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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-19
NO INDICATION OF FLU

RALEIGH, Dec. 18.-R-There
is no indication now that North
Carolina will suffer a repetition
of the 1917 influenza epidemic, DR..
Carl V. Reynolds, state health Of
ficer, said today. But with the
disease in louisiana" he. added
cit might drift this way, but at
the same time be watchful and
careful" 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-19
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. - (HY -
and rainfall for the "a our ending
s n. M:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-19
EMPTY STOCKING
APPEAL RENEWED
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child know the joys of Christmas.
Unless there IRE more donations
there will be many children in this
city who will be forgotten when
Santa Claus makes his rounds.
Contributions may be made at the
Star-Neys offices or through the
treasurer of the Stocking Fund at
the Peoples Savings Bank and Tru-t
company:
The fund to-date:
Previously acknowledged $784.17
Cash 500
Wilmington Exchange Club 1000
Staff & Employees of Moore.
Realty Co. Carolina Build
ing & Loan 1900
Mr.. & Mrs. N. D. Free ----- 200
DR.. Burnette 200
A Friend 100
Offices of Auditor Mis-. Acct.
A. =. L.. $40
Wrightsboro Colored School
PIT. A. 3.15
Purchasing Agents Office,
A, G.. l.. Ry. ---- 1915
Betty Hill, 1715 Ann st. 49, .16
A Friend 100
Office Clerks Superintendent
Car Service --- 1925
Williston Primary PIT. A. - 1900
R. r.. Breeze 100
Mrs. R. R. Breeze -- 100
Rodney Breeze ------------- LOO
Total $SS2.43
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Height Counts More Than Hair
InAIphu Gamma Rho Blind Date
Agriculture Fraternity Boys Are Particular;
Few Tall Girls Get Bid to Dance

A girls height means much more
to the boys of Alpha Gamma Rho,
national agricultural fraternity, than
does the color of her hair.
Blond or not, if the girl is too tall
she hasn't been picked in the draw
ing for blind dates for the dance to
be held tonight by the fraternity as
part of its biennial convention at
the Wardman Park Hotel.
OF the approximately 200 boys
registered for the convention, about
rs came from so far west they had
no acquaintance in Washington at
all. So Richard Jenkins of the Uni
versity of Maryland, chairman got
girl volunteers from Strayer College
and some local sororities.
The girls wrote down their heights
and hobbies on cards. There was a
grand rush for the cards, and of
the original 100 only about Is re-
main Golden or midnight tresses
didn't seem to mean thing. ac-
cording to Mr.. jenkins. Height was
the deciding factor.
Shorties didn't fare so well, either.
Sizes ranged from a girl nearly 6
feet tall and weighing 100 pounds,
whose hobby was "active sports" to
a 5-foot blond weighing SO pounds,
who just liked "having a good time"
Z Some young ladies specified
whether they liked their music popu-
Evening star., 1940-09-03

lar or classical. And a lot, with
feminine tact, said they liked to
| dance.
The dance tonight will conclude
the second day of business meetings
by the fraternity representatives.
Alpha Gamma Rho has 81 active
and 80 alumni chapters and more
than 5000 members.
Yesterday the convention adopted
the annual Secretary's report by
Prof. Sleeter Bull Of Illinois Univer-
sity.
Prof. Bull said that fraternities,
which usually include the key fig
ureS of the campuSeS, should supply
the leaders of any youth movement,
Urging the chapters to conduct
their business so they can be Of most
aid to the national defense program,
Prof. Bull said:
"We do not feel there is cause for
alarm but we do feel that the chap
ter must conduct itself so that it is
prepared for any eventuality."
This is the first time a conven-
ton has been held so far from
strictly agricultural country. Fri
day the delegates are travelling out
to Greenbelt to see the Govern
ment's experiment there. Tomor-
row the formal sessions will end,
and Thursday and Friday will be
spent sightseeing.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Fireman Slightly Burned
In Blast al Ice Plant

A fireman was slightly burned and
two employees were forced to flee the
Capitol Heights Ice & Fuel Co.
shortly before noon today when ar
ammonia tank exploded in the plant
In Capitol Heights, Md.
Fumes spread for several blocks
through the business section follow
ing the explosion.
I The fireman, Pvt. Jack Messineo
"a member of the Capitol Heights
Volunteer Fire Department, was
burned on the arm by the fumes
and received first aid treatment on
+ the scene.
George Bridges, an employe, said
he was blown 20 feet by the explo-
sion. Neither he nor Clair Bottord,
the other employe in the building at
the time, was injured.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Heart Attack Is Fatal
To Miss Jessie Jewett

