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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
PANAMA VESSEL
SUNK BY NAILS
British Say Heavy Loss OF
Life Was Caused By.
Aerial Bombs

LONDON. Iuly 22.-R-A ship
Identified as the 1,2S2-ton Frossoula,
of Panama registry, was sunk by
German bombers last week, an au-
thoritative source said today, add
ing it is feared there was a heavy
loss of life"
The ship was bombed by German
aircraft on the night of July Is,
about 258 miles northwest off Cape
Finisterre, Spain, in very bad
weather." this source said. It's last
port of call was Barcelona.
Eighteen Of the crew left in two
boats, n in charge of the ships
master, the other in command of
the chief officer. Nothing mor has
been heard from the captains boat,
it was said.
The source also said that those
in the chief officers boat suffered
terrible h~ardships." Some were
washed overheard and others died
of exposure.
After four days three survivors
reached a British port. They were
the Portuguese chief officer, the Sec
ond engineer, a Greek, and a sea-
man who is also a Greek.
The Frossoula is the third ship
flying the flag of an American re-
public to be sunk in this war.
The Argentine freighter Uruguay
was torpedoed May % within 100
miles of the spot where the Eros
soula repeatedly went down. Another
Panamanian freighter, the Santa
Margarita, was torpedoed off the
Spanish coast by a German U-boat
July 2.
Lloyd's register of shipping lists
the Frossoula as a 2O0-foot freighter,
owned by J.. E. Nardavas & Co.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Needed Dream Ball
To Be Banned by USGA

DETROIT, July 22.-R-
Manufacturers may succeed
in constructing the needed
dream golf ball that will ira
vel 400 yards-but the players
will never get'a chance to use
it in a United States Golf As
sociation tournament.
Harold w. Pierce, of Bos-
ton, president of the U. S. G.
A., told contestants in the 18th
annual national public links
championship last night that
the association is conducting
experiments designed to set a
maximum carry for balls used
in the national open and other
tournaments. Clubs also are
being studied, Pierce S a i d,
with the idea of limiting the
pitting of faces to reduce the
amount of backspin.
eve are afraid that a chem
ist will produce a substance
more resilient than rubber and
a ball with a phenomenal car
ry will be the result" Pierce
said. ut is my belief that
golf should be entirely a con-
test of skill with no player
holding the advantage over
another in the matter of equip
ment."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Col. Turner Injured
In Automobile Crash

INDIANAPOLIS, July 22.-LP-
Col. Roscoe Turner, famed speed
aviator; his secretary and two other
persons were injured severely late
last night in all automobile collision.
Col. Turner, driving one of the
motor cars, received a fractured pei
Wis. Physicians described his condi-
ton aS fair. Miss Marian Allyne,
his secretary, received a fractured
left collarbone. cuts and bruises.
Graydon Hubbard of Elwood, state
professional trapshooting champion
and driver of the other vehicle, suf-
fered internal injuries, and Miss
Helen Carson of Terre Haute, a
passenger of Hubbard's automobile,
received a broken right arm and
severe head contusions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY HENRY AVERILL

RALEIGH, July 22.-There have
been rumblings and grumblings in
some quarters around the capital
city as the result of the Chicago
conventions; but none seemingly Sc
rious enough to forecast any large
scale detection in November from
the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket.
The repeated statements by some
nationally known columnists that
the denomination of the President
accomplished by a 'phony"
draft and through the medium of
political bosses make no impression
on democrats here. who known the
North Carolina situation and feel
that the same conditions exist else
where.
1t is widely pointed out that North
delegation was for Roose-
welt not because of it's political
bosses, for everybody knows that
Clyde r. Hoey and most
of the state administration stalwarts
desperately opposed to Roose-
welt and only went along for his
because they were liter
ally forced to do Sc by the strength
of public opinion.
One old line democrat who didn't
want to vote for Roosevelt anyhow,
got much comfort out of the Wal
lace nomination for vice president.
'"Thank goodness, I can vote for
now.H', he said, eff I've got
to vote for a republican, I might as
well vote for one [ like"
Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P.
Horton, runner-up in the guberna-
torial primary, wasn't sc generally
regarded as a hot Roosevelter dur
ing the pre-primary and pre-Chicag,o
campaigning, but he's quite satisfied
with the Presidents denomination
and sees easy success for the ticket
in North Carolina.
"Why when we R~oosevelters get
started, it will be just about like
1885," he told your Raleigh reporter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Reynolds Urges u. S.
To TAKE Over Islands

