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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
VARIETY DOCKET
HEARD in COURT

Another full session of record
er's court was held yesterday
morning with Solomon Sternberger
prosecuting the docket in the abb
sence of County Solicitor H. Win
field Smith.
Trial of J. W. Andrews, 5l8
Mercer avenue, charged with as
sault on a female and non-support
of his wife, was continued until
today.
Trial of Mary Justice, charged
with being drunk and with resist
ing an officer, vas continued I'm
til Monday.
Osborn Burton, charged with
carrying a concealed weapon and
with resisting an officer, was found
not guilty of resisting but guilty
of carrying a concealed weapon
al. was fined $50 and the costs OF
court and given go days in default.
He noted a ten day stay of judg-
ment.
Trial of Nora Gpon, charged
with assault with a deadly weapon,
was continued until today.
Frank Walters, charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon after
he allegedly shot Willie Troy on
July 5, was found guilty and was
given six months on the state high
ways.
Walters, termed by Judge Alton
A. Lennon as lone of the five men
in this county I despise,' noted an
appeal to superior court.
Troy, from the stand, said he did
not know who shot him.
Harry E. Fales, manager OF the
city-county Identification bureau,
said he arrested Walters on in
formation and belief and that Wal
tiers at first admitted he shot Troy
and later denied that he shot him.
From the stand Walters denied
telling Fales he had shot the man,
Thursday Walters'was tried for
violating the liquor law, evidence
from state witnesses showing 80
IL gallons of liquor had been found
at an establishment operated by
his wife.
The case was left open for YER
dict and judgment yesterday, when
Lennon said he was convinced the
liquor was Walters but that an
other negro, who in court Thurs
day said it was his, had been per-
suaded to take the rap"
Bond for Walters was set at 5000.
Claudia c. Taylor, of the Caro-
lima Beach road, charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon, was
found not guilty.
Obie Bellamy, I'LL Miller street,
charged with assault on a fe-
male, was fined IS and the costs,
the fine being RENTED. But he was
warned by the court that if he as
saults his wife again he will be
given no less than a year on the
state highways.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
.Mckeuar And Cooper
Renamed In Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 2.-R)
u. S. Senator Kenneth D. Mcclellan
and Gov. Prentice Cooper were re-
nominated in the democratic primary
yesterday by record breaking MAORI
ties.
Unofficial returns from 2,O12 of
2,279 precincts today gave the six
term senator 81 per cent of the votes
cast In the senatorial race while
Cooper won SO per cent of the guber-
material ballots.
Both had the backing of the Shell
by county political organization
headed by National Committeeman
Edward Hull Crump, of Memphis.
>. The incomplete vote:
. For U. S. senator-McKellar $685.
1877, John r. Neal, of Knoxville, 49,
253, Claude Toler, of Paris, $50.
For governor Cooper, 17,7S6,
George r. Dempster, of Knoxville,
40,491, Bailey Wray, of Knoxville,
2,210. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
Destroyers Assigned To
Keep Shipping Out Of
Canal Zone Mined Areas

: COLON, c. T., Aug. 2 R-Rear
Admiral Frank H. Sadler, COM
mandant of the fifteenth naval dis
trict, said today that four destroy
ers newly assigned to the Panama
Canal entrances were intended to
keep shipping out of mined areas.
This, was tn first direct official
acknowledgement that newly-mined
areas exist, but the admiral quail
fled it with the explanation that
personnel was being trained in the
laying and sweeping of mines.
: 1t was said that the destroyers
were not requirements for ships
being overhauled, but were tenn
porarily detached from the Allan
tic squadron for their present as
signment and would return to the
squadron upon completion of 1.-The
job of seeing that ships entering
this area with intent to transit the
canal are not subjected to undue
hazards" !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03

