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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
. Man About Manhattan
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-If you
think everything happens to you,
consider the plight of the poor taxi
driver I encountered today. Twice
in two days he has been over
Whelmed by events that were none
of his choosing. He was just an
innocent bystander.
Last Thursday night he w a S
parked on Fifth Ave. at 49th street
waiting for a fare. A roadster
tore past and as he followed it
with his gaze he was Mortified to
see two bodies tumble from it.
1T happened so fast" he ex-
planned, that for a moment I
thought a couple of DRINKS had
toppled out of the rumble seat.
But they weren't DRINKS. They
weren't even in the car. They
were pedestrians and that hit-and-
run roadster had knocked them
down."
The cabby went on to say his
first impulse had been to rush
them to a hospital. But in New
York, q very big city, picking up
bodies has complications. It might
be difficult to prove that YOU
weren't the one who knocked
them down.
Fortunately, however, another
cabby ran up and said, Il saw
that guy. I'll be a Witness" The
victims therefore e speedily
taken to a big midtown hospital.
But this hospital had no emer-
gency entrance, and the driver was
told he would have to go up to
the third floor to see about having
the patients received. Angered, he
rushed around the corner to an
other hospital that had less red
tape.
But his troubles were only be-
ginning. He then had to hurry to
the police station and report the
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

JACKSONVILLE, Feb. ia vol
untary registration of men and
women in Onslow county to make
available a record Of their abili-
ties and willingness to cooperate
in the national defense program
was decided upon last Friday at a
meeting of a countrywide commit
tee of leading citizens.
At the same time a group from
the committee met with the Onslow
County Board of Commissioners
in special session to approve WPA
projects also in connection with
national defense and Camp Davis.
The projects provide for recrea-
ton, adult and child education and
lunchrooms.
The purpose of the countrywide
committee is to determine com-
munity resources and needs" for
national defense.
Members of the committee are:
Mrs. c. W. Sutton, Richards,
chairman, Mrs. Marie Sabiston,
secretary, j. j. Cole, A. H. Hat
sell, j. w. Burton, Miss Laura
Matthew'S, DR.. ]. P. Henderson,
M. A. Cowell, Mrs. T. B. Koonce,
Mayor c. E. Warn, H. j. Jones,
Bruce Simmons, Hugh Overstreet,
Miss Ruth Rhyme, Miss Anne Hid
reth, Mrs A. C. Sewell and Billy
Arthur all of Jacksonville; Mr.. n
Mrs. Louis Sylvester and Mrs. Ed
Smith of Richards. A sub COM
mittee on defense is composed OF
Cowell, chairman, Sylvester. Mrs.
Sewell, Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Koonce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
HOLLY RIDGE TRAFFIC
To The STAR

~ liz oto1.-
Driving to Holly Ridge at 6 p.
or driving from Holly Ridge
to Wilmington at 6 a. m. is a very
tiresome job because one has the
light constantly glazing in his eyes
the entire distance. Occasionally
one has to almost stop or get in
the ditch to let some speedster
pass.
Three or four times the writer
had to almost stop and once was
forced to get on the shoulder of
the highway in order to avoid an
accident. Many of the drivers cut
in and out of traffic, thereby max
ing it unsafe for traffic going in
the opposite direction. The eye
strain is terrific because SO many
of the drivers do not dim their
car headlights.
Because of the practice of some
drivers cutting in and out of traf-
fc and Of the closeness of the
cars in line of traffic, the writer
fears that an accident will hap
pen at any time which will en-
volve three or more cars. It is my
belief that some of the drivers do
not allow themselves enough time
to get to their work: therefore,
they take chances on fast and reck-
less driving in order to get to
work on time. This practice con-
stitutes a nuisance for which there
is no excuse. Rushing work in a
manner that it cannot be properly
done and delaying it until it rush
es' the worker"
M. H. PERKINS,.
$40 Queen Street,
Wilmington N O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
STUDY OF CIVIL
SERVICE PLANNED
Broughton Says He Will Ask
SoIons to Authorize Sur
vey of Proposal

