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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-01
Letter To The Editor
FAVORS PAY INCREASE

Dear Sir:
I understand in the near future
the police department of our city
will appear before the city commits
sioners to ask for an increase in
pay, or in other words, a restora-
ton of a cut that was made in their
pay during the year 1880 when
everything appeared SO dark.
I am writing this letter for the
purpose of supporting this body of
men in their effort to get the in
al for which they will ask. l be.
lieve the citizens of this community
will be Fundamentally in accord with
this request. From what l can learn
as result of Investigations I have
made in several other cities, we
have one of the lowest paid police
forces in North Carolina for size
of city.
1t is necessary in my line of work
to come and go at all hours of the
day and night, which places me in
position to contact these men more
than the average citizen. I see them
III IHc VICE HOuIo VI IlC HUI i1iSi
standing guard over the homes and
business houses of this city while
a greater part of u citizenship
sleeps and feels perfectly at ease in
doing so on account of the fine po-
lice department we r enjoying.
I do not think there is any de-
partment of our municipality which
any more to US than this
body of men. They are required to
carry themselves in a neat, digni.
fled position at all times, and must
always be in position to meet IN
emergency in case of trouble or dis.
tress.
1t has been my experience that,
when I get into a strange communi.
ty and find myself lost or in trouble.
the policeman is the first I call
for assistance, and usually find
them ever-ready to assist in every
capacity they can.
l hope your good paper and the
citizens of this community can see
fit to support this fine body of men
their effort to get an adequate
wage for the services they are lend.
ing to us
Respectfully,
HARRY R. GARDNER.
1925 South Third Street.
June 80, 1910.
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Selected
TIME FOR WORK

Now that the tumult and the shouting of the
republican convention is past and the party is
ready to settle down to work in a cruel emer
gency it is to be hoped that defeated candi-
dates for the nomination will get politics out
of their minds and go forward within their
separate spheres of service with the firm de-
termination to do their part in the defense
program.
Most of the candidates who Mr.. W1LLK1E de-
feated are men of exceptional ability in their
own fields of activity. They are not of stellar
worth in the political armament, but they
have been trained.
Mr.. DEWEY, for example, is an exceptional
prosecutor, capable in building up a case and
of presenting it in court, particularly if the
case is against racketeers, with rare skill. He
sprung into national prominence as special
prosecutor for the government when rascals
were trading in human flesh and grinding bust
ness under the heel of labor oppression. He
sent LUCKY LUCIANO to the penitentiary and
stopped the operations of other vicious male.
factors. He could be a valuable acquisition tn
VIZ oLAS Stdlls luGT0 is Sill
much for him to do as New York's district at
torney.
Mr.. GANNETT, who is a great newspaper pub-
Usher, despite his laundering while seeking
support for his nomination, can be of immense
help to the nation through the columns Of his
daily papers, particularly if he dismisses his
prejudices as too paltry to nurse in times like
these. Senator vANDENBERe, who is usually
level headed and is to be TO given his single
mistake, can render invaluable service in the
position to which the people of Michigan elect
ed him. His advice in the senate may not
meet the requirements of all situations, but he
is always sincere, honest and earnest, qualities
which must have right of way during the days
OF rearmment and preparations for an unde.
termined future. Senator TAFT can we'll afford
to get down to cases, now that he knows where
he stands with the rank and file of his party.
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If he devotes his attention to constructive
thinking from now on, he will we'll merit the
job Indiana handed him and the great name
his father bestowed upon him.
In the present situation of the nation, poll
tics is the least essential of all elements. The
country needs work for defense, work from
defeated republican candidates for the presi-
dency no less than from the humblest laborer
on any defense project.
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Star-News Program

Consolidated Cdty-County Government
umder CoumcilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside High0ay from Wr'ghtsv'He
Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, ~td'
err Turning Basin, NTH ship lanes tn1o
industrial sites along Eastern odnE
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, va
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throuohout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial n Resort Pro-
motioma. Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tar
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed o the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for 1hites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape gro1o1ng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
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TO RELEASE SOLDIERS

