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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
REVOLUTION HINTED

Gun-running to Mexico, for which the Rem
ington Arms company has been indicted, gains
significance from the fact that a presidential
election is not far ahead in that country.
President CARDENAs is said to have named
a successor of his own political stamp. The
other candidate is understood to be liberal
minded, and proposes to restore foreign oil
concessions to their proper owners. Already
Mexican newspapers forecast that the election
will not be determined without bloodshed.
This, Of course, is the way Mexican cleo
tons are usually run. Revolution is the Gus.
tomary aide of the ballot. Not since DAz
has Mexico enjoyed a long period of internal
peace.
1t appears likely, therefore, that we will
have a war at our southern border at no dis.
tant date, and one in which the United States
have to take a hand in it is improbable. We
have gone a long way since General ScoTT
led an army across the Rio Grande. But it
is not to be denied that whatever sentiment
this nation will have in the probable civil
war will be on the side of the presidential
candidate who wants to do justice to the pc
troleum companies whose properties were
seized by CARDENAs. Nor is it to be denied
that Mexico's own interests would best be
served by return of the properties to foreign
operators.
Mexican engineers, it is reliably reported
are unable to operate the seized refineries
profitably. The product they are putting out
it far under par. In fact, it is so poor that
governments to which it has been committed
are unable to use it, with the result that pc
troleum products are not affording the finan
clal returns CARDENAs anticipated. Again I'm.
der foreign, notably American, operation, the
Mexican oil fields would become a source OF
income. not only for the operators, but fo1
the Mexican government as we'll.
But it would be better for all concerned II
Mexico could elect a liberal president without
resort to bullets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Man bout
Manhattan
= By George Tucker

NEW YORK, March 11.-Years
ago there came out of the gorilla
dives of the big river towns a COM
~plicated form of piano playing known
as boogie-woogie. Its rhythmic pat
terms were unpredictable. 1t was
blood and bone stuff, bred in the
~fingertips, and only a few Negroes,
and almost no whites, could play it.
pine Ton" Smith, now dead, and a
few other famed rivertown charac-
tiers, notably Crippled Clarence
Lotion, and the two Yancey boys,
Jimmy and Alonzo,, were boogie-
woogie kings.
Around them gathered three big
strong boys named Meade LUX Lewis.
Pete Johnson, and Albert Ammons,
who brought to boogie-woogie a sort
of vague, slush-bottom refinement;
then they brought it TO Carnegie
Hall. Since then they have prosper
cd in an underground Greenwich Vii.
lage tavern known as Cafe Society.
No one really knows what boogie-
woogie is. 1t has never been set
down on paper. But Elliot Paul, the
novelist, thinks it goes straight back
to the beginnings of what music was
first intended for.
Basically, it is a kind of bass fig
ure with the right hand making va.
riations around the left. But the
left hand is melody, too, in a Bach
sense. Simplified, you might say that
boogie-woogie is a game of cops and
.robber, with the right hand (the
cops trying to overtake the left.
Modern swing addicts have mis-
named boogie-woogie "gut-bucket,'
or low-swing. but Elliot Paul thinks
it has loftier qualities. He came
home from Paris just to study it,
and only the other night he gave a
concert with Ammons (his teacher).
Lewis, and johnson to a packed
house at the Cafe Society. Paul is
a bearded, shy, intensely enthusi-
astic man and one of the very few
whites the Negroes accept as a top
notch boosie-woogie player.
Famous for his Life and Death
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Star-News Program

Consolidated %City-County Government.
under CouncilManager Administrator.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena tor Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrtghtsvtlIe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-foot Cane Fear River chgnnel, Eid-
er Turning Basin, uith ship lanes INTO
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, "d
orion Plantation.
Developm emit OF Pulp Wood Produc'
ton throuoh sustained-y yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported by one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Neoro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
ADEQUATE hospital facilities for Vhites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm ent OF native grape groa1tng
th~rouohout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdnatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
LEONARD PRAISED
lear Sir:

