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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Feeding The French

1t is impossible to read the latest reports of
the American Friends Service committee from
France without a great deal of sympathy.
This agency has been quietly carrying on re-
lief work in both occupied and unoccupieo
France, principally the feeding of as many
mothers and children as its limited funds and
the difficulties Of the situation will allow.
The stories they tell do not make comfort
able reading for a people temperamentaly
and additionally inclined to rush to the relief
OF suffering humanity, as Americans are.
Frightful as all this is, it remains necessary
to face the cruel fact that there is extremely
little that can be done to relieve this suffering
without at the same time helping Hitler to win
his war. The restitution in France today is
very largely the result of the armistice terms
the erman laid down. Much of the country
has been stripped of foodstuffs which have
been shipped across the Rhine. If the blockade
is relaxed and supplies are shipped in, it
cannot be doubted that the Germans will put
them to their use.
We sincerely hope that the situation will
change soon and a relief plan can be worked
out. But for the time being there appears to
be little we can do to relieve the distress of
these suffering people. Certainly we cannot
encourage the British to sanction deliveries
OF supplies which are only too sure to fall
into enemy hands.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
And Was His Face Red?

There is grim humor as well as tragedy in
this war. London tells the story of a German
fier who bailed out in a dog fight and lost
none of his arrogance in the experience. Al
though he was considerably shot up, he ex-
hibited none of the ~give-and-take spirit which
soldiers usually display upon capture.
He spoke good English, says the article
quoted in the London dispatch, which appear
ed in the magazine, "Aeroplane,'' and while
he was being dressed he kept up a running
fire of abuse against England, the nurses, the
doctors, and anything else which met his eye.
To round out the job Of patching him up,
they gave him a blood TRANSMISSION, settled
him, in a nice clean bed and left him with
the words:
Nov, my lad, you have two pints of good
Jewish blood in you. We hope it will i'm
prove your manners"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
"New Order" For State

Governor Hoey's plan for a new order' in
North Carolina is fundamentally sound. Main.
tenance of an office in Washington with a com.
petent staff working for defense contracts and
industries would be helpful. The general pro-
gram of development of natural resources is
comprehensive.
The states chief executive has started some.
thing which is capable of giving North Carolina
the leadership it deserves in southern advance
ment. If the whole state gets behind the pro.
ject and each section in the state has a
voice, there seems to be no good reason that
this most desirable goal should not be reached.
But the program will have to be carefully
drafted with consideration for the less populat.
ed, less developed areas, if the entire state
is to profit fully. Any favoritism for sections
already blessed with the wealth of industry.
with concentrations of population, at the cost
of other sections, would be inequitable.
Southeastern North Carolina, which in the
past has shared the fate of an unwelcome
stepchild in a household, as far as state plan
ming is concerned, should see that it is ade-
cuately represented in whatever permanent
organization follows the governors proposal.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Editorial Comment
A FOR USE
Charlotte News

