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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
SEEKING TO ISOLATE,
WIPE OUT MIGHTY BRITISH
ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE
SHIFT DIRECTION
German Offensive Toward
English Channel Eases
The Threat To Paris
PINCHERS SHAPED
FRANCE

PARIS, May 20.-(P)-
Across the northern plains
of France Adolf Hitler's men
in rolling armor - 10000
strong in the advance guard
battered westward tonight
on a new tangent, the Eng
fish channel as their goal.
The shift Of direction of
this steel-plated spearhead of
five mechanical divisions
eased the threat to Paris
after the vanguard had
thrust to within 80 miles of
the French capital.
New Objective
The new objective--besides
the oft = mentioned aim of
bases for direct attack on the
British Isles-apparently was
to drive an iron wedge be-
tween the main French forces
defending Paris and the Brit
ish-B elgian-French armies in
Belgium.
Berlin reports estimated
that a successful drive to the
sea night isolate goo, 600
soldiers on the Allied
northern flank.)
Northern Allied arm i es
were forced to drop back to
intercept the threat, while
the main body of French
troops fought to stem the
German advance. These move
ments recalled the trace to
the sea" at the start of the
World war which left the
in control of the chan
mel.
Future Uncertain
Whether Germany definitely had
abandoned the idea of striking at
Paris remained uncertain.
(Reports reaching Basel, Switz-
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-R
The house passed and sent to
the senate today a bill to amend
the agriculture adjustment act
to permit tobacco farmers to
vote on the question of estab-
fishing tobacco marketing quo
tas up to three years, instead
of for one year as at present.
The bill also amends the def
milton of "carry over of to-
bacco to exclude from consi.
deration tobacco of the 1899 and
and 1910 crops purchased for
the British trade and Temporal
rariIy stored in this country.
The bill also would authorize
upward adjustment of the ma
tional marketing quota for any
year by not over 20 per cent
and make it possible to spread
over a period of two or three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
CREATE BIG SACK
Army Headed To-
ward Noyon, Only so
Miles North OF Paris
PUSHING OFFENSIVE


BERLIN, May 2O.-(P)-
Germany's blitzkrieg troops
pushed deeper into France
today by capturing the city
of Laon, rs miles northeast
of Paris, while, in the west,
Nazi warriors created a huge
sack" which they sought to
close and trap thousands Of
Allied soldiers.
The German high COM
mand in a special communi-
que declared that the German
warflag "is flying from the
citadel of Laon" and that the
Germans had advanced to the
canal connecting the Oise-
Aisne rivers, 6 miles south
west of Laon.
Headed Toward Noyon
Thus, with new ground
gained on the eastern edge
of the German pocket in
France, the Nazis were head
ed toward Noyon, only so
miles north of Paris. Both
Laon and Noyon were held by
the Germans during most of
the World war and Noyon
then was destroyed by heavy
commandments.
In the west, where the
German army swung toward
the English channel in an at
tempt to isolate and destroy
the British army of 100000
in northern France, an autho-
ritative source pictured the
sack" as follows:
The Sack
The bottom is the Belgian city
Of Charleroi, on the Sambre river.
The northern part of the
mouth" is Cambria, France, IS
miles southeast of Journal and SIS
miles southwest of Chartered.
Many Belgians and French and
perhaps British are believed al
most surrounded in the sack"
DNB, the German official news
agency, saw in the possible closing
of the sack" a repetition of the
Kutno battle in the P o S h cam
paign last September where the
Germans reported bagging $1,000
prisoners.
The Germans called Kutno n
of the greatest destructive battles
of all times.
Great Activity
The news agency said there was
great activity along the channel
ports on the continent, indicating
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
Measure To Permit Vote On Longer
Weed Quotas Is Approved By House

The bill would amend the
penalty provisions of the law to
facilitate and insure collection OF
penalties imposed OIL tobacco in
excess of quota.
The house also passed and
sent to the White House a bill
to prohibit the expectation OF
tobacco seed and plants except
for experimental purposes.
Similar legislation, passed by
congress last year, was vetoed
by President Roosevelt, but
sponsors expressed confidence
that this measure would not
meet the same fate.
They cOntended it was neces-
sary to put a stop to foreign
production of domestic type to-
bacco in competition with do
nestle production.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
CANADA TO RAISE
ANOTHER DIVISION
Prime Minister King Says
Approval OF Creation Of
New War Ministry