Miss Jessie Jewett, SIS, a private
nurse in Washington for Is years,
died suddenly of heart attack Sun
day at the All States Hotel, 514
Nineteenth street NV. Miss Jewett
had moved to the hotel the day
before to make her home after be-
ing confined to Emergency Hospital
10 weeks with a heart ailment.
A native of Nebraska, although of
New England parentage, Miss Jewett
came to Washington to attend the
Garfield Hospital School for Nurses.
She worked here as a trained nurse
since graduation.
E A brother, Gordon Jewett, living
in Wyoming, is the sole surviving
member of her family.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at the Gawler
Chapel, 1850 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, with burial in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
"A. B. 6. Board Faces Problem
OF Deciding d Womun's Aqe

3 How old is Irene La Vonne Sweat
of the 400 block of Massachusetts,
avenue NV?
This question must be decided by
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board in connection with charge
against William j. Trollinger, 913
Eighth street Sc, of serving liquor
to a minor.
Irene's mother says she was born
January "a, 1919, in Waycross, Ga.
according to a motorized statement
forwarded to the board over the
signature of L. P. Sweat, justice of
the peace and notary public. This
would make Irene, who was one of
twins, 81 years old.
: A birth certificate sent the board
by the Georgia State Health De-
partment, however, says she was
born January "a. 1920, which would
make her only 20.
Evening star., 1940-09-03

Sheriff Henry j. Sweat of Way
cross, in a letter to the board, says
ne talked to the mother and she
told him the girl was born January
"a, 1920, which again makes her 20.
He further stated that from his own
experience and knowledge of the
family he thought this was correct.
On the witness stand herself
Irene told the board, according to
board chairman Thomas E. Lodge,
that she was both 20 and 81.
when are you ZIP" Mr.. Lodge
said she was asked.
when I'm looking for a job," he
said she replied.
when are you 20?"
when anybody else asks me-" Mr..
Lodge said she answered.
Testimony on the case was con-
cluded today and the board took it
under advisement.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
TOMORROW.

lOMORROW.
Tour, Junior Nature Outing, to
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Leaves
Kenilworth avenue and Douglas
streets NE. at $50.
Meeting, Women's Board, G. w.
University Hospital, Mayflower Ho-
tel, 10:30.
Luncheon, international Geneva
Association, Mayf1ower Hotel, 1890
pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayf1ower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Gyro Club, Willard Ho-
tel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Will
lard Hotel, 1 pm.
Banquet, Alpha Gamma Rho Fra
ternity, Wardman Park Hotel. pm
Convention, Alpha Gamma Rho
Fraternity, Wardman Park Hotel,
all day.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
Society, Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Convention, International Geneva
Association, Hotel Raleigh, all day.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
City News in Brief
TODAY,

Meeting, D. G. Chapter, Catholic
Daughters of America, Willard
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Power Engineers, HoteI
Raleigh, 7:30 pm.
! Meeting, Executive Committee
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Willard
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, D. c. Funeral Directors
I Association, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Collectors Club, Branch
Evening star., 1940-09-03

S, S. P. A., Thomson Community
Center, pm.
Dance, Alpha Gamma Rho Fra
ternity, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Convention, International Geneva
Association, Hotel Raleigh, all day.
Convention. Alpha Gamma Rho
Fraternity, Wardman Park Hotel, all
day.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
YugosIavs Reported
Refusing 10 Guard
Nazi Merchantmen
Britain Is Suid to Have
Warned Belgrade B1uxite
For Reich to Be Seized
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, April 5.-Germany,
seeking a blockade-proof route for
transporting Yugoslav bauxite
through the Adriatic, was reported
today to have attempted unsuccess-
fully to obtain Yugoslavia's promise
to guard Nazi merchantmen against
seizure by allied warships in her
territorial waters.
The reports, which could not i'm
mediately be confirmed, said Great
Britain had warned Yugoslavia that
bauxite shipments to Germany
would be subject to seizure as con-
traband.
Official sources previously had said
that Yugoslavia would sanction use
of her territorial waters for German
ships carrying bauxite to the Italian
port of Trieste, whence it would be
shipped overland to the Reich.
Bauxite, mineral base of alumni
mum, is not considered by Yugo-
Slavia to be war material and
hence not subject to seizure, these
sources said.
Meanwhile the NaZi freighter
Ankara, loaded with 1000 tons of the
mineral, remained anchored in the
Yugoslav harbor of Dubrovnik be-
cause allied warships were rumored
- L i
slip out on test voyage to Trieste.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
STAR; WASHINGTON, D. c. FRIDAY APRIL 1e4o

