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plantation line WILL START SOON Greensboro to Be Eastern Terminus of Oil Line From Louisiana XEW YORK, July 31.—UP)—The plantation Pipe Line Co. announced wnight it would proceed immedi ately with construction of a 1,261 mile pip® line from Baton Rouge, b&„ to Greensboro, N. C., to de liver gasoline and other refined pro ducts to seven southeastern states. Announcement of the plans fol lowed the signing in Washington by President Roosevelt of the Cole bill granting the President the right of eminent domain to pipe lines de signated as essential to national de fense. Officials of the company, which is jointly owned by Standard Oil Co. (Kentucky), Shell Union Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co N. J.-, said orders had been placed for 123, 000 tons of steel pipe and that the engineering contracts had been let. An office for purchase of rights of way has been opened at Meridian, Miss., and additional offices will be opened soon, they said. The line can be completed, they said, within seven or^eight months after materials have been received and right of eminent domain has been acquired. Delivery of the pip. necessary for the construction had begun, it was said, and is ex pected to be completed in October. Officials declined to be more specific as to when the flow of oil might be expected to start but said the pro ject would, when completed, ma terially lessen the need of stringent petroleum conservation measures in the southeat. STATE OFFICIALS HITPROSTITUTION (Continued From Page One) percentage of whom are infected with syphilis and gonorrhea and constitute a menace to health,” Dr. Reynolds declared. The campaign, ne stated, is aim ed at itinerants as well as inmates of bawdy houses. When prostitutes are arrested and convicted, Dr. Reynolds de clared, “they will be held in cus tody until they are cured. The law give, us this right and we are going to exercise it, and I don’t mean maybe.” The state has provided a tem porary detention camp for women convicted of prostitution. Local Officers to Aid Any effort of the state and fed eral governments to stamp out prostitution in Wilmington and New Hanover county will have the full support and cooperation of local police and health authorities it was indicated here last night. Police Chief Charles, Casteen, who has been leading an energetic arive against, prostitution in the city for several weeks, said that his agency of the law would do everything within its power to aid state authorities in keeping the lo cal defense area "clear of prosti tutes. A like statement was forthcom ing from Sheriff C. David Jones. In the past few weeks, local po lice and sheriff have arrested and hauled into court more than a score of women charged with pros titution. In most instances the women have pleaded guilty and have left the state under threat of imprisonment should they be ap prehended ir. New Hanover county again. ' • ’ WASTE’ CHARGES HURLED IN DEBATE (Continued From Page One) when tax bills were before the Haase. Chairman Doughton (D.-N. C.) of the Ways and Means committee also arose several times to com ment that he agreed with obser vations concerning the necessity for reducing expenditures, but that appropriations already made had '* be provided for in tax bills. "I am afraid we have made ap propriations for many things not es sential under defense emergency,” ha said. After Rep. Carlson (R.-Kas.) had ^Pressed disappointment because mcome tax exemptions were not lowered, Doughton explained that future tax bill might contain re nuced exemptions and other taxes which he would not favor now. He went on to say that while he was inlererently opposed to sales ,ax,’ even that form of taxation might become necessary. Reps. Buck (D.-Calif.), Dewey 'R- * Hi.). Magnuson (D. - Wash.), R°|ph (R.Calif.) and Jenkins (R. °hio) attacked the provision for mandatory joint income tax re turns by husbands and wives. Ruck called it “repulsive legis jation’ which would require “bil *0ns of dolars of adjustments in me community property states.’ Magnuson contended that appica I0n of the joint return provision |n his ftate would require “re writing the whole law, law which Was law before we had state law.’ For CORRECT TINE PHONE 3575 A FIDDLE FOR DEFENSE—Jashe Heifetz, famed violin ist, plays his last tune on a specially-constructed aluminum violin before giving it to Mayor La Guarda for national de fense. Argentina Quells Nazi Revolt In Key Province <By The Associated Press( BUENOS AIRES, July 31.—Close upon a police announcement that a putsch against the government had been smashed in Entre Rios pro vince, foreign office sources tonight said the German ambassador had been ordered to get rid of a portable radio transmitter which caused a round of diplomatic arguments. The ambassador, Edmund von Thermann, had been under the fire of Argentine congressmen in connec tion with his protests against seizure of the radio by a congressional com mittee investigating anti-Argentine activities. The foreign office required the committee to restore the radio July 29. The orders to Von Thermann to “either re-export or destroy” the ra dio came after police announced they had broken up a “subversive plot in tended to overthrow present authori ties of Argentina” by arresting nine persons and seizing a large quantity. of propaganda in the Entre Rios pro vincial capital of Parana. Doors and walls of the raided houses were deco rated with swastikas, police said. Key Location The