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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-01
IN DIG,E!ST,ION

and One Dose Proves 1t
II the first dose Of this pleasant tasting little
black tablet doesn't bring you the fastest and most
complete relief you have eyperisneed send bottle
Bell-ans tablet helps the stomach digest food.
makes the excess stomach fluids harmless and lets
you eat the nourishing foods you need. For heart
burn, sick headache and upsets 80 often caused by
excess stomach fluids making you feel sour and
sick all over-JUST ONE DOSE Of Bell-ans proves
speedy relief. 25c everywhere.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-01

and garnish with stuffed olives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
Little Damage Done
10 NaZi Air Base

killed there, because all patients
had taken refuge in the cellar be.
fore the building was hit.
GA small structure. identified
as a target range, extensively dam.
aged.
()-Evidence that an incendiary
bomb had struck a great steel crane
used to lift seaplanes from the
water but had sputtered out on the
iron platform.
Authorities said that three civil
lans were struck by bomb splinters
A section Of Sylt's civilian popula
ton, mostly women, children anG
men E ov military age, remain or
the island, tending their farms and
lobster pots.
German fliers said the hangers
and crane probably were the Brit
lsh detectives but that the bombs
We're released from too great heights
for accuracy.
Three British planes were sho'
near Hornum-accord
ing to the German report. One ma
chine sank in the sea but the body
of an officer-his uniform bare O.
insignia-was found on the ice
Wednesday morning. A military
funeral was held today.
We ere completely free to move
about and talk with anyone. There
was no censorship whatever.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

of older parents, Is more weakly
or frail than other children, tine
explanation is not found in any,
thing except that the older wom'
an has probably had more diseases
which have affected her body up
to the time when the child was
born.
1t is also possible that children
born from very old mothers are
generally not wanted, and child
birth occurs under unfavorable con.
ditions.
The child of older parents Is us.
ually surrounded by older brothers
and sisters and their friends and,
therefore, is likely to be pampered
and spoiled. Such a child frequently
spends most Of his time with older
people and therefore, tends to be.
come highstrung and precocious.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
PEOPLE INCREASE FASTER
IN POORER AREAS

PEOPLE INCREASE FASTER
IN POORER AREAS
Where are these people going to
go? The cities have 10000, 900 I'm
employed. Agriculture now has
more farmers than it needs, 800
900 too many in wheat and cotton
alone, according to Secretary Wal
lace.
DR.. T. ]. Woofter, Jr., agricul-
ture departments top expert on
population trends, tells where they
have been going in recent years.
He says the biggest part of this
population increase is in regions
least able to take care of people al
ready living there-the Appalachian
mountain area, the southern cotton
belt, the Great Lakes cutover reg
ion, the great plains and the ex-
IRENE southwest.
There is a close correlation be-
tween low agricultural income and
high population increase" he says.
"Given 80 years with no outward
migration, the farm population #
the poorest agricultural counties
would double"
Some of these people, declares
DR.. Woofter, have gone to the cities
while others have become migrant
farm workers, shifting from place to
place-probably 400, 900 of them in
the last six or eve years.
Drouth in the dust bowl speeded
up displacement of farm families,
but it was taking place anyhow and
will continue to take place, the ex-
pert says. It has got to take place,
DR.. Woofter declares, as long as
the poorest farm areas continue to
add 200, 900 adult workers annual
ly to the population and industry
in tho cities is unable to take care
of the increase.
There is another refuge for these
people. Many have gone to farming
on land that is too poor to give
anyone more than the most meager
livelihood, and which in many cases
ought not to be farmed at all, de-
partment experts say. This, they
say, intensifies the problem Of con-
servation on millions of areas that
will be ruined according to depart
ment OF agriculture experts) unless
retired from cultivation and given
careful treatment.
Men who farm such land can't
afford to try to saw the soil. They
have to mine" the land or starve.
Between 1880 and 1895, the num-
Der of farms from three to nine
acres in size increased by 70 per
cent, and farms ranging between
10 and 20 acres increased % per
cent. The bureau of agricultural
economics estimates a net increase
of 500, 900 farmers occurred during
the depression-"mostly in areas of
poor soil or hilly surface" DR.. W.
w. Alexander, Farm Security I'd
ministrator, says that while thee
are fewer acres under cultivation in
the south today than in 1860, more
than twice as many families are
trying to squeeze a living out of
those acres
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
l2NY EDUCATION
oRDERSA7TACKED
,,,,,,py Bloc Is Planning N
t =" rurtail Program 10
Educate Plants

