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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

to represent their foreign players
as linguistic geniuses who mas.
tered English by talking with the
stewardess on the plane coming
from New York. Miss Hasso is NO
exception, although she didn't
come by way of New York she
came from Stockholm through Rus
STA, Manchukuo, Japan, Manila,
Honolulu, and San Francisco, and
is supposed to have learned Eng
fish en- route.
The trip helped, of course. She
had a month to study in Japan
while waiting for a steamer res
ervation. But she also won a schol-
arship for drama study in London
several years ago.
American talkies aided her, too.
Miss Hasso has seen most of them,
even though she has favored the
stage eve since she stepped into
a Moliere play at II. That was to
have been a brief engagement, in
cidntaIly, but just then good luck
came along in the disguise of fl
nancial ruin for her family. Signe
had to go on working. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

probably due to a streptococcus, il
works wonderfully. and in middle
ear infections in children the re.
suits r so good that in one hos.
pital I know of the number of mas.
told operations last year were cut
in two as compared to previous
years.
In pneumonia the saving in life
has amounted to from so to IS per
cent. A form of the drug closely
related and called sulfapyridine,
has, however, proved more effec-
tive than sulfanilamide itself. In
certain FORMS of pneumonia hither-
to considered almost invariably ia.
tai, the death rate has been cut to
10 or IS per cent, and while the
final summary of results does not
quite justify the statement made
a year or two ago by a prominen
physician that Now, no one need
die of pneumonia still the re-
suits have shown great improve
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
f. R. PR0MULCATES
RULES FOR DRAFT
President Asks Governors
To Recommend Directors.
Cites Importance

HYDE PARK N. Y. Sept. %.
-R-President Roosevelt ordered
into effect today two volumes of
rules and regulations for the oper-
alton of the nations first peace
time CONSUMPTION machinery.
That action followed his request
to the 48 governors to organize
the draft system in their respec-
tive states and to recommend to
him Immediately persons to be,
named state directors of selective
service and members of local .clas-
s%ification and selection boards.
The Book of Instructions" for
running the draft machine were
incorporated in a 61-page executive
order, which the president signed
as soon as it arrived from Wash
ington this morning.
Prepared by the Justice depart
ment, a special committee of six
named by Mr.. Roosevelt to, coor-
dinate CONSUMPTION plans, and
Lieut.. Col. Lewis B. Hershey, war
department draft expert, the orr
der contained .voluminous details.
1t even contained a diagram, def
initions of singular and plural, told
the type of furniture to be used
in registration offices and the type
of telephone calls that would be
allowed.
The order said the purpose of
selective service was to secure an
orderly, just, n democratic,
method whereby the military man.
power of the United States may
be made available for training and
service in the land and naval fore
es of the United States, as provid-
ed by the congress, with the least
possible disruption of the social,
and economic life of the nation" 2
The elements of selective ser
vice, as outlined in the order will
operate in this manner:
Registration will be handled by
local election machineries or other
designated agencies. Local boards
one to each are Of approximate
ly 300 0 population with three or
more members appointed by the
President. will classify registra-
tants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

There seems to be no doubt now
that in many infections it does do
that magical thing-when absorbed
into the blood, it kills or stops the
action of infective living germs
while doing no harm to the living
blood cells or body cells in the
midst of which the germs ar e
growing.
Effective in Many Infections
The list of diseases in which the
new drugs have been found useful
is long. Most Of them ri due to
the. kind of germs known as cocci.
A coccus is round sometimes they
grow in chains as the streptococci
sometimes in clusters as the sta
phylococci sometimes in pairs, as
the pneumoaRcci.
Sulfanilaralde is very effective
against streptococcal infections,
even those hitherto considered
fatal-such as blood-stream infec-
tions. In scarlet fever, which is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
CALM MIR. THOMPSON
LICKS SOPHOMORE JUNK

