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effect upon the country. Or it may be decided
to have him lecture on another of the many
subjects he is competent to discuss. The choice
is still to be made. But whatever the decision,
forum subscribers may be assured of a mental
feast. Jay Franklin is universally recognized
as one of Americas best informed lecturers.
In one way the postponement will benefit
Wilmington's cultural community. It will af-
ford any tardy patrons opportunity to secure
season tickets, and so avoid the additional
cost of separate tickets for each lecture. The
Junior Sorosis, which has conducted the sale
Of season tickets, is still on the JOB and will
answer any call for tickets.
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No Blitzkrieg In Greece

The threatened Italian blitzkrieg against
Greece, which Rome boosted would follow re-
lection of the Mussolini ultimaturl, seems to
have been halted not only by the mountainous
terrain over which it would nave to move
out of Albania but by the stubborn opposition
of Greece's little army. But it would be con-
trary to sound reasoning to suppose t h a t
Greece can hold the enemy for long at the
border if it must depend wholly on its own
small army. For Italy has strong backing in
the Nazis, who may hurl a large force into
the battle from Rumania via Bulgaria and
supply the fighting stamina which the Italians
obviously lack.
That is why the outside world listens 81
lntently for word of Turkeys decision and
why there is widespread hope in quarters out
side the Axis that rumors of Turkish troons
moving into Thrace will not long lack con.
firmation.
1t seems likely that Britain not on1v knew
OF the intended thrust against Greece but had
prepared in advance to combat it. The seiz-
ure OF Crete SO soon after Greece's declara-
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F. l.. CRUMP

LUMBERTON, Oct. 29.-Funera
services for F. l.. Crump, SO, Robe
son county rural policeman, were
held here this afternoon at 2 o'clock
with burial In the family plot near
Gibson station in Scotland county.
Officer Crump died suddenly early
yesterday morning of a heart attack
while sitting in his automobile, and
was found by a local taxi driver.
He has served two years as a rural
policeman after being an active Fair
mont police chief seven years.
He is survived his wife, the form
err Miss Mary O'Tuel of Benefits
vile, S. c.; his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas L. Crump of St.
Pauls; a daughter, Lois; one
brother, Arthur Crump, of St.
and three sisters, Miss Ron
ME Crump, of st .Pauls, Mrs. Eu-
gene Lingerhed, of Newton. and
Mrs. Guycella Myers, of Marion.
Officer Crump was appointed to
the post of rural policeman two
years ago by Sheriff E. Clyde Wade
after serving as Fairmont police
chief seven years and a Lumber
ton patrolman for more than a
year.
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Hollywood
Sights And Sounds

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. o. Hedy
Lamar, the beautiful illusion, is
suffering from a pathetic delusion.
She thinks she's going to shake
off a label.
The pretty child is positively
blithe about it, almost child-like
in her faith.
AFTER this" she said, nobody
can call me glamorous any
more!"
This" is a movie called Com
rade X" In it Hedy gets to do
things and wear things she's never
worn in any other movie.
She was wearing one of tn e
things as she sat at her dressing
table. Bright lights framing the
mirror failed to ferret out h e
slightest imperfection in the pic
ture she offered in it. The painted
lips were just right, the tilt of
the chin, the deep blue depths of
the correctly shaped eyes, the
baby-smooth skin, the pearly
teeth, the rich blue-black h all
What she wore was a pastel night
gown, its torn lace edge showing
beneath the folds of Clark Cables
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Editorial Comment
TREND OF FOREIGN TRADE
IN. Y. Herald Tribune)

One hears a good deal of discussion these
days of the question of what is going to hap
pen to American foreign trade after the war
is over. But a reading of the De-
partment's export-import figures for Septem-
Der suggests that a question of more imme-
diate interest is What about American foreign
trade in the next few months, or the next two
or three years
The September statistics, issued at the end
of the week, show that exports for that month
amounted to only $3.50, 600, 900 which is the
smallest figure since November, 1899, while
imports, at $195 600, 900, were the smallest
since the corresponding month a year ago.
Exports and imports combined were smaller
than they nave been in any month since the
war began. While the chief declines, by mer-
chandise groups, were among those catego-
ries which have had the sharpest rise since
the war began-such defense items as air.
planes and steel manufactures-the drop of
16 per cent from the August level Of exports
affected a long list of individual groups and
seems to have been widely distributed geo.
graphically.
During the first month of the war, in 1889,
exports jumped from an August figure Of
$251, 600, 600 to $289, 600, 900 in September, and
reached a peak to date in December and jan
uary, both of these months showing exports of
approximately $368, 900, 900. On balance tie
general trend has been downward since then,
with the September, 1910 level representing
an extreme decline of 20 per cent. owever
the fact that export trade. after falling to 1924,
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ton of war. the naval engagement off Corfu,

