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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
A JUNIOR CHAMBER

A thought which has long been in the
minds Of many younger men crystallized at
the Youth Open Forum on Monday night
when a Junior chamber of mme was cit
ed among needs of the city. It was so well
received that further discussion will be en-.
couraged at the next Forum meeting, when
H. L. WALKER will deal with the subject from
many angles.
These junior chambers which have provided
an outlet for constructive work by younger
men, to the great benefit of hundreds OF
American cities, have met a long felt need
The fact that they have stood the test OF
sharp competition from senior chambers and
from civic clubs, and have multiplied in units
and membership, is substantial proof that
they have a real place in modern city life.
Wherever they have been established, and
their difficult tasks, chiefly the promotion OF
crowd-drawing attractions, with credit and
in many cases signal success.
A recent example is offered at Sarasota,
Florida, where through Jaycee sponsorship
$4,000 out-of-town visitors gathered for the
annual Pageant of Sara de Sofa and lined
the streets during the pageant parade.
Jaycees do not restrict their public services
to this one field, however, but maintain q
varied program for civic advancement. in
Guiding child welfare, recreation centers, city
advertising, sports and a dozen other activi
ties which inject new life into the communi
ties where they function.
Wilmington could use a junior chamber OF
commerce and improve it's situation mate
rally through it's existence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
MORE THAN APPLAUSE NEEDED

If the Firms have not been able to drive
out the Reds, they have at least proved them
not invincible. Perhaps it is their fine show.
ing against tremendous odds that has led the
British and French at last to offer material
help in their war Of defense, instead of more
sympathy and applause.
In the announcement that France proposes
to send troops and Britain ships and planes,
the Allies at last have shown some recogni.
ton OF the fact that moral support is not
enough to turn back Russian hordes in Fin.
land, who constitute a very definite threat
to their cause in Middle Europe.
Now. it appears, all that is necessary is
Tor the Finnish government to ask for troops
from London and Paris. One may be par.
doned for wondering, however, if this is a
good time to stand on the amenities of polite
society. To the unenl.ghtened Of the world
it might seem better to step in now, and
wait for the formal invitation until the war
is over.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Story OF How Coster-M usica
Gained Control OF Firm Told

NEW YORK, March II. - Up -
The story of how an alcoholic sham
poo-easily divertible to beverages
for a thirsty populace-enabled a
master swindler to gain control OF
the s87,00O,000 McKesson and Rob
bins drug firm during the prohibi'
ton era was told in federal court
today.
The story was related by George
E. Dietrich-Musica, 46, Of Fairfield,
Conn, a brother Of F. Donald Cos
ter-Musica. the president of NC
Kesson and Robbins who committed
suicide in December, 1898, after he
was exposed as an ex-convict.
Testifying as a government wit
ness in the trial of five defendants
on charges of conspiracy and mail
fraud growing out of the scandal,
Dietrich-Musica described the fl
nancial comeback of his brother 20
years after he had hoodwinked in
vestors in a scheme known as "the
million dollar human hair swindle'
an affair dating back to the pre-
war days when women wore high
coiffured rats" and when human
hair brought $50 a pound.
When the odor of that bit of chi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
QUOTATIONS

It is more essential now for the American
peonle to know the Presidents intentions on
a third term than it is for the government to
know. in accordance with the census question.
naire. whether some family in Chesaning, Mich,
shares its bathtub with another family or
mined warm air or pipeless warm alr.-Repre.
Fred L. Crawford Rep., Mich.).
The issue now is the conclusion of the World
war which had not been ended. Germany was
not defeated in 191S-merely deceived. For that
hloodv effort.-Konrad Henlein, governor nj
the Sudetenland.
Few of us, I think, can feel that our eov.
eminent is doing all that it might do ana
ought to do. for the people of Finland in thei1
terrible extremity and neeG.-Bishon wi1li.n -,
r. Manning of New York Episcopal diocese.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
AXE