Apparently the machinery for carrying out
Governor Hoey's demand for the outlawing of
the Communist Party and the n. Ameri.
can Bund is already in existence.
It seems to be the general impression that
the only ground for action against them lies
in a somewhat vague decision Of the Supreme
Court in 1919, which in any case would apply
only to the aliens among them, and which was
in part at least overturned by the more recent
decision in the Strecker case.
But it turns out that Congress has done more
against them than to enact the apparently
mild law requiring them to register the names
Of all their members with the Attorney-Gen-
eral. Hidden away in the Alien Registration
Act is a provision, applying to aliens and citi-
zens alike, which
imposes a maximum prison term of
ten years and a maximum fine of $40, 900
on anybody who "a advocates or teaches.
'the duty, necessity, desirability, or pro-
priety of overthrowing or destroying any
governments in the United States by force
or Violence; () publishes, edits, sells,
distributes or publicly displays any written
or printed matter advocating or advising
the foregoing; or e )organizes, helps to or
ganize, or joins any society, group, or as
sembly Of persons who teach, advocate
or encourage" overthrow of the Govern
ment by force pr violence.
h same penalty is extended to anybody
who advises, in any manner causes, or dis
tributes literature advising or causing, insub-
ordination or refusal Of duty in the military and
naval services.
TIL Communists and the Bund have, of
course, taken of late to disavowing force or
any thought of it in their statements intended
for public consumption. Both of them, in
deed. are now engaged in trying to camouflage
themselves as Hundred Per Cent American
organizations, passionately devoted to democ-
racy, hoping by that pretense to escape eradi-
cation. The Bund at least is actively making
up to the Ku Klux Khan for precisely that pur-
pose.
But in reality, they are, of course, violent
revolutionary organizations, which dream of
the same sort of coup d'etat as those pulled
by the Reds in Russia and the Nazis in Ger
many, and both are actively engaged in trying
to undermine the faith of the people in this
government to the end Of opening the way for
the use OF force apd violence.
Moreover, both are engaged in turning out
great quantities of printed material designed
to further all these purposes, and both circu-
late this material among the military and
naval forces Of the country.
oughly on record in the past that there should
be no difficulty in establishing these facts in
court.
The wisdom of failing the membership of
these two outfits will still trouble advocates of
civil liberties who recall how the Bill of Rights
was mauled in the last war. But if the thing
is to be done, then the machinery seems to
stand ready. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-CoAnty Government
Under Council. Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Higha1ay from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, a1id-
er Turning Basin, NTH snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, pia
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial n Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported by n
countrywide tao.
%Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center TOR Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities for a1hites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of ndtite grape grotcing
throughout Southeastern North Carolind.
Modern Tuberculosis S1nGtoriNnt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
WATER SITUATION
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
It is with genuine, appreciation
that I refer to your editorial, ap-
pearing in the Sunday Star-News,
relating to the water situation in
our community, because I am one
of the many victims who makes
regular journeys to the tax office
of the City of Wilmington; laying
down my little mite of about $50
annually to cover the city-coun-
ty tax on the property which II
hope sometime. to own, also my
quarterly journeys to the water
and sewerage department of the
city where I have, for a period of
more than fifteen years been pay
ing for a supply of 'eel, catfish
and muskrat SOUP, which we, the
citizens have been encouraged to
call water.
MI. Editor, there can be no
blame laid upon the employees of
the city of Wilmington, who have
done a good job. with what they
had to work with. I do, however,
blame and ! denounce the official
or officials in whose charge our
water supply has been placed, not
only with gross negligence but abb
solute incompetence because this
situation has been going on for
fifteen years. During this period /
have been forced to change hot
water tanks in my kitchen three
times and water pipes five times.
The financial outlay represents no
small sum to a man with a modest
income.
! have been told several times
over a period of years that the
reason Northeast river at Castle
Haynes was not tapped for our
water supply was because the
water would have a visible dark
tint which could not easily be re.
moved. AS to its general health
propensities I have never heard it
denied.
Mr.. Editor, have you eve heard
anyone say that they didn't like
hilk, good vegetable soup and rich
coffee simply because there was a
sort of color about them? Person
ally I had rather drink water flow
ing over cypress roots which might
possibly discolor it a little than to
drink it from a mudhole which has
been proven most unwholesome.
Frankly I think that the respon-
sible party or parties should re-
sign from their position and let
someone take the situation in hand
who knows how and will relieve
the citizens of Wilmington of this
unbearable condition. There should
be no "give me an other chance
for it has been going on for a
and a half.
And what irony-this advertising
we're receiving. still we ask our
why it is that we fail to &C.
cupy a place in the SUI with other
progressive communities. 3
Very respectfully,
RAYMOND D. CHRISTIAN
Wilmington, N. C.
Oct. 20, 1910
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-A docu-
ment comes to hand which sup
ports my contention that the Amer
lean Newspaper Guild is DOM
mated by the communist party.
This c. I. o. union has angrily
resented the public disclosure of
communist domination. Even
some of the anti-communists have
tried to smother the truth, because
they felt that the truth would give
their organization a bad name.
However, since the national con-
vention in Memphis, in which two
Muscovite groups put on a mock
tight and then ganged up on the
Americans to keep control within
the party and silence a proposed
condemnation of communism, the
situation has become so bad that
the Americans in the guild have
abandoned their pretense of soil
darity.
|, Appeal Circulated
An appeal has now been circu-
lated in New York by the Ameri-
cans in the guild admitting that
the communists have seriously
harmed the union.
"A crisis faces the American
Newspaper Guild throughout the
country" says the opening SEN
tence of this circular, to which
George Britt of the World-Tele-
gram and Lewis Gannett, the book
reviewer of the Herald : Tribune,
among others, have subscribed
their names. Mr.. Gannett, Incl
dentally, was one of those who not
long ago decried the raising of the
issue OF communism, insisting that
"red-bsiting'' made for disunion
M provided material TO- hostile,
II tactual, critics outside the or
ganlzation. Now, however, he adj
mlts that the communists have
created a crisis in the life of the
guild.
Despite the year-long strike in
Chicago says the appeal, the
employees of the Chicago Herald.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

