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With confidence in oar armed forces—
with the unbounding determination of our
people — we will gain the inevitable
triumph — so help us God.
—Roosevelt's War Message.
SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1944_
<Jur Lhter Atm
( To aid in every way the prosecwtion of
the war to complete Victory.
TOP OF THE MORNING
Bartimeus sat begging. Nothing left but
to wait in the dark for the pennies people
put into his hand. But now the crowd said
the Wonder Worker of Nazarath was pass
ing by. In a flash all his dead hopes came
alive and he roared for Jesus. Sight! Sight!
Not pennies now. And a quiet voice said to
him, “Receive thy sight. Thy faith has
saved thee.”
. What do you want from God? Small
change? Well, He gives it; I'm still exist
ing. But do I want life? Do I wapt to break
out of this cocoon and see Him, and fol
low Him and live? I must decide that. And
He is passing by!
From “Forward.”
Dinner At Camp
A summer camp for its members, one of
the cherished dreams of the Brigade Eoys
Club, is coming true this year. Through the
generosity and with the co-operation of Mr.
C. VanLeuven. who made the site available,
and many Wilmngton business firms which
have contributed material and equipment, to
gether with plenty of hard work by William
Stewart and his corps of volunteer aides, the
project has at last been carried through with
the prospect that upward of three hundred
youngsters will have a real vacation on the
Sound under competent, trained leadership and
direction ddring July and August.
The camp is now in full blast, and blastng
so satisfactory that the Kiwanis club, whose
chief work is development of the Brigade, is
to hold its Wednesday meeting there, with
members due to assemble at Third and Chest
nut at 4 o’clock which will allow plenty ot
time for a swim with the boys, a bit of fun,
and dinner when everybody has cooled off.
This visit to the camp is both a privlege
and a duty of all club members, some of
whom have not kept in close touch with the
Brigade and should know what it is accom
plishing. Arrangements are being made for
transportation of the entire membership. •
The Brigade's board of directors will share
the hospitality of the camp at the same time
and as its personnel is made up of repre
sentatives of all Wilmington civic clubs, the
occasion will afford an excellent opportunity
for them to see at first hand how successfully
the organization is functioning.
French Underground
Prohibited by military necessity to say any
thing specific concernng the French under
ground, one correspondent has managed te
say a lot in a general way about the work
of this splendid organization in Normandy
when the invasion was about to come and
after Allied forces has established their beach
head.
The information is contained in a dispatch
from Cherbourg written by Harold Denny and
cabled to the New York Times. It is surpris
ing how much he tells while telling nothing
The dispatch is a masterpiece of indirect re
porting.
The resistance movement, says Mr. Denny
provided our intelligence authorities with
priceless data while invasion plans were bein^
formulated and “executed an admirable
scheme of transport paralysis on the eve o
our landings,” in addition to fighting with oui
troops into Cherbourg.
“Some of this story may be told now,” he
writes, “but most of it still may not., lest i
help the Germans to combat our French a]
lies in territories not yet liberated.” Witl
exceptionable craftsmanship, Mr. Denny con
tinues:
“It would be unwise to tell now, for in
stance, how 1he devoted army of proved pa
triots was recruited and organized under th
Germans’ noses so skillfully that few mem
bers were caught. Nor may it be told ho\
word of our impending invasion got to th
French resistance leaders on the eve of E
day, how the underground struck and not
train reached its destination in that part c
France that night. Two German divisions ha
to be moved on bicycles seized from th
French.
“But it may be said that the French unde:
ground was instructed and waiting. When th
right moment came it struck swiftly an
hard.”
Editors On DeGaulIe
While Washington officialdom is paying
homage to General Charles deGaulle and
i President Roosevelt receives him in private
. conference, with recognition of his Committee
of Liberaton beyond the pale, newspaper edi
tors are devoting thought to the implications
of his visit to the National Capital. Their
views are various, though all, so far as their
comments are available, voice the earnest
hope that when the Frenchman departs a bet
ter feeling may have been established be
tween this nation’s administration and Nazi
overrun France.
