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Is finally too late, to stop, to
think, to define those goals and
to become competent to achieve
them.
I have called this the battle
OF America. The battle of
America is a battle for liberty.
1t belongs right here at home.
1t is battle to release once more
the gigantic productive forces
of our people and to provide for
their impregnable defense. 1t is
q battle to create society strong
enough and effective enough to
maintain itself in peace.
In that battle I promise you
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our former power. We must be-
gin with American industry.
Industry Made U. S. Great
And Will Do 1t Again.
1t is industry that once made
us the greatest Nation in the
world, and it is industry that
will do that again today. We
have a genius for industrial pro-
duction. In building a defense
system we are in effect building
a new industry an armament
industry. We must remember
that. We cannot make ourselves
strong by a patchwork method.
We cannot take a little from this
industry and a little from that
industry; we cannot hope in that
way to build anything that will
brighten Adolf Hitler. We must
unity industry with cooperation
of every worker, manager and
owner in the United States.
I can win that cooperation
for you. I have confidence in the
workers and managers of Ameri-
can industry. And they have
confidence in me. If you were
to entrust to me the safety of
America in this critical time.
here is what I would do: I would
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them-the things and the policies
to fight with-we must pause. We
must not rashly move. Any man
who involves us in the risk Of
war, while we are thus unpre-
pared, betrays his country.
The task before us is grim and
hard. But we can still lead the
world out of depression and dis
aster and despair and war. We
can still lead the world toward
prosperity and progress and
peace and hope.
Oh, believe me, we can. The
goals before us are distant. But
this is the time, now, before it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03

through the defense agencies In
Washington that I have just men.
toned. In order to increase
capacity will remove every pos
sibie obstacle that stands in the
way OF new investment. This
would not mean the removal of
wise regulations for industry, nor
OF taxes to prevent war profiteer-
ing. 1t would, however, mean a
revision Of the tax system and
the inspiring of confidence in
those who are to be called upon
to take the risks. Until I had
built up the strength of America,
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favor, finally, taking intelligent
steps to coordinate our defense
program with that of Canada.
And I favor economic co-opera-
ton with our neighbors in the
South-not with New Deal
schemes but on the basis Of ex-
banding private enterprise. I
favor giving those neighbors
every incentive to rid themselves
OF the German fifth column,
which is active in many of them.
We must hurry with these
things. The time is short and the
life we have to defend is exceed
ingly precious. And until we have
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I would refrain from inviting az.
gressive pacts against the Ameri-
can people.
Would Aid Britain Even il
1t Delayed u. s. Air Fleet.
I would continue my efforts to
aid the heroic British people
the only people in the world today
who are fighting with their lives
for liberty. I would aid Britain
even If 1t meant the sacrifice of
some speed in building up our
own air fleet. I would do so be-
cause the longer Britain holds
out, the more time we have in
which to prepare ourselves. I
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victory. I promise you victory
because I believe in victory. With
all my strength, and all my heart,
and all my soul, I believe in vic
tory. And I promise you victory
before it Is too late.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
LAWSON ELECTED
MINISTER'S HEAD
Approval OF Positive Ac-
ton On Sunday Observ-
ance Voted By Group

The Rev. James Lawson, pastor
of the First Christian church, was
elected president of the Wilmington
Minister'S association to succeed DR..
Arthur D. Barton, pastor of Temple
Baptist church, at a meeting Mon
day, it was announced last night.
The Rev. Robert L. Jerome, pas
tor of Trinity Methodist church.
was elected vice-president and ],
B. Huntington, executive secretary
of the Y. M. C. A, was reelected
secretary of the association.
The new officers will assume
their duties in September, the meet
ing Monday being the last until
that time.
Approval of recommendations by
a special committee for positive ac-
ton on the matter of Sunday obser-
vance was also made at the session.
The resolution in full as adopted
by the association is as follows:
81. That a positive as well as a
negative attitude must be taken re-
garding the question of activities in
Continued ON Page Four; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
new ITALIAN WAR
MOVES APPROVED
No Hint Is Given As tt
When Actual Fighting
Will Begin, However

