davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08
soFTBALL CLUB

The Pirates softball club has pan
ned its spring and summer program
to include an organized softball
team, hiking and one week Of camp
ing The program committee will
conduct q sports quiz this week when
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08
FRIDAY, MARCH s, 1910.

Street YMCA. Don't miss this rare
opportunity to know America.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08
WEST YOUNG MEMS
REPUBLICAN CLUB
GIVE GET TOGETHER

On Friday, March 9Th, the West
Side Young Mems Reublican Club
gave get together at the Elkhorn
Club. The get together was an in
PRODUCTION Of the club to tie people
Of Dayton, and the way the club was
received assures it to be one OF the
most popular and growing club in
the city.
ST. PATRIck's DANCE
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08
ST. PATRIcK's TEA

The American Woodmen invite
you to a st. Patrick Tea, Sunay,
March 10th at the home Of Mrs.
Annie Smith, 1861 West 5th Street.
Hours 5 to pm.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08

the club meets at the home Of Billy
Ellis, Saturday at Z pm.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-03-08

ST. PATRICk'S DANCE
An event Of next week will be
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
MEET in NEW YORK
Veteran Actor, Wife Decide
|. To Extend Reconcilia-
Overwhelmingly

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.oR-After
1S hours of their promised "24 hours
of bliss together, John Barrymore
and Elaine Barrie decided to extend
their Observation-Disclosures.
"Indefinite' was the word for it
although they sounded tonight as if
all once more was nothing but love
and kisses in their hectic romance
marriage. They vowed their recon
Citation would be permanent; in
the next breath Barrymore would
add a 1--WE think or an eff" and
thereby indicate that they weren't
toe sure about it. all.
"Great Little Girl"
"Great little girl, Elaine" he
said before he left shotel for the
second nights Broadway showing
of his new play, my Dear Chill
dren." ,.>
We've had our ups and downs.
Hell, everybody . has. But she's
swell. Permanent reconciliation?
uOIl l. h1lOWs 1lOW CdI ohyoOoy ~
into the future? But hope springs
eternal in the human heart"
Said Elaine at this point:
We've had u q%uarrels, and
maybe we'll have more. But right
now we're definitely friends"
They have been first friends and
then foes since before their first
marriage more than three years ago
Once they were divorced and latel
they reconciled and rewed. Then q
year ago they started to play to
gether on the stage as well as II
real life, Elaine appearing as the
daughter who got spanked in my
Continued on Page Four, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
|S0L0NS OFFERED
new TRADE PLAN
Vandenberg Suggests For.
eign Trade Board To Deal
With All Promotions

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. - Up -
A plan to set up a foreign trade
board to deal with tall phases OF
foreign trade promotion" was Of
fered to congress today by Senator
Vandenberg (R-Mich) and was i'm
mediately Interpreted as a proposed
substitute for the Hull reciprocal
trade program.
The board, which would replace
the tariff commission, would have
power to control imports to en-
courage exports through barter
agreements and otherwise, to raise
or lower tariffs under explicit
congressional %criteria," to telze di'
rect action Gin connection with the
troublesome problem of blocked ex-
change" to coordinate foreign trade
and finance statistics.
"Such an agency is necessary"
vandenberg said, "if we shall real
istically meet world trade condi'
lions. It will be doubly necessary
in postwar periods of re-adjust
ment."
While Vandenberg disclaimed
any intention Of offering his plar
as a direct replacement for the
Hull program, he said in a writer
statement: 'This method of hand
Continued on Page Four, Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
PITKIN CRITICIZES .
EDUCATION SETUP
Fault Is That 1t Is. Based
Upon Theory Teaching
Should Be Easy

