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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
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Some advantage lies with HITLER for hav-
ing troops in Norway first. Whether he will
be able to maintain that advantage depends
upon the strength of the forces the Allies
have finally landed.
Berlin admits the loss of Narvik. What the
situation is in the south, where Nazis have
been for the better part of a week taking
over Norwegian defenses and destroying Morse
warplanes, is not revealed. We know that
HITLERs effort to mop up Norwegian detach-
ments in the vicinity of Oslo has met with
some success, and that he has been able to
increase his troop landings across the Baltic,
despite efforts of British minelayers to make
that sea impossible. But we do not know if
the Allies have also put soldiers ashore in
the south. and SO cannot accurately estimate
the odds of land engagements there.
Only one thing is certain. Lacking defense
walls like the Maginot and s~iegfried lines,
the war in Norway will have to be fought in
the open; and thus far, because Of their
wegian batteries and defenses, the odds
favor the Nazis.
If the action in the Narvik area, however,
is a fair gauge, it is obvious that the Allies
have gone into this phase of the war with
right good will and determination. If the
forces sent into Norway parallel the spirit
manifested thus far, and the Allies command
on land is as efficient as at sea, the British
will go far to offset the loss Of face which
followed their lack of action for Finland.
By jumping in, once the gauge was set, the
Allies have gained much in the worlds mora,
support-a factor which plays a large part ir
the outcome of any war. This demonstration
of a will to fight is one of the things the
world has awaited, and will be quick to re
spond to in ways that will uphold the Allies
hands for victory.
1t becomes increasingly apparent that tn
war can be settled in Norway. The Allies hav'
their great opportunity to win there, an
strike a blow at HIrLERIsM from which j
cannot hope to rally. May they make tn
best of this opportunity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
LOST CHILDREN
Raleigh News and Observer

Whlle the South along with other sections
OF lhe country prepares for participation in the
Chldrcns Crusade i'll which during the last
Oh TINS month secure American children will
be asked to help children lost and homeless
IN other lands, Southerners may well remem-
per That they themselves may be the descend
ants OF another sort Of crusade of children to
this land a long time ago.
In her interesting book, "Virginia: The New
dominion" Agnes Rothery writes of this com
ing OF homeless children to find a home in the
America or the past. She says:
Unlike the New England settlements to
winch whole families came to make their per
manent homes in the New World, there were
no children in Virginia until 1919. Then n
hundred orphans were sent from London TO
be apprentlced to the colonists. Five hun
dred pounds were sent to pay for this an
premiership with the only stipulation that they
should be taught "some good trade" II seems
TO have been a satisfactory arrangement-at
least for the colonists-for in 1920 thew sent
lor more children. Successive apnrcntice
laws provided that besides 'some good trade"
Ihese children be brought up in the "rudi-
ilehts OF learning according to their estate
when probably meant reading and writing
and the Christian religion.
Noenhg similar is planned by the Chlldren,s
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
ETHICAL VALUE GREAT

HOMES in the negro housing project WHICH
IL will be ready for occupancy ABOUT tne
first Of June, will cost the tenants IN tne
neighborhood of three dollars a week. rang
ing according to desirability from Twelve 10
fifteen dollars monthly, including not ohly
shelter. but water, light, heat and fuel as
well.
But the advantage of dwelling there IS no'
only in rent. Many of Wilmlngtons negro
families now pay less. 1t is in moving out Oh
novels into modern, sanitary, cheerful' whole
some homes, with conveniences never before
available to this section of the population.
A further advantage is in improved en-
vironment, in encouragement for better l'-
ing. There are some mortals so independent
of surroundings that they can be tops in a
woodshed, but for the run-of-the-mine citizen
the influence of environment is tremendous.
Most persons do their best in the best sur
roundings.
The negro families fortunate enough to
find homes in the project now nearing com
pletion will be better citizens, better pro-
viders. more prideful in their state of exist
ence, because of their better dwelling place
and the obligations imposed by residence
there.
The ethical value of the negro housing prof
ect makes it a definite asset to Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
GIRL IS DROWNED
AT NEARBY BEACH
Continued From Page One)

