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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Airport improvements

The decision to proceed with improvements
at Bluethenthal airport is in the interest of
preparedness. AS that is what the nation and
the American people are most concerned with
these days, there can be no doubt the decision
is a wise one.
Especially is the plan to macadamize the
runways timely. This will prevent flooding or
washouts and form a foundation for perma.
nent surfacing, whether with tarvia or con-
crete, if and when the field is taken over for
defense training.
We're this work still to do then much valu-
able time would be wasted when time is at a
premium. BY doing it now the airport will be
available for private fliers in large numbers,
and only a minor job be necessary for any use
in the defense program.
With full lighting equipment installed and
other improvements started to give Bluethen
thai high rating by the Civil Aeronautics Ad.
ministration, federal authorities will find little
more to be done when and if the transfer is
made.
The county authorities are to be congratu.
lated for carrying the airport project forward
SO speedily and so near to completion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
The People Want It

When attendance at soft ball games mounts
above 1000, as it frequently does, we may
take it for granted that Wilmington is sports
minded. The throngs that turn out at Robert
Strange Fairgrounds for the nightly games Of
this variation on baseball are not only large
but enthusiastic, as s~tay-at-homes a haf-mile
away well know from the shouting.
With this demonstration of the Wilmington
attitude before them, the city's sports pro-
moters would be justified in undertaking a
drive for the athletic arena which the Star
News has heartily endorsed.
The time is not far distant when outdoor
games will be impossible. While it is a fact
that Wilmington's winters usually come I'M
der the head of open and little severe cold
interrupts most activities, there are % n g
spells of chilly weather when spectators ex-
perience considerable discomfort at athletic
contests out of doors. 1t would be a fine thing,
and a tremendous asset to the city, if there
were a hall in which all manner of sports, ex-
cept golf and baseball, could be enjoyed both
by contestants and spectators throughout the
winter.
11OQpo P1OlllCtAAS thC PoA VI VAIN w
rine hospital site for an armory had visioned
the possibility of using that great building as
an athletic center as well as a militia head.
quarters, but with that project held up indet-
initely, the athletic community will have to
make other arrangements if there are to be
winter sports on a large scale in the city.
What those arrangements can be depends up
on the initiative and creative talent of those
who know that Wilmington wants its sports
and will support them. If they can mature a
plan for an arena-Manley Memorial arena
they may be sure that a great majority Of
Wilmington's citizens will do its part for the
1t is important that such a project be I'm
dertaken now, when thoughts of war and
preparations for war are uppermost in most
minds, if only as a source of relief, a safety
valve, for the masses of our population.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O.-The scene is the
Capitol barber shop. The characters, are, of
course, your correspondents own, but the talk
is something very much like what you hear
where politicians meet these days:
Barber-How-de-do, Senator, How are you
these nice cool days?
Senator-Hot under the collar. And don't
take off too much. Been running my fingers
through it so much lately, hardly got any
hair left.
Representative (snickering through the
suds)-Guess you got defensitis, Senator. It's
an epidemic now, you know. Got every poll
tician in the country jittery.
Sen.-Young man, if you mention defense
again, I'll go right out in your bailiwick and
campaign for your defeat. And, besides, when
a man has been in the Senate as long as
have, he's no longer a politician.
Rep.-All right, Senator, I'll remember But
that reminds me. Don't you think this presi-
Dental political campaign is really beginning
to take on a pattern?
Sen.-Certainly it is, young man. Any poll
tician with half an eye can see that. Why,
tically ever since Mr.. Willkie made his ac-
ceptance speech and Ickes stepped up to an
swer him..
Rep.-You saw it then?
Sen.-Certainly. Why it was as plain as
the nose on my . on your face. Wilkes
idea is to try to smoke the Champ" as he
calls him, into the open. And Roosevelt's :.
or the Democratic party's strategy have it
your own way) . is to keep batting WilIkie
with the boys who can ask embarrassing
questions without upsetting Presidential digni.
ty or taking the President away from his desk
in a time of crisis.
Rep.-Then you don't think there's going to
be any debating?
Sen.-Certainly not. Unless you call Will
kie's rebuttals of the Presidents statements
a debate.
Rep.-And this southern swing Of the Presi-
dent don't you think Wilkes demands
for debate sort of drove the President out in
the open there?
Sen.-If you'll go back in the Presidents
date book, I'll bet you'll find the IVA and
Smoky Mountain dates listed before Willkie
ever said a word about wanting to meet anv-
body. Of course the President could have
| called them off, and the fact he didn't NAV
be a hint of something-but you can't tell
what it is yet. Nc sir, figure the President
is just goidg to continue his tront-porch-and,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Differences Are Slight

