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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
WILLKIE FLAYS
CHURCHILL TALK
ON BRITISH EMPIRE
Continued From Page One)


minister in order to preside over
the liquidation of the British En-
pire." -
Willkie said that unless the peo-
pie of the United States, Great
Britain, Russia, China and all the
other United Nations agreed to-
day on their purposes, the ideal
istic expressions of hope as en-
bodied in the Atlantic Charter
will live merely to mock u.s. as
cid President Woodrow Wilson S
fourteen points in the first world
war.
The four freedoms will not be
accomplished by the declarations
of those momentarily in power, "
said the 1910 Republican preslden-
t,al nominee. ''They will become
real only if the people of the world
forge them into actuality. And po-
litical internationalism will not
accomplish them. Real freedom
must rest on economic interna-
tionalism.
Willkie said that those who sneer
when it is suggested that freedom
and self-government could be
b1 ought to all men, feel that areas
such as the Malayan peninsula or
islands of the southeast Pacific
must be ruled perpetually by
some nation'S colonial imperial
ism"
"Our most immediate common
reed is of course united military
plan arrived at by a board of
strategy representative not alone
Of the United States and Great
Britain but representing likewise
cur other allies,' he continued.
Even such obviously essential CO.
operation has not yet been brought
about.
1T is true we are beginning to
work with the British. That is
comparatively easy, for we are
possessed of the same linguistic
and cultural heritage. But we
must learn equally well to work
with Russians and Chineses in
the arduous task of today
A war won without purpose is
war won without victory. Will
kie declared, and he cited the Am
erican Revolution as the outstand-
ing example of a war fought with
a purpose = not hatred OF Eng
lisbmen but love of freedom which
subsequently was established.
It has become an almost hlstor-
ical truism, he said, that the first
world war was a war without vic
tory. for although Wilson stated
the purpose in eloquent terms to
make the world safe for democra-
.cy I'VE found that we and our al
lies we're not really agreed on
that purpose.
Agreement in principle must be
won now, he said, and this agree
ment must exist not just among
the leaders of the Allies but among
the people themselves.
Unless the British people know
the way we are thinking in Amer
lea, and take 1t to heart, and un-
less we have a similar idea of
what they are thinking in England
and in the commonwealth, there
can be no hope of agreement,
Willkie said. 1--WE must know what
the people of Russia and China
aim for and we must let them
lxnow o11r aims -
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
S-Sunk; D-Damaged.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Japanese American
Sunk; D-Damaged.

Sunk; D-Damaged.
Additional damage to enemy ships
during the Solomons campaign
which may include some duplica.
tions of damage reported in Navy
communicates, has been announced
from General MacArthur's head
quarters in Australia.
Tabulation of MacArthur's an.
nouncements:
Aircraft carriers - One probably
damaged.
Airplane tenders-One large ten.
der believed Destroyed one small
tender heavily damaged
Battleships One battleship OF
heavy cruiser damaged.
Cruisers-One sunk, one probably
sunk, seven damaged, three be
lieved hit, ,one bombed with unob.
served results.
Destroyers-Two probably sunk
three possibly hit. $500
Transports-Three damaged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17

soul of a great musician and g.
spl11t OF a great composer. vba.
the Chopin Sonata and the gronn
of five Chopin pieces were nr.,, IVY
There are those who claim t
Chopin is for beginners. If tbia ,'''
true, may we never get out ~ ~
knoergarten.-J. E. H, y"
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
FW! WILL BUILD
new WATER Line
oCcntinucd From Page One)

will sell the acquired land and
rights, after completion, to the
city.
The meeting, presided over by
Mayor Rargrove Bellamy, adjourn
ed after appropriating S125 to a
civilian defense exhibition to be
brought here sometime during the
first of December. Chairman Louis
Poisson of the New Hanover De-
tense Council, spoke before h e
council in behalf of the show, and
advised the members that it would
prove an educational exhibit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17
365 JAP VESSELS
LOST DURING WAR
CONTINUED From Page One)

The following tables show the
comparable Acknowledgements ship
losses in the three m j or cam
paigns which have resulted in de.
feat of the Japanese fleet:
CORAL SEA BATTLE
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-17

