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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Neville Chamberlain

1t must be left to history to assign to Neville
Chamberlain the place he deserves in connec-
ton with the tragic events which plunged Eu-
rope into war during his premiership.
All that we can see is that he did not
comprehend what it was that Europe was
heading toward when he devoted his efforts
to the appeasing of totalitarian forces gain
ing tremendous power on the continent and
threatening to enguf all governments and peo-
pies of that great region.
No one, during his official life, questioned
his sincerity or had reason to question his in
tegrity. But the pace of events was too fast
for his tagging understanding. He clung to the
belief that a solemn pledge was still sacred
in a world gone crazy. He held with the honor
able tradition that a lie was despicable and
that once a promise was given it would be
kept.
Therein he made his great mistake. the
more serious because he had eno1gb evan
pies Of the contrary trend to convince him Of
te nigh respect IN which a lie was held by
the dominant leader of the Reich. And suffi.
clent warning that to continue to place anv
trust IN Hitler would inevitably lead to war
Now Chamberlain is dead - a bitterly dis
appointed life is ended, a sadly disillusioned
man has returned to the earth from which he
sprung. 1t boots little to say that a more pro-
gresslve policy in Britain would have pre-
vented the war. We are in no position to sit
IN Judgment. We cannot know what would
have transplred if Chamberlain had rearmed
MS nation sooner or taken a firmer stand
when the Rhineland was reoccupied, when
Austria was absorbed, when Czechoslovakia
was sacrificed. We can only know that he
was blinded by traditions which manv of his
associates also upheld. We can only hone that
at last he is at peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManage7 Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsutHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Uid.
err Turning Basin, Ulth snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orion Plantation
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustained-yie1d methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported by one
countrywide tar.
S%hipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, Developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital facilities for aUhites.
Junior High School,.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape groWing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Broughton To Quit Law
Practice On December |

RALEIGH, Nov. 10-R--J. M.
Broughton of Raleigh, governor
elect, announced tonight he would
retire December l from the prac-
tice of law, to devote his full time
to the study of gubernatorial du-
ties which will assume upon his
inauguration early in January.
Broughton has practiced law
here since 1913, and has been as
ISOLATED with William H. Yarbor-
ough, Jr., in a law firm. After
Broughton's retirement, Yarbor-
ough will form a partnership with
Col. William T. Joyner of Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Valuable Diamond Is
To Be Cut This Month

NEW YORK, Nov. To- R-The
owner of the 81, 900, 900 President
Vargas diamond announced today
that litigation involving the largest
uncut diamond in existence had been
settled amicably and that the stone
would be cleft into a dozen or more
pieces sometime this month.
Through his attorneys, Harry
Winston, Fifth avenue gem dealer.
said a satisfactory agreement" had
been reached in a suit bro,,ob+ NV
a London firm on a charge of breach
of contract in the purchase of the
%726-carat stone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Army To Train Soldiers
To Travel, Fight On Skis

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. lH-
The army announced its lnlehU''
today to train thousands Of soi0'e''
this winter to travel and fight ~
skis and snoWshoes.
The purchase of skis n s"V
shoe equipment costing S6l,e'I W"
announced at the same time.
Detailing a program OF li"'.n.7
influenced by the exploits al l."
lands snow fighters last Vs., , s'
war department said a pIlIhe Pc"
pose was to test the ability OIL ''
or more b%attalions to carry OUT "'
neuvers in deep snow.
A further aim will be to give '"I
advanced training to small -,
of selected individuals organlZsu
to patrol units for the purpose o. ~
Grating for sustained periods o. w.
under all weather conditions anu
all types of terrain
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u. S. Military Observers
Increased In Near Eos,

CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 1O.-CF-Tbe
growing ranks of United States mill
tary observers with British forces
in the Near East were increased tn.
day by the arrival of an air corns
mission to study operations in this
theater of war. i
It's members are Col. G. E. Brow.
er, until recently instructor in the
general staff school at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kas., and Major d. T. Craw
formerly military intelligence officer
at Langley Field, Va.
They arrived by airplane by vav
of the Pacific
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
War
Interpretive
BY EDWARD e. BOMAR

