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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Students Describe Work
At Business Club Meeting

Members of the Wilmington Bet
ter Business club heard teachers
and students of New Hanover High
school vocational education de-
partment at the weekly meeting
Monday night in the Tide Water
assembly hall.
Several Of the vocational students
explained how the department had
helped them by working and learn
ing at the same time and indicated
the department had placed them in
the kind of work for which they
were best suited.
The teachers, Miss Frances w.
Trigg, Miss Katherine Washington,
and George Sandvig, explained that
the time spent by students working
at vocational jobs counted towards
scholastic credit at the high school.
Better Business club members
during open forum discussions eS.
pressed the belief that the depart
ment filled a great need in the
city by promoting closer coopera-
ton with business and profession
al groups.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Three Are Sentenced For
Violation Of Liquor Law

Tried in recorders court yeste-
ray morning for violations Of
the liquor laws, Joe Jones, negro,
Hortense Edwards, white, and Dan
Benson, white, were convicted and
sentenced.
Joe Jones, negro, Hortense Ed
wards, white woman and Dan Ben
son, white convicted of violating
the liquor laws when they were
tried in recorders court here this
morning.
Joe Jones, at whose house Of
ficers said they found the whiskey.
gave notice of appeal to superior
court. Hortense Edwards was given
IL months in Jail, and Dan Benson
was sentenced to four months in
Jail.
Leo Hughes, negro charged with
perjury, was dismissed for lack of
probable cause.
The case of Herman Quinn, charg-
ed with reckless driving and damage
to person property and serious in.
jury to the person of Russell
Dykes of Sunset Park in an auto,
mobile collision, was continued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
EIGHT DUEL

BTDAPEST. April 23.-CP-kal-
man Patz and Lajos Szechenyi,
rsqsars Of rival Nazi factions in
Hrreary. fought a duel with sa-
hers today. Szechenyi, slashed
across the face, was declared unfit
=, continue. They had q%uarreled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
COOPER ADDRESSES
FAIRMONT CROW
Candidate Says N. C. Needs
More Mulishness In
Its Government

FAIRMONT, April 23-Beginning
the third week of his statewide
for governor, Tom Coop
err told a crowd here today, North
needs some muliShneSs in
its government and if l am elected
governor I am going to put it
I'm my years as a mule dealer
and a farmer, I have learned a lot
from the mule. I have learned to
respect the mules good, common
horse ems and the stubbOrnness it
gets from the jackass.
Common horse sense told me,
when 1 was in the legislature in
1885 and in 1887 that automobile
license tags should be cut to So.
that the people should be given 80
days grace after January / to Sc
cure those tags, that the sales lax
was an abominable tax on poverty,
that the teachers should have bet
ter pay, a retirement fund and sick
leave with pay. I sought the S. auto
tag, 80 days grace to buy tags and
aid for the teachers and opposed
the sales tax.
witt the st~ubbornness of the
mule, I am still fighting for the
things common horse sense told me
were right then and which it tells
me are right now, and if 1 am elect
ed governor I am going to continue
to fight for those ends with that
same stubbornness.
Common horse sense tells me,
and tells YOU, there is no need IN
the state charging two prices Tor
an auto tag when it has twice as
much money in the sinking tuna
as it needs to retire every outstand-
ing road term bond. 1t also tells us
it would not cost the state a dime
to let the people use their cars Tor
30 days after January /, when they
would still be paying six cents a
gallon tax on the gasoline they burn
instead of simply putting their cars
UP for that period. 1t tells us there
is no sense in the state continuing
to charge a three per cent sales TAX
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
DISAPPOINTED

WASHINGTON, April %. - up -
Representative Ramspeck (D-Ga> eH-
pressed disappointment today that
the southern governors conference
had failed to submit a list of recon-
mendations for an appointment to
the interstate commerce commission.
The Georgian, a leader in the souths
drive for reduced freight rates, a
suggested that the conference SUD-
NIT to President Roosevelt the
of about four s~outherners for the
ICC vacancy. The governors met at
Charleston. S. c., last week but al
journed without announcing whom
they would recommend,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
BOARD IS CHOSEN
BY ROTARY CLUB
Boyd Discusses Progress OF
Port During The Past
Several Years