ton of war, the naval engagement off Corfu,
support this belief.
Britain now occupies strategic points both in
the Mediterranean and the Adriatic fro m
which to render most efficient aid to Greece.
While compelled to withdraw some of her
forces in Egypt, both military and naval. it
is apparent that Britain is quite as willing as
Hitler to take a chance in emergency, and the
attack on Greece constitutes a major crisis.
The Italian forces in Africa under GRAHAM
can hardly proceed against Egypt, even
though Britain reduces her defenses there. if
the British succeed in closing the sea lanes
to supplies for Graziani's troops; and it is
evident from the positions the British have
seized at the outset of the campaign in
Greece that she has in mind not only the re-
of Greece but the further blockade of Ita-
ly.
At the outset of this new war, Britain's o,,ick
recognition of the opportunity for initiative
action has given a slight edge to Greece in her
with the Italians. Should Turkey enter
the battle, Mussolini will have need of all the
aid Hitler can give him, and even then an Axis
victory will be doubtful.
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600, 600 in April, rebounded in June
to more than $3.50, 00o, 600, and that
after another relapse in July to
$317,O 900 it came back in August
to $3.50, 0o0, 900, suggests the advis-.
ability of caution in drawing con.
illusions from the immediate past
with respect to the immediate. or
intermediate, future.
Exports to Japan, which declin-
ed in September, may fall farther
if political tension between that
country and this increases. On the
other hand, the reopening of the
Burma road and the prospect of
further financial aid to China
could conceivably prove at least =
partial offset to such a trade loss.
The tightening of import regula-
tons by Jul best customer in
South America, Argentina. is
among the ominous elements in
the situation at the moment, but
in this quarter the activities Of the
Export-lmport Bank may serve to
counterbalance this expected trade
decline. Speaking broadly. how
ever, the national defense effort in
this country should, in the absence
OF sweeping changes, by %increas-
ing imports exercise a definitely
STIMULATING effect on our trade
with those parts of the world to
winch our shippers still have &C.
cess.
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E%verybody's Job

Work that lies ahead for the Wilmington
chapter Of the American Red Cross will be
more extensive and exacting, perhaps, than
at any time in the past. What is to be done
will concern everybody. Consequently, tn e
drive for next years membership enrolment,
which will start on Armistice day and con-
tinue until November 80, will require the help
and cooperation of the people of the city gen.
orally.
Everybody will not be able to participate
in the campaign directly. Yet there are few
who cannot assist by enrolling as members
and making financial contributions. When the
call comes it is hoped that everybody who
can do so will respond, thereby showing their
interest in what the Red Cross does and en-
couraging it to put forth the special effort
that will be necessary next year.
That there is need for universal help and
interest in taking care of the coming obi
cations is indicated by a headquarters state
ment declaring 1.-The 1910 drive will be the
most important in the history of the organi-
zation-surpassing even the scope of World
War activities"
The fact should not be overlooked that while
part Of the Red Cross funds goes to the nation.
al headquarters for general work, much Of
it is used to finance the many things the
organization does in Wilmington.
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Jay Franklin's Lecture

