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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-31
Walkout Occurs At
Federal Ship Building
and Dry Dock Com
pany at Kearny, N. j.;
Early Settlement Pre-
dicted.

Ncarny. \. j., May 31.-(AP)
Six thousand workers struck
at the Federal Ship Building and
Dry Dock Company tC>.->,, halt
Ing work Oh six Warships incIGd-
cd in the United States rush de-
Tense program.
Among S46.000,Gr0 in naval con-
tracts held by the company are a
cruiser and two dcStrryers on the
ways. two dcStoycrS in the fitting
basin. and a cruiser on which only
work had been done.
Strikers picketed the plant while
their leaders, who had argued against
the WalkOut, negotiated with COM
pnny officials. The men are members
Of the Industrial Union Of Maritime
and Snip Workers Of America (CIO).
john Dempsey, local president, said
he had opposed ;hc strike, but now
"lully sympathizcd with the action
taken. The naval work was ahead
OF schedule and would not suffer, he
said.
Washington. May 3i.-(HP)-Say-
ing we cannot afford to have trouble
of this sort in these times" Sccrc-
tary Edison predicted today speedy
ol strke at the Federal
Ship Building and Dry Dock Com
pany, kGarny. n. j.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-31

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Rigid Enforcement Of Seaf0od
Laws Favored By Health Board

The consolidated board of health
favored a more rigid enforcement of
the regulations governing the SAM
tary requirements in handling of
crab-meat, cooked shrimp, a n d
shucked clans and oysters for pub
lie market and eating places, at the
monthly session late Thursday after.
noon.
DR.. A. H. Elliot, health officer,
and DR.. John C. Vessel, board
member, were appointed on a COM
mittee to revise and propose strict
er regulations for informal adop-
ton at the next monthly meeting.
The board of health Thursday as
sumed the responsibility of re-
quiring certified seafoods only be-
fore disposal to public markets and
establishments, including cafes.
hotels, and restaurants in the city
and county, and similar places on
the beaches.
Individuals in the city and coun-
ty who prefer h%enceforth to deal
privately with distributors of sea-
foods must do so on their own
risk and responsibility as to wheth-
er or not the seafood purchased
has been prepared and handled in
accordance with sanitary regula-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
R. Says Reform Plans
Will Not Hit Air Safety

WASHINGTON, April 12.-LR-
Presidtnt Roosevelt asserted today
that it was nothing but spinach to
say that his plans for revamping
aviation regulatory agencies would
irnperil air safety.
A short time later Senator Nc Car
ran (D-Nev.), critic of the plans,
snapped back with the statement
that they would spell a return to a
system which brought disaster aft.
err disaster" to commercial aviation.
The reorganization plan would put
the Civil Aeronautics Authority, now
independent, into the commerce de-.
partment structure, but the Presi.
dent has explained that the five-man
civil a~eronautics board would per-
form it's rule-making, adjudicative
and investigating functions indie
p%endently. The air safety board
would be abolished and it's accident
investigation and other duties would
be transferred to the Civil Aeronau'
tics board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Wesleyan Church Revival
Services Close Sunday

Revival services at wesleyan
Methodist church, 1901 Castle
street, which have been conducted
by the Rev. and Mrs. H. A. For.
ester, of Charlotte, will close Sun.
day, with meetings at II, 8. and Z
o'clock.
Tonight a booster choir, trained
by Mrs. Forester, will give a recital
and a special program of instru-
mental music and songs will be
given.
The Rev. E. L. Henderson, presi-
dent of the North Carolina Confer
ence of the wesleyan Methodist
church, will preach Monday night,
and hold the fourth quarterly meet
ing of the year for the church
evangelist and Mrs. Forester, who
will begin a meeting Tuesday night
at the Methodist church at b.
livia. Monday night will be "say-
so" night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

tons, health board members de-
cided.
All seafoods re-sold to a public
market or used in a public eating
place must be certified by designat-
ed representatives of the ~consoli-
dated board of health, DR.. Elliot
explained.
Under the proposed rules favored
yesterday by the BOARD, non-certi-
fled seafood dealers may deal pri-
vately with their regular private
customers, but must be certified if
they plan to deal with the public
through the markets or eating es-
adjustments.
The board favored the lifting of
restrictions in individual dealing of
seafoods as a number of persons
secure employment each year at
the sound in the gathering of sea-
foods.
The board felt that to require Ger.
tiflcations of private individual deal.
ers would throw these persons out
of employment and the require
ment of standard and satisfactory
equipment for such persons might
have a tendency to make prices
of seafoods somewhat higher than
at present, DR.. Elliot said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

