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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09
ONECASUALTY AS AMERICAN VESSEL SINKS First U. s. Boat Sunk Dur- ing War-0ff Coast of
 Australia - < BELIEVED TO HAVE
 STRUCK SEA MINE Boat Went Down Hour After ExpIOsiOn-Only
 One Man Lost

Melbourne, Australia, No vember g. - (UP) = The United States freighter, City of Rayville, has been sunk by an explosion, presumably caused by a mine, with the loss of one member of it's 38-man crew, Naval Minister William Hughes announced today. The first American casualty of the war at sea went down at one of the farthest points from home ports that American ships travel - lIo miles off the Australian south coast. The crew, under command ol Captain Arthur T. Cronin, responded calmly to the emergency. Ihey lowered life boats without panic into a choppy sea after blast hao torn a huge hole forward ana eh- veloped the vessel in flames.
 Only Ono Casualty
 TAe only casualty was the third engineer. named Bryan. The other 37 members of the crew were rescued by Australian naval and iishlne craft. guided by the fire, before the ship went down, standing on her nose an hour after the explosion. Survivors said the explosion was .,iSe hittinp a brick wall They brought ashore with them two nieces of m .tal that had been blown into A life boat Capt Cronin, who has commanded the Rayville for l2 years, said the metal did not come from the ship.
 Piled to Australia.
 The Rayville was Of 5,S03 tons huilt At Tampa, Fla, 1920, owned oy the United States Maritime Com- mission and chartered by the Amer ican Pioneer line, which IS owned oy the United States lines. She plieo between New York and Austraha with general cargo. The scene of the sinking was OH Cane Otway, Victoria. Belief that inc American ship was mined was strengthened by the announcement that a British ship, unnamed, naa been blown up under similar cir cumstances nearby yesterday, with in 24 hours of the City of Rayvilie disaster. .s One man of the British crew oi 6s was lost when it went down an hour after an explosion.
 Straits Closed.
 As result of the explosions, Hughes today ordered the Bass Straits, separating Tasmania rom
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09
HARTFORD FACTORY
 EMPLOYMENT UP

Hartford. Conn. Nov. Q - tUPl -The number Of employees In e2 factories in Hartford County inc creased 2TD3, or 3o per cent, dur. ing October over the previous month the County Manufacturers Associa- ton disclosed today.
 Total employees in thees plants in October was 74. .230. a new high. Thls was an increase of i7,i62 over Jan. llary 1,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09
S2 YEAR OLD MAN
 KILLED BY CAR

Boston, November 9--(uP)-John Gulesian. 82, Of Hyde Park was killed last night when struck by an auto allegedly operated by Jos seph A. Downey. He was the brother Of Moses II, ouleslan of NeWioWn. candidate for the U, s. Senate on the Townsend Plan tIck- ct in 1886.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09
NAVAL AUTHORITIES
 DECLINE REPORT

Boston, Nov. e-CUP) Oficers at inc Boston Navy Yard declined .oday to report publicly the man. ser in which Henry W coldstad. 4S ef Pembroke. a civilian machinlst, Eas killed while working ln the After gun turrg oi an unidentified destroyer. They reported only that his death yesterday was "acciden- tAk"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09
The Weather

Fair, Cool Today. Sunday Cloudy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-09

Final Edition
 Closing Stocks Late News Flash,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

Americas is as serious as any Of the physical
endemic diseases and can be controlled In adj
VANCE only by preventive measures. It is to
set up similar defenses that the Havana con-
ference. following Secretary OF State Hulrs
proposals, has adopted the Act OF Havana"
It is regrettable that the Argentine delegate
and representatives of seven other American
republics have failed to grasp. the full import
of the Hull proposals or the importance Of be-
ing fully prepared to combat unitedly any to-
|talitarian attempts to take over the territories
In this hemisphere Of European powers which
have gone down under the Nazi attack.
But 1t is something that the Act OF Havana
has been signed, even with reservations. The
Americas are today more closely knit for a
common cause than ever before. It is not ton
much to hope that the existence OF a common
peril may convert the fence-straddhng repub'
lies to whole-hearted cooperation with their
more far-seeing sister republics.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
LITTLE ROCK REGRETS TO LOSE
COLONEL REYBOLD