LEXINGTON, March 22-R| -
nnrchases of munitions in
nreigf Ia states inspired a tenta-
b, Unlse sressional move today to
tvs c0n ase army's $4,000 600 pro-
,prtaiI sr' educating" private in
gan fG IN making essential war
tsstry "
%;prpiss' If economy.minded
one took the position that
rsts, anrrram might be trimmed be,
be pOsI;ed war orders-in hand
,suse aainated would train the
y .., aasss1 without expense to
1' f,el was added to the
F'1sn controversy, meanwhile,
f'fgaDI~d disclosure that the British
N nv rrench purchasing missions
10 seeking permission to buy
we're o5pI military aircraft in the
st :.A5 states than those ALREADY
la. .sad by war and navy depart
nsnts'
NV otber than the newest planes
'pn ~, he obsolete by the time of
Nya "o-y The fact that manufacture
's'' esn not fill most of the mis-
~ .,s, orders before 1941 was said
~ s'- have motivated a request to
',,oec, late types.
'Dy Iss decision on the army's "edu.
..;onal' munitions orders rested
a., members OF the house military
'.nronriations subcommittee. Cast
~. about for places to white the
nh ,r's 1856, 013,743 burget, some
rsr+ioned the program as a likely
SPOT.
vfSNOOO for that purpose. Con-
,,sss appropriated s14,250,0 900 for
Il. program last year and authoriz-
Il to.a! expenditures of $40, 900, 900.
Economy advocates said that, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
SECOND CUNTS
RUM0R DEFEATED
Mother Misunderstood
Physicians Report, 1t
Now Appears

MIAMI, Fla, March 22.-R-
Back in her humble home, Mrs.
Emory Catalina, 22-year-old bride
Of eight months, was happy today
that she would bear but one chile
instead of five.
Her belief that she wolllI become
the mother Of quintuplets created a
two-day sensation that was deflat-
ed last night when an x-ray examl'
nation showed she would give birth
to only me-.
The Miami Herald, which had
provided her with e private hospital
room and all medical attention, an
nounced the result of the medical
examination.
John S. Knight, publisher, sale
he would continue to pay The cost
Of her confinemAn. until a month
after the birth of her child.
The Herald said Mrs. Callahan
believed an x-ray examination hac
disclosed five distinct head struc
lures, when as a matter Of fact she
had submitted only to examination
under a Horoscope which shows
through the body but does not re
cord a picture.
She apparently misunderstood ~
comments Of the physician and be-
lieved he felt assured she woult
bear quintuplets, the Herald said.
knight said he was convinced
after an investigation, that MI
Callahan was honestly deceived b.
a misunderstanding.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
Book Highlights

There's a certain convincing quail
ity in Harry Harrison Kroll's novel,
1.-THE Keepers of the House" (Bobbs-
Merrill: $3.50. that makes the
reader believe he has at last pic
tured the South as it actually was
before the Civil War. Krolls story
of Lett Capers rings true from be-
ginning TO end.
Carrying no torch for either North
or South, for slavery or abolition,
Knoll weaves a dramatic story about
the boy, Lett, born into a family
of poor white trash" but in real
ity the son of the master of the
plantation. 1t is this strain of good
blood that keeps Lett fighting tc
attain position, to rise above the
level of whites-not quite slaves.
but in fact little better than the
blacks they commanded.
Let's life was a constant strug-
gle. He admired and respected Bart
Dowell, the high-born owner OF
Mount Vista; he hated Bart's son,
Barty, with undying fervor; and he
loved the planters daughter, Rosa
lie, with slave-like devotion.
Lett realized what slavery was
doing to his fellow whites. But
he launched no crusade for their
benefit. He hoped some day to be-
come quality folks" to WI slaves
of his own, to have a plantation
He ever aspired to marriage with
Resale, before he discovered she
was his half-sister.
Bart Dowell had different ideas.
held that one must be born to
the gentry, that no white could lift
himself by his own bootstraps.
It is the war that brings Lett
his chance for achieving his goal
and his revenge upon the family
that has looked down upon him.
Sometimes spying for the South,
sometimes for the North, he sue
ceeds in protecting Rosalie, saw
ing Barty for Let's sister, and
finally seeing all that Monta Vista
meant crumble into ruins.
Knoll has done a masterful job
in building up Let's character, in
tracing the development of the
boy to man, and in the amassing
of wrongs that finally eliminate
in Let's relentless fury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
2 WOMEN SLAIN:
HUSBAND IS Held
Farmer OF Near Saluda Is
Charged With Killing
Wife, Negress

