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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

miserable habit since it flooded the
college gardens and caused sewage
to be backed up for days. Five
miles of malarial control drainage
has remedied both d%eplorable con.
ditionS.
Indians Work
Robson county has a large In
dian population. In some districts
schools are entirely for the first
Americans. Like their white neigh
bors, many 'red-skins," too, were
forced to seek WPA jobs. Ninety-one
Indians in the county are so en-
ployed. Many helped build the mag
rificent brick Magnolia Indian schoo.
at which children of their race at
tend exclusively. Modern in every
netail, the structure contains II class
rooms, an auditorium wing in the
rear, offices. store rooms and a heat
ing plant.
McMillan's Beach is Lumberton'S
bathing and picnic spot. Beautiful
is it, too, since WPA built dykes and
retaining walls to prevent the sand
bar from washing away, the skat'
ing rink, and dance pavilion, addi-
tons to the bath house and raised
all buildings to protect them from
spring floods.
Rowland and Pembroke have new
sewer lines. New sidewalks were
built for the latter municipality and
a community building for Ions
Branch.
The improvements have not been
solely in municipalities. Immense eX'
penditures on countrywide projects
are disclosed in the McGinnis re
port.
There is not a school building in
the entire county which has not
been painted, repaired or renovated.
The county home has been repaired
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Harding Will Speak
Before Ice Dealers

ROCKY MOUNT, Feb. 2S-R-
The two-day 31st annual convention
of the North Carolina Ice assocla-
ton opened here today.
Edmund H. Harding, secretary
of the Washington, N. c., chamber
of commerce., will be the principal
speaker at the annual banquet to-
night.
Other speakers at the meeting
will include R. Gregg Cherry Of
Gastonia, chairman Of the state
democratic executive committee,
Harry C. Conklin Of Charleston, S.
c., M. J.. Uline Of Washington, D.
c., Fred I. McCandlish of Drexel
Hill, Fa., Mount Taylor Of Chicago,
secretary Of the National Associa'
ton of Ice Industries and Guy w.
Jacobs, business manager of the
National Ice advertising.
New officers will be elected tomor'
row.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
dies MAY PROBE
WAR PROPAGANDA
Committee To Proceed
With Investigation OF
Isns In Hollywood

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s-OP-
Chairman Dies (D-Tex.), annouhc.
Ing an inquiry into reports "
Communism and Naziism in the mo
+ion nicture industry, said tooay
that the house committee on uL'
American activities may investisale
foreign propaganda designed TO III
volve the United States IN EufopeaA
wars.
Disclosing the results Of a two
. day private discussion OF the future
course of public and private hear
ings, Dies said:
1.-THE committee took under con
alteration TIL question of foreign
propaganda designed to involve us
In the present European war, and
1t will announce at a later tate
its decision with respect to the
scope of any inquiry along TINS
line"
Dies announced that the commit
tee had voted to:
/ Begin public hearings soon on
Nazi and Communist activities on
the west coast, including the mo-
ton picture industry.
2. Begin public hearings soon on
reports of Communist activities IN
consumer organizations and bring
officers Of those groups before the
committee for questioning.
8. Investigate statements that
Communist and Nazi agents from
Mexico are carrying on subversive
activities in the United States.
4. Continue it's inquiry into the
Christian front and Christian mo
bilizers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

