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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
DICTATOR
NAMED BY ITALY
Tassinari Is Given Control
Over Appeasement Of
National Appetite

ROME, Dec. 29.-Italy set up
a dictator of the dinner table today
with absolute control over the ap-
peasement of the national appe'
tite.
The man, chosen by law to regu-
late the production and consump-
ton, expectation and importation
of food for civilians and fighting
forces alike, was the minister OF
agriculture, Giuseppe Tassinari, 49,
perhaps Italy's foremost authority
on agricultural economy.
The law, issued late Saturday
night, was praised today by Vir-
ginio Gayda, editor of II Giornale
D'Italia, as one which provided a
long felt united command" on
the food front.
It also decreed death penalties
for extreme cases of food boarding
or destruction of prime materials
and agricultural products and tripl-
ed already evere penalties for
violations of laws on pooling, whole
sailing and distribution of food.
Under this new law, Tassinari,
one time professor of agricultural
economy at the Royal University
of Bologna and a Fascist since
Premier Mussolini's march on
Rome in 1922, will take a census
Of food supplies, take charge Of
purchases of food from domestic
as we'll as foreign sources, assign
the armed forces their share, and
play watchdog over both farmers
and industrialists to see that they
produce sufficient food and con-
vert it efficiently and without pro-
%fiteering.
He is also authorized to call on
the personnel of the guild minis
try and the railways and maritime
agencies and automobile transport
concerns, who r under the COM
munications ministry, as well as
on the various armed forces to
help him. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
FORSTER PRESENTS.
RESOLUTIONS
Suggests Six Goals N. C.
Farmers Should Seek Dur
ing The Coming Year

RALEIGH, Dec. 90. - DR.. G.. W.
Forster, head of the Department of
Agricultural Economics at N. c.
State college, suggests six New
Years Resolutions for farmers oil
North Carolina.
Resolution No. l is: Introduce
into the farming system small units
of what is normally thought of as
relatively Improbable enterprises,
such as a small poultry unit, a dairy
COW or COWS, a small truck project,
an acre or two of sweet potatoes.
They will give all members of the
family an opportunity to use spare
land and labor.
Resolution No. 2: Get the family
together and plan a complete re
organization of the farming business,
to adjust major crops and add sup
Elementary enterprises.
Resolution No. 8: Re-organize the
field layout sc as to assist in estab-
fishing flexible rotations and econo-
mize on labor and equipment. Make
fields uniform in size and shape.
Leave out 10 acres from the rota-
lions for necessary adjustments.
Resolution No. 4: Keep a monthly
calendar of work. Compile a list OF
what is going to be done each day OF
each week.
Resolution No. 5: Make up a digest
for each crop of recent improve
ments in methods of planting, cul-
tivating, harvesting and selling.
Read a good bulletin and summarize
the most important sources of cash
income, and the most economical
ways to achieve C with the
crop.
Resolution No. 6: Take an inven-
tory at the start of the year and
keep simple enterprise accounts. The
All club boy or girl in the family
can be assigned the job of keeping
practical farm and home records SO
as to determine whether the farm IS
operating on a b%usiness-like basis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Ickes To Oppose Raids
On Natural Resources

WASHINGTON, Dec. % Up -
Secretary Ickes told President Roose-
Welt in his annual report today that
the Interior department would not
permit ''raids' on the nations ma
t,1ral in the name of ma
tional defense.
The department will administer
public lands. timber, electric power,
minerals, gas, oil, coal and other
properties "~prudently" for defense,
he said, but will tolerate no private
looting.
In a letter transmitting the report,
1ckes said, 1--WE are rich in resources
because we have put our house IN
order. Our natural wealth forms
the sinews and muscles of our de-
-ense machinery"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
8a&zbNew of Interest to North Carolina Farmers &s@@R
Report On Bees Giuen
By Professor Meacham

RALEIGH, Dec. 20. - BUSY
as a bee" is an expression that
takes oil more significance in the
light of a report made today by
f. b. Meacham, professor of bee
culture at N. c. State college. He
presented the report to show
how a colony of bees can help a
fruit grower.
The Pacific States bee culture
field laboratory, operated cooper
atively by the U. S. Department
Of Agriculture and the Univer-
sity of California, made a study
of the movement of bees. An in
genlOus device known as a pollen
trap enabled the bee specialists
to estimate closely the number
of loads of pollen the bees
brought back to the hive.
The report showed, Prof.
Meacham stated, that from Feb
rTuary Is to November l one
colony of bees averaged nearly
5000 loads of pollen a day. Each
load represents visits to 80 or
more blossoms, or All average of
about two-thirds of a million
flowers visited a day,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
SEED PROTECTION
IMPROVED IN N. E.
Farmers Are Receiving More
Assurances Of Their Purity,
Says Woodside
By LOUIS HI. WILSON
Editor, n. C. Department of
Agriculture

