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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
pETAIN MAKES
 SPEECH
Defends His Regime e in Radio TaIk-Nazis Make
 Severe Demands

VICHY, France, Aug. 14.-French Premier Petain defended his regime last night in a radio speech to the French people The Premier made his speech shortly after the formal opening of the so-called war guilt triaP at Riom.
 The opening day of the trial was devoted to the reading by the public prosecutor of a voluminouS indict- ment. A curious feature of the gov ernment's bill of complaint is that it failed to name any of the men accused of the alleged crimes against the state which were listed on the lengthy document.
 Petain declared that one of the heaviest tasks with which the gov ernment must grapple with is that of the food supply and it's distribu- tion.
 The Premier disclosed in a his speech that the German government had demanded impossible conditions in return for the establishment of the French government in Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
GET TOUGH,
 SAYS FITS
Los Angeles District Attor- ney Urges Arming
 of Ourselves

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Aug. 14.-Dis- trict Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles said that the Communist Party should be outlawed in the state of California Pitts made the statement in a speech before the state convention of the American Legion.
 Said Pitts: Lets get as tough as Germany or Russia in arming ourselves for protection against the enemy from within"
 He was greeted with a huge ova- tion when he advocated the forci- ble deportation of West Coast labor leader Harry Bridges. The District Attorney said that Bridges should be put cn a boat and sent back home
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
SALMON PACK OF SOUTHEAST DOWN
 FROM 1939 RATE
Canneries Put Up 87O,786 Cases-Juneau District
 Shows Increase

The salmon pack for Southeast Alaska is running about 100000 cases behind last year, according to pack reports to the Fish and Wlldll1e Service.
 Only the Juneau district in the Southeast area hss packed more sal mon than it did last year.
 The total pack up to August 10 was as follows:
 Ketchikan-24,7 ,796 reds, AZ kings, 107, ,543 pinks, 29,681 chums, 12,616 echoes, 174,678 total; last year 346,- 486
 Wrangell-18,355 reds, 13 kings,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
AMERICANISM
 10 BE GIVEN
 OUT OVER AIR
ent Is Made for CounferdGfing kazi and
 Fascist Propaganda

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. IA - Short wave programs to Latin and South American countries are to be broadcast for the purpose of counteracting Nazi and Fascist pro- paganda stations.
 An agreement to this affect has been signed by five major film stu dios and the National Broadcasting Company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
AMBASSADOR
 TO ARGENTINA
 REACHES U. S.
Norman Armour Says Most Friendly Feelings
 Prevailing

MIAMI, Fla, Aug IA United States Ambassador to Argentina, Norman Armour, arrived here last night enroute to Washington for a special State Department confer ence.
 The Ambassador plans a six week vacation following his appearance at the Capital. He described United States Argentine relations as the friendliest in history and reported that Argentine citizens endorsed heartily the decision of the recent Havana inter American conference,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14

36807 pinks. 49,935 chuns, 1,456 echoes, 116,566 total 191 $40 last year.
 West Coast-8,328 reds, 2O,362 pinks, 16,986 chums, 8,585 echoes, 54,261 total; 77,843 last year
 Yakutat - 14,664 reds, 486 kings, 1,410 pinks, % chums, 78 echoes, 16,666 total; 27,216 last year.
 Juneau = 37,706 reds, 546 kings, 215,579 pinks, 222,743 chums, 32,041 echoes, 508,615 total; 435 ,235 last year.
 Total - 103.849 reds, LOST kings, 381,7 ,701 pinks, 319,373 chums, 64,776 echoes, 870,786 total; 1,078,726 last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14

The Daily Alaska EmpIre guaran- tees the largest daily circulation O, any Alaska reWSpapeI
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
MOUNTAIN ARIA
 SWEPT BY RAIN
Hundreds Are Reported fo Be Isolated in Many
 Villages

ASHVILLE, N. C., Aug IA. = A severe mountain rain storm swept western North and South Carolina last night and isolated hundreds of persons in scattered towns and villages throughout the area. The heaviest rains reported since the World War years were reported only day after the dying out of the disastrous hurricane that bat tered south Atlantic coastal areas.
 Communication lines fell beneath the rage of last nights storms and rains and swelling rivers made high way approaches to the mountain region impossible
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
SETON THOMPSON
 CHARLES JACKSON
 COMING TOMORROW

