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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
AVIATION GROUND
COURSE AVAILABLE
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If placed into operation here,
young men in this vicinity who are
between the ages of 10 and 26 years
who are citizens Of the United
States and who are legal residents
of North Carolina will be anabled
to take a complete ground course
in aviation at little cost.
And from the list of those sue
cessfully completing the ground
course, a minimum of 10 men will
be chosen to be given a complete
flight course at the expense of the
ICAA. These students will be given
training sufficient to earn a private
license.
Three other cities in North Caro-
lima now have the program in op-
GRAFTON and the summer quota of
assignments is exhausted, Edgar
said. But a new quota will come
into effect on September 1 and Will
mington will then be eligible.
Taking part in the promotion of
the project here are: the county gov
eminent, the American Legion, the
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange
and Civitan clubs, the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce and the Aero club.
The ground course consists of Y
hours of instruction, including his
tory of aviation, civil air regulations,
navigation, ~meteorology, p~arachutes,
aircraft and theory of flight, en-
gines, instruments and radio uses
and forms.
The classes will, if placed in Will
mington, be held in a suitable build
ing and the instruction will be by
persons approved by the CAA.
Eligible men in Wilmington and
vicinity who are interested in TAX
ing the course have been requested
to call at Bluethenthal airport i'm
mediately and register their names
there. Women may take the course
but only n will be included in
each ten flight awards.
1t will be several weeks before it
is known definitely if Wilmington
will be awarded the program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Bonus Delegate Plan
Would FAVOR South

WASHINGTON, July 6 -R -
A new delegate apportionment sys-
tenn which would give the heavily
democratic southern states three
additional seats each in future ma
tional conventions will be consider
ed by a party committee in ad-
vance of the Chicago convention.
The tentative plan, which might
also reduce representation of some
northern states, is modelled some
what along the lines of the repub-
lican system of 'compensating'
states and congressional districts
that go republican. 1t was drafted
by an Alabama group headed by
National Committeeman Marion
Rushton of Montgomery.
The new plan will be taken up
at Chicago next Thursday by a
national committee subcommittee
headed by Senator Green Of Rhode
Island.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Bruce Cations
In Washington
(Star-News Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON - The Dies committee may
soon be organized on a permanent, nation
wide basis, expanded and equipped to play a
large role in the governments campaign
against Fifth Column activity.
That is a plan now being worked out by the
committees chairman, Representative Martin
Dies of Texas. 1t has an excellent chance for
adoption, for the New Deal has made its peace
with Dies. The administration is now cooperat-
ing with him, and he with the administration.
Under the plan now being considered, the
Dies committee would nave a central office,
co-ordinating work done in regional offices
in a half dozen places. AS a result of the new
understanding between Dies and others hither-
to hostile or Indifferent to his work, the drive
on Communists and other 'ismites' is due to
get rolling shortly on a scale hitherto I'm
known.
Will Have 10000
On Indexed List
The Dies committee is hard at work on a
vast mass of material collected on Communist
and Communication activities. By fall, Dies
believes he will have ready a card-index con-
tanning over loo, 900 names, with material at
hand to show exactly what part each played,
directly and indirectly, in the general Com.
munist program. A large number of govern
ment employees will be on the list, ne says.
The library already amassed by the Dies
Investigators includes not only document sub
mitted in evidence, but copies of every signi-
fcant publication, pamphlet, broadside, and
handout issued by every Communist and
"Communist-front' outfit in the United States
during the past two years.
More Money Needed
To Expand Work
To digest and index all this material, as
well as to provide an office staff of at least Is
in Washington and to expand greatly the pres
ent field force of nine, will require more
money. Mr.. Dies is asking for another $780,
600.
He is also considering asking Congress to
make his committee one Of its regular stand
ing committees, like those on military affairs
appropriations, and the like. That would make
it permanent, assure sufficient funds from
year to year, and enable it to build up a perm
anent Office and field staff.
Plans To Work Behind
Closed Doors
Chances are, most of the committees work
henceforth will be done behind closed doors.
Mr.. Dies believes public sentiment is so STIR
red up over Fifth Column activities that open
hearings might be unwise. Recently several
witnesses testified on Communist activity in
IVA. On their return home they found them
selves in some danger Of mob violence, the
home folks having concluded that if they
knew so much about it they must be Fifth
Columnists themselves.
We've pretty well educated the public about
the way these subversive groups work. says
Mr.. Dies. "Now we want to try to prevent
spying and sabotage. We can call witnesses,
hear item in private, and then turn a tran
script of the testimony over to the appropriate
government agency"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
More Avenues Found
In Mammoth Cave

