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Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Refugee Pianist Is
US. Air Camera Man
Fled From Austria When
Germans Took OUer.

DENVER.-Hans Pap, who fled
from Austria where he was concert
pianist when Adolf Hitler took over
in 1888, now is Private Pap of the
army air corps.
Pap was known to the concert
stages of Vienna and Paris, but now
he is equally well known to the
Kitchen police" detail at Lowry
field. That's where he started out
at the army air corps technical
school.
The 30-year-old Viennese concert
pianist was drafted in New York
and assigned to Lowry field after
being inducted at Fort Dix, N. j.
''I don't mind it bit," Pap says.
''It's the least I can do to show my
appreciation to my adopted coun-
try.
when the Nazi army took over
Austria it didn't take long to dis
cover my Jewish ancestry made me,
to say the least, undesirable, +" he
says.
Without funds l did not know
how 1 could reach the United States
but finally friends in this country
guaranteed my passage and even
tually I reached New York.
He applied for citizenship papers
one week after he arrived and now
has his first papers.
He had signed contract to ap-
pear as pianist on television broad
casts when he was drafted.
But I'm not listed as musician
in the army" he says. Il studied
photography, too, in Vienna and I'm
out here as a photographer with the
air corps"
He was transferred to photogra-
ply duty after finishing his basic
training, which included Kitchen
police" detail.
American soldiers, in his opinion,
are more carefree than the soldiers
of Europe.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
zoos Cousins in Battle
For Estate of S57O,OOO

Observation-Disclosures family
fights over estates will look like a
peace society picnic before they set
tie one in the courts here-2,006
cousins are contesting for the $780,
900 estate of Mary Frances White.
Miss White started the outsize dis
agreement when she specified that
$1,000 was to go to leach of my
cousins living at the time of my
death, irrespective of the remote
ness of the relationship"
Did she have cousinsl From al
most every state, plus Ireland and
New Zealand, people popped up who
claimed "cousinship."
Six first cousins brought suit to
break the will.
District Justice Jennings Bailey
held with the sextet but 40 claim
ants notified the court of intention
to appeal.
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for instance, they had allowed one
minor strain Of pity to creep in. Pity
would have made the handicap real
to me. Suppose my family had con-
stantly called it an "affliction" and
shown that they felt sorry for me.
Instead Of having a happy career,
I might now be walking the streets
holding out a tin cup"
"From the time I was six, want
ed to become professional pianist.
This meant that / would have to
learn to play the piano by touch
and commit to memory everything
I played. Whether I was born
with a better memory than average,
l do not know. The fact remains
that l have had to bank heavily on
it as pianist. Memory, I have
found, is like a muscle; it grows
with use. l do not believe there is
any limit to it's capacity"
"(Deafness), admit, is the worst
that can happen TO a musician. .
This might easily have been the end
of Beethoven's creative life had he
conceded defeat. Instead, he sum-
Moned his imperious will and for
twenty-five years thereafter poured
out his soul in number of MASTER
pieces. He did not hear performed
note of one Of his greatest works,
the Ninth Symphony with it's clos
ing "Ode to JOY"
-. When / play Beethoven to-
day, sense something of his strug-
gle and triumph, the eternal strug-
gle and triumph of the human soul
for I believe with Emerson that
the soul is born&to victory. Beet
hoven not only triumphed over deaf
ness; he triumphed over DEATH"
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Toy Lending Service Is
Opened in Fort Worth

FORT WORTH-The strangest
title listed on the public pay roll
here is ''toyrarian."
Mrs. Ben Hur acts as the toy
rarian." A 'toyrarian" serves the
same capacity in connection with
toys as a librarian does in connec-
tion with books.
The city recreation department
recently innovated Toy Loan CEN
ter. Children may borrow toys for
z or IA day period.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Captures German Spy;
Credit Goes to Films

