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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
col. Gillette
Project
Board Applies To CAA For
100000 To Supplement
100000 WPA Fund
GILLETTE WILL AID
Committee Feels Concrete
Runways, Lights Are Mini
mum Requirements

The county commissioners have
.nrIied TO the Civil Aeronautics
Authority for $500, 900 to supple.
nent the 5000, 900 WPA appropri-
alton approved last June for i'm
movement of Bluethenthal Field,
and have requested that Lieuten-
ant Colonel George W. Gillette, U.
S. District Army ENGINEER, be
asked to take over the project.
Col. Gillette's promise to under
take the project, provided the CAA
and the War department approve,
has already been secured, it was
FAMED from R. B. Page, chair
man of the Citizens Airport com.
mittee.
Announced by Hewlett
The fact the county board has
made application for a 500, 00C
Eant-without abandoning the ad.
nittedly slower and less effective
WPA-NeW Hanover county plan for
paving the airport runways with
locally > quarried c~onglomerate
mck-Was announced yesterday by
Addison Hewlett. chairman of the
county board.
Chairman Page of the Citizens
airport committee said the county
bard is now definitely committed
hthe idea of securing funds from
be CAA ian $50, 600, 600 civil anc
military airports improvements
NIL is now before the senate). The
county board, he added, is also
a%etlnltely committed now to the
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' An enrolment of 9,270 students
in the New Hanover county school
system during the first two weeks
of the current term indicafes y
slight increase in initial elr1N-
ment when compared with he
same period last year. H. N no-
land, county school superiE4kefid-
eht, said yesterday.
Enrolment figures for all white
and colored schools in the county
are practically the same as the
record for the opening. period last
year, with a slight increase x
pected after the present term gets
well under way, Roland said.
Roland reported a slight increase
this year in the enrolment of stu
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
ECION OPPOSES
U.S.. NEUTRALITY
Also Condemns 'Aggressor'
Nations; Milo ]. Warner
Elected Commander

BOSTON, Sept. 26.-R-In a
,erleS of tumultuous scenes, the
american legion today shouted a
.uuaemnation of ''aggressor ma
aons' and voted against a policy
VI strlct U. S. neutrality before
sl0slng its 22nd convention with
rs election Of Milo J. Warner OF
saedo' Ohio, as its new National
Commander.
NJ the end of a four-day session,
marked by harmony, the legion
rsies broke into noisy disagree
alel' over a resolution which
~oald have reaffirmed the organi-
ssuOn's 16-year-old position in
, Ssos Of = hands off, policy to-
"I,u foreign disputes.
Proponents shouted that tl'T
s.uii'fy was nor ready for invol-
'Snleht and we should not aban-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
Embargo On Scrap Iron
Will Affect Local Port

President Roosevelt's embargo
effective October 16-on further
shipments of scrap iron and steel
to apan will have a decided effect
on further shipments Of the scrap
metal from the Port of Wilmington,
it was learned last night
Scrap iron exports from Will
mington are approximately "a
ships a year with a cargo of 1000
tons each or approximately 1884,
600 tons annually, c. D. Maffitt,
shipping agent here, estimated last
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
HOUSE APPROVES
ARMS FUNDS BILL
New $1,469,993,636 APP
preparation Will Be Used
To Help Finance Draft

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-R-A
new $1,469, 993, 636 appropriation
bill to help finance the national
defense program, including the
draft, was approved by the house
today a few hours after it was
received from committee.
Senate passage of the measure,
which contained funds President
Roosevelt requested the day Con-
gress enacted the CONSUMPTION law,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
Forty Children Rescued
From BenareS Disaster

LONDON, Sept. 27-(Friday)-
R-Six children and forty grown
ups e brought into port late last
night from the sea, rescued from
the City of Benares disaster by
British flying boats and a warship
after eight days on the Atlantic in
an open boat, lashed by great
waves, their food gone, their hope
vanished. 4
The survivors told stories of end
less terror, Of fighting, hour after
hour, to keep the children from
washing out Of the boat.
A total of 248 City Of Benares pas
sepgers, n of them children bound
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
Negro Youth Given Ten
Lashes In County Court