manager; j. Hampton Lewis of Gin.
ton, Scotland manager; and Fletcher
H. Gregory of Halifax, and R. H.
Alsbrook of Scotland Neck, CONAN
ayers of Halifax.
Four managers were named for
Broughton-Carl P. White of Poplar
Branch, for Currituck; C. C. Gibbs
of Columbia, for Tyrrell; w. B. Car.
ter of Washington, N. c., for Beau.
fort, and ]. Paul Wallace of Troy,
for Montgomery.
Lieut.. Gov. w. P. Horton of Pitts
boro, democrat, said John Sharpe
Hartsell of Concord, and Hugh Alex
ander of kannapolis, would serve as
co-managers of his campaign in
Cabarrus,
Horton did not speak yesterday,
but will make a talk today at
Rohanen school, near Rockingham,
in Richmond county. Mcneil will
speak in Clinton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Miss Yopp Will Attend
Travellers Aid Meeting

Miss Julia E. Yopp, executive
secretary of the Travellers Aid So
ciety Of Wilmington, will leave Mon
day to attend the biennial conven-
ton Of the Travellers Aid Societies
of America at Cleveland, Ohio, an
April II to 20.
The convention delegates will join
with the Cleveland society in cele'
bration of it's goth anniversary.
Principal speakers on the Cleve.
land convention program will be
Mrs. John O'Connor, president;
Clarence E. Pickett, secretary Of the
American Friends; John J. Policy,
president of the Association of
American Railroads.; Henry M.
Busch, professor of sociology at
Western Reserve university; Mrs.
Amelia Tidball, executive secretary
of the Travellers Aid Society of Chi
cago; Mrs. Geraldine Clifford, ex.
ecutive secretary of American Red
Cross, and several others connected
with this work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
HOWELL IS GIVEN
DEATH SENTENCE
Goldsboro Automobile Me-
chanic Is Found Guilty
Of First Degree Murder

GOLDsBORO, April 12.-R)-A
superior court jury convicted Leslie
Howell, 45-year-old automobile me-
chanic, today of first degree murder
for the fatal shooting last March Z
of Policeman H. c. Wiegand. The
verdict carries the death penalty.
Judge C. E. Thompson sentenced
Howell to be executed by gas at
states prison at Raleigh June 81.
The defense gave notice of an sp-
peal to the state supreme court and
was granted 60 days in which to ef-
feet the appeal. The state was allow
ed 80 additional days in which to
reply to the appeal.
Howell received the verdict with
no show of emotion.
The jury deliberated two hours and
20 minutes.
Wiegand was shot in the abdomen
as he entered the Howell home aft
err a neighbor had reported that the
mechanic was beating his wife.
The defense presented no testi-
mony, and arguments of counsel be-
gan at the opening of court today.
Judge Thompson's 35-minute charge
followed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
POLITICAL FILING
DEADLINE TODAY
Gubernatorial Candidates Will
Relinquish Spotlight To
Other Aspirants
(By The Associated Press)

North Cardinals 10 g~ubernatorial
candidates, most of whom have been
fence-mending, speech-making, hand.
shaking and bush-beating for the
last four months, will %relinquish the
political spotlight today to the thou
sand or more aspirants for legisla-
tive, county and township posts.
Reason for the spotlight shift is
that the deadline for filing for the
lesser political jobs is 6 p. M, today.
except in counties where nominees
are selected by conventions. Leaders
in the gubernatorial camps will scan
the entry lists anxiously for pos
sible riffs in various county fac.
lions.
Deadline for filing for statewide
and congressional offices was March
16.
The gubernatorial candidates con.
tinued their oratorical campaigns
yesterday, but raised no new issues.
j. M. Broughton Of Raleigh,
democrat, speaking in New Bern,
urged Eastern North Carolina bank.
ers to help avert a great crisis fac
ing tobacco and cotton farmers"
Bankers, civic leaders and public
officials should cooperate in MAX
ing a serious and intelligent study
of the problems" he said at a meet.
ing of the group three district of
the North Carolina Bankers associa.
ton.
"The program for North Carolina
should include prudent diversified
ton of farming, with added en-
phasis on cattle, hog and poultry
raising, and %dairying.
A. J. Maxwell of Raleigh, demo.
crat. said the state should en-
phasize the Importance of libraries
and public health, in a speech at
Greenville sponsored by the Won.
ans club.
"On of the most important serv.
ices in this connection is the we'll
organized 'bookmobile' method OF
distributing library books through
rural communities where other Il
Dfary service is not aVallaDle, ne
said.
Robert H. Mcneil of Statesvilie,
republican, lambasted the admins
tration of President Roosevelt, and
declared that Thomas Jefferson was
the forgotten man of the demo-
cratic party because he stood for
everything that has been repudiatN'
by the present administration in
Washington"
Speaking in Lumberton, Mcneil
said that some prominent demo
Gratis, including Senator Josiah w
Bailey of Raleigh, endorsed the JEFF
~fersonian principles Of democracy.
Maxwell announced appointments
of D. Vaughan Allen of Whining
ton, as his New Hanover county
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
CHARITIES BUSY
DURING QUARTER
Services 1,906 Families Dur.
ing Three Months At
Cost OF $4,044.S0
The Associated Charities serviced