The Christian Science Monitor thinks much
progress must have been made by Washing
ton and London “toward harmonizing their
points of view cn General de Gaulle.” Other
wise, the Monitor concludes, “the visit of this
French leader to Washington could not use
fully take place at this tme.”
The New York Times is convinced he comes
with natural pride for what Frenchmen have
accomplished under “terrific handicaps,” and
continues: “From Fort Lamy and Bir Ha
chem to this week’s entry into Siena, French
troops have fought well. French sources ir.
London assert that the French guerrillas, the
Maquis, are ‘pinning down about eight Ger
man divisions that otherwse would be in ac
tion against the Allies in Normandy.’ Through
their new commander, General Koenig, Gen
eral Eisenhower has bestowed upon these he
roic combatants his ‘warmest commenda
< i nr c * ”
While we may not recognize the French
Committee as the government of France, adds
the Times, “we do have the right and duty
to cooperate on the practical plane with the
only French movement which has effectively
resisted the treason of Vichy.”
Among North Carolina papers, the Raleigh
News and Observer voices an opinion which
has been in many Tar Heel minds since Gen
eral de Gaulle set out to be a statesman.
“As a matter of fact,” the News and Observ
er observes, “De Gaulle is headed in the
wrong direction. His destination ought to be
“On to Paris” as he takes his place with
Allied troops resolved to liberate France and
then capture Berlin. The place of a soldier
is in the fighting area, not using needed gaso
line to fly over oceans away from the battle
fields ‘where the bravest love to die.’ If De
Gaulle wants first of all to liberate France,
he should know his gun should help in the
liberating and not fly away from where the
fight is going on, where American and other
Ailed troops are fighting and dying to lib
erate France.”
The Greensboro Daily News believes some
thing more than hospitality is needed to bring
full accord in this country's relations with
the De Gaulle element in France, saying:
For all tne royalty and elaborateness of
the welcome given to Gen. Charles De
Gaulle upon his arrival in Washington, it
must be agreed that the differences be
tween our government and the French
Natonal Committee of Liberation, which
the general heads, cannot and will not be
dissolved by outward manifestations and
trappings, however much they may be de
signed for impression's sake.
On the other hand, the Charlotte Observer
optimistically declares:
There is good reason to believe that the
visit of the French military leader, De
Gaulle, to Washington, will result happily
in the way of solving the dangerous dif
i ferences which have obtained between him
and the civilian patriots whom he repre
sents in France, and President Roosevelt,
whd has held out against giving him the
leadership recognition he demand
And the Fayetteville Observer finds that:
The United States has accommodated its
foreign policy to meet strange situations.
Our military men worked with Admiral
Darlan. We have given recognition pn suf
ference to the Italian royal house although
there is a large agitation for its deposi
tion and an abolition of the monarchy. It
is not too much to hope that this country
and Britain allow De Gaulle’s commttee
to organize civil government in liberated
areas and to leave for the future the mat
ter of formal recognition.
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Platform Brevity
Noting the discussion provoked by the Re
publican platform, Democratic leaders con
sider possible advantages of presenting theirs
in thumbnail form. Brevity and simplicity
seem to be the objective, particularly in dem
ocratic congressional circles
There is no doubt that the fewer the words,
in platforms or other declarations, the less is
the probability of confusion. Implicit in this
is the self-evdent fact that the words must
be well chosen and fully define the situation
they deal with.
Because there have been so many clashes
- between the White House and Capitol Hill,
■ with a large section of democratic members
1 of Congress taking issue with the President
■ on vital legislation, coupled with the probabil
ity that the President will again be the demo
- crate candidate, it is questionable if eithei
- brevity or simplicity will be attainable wher
: time comes to draft the party’s platform.