Five months after italy entered
the war, embattled Britain is in a
position to take quiet satisfaction
over the manner in which Premier
Mussolini's imperial ambitions have
thus far been thwarted.
The wars uncertainties are natu-
rally such as to forbid complacency.
From Cairo comes a reminder that
terranean and Near East may be a
mere prelude to a more desperate
and decisive struggle.
At sea Britain is beset by a cam
paign of attrition which carries a
threat like that of the desperate days
of 1917.
For the moment, nevertheless, the
extent to which the British and the
Greeks have been able to balk II
Duce contrasts brightly for Britain
with the melancholy dissaters' met
with elsewhere.
The events of the last two weeks
indeed could be a turning point in
the long, hard road which Prime
Minister Winston Churchill warned
Britons stretches ahead.
The Greeks apparently have sty-
mied the Italian invasion completely
for the time being. Their mobiliza-
ton appears to have been fully car
ried out. Mussolini now is impelled
to dispatch a new commander to try
to put drive in a blitzkrieg that
failed.
Regardless of the eventual course
of events, British bombers have OBJ
tanned advanced bases from which
they already are carrying the air
war to Italy al short range. The
Royal navy has new harbors from
which to strike harder blows at the
line of supply for Italy's land forces
in Africa.
Because II Duce m~iscalculated, the
axis reputation for invincibility is
tattered, with results indicated by
Turkeys defiance and the signs
that perhaps Nugoslavia may not
now be so readily inundated.
Italy's triumphs have been meager
indeed since II Duce Signalled
"avanti'' to his fascist legions last
June 10, confident that a complete
axis victory was at hand with the
no11arSa of France.
The British blockade and the ini-
tial failure of the Greek adventure
substantially balance the occupation
of a strip of Egyptian desert and the
occupation of sweltering little Brit
ish Sornaliland.
Mussolini's warships have hardly
dared venture from their home bases.
and his navy and air forces have
taken hard and repeated blows.
To his uneasiness over the outlook
must now be added the renewed at
tempts of General Charles De Gaulle
to re-establish Free France" in At
RIGA.
British successes in holding the
Mediterranean empire lifeline ap-
pear strongly to have been won at
the cost of heavy losses in the North
Atlantic, resulting from the transfer
of Warships which otherwise would
safeguard conveys. But even in this
grim war area there are some hope
full prospects.
Just now British naval strength
is at low ebb, as poted by Mr..
Churchill, but is destined to mount
shortly. AS evidence. the admiralty
has announced a 23,000-ton aircraft
carrier has just been completed, and
described it as the first of six such
vessels which they were building
when the war Started.
More important is the presump-
ton that some of the King George V
class of five new 5000 ton battle
ships should soon be ready for &C.
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Quotations

