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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Texaco Draftees Will
Get Three Months Pay

Pay for three months, in addition
be given to each of the II, 500 men
of draft age in the TeXaco organiZa-
ton who have completed a year or
more of continuous service with Tex
may enlist for military or naval SER
vice under the Selective Training ano
Service act, the National Guard, the
Officers Reserve Mobilization act, or
in any other reserve organization, it
was announced yesterday by w. S S.
Rodgers, president of the Texas o r
poration. Ten local employees may be
affected.
For the first three months of his
leave the employee will receive his
full company compensation, less mil
itary pay and allowances. In add.
ton, such pension as he may have
accumulated under the Texaco pen
sion plan will continue to his Gre
dit. Texaco will also at it's own ex-
pense continue his group life insu-
rance contributions, this keeping his
insurance in full force.
The Texas company states that
upon his. return to the service of the
company, each employe will be re-
stored to his position without loss of
seniority. All the benefits Of the
Texas company's accident and sick
benefit plan and permanent and to-
tai disability plan will be restored
and the employee will receive credit
for service during the period of his
leave.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
METAPHYSICS Reuiual Of
Spirit Of Enterprise

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 1.-R-
Senator Charles L. McNary pleaded
today for revival of the spirit of en
terprise' as typified by the pioneer
Mormon settlers and urged rejection
of "the new deal creed that we are
an aging people, ready to give up the
struggle"
The republican nominee for vice
president said in a campaign speech:
THE republican party and the
next administration take direct is
sue with the concept of a shrink
ing economy.
I'VE propose to create greater
abundance; not to strive for scarcity,
and devote our chief energy to plan
ming now to distribute that scarcity.
I'm addition the next administra-
ton will not. be bound by the free
trade dogmas of Secretary of State
Hull"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Stimulated Traffic Bullying
Railroad Budget Requirements

CHICAGO Nov. 1.-RAStimu-
lated traffic coincident with nation
al rearmament is bulging railroad
budget requirements to near the
highest level of the decade, a sur
vey of developments in this rail
center indicated today.
With freight traffic expanding,
contra-seasonally to the best vol
ume of the year, analysis of re-
cent expenditures for equipment in
anticipation of prospective needs
to speed the defense p rogram
showed that more than half a bill
lion dollars have been spent so
far in 1910.
A compilation of statistics by
railway age showed purchases up
to September l amounted to $780,
466. 600, an increase of 30 per cent
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
SIXTEEN YOUNG MEN
ENLIST IN ANY HERE
All Are Transferred to the Train
ing Station at Hampton
Roads, Va.

Sixteen young men from South
eastern North Carolina enlisted as
apprentice seamen during October
at the local sub-station, r. l.. De.
loach, local recruiting officer, re-
ported yesterday.
Enlistments included: Herbert
W. Shaw, %, of White Oak; Jesse
j. Andrews, 10, Of route one, Chin.
Guapin; Amos F. Robinson, %, of
Clinton; Walton R. Jackson, 10, OF
route one, Council; Robert M. Will
liams, %, of Clinton.
Refer E.. Gore, 81, of route four,
Whiteville; James T. Gilbert, 20,
of Bolivia; John F. Arnold, Is, of
Southport; Charles E. Hughes, %,
of route one, Ash; Marvin N. Car
ter, 10, of Pikeville.
Thomas H. Wolfe, Jr., %, of
route two, Leland; Bondy E. Scott,
81, of Rocky Point; Hughie Nc
Daniels, Jr., 10, of route three,
Nichols, S. c.; Chester R. Billiard,
James o. Hodges, 10, of route one,
Council.
Deloach said William H. Kee,
10, colored, of New Brooklyn
homes, was enlisted for the mess
attendant branch of the service.
All were transferred to the naval
training station base at Hampton
Roads, Va, for a period of pre-
liminary training prior to assign
ments with various ships of the
U. S. fleet.
The local s%ub-station is now en-
qualified young men with
out regard to quota, Deloach said,
and every day will be a shipping
day." All applicants will be enlist
ed Immediately or as soon as the
necessary papers are completed.
The local waiting list will be clear
ed daily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Bureau Fingerprints
200 Here In Octobe,

