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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
BANK CLEARINCS
EXPAND SHARPLY
OF y Leading
Cities Shows Decline
Abruptly Checked

NEW YORK, June 20-R-Bank
clearings in % leading cities ex-
banded sharply during the week
ended June 10 following the abrupt
decline of the preceding week, Dun
& Bradstreet reported today.
The latest total of S., 1876, 1927, 900
represented a gain of 81 per cent
from S., $3.50, 059, 900 in the compar-
able 1889 week and was SLAB.
292, 900 ahead of the preceding
week.
New York ~clearings of 50, 1856.
10, 5000 were six-tenths of one per
cent less than 3d. 77, 805, 900 a year
ago. Total for outside cities, how
ever, rose to $2,429, 628, 900. an in
crease of 6.2 per cent over 81, 288,
254, 900 last year.
Most cities gained over the like
1899 week, including Cleveland cs
per cent; Detroit 28.1; Portland,
Ore, 23.9; Seattle 20.5.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON-You can write it
down in your book that some
change in the johnson act, to per-
nit war loans to the allies, Will
almost certainly be made with
say-six months.
It won't be done right away, and
this session of Congress-if it ad.
journs in mid-June, a. per sche-
dule-is not likely to touch it. But
if the session continues beyond
June, or if there is an extra ses-
sion later in the summer, an
amendment is extremely probable.
There has been a great shift OF
sentiment in Congress. Six months
ago any move to lift the ban on
loans would have lost overwhelm.
ingly. Today some of the men who
were most outspoken against the
idea last fall are privately talking
in favor Of it.
The shift is due to two things:
a growing concern over the plight
of the allies, and a feeling that tc
make the loans would be good fo1
Enthusiastically the agricul'
tural business.
General belief is that the allies
have all the money the need,
right now, for planes and mum
tons, but that they are conserv'
ing their funds as far as possible
by cutting down on purchaes 1
farm products. Let the farm bell
statesmen once get convinced thai
loans would boom farm exports
and you're likely to see action.
Best way to put it is that a Of
today a majority in Congress is
not ready to vote for loans, but is
READY to sit down and let some
body try to sell the idea.
SQUALLS DISASTER CAUSED
NO SUBMARINE CHANGES
The sinking of the submarine
Squalls off Portsmouth, N. H., JUS
over a year ago, was almos
unique among U. S. Navy subma
rine disasters in that It did no
lead to far.reaching changes II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
Colin Spencer Named
By States Foresters

RALEIGH, June 20-R-The
North Carolina Forestry Asscoia-
ton reelected Colin G.. Spender of
Carthage it's president yesterday
and appointed w. L. Beasley OF
Louisburg as full-time secretary,
a newly-created position.
L.R. Foreman of Elizabeth City
was named district vice-president
for the east, George Watts Hill
of Durham, for the central part OF
the state, and H. C. Cline of Hick-
DRY, for the west. R.W. Graeber
of Raleigh, Extension Forester at
NC. State college, was reelected
secretary-treasurer.
Support of the forestry conser-
walton program was pledged by
Governor Hoey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

dominated over the sense Of sacri-
flee. We have sought more than we
have given. We have not exerted
enough effort. Today we are in dis
tress."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
5 GREEK VESSELS
REPORTED sunk
Mines And Torpedoes Ar.
Blamed; One Bombed
In French Port

ATHENS, GREECE, June %
,R-Five Greek freighters hsv.
been reported sunk in the MAJ,
terranean in the past two dsv, =.
mines or possibly torpedoes
another Greek ship. the May wv ,'
was bombed and sunk while u -
loading in a French port.
Details of the sinkings, give, \.
owners and relatives of Grey
were meager. sa'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

According to a recent survey the
older a used a is, the easier it is
to sell. A car which is older than six
years takes an average Of PSI days
to move, but a car only a year ole
takes Ala day sto sell. The average
turnover period is 37.8 days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

Recently the Allies placed an MI,
with an American plane ra2yt..'
turer for twin-engine attacy 49,,
ers totaling approximately s,,t !.
600. The plane is a higb-vi,,
metal m%onoplane Of $4,000 nm, 81
weigh. "S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
the design or operation of subma-
rines or their equipment.