Dear sir:
was interested in reading a COM
parison of taxes paid in England and
the U. s. in Preston Glover's column
this morning. Because the English
nav a high income tax, it seems to
a great many people in this country
that no grumbling should occur here,
but that we should try to emulate
the English. Well, here is a little
further comparison.
I lived in England 80 months,
leaving there in Mar. 1929. Real es'
tate taxes are only about half in
England compared to similar proper
tv in the U. S. and rentals are cor
respondingly low. The Boots Cash
Chemists, Ltd, which company had
900 chemists shops drug stores In
the British Isles, had more than loo
stores, each doing more than $780,
10000 per year volume, occupying
buildings where the rent was less
than $1,000 per store per year. And
the tax for operating the store (the
license which covered the privilege
of conducting a drug store) was 2
pounds, or approximately SO per
year. Ask a N. c. druggist what he
pays for licenses only.
Let us assume that q Wilmington
druggist owns his own home, and
has a net income Of $4,000 on which
he must pay an income tax. I am
told that the sales tax in N. C.. ap'
proximates 4 IL per cent for the
average family's expenditures.
guarantee you that the N. c. drug
gist, after having paid his sales tax,
his personal taxes, his different kind
Of license to city, county, state, and
federal. will have paid more total
taxes in one year than $646 which
Mr.. J. English Smith will have paid.
There are nc invisible taxes in Eng
land.
There are no sales taxes. There
is a single tax only for the different
tradesmen and professions.
An English married couple with
an income of $4,000 a year with the
tax of SPAS is better off than the
same couple in this country. Living
is cheap in England lin normal times
without war; except in the ownership
and operation of an automobile, i'm
ported fruits and silks. Bread, meat,
clothing, coal, rents, are all cheaper.
1t is a curious fact that while meat,
fruit except plums, pears and ber-
ries), and wheat is imported into
England, meat, and bread are cheap
err there, while fruit Is higher.
A high tax rate in England is no
excuse for e high tax rate in this
country.
T. B. WALL.
March IL, 1899,
619 Moravian Lane,
Charlotte, N. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Hollywood
sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Cooas,

HOLLYWOOD, March -. ~ II
your education on the subject OF
bananas has been neglected, TOR
rid Zone" is the place to make
amends.
"Torrid Zone" has a locale in a
vaguely Central American banana
port. The story, says Pat O'Brien.
who's in the picture, is another
rip-roaring Front Page" with a
different background. Pats feud
is with James Cagney, and the girl
is Ann Sheridan.
But the picture marks the ba-
nana's biggest dramatic break
since last years "Only Angels
Have Wings" That picture was
more concerned with flying than
with fruit, however, so in "Torrid
Zone" it may be said that the ba.
mana, for the first time, takes the
spotlight.
There is more to the banana
than meets the eye or taste. If
your acquaintance with the yellow
fruit is limited to a casual how-do-
you-do exchanged with the big
bunch hanging at your corner fruit
stand, you have much to learn.
The banana is a science. Johnnie
Marie can tell you that.
Johnnie is a soft-spoken Spaniard
from Barcelona who went into ba-
nanas when he was nine years of
age. He looks around IS now, which
gives him a long familiarity with
the banana. He has been in ba.
nanas only for the movies in re-
cent years. When he isn't techni-
cal adviser on a banana movie, as
now, he works on Spanish-language
films.
It's Johnnie. who has seen to it
that Pats office, headquarters of
a banana company, has the prop
er scientific props. There's a table
covered with test tubes, bottles
and jars Of picked bananas, whole
and in c~ross,section. and chemi-
calls. There's a big bunch of ba-
nanas encased in netting - that's
for Conservation"
twenty-five years ago, says
Johnnie, bananas were taken as
they came, pretty much. Root-rot,
pests and other damaging factors
were accepted as inevitable. Now
science fights them, constantly
strives to improve the strains, in.
crease production - and college
graduates are taken for the jobs.
When you're in the banana know
you v say a "bunch"-always
a "stem." Each cluster of bananas
on a stem is a hand" and a good
hand should have IA fingers"
(Has the baby eaten it's finger to.
day? IT'S recommended.)
Johnnie told mt a great many
things I hadn't suspected about
bananas, which are fascinating
items when you get to know them.
Here r a few: One banana tree
gives off only stem of bananas
a year. But the tree, cut down
after the fruit is taken, starts
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13

