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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
STEEL FOR WASHING

During 1888, 1,138,Ooo washing
machines were sold in the United
States. Steel used in the manu-.
facture of these machines amount
ed to $4,000 gross tons, on a basic
average of 81 pounds of steel for
each unit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09

Counties having the greatest
farm population based on the 1910
farm census of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture are Robertson,
A, $50; Johnston. Al, $50; Pitt IS.
730; Nash, 1890 and Sampson,
81, $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
BUSMAN'S HOLIDA

MOBERL, Mo. Wv. T. Giles
and F. M. ROUGH, railroad ma
chinists, built a streamlined train
model, working a year in their
spare time. It's motor-powered and
capable of carrying "a passengers
in three cars. They said the job
was fun. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
LOTS OF MUD

To carry the load Of mud and
silt borne by the Mississippi river
into the Gulf Of Mexico every day,
900 trains of SO cars each, with
every "a carrying SO tons, would
be required.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09

RICHMOND, Va. R-Five times
in nine years yeggmen failed in at
tempts to rob a safe in a feed-and-
grain store here. The sixth time
they obtained loot valued by own
ers at $12, 600. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09

This is the new 1910 version of
the famous heater that has made
Duo. Therm one of the worlds
largest makers of fuel oil heaters.
1t is one of the most popular heat
ers in America, and is sold locally
by the Home Furniture company
at 20 Market street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
ARE YOU
PLAYING WITH FIRE?

Fire can turn your property into
worthless ashes at any moment.
It's sound business to carry ade-
quate Insurance. Why not talk
over your needs with us?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
TREE NOTE FOR TODAY

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK R-The historic President
Arthur tree near Old Faithful
Inn in Yellowstone National park
has been turned into firewood. It
was felled by high winds recently.
felled by high winds recently.
President Chester Arthur camped
the tree when he visited the
park in 1883.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-09
BIG BUSINESS

COLUMBUS, o. RWhen Ohio
States gridders start play in the
big Buckeye bowl this fall, 1000
persons will go to work in its rim.
They will include $50 vendors, 10
maids, four nurses, two interns,
300 program hawkers, "a ticket
sellers, 200 gatemen, 60 city police
and 100 deputies. 8
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-15

Lone Ranger colors. AS an 'unat-
tached competitor, Tollmich re-
tanned his crown in the 12O-yard
high hurdles at the recent indoor
A.A.U. track championships. AL
lan's time for the event that made
him the lone Jewish indoor cham
pion for the coming year equalled
the worlds record mark set by
Percy Beard in 1881. :.
$4,000 in prizes will be given
away to the winners among the
$4,000 kegglers when the latest
American Bowling Congress con-
veneS in Detroit for its six-week
jambOree. -.
Ben Richter, of st. Louis, is
the only left-handed golfing pro-
fessional we have ever heard of.
Strictly a club pro, Richter does
not indulge in the pro Journeys
after the fashion of Herman Bar
ron, another of the too few Jew
ish pros in the business. Speak
ing of golfers reminds us of the
wag who joshed Sylvia Leichtner
by calling her "golfdom's Mrs.
Roosevelt" Mrs. Leichtner, who,
unquestionably, is the outstand-
ing Jewish woman golfer in the
country, does almost as much ira
yelling as the First Lady.
Oscar Levant, the drawing card
of the Information Please" pro-
gram, is Moe Berg's severest crit
ic = Al Schacht remains Berg's
best friend. And it's musical Os-
car who can give you the names,
numbers, batting averages, and
astrological Omens for each and ev-
cry player in the majors. He
once did it as joke and John
Kieran insisted he be put on that
PhiZZ program.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-15
Music To My Ears

whose passion for truth was so
great that he braved excommuni-
cation and exile in his search for
order and reason in the universe.
Elisha energies as a victim of his
own brilliantly honest mind.
Rabbi Steinberg has been known
to Jewish communities through
out the country as a dark, sensi-
tive-faced lecturer of earnestness
and singular eruditiOn. He h a
been known as the author of a
penetrating book, The Making of
the Modern Jew. Set him down
as a novelist of no mean ability
and one of the great 'humanizers"
of contemporary literature.
Under Rabbi Steinberg's sympa-
thetic pen, Elisha ben Abuyah
grows into figure of heroic pro-
portions-and, more than that, in
to a man whom one can under
stand and pity.
---Frankly, we approached this
semi-novel with some skepticism.
AS we opened the cover we asked
ourself: how sympathetic could a
rabbi be with the character of
hereto -? How fair could a Jewish
thinker be in presenting the ar
gument for Greek and Roman Gull
ture, as opposed to the severely in
bred Jewish culture of post-dis-
persion Palestine?
But we reckOned without the
9 gu p m ent which the author
brought to his work. Rabbi Stein
berg was once an instructor in
Latin and Greek and before that
had intended to become a physi-
clan; so the viewpoints of the sci
enlist and the classical scholar
were not foreign to him.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-15
RASEBALL BANTER

