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EXECUTORS NOTICE

EXECUTORS NOTICE
Having qualified a. executor of the
estate Of Mrs. Bette H. Drew, de-.
ceased, late of New Hanover Coun-
ty, this is to notify all persons hav-
Ing claims against said estate to pre-.
sent them to the undersigned on or
before the 9Th day of July, 1941, or
this notice will be pied in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment.
This the LIST day of July, 1910.
LEONARD E. ALLEN, Executor.
Estate of Mrs. Bette H. Drew,
112 Princess Street, Wilmington,
N. C.
CLAYTON G.. HOLMES. Attorney.
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advantages of living in Oleander.
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COME IN TODAY AND SEE THE
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Market St., Dial 9878.
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Nearly two-thirds of the average
American motorists total motor
vehicle taxes were collected from
him at gasoline service stations. l
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THOMPSON BICYCLE CO., 7o2
Castle St. Bicycles and repairs.
Lawn W electrically sharp
ened. Dial 3061. Quick delivery.
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Announcements

I ra;IE OF VESSELS NAME:
caneu States Customs Service,
W Ugylecelon District No. Is, Port OF
10 nonn,ngton, North Carolina, July
t III. ls4o. Notice is hereby given
1q9o uhuer the Act of February 10.
itv O, ana In pursuance of author.
Of sIanted by the Director, Bureau
tioa MARINE Inspections and Naviga.
N.n On application of Brunswick
tba agatlon Company, the name OF
dsn Va screw R. B. HAWLEY, bur.
ber 9 30. gross tons, Official Num-
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lectoso 1ART. Jno. Bright Hill, Col
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l39 Radio and Repairs

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Meares Harriss
Real Estate
210 Princess st. Dial 4043
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Real Estate

FOR SALE w L M NC ION
Beach ocean front cottage, Z rooms
furnished. 81, 2o0-s20O down, $50
monthly. w. M. Hewlett. Realtor,
PA Princess St. Dial 713S.
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SPECIAL! S STU 10 COUCHES
$29. so; with. arms $3.50 Assorted
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Dial $751;.
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Frigidaire5 it. $25 up. c. B. Yves
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Household Goods

4 PC. WALNUT BEDROOM SUITE
$69. SO. Spring and mattress free!
Easy terms. Peoples Furniture
Co. 257 No. Front St.
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FURNISHED FIRST FLOOR, TWO
rooms, kitchen, bath, convenient.
private, congenial surroundings.
819 Market
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER:
In The Superior Court
UNITED STATES FIDELITY &
GUARANTY COMPANY
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81 For Rent

FOR RENT, 3 ROOM Low E r
apartment. Furnished or unfurn-
ished. Rent reasonable. Can be
e anytime. sos Princess st.
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vert Those Don't Wants. Into Extra Cash-Sell With Want Ads
Aaiomoiive

FOR SALE-SACRIFICE. az TER.
raplane 1-2-ton panel, $50. GMC
l-2-ton panel, s45. Both in good
running condition. Henry Harrell,
2 Dock Street.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Points for Parents,
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE
starting.

Don't waste time deploring quar-
fels-find ways of preventing their
starting.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
UNCLE RAYS CORNER
Africa is famous for its animals

Africa Is famous for its animals
and well 1t may be! 1t is the home
Of lions, leopards. rhinos, giraffes,
zebras and other interesting wild
beasts.
Perhaps you remember the ques-
tio1s Of q reader, "Is a zebra black
with white stripes, or white with
black stripes?" The answer is that
1t is white, or cream colored, with
black stripes. The abdomen is
white, or cream colored and this
gives the key to the answer.
The dark stripes. however, may
cover as much, or almost as much,
OF the body as the light ones. The
mead. neck and legs are striped. A
smal boy saw a zebra, and asked,
why did they put that animal in
prison?"
The stripes are natures way of
helping the zebra race live through
dangers. They match the lights
and shadows cast by tell grass and
this may keep them from being
seen as they Craze.
It Is important for zebras not
10 be seen by certain fierce animals.
especially lions. Although zebras
are expert kickers, they cannot
match . Hon in fighting power.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Don't Take Ny
Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Suite or Suit?