NEW YORK, June 3O-R- A
German radio broadcast heard
there tonight by CHS reported that
Norwegian soldiers who had been
interned by Sweden would be re-
leased, beginning next week. 1t
said some 5000 who fled from
Norway during the German cam
there would be sent home
at the rate o 1000 a week. 2
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PLEADS FOR HELP

1--we CURE, who was director of women's &C
tivities in the French ministry Of in
formation during the days preceding Frances
collapse, and daughter of Mme. MARIE CURE
co-discoverer of radium, has arrived in an un
disclosed British port as a refugee after a hard
voyage following flight from Paris. The Neu
York Herald Tribune recently published an
article under her name in which she describes
the experiences of thousands as Frances life
blood was poured out upon the battlefield and
summarizes the causes which enabled HITLER
to wage successful war.
The article is a severe arraignment of the
shortsightedness in the democratic countries
of Europe and an ardent appeal for American
cooperation with Great Britain in the final
stage of the fight against totalitarianism.
She blames the democratic nations which
HITLER has conquered for his successes and
condemns them for failure to unite in time.
Americans in favor of giving England all pos
sible aid at this time will find comfort and sup.
port in her strong position against isolation.
The following excerpts from her Illuminating
contribution to the literature of the war, writ.
ten at short range but with penetrating under.
standing, shed much light on the situation and
place the question of help from Britain in
plain terms:
Each of these countries Conquered by
HITLER) has been conquered because of the
the isolationism or half-isolationism of the
others, because when attacked by Germany
she received little help, received it too late,
or did not receive it at all. Had these
countries understood the mortal danger
which threatened them, there would have
been from the start an overpoWering
solidarity of the democracies against HIT
LER. Had the British, the Americans, the
French, the Poles, the Czechs, the Aus
TRANS, the Danes, the Belgians, the Dutch,
the Norwegians said mo" to HITLER, said
it in time and said it together, there would
have been no war at all. We would have
won without fighting.
Our solidarity, our unity is accomplish
ed gradually by a third party-by ADOLF
HITLER. The same sufferings, the same
prosecutions await those who have been
reluctant to unite for a common victory.
In slavery We will all be together, we will
all be equal.
America is the only great democracy
who has still to make up her mind. Indeed
the story of the last two years provides
her with the necessary Recommendation for
this choice. She car fight now, together
with England, Canada, Australia, New Zea-
land, India, South Africa and with what
remains of the French, Polish, Belgian,
Dutch and Norwegian belligerents-fight
and win. She can also live for a time in
peace and in fear and take the risk or
fighting alone.
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TOP % THE MORNING

Some gears ago qohi1e preaching at Bristol
an,onq other notes I received to pray for IN
dividud1s I receiUed this: "a person 0ho is
prospecting trade earnestly desires the prayers
of this congregation" "Ah" said I to myself,
"here is q man aUho knoaDs something Of his
oaDn heart, and qoho has read the Scriptures
to some PURPOSE
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BRITONS ARRIVE

GLASGOW, June 30 -R- Sir
Percy Lorraine, Britain's last am
bassador to Italy, and neary 300
other Britons, including diplomats.
consular o Gals and newspaper
men arrived here today with COM
pliments or Italian hospitality 80
it was almost embarras.
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Man bout
Manhattan
By George Tucker

