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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10
Casualties Announced

HOHt-Tns high command said
today that 1852 Italian tfs,ops on
al fronts had been wounded In
action since the start u the war
and that BIS were missing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10
New U. S. Naval Policy to
Stiffen Attitude in Pacific

= Public statement OF unitsd
- States policy by Secretary Of
state cordell HUI plainly indicst-
ing that this country will continue
10 refuse To recognize the esiab-
lishment OF Monroe doctrine
FOR Asia by Japan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10

WASHINGTON - Presi-
dent Roosevelt was believed
TO be planning a new naval
strategy in the Pacific today
to support a steadily stiffen-
ing attitude toward Japanese
pressure for a free hand in
Asia.
This was the Interpretation
placed by diplomatic quarters on
the surprise visit To Washington
by Admiral J. II. Richardson. com
mander-in-chief OF the fleet. and
on other naval military and
diplomatic moves during the past
week.
Richardson's White House APP
pearance followed Immediately q
conference between the president
and 1t. Col. Richard X. Souther-
land. army chief Of staff in the
Philippine islands
Both insisted that their talks
concerned only routine matters"
Behind these routine matters"
however, were the following de-
velopments during the past two
weeks;
Mysterious Maneuvers
Mysterious departure OF the
fleet from Hawaii. for an un-
announced destination A week
later the fleet returned to Hawaii
and Admiral Richardson announc-
ed IL had been on routine prac-
tiee cruise"
= Enactment Of law empow-
4 erng the president 10 control
or prohibit the expectation OF
strategic war materials. including
machine tools. required for Amer
lean national defense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10
Dreadnaught
Richelieu Is
Y Victim
French Ship Put
Out OF Commission
In British Aiiock

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unuston French dreAdnauHht
Rlchelleu had becn put out
OF commission by British air
and naval astlan.
The Riehsllea. newest s.stieship
In the French fleet. was attacked
hy british mosar hosts and tsrlslsn
aircraft a Dakar. the French
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10

BANK TRANSACTIONS
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-10
British Air
Fleet Raids
.Nal Bases
Offensive Token Il,
Preparation for
Gsrmon lnvusion

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
GROWTH IN SCOUTING
ACTIVITIES DISCLOSED
Total Of 1,412 Boys Registered
Cape Fear Area Council Dur
ing September

A steady growth in activities of
the Cape Fear area council, Boy
Scouts of America, is indicated in
monthly reports submitted to the
regional office in Atlanta, David
l.. Lilies, scout executive, said yes
terday.
A total of lap boys were regis
tered for scouting activities in the
council at the close of September,
the last monthly report to Atlanta,
shows.
An eighty-one per cent increase
for the four year period just ended
is disclosed in a recent study made
by Herbert Stuckey, deputy region
al executive, of the membership
of the local council organization.
Lilies said during the same period
the number of troop units in.
creased from 40 to 60, or a growth
of approximately Sc per cent.
Stuckey said II am greatly en-
couraged by the way the Cane
Fear area council is moving ahead
and I predict even greater prog
ress in the future. You are to be
congratulated upon having attained
and surpassed your detectives in
membership for the year." l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
Editorial Comment
''THE LITTLE CARGO-BOATS"
N. Y, Herald Tribune