One month before the official
oDening of the 1910 baseball sea-
son and the players are involved
IN an "alI-star" game. To be exact
this inter-League rumpus is be-
inc held on March IL and with the
sole purpose of lending a help
ing hand to the Finnish Relief
Fund.
From our point of view the
came is a success. Three Hebrew
hating moguls are in the lineup
and if they can manage to WELD
their hickories with a full crop of
winter suet in their pants tt e
game should prove an exciting one.
MOrry ArnOvich, the ShebOy-
gan fence-buster, will be patrol
ing the asparagus beds for the Ma
tiOnal Leaguers while Harry (The
HOrse) banning does his stunt be-
hind the plate. So far so good.
The American Leaguers had a
headache in making their lineup.
An all-star game without Hank
Greenberg would be like borscht
without beets. The thing lust
doesn't 1--WE. Of course, they could
stick the guy at first base and
rest content in the knowledge that
they had the strongest hitting
firSt-sacker in organized baseball
on their side but even your old
Aunt Jennie knows that the Bronx
Bambino isn't playing the cor
ners any more.
Hank has been shifted to the
daisy fields and now lines up with
the OutfielderS. The mOguIs
couldn't put guy in an alI-star
spot in one position simply be-
cause ne was a king-pin in another
SO they compromised. They made
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-15
By DANIEL SCHORR
THE RABBI AND THE
HERETTC

One of the most hated charac-
tiers in Jewish history is Elisha
ben Abuyah, the first century
Palestinian agae and member Of
the Sanhedrin who repudiated his
religion and betrayed his people.
So bitter were the rabbis of his
day against him that, according to
the Jewish Encyclopedia. they re-
trained from prOnOuncing his
name, preferring to term him da-
bar aher-anOther thing. 'For this
reason" says the encyclopedia, ut
is almost impossible to derive from
rabbinical sources a clear picture
OF his personality"
1t has remained for a rabbi. Mil
ton Steinberg Of New York's Park
Avenue Synagogue, in his first
novel, AS A Driven Leaf (Bobbs
MerrilD, to pierce the veil of rab-
Dlnlcal hatred that has shrouded
Elisha's name and depict him with
magnificent clarity as a Jew
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-15
JEWS IN
SPORTS
BIZ MoRRIs WIENER

h1dnk a SecOnd-team man in the
center-field patrol.
In all, three Jewish batting gi-
ants in the same game reminds
us of the old days. Remember
back to July, 1889, when the same
trio performed in the official base
ball all-star game? Remember
too, how Morry Arnovich, the hot
tests thing in the major circuits
at that time of the year, was kept
on the be C h throughout the
game? Well, just keep your eye
to the ticker tape and see what
this trio can do.
BASKETBALL DRIBBLES
Speaking of Jewish trios re-
minds us of the three Jewish baS-
keteers who had been cavOrting
on the New York University quin-
tet. The lads - Dubinsky, Auer-
bach and KapIOwitz have been the
real hOOp-la on the Violet court
squad this year and excellent rea-
sons as well why the Hall of Fa-
mers have gone through an al
most indicated season of twenty
games against the stiffest kind of
opposition from all parts of the
country. Among them these Violet
dribblers have pegged $50 points
into the cage.
Purdue may be the Big Ten
champ and Dartmouth the king
pin of the Eastern intercollegiate
League; Southern Cal may be tops
on the Coast and the New Mexico
Aggies supreme in the Southwest
but it is still automatic that if
you're the roost-ruling chickadee
in the Metropolitan Campaign you
more or less have undisputed claim
to the mythical championship of
the United States. The N. Y. U.'ers
are to be the favorite choice for
the National title. And unless
Broadway's betting wizard, macs
tro Jack Doyle, is suffering from
an acute case of senility, the Auer-
MISUNDERSTANDING trio are
musts on anybodys All-American
basketball squad.
These three plus a kid named
Schwartz from Long Island Uni
versity, also in the metropolitan
area, make four of our five nOmi-
nees to an all-star quintet for the
19S9-194O campaign. Well let you
name fifth to stack up with the
quartet we've just enumerated. It's
not that we're prejudiced in favor
of New York talent but rather on
a basis of games played, consider
ing the rankings of the opposition
and the far-flung corners of the
compass from which the OppOSi-
ton hailed, cold logic simply die
tates the kids we've named as four
of the five that must go to make
up mythical quintet. And frank
ly we won't even risk the mOnu-
mental task of attempting to Sc
lect a fifth man from the hum
dreds of crackerjack collegiate He
brew court stars who could easily
qualify for the berth.
FOR YOUR RECORD BOOK
Allan Tollmich, who short years
ago was dubbed the one-man track
team for Wayne University in De-
troit, is now running under the
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08
tuberculosis Not
Limited To Negroes
Alone In New Orleans


