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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-11
Boards Again

With the announcement by the
Ezra Meeker committee that plans
for the annual celebration are
under way with the climax sched-
uled for the first week In August,
the question Is being asked Thurs
day. When do we start growing
whiskers ," The committee, &C.
cording to President Mel Dennis.
has made no official decision on
the date for whisker growing, but
feels that the season is open. Be-
cause of some opposition express
ed by professional men and others
having business out of the city
during celebration time. the COM
mittee believes that the problem
OF whiskers or no whiskers can be
best decided by the individual.
There will. however. be prizes for
all types and excuses for boards.
Women of the community are
being invited to begin overhauling
their ancient garments for the
special dress events. Costume and
pioneer prize contests are to be
worked out for the celebration
program.
There will be a meeting Of the
celebration committee Monday
evening at 4 o'clock in the Cham
Der of Commerce rooms which
Representatives of all women's and
mems organizations in the COM
munity are urged to attend. Sally
Sicade and Anne Rademaker, in
charge OF the pageant production,
will outline casting requirements
and organization. The pageant,
requiring a large cast of local
people and community support.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-11
OBITUARY NOTICES

daughter, Donna Mae Mitchell Of
Tacoma. Funeral services will be
held Friday at 1880 p. m. from the
Piper chapel with the Rev. Mr.. /.
Cheney officiating. Burial will be
in Mountain View burial park.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-11
MRS. BARBARA MARTsH

Mrs. Barbara Martsh, 50. OF 2134
Fswcett ave, died Wednesday in
d local hospital. She was a native
Of Russia and had been a resident
% Tacoma since 1922, coming here
from North Dakota. Surviving are
three sons, John. Emil and Edward
CT Tacoma: one daughter. Mrs.
Lydia McKenney of Tacoma;
granddaughter Maxine Mckinney.
also of Tacoma; two brothers.
John and Chris Felchle Of Good
rich. n. D.. and one sister, Mrs.
Katherine Heinrickson of Ven
turia. n. d Cassidy n Allen will
announce the funeral.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-11

A plant which yielded potatoes
underground and tomatoes above
ground was produced by Luther
Burbank.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-11
FRANK BATER

Frank John Bauer. SO. died
Wednesday at his home, 1907 No.
Washington IT. Bauer, a former
employee Of the Buffelen Lumber
and Mfg. Co, was native of
Wisconsin and a member OF the
Sawmill q Timber Workers union.
He also was a member of First
Baptist church. Surviving are his
wife. Frances; two daughters. Mrs.
Alice Mitchell of Tacoma and Mrs
Florence Hansen of Bellingham; ,
one SON, William F. Bauer OF Ia
coma; four sisters. Mrs. Sadie
Sauer of Los Angeles and Mrs. Ida
Wolfe. Mrs. Anna Keplinger and
Mrs. Margaret Buttedahl of
Wspheton, n. D.. and one grand
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
TRADE BODY HERE
TO SEEK MEMBERS
Plans f. Campaign Are
Discussed at Meeting Of
Reorganization Group

Plans for conducting a member
ship drive in the immediate future
were discussed yesterday at a
meeting of the reorganization COM
mittee of the Wilmington chamber
of commerce, Harriss Newman,
committee chairman, reported
last night.
Newman said it was decided to
call a joint meeting of the reor-
ganization committee and the COM
mittee which is operating the pres
ent trade body in order to agree
on the date for the membership
drive.
The committee which is opera
ting the chamber of commerce at
the present time, he pointed out,
is composed of the presidents OF
the five civic service clubs in the
city, Civilians, Lions, Exchange,
Rotary, and Kiwanis, and repre-
sentatives of the city and county
governments.
. AS soon as arrangements can be
made for a membership drive
Newman said, the reorganization
committee will submit a full re-
port to a meeting of the entire
membership of the trade body.
After the membership drive
he said, ''the new board of di-
recto-rs will be elected and will
proceed to flu .ction as the Will
mington CHAMBER of commerce."
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DR.. T. W. M. LONG
dies IN RALEIGH
Was Author Of Large Part
Of States Good Health
Legislation