RALEIGH, Feb. 17-R- Gov
ernor Broughton said today he
would ask the legislature to au-
thorize a study of the possibility
of establishing a state civil sefV'
vice plan under which North caro-,
lima employees would be required
to take merit examinations.
The plan contemplated probably
would include all state employees,
with the exception of school teach
ers, who already are required 10
have certain credentials IN the
form of certificates from schoolS
or colleges.
Broughton said he would send a
message to the legislature asking
that the study be made, either by
some existing state agency or by
some specially appointed commlS-
sion.
The body conducting the study
would report to the 1945 genera
assembly, which might take steps
to make merit examinations man.
datory.
The governor pointed out tha'
certain state agencies which are
financed partially by federal funds
such as the UCC, the board Oh
health, and the welfare department
already are covered by merit
examination requirements, under
federal regulations.
1--WE are gradually getting mo
merit examinations in part ne
said, land 1 think we should see
whether we should have them IN
whole. There is justification for the
merit examination plan, IN we"
of the fact that we are ~establlSh-
ing a retirement SYSTEM
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
NEA Service, Inc

accident. The police received his
report with skepticism. despite
the accompanying drivers corrob-
grafton. Fortunately the roadster
bracket mirror had been knocked
off, and after a detective checked
to see that the cabby's mirror was
intact, he was released.
That was Thursday night. Fri
day night he drove from a mid
town address to Amsterdam ave-
nue., and quickly returned to his
downtown stand. When he checked
into the taxi's garage about 9 am,
the other drivers in the fleet began
clustering around h m excitedly,
crying, Haven't the cops picked
you up YETI"
When he ascertained that his col
leagues were in earnest, he hur-
ried away to the police station to
find out the trouble. 1t seemed
that just as he dropped his fares
at Amsterdam venue two men
lldu 1lC1O up d SOl1ltl otOlG dlld
escaped. An eyewitness to the
robbery had noted that a green
Packard cab at that moment had
turned around and driven away.
He jotted down the cabs number.
A few moments later the bandits
held up another store further up
town, and escaped again, and
about an hour later held up still
another store and escaped-in a
green Packard cab. Nobody got
the license number. this time but
the inference was obvious.
It took our driver a lot Of ex-
planning to convince the police
that he was innocent, but they
finally released him.
mot only that" moaned the
driver, ''but think of all the time
I lost. That hit-and-run driver and
those stick-up buns cost me five
or six bucks. eaSy."
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Grand Jury Releases
Negro In Arson Case

The New Hanover county 9i'iU
jury, meeting concurrently IN III.
courthouse with the special term y"
the county criminal court, yeslelu"'
cleared Elliot Douglas, Wlllnllls'oN
negro, of suspicion in the arson dean
here last month of a young he7io
woman, fatally burned in a rooli'Ne
house fire. =.
The grand jury, presided oVei
L. D. Latta, foreman, returheu o.
no true bill in the Douglas e"o..
Douglas had been ordered heid !"
grand jury action by a coroher , Sa
after Mabel Edwards, IS, dleo
burns suffered when her Dom wa
set afire. in
A no true bill was found aiSo'
the case of auto theft chargeS pN
ferred against Jim Nixon. ,,.e
The jury remained in SESSION ~.
this afternoon, and probably VIII
at 10 o'clock tomorrow nIoi"
ing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
TOP o. THE MORNING

Hast thou q lamp, a little lamp,
Put in that hand of thine?
And did He say, Who gaUe it thee,
The Uor1d hath need this light should be
Nop, therefore, let 1T shine?
Thou shalt not Want tor light enough,
When earthly moons groW din1;
The daagm is but begun for thee,
When thou shalt hand, so tremblingly,
Thy empty lamp to Him.
SARAH PRATT MCLEAN GREEN
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Anxiety In Far East

To the ominous rumblings of approaching
crisis in Europe the Far East is adding an
accompaniment so menacing that it seems
the war is about to burst forth in renewed
violence as Germany, Italy and Japan strike
together to smash the British Empire for
once and for all.
Recently the Australian cabinet w a in
urgent session following the startling state
ment issued by acting Prime Minister j. W.
Fadden and John Curtin, leader of the labor
opposition, that the war has moved into a
new stage involving the utmost gravity" With
out explanatory details, they proclaimed that
the nation must neither delay nor doubt
in making the greatest possible effort to be
ready.
This call to action came against a back
ground of rising tension. There were reports
of Japanese demands for concessions in the
Dutch East Indies. japanese warships are
reported in numbers in the China sea off
Saigon, and it is known that the British have
strengthened their air force along the Malayan
border.
Meanwhile our own government has again
called on Americans in the Orient to. leave,
the wives and children of army officers in
the Philippines have been ordered home, and
the Philippine government has called 100, 900
men into service. At Washington the Presi.
dent has asked for new funds for naval bases
in the Pacific, including Guam and Samoa.
All this adds up to a threatening picture
and the existence of the Three-Power pact
does not mitigate it. Yet the State depart
be that when it comes to taking steps that
cannot be retraced Japan will hesitate rather
than actually attack either the Dutch or the
British. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Denmark Will Protest
Against Ship Seizures