the design or operation Of subma-
rines or their equipment.
Reason for that is that most
peacetime submarine disasters
are due to some fundamental de-
feet and teach the navy something
important about the use of these
tricky boats. The Squalls sinking
wasn't in that class; the boat sank
simply because of a mechanical
failure in an induction valve,
and that failure proved fatal be.
cause of a simultaneous failure
in an indicator which should have
given sufficient warning of the
mishap.
Changes in the gear in question
to keep such accident from hap.
pening again have been made
and that's all there is to it. The
Squalus, raised and reconditioned
is back in service again, under tbs
name of Sailfish.
NAVY CONSIDERING
ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISER
If battleships have to be rear
mored to make them bomb-proof
there is a chance that some cruis'
ers also will be re-designed in or
der to fit them for more aggressive
action againts airplane.
All warships carry anti-air
craft guns, of course. But an idea
which is beginning to take hole
among some u. S. Navy officer!
is that it would pay to have a new
kind of cruiser, definitely classee
as an anti-aircraft ship. Genera
idea is to make the vessel fairly
bristle with anti-aircraft guns
range and height finders, and 81
on, so that it could protect the
fleet against planes the way a de
stroyer protects it against subma
rines. rs likely that a few ex
perimental ships of this type viii
be built before long.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
Fred Brown Resigns
As u. S. Comptroue,

WASHINGTON, June 20. H.
President Roosevelt accepted with
regret" today the resignation OF
Fred H. Brown, former New Hamp-
shire senator, as comptroller general
of the United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
MARSHAL PETAIN
EXPLAINS MOVE
Military Situation Simply
Made Further Fighting
Useless, He Says
nv the Associated Press

BORDEAUX. France, June "
o,d Marshal Henri Philippe Petaln
u. nce's premier of defeat, saoiy
told his people today they had ios'
the fight to Germany because theS
had "fewer friends than IN 1914
1s-"fewer young men, less arihs'
too few allies"
But he promised, in a raoi'
broadcast: I'VE will learn our les
son from the lost battle He DAM
ed defeat on the lush years since
the World wax victory when "our
sensa of enjoyment predomlnateo
oyer our sense of sacrifice"
petain disclosed that at the be-
oinninp of the Battle of raj
Tho nation had but 2,780,O00 troops,
or 500, 900 less than after three
wears of bloody fighting in b
World war.
In contrast with IS British div1-
sions in May of 1913, he ADDED
there were but ten in May OF 1910.
Then he compared the So Italian
World war divisions on the side or
France and the AZ from the United
States with the present: Italy an
enemy, America a neutral.
french planes in the Battle of
France were outnumbered by h
enemy one to six, he declared.
The hero of Verdun concluded:
81 was with you in your days OF
glorv and I am and will remain
with you in your days Of sadness"
He explained why he had asked
for peace.
IT took this decision," the old
marshal of the World var declared
in a radio broadcast to the nation,
because the military situation fail
ed Ito justify our hopes based IN
the line Of the Somme and the
Aisne."
General (Maxime) Weygand re-
grouped our armies. His name alone
was a presage of victory
However, the line gave way and
enemy pressure forced u troops
to retreat.
ION June 10 I asked for an
armistice."
Contrasting the last war with
this struggle, Petain said that at
the beginning Of the present battle
France had 500, 900 less troops than
the $3.50, 900 she had after three
years Of Lloody fighting in the
World war.
In May, 1913" he went on.
1--WE had IS British divisions: in
May, 1910, we had ten.
I'm 1918 we had So Italian divi-
sions and AZ American divisions
with u.s."
Here the old marshal paused, and
then pointed out that Italy was
fighting on the side Of Germany
and that America was neutral.
THE i%nferiority Of our material"
he said, was even greater than
that Of our manpower. French
aviation had been fighting its bat
tie one against six"
Every people, he added sadly,
must know days Of success and
days of defeat. Then he went on:
To-day France is a witness to
sad days. I was with you in your
days Of glory. I am and will re-
main with you in your days Of
Sadness"
The French, he said, do not deny
defeat when it stares them in the
face. All peoples have known sue.
cesses and reverses. It is by their re-
action that they show themselves
weak Or great. We will learn our
lesson from the lost battle.
"Since u victory Gin the World
wary a ems Of enjoyment has pre-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

