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A Maid In Manhattan _____ By Allen Epps -- SYNOPSIS: FRED MOSHER, up-and-coming young real estate dealer in a southern town, long has been the suitor of . . , . BUSAN FARMER, who has rejected all his proposals because she feels that she has the duty of replen ishing the family fortune for her MIRS * ALICE FARMER, who lives with Sasan on the family plan tation. , - « . .. ROY LEONARD, Inspired by the memorv of a farm girl he met when he was 1«. is the young ad vertising man who gets the Idea of a contest to find the typical farmer's daughter." He is en gaged to marry ._ IRENE CARTER, secretary to the head of the company. • * • YESTERDAY: Susan tells her Aunt Alice that she doesn t be lieve she really loves Fred. CHAPTER XI “I don’t want you to be an old maid, Susan,” Aunt Alice went on "Old bachelors are awful, but there’s nothing on earth as bad as a set old maid.” "Don’t include every unmarried woman,” Susan smiled. I think you’re pretty swell, even if you do keep calling yourself an old maid. You’re a bachelor girl, Aunt Alice —that’s what you are! And I’m sticking here with you until we do something about the Farmer plan tation. I've got pioneer blood flow ing in my veins, and so have you; and we’ll shew the world that a couple of women can start some thing, and what’s more, finish it!” “Susan,” said Aunt Alice, tears in her voice as well as her eyes,, "You’re a darling. You’ve got your grandmother’s spunk, and your grandfather’s taking ways.” “That,” luaghed Susan, "ought to get me places!” ‘‘I hope so,” said Aunt Alice, i also hope that if your taking ways get you into any sort of trouble, your spunk will get you out.” “I’ll manage,” said Susan. And then she heard someone honking a horn out in front of the house. She went to the window and looked out. It was Fred. MONEY TO LOAN ON ANYTHING OF VALL'K No J.can Too J.artte— None Too Kmall Cape Fear Loan Office WILMINGTON’S NEWEST 12 I*. Front Kt. llial 21856 ’ POPE'S JEWELERS New Location 105 MARKET STREET Ricycles of All Kinds CAUSEY'S Corner Market and 12th I CAB I Dial 4464 Dial What a chute is to a flyer our protection is to you — indispensable in a pinch! NOTICE City and County Tax Payers 1941 City and County taxes are past due, will start gar nishment of wages for unpaid personal property tax after Jan. 15th, 1942. Pay your personal property tax now, and save garnish ment of wages: ". R. MORSE, City and County Tax Collector “Dam!” she said. Aunt Alice joined her. "He prob ably wants you to take a ride with him,” she said. “Do be nice to him, Susan. After all, he’s the catch of Ardendale.” “Yes’m said Susan. She leaned out of the window and called: “Be right with you, Fred!” Then she went to find a hat. “I’ll make use of him, anyway,” she said, "and have him drive me into town. There are some last-minute pur chases I need to make, if the old pocketbook will permit.” “I’ve got an extra dollar,” said Aunt Alice. “From those eggs I sold yesterday.” “Thanks, darling—but keep it,” said Susuan. “I’ll get what I need at the Five and Ten.” She hurried out to join Fred. • • * Up in New York two other peo ple were having a busy time of it. They were Mrs. Daniel Van Wert Jones and Roy Leonard. Mrs. Jones still was worrying about bringing an innocent country girl to a large and wicked city, and was making plans for a dinner that was to help Susan Farmer feel at home. And Roy Leon ard was laboring like mad to get as much done as he possibly could before the day when he would have to meet Susan at the Pennsylvania station. He wanted his desk cleared of all but the merest dribble of routine work. Early and late he slaved—late and early. And now Irene Carter was stand ing upon the threshold of his office annoyed, impatient. “Well?” she said, drawing on her gloves. “Are you taking me to lunch or not?” “Sure!” said Roy. Be with you in a second. I just want to okay this publicity.” He used a pen, and then looked up. “I’m getting all sorts of breaks, Irene. I may even be able to get Susan Farmer on the Answer This-One-Please! pro gram.” “That will be just ducky,” said Irer.e. “She’ll probably win the, steam-heated vanity case for being the dumbest person ever on the air.” “That’s a mighty narrow view point to take,” said Roy. “After all, a girl doesn’t have to be dumb just because she’s a farm er’s daughter. I’ve seen some pretty dumb girls right from Park avenue.” “Nevertheless, my statement still stands.” “All right, let it stand,” said Roy. “Just the same, everything’s going swell.” “No, not everything,” Irene con tradicted. "What do you mean?” “Our going to lunch isn't.” Irene glar.ced at her watch. “All I’m allowed for lunch is an hour, you know.” Roy placed a paperweight upon a stack of letters, and then