Little Rock Aik.) Arkansas Gazette
In the three years since he came to Little
Rock as head of the Southwestern Division,
United States Engineers, Col. Eugene Reybold
has been not a sojourner but in q very real
sense q mrnber of the community. Az he goes
to his new station in Washington he leaves be.
hind him a record of major achievement. I'm
der his supervision, construction work on prof.
ects totaling $3.50, 600, 900 has been started in the
southwestern division as a whole, and projects
aggregating nearly $500, 000, 600 have been auth,
orized or recommended to Congress.
What is Of special interest to this state, the
comprehensive food control plan tor the Ark
ansas and White rivers and their tributaries
has been completed, and construction is al
ready under way on a number of dams, includ'
ing Nimrod on the Fourche LaFave, Blue
Mountain on the Petit Jean, Norfork on a
branch of the White and Clearwater near Pied.
mont, Mo-. AS part Of the Same broad plan
which is expected when completed to eliminate
flood damage, major levee projects have been
carried out on the north bank Of the Arkansas
river from North Little Rock to Pine Bluff, and
on the White river below Newport.
Regret for the departure OF Colonel Reybold
from Little Rock and Arkansas must be tenn
pered by qualification at his selection by the
War Department for a post Of high importance
at this time when the nations military estab'
Nshment is being greatly expanded and fuuy
armed with modern equipment as a measure
of defense. As assistant chit Of staff Of the
United States army, in charge of GA" Col
onel Reybold will be responsible for vital &C.
tivities relating to the immediate supply OF the
army and the preparation Of the basic supply
plan for use if the emergency Of war should
overtake the nation. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

the trend OF the fighting. Should the Axis
forces gain the advantage it will be necessary
for other nations, notably Tho United States,
to speed their own defense programs, for 1t
is inevitable that the fall Of England will inn
pose heavy burdens upon every nation still
uneenquereA. Only Dritain's dstensss today
stand between their freedom and a world to-
talitarian revolution. II those defenses are
broken and England goes down before the
Nazi juggernaut, this country. every country
still free from the yoke OF the dietators, must
take Up the fight where England leaves OF.
In the meantime, it would be far better for
our congressional isolatienists to stop their
cavil against the selective draft and complete
rsarznament, and join their legislative and Of
feial brothers in the effort to make America.
all the Americas. safe from aggression.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Missing The Point

Leopold Melo, Argentina's delegate to the
Havara Pan-American conference argues from
the wrong hypothesis when he claims that the
setting up Of machinery at this time to occupy
European colonies Ia the Western Hemisphere
is like calling in a specialist for a disease not
yet suffered.
The new pacts signed by representatives OF
the American republics are, in fact, like taking
shots at the approach of winter to prevent
catching cold, or giving a baby typhoid or
diptheria vaccine as a measure Of prevention
against attack.
The disease not yet suffered Of seizure ~
foreign countries of European colonies in the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Right Turn Revoked

