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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
Superior Court Docket
Expected To Be Heavy

Heavy dockets await the spring
criminal ternf of superior court in
three of the four counties of the
Eighth Judicial district, District So
:icitor David Sinclair of Whining
ton said Thursday morning.
New Hanover county has the
largest list Of cases awaiting trial
and Pender the smallest, the solici-
tor said.
To date, six criminal assault cases
a first degree burglary case, two
murder cases and manslaughter
case are docketed for trial h e
when court opens on May II.
Judge c. Everett Thompson of
Elizabeth City, will preside over all
four essions in this section.
Pender county's superior court
opens next Monday, April 27, in
Burgaw with a relatively light doc
ket, according to the solicitor.
Next is Columbus county super
ior court in Whiteville the week of
May for which a fairly heavy
docket has been assembled.
New Hanover superior court falls
on May IL and on May 1S, court will
open in Southport for Brunswick
county with a docket headed by a
first degree murder case, Solicitor
Sinclair said.
Dorsey Cox, white man Of the
Exum section of Brunswick, is
charged with the murder Of Hin
son Edwards
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
Sugar Registration
Plans Are Announced

County Sugar Administrator o. II.
Shoemaker today asked all persons
expecting to register for sugar al
lotments in the forthcoming regis.
trations to apply to the school near.
est their residence.
Consumers registration will be
conducted May 4, S, s, and 7 at the
following white elementary schools:
Cornelius Harnett, Hemenway, Tiles
ton, William Hooper, Washington
Catlett, Isaac Bear, Sunset Park
Wrightsboro, Forest Hills, Winter
Park, Bradley's Creek, and Carolina
Beach.
Also at the following negro
schools: Peabody, Williston Primary
Castle Hayne, Wrightsboro, Acorn
Branch, Kirkland, Aliddlesound
East Wilmington, Wrightsville
Masonboro, and Oak Hill.
Trade registration will be held
April 1929 at New Hanover High
school and Williston Industrial
High school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
HARRY S. HOWARD
IS FOUND GUILTY
Former State Employer
Convicted At Raleigh On
Embezzlement CHARGE

RALEIGH, April 23-tRHA con.
viction secured against Harry S.
Howard, former State Department
of Revenue cashier, the prosecu.
ton today offered evidence to
prove that Robert Lee Ward. Jr.,
former accounting chief. had EN-.
bezzled $362.48 and had aided and
abetted in another pilferin2 of the
public purse.
Clarence w. Sneed, red-faced
and plump, former deputy collec.
tor, who has admitted freely and
pleaded guilty to stealing $500. 81
in Revenue department funds, as.
serted on the stand this afternoon
that he collected taxes at Wards
direction, loaned embezzled tax
Money to Ward, and cashed
Wards checks with it.
Earlier, T. H. Grice, of the state
auditors office, testified that Ward
had accounted for only $8O2.7O OF
a $1,00665 settlement made by
Mrs. Lee c. Taylor for her hus-
band, former deputy collector, who
has pleaded guilty to embezzling
the $1,0O6.65.
The verdict against Howard,
charged with embezzling s1,650,
was brought in by a jury which
deliberated five hours today and
almost three hours yesterday.
Judge Don F. Phillips of Rocking
ham reserved judgment, as he
has against two of the indicted
eight who have pleaded guilty and
one who has pleaded nolo con-
tendere.
The long-awaited fireworks, how
ever, were ignited during a cross
examination Of w. j. Spain, as
sistant revenue commissioner, by
D. L. Libby" Ward OF New Bern,
attorney defending R. L. Ward.
The former house speaker drew
from Spain the admission that
Spain had never reported to the
solicitor the "dozen" empoyes who
were |'owed to nAke shortages
good and then resign. Spain, how
ever, firmly denied that he had
ever protected an embezzler.
Spain admitted MS personal note
had been endorsed by Calvin Zim.
norman, a delinquent taxpayer,
and that he had owed money to
another delinquent. the Johnson
Coal company. Spain denied, how
ever, that because Of personal
debts that any taxpayer had re-
fused to pay the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
Rickarcok Revealed To
Be An American Citizen

