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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Motion Picture of Heart
Shows Beginning of Life

A motion picture of the origin of
life-the formation and first-beat of
the heart of an embryo chicken
was shown recently at an assembly
of the International College of Sur
geons.
The film, photographed through a
microscope, provided the surgeons
an exciting drama of the most mys-
FERROUS of all the phases of their
work. It covered 10-hour inter-
val, from the time the incipient
chickens heart, little more than a
thin-walled tube, first began to
twitch, until blood circulation start
ed. 1t showed the spasmodic witch
ing become pulsating; the blood
cells and blood vessels begin to
form, and the heart gain strength
until it was able to pump life fluid
through the embryonic blood YES
sells.
DR.. Bradley Patten Of the UniUer-
sity of Michigan's anatomy depart
ment, gave the demonstration. In
a paper he explained that he and
his associates had cut a tiny win
dow in the cell of a fertilized egg
and exposed the embryo, the size
of pin head. This preparation was
transferred to glass chamber and
supplied with nutrient fluid.
The first flutterings of the tube,
later to become the heart, are not
rhythmic or orderly. Different parts
of it merely contract and there are
periods as long as five minutes when
there is no activity. Then comes
series of fibrillations and gradual
ly, after two or three hours, the
witches seem to combine, although
mostly on the right side of the tube.
After another hour, scattered
areas of the left side begin to con-
tract. Then right and left sides
twitch in time with each other. Still
there is no regular rhythm to the
movements as whole.
Three hours later there is a
change, so gradual it is impossible
to tell when it starts. The motions
are starting at one end Of the tube
and ripping in waves to the other
end.
Then the blood starts to form. At
first there is just fluid; then a few
corpuscles appear within the heart
tube They shuttle back and forth
at each beat. The beating in
creases, the blood cells become
more numerous. At last the en-
bryonic heart is pumping blood into
embryonic arteries. The chick is
40 hours old. Circulation has
started.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF
CONNECTICUT

Major Alfred N Phillips of
Worsell Manor, First District near
Cecilton, and former Mayor of
Stanford, Conn, through his papar,
the Darien Review, at Derien, Conn.,,
has announced his candidacy for
Governor of Connecticut. Major Phil
lips was also a former Congress
man from his district.
Major Phillips has maintained a
summer home in Cecil county for
about three years, purchasing the
Manor from Mr. Lambert Davis of
Cecilton. The mansion house has
been renovated and has been listed
as one of the colonial homes of the
State. Recently garden tour of
the State included Worsell Manor
in its itinerary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

God the Preserver of Man"
will be the subject of the Lesson
Sermon in all Churches OF Christ
Scientists, on Sunday, June 16.
The Golden Text will be from
Psalms 1921, THE Lord is my rock,
and my fortress and my deliverer:
my God, my strength, in whom will
trust; my buckler, and the horn Of
my salvation, and my high tower"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, Psalms s1:1:
He that dwelleth in the secret
place OF the most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with the Key to the Scrip
tures," by Mary Baker Eddy, among
which is the following, Preface VII:
IL, ITO those leaning on the sus-
tanning infinite today Is big with
blessings"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
THE ARMY HELPS YOUTH

The Army is helping in the solu-
ton of a major problem in many
Maryland communities and the Dis
trict of Columbia, that of the en-
ployment of youth.
The drive for recruits in the new
expansion plans of the Army is
progressing satisfactorily, and is
giving many disheartened young
men of ability the very thing they
most need-a pay check of their
own, a comfortable home with good
food, and IA chance for education
and advancement.
While the number of young men
the Army may absorb from the
great number of unemployed is prob.
ably relatively small, still it is fac
tor and of real assistance.
Any young man between the ages
of eighteen and thirty-five should
consider whether the Army does
not offer him many advantages he
does not now enjoy. Any questions
will be cheerfully answered without
obligation by call to the nearest
Army recruiting Office or post card
will bring prompt reply.
The Army is really helping the
unemployed youth find the place they
have been taught to expect.
Horace L. Pierce Sgt,
U. S. Army Recruiting Station
Room 212,
Hearst Tower Bldg,
Baltimore, ND.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Kansas Birds
Eat Live Cows
Farmers Find 1t Difficult to
Fight Pests Who Cause
Big Losses.