The Associated Charities service6
1905 families during January, Feb
ruary, and March, it was announced
yesterday by Mrs. L. o Ellis, execu.
tive secretary, in the quarterly re-
port of the organization.
A total of $4,044.80 was spent dur
ing this period, the report said, with
an average of 81, 348.26 monthly, and
$4.69 per family each month.
General relief, in the form of food,
rents, milk, and clothing, was given
92S families; service, disqualification
permits, medicines, home aids fur
nished by WPA, free water, teeth
extractions, and Investigations for
glasses FURNISHED by the Lions
club were given to 976 families.
OF the 635 families serviced
monthly, $50 are totally unable to
work either physically or mentally,
the report said, and a total of 478
families were given relief as
emergencies.
Out of a total of 506 cases in Jan
uary, 318 were accepted. Eighty-six
new cases and 1872 reopened and re-
Cured cases brought the total to
656. Cases closed numbered 1863, with
2S7 cases open on April 1.
Monthly cases averaged 2S7 FAM
lilies. A total of 1926 interviews
were granted, with a monthly aver
age of 1,O7S; home visits, 1893, with
the monthly average 100. Sixteen
women were placed on jobs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
WPA Observance Program
Is Scheduled In Onslow

JACKSONVILLE, April ia
week-long public acquaintance OBJ
servance will be held in Onslow
county, beginning May 20, to make
residents of the county more ia.
miliar with women's WPA projects,
Mrs. Marie Sabiston, of Jackson
Vile, assistant district supervisor of
women's projects, announced today.
The observance in Onslow will be
held in conjunction with the nation
wide celebration sponsored by the
WPA, Mrs. Sabiston said.
The big day will be May 20 when
approximately 400 persons are ex-
pected to attend a barbecue dinner
at the courthouse here and hear 10.
cal speakers and national WPA and
government figures speak over the
radio. A recreational period will fol-
low the program, and throughout
the remainder of the week all wo-
mems projects in the county will be
open to public inspection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
SEVEN PRISONERS
PAR0LED BY H0EY
Lizzie Simmons, OF Robson,
And Troy Goodwin, of Samp-
son, Are On List

RALEIGH, Apri 12.-R-Gover-
nor Hoey paroled eve prisoners
today, including Cecil Buckner, who
was sentenced in Madison county in
October, 1885, to nine to 10 years for
accessory before the fact and con-
spiracy to rob a bank with firearms.
Also freed were:
Lizzie Simmons, sentenced last
November in Robson to one year
for immoral conduct; Troy D. God
win, whose suspended sentence of
two years for larceny and receiving
was ordered into effect in Sampson
last January; Paul Hammonds, SEN
fenced last August in Columbus to
10 months for public drunkenness;
Albert Euliss, sentenced last August
in Alamance to Is to "a months for
larceny; Robert Lee Dennis, SEN
fenced in February, 1899, in Rowan
to two years for breaking and enter.
ing; and Charles burlington, sen.
fenced last November in Duplin to
two years for assault on a female.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
3,7l4 Participate In
Recreationa[ Activities

White children and adults partici.
pating in recreational activities dur
ing the week ending April 5 totaled
1850, with 81 spectators it was stat.
ed yesterday by leaders of recreation
centers in the city.
Colored children and adults
amounted to almost twice that num-
Der, with 2,134 active participants
and 165 spectators.
The teaching of sports in the city
is done not through n system, but
by combining many techniques.
Sports are entered into from the
standpoint of a good time for all.
Persons participating do so because
of a personal interest, and thus
learn to work and live together in
groups.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
ROSE TO ADDRESS
CHADB0URN CLASS
N. C. Legion Commander Is
Scheduled To Speak There
On April 10

