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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
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CHICAGO LINE-UPS

CHICAGO LINE-UPS
Speaker Bill Bankhead is in a
direful predicament.
It's White House secret, but the
courtly hammered and able Ala
baman is the Presidents personal
choice for keynoter at the Demo-
cratic conventional high honor
much sought after by number of
big shot party leaders. AT least
half a dozen are pulling every pos
sible wire to land it.
But Bankhead, who can have it on
a silver platter, doesn't know wheth-
er he wants it or not.
Reason for his dilemma is a
virulent case of vice presidentitis.
Bankhead feels he is a strong Sec
ond-place possibility and that the
keynote speech customarily is made
by dignitary who is not candi-
date. For him to accept the role,
therefore, would be an admission
that he was out of the running. And
Bankhead is anything but that. He
is very much in the vice presiden-
tldl race.
Roosevelt picked Bankhead be-
cause he liked the speakers witty
speeches at the last two jackson
day banquets. But while flattered,
the speaker is still undecided wheth-
er to accept the Presidents offer.
NOte-Roosevelt's choice for per-
manent chairman of the convention
is Senate Floor Leader Alben Bark
ley, 1895 keynoter and also vice
presidential hopeful, though not a
very hot-and-bothered one. The
Presidents choice for his floor man.
ager is brainy little Senator Jimmy
Byrnes, assisted by Senators Minton
of Indiana, Pepper of Florida, Lister
Hill of Alabama and Mayor Ed
Kelly of Chicago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21

Somebody just figured out the
following tags for the present tn
cumbent of the White House at
Washington
The President, if one reveres
him.
+. D. r., if one likes him.
Mr.. Roosevelt, il one is objec-
tue about him.
Franklin, if one despises him.
"ComrGde" Roosevelt, or
"Rosie," if one shoulders at his
name.
l. Is popular in the South, and
in the N. Y. Times. Also, in wish-
full England.
2. Is popular soith machine poll
ticians.
8. Is popular Nth this column,
etc.
a. Is popular in Ne,U England
and the N. Y. Harvard club.
S. Is popular in "ultra-ultra"
Philadelphian circles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
HOOVER VS.. LANDON

Behind the scenes bitter strug-
gle is shaping up between Herbert
Hoover and ALI Landon at the Phila-
delphia convention.
The ex-President is bent on writ
ing into the platform an endorse
ment" of his administration along
the lines of the one in the Glenn
Frank Program committee report.
Landon is not fatty opposed to this,
although he considers it unnecessary
and likely to prove a campaign
handicap.
But he is prepared to wage last
ditch fight for a liberal platform.
He is determined to resist to the end
Hoover's plans for a platform to fit
his conservative views. Landon is
against any, blanket denmciation of
the New Deal.
Landon will be in powerful posi-
ton to wage his battle. In addition
to leading a midwestern bloc of at
least 100 votes, he also will be the
Kansas member on the. resolutions
committee.
NOte--In its original form the ar
rangement under which Hoover will
speak Tuesday night, the first ses-
sion of the convention, also called
for a speech by Landon. But this
was dropped when it was pointed
out that as a delegate he can get
the floor any time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
KINGS FALL:
And Rise Again

Former King Edward of England
Bonnie King Eddie"--gave up
his job as British major general and
iaison officer between the London
and Paris war departments in
France. He retired to rest on the
Riviera, so the story went, and
some thought he had been forced
out Of office. His successor,
strangely enough, also had an
American wife, though not War
field of Baltimore.
There was an inner significance,
some felt. King George has never
had marked social sympathies like
brother Eddie, and if England
should lose the war, Eddie might
regain the kingship. His support
would come from the unemployed,
the hungry and underprivileged, the
Welsh coal miners, and Mosley's
blackshirts, all of whom upheld
him against brother George back in
1886. Strangely enough, Winston
Churchill was also on Eddie's side
at that time, while Chamberlain
stood for George, as did the dowag-
ers and archbishops.
Eddie, however, is reported as
without any strong personal ambi-
ton, although his wife, reputedly,
had vague fascist, sympathies before
the II German war. AS for brother
George, phony rumor persists that
his two little princesses are tucked
away in some fool-proof Canadian
hamlet, and that he may soon fol-
low after.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
Battle of France

