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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

TT WAS a bride of ten years who
Z reminded me Of blanket protec-
tors. / say bride because her
home still has the immaculate
freshness of a brides house. Her
wool blankets have never been
washed or cleaned, yet their soft
light colorings show no sign Of
soil. She brought out some long
pieces of cotton material; IT haste
these over the tops Of the blaf1-
kets," she said land change them
every few weeks. - ~
I thought of some dainty bed lin
ems that / had seen all trimmed
in flower sprigged cotton print.
Why not make lowered blanket
protectors to harmonic with blan-
ket colorings? Here is one that
would 60 with either rose or blue.
It is easy to hide basting stitches
that fasten it temporarily to the
blanket by slipping them along in
the pink or blue binding as shown.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
SECONDS:
In the Ring

Italy was not, perhaps, knocked
out Of the war BY England Greece,
but her seconds, at any rate, jumped
into the ring. Presence of large
numbers of German troops was con-
firmed in many quarters.
Purpose Of these was bit dubi-
GUS, but consensus was that some
would be used in actual fighting in
the Battle Of Greece and the Battle
of Africa, and that others would be
employed to bolster home morale.
Germany, in admitting official aid
to Italy, let it be known that Axis
partners must stand together, and
that in sending aid to II Duce's tot
tering armies Germany was but re-
paying aid sent to her by Italy in
the form Of hundreds Of pilots and
planes for crosse Channel bombing"
It was too early for the general
effect Of these reinforcements to be
noted in the war reports. British
mechanical forces, backed by naval
guns from the Mediterranean and by
naval and army planes from over
head, pushed on rapidly into Libya.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

BERMUDA--The British have TAX
en- from the SIS Excambion Oscar
R. Stabler, So, the ships barber, q
German-born naturalized American
citizen.
MALTA-Prince Philip Of Greece
is first member Of the royal family
TO join the British armed forces.
He's 10 and has been assigned to
active duty on battIeship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

crew, a man for
whose scalp the Brit
ish anti Chamber
lainites had howled
for months without
success.
Washington con-
coded the great abil-
ity Of the new am
bassador, and pre-
dicted success for
him here, while adj
hitting that Aneri-
can public opinion
at the outset might
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
HOOVER:
Speaks Again

Herbert Hoover, announcing him
self as definitely and forever out of
politics, took the speakers stand
again to appeal for a general U. S.
sentiment in favor Of making plans
to feed Europe's hungry-without let
ting any of the food get into Ger
man stomachs.
The former hero of Belgian re-
lief told the people he believed this
could be accomplished, but that it
would not be the work Of week or
q month-but would require months
OF planning before 1t could be car
ried out.
Millions of men, women and chill
dren in the overrun countries of Eu-
rope win be facing real hunger, cold
and starvation before the next har-
vest, and If lives are to be saved,
said Hoover, America must do the
saving.
Hoover's statement as to the i'm
minence Of starvation went unchal-
lenged, and news dispatches from
Shanghai, for instance, told Of u 800
bodies being found. dead from star
walton, more than two-thirds Of them
Chinese children, in six months
alone in the one city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
AROUND
| THE HOUSE

More food value is preserved
when vegetable is baked in its
skin than when it is steamed or
boiled.
A weekly bath in hot soap suds
will not only make a broom sweep
cleaner, but will make the broom
last longer.
Add peeled, CHARTERED apples
when you roast lamb or veal. The
apples add a delicious flavor and
give soft topping to the roast.
In all but baked dishes, fiavoring
extracts should be added when the
food is cool, otherwise much Of the
favoring will vanish in steam. 81
Two or three minutes after you
have started your gas or electric
oven, open the door for second
or two, to let out the damp air.
The oven will then heat in a much
shorter time.
Finger tips Of gloves mend much
easier if a thimble is slipped into
the finger to be mended.
To keep cheese fresh for some
time, cover it over with thin
coating Of paraffin. When ready
to serve remove the paraffin.
Orange juice as q substitute for
vinegar will give a new and de-
liciously piquant flavor to French
dressing. Select the thin-skinned
yellow oranges when, as here, the
amount Of juice is the first consid-
Grafton. These are always the
juicier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
BOSS:
Becomes Servant

