whiteley, 2915 Woodland drive NV.
Mr.. Whiteley, Federal Trade Com
mission attorney, had reported the
, theft during the day.
The boys said they had thrown
part of the valuables away in the
woods and police took them there
today to make a search for the miss
ing jewelry.
Evening star., 1940-07-30
40 Women Reach D. {.
10 Campaign for Peace

Greeted by a sympathetic delega-
tion shouting I'VE want peace"
about 40 women, representing $4,000
trade union women of New York
City, arrived here this afternoon to
let official Washington know that
they want this country to keep out
of war.
AS they stepped from their train
at Union Station the group, mem
bers of the Trade Union Women's
Committee for Peace, heard this cry
set up by the welcoming group of
Washington trade union women:
What are we here assembled for?
To keep America out of war;
Led by DR.. Bella v. Dodd, the
delegation planned to visit the
White House during the afternoon
to present to Brig. Gen. Edwin Wat
son, presidential secretary, a petit
tion said to bear 100000 signatures
urging the President to do all in his
power to keep the United States out
of war.
The group also was scheduled to
visit the House Military Affairs
Committee at the Capitol, where
DR.. Dodd will voice opposition to
the military conscription plan en-
bodied in the Burke Wadsworth bill.
Evening star., 1940-07-30

Chile's population is now esti-
mated at nearly 4,700,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
RAISING CHILDREN
so THEY MAY DIE

Soviet Russia this week launched a
program to train every child as warrior,
so he may die for Communism as soon as
he is old enough to fire real gun in
stead of toy one.
1t is a deadly travesty on the Christ
mas season-the Reds have no God, and
therefore no Christmas = that Russia
should choose this holy season to launch
a program so openly aimed at making
cannon fodder of all youngsters, boys
and girls alike. 1t is worse that the Reds
should use toys-toy guns, tanks, air
planes, bombs and forts-to instill in
childish minds the basic concepts Of
warfare.
But there is one error in the Russian
program-one error against wise military
training, even if you are willing to accept
the ultimate goal as not erroneous in it
self.
The error is that the dctators of Red
Russia have ordered every child taught
contempt and hatred" of his potential
enemies. Morally, the teaching of hatred
is wrong. But, militarily, the teaching
of contempt is the gravest error of all.
No army with contempt for a strong
enemy can ever overcome that enemy.
Contempt breeds carelessness, and care
lessness breeds defeat Contempt opens
the way for underestimation of the enc
my, and that, in turn, skaters morale
when it is finally realized that the enemy
is not as contemplate as was at first
thought.
So it may be the Russians, in their
training Of children to warfare, are paw
ing the way for their own ultimate de-
feat.
But, be that as it may, there can be
no doubt that the Communists are rails
ing race to unhappiness, terror and
ultimate death.
The latest Russian vaguery should open
the eyes of those misguided persons in
this country who still cling to the belief
that Russia embodies the ideal life.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
A SEAPLANE BASE
FOR SALON SEA

From the standpoint of southern Cali
fornia coastal defense it seems to US a
seaplane base at Salton Sea would be a
lot more practical than one OF similar
area at say, San Diego Always proVld-
ing. of course, that there are not technl-
cal difficulties which make such a oase
impossible on d big scale. A layman can
not be expected TO judge the existence OF
such possible obstacles.
But, taking it for granted that the nav
igable (for seaplanes) area of Salton Sea
is big enough, the depth satisfactory, the
weather conditions right, then 1t appears
plain that a base on the sea would be
more easily defended, less vulnerable,
and lust as practical as one on the coast
for any United States defense agency.
1t may be that the i. S. coast guard.
which this week leased a large area OF
the sea from the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict. intends to conduct a survey which,
over a long period of time, will tell just
how practical Salton Sea will be for such
a base. 1t must be realized that no def
mite decision can be reached in a matter
of weeks, where such vital issue is at
stake
If the intention of the coast guard is
to determine the use to which Salton
Sea can be put, we can only urge that de-
fense utility should be the first and
only consideration-the navy and army,
with their supposedly tough personnel,
should not shy away from exaggerated
reports of summer climate.
Considered on its merits from a de-
Tense standpoint, we believe Salton Sea
would soon take its place as one of the
most vitaly important bodies of water in
California
II ShOuld he ca considered
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
by Willis Thornton
Out in the Darkness and Silence

been removed from the worlds con-
sclousness like figures erased from
a blackboard. They exist, they go
on somehow, one believes. But how
and even where, we know not. The
veil has blotted them out.
What happens in that vast third
of the occupied world known as
Russia? We do not know. There
travellers cannot go with freedom,
reporters cannot send out the pitt
full scraps of informatiin they may
CLEAN. Here another veil has been
drawn around multiple millions.
How do they fare in Holland, in
Belgium, in Denmark and Norway
and Sweden? We do not know
only mere slivers of light penetrate
this curtain. Normal travel, nor
NAL intercourse between peoples
of the world is completely shatter-
ed.
The United States is probably the
best informed country in the world
about the peoples of the rest of
the world. Yet even to us whole
sections of that world, whole seeth-
ing populations are as unknown as
were the lands of Tartary to Euro
peans before Marco Polo.
What then must be the ignorance
of these yelled regions of the rest
of the world?
They talked, when war broke out
in 1889, of New Dark Age" to
come. Is it not, perhaps, already
here?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
PLAYING WITH fire
Grass Valley Union)