~ order of the recorders court,
A'nard Jenkins, 16-year-old negro,
Ys' iashed in the anteroom Of the
em toer courtroom yesterday aft
ANU oil ne was given ten lashes
Ionu% The bare back by a husky
Jsr saofeman welding the Shout
ans, stfap of a state highway patrol
NJ ) Same Browne belt.
sss Lad had been convicted of
clairu with a deadly weapon. He
witt eo ne found the boy he cut
bov a knife fighting with L smaller
and 40 was a relative of Jenkins
mat during the alteration
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27

which followed he cut the larger
boy.
Jenkins, who is in the seventh
grade of school, said his mother is
dead and his father has abandoned
him. He lives with an invalid
grandmother and, he said, has
gone without correction for a num-
Der of years.
But he didn't want to 60 to the
roads or the county farm and
asked Judge Alton A. Lennon It ne
could not take a whipping instead.
Judge Lennon called a husky
longshoreman from the audience,
pContinued on Page Seven)
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for the safety Of Canada, still ara
missing, and probably are dead.
The ship sank Sept. II, in mid
Atlantic, and the British say she
was %torpedoed.
The forty-six landed at a British
port last night were spotted Wed.
nesday by a British flying boat,
600 miles out in the Atlantic, and
taken aboard a warship guided to
the spot by another flying boat.
The children among them were:
William Cunningham Short, 9, of
Sunderland; Paul Shearing, IL, Of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27

In the rast two weeks two ves-
sels-br CT Greek registry-have
left he or -pan with cargoes of
scrap In, the combined shipments
being about 16, 900 tons, he said.
A short time prior to that a Span.
ish vessel sailed for Spain with a
cargo of about 5000 tons of scrap
iron.
Several shipping agents here
handle scrap iron cargoes. How
ever, Maffitt estimated that there
is only about $4,000 to 5000 tons
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JAP-NAZI COMBINE
ALREADY REALITY
A+AES %S ~ ar i
Closer Diplomatic Coopera.
ton Between Two Coun-
tries Is Developing

SHANGHAI, Sept. 26.-LP-Close
Japanese-German teamwork already
is a reality and probably will con-
tinue whether there is formal alli-
ance between the two powers or not,
well informed foreign observers said
tonight.
japanese and German quarters
p~rofessed ignorance concerning re-
ports that announcement of a
formal military alliance may be made
shortly at Tokyo, but said closer
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
Raj Bombers
Start Fires
Along Coast
Hundred Mile String Of
Flames Extends From BEL
gium To Cap Girls Nez
BASES HIT
S Scores OF Incendiary
Bombs Fall On London In
10th German Attack

LONDON, Sept. 27.-Friday)-
RE-British bombers set off a 100
mile string of raging fires along
the continental coast all the way
from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Cap
Girls Nez, France, early today in
a raid which dwarfed even their
previous savage assaults.
Starting at Dunkerque, the Raj
set the first great fires to blazing,
then struck next to the south at
Calais, Boulogne and Cap Girls Nez,
nearest Nazi-held French port to
Britain, and completed the almost
solid line of flames with attacks on
the -Ostend~ area to the north.
German searchlighs frantically
stabbed the skies in an effort to To-
cate the British bombers for their
ground batteries, but the beams
virtually were lost in the bomb
flashes and fires reflected brilliant
ly in the night skies.
Invasion Bases Hit
The nightly attack on Adof Hit
ler's potential invasion bases fol
lowed a day of raids that spread
fire and destruction from Berlin to
the Channel coast, and an angry
retort from German shore batter
les which shelled Dover.
The counter-offensive ranged Tar
and furiously - inland upon key
German military cities and along
the bruised coasts of Holland, Bel
GUM and France-and an authorl-
tative journalistic voice warned
that henceforth Berlin, too, regu-
larly was to feel this systematic
attack.
For, said a headline in the Eve
ming Standards property OF LORD
Beaverbrook, the minister for air
craft poduction the Royal Ar
force will be over Berlin every
night"
That city already had felt during
the darkness of last night and early
today such a raid as never before
had been launched against it-a D.
hour attack declared by the British
air ministry to have covered with
explosives the great 300, 000-kilo-
watt Klingenberg power station
and other vital detectives.
It was but one phase OF a mighty
attack on through the night and
part of the day on almost every
sort of base or concentration need
ed by the Nazis if they ever are to
attempt the invasion which they
have long threatened. l
"
LONDON BOMBED
LONDON Sent. 27.-(Friday)-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-27
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Partly cloudy Fri
day and Saturday, somewhat unsettled
on the coast, slightly warmer Saturday.
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Temperature
1:3O a. m. Sc; 1880 a. m. 50; 1870 p.
M. 50; 7:30 p. m. Sc; maximum ~;
minimum 81; mean "a; normal II.
Humidity
=. 1:30 a. m. IS; 1880 a. m. 55; 1870 p.
m. SO; 1880 p. m. "a.
e. Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. M,
o.29 inches; total since first of the
month, 1.4s inches.
Tides Fol Today
High Low
Wilmington ------ 5:41a / 2:51a
6:15p loop
Masonboro Inlet ------ 3:2Sa 9:46a
3:55p 10:25p
Sunrise SOFA; sunset 6:02p; moon
rise 1:36a; moonset 3:19p.
Cape Fear riser stage at Fay
e~tteville at 8 q. M, September 26,
81 feet.
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BOMBED