NEW ORLEANS lANp) - Long
blamed for maiar c ntributions to
the tuberculosis death rates Negroes
Of New Dreams, were in measure
vindicated by statement made by
Monte Lehman, general chairman Of
the city-Wide drive to stamp out
tuberculosis.
Mr. Lehman p intcd out that the
high tuberculosis Geath rate prevail
irg generally among Negroes was
definitely not responsible for New
Orleans having the fourth highest
death rate among large cities Of TIL
nation.
Negroes, along with non-residents,
have been blamed for the high death
rate, but figures have proved this
erroneous, for the comparative Ne
gro death rate from tuberculosis in
New Orleans is low with 4 ranking
9th place among the large
American cities.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08
AIRPORT CAMPAIGN GROUP
TO HEAR TUSKE GEE PRESIDENT

CHICAGO tANP) As thc local
Tuskegee Institute Airport campaign
committees prepare TO 60 into the
final drive for funds with which to
develop al airnort at Tuskeg Is, D..
r p. Patterson, president Of the
institute will arrive IN Chicago on
Armistiec day. November ] 4 for 4
slseeiai address that night to the
campa ign forces at Poro College, il
was announced this week BY Daniel
] f'anlknef, secretary.
Faulkner also announced that the
general chairman, BRIG. Gen. spen-
eer g. Dickerson, has rcvamped the
committee members so they are ana
lel - 10 our defense forces by es-
tab ishing four branches of service
with a commander Of each. The
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

liam Gus Ed,uards hatched tor
himself aDhen he produced Kid
Knbaret,o aoay back 1Dhen. NBC
is nop getting the benefit Of Wat
ter Winchcll, and, antil recently,
OF George Jessel. auho also be-
longed to that kid shoap. The
Others = George Price, Eddie
Buzzell and Lila Lee are no
lonaer avith uS, but they didn't do
badlu Ia their illdiUidual days.
ALL AROUND-NBC to make
tour of 13 army camps after con-
scription goes into effect :.
Voice that deiies description:
that OF Paul Hodges, now con-
ducting Travel Time" on WLW
CBS's Amos IN Andy have
been fingerprinted - not because
they stepped out of line legally,
but because the government now
requires the registration of all
radio operators, which they are,
with amateur status Cap
| tain Midnight" takes the place
of "Orphan Annie on MBS S. /.
rs Of worlds greatest books to
be discussed on the fall-winter
edition OF CBS's Invitation to
Learning" The theme song
on Arch Oboler'.; new NBC SER
les, "Everyman's Theater," Is
Death and TRANSPORTATION"
THEY'RE putting WLW on the
air Is minutes earlier than they
used to. Reason, Many farmers,
factory aDorkefs and truckers, as
,pelI as all-night aOorkers, are
uery much n,udke in the pre-
aalun, aud can do nicely ,ulth en-
tertainment.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

