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The Phoenix index., 1940-07-13

Surely acute needs, only a few of which have
been mentioned, could never be met with 100000
for the several Negro schools when 100000 and
more allocated i'll two instances for other
schools alone in the $1700O00 proposed school funds
THE BONDS FAILED ONCE
Atlantas Negro schools certainly need more
help than this 100000 ear-marked for them. The
bonds failed once and may fail again because of non-
support and failure to go to the polls by thousands
of well thinking white and colored citizens 1t is
to be noted that makers of the bond issue have
sraegically made the bond election date to fall
TIE day of the city primary voting when of the
populace turns out to cast its ballot for mayor al
dermen etc.
Action by City Council reminds me of meet
inc attended last year
The air tense with discussion of ways and
means for colored rural teachers to secure money
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Many Negroes have forgotten
that. Most Negroes have never
found it out.
CITE MESSAGE
Just word or two from the mes
sage which British Workingmen
sent from Manchester, England, to
Braham Lincoln, nearly 80 years
ago:
"You have procured the liberation
of the slaves in the district around
Washington. You have enforced
the laws against the slave trade
and kept up your fleet against it..
You have nobly decided to receive
ambassadors from the Negro repub-
lies of Haiti and Liberif< thus for
ever removing that unworthy pref
udice which refuses the rights OF
humanity to men and women on
account OF their color. Your Con-
gross has decreed freedom as the
The Phoenix index., 1940-07-13
By AL WHITE FOR AMP

WASHINGTON.- N.-ANP)-Back In
the capitol after q week in Philly
attending the COP big shoW-and
glad to be back, believe me. Cant
get rid of my Philadelphia accent
to save my life.
Washington is so refreshing af-
ter a visit to that Quaker City
not that the Quaker City hasn't
its good points-but then D. G. Of
fers something else too.
Atlantic City was preparing the
jump when we inspected it Friday
evening-in company with my good
companion, j. Franklin Wilson, who
worked so hard in Philly he said he
hadn't had young idea in weeks.
Seems to be some difference of
opinion in the letter sent by M.
Mel. B. to the White House. One
lady says it doesn't express her per-
sonal opinion-and it's Mrs. BIS
alone.
Much rain here in D. c. not at all
like July.
NV friend 'Pam~'-c" yohnson
brought ne brand new "bitie"
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WILLIAM PICKENS SAYS---

law forever in the vest unoccupied
or half-settled territories. 1t has
offered pecuniary aid to all the
states which will enact emancipa-
tion locally, and his forbidden your
generals to restore fugitive slaves. e.
Heartily do we congratulate you
and your country on this humane
and righteous cause.
"We assume that you cannot
stop short of a complete up-root-
ing of slavery"
And so on went the logic out of
the hearts of British people.-It is
my fervent wish that such a peo-
pie, such a peoples descendants,
will win this devilish war against
that German monStrosity. And
they were not calculating on that
when they spoke, nearly 80 years
ago.
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THERE HAS fOR some years
been a growing conviction in Vir-
ginia that Negro school teachers
should be given equal pay for equal
work, provided they satisfy the
same requirements as to training
and experience. But public opin-
ion has been moving slowly in this
reasonable direction, and tpe Ne
gro teachers, forced to meet the
same educational requirements
fixed for white teachers, in many
instances, did not feel that they
could afford to wait for time ard
the processes of intellectual evo'u-
ton.
In Norfolk, q Negro teacher,
MELVIN o. ALSTON. and the
Norfolk Teachers Association tthe
group with which he was attiliateO
filed suit against the Norfolk
School Board and G. w. Mason.
the city'S superintendent OF
schools. They asked the United
States District Court for the East
ern District of virginia for a de-
claratory judgment, stating that
any discrimination against Negro
school teachers in the matter OF
salaries, on account of their race
and color, would be an infringe
ment of their rights under the
Constitution; the plaintiffs also
asked the district court for an
injunction restraining the Norfolk
City School Board from practicing
any such discrimination.
The District Court did not go
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A Little Safety Talk

the driver to the nearest hospital,
a badly injured man.
That unfortunate driver shared
the common but erroneous BELIEF
of many autoists that traffic regu-
lations are made for the other fell
low.
Don't let your drivers ego cause
you to believe that you are i'm
mune to accidents.
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one high school, which is far away
from the center of the colored pop
ulation; that it and the inadequate
number of elementary schools are
vastly overcrowded, have majori-
ty of double sessions which do not
allow for the best work by teach
ers Or students; that auditoriums in
colored schools are fewer than the
"hen teeth" we hear of every now
and then; that Fairgrounds and
playground facilities are totally
lacking in MANY nartc of the city
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100000 For Schools

