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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
Bride-Elect OF
June Honored
At Lovely Party
Miss Mallard Feted By Mrs,
Platt And Miss Mac
Kenzie AT Tea

Mrs. Robert C. Plat, Jr., and
Miss Roberta Mackenzie were
h~ostesses Saturday honoring Miss
Frances Mallard, whose marriage
will take place next month, at a
lovely tea given at the home OF
Mrs. Platt on Princess street. The
lower floor en- suite was attractive
with various arrangements of sum-
mer flowers.
Miss Maliard was presented a
nosegay showered with rhymed
clues, leading her to surprise gift
packages through the house. Later
the faculty of the Isaac Bear school
presented her with a silver sugar
and cream set.
Delicious refreshments were SER
we'd from a beautifully appointed
table to the following guests: Miss
Mallard, the honoree, Mrs. E. +.
Mallard, Miss Edna Russell, Mrs.
J. S. Mackenzie, Mrs. R. c. Platt,
Sr., Mrs. N. W. Humphrey, Misses
Annie w. Herring, Hannah Boney,
Julia Faison, Mary Brantley Fos-
cue, Anna Henderson, Esther Har-
riss, Fannie McClees, Irene Nixon,
Mary Young and Thelma Smith.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

Jean Applewnite, Rosemary Chen
worth, Mar Cocker, Joseph Rose,
Joseph Jones, Charles Sass and Viii.
liam Powell.
Mrs. George w. Bethel, of Nor
folk, Va, has arrived to attend the
graduation exercises of her grand
daughter, Miss Eloise Bethel, who
will graduate from the New Han
over High school on Friday. Mrs.
Bethel will leave Saturday f o r
Raleigh to attend the graduation OF
George Bethel from State college.
She will be accompanied to Raj
eigh by Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. P.
Bethel and Miss Eloise Bethel.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Boegli, Miss
Betty Boegli and Mrs. Eugene
Philyaw have returned from Red
Springs where they attended the
graduation exercises at Flora Mac
Donald college, where Miss Cath
crime Somerville Boegli, received
her degree. Miss Boegli accompa.
MED them home.
Miss Marguerite Crow, student
at St. Mary's school in Raleigh,
has arrived to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. P. Grow, at their home on Mas.
onboro Sound. Miss Crow has as
her houseguests, Miss P hyl1i
Holloway, Miss Hortense Miller,
and Miss Sarah Bertron, of Hous-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

A number of close friends and rela.
tives were also invited.
At tables which had previously
been arranged under the large shade
trees on the lawn, a bountiful lunch
was spread at 1870, to which all
guests were invited.
Buddy Poppy Day was observed in
Bladenboro last week, closing the
sales on May rs with a total of
s1O.9S. Mrs. R. C. Bridger, a mem
Der of the Lumberton post of the
auxiliary to V. F. W. chairman was
assisted by Misses Emma Louise
Bridger, Mary Louise Poe, Mary &C.
ellie Ward and Adeline Herring.
juniors, and Miss Minnie Butler at
Hutchinson's Drug store. The pro-
ceeds were sent to the Lumberton
organization.
The Rev. and Mrs. E. Sterl Phin-
ney and two sons, former mission
aries to Japan, have arrived in this
country and are now in Marion,
Indiana, for a short stay before
coming to Bladenboro to be with
Mrs. Phinney's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G.. Wilson. The Phinneys
are expected to arrive here about
June 10.
The Callahan reunion is scheduled
for next Sunday, June 2, at Marsh
burns beach, White Lake. This
annual gathering is increasing in
numbers and interest each year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis Freeman and
son, of Wilmington, spent the week.
end with relatives here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
MEREDITH
TO HEAR BAILEY

