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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
Army Appeals
For Housing
In Wilmington
Officers Say 1900 Homes
And Apartments Needed
In City and Vicinity
SHORTAGE IS PROBLEM
Persons Having Housing
Asked to List Offer with
Lieutenant Sutherlin

Wanted, in and near Wilmington,
1900 homes, apartments and
rooms, for Army men and their
families.
That, in effect, was the plea
last night of the Camp Davis head
quarters staff, temporarily located
here pending military possession
of the Army's new anti-aircraft
firing base at Holly Ridge.
OF course, not all the 1900 COM
missioned and non-commissioned
officers are here but already the
housing shortage is causing the
Army more than a slight head
ache. for within the next 60 days
living quarters must be found for
that many officers, non-coms and
their families.
Trying To Help
The Wilmington real estate
board, the chamber Of commerce
and other agencies are trying to
help the Army solve the problem,
but even so more help is needed
by the men now here and charged
with arranging for Accommodations
for others yet to come.
Anyone in or near Wilmington
having a house to rent, or an
apartment or furnished rooms in a
private home, has been invited
by staff headquarters to list their
offer with Lieut.. John Sutherlin,
housing officer, located in the base
ment of the Wilmington postoffice.
Listings should be made in person
rather than via the telephone in
order to minimize possibility of
error.
At the present time there are
less than 100 commissioned officers
and non-coms here, yet the housing
problem is considered "acute" by
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
LENNON and SMITH
REPLY TO GARDNER
Answer County Commits
sioner Who Expressed OPP
position to Pay Boosts

Judge Alton A. Lennon and So
licitor Winfield Smith, Of record
er's court, yesterday, in a state
ment read in open court, replied
to Harry Gardner, county COM
missioner, who recently expressed
opposition to their requests for sal
airy increases.
The statement, addressed to the
citizens of New Hanover county,
follows in full:
"Ten days ago we gave notice
to the people through the press
that we would ask our representa-
tives in the legislature for an in
crease in OUR respective salaries,
and at the same time we set out
in detail our reasons for the re-
quest. This public notice through
the press was an unusual proce-
dure and one not heretofore prac-
ticed, but we believed it to be
the only method that should be
used in our democratic form OF
government. Every citizen in New
Hanover county was invited to ex-
press any opposition he or she
might have to this legislation.
ION Tuesday of this week our
representatives informed us that
only three people had expressed
any opposition to the legislation,
one of whom was Honorable Harry
Gardner, a member of the Board
Of County Commissioners.
1--WE have read with much in
terest the article appearing on the
front page of the Wilmington Star,
dated February II, wherein at a
County Board meeting, Commits
sioner Gardner bitterly opposed
the salary increases we had re-
Continued on Page Five; Col, p
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
FAVORITES TO FIGHT
Roanoke Rapids and Lum-
berton Will Be Seeking
Team Championship

Eight championship fights in the
Open division and four in the
Novice class are on tap for to-
nights finals in the Fifth Annual
Star-News-Brigade Golden Gloves
tournament at Legion stadium.
All Of the top favorites of the
early rounds of the tournament
and the popular scrappers of form
er years will be battling for all
they are worth in tonight's final
round of fist singing.
Roanoke Rapids and Lumberton
will be battling it out for the team
championship trophy. with Will
mington given an outside chance
of coming through for the priced
cup
Wilmington's popular Smoky
Swami will meet Lumberton's
Douglas Bailey for the bantam
weight decision. Other top bouts
include Bob Moore ana Red
Boards set-to in the middleweight
DIVISION.
The championships finals will
be as follows:
Open Division
FLYWEIGHT - Donald Ray
Lane, ia, of Wilmington, VS.. Ben
nett Kirby, Ill, of Lumberton.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
GERMANY SEEKING
BALKAN PASSAGE
Reported Anxious to Move
Troops Through Yugo-
slavia and Bulgaria