OTTAWA, May 20 up Prime
Minister Mackenzie King said to-
night in the house of commons that
Canada has more than 100, 900 men
on military duty, $4,000 in England,
and will undertake to raise a third
division for service.
The prime minister reported that
the first division in Europe will be
followed by another of 24,645 men.
More than $500 are engaged in
cost defense, 10000 are assigned to
various depots, 1865 are guarding
vital centers and more than 5000
are at miscellaneous tasks, he said.
The Canadian air force has 1889
officers and 1926 men.
Outlining a war program involv-
ing $500, 900, 900 war expenditures for
the fiscal year-s2,OO O, 900 a day-the
prime minister asked approval OF
creation of a new ministry of ma
tional defense for air.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21

years adjustments required to
eliminate a surplus supply.
The measure also would re-
peal the provision that any state
marketing quota of flue cured
tobacco cannot be less than 70
per cent of 1887 production, and
substitute a provision that the
national marketing quota for
flue cured and hurley tobacco
for each of the three market
ing years beginning with the
1941-42 market year cannot oe
reduced more than 10 per cent
below the 1904 national mar.
keting quota. 1t also provided
for uniform adjustment OF farm
allotments during the next three
years in the same proposition
that the national quota IS ad-
juste'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
(ASSOciated Press Writer)

The fate of Allied armies in Elan
ders hangs perilously on the con
fused battle along the western flank
of the huge salient Germany has
carved into northern France in a
dozen days and nights of fighting.
Whether massed French forces
holding the road to Paris at the
depth of the pocket and along its
southern flank forced the Nazi at
taco to veer westward, or whether
the shift conforms to German grand
strategy is not clear. There can be
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
L0UVAIN LIBRARY
Quilted BY FIRE
S. Correspondents Find
Entire Population Of
City Has Fled
RY O W P. LOCHNER

WITH THE GERMAN WEoI'
ERN ARMIES, May 20-R-Amer-
lean newspaper correspondents,
guests of Adolf Hitler, today saw
the ruins of Louvain library, which
was erected on Herbert Hoover
square by cooperation of numer'
u American universities.
The building had been Quilted by
fire.
It's 700, 900 volumes must be con-
sidered lost.
All floors had been swept by the
blaze.
No one seemed to be able to say
by whom or how the blaze had
been set.
From the basement Wisps OF
smoke still rose.
Practically the entire population
of Louvain, Al, 1000, had fled. The
German military commander OF
the city, Lieutenant Colonel Engel-
Manu., tried to form an emergency
city council with a fire captain and
No. TI,roos fol ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
F Offers Credit Aid
To Defense Industries
Americans In Lebanon
Are Advised To Leave

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 20.
- up - United States Consul
General E. E. Palmer tonight
advised Americans in Lebanon
and Syria ''to give careful
thought to the ACCESSIBILITY OF
returning to the United States
with the least possible delay"
The same advice vas given
to inquirers at Jerusalem. APP
proximately $500 Americans are
estimated to be living in the
Holy Land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
Nine Officials
0f Coast Line
AreAdvanced
F ". Brown, Now General
Manager, Is Promoted
To Vice Presidency
ARE EFFECTIVE JUNE l
Howard, King, Kendall,
Brantley And Doss Are
Among Men Advanced

Nine major promotions. all effec-
frp lime i and all to be located IN
wilmington. were announced yes
,srdav bv officials of the Atlantic
C ~, Line Railroad company.
The announcement followed the
,,t,n+arv designations Friday OF j.
v Perrin, freight traffic manager,
md J. N. Brand, assistant vice.
president,
The advancements included the
election of F. W. Brown, now gen
oral manager. as vice president IN
dsrge of operations by the rail-
raads board of directors at a
meeting in New York on May 16.
Nh. Brown will continue as general
manager of the company.
Mr.. Brown entered the service
d the Atlantic Coast Line IN
March. 1920, as assistant to the
General manager and has been IN
Wilmington since that time.
Other promotions were:
v. H. Howard, now general pas
senger agent, to assistant passen'
gu traffic manager.
r. L. King, now superintendent
Of passenger transportation, to
general superintendent of transpor-
istion.
H. NJ. Kendall, now superintend-
cit Of freight transportation, to as
astant general superintendent OF
transportation.
j. B.. Brantly. now assistant vice
president, to general traffic man.
s,er,
R, ], Doss, now freight traffic
manager, to general freight traffic
manager.
R, G. Hodgkin, now assistant
tfl9ht traffic manager, to freight
Traffic manager,
George P. James,, now general
passenger agent at Washington, D.
l to passenger traffic manager.
The promotions were announced
BY H. L Borden, secretary of the
tmpany, in New York, by F. w.
Brown, general manager, and by
! I, Brantly, assistant vice presi-
cslt, Local appointments w e r e
approved by c. Med. Davis, exec
E'jye vice president.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
WAR INTERPRETIVE

