From the August 14, 2012, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Back Then" by Scott Nunn.
AUGUST 2, 1942: The skipper of the U.S. Navy in World War I, Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the Navy and recently elected ambassador to mexico, is the only man FDR calls "Chief." he is expected to be in Wilmington on August 8th to speak when the local Navy recruiting station climaxed its Eastern North Carolina Navy Day Drive to enlist 100 men.
Daniels was publisher of the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer. The Navy recruiting publicist was the late Jesse Helms (later U.S. Senator).
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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