The position on CONSUMPTION of the house
military committee is not rreconcilable with
the bill approved by the senate. As it emerged
from the committee for consideration on the
floor, the house bill makes men between q
and A eligible for the draft, instead of 81 to
80, as in the senate bill. Action on the senate
proposal to draft industries where deemed
necessary was postponed for the time being.
Otherwise, the two bills are in approximate
agreement, and there is no reason to assume
that such differences as exist, including the
important question of age limits, canno be
quickly adjusted by compromise in joint con-
ference or that there will be any hurtful delay
in final passage.
Leaders in the house expect to have all de-
bate concluded in a few days and confidently
look for an approving ballot by the end Of next
week. That, however, does not mean that a
draft army can be enrolled at once. Much
still remains 10 be done to perfect the ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Outwitting The Nazis

Germans claim that Britain is applying a
4ew kind of varnish to the under side Of war.
plane wings which render the planes invisible
That, say the Nazis, is why their anti-aircraft
guns are unable to blast the British planes to
pieces when they fly over Berlin.
1t probably is true. The British are an in
genius people and it is not at all improbable
they have concocted a varnish that absorbs
the beams of Nazi searchlights. The more
credit to them if they have.
But even more significant than Germany's
acknowledgment that the British awe out
wltted them in a scientific discovery which
they are unable to fathom, is the tacit admis.
sion that German gunners are not equal to
their task. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
KlLNER FOUND DEAD
IN GAS-FuLED ROOM
Retired General Has Served AS h'
siStant To Chief OF Ine
Army Air Corps

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5O.-Sn
Brig. Gen. Walter G. Kllner' Wv
who was decorated for herols..
during the World war and iass.
became assistant to the chief Oh "s
air corps, was found dead TO-DAY III
the gas-filled kitchen Of the apai.
ment of Col. j. de F. Larnef' "
friend whom he was visiting
The war department annou"'sa ~
Kilner's death and said 1na' "
had been living at Buffalo N. T.,
since his retirement from a'"'
service last Nov. 80. .od
President Roosevelt appo
Kilner to succeed Col. Charles
Lindbergh on the National A0 ,ast
DRY committee for aeronautlcS L"
December. v
Kilner, a native of Shelby. M n
was graduated from West pola aa,d
1912 and served at Maxwell m rS
Ala, Langley Field, Va, and
ington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
WOODWORKING SHOP
TO OPEN IN ONSLOW
Twenty Youths Will Be Assigned
To Project Sponsored BY
Board Of Education

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 3O.-An
NYA woodworking shop, sponsor
ed by the Onslow county board of
education, will be opened here Mon.
day, it was announced today by
Mrs. Mary Lily Blake, county SUI.
pervisor.
Twenty youths will be assigned
to the project, of which Hilton Had
not will be foremen. Work will con-
sist chiefly of building school desks
and tables and other equipment, as
well as mechanical work on school
buses.
At the same time, Mrs. Blake
announced that three youths had
left for the Hickory Grove NYA
training center, e Charlotte.
They were James English, Zollie
Pearce and Ronard Pearce, all of
Rlchlands, R. F. D. l.. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Coens-