MAMMOTH CAVE, KY, July g.
R-Discovery of miles of hitherto
unknown avenues adjoining Ken
tucky's famous Mammoth Cave was
revealed today by the National Park
service.
However, it will be at least two
years before the public is. able to
view the Spectacular cave treas
ures," r. Taylor Hoskins, acting SUI
perintendent of Mammoth Cave Ma
tional park, said.
-Four cave guides-Carl and Pete
Hanson and Leo and Clause Hunt
discovered the new caverns Oct. 10,
1888, after days of exploring narrow
crawlways leading from the under
ground channel of Roaring river.
Their find was kept secret until cave
had thoroughly explored
the entire Mammoth cavern.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
British Bon,bings Take Heavy
Toll In Lives In Ruhr Valley

but we saw such heavily Industrial
lied cities as Duisburg, Dussel-
dorf, and Cologne, as well as a
number of less important centers.
The story was about the same
in each of the cities: One to 80 or
more houses damaged, one to 30
civilians reported killed, more in
jured.
In each city, municipal officials
met the newspaper party and con-
Quoted us to spots which, we were
told, had been bombed.
In Duisburg we were shown a
damaged church; in Dusseldorf, an
old peoples home; elsewhere, a
row of wrecked private residences.
At Ha1nm, the officials demon
strated residential district which,
they said, were a mile or more
from industrial or rail points.
However, a woman on the out
skirts of Duisburg told us three
bombs had been dropped on the
railway station in that city. Off
Gals said that was not true.
1t was evident in many instances
that the population was feeling the
results of nervous and physical IA
tigue from rushing to cellar shell
tiers around l a. m. each morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07

spills, and a companion contraption called a
dodge'em automobile ride, which appears to
have as strong appeal for the oncoming gen
Grafton as the old things did for the aging
parents and grandparents who watch their off
spring cavort in strange and unfamiliar gyra.
lions within it's thrilling enclosure.
Yes, Carolina Beach has many mechaniza,
lions to make old-timers homesick. But it's a
comforting sort of feeling, creating not so
much poignant regret as a wish to re-exper
fence the old thrills and a realization that they
cannot return in their old full power.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
GEO. w. BAILEY

At a meeting of the Board OF
Stewards of Grace Methodist church
held July 1, 1910, the passing of our
brother member George W. Bailey
was noted and the following minute
recorded:
We bow in humble submission tU
the Divine Will who in His infinite
wisdom has called George W. Bailey
from our midst.
Our church suffers the loss of a
valued and faithful member whose
loyalty and devotion exemplified the
cardinal virtues of our religion. His
courtesy and gentleness of manner
will ever linger in the memory Of
those among whom he lived am
moved.
Our community deplores the death
OF a straightforward and upright
man whose business enterprises were
always characterized by fairness In
dealing with his fellowman.
To the grief-stricken family We
offer our deepest and heartfelt SYM
pathy, and we bid them, in this
hour of grief, to find consolation
in the teachings of cur common
Christian faith.
RESOLVED:
That a page on our minutes be
inscribed in his memory; and
That a copy be transmitted to the
family and the press.
COMMITTEE:
Clayton C. Holmes,
c. L.. White,
S. D. Hurst, Jr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Editorial Comments
From Other AnqIes
IF WE FORGET
Charleston wv. Val Gazette

