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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
GERMANS DECLARE
FINISHED
Axis Powers Dc Not Even
Plan To Use Her Re-
sources In War
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER

BERLIN, July S.-P-If anybody
thinks the Rome-Berlin axis powers
are counting on Frances assistance
in ensuing phases of the European
war they are mistaken, sources In
the know declared tartly tonight.
Germany and Italy, they said, can
settle their scores unaided and Adolf
Hitler's permission to the French
fleet to fight off the British was
merely an act of chivalry, not a ges-
ture of invitation to come into the
fray.
AS if to underscore this aloofness
from France, Robert Ley, leader OF
the German labor front and direc'
tor Of the Nazi party's political or
g%anization, wrote in the Berlin news
paper Der Angriff that France, as
an aging decrepit, must definitely
yield European continental hegemon5
to youthful, virile. Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
brown SHEPHERD
FATALLY WOUNDED
Young Raleigh Attorney
Shot Himself Accident
ally, Coroner Says

RALEIGH, July g. Up IS.
Brown Shepherd, Jr., "a, member
of a prominent Raleigh family and
widely known over the state
through his activities in the Young
democrats, shot himself acciden-
tally this morning, Coroner Roy
M. Banks said, and died instantly.
Shepherd was president of the
Wake Young Democrats several
years ago. He was very active
eight years ago during the guber-
material campaign of Governor j.
IC. B. Ehringhaus, and drove Ehr-
Iinghaus to many of the places
where he spoke. He worked in the
states local government commits
sion and then in recent months he
had Travelled for a cement COM
pany.
Coroner Banks said Shepherd
and his wife, the former Miss Julia
Andrews, a daughter of Mayor Ora
ham Andrews, returned home late
last night from a visit. Young
Shepherd, whose hobby was fire
arms, went downstairs to clean
some of his nine guns kept there.
He apparently was cleaning a
high = powered hunting rifle, 40-45
calibre, repeater, Banks said, when
it went off, sending a hollow-point
bullet into the front of the head.
Vass Shepherd, a younger broth
er, rushed into the room when he
heard the gunshot. He told the cor
oner he found his brother lying on
la bed. An oil can and a cleaning
rag we're found near the body. The
accident occurred shortly after
midnight.
Survivors include the parents.
the widow, a sister, Mrs. Rhoney
Williamson of Hartford, Conn.,, and
two brothers, Vass Shepherd OF
Raleigh and James Shepherd OF
Washington, D. c.
Funeral plans had not been COM
pleted but it was planned to hold
services tomorrow. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Men Call
On F. E}. To Run

"Of course" Mccormack said, "the
delegation is for Jim Farley if the
President is not a candidate"
He said, and so did Burke, that
he had reserved complete freedom
of action" and that he regarded the
Massachusetts delegation as only
morally pledged to Farley.
If a draft-Roosevelt movement
should develop on the first ballot,
Mccormack predicted that at least
IS to 100 per cent of the delegation
would be for Roosevelt. Actually, he
said, he thought the entire delega'
ton would be for Roosevelt although
it would be presumptious for him
to speak for every delegate.
Both Mccormack and Burke said
Farley would have to give no formal
release to the delegation to permit
it to go down the line for a third
term. They said, too, that they did
not know whether any one from
Massachusetts would place Farley's
name in the nomination.
(Of SO IL delegates credited tc
Farley, the 6 outside Massachusetts
are from Puerto Rico.)
Political analysts suggested that
since Mr.. Roosevelt had let the
third term movement go along I'M
til a week before the convention
without lifting a finger either tc
check or increase it's momentum
he would be unlikely to turn down
denomination if it were offered ir
the form of a call to service during
a time of international crisis ano
efforts to plug in gaps in Americas
defenses.
Lending emphasis to predictions
of some. democratic leaders tina
the convention would d # the
chief executive was the fact tha1
773 IL votes were pledged or semi
pledged to Mr.. Roosevelt with only
the Canal Zone delegation to be
heard from. Necessary to nomi
nate: 548 votes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
$50 BRITISH TOTS
REACH new YORK
U. S. Organization Seeking
Ia Find Homes For
War Refugees