rett Prettyman and Mrs. Stanley
G. Sears. The paid director, Mr..
Shape, Is assisted In administration
Of the organization by seven stand
ing committees, each with = trustee
as chairman.
The Goodwill Guild, under the
leadership Of Mrs. Herrick, is active
in stimulating interest In the In
dustries among the women OF the
city.
Goodwill Industries is q member
of the Washington Council Of So
cisl Agencies.
Col. Bliss, an executive of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., considers himself an "employe,
albeit unpaid. Of the Board of Trus-
tees and, as such, prefers not to be
regarded as head" of the enter
prise, but his enthusiasm for the
work carries with it ideas for fur
ther expansion.
Would Increase Employment.
His present primary hope is that
the anniversary week will result in
sufficient stimulation of interest
by the public to enable us to in
crease our employment to the maxi
mum capacity of our plant, which
would be between $50 and 100
workers"
Our success depends on the ex-
tent to which the public will SUD-
port us in contributing goods and
buying from Goodwill stores" ne
explains.
Col. Bliss is aware that the num-
ber of handicapped persons retained
in the ranks of earners by Goodwill
Industries does not constitute a large
segment of the city's disabled citi-
zens, but he considers the program a
sound approach to the problem of
providing work for men and women
who are unwanted in regular busi-
ness fields because Of their disabil-
ity.
He recalls an old saddler whose
shop he was accustomed to visit
when a youngster in his native
Pennsylvania.
THAT mans slowness was no an
preciable handicap to any one but
himself" he points out, adding that
the same man would find scant
chance of employment in modern
industry where integration of ef-
fort and mass production had made
1t impossible for the sound business
man, even though sympathetic, to
retain handicapped worker be-
cause his disability might be a
menace not only to himself, but to
w-employes.
Since society has risen above the
old survival of the fttest" code in
its grimmest application-permit-
ting the weak to die as the solution
to their problem-and since a work.
ing citizen is clothed with more
self-respect and usefulness to the
community than a charity client,
Col. Bliss views the idea of Good
will Industries as the way out"
He emphasizes, however, that its
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Goodwill Industries, S Years
Old, Look to Broader Service
Officers Hope Public Interest Will Grow
To Provide Job Chances for Handicapped

production departments in which
items contributed through the Good
will bags are sorted and prepared
for sale. The bags themselves, which
are distributed to all who ask for
them, now are made in the plant,
a development of the past year.
which has made possible employ
ment Of two more physically handi-
capped persons.
An important activity associated
with the regular Goodwill program
here is the school, organized in
1896 to train leadership for the or
ganization. It is maintained by an
endowment.
In addition to Col. Bliss, officers
OF the Industries are Mrs. Fenning,
first vice president; Col Brindley,
second vice president; Mr.. Dulin,
treasurer, and Mrs. Howard G.
Nichols, secretary. The officers are
members of the Board of Trustees,
as are Albert w. Atwood, Edwin l..
Davis, Mrs. Samuel Herrick, Joseph
D. kaufman, Mrs. Murray, E. Bar
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Mines
Continued From Page A-1.)