oY george sVCkoT
NEW YORK - There was once
a psychologist whose powers OF
persuasion we're so extraordinary
that he could argue the birds down
out of the trees. So smooth and
compelling were his lines Of rea-
soning that after listening to aim
a few minutes you automatically
would change your opinions, ire
spective of how firm your convic-
tons had been.
One day this man was fishing in
a river, and as his canoe drifted
near a bridge he observed c man
on top of the bridge who was about
to leap into the water.
why are you doing this?" asked
the psychologist.
I'm going to commit suicide"
explained the man.
Don't jump till I get up there"
cried the psychologist, making for
shore. AS his paddle bit into the
water he thought. "I'u talk that
poor man out of committing sui
eide in a jiffy."
Five minutes later, after the
psychologist and the despairing
man had spoken a few words, they
both jumped overheard.
This story, in a way, is a close
parallel to an important incident
in the career of Mrs. Maria
Kramer, who is one of New York's
best known women executives and
who, among other things, owns
and operates two large midtown
hotels, the Lincoln and the Edison.
B Before she b e C a m e Mrs.
Kramer she owned Lichtensteins,
a woman's tailoring establishment
on Fifth avenue. Max Kramer, a
New York business man, wanted
to buy the property. To obtain
title to the property he had to
buy up all the leases held by the
tenants in the building. It wasn't
long before he had bought up all
the leases with the exception of
one. This was held by a woman
who had made up her mind that
she wasn't going to sell at any
price. Kramer, a smooth talker
and a good business man, decided
to handle this case personally.
After all, she was merely a wom-
an.
Some time later, friends met
him on the street and inquired
after the ucces of his mission.
We'll" replied Max, "You see,
it's like this. While discussing the
situation we fell in love and got
married."
1t seems homogeneous, but Mar
jorie Lawrence will tell you her
self that her ambition once was
to become the foremost girl jockey
in Australia. In her earlier teens
she was a "stock girl" - the
equivalent of our western cowgirl,
riding herd on the range and
practically living in the saddle.
Now however, she is one of
the leading sopranos of the Met
ropolitan opera company and
thinking in terms of Wagner's
Gotterdammerung.
But even a diva may dream Of
the range. Soon" says Marjorie,
soon in Texas I will start a kan
CARGO ranch"
Miss Lawrence has a prize coin
collection of which she is quite
proud. 1t isn't a collection of rare
coins - just lucky ones. Before
going on stage, Director Leopold
Saches always gives her a penny
"a '1ucky" penny. These she
keeps. It is, she says, the only
superstition that she has.
Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize play
wright and now president of the
Dramatists Guild, saves his fellow
dramatists many expensive legal
headaches. For Rice started
his career as a technical adviser
in a law office and every new
problem that comes before the
Guild he examines thoroughly for
legal snarls before allowing the
guild to made a decision. 2
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REFUGEES TO SAIL

LISBON, June 3O-R-The
Greek passenger liner Nea Hellas
is scheduled to leave Portugal for
New York July 8 carrying an I'M
disclosed number of American ref
ugees.
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REDS

BERLIN, June 3O-(AP by ra-
dic)-The German radio announc-
ed that the communist party was
legalized today in Latvia by gov
eminent decree. 1
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Ill URDER

ALMER1A. Spain, June 3O-RH
Antonio navarro Moreno was
charged today with killing Ill per-
sons at Turon during the civil war.
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AROUND
Hi HOUSE