The New Hanover County Bur
eau of Identification fingerprinted
and photographed 200 persons dur
ing October, Harry E. Fales, SUI
perintendent, reported yesterday.
The records we're filed with the
local bureau and the central fin
ger print bureau of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in Wash
ington, D. c., Fales said.
Ten persons presented them
selves to be fingerprinted with the
request that their records be
placed on file with the civil or
personal Identification bureau at
Washington, which is a non-crimi-
nal bureau.
During the month five cases
were called to the attention of the
bureau of investigation. All types
of physical evidence recovered
were kept on file for the future
reference of all law enforcement
agencies. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02

compared with the corresponding
1899 period.
This outlay for equipment and
materials was the largest for any
similar period since 1880, except
1887, and compared with e light
months purchases of $917, 900, 900
in 1929, 1914, 600, 900 in 1880 and
1861, 600, 900 in the first eight month
or "a per cent greater than in the
1899 period.
Rail officials expressed belief,
the high level If freight traffic
will continue at least for some
weeks to come. Freight loadings
for the week ending last Tuesday
totaled 837,651 cars, an increase
OF about 3 per cent compared with
the previous week and about 1 per
cent compared with a year ago. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Fender Court Recesses
As Docket Is Cleared

BCRGAW, Nov. 1.-Superior court
recessed here yesterday after COM
pletlon of the Van Bradham case,
in which the defendant rendered a
plea of manslaughter, which was
accepted by the state. Judge Henry
A. Grady of Clinton pronounced a
sentence of IS months on the roads,
10 be suspended upon payment of
he costs, the defendant to be placed
IN probation for a period of five
years.
Bradham was charged with the
shooting of Charles Hatcher at a
roadside filling station about one
mile south Of Burgaw. Hatcher died
IN a Wilmington hospital a few days
later.
The court will resume its sittings
wednesday at which time civil cases
on the docket will be disposed of.
IL Is not thought that more than
one or two days will be required to
clear the calendar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
lckes Says Nazi Government
Di recting Drive Against F. R.

WILKEs,BARRE, Pa, Nov. L.
(R-Secretary Ickes charged in an
address tonight that the German
government was directing a cam
palgn from Berlin against the re-
election of President Roosevelt.
The fact that Adolf Hitter does
not want Franklin D. Roosevelt in
the White House during the next
four years." Ickes added, lis the
best reason I know of for keeping
him there"
At the outset of his address.
lckes said he did not question the
Americanism of the republican
candidate, Wendell Willkie. nor the
sincerity of his statements oppos-
ing the Nazi doctrine.
The impairment advice from
Berlin to defeat President Roose-
velt,' he continued, sis not based
upon any belief that the interna-
tlonal policies of Wendell Willkie
are different from those~of Presi.
dent Roosevelt. It is the result
Of the conviction that Franklin D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
PUSH
WESTERN DRIVE
Intensity Oratorical Fire On
Pacific Coast Despite FL
Win In 1886

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-R-
The democrats have intensified
their oratorical fire on the Pacific
coast in the final pha: of the
presidential campaign, indicating
they r not willing to rest there
just because it went better than
2 to 1 for Roosevelt in 1886.
In California, where there are
about 1000, 900 more registered
democrats than republicans, dem
ocratic national chairman Edward
j. Flynn recently lid the Roose-
welt campaign had serious prob
lems." He sought to reconcile state
party factions.
Subsequently some of the heav-
lest democratic campaign artillery
was used along the California
speaking route taken by Wendell
L. Willkie, republican presidential
nominee.
Senator Sheridan Downey, a
democrat who has been sharply
critical of the administration, &C.
lively Joined the Roosevelt forces
after the Flynn visit.
Henry A. Wallace, democratic
vice presidential nominee, toured
til, state ahead of Willkie. Behind
the republican standard bearer
ca e Flynn, as we'll as Florida's
New Deal democratic senator
Claude Pepper, and Senator
George Norris, Nebraska indepen,
dent again supporting Roosevelt.
A committee of motion picture
personages also did some heavy
work in behalf Of the President
Lending aid to Willkie were two
famous Californians, former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover and Senator
Hiram Johnson. The veteran sena
tor is seeking reelection to a fifth
term and has only communist par.
ty opposition on tho ballot, having
captured his own republican nomi-
nation and the democratic a n &
progressive nominations as we'll
The state CLIO convention re.
fused to endorse a third term. Sub.
sequently its political agency, la
boris non-partisan league, an
nounced it could support neither
Will..zie nor Roosevelt. Officially
the state AFL remained non-com-
initial. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Increase In B. And L.
Associations Reported

