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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27

IN the improper operation OF mo-
tor vehicle. Once the traffic ticket
rs written II falls within the iui lis
diction Of the Traffic Court 10 DO
tremine the trivisIity or gravity Of
the offense.
Should You by chance leave your
license at home or thoughtlessly
permit II 10 expire and receive a
traffic ticket. remember that the IN
convenience to which you are sub
jected Is contribution toward the
general public safety. The police
man writing the ticket and The
court determining the penalty are
merely seeking 20 project every
citizen from the driver who thinks
he has a natural right IN drive a
car which no law can infringe.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27
Beyond The Bench
by JUDGE THOMAS j. MAHER.
OF Traffic Court
Yonr Drlyer's Llcense

Your Drivers License
DRIVING motor vehicle on the
Ostreets and highways OF Michigan
is privilege granted by the State
and not an inherent right. as so
many people think. In order 10 OBJ
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27

I n ! n pernis-
sion 90 drive
I h Q applicant
must first meet
all the require
ments set mp
by statute. As
Z h Q passing
years h n v Q
demonstra Q d
the danger OF
permitting in
capable m q =
florists to sub
focf tfa moo
pie 10 death
a n d injury
from proven
ia b traHic
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27
! Isl! EE.!M!!

PIKE COUNTY, OHIO
THIRTY-THREE Negro families
l owned 1928 acres OF land in
lS4o.
18th AMENDMENT
THE l4TH AMENDMENT 10 the
Constitution was passed July IS.
. 1865.
BLACK MASTERS
THERE WERE S,777 black mas
tiers OF slaves in the United
states IN 1880
MASO>S
THE FIRST Masonic Lodge Bal
iimore. Md. was chartered by
free Negroes in 1925
PLEASURE CARS
APPROXIMATELY 63l.l622 "a
n gallons OF gasoline are used by
Negroes each wear
4 JIM CROW LAW
IT HAS BEEN decided that the
oklahoma statute requires sepa-
~Ate entrances 10 railroad coaches.
including separate step box wher-
ever nccessav, For Negroes Only.
PROPHESy OF DANIEL
II THE PRoPHEsY OF Daniel IS
i,nc christ when he left this
earth had woody hair
INVENTIONS
FIRST CLOCK in America con-
siracted TO strike the hours
hui.t hy Benjamin Banneker. Ne
gro In i-an hrst patent to a
Negro sranied TO Henry Blair for
earn harvester in 1894 4. steam
boiler furnace. electrical airbrakee.
and incubator invented by Grand
v' Woods lubricating cup.
used on locomotives and marine
encines. invented hy Elijah J Nc
fcv J r. Matzelger. lasting
ma,Ane Tor shoes patented March
% 1859. patent No e74907 W
3 Puryis OF Philadelphia. machin-
~, for making paper bags. sold N
'he Union Paper Rag Co. OF New
York In 1897. Andrew ].
Eesrd ~ Alabama sold an auto
matte csr-couplinc devise 70 New
York car company for more than
siopno
MONEY MATTERS
EEpERA Al DISTRICT Court OF
4 MARYLAND. Nov s. lSS0-ludge
Morris stated thar large sum or
money given 10 a colored woman
would probably he ruinous 10 her.
SECOND WARD enc AGO
As IF YOC did mo- know-eighty
n p4r cent Of the population OF the
second ward Of chicago are Ne
oes.
APPOINTED
MRS. r HOWARD was appointed
wi hv the govdrnnr ~ West vir-
e'nia 10 succeed her husband who
died on Dec 81. 1927. as n mem
h,r ~ the legislature OF that state.
This was ne hrsl time Negro
woman was a member ~ any leg
islafufp n This country
ANY information concerning this
column write 36l9 Elliot Ave. Min
nrapohs. MINI.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27

i OF an outing by the Federated De-
of Michigan at Broadway park q
Joe Louis Farm. This will be one ~
in the campaign OF Senator Digs
and prominent speakers will be LATER
the occasion. Leroy Smiths orchesir
The music
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27
NoNrY MATTERS