NEW YORK. July 8.-P-Three
hundred fifty British refugee chill
dren arrived Unexpectedly on the
British liner Samaria today - Is
hours after the first contingent OF
II reached New York on the Scy-
thia-as volunteer workers speeded
up a nationwide child refugee aid
campaign.
Most of the newcomers were with
parents or guardians and most a
residences arranged. They ranged
from babies to teen age, the aver
age being about 8. Most of them
had experienced air raid alarms but
none was found who had been in
an actual bombing.
The Samaria left Liverpool, with
about 300 passengers, June 80, only
80 miles ahead of the Arandora Star,
the British internment ship which
was torpedoed. A destroyer and a
seaplane escorting the Samaria out
to sea wheeled unexpectedly away
to go to the aid of the Arandora
Star.
Among the Samaria passengers
were Henri Bernstein, the French
playwright who has fought several
duels with critics, and who is an
outspoken anti-Nazi.
81 lost everything in France" he
said.
Another passenger was Baron AL
phonse Rothschild, of the Viennese
branch of the banking family, whose
brother Louis ransomed himself
from the German secret police after
the Austrian annexation. The baron,
his wife and two young daughters,
and two sons of his cousin, Baron
Montefiore Rothschild, were bound
for Canada.
Formation of 1.-The National Child
Refugee Committee" to organize
local committees over the country
and coordinate the activities OF
various groups already active, was
announced shortly before the ships
arrival.
The children, ranging in age from
a few weeks to IL, were among
about 1000 passengers on the
Cunard-White Star Liner. They fol-
lowed II youngsters who arrived
yesterday on the British liner Scy-
thia.
The National Child Refugee Com
mittee, under the leadership OF
Marshall Field and the honorary
craftsmanship of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, was formed as an ex-
tension of the U. S. Committee for
the care of European children.
Leaders in many fields were
asked to serve on the committee
in a joint telegram from Mrs.
Roosevelt, Field and Winthrop w.
Aldrich, chairman of the Chase
National Bank.
The Cunard-W White Star Line bar
red from the pier before the Sa-
maria docked all except persons
with special passes. There was no
explanation of the new restrictions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

South Carolina, and growers are
working on 24-hour shifts in the
most nerve-wracking part of their
job, treating the leaf by heat.
One acre Of bright leaf tobacco
may yield from 700 to 900 pounds
of saleable leaf, bringing possibly
an average of Is cents a pound.
Federal farm officials may under.
take to guarantee that average this
year, contingent upon approval by
the growers in a referendum on
July 20 of marketing quotas for
the next three seasons.
Last year growers rejected the
quota system for their 1889 crop
and saw a bumper crop knock the
bottom out of prices. They prompt
ly voted controls for 1910.
First auctions begin in the Geor-
gia-Florida belt on August 8. Mar-
kets open later in the Carolinas and
Virginia as the season advances.
Alabama growers customarily take
their crop to Georgia auctions.) l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

WASHINGTON, July s.. Up
President Roosevelt was urged etc
be a candidate or to consent to be
drafted today by two leaders of the
Massachusetts delegation where
James A. Farley has the bulk Of
his delegate strength to the Chicago
democratic convention.
A day after Farley's conference
with MI. Roosevelt when the demo.
cratic national chairman was let in
on the Presidents third-term inten-
lions but kept them strictly tc
himself-Rep. cCormack, chairman
of the Massachusetts delegation, and
William H. Burke, Jr., state demo
cratic chairman and a convention
delegate, called at the White House
and on the way out talked with
reporters.
While Burke nodded agreement
Mccormack said:
I'VE urged him just as strongly
as we could to be a candidate OF
to consent to be drafted.
81 think it's absolutely indispen.
sable that the President run. He is
the outstanding man in government
life in the world today and is the
one nan who is the leader of the
forces, in government life, Of en-
lightenment, progress and peace"
AS to the solution of the third
term puzzle, when, and if, the demo-
cratic convention might draft Mr.
Roosevelt, the two Massachusetts,
leaders said they had no more in
formation than the rest of the ma,
ton.
Of "a Massachusetts, delegates
Farley has 80 IL votes pledged nom.
inally to him, while 1 IL are un.
pledged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Sweden And Germany
Tighten Trade Bond,

