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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
QUOTATIONS

I'm very appreciative. I'm very humble. Tn
very proud. It's going to be a great fght.-Wen.
dell Wlllkie, G. O. P. president nominee.
In another 20 years the United States as a
whole is likely to have a rate of reproduction 20
per cent below that needed for replacement
Frederick Osborne, director, Population Assoccia-
ton of America.
The three great religious groups, Catholic, Pro.
testant and Jewish, have at last been forced in.
to the realization that the "nihilist' revolution is
directed against them, o.-Ra David A. Cold.
stein, Omaha.
You and I know that the very forces of sub
version themselves hide behind the protective Sec
lions OF the Bill of Rights which they seek to de,
stroy.-National Commander RAYMOND T. Kelly.
American Legion.
France remains free and will continue to be
governed by Frenchmen.-Marshaf Petain.
y
II the individual is protected against libel.
SANDER, obscenities, ETC., why is It ~fascistic for
the government to protect itself against treas.
h'-1eorse Creel, World War propaganda chief.
Blufang will get us nowhere-excent info q
war.-Raymond Moley, one-time presidential ad.
wiser.
line french workers today must find their
Popular Front labor gains precious little salts
faction to them in the present desperate Night
of their country.-Henry Hazlitt to the Tamtrnent
Economic Institute.
since our victory (of 1879 our sense of enjoy.
meht mas predominated over our sense of sacri.
nee we have not exerted enough effort. .
Today we are in distress.-Marshal Petain of the
French people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
GEORGE w. BAILEY

In the death of GEORGE W. BAILEY Whining.
ton loses a valued citizen and it's people a.
friend. In this hour of bereavement, the star
Joins his host of friends in extending to the
family its sincere sympathy and condolences.
During the many years of his residence here,
MIR. BAILEY always exerted his best effort to the
upbuilding of the community and the cultiya-
tion of what is best in entertainment. AS a
business man, his relations with the community
were universally stamped Sterling" in his
relations with his employees and his personal
associates, his friendship a treasured possess
sion.
1t had been his hope and ambition to give
Wilmington a moving picture theater which
would rank with the best in the country. He
lived only to see a start made on it's construc-
ton. Hardly had the work of demolishing the
old building upon the site of the new theater
begun when he was stricken with the fatal at
tack which ended in death on Sunday morn
ing. During the months of his illness he griev-
ed that he could not take active part in the
project which meant so much to him. Now
that he is gone, might 1t not Ne a fitting tribute
to rename the theater for him and lot it be
known as the BAILEY? Wilmington would like
that, would take pride in having his name per-
petuated in a business he did so much to de.
velop and advance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Home Clubs To Meet
Here On Wednesday

The New Hanover county fedora
ton of home demonstration clubs
will meet at 9:45 o'clock Wednes-
day morning at the office of Miss
Ann Mason, home demonstration
agent, in the .customhouse to dis
cuss plans for programs during the
coming year.
John H. Harris, extension land.
scape specialist, from the North Car
DINA State college in Raleigh, will
discuss the subject, Fall Planting
of the Home Yard"
Mrs. Ed Wright, county council
president. invites all home demon
stration club women in the county
to attend and bring donations for
the general war relief fund of the
Wilmington chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02

it suddenly has Notwithstanding ones
tossed in its lap.
If it is fear of Nazi market re-
prisals in the event of a German
triumph, Hollywood already has
cause enough for that fear. 1t is
doubtful that Nazi victory would
make the punishment less severe
if Hollywood now withdrew it's Gel
luloid weapons. Nc gestapo in the
industry could report the way
Hollywood thinks any more effec-
lively than Hollywood itself has
made that clear. Hollywood's Eu-
ropean market has long since been
whitfield down to minute proper
tons.
Greatest worry belongs undoubt-
edly to Chaplin, although he hasn't
even a neWsreel on which Nazis
could inflict immediate retaliation.
Charles problem is a million dol
lars worth of picture poking fun at
a dictator who is not funny.
But seasoned shoWmen talk of
the great danger in all these films
and the threat to the box-office.
Some are fine dramas, beauti-
fully done, with excellent star
names, and ordinarily would spell
dividends. But in times like these,
the show world fears that the pub
lie will seek out the theaters where
it can find escape-in comedy, in
musicals, in light, unprovoking
fare that will permit it to forget
briefly what's going on in the world
outside. They won't want to think
any more than they're thinking
already-of unpleasant facts.
There's no denying that Ameri-
cans ought to see these films be-
cause they'll make them even hap
pier to be Americans. But show
men I've talked to would trade
the lot for one bright. snappy mus
ical, full of girls and non-topical
gags.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Townsend Declares His
Pension Plan Is Key
To Americas SALVATION