took his hat from the rack. He slipped his arm about Irene, and they went out to get into the elevator. “It wasn t such a bad idea, was it?” he said when they were seat ed at the lunch table. "What wasn’t such a bad idea?” said Irene. “The contest,” said Roy. "The reactions so far have been most satisfactory.” "So it would appear,” said Irene. "Lots of cheese are selling, any way. I took a look at our sales chart this morning, and its tem perature seems to be rising.” "Good!” said Roy. "We’re go ng to give our competitors a run for their money—” "And you still have your own office,” said Irene. "Yes’m.” “And the raise in salary?” ‘‘Yes’m,” said Roy. "So far, so good! And if things keep on mov ing as' smoothly as they’ve been doing, I shall keep the raise and the office.” "Then how about taking a look at that apartment I mentioned on the day you discovered this Farm er person?” "Sure!” "When?” “Just as soon as Miss Susan Farmer is safely launched,” Roy replied. "Still stalling, I see,” Irene ob served. “Oh, listen, Irene, I’m not stall ing. Can’t you see that I’m only—” “It certainly looks like stalling to me,” Irene cut in. "Be reasonable, Irene, and try to see—” "A woman should never be ex pected to be reasonable,” said Irene, “when the man she’s plan ning to marry goes haywire over another girl’s picture.” “Who’s gone haywire?” “You—of course. Who on earth do you think I mean—if not you? How many men do you think I’m planning to marry?” “I don’t know,” Roy grinned. “After all, you modem women do go for things in a big way—even marriage.” “Meaning just what?” Irene de manded. “I mean so many of you are apparently taking the aggressive role,” said Roy. “You know—go ing after things without waiting for—” “For you men to propose?” said Irene. "Is that what you mean?” “No. Not exactly. Only, you see, Irene, I—” “The next thing you’ll be saying is that I asked you if you’d marry me.” “Which reminds me,” said Roy. “Just who did propose? Honest to gush, Irene, I don’t remember do ing it. We just sort of drifted into a discussion of marriage, and —presto!—we were more or less engaged.” “Just what do you mean—more or less?” "Nothing. Forget it!” Irene was thoughtful for a mo ment. Are you,” she asked, “plan ning to launch Miss Susan Farmer by breaking a bottle of cham pagne over her head?” “Certainly not,” said Roy. “I suppose a bottle of Dainty Diana Dairies milk would be more appropriate.” ‘That,” said Roy, “is not fun ny.” “Sorry. However, if you want someone to handle the bottle—just let me know.” Irene’s eyes flashed. “I’d adore launching that rural menace." “That,” said Roy, “is even less funny than the other remark.” (To Be Continued) nazissIfTsubs TO CURB BRITISH Move Made In Effort To Curb Attacks On Axis Transport Convoys BY LARRY ALLEN ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 11. — W) —German submarines are being shifted from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean in an effort to curb the devastating attacks by the British navy on Axis convoys bound for Libya, Rear Admiral Henry Bernard Rawlings said to day. Three submarine were sunk in recent weeks, and probably oth ers were destroyed. “But the attacks are not going to stop,” Rawlings added. The Admiral is commander of a British cruiser squadron in t h e Mediterranean, and he made his remarks in the cabin of his cruiser flagship. The appearance of U-boats in in creasing numbers in the Mediter ranean constitutes “a nuisance, but it’s a nuisance that can be attacked and we are doing that suc cessfully,” he declared. Admiral Rawlings asserted the Nazi U-boat invasion of the Med iterranean had been apparent since early December probably due to three reasons: (1) Submarine activities in the Atlantic were not paying justifiable dividends. (2) The Nazis want to try to protect Axis convoys bound for Tri poli. (3) The Germans are disgusted over the failure of Italian subma rines to prevent the British navy from knocking off over 60 per cent of all convoys carrying vital sup plies to general Erwin Rommel’s retreating Libyan army. The Admiral said winter weather in the Atlantic was making U-boat operations difficult, and may be a factor in the decision to transfer a part of their activities into the Mediterranean. He said the Italian battlefleet was convoying part of the supply ships in the direction of Tripoli, bu* that II Duce’s battleships were reluctant to come within range of British warships, leaving the most dangerous final stretch to cruisers and destroyers. British warships are maintaining a sharp blockade of the Libyan coast. Cruisers and destroyers fre quently move close to shore and heavily bombard enemy positions near Halfaya pass and in other sectors. 