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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
CHANCE IN NYLON

IN an immensely interesting and highly IN
l structive article published in the Winston
Salem Journal and Sentinel, EDWARD A. OH
HAM deals with nylon, cellulose, the threa
their arrival in industry is supposed to offe'
Southern cotton, and a method now in tn
experimental stage for utilizing the entire
cotton plant, instead of the bole only, to NEE
the need for new products.
He discounts any. threat from nylon as g
substitute for cotton and shows that if ii
menaces any commodity it is silk, saying:
believe it is a fact that the present market
for silk is $2.75 a pound; that of nylon is
s2.35, and that OF cotton is II cents. 1t doesn't
seem likely, therefore, that the new product Is
going to prove a formidable competitor oil
the South's fleecy staple, which enters into
many other products in which nylon will new
er compete" This is pretty strong testimony
we'll calculated to allay any fears it will ever
overthrow cotton.
But what is most impressive in Mr.. OLD
HAMS article is his recommendation that this
state do something to get in on the ground
floor with ,nylon manufacture. whats the
matter" he writes, with North Carolina TAX
ing this nylon bull by the horns and pioneer
ing the establishment of plants in Winston
Salem, Wilmington, Charlotte, Durham,
Greensboro, and other communities progress
sive enough to reach out and get one?"
He sets the question up, rhetorically. 1t
remains for the cities mentioned to find the
answer. There would seem to be no good rea-
son why they should not take the leadership.
Particularly is there no good reason why Will
should hold back, now that the city
is aroused to the need of industrial expan-
sion.
The Ethyl.Dow plant has set Wilmington
a wellnigh perfect example in industrial pio-
neering. A nylon plant Nould be a proper
utilization of that example.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
EXPORTS MOUNT

Publication last week of the foreign trade
figures for January furnished conclusive evil
dence that this c%ountry's export business-or
certain sections Of it, at least-had begun to
profit substantially from the war. Exports in
August, the last pre-war month, totaled $751;
100000; by January they had risen almost
without interruption to $369, 0O0, 900.
There is a tendency perhaps to undervalue
the Importance of this expansion. 1t is point.
ed out, for example, that comparison with
January 1889 which showed an increase OF
70 per cent, is valueless, since that month
was an exceptionally poor one, with the ex.
port total only $213, 900, 900. But there is no
need to confine the comparison to 1889 alone.
1t Is true that, measured against January
1929, or 1880, when exports reached $4S8, OOO,.
ooo and SAIL ,0O0,O 900 respectively, the first
month of 1910 vas less spectacular.
yet it represents a very close approach to
the $496, 100000 shown in the first month of
1925, the so-called normal year of the pros
porous postwar period of the 20's, and it &C.
tually surpassed 1916, when the World war
foreign trade boom was in its second year.
Exports in that year were $3.50, 900, 900, a then
wholly unprecedented figure.
At the present rate of increase, exports of
the United States are destined to set an all.
time high within a year, If the war in Europe
continues.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Your u S.
Income Tax
Deduction For Travelling
Expenses

10 obtain a deduction for travel
ing expenses, which form an i'm
portant item in the returns of
many taxpayers. certain regulations
must be observed. The taxpayer is
required t. attach to his return
a statement showing the nature
OF business in which engaged.
number of days away from home
during the taxable year on ac-
count of business, total amount of
expense incidental to meals and
lodging, and total amount of 10Th
er expenses" incident to travel and
claimed as a deduction. Among the
other expenses" are tips, provided
they are reasonable in amount.
Travelling expenses are deductible
only when the trip is on business.
They are limited to such
as are reasonable and necessary
IN the conduct of the business and
directly attributable to it.
Travelling expenses incurred in
connection with a journey to an
other city to accept OF seek en-
loymen are not deductible. Su-
b~urbanltes who commute dailv from
their homes to their places of bust
ness are not permitted to deduct
the cost of transportation, it heinz
a personal expense.
Claims for deduction for trave,ino
expenses must be substantiatoa
"hen required by the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue, showing in d.
TALL the amount and nature of tbe
expenses incurred,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
CABINET FACES CHANGES