working right away toward next
years crop.
The banana trees worst enemies
are tropical storms and rats. They
can't do anything about the storms
which leave a banana plantation a
shambles of broken trees, but there
is a bounty on the rats, which
attack the roots.
Every "stem" is inspected before
it is shipped, in special banana
boats. and a cargo has to be kept
IT an even, mild temperature.
and Jamaica are the
biggest banana-producers.
In some sections natives eat the
flower of the banana as a salad.
Dock workers with bananas are
always on the lookout for taran.
tulas. When they find one they
look for another-tarantulas travel
in pairs.
Among the choicest species of
bananas r the manzoes with
apple flavor) and the battles
(short and thick and date-shaped).
But you rarely see these on the
market-they're snapped UP by the
firms which specialize in high.pric.
ed delicacies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
CENTERS

Neighborliness through group organization
is considered the basis Of a sound society.
Recreation and community centers are max
ing a definite contribution to this phase OF
Wilmington life. They have sprung from a
strong local demand, and are a part of a ma.
tion-wi1e movement for social and civic bet.
terment, for development of community spirit
and true democracy.
The growth Of the movement here is not
able, and in one respect it is perhaps unique.
None OF the buildings used in the City-WPA
program were erected for this purpose. The
Agnes McRae Parsley center is located in a
mission building at st. Johns church. The
Cameron center is in an unused service sta
ton donated by BRUCE CAMERON. On the
Southside, the Gregory Community center
has been v~ariously used as a teachers dor.
mitory for a negro school, a recreational pro-
gram by the Congregational church, and liv.
ing quarters for the church's pastor. The
center on Castle street is in a store build
ing owned by the MORTON estate. The East
Wilmington and Cooper center was built by
the residents Of "Foxtown'' out of scrap ma
.terial.
These centers provide gathering places fol-
the people in their neighborhoods, withou,
political or religious domination. They are moi
standard facilities, but offer in their limited
way a solution of leisure-time problems.
Wilmington looks forward to the day wheI
it will afford its population buildings design
ed for recreation on standard lines. But il
the meantime, with neighbors playing il
their present buildings and on their grounds
singing and having a good time" together
the centers are fulfilling their purpose t.
strengthen and enrich community life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
MORGAN SELECTED
ASC0P CANDIDATE
Charlotte Man Scheduled 10
Make Race For Congress
In Tenth District

LINCOLNTON. March 1g'-h-
Republicans of the 10th North Jaw
lima district unanimously nolnl'S'
ed Ernest M. Morgan OF ChallU''
today as their candidate Tor cU'
gress.
J. Bennett Riddle of Morgan'''
and James M. Bailey OF Mau.'..
were elected delegates to the nsU''
al convention in P~hiladelphIa'
Morgan was nominated by 'Vn-
McBee of Bakersville, who deS'l%
ed him as an outstanding WORKER ~
the party, popular with all the GAS
es and a World War veteran
The nominee pledged his best e..
forts to carry the district for nil.''-
and others on the party's lch'"
Speeches assailing the demo' can'
party we're made by National 0Vn 4
mitteeman Charles a. jonas =
Lincolnton, State Chairman Jan.
Newell of Charlotte, Brownie" ' .,y,
son, secretary of the state eA' ,,,.
committee; and Calvin Edhe''
mer congressional candldate'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13

canery had faded, the Witness
brother-born Philip Musica, son 0!
an italian immigrant barber-nss
queraded under the name of F. Don
aid Coster and started a small drug
business under the name Of Girar.
dand Co., in suburban Mount Yer.
non.
That was in 1923, when the lush
profits of bootlegging were hegin'
ming to be emphasized by gang
shootings, rum-running and speak
easies.
Dietrich-Musica related how his
brother seized the opportunity to
muscle in"-legally, more or less
on the bootleg bonanza by manu-
featuring a shampoo which the Wit
ness freely acknowledged could b
diverted into beverage alcohol.
In spectacular fashion, CosteH
Musica, now became a stald-appea'
ing citizen who SHE'D at publicity
pyramided his shampoo business
with such success that by 1876 ne
was about to gain control Of TIE
100-year-old Mckesson and ROBINS
drug firm for $1,000, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13

