davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-04

The irish Astronomical societyp
plans branches throughout Eire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-04
CONNECTICUT SECURITIES
The u. Y. Griggs Co.

PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS
Bridgeport Gas 1t. Co. 80 36
Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. - 81
Conn. Gas a. Coke pfd. SO 80
Conn. 1t. a. Power o..u 40 SO
Conn. 1t. a. Pow. 5h%
pid, ,,,t,st,,,,,,,.'''ll
Connecticut Power Co.. 4iM 43h
HID. Elect. It. Co com. 54h S6IS
HID, Gas 1t, Co. conn.,, 81 IS
Illuminating Shares A., 53H b5b
New Haven Water Co.. 70 70
South N, r. Tel, Co,Iu,i40 i4b
INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
Ann. Hardware Co. go, II 10
Arrow Hart Il Hege az. 20 81
Bristol Brass Corp, com, 80 81
Colts Pat. Fire Arms Co, 90 ~
Eagle Lock Co. .,.,.aln. bls 7h
Eastern Malleable Iron, 9 q
Landers, Frary a. Clark 20 Is
New Brit. Mach. Co. com - 80
North a. Judd Mfg. Co. "a 80
Peck, Stow a. Wilcox Co.
Remington Arms ,,,,u 3A ~
Scovill Mfg, Co, ,,u,,,. 20 %
Stanley Works Co, com, 81 30
Torrington Co. ,,t,.,n "a ~
Veeder Roof .,,,,,,,,,,, 30 ~
Waterbury Farrell Fdry. 20 20
INSURANCE STOCKS
Aetna Fire Insurance - Ala AN
Aetna Life Insurance 24,s 26h
Automobile Insurance IT,, 32h 34h
Connecticut General. go. 23A 25M
Hartford Fire Insurance 90 10
Home Insurance ...,.n. 26h 27m
National Fire Insurance 46h Th
Phoenix Fire Insurance, u ~
Travellers Insurance ,.,, 800 400
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-04

ceremony. Bernice Chmielewski was
maid OF honor and Walter Hanley
was best man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
STAINS TRICKERY

STAINS reliance. on lies in the hope of boil.
STEERING the tagging morale of his armies in
Finland and the Russians at home would be
pathetic were it not at the same time tragic.
An example of his propaganda, designed for
home consumption is revealed in a letter found
in an abandoned field office. II her husband
a wife wrote:
Il was glad to hear over the radio last
night that the Firms themselves have revolt.
ed, and that We are not really at war with
the Finnish people, who are all on our side"
Such credulity is touching. And revealing. 1t
shows that HITLER is out-GoEBBELED at Mos.
COW.
STAIN is equally adept in his effort to
hoodwink his troops. At a conference of Off
GERS considering how to deal with the ebbing
spirits of men in the ranks it was empha-
sized that they should help the political com.
missars in explaining "the historic task Of
the Red army in liberating Finland from
the plutocracies." How we'll they were get
ting along is reflected in a letter from an
artilleryman. Our comrades have learned"
he wrote, that the enemy is operating from
alien Notifications built here by Britain,
France and America during the last four
years. From this you can see we had moth
ing good to expect from the Firms, and our
governments decision was quite correct"
Indicating how badly the Finnish ski-ghosts
had the Russian soldiers terrified, it comes
to light that officers were exhorted to ex.
plain to the men, "in view of certain absurd
rumors," that the Firms are perfectly ordi.
nary mortals and that there is mo accuracy
in rumors that they are uncatchable or in
vulnerable" The Firms apparently have play.
ed upon the superstitions of the invaders to
good effect.
One more aspect Of the invasion is brought
to l%ight--by EDMUND STEVENS, reporting from
the Suomussalmi front for the Christian
Science Monitor. "At the same meeting" he
writes (of the officers quoted above), clear
orders were issued to shoot any towards or
d~eserters from the battlefield" This was his
first confirmation of the rumors that Red
army men who h~esitated during an attack
were shot in the back.
Verify, the despot of the Kremlin is a
crafty and cruel killer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
DEFENSES