3 -V Auto Tire Thieves Grow Unusually Bold Rationing of auto tires and tubes are causing thieves, who specialize In stealing such accessories, to be come unusually bold, city detectives said Sunday, when the theft by day light of all the tires on a car was reported. Sergeant R. T. Stephens, Company 553, signal battalion, Camp Davis, reported that he left his car parked yesterday morning on N. 17th street. When he returned about noon, the car had been Jacked up and all four tubes and tires gone. A spare was also stolen, he said. Sergeant Stephens said all the rubber was new. ,* THEIR DEAR FUEHRER SENT THEM A pfennig for the thoughts of these German soldiers as they shake out their blankets after a cold, cold night in the invigorating winter clime of Russia. Hitler has asked Germans to give up warm clothing for soldiers. And, comrade, they need it. _ Cuban Minister Praises “Good Neighbor” Policy - ___ MIAMI,'Fla., Jan. 11.—liB—Cuba’s minister of national defense, Dr. Domingo F. Ramos, told southeast ern governors at their first meeting today that statesmen had wiped out obstacles to inter-American collabo ration as the genius of scientific men “wiped out yellow fever and other infectious diseases-” He referred to the Western Hemis phere as “the good nighborhood,” and said: “How different the facilities for the defense of America would be without the wise and just policy of the good neighbor, carried out in the past nine years completely, sin FORD OPPOSES CLASS HATRED Manufacturer Makes Posi tion Clear Regarding Sta tus Of Jewish Race NEW YORK, Jan. 11.— UP) —A letter signed by Henry Ford ar.d made public today by the anti-de famation league of B’Nai B’Rith quoted the industrialist as urging “my fellow-citizens to give no aid to any movement whose purpose it is to arouse hatred against any group." The league said the letter, ad dressed to Sigmund Livingston of Chicago, league chairman, and dated Jan. 7, was released as “a matter of public interest." The letter said: "In our present national and inter national emergency, I consider it of Importance that I clarify some gen eral misconceptions concerning my attitude toward my fellow-citizens of Jewish faith. I do not subscribe to or support, directly or indirectly, any agitation which would promote antagonism against my Jewish fel low-citizens. I consider that the hate-mongering, prevalent for some time in this country against the Jews, is of distinct service to our country, and to the peace and wel fare of humanity. “At the time of the retraction by me of certain publications concern ing the Jewish people, in pursuance of which I ceased the publication of ‘The Dearborn Independent,’ I de stroyed copies of literature prepared by certain persons conncted with its publication. Since that time, I have given no permission or sanction to anyone to use my name as sponsor ing any such publication, or being the accredited author thereof.” “I am convinced that there is no greater dereliction among the Jews than there is among any other class of citizens. I am convinced, fur ther, that agitation for the creation of hate against the Jew or any other racial or religious group, has been utilized to divide our Ameircan com munity and to weaken our national unity.” The letter added that it was Ford’s “sincere hope that now in this country and throughout the world, when this war is finished and peace once more established, hatred of the Jews, commonly known as anti-semitism, and hatred against any other racial or religious group, shall cease for all time." -V CHING NAMED WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — Wl — The office of production manage ment announced today the appoint ment ot Cyrus Ching, vice-president of the U. S. Rubber company, as chairman of a management-labor sub-committee to aid in converting the automobile industry to war pro duction. DR. BOBBS Elliott and McArdie IHERES \MHAT I MEAN--YOU STRAP IT ON,SEE? | THATS IT! YOU CANT MAKE ) ns fine -go oust- kio glub-glu8-glub- yourself understood! / Kb *g AND CONVERSATION TO A ] I , „ „ MINER IS AS NECESSARY ) \' I WHAT DID AS AIR! BESIDES ITS SO i f—^SAyT HEAVY! YOU get a crick ) IN YOUR NECK JUST FROM ( / Vrij ' j WEARING fT! Sly % I 'M cerely and scrupulously by President Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Welles and Berle and their colla borators.” He recommended immediate ap pointment of a committee to Orient civilian defense in the United States and Cuba and asked that a meeting be held as soon as practical in Miami or Havana to work out details of inter-American total defense. A rail”accident near St. Augustine delayed a train bringing some gover nors and the conference began with out its chairman, Gov. Frank M. Dixon of Alabama, and Gov. Homer Adkins of Arkansas. Neither execu tive was on the wrecked train. Gov. Spessard L. Holland of