1t is an immutable human fact that it is
easy to forget, so the thoroughly discredited
Republican party, whose pre-1932 leaders are
still in control, confidently expects voters to
forget the pangs of those years.
From the turn of recent attacks through
their various mouthpieces, of which the most
prominent is the Saturday Evening Post, we
know they expect us to forget it was Republi-
can Kellogg with Harding's sanction and Cool
loge's attestation who scuttled the big navy
the then young Roosevelt had built. They even
expect us to forget that through seven years of
pacifistic, isolationist hamstringipg, the same
Roosevelt rebuilt much of that navy though he
had to do it piecemeal. So well did he repair
the ravages on its that Hoover himself only the
other day referred to it as our adequate first
line of defense, behind which we might pre-
pare in security.
They want us to overlook that it was Roose-
welt, against his stubborn tide of pacifsm and
isolationism, who popped up our army, de-
veloped new ornaments and began mechan-
izing it almost from the first day he enter
ed the White House. They want us to overlook
that he has given primary training to millions
Of CCC boys, hardening them, teaching them
to act in units with discipline, at the same
time making SO many young Reserve officers
SO fit for actual army duties that 5000 are be-
ing called now by a stroke of the pen. So MANY
camps were built, with supply lines organized
and facilities ready, that we could use them
as cantonments for a million men over night.
But they are drawing a picture of thumb
twiddling these seven years, of failure to fore
cast the present conditions which anyone who
is informed knows the man in the White House
was warning about when these same Republi-
can stooges were h%ooting at the idea. The cen
trail idea, of course, is the advertising axiom
that if something is said positively enough.
often enough it will be believed whether true
or not.
We might forget all the details of the New
Deal administration; we might let memory
dim on all the Republican shortcomings-re-
calling wildly only such gigantic steals as Tea
pot dome, the Washington naval treaty., the
property custodian and veterans bureau scan
dals, the Grundy-inspired tariff acts; we might
be able to retain only salient points.
But if the American people of living gener-
atoms ever forget how Roosevelt went to bat
for the common folks, whipping back the
snarling hate of the privileged, outsmarting
the stuffed shirts to whom abject government
had become a habit, feeding the poor, hospit-
alizing them giving them new homes, new hope
and a new stake in their government if
they forget that
They deserve another dose Of Hoover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
PR0-AMERICANS
FORM OWN GROUP
Group Ousted BY Youth Con.
gress Launches Own
Organization

LAKE GENEVA, Wis, July e.
R)-"Pro-American' delegates IN
the American Youth Congress, de.
MED seats for technical reasons"
headed home tonight after announc.
ing plans for a new youth organi.
zation in Michigan as a step toward
a national "anti-communist" sroun
Their sponsor, former HEAVY.
weight Champion Gene Tunney left
for New York with a Parting shot.
1.-The American Youth Congress
doesn't really represent youth. It's
a lot of labels and one of its big.
gest labels is the young commu.
nists."
Meanwhile the Youth Congress
proceeded with routine business ses.
sions and a discussion of its by.
laws and constitution. Election Of
officers was scheduled for tomorrow.
Bruce Mckay, of Detroit, said the
"Pro-Americans" would set W a
Michigan state council within 50
days composed of members of Jun.
ior Chambers of Commerce. Chris.
tian Endeavor, Demolay, Young
Democrats and Republicans and sim
liar groups.
Mckay said Michigan was chosen
because a large majority OF the
"Tunney-bloc" was from that state.
Other states would be invited to join
them later, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Miss jenkins To Head
New Church Department

MONTREAL, July 6.-R-Crea-
ton of the department of Christian
relations in the Presbyterian general
assembly's committee on woman's
work was announced here today.
For years, the announcement
said, woman's auxiliaries have had
secretaries of Christian social serv-
ice whose purpose has been to ex-
tend Christian teachings and i'm
proved living conditions to many
underprivileged groups in their COM
munities and to lead Presbyterian
women toward a better understand
ing of community, national and in
ternational issues.
Greatly increased interest in this
phase of the auxiliary work has
resulted in the creating of this de-
partment, said the announcement.
Miss Annie TAFT Jenkins of Crys-
tai Springs, Miss, has been chosen
to head the work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Boy Expert Discovers
Bad Ones Are Best