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb.
A. (Friday) -R-Reports that
is seeking passage for
German troops through both Yu-
goslavia and Bulgaria in order to
get at Greece and the Eastern
Mediterranean shores reached dip
lomats here early today as Yugo-
slavia's premier and foreign min
lister began request" conferences
with the Nazi leadership in Ger
many.
Diplomatists with usually reli-
able sources of information in gov
eminent quarters said Premier
Cvetkovic and foreign min
lister Alexander ~Cincar-Markovic
will discuss passage of German
troops from Rumania through the
Yugoslavian railway junction of
Mis-, thence by rail down the Var
dar river valley toward Greece
and the important Aegean seaport
of Salonika.
There were unconfirmed reports
that King Boris of Bulgaria might
the Yugoslavs to Germany
today.
In any event, Sofia dispatches
said that Bulgaria, with Italian and
backing, now is trying to
get British-allied Turkey to prom
Use not to fight if the Germans
start through Bulgaria toward the
Dardanelles.
An indication Turkey was not
prepared to fight to prevent the
Nazi armies reaching Greece and
the Mediterranean through Bull
garia and Yugoslavia was seen in
an announcement that Nazi-con-
Rumania had agreed to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
HALF OF SUM
CASHED HERE
SAYS OFFICIAL
Camp Davis Troops
Will Be Stationed
. On Permanent Basis

The eight Coast Artillery anti
aircraft regiments to be formed
at Camp Davis will be stationed
there on a permanent basis, &C.
cording to present plans.
According to an article in the
latest issue of the Army and
Navy journal, the regiments will
be formed with personnel largely
obtained from selective service
trainees. The regiments will be
activated April Is with cadres
from various Regular Army anti.
aircraft regiments and will then
be filled in with draftees to full
strength.
A recent allotment Of grades
and ratings authorizes 81 enlisted
men for the overhead at the
camp.
Col. j. B. Crawford is acting
commanding officer of the camp
pending naming of a commander
which, under tables of organiza-
ton, would be a major general.
1t. Col. S. L. McCroskey is plans
and training officer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
SOUTHPORT SUPPLY
BASE IS INDICATED
Navy Expected to Establish
Station to Service Craft
Using Waterway

SOUTHPORT, Feb. 10 = Indi-
cations r increasing to point to
what seems a certainty that the
Navy will have a supply base at
Southport for vessels plying the
waterway, and also to which YES
sells using the outside passage
along the coast may come in to
take aboard anything needed.
Last week two boats of t h e
Mosquito Fleet had trouble getting
d considerable supply of aviation
gas of a high grade. Other things
needed e also unavailable.
Monday of this week a local or
g%anization was notified by WASH
ington that until arrangements
made, government vessels
scheduled to arrive here a n d
needing supplies of any S t,
would advise the local organiza-
ton in advance of their arrival.
This will permit of supplies being
arranged for and ready when the
boats come.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON
Despite the elaborate window
dressing provided for the Musso-
lini-Franco conference there are
no real signs that Mussolini or
anyone else expects important mil.
itary developments to flow from
the meeting Immediately.
The Balkans still are the prime
centre of interest. German movs
on that game board point increas-
ingly to southeastern Europe, not
Albania, Africa or the Mediter-
ranean, as the scene of the next
dramatic war development.
A command appearance by Yu-
goslavian government leaders in
Germany, presumably to be told
the role they are expected to play
in what is coming, headlines the
news. Whether it means that both
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria are to
Continued on Page Eleven; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
SYDNEY Officials Say War
Has Entered State Involv-
ing Great Gravity
MAYSTRIKE SINGAPORE
Japan May Act Simultane-
ously With New Thrusts
In Europe by Axis
By J. C. STARK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-R-
The United States government
sought anew today to induce Amer
icans to leave the Far East as
Australian officials at Sydney de-
clared that ''the war has moved
into a new stage involving the ut
most gravity"
In the foreign diplomatic corps
here there were two interpreta-
tons Of the Australian statement.
Some said they saw signs that
Japan might strike soon toward
Singapore, Britain's great naval
bastion in the Pacific, or toward
the Netherlands East Indies. 9th
ers felt the statement might be
intended primarily for home con-
sumption; to stir the Australians
10 even greater efforts in the Brit
ish-Axis war.
NO Late AQVlCeS
The State departments renewed
advice to Americans to leave the
Orient was said officially to indi-
cate no new concern on the part
Of this government over the stu
alton in that area. Secretary of
State Hull said he had no late ad.
vices from American diplomats to
explain the concern felt in Aus
tralia.
The caution to Americans, he
said, was merely a reinforcement
Of the advice given last October
when the government first started
moving its nationals out of the
Orient.
In other diplomatic quarters,
however, the belief was expressed
that the Australian statement was
based on late information indicat-
ing that Japan might be planning
a move soon in the South Pacific.
How imminent any such thrust
might be was uncertain here but
speculation conferred largely on the
Continued on Page Three; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
City Manager Vote Bill
Approved By Legislature

