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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Note to Wendell L.
Wlllkle: It you 60 through with that factory
door campaign idea you are talking about,
won't you be taking a leaf from the campaign
tactics OF your young floor manager, Gov. Har-
old E. Stassen of Minnesota?
That 33-year-old South St. Paul flash waged
his campaign for the governorship on a shoe
string and used a back door and street corner
method of campaigning. He climbed into a car
and covered his state like a midday sun. He
Travelled more than SO, 900 miles and averaged
about nine speeches a day, nearly always to
small groups-often no larger than those which
might assemble on any street corner at lunch
time.
1t was effective for Stassen, too. He knocked
a powerful political organization into a cooked
hat and swept into Office with so many votes
to spare, they tell me, that the old-line poll
ticians out that way haven't recovered yet.
Whether you, Mr.. Willkie, can use that same
method as effectively by rapping on factory
doors and calling out the workingmen for one
OF your informal chats is another question. It'll
sure take a heap of travelin' between August
and November to get around to even a small
percentage of the factory doors in this coun-
try.
II you want a little advice from somebody
who doesn't know anything about campaigning
(although I hear that's the kind you are get
ting most of, here it is: The. political tabula-
tors around here are saying you need only
about five to seven million votes over the nor
mally Republican, variety to win. And since
there are about 10000, 900 unemployed, why
don't you make your speeches before closed
factory doors?
A BRAND NEW FORMULA
Note to Gov. w. Lee O'Daniel of Texas: Is
it true what they say about O'Daniel?
One of the boys tells me that in this wear of
unorthodox politicking, you went right out and
told the good people of Texas, The reason
that l want to be reelected is that I've been a
failure?
If that's how it was, Governor, you certain
ly get the potted palm for the most morthodox
campaign ever to net victory this year. OF
course, l understand you explained that the
reason you had failed in your own estimation
was because the voters didn't give you a legis-
lature. But that's just heaping it on. VIII ever
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07

purely d~ecorative) were two ging.
ham milkmaids, Misses Pauline
yesterday and Terry Shero,
recruited through RKO's casting of.
fee and earning $11 a day as photo.
grapher-bait for Elsie.
AS guests entered they were an.
nounced, in stentorian tones, by a
dress-suited dignitary who turned
out, on investigation, to be Hugh
Harrison, actor. simultaneously,
the orchestra (Which strangely neg
lected pastoral music throughout
the afternoon) tootled a greeting
and Elsie tootled her tongue around
her copious cud.
Guests saw Elsie in her party
clothes, and she was a b.
vine dream. She wore a daring
chapeau with flowers, yards of pur-
pie and green tulle studded with
sequins framing her face softly;
she wore a throw-around robe of
violet velvet, monogrammed in
gold letters. Around her tail was
a big pink satin bow, around her
neck a garland of metal daisies,
on her left front ankle a gold
bracelet, with bells. Her shoes were
white kid-custom-made, and cost
ing $50 a pair, or rather quartet.
Costume-designer Eddie Stevenson
could take a bow.
Elsie took her Hollywood as it
came, unruffled. She eve smiled,
neither did she yawn, not even
when Jack Oakie posed for pictures
with the inevitable bucket. Elsie
posed graciously with almost
everybody, except Kay Francis,
who arrived after Elsie had gone
home.
The Messrs. Towne and Baker,
devoted to Elsie and publicity, al
ready are planning their next di-
vertissement, which I hear is a
calf shower for Elsie, who h a S
made no secret of her forthcoming
bundle of joy. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Goons-