RALEIGH, Jan. s. Up North
Carolina farmers are now receiving
more assurances of the purity of
their seeds than at any time in the
history of seed law enforcement, j.
w. Woodside, chief of the State
Department of Agriculture's seed
laboratory said today.
assurances of greater protection
to the seed buyers have been the
result of the enactment of a COM
prehensive federal seed law that now
enables the state and federal govern
ments to prosecute the INSCRIPTIONS
seed shipper in interstate COM
merce," he explained, adding that
"in addition, the growers receive full
benefits from the state laws design.
ed to protect them from receiving
inferior Seeds"
North Carolina seed dealers, un-
der the state seed law, must list the
following information on the seed
tag of agricultural seed:
Q) Name or kind of seed; (2) origin
or where grown; (3) pure seed per-
centage; az other crop seed percent
age; (5) inert percentage; 6) total
weed seed percentage; 60 germina-
ton percentage; (s) hard seed per-
centage; (9) date of termination,
month and year; 10) name and num-
Der of noxious weed seed per pound.
dI name and address of shipper OF
dealer.
He explained that tie federal act
differs from the state act in that:
O) A lot number, or other identi-
fication, must be shown on all seed
moving in interstate commerce; (2)
origin of seed is required to be shown
only on alfalfa, red clover and corn
(whereas the state law required the
origin to be shown on all seed); ()
shippers must keep a record of the
analysis of seed shipped in inter-
state commerce for a period of three
years and must keep a sample for a
period of one year.
He added that neither the federal
act nor the state act required a seed
shipper to show the variety Of the
seed shipped on the seed tag, but If
the variety is declared and the de-
c~laration is found to be incorrect, the
shipper becomes subject to the penal
ties under the law"
eff the out-of-state shipper Of agri-
cultural seed follows the require
ments of the federal act, the only
additional requirements are that he
attach the North Carolina tag and
show the origin of the seed" Wood
side emphasized.
Incidentally, the seed analyses
tests for North Carolina farmers
"have been practically doubled by
the departments seed laboratory
during the past four years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Italians Claim Bardia
Garrison Is Forcing
British To Mark Time

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-(R-An
Italian radio commentator in a
broadcast heard here by CHS said the
italian resistance at Bardia, Llbya,
has forced the much o numer-
u and better armed enemy forces
to mark time"
"Bardia has carried out it's part
perfectly the Italian commentator
said. "Nhile the garrison at Bar
dia. is resisting, our lightning col
umns are carrying out lightning
thrusts which are directed at .
preventing troops armed with mod
ern motorized equipment, adapted to
desert fighting, from arriving mex
pectedly in some zone OF our de-
fenses."
(The surprise element was report
ed to have played a big part in Brit
aims initial successes against the
Italians in Egypt when the offensive
began.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

has done considerable ~hog-raising'
and recently he sold several large
hogs.
w. o. Baldwin, of Welches Creek
township, is an ardent hog raiser.
He has M of the largest plantations
we have seen in our travels, and
features the plantation with some
ideal pasture land fenced in various
sections, in which soy beans, spuds,
and other ideal f%attening food is
grown for his porkers.
T. w. Groom, of Freeman, in con-
nection with Pierce Wyche. of Halls
boro, does lots of hog raising, butch
ering, and also selling hogs on foot
to packing companies. Mr.. Groom
is interested in having fine breeds
of cattle. He has an ideal pasture
and we have never seen anything
in it except MISUNDERSTANDING
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
WHEELER REVIEWS
PLEA FOR PEACE
Asks Young People To See
That America Is Not Surren-
dered To War ongers

