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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
ROAD WIDENING
PROJECT STARTED
u. S. II To Be Improved
From Onslow Line 10 Miles
Toward Wilmington

State highway and public works
commission forces r busy widen
ing U. S. Highway II from the Ons-
low county line in the, direction
of Wilmington and will widen at
least 10 miles of this section on
this job, it was announced yester-
day.
The original plan called for the
road to be widened all the way to
Wilmington but highway officials
were not sure they will have SUI
ficient funds at this time to carry
the work all the way into Whining
ton.
Though the road passes by the
Holly Shelter area where the army
plans to establish an anti-aircraft
training base in the near future,
that fact played no part in the
plans to widen the road, it gas
said, as the plans for the widening
were made a year ago before there
was any indication such a training
base would be established.
Already the road has been
widened from 16 to 20 feet north
of the Onslow county line and south
of Wilmington to Supply but the
section from Wilmington to the
Onslow county line is now only
16 feet wide. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
COMPLEX TIMES?
Raleigh News and Observer

DR.. Thurman Kitchin of Wake Forest, ply
stefan and college president, told a Pastors
Conference before the Baptist State Conven-
ton in Charlotte that diseases of the mind
are on the increase due largely to the in
creased completely of living. DR.. Kitchin
knows as scientist about the increase, but
his statement of the cause is diagnosis not
of mental diseases but of these times. Is liv-
ing in them more complex? That seems to
be the general opinion. But it is greatly to
be questioned whether a trip to New York
by airplane is so complex an enterprise as
going there by stage-coach was. Starting a
car is certainly not so'complex an undertake
ing as Harvesting a horse. The average house
wife gets a greater variety in a greater ease
in modern grocery stores than she could give
her family when she did the preserving and
canning herself at home. Turning on the cleo
tricity or the gas is less difficult business
than building a fire in the cook stove used
to be.
This world may be more complex but in a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26

ming such an operation without considering
Russia's attitude, both on her own part ana
toward Turkey. But it is not At al certain
that Hitler has the true understanding OF RUS
sia's position. It is even possible that on a
showdown. with the Dardanelles under serious
threat, Moscow would consent to allow turkey
to act as a free agent, or even take a stand
against a nearer approach by the Nazis to the
Russian Black sea lifeline. In this case Hitler
would have a bigger job on his hands than he
has thus far encountered in his determined
effort to become the ruler of the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Leahy To France

The Presidents selection Of Admiral William
D. Leahy, retired, as ambassador to France
is a happy one, not only because Of his fine
because of this willingness to do any Job as
signedsto him. Admiral Leahy's response to a
question at Puerto Rico shows a spirit that
inspires confidence. II will CO., said he," to
France, China, the North Pole or anywhere
the President sends me-"
His appointment seems to be no less &C.
ceptable in France than in this country. Vichy
dispatches say the Petain government is de
lighted" That makes it unanimous. But it
does not Tighten the task that faces the Ad-
miral once he arrives at Vichy.
Vichy, just now, is probably the most diff
ficult diplomatic post any ambassador could be
sent to except England. In the old days France
and the United States were in close accord and
matters of great pith and moment could
be settled with a minimum of friction because
OF the friendship between Washington and
Paris. But those times are past.
The Vichy government is not a government
in its own right, but a puppet of Germany.
Petain, the grand old man of Verdun, the
apostle of liberty and equality and fraternity,
as France once knew these admirable attri-
butes, is half converted to totalitarianism
and is surrounded by Hitler minions whose
whole purpose in life is to completely Marty
France.
1t is with these leaders in government Ad-
miral Leahy must work and maintain amicable
relations; and, if possible, realign with the
forces of democracy. 1t is no easy job that
lies ahead for Admiral Leahy. His every step
will be beset with pitfalls. But we may rest
assured that so far as proved skill and ef-
ficiency count, it will be a well done iob-one
to bring credit both to the ambassador and
to the nation which places him in it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26

most OF us-and faster. But speed
does not jolt us half as much in a
modern car on modern roads as
were jolted in old-time con.
veyances. Most of us like to think
we live in complex times. But tho
whole trouble may be even in men.
tai diseases that we have more
Tune 1or the growth of worry and
mlscnlet inside u skulls. A thou
SAND aids at our tasks, close at
nand and far away, have given
US more time. than men ever had
before but in the new spare time
we are not necessarily wiser, we
may indeed, as the Doctors fig
ules suggest, grow crazier in SIM
Pnclty and relatively greater in
dlvidual idleness. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Star-News Program