HOLYWOOD-Aug. 6.-W e L.
there's nothing for it. I've got te
write about Elsie. I've got to, be-
cause the way things are going
Elsie is going to steal the picture.
Jack Oakie and Kay Francis and
the others won't have a chance in
Little Men,"
I'll start off by saying Elsie is
wonderful, beautiful, and good.
She's also the most surprisingly
agreeable guest of honor a Holly.
wood cocktail party ever had.
That's how I'll start off, taking
it for granted that you know Elsie
is a COW, American Jersey Cattle
Club No. 998632 (real name You'll
Do Lobelia). Her poise and sere-
nifty may be inherent, or may have
been developed at the New York
WWorld's Fair. Believe me,
she needs all the poise and serenity
she can muster.
She needs it because the Messrs.
Towne and Baker, her m O j e
bosses, will stop at nothing. They
didn't hesitate to give her a cock
tail party. They gave it at Ciro's,
a night spot with a maroon-and-
blue decor, silky and satiny, remi.
niscent of boudoir scenes in ro-
mantle French novels.
Elsie arrived in her special truck,
its sides modestly emblazoned with
her name and the purpose of her
visit to Hollywood (something, 1
hear, to do with a movie.) She
entered via the rear door, to thwart
autograph hunters no doubt, and
took her stance in a squqare of
prop grass enclosed in daisy-gar-
landed rope. Elsie was accompan-
led by her retinue. This includes
her mentor, Mr. Boyce, who reared
her from calf-hood and trained her
horns to symmetry. Also in atten-
dance (for purposes apparently
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Garbage May Be
Fed To Test Farm HOGS

RALEIGH, Aug. 6.-R-Ap-
parently the nations preparedness
program is going to produce more
than trained men and a large me.
chanized force.
The State Department Of Agri-
culture today received this letter
from Lieut.. Col. j. A. Gillespie:
With the expansion of Fort
Bragg, it is possible that the gar.
bage from the troop kitchens may
be advertised for sale under an
nuai contract. If your office has
any information as to who might
be interested in bidding for such a
contract. I will appreciate greatly
II you would furnish me with
same"
Agriculture department officials
specialized on the possibility of
feeding army-produced garbage to
hogs at their test farms. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Two Hurricanes

While the Gulf coast from the Mississippi
river to Pensacola, Fla, battens down all NOV
able things and prepares for a tropical storm
Of hurricane intensity, word comes that an
other blow of undetermined force is gathering
in the West Indies and moving toward Puerto
Rico. What either or both may do in the next
48 hours is beyond mans guess, but we know
from past experience that tropical hurricanes
are the agents of death and destruction and
capable of striking with terrific force where
ever whim directs them.
Although the Gulf coast is a ~favorite battle
ground, the Atlantic above the Georgia line
seldom has felt their power. Because it lies
in the natural path of Caribbean storms NOV
ing into the Gulf, Florida usually bears the
brunt, but anybody who went through one
three or four years ago which Travelled up the
Atlantic coast and spent it's fury northward in
to New England from the Jersey shore knows
that no coastal area is immune. Another, even
the one now forming off Puerto Rico, might
swing northward and veer inland along this
coast. This is not to alarm any person here
abouts but only to warn everybody that with a
hurricane loose in the Caribbean it would be
wise to be on guard and take all necessary pre-
cautions if it should move this way.
Hurricanes do most damage where protec-
ton against them is neglected. Communities
in their course which are prepared for their
arrival usually suffer little damage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty.CoAnty Government
under CouncilMona0cr Administrator"
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TRUCK and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Higharay from WrfghtsvtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
s5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid-
er Turning Basin. With ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
orion Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produe
ton through sustoined.yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
mottonal Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tag.
%Sh1pydrds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities for uhites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF nativs grape grooin0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Eanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Arms Manufacturers Assured
Preferential Tax Treatment

the Vinson-Trammell act limiting
profits on warships and airplanes.
Cooper expressed hope that his
subcommittee would complete a
plan for an excess profits levy by
tomorrow and Doughton asserted
that public hearings by the full
committee would begin Thursday.
In the drive to speed the bill
through, Cooper said, senate fl.
nance committee members will sit
with the ways and means group at
the hearings. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07

