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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Obsessed By Fear

If Senator Wheeler keeps on talking in his
present vein he is soon going to discover he is
well on the way to destroy whatever influence
he still possesses.
Mr.. Wheeler used Prime Minister Churchill
speech at Glasgow as his springboard for div
ing in another attack on the President. He de-
clared that eff there is any question about
American boys being plowed under if Mr..
Roosevelts bill passes, Mr.. Churchil's state.
ment should settle it."
The paragraph Senator Wheeler had in mind
was the assertion of obvious fact-that Britain
has no need of men at this time but must have
American weapons in greater quantities than
she can pay for. Possibly there was a hint in
that, in the future, men may be needed, since
Mr.. Churchill was talking about 1941. But
the Montana senator built a towering struc-
ture indeed on that shaky foundation.
In fact, Mr.. Wheeler contradicted himself.
He said that President Roosevelt has been
leading the nation Town the road to war and at
the same time he insisted that Britain has
planes and ships-and not getting them. He
announced that Britain has been asking the
United States to declare war and then said
that if the "war-dictatorship'' bill is passed
1t won't be long before we will be asked for
a declaration of war"
Very evidently Senator Wheeler is as con-
fused as he is determined to use every method
open to him, including appeals to fear, passion
and prejudice, to close the eyes of the Aner1-
can people to the realities of the situation they
face. Obsessed by fear, he appeals to the ma
ton to hide its head in the sand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Back In Headlines Soon

By announcing the capture of 1000 men of
Italy's famous Evolves of Tuscany division,
Athens has again called attention to the prog.
ress of the war in Albania, which has more or
less dropped out of headlines recently.
This means, assuming that the claim is as
Well-grounded as others made by the Greek
high command have proved to be, that the
Italians have not yet succeeded in making a
stand. Within recent weeks they have fought
back hard. They have slowed down the Greek
advance considerably. But under inexorabIe
pressure they are continuing to give ground.
Herein lies a portent, for it is clear that the
necessity of reversing the tide in Albania will
put Italy's resources under a severe strain
that will be transmitted to Germany. A few
days ago Athens estimated Italian casualties
at 10000. These losses, added to those in
north Africa and others to be expected in
Ethiopia, cannot be passed off lightly. If as
many casualties are required to restore the
situation, the Italian people will be appalled,
by the cost of a war that was supposed to be
cheap.
German troops are now on the way to Al
bania with Athens as their goal. They may
be there now. In any event, they are destined
to find the way far from easy. If Italy's best
troops cannot stop the Greeks, even the for
midable fighting men of Adolf Hitler have a
task cut out for them.
1t should be added that the Albanian war
will soon be back in the headlines, now that
the German dictator has decided to brace up
his sagging partner. He has always done his
best to avoid fighting on two fronts. Forced
into it now, he is likely to do his utmost to
end that situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Chilean Chancellor
Sought at Istanbul

ISTANBUL, Jan. 21.-LP-Turh-
ish police are investigating the mys-
ferrous disappearance of Samson
Mikicinski, chancellor of the Chilean
legation here, VINO vanished Jan. TO-
Mikicinski, an ex-czarist officer
had aided many Polish refugees u
make their way out of Rumahla'
and Istanbul police suggested the
possibility that he had been siam
for political reasons. He had mace
frequent visits to Rumania.
The chancellor was last seen GuL'
ing a chat with Chilean legation Oh
ficials and a Rumanlan reluseN
Manielescu, described as one OF Il"
mer King Carols closest advisors
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Star-News Program

