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Smyrna times., 1941-04-10
Parsley Potatoes
Broccoli ioith Lemon Butter
Hot Cornbread
Tossed Green Salad

Chocolate Mocha Cake ,oifh
Cream Cusfdrd Filling
Coffee
The instructions for making the
casserole are:
Casserole of Chicken and Ham
with sroiled Mushroom Top
cans condensed cream Of mush-
room soup
l cup cream, heavy
2 cups chicken, cut into " inch
squares
l cup ham, diced
2 cups broiled mushrooms for top
Combine the cream of mushroom
soup and cream to make a rich
sauce. Add the ham and chicken
and put into a casserole Arrange
broiled mushroom caps over the top
and bake in a moderately hot oven
(375' F.) for 1886 minutes or until
brownish and bubbling. Serves SIS.
Smyrna times., 1941-04-10

The Brandywine Riding Club will
hold it's annual horse show on Sat
urday, April 26, on the estate of
Mrs. NJ Chichester DUPONT at
Point Lookout" The show will
begin at $50 a. m. and continue
Smyrna times., 1941-04-10
HOW TO BE YOUR
own DECORATOR
-, md Tables Are Partners in Decoration
By
NkL..> As14-
Director, Good Housekeeping Stride

c around country do, I'm often surprised that the
decorative qualities of small tables, and table with lamps
y s as not more widely recognized
Smyrna times., 1941-04-10
by Dorothy Greig

TRANNIE, who always seized upon any for adding
~ special touch to meal would say, Easter is the
son OF the in which fresh things sproutng from
the tulips garden to love the boys and
Smyrna times., 1941-04-10

ing date was April 5, and is known
as the Gre-Sin Gift Shop the same
name of her store in Dover
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

The Genesee river drops 261 feet
within the bounds Of Rochester,
N. Y. d
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
Noses OFFICE HAS
BUSY YEAR IN 40
Nearly $4,000 Register AT
Office Here For Work
During Year

RALEIGH, Feb. o. Benefit
payments to unemployed workers
in North Carolina in the three
years since payments S tarte d
amounted to SIT, ITO, 917.29 which
includes 1913, 049.59 sent to resi-
dents of other states w h o had
worked and established wage cred
its in this State, Chairman Charles
G. Powell, of the N. c. Unemploy-
ment Compensation, announces.
Payments during the month Of
December were 1924, 428. 16, includ-
ing $13, 749.47 out-of-State.
During the year 1910, registra-
tons for work in the 46 local en-
ployment offices with 10 colorsd
branches in the State, numbered
375, SOB, which includes new appli-
cations, renewals, retentions and
clearance additions. In the same
calendar year, these offices found
jobs for 81, 419 applicants for work,
R. Mayne Albright, director of the
Emp, oyment Service Division, re.
ports.
In December, 1910, registrations
for work numbered 40,575, while
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

$3.50, 799, 900, which was the second
smallest in five years. The recess
sion year 1899 produced only $751;
ESQ, 600, although the total of re-
funding issues in that year scored
close third to 1886 and 1910. Present
industrial production, however, is
at a peak for the decade, and &C.
time. It is only a matter of time
before the pressure for expansion
of the nations productive plant
will make its mark on these totals.
Terms of the defense tax bill are
less discouraging to small enter
prise, since earnings must reach
$500, 900 above normal before the
surtaX reaches the maximum fifty
per cent Gin addition to the twenty
four per cent normal levy. For
this reason, it is likely that small
business enterprises will be eager
to bid for sub-contractor work, and
a considerable amount of new plant
construction will be undertaken by
the little fellow"
Many Small Issues Seen
This will not all be financed by
the banks; the Securities and Elk.
change commission, recognizing the
responsiveness of formal registra-
ton, has specifically exempted Sc
curity issues of 500, 900 or less
from all but the simplest Of re-
quirements. Accordingly it seems
likely hat many small issues of
stocks and bonds will find their
way to market. incidentally, such
issues require more intensive mer-
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
NEGRO THEATRE IS
BUILT DURING 1910
Ritz Theatre On North Fourth
Street Opened By Amuse-
ment Company