City Council Of Atlanta last week approved leg
slaion involving totalling nearly $4OOOOOO to
be spent in eliminating portables and fre-traps from
the school and hospital systems Of the hundreds Of
thousand dollars ear-marked for the school system,
only 100000 was designated for colored schools.
Few 90 not know that the needs of Atlanta's
public Negro schools most acute that there is but
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Flush Poisons From
Kidneys and Stop
Getting Up Nights
Be Healthier, Happier-Sleep Better

When you can get for 35 cents a safe.
efficient and harmless stimulant and
diuretic that should flush from your
kidneys the waste matter, poisoRs and
acids that are now doing you harm, why
continue to break your restful sleep by
getting up thru the night?
Don't be an EASY MARK and ac-
cept a substitute-Get Col, Medal
HARLEM Oil Capsules-the original
and genuine. Look for the Gold
Medal on the box - 35 cents.
other symptoms of weak kidneys and
irritated bladder may be backache,
puffy eyes. shifting pains. burning or
acanty passage 1.
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University of California agricul-
tural engineers have invented a
device to sample the smoke issuing
from orchard smudge pots to- de-
termine how much carbon is be-
ing sent into the air,
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PHOENIX INDEX connected with political party
the completely mpara and hatred
matter coming this should be in office Sun
day later p NJ week order the
plainly
We the rights
condnse alter all matter for safety convenience unless the
S
Make all orders payable to the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
by contributors Or they
published
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There is no subject more es-
sential than self-betterment?
A grindstone is not in itself
able to cut but it can make steel
sharp and capable of cutting?
That we are continuing the
theme Gods cure for broken
liveS?"
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PONDER THESE
BAGATELLES
By THE OLD TIMEF

By The OLD IINAEh
ISN'T 1T TRUE THAT. -.
The most important individual
interest in life is self improve
ment?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
OBITUARIES
MRS. SALLIE j. BROWN

Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie
Johnson Brown, 54, Of 119 Castle
street, who died in a local hospital
early yesterday morning after a brief
illness, will be held from the chapel
of Andrews mortuary this afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock.
The Rev. W. o. Walton will con
duct the services. Interment will fol.
low in Bellevue cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: Wood.
row Mallard, Chesley Keen, Clarence
Marshburn, Marion Mathews, James
Newton and Samuel Gems. Honorary
~pallbearers will be: D. F. Sandlin,
Woodrow Sandlin, A. c.. Bancks,
Charles Dushan, Herbert Hayes and
Norwood Wolfe.
She is survived by her husband,
S. M. Brown, four sons, A. M.
Brown, of Columbia, S. c.; G.. O.,
V. G., and S. M. Brown, Jr., all
of Wilmington; three daughters,
Mrs. J.. H. Krauss, of Norfolk,
Va; Mrs. Haywood Spires. OF
Columbia, S. c., and Mrs. Marga-
ret Sandlin, of Wilmington; two
brothers, L. j. Johnson, of Darling
ton, S. c., and W. j. Johnson, also
of Darlington and nine grandchil-
dren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
SWISS FIRE UPON
FOREIGN B0MBERS
Craft, Apparently British,
Run Gantlet For More
Than Three Hours

BERN. Aug. 27.-CTuesday)-H
Successive wave of. foreign
planes-apparently British bomb
ers raiding Italy-ran a gantlet Of
swiss anti-aircraft gunfire for
more than three hours last night
and early today.
Both as they went and as they
returned, the planes were subject.
ed to heavy Swiss ground fire that
echoed loud and long through the
defiles of the Jura, Bernese and
Overland Alps.
The last all-clear signal finally
was given at 2:20 am. (8:4O pm,
Monday, EST.).
There were no reports of planes
hit in the cunning that began with
the first alarm at 11:17 pm, Mon
day, accompanied by searchlights
and rockets.
The Swiss have protested to Brit
ain against repeated previous
flights over Switzerland by British
raiders bound to and from Italy.
A second alarm sounded in Bern
and Geneva at an hour and So
minutes after the guns fired on
the planes. ]
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NEGROES ARE HELD
IN EASLEY DEATH
Continued From Page One)