Are suite and suit interchange
able? Are they pronounced the
same? Why do we have two words
20 nearly alike?
The French suite and the AngI-
cized suit are interchangeable to a
!. limited degree. Suite, however, is
preferred for retinue; number of
things constituting a set or Sc
quence, suite of rooms, a musical
suite. The furniture industry pre-
fers a suit of furniture and suit is
best choice for playing card Sc
Quences, clothes, armor, the act of
suing.
Suit should not be pronounced
%soot," to rhyme with boot. It
should have the long gu" (yoo)
sound as in the first syllable of
beauty.
Correct pronunciations: Suite,
sweet; suit, syoot.
Question: Is "dicker" q slang
word?--A. L. F..
Answer-By no means. It comes
from the Latin decuria, a set of 10,
unit of 10 skins or pelts used by
the Romans in barter with the bar
barians. In early America to
"dicker" was to haggle with the In
dian trappers over the purchase or
trade of skins.
For . personal answer TO your
questions about words, send
stamped (3-cent), self-addressed
envelope to Frank Colby, care
The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Stripes Help Save Zebra!

roam about the southern edge Of
the Sahara Desert and are fairly
common In Ethiopia and In some
sections Of Central Africa.
There are places in Central Africa
where lions are seldom, If ever, to
be seen. I am thinking Of the
dense forests which grow where the
rainfall is heavy. The trees, bushes
and vines in those forests grow so
close together that they do not give
the lion the kind Of Giving room"
he likes.
The deep forests of Central Africa
contain the big apes called gorillas.
These animals have skins which are
dark, almost black. Most Of the
body is covered by coarse hair.
Gorillas are hard to keep in cap
tivity. From time to time they have
been taken out of Africa and placed
in ZOOS. They seldom live more
than three or four years after being
taken under human care.
Fcr travel section Of your scrapbook.)
1~eA @aa
TOMORROW: Ethiopian Customs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-12
GEORGE WALTER,
 PAINTER, DIES
Resident Of Waterbury For 3S Years - Funeral
 Thursday Morning

George Walter, prominently known locally for many years as sign painter, died this morning at his residence, BIO Fairlawn avenue, fol- lowing a brief illness. MT. Walter was a native of New York City, but came to Waterbury 38 years ago to establish his sign painting business. He, numbered among his friends and associates many of the city's leading business men.
 The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. Heelna Kraus Walter; three daughters, Miss Gladys Walter, Mrs Arthur Baril and Mrs. Lawrence Calvin, all of Waterbury; one sis- ter, Miss Mary Walter of Mt. Yer non, N. Y; one grandchild and several nephews and nieces.
 Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West
 The funeral will be held from the Main street, Thursday morning at 9:15 o'clock to St. Cecilia's Church, where a solemn high mass of requiem will be sung at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in the family plot in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after o'clock this afternoon and tomorrow after noon and evening.
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from here. This was the first blast in the mediate Allentown vicinity.
Sabotage Blamed