Consolidated City.CoHnty Government
Under CounciLAanager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TrAck and Berry Preserving
and Aoykettng Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shons:
Seaside Htghway from Wrt0htsvtne
Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF CITY Limits.
35-Foot OGpe Fear Rtver channel. Uid-
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank sonth
OF Wilmington.
Paved Rtver Road to Southport, vio
orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustatned-yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified 1ndustrial and Resort Promo.
tional Agency. supported BY one county.
sDids td1.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina. developed around the
+ Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital ~iNties for tohites.
Jnntor High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Esport Buyers.
Development OF nativs grape 0rowin0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Jan. 21-You can
get a hotel room in New York for
So a day. You can also get an 8.
room suite for $75 a day.
All the big hotels have luxury
lay-outs-and make money on
them. Many of them are taken
year after year by the same guests
on annual visits to the city.
Boxer Max Baer always takes a
large suite at the New Yorker. 1t
has a terrace so he can work out
in the open. The only drinks he
has sent up are milk and S O t
ones. He is known as a heavy tip
per.
"A rich Mexican always takes a
$40-a-day suite at the same hotel
on his visits three times a year.
He buys an expensive new c a r
every time to drive around town
and ships it to Mexico when he
goes home.
Nicolai Tesla, the inventor, lives
as a recluse in a New Yorker
suite, pays errand boys to 60 to
the park and feed the pigeons. He
sends out for every daily paper
and all the news magazines.
Headquarters for Indian royalty
seems to be the Waldorf-Astoria,
which makes a point of opening
its kitchens to Hindu cooks so that
they may prepare food in the man
ner prescribed by their religion.
The most distinguished Indian
guest was his highness the Ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
. Man About Manhattan

Rao Holkar, who Travelled with his
wife, daughter and a whole retinue
of cooks and other servants. Dur
ing his stay the Maharajah served
a great feast for local notables.
The menu included pheasant, duck,
chicken, lamb, homemade whole
wheat bread fried in butter, curried
vegetables and two or three kinds
of sauce.
Beef and pork are forbidden by
the Hindu religion. Each dish was
served separately, and no liquids
were taken with the meal.
The Princess Leiliyathi of N.Y.
sore and her sister Princess Raj
kumari Chennajammani took a
large suite, and although rooms
were provided for their ladies-in-
waiting, or annals, the servants
preferred to sleep on the floor near
their mistresses' beds.
The Waldorf has several $75-a.
day suites, as we'll as some at $35
to $50.
Another hotel has a frequent
guest who requests usual serv-
ice" when wiring his reservation.
The usual service" is a heavy
screen on the window. He walks in
his sleep.
The same house drew a big out
of-town crowd for the first Ross
Armstrong fight. The hotel found
it had assigned two Chicago gang
big-shots to rooms on either side
of the suite occupied by two FBI
executives. The Omen later sent
one of the Chicagoans to prison. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Canadian Wheat Begins
Moving TOWARD Spain

BALTIMORE, Jan. 21.-R- A
cargo of wheat was ready today
for loading aboard the 3,619-t O n
Spanish freighter Maria Victoria,
starting shipments of Canadian
wheat to Spain under a British.
Spanish agreement.
Officials said the ship would be
loaded at the Pennsylvania rail.
road company's grain elevator
The agreement to ship the Canadi.
an grain was signed by the British
embassy at Madrid and the Span.
ish ministry of industry and com.
merce.
Sailing date for the Maria Vic
toria was not disclosed. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-R
Close friends said today that
Secretary and Mrs. Harold L.
Ickes expected the birth of
their second child in April.
The first, Harold McEwen
Ickes, was born on September
4, 1899.
Mrs. Ickes is the former
Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee.
She and Ickes, a widower,
were married in Dublin, Ire
land, on May "a, 1888. Miss
Dahlman was rs and Ickes GA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Tenant Association
To Install Officer,

The Charles T. Nesbitt Courts
Tenant association will meet at 8
o'clock tonight in the community
hall.
This will be the first business
session for the group since the re-
cent organizational meeting. New
officers will be installed and prof.
ects to be promoted during the COM
ing year will be considered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
Ladies Night Program
Is Scheduled Tomorrow

The Wilmington Lions club will
hold its semi-annua1 Ladies Night
program at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow
evening in the Cape Fear Hotel
ballroom.
An interesting program has been
arranged by a committee, COM
posed of j. c. Anderson, Jr., chair
man; Donald L. Sewen, and Lu-
ther L. Rogers. Dress for the oc-
caslon will be informal, commit
tee members said. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
TOP o. THE