neard OF a man winning a cam.
palgn bl belaboring the electorate?
Note to readers: This isn't
Governor O'Daniel's first n.
ture in political unorthodoxy by
any means. A couple of years ago.
he was a radio flour salesman and
just happened to mention in one
OF his broadcasts that with - or
IL candidates out for governor. he
thought he might get in the race
himself. The mail response to that
was terrific, O'Daniel got con
WINGED and jumped in. He waeed
a campaign with hill-billy music
on a platform Of 1.-The Ten Com.
mandments and $50 every month
for the old folks.")
THE BOYS ARE OUTSMARTEn
Note to Gen. George c. Marshall
army chief of staff: When Con-
gress acts on the Presidents "a.
quest for authority to call out the
National Guard and reserve of.
ficers for military duty, O r
probably going to have about 70 NJ
40 unhappy Washington news
papermen on your hands.
When things began looking 50
black a few months back. about
that many boys around here. with
military experience, dashed down
to the war department and got
themselves reserve commissions ~.
got their reserve Commissions re.
newed. They were going to be
smart. If war came, thew were
going to be officers. Now. if and
when the President calls IN +ha
reserves, those boys have got to do
IA years service. Are they mad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
English Money Exodus
Starts House Argument

LONDON, Aug. 6,-LP-puoNa.
ton of the names Of all wea'4
residents allowed to take NI'I
amounts OF money and valua""|
from England was Threatened "
night in a controversy over .~J
naming of Oracle Fields, hn5'''
Coincidence, in the house Of VI
mons, as leaving the country WI
$4,000 (about $32,C00.) Il
In response to a question IN ~I
house, a treasury spokesman
the actress had not sought penn.
sion to take more than the fes
lation f10 when she left hhs.~
recently, but had been alloWe'
take 5000 pounds last OCTOBER
Her husband, Monty Banks '~|
allowed to take 100000 Jaw
sSo,O00.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
POWELL RENAMED
BY FOOD DEALERS
Other Officers And Directors
Are Chosen As Raleigh
Meeting Closes
MA S1ra. l

RALEIGH, Aug. g. A The
North Carolina Food Dealers a8o.
citation today ended its annual con,
vention after re-electing D, Z Pc.
well of Raleigh as president and
choosing Asheville as the 1871 con.
vention city.
Other officers reelected were J.
Leroy Allen of Raleigh, first vice.
president; John May Of Ashevls.
second vice-president; L. S, Wig
gins of Charlotte, treasurer; and
James B. Vogler of Charlotte, SEQ
rotary and manager.
The following eight new direc.
tors were named: C. M. Kiser d
Charlotte, o. A. Swaringen Of Cor
cord, N. j. Covington of Charlotte
and John Daley of Durham, al
for three-year terms; and W. l.
Blake of Raleigh, Claiborne BeIIi
of Durham, E. C. Cruise Of Sails
bury and R. G. Garter Of Ashe'
vile, for two-year terms,
T. Carl Brown, state supervlH;
of distributive education, urged t'
association to employ a full'tin'
instructor to conduct training colf
ses for clerks, owners and mana
gers. W. M. Davis of Baltimore
vlce-president of Mccormick and
company, described the multiple
management system by which each
employe has a voice in the OlSl
ness of the Mccormick firm.
The grocers adopted a resolution
pledging themselves to sign a peA'
ton urging repeal of the fedora.
tax on oleomargarine, Support also
was pledged for a fair trade &C,
this state. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Germans Deny Report ,
Oh Streicher Dea'

BERLIN Aug. g. CH -D |,,ir.
reports of the death OF ..is
Sreicher, former Nazi party o.id
leader for Franconia, were Nd
today by German authorizes ,,,s
said he was quite well on A'
near Nurnberg. MI
(The report was pufllsheu Il,
Reuters british news agen''n
a dispatch dated "The zen" al
Frontier" and was attrlou'' cer|
"a well-informed source IN
many.') Ell.
The reasons for StreicheIs M
pension from his FrdncoN"
were not made known
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
TAKES

JERUSALEM, Aug. 6.-R-Lt..
zen. Philip Neame, so, who won
the Victoria Cross in the World War
Tor bravery on the battlefield, today
assumed his duties as commander of
British forces in British-mandated
Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-R-
An authoritative congressional
spokesman today assured the max
ers of guns, planes and other items
needed in the defense program that
they would receive preferential tax
treatment and urged them to push
on with the rearmament program
without delay.
Chairman Cooper D-Tenn) Of
the house tax subcommittee made
the statement to newsmen while
William S. Knudsen, national de-
Tense commissioner, sat at Coop
er's elbow. Cooper represented the
chairmen of the senate and house
committees which draft tax legis-
lation as confident that both groups
would approve a plan under which
government contractors might de-
duct from their taxable incomes
the entire cost of expanding their
plants for national defense.
Some prospective . contractors
mad SAID tina they would not eX-
pand their plants in advance of
such legislation.
Cooper said he spoke with au-
thority from Chairman Doughton
D-NC) of the house ways and
means committee and Harrison 3D.
Miss of the senate finance com.
mittee. His statement was approx
ed by Rep. Treadway of Massachu-
sets, ranking republican on WAYS
and means.
Both Doughton and Cooper prom
ised expeditions congressional con-
sideration of the tax legislation
which, in addition to the plant ex-
pansion amortization, will include
an excess profits tax and repeal of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
Man bout
Manhattan
Bv George tucker