Charles Jackson an Seton Thompson of the Fish and Wild life Service are due here tomorrow by plane from Fairbanks
 The two have been at Anchorage conducting a hearing on 1941 fish cries regulations. A hearing at Cor dova preceded it. A Juneau hear ing, to which all fishermen and others interested are invited to come and express their views, will be held next Wednesday.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
Women Voters Hear Discussion by Child
 Welfare Supervisor

The possibilities of future legis- lation in the Territory for the pro- lection, care and security of chil- dren was outlined last evening by Miss Deborah Pentz, supervisor of Child Welfare Services for the De- pertinent of Public Welfare, at a meeting of the Alaska Association of Women Voters, held in the City Council Chambers.
 A spirited discussion by tn Q large and enthusiastic audience fol- lowed the talk
 Announcement was made by Mrs. Frank Metcalf, President, that the next meeting is scheduled for Sep tember 10, at which time the winter program will be planned.
 Efnnirp ria ccIfiedc t-.o rpcitJfc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
NAVY ASKS MORE FUNDS
 FOR NEEDS
Admiral Stark Makes Re-. quest Direct 10 Sen
 ate Committee

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. United States Senator James F. ByrneS to- day said Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, has ask cd the Senate Appropriations Sub committee to increase by $47,000,- 900 funds to go to the Navy pending the $4,963 100000 appropriation bill.
 The increase in funds will be used for armament, fighting planes and aviation maintenance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14

Emoire classIrieds bring results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
Prominent Miner
 Of North Is Dead

SEATTLE, Aug. 14.-F'uneral ser vices for Carl Peterson, 58, prom inent miner of the Yukon, Anchor age and Fairbanks districts, awaits the arrival of his sister. Peterson died here after flight south for treatment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
AMERICAN LEGION
 GETTING BUSY ON
 TWO PROPOSITIONS
Would Ban Com m unisf Party, Eliminate Alien
 Fishing in Pacific

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 14.-The banning of the Communist Party in California and the elimination of alien fishing in Pacific waters are two proposals before the state convention of the American Legion now in session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-14
NORRIS PORTER TO
 TEACH AT KODIAK

Norris K Porter, Territorial teach CT at Flat for the past two years, is spending a few days here before going to Kodiak for the coming school year. Mrs Porter accom- panies him. They will go to the westward on the steamer Baranof.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
WEALTH A PUBLIC TRUST

Business success, which is necessarily
public benefit. This is the keynote of an
address before the Rotary club on Tuesday
by Lieutenant Colonel SEYMOUR BULLOCK, who
put it this way: "He who profits most and
accumulates wealth, can best serve his COM
munity, the state and the nation"
True as this is, it involves a willingness
on the part of the successful business man
to serve as we'll as make. There must be a
large measure of unselfishness behind wealth
if it is to achieve its best goal.
To make money is fine, but to apply it
for the good of many is very much better.
This is the policy of the CARNEGIEs and the
RocKEFELLERs of the world. Endowed with
great talent for accumulating wealth, they
have devoted the bulk of their fortunes to
the betterment OF humanity.
Whether we agree with the processes they
have employed in establishing their fortunes
or not, whether we agree with the uses they
have made of their vast accumulations OF
not, it is undeniable that they have accepted
to what, in their judgment, was most likely
to give the public greatest benefits.
These examples of the employment Of priv
ate wealth for public good point the case
Colonel BULLOCK laid before the Rotarians
Similar opportunity, if on a lesser scale, tt
lift the masses to higher levels of happiness
and health are always present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
MORE PROOF OF SPRING

If you still doubt that spring is at the
door, drive out Castle street this afternoon
and watch the youngsters playing marbles
on unpaved stretches of sidewalk. Not even
robins give a truer tip on spring than kids
when they get out their marbles.
We are, however, more concerned with
where marbles are being shot than wit! con-
vincing the skeptics that spring is tapping
at the door. Unpaved sidewalks may be per,
fectly satisfactory for marble shooting, from
the juvenile viewpoint. They offer a soft sur
face, at least. But that they are the best
place is not established.
Fairgrounds would be much better. II
something is not soon done about utilizing
vacant lots for play places summer will find
Wilmington's youngsters still on the side
walks-which will be too bad, both for them
and for the hazards of accident they will con
tinue to create by running into the streets
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
A MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION

WHEN J. K. BANNERMAN called for a mer-
w chants association he put his finger on
a sore spot which needs a remedy. 1t was
during the session of the Better BUSINESS
club, following DR.. W. HOUSTON MooRE's ad'
dress on the housing projects, that he pointed
out the urgent need for Wilmington's mer-
chants to unite in an organization, such as
once existed here, for their mutual benefit
and protection. AS the head of a large retail
business, Mr.. BANNERMAN is in position TO
know what the city's merchants are losing
through lack of organization and to estimate
what they would gain if they had a central
body for dealing with competitive difficulties,
credit problems and other matters of equal
Importance.
There is still strength in unity. Whining
toms store keepers may we'll serve their bus
mess interests and the best interests OF their
patrons as we'll by working together. Espe-
pecially would a uniform policy on customer
credit be advantageous both to the stores and
to customers who pay promptly. 1t credit
were suspended at a specified time, and no
exceptions made for favored patrons, the
losses suffered through p1Ot1dSt0u hoApoJ
ment of customer debts would be materially
reduced. 1t is book losses which help to keep
prices at stores offering credit above those
at stores selling for cash only. This works
a hardship on buyers who do not %overstep
normal credit limitations.
A Merchants association would be in posi-
ton to stop credit and other abuses to which
stores are subjected. 1t would also be able
to maintain a clearance service by means OF
which all members would learn the financial
status of a great many buyers and thus be
safeguarded against opening accounts for per.
sons undeserying of this accommodation.
These are only a few of the reasons for an
association. There are many others. And by
the same token, there appears to be no good
reason why one should not be created here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
IN MEMORY
OF SOONG

Dear Sir:
On February II one Christian wo
man of our town telephoned to an
other. asking, Don't you think II
would be a good idea for Whining
ton to send a cable to Madame Chi
ang of China, expressing u inter
est and sympathy"
Woman No. 2 replied, Excellent!
And the work was started. For Will
mington remembers Charlie Soong,
the young Chinese sailor who came
to our port about the year 1880,
was welcomed into Fifth Avenue
Methodist Sunday school, and there
became a Christian.
He was educated by North Caro-
Iinians, and returned to China, b
came an exporter and gained con-
siderable wealth. He married a won
derful Christian woman, and reared
q remarkable family, all Of whom
are now high in the counsels of the
government of China. And n OF
the girls is Melting Chang, n OF
the worlds greatest women, a grad
uate Of Wellesley college, and the
wife of China's Generalissimo Chi
ang. She is his interpreter and right
hand, goes with him everywhere he
goes, works with him for the in.
dependence of their beloved coun'
try, wins with him the devoted 10y
atty of a great, brave and patient
people.
The word was passed quietly from
person to person, and in a week and
a day we had 500.
For Immediately we had seen that
u people meant to send Melting
| Soong Chang more than a cable.
She is gathering China's orphan
children into real homes, and has
now 20, O0O to feed, shelter and edu-
cate.
ton people have as yet had no OPP
p%ortunity to give, we are going
right on!
Mr.. Lacy Hunt, of the Peoples
Bank, has agreed to be our treas
urer. He will receive anything you
nave " give. ILLS 10 d lOW1 > SlII,
and a town which can appreciate
spiritual values.
We have entreated our congress
to put an embargo on war ship
ments from our land to Japan, with
which she murders and destroys
China. Perhaps they will. But, thank
God !-there are other ways for us
to show u interest.
This is one.
BY the time the next Clipper
leaves San Francisco next Wednes-
day, we shall have our gift on board.
Our cable will go in a day or two.
1t will cost $500. Our air-mail stamp
will cost 70 cents.
Let us remember to pray for China
and her wonderful leaders, with each
gift. That makes our gift eternal.
SUSAN E. HALL
P. S. Since that 500 went into the
bank Tuesday morning, we have re-
ceived $3.50 more
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
OF FIRST MAGNITUDE
Greensboro Record

