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FORECAST

Till 100 p m, Saturday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday. pos
Sibly q few scattered showers
Saturday: gentle TO moderate
variable winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy tonight
and Saturday; possibly a few
scattered showers Saturday.
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WEATHER
BUREAU REPORT

Observation taken at 7:30 a. m.
18th Mer. Time City Office
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vs.
LEONARD JUSTICE.
Defendant
ORDER zen PU BLTCATBON
To: leonard Justice,
Residence Unknown
You are hereby ordered aud d.
reeted 10 be and appear 80 the
Plaintiffs Bill Of Complaint for
Divorce herein on OF before the Fad
day OF September. 1850. AZ rhe Of
flee OF the Clerk of said Court. IN
the City Of Key West. Monroe
County. Florida otherwise q decree
pro confessO viii be entered against
you
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fore said date once each week fer
four consecutive weeks IN The Key
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Dated this 1ss day 81 Aug. A. -
1890
(SEALD Ross c SAWYER
Clerk of Circuit Court. Monroe
C01Hty. FloE8da-
BY tSd.D Florence L sawyer.
Deputy Cierk.
e Paul Beatty.
Attorney FOR Plaintiff
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IL THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
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Wind Direction and Velocity
SW-8 miles per hour
Relative Humidity
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Record of pitchers in E both
leagues follow:
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Feller and HemSIey; Kennedy,
Mills, Coffman and Swift, Susce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
An Arena Would Help

The estimate of 1000 spectators at the soft
ball games on Thursday night, when the fld
at Robert Strange Fairgrounds was food-light-
ed for the first time, is probably correct, al
though that count can hardly have taken in
the persons along Ann street or the many
others who roasted on car bumpers and fend-
ers along the western sector of the outfeld.
Probably there were an additional thousand
in these areas, but the estimate as reported IS
sufficient to give Wilmingtonians who had not
realized the popularity of the miniature imlta-
ton of baseball an idea of it's hold upon the
sports-loving segment of the population.
Furthermore, it indicates that Wilmington
wants sports, especially sports of the strenuous
type, where there is activity and uncertainty
and the perpetual prospect of a thrill; where
young bodies are exerting all their reserves of
strength and nerve and skill in stirring COM
petition; where minds find relief
and eyes too accustomed to pouring over dis
patches from Europe may sparkle with the
emotions that stem from spectacular perform
ance.
Wilmington's builders, the men and women
who devote their time and their thinking to
ways and means for making a better city, may
find in this ample reason for believing that
among the major needs of their beloved city
is an arena for athletic contests which will
offer not only the best that can be devised for
the contests themselves but for the comfort OF
the spectators-such an arena as Father Man
ley envisioned. An athletic arena, in which
sports of most sorts can be conducted and
which in addition could accommodate all man.
ner of conventions and gatherings, would be
an asset of the prime value.
The four thousand of more persons who at
tended Thursday nights soft ball games, Tor
example, could find seats in a Manley arena,
instead of having to break their backs and
tire their knees while standing or squatting
on the ground. Perhaps it could not be used
for soft ball. We are unable to say that 1t
could or could not. But for track events, for
boxing, wrestling, tennis and a dozen other
strenuous sports it would afford ideal accom-
incidentally, and until such time as it is
possible to construct an arena, it is not in the
spirit of criticism tina we suggest a few more
seats in the totally inadequate stands at the
Robert Strange playground would be a welcome
gift to a sports-conscious people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13

the tide of attack. There has been some pro-
gress by the British in Gripping Germany's
supplies behind the lines on the continent, but
it would be a blessed relief to those whose
sympathies are with her to read that her fiers
had wrecked Germany's great airplane fac
tories in a counter attack of mator Importance.
Thus far England has fought the war, in
the main, defensively. Her one major offensive
has been the French fleet seizure-a magnifi-
cent demonstration of determination to thwart
the enemy. But otherwise England's strategy
has been directed to resistance of attack. If
she could strike a serious blow on the contin-
ent, a Gripping blow that would incapacitate
Germany's production of warplanes, h e e
would be more reason to believe that she will
emerge victor in the Battle of England, now
in the drumfre stage.
And her ultimate victory would be the better
assured, also, if she could maneuver the Ital-
ian fleet into battle position and crush it, as
her Mediterranean fleet is capable of doing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Rumanian Oil

