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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

City Briefs
"POPEYE"

William Bostlc, alias Popeye,
was sentenced yesterday to serve
four months on the roads upon
conviction in recorders court of
assault with a deadly weapon
charges preferred by Joe Pitt
man, colored. Pittman alleged
that Bostic beat him with brass
knuckIeS.
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e

BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.-R-one
year ago, Sergt. Edward Dunn be-
gan his duties as a plainclothes man
by arresting a negress on a lottery
charge. He celebrated his first an.
n~iversary today by arresting the
same woman on the same charge.
ignoring her protest that the lottery
Slips found in the kitchen were
left over from the last raid"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
ADVANCE

ORLANDO, Fla, Feb. 14-R-
Albert Little of Kentucky, a Rol-
Inns college student and Mrs. Lad
die Irwin Whitehead of Upper
Montclair, N. j., advanced easily
today in the semi-fnal round OF
the mid-Florida Women's Golf
tournament. They meet tomor-
row in the 36-hole finals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
SIGNS

CLEVELAND, Feb. "A Up =
Southpaw AL Milnar signed his 1871
contract today "a hours before
Cleveland Indians ~batterymen and
a few other players entrain for
their Fort Myers, Fla. training
camp Terms were not announced.
Milnar won 10 games last season.
His signing left only three players
outside the fold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
WILL WATCH

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. l
- Saturday In Policemen
backed by Norwegian Nazis Will
attend all church services in Ger
man-occupied Norway to report on
any "trespasses'' against the new
order" it was reported today from
the Norwegian capital. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BILL RATIFIED

The house yesterday concur.
red in senate amendments to and
ordered ratified into law a bill,
introduced by Representative
John r.. Morris, of New Hanover
county, to permit investments OF
funds of law enforcement bene-
fit commission in insured bank
certificates, according to an As
ISOLATED Press dispatch from Ra-
leigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
CHURCH SERVICES

The Rev. II. w. Gurganous
and the Rev. Willie Walton will
preach at the IL a. m. services
today and tomorrow at the Prim-
tive Baptist church,. sos Castle
street. The public is invited to
attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
CONTINUE SERVICES

The Rev. and Mrs. r.. C.
Frazier last night continued a
series of revival services at
the Pentecostal Holiness church,
preaching on the subjects, self
Destruction" and Jesus, the
Light of the World" The public
is invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
STABBED

Theodore Davis, negro, of 7O4
Campbell street, was admitted
last night to James Walker Me
mortal hospital for treatment of
stab wounds allegedly inflicted
by another negro, police reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
SOLVED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-HA
): Edgar Hoover announced to-
night that the reported disappear
ance OF SAT-, 900 in cash from the
nome OF Mrs. Roe Wells at Miami.
Beach, Fla, had been solved. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
JEWELRY STOLEN

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla Feb
l4.'R-Theft of jewelry valued At
s17,4oo from the yacht Elsanb,
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. William T.
Price of Merton, Pa, was renor+aa
to police today. Police Chief Rohort
Milburn said Mrs. Price di,.
covered the theft today when sba
opened a jewel cas- to renlace =,
ring she had been wearing.
The boomerang first vas usod
by Australian aborigines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

Bill johnson was arrested on
charges of storebreaking, larceny
and receiving, police reported
last night. johnson is charged
with breaking into and entering
the storehouse of the A. and p.
company at 900 Market street
on Thursday and taking a guam
tity of cigarettes, tobacco, candy,
and chewing gum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
INWARD BOUND

Onongaga, 1,427 tons, from Gal
weston. with sulphur. Heide & Co..
agents.
Tanker
Elwood, 1885 tons, from Houston,
with gasoline for Cape Fear Ship
ping company. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
KITS EXPECTED
TO KEEP NEVER
Will Do Nothing About Vir-
ginia Tech Assignments
Until March 1
By KENNETH GREGORY