STOCKHOLM, July 8-tR-su.
den openly entered a Course
close cooperation with Germanv ="
day, it's aim a "normalized ST.. w
dinavia."
Trade-the trade on which SUI.
den depends for existence-and ,S.
safeguarding of the nations .i,
ing space" were the objects soraI,
through multilateral agreemen,'
with Germany, with German.doo'
mated Denmark and German.con
trolled Norway.
These agreements, expected :,
be completed this week, were prac'
teal manifestations of t h e now
Swedish policy indicated by Prjms
Minister Per Hanson. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Dewey Pledges Wilkie
Full Aid In Campaign

NEW YORK, July 8.-GR-Dis-
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
and Wendell L. Willkie met for
the first time today and discussed
republican campaign plans as the
presidential nominee hurried
through a round Of conferences be-
fore leaving for Washington.
Dewey had talked on the tele-
phone several times since the con-
vention with his rival for the NOM
ination and offered his support.
Shortly after Dewey's visit, which
lasted about an hour, the following
statement was issued by WILKES
office:
MIR. Thomas E. Dewey visited
Mr.. V'illkie in his office this
morning and they had a long and
satisfactory talk about the forth
coming campaig". Mr.. Dewey
pledged his full support in any
manner desired"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. L

is Inere any QleC 1Or vertigo!
A great many middle-aged peo-
pie who have progressive deafness
are bothered more with the vertigo
than they are with the deafness.
The vertigo is due to changes in
the organ Of equilibrium, the semi
circular canals, which r connect
ed with the middle ear.
A diet known as the Fursten-
berg Diet is based on the theory
that the retention of sodium ions
in the tissues of the inner ear is
the cause of attacks of vertigo or
Meniere's disease. The diet elimi-
mates foods high in sodium.
The diet is as follows:
Group A-The following foods
may be taken daily: Eggs, meat,
fish and fowl as described; bread
as desired; cereal, one of the fol-
lowing - farina. oatmeal, rice,
pulled rice or pulled wheat; po-
tato and one or more servings of
any of the following-(a) maca-
4oni, (b) spaghetti, Co rice, I'D
corn, (e) cranberries, D prunes,
,(g) plums; milk as desired; vege-
tables and fruit daily of any fruit
and of any vegetable not included
ia groups B and c, as desired.
Group B-Foods to be avoided:
ALI salt meats and fish, or bread,
crackers and butter prepared with
salt; carrots, clans, condensed
milk, ~raisins, caviar, cowpeas,
olives, spinach, cheese, endive,
oysters.
Only Twice Weekly
Group Goods to be taken 30
more than twice weekly: Lima
beans, beets, buttermilk, canta-
loup, caulifower, celery, chard,
dried coconut, dried currants,
dates, figs, horseradish, kohlrabi,
lines, muskmelons, peanuts,
peaches, mustard, pumpkin, rad
ishes, rutabagas, strawberries, tur-
nips, turnip tops, watercress.
Note: ALI foods to be prepared
and served without salt.
What are the common causes Of
poisoning in the United States?
In children the commonest cause
of poisoning is strychnine poison
ing. Children get this in candy
coated or chocolate-coated cathar-
tic pills containing s%trychnine
along with aloes and belladonna.
Among adults the commonest
cause of poisoning in the United
States today is by the use OF the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Latuians Will Vote
On Joining Russia


RIGA, Latvia, July 8.-(R-
Latvians themselves must de-
eide by ballot whether they de-
sire union with Soviet Russia
said General Secretary Squire Of
the Latvian Communist party
in an address yesterday.
Latvia, like her sister Soviet
dominated Baltic republics, Es-
tonia and Lithuania, is to hold
a general election July 14-15;
presumably Squire referred to
this.
eff a majority votes for such
a union, Latvia will be a Soviet
republic" he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Britain Calls Home
Actors In Ameriico

