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FRIDAY JULY, 12 1940
Star-News Program
Consolidated City-County Government
under Council-Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Bports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsville
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid
er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc
tion through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported by one,
county-wide tax.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
TOP O’ THE MORNING
There is no more priceless possession that
a godly heritage, and there is no greater
service that a family can render to God,
than the transmission oi that heritage to
the next generation.
More Defense Money
The additional appropriations requested by
President Roosevelt, which will bring the de
ense fund to approximately $10,000,000,000, will
place the fighting forces of the United States
on a footing to discourage attack from any
quarter of the globe. It will not be sufficient
to assure complete protection, but no potential
joe wm sei attu iui our aiiures wiinout giving |
the project deep thought.
With the money to be made available when
Congress completes the necessary legislation
we will be able to start a two-ocean nevy,
create an airforce of 36,000 warplanes and arm
and equip a land force of 2,000,000 men. This
will make of the American defense forces a
formidable army and navy to face invading
troops.
But to pat ourselves on the back and con
clude that we are now in position to maintain
our independent existeance, merely because a
vast sum of money is to be available for de
fense, would show little understanding of the
true situation. There is a difference between
money in hand and ships, airplanes, guns and
munitions. And that difference is the time it
twill take to translate the money into the war
materials.
The United States has proved its readiness
to proceed with the financing of the defense
program. It now faces the task of organizing
industry for production—mass production. We
know that France’s failure to cope with the
German invasion was in large part due to its
failure to eliminate political bickerings and
lust for profits, among manufacturers, which
held the war industries far below capacity
output not only while Germany was geared
for tremendous deliveries, but even during the
time that Nazi hordes were overflowing the
low countries and driving the British out of
Belgium. We cannot afford to drift into the
same attitude. On the contrary, we must be
as productive as was Germany in our prep
arations for any war emergency that may
come.
President Roosevelt, in making his new re
quest for defence appropriations, declared that
while we will not send our men to take part in
European Wars, we will repel agression
against the United States and the Western
Hemisphere. This means that our preparations
against aggression must go forward at an ac
celerated pace, with every ^individual and na
tional energy concentrated upon the task. Time
is our cheif need. We can. largly discount its
potentialities for harm only by speeding pro
duction.
S>
Public Port Terminal
The city and county governments are in
agreement that a public port terminal will
greatly benefit Wilmington’s business commun
ity and have signified their willingness to spon
sor such a project. They have approved a re
port of a special committee representing their
groups and the port commission and are now
at work on a program which it is hoped will
bring about the construction of facilities for
better accommodating commerce available for
the port.
Basing their conclusions on actual surveys
of the territory from which Wilmington may
draw cargoes, the promoters of the project are
confident that terminals such as contemplated
will be self-liquidating, and cite in support of
this view the fact that the largest jobbing firm
in the state has told them it will lease 10,000
square ieet of the terminal the day it is com
pleted. It is further understood that tobacco
companies will also contract for large storage
space from which to distribute their products
throughout this region, and other manufactur
ers will fall in line. This is not mere wishful
thinking. The port commission has on record
many letters expressing willingness by large
industries to ship and store here as soon as
facilities are available.
It has been figured that cargoes moving
through the port, exclusive of petroleum pro
ducts and fertilizers, on the basis of last year’s
total, would pay all operating costs of the
terminal and create a sinking fund for meeting
construction cost. From this it may be con
cluded that but a small increase in the general
commerce of the port would support the pri
vate facilities now existing and the public ter
minal as well.
What this means is that Wilmington may
place itself in a position to share the water
borne transport of the South as soon as it pro
vides terminal facilities to attract a greater
volume of commerce. The only decision to be
made is whether Wilmington wants this busi
ness or will be content to allow its diversion
to other competing ports, notably Norfolk and
Charleston. It is ours, if we want It.
Via Ireland
De Valera's earnest desire to maintain the
strict neutrality of Ireland is understandable.
But he should take note, as should England
also, of what has happened in the last few
months to other countries which stood out for
neutrality; particularly what happened to Hol
land and Belgium. They, too, wanted to main
tain their neutrality, and refused to join France
and Britain against Germany. Hitler swept
their neutrality aside, despite his solemn
pledge to respect it, like so much trash, when
he decided to strike at France across their
lands. Now they are vassal states, doing the
bidding of the Nazi conqueror, as is France.