WICHITA, KAN.-Cattlemen of
western Kansas have learned to
cope with zero weather and biz
yards which are hitting them now,
but they are faced this year with
new menace-Kansas birds are eat
ing Kansas cows.
Ray LamberSon, a cattleman of
Liberal, brought two birds to the
Wichita stockyards to show men of
this part of Kansas specimens of
the newest pests.
The birds are alighting on the
backs of cows, boring through the
skin, and literally starting to eat
them alive.
One of the birds is an English
startling; the other is similar to the
Kansas state bird, the meadow lark.
"It seems that these starlings are
teaching our state birds a few bad
habits" Lamberson said. II was
born and raised in this part of the
country, and never have seen any
starlings here before"
Cows at Mercy.
Both species have long beaks and
long claws. They alight on the
cows back, just above the rump.
There, the COW neither can shake
it loose nor brush it off with her
tail.
They are attacking beef herds, but
are doing most of their damage in
dairy herds, according to Lamber-
son.
Farmers are finding it difficult to
fight the pests. If they put out
poisoned meat, dogs and cats, the
pets of almost every farmhouse, eat
it and die. So they have tried put
ting out poisoned seeds.
The sparrows and other birds that
winter in this part of the country
readily eat the poisoned grain. The
starlings, however, refuse to touch
it. Rather, they wait until the spar
rows and other birds die from eff
fects of the poison, and then attack
them, boring through the breasts of
their winged victims.
The English starting is dark
bird. Its feathers are nearly black
near the quill end, but on the spread
end, they have purplish dot.
Bird books describe starlings as
intelligent and carnivorous. While
there is snow on the ground, seeds
are plentiful along hedgerows, but
the birds prefer to attack the cattle.
Eat More Than Grubs.
The other bird resembles a
meadow lark but is somewhat dark
er and more husky than the ordi-
nary species.
Old-timers here say they have
often seen birds land on the backs
of cattle, but only to eat grubs which
grow under the skin of the animals,
rather than the animals themselves.
Lamberson says that the type of
boring the starlings do is different
and that they eat more of the ami
NAL than just grub.
The startling is a member of the
grackle family, the same family to
which crows and blackbirds belong
There are thousands of crows and
blackbirds in Kansas all through the
year, but they never have been seen
to attack cattle.
Until they learn to cope with the
trouble, many of the cattlemen are
keeping their dairy herds in sheds.
At the same time they are hoping
they will find some way to fight the
pests because the Kansas climate is
II
grackle family that there are likely
to be thousands of them in the neigh
borhood in a few years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
When Roll Was Called

Two years ago citizens of
Granger, WASH, organized ''the
finest volunteer fire department in
central Washington" and named
Darwin Davis as assistant chief.
But now they're considering all
sorts Of dire action against Davis
because he spoiled the chance the
department had awaited for two
years. For "a months members of
the department drilled faithfully,
waiting for the day they could show
their prowess in a real fire. It final
1y came and when the fire alarm
rang the members turned out in
force-all except Davis. Not wait
ing for their assistant chief, the vol
unteer firemen dashed to the scene.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
NEW COURT HOUSE FURNITURE
INSTALLED

The new furniture for the offices in
the recently completed Court House
building at Elkton, has been received
and installed.
The original contract for the office
furniture and fittings was Cancelled
because, it was alleged, 1t did not
come up to specifications and quality.
This led to another contract being
made. AS result several of the office
forces have remained up to present,
in the old building.
A movement is on foot to allow
the present building to remain and
use part as a pubic library, or a
public hall.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
Switching Tail of Cow
Once Source of Power

BOSTON.-How much power has
a cows tail when it's switching
flies?
Enough, calculated Massachu-
sets dairyman in 1860, to operate a
milking machine. His machine
worked by motion of cows tail.
1t is described in that years Sep
tember issue of the New England
Farmer.
The inventor answered objections
that his cow-power machine would
operate only during fiytime by rec
ommending the introduction of arti-
fetal flies into the dairy stable
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN
REVOLUTION

Captain jeremiah Baker Capter,
Daughters of American Revolution,
held the May meeting at the home
of Mrs. B. H. Owens, Principle
Furnace. Officers elected for the
coming year were: Regent, MRS.
Harriet C. Owens; vice regent, Mrs.
Arthur Beaver; chaplain, Mrs.
Arthur H. Owens; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Paul j. Fleming; cores
ponding secretary, Mrs. Cornella
Nickle; treasurer, Mrs. Arthur M.
Reeves; registrar, Mrs. Ralph K.
lowering; historian, Mrs. Robert
McVey; editor, Mrs. Cornelia
Nickle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
sprinting Pig i.