The announcement of an impending shake
London dispatch dealing with the blockade
of German coal destined for Italy, is not
surprising.
For some time past, .umors of growing dis
content, not only among the British people
but in official circles as we'll, with the EN-
pire's war program, and particularly with
the complete blackout, have been heard. There
is a feeling that a more aggressive policy
would have prevented at least part of the
heavy losses at sea and that greater activity
by land would have kept the German high
command too busy for plotting new and in
creasingly serious attacks on commerce..
The criticism may have been unwarranted.
The London cabinet may have done all that
was humanity possible in the circumstances
But the fact that the blockade of Germany
has not become wholly effective, and that
German bombers and U-boats have preyed
successfully upon shipping, has stirred an
undercurrent Of dissatisfaction which can not
permanently be set aside.
Another factor, in the person of ANTHONY
LDEN, las OICOlcu III SIGudIlUQ, ana not as
a palliative. EDEN, who is immensely popular
with the masses of British people, and is not
without influence higher up, has increased his
power since becoming minister of colonies,
and steadily has prepared the way for a post
of greater Importance in the government. His
growing favor is in proportion to the de.
creasing popularity Of the prime minister
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, whose policy of an.
peasement, which has ebbed under the pres.
sure of actual war, still crops up, notably in
his weak stand for Finland and the Scandi.
navian countries.
The dispatch which hints of a reshuffling
does not deal with the key post in the cabi.
net. It mentions only Sir KINGSLEY WooD. air
minister, and LESLIE BURG1N, minister of sun.
ply, as due for removal. But it is becoming
increasingly apparent that the government is
quite likely to strike higher when changes
are to be made. 1t is not probable that EDEN
will be made premier. But it is possible that
WINSTON CHURCHILL, present lord of the ad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
ARCHDUKE OTTO
VISITS new YORK
European Federation May
Follow Nazi Revolt,
He Believes

NEW YORK, March 5.-f1
Archduke Otto Won Hapsburg, claim
ant of the ancient throne Of Austria,
believes a central European demo
cratic federation would follow a re
volution in Germany, or an allied
victory in the present a
He said the real hope of the last
ing European peace is in a tight lit
tie union Of federated states along
the Danube. He mentioned t h G
Czechs, Slovaks, Bohemians a n d
Poles as prospective union members
in addition to Austria.
A grand nephew of Emperor
Franz Joseph, he came here by
train from Baltimore, where he
landed earlier yesterday after a
flight by Transatlantic clipper from
Lisbon.
The archduke said he hoped to
visit washington and study Ameri-
can farming in a brief tour of the
middlewest before returning by
plane to Europe in t W o to three
weeks"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
u. S. Workers Incomes
Being Taxed By State

RALEIGH, March 5.-Rl-The
state is taxing the incomes Of fell.
eral employees for the first time
this year, and North Carolinaians
who live in Washington but main.
tain their legal residence in North
Carolina must pay state income
taxes. Assistant Attorney General
T. Wade Bruton said today.
Several North Carolinians in
Washington have complained that
they may be obliged to pay three
different taxes on their incomes
to North Carolina, to the District
of Columbia, and to the federal
government, but Attorney General
Harry Mcmillan expressed the
opinion recently they would not be
required to pay District Of Colum.
bia taxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Three Clemency Pleas
Are Studied By Gill

RALEIGH, March 5.-R-Paroles
Commissioner Edwin Gill had I'm
der advisement today clemency ap-
peals for Roy and Wade Hanford
of Alamance county and Roy Kelly
of Troy, under sentence to die Fri
day for the Staying Of Sheriff M.
P. Robertson of Aalamance coun-
ty and Policeman Sonny Vaughan
of Burlington.
Robertson and Vaughan were
shot and killed in an attempted
robbery Of a Burlington filling sta
ton on December z, 1888. Roy Huff.
man Of Greensboro, one of the
robbers, was also slain in the gun
battle.
Lawyers for the Hanfords and
Kelly at a clemency hearing yester.
day said that the brain man" in
the crime was George Smith of
Roanoke Rapids who was sentenced
TO 20 to 80 years for second degree
murder after turning states evil
dence.
They argued that the people of
Alamance county felt that Smith
should have the same punishment
as the Hanford brothers and Kelly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
JOINT OWNERS