England feels that she is prepared for in
vasion from the continent, but fears that Hitler
will make a loading in Ireland and launch his
attack from the west. Ireland has steadfastly
refused to take sides in the war, but her mere
demand that she be left alone is not likely to
be respectd if the fuehrer concludes that his
best route to the heart of England is from her
shores. In fact, the position De Valera has
taken most probably will offer Hitler special
inducement to seize Ireland first not only be
cause of the military advantage its seizure will
give him, but also to prove that he can do
pretty much what he likes anywhere in Europe.
Ireland’s fall would feed his vanity.
There is a belief among many close ob
servers of the war, that had France and Eng
land forced Belgium and Holland into their de
fensive operations late in January and taken
over with intent to build defenses along their
frontiers, like the Maginot line in France, nei
ther of these countries would have fallen and
France would still be free. They insist that had
Belgium and Holland been adequately fortified
Hitler would not have undertaken the cam
paign around the Maginot line which gave him
ms greatest triumpn. 11 tms ne true, ana it
seems to be, England might take a lesson from
it for preventing an Axis attack from Ireland.
England could be the first there, as she and
France should have been in the low countries,
and so forestall Hitler and Mussolini, if they
do indeed intend to attack from that direction.
Ireland would stoutly protest, and possibly
want to fight, but in the long run, an English
occupation now might easily prove Ireland’s
as well as England’s salvation.
The Tobacco Referendum
Governor Hoey believes that tobacco far
mers in Nofth Carolina will ultimately profit
most by accepting a program of crop control
for three years. He stated his view in a radio
address from Raleigh on Wednesday night, in
which he urged the state’s growers to vote for
it in the referendum set for July 20.
The federal agriculture department had di
vided its proposal, which will be before the
growers on that date, into three divisions. First
it roposed three- year controll secondly, for
control in 1941 only, and thirdly, for no control
at all. Of the three, Mr. Hoey is sure that the
longer control period will be most beneficial.
There is something in this.
One year is a very brief period to prove the
merit or failure of any crop experiment. Even
three years is not long enough for complete
proof, but is an improvement over a single
year. If the growers really want to find out if
control is worth while, they can come nearer
to that objective in three years than in one.
But the final decision is up to them. ’ They
may conclude that no control is what they
want; go ahead with unlimited planting and
take their chance of delivering a crop on an
uncrowded market find so escape the low price
the governor forecasts will accompany this de
cision. The important phase of the forthcoming
referendum is that the growers take part in
it. Any decision emerging therefrom should re
present the opinion of as large a majority of
growers as can possibly visit the polls and
cast ballots. A minority decision will not pro
perly meet the need.
Hull Doesn’t Want It
Representative Albert Gore of the Fourth
Tennessee congressional district is reported to
have recieved direct word from Corell Hull
that the secretary of state will not consent to
be a candidate either for the presidency or the
vice presidency in the forthcoming national
democratic convention at Chicago. A Washing
ton dispatch from the Charlotte Observer’s
correspondent is authority for the statement
that Mr. Gore will go to the convention with
this message from Mr. Hull, who, says the dis
patch, will devote the remaining years of his
life to the promotion of peace and good will
among the troubled peoples of the world.
This is not the first time Mr. Hull has de
clared his unwillingness to be a candidate for
the presidency. It will be recalled that some
months ago he voiced reluctance even to be
considered. His present stand should make it
apparent that he means what he says. What
effect this will have on the demand that Mr.
Roosevelt accept the nomination is not reveal
ed, but it may crystalize sentiment for it.
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
CRACKDOWN ON THE CRACKPOTS
Raleigh News and Observer
Nazi flags have ben making their appear
ance in recent weeks on buildings in North
Carolina and elsewhere. It seems obvious that
most of them were prepared and unfurled by
people who think of themselves as ‘jokers.’