no doubt, however, that Berlin has
now staked hope of quick and crush
ing victory on the effort to break
through to the channel between
Maubeuge and st. Quentin and cut
the Allied armies in half.
Berlin claims already to have
pierced this front to the Cambraipe.
rome line, the old Sofnme battle
area of the World war. If that is
true, the German westward drive
has already dangerously undermined
the Allied lines in Flanders and is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
WAR ENTRY PLANS
PUSHED BY ITALY
Many Believe Its Entry
Into Conflict Is Merely
A Matter OF Time
BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK

ROME, May 2O.-CF-Italy swung
her war preparations into a new
high rpeed tonight as the feeling
grew stronger in many Italian
minds that her entry into the con
flict merely was a matter of time
and new demonstrations against
Great Britain and France broke
out.
The a department ordered three
days of air raid drill and blackouts
in Rome province as well as at
TERM, As miles northeast, where
Continued on Page Three: Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
new AMERICAN AIR
BASES SUGGESTED
Proposed As Partial An
'ver To Sundays Speech
By Colonel Lindbergh

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-R-
gT'-lopment of new air bases in
Western Hemisphere, under
common sovereignty of all
%l'FF.can republics, was suggested
some officials tonight as a par
-" answer to last nights speech
w. Charles A. Lindbergh.
~'!ooersh demanded an adequate
oslense of the hemisphere
S'"''iiued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21
WEATHER
FORECAST

yor,l FORECAST
iod hv carolina; Partly cloudy pre-
1%,rrhao o' scattered thundershowers
.%-ueraIl,,t, portion Tuesday; Wednesday
tenperafur[o dlf' not much change in
ending 77! .Sn data for the "A hours
La Temperature
H. 81. 7. ~, ~; 7:3O a. m. p; 1:3o D,
minimum 49, Sg, p m. IA; maximum 81:
VI mean 10; normal ~.
l30 = Humidity
h So: IN M 70; 1870 a. m. SO; 1:3o D.
''o' p, M. II. r
Total Precipitation
Zone: tofa, - hours ending 7:3o D. NJ,
W inches since first of the month,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21

Editors note: j. Norman
Lodge, 40-year-old Associated
press staff writer who won the
Crox de Guerre for his part in
the World War, tells how mod
ern warfare methods have rev.
Olutionized the old of
fighting. Lodge went to Europe
in March. He saw fighting at
Narvik and Namsos, Norway,
in the German invasion of
Scandinavia and was taken to
Scotland on a British trans
port when the Allies abandon
ed Namsos.)
BY J, NORMAN LODGE
LONDON, May 20-R-Tear w
old military textbook-mod
warfare has gone streamlined
mostly air-streamlined.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-21

'e0 on Page Three; Col. 81
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Library Books Emphasize
Peacetime Air Exploits

Today's headlines emphasize the
destructive force in modern warfare
but the young people of America
have reason to be proud of the
record of their daring contemporaries
in the development of aircraft for
peaceful purposes. The records OF
these exploits, written by the young
men and women whose adventures
in the air rival in excitement the
most thrilling of flctional figures
are to be found at the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets NV.
and its branches.
Though much has happened in
the 13 years since an unknown mail
pilot took off alone in the early
dawn at Roosevelt Field. nothing
has occurred to dim the unparalleled
feat of Charles A. Lindbergh in
spanning the Atlantic Ocean from
New York to Paris. His story is
simply and modestly told in "We.'
He has continued to be a leader
in the field of aviation, ably assisted
by his wife, Anne Morrow Lind
bergh. Her books, North to the
Orient" and Listen, the Wind,
record the pioneering achievements
of the two Of them, the first being
the log of their journey to Japan
by way of Canada and Alaska: the
second describing in matchless prose
their flight from Africa to South
America.
Though she was lost at sea in the
midst Of her brilliant career, Amelia
Earhart lived long enough to prove
her right to a place in aviation
Her book, "The Fun of It," tells OF
her struggles to succeed in an oc-
cupation usually reserved for men
together with interesting stories OF
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Empress of the Dusk