a vocalist, and Hoagland hired him.
The funny thing about it is that
Burke isn't his name. His real name
is Roy Burkshire, but Burke, being
short, is easier to remember.
The next step was to send him
over to Hoagland's tailor for a com.
plete outfit, and while measurements
were being taken the tailor suddenly
inquired: What is your name?"
"Burkshire," said Roy IT near
Burke 49,. No, it's Burkshire II.
Say" he cried to Jim Kinnedy, the
bands road manager, who was stand.
ing nearby, what rs my manner"
But kinnedy couldn't answer He
was leaning against a pile Of soft
g~aberdines, holding his sides
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Funeral Services Held
For John T. Harper

Funeral services for Jun. Al,
Harper, 46, who died suouela' -bs
$3.50 o'clock Sunday morning a.
Atlantic Coast Line hosp.'' 1o;n
Rocky Mount, were held nor tn.
o'clock yesterday morning i.' strss.
late residence, 623 Arlington
in Rocky Mount. ,oted BY
The services were ,astot
the Rev. ]. w, Kincheiow, ths
of the Firs. Baptist chu.' os t'
Rev. H. c. Lowder, pastor ,hrrca
Arlington Street Baptls. .tertisla
and the Rev. J. A.
Presbyterian minister. ,.,o cere'
Burial followed in Oaka1's ;nsni
terry in Wilmington. St, Sized bs
Masonic lodge No. l. a' n.stor o
the Rev. Earle Bradley sab had
the Calvary Baptist church re. srs,r
charge of the services at 'D'
side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities,
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highwa: t~om WrightsvtHe
Beach to Bald Heaa island.
Ertension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear River channel. Ttd'
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes INTO
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
puued Riuer Road 10 Southport. qua
orion Plantation.
Developme of Pulp Wood Prod'r-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
mol1onal Agency, supported BY one.
Countrywide td1.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around tho
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospita! facilities tor Uhites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Derezopm emit OF native grape 0roactng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdnatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Many Gardeners Call
For Seed During Week

A total of 254 gardeners, the
largest number in any one week
since the garden program started,
called at the office of the city gar.
den program for seed during the
tlrst week in March, Carl Render,
director, reported yesterday.
A large number of colored gard.
eners have already entered t b e
Cape Fear Garden Clubs cleanup.
YARD contest. Render said. The re-
port for the first week in March
comprised: total number of garden
projects. S54; visits and conferences
$50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
The Editor,
LETTER BOX

I'M. Editor does not uecessari-
10 endorse any article APPEAR
inc in this department. They
ranresent the views Of the In
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all commune
cat,ons must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords. though the letter may be
signad AZ the writer sees TT.
The Star-News reserves the
rivht to alter any text that for
anv reason n Objectionable.
letters on controversial sub
facts will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
High School Glee Club
limited To Convention

The New Hanover High school
giee club has been invited to the
state Teachers convention to be
neld IN Raleigh Friday, it was an
nounced yesterday by Fred Mccall
of Chapel Hill.
Albert Brown will direct the slee
ciuo IN a IS minute program of
songs from "The Pirates of Pen
zance" before the music division of
the convention
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
ECLIPSE OF SUN

Unless the weather seers do something
about it, the annular eclipse of the sun SEIZED.
uled for the afternoon is likely to be as in.
visible as the fourth dimension.
There was a general impression hereabouts
that spring, with its fine weather, was at the
door. Its failure to arrive only shows how
people may be led astray by a rumor.
But the eclipse day is still three weeks
ahead. Maybe the little gods that rule the
weather still relent in the meantime.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Man bout
Manhattan
ey GEORGE Tucker

