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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Three Way Program
will Provide Labor
For Defense Work
inventory Of Man Power
And Two Types Of
Troinine Provided

Adequate labor in the defense pro-
gram will be assured through a
three-way program, In cooperation
with industry, it was announced to-
day by Sidney Hillman, commits
sioner in charge of the Labor Divt-
sion of the National Defense Ad-
visory Commission.
The program calls for an inven-
tory of man power according to
skills, cooperation of industry for
training men In industrial plants
and vocational training schedule
in the Nations schools.
This program" Commissioner
Hillman declared, provides a COM
piete picture Of our labor supplies
and provides for development of
our labor resources for insurance
against shortages or bo.tlenecks,
without creating any new or en-
larged organization"
AS first step, already completed,
5.50o,0 900 unemployed men have been
registered and tne number avail
able in any particular trade or skill
has been compiled in each locality,
through the $500 offices affiliated
with the United States Employment
Service, it Is said. This register is
available to private employers. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

large trade unions are making SINH
lar inventories Of their unemployed
membership, 1t is pointed out.
As defense contracts are let, esti-
mates are made of the number of
men required in each skill in full
filing the contracts and when they
will be needed.
The Labor Division likewise is
considering reserves which might
be called up in case labor shortage
Is threatened In certain lines. In
this connection men doing certain
skilled work who have had previous
experience in more highly skilled
occupations would be offered courses
to qualify them for the more skilled
work
Also, unskilled men are being
trained under experienced employees
to qualify for skilled positions. one
example of this provided at Pater-
son, N. j., where heads of vocational
schools worked out a joint training
program with the Wright Aeronau-
tical Corp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

vors continuance of the voluntary
system until 1t appears that more
authoritative measures are neces-
sary.
The commission wants to inter-
fere as little as possible with the
normal flow Of business in the coun-
try. And to that end they want to
see that the defense orders do not
cut OF supplies of materials that
we use in our daily life. But in
some cases, 1t may be necessary
to work out some plans for mini
mum retooling. This is not ex-
pected to affect new models now
on the way, for those orders were
placed months ago. The machines
are being delivered. But the whole
j:esaw puzzle on machine tools has
to be pieced together into q COM
plete picture and it takes some
sweating to do it. But it can be
done.
Worries on Labor.
Then, the manufacturer finds
new worry sneaking up on him. Is
he ging to be able to get enough
skilled laborers to operate his nice,
shiny, new machines? Well, the
commission worries about this, too.
Training schools have been set up
throughout the country and also in
industry itself. When the machines
arrive, workmen will be on hand.
The number of men in each skill
are being listed and as soon as the
manufacturer can tell the commits
sion how much of what kind of
labor he will need, the commission
can help him get it through the
offices of the United States En-
ployment Service.
The commissions co-ordinating
activities is really a job of keeping
things running smoothly, of speed,
Ing up here, slowing down a little
there, looking ahead, meeting prob
lens before they arise.
1t sounds easy, but it's one OF the
largest jobs the Nation has ever
undertaken.
Tooling up will take all the fall
OF 1910. But by the beginning of
next year, material should begin to
roll into the arsenals. BY the spring
of ls4l production will be rising
raridly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Does Your Breath Broadcast
II Wear FALSE TEETH"?


People who wear plates or bridges
often suffer from special kind Of
bad breath. Dentists call it-"den-
ture breath"
You won't know If you have it
but 1t can spoil your happiness.
Friends will shudder-people avoid
you! And the worst of it is that
ordinary brushing may not prevent
1t. Neither will mouth washes. For
the odor comes from a mucin-scum
that collects on plates and bridges.
This scum soaks up germs and
decay bacteria and causes q vile
odor that you cannot detect.
One thing that definitely stops
"denture breath" Is daily use of,
Polidentl This new brushless :
cleaner has won the approval Of
thousands Of dentists and users. A.,
Polident not only purifies false
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Youth Hostel Group
PIuns ORGANIZATION