province, lying northwest of Buenos Aires between the Parana and Uruguay rivers, is a reputed hot bed of Nazi activity. Geographically, it controls the wa terways leading to Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil and faces Uruguay across the Uruguay river. The affair of the portable radio came to light last week. A German attache was said to have taken it from Buenos Aires to Lima, Peru, by air as "diplomatic baggage.” Peru refused to admit the package because it was over the weight allowed for diplomatic baggage, so he returned to Argentina with it and the con gressional investigators seized it. They said the same baggage also contained "elements of propaganda” and that a full report would be pre sented to a federal court. ECUADOR BORDER TRUCEANNOUNCED Peru Ceases Hostilities, Pav ing Way to Peaceful Settle ment of Controversy QUITO, Ecuador, July 31.—CSI— Diplomatic representatives of Argen tina. Brazil and the United States announced by radio today that Peru had agreed to halt hostilities with Ecuador at 6 p. m. tonight. The Argentine minister here, Man uel Viale Paz, made the announce ment on behalf of the three mediat ing countires. This announcement was followed by the reading of an executive order revoking one issued July 24 in which Ecuador ordered the mobilization of the 1916-19 military classes. The Brazilian and United States ministers, Cai Mello Franco and Boaz Long, also broadcast expressions of satisfaction that the truce halting the century-old conflict would aid in establishing peace on the continent. SEVEN DIVISIONS DESTROYED, CLAIMS GERMAN COMMAND (Continued From Page One) ment could be hauled over frozen lakes and swampy terrain. The high command intimated that the battle of Smolensk, before Moscow, was likewise being step ped up-in t'empu. Dispatches from this front also told of more of the encirclements which are such im portant features of the whole East ern campaign. As told by the German accounts, the enemy was not being met in head-on collision; rather, the Nazi strategy has been to nip off size able units of the Red army by the fast maneuvers of tanks, with in fantry then completing the encir clement with the cooperation of the luffwaffe. Still another military dispatch said the air force was active south of Kiev, on the Ukranian front, where bombs and machine-gun fire were concentrated on Russian col umns a considerable distance in the rear of the front lines. The high command referred to Soviet forces in this area as defeated afmies. and said the Germans had thrust deep into the Ukraine in pursuit. Libel Action Filed Against Jap Liner SAN RANCISCO, July 31.—UP)— A $15,000 libel suit was filed against the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru late today almost coincidentally with an announcement by federal officials that legal obstacles had been ironed out to permit her to sail at noon to morrow. The suit was filed under admiral ty law by Arnhold & Co., of (80 Broad St.) New York city, because the firm had failed to get delivery of its portion of the ship’s cargo— egg yolks, albupjen and straw braid. The Tatuta Maru also was carry ing $2,500,000 in silk, $60,000 worth of tea and about $75,000 worth of furs, none of which was unloaded. COUNTER-OFFENSIVE PROVES SUCCESSFUL, SAYS REP COMMAND (Continued From Page One) War sense of trench warfare since the Reichswehr offensive was check ed. and the Red army launched its stiff counter thrusts. “We have a few forms of warfare that frequently are surprising to the Germans, they said. Guerrilla bands also were doing devastating work behind the Nazi lines, it was said. On the Ukrainian front, Marshal Seme on Budyenny, civil war calvary hero, appealed to all men and women in the Ukraine able to bear arms to help the guer rillas. The almost illimitable weight of the Russian millions, these sources declared, was absorbing the worts that the Nazis could send. Behind the front, the Soviet’s col lective farmers were proclaimed to be winning a second great battle—that of the grain fields—by harvesting a vast bumper crop free of serious Ger man interference. The harvest, it was said officially, was not extraordinarily frutiful but extraordinarily rapid, especially in the Ukraine. The Germass, said the Communist party newspaper Pravda, had loosed the invasion at a time when the Ukraine began to bloom heavily, hop ing to hamper the harvest. But in this the Nazis had failed, the paper added. ENGINEERS SET FOR CONVENTION (Continued From Page One) at the first technical session start ing at 2:30 this afternoon. Two addresses will be heard at the session this afternoon. Henry H. Armsby, field coordinator, U. S. office of education, Washington, D. C., will discuss Engineering Sci ence and Management of Defense Training” and Harry Tucker, member of the Raleigh planning commission and state utilities board, will discuss “Transportation and City Planning.” Banquet at 8 Thomas J. Hewlett, president of he Wilmington Engineers club, will preside at an informal ban quet of engineers, their wives and guests tonight at 8 o’clock. Gus tavus Dyer of Vanderbilt univer sity, Nashville, Tenn., principal speaker, will discuss "The Value of Engineers in the Defense Pro gram.” Concluding session is to begin tomorrow morning at 9:30. T. S. Johnson, chief engineer, division of water resources, state depart ment of conservation and develop ment, and A. P. Rudder, assistant district manager of Wallace and Tierman, Inc., Greensboro, are programmed as speakers. Camp Davis, Jacksonville ma rine base and Carolina Shipbuild ing corporation engineers have been extended invitations to at tend. 1 PLANES LOSES BERLIN, July 31.