Junius H. Rose, state commander
of the American Legion and super
intendent of the Greenville city
schools, will deliver the commence
ment address at the Chadbourn High
schools GRADUATION exercises on Fri
day evening, April 10, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The finals will get underway Sum-
day at Ii o'clock when DR.. Kenneth
+. Foreman, of the chair of Bible at
Davidson college, will preach the
baccalaureate sermon.
Wednesday morning at 1880
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
SATURDAY, APRIL -. ,o,.

o'clock, the Seventh Grade will
its exercises when certifjcato,
be awarded admitting them VA
High school, Wednesday evenin, ~
8 o'clock will be class day. ,lo
gram entitled youth Plead "
Case" This will be under tho
ton of Mrs. J. O. Teal and NJ,
Mary Wyche of the high scbo.,
ult..
Thursday evening at 8 o,cro,.
Mrs. George Casteen will pres,I'
her pupils in a piano recital '"'
There are 80 members NJ
graduating class, and Howard p, %'
ell is valedictorian md Virginia T'''
Cheney salutatoran. ""
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
ReMLnau
COURT
decision in the Strange Case of
"CHING LEE! %
Continued From Page Nine)

NContlnued From Page Nlne)
"REvERsEDr' By this
sweeping decision of the California
high court, the little chinaman,
lining Lee, was snatched from
unoer the very portals of the state
prison and saved from spending five
long years in confinement.
10 review this strange affair a
bit, Wong Fang was smuggled
across the Mexican border and
came into this country illegally. He
was put IN Jail in Southern Cali
lorna, but his trial was put off
from time to time, for what reason
the record does not disclose.
considerable time passed and
without any authority, a deputy
United States marshall took Wono
Fang to the Jail in AIemeda
County, a considerable distance to
the North, where he also remained
without any action being taken on
his deportation back to Mexico.
Now a man who is unlawfullv
II SuoIOuy CdIlIlOL De con-
sldered in the light of Escaping"
II ne breaks out. 1t is not a crime
to escape from unlawful confine-
ment." Therefore, if this is SO. it is
not a crime for one to assist another
to escape from unlawful confine-
ment and Ching Lee, unknowinglv
1t IS true, did not break the law
when he helped his friend, Wong
Fang, to escape from the Alemeda
County Jail.
This is a true case. Reference of
citation may be had by sending a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
TO Bella Lanan-Court Reporter"
Starting Next Week
THE STRANGE CASE OF
THE AFFAIR AT THE
EQUATOR"
Don't Miss It-Follow It Daily Tn
This Newspaper.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Jacksonville Community
House Grounds Project
To Be Started April Is

JACKSONVILLE, April 12.-Im-
provement of community house
grounds here will be started by the
WPA on April Is. The project, to
be sponsored by the Onslow county
board Of commissioners, will cost
approximately $500.
The project includes excavating,
filling, grading, clearing, draining
and constructing wall at entrance to
the grounds, in addition to seeding
and planting for Identification.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
italian Birth Rate nrons

Despite Mussolini's many adi..
Italy's birth rate declined from o.,
in the 1925 period to 22.7 in ,o..
with 10 of every 1000 babies Avg $o'
in the first year of life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

ton housewives think of Swift's
noted product. All who give the cor
rect answer will be given a silver
dollar. Others winning prizes yester-
Mrs. Miles Hunter, Mrs. Lillian Mid
dleton, Mrs. L. T. Gruits and Mrs.
Fred Little in the Grocerteria; Mrs.
G. j. Burkheimer, Mrs. r. G.. Stoke
ly, Mrs. F. M. Moore, Mrs. Harry
Terrell and Mrs. P. w. Bethea in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

On a single Saturday night, Cali
fornia highway patrol officers halt
ed so, 0 motorists in a campaign
against reckless driving and traf-
fic violations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

what shortening gives the best
results in cakes, biscuits, pies and
frying?" is the question Miss Jewel"
asked Mrs. Fred E. Little yesterday
in the Market street Grocerteria.
Jewel shortening" Mrs. Little an
swered and forthwith she was hand
ed a silver dollar. This scene will be
re-enacted in many Wilmington
grocery stores today and next week
as Miss Jewel asks what Whining
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

the A. and P. super market; Mrs.
c. M. Rivenbark, in the Seventh and
Castle A. and P. store; Mrs. j. Cal
houn, in the Third and Castle A. and
P. store; Mrs. ]. Todd in the w. M.
Todd grocery, 613 Castle; Mrs. C.
M. Dixon, in the w. D. Mills gro.
Gerry, Third and Castle streets; and
Mrs. G. r. Cottle, in the Mayhan
grocery at 1914 Castle street.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08
Farming Advanced
By New Machinery