North Cardinals No. 1 economic problem is
not crop control, commerce, war n politics,
but youth-"forgotten youth''-according to John
A.. Park, publisher of the Raleigh Times.
What will happen to the 100000 girls and
boys entering the first grades in the states
public schools in 1910? No absolutely certain
prophecy can be given in answer, but Mr.. Park,
in a Rotary club speech the other day. cited
facts and records indicating that the destiny
of these youths is far from rosy.
The records, the Raleigh publisher pointed
out, show 40 per cent Of the group under dis
cussion will leave school for economic reasons;
that 25 per cent will be without full-time jobs
at 81. that Jobs which demand no special train
ing, and therefore no special wages, will claim
62 per cent: and that less than 10 per cent will
be suitably employed. 1t is indicated that one
sixth of this army of 100, 900 will begin work
at STARVATION wages" OF less than 50 a week;
and only five per cent Will be earning more
than s25 a week at the age of 25 years.
Further, it is indicated that, unless condi
tions are changed, in North Carolina, a state
which is still predominantly agricultural. only
~ per cent will have vocational agriculture
training; and, almost Is per cent will leave
school before reaching the age Of IA; almost
80 per cent will leave at IA; almost one-half, OF
4s per cent, will receive no schooling after the
seventh grade; less than 20 per cent will en-
ter high school; only sa per cent will enter
college; and only 5000 or 80 per cent OF
graduates, will graduate from college.
The records serve to emphasize the partlcu
larly bad plight of negro youth, composing
80, 900 of the 100, 900 youths under consloera
ton. For example, one-third of negro youths
begin work at less than S. a week, compared
with only nine per cent. of white youths be-
ginning at practically the same wage.
These statistics write their own commentary
unon what obviously is a problem OF first
MAGNITUDE in The Old North State.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
MORE CANAL DEFENSES

It turns out that President ROOSEVELT did
have a conference with a foreign p%otentate
after all. And the conference was on war
and peace.
But the prophets who surmised that he was
going to confer with European representa-
tives on the chance of e~ffecting an armistice
in Europe missed their guess. His parley was
with the president Of Panama and the dis,
c~ussions they held concerned further protec.
ton of the Panama canal and lands to the
south.
Both agree that additional protection should
be provided, Mr.. RoosEvELr's idea being that
more guns and planes should be sent there
the latter to give warning of approaching at
hackers from greater distance than is now
possible and the former to put up sitter op
position if attack should come.
As damage to the Panama canal would be
costly to the United States, if drawn into 6
war, and equally costly to Latin American
countries, whose friendship we value an6
whose support we must have in emergency
the Presidents proposal is reasonable. Nc
money expended in safeguarding our from
tiers, in these parlous times, with war ir
everybody's thoughts, would be a poor invest
ment, provided always it were spent advan
tageously for defense and none of it wasted
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
SAFETY CONFERENCES

Police chiefs and safety agents, gathering
today in Raleigh for discussions with repre-.
sentatives of the state highway department,
have an exceptional opportunity to unity
safety programs from which much good may
result.
Particular attention is to be given to the
pedestrian accident rate, which has increased
alarmlngly in the last two years. It will be
the effort of the conferees to map a course
Of prevention in which all cities of eastern
North Carolina may participate. If they con.
clude one means to this end is to educate
motor vehicle drivers in pedestrian rights
they will go a long way toward solving the
problem. Motorists are prone to disregard the
rights OF persons afoot upon highways and
at street intersections, and vice versa, with
result that a clearly defined feud exists be
tween the two classes OF travellers, in which
drivers curse pedestrians for being in the
way and not getting out of the way prompt
~ and pedestrians curse drivers for not Civ
Ing them time, at their own pace, to reach
the other side in safety.
Inc need is for a truce in which both
snare. And because pedestrians are limited
70 a slower pace than motorists they should
nave extra consideration from motor vehicle
drivers. II a truce can be effected, through
adequate educational measures and common
surate punishment for all who violate its
TERMS 1t will have to include in Its provi
slons mutual thought for the other fellow
by both pedestrians and drivers.
1t would appear that lack Of courtesy lies
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Man bout
Manhattan
By George Tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Ruth Cor
don just happens to be an eXtraor-
dinarily able actress, and when she
steps off the stage she leaves the
character she has portrayed behind
her. But every time I see her or
talk to her I think of a. girl on a
toboggan slide with Raymond Mas
sey, and a huge rock at the foot
of the slide, and a tragic, fumbline
crash that did not kill but manned
them instead and left them embitter-
ed for life.
That was ETHAN Frome." That
was Raymond Massey married tc
a woman he did not love and loving
a woman he could not have. Ruth
Gordon was the woman. They took
the easy way out because they
thought they could find in the after
life the thing they could not have in
this life.
1t didn't work out that way. They
grew into crippled, bed-ridden peo-
pie who despised each other and re-
manned that way until, out of pure
senility they died.
l nave seen Ruth Gordon in many
plays but for ME she will always be
the girl on the toboggan slide.
asked her just the other day what
about that play for the movies
NO. she said, mot now. They
haven't any right to film Ethan
PRONE It's too tragic, too morbid.
No n has the right to picture or
portray unhappiness in times like
these. What we want to do now is
learn how to laugh"
well, did you get some laughs
in hollywood? I asked her. since
only recently she went there to an.
pear with this same RAYMOND Ma.
sey in ABE Lincoln in Illinois" and
with Edward G.. Robinson in "Dr
Ehrlich's Magic Bullet,
mot the kind you mean s,ho .:s
I Just went out to get paid. ike
all the rest, but it wasn't like that
at all. Charles Laughton was rob,
when ne said. If 20 actors SAT in :.
room all night trying to think of
tine most wonderful thing in the
Woliu they still couldn't think of
HOLLYWOOD, because nobody has that
much imagination. It is an actors
PARADISE" "e'oi >
you mean that?"
Yes l. DO. Let's be frank. What
las the a done in the last 10 or
~ years: Not much, has it? Maybe
the 'heater'ls tired. After all. the
theatef' as We know it, started with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
QUOTATIONS

