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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Ocean Terrace Addition

There has been heard hereabouts some do
lorous complaint of a poor season at Wrights-
Vile Beach. Crowds have not been arriving as
anticipated. Business is bad. The bottom has
dropped out of the resort business, and we're
goint to pot, as sure as death. Thus goes the
refrain. And it may be true that some persons
at Wrightsville who had counted on making a
fortune in a single season have been disap-
pointed.
But the owner and manager of the Ocean
Terrace hotel, Mrs. John A. Snyder announces
that as soon as this season closes she will add
SO rooms to the hotel and make interior i'm
provements which will vastly increase its de-
STABILITY for guests, conventions, dances and
other activities.
The convention hall will accommodate 600.
There viii be a roof garden. Dancing will be
isolated sufficiently to assure quiet for guests
not participating. The additions will give the
structure the shape of an III and all new
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
A Poor Choice

It is no reflection on the party loyalty OF this
newspaper to admit that it feels the nomina-
ton of Henry Wallace for the vice presidency
was inadvisable and may prove a heavy handl-
cap upon President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt is an astute politician. He
usually moves only when he knows that the
step he takes is to lead him nearer whatever
soal he seeks. Probably he had a very good
reason, from his viewpoint, for asking the
Chicago convention to give him Mr.. Wallace
as a running mate. But for all this, we cannot
believe his judgment was either good or sound.
Mr.. Wallace is a hard worker and for seven
years has done his best to put american agri-
culture on a firm foundation. He has met some
success. But at the same time he has aroused
strong antagonism among some groups of far
mers especially in the mid-western grain belt
and in sugar-producing areas. The fact that he
is on the ticket with Mr.. Roosevelt, whose
popularity with the masses still is mistaken,
cannot overcome this handicap. Instead of
bringing new support to the presidential candi-
date, he is more likely to divert support from
him..
AS the balloting went forward at Chicago it
was apparent that the convention wanted
either McNutt or Bankhead. Only by great eff
fort were the Roosevelt leaders ablt to put Wal
lace across. The party would have been better
off today, we believe, if the convention had
been permitted to use it own judgment in Sc
lecting a vice presidential candidate. AS the
matter stands, Mr.. Roosevelt will win, not be-
cause Wallace's name is coupled with his, but
in spite of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Norfolk Dredging Co.
Awarded Roanoke job

The Norfolk Dredging company
yesterday was awarded a contract
for dredging 1,248, 900 cubic yards
of material from the Roanoke river
at 1913 cents per cubic yard or
$134, 805. go, the Wilmington dis
trict army engineer office report
ed.
The awarding of contract was
authorized by the South Atlantic
divisional headquarters office of
the U. S. army engineer corps in
Richmond, Va.
Project work will start within
the next two or three weeks and
will include: the existing 10 by $50
foot channel to be deepened to II
feet at ordinary mean low water
from the IL foot contour at Abe
marie Sound and thence upstream
into the Roanoke river to a point
about a mile above the Town of
Plymouth, an aggregate distance
of 10, 300 feet or nearly four miles.
Dredging operations will also
comprise the restoration of a
channel nearby to a depth of ten
feet at local mean low level and
a width of 100 feet for approx
mately $500 feet and provision for
a new channel eight feet deep and
80 feet wide and a cutoff of like
dimensions from Hamilton to
Palmyra, an aggregate distance
of 43, 845 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Loss For Port Board

Bruce Cameron's resignation from the port
commission is understandable. His public
services have been so much in demand that his
private business has suffered, and he finds it
necessary to relinquish some of his posts in Or
der to give more time to the task of maintain
ing his business at it's customary high level.
If men of MIR. Cameron's ability we're only
capable of doing a great many things at once
with equal efficiency, the port commission need
not now seek a successor.
His resignation will be a distinct loss to the
commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Operation Case Takes
Up Recorders Session