NEW YORK, March 5-RI
The real estate news t0-a.
Stain own own jointly a siz-tan''
i'o Tbev "a are co.defondants in
mortgage foreclosure . S
based on their recently-l 'IS,rs
ed ownership of the ou ....+sr.
The matter came up ys''i !
day when Justice HAIR! M
Lewis RESERVED decision on ~
application of the Dime ..
bank in Brooklyn, no ui+ler
the mortgage, to selEe ,,e at
and Stain at their "hoin ,,s,tr,.
dress by mail and BY pa ST.
ton. Such procedure it wa n,ns
mated. would take a0e''
weeks and cost $3.50 ,o--sd
The property was and he
to the German Fuehrer BY
Russian leader last Ja1u'1 1n,!u
Martin Auslander anu
Freilocher. -, said
the transfer was maze .So, ts
barrass" the bank, but
action was now "~regret'essIs had
The counsel also sala +.ssns
communicated with nv and
and consulates Of Gerlid hen
Russia, and that he H "~nythat
told they didn't kno" -, bopa
about I,9 any Hitler-s'alin ''
in Brookly'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March ga core group of
new dealers books Senator Taft as the man
they will have to beat in November.
They haven't altogether kissed Senator Van
denberg out of the picture. AS to the Michigan
senator, they doubt he has the steady pull in
the stretches they credit to Taft. His radio
voice has improved but, as they view it, not
to the level of the Taft, who won a series
of radio debates from Representative T. V.
Smith, sparkling liberal.
AS to Tom Dewey of New York, they say
that no glamour boy from New York can
match the glamour of Roosevelt and that any.
thing less would appear third grade to an elec-
torate grown used to such fancy glamour as
the Roosevelt brand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TRUCK and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and lndastrad1
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsDi1e
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear River channel. uid-
err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pared Riuer Road to Southport. vid
orion Plantation.
Deuelopm emit of Pulp Wood Prodac.
ton through sustained-yted methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motionat Agency, supported By one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm ent of native grape creating
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

miraIty, will be given that office, and that
EDEN will land in the war ministry.
This opinion is arrived at as a logical de-
duction based on present. trends in the EN-;
nire of Great Britain and the British govern
ment's necessity to do something to get the
war moving on a scale more favorable to the
allied forces of Britain and France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
$4,000 New Crossties
Laid On 'Mullet Line

NEW BERN, March 5.-LR-
Harry P. Edwards, president. an.
nounced the Atlantic and East cano
ma railroad had put down $4,000
erossties on the leased Atlantic and
North Carolina company tracks in
'he 1irst six months of operations.
Inc company agreed to Law so nm
crossties the first
towards said his firms rent for
me March quarter had been aid
Inc Atlantic and North Caroline.
company is state owned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
inter-AAies Soccer
Matches @ Are SUSPEND,

LONDON March 5-lP-r
tsa soccer football matches s sa' is
the British and French between
oeen suspended for the d,'r,.| A'i
the war. '''s''on Il
na Following W, the solemn an.,n,,.
ment in commons TO-DAY '0ua2e'
Secretary Oliver Stanley. VA
WIN Throne drew laughter tn'o n,
ing if a substitute matt, W ask
arranged between the two ,.I I'' y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Carolina News
Shorts
lBy the Associated Pressl

ELM CITY-Three hundred and
forty pupils and nine teachers
marched to safety yesterday when
a fire broke out in the roof of the
$4,000 negro high school here. The
frame building burned to the
ground.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

sweeping change
in the conduct of
congressional com.
m lit t e e h lch
bears his name.
Then in June.
he plans to sus'
pend hearings un.
til after the cleo
ton.
Dies wants to
do away with pub
lie hearings on
the ground that
irresponsible wit.
nesses often make
~swaenino and I'm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
TOP O. THE

A friend of any kind and to any e1tent on
degree is something i'm this cold and lonely
world, but to hare q friend Who has the ear
Of God, and arho fills Gods ear from time tt
time With our name and our cause, OH, UhC
shall find such u friend in me!
ALEXANDER WHITE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Hollywood Suffers
First War Damage

Hollywood's first specific l0sS
the European war came WIN =
sinking of the Sonsa. Prlns i. .
several new pictures went down ,
entertain Davey Jones IT.
novel by Oscar Schisgall' w.
ried a Nazi," has been Dousl' ). i.
20th-Fox, and Daryl ZahuvN -.
clares no punches will be pullSD a.. ,
the filming -. Latest report OIL ., :,
George Raft divorce dIscuSslon ..., !,
that she wants a half-mlIlloN ss '".,
ment and one-fifth OF MS ,
earnings -. And on the suoJ0. n
finances, Jimmy Roosevelt ~,
needs money for his pfouO'S
plans. rr-.
. The three Hakim Brolheis' ISh "A
tians. are moving to Holy S WV, A,
make pictures. I hear tAes ,,I
star the Sphinx, Greta G&i0O "
Harpo Marx.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
In Hollywood

