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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
On Plainclothes
Officers Work Started

Measures to keep closer check
on p%lainclothes officers of the pc-
lice force were inaugurated yester-
day by Mayor Thomas E. Cooper
commissioner Of public safety.
The mayor issued orders that in
the future plainclothes officers, on
reporting for duty, will make a re-
port in person to the desk sergeant
and will report in duty to the SER
geant when going off duty.
He also issued an order that a
full report of each days work
shall be made to the desk SER
beant.
The mayor said he is having a
room, set aside for the detectives,
equipped with an electric fan and
other equipment and that they will
make this room, located on the
first floor of the building, their
headquarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
Strengthening OF Hatch
Act Asked By Its Author

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-tR-
Strengthening of the Hatch politics
law at points recently involved in
controversy between democratic
and republican party leaders was
proposed today by Senator Hatch
D-N. NJ, who also asked that
primary elections be covered by
the act.
One of his amendments, Hatch
said, would make it clear that
the aggregate Of political contribu-
tons which may be made by any
person., directly or indirectly, in
a single calendar year may not
exceed $1,000"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
RECORDER HEARS
VARIED DOCKET

Another long session of record
er's court was needed yesterday
to clear the usually heavy Monday
docket.
Nate Tabor, previously convicted
of violating the liquor law, noted
an appeal to superior court from
the two month road sentence meted
out to him upon his conviction.
Frederick Wilson, of the Caro-
lima Beach road, accepted a one
month sentence imposed on him
when he was convicted on a similar
charge.
Trial of Ernest Irving, 800 Queen
street, arrested by city police Sum
day after a raid on his house
ahd netted u one-half gallon jars
of non-taxpaid liquor, was contin-
ued until Friday.
Samuel Jenkins, alias F a r m e r
Brown, charged with assault with
a deadly weapon, was given a con-
tinuance until Friday.
L. w. Shivar, 8O1 South Fourth
street, charged with allowing an
other to operate his a recklessly.
with injuries resulting, was given
a continuance until Thursday.
David Peterson, 1T 0 r a n 6 e
street, charged with assault on a
female, was fined S. and the costs
of court.
Willard Jackson, who lives at the
Y. M. c. A., charged with carnal
knowledge of a minor female, was
given a dismissal for want of prob
able cause when it was shown the
girl was over the age of Is. The
girls sister then attempted to have
MIN arrested on a charge of bas-
tardy but the court held the war
rant could not be served because
the child has not been born.
Trial of Blanche Pigford, Maggie
Bell Harris, Lizzie Faircloth, Gene
va Scarborough, and Isabel, ]
otherwise unidentified and all were
charged with engaging in an at
fray where deadly weapons were
QScO, WdS COllCA1lucQ u1Ll1 WCOAACo-
day because one of the defendants
is still unable to attend court.
Willie James Hamilton, charged
with HOUSEKEEPING, larceny and
receiving, was continued until Fri
day.
Woodrow Bryant and Waite r
Hobbs, young white men charged
with housebreaking, larceny stole
receiving after they allegedly stole
20 chickens from the chicken yard
of George R. Piner, were bound
to superior court under bonds OF
5000 each.
Marsden Coleman accepted a
three-month road term passed upon
him when he was convicted ten
days ago of violating the liquor
law. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
1914 Men Missing, 100
Killed In The Sinking OF
British Plane Carrie,

LONDON, Aug. 19-R-The ad-
miralty tonight listed 1,074 Off
GERS and seamer as missing and
100 killed in Britain's worst naval
disaster of the war, the sinking of
the aircraft carrier Glorious on
June 8.
The casualties included al Royal
Air Force officers and men.
Total war losses announced by
the admiralty thus were increased
to 1855 naval men. Official cas-
ualty lists have shown a total of
1905 killed, 1870 missing and %
prisoners of war. In addition there
have been 1859 wounded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
v SERVICE EXAM

The United States Civil Service
commission has announced open
competitive examinations for the pc.
sitions listed below:
Applicants must not have passed
their fifty-third birthday.
Statistical craftsman, $500 a
year; also chief, $500; principal,
$4,000; senior, $4,000; assistant, $500
a year. Applicants must have had
high school education and elemen'
tary drafting training or experience,
including statistica. drafting.
Freight-rate clerk Qand grant,
$4,000 a year; passenger-rate clerk
Qand grant, $1,000 a year; freight
rate clerk, $4,000; passenger-rate
clerk, $4,000; express-rate clerk,
S 1900; pullman.rate clerk, $1,000 a
year. Applicants must have had Ger
tain experience which enabled them
to become familiar with various
freight, express, or passenger clas-
sifications. and rules of the Inter.
state Commerce commission.
Assistant curator technology, 3d.
200 a year. National Museum, Smith
sonian Institution. Applicants must
have completed a four-year college
course in anthropclogy and must
have had museum experience in
ethnology, or appropriate graduate
study.
Motion-picture photographer, ST.
800 a year; also head, $1,000; princi-
pal, $4,000; senior, $4,000; assistant,
$1,620; Junior, $1,440 a year. Head
aerial motion-picture photographer,
$1,000 a year; also principal $4,000;
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
EXEMPTION STAYED