SALUDA, S. c., March 22.-CP-
Mrs. Robert Raden, 3S, and a negro
Woman who lived on the Raden
f-,rm, were found shot to death yes
terday.
Sheriff E. Gary Davis said the
negro woman's husband, George
Abney, was arrested and charged
with the killings. He was taken to
the state penitentiary for safe keep
ing.
The body of Mrs. Raden was ly.
ing on a porch c. the Abney house,
a shotgun wound in her neck and
face. The negro woman's body, shot
through he abdomen, was found in
tn yard.
Abney was arrested a few hours
before the Sayings were discovered
Deputy Sheriff S. P. Perry took him
in custo y when he saw him on the
street acting STRANGELY"
At the time OF his arrest, the Of
ficer said, Abney vas carrying a
loaded shotgun.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
Business Found Better
This Year By Shuford

RALEIGH, March 22.-GPo"Al'
though 1899 was a very good bust
ness year." said Forrest A. Shu-
ford, state labor commissioner, "1940
is startin- out even better, both
from the standpoint Of people en-
ployed and Of the wages paid"
Business should remain on the up
grade throughout the year, he add
ed, unless something unforeseen de-
velops. Conditions in Europe could
upset North Carolina"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

ers than it need
ed in 1929-yet
since 1929 the
farm population
has risen by l.
800, 900.
Present a r m
f a m l les have
enough children
already born to
i n c r e a S e the
working popula-
ton by $500, 900
in the next Is
years, a 40 per
cent boost, the
department esti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Al-
though opportunity in agriculture
is steadily contracting, the nation
each year has a larger number Of
people who have got to make a liv.
ing on the farm if they are going
to make a living at all, according
to department of agriculture sur.
veys.
The department estimates that
American agriculture today could
get along with 1000, 900 fewer work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

any pa
sis. Of course, the
age of the mother
at the time the
child is born may
have a definite
effect on the ease
of the childbirth
and on the health
of the mother. Elk
perts are convinc'
ed that purely
from the point OF
view of child
birth, the idea
age for an Ameri.
.-~ L.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

France is ex-
pected to follow
any such move.
along with Bri-
fish and French
dominions a n d
colonies, S
even the neutral
countries of Eu-
rope which are
growing jittery
about the flight
of credit to t h {
United States
Thus far, Holly
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

gin her family is between II and
l19.
When the age Of parents affects
the nature Of the child, it is only
through environment of the child
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

Five new wind tunnels are being
constructed in Great Britain, for re-
search. One of the five will be for
investigation Of conditions arising
from speeds Of up to 600 miles an
hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
In Hollywood

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, March 22.-Short
takes: Panic is %clutching the movie
money-men agian, because on April
l Britain's film quota act expires,
and it may be rewritten to prohibit
the exporting of any cash for Ameri-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
INJURED

GRANTS PASS, Ore, March %
-R-Doctors said today Ivan Lee
Pursell of Yorkville, Tenn, was the
most seriously injured of Is CCC
youths involved in a truck wreck
near here yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
o.. when.
colds misery
aches in
chest muscles

active. powerful as a counter-irritant be-
cause extra-medicated. Place Penetro in
hot water and inhale vapors. These meas
ures soothe irritated, congested. inflamed
membrane, loosen phlegm, ease coughing.
ease local congestion, ease chest tightness.
and promote comfort and rest which is n
of Natures best aids in making you forget
all about the fact you ever had a cold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
The Family
DOCTO R
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, journal of the American
Medical Association, and of Hy-
peia TIE Health Magazine