Mihal Rikarcok, who was sem
fenced to three years in a Fed
eral corrective institute for failure
to register for the selective serv-
ice act here in Federal court Mon
day, is not a Slovak alien as he
told Judge Isaac M. Meekins.
According to Jennings Otis, i'm
migration inspector here. Rikarcok
was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
and taken to Czechoslovakia at an
early age.
One of the charges against Rikar-
cox was failure to register under
the alien registration act. How
ever. Mr.. Otis, who had occasion
to investigate Rikarcok's case re-
Gently, said that he had definitely
established that ne was born IN
this country.
In sentencing the man to three
years in prison, Judge Meekins
declared that he was obviously
mentally incompetent and said
that he would ask the attorney
general to have Rikarcok sent to
a corrective institution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
SPECIAL FEATyRES
AT FIFTH AVENUE
Chinese Christian To Speak
In Morning; Nurses To
Attend Night Service

There will be a special feature
at both the morning and evening
services of Fifth Avenue Metho-
dist church, Sunday. At 11:00 am.
Harry L. P. Liu, gifted Chinese
Christian student, will preach. He
will also speak to the general as
sembly of the church school at
10:00 am. and at the Youth Eel
lowship Hour at 700 pm.
Brought up in a family of schol-
ars, Mr.. Liu attended Fu-Tan Uni
versity in Shanghai and joined the
Bank of China while he was only
nineteen years of age, travelling
extensively throughout the country.
While confined in Chinese hos
pital, he was converted to Chris
tianity through the ministry of DR..
=. P. Davies, a missionary from
Ohio, and was by him given Chris.
tan baptism on Easter, 1887. After
his. conversion, he preached in the
Shanghai Jail and in a Chinese
army hospital. Through the fire
and blood of war;" says Mr.. Liu,
many in China have come to
church to ask Gods protection,
and have found Christ
Mr.. Liu has been a student at
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago for
the past two or three years, pre-
paratory to going back to hi S
native country as a Christian mis-.
sionary. He is coming to Whining
ton especially to visit Fifth Avenue
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
Civilian
Defense

Fire Defense A-Monday night,
April 27, 8 p. NJ, Seventeenth and
Dock fire station, 5. e. Bullard in
structor.
General Course negro volunteers
Tuesday, April 2S, 8 p. M, Will
liston Industrial High school. Sub
jects: "Local Defense Organization"
and "Blackouts.'
General Course negro volunteers
Thursday, April 80, 8 p. m. Will
liston Industrial High school, Sub
jects: "Air Raid Warning System
and "Control Center
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

Methodist church where his famed
countryman, Charlie Jones Soong,
was converted to Christianity. Mr..
Soong was the father of Madame
Chang Kai-Shek, and other famed
sons and daughters who have
meant so much to the larger life
of the new China.
At 800 pm. the baccalaureate
sermon to the graduating class o.
nurses of Walker Memorial Hospi
tai will be given by the pastor
the Rev. C. D. Barclift. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attenc
all of these services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24
Robert 7. Davis
Gipen Road Term

Charged with larceny and re-
ceiving, Robert T. Davis was SEN
fenced to serve II months in Jail
to be assigned to the State High
way and Public Works commission
Thursday morning at hearing In
Recorders court.
Davis gave notice of appeal to
the Superior court and was placed
under $3.50 bond.
Newton Tate was fined $75 and
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

the information necessary to say
how, when and where any attack
should take place. Without this
knowledge, neither Col. Herman,
nor any one else, it is felt here,
can make a valid specific sugges-
ton.
Yet for all the criticism of Col.
kernan's book, none is aimed at
it's basic idea: "One wins a war
by advancing upon the enemy,
seizing his lands, castles, forts,
treasures and driving him forth
from his strongholds." Defense
will not win the war;" 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

Production of heavy brogue type
shoes using double soles has been
restricted in order to save leather.
designed to conserve supplies of
steel alloys, have been announced
by tn WPB. These national emer-
gncy steels will soon be the only
stels available.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

cost, $50 of the fine remitted on
condition he surrender his drivers
permit for one year, on charges Of
speeding and driving without a lie
cenSe
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

Trailers for $4,000 defense work
ers will provide for housing where
new war industries have caused
sudden concentrations of families.
Trailers are propped up on wood
blocks and tires used over and
over again in making deliveries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-24

This photo shows of the closing chapters in the
tragedy of Singapore The Yangtze river steamboat car
ryng refugees from the stronghold was easy prey for
Jap planes who spotted the unared British vessel The
passengers took to eboats and escaped to nearby coral
island from which they picked up next day. The Jap
planes next morning used the battered hulk for target
and sank tic. P PhOnephotO)
Evening star., 1942-08-23