MEREDITH COLLEGE, RAJ
EIGH, May 29.-Meredith college
will confer degrees upon 80 seniors
Monday morning, June g., W h e n
Hon. Josiah William Bailey, senior
senator from North Carolina, will
deliver the commencement address
at 1870 o'clock in the college audi
forum. The presentation of diplo-
mas and Bibles will bring to a
close the forty = first commence
ment program at Meredith. The
baccalaureate sermon Will be
preached on Sunday morning, June
2, at l o'clock in the auditorium
by DR.. Scion B. Cousins of the fac
ulty Of the University CT Richmond,
Va. There will be no mis-
sionary sermon as is custom
airy and Sunday evening the grad
uating class will conduct the YES
per service at 7:30 o'clock in the
auditorium.
An exhibition by students in the
art department that will be on dis
play Friday afternoon, May 81, In
the college parlors will initiate the
commencement program, and a
concert featuring the glee club and
also instrumental and vocal solos
will be presented that evening. Sat
urday, June /, has been designated
Alumnae Day with the honor So
c%letles, the Kappa M Sigma scho-
lastlc fraternity and the silver
Shield leadership society, meeting
at 9:3O o'clock Saturday morning
10 elect new members and to greet
alumnae of these organizations.
Mrs. j. Wilbur Bum, of Raleigh,
Will be the alumnae speaker for
lhe c~onVocatlon of former students
at 1880 o'clock in the Astro society
nall. MS meeting marks the n
annual meeting of h e general
alumnae association and Mrs. Win
gate M. johnson of Winston-Salem,
who is completing a two year term
as president, will preside. A new
presiding officer and other officers
are slated to be chosen at this ses-
sion.
Mrs. Raymond Parker, of Jack
son, will serve as POSTMASTER for
the alumnae luncheon at l o'clock
Saturday afternoon in the Meredith
dlnlng hall and the ten reunion
classes will be given special rec
ognltlon. DR.. Carlyle Campbell, who
is completing his first term as
president of Meredith, will be the
only speaker. The reunion classes
are those of 1915, '1G, IT, IS, 10,
and 1880, '35, '36, 81, and '3S.
Preceded by the traditional daisv
cham carried by the sophomores
the seniors will give their Class
Day program Saturday afternoon
at $50 O'Clock in the outdoor the
atre i n the oak grove. Edna Earle
Cogslns, of 1nman, S. c., is presi-
dent OF the class and little Miss
Jean Barden, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Hunter Barden, of Favette-
vile, will be the class mascot, Hor
mother, the former Miss Elizabeth
Walston, was a member of tho
present graduating class as a fresh.
man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
MISSES LOMAN'S IRIS
TO BE OPEN
AFTERNOON

The Misses Loman's Japanese
Iris garden will be opened to the
public Saturday afternoon, June /.
A silver tea will be held in the gar
den by the Business Girls circle
of the Winter Park Presbyterian
church.
This is the only Japanese Iris
Garden in eastern North Carolina.
These orchid-like blooms, varying
in color from white to a deep pur-
pie, are most unusual and make a
wonderful display well worth see.
ing.
The garden is located on the
main boulevard in Audubon about
three miles outside of Wilmington
on the old Wrightsville turnpike.
Markers will be placed on both
highways directing visitors to the
garden.
The public is cordially invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR
WILL GIVE CONCERT
TONIGHT IN

A sacred concert will be given
this evening at S o'clock by the
First Presbyterian church choir Of
Wilmington at the Southport High
scnool auditorium. This program is
sponsored by the southport Women's
club and a silver offering will be
taken. The public is invited to at
tend.
The program follows:
Up Up, My Heart, Bach), Hear
My Prayer, o God, (Arcadelt), Lo'
A Voice, (Bortainsky), the choir.
Soprano Solo, Mrs. Sam Troy,
Jr.
Piano solo, Mrs. o. o. Hum
phries.
Trio for Ladies Voices God So
Loved the World (Stainer), Mrs.
Sam Troy, Jr., Mrs. G. ]. Burk-
heimer and Mrs. R. M. Sheppard.
Tenor Solo, J. Lyman Congdon.
VI
o Morn of Beauty, (Sibelius>,
Open Our Eyes, MacFarlane) AS
Torrents in Summer, (Elgar),
Long Hast Thou Stood o Church OF
God, Scandinavian.
j. Lyman Congdon, director. E.
H. Munson, accompanist.
Members of the choir are, So
pranos: Mrs. Sam Troy, Jr., Mrs
Cameron Sinclair, Mrs. L. E. Far
thing, Mrs. Charles Wright, Mrs.
q. K. Bell, Miss Roberta MacKen,
zie, and Miss Hazel Kinney; altos:
Miss Violet Roderick, Mrs. R. M.
Sheppard, and Mrs. G. J.. Burk,
heimer; tenors: John Tinga, Cam.
eron Sinclair and Frank Sears;
BASES: Harper Hewette, Charles
Wright, Thomas Hall and Arthur
Craig.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
THURSDAY MUSIC CLrR
WILL MEET TODAY