RALEIGH. Feb. 3.-lP-Dr. T..
W. NJ. Long of Roanoke Rapids,
state senator and author of a large
portion of North Cardinals good
legislation died unexpect-
eddy here tonight of a heart attack
He was IS years old last January
a.
He was stricken while at the
home of a brother here, and died
less than two hours later. He had
suffered a minor heart attack last
week, but attended sessions of the
general assembly regularly.
At the 1899 session of the legis-
lature, DR., Long successfully spon-
sored three bills which, health
authorities said, placed North
Carolina among the leading states
ln the sphere of health laws.
lheSe measures required per
sons wishing to become married
to pass health tests, all expectant
mothers 10 take blood tests for
syphilis. and all children to be
lmmunlzed against diphtheria.
At the present session of h e
general assembly, he was sponsor
ing a oil which would have added
I00 cents to the cost of all automo-
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RESOLUTION ADOPTED
Note Trend for Unreason-
able Charges for Rents,
Other Services

The Wilmington Ministerial as
ISOLATION, meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A.
yesterday, adopted a resolution
strongly condemning the practice
of increasing prices for rents and
other services in the community
because of the influx of thousands
of workers on the Holly Ridge prof
ect and other new citizens to the
city.
The resolution, as drawn by DR..
A. J. Barton, pastor of the Temple
Baptist church, and adopted unani-
mously by members of the associa-
ton, read as follows:
81. 1t has come to the attention
of the Wilmington Ministerial as
ISOLATION that there IS a decided
tendency in the community to make
unreasonable and unjustffied charges
for rents and other services since
the coming of a large number of
new citizens and visitors in con-
nection with Camp Davis at Holly
Ridge and in connection with the
establishment of the shipyard at
Sunset Park.
so. The Wilmington Ministerial
association wishes, hereby, to go
on record as thoroughly opposed to
any unfair and unjust increase OF
prices for rents and other services
in the community; and we regard
such increase as unsound as a bust
ness policy and as unpatriotic in
this time of national crisis.
SO. That we hereby express the
hope that all good patriotic citizens
whether hotel proprietors, mer-
chants, or private home owners, will
studiously refrain from anything
and everything that could be classed
as p~rofiteering.
"a. That we have heard with
deep regret that growing out of
this unnecessary and unjustified
increase in charges for services
rendered there is naturally being
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IS GIVEN TO COUNCIL
Workers and Business Men
Ask That Steps Be Taken
To Cut High Costs

The Wilmington Defense Council
yesterday received a petition sign
ed by 80 people, some of them
Camp Davis employees and others
merchants and business men OF
the city, asking that steps be taken
to 'reduce the high, and still go
ing higher" cost of living in Will
mington.
The petition, presented by John
Grimm, read as follows:
1--WE, the employees of Camp Davis,
do hereby submit to you, the De-
Tense Council of the City of Will
mington, this petition in hope that
some steps will be taken to reduce
the high. and still going higher, cost
of living here.
"Most of us came here in the high
hope of making a good living, but
instead by the time our overly high
room and board are paid, there is
not much left to send our families.
I'VE have come here to work and
cooperate with our President. Why
is it the people of Wilmington can
not also cooperate, that is, by con-
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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Passage Seel.
Start Debate
Fish Takes Leadership Of
Opposition As Plan Gets
TO Floor Of House
LINES ARE SPLIT
Proposed Amendments Are
Scheduled to Be Consid-
cred In Three Days

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. Up -
With administration leaders pre-
dieting approval by a margin of
at least 100 votes. the lease-lend
bill was brought to the house floor
today to be heatedly denounced as
a step toward war and dictator
ship, and warmly defended as a
measure to keep the horrors OF
conflict away from American
shores.
AS the house proceeded through
the first hours of three days OF
general debate on the measure,
Representative Fish (R-NY) took
the leadership of the opposition.
He asserted that enactment of the
bill would plunge the United States
INTO war in Europe and Asia with
in six months and bring a dictator
ship at home.
"a War Measure"
It was apparent, however, that
party lines would be split on the
final vote. After Chairman Bloom
(D-NY) of the foreign affairs COM
mittee, in reply to Fish, declared
the legislation would keep w a r
away from the United States, Rep.
Coffee (D-Neb) asserted that it
was "a war measurement a de-
tense measure"
Coffee asked how long it would
be. if the bill passed, before our
navy may be transferred' to Brit
ain.
For the most part, the debate
followed the general lines of the
argument which has ragged since
the measure was first proposed.
At one point, however, Rep.
Dirksen (R-Ill) demanded to know
what had occurred when Lord Hal
flax, new British ambassador,
called on Bloom at the capitol last
Saturday. His face flushed, Bloom
called Dirksen's question very i'm
proper"
proper Question"
The destiny of America hangs
in the balance" Dirksen shouted.
'It is a proper question"
Bloom. in tense voice, said he
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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British Bomb
Airport
Near Tripoli
English Forces Gathering
Strength for Assault IN
Italians at Bengasi
RAIL CENTER RAIDED
Occupy Barentu AS They
Drive Wedge, Into Heart
OF Italian Eritrea