I'm a movie star, l get a hun.
dred and fifty dollars a week and
I'm a movie star"
That's good money for a guy
your age" I said.
MY father makes more than
that. My father isn't even in pic.
lures"
He's older than you are"
That's not the point. I'm what
you dream about being, with big
car and a butler, and when I'm
not in a picture I don't draw a
penny. Dc you know what | made
in my first picture?"
You got good notices." l an.
swered.
Fifty bucks a week for six
weeks. Three hundred bucks, and
1 had to buy my own wardrobe.
Mr.. Cinderella, they called me, |
was a star in my first picture
DO you mind if we quit talk
ing?" l asked.
II spent two hundred Of that
buying Clothes" said the kid.
when the picture was finished |
went to New York for personal
appearances because they told NE
it would do me good"
What did you get for that"
asked.
Expenses. All thu cigars |
could smoke, and the DANES were
mobbing me-"
"They tore your coat" l remem-
bered.
For souvenirs said the kid. "A
SIS suit for souvenirs"
This picture we're doing will
make you" 1 said. ''You can ask
for a thousand dollars a week.
Il already asked. l have a
seven-year contract, and when |
am as old as my father | might
be doing all right"
Maybe we could let him have
a beer" said the bartender.
No." l said.
Give me a highball,' said the
kid. II got to tell my story
Nuts" said the bartender.
"See what I mean?" walled the
kid. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CounciLManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsuiHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, aoid-
Err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bdnk
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, uia
orion Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yie1d methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro.
motional Agency, supported by one
countrywide tar.
Shipyards dnd Drydock.
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.
Development of native grape groWing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sundtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

chinery under which the CONSUMPTION legisla-
ton will function.
Some observers believe it will be impossible
to have a draft force in training before Novem-
Der. If they are correct, there will be at
least two months for eligibles to adjust their
private affairs and be ready to answer the
call with all necessary personal arrangements
perfected without sacrifice.
With the advantage of lessons learned from
the draft for the last World war before them
the officials with the new draft in charge
should be able to avoid many blunders OF
1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31

defense-inspection campaign and
for one let the other bigwigs in
the party do a little political hod-
carrying.
Rep.-But do you thing that will
be effective? Do you think Secre.
tary Ickes' speech, for instance
really got under Mr.. Wilkes skin?
Sen.-Young man, evidently Won
didn't read Mr.. Wilkes state
ment following that speech with
any perspicacity. Certainly, it got
under his skin. Mr.. Willkie NAV
have been the greatest utility man
this country ever has seen he
may be the greatest man this co,1n-
try ever has seen. ). but in politics
he's just Little Red Riding HOOD
If Wilkes going to come out on
the other side of the political woods
ne is going to have to learn fast.
"s"
Rep.-Kow am 1 going to know
If he's learning?
Sen.-Well, I'm just a Senator
put if I were what they call a prac,
teal politicians, I'll tell vo,, ths+
you'd know he's learning when YOU
begin to see some of the old wbee,
horses OF the Republican party
knocking on his door. This NAV be
a crusade, but if Willkie wants to
win it, he better get q l;tt1a o,S
line G. o. P. help. President Roosa-
welt knows that. What do Vs.,
think he's been cleaning the Ne,,
Deal house for lately? whv. cer.
tainly, young man, to MAXI rooro
for the goold old Democratic nartv
They can talk all they want aho;,t
the parties being dead. but vo,,
Just wait till the votes are CONT
ed. This is a two party nation.
young man, and if you forget that.
you'll never get to the Senate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
BY CLAUDE BINYON
Columbia ScenariSt

Editors Note: Perhaps it
was the Arizona heat, which
baked Claude Binyon for three
months during the filming OF
Columbia's "Arizona," that is
responsible for this vacation
guest column, which he titled,
GLORY for Hunger" Binyon
was asked to write on any SUBJ
ject he wished and this was his
choice, although the story OF
the young actor rings very
similar to the experiences OF
William Holden, Binyon's pal
and star of the picture. -.
R. c.
This young punk kept pushing
against me at the bar and he was
too young to hit either way you
figure it.
"You say you're a writer, he
said.
Il didn't say a word"
''All right; you say you're a
writer and I got a story"
my Aunt Minnie's got a story
1 said. "All she needs is a finish
and a beginning and a middle,
and it's about her life. She wants
half of what we get for it, and
she'll come to Hollywood to live
with me on her half.
That's like my story" said the
young punk. He drank a Canadian
Club highball without breathing.
The bartender looked at him
thoughtfully. What time should
he be on the set?" the bartender
asked.
'Five-thirty for makeup" 1 said.
"A &C highball," said the young
punk.
Nuts" the bartender answered.
That's what I mean," said the
kid. There's no place in life for
me. No place." He turned on
me. DO you know who l am?"
he asked.
Yes, l know who you are"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
TO REOPEN CREEK

JACKSONV1LL, Aug. 30.-Blue
creek, choice fishing creek near
here closed to fishermen this
spring and summer for spawning
will be re-opened Sep
TENDER l, it was announced TODAY
Fish and Game Protector G. K.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
Are You Superstitious
, ABOUT
WARTS?
BY RUTH FARRAR
NEA Special Correspondent