More serious and of more doubtful origin was
the fake radio message on Sunday that a U. S.
destroyer had been sunk by a German sub
marine. If foreign agents or subversive agita
tors are responsible for any of these acts,
officials will know how to deal with them.
There is—or should be—sufficient law to take
care of those who think it is funny to make
at a time when too manv of us have the
jitters.
Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great
liberal, once said that fredom of speech did
not include the right to shout, ‘Fire!’ in a
crowded theatre. Practical jokers are a plague
even in times of greatest peace and security.
They certainly have no legal right to play with
public fears now. Such fears are sometimes
unwarranted but they exist. To arouse them
further may precipate true invasion of civil
liberties and may also disturb whole communi
ties which should be calm in their participa
tion in the national effort to make the nation
secure.
Crack pots who think they are funny can do
as much damage sometimes as fifth columnists
who by intent are traitorous. Nobody wants to
see a local fool who hangs a swastika flag on
a Legion hut or a city hall shot at sunrise.
Bilt it would be no invasion of any joker’s
liberties and would give the community a share
of the fun if some of these jokers with public
fears were given time and place to finish their
merrymaking in a public jail.
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
WASHINGTON, July 11—Gastronomical:
Capital gourmets have an ache, but it didn’t
come from eating. Just the reverse, in fact.
Russian caviar is up 100 per cent in price when
you can get it at all. The fine French cham
pagnes are getting as scarce as bathwater in
Death Valley. The kegs of famous Holland and
Munchen beers are getting down to the spigots.
Matjes herring, from Sweden, is soaring.
Olives from Italy, Spain and other Mediterran
ean countries are far from as plentiful or as
cheap as they used to be. The imported Dutch,
Danish and Scandinavian cheeses no longer
tickle the nostrils when you swing through the
delicatessen screen doors.
The last shipment of spisbrod (Swedish
bread) to arrive here, came by way of Russia
and Japan. It’s only a question of months now.
if things go on like this, that the best smorgas
bord in the land will look as meager as Sun
day’s chicken on Tuesday morning.
Imported sardines are no longer just hard
to get out of the can. . . it’s getting so you
can’t even get the cans. Polish hams are more
often a memory than a reality. One more win
ter, and people who salve their summers with
Rhine wine and soda will have to turn to gin
’n’ tonic. Ancient eggs, bird nests, and kipper
ed octupus still are coming through from China
but that’s scant consolation. Oddly enough, the
gourmets are about the only ones who are
weeping. . , barring those importers who are
finding business isn’t what it was ‘before the
war.” A lot of the delicatessen and fancy food
grocers will tell you it’s a goodthing for
America. Maybe, they say, our high-hat food
connoisseurs will learn to ‘‘eat America first’
. . .and like it.
* * *
Auricular: Don’t accuse me of any drive to
shut up our Congressional shop, but I just
found out, and can’t help repeating, that it
cost $2,200 a month in telephones alone to keep
Congress in session.
The annual telephone bill for the Capitol and
the office buildings there is $40,000 to $45,000
a year. There are about 2,600 phones in the
place, 1,200 belonging to the Senate and 1,400
to the House. In session, the Senate spends
about $1,000 a month more; the House $1,200.
That’s on a basis of three cents apiece for
outside calls and one cent apiece for calls to
the government departments.
Fortunately for us taxpayers, there’s no such
thing as overtime on Capitol calls. If there
were, those congressmen and Senators who
call up and have their mail read to them at
the breakfast table and sometimes dictate an
swers soon would double the naional dept.
* » *
Questions of the day: Why does nearly every
one keep on referring to “The Allies’ when
Great Britain no longer has any alliance with
anybody? Why hasn’t someone done xa really
bang-up analysis of the propaganda in this war,
pointing out that “the Allies,’ with a little less
vigor, have applied the same technique they
used in the World war, while Germany has
done an about-face and by pulling out the two
important stops of fear and creation of internal
dissension, has been effective in nearly every
conquered country? What are our ladies (and
our fashion designers) going to do about the
absence of Paris fashions? How long can Brit
ain hold out? What are the Willkie clan and
the New Deal going to find to fight about thai
won’t seem too, too trivial in the face of world
events (on which they seem to be in such
close agreement)?.