Sights And Sounds
BY ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30
"Spring Parade" Screenplay
by Bruce Manning and Felix
jackson from story by Ernst
Marischka. Directed by Henry
Roster. Principals: Deanna
Durbin, Robert Cummings,
Mischa Auer, Butch and Bud
dy, Anne Gwynne, Henry Ste
phenson, S. z. Sakall, Samuel
S. Kinds, Allyn Joslyn, Regi-
maid Denny.
A little Austrian peasant girl
comes singing over the hill with a
goat in tow. She's on her way to
the fair to sell the goat. And there
she has her fortune told: her lover,
the little leaflet tells her, will be
found in Vienna; he will be an
artist; he will Init her with a
stick"
And strangely enough, before she
knows it she's on her way to Wen
ma. The boy (Cummings) she
meets there turns out to be an
artist-not in oils but in music.
And before very long, after some
Misunderstanding and some COM
plications arising from a note sent
to the Emperor, there they are to-
gether, happily united.
It's a slim story, you see, Gin
derella retold to the strains of
waltzes, and retoId al
most as frankly as the legend was
revived in Deanna's First Love-"
But it's such a delightful story,
as told here, as you rarely see. It
has the charm Of fantasy and the
Tilt of a waltz, seasoned with rare
comedy and the famed touch of
Director Roster and Producer Joe
Pasternak.
Deanna continues to grow up
gracefully, with a poise and act
ing ability you wouldn't have
from the youngster of
Three Smart Girls" and her
singing is better than ever. Auer
has a few moments of comedy but
in that department the refugee
actor Sakall, as the baker who
didn't did it," swipes the pastry.
The up-and-coming Cummings
makes a lively hero. and Stephen
son, particularly in his audience
with Deanna, puts the Emperor in
a very human niche.
. "a Dispatch from Reuters"
Screenplay by Milton Krims
from story by Valentine will
liams and Wolfgang wilhelm.
Directed by William Dieterle.
Principals: Edward G. Robin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Machine Tools For Russia

Conversations between Russian Ambassador
Oumansky and officials of our state depart
ment have resulted in the lifting of American
restrictions on the shipment Of machine tools
to the Soviet, and this decision is said to have
a bearing on the chaotic situation in the
Balkans.
The argument is easy enough to follow. It
is to the interest of the United States that
China continue to receive the help she needs
to keep up her resistance. Russia has been
sending aid steadily. If Moscow contemplated
any change in this particular policy, Washing
ton would refuse to raise the ban on machine
tools to Russia.
Very likely this reasoning is essentially
valid. We do not know, however. if this conces-
sion on the part Of the state department is
merely a gesture made in hope that the Rus
slams will be persuaded not to abandon their
present policy.
It is also possible that Moscow is quite ready
to agree to maintain it's position in the Far
East, in accordance with American wishes,
but has no intention Of doing anything else
that might offend either the Japanese or the
Germans. 1t may be that the Japanese would
be glad enough to enter a deal that would
stabilize the situation on the Russian border
and 60 no further than that. Certainly the
Germans are not concerned just now with
what Russia is doing for China.
The new from Washington, then, gives no
clear indication of the course Stain intends to
pursue in the Balkans. He is now engaged in
playing a game of chess with the Germans
there. His decision will depend on what he
sees on the board. With Germany introducing
a new pawn, Greece, that decision may have
to be changed before the next move is made.
OF one thing we may be certain: Stain has
no intention of allowing Germany to check
mate him..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Son, Edna Best, Eddie Albert,
Albert Basserman, Gene Lock
hart, Otto Kruger, Nigel
Bruce, Montagu Love, James

