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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08

drenched beach, or whatever spot he might Sc
lect to spend the day, was a long, low-slung
black limousine driven by a liveried chauffeur
But before starting out on the days rounds
of pleasure, Mr.. Lewis had business to trans.
act with the management of the hotel. Per.
haps he felt it his duty to report that certain
persons-newspaper reporters and photograph.
ers, to be exact-were invading the sacrosanct
precincts Of the Nautilus and intruding on the
privacy of the guests. Particularly the privacy
Of Mr.. Lewis.
Now, normally Mr.. Lewis doesn't deprive the
press Of the pleasure of interviewing or photo.
graphing him. In fact, Mr.. Lewis usually is
very interviewable, and none will deny he is
photogenic.
But Mr.. Lewis is on vacation, and like Greta
Carlo, who is also photogenic and on vacation,
he wants to be alone. So, quitting his $3S-a-day
room he went to the office Of Manager Fred
Abel to complain about the violation of his
privacy.
1t didn't matter to Mr.. Lewis that the Amer.
lean Newspaper Guild, the union to which
thousands Of reporters throughout the country
belong, is a part Of the CLIO. Even ones union
pals can get in ones hair at times.
Mr.. Lewis registered his protest to Mr.. Abel.
He was, he said, paying regular hotel rates.
He craved privacy. He was being annoyed by
the minions. He had no intention Of lending
his presence and prestige to the publicizing of
the Nautilus. And what was Mr.. Abel going
to do about it?
Gently, but firmly, Mr.. Abel told Lewis that
every year persons of far greater importance
than the president of the CLIO. were guests
at the Nautilus hotel. Mr.. Lewis presence was
not necessary to thu publicizing of the hotel
and that as far as he, Mr.. Abel, was concerned
the ladies and gentlemen Of the press were
free to come and go as they will in the Nauti
lus. If the guests do not wish to see the ink
stained wretches of the press they do not have
to. Mr.. Abel informed Lewis.
Mr.. Lewis wrapped himself in a mantle OF
silence and high dudgeon and left in his limou
sine after being very careful not to tell the
press where he was going.
Yes, this business of being a labor leader
has it's compensations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
THOSE SEQUESTERED STOCKS

A notice recently delivered to American
and British brokers in England that outstand
ing currency loans backed by dollar securities
must be liquidated was not expected to have
much effect on prices in New York, because
of the small amount of such loans.
The British ruling said that liquidation to
pay off any currency loans should be made
from other than the sixty sequestered stock
issues if possible. In any case, where the
value of issues not Communicated is less than
the liquidating value of the loan, permission
will be granted to sell some of the sixty
stocks. American brokers in London have
very few currency loans outstanding and ii
is not believed that British brokers have
made many loans of this character. No esti.
mates Of the actual amount of such foreign
currency loans are available.
One firm which carried more than 400 open
accounts had only IA in which there were
foreign currency loans and there were none
Of the sequestered issues in any Of the af.
fected portfolios. This situation seemed to
be fairly representative, though the proper
ton in some houses was larger.
Though there will undoubtedly be scme
selling as a result of the ruling, the gross
amount is not expected to be large enough
to cause any difficulties. No attempt has yet
been made to dispose of the sequestered stocks
and it is believed in some financial quarters
that liquidation will wait until the selling
required under the London order has been
completed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
NEW PARKING RULES