Perhaps looking forward to the
day when feet foot might save
him from the slaughter house, a
baby pig at Wilton, N. H., tries his
luck at understanding automobiles.
The pig races car going in one
direction, but reverses its track
when it meets one travelling the
other way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

Cheap cotton materials for the
world market are produced at an in
credible rate in Hongkong where SO
yards OF 1t are made every time one
minute goes by.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14
LITTLE ELK TRIBE OF RED MEN

LITTLE ELK TRIBE OF RED MEN
Little Elk tribe of Red Men of
Cherry Hill, has installed the fol-
lowing officers: Arthur Pounds,
Sachem; William Rothwell, Prophet;
William Pounds, ST., Sycamore;
Laird Steele. Jr., Sycamore; Joseph
Steele, Keeper of Records; Samuel
Moffit, Keeper of Wampum; Paul
Costello, Collector of Wampum; VIII
liam C. Miller, Guard OF the Wig
wan; e. Truitt, Guard of Forest;
Howard Heath. Sennap,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

Except for the sunflower, the
more conspicuous weeds on Ameri-
can farms generally came from Eu-
rope.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

1t is not yet known where sprats,
fish found in British waters be-
tween November and February, 60
during the rest Of the year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

Between the years 1870 and 1875
about two and a half million buff
faloes were killed annually.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-14

About 600 languages are spoken
on the European continent,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
GERMANY TO PUSH
BALKAN CAMPAIGN
Farley Slated In Effort To
Assure Continued Flow
OF Oil And Food

BUDAPEST, March 31-R)-The
German minister of agriculture,
Walther r. Dare is expected here
Tuesday, it was reported today, tc
hold conferences with Yugoslav
Hungarian and italian ministers OF
agriculture and push the Reich's
campaign to assure a continued flow
Of foodstuffs, oil and raw materials
from southeastern Europe. .
Although Dare is coming osten-
sibly to visit Budapest's Agricultural
Fair, it was said his real purpose
is to push Germany's case in the
face of an expected stiffening of the
Allies economic warfare on this
flank Of the Reich.
With the Allies expected to start
a huge economic and diplomatic Of
fensive in southeastern Europe tc
make their blockade more effective,
foreign observers said Dare prob
ably would seek to clinch Hungarian
and Jugoslav agricultural exports
for the Reich as a first step in a
Nazi campaign Of resistance.
Britain has called her diplomatic
representatives in the Balkans &c
London for a conference, and Gen
eral Maxine Weygand, commander.
in-chief of French forces in the near
east, is in paris for conferences with
the government.
Quick nazi action to sew south
eastern Europe's exports was seer
by foreign observers as especially
necessary in view Of persistent re.
ports in authoritative diplomatic
quarters in the Balkans that Turkey
has agreed to let the French anT
British fleets pass through the Oar.
danelles to clamp on a Black sea
blockade.
(The British foreign office denied
such emission had been asked or
given. Foreign office officials in
Paris likewise said they could not
confirm the report.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
AIR FORCES CLASH

PARIS, March 31.-R-A burst
of activity by rival air forces in the
war today followed land actions
marked by German artillery fire
which harrassed French positions
along a 30-mile front.
The evening communique Of the
French high command said: "Fair'
ly intense activity by both air
forces"
In its morning communique the
high command reported artillery
fire in the region northwest OF
Bitche. Bursts of machine-gun fire
along the Rhine in upper Alsace."
"Nomad Batteries" Busy
German "nomad batteries" were
held responsible by the French for
fire on French positions along a 30
mile front between Saar and Vosges
with which small infantry attacks
were coupled.
French authorities, however, still
did not attach any particular sig
n%ificance to the heavy artillery &C.
tivity which has lasted several days
and said that the infantry attacks
were easily repulsed with fairly Sc
rious losses to the Germans"
The Germans are using 105-killi-
meter mobile guns, hauling them to
positions thanking the French, firing
a few rounds and then hastily de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
F. DIR. AND GARNER
FACE MAJOR TEST
Dewey-V andenberg Contest
In Wisconsin Slated To
Be Decided Today