Whether contemporary democracy can sur
vive will depend entirely on it's leadership and
the intelligence of the people who follow it
Robert j.. Kerner, University of California
history professor.
The freedom we have enjoyed in this coun-
try is worth it. If they need me I'll serve
along with the boys.-Dan Will, Iowa farmer,
father of three sons who enlisted.
We will do our best. That is all I can say
Winston Churchill, British prime minister.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Man About
Manhattan
RY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Nov. 10-Hat check
girls have made curious Broadway
history from time to time. l re-
member one who whipped out a
knife and stabbed a dancer n
night because this dancer was shin
ing up to her Sugar, a philander-
ing Romeo who played fiddle IN
the orchestra. There was another
who married an undergraduate at
columbia and moved with him to
Mexico, where she became a
bridge expert. Likewise famous
among New York nightclub hat
check lasses in Renee Carroll, who
is now assisting in editing Stage
Magazine. We asked her for a
few definitions" of types encoun-
tered in NY's pubs and clubs, and
this is what she gave us:
Tripster-a person who comes
to look at the celebrities. . John
D-a guy who tips only a dime.
Brass Peddler-one who counts out
tips in pennies. "A heavy
weight is the fellow who checks
seven or eight bundles, including
rubbers, umbrella, coat, hat, ETC.,
for only a dime. But if you
only check your hat and leave a
quarter tip, you're a lightweight.
Our palm for the fellow who
knows how to adapt himself to a
changing situation goes this week
to Jimmy Dorsey. Playing a neigh
borhood theater the other night,
Bob Eblerle (the vocalist was
launching into n of his feature
numbers when all the lights went
out. That left it squarely up
to the boys to keep right on play
ing. However, to favor Eberle with
a spot" light, Dorsey whipped
out a paper of matches and, light
ing one after the other, held them
in Eberle's face until the number
was over The hand they got for
this number was the heaviest of
the week.
Added notes on THE Thief of
Bagdad': June Duprez, who plays
the Beautiful Sleeping Princess, is
worried sick about her brother,
an aviator now interned in Finland
>. She hasn't had word of him
II three months. . This is her
first American picture. She
was seen briefly in -Four Feath-
ers," but all of that film was pro-
duced in England. . Rex Ingram,
the giant Negro who plays the
Evil Genii, will be on Broadway
with Ethel Waters and a notable
cast soon in Cabin in the Sky"
.Sabu, the little Thief" is
a Mohammedan. . He tells you
the British are a cinch to win
the a . The villain of Thief"
is u old friend Conrad Veidt of
silent days who was a great hit
in The Man Who Laughed" .
Veidt must be well into his for
ties, perhaps close to fifty. . He
is lean, hard, and seemingly
young.
Dinner last night at the airport
was exciting. You sit over your
steak gazing through the terrace
windows out over the worlds long
est runways. Like giant fire
flies, with their landing lights
aglow, the big planes arrive and
take off every few minutes. . L
counted 16 transports taking off
for every section of this great,
vast Observation-Disclosures, Allan
ia, Kansas City, Los Angeles.
Suddenly a big bomber dropped
cut of the sky and TAXED gently
over to n side. What was
it doing at LaGuardia field?.
Well, it was dinner time and a
couple of the boys had looked in
for a bite and a chat. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Sights And Sounds
In Hollywood
BY ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10 - Lou
Payne, widower of Mrs. Leslie
Carter, was sitting in the back Of
a theater as a new movie scene
rolled back the years for him.
There on the screen as Miriam
Hopkins, playing The Lady with
Red Hair" and there was Claude
Rains, white-maned Belasco in re-
incarnation. And Their also was
Lou Payne, tall, considerably
younger, in the person of Richard
Ainley, new English actor.
1t was one of the pictures final
scenes. Mrs. Carter, after quar-
reling with Belasco. was rehears.
ing a new show without his guild
ance. Having seen her faltering
efforts Payne had zone to Be.
lasco, asking that he return, and
his was the impresario's arrival
at the theater-a joyous reunion,
spoiled Immediately by Mrs. Car
ter's discovery that her husband
had sent for Belasco.
Sitting with Payne, I couldn't
help wondering aloud how a mar
felt seeing portions of his life re.
enacted for the camera before his
very eyes. Lou, wher he is moi
serving as technical adviser as
nav, is ar actor in his own right.
Once, when he married Mrs. Car.
ter, he was a Broadway star.
ITS strange he agreed.
"Sometimes it seems as if the
years literally are rolling back.
But this scene - this is fiction.
Much of the picture is IS it hap.
pened, but not all. Actually, Bel
assoc and Mrs. Carter never did an
other play together although their
friendship was restored"
1 asked how he liked Ainley's
performance of Lou Payne.
Fine he said, then chuckled,
remembering a story. Reminds
me of the time 1 saw If Hamp-
ton, the comedian, in a charity
show burlesquing some of u ON
temporary hits. ALT did a takeoff
on Nat Goodwin, and n day Nat
saw the matinee. Afterward ALI
asked Nat what he thought and
Nat said, Well, all l can say is
that on of us must be terrible!"'
Between Takes" Claude Rains
is sitting alone on a camera case
at the rear of the theater, wonder
ing, he says, if they'll be through
with hi~ in time for his radio
date with Shirley Temple. He is
a Belasco who still looks ike Rains
for they have not altered the shape
of his face or hidden him behind
putty. Yet the effect is more of
Belasco than of Rains. The famed
clerical collar worn y the great
producer was, as he points out,
not really such.
mo, l never saw Mrs. Carter"
he says, "although my wife did
on"e. She was a remarkable lady,
from all I hear, and extremely
theatrical. Everything she did
was theatrical. -"
After chatting awhile Claude
Rains suddenly is nc 1ger with
US. He is pacing up and down a
few feet away and he is mutter-
ing, half aloud: mo! No! Not that
way! Caroline, have you forgotten
az l taught you? No! No!
NOT that way; Caroline etc.
Al y himself, oblivious to his
surroundings, to us, to all but his
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ton - indeed may already