As Wendell Wilkes candidacy for
the republican presidential nomi-
nation looms even bigger, his pic
ture looms pretty big around the
Willkie convention office. Above,
Alice Callaghan, of Gloucester, n.
j., awaiting the elevator, gives you
an idea of the posters size.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

ryl Zanuck and his aides didn't
want anyone who looked like ShiE-
ley. Ann has dark brown eyes and
long, straight auburn hair. S h e
can sing a little but doesn't dance.
She is acknowledged by all Holly
wood as a first-rate actress.
The studio isn't making any an
nouncements or claims for it's
Temple successor. Story properties
which were bought or created for
Shirley successor. Story properties
cles for Ann Todd, but it isn't
likely that they'll ever be identi-
fled as yarns from the Temple
shelf.
They'll probably be changed,
anyway, with dramatic values
built up to fit the more intense,
emotional youngster who, not quite
8, seems a good deal better poised
than the bland and innocent Shir.
ley vas at IL.
PARENTS NOT INTERESTED
IN MOVIES AT FIRST
There is evidence that 20th-Fox
is planning a ~long-range built-up
of its new actress because t S
starting out now to establish her
age as 6. Her mother, Mrs. A. U.
Mayfield, says her daughter will
be 8 in August.
Ann Manifold was 5 when her
parents first brought her h e r e
from Denver to visit a flock of
relatives. Everyone seemed to
think she ought to be in movies,
but the Mayfields weren't much
interested then. They allowed her
to be registered at Central Cast
ing, but no jobs had turned up
when they returned to Denver.
Two years ago, illness forced the
father to sell his weekly news
paper, and in the space of a few
weeks the family had come back
to Hollywood and Ann had been
launched impressively in movies
after having been noticed in a
church play. George Cukor chose
her from q youngsters tested for
the part of Herbert Marshalrs
daughter in casa"
Since then she has had more
experience than the average ac-
tress of her age. She did Zero
Hour" at Republic, stranger
Than Desire" at Metro, Little
Orvie' at RKO. Twentieth-Fox
tested her for ''Swannee River"
(too large), for Grapes of Wrath"
(too smalD and for a secondary
role in THE Bluebird" Gust
right. But it didn't put her
under contract. then.
ALREADY HAS HAD
MANY ROLES
|. She played Leslie Towards
daughter in "Intermezzo'' and Ed.
ward Robinson's daughter in DIR.
Ehrlich."
Lately she has been working in
"All This and Heaven Too" with
Bette Davis, Mrs. Mayfield said.
warmers had optioned her + +
another picture, with Merle Ober-
on, but it was postponed. So while
she was still working there, we
accepted this contract with Fox
Ann was signed on April Is anc
began work that day as Tyrone
Powers little sister in Brigham
Young" NJ future pictures have
been announced, but it's guessed
that she'll play two or three more
progressively important roles be
fore being tried in a lead. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
Weed Control Election
Rallies Are Scheduled

RALEIGH June 20 -R-Meet-
ings to organize an education cam
paign to be conducted before the
REFERENDUM July 20 on control OF
the flue-cured tobacco crop will be
held in six eastern counties tonight
anC in two more tomorrow night.
4onight's sessions will be at New
Bern, Smithfield, Wilmington,
Jacksonville, Greenv111e and VII
son, and tomorrow night the meet
ing will be at Beaufort and Tren'
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
IN HOLLYWOOD
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD,-Ever since Shir-
ley Temple packed up her dolls,
picture books and $500, 900 bonus
check and trudged out Of Doth
Fox, agents and mamas have been
clamoring at the studio gate with
a frilled assortment of substitute
Wonder Tots and Miracle Mappets,
most of them made up to look
as much as possible like the orr
ginal.
But the company wasn't having
any, thank you. It went out and
hired Ann Todd from under the
noses of the Warner brothers. Oar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21

A new amphibian tank recently
designed in Canada has three wheels
one ~ feet high by 6 feet WIDE
and the other two, for steering, eacn
Is feet high and 3 feet wide. Each
wheel is separately driven.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
alrr1adge Is
! = y a
One Time Foe Of
Roosevelt Wins Demo.
cratic Gubernatorial
Race in Georgia.

htlontH. Sept. l2-(AP)--Eugene
T1llcadgo, cnc-time cUt7pokCn foe Of
ha Rno~cvc1t administration, won a
third torn as governor Of Georgia
II 2 Democratic primary in which
20 Drcni"nd voters he would sup
pert The Democratic ticket in the
n1t'9H2l election.
Virtual;y complete unofficial re-
turns from yesterdays voting shcW-
ID tic i2Wycr-farmer won another
.uDarnatorial term over two oppon-
n;a otter a four-year retirement.
animation in the primary is
equivalent to election in Democratic
icCrgia.
Talmadgo was given a popular
vote Of l41.153 end county unit
vote of 346. Columbus Roberts,
wealthy Columbus dairy farmer ant
business man, received a popular
vote of 97,2O5 and a county unit vote
of SO. Abit Nix, Athens attorney
making his third race for the gov
ernorship, trailed with popular
vote of SO, which gave him only
IL unit votes.
During his second term as COVER
nor in 1857 Talmadge made re-
peated attacks on the national ad-
mlnistration and fought denomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt. He carried an anti
new deal banner in the race for the
United States Senate in 1888 and was
defeated by an administration OPP
ponent.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
County Body
Is Booster
OF Markets
Chairman Rogers, of
County Commission.
ers, Speaks for His
Group in Furthering
Interests of Tobacco
and Cotton.