Rumanian blockade of so British tankers in
the Danubian area emphasizes the growing
importance of petroleum and of the Rumanian
are not to be permitted to leave with cargoes
for British destinations, nor is there to be any
transfer of stock in British oil companies
operating in Rumania. Adolf Hitler is, deter
mined that Rumania's gasoline shall power
his tanks and planes, and his alone. Not even
his good friend Stain is to share in it. Does
this, perhaps, show that Germany's petroleum
supplies are ebbing, or only that the Nazi
chief is smart enough to know that Rumanian
oil in British or Russian hands would cripple
him, possibly beyond repair, later on?
Whatever it means, it is obvious that he has
the, upper hand over Rumanian supplies, and
that the new government at Bucharest, which
was instituted at King Carols behest, will
carry out his orders to the last detail. n
Stain wants Rumanian petroleum he must
seize it at peril Of starting a war with the
Nazis, and if England wants it she must find
a way of getting it out of the county over stiff
opposition.
The Rumanian government has collected a
fraction of the output of Britishs wells and is
turning it over to the Nazis. But the quantity
involved was only Rumania's price for priv
lege given British operators to do business
within her borders. Now, it appears, not only
this but probably the entire production will go
to the 1t is even unlikely the British
will be able to fire any stored gasoline or
wreck their wells. They nave been deported.
1t is not the least Of Hitler's cunning that he
has thus prepared to fuel attack on Eng
land with gasoline from English-owned wells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Red Cross Quota Topped

1t is with gratitude to the donors that the
Wilmington chapter of the American R e d
Cross announces the refugee relief fund goal
as been reached, and it is a source of deep
satisfaction to all Wilmingtonians to know that
despite the many demands for contributions
and the difficulty most earners experience in
keeping ahead of the collectors of bills, the
total set for this community is in hand, and
even exceeded by a few dollars.
The achievement is the more notable be
cause the %origninial sum requested, $500 had
to be doubled as the havoc of war spread
throughout Holland, Belgium and France.
There is, indeed, reason for Wilmington to be
proud of it's contribution to this humanitarian
cause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Capable In Air

The British air force is giving a good account
of itself in the persistent raids conducted over
England by enemy warplanes. It may claim
a victory in the one large engagement aloft,
when the number of German losses may well
have been a hundred planes destroyed or dis
abled. Each dispatch from London telling of
air battles shows that the British fiers are a
match for the foe and in most cases down
many more enemy planes than they them
selves lose. This is evidence of British skill in
the air and British organization for defense,
no less than of British determination to make
invasion a task which even Adolf Hitler may
undertake with misgivings.
But it must be acknowledged that the losses
British air power has thus far succeeded in
imposing upon the enemy are exceedingly
small in comparison with the total air power
under Hitler's command. The few planes shot
down daily over England do not offset Ger
many's daily production of new planes. They
mean only that Germany is unable to increase
her warplane reserves as rapidly as she could
if there were no losses. But they do not mean
England is materially Gripping. Hitler's air
power.
1t also means that England will have to find
means for coping with the enemy output OF
planes as well as those aloft, If she is to stem
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
COUNTY PROFITS
BUT CITY LOSES
New Hanover Makes Mon
ey From Operation OF
Recorders Court