COPENHAGEN Via Berlin) --(P)
Feb. 17-R-The government of
Denmark has decided to protest
against ~confiscation of three Dan
ish steamships by the Chilean gov
eminent, DNB, the official Ger
man news agency, reported TODAY.
The foreign ministry, DNB said
had instructed the Danish minister
to Chile to submit energetic Lro-
test and demand restoration of
the ships l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty-County Government
Under CounctLM Manager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck md Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena tor Sports and Industrial Shous.
Seaside Ht0hway from Wrt0htsvtle
= Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35Foot Cape Fear Rtver channel, Did-
er Turning Basin. Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, vta
orion Plantation.
Developm ent OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustatned-yteld methods through,
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
ttonal Agency, supported by one county
Uide tdz.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital ~i1ities for .chites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developme nt OF native grape 0ro1tn0
throughout Southeastern North Caroline.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
Quotations

Paying a man S. a day for expenses makes
staying wy from home ttractive, and matri-
|mony suffers. Gov. Chas Clark, Idaho, on an
economy program.
You could take nearly 1000, 900 people off
the farms today and you wouldn't interfere
with production. R. M. Evans, AAA admin
|iStrator.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

by the present finance committee
plan to exempt all food or a reduction
of the tax to two per cent by amend
ment to the revenue bill when it is
considered by the senate
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

The Royal York Hotel, iololN in
Canada, is the tallest oulloA's A
the British Empire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

The World War changed everything but
our way of thinking. Chester c. Davis, farm
member. NDAG
Evening star., 1941-03-27
C.l. 0. Drive 10 Organize
Shoe Workers Launched
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The c. I. o. and the United Shoe
Workers of America announced last
night IAN intensive organizing drive
among the workers in the shoe in
dustry, with special concentration
on organizing the 10000 employees of
the International Shoe Corp.
The International Shoe Corp. has
a units in st. Louis and the Middle
West" the announcement said, "and
substantial basis of organization
already exists in a number of locals
chartered by the United Shoe Work.
ers of America"
Walter H. Harris of Wilkes Barre,
Pa, veteran c. I. o. organizer, will
direct the campaign from head
quarters in st. Louis
A statement by Frank McGrath,
president of the United Shoe Work.
ers, said that International has
been paying out large dividends and
accumulating mounting cash
surpluses while its unorganized en-
ployes have not had fair wages"
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Home Guards Vital
To Preserve Order,
Stimson Declares
Use in Industrial Strife
And to Cope With Spies
Declared Essential
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

Organization of home guard units
in the States is essential to permit
local authorities to cope with in
dustrial disorders and fifth column
activities endangering the defense
program. Secretary of War Stimson
said today at a press conference.
These home guard units now be-
ing organized in % States would not
be substitute for their National
Guard, as the law intended, if they
could not be used to suppress disor-
ders and maintain law enforcement"
Mr.. Stimson added.
Any exception, such as a labor
strike, he suggested, would defeat the
purposes of Congress in passing the
authorizing legislation.
Mr.. StimSon pointed out that the
State home guards are necessary be-
cause the National Guard units had
been inducted into Federal service,
leaving the police force as the only
protection in the States.
Referring generally to the labor
situation and prevailing strikes af-
fecting the defense program, Mr..
Stimson said 'out of this situation
there may come disorders through
strikes that will get out of the hands
of local authorities" He declared
the situation with respect to labor
strikes and fifth column activities
was made critical" not so much by
what is now actually occurring, but
because of the national emergency
and all its consequences"
Mr.. Stimson said he was in accord
with the action taken by William
S. Knudson, director of the Office
of Production Management, and
Navy Secretary Knox last night in
ordering the struck Allis- s-Chalmers
plant to start operations"
Mr.. Stimson would not say whether
he thought similar action should be
taken by the Government in con-
nection with all strikes affecting the
national defense program.
Secretary Stimson said the Gov
ernment would welcome greater
progress on the part of the States
Evening star., 1941-03-27
5 Survivors Of Blast
And Fire on Tanker
Landed al Baltimore
Captain Of Rescue Ship
Tells Of Difficulty Of
Finding Men in Smoke

