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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
The Burma Road

Apparently the Japanese have decided not
to do anything more, automatically, about the
reopening Of the Burma road, at least for the
present. Instead, they will try to keep the. road
closed with bombs. They can drop their bombs
almost at will. But the problem is not easy,
even at that.
The road runs through wild country. There
are long stretches where it twists and curves
between steep mountains, and here it is diff
cult for bombers to be accurate. Elsewhere
Chinese labor crews are being placed to re-
pair whatever damage is done as soon as the
planes fly back to their bases. The contest will
be a struggle between modern explosives and
primitive human muscle.
It is by nd means certain that the Japanese
will win out. They are closer to the road now
because of their new bases in Indo-China. But
they could not block the road before, and they
may fail again.
One thing this strange warfare points out
is that China is not yet defeated. Despite all
the Japanese victories she still holds out. It is
a remarkable and hopeful fact in a world
where many facts are of the other kind.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
It's So Confusing

While each day brings new developments
in the confused situation centering just now
around the German military mission" to Ru-
mania. it cannot be said that they provide any
clear indication Of what to expect next. Indeed,
some of them seem only to make the puzzle
still more intricate.
For example, the purpose behind the state
ment made at Berlin is difficult to fathom.
At the German capital, officials fatty contra
dicted the assertion made by Tass, Russian
news agency, to the effect that Moscow had
not been informed in a timely manner that
German troops were going to Rurnania and
had not been told how many were to be sent
or for what ends.
The two announcements can be reconciled,
in a way. Germany gave Russia a general
warning of what was coming, without bother
ing to include full details. But German insis-
tence that relations with Russia are good, bet
ter today than they were when the ~non-aggres-
sion pact was signed a year ago last umme
seems to clash with the plain implication of
the lass denial.
To make the Tass release still more mex
u4S 4A1APO4 LII oopo14CoS AASWopdPCA
Hochi has stated that Joseph Stain is about
to call a conference at Moscow that will be
attended by German, Italian and Japanese
representatives. Thus from two Axis capitals
come broad hints that Russia is not to be ex-
cluded by the Axis powers but is to be wooed
instead. Possibly we have here the results of
the limitations that Russia has viewed Axis
moves with concern. Or it may be that the un-
derstanding between Germany and Russia is
as strong as Berlin says it is. At any rate, it
would be over-optimistic to count on Stain
stepping in to block Germany in the Balkans
until he actually takes the plunge. At the same
time, it is a fact that Stain has modified a
great army on the Rumanian border and
Turkey, a friend Of Britain, claims Russia
friendship too.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
French Bond Redemption

The announcement that France would call,
the usual manner, for redemption 49, 1856, 200
seven-per cent dollar bonds, is said to have
caused no surprise in financial circles. But
there was general qualification, because it
means that no insurmountable obstacles had
been placed in the way of this normal financial
transaction by the French, German or United
authorities, all of whom presumably
had a say in the matter.
Although the sevens were not traded on
Wednesday, the day the announcement was
made, an indication of the effect of the de-
cision was discernible in a run-up of nine
points in French stamped seven and one-halfs.
Little of the money now provided is likely to
be paid out on this side of the Atlantic. The
French dollar debt officially is placed at about
$88, ooo, 900, but the great bulk Of the bonds
were repatriated years ago.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
estimated at the end Of last year that
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
An Important Meeting

Rep. J. Bayard Clark will discuss the place
OF the ex-service man in the defense program
at the meeting sponsored by the Wilmington
American Legion post on Wednesday night at
the high school auditorium. But it would be
wrong to assume that it will be strictly a vet.
Grams meeting. IN the contrary, it is a pub.
lie meeting, and any citizens of Wilmington
who remain way will be the losers.
There is a false idea, held by too many,
that the government is looking to the veterans
of other wars to carry on during the absence
of the National Guard, and that citizens lack.
ing previous military experience will have no
part in any home guard program. 1t is true
that, because they are peculiarly fitted by
their former service to undertake the duties of
a home guard, the veterans are to have a
prominent place in home defense activities, as
they richly deserve. But in the emergency we
face, which is becoming more serious from
day to day, there is a place for everybody. The
alone cannot do it all.
For this reason it is important that the non
military section of the population hear what
Representative Clark has to say and learn
from him where and how it can give the best
service in the troubled days ahead. None of
us is too old, or too young, for the task we
face. Mr.. Clark may be relied on to tell us
how we can best apply ourselves to the exact.
ing demands of defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
The Ajax Again