IS n PS n A P &
COILS" Murray H.
Shermon, 7l1O Ninth
street NV.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
pshots
Of the week in
The Stars
Amateur Contest

Next Wednesday, August 26,
is the lost doy for receiving pic
lures in the contest, which closes
with selections for publication
September s.
Contestants receive 81 for
eoch photo published with the
weekly S. prize winner. All pho
tos published will be considered
at the end Of the contest for The
Stor's five SIS grand owords.
Winners Of the grond awards will
compete in the national awards
paying $l2,500, including grand
prize worth ST, 500. Photos to
be eligible must have been token
otter Jonuory ], 1912, by per-
sons residing in Washington
retail trading oreo as defined
in contest rules. Photos are
not returned. Do not submit
negatives.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18
Rotory PIuns Fire Protection

apparatus and it is presumed the information was sought in connection with an allocation from the 100 million set aside for that purpose. No further word has been received, however so a committee of Fire Chief
 Spath and Jorgen Fredrickson was appointed to work with the President in contracting L. k. Durkee, Public Works Agency, and Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska delegate, to see if they can In- tercede for Kodiak and do what- ever possible in seeing that Kodiak gets fire equipment grant as soon as possible.
 A committee consisting of Vice-president Steve Harvey, Glen HyAer and Frank Hermman was named to work on the Con stitution and Bylaws of the or ganization and report at the next meeting.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18
NOTICE OF MEETING

There will be a meeting Of all qualified members of the Kodiak Electrical Association held May 4, 8 D. m. at the American Leg ion Hall, for the purpose of elect ing nine members for a board of directors and for additional ot- her business which may be nec- essarg.
 Norris K. Porter, Sec.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18

Captain Robert A Johnston, fire marshall, and J. J. Hill, fire chief, both of Fort Greedy, were guests of the Rotary club at the regular noon luncheon Tuesday at the Brown Bear cafe, and both spoke to the club on Kod- iak's fire situation and offered recommendations to improve it.
 The fire situation here is ser ious, Captain Johnston said and the fire fighting equipment here is good for small fires and those just beginning, but is totally in adequate for a fire of any pro portion The first 3 minutes of any fire decide she amount of loss, he said, and depending on equipment from Fort Greedy for aid, which is gladly given when possible, is not a solution to more efficient fire protection.
 Here in Kodiak, which can be considered in a zone of war operations" he stated, "a fire could conceivably be caused by incendiary bombs and more pro- tective equipment would be ne- eded, at a time when the base could not be depended on for help"
 Fire Chief Hill recommended that the Rotary club take what ever steps necessary to secure Kodiak's share of the $100,000, 900 formerly being distributed by the OCD but now under the control of the War department, which is being granted to cities needing additional fire protection especially in congested defense areas. After the grants are made the War or Navy denartments give the priorities necessary,
 Hill pointed out that while some equipment is not available, especially complete fire trucks, | there might be a good chance of getting a special self contained | pumping trailer to be lowed by | truck or car. Most of the trailers have a 800 gallon centrifugal pump powered by a 85 HIP VS Ford motor, and one would be suitable for salt water pumping This type of apparatus has been recommended by London Hill said.
 Both fire officials pointed out to the club the necessity of action now, as each day means increasing difficulty in getting equipment of any kind. President Chadwick reported that the Governors office sometime ago queried him on Kodiak's fire
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18

Tuition at the University of Alaska is free to residents of Alaska.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18

About 600 boys and girls are enrolled in All clubs in Alaska.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1942-02-06

.tiverbend Eomemakers Club
Will ma ct at the hone OF ..rs.
Oscar Iertulla, on |ed. FEB. II
for an all day meeting oeginnin
at 11:C2 all.
IT.. -.Gam Werner will talk
TO US on food cons e.vati O.. Al
Of tbs club are urged to attend
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
NOT TOO FOND FAREWELL

Geese complaining, erdIe S
ladies Golfers, grumbIe not at the ban
on golf boIIs. Moan not, motorists,
that you cannot retire. A far greater
blow has been struck at American
civilization. Music may have the
charm to soothe sewage beasts, but
not the dogs of war; Production Of
iuke boxes will be stopped. The gov
eminent soys SO. luke box materials
ore needed for planes,
After the present supply runs out,
no more beer hoiI Brahms and Boch,
no filling station fueues. No more
Rose O'Ooy" ond Deep in the Heart
o. Texos" with your stock and onions.
Once more pIotters will be something
upon which food is served.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
FOR A FREE PRESS