A case involving a charge oil
operation of an automobile while
under the influence of intoxicants
consumed the majority of the ses.
sion of recorders court yesterday.
In it H. B. Martin, of Mt. Olive,
who was also charged with carry.
ing g concealed weapon, W a s
found not guilty on the latter
charge but guilty of the former.
He was fined $50 and the costs
and his license was ordered re.
voked for one year.
In cross warrants Gladys Reed,
ZIG Browns alley, and Ernest
Shannon, ITO Browns alley, were
convicted of assault with a dead.
ly weapon and assault with a dead.
ly weapon upon a female, respect.
lively, and were given 80 days each
on the county farm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Bittner Asserts Lewis
For F. R., Third Term

MORGANTON. VIVA. July 23.-
LP-Van A. Bittner, n of the
CLIO high command, declared to-
day that CLIO President John L.
Lewis really is for President Roose-
welt for a third term.
Bittner, president of district II
of the United Mine Workers and
leaders of the Steel Workers organ
izing drive in the midwest, told
the convention of the West Virginia
Industrial union council (CIO):
John L. Lewis is going to do
what you and I and everyone else
r going to do. We know that
President Roosevelt has done more
for us than all the other Presidents
before him."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
BY Robbis Coons-

HOLLYWOOD-July pa cox
umn of names and a column Of
figures.
Big names, big figures. Colossal
figures. The annual federal report
of incomes-for 1888, this time.
Louis B. Mayer made more
than $500, 900 and topped everybody
else in the country. Claudette Col
bert made more than $500, 900 anc
surpassed every other woman. Shir
ley Temple still was making more
than the President.
1t got talked about in Holly
wood, too, just as it did over your
own dinner tablet you h a d {
dinner table, and if you didn't III
bet it got talked about plenty.
In Hollywood you heard com,
ments like these:
well, if that guy is worth
5000, 900 I'm cock-eyed-and l am
cockeyed. Hey, waiter!'
II don't begrudge Mayors take.
After all, he's the boy who keeps
the plant going and did the or
ganizing and does the main wor'
rying.'
"They oughta publish how much
the movie people pay in taxes as
long as they're publishing W h a
they make-and let the public know
what they put out in charity, in
helping relatives, in spreading en-
ployment."
"And what they put out for race
horses, too, eh?"
well, even race horses spread
employment"
cts the big money stars that
get me. They're lucky-they just
happen to be the way they are,
and because they're that way and
are given. the benefit of the best
writer's, the best directors, tn e
best cameramen, and the work OF
a thousand people behind tn e m
they're rolling in dough and
think they did it." (This from a
star-hater, or did you guess?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Windsors Are Expected
To Arrive In August

LIBSON, July 23.IP-The Duke
of Windsor and his American-born
duchess probably will leave early
in August for America en- route
to his new post a governor and
commandments of the BAHIA
mas, it was reported today.
One reason for the delay of the
Windsors to take up the post as
signed the Duke by his brother,
King George vi, was said to have
been the delay of their luggage
and silver coming from France.
After lunch at the Automobile
club, the Duke called at the Amer
lean legation and conferred with
the first secretary, Warden Will
son.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
CHOICE
Dothan (Ala.) Eagle

