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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
u. S. Many To Spend Millions
For Protection Against Mines

Southern Hemisphere. The poles II
the Northern Hemisphere are op-
posite from those in the Southern.
To protect ships it is only neces-
sary to get rid of their magnetism,
that u.s., to produce what scientists
call a zeron magnetic. field. The
demagnetization is called degauss
ing.
This is done by string a girdle of
electric cables horizontally around
a ship.
Precisely how the current is
operated is still an official secret.
Apparently, however, the scien-
fists have accomplished something
new for in talking with a number
of experts who have worked with
these girdles I learned that direct
current is used. The usual method
of demagnetizing a vessel with this
ternating current.
+ From conversations with other
experts, l learned that U. S. navy
officials know precisely how the
German magnetic mine operates,
Their protective device is expected
to be the girdle' which the Allied
are using.
The first American patent for a
1896 by William Marshall Huskis-
son, of London. 1t is not strictly
magnetic in the modern sense as
are the other five. 1t contains an
induction balance supposed to send
a signal to an electrical battery
ashore or on some nearby ship
The battery then explodes the
mine.
On August Is, 1921 Lemuel J.
Hustled, American citizen of Kansas
City, took out a patent on a mine
to be detonated by two magnetic
needles, one set above the other.
They would rotates il opposite di-
rections and the approaching ship
would change the angle between
them so as to. set off the mine.
Hudson Maxim, the famous Amer
lean inventor of Hopatcong, N. j.,
patented one on June 21, 1921. His
device is two needles, one above
the other, held pointing in opposite
directions by permanent magnets.
The upper needle is weakly held, by
it's magnet, he says, and will swing
when a ship approaches. This
swing does not directly set off the
mine but turns on an electric cur
rent to magnetic an electromagnetic
near the lower needle. This electro
magnet. being very powerful, Max
i'm says, will defect the lower needle
ON the grip of it's own permanent
magnet and this second DETECTION
fires the mine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
JERVAY AWARDED
SAFETY MEDAL
Negro Postal Truck Driver
Goes Year Without
Accident

". r. Jervay, negro postal truck
driver. was awarded a safety medal
Yesterday in the office of Postmaster
Wilbur Dosher for having complel'
ed a wear of service without any
kind of accident. The fiscal year
ending on June 80, showed Jervays
record Of 1879 hours devoted t.
delivering parcel post mail WITHOUT
a mark against it.
The award, made by John +
Hope, editorial writer of The star
News. also carries 100 special merits
for Jervay with which to start the
new year. The postal department
several years ago launched a sa1e-
driving campaign among its thou
sands of employees, with a medal
for perfect driving and pendants
to be added for successive years
on the same high plane of service
To be eligible, the driver must
have 1900 hours behind the wheel
of his truck during the year. Jer-
way exceeded the minimum by l79
hours.
Other employees of the local post
office who would be eligible on all
counts but hours are L. A. Shelton,
], E. Standenmire, F. A. Johnson
(negro), J. H. McInnis (substltute)
and J. A. Smith (substitute). Others,
principally in garage services u
to the post office from trains ana
vice versa and have had no accidents
duringthe fical year just completed,
are G.. A. Lawson, ]. A. Benson"
M, Walton (substitute). Because OF
their broken service, it is impos-
sible for any of these employees to
make 1900 hours of truck driving
in a year., but all have perfect
safety records.
Postmaster Dosher is sponsoring
a proposal to the postal depart
ment to give special merit mark
for all postal drivers who have FER
feet records but are unable to make
the minimum hours behind the
driving wheel. His thought is that
any emloye who drives a postal
vehicle without accident of any
kind during a year is entitled to
the departments recognition, even
though they are ineligible for
medals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Social Security Board
Opens New Bern Office

The opening of an office in New
Bern, a branch of the Wilmington
district field office of the Social
Security board, was announced yes
terday by George w. Jeffrey, mana
ger.
Hubert C. Banks, who has been
serving as field assistant at the Will
mington office since December, will
be in charge of the new office,
which will serve the counties OF
Craven, Pamlico, Carteret and Jones.
A native of Grantsboro, Banks
attended Wake Forest college, the
University Of North Carolina, and
North Carolina State college, re
ceiving his A. B. degree in 1927.
He was transferred here after serv.
ing for three years in the account
ing operations division of the board
at Baltimore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Probe Of Louisiana
Political Scandals
To Be Launched Soor