CHICAGO, Nov. 1-R-Lending
by savings, building and loan as
sociations in the United States dur
in gthe third quarter of 1910 was
more active than in any compar-
able period since 1929, the United
States Savings and. Loan league
reported today.
During the quarter, 1928, 698, 900
was disbursed to home owners,
1858 per cent more than in the
corresponding 1899 period.
September was the sixth conse-
cutive month in which more than
500, 000, 900 was lent by these as
sociations. The months disburse-
ment was five per cent below the
11-year high reached in August,
but was the fourth highest for any.
month of the year. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
HOOVER DECLARES
DEMOCRACY ISSUE
CORNER President Discusses
Major Issues In Address
At Salt Lake City

GAIT LAKE CITY, Nov. la
uerhert Hoover said tonight the
elemental issue in the present
namnaign still is 1.-The preserva-
ton of democracy"
discussing 1.-The major issues
- an address prepared for a poll
~ noeI meeting and a nationwide
.aadcast, the former president
asserted;
..rf we are to save democracy
must save the roots of demo.
Wv. We must save the philo-
sophy' inns IS oie 0''''e I A'i'eii
The New Deal started, he said.
n.;th three economic ideas:
First. the whole American sys.
,,o was a wreck and wrong and
u,,st be made over. Second, new
tnontiers of enterprise were gone
md the lob was to divide the ex.
isting pot. Third, the federal gov.
arnment should be exalted to con.
trol Of economic life. They adopt.
Cd the European words of planned
aconomy," economic planning"
You will find every one of these
oconomic ideas somewhere along
me Moscow Axis, and
10 force these ideas on America
Won have seen attempts to control
nnr courts, to control our congress,
our public opinion with mass prop
aoanda ana slogans, and finally to
demand a third term. All that at
least has a pronounced odor OF
fotalitarian government.
You cannot mix these ideas
;rto a society of free men and
women.
Are men free when there is
2olitical manipulation of currency,
credit. wages, prices and produc-
lion? Does tree enterprise consist
Of the government in business in
competition with the citizen? Are
men made free by changing regu-
lation to prevent abuses by a mi
lority of bad men into dictation
10 good men satoniedtcu crhfosh
Of good men as to conduct of their
business? Are farmers free men
when it is dictated to them what
they can SOW and reap?
They have driven our economy
N fear. not upon faith, upon tied
men. not free men. $50.
The end result was to fix de-
preston as a chronic way of
American life. This munitions
Doom may obscure it momentarily.
But the consequences are newt
able. 1t is only by a change in
national direction that there lies
the moral as we'll as the econom-
c regeneration of America.
Mr.. Willkie has been bravely
crusading his country from one
end to the other, demanding a
change of national direction back
% free men. That issue would be
enough for M campaign, b u t
there are others" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
JAMES APPOINTED
T0A.C.L.P POSITION
Former Bethlehem Man Nam
ed Superintendent Of In
surance And Safety

Alfred C. James, of Bethlehem.
Penn, has been appointed super
intendent of insurance and safety
for the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road, with headquarters in Will
mington, Robert Scott, director of
insurance and safety, announced
yesterday.
Scott said James comes to the
railroad from the Bethlehem Steel
company, is experienced in both
insurance and safety matters, and
is moving his family to the city
Immediately.
The appointment was approved
by c. Med. Davis, executive presi-
dent of the railroad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
New Zebulon- Wake Forest
Road Section Is Opened

RALEIGH, Nov. 1.-R- A
stretch of road lib miles long,
extending from Zebulon to a point
five miles east of. Wake Forest,
was formally opened today at cere-
monies on the grounds of Wakelon
High school.
The link, recently completed at
an approximate cost of $3.50, 900.
was the only unpaved section of
U. S. route 264 between Engle-
hard and Durham.
T. Boddie Ward of. Wilson, a
member of the state highway and
public works commission, cut a
ribbon which opened the newly
paved stretch to traffic. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02

Roosevelt has, and Wendell Will
kie has not, the strength and know.
ledge and resourcefulness needed
to thwart the Nazi plan for world
conquest"
1ckes said the campaign w a s
fbeing conducted in Nazi and fas-
cist publications in this country.
and also by propaganda among
"appeasement" elements in tn e
country.
In addition, he said, Berlin has
broadcast dispatches to South
America designed to undermine
American influence and discredit
President Roosevelt, He read ex-
cerpts from dispatches which he
said had been broadcast. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
New Freeman Co. Shoe
Store Draws Throng

thousands of customers and in
crested friends crowded into the
ne" freeman Shoe store at "a North
'front.' street during it's gala opening
on Thursday.
Huge baskets of flowers were sent
ny friendly business concerns. The
"iouernly-equipped store was highly
praised.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Decline In Population
OF Vermont Is Reported