Dear Sir:
= think the public should know
how the members of the North
Carolina Fair Tax association feel
toward their secretary. Mr.. PAU
Leonard of S~tatesville. AS a member
of the association I want to thank
the press for giving u Greensboro
convention such fine publicity. But
T regret they did not tell about the
rousing vote Of confidence a n q
thanks we gave Mr.. Leonard.
After Mr.. Leonard made his an
nual address and financial report
the convention have him a rising
vote of thanks. Then at the close or
the meeting after he agreed to
serve us another year I made
motion that We express our conf
dence in him and pledge him the
solid backing of our an
over the state in everything he asks
us to do. Everybody in the audience
Jumped to their feet as one man
because everybody felt just as l did.
We realize that to accomplish our
we must have the leader
ship of a man like Mr.. Leonard VINO
deals in facts and figures which can
not be disputed and has steered our
organization on a non-partlsan
course which is the marvel of many
politicians. I am glad he made 1t
clear that he is not seeking public
office. His usefulness to the voters
and taxpayers of the state is en-
HANGED by his determination to
work for principles and not Tor
personal political gain.
I read a number Of daily papers
everyday. I am sure the reading
public is now convinced that the
Fair Tax association meant what 1t
said through it's leaders before the
last legislature. We said that il n
state did not cut expenses and re-
peal the sales tax we would take
our case testing the tax to the u.
S. supreme court and we would
make economy and efficiency in
government and repeal Of the sales
tax major campaign issues in the
next election. We had three candi-
dates for governor in our Green's
boro meeting who pledged publicly
they would work for these very
things, and three more candidates
have announced platforms in line
with our legislative program.
My principal regret about our
Greensboro convention is that Mr..
David owens and Mr.. Chas. Jonas
were not able to be there in per
son. Their letters read to us were
fine. But we needed them to put the
punch behind what they said.
I think the Fair Tax associations
objects and legislative program are
the best platform which has been
offered the people Of North Caro-
lima in rs years. I know a great
deal of good has been done by this
group. 1t now behooves the people
as a whole to follow our leadership
and e to it that we put a COVER
nor and legislature in Raleigh who
will cut expenses and get rid Of un-
fair taxes. MI. Leonard is right
when he says we should put more
business men in Raleigh even if we
have to draft them as candidates. 1t
makes no differences whether they
are democrats, republicans or in
dependents, just so they are good,
honest business men and not poll.
ticians.
r. S. POWELL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
IMPORTANT SOVIET
SPY IS ARRESlD
Miami Herald Says Chairman
Dies Will Bring Him Be.
fore Committee

MIAMI, Fla, March 11.-tP-Tha
Herald said tonight an importm.
Russian spy had been arrested nel.
Washington and Chairman Martin
Dies would bring him before tha
congressional committee on IN
American activities, probably Fri
day.
Dies is at Miami Beach where to
day he was informed by America
Legion officials that $4,000 aliens
had gathered in Cuba with the in
tention of finding a way into ta'
United States.
The newspaper said ii mad Learned
authoritatively that the Russian, as
sertedly one of the heads OF Liz
Soviet spy ring in this country, h1l
gained entry through Miami BY w
of Cuba and had been instrumental
in getting other members OF ''
Russian secret police past InlEngEr
ton authorities.
The prisoner was said to nav
made a full report Of his American
activities.
Dies declined to comment on ~'
Herald's statements.
James Barney, commander s,
James Frost Bailey, Chairman u
the resolutions and lmmlsIa""1
committee of the Harvey SEEDS p''
American Legion. informed 'A'
chairman of the alleged concen1'
ton of aliens in Cuba. -,
"I want to know where the Is'A
is in our frontier" Dies comfaeA's-
'"They must have some Sooa ~.
son to think they can get ILL., ~, ~,
the quota has been taken Up ~
10 years."
The committee chairman plans :.
return to Washington 'oi'i0'''
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Better Farm Markets
Are Urged By Ma11'

MORVEN, March 11-Lh-oU@,
material candidate a. j. MaA"eA W. y,
the Civilian club here tonlsn' -,
progress for North Carolina sitV.,
come "from the ground up a.
through extending the 6eheli, -,
improved roads and other ssr'-''
to neglected communities ,.a
Rural problems are peculiar" nj ii
ficult at the present time liz ~"
but by improving these base l LAW
ties of rural progress ana py u
every available means to s','' rrr,
better markets for diversllleu o w.
products. VIC can stimulate lil.'. n
ing interest in rural HE
state.' uos
and said he was %"proud' 10 !"
supported him in 1886
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