ATLANTA, Feb. 14.-R-Dancer
Gary Leon, who won s1,363 for
two bucks the other night on a
greyhound daily double combin-
alton, was so pleased he tossed a
dinner for the dogs. The win
ming combination, Mr.. Kemp and
Boys Town, were carted into
Dempsey's Miami eating place for
the feed. Jimmie Kits says
he'll not do anything about his
coaching assistants at Virginia
Tech until he reaches Blacksburg
March /. He has indicated that
Macauley McEver, backfield and
basketball skipper, will be re-
tanned.
It is reported that the New York
Giants have dispatched Scout Hank
Deberry to Knoxville to try to sign
Bob Foxx, the Tennessee athlete. i.
Knoxville is staging a bowl for
Britain women's handicap bowl
ing tournament for the British war
relief society. Momentous ques-
ton: Is Tennessee going to play
Boston college, or isn't it, and II
so. where? The Alabama-Ken-
lucky basketball game down this
way next winter is likely to be
played in Birmingham instead OF
Tuscaloosa.
Patty Berg, National Amateur
Champion Marvin (Bud) Ward and
Charlie Yates are slated for a golf
exhibition here late next month. {.
The Atlanta Crackers topped the
Southern association in one-run de-
cisions with "a wins against 20
defeats by single tallies. Nash
Vile has 81 such victories and lost
% by a single marker. Bobby
Jones fired another IS yesterday,
his card showing eight IS, nine As
and one S. Jim Buford, Wander
bilt coach, predicts Tennessee by
a nose in the Southeastern confer
ence basketball tournament a nd
says Kentucky may make it a
photo finish.
The Thomasville club of the N.
C. State league will have in its
outfield this summer one George
McAfee, who did some mighty fine
footballing for Duke. Stud
Stasica, referred to as South c ar
olina's darkhorse in the football
stable'' by Scoop Latimer Green
vile News, was sought by Notre
Dame, Michigan and Stanford,
among others. How did Carolina
land him? Well, he halls from
Rockford, ILL.,, the home town OF
Coach Rex Enright. :. Kentucky's
spring football practice is on a
weather permitting basis.
Lexington has had a mild winter,
but the day Coach Alb Kirwan an
nounced spring drills the years
heaviest snow fell.
A thought: Cawthon Bowen Gro
anoke Times) reports Henry Redd
is quite happy to be known as
Virginia Techs "ex-coach". &.
And quotes Redd as saying In re-
gard to the unlimited substitution
rule change: boy, I'd sure hate
to be coaching next season.. The
coaches will get all the blame for
their plays. # 1 were coaching
and we had the ball on the 20
yard line, 1 wouldn't substitute a
man. I'd let the boys stay in there
and figure it out for them
ca11,ac
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

Top earning ages for most peo-
PIE are between SO and 40.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

The ancient Egyptians had grey
hounds.
Evening star., 1941-09-30

essary to tear up fundamental eco
nomic principles to do it,"
Chairman George Of the Senate
Finance Committee previously has
expressed opposition to the Nor
genthau proposal, but Senator Nye,
Republican, of North Dakota, a con-
sistent opponent of administration
foreign policies, has given it quail
fed support.
Curb on Initiative Seen.
Some businessmen have declared
that 6 per cent profit limit would
destroy private initiative, that when
a corporation had earned the stipu-
lated 6 per cent its officers would
have no incentive for increasing or
even maintaining production.
On another economic front last
night Leon Henderson, Federal price
administrator, bespoke the cooper
alton OF businessmen for pending
prlce-control legislation.
In an address before a regional
meeting of the National Association
OF Manufacturers at New York, Mr.
Henderson reiterated his belief thai
no effort should be made in the
price bill to control wages. He said
wage fixing would amount to in
come fixing. and that wage stabili-
zation would better come through
negotiated labor contracts.
Evening star., 1941-09-30

* Lack Of fuel for cement produc-
don is curtailing building in
Sweden.
Evening star., 1941-09-30