Naturally there will be some disappointment
that Jay Franklin was unable to lecture here
on the date originally set for his engagement,
especially as he was TO have given Community
Forum patrons an analysis of the issues in
the national election. But the postponement,
winch was unavoidable, will not decrease in
terest In his coming or in what he will have
TO say when he opens the current forum season
on November IL.
It may be that in the week intervening be-
ton ne will be able to hold a thoroughgoing
post mortem on the election and forecast its
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lay well back of the French frontier
except along it's Rhine river front.
Germany rolled over Poland, Nor.
way, Denmark, Holland and Belgium
in a matter of hours. The Italians
advance in Egypt, even if practj.
cally unopposed by the British, went
forward with breath-taking speed at
its onset.
In Greece, however, Italy seems
marking time for some undisclose5
reason. Her Wanted air power with
virtually no Greek air force to Oh
pose it, struck only lightly. There
has been a curious absence of ItaI.
ian fifth column parachutists to
create confusion and impede mobiIi.
cation behind the Greek lines.
Logical Expectation
1t does not seem possible that Italy
was caught mapping by Greek de.
termination to resist against all odds.
Even so, a blasting air bom5ard.
ment of Greek cities and military
~obJect1ves to delay mobilization and
possibly crack Greek morale would
have seemed a logical expectation.
1t did not come at the outset.
That suggests that Messrs, Hitler
and Mussolini are more interested in
something Else than in immediate
military results in Greece. And that
something probably is the Russian
enigma.
There are London reports that
Germany has done far more to pre-.
pare against possible Russian hos
tility to an expected axis drive east
ward than to take Rumania under
PROTECTIVE" military custody, Sone
70 Nazi divisions, upward of a mil
lion men, are said to be massed be-
hind Germany's eastern frontier and
in Poland and Rumania.
If that is true, Moscow must know
it. The threat to Russia if she
moves to check axis penetration Of
Turkey is plain to see 1t also sue
gests that the slow-motion italian
push into Greece is designed to force
a showdown between the axis and
the Russo-Turkish friends rather
than to provide in itself a ne"
bridgehead for axis attack on Brit
ain across the Mediterranean.
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Obitu S
LEROY GRIFFIN MINTZ

Funeral rites for Leroy Griffin
Mintz, of Winnabow, were held from
the graveside in the Mintz GENE.
terry neal Shallotte yesterday morn
ing at II o'clock. The Rev. T. F.
Johnson conducted the services.
Active pallbearers were: Robert
Sullivan, Wilmar Padgett, John Will
liam Savage, Roy Gore, Douglas Pad
gett and William Huffman.
A grandson of the late Rev. and
Mrs. M. j. Mintz, of Grissettetown,
he is survived by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. D. N. Mintz, three Sis
tiers, Mrs. Irene Milligan, Mrs.
Retha M. Milligan and Miss Isa-
dore Mintz; one brother, Luther
MintZ, of WinnaboW.
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War Interpretive
Continued From Page One)

tain as to how much aid Britain can
give Greece and as to what axis
move Of importance to themselves
may be impending with the invasion
of Greece as a screen.
Minor Incidents
All available authoritative reports
seem agreed that there have been
only minor incidents as yet along
the Albanian-Greek border. Rome
claimed only a ten-mile advance in
belated official announcements of
the attack on Greece.
Internationally the MetaXas line
Of Greek defense lies well back Of
the border. That was true of the
Firms Mannerheim line. The out
thanked Maginot line in France also
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MRS, JOSEPH T. KING

Funeral services for Mrs. Joseph
T. King, sc, were held from Grace
Methodist church yesterday morn
ing at 1870 o'clock, with the Rev.
J. F. Herbert officiating. Interment
followed in Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Len
nox Cooper, F. Lacy King, Paul
Hess, Fred Orrell, Herbert Davis
and Hawkins Hall.
Honorary pallbearers were
Levi Mcmillan, T. E. Cooper, DR..
J. c. VESSEL, DR.. D. R. McEach-
ern, j. F. Rulfs, W. B. Cooper and
C. G. Sibley.
Surviving Mrs. King are: one
niece, Mrs. ]. V. Riley, of Colds
boro; one nephew, H. M. Kendall,
of Wilmington; n great nephew,
Hardy Lee Thompson, of Colds
boro.
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raincoat and too-big brown leather