LONDON, Sept. 27.-Friday)-
(RAScores of Nazi incendiary
bombs and high explosives fell up
on London early today in the 10th
consecutive nightly German a II
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
POULTRY PRODUCTS MARKET.
ING SCHOOL

Some of the most prominent edu-
Gators and leaders in the poultry in
dustry will take part In the Poultry
Products Grading and Marketing
School to be held at the University
of Maryland from September IL to
IA, 1t Is announced by DR.. Morley
A. JUL, head of the poultry depart
ment. The purpose of the school is
to give Maryland poultrymen an
opportunity to learn the fundament-
ais of grading and marketing In the
minimum of time.
The school will be open to any
producer, commercial handler, in
spector, teacher, or student Of poul-
try products over 18 years of age.
In addition to talks and lectures by
prominent authorities In poultry
work, laboratory periods will cover
handling and grading eggs, and the
grading of poultry.
Dr.. H. @. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, will well
come the poultrymen to the school
on Wednesday morning. Further in
formation regarding the school may
be obtained from James M. Gwin,
University of Maryland Poultry De-
partment, College Park, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
1041 AAA FARM PROGRAM EN-
PHAsIzEs ADEQUATE
SUPPLIES

Maintenance of adequate food and
fiber supplies for all anticipated
needs, and emphasis on soil conser-
walton practices particularly appli.
cable to local areas and to small
farms, are provided in the 1871
AAA Farm Program, according to
an outline of that program receiv-
ed by the Maryland State Committee.
The proram follows the same gen.
eral lines as those of the last two
years. A national wheat acreage
allotment of So million acres was
announced some time ago. Acreage
allotments for other corps, and rates
of payment under the program will
be determined and announced when
1941 production and the effect of
the European War on consumer de-
mand may be ascertained more ac-
curately, 1t is stated.
With the aim Of stabilizing pro-
duction, the 1941 program provides
that in order to earn full conserva-
ton payments 1t will be necessary
for a commercial vegetable grower
to plant at least 80 percent of his
acreage allotment. The same pro-
vision may be applied to other crops
in areas where production varies
widely from year to year.
The provision that at least $40
may be earned on any farm is con-
tinued. II as much as SIS is earned
by planting forest trees, any farm
may earn as much as $35 under the
program. On small farms where the
NAHUM payment Is not more than
$40, any part of the soil-building
allowance may be earned by carry
ing out locally adopted conserva-
ton practices not included in the
program. This provision will be ap-
plicabIe in designated areas where
it is needed, and the practises for
which payment will be made will
be recommended by local commit
teemen. In areas where feed crops
are not generally produced for mar
ket, amy farmer may grow as much
as 80 acres of soil depicting crops
without mourning deduction for
exceeding the total soil-depleting
allotment.
To encourage the carrying out OF
soil-building practises which are
best adapted to local areas, the pro-
gram provides that, within designat-
ed areas, on any farm where SO per
cent of the crop land and orchard
land is devoted to perennial legumes
or grasses, a farmer may earn $50,
or one-half of the soil-building al
lowance, whichever is smaller. by
carrying out locally adapted soil
building practices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
POTATO MERITS PLACE IN Day
TODAY DIETS

