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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
GETS BACK

BATON ROUGE, La, Jan. II.
(AP)-Vernon Howell, noticing
his old schooIhouse was being
torn down, recalled the silver
dollar he lost 20 years ago.
1t had rolled from his fingers
behind a classroom Dashboard
and, after school, he and his
schoolmates spent fruitless hours
down on their stomachs probing
for the dollar with rulers and
bent wires.
Now 20 years later, Howell
lodged through debris OF his
old classroom, fished behind the
ripped-up Dashboard and came
up triumphantly with his cart
wheel"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Missouri Pacific Rail
Reorganization Plan
Is Disclosed By |. {. {

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. 7P-
The interstate commerce commits
sion made public today its reorgani-
cation plan for the vast Missouri
Pacific railroad system, which went
into bankruptcy seven years ago
1t included these major items:
The properties of all 26 debtor
railroads in the Missouri Pacific
system, along with three non-rail-
road properties, would be consoli-
dated into a new company. The
Missouri-Illinois railroad company
would be omitted.
Total capitalization of the new
company would be $3.50, ATS, 900, g
reduction of nearly Sill, 900, ZOO
from the systems present CAPT,
talization.
Annual charges would be reduc.
ed to $21,6 sos, 499, a saving of nearly
$500, 900.
Preferred and common stock
would be declared valueless.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
RUSSIAN TROOPS
RETREATING FROM
SALLA SECTION
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usual resistance to low tempera-
lures, the Firms were reported driv-
ing Soviet troops back in the Salla
region.
The army communicate a only
that "our troops are fighting sue
c%essfully in the direction OF Salla"
near the eastern border of Finland,
but other Finnish PURGE said de-
velopments in the Salla region raised
hopes of further successes.
Two days ago reports from Salla
said the Firms had cut Russian sup
ply lines, leaving the Soviet troops
without sufficient food to carry
through their winter campaign.
The Red army was reported to
have dug itself in behind heavy for
tifications, while bombing planes at
tempted to drop provisions from the
air.
The Finnish communique said the
Firms routed an enemy company
northeast of Lake Ladoga yesterday
killing 70 Russians and capturing
two tanks.
Finnish dispatches reported Ger
tain foreign governments had asked
for price quotations on captured
Russian tanks. Foreign genera
staffs were said to be interested il
dissecting the Soviet products to SET
what new developments they nigh
contain.
Military observers estimated tina
the Firms have captured or de
stroyed 500 Russian tanks sine
the war started.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Four Men Perish In Fire
In Salvation Army Hall

HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 17.-R-
Twenty depression-struck men, seek
ing rehabilitation through the Sal
walton Army, were trapped by smoke
and flame which raced through the
Social Service Center early today.
and four persisted.
Two men jumped to safety from
the second-floor living quarters, IL
were hauled down ladders by fire
men and n descended a stairway.
Five were injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
NLRB EXAMINERS
REPORT ON GAFFNEY
SITUATION Barred

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feet is tragic. Those who can't
swallow the religious advice of
the preachers are impressed by
a half-dozen thugs who use
physical persuasion.
"Men who admitted all types
of crimes, leaders in Hamrick's
Good Fellowship clubs formed
to bring CLIO members to Jesus.
It's fantastic at your distance,
and hardly believable. Here, it
is tragic and revolving"
To substantiate his accusation
of "thugs," the examiner wrote
that an ~1S-year-old witness had
been threatened with violence
as soon as Whittemore and the
board attorney, Warren Wood,
were out of town.
'It is heart rending-to see on
witness after another-come to tn
witness chair, start to tell his stor.
catch Hamrick's eye-and thel
stutter his or her answers unit
courage returns" he wrote.
Whittemore declared the "braves
of the brave was Sam Bailey,
negro who had headed a negro uniol
local in 1896 and since had becom
a tenant farmer. Whittemore toll
how he and Wood went to see hin
shortly before Christmas and lief
Sam a handful of small bills" S
the "chappies" could have presents
The examiner said, in answer t
questions that to the best of hi
recollection he had given the negr
four 81 bills and that his motive wa
purely humanitarian.
Whittemore charged that tn
'sHamricks'' took the rea of mi
profits, had Withdrawn most Q
their own stock land for operatin
capital are using R. F. c. money.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Reynolds Will Explain
His Program Tonight

CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 17.-R-
Senator Robert R. Reynolds will
explain his "America for Ameri-
cans program in an address in
Memorial hall at the university at
8 o'clock tomorrow night.
His address, which is being spon-
|sored by the Carolina Political
union, no~n-partisan student organ
%ization, will be broadcas- over a
statewide hook-up.
Senator Reynolds is expected to
arrive late tomorrow afternoon in
time for a dinner at the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity of which he is
a member.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
RESCUE DOG

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-CP-Man 10
a dogs best friend, too. Two coast
guardsmen, Carl Howell and James
Lockhart, waded out in frigid water
that reached their shoulders in
Lake Michigan today to escue a
dog struggling feebly to climb on
a small piece of ice about $50 feet
from shore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
PLANES DOWNED

MOSCOW, Jan. 17.-P-A Soviet
army communique tonight said II
Finnish planes We're downed today
in a fight with Russian aircraft.
The communique, issued by the
Leningrad military headquarters
and distributed by Tass, official
news agency, said there were scout
ing activities "in all directions" and
rifle and artillery exchanges in
scattered sectors.
The communique:
Headquarters Leningrad military
headquarters. II January all direc-
tons activities scouts and some
sectors nonintensive rifle and ar
tillery fire.
"Soviet aviation made %reconnoit-
ering flights and bombed several
railway functions and military OBJ
j%ectives. Eleven enemy airplanes
downed in air combat"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
West Virginia Plans
To Honor Col. Rowan

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. IL
(P-Col. Andrew S. Rowan, the mar
who carried the message to Gar
cha" 40 years ago headed the first
lot of 62 persons designated today
to receive West Virginia's distln-
guished service medal.
The medals, not yet struck, were
authorized by the 1889 legislature
for those who distinguish themselves
in the service of the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
LEAVES HOSPITAL

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. IL LP
John Marion Fox, 3S, who said new:
of the marriage of his former wife
Joan Bennett, led him to take al
overdose of sleeping tablets, recov
cred sufficiently today to leave thu
hospital. He was admitted earl,
yesterday. Miss Bennett and Pro.
Queer Walter Wanger were mai
ried last week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
REPLY

LONDON, Jan. 17.-LP-The Brit
ish reply to a United States protest
at British stoppage of United States
mail was delivered to the United
States embassy today and trans
mitted to Washington. 1t was not
disclosed when the answer will be
made public, but simultaneous
Washington and London publication
is expected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
PATROL RuSY

RALEIGH, Jan. IT, Up - The
state highway patrol made 1880
arrests last year, compared with
1885 in 1898, Major John Arm
strong reported today. The In
crease was caused partly by the fact
that the number of patrolmen was
increased from 1928 to 173.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
BRITAIN STOPS
IMPORTATION OF
AMERICAN WEED
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over the possibility of blending
Balkan and Turkish tobaccos with
the straight Virginia type.
Dom explained that the new
blend probably would contain about
10 to Is per cent Balkan and Turk
ish tobacco which would "be hard
ly perceptible" to the average
smoker.
He said that during the World
war, when Turkish tobaccos were
not available in Britain, the public
taste swung to Virginia tobacco
but might swing back to Turkist
in the present war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Forsyth Man Is Fined
For Indecent Exposure

Mt. AIRY, Jan. 17.-(P-N. B.
spainhour, "a, of Forsyth county,
was fined $500 and the costs today
upon conviction of indecent ex-
posure. The case, resulting from a
series of mysterious appearances
of a partly clad man in Mt. Airy
last SUNNI o., required two days for
trial. Superior Court Judge j.. Will
Pless told Spainhour he could serve
a year on the roads to avoid pay
ment of the fine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Ribs ON II ROAD
Jobs TABULATED
~c,,tracts Are Scheduled To
Do Awarded At Meet OF
Highway Body Today