S-Sunk; D-Damaged.
MIDWAY ISLAND BATTLE
japanese America
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

then on each side a mighty mass of black
fighting whale that looked as if they'd smash down
on us. For an instant my nose was full Of dank,
oily stencil from those beasts. But didn't have
time to think The boat was full of water and
was hanging on like grim death
Let him have it,"
/ looked so help me-
Nanton darted an iron right into the flank and
went his box warp. Then quick as flash he
darted the second iron.
They were clear and we were holding on,
choking under the foam that filled the boat The
mighty fukes rose over our heads and the crash
of falling water filled the whole world.
'Pull three" yelled the mate. Stern two. Get
her round" The boat spun like chip astern of
those whales.
Line clear" yelled Nanton.
Peak oars and bail for your lives"
Nanton and the mate changed ends and the boat
plunged after the fast whale. When he was hit
he kicked and his flukes struck another whale.
That one dved and our boat Slid across his hump.
Crikey! l thought were lost. Nanton snubbed
the line about the loggerhead and we sat there bail
ing with one hand and holding on with the other
while the line out and the bow smashed into
the seas. Then the whole school dived.
Lhad chance to look about me. We were run
ing at good lick, the mate watching the chock
through which the line running the boatsteerer
brakng the line with canvas palms. / stopped
water into the tub to cool it when it ran out And
the mate, cool as death, was taking the guard off
his lance ready for the whale to breach. The second
and third mates were fast as we'll as the boat
header
"Come on, lads, said the mate. Face for'rard
and haul line
We must have been doing a good ten-eleven
knots as it was and spray was coming inboard like
hail
"Heave away, he's coming up"
We heaved and the line every which way
in the boat God help us all if he dives again,
thought. But we heaved and hauled away and l
saw him break water ahead and then his great
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

tween MS CeeIn. Onlp
your oars, we've gotta
go between them"
l took a quick peek
in spite of the mates
order. Couldn't help
it. l could hear the
sough of spouts and
the wash of those
great heads surging
through the seas.
BY Crickey-there
were ten of them!
Coming ahead smash
ing through the water
and showing a great
billow ahead of then.
Their h e a d s were
twenty feet out of the
water and they looked
bi & as churches. 1
could see the whales
we were to run be-
tween and for the life
of me / didn't know
how we'd anage
without being stove.
"Stand by, Man.
ton" said the mate.
Zone more spout and
we'll take him. Don't
dart till | tell YOU"
"Aye, aye"
They were on us!
There was a mighty
heave as the boat took
that great billow and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

can always tell sperm whale. The spout
is at the foremost tip of his great snout and
bit to the side SO that the spout comes out
sideways and rard.
l tumbled into my boat where the boat
steerer was putting his irons in the crotch -
and coing his box line clear.
Lower away"
The boats hit the water like one and we
pulled clear of the ship until we could
sight the whales coming like battle wagons
straight for us,
"Pull, my bullies" ordered the mate from
the stern-sheets. Pull right ahead of EN-"
We were tossing like chip in the spark
ling and those whales were coming
ahead like solid wall of elephants.
way 'nough."
We rested on oars and stole a look
behind me.
Bang!
got sharp tap on side of the head from
the mate.
"How many times gotta tell you to keep
your eyes on me ?" he demanded. Don't let 1
me catch of you lookin' over his Shout
der when we're goin' on these sparm. Watch
me for orders and obey 'em on the jump"
The boatsteerer stood up with his knee in the
clumsy ceat.
Stand by Nanton," the mate sang out. make
right hand dart and not at the head or slack
bubber."
That's because whale sometimes holows his
Stand by boys" said the mate, quiet as a
mouse His eyes was looking over our heads at
the whales and his pipe empty, was clenched be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

flukes rose on our beam and slapped the water
with racket like cannon shot.
Stand by to bow on" yelled the mate.
You see we had to get past those flukes and run
on him about sixty feet to where the mate could
tail. All this while he was going like a destroyer,
mind you.
Well, this is how we did it. First. remember
that small boat full of gear, centre board up
oars peaked, paddles under foot and that line
tangled nine ways from Sunday and six men hang
ing on for dear life, choking with spray Add to
that rough sea and the boat tearing through it
like torpedo with that great tail thrashing the
rollers just few feet from our heads
"Out oars and pull your backs out" roared the
mate standing at the clumsy cleat. Bow oar stand
by to drop the line in the larboard bow-cleat"
That's cleat just ahead the bow thwart
We pulled like devils and the bow oar smashed
the chock pin and snatched that taut line out of
the chock and ropped it in the cleat neat flash
Trim to starboard."
We peaked again and showed weight
against the downward tug of the line on the other
beam.
The boat sheered broad out to starboard of the
running whale, keeling over like SKINNED butter
dish.
Haul away!
"Stand by to cut. If he sounds we're done fol-
The were lofting and three great
rollers tried their best to swamp us but we shot
over them and down t'other sides like diving
cormorants
Haul away, men," yelled the mate. "Set me
for'rard of his hump"
Lord, how we hauled that wet taut line The
great side of the monster plunged beside us like
tide rock gone mad and still the mate poised like
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