CENATOR REYNOLDS redirects attention TO d
~ thought which has engaged many American
minds since the outbreak of war in Europe
by expressing a wish that the United States
acquire some foothold in nearby Atlantic Is
land possessions of friendly nations 1or
the establishment of defense outposts. lie
mentions Bermuda and Nassau specl1lcally'
and cites unpaid World war debts as offering
a means for their acquisition.
There is no reason to suppose that Great
Britain, the present owner, would consider
their surrender in part payment OF Its dept
to us, but the senator's revival OF the discus
sion can do no harm. In one way it can 90
considerable good, if it turns public thought
TO improving the coast defense by establish
ing additional army and navy bases on the
Atlantic seaboard.
The Star-Ne1rs has advocated such a base
on the North Carolina shore and takes this
opportunity to underscore its belief that
such expansion of the defense plant would
strengthen the national security against at
tack from the east.
Geographically, Bermuda and Nassau are
within the realm of American influence. Their
value would be inestimable. But it would
lodge chiefly in their ability to draw rev.
enues from tourists which now go to Great
Britain. So long as they remain under British
rule they will not become a war menace, for
Britain's self interest would prevent their
use by another power waging war on us.
AS there is no hope that they will be put
within our reach, and as their utilization by
enemy is decidedly improbable, if not &C.
tually impossible, the need would seem to
center in bases on the mainland where air
fleets may be ready at all times to rout at
tackers like SO many swarms of hornets on
guard at their nests .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27

lest ENGLAND and France be defeated, for this
will bring the fascist flood swiftly across our
borders. Another is equally fearful OF a Ger
man defeat, for this will mean that central
Europe will sink into the arms of bolsheVlsnl-
a mere prelude to our own bolshevization. An.
other is certain that British disaster will mean
the ruin Of our foreign trade. And still announcer
feels quite certain that the success OF German
arms will be followed by a spread OF the fas'
cist philosophy to the whole world. Others look
for German victory to be quickly succeeded by
an energetic penetration of South America by
the fascist powers. Others think they will go
farther and attempt military penetration.
And there are those who live in terror of a
German invasion of our own country, ranging
all the way from an aerial attack to Senator
Andrew w. Neeley's dream Of a conquering
Germany coming here with the French army
and the English navy, establishing a Siegfried
line along the Canadian border, setting up
Sudeten areas in st. Louis, Milwaukee, and
other populous centers and subjecting the
United States to the fate OF Poland. Fantastic
as this last horrific vision may seem, there
are many in America-editors statesmen. and
even cabinet members-who accept the posi-
bility of a German invasion of the United
States.
In the midst of these alarms and terrors it
is singular how little our people permit them
selves to be disturbed by the most serious
possibility of all-the possibility, not that Ger
many will come over here after US, but that
we may go over there after Germany.
Americans do not want to become involved in
this war, of course. But it is not that they
have the least fear Of defeat. They do not
want 10 be saddled with the vast cost of war.
The opposition to the war is not based at all
upon the real peril of war to us. We should
win a military victory. We should get a new
collections of heroes, SOM new national shrines
and a new national holiday.
The real peril Of war lies not in military de-
feat. 1t lies in war itself, whether we win or
lose. After such a war, Hitler would probably
be dead. But how his ghost would Shrek with
laughter as he surveyed the scene. For it
would behold the greatest Of all his victories.
It would see America subjected, not to the
fate of Poland, but to the fate Of Germany
We may seem to be a long way from the
kind of fascism which we behold in Italy to-
day, but we are not so far from the kind Of
fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy be.
fore he assumed power and we are slowly ap-
preaching the conditions which made fascism
there possible. All that Is needed to set us
definitely on the road to a fascist society is a
war. It will, Of course, be a modified form of
fascism at first. But fascism cannot continue
in a modified form.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
S T

The need for city planning on a compre.
hensive basis is illustrated by the failure to
place Front street overhead cables under
ground while the present r~epaving project is
under way.
Sooner or later the cables will have to be
buried. TO bury them, Front street will have
to be Teopened. That trenching will be cost.
ly. And it will cause. deterioration of the
pavement soon to be laid.
Patching is never satisfactory, and should
be resorted to only in emergency. That such
an emergency will come shows inadequate
planning.
1t IS too late now to do anything about it.
But a repetition of the mistake can be avoid.
ed. Wilmington can see to it that all future
street improvements, in the business district,
include the placing of all cables and wires
below the surface, where they will no longer
increase fire hazards or create unsightliness
The City Beautiful and the Safe City ad-
vocates deserve this recognition of estimable
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Max Myers Is Treated
For Accident Injuries

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 26-Injured
in an automobile accident near Man
ing, S. c., on Jan. IA, Max Myers,
ST., of Acme, father of Mrs. NJ. o.
Nelson, Jr., and Max Myers, Jr., of
Whiteville, is in a serious condition
in a Sumter, S. C. hospital.
Myers sustained five crushed
ribs, a fractured shoulder bone, a
fractured arm, an internal mead
injury, a pLnctured lung, and is al
SC suffering from pneumonia.
Myers was en- route to Holly
Hill, S. c., to visit his daughter,
Mrs. c. G. Richardson, when the
smash occurred near Manning.
A tire blowing out caused Myers
to lose control of his car which
overturned three times. Mrs. Myers,
who was accompanying her hus-
band, escaped with slight injuries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
IN A FIX
CoWMAN