The county of New Hanover made
money out of the operation of re-
corder's court during the past year,
but it cost the City of Wilmington,
figures released in the office of John
A. Orrell, county auditor, show.
Actually the receipts Of the court
from costs, fines and Jail fees
amounted to $~13,947.67 while ex-
penses amounted to only $9,711.61.
But fines received do not enter
into the picture when the county
divides the cost of operation of the
court with the city, nor does the
salary of the clerk come into the
picture.
But when the salary of the clerk
($2,220) is deducted from the total
expenses it leaves a balance of ST.
491.61 whereas when the fines ST..
500. 06) are deducted from the re-
ceipts, it leaves a balance Of only
$6,438, leaving a deficit for division
with the city of $1,O53.
Among the items of expense shown
is hauling, storage, ETC., slot ma
chimes" $3.50. Money found in slot
machines is divided half to the ar.
resting officers and half to the AS.
ISOLATED Charities, the court footing
the bills of expense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Fingerprinting Endorsed

The campaign of junior chambers of COM
cree for general fingerprinting has the en-
dorsement of the North Carolina Association of
identification.
If fngerprinting was compulsory, it is be-
lievable that safety, justice and national Sc
curity would be advanced.
At present it is customary to fingerprint
under compulsion only captured crimi
ais. Some private citizens, recognizing the ad-
vantage to themselves, offer their prints for
record. But uncaptured criminals and unde-
sirab1es steer carefully clear of the little linked
pads.
It is not unreasonable to think that with
compulsory fingerprinting the authorities
would be able to put their hands on many per-
sons whose freedom is against the best inter-
ests of the community and of peace. Many in
dividuals sought by the government either be-
cause of unpublished crimes or of reasonable
activities could be rounded up and put away
And this is a period in which it is essential
that all criminal elements and all who en-
gage in subsersive operations be placed und-
err restraint.
For the private citizen, fingerprinting can be
helpful in many ways, of which mistaken iden-
tity is but one. Many amnesia victims might be
identified and restored to their families at
once. thus eliminating heartache at home and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD - July IL - Con-
tract, contract. -. They all want
'em, and sometimes they get 'em.
Mary Martin didn't - not at
first. -. They thought her sign
ing was all right but after they
tested her they suggested (oh,
t%actfully) that she'd be better on
the air where she couldn't be seen,
or on the stage where distance
could lend enchantment. So
Mary took it like a trouper, and
followed their advice. A n d
every night, on the stage, her heart
belonged to daddy, so they brought
her back-and now she's one of
the scren's beauties, and the man
she married Orchard Halliday, the
story boss) was one Of those who
advised her to 60 away where
she could be heard but not seen! .
Virginia Gilmore didn't either
not at first. She was a Univer-
sity of California student, set on
drama, and she was going to New
York to hit the stage when Sam
Goldwyn's offices called and invit-
ed her for a test. But when
she arrived they tok one look at
her and said, No, No! She was
overweight and there were
Strengthening braces on her teeth.
When she saw Goldwyn personal
ly, however, he signed her up. She
reduced, finished with the
dental braces, and found they had
left her with a lisp. She studied
with a diction teacher to shed
that, and she still didn't have a
role. She got publicity as the pos
SCISSOR of the most beautiful
legs 'and also as a shop girl who
made good as a star. (She says
she worked in a store once dur
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
WASHINGTON-July

