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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Whose Year, This?

Winston Churchills warning to Italy that un-
less that nation withdrew from the Axis its
African empire would be torn to shreds and
tatters seems about to be put into full effect.
The fall of Bengasi with the capture of many
more prisoners and large quantities OF equip
ment and supplies by the British finds Marshal
GRAHAM in retreat toward Tripoli-some six
hundred or more miles away by unimproved
road-with scarcely more than a remnant ct
the great legions Mussolin1 sent across the
Mediterranean to seize Egypt and the Suez
canal. These fleeing forces, such as they are,
face tremendous hardship and possible star
walton or slaughter Q. their way to the only
remaining important city where GRAHAM
might make a last stand. The Italian armies
of North Africa are no longer a threat to a
British control in the Mediterranean theatre
of war.
Far to the south, in Eritrea, in Italian
Somaliland, in Ethiopia, the battle goes as
well for the British. Everywhere there is re-
tirement of Italian troops and several general
routs are reported. Because the terrain in
this southerly area is difficult, ranging from
desert to steep mountains, the advance is not
SO fast, but it is none the less sure. The
Italians cannot hope long to stave off a COM
plete British victory. The menace Italian SOL
diers once offered to Britain's strong hold in
Africa is now SO weak that it cannot survive
many more weeks.
What this means is that Britain will soon
be able to release a part of her Mediterranean
fleet for service at home and have her con-
quering forces in Africa available for use at
any danger point which Hitler's spring oper-
atoms may create. With Bengasi in their
hands, the British are in an advanta geous no.
sition to prey on German plane bases in
Sicily and, if it should be so decided, launch
a direct attack on Italy proper to further the
cause of Greece In Albania. With large forces
released from the African campaign, even a
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09

for day when British manufacture
ers will once more enter the mar
ket, and of the dark outlook, it
anything growing darker, which
lies ahead. What to do about BAT
fling challenges before not only Gov
ernmental but social and econo-
mic leaders.
Yet while this situation obtains
on the one hand, the selfsame gov
eminent which is supplying the
tobacco props places heavier and
heavier taxes, far out of proper
ton to levies upon other crops and
other industries, upon tobacco
products as they affect processing
and ultimate consumption. Accord
ing to official figures which have
been announced for 1910, known
by all men as an exceedingly bad
and crucial year for tobacco, the
tobacco taxes paid by Tar Heel
manufacturers into Uncle Sans
treasury aggregated 1904, 262,-
109.68, representing a gain of $780,.
459, 225.l6 over the total for the
preceding twelve month. To be sure
it is the manufacturers who turn
this tax into the federal govern
ment. But, in the meanwhile. it
rests upon the whole shaky tobac-
co economy mad necessarily comes
out of consumption, personiied
either by the smoker, the grower
or both in their purchasing ca
pacity.
The gap between professors
and growers earnings is, quite adj
mittedly, something else: but it is
hardly to be bridged by the bur-
dening, in any wise, of a crop
which is in such sad plight with a
tax which far exceeds total return
to the citizens who produce it out
of the sweat of their brow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
> Editorial Comment
PILING ON
Greensboro News

Tobacco is admittedly one of the hardest hit
crops-almost we are persuaded to go out on
the limb and say the hardest hit-in an Ameri-
can agriculture which has been generally dis
located by adverse world conditions and lost
foreign markets.
One outlet after another has been closed to
this product upon which the North Carolina
in particular has heretofore so heavily
banked, the well-nigh paralyzing blow COMING
when British buyers were taken off the mar
ket. Tar Heel readers at least do not have to
be told of the crisis which resulted, of the
props which the federal government has had
to place under tobacco, of the accumulation
which Uncle Sam now holds against the honed-
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
METH0DISTS ASK
COMPASSION FUND

