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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Cape Fear Country Club Annex
Is Scene OF Bridge Party Friday

The Cape Fear Country club was
the scene of a delightful bridge
party on Friday afternoon.
Among those present were Mrs.
duBrutz Poisson, Mrs. B.. r. Nor
rison, Mrs. James Russell, Mrs.
Clyde Carter, of Raleigh, Mrs. Car
son West, of Spartanburg, S. c.,
Mrs. Robert Tapp, Miss Lois
Mrs. Ernest F. Peschau,
W. Hope, Mrs. Cyrus
Hogue and Mrs. Frank Higgins.
Miss BETTY Garrabrant. Miss Nam
cy Campbell, Miss Susan Cooper,
Miss Margaret Bethany, Miss Jane
LeGrand, Miss Susanna Hogue,
Miss Peggy Moore, Miss Lura
Myers, Miss Eugie Waters, Miss
Lucy Ward, Mrs. Edward j. Far
reilly, Miss Louise Washburn Mrs.
E. G. Garrabrant, Mrs. Robert C..
Cantwell, Jr., Mrs. W. E. Todd
and Mrs. Hampton Tillery.
Mrs. j. B. Brantly, Mrs. C. l..
MieSter, Mrs Julian Fields. Mrs
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
PRESBYTERY BOARD
MEETING is SLATED
FOR TUESDAY MORNING

The regular fall meeting of the
executive board of the Women's
auxiliary of Wilmington Presby-
terry has been called to m e e I
Tuesday, September 8, in Pcarsal]
Memorial Presbyterian church.
Notices have been mailed to all
board members, and it is hoped
that all will be present when the
meeting is called to order at 10
o'clock by the president, Mrs.
Angus Cromartie, of Garland. Rou-
tine business will be transacted,
matters of Importance will be dis
cussed, and plans formulated for
the program to be presented at
the sixth annual fall conference
days of Prayer. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Brides-Elect OF Fall
Honored By Spinsters Club
Annual Dance Is Given Fri
day Evening At Wrights-
vile Beach

Misses Resale Waters, Betty
Garrabrant, Nancy Crow and SUI
san Cooper, members of the Spin
sters club, and their fiances were
honored on Friday evening at
Wrightsville Beach when the Spin
sters club entertained at the an
nual fall dance at Lumina pavilion.
Dancing was enjoyed from 10 un-
til 2 o'clock to the music of Bill
Clarke and his orchestra. Tables
were arranged around the dance
floor cabaret style and refresh
ments were served during the eve
ming.
Officers of the club are: Miss
Mary Green, president; Miss Mary
Read Harris, vice-president; Miss
Eugie Waters, secretary; and Miss
Anita Watson, treasurer.
Those attending were: Miss Mary
Green with Michael Brown, Miss
Mary Read Harris with Walter
Sprunt, Miss Eugie Waters with
Haywood Emerson, Miss Anita Wat
son with Plat W. Davis, Miss
Resale Waters with James D.
Carr, Miss Nancy Crow with Harry
W. Stovall, Jr., Miss Betty Cara
brant with Robert C. Cantwell, III,
Miss Susan Cooper with Sherwood
Dudley, Miss Helen Macmillan with
Henry Anderson, Miss Fran Smith,
of Granville, S. c., with Sam Bear,
Miss Janet B. Bear with Emmett
Durham, Miss Betty Henderson
with Dan Cameron, Miss Margaret
Daniels with W. P. Horn, Miss
Betty Gordon with Ivey Sutton, Jr.,
Miss June Farguhar with Henry P.
Peschau, Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hard
wicke, with Walter Parsley, Miss
Jane LeGrand with Frank Rey-
nolds, Miss Peggy Moore with Da-
vid Scott, Miss Marguerite Crow
with Harry James, Miss Isabelle
Ashe with George W. Bethel, Miss
Josephine Brown with Bill Mann,
Jr., Miss Frances Taylor with An
drew Symmes, Miss Mary Robert
son with Buren, Sudbury, Miss Peg
gy Wilson with j. G.. Thornton,
Miss Catherine Latta with Bill Per-
dew, Miss Julie Sprunt with Ben
Washburn, Miss Lib Jones, of Char
lotte, with Bob Rock, Miss Eliza
Wooten with Tom James, Miss
Susanna Hogue with George Lynch,
Miss Louise Washburn with George
Boylan, Miss Mary Wright Holland
with Darlington Eggleston, Miss
Clarice Bailey with Bob Foster,
Miss Margaret Becker and Billy
Calder.
Miss Mary Davis with Robert
Calder, Miss Dottie Harriss with
Ramsey Weathersbee, Miss Fannie
Crow with Billy Corbett, Miss Mary
Corbett with Hugh Sprunt, Miss Ju-
liza Bridger with Joe Hooper, Miss
Peggy Parsley with John Wood,
Miss Louise Wells with Post Lois
ellie, Miss Mary Parsley Williams
with Rhett Taber, Miss Florence c..
Pearsall with Worth Sprunt, Miss
Lille A. Robertson with John Tay-
lor, Miss Louise Hooper with Will
liam Thornton, Miss Martha Ann
Morris with Moze Bridger, Miss
Margaret Bellany with Harold
Alexius, Miss Daisy Lee Woodbury.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
TEMPLE w. M. S.
WILL HOLD MEET