The Japanese-American treaty of commerce
and navigation was abrogated yesterday. This
does not mean that American commerce with
Japan stopped. But it does mean that the
United States may halt shipments to Japa.
nese markets whenever it finds such a sten
expedlent. 1t also means that American ports
may be closed to Japanese imports when and
II the United States determines it's advan.
tage lies in suspending them.
Japan is disturbed. The United States is
serene. Japan is in desperate straits for war
materials. With other possible sources cut
off by war, the United States has been
Tokyo's mainstay. If the American shipments
stop, England cannot take them up. nor can
Germany. The Japanese have turned to Rus.
s1a with the nope of Strengthening trade re.
lations. But Russia, with Germany and Great
Britain, cannot offer very adequate substi
tutes for their need is very much the same
as Japan's.
On the other hand, Japan cannot meet its
own requirements in manufactured goods
with her plants largely converted into war
factories. Nor can she maintain a normal
export trade, were she able to manufacture
normally, for the reason that nations prev
lousy able to absorb a large share of her in.
dustrial output are d%evoting their efforts to
the import of materials needed for their own
wars.
What Japan appears unable TO understan mi
is that the United States has no svmno+hn
with her attempted conquest of China. nor
with her promiscuous slaughter Of non.com.
batants and her complete disregard Of the
rights of foreign capital. With the ending of
the American treaty and a threat to her es
sential war imports, her rulers, the war max.
ers, may take time to consider a change
in their policy. If they see the light, the abro.
cation of the American treaty need not ser.
iously affect her. Failure to do so cannot
fail to make her economic, and her war, out
look more desperate than her blind folly dur.
Ing the last two and a half years have made
it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
National Youth Week
To Be Observed Here

An observance of National Youth
Week will be begun by the First
Christian church Sunday.
The theme will be "Christus Vic
tor and the program for Sunday
is as follows: Church service with
the young people attending in a
group at II. The message of the
minister, James Lawson. will be
on the subject, Youth Marches"
Youth meeting at Z with Grady
Sheally as leader. The subject for
discussion will be, The Value of
Youth Week." Sunday night at 8
the regular church service with
the young people in charge of the
program. The subject of the mes
sage by the minister will be, God
Mammon." The ushers for the
service will be Jennings Byrd, Ken
meth Davis. Jr., Winton Taylor and
Allen Huband.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Funeral Services Are
Held For Jack Auqer

COUNCIL, Jan. 26-Jack Anger,
70, retired engineer of Council. who
died Wednesday in Baker hospital
in Lumberton, was buried this after
noon after funeral services held
from Shiloh Baptist church near
Bolton.
The Rev. G. c.. Wood conducted
the services. Buria- followed in the
church cemetery.
Mr.. Anger is survived nv three
chlldfen' Howard E. Anger, OF
Bridgetown, N. j., Ray Anger, OF
Bridgetown, and Mrs. Vallie Fredere.
Of Southport; n sister, Miss Mae
Anger, Of Council; one brother, A. M.
Anger, of Whiteville; and seyera,
grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
WHY Firms WIN

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 26.-(AP)
The Finnish radio tonight broad
cast an Information Please"
program with 40 Russian pris-
oners from the destroyed 44th
Soviet division sitting in as the
experts"
Cigars were passed to those
who answered their questions
correctly but only eleven of the
40 did any smoking.
All we're stumped by these
questions:
Who was Rasputino
What are the Olympic games?
Who was Jesus? Napoleon?
Nurmi?
One said the Scandinavian
countries we're Sweden, Finland
and Turkey. Another thought
Stain was president of Russia.
He'd never heard of Soviet
President Michael kalinin.
Still another missed a cigar by
a mile when he said Berlin was
the capital of France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Redwood Staying Mystery.
Is Revived In New York

NEW YORK. Jan. 26-'F'-A lon5
dormant mystery-the Staying Of IT.
Norman Redwood, "Sandhog' uhlV'
leader-was revived today by q
5000, 900 suit brought against lA'
union by Redwood's widow WIN
charged the union failed to give A'
husband proper and adequate pV'
lection"
Redwood, business agent of tA'
Compressed Air Workers UAloH'
local 1O2, was shot to death wv
night of February 10, 1887 as ne Sd,
in an automobile in the driveway "
his home at Teaneck, N. ].
Mrs. Redwood contended IN H.
action that her husband was eT
ployed in "a hazardous and odrseF
Gus occupation" as business ageA'
that the union was aware of thFed''
against Redwood's life n nav
agreed to provide him with plo'''
ton, but had not done so.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
JUNIOR S0ROSlS
PLANS TAG DAY
Will Be Conducted Today As
Part Of National March
Of Dimes Program
~Na[A

