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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31

perience to do this present job and
he has far too much to do already.
II we have not enough plant and
shipbuilding capacity, the job is to
60 out and create them.
That is purely an industrial job
and nobody in the administration is
equipped to undertake it. If we
have not enough machine tool equip
ment, the task is to set up system
of priorities-right now.
If we fear any shortages Of tin or
rubber, we ought to begin now con-
serving them for defense. A large
percentage Of our normal use OF
both comes from reclamation. We
should begin restrictions on the UNI
necessary use Of both and stop at
once the wastage of tin and rubber
scrap.
All these suggestions are merely
by way Of example. There are
scores Of other ways to get this job
done quickly and far more econom-
ically than it has been done or than
there is any prospect of doing it.
If our whole problem is, at this
stage, industry-now just as much
an arm of national defense as the
army or the navy, it is job of
industrial strategists and tacticians,
Just as much as the army needs
generals and the navy needs adj
mirals.
They do not exist in government.
would as quickly consent to en-
trusting it to soldier, sailor or poll
tician, as I would let one of them
cut off my leg, or ask an Industrial
list either to do that amputation or
to run the army.
We can get the job done, but not
merely by appropriating money-no
matter how much noise we make
about it and not with the present
men and organization without expert
industrial advice and direction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
S. S. HARDING:
In MensOrian,

The former United States liner,
President Harding, was sunk by
bombs off the Flemish coast of Bel
GUM. She was built in 1921, and
her tonnage totaled 1880. Your
correspondent returned on her from
the war, last October. The U. S.
lines sold her to a Belgian shipping
corporation, after American neutral
ity rules precluded u. S. boating in
the war zone. The Belgians renamed
the Harding, the Vile de Bruges.
So persisted the namesake of the
leader of the Ohio Gang. But out Of
death comes life-two brand-new
American destroyers were launched
in Washington's Puget Sound: the
Hughes and the Monssen, both
named after Yankee naval heroes,
and christened by their widows.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
ON THE MOVE:

$4,000 residents in the Dutch East
Indies, definitely were off the move.
These were suspects, both German
and Dutch, rounded up by the watch
full colonial authorities, only too
conscious of fifth-column and Tro-
jan Horse tactics. simultaneously,
in New York, great dissension arose
when a popular native declared:
''The fifth column in this country
is headed by that fellow in the
White House." At this, the pro-
Roosevelts decidedly got move on.
At Odessa, by the Black sea, Rus
STA has a parachuting doctor, who
balls out in a big hurry, to get to
urgent cases. He delivered two ba-
bies from the air. It was suggest
ed that, next December, German
parachute men might be disguised
as Santa Clauses.
New York hosiery counters report
ed hectic rush for nylon, at 81 .35.
And, alas, the feminine rush was
followed by nylon runs. Or so they
said. Macy reported 20 fast-moving
women at the nylon counter in the
first minute, but there was little or
no intra-female carnage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
u. S. CIVIL WAR:
DOtUT, in LOOsedn0

Down in Creole Looseana, there
was an American civil war going
on. It was being fought out be-
tween Woodworking units of Uncle
Sans tried and true regular army.
Some $4,000 blues were defending
the state against 1000 red invaders
from Texas. Somehow Gan unusual
feature of this La-Tex struggle) the
defenders were reported as employ
ing blitzkrieg tactics, and seemed to
be forging ahead. There even was
a fifth column, to make things per-
feet. This fifth column (so-called)
consisted of local bovines, who
licked the insulation Of army tele-
phone lines, and thereby committed
military sabotage in the first, Sec
ond and third degrees. In Russia,
they'd have fixed 'em! But these
fifth-columnar cows Of Dixie gained
reprieve. AS to the battle-ground it.
self, Looseana-its new governor,
Sam Houston Jones, told 100, 900 peo-
pie at q barbecue that no more
Huey Longs would run the state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
German March Toward Paris
Marked by Terrific Fighting;
U. S. Maps New Defense Plans

EDITORS opinions
rReiea dhv Wesern Naurm erIbnonl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
YANKEE JAW-POWER:
We Can't Bite

America is not short on manpow-
er, but it was announced that Ameri-
cans are short on jawpower. Forty
five years ago, the average Yank
could bite III pounds-worth. But in
1910, the Yank, degenerated, can
only bite 125 pounds-worth. Soft
food, alas, has done it. Take the
average Eskimo, lucky fellow. He
has, it is said, good strong bite Of
300 pounds-worth. This is called
"chewing-force."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
Bull on Spot
S,veden Overnaatched