DIES MONIES, Ia, July 6.-F-
Cheer up if your young son is an
ornery little troublemaker.
Homer White of Des Moines says
such a lad is more apt to be a
success as an adult than if he didn't
pick on the neighbors' kids. And
Homer ought to know. He has had
more than 10000 boys under his
wing at one time or another during
his So years with the Western
Union.
White, veteran district telegraph
supervisor here, said he never yet
has found a boy who was wholly
bad"
Millions of American parents will
say amen to his next conclusion.
There isn't any set rule by which
you can handle boys" he said. "God
didn't make any two of them alike
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Rumanian Ship Held
At Charleston Wharf

CHARLESTON, S. c., July g.
tR-The master of the Rumanian
steamship Prahova, having just
experienced difficulties when % of
his crew of 80 staged a sit-down
strike, today had a new worry on
his hand when Rudolph Sass, listed
on the crew a a donkeyman, filed
a libel suit against him and the
vessel in the U. S. district court.
The Ibellant prays the court that
the vessel be condemned and sold
SO the wages he has earned can be
paid. The papers were served on
Captain Alexander Tiufiaeff, the
master, today.
So long as the wages remain I'M
paid the ship may not sail.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
THE TOPS

BERLIN, July g. up Ger
man editors outdid themselves in
finding phrases of tribute for
Adolf Hitler today upon his re-
turn to the capital.
German newspapers used these
descriptives:
Lord of battle -. triumphant
victor of greatest destructive
campaign in world history 80.
genius for commanding
statesman, supreme commander
in-chief, leader all in n
victor of 1910 and victor over
1918 -. unfter of our nation and
creator of our Reich shap-
er of new Europe leader
and father Of our eighty million
people rouser out of stupor
-. leader from darkness into
light" ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Children
Find Haven At Mirador

CHARLOTTESVILLE, w. Va.
July 6.-P9-A young niece and
nephew of the queen of England to-
day found refuge from the European
war at "Mirador,' former estate of
Lady Nancy Astor.
They are Simon Bowes-Lyon, 8,
and his sister, Davina Bowes-Lyon,
10, children of David Bowes-Lyon, a
brother of Queen Elizabeth.
They arrived here last night by
train accompanied by their grand
mother, Mrs. H. H. Spender-Clay, a
sister of Lord Astor, and their young
cousins, Francis, Ann and Jeanne
Nichols, whose father is a member
of the British intelligence service.
With them were two nurses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty.County Government
under CouncilManager Administration,
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside High1pay from Wrdghtsv'1e
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF city Limits.
s5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Wo
err TURNING Basin, Dith ship n into
industrial sites along Eastern odnS
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, cia
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodnc'
ton through sAstdined-yied methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide TAG.
Shipyards and 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 gro1otn9
hrouahout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sandtorfum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
america, AWAKE!'

NEW YORK, July 6.-R-
Stuart Benson. the sculptor, who
drove an ambulance in the Amer.
lean field service in France, has
returned to this country con-
WINGED we are in real danger.
He wouldn't have come back.
but was ordered to. For a few
weeks his job will be to tour
America with several reels of
film showing the advance of Ger
many into France, trying, he
says, "to awaken America to her
own desperate situation before
it's too late"
Then he will return to ambu.
lance driving. He thinks Eng
land may be needing help by
that time.
But I have faith in England
in spite of her mistakes" Ben.
son says. II believe in her un-
til the last Englishman is dead"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
NEW YORK BEGINS

PLATTSBURG, N. Y, July g.
Ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman
somberly launched a 30-day mill
tary training period for 5000 boys
and business men today with a
prediction that defeat of England
will bring armed invaders to
American shores.
Speaking at the birthplace of
'the Plattsburg idea" under which
businessmen first volunteered a
quarter century ago for training
in behalf of preparedness. Leh'
man appealed for compulsory ser
vice as the "only way to Obtain
fighting men.
More than 1000 CMTC youths
and 300 men from all business and
professions listened soberly to the
governor, then heard Colonel Jul
lus Ochs Adler, of New York City,
president of the military training
camps association, declare Amer;
ca may have to "crush the present
master of Europe or be crushed
by him. Colonel Adler is civilian
aide to the secretary Of war. 3
CAMP RITCHIE, Md, July g.
CR-The National Rifle association
offered the range facilities of its
$500 rifle clubs to the country TODAY
urged it's members to begin
courses of instruction in arms and
craftsmanship for all persons Of
military age in their communities,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
CROP
By GORDON BROWN