With the battle of Flanders at an
end, the follow-up battle of France
began. The so-called battle of
France was primarily a German
drive for Paris, Normandy, and
such additional channel ports as
Havre and Cherbourg, and Seine
port Rouen, where Joan of Arc was
burned by the English in the Fiji
teenth century.
Twenty-four hours after Mussolini
had entered the war, German tanks
were encircling Paris and the city
was under constant bombing by the
Nazi air force.
Whether the Germans could keep
it up or not, depended largely on the
amount of their tanks destroyed by
the allies in the battle of Flanders.
The new sne-Somme front was 1875
miles long, but probably only two
thirds Of the northern French army
was left to hold it. Meanwhile, the
English army had been driven
back to England, with the loss of all
its mechanical equipment.
Generalissimo Weygand invented
a new anti-tank strategy, which
consisted of opening "free" lanes
for the German Suhls and A. Y. VS.
and then hammering them from all
sides. These were exactly the anti
elephant tactics of the old Roman,
Scipio Africanus, with which he
finally beat the great Hannibal, that
master of ''tank' warfare. For
Carthaginian war elephants were
used just like Hitler's battle wagons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21

The First Army maneuvers
which are to be held during the
period August 3 to 81 in the
Plattsburg Watertown Area in
Northern New York are the larg-
est of the four Army maneuvers
to be held this summer as part of
the nations defense program.
More than 100000 officers and
men of the Regular Army, Ma
tional Guard and the Organized
Reserves will concentrate in the
Plattsburg- Watertown area for
these maneuvers. They will in
clude troops from Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, New Jersey, Della
ware, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia and the District of Col
umbia. First Army units include
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
MONEY:
They Toss 1t around

The tax subcommittee of the
house ways and means committee
took on formula to permanently
broaden the base of the federal in
come tax. Some 1000, 900 new tax
payers would be annexed, and $500
'singletons" and $4,000 marrieds
would now be made to hand over.
The house committee also decided
that the legal national debt limit
should be raised by a mere four
billion-to $49, 000, 200, 900.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21

ScAu tIUOpS.
the First, Second and Third Tao
teal Corps; the 26'h, 9th, 18th,
goth, 43rd and 44th National
Guard Divisions; the LIST Regular
Army division and certain Corps
and Army troops, both Regular
Army and National Guard.
The concentration in the man.
euver area will be divided into
two opposing groups.
Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum,
Unset, above) who will supervise
all training programs and maneu-
yer activities from a headquart-
ers at Canton, N. Y, has empha-
sized that the purpose of the
maneuver is the training of Off
GERS and men in ''the approach to
and conduct of battle"
News headquarters will be es-
tablished at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
WILLKIE BOOSTER

Remember the Liberty league
which crusaded against the New
Deal in 1886? And remember Jouett
Shouse, its dapper head, who was a
crony of Al Smith and the dup Fonts?
Well, Jouett is now the No. Wash
ington booster of Wendell Willkie.
dewey will lead on the first bal
lot" he says, "but that will be his
high point. From then on he will
fade out of the picture. On the sec
ond ballot, Taft will jump to the
front. But he, too, won't have the
staying power; and on the third bal
lot Vandenberg will forge to the fore
for moment. But that will shoot
his bolt. He won't have what it
takes to make the grade and the
leaders will then turn to the one
man who has-Willkie.
"On the fourth ballot Willkie will
lead and after that it will be SIAM
pede."
Shouse's explicit forecast should
interest the other candidates-par-
ticularly Senator Taft, who has pub
licly declared he will lead on the
first ballot. 1t also is interesting in
view of the fact that Willkie is the
one dark horse who so far hasn't a
single delegate pledged to him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
LATIN AMERICA:
Y Columns

There was lot of fifth-columnar
talk from Mexico, Uruguay, Ecua-
dor, and Colombia. Many critics
seemed to feel that the Nazis were
at the bottom of anti-Y ankee feeling
in these countries, but that was
hardly the whole case. For the
United States has had serious trou-
BILE with Mexico, Nicaragua, Colon
bia, Chile, Haiti, San Domingo, the
Argentine, and others, long before
Hitler was ever heard of. Nearly
a century ago, we annexed half of
Mexico, and Latin Americans have
a curiously unified feeling when it
comes to Anglo-Saxons.
Naturally, tricky Nazi agents
sought to fan these ever-present
flames. But by a curious circum-
stance, the only truly totalitarian
dictatorship in Latin America is our
very best friend Of the lot-Brazil,
under Dictator Getulio Vargas.
Most like ourselves in it's institu-
tons is the all-white Argentine, and
the Argentine is our stoutest oppo-
nent among the 20 Latin American
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
DOMESTIC:
Oddses and Endses