Methodist ministers of Wilmins,
ton have completed plans for the
local observance of "Compassim
Day" on March 2, the Rev. R. L.
Jerome, local chairman, announced
yesterday.
The following ministers met las.
week to plan for the observance
and lend the cause their whole
hearted support: the Rev. A. $,
Parker, the Rev. j. F, Herbert,
the Rev. MI. Jerome, the Rev. c,
D. Barclift, the Rev. c. N Phillips,
and the Rev w. A. TeW.
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes is head
ing the C a m p a g Throughout
American Methodism to enlls!
members of the denomination IN
supporting some special project
during wartime confusion.
It is proposed that 8,OOO,OW
Methodists give on March 2 one
million dollars for the following
purposes: relief of var : stricken
people in China and Europe, mis-
sionary work of British Methodist
and service in military camps u
the United States, especially iN
our Methodist boys.
The Rev. Mr.. jerome issued tie
following statement: These Uo1
Samaritan offerings will help lux
homeless, starving, wandering m4'
liens in China and the invaded Ia
tions of Europe, the three Milo.
prisoners of war, the Christian re-
ugees. the orphaned misslonaTls,
cut off from their homelands alt
support. =.
1.-THE money will circulate ls
Bible. help our Methodist pre3cI'
ers and people, and save the inU.
titudeS from despair. MOTE .,
300 Methodist churches in Brl'S1
have been destroyed. The peop9'
are scattered, the work IS dlSo.
ganized, and the finances S'
strained.
Our aid will go to the hoi' y
anG foreign missions OF BEi'ls-
Methodism to tide them over lAe'|
critical days. We must stretch gu.
our hands across the seas TO p'
Mother Church of all Method,sn.
Millions of American boys VIII 0s
trained in army camps o'et .
flve-year period, among m5, n,
many Methodist boys. The ,. n'lD'
istry of our church must loli'"
them.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Group Officers School
To Meet On Wednesda,

The next meeting Of the WI,
mington group officers '[ Sao1ock
school will be held at o o ~
Wednesday evening, Februar ry.5 ~
in room 212, postoffice quinn in.
Captain Owen NJ. Carpen.Sa,s Of
fantry executive, headquait' an.
the Raleigh military dlS"''H
nounced yesterday. five
The subject will be leSs1N md
subcourse one. "Comm@n0 .ho in,
General Staff School, aho M. nant
structor will be First Lleu' IN.
L. H. overton, of the 32lS' D
fantry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
DR.. Gilmore Reported
Improved After Str0R'

The Rev. A.. D. P. Gilmouf. , p@l
tor of the First Presoyt ia
church, yesterday was repoi Nv SHne
be resting quietly at his D
at 315 Orange street. ,tfored
The Rev. Mr.. Gilmour sun al
a stroke Wednesday mornlns oent
his home. Attendants a IL nc sioht.
"a very good night FRIDAY Lib
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Robson Salary Bills
Are Passed By House

The house yesterday passed a bill
to raise the minimum pay of the
court clerk and register of deeds
in Robson county from $125 to
5000 and the maximum from 1925
% $500, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Raleigh.
The house also passed a bill to
place the prosecuting attorney of
.obeson county on a salary basis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Book Highlights

Don't overlook "Jennnifer."
If you're looking for escape fic
ton, if you've had more than YOU
fill of modern war, factual anaiy'
ses, American historical fiction
if you're book-hungry for a gooc
love story that packs nor thar
it's share of romantic interest, sus.
pense and genuine enjoyment, try
Janet Whitney's 'Jennifer" (Mor-
row: $3.50.
Napoleon had just returned from
Elba when Jennifer began to take
an interest in the plight of children
working long hours in mills, and
weavers, unemployed for years.
And she developed a hate for the
mill owners who grew rich from
the fruits of child labor.
She was hardly more than Is
when she became engaged to her
31-year-old cousin, handsome ma
val officer Philip Trefusis, and
turned down the love of her child
hood sweetheart, Christopher
North. But Trefusis, beset by past
indiscretions and creditors, could
not wait for Jennifer's father to
die naturally. Philip gave him an
overdose of opiate. And Jennifer
dispatched the same medicine to
the mill owners wife.
So she found herself convicted
of murder, on circummstantial evil
dence, married in secret to the
real murderer, and on a convict
ship bound for Botany Bay, New
South Wales.
But Jennifer bore a charmed
life. She found friends wherever
fate took her. Not even the sadis-
tic cruelty Of her master, Mac
gregor, Sidney plantation owner,
could quell the spirit of Convict
SO.
And, of course, Trefusis had to
come to Sidney, as aide to the
governor; and it was inevitable
that the ever-faithful Christopher
should follow, and that the whole
affair be settled in the fury of a
convict riot.
Miss Whitney has done a service
to readers in presenting this sim
pie romance, fringed with history,
perhaps, but never allowing back
ground to overshadow central &C
ton nor character. Jennifer's con-
vict ship does not follow the usual
pattern of torture and suffering,
nor are her years of servitude
harsh.
"Jennifer" is romance-nothing
more. And it's swell reading. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
TOP o. THE