Trend in farm machinery toward
durability, simplicity, speed, and
convenience of operation, says w.
M. Hurst Of the United States bu-
reau of agricultural engineering,
probably has affected American
agriculture as much as, if not more
than, development of the reaper and
steel pillow century ago."
The gas tractor has been on the
market for nearly 40 years. But
only during the past 10 or IL years
has unit suitable for planting and
cultivating row crops, for blowing,
disking, and belt work, been avail
able. Of all general-purpose trac-
tors manufactured in 1887 nearly
SO per cent were on rubber. Pneu-
matte tires not only permit higher
speed in field operations but make
possible road hauling with trailers
Adapting field machinery to use
with tractors" says Mr.. Hurst,
constitutes the major recent de-
velopment in what is generally
known as farm implements. A new
plow, for instance, may look about
the same as it's predecessor, but on
examination it will be found to be
made of better material, to have
greater beam clearance for turning
under trash, the shape of the mold
board of some is such as to permit
higher speed, and attachments are
available for increasing effective
ness in turning under cover crops"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08
Home-Raising of Foods
Is Good Farm Practice

Home production of dairy and
poultry products, fruits, vegetables,
and meat from animals fed and
butchered on the farm offers two
way advantage to families with low
cash incomes, the new department
of agriculture yearbook points out.
Homegrown foods usually improve
the diet-both in quality and guam
tity-and they release for other pur-
poses money that would otherwise
be paid out for food.
In recent survey of living costs
on farms, food economists of the
United States department of agricul-
ture were able to group "a fami-
Ges-each of which had about $500
a year to spend for the family liv-
ing, and each consisting of a hus-
band and wife and one child under
16 years of age-on the basis of
how much food was produced on
the farm.
Money expenditures for food
dropped steadily as home produc-
ton increased. Some of these fami-
lies produced more than $500 worth
of food on the farm and spent only
about $3.50 for food. At the other
end, part of the families raised only
about 500 worth of food and bought
about 5000 worth. The economists
estimate that such a family would
spend about $265 cash if it did not
raise any food. Families producing
the highest money values in food
were in general the best fed.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08
FARM
Tories
CARE OF POULTRY
VITAL IN SUMMER
Special Measures Necessary
To Protect Flocks.
BY C. F. PARRISH

The health and egg production
of the poultry flock next fall will be
in proportion to the care given the
pullets this summer.
One of the first "musts" in the
growers program should be the pro-
viding of clean ground not used by
poultry for at least two years to
range the pullets.
Then, too, an open air summer
range shelter should be located in
corn or soybean field, orchard,
lespedeza pasture, or some other
location where ample green feed
and shade are available.
An ample supply of tender green
feed will cut the feed bill greatly,
as well as result in more healthy
flock. Soybeans planted in rows or
in corn make an ideal shade and
source of green feed during hot dry
weather. 1t is also important that
the pullets have plenty of fresh wa
ter supplied in cool, shady place
at all times.
At least once day, in the late
afternoon, the pullets should be fed
literally on whole yellow corn and
whole oats. Also the birds need a
high quality growing or developing
mash. Many of the more success
full .poultrymen keep whole oats and
whole yellow corn in hoppers before
the pullets as well as hopper of
mash.
Of course, liberal feeding of whole
oats, corn, and green feed will re-
tard the sexual maturity of the pull
let's to a certain degree, but this is
to the advantage of the poultryman
since the birds will have more time
to become better developed. This
will mean larger eggs.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08

nECIDEDLY young, and just as
- fresh-looking as spray of ap-
pie blossoms, this frock (8680) will
be lovely in silk print or fiat crepe,
with airy white frills. Notice how
cleverly the frills are used to ac-
centuate the torso which is not
only the newest news in silhou-
cites, but potent to give you the
long, timber look for which we're
all striving. The full skirt, little
pairs of buttons down the front
and sash bow add to the youthful
charm of this frock.
With your big hat and patent
shoes, it will make you look as if
you had stepped from the pages
of the latest fashion book-and it
proves once more that to get real
individuality as well as newness,
you'll be wise to make your own.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-08
Rural Briefs

Studies show that about one-half
of Americas hogs are raised west
of the Mississippi, while about three
fourths of the pork is eaten east of
the Mississippi.
Native trees or shrubs transplant
ed from dense woods are difficult
to keep alive. Those from open spots
in the woods are likely to develop
more satisfactorily.