raincoat and too-big brown leather
slippers.
"Am I tired of this glamour"
she repeated. What is glamour?
I want to know"
She talked with considerable ami
nation, smiling, but not coyly as
you'd suspect.
AFTER this, whatever glamour
is, l don't have it. See-I muss
my hair!"
She did, emphatically, and it
was a nice gesture even if the
couture slipped right back i t O
perfection.
This, said Hedy, has made her
very happy. She wants to be an
actress. She thinks glamour"
sounds like an unapproachable,
fragile thing, rather cream-puffy.
She would like to be considered a
flesh-and-blood human being, and
glamour Ito herr never connotes
that.
Il would hate to have to depend
on whatever looks l have" she
said.
"Comrade" has Gable as a
tWo-fisted newspaper correspon-
dent in Moscow and Hedy is the
lady streetcar motorman, m O r e
sold on Communism than was Gar
DO in "Ninotchka." The nightgown
is the only "glamorous" item in
her wardrobe-and it is provided
by Husband Gable on their we'd
ding night when she appears in a
burlap creation of Soviet-approved
design. For the rest, she wears a
uniform (but I bet the Soviet tail
ors aren't Adrians!) and a bat
tered leather cap and motorman' S
gloves. ("I never wear hats or
gloves myself when I can avoid
them," she said. They bother me
can you drive a car with gloves
on?")
AS further means of escape from
her label, poor Hedy is counting
on her fights - knockdown-drag-
outs with Gable (she says S h e
wore blisters on her hands by
afternoon) and with n of the
women in the cast. She gets her
face dirtied and her hair disar-
ranged; she drives an army tank
and hops a train and is lively as
can be.
So Hedy was happy as a child
about it all, even radiant as she
answered King Vidor's call to be
arrested by the OGPU and taken
away with Gable.
But I dunno. Seemed to me she
looked - no matter what she'd
done with chairs, army tanks.
streetcars and mud-exactly like
Hedy Lamar. You can muddy up
a silk purse but you don't produce
a pigs ear 4
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Man About
Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-It's about
time somebody stopped cheering
AL Jolson long enough to put in a
deserved word for another Al-Al
Goodman by name. The reason
is simple. Almost all of Jol-
sons successes have been aug
mented by Goodman.
Goodman this year has the top
spot in New York among orches-
ira leaders. Not only is he play
ing the Jolson show, which is one
of the seasons two ranking musi-
Gals, but he also is playing the
one of the two ranking broadcasts
on the air.
So that leaves Mr.. AL Goodman
setting very comfortably and
pleasantly during these turbulent
times.
Not many people know it but
Goodman has been a sort Of lucky
talisman for Jolson since 1917.
That was the year Jolson discov-
cred him in a west coast vaude-
vile dive and brought him to New
York for his opening in "Sinbad."
The show was Jolson's first big
hit. It made him a star, and after
that, when Jolson got ready to go
into a new theatrical adventure,
he always called in Goodman to
handle the musical end of it. AS
a matter Of fact, Jolson is said
never to accept a show until Good
man reads script and passes on
it first.
The bond between these w o
goes a little deeper than the
Broadway tie. If you are inter-
ested in checking back you will
find a striking similarity between
their lives. Both were born in the
southern part of Russia. Both
were the sons of cantors, a d
both were supposed to follow in
their fathers footsteps.
But Goodman suddenly switched
from voice to the piano, and that
made him a band leader. Jolson
couldn't get away from Glowing,
and that mad him a star.
Since those uneasy years of
their beginnings, Goodman has
played many shows on Broadway,
and on n occasion the Shuberts
actually postponed a big musical
comedy, and announced this post
ponement in paid newspaper ads,
because Goodman was too ill to
make the premiere. Ordinarily a
new leader is showed into the pit.
Goodman is mighty proud of this
tribute from the Shuberts. T h e
name of that show was Music
Hath Charms"
Not only had he played the big
hits, he has also had a hand in
the success of rival hits. In 1881
he was actually collecting royal
ties from ten different productions.
That's what you call collecting.
Those who have paid attention
to his recent recordings are going
around in a three-quarter tim e
mood. -. Goodman has recorded
two albums of Strauss waltzes, all
honeys. He is tall, stocky, al
ways smiling. He is a good
talker, is even-tempered. He has
the reputation of being very gentle
with his musicians. He went
to work early because he married
early and had to earn some sort
of living. That was how he be-
came a rehearsal pianist. . /
Zeigfeld liked him and called him
the 'Toscanini of Broadway" He
has maestroed almost 200 shows. q
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PRISONER FIRST
MAN DRAWN IN
RALEIGH DRAFT
CONTINUED From Page One


know whether he would have d
job when he got out Of jail tnl'
time.
He wouldn't mind going to all
army camp, he said. A repor'e.
told him married men might NOV
have to go and he replied, ! cei'
tainly am sorry"
He was asked why he was any,
ious to go and he scratched hs
head and said, "Well, I'm sup
posed to 60 and sort OF look al'''
our country"
you're getting a lot of atiea,
tion," an interviewer said ho"
do you like that?"
"All right" Watkins respohoeu
looking upward at the barred W.T.
dows of the Jail, ''but Tm Se''~
it in the wrong lace
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Star-News Program