Army-Corps is commanded by Cap
tain Richard L. Jones; Air-corps, by
Col. John c. Robinson; Marine
corps, Walter II. Abernathy and
Arthur W. Sewell, is admiral Of the
Navy.
Among others holding important
positions are. Caude A. Barnett
vice chairman; Robert r. Taylor,
treasurer; Drs. NJ. o. Bousfeld and
Roscoe G. Giles, chairman and vice
chairman respectively Of the big
gift committee; John H. Sengstacke
publicity chairman, and Col. Lewis
+. Johnson, coordinator.
The success Of this campaign wi
assure continuation of aeronautical
training Al Tuskegee for the Negro
youth of the entire lower South.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

the "Follies, and thereafter ne
was as much d part Of that show
as Ziggle himself He began to
exploit his eyes and his bound
less energy in movies and radio,
and, like d rubber ball, he's been
bouncing N and out Of radio since.
Now occupying juicy NBC-
WLW Wednesday night spot, he
has just celebrated ten more-or-
less consecutive years on the air,
and looks forward to more Of the
same.
Cantor is plain, and likes plain
people. He never high-hats any
body. How could he, since he
came from plain people and got
where he is because Of them?
Well, he could others like him
have = but he didn't. And he
is hercely proud Of the system
that allowed him to develop.
II aDds really nest Of enter
tainment genius that Vandevil-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

ported by his
6 ], a n dnaotller,
Wilo got senle
proceeds from
an employne
bureau. Eddie
had no time TO
brood, and at
seven was sing
ing at picnics.
He got boosted
along to Broad :
way in 1916,
when Ziegleld
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

network to re-
c a IL one OF
Thomas's fam
Gus yarns, ard
SO did Raymond
Gra m Swing
and G a b + ] e !
I'll e a I t er OF
MBS. The NBc
contingent was I
out in full.
Thomas took
home a record
ing Of his first
fn1-t ~ ri
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

who IS general Chairman Of a com.
mittee # the Willard School Parent
Teacher association, which will hold
it, fifth annual fall festival Friday
evening in the school auditorium
Members Of the committee are: Miss
Florence Williams. Mrs. Marie
Revere, Miss Marie Rice, Mrs. Car
RE Griggs and Miss Gertrude Sykes.
Proceeds wi be used t buy rain
coats for traffic boys.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

80 long as we degrade cne seq
ment of the people, we set pattern
Of cast and discrimination that
may easily be transferred to other
groups.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

Gallagher 23yearold resident Of Norpood Ono near
Cincinnati seen above Of cub dpldne
sened to him By the wings Of Destiny program He happens 20
he about a. as ne to
aUhen the plane delivered to n
Chicago conducted the nterueo Wings OF
Destiny is heard WLW from NBC Fridays at 10 EST
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08
an AND OFF THE AHK
IoWFIL THOMAS M4RKs TEN YEARS. -
Nv Fred Emery

soMEWHERE between 10 and 15 mllhon people
baar Lowell Thomas every evening he's on 'he ar
That's why NBC found it fitting that tnls spfuss'
49, aynddaddv Of all radio commentators should
haa snecia half-hour when he celebrated his tenth
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

seven letters Of type = nothing.
Born in New York's Ghetto in
1892, he was an orphan when ne
was two wears old, and was sup
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

anniversary couple Of Weeks
ago.
It was quite d thing Elmer
Davis Of CHS came on the rival
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

THREE DOTTINGS--Ted Ma
lone to visit homes of 81 famous
Il S. prose writer's on new ABC
itinerary .. CBS's Col stoop-
naples defines the letter q 1t
IS an 20" that when somebody
put a pigtail on It a fellow SAID,
How eute!" and it was later
shortened 10 just % FIRST
len aMusic of Masters Sunday
programs on WLW to deal with
history Of piano q. After much
negotiation, Dorothy Thompson
lis now doing commentaries on
MBs Sundays Gale Page IS
aoins to do some singing on the
sHollvwood Playhouse series on
NBC this fall Susie q the
Novelty Aces missed the qulntets
l5o0th broadcast on WLW WREN
she came down with acute ap-
lpendicitis The de wore SIS
|ters Of that station, however, got
past their fifth anniversary
1aMoDn RIVER without trouble
MBS gets a record number OF
stations together-ll5 for sDou-
Eble or Nothing quiz series.
1 n y. KALTENBORN, the NBc
commentator, has written OUT
~. Ton Commandments OF his
craft, in response to his sons re-
quest. They are: % BE sure o.
yonr facts. t2) BE sure OF your
timing. CD BE sure OF your pro-
nnnciation. ta) BE sure OF your
opinion. go BE sure Of your
! background. tG) BE sure OF your
quotation. (7D Be sure OF you'
! English. t8l BE sure OF your ms
/ tory. (9) BE sure OF your sources
IO Be sure of yourself. -
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