Sweden was nervous as bullying
German troops, in Norway, were re-
ported massed on the Swedish bor-
der-whence comes more than a
third Of the German iron supply.
But that was not all. The entire
Swedish match industry, turning out
90, 900 ,0O0, 900 matches per year. was
closing down because it could not
export. Sweden is-or-has no match
for Hitler" exploded q wit. But
fine Swedish iron continued to pour
out Of Swedish Lappland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
Demaret and the Nest Open

UeKn0Tet ana Tue Veft OPeU
Swinging along to another sport,
they are asking now whether Jimmy
Demaret will be another Macdonald
Smith, another Horton Smith. anoth-
er Harry Cooper, another Henry
Picard-great golfers who have new
er won a National Open champion
ship.
If Jimmy Demaret is close to his
game he is capable of winning any
title or crown. His is the star Of
the pack today, the best I've seen
for the needed combination of bril-
liancy and consistency.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31

they are few and far apart.
No. 3. This brings us to DetrOit's
Tigers. They have all the scoring
dynamite a ball club needs. They
have pretty fair pitching. But they
have a second division infield-a
spotty infieId well below any normal
pennant showing.
Detroit can 60 out and get the
runs. But before the season is over
the Tiger infeld will show too many
gaps to match their run-making Of
fenSiveS.
And that factor will be all-impor-
tant in determining final club stand
ings. If the Tigers infeld defensive
power was on a par with their hit
ting ability, the final records likely
would be different.
So these pennant weak spots
against the staggering Yankees in
clude these:
!. Cleveland-too much inside dis
sension and trouble.
2. Boston - lack Of battery
strength, always vital need.
8. Detroit-a rickety infield.
The Big Change
What about the Yankees? Their
main control In the realm Of rule, in
the kingdom Of conquer, has been
balance. They have great catching,
good pitching, star infield, a fine
Outfield - defensive and offensive
strength just about evenly matched.
They came home in poor condi-
ton for two reasons-bad weather in
the South and a killing spring train
ing tour that covered most Of the
map below the Mason and Divot
line.
They also had four years Of easy
success back of their fifth charge.
Each man on the club had banked
SIS, 900 in world series cash since
1886.
They left a big opening for some
well-rounded challenger, but if they
win this time it will be largely be-
cause their main opponents had too
many soft and spongy spots.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31
AMBASSADOR TO ROME

AMbASSAOOH ~ RUNE
Privately, the state department
has been worried over Protestant
protests against sending an ambas-
sadoI to the Vatican; but very much
pleased over the way the thing is
working out from a diplomatic
viewpoint.
Probably the Vatican has the
best diplomatic information in Eu-
rope. It's ENJOYS know, better than
those Of other nations, just what is
going on in each country. This has
enabled Ambassador Myron Taylor
TO keep the state department better
informed than ever before.
One significant development re-
ported back from Rome is the in
creasing effort Of Hitler to crack
down On the pope-through Musso-
lini.
Apparently the dictators resent
the newspaper Osservatore Ro-
mano, mouthpiece of the Vatican.
It is the one newspaper in Italy free
Of Fascist domination, and as a re-
suit, its circulation has increased
from 1900 to 100000.
One Sunday all copies were seized
bx Fascist troops.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Chin-Fu Woo is urging third
term for Roosevelt. AS editor of the
Chinese Nationalist Daily, New
York, he plans to rally Chinese
Americans.
The army has is so-called '.for-
eign language Students" that is, Of
ficers studying foreign languages
abroad. 3 The officer learning Chi
nese is stationed in China and. the
one learping Japanese Is located
in Japan. But the officer studying
Russian Is stationed in New York
city.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-31