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 3.-R-Brit-
ish imperial forces, already gather
ing strength for an assault on the
key concentration of italian troops
in Bengasi, Libya, today hurled an
aerial offensive 800 miles further
west with heavy bombing of a large
airdrome and railway center south
and west of Tripoli-almost to the
border of French Tunisia.
The communique of the middle
east command said Castel Benito
Is miles south of Tripoli and Fan
Eur, on the coast of Tripoli, were
heavily and successfully bombed
Sunday and Monday.
The communique said:
Heavy Raids
"On February 8, bomber aircraft
of the Raj carried out very heavy
and successful raids OH Castel Benitc
and surrounding districts.
During the night of February
and 8, several tons of high explosive
and incendiary bombs were drop
ped and at least seven enemy air
craft grounded on the aerdrome were
destroyed by fire.
TN addition other aircraft machine
gunned motor transports on the road
west of the aerdrome and on the
main road near Zanzur, causing con-
siderable damage. All our aircraft
returned safely"
This air raid marked the furthest
westward push of the British in
their African campaign and indi-
Gated that conquest of all Italian
Libya-clear to the border of French
CONTINUED OH Page Two; Col. ~
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AMENDMENT ADOPTED
Provides $65, 100000 Ad-
ditional Contract Authori-
ty for Regular Plans
PLAN SEVEN YARDS
Provision Regarding Work.
ers' Affidavits Attacked
By Senator Bailey

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 R -
The senate voted today for a $780,.
900, 900 emergency shipbuilding
program.
Passed without a record vote,
the measure carried 1913, 500, 900
in new appropriations to be used
with $36, 500, 900 available from
other sources in building 200 steel
cargo vessels as we'll as new Ship
building facilities.
The chamber accepted an amend
ment, requested by the maritime
commission, to provide S65, 600, 900
Of additional contract authority for
the commissions regular ship pro-
gram. The house must concur in
this and other amendments before
legislative action is completed.
Seven Yards
During discussion of the meas
IRE, Senator Adams (D-Colo.) said
that the new shipbuilding facilities
would be located at seven points
where little ship construction was
now in progress so that there would
be no drain on existing supplies of
skilled labor and building faciIi-
ties.
Senator Maloney D-Conn.) in
terposed that officials of his state
had reported that shipyards used
during the last war and thousands
of unemployed shipworkers we're
available, despite the contention
of federal officials that a shortage
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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War

BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON

BY K1RKE l.. SIMPSON
Latest reports about the fighting
in Albania indicate that Italy is
threatened with the worst disaster
she has suffered since she entered
the war.
From Yugoslavian border points
comes word that, in preparation
for retreat, the fascists have de-
stroyed military stores at Tepelini,
last Italian-held pivot of the south
ern and south central defense line
in Albania. Coupled with Greek
claims of having swept the foe off
the twin mountain spurs spearing
ten miles northward from the
great East-West Viosa river gorge,
these reports indicate early col
lapse of the whole Italian southern
front.
Desperate Race
Abandonment of Tepelini and the
Viosa river line running northwest
from that point toward the coast
would neal certain italian evacu-
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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VICHY, France, Feb. 3.-OP-
French Navy Minister Admiral Jean
Darlan conferred with Pierre Laval
for several hours today in Paris IN
negotiations aimed at meeting Ger
demands that the former wee
president of the council be reinstated
in Marshal Petain's government.
Admiral Darlan was expected to re-
turn shortly with Laval, or bearing
a. report on Laval's conditions for
r~eentering the government from
which he was ousted in December.
Friends of Laval said he expected
to receive an important portfolio,
possibly the foreign ministry, and
declared Laval took the position that
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
ARE CLEARING SITE
Two Acres
Cleared and Work Begun
On Temporary Units
DENNIS ARRIVES
Says Persons Seeking Jobs
Should Register With
Employment Office