Consolidated City.Oo1nty Government
Under Council Manager Administrator.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TRUCK and Berry Preserving
ond marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highmay from WrtghtsviHe
Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5.Foot Cape Fear River channel, ttd'
er Turning Basin. NTH snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Na
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood ProdAc'
ton through sustdined-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
mottonal Agency. supported BY one
county-wide TAG.
%Shipydyds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for sohites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF ndttns grape 0rototn0
throughout Southeastern North Cdrolind.
Modern Tuberculosis Sandtortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Art Week Observed
Throughout Carolina

A new kind of cart Week. began
throughout North Carolina yester-
day. With the slogan, american Art
for Every American Home" it is
designed, with a sales emphasis, to
introduce local artists and craft
workers to the local public.
B. W. Wells, North Carolina State
college professor, is the chairman
for this state. He has appointed
local committees who have worked
with Miss Katharine Morris, of Ra-
leigh, secretary Of the movement
and state supervisor Of the WPA
art projects, in staging exhibits in
WPA and other art centers in Chap
81 Hill, Black Mountain, Greensboro,
Greenville, Raleigh and Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Check Transactions Are
Boosted By Thanksgiving

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.- u
Thanksgiving and other seasonal
factors boosted check transactions
in banks of 274 leading cities to
$40, 282, 600, 900 in the week ended
November 20.
The federal reserve board said
the margin of this figure over the
$8,447, 600, 900 of the comparable
week last year was due mostly to
the pre-holiday buying in m o S t
states, usual mid-month payroll
transactions, and the stimulating
effect Of the defense program. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Hitler's Voice And Hand

Both the voice and hand are Hitler's in the
statement of the Berlin newspaper that Pre-
mier Metaxas of Greece has made himself
openly a tool Of the British policy OF spread
ing war; It has always been the method of
the Fuehrer to pick a goat for his depreda-
tons. Obviously he is following the same
custom now in preparation for a descent upon
Greece which his Axis partner has failed to
subdue, There is no reason to doubt that the
Nazi military machine will soon be in action
against the valiant Greeks who have display
ed unsupported fighting qualities in the cam.
paign which Mussolini proclaimed at the start
would be only a series of rear-guard encoun-
tiers.
This, Of course, means that the little nations
OF the Balkans which Hitler has forced into
the Nazi columns will become a new battle
ground, for the British cannot be expected to
withhold their attack on them once they are
engaged in the fighting and their materials
and resources are taken over by Hitler.
Britain has not conducted air raids in Ru-
mania, despite the violation of her nationals
rights in Rumanian oil fields. With that nation
" q AS1a~S VI ~S a. t4lC4C WILL Nc III
reason for Britain to keep her airmen from
raiding . Rmnanian. petroleum reserves so
necessary for the operations the Nazis plainly
are mapping in southeastern Europe. Greece,
too, will be a storm center on a much larger
scale than during the time since the Italians
aunched their ill-starred invasion. Hungary
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, all may be turned into
shambles.
What Turkey will do still remains a ques-
ton. but there is a strong belief that she will
stick by her commitments to Britain and her
clear statement that she will resist any at
tempt to force the war across her borders.
Those 1000, 600 bayonets are still ready for use
il Turkish territory is violated. And Turkey is
no weakling.
It might be that Berlin and Moscow have
an agreement involving Turkeys conduct in
n Axis drive toward the Mediterranean, and
j is probable that Hitler would not be plan
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Man About
Manhattan
ny GEORGE TUCKER