Though flotsam of the silent, bitter war on
the seas is often washed on American shores
"a terse radio appeal from a tanker, twice
torpedoed, for example, or a Norwegian crew,
rescued by a ship under the command of their
former master-such fragments only hint at
the titanic battle being Waged by the little
cargo-boas" that ply to the beleaguered Bri-
ish Isles. It is hard to see the drama in a
wall-sided tramp, dun-colored, streaked with
rust and caked with salt, staggering, perhaps,
under a deckload Of prosaic lumber. Sea-
power, one feels, should express itself in nobler
symbolism the richly ornamented ships of
Rodney, gay with gliding and great battle
flags, in Nelson's seventy-fours, checkered in
black and yellow and topped with towering
clouds of sail, or at least in the gray battle
ships OF today, squat and stripped, but invest
ed with the majesty of sheer strength.
Yet it is because of the ugly tramps and
lean tankers that lordly warships keep the
sea, to maintain a steady flow of timed beef
and frozen mutton, dried apples, deals and
other undramatic counters in the war to the
ports of England and withhold it from the
enemy. Unimpressive by itself, the humble
merchant vessel takes on new dignity when it
joins this great transoceanic procession. Our
dun-colored tramp, at anchor in Bedford Basin,
Halifax's inner harbor, may look weary and
more than a little disreputable. But steaming
silently through the Narrows, a unit in a
mighty convoy that tapers off to a plume of
smoke on the Atlantic horizon, it shares in
thrilling exhibition of the real strength of an
empire. The liner, she's a lady, as Kipling
pointed out, and the man-o'-war's her husband.
But, oh, the little cargo-boats that fill with
every tide!
ED ave to up an fight for them, for they
are England's pride. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
Joint Club Meeting

October 16 has been set by mutual consent
for a joint meeting of all Wilmington's civic
clubs with the single purpose of crystalizing
thought upon community advancement. 1t is
felt, and rightly, that by meeting together and
threshing out the possibilities a program may
be drafted in which all member of all the
clubs will lend willing hands and by united ef-
fort bring great benefits to the city.
Naturally, it is expected that, with such an
the attendance will be practically a
hundred per cent. This reminder is offered
thus early in the hope that civic clubbers will
ring the date on their calendars and guard
against making conflicting engagements for
next Wednesday. It is important that every
body enrolled in the city's civic clubs know at
first hand what is planned to send Wilmington
forward at an accelerated pace and be ready
to take his proper place in the effort.
The united membership of the civic clubs
can exert tremendous influence in community
development. Here is the opportunity to mo-
billie for that purpose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
BUSINESS BODY
PLANS MEET TONIGHT
Election Of Officers And Appoint
ment OF Various Committees
Scheduled

The Farm, Civic, and Business
Cooperative association will hold
its first annual business meeting
at 8 o'clock tonight at the office OF
Miss Ann Mason, home demonstra-
ton agent, in the customhouse.
The election of officers, appoint
ment of the various standing COM
mittees, and hearing of reports on
progress of organizational actlV-
tiles will feature the ses:' IN.
Present leaders include: j.. X.
Bannerman, president; H. 5.
Strickland, first vice : president;
M'Kean Maffitt, second vice-presl'
tary mad treasurer.
The association was recently or
gained for the purpose Of pro-
noting the increased consumption
of farm products grown locally ana
better relationships between farm
ers and business men il New Han
over and adjoining counties. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
ATU AGENTS FIND
IL LIQUOR STILLS
Gallons OF Mash,
80 OF Whiskey Seized
In Three Days

Alcohol Tax Unit agents yester-
day reported a haul for three days
of IL liquor stills, $4,000 gallons of
mash, 80 gallons of whiskey, three
cars and a truck.
Six arrests were made during
the raids. Carl Mitchell, Corbett
Martin, Ray Corbett, negro, and
Everett Andrews, negro, we're ar
rested in Green Swamp around
Waccamaw in conjunction with
the sheriff's office of Columbus
county. John T. Davis, negro, and
Willie G. Williams, negro, yer ar
rested in the city. Jack Bunting.
negro, was arrested at Kenans-
vile.
Three of the stills we're captur-
ed in New Hanover county, three
in Fender, and six in Onslow
county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
Eyes Turn To East