Britain's beleaguered population has had
very little to cheer about during the last few
weeks. The Nazi bombing raids have increased
to such a peak of ferocity that even the war;
hardened people of London must be praying
for a respite from the horror of crash
ing buildings and flaming homes. The
advance of German army units into Rumania
and the alliance of Japan with the Axis threat
ening new moves against a hard pressed en-
pire, must have given them new and anxious
thoughts.
The signal victory won by the light cruiser
units must, therefore, have been doubly wei.
come news. This warship and its crew had
already won a high place in British naval
history for the part they played in the battle
with the German pocket battleship Graf Spec,
off the South American coast. By sinking three
Italian destroyers off Sicily the Ajax has add
ed new laurels to its record.
It has also, and this is more important, dem
onstrated once more how securely British ma.
val power controls the reaches of this sea.
When Italy entered the war it was feared by
many that swift Italian warships designed es.
pecially for Mediterranean warfare supple
mented by the large Italian air fleet striking
from conveniently located bases might drive
the British out of the central portion of the
sea.
Instead, it is the more powerful but slower
British fleet which has taken and
forced the Italian warships to seek safety in
their ports. Malta, instead of being bombed
into submission, remains a British stronghold:
British supply and troopships still thread their
way through the narrow waters under the pro.
lection of British naval guns. 1t is the Italians
who are having a difficult time carrying re.
Inducements and supplies from the Italian
mainland to the armies in Libya poised for a
drive on Egypt and Suez.
Here as elsewhere it is the fleet that re.
mains, as it has for centuries, the bulwark oil
British security and power. AS long as il
stands on guard, no matter what reverses
Britain might suffer on land or in the air,
no one can count the British out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-Coumty Government
under CouncilMamager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck n Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside High1ay from Wrights0iHe
, Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid-
err Turning Basin, with snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yied methods
th]youqhout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motiomal Agency, supported by one
countrywide tao.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for eohites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape gro1Dtng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis SandtoriNna.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
BREAZEALE LAUDS
CHARITIES WORK
Salvation Army Head
Wishes Associated Chari-
ties Success In Drive

IT feel that your work is OF
great Importance to this COM
munity," Brigadier j. V. Brea-
zeale, of the Salvation Army
here, stated Thursday in a let
ter to Mrs. L. o. Ellis, executive
secretary of the Associated Char
tiles, which is planning a drive for
funds to carry on its work during
the coming II months.
Brigadier Breaches letter read
as follows:
II am very much interested in
the campaign for funds for the AS
ISOLATED Charities, and I sincere
ly hope that you will meet with
very generous response to your
appeal.
For almost three years, I have
had charge of the Salvation Army
work in Wilmington, and I fee
sure that your work is of great
Importance to this community
We are always glad to cooperate
with you in the good work you are
doing.
1.-THE bulk of relief of local fami
lies falls upon you because of the
city and county contributions fol
this particular line of work. AS yol
know, a large part of relief giver
by the army is for the transien'
men, women. and children, who
so often find themselves stranded
in our city and are compelled tt
have assistance. Yet we n al
ways ready to extend emergency
aid to any local families who
may find themselves in immediate
need. 1t has always been the great
purpose of the Salvation Army to
relieve human suffering as far as
possible whenever and wherever
there is need of it. Any person in
need is always welcome to pre-
sent their cause and u doors will
never be closed against them, re-
gardless of color or creed.
Our religious and character.
building work has always been
the dominating force in all of our
activities, as we r firm believ-
ers that the hope Of the world
lies in the power of religion.
Again I wish you success in
your coming campaign, and as
sure you that we will cooperate
with you to the fullest extent in
order to avoid duplication of eff.
fort"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
SUIT POSTPONED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-LR-The
federal government has indefinite.
ly postponed it's suit against the
American Me cal association, the
District of Columbia Medical So.
ciety and Fl physicians for alleged
violation of the Sherman antitrust
act: District Attorney Edward Ii.
Curran said today that the case,
scheduled to be brought up in fed
eraT court here next Monday, would
be taken off the list of assigned
cases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
Quotations

