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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

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Most LuXuriant Bather: Joan
Crawford, swathed by foam in her
ornate, translucent crystal tub, in
1.-THE Women" If you recall the pill
lowed rests, the bathside telephones
and the sliding tray of perfumes and
manicure accessories, you can under
stand why Cecil DeMille, publicized
maestro of intimate additions, went
all night.
Most Voluptuous Bather: Brunei
Hedwige Feuillere in "Lucrezia Bor-
gia," directed by M. Emil Canoe,
"the DeMille of France" This was
no ordinary tub, but a fancy out
door plunge surrounded by Q) the
camera, (2) m~eticulously barbered
cypress trees, (3 Lucrezia's maids
in-waiting, who tossed in ros pet
ais while ma'm'selle abandoned her
self to the ripping embrace of the
waters. Then there was the long
shot of Mile. Feuillere stepping out
to be dried and clothed.
Most Businesslike Bather: Mario,
RE Weaver in The Honeymoon Is
Over" A demonstration for bath salts,
she broke down the sales resistance
of a department store sales mana
ger (male) by doing a discreet peel
and entering a tub.
Dirtiest Bather: Golden.haired Lu.
ellie Ball in Beauty for the Ask
ing" She took a mud bath, which
actually was more revealing than
those of most actresses immersed
in foam.
Most Thoroughly Scrubbed Bather:
Blond and elegant Madeleine Car
roll in Paramount's "Safari," where,
in she takes three baths: (A) aboard
Tullio Carminati's yacht (hot show
cry; (B) in the jungle, from a nail
perforated bucket Disappointing;
&C. in a tin tub on the floor of a
hotel room in East Africa (fair.)
Merriest Soap-Bubble Queen: DIM
pied Ellen Drew in French With.
out Tears" HUNS and smiles as
she employs the towel technique Ia
Sally Rand adaptation) to BATTLE the
peeping camera.
Best Observation-Disclosures: Jean
nette Macdonald in a century-olG
tin tub in New Orleans, for New
Moon" About what you'd expect.
Most Contented Bather: Isa Mi
randa in Adventure in Diamonds
Just paroled from prison, she revels
in the long-anticipated delights OF
a marble tub.
Moth Startlingly Revealed Bather:
Irene Dunno, behind a glass-enclos-
ed shower, for My Favorite Wife
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
THE HIGHWAY RECORD

vX1HILE highway accidents in 1899 were not
" above the record of 1888, Mr.. RONALD
HocU1r, North Carolina's director of highway
safety, complains, and with justice, that tne
safety situation has done nothing better tnan
"stand STILL" He shows, in tabulatlons IT,
leased at Raleigh, that 943 lives were lost
.nd +ba+ 100 nersons were injured last
year in highway accidents, an increase VI
civ fatalities and a decrease of 443 in the
number injured.
The fall in the total since the previous
wear. he declares, is fully offset by the III
crease in traffic. Comparison probably "oulo
show that the proportion OF accidents TO the
,umh her of vehicles on the highways is ap
.oxmo+o1v the same for the two years, &C.
counting for his complaint that we are prac'
tically standing still.
Rut this is not his only reason to take nj
comfort in the situation. THE tragedy OF
these figures" he says, "lies in the fact that
virtually all of the fatalities and injuries
cou1d have been prevented had the drivers in
oil eases been alert, careful and courteous.
Without hesitancy, he puts the blame Oh
drivers, and supports his Indictment by re-
vea1ing that 2.4S5 of the 1861 vehicles In
yolved in accidents were in good conoltlon'
that 1881 of the s,170 accidents were on
STRAIGHT sections of improved highways, that
6.26o were on clear days and 6,47o on dry
surfaces. This record clears the vehicles anu
the HIGHWAYS. 1t does not clear the greater
majority of drivers, among whom only 140
out of a total of 1878 involved in accidents
were not in a normal condition. An illumi-
mating sidelight on the "abnormals is shown
by the fact that 693 of them were under tne
influence of intoxicating liquors, that only
five had physical defects, and 45 were asleep
at the wheel. Another sidelight is that l,s24
of the drivers in accidents were found to
offenses of both omission and commission
There is no quarreling, in the light OF Mr..
HocUTT's report, with the claim that If our
highways are to become truly safe we will
have to place greater restraint on drivers,
not only by more rigid examination OF appll'
cants for drivers licenses and the seizure
of licenses of drivers blamable for accidents,
but by training a~spirants for licenses in the
MANY requirements for safe driving over and
above a knowledge of feeding gas to the
motor and applying the brakes for a stop
They must understand, and be ready to apply,
the ordinary rules of caution and courtesy
they practice in the home and on the street
as pedestrians. They must recognize the equal
rights Of others to use of the highways and
at all times exercise the eternal %vigilence a
nation needs to escape war.
1t is a herculean task, this making the
highways safe, but no conscientious person
can we'll escape its challenge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAM

The Chamber of Commerce, through its
BOARD of directors, has set six detectives for
1910. They are all of primary Importance to
Wilmington and southeastern North Carolina.
Their accomplishment would mark tremen,
dous advances in welfare, prosperity and Sc
curly for the entire district of which Viii.
mington is the focal point.
Listed for earnest promotion are the port,
industry, resorts, agriculture, traffic and high.
ways and good will.
For the port it will support legislation be-
fore congress to widen the channel from viii
mington to Southport, deepen the channel
widen the northern turning basin and cut a
channel from the inland waterway to the
Cape Fear river.
For industry it pledges definite efforts te
bring plants which can operate successful,
in the district at fair wage scales.
For the four resorts it commits itself tt
promote improvement in transportation, t.
enlarge its campaign for conventions and tx
devote its best endeavors for greater flow O
both winter and summer visitors,
1t will offer sympathetic cooperation will
the farmers in promoting agricultural de
velopment, with emphasis on truck crops.
1t proposes to give attention to the furthe
development of highways, with an eye on i'm
proving roads to Fort Caswell and TO tn,
Moores Creek battle-ground, the Negro Hea,
road, and Highway II, the ocean trafficway
from Wilmington to the South Carolina line
1t proposes to encourage closer relations
in the interest Of community friendship, witt
neighboring counties to the end that all ne,
sons in the area may realize Wilmington
deep sense Of responsibility for all under
takings for mutual betterment.
The program commends itself to every 70,
wardlooking citizen. 1t is a challenge to tn
chambers leadership. 1t also involves a yea
Of careful planning and strenuous effort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Sir Young Men Enlist
Here For Army Ser'lF

Six young men from SoutHe4 =,
North Carolina enlisted ye'
for service with infantry ui'' 9
Camp Jackson, S. c., Serge'" l..
w. D. Bennett, local ~recFultIH7
Ger, reported. ,
The included: William b. IA.
ley, 10, son of Ira STANLEY o, q,
nolia; John H. Simmons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert u. 9I'" (
of route two, Clarkton; James I
Dausherty, 20, son OF NJ "#,.
Daugherty, of route one M'7D i
James C. Bloodworth' - wv
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. BloouNo p.
route one, Atkinson; Can N:
trell, 81. whose, guardian 70 mn
BERTHE May Stevens. OF roa.. g1e.
Richards; and Willie u ~.hert
ty, IS, son of NJ. E. I. D@0s"
of route one. Magnolia
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Will Of Anne Moore
Is Filed For Probate

Tie will of Anne Moore, who died
here on September 25, 1889, has
been filed for probate. records at
the office of T. A. Henderson, clerk
of court, disclosed yesterday.
Personal property of the estate
is valued at $500 and real prop
erty at $500.
Beneficiaries include: Three
brothers. Roger Moore, Parker
Ounce Moore, Louis 7, Moore; two
sisters, Mary Ella Mills and George
A. Dunning; and four nieces, Alice
Borden Moore, Florence Moore,
Margaret Moore, and Kidder Moore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
IN MEMOREAM

Whereas, our friend, Jennie Bunt-
ing Wilder was called to Eternal
Rest on Sunday, December 81, 1889,
be it
Resolved that in the death of Mrs.
Wilder, the Associated Charities has
lost a most valuable friend. Her
every ready willingness to help the
less fortunate was her outstanding
characteristic. This was truly exem-
plified by the fact that each month
since this association was organized,
40 years ago, she has contributed
to its support.
Her beautiful life of unse1fishness
shall live on as an inspiration; her
memoir shall remain with us as a
Benediction.
Mrs. Isabel Clark James,
Chairman Resolutions
Committee,
The Associated Charities.
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onto their hats
this leering CORE
%spondent will nom
mate t h e Ter
B e S t B a t htub
Scenes of 1889:
M O S t Startled
Bather: Miss Ann
Sheridan in I'm
d~ianapolis Speed.
way" when John
Payne interrupts
her shower IN neI
girl friends tiny
maybe
you didn't mark
this as an espe-
oia11,, +orr;d tom.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Book Highlights