of a Spanish Town." and at least
eight other novels, Paul took some
boogie-woogie records to Paris with
him and attempted to transpose the
notes to paper. He found that they
defied him. When he returned to
the States he sat at Ammons' elbow
for months mastering its complicated
patterns.
Boogie-woogie is full of shakes"
and embellishments, probably be-
cause it was born" on rickety old
pianos then on their last legs. The
dilapidated old uprights have passed
on, but the shakes have remained.
When Paul gave his concert the 9TH
er night Lewis, Ammons and john
sol stunned him by presenting him
with a diploma" no other white
man has ever received this signal
honor from the boogie-woogie kings,
although Bob Zurke, the old tomcat
Of the keys and a few others are
recognized as Grade-A players.
OF the three, Paul says: "Am'
mons has an Olympian attitude to-
ward his playing, and is always
calm. Johnson is serious and
Woodworking. -. Meade LUX dux.
embourg) Lewis thinks in nocturns
and has all the nostalgia of his race.
Either instinctively follows. ]
couldn't lose them even if 1 stopped
in the middle of a piece and began
playing backwards. Neither reads a
note, although Ammons once played
piano for a famous orchestra for two
months before they found out he
couldn't read"
Paul has paused in the construc.
ton of his tenth novel, "Fracas in
the Hills" to capture the elusive
variations of boogie.woogie and put
them down on paper. For the first
time they are to be published in
sheet-music form. He is doing this
for Lewis, Johnson, and Ammons,
who hope he is right.
Meanwhile, the boogie-woogie
blows. It's a long, blue, smoky echo
from the old river towns; maybe New
Orleans was the first. The present
citadel is No. 2 Sheridan So.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Skies Probes Staying
OF Negro In Columbus

WHITEVILLE, March 11.-Coro'
ner J.. D. Skies today investigated
the death of Alex McClinton, negro
who was shot on March 3, in the
Spring Hill section of the county,
and who died of the wounds yes
terday in the Columbus County
hospital.
r. P. Smith, another negro, and
alleged assailant of McClinton, has
been held in the county Jail here
since the shooting.
Smith is said to have fired upon
McClinton as he approached Smiths
home bearing a gun. The accused
negro is said to claim that he shot
in self defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not n~ecessar1-
T., endorse any article appear
In this department.. They
ra1resent the views OF the n
d;vidual readers. Correspondents
ara warned that all comlnuni-
eations must contain the correct
nama and address for our rec
ords, though the letter may ne
s;ened as the writer sees III.
The .star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that Tor
anv reason IL Objectionable.
Letters on controversial sub
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Leland PIT. A. Study
Course Will Be Held

LELAND, March 1.-THE fourth
regular meeting Of the study course
of the Leland Parent-Teachers as.
ISOLATION will be held in the High
school building Wednesday after.
noon at $50 o'clock, it was an.
nounced last night.
An interesting program has been
arranged for the meeting.
The sponsors of the study course
nave invited all interested patrons
of the school to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
GIFT

LONDON, March 11.-CR-The
London Red Cross fund today receiv.
ed $500 pounds about $22,o from
Paul Mellon, son of the late Andrew
mellon, to buy ten ambulances for
use in France. The gift, it was an
founced, was made in memory of his
father.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Cooas.