Temple Baptist w. M. S. circle
No. One will meet Thursday af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. S. w. Blanchard, zoos
Perry avenue.
Circle No. Two, Mrs. hewlett
POOL Fender avenue, Tuesday af.
ternoon at 4 o'clock.
Circle No. Three, Mrs. j. H.
Russell, Wrightsville Beach, Tues
day afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Circle No. -Four, Mrs. C. C. Girls
som, 1905 Fender avenue, We'd
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Circle No. Five, Mrs. Robert
Page, 1401 Chestnut street, Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock.
The Mamie Atkinson chapter
will meet with Mrs. Caps at East
Wilmington Tuesday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Hunt Rubel
Engagement
Is Announced
Bride-To-Be Is Daughter Of
Mr.. And Mrs. H. Lacy Hunt
Of Wilmington

The following announcement will
be read with much interest here
to a host of friends and relatives:
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Lacy Hunt an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Elizabeth Dickson, to Pc
ter Alexander Rubel, of Zurich, Swift
zerland and New York City.
Miss Hunt has been making her
home in New York City for the past
two years where she holds a posi-
ton with an art shop.
Plans for the wedding will be an.
nounced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01

R. M. Hodgkin, Mrs James L
Wells, Mrs. Herbert Bluethenthai,
Mrs. William A. French, Mrs. Rob-
ert R. Christie, Mrs. Franklin Full
Ter, Mrs. w. H. Henderson, Mrs.
Van Toomer, Mrs. John A. Elmore,
Mrs. Ben H. Cobb, Mrs. Ben H
Brown, Miss Martha McCaig, Miss
Alice Ochs, Miss Suzelle Howes,
and Miss Mary Franklin Jones, of
Laurinburg 4
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c. WILL MEET

Circles of the Women's auxiliary
of the Pearsall Memorial Presby-
terrain church will meet this week
as follows:
Evening circle: Tuesday night at
8 o'clock, with Mrs. Melzar Pear
sail.
I Afternoon circle: Thursday af-
Iternoon at 4 o'clock, with Mrs. ].
A. Smith.
Circle Meeting
The Woman's Council of the
First Christian church will meet
Tuesday evening at s o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01

MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED

Sidney D. Abrams, of Whining.
ton and Conway, South Carolina,
and Miss Sylvia Solomon, Of New
York City, were married in Victory
hotel in New York City, August %.
Mr.. Abrams is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Abrams of this city.
A. Abrams and son, Harold, at
tended the wedding,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-01
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Mitchell
announce the birth of a SON.
Rintoul Edward, at the Fort San
ders hospital in Knoxville, Tenn.
Mrs. Mitchell was the former
Miss Mary Grace Williamson, of
this CITY.
Evening star., 1940-01-12

able for restraint of trade, making
a total of 100000 damages asked.
Mr.. Padway was assisted in the
defense by Attorney John K. Keane.
Mr.. Arnold has stated that the
antitrust laws apply when union
activities have no reasonable con-
nection with wages, hours, health,
safety, the speedup system or the
establishment of the right of COL
lective bargaining"
A spokesman for the A. F. of L.,
emphasizing the far-reaching ma
ture of Justice Adkins decision, said
today that court action similar to
that instituted by the bakery here
was pending against unions else
where in the country.
In it's suit, filed in July, 1887, the
Gundersheimer company contended
that its plant was operated without
difficulty until the previous April
when it became necessary to pur-
chase certain types of goods from a
Philadelphia firm, which, incident
ally, operated under a union shop.
The local unions objected to the
purchase of the supplies and called
a strike, which the company alleged
;n the snit was for the purpose of
preventing the shipment of goods
from Philad elphia and their resale
in the District and adjacent ter
ritory. This action, the suit claimed,
was In violation of both the Sher-
man and Clayton Acts.
The local concern contended it
was damaged to the extent of
100000. The Sherman Act per-
mitted the recovery of treble dam
ages if the allegations could have
been proved.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
A. F. of l..
Continued From First Page.)

held, directly repudiates the De-
partment of Justice as to what con-
stitutes violations of the Sherman
Act by activities of labor organiza-
tions"
The Gundersheimer company
brought action for treble damages
against the unions for striking in
order to prevent the employer from
receiving shipments of cakes from
Philadelphia. The unions contended
such shipments had the effect of
displacing local union bakers.
Justice Adkins said regarding &C
ton of the unions: 1T seems to me
that was a purpose which was not
unlawful"
Dismiss Motion Denied.
After the opening statement of the
plaintiff, Joseph A. PadwaY general
counsel for the A. F. of L., moved
to dismiss the case. Justice Adkins,
in a verbal ruling from the bench,
held that the alleged conspiracy was
NOT unlawful uIiiawwff ;uii and that the interstate
commerce affected the unions action
was negligible.
Attorneys for the company took
exception to the ruling and noted an
appeal in open court, indicating
that the United States Court OF
Appeals will be called on shortly to
consider the case.
Under the suit filed by the COM
pany, 100000 damages were asked
directly, but the company explained
that trouble damages were allow
Evening star., 1940-01-12

Co. to abandon the Ward Circle bus
terminal and to operate all buses
on the route through to Fessenden
street and Wisconsin avenue NV.
Mrs. Ethel Montgomery, repre-
senting the District Suffrage Asso-
ociation, urged full support of the
park group in the fight on local
suffrage.
A proposal for the annual dinner
Of the association was referred to
Mrs. John P. Davenport, chairman
of the Entertainment Committee.
Vincent B. Smith and DR.. Ralph
Barnhard were appointed delegates
to the District Public School Asso-
citation. w. A. Ross, chairman of
Evening star., 1940-01-12

could be heard somewhere on the
right. The Finnish colonel said,
That's wandering band in the
woods"
1t was a kaleidoscope of bodies
bodies everywhere, tangled up with
tipped-up and scattered guns, tanks,
armored cars, dead horses and ma
chine guns spattered with blood. We
came to large tank and the
colonel said, This is 30-ton one
I don't know why they put it in the
middle of the column. We stopped
it with a captured Russian anti
tank gun. This equipment is all
excellent, but it is too much for this
type of fighting
The Firms moving up had to use
the sides of the road. Rifle fire rang
out somewhere on the left, hun
dred or so yards away. Almost at
the same time about Is Russian
prisoners, hanked with two rows of
Firms, came down the side of the
road. They had been led the whole
length of their destroyed column
and saw all. 1t showed in their
faces. They were well-built soldiers.
The colonel said, These are excel
lent men and most of them have
been we'll trained, especially the
machine-gunners and artillerymen.
After an hour of cautious walking
we came to the rear of the destroyed
division and the colonel remarked,
Now you can see how we did it.
We let them come in so far and then
sent patrol from the south to blow
up the bridge behind them, cutting
off their retreat. Then we shot
their advance patrols and came in
on both sides and both ends. We
opened fire with mortars located
back Of where you saw those first
bodies, They didn't have a chance
and they knew it.
ReinfOrcements Held Up.
THE colonel commanding. a Col.
Vinogradoff, kept sending messages
to his general headquarters, but they
sent only two battalions and our few
Evening star., 1940-01-12