CINCINNATI ReGene Thomp-
son, a big, calm Illinois boy who
almost missed a baseball career
because of an attack of home-sick-
ness, is a mainstay of Deacon Will
liam McKechnic's Cincinnati pitch
ing staff.
Gene had a pretty good year as
a 1899 rookie but everybody said
look out for the sophomore jinx. 1t
hit him, all right, in the for mnf
some close defeats, but he worried
little and went ahead throwing the
same kind of balls to come out
with a stable winning average.
His pitching style is something
like Paul Derringer's, slow ana
easy. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
LEONARD RAPED
FOR PARTY BOLT
Anti-Sales Tax Chief Can
No Longer Look To Dem
ocrats For Help
Star-NewS Bureau
Sir Walter HnfeI

S1r Walter dOLeI
RALEIGH, Sept. 23.-Raleigh's
reaction to the bolt to Willkie of
raul Leonard, Fair Tax asso-
sIstlon secretary and the states
.aOSt persistent foe of the sales
"1, IS positive, though brief.
his goose is cooked" is the
suin and substance of opinions ex-
dressed regarding Paul's plea for
ael1ocrats to follow him in sup
p0it OF the G.. O. P.'s presidential
Nominee.
Nobody questions the . Leonard
soufage and sincerely; but his flop
has more than raised grave doubts
" MS political sagacity-it has
nelinlteiy convinced politicians and
poli'lcal observers here that Mr..
cceonard as a factor in North
va C%arollna's tax setup and its politi-
through"
reasoning of these usually sage
vlouals is direct and to t h e
SO 4m 1t goes about like this:
has ny boiling the party, Leonard
ans forever made it impossible for
IT, fly democratic legislature to pay
slightest attention to him."
from there on the logic is in
be apaole: Every legislature will
will ueihocratic, hence Mr.. Leonard
y,;t forever hereafter be entirely
"''hout legislative influence"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Refugee Ship k
Termed british Lie

BERLIN, Sept. 23.-R-OfficiaI
German circles today described
the story of the sinking of a Brit.
ish refugee ship as a tea jerk.
err intended to get the United
States into the war on Britain
side.
It was said officially 70 passen-
ger vessel identifiable as such had
been torpedoed by any German u
boat or plane either within or out
side the announced blockade zone
Further, it was said officially,
not even a freighter has been tor
pedoed outside h e announced
blockade zone unless it was clearly
armed. Naval circles said no u
boat or plane has been operating
900 miles off the English coast.
German official sources asked
why the name of the steamer was
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
South Votes Dec. z
On 1871 Cotton Quota

RALEIGH, Sept. 23.-R-Cotton
growers of North Carolina and the
South will vote December Z on
whether to have a 1941 cotton mar
keting quota program.
E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive Off
Ger, said today there no
changes proposed in the cotton pro-
gram in effect for three years. He
said the acreage allotted would be
about 81, 900, 900, though only 25,100,-
900 acres were planted this year,
and the production would be about
~, DOC, 900 bales at a maximum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
In Hollywood
BY PAUL
NEA Service Staff CORRESPONDENT