To remove lime in a teakettle
boil a little vinegar in it.
Clear ammonia - pure, not
household-win remove paint from
windows even when it has been
on a long time. Apply with a
scrubbing brush.
After peeling onions rub the
hands with a little dry mustard,
then wash in the usual way.
A bay leaf or a sprig of dried
thyme is sufficient to season the
gravy of a pot roast.
When you are cleaning paint
work in the house, rubbing it with
a little boiled linseed oil and fin
ishing by polishing with a soft
buster will make it clean and
sparkling.
Make a point of keeping the best
pieces of old pillow-cases and
sheets. They are handy for patch
ing and much better than new
material.
An ordinary blackboard eraser
makes an excellent shoe polisher.
Earthworms are beneficial to
the soil in which they live and no
effort should be made to remove
them. If considered troublesome,
lime water will bring them to the
surface.
To remove ink from carpets,
wash the stain Immediately with
skim milk.
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Jigger, Pony, Liquor Measures
Jigger and pony + measures
used fol liquor. A jigger is one and
one-haf ounces. while a pony is an
ounce.
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the eye up and DOWN bodice gath
r and shoulder darts. Thus
with a few easy details, it assures
correct fit over the bust, slender
ness of waistline and hips.
The deep, narrow v of the neck
line adds to its becomingness, and
you can trim that, and the sleeve
edges, with dainty frills or lace
without losing any of the Slim
ming magic! Wear it now in
small-figured print or dark sheers.
Pattern No. 1851 is designed for
sizes SO, SO, 40, AZ, A, 46, 48, so
and So. Size 38 requires, with
short sleeves, AZ yards of 39-inch
material without nap; with long,
As yards of 39-inch material. ~
yards lace or ruffiing to trim.
Send order to:
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the he'll OF modern war looks like,
every drowsy editorial page, column
Of comment and panicky Legislator
begins to demand billions for de.
Tense"
o. X, but it isn't enough. We
can't meet this danger simply by
passing a law" even if it appro.
PIRATES billions.
The answer to three questions is
absolutely imperative. ID What are
we to defend? That is an answer
to be made by the President and the
state department. (2) What do we
need to defend it? That is an an.
swer to be made by the army and
navy. 90 How can we best and
most quickly and economically get
what we need? That is for the lead
r Of industry.
For Gods sake let's show just a
fraction Of Hitler's intelligence and
preserve not only our skin but the
teeth we r going to need so badly.
U. S. BLUNDERS
Among the snap judgments com.
ing out of Europe is that only a die
tatorship can make effective war.
1t is not a fact. Woodrow VIII
son said wisely of 1918: 1.-THE high
est and best efficiency is the spon-
taneous cooperation Of a free
people,"
1t is true that we stumbled lamen-
tably before we got into the war
and Immediately afterward.
We stumbled because we were
misinformed and far from unity
of purpose. As soon as the great
majority Of u people were in
formed and had decided on what
we must do, no nation in history
not even Germany today-ever
made a quicker, better or more
massive mobilization and attack.
1t isn't a question Of form of gov
eminent or organization. It is sole
~ a question OF right men in the
right places.
If a dictatorship were the answer
to efficiency the dictatorship of Joe
Stain is the most absolute on earth.
Germany is doing a record-smash-
ing job Of war-making and showing
her competition up as bush leaguers.
But that is solely because Germany
turned her military and industrial
problems over to experts in both
arts.
England didn't. She suppressed
Churchill until the guns began to
OF He was a trained expert.
We have followed the British blum
der. In this administration expert
ence in this bloody business of war
or any other business has been a
passport to oblivion.
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without Condemnation
No man can justly censure or
condemn another, because indeed
no man truly knows another
Browne.
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REAL ESTATE

Cafe. OPP. court hse. Est. IL yrs. Mod.
rion, 500 Court ST., San Bernardino. CALI.
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MgRaXG0-QQubD
NEW YORK AIR DEFENSE

NEW YORK AIR DEFENSE
Washington, D. C..
The army is not anxious to pub
.lcize the fact, but as Of today there
are only 80 anti-aircraft guns in the
whole New York city defense area.
Six months ago not even the most
cautious generals would have wor-
ried about this. But after watching
German air operations in the past
month, and after doing a little fig
uring with paper and pencil on the
flight performances Of German
planes, the army is rushing more
aircraft guns to the nations biggest
city.
twenty-five battalions with 264 ad-
ditional guns will be sent to New
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&c NERAL
HUGH S.
10 NSON

wNU snin
A COUPLE OF e


Washington, D. C.
This is a parable. 1t is being
written within the hour that I had
W teeth yanked. They were fine
perfect teeth. AL mine are. Never
before, except for one that got
broken in a controversial %colloquy,
did a dental surgeon ever do any,
thing to me-and I am So. At 80
my mother had all her teeth. It
runs in the family.
This year, in the cool impartial
efficiency Of the army medical
corps, I was told by the chief Of
dental surgery at Walter Reed hos
pital: These two teeth have to 60
If you don't want to lose half a
Dozen"
I was very angry. Even his x
ray showed their perfection.
I ragged up to New York to con-
suit independently my favorite ex-
perts-two of them-Ted Fonarton
and Joe Levy.
Now my two teeth are gone and,
as the anesthetic wears off, it hurts
like hell.
Everybody remarked what swell
teeth they were, even after they
were out. But an infection had de-
stroyed the foundation in which they
were imbedded.
BY the protective action, advised
by experts less than two years ago.
I could have saved them. I felt
nothing, so I didn't do what my ex-
pertS advised.
England understands this sort of
thing o and so do France and
Holland and Belgium. We are be-
ginning to understand it in a panicky
sort Of way.
Three years ago a veteran expert
on American industrial prepared
ness, a man with unusual sources of
information in Europe, Mr.. B. M.
Baruch, told the President what
was going on there, what wasn't 60
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Me 1nother
. A General Quiz
The Questions