Man About 4
Manhattan
■ By G«org« Tucktr "
NEW YORK, July 11—It’s a
funny world . . . and not a very
big one either . . . Sometimes you
run into people you’ve never seen
before, and if they impress you,
you sort of fix them in your mind
. . . You sort of catalog them,
engrave them on your memory ...
Then you go away . , . and later
maybe months later , . . .maybe
/ears, you run into them
again . . . They seem familiar . . .
They tug at something in your
memory ... And then you recall
them . . . Very often it goes like
that.
One day last summer I was
coming up from the South and 1
got on a plane in Washington . . .
There was a blue-eyed girl on the
plane who carried a book in her
lap . . . It was’ Escape,” thenovel
from which the film has been
made . . . There was also a man
on the plane whorr^ everyone knew
... He had a big smile, and a big,
white carnation in his lapel . , .
And he was talking about
the World Fair ... Of course, he
was Grover Whalen . . .
He was talking to the girl, and
to other people, even to me, and
finally, afterwhile, the plane came
down at Newark and the last I saw
of Whalen he was climbing into a
car . . . Along with the other pas
sengers, and the blond girl. 1 got
into a coach that the airlines pro
vided and was driven into Man
hattan.
• • *
Yesterday I walked into mid
town restaurent and saw Tom Wal
ler, of Paramount, sitting at a
table with a girl with blond hair
and blue eyes ... He said, “This
is Grace McDonald, and I want
you to know her because she has
just made a picture for us, and
she is leaving shortly for Rye, New
Hampshire, to act in a play, and
I want you to be able to say that
you knew her before she became
great and famous.”
Yes, it was the girl who was
talking to Grover Whalen, and
trying to read “Escape” on the
plane ... “I never did finish it.”
she said. “I tried all summer but
something always happened.”
Well, what about this Rye,
N. H., trip? we asked . . . Rye is
another stop on the ever growing
summer barn theater circuit.
“It’s a play about three people
who love each other very much,”
she replied, “and I’m so excited
I know this shrimp salad will
give me heartburn.”
When Miss McDounald talks
about acting she forgets food, she
forgets fashion, she forgets every
thing ... Maybe you saw her in
•■Very Warm for May” . . . You
will remember her in a picture,
“Dancing on a Dime” . . . That is
her style . . . She sings and dan
ces ... If she could become the
Marilyn Miller of the theater she
would be completely happy . . .
But she realizes that dramatic act
ing, after all, is her final objective.
* * *
Grace’s dad is well known
around town. He is an executive
on a film trade paper . . . But
he spells his name McDonnell . . .
Hers is McDonald . . . She lives
only one block from the Fair, but
has never seen it . . . “Because
I’ve been too busy, honest.”
This play she is doing in Rye
is “Private Confussion” and it was
written by Hardie Albright, the
actor-author. “I’m tickled to death
about it because it will give me
a chance to work with some real
honest to goodness actors,” she
says. “And no matter what the
reviewers say, no matter how
much they dislike me, I know
that I’ll learn a lot.” 3
CAMP SINGLETARY I
TO CLOSE SUNDAY
Final Camp Fire And Court
Of Honor Will Be Con
ducted Saturday Night
ELIZABETHTOWN. July 11. ■—
Camp Singletary, operated by the
camping committee of the Cape
Fear Area council, Boy Scouts of
America, will close at 3 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, July 14, David
L. Liles, of Wilmington, scout
executive, announced today.
Scouts are in attendance from
Wilmington, Burgaw, Hallsboro,
Whiteville, Clarkton, Fayetteville,
Fort Bragg, Laurinburg, John Lau
rel Hill and Fairmont.
The final camp fire and court
of honor will be held Saturday
night with three Scouts receiving
the eagle rank, the highest award
in Scouting. They are Jasper
Needham, of troop 13, Wilmington,
Seaborn Blair and Jack White, of
troop 71, Elizabethtown.
Camp program for, Sunday morn
ing will include Sunday School
exercises to be conducted by one
of the ministers from Elizabeth
town.