service staff Correspondent
~HOLLYWOOD.-As Deputy'Com
missioner of the Department OF
Glamor, Wham, Zowie and Umph,
it is my pleasure to announce the
arrival here of a redheaded trick
named Signe Hasso. She's Swed-
ish. ''Signe" means bless you."
"Hasso" seems to be just a name,
like Stiernhielm or Gustavsen, ex-
cept that it looks better on the
marquee.
Hollywood has been trying to get
Signe Hasso over here for five
years, or ever since she was 20
and already an established stage
favorite Of the ford and smorgas-
bord regions, Metro and 2Oth-Fox
started the bidding. She was i'm
pressed, naturally, but she had a
husband and a brand-new son who
were not.
Her husband, besides being an
artist and director, is a cinema
scientist who has invented several
important camera c~ontraptions.
Anyway, he knows a lot about the
movie business, and he told her
not to be in a hurry about listening
to Hollywood. He even kept her
out of Swedish films until she was
able to enter them at the top, as a
theater celebrity.
ON LINE FOR
SEVEN PICTURES
When it finally was decided that
she should come here, RKO was
the studio she chose. Hell contract
isn't the sort of excursion ticket on
which a score or so OF foreign
cuties have visited Hollywood, be-
lying their ballyhoo by doing a
couple of bit parts before fading
out again. r
Miss Hasso is on the blotted line
for seven pictures in four years,
and with foul mcntns of each year
free for a return to the Swedish.
stage or studios.
What the seven pictures will be
is anybody's guess. The first one
may be a super-westcrn-the re-
cent Clarence Buddington Kelland
yarn about the founding of Phoe-'
nix, Ariz., and reclamation OF. the
desert. Miss Hasso would be the
Swedish gal who ran a restaurant,
dealing out lots of food but no
whatever to the predatory
However, Miss Hasso
play the role like some
she. Viking with a cleavcr-broad-
sword at her belt. The actress IS
too warm a personality.
The dark red hair helps, OF
course, yet there's nothing about
her that reminds you OF her ane
mic and pale-spirited country
woman, Greta Carlo. There's
nothing flaccid about her hand
shake or frigid in her grin, ana
she's enviably equipped for grin
aing.' If she resembles anybody
,ereabeut. it's Steffi Duna.
MOLERE
At IL
Miss Hasso hasso little accent
and gallops along so smoothly in
conversation that h idiomatic
seem especially funny.
She'll stop on a syllable and grope
lround in utter confusion for some
title expression like time after
ime" or sure Of myself"
don't know why all studios try
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Wilkie Suggests Use
For Electric Powe,

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 23.-R-
Wendell L. Willkie urged today that
electric power from the Bonneville
and Grand Coulee dams be used for
the industrial development of the
northwest and for domestic use at
the lowest possible rates.
The republican presidential nomi.
nee expressed pleasure at being in
the home state Of his running mate,
Senator McNary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Washington
BY U CATION
(The News Washington
Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. - Al
though it has been more or less
lost sight of in the press of more
spectacular happenings, the gov
ernment's drive to re-establish the
rubber-growing industry in Latir
America may eventually rate az
one of the most important events
of the year.
Launched as part of the hem
isphere defense program, the ven
ture is really one which the Agri,
culture Department has ben plug
ging for 20 years. If completed
along the lines now projected, il
would break the Anglo-D Dutch Far
Eastern rubber monopoly and cut
Uncle Sans annual rubber bill in
half.
Incidentally, it would probably
mean more exports for the United
States, by vastly increasing Latin
Americas purchasing power.
PERENNIAL
REQUEST GRANTED
Every year for a long time the
Agriculture Department has been
asking Congress to finance the ex-
perimental and research work
which must be done before the
industry can be re-established in
the New World. Each year Con-
gress has turned the request down.
This year, however, the request
came up just after the conquest
Of Holland, when congress was,
beginning to worry about the fu-
ture Of the Dutch East Indies and
the Malay peninsula, whence 80
per cent of the U. S. rubber sup
ply now comes. So $500, 900 was
voted, and the department went
to work.
Three research expeditions are
now in the field; one along the
Amazon and the two ranging from
Colombia to Yucatan. Local gov.
ernments r giving full co-opera-
ton and are chipping in to defray
various local expenses. Reports
from. the field expeditions won't
be ready until some time this win
ter.
If the war should choke off the
existing rubber supply within the
next year or so, none of this will
be of any use in the emergency.
What the experts have in mind
is a long-range program which,
probably couldn't begin to have
an effect on the world r u b b e r
market for eight or 10 years.
COST WOULD
BE LOWERED
What it could do then, however,
would be plenty.
British and Dutch growers, Sc.
cure in their monopoly, have let
themselves get stuck with what
industry would call an obsolete,
Production on their Far
Eastern plantations generally runs
between 200 and 400 pounds per
acre. New strains giving much,
greater yields have been devel-
oped, but since it takes a good
1--WE years to get a new plantation
into production, the Far Eastern
growers have gone along with the
old 1ow-yield strains.
In the New World, however, the
story would be different. Once the
best soils and climates were found,
and the proper disease-resistant,
of rubber tree selctd,
tn Latin American plantations
could start from scratch with
of around 1900 pounds per
acre.
Best guess right now is that the
could sell profitably at 10
cents a pound-as compared with
he current level of around 20 cents
sor the Far East.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
THEY O EVEN