By John w. Vandercook. Nep
York: Reynal & Hitchcock.
This is q highly domantic version
of the story of the life of the EN-
press Theodore of Byzantium. Her
tale is known to every college
youth-she rose from the life of q
prostitute to be the empress and
was the most influential figure in
her husbands reign. She was bril-
liant, original, and full Of q strange
force. Under her husband, the dy-
ing empire took on q brief new lease
on life, and she has been consid-
cred by historians to have been the
inspiration of the revival. That is
about all Mr.. Vandercock put into
his book In the way Of broad his
torical writing.
The rest of his work is filled with
romantic accounts Of Theodora's
personal emotions, thoughts, mo-
tives and even costumes. The re-
suit is to bring the bright distant
star so close that one cannot quite
believe In 1t. To reach back over
IA centuries and bring a human
being to actual everyday life Is, the
reviewer submits, more of job than
q mere historian can dot will re-
quire an intensely romantic tale tell.
er. Mr.. Vandercook seems to NIL
the latter role. Admitting his re-
search on his subject, one cannot
but point out that his flowery and
intimate approach has killed the
conviction Of his studies. This Theo-
dora b 80 real q woman that she
becomes unreal-so substantial that
she has no soHdity whatsoever.
NC. n.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
The Sublime Shepherdess: The Life of St. Bernodette
OF louzdae

BY FRANCES Parkinson Keyes Ne1o Mssner Inc
The story OF the life of Bernadette Soubrou
famous washington author
ana Ialn beautiful in its writing inspiring in its reading.
one need not be Roman Catholic
tne story OF Benadette just need not
10 make
founding
French peasant girl ndtngushed learning
When she first told of having groo near her
nome her relatives and friends decided
miles around peasants watch the shepherdess
70 h neauiiu lady but none OF them the appaion
10 obtain material for her book
all the evidence pertaining apparons who
actually Bernadette finally saints amazingly
body In its resting place
tne sisters OF Charity and Christian Instruction
away 1eehng as she writes in predatory letter
found understanding and knowledge spirit
well as of the mind" - r ~
Nor that illumination spirit" lost in the writing of the
book CLEANS from from every gives warmth
to cold type life to the story told
reading of book beyond ordinary reading
PHILIP n
Evening star., 1940-05-19

other famous woman flyers. Louise
Thadin is another pioneer aviatrix
who has revealed her experiences
In a book, High, Wide and Fright
ened."
William Grooch, also a noted avia-
tor, has described the attempts to
establish various air lanes in South
America and China in Winged
Highways" and his latest book,
From Crate to Clipper" is the ac-
count of the life of Capt. Musick,
whose test fights across the Pacific
opened the way for the present COM
mercial services in that region.
In the United States there have
been many contributions to the
developments in aircraft, notable
among which are those of Frank
Hawks, famous for his transconti-
mental speed records. He tells Of
these and big moments in the lives
OF other American pilots in "Once
to Every Pilot" The sensations
of a man giving a plane its first
test are described by Jimmy Collins
in "Test Pilot"
"I1l Take the High Road" is a
new book by Wolfgang Langwiesche
which every young person will want
to read. Just an average American
with an Unsuitable desire to fly, he
scraped together enough money to
take few lessons, and from that
time on. his spare moments were
spent around airflelds. The story
of his attempts to fly are fascinat-
ing, his description of his sensations
in flight are real and vivid. One
OF the outstanding features Of
the book is the humor prevalent
throughout. It is just the book for
the amateur aviator,
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Best Sellers Here and Elsewhere

Inc following list OF best sellers compiled weekly infor
NATION OBTAINED IN Washington by The
ton Chicago and San Francisco the Newspaper
Alliance.
How Green Was MY Valley Richard Mewelyn "Mr skef
nngton Elizabeth Native Son. Richard Wright
Walter Edmond Kings Row" Henry Beaman Kitty Foyle"
Christopher Morley This Land
Land James Street; THE Naarene Sholem
Calling" Stewart Edward White
Non-Fiction
How to Read Book Mortimer Adler Failure
Sir Neville Henderson, The American White Paper Alop
and Robert Kntne "A Snattering
The Art of Living Andre Maurois Land Below
Keith Empire the Seven Seas James Tuslow Adams
Voice OF Destruction Herman Rauhnng; Road Nco
Smith; March of the Barbarians" Harold Lamb.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
A Castle in Corinthio
q OuSITe III CO7InrMu
By Johann Fabriciu Translated the Dutch by G.
Renter and Daud Hallett. York: Random House
By Johann Fabric;