ton - indeed may already os "
service. -.
They speed 80 knots or better an.
thus embody the answer 10 "
threat from Germany's two relll1,',
ing 10000, 26-knot pocket oa'.5
Ships" one of which last We"
swooped down on a North Atla'',.
convoy and apparently playeu
much havoc as a hawk in a cnl'N"
yard. :,
Battleships are too yaluaots
risk as routine escorts OF pit
conveys, but small flying squ"u-s
built around one or more OF LIZ" II,
King George warships would p" .sr
odds against further SUGGEST"
atoms by any raider
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
TOP O. THE FORMING

A youth from NeU orleans, a Wire1ess oper
and there being no business to transact. sud
denly thought he Mould send the Psalm out
over the mater. As he issued the last word
sixteen ships sent q wireless "Amen."
From THE KINGS BUSINESS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11

railway manufacturing industries in par
ticular, while not as good as they were
at most times in the 20's, are now better
than they were at any time in the 30s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
MEET

RALEIGH, Nov. 10 Up - A
seml-annual meeting of tho North
oaroilna Bookkeepers association
VIII be held in Henderson Thurs
gay, Prof. F. B. Meacham of N.
=. State college announced TODAY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11

New blood never hurt any literature. and
these people (refugee authors are turniny
their tremendous talents toward the task of
Interpreting an exciting new scene-Dr. Claude
Jones, English instructor, University of Cali
fornia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
Nc. | On the Mosquitoes
Preferred List

such as anemia, ricketts, and tetaliy
are frequent. by the end of the
first year." write Holt and How
land, many have compensated
for their early handicaps and are
as large and vigorous as other in
fants. There seems to be no last
ing result produced by prematur-
ity."
The influences that make for
undersize or produce NUGGETS are
due to constitutional hereditary
causes not necessarily connected
with prematurity.
What are the commonest causes
of painful, weak feet?
Bad shoes! The barefoot savage
never has broken arches, while
among shoe wearing civilians
thirty out of every hundred rejec-
tions for army service are due to
fiat feet. =;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
Barclay On Bridge

would set up the dummy's j and
might possibly get ruffed by
South.
Figuring cut a situation where.
by it might be possible to beat
the contract, West saw that, If
declarer had three small spades,
six hearts, three diamonds and a
singleton club, a lead of the club
Q would get ruffed. Trumps
would be dropped, and two dia-
monds and the club ] would fur
nish discards for all the losing
spades, giving declarer six-odd,
even though East held the spade
A. If this was the situation, the
contract could be beaten by lead
ing a small spade to the A, win
ming the return. then leading a
third spade. If East had three
trumps to the ]. the dummy would
have to ruff high to prevent an
over-ruff. This might then build
a trump trick for East. o. course,
the effort didn't work, but at least
West was trying, at the cost OF
one trick.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
KEEP ON TRYING

DEFENDERS have a chance to
now their nerve just as well as
iaclarers. When it looks as if the
contract is certain TO be made,
the courageous opponent will try
to figure out some possible situa-
ton whereby there is still a re-
mote chance to head it off. Ere
auently this must take the form
of hoping your partner holds some
one particular card and then play
ing as if you knew he held it. If
he does. you are rewarded, If he
does not. you may have presented
the declarer with a trick or so he
otherwise could not have won. But
the risk is worth it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS


something? If a person has tu-
berculosis and it is said to be 'in-
active what does it mean? What
is the meaning of active and mac
tive tuberculosis. Can a person
with inactive tuberculosis be
cured? And could you tell me if it
is possible for other people to get
the disease from that person."
Answer Inactive tuberculosis
is defined as tuberculosis in which
the disease is not progressing
and no germs can be found in the
sputum or from stomach wash
lngs. 1t is really the stage of &C
tive tuberculosis in which cure has
begun. If we accept the definition
literally, that there are no germs
being cast out, other people cans
not get the disease from a person
with inactive tuberculosis.
EDITORS NOTE: DIR. Clend has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained BY
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents
For any one pamphlet desired. send 10
ccits III coin, and scif-adGresscd envelope
stamped with three-cent stamp. to DIR.
Logan Clendening, in care of this paper
The pamphlets are Three Weeks Reduc-
ing Diet Indigestion and Constipation.
Reducing and Gaining. Infant Feed
ing, Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and THE
Care Of the Hair and Skin.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
By LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. D..

IN THESE carly autumn days
when the hum of anapheles is
heard in the still evening air, the
plant goes up-'Thcse mosqui-
toes just love me better than any
thing on earth Don't flatter
yourself. As a choice of diet you
rank quite low in the mosquitoes
preferred list. Horses head the
list of the kind of blood the mos
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24

DR.. Clendcning will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24

quito likes, then COWS, then pigs,
then dogs, then you, then chick
TENS. These conclusions We're ar
srived at by government entomolo-
'gists who subjected the blood in a
gorged mosquito to precipitation
tests which make it possible to tell
what animal it came from.
Do incubator babies attain full
development or are they likely to
be understood?
Infants born at seven to eight
months have such low vitality
that if they are handled in the or
binary way they survive but a few
weeks. The incubator takes the
place of the, mothers wOmb-poor-
~, of course, but for practical
purposes in a good percentage of
cases effectively. 1t provides an
even temperature and other pro-
lection. The two other problems of
the premature infant are to keep
it breathing and to provide nour-
ishment. The breathing center is
not well developed in prematurity
because such infants were not
prepared yet for an atmospheric
existence. Sucking and swallow
ing refexes are also at low ebb,
and digestion poor, so feeding is
always difficult to manage,
If these are overcome, however,
the premature infant develops
quite naturally. Their is lag in
development in the fist few
months, and nutritional I.seases,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24

West Ted his club K to the A,
East playing the 2. The diamond
8 to the X and A put West in the
spot where it seemed the fate Of
the entire contract depended on
what he did next, if indeed the
contract could be beaten at all.
He put on mis- thinking cap and
decided first that a lead of the
club Q might produce a second
trick, but also might make life
easier for the dec,arer, since it
Distributed by King
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-24
Your Weekend Lesson

If the defenders had done no
bidding, and the heart K is led by
West, how should South plan his
play for 4-Spades. with each of
the four hands below as the
dunomv7
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-04
Beal Elected
League Prexy

Bert Beal, Lincoln principal was
reelected to head the Cross-State
league for another year. when the
Cross-State heads held their semi
annual gathering at Seattle. How
ard Carr, Stadium principal, was
elected to serve as league score
tary.
Two new football rules were
passed. In 1912. all members of
the league must meet each other.
This ruling WAS brought about
WHEN Everett, the champions, fail
ed to schedule game with Brem-
erton. A green football will be re-
quired when the battle is played
on a dirt field. On a turf gridiron
any color may be used but must
meet the approval of both con-
tenders
The football schedule for 1871
was drawn up, as was the baseball
schedule. Some basketball dates
We're changed and the date for the
annual Cross-State Relays set.
The next meeting OF the league
will be held in Seattle during the
State High School basketball tour
nament.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-04

they talked. you could not help
but feel that they were not 90
ing n California for personal
glory. but rather 10 Justify AL
this excitement over their choice
as a Rose Bowl team. all this
civic diphtheris. all this bowling
by night and DAY.
I'm not picking the winner OF
the Rose Bowl now. because I
always reserve my Judgment un-
~ ! am fully convinced of the
loser. hut | would like To say
this:
The boys from the wind
swept. snow-swept, sleet-swept
steppes and plains Of Nebraska
are either going TO win. or
they're going down with their
long drawers on. They are not
going TO he scared. When you
have to call the weather bureau
to find out whether or not you
can run TANKER play. you're
not going 10 be scared where
you can see orange groves over
your shoulder. You can't have
all this and Heaven. too.