Selection of Viscount Halifax as
British ambassador to the United
States was case Of the boss be-
coming the servant and vice versa,
for Anthony Eden was named as
most likely candidate for succession
to Halifax's, post as foreign sec
rotary.
Halifax left the cabinet, the last
of the Chamberlain appeasement
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
49, -
Forgive Most

Those who have withstood the
severest temptation, who have
practiced the most arduous duties,
who have conided in God under
the heaviest trials, who have been
most wronged, have forgiven
most.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
CLAUSE SIX:
And National Defense

W0@0 RTGSlOGnL hOOSeVGlt- wants
to do something drastic and final
and something that has not been
done before. he has a system all his
own.
He calls his legal advisers in. tells
them what he wants to do. and then
has them find law for it.
He has created q new lob. called
the Office for Emergency Produc-
ton Management. and put into il
william S. Kn1dsen. wizard autono-
bile production man. with instr,yc-
tons that he is to be the scar for
u. S. defense. and all lights extend
ing before him will be green lights.
Knudsen took the lob (Which he
almost had before the new order)
grabbed his new authority. and told
America to ssroll up its sleeves and
20 to work. building planes and mn
nitions.
ssThere must be no appeasement. /"
he said, and he called the. war in
Europe ssirreconcilable'' in charac-
ter. and asked the nation to ssrecor-
nize the full gravity of the crisis,
which resulted in additional bower
being given to his organization.
One writer said that. seven
months ago, when Knudsen was Civ
en- the defense Craftsmanship. he
gave that funny half-smile Of his and
asked President Roosevelt who's
the boss?" The President said IT
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

One length of material as long as
the width Of the blanket viii make
a pair of these protectors. A half
yard extra of the lowered material
will face a matching pair Of pill
low cases.
You win also find some other ideas for
trimming pillow cases In SEWING Book 2.
This booklet has been one Of the most
popular In the series as 1t not only con.
tai1s complete directions for many gift
and bazaar novelties but shows how to
make A different embroidery stitches and
order to-:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
DIES BLACKLISTED

Rep. Martin Dies, who has done a
lot of blacklisting, has himself been
put on a blacklist.
4 He has been barred from taking
out any books from the Washington
public library because Of refusal to
pay fine Of 80 cents for keeping
books beyond the two-weels period.
The wordy Texan withdrew "They
Shall Not Want and II Went to Pitt
College," and the library had very
difficult time getting the books back.
4 After repeated requests Dies final
ly returned them. But he refused to
pay the small fine imposed, at the
rate of two cents a day, for his
hardness. Making no exception to
its rules, the library thereupon
placed him on its blacklist until he
pays up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

The fall of Salun forced an entry
into Italian territory, and the Brit
ish, using the German tactics of the
fight through Flanders, shot ahead
down the coastal roads 175 miles
within the border, completely sur
rounding and cutting off some TO-
600 troops in Bardia, principal port,
Bardia was placed in state of
seige, and the British main forces
after leaving sufficient men to pros
ecute the reduction Of Bardia, later
to be reinforced from the rear,
pushed on toward Tobruk and
Derna.
Marshal Graziani and his main
forces were still able to keep ahead
of the British, but the latter claimed
enormous numbers Of prisoners,
killed and wounded Italians, totaling
around 10000, great booty, all ac-
connplished with a British loss Of
only 1000.
Just where the Germans would en-
ter the picture in the Battle Of Africa
was not clear, with the British ma
val forces apparently in charge Of
the coastline and unnolested, and
the better ports either IN British
hands or under siege.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

recall his appeasement tactics be-
fore Munich.
It was announced that Britain
might add the post Of minister to
its staff in Washington. Both am
bassador and minister had been the
custom in Britain's Paris Office, but
hitherto Washington has had only an
ambassador.
Just what Eden has been up to
in Egypt and the near East has
never been made clear, but it must
have been successful, because OBJ
servers pointed to the fact that B. e.
(before Eden) things had been at
a standstill in the eastern Mediter-
ranean sector, and after Anthony ar
rived on the scene, Of sudden the
British rose up, pelted the Fascists,
and sailed them way back into
Libya.
The British effort against the Do
decanese islands also was crowned
with a great deal of success, and
Eden is believed to have had a fin
ger in that pie as well.
So now he is to be brought back
as foreign minister from his present
post as secretary for war, and this
viii be odd, for he will go back into
a job he held under Chamberlain,
and which he vacated because he
openly expressed himself as out Of
sympathy with the then premier's
appeasernent policy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
T r E N D S