,,r,u WORK. Nov. 25.-f you
are interested in watching tne
Transformation of a Broadway
playwright into a man OF na''ona4
fairs. keep your eyes on Robert
Emmet Sherwood. He may OF
recngnize this fact himself, but as
s,,ra as sunrise with each passing
day his interests r carrying nl,1a
farther and farther into tne "oe
of world events.
As a charter member and a CO.
worker with William Allen White
IN the Committee to Defend Amer
lea by Aiding the Allies he has
been labeled by some as an inter-
ventionist. These persons say MS
aim. and the aim of other mem
hers and workers of the commit
tee. is ultimate active particlpa-
ton in the war by the side OF
Great Britain.
But as long ago as 1895, when
he wrote Idiots Delight" MIR.
Sherwood said: 'Let me express
here the conviction that those who
shrug and say war is inevitable
are false prophets. I believe that
the world is populated largely by
decent people, and decent people
don't want war. They fight and
die, to be sure, but that is because
they have been deluded by their
exploiters, who are members OF
the indecent minority"
The Committee to Defend Aneri-
ca by Aiding the Allies, particular
~ since both presidential candi-
dates urged the utmost in aid dur
ing the recent campaign, enjoys
greater prestige now than at any
|rrevious moment since its begin
|rJng. More and more Sherwood
himself has been ascending the
speakers platform. Canadian and
American audiences are familiar
with his views, which express the
opinion that freedom is a right,
not a privilege, and that we our
selves will be safe fro mthe tides
Of totalitarianism so long as Bri-
tain, serving as a sea-wall, con-
tlnues to stand. These views are
in themselves a re-expression OF
the Sermon on the Mount. He pre-
viously has said it all, and well,
in There Shall Be No Night"
This play is about the Finnish
war. The idea came to him dur
ing a Christmas Eve broadcast in
1889. He wrote it swiftly, within
a few weeks, and it came to Broad
way. 1t now is in Canada. And it
Will come back to Broadway in
the spring.
The opinion already has been
expressed that on certain issues
the William Allen White Commit
tee may be used as a sounding
board to test public opinion. It has
been urged that Mr.. Sherwood 60
into politics. One political essayist
even has said that Sherwood would
make good presidential timber.
I personally do not believe Mr..
Sherwood has any idea ever of
exposing himself to the ballot box.
But l do believe without question
the days ahead will find him NOV.
ing up and down the land crying
his convictions.
If Britain holds fast, his place
in American life will be more than
just that of an eminent playwright
whose dramas have translated the
trends of the times. His tall.
lengthy figure Che is 6 feet, y
may well cast a longer shadow
across the course of events than
even his friends or his enemies
surmise. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26

trash they had unloaded. Others have been
more difficult to deal with.
DR.. W. Houston Moore, president of the as
ISOLATION has issued an appeal urging every
body to help preserve the beauties of the park
area and a warning that the law will be in
voked against offenders. It is to be hoped
that there will be no need to apply police
authority.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
.etts Is Confirmed As
n. {. Draft Director

WASHINGTON. Nov. 25.- B -
The senate confirmed today these
state directors of select;ve service.
Brlgadier General Marion Viii
Hanson, Georgia.
Brlgadier General John Van B
Nets. North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
Siqhts And Sounds
In Hollywood
BY ROBIN o