It is to be remembered that there was con
' siderable dissension over such absorbing sub
2 jects as taxes, subsidies, executive agencies
- soldier vote, on which groups of democratic
i senators and house members differed witl
f the administration. This, it would seem tc
3 the man on the outside trying to look in, wil
e make it difficult for factions seeking a brie
platform to accomplish their purpose.
The republicans used some five thousanc
e words in their platform and did an indifferen
d clarification job. It remains to be seen hov
the democrats -will come out.
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Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
j The inside on the Washington scene of
interest to the Carolinas.
By HOWARD SUTTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau
By HOWARD SUTTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau
WAHINGTON, July 8.—Although the Office
of Price Administration may not grant the re
quest of tobacco growers for a ceiling of
45 1-2 cents cn flue - cured leaf, the price
control agency and War Food administration
are expected shortly to announce a more
equitable program than the badly - organized
tobacco marketing setup of last season.
Edward F. Ragland, chief of OPA’s tobacco
section, is as mum as the proverbial oyster
on the agency’s idea of a “fair price ceiling,”
but it is generally believed here and through
out the tobacco belt that a “compromise ceil
ing” of 43 1-2 cents on cut-and-tied flue-cured
OPA decision.
It is also a reasonable assumption that WFA
will again set up an allocation program, but
this also is expected to be designed with the
idea of “safeguarding the growers” and “pro
tecting the price structure.”
Food Administrator Marvin Jones and Com
modity Credit Chief J. B. Hutson are impress
ed with a proposal by Harry B. Caldwell, of
Greensboro, Master of the State grange, pro
viding a three - point program for allocation
“i^ the WFA decides to allocate the crop.”
CALDWELL ASKS DAILY FLOOR
Caldwell hastened to reiterate the opposition
growers—to any allocation.
“Growers generally believe," he declared in
his latter to Jones, “that alloction of their
last crop was largely responsible for the fluc
tuation in prices.
“They have unanmously expressed opposi
tion to allocation in every meeting, and it
is our understanding that the crop will not
be allocated unless the supply anti demand
situation makes it absolutely necessary.”
The state grange chief’s three - point pro
gram follows:
“1. Allocate pounds rather than percentages.
“2. Allocate more pounds than is expected to
be available so competition will be preserved.
“3. Put a floor under prices on all grades
“daily by CCC purchases. Purchases made for
stabilization of prices should belong to the
CCC, and beoffered for sale to any buying
company, domestic or foreign, on some equi
tahlp ha c ’» I
LOOSE LEAF PRICE, 39 CENTS?
Those who are speculating on the possible
ceiling of probably 39 cents for untied and
ungraded flur-cured leaf.
Last year, the OPA, some members of whose
staff w'ere inexperienced in tobacco market
ing, failed in the beginning to distinguish be
tween tied-and-graded and untied-and-ungrad
ed tobacco, which gave growers in Georgia,
where there is no law requiring tobacco to be
tied, an early advantage.
Tobacco is required by law in both the Caro
linas to be tied and graded.
It is therefore incumbent upon Caldwell to
push for distinguishing price ceilings, which
he is doing with r<markable efficiency.
The grange fffficial pointed out in his letter
to Jones that “ceiling prices and allocations
protect the buying companies both in the price
they pay and in the supply available to them.
“Use of these methods,” he added, “can
be justified by war conditions, and their appli
cation must be carefully worked out or the in
terests of the growers will be jeopardized.
“Flue - cured tobacco growers have ex-1
pressed opposition to the use of grade ceil
ings. Under ordinary conditions, where the
supply is adequate and we have a normal
market, the price relationships between aver
age tobacco and better quality leaf has been
reasonably maintained by the auction system.
“If some method can be adopted which will
establish and maintain reasonable price re
lationships between average tobacco and bet
ter quality leaf without destruction of our auc
tion system, or the adoption of grade ceilings,
I am sure that growers would approve. . . .
“It is our opinion that some differential can
be established and maintained between aver
age tobacco and better quality leaf by saying
to all purchasers that purchases made by
them at ten-cents-a-pound above over-all ceil
ing averages will be figured at five-cents-a
pound above the over-all ceiling average in
determining the final weighted average price
for the entire season.