RALEIGH. Jan. 17.-R-10w bids
Two ~s7S1,71O,13 on II projects
a,.re tabulated today by highway OF
ss,.,s. and Chief Engineer w. Vance
said the proposals We're gen
~, "yerv satisfactory
e~D' ,orser number Of contractors
,,s,1al bid on the projects, Baise
'n11 On n road job, which called
saw oycayating work in Richmond
l"ty 4 bid of IA IL cents a cubic
'vr a for dirt removed-the lowest
!e~ in the departments history
fl"' submitted by r. G. Foster and
60, Of Wadley, Ga
" Contracts will be awarded, subject
.onnroval by the federal bureau Of
''O a5s at a meeting tomorrow of the
g ...+o highway and public works
commission.
'V',' lief of low bidders follows:
~posonotank. bridge over Charles
... in Elizabeth City: Bowers Con-
+r,ction company of Whiteville,
us95O.5O.
pit+ grading and structures on $40
-,;,as of route 1O2; Hardaway Con-
..,inr company of Columbus, Ga,
H01oS.50.
lanes, grading and structures on
-to miles Of county road north OF
trenton; Roadway, Gregory and
Dazzle of Raleigh, s24, 50o.75; struc-
,,,res Hardaway Contracting COM
mny. ~S1O,6S6,5o,
lanes. grading and structures on
IA miles of route Al near Taylors
Gamer. W. L. Cobb Construction
companv Of Decatur, Ga, S39,2o6.07.
1eno;r and Greene. grading, struc-
+nres and surfacing 6.96 miles Of
ronte rs: roadway, West Co0struc.
tion company of North Carolina, OF
Tinston. S6S. 500. so; structures, Bow
es Construction company, SIS.
CLIO.
Robson. grading, structures ant
sprfacing 4.S9 miles of road neal
Bakers Ten Mile School; r. B. Ty
lr company of Louisville, Ky, $45,-
997.
Wayne, concrete widening of 11.3t
miles of route III; roadway, William
F Bowe. Jr.. of Augusta, Ga, ST.
1890: structures, Coastal C%onstruc-
ton company of Florence, S. c., $12,-
1872, I
Columbus, concrete widening OF
12.S1 miles of routes "A and 76
Hardaway Contracting company
s57,46O.5O.
Union, grading and concrete Dav
Ing on Oh of a mile of route Z
near Nashville; Leon Ellis o
Greensboro, s15,241.
Craven and Pitt counties, grading
and structures on $40 miles of
road from near the Craven-Pitt lin(
to Vanceboro: Kiker and Yount O
Reidsville, SIC, 559.50.
Johnston Wilson, surface treatin:
1852 miles of route 40 between rout'
80 and Contentnea creek; j. NJ.
Gregory of Raleigh, $62,662.S6.
Johnston, surface treating 1873
miles of a road between U. S. rout
10 and Wilson; J. M. Gregory, $64,
557.
Rutherford, grading, surface treat
ing and structures on 2.S3 miles 0
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
WILL REDUCE STAFFS

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. - Up
The federal works agency announc'
ed today that it would reduce the ad-
ministrative staffs of the public
works administration and of the
United States housing authority by
1880 persons effective February 1.
John M. Carmody, FWA admins
tratoo. said funds were dwindling,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Simple RingWorff1 Itch

To get relief from the itching
and burning discomforts and sore
ness of simple ringworm, use Black
and White Ointment, the soothing,
cooling antiseptic dressing that
destroys the responsible fungi upon
actual contact. Use with famous
Black and White Skin Soap.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
ANNIE SIMMONS

Funeral services for Annie Sim
mons, colored, of 610 Dawson
street, who died Tuesday, will be
held from the Ebenezer Baptist
church Friday afternoon at
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
FIVE

York state, district No. 7 of Onon.
|daga county, addressed to a Willis
D. George, who was not identified.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
Without Calomel-And You'll Jump Out Of
Bed in the Morning Karin to Go

The liver should pour out two nints ~
liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this
bile is not flowing freely. your food may
not digest. 1t may just decay in the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You get consti-
pated. You feel sour, sunk and the world
looks punk. ~
It takes those good, old Carter's Little
flowing freely to make YOU feel "un and
up" Amazing in making bile flow freely.
Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name
log and 25f. Stubbornly refuse anything else.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18

o'clock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven OF these
test questions Turn to page Is
for the answers.
/. Reuters is a British news
agency. Manhattan night club.
or a marionette theater in
Vienna?
2. How many ciphers must be
added to the figure one to make
a quintillion
3. Is the Cotton Bowl in Mem
phis, New Orleans or Dallas?
4, In which state are Yosemite
Falls?
5. During whose administra-
ton was the federal reserve sys-
tenn inaugurated.
6. Give the approximate nu-
merical value of ri.
Z. The ruins of the Parthenon
of the Acropolis are in Italy. or
Greece?
s, Name the capital OF Liberia
in Africa.
9. The Panama Canal Zone is
owned or leased by the United
States
10. Did Germany invade
Poland on the first, third or fifth
of September. 1889?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
MISSION GRATEFUL