WASHINGTON, Nov. l. -RH
Because of rural losses, the cen.
sus bureau said today, Vermont
was one of the few states in the
union whose population declined
from 1880 to 1910. Final Vermont
figures gave the state a 1910 total
Of 359, 231. While this was 1858
more than shown in preliminary
tabulations, it was still $50 less
than the 1880 count, and represent
ed a decrease of %one-tent'. of one
per cent. The only che states to
show decreases were in the Mid
Western dust bowl. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Recorders Collections
Total $685. In October

Collections in recorders court
during October totaled. $1,619, C..
L. CTinkey) Myers, deputy clerk
in charge of recorders court, re-
ported yesterday.
The monthly report included:
$668.85 costs, $685.. IS; Jail
fees, $24.15; emergency pension
fund, $1O9. 90; state pension fund,
$l11.55; police pension fund, $32.25,
and turnkey fund, $16.45. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Legion Auxiliary Meet
Is Slated For Tuesday

monthly meeting Of the
Anieflcan Legion auxiliary will be
neio tuesday afternoon at 4 O'Clock
III The Sorosis clubrooms.
MIS- Harry V. Norris, president,
"sed all members and eligible wom-
en- to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
BODY RECOVERED

FOREST CITY, Nov. 1.-R-The
body of Sam Warren, "a, of Wake
Forest City, was recovered from the
Second Broad river near here today
after a search of several hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
SUED FOR DIVORCE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1. -R-
Mischa Auer, Russian film come
dian, was sued for divorce today
by Mrs. Norma Auer, who charged
cruelty. The couple was married
in Beverly Hills in 1881 and sepa-
rated, the complaint disclosed, a
week ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02

more than 1000, 900 patents have
oeen granted to American and for
eish inventors during the last 100
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
TIDE is BULGE

Tides are caused by the attrac
ton of the moons gravity. AS the
earth turns, the moon attracts the
water in the ocean ard raises e
bulge in it. The bulge is the tide
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02

ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1940-01-28

the new government, the statement

the new government, the statement
said.
Wang, who has campaigned for
peace with Japan since he broke
with Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek's Chungking government year
ago, declared In an interview before
his departure that the new regime
would guarantee the Just rights
and interests Of third-party powers.
1T has been decided" the former
Chinese premier said, "that Chi
nese-Japanese peace will not be
detrimental to the legitimate rights
Of foreigners in China"
As for China's foreign loans, Wang
said that "in general we will have
to recognize them, but those Illegally
made by Chungking will have to be
re-examined."
The new regime, Wang asserted
would claim control of all China, not
merely those portions now occupied
by the Japanese. Chang, he said
would be "outlawed" if he persists in
carrying on the war with Japan.
Wang said Japan had agreed to
recognize the sovereignty and in
ternal integrity of the new govern
ment. but would not Immediately
withdraw her tooops from China.
'As long as Chungking is still
shouting resistance to the bitter end
how can we ask Japan to withdraw
her troops?" he asked.
Asked whether North China would
Evening star., 1940-01-28