Members of the Wilmington Ro-
tary club elected a board of seven
directors at a meeting yesterday at
the Cape Fear hotel.
It's members are: John Colucci,
Gene Edwards, Charles P. Graham,
Malcolm H. Lander, C. M. Shigley,
Ben Sutherland and Elvie White.
Fourteen names w e r e selected
from the membership as nominees
for the offices. Others we're: Morti-
mer Glover, Charles M. Harrington,
T. D. Love, Stuart l.. Marbury,
Charles B. Newcomb, Howard A.
Penton, and Modrecai M. Thurman.
Earl C. Napier, retiring president,
automatically becomes a member of
the board Of directors.
Those elected yesterday will serve
during the year 1940-41.
H. E. Boyd, Wilmington Port
Traffic manager, spoke at the meet
ing on the progress of the port dur
ing the past several years. Since
1888, he said, the city has progressed
steadily in port business and has
compiled sizeable increase e a C h
succeeding year.
There are about IS cities of more
than 10000 population in North
Carolina, all of which are within the
Port of Wilmington's trading area.
Boyd said the harbor facilities here
can accommodate eleven steamers
at one time and provide 653, 900
square feet Of warehouse space.
He mentioned also that the rate
per 500 in cost Of customs col
United States. The local customs
offices collect 800 in duty at an
average cost of 40 cents, while
other ports range from two dol
lars up.
Elvie White announced arrange
ments have been made for a large
number of Wilmington Rotarians
to attend the Pinehurst meeting.
Prior to Boyd's talk, Professor
Calog's Symphonic Serenaders en-.
tertained the membership with a
movement in three parts, depicting
the life and loves Of a termite born
and bred in a brewery barrel.
Fred B. Lietzey entertained the
club with two songs, accompanied
at the piano by Cameron Sinclair.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Junior Commerce Body
To Discuss Air Project

A special meeting Of the entire
membership Of the Wilmington
Junior Chamber Of Commerce will
be held at z o'clock tonight at the
Y. M. C. A, Rodney Breeze, presl-
dent, announced yesterday.
Breeze will present a project deal
ing with promotion of an aviation
air circus to be staged Sunday aft
ernoon at the airport.
The project, he said, is an I'M
usual opportunity for the organiza'
ton to raise funds for its list OF
projects as well as to demonstrate
to the city that the organization
can bring thousands of people to
this section.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

when it annually has a surplus of
funds, and it tells us that unless
something is done to better the
teaching profession the good teach
ers are going to leave the field and
those graduating these days will not
enter it. Common horse sense tells
the people of North Carolina that
the time has come when a man of
the people, the man on the mule,
must lead them to a new freedom,
a new and real democracy and out
of the tyranny of government I'M
posed on the people by machine gov
eminent and by slick-tongued, law
yer-politicians who are servants OF
that machine" he said.
Cooper left here for Rowland
Hamlet and Rockingham.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Vacancies Announced At
Military Training Camp

FORT BRAGG, April 23.-Only
two young men of New Hanover
county have so far applied for
enrolment in the next Citizens
Militar Training Camp, to be held
here June 12-July II, and the
county's quota may be filled from
other North Carolina counties, the
amp area commander announced
today. The New Hanover county
quota is eight, so there are six
vacancies still to be filled.
Major Clarence S. Stroup, of the
U. S. Engineer Office, Wilmington,
is the New Hanover county chair
man for c. NJ. T. C. procurement.
Young men interested in attending
the camp should see Major Stroup
at once for detailed information
and an application blank, the camp
area commander said. Or they may
write directly to the C. M. 7. c.
officer at Fort Bragg.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Many 1910 CMTC Camp
Appointments Are Open

RALEIGH, April 23.-R-over
800 vacancies in the 1910 citizens
military training camp at Fort Bragg
June 12-July IL remain to be fllled'
Col. J. w. HARRISON of N. c.. state
college said today.
Col. HARRISON, civilian aide to the
secretary of war for North Carolina
said $50 young men from SO couhtles
in North Carolina and Is counties IN
South Carolina would train at fnt
Bragg this summer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
HARD TO STOP