Ihe Thursday Morning Music ,r,s
Will hold a special business MAJ.
ing this morning at II o'clock in w.
Great Hail OF st. James r,,s,s
house. ''''Si
The yearly reports from The ota.
GERS, committee chairmen and ~,
ports from the convention de,ao,.a.
Will be given at this meeting
most important that all MENTORS -,
tend this meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

There will be a meeting of
the executive committee of the
Tileston Parent-Teacher associa-
ton in the music room of t h u,
school this afternoon at 3
o'clock. All officers and COM
mittee chairmen are urged to at
tend as this will be the final
meeting of the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

ton, Texas, and Miss Florsn,.
Danlels' of Charlotte Cougtho T,ss
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

Instead of being ferocious,
plocdthirsty beasts, bloodhounds
ale docile and affectionate
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

The music pupils of st. Mary's
school will be presented in a re-
cltal Friday evening at 8 O'Clock
ut the school hall. The public is
invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

which will include tea dances Fri.
day and Saturday afternoons and
formal balls on those W. nights.
Sponsors for the colorful finals,
which always attract throngs of
young people from every section of
their escorts, they are: Miss Jen-
mile Harris of Raleigh with H. w.
Branson of Greensboro, president
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

There will be a meeting Of the
executive board of the New Han
over Council of PIT. A. this
morning at 10 o'clock at the
Isaac Bear school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30

over council of PIT. A. this
morning at 10 o'clock at the
Isaac Bear school.
The blngo party scheduled for
this Friday night by the Semi
mole Council 81, has been post
poned until Friday night, June
7, at 8 o'clock t the Odd Eel
lows hall. The public is invited
to attend and a small charge
will be made.
The council will hold a short
business meeting before the
party, beginning at 7:3O o'clock.
All members are request d to
attend this meeting.
The Addie Hart class of Grace
Methodist church will hold a
meeting with Mrs. w. l.. Bat
son, 317 South 10th street, this
evening at 8 o'clock. All men,
bers r invited TO attend.
The Audubon Home Demon
stration club will hold it's reeu-
lar meeting this afternoon at
$3.50 O'Clock at the home Of Mrs.
Horton Walsh. All members are
invited to attend.
The Mems Bible class of Cal
vary Baptist church will hold an
Ice cream social in the hostess
room Of the Whites Ice Cream
company tonight.
Cars will leave the church at
7:45 O'Clock. All members are
urged to be present.
The music pupils of st. Mary's
school will be presented in a re-
cital Friday evening at 8 o'clock
ut the school hall. The public is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
Cape Fear Country Club Annex
Will Open With Dance Saturday
Club Clock

The Winter Park Home Dem
onstration club will hold it's
regular meeting Friday after
noon at 8 o'clock at the home
of Miss Sudie Middleton. Mrs.
r. w. Mason and Mrs. II. t.
Newland will be hostesses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-12
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
BY Shepard Barclay
THE Authority Authorities"
THE Authority on Authorities"

tricks. His contract is beaten II he
finds one defender with as many
as four hearts. But the contract
NAV be made iron-clad against a
Al division Of hearts by letting
the defenders take the first heart
trick. With that distribution, If he
himself takes the first two heart
tricks and one defender fails to
follow suit on the second. his con-
tract will be doomed.
With No. as dummy, contract
can be made only with a favorable
So split. But even that will beat
his contract if he takes the first
two tricks and loses the third. He
must give the opponents one OF
the first two tricks to win.
With No. 1 an early duck is
prescribed. letting the defenders
have one of the first two tricks
in hearts. Otherwise four hearts
in one hand can defeat the con-
tract if diamonds are returned.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-12
;SE OF THE DUCK"

On MANY a no Trump hand.
lie declarer has 10 "'2y 70 make
MS contract except BY the play
universally known among veter-
ms as the duck" This consists
u letting the defenders t2ke an
early trick or tricks IN q particu-
lar suit so that the declarer may
use the later high cards Of the suit
as entries 10 bring il the re-
nainders of It. Frequently the OPP
oonentS would end the run Of the
suit ii this play were not en-
Ployed.
Let Us take the following EXAM
pies. the numbered hands in each
case being the dummy and the
opening lead being the club K. to-
eether with the presumption that
the defenders repeat that suit
y,.ha,1 in rra lead:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-12

