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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
FISHY

While Rep. HAMILTON FISH of New York,
chief New Deal heckler, was declaring IN a
radio address on Sunday night that the
ROOSEVELT administration has been pouring
defense appropriations down the rat hole"
President ROOSEVELT was itemizing improve
ments in army, navy and air force with the
money provided by these appropriations.
The figures are Illuminating. For example,
the fighting personnel Of the navy rose from
79, 900, the peak of the former republican adj
ministration, to $4,000. During the seven
years since Mr.. ROOSEVELT took office 1I5
ships for the fleet have been laid down or
commissioned. These include II cruisers, GO
destroyers, 26 submarines, three aircraft car.
riers, two gunboats, seven auxiliaries. many
smaller craft, and now being built, eight new
battleships. The navy air force, having in
1888, 1,127 planes, today has 1892, and nearly
all of the 1888 planes have had to be replaced.
In 1888 the army consisted of 122, coo SOL
diers. Today that number is practically
doubled, and by the end of the year every
existing unit Of the regular army will be
equipped with it's complete requirements of
modern warfare" In 1888, Mr.. ROOSEVELT re-
vealed, there were 355 antiaircraft guns; now
there are 100 on hand or on order. In 1888
there were "a modern infantry mortars. At
present the number is 1000 on hand or con.
tracted for. In 1888 there were 4S modern
tanks. That total has been increased to LOO,
In the same time trained army pilots have
increased from 1858 to more than 5000.
Considering the high cost of production and
of training troops, this seems to offer a very
definite answer to and complete refutation
of the F1sE complaints. Mr.. FISH, who has
devoted so much of his public career to criti.
cism of the administration, shows very poor
judgment, in the emergency now facing the
nation, when he devotes time he could well
use to bolstering morale to attacks on his gov
eminent, especially when his attacks are mere
congratulations, unsupported by facts and fig
ures, and depend for effect entirely upon
broad and unreliable hints of mismanage.
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
Glove, coURTsHlP
AND MARRIAGE
Love On A Dime
Is All Right
With Lots OF Dimes
BY ERNEST r. AND GLADYS H.
GROVES
Noted Authorities on Marriage
Relations

heldll0IIS
CHALLENGING though it is to mar
raw on hope and try to establish
a marriage with love or a dime,
certain practical questions must
be faced.
What will happen if the couples
best laid plans do not work Have
they a second line of defense?
Young people who are planning
to marry can today get help from
many specialists. Any good bank
will give them a skeleton budget,
showing what they are likely to
do without, and how to manage
to have essentials.
If their income is not enough
for comfortable living, or ever Sc
curitv, they a find this out be-
fore they start. They may then
take their choice between Cd wait
ing, ca the wife working, 90
accepting aid from his family or
hers, and () deciding to jump
luto matrimony, regardless.
If they count on living with his
folks or hers, they must prepare
to be very patient.
Suppose they think of taking a
furnished room, let them talk with
others who have started marriage
in this way first.
If the wife's working is to en-
able them TO marry, they will be
wise if they first make sure that
she can get and hold a job.
Insurance companies have mod
crate priced policies, some as low
as $50 a year, which, in the event
of the husbands death, would pay
his widow a lump sum of several
hundred dollars, and q number of
monthly sums equaling the salary
checks he had been getting.
It would be still better if one
could take out a parenthood in
surance policy, which would fl
nance the coming of an unexpect-
ed baby, while the husband was
alive, for this is what oftenest up
sets the budget.
The very fact that n cannot
insure against this financial liza
bility shows how great is the prob
ability of its occurring. Young
couples who take this into account
make out two budgets, before
marrying, one with, and n with
ont, a baby in the first year or so
of marriage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
BRITAIN
BRITISH FACING
GRAVE SITUATION
WITHIN FLANDERS
CONTINUED from Page One)