Thomas Jefferson, the father of democracy,
once said: 81 have sworn upon the altar OF Goa
eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over
the mind of man." In that statement he clear
ly pointed the way to preservation OF the Ideals
for which he stood. Long years ago this news
paper accepted that Jefferson gem as Its gulo-
ing principle, and knowingly has never aban-
doned it.
But there are times, we have found, when a
bitter choice must be made between TWO
forces, both of which are in violent conh1ct
with Jefferson's oath. Such a decision is faced
NV This newspaper today when it chooses be-
tween supporting candidates of the party OF
men who have taken every opportunity TO Veh'
their spleen upon the Southland.
Both the Republican party and the Demo
cratic party are filled to the gins with dema-
gogs, bigots, traitors to the voters ana Office
holders who would sacrifice America Itself so
long as their own selfish interests would be
served. Each is under the domination of ma
chine politicians. Each will break a campaign
pledge or platform declaration as readily ana
as unblushingly as Hitler will break a treaty.
Each has done so on innunerable occasions.
A rottener fouting of Jeffersonian principles
was never witnessed than occurred at Chlcago
when President Roosevelt shifted responsibility
for breaking the third term precedent from ms
own to the shoulders of delegates whom ne
nlayed as puppets. Of course they acclaimed
him. for they were machine-elected job-holders
or patronage agents who paid tribute to the
man who made their existence possible. Great
er tyranny over the mind of man was never
manifest. -,
Bitterly, unwillingly, we will go along win
the Democratic party, and be happy for BENG
in the company of at least some who stH az
here to the principles which made 1T great. we
select that course in the belief that from With
in there is better chance of resculng an honor
ed party from the snides who have it now than
would be possible by joining forces with snldes
of a party that has always been dedicated to
all interests so long as they were not those o.
the South.
We don't want Roosevelt again. We reich
at thoughts CT Wallace. But we feel too great
a loyalty % the South to abandon the only par
ty that has ever contributed one thing to its
recognition or its welfare, just because Its
leaders have become temporarily 'pixilated."
Damn it, we're Democrats!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Man About

By George tucker

NEW YORK-July 23-1t's tn e
little things in life that count, as
the poet said, and it's the little
things about a city, or a COM
munity, that humanize it and make
it warm and intimate and worth
while. So let's have a look at some
of the little things about New York
and its people and ways of life.
Not too far from the G 6 e
Washington Bridge, on the west
side of the river, in the woods, is
a gate that leads into a private
camp. The sign on the gate says
Camp Orak." If you spell that
name backward you get the name
of the manufacturer of a famous
brand Of syrup,
IF YOU are male and fat, or fe-
male and very, very tall, you will
be interested in two shops in New
York that cater to fat men and
tall women. Most of the clients IN
the women's shops r six feet or
over. The mems shop guarantees
satisfaction to all customers weigh
ing more than 200 pounds.
Speaking about a shop for tall
women, there is also a place IN
New York that advertises: III a S
your corset or girdle lost its per-
feet, fattering shape? We repair,
launder, resize, replace all worn
parts, completely rebuild and re-
new it all for 81. Free pickup
and delivery in Brooklyn"
Joan Crawford. on her current
visit to New York, appears more
olived-skinned than even Dolores
Del Rio, and Miss Del Rio is Mex
lean. 1t looks like an editorial
split between the Manhattan pa
pers during the coming political
campaign. AS it shapes up to-
day, four dailies are pro-Willkie,
and four are against him.
The greatest single benefit that
could come for the cramped Ne
gro population of Harlem would be
another hospital. There r some
excellent Negro doctors in Harlem,
and there is n splendid hospital,
but that one, they say isn't enough.
. Broadway is at its lowest ebb
of the season this week. It has
only II productions, five musicals,
four comedies, one serious play,
and the eternal Tobacco Road. This
is one road, apparently, that has
no turning.
One of the Broadway columns
in the NY press is under the by
line of Barclay Hudson. Barclay
Hudson isn't a person. The name
was chosen because this particular
newspaper is at Barclay and Hud-
son streets. But that's nothing. Will
lard Keefe used to write a column
under the name of Morton Irish, be-
cause he was Irish and came from
Morton, Minnesota.
Looks like old Red" L e w S
just can't get the theater bug out
of his thinning red hair. Here is
a Nobel Prize winning novelist so
nuts about grease paint that he
wants to become an actor. II like
actors" he explains. We like &C
tors. too, but we aren't going to
like Sinclair Lewis any more if
his next book isn't an improvement
over his last. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Can't. Greer Inspects
Marines Bureau Here