gotten most of the things that happened But
writing about it now all the old memories come
back
was sick as a cat for the first coupe,of weeks
pulled IN my first boat, saw whales killed and all
OF SUDDEN 1t seemed that I'd never been kid
having girl trouble in high school. 1t seemed that
l q always been in that ut-timbered bark Can
ton' rocking over the changing seas, taking my
ulck IN the rings yelling my head off when
slShteo spouts or white water, tumbng into nv
death. ~ "
For that was what it was every time we cot on
Whaie death, and the chance of it fer every man
aboard ~ "-
We were in good whaling grounds, west and
south OF the Azores, and mighty few days passed
without spout raising Often we wore ourselves
out chasing them and once we went on a school
head and head Four boats of us-By Crikev
that was day.
Those whales were making passage, 1 think. It
was early morning and the was blue and broken
under tair breeze Not cloud in the sky and my
uncle, Captain Shockley, was walking the deck
watching the boatsteerers in the waist oiling and
sharpening their spades and irons.
was helping break out some casks for the next
cut You know, we pour off the water and put in
little sea water Then some hot oil is put in
with the sea water and the cask headed The oil
boils the water and high pressure of steam cleans
the cask and also shows if there are any leaks
Waste OF oil, you might think, but that isn't So
The oil lines the cask and none of it is lost
Coin to need them casks soon, son." the cap
tain says to
How dye know, SIR" l always called him sir
on ship board
Il can smell whales. Great whaling weather
this
Smell 'em, sr?"
yes, smell EN-"
He cooked his nose like an old beagle and by
Crikey thought could smell something in the
air. But it might have been the hot oil.
All of sudden
"Blo-o-o-ws. Blo-o-ws and breaches" came
from the mastheads.
Where away" the captain sings out.
big school O sperm two miles off the lee"
Hard aport," sung out the captain. MAIN
yards aback. Stand by the boats"
l tell you the sea seemed full of whales. There
they were like an army Black heads out coming
to windward spouting regular as clockwork You
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
rTs.ss GsI'.s' 'o.,

When the Cry breaches and Blo.o-owsw Came From
the Mastheads IL Was Lower Away the Boats and Pull
Your Lights and Livers Out In Race to Dart the
First Iron From An Old Engraving by W. Taber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
BY CAP'N LESTER A. MOSHER
CHAPTER N

c 1912 by American Weekly Rights
TOLD you about my first voyge whaling
1 Funny it's years since that time and I'd for
gotten most of the things that happened. But
writing about it now all the old memories come
back
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
U. S. Plane Output Near
5000 Monthly y; Increasing

Washington Sen. Elmer
Thomas (D-Okla.), said that A
merican airplane production has
reached a level of nearly 5000 a
month"
eve are up to the Presidents
schedule now and next year we
will reach his second objective of
10000 a month";" Thomas, who is
chairman of the Senate appropri-
atoms subcommittee handling
army bills, said in an interview.
At the same time the aeronau-
teal chamber of commerce report
ed the aircraft industry has in
creased military plane production
nearly IS per cent during the first
six months of the war and that
it soon will exceed the combined
production of the enemy-Ger-
many, Japan and Italy, including
the production being forced out
of occupied countries.
The chamber also reported that
aircraft engine production has
been increased nearly 80 per cent
since Pearl Harbor-''in part due
to the automotive companies
which are building aircraft en-
gines, using the designs develop
ed by the old-line aircraft engine
companies"
Thomas said American factories
are meeting the "almost unbe-
lievable" production goals set by
President Roosevelt in his annual
message to Congress on January
100000 airplanes in 1912 and
$4,000 in 1913.
"The enemy cannot stand be-
fore u.s." he said. "No nation or
combination of nations can hold
up against United States power
from this time on"
He conceded, however, that this
eountry still faces the problem of
transporting its men and equip
ment to the fighting lines.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
N. C.. LEADS IN
MAY BOND QUOTA