BATON ROUGE, La, July In
Attorney general Eugene Stanley
today said that the long-awaited
state investigation of Louisiana po'
lltical scandals, in fulfillment OF
promises made by reform forces
during the recent political cam
paign would be launched next
week.
The investigation, held in abey-
ance by the crush of legislative
work since Governor Sam H.
Jones was inaugurated May IA.
will supplement- the year long fed
eral government probe which re-
suited in conviction of many for
mer lieutenants in the late Huey
P. Long political machine. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
TEN PERSONS DIE
IN TEXAS FLOODS
Nine Are Missing And Dam
age Is Estimated Unoffi-
cially At $5,0O0,00O

HALLETTSVILLE, Tex, July l
R-Flood waters swept down the
Colorado, Guadalupe and Lavaca
rivers tonight leaving at least 10
persons dead, nine missing and
property damage estimated unof-
Ifcially at $4,000, 900.
Meantime, cloudbursts IN south
western Arkansas brought more
than six inches of rain in IL hours
causing flash floods that disrupted
traffic and forced 200 residents OF
West Texarnana to evacuate their
homes in boats.
Mavor ] G.. Traxler of Halletts-
vile estimated damage here alone
totaled 81, 600, 900. Lowlands were
flooded through s~outh-centra]
Texas and crops washed out by
deluges that totaled upwards to 2(
inches over the weekend.
Seven of the known dead were
from Hallettsville. Mayor Traxler
said at least nine others were miss
ing here.
The Red Cross detoured temper
arily from it's war relief fund
drive to concentrate on flood re
lief in Texas.
Fleets of motor boats rescued
many persons trapped in thei'
homes by swiftly-rising waters.
The dead: at Hallettsville: MIR
and Mrs. John Sercek and theii
daughter, Christina; Mr.. and Mrs
JKo-seph Stanzel and their daugh
ter, Agnes; John Svab.
At La Grange: Martin Biehle
20; Madison Stevens, negro
drowned in Buckner's creek.
Temple: Earl Marks, Is
drowned in flooded Little river.
No great fears were expressed
from towns and cities along thu
lower reaches of the Lavaca, thu
Guadalupe and the Colorado, al
though thousands of acres of low
land were in danger of deep over
flow.
At Columbus, A. A. Crownover
secretary of the Colorado county
Agricultural Conservation associa
ton, estimated the overflow woult
be about one-half as damaging a
the disastrous floods in 1888. Whar
ton expected an overflow into low
lying sections of town, but resi-
dents of the bottoms had ample
warning to leave !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Three Persons Killed
In Auto-Train Crash


HICKORY, July 1 In Three
persons were killed early yester'
day when their automobile and an
%eastbound Southern freight train
collided at a crossing at Shuford
Mills in East Hickory.
The victims were James T.
Price, 81, of East Hickory; Johncie
Mae Underwood, % of East Hic-
kory and Leonard Handy, 26, OF
Rhodhiss. Police said the coupe
apparently stalled on the tracks.
The accident occurred about $50.
Six other persons have been kill
ed at the same crossing in the
last four years. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

eff that turns out to be the case.
our national guard officers could
be called upon to conduct the tram
ing" he said. 1--WE have many Of
ficers in the guard who have serv-
ed in the regular army and who
have attended various schools con.
Quoted by the army. They would
be well qualified to train u col
lege youths"
At a recent meeting of the trus-
tees of the University of North
Carolina, a committee headed by
the governor was instructed to in.
vestigate the possibility of estab-
fishing military training at Chapel
Hill.
Governor Hoey has written Louis
Johnson, assistant secretary OF
war, asking him what action
should be taken to set up the
training. A meeting of the COM
mittee will be called as soon as a
reply is received, Hoey said. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

M. Riedel of Madison, Ind
a national executive COMMITTEE
man, will speak. Rep. John +
Kerr of North Carolina will spea.
in the aftern ION.
The annual banquet will be held
Wednesday night. The Chief
speaker will be DR.. D. E. Earn.
hardt, pastor of the Trinity Metbo.
dist church of Durham.
Officers will be elected Thurs.
day morning. Speaker at the final
session Thursday will be Rem
Harold D. Cooley of North Caro-.
lima. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor

A~SSOCldltu IIcSS oClCAANC AuAeoA
NEW YORK, July l. To keeI
compass needles from destroying U
S. warships-the sum of $5,629,5 500
That is the money the navy has
allowed for protection against mag
netic mines.
The secret of a magnetic mine is
an ordinary compass needle, fixed
in the mine. The needles swing
touches off the explosive.
How this fatal swing may be
caused in shown clearly in six U.
S.. patents for magnetic mines. The
details vary, but the principle is
the same in all.
The principle is interference with
the earth's terrestrical magnetism,
the force which guides a COM
pass needle.
A patent which apparently exact
ly illustrates the present German
magnetic mine is one of the six
1t was taken out in the United
States on August %, 1921, by Cesar
Marshall, an Argentine then resid
ing in New York City.
Three years previously, on Jan.
10, 1888, during the World war,
Marshall took out the same patent
in Great Britain.
Engineers over here describe it
as identical with the German mines
in working principles, differenine
primarily in that it was designed tc
be anchored and to become in
operative after a certain time"
Marshall's firing mechanism is
with compass needles, one vertically
above the other, and so close to-
gether that the upper needles direc
ton is reversed by the magnetism
Of the lower. The upper needle
points south, or opposite OF what
ever direction the lower may take
When a steel ship approaches a
mine containing these needles, the
vessel does not attract the mine MOI
the needles but it does interfere
with the earth's terrestrial magnet
ism. The result is that the upper
needle, which IS pointing the wrone
way, tries to swing around te
north.
This is the swing that makes a
contact to fire the mine.
MarShall'S patent does no- c+ote
now close ship must approach to
cause this interference. Two Of
the other American patents assert
that their arrangements will set off
the mine If the ship is within Is
to SO feet. The reports from Eng
land indicate that the distance al
which the German mine may ex-
plode is more than 100 feet. Even
at this distance, if an explosion is
directly under a vessel, the dam.
age would be destructive since, in
the water, most of the force is I'D
ward.
The reason the ship interfere
With the earth's magnetism is that
every steel vessel is a permanent
magnet. It takes on this magnet
ism during construction. The posi-
ton of its two poles depends on the
direction in which the ship points
while being built and on whether
1t was built in the northern or
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
LETTER CARRIERS
TO OPEN MEETING
Annual Sessions Of NC. Body
Will Get Under Way At
Rocky Mount Tonight

ROCKY MOUNT, July 1 In
The 9th annual convention OF the
North Carolina rural letter car
riers association will open here
tomorrow night with a memorial
| service.
The first business session will
be held Wednesday morning, Wiley
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

what Willkie 'has always stod
for"
Pepper demanded that Willkie
say at once what foreign policy
he believed the country should fol.
low. -
Willkie, in a press interview at
New York, said expect in my
acceptance speech to give my
views and interpret the platform
as I see it."
He had only that to say about
the platform at this time, but told
reporters.
That he hoped MI. Roosevelt
is renominated because I'd like to
beat him." !
Germany, Russia and Italy are
to recognize the Balkan states,' says
a news item, Goodby, Balkans!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
SNAKE BITE FATAL

KINSTON, July l III Eight
year-old Hazel Taylor was bit
ten by a rattlesnake in a corn
crib at her home in the Dover
section yesterday and died a few
hours later. She was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Taylor. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
CONSTITUTION SIGNED

HAVANA, July 1-LR- Cuba's
new constitution establishing a semi
parliamentary form of government,
was formally signed today in the
Town of Guaimaro, Camaguey prov
ince and will become effective Sept.
Is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

The surest restorative for a fallen
ego is for a fellow to get himself
named an uninstructed delegate to
a national political convention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

All Italy mourned following the
announcement that Italo Balbo,
above, Italian Air Marshal and
Governor General of Libya, had
been killed in Africa. The report
said a plane piloted by Mashal
Balbo, "fell in flames during an
enemy bombing raid" over Tobruk,
Libyan port. Marshal Balbo, a
pioneer of the Fascist party, won
world fame by his spectacular a
flight of "a planes to Chicago in
1888.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

The New York Yankees must fec,
strange with July 4 just around
the corner and the pennant still far
from cinched.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

Italy grabs more territory Ger
many has rendered vulnerable. Who
is who's stooge now, Adolf?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

LUUKUUT MOUNTAIN HUTEL
A Vacation Paradise
Located on highest point of Lookout
Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga
and seven mountain ranges. Cool
nights-pleasant days. All sports,
including outdoor swimming pool.
golf, riding, tennis. Rates moderate.
Address
S. John LITTLEGREEN,
Manager, Lookout Mountain Hotel
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
wake UP YOUR
j. LIVER BILE