A1+bo,,oh the Battle of London and the Battle
of Berlin 90 on with unabeted fury, public In
e,est in the conflict which, day by day. as
s,mes more nearly the proportions of a World
war. turns for the MON nt to the ORIENT
Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great
Britain. tells the house of commons that the
Burma road will be reopened on October IL
for the transport of supplies to the Chinese
forces. and so brings the possibility OF actual
A~nglo.Japanese hostilities nearer. Even the
United States seems to face the threat, for il
Janan continues it's present arrogant attitude
1T NAV be impossible for this country to stand
aloof and retain it's self-respect.
That is one of the reasons all eyes are turn
ing East today. The United States has no de-
sire to participate in an Oriental or any other
war. But once an epidemic is loosed there is
no foreseeing what extremities it may reach
before it can be brought under control And
the epidemic of war is now sweeping the
earth. It long since ceased to be a war scare
and has become in every way a war threat.
So that what Mr.. Churchill told the common
on Tuesday applies not alone to the British,
but to Americans as well. Long months OF
trial and tribulation lie before u.s." he said.
Death and sorrow will be our companions. . .
hardship our garment, c%onstancy and valor
our only shield" Special significance attaches
to his words by reason of his declaration that
as long as the navies of Britain and America
are afloat, the victory cannot 60 to the die
tator.
It has long been the opinion of competent
observers that peace cannot be restored until
the japanese, no less than the European die
tatorships, have been overthrown. 1t begins to
appear that this country can hope to avoid in
volvement in the far East by one means only.
That is to cut off all trade relations with
Japan, not only in scrap iron and grain and
gasoline, but in every article that we have
either shipped to or received from that coun-
try. 1t is fair to believe that a boycott, care
fully and thoroughly enforced, would quickly
change Tokyo's viewpoint and cure the jap
anese war party of its belligerency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
A Great Series

Probably not since the Armistice.was signed
in 1918 has Cincinnati made so much noise.
And the reason is not hard to find. Cincinnati
is basebalIs capital and it's beloved Reds are
champions of the world. If that is not enough
to turn a city topsy-turvy We don't know
what is.
This particular World Series, which ended
after as spectacular a game as ever was
played on any diamond, was particularly in
t~eresting to fans who must get their baseball
thrills vicariously, with each team alternating
its wins and the decision left until the last
game. Not until the ninth inning of the seventh
contest could either the Detroit Tigers or the
Cincinnati Reds claim advantage, for, where
as the Reds had a one-run advantage in the
closing innings, there was always the pos
sibility that some Tiger slugger would plant
a homer out of bound and tie up the score,
or by a lucky batting streak force two runs
for the coveted pennant-and the long
end of the prize money. Perhaps there has
never been such a contest in the long history
of World Series baseball. Certainly there has
never been better fighting spirit among play
ers.
This was emphasized in the performance
of Paul Derringer, to whom our hat is off.
Batted off the mound in the early innings
of the first game, the Reds veteran came
back to win two games, with the final game
the hardest because of the risk of a possible
m1Sc9 Ic11I9fJnn If UoC mt nn1v hiC CfrOnd
arm, but his mind as well, that kept the
Tigers from the series victory. It's courage
like this that marks greatness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviIe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape, Fear River channel. Wid-
err Turning Basin, With ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
: south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, uia
Orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc.
tion through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported By one
countrywide taz.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital facilities for 1ohites.
JUNO, High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Erport Buyers.
Development OF ndtive grape groUing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
BRENAU
Dear Sir:

In the few weeks I have been
here at Brenau college, I have won
dered whether Or not the people at
home realize how important a part
of their everyday living the Star
News is. Here, away from the old
familiar faces, it takes me back al.
most like a letter from home; and
it seems the least that I can dc
to let you know how much it means
to know that my Star-News will
be in the mailbox, waiting for me
every day.
I am thinking of a career in
Journalism, and am taking a prac.
tical course in that field here.
feel sur that there are many girls
at home, faced with the problem
of selecting the right college, whom
this letter might interest.
A prime requisite for happiness
away from home is beauty of sur.
roundings, and Wilmington is a hard
place to compete with, but here we
have an entirely different type OF
natural beauty. Brenau is in the
foothills of the Blue Ridge noun,
tains, and in the distance on all
sides we a see their smoky out
lines. Before me as ] sit writing
now is u lake-really one of the
showplaces of the campus - land
scaped in the Japanese motif, with
the mountains beginning to rise in
the distance.
Being a Wilmingtonian, I was nat
urally interested from the start in
the rich tradition and historicity of
Brenau. We in North Carolina are
reluctant to share III claim to the
Virginia Dare with others, but re-
Gently stones, adding a new clue
to the as yet unsolved mystery of
the Lost Colony, have been found
on the banks Of the Chattahoochee
river near Atlanta. These Dare
stones + now on exhibition in the
Brenau Museum at Brenau college.
and a meeting will be held here
October 10, with scholars from many
different universities and colleges to
study them.
Brenau college has eight national
social sororities, which add much
to social life.
Our faculty here are experienced
cosmopolitan in their intellectual pur.
suits.
ANNE HERS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
F. r. Asks Appropriation
For Navigation Projects
Manteo- Oregon Inlet Channel
And Silver Lake HarbOr
Items Are Omitted