Green was held under a $1,000 bond
and Clemmons under $500 bond.
Four o h negroes - Douglas
Swain, Robert Hewett, Warren
Hawkins and James Hoyner- who
had been held since the death of
Easley, were e~xonerated by the
coroner's jury.
Southport Chief of Police M. r.
Lewis testified that he and Easley
had been called to quell a disturb
ance and that he arrested Nelson
Hawkins. In the scuffle, he said,
he saw Hankins and Bowen hit Eas-
ley.
He also testified that he heard
one of the other negroes yell, Boys,
don't let him take him (Hankins)
away"
DR.. r. c. Fergus, the only other
witness to be heard by the jury,
testified that in his opinion Easley
died of the wounds received in the
fight.
The negroes were first arrested on
charges of assault with q deadly
weapon, the warrants being later
amended after the death of Easley.
The Brunswick county superior
court will open on Monday, Septem-
Der 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
DUKE OF GUISE DIES
IN SPANISH MOROCCO
Exiled Pretender to the French
Throne Warned Nation Against
Dictatorship

LARACHE, Spanish Morocco,
Aug. 26.-R-The Duke of Guise,
66-year-old exiled pretender to the
French throne who for years
warned his countrymen tt at a
monarchy was the alternative to
collapse and dictatorship, d e d
here today.
Royalists and prominent towns
men were admitted to the ducal
palace tonight to file by his bier,
surrounded by his widow, Prin-
cess Isabelle and one daughter,
Princess FRANCHISE, of Greece.
Burial will be tomorrow in the
old cemetery of Larache.
The duke issued several mani
festos calling for monarchial rule
in the years of exile spent here
and his villa near Brussels. Until
Frances military collapse | a S t
June and the rise of the authori-
tartan regime of Marshal Philippe
Petain, his claims did not attract
widespread attention.
Since then observers have spec
ulated that the Petain regime
might be only a temporary one
aimed at restoring the monarchy.
The present French government is
rightist, and Defense Minister Gen.
Maxine Weygand is known to be
sympathetic to royalists.
His son, the Count of Paris, now
is expected to assume the respon-
sibilities of the pretender. ]
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SENATE VOTES TO
RESTRICT SERVICE
OF CONSCRIPTS
Continued from Page One)

the Lodge amendment, but a roll
call vote was demanded.
Il shall vote against this amend
ment," said Senator Hatch ID
NM) because it might possibly
acquire the implied authority tina
the President could send h e S {
t~rainees to any part of the west.
ern hemisphere.
"The reason for this amendment
is to keep the men out of Europe
said Lodge.
The Vote
The vote showed 81 for the
amendment and four against it.
with Senators Burke, ID : Neb),
Connally (D-Tex) and Smathers
O-NJ) joining Hatch in opposition.
Some senators voting for the
amendment expressed doubts as
to its constitutionality.
Senator Wiley (R-Wis) said the
amendment trespassed on the con-
stitutional rights of the President
to direct operations off the army
and had no practical effect except
to register congressional ia dsp
proval of any move to send sol
diers abroad.
Senator Ashurst D-Ariz), agree
ing with this Interpretation, said
he thought any President would
heed such an admonition fr o m
congress. i
aMORE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
HIGH BAND HOLDS
INITIAL PRACTICE
Fifty-Five Young Musicians
Report; Lacock Schedules
Daily Sessions

The New Hanover High school
band held it's first practice of the
new school year at the school yestef
day morning at $3.50 o'clock with Of
young musicians attending.
OF the number present, about hall
were girls and freshmen out for the
first time. The director, Lieutenant
Eugene Lacock, has issued an invf-
tation to all students to attend the
daily practice sessions which will be
held in the auditorium from $3.50
until II a. m. from Monday through
Friday Of each week.
There are several students in the
elementary grades who were mem
bers of the special class held this
summer at the High school and Lieu
tenant Lacock wants these students
to attend the morning sessions.
Perhaps some students wish tt
learn to play an instrument but have
the idea they will not be wanted un-
less they can play, but the idea Of
the class is to teach the student how
to play so they will eventually be
come members of the band. So, il
any school student wishes to learn
an instrument he or she may do sc
by attending the class.
This year the director plans tt
have a beginners group and an ad
vanced group and will place the best
players in the regular High band as
they become more advanced in their
studies of band music.
Several new instruments will be
added to the band this year, includ'
ing the e Flat clarinet and a set
Of typmany. There are also severa.
openings in the bass section of the
band.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
DEFENSE HOUSING
PLANS ARE PUSHED
Continued from Page One)