12.-AnSWering the
mail orders:
Mrs. j. 7. K, Indianapolis-In spite of all
those stories you have read, the United States
fleet still is in the far Pacific and is likely
occurs in Atlantic defense conditions.
G. T., Rutherford, N. J.-Your old friend
and brother in the bond, Jimmy Aswen, is out
for the congressional race in Natchitoches. La
and it looks at this printing as though he would
be around these parts soon after the first of the
year. He was one of the principal platform
ramrods in the fight against the old (and de.
feated Long Machine. Since then the winds
that drift up from the southland have been
bringing me consistent reports of Jimny's
candidacy. If Jimmy comes up this way after
the first OF the year, guess we'll have to have
a get-together and talk of the time you wrote
a glowing column about what a swell guy
Jimmy Aswel is and some South Carolina
editor Cor was it Virginia) got confused and
ran it under a head that said by James As
WELL" They tell me Jimmy still keeps the
Pullman shades down when he goes through
that city.
II. M. L., Dallas, Tex.-You query about
II that gold that's stuck in a hole down in
Kentucky not only has your humble corre-
spondent guessing, but all the best economists
and money theorists around here as well, I'm
trying to find out, but it's beginning to look
as though III have to get a Phi. D., a thesaurus
and couple of Morgan partners on my side
before I can even discuss it. . . And even then
I'll have to write above the column: The facts
contained herein bear no resemblance to any
thing living or dead.
.. 7 ID Con- n;o~o C,n:c D..zJ IT. ,ooe
popular vote, Wendell L. Millkie would have
to swing a little more than 5000, 900 votes
that went for Roosevelt and hold the 1900, 900
votes considered Republican under any cir
curnstances. The sidelines guessers here now
are saying that Mr.. Wilkie probably will get
a lot of normally Democratic votes (being so
recently a Democrat HIMSELF, but for that
very reason probably will lose some of the
ordinarily die-hard Republicans. Personally, 1
think it's a little too early to tell about any
of these supposed trends. The Political picture,
based as it is almost entirely on the foreign
situation plus the shifting whim of the Ameri-
can voter. can change a half dozen times be-
tween now and November but it is any,
body's guess at the moment as to what it is
going to change from.
r.. E.. B., Joplin, Mo.-Thanks for the tip on
the Admiral Dewey report at the navy de-
pa lIIleHI. 1He department generously is work.
ing on it for me and if I uncover any more
minor or major prophets on modern warfare,
will be sure to let you know.
Mrs. d. C.. L., Denver, Colo.-I think I can
assure you that the government is not devoting
ALL it's time to rearmament and overlooking
the possibilities of the trade war which may
result when the European battles are over.
My bunch is that the first big hint of how
much time is being devoted to it will come
out of the Pan-American conference at Ha-
vana.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13

ing Christmas holidays.) She final
ly got a role in Manhattan Heart
beat" new version of Bad Girl
and now is doing "Laddie."
MAUREEN O'HARA did-she
three of 'em. -. Harry Richman
saw her in an Abbey Theater
school production, and met her at
a party afterward Richmand
recommended her to a British film
company for testing-and the letter
inviting her to London came on
the same day that she was offered
her first lead with the Abbey play
r -. She went to London, was
tested, and won two contracts Of
fers-but she didn't like their terms
and declined. Before she left
for home again, however, she
met Charles Laughton, and h e
contract he offered put her in
HollyWood-to 'Hunchback of Not
re Dame and "A Bill of Divorce.
ment" and Dance, Girl, Dance.
Ralph Belamy did-for all the
good it did him. . :. . Bellamy
came from midwest stock a n d
railshows to Broadway in 1881, and
he clicked. Right away he got
a contract, carrying salary for 80
weeks out of So He went to
HOLLYWOOD on borroWedmoney and
met his lay-off period, a solid run
of % weeks, stone-broke. The
day his pay was to have started,
the studio cancelled his contract.
-. And so he went to work, as
a free-lancer (non-contract player)
in The Secret Six" and started
paying off his debts. AS a fire.
lancer he rarely if ever gets the
girl Che does get" Maureen
But he gets the calls from the
directors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Star-News Program

Consolidated City.County Government
under CouncilManager Administrations
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Fucilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrtghtsviM
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel. 1otd'
err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern a
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, ptd
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial n Resort Pro-
motional Agency. supported by one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for achites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0rowin9
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
liz Aliens Register
With Clerk OF Court

With July %, the date when New
Hanover superior court will open
again in criminal session, drawing
near, aliens in New Hanover county
are rushing to register with the
clerk of superior court to avoid
prosecution.
After the grand jury at the last
session recommended enforcement of
the Bolich alien registration act,
District Solicitor David Sinclair an.
nounced that any known alien in
the county who is not registered by
the time court opens this month
will be presented to the grand jury
for Indictment.
To date, a check of the records
Of the office of T. A. Henderson,
clerk of court, show, 112 aliens
have registered since Sinclair's an.
nouncement. Prior to that time less
than SO had registered IN the -
years the law had been in effect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Sullivan Named Head
OF Newspaper Guild