Earl Browder, serving four-year
jail term, was yet again nominated
by the Americo-communists, to run
for red President of the u. S. this
year. The communist convention
was held in New York. Browder
probably will run against such pres
idential perennials as Norman
Thomas and Franklin Roosevelt.
The Belgian exhibit at the New
York Worlds fair took out the hand
some white marble bust of King
Leopold.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
POLITICAL, CHAFF

Thirty years ago, a young man
named James Mead came from
Buffalo to Washington to take a job
as a Capitol policeman. He was
befriended by another policeman,
James Reilly. Today Mead, SEN
ator, is trying to get a raise for
Reilly, now dean of doorkeepers.
Airplanes have brought mos
quito from Africa to Brazil which
is spreading malaria up and down
the Amazon. Public health direc-
tors agree that if not checked it
might decimate the population of
South America.
Ambassador Joe Davies is filling
a Job which should have been done
in the state department long ago.
He is contact man with congress.
For years the state department has
depended upon natty young men to
90 up and lobby with senators. Re-
suit: Foreign policy Jagged on Cap
itol Hill. But Joe speaks the right
language.
Tourists are pouring in at the
White House at the rate of 5000 a
day, of whom 1,700 see the private
parlors by congressional letter. The
others see only the East room and
ground floor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
Italy Joins Germany in War
AS French Retreats Continue;
Allies Ready for Mussolini

opinions expressed these columns they
necessarily this newspaper)
rReleas xNeaern NeupSna rIrnion
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21

WWSHIpS 10 SCUM America, anyway.
republics" Nevertheless, Uncle
Sam sent warships to South Amer
lea, to save the South Americans
from v columns. Their primary
objective was believed to be Rio.
WAR HUMOR:
One Bright Spot
Most beloved of all English wits
today is the famous p. G. Wode-
house, who always depicts his coun-
trymen at their worst-and most
ikeable. He and his wife were CIV
ing gay cocktail party at lie Tou-
quet, an English resort on the
French channel coast. Little did
they care about the war. Then the
butler "Jeeves" knocked and an
nounced-the Germans! The latter
arrested the comic author, but not
Mrs. Wodehouse. Mr.. Wodehouse's
farewell words were strictly Wode-
housian: s'Maybe, my dears, this
will give me the material to write
a serious book for once
u. S. DRAFT:
Conscripts Again
The N. Y. Times, which some be-
lieve to be in nervous state these
days, published an editorial advo-
eating U. S. CONSUMPTION, which
they called compulsory military
training" 1t created stir. Roose-
welt said he found the editorial most
interesting, but declined to COM
ment. War Secretary Woodring
said it was matter for the populus
americans to discuss. Secretary
Wallace said that the populus amer
icanus was waking up.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
MIRA-MAR CORP.
SEES fine SEASON
Better Prepared Than Ever
To Give VacatiOniStS
Genuine Fun