Walter B. Pitkin, noted author,
delivering the second lecture of the
season on Wilmington's Communi-
ty Forum last night in the High
school auditorium, sharply criti-
cised the nations educational sys-
tenn and declared the fault will
modern day schooling is that il
is based upon the theory thai
teaching should be made easy as
possible.
"Not one teacher in a thousand
is willing to try out any new
methods of instruction." he said
AS a result of this condition
we have the form without the
substance as regards education
Pitkin said.
Following his lecture, the autho,
of Life Begins at Forty" said the
audience of approximately -70(
here was the most attentive, with
the possible exception of Boston
that he had ever spoken before
He praised its attitude and alse
spoke of the Community Forum as
one Of the best in the nation.
Usually in a city of this size,'
he said yesterday, about Isl
people come out to a forum lee
ture."
Speaking of education, Pitkir
said the problem of schooling to-
day is not what. to teach, but how
to teach. He told of his own ex-
periences-first with an illustrated
book in his home library showing
eight charts of the stomach, each
representing the varying degrees
Of effect of alcohol upon the sys-
tenn.
From that" he said, II learned
to do without ~whiskey."
He then told, in his casual style
Of delivery, of his progress II
school; how he was passed b!
the mathematics teacher-not be
cause he had mastered the sub.
ject but because she did not want
him lettering in the halls.
Pitkin told how he questioned
Euclid's statement that parable
lines never meet, when Euclid hae
never gone to the end to see.
The speaker narrated how, un'
der parental insistence, he FOLLOWED
the courses of study prescribed il
high school and college. At tn
age of 80, he said, he was earning
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
PROJECT CONTEST
IS CLOSED HERE
Winners In Event Will Be
Announced Not Later
Than February IS

The Star-News projects contest
closed last night after a large hum-
Der of entries had been received ano
wide interest had been displayed IN
the rogram of ina rovement for
Wilmington and southeastern NORTH
Carolina.
The editors and R.. B. Page, pup
Usher, are now studying the sug'
gestions in preparation for the com
pilation of the newspapers program
of improvement.
Winners in the contest viii pe
announced as soon as a review OF
the suggestions is completed, moi
later than February Is.
Prizes are to be awarded as lol
lows: first, $25; second, $15;- thlrd,
$40; and 81 each for all addlt1ona'
suggestions accepted.
When the best suggestions are
culled from the long list sent 1n'
they will be combined into a pal
anced and practical program OF ao'
vancement for Wilmington a G
southeastern North Carolina. Z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
Foes Demand
For Economic
Chief Beaten
Body Backs Up His Deter
mination To Run War His
Way With 1850 Vote
PLAN EXPORT COUNCIL
List Of War Casualties
Swelled AS Three More
Ships Sent To Bottom

LONDON. Feb. 1-LP-The house
Of commons tonight backed up Ne
vile Chamberlain's expressed de-
termination to run the war his own
vav by voting down, 1856 to 80, an
onposition demand that he put an
economic dictator in his cabinet.
The vote was on the call of the
nrime minister for support of his
contention that this is no time for
a change"
At the same time he predicted a
'yerv considerable concerted drive"
to develop export trade under an ex-
port council to be established undel
the president of the boad of trade, a
cabinet officer.
Other Development
Other developments of the day in
Guided:
/. The list of casualties of the war
at sea was swelled by the addition
Of the Action Norwegian vessel
Fingal I, which went down off Scot.
land after an explosion; the 1850
British steamer Bancrest, torpedoed
and sunk last Saturday; and the l.
524-ton Swedish freighter Sylvia,
bombed and sunk last Saturday.
2. The wal office announced that
Certain overseas defense battal-
ions," composed of men from IS to
50 years of age, will shortly be pro-
eeeding overseas" for guarding bases
and ammunition dumps and other
duties.
3. A financial agreement between
the government and Britain's rail-
ways is expected to be completed
soon after which the terms will be
outlined in a white paper"
The 7O-year-old Chamberlain who
dared public opinion last month by
replacing energetic Leslie Hore'
Belisha with the less popular Oliver
Stanley gave short shrift in the
Continued On Page Three, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
PATR0LMAN HELD
ON BRlBE CHARGE
H. v. Norris Surrendered
To Davie Sheriff Follow
ing Investigation

MOCKSVILLE, Feb. Il Up -
State Highway Patrolman H. V.
Norris was surrendered to Sheriff
L. S. Bowden of Davie county to-
day on charges of accepting a
bride of $50 and malfeasance of
office.
Major John Armstrong, in COM
mand of the patrol, said Norris
admitted his guilt. He added that
it was the first time in the 10
year history of the patrol that
anything like this has happened"
Norris was taken into custody
last night by Sergt. H. r. Fry
meyer, stationed in Salisbury, who
suspended him from the patrol and
held him for the sheriff. Arm
Continued OH Page Four, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
RED AMBASSADOR
FILES COMPLAINT
Protests To Hull Against
Moral Embargo On
Plane Shipments