girl, Frances Carver, about 10, and
they had attempted to wade across
the inlet.
Caught in an outgoing tide, the
girl was thought to have stepped
into a deep hole in the inlet. A
strong southwest wind swept her
from lanG. The Carver girl managed
to return to shore.
The Girls father said that she
vas a fairly good swimmer.
Wrightsville Beach police formed
a searching party shortly after the
accident, at about $50 o'clock, and
started a hunt for the body. The
search, however, was abandoned
last night until this morning, when
it will be resumed by police n
others.
The family had been at the beach
Tor about seven or eight weeks. Her
father is employed by the Western
Electr company in the installation
of the dial telephone system In Will
mlngton. Since coming here the
family has been living IN a cottage
on NORTH Lurnina avenue on the
northern extension of the beach.
The girl was in the eighth grade
in school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
TOBEY COMES A CHOPPER

So far as Wilmington is concerned, Senator
ToBEY came a cropper. He said, you know,
that just about every last soul in the United
was a terrible thing-this census. 1t was
Prussian. 1t was a crying shame that the
government should pry into the private af-
fairs of the people. Call out the army, turn
in the fire alarm, get a cop. Do anything to
break it up.
And here are the people fighting mad be-
cause the enumerators are passing them
by. Wilmingtonians want the government to
know all about them, even about their in
comes and marriages..
Yes. Mr.. ToBEY of New Hampshire, a repub.
lican to the backbone and with a long tongue,
missed the boat-like HITLER. What interests
US here is to see that the census doesn't miss
it too.
The enumeration, it appears, has been far
from complete. Census takers have been miss
ing us in droyes, and that won't do. We want
ourselves, how we've been doing since the last
census; and we'll never know unless the can
vass is painstaking and thorough.
Our concern is not with lodging it but
preventing any person escaping it.
j. II. HARRINGTON, the district supervisor,
bids US be patient and not worry. He is call
ing here to see that the job is completed.
That is good news We hope it can be done
in the limited time remaining for the work.
His task will be easier i heads of families
who have been missed hasten to the Cham
Der Of Commerce and enroll on the lists being
compiled there. By doing so they will be as
sured Of being listed in the returns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
FAMOUS DOCTOR
WRITES SERIES
ON CHILD HEALTH

how important preventive and pre-.
~cautionary work can be-"
DR.. Bolt was just in time for the
first Chinese revolution of 1912,
and as a Red Cross surgeon work.
ed freely for both sides. Later, in
Korea, he saw the first Japanese
advance on the Asiatic mainland.
The college he helped to found in
Picking is now a Japanese bar.
racks, he understands.
Returning after six years to the
United States, he determined to
take up public health work, and
trained for it at Johns Hopkins
and California. Baltimore, Wash.
ington, New York and Cleveland,
have felt the impress of his con.
tributions to child health work. He
helped to form the American Child
Health association.
DR.. Bolts present work as direc.
tor of the Cleveland Health asso-
citation ms pioneered in instruction
of prospective mothers-and fathers.
Prenatal care, nursing and other
facilities at childbirth have, for in.
stance, reduced maternal fatality
Iamong members of the association
classes to 0.65 in a thousand as
compared with 2.67 for the city in
general. This service, reaching 5000
cases a year, has so reduced the
general rate that since 1881 it has
fallen from seven per thousand to
the present 2.67. The splendid rate
of less than one per thousand
among the associations clients
shows what a be done if similar
service could be extended to every
prospective maternity case in the
country, DR.. Bolt believes.
II remember when we used to
lose 300 babies a year from diph.
theria," he says, Last year we
lost just one. New treatments with
sulfapyradine for pneumonia are
saving infant lives at a splendid
rate.
premature birth is a typical
modern problem. 1t is one of the
most prevalent causes of infant
death. Prenatal care is the best
' napon here, and improvement is
being made"
DR.. Bole, in addition to his ma
tionally recognized work with the
American Public Health association,
is also chairman of the Health Sec.
ton of the Ohio Welfare Confer.
ence, and associate in Hygiene and
Preventive Medicine n in Pedi.
%atrics at Western Reserve Univer.
lsity
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
GERMAN OFFICIALS
HINT AT OTHER
EUROPEAN MOVES
Continued From Page One)

