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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
AMERICAS, UNITE

outlook grows darker for the Allied
l. forces as the Nazis plunge on in Europe.
Lacking a miracle, it appears probable that
H1r1r R will force France and Great Britain to
size for peace if only to stop the slaughter.
The German juggernaut is moving with such
sneed that even if America were in a position
to lend a hand, aid probably could not reach
the theatre of war in time to stop it. 1t be-
hooves America, therefore, to devote its best
efforts to so barricading its shores that the
tornado must batter itself to pieces, should it
turn his way. And by America, We must real
ize that it is not the United States alone that
faces the danger of invasion. but all OF the geo
graphical subdivisions thereof from the Arctic
to the tip of Cape Horn. The menace hangs
like the sword of DAMocLEs over all.
If there ever was a time for the Western
Hemisphere to unite in a common cause 1t is
now. There is a strong purpose for the re-
publics of the Americas to join in a protest
against the German invasion of Holland and
Belgium. 1t cannot stay H1rLER's hand, but
may serve effectively to knit the peoples of the
nations in a bond of sympathetic
for mutual protection and assist
ance against the new Dark Ages he is launch
ing across the Atlantic. 1t is not too much to
believe that if the Americas stand staunchly
Together hey cannot fall.
Because of the stirring appeal President
ROOSEVELT made in congress for additional de-
tense funds, United Stares will quickly draft a
program for protection against aggression.
Congress is in the mood to grant any demand
to safeguard the nations independence and the
liberty of the people. There is a good example
in the determination of the United States, to
hold what they have in any threat from
abroad, for the other American nations which
can survive as separate powers only if they
are strong enough through union to throw the
aggressors back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
QUOTATIONS

No industry should even pretend to boast that
it has made technical progress except as it
progress in terms of lower prices
DR.. T. J. Kreps, economic advisor to the TNEC.
4
The fight beginning today decides the fate OF
the German nation for the next 1000 years.
Chancellor Hitler to his troops invading Holland.
I do not believe the confagration will spread
to this Observation-Disclosures suma' spokes-
man of the Japanese foreign Office.
This foreign Intervention is humiliating to
me. It should not be tolerated any longer.-sen-
or Ruiz Bravo, Peruvian Senator, after local
Nazis insisted on suppression of a british war
propaganda film.
There is no such thing as Business" There
are only the thousands and hundreds OF thou'
sands of American men and women striving TO
make a living.-Governor Baldwin, Connecticut
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
SUPPLEMENTAL MILK FUND

The readers attention is directed to a com.
secretary of the Associated Charities, appear
ing on this page, in which certain case histor-
les are recited as specific examples of the need
for milk among underprivileged families.
The letter acknowledges SAL contributed to
the Golden Rule milk fund, for which the Star
NeUs acted as depository, and which is being
devoted to supplying milk to impoverished per.
sons who are not served by the Associated
Charities regular milk fund because of their
age.
The cases Mrs. ELLIS describes are pitiful.
The heart must indeed be stoney which does
not throb in sympathy for the plight Of these
sufferers. And they are only a few among the
many these special gifts, made in connection
with Mothers day, are relieving. 1t would be
a fine thing if generous Wilmingtonians could
continue to make special contributions to the
Associated Charities, independent of their reg,
ular subscriptions, to a supplemental milk
fund for indigents. 1t might easily be the
means of restoring some to health, and, be-
cause of renewed strength, to gainful employ
ment.
Mrs. ELLIS expresses the hope that this may
be done. 1t would be too bad to disappoint her.
There are many demands for money; but it is
the sympathies of Wilmington's more FORUM
ate citizenship than this of providing milk
where it is SO greatly needed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
BORERS FROM WITHIN
New Orleans States

IT is COMFORTING to hear that the FB1
and the Army and Navy intelligence ssrv-
ices are on guard against foreign termites
who intend to bore from within and destroy
the internal defenses of this country as a.
a. Rutzen, special agent in charge of the New
Orleans division of the FBI, assured the
Kiwanis Club in his address Tuesday.
World events give the American people
great cause to hope that the tracking down
OF SPIES, rats, and potential bonnbmen, sabo-
teurs, lncendiaries and snipers, will be thor
oughly effective. This nation harbors plenty
of rats ready to spring their dark deeds of
destruction and treachery at the opportune
moment. All Of them are active in behalf of
an axis that offers the only obstacle in all
the world to American peace, the axis that
turns on Rome, Berlin, Moscow, and Tokyo.
No other country would have any reason to
%infiltrate their fifth columns in this republic.
The axis has plenty of reason, because of the
probability that America may eventually be
doing "everything short of war; to help the
Allies, and the possibility of becoming a belli.
gerent.
Austria, Czecho-slovakia, Poland, Denmark
Norway. Holland and Belgium have learned
with tragic consequences that the way for
blitzkriegs is paved by the agents, spies and
traitors they have permitted to remain within
their areas.
Germany used a fifth column 10 years ago
The Prussian Won Stieber, master of mass.
spying, had 10000 spies, agents and wreckers
planted in France in 1870 just before Bismarck
falsifed the Ems telegram and started German
legions toward Paris.
Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo
made use of 100000 Germans in Poland in help
ing wreck that nations defenses. Many Of
these Germans, all ostensibly good citizens Of
Poland, had been supplied with smuggled ps
tolls, hand g%renades and dynamite. They be
came soldiers .destroyers and Wreckers the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20