A cormon superstition in many
portions of the United States is the
belief that children of late mar
riages are unhealthy and short
lived. Associated with this is the
idea that babies born from older
parents are likely to be more in
telligent, successful and brilliant
than the babies born of younger
parents.
These beliefs are absolutely With
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

wood has been Paul Harrison
collecting about SO per cen of norm
al foreign receipts, but if all the
money is to be frozen abroad the
studios will begin slashing budgets
and payrolls again. The major COM
| panies also will try to make more
pictures in Europe in order to use
up some of the cash in banks there.
Can't Find Story
For Confucius Gags
The "Confucius Say" gags that
have been sweeping the country
brought a scramble among the ma
jor studios to cash in On the fad
Three registered titles with the
Hays Office, but Tor of the crews
of writers has be IN able to think of
a filmable story based On the wise
cracks, which are mostly imprint
able. Meanwhile, the craze anguish
eS.
His studio really needed Don
Ameche for retakes of some Lillian
RUSSELL Genes But the actor had
been suspended for refusing to play
in another picture, so he just laugh
ed and laughed when he was asked
to come back for the Russell
shots =. Robert Benchley says the
only reason he returned to Holly
wood was to earn enough money tc
pay his 1899 income tax.
Cav, Mariana Diatrioh ip a 111rch-
room huddle with Universal execu'
tives, all talking picture plans. She's
grateful to the studio for the treat
ment given her during the "Destry'
production, SO she's staying there at
$4,000 a picture and refusing much
larger offers from Metro and RKO.
Helen Broderick, mother of Brode'
rick Crawford, was considered fol-
the role of his mother in Trouble
in B Flat" But Jesse Ralph was
signed for the part. Miss Broderick.
it was decided, looked much toe
young.
Daryl Zanuck, hardest working
HollyWoodman, was persuaded to go
to Sun Valley for a months vaca-
ton. He took two secretaries, eight
scripts to work on, and is having a
projection room installed at the re-
sort so he can cut and okay pictures
which will be rushed to him by
plane. Several associate producers
and writer's have also been invited
| over for conferences.
Watch Still Works,
COogan Wishes He Were
In 1919, after "The Kid was
filmed, Charlie Chaplin gave Jackie
| Coogan a watch inscribed, "To
Jackie, my partner" Other evening
at a restaurant Coogan sent the
watch over to Chaplin's table with
this note: "It's still working. 1 wish
1 were" Incidentally, Chaplin
now is looking for a new title for
1.-The Dictator"
Andrea Leeds has finished Earth
b >und" and declares she'll make no
more pictures Carole Lombard
says she isn't having a baby . .
Richard Green and Virginia Field
don't know when they'll marry, but
they do kn1w it won't be a quickie
elopement while either is working.
She wants a wed ing with all the
fixings and a honeymoon where
their studios can't find them.
Leaving a theater after seeing
1.-THE Grapes of WRATH" Director
Norman Taurog commented: ut
was mighty warm in there.'' only
for directors" said Director Frank
Capra.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
By ALVIN j. STEINKOPF

HORNUM, ISLAND OF sYLT
Germany, March 22-QP- Three
American newspapermen, including
his correspondent, toured this is.
land outpost of Germany's aerial
front and what we were able to see
tenos TO bear out the German yer.
sion that nearly seven hours of
British b~ombardment two days age
had little if any military effective.
ness"
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Goering's W plane, the Manfred
Won Richthofen,' carried us yester
day to the German coast where we
transferred for a railway trip across
the six-mile Hindenburg damcause.
way from the mainland to the Island
Of Sylt.
(The dispatch indicates that the
newspapermen were not shown over
the air base from the air and the
reason for landing on the mainland
and not one of Sylt's flying fields
-~ostenslbly was to permit a closer
examination Of the .causeway.)
This is what we found:
G)-Sylt's lifeline railway across
the causeway apparently undam
aged. However, our slow train stop
ped frequently for inspection of. the
right-of-way.
(2)-Hattered windows of ~airplane
hangers, but no evidence of direct
hits on hangers.
(3)-Sand dunes at the southern
end of the island pitted with bomt
craters. officers estimated that about
40 bombs fell on the extensive
grounds of the airport in the south
GA building, which Germans
Identified as an infirmary, with
its roof blown off and walls crack
ed. Germans said that no one was
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

Thefts and other offenses against
the Postoffice Department resulted
in 1854 convictions in the last fiscal
year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

At a speed of SO miles an hour,
the margin Of safety between We
hicles is 167 feet. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

view of increased buying by Euro
pean ~belligerents, the $16,250, 900
item for educational orders could
be drastically trimmed if not eli.
minated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23