The British people have every reason for
grim resolution but none for despondency.-
Lord Croft, British undersecretary for war.
The fall of Britain would be the end of
freedom-our freedom.-Col. Henry Breckin-
ridge, former assistant secretary of state.
cali it the Fifth Column if you like, but it
had increasing power in France. A hidden
power was holding me there.-Lion Feucht-
wanger se~lf-exiled German author, on his way
to America after flight from France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
New Air Line Work
Is To Be Pressed

Canadian representatives at the
recent Elizabeth City meeting to
determine methods Of securing
the proposed Montreal to Char
lesion to Nassau air route were
urged to work diligently on plans,
according to w. Louis Fisher, city
commissioner of finance and re-
presenting the Civic Aeronautics
association at the meeting.
Henry W. Lockwood, mayor of
Charleston. is president Of the
Atlantic Coastal Cities Air Ser
vice association formed especial
~ for securing the route.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
Man About
Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

friends tell me that all this tumult
and shouting has made absolutely
no impression on Carol Bruce, who
in the relatively brief space of a
few months has become the most
widely publicized young woman in
America.
If this is true she is indeed a
remarkable girl. You pick up a
magazine and there is her picture
on the GOVERN color. You turn
the pages of a newspaper land
there she is, modelling a gown, or
recommending a perfume ,or a tot
let article. You lift your eyes to
billboards, and there she is. You
turn on the radio, and she is being
interviewed.
She was the one big find on
Broadway this summer. Broadway
saw her a couple of years ago when
she sang in the hotel New Yorker
for $40 or $50 a week, but at that
time didn't pay much attention to
her. Then she went to modelling
sports clothes for women. Then
Buddy De Sylvia and Irving Berlin
wrote a show called Louisiana
Purchase" They put her in it. The
first night critics were stunned by
her personality and her talent.
Since that moment the build-up
hasn't faltered. 1t has been spon-
taneous. Everyone contributes to
it. I have seen older and probably
better actors and actresses go abso-
lutely hay-wire on less attention.
Most people can't stand prosperity.
Carol Bruce's friends insist she is
unmoved by it all. I hope they
are right. I hope she realizes that
one show or one eason on Broad
way has never yet made a real
star, and never will.
I have to go all out for Eddy
Duchin. He gets better and better.
I like to talk to him and I like
to watch him work. He's the only
strictly American band leader I
know that I would recommend for
a Hawaiian tune. Especially
"A Song of Old Hawaii" with June
Robbins singing against the back
ground of the Three Ear-Benders,
a trio of lads in the band. It's
really right, and he recorded it for
Columbia last week.
Occasionally a strange will walk
into the Stork club and Sherman
Billingsley, who has never seen
him before, will hail him by his
first name. They will peak cor
daily for a moment, as old friends
greeting one another, then pass on.
At other times a man whom Bill
ingsley has known and liked for
years will drop in with a crowd,
and Billingsley will cut him cold.
He won't even recognize + 1.
Why? -. Well" explains Sher-
man, ut takes all types to make
a world. And my business is to
please the customers. Sometimes
a fellow will arrange for a party
and ask me to address him by his
first name, although I personally
am unacquainted with him. Per-
maps he wants to make an impress
sion on his friends, or business
acquaintances. Then again, some
body else may telephone me and
ask me net to speak to him when
ne comes in. Probably he has rea-
sons for this. Naturally, 1 do not
recognize him under such circum-
stances. AS I say, I'm in business,
and my business is to please the
customers"
Because the wire and the pic
ture services hoped on them the
moment they arrived, you prob
ably know all about the Jones fam
lily. of Peterstown, West Va. by
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
BY ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1s-People
like Alexander Korda make it
tough on Hollywood prophets. Not
only Korda, but he's today's Of
fender.
All of us were pretty we'll con-
WINGED, and said So. that Holly
woods days of spectacular splurge
movies were finished by the war.
