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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27

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This electric teakettle belongs
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in the house simply plug
into the nearest convenience
outlet. and YOU have hot water
in a jiffy. Only S4.9S at any
Detroit Edison Office (for De-
troit Edison customers only.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27

DY TAKING dance lessons dur.
ing the next S days at Arthur
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mer rates are in effect noW instead
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27
Battle Over Aid for Cripp|es
Raging in State Legislature

before the last roll is called. The
adjournment iour is midnight, but
the Legislature will skirt that
deadline, if necessary. by the ira
'ditional method of stopping the
clocks in the House and Senate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27
Get Your Summer
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Hudson's Basement Stores own 'CORLISS'
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-. equally smart with suits, sheers, spec
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-27

Price, Subject to 30 Sale, Tar
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-01
Campaign
Probe Due
On Gifts

LANSING. April L Prompt
action. on Auditor Gen. Vernon
J. Browns charges that state
Highway department employees
have been shaken down for cam
paign contributions. was promised
today by George J. Burke. chair
man Of the Civil Service Commits
sion
Brown. who last week displayed
scores of maps, political hand
books and campaign literature he
alleged were printed on state
paper on state time. filed formal
charges with the commission.
Il have been approached by
numerous employees of the high
way department complaining
they were being solicited for
campaign contributions based on
an actual percentage of their
annual salary" Brown wrote
Burke.
Moreover they told me they
had been required to do cam
paign work 10 which they OBJ
iected. Some of these things are
fragrant violations of civil serv-
ice"
Burke said he had not yet re-
ceivcd Browns letter
"All I can say is that any
thing sent to me as chairman Of
the commission will get prompt
action and attention." he said.
Browns letter was accompanied
by dozen exhibits numbered 10
show alleged breaches Of the law.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-01
Stafe-Paid
Mail SfirS
Rivals
BY DON GARDNER
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING. April 1.-Two Re-
publican senators, who admitted
using state materials and stamps
to send out campaign literature,
were smarting today under a
verbal attack on their political
ethics by Senator Earnest c.
Brooks CD of Holland.
The two, Senators Hale Brake
of Stanton and George 2. Mccall
lum of Ann Arbor, Redeemed, but
came right back with counter
charges that two Democrats sent
out a total of $500 printed bills
10 their constituents at-state
expense.
1t was the first outbreak along
lines intended TO further the CAM
paigns of Leroy G. Smith and G..
Donald Kennedy for highway COM
missioner, and resulted from a
story in Sundays Detroit Times
which revealed the Use of public
funds by Republicans for political
purposes.
Brake called Brooks speech
most interesting but countered:
II paid for everything used,
hut YOU might ask The two
Democratic senators why the
taxpayers must pay for the
bushels of bills that were mailed
at state EXPENSE"
McCallum said the Democrats
were too slow TO think of such
a good campaign idea themselves.
Il have always paid my bills
around here and intend to pay
this postage, too"
His letter, printed on state
paper. read:
"Tons of campaign literature,
printed on state paper. with
state ink, by state printing
presses, on state time. all In
at the state law. are
eing distributed by state en-
pIoyes taken away from their
regular work. This is in direct
violation OF the civil service law
and paid for by YOU taxpayers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-01
More EgrOOrllS
Sub Keeps State School
From Making Mats
Iime. star Correspondent

LANSING. April The entire
employment program OF the Mich
iCan School for The Blind must be
changed because a German SUBJ
marine torpcdoed an English ship
Budget Director Leo j. Nowicki
said today
he explained blind students had
embarked on "A program which in
VOWED learning how 20 make mats
from cocoa tree fiber. which comes
from India
The first shipment was on a ship
Just sunk by the Germans. he said.
"SttideHtA Irill have 10 GO back
60 making broOmS, 1 guess"
Now ickl said
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Japan Is Told