William La Varre rolls Is years OF
adventuring and prospecting for
treasure into "Southward Ho!
doubleday, Doran: $50, and the
result is one of the most tho
roughly readable books to srace
the travel shelves for a long
time. La Varre roamed from Yu-
catan to Patagonia where he
found gold, f%ugitives, Amazon
women, lost cities and a sort of
One-Eye Connolly of the Andes.
You will follow him avidly to the
last mile. Excepted briefly here
are his reflections on Chichen
liza, the Holy City of a pre.his-
toric American civilization in Yu-
catan.
Here lived American wise men
who knew that the world was
round-and not flat as Europe's
philosophers thought. Here, in a
great limestone turret centuries be-
fore the coming of the S~paHiards
in 1902, American astronomers and
mathematician worked and studied,
with u dials and stone theodo.
lltes. Watching and recording the
semi-annual solstices of the sun,
predicting the rising and s~ettirs of
Venus, they knew more of the
movements of the earth and pla.
nets than the Egyptians and the
Babylonlans. They had devised all
the essentials of modern arithme.
tic centuries before modern man be-
gan using them. They had perfect
ed a system of recording time. a
3,000-year-old calendar. that was
more accurate than the calendars
Of Europe, Africa or Asia.
Here lived Americans. the earlv
Mayans and Toltecs, who n,aved
basketball 500 years before the
landing of the Mayflower, w h q
knew how to %vulcanize rubber. in.
lay gold with turquoise. rotate
crops, prepare for famine q n Il
drouth. Here, While other na,n,o
across the sea were still Twin. IN
medieval superstition, bowling Gown
in ab1ect fear during eclipses of the
sun and moon, lived men who had
accumulated a vast treasure of
science and knowledge.
AS L sat on the Emperor's Throne
IN the temple of the Jaguars, or
leaned over the r of thair
sloheuoihed astronomical observa-
tory l took deep breaths of exhi.
iaratlon' puffed out my chest wifi
Justl1lable pride. Who said Americ,
mad no history, no great back.
ground of ancient culture .rts ~
science?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
1,779 Families Served
ByAssociated Charities
MA seve. hi

possible greater opportunities for
human service. Nc city can build
up a happy, progressive life, un'
less the welfare of its city is as
sured. May we share with Others
through the Associated Charities
until the welfare of every man,
woman and child may be better
serviced."
Mrs. Ellis said the 1889 achieve.
ments Of the Associated Charities
were made possible through the Co
operation of the board of directors,
county and city commissioners, the
press, county welfare department
churches, schools, clubs, various or
CARNATIONS and individuals, and the
many social workers of the city
and county.
The 1889 financial report Of the
Associated Charities was announc
ed yesterday by Mrs. Ellis as iot
lows:
Balance in bank, January l, 1881
81, 693.1O; receipts from city am
county, %$12,546.61; contributors
individuals, corporatlOnE'
churches, and business firms, w.
582.54.
Disbursements: Administrative
car expense, and office supplies
~S3,673.56; special medicines, nos
pitalization, milk, rents, clotAln9
food, glasses, railroad fares a'
dental work, s~13,412.27.
Receipts and Outgo
Total receipts, $1S,S22.25; toa
disbursements, ~S17,0S5.S3; outstan9
ing bills, $572.3S; and balance o.
s1,164.04.
Applications for relief, mediclne'
from county drug room, Ills; hs
pitalization, 1884; home aids from
W.P.A. projects, II; free "al
from the City of Wilmington w.
free wood from the city and coa"
ty, 1853; cases rejected, $50; fe,"'
red for work or other a5ehcF'
BIZ; reopened cases, 4oVi As'
cases, $50; total, 4,601.
Office interviews, $3.50; AUa,
visits, 1885; monthly average =,
S4.72 per family plus fuel "aH =,
and medicine in comparison WIN
state average of $50 for sels'"
relief. u,
Assistance in kind: glasses Wv
Optical company; merchai1'
stores; printing, Wilmington ON
Carolina Printing companies :"
fessional services, physicians 'F
cialists and dentists. -.
Wood: Taylor-Colquitt cohlp8%''
rolling chair, hospital auNl.'a%%
can goods, city and county scD. a.
and Royal theatre; clothins' Ns.
work guild; THANKSGIVING ~,
Christmas baskets, churches
clubs, and individuals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Star-News Program