“This advantage would be an incentive to
companies to pay higher prices for better
quality leaf. Some of us believe that adoption
of this principle will help reestablish and main
tain some differential in average quality to
bacco and better quality leaf.”
St-t-K I’KUl kXTIUN ft
Caldwell warned Jones that growers are not
going to take the chance of delaying their
sales this year without definite OPA and WFA
assurance of proce protection that will stabi
lize prices as the market moves from Georgia,
through the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Virginia and Maryland.
"Unless assurance is given to growers," he
said, ‘‘that the price structure will be protect
ed from day to day and week to week, you can
expect tobacco farmers to market their crops,
even at the expense of saving food and feed,
or the planting of small grains.
“Some cf those who delayed marketing of
tobacco last year in order to save their crop
and feed their small grain were caught wit.r
extremely low prices. They are not likely to
take the chance again unless assurance is giv
en that a stable price level will be maintaned
throughout the entire marketing season."
In his plea for the ceiling of 45 1-2 cents,
requested by the farmers, Caldwell pointed
out that Maryland burley last year brought
45 1-2 cents, thus giving Maryland farmers
higher averages than other tobacco-produc
ing states.
The asserted unfairness of such a situation
was cited in the fact that flue-cured prices
normally average as much or more a burley
prices, while last year, the ceiling on flue
cured leaf was only 41 cents.
’ OPA RELEASE, JULY 19
Release by OPA and WFA of tobacco regu
lations for the 1944 season must come before
opening of the Georgia market, July 24.
Because of heavy detailed work involved,
however, in setting up a program designed
to be "equitable and fair," the announcement
is not expected before the week beginning July
, i7 R is probable the release will come about
July 19.
This year, for the first time, tobacco dealers
l will be brought under OPA regulations, and
some time will be required to work out the
application of regulations to dealers.
A group of dealers from the tobacco belt
conferred here today with Ragland and his
THIS TIME WE’RE LOCKING THE BARN IN TIME
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W/onsv.;
Walkie-Talkie Climaxes
Military Communications
The "walkie - talkie”—knapsack
type radio station — flashed the
first reports of the invasion to be
telayed to the American public.
These portable sending and receiv
ing radio sets were in the van
of invasion. They enabled Signal
Corps officers to keep command
ers—and through them, the folks
back home—up to the minute on
developments.
During the landing at Salerno,
Italy, the Signal Corps amphibious
trucks went ashore early to fur
nish radio communication for Gen
eral Clark who directed the opera
tions from a ship offshore. This
ship-to-shore contact was particu
larly valuable during the critical
first twelve hour?.
Wars have promoted rapid com
munication down through the ages,
says a bulletin from the National
Geographic Society. The ancient
Greeks had signal systems for
transmitting messages between ci
ties, spelled out in lights. Messages
have been exchanged between
ships and shore for centuries by
means of flags and lights.
Smoke signals were used by Eu
ropeans centuries before the Amer
ican Indians were found sending
each messages. African natives
beat out signals on drums and hol
low logs. Among man's earliest
methods of signaling were wigwag
ging and heliographing. The latter
system makes use of reflected
flashes of sunlight.
Firee glowed to the Athenians
the fall of Troy, and more than
2.000 years later hilltop fires
across Kent reported to London the
arrival of the Spanish Armada.
I.ttle progress occurred in the de
velopment of methods and instru
n ents for the exchange of mili
tary information before the middle
oi the 19th century. The ancient
courier service dispatching mes
sages by runners and horsemen is
still in use, and now also employs
motorcycles, scout cars, and
jeeps.
France developed the use of the
mechanical semaphore in Napole
on’s time. The semaphore arms
were mounted on belfries, tall
buildings, and other elevations in
sight of each other. Paris was con
nected with Lille by an experi
mental line which first proved its
value with reports of battle. In t#o
years the system covered France.