A veteran of untold numbers of
American meals is the Irish potato.
Through years of constant use in
this country and throughout the
world wherever this popular vege-
table can be successfully produced,
the Irish potato has become estab-
lished as one of our most universal
foods.
Into the usually-settled picture Of
the potato decorating table plates
throughout the land in recent
months has come the ominous warm
ing that the potato is starchy food,
a food that should be avoided, es-
pecially If the consumer is trying to
cut down an expanding waistline.
But the statements concerning the
substitution of other foods for po-
tatoes are scientifically unfounded.
In defense of the well-establish-
ed potato, Miss Pearl Macdonald,
nutritionist for the Delaware Agri-
cultural Extension Service, states:
1.-THE Irish potato is thought of as
just starchy food by many people.
When there is the question of re-
ducing weight, the potato is often
entirely banished from the menu.
This is a mistake. One medium po
tato furnishes no more energy than
two scant tablespoons of granulat-
ed sugar. Sugar has only one value
and that is energy. But the potato
has other values. 1t is good source
of vitamin G.. Also, 1t contributes
vitamin B and G in about the same
amounts as vitamin G. And further
more, the potato is richer in iron
than most of us think.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

"Man" will be the subject Of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of
Christ, Scientist, ON Sunday, Sep
TENDER 8.
The Golden Text will be from
Romans 8:16, II.
1.-THE Spirit itself beareth wit
ness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God; and if children,
then heirs, heirs of God, and joint
heirs with Christ"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, II Cor. 1913:
"But we all with open face behold
ing as in glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory of glory, even as
by the Spirit of the Lord"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures. ("
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page 25S, Man re-
fleets infinity, and this reflection is
the true idea of God. God expresses
in man the infinite idea forever de-
veloping itself, broadening and ris-
ing higher and higher from q
boundless basis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
HIGH WAY FATALITY

The mo fatality" highway acct
dent record for southern Chester
County this year was broken We'd
nesday. when Clarence s. Coates,
80, of Nottingham, Pa, died at the
Coatsville Hospital from injuries
received in an automobile accident
on Tuesday morning not far from
his home. This was the first death
attributed to motor accidents in that
SETON since Jan. 1, 1910.
According to Private A. Poloncic.
Coats was driving his car in the
rear of another car being operated
by Claude Conner of near Oxford,
and ATTEMPTED to pass the Conner
car as it was making a left turn
off Route /.
Coates swerved his car to the left
to avoid a collision. 1t left the high
way, climbed an embankment, then
careened backward to the highway.
turning over. Taken to the Coatsville
Hospital after first aid treatment,
he died of fractured skull, frac-
tured shoulder and internal injuries.
Coates was son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Coates, and is survived by
his wife and three small children:
two sisters, Mrs. Morris Kurtz of
Kirkwood and Elizabeth Coates,
and one brother, Granville Coates.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
AVIATION AS A CAREER

The Flying Cadets of the Army
Corps constitute body Of young
men who are noted for their SPLEEN
did character and excellent disci-
pine.
The courses of instruction are
very thorough and fully cover all
the fundamental knowledge needed
by military pilots. This course at
present requires nine months, in
Guiding three months elementary
and three months basic training at
civil flying schools under Army sup
ervision. Three months advanced
training is then had at an Army
Air Corps Training Center. The
instruction, in addition to the fly
ing training, includes courses in
navigation, meteorology, radio and
other subjects allied with military
aviation.
Flying Cadets upon graduation
from the Air Corps Training Cen
ter are appointed second heuten-
ants in the Air Corps Reserve, re-
ceive their wings" and the rating
of pilot. They are then placed on
extended active duty In tactical
squadron equipped with modern air.
craft with the REGULAR Army Air
Corps for a period of one year which
may be extended from year to year.
While on active duty they receive
the same pay and allowances as an
officer of similar grade in the Reg
ular Army.
With the inevitable expansion of
aviation, many positions will be
available for graduates of the Air
Corps Training Center in the var
ious classes of civilian flying and
with commercial companies. Grad
uate Flying cadets are also eligible
to complete for commissions in the
Regular Army Air Corps.
Unmarried citizens of the United
States, not less than 20 nor more
than ~ years of age, with two years
college or equivalent education, OF
excellent character and sound ply
sique, may make application to be-
come flying cadets. Address inquir-
es to the Commanding General,
Third Corps Area, Baltimore, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
Congressional Candidate
Supporting Peoples Court
Amendment On Nom Parti-
san Effort In All Districts