WASHINGTON, July %. -(P-
Senator Reynolds D-NC) in a SEN
ate speech proposed today that the
United States acquire British and
French possessions in the western
hemisphere to form a ''steel ring"
from South America to Canada and
from Alaska to the dry Stotugas
south of the Equator.
Acquisition of such possessions in
GLIDING st. Pierre and Miquelon,
Reynolds declared in the senate.
could be effected without cost, by
writing their value off war debts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Ousted Latuian Chief
Is Reported Wounded

LONDON, July 22.-LP-An Ex-
change Telegraph British news
agency report from Gotcborg
quoted Swedish sources today as
saying that Karl Ulmanis, former
president Of Latvia, was gravely
wounded and in a hospital at Riga.
Before transforming Latvia into
a socialist republic and petition
ing for membership in the Soviet
Union, the country's new commun-
list rulers decreed the custer last
week of 6~2-year-old Ulmanis, who
helped write the Latvian declara-
ton of independence in 1918.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
MARINES TO GET
FOUR DESTR0YERS
Minute Man. Expedition
arv Force For Use In
So,,th America Seen
nv EDWARD E. M

LEXINGTON, July 21-R-The
"Aol.c1osed today that four de-
navy at't we're being fitted out for
stroyei1 me marine corps, evidenc-
use o. Oaor t to speed creation of a
ing emu Man. expeditionary force
re mdyS for any hemisphere emery
ency. Jo~ctrovers' are World war
me recently Reconnaissance
Warsi Years of idleness. Naval cir
attef Understood they would be con-
cles into high speed transports,
v erata armed and equipped to
spe' osbore advance forces at any
E%ps p1 point where hostilities
threatened. maa a
n,arine corps has rapidly been
! neraased to a strength of approx
no+eIv $4,000 officers and men,
.i;th the $4,000 goal in sight.
Wy The fleet marine force, subject to
e..+ orders for overseas service. is
heine expanded one-third by the
armation Of two new heavily
armed defense battalions.
In addition to the destroyer
.,ansnorts. converted commercial
,,essels are to be made a part OF
tbe overseas force, informed con-
oressmen understood. The liner
I@rooIois and the cargo-passenger
chin Mormacpenn were acquired
lsst week by the navy for undis-
closed purposes.
The navy's intention, informed
house members reported, is to
maintain in a high state of readi-
ness a seagoing version of Ger
many's fast moving armored land
divisions. Ships would be fully
equipped with artillery, tanks and
s~necial boats for quick landings so
thew could sail as soon as the
marines marched aboard.
Any attempted fifth column"
coup in Latin America resulting in
a call for United States Intervention
thus could be dealt with promptly,
it was explained.
Some of the new defense bat
talions are being organized at Par
ris Island, S. c., but there was ex-
pectation that the fire engine"
force might be stationed even clos
er to Latin America at the navy's
base of Guantanamo, Cuba. IL
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Shanghai Japs Charge
Sailors Beat Police

SHANGHAI, July %. - up - A
clash between United States sailors
and japanese policemen at Tsingtao
was reported today by Domei, jap
anese official news agency, with the
assertion that Japanese authorities
took a serious view of the incident.
Several of the policemen were in
jured.
Domei said the trouble started
when two sailors left a cafe with
out paying their bill, then became
involved in a fist fight with the own
er and Chinese bystanders. Four
japanese policemen who attempted
to arrest the sailors were attacked
by a United States patrol, the news
agency said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
WiNkie Will Watch
Daddy OF All Rodeos'

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
July 22.-CP-Wendell l.. Willkis
arranged to leave here today for
the so-called daddy of all rodeos"
in Cheyenne. Wyo., tomorrow.
The republican presidential mo-
minee was expected to fly from
Cheyenne to Salt Lake City for a
Latter Day Saints meeting and
then return here. Plans called for
a stay in Denver tonight and then
a train trip to Cheyenne. Several
train stops were scheduled en-
route so that Willkie could make
brief talks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
TEXTILE MEET

RALEIGH Representatives Of
North Carolina cotton mills will
meet with DR.. Claudius Murchison.
president of the Cotton-Textile In.
stitute, here tomorrow and in Char.
lotte Wednesday to hear an ex.
PLANTATION of the institutes promo.
ton program to increase domestic
cotton consumption to 10000, 900
bales annually.
A. G. Myers. president Of the
North Carolina Cotton Manufacture.
Fred Symmes, president of the
American association, will preside
at the Charlotte meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23