When Napoleon moved on Russia,
1,200 stations kept him in touch
with Paris.
Block signal systems on railways
today were a modification of the
early semaphore. Demonstration of
the telegraph’s value for military
purposes durng the Civil War gave
the Signal Corps experience which
resulted in the building of an ex
tensive army network linking fron
tier posts and cettlemens. This was
maintained until commercial com
panies gradually extended service.
About 1880 the Corps was operat
ing 5,000 m i 1 e s of telegraph line.
The Signal Corps also connected
i’ghthouses with life - saving sta
tions distant from commercial
line?, as Norfolk with Cape Hat
teras, 137 miles away.
The Signal Corps has developed
new types of heliograph which
greatly extend the usefulness and
range of this device. Many recent
developments of Signal Corps la
boratories are held secret.
Today the Signal Corns provides
Washington with the world’s most
extensive communications system,
fringing out to the soldiers carry
ing the walkie - talkie sets at the
front, and to the farthest outposts
of non - combat areas.
Lieut. Chiswell Killed
In Action In Italy
Word has been received here by
friends and relatives of the death
of First Lieutenant Lawrence Chis
well, 27, killed in action in Italy
June 3 while serving with the In
fantry of the Fifth Army.
Liutenant Chiswell. son of Mrs
B. M. Chiswell of Washington, D
C. and the late Rear Admiral Chis
well, of the Coast Guard, lived here
for many years while his fathei
was stationed in Wilmington. He
was the grandson of the late Dr,
and Mrs. William J. H. Bellamy
of Wilmington.
He was wounded during the win
ter in Italy and spent three months
in Africa recuperating from his in
juries before returning to active
duty again.
Surviving are his mother, his
wife of Baltimore, Md.; two broth
ers. Capt. William Bellamy Chis
well and Lt. B. M. Chiswell, Jr.,
both of the Coast Guard.
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Liner President Grant
Reported Lost In Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. — (TP
—The War Shipping administra
tion announced today the loss oi
the around-theworld liner Pres
ident Grant in the Pacific. No en.
emy action was involved.
No lives were lost and salvage
work is proceeding to reclaim sup
plies and valuable equipment or
the 13,000 ton vessel, the WSA said.
The ship lies broken on a submerg
ed reef barely ten miles from its
undisclosed destination.
associates in discussion of propos
ed regulations and problems in
volved.
With the experiences of last sea
son to guide them, Ragland and
his associates are sincerely en
deavoring to adjust the necessary
anti-inflation restrictions to make
possible a 1944 tobacco market on
the basis as nearly normal as pos
sible.
DR. KNOX ARRIVES
TO PRACTICE HERE
Dr. Joseph C. Knox, for the past
several years head of the depart
ment of epidemiology with the
State Board of Health, has ar
rived in Wilmington to assume
practice of pediatrics with Drs.
J. B. Sidbury and E. v. Turner.
An office will be opened at 235
Vance street, Maffitt Village, for
the .treatment of infants and chil
dren with Doctors Turner and
Knox having charge of the office
from 2:30 to 6 on alttrnate after
noons. Appointments may be made
by calling 7929 in t{ie mornings
and 2-8611 in the afternoons.
Doctor Knox will be in the of
fice at 13 North Fifth street every
morning from 10:30 to 12:30
o’clock.
He was graduated from the med
ical school of the University of
Maryland and interned at the
Church home and infirmary, Bal
timore, and Children’s hospital of
the University of Iowa. He served
as resident physician at the
Doernbecher Hospital for Children
in Portland, Ore., and instructor
in pediatrics at the University of
Oregon medical school. He also
was resident physician at the Wil
lard Parker hospital for contagious
diseases in New York. Doctor
Knox received his master’s de
gree in public htalth from Har
vard university.