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 12- Up -
With New York city's big vote block
the deciding margin, the American
Newspaper Guild today reelected two
paid officers who had been accused
of inefficiency and maladministration
and chose 29-year-old Donald Sulli.
van of Boston as president.
The officers under fire from an
anti-administration faction were
executive Vice-President Milton
kaufman and Secretary-Treasurer
Victor Pasche. Kaufman beat Max
ways OF Philadelphia, and Pasche
defeated I. l.. Kenen of Cleveland.
Both votes were IS is to As As,
with New York casting its % ballots
for the winning candidates.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles

News

Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., presiding over the
current term of Forsyth county Superior court,
has evolved what a Winston-Salem Journal re-
porter term 'jail-therapy' for treatment of
drunken drivers who are convicted in his court.
Specifically Judge Pless is reported as say
ing: Every man who pleads guilty to driving
drunk, or is convicted, should spend a few
days in a Jail to see what the inside of a jail
looks like when he is sober and to mediate
upon the menace his act has been to the
public His honor forthwith sent two defend
ants, father and son, off to jail for a few
days of this treatment, indicating, as our W
City contemporary Celebrates, that the same
procedure shall (wilD be applied to those
cases wherein the defendant is permitted to
pay a fine That seems to make the situation
such that no convicted or admittedly drunken
driver will escape the jail-house meditation.
Judge Pless' prescription is O. K. by US
anything is that keeps 'em off the roads as
drivers-we're ready to applaud just about
any and all steps taken to thwart the drunken
driving menace. But we do find our thoughts
reverting to the divergent approach whlch
members of the judiciary have to this pro-
blem and the verying degree OF flrmness or
laxity which they manifest in dealing with it.
Judge Pless proposes to give these offenders
what's coming to them when he has the op-
portunity. But, thus forewarned, how many
drunken drivers with any legal advice or any
appreciable gumption of their own, do y o u
reckon will let their cases come before this
particular jurist? A few unfortunate and I'M
advised of the lower stratum may take the
Jail treatment as promised; but the lawyers
themselves, you know, have a way of obtain
ing c~ontinuances, come a judge before whom
they'd prefer their client not to be arranged.
Something resembling university OF treat
ment is eminently in order, for higher courts
0nl 1ouy And Vn4 J>~3% ~Nnan a niyyar r
which adheres to the minimum punishment
under the law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-13
Is Youths Enlisted
Here For Army Service

Thirteen young men from South
eastern North Carolina enlisted for
service with army units in Panama
and at Camp jackson, S. c., dur
ing the past week at the Whining
ton district office of the army re-
cruiting service, Sergeant S. W. D.
Bennett reported Thursday.
They include: Fred Barefoot, 26,
son of Mrs. Florence Barefoot, OF
Hallsboro, quartermaster corps in
Panama; Dewey L. Hilbourn, 10, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Barcey Hilbourn,
of Tabor City, eighth quartermaster
battalion, Camp jackson.
Chesley D.. Harris, Is, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Harriss, of Wal
lace, infantry headquarters MP COM
pany, Camp Jackson; David Thomp-
son, 18, o of Joe Thompson, of
Chadbourn, eighth quartermaster
battalion, Camp Jackson.
The following enlisted for the field
artillery, eighth division, Camp Jack
son: Paul D. Cartrette, Is, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. M. C%artrette, of
Tabor City; Charlie N. Lewis, %,
of Mr.. and Mrs. B. N. Lewis,
of route three, Jacksonville; Ru-
dolph W. Russell, IS, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. W. F. Russell, of 922
South Third street; James H. Bats,
%, son of 7. M. Bats, of Maple
Hill.
Guy Taylor, 10, son of Mrs. Kate
Quinn, of Trenton; Robert L. Eb-
ron, 10, son of Mrs. Eula Enron,
of Trenton; Norden Edwards, p,
son of Rufus M. Edwards, of Ash:
James W. Burney, 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. M. C. Burney, of Cerro
and John A. Vernon, IS, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Vernon. of
306 South Sixth street.