PITTSBURGH worried voice
on the phone inquired of a county
morgue attache concerning a missing
relative in fear he might have met
with foul play.
Hes five feet eight inches TALL"
said the caller, land he was wearing
a dark suit and a little gray hat. Oh,
yes-and he suffers"
1--WE couldn't have him." answer
ed the attendant. None of the fell
lows downstairs suffers"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
In Hollywood

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
terviews:
FRANCES FARMER: I've been
quoted on a lot of things l really
didn't say against the movies. But
if there's any reason why l like
working in the theater better than
in pictures it's because don't have
to get up so early"
JEAN MUIR (another so-called
rebel: I'm glad to be back. The
stage, as such, doesn't exist. In
two seasons of the legitimate the
alter there has been nothing to COM
pare with a Hollywood Grapes of
Wrath"
WILLIAM KEIGHLEY: Before
No Time for Comedy vas pro-
duced on Broadway, S. N. Behr-
man came out to our house and
read the play because he wanted
Genevieve Tobin (Mrs. Keighley)
to appear in it. When he'd gone
1 said that there was one play
which couldn't possibly be made
into a good picture. And now
here I am directing it,"
JUDY GARLAND: ct figure
about half of a college education
would be in belonging to things
and going to parties and trying to
be somebody on the campus. But
if 1 wanted to stay in pictures,
all I could get out Of college would
be sitting in a room with a teach
err. And I do want to stay in pic
lures, so there won be no more
book larnin' for Garland"
JIMMY CAGNEY: ''You h e
that kids steal scenes from expe-
rienced actors because everybody
loves children and watches them
because they're cute. I think that
nine times out of ten kids steal
scenes because they're actually
better actors; they're more nat
ural, more honest"
JOE E. BMOWN: Il was just
saying that every kid ought to
have an idol. 1t gives a kid some
incentive, even if he lever comes
close to being a Lou Gehrig or an
Edison or a Lindbergh. My idols
were Ty Cobb and William Jen-
nings Bryan-and when I grew
up I played baseball like Bryan
and politics like Cobb"
EDDIE BUZZELL directing the
Marx Brothers picture): Ham is
the essence of acting. Each actor
is his own show window. If he
wants to convince others that he's
a great actor, he must believe it
himself"
LEO CARR1LLoh You talk
about snoring!-did you ever hear
Irving Cobb? He comes down to
my ranch almost every weekend.
After a while l couldn't stand the
sleepess nights, and besides l was
afraid the sustained vibration
would shake the place to pieces.
So I built him a Strong little
house, almost soundproof, about
300 yards away"
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE: Act
ing is a sure cure for what ais
you. When you've got to work, you
just go ahead and do it. It's mind
over matter. I've played with a
temperature of 103 and apparently
created an impression of ravish-
ing health. And felt a lot better
when the show was over" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Roosevelt To Attend
Funeral Of Aunt, 90

HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 22.-
R-President Roosevelt will drive
to Balmville, N. Y, late this after
noon to attend the funeral of his
92-year-old aunt, Mrs. Dora Delano
Forbes, who died yesterday. The
Presidents wife and his mother,
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, sister
of Mrs. Forbes, will accompany him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
BEHIND THE SCREEN AT
WASHINGTON