WASHINGTON, Dec. % Up -
Senator Wheeler D-Mont) asked
young people tonight to see to it
that the independence Of America
is not surrendered to the War-mon-
gers and interventionists."
In a telephone address to the
National Youth Anti-War Congress,
meeting in Madison, Wis, the
Montana senator said "insidiously
clever propagandists, well financ-
ed, are again selling the same bill
of goods that was sold the Ameri-
can people twenty years ago."
"Spokesmen for real democra-
cy," he continued, ARE branded
appeasers these days, appeasers,
fifth columnists and worse, all in
a subtle attempt to silence the last
remaining voices of sanity and
common sense.
Americans are being sold a
strange and awful doctrine-the
sterility of peace! Peace, we are
being told, cannot be had now;-
maybe sometime in the distant fu-
ture, but not now"
Wheeler said no one denied the
need for preparedness, but assert
ed that billions for rearmament
were being tossed around as if
they were pennies"
Tremendous sums are being
wasted" he said, "but that is the
price we must pay for helter-
SHELTER foreign policy which never
has made clear to the American
people against what they are arm
ing and what they are to Defend"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Circular On Poultry
Diseases Reprinted

RALEIGH, Dec. 29.-Evidence
that poultry diseases are one OF
the vital problems of North
Carolina agriculture is contained
i'll the announcement by the
State College Extension service
that it has been forced to reprint
its Extension Circular No. 154,
Common Disease of Poultry"
for the second time in IS months.
Although the publication was
reprinted in June, 1889, a heavy
demand by farmers for copies OF
the circular exhausted the sup
ply. The booklet has just been
reprinted, and H. c. Gauger,
poultry disease specialist of State
college, took the opportunity to
revise the text to include the
latest information OH poultry dis
ease controls.
The publication is available
free upon. request to the Agricul-
tural editor, N. C. State college,
Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
INSURANCE FIRMS
GET AAA CHECKS
Large Land-Holding Concerns
Receive $1,602, 1873 From
The Government

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - Up -
The agriculture department report
ed to congress today that a half doz-
en- insurance companies received ST.
602,18S in government farm pay
ments during 1888.
These large land-holding concerns
were among mele than 16, 900 firms
and individuals who collected a total
Of $3S,422,6S5 in agricultural adjust
ment payments of $1,000 or more.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
New York, topped the list with $685.
773, closely followed by the Equita-
BILE Life Assurance Society of the
United States, New York, with $685.
491.
The tabulation, Secretary Wickard
said, covered about three-tenths of
one per cent of the 5,248,796 COM
panies and individuals who received
payments. Although the statute since
has been amended, the agricultural
adjustment act once required the de-
partment to transmit to congress the
names of all persons who received
81, 1000 for agricultural, range and
naval stores conservation programs.
1t did not cover payments from 4
1912, 000, 900 parity appropriation and
a $45, 900, 900 sugar benefit fund.
The report showed that 113 pay
ments in excess of SO, 600 were made
in 1888, but that about % per cent
Of all payments were less than $40.
Another % per cent were from $40
to $40.
Other payments in excess of $780,
600:
John Hancock Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, Boston, $263, 1922; Pru-
Dental Life Insurance, Company of
America, Newark, $252,717; Travel
ers Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.,,
$249, $50; Union Central Life Insur-
ance Co., Cincinnati, $1S4,255; FEEDER
al Land Ban kof Omaha, $3.50 sos;
State of South Dakota, S148,1 1855;
State of North Dakota, $132,623; Mu-
tual Benefit Insurance Co., Newark,
$131,455; Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Co., Milwaukee, $125,676;
Equitable Life Insurance Company
of Iowa, Des Moines, $119,334.
Among the largest private pay
ments were $S5,O2S to the King
Ranch, Kingsville, Tex, $S4,203 to
the J. G. Boswell, Co., Corcoran,
Calf, and s59,3S7 to the Matador
Land & Cattle Co., Ltd, Denver.
The state of Montana, received
$29,329, the state of Minnesota $44,-
002, and Mississippi state peniten-
tiary, Parchman, Miss, $69,210.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
N. c. WEED SHORT
COURSE PLANNED
Annual Institute Will Be Held
At N. C. State College
Jan. 14-17
BY GENE KNIGHT
Assistant Extension Editor
n e Sfnk0 Halla-