Wilmington is ia a vastly improved situation
for safety today. The right turn IN the red
light has been banned.
After a persistent battle in these columns and
with support Of many safety-rninded citizens,
coupled with recommendations by the traffic
|eernmittse of the Kiwanis club. the city COM
mission has at last adopted new traffic regula-
|tions dealing with many unsatisfactory condi-
tons, chief Of which was this right-turn rule
which so long iunperiled the lives of drivers
and pedestrians alike at si%gnal-protectsd inter-
sections.
Henceforth drivers are subject to prosecu-
ton If they turn a corner on a red light.
It would be particularly appropriate and
should have . salutsry effect, now that the per-
~nicious rule is revoked, if the police placed
offenders under actual arrest to emphasize
that the city is in earnest, if belatedly.
Other changes in the traffic regulations are
to b. commended, particularly the one which
gives the pedestrian moving on tn green light
right of way over vehicular traffic making q
turn on the green light. We know Of no other
way in which the authorities could build UP re.
spect for the jay1walking prohibition than by
assuring persons afoot that they will be safe at
intersections il they proceed only on the proper
signal light.
Wilmington streets have been crowded with
jay walkers only because there was greater
safety in crossing between blocks than at the
places regularly prescribed for reaching the
other side OF the street. With motor car driv-
ers crowding them into tight places and en-
dangering them at every downtown crossing
it is not surprising that they sought passage
where the danger was not 50 great. Now, they
will be expected to conine their perambula-
tons to the intersections, and it would not be
amiss if the police, in this case, made examples
of a few offender stoo.
Another alteration in the regulations probab-
ly is wise, but will prove exceedingly unpopu-
lar. It IL the imposition Of nnes for parking In
either bus or truck reservations. After seeking
a parking place futilely at the curb on several
blocks, motorists who finally come to rest In
these spaces would seem to deserve sympathy
rather than punishment, but it is not for us to
say that their desperation is to be condoned.
Henceforth 1t will be an offense against the
law for private vehicles to be parked in the
reservations, and it behooves a harried driving
public to observe the law, at whatever cost in
time or annoyance obedience may entail.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Fund Lack A Handicap

The newly created industrial committee finds
itself handicapped for funds even before it be.
gins to function. The county commission has
adopted the years budget and can make no ad-
ditions to it. As Addison Hewlett, chairman of
the county board, pointed out at a meeting Of
the committee, any changes in appropriations
must be made within the structure of the bud
get themselves. that is, clipping one fund to
feed another.
It 1t Is found, in further discussions, that this
custom offers the best means of financing the
committees activities, then the suggestion that
the advertising funds of the city and county
be turned over to the committee, seems to be
timely and helpful. This advertising fund has
produced little benefit to Wilmington in the
past. Its dedication to the industrial commit
tees needs might give it power that it has al
ways lacked.
Until Wilmington has something to show for
the committees existence in the way of public
enterprises, whether for defense or industry,
such a great appropriation would be out of the
question. But there can be no doubt in any
body's mind that a substantial fund must be
available if the committee is to produce tangi-
bic results. The amount Of money It Is to have
to start with is important, of course, but not as
important as that it make a definite start and
that 1t have some cash tor its essential needs.
The two commissions governing city and coun-
ty have no greater obligation to the people OF
Wilmington at the present time than to see that
a fund is created for the missionary work Of
the committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
BY Ro6bis Ceons

HOLLYWOOD, July a.
''They Drive by Night"
Screenplay by Jerry Wald and
Richard Macauley. Directed by
Raoul Walsh. Principals: Ann
Sheridan, George Raft, Hum
phrey Bogart, Gale Page, Ida
Lupino, Alan Hale.
The news in this one is that the
Lupino girl creeps up on the pro.
duction and bags it for her ewn
with a performance which. chal-
lenges the queen of the movies,
Miss Bette Davis.
The film in which Ida, one-time
exponent of giddy collegiennes and
light-headed blondes, does her stuff
is a 'nelodrama Of commercial
trucking. It delves Interestingly
and with a liberal sprinkling Of
salty dialogue into the problems Of
the independent" truck = driver
<Raft) who follows the killing,
sleepless trail between Los Angeles
and San Francisco, his great ambi-
ton to have his own feet. Bogart
plays his brother, eventually the
victim Of an accident which kills
Rats hopes and sends him to work
for rich. gruff and hearty Hale.
Miss Lupino has come into tie
picture ere this, for she is Hale's
wife, dopey over Raft despite his
loyalty to Hale and his interest in
a roadside lunch counter waitress
(Sheridan).
After Ida has murdered her hus-
band, hoping to get Raft, she re-
sorts in jealous fury to a comics
sion" pinning the blame on him.
These scenes, and ensuing Sc
quences in which the actress de-
lineates the gradual breakdown Of
a neurotic mind, are forceful and
memorable.
Raft is well cast, Bogart is as
good as usual, and Miss Sheridan
lat least until Miss Lupino takes
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
TOP O. THE MORNING

