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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Auto Industry Urged
To Meet Crisis Needs

BLOWING ROCK, July 23.-tR'
-Pyke johnson, executive vice
president of the Automobile Manu-
facturers' association, challenged
car manufacturers in an address
here to gear their production to
meet the demands of the war cri-
sis.
This automotive program" he
told the State Automobile Dealers
association yesterday, cannot be
formulated overnight, but we must
begin training our personnel to
meet the necessary adjustments.
The defense program will mean
excess profit taxes and we should
give serious thought to budgeting
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Negro Fatally Injured
In Auto-Truck Crash

FAYETTEVILLE, uly 23.-R-
George Weldon, 32-year-old negro,
was fatally injured and Robert
Garner, 14-year old white boy, was
badly hurt. in a truck-automobile
collision on the Clinton-Faison high
way today.
M. R. Garner, father of the in
jured youth, told officers his auto
mobile was rammed from behind
by a state highway truck loaded
with hot asphalt as he slowed up
because of an obstacle in the high
way.
Weldon was a passenger in the
Garner car. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
NYA Plans To Aid
In Defense Training

RALEIGH, July 23.-(P-JohA A.
Lang administrator, said today that
lAe state division of the National
loulh administration would supply
nOlcombatant training for as many
"s possible of its 6,400 young men
and women.
o. [aft Of a current appropriation of
I,'-4'otS for out-of-school youth
VIII De used to set up four new ma
enile shops, to expaund the present
1--WE woodworking shops to SO, and
open a sheet metal shop where
0Ss can learn operations used in
" ~ making war materials.
Inc sheet metal shop will be locat'
M Durham. Machine shops will
= situated in Raleigh, Greensboro
N""riotte and possibly Durham.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
To Put Sports
On Parity With Books

GRENOBLE, France, July 23.-
R-Jean Borotra, former interna
tional tennis star and now Frances
director of sports, has announced
physical education henceforth will
occupy a place of Importance equal
to that of intellectual education in
French schools.
The newspaper LIE Petit Dauphl-
nois, in a dispatch from Vichy, quot
ed Borotra as saying his job in the
reyolutionized educational scheme
will be difficult because of the ma
tion's ''softness and previous lndif
ference"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Shortage OF Man-Power Delays
Army Pilot Training Program

AS-S AS~j = o4J
23.-C6-Faced with an expansion
of Its training program to turn out
1000 pilots a year, the Army Air
corps suddenly finds itself with a
task which, in magnitude, has not
been equalled since 1917.
Finding 1000 young men annually
to fly today's large and speedy
military planes sounds easy enough
in the nation the size of the United
States, a nation which always has
bestowed a certain amount of CLAM
or on helmeted airmen.
Reduced to simple mathematics
here at the Air Corps basic train
ing center, it throws fresh light on
the monumental work Nazi Germany
must have done to build up it's huge
air force.
Our Army requires that every
embryo pilot have at least two years
of college education or take an ex-
animation indicating an equivalent
knowledge. The output of American
colleges annually is around 140, 000
graduates, in a ratio of &C. men to
four women. A like number of
under-classmen in any given college
year might be induced to consider
military air training.
College men not of the current
crop can be written off largely as
candidates. If they are still under
the age limit of 27, for the most
part they have married or acquired
jobs they are loath to leave.
So in the first stage of the mathe'
NAUTICAL possibilities, the score stands
at approximately liza, 300 men. This
is how it works out from that
point:
The Army experience tables show
a third of that number will consider
themselves unfit for flying and will
not apply for training. That leaves
10000.
At an optimistic maximum a third
of those, according to the expert
ence tables, will measure UP to the
physical requirements. That leaves
1888.
If the entire group went into
training, only 81, 400 would complete
the course and get reserve COM
missions-on the basis of wash
outs or flunks in a percentage es'
Established over a period of many
years. And keep in mind that we
-.--k>l x,:%l am Cnh mon
Nothing like that happens, Of
course. Young men coming out o.
college have other ideas about
career. Moreover, lots Of them want
to get married. The Army's flying
cadets must remain single. Those
who do not acquire jobs-judging
once again by the Army's expert
nee tables-by and large are not
enticed by the prospect of flying
in a military uniform.
Two pretty dismal facts stand out
at the moment: The 1910 military
academy graduating class at Wes'
Point did not fill its air corps ap
plicant quota, and the returns from
the governments civilian PHO
training program, instituted last
year, in terms of more candidates
for military flying are ~oiscourag
ing.
Applicants at large have beer
scarce even under the modest all
expansion program inaugurated
wear ago which contemplated the
training of 5000 men in "a months
With the 7,000-a-year program or
it's hands, the Air corps is not quite
sure just how many eligible young
men it will get. Concern for thel'
own safety certainly will not be
deterrent of potential candidates fol
training if the facts are widely
enough advertised. Randolph has ar
amazingly good record. Only three
deaths occurred last year in 3o,ooo'
900 miles of flying.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
tobacco Road Will
End Record Run Soon