NEW YORK-Aug. 6.-Here IN
the witty east, where jokes r al
most v new, but where they
sometimes do have timely twists,
FRANKIE Masters takes time out
from directing his band to tell OF
the little shop he passed up in Har-
lem, Undoubtedly the proprietor OF
this shop was a movie fan, as you
shall see.
When frankie passed the shop
|he observed a window caro-
which listed the more appetizing
of the shops wares. The first item.
flor instance, said "Swiss. Cheese
|24c." The second said "Skinless
and Boneless Sardines, $780," 80.
The third said Georgia Melons,
50c." The fourth said 'Tur-
key Sandwich, 30c."
Down at the bottom of the card
was lettered:
"An This, and Herring Too"
Then there's the n about the
three cross-eyed prisoners and the
cross-eyed judge which makes
Eddy Duchin laugh more than any
other. The three prisoners were
lined up before the judge.
whats your name?" demanded
the judge of the LIST prisoner.
The End prisoner said, Smith,"
IT wasn't talking to you," BOOM
ed the Judge.
The 3rd prisoner replied, Il new
err said a word"
After sitting in on the Lunch
con at the waldorf" program the
other day we shared a late snack
with Ilka Chase, and sure enough
she had one too. A funny story, l
mean. The one Ilka likes to tell is
about the WPA worker who opened
his weekly salary envelope a n d
found that his check was one cent
short. He had received $14.99 in
stead Of the customary SIS. This
burned him up, and after deliver
ing a TRADE against the govern
ment in particular and the world
in general, he sat down and batted
out a sizzling letter to FDR. Pre-
sently one of the Presidents Sec
retaries received the letter, and he
was so stunned by its contents that
he showed it to the President.
Have Mr.. Morgenthau s d
this man a check" Mr.. Roosevelt
suggested.
Several days later the WPA
worker was delighted to find in his
mailbox a check for 1c from the
United States government. Why,
this wasn't such a bad world after
all, he thought, hurrying to the
bank.
When he arrived he tossed the
check to the teller. How about
cashlng this?" he clustered.
The teller glanced at the check,
glanced back at the WPA work.
er, and without batting an eve
said, "How do you want it-heads
or tails?"
Present also at this confab was
Joan Blaine, the radio actress. who
said she didn't know any jokes but
that she had had a funny experien.
&c with a deaf and dumb" man
that afternoon.
What was that?" we wanted to
know.
Well, she said, she always had
been interested in the sign lan-
guage used by people who had lost
their senses of hearing and speech.
she had even gone to the trouble
OF learning the sign language. That
was when she was a teacher in a
Colorado mining camp.
During the afternoon she was an.
preached on 9Th avenue by a man
who presented her with a card
which said he could neither speak
nor near, and could she help him.
on impulse Joan began talking
with him in the language of the
deaf and dumb.
But the man didn't get it. Sud-
denly she said, SIS that your dol
Lar on the sidewalk?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07
TOP o. THE

I believe there is not a Christian but can be
instrumental in Winning some soul to the
Lord Jesus Christ it he will.
D. L. MOODY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-07

In migrating, birds follow tn q
courses of rivers and coast to their
destination.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Wallace Takes Control
OF Farm Credit Agency
b the Associated Press.