TOPEKA, Kas., July 6.-R-
They're calling the 1910 Kansas
wheat crop a miracle crop.
Sown last fall in dusty, dry
soil, the crop was all but given
up as a damaging drought per-
sisted into the early winter.
Maybe it will produce 50,O00,-
900 or SIS, 900, 900 bushels-if con
ditions are right" estimated the
experts last December.
Such a crop is about a third
of a normal production for Kan
sas, biggest wheat growing state
in the country. Once, back in
1881, the state had amazing pro-
duction of 240, 000, 900 bushels.
But
Right now the farmers are
hard at work harvesting a crop
which last estimates placed at
$4,000, 900 bushels. And from the
many reports of surprisingly
huge yields, even that estimate
may be low.
The astounding production
jump was due to an abundance
of rain and ideal weather condi-
tons generally.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
ARMY TRAINING
PROGRAM URGED
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sea-going version of Germany'S
hard-hitting "Panzer" divisions.
Congressional sources said the
nucleus of this division would be
three merchant ships. for which
the navy is negotiating with the
maritime commission, to be used
as marine troop ships.
The plan is, informed Legislators
said, to keep these ships fully
equipped with tanks, artillery and
other armament at all times =
like a fire engine" one congress
man put it-so that they could sail
just as soon as the marines could
be marched aboard. The lime
usually 7 consumed in assembling
and loading heavy equipment ne
cessary for an expeditionary force
thus would be saved.
thine will be essential, if we
are called upon to move" one
house member said, because you
can put down in 48 hours a re-
volution that might take a month
or more to quell if so hours elapses
before you get on the job"
The ships for the proposed ma.
rine corps minute men" would
be stationed in the Caribeen, prob
ably at Guantanamo, Cuba, where
they would be within easy striking
distance of Latin America, it was
explained.
In addition to the three merchant
vessels, the navy plans to con-
vert several ~destroyers into fast
transports.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
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subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Alien Registration
Will Start Sept.

WASHINGTON, July s. - Up -
Aliens may be required to tell what
organizations they are affiliated with
and their general attitude toward
democracy when they register with
the federal government.
Z Immigration officials, it was dis.
closed today, r endeavoring to
frame questions which will bring
out fundamental attitudes toward
the United States and other infor-
nation useful to the national de-
tense.
Under legislation enacted by con-
gress last month, the 3,6OO,0 900 aliens
in this country must register by
next January 1 and be fingerprinted.
Registration will begin September 1,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
TOP o. THE MORNING

What asks our F'ather OF his children, SAGE
Justice and MERCY and humility,
A reasonable service of good deeds,
Pure liuing, tenderness to human needs,
Reference and trust, and prayer for light
to zee
The Masters footprints in our daily Wdys?
WHITTIER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
MEXICO TO VOTE
ON CHIEF TODAY
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newspaper row. The youth who was
killed was Is years old.
Substantially the entire army of
$4,000 was kept to barracks and
police we're on the alert.
1t was openly predicted
there would be many minor in
cidents," but government officials
said again that there would be no
revolution.
General Almazan and President
Lazaro Cardenas, who is backing
General Manuel Avila Camacho as
his successor, exchanged recrim-
nations in newspaper statements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
F. R. AND FARLEY
TO CONFER TO-DAY
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to vote for his denomination, ana
many politicians have predicted
that he would be drafted.
Farley has a handful of delegates
pledged to support him for frs;
place on the democratic ticket anu
has insisted that his name will 0'
presented to the convention.
The. announcement of the meer
ing tomorrow served to bring again
to the forefront of political specr
lation frequently repeated rulnol,
that Farley and Mr.. RooseVs.'
were at odds over the third term
and that the former might give
up his job as national chalrnla'
should the President seek four aI,
ditional years in the White House,