up on articles affected by it. Busi-
ness has been brisk in all lines, he
added, and the only particular
rush" noted was that which ac-
companied the shutdown on silk
hosiery manufacture.
Jacob Goldstein, manager of M.
Philipsborn Co.. said there had been
an increased demand for furs and
fur-trimmed coats lin the past few
days" which he ascribed to the new
tax.
An official of one establishment
who did not care to be quoted said
sales of jewelry, silverware and cos
metics indicated the purchasers
were desirous of taking advantage
of the prices obtainable before the
tax applies. He also was of the
opinion that fur sales had been
boosted in the past month, not only
in Washington, but in the country
as whole.
Evening star., 1941-09-30
|Vandenberg Attacks
Proposal 10 Limit
Profits 10 6 Pct.
Plan Called Indirect
Attempt to Repeal
CupitoIistic System
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau's proposal to limit corporate
profits to per cent drew fresh op-
position today from Senator VAN
denberg, Republican, of Michigan,
who called the plan IAN attempt by
indirection to repeal the capitalistic
system"
Mr.. Morgenthau said late yester-
day that the proposal would not even
be presented to Congress before next
year, and in any event would not
apply to 1941 business, but Senator
Vandenberg's sharply expressed op-
position indicated that meanwhile
there would be no moratorium on
criticism
The Michigan Senator, a finance
committeeman, declared there was
mot a semblance of justification" in
the per cent profit ceiling plan and
he took particular exception to Mr..
Morgenthau'S recommendation that
profits be computed on the basis of
invested capital.
Optional System Exists.
At present, corporations may COM
pute taxable excess profits either
on the basis of invested capital or
that Of average earnings over the
period 1868, inclusive.
"The invested capital method is
not the sole measure of profits In
this country and Congress has con-
sistently refused to take an un-
realistic view of the situation" Sem
ator Vandenberg told reporters.
There is not chance that it will
reverse its position now.
IF war profits are not being re-
captured. there are ways and means
OF recapturing them. 1t Is not nee
Evening star., 1941-09-30
axes

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1941-09-30
Watch Company Cited
By Trade Commission
BY the Associated Press.

The Federal Trade Commission
announced today that it had issued
a complaint charging the Water
bury Clock Co. of Waterbury, Conn,
with unfair and deceptive acts"
in the sale of dollar watches or
"Ingersoll watches"
Under guaranty watch can be
returned to the company for re-
pair or replacement, but the COM
mission said that "in practically all
instances" the watch is not sent
back to the customer but another
sent instead. The parts of the re-
turned watch are taken out, the
commission said, and placed in. bins
where new stock is kept awaiting
assembly into finished watches"
"As result, the commission con-
tended, "a substantial portion of
the dollar watches manufactured by
the respondent contain parts which
have been previously used"
Evening star., 1941-09-30
Nazi Porf Of Stettin
Attacked 11th Time
By R. A. F. Planes
Large Fires Reported
Started; Hamburg Also
Torget Of Raiders
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 30.-A powerful
force of Royal Air Force bombers
started large fires in an attack on
the German port of Stettin last
night, the Air Ministry announced
today.
Another strong force bombed a
dock area of Hamburg, while sub
sidiary attacks we're made on docks
at Cherbourg and LIE Havre, a COM
munique said.
Eight of the British bombers were
announced missing. Two fighters
also were announced as missing from
offensive patrol operations by the
lighter command.
One hostile fighter was claimed
shot down by British bomber, an
other driven off in damaged con-
dition and a hostile bomber set on
fire in fighter attack.
The raid on Stettin was the 18th
since the war began and constituted
a long-range blow to help Russia.
The British assume Germany is
using Stettin to send many supplies
to German forces in Russia.
On the home front it was re-
ported officially that small-scale
German activity was restricted to
eastern coastal districts of England
and Scotland.
Bombs dropped by single enemy
aircraft at a town in Northeast
Scotland demolished some houses
and caused a number of casualties,
including some people who lost their
lives" joint communique by the
Aid and Home Security Ministries
said
Evening star., 1941-09-30
1ay|or's Talks With Pope
Reported ENCOURAGING

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 3O.-Myron c.
Taylor. President Roosevelt's per-
sonal envoy to the Vatican, was
reported by an unimpeachable
source today to have told Prime
Minister Churchill his visit to the
Pope was mot disappointing"
This source said Mr.. Taylor def
nltely was not returning to Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the bearer of any
peace plans.
While in London he has had
brief talks with Mr.. Churchill, For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden
United States Ambassador John @
Winant and David Gray, United
States Minister to Ireland.
Mr.. Gray planned to return 10
Dublin tomorrow. Mr.. Taylor was
expected to leave Britain soon.
Evening star., 1941-09-30

quarters, particularly at Hamburg
the high command said, caused
casualties among the civilian popu-
lation, including some fatal"
The British air force was de-
clared to have lost II bombers in
operations yesterday and last night.
The German air force was re-
ported to have carried out further
raids on the Scottish east coast and
objectives in Southeast England.
Evening star., 1941-09-30
5000 Ton Freighter
DESTROYED, Germans Claim