Realization seems tardy in some quar-
ters that in the present emergency-both
military and economic - no individual
nor group of individuals can safely ig-
more the precept that the nation is SUI
preme. Industrialists may think the op-
portunity for high profits too good to
lose, and labor may opine that the time
to strike is when some opposing force
has its fingers in the crack of the door,
In more scattered fashion, individuals
may be on the watch for easy money at
the expense of the government.
Fine exemplifications of thrift and op-
portunity, some might opine; but such
selfish acts win no wars, evade no econo-
mic morasses. Gutted France is an ex-
ample of the people who thought to de
YOUR their country and still have it. The
strident star of England all but went
down before such unholy philosophy. Is
the great heart of the United States will
ing to chance it?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12

We moderns take pride in the
fact that the world is known to
us today. We like to think that to
the past belong the vast dark seas
believed haunted by monsters, great
tracts which photographers could
only label terra incognita", the un-
known land. In our pride, We have
believed we had changed all that
that the world was one, that lands
and people were known one to an
other.
Pride, always dangerous, comes
here to yet another fall. For the
brutal fact is that today we know
almost nothing of what goes on
in the major part of the world.
Three million men, says Tracy
Strong, general secretary of the
World Alliance of Y. NJ C. AS,
are prisoners of war today. Had
you known that? Do you picture
three million men behind barbed
wire? Where are all these men?
How fares it with them? We do
not know.
Most of them, of course, are
somewhere within Germany; some
are in Canada, England, Greece.
But all are behind a veil of mys-
terry, withdrawn from the land of
the known. Three million men
suddenly snatched away, not into
death, but into darkness!
What goes on in CZechoslovakia
and Poland? No one knows, at least
no one in the general world. Here
teemlng millions of people have
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1910
SHOULD USE
WAR CREDITS
Sacramento Bee)

The United States News, which is pub
hshed weekly in Washington, recently
contained an article discussing whether
any modification should be made in the
johnson Act which forbids loans to any
foreign power in default on World War
obligations to the United States.
Actually, as the world situation now
stands, there is only one such power
namely Great Britain.
Al the other governments at which the
act originally was directed either are
actively or through conquest included in
the orbit of the Italo-German axis, so
the question has become one solely of fin
ancial aid to England
According to the News, British orders
IN the United States since the beginning
of the present conflict amount to 50 ,30O,-
00O 900 already delivered or contracted
for. Under the law as it stands, these
must be paid for in cash on or before de-
livery
To meet this bill, the British govern
ment had about S350,000 900 in cash on
deposit in American banks; ST 160 OOO,-
900 invested in American real estate and
other property, some not easily disposed
of; $1,000,000,000 in stocks, bonds and
other American securities owned by Brit
ish subjects, all listed with the British
government; and large amounts of gold
still acceptable to the American treasury.
These resources, which can be turned
into cash, will cover purchases up to
date and for some time longer, but what
if the war should continue two or three
years?
On this point, the News article says:
Britain has other investments in which
the United States would be interested.
She owns investments in Canada estimat-
ed at S2,75O,OOO, 900 and she owns invest
ments in Latin America estimated at So
000,000,000.
There have been suggestions that the
Johnson Act be changed to permit the
British to use these securities as collat-
eral for loans. Then if the loans were
defaulted after the war, the securities
could be sold to meet the debt. These sug-
gestlons appear not to have struck fire
within the administration. The reason
is that both the White House and the
treasury are known to be convinced that
Great Britain should sacrifice her in
vestments in this hemisphere before ask
ing this nation to finance her war efforts.
Is such an attitude unreasonable or
harsh?
1t will not so strike many Americans.
And it would be presumptuous for Br-
tain to ask the United States to assume
the costs of her war until she can show
that her own financial resources have
been utilized to their utmost
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
by Bruce Cation >.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

defend itself against the aggressive
tactics of those who would destroy
it.
IF unions grow with the ef-
ficiency and ability of their lead
ers to gain advantages for labor,
good union leadership may be ex-
pected But if union is permitted
to expand through the mere pru-
tai use of power against neutral
employers, there will be a prem
ium on ruthless and coercive lead
ership. Consequently, it is essen
tial to the growth of an intelligent
labor movement that competing un-
ions should not succeed or fail
solely with reference to their abil-
ity to bring pressure against each
other"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL

No. 3156
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plicatiOn for Letters Testament
airy.
In the Matter of the Estate of
w. H. BROOKS, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton for probate of the will of w. H.
BROOKS, deceased, and for the is
suance to GRACHIE A. BROOKS
of letters testamentary, has been fill
ed in this court, and that Friday
the Goth day of December, 1910 at
2 O'Clock pm, of said day, at the
courtroom of said court, in the City
of Ell Centro, County of Imperial,
State of California, has been set
for the hearing of said petition,
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and contest the
same, and show cause, if any they
have, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated December 9th, 1910.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE.
Deputy Clerk.
D. B. ROBERTS,
Attorney for Petitioner.
dec. 9-19 incl)