North Carolina exceeded its
quota of war savings bonds sales
for May and led the southern
states in percentage as the nation
purchased bonds totalling $685.
$4,000 or ST. per cent. above the
$6OO,OOO,OOO quota, the Treasury
Department announced this week.
Bond sales in North Carolina
totaled $8,19O,OOO going over the
quota of $5,899,OOO and setting a
percentage Of 1891, the highest
established in the south.
Only eight states set higher per-
centages than North Carolina.
They were Utah, the highest in
the nation at 171.3; Washington,
South Dakota, North Dakota,
Nebraska, Iowa, Idaho and Ari-
iona.
Alaska and Hawaii outstripped
all states in percentages with Ha-
wall setting a percentage of 6O3.3
and Alaska putting hers at 248.5.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
n KNOCKED OUT BY
RAGING PA. FIRES

Philadelphia - TWenty-seven
firemen were overcome by smoke
Sunday in a four alarm fire that
wrecked a five-story warehouse
and blocked trains on the Market
street 81" at Thirty-seventh and
Market streets in West Philadel-
phia.
Fireman John McNally, SO, was
taken to a hospital and other vic
TINS were treated at the scene.
The blaze at the Victory Stor-
age Company was brought under
control nearly three hours after
a pedestrian turned in the alarm.
No estimate of the damage was
immediately available.
Traffic on the elevated and sur
faced cars routes was held up an
hour and 20 minutes as flames
canopied a 75-foot-long strip of
the elevated structure. The Phil
adelphia Transportation Company
said it was not damaged.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
DIR. Wilmington
Passes Away At
Reddies River

North Wilkesboro - DR.. w. E.
Wilmington, 81, who for many
years practiced medicine in the
Reddies River section of Wilkes
county, died Saturday evening at
the home of his mother, Mrs. l..
L. Wilmington, of Reddies River.
DR.. Wilmington was member
of a prominent Wilkes family, be-
ing a son of the late J. L. Whit
tington, and Mrs. Mary j. Van
noy Wilmington. He was well
known in Wilkes.
Surviving are his mother and
the following brothers and sis
tiers: Rev. w. T. Wilmington, OF
West jefferson, O. K. Whiting
ton, of Wilkesboro, Odell Whit
ington of Reddies River, Mrs. H.
J. Bumgarner, of Goldsboro, Mrs.
Sam Ward, of North Wilkesboro,
and Mrs. Norman Dancy of Red
dies River.
Funeral service was held Mon
day at 2 p. m. at Reddies River
church with Rev. Mr.. Mays in
charge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
STATE PARKS OPEN
ON WAR BASIS NOW

Raleigh - North Carolina state
parks will operate on war
curtailed basis this year, R. Bruce
Etheridge, director of the depart
ment of conservation and develop
ment, announced.
Etheridge said none of the parks
would be closed but would re-
main open for restricted use for
picnickers, mixers and campers.
At Mount Mitchell state park,
which is primarily a mecca for
sightseers and campers, all facili-
ties of the reservation will be a.
valuable to visitors.
The swimming pool and bath
house at Morrow mountain and
the lake at Hanging Rock state
park will not be open for bathing
this summer, but hiking, picnick-
ing will be available.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
GASPE VILLAGE MARKS
HISTORIC LANDING

It was near the village of Gas
pc, a French Canadian fishing
and resort village at the tip of the
Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, that
the famous explorer Jacques Car
tier first landed when he discov-
cred Canada in 1884. A granite
cross on the hillside marks the
spot where the st. Malo sailor
claimed the land for the king of
France.
Close to the Gaspe village, the
Roche Perez rears it's jagged head
from the sea. Thousands of vlsl-
tors come to see this rock at
lands end every year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
Brief Review OF State National During
CAROLINA FINALS
HELD THIS WEEK

Chapel Hill - The University
of North Carolina opened it's
148th commencement here this
week.
DR.. John A. Redhead, Jr., pas
tor of the Second Presbyterian
church in Charlotte, preached the
baccalaureate sermon.
The commencement program
came to a close Tuesday evening
with the presentation of diplo-
mas by Governor Broughton.
Class day and parents day was
observed Monday when most of
the returning alumni held class
suppers after which the alumni
reception and ball was held in
Woollen gymnasium.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
ANTI-GERMAN TROUBLE
THROUGHOUT FRANCE

