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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Emblematic Of Season

When the Christmas seal first made it's ap-
pearance its mission was understood. The little
messenger of mercy soon found its place. The
fact was appreciated that money spent for
seals was to be used in the fight against
tuberculosis. Also, that wherever the seal ap.
peared it carried a warning that unless the
disease was checked its harmful effects would
increase.
The intrinsic and educational value of the
seal made a nationwide impression. The
money raised through its sale soon began to
show results. Its message aroused the people.
Now use of this significant holiday devise
has become part of the program followed in
observing the Christmas season. Few persons
regard their gifts as complete unless each
carries a seal. This includes greeting cards
as well as parcels, whether sent by post or
otherwise.
The Christmas seal, thanks to it's originator
in America, Miss Emily P. Bissell, has be-
come emblematic of the season in which EN-.
phasis is placed on good will and doing some
thing for others.
If you still have some late Christmas pack
ages to send, be sure that they carry this
message.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Public Markets

At the meeting between legislators and con-
e+;+,,ents. held in the courthouse the other
night. attention turned to truck markets
throughout the state where growers could de-
liver their products with a fair chance OF re-
ceiving the top price on the day OF delivery.
This method of handling crops has been
employed in Florida, where public markets
are maintained by the state and regulated by
a state commission, with products carefully
graded and prices fixed according to the mar
ket condition in consuming areas The system
has been a boon to citrus growers in partlcu-
lar, but it's benefits have been extended to
the great vegetable areas south of the citrus
belt.
Florida farmers who long were the victims
of exploitation have found this method a vast
Improvement over former helter-skelter mar
keting and would not revert to the old system,
it is reported, under any circumstances winch
failed to assure them fabulous profits.
It is reasonably believed that some such
system would be a source of relief to North
truck farmers, especially the vegeta-
BILE growers of the southeastern section. Ihe
legislators who heard their supporters endorse
plan might look much farther for a meas
ure to sponsor at the forthcoming session with
less satisfactory results. The farmers of New
Hanover county will look to them to intro
duce, and press for approval, a bill authoriz-
ing establishment of public markets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
A Humane Appeal

The Wilmington Humane Society, which pro-
poses to hold a meeting in the near future to
study what it can do to stop a practice which
ought never to be INDUCED in under any cir
cumstances, is properly shocked at the way
departing residents or citizens who merely
tire of their pets throw them from motor
cars a long way from home and abandon
them to whatever fate overtakes them.
Aside from the sheer inhumanity of these
abandonments, say the society's leaders, cats
and dogs thus cast off become a menace.
Dogs, for example, infest highways in search
Of friends or food and nine times out of ten
are run over and often send autos into bitches
when drivers try to avoid hitting them. Or if
they take to the hinterland they make friends
OF foxes which are all too likely to have
rabies, become infected, and may bite mortals
with deadly effect.
Abandoned cats go on the prowl, naturally.
and prey on birds, which are about the only
food they can hope to find in the wide open
spaces.
The society's hope is that owners no longer
IN position to care for the pets they have
taught to depend upon them will turn to more
4 humane solution of their problem. a hope
which deserves to be fulfilled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Hurry Up!

The time grows short in which you may
make a contribution to the Empty Stocking
Fund. Very soon it will be too late.
Will you enjoy the realization that because
Of one thing or another, none of which pro-
vides a truly valid excuse, you failed to do
your bit toward bringing a merry Christmas
into some benighted and impoverished home.
happiness to the heart Of some underprivileged
child?
You must answer the question for yourself
no one else can do it as accurately as your
self.
There is not enough money in the fund to
fill packages for the children on the lists ap-
proved for gifts. It would be a terrible thing
to have to turn any of these youngsters away
empty handed, or to skimp their presents.
because the money gave out too soon.
You, who have not contributed-you, alone,
can avert this. And you have So little time
left. Please hurry
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Curtain Now Down