miles of that not so gay Paree. The
Belgian government decamped to a
safer spot, Ostend on the channel.
In at least four places, the Ger
mans had pierced the French Magi-
not line extension, back of the Bel
gian border. DR.. Robert Ley, the
not very Nordic Nazi minister of Ia
Dor, announced that the German
army was performing a "God-given
natural mission" The Field Grays,
he added, intended to make the
world ''happy and reasonable" But
the French refused to be happy,
and the English were certainly not
feeling reasonable. In desperation.
the English Churchill government
began to WOO Russia with a new
and more friendly approach"-Rus-
STA, the recent "red beast" that VIC
timized brave little Finland. Mean
while, the United States and the 20
Latin American states went on rec
ord with an official denunciation OF
Germany's invasion of Holland and
Belgium. Harsh observers branded
the Joint resolve as a Uruguayan
publicity stunt" And in France, a
cabinet reshuffle found the hero OF
Verdun in the last World war, Henri
Philippe Petain, named as vice pre-
mier to Premier Paul Reynaud.
Bull on Spot
John Bull, said critics, was on the
spot. The state department warned
1000 Americans to get out of Brit
ain, and stay out, and ordered them
to 60 to the peaceful, prosperous
Irish Free State. It was indicated
that a Yankee rescue ship would
fish the u. S. refugees out OF the
emerald Fire. But many Ameri-
cans refused to leave ]. Bull.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Annual Garden Pilgrimage Starts
Today In Wilmington And Kinston
MISS L COWPER,
C. C. C~HADBOURN, JR.,
WE'D IN

The following announcements have
been received in the city and will
be read with much interest:
MI. and Mrs. William Reddick Cowper
announce the marriage of their
daughter
Delza Grey
to
Mr.. Charles Cumston Chadbourn,
on Saturday, the twenty-third
of March nineteen hundred
and forty
Charleston, South Carolina
At Home
1922 Park Drive
Raleigh, North Carolina
The ceremony vas solemnized at
the home Of the brides uncle in
Charleston, S. C. Only immediate
members of the family were present
at the ceremony.
Mr.. Chadbourn is the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. C. C. chadbourE. of AL
bany, N. Y, and formerly Of Will.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Mrs. Emily Henry Bush Will Give
An Illustrated Lecture Thursday

On Thursday evening, March %.
at $50 o'clock in the Gilmour Hall
of the First Presbyterian church
Mrs. Emily Henry Bush, of Brook
llne, Mass, is to present an illus
trated lecture around the Year
with a Color Camera" before the
Cape Fear Garden club. Mrs. Bush
has the honor of being official pho
tographer of the City of Boston for
the preservation of New England
Antiquities and the Trustees of Pub.
lie Restoration of Massachusetts,.
Her direct color slides, which she
takes, have been pronounced by ex-
perts as being among the best. She
mas lectured before distinguished
societies and organizations, among
them being the Massachusetts Hor-
ticultural society, the public library
OF the City of Boston, Bay State
Historical league and the Women's
City club OF Boston, as well as mum.
erous garden clubs throughout New
England and New York state.
Mrs. Bush will take her audience
in an armchair trip through the
various colorful seasons, Washing.
ton in Cherry blossom time, pic.
turesque and rugged New England
coast, its old time wharves, fishing
villages, sane dunes, artist colonies
and the White mountains of New
Hampshire are among the various
points visited. She will conclude
with the spectacular brilliance of
New England in her fall foliage.
The public is cordially invited to
attend and a silver offering will
be taken at the dooJ
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Mrs. Newman and Mr.. Bluethenthal
Winners In Country Club Tourney

Robert H. Tate, J.. P. Herring, Jr.,
Mrs. David S. Harriss, Tom Cobb,
Mss Shirley Morris, C. B. Parmele,
Mrs. L. P. Davis, Captain y. P.
Davis, Mrs. C. B. Parme,e.
Luncheon guests We're: Mr.. and
Mrs. George Kidder, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hargrove Bellamy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Strange, Mrs. ]. D. Sprunt,
Mrs. Walter Storm, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Irving Corbett, Miss Alice Walk
er, Mrs. Ben M. Washburn, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Macmillan, Mrs. Ro-
berta S. Hardin, Glenn Holt, of Bur-
lington, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard B.
G~wathmey, Mrs. Alex Sprunt, Miss
Elizabeth Nets, Mrs. Sarah Snipes,
of Raleigh, Mrs. Henry Emerson,
Michael Brown, Miss Monimia Mac.
Rae, Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon Rorison,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rumsey Mar
vim, Jr., of New York City, Mr.. and
Mrs. John C. Borden, of New York
City, Mr.. and Mrs. R. C. deRosset,
of Raleigh, Henry Macmillan, Mrs.
George G. Carey, of Baltimore, Md,
Mr.. and Mrs. clayton Bellamy, Will
liam I. Corbett, MI. and Mrs. George
Thomas. DR.. and Mrs. Steele, of
Pittsburgh, Mrs. Horace Emerson,
MI. and Mrs. C. B, Parmele, Mrs.
Thomas Davis, Captain and Mrs. L..
P. Davis, Mrs. Oscar Peck, Mrs. c..
D. Hogue, Mrs. William P. Emer-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Rinaldo B. Page,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Kidd, Jr., Rye
Page, Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Bluethenthal, Mr.. and Mrs. Harriss
Newman, Mrs. Miles Cary. Mrs. John
T. Hoggard, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Cavenaugh, Mrs. Herbert Brand, of
Kingsport, Tenn, Mr.. and Mrs. D.
M. Darden, Miss Marion Darden,
Miss Alice Ochs, Miss Sarah Lou
Baber, Of Oklahoma City, Okla, Miss
Isabel James, William Simon, Alan
Marshall, Miss Eta Burt Warren,
of Trenton, Miss Jean Hall, John
VESSEL, Mr.. and Mrs. George Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert F. Perry, L. L.
DosS, and others.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Sorosis Will
Hold Meeting
Thursday Night
Miss Hattie S. Parrot, of Ra-
leigh, Will Be Guest Speak
er at Session