N1ILMINGTONIANS who viewed with alarm
w the prospect of angle parking on one
side OF Front street may again breathe easily.
The city commission has ruled against II.
The street is now to be clearly marked, des-
~ignating white spaces for vehicles parallel 10
the curbs on both sides, by which arrange
ment a wider traffic-way will be available
than if the parking were diagonal. II fewer
cars are accommodated while idle, more may
travel the street with greater safety, if driv-
en- carefully. The loss in berths Tor parKers
is offset by more room for cars in transit.
so the score is evened up. The rule should
make for smoother traffic.
Another proposal, still to be approved,
would do away with angle parking on the
east side of Third street between Grace and
Chestnut. In later afternoon, when trucking
is heaviest and shopping at the peak, this
short stretch is more congested than any
other in the city. The few feet to be gained
for the tr%afficway by parallel parking at
one curb will afford partial relief. 1t will
not solve the problem there, but will ease
it to an appreciate degree.
The proposal to turn the parkways between
sidewalk and curb into street and thus gain
approximately ten feet on both sides would
be better; but if the commission is not ready
to proceed with this, its contemplated rear
rangement for parking will somewhat relieve
congestion.
1t might prove SO helpful, in it's limited
way, that the administration will go a step
further and decree parallel parking on two
sides, and so create an additional benefit for
traffic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
BITTER FIGHTING
RACES ON FROZEN
BAY NEAR VIIPURI
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far reaching than those which PIE.
coded the outbreak Of war last NJ,
vember 80.
East of Viipuri the Russians were
reported to have suffered heavy
losses in frontal attacks on Finnish
positions yesterday, and the high
command said that II tanks had
been destroyed between Viipuri Bay
and the Vuoksi river. A Russian at
tack on Taipale at the eastern end
of the Karelian isthmus also was rs
pulsed, the Firms said, despite heavy
artillery preparation.
Military observers expressed h.
lief that the Russian troops nov a.
the southern outskirts of Vipui
would not attempt to occupy the city
until the Films had been driven bak
on the east and west.
These observers pointed out tia.
should the Russians attempt to
move into the city too hastily they
might find themselves in a trap,
Meanwhile the Russians made
new efforts to move across IL
frozen Gulf of Finland 60 miles IVES.
of Viipuri, launching attacks yeste''
day on Haapasaari Island and is
Virolahti Archipelago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
HITLER CRACKS WHIP

In assembling the Rumanian parliament
King CAROL announces that the people must
sacrifice all interests to the defense of the
frontiers where the drumfire of war rumbles
With the approval Of the crown council, the
king proposes a large new tax levy for the
national defense and support of the army
rosters.
The little nation which has become a prize
in the war, with Germany, Russia and Great
Britain coveting it's petroleum output, faces
a future filled with gloom. With the great
nations Of Europe in arms and their demands
for gasoline increasing with every day, Ru.
mania is between the jaws of a wise. To pre-.
vent a doom resembling Finland's, if not
actually like Poland's, she must have an army
out of all proportion to the population; and
to maintain this large fighting force the
people must shoulder new burdens of taxation
far beyond their ability to carry.
Their position is the more lamentable b1
reason OF the increasing demands of Germany
which is obviously determined to benefit t.
the ultimate limits by the pact Rumanis
signed for HITLER. In addition to H1r1ER's de
mand for oil, Germany has now added the
entire wool crop for 1910. If oil and WOO
must be surrendered, how are the people tt
obtain revenues from which to meet the new
taxes? It is a staggering question for the Ri
manians to answer. 1t will not be Surprising
II the people hear the crack of doom in thu
crack of H1TLER's whip.
The parliament meets with a sinking heart
The echoing tramp of soldiers throughout thu
land, on the march because great nations a
her borders covet her resources and her in
dustries, does not buoy up her spirits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
N. E.. WEED SALES
TOTAL $121,254,O38
Continued from Page One)

better than $40 a hundred pounds
for their crop.
The report by belts, compared with
1888, follows:
Old and middle belt-saIes 262,-
So7,774, up 81 per cent; average
Sl5.26, down 80 per cent.
Border belt-sales 1923, 1854, 600. UP
At per cent; average $3.50, down 80
per cent.
New bright belt-sales 1892, 6S2,1
up SO per cent; average $15.97, down
80 per cent.
Burley belt-sales 5,26S, 572 pounds;
average $16.73, down less than one
per cent. Sales were made at Ashe.
Vile and Boone, with the Boone
market operating for the first time,
Markets handling over so, 900, 600
pounds of producers sales, and their
price average, follow:
Wilson. S4,93O,5 500 pounds and
1852; Greenville, 72,S42, 6O4 pounds
and 1888; Rocky Mount, 63,631,4S6
pounds and $15.76; Winston.Salem.
oS,25S,23s and $15.06; Kinston. So
o4S,92o and s15.37; Durham, 5o,541..
257 and $16.63.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Man bout