Plans for the formation Of local
branch of American Youth Hostels,
Inc, will be discussed at a rally
Thursday night at Barker Hall, Sew
enteenth and K streets NV. The
program will include an illustrated
talk on hosteling by Charles Harris,
executive secretary of the Middle
Atlantic Council of the organization.
Leaders of the movement are look
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Legion SIotes Election

Police and Fire Post, No. 20,
American Legion. will elect officers
for the coming year at a meeting
at 8 pm. Wednesday night in the
Odd Fellows Hall, 419 Seventh
street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

ing to the establishment of a chain
of hostels from Washington to
Western Maryland, to follow the
Potomac River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

teeth but also removes all stain,
tarnish and food deposits. Makes
breath sweeter plates look better
and feel better. Costs only 30s at
any drug store and lasts for many
weeks. Money back if not delighted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

This is the sirth OF a series OF
articles prepared by the National
Defense Commission to otue the
public a background on the cur
rent program, OF Building for De-
tense"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
VETS HOSPITAL
CEREMONY Held
h
+New@$1,500,O00 Facility
At FayettevillesIs Is Dedi-
Gated By Officials

FAYETTEVILLE, Oct. 17.-R)-
The federal government e W ST.
500, 900 veterans facility, which in
cIudes a 3O7-bed hospital and re-
gional offices of the veterans ad-
ministration, was dedicated here to-
day with ceremony and parade.
The principal speaker was Col.
George E. Ijams, of Washington,
assistant administrator of the Vet
Grams administration, who stressed
the need of national unity in sup
pressing subversive movements.
I'VE ought to return to their mas
ters abroad" he said. "those repre-
sentatives of subversive movements
who would destroy us from within. :"
"Our old enemies of 1917" he told
the audience of several thousand
persons, "the advocates Of the theory
that might makes right, are attempt
ing once more to impress their will
upon those nations who are not
strong enough to resist"
Governor Hoey made brief talk.
The personnel of the facility was
introduced by j. s. Pittman, the
manager. A banquet was held to-
night. for the visitors. Col. Terry
A. Lyon was toastmaster.
A parade which included several
units from nearby Fort Bragg pre-
ceded the dedication ceremony.
Representatives of veterans organ
izatoins made brief talks. They in
cluded r. Dave Hall of Belmont,
American Legion; Bryan Crosby of
Hickory, Veterans of Foreign Wars !;
Norwood S. Westbrook, of Whining
ton, Disabled American Veterans; E.
J. Sharpe of Kannapolis, Spanish
American Veterans, and c. J. Turpie
of Charlotte, Military Order of the
World War.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

nxN1AG As O4Nxx 0OAN
Climatic factors at both ends o1
Britain's long battle line, from
England to Egypt, are working ir
her favor as she braces to meet
the winter strategy Of hec Axis
foes.
In western Europe, chilly Octo'
ber rains, admittedly hampering
aerial warfare for both sides, gave
bomb-blasted London a period Of
relative peace on Wednesday night,
although the Germans returned to
the attack later.
Rain In Egypt
In Egypt the rains have come.
During the next two months, it is
not too little but too much water
that is apt to complicate Italian
hopes of cracking the British block
ade at the Suez gateway. Moving
mechanical war machines owe r
soggy ground is perhaps a more
difficult business than military
operations in midday tempera-
lures above the 120 degree mark.
It may be that having waited this
long to wave his army in Egypt
Continued on Page Five; Col: ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
CHINESE TRUCKS
Use BURMA ROAD
Traffic Resumed On High
way Despite Threat
OF Bombardment