. The educational department of
North Carolina Sorosis will hold it's
final meeting of the year Thursday
evening, March %, at 8 o'clock at
the Sorosis clubhouse on North Third
street.
Guest speaker Of the evening will
be Miss Hattie S. Parrot. OF the in
structional division of the state de-
partment of education, Raleigh. Miss
PARROT Travelled extensively in the
Scandinavian countries las. sumner
for The purpose of observing in both
the public and private schools. A
program of Scandinavian music will
be rendered by Mrs. Eric Norden
assisted by Mrs. Vernon Avery, Mrs.
o. o. HUMPHREYS and Carroll Riddle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27

One Of the most enjoyable events
held this season was the Easter
Monday luncheon and golf tourne-
/. INT given at the Cape Fear Coun-
try club.
Luncheon was served at attrac-
lively decorated tables at 1870
o'clock and following lunch a mixed
two-ball foursome golf match was
held on the club links. Winners in
the tourney were Herbert Bluethen-
thai and Mrs. Harris Newman,
who wei presented the lovely sill
yer B. r. Cameron trophy; Mr.. and
Mrs l.. NJ. Williams were runner
up; low gross award went to Clark
James and Miss Elizabeth Nets,
Blind DOGGY prize was tied for ~
Clark James and Miss Elizabeth
Nets and W. D. Macmillan and
Miss Margaret Macmillan; the pri''
for low puts was AWARDED to Miss
Elizabeth Nets and Clark James.
Low prize was won by Miss Rosalie
Walters and James Carr.
Those playing in the tournamen,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin M.
Washburn, MI. and Mrs. Robert VI.
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Hargrove
Bellamy, Clark James. Miss Eliza
beth Metts. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
B. Gwathmey, Fred Little, Mrs.
Herbert Brand, C. S. Morse, Mrs.
H~rbert Cavenaugh. L. L. Doss,
Mrs. George Kidder, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert f. Perry, William Irdell Cor
bet, Miss Susan Carr. ]. w. Nor
ton, Miss Aggie Morton, Herbert
Bluethentha,, Mrs. Harriss New
man, Carroll Koonce, Mrs. George
Rountree, Jr., T. J.. Kidd Jr., Mrs.
George Stearns, Michael c. Brown,
Mrs. Henry Emerson, James u.
Carr, Miss Rosalie Waters, Bryan
Broadfoot, Miss Daisy Lee Wood
bury, w. D.. Macmillan, Miss Mar
garet Macmillan, Joe Fox, Jr., Miss
frances Lynch, Robert Strange, ST..
Ms. Walter Storm, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
PERSONALS

Mrs. George G. Carey and three
sons left Monday night for their
home in Baltimore, Nd, after spend
ing Easter with Mrs. Carey's par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Elliott,
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Borden left
yesterday for their home in New
York City, after spending Easter
in the city.
Miss Alice Ochs has as her guest,
Miss Sarah Lou Baber, of Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Mrs. John S. Jervis, Of Detroit,
is visiting her family in the city.
Mrs. Jervis is the former Miss AIDE.
laide Worth, of this city.
Miss Betty Lytton has as her guest
at her home in Sunset Park, Miss
Audrey Johnson, of Asheville.
Rye Page, Jr., and Billy Willis, of
Norfolk, Va, who was his house
guest owe the Easter holidays, left
Monday for Alexandria, Va, to re.
sumo their studies at the Episcopal
High school.
Miss Isabel Sparrow and Miss
Louise Ewing left yesterday for
Staunton, Va, after spending the
holidays here with relatives.
Miss Hortense Finkelstein and
Miss Esther Hendlar, Of Kingston,
N. Y, have left for College Park,
Md. to resume their studies at the
University of Maryland, after spend.
ing the holidays here with Miss
F1nkelstein's parents in Forest Hills.
Friends of Mrs. Mary S. Willing
ham will be glad to learn that her
condition is improved following an
attack of influenza.
Miss Helen Savage has returned
to Winston-Salem to her
studies at Salem college, after
spending the Easter holidays with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
DRAMATIC CLUB OF
HIGH SCHOOL WILL
STAGE PLAY FRIDAY