(00nI!Dueu from rage OHCJ
lied forces north of that salient
in Flanders.
With the salient broadening, 1t
appeared +he position of the British
expeditionary force was becoming
more critical with each passing
day.
Whether the gap between the
Allies could be closed remained to
be seen, but every hour it stayed
open made the Germans on the
coast stronger, and the position of
the hemmed in Allies more unten-
able.
The royal air force sought to re-
lieve the pressure by heavy bomb
ing raids.
The German air forces mean
while were centering attacks on
shipping, including hospital ships,
and inflicting serious loss of life,
authoritative British sources said.
While the furious channel fight
proceeded, Britain kept an eye on
the Mediterranean threat.
The day was of incessant
fighting on the northern front, with
street clashes in Calais, whose fate
was still in doubt tonight while
battle planes Numbered overhead.
British naval guns pounded away
at NaZi columns.
At the end of the day the Brit
ish wal office reported the Brit
ish front remains intact
The royal air force, a communi-
que said, "'ew far behind the
front, gathering German commu-
nications and airdromes, and troops
concentrations in the real of Ar
ras. Allied anti-aircraft guns rak-
ed the clouds for enemy planes and
brought down a number of them.
TWenty-eight German planes
were reported destroyed or serious
ly damaged in "a hours during one
of the most farflung raids yet
staged by the royal air force. Five
British craft were missing.
Road, rail- and river tfaIIlc was
disorganized over a wide area from
the Rhineland to the French from
tier, the air ministry reported, in
raids which lasted throughout last
night and today.
The air ministry added that $50
high explosive and incendiary
bombs were rained on airports at
Brussels and CharIeroi, the latter
a German-held French town on the
Belgian border.
FLAMES were said to have leaped
skyWard after attacks OF Ant
Werp, Flushing and Venlo, on the
Dutch-German border.
In other attacks, the air minis
Try asserted, a bridge on Belgium's
main rail line was believed de-
stfoyed, a direct hit scored on the
railroad tracks south of Aachen
'Alx-La-Chapelle), in Germany, an
important rail junction in Belgium
wrecked. and a convoy of "a We
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

were incapacitated by German anti
tank defenses and the others dam
aged 80 seriously that their attack
foundered."
A German tank, target of several
Allied warships at Boulogne, was said
to have returned the fire and set a
destroyer aflame.
Furthermore" the communique
said, describing air attacks, I'VE
succeeded in sinking by bomb hits
n merchant ship of 5000 tons, be-
sides hitting with heavy bomb, with
apparent fires and eplosion effects,
one large warshiD. and two cruisers,
IS we'll as one transporter of $4,000
tuuS.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
DEDICATED
BY COLLEGE GROUP
DIR. Vardell Expresses Appre-
citation To Glasses For Gifts
At Flora Macdonald

RED SPRINGS, May 27.-The
dedication of the rebuilt arch
bridge in PARADISE" the name
for the lower part of the Flora
Macdonald college campus, consti-
tuted the highlight of the college
commencement program here to-
day.
DR.. c. G. Vardell, designer and
builder, expressed his appreciation
to the classes of 1889 and 1910
for their generous gifts which
made it financially possible to re-
build with stone blocks the one
time beautiful wooden bridge, rotted
away some years since.
Lena Thompson of Gastonia, vice
president of the class of 80, and
Grace Mcdowell of Bluefield, West
Va, president of this years gradu'
ating class, placed the corner
stones bearing inscriptions of their
respective classes on either side
of the bridge, and made brief
presentation talks, in which they
expressed to DR.. Vardell the deep
appreciation felt by members of
both classes for his invaluable
work in planning and superintend-
ing the building, without which,
they said, the bridge could not
have been built.
Rev. A. r. Mcqueen, D. D., chair
C H. l~&xI 80 %,,+~@- f~,,
mally accepted the bridge in be-
half of the college and the board.
The bridge, a replica of the or
iginal structure, is unique and rug
ged in design, and adds greatly
to the picturesque beauty of the
lower part of the campus which
constitutes PARADISE" The annual
commencement recital was given
in the auditorium Monday evening.
Students taking part in the con-
cert were Caroline Vidal of Gaines
vile, Fla; Virginia Leatherman,
Winchester, Va; Grace Withers,
Asheville; Margaret Cromartie,
Garland; Jean Fitzpatrick, Ford,
Va; Lois Ector, Florence, S. c.:
Lillian Macarthur, Wakulla; Mary
Blue, Parkton, Il. c.; Caroline
Buie, Red Springs, and the col
lege Glee club, with Dean Will
gus Eberly conducting. Miss Helen
Scoggins of the music faculty act
ed as accompanist. This recital, a
part of the th~ree-day commence
ment exercises, closed the years
work of the conservatory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
OBITUARIES
j. NJ.