and twenty-five thousand gallon wa
ter tank, one and one-half miles OF
new sewers and an equal amount of
storm drains"
Drum las a new gymnasium. The
gymnasium-community building at
GAINESVILLE is 70 feet by lis feet.
Maxton, like her sister towns, was
not outdone in utilizing WPA work
ers to build needed public improve
ments. The new brick school gym
nasium and tennis courts were dedi-
Gated last month. Besides open
ditch drainage, Maxton has also
obtained one and one-half miles of
storm drains and additional water
mains.
The smallest town in the United
States to have a National Guard
unit, Parkton, now has an armory
nearly completed by WPA. Company
L. 10th Infantry, Captain Ernest
ID. McGougan, of Lumber Bridge
commanding. will be housed there.
Distinguished Company L is also
by way of being one of the Oldest
outfits in the North Carolina Ma
ional Guard. Lieutenants j o h n
McKinnon and John Armstrong,
both of Parkton, are the Company's
other commissioned officers.
There has been open ditch drain
age, also at Partition. The latest
WPA project in the offing is for a
so thousand gallon water tank, wa
ter and sewage lines.
WPA work in Fairmont? Where
is 1t? You can't see 1t. Like most
Works Projects Administration &C.
complishments, there is more than
meets the eye.
WPA workers more than scratch
ed the surface" when they installed
five miles Of sewer lines, two miles
of water mains, and an one-half mile
storm drain line. Five miles Of con
crete sidewalks keep Fairmont resi-
dents out of the mud. New improve
ments now in the making are a
sewage disposal plant, additiona.
water and sewer mains, curbs, gut
tiers and paving a 40-foot street fol
one-half mile.
At Red Springs, two major items
are noted besides painting, repair
ing public buildings and construct
ing a water aeration plant.
The 10 class room, with Offices
library, auditorium, heating plant
new brick school has relieved a dis
tressing condition. According to
principal ]. T. Peterson before the
school was added to the specia,
school districts facilities, pupils hat
to attend school in three shifts
Many students dropped out by reas
on of the overcrowded rooms. About
ATS negro children attended the
school, which was promulgated by
DR.. C. T. johnson of Red Springs
The famed Flora Mcdonald col
lege buildings and incompatible
gardens are located adjacent to Lit
tie Raft Creek. Into the creek above
the college empties a sewage line. A
nearby swamp area provided excel
lent. mosquito breeding spots. Lit
tie Raft Creek, through the years
had had a habit of overfoWing-a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

Sewage systems were installed in
many schools.
T~wenty-one hundred sanitary priv
les add to rural c~onveniences and
protect drinking water sources from
contamination.
Sponsored by the State Highway
commission, WPA's largest endeav.
or has been in road construction.
Fifty miles of the farm-to-market
type of road have been widened,
drained or graded.
Robeson's primary road system is
being greatly improved. For eleven
miles between Lumberton and Fair
mont, the road is being widened from
16 to % feet, r~esurfaced with as
phalt, -four concrete bridges are be-
ing installed.
On U. S. Route "a between Lum-
berton and MaXton, two and one
half miles have been widened from
is to 80 feet. This stretch, now of
the boulevard type, carries as heavy
traffic as exists in Eastern North
Carolina.
Over a mile of 10 degree curves
were reduced to 8 degree curves.
Such hazard eliminations and road
widening continues.
The WPA report points out that
the work has not been merely for
men. Women and including white
collar workers, economic family
heads, have also been provided with
jobs in accordance with their skills.
Sewing Rooms
The sewing rooms have been the
largest endeavor in the field of in
t%angibles. With eXactness, more
than $4,000 garments have been
produced in Robson county sew
ing rooms. These were distributed
to low-income families, helping
stretch small incomes, keeping
school children properly clothed,
contributing to the morale and COM
fort of hundreds of local citizens.
Over 251,24O hot school lunches
have been prepared and served in
various schools. Those children
whose parents car not pay for their
MONDAY meals get them free. For
them it is usually the only balanced
meal %partaken during the d a Y.
Foodstuffs are donated, supplied by
surplus commodities (also distribut.
ed by WPA workers) or produced
by the WPA gardening and canning
project.
Clerical workers brought city and
county records to easy aocessihilitv
Matron service operates in school
girls rest rooms.
Ho~usekeeper's aides go into un.
derprivileged homes where til e
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Body OF Singer Found
Hanging In Apartment

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-eF'-The
body of Nina Palini. a Ss,year-oio
concert singer who had been unaoie
to obtain engagements, was 1ouno
in her apartment today, hanging
hv a moose made with four bright
| silk scarves.
She had come to this country on
" three weeks ago from Riga, Lat
via with her husband. Osip Tai, anc
their son, lila, 8. When she dlee
~. husband was out hunting work
the boy was at school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Final Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Claude Coiin,,