It is not hard to understand President Roose-
velt's apparent embarrassment when he was
asked. at a recent press conference, whether
deliveries of war supplies to Britain would
he affected in the event of war with Japan.
Nor is it hard to understand why, almost I'M
mediately, he decided to reply in the negative.
The question happened to be put on the
same day that the new Japanese ambassador,
Admiral Nomura, arrived in Washington. The
Presidents first reaction, probably, was that
the query was inopportune. His second tnousht
was that no better occasion for making the
American attitude clear would be likely TO
arise. So he went ahead.
There was no discourtesy to Admiral No.
mira in the Presidents answer, for the JAP
anese ambassador knows as well as anyone
that relations between his country and the
limited States are severely strained. He also
knows the purpose of the three-poWer pact,
and he can have no valid objection to oelng
informed that the administration does not in
tend to have that treaty work out as planned
The horsepower pact was meant to serve
the ends of Germany, Italy and Japan. Its
object was to confuse and frighten the Amerl.
can people into a refusal to send effective
aid to Britain or a retreat in the Far East
perhaps both. Its strategy rested on the time
tried principle of threatening on two fronts.
So far it has failed. The American response
has been more help to Britain and a sitter
attitude in the Far East. Notice has now been
given that it cannot succeed, for the Presi-
dent has said, in effect, that even if Japan
forces us into war Britain will continue to
receive our aid. On the whole, it is a good
thing that Admiral Nomura has been en-
lightened thus soon on that point.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Fatty!

A physician, whose name we are unfor-
~tunately unable to remember, has upset all
OF our preconceived ideas on the subject of
excess ~avoirdupois. 1t was our idea that peo-
pie grew fat because they liked to eat and
lacked the will power to turn down that Sec
ond piece of pie. In our mind there was
something distinctly pleasant about the process
of building up a bullying waistline. It might
be no beauty to look at and uncomfortable
been fun to build.
However, this physician, whose name, as
we said, has slipped our mind, assures us
that this is completely the wrong idea. People
eat too much, he says, not because Of an
emptiness in the stomach, but because OF a
gnawing dissatisfaction in their souls. There
is something lacking in Their lives, and they
turn to food to fill the gap.
According to this theory, if you find some
one furtively swallowing a chocolate b a r,
munching peanuts, or slipping a matted milk
shake with marshmallow and ice cream be.
tween meals, he is merely drowning his sor.
rows. He may not know what is wrong, but
he is nursing a secret disappointment over
his job, his children, or a nagging wife II
a girl gobbles, it is because she is punching
a typewriter when she feels she ought tt
be treading the stage.
But, now that we come to think Of it, ism
this just putting the old theories into reverse:
We used to think fat people were contented
This physician says that if they didn't ca
they probably wouldn't be fat and they
wouldn't be contented either. So suppose we
just leave it at that. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
When You Drank A Tulip

Back in the days before the World War,
there was a song which began, when You
Wore a Tulip, a Sweet Yellow Tulip i. . :"
Well, that's all over. They're drinking tulips
now in Holland, and perhaps in Germany, too.
A private letter from a great Dutch tulip
grower recently revealed that nearly three
million bulbs of his 1889 crop are now being
treated for use as a coffee substitute. Whether
the Germans are taking the coffee from the
Dutch and leaving them their own tulip-bulbs
to drink is not made clear. Possibly all cen
trail Europe is now drinking t%ulip-bulbs and
acorns as their first installment of the great
new era promised by their conquerors.
In any case, one irreparable injury has al
ready been done to Holland. The tullp-Dulb
center of the world has shifted to the United
States, and nothing the Nazis can ever do Is
likely to restore to Holland a pre-eInlnence
she had won by her own efforts. ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
PEDDLING TRIBE
Macon Telegraph