NEA Service Staff Corresponds,
HOLLYWOOD, March 5,-Ss".
taxes: The split-up of a n,.,.'
couple recalls some of the s+o,,
their quarrels especially u
time at a party, when she who,.'
haaa,s on the n head with a ginger ~, a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

The proper attitude of the Irish people is
fearlessly to resolve that the state of affairs
that has caused the youth Of Ireland in every
generation to sacrifice life and liberty shall
be ended once and for all.-Simon Donnelly,
former president, Irish Republican Army
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

acknowledgements headquar-
tiers were opened here yesterday by
Lieut.. Gov. w. P. Horton, a can
didate for governor. Judge DAME!
L. Bell of Pittsboro is Horizons
campaign manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Quieter Country?

AS a matter of fact, some of the new dealers
have begun to suspect that the country may
be wishing for a bit of calm political weather.
That is how they write Taft into the picture.
One of them analysed him as conservative,
stumbling, hard working, friendly and perhaps
a little bit dumb"
For a. country striving for u quieter way
of life than it has had in the past seven
years, that combination, he said, might just fill
the bill.
Incidentally, they haven't decided who from
their own ranks will be the best man to stop
Taft-except Roosevelt himself. They don't
concede that Roosevelt is the only one who
can stop him, or Vandenberg or Dewey, or
Representative Martin, or Frank Gannett, or
anyone else for that matter. They are just
specializing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

DURHAM - Veteran Bill Tilden
was defeated in an exhibition ten
mis- match here last night by Bruce
Barnes. In. a doubles match, Al
Chafin and Barnes defeated Tilden
and Vincent Richards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
FLASHES
OLLIE
The Associated Press)

SALEM, Mass. - Judge John v.
Phelan today considered the plea of
Mrs. Florence E. McGovern of Lynn
for a divorce from her husband,
James.
James, she testified, always
punched me on the left side of the
jaw"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Mar'
tin L. Dies is about to take him
self out of the limelight for the dura'
ton of the presidential wars.
First. he's going TO propose a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
A BLOW TO CUPID

BELLEVlLLE, III. - Lovers
Lane a county road, soon will be-
come unromantic yves boulevard"
A new state trucking law requires
operators to paint their addresses
on the bodies Of their vehicles.
Farmer-truckers on Lovers Lane,
who anticipated they would be the
butt of jokes, requested the change.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
al E|GH
B r E F S
Star News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY HENRY AVERILL

A~AS ~
announce and first to pay his fill.
ing fee, Lieutenant Governor Will.
kins P. Horton was first of the
g~ubernatorial candidates to open u1
his Raleigh headquarters.
He picked the lucky" floor Of
the Sir Walter, too, moving in or
the ninth, where the Hoey head
quarters were established in the
1886 campaign.
Story about Revenue Commits
sioner Allen J.. Maxwell going back
to a store in order to be sure he
had paid for some refreshments
bought there the day before, is
characteristic of him; but unfor-
tunately not of all political candi-
dates, many Of whom r not in
the least scrupulous about paying
their debts-personal or campaign.
There is a we'll = founded story
that two days after the 1882 pri-
mary result had been officially
canvassed, Mr.. Maxwell went to
Goldsboro and borrowed enough
money to pay off every outstanding
debt; sent for every person to
whom anything was due and wiped
the financial slate clean.
Which will not hurt the Maxwell
chances a bit in this race, either.
In contrast to the Maxwell pro-
cedure, according to reliable re-
ports, was that of another state
wide candidate (not for governor)
defeated in 1882, whose followers
r still bemoaning the fact they'll
never get back money they spent
out Of their W pockets in his be-
half and upon his specific pledge
to reimburse them.
For some time the states high
way safety division has been staff
ed with all kinds of safety promot-
ors and experts in most lines of
safety campaigning; but it has not
had a real traffic or safety engf-
neer.
Appointment of such an engineer
can be looked for within a COM
paratively short time, according to
apparent reliable reports reaching
your Raleigh reporter.
The new engineer will not DO a
"political' appointee, either, accord
ing to these same reports, but a
man really trained in his duties.
There seems to be general agree
ment that the department of rev.
enue personnel committee" isn't
going to repeat it's mistakes by
adding more ward heelers or poll
teal henchmen to the safety divi-
sion's rolls.
W. B. Keziah, Southport and
Brunswick county %publicist, has
put out a story recently which
ought to be-if it isn't-used by
the department Of conservation and
development in defense Of it's act
ion in diverting some funds derived
from I1sh and game licenses to, Tor
estry service and forest fire pre-
vention.
Mr.. Keziah reports that his Sec
TONS intensified campaign for the
prevention of forest fires not only
has increased game, but the sup
ply Of fresh water fish.
The prevention Of fires has re-
suited in elimination of floods and
steady replenishment Of streams
throughout Brunswick. Early seas
on catches have been the largest
in many years, says Keziah.
IT have never seen such big
mouth bass and goggle-eye perch
caught this early" he said. "Why,
we've so many bass around now
that I'm worried about finding
enough minnows to use as live
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