LONDON. = Hollywood can now
boast of having helped in capturing
an escaped German prisoner of war.
Wearing gray flannel trousers,
sports jacket and a check cap, the
escaped prisoner boarded a bus
travelling between Gainsborough and
Sheffield, and asked the conductor
for return ticket to Sheffield.
But on receiving the ticket he for
got himself and clicked his heels and
bowed, as so many Hollywood films
have portrayed the typical German
in uniform.
Conductor Colin Spittle, an ardent
film fan, having already been warned
that there was an escaped German
prisoner at large in the district, in
formed his driver.
Apparently taking no further inter-
est in his passengers, and continuing
with his job, Spittle took no action
until his driver pulled up alongside
a policeman.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of Ernest B.
Raughley. Register of Wills. in and for
Kent County, Delaware. dated Nov. q A. ID.
1891 notice is hereby given of the grant,
ing Letters of Administration on the estate
Of Lucy r. ireland on the 2lst day of No
vember A. d. 1941. All persons having
claims against the said Lucy R. Ireland are
required to exhibit the same to such Ad-
ministrator within one year after the date
of the granting of such Letters. or abide by
the law in that behalf. which provides that
such claims against the said estate not so
exhibited shall be forever barred.
LUTHER H. BROADWAY,
Admr. of Lucy r. ireland. decd.
E. X. Nelson, Jr.. Esq.
Atty
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of Ernest b.
Raughley. Register of Wills. in and for
Kent County, Delaware. dated November Ia,
A. d. l94l notice is hereby given of the
granting Letters Testamentary on the
estate of Houston E. Kinnamon on the I4th
day of November A. d. 1871. All persons
having claims against the said Houston Z.
kinnamon. deceased, are required to exhibit
the same to such Executrix within one year
after the date of the granting of such Let
ters. or abide by the law in that behalf,
which provides that such claims against the
said estate not so exhibited shall be forever
barred.
MADELINE X. TURNER,
Executrix of
Houston E. Kinnamon, decd.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04

"X7 GU and / make our own
i handicaps in life. We have
them because we think we have
them. Assuredly our thoughts are
our own to choose. / have never
thought of myself as handicapped
by blindness.
&c. 1t might well have been
otherwise if my parents had used
less judgment in my upbringing; if,
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
CONCERT TENOR
WELL RECEIVED
Continues from Page onel

bers, especially the Chopin E-major
Etude, which has long been among
our favorites. Again people of Do
yer and vicinity thank the Coopera-
tive Concerts Association.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
30 Head of Heifers

These heifers range from Year
Ilings to two and one-half years old.
Holstein and Guernsey.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &c.
1920 MISUNDERSTANDING Trac-
tor, Tractor Plows, Double Disc
Harrow, three-section Spring-tooth
Drag Harrow, one-row Wheel Cul-
tivator, two-roe Wheel Cultivator,
Zone man with three horses can
cultivate Is acres a day., nearly
new; Farm Wagon, Hay Rack,
Manure Spreader, John Deere Corn
Planter with Fertilizer attachment;
Moving Machine, Grain Drill, Seed
Sower, Grindstone, Wagon and
Plow, Harness, Collars, Brides, and
one good Extension Ladder, 32-feet
in two sections; cast iron Horse
Trough, and many other things
necessary on a farm.
Some Soy Bean Hay
Terms:-CASH
Nj. v. FORD
IR. w. Slaughter, auctioneer
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Honor Roll

Below is the standing of the
FIRST FIFTEEN babies in the
TIMES Popular Baby Contest as
shown by the count of Wednesday,
December 3rd at 5 p. m.
Standing Standing
60 rn.a..;n..s. .Csn,,,,t
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
FOR SALE

1886 Plymouth Sedan, new tires,
good paint, heater. very clean, low
mileage. Price. S275. Apply
LEE SLAUGHTER,
l2-4 1t Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04

NEXT COUNT p. m. SATUR-
DAY, December 9th. The second
count of the BIG EXTENSION
VOTE PERIOD. 1t is still any
contestants race and the coming
Saturday count may do much to
break the deadlock. Read special
bulletin.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
FOR SALE

FOR SALE
Tresspass Notices. For Rent and
For Sale Signs.
At THE TIMES OFFICE
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
The Smyrna Times
phone 1921 SMYRNA. DELAWARE
SMYRNA AND VICINITY
Correction

The Southern States Cooperative
Association, Smyrna-Clayton Ser
vice held their dinner meeting on
November 28th at the Colonial
Hotel instead of the Delaware
House as stated.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Hondieops Only
Mental Hurdle,
Soys Pionisf

