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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
PRAISED
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
A few years ago the writer liv'
in Wilmington, having come the,
from another section Of the coun-
try. 1 think it may be interesting
to some of your readers to know
what one who has lived there
thinks of the place.
In a mad, hellish world that
seems to mark the end Of one civil
cation a person generally looks
back to a time or a place where
there was peace and security. De-
spite the fac. that I have travelled
extensively that place in my think
ing has always been Wilmington.
l wonder sometimes if those who
live there realize it's advantages. ]
used to criticize it's isolation, madc
possible by the Cape Fear river and
a toll bridge in those days, but now
l wonder if the fact that it was
Gu. off from the west did not con.
tribute to it's lack of ungodly and
useless hustle. l remember Whining,
ton as a place in which to truly
live, to enjoy a splendid climate, to
surround ones self with fine
friends. Neither extreme poverty
nor brash riches characterize the
city but rather a group of middle
class citizens have made laws and
for the most part adhere to them
I'M Gro o1yvnyS CnnponI IN hn tim
available for us. We could go fish.
ing and find friends who ha6
thrown in the sponge for the day
and taken the afternoon off. Be
hind the counters Of Wilmington's
establishments were friendly human
souls more interested in meeting
and greeting friends than in cheat.
ing them through some high pres.
sure deal.
I remember Wilmington as free
from racism, n of the most dead.
ly enemies of civilization. 1t was
literally dotted with churches. Its
police force was kindly. Its offici; Is
were servants.
I used to laugh at the pride with
which natives spoke of their city
since I've listened to that same kind
of swelling pride in every place I've
ever hung my hat. But 1 do wish,
in this simple way, to say that Will
mingtonians can be proud Of their
city. I have often said that it imss.
ed a great opportunity when it did
not hire a publicity expert to make
known its advantages to northern.
ers who foolishly seek out less =
tractive spots for their vacations
but I hesitate to mention such a
schem, now. 1t would be unfortu1l-
ate to find the place given over to
what some of us have to endure in
southern Florida. AS it now stands
I like to sneak back once in a while,
shake familiar hands, stroll fatnil.a ar
streets and feel that here is a place,
modern but not spoiled, %up-to-date
but not streamlined to the point
that efficiency has committed may
hem on comfort. Please, friend edi-
tor, keep it that way.
MYLES D. BLANCHARD
1921 NV Third Ave-,
Miami, Fla.
April 10, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
TOP % THE MORNING

Lord, it is dark, the road is rough to go,
I left an unHt candle in the night;
Behold it, LORD, qDithin my appraised hand:
Touch it to flame NTH Thine W heavenly
light.
This slender avarem thing Which is mig faith
Fire it, Lord, NTH some diuine, achite spark
Until its circle, Widening at my feet,
Will Mark mig certain Way across the dark.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
SALES SLUJMP

WASHINGTON, April 12.-R-
Inc federal reserve board estimated
10y mat department store sales
- Tie week ended April 6 were 6
per cent below the corresponding
"eeh last year. Sales in the week
elioeo March 80 had been 20 Der
.eiit under last year and sales for
me TOUR weeks ended April 6 We're
= per cent below the corresponding
week last year,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
The Editors
BOX

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News reserves the right to alter
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Objectionable. Letters on con-
reversal subjects will not be
published,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

going too fast
to be safe.
It is interest
ing that this
speed we get
f r O m modern
machinery of
all kinds is due
to the accuracy
Of modern mass
production. 1t
has been pre-
cision engineer
ing - accuracy
which makes
this mechanical
speed possible.
With people
LIZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Italian Dispatch Says
Queen Mary At Halifax

ROME, April 13-(Saturday)-R
"A Stefani (Italian news agency
dispatch early today, carried without
indication Of it's source of origin,
said the Queen Mary, great British
liner, had arrived at Halifax from
New York "to embark CANADIAN
troops
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

same. When we start out to learn
something, we make much better
progress if we direct our early
efforts at accuracy. We can do
the things more speedily in the long
run when we begin them by striv.
ing mostly for accuracy.
Look out for accuracy and speed
takes care of itself.
The speedy typist is the one who
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
TOMATO REALLY FRUIT

Inc tomato, technically, is class.
60 as a berry by botanists. and,
as such, it would also be classed
as a rruit. The bureau of plant
industry, however, classes " as q
vegetable, and it is popularly and
commercially known as such
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Hollywood
Sights 4nd Sounds
Nv Robin Cooes.