Former Governor ALI Landon told the for
eign relations committe of the senate that
Great Britain would be able to buy more war
materials, without aid from this country, if
her own people would give up some of their
luxuries."
An all-time high of stupidity was supposed
to have been reached when Marie Antionette
asked why the starving French rabble didn't
eat cake if they had no bread, but she has
been surpassed by the most ingloriously de-
feated presidential candidate in modern times.
Dodging bombs and digging out Of ruined
homes or sitting down to the most meagre
fare to defeat the counter-blockade, while tax
alton consumes more than the palmer worm
devoured from what the caterpillar had left
would seem to leave little room for ~luxuries.
And this is the kind of tripe being offered
in opposition to the bill which would enable
Great Britain to save the civilization of the
world. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BR0UCHTON TALKS
WITH F0RESTERS
Plan to Reduce Taxes Paid on
Standing Timber Discuss
ed at Conference

RALEIGH, Feb. 14.-R-Gover-
nor Broughton conferred with a
group of foresters today on a plan to
reduce taxes on standing timber in
North Carolina, and thus encourage
reforestation.
A plan has been worked out, and
may be offered in the legislature, to
cut the assessed value of standing
timber to one-half the actual value.
Broughton said. If such a law were
passed, it would supplement a pres
ent state law under which the as
sessed value of land on which trees
..-e planted is not increased for the
first 10 years.
Among those present at the con-
ference were: DR.. Clarence Poe Of
Raleigh; DR.. c. F. Corstian, dean of
the Duke forestry school; State For
ester J. S. Holmes; r. w. Graeber,
extension forester at N. C. State e-l-
lege; Colin G. Spencer Of Carthage,
president Of the North Carolina
Foresters association; w. L. Beasley
Of Carthage, secretary of the ~associa-
ton; and Charles L. Gillett, indus
trial forester for the Seaboard Air
line railway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Prepayment Medical Plan

The first prepayment medical care plan
in the country for tenants OF a public housing
project has been established at Vladeck
Houses, on New York city's lower East side.
Approved by the county medical society,
the plan is administered by the neighborhood
pitals are participating as well as most of
the physicians in the neighborhood. Subscrib-
ers, who pay So a year per person., or $12 a
year for a family of four or more, are en-
titled to a physicians care, consultation, hos
pitalization, laboratory tests, X-rays, and Wis
iting nurse service. Choice of the physician
Is left to the patient.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shoes.
Seaside Ht0hHdy from WrightsvtHe
Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Uid-
err Turning Basin, Uith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved Riper Road to Southport, Vta
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustained-yteld methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Promo
tional Agency, supported BY n county
pide taz.
%Shtpyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center tor Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
adequate hospital -iities for tUhites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF ndttve grape 0roactno
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
. Editorial Comment
PROFESSIONAL VIEWPOINT
FAYETTEVILLE Observer

FayeGCcVul0 OUSCIVCT
Debate over the lend-lease bill has taken a
bizarre turn in the difference of opinion which
has cropped out between Secretary of the
Navy Knox and e~x-candidate Wendell L. Will
kie over Wilkes proposal that five to ten
destroyers a month be supplied Great Britain.
Both Knox and Willkie are wholehearted
supporters Of the proposition of extending as
sistance to Great Briatin. Both of them are
members of the Republican party, who have
more or less joined the Roosevelt Adninistra-
ton in sort of a spontaneous coalition Of
straight thinking persons on both sides of
the political fence in the face of the defense
crisis which now confronts the country.
We are sure that Secretary Knox in differ
ing with Mr.. Willkie has no intention of en-
barrassing the lend-lease program. He is
speaking from a strictly professional view
point. AS head of the Navy he is permitting
his very understandable desire to see the
United States battle fleet strong and efficient
overshadow his broader view.
On the other hand and looking at the stu
alton from the long term standpoint it seems
better to let Britain have a few destroyers
now than be forced to build hundreds of them
in a great rush a few years later after Britain
has fallen as a result of the lack of assistance
which we could have but did not provide /
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-Neil Reid
has solved the problem of sleep
ing imposed by his grotesque
height by buying a trailer and
living in it with his wife. They are
parked in that trailer camp at Ft.
Lee, New Jersey, just a hop and
two skips across the George Wash
ington bridge, and are now quite
happy.
NeiI's problem is this: he is six
feet six inches tall. When you play
trombone for an orchestra, as he
does with Woody Herman's or
chestra, you have a lot of cross
country touring to do.
When you tour the country you
run into a lot of small hotels that
just aren't equipped with beds
long enough for a six-foot-six man
to sleep in.
So they bought the trailer. Neil
plays the trombone all night and
then hits his trailer for a sleep,
while his wife, Betty, formerly
of Des Moines) drives.
It is, he says, quite a load off
his mind.
Those top-notch comedy dane
ers (probably the best in the coun-
try) Paul and Grace Hartman,
got their start in the profession as
a serious act. They began in Los
Angeles with one of the Ruth St.
Denis ballet troupes and for three
years tried to make a go of it as a
straight ballroom dance team. But
Paul was too homely. His carrot.
colored hair and peter-pumpkin
pan just naturally made people
laugh.
One night at Ben Marden's old
Riviera they decided to heave dig
nifty out the window and go comedy
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