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. Up =
Constantine A. Oumansky, Russian
ambassador, was reported to have
complained to Secretary Of State
Hull today against a moral EN-
barge" on American plane shipments
to Russia and against a speech In
which a high United States officlal
branded Soviet troops as "serfs."
I Under the moral embargo, the
State department discourages Amerl'
can manufacturers from selling. Rus
STA airplanes, airplane parts, ano
plants and plans for making aVia'
ton gasoline. The department takes
the position that this country should
refrain from granting aeronautlcal
assistance to nations which bomt
civilian populations.
The speech which Russia resents
was made by Louis johnson, assist
ant secretary of war, before the New
MOntinued on Page -Four, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
Hit AS Firms
Chief Issues
Peace Appeal
|Soviets Use Armored Sleds
Supported By Fleet Of
1870 Warplanes
SEEK TO TAKE VIIPURI
Russians Repulsed In Arc
tic Petsamo Area And On
The Salla Front
BY WADE WERNER

HELSINKI, Feb. 2.-(Friday)-
R-The Russian army struck with
surprise force at the Mannerheim
line last night, employing a new
offensive technique with armoreo
sledges supported by a swarm OF
100 bat%tleplanes, ever as Finland'a
white-haired president was issuing
an appeal for an honorable peace"
The Red army, which has been
playing dead on the Karelian 18TH
mus since mid-January while fierce
battles were waged along the Arc
tic Circle and north of Lake La
doga, suddenly came to life with
a violent onslaught aimed straight
at Viipuri, Finland's second largest
city.
Attack at Summa
The attack was made at Summa,
20 miles inland from the coastal
fortress of Koivisto, which has
withstood nine weeks of hammer
ing from land and naval artillery
and aerial bombardment.
AdVlceS from observers Win LIe
Firms Karelian army said the at
tack continued early today, with
the entrenched Firms holding dog
gedly to their positions 20 miles
south of Viipuri.
The Russians began digging in
on the Karelian isthmus front last
month, and only Wednesday night
IGen. Hugo Ostermann, Finnish
|commander-in-chief, declared the
war there had been reduced to a
war Of position"
The Karelian attack coincided
with a Finnish army communique
which indicated the Russians are
attempting to resume the offensive
all along the line, from the Arctic
to Lake Ladoga.
The communique told Of the re-
pulse of Russian attacks in the
Arctic Petsamo area, on the Salla
front, and on an island off the
northeastern shore of Lake Ladoga,
in which the Red army suffered
heavy losses"
The Russian land attacks were
bolstered by increased bombing at
Continued OH Page Three, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
REDS OPEN VIOLENT DRIVE ON MANNERHEM FRONT
ith36 Degree
Mean, Is Coolest Month
In Wilmington's History

January, just ended, with a
mean temperature of 1863 de-
grees, was the coolest month
in the 70-year history of the
Wilmington weather bureau,
Mete0rologist Paul Hess re-
ported last night.
The next coolest month in
the records of the bureau was
February of 1895, which had a
NEAR temperature of 37.4 de-
grees.
The highest point the mer-
curry reached during the past
month was 66 degrees, and the
months lowest was IA degrees.
Lower temperatures than
any registered during January
have been recorded in the
past but none of them for
such an extended period of
time. The cold wave during the
past several days has been
one of the longest and coolest
in the city's history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
TESTIMONY IS HEARD
Cedar Grove White Men
Are Charged With Slay-
ing Juston Stephens

WHITEvILLE, Feb. Nv h e n
court adjourned here this afternoon
at 6 o'clock, evidence for the. state
and defense had been almost COM
pleted in the case against John
Gordon, Jonas Strickland, Dock
Strickland and Joe Blackwell, Cedar
Grove white men, in the fatal shoot
ing last September II, Of Juston
Stephens, P~roctorville negro. John
Gordon was testifying in his own
behalf whe court adjourned.
Selection of the jury took up little
time this morning after Solicitor
Sinclair called the case to trial at
11:2O o'clock. The state is not ask
ing for a first degree verdict.
The only eye witness to the actual
shooting is John Love, negro, also
of Robson county, who was with
Stephens on the day that he was
shot fatally.
Love testified that he and
Stephens had gone with Thelbert
Reaves, a negro, to move his house
hold goods from the farm of Albert
Strickland in the Cedar Grove sec
ton and going to the Strickland
home during the morning hours
were told that Mr.. Strickland was
away.
Thew came to Chadbourn, Love
said, and consulted Luther Ham
mond, justice Of the peace, about
getting a claim and delivery for the
goods, first having consulted a
Chadbourn officer about going back
with them in event they had
trouble. Reaves got off the truck
when they went to the Strickland
Continued on Page Four, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02