ST. LOUIS, July 1.-(R-Dr.
Francis E. Townsend, painting a
bleak picture of the sweep of to-
talitarian power in Europe and
Asia, told a convention Of his fol-
lowers today that his pension plan
was 1.-The key to Americas saliva
ton"
Asserting that democracy
faces a challenge" he said, 1T is
up to the people of America to
prove that the ideals by which we
have lived and grown great can
triumph over the wor]d-crushing
forces of domineering overlords."
With "these> thoughts in mind"
Townsend said he attended the re-
publican convention in Philadel-
phia and found little realization
or desire to face the realities-the
problems Of labor, the unemployed
and the aged" He added that he
expected mo higher degree of
craftsmanship or knowledge Of our
national peril from the coming
democratic convention. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Sing Oil Co. Office
Here Reported Robbed

City police yesterday investigated
a report from G. C. Clark, en-
ploye of the Sing Oil company, who
said that he dropped off to sleep
while at the oil company plant Sun
day night and that while he was
asleep someone entered from a
window and stole a cash register,
his white and tan shoes and a pair
of pants.
The cash register, he said, con-
tanned between $35 and $40.
Yesterday morning, police reported,
the cash register was found by Levy
Antoine, negro, 1923 Taylor street,
while he was fishing in Smiths
creek.
At that time, the report said, it
contained two cents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
NEW WAR DRAMA

The effect of Europe's war is felt now by
every American who drinks alcoholic beverages,
smokes cigarettes, attends theaters,s uses soap
or other toilet preparations; buys radio, cleo
trio refrigerators, automobiles; consumes cleo
trio current; uses matches, gasoline, lubricat.
ing oil; play cards, pays club dues and initia-
ton fees, and in other ways expends the money
he earns.
BY imposing a floor tax" on liquor, beer and
the defense levy. The rate is one-half cent on
the package of cigarettes, rs cents a gallon on
liquor and 81 a barrel on beer. The same. situa'
ton exists for theater goers; they must pay the
tax now. Retailers are-exempt for the1~tM on
beer stock on hand only, which means that con-
piled to wholesalers. Principal articles on the
new list and the rate applying to them are:
Toilet preparations, from 10 to II per
cent; automobiles, 3 to 3 IL per cent;
radios, 5 to S IL per cent; mechanical re:
frigerators, 5 to 5 IL per cent; matches, 5
cents to 5 10 cents a thousand; electrical
energy, 3 to 8 10 per cent; gasoline, 1 to
1 10 cents a gallon; lubricating oil, 4 to 4
IL cents a gallon; playing cards, 10 to IL
cents a pack; club dues and initiation fees,
10 to II per cent.
If we are inclined to be grouchy, it may dc
some good to reflect that what we are com
PEELED to pay now may save us all we have left
later on. For the money we contribute is to &c
for. national defense, and in being so applied
will make us better able to cope with any mill
tary emergency which the future may present
This thought, however, will hardly increase
our esteem for the mailman of Europe wha
makes it necessary to undertake rearmamen1
on a grand scale. We must blame HITLER, moi
the government, for the new taxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
EXPLANATION NOT ENOUGH

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, appeasement premier
of Great Britain has offered the British people
an explanation of his attitude toward his ma
lions enemies and assures them that nothing
is further from his mind or wishes than a
compromise peace or the surrender of any Of
the Empires liberty. The statement by Mr..
CHAMBERLAIN was in reply to current rumors
that he is affiliated with a group in England
which seeks to make peace with HITLER before
risking a military she w-down.
For all his b~rngliY.g and blindess, and de.
spite Munich AMI Norway, it is impossible to
believe Mr.. Cha. lBEl. Ian disloyal. Probably no
man in England .'ai higher aspirations for the
Empire, in its war with totalitarianism, than
he. But he visioned a war in 1910 on the scale
of a war in 1914, and utterly failed to compre.
bend what was brewing in Germany for the
conquest Of Europe.
In the last analysis, Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN was
unequal to his task as premier, and because he
had no conception of the peril ahead paved the
way for the forthcoming Battle of England, It
is easy to understand why he is accused now
OF fostering or even sponsoring peace with
HITLER on H1rLER's terms. He lost the con-
idence of the British people and they are now
ready to believe him capable of any COM
promise.
It is unfortunate that he was given a post
in the CHURCHILL ministry. His presence in the
cabinet was, and is, bad for the morale of Eng
land. He constitutes the weak link in England's
chain of defense. For the good of the Empire,
for the, sake of the worlds dwindling demo.
cracy, he should resign his governmental posi-.
ton and remove the shadow he, casts on the
integrity@and sincerity of the ministry in this
clark p~eriod-of~ the Empires existence. sa
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
GUARD TO LEAVE
FOR CAMP SUNDAY
Will Remain Al Fort MOul.
trie Three Weeks, Pos
sibly Longer