HOLLYWOOD, April - - Jack
Oakie has as good a reason as you'll
ever hear for keeping UP his weight:
sylph-like as he was during his late
reducing campaign, he eve might
have been in a Charlie Chaplin pic.
ture.
Jack is hoofing now, for the first
time in years, as the foster father Of
Shirley Temple in 1.-THE Young PeU'
pie" Jacks hoofing partner, in the
picture, is Charlotte Greenwood. To-
gether, they go through some dilies
Of steps guaranteed to drip off a
pound or two here and there.
Oakie came out Of one such rou-
tine, steaming and putting a little
and smacked his lips: 1.-Two pounds,
just about say, I gotta watch
thatr
Jacks the fellow who, with a load
Of 225 pounds Of flabby fat to drag
around, took up a serious course Of
exercise, diet and medication to put
him back in the wasp-waist contin'
gent. He skidded in practically no
time to a sparse trim 1874 and he
was feeling pretty good about it.
But then, he says
Il asked the doc. I said, here I
am at 1874, and what do l do about
it now? The doc says, 'Oakie, you
just keep it up-the diet, the exer'
else, and the pills-for the rest Of
your life So Oakie says, Who.
me" And that's the end of that.
when I went to Europe last
year." says Jack, II hit Paris-and
Paris food. 1t was too much. So
came back, and I weigh 1876 pounds
today, and it's all right with me. l
keep UP the exercises, and I don't
carry any blubber around on these
bones, but I feel good, and I'm
happy. And when I think my re-
ducing trick might have cost me the
chance to play Benzino Napolini
with Chaplin's Adenoid Hinkle in
The Great Dictators'-I get kind Of
sick"
1t seems Chaplin had known
Oakie, and vice versa, for some
years, and when Chaplin was cast.
ing his first talkie he liked Jack for
the other dictator's role. Then
(Chaplin told Oakie later) he saw
these slimmed-up pictures of Jack.
and groaned. The dictators of the
piece, as Chaplin insists, are myth.
1cal figures" but even So. a thin
Benzino might have been hard to
take. And when Chaplin saw Oakie
agaln-after Paris, and crepes suzet'
tes' and French wines - the com.
edlan was overjoyed. Jack Oakie
was definitely in as Benzino.
And I learned more tricks from
Chaplin in four months" says oakie
THAR I'd picked up in all the past
years put together. Charlie told ms
now he used to stand out from the
rest OF the Keystone Hops. They'd
al! be pounding Ford Sterling's head
win tnelr sticks pounding hard
ana fast. So Chaplin did his pound.
ing slowly, deliberately, and the au'
oiences watched him and forgot
ABOUT the others. Chaplin showed
me now to do a take-'em - you
Know delayed expression of sur
PRISE l was doing one, and he said,
NO. not like that. Here, like this
stralght at the camera 1t makes
all the difference, too"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
BY DONALD A. LAIRD
Phi. d.. Sri. ID.

Ours is an age of speed. We
have so much speed that the chief
job Of a large proportion of
all policemen is to keep us from
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