!, 00O-mile-long coast. But, the Ger
mans declare, none of these Is
strategically important.
The German press heartily sec
onds the thesis that Bergen and
Trondheim are better suited to Ger
F~remdenblatt, whose Berlin cores.
pendent is especially close to official
sources, observes:
Call German plans against the
British Isles can, henceforth, pro-
coed from the fact that German
forces, by their courageous coup
d'etat, liberated themselves from ell
circlement in the North sea and ad.
vanced to bases lying on the open
Atlantic in the same latitude as the
northern tip of the British Isles"
This supports what is generally
rumored in Informed quarters, thai
Germany intends to attack Britain
in the north, chiefly by air.
"Inasmuch as German strategy is
built on the greatest use of the air
force" the Hamburg newspaper
continued, this tremendous expan
sion of German air bases toward
the north and appreciably closer to
the British coast is of great impor.
lance for events that are to follow"
With a constant stream OF Ger
man achievements reported pour
ing into Norway, Germans mini
mixed the British mine-laying in the
Baltic,
Authorized sources admitted that
some British mines may have been
sown in Germany's home sea, but
one authorized source said there
was considerable fantasy connect.
ed with that story"
On the credit side of the German
naval ledger was the announcement
that two more Allied submarines
had been sunk in the Skaggerak,
raising to seven the officially re.
ported losses of Allied undersea
craft in recent days, and the cap.
ture Of the Norwegian torpedo-boat
Hval.
The sinking of a German mer.
chant ship by two British air raid
ers at Bergen was admitted, but the
German high command said both
British planes We're shot down.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

been known to occur.
But it is recognized now that ex-
pectant fathers have needs for in.
struction. They should be informed
as to what to expect Of their wives
and how they may be of help be-
fore and after the baby comes.
Here then, are a few of the A B C's
for expectant fathers:
A. Attention to details is all i'm
portant. Study your wife's needs.
You can be a real help as a kind,
cheerful and considerable husband,
encourage her to take the proper
amount of rest, recreation and X
ercise and the diet prescribed by her
physician.
B. Be prepared for any emer-
gency. You can be very helpful
in making hospital arrangements
or in carrying out any details neces-
sary for home confinement. While
pregnancy in most women is a nor
NAL process, it is a delicate balance
between the functions of the pros
pective mother and the unborn
child. This balance may be upset
by an infectious disease, unwhole-
some food, accidents and even by
emotional outbursts such as anger,
grief, Of great joy. You should lie
on the look out for any unfayorable
signs or symptoms which occur
and report them promptly to your
doctor.
c. Consult a competent physician
skilled in obstetrics as early as your
wife lets you into the secret that
some day you are to be a proud
father. 1t is advisable for you to
visit the doctor with your wife and
note carefully the directions ne
gives. Take the doctor into your
confidence. 1t is desirable for the
expectant father as well as the
mother to have a thorough physical
examination including a blood test.
Your doctor may want a sample of
your blood to check with that from
your wife. In this way he tries to
rule out any serious blood disease
and also type your blood should il
become necessary to furnish blood
for your wife in East of emergency.
Having a baby is a joint affair
after all and the %expectant father
should be made aware that he has
certain responsibilities for the vel.
fare Of the mother, for which he
should be fully prepared.
NEXT: WHY Healthy Mothers
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
HARRINGTON PROBES
CENSUS SITUATION
Continued From PAGE One)

as recorded by the enumeration down
to the last family unit.
In that way" he said, mo one
car be missed"
List Presented
Moore presented Barrington with
a list of 1872 names of persons who
nave called at the chamber of COM
merce Office and stated that they
mad not been counted. The list.
Moore said, represented about 1000
persons.
The list was turned over to Bar.
rlnston, who today will check each
name with the local enumerators.
ANY other person in the city who
mas not been counted was asked to
call the chamber of commerce to-
day.
L don't think you will have to
worry about a population decrease"
harrington said, from what returns
l already have it appears that you
will have something of an increase"
He expects to have figures on the
population to be released for publ.
cation the latter part of this week
or the first of next week.
The whole matter Of "L'affaire
census started last Friday when
the sidewalk survey revealed that
ob per cent of those questioned an.
s"ered that they had not been tabu.
lated, despite local enumerators'
GAINS that 80 per cent had been
counted.
Following the Star-News report,
moore took the matter in hand and
mas been pushing the inquisition
vigorously since Saturday.
harrington said that in addition
10 giving figures on the City of
Wllmlngton's population, that each
suburb, such as Sunset Park, South
wilmington, East Wilmington and
o'nefs' will have a separate popu-
'atlon listing.
May Combine Figures
LOU may combine the figures for
city and the suburbs as repre.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
QUOTATIONS