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 12-(UP) --- State Adjutant General Marion Williamson today ordered a national guard Investigation into a spectacu- lar fire at the municipal auditorium in which army equipment valued at $1 ,000 ,000 was destroyed.
 The investigation was ordered after Burt Wellborn, manager of the au- ditorium, called the fire the result of sabotage"
 Tt happened up east and I don't see why it can't happen here" We'll born said, especially when you con- slider all the new equipment that was stored in the armory."
 Capt. J. Hooker of the national guard said army losses included 35 Howitzer sights, 10 range finders, 922 automatic pistols, 12 37-milime- ter cannons, 2,500 blankets, and new summer and winter uniforms for 922 enlisted men and 70 officers adding up to a total value of more than $1,000,000.
 Two -milimeter Howitzers, worth $25, 1000 each, were saved.
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the case of the state" he continued.
 Obviously" he said, mo separate and distinct conspiracies are made a single conspiracy by tying them together on one count of an infor- nation. Where, therefore, the de- fendants ara charged with conspir- acy together to do several illegal acts and evidence shows one of them guilty of conspiracy with some of the defendants through some of the unconnected acts and guilty of conspiring with others of the defendants to do other of the unconnected acts that is proof of evidence that one defendant is guil- ty of two or more conspiracies, al- though the count charged only one.
 "The prosecution failed complete ly to show on single conspiracy"
 Atty. Crawford, who was expect ed to conclude his appeal for AL derman during the afternoon, cited many legal authorities on the sub ject of conspiracies and maintained that at the time of the conspiracy IlO SbdVuGe III blllo oVdVS oPSSAAAS''' denounced thecrome of conspiracy by name. Conspiracy in this case was defined by Atty. Crawford as common law conspiracy.
 Continuing his general plea for overthrow of the states case which imposed fines and prison terms on leading city officials of Waterbury, as we'll as numerous others who were alleged to have been linked to the Waterbury city government in a conspiracy to defraud, Atty. Craw- ford said, When there is Sloughed off from this case all the suspicious guesswork, conjecture, insinuations, Surmise grafted on it by the states lawyers, nothing remains but the bare bones of fantastic theory a theory underwhich this court is as the jury was asked to believe such puerilities as that the janitor
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by counsel and general brief was also filed at the same time.
 All members of the supreme court with the exception of Justice Ar thur F. Els of Litchfield, who has disqualified himself were present Chief Justice William M. Maltbie presided. States Attorney Hugh M Alcorn, special prosecutor for the state in the noW-famouS trial. was also present and filed his brief.
 Atty. Alcorn will speak against the appeals at the conclusion of the defense arguments, following which the defense will conclude it's case and the supreme court will take il under consideration. Decision iS not believed possible for at least two more months.
 The start of appeal arguments be- fore the State Supreme Court ir Hartford today in behalf of IA men convicted in the Waterbury con- spiracy trial marked what may be the beginning of the last phase of cause celebre" whose inception really dates back to Oct. 5, 1887 when the late Sherwood L. Rowland polled B votes more than Controller Daniel J. Leary to succeed him in office.
 The election of Rowland smashed men in what the state later charged the Hayes regime by removing key was gigantic network of graft and nnrf11ntintN ct o C.aV.inc of sensational events which culmin- ated Aug. 16, 1939 when a Superior Court jury returned verdicts of guilty for l9 of the alleged con- SpiratorS.
 Major Events in Case
 From the day when Rowland toof! office on January 3, 1888 until the day Judge Ernest A. Inglis sen. fenced the defendants the city breathed in an atmosphere of ten- sion. The major events of the two years during which the city was in the limelight occurred in the fol- lowing sequence.
 January 5, 1888. Controller How land announces mysterious disap- pearance of two warrant books from his office.
 March l. 1888. Judge Inglis ap- points a grand jury to probe the affairs of Waterbury High Sheriff J. Edward Slavin serves summonses.
 May l9, 1888. Grand jury issues re- port. Calls for arrest of 27 men Bench warrants issued.
 (The grand jury also called for the arrest Of five men for corrupt lobby ing. On June '. 1888. bench warrants for their arrest were issued in Hart ford One later pleaded guilty and was fined. while the other four were found innocent after a triaD.
 January 3i. 1889. Trial gets under way in superior court.
 June %. le30 Judge Inglis dis- charges three Of the defendantS for lack of evidence.
 August i6, 1889. Jury finds i8 de- fendanis guilty. Judge Inglis finds 10th defendant also gully,
 August 2i. le3o. Judge Inglis lm- poses sentences
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OBITUARY

DAPKUS - Kazimer Dapkus of Marion died yesterday afternoon at the Middletown State Hospital after a short illness. He was born in Lithuania coming to this country 27 years ago. He had resided in Marion 9 years. He was member of the Lithuanian Political Club of this city and was active in Lithuanian af- fairs. He is survived by his wife, Mary Dapkus and one son, Edward both of Marion. The funeral will be held in Marion Thursday in charge of the DelinikS, undertakers, of this city. The time will be announced later.
 MULHALL Mrs. Catherine (O'NeiD Mulhall widow of Patrick J. Mulhall, died early this morning after a four months illness. She resided at 26 Sylvan avenue. Mrs Mulhall was a native of Ireland living in this city for fifty years in the Washington Hill section. She was well known and highly re- spected in the community in which she lived, and was devout com municant of St. Francis Xavier church. She is survived by four sons, Peter F., Patrick J., and Jos eph, all of Waterbury, and Francis of California; four daughters, Mrs Patrick Donahue, Mrs. Martin Ker- win, Jr., Mrs. Dennis Stack, and Mrs. John Ridley; one sister, Miss Bridget O'Neil, twenty grandchil- dren and one great grandchild.
 The funeral will be held from the Bergin funeral home, time and other arrangements to be an- nounced later. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening, and tomorrow afternoon and evening.
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One Story Building.