ROME, June AR-Armed and
shouting its readiness for war, TIA
ly waited tensely today through a
cabinet meeting that approved new
preparedness moves but gave. no
hint as to when fighting might be-
gin.
AfterWard speculation on tn e
date of Italy's plunge ranged from
the end of the week to the end OF
the month, and one source close
tC the government commented that
no immediate move was likely.
Some observers who thought the
Commute session of Premier Mus
solini and his ministers might sig.
nal the hour to strike talked later
of a new procedure.
Under this, it was said, II Duce
would proclaim Italy's war aims
at an extraordinary session of the
fascist chamber and senate before
ordering the march over the
mountains
Mussolini's ministers approved
new measures:
Extending var preparations
to Italy's African empire and i'm
posing penalties for commodity
boarding in Ethiopia and Libya;
2-Provision for an undisclosed
amount of money for warship con-
struction and entrance of more stu
dent officers in the Royal naval
academy:
3-Disciplining the war indus
tries through penalties on any inter-
ference with output; and.
4-Rescinding regulations that
had restricted the employment of
women in public services, thus al
loving women to replace men call
ed up for war duty.
Details of none was disclosed.
The ministers themselves-every
one commissioned to army or mil
itia command-Were reported rea-
dy to go to the front the day Italy's
first gun is fired.
1t was recalled that Count Gal
eazzo Ciano led Italy's bombing
squadrons in Ethiopia while min
lister of propaganda.
It was indicated that he would
take air command again, still re-
tanning office as foreign min
lister. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
IS OFFERED
HEARING BY DIES
Patman Says U. S. Army
And Navy Plans May Be
In Hitler's Hands

WASHINGTON, June 4-tRNThe
Dies committee today offered Carl
Byoir a hearing, at his request, on
the assertion of Rep. Patman 3D.
Tex that the New York publicity
man directed Nazi propaganda in
the United States.
Meanwhile, Patman made a new
attack on Byoir. He declared on
the house floor that there was rea-
son to believe the army and navy
mobilization plans were in Adolf
Hitler's hands, that Byoir had help
ed to draft them, and that he vas
Hitler's first agent in this country.
Byoir issued a statement here
referring to %"scurrilous and out
rageous efforts to destroy my rep
utation by a man hiding behind
the immunity which he enjoys on
the floor" He attributed Patman's
attacks to the fact that the Byoir
firm was opposing the chain store
tax bill which Patman is sponsor
ing.
The Dies committee also arrang-
ed to send an investigator to Bos-
ton to look into activities of the
German consul there in connec.
ton with editorial attacks on Hit
Ter by the Boston Traveller. The
Continued on Page -Four: Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
TAKE 10000 ALLIES
Adolf Hitler's High Com
mand Predicts Final
Victory Is Ours
MUCH BOOTY IS TAKEN
GERMANY

BERLIN, June -lR-Adolf Hit
ler's high command announced to-
night the conclusion of the great
est destructive battle of all times"
with the capture of hard-held Dun
kerque along with $1,000 prisoners.
and then threatened the French
and British with total destruc-.
ton"
1t told the German people that
they could be certain that final
victory is ours" now that Fland-
ers is
Suggestion that a big offensive
might thus be in the making in
the south toward Paris were ac-
companied by a jubilant %recapitu-
lation in which the high command
said that English, French, Belgian
and Dutch prisoners numbered L.
200, 900 since May 10, exclusive of
an undetermined number killed
and wounded.
Allies Challenged
The message from the front-a
message which was read owe all
German radio stations after the
public had for an hour been told
repeatedly to listen in, thus direct
ly challenged the Allies:
"Inasmuch as the enemy still
spurns peace, the fight will be car
ried on to his total destruction
In a review of the western cam
paign, the high command asserted
equipment for from rs to 80 di-
visions had been captured from the
enemy; that from May 10 through
yesterday the Nazis had shot down
1,81 enemy planes in air battle
and with anti-aircraft, and that an
additional 1900 to 100 had been
destroyed on the ground.
AS to sea operations, it was de-
clared that in the Battle of Fland-
ers the British navy lost five cruis-
ers, seven ~destroyers, three SUBJ
marines, nine other w%arships, 66
transports and commercial ships.
Sunk by Bombs
All these vessels, the high COM
mand said, were sunk by bombs.
In addition, light German naval
units reported the sinking of six
destroyers, two submarines, n e
transport, one auxiliary cruiser,
and one other var vessel.
The high commands report add
ed that bombs also seriously dam
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
ALLIED AID ASKED
BY MRS. MORROW
Urges United States To
Help AS A Matter OF
Self Interest