We are sacrificing our national economy to
create a new order and 'no territory and no
indemnities' are the twin pillars of our China
policy.-Yakichiro Suma, Japanese foreign Of
flee spokesman.
I would like to emphasize that | have no
proposals to make and no commitments to
offer in the name of my government. I am here
solely on a fact-finding notwithstanding
OF State Sumner Welles, interviewed in Lon
don.
All government officials should not only do
right, but they should do right in the right
way-Senator George w. Norris (Ind, Neb.)
The National Labor Relations act should be
amended to have the Department of Justice
carry on the investigation work and the prose
cution Of complaints and the board should
merely pass judgment on the facts presented
to it.-Eliott Roosevelt, son of the President.
I'm no Judge of singing, but I like these
barber shop quartets. They're a national insti-
tution.-Al Smith.
We are quick to resent any meddling by
other nations in our own affairs. But we are
even quicker to weigh in our own balance the
Justice In any foreign MISREPRESENTATION Nye,
North Dakota.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
Star-News Program

Consolidated C~ity-County G'tfrnmen'
under CouncilMonager Adj IN Strdtion'
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TrucE' md Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
shous.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsvtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel 1otd'
er Turning Basin, 10ith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
--aved River Road 10 Southport, ria
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc'
ton through sustained-yield methods
throuqhout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
naotiona1 Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tdr.
ghipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, Developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for rhites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development Of native grape gropin9
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sanatorium1.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
QUESTION WHETHER
USERS OF HIGHWAYS
SUBSIDIZED ARGUED
Continued From Page One)

quiry, Policy said the Eastman re-
port ''boils down" to this:
THAT home-owners, farmers and
who pay general taxes ought
to pay 60 per cent Of the total cost
of highways and streets, while
those who use the highways should
pay only 40 per cent of the cost.
ut Is only by making this aston
ishing assumption that property
owners and general taxpayers should
bear so per cent of the cost of
highways, while highway users
should pay only 40 per cent, that
the authors of the report manage
to arrive at the conclusion vehicles
are paying too much toward the
cost of the motor highways built
for and used by them. That means,
OF course, that they think the gen.
era taxpayers are paying too little
ana should pay more. I don't think
the taxpayers of the country will
accept any such conclusion as COR
rect"
Gray Discusses Report
On the other hand Chester H.
Gray, director of the National
Highway Users conference, told
neWsmen that Eastman's report
showed highway users were not
subsidized.
II reveals" Gray said, that
highway users as a class not only
are not subsidized but that in the
year period from 1921 to 1887.
Inclusive they paid $5O1,13S, 900
more than their share of highway
and street costs.
Al MS report, Eastman concluded
Ha' public aid had resulted in a
uiplu of transportation facilities
anu conditions of uneconomic com.
petitlon.' The railroads, water. air
anu highway transportation had all
considerable public aid, he reported
anu this had resulted in demands
-or further aid to offset that pre-.
Vlously granted.
eastman recommended deliberate
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
NARVlK R%ECAPTURED
BY NORWAY'S ARMY
Continued From Page One,