Without CalomeI- And You'll Jump Out Of
Bed in the Morning Karin to Go
The liver should pour 2 pints of bile juice
into your bowels every day. If this bile is
not flowing freely, your food may not di-
gest. It may just decay in the bowels. Then
gas bloats up your stomach. You get con-
stipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world
looks punk.
1T takes those good, old Carter's Little
Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile flow
ing freely to make you feel up and up"
Get a package today. Take as directed.
Amazing in. making bile flow freely. Ask
for Carter's Little Liver Pills. 1Oc and ESQ.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Seventy-fve Join
In Readying The
Hermit of Hawaii

University and high school stu
dents, workers and unemployed
are found laboring together to-
ward the production of what prom
Uses to be a fine comic opera when
one visits a rehearsal for the COM
ing Hermit of Hawaii"
The real significance and the
community value of the Halle @
Brown House, which is presenting
the play, can be seen in the CO.
operative work of the seventy-five
members of the cast whose back
grounds are so varied.
The fact that the opera is to be
presented at the Jewish Educa-
tional Center Monday, June 8,
stimulates ones desire for the
early construction of the new gym
nasium-auditorium for the Halle
@. Brown House. The community
will surely support this presenta-
ton.
Halle @. Brown presents the
Hermit of Hawaii" Jewish Edu-
catiOnal Center, GrOttO and Holly
Ave, Monday, June 3-curtain
S:45.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17

Martha Spearman, soprano SOLO
list with wings Over Jordan" is
known throughout the nation as
the soprano who has made the
spiritual 81 Must Keep A
'Moverin' one of the outstanding
favorites of the day. Mrs. Spear
man is a native of Macon, Ga, and
has been with the chorus ever since
its origination by Rev. Glenn T.
Settle.
Her favorite musical selections
are Nevin's "The Rosary" and the
spiritual, Something Within.
Mrs. Spearman is the mother Of
two children, Grace, %, and John
W., 20. While in Cleveland, all of
her time is occupied in keeping
house for her family.
On concert tours, she is featured
in the selections, give Got a Home
Ina That Rock" Couldn't Hear
Nobody Pray" and 81 Cried and
Cried" She is a graduate of Bal
lard Normal School in Macon, Ca,
and has been a resident of Cleve-
land for a number of years.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Walters School Holds
Inspiring Meeting

In one of the most remarkable
adventures in vocational training
ever held in the Twin Cities, 25
men, a majority being youths,
went through their practical train
ing at the Northern Pacific Com
missary in St. Paul Saturday, May
18th. The class was held in con-
junction with the Table Walters
Training Course which is conducted
under the direction of John Thorn
as of the N. Y. A. staff.
It was a truly inspiring sight to
watch these young men, many of
whom had never been on a dining
car before, go through their PAGES
of setting up tables and serving
guests. F. C. Andrews, assistant
superintendent of the Dining Car
department, was very gracious in
leading a tour of the storerooms
and the bakery. The railroad is to
be complimented for the coopera-
ton its officials extended.
Maceo Littlejohn, general chair
man of Dining Car Employees
Union Local No. sic, supervised
assisted by Bud Kelly, Clete Oliver
and Henry Maxwell. Many photo
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17

graphs which will be used for pub
lie relations work were taken of
the group. With the war situation
prohibiting European travel it is
hoped that the railroads will have
a record passenger haulage this
season. To enhance the work pos
sibilities of Twin City youth the
course in Table Waiting work was
started through the cooperation of
the Minneapolis Adult Education
department, the branches of the
Urban League, the Dining Car
Employees Union No. SIG, the
Walters Union No. GA and the
National Youth Administration.
Miss OdelIe Harris, St. Paul Urban
League youth secretary, has as
sisted Mr.. Thomas.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17

Outstanding as a contralto SOLO
list, and well-educated in music,
Williette Firmbanks is the assist
ant director of wings Over Jor-
dan," famed Negro spiritual choir
of radio and concert stage. Mrs,
Firmbanks is a native of Hobson,
Alabama, and joined the choir
when it was heard in Cleveland as
the Gethsemane Choral Society on
the NEGRO Hour" over VICAR in
Cleveland.
"You Can Tell the World"
"Wade in the Water" and "Show
Me the Way" are the selections in
which she is featured on the con-
cert stage. She is a graduate OF
Calhoun County Training School in
Alabama, where she studied piano
and voice. While in Cleveland
she is also a member of the
"Wings Over Jordan" office staff
Mrs. Firmbanks' favorite mu-
steal selection is Memories" while
in the realm of spiritual music, she
selects Ode, Blind Man Stood on
the Way and Cried" as her first
choice for favor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Social and Persona
MINNEAPOLIS