The forecast for today was
a minimum temperature of "a
degrees early this morning
with fair or partly cloudy skies.
The lowest mark reached yes.
terday was 26 and the maxi.
mum was So.
While normal temperature
for the month is about As de.
grees, the mean was far below
normal.
Such has been the case
throughout the nation, Hess
said. Ordinarily, warm climates
have reported hard and extend
ed freezes while the larger part
of the south, east and north
west have been blanketed with
record snowfalls. Even the
state of Florida, reported by its
chamber of commerce to have
a climate comparable to the
Garden of Eden, has had its
Continued OH Page Three, Col. ;
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
John Barrymore, Barrie
End Quarrel With Kisses
Manfred Hauptmann
Is Awarded $25,5OO

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-@-
Manfred Hauptmann, the
blonde 6-year- old son of the
kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby,
was awarded $25,500 in a dam
age suit today by a jury which
had been told gravely by the
court not to be affected by "the
name this boy carries"
The action was against Frank
Moser, a %cartoonist, whose mo-
tor car was claimed by Mrs.
Hauptmann to have struck and
permanently injured her son.
fatherless since Bruno Richard
Hauptmann's electrOcutiOn in
1886 for the most %publicized
crime in American history. The
child was rendered epileptjc,
according to testimony.
Mrs. Hauptmann, who had
wept on the stand when cOun.
sci asked lis your husband
dead?" was granted $1,000 of
the total award.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
BELLAMY RECALLS
CAREER OF MOORE
Speech OF Dean OF N. c.
Bar Is Read AT Celebra-
ton In Brunswick

SOUTHPORT, Feb. John D.
Bellamy, of Wilmington, scheduled
to be principal speaker at a meet
ing of New Hanover, Brunswick
and Columbus Bar associations
here today to pay tribute to Asso-
~ciate-Justice Alfred Moore, was alb
sent due to illness. His speech,
however, was read by H. L. Ly-
ons, Jr.
Bellamy's speech outlined at
length the life and accomplish
ments of Justice Moore, who serv-
ed in turn as attorney general
Continued on Page Four, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02

eign officer earlier but .spokss'
men said today the discussion
would be continued by another
commission.
Meanwhile, Finance Commits
sioner Yukio Sakurauchi disclos-
ed that the government would
issue 81, 1858, 10000 in new bonds
during the next fiscal year be-
ginning April 4, on top Of an
issue Of ! 1882, 100000 in 1889
40, of which only SO per cent has
been assimilated
The proposed military apprO-
priation, for "replenishment and
rehabilitation of arms" would
be in addition to exenditures Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
NazisCharged
With Killing
$4,000 Poles
Polish ENJOYS To Vatican
Also Claim Women Abb
Quoted For Farm Work
OTHER CHARGES AIRED
Polish Government Says
100000 Persons Deport-
ed, Many Starving

ROME, Feb. 1.3R-The Polish
ENJOYS to the Vatican and to Italy
added a new chapter on alleged
persecution of Poles by Germans
today, charging the Nazis with
kidnapping Polish women for forced
labor on farms in the Reich.
In a second pamphlet, amplify-
ing a first which alleged persecu-
lions of priests and Catholics, the
Polish government charged $4,000
Polish leaders had been executed
in German-annexed Poland in a
mass determination aimed at the
entire population" and that $780,
900 had been deported.
Starvation Charged
Detailing many stories Of alleged
cruelty and starvation, the PAM
phlet said "the most frequent prac-
tice is to kidnap Poles and send
them to forced labor on farms in
Germany. For this purpose raids
on the streets are organized, and
all who cannot show working per-
mits are arrested.
Sometimes the trucks stop in
front of the queues outside stores,
composed mostly of women. Those
in the line are forced to get into
the trucks and are taken to work
in the fields"
Hostages taken by the Germans,
it was declared, were in continual
danger Of execution on the least
excuse, such as the tearing down
of a Nazi flag by some person
unknown to the hostages.
The document stated n man
was imprisoned for five years at
Poznan because he owned a movie
theater where the American film,
Confessions of a Nazi Spy" vas
shown last June-before the Ger.
man Occur alton.
Severe Treatment
The Germans were reported to
be treating the Poles as an in
ferior people, making them take
off their hats to German officials
in the street, to wait in the stores
until Germans have been served,
and to stay off sidewalks reserved
for Germans.
Concerning alleged execution Of
5000 Polish leaders, and citing
other acts of terror, the document
| declared:
"These executions are continuing
now throughout the territory of
western Poland and have the char
acter Of TN determination, particu-
larly brutal, aiming at the entire
population"
A Vatican source said tonight
that lie Vatican radio station,
which made two broadcasts re-
Gently on conditions among the
Poles under German rule, does not
plan further such ~broadcasts. The
broadcasts were described as pri.
vate in character.
This source emphasized also that
the Vatican has nothing to do"
with circulation Of pamphlets by
the Polish embassies but never
theless keeps, account of all such
information coming from any
source.
It Was added that the attitude
Of Pope Plus XII regarding the
Poles was defined clearly in his
first encyclical in which the pope
expressed sympathy with them,
and in similar remarks in his
| Christmas age
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02