NEXT: Why are the public
schools emptier?
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Crude Oil Output
Increases 165,000
Barrels in Week
Refineries Operate
At 84.3 Per Cent Of
Potential Capacity
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 13.-Daily
average crude oil production in the
United States increased 165 900 bar
rels in the week ended June to
total of 3,816,950 barrels, the Amer
lean Petroleum Institute reported.
Output for the corresponding
period last year was 3,376,950 bar
rels.
Reporting refiners operated at S4.3
per cent of potential capacity
against 858 per cent in the previous
week. Daily runs of crude oil to
stills for the industry as whole to-
tailed 100000 barrels compared
with 3,650,O00 the week before and
3,490 900 in the like period last year.
Finished and unfinished stocks of
gasoline amounted to 80, All 900 bar
rels at the end of the week against
100, 1853 900 at the close of the previ-
Gus week and 83,157.0oO a year ago.
Estimated gasoline production was
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Stock Averages
60 Stock Range Since 1927.
BY VICTOR EUBANK.
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, June 13-The stock
market lost its rallying vim today as
European war dispatches took on
little darker color.
While offerings were slack. eXcept
in one or two brief hurries. declines
for leaders ran to points or so at
the worst. Extreme setbacks were
shaded in most cases at the close
and a few plus signs were to be OBJ
served. Transfers were around eOO,-
900 shares.
The list got off to a hesitant start
and never made any real recovery
try during the remainder of the
proceedings.
Despite continuance of bulush
thinking regarding bright prospects
for industry. due mainly to home
defense activities and foreign spend
ing, word the French had declared
Paris an open city was interpreted
IN Wall Street as meaning the Ger
mans were encircling the capital.
This brought up fears of a possible
enforced peace. although Premier
Reynaud declared his country would
fight on. Under the circumstances.
traders who had nice profits on
Wednesdays upsWing inclined to
turn portion of them into cash.
Weakness of grain futures at Chi
cago, with wheat dropping the limit
established May 20-the peg is TO
be removed tomorroW-and adverse
moves in other commodities were
handicapS for securities. Bonds
were mixed Free" sterling dipped
in terms of the dollar.
Among prominent stock laggards
were United States Steel, Bethle-
hem, Chrysler, General Motors,
Douglas Aircraft, United Aircraft,
Glenn Martin. Anaconda. Kenne-
colt, Great Northern. Santa Fe.
Standard Oil of New Jersey, West
lnghouSe, General Electric. j. I.
Case, Montgomery Ward, Norfolk &
Western and Goodyear.
Interna tional Business Machines
was up about at one time and re-
slstance was displayed by Sears
Roebuck, Eastern Air Lines. Loft,
Electric Boat and Cerro de Pasco.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June l3-Heavy selling
today caused slump of 2as to 4la
cents in wheat and corn prices, re-
ducing quotations of practically all
grain contracts traded here to min
imum pegs now in force on the
exchange. This virtually deadlocked
trading in the futures pits.
The markets action, which pit
brokers blamed largely on European
war news, came in the last session
OF trading before removal of the
mlnlmums which were established
May 20 to check the collapse of
grain values that occurred when the
German invasion of Western Europe
was in its first stage.
After the close, John G. Mccarthy
president of the Board of Trade, said
that so far as the exchange is con-
cerned there is no intention of
resembling the order to remove the
mlnlmums tomorrow.
Limits on daily price fluctuations,
however, will remain in effect.
These prohibit net changes of more
than 10 cents in wheat and rye.
8 cents in corn and soy beans and
3 cents in oats in any single session.
After the minimums were struck
during the second hour, trading
virtually ceased, except in one or
two corn contracts. This deadlock
was due to the fact that no buyers
were available except at prices below
minimum levels.
Every grain future touched the
minimum except July corn, which
came within Is of it. All closing
prices except this contract were at
the minimums. with wheat 312-4Ia
lower than yesterday; July, 7812;
September, 1914; corn, Pad. down;
July. 593s: September. 58l2: oats,
unchanged to s down; rye un-
changed to as off and lard 20-25
lower.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Big Oil Supply
Awaits Orders
From France
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, June 13.-The
Chronicle said today it had learned
France bought and paid for more
than half million barrels of avia-
ton gasoline now stored along the
Gulf Coast.
Fearing sabotage, the United
States Government, has requested oil
companies to keep all information
secret, the paper said. 1t pointed
out that the fact France has not
the gasoline, which was
bought before and Immediately after
the war started, was taken here as
an indication that the Allies have
all the oil they need presently.
"It was said the Allied convoy
system is working efficiently now
and that if France needed the oil,
it could be transported"
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Craig Is Promoted

NEW YORK, June 13 CAp.-Cleo F.,
Craig. general manager of the long
lines department of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., yester-
day was elected a vice president in
charge OF that department, succeed
ing Theodore G. Miller, who retired
after IS years service. Mr.. Craig
has been with the telephone COM
pany since graduation from the
University of Missouri in 1918.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Dividends Declared

RICHMOND, Va, June 13 (P).-
The Universal Leaf Tobacco Co.
will distribute total of $415 900 in
dividends on July l and August /,
c. M. Dozier, secretary of the COM
pany, reported today. A large por-
ton of this amount, it was said,
will go to stockholders living In
Richmond and vicinity.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
II ,627 900 barrels against l1,793 900
~, tho rorocoli,,O 1r,ool>

II 1,627 900 barrels against 11,793, 900
In the preceding week.
Imports Of crude and refined oils
at principal ports came to 1850 900
barrels abainst revised total of
100000 the week before.
Refinery operations for the same
period were reported as follows, on
Bureau of Mines basis:
Crude runs to stills (daily ave-
rage, 3,60o,oo0; decrease, $4,000.
Total U. S. gasoline production
(weeD, l1,627,000; decrease, 166, 900.
Total finished gasoline stocks, e2-
900; decrease, 933 1000.
Unfinished stocks, 6,s7s, 900; in
crease, $1,000.
Total finished and unfinished
stocks, s9,47l,OO0; decrease, 8s2 900.
Gas oil and distillate fuel, 30 500 =
GOO; increase, 1,076,000.
Residual fuel oil, 104, ,666 900; de-
crease, 100000.
Evening star., 1940-06-13