Reader, if Christ is yours, and you are
Christ's, is there anything on (Which you may
more confidently repose than that Jesus is
making continual intercession for you, ever
displaying the merits of His cross and precious
blood, not only for the church at large. but for
thee, even for sinful thee?
C. W. MYLNE
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09

mors to that effect the use of
hats or non-use of hats has moth
ing to do with badness. Even
tightly constructing caps do not
cause badness 5
Evening star., 1941-04-16

American soldiers were served beer
auring the Revolutionary War.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
D. A. R.
Continued From First Page.) }

Philadelphia, rushing blood from
donors to be converted into the
| preservable plasma which is kept in
blood banks" for use when trans
fusions are required promptly.
Other Centers in Prospect.
The D. A. R. gift will make avail
able large new source of supply
to the Philadelphia processing Gen.
ter, which up to now has obtained
blood almost wholly from donors
furnished by the New York and
Philadelphia chapters of the Rec
Cross. 1t is planned to establish
additional centerS in other sections
of the country and add other re-
frigerated supply vehicles to that
purchased by D. A. R. funds, which
will be named Mobile Blood Trans
fusion Unit No. l."
The Red Cross blood reserve pro-
gram is being developed in co-opera-
tion with the War and Navy Depart
ments and the Division of Medical
Sciences of the National Research
Council.
Reporting to the Congress on the
American Red Cross efforts abroad
Miss Boardman assured the Daugh-
ters this morning that on the Amer
ican front "the Red Cross is ready
for action should the time come"
In the Army cantonments, she
said, the Red Cross is placing ap-
proximately 200 liaison officers to
act as mediums between the men,
their families and the people Of the
country. An annual appropriation
of a million dollars has been pro-
Evening star., 1941-04-16

States, its history and the spirit of
its people"
Other resolutions recognized the
Nationality Act of 1910 as "a bull
wark of national defense" and COM
mended the American Bar Associa-
tion for its sponsorship and Con-
gresS for its enactment, and went
on record to promote community
programs on the third Sunday in
May, designated as Citizenship Rec
ognition Day.
E. w. Loveridge, assistant chief of
the United States Forest Service,
discussing conservation in national
defense, told the Daughters that
productive forests are indispensable
for both military defense and for
the social and economic needs of
our people.
Battleships of some types require
as much as half million board feet
of lumber; timber in large amounts
goes into wharves and docks, and
there is a current large demand for
spruce in the manufacture of air
planes, he said.
Millions Supplied Work.
He also pointed out that forest
lands in this country feed primary
and secondary manufacturing plants
representing investments of some
$1,000 000, 900 and that about 13000.-
900 receive their livelihood directly
from work provided by forest in
duStrieS.
Reviewing the half century of
the forest conservation movement,
he predicted that to-day we are
coming to what 1 believe is a sec
ond forward surge in the move
ment." He appealed to the Daugh-
ters to join with foresters and other
conServationistS in a new crusade
to make the forest situation in the
United States so well known that
it will no longer tolerate the de-
struction and waste that exist
today"
Preceding his address, Mrs. Ober
D. Warthen, chairman of the Com
mittee on Conservation, revealed
the society's goal of an acre of
penny pines" for each chapter had
been exceeded by almost 1900 acres.
A total of approximately 100000
trees has been planted, she re-
ported.
At an average value of so cents
each In 20 years, she pointed out,
Evening star., 1941-04-16
D. A. R. Congress SideIights

With a virtually uncontested elec-
ton ahead of them, delegates to
this continental congress of the D.
A. r. were reminiscing today of the
good old days when an election was
strictly an embattled affair. They
recalled particularly the battle Of
1885 when Mrs. william A. Becker
and a dark horse" from Tennessee
held campaign receptions across the
corridors from each other In the
Mayhower Hotel, and their cam
paign managers snagged distin-
guished visitors from opposing
camps.
The president of the Women's
Bar Association of the District will
be nominated corresponding secre-
tary general tonight. She is Mrs
Henry A. Cox, a member of Colo
RADIO chapter, now living here. She
is also past chairman of the District
Legislative Council, legislative chair
man of the Washington Council of
Church Women, staff attorney of
the Legal Aid Bureau and mem
ber of the Zonta Club.
4 X Il
Pleading for the delegates to 20
easy on their demands for her pres
ence at extra-congress affairs, Mrs.
Henry M. Roberts, jr, president
Evening star., 1941-04-16