Editor. The Times: We wish to
express our appreciation and
gratitude to everyone who con-
tributed in any way toward the
Thanksgiving dinner which en-
abled the Tacoma Rescue Mission
TO serve meals throughout the
day totsling 352.
We are thankful. and the day
was indeed Thanksgiving day.
men from all walks OF life
gathered together in the Rescue
Mission. on common ground. not
one above the other regardless
OF what he had possessed. or
what he was. but a fellow-cres-
ture needing help, spiritually and
materially.
Yes. il was q day Of thanks
for them. thankful TO God, and
TO you who cared about the per-
son in need and want So We
say thank you and God bless
you.
W. L. EDWARDS,
Supt-
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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER "a

Adverse aspects are active to-
day in planetary government.
The churches are subject TO in
fluences that seem TO presage
extraordinary tasks in the COM
ing winter. This is a sway not
helpful to religious interests.
Heart and Home: Church OBJ
servances should be made a fam
lily habit at this time when the
need of faith in the ultimate
working out of human problems
will be apparent. The building
Of character is one OF the factors
in assuring national stability.
The stars are read as eneourag-
ing to deceit and secret plotting
among European rulers. and the
planetary influences will be felt
on this hemisphere. Honesty and
truthfulness must be our watch
words.
international Affairs: The
stars favor the final victory of
British arms. but only after
severe struggle against fearful
odds. The United States in
evitably must extend the fullest
possible aid and will execute a
brilliant move of some sort. The
hatred of the Nazis will flare up
in an International incident of
great significance. The Duke of
windsor is to be involved in an
embarrassing situation for Uncle
Sam.
Persons whose birthdate it is
have the augury Of a year of
great activity that brings sue
cess. Naval or army connections
will be fortunate.
Children born on this day
probably will be well-balanced,
cautious and prudent. Popular
ity and success are forecast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
Cermanizing the Dead

Probably the thing that will Nazism to fail in the
end certain lack of that last saving grace humor We
don't humor in the crude of ability to
joke but in the broad connoaton of certain of the
fitness of things
In Asace perennial shuttlecock of the German French
the Germans campaigning to make the dis
trict German and for all. Asatian named Henri
for instance have to change that to Heinrich But
not only that All tombstone inscriptions also to be in
German.
No Nazi will anything wrong in that But there
plenty of others left in the world who WILL and it
than possible that it is little supdities little obuses,
little caouses the tender parts of the spirit
which will day stop the Nazs where the tanks and
turrets failed to stop them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
Unpleasant Parallel

few years ago, before the passions of war UNI
leashed in all their fury, the United States shown
clearly by painstaking students how mounting foreign
trade in munitions gradually created interest In the
European which large factor in drawing the
United States into that
Without drawing parallel, it is just well
to keep eye present export situation. Almost
half of export trade consists of materials and
goods closely related that trade Forywo percent at
the end of the first year of the according to the de-
partment of IL has undoubtedly increased since
then. Not ALL by means going to Britain. Several
Latin American countries, Russia and of Japan,
have received large shares This trade has developed
relatively faster than it did in 1914
Conditions not entirely parallel, and have the
experience of 1914l917 to draw upon and to learn from.
II is not necessary to deduee therefore that fol
lowing the road But it does harm to note quite
clearly the great degree to which foreign trade has
now become entangled with abroad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
PLEA FOR MULES
UNSHELTERED AT FORT

Editor The Times: Anyone
making the tour through Fort
Lewis at the present time can
not help but be impressed with
the activity so apparent. Car
penters, m a on 5. plumbers,
painters, all busy with the work
of construction. The drilling of
soldiers, the movement of the
army trucks here and there, the
staccato bark of the machine
guns on the prairies behind the
fort indicate other preparations
of more grim nature. Every
one seems engrossed or busy on
something, the average layman
is hardly noticed as he walks
by on his educational trip Of
inspection.
The interested visitor. how
ever. is the other eXtreme-he
notices and comments on every
thing. Coming into his view is
a group of baleful looking army
mules tethered out in the open.
They are not saying anything
in fact, they don't even have a
complaint committee to call on
the general, but observation and
inquiry tell us they have real
kick beside the one they carry
in their hind legs.
These animals are in the open,
night and day. Fortunately,
provisions have been made for
mule hospital which right now
has many patients. Apparently,
however, nothing has been set
aside, not even few hundred
dollars for which rejected lum-
Der and tin or canvas might be
requisitioned for mule barracks.
They are a sturdy little ami
NAL, and faithfully do their part
in national defense. One might
even hold a debate on the sub
jeet of what is the most value
to the army, the truck, or the
army mule. You cannot overlook
the fact they are living,
breathing. dumb animal-and it
is quite early in the game TO
neglect them entirely when with
very little cost sheds of some
sort would give protection from
the cold wind and ram and the
general unpleasantneSs of au-
tumn and coming winter.
In field warfare. both men and
animals are expected TO endure
hardships. but let us not become
so engrossed in the thought of
actual conflict that at such an
early stage we lose all thought
Of kindness to dumb animals.
r. y. OLSON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
StOHesin
Stamps
Bombing Planes Follow
Greek Airmoil Route