HOLLYWOOD, July 8. - ZAP
Great Britain has called home it.
motion picture actors between tho
ages of Is and 81. Other British
subjects in the film colony TEN.
porarily will aid their homeland in
other ways.
Handsome Richard Greene said
he would so to England as soon
as possible. His studio had sey.
eral picture assignments in view
for him, with the first scheduled
to start in about a month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Bombs Fall On Two
Small Danish Towns

STOCKHOLM, July 8.-lR-(By
wireless)-Reports from Copen-
hagen broadcast by the Stockholm
radio said bombs were dropped
on Langeland and near Haldersle-
ben, Denmark, today, causing
slight damage. Two bombs were
dropped at each place by planes
whose identity was not reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

and theater-going habits of Amer
lea on a really big scale. The phan-
tom car, Will Hays, might have
launched some such constructive
research years ago. So far as this
interested observer can determine,
however, he does little more than
sign a quarterly report-a hind
sight compendium of dead Stats
tics. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

unless the leadership agrees to ex-
tend the session indefinite y. They
feel deeply enough about it to car
ry out the threat - and with onlv
a few days to go, the trick would
be easy. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

If, you will use a salad Oil for
lubricating the meat-grinder and
food-chopper, there will be no dan
ger of the oil leaving an 'unpleas-
ant taste in the food.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
MAY BLOCK
r ADJOURNMENT

Despite the denials from Lon
deeply concerned (and not a little
pessimistic) over the chance that
England may presently make
peace with Hitler. AS one police.
stategist puts it: Look at the map
of Europe-German, from the tip
of Spain to the top of Norway.
What can England do but surren.
der?"
One of the things which is caus-
ing administration leaders to
hedge on their adjourn-before-
the-conventions stand is the fact
that certain senators opposed to
adjournment have threatened to
sfibuster the new tax bill to death
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
JOE WAS A TRUSTY

MEMPHIS, Tenn. R-'Stick
with those bloodhounds," a guard
cautioned trusty joe Carter as they
started on the trail of an escaped
convict. Several hours later they
fished Carriers body out of Wolf
river. He had tried to swim the
river after the dogs. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09
Behind The Scenes In
Washington

WASHINGTON - Viewing it
strictly from a short-range, cold
blooded political standpoint, the
downfall of France may prove to
be the best news the Republicans
have had all year.
It may completely change the
circumstances and atmosphere OF
the presidential race. Republicans
who ten days ago we're privately
admitting FDR was likely go get
his third term r beginning to
suspect the tide is going to run
he other way from now on.
They figure it like this: the coun-
try was sold on a help-the-allies
program, which was FDR's baby
from the start. The worse the war
got, the better his political pros
poets looked. But suppose the war
ends; suppose it ceases to be a
case of help the allies and be-
come one of facing Hitler all alone,
on a put-up-or-shut-up basis. Then
it can be argued that FDR went
too far and got the country out on
a limb, and the natural let-down
of emotion is likely to take an
awful bit out of his popularity.
In any case, the campaign now
seems due to be much hotter and
livelier than it was doped to be a
week or so ago.
LARGER CRUISERS
PLANNED BY NAVY
You don't need to read far be-
tween the lines of the newest nav
al authorization bill to discover
that the U. S. Navy has devised
an entirely new type of cruiser.
The new Vinson bill calls for II
cruisers totalling 1913, 600 tons; do
a little division, and you'll find
that works out to 16, 500 tons per
cruiser-ore than half agains as
large as any cruisers now in the
American navy.
Putting those extra tons on a
cruiser means you a give it
more of everything-speed, cruis-
ing range, hitting power and ar
NOR.
MORE AIRCRAFT
CARRIERS FAVORED
Incidentally, there may be an
attempt to expand this bill enor.
mously when it comes to the floor
Of the House. An important group
of air-minded naval officers feels
that the three aircraft carriers the
bill would provide won't scratch
the surface of the navy's needs.
In private, some of these men are
talking about a tremendous fleet
of carriers-50, at the very least,
with 100 as a more desirable linn
it.
Such a fleet could carry 10, 600
fighting planes. According to the
air enthusiasts, it could blitzkrieg
anything aaoat or on the seacoast.
l.. Of course, it would cost a
staggering sum; equally, of course,
most admirals are likely to feel
that three new carriers will be a
great plenty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