CHUNGKING, Oct. 18.-(Friday)--
(R-China's trucks of war are roll
ing again on the Burma road under
the threat of iminent Japanese bonn
bardment.
At the stroke of midnight traffic
was resumed across the border with
British-controlled Burma after a
three month closure by the British
in a futile appeasement gesture to.
ward Japan.
Instead of using the three months
to seek a settlement of the three
year-old China war-or China incl
dent" as the Japanese call it-Ja-
pan won, with pressure on French
Indo China, nearer bases for an
aerial offensive against China and
the great highway itself.
Now Japanese heavy bombers are
only two hours at most from the
Burma road at their Hanoi base.
The Japanese have threatened to
close the road with bombs.
Facing this possibility, Chinese la
Dor squads were drawn up today at
Continued on Page Two; Col. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
START NOVEMBER 16
Says Majority OF Housing
Facilities For Army Will
Be Ready Dec. Is
DIVISIONS PLANNED
Clarence Dykstra Takes
Oath OF Office AS Direc-
tor OF Selective Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. II. -R-
Secretary Stimson disclosed con-
scription schedule today which
woula call 100000 men to the col
ors by next June Is and added that
beyond that date "only God and
Hitler" know what will be the con-
ditions that govern the rate at
which the men will be summoned
to service.
The first group of draftees,
contingent of 10000, will be sent
to the training camps about Nov.
18, he said, adding that $4,000,
would go on Dec. 2; $4,000 on Jan.
3; 10000 on Jan. Is, 100000 on
Feb. 10, 100000 on March 5, and
10000 on June Is.
At the same time, the cabinet
officer said Wendell L. Willkie, the
republican presidential nominee,
had been "misled into m k n
statements that were neither fair
nor accurate" on the provision OF
housing for the troops. A great
majority" of the new housing IA
cilities planned for an army Of
! 200, 600 would be ready by Dec.
Is, he added.
New Divisions Planned
Stimson also told of plans for
forming two new armored divisions
next June, the third and fourth OF
that type toward an ultimate goal
of ten. One will have its head
quarters at Pine Camp, N. Y, and
the other at Camp Beauregard,
La, he said, and each will con-
sist of about 1850 men. He an-
nounced that $6,000,0 900 contract
had been let for new housing at
Pine Camp.
AS the conscription program gets
into full swing, national guard
units not yet modified are to be
called to active duty.
Stimson said that eight divisions
and some other units of guards
men-about 10000 officers ard
men all told-would be mobilized
between January 3 and January
19. He did not say which units
these were.
Remaining national guardsmen
about 1000 in all, will be called
on February 3.
$500 In Camps
About $500 guardsmen already
are in camps for a years train
ing.
Under war department p lans,
conscripted men will be distributed
among regular army and national
guard units for training.
Preliminary figures indicated
that the total draft registration
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
Bolnbardnlen't
-
Shakes Kent;
Berthas Roar
British Planes Make Day
Gght Raid On Nazi-Held
Naval Base At Brest
LONDON HAS LET-UP
l,one Lulls Between Bombs
Mark 4lst Consecutive
Attack On The City

LONDON, Oct. 17-RHBritish,
bombers knitted through a soupy
foo tonight to smash at the French
invasion coast with a h avy
bombardment that shook the Ken
fish shore on this side of the chan
mel.
The detonations rumbled across
The channel like the steady roll
Of thunder. A light southwesterly
wind was blowing across the calm
channel waters during the attack.
The Germans opene' up early
in the night with bombardment
Of their own, from coastal batter
les in the Dunkerque area.
Brest Bombed
In rarely accomplished broad
daylight raid, British pilots were
declared to have heavily bombed
the Nazi-held French naval base of
Brest, and from the Dover coast
Englands big guns made the chan
mel unsafe for German craft.
Two batteries of British artillery
erupted against a single German
torpedo-carrying E-boat, ringing,
the vessel with water spouts from
falling shells until it sped off for
home in rising shower of spray.
The attack on Brest, made by
planes of the coastal command
over a noW-familiar air t r a i /,
caused extensive damage" to the
bases vital power station, the air
ministry announced.
1t followed the same pattern of
night assaults few hours earlier
On the German naval base at Keil
where fires were said to h v e
sprung up, and on the ports of
Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhaven
both bombed many times before.
Continued Oh Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
NINE COUNTIES REPORT
H. G. Carney Says Meeting
OF Local Board May Be .
Held Tomorrow