with wide knowledge of its opera
tions. From 1917 to 1882 he served
as chief of its health and safety
branch. His work in this connection
was done at a time when health
and safety precautions of the bureau
were under the direction of the
Public Health Service.
A native of Crothersville, Ind, DR..
Sayers entered his career in public
health in 1914.
In his former capacity with the
Bureau of Mines, DR.. Sayers became
well known throughout the mining
industry and has supervised mining
activities at the scene of operations
in every part Of the Nation. Since
1882, when the Bureau of Mines took
over its own safety work, he has
been in charge of the Office of in
dustrial hygiene and sanitation for
the Public Health Service.
Announcement Is Surprise.
Announcement Of his appoint
ment to succeed DR.. Finch, even
though it is in an acting capacity,
came somewhat as surprise. A
number Of prominent mining ex-
perts had been mentioned as pos
sible successors, but DR.. Savers
name was not among them. The
new director. it was said, has the
complete confidence of Secretary
Ickes.
Announcement of the resignation
of DR.. Finch had come about in a
fashion which irked Mr.. 1ckes con-
siderably. He said at the time he
had withheld acceptance of the
mine chiefs resignation to allow
him ample time to locate another
position. Certain friends of DR..
Finch, members of the so-called
little clique" conveyed news OF his
resignation to the press without Mr..
Ickes' knowledge.
DR.. Finch had been q member of
a committee Of engineers who sup
ported the presidential candidacy of
Herbert Hoover In 1882.
Ickes Denied Political Charge.
Associates in the bureau claimed
that Mr.. Ickes had forced his resig-
nation because of DR.. Finch's Re-
publican Affiliations.
In answer to this charge of polit-
ical discrimination, Secretary Ickes
said at the time he had known all
about DR.. Finch's politics when he
appointed him to head the Bureau
Of Mines. He would not now he
asking for his resignation after six
years because he was Republican,
the Secretary declared.
Mr.. Ickes paid q tribute to DR..
Finch as "a very able man." but
said the reason for difficulties in
the bureau was the failure of its
chief to control certain officials
under him.
Mr.. 1ckes said he had found dis
sension in the Bureau of Mines
when he ruled against the sale of
helium to Germany two years ago.
Some members of the bureau, he
claimed, had tried to sabotage" his
order and sell helium anyhow.
DR.. Finch left the bureau with
out making any public statement in
reply to the charges made by his
former chief. He gave up his resi-
dence In Washington and u now IN
New York. ''' - : . '-'"' $50 :. q =
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Lewis Pledges {. |. 0.
fight on Labor Act
Amendments
Proposal to Increase >
Membership Of Group
Called 'Poekine' Move

Uncompromising opposition Of the
Congress Of Industrial Organizations
to the National Labor Act amend
ments proposed by the House Labor
Committee was assured today as
John L. Lewis, president of the
group, denounced the legislation as
"the fruit of an unholy intrigue
between anti-union manufacturers
and A. F. L. craft leaders blinded
by partisan venom"
Mr.. Lewis displayed particular
opposition to committee proposals
to increase the Labor Board from
three to five members and require
the granting of separate bargaining
status to craft groups desiring it.
Fears Packing Of Board.
In a statement issued after con-
ferring with officers of the c. I. o.
and labor's Non-Partisan League,
Mr.. Lewis said the proposed increase
in board membership was designed
Ito pack the Labor Board so that
it may become an instrument of
partisan or anti-labor policy ="
Under this amendment no discre-
tion even would be left to the board
and it would be compelled to split
up industrial unions wherever a
handful of craftsmen could be per-
suaded to disrupt the industrial
unity desired by most of the work.
ers."
As Mr.. Lewis warned further
that progressive labor and its friends
would hold strictly to account all
members of Congress who betray
the public interest by sup
porting this partisan intrigue" an
American Federation of Labor Of
ficial likewise spoke out belhger-
emily against a member Of Congress
and the latter's request for labor
support in coming elections.
Burke's Record Attacked.
Responding to letter from
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska, asking Endorsement of his
union, H. w. Brown, president of
the International Association of
Machinists, wrote as follows to
Homer H. Gruenther, secretary to
the Senator:
Il was surprised that Senator
Burke should seek the support of
labor unions after his record in the
Senate, but I was even more be-
wildered when I found that he was
seeking Endorsement on the grounds
that he had worked closely with
A. F. of l.. leaders and has been
identified with efforts to amend the
National Labor Relations Act" = :
Surely you cannot be unaware that
William Green, the president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
denounced the Burke amendments
to the National Labor Relations Act
with great vehemence.
Fresh in the mind of all labor
people is the way Senator Burke
used his high office and the Gov
ernment franking privilege to send
broadcast anti-labor propaganda
prepared by employers hostile to COL
lective bargaining and became part
and parcel Of the campafgr.pfrfbss
National Association of Manufat-
turers to hamstring labor. We rex
member his boast that he had in
vited $500 chambers of commerce
throughout the United States to
furnish him with lists of names to
which he mailed, under Government
frank, violent attacks against the
rights guaranteed labor in the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act and Wig
orously urged campaign to destroy
those nights"
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Critics Forum Heurs
Rev. WiIfred Persons