~LUMBERToN, Feb. 2s.-Fun.,,
services for Mrs. Claude Gaines, >,
Of Raynham, who died yestera,,
day morning in a local hosn,,I
were held at 3 o'clock this at.,
moor from the Raynham Ban,i,,
church. Burial followed in N,
church cemetery.
She is survived by her hush,,,
and three children.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Larger Cotton Exports
Boosting Trade Margin

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s-R-
Increased cotton shipments were an
important factor in boosting the
margin Of American merchandise
exports over imports during Janu'
airy to $126,589 900.
The commerce department said
last night that January exports to
tailed $685. $780, co. and imports s241,
961, 900. The margin was n of the
largest in recent years. In January
1899, it was only 1914, SOS 900.
January cotton shipments totalee
1850 bales, compared witt
1927, 900 a year ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Chorlotte's Housing
Strike Is Set1.,

CHARLOTTE. Feb. 2s.-p-,
Wofford of Washington. D, 9 4Sa
lonal labor advisor of the 'ss'
Housing Authority, anpoun, ~ 4
day settlement Of a STRIKE 10
Falrvlew Homes negro SLIM In
ance project here. SufcIeah
Fifteen workers who ,os.
Jobs Monday will return mel
tomorrow, he said. worn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Middle Weed Prices
Substantially Low,,

RALEIGH, Feb. 2S-R-p,,.
were Substantially" lower or ''.s
middle fue-cured tobacco be1, A
season, compared with last, N'
The U. S. agriculture, maui.
service, the state agricultnr.
partment and the Virginia div4.
of markets said sales on the s.a
this season totaled 16O "a, M'
pounds at an average of s1sn
hundred. 0s
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
SPEAKER

SPEAKER
ASHEBORO-Dr. Paul CARRIER of
Duke university was the principal
speaker at the annual meeting of
the Asheboro chamber of commerce
last night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
DUCKS BANDED

NEW HOLLAND-Maynard John.
son, manager of the Lake Malta
muskett wildfowl refuge, said today
that from 40 to SO per cent of the
ducks banded return here each year.
The pin-tail is the most regular In
it's annual return, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Carolina
News Shorts
tho Associated Press)

LOUISBURG-A fire early yester'
day in the business district caused
damage estimated unoffic1ally 1t
SAC
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
CANDIDATE

CANDIDATE
CONCORD-A. B. Palmer, an at
~+ornev. announced he would be a
candidate for the democratic noml-
nation for reelection as Cabarrus
county senator.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
MID.SOUTH

MID-SOUTH
SOUTHERN PINES - The 18th
annual women's mid-south golf
championship medal play will bo
held March 1920.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

COP MEETING
CHARLOTTE-The Mecklenburg
county republican convention will
be held March 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
HUNTER TRIALS

SOUTHERN PINES - The third
annual hunter trials and hunt pa
rade will be held March Is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

OPEN TOURNEY
P1NEHURST-The 3Sth annual
North and South open golf champ
ionship will be held March 1920.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
NOVEMBER 4, 19c0

NOVEMBER 1, 19H0 equipment and Alaskan Commission had the beginning of Railroad the North the steamship Walng- Corporation arrived Seward from with tonso bodies trucks Federal Inspector
  
 Attorney J. returned the Spokane from San  H D. Cooley Tane visiting Petersburg the Spokane.
 Henry business trip Spokane. vacation the south
  Smith the vacation.
 Superintendent leave o a Weather Highest lowest, 37;
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
AS ALASKA GOES