The Junior Sorosis will stage a
Tag day here today as a part of the
nationwide March of Dimes pro-
gram, John Schiller, chairman d
the local committee for the ceLebra'
ton of the Presidents birthday, an
nounced yesterday.
The tags will be on sale at the
following places: Saunders Drug
store Williams Department
store, the postoffice lobby, the
Grocerteria store, and the Service
Drug company at Eighth and Mar
ket streets.
In addition to the tag sales, boxes
have been placed at public places
throughout the city for the recelp'
of donations to the infantile paraly'
sis fund, and envelopes have been
made available in which contrlou'
tions may be mailed directly u
President Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Lykes Bros. Line Asks
Permit To Sell Ships

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-lf-
Lykes Bros. Steamship conpanS'
New Orleans, applied to the MAJ
time commission today for aullo,.
ity to sell four vessels to the h'N
Shipping company, Ltd, GlassoS,
Scotland, with transfer to bl4''1
registry. .
TIE ships are the Ethan aII'n,
the Byzantine, the Patrick tlSir.
and the Endicott. All are c"s
ships. Their gross tonnage ra'7"
from 6,312 to 7,743. a.,
Lykes Bros. said the neutfal!
act had created a surplus toIHG -
beyond the requirements OF
services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Strickland Is Jailed
On Tresposs Charge

BURGAW, Jan. 26-Charged with
forcibly entering one of the dormi-
tories of the colored high school
in the northern part of the town,
William Strickland is being held
in Jail here in default of 1000
bond.
the apartment of one of the col
ored teachers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Lumpkin To Decide Soon
Whether He Will Enter
Congressional Contest

LOUISBURG, Jan. 26.-R-W.
L. Lumpkin of Louisburg, who
managed DR.. Ralph w. McDonald's
g~ubernatorial campaign in 1886,
said today he would decide within
the next two weeks whether he
would run for congress in the
Fourth district.
Harold D. Cooley of Nashville,
incumbent, is expected to seek re-
election. Both men are democrats.
Lumpkin, a veteran legislator,
said he had made surveys of Wake,
Johnston, Vance, Randolph, and
Chatham counties, and had receiv.
ed many promises of support.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Man Ab0n

ey George Tucker

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-There r
nearly six thousand Japanese in New
York and they are scattered from
Broadway to the outer fringes of
the five great boroughs They never
did 90 in for settlements of their
own. such as the Chinatowns and
the Little Italys of the Chinese and
the Italians. Perhaps it is this lack
of clannishness, at least in their
business and social lives, that ac-
counts for their alertness and their
ability to adapt themselves to what
ever these days of changing situa-
tions bring.
In New York the Japanese get
about. They mingle. It is rare that
you do not see at least three or
four at the first nights or in the
better restaurants. Irrespective of
your personal sympathies in the
| current Japanese-Chinese war, you
must admit that the casual japanese,
when you meet him on the street, is
a livlier companion and a more in
telligent lat least to s%trangers) con-
versationalist than the average
Chinese.
Ask a Chinese how to get to 3Sth
and Fifth. and you will probably re-
ceive a shrug. Ask a japanese and
he will say, go right down to the
next corner and walk left three
blocks" ,
The japanese here have two Jews.
papers-Nitibie Jihoo, which means
the Japanese:American Review, and
the New York Shinpo, which means
News. They have six churches, three
Buddhist and three Christian, and
they have five schools, devoted main.
ly to teaching the correct use of the
japanese language to second genera
ton japanese, or those who were
born in America.
AS for their business pursuits,
they write for the newspapers, they
import raw silk and deal in gold
fish, they own restaurants and wait
tables. Look under the Us in the
Manhattan telephone directory and
you will find a whole column of i'm
porters and exporters dealing in
everything from toys (G-men badges
for kids, etc., to priceless porcelains
and jade.
One interesting entry, at 1775
Broadway, is 1.-THE Japanese Army"
But that is only for buying-not for
recruiting.
OF all the Japanese in New York
perhaps the most important, at least
politically, are Mr.. Kazuo Nishi, the
financial commissioner, and MI. Ka-
nae Waktuki, the Consul-general.
Mr.. Nishi's authority stems straight
from the treasury department, and
the Consul general, as you know, is
the man with all the answers for all
of the five to six thousand of his
countrymen in this city.
While we Americans are getting
ready to celebrate George Washing
tons Birthday as the next in line
of our national holidays, the Japa-
nese are preparing to celebrate XII
gen-setsu (Feb. 11), and this year
it will be greater than ever. This
is the birthday Of the Empire, and
en- this day Japan will be $500 years
old. Many other holidays are 10.
cally observed, such as the Emper.
or's birthday, April 20, and the Day
for Boys, May 5th.
Socially, both the Tozai and the
Nippon clubs play an important part
in the lives of the New York Japa-
nese. The Tozai, which means East
and West, is for those children of
the Rising Sun who were corn in
Japan and also those who were born
in America. But the Nippon club is
more exclusive. You have to he oorn
in Japan to get in here
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
INCOME