Of 378,165,000 acres of land in
Alaska, only 100000 have been sur
veyed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-23
HELP

W h e a cold
strikes with miseries
of muscular aches
a~roundchest orback
or with nasal misery
rub the chest,
back and throat with
quick melting Pene-
ct
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
SIGHTED

OSLU, March 26.-R-Eight or
nine British d%estroyers hove into
sight in Norwegian waters on at
least two occasions on Good Friday
when German ships were passing the
coast, a Norwegian admiralty COM
munique said tonight.
The Norwegian minister in London
has been instructed to lodge anothsr
strong protest with Britain against
violation of Norwegian waters. A
protest over two other British at.
tempts to intercept German mer.
chantmen in Norwegian waters was
made Sunday.
The only comment on the Incl
dents published in Norwegian papers
today was in the sjofarfstidende
(shipping Gazette) which sal
Grave as the British infringements
are, they are Of small significance
compared with the German sinkings
of Norwegian ships and the killing
of Norwegian sailors. It is an I'm
natural situation that Norwegian
warships and men under these cir
cumstances should protect German
ships carrying war materials tc
Germany"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
REPORT

CHARLOTTE, March 26. - Up
Trustees of the Duke Endowment at
their meeting in New York today
appropriated $961,250 for 120 hos
pitfalls and AZ orphan homes in the
Carolina.
The action was announced by the
Charlotte office of the endowment.
Appropriations to hospitals and
orphan homes since the establish
ment of the Duke Endowment in
1924 to date total s15,616,779 of
which $13,s33,3 42 went to hospitals
and $1,7S3,437 to orphan homes.
Of the hospital allotment $10,412,'
BAL has been for the care of pa.
tients and $3,421, DOL for construc.
ton, equipment, and purchase.
The announcement said that the
100 hospitals receiving %appropria.
tons today reported 40 per cent of
their work as charity in 1899 as
compared with 43 per cent in 1898.
The AZ orphans homes reported that
Sc per cent of the total days of care
were for orphan and half orphan
children.
Eighty-three North Carolina hos.
pitfalls shared in the appropriation,
81 South Carolina hospitals, 26
North Carolina orphan homes and
16 in South Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
GENERAL SMASHES
BOLIVIAN REVOLT
CONTINUED From Page One)

(SUIllIluCu IIOul dSo INV
dents military aide: Major Emilio
Cejas, director-general of Bolivian
police, and Police Chief Luis ORR
huela of La UaZ.
The disappearance of a section
of tanks after the revolters were
arrested led to the belief at first
that the rebellion might flare up
elsewhere, but the government an
nounced tonight that one captain.
pretending to join the plotters, took
the tanks away to aid loyal army
units.
Colonel Celestino Pinto, head Of
the presidential palace guard and
named by government officials as
the brains of the revolt, surrender
ed at the presidential palace to-
night.
Among others accused of partici.
patton in the plot, Lieutenant Gill
oOllo SdlllpSlO lOOh ISluS6 uuIllIS
the day in the National Military
Academy, headed by his brother,
Colonel Antonio Campero but disap-
peared later.
Let them come and get me If
they have enough mem" The lieu
tenant announced at first. He took
to his heels, however, when he saw
a presidential aide coming with al.
order for his arrest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
SPEAKS

PARIS, March 26-LR-Premier
Paul Reynaud in a fighting speech
today presented his cabinet to the
nation as purely a war govern
ment' with but one goal: beat the
enemy"
cit is to make war and make it
in every field" the 61-year-old
premier said in a radio talk, his
first since taking I'VE the reins OF
government from Edouard Daladier
last week.
He emphasized that France today
after seven months Of war against
Germany was neither invaded.
surprised nor uncovered"
Again and again the slight but
vigorous premier reiterated that his
government, which has decided to
remain in power de; pite the one
vote majority it gained in it's first
parliamentary presentation, had one
motive and one motive along-"to
fight the war"
Reynaud said that his inner war
cabinet of nine members, all heads
Of MINISTRIES directly responsible
for national defense, had been set
up to push France and her British
allies to victory, come what may.
He said that in forming his gov
eminent he had hoped to get un-
animous support from all parties.
At least, he asserted, the rapid
formation of the cabinet robbed
Adolf Hitler of the advantage OF
prolonged governmental crisis might
have given him.