NEA Speclal correspondent
Have you any warts? Then count
them and put the same number OF
rocks in a sack. Drop the sack
in the middle Of a crossroads. The
first %passer-by to pick up the sack
will inherit the warts.
If this fails, don't despair. Amer
lean folklore in the large collec-
ton of DR.. B. A. Cartwright of
the University of Oklahoma in
cludes hundreds of superstitious
wart cures. Here are other ways
Of losing the pesky things:
Squeeze juice from a bean leaf
on a wart. In three days the wart
will disappear.
Your wart will go away if you
rub it in dirt from a new grave.
Wear a copper cent on a string
around your neck and your warts
will leave.
If you steal your neighbours dish
rag, your warts will disappear.
To cause warts to go away, rub
them with the juice of a dandelion,
with tobacco juice, with milkweed
juice, or rub them with a stalk of
green mustard.
Warts will go away if you sell
them to someone and receive mon
ey for them.
A third son born after his IA
theirs death has magic power to
remove warts.
Count all your warts and tell
your aunt how many you have; if
she does not tell anyone, your
warts will disappear.
Rub your warts with coffee
grounds, put the grounds in a bag
and bury it. The warts will leave.
To make your warts leave, wash
them at midnight in water found
in a hollow tree-stump.
Rub poke-root on your warts to
make them disappear.
Rub your wart with a grain of
corn and drop the grain into a
well. The wart will leave when
the grain rots.
Catch IA live fish and rub it on
your warts to cure them.
Hold a hailstone on your wart
until it melts. The wart will 60
in a short time.
Put a katydid on your wart. It
will remove the wart.
Tie as many knots in. a Irvine
string as you have warts. Sus-
pend the string under the caves OF
the house where the water can
drip on the knots. It will wash all
your warts off.
If you touch a wart during a
thunderclap, the wart will soon dis
appear.
That one can rid himself OF
warts by going mountain climbing
in a thunderstorm is the belief of
Leonard c. Chatwin, a young sci
enlist at the University of British
Columbia.
Recently, Chatwin, a member OF
the British Columbia Mountaineer-
ing Club, described how, with a
fellow member, he had been
caught in a thunderstorm while
scaling an 8000-foot peak. Chat
partner, who had warts, lost
them a week after the mountain
thunderstorm and attributed it to
forks of invisible lightning that
struck their axes, setting up a
STEADY buzzing hiss" IL
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
NAME CHANGED

ROCKINGHAM, Aug. 3O,-.n.1
The directors of the Arson .n .ae
corporation have Changed pae
name of the agency to he The
Dee Membership corporation. .rie
corporation is building e,d,
lines in Montgomery, Rlcni'
and Union counties
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
TOP o. THE MORNING

Unless q man believes he is sick, he will not
call q physician, no matter hop skiltul the
physician may be. No matter how great q
Saviour Ue haze, men will not call on Him
unless they 5eieve themselves morally i'll
unto death. 1t pledses God to use the teach
ing of His laW to convince them OF their need
ot Him.
QUARTERLY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
APPROVAL GIVEN

NEW BERN, Aug. 3O.-R-Dr
W. l.. Hand announced that H. B.
Bosworth, supervisor of Pisgah ma.
uonal forest, of which Croatan for
est is a unit, had advised him that
1lnal approval had been given the
Fisher landing site for the prof.
ected Croatan organizations
camp. The site has been a SUBJ
]ect OF controversy for two months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-31
NEXT Cure superstitions.

North Dakota had the lowest per-
centage of accidental deaths of all
states in 1aaA
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
Downey Opposes
WiIlkie Election

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10. (UP)-
U. S. Senator Sheridan Downey, D.,
Cal, believes a third term for
President Roosevelt is preferable
to first term for Wendell Willkie
because WILKES philosophy i'm
plemented by presidential power
would breed national chaos and
destruction"
Downey spoke last night on a
national radio network, in answer
to the declaration of Sen. Hiram
Johnson, r., Cal, for Willkie.
Downey had formerly been a
staunch opponent of a third term
and still is an isolationist.
Mr. Willkie is the candidate of
big business he said. He is hon.
estly of the opinion that we need
to do nothing more to restore pros
perity of America than allow busi-
ness men a free hand. I cannot
agree with him. I think he is
tragically. terribly wrong. I think
such philosophy. implemented by
presidential power. would breed ma
tional chaos and destruction"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
Valley Share Of
Gas Tax Funds
Totals S@,727
Report Reveals 26,796
Autos Registered in
Imperial County