Club of Wash
ington at the
annual outing
tomorrow after
noon and eve
ming at the Con-
gressional Coun-
try Club, accord
ing to eXpecta-
t ion S of the
N o m In a t in g
Committee an
nounced today.
Mr.. H a ii will
succeed George
M. Ferris and
had been vice
Evening star., 1940-06-13
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK, June 13 (R,.-Bar
silver, IS; unchanged
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Bond Club Expected
TO Elect Frank Hall
AS Next President
I Annual Election Takes
/ Place Tomorrow During
! Country Club Outing
BY EDWARD c. STONE

Frank M. Hall, member of the
investment firm Of Hall, Peters &
Bryson, in the Southern Building,
will be elected president of the Bond
Evening star., 1940-06-13

Use OF serums and antitoxins from
the United States is increasing in
Britain.
Evening star., 1940-06-13

Chicago Cash Market.
No cash wheat. Corn, No l yellow. as
6134; No. 3. 66a4: No. ! white, 1915; No.
3. 76l2: sample grade. 64-73 Oats. No.
3. white 3594. Barley. mailing $3.50:
feeo, 4o-4o. Soy beans. No. yellow, 81,
Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE, June 13 R,.-Wheat No.
red winter garlicky spot domestic, e3,
Evening star., 1940-06-13
Federal Lund Banks
13 (P.-Federal
London Tin Prices

., LONDON, June 13 QP1-Tin firm: spot
los bid. f29O asked
Evening star., 1940-06-13

Unit OF trading
In bankruptcy recevershp
sanSIuptcy Act or securities assumed by such companies
Rates OF dividend the foregoing table
based the last quarterly
Unless otherwise noted special extra
included. ~ N' NV
XXX dividend. Ex rights a extras
dyldends paid last year Declared
stock Accumulated dividends paid declared this
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
Rockville Library
Highlig;hts

The Rockville library invites all
children and young people to join
the Vacation Reading Club, which
has met with much response.
Ninety children have enrolled in
the summer reading course and
have accepted the library's invita-
tion to read and turn many sum-
mer hours into profitable use.
Twelve books or more from Sc
lected graded list must be read
and each book entered and criti-
c;zed in a notebook which is given
to each member. Certificates will
he given to those finishing the
reading course prescribed. The
notebooks given provides list of
the books read, titles and authors,
and space for record of impress
sions for each book.
The "white elephant" sale, spon-
sored by the PIT. A., Library As
ISOLATION, Women's Club, and In
uuiry Club, for the benefit of chill
dren's books was most successful
and many new juvenile books have
been bought, to further the enjoy
ment Of the summer reading.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
OBITUARY
Thomas D. Darby

Funeral services for Thomas D.
Darby, ", banker and farmer,
who died of a heart attack in the
Frederick City Hospital, were
held Sunday at the home of his
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph N. Darby, near Daw-
sonville, with burial in Monocacy
Cemetery, Beallsville. Elder S. J.
Garland, Of Clarendon, Va, a min
lister of the Old School Baptist
Church, conducted the services.
Mr.. Darby, son of the late
Thomas D. and Elizabeth Daw-
son Darby, was unmarried. He is
survived by three brothers, Harry
G. Darby, Beallsville; Robert D.
Darby, New York; and Joseph N.
Darby. He was a director of the
Farmers Banking & Trust Co. OF
Rockville and chairman of the
board of the Poolesville branch of
that institution.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
Mrs. Elizabeth Porter

Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza
beth Porter, 27, wife of Thomas
Porter, of Brookeville, was held at
IL a. M, July 2, at the Roy Barber
funeral home, Laytonsville. Mrs.
Porter died Saturday at the Mont
gomery County General Hospital,
Sandy Spring, after a long illness.
The Rev. D. K. Sturgis, pastor
of the Brookeville Methodist church
conducted the services. Burial was
in Brookeville Cemetery.
Surviving, besides her husband,
are three sons, Thomas, Jerome,
Ronald; a daughter, Betty Joan;
her parents, Peyton Pettitt, of
Washington, and Mrs. Nettie Pet
TIT, Arlington, Va; and three sis
tiers, Mrs. Everett Goldsmith, Mrs.
Elmer Vandusen and Mrs. George
Huffman, all of Arlington, Va.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
Isaac H. Rabbit