will pay that price or that Hitler would permit
him to give the British anything they would
accept.
So the probabilities are that Mussolinl has
asked Franco for a return on the investment
he made during the Spanish civil war. IL
may be that the Duce is considered to have
more influence with Franco than Hitler. Sure
ly there is a better chance that these talks
are linked with coming events in the Balkans,
in some way, than that they represent an
Axis step toward peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Armistice? Hardly

There seems to be no question that Musso-
ini and Franco and Marshal Petain have
:leld a series of discussions involving their
relations with each other. And obviously they
must have a bearing upon the war.
It is a long way from this conclusion, how-
ever, to the Interpretation that some observers
have already given these conferences. For
example. to believe that Mussolini is ready
to ask the Spanish chief of state to arrange
an armistice between Italy and Britain is
almost pure optimism. There is about one
chance In a hundred that this Interpretation
accords with the facts.
The best reason for not putting too much
hope in this theory is that Britain would be
quite unlikely to listen to overtures from Mus
solini at this time. Italy is the weak spot in
the Axis armor. If Britain keeps on pounding
away at it, Hitler cannot very well avoid
sending effective help to keep his partner
from complete disaster. Once he is heavily
engaged on two fronts he will not be able to
concentrate his strength for an about attack
on Britain.
Since the British are not going to give away
their advantage for nothing, Mussolini would
have to pay a stiff price for an armistice.
Njs hardly reasonable to conjecture that he
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Teachers Cool Thinking
Blocks Possible Tragedy

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 14.-R-
Teacher John B. Bellon's cool
thinking today prevented possible
tragedy in an acetylene gas tank
fire which forced 1900 manual
high school students from their
classrooms into the streets.
After a cylinder cap blew off,
a 10-foot tongue of flame shot to
the ceiling in the welding shop
where 30 students were working.
An oxygen tank, at capacity pres
sure, was clamped to the flaming
acety1ene tank.
Bellon, head bent to avert the
flame, seized the iron clamp con-
Meeting the two tanks and ierked
a rod loose. He shouldered the
heavy oxygen tank and carried it
to an adjoining classroom
No one was injured and the
fire was extinguished. s
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Road Commission Offlces
Will Be Closed To-Day

RALEIGH, Feb. 14.-R-ofligyltos
~ +ha state highway and public
works department will De ciO2 rr.nk
morrow in respect to the ia'e
L. Dunlap, state highway cna- Eor.
who died Wednesday night IN
ida. 80 at II
The funeral will be held az
o'clock tomorrow in vail Ill at.
Among state officials who WV Trsss.
tand ore Governor Broughton, Irsas.
urer Charles M. johnson anu w.
tary of State Thad Eure' +ss
A resolution paying trlpule IN.
chairman's memory was .;ro,,ar
day in the state senate s,ov in
resolution was adopted yes'e'0
the house.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
GOV. BROUGHTON NOW
FACES BUSY PROGRAM
Will Speak Before General Assembly
At Program Dedicated to
College Tuesday