FEDERAL DISTRICT Court OF
4 MARYLAND. Nov $. lSS0-.Iudge
Morris stated thar large sum OF
money given 10 a colored woman
would probably he rOnnOus 10 her
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-07-27


the convention. We have tried TO seek nun III
and get direct report from him on his eHpere Il
aud accomplishments at the convention But :.
ator Digs Is the chairman Of the Detroit deles'u'
10 the Chicago Negro Progress Exposition ~"
The ceremonies on Detroit Day al the Fair celeo''
IN Chicago last Friday. This activity hes KEEP -
aor Digs for a longer time so that ! was "''
to gel IN touch with him in time for 'hs
But from the reports have. he was INV
his activity. as always 10 make new marks ~
compIishments OF value TO HIS race. senator ~
was member OF the Thirteenth Congress'o"''
cation and went before the Resolution comm'',
make sure that declaration In favor Of INV
got into the Democratic platform senator
has always been especially loyal TO Presden'
welt and was an exponent ~ the demand TOT
term long before II spread 10 NATIONWIDE led
lions. He has fashioned his own camp"s thk|
that very line. "Elect Senator Digs io' e,,apln|
term on oil his literature. lie led lhf yS'a,esats
ton effort TO weld the twenty-five Net ,o xatIoni
and alternates into a body to drive w. - me w'
Democratic committee TO better jueu'e "ao,ned \
gro In all IT, activities. Senator DIES =, II M
everything that made for the advanceus~d pstb
Negro. That Is In keeping with inc res .. n ,ef
lished by Senator Digs 10 his Two 'sl"
ice as senator OF the Thirty-hrst dis'rlo'
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
Many Ships Sunk In Mediterranean and North Sea
Breaking g Pole Causes Death Of Jack Bell

Jack Bell, electrician for the U s Smelling Refining ard Min ing Go. at Nome fell to his death yesterday afternoon when 8 pow CT pole on which he was work ing broke and crashed with him to the gr-und.
 The accident occurred on the new poWer-line route from Nome to the Submarine mining field west of town. Present with him 1t was reported were Nels Swan berg Jr., Andy Roberts and liar ry Knudson.
 An account of the accident said that the pole was a key one where strain from stringing a new power lire was assessed. It was understood that Bell climb ed the pole to install another guy wire clamp, and wa working on it when the strain on the pole caused ii 10 break off above the ground, bringing him crashing to tha ground. The safety b7lt it vas sad held him to the pole so that he could not get away from it before t hit the ground
 lie is survived in Nome by his widow and young son.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
Americans Advised Leave Sweden Because of International Situation
 Germans Producing One Sub Day

LONDON, Jan. 25 (P-Mines lelpad to sw2ll the toll of mer- .hant marine casualties in the war in the North Sea while in he Mediterranean a small auXil iary vessel of the French navy is in distress from an undeter- mined cause. The French ship, IS the 622-ton Forfait. Her dis tress call was sent out by the Italian fre:ghter Cellina which is speeding to her aid.
 In the British, French and German war, the Germans re- ported that their submarine pro duction reached the one-a-day level and the British locked for intensified attacks on merchant
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
U. S., ALASKA ROAD GROUP MEET, OTTAWA

OTTAWA, Jan. 24 = Canadian and American studies of possible routes for the projected Alaska highway will be compared here Thursday when the two Inter national Highway commissions meet for the second time.
 The Canadian report is believ- ed to. be nearly ready for pre- sentation to it's government.
 The American report is simil- arly advanced. Rep. Warren G Magnuson, chairman of the U s Commission, Thomas Riggs, Gov erncr Gruening and Donald Me Donald of Fairbanks were expect ed t1 attend.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
Japan Uneasy Over Trade Treaty
 And The U s. Strategic Position
 Many Sinkings In European War

UNDATED, Jan. 26 (Ao) = The American and Japanese trade treaty relations drew toward close with Japan uneasy over the new strategic position of the Unit ed States but the latter is in no hurry to show her hand. Japan and England at the same time carried on the controversy over the removal from Japanese lin CT of 21 Germans by British warShip near Japan.
 In Europe's two wars activity continued to be concentrated in the RussianlFinnish conflict, the Films reporting the invaders in difficulties on two fronts, above the Arctc Circle and in southeast Finland.
 Americans in Sweden were ad vised by the United States lega tion at Stockholm to consider re- turning home "becausa of the pre- vailing international situation" Officials said the move implied precautionary measures and was lacking in urgency or compul- sion.
 Twelve passengers and 26 crew men lost their lives when the 1,752-ton Norwegian steamer
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26