ConSsnJs9 from "Han8ieapJ" pritfsn BY hIse
Tsmpisfon, tamoRJ blind piauitf, and APPEAR
ing in fbe October iJJRs OF CoJmopoHtsH.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
IN NfEAfORIAM

IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of my dear husband
William Durham. who departed this life
December 20. 1899.
of a loved one gone to rest,
But he will aways be remembered
By the one who loved him best.
Sadly missed by his Wife.
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
NOTICE

Starting Monday, December Sth,
Handloff's Store will be open every
evening until Xmas.
12-4 1t
Smyrna times., 1941-12-04
Wed. Dec. II, 1911
3 Mules

Pair of Sorrell Mules, none better
One Odd Mule, a good one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
1%ncendiary Raids

Not even those hardened by all the previous
bombings of this and other wars can avoid
a sickening sense of loss at what the Nazis
have done to the city of London in their latest
raids. Having failed to demolish the capital
OF the British Empire with bombs, the Ger
mans have set out methodically to destroy it
with fire. With calculated cruelty they spread
their incendiary missiles thickest in the an
clent center of the city = not at military OBJ
%lectives, for there are few there, but at old
and splendid buildings which are the glories OF
English civilization.
Tragic and brutal as this type of warfare is,
the actual loss may be counted as less impor-
tant than what the raid p~ortends. The British
people have long expected this ferocious type
OF raid as a signal that the long-expected
invasion of England is at hand.
Now that the tides are right, the fogs are
thick and the nights are long they are more
than ever ready for this final test. Much as
they welcome the new promises of greater aid
from the United States, they know that this
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02

also will spur Hitler to make the attempt now
before American help can come in telling
quantities.
But if the Nazi Fuehrer expects these raids
landmarks to soften up England for invasion,
we believe that he has badly misjudged the
people Of that island. They have already
proved that they care less for their lives.
their homes and their ancient relics. dear as
these are to British minds, than for the free
dom they are fighting for. They know that the
sooty ruins Of London left behind by German
bombs cannot match in blackness the pail
that will envelop all British life if Hitler wins.
That is why the people Of Britain fight on
and that is why we believe that, in the long
run, they will win the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
U. S. WILL ORDER
TWO FAST SHIPS
Wants Passenger Vessels
Capable Of Quick CONVEX
sion To Aircraft Carriers

WASHINGTON, Jan. l. R -
The maritime commission an
nounced today its intention to or,
der two IS, 000-ton passenger yes
sells with a speed of more than q
knots and capable of quick con.
version into aircraft carriers"
The ships will be 759 feet Ions
and, with aircraft carrier use ir
mind, will have stacks on the star.
board side.
This disclosure was made in a
commission summary of it's activi
ties for 1910, during which the
number of merchant ships built OF
building under it's program reach.
ed 179 at a contract price of more
than $3.50, 600, 900.
OF these 81 have been launch.
ed and 81 delivered. The navy has
acquired or soon will receive "a.
All of the ships, the commission
said, were built according to de-
signs approved by the navy and
with navy needs in mind" II
described them as the most eff.
Gent naval auxiliaries that can be
designed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Editorial Comment
THE HOME A
Raleixh News and Observer

Plans for formation of a North Carolina
Home Guard are nearing completion, and 50
cities and towns have been selected tenta-
lively for units of the new service which will
take the place Of the National Guard, now
undergoing a years training as a part OF the
Federal military establishment.
It is to be hoped that no occasion will arise
for the Home Guard to do more than to drill
and parade. But the Guard is being created
because of the possibility that there will be
service for it to perform. Because OF that
possibility, the personnel, and particularly the
officer personnel, should be selected with the
greatest care. Precautions are being taken to
prevent the Home Guard from being a re-
fuge for those qualified for more active serv-
ice. Similar precautions should be taken to see
to it that the Guard is not composed Of the
unfit and incompetent. Men disqualified to
command troops in the field because Of age
or slight physical infirmity can be found to
officer the Home Guard. But men disqualified
for active service because of infirmity OF
judgement should find no welcome in the Home
Guard. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
New Warplane Detector
Developed By British