Allentown, Pa., Nov. 12.-tUP)- Three persons were killed today in an explosion in a detonator building at the nearby Siples station plant of the Trojan Powder company.
 The men were at work in a one story building where detonators for blasting are made when the explo- sion occurred.
 The victims were William Scho- elnfelder of Breinigsville, Fred Well Ter of Scheresville and Hugh Fisher of Allentown, the company an- nounced.
 Federal bureau of investigation agents and state police were sum- moned to begin an immediate in- vestigation, but company officials said they doubted" whether there was any sabotage involved.
 Explaining their belief the eX- that the work in which the men plosion was accidental, officials said were involved had no connection with any defense projects.
 The building where the blast oc- cured was a small, wooden one story structure. It was only 12 feet square.
 Composed of small scattered units, the plant is situated three miles
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Staten Island said rslesr cars werC thrown several feet by the concus- sion.
 It was reported that only about 20 persons were employed in the plant.
 An ambulance and seevral physi- clans were dispatched here from Bayonne City hospital.
 Blown to Bits.
 Edinburg, Pa, Nov. 12.-UP)- Three men were blown to bits today when dynamite they were packing in the gelatin tank house of the Burton explosives division of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. exploded.
 The gelatin tank house, build ing 20 feet by 30 feet, was blown to pieces but little other damage was done to the plant which sprawls over 300 to 400 acres.
 The force of the explosion was felt at New Castle, eight miles from here. The plant, employing about 100 men, is located two miles from EdinburG . town of about $50 per- sons.
 Those killed were Lee Waddell, 35, of New Castle; Elmer Kilduff, 9, of Edinburg, and Harold Duncan, 24, fo New Castle.
 The three victims were packing dynamite into wrappers in the small building when the explosion oc- cured about 8:30 a. m.
 Everyone else in the plant escaped without injury as the gelatin tank house was some distance from other buildings.
 The plant makes commercial ex- plosives only, and officials indicated no government orders for the na- tional defense program were in- volved.
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If Sickness Has Discouraged You

If you, or any one dear to you, are ailing, a n d you are dis couraged be- cause health is being de- nied you or V o u I loved ones, then I want you to know t h @ t there is A
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FUNERALS

Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie L. Crawson were held this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue Rev. Dr. John J. Snavely, pastor of the First Methodist church offlciat- ing. Burial was in new Pine Grove cemetery.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Neil will be held tomorrow after noon at 2 o'clock at the Alderson funeral home, Rev. Samuel Budde acting rector of St. Johns Episcopal church officiating. Burial will be in new Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home to- night from 2 to g o'clock.
 The funeral of Henry Gaylord of Evergreen avenue will be held We'd nesday afternoon with funeral services at 3 o'clock at the Lunny funeral home, 25 Central avenue Burial will be in Middlebury ceme- tery. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.
 The funeral of George Dranginis will take place Thursday morning at 8:45 o'clock from the Stokes funeral home, 694 North Riverside street, to St. JoSeph's church at 9:15 o'colck Burial will be in the family plot in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening and tomorrow after noon and evening.
 The funeral of James TirenG was held this morning at 8:30 o'clock from the Maiorano funeral home, 95 Willow street, to Our Lady oi Lourdes church at o'clock, Rev Edward J. Farrell officiating. The bearers were Fred Hypsh, Paul Bur- gio, John Burlinsky, Vito Rollo Julius Vilciauskas, and Benjamin Maslinska. Burial was in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Francis Irv- ing Hayes of North Haven, formerly of this city, was held this morning at 9:30 o'clock from the home, POE Milbrook road, to the Church oi Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1T Hamden at 10 o'clock. The solemn requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Lawrence Skelly of this city assisted by Rev. Bartholomew skelly of Hartford as deacon. Rev John Barney of Derby as sub-dea' con, and Rev. James J. Mccormack pastor of Our Lady of Mount Car mel, as master of ceremonies.
 Seated in the sanctuary were Rev. Andrew J. Plunkett, LLD., O Derby. and Rev. William Loftus O New Haven, Rev. Philip Hussey ane
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JOHN HERMANN DIES AT HOME
Prominent German Resi- dent, Veteran Store
 keeper Buried Thurs.