The first step in the construction
of shipyards here was started yes
terday with between $50 and 300
laborers engaged in clearing the
70-acre site south of Sunset Park.
Approximately two acres of land
was cleared yesterday and work
was also started on erecting tenn
porary office buildings on the ship
yards site.
Take Several Days
j. E. Dennis, representative OF
the V. P. Lofts construction COM
pany, which is associated with U.
A. Underwood and Dallas Orrell,
of Wilmington, in the construction
contract work, said last night that
it will take several days to clear
the site and get organized for
building operations.
However, the work is going
forward very satisfactorily" he
said.
Dennis stressed the fact that the
associated contractors will employ
their labor through the North Caro-.
lima State Employment Service
and that persons seeking jobs
should register with that office
and wait until called.
The job of clearing the site was
started at exactly 1890 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and work
men rapidly began telling trees
and clearing away underbrush.
Opening approximately Is cases
of axes, a workman handed the
sharp-edged tools out to the labor
ers shortly after noon and the men
went to work in the wet and snowy
weather, preparing the site for the
yards where "a ships r to be built
in a period of "a months.
Despite the fact that a represen-
tative for the contracts publicly
announced that there would be lit
tie employment Of men for the first
few days of the yards construction,
a crowd of several hundred work
men was on hand at the Sunset
Park waterfront site. And more
hundreds besieged the office head
quarters of the North Carolina
Shipbuilding corporation at Third
and Grace streets. A spokesman fol
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
LENNON AND SMITH
TO ASK PAY RAISE
Recorders Court Officials
Plan to Call on Law
makers for Increase

Judge Alton A. Lennon and So
licitor H. Winfield Smith of the
New Hanover county recorders
court, which has been unusually
crowded recently, announced yes
terday that they will ask men,
bers of the legislature for a sub.
stantial increase" in their Mspec.
tive salaries.
They pointed out that heretofore
their positions have been consid-
cred somewhat part time jobs but
that with the coming of the va
rious defense projects here a t
the number of cases before e
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
Wage-Hour Law Upheld
BY y. S. Supreme Court

.SAsHlNGToN, Feb. g.
prerna decision of the su-
sttnti court today upheld the con-
in all 'Hahty of the wage-hour law
overrr, us phases and went on to
denies d 1913 decision which had
law cb;S congress the right to out
10 Tbo setlon raised speculation as
|%tution.1 d controversial consti-
1874 b1l. amendment, submitted in
Of The aaIl1led so far by only %
oecoma required So states, would
nept d dead issue. This amend
|Gnit "ould empower congress ito
lsbor, regulate, and prohibit h e
VI ape " persons under 10 years
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04

OLYMPIA, WASH, Feb. 3.-R-
Two men found the army's mis-
sing two-motored bomber today,
half buried in the side of a noun
tain about 70 miles south of here,
with its seven occupants dead.
The bomber disappeared Janu-
airy is on a routine flight from
McChord Field Wash, to the
Muroc, Calf, bon bling range.
Harry and Bi4l Studhalter,
brothers living in the, Bear Canyon
woods arrived in Morton, Wash.'
late today with news of the dis
covery.
c. I. Kimple,' published of the
Morton Mirror. said thu brothers
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
Missing Bomber Is Found
With Seven AirmenDead

told him they found the plane
about 20 miles southwest of Morton
in a dense growth near the base
of Huckleberry mountain.
They said they had seen tn e
plane January 16 when it passed
over their home at an altitude OF
about 600 feet. They could not
figure out how the plane would
negotiate the mountain while fly
ing at such an altitude and, when
it was reported missing, started
a search.
Spurred by a 81, 1000 reward offer
the brothers made three trips into
.(Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
LEGISLATORS PAY
TRIBUTE TO LONG
both Houses Adjourn Out
Ut Respect to the Out
standing Senator