WASHINGTON Aug. 19.-R-
Administrator Philip B. Fleming
of the wage-hour division said to-
day that a proposed 14-week sea-
sonal exemption from wage and
hour regulations for country sub
terminal and mill grain ware
houses had been stayed because
of the filing of objections.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
INSPECTION

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-R-
William S. Knudsen, production
chief of the defense commission,
left Washington with Major Gener-
al H. H. Arnold, chief of the army
air corps, today to inspect a
corps establishments and major
aircraft plants in the middle and
far west, 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
v O LATE

LEWES, Del, Aug. 19.-RH
Jacob Morris, "a, was advised by
his dentist today to throw away
his false teeth and get a teeth
ing ring" Morris complained of
soreness along his gums. DR.. G.
M. Wiltbank said a second set of
teeth were about to break through.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
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ern School OF Printing. 1h14-j6
South Street. Nashville. Tennessee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
Real Estate

80 ACRE TRACT JUST OPPOSITE
Forest Hills, $3.50. Suitable for
sub-dividing. Wilder's, Dial 1882.
INVESTIGATE THE JOYS AND
advantages OF living in Oleander.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
Houses For Sale
Help Wanted. Male

WANTED EXPERIENCED TRUCK
driver, familiar with building sup
plies and streets in Wilmington.
Address reply P. o. Box 1927, CIV
ing references, full information.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20

FOR sALE-FOREsT HILLS LOT
$1.165.00 if sold this week. w. M
Hewlett, realtor. ia Princess st
/. Dial 7138.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
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IST YOUR RENTAL AND SALES
with US. Al Service.
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sALES.RENrALS-I INVESTMENT
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
Is No Best Day To Advertise A Vacancy-Iist Yours Today
Builders

A FEW DOLLARS EXPENDED on
home repairs will increase it's value
Call L. T. Rogers, Gen.
eral Contractor, 5647.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
.56 Situations Wanted

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St. Phone 3639.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
by Bruce Cation =.
The Inside Track in Washington

were considering the Bethlehem
situation. Union leaders could
call steel workers together to hear
the latest news from Washington
on the Bethlehem situation"
Result: there actually began to be
a Bethlehem situation. The CLIO.
was very weak in the Bethlehem
plants when the campaign began.
1T kept getting stronger as the in
terest of Bethlehem workers was
aroused. And since Bethlehem was
somewhat vulnerable anyway. the
Bethlehem situation" finally be-
came a strike situation.
LEWIS VS..
HILIIMAN
All of which put Hillman in a
spot. What began as more or less
serious effort to present him with
a situation" that would test his
readiness to do something for
labor" developed into threat of a
strike in the plants of one of the
most important fabricators OF de-
fense materials in the nation.
The ruling about army ard navy
contracts dovetails into all this
perfectly. 1t enables Hillman to
meet any criticism from labor by
pointing to the biggest victory la
Dor has yet gained in the whole
defense program. 1t probably means
a settlement of the difficulties at
Bethlehem. And it could be an
important factor in internal CLIO.
politics. =
CLOS annual convention is due
Nov. 18. The smoldering rivalry
between the divergent wings headed
by Hillman and John L. Lewis is
extremely likely to come to show
down. Hillman gained a strategic
advantage when FDR made him a
defense commissioner. He lost some
of it when complaints about his
role began to percolate in labor
circles. He regained all of that and
more by producing this latest an
nouncemert-fo which. incidental
ly. he had to fight a very long and
often heated battle inside the de-
fense commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
DIGNITY AND TICKETS

Now that the Ell Centre police depart
ment is installing loud speaker systems
in police cars to call down law violating
motorists, it will be interesting to learn
which is the most effective law enforce
ment weapon-a traffic ticket or a pub
lie bawling out.
We rather suspect that a lot of good
citizens who'd pay a traffic fine with a
grin and very little repenting will watch
their driving more carefully when they're
in danger of being reprimanded in voice
that can be heard block away
Most of us would rather have our pock-
etbook than our dignity hurt. And it
is not going to be conducive to dignity
to be told in an Olympian voice that
suspected has seen us run through that
boulevard stop.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
by Willis Thornton
Uncle Sam Hoards His Tin