compulsory service in principle, but
declined to be drawn into a dis
cussion of details of particular, leg
islation. He followed the same
course today, today, BUT the cir
stances and the direct quotation
gave his statement added point.
Celebrating his views, Mr.. Roos-
evel said that in 1917, the nation
built up an army of 1000, 900 men,
but it was 10 IL months later that
they went into acton. During ma
period, no sho was fred at this
country over here, he added, but
that was a bit of sheer luck which
would never happen again.
The Lesson
The lesson to be learned from
the present war, MIR. Roosevelt said
was that a nation must have
trained men and equipment ready
when it starts. The personnel, he
said, mus include fighting men,
supply men. mechanics. and fac
tory workers, all of whom would
require training whether they were
in uniform or not. By training in
advance, a nation reduced casual
ties, he continued, and a country
can not get a trained force by
merely passing a law when war
breaks out, or by using a voluntary
system.
Woodring disputed the often
stated contention that he voluntary
sysem of raising men for the army
had failed. Instead, he said, it has
not been given a chance. For one
thing, he said, higher pay in the
navy and the CCC camps lure men
in those directions, especially since
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
INDUSTRIAL BODY
BUDGET PLANNED
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city much of the time.
w. W. Storm was also nominated,
but declined, saying he felt that
my business is so small it requires
much of my attention" and that he
would prefer to follow Mr.. Wright
Thomas H. Wright) and work with
him just as we have been working
with him for sometime"
Wright, who had previously said
he did not feel the executive com.
mittee needed any chairman other
than the chairman of the commit
tee as a whole, declined the position,
saying that having adopted the at
titude that no executive committee
chairman was needed, it would look
foolish for him to accept.
The matter was left in allegiance.
Those attending the meeting were
Col. Gillette, j. E. L. Wade, W. w.
Storm, Thomas H. Wright and Hen
ry E. Boyd. secretary of the COM
mittee as a whole.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
PLANE PRODUCTION
IS PUSHED in U. S.
Manufacturers Constructing
Craft Without Waiting For
Signed Contracts

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-R-The
defense commission lid today that
airplane manufacturers were pro-
ceeding with plant expansions and
were even constructing planes with
out waiting upon the Formally Of
signed army-navy contracts.
At : ~uest of President Roos-
evelt, Robert w. Horton, the COM
missions information d r e c t o r,
gave reporters a detailed account
ing of the present status of the
vast military aircraft expansion
program.
While perhaps $780, 600, 600 in air
craft orders have been cleared by
the commission but not yet formal
ly signed bo 'ause of technical pro-
blems, plane designing, plant con-
S -uction plans, and purchases OF
material r proceeding, Horton
said.
North American aviation corpor.
atom, he added, aready is pro-
ducing training planes and storing
them for delivery upon the execu-
ton of contracts.
Donald w. Douglas, president OF
Douglas Aircraft, major producer
of large transport and bombing
planes, said earlier this week that
the industry would accelerate plane
construction without waiting upon
congressional changes in defense
tax policies which have caused ap-
prehension among some manufac-
turers. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
KENTUCKY BALLOTS
ON S0L0NS TODAY
Will Select Nominees For One
Senate Post, Several In
Lower House

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 2.-R
-Kentuckians will climax the dull
est political campaign in m a n y
years tomorrow by selecting par
ty nominees for one United States
senate post and the states nine
seats in the house of representa-
tives.
The primary drive has contrast
ed sharply with that of two years
ago, when Gov. A. B. Happy)
Chandler and senate majority lea
der Alben w. Barley spent a hot,
dusty summer stumping the state
in a bitter democratic senatorial
nomination fight won by Barley.
Chandler, now senator by ap-
pointment, is running for nominal
ton for the unexpired term of the
late M. M. Logan. He and Bark
ley have made peace. Political OBJ
servers believe his nomination as
sured.
Chandler has made one radio
speech and tonight he gave his an.
nual home folks" talk at Yer
s%ailles, which he hasn't missed on
an election eve for II years. One
of his five opponents, Charles P.
Farnsley, Louisville attorney and
former state legislator, has been
campaigning, mostly by radio, for
two weeks.
Bell county attorney Walter B.
Smith of Pineville apparently held
the inside track over four oppon-
ents in the republican senatorial
contest.
The nine incumbent representa-
tives-one republican and 6 h t
democrats-Were expected to win
denomination.
The polls will be open from 6
a. m. to 4 p. M, local time with
counting starting at S p. m. and
continuing to midnight,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
PLANT EXPANSION
PLAN IS APPROVED
Enables Defense Contract
/: Holders To Deduct Costs
From Taxable Earnings