A little more tired at close of day,
A. little less anxious to haze our a1dy. . .
Ind so We are going, 1ohere all mast go,
to the place the living may never knoW.
Thrice happy it then some soul can say,
"Tm better because he passed my Wdy."
-ROLLIN j. WELLS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-22
' Fair Enouuh
BY WEsTBROoK pFCTrp

The Star wishes its readers
to know that views and Owls
ions expressed in this ar,icra
are those of the author ana
may not always HARMONIC
with its position The Editor
Evening star., 1941-03-06

firing on the enemy. Artillery fire
can be switched from target to tar
get as may be needed, the only
limitations being those of range and
ammunition supply.
Hence, 1t is said that the true re-
serve of artillery is its ammunition.
Air forces, because of their high
speed, carrying out their missions
within hours rather than days and
the high degree of flexibility, owing
to both speed and range, permits
the same units to be employed on a
series Of missions anywhere within
the radius of action from their
bases within very short time limits.
Their organization and supply sys-
TENS are, however, highly compli-
Gated, forming a rigid framework
not capable of sudden expansion.
Hence, for continuity of action,
what is really required is first Of
all a force adequate to perform the
mission or missions decided upon
and second the ability to keep that
force at its full operating strength
until the mission has been accom-
plished. The reserve of air forces,
therefore, lies in the ability to re-
place and repair machines and to
replace flying personnel. To hold
out air force units which could be
usefully employed is as great mis-
take as to hold out batteries of ar
tillery which could be firing on
worthwhile target. In air warfare,
says Gen. Douhet, any reserve held
out is an advantage gratuitously
Evening star., 1941-03-06
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.


Much Of the opposition to the
lease-lend bill has centered on the
assertion that we ought not to strip
our own defenses for the sake Of
sending ornaments to Britain. This
view of the mattao as far as air
power is concerned, is based on a
misapprehension Of the fundamental
factors involved.
The numerical strength of any
air force is based on two chief
factors: Cd Numbers actually avail
able in operating units; Cd the
ability to maintain those num-
bers in action against an enemy.
Unless there exists the ability to
replace losses, the original force
will rapidly decline as soon as it Is
called on to fight, because losses
begin at once and because in all
probability the air force will be
actively employed from the very be-
ginning of any war. Therefore, to
build up by small increments, even
q fairly large air force, without
possessing the productive capacity
to maintain that air force against
the heavy loss of combat, is un-
economical in peace and is suicidal
in war or under the threat OF war.
Present Discounted for Future.
The situation as far as American
air power is concerned is this: We
have at present comparatively
small operating force in the Army
Air Corps, a somewhat larger operat-
ing force of naval aviation. We have
on paper plans for much larger
forces, and both in the direction Of
training personnel and producing
planes we are making progress. How
ever, as far as production goes, the
first year or so is the most difficult
period. 1t is during that time that
the present must be discounted for
the future.
We could. by diyerting all our pro-
duction into our own forces, con-
siderably increase the number of
operating units and the material
available to existing units; but we
could not before 1912 have any hope
of being able to maintain that
force if we were called
upon to fight. 1t would swiftly be
wasted away and we could not re-
place the losses to be expected in a
conflict with any major enemy. This
Evening star., 1941-03-06
Limited Plane Output Dictates
Supply to Britain, Says Eliot
Sending Craft to Fight Held Best Safeguard
Against Fritterins Awoy Small Force