To-day on the road I met Him.;
The very same Jesus pho trod
The old, old lanes and tho highways
On His beautiful errands for God.
/ 9aoas troubled and heart.sick and Weary
with q load too heavy to bear;
! cried aloud in my z0eGkness
And suddenly He aoas there.
No different at oil from the Mdster
ON the Jericho road that day;
No different at all from the SdUiour
Along the Samdrid Udy.
Grace NoJ CroWeH
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
TAKE 1T EASY
BY DR.. l..


For many years physicians have
been trying to reduce fatigue and
nervousness and to bring a b o u t
states of relaxation. Some of them
have sought diets which would off
set and counterfeit fatigue. They
have fed their patients foodstuffs
which r strong in energy and
tissue building properties.
They have urged their patients
not to cut down on simple sugars
or on red meats. They have or
dered quantities of milk for all
sick people because milk contains
calcium, as well as easily digested
fats. Since the assimilation Of cal
cium appears to play an important
part in the release of excess ten
sion, other physicians are begin
ming to give calcium medication
in many forms.
Since ultraviolet irradiation in
fluences the assimilation of calci.
UNI, sun and artificial helio-ther-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
new abe PRICES
EFFECTIVE TODAY.
List For States Legal Liquor
Stores Based On Reduced
: MAKEUP System

A new price list on alcoholic ber
erages-computed on a reduce
markup system-will take effect in
New Hanover county's ABC stores
today.
Previously, items have been mari
ed up IS per cent from total cost
to obtain retail selling prices, but
under the new system the marsaI
is only so per cent.
A similar reduction will be in si
feet in all stores in the state, the
change being approved by the STATE
ABC board.
Reductions range from five cent
per pint to Is or more cents pei
quart.
w. D. Macmillan, chairman OF TIN
county ABC board, said last nlgf
"a new low priced pint of whlsse!
will be added to the stocks TO II
tail at SIS cents. This will be done
he said, in order that the store
may compete on even terms Will
sellers of bootleg whiskey.
These brands have not yet Oe'A
placed in stock, he said, and af
not included in the new price D'
The price of these items will u
not more than IS cents, regafoeS
Of the markup system, MacNlllSD
said.
The lowest items on the lN a.
present are a 65-cent pint Of WEE
key, a 55-eent pint OF rum div :
25-cent pint of wine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Seven Fliers Escape >,
When Bomber CrashS

N A Panama. July d
Seven U. S. army fliers VIM '~
ed out Of their crashing bomDei W
parently escaped injury TO-DAY =
Sergt. Leo Sviechowiez, a pa' ~,
ger in another plane gong u ~
rescue, was injured when ths ~ ",
ond ship overturned in iahoANS
Rio Hato air field. 4
Lieut.. William E. Greer pl"
the bomber which was to"'Ns
gunnery target when the lno'0'
ed, was found In the interior
Fort Rio Hato. He said tIie a,
six members had parachulea
in the isolated region.
parties still sought several OIL
late today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Star-News Program

Consolidated Otty. Co4nty .GeveTr~sent
under CounetkM anagsS Administration
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and industrial
GhoWs.
Seaside HtgAway from Wrtghtsvtlle
Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF CITY Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fea, RiDer channel, aotd.
ey Turning Basin, pith, ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastsrw bank
south OF Wilmington. -
Paved Rives Road to Southport, Uto
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Casoltna.
United Imdustrtal and Resort Pro-
motional Agency. supported BY ore.
countrywide tas.
S~hipyasds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center tor Southeastern
North CaroHnse, developed around tho
I Community Hesptsai.
Adequate he,pttal facilities for uhttss.
Junior Htgh School.
Tobacco Warshonss for Export Buyers.
Development o. Sattvs craps grouping
throughout Southeastern North Caroline.
Modern T2bsyeGlosh Eanatort1m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