Johann Fabricius the author Of that bng
"A Marietta" Since his
works have been the American public while
many respects admirable hardly likely its predecessors
record of popularity.
1t the story of Austrian family Of the petty nobility during
the last days of osephs reign
The family consists OF parents married late life and
daughters introduced
point of the
family ITSELF secluded castle its
another for their affection they being gently bred
capable
just evenly flowing Marriages. loves Deaths quas
jeaouses-these its episode machinery.
atmosphere through long book however
brought of
MGR.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Their Own Country
BU Alice TiSd1

By Alice TiSd1le Hobart. In
dianupolis:: Bobbs-Merril. Co.
Their Own Country" is an en-
tertaining novel for any one inter-
ested in the simple story of q mans
struggle for security for his wife
and child In his native land. 1t is
a sequel to "Oil for the Lamps OF
China"
Stephen Chase returns to the
United States after spending most
of his best years working for an
ungrateful oil company in the
Chinese interior. and finds himself
at first out Of step with the swift
pace Of big business. The adjust
ment of his family to this new
world without his having to yield
his ideals is absorbingly described
by Mrs. Hobart, who seems quite
as much at home In American big
business and on the plains of
Kansas as she did in China in her
previous book.
Both stories end on q note of
Illustration for the hero In his
efforts to find security. The ending
of the first novel provided the
excuse for the second. Perhaps
Mrs. Hobart will pursue the Chases
further; or perhaps the Chases are
doomed to insecurity. To one who
has lived in China and read both
books, Their Own Country" is not
so powerful as "Oil for the Lamps
of China" but it is interesting
reading.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Msgr. Fulton Sheen Calls
For Revolution Against
Baser Aspects of Life
Urges Revival of Religion as
Only Cure for Economic
Ills Plaguing World
By Henry GemmM.

Freedom Under God
BY Msgr Fulton Sheen Mloaukee Bruce Publishing Co.
Catholic Unve energetic professor Of philosophy has
vyed the world and found this latest addition his
long list Of scholarly books cries the organization Of
great nation earth.
He calls the traditional liberalism
Britain false concept And the totaiaran Communist
eventually battle" with all the brotherhood in God
OF democracy that
wicked and immoral With equal he his verbal whip
OF the labor unions and the law which maintains the
claim" Of the rich.
Msgr Sheen should qualified younger
days ne made splash scholar in Europe and he is still the
faculty the University
uona leaders because he
lions OF radio listeners the National
His zeal has converted Catholicism
The flaw Of American liberalism capitalism practice
Selshness individual
Sheen indicates For instance capital thought
cepd the mistaken standard AS relgonhe writes
The soul became uniportan suburb Of the called
politics did
argued should religion interfere with politics
refrain from the
LIE The world willing to admit that religion could
ABOUT ms na end but refused allow religion tell him the right
means to attain that end"
Totahtariansm, the other Objectionable
denies OF
1t violence proclaims
tne spirit OF charity economic
proposing religious faith solution for the
Msg sheen has good month President
cared that no greater thing could
OF the spirit Of religion"
How to bring it about is another thing
written at least % books the
next one to advice for fellow converters.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
The Swan of Usk
By Helen Ashton. Netp Yo1
The Macmillan Co.

~ Helen ASntOn. NetD York. :
The Macmillan Co.
Following her previous successes
William and Dorothy" and People
in Sages," Miss Ashton has written
this historical novel, an appealing
tale Of sensitive, gentle man; q
doctor, poet, soldier and mystic.
Henry Vaughn and his twin
brother, Tom, were born in 1922 in
Welsh manor house near the
River Usk. They grew up together
surrounded by prosperity. At rs
the boys were sent to Oxford. Henry,
as the heir to the estates, studied
law, although it did not appeal to
him. During his spare time he
devoted himself to the study Of
medicine.
Both young men left their studies
to fight for Charles I. who was
quarreling with Parliament. Their
hardships, their meeting with
Charles, their return home to
poverty and hard new conditions,
which forced Henry to ret up prac-
tice as country doctor, are told
vividly. Not every one win enjoy
this novel, but those who do viii
remember it for its descriptive pas
sages and it, history.
A. A. n. BURKLN.