Vichy - Fresh outbreaks of an
ti-Gerrnan disorders were report
ed in both occupied and unoccu-
pied France as the funeral of the
assassinated pro-Nazi editor, AL
bert Clement, became an angry
demonstration against Great Bri-
tain on the boulevards of Paris.
Uniformed militant youth or
CARNATIONS which support Jacques
Doriot, publisher of the newspa~
per Cri Du Peuple which Glenn
ent edited, and other political
groups hostile to the Allies, pa
raded through Paris boulevards
to the church where the services
were held.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
HARVESTING CARE
WILL AID FARMER

Raleigh, June 9 - North Caro-
lima qualified wheat growers, in
order to obtain $1.37 per bushel
for "grade two wheat" must ex-
ercise great care in the harvest
ing and storing procedure this
season, w. H. Darst, field crops
marketing specialist of the State
Department of Agriculture, said
today.
He explained that the federal
government ha sannounced a loan
price on grade two wheat (which
will have "a tendency to support
the general market price and thus
greatly benefit all wheat growers
in the State"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
BRIAN BELL, FAMOUS
NEWSPAPERMAN, DIES

Washington - The death OF
Brian Bell, chief of the Washing
ton bureau of The Associated
Press, brought grief Monday to
the national capital, and to thou
sands who had known him in his
coast-to-coast career of newspaper
writing.
The 52-year-old newspaperman
died of coronary thrombosis at
$40 a. M, at his home in nearby
Arlington, Va.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
were among the first to express
shock and grief. And at the
Capital, Representative Priest
(D), Tenn, delivered a eulogy IN
the HOUSE, telling his colleagues
that "the passing of a man like
Brian Bell in a day when the
world badly needs true and tired
journalists even as it needs stall
wart statesmen is indeed a grlev-
GUS loss.' Similarly, Senator
Maybank (D), S. c., called the at
tention of the Senate to the loss
of "a distinguished South Caro-
linian."
There were tributes, too, from
leading sports figures and others,
for Bells expansive personality
and wide interests brought him
friends in all walks of life during
80 odd years as reporter and writ
er.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
SENATE APPROVES OF
FUNDS FOR DEPENDENTS

Washington - The Senate pass
ed and sent to the House mea-
sure providing cash allowances
for the dependents of enlisted
men in the armed forces but de-
layed showdown vote on the
question of increasing the pay OF
buck privates and navy seamen
to $50 monthly.
Under the legislation approved
by the Senate without record
vote any soldier, sailor, marine
or coast guardsman receiving $70
monthly or less could assure his
wife of at least $50 month in
come.
Of this amount, the enlisted
man would contribute $22 from
his pay while the government
would contribute $28. In addl-
ton, the government would con-
tribute $12 monthly to the sup
port of the first child and $40
monthly for each additional child.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
Mrs Della Speaks
Buried Saturday

Funeral service was held on
Saturday for Mrs. Della Speaks,
wife of Fred Speaks, following
her death at her home at Jeffer-
son, on Thursday.
Funeral service was conducted
by Elder Ed Davis and burial fol-
lowed in the Mcneil cemetery.
The deceased, who was well
known here and had many
friends, was the daughter of Mrs.
Alice Mcmillan Mcneil and P.
q. McNeill. She was 40 years
old at the time of her death, which
followed a period of serious ill
ness.
She IS survived by her husband
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
STUDY PLAN TO RESTRICT
OPERATION OF TAXICABS

Washington - Specific operat-
ing milage restrictions soon may
be imposed on taxicabs, trucks,
buses and government-operated
automobiles throughout the ma
ton, it was reported this week IN
informed quarters.
Details of the program were not
disclosed, but it was understood
that several methods of curta1l-
ing taxicab operations were I'M
der consideration.
One would involve flat Or
der to make certain reduction
in mileage; another would limit
the uses to which taxicabs could
be put; a third would bar inter-
city taxi operations and limit the
distance a cab could travel from
it's garage. Sightseeing trips by
cabs also will be prohibited, 1t
was reported.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-11
NAZIS SMASH PATRIOT
PRESS IN NORWAY

Stockholm - Nazi authorities
in Norway have smashed at a
ring of approximately 200 pa
triot newspapers with a wide un-
derground circulation, arrestlng
"a persons and sending some to
prison, dispatches from the Ger
man-occupied country said.
Eleven persons were gwen
prison terms of from nine months