WASHINGTON, Jan. l. R -
Military men expressed belief to-
day that the British have develop
ed a way to equip their warplanes
with a detector for locating enemy
aircraft in the dark.
Ground detectors of that nature
have been in S in Britain for
some time and well-informed
sources here said the statement
OF air chief Marshal Sir Hugh
Dowding at Ottawa earlier this
week that the menace of enemy
night bombers would be greatly
reduced sometime this spring, in.
Dictated the device had been adapt.
ed for installation in Royal Air
Force planes.
IT'S just a repetition of the old
military maxim that for every new
weapon there is always a defense
developed" one official said THE
question is whether the British can
develop the defense in time"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
Nnder CounciLManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviAe
Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid.
err 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 sustaine d-yield methods through.
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo.
tional Agency, supported by one county.
Wdde tao.
~shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center tor Southeastern
North Carolina, developed GROUND the
Community Hospital.
adequate hospital oiiHes for phites,
Junior High School,.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape groDing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Chance for Service

The movement for port development at Will
mington offers the states delegation in con
gress one of the rare opportunities for united
action with the individual enthusiasm that
would spring from an effort to obtain a benefit
for each members own district. That is to say
the port project is not a Wilmington project
alone, but a statewide project in the success
of which every congressional district will have
a share.
Wilmington will be merely the site of the
terminals. Wherever anything is manufac'
tured for sale in other markets, wherever
anything is produced in the soil for export,
from the farthest western county to the coast,
the benefits of those terminals will extend.
For this reason every member of the house,
both senators, and every North Carollnlan In
government service is very properly called
upon to put his shoulder to the wheel and give
a push forward for the approval OF the loan
which will make possible the construction and
operation of terminals here. The loan, appll-
cation for which has been made to the Recon-
Finance Corporation, is for $655,0OU.
The power to grant it, or reject It, IS vested
in Jesse Jones who, incidentally was a mem
Der of the commission which developed the
Port of Houston. His sympathies naturally
are with cities which seek to advance their
economic security by similar undertakings. 1t
appears that the one thing necessary to Sc
cure Wilmington's port loan is to show Mr.
Jones that Wilmington is a proper place Tor
such a project, that there is sufficient revenue
in sight to retire the port indebtedness and
meet operating and maintenance expenses
1t will be vastly to the credit of the states
of congress if they can show their
constituencies that they, individually, had a
hand in creating such an asset for them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Axis Reaction

Considering the ominous warnings German
spokesman have recently directed at the Unit
ed States, it is more than a little strange that
the Presidents hard-hitting fireside chat on
Sunday evening did not get the same instan'
taneous reception in Berlin as in Rome. The
German reaction was said, at first, to be Hit
ler's secret. There was no mystery about
how the Italians took it.
According to Virginia Gayda, Mussolini's
vealed nothing new because it has long been
understood in Italy that Roosevelt is the man
leading the fought but undeclared war against
the Axis and JAPAN Thus a declaration of
continued aid to Britain was expected. The
only question is the extent and form OF the
help given. Signor Gayda added there is a
limit to Axis liberation.
This statement is in line with similar threats
made even before the President spoke. It is
part of a campaign directed primarily at the
Italian people, who are now being acquainted
with the fact that the vast resources of the
United States are being thrown, in steadily in.
creasing measure, into the scales against
uleIu. IHe uuW can no longer be hidden, 1t
is therefore necessary to put a bold face on
the matte.
1t was not until later that the Nazis adopted
a similar strategy. On New Years eve the
Nazi press took up the cudgels and belabored
both President Roosevelt and the American
people and the motives that actuate our policy
of all aid to Britain. This delay may be in
terpreted as indicating that the German people
are in as much need of encouragement as the
Italian people. The Nazi leaders can have
been prompted to their outbursts only by the
need for bolstering German morale. At least,
they should know by now that further warnings
will not brighten the American administration
or public.
incidentally, Italian comments on the peace
pleas made by several senator's are welcome,
since they clarity the nature of the conflict.
These proposals that the President seek to
mediate between the Axis and Britain have
been 'spurned with disgust" Nothing more
should be needed to put an end to this talk OF
an American effort toward a negotiated peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02