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 27.-Five
survivors of the explosion and fire
on the tanker Cities Service Denver,
off Cape Lookout, N. c., Monday
night, were landed here today by
the tanker w. w. Bruce. Capt.
John Saxon, master of the stricken
ship, was among them.
The men were put in charge of an
official of the Cities Service Co. and
gave no details of the disaster. The
official indicated they would go I'M
mediately to New York for question:
ing by steamboat inspectors.
(The Cities Service Denver
sank while being towed by the
cutter Shoshone last night, Coast
Guard headquarters said in New
Evening star., 1941-03-27

in organizing home guards. The
coastal States have been more on
their toes on this matter" he ex-
planned.
Maryland and Virginia were cited
among the States now taking steps
to organize these forces. The Vir-
ginia protection law authorizes a
force of 1900 men in II battalions.
A company already has been formed
in Alexandria.
Maryland has authorized a force
of 1000, but Mr.. Stimson said the
department has had no report on
what is being done in this State.
Evening star., 1941-03-27

York. Ofhcers said the ship went
down about 40 miles south of
Diamond Shoals lightship, North
Carolina. Nineteen missing crew
members were believed to have
gone down with the Ship
Capt. George W. Robinson, skipper
Of the Bruce, said the Bruce was
about 2 miles from the Denver wher
the explosion occurred.
"As we drew closer we saw thai
Evening star., 1941-03-27

stayed of the Denver about q half
mile and had to be very cautious
because oil was burning on the water
around her and we were also afraid
of another explosion"
Evening star., 1941-03-27

the Denver's captain had tried to
lay her before the wind so that the
fire would not blow toward the
Denver's bridge" he said.
1--WE went around to the Denver's
Evening star., 1941-03-27

port. The tanker Pan New York .
went to her starboard 's' and pick
ed up lifeboat with II men, some of
whom were very badly burned. We
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-05-01
The State Sunday School and B. T. D.
Congress Puts On Drive for $5,000.O0
For Christian Education and
And Natchez College

The Executive Board of the State Sunday School and
T. u Congress organizes campaign TOR the above drive
three years campaign drive for the State s. s. B.
u Congress for the purpose of enargng the scope OF
Christian education among the Baptist denomination IN
Mississippi Our aim is to put from two to three workers
on the field for 365 days in the year with monthly
salary fixed by Board of the Congress Same has been
done and the workers been appointed by the Board
in session. The workers Prof M. C. Averhart of
Greenwood Miss Prof W. A j. Williams, of Yazoo City,
Miss. and Rev. C. D. Brown, of jackson, Miss. The
workers are to report monthly telling the amount Of
work DONE money raised the amount OF expense and bal
hand copy of their report must be sent to the
President Dean, and Corresponding Secretarys office
Upon receipt of their report at the end OF each month the
President shall order to the treasurer to their
salaries, if reports satisfactory.
For this cause are asking that representation
be paid weekly that is, ask Sunday School and
B. T. u member in the state that belongs to the Congress
to pay sc per week. starting First Sunday in January,
194 This money will be sent to the Treasurer of the
Congress- Prof c. M Varnado Canton, Miss, every Mon
day after each Sunday. There will be Campaign Com
mtec appointed by the pastor in each church. three in
number Chairman Secretary and Treasurer whose duty
will be collect the sc each Sunday morning and
ng record kept of same and the amount col
leced sent to the Congress Treasurer every Monday
thereafter by posoffce money ORDER and the sender will
posoce receipt for his record for the treasurer
will send any receipt, and the postoffce receipts
tally with the treasrers books and the books of the
local schools and unions.
A report will be made to state paper the Adj
Dispatch at the end of each month telling the
CT money sent by each school and union and the
church and pastors name from which it was sent The
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-05-01