NEW YORK, July 23.-R-''To
oateo Road" the play that left the
Ii.lcs Geld and then proceeded to
" nq,'er every length-of-run record
ntoaoWay annals, is closing next
"neh they ring down the curtain
Jaot ue Forrest theater Aug. II.
E s.A hlrkland's dramatization Of
n msAlne Caldwell's novel about pc
9 Dotye trash will have completed
v7' broadway performances ir
years and nine months. ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
British Boxing Champ
To Fight With R.A.F.

LONDON,( July 23-CP-Len Har-
vey, British and Empire heavy
weight boxing champion, was COM
missioned today as a pilot officer in
the Royal Air Force. He joined the
Raj at the start of the war as a
sergeant.
Jack Petersen, who lost the Brit
ish heavyweight title to Harvey in
1888, won back his laurels in 1884
and retired from the ring in 1887,
is a lieutenant in a Welsh regi-
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
LONG A

DAVENPORT, Wash. Superior
Judge w. M. Bevins suspended the
customary three-day wait for a mar
rage license for Henry Smith OF
Creston and Elizabeth Dickey Of
Spokane.
The bridegroom gave his age as
81, the brides as 65.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
ROADSIDE SALAD

PORTLAND, Ore.-The salad was
plentiful but a little gritty. A truck
loaded with mayonnaise and pickles
and another carrying gravel col
lided at an intersection. All ingredi-
ents were well mixed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
PIG PATRIOTISM

READING, Pa.-Even hogs will
do their part to aid the nations
expanded shipbuilding program.
Explained packers Representative
Hugh Robinson before the Schuylkill
Navy club:
Shipbuilding means the need for
enormous quantities of lard to grease
the launching ways.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Italian Planes Bomb
British On Frontier

ROME July 23.-lp-Italian
planes again have bombed British
troops along the Egyptian frontier
and at Wajir, in Kenya colony,
the Italian high command an
nounced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-NeWs bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY N AVERILL

RALEIGH, July 23.-Political
powers on the North Carolina dele
cation to the Chicago convention
are particularly peeved over the
prominence given DR.. Ralph w.
Mcdonald in reports coming out Of
the democratic gathering.
They contend that the good doc
tor did not by any means dominate
the scene and they point particu-
larly to the roll call for vice presi-
dent as conclusive evidence he
wasn't nearly as weighty as it has
been made to appear.
Backed by the presidential ex-
preston of preference for Henry
Wallace as second man on the ma
tional ticket, DR.. Mcdonald was
able to round up a grand total of
four and some-tenths (two-tenths,
as your reporter recalls IT'D for the
Iowa man who cast his first demo
cratic vote in 1928. This out of a
North Carolina strength of 26.
1t is also pointed out by the prac-
teal politicos that DR.. Mcdonald
was given no place of peculiar
honor by the Tar Heel delegation.
When he was nominated at a eau
Gus for one of the honorary posts,
someone Immediately placed Libby
Ward in nomination for the same
post, whereupon Mcdonald immed-
lately withdrew.
IF he hadn't Libby would have
showed him under on a VOTE" con-
tend the political powers.
Old line, regular Democrats still
can't be ~reconciled to the nomin-
alton of a Republican of long stand
ing and short repentance for vice
p: ,sident, but they hunting
hard for something to ease their
feelings.
"At any rate" said one just back
from Chicago, both parties named
democrats for presidents, even if
they did have to pick republicans
for vice president"
Commissioner of Agriculture W.
Kerr Scott hould be able to get a
job as an auctioneer if he should
ever lose cut in his present post
(Which is safe for another f u r
years, It least).
He took over The ballyhooing OF
several dozen pies at a brother S
farm ir Alamance rec ,ntly a n d
disposed of all but two of them for
the Hawfeld Home Demonstration
club, which will use the proceeds
to send delegates to Farm and
Home Week at State college, July
29-August 2.
louis Wilson, department of ag-
riculture publicity chi f, h a n d e d
Mary Dudley Pitman. livewire re-
porter for the Raleigh Times, a re-
lease.
She : need at it, grabbed her
nose and exclaimed:
Nhew: That smells!"
On examination it turned out that
the release sung the praises of
dairy goats.
Add useless statistics: Of 143 peo-
pie met Monday, exactly l43
asked: "Is it hot enough for your"
State Treasurer Charles M. John
son is back from New York where
he bought 155 State of North Caro-
lima bonds for the sinking fund.
He got 1O5 of them at a price
which makes the bonds yield 2.4O
per cent interest-the other SO will
yield 2.35 per cent.
Mr.. johnson says that n of the
penalties which must be paid for
sound financing and budget balanc-
ing in North Carolina is inability
to buy up the states bonds cheaply.
The Is he purchased appeared
to be absolutely the only ones for
sale in New York, he added. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
RAPID GROWTH