The wheels of justice, once
they are started, are hard to
stop, Grace King, negro wo-
man, 1915 IL North 10th street,
discovered yesterday.
City police officers were call
City police officers we're call
ed yesterday morning TO Smith
creek, to investigate a report
that a negro woman was lying
on the bank of the creek, APP
parently dead. They found
Grace lying on the bank, alive
but s%OrrOwful.
She had taken out a warrant
for Henry Lee Monday night,
saying that he had assaulted
her, but decided not to appear
against him in recorders court
yesterday morning.
Il wandered down here 70
kill my sorrow" said the tear
full Grace. The officers brought
her to the city Jail, where she
will lodge until the hearing to-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
COOPER IS FIRST
TO SIGN PLEDGE
local Mayor Takes Lead In
War On Screw Driving
BY Motorists

,oreeing 10 drive his car cour-
,-,v and safely, and to share
mad with others, Mayor Thorn
rooper was the first city Of
70 toin the police departments
ON screw-driving, when he
wood a pledge card at the city
hail Monday,
'' ~ am heartily in accord with
movement which will help re-
s,cq rattle accidents and conges-
, IN our Streets" the mayor
T 81 believe the police depart
.,,s novel experiment Of trying;
4ad motorists and pedestrians
49,, hanaving properly is an excel
"4 nrocram, we'll worth the full
ooeration of every automobile
s,.,ar and pedestrian in Whining
e-qten L. Wilcox, local manager
-. The Shell Oil company, present
- +se pledge card OF Mayor Coop
- He and his company's local in
1.,sndant gasoline dealers have
anros5 TO furnish the police depart
n5ar- the necessary equipment for
tso war. which takes place next
Tbrrsiav and Friday. Chief Rourk
,oy presented with the second Of
f,fal hedge card by Wilcox.
zach motorist who signs a pledge
..,.s is being given a special re-
-.se-ry emblem bearing three flags
~ am giving way in the code OF
ears and sailors.
Five million motorists enrolled
il, similar campaign last year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Social Security Manager
Will Address Kiwanians

George w. Jcffreys. manager of
the Wilmington office of the Social
Security board, will be the principal
speaker at the weekly luncheon
session of the Kiwanis club today
at the Cape Fear hotel.
Speakers for the next two meet
ings of the club were announced
yesterday by Fred E. Little, secre-
tary-treasurer. as follows: May l,
agricultural program, r. W. Gal
phin, county farm agent, Friend
ship and Cooperation of the Rural
Business Man; May s, boys and
girls program by F. Elliot Living
ston and members of the Brigade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
1858 Bags OF Fertilizer
Checked By Inspectors

RALEIGH, April 23.-LP-State
department of agriculture inspectors
last week checked ASS bags of fer
tilizer for correct weight and seized
989 with orders that they be helo
until corrections were made, D. S.
Coltrane, assistant to the commls-
sioner, reported today.
Agriculture Commissioner w. Kerr
Scott said he had assigned two in
spectors of the weights and meas
ures division to continue rigid In
spection."
The $50 bags of fertilizer were
found to be short in weight on an
average of 2.6 pounds each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

There are more than 100000
miles Of roads and highways in the
United states.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
RIVER, COME BACK
TO MY ROAD

RICHMOND, Va.-P The VIE
ginia Highway department would
like to find a "lost" spring.
Commissioner Henry G. Shirley
said the spring disappeared after the
department had made improvements
on a secondary road nearby. line
property owner, claiming that blast
ing by the highway department
caused his spring to dry up, has
brought suit for damages.
Maybe if we found the spring 1t
would help" Shirley said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Shad Fishing Season
Is Extended To May l

R. c. Fergus, of Wilmington, yes
terday announced receipt of a tele-
gram from ]. A. Nelson. state fish
cries commissioner, announcing eX-
tension of the shad fishing season
to May /.
The Nelson wire stated the seas
on for the taking of shad by gill
net has been extended to Nav l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

Rhode Island once had laws pro-
vidin penalties for refusal to accept
public office on election.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
D. {. Mans ShackIed Body
Found in Detroit River

Shackled hand and foot, the body
of a man tentatively identified as
Rudolph Lindner, 80. of Washington
was recovered today from the De-
troit River, according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Detroit.
Officials at the Chesapeake 4,
Potomac Telephone Co., where a
man by that name was employed
as clerk-stenographer. said Mr..
Lindner had been vacationing at a
camp in northern Michigan.
Company records showed Mr..
Lindner to BE a bachelor living at
1901 Wheeler road Sc. He had been
with the company Is years.
The Detroit dispatch quoted a
police inspector as saying he believed
the drowned man was an excellent
swimmer who had bound himself to
insure death. However, an investi.
cation was ordered into the possi-
bility Of homicide.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Calls Ickes
'Hit|erin Short Pants
In Republican Reply
Senator Also Retorts
Roosevelt Slept While
Germany Armed
(Tert of Secretary Ickes' Address
on Page All