On hchalf Of the Vance Board OF
County Commissioners, Chairman 5.
p. Rogers. Of that body. joins in sup
port Of the marketing program for
Henderson, and voices the sentiment
of the entire county in extending a
welcome and 4 greeting to growers
of tobacco and Gotten who seell their
crops in this city.
Chairman Rogers extends his m
vitation to farmers and others IN the
trading territory and over the State
in general 10 visit Henderson to mar
kct their products and to make the
CITY their headquarters for shopping.
He gives assurance that visitors Will
find the people here a friendly group,
and that outsiders will find their
dealings pleasant and profitable.
Attention is called to the TACT that
the city offers large and modern to-
bacco warehouses and also cotton
gins that are we'll equipped with up
to-datc machinery and other facilities
for handling the fleecy staple. All OF
the leading tobacco companies OF the
world are represented by men who
really know tobacco. and the cotton
market ranks high, offering the very
fContinueG on Page FOur)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
Roosevelt
For Draft
Of Industry
President keaiElrrns
"Supreme Determine
ton" To Keep War
From A m G II c a n
Shores, In Campaign
Speech to Labor.

Washington, Sent. ''--'A >---'2"'
affirming "suproro dcto"N,i''"'ioo'
to keep war away iro"' A"'"rt""~
shores. President Roosevelt inHu-
rurated his third term c"n'~";'r' 1'-'
hight BY advocating cn"opnls"rv Scrv-
zee for industry as VOL =" f"r rnHn-
onwnr if necessary. and plcdging that
his labor and social proeranl Wo'1lG
expand rather than retreat in build
inc national defense.
He COUPLED these definite "tate-
ments with an attack on unnamed
critics who Glove the labOrine man in
November but forget him in Janu-
arv" and called for an end "to the
sort of appeasement which seeks to
keep US helpless by playing on fear
and by indirect sabotage Of all the
PROGRESS we are making"
The President spoke before the
convention of the Transfers nnlnn.
an American Federation Of Labor
organization.
Described at the White House be-
fore hand as the labor speech OF the
campaign. Mr.. RooSevelt's address
contended that the New Deal enact
raents had helped organized labor
to broad increase in both mem
bership and influences. denied that
he defense program requires any re-
AVIATION in those laws. and emphatl-
cally reiterated his intention to keep
the United States out cf the wa.
His hearers, who had endorsed his
third term candidacy fcW hours
before, listened with enthui7Etlc at
tention.
The Chief Executive dashed out
at scements of his Opposition. Whirh
he said, were endeavoring to make
the national defense criris IN oNcus7
for stopping "the progress we are
.,oal-ine in social and labor leg'Sla-
ton" and for repeating the New Deal
cnactments.
Progress, he asserted, had been
slow and difficult, "beset by obstruc-
ton and by bitter propaganda from
those who had grown accustomed to
sIthe exploitation" Of the masses
working for them.
Discussing national defense plans
and reporting them progressing sat
isfactorily with a growing popular
unity behind them, lie Chief EXecu-
tive said that lin all OF these plans
for national defense, only those who
seek to play upon the fears Of the
American people discover an attempt
to lead us into war" And he re-
newed his previously expressed de-
termination to keep America out Oh
the conflict abroad.
No effort was made to conceal
the frankly political nature of the
address. Radio time was bought and
paid for by the Democratic National
Committee, after some controversy
as to the nature Of previous ad-
dresses.
The endorsement Of the idea of
Selling and operating industries
which refuse to cooperate with the
defense program came after Wen
dell L. Willkie,, the Republican pres
idential nominee, had challenged MIR.
Roosevelt to state his views.
Willkie opposed the Russell-OVer-
ton amendment to the CONSUMPTION
act, calling for seizure of such in
dustries. He said this amendment
was dangerous, but added later that
he would favor selective service
for industry if it were accompanied
by definite rules and regulations.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
Nazis Charge
Bombings Of
Potato Bugs