Is q hard, cold fact which cannot be
argued away and which we dare not
disregard.
Hence, while the task of increasing
our productive capacity continues,
our best chance of making some use
Of such planes as we are able to
turn out is to transfer them to the
one operating and fighting air force
which can use them, and which Is
actively engaged in fighting the
nation against whom we are arming.
Our production is limited-but it can
do some good to the British; it can
do little, If any, good to us until it
has reached a much higher potential.
We are not stripping our own de-
fenses by doing this, because we do
not now have the capacity for main
tanning adequate air defenses; we
are increasing the chances of not
having to fight at all in this hemi-
sphere by aiding the holding of our
outpost position on the far side of
the Atlantic. and we are sending
away nothing which would be of
more than temporary service to us
at home if that outpost fell. This is
no gamble, as it is sometimes de-
scribed; it is the plainest of common
sense.
Some for Heavy Bombers.
The principle set forth applies to
all types of airplanes. 1t is some
times contended that we ought to
send the British fighters and light
bombers, but keep at home the heavy
bombers which figure so largely in
our plans for hemisphere defense.
1t is urged that these take a long
time to produce and likewise the
training of crews for them is long
and arduous task. Quite true, but
heavy bombers happen to be the
one type of which the British are
for the moment in greatest need,
and have the least capacity to pro-
duce in their own factories. The in
creaSes in the fighter command and
the coastal command of the Royal
Air Force made since the war began
have greatly increased the defensive
security of the island of Great
Britain against direct air attack; in
other words the British have been
compelled first of all to make sure
of not losing the war before under
taking measures designed to win it.
But all history tells us that some
time, some how there must be a re-
Evening star., 1941-03-06

turn to offensive action If victory is
to be attained, and for that purpose
the need Is for heavy, long-range
bombers carrying large bomb loads.
Even from the purely defensive
view point, such bombers are essen
tial for attacking the invasion bases,
German airfields and the ports from
which German submarines and sur
face raiders operate. In the new
stage of the battle Of Britain just
opening, in which the German object
plainly Is going to be an attempt to
cut the Atlantic sea-lanes on which
Britain's very life depends, the use
of long-range air craft both over the
seas as convoy escorts and in
counter-attacks on the German
bases, may well be decisive.
Look at it in this way, for clarif1-
cation: Suppose the British Isles
were American territory. Suppose
we had there an army, an air force
and a fleet for the purposesof hold
ing that outpost, restraining a Ger
man break-through into the Atlantic,
gaining time for the increase of our
productive capacity at home. Would
we under such circumstances think
it sound policy to deny to our out
post commander the very type Of
aircraft he needs most, for no better
reason than that if he is defeated
we might later on need those air
craft for our home defense? This
would be obvious folly, violation
of the principle of economy of force.
Yet in the military sense (political
considerations aside) how does the
stated situation differ from the
actual?
Unsoundness Becoming Apparent.
What we are really doing, if we
retain our heavy bombers here, is
holding out a reserve against the
contingency of Britain being de-
feated. Now it is gradually coming
to be understood that this is not
sound idea in air warfare. The
purpose of a reserve is to keep up
of action until your OBJ
jective is achieved, or to have some
thing in hand with which to meet
unforeseen turns of the combat.
Because infantry, once committed
to a fight, cannot thereafter be
and used elsewhere save
with great confusion and loss of
time, the reserves of infantry are
fresh, unused formations held under
the hand of the commander until
in his judgment the time has come
to put them in. The reserves of
are quite another matter;
it is sheer waste to hold batteries in
reserve which might usefully be
Evening star., 1941-03-06

offered to the enemy. Which brings
us back to our original contention.
Certain Limits Essential.
OF course there are limits beyond
which we ought not to 60. We must
retain sufficient aircraft for our
training program. 1t will be little
use to have a high productive Ca
pacity in 1912 and no pilots to man
the ships we will then be ready to
turn out. We must retain minimum
forces to guard our vital outlying
possessions from sudden attack
Panama, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alas
ka, the Philippines. But, in the
larger sense, we ought to pursue a
consistent and intelligent policy, di-
rected toward single objective.
We have wisely determined that our
security will best be maintained by
the defense of Great Britain against
German assault. We should, there
fore. implement that policy by a
wise and careful distribution and
apportionment Of our fighting re-
sources.
If we had decided in the begin
ming to risk British downfall and
Evening star., 1941-03-06

aid TO us in any emergency arising
in the immediate future. Half
measures and hesitation have been
the invariable preludes to military
disaster throughout the course of
history. In no human activity as In
war does the ancient proverb hold
true, that you cannot eat your cake
and have it.
(CoDyright. 1871, by New York Tribune.
Lnc.)
Evening star., 1941-03-06

to bend every effort toward an i'm
pregnable defense Of this hemi-
sphere we should still be very far
from achieving security by that
means. Having taken the only al
tentative course, aid to Great Brit
ain, we cannot, we dare not now
emasculate that policy by timid
holding back Of needed weapons
which could In any case be of little
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-23
DEATHS