AIRPLANES-At San Diego, Con-
solidated Aircraft corporation an
nounced $14,000,000 building prof.
ect doubling its present capacity.
WINE - At Livermore, Calf,
Schenley Import corporation gave
impetus to the American wine in
dustry by purchasing the Cresta
Blanca Wine company.
PRODUCTION--At Washington,
the Federal Reserve board reported
that during November industrial pro-
duction hit a record high, 1872 per
cent of the 1859 average.
ARMS-At Washington, British Of
ficials completed a master List Of
So, 900, 900, 900 in new war orders to
be placed in the U. S., including
$4,000 combat planes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
Nature Reflects

o nature! glorious mirror Of di-
vinity; what constant students
were we of thy myriad forms and
mysteries all through the years Of
our childhood. -Bulwer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

VICHY. FRANCE. Shown
here is Fernand Di Brinon,
French ambassador in German
occupied Paris, soho acting ,n-
der orders Of the French Chief
ot-State Philippe Petdin, DELHI
cred to the Germans, Frances
refusal to make any changes in
the French cabinet or to take
back the ousted Pierre Laval.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
CREEK:
Aims Revised

The Greek war cry Of ssTirana by
Christmas had to be revised, when
Italian resistance stiffened, and the
skirted Evzones had to fight ahead
every inch of the way at bayonet
point.
Whether twas German reinforce
ment or not was not clear, but as the
Italians neared the hopping off
places they fought harder and the
Greek advance, while continuing
steady, was not as spectacular.
The Greeks reminded one Of q
football team nearing the goal-line
and meeting a stiffened defense.
Enormously important detectives
had been achieved, however, Pogra-
detz on the north and Argirocastro
on the south, Porto Edda and other
vital points having fallen into their
hands.
Maps showed a good third Of AL
bania taken back from the italian
invaders. Immediate detectives
were the port town of valona, and
the inland bases Of Tepelini and
Chimara.
Greek generals claimed the Ital-
ians had moved out Of Kisura,- but
that the Greeks were not entering
the town until the Fascists had been
stormed from their positions on the
heights to the rear.
Former Greek army officers now
in the United States placed utmost
importance on the conquest Of Tepe-
lini, an important road junction
point. They stated categorically that
if the Greeks capture Tepelini, fur.
Their Italian resistance in Albania
would be impossible.
On the other side, experienced
military. men pointed out that be-
You'd Tepelini and toward the coast
line the Albanian plains, and it was
in this territory that the Fascists'
mechanical forces, especially If aid
ed by German tanks and dive bomb
ers, might succeed in hating the
Greek advance.
The British feet boldly ranged up
and down Italy's private Adriatic,
bombing Valona with thousand
pound naval shells and receiving no
answering fire. The outcome still
was in doubt, though dispatches con-
tinued to favor Greece.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
ON THE DIsTAFF SIDE

Sen. Hattie Caraway has received
a letter from man back in Arkan-
sas which says, Dear Miss Hattie,
I want to be in the Secret Service.
Please send me gun, badge, and
handouts by return mail. know
something's
Mrs. Caraway Is an expert in
making white fudge with walnuts.
Mrs. Mary Norton Of New Jersey
drives around Washington in a car.
with New Jersey license number Is.
Her chauffeur is Lucille cDonagh,
who is niece. clerk, and chauffeur.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03
By Edward c. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Halifax Named British Envoy to y. 5.
AS Eden Gets Foreign Minister Post;
u. S. Defense Set-Up Revised in Effort
To Speed Up Industrial Production

sei.mns
(Reeased BY Wesern Newspaper Union l--
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-03

Navy brasshats often are peeved
at the views Of Observation-Disclosures
Rep. Melvin Mas, war fiier and
ranking member Of the house naval
affairs committee. But they respect
his ability. When the navy wanted
congressional expert to make an
inspection tour of its aviation train
ing stations. Mas was picked.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
HAPPENS In BL ADEN
WilmingtonM Mortician Loses
Control of Machine and 1t
Hits Embankment