LUMBERTON, May 81 - Funeral
rites for ]. M. Higgins, 64-year-old
carpenter, who died at his home here
Sunday after a lingering illness, were
held from the late residence this
afternoon with interment following
in the Meadowbrook cemetery.
Surviving are his wife: three child
rem, Mrs. C. A. Arnold of Phoebus,
Va, Mrs. Leslie Mcdonald of Lum-
berton, and Raymond Higgins OF
Laurinburg; a sister, Miss BESSIE
Higgins Of Greer, S. c. Two oroth-
ors w. H. Higgins of Clinton, ana
Jesse Higgins of Washington =. I.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

GERMAN OFFENSIVE
FORCES ALLIES TO
SURRENDER GROUND
Continued from Page One)

ing a heavy tell on transports and
supply ships.
Having bottled up about 1000, 900
British, French and Belgian soldiers
holding that line on the costal plains
of Flanders and Artois, the Nazis
were trying to break up the defense
by splitting the trapped Allied forces.
Two German thrusts, one wheeling
eastward from the coast and the 9TH
er pushing northwestWard from
areas were reported tonight pro-
crossing rapidly toward a meeting
north of Lille.
One was said to have penetrated
northeast of Lens, north of Vimy
Ridge, and the other to have ad-
vanced close to Ypres, on the oppo-
site side of the gap which the Nazis
are attempting to close.
Authoritative sources said this ma
neuver was aimed al cutting off the
bulk of British and French troops
in the sector, leaving the Belgians
to be taken in two small pieces by
a smash through westward from
Client.
700, 900 Men In Trap
1t was authoritatively estimated
that about 700, 900 British and French
troops were in the Lille trap.
Evidence that the Allies were coun-
4a,;,a, Will, rir,;J,r ~irooc ronyo-
ment to chop off the German spear
heads through Flanders and Artois
appeared in today's communicate of
the German high command.
The French, the communique indi-
Gated, were attempting to separate
the Germans on the coast from the
main Nazi army by attacks from
the south. But it declared that
strong Nazi resistance was holding
apart both prongs of the Allied
Eincer.
German war reports have made
repeated reference recently to driv-
ing back Allied tank attacks at
points all the way from Reims west
ward to Amiens. They also have
mentioned heavy German air activi-
ty as far south as Paris, breaking
up Allied troop concentrations, bomb
ing airports and similar attacks be-
hind the lines evidently aimed at
hampering Allied attempts to launch
an attack.
But whether the Allies are plan
ming a move to rescue their men and
equipment inside the German pocket
seems not to concern the Nazis.
They are proceeding methodically
to break UP the encircled area into
smaller pieces to make capture or
destruction easier and more certain.
Today's Blows
Today's communicate, stresslng air
and naval achievements, reported
these blows
A British destroyer sunk in Ostend
harbor and an Allied submarine
sunk off Helder, former Dutch naval
base, by torpedo motorboats which
the German navy has brought into
increasing use along the channel
coast.
The waterfront of D~unkerque set
aflame by air raiders ito Illustrate
attempts of the English to bring
parts of their encircled troops across
the channel to England"
Destruction of 70 Allied warplanes,
including 80 shot down in air fights
and Is by anti-aircraft fire, to Is
German plaes missing"
Dhe communique also indicated
heaVy tank fighting on both sides.
In a recent Allied attack south of
SEDAN, it said, five of II heavy tanks
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
HOOVER PRESENTS
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Continued from Page 0ne)

should be done by this admins
traitor. The business Of the army
and navy is to state what lheJ
want. 1t is for the munitions ao'
minisrator to deliver it.
"6-A research organlzauo'
should be created to constantly HI
prove these products.
'7-All appropriations Tor SUN
work should be made to this o.
ganization."
This is a form Of organlzatloa
that will get speed and economy,
Hoover declared. urgency, Spet1
and economy are not bureaucEa~'
virtues"
He based his recommendation
on three lessons which ne san
had been learned during and S1'V'
the world war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
QUOTATIONS

Country boys get almost all the hiking they
want behind a plow.-Wheeler McMillen, farm
journalist, on extension of Boy Scouting IN coun-
try districts.
We were taken for a ride on that, and I am
perfectly willing to admit it.-WPA Administra-
tor Harrington on criticism of the building Of a
Del Mar, Calf, racetrack.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
TOP o THE MORNING

1T is good not to eat flesh, nor TO dr1nS
qUine, nor anything Whereby tiny ofo1heT
stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
ROMANS 14:21.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