Imperial county Saturday
received $45,727.79 of gaso-
line tax funds as part of a
S13,625,787 third-quarter dis
tribution, the largest appor-
tionment ever made by the state
of California.
In Imperial county the total num-
Der of vehicles registered was 26, 1876
The So counties of California re-
ceived one third of $4.541 ,929 of the
total appropriation, State Control
ler Harry B. Riley said.
The balance of $9,083,858 was de-
posted in the state highway fund
OF this amount S2,270,964 will be
allocated to cities for construction
and maintenance of state high
ways within cities. The remaining
S6,812,893 will remain in the high
way fund for use on the state high
way fund.
Total gasoline taxes collected in
the quarter ending last Sept. 80
was STATISTIC plus miscellaneous
brokers and producers license fees
of $1,785.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
Circus Comes to
Town on Monduv

The circus will be in Ell Centre
Monday.
Soon after dawn fans will have
an opportunity TO see the unloading
which is almost as much fun
as the show itself-at the S. D. and
A. depot.
A whole train load of gilt, gilt
ter, spangles, clowns, wise old ele-
plants with Hopping ears. bands,
animals and what-not, will come
rumbling into town about 7 o'clock
Monday morning and quietly pro-
ceed TO install its encampment OF
26 tents of varying sizes at Main
and Commercial and Fairfield
streets, where, at 2 o'clodk that
afternoon, it will display its wares
to youngsters of all ages.
AS the red and silver-coated train
comes to halt, the working forces
and picturesque four. six and eight
horse teams will detrain and begin
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20


to the 100000 selective service train
ees scheduled to be summoned by
the army in the next year.
The California quota was 38O17,
Arizona 1908, Oregon 2,806, Colo
RADIO 1887, Washington 5,821, New
Mexico 1852, Oklahoma 1855, Texas
1928. Idaho 1854, Montana 1858,
Nevada 624, Utah 2,153, and Wyo-
ming Loaf.
Selective board members in Ell
Centro and BraWley warned young
men between the ages of 81 and
35 to surely register before the last
minute Monday.
Some of the men who signed up
Saturday said they did not know
they were supposed to register
Wednesday, some said they were Ill
Wednesday,, and others said they
had. no way to get to registration
headquarters before Saturday.
Physical regulations for trainees
are less stringent than regular ar
my standards but more rigid than
World war requirements.
A simple rule of thumb" based
on the estimated ability of the
men involved to be trained as first
class fighting men was the prime
consideration in drafting the regu-
lations, officials said. The trainee,
they said, must be capable of hard
ening-without breaking-until he
can march Is miles day with a
pack on his back land still be able
to take one more STEP
Requirements reported to have
been liberalized include those gov
erning height, weight in relation to
height, eyesight, chest expansion
and teeth. The teeth requirements
repeatedly would provide that pros
pective trainees must have three
upper and three lower biting teeth
which meet and three upper and
three lower chewing teeth.
With results of Wednesdays reg
istration still pouring into national
draft headquarters, officials CEN
tered their attention on the lottery
which will be held soon to deter
mine the order in which registrants
will be called up for service.
While the lottery date most ia
vored is sad to be Oct. 20, selective
Service Director Clarence A. Dyk-
stra repeatedly was anxious to have
the ceremony as soon as possible
An immediate determination of the
date was held up pending appoint
ment of local boards in Georgia,
Florida and North Dakota.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
Woman, Officer
Hurt in Crash

A Holtville woman and an El
Centro traffic officer suf er e d
slight injuries Saturday when the
officers motorcycle crashed into a
car door the women opened just
as the officer rode by the parked
machine.
Mrs. Anna l.. Hatfield was badly
shaken by the force of the impact
between car and motorcycle and
Traffic Officer Chick Willingham
sailed over the motors handlebars
and crashed to the pavement.
The accident occurred in the
500 block on Main street while Will
lingham was marking car tires
with chalk in the usual check tc
ascertain if motorists were violatln 9
the parking lawns.