ITALIAN airmen found a route
to the heart of Greece mapped
out for them in the 1893 Greek
airmail stamp above, but the
planes carried bombs, not mail.
The stamp also provides philate-
lists with a map Of the war in the
east
Although attack on Greece was
strategically important in the axis
war against Britain. Faseists saw
= chance to re-establish the en-
pire of l6s B. c. when Roman civ
ilization spread over the Greek
peninsula.
War is not new for Athens.
Greek battled Greek on the Attic
plains. The PerSians burned the
city in $50 B. c. Alexander lifted
Greece TO its greatest glory in the
Hellenistic age, but strife and in
ternal weakness after his death
opened the way for an easy Ro-
man conquest.
Greece became part OF the
Byzantine Empire after the fall
Of Rome. and was conquered by
. the Turks in 1853. From the
fourth century B. c. until 1921.
when Greece revolted against the
Turks, the Greeks were al no
time free people.
British friendship dates from
that revolution in which Lord
Byron lost MS life. England,
France and Russia interviewed,
forced the Turks to grant Greece
independence. During the World
War. Greece supported the allied
cause.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
Political Rarity

The campaign is over, but the posters linger on
Months hence the bedraggled and weatheeaen shreds
of Hoope-forJudqe posters will still hang mournfully
from fence and post
Not those of State Senator Thomas C. Desmond of New
York. however Senator Desmond who has achieved
thing of national reputation because of his determined
fight trchinoss recently sent his secretary 1000
mile tour of two counties to and burn all of the
senator's political posters.
That ought to win the gratitude of the voters and
tany it example that could we'll be followed by both
winners and losers in the political arena.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
The Virtue Of Patience

You may have heard the expression 'The laws delay
included among fes trials by Hamlet in the famous Shake
speare soloquy But for freestyle champion aAmerican
delay We know of nothing to touch this:
The u S. court of claims May 8, 1910 reported to
certain claims for indemnity result of spoa
tons by the French prior July 81 1901 Somewhere in
the vast of winds of the law these claims have been
flying around for 1879 years. like the poor damned souls
Dante described in his Inferno.
Perhaps this is unjust Perhaps heir to an heir
has only recently decided that his spoated
In either has taken phenomenal time get this
outstretched palm properly before the speakers desk in
congress.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
TRIBUTE TO FIREMAN

Editor. The Times: Lieut..
Clarence Johnson Of the Tacoma
fire department answered his
last alarm Nov. 10. Only another
tragedy within this vale Of tears,
the duty call that led TO death,
and to the end of years Without
warning note, it seems TINS
firefighter died in the lusty noon
Of life. his family's JOY and pride.
Today he's in quiet grave Its
hard to find the proper word 10
write or speak 10 those ne LETT
behind
Somewhere the city beautiful
awaits his tired feet. whilst we
fare on a little while along life'l
crowded street His comrades
still stand ready to respond at
dutv's call. although each dash
may De the last. and theirs the
funeral pail.
RAY F. ROBERTS.
6l4 So. 18th ST..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-25
ELECTION AFTERMATH

Editor The Times: May I say
a few words concerning the let
ter Of 4. y. Olson he Is a
very poor loser. After all. Presi-
dent Roosevelt was reelected by
millions and. as our president
should receive the respect due
has office. Constructive eriti-
cism and slurring remarks are
two entirely different things.
The idea that Nillkie could
keep US out OF war Is too silly
to argue. No one man could DO
that. Olson demands The Times
take a stand. How about seeed-
ing from the Union? Anything