For the moment the swift drama that has
been unfolding at Vichy has come almost to a
complete stop. 1t is much as though a curtain
has fallen at the end of an exciting scene,
to indicate a lapse of time. There will be a
brief interval before the play goes on.
IN interlude is necessary because Adolf Hit
Ter, who has the power to insist that he be
consulted concerning anything that goes on
the stage at Vichy, was more a member of
the audience than a direction of the action in
the crisis that burst last week. He has yet
finally to decide what it all means and what
to do about it.
The main facts of the situation are before
him. M. Laval is no longer the second in
authority at Vichy nor heir to Marshal Petain' S
place as chief Of State. He is a freeman,
because the German high commissioner in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Editorial Comment
IN RE-: AIDING BRITAIN
Durham Herald

Reaction to Mr.. Roosevelt's so-called '1ease
and-or iend' scheme for speeding the flow
OF war machines and supplies to Britain has
peen rather favorable, considering the vague
language used in presenting it.
Most observers have passed over lightly the
leasing and lending feature, as a sort of sugar
coating, and interpreted the formula as moth
ing more than an effort to skirt around the
whole matter of credits and openly recognize
the already-understood fact that we have cast
our lot with Britain, and propose to go the
limit IN providing her with sinews of war.
And that represents a GAIN.
What we have labeled as aid to Britain
these past several months and continue to so
label has been, and is, in effect, nothing more
than part of our own defense program. We
haven't, as a matter of fact, given Britain
anything, except what has been handled
through the various war relief agencies. We
nave sold, and at a profitable price, h e
planes, guns, ships, and munitions we have
thus far delivered into British hands. That, of
course, has added up to aid to Britain, seeing
as how it has enabled Britain to better defend
herself.
The destroyer deal, usually cited as an
example OF limits we have gone to aid Britain,
gave us bases, essential to our own security,
which are more valuable to- us in terms of
defense than were the so old destroyers Britain
received.
We have, and still are, relinquishing our
first claim on the output of some of our
warplane plants n order that more planes
may be delivered to Britain with less waiting
period. That adds up to aid to Britain, because
Britain needs all the planes she can get and
quickly. But Britain is paying for those planes
and the handling of large orders for Britain
has enabled our plants to expand production
facilities. Those production facilities represent
! a tremendous gain to us in terms OF our own
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

occupied france interviewed in his behalf, and
it is possible that he will be Hitler's mainstay
in whatever course is to be adopted with
respect to France. At the same time Marshal
Petain still maintains this does not mean an
end to the policy for collaboration as he
understands it.
Hitler must determine whether the Petain
Interpretation of the policy is broad enough to
suit his purposes. If it does not, and the in
terest of Herr Abetz has taken in M. Laval
indicates which way the wind blows, Hitler
must act. When the curtain goes up again the
intentions of the chief author will be made
clear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
French Regime Awaiting
Word From Germany On
Future Collaboration

VfCHY, France, Dec. 22.-U9-
The French government waited to.
night for word from Germany con
corning the next step in discussions
over the future course of collabora-
ton.
Informed sources said that Otto
Abetz, Adolf Hitler's representative
in Paris, was believed to be con-
ferring there with German military
authorities and that no definite ac-
ton could be expected for several
days.
French circles gained the impress
sion that the Germans prefer to
avoid incidents and, in view of the
Italian military situation, it is cor
sioered that it would be to Germany's
interest to avoid difficulty with
France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-Coumty Government
Under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck md Berry Preserving
and marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
.35-Foot Cane Fear River channel, wid-
er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Tia
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Production
through sustained-yiezd methods through.
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo.
tionaz Agency, supported By one county-
Wide tao.
Shipyards n Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
adequate hospital .ilities for uhites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of ndtive grape g~roauing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis samdtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Man About Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Dec. 22-For some
unaccountable reason our present
Gay dramatists seem to have bet
ter luck when they create their
own characters than when they
dramatize the lives of great men.
Of a score of plays dealing with
the challenging characters of his
tory in the last seven or eight
years, only a few-maybe three
or four-have been successful. Off
hand I a think of only three
Victoria Regina" THE Barrets
of Wimpole Street." and "Abe Lin
coin In Illinois," with maybe 'Val-
ley Forge thrown in. But outside
of these there remain a long and
dreary list who have died tragic
deaths in the playwright's script,
although they achieved much in
history.
Poe, Wagner, Byron, Napoleon,
Marie Antoinette, Disrael, An
drew Jackson, now Charles
Dickens have been brought to the
stage in dramas that were doomed
to abrupt failure.
The newest of these was Gro
mantle MI. Dickens" which bowed
in a few weeks ago, and bowed out
almost Immediately. Why this sit
uation should exist 1 am unable
to explain. AS a man there was
surely plenty of meat on Dickens
bones. Almost singlehandedly he
killed the debtors prison in Eng
land. His novels are classics and
have been translated into all civil
lied languages. He lived an in
teresting, if at times, off : color
life and should have been good
copy for a dramatist. Perhaps the
fault was the authors and not
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