Biarritz struck a mine and sank in 50 seconds in the North Sea. The Norwegian steamer Borg holm rescued 12 passengers and 2 of the crew, bringing the surviV- ors to Ijmuiden. The Biarritz went down at 2 am, 36 miles northwest of Ijmuiden after a tre m3nd us explosion. The first offic CT said the fact that one life boat was already hung on the davitS permitted the survivors to get away to the Borholm near by.
 Other victims of the war at sea included the Finnish steam CT Onto of 1900 tons which sank Tuesday after striking a mine in the North Sea. The crew of Is reached an English port abcard a Greek vessel.
 The Swedish steamer Patria, HOO tons, enroute to Rotterdam from Goteborg, sank Saturday af ter striking a mine. Four of the crew of 21 were landed at SWed- en.
 A Netherlands steamer landed at a British port the bodies of 4 men taken from a raft in the N-rth Sea. Their nationality was unknown.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
shipping.

shipping.
 Artillery fire thundered in the Vosages mountains on the West ern Front but activity otherwise was apparently limited to scout ing by rival air forces. the Ger mans reported one British plane was shot down yesterday.
 Merchant marine losses cf the war increased with the torpedoe- ing of the Alton Latvian steamer EVerene. All but one of the crew were rescued.
 The survivors of an unidentii- cd French boat, torpedoed off the coast of Spain yesterday, landed at Vigo4 with eight men lost.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26

would be to enact legislation to continue the Alaskan star route serv.ce, as at present, no action
 oWard this end was taken by the committee.
 Cole explained that on the Postmaster Generals authority ae can make plane mail rates .5od ordja ary man rstes-the same in Alaska, but whether he will do that, I am not prepared to say Cole said.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
HUGE SHIPMENT OF FOOD
 STUFTS, GERMANY, BLOCKED

OTTAWA, Jan. 24 - The gov ernment forbade the export of wheat and other materials 10 countries adjacent to Germany except by license thus prasum- ably blocking the million & one qlar,er bushels of wheat ship nent bought from Russia.
 It was expected the cargoes would have been shipped to Brit ish Columbia from Vladivostock aboard ships provided by the States Steamship Company of Portland, Ore.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26

fence and necessity, instead of carrying all classes f mail as al present because ordinary mail could not te transported by air, a5 air mail rates apply.
 J " Co.e, deputy second assist ant Postmaster General, said tha, as long as the CAA d.. pot-aot We are all right
 While members of the commit tee suggested the best solution
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
Relief Funds For Indigents Is Increased

" WASHINGTON, Jan. D - Ed ward Bartlett, commissioner oi accounts and deposits, U s Trea- sury, tzld the House subcommit ,ee at the appropriations hearings that the Treasury appropriation bill has been increased, because of suffering of indigents in Alas ka, which had caused Interior Secretary Harold Ickes to add a $10000 increase to the Terri tory's relief fund for next year.
 Bzrtlet also told the committee that the S39,302 left in the Alas kan relief fund was created from 10 percent of receipts from licens es collected outside of incorpor- ate5 towns in the Territory
 He said the fund was created by Congress and of the $119,000 collected Congress appropriated $80,000. Last year we received a letter from the Secretary f the Interior asking us to include in our estimate enough money to enable them to give to this part icular purpose all those receipts r Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indiana asked if suffering had increased up there, and Bartlet replied yes.
 The budget approved an in- crease fer Alaska indigents from $20,000 this year to $30,000 for the l9404l fiscal year. Treasury officials also explained that an item of $11,9O0 for Alaska and for general territorial purposes came from a one percent tax on gross income of the Copper River Northwestern Railway and the Pacific Arctic Railway and Navi- gation Go. He said the average collections amounted to that fig ure during the past two years.
 Clinton Uttley, superintendent of divisions, Postoffice Service, told the committee that because of unusual conditions in Alaska where some postofficeS cannot pay for third class clerk hire an additional $8,183 for third class clerk hire is necessary and that the past allowance doesn't allow salaries high enough to take care of the unusual salary conditions up there"
 Uttley added many third class clerks were working for less than WPA wages and trying to raise 2 family on that.
 William Triem, superintend- ent of the railway adjustment division postoffice, told the com mittee that his department need ed $l40,000 for star route ser vice, the same amount as grant ed this past year.
 He said the department asked the Budget Bureau for $150,000 but this had been cut $10,000. He said air mail service in Alas ka cost the government forty two and four tenths cents per mile and added the Civil Aero nautics Authority later will take over licensing contractors and that the service has become reg ular air mail service under the direction of the first assistant Postmaster General.
 Other officials explained that when the GAIA took over the Al askan Air mail, contractors who now handle the star route service
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
PADEREWSKI STERS POLISH PARLIAMENT"