“The interest of the Sco’/* in
the advancement program this
year far surpasses that of pre
vious years, with almost 100 per
cent going up for advancement last
week, and indications point to the ,
same record for the present
week,” Liles said. 3 j
1,078,000 AIDED \
WASHINGTON, July 11. — (jpj ,
The American Red Cress said to- i
day that 1,078,000 French, Dutch t
>”d Belgian refugees have been aided i
since May 10 with funds and sup- i
plies sent from this country. j
Comedie Francais
■
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
— ..v-By Robbin Coons
HOLLYWOOD, July 11.—Produ
cer Ben Hecht sat at his office desk
today and wondered what movie
producers find to do with their
time. He went even further than
wondering.
“The time’ll come,” he said,
propping his slippered feet on the
desk and puffing at his cigar,
“when there’ll be no more produ
cers in the picture business. When
a little more bad luck comes to
the business, they’ll be done away
with. It won’t be easy, since the
producers will have to fire them
selves, but it’ll come. . .
Hecht, large and puckish and
very good-humored about the whole
thing, seemed to be doing his best
to look like a caricature of a pro
ducer, even to his blue sports shirt,
his loudly striped socks, and the
old felt hat he kept on his head.
But his office didn’t look bu*».
The walls weren’t covered with
production charts, and no secre
taries and office boys popped in
with breathless messages. There
wasn’t even a book on the book
shelves. There was one phone,
and it didn’t ring more than '-nee.
* * *
Producer Hecht, it should be re
membered, has long had it in for
producers in general. He is produ
cing and directing his own story,
"Before I Die,” and Long Fair
banks, Jr., his star, is also asso
ciate producer.
“As a producer,” Hecht said,
“I’ve already given myself a story
and a director, and that’s all there
is to it. Doug has even less than I
to do. Yesterday we had big doin’s.
Had to choose a tootsie for a dance
sequence. Doug rushed to the stu
dio, and I joined him, and we chose
one. Then we went home—nothing
more to do.
“Having worked as a writer un
der at least 20 producers, I think
90 per cent of them might as well
be dropped in the Pacific Ocean.
Then we’d get pictures a lot bet
ter that cost half as much. As a
writer I’ve always fought to keep
the gonfalon of the writers at least
somewhere in sight. If books were
produced as movies are, the most
important name on them would be
the printer’s. My hamminess de
mands more attention.”
* * ♦
Hecht, whose previous producing
has been done in New York where
he put out “two good ones” (“The
Scoundrel” and “Crime Without
Passion”) and “two bad ones”
(“Once in a Blue Moon” and “Soak
the Rich”) says working in Holly
wood is tougher on the ego—there
are too many people around who
know more about picture-making
than he does.
“Before I Die” is the story of a
group of people on a rainy night
in New York City. Hecht is fond of
rain, says it makes people look run
down at the heel and more inti
mate. The action of the film is con
centrated within 10 hours and most
of the sets are decidedly non-colos
sal. 4
Interpreting The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
In the darkest hours for Britain
during the World war, the expres
sion "cheerio” became a national
slogan of unshaken morale, just
as the “thumps-up” gesture of
British tommies amid today’s even
darker portents is an ironic de
fiance of Nazi and Fascist salutes.
British war leadership of this
day, however, is at obvious pains
to dispel any thought in British
minds that delay in the full de
velopment of the German attack
on England lessens the certainty
that it will come. Cabinet spokes
men, from Prime Minister Church
ill down, insistently reiterate, in
effect, that paradoxical American
ism, “ cheer up, the worst ic yet
to come.”
The warning by the undersecre
tary for war, Sir Edward Grigg,
that an attack might come in "sev
eral places at dawn” falls into that
:lass. Presumably he meant any
lawn, not a particular dawn.
Draws Attention
His remark was obviously intend
ed to keep public attention center
ed on the fear of invasion that
taunts British pillows for the first
;ime in many generations. That
'ear has a definite asset value for
he beleaguered nation because it
ceeps Britons on the constant alert.
Yet there are many circumstanc
es still suggesting that a German
ittempt to invade England would
»e the ultimate victory move of
iazi strategy, not the’ first stroke,
t also seems highly probable that
vhen and if invasion Is tried, Dov
r Strait, the narrowest stretch of
he English channel, must be the
nain point of assault. There alone
re there obvious possibility of a
azi bridge-head being established |j
which could permit the swift ferry
ing to England of the mass forces
and heavy mechanized equipment
that successful invasion would re
quire.