defense, a much greater gain than
would be thousands Of finished
planes.
War machines, planes in par
ticular, are up to date, the latest
model, today and antiquated to-
morrow-within less than a year.
Moreover, by delivering planes
to Britain and thereby putting them
to immediate test, we are finding
out about the quality of our planes.
And one of the lessons thus far
gained is that quality is quite as
important in modern air warfare
as quantity.
Just now, as a result of increas-
ing losses, the British are pressing
us for merchant ships. We are
selling all of the old bottoms we
can spare and r preparing to
multiply building capacity.
Britain must have merchant bot
toms, lots of them, to keep supplies
moving across the seas. It is to our
interest to do what we can to SUD
ply them, because again what adds
UP to aid for Britain also repre-.
sents self-defense.
&c. while its ultimate adoption
is contingent on Congressional
sanction, the Presidents nro.
nouncement has served to bring
the aid-to-Britain issue into reals.
tic focus.
There'n be noisy opposition. m
doubt, r the formula is ofncial1v
adopted, especially in Congress-
But the decision, in effect, alreadv
mas o.sn made and the extent OF
american supplies delivered to
5 ean viii be determined by our
stat y 70 produce, not by the
STATUS OF Britain's bank account.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Wild Anti-Plane Shell
Kills Nine In London

LONDON, Dec. o. Up Nine
wedding party guests, singing to
an accordion accompaniment in a
pub, were killed and, the bride
and bridegroom were injured by
a wild anti-aircraft shell fired dur
ing last nights German raid on the
western midlands.
The shell crashed through a
window, ploughed through the floor
and exploded in a cellar. Six of
the guests were killed outright, in
GLIDING an uncle and a brother Of
the bride. Three others died short
ly afterward.
The bride, Florence Lily Pottin-
ger, and the bridegroom, Sidney
Jones, were injured in the legs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
MA savsee. he

the subjects. But somehow I doubt
this. There have been too many
wasted efforts by dramatists of
proved mettle to explain this away
as purely bad writing.
It may be that when a man
builds a play around the bones of
an immortal, he, subconsciously,
becomes more concerned with his
tory than with building convinc-
ing situations for his characters.
Take Byron for instance. There is
a chapter in his life that touches
a forbidden subject. Many and
dark are the legends that circu-
late around his memory. II you
explored these charges in a drama
you would not necessarily risk a
lawsuit, but you would most GER
tainly be assailed by the cham
pions and the admirers of the
poet.
I once asked the late William
VINO was traglcally Killed
by a tractor on his farm a couple
of summers ago, about this, and
he replied:
"You encounter mental barriers
when you write about characters
from history. When you make up
your characters you can do with
them as you please, and you have
no inhibitions, because then you
are responsible to no one but your
self"
Maybe this is it. Certainly it is
true that the heroes of history
have been a sorry lot, as shown
to us by the playwrights. Almost
without exception they have been
dull and unbelievable individuals
who have transported themselves
in dreary dramas that should new
err have been written.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Hollywood Sights and Sounds
By ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. o. The
rib" says Albert NORM, lis on me
I'm giving it up"
If he does, many a Hollywood
party will be less gay, many a
selected guest will enjoy evenings
of serenity and composure unmar-
red by the calculated ~'insolence"
of the professional ribber."
That's the trouble" comments
Albert, a gay young Latin who
takes the trouble lightly. I'm not
a professional ribber-I'm an ac-
tor. But people forget that. They
ask me how much I charge to
come to a party and rib, and l
say I don't want anything-I go
to have fun and give other people
fun. I say I'm an actor, but they
forget that. I don't make any
money by ribbing. But when they
go to make pictures, and I try to
get a job of acting, they think,
All, NORM, he's a ribber, we use
somebody else.' This does not help
NORM. Sol give up ribbing. New
er again!"
Still, Albert can be forgiven for
with pride upon. his last
umprofessional assignment, under
taken at the behest of Cary Grant
and Gary Cooper at a Barbara
Hutton party. He approached a
British army officer, here on Of
fetal business, and posed as a
French newspaperman. Albert has
a wonderful accent, a persuasive,
quiet voice, and a talent for Slip
left-handed compliments and
occasional verbal brickbats into
.lls conversations with a victim.
the sacrifice on the altar of
social gaiety is at the point of
a:poplexy. Albert eases smoothly
doublertalk, further infuriating
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
l. I