Berlin, Sept 12.-(AP) - Au-
thorized German sources charged to-
day that British airmen are throw
ing bags Of colorado potato bugs"
into potato fields in Germany,
Luxembourg and Belgium in an CT
fort to lay waste to the major food
source Of these countries.
These sources said the bugs multi
ply rapidly and are hard to control.
Two days ago a similar charge was
made that the British are throwing
millions of scif-igniting "leaves"-
made of phosphorus and gun cotton
to cause fires in Berlin fields and
forests. (The British admitted they
we're using the leaves" but author
lative British sources said today
there is 70 truth in the German de-
.larat;on that British filters are drop
ping bags Of Colorado bugs on Ger
m2ny'S fieldS)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
Hamburg,
Bremen Are
Also Raiided
Anti-Aircraft Barrage
Keeps German Filters
Away From London
La,i. Night; Over One
Thousand K n O w n
Dead in Britain.
(By the Associated Press

British Warplanes showered fire
bombs around Berlin's Tiergarten-
the German capitals "Centra! Park"
in a 92-minutc raid before dawn to-
day and pounded the great shipping
ports of Hamburg and Bremen in an
intensified assault on Hitler's Reich.
The Tiergarten lies near govern
ment buildings and Hitler's chan
cellory.
London reported the Royal Air
Force raiders also bombed the An
halter railway station in central Ber-
lin and the big TempcIhof airdrome.
IIitler's high command admitted
II persons were killed, Al injured,
and many fires started in the three
cities attacked.
LOndon's weary millions under
went their fifth straight dusk-to-
dawn attack, sleeping again in un-
foreground shelters, but the populace
found a note of comfort in the
steady slam of anti-aircraft guns
setting up a stream of fire to blast
the raiders.
The new London defense tactics
Of thowing up a rapid fire barrage
instead of sniping sngly at indivd-
ual planes picked out by scarchlights
was officially credited with having
greatly impeded the German assault.
Only 20 bombs exploded in central
London. in contrast to many hun
dreds of previous night raids, but
suicide squads combed the capital to
search of delayed action explosives
rHch as the one which blasted a
rorrcr from Buckingham Palace on
Tuesday.
One of the delayed action missiles
was discovered this morning near his
toric old st. Paul Cathedral.
Although the destructive effect
Of the raid was not Immediately
known, at least there was no sign of
the Nazi's threatened "ten thousand
plancloads Of bombs daily falling
IN the London area.
Casualty figures for the first three
Of the five all-niGht raids showed
heavily mounting toll with l,Ol0
Known dead and 1900 wounded.
The British reported 80 German
lanes shot down in yesterdays bat
lies with "a Raj planes missing; the
Germans asserted 30 British planes
were destroyed and 20 Nazi aircraft
were missing. Nine German planes
were shot down by anti-;Grcraft fire.
In the wake Of Prime Minister
Chl'rrhilI's warning that an invasion
might come any hour, the British
admiralty announced its light naval
forces had taken the offensive with
strong and repeated" action against
Nazi shipping and ports "vitap' to
Hitler in any invasion attempt.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
G. NJ. Fountain OF
Tarboro Is Dead

Raleigh, Sept. 12.-(AP)-George
Marion Fountain, 81, a prominent
Tarboro attorney, died at hospital
here this morning at 4 o'clock. He
had been critically i'll several days.
The widow, the former Miss Mary
Royal Motz of Yanceyville, ana one
son, George NJ. Fountain, Jr., o! Tar
bCrO, survive.
Funeral services will be held at
Tarboro Friday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
WilIkie Calls Roosevelt
Foreign Policy "Clumsy''

IF the American people have any
sense of realism of the condition OF
the world in which they are living
they will reject overwhelmingly
president who breaches such class
conscious and economic sabotage
doctrine as was preached last night.
"The kindest words which can be
applied to the Presidents speech are
that he does not understand the laws
of economics, government, finance OF
.ha forces to work in the world to-
day.
Tile United States cannot but fail
n tic pre- chi world struggle un3ci
UGH leador>hip--it ! ttc &m: c''-
;rine which Blum OF FRANCE taught
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-12
British Raid
Italian Bases

Cairo, Sept. 12.-(AP)-British
warpfancs were reported today to
have damaged Italian military air.
ports and destroyed dock facilities in
a series Of attacks on Llbyan obJcc-
tives.
Large blazes were started among
docks and hangers at Derna, COM
munique said, and four fires sprang
up when bombs were rained on Am
sat, just across the Egyptian border.
Several fires also were reported at
Barda.
Italian bombers who attempted to
raid the Alexandria Mersa Matruh
railroad in Egypt again were inter-
copied by British fighters and suf-
fered a high proportion of casual
ties"