An idea, prevalent in the minds Of
many national guardsmen here tia.
when they leave here for their an.
nual encarnpment this year they may
not return for an indefinite period,
was given some strength yesterday
when it was learned the usual camp
orders carry what may be an iudiu.
ton of a War department intention
to keep. them in active service.
Orders issued to the 252nd c. A.,
N. &. N. G. for the annual encamp.
ment to begin next Sunday morning,
stipulate that the coast artiIlerymea
will remain in camp until July i,
unless sooner relieved by plo.u
authority.
Just what that term may mean
was the subject of much discussigl
among guardsmen who could not re.
call any such phrase having been in
similar orders in previous years.
Guardsmen were generally agreed
there is little likelihood of their lie.
ing "relieved'' from any part OF ts
three-week training period unless
they are assigned to some Other
duty.
Meanwhile plans for the cncaml'
ment continued apace, with Z a. III
next Sunday being set as the hour
when the units of the 2J2nd here
will depart for Georgetown, where
they will meet the other units Of tie
regiment before going to Fort Mol'
trie.
The movement will be by motor
convoy. Col. r. S. McCIeIlaud, Tie
commanding officer, said, with the
unit to use all of it's w morolize'
equipment and probably 10 or y
truck from the state pool.
In all there will be nearly lQ2
men in the regiment when 1t goes
to camp. With a strength oil %
prior to an authorization for an IL
crease some months ago, the reg
cnent is now only Is men short oil il
authorized expanded peace'llA'
strength of 953 men, Col. Mcclellan
said. /
Its authorized strength is for J"
to the battery, the creates eve.
assigned to the regiment in tunes ="
peace, he said, Wartime s~tlcnSI-'
he said, would be 125 men to the D~'
terry. /
Meanwhile no definite ordn.s h'
been received by Co. 1, 102th mar
try, or Co. A, 105th Medical Lt-
ment relative to their ANIMAL GU
campment other than Tentative "
ders issued sometime ago which Il'.
Gated these units will take l's-
training beginning August 4 anu W.
participate in the maneuvers 10
held in Mississippi, which VIII
the alrgest peace-time a~gsrcglJ-7A
soldiers in America in history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Shark Bites Fisherman
Al Beach In Brunswick

SOUTHPORT, July 1.-CR-Wil-
liam T. Dye, Of Charlotte, was dis
missed from a hospital here after
receiving first aid treatment for the
bite of a shark.
Young Dye was bitten while fish
ing at Holden's Beach in Brunswick
county yesterday.
He had caught a fish and attached
1t to a belt around his waist, con-
tinuing to fish in waist-deep water.
The shark, reported by some OBJ
servers to have been about 10 feet
long, presumably attempted to grab
the fish from the belt, and took a
chunk out of Dyes leg between the
knee and the hip in slashing by.
Hospital attendants said Dye was
not seriously hurt.
A report here said the shark was
afterwards hooked by other fisher.
men at the beach but escaped.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Star.News Program