Senator Bridges. Republican. OF
New Hampshire replied today to Sec
retary of Interior Ickes' description
of the Republican party as 1.-The
party of appeasement" with an as
sertion that Mr. Ickes himself was
"a Hitler in short pants"
Secretary Ickes. in D radio ad-
dress last night following up the
speech of Wendell L. Willkie in ac-
cepting the Republican nomination
for President, called Mr.. WILKES
criticism of President Roosevelt's
foreign policy "demagogic" and as
serted that the Republican party
contains the equivalent of England's S
and Frances pro-Nazi Munich ap.
peasers of 1885,"
Senator Bridges. foregoing a
retort via radio on the grounds that
nothing Mr.. Ickes has said was
worth the expense, issued state
ment through the Republican Ma
tional Committee which said:
"Who is this Ickes who talks so
big-at a safe distance-about Hit
ler? In his own rights Ickes is a
Hitler in short pants.
Like Hitler he is professional
rabble -rouser who never succeeded
atSanythinig else. The New
Deal regime that Ickes schemes for
is nothing but an American form
of Nazi-ism. Like Hitler he Is a
common scold puffed up by high
of1ce."
One of the questions Secretary
Ickes asked in his speech was:
What has Mr.. WILKES current
Tc.. nOy TrTNc ponn An
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Refugee Ships Arrival
In New York DELAYED
By the Associated Press.

by tEe ASSOCIATED PfeSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-An un-
identified British liner which was
expected to arrive yesterday morning
with 1873 child refugees from the
European war had not been sighted
up until noon today.
Members Of the United States
Committee for the Care of European
Children, which arranged the voyage,
had waited at the Battery all day
yesterday and were back at their
vigil today.
Among the young refugees are "a
children Of employees of the Hoover
Vacuum Cleaner Co.'S plant in Eng
land. They are to be placed in the
homes Of Hoover employees at North
Canton, Ohio.
Despite wartime censorship, 1t
was learned that the ship had
reached Halifax and presumably was
en- route to New York. :.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Roosevelt Studies
Roster Of Names
For Defense Board
U. S. May Transfer Old
Destroyers to Canada
For Petrol Duty
BY the Associated Press.