Hollywood was going to have to
content itself with doing the best
it could on limited budgets, be-
cause it didn't have that old for
eign market any more. I'm not
saying we were wrong-then. We
were dead right, because that's
how it looked.
But that was before Uncle John
Public and his wife, Aunt Minnie,
spoke their pieces. Uncle John
and Aunt Minnie said they'd have
none of this retrenchment talk.
They said they tt den aweirh
They said they wanted their
movies bigger and better, and no
fooling when they bought the
when they go tor stay away
from-the box office. They weren't
fooing when they bought the
big pictures and let the others
pretty well alone.
So Hollywood changed its mind
and decided, war or no war, that
nothing was too good for Uncle J.
and Aunt M. Ano Alex Korda,
filming the love story of Lord Mel
son and Lady Hamilton, is one
movie barometer.
Korda has Vivien Leigh and
Laurence Olivier in the historic
roles and he's spending 100000 for
a big tank" to use in the sea
scenes. He also has the floor-pol'
isners at work again and they fe
a very real, if unofficial, index oil
the way things are.
They don't worry about the
floors much in minor : budget
movies. In the BIS a floor is JUST
something to step on, but in a Big
A the floor gets in the picture ana
that means floor polishers, men
with mops who work in small brl-
gades Sticking the dust off between
takes.
Korda has a set today, for m
stance, which Represents the Brit
ish embassy at Naples. There's d
ball in honor of Lord Nelson a1'er
his victory of the Nile. There are
more than a hundred lords ana
ladies in silks and ~atins and bro
cades and wigs. There are Wlggeo
and liveried lackeys. and an auln'
entic orchestra of the period. There
is a lily-studded pool, and high
marble" columns, and glit,2rlns
crystal chandeliers with real wax,
err tapers. There is fine classical
statuary, and everywhere an an
of beauty and elegance-whlcH
isn't had for alfalfa.
The story Of Nelson and Lag
Hamilton was told in 1929 in me
Divine Lady," with Corinne GiIl
fifth and Victor Varconi. Cine ldr
ter plays , minor role in the pres.
ent production, For that plctui.
the Warner lot dug its first "tahk,
a pool used until The Sea Ha"h.
necessitated larger aquatic faclr
ties.
But don't get the idea that laE'
ish pictures are being made "ltnI
out economies. Any prop-man WIZ
tell you that the studios are Wa'un
ing the pennies while spending uN
dollars.
1T used to be-" moaned a WON
err on the Goth Century-F'ox NS
that if we wanted anything dA
we did was write out an oroea,
Now we write it and get what I TsI
want if it passes the okay OF @'"
executives and officials"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, NJ

only So, 800, 900 remained in American hands,
this estimate being somewhat under the figure
that Wall Street experts would select. The inter-
esting future question now may arise as to
what is to be done with the 80 per cent Of the
sinking fund money which is available here
to holders in France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19

now. They were visitors to New
York recently. They got an eye
full and, to New York, they them
selves were an eye-full. What made
the Jones so unique was their mum
ber-17 in all. They are the only
family in America with Is conse-
cutive sons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18-Im just a stranger
in these parts, but Steve has been around
here a long time. AS a matter of fact, Steve. {.
his last name is Vasilakos . . has been
peddling peanuts on the corner at the White
House while that much lived-in residence has
had four tenants.
The other day, ambling away from one of
the Presidents press conferences, I noticed
a sign on Steve's stand. 1t was to the effect
that he was donating the proceeds of two
days sales to the American Red Cross. 1t
isn't the first time that Steve has donated to
the Red Cross, but it was ONE more days
sales than usual and I stopped for a chat.
"An us Americans got to do our part said
Steve, who only last week got his final papers
and became an American.
Some get guns. Some 60 up in airp1anes.
I'm too old for that kind of stuff. So I just
give my two days sales to the Red Cross.
II put that sign up so as folks would know
that they weren't just buying peanuts for old
Steve, but buying 'em for the Red Cross too"
I looked again at the sign. And beside 1t
was one of those God Bless America pla-
cards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
TOP o. THE MORNING