By George tucker

NEW YORK, March 7.-Mr. Orson
welles at "a has grown a beard.
This is not unusual when you con-
slider that at Z he was rewriting
Shakespeare, at Is passing himself
off in Dublin as a visiting Theater
Guild star, and at % soaring the
wits out of the country with his
highly realistic Marian Invasion.
Mr.. Welles, of whom no one can
remain unaware if one lives in New
York or reads the Saturday Evening
Post, does a great deal of committing
by plane between the east and west
coasts. This is necessary because
in New York he has a Sunday night
radio program for a soup company.
and in Hollywood he has a daisy Of a
contract that permits him to act as
his w scenario-writer, his own di.
rector, and his own star.
+ y 4
Sometime ago a beard became
necessary because one of the stories
Orson wanted to film was based on
Ia certain Joseph Conrad hero, a wild,
shaggy bloke who must have looked
like a Civil war general, and Orson
grew it.
They say this beard did not win
many friends or influence many peo'
pie on the west coast. Welles' bio
graphers, writing Intimately of him
in the magazines, say that it sent
Hollywood into a rage. T must make
the observation that here in the east
this set of whiskers caused no such
sensation. On Broadway we measure
a man by the way he looks you in
the eye, and if he wants to grow a
beard that's his business.
But sometimes on lonely roads
at night there are moments Wher
even genius can not circumvent the
penalties imposed by an unshavec
mug, and to Orson Welles such g
moment came at II P. M. on a bleak
stretch Of highway between here
and the airport.
He was in a taxi, and the taxi
broke down. There was a plane
he just had to catch, and time was
running out.
Motorists, driving past at that
hour, instinctively stepped on the
gas as they observed a wild, shag.
gy stranger, with no hat and nc
necktie, bobbing up in the head
lights, trying to thumb them down.
Maybe they thought the Martians
were at it again. They certainly
broke all speed laws getting out of
the county.
Even now one can not say what
would have happened if an out
bound garbage truck hadn't come
along. The driver, who probably
didn't own a radio and who prob
ably never heard Of the Martians
anyway, cried, II giva youa lift
So Orson tossed his pigskin bag
aboard and clambered in amid the
vagrant, ruined odors of a thousand
garbage pals. They came presently
to a turn in the road. The airport
was a quarter of a mile to the left,
but the truck turned right.
HELL" cried Orson Welles, "you
can't walk out on me like this! I've
got a plane to catcht'
"Hella yaself," cried the garbage
mar right back, Il gotta catcha ma
pegs and feeda dis garbage"
Airport officials still speak of the
night that a ghost with a beard came
painting across the fields just in time
to catch a plane for the west coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
Nnder CouncilMa administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear River channel. Eid-
err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Via
orion Plantation.
Developm OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motionaz Agency, supported By one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities TOR whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm emit OF ndtive grape 0roaC4ng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdn1t07tNm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
BETSEY ROOSEVELT
GRANTED DIVORCE
Continued from Page 0ne)

California when he came here t'
months later. She followed him d
month afterward. Mrs. Rooseye'
testified, but che said he Wan'ea q
divorce and asked me to leave laI.
fornia." She left "as I though II
was best for the children
Henry K. Gushing, her bro'.s.'
whose affidavit as corroooral"'
Witness was filed after his ll-ns''
prevented a court appearance "
clared: .
"Her attitude was one OF si.''
mental distress. She had no ue'-'
for a divorce" ..
Roosevelt did not contest 'A'
vorce. He is in Chicago coinple' I.,.
organization of a nickleln'lNs"
movie enterprise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
FINAL PAGEANT OF
FOODS SESSION TO
BE STAGED TODAY
Continued from Page One)