The negroes Of Wilmington were
given a theatre of their own dur
ing the latter part of 1910 and the
first Of 1941, as the Bijou Amuse
ment company, of Nashville
Tenn, operators of a chain of 81
negro theatres, opened the new
and modern Ritz theatre on NORTH
Fourth street.
The theatre, which seats approx.
imately $50 people, has excellent
sound equipment and is attractive.
ly designed and decorated in the
interior.
The marquee, box office and en-
trance to the theatre is as modern
as any Of its type in the South
and its appearance greatly en-
hances that portion of the city's
northern business district in which
it is located.
Work on the theatre, done by W.
A. Simon, Wilmington contractor,
was begun in October and the the
atre opened Jan. 20, with an enor-
NOUS crowd on hand.
The theatre features thermostat
heat control complete air condi-
tioning, spacious rest rooms and
a line Of motion pictures particu-
larry attractive to the negro peo-
pie.
ALI employees at the theatre, in
Guiding the projectionist, are ne
gro. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

there we're 1886 placements on
jobs in the month.
In the Wilmington employment
office, 1888 registrations for work
and 296 placements on jobs ere
shown for December, 1910, while
in the entire year of 1910, regis
trations for work numbered 17,267
and 799 placements on jobs are
shown. Unemployment benefits dis
tributed through this office
amounted to $298, 817.5 Sc in the three
years, while in December, 1910,
the amount distributed in checks
was $3,0O7.29.
In addition, the Wilmington col
ored branch showed 500 registra-
tons for work and 161 placements
on jobs in December, 1910. Prior
to the last quarter of 1910, regis
trations and placements in the col
ored branches were shown in the
white office totals. The colored Of
flee also distributed So, 177.47 in un-
employment benefits during De-
cember, 1910, while in the three
years the amount was $128, 427. "a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

chandising effort and yield larger
profits to underwriting houses.
Unless interest rates shrink still
further, there is unlikely to be a
very large volume of refunding,
mainly for the reason that utility
companies have practically COM
pleted their shift to lower coupons,
and the rails will not be eligible
for large-scale refunding for anoth-
er year at best. It is expected that
many railroads now in r~eceivership
will emerge in 1941 with capital.
cations revised on a basis sound
enough to inspire general conf
dence in the future of the industry
which has so plainly been lacking
since 1888.
Chief among the industries which
are expected to call for new capital
in 1941 are machine tool, mach.
inery, steel, aircraft and accessories,
utilities, and shipbuilding. Although
textile orders are large, over-capaci.
ty problems of recent years have
made that industry cautious.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
LUMBER INDUSTRY
IS ON UPSWINC'
Building Program, Begun In
'39, Increases In 40;
Boost Seen in Al

Wilmington's lumber industry,
which experienced the first of a
big building program here in 1889,
felt continuing and greater effects
from it in 1910 and should see even
those figures eclipsed this year.
Lumbermen point out that many
plants in this section were work
ing day and night shifts during the
past year as the building program
which began in 1889 went into full
swing.
And, believe it or not, the be-
ginning of work at Camp Davis in
December had little effect on the
lumber situation here. The call
came for SO great a quantity of
lumber in So short a period of
time that it became necessary to
bring it into the camp from all
over this section of the nation and
the effect on the local lumber in
dustry was almost negligible.
But with Wilmington and it's en-
virons enjoying a big building year
in 1910, when the housing situation
in Wilmington was still normal
and the building program was due
to greater prosperity and a desire
for home ownership, the year 1941
looms az one of the biggest in the
history of the lumber industry here.
Hundreds of homes are being
planned for construction in the
next few weeks and months to
house army officers and shipyard
workers and indications are that
before the year has passed a new
record for building, and for the
purchase of lumber, will have been
set here.
Lumber prices have mounted
considerably here in recent months
and it is possible that the tremen-
dous demand, which will probably
tax the facilities of lumber plants
in this section, may force the
price to such a level that it will
curtail to some extent. the amount
of building which will be done.
But barring an unusual increase
in the price of lumber and other
building materials and a serious
shortage of labor, Wilmington's
lumber industry faces its greatest
year of prosperity in 1941.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
NEW ISSUES PAY
FOR EXPANSION
Banks, Corporate SURPRISES
Provide Most of the
Funds Used

While the attention of the Amer
lean public was focused on plant
expansion during 1910 to a greater
degree than for several years, the
program had little effect on issue
of new securities. This was mainly
because the expansion that was I'm.
dertaken was financed largely
through banks, or through dipping
into surplus corporate funds. But
the coming twelve months will
without a question witness a re.
yival in the finance of new enter.
prise via the security markets
which will dwarf any recent year,
Peak of the post-depression re.
lival of new capital issues was in
1881, when the total reached ST..
925. Q12, 600. This followed the ban.
ner refunding year of 1886, when
a total of sS,416, 995, 900 of financing
was completed with low coupon is
sues replacing five, six, and seven
per cent bonds. Historically, large.
scale refunding movements have al.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
100000 HOTEL
RISING AT BEACH
Other Structures, Including
New Theatre, Replacing
Burned Buildings