N. W Stdtc OOlleSC
RALEIGH, Dec. 90 R The
fifth annual tobacco short course
for North Carolina producers will
be held at N. C. State college here
January 14-17, Dan M. Paul an
~nounced today.
Paul, director of short courses
for the college, said that registra-
ton is open to white men and wo-
men over 16 years of age. Tuition
is free, although a charge of one
dollar will be made for registra-
ton and a certificate of attend
ance.
The course is designed to ac-
quaint producers with last minute
information as well as basic prob
lens of North Cardinals biggest
cash crop, will consist of lectures
and demonstrations in addition to
actual laboratory practice.
The morning programs and the
Tuesday afternoon program will
be devoted to lectures, discussions,
and demonstrations. Two after
aoon programs will be devoted to
practice in sorting and grading
leaf. Those enrolled will be given
actual practice in grading.
A certificate of attendance will
be presented to all those regularly
enrolled who have attended all
sessions of the course. State col.
lege and U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture specialists will act as
instructors.
Some Of the subjects to be dis
cussed will be: Insects and di-
seases, rotations, soils and ferti-
lizers. conservation, variety stud
les and seed certification, and
plant beds.
Since lodging facilities on the
campus are limited when the short
course is going on, enrollees will
De asked to secure rooms off the
campus. However, lodging can be
provided for a maximum of 40
nen in the college Y. M. c. A.
The Institutional staff will con-
;ist of: Col. J. w. HARRISON, State
college administrative dean; DR..
|. O. Schaub, director of the Elk
tension service; DR.. L. D. Baver,
associate director of the expert
ment station; E. c. Blair. Exten-
sion agronomist; W. G.. Finn, di-
rector of the east central AAA re-
gion: E Y. Floyd, North Carolina
AAA executive officer.
R. w. Graeber, Extension fores-
Ter; W. .. Lee, Extension soil
conservationist; DR.. j. F. Lutz,
professor of soils; DR.. G. K. Mid
dleton, professor Of farm crops;
E. C. Moss, assistant director in
charge of the Oxford IN. c. to-
bacco station; J. @. Rowell, Ex-
tension entomologist; DR.. 7. p.
Smith, federal agent of the Ok
ford tobacco station: DR.. Luther
Shaw, Experiment station plant
pathologist; H. W. Taylor, mar
keting specialist of the u. S. de-
partment of agriculture; l.. L.
Weeks, Extension tobacco spe-
cialist; and K. J. Shaw, U. S. de-
partment of agriculture agent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
PLANS AMNESTY

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20. - Up -
President Manuel Avila Camacho has
sent a bill to the chamber Of depu-
ties granting amnesty to all persons
held guilty Of political crimes dur
ing the recent presidential cam
paign. To give substance to his post
electoral promise there would be
neither vanquished nor victors, only
Mexicans," Anvil aCamacho proposed
modification of Mexico's criminal law
which would "concede amnesty" for
acts of rebellion, sedition, and poll
teal agitation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Robinson's Death Result
OF Being Hit By Auto

kANNAPOLIS, Dec. % Up -
Officers investigating the mysterious
death of DR.. E. E. Robinson here
Friday night said today they were
agreed that his death resulted from
him being hit. by some vehicle while
he walked along the highway a
his home. .
The body of the SS-year-old Can
non mills physician was found Fri
day night just off the pavement.
There was a bad cut on the head.
Coroner N. J.. Mitchell said that a
formal inquest would be held in a
few days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Skilled Labor Resources
Are Almost Exhausted

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.- LP -
Paul v. McNutt, federal security
administrator, said today that in
creased activity in private industry
had almost exhausted local resources
of skilled labor.
There is a general tightening of
the labor market with the supply of
available workers in a number of the
skilled defense occupations almost
exhausted in some localities" he said
in a statement.
with more and more defense con-
tracts reaching the construction
stage, manufacturing centers are
buster than they have been since
1929. Non-industrial areas also re-
port unusual activity as the result
of government construction of mill
tary camps and airports."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Fire Losses Will
Exceed Total For 1899

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-R-The
nations fire losses in 1910 Will ex-
coed the $500, 600, 900 cost in 1889.
This was indicated today in a pre-
liminary survey by the Safety Re
search Institute which put the years
fire deaths at about 10000.
Industrial occupancies are expect
ed to show an increase loss as the
result of greater industrial activity
and the pressure of the national de-
tense program" the survey said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
POSTAL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90. - Up -
The justice department announced
tonight that Postal Telegraph, Inc,
had agreed to void existing contracts
for exclusive business privileges and
to refrain from making such con-
tracts in the future. A civil decree
will be filed in federal district court
at New York tomorrow, the depart
ment said, ending a suit brought
against the company under the Sher-
man antitrust law in 1887.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
PROPOSES