The three-act comedy apron
String Revolt will be presented Fri
day night by the New Hanover Thes-
plans, the dramatic club of the High
school.
Each of the four classes is rep
resented in the well chosen cast OF
thirteen.
Harry McGirt and Hazel Harris,
both freshmen, play the important
roles of David and Mary Lou. Ac-
cording to reports, these two stud
ents are doing so we'll in rehearsals
that they are expected to do much
towards making the play n of the
most enjoyable comedies presented
recently in the city.
Eloise Bethel, a senior, plays
realistically the part of Elizabeth
Holt, the youthful mother of David,
The character of AnnaDelle, her
friend, is ably enacted by Jane Lewis,
who is no stranger to the Whining
ton stage, having appeared N the
feminine lead in last years Junior
play and the one act plays entered
for the past two years in the state
play production contest. Another
senior, Gillian Horton, will be seen
as the Economically inclined football
coach, Henry Fernstermacher.
Cast in a minor role, is Billy Small,
who will be we'll remembered for
his Characterization of Andy Hardy
in the Italians fall production of
"The Hardy Family. jamie Skipper,
who plays Il : part of the newspaper
woman, has also appeared with the
Thalians, having given IN outstand-
ing performance in "a Servant In
The House."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
WILMINGTON MORNING star, WILMINGTON, n: G:
LOVELY BRIDGE PARTY
GIVEN IN

WALLACE, March &c. Mrs.
Everett Stout was hostess at one
of the loveliest parties of the
Easter season when she entertain
ed at twelve tables of bridge at
the Community club on Wednes-
day evening.
The entire hall was beautifully
decorated with spring flowers in
pink yellow and white. Tallies and
other party appointments were in
keeping with the season.
Mrs. Harry Kramer was given a
potted Easter lily as high score
prize and Mrs. J. W. Hoffler, a re-
cent bride, was remembered with
a gift. Each guest was given a
sweetheart rose buttonaire.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs.
Graham Wells, Jr., and Miss Anne
Carter served ice cream, individual
cakes, and nuts to Miss Jean Nor
ton, Mrs. Dave Pierce, Mrs. James
Powell, Mrs. J.. M. Teachey, Mrs.
Allen Boney, Mrs. Clute Rivenbark,
Miss Ira Stevenson, Mrs. Steve
Mallard, Mrs. Alvin Thompson,
Mrs. r. J. Hursey, Mrs. Bob Brow
der of Warsaw, Mrs. Wilton Riv-
EMBARK, Mrs. Edward Sloan Wells,
Mrs. R. NJ. Browder, Mrs. Robert
Carr, Mrs. w. M. R~ivenbark. Jr.,
Mrs. Deane Jundley, Mrs. John
Sheffield, Mrs. Jimmy Johnston,
Mrs. Jerry Switzerland, Mrs. D.
D. Blanchard, Mrs. Marcy Liber-
man, Mrs. Harry Kramer, Mrs. W.
G. Wells, Mrs. E. r. Alderman,
Mrs. Jack Parker, Mrs. P. ]. eau
dell, Mrs. Carey Caudell, Miss
Frances Benson, Mrs. Glenn Roll
Inns of Warsaw, Mrs. Clifton
Knowels, Mrs. Finley Carr. Mrs.
Gorden Jones, M s. ]. w. Hoffler,
Mrs. Lee Dees, Mrs. Roy Carter.
Mrs. Almond Carter, Mrs. Hugh
Morrison, Mrs. Lawrence Cave
nuugh, Mrs. Jack Kirkland, Mrs.
Norwood Vann, Mrs. Roy Cave
naugh, Mrs. Joe Bryant, Mrs. Har-
ry Eisenberg, Mrs. Gertrude Coop
er, Mrs. Sam Bloom, Mrs. Ora
ham Wells, Jr., and Miss Anne
Carter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
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