HOLLYWOOD, &C. rs
"Lady with Red HAIR" Screen
play by Charles Kenyon and
Milton Krims. Directed by
Kurt Bernhard. Principals:
Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains,
Richard Ainley, Laura Hope
Crews, Helen Wesley, John
Litel, Mona Barrie, Victor
Jory, Cecil Holloway, Fritz
Leiber, Johnnie Russell, Sell
mer jackson.
This movies best selling point
is also its biggest handicap. Based
on the lives Of two Of a departed
theater's most picturesque and in.
triguing characters, David Belasco
ano Mrs. Leslie Carter, the film
is fact overloaded with fiction, or
vice versa. As fiction, it might
have gone more deeply into mo-
tives and characters. As partial
fact, it has had to tread delicately.
And the combination is not a salts
flying thing.
The film, therefore, is best as a
recreation Of an exciting period
in the theater, of exciting char
acters.
The story has Mrs. Carter (Hop-
kins) divorced in Chicago 1880
when to be divorced amounted to
social disgrace. Given to theatrical
outbursts, she decides to 60 on the
stage as a means Of amassing
quick money to regain custody OF
her son (RusseD and Of making
her erst-while friends pay homage
to her. She hasn't the time to start
at the bottom-only the top will
do. Therefore, with a letter to
Belasco, she invades New York.
The Wizard (Rains) passes off
her plea with high sarcasm and a
promptly forgotten promise. Three
months later, she hunts him down
and intrigues him with the chal.
lenge to make something of her.
There are good scenes Of his at
tempt to prove that he "can make
a telegraph pole act" Her first
play flops; she is about to retire
to stock and marriage with Lou
Payne (Ainley) when Belasco re-
turns with the story of her next
play. She clicks.
Even SO. returning to Chicago
and conquering a hostile audience,
she cannot regain the boy. Disap.
pointment despite her subsequent
triumphs sends her back to mar
rage and Belasco, furious because
she has not told him her plans,
breaks with her. Unable to score
in several efforts to act without
him, she is embarked on another
certain failure when the wizard
returns and saves the day-an en-
tirely fictional HAPPY ending"
Gallant Sons" Screenplay
by William r. Lipman and
Marion Personnel. Directed by
George b. Seitz. Principals:
Jackie Cooper, Bonita Gran
vile, Gene Reynolds, Gail Pat
rick. Ian Hunter.
Better than average program
movie about a high school gan
mat solves a murder mystery
wltn laughs applied for quick
grease when the hokum threatens
20 creak too loudly. Solution: Thev
rap the killer in Hamlet" fashion
Wy; p presenting a school play in
mnlcn the murder is reenacted
Funny finish.
SANDY Gets Her Man."
''naoy Sandy, Stuart Edwin
"a. Merkel, Edgar Kennedy.
unlversafs latest answer. to
wnat to do with Sandy" The
satisfaction in the answer depends,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
PARKING CHARGES
HEARD IN court

New Hanover recorders court
had an unusually heavy docket yes
terday morning. with the WmI
collection of weekend cases, plus
81 persons arrested for illega
parking at night, either parking Oh
a paved street between the houi
of l a. m. and s a. m. or parking
on a plaza.
As has been the custom Of the
court, the defendants were az
sessed the costs and the costs were
then RENTED.
One charge Of illegal parking.
however, was hard fought, VII
liam Beuamy, Wilmington attoi'
ney, pleaded not guilty to charges
of parking more than an hour Q,
Front street between Princess aha
Chestnut streets and not guilty 70
a charge of driving an autofnoo4'
which should have a city tag Wll'
the automobile did not have Sucn 4
tag.
Traffic Officer Red Murray les''
fled that last Saturday morfln5
Bellamy parked his car IN tlol.
street at GIT o'clock and had nv
moved it at 1922 am. bella1!
testified that he had parked ps
car about $40 am, but that S0n'
few minutes later he drove Nv
car to his home and returned y, y
park it in the same spot al iV''.
and that the car had not rehialA'.
parked in one place more tnali o.
hour.
1T is plain" Judge Alton A.
Lennon said, that someone l',
perjured himself in this easS
to the conflicting 's'"
mony. -. a
Then he returned a verdict d
guilty as to the parking cnS's,
and not guilty as to the e''
cense tag charge. holding 'ns W. ~,
registered in Vance county, '"
not have to carry a city lag =,
well, I'm certainly not SolAs +,
waste my time appealing -
case" Bellamy remarked. ..,,.
Joe Holly. charged with Vlol'
the liquor law, was gwen :
continuance until Friday liza ary
Guilford Irving, of Winter t ,',,,.
charged with operating ah.ssI
mobile while under the lnflueis.
intoxicants and while his oiN MI.
license was revoked, was ais0
tinued until Friday. n.,,
The case of W. M. pl'u as-.
charged with violating the say
ordinance, was mol p d
with leave on recommehoas~'
the officer making the arl e, Nj.
Trial of Andrew Morris, NJ
on street, charged with az M.
with a deadly weapon, "@'
tinued until Friday. -;.,a|
Oscar Smith, 9o7 South h ". d
street, charged with an aSsaa' I'll
a female, was fined 80 div
costs of court. Matt
Alexander Adams, l5u0 Al
Sixth street, charged with an !, i
sault with a deadly weapoa m.
female, drew a continuance
oil
Trial of Fender Durham, ,. j
Taylor street, charged WIN r,;
with a deadly weapon on a rs!
with serious injuries resul'n'''
continued until Dec, z. n,
Continued until Friday wa c,,-.
case of Jimmie Gaskins' o0i ys,.
street, and NarclsSuS liolG
with violating inc
law. ,,py
Eliza Corbett. GIT Foster IN /,
charged with assault nj
deadly weapon, was
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
TOP o. THE MORNING