81 sAAV SA0ooSAeSSN AVsOs
Secretary Wallace took direct con.
troll Of the Farm Credit Admins
tration yesterday and instructed its
officials to find ways Of re-estab-
fishing delinquent borrowers on q
sound basis" that would main
tain the integrity of the Federal
Land Bank System.
Former Gov. F. F. Hill of the F.
c. A. suspended foreclosures on de-
linquent farm mortgages last fall.
Extensions and delinquent install
ments on loans and other items due
from borrowers totaled $43, ATT 900
September 80.
In addition, the F. c. A. had
$154 .709 900 invested in foreclosed
farms. loans called for foreclosure
and sherif1s' certificates of sale
under foreclosure proceedings. This
latter item was $13284,000 greater
than year earlier.
Differences of opinion between
Secretary Wallace and Mr. Hill over
handling delinquent loans led to
Mr.. Hills resignation recently and
the appointment of DR.. E. G. Black
as his successor. In an order yes
terday Secretary Wallace made DR..
Black directly responsible to him.
Previously the F. C. A. had operated
as an independent agency.
Secretary Wallace said in q COM
munication to F. C. A. employees
that he Endorsed Mr. Hills action in
suspending foreclosures, but that he
did not think I'VE should stop at
that"
with all the facilities at our dis
posal" he said, I'VE must study tn
conditions responsible for the de-
linquencies and earnestly seek q 81
luton which will enable the peop
of these areas to re-establish the
economy on a sound basis and :
the same time will maintain the i
tegrity of the land bank system"
Officials said most of the del
quencies were in the Great Plai:
area
Evening star., 1940-01-11

reconstruction. What role will our
country play In this process?
In the years following the World
War we led the procession OF de-
structive protectionism. Are we to
play this same role again?
That would be the case If we were
now to abandon the trade-agree-
ments program. For 1t would be
the equivalent of destroying the
only policy which stood in the re-
cent past, and can stand in the
immediate future, as a bulwark
against a complete reversion to
policies under which the channels
OF trade will become more and more
blocked and the nations Of the
world will continue their disastrous
march toward increasing economic
nationalism, regimentation, eco
nomic distress, the dole on an ever
growing scale, social instability and
recurrent warfare. Under such con-
ditions there can be no enduring
peace and no sustained prosperity
for our Nation.
The Heterogeneous program
has served us well during period
of national emergency. It has en-
abled us to expand our foreign trade
without introducing far-reaching
governmental controls, such as have
been employed in many other coun-
tries.
The world needs today and will
need increasingly tomorrow the sur
plus production of our agriculture
and industry, just as our farmers
and our workmen and our business
men need foreign markets for the
maintenance of their prosperity.
The choice before us is whether we
shall throw away these precious op-
portunities by abandoning the trade
agreements program, or whether we
shall keep ready for use, whenever
possible, the necessary means Of
prompt and effective action pro-
vided by the program The choice
before us is whether we shall lead
the way toward the slough of despair
and ruin for ourselves and for
others, or toward the heights Of
economic progress, sustained pros
perity and enduring peace for our
Nation and for the world.
VIII.
Before I finish, I should like to
say this. If there were any suspicion
in my mind that the trade agree
ments program hurts rather than
benefits our people, 1 would be the
first to abandon it. I have searched
diligently and painstakingly the
mass of evidence on all phases of
this vital question, and am firmly
convinced that it proves overwhelm-
ingly the beneficial nature of the
Evening star., 1940-01-11

trade agreements program and
points unmistakably to the dangers
inherent in an abandonment or
weakening Of that program.
have sought to place before you
some Of this evidence. My asso-
ciates in the Department Of State
and the representatives Of the other
departments and agencies partici-
pating in the trade agreements work
are ready to supply you with any
further information you may desire.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

The trade agreements program
was enacted for the express pur-
pose of expanding our exports
through the reduction of trade bar
riers in other countries. I submit
that it has done so.
We have concluded 20 reciprocal
trade agreements. The countries
with which agreements are now in
effect represent about go per cent Of
our total foreign trade. In these
agreements, valuable concessions
have been obtained for literally
hundreds of our agricultural and
non-agricultural products. Impor.
tant foreign markets. have been
kept open Of expanded TOR our pro.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Bulwark Against Reversion
To Economic NstiOnalism,

The establishment Of sound in
ternational trade relations will be
"a essential problem Of postwar