NEW YORK, March II. - New
Workers v really became &C
quainted with Everett Hoagland un
til this winter, principally because
Mr.. Hoagland is a stubborn sort Of
bloke with a band, and when swing
hit the saddle a few years ago he
said to hell with it and kept on play
ing music the way he likes it and
the way he thinks it ought to be
played. This mean in a danceaL.e
manner and keeping in mind that
if composers take the trouble to write
pretty melodies, the very least a
dance band car do is keep the melo'
dies recognizable.
So, Will the east has been I'M
der a sort of swing blackout. Hoag.
land & c., has cruised about the
country, making a few friends here,
a few there, playing on the coast.
playing on the gulf. just kicking
around, and in general doing all
right.
You may have noticed that In re.
cent months most of the sponsored
programs have staged a return to
sweet. You may also have noticed
that in the metropolitan area the
tendency has all been away from
slam.wham.
It was upon this changing scene
that Hoagland arrived a couple Of
months ago, and since that time re
has been a busy young man. His
name began popping up in the col
umns. The people began tuning in
on him, or calling around the EN-
pire Room at a Park Avenue hotel
to get a load of him in person. All
this att >ntion has been very pleas
ant. They like his personality, and
his grin. Hoagland has a way of d.
recting with both hands, and of
seeming alive. ] can name you a
dozen orchestra leaders who approx.
innate inanimate objects on the
stand. Hoagland doesn't gaze over
the heads OF his audience when he
plays; he likes to look you in the
eye.
What is the chief characteristic
Of his music? Something akin to
organ effects, I suppose ~ based
on a soft recording bass with saxes
in the deeper tones. Don Burke is
his vocalist, and Don Is a whole
story in himself.
Less than a year ago he was Just
a lionel COB in the navy. When his
enlistment ended he wandered
around in his seaman's garb, wond.
ering what would happen next. He
didn't even have street clothes to
wear for an addition with Hoag.
land.
But clothes have never yet made
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
THE FROST GIANT AND THE TREES
New York Herald Tribune

Before the peoples of northern Europe had
acquired enough skill in building to consider
any edifice worthy of dedication to a religious
purpose, all of them-Teutons, Celts. Slavs and
the Baltic peoples-set up their affairs and held
their sacrificial rites in groves Of fine old trees.
These came to be regarded with as much ven
Grafton and were as we'll protected against pro.
fame uses as the grandest cathedral of medic
val times. To our fogefathers the gloom Of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
TOP o. THE.

The Holy Spirit has relationships Dlh
erefy man ON this edrth-"And nhen lie rs
come He uiH reproue the acor1d Of sin, and
Of righteousness, and of Judgment"
R. of C. W.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-18
Local Dealer to Study
Associated Methods

In anticipation of one of the
greatest seasons of motor travel
on the Pacific Coast in many years,
hundreds of sales agents, distribu-
tors and dealers of Tide Water As
ISOLATED Oil Company will gather
at Spokane Monday, April % to at
tend the annual spring merchant
disc show Of the company.
Everett Aman, local Associated
distributor, will head the delega-
ton from this community attending
the Spokane session, which will be
held under the direction of E. G..
Heinz, district sales manager.
The day and evening meetings
will be devoted to consideration of
the merchandising and advertising
programs which will be outlined by
a group of nine officials from COM
pany headquarters under the lead
erShip of w. A. Reanier, recently
appointed domestic sales manager
of the Associated Division. Other
company executives to participate
in the program include H. A. Jack
son, H. r. Deal, r. j. Irwin, F.. l..
Wagar, Walter Brunn, j. A. Rams
ford, G. F. Becker and r. Russell
of Lord & Thomas Advertising,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-18
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
TO FILE CLAIMS

In the Superior Court OF the State
Of Washington, in and for Benton
County.
In the Matter Of the Guardianship
/ of
w. H. ANON, a mentally incimpet-
ent person.
NOTICE Is HERBY GIVEN, That
Letters of Guardianship in the above
entitled matter were granted to the
undersigned on the LIST day Of Feb
ruary, 1910, by the said Superior
Court.
All persons having claims against
w. II. Anon, a mentally incompet-
ent person, are required to serve
them with the necessary vouchers
upon me at the office of Moulton
81 Powell, Kennewick, Washington,
within six mouths after the date
Of the first publication of this
notice, to-wit, within six months
after the 18th day of April, 1910,
and file the same with the Clerk
of this Court, together with proof of
such service, or they shall be for
ever barred.
Dated at Kennewick, Washington.
this 9th day of April, 1910.
ELMER ANON,
Moulton 81 Powell,
Guardian.
Attorneys for Guardian,
Kennewick, Washington. 1882