1. Shipydrds.
g. Increase OF Port Facilities.
s. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
L.. Annexation OF Suburbs.
5. Development OF Fort Cds0eH aS
Health Resort.
G.. Promotion OF Canning Industry.
Z. City Expansion Commission.
s. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
Stun Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
river over Highwoy 30.
Free ccuseocy to Wrtghtsutl1e Beach.
Recreation Centers.
Municipal Auditorium.
Preservation OF Old City INT Thai
ian Hall.
Ctuic Centre.
Organized industrial services for VIII
mington.
Adequate school facilities for Viii
mington md Nep Hanover county.
Traffic signals on streets OF Whining
ton.
Thirty.toot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction of third lock and dam
betueen Wilmington and Fayetteville
on the upper Cape Fear rtver.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Agency's Receipts For '39
Totalled $18,822;
Outgo $17,085

The Associated Charities served
1,779 families during 1889, Mrs. L.
10. Ellis, executive secretary, re-
ported yesterday.
These families represent those
physically or mentally unable to
work, out of employment or await
ing assignment to work, also those
awaiting workman's compensation,
old age assistance, aid for depend
ent children, aid to the blind, or
first pay checks on WPA or other
work.
Not For Bread Alone
"These families" Mrs. Ellis said,
come to us not for bread alone,
even when poverty is the apparent
problem.
There is always some underly.
ing cause for their condition: i'll
health, mental trouble. personal en-.
vironment, mismanagement, mis-.
fortune, and in these latter years
a great change of attitude toward
relief and a tendency of some to
shift the burden Of their families
on the agencies and community.
1--WE are faced with increasing
social problems as employment is
still a major problem, and we
who are charged with the respon-
sibility of administering service
ize our limitations with small staff
and inadequate funds, but striving
to render the very best service
possible.
"All of us have the desire to
help the poor fellow who is down
and out. This would be a pretty
poor world if we didn't, especially
in hard times like the present. So
it is no wonder that when we hear
of a family in trouble we want to
do something about it.
Stop and Think
But did you ever stop to think
that maybe you are not giving the
greatest service you a to these
folks when you give money and
food direct to them? And did you
CNCl sup W llIillh VIII Will Luz lllSl
the rest of the money needed to
feed, clothe and shelter the fam
lily?
after all, a pair Of shoes or a
basket of food can't solve the prob
lem if a husband and wife quarrel
all of the time or if the father is
out of a job.
Sometimes the causes of family
difficulties are of long standing and
deep rooted and need a patient,
understanding, guiding hand to
stimulate them to help themselves.
If a man has been trudging the
streets for months without a job,
what he needs is some encourage.
ment and a tip as to where he
may land work.
This is where your family agen.
CIV comes in and although we real
ize all cases do not respond to
treatment no more than those who
do not respond to medical treat
ment, and we are prone to remem.
Der the chronics more than the
cured cases, although we do see
satisfactory results in many cases.
Salaries are not therefore mere.
ly for administering relief, but rep.
resent the cost of all types of serv.
ice rendered these families last
year.
'The Associated Charities has
entered 1910 with the hope to make
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

;tructlVe and sweeping llldll
las been expected. According
% one of the most promin-
ent and influential of the
ooard's foes in Congress, they
will probably include:
Creation of a five-man board
II place of the present board
Of three, with some provision
for geographical representa-
lion in naming members.
Requirement that the board
follow established rules of
evidence as followed by the
federal courts.
Definition to Congress of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not necessari-
" endorse any article appear
Inc in this department. They
REPRESENT the views Of the in
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all communi-
cations must contain the correct
name and address for u rec
ords. though the letter may be
SIGNED as the writer sees fit.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that for
anv reason is Objectionable.
Letters on controversial SUBJ
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
.EA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. FL In ad-
vance of the whoop-te-do with which
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences grants its annual
awards and closes the guessing sea-
son, almost everybody in town -
from Mr.. Benny's Rochester to Miss
Dietrich's Sea1yham-is making up
a list. The ten best pictures, the
best direction, best writing-they're
all making the same conventional,
categorical selections.
But I'm not. If the boys will hang
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
TOP O. THE MORNING