WASHINGTON, March 31.-lP-
The first direct tests of strength
between supporters of Preslden'
Roosevelt and Vice-President Gar
ner on the democratic side, and be
tween Thomas E. Dewey and Sen
ator Arthur Vandenberg, republl
cans, make this week a key n III
pre-convention jockeying for the
major party presidential nomlna-
tons.
On Tuesday. Wisconsin voters
will select delegates to each party's
national convention in primaries
and at the same time will mark
their choices for presidential noml-
nees. The "a delegates to be select
ed by each party will not be bound
to vote these preferences, but al
are campaigning as supporters OF
one or another of the four men.
Because of the third term ques
ton and the absence of any previous
test of Dewey VS.. Vandenberg senti'
ment, the Wisconsin primary over
shadows delegate contests this week
in five other states.
New York also will hold a pri
mary Tuesday to choose delegates
to the national conventions from
the states 43 congressional dis
tricts. On the same day, two ae:e'
gates to the republican national
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
DIES WILL PRESS
WAR AGAINST REDS
Committee Chief Says He
Will Seek To Publish List
Of Party's Members

WASHINGTON, March 31.-P-
Denouncing the communist party as
an agency for "perpetration of mis-
demeanors and high Crimes" Rep
Dies D-Tex) said tonight that he in.
tended to go to every constitutional
length to obtain and publish a list
of it's members.
In an address prepared for the ra'
die NBC), the chairman of the house
committee on unAmerican activi
ties said he also would take such &C
ton against 'the German-American
bund and all other organizations
which our committee finds to be
s~ubversive."
Dies said it should be recognized
that the communist party is mot
just another political party" but is
a foreign conspiracy"
'"This MEANS" he continued, "that
communist party members who are
subject to strict party discipline IN
all their activities are foreign con
spirators who cannot honorably OF
honestly serve the American govern
ment."
This must be drought home" he
declared, to all government officials
who have permitted communists
and sympathizing 'party-liners' tc
land in government jobs; to union
officials who tolerate communists
and to Americans who have allowed
themselves to be recruited into the
vast network of front organizations
which the party controls"
Discussing the refusal Of com
munist leaders to answer questions
before his committee last week, Dies
said it was a party line" aimed at
seeking "~martyrdom or the appear
lance of martyrdom."
ct know on good authority" he
added, 'that the communist party
will shortly attempt to set up a ma
tional defense committee with a lis1
of prominent persons as sponsors
and then launch a campaign tt
raise large sums Of money for the
party chest"
The house already has voted. tt
cite James Dolsen, n of the reluc
|tant communist witnesses, for con
tempt. Dies has said similar actor
will be sought against others. Con
yiciton in federal court of contemp
of the house is punishable by $1,OO'
fine and n years imprisonment.
The Dies committee is scheduled
to u its hearings Wednesda!
with communist leaders from thu
Boston area as witnesses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
CenSuSEnumeratOrSWill
StartW
Jewels Worth 100000
Are Stolen From Store

LOS ANGELES, March 81
R-Theft of precious stones
valued at more than $500, 600
and approximately $1,000 in
cash from a downtown jeWelry
store was reported by police
tonight.
Detectives said they believe
the store was entered sometime
over the weekend by at least
four men and a woman.
They said evidently a woman
secreted herself in the wash
room of an adjoining shoe
store and later admitted ac-
completes who broke two tile
partitions to gain entrance to
the jewelry store.
Deputy Chief Homer Cross
said he believed that later more
accomplices were admitted by
a sidewalk elevator. Using ogy-
gen and gas tanks, the robbers
drilled through the middle of
the huge vault door and re-
moved the loot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
REQUIRES TWO WEEKS
Hopkins Warns All Count
ers That Census is Not
An Inquisition'