WARRENTON A preliminary
census report showed the popula-
ton of Warrenton was 1,149 or II
per cent more than in 1880.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
NEW CITY HALL

FAYETTEVILLE - Construction
of the new $142,0 600 city hall began
yesterday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
Honor Court Planned For
Boy Scouts This Evening

court Of honor tonight was dis.
cussed.
Troop 12's meeting was opened
Monday evening by Lawrence Kop-
pin with brief review OF the Scout
laws. A check was made on at
tendance at football games and
volunteers to assist at the Normal
College cross country meet were
called for. A tentative list for
ushering at the next football game
in Ann Arbor was also made.
Five boys were selected who will
tell of the troops summer camp
experience at the court OF honor
tonight. They are Jack and Elmer
Robertson. Donald Holloway. Ly.
man Tower and Lynn McAllister.
They practiced while the remainder
OF the troop worked on Scout ad-
vancement Melvin Ellis passed
his second class signalling and
Glenn Garlough. his first class sig.
mailing.
, A game 20 test the observation OF
the scouts was played. then a few
minutes Of signalling followed The
final scores on the months patrol
contest was announced. The SEN
ior Patrol was the winner with
the Flying Eagle patrol a close
second. The two other patrols will
furnish supper for the troop next
week.
Tho prograr, cfosed u,f+h tbo
singing OF Trail the Eagle.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
Camp Legion Boy to be
Reunited With Mother

Separated from his mother at
different times since he was IS
months old Robert Anders, 10. re-
siding at Willow Run Camp Legion.
was informed today that Camp au-
thorities had located his mother.
Mrs. Anna Duffett. living less than
10 miles from his present home
Robert expects to visit his mother
at 1850 Telegraph Rd., Flat Rock.
tonight where she lives with her
husband and two children. Camp
authorities said the mother was as
anxious TO see her son as Robert
was to see her. He has been trying
to locate her the past four years
The Anders family became
estranged when Robert was IS
months old. The boy accompanied
His father on trips throughout the
states and it wasn't until Robert
was five years old that he saw his
mother for the first time so that he
could remember her. After a brief
visit he returned 10 his father and
four years ago while operating d
roadside stand at Inkster his mother
visited him. Regularly she came TO
see him. Later the two became sep
arated and not until today were
they reunited again.
Roberts mother is Of German de-
scent and was married TO his Amer
lean father during the World War
years. After the separation Of the
family in the United States the boy
lived with his father until the lat
ter's death two wears ago.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
BOMB REPORTED
ON ARMY VESSEL
OFFICIALS REFUSE COMMENT;
TRANSPORT LADEN WITH
5000 TROOPS