Uncle Sam last night had the
names of 39,476 young men be-
tween the ages of 81 and 36 from
Southeastern North Carolina ready
to file for possible call for years
service in the United States army.
Yesterday final tabulations on,
the number of men registered for
military service in the nine coun-
ties of this section were made.
The results were as follows:
New Hanover, 6,173; Brunswick,
1877; Onslow, 2,1O5; Columbus,
1922; Bladen, 2,978; Pender
1912; Robson 9,063; Sampson,
5,385; Duplin 4,681.
Smooth Registration
From all counties came reports
that the registration went off with
out hitch and yesterday the local
draft boards in each were max
ing plans for opening permanent
offices and preparing to send out
call orders Immediately following
the national draft lottery in Wash
ington.
H. G. Carney, chairman of the
New Hanover county be a r d OF
elections, and a member OF the
Wilmington draft board, said yes
terday that meeting Of the board
members will probably be held
tomorrow morning, at which time
a chairman will be elected and a
permanent board offic, set up:
He said that no definite author
ity on setting up an office has been
received so far but that the local
board hopes to commence getting
it's office in operation by Monday.
The local draft boards, appointed
by Governor Clyde r. Hoey, are
composed Of: Board No. for the
City of Wilmington-H. G. Carney,
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
BRITISH LEADERS
STAY IN LONDON
Government Not Yet Ready
To Order Compulsory
Evacuation OF Capital

+ aLoNDON, Oct. 17.-LR-Britain's
government is staying in London
informed parliamentary sources dis
closed today, and is not yet ready
to order compulsory evacuation OF
the bomb-strafed capital.
The same sources, however, con
veyed anew the governments de
sire that "the more people who can
leave London without interfering
with their business the better" and,
in the house of commons, the minis
ter of health disclosed an "ominous
increase" in the wartime spread of
cerebro-spinal fever.
Malcolm Macdonald, the minister,
said gravely that this should make
us pause in contemplation Of the
coming winter"
(Cerebro-spinal fever is cerebro-
spinal meningitis, also called camp
fever. 1t has been common mill
tary disease. The precise cause Of
it's rise in wartime is not known,
but it is presumed to come from
crowding, such as in air raid shell
ters and in other intimate contact.
The disease is attributed to an or
ganism in the nose and throat, pre-
sumed to be air-borne)
No reason was given for the semi
official reiteration of the govern
ment's determination to stay in Lon
don, on this 41st day of unbroken
air siege. The parliamentary cor
respondent Of Reuters, the British
news gaency, merely wro D: There
is no question of the government
leaving London. On the contrary,
they intend to stay here"
He added "There is no question
of any compulsory evacuation at
present"
The board of trade, which cor
responds to the United States de-
partment of commerce, announced
later that it's offices for the regis.
to the Grand hotel at Llandudno,
Wales.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
80, 39,476SoutheasternN.C.
Men Register For Draft
Ministers Indicted For
Failure To Register

BOSTON, Oct. IT, @-Less
than 1S hours after the close of
conscriptioh registration, two
Back Bay ministers were indicted
by a federal grand jury today on
charge of knowingly failing
and neglecting to register in ac-
cordance with the provisions of
the selective service act.
The indictments were be-
lieved to be the first in the
country of that nature. War
rants were not issued but U. S.
Attorney Edmund j. Brandon
said the ministers - the Rev.
Keith C. Kanaga, rs, assistant
: pastor of the Mount Vernon
Congregational church, and the
Rev. Harry H. Kruener, y,
' pastor of the First Baptist
church - had assured him they
would be available for question
ing or summons at the courts
convenience,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
EUROPEAN RELIEF
STUDIED BY F. R.
Big Consignment OF Flour
May Be Sent To Nom
Belligerent Spain

WASHINGTON, Oct. IT, Up -
President Roosevelt ca-vassed the
problem of American relief for Eu
rope with state department anc
Red Cross advisers today and il
was reported that a large consign
ment of flour might be sent tc
acknowledgement Spain.
At the White House conference
with the President were Secretary
of State Hull, Undersecretary Sum
ner Welles and Norman Davis,
chairman of the American R q
Cross. It was described officially
as relating to the refugee" ques'
ton but complete secrecy was OBJ
served as to what phases were dis:
cussed or whether any decisions
had been reached.
: Usually well-informcd sources
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
Episcopal Church Takes Step Toward
Liberalizing Marriage, Divorce Laws