We should neUer LEAVE our prayer closets
IN the morning aGithout hdUing concentrated
our thoughts deeply and intensely ON the fact
OF the actual presence of God there With us,
encompassing us, and filling the room where
aUe are. F. B. MEYER
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

The Union of South Africa will not con.
duct its annual seal hunt this year because
the fur coat market has faded. Have the
industry's statesmen tried Soviet soldiers do.
ing duty in Finland?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

Miss Sheridan's shower, is that you
won't see the first take. When they
got the lights on it. Miss DUNES
protective, intervening door proved
much, much too transparent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

After Is years, a woman paid five cents
for a valentine she pilfered when she was
a small girl. Maybe the boy she sent it TO
finally got around to popping the question.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28

A pirates Who's Who was found IN bos
ton. Published in 1924, new editions OF the
volume were probably abandoned because 'n@
list got too big.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-28
Bruce Cations
In Washington

(Star-News Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-1t is possible now
to get a pretty clear idea of the changes which
critics of the Wagner act and the Labor Board
will demand at this session on Congress-.
These changes are apt to be much less de-
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The net of all this is that the bust
ness of filling Mr.. Farley's place,
Which would have been tough under
any conditions, is made really terri
oly tough by number of things
nfst, by the plain fakery of the draft,
Oy bungled convention, by the bad
start of the campaign and the poor
outlook for success; second, by the
TACT that succeeding Mr.. Farley in
Itself imposes something of strain;
.nlrd, by the prospect that man in
becoming chairman may take over an
awful lot of work and reap nothing
puC denominations and ingratitude;
ioufth, because some of the men who
might fill the place are themselves
not at heart in sympathy with the
"hfd-term effort and think a mistake
haS been made. No one knows all this
Oetter than Mr.. Farley He'will not adj
mt lt-because his public attitude
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Choir Festival at Mountain Lake Park
Sunday afternoon and evening
Carl Schlossnagle and family, of
Pittsburgh, spent Monday with Mr..
and Mrs, W. H. Haenftling and Miss
Dora Schlossnagle.
Mrs. John Miller, Westernport, was
here for few days with relatives.
Miss Thelma HENDERSON is visiting
in Friendsville for a few days.
Miss Erna Snyder, Buffalo, N. Y,
recently spent few days here with
relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Glover, Cres-
aptown, and Mrs. DeLeon Rush were
guests of Mrs. James McGettigan on
Sunday.
Edward Teets is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrison Kamp.
Mrs. Randall Ravenscroft and two
children have returned to Washing
ton after visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
j. L. Englehart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Schlossnagle
entertained on Saturday afternoon in
honor of their daughter Marjorie's
eleventh birthday anniversary. The
guests included Lois, June and Carol
Ann Dauphin, Wesley, Garnet, Leona
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New York Worlds Fair, have gone on
to thair homo in pi+tSburrb

New York Worlds Fair, have gone or
to their home in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Randall Ravenscroft and two
children, Mrs. J. L. Englehart and son
Earl spent Thursday evening at Iona
coming.
Ross Speicher spent a few days
last week at Ocean City, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. King and Orus
King and family visited at Kasson
w. Va, on Sunday.
Carl Haenftling, Baltimore, was
here over the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Haenftling
MI. and Mrs. Asa McGettigan, of
Akron, o., and Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen
Speicher, of Arizona, visited Mrs
James McGettigan last week.
Miss Jean Hamstead, of Morgan
town, is here as a guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. A. King.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Deal, Baltimore,
are spending a few weeks with Mr..
and Mrs. Jeff Deal.
Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Speicher, of
Morgantown, were Saturday evening
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Keller.
Miss Ruth Ault and seven of her
classmates spent the weekend at
Pine Haven cottage, Deep Greek Lake.
Lawrence Hetrick, Gail Messenger
and Mr.. Hoover, of McKeesport, Pa,
were weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Liston.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bushman on Sunday were Mr..
and Mrs. William Snyder and family
and BBill East, Piedmont; Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Travis, Westernport; Misses
Frieda Snyder, Erna Snyder, Buffalo,
N. Y; Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Snyder
and August Neil.
Mrs. Frank Spoerlein and Miss Sara
Stormfeltz attended the Mountain