Mrs. Raymond o. Hatcher of the
Phyllis Wheatley House is i'll at
her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grigsby
of 94l Aldrich avenue north, are
proud parents of a fourth son,
which was born on Mothers Day,
May IL, 1910. The baby weighs
eight and one-half pounds. Mother
and son are doing well.
Mrs. Grigsby is president of the
X. and N. Mothers Club of Wheat
ley House.
Humboldt Civic Club met May IA
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wen
eel Miller, 5O16 Irving avenue
north, for a special meeting. Mr..
H. Thomas presented three dia-
mOnd balls and three bats to the
club for their diamondball team.
Next meeting with Mr.. and Mrs.
H. T. Russell, 5O49 James avenue
north, May Fl, at p. m.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Decoration Day Matinee Dance
given at Bridges Stumble Inn by
Canoes. Adm. 4Oc.-Adv.

Miss Adele Graham, daughter
of Mrs, James Birddeaux, 1892
Rondo street, was married Satur-
day, May II, to Mr.. Edward Byron
DOty at st. Augustine's rectory,
Washington, D. c., at p. m. Miss
Graham wore an Alice Blue dress
with matching bolero, white shoes,
gloves, and hat and carried an arm
bouquet of flowers. Mr.. Doty was
attired in a blue grey suit with a
white carnation. Following the
wedding, Mr.. and Mrs. Doty were
entertained with a cocktail party.
At p. m. they left Washington
for Atlantic City to spend their
honeymoon. They will be Eat
home" at 1925 42nd street N. E.,
Washington, D. C.
The Cameo Club met Wednes-
day, May Is, at the home of Mr..
Colonel Miligan, 1922 Rondo street,
at which time plans were complet-
ed for the forthcoming Matinee
Dance.
The Bid-Rite Contract Club met
Thursday, May 9, at the home of
Mrs. John Kendall. First club
prize was won by Mrs. Artie E,
Boyd, second by Mrs. Ruth Hick-
man, and the consolation by Mrs.
Theodore Ruffner. The next meet
ing will be Thursday, May %, at
the home of Mrs. Hickman, 735
st. Anthony avenue.
The NeighbOrhOOd Club will
have a Pajama Party, Saturday
May 10, at the home of Miss Dor
othy Hall, 900 Iglehart avenue.
The Adelphai Club met Tuesday,
May IA, at the home of Mrs. Law
renee H. Mccoy, 288 N. Avon
street. Miss Constance Fisher Of
the Family Service, Inc, was the
guest speaker. The next meeting
will be Tuesday, May %, at 2 p. m.
at the Halle @. Brown Community
House. This will be an open meet
ing. A guest speaker will be Sc
cured.
The Self Culture Club held its
meeting of May 9 with Mr.. H. War
ricks. Dinner preceded the bust
ness meeting. A discussion was
held on the work and inventions of
the great DR.. Geo. Carver. The
next meeting will be with Mrs.
Hilda Parker of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Halle @. Won
Several Trophies

What Halle @. Brown conquered
during the winter sports season is
shown in the pictures elsewhere in
this issue. Basketball, one of the
thriving sports of the season down
at this center, proved quite pros
porous this season. The boys and
their coaches are to be congratu-
lated for their splendid work.
Badminton, another popular win
ter sport, caught quite a fancy dur
ing the season. The ladies were
especially interested, many taking
their game quite seriously. The
game was introduced early in the
season by Coaches Jimmy Lee and
Dwight Reed. Glasses were later
handled by Laura Jeffrey and
Beatrice Vassar, recreational lead
ers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-05-17
Crispus Attacks
Home Cook Dies

Mrs. Estelle Johnson died at
Ancker hospital, May IL. She was
employed as a cook at Crispus At
tucks Home.
Funeral services were held at
the Neal Funeral Home at 7:30
Thursday morning with Rev. Clar-
ence Nelson officiating.
Mrs. Johnson, who was 80 years
old, is survived by her husband,
Scott Johnson, two sisters and a
brother of Lovejoy, Illinois, a Sis
ter of Mississippi, and nephew
also of Lovejoy, Illinois. Her body
was shipped to Lovejoy, Illinois,
for interment. Neal Funeral Home
had charge of the funeral.