Lands R-When a scaffold
scaffold broke and hurled A. B.
Weaver, a contractor, and two of
his men to the ground the right
leg of each of the three was bro.
ken just above the ankle. The
broke and hurled A. B. Weaver, a
place on the leg of each man.3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
GERMANY CLAIMS
q R. A.. F. PLANES
0ulv Five OF Own Lost,
Tremendous Fires Set In
Heart OF London

BERLIN, Sept. 23-lR-Twenty-
British planes were destroyed
Oaainst five German machines
ssissing in air fighting over Eng
1and today, DNB, official Ger
nan news agency, announced to-
night.
tremendous fires,'' so great they
r,ore visible from t h e French
coast. we're spread in the center OF
london by waves of Nazi night
raiders. informed German sources
declared today.
~Piccadilly Circus and the Regent
park district in the heart OF the
british capital, as well as CONNER
rial docks along the Thames river
we're hurt, they said, in rolling
raids throughout last night by $50
Nazi battle planes.
In a daylight continuation of the
assault, described by the high
command as new full strength
air raids, they said II British
rlanes had been shot down so far
today in seven air fights" over
southern England. Four German
rlanes have not returned, they
acknowledged.
The high command also reported
new blows against British ship
ming as Foreign Minister Joachim
Won %Ribbentrop sped home to tell
Adolf Hitler of his Rome discus
sions of Axis hopes for carving up
the empire of a conquered Britain.
Nazi air raiders, the high COM
mand communique said, hit port
facilities, docks and other war
important targets" in night at
Jacks on London and also bombed
other military detectives in south
err England.
At sea, it said one commerce.
stalking submarine had sunk four
British merchant ships totaling
$4,000 tons and a s%peedboat had
sunk a 3,000-ton merchantmen and
"incapacitated" a patrol vessel off
the English coast.
Tear Jerker'
Other official German sources
ridiculed British charges that a
German torpedo sank the British
refugee liner which went d o w n
last Tuesday about 600 miles off
the English coast with a loss of
1913 lives. They called the British
account a tear jerker' aimed at
winning the United States as an
ally,
No passenger vessel which could
be Identified as such has been tor
Eeioed by a German submarine or
Tarplane inside or outside the. an
nounced zone of the blockade of
Britain, they said, nor has any u
boat or plane been opera ing as
far off the English coast as the
sinking was said to have occurred.
As evidence of the extent and
success Of German air attacks on
Britain, an athorized source said
80, 900, 900 pounds of bombs h a dI
been dropped by the German air
force since July 10 on British tar
gets and mentioned these statis-
tics: 5000 factories damaged, L.
Of them in the London area;
$500, 600, 900 damage to f. end
storehouses; 20 per cent of
Brltan's ga and electric plants
destroyed or severely damaged;
2W attacks on British ports in
which 1900, 900 pounds of bombs
been dropped; 700 raids on
alrports; hundreds of miles of rail-
road track damaged.
Ramon Serrano Suner, Spanish
minister of government, was I'M
aerstood to be waiting for Won
SlDoentrop's return for further
conferences with Nazi leaders.
There were rumors, c. which
authorized sources made no com
ment, that the German foreign
minister would visit Madrid and
mat Count Galeazzo Ciano, Pre-
hler Mussolini's foreign minister,
soon Won come to Berlin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M. d.