2 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-R-A
plan to encourage industry to ex-
pand plants for defense purposes
was tentatively approved today by
the house tax subcommittee. 1t
would enable holders of national
:. defense contracts and subcontracts
to deduct the cost of the expan-
sions from taxable earnings over
q five-year period, at the rate OF ~
per cent a year. -.
Chairman Cooper D-Tenn), said
the decision was unanimous, as
was a companion decision torec-
ommend that the full ways and
means committee incorporate this
plan, plus an excess profits tax
and a suspension of the Vinson-
Trammell acts curbs on profits
arising from the manufacture OF
military planes and warships into
4 single piece of legislation.
The Vinson-Trammell acts linn
its on profits are: 8 per cent on con-
tracts let by competitive bidding
and 7 per cent on negotiated con-
tracts.
The 20. per cent annual deduction
Of expansion costs would be per-
mitted with regard to new plants,
expansions and new equipment
completed after July 10, 1910.
Members of the subcommittee,
meanwhile, had before them at
last two plans for ar excess prof.
its tax.
One, proposed by treasury tax
experts, would give corporations a
fiat 5000 exemption in figuring the
tax, plus a non-taxable credit de-
termined by applying average earn
ings over a base period-1936 to
1889, inclusive-to currently invest
ed capital.
Under this application, a corpo-
ration would be allowed a credit
amounting to not less than 6 per
cent of the first $500, 900 of invested
capital, plus 4 per cent of the re-
mainder of invested capital. The
maximum credit would be 10 per
cent of invested capital.
New corporations would be al
lowed a credit of 10 per cent OF
the remainder. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
Art Museum Proving
Popular, Figures Show

July established the highest at.
tendance at the Wilmington Muse.
I'm OF Art since it's opening in o.
tober 193S-16,974 persons.
In July 1889 there was an attend
ance Of 7,s41. The exhibit at the
Ocean Terrace hotel, by Whining
ton artists, drew a large part of
this crowd.
The grand total of attendance
since the opening of the museum is
51,308 persons.
An exhibit of photographs by the
Wilmington Camera club was open
Thursday at the Extension Gal
lery of the Wilmington Museum al
the Ocean Terrace hotel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
RUMANIA TO HEAR
BULGARIAN CLAIMS
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be returned to Germany, while all
mania, and all Magyars in Ru-
in Hungary will be removed to Ru-
Diplomatic sources said Ivan
mania will be taken to Hungary.
Popoff and Dobri Bojiloff, Bulga-
rian foreign and finance ministers,
would come here to conduct the
territorial conversations.
While the government sought
some formula to settle both issues,
circulars opposing any cession OF
Rumanian territory were distribu-
ted tonigh t warning against Great
IN southeastern Europe.
ing new hates instead of peace
Juliu Manu-, leader of 5000, 600
Rumanian peasants told his follow.
r that the Transylvanian area
should be set up as an autonomous
state, "even if under Russian pro-
fore the World war.
Bulgaria has claimed the SOUTH
ern Dobruja which was lost after
the second Balkan war of 1918. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
ROOSEVELT THINKS
JOHNSON CHANcrr
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FROM Rage Onel
didn't think anyone thought !,
johnson as a Ideal or progro..
democrat in the year 1910 and ,s.'
while he was still very fons ''''
the senator he thought johnson ="
changed a lot in the last yuma Mad
five years. ~ Or
There was no immediate ,..,
from johnson who was awau 4ep-g
his office for the Afternoon nom
aides said, unaware of the aug
dents statement. pSeS'
Senator Wheeler D-Monn o,..,
ly differed with the PresidoSr..' 'S'
Il consider Hiram johnson
OF the great liberals of the eo we
trss-,' Wheeler said. His su Ooal'
IN 1882 did more to help presiSs.al
Roosevelt carr ythe western stosa
than anything that happened s'@
ing the campaign"
Members of the Californi,
gressional delegation. amono w. sO''
Rep. Carter, (Republican,. . =
there was nothing unusual in ,Jotu
sons procedure, that Califorr T.,''
law permits filling of Candies
in other paries if a small nns.
Der of signatures-about 4O-is AL
tanned. Carter asserted that o Ov'
Governor Ellis Patterson ,rL'
seeks election to the senate y, "''
democrat, also had filed ON H.
republican ticket. 1e
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
British Ministry Buys
Large Supply OF Wheat