NEW YORK, June 4-tRNMrs.
Dwight w. Morrow, widow of a
one-time U. S. Senator and Am
bassador to Mexico, appealed to-
night for United States aid to
Britain and France las a matter
of self interest" because, she said,
a Nazi victory would mean that
''our peaceful way of life will be
endangered for a generation at
least"
Short of actually declaring
war;" she said, Il believe that
everything we have which we could
give without impairing our own
safety-'All that is within us
should go to help them win on
the field of battle"
Thus again she differed with her
son-in-law, Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, on this country's policy in
Continued on Page Three, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Allies Reply
ToCermanAir
Raid On Paris
Write Off Battle OF Elan
ders With Abandon
ment OF Dunkerque
MUNICH IS ATTACKED
French Claim One OF Ger.
many's Most Important
Airplane Plants Hit

PARIS, June 4-R-The Allies
wrote off the Battle of Flanders
with the abandonment of bunker
que today and slashed back at the
Germans in grim bomb-for-bomb
reprisaIs to a first Nazi raid on
Paris Monday which left 1000
Frenchmen dead or wounded.
With most of their troops out OF
the besieged channel port, the
French announced the end of the
northern campaign and turne d
swiftly to the task of replying to
the German air forays which con-
tinued today with new assaults on
the Rhone valley and the port OF
LIE Havre.
Raid Nazi Cities
Less than IL hours after the Ger
mans bosed 1000 bombs on Paris
and vicinity yesterday, the wal
ministry announced til at Allied
bombers had started striking back
with great success" in raids on
Munich, Frankfort and the Ruhr
basin.
lone of the most important air
plane motor factories of the Reich
was . hit; numerous explosions
could be Observed" the French
war ministry announced in detail
ing the results of the combined
British and French air raids.
While the Allied airmen were or
their retaliatory missions, Pari'
slams digging into the ruins left
after yesterdays raid found addi-
tional casualties, bringing the toll
in the French capital area to 254
dead and 652 wounded.
Rearguard Praised
Announcing the abandonment OF
Dunkerque, the Allied high COM
mand paid fervent tribute to the
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
SPEAKS TO TEACHERS
Speaks On Aims OF
Combined Vocational
Program In 1940-41

"Our problem is not one of too
large production so much as one
of poor distribution" Commission
err of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott
declared at the opening session of
the annual conference of North
Caolina teachers of vocational ag-
riculture at Carolina Beach yes
terday afternoon.
North Carolina products will be
more in demand at top prices
when they are better processed for
market" Commissioner Scott said.
adding: Our great army of trucks
leaving the state to bring in citrus
fruits and other needed commod-
tiles, too often go away empty
when they might be hauling a good
quality Of baled hay and other
products which we could econom-
points from which we ecure the
ically produce and market at the
needed supplies"
Brown Speaks
Commissioner SCOTS address
was among three hear yesterday.
T. E. Browne, director of voca-
tional education in the state, spoke
on the aims of the combined vo-
cational program for 1940-41.
DR.. Clarence Poe, editor Of the
Progressive Farmer, spoke on the
need for bringing into use new
agricultural fields in building a
balanced farm prosperity program
for North Carolina, asserting that
a 'live-at-home program is not
enough"
North Carolina must develop its
forestry program if it is to have
balanced farm prosperity, Poe told
his listeners, and should increase
it's annual income from its forest
resources from the present $40, OOO,-
900 a year to at least $50, 0OO, 600 a
year.
In addition, he said, the farmers
of the state must get away from
the one-crop program and begin to
diversity their program OF agrl-
culture, laying more stress on the
increase of livestock in the state.
The state today buys huge quanti-
ties of eggs and meat from out
side it's borders, he pointed out,
all of which could be raised by
farmers of the state and sold with
in the state at a profit.
Large Conference
Row H. Thomas, state supervisor
of vocational agricultural educa-
ton. who served as master OF cere-
monies at the opening session, said
that the meeting at the beach is
the largest conference ever to met
in tn state. Teachers were prs
ent representing 34S rural h g h
schools. whre instruction is given
Ito IS, 900 students and adult farm.
ers.
D. M. Clements, federal agent
for vocational education, offered
"a challenge, a responsibility, and
an opportunity in the teaching of
agriculture" and he applied these
particularly to the further training
lof out-of-school young men who
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
GERMANS DISCOUNT
ALLIED AIR RAIDS
Claim los Of 165 Bombing
Attacks Were On Non
Military Objects