The Rev. Wilfred Parsons, g. j.
dean Of Georgetown Universit
Graduate School, spoke last nigE
before the Critics Forum at tn
Mayflower Hotel, reviewing "Th
Nazarene," by Sholem Asch.
He described it as an appeal 20
Christians and Jews to co-operat
more closely, forgetting their diff!
ferences." The author builds {
complete case to show that Christ
spoke and acted in a Jewish setting. /"
Father Parsons declared.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Rodio Stotion Souaht

The Radio Corp. Of Annapolis has
applied to the Federal Communica-
tions Commission for authority to
construct radio broadcast station
at Annapolis, Md. The company
asked. for the frequency tof 1910
kilocycles, with 100 watts power,
and unlimited time on the air.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

ultimate worth will become known
only when many more citizens In
comfortable circumstances remem-
ber the Industries when discard
ing clothing and household effects
and when many more people of very
modest income become accustomed
tc easing the strain on their budgets
by purchasing such goods from the
Goodwill stores.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Heads Virginia U. Club
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Y

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
5.-Morrill H. Bankard, third-year
student from Pikesviile, Md, was
elected president of the Interna-
tional Relations Club at the Univer-
sity OF Richmond at recent meet
ing. William H. Sager, Front Royal,
Va, a third-year student, was made
secretary-treasurer.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-06-08

IT get more than my moneys worth
when / buy Calumet" says Mrs
Nancy z. Williams, 49o MoreIand
Ave. Atlanta. Ga.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-06-08

lay down on a sunny slope for a rest
Sleep came easily They were awak-
ened by strange noise, "a cross be-
tween roar. shrek and whistle as
II wild beast, an owl, q bull and a
locomotive we're singing quartet. /" The
sound occurred at about iO-minute
intervals, gradually approaching the
Neither had ever seen nor heard a
moose. But they were sure It must be
a moose. The call was answered from
close by.
Two bullsl" the talk began. MAY
get a shot at both"
Campbell saw a reflection In the
water at the foot OF the slope. Sure. Il
was the reflection Of antlers.
Feeding on water lilies"
The object moved into partial view.
Why, Campbell, It's bluel Who ever
heard Of blue moose2"
The men removed their boots to
avoid cracking twigs and crept closer.
A voice said: 'Durn the trout They
amt bitin' worth a cent"
That unusual call sounded again
from down the canyon. The blue
moose" answered 1t.
Two soldiers from Fort Ellis were
fishing. Separated. they were yodeling
for contact.
Il think" remarked Dunraven, I'VE
had better go back and put on our
shoes and stockings. These gentlemen
might wonder what we are doing with
out them"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-06-08

York real estate operator.
IN a blood thirsty age like today
when people are being given a mental
and moral ration OF blood and slaugh-
ter, says a letter from a steel com
pany official IN st. Louis, 1T Is like
a breath Of clean. fresh air TO read
such an article. Medals are being
struck every day for expertneSs In the
art OF destroying life, but 1t seems
Tar more important to me TO create a
respect and reverence for the creation
and preservation of all living creatlires
May your splendid example be an in
SpTatlon 70 our less humane and less
thoughtful fellowmen."
Letter From Eight Old Ducks
one OF the many letters came from
Massachusetts and was signed Eight
Old Ducks" The letter said the story
OF the order to protect the nest had
been read to a group OF bird and music
enthusiasts. We were so delighted to
know that bird conservation can De
matter OF concern TO men In your
position, with so much more weiRhty
and pressing business at hand TO at
tend TO. May the nine little ducklinQz
live q long and useful lifel The suR-
gestion was made that we sign this
letter OF appreciation. enthusiastically
yours, Eight Old Ducks"
The story attracted attention Of
wildlife conservatonists throughout
the nation. From 0. H. P Rodman,
editor of the magazine National Sports
man. came a letter telling OF a similar
thoughtfulness on the part Of a sports
man on the west coast.
This individual bCa-ss4s bis S&1at.-
the letter said, apparently for the
first time this spring and found q
mallard had made her nest and laid
clutch OF eggs In a coll of rope.
Gofd cFNort Vaafsara1 - a.
and claims he viii not use his boat
until after the small birds have Matched
and are able to take care Of them
selves"
A Wisconsin conservationlst said he
was going 70 take the liberty TO quote
the article at the annual conservation
and outdoor convention In that state.