WASHINGTON, Oct. o. up -
President Roosevelt urged con-
gress today to appropriate $780,.
076, 900 Immediately so that army
engineers might begin work on a
navigation improvement program
to strengthen national defense.
The President asked funds to
start is of % projects authorized
by congress in legislation (HR72
sent to him earlier this week.
The complete program of % prof.
ects would cost approximately $685.
900, 900. The President asked an
appropriation of $40, 600, 900 and
contract authorization Of $20,076,.
900.
He made no suggestion on the
remaining amount of about $5,0OO,-
600 which would be needed for the
complete program. Several con-
gressional leaders said they would
urge congress to appropriate the
full $35, 600, 900 at once, contendinG
all items in the program were OF
national defense character.
Biggest single item on the list
for which the President a S k e d
funds was SIT, STA, 900 for a 21,0OO-
foot breakwater and other improve
ments at Los Angeles and Long
Beach, Calf, for the navy.
Items omitted by the President
included channel from Manteo to
Oregon Inlet, N. c., $45, 900, and
Silver Lake harbor, N. c., $50, 600.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
Just A Nightmare

Such widespread publicity was given to Penn
sylvania's super highway that when it was
opened it piled up a super traffic jam, and
the $40, 900, 900 project was as useless, for all
practical travel purposes, as a mud clogged
byway anywhere in the country.
During the months when it was being built
this new highway was touted as the motorists
paradise. With no sharp curves, no steep
grades and no dangerous crossings, the road
was so safe, it was announced, that no speed
limit at all would be imposed. Thousands look
ed forward to the happy day when they could
drive their autos over such a superlative
route.
So it seems, did some additional thousands
residing far and near from the 16O-mile Pitts
burgh-Harrisburg road. So many cars poured
on to the highway that traffic thickened like
jam on a cold night and necessity imposed q
speed limit of it's own. Cars edged along, bump.
Ell to bumper, for. miles and at one point it
took five hours to untangle the mess.
But the way motorists flocked to this new
road opening reveals one thing, and that is
how far from perfect our highway systems
are today and how eagerly the American
motorist looks for Improvement. For all of the
tons of concrete poured, the curves and grades
eliminated, the parkWays cut through. in the
last two decades we still have a long way
to go. Our highways have not yet caught up
with the phenomenal growth of the motorca1
although our highway engineers are making a
valiant effort to meet the demand.
1t is only fair to add that Pennsylvania $
super highway is probably in for better DAYS,
In all probability the first-day traffic Jams
will not be repeated after the early excite.
ment has worn off, organization improved and
the full toll rates imposed. But On it's openins
day anyway the super highway proved thai
no road can be perfect if enough Americans
try to get on it at the same time. It is
just a super nightmare
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
The Customary Method