general in her report yesterday said
that at the last congress she had
received a letter from a speech spe-
cialiSt present at one luncheon.
The member inclosed chart for
checking the faults and merits of
speech. Mrs. Robert had already
presided over morning meeting, at
tended a breakfast and addressed
about dozen luncheons while the
dishes were being removed and often
against music in adjoining rooms.
The principal fault checked on the
speech chart was that in her i'm
promptu speech she lacked "en-
thusiasm.-
One of the most elegantly dressed
groups ever to ride a Washington
streetcar moved up Eighteenth
street following conclusion of the
historical pageant in Constitution
Hall last night. Gathering up the
flowing skirts of their gowns, many
of the members and guests boarded
the lone car when they found it
would take them near their hotels.
Scores of those stopping in the
downtown area elected to walk.
X \
Greetings" nearly expausted the
president general during the year,
she disclosed in her report. This
Evening star., 1941-04-16

the program will have made $2,-
600, 900 contribution to this phase Of
conservation.
Mrs. Magma Speaks.
Earlier, the Daughters heard their
honorary presidents general review
the work of their administrations as
chief executives of the society. Mrs
Russell William Magma, who served
from 1882 to 1885, reminded the
Daughters of the firm stand she
had taken on non-affiliation.
Expressing her belief that the
strength of the society lies in the
fact that 1--WE are non-partisan and
non-pohtical," Mrs. Magma said alb
solute adherence to that principle is
"at once a defense of the society and
our protection from exploitation.
Other honorary presidents gen.
eral, who occupy seats on the stage
of Constitution Hall for all delibera-
tions and who made their only ad-
dress to the Congress this morning
were Mrs. G. L. H Brosseeau, Mrs
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Mrs. Will
liam A. Becker and Mrs. George
Maynard Minor.
Mrs. William H. Pouch, only can
didate in the field for president gen.
eral, and her ticket of national Off
GERS will find out tonight whether
they will have to face any competi-
ton at the election tomorrow. The
nomination speeches will follow
State regents reports, which art
arranged according to the entrance
| of States into the Union.
Mrs. Pouch and her slate, the si1
women competing for four Offices a!
vice presidents general and the solt
contestant for an Office as honorary
vice president general will be seatec
on the stage, rising to bow as theil
names are put before the Congress
Evening star., 1941-04-16

vided for this preparedness service,
she said, and a million dollars has
also been provided for sports sup
plies in the Army cantonments.
Never perhaps before in all his
tory has SO much of the world been
submerged in such a flood of human
misery as today" she asserted.
Never has there been such need for
human sympathy and help. We of
America should be humbly grateful
that so far the part of the Good
Samaritan has been granted to us" !"
In a special report on the service
of individuals and chapters of the
D. A. R. to the Red Cross, Mrs. Bes-
sic Howe Geagley, vice chairman OF
the Red Cross Subcommittee, told
the congress that in all States men,
bers have been active. They have
reported 1856 knitted and 80,990
sewed articles during the year, she
said.
Members have written to soldiers
in camps, sent them gifts, enter
tanned them in their homes and
given them attentions as they were
about to leave for camp" she re-
ported. War relief agencies of Bel
GUM, Finland, Greece, China, the
Netherlands and England also have
benefited.
Passing on their first resolutions
today, the Daughters went on record
against pending bills in Congress.
which they claimed would control
education in the States and the
trend of education in the country
through taxation and subsidy. APP
plauSe greeted the resolution, which
called upon members to register op-
position to unspecified legislation
that would take from the States
the responsibility of control over
education-powers reserved to them
by the Constitution.
Americas to Be Studied.
In another resolution, the Daugh-
ters recognized that the unity and
defense of the Western Hemisphere
depend upon understanding and
cooperation between the peoples
of the 81 American republics" and
resolved to include in the society S
program study of Latin American
peoples and materials that might
be sent them to contribute toward
better knowledge of the United
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Two Youths Are Held
In Falls Church Attack