BERLIN, June 4.-lP)-A German
military commentator tonight sale
there had been 165 bombing raids
on German territory by Allied avia
tors between May % and May 81
which, in the German view demon
strated the 'planlessness" of enemy
air attacks.
'105 of these attacks were on non
military detectives such as residence
sections of cities, villages, farms.
even open fields and woods" the
commentator said.
Calling attention to specific in
stances, the commentator said 7C
bombs were dropped on the Rhine
land community of Dueren and that
citizens were machine-gunned as they
ran to shelters. He charged two per
sons were killed and many injured
Forty-six bombs were dropped on
Juelich, apparently with no thought
of doing military damage, the com
mentator declared.
At Neuss Gravenbroich two bombs
repeatedly we're dropped on an erner'
gency hospital. another on a Garden
City hospital despite the red cross
shown on both roofs, and four per
sons were injured, including nurses
At Lengenfeld, a bomb near a hos.
pital DESTROYED a barracks housing
wounded, he said.
Four bombs wrecked houses in the
village of Steinbeck, killing and in
jCring civilians.
There were numerous instances OF
dogs and sheep killed, the common.
tator continued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05

Soviet Russian military quar-
tiers have boosted of having
guns that can shoot 100 or
more miles.
On this trip l lodged with
German infantry scouts, who
crept with drawn weapons as
they went forward into
Bergues, fortified suburb five
miles south of Dunkerque.
They were to determine if any
of the enemy were left in that
burning and ruined town.
We could see Dunkerque
blazing in many places, smud-
ges of smoke streaking the
sky. Stukas German dive
bombers) made the sky thun-
der, and the shells of German
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Defense Tax
Bill Boosted
By Committee
Measure Is Increased To
Approximately 81, OOO,-
OOO,OOO-A-Yea
ARMS PLANS PUSHED
HIGH Official Explains Rea-
son For F. RS Nation
al Guard Propose.

WASHINGTON, June 4-RNThe
extraordinary defense tax bill was
boosted to around 81, 600, 900, 0OO-a'
wear today. while the administra'
finn pressed forward with its arms
nrogram. including the controver-
sial request for authority for Presl'
dent Roosevelt to mobilize the Ma
t;onal Guard in an emergency.
The tax measure, originally in
tended to raise about $685., 900, 600
a wear. was revamped by tn e
house ways and means committee
in view of recent additions to the
defense program. The committee
also approved a plan to raise the
national debt limit from $45, 0OO,-
100000 to $40, 900, 600, 900. The new
ceiling would be. $1,000, 900, 900
higher than has been contemplated
up to now.
Reason for Requess
A high official asserted tn a t
President Roosevelt's request for
power to call out the guard was
tased upon a possibility that the
m1itiamen might be needed, at
shor. notice, to relieve regular ar
my units who might be sent to
emergency trouble spots.
If called to peace-time service,
it was said emphatically, the plan
was that the guard would be on
duty within the United S a t e S,
while the regulars proceeded to
the Panama canal zone, Puerto
Rico, or wherever a threat to
American security might arise.
Mr.. Roosevelt's proposal, sent to
congress in his second special de-
tense message last week, h a d
aroused a considerable controver-
Sy, and encountered opposition OF
apparently formidable proportions.
It was virtually the only item OF
the defense program to be so re-
celved at the capitol.
Elaborates On Message
During the day, Mr.. Roosevelt
elaborated upon last weeks mes
sage with a letter to Speaker Bank
head requesting appropriations and
contract authorizations of $1,277,-
Hl,l7, with which to start work
on 60 new warships, build large
Continued on Page Four; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
exhibit LONG RANGE CANNON
THAT MAY BE USED TO FIRE ON LONDON