IF EVER any man was heart and soul in the demo-
cratic way Of life, the call him guy and DC less
formal - is Eddie Cantor.
What Eddie started out with and what he had to
look forward to- anyplace but here be explained in
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-08

broadcast aAu
the mlcrophoue, now gold-piaaeo'
that he used for that broadcast
BACK 10 his 2,40O acre estate n
Paving, N y. also went q desh
set suitable for q weather ou-
reau. Ii included clock, par
ometer. thermometer compass
altitude meter and hNgfon1cief.
Thomas gpl his first aealtn and
fame by le@turlng 81 idvtitauies
with Col I + LaMlenee II Ara
bla. He told tire story q sollie
5000, 900 Blitisilers and made
over million dollafs.
WHEN THOMAS dropped ~
to see some friends at WLW orc
time. lie offered neu tune oJ dd-
uice TO uo1tng men Hc ddn,sea
that / uoung man uould do '1el
to get up to h's neck IN deot
"Thea,' Thomas said he Uon
haze ime TO tool around. Hel
haze to make good
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II pas really a nest Of enter
tainment genius that VaudeUil-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-12-13
Italian Army Continues
Withdrawal
jCa:!t.rueC From Pare One)

NC-'-!N'-.G'N- 'D'''
further lighting," q Greek dispatch
said.
counter attacks. it said. the m.tia-
tive along the entire front passed
once again 10 Greek troops. The
enemy is continuing to retreat.
Captured italian Officers were
Quoted as doubling Ituly'$ ability to
continue the battle in tn event Of
the fall OF kii>ura Pass. ten miles
northeast OF Tepeleni on the south
ern end OF the I00-nile front.
Exchange Telegraph, British news
agency. reported from Athens that
Italian forces after Il fierce - Il, mas
started withdrawing lro... epeleni.
The italians were said 10 be suffer-
ing heavy losses.
Berlin reported hundreds OF Ger
man warplaneS engaged IN the al
tack on Sheffield. famed manui"c-
turing city Of 100000.
Returning nazi pilots said the as
sault surpassed in devastating fury
the assault on Coventry several
weeks ago.
Reports are as yet incomplete but
do not suggest heavy casualties" a
British communicate said.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

=: % ':: .ss
- -. ~ m Enqish port
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30

"I'm not an adding machine. But
my best guess is about 5000"
Nick whistled softly. That much?
I wonder how he's going to pay on. y
Vera murmured something and
then Nick said, "well, have you sug-
gested anything to hiIn?"
Eyes. He was pretty desperate
when he dropped the third grand.
We went in the bar for a drink
and mentioned casually that he
could sell some of his real estate
and make that much or more.
And then managed to plant the
idea of how good some Of his
property would be for an airport
site"
She laughed. "He wasn't too
drunk to get the idea. He pointed
out that since he was member
of the committee named to select
the site he couldn't very well sell
his own land. I had to be careful
but I said something about using
a friend as front and so on and
so on. could see he was think
ing about it.
"And then we came back here
If he keeps on losing he'll have
to do something. He owes every
one in town, they say"
well, keep up the good work, y
Nick told her. do you think Sue
Mary gets the pitch on this?"
Sue Mary gripped her hot hands
and turned back to the table. They
mustn't know that she did under
stand. She must keep up this
pretense of innocence.
She only wished she knew what
to do All the things she was
learning spelled trouble, but how
to use the information was still
beyond her.
Obviously they meant to get
young Ross Clark involved in the
airport sale. BY blackening his
name they could have it reflect
on old Governor Miller, for it was
he who had appointed young
Clark to the committee.
He and old Ross Clark had been
law partners as young men, but
he could never know that young
Clark would be such a weak link
in the chain. She could imagine
the stories in the papers. The
governors appointee on the COM
mittee pulling a fast one to make
money so that he could pay his
gambling debts; using the tax
payers money in a time of ma
tional crisis. That would GER
tainly reflect on the old COVER
nors suitability for second term
She read the papers carefully
for the next few days and finally
was rewarded. The airport site
port site committee had met and
announced that another site was
being discussed; one that had fine
possibilities. If they could agree
on price, an announcement would
be made soon. Speed was an import
ant factor, since the new site must
be purchased and work started as
soon as possible.
The paper also told of more
trouble at the Smithson factory
Handbills had been distributed
when the morning shift went on;
handbills advising the workers
that their labor representatives
were double-crossing them. Urg-
ing them to demand more of a