l. Rome was built on how many
hills?
2. How is the temperature of a
Centigrade thermometer reduced
to Fahrenheit?
3. Why did Lady Godiva ride
through Coventry?
4. What is a salaam, a fish, a
salutation, or a small coal bucket?
5. To win the Democratic pres
idential nomination a candidate
must receive-a majority of the
votes in the party convention, two.
thirds of the votes, or four-fifths OF
the votes?
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HERE'S a beautifully graceful
dress that has everything you
need to make your figure look
more slender and supple. Made
with a long, mbroken line in the
back, 1851 has a front panel widen
ing toward the hem, Gin itself ere
ating the illusion of height as
against width because it directs
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ideas of men and things, yet II
is u own meditation must form
our judgment.-Dr. I. Watts.
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Salt 1000 Feet Ehicl.

At Petite Anse, an island on the
coast of Louisiana, and at a depth Of
Is to Is feet, there is a deposit OF
very pure rock salt which is more
than 1000 feet thick. In Lincoln
county, Nevada, there r great salt
mountains containing, under a thin
layer of sandstone. an immense de.
post of rock salt as clear as glass
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BEHIND Hi CLOUDS

BEHIND THE CLOUDS
Ambassador Lothian Of Great Britain
(left) and Ambassador de Saint Quen.
tin OF France find something to cheer
them after a conference in Washing.
ton Uith State Department officials.
York as soon as the army can get
them, but that will not be before
the end Of the year.
Note-The arithmetic which wor-
ried the army was this: Norway
to Iceland, 1888 miles; Iceland to
Newfoundland, 1880 miles; New
foundland to New England, 300
miles.
More arithmetic: German Mes
serschmitt No. HOS have a flying
range Of loo miles; German bomb
ers have a minimum range Of 1880
miles, most of them more; and Ger
many has between 5000 and 10000
OF them.
NAZI STRATEGY
When Sumner Welles vas in Ber-
lin on his peace pilgrimage the Hit
Ter encourage told him fatty that if
Britain wanted to continue the war,
Germany was ready to lose 5000
planes-if necessary-in raining the
greatest barrage Of bombs in his
tory on England.
With Dutch air bases, plus new
submarine bases in Norway, the
Nazis plan to put the greatest
squeeze in history on England, SUBJ
ject her to a terrific air lombard
ment, and land invading forces for
the first time since the triumphal
march of William the Conqueror
in 1906.
The military strategy of the Nazis
is the old Schlieffen plan used by
the kaiser's troops in the last a
Briefly summarized, the plan is:
Outfiank, Develop, Destroy.
To this, the Nazis have added
some streamlining of their own,
namely the 'locusts" or parachute
troops, whose objective is to get into
the enemy's radio and telegraph Of
fees, disrupt communications, and
cause as much confusion as posi-
BILE behind the lines.
ARGENTINE NEUTRALITY
If anyone around the state de-
partment ever had any doubt that
Corden Hull was not a candidate
for President, they changed their
minds after seeing him sit upon the
Argentine proposal for the American
nations to give up neutrality for a
state of ''non-benigerency." This
meant a status somewhat similar to
Italy's-but friendly to the allies in
stead Of to Hitler.
The Argentines pointed out that,
like President Roosevelt, they had
sent sympathetic messages to the
king and queen of Belgium and Hol.
land; that they had impounded the
money and property Of the Low
Countries in order to keep it out Of
Nazi hands; and that as a matter
of cold fact, none of the Pan-Ameri-
cam was really neutral anyway.
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The AnsUers

l.. Seven.
2. Multiply by 9/5 and add 80.
3. To help the people escape
heavy taxes.
4. A s%alutation.
S. A majority.