OTTAWA, Aug. o. Up An
nouncement of purchase of 100, 0O0,-
600 bushels of Canadian wheat by
the British food ministry-the larg-
est recorded transaction in wheat
history-was made here n in
London today.
Trade Minister MacKinnon said
the price was Considerably above
the market level"
The agreement, covering the GER
cal year-July, 1910, to 1941-was
reached directly between the Ca
madam wheat board and the British
cereal authority. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
BRITISH CONTINUE
RAIDS ON GERMANY
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(COnt1nueQ FROM rage One)
''of genuine weight n d impor.
lance" to date.
This, they asserted, is the answer
which is being given with increas'
ing vigor to Adolf Hitler's threat oil
invasion.
At the same time the British said
all their harbors remained intact
despite unending German forays,
although casualties and damage
have resulted inland.
Nevertheless, many of Britain's
pre-war Channel and North Sea
ports have been clsed because OF
the danger to shipping in the mine
and Observation-Disclosures Channel
waters.
Typical of reports from coastal
points was that from the CORE
spondent at Dover, nearest port TO
France and logical landing place
or any invader.
you might have thought from
he size of that big raid last Mon
day by 80 German planes that a lot
of damage has been done. I went
around the harbor after the raid
but no part of the harbor walls
were hit. There has been dam
age to the town ITSELF"
The aerial warfare surging back
and forth across the Channel tap
cred off somewhat today to spo-
radio forays. One German bomb
err was believed downed in the sea
off Scotland after dropping nine
Ugh explosive and 40 incendiary
bombs on a golf course.
Other German raiders bombed
scattered points in Wales, eastern
Scotland and east Anglia during the
night.
British bombers reported the
bombardment of a wireless station
and the Gripping Of a German sup
ply ship off Norway and a "suc-
cessful" daylight attack on Cher
bourg, France, yesterday. Three
British planes were reported lost.
(On the other hand, today's Ger
man high command communique
said every one of the eight plal>
j. the Cherbourg raid were shot
own. ~A
(The Germans also reported a
British submarine S nix by a u
boat and one merchantmen sunk
ard others damaged in air attacks
on conveys off the east coast, and
an airpiare factory set afire in
another especi~ lily EFFECTIVE raid"
on Norwich, in eastern England.
(The Germans placed yesterdays
plan losses at 10 British to one
Germ..n n.y. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
CIVILIANS OUSTED

BERNIE, Switzerland, Aug. g.
R-Italian troops occupying tn e
war-damaged French Riviera city
of Mention ordered the entire civil
ian propulation to leave recently,
due to an outbreak of typhoid fe-
yer and dysentery, the newspaper
L'Eclaireur de Nice reported to-
day. The famous resort near the
Italian border was shelled and
bombed during the biggest Italian
French battle of the war, just be-
fore the armistice, and the city's
waer supply was cut off and it
sewer main blasted. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
GERMANY REJOICES
OVER REPATRIATION
OF RED FRIENDSHIP
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a British destroyer and II armed
merchant ships totaling 1883 TONS
(The sinking of the destroyer
the Whirlwind, had been reported
earlier both by Germany and Brit
ain.)
The daily communique also re.
fected the continuous pressure OF
the air force against British ship;
ping and inland detectives, claim
ing that big fires and several ex-
plosions" resulted in a raid yes
terday on an airplane factory In
Norwich, England.
A German warplane was credited
with destruction of a British sub
marine July 81.
the achievements of anti-aircraft
Authorized sources, tabulating
artillery through II months of the
war just ended, said that of 1920
planes shot down, 1,071 were de-
stroyed between May 10 and June
24-the period of intensive warfar
in the low countries and France. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03

a CCC enlistment is for one year
and an army enlistment is f o r
three.
Seven months ago, he said, he
creased from $21 to $50 monthly
urged that base army pay be in
and was told that such a course
was Inconsistent with the financial
program of the administration"
"Wheher that inconsistency
holds good today, I would be willing
for the senate to decide" he added.
He urged first of all that the con-
scription bill be amended to make
chief of staff certified in writing
t httah"evuln ar oysyse thmsmas
'that the voluntary system has
completely broken down."
If the voluntary system has failed
he added, that is not that systems
faul.
IF we need a million or two mil
lion young men for trained service
in the U. S. army" he said, let's
first give equal advantages to the
voluntary system of raising this
quota, and if necessary les pro-
vide for n year voluntary service
at $50 per month. I am for a trial
by voluntary system before chang
ing to the compulsory system. If
the voluntary system fails, then I
will join with others in obtaining
he number of men, in the neces-
sary time to defend this country,
through a compulsory SYSTEM" l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
CLAIM Firms
BEAT ~PRO-RUSSIANS
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\SOA4VAAAuS~ Wv OAAS(
democratic party committee as
dubious characters and provoca-
~teurs," have been demonstrating
in the capital during the past few
days. -.
Party Split
Dissatisfaction with war COM
.pensation to the transplanted pop
ulation from territory coded to
Russia, has caused a split in the
social democratic party with a mi
nority faction Withdrawing to or
ganize its own wing).
Incorporation of the Baltic states
MISUNDERSTANDING occupied
by the Red army will give the So
Wet union the powerful voice" Of
more than 1913, 600, 900 people," Mol
otoff told the supreme Soviet.
In less than a year, Russia has
added more than %, 900, 600 people
and considerable territory, begin
ming with the joint German-Russian
partition of Poland, the Finnish
Russian war, the occupation of Bes-
sarabia and northern Bucovina
ceded by Rumania in June, and the
Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania, whose new communist
governments voted for the union.
Almost all of the people in those
areas once belonged to Russia 'Fbut
has been forcibly torn from the
U. S. S. R. by western imperialist
powers when the U. S. S. R. was
militarily weak" Molotoff said.
With her acquisitions of territory
Russia now has access to impor-
tant ice-free Baltic ports and to the
Danube river, transport gateway to
southeastern Europe. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
F~arm-Business Coon
To Meet On August 8