~ AO022N I4N4GyU Vys ID.
The medical journals for the past
two years have devoted their space
largely to accounts of the action
of sulfanilamide on various dis.
eases. This new drug seems to
answer the requirements for the
magic bullet recently exploited on
the movie serena drug which
is deadly for germs, but does not
harm the human tissues in which
the germs are growing. We have
had a number of these bullets for
the protozoan diseases-quinine for
malaria, for instance, and ipecac
for amoebic ~dysentery. All of our
experience, such as it was, indi.
Gated that the magic bullet for.
germs would be a dye (mercuro-
chrome is a familiar example),
and sulfanilamide is a form of dye.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
GRID BROADCASTS

RALEIGH-The executive COM
mittee of the University of North
Carolina trustees met today to con-
slider lifting the ban on commercial
broadcasts Of football games played
by N. C. State and North Carolina.
President Frank p. Graham of the
Greater University also was asked
to report on a WPA-approved prof.
ect to Improve the Chapel Hill air
port.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
BY The Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. 23.-The sinking
OF a British refugee ship with a
toll of 293 persons, 80 of them
children enroute to Canada, stun
ned Britocs today and brought
headlines of murder" in the Lon
don press.
The government waited until to-
day to announce the tragedy of al
most a week ago to give, welfare
workers opportunity to notify the
chlldren's parents in London,
Liverpool and Midd1esex after ex-
hausted survivors were brought to
a northern port.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

not given. A German source said
the whole thing was regarded here
as a maneuver to furnish a talk
ing point for the radio address of
King George this afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

aesors must speak louder in cold
ard; nef IN order to be heard 1.-The
49, eaees wear more clothes and
N''Ves absorb sound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
(By The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE-About $1,000 per-
sons attended the seventh annual
Carolinas singing convention here
yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-10-10
By LOGAN CLENDENING, VI. D.

o The American institution of
breakfast, l am given to under
stand, is in danger Of at least par
tial eclipse. The danger affects
households where both parents
work. There is little or no danger
in this when there are no children,
but with a school child in the
household, authorities agree serl-
Gus problem may arise. Malnucri-
ton in American school children
of grade school age is much more
frequent than supposed. The school
child often cannot depend upon the
likelihood Of getting 4 nourishing
lunch so breakfast becomes the
mainstay of the rouriehment for
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-10-10

DR.. Clendenins will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-10-10

Ketogenic Diet-Many requests
have come in for a prescription
tor the ketogenic diet for epilepsy.
In general, it consists in high fat
and low starch: concentrated suC-
ars such as candy, and desserts,
are prohibited. Exact prcscrip-
tons cannot be calculated unless
age and weight are known, and
should be ordered by a physician.
1t IS best to consul: the physician
anyway to determine whether the
condition really Is epilepsy. The
function Of this column is not to
teach people to treat themselves,
but to teach thorn what their doc.
tors cen do for hem.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-10-10
Breakfast Dodgers
lis Unwise with Children in Rome

Malnutrition in children of the
school age is a very common cause
of deficiency in scholarship. In it's
early and less developed forms it
is not always easy to detect. It
frequently goes without recogni-
ton for a long time because the
child is less under rigid supervi-
sion at this age than he was when
younger.
Early recognition is, however,
important, and the energies of
health and school authorities are
being directed more and more to
this end.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
L. N.-"What are the causes
and cures of impetigo?"
Answer-Impetigo is a pus in
lection OF the skin around the nose
and mouth, usually occurring in
infants. 1t is caused by the ordi-
nary pus germs, staphylococcus
and streptococcus. Due to scratch
ing and handling it may spread
very rapidly and widely and be-
come very serious. Treatment is
first to restrain the infants hands
and arms to prevent this scratch
ing. Local treatment consists in
the use of ammoniatcd mercury
ointment. The scabs may be soft
cned and removed with sterile
olive oil and sterile dressings
should be applied. In a serious
case, however, it is no disease for
an amateur to tackle. A doctor
should be consulted.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-10-10

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