RALEIGH, Feb. 15-Without a
dissenting vote, the state senate to-
day ratified the bill providing for a
special election in the city OF Will
mington on the city manager form
Of government.
The motion to ratify the measure
was made by Senator Roy Rowe.
of Burgaw.
Opens Way For Vote
By its action, the senate set in
motion the machinery by which the
citizens of the Port City will decide
some time next month whether or
not the city will continue function
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
AXIS DIPLOMATIC
DRIVE IS PUSHED
Reported in Full Develop
ment Throughout Mediter-
ranean and Balkans

hoME, Feb. 13.-(R-Fascist COM
1nentators declared tonight that an
ANS diplomatic offensive is Gin full
ueVelopment throughout the Mediter.
sahean and the Balkans" now that
Spain n Italy have reacked a new
aocofo and, it is understood. have in.
iOllheo France of their decisions.
ihese commentators indicated that
res'erday's consultation between
rleinief Mussolini and Generalissimo
alahco' followed today by a confer
enee between Franco and Frances
Niiel o. state, Marshal Petain,' had
sO,ie connection with Axis plans for
plg spring military offensive.
IL is certainly not only aimed at
charging its (the Axis') sphere Ct
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
States $163, 900, 900 Tax
Bill Is Passed By House

RALEIGH, Feb. 13-R- North
Carolina's tax bill, designed to
raise a Notwithstanding sun Of
Sl63, soc, 900 during the next bien-
MUM, Won unanimous approval in
the house of representatives today,
and was sent to the senate.
The measure, which actually is
a group. of amendments to the
continuing revenue act, would
make these two basic changes in
the states. tax structure:
1.-Exempt from the sales tax
all foods bought for home con-
sumption.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
By RICHARD L. TURNER

"aSHlNGToN, Feb. 13.-R-
oehate Foreign Relations com
Il ee approved the lease-lend bill,
20 o.. today and urged its pas
ase With an assertion that it lis
sst d war measure, but a practical
war; pi14s oo' VI
waking a formal report to the
ssis 49, the committee majority
bau tne welfare of the nation can
besl be served by a foreign policy
nr r,eu upon the two fundamental
Inc United States must strive
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
Eight Title Battles Set
For GGTourneyTonig
Force at Camp jackson
Will Be Boosted Soon

FORT JACKSON, S. C., Feb.
Is. - up - Post officials an
nounced today that Fort Jack
son would b. increased in March
and June from the present 1880
officers and men, to $4,000.
This increase they said, will
be due to the activation of 10 ad-
ditional units and the assign
ment of selective service men to
the 18th division and the 1O2nd
cavalry regiment.
The 102nd cavalry regiment of
New Jersey, which is now sta
toned at the post, will, receive
258 selectees from New Jersey
around March l,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
FRANK |. DUNLAP
DIES in FLORIDA
Funeral Services for State
Highway Commissioner
Planned Saturday


RALEIGH, Feb. 13.-R-Gover-
nor Broughton and a large num-
er of state officials will attend
thu funeral in Wadesboro OF Frank
L. Dunlap, chairman of the state
highway and public works COM
mission, who died late last night
at Welaka, Fla, of a heart at
tack.
The services will be held at II
o'clock Saturday morning at the
Calvary Episcopal church.
Dunlap was on a 90-day leave
of absence from his duties as COM
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14