men held them up at the border line
while we finished off this lot. We
got more material out of this battle
than we have had here ourselves
and it is all excellent.
He pointed to some Finnish SOL
dlers dlsmantling brace of six
barrelled machine guns. These are
excellent" he said. Il wish they had
brought more with them, as we
could do with few more"
We heard more firing, farther
away this time. That's our men,
they are still cleaning up" the COL
onel said.
We began the journey back
through the battlefield as darkness
crept down. In the dimness every
thing took on a silhouetted grim
ness as light snow began to cover
the dead. The horror of the thing
seemed to be lessened because there
was SO much of it.
Most of the Soviet troops were Uk-
rainians, Kerdis, Tartars and Baskis
A prisoner told me later that only
few Communist Firms and Karel-
ians were with them.
Fought Mostly at Night.
On the return trip I noted more
details. This battle had been
fought mostly at night and could
see how some of the Russians had
been sleeping in make-shift huts,
though most of them were on the
road. A Finnish officer told me the
Russians put up good fight, but
their fire was not heavy because
they did not know where the Firms
were except from rifle flashes. So
/ they just had to sit and take it,
but they stuck it out. Hundreds of
empty mortar shells along the road,
with men dead beside the guns,
showed they had got going, but
could not keep up. It was obvious
that when the Firms poured heavy
fire into them they were puzzled and
| did not know individually what to
expect or how to avoid it or how
to act. Every Finn knew what he
was doing and how to do it.
On the way back in the dark, with
eight Russian prisoners in front on
sleds, attempted to get the whole
thing in proper perspective. Back
in the headquarters farmhouse,
somewhere behind the lines, we
went into barn where there were
several hundred Russian prisoners.
1t was dark, warm, dank place,
with men coughing and moaning.
some ill and some wounded.
Among the Russians we're two lieu
tenants and several non-commis-
stoned officers
Thought Finland Like Poland.
A lieutenant from Leningrad who
was school teached said, I'VE were
Just surprised. We did not expect
to meet so much resistance. We
thought it would be like Poland.
Our main trouble was that we could
not seen the Firms and they kept
moving about so much, while we
did not have time to change our
own position. We had more or less
established ourselves as safe and
our column was packed tight on the
road, with little or no rear-guard
mobility. We could not go into the
woods. We sent out one patrol, but
we heard them being destroyed.
Maybe we could have done better
If we knew how to fight in this
country"
This lieutenant also told us he
had seen Col. Vinogradoff on the
first day of the battle, but he dis
appeared the second day. Did you
find him?" he asked. The Firms
said they had not found him and
that he was now either wandering
in the woods or frozen or shot.
This story was written on Rus
sian military paper taken from an
overturned propaganda truck on
the battlefield.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Luck Put Writer
On Finnish Front

James Aldridge, writer of this
and other dramatic dispatches
from the Finnish war front, is a
young Australian newspaper
man who. failing to get an
assignment as a war CORE
spondent in London, decided to
60 to Russia soon after the war
broke out. En- route he had
hardly landed in Finland when
the Russians started to march
in and quite by accident found
himself on the scene which was
to produce the most exciting
experiences of the conflict. He
has accompanied Finnish ski
troops on many forays.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Girl Bors Street to Moyor