John Hermann, pioneer delicates- sen store proprietor, died yesterday at his home, "A Franklin street, fol- lowing an extended illness. He had managed a store on South Main street for twenty-five years, retir- ing in 1925. He also at one time owned wholesale delicateSSen store on Union street.
 MT. Hermann was born in Ba- varia, Germany, coming to this country in 1888 and soon after to Waterbury. He was the son of the late John and Caroline (Schuck) Hermann. He was a communicant of St. Cecilia's church since its foundation in 1892 and had been a trustee of the church for the past ten years. He was described by the pastor, Rev. Peter Cuny as 'Kery faithful" pariShioner.
 He was a member of the Order of Hermann Sons, Holy Family So- ciety of St. Cecilia's, and the Water bury Turner's, also an honorary member of the Concordia Singing society. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine (Wiehn Hermann, daughter, Mrs. Emil Mark, a sis- ter, Mrs. Peter Schwartz of Ger many, five grandchildren, Emil, Jr., John, Frank, Robert and Madelaine
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exploded. The 600-square foot building was shattered. Authorities believed it miraculous that none of the 1OO-odd men employed at the plant-apart from the three dead had been victims.
 Commercial Explosives
 The Edinburg plant makes com mercial explosives only and it was believed the firm had no govern ment orders on hand.
 Three victims were packing the dynamite into wrappers when the blast shook the small building.
 The Allentown explosion occurred in the cap plant, a one-story build- ing where detonators for blasting are made. Company officials said they doubted, that espionage was involved. Both the FBI and state police began inquiries. The work had no connection with national defense orders and plant officials believed the blast might have been accidental.
 At Woodbridge
 Woodbridge, N. J., Nov. 12.-(UP) At least five persons were killed and 38 others injured today when a violent explosion rocked the plant of the United Railway Signal cor- poration in this esat central New Jersey town.
 Five bodies were eXtricated from the ruins at 10:30 a. m., EST, about two hours after the explosion rocked this and adjacent communi- ties as far as 20 miles away.
 There were 10 persons in Railway hospital, 120 in Perth Ambow hos pital, victims who were taken away by ambulances that responded to the emergency call.
 An inquiry was begun by the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation.
 It was reported without confir- nation at the plant that the corn- pany had been engaged in fulfilling government orders for torpedoes, the typ of which was not specified.
 Police roped off a large area around the scattered half dozen buildings of the corporation as a precaution against high tension wires, several of which had been thrown down by the explosion.
 Because most of the small build ings were used for storage, there was danger of further detonatoins, police said.
 The known dead were three men and two women.
 Estimates of the injured ranged as high as 30, although the plant employed only about 20 men and women. Some of the injured, how ever, were residents whose homes bordered plant property.
 Both main build ngs of the plant, one-story structur,-, were ruined. The remaining six small buildings were badly damaged.
 The blast was heard as far as Jer- sey City, 20 miles north of this east central town.
 The company manufacturers small torpedoes of the type used by rail- ways.
 The torpedoes, which are clamped to the rails where they explode as trains pass oxer them, are used as signal devices.
 There were no immediate reports as to casualties or extent of dam age.
 Police teletype messages were sent to nearby communities asking for ambulances and medical assistance.
 The blast was felt sharply on Staten Island across Raritan Bay.
 Motorists who were driving along roadways on the southe shore of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-12
Three Plants Blown
 Up, Several Killed

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