IL will De interesting to note tomorrow night how the Aasks poll" fared this year in forecasting the outcome of the election There are "A seats in the Territorial Legislature In September of 1886 Alaska elected Legislature which contained 23 Democrats and enc Republican, Andrew Nerland of Fairbanks. Two months later, the nation voted in exactly the same ratio for Presidential electors, the Democrats sweeping 46 States and the Republicans carrying only two
 If 3 to in Alaska in 1886 meant 46 to two in the nation in November, this years Alaska Legis lature vote might indicate something about the out come of tomorrows election.
 Two months ago Alaska elected two Republicans to the 1941 Legislature. However there is one hold over Republican, Senator Leroy Sullivan of Nome in the Senate so the count in the 1941 Legislature will be 21 Democrats and three Republicans. If there is an omen in this admittedly very light straw in the wind, Roosevelt tomorrow will carry 42 States and Willkie six.
 The vote for Democratic Delegate Anthony J Dimond in September was the largest In 1882 he won 4,724 votes while Wickersham was getting 1912 in 1884 he was given 3376 unopposed; in 1886 he polled 9665 while Republican Lester Gore was picking up 3,252 and Independent George Grigsby 363 in 1888 the Dimond total S,405 while Grigsby got 2160 and Republican Al White l727 The cam wasting board has not yet given the 1940 totals but we know on the basis of unofficial returns that the First Division A out of 60 precincts in the Third and 66 out of p in the Fourth, Dimond re- ceived 9796 votes while Republican Cash Cole at tracted 1928 When returns come to notice from the missing precincts of the Second, Third and Fourth precincts the total should be something like 12500 Democratic to 2.40O Republican. This was really a Democratic year in Alaska.
 If the election tomorrow shows 42 States for Roosevelt and six for Wlkie, chalk up another one for the Alaska poll"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
PITY THE POOR BACHELOR

pincers movement as powerful as any ever devised by the German High Command seems to be closing about the bachelors of America. To the perils of leap year have been superadded the perik of conscription, much like Scyla hand and Charybdis on the other. But that is not all.
 Just the other day group of California women launched movement to impose special tax upon bachelors beyond the age of 45, the of said tax to be used for the benefit of aged spinsters If this movement gets anywhere the peris of bache lordom will not end with the passing of the limit of military service age. It has been said that the power to tax is the power to destroy So unwed who manage to survive physical destruction to which they technically exposed until they are too old to be good soldiers, may have to face an equally bleak possibility economic destruction dur ing their old age
 But all the pressure of recent events is not altar ward The other prong Of the pincers movement is supplied in statements such that of recent speaker before the Indiana Home Economies Asso- ciation who declared that far from it's being fact that two live as cheapy one, man will find expenses four times great after marriage.
 From all accounts this is pretty good time to have been born girl 7-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
WILLKIE AND COPPER

On the platform of The New York Herald Tribune Forum, when Wen dell Willkie made his attack on Roosevelt for knocking the pins from under 17-cents-a-p pound copper, was Defense Commissioner Leon Tender son, price expert who was chiefly responsible for the price cut. The vital defense metal is now selling around l2 cents.
 When Willkie concluded, Tender son turned and saw seated directly behind him the head of one of the leading brass companies, who the day before had sent Henderson a long telegram complaining about the price of copper. He had asked for a conference on the question of lift ing the Accent tariff so he could buy 8-cent foreign copper
 Standing out on the business ex- ecutive's lapel was a big Willkie button. Flying it, Henderson ob- served with a mischevious grin:
 Well, fancy meeting you here! l really would have enjoyed this speech if I'd known you were ir back of me. What did you think oi your candidates views on the price of copper?"
 .I1l tell you when I see you 1T Washington" was the sour reply.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04

Commission experts are making a survey of all food stocks in the country, while discussing plans with Agriculture Department officials for the purchase of farm surpluseS :. Representative Usher Burdick and William Lemke of North Dakota fought ulder-to-shoulder in pre- vious elections, but in this one they are foes. Lemke, running as an in dependent for the Senate, has two candidates in the field against Bur- dick Dies Committeeman Joe Starnes of Alabama has come to the defense of Rep. John Golf e e of Washington, who is being accused by his Republican opponent of op- posing the Dies investig tio n. Starnes sent Coffee a letter com mending his support of the commit tee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
Where Freedom Creeps In
(New York Times)