GREENVILLE, s. c., Jan. IL lP.-
AS Mayor Fred G. Mccullough drove
into a side street, little girl in a
snow suit held up q hand:
"You can't go this way-we have
it blocked of for sledding."
Hizzoner looked down the block
at the children playing, said Eyes,
ma m," backed up and drove an
other direction.
Evening star., 1940-01-12
A. j. Park Citizens
0ppose Gas-Tax Boost

Opposition to a gasoline tax in
crease in the District. proposed in
a congressional bill, was voiced last
night by, the American University
Park Citizens Association, which
met in Hurst Hall.
In other resolutions the associa-
ton favored in principal the in
corporation of the Federation of
Citizens Associations "for protec-
ton Of officers of the body" and
also requested the Capital Transit
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Request for Bioff Return
Signed by Gov. Horner
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. H.
Gov. Henry Horner signed and
mailed to Gov. Culbert L. Olson
last night a request that William
Bioff, Hollywood labor leader. be re-
turned to Illinois to complete 1922
Jail sentence for pandering.
Before he signed the reQuisition
for Bioff's extradition, the Illinois
Governor issued a statement. sug-
Evening star., 1940-01-12
Battle
Continued From First Page.)

Russians, and the result of this I
saw stretching for 4 miles in one
long junk heap along the narrow
road.
Falling in beside the Firms staff
colonel, I began cautiously to move
along the road. Hardly an inch of
the road was uncovered. 1t was 10
times worse than the scene after
the battle Of Kemijaervi. I squeezed
my way along between the tanks,
stepping over dead Russians and
frozen horses.
The detonations of hand-grenades
Evening star., 1940-01-12

gesting that the defendant "be given
an opportunity to relate before a
grand jury how he has been able
to evade for II years the serving
of his sentence"
Evening star., 1940-01-12

the Membership Committee, re-
ported the addition of 43 new men,
bers to the association In the past
month.
Evening star., 1940-01-12

CLEVELAND-DENIES EX-AGENTS CHARGE-"Utterlv ridcu-
lous commented Sonia Hene night when told her former
agent D. R. Scanlon testified an alleged agree
ment under which he influence selection of 1885 winter
Olympic judges known unfavoabe to her She is
shown in her dressing after appearance of her ice
wronboto
Evening star., 1940-01-12