Isaac Henry Rabbit, II, lifelong
resident of Montgomery county,
and well known farmer, died of a
heart attack Thursday, June 81, at
his home in Travilah. He was
working in the barn with his wife,
Mrs. Annie May Rabbit, when
stricken.
Other survivors are two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Byron H. Petit and
Miss Lulu Rabbit; two sons, Ber-
nard and Hugh Rabbit, and three
sisters and brother, Mrs. Daniel
O'Neil, Mrs. Myrtle Mace, Mrs.
Nettie Bogley and Arthur Rabbit.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon with burial in
st. Mary's Cemetery, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
Gaithersburg News And
Social Items

the Philathea Class, Grace Meth
odist Church.
The annual picnic of the Sunday
School will be held at Glen Echo
on Tuesday afternoon, next. Supt.
John Robertson, heads the COM
mittee on general plans.
Friends Of Mrs. Maude Easter,
a former resident here, win regret
to learn that she is now in the
Union Memorial Hospital, in Bal
timore where she had recent
operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Rufus
Jones are expected home from
their wedding trip through Cam
ada and the New England States
this week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
Cissel Saxon Post
Proposes Veterans Unit

At its last meeting, the Cissel-
Saxon Post, Number Al, of the
American Legion passed a reso-
luton proposing the immediate
organization of a special force for
the purpose of internal defense,
the force to be recruited from the
United States Veterans of 1917
1918. The complete resolution
follows:
Be 1t Resolved, by the Cissel-
Saxon Post, No. Al, American
Legion, Department of Maryland,
1. That we recognize a con-
dition Of world affairs to exist,
which requires that every citizen
of the United States lend his best
efforts and resources toward plac-
ing the Nation in such condition
that it can be successfully de-
Tended from any type of attack
which sought to destroy our
American institutions.
2. That we view with approval
the efforts of the Executive and
Congress thus far to effect that
end.
8. We further recognize that
recent events have demonstrated
the necessity for the employment
of new methods of defense, and
the utilization of every means at
the disposal Of a nations head in
order to successfully meet the new
methods employed in the attack.
A. That in view of these spe-
cial conditions, we urge that a
special force be Immediately raised
in this nation for the purpose of
internal defense.
5. That this force be recruited
from United States Veterans of
1917-1918.
6. That the organization and
training of this defensive force
be under the direction of the
Adjutant Generals of the several
states.
z. That, subject to the priori-
ties Of the Initial Protective
Force, this organization be imme-
diately raised, armed, equipped,
and trained in modern methods of
defense against mechanical armies,
aerial attacks, and against sur
prise infiltration through the air,
through traitorous or subversive
activities, or otherwise.
8. That we believe the War
Veterans of this nation are more
and able to defend this
nation from attack than any other
group.
9. That, endowed as we are
with the right to defend our
homeland and the indomitable will
to protect our institutions, we de-
mand that we be furnished with
the means.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-07-04
POOLESVILLE

Mrs. Page Bledsoe of Washing
ton and Mrs. Harry Rhodes of
Poolesville had a miscellaneous
shower at the home of their father
Mr.. S. c. Jones on Saturday, hon
oring Miss Madeline Hoyle. Miss
Hoyle and Mr.. Vincent McLaugh-
len of Pittsburgh will be married
shortly.
Miss Charlotte Colt has been
the guest of her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Brooke Colt recently.
Mrs. William Everett, Sd, was
hostess to the Women's Auxiliary
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davis en-
tertained six tables of bridge on
Saturday. High scores were made
by Mrs. Sidney Thompson and Mr..
Tom Oxley.
DR.. and Mrs. Hamilton Crook
left for their home in the West on
Monday, after a visit to their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Crook.
Mrs. Richie of New York is Wis
iting her brother, DR.. A. G. Elgin,
while Mrs. Elgin is visiting in
Akron, Ohio, for a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Luhn cele-
brated their wedding anniversary
by having Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fulton,
Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Roberts, Mr..
and Mrs. Carol Chiswell and Miss
Virginia Tyffe in for the evening.
Miss Elizabeth Hays spent the
weekend with Sara Carter White.
Miss Mary Offutt is home after
a trip to Cleveland attending a
Home Economics conference. She
accompanied Mrs. Curry N. Caples,
home economics teacher of Pooles-
vile.
Mrs. Miller Cassidy has been
spending a few days with Mrs.
Sidney Thompson, being joined
over the weekend by Mr.. Cassidy.
The Upper Montgomery Civic
Association held a picnic at Mono
cacy Park. Saturday evening for
it's members and friends.