Although he claimed he was merely
passing through Mexico on the way
home to Germany from Rio de
Janeiro, Helmuth Hoffman was Or
dered held in Mexico City for inves-
tigation on suspicion of espionage
while his activities are investigated.
He is in the Mexican Federal prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-15
1941 Plant Expansion
For Defense Forecast
AtAbout3Bi||ions
Capital Expenditures
Now Being Studied by
Commerce Department

The national defense program will
require an expenditure of two and
one-half to three billion dollars in
1941 for plant expansion and new
equipment, Commerce Department
experts estimated today.
Congress now has before it a pro-
posal for the amortization, over
five-year period, of the costs of de-
tense plant expansion. EXpendi-
lures for plant expansion and new
equipment are dependent, to some
extent, on a liberalization of the
present amortization tax require
ments, so as to permit manufactur-
ers to write off the costs of plant
expansion out of their earnings dur
ing the next five years.
Government agencies at present
have no authentic figures to show
the capital expenditures by Amer
lean manufacturers in recent years
for new plant facilities and equip
ment. To obtain these figures, par
ticularly important at this time in
providing a yardstick for measur-
ing the probably expenditures for
this purpose under the national de-
Tense program, the Commerce De-
partment now is making a careful
study of the capital expenditures
for plant and equipment by Amer
lean manufacturers from 1919 to
1920
Expenditures Gagged.
Preliminary estimates by the de-
partment indicate that such ex-
penditures have amounted to two
billion dollars or more for at least
eight years during the past two
decades. In 1882 and 1888 capital
OUTLAWS for new plants and equip
ment dropped to approximately one
third of this amount
AS part of its survey, conducted
under the direction of Lowell J.
Chawner, chief industrial economist
of the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce, the department
Is compiling statistics to show for
each year factory building ex-
penditures, excluding machinery, in
the United States by eight separate
geographical areas. 1t is also as
sembling data on the plant and
equipment expenditures of all the
principal manufacturing industries
and the time lag between the in
centlve for a given expenditure and
the time when the construction of
a new plant actually got under way
Plan for Synthetic Rubber.
Expenditures for new plants will
be even larger if it is necessary for
the United States to create an in
dustry to supply this country with
rubber and other strategic materials
for which we are dependent on i'm
ports from overseas. If Japan seizes
the Dutch East Indies and British
Malaga, our supplies of rubber and
tin would be endangered. American
industry is preparing to manufac-
ture substantial quantities of syn
thetic rubber.
Though it will be possible to shift
some existing facilities to the pro-
duction of defense materials in many
instances. manufacturers must build
new plants and acquire special
equipment to fill national defense
orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-15
Planning Survey Due
To Start in Manassas
By a staff Correspondent of The Star.

oy q Ctdu NOIItSpOHoenL Ol 1 nc 6LdI.
MANASSAS, Va, Aug. ia
planning survey to be used by the
Town Planning Commission in
drafting a comprehensive coming
ordinance is expected to get under
way within the next few days,
Town Manager w. F. Cooke said
yesterday.
Appointment of three persons to
undertake the work will be an
rlounced by Works Progress Ad-
ministration officials at Staunton
The Town Council has author
lied the Planning Commission to
apply to the w. P. A. for assistance
The project will cost about $4,000
and will continue for six months
The survey will determine the
amount of housing facilities, in
dustries, existing uses of properties
and probable trend of development
In Manassas. With this informa-
ton town officials hope to plan an
orderly development program.
The Planning Commission is COM
posed of Hunton Tiffany, chairman;
James E. Bradford and r. Jackson
Radcliffe.
Evening star., 1940-08-22
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he planned to offer another amend
ment which would permit the Gov
eminent to take over necessary fac
tories should a delay In contract
negotiations be caused by disagree
ment on terms.
This. he said, would be accom-
plished by assumption of a majority
stock interest in the manufacturing
company at a fair price" The
plant would continue to be oper-
ated by private individuals.
Senator Pepper maintained this
amendment would be constitutional
and could properly be voted on by
the Senate, which refused the draft
wealth" proposal of Senator Lee.
Democrat, of Oklahoma for forced
loans to the Government because
revenue legislation must originate in
the House. The rejection was made
by a vote Of 54 to %.
Walsh Attacks Contractors.
Senator Pepper disclosed his plans
following a bitter attack by Chair
man Walsh of the Senate Naval At
fairs Committee on what he called
strike" by subcontractors in the
aviation industry. He said they
were refusing orders for American
defense requirements to take others
which would give them a profit of 18
per cent. The Vinson- Trammell Act
limits airplane profits to 8 per cent.
Earlier this week, Rear Admiral
w. r. Furlong. chief of navy ord
nance, told a Senate subcommittee
refusal of subcontractors to accept
orders for anti-aircraft mounts and
guns had caused cancellation of
contract negotiations with a Chi
cago firm. Garrett F. HON, vice
president of Messenger Bearings.
Inc, of Philadelphia, announced in
q statement today that his firm
would accept no more Government
contracts because the risk of loss
is too great under the 8 per cent
profit limitation"
His firm has been turning out
special bearings for naval anti
aircraft guns under a subcontract
from the Goss Printing Co. of
Chicago.
Biz Investment Cited.
"The hazards of manufacturing,
so far as our business at least is
concerned Mr.. HON said, ARE
such that slight spoilage will cut
into an 8 per cent profit. Invest
ment of tremendous sum of money
is required while the risk of loss,
under the present arrangements, is
too great"
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has been laboring over an
omnibus excess profits bill, designed
to provide a co-ordinated program
on the questions of excessive war
profits, the profit restrictions on
Army and Navy contracts and
amortization allowances for defense
plant expansions.
The committee had hoped to have
the legislation ready for the floor in
a day or two, but fight was re-
ported to have developed over some
provisions in closed session yester-
day. One group of committeeman
was said to have assailed the pro-
posed excess profits levy of Is to 40
per cent on the ground that it would
hit small concerns harder than the
big ones.
Evening star., 1940-08-22
Sleeping Boy Injured
As Blaze Sweeps Attic