son will be in a position TO DO TWO
things which have long been very
close to his heart. These are:
1. Aid the allies Cor Great Brit
ain at least) by making surplus
U. S. war materials available.
2. Hamper Japan's march to
power in the orient by cutting off
her imports of essential war mat
erials.
A considerable amount of
power over both of these matters
will come into Stimson's hands
because of two amendments which
were tackled onto the soc a l l e d
army speed-bill BILL" recently
passed and signed by the Presi-
dent.
One of these amendments pro-
vided that the President might
establish a system of export Ii
lenses to control the shipment of
such war materials as he might
designate as essential to the U. S.
preparedness program. The Pres.
ident has already acted under this
provision, raining Col. Russell L.
Maxwell as export control admin
strator and putting on export ban
On a long list of raw and finished
materials.
LAW MEANT TO
BE ONE-SIDED
On this list there is only o n e
item which would particularly
hamper the Japanese - machine
tools. The goods which Japan has
been importing most heavily from
the U. S. since she started the
war in China-oil, scrap iron, cop
per and automotive equipment-do
not come under the ban.
There are, however, two points
to consider in theat connection.
The first is that it will natur-
ally be the secretary of war who
will from time to time notify the
President that the list ought to be
extended to include other COM
modities.
The second is that debate in the
Senate clearly showed that tn e
law setting up this export-license
system was intended to be one
sided if the administration wished;
that is, that it wuld be legal to
stop the shipment of, say. scrap
iron to one country but not to an
other.
sTIMsON FIRST
TO OPPOSE JAPAN
The other amendment went al
most unnoticed. Into a section Civ
ing the secretary of war the au-
thority to make contracts Wi h
manufacturers it inserted this Ian
guage: "... including contracts
for the exchange of d~eteriorated,
unserviceable, obsolescent or sur
plus military equipment, mu-
nitions and supplies for o h r
military equipment, munitions and
supplies Of which there is a
shortage"
Thus the secretary now has full
legal authority to trade in" old
rifles, cannon, tanks or what-not
when he places new orders. After
such trade-ins, of course, the man.
ufacturer could sell the traded-in
goods to Britain.
AS secretary of S e, Stimson
was the first statesman to try to
exert pressure to halt ZJapan's
conquest of Asia. More recently,
he has served on the American
Committee for Non-participation in
Japanese Aggression - the com.
mittee which advocated an embar-
go on U. S. slaes of war materials
to Japan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23

A PANE ON THE NECK
LOS ANGELES-Forty cases of
plate glass toppled over Merle
Browne, >25-year-old paint store en-
ploye. M%iraculously, the cases form
ed a cave over his body and he es-
capped without a cut.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
N. C. HOGS

RALEIGH, July 22.-(P-(NCDA)
Hog prices were five cents higher
at a $50 top today at Rocky Mount,
while the market was steady at
Richmond, Va, with a SIS top.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
BOYS v CHANGE

FAIRBURY, Neb.-A mother ask
ed police to investigate the theft of
several chickens. Officers obliged,
and found:
Two ~13-year-old boys had made a
trade, n swapping his mothers
chickens for a battered movie pro-
jector.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Flashes
OF Life
POSTED CAT

W~ILLIAMSPORT, Parked by
the quarrel of his two young play
mates over a cat, a young king
Solomon. decided the best way to
settle it was to remove the cause.
He dropped the feline in a mail
box.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23

ASHEVILLE-The annual meet.
ing of the Southern Hosiery Manu-.
facturers' association will be held
here Sept. 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
PEACH CROP

esti.
mated today Richmond county's
peach crop was about so per cent Of
normal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
NET TOURNEY

HENDERSONVILLE-The West.
ern Carolina open tennis tournament
will begin here July 20 and continue
for six days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
DOUBLE THEME SONG

DOUBLE THEME SONG
KANSAS CITY-Grant Eye, music
store manager, received this letter
and a money order from an Iowa
farmer:
"Please send me photograph rec
ords of God Bless America and Let
the Rest of the World Go By That's
how I feel about things"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23

LENOIR-Millard Crisp has be-
come chairman of the Caldwell
county republican party executive
committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D,

The duct1ess glands work con-
stantly and upon their smooth and
efficient operation depends much of
our happiness, good appearance,
disposition, spirits, and even per-
sonality. I am not one who believes
that criminals and morons are that
way because of effectiveness Of
their ductless glands and that they
can be changed into something
good and noble by a few shots in
the arm. MOI do I think Napoleon
was Napoleon on account of his
pituitary gland-or Mussolini, or
Hitler, or Stain, either. heredity
and environment have mots to do
with crooks big and little.
But size and shape have a good
deal to do with the way a man or
a woman fronts the world, and
the blands have a good deal to do
with size and shape.
There is a destiny shaper that
lies up in the skull in the pituitary
gland. It's a very small, little piece
of flesh to have so much to do
with so many things, not as big as
the end of your little finger. But
if it gets to be as big as the end
of your thumb, there is the dickens
to pay.
Makes Us Grow
Growth, both vertically and hor-
izontally, depends on the pituitary
gland, and nobody can deny that
has some effect on the personality.
Six feet three looks at the world
differently than four feet eight. And
two hundred and fifty pounds finds
things different every minute of
the day and night from a hundred
and five.
Overactivity of the pituitary
gland causes giantism and removal
of the gland Gin the rat as the ex-
detrimental animal )slows growth
and development generally. Look
ing at them, one would not think
he was looking at an animal some
months, rather than some weeks,
old.
If the contrary experiment is car.
ried out of injecting pituitary ex-
tract into some of the newborn an
imals of a litter, they grow twice
or three times as fast as their I'M
treated litter mates.
But Don't Hurry
Undoubtedly the dumpy little, fat
children, so often seen, have a
slowly functioning pituitary gland.
Parents, however. should not try
to rush things in these cases by
resorting to pituitary gland injec-
tons. There are plenty of plump
little girls and boys at around the
age of 9 to II. The parents sigh
over these, but in the great mario
ity of cases the pituitary begins to
function suddenly at II or - years
and the plumpness disappears so
that at is or II they are as slender
and graceful as a willow wand.
In many cases of overdevelop.
ment or over-secretion of the pitui.
tary gland, producing giantism or
overgrowth of the jaw and hand
and foot bones, it is possible to
reduce the growth by the use of
exposure to the irradiations of the
X-ray. Thus we have means of re-
ducing and of replacing the Sc
erection of this master gland of
human destiny"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-23
QUESTIONS, AND ANSWERS