—P—The Ger man DNB news agency said tonight that the Russians had lost 112 air planes in the last 24 hour, includ ing 55 destroyed on the ground. ENTRY INTO WAR URGED BY CONANT President Of Harvard Univer sity, He Urges Entering Present World War by s. J. WOOLF CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 19.— (The Special News Service)— In the clamor that is rising as to the part we should play in the present world crisis, no voice is louder urging our entry into the war than that of James B. Conant, presi dent of Harvard university. Yet, the other day as he was about to start on a short vacation, I had a talk with him and found that this military interventionist was also' a cultural isolationist. He would have us do all in our power to help Britain, but at the same time he deplored the in fluence of English ideas, institu tions and fashions upon our way of life. But this contradictory stand did not seem strange in him. For this tall lean, stoop-shouldered Yankee of 48 is a man of contradictions: Advising war he regards the amelioration of pain as the great advance of the past hundred years. A laboratory worker for many yeans, he took over a position in which meeting people and execu tive ability are the chief require ments. A descendant of witch-hunt ers, he preaches tolerance and broad-mindedness. While, as the head of a univer sity in which class and caste were not unknown, he stresses the im portance of the old adage, “three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.” As he sat at a small table which serves as his desk, his conversa tion ranged from Puritans and nists, from the world of a genera niests, from the .world of a genera tion ago to the world of today. He likes tc talk and to listen, and he enjoys arguments the way an ath lete does exercise. There is no pomp about him. He utters no weighed words or pontifi cal pronouncements, and now and there he does nothesitate to em ploy a touch of slang. He leaned forward in a cushion less Windsor chair, his head cock ed to one side, an almost ascetic looking figure. Yet he has a sly, dry humor, and a smile often spread over his thin face, and then the wrinkles leading to the corners of his wide mouth became deeper. There is a note of simplicity and an absence of formality in Con ant’s office in old Massachusetts Hall which seem in perfect har mony with him. It is a large low ceilinged room furnished in colonial style, y An old photograph of five auto cratic-looking men in academic robes grouped around a marble topped table was a startling con trast with the lounging figure in a gray suit. • These former presidents of Har vard typified the August majesty which surrounds that position—a majesty which Justice Holmes jokingly remarked made the Pres ident of the United States seem like a minor official. Yet as I look ed from the picture to the rangy, easy-spoken man posing for a sketch, I rememberel what had happened at Gettysburg when one of these pundits, Edward Everett, delivered a long but now forgotten oration while the simple words of an unpretentious president of t h e United States still ring clear. The large windows of Conant’s of fice open on Harvard yard, a place filled with the memories of Mas sachusetts first famifes. To him Bunker HiU means more than Beacon Hill. This is the result of his heri tage. Unlike most of his predeces sors, Conant has not the usual aris tocratic Brahmin background. None of his direct forebears was a graduate of Harvard. The first Conant in this country was one of the founders of Salem and tried tc have that town made a college seat. Later members of the fam ily turned to shoemaking. It is small wonder that the pres ent Conant believes that if large numbers of young people can de velop their own capacities irrespec tive of the economic status of then parents, we shall have in this country what we once had—social mobility. To him this is the cry ing need today—a classless coun try where each one stands upon his own merits. “Contrast this idea,” he says, “with the aristocratic notion that it takes three generations to mane a gentleman. Fifty years ago these two opposing conceptions would have been regarded by many Americans as the principal differ ence between the old and the new world. The possibility that each generation could start life afresn, and that hard work and ability would win, was once an exciting new doctrine. “Today we suffer from an over supply of imported social and in tellectual ideas. The influx started shortly after our civil war. The frontier spirit began to decline and instead of preserving our cultural isolationism we adopted European ideas, chiefly those of England. As a result our country saw the be ginnings of ' an aristocracy cf wealth or ancestry.” It is this overpowering belief in a Jeffersonian democracy which struck me as President Conant’s most distinguishing trait. One of the first things he did when he took office in 1933 was to institute scholarships for students living in the middle-western states. Today there are national scholarships at Harvard graded according to abil ity to pay. Eight years ago 60 per cent of the students were Massa chusetts boys, at present 60 per cent come from other states. When Conant was selected for his job, there was a wagging of heads by those to whom Harvard stood for only a social tradition Here was the son of a photo-en graver, born