cialized troops whose nature
and equipment 1 am not per-
mitted to disclose.
Whether they were the type
that would be used in an at
tack on England, or to force
the new Allied line along the
Somme and Aisne r d
Paris, we could not say.
The distance to London from
Calais, where 1 saw the Ger
mans 1910 model "big Bertha"
is about 80 miles.
This is about "a miles farth-
er than the distance over which
the original '.big Bertha" OF
the World War lobbed its shells
into Paris from the forest Of
COucy. But both German and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
PRODUCTION HIKE
ASKED BY WALLACE
Secretary OF Agriculture
Makes Call For Eco
nomic Preparedness

WASHINGTON, June 4-LR-Sec-
rotary Wallace, declaring that IF
England and France are conquer
ed, the Americas will inevitably
be the nett objective" called to-
right for economic as we'll as mil
itary preparedness.
1.-THE immediate necessity OF
preparedness" he said in an adj
dress drafted for the radio. means
that we must move as fast as we
can utilize our idle men, idle mon
ey and idle factories in the produc-
ton of guns, munitions, airplanes,
tanks and ships.
I'VE don't know yet how much
the total cost will be. If we should
have to use as great a proportion
Of our income on military prepar-
edness as Germany has been US
irg of her income during the last
four years, we would have to spend
perhaps $40, 600, 600, 900 a year.
While he did not advocate such
a program, he remarked that it
Continued on Page -Four, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
BRITISH ARE WARNED
Minister Pledges Ma
ton To Fight On
If Necessary
TELLS OF FLANDERS
BRITAIN

LONDON, June 4.-LP-Winstor
Churchill today gave the British com
mons and people the measure of de
feat and the epic of rescue for the
Allied armies in Flanders and with
blunt imagery, held out hope of helr
from 1.-The new world" or America.
if Britain is broken by invasion.
With the plainest language, the
prime minister, in a long war state.
ment to the house of commons.
pledged the nation to fight on "alone
if necessary" ven from her EN-
pire outposts, and declared the Brit
ish government would never content
itself with a defensive war on Ger
many.
The heaviest blows are yet to come
from the c%onquerors of the lowlands
he warned. They may come he said
almost Immediately"
Tells OF Flanders
Point by point Churchill told the
story of the German army sweeping
a sharp scythe' around the Allied
forces of Flanders; how the Belgian
surrender isolated them and a los
garrison of 1000 men spurned an I'll
timatum to capitulate and tough
to the death in Calais.
He gave the British losses in Elan
ders as more than 10000 dead
wounded or missing; he estimated
the Allied rescued, by the heroic
work of an armada of a thousand
boats, big and little, as more thar
1856, 0OO.
A week ago, he and other "goot
judges thought only 10000 or 80,
600 men could be saved from the
German army, it's guns and its
bombers, he said.
With the Flanders battle and the
rescue ended, Belgium and her army
lost and the continents channe
ports in the inva>>T's hands
Churchill told the commons: There
is always a chance of invasion
1--WE shall defend u island
whatever the cost may be-" he said
1--WE shall fight on the beaches, the
landing grounds, in the fields, in the
streets and on the hills.
1--WE shall never surrender.
"And even if which I do not for
A moment believe, this island or a
large part of it were subjugated and
starving, then our empire beyond the
seq armed and guarded by the Brit
ish fleet, will carry on its struggle
until. in Gods good time, the new
world with all its power and might
sets forth to the liberation and the
rescue of the old"
He solemnly warned the British
against over-evaluating the bril-
lance of the retreat from Flanders.
1--WE must be careful not to as
sign to this de~liverance the attrlb'
utes of a victory" he said.
"Wars are not won by evacua
lions, but there is a victory. .
which must be noted.
''This was a great trial of strength
between the British and German air
forces.
"They tried nard and were beaten
back. Frustrated in their task, we
Continued on Page Three, Col. A.