MussollniS newspaper accuses the United
States of genuine hostile acts" and says
the Axis powers are ready to fight unless it
changes its ways.
"Appelius,' the newspapers military COM
mentator, lists our hostile acts" as furnishing
arms to Britain; willingness to let Canadian
civilians train as pilots on United States soil;
blocking raw materials to Britain's enemies;
sequestration of gold of Europe's defeated and
for joint air and naval bases in the Western
Hemisphere and talk of including Java, Singa-
pore and "even Dakar'' in these arrange
ments.
1t might be the impulse of many to laugh
at any threatening gesture from Mussolini or
his controlled press in view of his poor show
ing in conflict, but the impulse should be
strangled' at birth, for it has been the custom
OF the d~ictators to first pile up or trump up
charges against nations as the first step in
an offensive against them.
Hitler used this method in preparing the
way against Czechoslovakia and Poland; Stain
played the same game before his attack on
FINLAND and Musssolini started something OF
the sort when it appeared he would try to
invade Greece.
1t might be the present statement of griev.
ances against the United States is made
Tor the same reason. Hitler may have
instructed Mussolini at, the Bremen Pass con-
ference to turn on the fireworks as a means
OF dragging us into the conflict, though what
ne would gain by that course is not apparent.
Whatever lies behind the newspaper attack, it
Is obvious that to disregard it or discount its
personalities would be foolish
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
TOP o. H MORNING

General Booth celebrated a Salvation Army
anniversary By cabling a message to his
5000 army posts. To SAGE expense he had to
condense it into a single a0ord that Mould con.
Uey the heart OF the Master. He chose the word
"Others." He 1cas right. No truer 1Oord a0as
erer spoken of our Lord than fell from the
lips of His enemies as they looked up into His
dying face and cried. HE SaUed others, him.
self he cannot SdUe.'
FROM "DAY BY DAY"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-10
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

OCT. S@JuSC what the army
is up to, the army isn't telling these days.
But it certainly has reversed itself by going
in for voluntary enlistments in q big way in
the face of the impending draft.
The recent order making it possible for
young men to enlist for one year, and making
those enlistments count on s%elective service
quotas, is exactly opposite to what the army
did in the World war. Then it suspended en-
tirely the privilege of voluntary enlistment.
Although it's off-the-record talk, some army
officials already have said that the result will
be that in many districts, not a single young
man will be called on the first call and pos
sibly in some not in the first quota.
A quick survey of the figures will explain
why this is a certainty.
The first quota, between November and
January, is 400, 900 men. This means approx
mately one-fortieth of total estimated number
Of registrants from q to IS years old.
In other words, if one young man in your
neighborhood enlists, that eliminates 40 from
the first quota, and more than one in 200 from
the first call due within a few weeks after
registration.
Change Of Opinion
The army issued it's recent order without
explanation. The order not only represents an
about face from World war draft theories but
also a reversal of opinions given before con-
RISSSlOIdl COll111l1ItcCo ~ LIE l jill GAS
~selective service bill, when army officials told
congressman that voluntary enlistment would
not fill requirements of an army of nearly a
million men.
What has happened, however, is just what
the men behind %selective service anticipated.
Once the threat of a draft measure became
a reality, voluntary enlistnents jumped SKY
high.
In New York City, police had to be called
ont tn keen the wo,Ild-be soldiers in line and
prevent their snarling traffic around recruit
ing stations.
The applicants went through at the rate Of
100 an hour.
New York is not a typical city by any
means, but if every young man applying Tor
enlistment were found to be physically. ment-
ally and morally fit for service (Which they
could fill the first quota for the entire state
in a little more than eight weeks.
The trouble about voluntary enlistment, &C.
cording to Lieut.. Col. Victor j. OKell1her,
sometimes referred to around here as daddy
of the draft is that it moves in irregular
tides.
Today it may take a battalion Of police to
handle the applicants.
Tomorrow, the most persuasive recruiting
officer won't get a recruit.
Trouble In World War
About one-third Of the more than 10000
men in all military forces during the World
war enlisted before enlistments were cut off
in the closing months of the war.
But the trouble was that they came in
waves and so upset the ~selective service mech.
anism that, before 1918 was well along, army
officials had no way of estimating what they
would get on a draft call.
This situation, however, did not arise until
Glass l was nearing exhaustion and probably