At time When civil liberties ore
eurtoiIed by the exigencies Of world
war, there is encouragement in the
louisiono Supreme Courts decision
dismissine tempt proceedings
against New Orleans newspapers.
Too unquestionineIy, some of us
feor, the nations press is permitting
bureaucracy to dictate what shall and
shall not be printed. Every responsible
newspaper editor shrinks from the
dreod responsibility Of publishing war
and production data which Official
Washington thinks might help the
oxis.
Under such restrictions, the spot
light Of publicity may be kept off of
incompetence and corruption. This
mokes it doubIy imperative that where
no confidential focts ore concerned,
the newspapers should remain COM
Pletely free to onoyze and criticize
officioI action.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
eMcKENNEY ON BRIDGE

with a second trump to lead q
third spade, on which dummy's
last trump was used. Then West
regained the lead by club ruff
cashed the ace of trumps to pick
up the king, and exposed four
good spades.
The remarkable thing about
the hand is its resemblance to
the well-known Duke of Cum
berland" hand. This hand has
been used for many years by
card sharpers to fleece unwary
players. The first victim is sup
posed to have been the Duke OF
Cumberland.
The idea is that the victim rs
given the South hand-touched
up to look like a rocN-crusher.
He may hold AKQ in each of
two suits, AKQJ in the third,
and KJ9 in the fourth. This
fourth suit is bid by West, the
sharper, who keeps on to grand
slam.
The victim is lured into side
bet that the contract cannot be
made against his powerhouse.
Of course the whole deal is ar
ranged SO that West has two long
suits and two voids, while East
has just enough trumps to ruff
out one of South's AKQ holdings
and also to lead trumps twice
through his KJ0.
The hand from the duplicate
game is SO close to the Cumber-
land hand that the director made
inquiry at the time 70 find out
whether someone with q mis-
placed sense of humor had
stacked il. But he found that
the cards had been duly shuffled
and dealt out in the usual way
by players who could not be sus-
pected Of collision.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21

clothes that they have admired
on the screen.
GABLE UNSHIRTED
SCORES
Clark Cables undressing scene
in 1T Happened One Night" in
which he was revealed to be
wearing no ,undershirt, was a
terrible blow to the underwear
industry. Millions of males,
mostly youngsters, began buying
shorts but no tops.
One commercial tieup that
backfired resulted from an ad-
vertising mans carelessness. No
ticii g a studio still picture of
Jack Oakie smoking a cigar and
with a box of cigars at his elbow,
he hastily arranged campaign
with a tobacco company, with
the photograph used in ads.
But the agent had neglected to
read the movie script. He was
Mortified when the film was re-
leased and the smoking scene
came to life on the screen. After
a couple of puffs on the stogie,
Oakie announced: This cigar
stinks!"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Today's hand occurred in a
duplicate game, dealt in the US
ual way.
All North-South pairs got in
trouble on the hand. Some dou-
bled East-West at four hearts.
give the bidding as it occurred
at one table, where South rea-
lied that East might be void Of
spades and tried to save at five
diamonds. But five hearts was
too much for him and he felt
safe i'm doubling.
West ruffed the second round
of diamonds and led a spade for
dummy to ruff A trump lead
was won by the jack. North dis
carding a club. Another spade
was ruffed and West got back
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
~ PETER EDSok
Daily Mentor Washington
Cog1aspEndent