Its now or never for the Nazis, while all the
Allies have to do is to stabilize the situation
IN the army phrase-short of defeat-James A.
Aoffett. American oil man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

hicles blasted to pieces.
The war office announced 's"1
porary cancellation OF 'f''7 asl
service and a ban on all ''.n
weighing more than two ounces y
the British expeditionary force BE-,
cause of "heavy military ''8' .o.
At home the government
new precautions against me .hor
ace of a fifth column. More so
5000 German and Austrian N IN.
were rounded up in LONDON ~" n.
ternment on the Isle of Man "
the duration of the q oCO1' ,or
pacifists, wal grumplerS, so"p Il
orators and suspected maiilo''1 n
the outlawed irish republican ~"
were arrested
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Continued from Page o'e
all principal eastern cities were as'
present.
The festival will close Saturn.
night, that day being So 5S'"e q,
Farmers Day." With DH. ~La.S,
bearing, director in charge u
Coastal Plains experiment station -
charge of the pr-Gran.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
FETE
OPENS IN WALLACt

Continued from Page 0ne)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Smith ThrOttles YankS
AS White S0x Win, 70
Left-Hander Allows But Sev
en- Hits; Kuhel Hits 10th,
18th Homers Of Year

NEW YORK, June -R-The
world champion Yankees were
reaten today by another left hand
err, Ed. Smith, who gave the Chi
cago White Sox a 7 to 8 triumph
over New York with the help OF
a 12-hit attack.
Joe Kuhel hit two home runs, his
tenth and eleventh of the season,
and Taft Wright hit one to lead
the Sox' assault on Red Ruffing
It was the eleventh time this
year the yanks have been beaten
b. a southpaw and Smith, who
had failed in two previous at
tempts, baffled them easily on
seven hits.
He gave only. two singles until
The seventh when two doubles, one
OF them a fluke, scored one New
York run. A single by Charley
Keller and a homer by Joe Dimag-
gio counted the other runs in the
ninth.
KuheTs first homer came in the
first, his second with two on in
the fifth, when the Sox scored four
times. Wright's round tripper came
in the seventh and caused Ruffing' S
removal at the start of the eighth
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Auker Pitches St. Louis
TOSS Win Over Boston
Browns Seven-Game Losing
Streak Halted; Finney,
FOxx Held Hitless d,

BOSTON, June 4.-P)-The last.
place st. Louis Browns broke a
seven-game losing streak by topping
the league-leading Red Sox, 5-3, to-
day when their underhanded-tossin
Elden Auker returned to Fenway
park to plague his former team
mates.
Auker gave the Seekers 10 hits
while his mates collected seven off
three Boston pitchers, but he kept
them scoreless until they punched
four singles for their first two runs
in the sixth inning.
Errors by Manager Joe Cronin and
Jim Tabor plus Doc Cramers wild
throw gave the Browns two unearn-
ed runs in the second but they
raped starter Emerson Dickman
for three more tallies before he was
yanked in the fifth.
Singles by Walt Judnich and
George McQuinn accounted for the
third st. Louis run and after Har-
land Cliff opened the fourth inning
with a clean base hit, he countered
the winning run on Bob Swift's drive
to the left field wall. Dickman was
relieved by Jack Wilson after he
filled the bases in the fifth and then
forced McQuinn over the plate by
passing John Berardino. Wilson
gave way for a pinch-hitter in the
eighth and Joe Heving completed the
game for the Red Sox.
While chalking up his fourth vic
tory of the sesaon, Auker rated him
self nicely and forced Lou F>inney,
the leagues leading swatter, and
Jimmy Foxx to go hitless. After
giving his former teammates four
singles in the sixth, he did not fal.
ter again until the eighth when Ia
Dor beat out a bunt and was batted
around for the final Boston run.
Cronin, in the midst of one of the
worst hitting slumps in his career,
dropped himself from fifth to sew.
enth on the batting order. He got
one for four and drove in run.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Talbert Beats Palfrey
In New England Meet

HARTFORD, CONN.,, June 4 -
misunderstanding Billy Talbert,
OF Cincinnati, moved into the spot
light in the New England tennis
championships at the Hartford golf
club today with an impressive tri-
u1nph over John Palfrey, of Har-
ward, in the second round 6-3, 6-3
Seeded second in the mems di.
vision, Talbert gave an exhibition
of smashing and clever drop shots
that had Palfrey, brother of Sarah
Palfrey Fabyan, baffled in the fea.
ture match of the day. Most of the
late afternoon matches were raineo
out and will be played tomorrow
Top seeded Ladislav Hecht, o1
Czechoslovakia, has yet to make
his appearance. He is scheduled
to play his first match against
j. M. Laird of Hartford.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Cubs Collect IS Hits
To Defeat Phils, 1876