Continued From Page 0np)
the place OF our headquarters So.
ciet."
The Norwegian command ordered
Norwegian officers ito cooperara fl,
the fullest extent with their French
and British allies in effectively
dealing a crushing blow to German
forces occupying the cities and
towns of Norway"
Must Coordinate
The three armies must coordinate
their operations in such a manner
as to make them act as one" the
command declared in urging i. of.
ficers to consult literally with
French and English commanders 50
as to avoid friction and plumbers
Numerous and we'll armed Ger.
man forces, it was added, make il
necessary that Norwegian rom.
mander@ not undertake amy rash
actions"
The army communique gave no
details Of the battle at Narvik, and
failed tu state whether any Germans
there we're taken prisoner or in
what direction they had retreated,
1t said the British naval forces,
however, had been lying outsi j
Narvik harbor waiting for the Nor.
wegian forces TO organize properly
in order to deal a decisive blow,
Germans Flee
"a British broadcast. heard in
New York, quoted Swedish sources
as saying Germans at Narvik had
fallen into the hands of the Nor.
wegian army. Some of the Germans
fled as far as the Swedish border
where they were disarmed and in.
termed, it was declared.
Meanwhile, Sweden herself was
reported taking various strict pre-,
cautionary measures to guard
against any surprises, according to
information reaching LONDON and
Berlin.
(The German radio broadcast a
warning that all lighthouses and
signal fires on Sweden's southern
coast had been extinguished. There
was considerable speculation in
Berlin diplomatic circles which said
such a precaution would be taken
only under extraordinary circum,
stances.)
A state of air raid preparedness
was ordered effective at moor Tues.
day C a. m, EST). In Swedish
provinces bordering Norway and in
parts of southern and western
Sweden as well.
"a British news agenC EN-
change Telegraph, said all traffic
over the Norwegian-Swedish border
also had been stopped.)
The Swedish bureau of informa'
ton put up posters warning the
public against spreading rumors ~
believing unconfirmed reports, and
similar admonitions were addressed
to theater-goers and radio listeners.
In line with the campaign to pl
serve normal conditions, regular
air service still was being maintain
ed between Stockholm and Berlin,
the Baltic countries and Moscow at
noon today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
TERMINAL PLAN IS
PRESENTED BY HERS


1,386,S77 tons handled through liz
port could easily be trebled by '2e'
ting the tobacco, cotton, and o,AeI
state products back where they DE-
long" .
Mr.. Hers gave a brief sketch Oh
the histor yofth E local port com
mission, which was organized "
1885 to work under the county c0'"
missioners to develop trade acme
the Cape Fear river.
He said the commission had az
pealed to local terminal oNneSs ="
1887 to increase their facIiti's' y"
that they were "uninterested
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
TOP o THE MORNING

1t is impossible to serre God nth halt q
heart for the same reason that it is impoS-
Sible for me to serve America NTH one half
of mig heart and Russia qrith the other halt.
When q man enters the kingdom of God he
renounces one WoTld TOR another, and if he
is in earnest he WiU not cast turtiue glances
back at the 4cor1d he has left: he iii burn
his bridges behind him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
KERMON INJURED
IN CAR ACCI[AENT
Continued From Page 0ne)

Thurman of Rocky Mount, and loAn
r. Bagwell of Durham-were al'
mitted to a hospital here, WHERE
their condition was believed to be
satisfactory. Most seriously hult
was kermon, a candidate for tie
legislature from New Hanover coul'
ty, who suffered a cerebral eoncus'
sion.
The fourth, w. F. Morrison o.
Raleigh, executive secretary Of the
state board Of examiners of plumb
ing and heating contractors, vas
taken to raleigh in an ambulRn-7
and admitted to a hospital there
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

planning of transportation needs.
O'Mahoney told Policy at todays
hearing that he understood East
man recommended also that a three
man board should be set up by the
President to investigate the whole
problem of inequities in public con
tributions to transportation agen'
cies.
81 think that is very sound" said
Policy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

to read without
first learning the
alphabet, but ex-
pectant fathe r S
for the most part
need to learn the
A B C's of becom'
ing a good father.
Doctors have not
re ported any
cases of prospec-
tive fathers lost
from causes con
nected with preg'
nancy althou e h
nervous eXha u S.
tion INK e 9 n
f a tin o. have
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
Family Advised

Mr.. Kermon's family here was a.
vlsed of the accident last nigh. \
member asked that friends who %is1
to learn of his condition telepD-AS
nj soff!ce instead of the residence
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16
Q ALLABOUTB BABIES
A B Cs for
Expectant
Fathers
BY RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT,
M. D., DR.. p. III.
Secretary, Maternal and Child
Health Section of American
DrhJ;o uoaHh AS~SOciafinu

The education of fathers in ma
ternal and child hygiene has been
sadly neglected.
Children today may be taught
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

NEXT: Why Healthy Mothers
Mean Healthy Babies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-16

as recorded by the enumerator down
to the last family unit.
In that way" he said, mo one
can he micSod