WASHINGTON, Dec. a. Up -
The social security board reported
today that November OUTLAWS for
general relief from public funds in
ia urban areas amounted to $18,824,-
ASP, a decrease of two per cent from
the previous month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

the prey. Speaking eight languages
he can confuse the most alert of
his quarries, most of whom soon
become so ALFRED mad they
would take offense if he said mere
ly Zine weather we're having"
Albert's first movie job in six
months (he's been in New York
recently was a small role in THE
Road to Rio" To me it was a sur
prise that he should play a part,
on the rib. I told him so.
for I shared the prevalent i'm
preston that he made his living
"You and how many Others" he
laughed. Il have been on tn
stage since I was 15-I have lived
all over the world. My parents
were French and Spanish. 1 was
born in Puerto Rico and grew up
in Spain. I came here six years
ago for Spanish versions. Then
they stopped making Spanish YER.
slons and l had to learn English.
You would think there would be a
pace TOR me in Hollywood. with
eight languages. But mol am. q
r1ooer. That is why I will give I'm
ribbing."
Albert, as mentioned before. is
gay about it. His is not a perse.
cutlon complex. He likes people.
Dlames nobody. His mastery Of
the art of ribbing springs from
understanding of human frailties.
including his own. The reason
a rib is effective is that it is mart.
~ the truth I tell them about
themselves-and they have no an.
for the TRUTH" he says.
Albert's retirement from The arr
Cf this is not another of his ribs,
leaves the field virtually a mo.
nopoly for Vince Barnett-b,,t
vince by now is too widely known
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

The Natchez indians, one Of Wv
principal tribes of the soulnei.
United States. averaged SIX f''
in height.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

TOP o. THE MORNING
He greW in body, greW in mind.
And thoughtful folks could see
The grace of God in all He did
The Boy of Gdlli1ee.
e. Nick. S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23

to practice on anyone excep'
v~eterate non . patrons /" Il
screen
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-23
Fair Enough

The Star wishes its reader.
to know that views and on;,'
ions expressed in this art;cI.
are those Of the author ana
may not always harmony.
with its position.-The Ed,tos
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-15

BETH MILLER, C. E. MILLER,
MYRTLE WILLIAMS and hus-
band, G. w. WILLIAMS, ELLA
MAE HODGES and husband, LE-
FAYETTE HODGES
The defendants, Ella Mae Hold
pes and husband, Lafayette Hold
ges, will take notice that an action
as above entitled has been COM
menced in the Superior Court Of
Ashe County, North Carolina, for
the sale of real estate in which
said defendants own an interest,
to create assets; and
The said defendants will fur
Their take notice that they are re-
quired to appear at the Office OF
the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Ashe County, at the court
house, in Jefferson, North Caro-
lima on the third day of March
1910, or within ten f10) days
thereafter, and answer or demul
to the complaint in said action
or the plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
This the End day Of February
1910.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
2-8-4t Clerk Superior Court
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-15