More and more, the American people are
awakening to the fact that this spendthrift
policy has, instead of bringing recovery, made
it impossible.-Senator Styles Bridges (Rep,
N. H).
Unless we change our foreign trade policy
at once. we are headed for a major depression
which may be the last roundup for American
H. Carl Andersen
(Rep, Mimi. .
In the future, capital will come to Mexico,
Inf if n,,,st come in a different spirit, really
ing no country in America is an economic or
political colony of another. Ramon Beteta
Quintana Mexican undersecretary of foreign
affairs
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-Connty Government,
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
ShoWs.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvine
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear River channel, uid'
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pared River Road to Southport, Via
orion Plantation.
Deuelopm emit of Pulp Wood Prodac'
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported by one.
Countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities TOR 1hites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse TOR Export Buyers.
Developm emit OF native grape gro1rtng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29
GALLOWAY death
PROBE UNDER VA
Autopsy Performed On Bi
Of Negro Who Died Unde
Peculiar Circumstances

SOUTHPORT, Feb. 2S,-An at
sy was performed here today On
body Of Earl Galloway, negro
died at his home in the Bo0nesN
section Tuesday afternoon d.
o'clock under peculiar circumsta1.
Coroner John G.. Caison said,
The autopsy was performed ty.
R. c. Fergus, of southport, VIII
ported to the coroner that he
not find any evidence Of c0gsoS
poison in the body.
However, Coroner Caison said :.
a specimen of the contents Of
stomach was taken to a chen.
laboratory in wilmington for Il.
er examination and that he eE'
ed a report Monday or Tuesla!
The report will determine i
investigation will he continue
said. The coroner had pTey9l
impaneled a jury to view LIE "
and order an autopsy. NeIloeS
the jury are f. S. Whl'e, w.
Swain, A. S. Hewett, PalL E'@
Carl Andrews and Elliott Trl2'
Coroner Caison said that Oa-
left home about ) O'Clock A~''
afternoon, apparently in sood III"
Early yesterday morning ne Nv
a negro woman about a nile u
his home and told her that TX
too sick to drive home. .
He was taken to his hoHis a.
IL o'clock yesterday morning al,
doctor was summoned, but "A'4 ,
doctor arrived he was dead Is ="
ner said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-29

cept THE Yearling'' and Boom
Town and a sequel to Boys Town
and, almost certainly, a sequel to
Northwest Passage"
Miss Davis has, among other items
ahead, 1.-The Letter." 1.-THE House on
the Hill" and 1.-The Woman Brown
Unofficially, however, both players
have collected enough "vehicles" Tin
outside speculation) to keep them
busy through 1916 at least - and
somebody has just knocked himself
out with the triumphant inspiration
to team the pair.