More than 40 census enumerators
will take the field in New Hanover
county tomorrow morning and will
- It every nose from the North
east river bridge to Federal Point.
The count is scheduled to be com.
pleted within about two weeks.
This, the sixth decennial census,
will be taken in all parts of the
nation at the same time and is
supposed to be completed at about
the same time. Rural areas are al
lotted one month and urban areas
are allotted two weeks.
Harold H. Jeter, enumerator for
New Hanover county, said last
night it is expected that both Will.
mington and New Hanover county
will be finished with the Is day
limit.
Divided Into Areas
The county and city have been
divided into marked areas and one
or more enumerators are assigned
to each area.
Jeter said last night the only
hitch in the arrangements thus
far is a delay in the receipt of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
France Loses
Seven Planes
During Fights
Germans Claim Craft Shot
Down During Battle
On Western Front
AIR ACTIVITY MOUNTS
Follows Land Action Mark
ed By Heavy Nazi Artil-
lery Fire Along Line

BERLIN, April 1.-(MondayeH
Seven French planes were shot down
in various encounters with the Ger
man air force yesterday without the
loss of a single German machine, the
government radio announced this
morning.
paris dispatches said there was a
burst of aerial activity yer the
western front Yesterday
Applying the radio announce.
ment; DNB, official German news
agency, reported a number Of air
encounters along the French front
in which rs Messrschmitt planes
fought SO French Morane filters.
Near Puettlingen, DNB said, eight
Messerschmitts attacked eight Mo
ranes and shot down two. South Of
Saargemuend nine Messerschmitt
planes fought 20 Morane warplanes
and caused two enemy ships to crash
while above Moerchingen eight Mes
serschmitts successuflly-batt
eight French pursuit planes and de
| stroyed three.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
FUTURE OF WANC'S
REGIME UNCERTAIN
Believed To Be Stop-Gap
Through Which Japan 10
Seek Chinese Peace

NANKING, March 81. - Up -
Usually well-informed persons here
expressed belief tonight that the
new Wang Ching-Wei regime would
be merely a stop-gap through which
Japan would seek an ultimate peace
with Generalissimo Chang Kal-Shek
and his Chungking government.
The Wang government was es:
tablished yesterday at Marking,
with Japan's approval and coopera-
ton. Persons in close contact with
Japanese military and diplomatic
officials in China said they believe
it's days are numbered.
Wang himself and his close as
sociates profess to believe that the
Japanese army and government will
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-01
Ohio River Is Not Expected
To Reach Critical Stage
At Pittsburgh
FAIR SKIES FORECAST
Several Highways Are Clos.
ed And Many Families
Forced From Homes
By The Associated Press

FlocdWaters in the east and west
reached their crests last night with
out inflicting great damage to life
and property.
Recent rains and thaws had
| threatened to send several rivers
sursinc over their banks into cities
and over AGRICULTURAL areas with dis
aslrous effect in northern California,
western Pennsylvania and upstate
New York, but generally clear wealth
er interviewed to quiet the waters
and drive them back from the land.
The floods took four lives in up
state New York, however, two re-
Mlting from a motor car accident
and two by drowning. Snow melting
under sunny skies kept streams at
food stage and forced residents in
Ow.lying land to flee their homes in
boats.
The Ohio river rolled toward a 49,
foot crest at ~Steubenville, O., and
more than two score families in the
nearb villages of Empire, Stratton
and Albania were prepared to va
cate their homes, in the path of flood
waters.
The weather bureau predicted thai
the waters of the Monongahela and
Allegheny rivers which form the
Ohio river at Pittsburgh would not
reach critical heights, despite their
gradual rise early yesterday.
LacakaWanna Recedes
Water drained from the second and
first floors of lowland dwellings
Of Scranton as the Lackawanna river
slowly receded.
Clearing skies and a fair weather
forecast indicated much of the dan.
ger in northern California was past.
Eastern areas, touched in recent
years by drought, were optimistic
over the outcome of thaws and rains
which have drenched large sections
Of New York and Pennsylvania and
raised rivers to flood stages.
The weather bureau predicted con-
dltions in the Ohio valley would not
be serious, as swollen waters rolled
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