campaign manager must organize the entire state -
the hope that school union Will be Stacker IN Ting
drive Every officer and pastor is asked to cooperate
this drive Also organizer must De appointed IN EACH
county, and four State organizers must De appointed
once to organize schools and unions where there ii
none visit schools and unions where their help need
They are to hold Institutes and whatever they raise wifi
be their salaries and they to bring $40 each to thu
Convention in October, vi
{. This drive means that every department OF Sunday
School and B T. u work shall be fixed by the Board Sf
Congress- The Sunday School and Union that lines uH
with this drive per cent will not be asked for any
further representation but just elect your deiegates M
come on to the Congress- your will be already there
This will enable each School and Union to send dele
gate from every department to the Congress and better I'd
suits will be in churches, even your enrolme
will already be up there just your delegates fees and
board is all you will have to provide for So Bro PAST
ors organize this committee in Sunday School and
Union at once after you have church vote on it.
This Campaign Committee be made up out d
this today and write the Campaign Manager The CANT
pagn Manager will visit every town, calling the pas.
tors for conference and also through the rurals and
everywhere locking for cooperation.
Done by the order of the Executive Board of the State
Sunday School and B. T. u Congress- this the 18th day
Of December 1910
MRS. R. B. DAVIS Secretary.
REV j. w GAYDEN President
and Campaign Manager elected by the Board
PROF NJ A. SMITH, Corresponding secty
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-05-01

Bolivar and L. Lynn Brunswick
Fourth place. A. Folder Lexngton l.. Williams,
Denmark; S. Freeman Brunswick; and J. Mariston, Fay
ettesvlle
Potato Judging 1a
First place S. Davis Bolivar second place, M. Shock
lev Whitevie W. Barr Gallatin; T. Kennedy Lawrence
hnro Third place j. Harston Fayettesville; L. Cross,
Fields School Fourth place, c. Gray Woodstock and s.
Freeman Brunswick Il
Hen Judging 3l@
First place S. Davis Bolivar; second place, l.. Will
Hams Denmark and H. Cross, Fields School; third place.
L. Morrow Bolivar, Fourth place /. Lynn, Brunswick
and T. Kennedy, Lawrenceburg
Ranking Judging Teams
Crops and Animals First place. district number one;
second place district number four; third place. district
number two fourth place. district number three fifth
place district number four sixth place. district number
six. and seventh place. district number
Crops and Misunderstanding Boys in Judging
Sweerstake Judges Davis, Bolivar, ...........
Sweepstakes Judges .s..
First place, w Barr, Gaatin district one; second
place S. Davis Bolivar district four; third place, L.
Williams Denmark, district two; fourth place, M. T.
Shcckley, Whiteville, district four.
Modern Farmers Degree e.
First place, Lewis Cross, fuckers Chapel; second
place Welton williamson, Denmark; and third place
Rcdger Ttae and Walter Vance, Geeter.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-05-01
Commencement Calendar Diamond
Jubilee Anniversary OF Rust College

Friday May So 800 p. M High School Glass Day
Exercises.
Saturday May 81, g OO5 :O0) p. M Field Day
Sunday, June l. 10 80 a. m. Baccalaureate Services
Sermon-Bishop A. Preston Shaw d. D., LII. D.. Bat
more Area, Baltimore Maryland.
1880 p m. closing meeting of students religious or
ganizatons
Monday, June 2, 300 p M senior college class day
exercises
1870 p. m. presentation Music Department.
Tuesday, June 3, 3 80 p. m meeting of the Alumni
Association.
Address-Rev DR.. j. w. Golden, Alumni Field Agent
District Superintendent, Memphis District Tennessee
Conference, Memphis, Tenn
Address-Bishop Lorenza H. King, D. D.. IL D..
Atlantic Coast Area Atlanta Ga
Wednesday, June 4, s 100 a. M Annual Meeting Board
of Trustees.
1000 a. m. Commencement Exercises.
Address-Bishop Robert E. Jones, D. d., LII. D. Col
umbus and New Orleans Areas Columbus. Ohio
Announcements
To each of these exercises you cordially invited.
Summer quarter begins June g. 7 80 a. m.
News From A. e I. State College,
Nashville, Tennessee
Contention of Ner Farmers Of America in Annual
Contention at Tennessee A. & I. College A prL SD
Nashville, Tenn. April The Twelfth Annual State
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-05-01

Nashville, Tenn, April THE Twelfth Annual State