Again this summer Mira Mar
corporation will entertain throngs
of vacationists at Wrightsville
beach and Floyd Cox, president Of
the corporation says, is going to
be in better position to entertain
them this year than ever before.
The dining room and fishing pier
which were operated by the cor
poration last season have been ac-
quired by private interests and will
not be open to the public this sea-
son but the entertainment facilities
of the corporation have been ex-
panded to such an extent it is bet
ter prepared to give vacationists
more fun this year than last, Cox
said.
On the northern side Of the en-
tertainment building of the cor
poration five fine, new bowling al
leys have been erected and beach
bowlers this summer will find they
are something entirely new in this
section
The alleys proper are made of
a concrete substance which was
especially prepared for Cox. Intro
duction of a secret ingredient in
the concrete has given the alleys
smooth, slick finish which has
been given a sheen with shellac
and an even finer gloss with the
application of a special wax, so
that bowlers may see their faces
reflected clearly from the surface
Of the alleys.
In front of these alleys there Is
80 foot maple runway, which
makes for fine footing for bowlers,
who are expected to find the new
non-bounce balls the finest they
have ever used.
These alleys are entirely open
air alleys, with roof overhead to
protect bowlers from the rays of
the sun and an attractive awning
at the pin end of the alleys.
AS was the case last year, the
regulation wood alleys on the
southern side of the entertainment
building are meeting with unusual
popularity, but this year are hav-
ing to share that popularity with
the arcade which runs down the
center Of the building.
Here the vacationist will find al
most any type of game amusement
desired, as well as memento shops
photo shop and a fine restaurant,
tables for which are located on the
porch to the rear of the building,
where the cool breezes from the
ocean are delightful.
Beyond the porch of the enter
talnment palace, out on the strand
vacationists will find many large
umbrellas which they are free to
use while lolling between sur f
baths and bit of jitterbugging to
the music of the nickelodeons
found in the Mira-Mar building.
Nightly at the Mira-Mar crowds
gather-youngsters, oldsters and
the middle-aged-to bowl, to litter
pug, to dance more or less sedate-
ly, to play the numerous games
available and to have genuine
good time. d
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

Municipal course, which now has
fine green's and an excellent club
house.
This course was designed by
Donald Ross, one of the foremost
designers of courses in the coun-
try. Special green fees prevail here
in the early morning and late af-
ternoon hours.
The Cape Fear course is consid-
cred one of the prettiest to be
found and is open to visiting vaca-
tionists for green fee of 81.
The MUM was begun in l924-25
when the city leased a large tract
of property from Hugh MacRae On
a 3O-year basis and work was be-
gun on the 143-acre tract. Since
that time the land has been car
ried out by the Works Progress
Administration.
Kurt Boehm is the pro at the
Cape Fear Country club course.
while that position at the MUM is
held by Bill Crichton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
BEACH VISITORS
ENJOY GOLF HERE
Two Fine Courses Are Open
To Those Who Visit
Beach Resorts

Visitors to New Hanover coun-
tvs beaches have an opportunity
to play on two of the finest golf
courses to be found in this section
of the country.
One course, maintained by the
City of Wilmington and known as
the Municipal course, is located at
the intersection of the Wrightsville
beach speedway and the Mason
boro loop road.
The other is operated by the
Cape Fear Country club and is To-
Gated just east of the city limits
on the Wrightsville beach speed
way.
During the past two years ar
extensive program of improve
ments has been carried out at the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
rec outdoor bowling alleys.

three outdoor bowling alleys.
Upstairs the building affords
swimmers a bath house and on the
hard surfaced street on which it
abuts there is ample parking space
for automobiles.
The pier itself stretches far out
beyond the breaker line of the surf
allowing fishermen to get their
lines into deep water without all
the bother and trouble of either
wading waist deep into the surf or
going outside in a fishing b a t..
From this pier annually are caught
large quantities of blue fish, drum,
trout, sheepshead and mullet.
All in all, with its fishing, dining
and fun facilities, the Atlantic
View pier is one of the most COM
plete amusement centers on
Wrightsville beach. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
Pink Club Is Center
OF Social Activities

A center of social events at
Wrightsville Beach this summer is
the "Pink Club" or the summer
quarters of the Cape Fear Country
club, located at Harbor Island, just
across the sound from Wrightsville
Beach.
Here members of the club have
all the privileges afforded them at
the regular quarters Of the club
during the winter months and in
addition find the club convenient
as point from which to enjoy
surf baths.
Each Tuesday morning a bridge
luncheon is held there and bridge
tea is presented each Friday after
noon. Twice monthly a dinner
dance is held. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

amusement and entertainment to
be found in the buildings operated
with the pier.
First there is a restaurant where
light food and refreshments may
be had at reasonable prices. Lo-
Gated here is one of the inevitable
nickelodeons, around which young
sters gather day and night for a
bit of jitterbugging. In an adjoin-
ing room are located number OF
billiard tables, and off to one side
away from the building proper are
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
STILL HAD THE HOUSE

ST. JOSEPH, MO. -tA-Mrs
Mlllle L. Gordon went to Kansas
City recently and saw some hard
boiled eggs on display.
That reminded her that she had
forgotten to turn off the fire under
eggs she had been boiling when
she left her home in St. Josenh
She te1ephoned the St. Josen.h
fire department, asking an investi.
cation of the situation in her
kitchen. The firemen reported
short time later, that the COOS
had been reduced to ashes. fbe
pan was red hot but there w.s
little other damage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
0ANihs GET STARTED
IN THE FUNNIFsr =,