CHICAGO, June +lR-Threat-
ened with a slide into second di-
vision, the Chicago Cubs turned on
a 15-hit attack to defeat the Phila-
delphia Phils today, II to in their
series opener.
The Cubs built up a 60 edge in
the first three innings but the hust-
ling Phillies tied the score in the
fifth when Vance Page was knock
ed out of the box. Ken Raffens-
berger pitched to one batter, then
Charley Root took over and gave
UP two hits the remainder of the
way. 1t was his first victory of the
season. The Cubs got their win
ming runs in the seventh. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
INDIANS DIVIDE
BILL WITH MATS
Cleveland Advances In Loop;
Senators Take Opener 7-2
And Tribe Gets Finale, 81

WASHINGTON, June 4-(RNThe
second place Cleveland n d i S
moved within a half game of the
league-leading Boston Red Sox to-
day as they split double-header
with the Washington Senators while
Boston was losing to St. Louis.
The Senators took the first game
z to 2 behind Ken Chase's t 6 h t
hurting, but lost the night-cap 3 to
2 to the veteran left-hander, Al
Smith, although he had to be re-
ieved in the ninth by Bob Feller.
With the tying run on first and 2
out, Feller disposed of John Welaj
to end the game.
While Chase was scattering 10
hits in the first game his mates
led by Zeke Bonura with three
hits-were clubbing four Cleveland
hurlers for Is. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Cozart Leads Qualifiers
In Raleigh Tournament
By The Associated Press,

RALEIGH, June 4-LP-Witb a
score of 33-95-6S for the par-72
Carolina Country club course, Bill
Cozart of Durham today took over
the lead in qualifying for the North
State Amateur Golf tournament,
Cozart's score replaces the Il
shot by John Anderson, member of
the host club for the top spot in a
large qualifying field.
However, three others today bet.
tered Anderson's mark, Ted Mann
of Durham, and Al Dowtin of Wake
Forest carded 72s, and A. A. Tur-
rentine of Durham, shot 73 THESE
players, along with Cozart, brought
the qualifying field up to ST. Match
play begins on Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
Candidates For Junior
Legion Team Hold Drills

S. B. Hoy, manager of the Junior
Legion baseball team here, said YES
terday that about IS candidates for
the team are practicing daily for the
tournament competition which opens
June 10.
All boys under II years of age
are eligible to play and those inter.
ested in trying out for the team
are asked to report to Coach Bum.
garner at 8 O'Clock each afternoon
this week at the Legion stadium.
The local Legion post plans on
having two teams this year, one
for regular tournament play and
the other for developing younger
players for the first string team in
1941.
Several positions still remain open,
Manager Hoy said today, and other
boys are urged to come out and try
out for them. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
|Bucs Play Wake Forest Club Here Tonight
SKIPPER NAMED
FOR MOUND DUTY
Either Leonard Or Woodliet
To HurI For Visitors; Pi-
rates Lineup Unchanged

Rained out of action all last
week, the Wilmington Pirates re-
sumo play tonight, meeting the
Wake Forest All-Stars at Legion
field at o'clock.
Norwood Skipper, ace of the
locals mound staff, will be the
probable choice as starting pitcher
for the Bucs. The remainder of
the lineup will be revamped for
the game.
Worth Mabry, manager of the
All-Stars, announced yesterday
that either Leonard or Woodlief
will pitch, with R. Timberlake
catching. Other players on the
team include Holdford, Pearce,
Wall, Davis, Frazier Holland and
Timberlake.
Bert Kite, skipper of the Pirates,
said that the Bucs lineup will be:
jimmy Moore, first base; S. Nc
Keithan, second base; Johnny
smidt, shortstop; Vic Stafano,
third base; Amos Carter, Ernest
Afford and Roy Lamb, outfielders,
Mckenzie or H. McKeithan,
catcher, Frank Hines and Buddy
Trodgen, outfielders, may see
action.
Lefty Cheshire, the Carolina
southpaw star, is scheduled to
pitch against the Golden Belt Ath-
letic club here Friday night. Due
to examinations, he will be unable
to get in the lineup tonight.
Kite said last night that two
baseball scouts are scheduled to
attend one or two of the games
here soon, with an eye for couple
of prospects on the team. 2