-V
TRANSPORTATION STRIKE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 8—iff)
—The Southeastern Motor Truck
I sys^em’ freight transfer firm
| which operates in seven states,
was idle today as result of a
strike called June 26 by tht Team
sters. Chauffeurs. Warehousemen
and Helpers union, Local 327.
^AFL) of which dock workers of
I the local concern are members,
Charles Potter, president of the
I comoany. said.
j 25 Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
j
JULY 9, 1919
Miss Mary Louise Stover has as
I her guest, Miss Nancy Lee Pater
son of Concord.
Officers for the new year were
elected by Cherokee Tribe No. 9,
Improved Order of Red Men. at
their wigwam last night.
Shriners of Wilmington at a
meeting held in the Masonic tem
i pie Tuesday night perfected plans
i for the fall ceremonial of Sudan
Temple, which will be held at
Wrightsville Beach on Labor Day.
Miss Alice Schulken. who is in
training at Watts hospital in Dur
ham. is in the city visiting her
brother, Edwin Schulken, at his
home in Audubon.
(/. S. Will Import 10,000
Tons Of Steel Monthly
WASHINGTON. July 8. — UP)—
Disclosure that this country soon
will import 10,000 tons of steel a
month from England’s lean supply
was coupled tonight with official
warning that the United States out
put must be boosted at once “if
the Allied forces in Europe are to
be adequately supported.’’
The War Production Board re
vealed that ingot steel losses due
labor shortages now approximate
500,000 tons a month.
The warning of a threatened
shortage of armament for the in
vasion forces came from Lieut.
Gen. Brehon Somervell, command
ing the army service forces, and
Vice Admiral S. M. Robinson of
i the Navy at yesterday’s meeting
of the steel industry advisory com
mittee here, WPB said in report
ing further details of that closed
session.
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miners rush tttorts
To Save Entombed Men
BELLAIRE. O.- July 8. — UP) —
Picked workmen from Belmont
county mines, driving themselves
relentlessly in hope of saving 66
miners entombed in the burning
Powhatan mine, tonight watched
two drills bore toward the men—
and prayer their calculations were
correct.
Bleary-eyed from loss of sleep,
| the men atop carpenter's ridge
said they hoped their nine - inch
drill would reach the tunnel con
taining the men—400 feet under
! ground—before midnight,
j The sentiment behind their driv
! ing power was expressed by one
I weary, be-grimed bull-dozer op.
! erator:
| “I might be down there myself
i some dav.”
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Midwest Drought Cuts
Vegetable Production
COLUMBUS, O., July 8—I#'— A
drought in the midwest has cut
commercial and victory vegetable
production from 10 to 50 per cent
under last year and the situation
is growing more alarming each day
crop expert reported tonight.
There is no hope, said H. D.
Brown, professor of vegetable
gardening at Ohio State University
and secretary of the vegetable
growers’ association of America,
that quotas vet by the war food
administration can be met in Ohio
Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Mich
igan and “many other states ’’
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TRIAL SCHEDULED
RALEIGH, July 8. — (/P)— Trial
of James Taylor. Negro charged i
with first degree murder in con
nection with the slaying of Con
slanble J. L. Taylor of Wake For
est May 30, is scheduled for the
criminal term of Wake superior
court convening here Monday.
in the UI0RL3
r RCLIGIOn
vH.IU.REID
A "Crusade for Christ,” in an
hour when never before has there
been so much sorrow, desol; ■ n
and utter destruction come i so
many peoples,” will be waged for
a year among the 42.000 cl: ;:e'.
gatior.s of the Methodist Church
beginning December 1 next, under
the auspices of the Council of Bish
ops of the denomination. The Cru
sade will have r. financial objec
tive of raising $25,000,000 in that
period for foreign, American, and
educational needs growing out jj
the World War Situation. But th*
scope of the effort will be wide
than its financial goal, says the
sponsors. It will carry forward :he
earlier "crusade for a New W rid”
order,” part of which was to im
press upon government leaders ihe
desires of church people for a just
and lasting peace; plans for re
construction of mission work de
molished or damaged by the war
and efforts to promote evangelis,,',
throughout America, to encourage
Christian stewardship of all
of life,” and to increase Sunday
school attendance which has been
falling off seriously for some
years. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam,
of New York, is leader of the
Crusade.