Panama. Panama, Oct % AP-
An official source aboard the L. S.
army transport Republic refused
to confirm or deny today sea
mans story that deadly time
bomb" had been found aboard the
ship shortly after she sailed from
San Francisco with 5000 troops
and passengers.
According to the seaman's story,
H. F. Dodd, the ships master of
arms. discovered in the after hold
a box containing "a mechanical con
traption" and enough nitroglycerine
to blow the vessel clear out Of
the water
Dodd was said to have carried the
box on deck, praying all the way
and dumped its overheard. Most Of
those on the Republic were un-
aware of what had happened, the
seaman said
An inquiry was reported held
aboard the Republic following her
arrival here Monday but Col Jo-
seph Bibbs. the ships adjutant, an
swered queries with:
Il have no statement to make. -
The Republic was expected. TO
sail from Cristobal for New York
tonight after making the eastward
-rassaee- through the canal.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
DENIES NE " DEAL
HELD UP DEFENSE
WiIIkie 10 Answer Charge
Republicans Had Record
OF Sabotage


President Rooseyelt's charge that
Republican leaders had a record Of
sabotage in the national prepared.
ness effort gave the defense pros
gram a top campaign billing today.
Wendell l.. Willkie promptly an
nounced that he would dispute the
assertion OF his Democratic rival
in a broadcast reply today (CBS
3:l5 TO $3.50 p m. ESD from his
special train at parkersburg. W.
Va.
Both Democratic and Republican
nominees put in strenuous days
Monday. Mr.. Roosevelt covering
many miles in the metropolitan New
York.New Jersey area before con
Guiding with his address at Madison
Square Garden. while Willkie was
pleading the Republican cause in
Illinois, Indiana and finally in Ken.
lucky where he delivered major
speech at Louisville Monday night.
Mr.. Roosevelt, appearing In the
"old campaigner" role he likes, de-
voted his Madison Square Garden
address to answer what he termed
more examples of major campaign
falsiflcations" by the Republican op.
position. He concentrated on the
charge that under his administers
ton the nation had been slow in
rearming
The simple truth is he said,
that the Republican party played
politics with defense IN 1888 and
1889. They are playing politics with
national security today"
Mr.. Roosevelt recited quotations
which he said Republican leaders
uttered in opposition TO defense
measures and declared those words
"indict these Republican leaders out
of their own mouths-these leaders
who now disparage our defenses-
indict them with what they them.
selves said in the days before this
election year about how adequate
our defenses already were"
Willkie. hoaTse from the heavy
speaking schedule he has been car
rying for weeks, meanwhile was
accusing Mr.. Roosevelt and a lit
tie group OF men in large part un-
known TO our people Of sitting
and kidnapping the Democratic
party.
1T is this New Deal party" he
said. that now makes its ultimate
grasp for power-the repeal OF the
rule against the third term that
its reign may continue in perpetu-
ity."
Willkie described the two-term
tradition as the common law Of the
United States" and said TIE Presi-
dents reelection would mean "tha
destruction Of our two-party sys.
tenn"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
COMMUNITY FUND
TOTALS s9,4S5
VICTORY BANQUET WILL BE
WEDNESDAY EVENING IN
HURON HOTEL

Community Fund leaders and
workers expect TO receive the bal.
ance Of the $4,000 Ypsilanti budget
by Wednesday 80 that the victory
dinner scheduled for 30 p. m. In
the Huron Hotel can really be a
celebration.
At noon luncheon today, total
subscriptions OF S949j including the
special gifts total, we're reported by
executive committee members. OF
this amount $3,0Gs 50 has been col
lected in cash and the balance will
be ready soon.
The drive opened oct. p and was
TO continue until Nov. ? but be.
cause Of Halloween was shortened
TO Wednesday night Workers and
leaders nave met almost daily 10
coordinate their activities. Friday
civic rally and banquet VAS held
for the Community Fund workers at
which James +. Gheen. New York
City philosopher and humorist was
guest speaker.
Advanced special gifts sollcita-
ton was conducted by A crew OF %
headed by Leroy Bush and . j.
Cleary. Pins and placards were dis
tributed. in factories and manufac.
turing places by the Fund workers.
General solicitation among Ypsi-
lant residents began Monday and
VIII close Wednesday az the victory
banquet. Heading the drive this
year were Co.Chairmen y. VI. SILK
worth and L. a Seamans.
Reports OF working committee
heads were siill uncempleted today
but with renewed effort the groups
expected to make complete returns
NIr.dregJa.-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
Italians Drive Greeks Back
Profit of $1,000 Earned BY
65 Boys at WILLOW Run Camp