The essence of discipleship is the Wiling
Aess to obey.
From FORWARD"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
NOT ABOUT PRESIDENTS

Try to get Steve to talk about the Man in
the White House and he sidesteps. l under
stand he always has. He says: None of the
four gentlemen who lived in there tried to
tell me how to sell peanuts, and Old Steve
amt gonna try to tell any Of them how to
run the country"
I think the story of Steve Vasilakos should
be written in forty-'leven languages and given
to every alien who comes to these shores,
under the title: How to become a fine Ameri-
can citizen
Of all the suggestions that have been made
recently, give a hand to that of Senator Wiley
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, who startled the Sen
ate the other day with the suggestion that
1T might be well to have a rule that for
three months previous to election there should
be no discussion relating to the nominees of
the political parties"
The Senator prefaced his hint, with the re-
mark that II feel like apologizing to the coun-
try for the time the Senate has taken in recent
months in considering irrelevant matters, per-
sonal matters-attack on and defense of presi-
dental nominees"
A fair-sized Congressional Record, daily
dolngs OF the senate and house, published in
an eight-by-ten-inch pamphlet, two columns to
the page, has about a hundred pages of closely
packed type a day. How much of it has been
devoted to pure politics of late, I wouldn't
venture a guess, but I would venture a four
bit piece that half of it in recent months has
been more political than anything else and
this at a time when the country is rolling over
a rocky road, and far the greater per cent
Of Congress is trying it's level best to clear
the road ahead
DIDN'T FOLLOW TEXT
WANTED-By the National Defense Com
mission-A stenographic transcript of Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox's recent speech before
graduates of the National Police Academy in
which he warned aggressor nations that the
United States is ready to meet any challenge.
The story behind the story is this. Secretary
Knox prepared his speech and, as is custo-
mary, allowed the Navy press information de-
partment to release "the, official text in ad-
vance. The rub came. when the Secretary,
speaking without notes, made his speech a
good deal more forceful than the official
text" The defense commission, which must
base much Of it's program on departmental
policies, has been calling all over Washington
to try to find some one who made a steno-
graphic transcript of the secretary's address.
If the defense commission wants a tip, there
just wasn't any made and they will have to
take the reportorial word of the boys who
covered it that that's exactly what MI. Knox
said. ..rr. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
Fair Enough
Bv wEsTBRoOK PEGLER

The Star wishes its readers to
know that views and opinions
expressed in this article are
those of the author and may NOT
always harmonic with its posi-
tion.-The Editor.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Hermit Kills, Two Before He Dies
In Defense Of Hut u. S. Wanted
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. death in
pastoral seeting, with tear gas
and riot guns torturing the quiet
OF green woods, seemed strange in
congruities today as officers sur
veyed a small clearing high in the
Boise Mountains, peaceful in its
verdant beauty.
Yet this was the clearing where
United States Marshal George A.
Meffan and his deputy, John Glenn,
were old-bloodedly shot and killed
yesterday by Pearl Royal Hendrick-
son, 40, colored hermit, who resented
their official intrusion.
This was the spot in which the
recluse in turn succumbed to many
wounds after resisting for half a
day the combined machine gun,
shotgun, dynamite and incendiary
bullet fire of twoscore city, county,
State and Federal police.
In the center of the clearing still
stood log and plaster hut, ram
shackle for years, battered and
askew after the terrific barrage it
had undergone.
1t was from within its walls that