Bruce, Montagu Love, James
Stephenson.
This latest in the series of War
ner screen biographies" has the
distinction of its predecessors as
a faithful dramatic narrative of
an important man.
Julius Reuter- (Robinson) grew
from a lad who was impatient
with distances into a man who
turned this impotence into a
space-spanning business with car
rier pigeons. When spreading tele-
graph facilities made the pigeon
service unnecessary, Reuter- hit
upon the idea of using the tele-
graph for the speedy transmission
OF neWs-news which, in his phi
losophy. belonged to all the peo-
pie as fast as it could be brought
to them.
The film is the story of his
struggle to "sell'' the new idea to
London's papers; of his temporary
setback at the hands Of rivals
Who liked his idea enough to at
tempt freezing him out; of his
successful counter : attack and
triumph. This comes in a dramatic
ina revolving about the assas.
slnation of Abraham Lincoln, a
tragedy first told in England by
Reuters service and precipitating
a parliamentary discussion of Reu-
ter reliability. (The-name, as the
picture insists, Is Roy-ter, not
Rooter.) ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
The Editors
LETTER BOX

The editor does not necessarily
endorse any article appearing IN
this department. They represent d
views Of the individual readers. Cor
respondents are warned that all
communications IN . st contain the
correct name and address for Dur
records. though the latter may be
signed as the writer sees Mt The
Star News reserves the right to alter
any text that for. n reason is OBJ
lectionable. Letters on controversial
subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Man About
|. haitian
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 Things
I'll never forget The shout
that went up in "Dodswortn" when
Walter Huston took off his pants,
The roar that all but drowned out
Gertrude Lawrence in the kiss
scene with Dom Cooke IN Sky
lark" This came when Ger
trude, receiving a cold peck on the
cheek from her husband, said,
I'm not a girl to ask for passion
on Sunday afternoon, Tony but
try again, will your" =. The can.
dor of Katharine Brush, VINO wrote
Young Man of Manhattan tell
ing of the time she was accused of
shot-lifting in a Pittsburgh depart.
ment store. Edna Ferber's de-
scription of a conversation between
two young men in a restaurant III
Jerusalem. One of the1a sug-
gested a game of golf"
Cant make it," replied his friend
1--we got to run over to Nazareth
this afternoon" The cultural
tones of Carlo in her first spoken
passage on the screen, Give Me
a Scotch and Soda" in Anna
Christie" . The first time |
ever saw my name over a news
story. . The first time l ever COW
cred an execution. The de-
nunciation scene in Dead End
when the mother turns against her
killer-son. . . Riding half way
across the country in a plane ole
night with a lanky, silent figure
whom l failed to recognize until he
got out at Chicago-Gary Cooper
:. The stunned silence and the ex'
pressions of incredulity on peoples
faces when the flash came that
Will Rogers was dead. Getting
caught in a communist parade in
Union Square, while trying to
break through to a subway, station,
and somebody pushing me ana
yelling, stay in line, Comrade'
stay in the line"
Paul Draper, like SO many IL
lustrous artists - W. Somerset
Vaughan, Jane Frohman, etc
suffers when he talks. . But
suffering never interfered with
Maugham's story telling.
hasn't interferred with Diapers
dancing. 1t is conceded by al
most everyone that he is the equal
and frequently, the superior OF the
likeable Fred Astaire. -. / for one
feel that he is. He has one
number that is a tap to minuet' .
No one around here has ever seen
anything like it. l asked him now
he happened to think of it, and ne
replied, 'Oh, you have to try ev'
erything when you're in this Dus''
ness" If you get over to the
Versailles, where he is dancing
now, ask him to do it for you.
He's pretty decent about requests
The Pathe people have turned
over hundreds Of miles OF news
reels to the Museum of Modern
Art. It's a cavalcade OF history
for the last 80 years. One Oh
the impressive passages shows
Teddy Roosevelt returning from