ganization compared to the same
number who opened the Camp last
year and made S2.10O. Through
wholesale distribution, the roadside
stand and the selling OF canned
produce the boys earned $500 over
what they did last year Disuibu.
ton of the $1,000 will be made
among the boys. who range from
10 to %, in accordance with their
type OF work.
All types of vegetables were rails
ed on the 800 acres OF land COM
posing the Camp. The only fruit
raised is a winter apple which IS
produced from a small orchard. A
special effort was made this season
to build up a Camp trade in Ypsi-
lanti and vicinity.
Buildings were being closed to-
day. supplies packed away and
tents removed in preparation 20
close the Camp for the year Crews
were working in the potato fields
harvesting the last crop in the
ground. The land has been plow-
ed and made ready for a rev group
Of So boys who viii enter the Camp
next May.
Canned this year by the youths
who do all the Camp work was TO-
200 cans of tomatoes. 5000 cans of
carrots and 800 cans Of beets.
These cans are all the 2lh size.
Some of the vegetables having
large acreage were sweet corn, 25
acres; potatoes. 40: tomatoes, Is:
carrots, three: onions. seven; and
beets. three arres.
Weight charts are kept regularly
for the boys In the Camp and the
average gain in weight to each
boy was 1910 pounds this past sum.
mer. The largest individual gain
was 2S pounds All OF the youths
showed some gains, in some cases
very slight The additional pound
age is attributed by Camp authori-
ties to the regular hours and whole
some food served.
The total weight gained at the
Willow Run Camp and the same
type OF a camp at Dearborn was
l,504 pounds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
Hallowe en- Festivities For
City Children in Readiness

American Leg on; Ralph Matthews,
Rotary; and Floyd Smith, Kiwanis.
Prospect. Central and Harriet
grade schools will open their party
programs with parades in their
school building at 7 p. m. At
Woodruff. the parade OF children
will go through the school dis
trict streets. Prizes for the fun
NEST and prettiest costumes will
be awarded on the stages OF the
individual school audtoriums. At
Woodruff school motion pictures
will be shown OF community scenes
and at other schools there will be
entertaining films. PARTIES close
at 3 p. m with the serving OF re-
freshments OF cider and doughnuis.
81. Jchn and Roosevelt elemen-
tlry school pupils are asked TO &c
10 the nearest school bulldog to
participate in the party.
Roosevelt and YpsilanlI junior
and senior high school students
Will hold a dance from $3.50 TO IL
IN the Ypsllanti High gymnasium
A local eight piece orchestra will
play for dancing. Refreshments
will be served.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
Former Mayor Couzens
Kidnapped, Then Robbed

Detroit, oct. 29-AP-Wlth n
gun pressed against his back.
former Mayor Frank Couzens Of
Detroit Monday was forced 10 drive
through city traffic for % minutes
while police scout cars searched
for him.
Police said the robber took
COuzens' wallet containing $50. his
wrist watch and his oyeFcoat before
he ordered the former mayor to
stop the automobile and turn out
the lights so he could make his es.
cape.
Couzens told officers he was wait.
Ing In front OF his home for his
wife when man entered the rear
door Of the automobile, pressed a
gun against his back and ordered
him 10 drive away.
Mrs Couzens saw the man In
the car leave with her husband and
telephoned police.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-29
ORGANIZATION OF
Il ERS COMPLETE
GROUP TO SERVE ON COUNTY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
tn 194t .

At the Washtenaw County Cit
.zenshlp meeting in Ann Arbor
High School Monday night the
pliers completed their meeting OK
week ago.
Duncan Jolicoeur. Of Cassidy
Lake Technical School was named
county chairman Of the new vot-
ers George Braun Jr, Ann Arhor,
f. first vice chairman. Mrs.
Wilma Goodell, Chelsea. second
vice chairman, and Miss Carol
Hauser, Ann ArbOr, secretary.
This group will serve on the codn-
" executive committee in l94l.
The chairman will become vice
chairman the following year.
There were 30 present OF which
II were voting delegates Com
munities represented were Whit
more Lake, Chelsea Cassidy Lake.
Lincoln School district. and Ann
Arbor
a Citizenship Day program will
he given Nov. 10 in Ann Arbor
High School.
There will be an executive COM
mittee meeting tonight at the
Michigan Union IN Ann Arbor.
New voters will be guests OF
the community at Worthwhile at a
banquet meeting tonight at the
Presbyterian Church. Mayor Ed
ward Jeffries, Detroit will be
the speaker