PARIS, Jan. 24 -Ignace Jan Paderewski, 79, stirred the Polish parliament in exile which elect ed him as its president, pledging his weakening body will raise Poland from ruins"
 Said Paderewski: Poland is immortal. We will deliver her from captivity and will raise her from captivity ard will raise her from the ruins. We take this en- gagment before Cod
 Paderewski, famed pianist and con poser, was President of Po- land in 1919.
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The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26
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The Nome nugget., 1940-01-26

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

Spanish Wild Horses

The possibility that stray horses
from Coronado's expedition stocked
the western plains with Spanish
horses is slight, says Prof. Arthur
S. Alton of the University of Michi-
gan, who recently translated into
English the muster roll of the early
explorers companies. This record,
which gives a complete count by
men, with names, rank, number OF
horses or other animals, armor and
weapons, was made on February ~.
1910, at Compostela in western Mex
leo as Coronado's men were re-
viewed by the viceroy and governor
of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza.
Careful distinction was made in the
document between horses (caballos)
or stations and mares (yeguas).
Inasmuch as only two mares are
listed, the possibility is rather re-
mote, Professor Alton says, that the
hordes of wild horses that once
roamed the West were descendants
from horses lost from the Coronado
band. The muster roll bearing this
evidence, with an explanatory in
PRODUCTION, has been published by
the university's William L. Glenn
ents library.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
AMERICAN LEGION AWARDS TO
SCHOOL

Schools at North East, Marion,
Harris, Principle Furnace, Perryville
and The Jacob Tome Institute are
to receive American Legion Awards
through Susquehanna Post No. 1876,
of Perryville. These are elementary
school awards and will be given
to graduates of the seventh grade
or equivalent. The recipients will
be selected under the supervision
of the county school board except
for the Jacob Tome Institute.
Awards will be made to the boy
of the graduating class who best
meets the following qualifications:
Honor, Courage, Scholarship Lead
ership and Service. Qualifica6ohs for
the girls are: Courage, Companion
ship, Character, Service and Schol-
arship. Presentations will be made
at the respective schools by repre-
sentative of Susquehanna Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Frescoes Adjoining Old
Roman Bath Discovered

ROME.-Frescoes adjoining the
walls of a Roman bath built at the
time of julius Caesar and in which
Cleopatra may have disported her.
self, have been discovered during
work on the river bed Of the Tiber.
Though the actual paintings are
of Hadrianic date (117-138 A. d.,
the remains of the bath are of the
late republican period, 200 years
earlier.
The remains of a landing stage,
with iron mooring rings, besides
those of a temple, prove that the
site of these finds is that of Caesars
famous gardens by the Tiber. Ac-
cording to Ovid and other poets,
these gardens were the scene of an
annual festival to the goddess For
tune, to which the Romans used to
come by river.
The frescoes have been removed
and are to be made part of the
collection in the National Museum
of Rome.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
CATTLE CLUB EXHIBIT

The grand champion bull prize
offered by the Jersey Cattle Clubs of
Cecil and Kent counties that held
their combined show on the grounds
of the Chesapeake Cruising Clubs,
Chesapeake City, on Wednesday
last, went to r. P. Dulin and Son Of
Chestertown. The Dulins also won
the junior champion bull cup with
their Dairylike Raleigh.
The senior champion bull prize
went to K. L. Clevenger of Galena,
for his Pierrots Oxford Noble.
Rick Neck Farm, of Earleville.
Cecil county, won the female senior
and grand champion with PierrOts
Pie Crust. Dairylike Dora, owned by
the Dulins, captured the junior
champion female prize.
william Edward Locke is presi-
dent; r. Clayton Mcdowell, vice.
president; and Mrs. L. j. BONN, Sec
retary-treasurer of the Cecil club
which was host for the affair.
The field day was one of a series
sponsored by the state club through
out Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
New Data on Mars