HOLLYWOOD, March IL. -
THE Road to Singapore" Screen
play by Don Hartman and Frank
Butler from story by Harry Her.
vey. Directed by Victor Schert-
Finger: Bing Crosby, Dorothy
Lamour, Bob Hope. Charles CO.
burn, Judith Barrett, Anthony
Quinn, Jerry Colonna, Johnny
Arthur.
Bing Crosby is a busy chap. AL
ways working, what with n thing
and another-pictures, radio, horses,
golf. Always something on his mind.
And a chap like that, who works
hard and looks lazy, just naturally
fits into a tropic background.
That's just one theoretical expla'
nation of the fact that Crosby seems
very happy amid the %goings-on de.
pictA in this generally amusing.
frequently hilarious picture. He's
as happy as he was in waikiki We'd
ding" which took him to the lazy
sunshine of Hawaii with happy re-
suits for the Paramount exchequer.
The tropic background, with its
invitation to visitors to go native,
is right up the Crosby ally. Bing
is no great shakes for dolling up
he's flashy when he does it, but gen.
orally he likes to mosey around in
caps and sweaters such as the we'll
dressed movie star shouldn't wear
THE Road to Singapore" makes
Crosby keep his pants creased only
in a few sequences; before the pic
ture has gone two reels, his crisp
yachting uniform has been reduced
to a limp white bag, and Crosby is
lat home" abroad,
The spirit of lightness that is
woven through the films texture is
by no means entirely attributable to
the Crosby comfort. There's a fell
low named Hope. This is the first
time the rival radio stars have work.
ed together, and it's a happy team
ing.
The story is about a couple of
guys, one a big shipping family's
scion who would rather nibble the
lotus blossom than sit behind a desk,
the other a happy-go-lucky chap who
has no desk to tie him down. Crosby,
the scion, is a fugitive from a fami.
ly-sponsored marriage Ito Judith
Barrett) and from the law besides
after he and Hope become involved
In a couple of brawls.
They are bound for Singapore but
arrive practically broke on an is
land where they reiterate their joint
determination to have nothing to do
with women. That's just before La
mour, the dancing girl, hoves into
view. At this point the plot settles
down into a mess of complications
Lamour's partner, Quinn, and Cros-
by's ex-fiancee, Barrett, contributing
a share.
me whole blending of comedy and
reaches a capital climax in a
native wedding festival, more fun
than anything that has gone before.
music throughout is pleasant;
A novelty number called Captain
Custard,' a sentimental ballad about
the moon and a weeping willow tree
sung by a meltingly Lamourous La
mour, the hit-potentiality called "Too
Romantic and the "Sweet Potato
Piper"
With top-notch comic dialogue,
hope and Crosby play together nice.
~, and both turn in excellent per.
1ormances, aided by the occasional
stooging of the weirdly funny Colon.
The two stars did a bit of ad.
lloplng on the sets, which may ac'
count for the spontaneity often no.
llceable In their s%allies. There's a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
NEW LOW IN INSULTS

There IL nothing in Russian conduct to
justify expectation of even common civility
from the STAIN regime. But when the Rus.
sian radio attacks the Finnish premier, in
Moscow to negotiate a peace, it sets a new
low in insults.
That 1t did So suggests that Finland is
more to be feared than the Russians have
been willing to admit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
HOT.STUFF SENATOR
New Orleans States

Senator Peppers outbreak in the senate
against the federal governments investigation
of corruption in Louisiana is a first-class exhi-
bition of contemplate demagoguery. Spoken by
any less figure than a United States senator it
would be unworthy Of notice, however strongly
all decent and respectable people In Louisiana
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
Rites For R. NJ. Cowa y J.,
To Be Conducted l0dp'

Funeral services for R. N, G'v u.
well.knovn Maple Hill -a54,S, NON
died led at his home YESTERDAY 5,oa 5r ,
ing, will be held this @7''
1870 o'clock. u.ifs Ms
He is survived by Ni' pohert at
Roxie Cowan, two sons, P IJ;ll, Mrs.
Arnold Arnold cowan, of Maple :, MIR Mrs. u,
Nash johnson, OF Rosehli, Fvsrs..
T. Glass and Mrs. Henry
of Wilmington. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12
TOP o. THE MORNING

God is caring for as, and that care ertend'
10 the minutest details of lJe.
d.. JAMES I. VANCE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

story that Hope. spying one :: s.e.
screen writer's on the sl1 ~5Ilsrjze Q
ed t him with. iii yoa r%G S'5!y'
of your own lines ="
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

With top-notch comic dialogue,
Hope and Crosby play together nice.
~, and both turn in excellent per.
1ormances, aided by the occasional
stoog1ng of the weirdly funny Colon.
ma. the two stars did a bit of ad.
llbplng on the sets, which may &C.
count o the spontaneity often no.
llceable In their sallies. There's a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

THERE is in Wilmington the clash of two
= eras. The people are divided into two
In the one are tradltionallsts, IN the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-12

HOLLYWOOD, March II. -
THE Road to Singapore" Screen
play by Don Hartman and Frank
Butler from story by Harry Her.
vey. Directed by Victor Schert-
Finger: Bling Crosby, Dorothy
Lamour, Bob Hope. Charles CO.
burn, Judith Barrett, Anthony
Quinn, Jerry Colonna, Johnny
Arthur.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-01
HENDERSONVILLE MAN ALSO
IN WRECK IN WHICH GRAY DIED