NORMAN, Okla. -,P,
ever hear the one abont , ID You
mlnton got its start-fron, nov 5aa
payne cork on RAINY '5 a.. Cham,
Jack Purcell, worlds prog.... raS,
gin. VI It's oH,
In 1873 the duke Of Bsapto.
giving a dinner party at tIv7 h,s W
cestershire estate but RAIN nIS G~
the guests to stay over sevar,, 'oNa
An army officer. home t,a t,o d'a
wars in India, was telling "Jn ,ba,a y
native game called poons se@' s''
took a champagne cork. strs, s,a b
with goose quills and bessn S,uadst {.
onstrate. u 0sa
He and another officer b.,.,
ting the bird back and fork f@s ''
the dlnrer table. Sc'2a
Soon ali the guests We're ,,,,.
and later they SPREAD the ,,..'
throughout England, Il passed tY'., a
Canada and now is sweeptHp An.'
lea. The duke took its nam, '' a.
the dukes estate. "a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
THE RELIGIOUS TOUCH

LOUISVILLE, KY. --lRLA n;o,,
pocket went to church, DR.. Wii1;ar,
T. Bruner reported sadly to nolica
While standing in receiving I;na ~
extend the hand of fellowship
to new members, DR.. Bruner sais
he was given shove from heb;as
Soon afterward he missed his w.1
let and $41.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
KILMER WAS RIGHT

HOPKINSONVILLE, KY. IN
They sent for a plasterer when
wall in a local restaurant began
to bulge.
The plasterer discovered tree,
seven inches in diameter, growing
inside the wall.
What puzzled him was the fact
that the tree, despite absence of
soil or sunlight, was growing five
feet above the ground. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
Atlantic View Pier
Has Many Attractions

Pier fishermen at Wrightsville
beach find the Atlantic View pier
one of the finest places along the
South Atlantic coast from which
to catch the finny denizens Of the
deep.
But it is not only to fishermen
that the pier has its attractions,
for there are numerous forms of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

our-cylinder racing cars average
10 to 13 miles on a gallon of fuel;
the eight-cylinder cars get seven or
eight miles; and the cars that burn
alcohol instead of gasoline average
four or five miles to the gallon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

Of the more than 10000 species of
land mammals on this earth, only
one, the kangaroo rat, has six of its
seven neckbones fused together.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

Value Of metals produced in
Utah in the last Is years exceeds
$1,000, 100000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16

National forests constitut. ,
per cent of Wyoming's total w.,
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-10-17

Mrs. A. F. Moynihan and Mrs. H.
s. Halverson, Sauk Centre members
Of the Stearns County Child Wei
fare Board, took an active part in
the gathering of the Minnesota
Conference of Social Workers at
the Curtis Hotel, Minneapolis, last
week. Mrs. Moynihan spoke on
'The Survey of Mothers Pensions
and Mrs. Halverson's subject be-
fore the conference was THE De-
linquent Child and the Home"
County Commissioner F. ]. Borg
mann and son, Edward, and nep-
hew, Raymond Borgmann, and
John Olson motored to Blackduck
and Gemmel Friday to attend to
real estate interests.
Announcement Of the marriage
Of Dean Barnette, eldest son Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Barnette, of this
city, to Miss Eta C. Lohmann, was
made for Thursday, October 28th,
1920.
Elmer Hylaman, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. l. Hylaman, and Miss Laura
Smith, daughter Of w. L. Smith
were quietly married In st. Cloud
Monday, October 11th.
Several from the Mccormick
Lake community attended shower
given in honor Of Miss L2ura Smith
at the Nels Anderson home.
Neva B. Wilcox left Friday morn
ing for Glendive, Mont, where she
will be engaged In teaching school
for the coming year.
Every window on the south side
Of the coaches in Train No. IL, COM
ing from st. Paul Wednesday, were
broken by hail stones and the sides
The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-10-17
LOOKING BACK
THROUGH TIME

Excerpts From The Herald Of
Thursday, October IA, 1910
Items Of Twenty Years Ago