have q special status, Wang said:
"As before the war, there will
again be q political council at Peip-
ing, but subject to the control Of
the, central political council. which
will be the highest organ Of the
new government. The important
thing is that no matter what gov
e1nment North China has it won't be
detrimental to the supremacy Of the
central government"
Before the war began in 1887
there was North China council in
Peiping which frequently bowed to
Japanese pressure.
Wang. won a minor concession
when the Japanese consented to the
new regime using the Kuomintane
f1ag-a white sun and a blue back
ground. Japanese soldiers have long
regarded the Kuomintang banner as
an enemy emblem.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
CobbIer Fills Desire
To Shoot Somebody
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GARRETT, Pa, Jan. 27.-A S.
year-old cobbler who had expressed
a strange longing to shoot some
body" today fulfilled his desire by
killing pedestrian and then him.
self.
County Detective Harry Jacobs
identified the eccentric shoemaker
as Tony Kralj and said Kralj shot
former Constable Robert Phenicie,
IS, as Mr.. Phenicie walked unsus-
pectingly along a street in this
Western Pennsylvania village.
Kralj then fired a shot from his
rifle through his head and fell dead.
MIR Phenicie died several hours later
in hospital.
Mr.. Jacobs described Kralj as a
moody man who had been acting
strangely during fits of dependency
and who had expressed a desire to
Evening star., 1940-01-28
New Chinese Regime
To Be Completed
Next Month :
Wang Chins-wei Promises
Guarantee for Rights
Of Foreigners
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TSINGTAO, China, Jan. 27.-Ter-
minating q three-day conference
with heads of the Japanese-d -domin-
ated Nanking and Peiping regimes,
Wang Ching-wei left by plane today
for Shanghai, where a political
council will complete next month
organization of the new central Chi
nese government of which he has
been named head by TOXIC.
A statement issued after the con-
ference said the council would be
formed by Wang's orthodox Kuo-
mintang" party and the local Nam
king, Peiping and Inner -Mongolian
regimes. Other political and non-
party leaders will have voice in
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Germany Is Weaker
Than in 1914,
Churchill Holds
Allies Far Ahead Of
Where We Were in Last
War; He Declares
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, England. Jan. ~,
Winston Churchill today ap-
praised Nazi Germany as weaker
foe than the imperial Germany of
1914 while the allies "are far ahead
of where we were at this time in
the other war"
But he cautioned the British in
an address on the progress of the
conflict against any relaxation, de-
claring instead "it is a time to dare
and endure"
The First Lord of the Admiralty
spoke in this center of British liber-
alism and free trade for the first
time since he launched q move two
years ago to make the League of
Nations all-powerful against aggres-
SorS.
Heckler Is Elected.
Hecklers in his Free Trade Hall
audience interrupted him by call
ing the name of Sir Oswald Mosley,
British Fascist leader, but the dis
turbances ended when a man was
CJCCICu d1UCI ollOAGAAAS.
1--WE want Mosley and peace!"
To Nazi assertions that Britain s
convoy system was Ineffective, Mr..
Churchill replied that "out of nearly
$500 ships conveyed to and from
this island only Is have been lost.
He said half of Germany's sub
marines had been destroyed and
new building had fallen far short
of what we originally estimated
Charges $4,000 Executed.
He charged Germany with
shameful records" in the conquests
of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland,
from which he said 1--WE can judge
what our own fate would be should
we fall into her clutches"
Everything that has happened to
the Czechs cannot compare with
the atrocities worked upon the poor
Poles" of whom upwards of $4,000
intellectuals have been shot," he
said.
The sharp-tongued admiralty
head told Britons they had escaped
the terrors of air warfare so far
because Germany Cannot tell what
may be written in it's final pages"
The nearly five months of conflict
without the expected German blitz-
krieg from the skies, he said, had
been "a godsend to u.s."
Whatever may happen in future,
provided we do not relax our
vigilance, Herr Hitler has already
lost his best chance" he cried.
Thinks Allies Far Stronger.
Whether the war will be long or
short, whether it be dull and grind
ing or burst suddenly into furious
flame" Mr.. Churchill said he was
certain Britain and France together
are "far stronger in physical energy
and fighting strength than Hitler's
Germany"
II always hesitate to say any
thing that tends to underrate the
formidable character of the foe we
have to fight" he went on. yet, 1
cannot rid my mind of the thought
that the Imperial Germany of 1914
was stronger enemy than the Nazi
Germany of today"
Britain was in war stride" he
said, but was not running at full
power. He estimated 1,OOO,000 wom-
en- were needed in munitions plants
and other war work. He assured
trade union men that if they sur
rendered any special craft benefits
they would be restored fully after
the war.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Potuto Herb Poper

Farmers Of Thuringen, in Ger
many, have been ordered to collect
all available potato herbs, which
will be used in making paper and
textile fibre.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
London Truffic FIGURES

In the last normal years buses
and coaches in London carried
2,222, ,ea5 ,22s passengers. while trolley
buses transported 570,604, ,622 and
street cars 516,133, ,450.
Evening star., 1940-01-28

To keep people on the land, Louth
County, Fire, may finance new
homes for farmers.
Evening star., 1940-01-28

shoot somebody" Coroner F. E
Sass listed the deaths as murder and
suicide.
Evening star., 1940-01-28

STEEL HEADS-STEEL FIST-Rumania will fight living
WALL against Russian invasion steehelmeed King Carol
Oeft January in militant speech at
Chnau Bessaraba Crown Prince Michael is shown with his
father before speech Besaraba Russian province
before 1918 became Rumanian after the World War.
"A. P. Photo
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