Consolidated Ctty.County Government
under Council Manager Adn'n's'fo''o"
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry PreseTo'"9
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena TOR Sports n lno~s'''u'
Shoes.
d, Seaside Highppay from Wr'ghtSv'"e
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
s5.Foot Cape Fear River channel, DG
err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes tnto
industrial sites along Eastern oanE
south OF Wilmington.
paved River Road to Southport, vaa
Orton Plantation.
DEVELOPMENT OF Pulp Wood Produc'
ton through sustained-yield methoos
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported By n
countrywide tar.
Shipya7ds and Drydock.
. Negro Health Center TOR Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whstes.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0ro1sn9
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtortnm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Hollywood Sight. And Sounds
Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD - In all the pal
aver over the possible fate OF
Hollywood's antiNazi films, the
one great eight-ball they're be-
hind seems to have been overlook
ed.
That is the public clamor for
escape films in times of crisis.
Hollywood, as lacking in fore
sight regarding blitzkriegs as were
the governments of France and
England, was paying its usual keen
attention to headline material when
it acquired story rights to certain
novels and stories, or created it's
own yarns on the subject of Nazi-
ism.
1.-The Mortal Storm" was pur-
chased before the outbreak OF war,
for instance, and CHANGED to be
completed just when the efforts
of the big blitzkrieg were evident.
Chaplin was conceiving his comedy
of dictators at least a year before
he went into production. Comics
sions of a Nazi Spy" now being
re-issued, was a prewar release.
-Four Sons" was 20's answer to
Metros Mortal Storm" and the
same studios II Married a Nazi''
was purchased as another typical
subject calculated to intrigue what
audience Hollywood has left in the
world.
Wanger's Foreign Correspon-
dent" adventure yarn with i'm
plications, at least, of anti-Nazi
feeling, is the outgrowth of Vim
cent Sheean's. personal History
although today Sheean would
difficulty recognizing his
story in the film.
All these films now have Hol-
lyWood dazed although officially no
such admission is made. 1t is an
amazing state of affairs when an
industry that thrives on timely
headlines gets the filters because
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Brands Office Force
Honors Retiring Chief

IN connection with the retirement
OF j., N. Brand, assistant vice-presi.
dent, OF the Atlantic Coast Line Rail.
road company, the employees under
MS jurisdiction gathered in his pri.
ATE offlce Sunday morning and pre-
sented him with a beautiful chrom.
lum decanter set, suitably engraved,
as a token of affection and high
esteem in which he is held by his of
flee associates.
Ihe presentation was made for the
by S. D. Hurst, Jr., as
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
DR.. Willis To Speak .,
Before Farmers CIp'

DR.. L. G.. Willis, in charge M -
soil laboratory, yesterday accc'l'"
invitation to discuss soil pdj'"
programs for fall and sprin2 |
in the county at the monthly IT.,
per meeting OF the Farmers ga
at 8 o'clock Thursday evenin2 =
4, at the lodge hall at ''
Browns at Seagate.
RI w. Galphin. count ''
agent, said DR.. Willis will 2I-
in his talk information when
be of considerable benefit to -"'.
ers in the county in the piaIlI''"
Of their fall and spring crops
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
ALIEN REGISTRY

Aliens who registered Saturday
and yesterday with the clerk of su.
perior court are {:
Richard Daley, British, restaurant
helper.
Mrs. Linda M. Sullivan, Irish.
housewife.
Mrs. Flora K. Riesz, Dutch, house.
wife.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
EN- U TO II. 6.

NEW YORK, July 1@R-Joseph
Paul-BoGcour. former premier of
france, was reported enroute tonight
to the United States aboard the
Pal American Always Atlantic clip
per. The transatlantic plane arrives
here from Lisbon, Portugal, at 8 a.
m. (EST) tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
TOP o. THE MORNING

Tt isn't the brains q man has IN ms hedd,
Or the skill that he has in his hand;
1t isn't the books he has studied or reGd,
Or his fortune in money or lana
That makes a man HEeGble, loDG6Ie here
For nadny q miseY is smart;
1t is not Uhat q brother can do We hold dedT
But juSt What he is in his heart.
Detroit "Free Press"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-02
Man bout