The United States is a rich coun-
try-but not quite rich enough to
be normally self-sustaining.
There are certain raw materials
we don't have. Tin is one of them
Most of the tin used in the United
States comes from British Malaga
or the Dutch East Indies It's one
of the commodities essential to war
industries.
There is a tendency among AM
ericanS to feel just the least bit un-
comfortable when they think of the
materials in which nature has short
changed us-materials that might,
in the end. spell the difference be-
tween victory and defeat, and So on
this matter OF tin, the National De-
fenSe Advisory Committee got busy.
The problem mas been attacked
on four different fronts. The pros
poets are that, given little time,
the tin shortage in this country
might be solved regardless of inter-
national events. Here's what's been
done:
l. Reserve supplies of tin are
rapidly being accumulated from
both British Malaga and the Dutch
East Indies. If war should cut off
Pacific shipping lanes today, the
United States would have enough
tin to last for at least nine months
perhaps as long as II. This reservoir
of material is not enough to instill
a complete feeling of security; but
after all, the sea routes are still
open and American importers have
made arrangements with miners to
speed operations.
2. Conferences are going on be-
tween the Industrial Materials Di-
vision of the Defense Commission
and the Metals Reserve company
to consider prospects of construct
ing a tin smelter in this country
for processing Bolivian ore. Cur
rently, neither the United States
nor Bolivia has smelling facilities
3. The field of substitutes and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
FictttiO,YS Firm @Name

The undersigned does hereby GER
tify that he is conducting an Elec-
trio Appliance and Refrigeration
business at l247 Main Street. Ell
Centro, California, under the ficti-
tiOus firm name of
SHELBURNE REFRIGERATION
COMPANY
and that said firm is composed of the
following persons. whose names and
addresses are as follows, to-wit:
R. A. Shelburne, 69l Olive Street,
Ell Centre, California.
Witness his hand this 7th day of
Oct., 1910.
R. A. SHELBURNE.
STATE OF CALIFORNIAN
.....-..-. )ss.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL)
On this day of october, AID,
1910, before me, w. w. McEUEN, q
Notary Public in and for said Coun-
ty and State personally appeared
r. A. SHELBURNE, known to me
to be the person whose name is
subscribed to the within Instrument,
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
In witness whereof I have here.
unto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in
this certificate first above written.
w. w. McEUEN,
Notary Public in and for
said County and State
(Ol0-17-24-3D
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 1910
NO TIME TO BOAST
OURSELVES INTO WAR
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

kOTONllle ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We published hast week the statement
of a man who said that Americans in
the Orient We're certain that if we went
to war with Japan we would defeat that
country in 80 days. t'
Such statements do more harm than
good and probably are far from the truth.
We could undoubtedly defeat Japan in
a war, if left alone to do so, but probably
1t could be done only at great cost of life
and resources.
We would, too, find the Japanese strong
fighters and we'll trained. They might
give a good account cf themselves dur
ing the early stages of such war, with
resultant losses to the United States very
substantial. We have interests close to
Japan that we would certainly lose early
in the contest
There is too often tendency in this
country to boast about our strength in
battle whereas the one boasting is influ-
enced by our strength of resources and
manpower only. Manpower and wealth
count in the long run, sure enough, but
they aren't very efficient until the wealth
has been turned into war machines and
the manpower has been thoroughly train
ed and experienced. Both take time
lots of it.
We have supposedly a thoroughly train
ed navy, but one that, fighting Japan in
Far East waters, would be at a disadvant-
age. We have a very small army. Pos
siby our army would not meet the Japa-
nese, unless in the Philippines. 1t should
be remembered that our army has seen
no active service, is officered by men who
know nothing first hand of actual war
fare, and that it is outnumbered many
times by a Japanese army of men who
have been through several campaigns.
Let us not boast of our strength Let
us, rather, realize that war is hell and
that the war game can be learned only
through experience. We have had very
little experience in modern war We
would have to learn by experience that
would be costly. If war is to come it
would be better to enter it quietly than
boastfully. Boosting is little short of
war-mongering, anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
APPEASEMENT, PROvOCATION