Harry c. Scott 1880 Coyle. as
Josephine Koehler. 4s22 Jos. Campau. 80
Albert J. Shuttle Jr., 4431 Fischer. a..
Bertha Gilbert. 1907 Theodore. "a
Charles Edmond McMaken, e0oi RoselaWn.
+ 81
Catherine r. ssndow 1850 Vermont, II.
Joseph Powell. 1857 Belviders; %.
william Henry Beckett. 1881 Helen. 50.
Irene H. Merrill. 1879 Winston. 20.
Earle II. Mitchell. 1ios Englewood. Royal
Oak. 50.
Mary Danphisnor. 1884 Hunt. s.
Mary Louise Millard. 1888 f. Jefferson, "a.
Pat Gibbs sos Rivard, 80.
sylvester Berry, 1882 Monroe. al.
John Mossie 22s2 East Congress. ~.
Georgine voigt. 1898 East Forest u.
william Yarbruugh. ali Hendrie, 81.
John Babski. 1887 junction. IS
Mary A. Robinson. 312 East Grand Bouls-
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Louise Rice. $3.50 Miller. Hsmtramck, Ii.
Beatrice Tillman. 23o5 Brush, 20.
William Hancock. 1851 Third. 81.
Leora Cantrell. 1907 Oakland. 20
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Fred Race. go Howard 81.
Adam shuIniski, $40 Abbott. So
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Nicholas Brick. 5ois Canton. rs.
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So
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-23
Edison Output
Up BPer Cent

Total output of the Detroit Edi-
son Company for the week ended
April 10 was 1854, 900 kilowatt
hours, a gain of % per cent over
the 64,687 900 kilowatt hours of
the corresponding week of 1910,
and an increase Of Is per cent
over the previous weeks total of
8,304 900 kilowatt hours.
Industrial output for last week
totaled 39,779,0O0 kilowatt hours,
gain of $50 per cent over the
29.253,000 kilowatt hours of the
corresponding week of 1910, and a
gain of "a per cent over the pre-
vious weeks total of 38,840 600
kilowatt hours.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-23
Retail Ads
Up 10 Pct.
I'm Week

CHICAGO, April %. Retail
display advertising in the newspa-
pers OF 80 major cities showed an
increase of SO per cent over the
corresponding period of last year
for the week ended April II, ac-
cording to a summary released to-
day by Advertising Age, national
advertising newspaper. This was
the fourth successive week in
which retail newspaper advertis-
ing volume had shown increases
near or over the 10 per cent mark.
A total Of 23.155, 1873 lines of re-
Jail display was placed in, a. the
newspapers of the SO reporting
cities during the week ended April
~, according to Advertising Age,
compared with 21,063, 301 lines
during the corresponding week of
last year, for an increase of almost
100000 lines.
For the 15-week period since
The beginning of the year. total
retail display Image in the meas
ured cities is reported as 291 ,401,-
$50 lines, up 30 per cent from the
corresponding 1910 total of 282.-
P60.770 lines.
While some of the substantial
increases of recent weeks have
been due to the later Easter this
year than last, much of the gain
must be attributed to more active
retail selling, which has been &C.
CELEBRATED by the national defense
program. Advertising Age asserts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-23
Big Backlog
United Engineering Has
Record Orders

PITTSBURGH, April 23.-Tht
present order backlog of the
United Engineering and Foundry
Company is the largest on record
principally equipment for defense
purposes. George T. Laid. presi'
dent. said at the annual meeting
"While foreign business is
somewhat reduced because of
existing world conditions, our
books at present indicate that
we shall be limited only by our
plant capacity and manpower
during this year and possibly
well into next year In producing
for our industry and national
Defense, he said.