By George Tucker

OY SS0t90 sNS~Ss
NEW YORK, July 1.-The speed
with which rumors travel and re-
ports are distorted is ~proverbial.
Such phenomena are attributa-
BILE to the imperfection Of the hui
man mind.
But nobody ever has discovered
how some rumors, which eventu-
ally prove to be completely base
less, get started.
Manhattan, one of the greatest
crossroads in the world, and
hence a great center for gossipers,
is also a beehive of such rumors.
The same ones crop up over
and over again, and they're old
stuff to newspapermen who con-
stantly and frantically h ave to
chase them down. You can't afford
to miss the n time in a million
when n turns out to be true.
Twice a year the report spreads
that the National Broadcasting
company has sold one of its two
national networks, and the NBC
people are just in for a couple OF
days of explaining repeatedly
that there's nothing to it whatso-
ever. They're getting used to it
now, like the annual income tax.
The war abroad has produced
big new rumors at the rate of
about one a day. At my desk not
far from the APP city desk, where
such reports r routed, ! get the
draft from them.
Today the tale was that RUS
STA has declared war on Italy" A
half-dozen calls from excited citi-
zens came in within an h~our-yet
neither the APPS direct wires
from Europe, nor anybody else's
wires, had carried a word along
that line.
/ went down to the bank at noon
the other day and a guard asked
line excitedly about the wall
Street report" that 1.-The fifth col
umn had taken over the Panama
canal" I checked up when l got
back to the office and apparently
the whole yarn had grown out OF
the fact that a couple of political
parties in Central America had in-
dulged in a little gunplay.
Three weeks before Italy entered
the war, the report repeatedly
} went the rounds that she was in.
One such report comes anonymous.
ly from, of all places, somebody in
the bureau of internal revenue,
which you never hear of except
at income-tax time and where l
doubt that you could find out yes
terday's. Brooklyn score
We took the night off last night
and organized our library of re.
cordings. The incest thing in the
new releases of the last few weeks
is a new album Of tangoes that
SC1u4llU1d has put Oot' Will I11S
album, which contains eight num-
bers, came a help-yourself chart
for home instruction in the tango
by Arthur Murray.
We ourselves are much too
warm and weary these days to be-
come a tango hound, but when it
comes to sitting back in a soft
easy chair and listening to pretty
music we have plenty of what it
takes. This new album is called
Tango" and the music is by Ra-
mon Lttee and his Orquestra Tipi-
ca. Nice doings, especially that
La Cumparsita" number, which
means THE Masked One.p
We are also mighty pleased
with several additions to our hill
billy selections. Until you h
heard Seven Years With the
Wrong Woman" sung to three fid-
dies and a gourd accompaniment,
your musical education has been
neglected, /
The Valley settler., 1940-01-19

Tho Library will be opon to adults on Fridays evenings from 7:to 8:
The Valley settler., 1940-01-19
NOTICES

Will the person or persons who removed the stove pipe md coffee pot from tho Hilltop Club house on the old Earl Berry trcct, p1oGse ccll end tcl1c the house too This property belonged to the District end trhtlo your ct it, do ( good job, don't be ( pikor.
The Valley settler., 1940-01-19

The l. stest crrivel is Q big boy for Nr. end Mrs .Lestor Ell sWorth. lrr1Vod today that's why the big important look .cnd smile on father s face.
The Valley settler., 1940-01-19
ARRIVALS

< baby girl arrived to l,r. and Mrs. Don CCpps of tho Indo p6 ndence mino, t the local hospital. The bcby weighed six pounds and thirteen ounces.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-07-25
REED-SECREST NUPTIALS

Before an altar of white hy-
drangea and greenery, Miss Esther
Reed and Gordon Secrest were unit
ed in marriage at the Renrock
Methodist church last Thursday af-
ternoon, by Rev. Burl s. Brown,
using the single ring ceremony. The
bride wore navy silk ensemble,
with white accessories and wore a
shoulder corsage of gardenias. At
tendants were the brides sister,
Dortha Reed, and Frank Radcliff, Of
Caldwell. Miss Ruth Brown present
ed program of bridal music pre-
ceding the ceremony. Only the i'm
mediate families OF the bride and
groom were present.
Mrs. Secrest is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lynn Reed, near
Reinersville. She is graduate of
Reinersville high school, and at
tended college at Ohio University,
Athens. She spent the past year
teaching in the Pennsville schools.
Mr.. Secrest graduated from Belle
Valley high school. and is engaged
in farming. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. NJ Secrest of Hoskins-
vile. Following the ceremony 4
reception was held at the home of
the bride, after which the happy
couple left for short wedding
trip
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-07-25
EDWARD JARRETT DIES
AT NEWARK

Edward B. Jarrett, died sudden
ly Monday morning at his home in
Newark, while working with an
awning. He had been in failing
health for several years with a
heart ailment He was a son of the
late John w. and Mary Jane Jar
rett, and was born near Caldwell.
He later resided in this county, but
for As years had made Newark his
home. For 10 years he was employ
ed with the Licking Oil company.
and the past nine years worked at q
highway garage, where he was night
watchman. He was q member of
the Baptist church, Masonic orders,
and the l. o. O. F.. Surviving are
his wife; two brothers, Albert Of
GAINESVILLE, and Curtis of Dover. A
sister is deceased. Mr.. Jarrett was
cousin of Will Bird of Bristol,
and has other distant relatives in
this county. His wife. before mar
riage, was Pearl Copley of near
Newark. Mr.. Jarrett was in his
10th year
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday afternoon at the home, with
burial in Cedar Hill cemetery. Rev.
S. B. Crandel, Baptist minister,
conducted the services. Among
those who attended the funeral
were William Bird and son How
ard; Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGregor
and daughter Miss Beulah McGreg-
or, and c. E. Lawrence and wife,
all of Bristol township.