2.-Give cities and counties rs
per cent of the state-collected in
tangibles tax. AT present, the To-
cal units get only go per cent.
Paradoxically, although those
two changes could seem to have
the effect of cutting receipts, the
new tax measure is expected to
bring in enough money to finance
the largest spending program in
the states history. This is ex-
planned in the fact that better
business conditions are swelling
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
Senate Committee OkehS
Lease-Lend Bill, Is To 8

in all ways reasonably possible to
stay at peace with all the world;
and the United States must, in its
W interests, supply effective MA
erlal aid to those countries whose
defense is vital to our defense"
Your committee believes" the
report added, that within the
terms of H. R. 1776, as amend ed,
provision is amply, safely and con-
stltutionally made that the foreign
policy of the United States shall
continue to be guided by these two
principles.
CONTINUED on Page Twelve; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14

ing under its existing commission
government, or adopt the city mana.
ger type of municipal operation.
Probably not later than Monday
of next week, and possibly before
that date, the ratified bill will be
sem to Secretary of State Thad
Eure for signature.
Representatives Jack LeGrand and
John Morris of New Hanover u
ty presented the measure to the
lower house early this week. 1t was
passed through that branch Of the
CONTINUED on Page Twelve; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
GERMANS DESTROY
Is ARMED SHIPS
Nazis May Be Gathering
Resources for a Violent
Drive on British Craft

BERLIN, Feb. 13.-R-The de-
struction of IS armed merchant
men by German warships in the
Atlantic was officially announced
today under circumstances sug-
costing that the Germans were
gathering their resources for the
Continued On Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14

(By q. s. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday
Temperature
1:30 a. m. 40; 7:30 a. IN. 50; 1 80 p. m.
81; 7:3O p. m. IS; maximum SO; mini
mum 81; mean 40: normal 4S.
Humidity
1:3O a. m. "A; 1880 a. m. 80; 80 p. m.
SO; 7:30 p. m. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
DOL inches. Total since first Of the
month 1.67 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U. s.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
Wilmington II :42a 6:2Sa
Masonboro inlet ------ 9:22a 3:18a
9:52p sap
Sunrise 5:5sa; sunset 5:55p; moonrise
8 :0Sp moonset S:33a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
VILE on Feb. 10, at 8 a. m, 1890 feet.
Continued ON Page Five; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14
WEATHER
FORECAST

EODGCF16I
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy with
showers Friday and in extreme east por-
ton Friday night; colder Friday night
and Saturday anG in west portion Fri
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-14

Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-15
FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT

Any remedy for Key Vests acute
housing shortage, as members of the homes
registration committee have agreed. boils
down to the two steps of,
ID Learning definitely what is
needed, and,
(2l Deciding what to do about it.
From there on the subject is open to
debate.
Either the government will be called
upon to rush construction of enough homes
to accommodate the navy personnel, their
families and the defense workers, or it will
begin by getting local homes in shape to &C
commodate some of them--then build
homes for the rest
First, of course, the problem of a full
and true survey must be met. before either
curse can be adopted. That is up to the
members Of the clubs upon whom the COM
mittee has called for help, and upon the
committee itself
AS to what comes next, the situation,
briefly, is this:
strictions on loans (since it must spend
money in any evenly the government can
help Key Westers improve their homes to a
point where additional rooms and apart
ments will become available. or it can hold
Improvement to minimum through pres
ent restrictions and fill the need with tenn
porary housing of its own construction.
From the standpoint of Key West, we
think the first course is desirable
Improvement of existing homes, where
they can be improved, not only would leave
the city in far better condition when the
emergency is over, but the rents would pro-
vide widely scattered income, reaching
many pockets.
Since Key Vests future is tied up with
tourist trade, improvement of homes and
betterment of sanitary conditions in those
homes is of vital concern to the entire city.
Construction of temporary housing units is
Of no permanent value to anyone, except the
owners of the property involved.
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IMITATION MUST BE AVOIDED