Study of photographs of Mars
taken when it was at its shortest
distance from the earth-approx-
imately 100000 miles-has en-
abled scientists to arrive at definite
conclusions. An expedition was
sent out by the Pulkovo observatory
and Leningrad university. 1t worked
in the summer of 1889 at Tashkent,
capital of the central Asian Uzbek
republic, where atmospheric condi-
lions are favorable, and took more
than 500 photographs OF the red
planet. It has been determined that
Mars has quite dense atmosphere,
in which something resembling
clouds and mists are formed. Study
of the "mainlands," the dark Sec
tons, showed that they are regions
covered with sands containing fer
rous oxide. explaining the planets
orange coloring.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
FORESTRY EXPANSION
PROGRAM

Full credit for the continuance
and expansion Of the State Forestry
Program was given to Governor
Herbert r. O'Conor by John M.
Nelson, Jr., professional forester;
f. w. Besley, State Forester, and
other speakers at the hearing be-
fore the Board of Public Works on
the proposed renewal of the State
Forestry Department to College
Park.
In the opinion of several of the
speakers, there was only one thing
that saved the Forestry Department
in the State, and they took the oc-
casion publicly to acknowledge the
thanks due Governor O'Conor for
rescuing the Forestry Program by
providing in the buget amount in
the history of the State for this
work
State Forester Besley declared
most emphatically, 81 want to say
RICH here and now, we owe the con-
tinuance of our program for public
parks, forest reserves, etc., to Gov
ernor Herbert r. O'Conor.
In addition to the appropriation
for administrative expenses of the
Forestry Department, which was in
cluded in the $1,024, 1880 allotted
for each of the years 194O-41 for
the University of Maryland and
State Board of Agriculture, Gov
ernor O'Conor included in the State
bond issue of February Is, 1889,
provision for 100000 to the State
Department Of Forestry for the ac-
QUESTION, improvement and develop
ment of forest lands, Parks, and
recreational areas. This was the
particular provision referred to by
Mr.. Nelson, State Forester Besley
and others.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Wisconsin Liars Club
/ Has Tough Competition

Burlington, Wis, world capital of
tall-story tellers, faces competition.
Liars Of Usage, Okla, have chal-
lenged Burlington fibbers to Gle
telling session with no holds
barred"
''To prove we rate in the cham
pionship class" wrote Glenn G..
Gates of the Usage team, "here's
one an Usage kindergarten pupil
tells:
'''I was getting dinner one day
when I accidentally dropped very
sharp knife. It cut our old cats
tail off up close, clean as a whistle
He looked so exposed and embar-
raised that I decided to build him
a new tail of wood. / threaded the
tail stub and made matching
threads on the wooden Job and
screwed it on. The cat looked
proudly at it a moment and then
scampered out into the yard.
"'The next thing I saw was our
old cat hiding behind tree near
which all the rats in the neighbor-
hood passed. When a rat stuck his
head out our cat would switch its
tail and knock the rat dead.
THE next morning the cat had
everything organized. He had an
other cat sitting on fence as look
out, is cats dragging off the dead
rats, Is digging holes to bury them
in, and rs more covering them up
A pussy was keeping score.'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Singing in the Bathtub

The habit OF singing IN the
bathtub, despite the wear and tear
on the neighbors' nerves, has been
recommended to save the wear and
tear on bathroom linens. Scientists
at the American Institute of Laun-
dering approved of bathroom yodel-
ing after research showed that it
takes the place of too-vigorous
rundown. ''The silent bather is
most likely to seize a bath towel,
stretch it as it never should have
been stretched, and seek new vigor
by a strenuous rundown" the insti-
tute reported. ''The result is bath
towel that is ruined by having its
body stretched out of shape and its
threads torn" The institute con-
cluded that "such maltreatment
ranks with shoe wiping and razor
blade cleaning as chief causes of
bath towel fatalities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
FAKE BOOKING AGENT

The Woman's Auxiliary of Chesa-
peake City Fire Company, were re-
Gently victimized by fake booking
agent. The Auxiliary arranged to hold
dance, engaging, so they thought,
Philadelphia orchestra to furnish
the music, which was signed for by
booking agent, who obtained de-
posit. When the evening OF the dance
arrived and the orchestra did not
appear, an investigation was started
and it was learned that the orchestra
agent" was fake, and also that
he had swindled two other organic
ations in similar manner, by col
lecting fee for an orchetra that did
not exist.