 Americans have often wondered what the Ger mans Italians and other totalitarian peoples think when they read items in what pass for newspapers about the election campaign in the United States With all the malignant skill of Dr. Goebbels, a news dispatch or an editorial about the merits or demerts of the contestants in the American Presi- dential election conceal the fact that there is a conest Now sometime other it must occur to the totalitarian reader that the people "out there beyond the walls of the coordinated paradise have the right to vote and choose their own leaders from President to the oWliest sheriff.
 It must be a dangerous thought that is quickly put out of mind, for the fear engendered by what variety of Gestapo Ogpu cuts deep into the being of man, and child. After time free dom ceases even to creep into ones consciousness; the idea is suppressed by inner censor The phySi cal blackout of town and country at night is ex- tended to the mentality and destiny is again handed to the poets artists, scholars and others able to entertain dangerous thoughts without fear of con- sequences.
 Yet the lightning penetration of ideas into the minds of totaltaran peoples must occur, and it must be uncomfortable. One imagine Ger man on a subway struck by thought and glancing nervously about to whether diabolical neighbor has discovered him in the process. It cannot be a very pleasant way to live.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
POLITICAL CHAFF

William L. Hutcheson, veteran President of the AFL carpenters union, in personal pique walked out as acting head of the COP Labor Campaign Committee, but still is carrying the torch for Willkie. In a letter to all carpenter locals. Hut cheson urges the defeat of Roosevelt on the ground that the Justice De- partment invoked the antitrust law against unions. Hutcheson himself is under indictment on restraint of trade charge. /. :. The Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee is all steamed up over two feminine candidates for Con- greSs = Mrs. Nan Honeyman of Portland, Ore, who served term from 1936-38, and Mrs. Zoe Nabers, Ft. Madison, Ia. a newcomer = and is working nightly for them. Harry Haines. former York, Pa., Congressman who is making another try this year, is drawing unusual campaign support. Acting Speaker of the House Ewing Thomson, Tex, is travelling all the way to Penn sylvania to stump for Haines, an old personal friend.
 Copyright. 1940, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
Somewhat Upset"
Cleveland Plain Dealer)


 Adolf Hitler goes into a tantrum because the Royal Air Force has occasionally disturbed his sleep at nights. He throws the German press into a spasm of inky rage because military objects have been hit in Germany. He deliberately over looks what his Nazi flyers have done in visiting terror and murder on the civilian population of London.
 In sharp contrast is the reaction of that inn perturbable individual, the Engshman. The stoc attitude of the whole nation is summarized by the Montagu Norman
 Addressing meeting of the directors held in the vaults far beow street level where they declared six percent dividend the governor apologized for the surroundings and remarked the bank had been somewhat upset"
 If courage and calmness in the face of great provocation count for anything the victory will go to those people who only somewhat upset rather than to those who find language inadequate to give full expression to their hysteria
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04
ON THE BATTLEFRONT

REPS: COP generallssimos credit much of the Willkie groundswell of he last several weeks to campaign which has been little publicized. They cal it "extra -organizational";; luiet activity carried on by thous- ands of volunteers, many of them women.
 It consists of house. house can assing. telephone calls. chain letters and local radio broadcasts. For ex- ample: In Ohio four entirely sep rate radio campaigns, each financed locally, are under way for Willkie. rn California 100 stations have been running nine Willkie announcements daily and this week the number of stations has been doubled.
 In Atlantic City, at meeting of manufacturers, Franz Stone of Ohio persuaded them to telephone their offices to purchase time on local stations for broadcasting Willkie transcriptions. The group bought more than s2500O0 in radio time.
 In South Bend, Ind, women who never before have engaged in polit- ical activity are daily making door to-door canvasses. In Missouri. COP women are devoting several hours a day to telephoning voters.
 NOTE: COP leaders report that in the past two weeks they have re- ceived more contributions than the total of all campaign funds up to then
 1 DENIS: Attorney General Ellis Ar nall of Georgia is throwing hot-shot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-04

at Willkie in the Southern cam paign, with the charge that several years ago the COP nominee publicly derided the U. s. Government. Ac- cording to Arnall, Willkie aired these views at a hearing on October 16 1887, before the Georgia Public Serv- ice Commission, on an application by the Tennessee Electric Power Co., to float a stock issue.
 Arnall, then Assistant Attorney General, was interrogating Willkie when Willkie thundered he would not permit any of his men to work for the Government, because q don't think that little of them. ] think too damn much of them Now, however, Arnall is telling his audiences, Willkie not only wants to work for the Government but to be ''head man."