WASHINGTON, March II
The woy congressional in
vestieotino committees fight
over stor witnesses who will
make public appearances ond
spill q lot Of dirt, you'd think
sometimes thot the commit
tees were all rival burIecue
houses on opposite street cor
ners, trying to Guido eoch
other by billing bigger and
better strip teoses. Anything
for q sensation, and whether
the subject being Investigated
has anything much to do with
the subject the committee is
supposed to investigate makes
little or no difference.
This bottle for talent is por-
ticuIorIy obvious now that the
spotlight is playing on Robert
R. Guthrie. the big business
man from the south-Podu-
coh. ky.-who quit his job as Q
War Production Board officioI
because, as he soys. he felt ,e
wos being stymied in forcing
conversation Of manufacturing
plants to war production. Guth-
rie is top news, so he is being
fought over.
Talent scouts Of the House
Military Affoirs suh-commit-
tee, headed by Congressman
Charles |. Foddis, Woynes-
burg, Pa. spotted Guthrie first
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLY WOOD, Marcn IL
Just about the unhappiest indi-
vidual I've met in months is a
promoter who up to now has
dealt exclusively in CONNER
cial tieups" with Hollywood. His
job has included all manner of
finagling and wangling - from
securing outright endorsements
of products by stars to the ar
rangement for the use of certain
easily recognized motion pic
lures.
Now, he confesses sadly, he
may have to find another racket.
Automobiles, refrigerators and
radios used to be the mainstays
of his business, but those and
many other luxury items either
are out of production or are so
curtailed that movie star ap-
proval of them doesn't seem i'm
portant any more.
"Of course there arc cosmetics
and a few other things, but
fella can't get picture every
day of Marlene Dietrich brush
ing her teeth with Scourem den
thrice, or of Greta Carlo taking
a bath with Slipsy-Gripsy soap
and saying, 'Ay want to be alone
now, but COON to see me in my
new peecture. -
Cigarets still would be all
right for exploitation tie-ups, the
agent said, except that most
movie stars aren't supposed to
smoke. Also, the public now
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
HiehIiehts from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES E. HILBERT

Stefan Zweig is dead and M
died because he found himself
too tired to rediscover q new
world, too worn by Nazi terror:
to adopt new hope. His las'
book was "Amerigo" Viking
S2), a life of the man for whom
our continent is named, a great
explorer and experimenter whose
name became his fame and vice
versa.
1t is interesting that Zweig
one of the great writer's OF our
generation. turned toward Yes
pucci for his last biographical ef-
fort. There is a clear connec-
ton between the minds of the
two men, although, separated by
these many years, time may
seem to have overcome them
both impersonally. ~
In any case, Zweig felt Amer
igo was more than the godfather
of world. His book deals
chiefly with Vespucci as q re-
preventative of the middle ages,
a dying time which had magni-
ficence as it had cruelty and Bit
terness.
Zweig himself must possibly
have felt that he too represented
a dead world. Wrong as he was
in that assumption, he perform
ed great service by biography in
making clear the errors of q
time now gone as utterly as
Zweig's own era.
In "Amerigo" he shows q
world which opened after dark
ness like a flower, which proved
that men could be alive and in
dividual after generations of abb
surd and idiotic intellectual and
spiritual suffocation.
"Amerigo" is a good book and
an interesting one. 1t says a
great deal which has not been
said before, and all those words
bear weight because the man
who wrote them became at last
exhausted by the new dark
ages which close down around
us all. 1t is not fair wholly to
judge a book by what, in time,
contributed to it.
Nevertheless, one cannot be
immune to the full impact of
Amerigo. Despite Zweig's sui
eide, this book proclaims an ulti-
mate faith in truth and intellect.
Regardless of the swoops Of his
tory, Zweig knew that darkness
cannot less be countered than by
the presentation of true light.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21

The best selling book in America
today hos not been reviewed in the
literary supplements or selected as the
outstanding publication OF the month.
II is the Red Cross First Aid book, and
it's even outseIIine the Bible.
More than nine million copies have
come off the press since PeorI Horbor,
and the printers ore trying to step up
their production beyond the current
100000 q day. Red Cross heodquor-
tiers estimates the books reoders ore
enrolling in first-oid training courses
at the rate of 10000 day. Such
words as tourniquet and pressure point
and troction splint ore finding their
way into our everyday vocabulary.
These figures should help to quiet
the charge of "compIocency," at least
in one phase Of our war effort. They
indicate there are, throughout the
country, persons who realize that lit
can happen here, and who will be oble
to meet the emergency when and if the
bombers come.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-21
. SO THEY SAY

We must return to q belief in
the potentialties of man.-Mark
l.. Entorf, New York State Col
lege of Home Economics.
We can't all be captains or
generals, but there is much i'm
portant work to do in the
ran ks. Governor Lehman,
New York.
When war broke out, I stood,
a puzzled man, in front of a
six-ton slab in my studio, and
wondered. Jacob Epstein,
modernistic sculptor.
Never in history has a coun-
try co-operated so openly and
so Loyalty with another coun-
try as Panama has with the
United States. President de
la Guardia OF Panama.
I consider that every artist
" no isolates himself from the
world Is doomed. I find Il in
credible that IN artist should
want to shut himself away from
the people, who, in the end,
form his audience. -Dmitri
Shostakovitch, Soviet composer
md Tire Warde1. - 3. y. ",