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 17.-R-The
Protestant Episcopal church. after
more than IS years of discussion,
took its first step today toward
liberalizing it's stringent marriage
and divorce laws.
The house of bishops adopted
and sent to the house of deputies
a proposed new canon which would
permit divorced persons who re-
marry to receive the church's
blessing. This would not be given,
however, until one year after the
remarriage and then only upon re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
PRODUCTION BOOST
URGED BY WILLKIE
Candidate Says New Deal
Contributed To War Rath-
er Than To Peace

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 17.-R-Wendell
L. Willkie tonight called production
"the only road to peace" and said
I'VE must produce more and more
and more in order to reinforce
Great Britain.
He declared in a prepared speech
that he agreed with many of the
basic international detectives of this
administration at the present time. "
But, he asserted, the administration
has contributed to war rather than
to peace by falling to view produc.
ton as the American role in world
affairs.
"War is not the road to peace"
he said. "Appeasement is not the
road to peace. Production is the
road to peace-and the only road
to peace"
Describing Britain as 'fthe rim of
freedom far out beyond our shores" :"
the republican presidential nominee
said the United States could not
send an expeditionary force over
there because 1--WE have no such
force" A.
1--WE are not helping the way we
ought to help, the way we must
help" he said, ."if we are not to be
left utterly alone in this bloody and
barbarous world. -,
"We must produce more and more.
We must produce airplanes. We
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
Warren, Others Dedicate
Coast Guard Air Station

pal address by Rep. Lindsay c.
Warren, making his last public
speech as a member of congress
from the First district, and they
watched with wonder the zoomin.r
of 16 navy fighting planes which
roared across the field just as the
Elizabeth City High school band
struck up THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
It was almost as much Lindsay
Warren's day as it was the Coast
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
NAZlS BOAST AIR
DEFENSE WEAPON
Reports The Use OF Super
Searchlight To Blind Noe
turnal British Fliers

BERLIN, Oct. 17.-(RNGermany
ooasted new air defense weapon
"a super searchlight to blind noe
'arnal British fliers-while reports
Of havoc wrought by the incessant
pOmDardnent of England piled up
tonight
DNB, official German news agen.
~ claimed for the light a sort OF
edAdle-and-moth attraction.
30 binding are its rays, DINE
Sald' that the light seems to make
On attacking plane fly directly into
herman defense positions and anti
aircraft guns.
Inc light was used successfully
last night against a British bomb
Wontinued on Page Three; Col. y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
commendation of ecclesiastical au.

commentator of ecclesiastical au.
thorities.
The measure still forbids Epis.
copal ministers to marry divorced
persons, thus requiring that such
marriages be performed by civil
authorities or clerics of another
faith.
Under present church law, de-
scribed by some bishops in the
debate which preceded the to
26 vote of approval as "merciless
and cruel'', only the remarriage
of an innocent party in divorce
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
STUMSON SAYS
FUTURE RESTS
UPON HITLER
N. C.. Health Officials
Begin Making Blood
Tests Of Registrants

RALEIGH, Oct. IL @ -
Truckload after truckload of
human blood was brought to
the state laboratory of hygiene
here today as health officials
began the tremendous task of
determining the percentage of
syphilitics among Tar Heels
who registered yesterday for
the military daft.
BY mid-afternoon, between
10000 and $4,000 blood speci-
mems had been received, and
there were hundreds Of other
packages at the postoffice still
to be delivered.
The blood tests for syphilis
were offered on a voluntary
basis for all persons register
ing, in counties which have a
public health organization. In
dications tonight were that as
many as 100, 900 men within the
draft ages either already had
taken tests or intended to take
them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-18
BY HoKE NORRIS

ELIZABETH CITY, Oct. l7.-R
North Cardinals first Coast
Guard air station-a 294-acre land
ing field, cavernous hangar and
spotless .barracks-was dedicated
here today to the peacetine safety
of men who 60 down to the sea in
ships and to the wartime defense
of America and its institutions.
Thousands of persons flocked to
the $4,000, 900 base, four miles
south of Elizabeth City, for the
dedication. They heard the princi-