housewives Of the community hav-
ing cooks who desire to attend the
sessions,
An unusual lamb roast starts off
the procession. Half of a lamb rack
is roasted. This is the section usu.
ally cut into rib chops. 1t makes
an excellent roast for the small fam.
lily when a leg or shoulder of lamb
might be too large.
A fresh ham roast is another fine
dish on the program.
Among the excellent economy
dishes is beef brisket with a de1ici-
GUS horseradish sauce. This dish, a
favorite in restaurants, is easily pre-
pared at home, if it is cooked slowly
to a delicious tenderness.
Oriental lamb stew is not only q
slorified version of an old favorite,
with curry powder to give it dis
tinctive flavor, but according to this
recipe it forms a good way to use
leftover farl1a or other cooked &C.
real.
A cocoa s1ice cake with seafoam
icing, and frosted orange cookies are
the days tribute to those who love
sweets. A homemade pie mixture is
demonstrated and a cottage cheese
pie takes its place among the DAYS
triumphs.
There are several desserts on the
program to please housewives who
like to add to their list of unusual
desserts. Among them is a pudding
with a special lemon sauce. Another
is called lemon cream angel pie. g
frozen dessert.
The oven dinner in the recipe book.
let consists of oven cooked thurin.
ger, baked potatoes, buttered green
beans. onion rings with French dress.
ing and peach delicious.
The quick meal, to serve when
school is over, is based upon cream
dried beef, served on Chinese moo,
dies or toast. It's a very special
kind Of dried beef dish. with pickles
and pimiento to give it zest and
color.
The recipe booklets of the third
DAYS program included a variety of
Sample menus to guide those who
are on a reducing diet. Thew are
based upon the famous hi%gb.protein
diet worked out by DR.. Leo Camp
bell OF Rush Medical college. chi
cago, TO enable those who are over
welsn W lose pounds without en-
dangering their health.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
NAUTSI CAPTURED
BY SOVIET FORCE
Continued from Page One,

Red army had cut off the eastern
Arctlc corridor of Finland which
extends between Norway and Rus.
sla from Nautsi to the Arctic ocean
II SO, the Russians would be in
possession of the entire Petsamo
district.
Inc communicate said the Soviet
penetration had extended 153 ki,.
ometers (about 95 miles) south If
the Arctic coast.
west of the town of Pitkaranta
on the north shore of Lake I,adooa
the Soviet army reported the occu-
patton of four islands.
Fifteen Finnish planes were re-.
ported brought down in air combats
Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
ON HATCH
ACT BEATEN DOWN
CONTINUED from Page oh''

any federal-state jobholdef TOT pt tsl.
ing politics, or to direct tiia' ,I' fro,
eral funds involved be withne4a N"
the state or locality. u.,,ls.
Two limitations upon these pa AR.
ions were written into the vi, air.
ing the day. The first w0uia ID j.
the dismissed employe the that
appeal to the courts, and pro'r final
he should hold his job until d I'll,
decision was handed do"" d
second would limit the aflGun' To
funds to be withheld to "m' en-.
annual salary Of the olle"
ploye.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Oliver Hardy Weds -.
Miss Virginia J''''

LAS VEGAS, New, March ,.asa
Oliver Hardy. screen Bsrsr'
and Virginia Lucille JoH' .;od toil
ly Hills, Calf, We're marl'''
by Judge Roger Foie!' .be trr
Hardy, who went from .'.s cor
versity of Georgia. to a ~nictars'
pany and then into no'l0I VIZ ags'
in Jacksonville, Fla, saS' N'
4s in applying for the mat tD
Jones said she was ~
was her first maria
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
KEEPING A SECRET

Another reason to believe the British block.
ade is becoming truly effective is the safe
arrival from England of the great liner Eliza.
beth at New York. That so large and coveted
a target could cross the Atlantic without
damage by bomb or torpedo is a magnificent
achievement. Who said the British can't keen
= secret?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
HOPE FOR THE BEST