his African hunting expeditions
Another shot shows Museum
marching on Rome. You Can
also see the 1924 ru'sch in Munich
led by the then unknown Hitler.
There's also a scene Of Hitler ao-
dressing his followers from a VIII,
dow, after he has been sentenceu
to prison.
Another old newsreel, though
not so very old at that, we caughs
at a "re-run" house in 9Th avenue
today. 1t showed Alphonso,
King of the Spaniards. addressing
the camera in very good Engllsh'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-If a group of men
here have their way-and they may-the Unit
ed States is going to lave some ski troops.
Rep. Lawrence Lewis, Denver Democrat,
has turned over to Gen. Gerge c.. Marshall,
the army's chief of staff, an elaborate pros
pectus for a 6,000-acre training camp under
the brow of the continental divide, so miles
west Of Denver. At last report, the army
staff had the proposal under serious consid-
Grafton.
What a case Rep. Lewis and his associates
have made out for their project! They start
with the premise that IF the United States is
to have complete military defense prepared
ness, it must provide for every conceivable
eventuality. . :" Then the congressman asks
just what would happen if American troops
should some day find themselves defending the
nation in the rugged mountains of Alaska in
British Columbia.
POINTS TO Firms
He points out that men often are incapaci-
tated at 5000 feet if unaccustomed to it and
that men from low attitudes frequently col
lapse at 10000 to $4,000 feet. Horses and
mules from the lowlands can't take it either
and even machines as mechanically perfect
as the automobile need readjustments to buck
the rarefied air and singing cold.
Look how the Films skied circles around the
numbering Russians and the Austrian Jagers
AAAAAAAS v W. SAo6S W ANN] "cJ w
plodding British, says Mr.. Lewis.
The Russians even ordered their troops to
take up skiing, which was a laugh, the pros
pectus points out, because everybody knows
that it takes three years of intensive training
to make a good skier out Of the average Sod
bound citizen and that isn't taking into con-
sideration any time for his having to learn
soldering.
NEAR MOFFAT TUNNEL
Here is what Lewis and his co-workers sug-
gest: A 6,000-acre training ground at an altl-
tude of from 10000 to Is, 900 feet in the bowl
stretching up to the divide near Jones pass,
below which the Moffat road ducks under the
great ridge for its long dark journey to the
western slope.
Twenty miles away at Fraser is a landing
field where the air force could base Tor CO.
operative training with the snow troops. To
the south is the Gore range and to the north
the Arapaho. These would provide opportunity
for mountain operations both in winter and
summer.
DOG TEAMS
The first ski troops comprise 500 officers
and enlisted men. Training would start on a
great slide not far from proposed barracks
with the men taking elementary spills on a
half-mile run that drops 600 to 700 feet. They
would 60 back to the top by a Swiss type tram
way for another try.
The fact that the army staff has taken it un-
der consideration does not mean that II is a
certainty. Over at army headquarters, they
are noncommittal, just say 1t is being studied.
But Lewis and the Coloradoans who helped
him outline and present the plan are hopeful.
II you would ask me, the ski manufacturers
and a lot of soldiers who know the difference
between a slalom and q smorgasbord are
hopeful too. ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
TOP o. THE MORNING

ZION.
DIR. W. T. THOMPSON.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Fair Enough
BY WESTBROOK ~PEGLER

The Star wishes it's readers
to know that views and opin-
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author and
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

possible that there will be an important con-
tribution to cultural development, which will
be a gain for the entire state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

!. "A Dispatch from Reuters"
Screenplay by Milton Krims
from story by Valentine viii
liams and Wolfgang wilhelm.
Directed by William Dieterle.
Principals: Edward q. Robin.