Carolina Beach, hit by fire after
the close of the season last fall,
phoenix-like is rising from tn e
ashes.
Work has already been begun
there on a $500, 900 hotel to be
built for j. R. Bame and other
structures, including a new
theatre, and two stores, one of
which is a five and ten cents store.
The new hotel, to be about the
same size as the old Bame hotel
which was destroyed by fire, will
be erected on the same site. 1t will
be three stories high and will con-
tain approximately 100 rooms, fea-
turing every modern hotel equip
ment and service available.
A sprinkler system will be in
stalled in the new building to make
it fireproof. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
. GENTLE HINT
LID

BERN, Switzerland-R-T h e
Swiss department of war economy
has forbidden merchants to arm
verbally and in written ADVERTISE
ments of increased prices and
shortages of goods. One can, how
ever, still hear hawkers at tn e
public market say: Here is a fine
article, but who knows, tomorrow
it may be rationed. Buy now" 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

ways preceded the investment of
new capital in business; both thrive
on low interest rates but business
takes advantage of them quicker
for refunding than for new ven
lures because the latter wait upon
the growth of the, spirit of enter
prise.
New Issues at Low Ebb
In the first eleven months of
l94O. new capital issues totalled
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
EAST WIND VARIABLE

Whether an east wind is dry OF
wet depends on where you I've
In Palestine, they are hot and dry
while in many parts of the United
States, an east wind means m Dis,
ture,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23
POPULAR BOOK

A total of 1,404, 900, 900 volumes
of the Bible, in 1899 different lam
guages and dialects, have beer
published since the invention oil
printing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

A Minneapolis pawnbroker has a
customer who calls on him con-
stantly seeking to borrow money
on his cemetery lot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-23

This year is the 150th anniver-
sary Of the accidental discovery of
anthracite coal in Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

obsenee "a months from the
chubby blond curly hoed who become the Notions
office attraction Shirley Temple back before
Hollywood Now Y DID, her hair has turned rich brown and
she into rodon adolescence which her
costumes occentuote she the title picture
en She still the unspoIed Shirley willingness
to peose the director attentive younq
studios her.
Evening star., 1941-10-05

Shirley steps
out Of her dress
ing room - it's
No. 7 and her
nome is on the
door ottired in
q white formal
gown thot mokes
her look quite
grown up.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Draftee Has No
Appeal from Term

FORT BRAGG, N. c., Aug %
(UP) - Army officers said today
there was no appeal from the To-
year prison sentence given John
Habinyak, 26, draftee, for refus-
ing to obey orders, but that Presi-
dent Roosevelt must review the SEN
tence and he is empowered to light
en- it,
Habinyak had pleaded guilty to
all six charges of characterization
against him, making an appeal i'm
, possible under army regulations.
Major S. E. Murrell, judge advocate
of the post, explaining the severity
of the sentence, said Habinyak had
continually refused to obey orders, -
and that had it not been for the
draftee's attitude, his offenses
might have been considered minor.
The charges were that he spat on
the floor of the mess hall and re-
fused an officers order to clean it
up. that he refused commands to
clean his mess kit, to clean the floor
near his bed, and to pick up pieces
Of concrete.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Ex.Husband Kills
Honeymoon'rs rs Then
Turns Gun on Self
Cant Live Without
Her Declares Man
In Murder Note

OAKLAND, CAL, Aug. "a
(UP)-A U. S. army sergeant
invaded the honeymoon cot
tage of his former wife to-
day, shot and killed her and
her new husband and critically
wounded himself.
The shootings occurred in the
little town of Ashland Immediately
east of Oakland The dead we're Rob-
ert A. Newcomb, AZ, an Ashland
plumber, and his bride of week,
Dorothy Gustaveson Newcomb, "a.
They were shot, police said, by Ser
geant James H. Mcdonald, 46, r.
O. T. c. instructor at Fairmont high
school in Oakland. Mcdonald was
in critical condition at Fairmont
hospital
Police learned Mcdonald and the
former Dorothy GuStaveson had
married in Nevada in June. They
separated six days later and she
obtained a divorce in Mexico, where
she married Newcomb last week.
A note found in McDonald's park
ed automobile said Dorothy had
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Nazi Ex.Attache
Faces Indictment