P. j. M.-"Can you give me any
information concerning the cause
of leg cramps during the night"
Answer-Cramps in the legs may
be due to spasm of the arteries
(called intermittent claudication)
but these usually come on after
exercise. Cramps at night sould
like muscular cramps which are
harmless and are best treated by
leaving them alone. Cramps due
to arterial spasm should be treated
with exercises, raising and lower
ing the limb. and intermittent pres
sure with a blood pressure bag, but
in any case, l think cramps in the
legs in a sniddle-aged person cali
for medical consultation. 4
Twin-City herald., 1940-07-20
Vocational Training
Now Available To
.WPA Workers

WPA workers who have no in
dustrial skill for the important
and well-paid defense jobs today
have the opportunity of going to
school to learn them and get WPA
while doing so.
A program announced by Sid
ney Hillman, labor member of the
defense advisory commission, Of
fers vocational training for $780,
900 persons. of which $4,000 will
be recruited from the ranks of
WPA workers.
The program will be financed by
a $7,7S1, $40 WPA grant and 81
10000 in funds of the Office ~
Education of the Federal Securl >
Agencv side from the $4,000 to
x re from WPA, the re-
| be obtained from
yment agencies, in CO.
ration with the u. S. Employ
Sc. e.
cher workers employed in in
.ry now but lacking in the
shiiils required for more highly
paid jobs will also have an oppor-
unity to --in the r . which
rl,n thro and
Twin-City herald., 1940-07-20
OUTLINES DEFENSE
AGAINST FOOD INSECTS

Every summer housewives face
a minor "BlitzkrSegss of: INSECTS in
to their food. Kitchen and food
security. then. depends. upon the
immediate: launching of "a .eotsnter
attack against the invading food
insects, declares Harold H. Shep-
ard, author of the new Extension
Bulletin 21O, Insects Infesting
Home Foods"
Usually good dose of soap and
water and a few squirts of ma
chine oil into corners and cracks
of the pantry and cupboards is
enough to stop the invaders. A
good paint job which fills these
cracks is IN even better defensive
measure.
If flour and similar food be-
comes infested, the cts can be
killed by placing dr in pans
and then heating in a- 1ven held
at ITO degrees fo. 20 min
utes. (This raises tie Iood tom
perature to about T. degreeS
For more complete letails on
controlling such insecGs as the
flour and grain beetle or the flour
and meal moth see your county
agent or write to the Bulletin
Room, University Farm, st. Paul,
for a free copy Of Extension Bull
letin 30, Insects Infesting Home
Goods"
Twin-City herald., 1940-07-20
Twin City Area Shows Census Gains
Employment Gains
Throughout Country

Employment in nearly every
region of the United States in
creased between April and May
with more than one-half of the
25O,O0O gain taking place in the
Middle Atlantic and East North
Central divisions, the Labor De-
partment reports in the first of a
series of new monthly State es-
Inmates of employees in non-agri-
cultural establishments.
Largest net increases in en-
ployment compared with May of
last year also was shown in the
Middle Atlantic and East North
Central regions, the gain being
placed at nearly 100000 more per-
sons employed this year. Manufac-
turing establishments accounted
for the hiring of half of these
workers, while unemployment of
bituminous coal miners idle in
May. 1899, pending negotiation of
new wage agreement, accounted
for gain of 10000. The remain
ing net increase of about 100000
persons occurred chiefly in trade
and the transportation of public
utilities groups.