ASheVllle. Feb. l-(AP) - The
body of q man identified as Franklin
Gray. about 80, was found early to-
day. lying beside Z wrecked auto
mobile near Asheville and William
c. Mitcham. Jr.. secretary of the
Hendersonville Chamber of Com
merce. was being treated in a Hen
Jacksonville hospital for injuries be-
lieved to have been suffered in the
same accident.
Buncombe county officers said
they were told Mitcham and Gray
had started by auto for Asheville
late last night.
About a. m, the officers reported
Mitcham, seemingly in a daze, ap-
peared at Il garage in Fletcher, two
miles from the scene of the wreck.
A garage attendant was reported
as saying he was cut and bruised on
the head and face At the Hender-
sonville hospital it was said his feet
were frozen.
Full eXtest of his injury was not
aScertained Immediately.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-01
Miss Poteat,
Meredith Art
Teacher, Dies

Raleigh, Feb. 1-(AP)-Miss Ida
Isabella Poteat, 8l-year-old art
teacher beloved by hundreds of
Meredith college alumni and stud
ents, died this morning.
Miss Poteat underwent an opera
ton yesterday at Rex hospital.
The entire college community was
deeply affected by the death OF
Miss Ida and all social affairs
planned in connection with Foun-
ders Day exercises tomorrow were
Immediately cancelled. The formal
Founders Day celebration will be
held with DR.. Frank P. Graham Of
the University of North Carolina as
speaker.
Miss Poteat was a member of one
Of this sections outstanding families
in the field of. education and relig-
ion. Two brothers were the late DR..
William Louis Poteat, educator and
minister and president emeritus of
Wake Forest College, and the late
Dr.. E. McNeill Poteat, president OF
Furman University.
Miss Poteat came to Meredith to
each art when it opened in Sep
TENDER 1899, and was the only
member Of the original faculty still
at Meredith when she died.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-01
Applications
Are Many But
Loans Few
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.

Raleigh, Feb. 1.-Many are apply
inc. but few will be chosen for loans
under the Farm Security Admins
trations project to aid North Car
Dina tenants, SharecropperS and fal m
laborer- ~ buy and improve Inns,
it appe rs from figures released to-
day by Vance +. Swift, Raleigh, State
Director Of the Farm Security Ad-
ministration.
So iar there have been 1870 APP
plications for loans il North Carolina
under the Eanknead-1OneS Farm
Tenant Act; but there will be made
only from $50 ~ 800 such loans.
Swift said
In l938-39, thc first fiscal year Of
the acts operations. there we're -
ceived in North Carolina 1921 aps
plications Tor loans. willie 395 Loans
were actually made. The chance Of
getting loan. therefore, seems 10
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-01
Hudson Urges
Live At Home
Program

c. r. Hudson, State agent in
charge o. Negro work for the State
College Extension Service, this NOR
ming urged Vance county Negro
farmers to produce their food and
feed at home and not to place their
dependence in their tobacco crops
for cash income. He spoke at a
meeting held in the court house
IN Henderson.
Mr.. Hudson said that he believes
that the 1910 crop OF tobacco would
not bring fair price. and the re-
action OF his hearers indicated that
this belief was shared by the Vance
producers. On the other hand, Mr..
Hudson said, the federal soil con-
servation program offers benefits to
the farmers who will devote their
attention to diversification.
Other speakers on the program in
Guided J. w. Sanders, county farm
agent; J. T. Richardson, assistant
agent; Luther Shaw of the State
College Extension Service: and H.
E. Webb, Negro farm agent, who
presided.
About 125 Negro farmers at
tended the meeting, County Agent
Sanders said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-01
Fred Hight
Presiides At
City Court

Mayor PROTEIN Fr.d 3. Hight pre-
sided at today's session of city court,
WIN minor charges to be heard.
jamie thompson pleaded guilty to
oeing drunk, and was given 80 days,
SUSPENDED upon payment of a fine
Of ST and costs of court.
GarIand Harper entered a plea OF
guilty to being drunk, and was fined
81 and taxed with the costs of court
Buck Driver was before the Judge
on a charge OF assaulting and beat
ing hooert Williams. He entered a
plea Of guilty, and was fined S. and
taxed with the costs of court.
Frank Young, Negro, one 81 the
best patrons of the city court was
up on his usual charge, that Of being
drunk, and drew 80 days on the roads
for being drunk, suspended upon
payment Of S. and costs of court