DENVER, Aug. % CUP) - A
federal grand jury today indicted a
former attache in the office of the
German consul in Denver on charg-
es of draft evasion.
Charged with making false state
ments in his selective service ques-
tionnaire was Richard Mennekes,
who was taken off a Japanese liner
at San Francisco recently by fed
eral agents as he sought to sail for
Germany.
MennekeS, whose bond was set at
$4,000, was charged with claiming
falsely he is not a citizen of the
United States to avoid army service.
The indictment said Mennekes
is a naturalized citizen, subject to
the draft.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Two Deaths Listed
As Suicides Here:
Both Men Painters

Suicide ended the lives of two
painters in Imperial Valley, officers
said Saturday.
Sam Bolton, 81, Ell Centro painter.
hanged himself with clothesline in
the yard at the rear of BIT South
Fourth street, El Centre. Despon-
dency over i'll health was the cause
of his act, Deputy Coroner Herbert
Hughes said.
The skeleton found in the brush
on the airport road north of Ca
lexico Friday was believed to be an
itinerant painter, Johnny Pollen,
who disappeared late in May.
Don't blame nobody for this"
was the beginning of note found
near the skeleton. A check and S25
in cash were found in the clothing
worn b. the skeleton. A painters
kit and other articles were found
near the body. Hughes said tests
were being made to ascertain how
Pollen took his life.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Cap Gun Bandit
kidnops Autoists

MOUNTAIN CITY, New, Aug. %
(UP)-A cap pistol kidnaper' who
used a toy gun to force Salt Lake
City cab driver to take him near
Elko, New. then held up two Cali
fornia motorists and took their car,
was captured here today.
At Elko, the kidnaper gave his
name as Bob Melich He refused to
talk about his escapade, Sheriff C.
A. Harper said. He is six feet two
and about 81.
The Sheriff said an FBI agent
from Salt Lake City was en- route
to Elko and would confer with him
to see what charges would be placed
against Melich.
The bandit took SO from the two
CalifornianS.
The "gunman" held up a car
driven by Ben Lee Raiff of Crock
ett, Cal, near Elko after having
forced the cab driver, Kenneth Felt,
to chauffeur him from Salt Lake
City at the point of a wicked look
ing cap pistol.
Raiff and j. o. TeSchner, San
Francisco, were bound in the cab
and the bandit took their car, head
ed north and was captured here
without any kind of shooting.
Sheriff C. A. Harper at Elko said
Raiff and Teschner wriggled out
of their bonds, came to Elko and
reported the affair.
Felt was reported missing shortly
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

TcpOI ICu ny oCiiiii W HdFC oihooiCu
important Soviet centers of resis-
tance on the Leningrad front while
Finnish armies claimed to have
broken through the Vuoksen river
line in their drive from the north
against the former Czarist capital.
The German claims of successes.
between Lakes Ilman and Peipus,
south of Leningrad, did not neces-
sarily mean an advance closer to
the embattled and barricaded city.
but an appeal by Soviet Marshal
Klementi Voroshilov for the defend
ers to fight to death at this de
cisive moment" indicated that the
birthplace OF the Boishevik revo-
luton was threatened more and
more by the hour.
REDS COUNTER-ATTACK
On the central front before Mos
cow, the Red army was reported
pushing back the famous German
DdIlLcI COlulilllo III GIL hikrOi I1Aio
counter offensive that recaptured
nine villages.
Without specifying the city, the
Russians officially reported that a
Nazi siege was broken at one point
on the eastern front by civilians
-laborers, sailors, women, clerks
who rushed to the trenches and
fought off a German mechanical at
tack until the Red army rushed up
and threw the enemy back seven
miles. The presence of sailors in
the battle indicated some city on
the Black Sea or the Baltic, but
apparently the besieged city was
not Leningrad or Oressa.
In the south, the Germans re-
ported that they had captured
Cherkassi on the Dnieper river and
that their break through at Gomel
where $1,000 Russians were taken
prisoner and two Soviet armies
smashcd-had resulted in thanking
operation threatening the Red
Continued on Page 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
RFC to Finance
Piq Iron Plant