Ruralites report thin ice on their chickens
drinking fountains. We had hoped that was
all done with. But there is a cheerful side.
Snappy weather now may ~forestall frosts to
damage fruit blossoms later. Late frosts, not
chilly nights now, are dangerous.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD, March T.. Holly
wood is a town of remarkable coin
cidences.
With my OWL eyes I saw this one.
1 was having lunch with Ann Sheri.
dan, who vas looking torrid in def
erence to her role in "Torrid Zone"
but aching and talking just like
Annie Sheridan, a gal from Texas
who wears the glamour mantle as
if it were a badly fitted coat, slight.
ly uncomfortable but borne gamely
in a spirit of cooperative, profess
sional zeal.
Annie vas eating her oompish
lunch, which looked so much like
! plain scrambled eggs, stewed to-
matoes and burned bacon that I or
dered same. Annie vas talking
about this and that, wondering if
it were true, as she's read in the
gossip columns. that she would play
Calamity Jane"
A gentleman appeared, murmured
graphically, Ready, now" and An
ME excused herself.
In the street outside the restau.
rant, by coincidence, a cameraman
waited. Annie scanned the skies.
Out of the blue, from a plane, drift.
ed a parachute bearing a box. BY
coincidence, it made a nice landing
near Annie. By coincidence, the
box containing assorted torrid
flowers-was for Annie.
Just think of it. Out Of all the
vast blue sky tumbles a flowery
token, and the girl Of the flying
mystery.man's heart is there, ready
to have it fall at her feet.
This is John Towards secret: he
can sing.
He has guarded it with zeal.
Yet he sings. Sang his way
through Western Reserve univer-
sity, in Cleveland, singing over the
air and in night clubs. He played
the piano, footed a clarinet, played
tennis, basketball and a little foot
ball while incidentally picking up a
Phi Beta Kappa key. He also did
some hoofing.
He happened to be doing a
straight dramatic role in a Cleve-
land play when the talent scout
came along for paramount. He has
done straight dramatic roles ever
since-in "Lost Horizon" in dis
puted Passage" now in DESTINY"
- -o1~f;@u Tho nrnnoInnnt of
his numerous films. Nobody had
ever asked him to sing, and he de-
cidedly didn't tell anybody. Deliber-
ately. Song would be his ace in
the role.
What. if anything, is remarkable
about it is not that the boy can
sing, but that he has managed to
keep it a secret.
Pat o'Brien, after spending many
uncomfortable. hours in a tank for
underwater scenes of I'VE Shall
Meet Again." is ready to swing on
the first guy who asks who dou.
bled YOU, Pat?"
Reminds him of his first airplane
flight - early in his film career
when he made "Airmail" for John
Ford. Ford had a bright idea for
a shot showing Pat taking a plane
off-Pat who didn't know a stick
from a tailspin. Paul Mantz, the
stunt-technician, said it could be ar
ranged. Pat took off, with Mantz
concealed in the cockpit to bring the
plane down. There goes my job"
said the black boy who worked for
Pat.
"Who doubled you, Pat?" every.
body asked at the nrevieu,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
QUOTATIONS

II don't think you should adopt resolutions
on anything you don't believe.-Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, addressing American Youth congress.
Whatever else may result from the present
war, I have no belief that we will not again
have to meet the forces Of economic %despera-
ton, of hate and intolerance. These forces are
not lessened by PRESIDENT Her
bert Hoover,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
MIR. LEWIS WANTS TO BE ALONE
Miami Daily News

This job Of being a labor leader has it's com.
pensations.
For II months each year, John L. Lewis,
beetle-browed, hard-boiled president of the Con.
gress of Industrial Organizations, battles for
the downtrodden working man.
Then he relaxes.
Right now he is relaxing, and doing it magni.
ficently, at the Nautilus hotel, Miami Beach.
After rising this morning, and inspecting
the very fine manicure he received yesterday
Immediately upon his arrival at the hotel. Mr.
Lewis breakfasted about II a. m.
Outside. waiting to carry him to a sun,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
TOP o. THE MORNING

Can aDe think more kindly than aue used to
do-judge more generously-help more read
ily-speaE more gently? Where this fruit
1ourishes all else that is good will thrive.
MARX GUY PEARCE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
SUICIDE

HENDERSON, Marcb - fp
o1d $50 furman Williams 4e-year-
~ farmer was found shot to death
Mias, III a tobacco strip room on a
Pasohau farm. Coroner Asa P.
1ascnall said the case was q, suicide
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
WEATHER
Continued from Page One)

WASHINGTON, March z. - R -
Weather bureau records Of tempera-
ture and rainfall for the "a hours end
growing areas and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08

aluminium and it's ores compose
ABOUT one-twelfth of t h e earth's
crust but in most cases the metal
is difficult to extract
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Evening Star Features

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