teered their services for the milk
fund drive and wound up doing
a Pitch on the Whitney estate.
You always price them accord
ing to how the audience is
dressed" CAM explained. Some.
times we sell for a nickel. At tic
Whitney estate 1t was fifty cents.
All this money, Of course, went
into the milk fund.
They find it pleasant to. recog.
nize, each night around the floor.
many of the people they sold ka-
Zoos to in those days Of so long
ago. Well, a. month or so ago, any
way. Now they don't have to sell
them. They give them away, and
got paid for dutns it 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Ship Yard Workers -,
Requested To Res''f'

The Wilmington employmeh. rrI
ice division office of the s'a.s
employment compensation ariud
sion is interested in intefsN ,gd
persons who are qualified ~ .rsrtI
tain positions and available loi
fer to other localities. usp|
The positions |ere listed ny ,orf|
rice Fl. Moore, manager, as rst|
ship filters, shiprights, l0lSits
clippers and caulkers, copper
and machinists. ,;.ior|
Persons qualified for the pewrcg|
are asked to contact the locdi
office for further fnformalioA'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK

isn't all. A lot of railroads, Canadian border
hotel managers, and other persons who depend
a lot for their livelihood on tourist trade to
Canada, have a mad on.
Those reports-that if you cross the Canadian
border you can't get back into the United
States without a passport, a copy of the Constl-
tuition, and ability to repeat the declaration Of
Independence-have played hob with travel.
The situation became so serious that the A
sent Is Investigators to border points to get the
lowdown. Now they are roaring that there
isn't a word of truth in it. The fact that Canada
is at war has made some difference, they adj
init, but not enough to justify the nose-dive
that Canadian travel has taken this summer
The report is that it is a good idea for Ameri-
cans visiting Canada to have means Of identif-
cation, but that no specific documents are de-
manded. Birth certificates, voting registra-
tons, membership cards-and a heap OF pa
thence in answering questions OF immigration
officers because of new regulations-would get
anybody back across the border, say AAA OF
fcia1s. -
The trouble and most of the reports of trouble
have come from naturalized citizens who did
not have their naturalization papers. the in
vestigators found. At one key entry point near
Detroit, the AAA sleuths found that out of 49,
600 persons re-entering the United States dur
ing the first five days of July, only two had
been turned back.
One of the principal topics of conversation
around Washington these sweltering days is
what effect the Hatch bill, signed the other day
by President Roosevelt, is going to have on the
Political campaigns this fall.
/ The answer is almost invariably that its ct
feet will be tremendous. For example, the
Democrats will be able to spend on their ma
tional campaign only a little more than a halt
as much as they did four years ago. And the
50, 900, 600 campaign expenditure limit will hold
the Republicans to one-third Of what they spent
trying to elect ALI M. L.andon
That means fewer speeches by bigwigs trav-
cling on party expense accounts. It means
fewer campaign khingdings. It means much
less Campaign literature. 1t means the national
party committees will be able to dole out much
less for organization Of the hinterlands.
The new Hatch bill win also take about ESQ.,.
600 field workers who are paid partly by federal
funds out Of political activity.
But in spite Of this it's going to be far from
a dead campaign. That's what Washington is
!campaign generals, it is believed, will set dow
in every whistle stop in the country to take
their case to the people personally. And even
Il President Roosevelt isn't able to leave his
desk, his campaign corps will have to fight
fire with fire.
The result then will be that the Hatch act
will take a lot Of the spending out Of the
Sight, but it won't eliminate any Of the light
ming and thunder The New Deal witt be fight
ing for its life. Even the most pro-administra-
lion observers admit that the Republicans
have a toe-ho1d. They'll be fighting tooth and
nail to turn that into a victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
The Editors
BOX

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