ted States hang upon the pro-
gress of the war in Europe and
the situation in the Far East.
If nothing should develop
across the Atlantic, or across the
Pacific, to threaten American in
terests or point toward our in
volvement in war on either side
of the globe, Mr.. Roosevelt's in
Inmates believe that he would not
necessarily consider it his duty to
undertake again to steer the ship
of state. But if there seems to be
serious danger of American in
volvement, thees same friends OF
the President, most Of whose per
sonal political futures are tied ur
with his, are saying with conf
dence that he would yield to the
popular demand that he should
continue as the helmsman.
Third Term Popular
Serious students of public opin.
ion are in general agreement that
there is a stronger popular ap'
proval of the Third Term idea
than there, was six months ago
With the question of Mr.. Roose'
velt's candidacy hanging over
their heads, like the sword of Da-
mocles, the other possible can
didates for the Democratic nomi-
nation can do little but sit about
and wait to see what happens
Only Mr.. Garner and his friends
seem to be making a real effort
to block a Roosevelt renomina-
ton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-02-15
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

BY virtue of a power of sale
contained in a certain deed of
trust, executed on the 21st day of
July, 1884, by J. S. Sapp to j. E.
Osborne, Trustee for Edward Os-
borne, which deed of trust is du-
ly recorded in the Office of Reg
lister of Deeds of Ashe County, in
Book 81, page 121, default having
been made in the payment of said
deed of trust, and at the instance
and request of the cestui que
trust, 1, j. E. Osborne, Trustee,
will sell for cash to the highest
bidder at and on the hereinafter
described premises and at the
residence of the late J. S. Sapp
on Rich Hill Creek in Clifton
Township, Ashe County, at One
o'clock P. NJ, on Saturday the
9th day of March, 1910, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-
wit:
beginning on a maple John
Sapp's corner and running with
said Sapp line to Rebecca Sapp's
line; thence with it to public
road; thence with it to J. S.
Sapp's old line; thence with the
said J. S. Sapp's old lines so as
to include the tract Of land on
which said }. S. Sapp now re-
sides and including all the land
owned on Rich Hill Creek by J.
S. Sapp, Reference being here
by made to Ashe County Regis
try for meets and bounds"
This the 9Th day of February.
1910.
J. E. OSBORNE,
2-8-4t Trustee.
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f. -. De- 80 -
4. N. Blevins to the undersigned
Trustee, and recorded in the Of
flee of the Register Of Deeds of
Ashe County in Book 81 at page
1872, default having been made
in the payment of the indebted
ness scured thereby and the hol-
der of same having demanded
the sale Of the lands covered
thereby for the payment of said
indebtedness, the said under
signed Trustee will offer Cor sale
to the highest bidder for cash at
Public Auction at the Court
house door in Jefferson, N. c.,
on Monday, February 10, 1910, at
about the hour of HOO o'clock
A. NJ, the following described
real estate:
A certain tract of land lying
and being in Ashe County, and
more particularly described as
follows:
Beginning on locust and
chestnut, M. E Brown and T. N.
Blevins, corner, then North So
poles to a stake, then North 81
East 81 poles, then North So poles,
then North 81 East 43 poles to
stake in J. r. Browns line, then
South 2 West 80 poles to a stake,
and double locust, then South l
West 70 poles to the old division
line, then North 9 West 81 poles
to a stake, then South 10 East to
a stake in the Hairless line, then
East with said line, % poles to
J. F. F'arrington's line, then South
with said line, At poles to a stake,
then West to stake in the Har-
less old line, and Little line, then
North with said old line Al poles
to a chestnut oak, said Hairless
corner, then South so West with
the old Smith line and Troy Lit
ties line, and with the Ben Lit
tie line about $50 poles to chest
nut below ledge of rocks then
North 10 West IA poles to stake
and hickory, then to the Good
man line, then North As East 100
poles to a locust stump near the
big spring, then North So West
40 poles to maple, then South
80 East II poles to a locust and
chestnut, the beginning corner,
containing about 125 acres, and
known as part of the Major
Brown land.
This the 18th day of January,
1910.
NETT1E JOHNSON, Admins
tratrix of w. E. Johnson,
1-25-4t Trustee