In the recent death of the Rev,
Professor Jones Maffitt, the Eng
lish-speaking fellowship of Chris
tian churches has lost one of its
greatest scholars and most prolif
ic writers. While he wrote a score
of volumes in the field of Chris
tian theology and Bible commen
tary, his fame rests principally
upon his translation of the Bible
into modern English—"the Moffatt 1
Translation.” Dr. Moffatt was ]
born in Scotland, son of a lay
Presbyterian leader, and entered
the University of Glasgow at the 1
age of 15. After some years in
the ministry, during which he
translated the New Testament. ,ie
became professor of church his
tory in the United Free Church
College in Glasgow. His scholar
ship commended h i m to Union
Theological Seminary, New York
City, and from 1927 until his re
tirement in 1942 he was one of |
the outstanding members of th:;
faculty. He wrote a volume of de
tective stories, helped write B; !e
dramatizations, and was an co -
thusastic fisherman and baseball
fan
The first Chinese to be admitted
to citizenry in the United States,
under the new* law permitting such
conferring to Chinese, is Edward
Bing Kan, of Chicago, a deacon
in the Chinese Christian Union
Church of that city. He has been
in the United States for 51 years,
and for most of that period has
been an interpreter of the U. S.
Immigration Service. This church,
affiliated with the Northern Bap
tist Convention, boasts of having
55 of its young American mem
bers of Chinese extraction in the
armed services of the United
States.
Recent elections of bishops of
the Methodist Church, held at the
jurisdictional (regional) conferenc
es in the United States, give the
denomination three new’ episcopal
leaders for missionary service
overseas. Dr. New'ell S. Booth, fur
12 years a missionary in the Bel
gian Congo, becomes the bishop
of the Elizabethville Area, with
Methodist work in the Congo, the
Union of South Africa. Souther.
Rhodesia, Angola and Mazo:’:,
bique under his direction. Presi- i
dent Willis J. King, of Atlanta, f
Ga., head of Gammon Theologic; 1 f
Seminary. Methodism's school for
training Negro pastors, has been
chosen as bishop of Libera, Africa
—the church’s oldest mission field.
Dean Paul N. Garber, dean of t.ie
Divinity School of Duke Univer
sity, Durham, N. C„ goes to Ge
neva, Switzerland, where he will
administer as bishop all Methodist
mission work in central and south
ern Europe; this includes missions
and conferences in Belgium. Bul
garia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Italy, Jugoslavia, Madeira Islands,
and Switzerland,
About a thousand Russian pris
oners of war, captured by the Ru
manian army, are working in the
famous Vulcan mine in Transyl
vania, and are ministered to by
clergymen of the Eastern Ortho
dox church, accordirg to the Ge
neva Office of the Vorld Council
“These prisoners of war ,who grew
up in the years of the very bit- 1
ter persecution of religion and the
church in Russia, have begun to
turn to the faith of their fathers,
and themselves demanded an or
dered church life which would be
a source of comfort, inspirator ■
and spiritual renewal. A tangible
expression of this attitude is an
Orthodox church building w h i c h
the prisoners have erected v. ■
their own hands and furnished n
a beautiful way. Recently '
churcn was consecrated by the
Archbishop, Dr. Balan. The choir
was composed of prisoners of ■
Metropolitan Balan has provided
the number of Russian priests nec
essary to meet the religious needs
of the members of the congrega
tion.”
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SPECIAL LOANS
RALEIGH. July 8. —(IP)— J. B.
Slack, regional director of the farm
security administrator, announced
today farmers in eight tornado
ravished West Virginia counties
would be granted special loans 0
get their farms in shape to pro
duce war foods.”
France defeloped the use of the
mechanical semaphore in Napole
on’s time
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