Leon P. Andrews, Sr., As, owner
of Andrews Mortuary, was killed
instantly in an automobile accident
shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon on the Wilmington-F' ay-
etteville highway, about II miles
east of ElizabethtoWn.
Andrews apparently tried to take
curve too fast, lost control OF
his machine, which left the high
way, overturned twice, and
crashed into an embankment,
Sheriff H. Manley Clark, of Bla-
den county, said.
No Inquest
Andrews died as the result of an
unavoidable" highway accident,
ruled Sheriff Clark, who advised
Coroner T. L. Sutton of Bladen
county that an inquest was not
necessary.
Found pinned beneath his Mer-
curry four door sedan turned over
on it's right side, Andrews W s
dead when state highway pa+roi
men and Bladen county sheriff
deputies reached the scene OF the
accident, Sheriff Clark said.
An eye witness to the mIshap.
Continued on Page Eleven; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
BR0UCHT0N GIVEN
INITIAL SETBACK
Committee Scuttles Propos-
al to Exempt Foods from
The Sales Tax

RALEIGH, Feb. s. tR With
a shouted vote, the joint finance
committee of the general assem-
bly, today handed Governor
his first legislative Set
back, by scuttling proposal to
exempt from the sales tax a !
foods bought for home consump-
ton.
On another front, however, ad-
ministration supporters won an
important victory, when the house
passed on second reading, without
a single dissenting vote, b i l l
which would establish a retirement
system for all North Carolina en-
ployes, at a cost to the state OF
81, ,679, ,076 a year.
In his inaugural message, t n e
Governor recommended that foods
for home consumption be exempt
from the tax, and that retire
ment plan be approved.
No sooner had the finance COM
mittee voted against the sales tax
amendment, when a movement
was launched to apply the tax to
nine basic foods which were ex-
empted in 1887. Some members OF
the committee said they favored
flat two per cent sales tax, with
no exemptions whatsoever.
Action to the finance committee
highlighted the busiest day of the
legislative session, as
committees worked overtime on
pending measures. The joint ap-
propriations group finally wound
up its public hearings.
The retirement bill, which bears
the endorsement of the joint legis-
lative committee on education,
probably will pass third reading
CONTINUED on Page Eight; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07

City police will begin this morn
ing to enforce all pedestrian traf-
fc laws, the campaign being de-
signed to relieve downtown traffic
congestion resulting from the great
increases in population in Will
mington during the past go days.
Violators, according to Police
Chief Joseph Rourk, will be warn
ed for the next few days but art
erwards will be cited for appear.
ance in recorders court, where, II
found guilty, they may be SUBJECT
to S. fine.
Decision to enforce the pedestrian
laws, particularly that which for
bids crossing streets against tra1flc
signals, was made by the chief after
a. department survey of the down
town area and other districts of the
citv where traffic congestion has
been steadily increasing due to the
influx of persons employed here and
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
PEOPLES B. AND l.
PLANS EXPANSION
Work on $4,000 2-Story
Rear Annex to Be Started
Immediately

Plans for a $25,0O0 expansion
program to enlarge the building
which houses the Peoples Building
and Loan association and the Fos-
ter-TIill Realty company were an
nounced yesterday by William M.
Hill.
The plans call for the addition
to be built to the rear of the pre-
sent building, the addition to have
a basement and two stories.
On the first floor will be located
the working offices, private Of
fees OF officials, and a sales room
with two private offices.
On the second floor there will
be a large room in which the di-
rectors will meet, a room which
can later be divided into offices if
need for additional room arises.
The basement will house storage
space and a boiler room.
Hill said the building will be air
conditioned throughout and will be
furnished with all modern conven-
fences.
Plans call for an immediate
commencement of work.
When the work is complete the
present office will have new and
attractively modern front, a large
vault. and entirely new office furni-
ture and fixtures. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
House Reveals Unmistak.
ably Large Majority for
Lease-Lend Plan
ACTION SLATED SOON
Col. Lindbergh Pleads With
Senate Committee to Re-
iect the Measure
BY RICHARD L. TURNER