Frankly, we do not know whether the
people of Key West have any idea of the
havoc that can be wrought in this country
if inflationary tendencies develop into a
genuine booming of prices such as the ma
ton witnessed during the World War era.
Those who were living after the end of
that epic struggle, and especially in
tlividuals who had obligations, can well re-
member the tragic episode that developed
with deflation, applied in the Summer of
1920. 1t is not too much to assert that the
nation, and particularly our farmers, have
never recovered from the beating that was
taken then.
1t is mighty easy to encourage rising
prices, with spectators and nibbling citi-
zens intrigued by sudden profits, but the
aftermath will be catastrophe that no one
can contemplate philosophically after the
earlier experience of the country.
Steps should be taken, Immediately,
to put an end to the dangerous game that
is now underway. It will take resolution
by Congressman and officials to nip the
blooming profits that entrigue pseudo-pa-
triots, who talk glibly about national de-
Tense, but the long-run welfare of the coun-
try demands that every precaution be used
to avoid the calamities that followed the
1920 debaele.
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GOOD TRAINING WITHOUT WEAPONS


Smart-alec critics of the defense pro-
gram like to jibe at the training of soldiers
without modern weapons and the glib COM
ment has tendency to fool some people.
The War Department points out that
the tactical employment" of a weapon is
more important than its technical manip-
ulation" and asserts that little training
value is lost by the substitution of a stove
pipe for mortar or an oak for machine
gun
While the army has expanded faster
than the manufacture of weapons, all units
have sufficient weapons for training and
the soldiers have learned how to handle
their basic arms, In training the weapons
are not fired but the soldiers learn how to
select the proper position for the guns,
which is the crucial factor"
The Germans practiced their soldiers
with simulated weapons as late as 1888,
knowing well the truth of the War Depart
ment's saying that IAN imitation gun, well
placed in maneuvers, may be better than a
real weapon that is sited in an exposed
position"
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid 70 attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece Of any person, clique.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done By individual or organ
ization; tolerant Of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaninate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
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a readers Digest investigate

A Readers Digest investigation shows
that three out of five times the American
motorist who stops a car for repairs or adj
vice at strange garage is going to be
gypped.. The investigators travled 14,516
miles up, down and across the continent in
a Lincoln Zephyr coupe. Small towns and
small garages were much more honest than
large towns and elaborate garages. In
Florida the honest repair men were out
numbered two to one. The two investiga-
tors declare that the most crooked dealing
was handed them in New York and Miami
The moral for Key Westers is to have their
repair work done in Key West, where most
Of our garage and repair men still believe
that honesty is the best policy.
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LEGALS
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED
(Senate Bill No. 1851


NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
p. Curry Moreno, holder of Tax
Certificate No. 225, issued the 1st
day of August, A. D. 1888, has
filed same in my office and has
made application for q tax deed to
be issued thereon. Said certificate
embraces the following described
property in the County of Monroe,
State of Florida, to-wit:
Lot i, Sqr. 4, Mandalay, Key
Largo, Plat Book l Faye 1874,
Pt. Gov. Lot 8 & Lot IA Sec.
6-62-39, as recorded in Monroe
County Records.
The assessment OF the said prop
erty under the said certificate is
sued was in the name Of William l..
Reed.
Unless said certificate shall be re-
deemed according TO law. the prop
erty described tbgrein will be sold
to the highest bidder at the court
house door on the first Monday in
the month of September 1871, which
is the LIST day OF September, 1871.
Dated this 18th cay of July, 1871.
(SEAIs) Ross G. Sawyer
Clerk of Circuit Court OF Monroe
County, Florida.
jly25; aug1-s-15 1s4i
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HEARFBREAK n )aEYMooN

YESTERDAY: Henry and Luz
ella Pell are. though Lucia iclli
not admit IL, on the Uerge Of sep
ardting although they hare been
married only a year. Marie Nd
son Is the cause of Henry's back
sliding-dnd Tommy Mcintyre,
,Dho had been in lore lcith Marie,
,rould like to make it up to Luz
ella If only she tUollld let him.
But she s1iIl not.
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EIishhrow Boner

Speaking of grammatical err
rors, or to satisfy the purists, err
rors in grammar. Lord Morley
once said, Neither you nor I am
entirely ourselves. His solesism
was picked up by Punch who in
quired, aThen who else am we?'