Do you suppose that it acas only on CALGARY
that our Lord said, "Father, forgive them, for
then EnoW not 1Dhdt they do" Had not thai
been His prayer, day after day and week after
4veek, Is not that still His prayer for us, as
ace hedge and compromises?
From "FORWARD"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26
SENTENCED

TR1CH1NOPOLY, India, Nov. Is.
T. S. S. Rajan, former
congress minister in Madras, was
sentenced today to one year of
rigorous Imprisonment for civil
disobedience. He is the first for
mer minister arrested for partici-
patton i nthe campaign promoted
by Mohandas K. Gandhi. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-26

on how you go for patent slap
stick about rivalry between the
police and fire departments, with
plenty of old-fashioned Mack Sen
nett trimmings. I do4'A 3
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
ROWLANDSVILLE

A fire broke out at four o'clock on
Monday morning in the house be-
longing to Ed Barrett. This is the
second time within a few days that
the dwelling was on fire. Port De-
post fire company was called, but
could not save the house.
Miss Louise Ewing has accepted a
position with Mr.. Cummings, at the
Tome School, Port Deposit.
Emory Rawlings and Geo. Taylor
spent last week in Florida.
Mrs. Horace Taylor attended the
electrical demonstration meeting
held last Friday at the home of Mrs.
Lloyd Balderston, Colora, by the
Homemakers Clubs.
Mrs. Clinton Logan and daughter,
Helen called on Mrs. John Logan
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Taylor spent
the weekend with Mrs. Brinton
Reynolds, in Baltimore.
The Liberty Grove Homemakers
are holding an all day quilting on
Wednesday, April 10th.
The Rowlandville Ladies Aid So
ciety will meet with Mrs. Willard
Bannister on Thursday, April IL, at
eight o'clock in the evening.
-9h john ot?Rarnest,e
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
SENATOR ROE AND CONGRESS
SIGNAL NOMINATION

That there is a plethora of candi-
dates for the Democratic nomination
for Congress from the First District
of Maryland, of which Somerset
County is a part, is well-establish-
ed fact. So much of fact that per-
haps not all of the voters have been
able to keep up with the candidates
and their filings.
Somerset is one of the nine coun-
ties comprising the First District that
does not have a native son as an
aspirant for the Democratic nomina-
ton. 1t does, however, have an as
pirant for the Republican nomina-
ton in the person of States At
torney F. Kirk Maddrix.
In the several Democratic candi-
dates there is much to be said in
favor of each.
If each of the several candidates
were to give a frank statement con-
corning their record and experience,
and their stand on the various prob
lems-in other words, get some sort
of a platform-such as did the Hon.
Dudley G. Roe of Queen Anne's
County, two weeks ago, the people
might be in better position to judge
their respective qualifications.
Senator Roe's Legislative expert
ence, in our Judgment, makes him
unquestionably the outstanding cand-
idate yet to announce for Congress
in either party; and coupled with
the fact that he has the endorsement
of Democrats, not only in his own
county of Queen Anne's, but through
out the First Congressional District,
will have a great influence on voters
who have not as yet made their
choice.-Crisfeld Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
LOCAL TEAMS IN CITY LEAGUE

Darlington and HaVfe de Grace
have been given franchises in the
Baltimore City Base Ball League.
The following teams compose this
semi-professional base ball league:
Bloomingdale, Bethlehem Ste e l,
Brooklyn, Irvington, Sixth District
Democratic Club, Glen Burnie, Darl-
ington and Havre de Grace.
The schedule will include 81
double headers, AZ games in all,
which will be played on Fl consecu-
tive Sundays, commencing May 5th,
and ending the latter part of Septem-
Der. The schedule is so arranged that
Darlington and Havre de Grace will
not play at home on the same date
The Darlington club will present
practically the same lineup as last
year, with exception of a few rein
forcements. Taylor r. Biles will
again be in charge of the club, and
at least six local boys will be on the
team.