cause of the work of Massey as
John Brown, and of Helm as q
Judas impartial in dispensing his
betrayals.
"Victory," Screenplay by
John L. Balderston from JOS
eph Conrad's novel. Directed
' by John Cromwell. Principals;
Fredric March. Betty Field,
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jerome
Cowan, Sig Rumann.
The story of Heyst, cultured re
cluse from life, and Alma. the
little pianist who brought life
and danger-to his jungle islanc
retreat, has been filmed with fair
ly absorbing results.
March is as persuasive as usual
Miss Field shows anew her in.
teresting versatility, Sir Cedric Co.
wan and Lionel Royce make :
fascinating trio of c~utthroats, anc
considerable of the Conrad cat
mosphere' and feeling are car
tured. The victory of Heyst anc
Alma over fear is given good, con.
crete cinematic treatment in sus.
p%enseful sequences from which
both emerge alive--the latter q
matter in which Conrad, as I re.
cal, was %neglectful.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
$4,000 Watch Ell Paso's
Pageant Oh Music Parade

Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. L R -
Stretching like a vari-colored ser
pent through Ell Paso's streets,
the Southwestern Sun CarnivaI's
Pageant of Music" parade today
streamed by an estimated It's, OOC
persons-nearly twice the popula-
ton of this border city.
Communities throughout the
southwest were represented by the
48 floats which carried out a musi.
cal theme, and IS bands in the two.
hour parade which started at $3.50
a. m.
Fort Bliss cavalry and mechanic.
ed units headed the procession, i'm.
mediately followed by the booted
and spurred riders of Ell Paso's
sheriff's posse.
The spectators, coming from all
parts of the nation and Mexico.
basked in warn sunshint as the
pageant unfolded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Man About Manhattan
BY GEORGE UCK

NEW YORK, Jan. 1 - Here is
an item that explains how Broad
way can be as vicious and as
double-dealing as it can be senti-
mental and wacky.
But first, let's go back to a little
conversation, related in a past col
umn, that this reporter had with
a nightclub man on Broadway one
might. This fellow had come out
of the back streets and the hobo
camps of the country to become
a night club operator.
When he first got here, he was
a pretty human guy. He was hun
CRY then, and he appreciated kind
ness. Then he got ahead. He began
to make a success and also a first
class heel out of himself. One night,
brooding at a corner table, he said
to me, II can't understand it. When
you're down and out you've got
lots of friends, but when you get
a little success, your friends all
change"
I wanted to say. Maybe it's
you who has changed" but I didn't.
Well, word got about recently
that he was in a hospital. Why?
Nobody knew. First one story was
told, then another. They didn't
make sense. The real story is this:
One of his partners caught him
Juggling the figures in the books.
This partner, a tough guy, gave
him a terrible beating. He was
beaten so badly that he had to 60
to the hospital.
THAT won't get his money
back" I said, why didn't his
partner sue him-turn him over
to the cops?"
"He didn't dare" was the an
swer. He has a past too. The
only satisfaction he could get was
to take it out of his pals hide"
Not a very pretty story, but it
helps explain Broadway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
To Farm" Defense Jobs

Although it appears that the war department
has taken a leaf from the British book in it's
decision to push the farming out'' process
as a means of speeding the defense program
those with new ideas designed to increase
production should be encouraged by it. Here,
at least, is an indication of a willingness to
accept a good suggestion when offered.
The farming OUT process is the American
name for what the British call their bits and
piece" formula In essence the principle is
simple. 1t provides for the ALLEGATION of parts
of defense contracts to hundreds of small
firms, scattered all over the country, instead
pf concentrating large orders in big plants in
the industrial ~centers.
On behalf of this system it is claimed that
it results in tapping production resources that
would otherwise go unused, or only partly
used. It means that special plants to fill de-
Tense contracts will not have to be built, in
many cases., and the delay involved will be
obviated. Besides, it is said, the migration Of
workers to city factories will be slowed down
and the resulting housing problem will be
less acute.
In order to carry out this program the de.
partnent has named Joseph l.. Trecker and
Francis Trecker, of a Milwaukee milling ma
fhine firm, as "dollar-a-year'' men. This firm
has followed this method successfully in carry
ing out its own contracts. Their task will be
10 apply their experience all along the line.
during the last few weeks a number of
suggestions aimed at speeding the defense
effort have been brought forward. Whether
they are workable is not for the layman to
say. However, they deserve the attention of
the government experts. 1t is heartening to
know that one OF them has already been adopt
I'd.