CAPTAIN John NJ. Greer, officer j,
charge of the Raleigh dlstrIcl n
quarters office of the u : tla'"
corps recruiting service, N0'',
inspected the local sub'sta'loH' T..
Gated on the second floor OF the PV'
office building.
Captain Greer told SergedI' ~
F. Frederiksen, local recrulIiHs Il,
ficer, that the recruiting stations :,
Southeastern North Carolina ai' ..
first place for enlisting recfli"
the Marine corps. .
Young men enlisting thfou51 81
local sub-station are of hne c"' n
said Captain Greer, who feIui"''
Raleigh late Monday alteII'o'''
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty-County Government
under CounciLMdnd0er Administration
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena Tor Sports dnd 1nd~st''d'
shoWs.
Seaside High,oay from WrfghtsrtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Ezten.ion OF City Limits.
S5.Toot Caps Fear River channel, 1td'
er Turning Basin, toith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pared Riper Road to Southport, Vdo
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc.
tion through sustdtned-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported By one.
countrywide tor.
Sh1pydrds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North CayoHno, developed around tho
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities tor sehites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF ndtivs grape 0ro1otng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sandtortnm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

haustlon, physicians psycholo-
gists and soclolcgists are beginn :.ng
t seek causes of tenseness and
technique for recuperation w h e n
one becomes too taut or irritable.
If we were living in a simple
culture, the task might be l S S
complex. Unfortunately, to the ma
tural strains of living-the earn
ing of bread, the winning of mate,
ard the ?gorc of growing old
have beed added numerous artifi-
cial strains.
The world in which we live can
only be described as chaotic, and
the problem of how individuals
struggling within it ma, attain any
degree of Exposure and stability
is a very real one. Although sociolo-
gic and economic factors may in.
fiuence the lack of itality and the
inah ty to relax, a s:eat deal OF
the responsibility for better health
and tension rests on the in.
div !ual.
ALI of us have "a hours every
day. About a third of that time
should be spent in sleep, if W c
are to maintain robust health.
Tossibly half our is waking
hours is apent in work. No one
should expect to be able to do
things for his personal health or
enjoyment during that time, but
he should be able to control his
own destiny during the hours when
he is not working. Everyone should
regulate those hours by h r e e
urge to increase physical fitness.
to deepen friendships, and to ac-
quire cultural and refining inter-
ests.
If physical fitness is a goal, one
will eat properly but simply, try
to take care of all defects, and
seek recreational and invigorating
exercise. If extending friendships
is a goal, one will guard his
speech and his temper, try to be-
come interested in matters t h a t
concern others, and choose recrea.
tons which can include his ac-
quaintances and friends. If the
acquiring of cultural and refining
interests is a goal, n will fire.
quent libraries, become interested
in the arts, and cultivate hobbies
which will give him an opportunity
to make beautiful things. 3
NEXT: Mental work firing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

We'll, they get big d%ough-blt
it doesn't last. They're washed up
in a few years, and the govern.
ment takes most of it as it comes
in. They can have it'll take my
desk"
"Whaddyamean, stars don't
work? Colbert puts in a days WORK
that would feaze a dimestore girl
and make a truck-horse turn pale
when she works."
"Claudette says herself it won't
be that way next time. She hasn't
worked enough"
Well, Hollywood has talked about
it, pro and con. There are a lt
of pros and a lot of cons And the
general feeling is that the golden
days ri going, going, gone. The
foreign market is shot-perhaps
permanently. There'll have to be
some changes. Maybe one Will
eliminate producers, as Ben Hecht
hopefully suggests. Maybe the
day of the high-priced star is oveF'
She'll take what she a get Or
they won't take her. They'll use a
newer favorite who won't cost 50
much-if they can make the new
er one a favorite.
Maybe (and this is what WaIte'
Wanger forsees) they'll Just be
fewer pictures, better prepared, no
more double features, and a Holly
wood that's paid on a strict per-
centage basis. That way a pro
Queer, a star, a writer would gel
approximately his true worth al
the box-office.
But if you think that's peanua
you've only to remember Mae
West-who turned down a perceh'
age deal on "She Done MN
Wrong" and lived to regret H. VI
Dustin Farnum, way back IN Int
early days, who sneezed at a snare
in 1.-THE Squaw Man. which "ouII
have left him in clover the resi- o
his life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
Good Business News