BERLIN, Sept. 30 P.-German
flyers sank an 8,00O-ton freighter
and one vessel belonging to a large
destroyer formation" last night, the
German high command said today,
in waters east of Great Yarmouth.
A British aerial thrust at Berlin
overnight was acknowledged.
Scattered raiders flew over the
North German coastal area, the
high command said, and penetrat-
ed to the outskirts OF the capital.
Bombs dropped on residential
Evening star., 1941-09-30
British Areas Protected
By Vast Smoke Screens
By the Associated Press.

fhooONIHNtU
LONDON, Sept. 30.-Vast smoke
screens extending for many miles
was reported today in use in Brit
ain to protect industrial centers
from air attack.
Sets of smoke producing sppa-
ratus manned by soldiers were said
to have been set up all over the
country.
Evening star., 1941-09-30

the thought of the tax had had any
effect on buying in the so-called
luxury" lines, the public realizing
that they were confronted with the
necessity of paying the new levy for
a long time to come and conse-
quently were not attempting to stock
Evening star., 1941-09-30
Won't Purses Branded

Importers in India are insisting
that American ladies handbags
bear the name of the country where
they were made.
Evening star., 1941-09-30
AviIo Comocho Appoints
Brother to Cabinet
Nv the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, Sept. 3o.-Presi-
dent Avila Camacho last night ap-
pointed his brother, Gen. Maximino
Avila Camacho, to his cabinet as
Minister of Communications and
Public Works, succeeding Gen. Jesus
de la Cara, who resigned yesterday
for reasons of health"
Evening star., 1941-09-30

Britain has 7,592,O0o farms, ac-
cording to the latest official figures.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

featuring a few top-drawing stars.
Speculative profits from those few
outstanding favorites would have
to guarantee him a black-ink entry
for the year.
There Were Impasses.
II the No. l theater owner in the
town was inexperienced or stubborn,
the film peddler wasted little time.
He picked up his pretty folders and
called on No. 2.
In cases where a town supported
only one theater, or where all thea
tiers were under the same owner
ship, many companies found their
product blocked out of that area.
Realizing his power, the exhibitor
might refuse to buy except on his
own terms. Equally stubborn, the
distributor might stay out of the
town until his price was met.
Amazing as it may seem, there
are comparatively large cities in this
country where half dozen or more
OF Hollywood's most popular fav-
orltes are unknown to local screens.
Fans in such communities, wishing
to see those stars in action, must
drive to other localities where ex-
hlbltor and distributor are not at
tSee HEFFERNAN, Page %
Evening star., 1941-07-20
.AMadhOuse,
But Still She
Loves 1t
Studio Secretary
Wouldn't Like
A Saner Job
y a MOvie Secretary,
(AS Told to Mary Halel
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
People say I'm blase, that moth
ing less than an earthquake gets a
rise out of me-
Maybe they're right. If so. there's
a reason. For the past 10 years I've
been secretary at motion picture
studios. In Hollywood anything can
happen, and usually does. I'm used
to it now.
came here from a small Ohio town
and got a job in studios steno-
graphic department. I used to stare
wide-eyed at movie stars-the way
tourists 90.
One day l dropped my purse, and
Gary Cooper picked it up for me.
was awed. I could hardly say
Thank you" When I had to de-
liver a script to Marlene Dietrichs
dressing room my heart pounded
like thunder.
1t didn't take long to lose my
illusions. Few movie stars are as
personable off screen as on. They
have bald spots and poor complex
ions, just like the rest of us. Some
times I didn't recognize my favor
ties.
Just Like People.
But I wasn't always disappointed.
Loretta Young, Barbara StanWyck,
Claudette Colbert and Carole Lom-
bard, to mention a few, were just
as attractive as their screen shad-
ows.
Before I'd worked in the studio
long enough to call number of
stars by their first names it daWned
on me that they're just people, little
different from myself, except that
they got bigger salaries.
Working for movie directors,
writer's, producers and executives, l
learned, entailed work not in the
usual secretarial routine.
When I worked for an English
writer I used to make tea every
afternoon at 4:30.
One producer expected me to
spend my lunch hour walking his
Dalmatian coach dog.
had to keep three kinds of candy
and three kinds of medicine-in
one directors desk. In the middle
of the afternoon l always brought
him q chocolate ice cream soda.
He said It was doctors orders.
When one Of my bosses couldn't
(see SECRETARY, Page -
Evening star., 1941-07-20