acute shortage of living quarters
would impede defense work.
The $40, 600, 900 was S aside
from the 5000, 600, 900 of blank
check funds which congress gave
MIR. Roosevelt for defense pur-
poses. Smith said it had not been
allocated among localities.
The budget director said that
the President had now earmarked
$54, 668, "a of the special fund.
The largest single item, $29, 615,-
600. was transferred to the war
department to begin work on the
camps where the first 400, 600
young men would be trained
if congress enacts the pending
Burke Wadsworth bill.
For procurement and training of
defense workers, such as machin-
lists in navy yards, $3,420, 900.
For surveys and investigations,
$6,7 03. "a.
For scientific research on mech
anisms and devices Of warfare,
81, $3.50, 600.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
EGYPT RECEIVES
ITALIAN WARNING
CONTINUED From Page One)

Premier Mussolini's views, wrote
In II Giornale d'Italia.
Gayda charged the British with
attacks on Italian Libya from
neighboring Egypt and said that
British talk of tn eatened Italian
attacks on Egypt vas an attempt
to drag Egypt into the war"
Egypt is bound to Britain by a
mutual defense pact, but has indi-
Gated she will continue a passive
ally unless the Italians attempt an
invasion.)
England can not demand and
Egypt cannot allow pretended
Egyptian neutrality and independ.
ence to become more and more
every day a protective trenchwork
for British preparations
against italian territory in Africa
i. and even against Italy herself
Gayda said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
READ

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-R-
The government completed major
preparations today for what Off
Gals said would be a quiet, bust
ness-like roll call of aliens.
The huge task Of registering and
fingerprinting approximately $780,
600 non-citizens will begin without
special ceremony tomorrow in 2
300 postoffices. Tdained postal en-
ployes will be awaiting visits from
aliens, who have been the objec-
tive Of an intensive educational
campaign since the registration bill
was signed by President Roosevelt
June %.
Earl G Harrison, who left a Phil
adelphia law practice to direct the
registration, announced that the set
up was completely ready in all
major cities, but that some smaller
places had not yet received finger
printing equipment.
He added at a press conference
that the Justice department, of any
which the immigration and natur-
alization service is now a unit, had
not planned any 'stuntk" to at
tract attention to the registration
and was not making ay special
check of first day compliace. In
fact, Harrison said, the department
was hoping that aliens would not
jam postoffices the first day.
Fifteen questions will be asked
adults, covering personal identifi-
catoin, time and manner of entry
into this coutry, occupation, and
criminal and military records and
general activities.
One question concerns utilization
with any organizations devoted to
furthering the interests of a foreig
government.
The final day of registration for
aliens now here is December 26. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
nBOmbersP0un
London In Lengthy Raid

get below ground or else 10 ,.u
|, The Nazi stragegy ann We hliled.
be to send raiders aro, ~oseaFed 10
individually at split-secorss me city
walls. @0Ao inter.
Raiders Bafflea
|. The raiders, however
baftled by the citv's ti9b appeared
of barrage balloon, s-earc Tgtease
and gathering anti aircraf nights
non. t'It Can,
Some lone planes leaned ~.
deadly barrier and dashed mis-
the center of London, howe,s~! 0Ss
attitudes so high the gunfirs At
not reach them. eo0.t
searchlights caught Soma
these, and appeared to 81 Of
them from one to another :
Dasketballs in the hands of sti TAs
players, until tn e anti . airn ,.ea
could get a bead on them,
Even at that, observers s.is
full ground defenses had not ne
| been brought into use. 'l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
Burgaw