A non-partisan, non-political Amend
ment to the State Constitution this
week shared the political spotlight
with the heated Senatorial and Con-
gressional campaigns raging through
out Maryland.
Already endorsed by United States
Senator George L. Radcliffe, Demo-
cratic candidate to succeed himself In
the Senate, and his Republican rival,
former Governor Harry w. Nice, the
Peoples Court Amendment is attract
ing the attention Of Congressional
candidates of both parties in the six
Maryland Districts.
On the Eastern Shore, where Rep
sentative David j. Ward, Salisbury
Democrat, is fighting to stand off the
challenge Of former Judge Robert r.
Duer, Republican, the voters in the
First District have been urged by
both candidates to support the
Amendment.
In the Fifth District, Representa-
tive Lansdale Sasscer Of Upper Marl-
boro has interrupted his campaign for
reelection to explain the Importance
Of this Amendment to his constituents.
Representative William P. Cole, Jr.,
of Towson, Chairman of Maryland's
delegation in the United States House
Of Representatives, has also urged
the adoption Of the Amendment.
W. Clinton McSherry, State Chair
man of the Non-Partisan Committee,
said that every indication points to
the fact that the Congressional can
didates, like the Senatorial candidates
of the two major parties, will be on
record within the next few weeks as
favoring the Amendment designed to
permit the reorganization Of Mary
lands largest Civil Court.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
CONsERvATIONIsTs WOULD
GROW LARGE OYSTERS

A legislative program designed to
promote the growth Of large oysters
in the Chesapeake Bay and to recap
ture of Maryland markets lost to
other states in recent years has been
outlined to the Governors Legis-
lative Council by Edwin Warfeld,
Jr., chairman of the State Concerva-
ton Commission.
Mr.. Warfield told the council that
Maryland has been growing small
size oysters for SO long that in the
Last 10 years some 100000 bushels
of counts and selects-the two larger
sizes-have been imported into
Maryland from other states.
He proposes that Maryland at
tempt to grow these larger sizes it.
self, not only to supply the home
market, but to cut into the north
ern markets now supplied by such
states as Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey.
The price for the better grades of
oysters is approximately double
that obtained for the standards
which now comprise the bulk Of the
Maryland production, Mr.. Warfield
told the council, predicting that
success in this new policy would go
far to restore the dwindling for
tunes of the Maryland oyster in
dustry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06
CECIL COUNTY DEEDS

w. Sterling Nesbitt and Bertha
Logan, Executors, to w. Sterling
Nesbitt and wife. Land in Cecil
County, Md. 100000.
Allen A. Davis, Jr., Assignee to
Southern, States Rising Sun Service,
Inc. Land in Rising Sun, Cecil Co..
Md. 100000.
The Peoples Bank of Elkton, a
CORP, to Guy M. Weiss and wife.
Land in the Third Election District
of Cecil County, Md. Containing
100% acres of land, more or less.
$1,000
Cothington w. Dickerson and
wife to Alphonso Martone. Land in
the Third Election District of Cecil
mately 4 acres Of land, more or less.
$1,000.
Frederick Miller and wife to Ed
ward Arden Davis and wife. Land
in the Third Election District of
Cecil County, Md. Containing two
and nine-six one-hundredths acres,
more or less. $1,000.
Samuel Rowland and wife to
Joseph Coudon. Land in the Seventh
Election District Of Cecil County,
Md. Containing 81 acres of land.
more or less. 100000.
John Potts and wife to Clarence
J. Levredge, widower. Land in Fifth
election district of Cecil county. Md.
$4,000.
Edward T. Backoff and wife to
Ernest Sheldon and wife. Land in
Cecil county, Md. $1,000.
Charles F. Park, widower, to Al
fred Elmer Saunders. Land in the
Fifth Election district Of Cecil
county, Md $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-06

der and salt are ready-mixed into
it, thus a double saving of ~ price
of these two ingredients, and (2
time in sitting them with the flour.
You can use your favorite muffin
recipe with the new, self-rising -four,
emitting both baking. powder and
salt. But for your aid, here is one
that's foolproof. Remember, as with
all mullins, to work fast and mix
ingredients only enough to blend
well.
Imperial Mullins
Cream tablespoons fat and 8 Ia
blesroons sugar together. Add l egg
and stir in thoroughly lido not
beat). Add l cup milk alternately
with cups new self-rising flour
(sifted before measuring). Pour into
well-greased> muffin tins and bake in
a hot oven t400 degrees F.) about
20 minutes.