in Dorchester far from the golden dome of Boston’s state house. He was. no graduate of Groton or St. Marks but had gone to Roxbury Latin school, where tuition was free. True, he had received his bacn elor’s degree from Harvard in three years instead of the sual four, but he had not been elected to any of the select societies. However, among scientists he had an'international reputation for research in organic chemistry. He had a surprising knowledge of lit erature, history and economics, and coupled with this his depart ment was one of the high spots of the university, but he was no pro fessor whose vision was bounded by academic walls. When he took office he says that he abdicated from chemistry, he closed his laboratory doors for ever, although his friends insist that he was destined to be a Nobel prize winner. The stories that he occasionally sneaks back to h i s early work are manufactured out of whole cloth. ( Even if he wanted to do this he Harvard is a full-time job. He is the virtual czar of a $150,000,^00 corporation which has a yearly in come of $10,000,000 and expenses of almost the same amount. Deans and debts are his concern. But despite the many calls upon his time, like all good executives, he never gives the impression of being hurried. Naturally retiring, he 'shied at first from making presidential speeches. It is said that in his ini tial address he expressed regret that he had no chemical appara tus with him which would explode at the end of his speech and wake up his audience. His immediate predecessor, President Lowell, increased the college endowment and erected many new buildings. But scholas tically Harvard was slipping. To CADET CAPTAIN — Appointment of Thomas W. Anderson, son of Lt Commander and Mrs. W. S. Ander son, 8 Country Club Lane, Wilming ton, as a captain in the corps of Cadets at Pennsylvania Military col lege, Chester, Pa., for the first se mester which opens September 23 was recently announced by Colonel Frank K. Hyatt, president and com mandant. When the Corps of Cadets returns to duty in September Cap tain Anderson will be a member of the senior class. He has been active at the college as a member of the rifle team, having won several med als for marksmanship. He is taking the civil engineering course. stop this was the new president’s first concern. He engaged famed teachers who before his time had refused appointments. He instilled a democratic spirit and a breadth of vision which had been lacking. There is a story about Lowell which is characteristic. He is sup posed to have said: "Remember, Harvard stands for free speech: therefore we must be careful whom we hire to teach here.” Conant immediately showed his stand. He aggressively opposed a bill which required that all teach ers in Massachusetts take an oath of allegiance to the constitution. Although the bill was passed, there are some known communists on the Harvard faculty. Conant knows this bue he does not bother them. Much as he hates commu nism and Nazism, he still believes in academic freedom. As insurance against the spread of subversive ideologies, he sees the necessity for a return to old tima loyalties. He considers it es eent’al that the young people should once more be inspired with an 'understanding of the American ti Edition. However, he finds t# fault with them. ‘There has been much criticism of the younger generation,” h* sa’d, "but on the whole, I think they are more adult and do more in dependent thinking than the boy» of my time. They look upon t h • world more seriously and find lit* tie fun in the old-fashioned prankfc which were a part of my college years-. ‘‘Harsh words have been used about us older people as about them. Our alleged faults are not the same. We have been called negligent and irresponsible and have been accused of cupidity and stupidity. They are charged with bad manners, cynicism, lack cf idealism and lack of courage. I am not going to make excuses for either side. I will say, however, that we men from 45 to 65 are the ones who have had the hard bumps. “We were brought up in a world filled with a fine flow of words which too often disguised doubtful enterprises. We discovered so much falsity parading in the cloak of goodness that we began looking for deceit behind every motive. We got to the point where we wera not going to be fooled or disaia pointed so we mistrusted almost everything. The year I was grad uated the peace palace at the Hague was dedicated. The follow ing year Germany began its march through Belgium. The last war and its effects completed the job. Debunking became the order ef the day and men delighted in showing that our national idols had feet of clay. “But the American people are idealists at heart. One moral issue still loomed large. We men who lived through and fought in t h e last war did not want to see an other and we indulged in some wishful thinking. Notwithstand ing all our previous lost illusions, we still kidded ourselves. Our pe cifism forced below the surface those emotions which the words honor, justice and freedom once aroused. 10for25< 4 far 10* nv THAN A A CHESAPEAKE FISHING BOAT V* THE FLAVOR and quality of the beer you drink is determined not by words and claims ... not by the price you pay ... but by the quality of the ingre dients that go into it. T ™E>AY NO BREWER in the u. s. a. is using costlier malt or costlier HOPS THAN GUNTHER’S. AND THAT GOES FOR BEERS SELLING HERE FOR 15tf ... OR 20tf ... OR ANY PRICE! *. 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