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26-R-south-
western Bell Telephone company re.
ported today net income for 1889 of
~$lS,018,65o as compared with s17.
247'0S2 in 1888, an increase of s77o,.
900. Total revenues of the company
jumped more than $4,000, O00-from
s~Ss'222'2l1 in 1888 to $92, 1854, 500
out the gain largely was offset by
increases in expenses, including
.aAes' and interest. These went
from s7o,s74.529 to $74,s35, $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
DURHAM RESIGNS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-R-
E. M. Durham, Jr., chief executive
officer of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad, resigned today
as a director of the Association of
American Railroads. He said the
resignation was caused by the
press of other duties. Western
railroads will choose a successor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
--saooo u!qqeH No.
spnnoS pup s1Y51S
PooMAuoH

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26. - Movie
ideas are coquettish little varmints.
They fit around evasive almost as
the snipe you once hunted as a ten
derfoot camper, and once in a month
of double-features they alight -
smacko!-in the right place.
At RKO studios, on Cover street
in Hollywood, Carson Kanin is di-
recting MY Favorite Wife" This
is Director Leo McCarey's first ef-
fort as a non-directing producer. He
has Cary Grant, Irene Dune, and
Gail Patrick, involved in a comedy
triangle.
At Columbia studios, on Cover
street in Hollywood, Producer-Direc-
tor Wesley Ruggles is making TOO
Many Husbands" He has Jean
Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Mel
win Douglas involved in a comedy
triangle.
The RKO picture, by Sam and
Bella Spewack, concerns the plight
of a fellow Grant) who loses his
wife (Dunne) in a shipwreck and,
seven years later, when she is ad-
judged legally dead, marries again.
He and the new bride (Patrick) are
en- rounte to the bridal suite of the
hotel when they meet Wife No 1,
who wasn't dead after all.
The Columbia picture suggested
by the Somerset Vaughan play of
the same title, concerns the plight
of a girl (Arthur) who loses her
husband (MacMurray) in a ship
wreck and, sometime later when he
is adjudged legally dead, marries
again-her late husbands business
partner (Douglas). They I hap
PLY at home when in steps Hus-
band No. 1, who wasn't dead after
all.
Now both pictures have good
ideas-good e before Tennyson
wrote "Enoch Arden'-and playing
them for comedy makes them even
better. But why did those ideas,
practically identical, have to light
in two producing heads at once?
Getting wind of their stories sim
ilarities, Ruggles and McCarey con-
ferred Immediately, found differ.
ences a-plenty outside of the basic
situation involved, and both are pro-
ceeding happily.
1--WE start alike" as Ruggles put
it, land branch out on different
lines from there"
Ruggles and Claude Binyon
(whose sixth script for Ruggles it
is) have taken only the title and
the Enoch Arden angle from the
Vaughan play which had two
trying to get rid of one
wife rather than fighting over her.
MacMurray and Douglas
today had practically demolished
apartment, proof that MacMur-
ray isn't playing the meek Enoch's
role as Tennyson wrote it
"Comedy?" I asked Ruggles.
II hope sol" he replied charac-
teristically, grinning.
Cary Grant, concerning ms
'Favorite Wife" had more than
hopes. Optimism about a script
filming is supposed to be
if not actually fate
tempting. Hooey, said Cary. If you
get a good thing you can know it's
good from the start, and you don't
have to bother about superstitions.
no sir!
The set-up here of course, is
one to make any acor sheer at
black cats and do cartwheels un-
Ter ladders: it's the McCarey-
Dunne-Grant combination that made
The Awful TRUTH" with that orr
s1nal young chap Kanin thrown in
or added hit.insurance!