Observation-Disclosures used for
sleeplessness.
This is a new development en-
tirely different from the incidence
in former years Of causes of poi
soning. Accidental poisoning with
the b~arbiturates is rare although
somebody sometimes takes an
overdose for sleeping purposes. It
is estimated that 1900, OOO, 900
grains of barbiturates are taken
in the United States per year.
The number of suicide deaths
due to barbiturates in 1887 was
over 400.
/. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS i.
R. A. F.-''Please answer in your
column if anything can be done
for a baby with large protruding
ears"
Answer-Certainly, but best let
time pass and see whether the
ears r %protruding ten of fifteen
years from now. Babies change
very much. Blue-eyed ones turn
into brown-eyed ones, the size Of
the head, the size of the ears be.
come relatively different. If at the
age Of 10 or IS the child seems to
have ears so prominent they con.
stitute a deformity, one If the
simplest operations done py the
plastic surgeon is to make them
lie flat on the head.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-09

ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Winter Unreliable
Ally for Britain
Against Invasion
Fog and Rain May Assist
Troop Landings While
Homperins Bombers
By EDWARD E. BOMAR,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

While the Nazi bombing raids 60
on, Adolf Hitler and Winston
Churchill appear in agreement on
the point that Great Britain must
not rely too confidently on General
Winter" for defense against inva-
sion after this month.
The prospect of months of uncer-
tainty for England's shore defend
ers has been lost sight of in the
widespread expectation that au-
tumn's arrival would inevitably clip
the wings of Germany's air power.
Fog and rain. for which the British
Isles and the North Sea are notori-
Gus in winter. promise to hamper
bombers, but at the same time they
might favor an attempt to land
troops under some conditions.
In stabilized military operations
on land, scouting patrols operate
most boldly under a protective
blanket of darkness or fog, when the
attacker enjoys the advantage of the
initiative and surprise. His thrust
is carefully planned whereas the de-
fender is subject to confusion and Is
nlisled by feints.
Hint at Many New Tricks.
Mr.. Churchill might have noted
that the NaZis have made effective
use of surprise and the initiative in
Poland, Norway, the Lowlands and
France. They have since given the
world to understand that they have
lot of new tricks to use against
England, and the independent evil
dence of careful preparation and
confidence in the Reich is ample
enough so that Propaganda Minister
Goebbel's word need not be taken
for it.
Mr.. Churchill contented himself
in his latest parliamentary review
with the admonitory reminder that
winter with its storms, its fogs and
its darkness may alter the condi-
tions but some of the conditions cut
both ways"
Hitler jeered in his sports palace
speech that Germany's foe had re-
lied successfully on General Revo-
luton" General Hunger" and now
was turning to General Winter ~
while placing the chief dependence
all the while on General Bluff" To
meet them all the embattled Reich
has General Action" he boasted.
General Mud" Omitted.
From the muster he omitted an
other unreliable commander who
was much in the news just a year
ago. That was General Mud" who
failed so fatefully to come to the
aid of Poland.
Probably the omission was ad-
visable 1t would have been diff
cult to draw a convincing parallel
between mud on the plains of Gen.
trail Europe and winter on the Eng
lish Channel.
Aides of General Winter" include
winds and high seas as we'll as fog
and darkness. Britain still has a
weapon which was not at Poland S
command. Seapower may yet take
the leading role of the conflict from
its aerial rival.
Just as Herr Hitler was obviously
speaking with propaganda at home
and abroad in view, the changes are
that his foe had something Of the
same purpose. Assuming that Bri-
tain bears up under the hammer
ing of bombs until the arrival of
euuinoctial uncertainties two weeks
or so hence, the 100000 men under
arms in the British Isles must be
kept on the alert for the sake Of
their morale as well as for Eng
lands safety.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Dividend Is Declared

NEW YORK, Sept. (SpeciaD -
Directors of L. c. Smith & Corona
Tyepwriters, Inc, today declared a
dividend of 1914 cents a share on
the common stock and the regular
quarterly dividend of $50 a share
on the preferred stock, both payable
october ! to stockholders Of record
September II.
Evening star., 1940-09-08

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