Flor ida greeted the arriving executives and led them on a sightseeing tour of the area. S'outhem freight rates and their ef fect in the South’s all-out defense manufacturing effort was a subject outlined for consideration by Gov. Prentice Cooper of Tennessee. “Our view is that lower freight rates now are more important than ever in the history of the South," the Tennessee executive reported. “The nation is in an all-out pro duction effort, and now is not the time for trade barriers. “We have won some advantages. What we ask is equality with other sections of the country, the lower ing of sectional barriers. The South must emerge from its raw material economy occasioned by freight rates averaging 35 per cent above the cast and north.” He declared the defense effort will be made less expensive by lower freight rates for the South, permit ting southern manufacturers to take a greater part in production for war. “The plan has been to suck out the South’s raw materials at low tariffs, and for rates to mysteriously increase when such materials are processed in our area,” said Cooper -V Swedish Armaments Program Is Drafted STOCKHOLM, Jan. 11.— Iff) —A new five-year plan for Swedish ar maments which will increase the number of heavy tanks, anti-tank weapons and automatic infantry weapons will be presented to the Swedish Riksdag shortly, Defense Minister Per Edvin Skoeld said to day. He said that the eight-year plan announced in 1936 has been finished well ahead of schedule in 1941. The new plan will give the Swed ish army a proportionately larger mobile force than any other army. Its navy will get new submarines, destroyers and motor torpedo boats. Coast artillery will be strengthened and air forces increased to the max imum of production capacity. Extra costs of the program were estimated at 750,000,000 crowns year ly (about $340,000,000). --V Bonds Given By Two On Assault Charges George Ahrens and J. F. Grotgen were released from city jail Sunday, under bonds of $1,000 each to recor der’s court, on charges of assault upon complaint of Gus Koutoulas, of the Cape Fear Sandwich shop. Koutoulas charges in the warrants that Ahrens broke a quantity of dishes and water glasses during an altercation In the sandwich shop. In addition to assault, Grotgen is charg ed with taking away a salt shaker and a pepper shaker from the cafe. NEGRO SOLDIER RIOT TOLL IS 30 Trouble At Alexandria, La., Follows Arrest At Show; Tear Gas Exhausted ALEXANDRIA, La., Jan. 11— (il—Negro soldiers were restricted to nearby camps Livingston and Claiborne today by the Fifth Army Corps headquarters following a disturbance here last night in which 30 persons were injured, including 28 negro soldiers, one woman and one state policeman. Four of the soldiers, shot in the two-hour clash in the city’s "little Harlem’’ section, were in a seri ous condition, Army officials said. A company of white military police from Wisconsin, after be coming involved with the soldiers, called for help and was reinforced by city and state police. Chief of Police George C. Gray estimated 60 military police, a score of city officers and 10 state troopers took part in rounding up 3,000 negro troops, dispersing 3, 000 negro civilians and closing 15 saloons and cafes in a four-block area. Practically all of the negro troops involved were from north ern states, principally New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, officers said. Fifth Army Corps authorities an nounced that the negro soldiers were restricted to their camps but were not placed under arrest. Mili tary police today continued to round up negro soldiers in the city, explaining that these were mostly non - commissioned officers with families in town who had week end passes. The negro section is patrolled by negro military police, who with the Wisconsin company, are un der orders of Maj. Ray McKnight, assistant corps provost marshal. The first trouble was reported to have occurred in front of a negro theater when a Wisconsin police man arrested a negro soldier and a crowd of negro soldiers attacked the white officer and his prisoner. Bullets, bricks, sticks and rocks flew. Windows were broken and between 25 and 30 tear gas bombs, the city’s entire supply, were used. The negro troops were ordered to the bus station, loaded into busses and sent back to their camps. Fifth Army Corps headquarters said the 28 negro soldiers injured were either shot, clubbed or oth erwise bruised. The Army withheld the names of soldiers taken to military hos pitals. Two of the soldiers were treated at a civilian hospital. May Frances Scales, 22, was struck in the hip by a stray bullet, officers said. One state patrolman had a bandaged finger he' said he hurt when he hit a soldier on the head with his flashlight. Property