BURGAW, Aug. 26.-Jack Am
ster left Sunday for his vacation,
to be gone a week. He will visit
New York city.-Mr. and Mrs.
Bateman, of Atlanta, visited Mrs.
J. F. Herring Thursday and Fri
day.-Miss Lucille Shearon,
Of Bum, has arrived in Burgaw
to be ready for the school open
ing Tuesday.-W. c. Cation, of Kin
ston, will arrive Monday and will
open offices in the Farrior build
ing, from which will be directed
activities in connection with the
Fender county fair, which occur
the week of September 9.-Walter
Thompson and James Armstrong,
of Bannerman's Bridge, we're visi-
tors here Wednesday.-B. L. Lam
Ter, of Maple Hill, was a business
visitor in Burgaw Friday.-M i S S
Marjorie Scott who has been work
ing in Burgaw for several months
left Friday for her home at Long
Creek. Miss Scott will have charge
Of the school library at L o 6
Creek school for the term begin
ming next Tuesday.-Prof. G.. w.
Harriet, in charge Of the Atkinson
high school again this year, was a
visitor in Burgaw Friday.-Dr. and
Mrs. N. C. Wolf and DR.. and Mrs.
W. H. Young have returned from
Blowing Rock, where they spent
the week vacationing.-M a S t e r
Remley Clark has been confined
to his bed on account of illness
Phillip Lucas is expected home
from Chapel Hill the first of the
week to spend several days with
his mother, after which he will re-
turn to the university.-Miss Doug
las Hand left for Raleigh after
spending her vacation here with re-
latives.-Mrs. Giles Kornegay and
little daughter. Paula, have return
ed from Hartford where they have
been visiting for the past several
weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. W. H. Robbins re-
turned recently from Morehead
City where they spent several
days.-Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Murphy
and daughter, Nancy, spent Fri
day in Greenville. They were &C
companied home by Miss Julia
Murphy, who has been at E.C.T.C.
for the summer.-Mesdames ]. T.
Wells, T. G. Haynes, D. D. Spark.
man, T. j. Belts, R. v. Bibbenstein,
W. I. Taylor, Carrie Hussey and
Miss Margaret Belts spent Friday
at Middle Sound.-Mrs. WA. Had
ley, of Wrightsville Beach, spent
the weekend here with relatives
and friends.-Miss Dorothy Ho.
ward, who has been recuperating
at her home at St. Pauls following
an operation for appendicitis, ex-
poets to return to her duties here
as home demonstration agent next
Tuesday. Miss Bryan, who h a
been substituting for her, will re-
turn to Raleigh.-Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Davis, of Greensboro, spent
the weekend in Burgaw with re-
latives and friends.-Mr. and Mrs.
Houston Burgess returned to Bur-
gaw Saturday morning after
spending a week in Baltimore. -
0. V. Wooten, merchant of Maple
Hill, was a business visitor in Bur.
gaw Saturday morning. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-27
HOUSE GROUP OKEHS
NEW PROFITS LEVY
Continued from Page One)

Trammell acts limitations of 8 and
7 per cent on profits from war
ships and military aircraft. The
suspension would be applicable to
all years during which the excess
profits tax is in force.
The amortization plan would
permit government contractors
and subcontractors to deduct from
their taxable income the entire
cost of any new facilities COM
pleted after July 10, 1910, in con-
nection with defense. These de-
auctions would be at the rate of
20 Der cent a year for five years.
The defense commission and the
secretary of navy or war would
have to certify that the plants were
needed for defense.
This provision had been urged
by the White House, the defense
commission and the var depart
ment as necessary to a speedy de-
tense program. Contractors, Off
Gals said, did not wish to lay out
money for new plants unless as
sured of this tax concession.
Committee Change
One of the committees changes
provided a higher rate schedule
for concerns earning large profits
and electing to Isl an average
earnings" method of computing
their tax. Under this method, a
corporations profits consid-
cred excess" and therefore tax
able under the bill if they exceed
the average of its earnings for the
four years, 1886 to 1889, inclusive.
Concerns using an Invested
capital method would be accord
ed a lower rate.
This latter method provides that
where a corporation averaged
earnings of 10 per cent or more
on its invested capital during the
1869 base period years, its I'm
taxed credit would be 10 per cent
of its invested capital.
Corporations with lower earnings
during the base period would be
allowed a credit equal to the aver
age. A concern would be allowed
a minimum credit, however, of 2
per cent on the first $500, 900 of
invested capital and 5 per cent on
all remaining capital. These mini
ma e 6 and 4 per cent in the
original subcommittee proposal.
Concerns organized since Jan. l,
1886, would use as their earn
ings' for any base period year
when they were not in operation
an amount equal to 10 per cent of
the first $500, 900 of their invested
capital and 8 per cent of the re-
naming invested capital. l
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CONTINUED From Page One)

(COnGlnue0 from rage Oue)
ness so deep that the occasional
flare of a match was startling.
Yet through it, some traffic con-
tinued to move.
Bombs were heard dropping on
the suburbs, and in one thickly
populated district Associated Press
staff observers heard tremendous
exploions as one r a i was
caught in a %cross-fire Of search
lights.
Apparently, the plane had jet
tisoned its deadly eggs in an eff
fort to escape.
AL nua, or dthe sky flashed fit
fully with bombs blast and anti
aircraft c~annonading.
Millions of Londoners and sub
urbanites crouched long in shell.
tiers, but many others insisted on
staying on street corners to watch
the eerie show despite frantic ad.
monitions of air raid warden tc