SoSeASs IL SHAT.
tered, and t h e
man was danger
ously cut. I'm.
mediately repent.
ant, his wife sob.
bed: 1--we hit him
lots of times DE.
fore, and the bot
ties never broke"
From Sally
Ellers by way Of
Irving Hoffman
comes an anec.
dote concerning
the problems of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
DEDICATION

RALEIGH-The new chemistry
and textile buildings at N. c. State
college were dedicated today, on
the 53rd anniversary of the general
assembly's. ratification Of the bill
establishing the college. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

bringing up chill. Paul Harrison
dren in the movie colony, Her sD,,
son entered the house in tears ,sa
other day and announced. "Not, @'
I'm the only little boy in HolIvw,.,
without his own projection room'
While this correspondent va, :,
cationing last fall, Bill Porter rro,,
an interview with Carson Kanin ,,
which the director said he'd N. T.,
get married. A few days later i,
got several replies and msnfrry
started in to ACKNOWLEDGES tbsr
When he was writing, though. IA,
next mail arrived with about
hundred proposals, so he quit in b,
pair. Offers from eligible yor,,
women have been pouring in en-
since, the result being that Ka,
now is frightened into VOWS Of q
manent bachelorhood.
All Broadwayites
In "Too Many Girls"
There would have been some s-
of dramatic justice if Kahn hal
been assigned to direct "Too Nay
Girls" the Broadway hit with RKO
has just bought for a tidy slN0N,
He won't though. George Abbot ts
New York producer, will make tho
picture-and with the Original STAGE
cast. Not a Hollywood name in Tho
lot.
Anything for a laugh: While LII
Irwin and Henry Youngman wea
dining at the Derby, a telegram vi
delivered to Youngman. 1t read
PLEASE PASS THE SALT. LOU
IRWIN"
Bob Young had prepared for 1
weeks vacation in the mountains
between his roles in "Florian" and
"The Mortal Storm" What viii
one delay and another, the internal
was reduced to exactly 20 MINUTES,
and his vacation was spent getting
a haircut! The long quarrel ae
tween Warmers and Olivia de Haa'
land has been settled -. "Punl'
Deb No. 1" is the title of a tDcRG
to be made by 20th.FoX. A&sl
whether Brenda Frazier would benz
vited to play the role, an eXecIu'
said, "Nah-she's not the type
Overheard: shes divorclns DID
for his money" "Nobody a.
higher opinion of him than | A'
and I think he's a louise
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

HENDERSONVILLE-V. l.. Gud-
ger of Asheville will be the princi-
pal speaker at the Henderson u
ty republican party convention here
Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
CANDIDATE

ROCKY MOuNT-Ben E. Foun-
tain, an attorney, announced he
would seek the democratic nomina-
ton for Edgecombe county repre-
sentative.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
NEW AUTOS

RALEIGH-The motor vehicle di-
vision reported today that North
Carolinians bought S,677 new auto
mobiles in February. This was 874
more than were bought in Febru-
airy, 1889.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

MI. AIRY-Rep. A. D. Folger of
the Fifth district has been re-elect-
ed chairman of the Surry county
democratic committee for the 25th
consecutive year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
IN THE FIFTH

WINSTON-SALEM - Marshall
kurfees of Winston-Salem an
nounced he would seek the demo-
cratic nomination for Fifth district
representative.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
FARLEY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gener-
al James A. Farley will speak at
a luncheon meeting of North Caro-
lima postmasters here May %.