Statistical news of last week made good
reading. Topping the list was the Federal Re-
serve Boards report for June, showing that its
index of industrial production advanced to ia
per cent of the 1923-25 average from 106 per
cent in May. This was a new high since Janu-
ary and reports for the current month received
by the board indicate that the improvement is
continuing.
A stimulating influence has been the launch
ing Of the defense spending program, and this
will continue for months to come irrespective
Of the turn of events in the European war. Con-
tributing to the advance of the index were in
creases in the output of iron, steel and textiles.
Coke and pig iron output increased substanti-
ally and iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes
were near capacity records. Activity in WOOL
en- and cotton mills was down less than season.
ally, but the seasonal influences had their full
effect on automobile production.
This week shows the outlook in the heavy in
dustries encouraging. Steel operations in both
the Pittsburgh and Chicago districts are sched-
uled to start at new highs for the current re-
covery. In the former area the rate will be SO
IL per cent Of capacity, a jump of 3 IL points,
while chicago WILL pc at 9u.o per cent, a gain
of 1.6 points. Incoming business is reported
running slightly ahead Of shipments.
Department store sales, according to the
Federal Reserve Board, were z per cent ahead
of a year ago for the four weeks ending July ID.
ALI districts shared in the improvement. Car
loading came back sharply after their slump
for the week containing the holiday. and the
Regional Shippers Advisory Boards estimate
that for the third quarter of this year ~loadings
will exceed the like period of 1889 by 9 per
cent.
Thus the forecast that 1910 would be a year
Of exceptional prosperity, in comparison with
Its recent predecessors, is in a fair way for full
6llment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
TOP o. THE

I cannot think that God has meant -. {.
For Shadows to be fearsome things,
Else He woN1d not haze giUen US
The shadows OF His Wings.
Nor Wou1d the toll trees by the Way
Trace out q cool sweet place
Where weary Travellers may pause
To find His soothing grace.
And though the SHADOWS over lite
May seem to creep Gpdce,
Behind the darkest one OF them
Is His assuring face.
CHURCH NEWS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
HITLER ATTENDS FETr

BERLIN, July 23.IRA Adolf
Hitler attended the annual Wag-
merriam festival at Bayreuth today
and heard Der Gotterdammerung
Twilight OF the Gods). He sat with
soldiers, many of them wounded.
and workers who were his special
guests this year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile gug y
-tR-The newspaper La vei lfp5
reported today a large unlden. .ans..
submarine, accompanied BY a .sDa i
er, had been seen in the ou' aeaa
Magellan off Punta Arenas Il"
ing for the Atlant
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

they worry about
their state OIL
mind and body
When they feel
exhausted, they
consider them
selves failures.
Tenseness and
exhaustion are
signs of fatigue
and i'll health
Tension is also
the direct cause
of many disturb
ing malfunctions
Since %tenseness
precedes ex-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
4-H Club Delegation
Attends Short CoufSS

Miss Ann Mason. home rs.
ton agent, and three Ne" tla''s' .
county All club girls arc A. q
the All short course this "e,a N
the North Carolina state 'o''7
Raleigh. n,
They include: DorotllE va.
East Wilmington; Gertruo' ~,
burn, and Ruth Bostian' WI, raea1
awarded a free trip by MISS .arr,s
for winning first place in the co'''
health contest in May.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24
. TAKE 1T EASY
Too Much Tension
More Distressing
Exhaustion
BY DR.. L.
RATHBONE

Most people aspire to vigorous
and abundant vitality. They want
to be in perfect condition all of the
time, and ne-,er feel tense or ex-
h listed. When they feel S e,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

rooms will have exposures toward the ocean.
The cost of the project probably will exceed
al. 600. Clearly. the season is not such a bad
one for the Ocean Terrace as the walters
claim for the whole of Wrightsville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

Technologists figure that 24OO
bombing planes consume about
2S8, 900 gallons of gasoline per hour,
and that 1900 pursuit planes con
sumo 160, 900 gallons per hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

The average Frenchman in these times can't
wait until he sees his newspaper to find out who
the enemy is today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-24

That province in Rumania h 5 changed
hands SO often the native probably refer to it
IS Messarabis