Consolidated City-CQunty Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsuiHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, 1id-
er Turning Basin, With 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
M%roughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro.
motional Agency. supported by one
countrywide tao.
Shipydrds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around he
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities tor whites.
Junior Eigh School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF natine grape 0rowfng
Mrouohout Southeastern North Carolina.
- Modern tuberculosis Sdndtortum.
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OTHER 1853

Raleigh's other holder OF ala.
order number one is a WPA "gtN
er, Lucious Garland Sexton w" ~
he isn't likely to be called, ne
be kept out by a broken hecA' .
wife and two children. .
His neck was broken l an "'
tomobile accident six years a." ~
while he was employed by the III. ,ir
of Raleigh, and he still hash iU .
recovered.
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TOP % H MORNING

1t is said that when a great statesman lay
6uin1 he asked, to hare q Bible brought to him.
Taking the Book in his hand, he said to those
gathered about him.: "This is the most import
ant Book in the World, and get I haze meUer
had time to read it,"
-BERTA AYR
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During June, 1910, the alI!n a-sl
of the United States flew a Nv" IN
of 1O1, 172, 222 passenger mlLeS, s,
increase of 1914 per cent '"
June. 1899.
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WEATHER
Continued From Page One)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-R-Weatb-
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending 8 o. m..
Statinn Hinh an n.aa
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-06
CAVALIERS DOWN
YALE BY 10 TO II
Inspired Football
Southerners Pass Yale
Eleven Dizzy
BY LOU BLACK

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. SIP
"A band of streamlined Virginia
Cavaliers waited a quarter of a
century for today, and when the
final whistle blew felt we'll reward
ed. Playing inspired football, the
southerners passed Yale dizzy,
threw in some flim-flam for good
measure and rode on to a thrilling
10 to IA victory in the bowl.
An opening day crowd of Is, 900,
attracted by the prospects of a
tough battle in this first meeting
between the teams in Is years,
saw Virginia come from behind to
tally all Of its points in the second
and third period and then go on to
stave off a desperate rally by Yale
in the dying moments of the game.
So exciting was the finale that it
touched off a series of fist fights
among scores of spectators who
had rushed out to the field and it
was fully Is minutes before a riot
squad restored order.
Yale went into the van late in
the opening quarter by capitalizing
on one of three fumbles Virginia
made in the game. Anderson's long
pass to Bartholemy set the stage
and Seymour sliced off tackle from
the vineyard line to score.
Then Virginia started, grinding
and passing to five quick first
downs. Dudley, standing on the
six shot a bullet-like pass to Harry
McClaugherty who made a circus
catch Just before falling out of the
end zone to score. But HOWE
Kaye, Yale's kicking specialist,
kicked the extra point, Dudley
missed.
In the third period that Cardozo
came into prominence. A flock of
~aerials which he pitched to Bill
Crumm, a sub, set the stage for a
climax ppay. With Yale looking
for a pass Cardozo streaked to-
ward the sidelines and he raced
41-yards to tally.
Shortly after, the southerners re-
corded what proved the decisive
touchdown. With the ball on the
Yale II, Dudley tossed to Nick
Giankos for the score. Yale made
its final tally with slightly more
than a minute left to play in the
last period.
1t vas a 39-yard pass by Bill
Bell and a 21-yard run by Barthol-
II
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Pnnceton's Air Attack
Defeats Commodores rs

PRINCETON, N. j. Oct. 5.-R
-Priceton's air . minded eleven,
standing off a severe last period
assault, turned back Vanderbilt 7
to 6 today in the Commodores'
Palmer stadium debut before 49,
900.
Held far out of scoring territory
through nearly three quarters OF
the game, Vanderbilt unleashed a
furious attack in the closing min
uteS that threatened to brln 6
Princeton its first opening day loss
IN So grid seasons.
Most of the final period Wander
ollt was on Princeton's goal Sill,
with backs Mickey Flanagan, Gene
Higgins and blond Binks Bush
maier tearing through the Prince
Ton line for gain after gain. But in
the critical clutches, the Tigers
braced and after yielding to one
scoring pass play kept their goal
lnvolate.
With less than two minutes Of
play remaining, Vanderbilt drove
within %Princeton's 10-yard stripe in
a desperate attempt to wipe out
me Tigers n point edge. Tired
nom lack of reserve strength, the
Commodores missed first down by
less than a yard. !