RALEIGH, Feb. 14.-LP-Here is
Broughton's program for
next week:
Monday ~night-Speak over a Ra-
leigh radio station on A~mericanism,
in a program sponsored by the Ju.
nior Chamber of Commerce.
Tuesday-Speak before the general
assembly at a program dedicated to
the Woman's college; Tuesday night,
attend a dinner in Raleigh of Wake
Forest alumni.
Wednesday night - Speak at a
meeting of the North Carolina So
ciety in Washington.
Thursday-Attend lunch given by
North Cardinals congressional dele
CATION, Thursday night-attend inter-
racial program here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

Green. unseasoned lumber was used when it
was not possible to get lu1nber conforming to
strict army specifications.
Well, suppose they had waited until just
the right kind of lumber was available? There
would then have been a great hue and cry
about delay. Quick building is dear building,
and it is pretty apt to be shoddy building 1t
is all part of the price we pay for our un-
willingness to look ahead three or four years
ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Man About Manhattan

whole hog. Marden was so angry
he sent word backstage they were
fired. But when he saw them and
heard the crowd guffawing he
changed his mind. Since that night
on the banks of the Hudson they
have been the towns goofs plus
ultra.
That phrase Ben Marden's old
Riviera" is a story within itself.
D.. The new club, as this corner
has often and loudly proclaimed,
is the most beautiful nightclub in
the world the old one wasn't
bad either. But Ben got big
hearted as he usually does around
and prepared 500 turkey dinners
Thanksgiving, opened the place
for homeless men. That night the
place caught fire and burned to
the ground.
Pardon" us for going academic,
but you can win bets with this
one if you know how to spell.
The longest non-scientific word in
the English language is said to be
ishmentarianism .
Another poser: Where was the
first White House situated? An
swer: In New York at the tip OF
Manhattan 80. 1t |,as where the
Battery is today and where you
will also find the Aquarium, a
small park, and some ferry boat
piers.
At the other end of Manhattan,
where the Spuyten Duyvil emp
ties into the Hudson, you will find
a wooded hill and on it the Oldest
tree in Manhattan-a tulip tree.
1t is said the Indians used to meet
there, and, according to legend,
Henry Hudson used the place as
a camping site. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Presbyterian Student
Group Plans Meeting

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 14-CP-The
PRESBYTERIAN Student Association
of the Synod of North Carolina will
hold it's annual conference at
Queens college and the Myers
Park church here tomorrow and
Sunday.
The conference theme will be
'Christ's Challenge OF Students"
A worship service under the di-
ection of W. T. Martin, Jr., of
the University Of North Carolina
will open the conferences. The
opening address by DR.. Frank H.
Of the Louisville Semin-
ary on THE Christian student in
the world today" will follow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Seaplane is Damaged
In Crash at Beaufort

BEAUFORT, N. c. Fef. 14.-RE
Robert Love, en- route from Miami,
Fla, to his home in Boston, Mass,
crashed today as he banked to
land his small cabin seaplane IN
Beaufort harbor
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bemis of Boston
also were in the plane. None wGs
hurt although the plane was dam
aged. D
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
The Quick And The Good

There are going to be a lot more complaints
like this one, so we might as well get ready
for them. At Camp Shelby, Mississippi, some
of the cantonment buildings thrown together
in so great a hurry are beginning to show
defects even before the construction crews
have left the scene. W~indowframes are shrink
ing, tent floors buckling, gaps and cracks are
beginning to appear.
It is the inevitable result Of being in a hurry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION

To The Starr
The board of managers Of the
Community hospital desires to
thank you for the space given in
your publication to the dedication
of the new Nurses home.
The board wishes for you con-
tinued success in your liberal
leadership Of the thought Of our
community.
Very cordially yours,
M. N. LEARY,
Secretary Board of Managers.