THE EVENING FRIDAY,
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highjacker in Spawn Of The North;
as Fiesta, the whipcracking tough guy
in Union Pacific" and host of other
terrifying roles, including a Tartar
bandit, a South American revolu-
tionary and Cossack chieftain.
All in all, he has been as bloodthirsty
crew as ever moved across the screen,
threatening handsome leading men
with realism that left even Tamiroff
himself in cold sweat.
He played these parts theoretically.
tirelessly and competently, but his
heart still was in his scrapbook and his
soul remained that of a comedian. He
confded to his wife - the lovely
Tamara Shayne, an actress whom he
had married in New York - that he,
a comedian, was able to play Menaces
convincingly only through the lavish
use of makeup. The thought was
comforting to him. "The makeup
changes me completely" he told her
happily. Without it, people would
instantly recognize me as comedian"
When the part of Red Skain in
Spawn" came along, Tamiroff shook
his head. ut would take more make
up than my face would hold to be
that tough" he declared. The studio
persuaded him to try. Go on home,
they said. and grow a weeks beard
He did. He came back with his stubble
and said he was ready for the makeup
trials.
They looked at him. That's
enough" they said. you're terrific"
Tamiroff was crushed. He argued,
but in the end played the part camou-
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extras, in THE Lives OF A Bengal
Lancer" but his Chinese general
really launched him on his one-man
cinematic crime wave: As Dominique
You, Napoleonic cannoneer and gen.
eral muscle-man in The Buccaneer";
as the ruthless Red Skain. sinister fish
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on Gary Cooper with sword I'M
sheathed, it seemed cinch something
had gone wrong and that this was
really the end of MIR. Cooper's career.
Previous to this role he had played
the Indian emir. bent on killing prac-
tically all of the cast and most of the
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OLD, pTe-StTedmlIne IllVVer
~ moves uncertainty along a
Il u transcontinental highway,
headed west. In it are four people.
They are all talking at once, in the
same key, with equal violence, and in
the Russian language.
The one who is driving, handi-
capped in the argument through hav-
ing to hold on to the wheel, looks over
his right shoulder at the others,
gestures first with one hand, then with
the other then with both.
The car goes into the ditch.
1t is not much of crash: just an
ignominious begging down in the first
row of an Iowa cornfield In the rear
seat is chunky, pleasant-faced man
holding a scrapbook firmly in his lap.
He breaks the stunned silence. THE
trouble is. he tells the driver, speak
ing in slow. accented English. 1.-THE
American car is not equal to the Rus
sian Language, with gestures. Well
speak English the rest of the way. And
| will drive. This is the third ditch
today. We must get at least within
walking distance of Hollywood"
A friendly truck driver tows them
backward out of the cornfied. and
the new driver takes his place behind
the wheel. He is nervous; he never
has driven before. He places the scrap
book in his lap 1t is in the way. He
sits on il :.
This scrapbook is a precious pos
session. 1t is filled with clippings
showing that the man now guarding
it with his posterior is graduate OF
the Moscow Art Theater School. a
player from the famed Moscow Art
Theater itself. more recently of Ba-
lieff's Chauve Souris and other plays
in New York - Chekhov, Gorky and
Theatre Guild productions - and is
recognized on two continents as an
outstanding comedian of the stage.
Hollywood Whims
Ills name? Akin Tamiroff - and
having finally arrived on the Coast
with no bones broken, he fell into step
with Hollywood.
Possessing voice and accent that
later were to trademark his success.
he was given bit part as deaf mute.
had to talk with his hands. That's
Hollywood.
Then. presenting the scrapbook
that triumphantly proved his capa-
city as comedian. he was instantly
cast as the most villainous Menace
of his time.
This was headache to Tamiroff.
Personally gentle. kindly. big hearted,
sensitive, fun-loving, he couldn't
understand why he had to be vii
lain. I'm a comedian" he kept in
sisting. Nobody listened. And this
queer reasoning by Hollywood, so
often the object of loud sophisticated
laughter. again proved its essential
sanity. Tamirof became so realistic
menace that he seemed actually to be
endangering everybody in the cast.
Since then picture-goers have learned
to recognize Tamiroff as just an actor
with false mustache. but when as
the Inflated Chinese war lord in THE
General Died At Dawn" he advanced
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fiaged only by his own sprouting hay.
He remained unconvinced of his sue
cess in it until he went to the pre-
view. Behind him sat one of those
couples who feel they must explain the
picture to each other as it unfolds.
Tamiroff made his appearance on the
screen. 1t was a slow entrance, with
out lines at first. There he was,
comedian with only an incipient beard
to hide behind, essaying his most
rascally role to date. The two sitting
behind him were silent, manifestly
trying to figure out who this was.
Then the image on the screen be-
gan to speak: the slow. tantalizing
drawl with the inimitable accent.
Listen, DEAR" one Of the couple
said, its that damn Chinese general
again. Somebody's going to get muir
dered."
When Tamiroff got home he lifted
his scrapbook high above his head and
sent it crashing into the waste
basket -.
Ono in Thousand
! HIS is a success story, OF course.
Only the successes make stories. They
happen, in the movies, in the proper
ton of about one to one thousand, so
they are news: man bites dog again.
Tamiroff bit Hollywood
You may not believe it, but the
way to bite Hollywood is to work your
fool head off. Tamiroff, schooled in
the Moscow Art Theater. where only
one candidate out of a hundred is
chosen even to be tried out, was used
to work. So when he made his first
lunges at Hollywood he pulled no
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THAT'S news And it's bigger news when man who
only wants laughs gets Kisses in every picture
by Donald Hough