=
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug 90
President Roosevelt was engaged to-
day in selecting the United States
members of a Canadian American
Defense Board from a roster of
names compiled with the help Of
advisers in Washington.
To allow ample time for that i'm
portant task, his aides made only
one appointment for the President
for today in advance-the usual
semi-weekly press conference.
Reporters Hope for Clarification.
Reporters hoped to obtain at that
conference a clear picture of what
would be expected of the board and
an idea whether 1t would be re-
stricted to making studies and rec
concentrations or have the power to
take definite action in the defense
of the United States and Canada.
The decision to establish a per-
manent joint board of defense was
reached at a weekend conference
between Mr.. Roosevelt and Prime
Minister w. L. Mackenzie King of
Canada at OgdenSburg, N. Y.
Selection Started.
They said it would consist of four
or five men from each nation, prin-
cipally from the armed services,
would consider the defenses of North
America and would undertake i'm
mediate studies of sea, land and air
problems, including personnel and
material
The President wasted no time in
starting the selection of the Ameri-
can representatives. Using a direct
telephone wire to Washington, he
asked State, War and Navy De-
(See ROOSEVELT, Page AID
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Navy Official Asks
Action 10 Provide
Material for Ships
FurIone Reports Halt,
BIomes Tax Uncertainties
And Competition
Fy the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
Tax uncertainties. a profit Imita-
tion and competitive buying. includ-
ing that OF the British, were re-
ported officially today to have
stopped progress" on the Navy's
procurement Of materials for ship
building.
The report came from Rear
Admiral w. r. Furlong, who made
it to the Senate Appropriate
Committee during testimony on
IS 008 900 900 supplemental defense
bill which the committee approved
yesterday.
Admiral Furlong urged that to
remedy the Navy's supply situation
the Senators do what they could to
expedite House committee action on
pending excess profits tax legislation.
That legislation would lift restric-
tions on profits to be made from the
Navy orders and would also permit
defense plant construction costs to
be deducted from taxable profits
over a period of five years.
McKellar Suggests Force.
Some committee members took a
different tack, however, the COM
mittee's report on the testimony dis
closed. Senator McKellar, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee said he thought
perhaps I'VE should use little force"
to make manufacturers furnish
needed materials. Senator Russell,
Democrat, of Georgia expressed him.
self as favoring authority for the
President to take over plants when
defense material could not be OBJ
| tanned otherwise.
In the course of his testimony .Ad-
miral Furlong referred to the United
States Steel Corp. That compa ny,
he said, was going to invest $40o0,-
900 where it previously had a steel
plant in order to turn out more
steel, which the Navy needs. But
because of present long-term amor
tization provisions, he said. they de-
cided not to do so, at least at this
time.
In the case of the Goss Printing
Press Co. of Chicago, he said, the
company bid on IA anti-aircraft
guns for equipping % destroyers, but
withdrew because five or six sub
contractors had declined to parti-
pate.
THE reason is" he said, that
there is much more business in
the country than they can take on
without being subjected to the
Vinson-Trammell Act provisions"
Held Up Pending Tax Action.
The $100OO,0OO order, he added,
was being held up awaiting passage
OF the new tax legislation In the
House Ways and Means Committee.
He declined to name the sub
contractors on the $10,000,00O gun
order for the record, but did iden-
(See DEFENSE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Britain Apologies
To Swiss for R. AT. Acts
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 20.-The
British government has expressed
its deepest regrets" to the Swiss
Minister in London for violation of
Swiss territory by British bombing
planes en- route to Germany and
Italy, it was announced here today.
A British note apologized for air
violations which caused afraid
alarms Sunday night and Monday
morning and three nights last week
in various parts of Switzerland.
The note did not specifically men
tion the bombs dropped on the Swiss
side of Lake Constance Sunday
night which cut telephone and tele-
graph lines when the British at
tackled German armamentS plants
along the lake.
The Swiss Minister, however, was
informed r. A. F. pilots had been in
structed to stay out of Swiss terri
tory in flights to and from Northern
Italian industrial centers and South
German objectives.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
Kent Airports Blasted
By Nazi Bombers,
Berlin Reports
R. A. +. Raider Gives
Berlin Its Fourth
Alarm of War
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Aug. 2O-DNB, the Ger
man news agency, announced today
that German planes again had sue
cessfully bombed" the Eastchurch
and Southend Airports and others
in Kent, southeast of London.
Authorized German sources said
air battles were being fought today
over Southeastern England.
Strong units of British fighters
were said to have challenged the
German attacking forces in the
neighborhood of Dover.
At various points along the south
coast anti-aircraft opened fire. The
informants said that, besides the
airports, munitions depots and other
military objectiveS were raided.
German fighters accompanying
the bombers already have brought
down "a number of (British) planes" i"
DNB said, adding that losses on
the German side were not yet known.
Bomber Shot Down.
A British Bristol-Blenheim bomb
er which attempted a raid on Berlin
early this morning was shot down
at Oldenburg, near Bremen. author
lied sources sources reported
Detecting devices followed the
raider across the country after it
was driven away from the capital
by anti-aircraft fire, it was eX-
planned.
The bomber, which dropped nu-
merous flares over suburban area
only 9 miles from Berlin, was one
of two which attempted to approach
the city during the night The
other was driven away from the
lar western outskirts by an anti
aircraft barrage.
Spokesmen said that no bombs
were dropped near Berlin by the
British planes.
Fourth Alarm of War.
So far as Germany was concerned,
the appearance of the British planes
near Berlin, which gave the capital
its fourth afraid alarm of the war
and sent residents to underground
shelters for an hour and 40 minutes.
was the high spot of day marked
by a general lull in aerial activity.
Evidently because of unfavorable
weather conditions, only reconnais-
sance planes were dispatched over
England yesterday, flying for the
most part at a great altitude, it
was said
(ReportS from London described
flying conditions last night as
ideal0
Sounds of cannonading were aud
ible in Berlin during the early morn
ing afraid alarm.
The point where the flares were
dropped was in the vicinity of the
suburb of Tegel, about 9 miles
north of Berlin. Spokesman said
anti-aircraft fire forced the plane
which dropped the flares to turn
back.
There was no indication that
either of the raiders had been
struck by the heavy shelling. Tegel
is the site of large industrial plants