time organization behind the
guns.
Hata said the illegal acts" had
occurred on borders other than
the disputed frontier between
Manchoukuo and Outer Mon
golis, where five months OF
sporadic but bitter fighting was
ended Sept. 16 by a truce be-
tween Moscow and Tokyo. Man.
choukou, Japan's protectorate,
has a border of more than 1,OW
miles with Soviet Siberia.
The breakdown of negotiations
being conducted by q joint COM
mission to settle the border dis
pute was announced by the fol-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
Trial Of Gordon, Others
Is Begun At Whiteville
Sparta Business Area
Is Threatened By Fire

SPARTA, Feb. 1.-R-Fire
which threatened the town of
Sparta's business section was
brought under control tonight
at $3.50 o'clock after raging
for over two hours and de-
stroying three stores and the
Baptist church.
The loss was estimated at
more than $4,000.
Duke Bledsoe, owner of the
Allegheny Motor company.
which was destroyed, was in
Charlotte and could not be
reached for an estimate OF his
loss. Business men said the
damage would be in excess of
$4,000.
The Greenland cafe and a
pool room, both operated by
HOke Mcmillan. were damaged
to the extent of about s., 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
ARMS PROGRAM PRESENTED
TO JAP PARLIAMENT BY ARMY LEADERS

1,762,O17,6 $50 already approved
for this purpose.
The seven-year program would
begin with the 1940-41 fiscal
year, the budget for which al
ready contains items totaling
S 1,583,478,0 900 to carry on the
war in China and for domestic
military purposes. This is now
before parliament.
OF the new funds requested,
tn, army would receive about
$500, 644, 725, of which $263,2OO,-
600 would be earmarked for the
national defense replenish-
Continued on Page Four, Col. %
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
BY RELMAN NORM

TOKYO, Feb. L. "A seven
year arms program costing $751;.
900, 900 was presented by Japan's
military leaders today to a par
Lament stirred by the warning
that the army is maintaining a
close watch on Soviet Russia's
borders because of scores of
Illegal acts" committed by the
Russians.
The warning was sounded by
War Minister General Shun-
roku Hata amid growing de-
mands for stringent regulations
to alleviate fuel and food short
ages and step up Japan's war
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
BALKANS TO TALK
ECONOMIC PLANS
Nations Seek New Way To
Stay Out OF War AS En-
tente Nears Collapse.

BELGRADE, Feb. l. Up -Ru-
mania, Yugoslavia, Turkey a n d
Greece, their Balkan entente near
collapse from the stress of the Eu-
ropean war, were ready tonight 10
discuss a plan for economic neu'
trality'' to save them from the con-
flict.
The first session Of the Balkan
entente, at 6 p. m. moon, E. S. IT,
tomorrow, approached against his
.tContinued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Partly cloudy y,
warmer On coast Friday; rain or snow
lion.
meteorological data for the "a hours
enuins 1880 p. m. yesterday.
,o Temperature
l'9o a. m. 81; 7:30 a. m. 27; 1:30 p.
~; oO, 1880 p. m. AZ; maximum SO
minimum rs; mean 40; normal. AZ
,o Humidity
i.g a. m. 81; 7:30 d. m. 90; 1:30 p.
Ill., %; 1880 p. m. "a.
Precipitation
aotal for "a hours ending 7:30 p. n.
nOnee total since first of the month
Tides For Today
wuu High Low
Moso SLIP u :08p
Ass'n1'ro Inlet - s:o4a s;lsa
,is suarise 7:OSa; sunset 5:43p; moon
@'-4a; moonset loop.
w WASHINGTON, February 1.-@-
tnro a' as bureau records Of tempera.
ius : ana rainfall for the "a hours end
preu p H.. in the principal cotton
Stot;lns areas and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-02
Tides For Today

,is aul 1.S 7:OSa; sunset 5:43p; moon
AZ -'-4a; moonset 1:O5p.