First unofficial Japanese responses to
the forthcoming reopening of the Burma
road are moderate, indicating no desire in
Tokyo TO make an immediate issue of the
matter that would extend the European
war to the Far East.
If the japanese have decided that their
new triple alliance will carry them into
war sooner or later against the United
States, quick action at Tokyo would not
be strategically desirable. Russia must
be considered first. 1t is reasonable to
expect that, before precipitating war
with the United States, Tokyo would at
tempt to enter into some sort of agree
ment with Russia to remove the Com
munist threat from the north.
If Japan follows normal strategic pro-
cedure, as her present actions seem to
indicate she is doing, when war with the
United States in the immediate future
would be result as much of this coun-
try's handling of affairs as it would be of
the Japanese policy.
If that is true, this country would be
wise to guard carefully against any ac-
ton which might be construed as direct
challenge to war. We have called the
japanese bluff already. We have influ-
enced Britain to reopen the Burma road.
we fldNS SlfOWH Japan lioe VIC Wv NV ~
tend to ~ bullied. That should be enough,
for the time being. We want no appease-
ment by our government-but neither do
we want any provocation from it directed
to any foreign power.
Japan is a side issue in the present
world crisis. Nobody doubts that Japan's
future will be decided just as the future
of Germany and Italy will be decided
nv the OItcome of the war now raging
in Europe 1t is to our interest to see
that the war in Europe does not snuff out
the democracy of the British Empire,
leaving the dictators free to prepare their
next attack-one which would be aimed
at the United States. Every effort we
can extend, at the present time, to help
Britain is an effort to help ourselves.
Germany and Italy know this. That is
why they entered into the triple alliance
with Japan. They want Japan to divert
our attention to the Orient, keeping our
eyes and our materials out of England.
Japan has done her best to create such
q diversion. But she shows signs of back
ing away, when her bluff is called.
If we, in turn, provoke additional in
cdents, leaving the japanese leaders no
alternative but to go to war, we shall be
playing into the hands of Germany and
Italy.
We shall --2t surrender honor to avoid
war, but neither should We seek war to
please our vanity.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
Barbs

Adolf shouts that he wants to
build a new state, but he doesn't
care to do it peace by peace.
The body is said to be susceptible
to 1900 different diseases, nearly
any or all of which can be brought
out by draft s=;f
Steel men hail scrap ban, says
headline, but there are still num-
ber who would prefer to hail the
scrap. as its i
Boss Hague protests against vot-
irg machines. when all along he has
had one of the best ever seen.
Berlin theaters are vexed because
r. A. F. raids interfere with their
performances. Folks just don't care
TO be around when curtain of fire
is being raised.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
by Paul Harrison :.
Hollywood Fad, failcies and folbies

of the uniformed principles and
bit-playing mechanic. The huge shed
held two four motored Boeing bomb
ers, l7-ton flying fortresses, which
figure romiiiently in the picture.
Paramount is harrassed by reports
that all these ships are about to
be turned over TO the British and
that there isn't much time left for
filming them. But there certainly
was no confirmation of the rtiinor
at March Field.
WHY NO
PLANE NOISES? .-t..
Noisy airp1anes spoil many q take
even in the sound-insulated sttsdios
in Hollywood, so you can imagine
what happened in a sound magnify
ing hangar at a busy army air base
The company would stand around
waiting for a lull, but scores of
times a few seconds Of comparative
quiet would be shattered before the
actors even could get into their
planes. Ships were always on the
rllnways or taxing on the apron.
Even when planes on the ground
were quieted, some visiting colonel
would come in from the SLY with
a microphoneI blasting roar.
At 1920 the first take got under
way, and then Milland blew UP in
his lines. though Leisen and
Russ Matthews, his assistant, were
going to cry. The company already
had had more than a month Of
this nerye-wracking business at
Raf,doloh yield Texas
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10
STRANGE AS IT
MAY SEEM!
christian Science Monitor)

VIII lSlldll OCIcICc MOllllOI)
Two men spoke from the great stage
of the Metropolitan Opera House on the
night of November 3, 1882, to a huge
crowd of cheering New Workers. 1t was
the final rally of the Roosevelt support
ers to GUST Herbert Hoover from the
White House. Said one of the speakers !:
resent at any time or any place the attitude
that the safety of this country depends on any
man holding his job +. We have learned in
industry, at least, to regard with reservation the
people who, no matter how honestly think them
selves indispensable.
The second man said something of the
same kind when his turn came to speak :
A great left watchword that we can
we'll repeat: There is no indispensable man.
The first speaker was Owen D. Young,
author of the Young Preparations Plan
and former head Of the General Electric
ComSaEy. The second was the then gov
ernor of New York-Franklin D. Roose-
Velt
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-10

synthetics is being feverishly ex-
plored in the hope that something
practical will be found
4. And, finally, it is believed the
normal reclamation of about 5000
tons of clean scrap" tin each year
could be expanded to some extent.
1t is an encouraging picture. 1t
helps to prove to the uncertain that
losing any source of supply need
not cripple American defense indus
tries.
Unprepared as we were for our
entry into World War I, the United
States, even then, managed to find
solutions for a number of similar
problems during our comparatively
brief part in that fight.
In peaceful world, being self
sustaining is neither healthful nor
socially desirable. In a world at war,
it may prove to be salvation.