6lluelN new OIueI III f1Olly WOOu.
In case you're a bit vague about
the Federal requirements of the con-
sent decree, here, roughly, are few
if its claws:
Block booking in its old form-the
sale to an exhibitor of an entire
seasons program in advance Of pro-
duction-is abolished.
Finished pictures can be sold in
parcels of no more than five.
Exhibitors must be given the op-
portunity to preview each picture
before sales negotiations are begun
Regardless of producer owned the
aters (Which heretofore received pro-
auctions of their parent studio auto
matically) all pictures must be placed
on the open market for competitive
bidding
Signed for a Season.
This entails an upheaval in movie
sales methods if there ever was one.
Heretofore, the distributor had the
theater owner-especially the small
one without chain affiliation-pinned
back by the ears.
Along about this time of year.
after summer sales conventions had
given distributors a chance to ap-
proximate their plans for the flow
of product beginning September l,
regional statesmen. commonly known
as film peddlers," would call on ex-
hibitors throughout the country and
sign them up for the whole coming
seasons program of unmade and,
in many cases, undetermined pic
lures
Let's say the peddler drove into a
town of $4,000 inhabitants, boasting
two theaters. The first exhibitor was
called on and shown a handsome,
multi -colored brochure filled with
nothing more than dazzling promises
of products to come. The exhibitor
was then asked to sign blanket
contract for the whole works-per-
haps 40 to so features.
Invariably the theater owner
signed then and there. He knew he
had to go for the job lot-including
what he realized would be perhaps
20 unwanted, Improbable releases
In order to get paybe . dozen Aims
Evening star., 1941-07-20
srBilly the Kid" Was Another
To Prove Yearning for Action.

believe they have blundered upon
the missing link in putting move
ment into their screen drama.
Another recent picture of extreme
popularity is Billy the Kid The
basic story of that film, starring
Robert TAYLOR, is something that
used to be turned out almost by the
gross in Hollywood. Authorities on
Billviana. of which there are many
of those, too, said it was not even
q reasonable facsimile of his LIE
.torv; that actually he was muir
derous little weasel who coulont
even spell honor" much less
show 1t.
Did audiences mind? Did the
critics, who usually are auerglc 10
STRAIGHTFORWARD Westerns and SEN
sitive to ravagement of the truth
about scoundrels?
They did not. Unaccustomed as
they were to pictures which put
movement above all else, they took
HBillv the Kid" to their aching
hearts and found their aches re-
Ieved. Correlatively, so did exhlo-
,tors whose hearts ached even
harder over the. until then, condl-
tion of their box Offices.
The eanniness of Metro-GoldWyn-
Mayer in making the picture Is
being admired on all sides. How
much smarter it was, the comment
goes. than those other studios
which have looked upon the west
srn as something to be burlesqued
or satirized. The latter treatment
naturally requires periodic pauses to
point the fact that it is such good |
joke. as indeed it was for a while.
But there were too many pauses
In too many pictures for the public |
to put up with them forever. Its
members started finding their own |
action in other places, a process
which seems to have taught the
movies lesson.
If they only will remember it!
Evening star., 1941-07-20
From the GridirOn

r. K. o. Radio Pictures has signed
Frank Martinelli, Jr,, football star
of Santa Clara College, to a long
term acting contract. This is in line
with the policy of Joseph l. Breen,
Executive Vice President in charge
of production, of seeking young play
ers of promise.
Martinelli will return to Santa
Clara next fall, taking leave of alb
sence from his studio activities to
complete his last collegiate year.