The Farm, Civic, and Business
Cooperative association will meet
in monthly session at 8 o'clock
Thursday evening, August g., at
the office of r. w. Galphin, Dun
ty farm agent, in the customhouse
to complete organization details
and start work on major objec-
tives.
The officers and board of direc-
tors r studying plans for a defin-
tie setup regarding organizational
policies in seeking an improve
ment in relations between farmers
and business men in New Hanover
and adjoining counties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
WARSHIPS RETURN

HONOLULU, Aug. 2-REA fleet
concentration consisting of ten bat
tleships, cruisers and destroyers
returned today from a due south
direction and began entering Pearl
harbor. For the first time in ten
days, no warships were anchored
last night off Pearl harbor or Homo
lulu. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03
WEATHER
Continued From Page One)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 Up -
Weather bureau records Of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending s
p. M, in the principal cotton-growing
areas and elsewhere.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-03

La Guardia Field, estimated to
cost $12, 600, 900 in 1884, was finished
in 1910 at a cost of more than $780,
900. 900,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-08
Daughters Of America
Plan 3-Day Session

The State Council, Daughters Of
America of the District of Columbia
plan three-day conclave here Mon
day TO Wednesday at the Mayf1ower
Hotel Mrs Louise Schwenk, conven-
ton chairlady, will preside tomorrow
morning and class initiation will be
conducted by Fidelity Council No. 4,
the winning council in membership
drive.
A public meeting will be held Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. the State Council will
meet in annual session with State
Councillor Marie Stephenson pre-
siding. Memorial services will be
conducted in memory of four past
state councillors by the Past State
Councillors Association. The good
fellowship banquet and dance will
take place Tuesday night. Public
installation of newly-elected State
Council officers will be Wednesday
night.
Mrs. Minnie Hake, chairman of
the State Council Credential Com
mittee announces that the RegiStra-
ton Committee will be present to-
morrow night at Mayfiower Hotel to
register members of the convention
and issue the official membership
and voting slips.
Associate State Councillor Laura
E. Milbourn and her select team of
members from the various councils
will hold a rehearsal at Mayf1ower
Hotel today, noon, on massing of
colors.
Mount Vernon Council, No. Is,
gave a birthday anniversary parry
Tuesday in honor of the deputy state
| councillor, Mrs. jamie Fenner. The
councillor, Mrs. Marion Fiske, has
been Endorsed for State Council
trustee.
Unity Council, No. II, will nomi-
nate Mrs. Laura E. Milbourn as ma
tional representative at the State
| Council sessions.
Independent Council, No. 2, has
asked the State councillor for dis
penSation to change their meeting
nights to September 16 and 80
Fidelity Council, No. 4, Tuesday
evening draped the charter in men,
DRY of the late Mrs. Pezold.
At Esther Council meeting
Wednesday Mrs. Laura Shoemaker
| presided. Mrs. Laura Shoemaker
mistress, staged candle-light cere-
mony for the candidate, Mrs. Flea
nor Bright. Mrs. Arthur Henley
showed stereopticon pictures. Mrs.
Mary Walker was installed as ID
months trustee and Mrs. Katherine
Skinner as state representative, to
take the place of Mrs. Dorothy
Studs, who resigned because of i'll
ness.