If that is true, it does not appear
possible that the water transport
necessary for such a movement
could be assembled anywhere
along the German-held coasts of
France, Belgium, Holland or Nor
way without detection by Biritish
air scouts or submarines. Perilous
as England’s situation is, it does
not follow that the Germans can
achieve invasion by surprise.
Actually, the intensifying Ger
man air and submarine campaign
against British shipping and the
danger of a Nazi effort to seize
Ireland and thus encircle England
by a starvation blockade are pro
bably of much more immediate
concern to British leadership that
invasion prospects. The new triple
purpose British mine barrage from
the Orkneys to the coast of Green
land is evidence of that.
It represents an effort to prevent
German forces from Norway from
reaching the Emerald isle. At the
same time it is designed to re
duce the number of British naval
and air units required for effective
patrol in so wide a stretch of sea.
Using Straits
The obvious fact about the re
cent air action in the Straits of
Dover is that British convoys still
are using those narrow waters, al
though Germany holds the French
coasts less than a score of miles
away. The fighting was witnessed ,
from the famous chalk cliffs of :
Dover, apparently.
It is to be assumed that the con- i
toy attacked by the Germans was i
>assing along the English coast
•
behind the virtually complete Br>
ish mine barrage that extends all
the way from the Pentland Firth
to Land’s End. Those mine fields,
unquestionably heavily increased
since the fall of France, from a
supplemental protection against in
vasion.
Germany would have to engage
in slow and extensive mine sweep
ing operations to clear a path tc
any points on the east coast of
England selected for landing
operations. That such operations
could be carried out without de
tection by British air or navy
scouts seems improbable. Those
mine fields add immeasurably w
British hopes of due warning 1
and when Hitler orders invasion.
The Dover strait air battle look5
more like an indication of intens
ing Nazi sieze v/arfare against
England than a possible prelude^
invasion. It is liked with German
claims-that 609,000 tons of British
merchant shipping were sent do"11
within the last six weeks by Nan
submarines alone.
If those cdaims are founnd
ed, England still has more to fea
Erom starvation than from immed
iate invasion probabilities, for a
jf official warnings that may e
uttered in London to keep tbe naj
tion on a fighting edge
Shipping News
CLEARED AND SAILED
Barge
Harold, 790 tons, for New York
after loading cargo of lumber at
the j. Herbert Bate Lumber com
pany.
IN PORT
Steamer
(Italian) Villarperosa with part
cargo of scrap iron.
Barges
Woco-Pep, 1,310 tons, discharg
ing cargo of gasoline for the Cape
Fear Terminal company.
Monoeacy, 740 tons, loading cargo
of lumber at the J. Herbert Bate
Lumber company.
Yachts
Ruth King, 60 tons, at Maffitt's
pier at Wrightsville Beach under
command of Capt. Brooks.
Drifter, 83 tons, docked at
Wrightsville Beach.
Steamer
Agwistar, 2,921 tons, discharging
cargo of nitrate of soda, Pryde For
warding company, agents.
INWARD BOUND
Motor Vessel
(Swedish) Anita, 1,408 tons, from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and San
tos with cargo of fertilizer mate
rials. Heide and company, agents.
\ Tanker
Chilbar, 3,090 tons, from Houston
with cargo of gasoline for the
Shell Oil company. Cape Fear Ship
ping company, agents.
Tug and Barge
Tug Cadimus and barge Derwent,
1,594 tons, from Port Tampa with
cargo phosphate rock. Heide and
company.
REFUGEES DISEHBAHK
LA LINEA, Spain, July 11—t-T’’—
British military authorities at l
Gibraltar yielded to a public demon
stration and finally permitted 12.000
refugees from Morocco, largely Brit
ish, to disembark today under 4-day
permits, according to reports reach
ing this border town. The demon
stration was reported to have been
staged by civilians, soldiers and Po
licemen of Gibraltar. The authorities
it first prohibited the disembark
ment.