Two 17-year-old youths of Falls
Church. Va, were held for investi-
CATION by town police last night in
connection with the beating yester-
day of Mrs. Elizabeth j. De Zerga,
described as a neighbor, who is in
Georgetown Hospital today re-
portedly suffering from a fractured
skull.
Police quoted Mrs. De Zerga, 81
year-old pharmacists wife, as de-
claring the assault occurred about
2:15 pm. in the home of one of the
youths parents.
Her husband. William De Zerga,
employe of Wares Pharmacy in
Falls Church, was at work when
the alleged assault took place.
One of the youths was described
Evening star., 1941-04-16

means forwords for yearbooks
greetings for programs, messages OF
approval, birthday congratulations
and articles for State news sheets
She finally got so desperate that she
worked out various kinds of greet
ings, numbered one, two and three
ready for answer by merely fitting
the request to the suitable number
Demands, however, were for per-
sonal greetings and she had to
abandon her system-regretfully.
y X 4 X
Clara Barton, founder of the
American Red Cross, was honored
with the title of surgeon general OF
the D. A. R., it was pointed out dur
ing the pageant.
Since it carried no duties, the
Office later was abolished" the mar
rator explained.
y
A makeup man applied last
minute touches to the pageant par
ticipants, and all impressed the au-
dience with the apparent authentic
ity of their impersonations. Several
good-natured caricatures of person.
alities we'll known to longtime
members prompted particularly en-
thusiastic response.
Between assignments, the pages
gathered for soft drinks in a base
ment room of the hall Moving
away from the circle of conversation
last night, one girl spent an in
dustrious few minutes in a nearby
cloakroom-switching about the
caps of Army Band musicians, who
were playing in the orchestra pit at
the time.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
u, s. Film Offices in Paris
Occupied by Germans
n. .h, Assnciatsd Press.

M, the Associated Press.
v1cHY, France, April 16.-A rep
pesentative of Films Paramount
rrench subsidiary of Paramount
pictures, Inc, said today German
military authorities had occupied
Offices Of all American film dis
eribution companies in Paris last
Saturday.
All employees were told to leave ny
German soldiers who mounted guard
over the Offices, he said.
Oficials of the companies caileo
a meeting to discuss the situation,
and expressed concern over report
the Germans planned to block their
bank accounts and eventually take
over the companies and use them to
circulate propaganda films.
A spokesman of the United States
Embassy in Vichy said the news did
mot come as a surprise"
The film companies-all incor-
porated as French concerns-recent-
ly made changes in their direc-
torates to conform with the new
snti-Senitic regulations.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

by police as q congressional page.
Both were released In custody of
their parents late last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-03

that the Painters and Paperhang- CTS Union float won first prize as the most decorative vehicle. The winner was a bantam automobile carrying two painters dressed in their working regalia, complete with buckets and brushes.
 The Women of the Moose en- tered a drill team that performed for the spectators at the ball grounds.
 It is estimated that over 1000 persons viewed the parade, as all firms and the defense projects were closed for the day.
 The Army band, which arrived here Sunday, is made up of former civilian musicians who have been selected for the country's defense, and it is far and away the best band ever to play in this section of Alaska Lieut.. Clarence Price, Army Public Relations Officer, is in charge of the band.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-03
NAVY BASEBALL
 TEAM AT SI1kAH
 NEAR TOP PLACE

SITKA, Alaska, Sept 3. The Naval Air Station boosted itself within one game of the Sitka Base ball Association championship by trouncing the Moose team g to 3 in their Labor Day tussle.
 Sailor Mel Payne pitched his mates into the winning league standing by chalking up his eighth win of the season In the second inning pitcher Payne hit home run with two on, which safely placed the Navy team out in front of the tiring Moose.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-03
SITkA HAS
 BIG PARADE
 LABOR DAY
New Army Band, Newly Organized City Band :.
 Furnish Music

SITKA, Alaska, Sept. 3. The largest parade ever held in Sitka was on Labor Day when some 450 men and women representing vari- ous crafts and occupations, parad- ed the length of Lincoln Street to the baseball park. Two bands played martial airs to the step- ping of the celebrating marchers, the new Army 30-piece band and the recently organized City Band.
 Harry Newing, President of the Central Labor Council, announced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-03
DODGERS IN
 VIRTUAL TIE
 WITH CARDS
Charley Root HurIs Five
 Hitler 10 Defeat Cincinnati
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

The Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday regained a virtual tie with the St. Louis Cardinals for the National League lead by defeating the Bos- ton Braves in the playoff of a for mer tie.
 The Dodgers got seven runs iu the, first three innings. Kirby Hig- betapitched six-hit victory for the Dodgers. ,~ta.- ,-A~
 s3na- Root Pitches Win
 Charley Root pitched the Chi cago Cubs to fiye-hit victory over the Cincinnati Reds yesterday af- ternoon.
 There were only two games played in the National League yes terday and none in the American League.