damage was confined almost entirely to broken win dows. 1 .llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. "Willie Want Ad" Says— '1 COVER WILMINGTON LIKE A GEN ERAL RAIN" —“I am everywhere at the same time—north, east, south and west, wherever the STAR-NEWS is read. “Hire me — I will increase your income by renting your vacant property, by selling your discarded used things, etc. “I am a STAR-NEWS WANT AD—and I work for as little as 24c A DAY. STAR-NEWS CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Dial 3311 Frenchmen Answer Collaboration Issue By Sound Reasoning NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—W— Daring Frenchmen in some vil lages in eastern France gave the occupying Germans a lesson in collaboration today. The French radio at Braz zaville, Equatorial Africa, said this notice was posted on walls of the town “under the very noses of the Roches”: “First, we can be intelligent. Second, we can support- collabo ration. Third we can be honor able. But if we are intelligent and support collaboration, we cannot be honorable. If we are honorable and support collabo ration, we cannot be intelligent. If we are honorable and intel ligent, we cannol support col laboration.’' CBS heard the broadcast. -V Pickup Ride To Town Causes Handbag Loss A handbag containing $35 in cash, a return ticket from Wilming ton to New York, a driver’s license, and articles of clothing were left in a Ford V 8 black sedan driven by a man known only as Jim, who had picked up two marines and a woman about five miles north of Wilmington Sunday afternoon. One marine giving his name as Frank McVeigh said the property belonged to himself and his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Stella Duda. The driver’s license was in her maiden name. The Mc Veighs claimed Chester, N. Y. as their home and in reporting to the police gave their local address as Hotel Wilmington. The name of the other marine could not be learned. The driver of the sedan, Jim, was said to be a worker at the Marine base. 3 NOwrrcHHur AHEAD IN i j Assistant Attorney Gen,hi Makes Position Clea, On Critics WASHINGTON, Jar n __ Wendell Berge, assistant "L**' general, assured the nation t' address tonight that there * no “witch hunts” aimed n up critics of the war Policy." ^ “If law enforcement office to start jailing people what they think, say or „-r,tf! officers would experience "!t^ difficulty in devising standard^ which to determine what Id^ * criticism shall be perming 1 what kind of criticism shall s permitted,” he said. .. • Berge, head of the departs™ criminal division, spoke ovt 'rt'1 station WWDC(0n the freedom of speech in time 0‘ »-.* Berge said “the safest ary effective way to counteract the^ guided mutterings of the re'at;31* few people who have not joined us heart and soul in our mith*.' fort to win this war is by inteliw and vigorous reply to such Jr" talk.” "The American policy," ht „ ded, “is to meet force bv fc„c, talk by talk.” 11 -V MINERS STRIKE \ LONDON, Jan. 11. — than 2,000 miners in one of hi most important mines of the Xn coalfields went on strike today a wage dispute and some sourcn expressed fear the walkout at force the others into id’ -ness. I cause of the large number of called into the army maintenaa of coal production lias been os«i Eritain’s most difficult jobs. THINK IT OVER! How is your home financed? Is the plan adaptable to your needs? Are you complete ly satisfied? Get the facts about CAROLINA'S Direct Re duction Loan plans as thousands of others are doinc It Pays! TWO THE / MILLION DOUJVR Carolina Bnildinn and Loan Assn. “Member Federal Home I^an Bank" C M. BUTLER W. A. FONVIKLLE W. D. JONES Pres. Sec.-Treas. Asst. Sec.Trtu ROGER MOORE. V-Pree. 3. O. CARR. Attj ; TAX LISTING The Machinery Act provides that Poll and Tangible j Property tax returns shall be made to the list-taker | during the month of January under the pains and pen- | » alties imposed by law. OWNERS OF AUTOMOBILES SHOULD BE PRE PARED TO GIVE TAX LISTERS FULL INFORMA TION AS TO MODEL, YEAR OF MANUFACTURE AND STATE LICENSE NUMBER. Wilmington township tax listers will be on the main floor of old court house daily 8:30 a. m., to 5:30 p. m., (Sundays excepted), beginning January 2nd, 1942. County tax listers will meet their usual appoint ments as advertised. Harnett listers will meet at the court house Janu ary 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st. Cape Fear, Federal Point and Masonboro listers will :■ meet at the court house January 30th, and 31st. J. A. ORRELL, County Auditor RAPID PACKAGE DELIVERY Between Wilmington and Jacksonville North Carolina Only Packages of 150 lbs or less accepted for Transportation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Wilmington Jacksonville Dial 3311 Dial 3226