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. UP -
The house revealed an unmistak-
ably sizable majority for the lease
lend method of helping Britain to-
day by beating off, in almost bois-
terously good-humored session, all
efforts-save one-to restrict tn e
powers which the pending bill
would yield to President Roosevelt.
Acting quickly on amendment
after amendment, with no attempts
at delay apparent from any quar-
ter, the chamber advanced til e
measure at such rate that the
administration leadership was
highly confident of final action to-
morrow night, leaving the e x
step to the senate.
Urges r election
While the house was at work on
the bill, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
was pleading with the senate for
eign relations committee to reject
it as a whole and declaring that if
America is ever invaded the re-
sponsibility will rest with those
who send our arms abroad"
Throughout a barrage of ques-
tioning from senators backing the
measure the alert young flier
clung steadfastly to his position
that: America needs the arms that
would be sent to Britain under the
bill: that American help has not
and will not affect the trend Of
the war; that American assistance
has encouraged and is now pro.
longing the conflict; and that a ne.
gotiated peace, Immediately,
would be the best possible result.
He testified after Col. Robert R.
Mccormick, editor and publisher
of the Chicago Tribune, who sale
that fears of an invasion of the
United States were fantastic
Continued OH Page Four; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07

that this drive progresses salts
factorily."
On second east African fr ont,
Nae official announcement said
British forces advancing n o
northwestern Ethiopia, along I h e
Gondar road near Lake IGna,
were making good progress de-
spite land mines planted by the
Fascists.
British dive-bombers were said
to be softening Italian resistance
with repeated assaults on Fascist
gun positions around Cheren and
on the road east of the town. This
road and the rail line leading to
Asmara are the Italians chief ave-
nues of escape.
The advance of motorized units
in Eritrea necessarily was more
difficult than in Libya because OF
the wild, rugged mountain country.
Continued OH Page Eight; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
GEN. J. A. GREEN
VIEWS CAMP DAVIS
Chief of Coast Artillery
Also Confers With Col.
Crawford, Others

Major General ]. A. Green, chief
of the U. S. Army Coast Artillery,
arrived in Wilmington from Wash
ington yesterday morning and spent
part of the day on an official visit
to Camp Davis. anti-aircraft firing
cent at Holly Ridge.
He was accompanied here by Col.
Hugh Herrick.
They were shown over Camp
Davis by Col. j. B. Crawford, COM
manding officer of the camp; col.
Samuel McCroskey, executive off,
Ger of Camp Davis; Lieut.. Alden b.
Specs, executive officer of the con-
structing quartermaster.
Prior to the inspection tour, Gen
eral Green went over maps and
plans of the site with Captain Karl
M. Pattee, new constructing quar-
termaster. The visitors remained al
the camp for several hors but made
no official comment on the work.
AS chief of coast artillery, Camp
Davis will be under Gen. Green
direction.
Gen. Green said here yesterday
that he plans to return to Wllmin9
ton for a brief visit this afternoon
before returning to his office in
Washington.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
F. D. Z. SIGNS
FINANCE BILL
FOR 200 SHIPS
Labor Unions Charged
With Working Racket
At Taxpayers Expense

ATLANTA, Feb. G. UP -
Charges that labor unions are
working "a tremendous racket"
at the expenses of the nations
taxpayers were made in the
Georgia legislature today as a
deadline neared for carpenters
at Camp Gordon's $4,000, ,00G
army hospital to join the local
AFL union.
The union has posted a notice
telling the 1,000-odd carpenters
they must have AFL cards by
a. M, tomorrow or give up
their jobs. An initiation fee of
$50, payable in installments, is
required of members.
While a group of about so
overalled men who identified
themselves as non-union car
penters at Camp Gordon called
at the state capitol to appeal to
Governor Eugene Talmadge,
Representative E. e. Yawn
shouted the racket charges
on the floor of the house. He
said:
81 am tired of this damn
racket. I am in favor of the
principle of labor unions in
private Enterprise. But this is
your money, your tax money,
mony you, your children and
our grand children will have to
toll and sweat, to pay back"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
Local Police To Enforce
Pedestrian Traffic Laws

at Holly Ridge on national defense
projects. Also to be rigidly enforced
are laws prohibiting pedestrians
from mid-block street crossing.
Explaining the necessity for en-
forcement of the pedestrian laws,
the chief said:
Automobile traffic Oh Front street
is being slowed to ve-miles-an-hour
at certain times of the day, mainly,
our survey convinces US, because Of
pedestrians ignoring intersection
traffic signals. Naturally, an auto
mobile driver, even with the signal
in his favor, is going to stop and
let the pedestrian have the right-of-
way. By doing so, the motorist, under
existing traffic conditions in the
downtown area, is slowing or stop
ping traffic for a block or more be.
hind him.
Continued OH Page Five; Col. y