Eight -year-old Gary Newman was
recuperating today in Children's S
Hospital from painful face and neck
burns received last night when
flames swept the attic room of the
house in which he was asleep.
Gary had been taken from his
home, at 427 Madison street NV,
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Newman, and left with his uncle,
Harry H. Brodie, who lives at 1909
Farragut street NV. His parents
left on e train for Florida.
Hardly an hour after the New
mans had departed fire broke out
in the attic bathroom. next to
which slept Mr.. Brodie's two sons,
Jerome, 10, and Zebbie, 10, and the
Newman boy.
Jerome, first to awake. assisted
Zebbie through the smoke down the
narrow, winding attic stairs to the
second floor. Mr.. Brodie rushed up
to get Gary, who was wandering
around in the smoke-filled attic. half
asleep and gasping for breath. Pick
ing the youth up in his arms. Mr..
Brodie started downstairs. slipped
once. but managed to reach safety.
Mrs. Brodie and her daughter.
Adele, II, asleep on the second floor,
two roomers and two friends who
were calling on them escaped from
the house uninjured.
Mr.. Brodie, a plumber-contractor,
did not require medical treatment,
nor did Jerome or Zebbie, whose
hair was badly singed. Doctors at
Children's Hospital said Gary sus-
tanned second degree burns. and his
condition this morning was described
as fair"
Evening star., 1940-08-22
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sawada, France, and Masaah Hot
ia, Ambassador at Large, now In
China.
The Ministers affected were said
TO be those to Canada, Spain, Ar
gentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia,
Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Al
ghanistan, Hungary, South Africa,
Finland. Rumania, Latvia, Egypt,
Bulgaria, Iran and IraQ.
Yoshisuke Aikawa, mentioned as
likely to be the next japanese Am
bassador to the United States, has
had one of the most spectacular
careers in japanese business history
Challenging the dominance OF the
great Mitsui and Mitsubishi COM
bines, he has built up an inter-
locking industrial and financial
group known as the Nissan concern
which leads in several fields. Be-
cause one of his companies is the
largest japanese producer OF auto
mobiles he has often been called
"the Henry Ford of Japan" but his
interests also include mining, in
surance, electric power and other
producing units.
AS a young man he spent three
years in the United States studying
the steel industry and returning
home established in 1910 the first
unit of his combine, the Tobata
Foundry. .
Aikawa has been closely associated
with Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat
suoka in Manchuria, where Matsu-
Okla was president Of the South Man
churia Railway and Aikawa presi-
dent Of the Manchuria Industrial
Development Corp.
Aikawa has advocated efforts to
enlist American capital in Man
churian development but thus far
with no apparent result. Last year
he announced he would head a
mission to the United States for
this purpose, but the plan was
abandoned.
Aikawa will be 60 in November.