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-GP-Wil-
liam S. Parish, president of the
Oil Co. (New Jersey today
recommended a $50, O00, 900 expansion
of the oil industry's equipment for
Of %100-octane aviation
gasoline to assure ample supplies for
defense and other emergency needs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
HOG PRICES

REPRESENTATIVES of leading meat
packing companies are confidently
expecting an advance in hog prices
about the middle of January, says
e. v, Vestal, swine specialist OF N.
C. State college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
SYMPTOMS

Some of the symptoms of under
nourished shade trees r thin foil
age, small yellowish lea. es, lack Oh
growth, and dead branches, says
John H. Harris, N. c. State college
extension landscape specialist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
ITALY BUYS SECURITIES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. - Up -
The treasury reported today that
Italy bought $780, 6O, 900 of American
securities during the four weeks end
ed Oct. 2, accounting for nearly one
half of the total of such purchases
by foreigners.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
CONTESTS

Crop judging contests for Ali CLUB
boys and vocational agriculture still
dents will be features of the annual
~. C. Crop Improvement association
meeting in Greensboro, January 81
and February /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
COTTON SEED

The winter months provide a good
time for farmers to get their approx
ed cotton seed for planting next
Spring, says DR.. J. H. Moore, cot
ton technologist Of the N. C. agricul-
tural experiment station.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
TIMER CROP

North Carolina farmers are learn.
ing to grow trees just as they would
cotton and tobacco and are enthusi.
astic over the possibilities of their
timber crops, says w. j. Barker Of
N. c. State college
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
TOBACCO BEDS

Growers should make sure that all
roots and small stumps have been
removed from tobacco bed sites, says
L. T. Weeks, tobacco specialist Of
the N. C. State college extension
service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
WATER FOR

Eighteen to % quarts of water
should be provided each day for each
100 birds in the poultry flock, says
c. F. Parrish, poultryman of the N.
c. State college extension service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

Norway's northern coast is rls-
ing at the rate of five feet every
hundred wears. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

The signature of Button Gwin-
nett, a signer of the Declaration of
independence, once sold for $28, 1000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

There are $500 species of liz
ards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

The ancient Egyptians used
locks on their doors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

Lima, Peru, was founded in 1885
as 1.-THE City of Kings"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-02-22
MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL

plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $11.93.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot 5, Block
8, capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $11.53.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot 6, Block
8, capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number lO41.
Taxes. interest and costs $11.30.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot Z, Block
3, Capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1O4l.
Taxes, interest and costs $11.3O.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot 8, Block
8, capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $11.30.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot 8, Block
8, capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1O41.
Taxes, interest and costs $11.08.
Wolfe, Sybella A.--Lot 10, Block
8, Capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $12.21.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot IL, Block
8, capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $14.94.
Wolfe, Sybella A.-Lot IL, Block
8, Capitol View Park" as per
plat recorded in plat number 1041.
Taxes, interest and costs $23.4O.
Williams, Herbert A.-Lots 9,
10 and IL, Block F, Manor
Park, Section 8, as described in
a deed recorded in liber 703, folio
1856. Taxes, interest and costs
$25.O3.
White, Clifton B. and Virginia
Hot 9, Block C, "Old Orchard
Village, as described in a deed
recorded in liber 1877, folio 122.
Taxes, interest and costs 1854.
Weller, Frank H. and Amelita
Parcel of land called Her
mitage", containing 4.1S acres, as
described in a deed recorded in
liber TAB, folio 367. Taxes, in
terest and costs $14.70.
Wolfe, Frank H. and Alta c.
Lot So, Block l, and improve
ments, ".Stearman's Subdivision" i,
as described in deed recorded in
liber 748, folio 220. Taxes, in
terest and costs $98.53.
White, Clifton B. and Virginia
Hot 8, Block C, "Old Orchard
Village, as described in a deed
recorded in liber 745, folio 442.
Taxes, interest and costs $19.02.
Wynands, Dirk A. and Anna
C.-Lot %, Block 8, and improve
ments, "Cissel's Addition, as de-
scribed in a deed recorded in
liber TAP, folio 1877. Taxes, inter
est and costs $76.79.
Yeabower, John B.-Parcel of
land called "Charles and Will
liam, containing 2.63 acres and
improvements, as described in a
deed recorded in liber 514, folio
%. Taxes, interest and costs
$113.84.