RALEIGH, Feb. 3.-R-News of
u.e death of DR.. T. W. M. Long,
r'a'e senator from Roanoke
raploS, reached the halls of the
VI Assembly tonight just as
III" M oody was converting.
me announcement was made
~ln profound sorrow in tn e
rjaaLe by its presiding officer,
s ~ Gov, L, Harris, who asked
Psalm. eoo "ie N'io
the house, Representative
star- OF Warren told fellow legis-
s'Ofs Of the sad intelligence of
n ~. death of one of the most be-
T pa., members of this body"
inv, uU.l houses adjourned almos,
STATE ula'ely out of respect to the
tecti senator who was known af-
Su0aately as Doctor Tom and
S'htlnued on paoo Tive, Co c>
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
Darlan And Laval Discuss
Nazi Demands On Vichy

if he returns he should be placed in
full charge of Franco-G German ne
gotiations and with an understand.
ing that there would be no diverg.
ence in opinion on what constitutes
collaboration"
There have been reports that
Laval favored a more active form
of collaboration with Germany
French political circles considered
it unlikely that questions of empire
bases for the Axis powers vas under
immediate consideration, but believed
Darlan sought to settle Laval's po-
sition now and create a favorable
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Officials at the chi1dren's bureau
said they would continue to press
for ratification of the amendment
since three-fourths of all child la
Dor is employed in intrastate in
dustry, but the courts decision ap-
peared to place at least a large
part Of this within the control of
congress, along with all child la
Dor in interstate industry.
The wage-hour law itself, passed
in 1888 and known technically as
the fair labor standards act, pro-
hibits the employment of children
under 16 in mining and manufac-
turing and of children under 10 in
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
WORK ON TROOPS
HUT STARTS SOON
Commissioners Award Con.
tracts for Furnishing the
Materials for Building

The city and county commission
ers yesterday awarded contracts
for furnishing materials for tn e
recreational center, to be erected
at Fourth and Princess streets, for
use of soldiers to be stationed at
Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.
Actual construction work on the
project is expected to begin this
week, weather conditions permit
ting. !
James E. L. Wade, commission
er of public works, and Lewis j.
Coleman, county commissioner,
representing their respective COM
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BRITISH CONTINUE
ATTACKS ON NAILS
Strike at Detectives in Ger
manifold Northwestern
Part of France

LONDON, Feb. 3.-RE British
bombers struck across the chan
mel in pre-dawn darkness today at
detectives in German-held north
western France, the government
announced, following up British
weekend air assaults against both
ends of the Axis.
A terse air ministry communi-
que listed neither the precise tar
gets of the RATS bombs o the
damage inflicted.
1t said merely that targets in
the northwest of occupied France
were bombed in the curse of an
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
GERMANS HARASS
ENGLISH TOWNS
Bad Weather Is Holding Up
Return to Mass Bomb
ing By the Nazis

LONDON, Feb. 3.-R - Single
German raiders harassed British
towns today and a high Royal Air
Force officer expressed the opinion
that such forays would persist until
a break in weather permitted a re-
turn to mass bombing.
But, continued the officer, supe-
rior aircraft and pilots of Britain
twill again beat back any return
to mass daylight bombing as a pre-
liminary to INVASION" despite the
fact that Germany's first line air
strength will be "measurably in
excess" of Britain's on March 1.
(ContinI1ed nm Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
Ministers Condemn Price Increases;
High Living Costs Raped In Petition
REYNOLDS Recommends
Hills Reappointment

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-dF-.
Senator Reynolds (D-NC), back
ON the job after an attack of ill.,
fluenza which kept him in Naval
hospital for two weeks, announc-
ed today he had recommended
John Bright Hill of Wilmington,
for reappOintment as collector of
custOme at that port.
Reynolds said he understood
Hills reappOintment for a period
of four years had already been
approved by the treasury depart
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-04
BATISTA ASSUMES
COMMAND OF ARMY
Guards Throw Up Sand
bags AT Points Inside the
Presidential Palace

HAVANA, Feb. 3-R-President
Fulgencio Batista. announced to-
night that he had taken personal
command of the army, navy, and
national police forces, shortly after
army guards threw up sandbags
at strategic points inside the presi-
Dental palace and mounted ma
chine guns at the entrances.
Batista made the announcement
at 11:10 p. H.. that he had accept
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Army Orders

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. R -
Army orders today:
MAJORS
Basil M. Parks, ONO, Fort
jackson to Columbia, S. C. Robert
Holmes, Jr., FA., Fort Jackson to
Columbia. Carl M. Rylander, NC,
Fort Sill, to Camp Croft.
CAPTAINS
Joseph P. Russell, ONO, Fort
Sam Houston to Camp Davis. 4