WASHINGTON, Aug. % CUP -
Federal Loan Administrator Jesse
Jones announced today that the
Defense Plant Corp. had agreed to
put up approximately s58,312,OOO for
the construction of plants and the
acquisition of facilities to be used
in producing pig iron to meet the
deficiency of scrap metal
Jones said a contract with Re-
public Steel Corp. had been execut-
ed, at the request of the war and
navy departments and the office of
production management, calling for
plants at Cleveland, Youngstown,
and Warren, O., and at Birming-
ham, Ala.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
U.S.. Will Purchase
Raw Silk Stocks

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90 UP) -
Federal Loan Administrator Jesse
H. Jones said today that the De-
fense Supplies Corp. had made ar
rangements for purchasing raw silk
stocks in this country.
The purchase program was de-
signed to afford a market for raw
silk which was frozen by the Of
flee of production management
shortly after this country froze all
japanese assets and led to a vir-
tual cessation of trade with the
worlds principal source of silk, ia
pan.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 25, Jones
said purchase of raw silk will be
made to the New York office of the
Defense Supplies Corp. and will be
limited to raw silk in original bales
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Japan Envoy Says
Tokyo-w Washington
Trucetdn be Made
Ambassador Confers
With Hull in 20
Minute Parley

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23
(UP) = japanese Ambassa-
dor Kichisaburo Nomura
said today he believed diff
ferences between the United
States and Japanese policies can
be bridged and it would be folly
of the worst kind" not to do so.
Nomura made his statement to
reporters following a Commute
conference on the strained Situa-
ton with Secretary of State Cordell
Hull
I'VE spoke not as diplomats but
as one man to another" he said
Mr. Hull outlined the position of
your government. No conclusions
were reached"
A reporter asked if he believed
Continued on Rage 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

Heavy clouds gathered overhead
and thunder echoed across the mesa
at sundown yesterday as priests
carrying venomous snakes in their
mouths danced about circle.
The rain threats increased as the
Hopi snake priests carried the
snakes down the steep sides of the
mesa to the desert floor where they
were turned loose to carry messages
to the gods of the underground
waters.
Showers followed soon afterward
and heavy clouds promised more
rain today. When the dances start
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
BY UNITED PRESS

BreakdOWns in negotia-
tions left little prospect Sat
urday for immediate settle.
ment of major strikes in
volving the Detroit Transit
System and the Federal Shipbuild-
ing and Drydock company at Kear-
ny, N. j.
The Detroit strike entered its
fourth day after representatives OF
the striking AFL transit workers
rejected city proposals for settle
ment
Shortly after city officials asked
the AFL to withdraw it's demand
for exclusive bargaining rights be-
cause the nations defense program
might suffer- Mayor Edward jeff
ries offered to grant the demand.
Jeffries said, however, that tbs
legality of the proposed agreement
must be determined by the court.
and that a final contract must bt
based on a bargaining election
which would permit employees tc
choose between AFL and CIO rep
resentation. AFL leaders, who have
insisted an election was unnecessary
rejected the proposal.
Government seizure of the Kearny
shipyard appeared probable, al
though President Roosevelt sale
Friday that he was reluctant tc
order such action. He refused tc
predict whether seizure of the plant
would be necessary to restore pro-
duction on the company's $493, ,OOO,.
900 in defense contracts.
Direct negotiations betwee L. H
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

Hyde Park. revealed that figures
on which he based charge that
the defense program Is far behind
schedule came from official govern
ment sources
Mr.. Roosevelt had challenged
Byrd's figures on plane, tank and
gun production and said somebody
had sold the senator down the
river on the figures"
Byrd issued a statement disclosing
that Chairman Emory S. Land of
the maritime commission, was his
source for the statement that only
So merchant vessels were built and
delivered during 1910, and that 105
cargo vessels and tankers would BE-
constructed in 1914.
He said that Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox was his authority
for the statement that only % ma
jor naval vessels would be added to
the navy in 194l.
Does the president dispute these
sources?" asked Byrd.
Byrd also gave figures on anti
aircraft gun and tank production
in his senate speech criticizing
production delays. He said they
came from IAN indisputablc govern
ment source"
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

where the majority of the Camp
Seeley cavalrymen are situated at
present, to view their maneuvers
in the field.
The visitor will be accompanied
by party of officers. Their journey
through the-west4 win stop at live
Oaks as General Herr does not
plan to visit either San Diego or
Los Angeles on this trip. He was
expected to arrive by train early
Sunday and make his first call at
the camp at a. m. His brother,
Lieut.. Col. Herr, is stationed at
Camp Seeley.
Camp Seeley was being placed in
readiness Saturday to welcome Gen
eral Herr.