~HOLLYWOOD-May l9-Frank
Lloyd is doing something no movie
ma has done in the past l6 years.
He's making a picture with a back
ground in the American Rev
o]ution, a big picture with a flock
of stars and a top budget and a
big location trip.
Last man to try this was David
Wark Griffith the old master of
the silents. Griffith made Amer
lea" in 1924, and America"
brought in so few box-office
beans that it started a cycle, a
cycle away from Spirit of rs stuff
that has persisted until today.
The reason Frank Lloyd is buck
ing the legendary jinx is a school
marin named Elizabeth Page.
Miss Page wrote a voluminous
novel about the beginning of the
II. S. A., and she called it Tree
Of Liberty" The excellent book
started out, on the basis of ex-
SCl1CllI 1CV1C"Op w NJ oAAosAASA
Gone With the Wind" but some
where along the route the wind
abated and the novel became just
an unusually good seller instead
of a best. Lloyd is still convinced
Tree of Liberty" will make a best
seller movie.
He's calling it, however, 1.-The
Towards of Virginia" Alfred, per-
haps, that a picture called Tree
of Liberty" would be confused with
a Warner Bros. patriotic short
the only movies which have con-
tended recently that Yankee
Doodle stuff was good box-office.
Afraid, he says, that coming out in
an election year it would buck the
apathy engendered in a voting
populace which will have had its
ears ratified by political oratory
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
BY Robin Coons.

generously seasoned with the word
liberty" Anyway, since the story
is about early Virginia families
including one named Howard, he
figures THE Towards of Virginia"
fits better.
He is not afraid of any ''jinx''
on the Revolutionary Period. His
picture will have history in it, but
it won't be injected p~onderously
or pedantically. AS he described
it, the historical aspects will be
served in easy-to-take capsules Of
drama and comedy with none of
that hold-everything-here-come
a-lesson raWness.
Lloyd took his principals Gary
Grant and Martha Scott to the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES town of Will
laimsburg, Va, where for the first
time permission was granted a
movie company to use the restora-
tons and originals of colonially i'm
portant structures. Lloyd says he
never had liner, more truly AUTH
entic sets, and the same goes for
the reproductions in use for studio
shots.
Frank Lloyd would be all for
authenticity no matter what, but
here he has a practical reason
aside from art. The Rockefeller
people granted use of Williams
burg only on condition that stu
d1o-created sets would maintain
fidelity to their originals. So stu
die artisans have matched wood
work, chandeliers, exterior brick,
fireplaces, tile, stairway, even the
usually unnotices floors, with pain
stalking exactitude.
Photographs of the sets have to
be sent east and officially approx
ed before they can be used for
the picture. John D., Jr., as well
| as Lloyd, is getting what he wants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
Star-News Program

Consolidated 6ity-County Government
under CounciLManager Administrator
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry PTeseTO'"9
ond Marketing Facilities.
arena for Sports ma Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsotHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits
S5-Foot Cape Fear River hdnneI, ~to'
er Turning Basin, NTH ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Vio
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodnc'
ton through sustained-yied methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort FRO
motional Agency. supported BY one.
countrywide tdr.
shipyords and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0ro~tn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatortnm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
'Mortals And Immortals'
Lesson-Sermon Subject

"Mortals and Immortals'' was the
subject of the lesson-sermon in all
Christian Science churches and
societies, yesterday.
The Golden Text was from I Cor
inthians 1858. This corEuptible
must put on interruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality
Among the citations which com
prised the lesson-sermon were the
following from the Bible, Where
fore seeing we also are comprised
about with So great a cloud of wit
nesses, let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patti
ence the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the
throne of God" (EIebr. 12:1, p.
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures, by Mary Baker Eddy, Pro
gress is born of experience. 1t Is
the ripening of mortal man, through
which the mortal is dropped for the
immortal. Either here or
suffering or Science must destroy
all illusions regarding life n "lno,
and regenerate material sense ana
self The real man is spiritual
and immortal, but the mortal anu
imperfect so-called children OF men
are counterfeits from the beSlnnlne'
to be laid aside for the pure realty
This mortal is put off, and the ne"
maan or real man is put on IN pro-
portion as mortals realize the science
of nan and seek the true model
pages 296 and 409).
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
GOLDEN RULE MILK FUND
Dear Sir:

Dear oil.
At the monthly meeting of the
executive committee of the AS
ISOLATED Charities May 16. I men.
toned the splendid response of the
Golden Rule fund for milk to be
used for the needy of our city, and
T am sure our whole board appre-
GATES this effort. The contributions
now stand at 81 and we hope they
will continue to grow is there is al
ways need for more milk for our
indigents.
There are no strings tied to these
funds and they will be used for both
! white and colored, for any age per-
sons who are needy. F%orty-one
dollars will furnish milk for II in
dividuals one month at the reduced
prices given the Associated Char
! tiles by the diaries.
I would like to cite a few type
cases we have selected to be spon-
sored by this fund.
a. A colored man who has active
tuberculosis in a family that has no
definite income.
() A white girl in high school
terribly undernourished, mother i'll,
father unable to do heavy work,
only income $21 a month from aid for
dependent children.
(3) Colored oma with tuber-
1,,1Dric with how 1E vnorC MD IN
school and no income.
() An 1mbecile child II years old
who is the size of a child five years
of age, has never walked or talked.
Father working on W. P. A. income
$4S.1O monthly.
() Little girl undernourished whose
father is in the state hospital with
three other children to support on
small pension.
These are only a few of the ap-
peals. There is not a DAY we do
not find a family who needs milk,
so we hope this fund will continue
to grow and we want to cooperate
with other agencies, as it is only
through cooperation we can reach
the needy people.
Again thanking you for your fine
publicity for the Golden Rule Milk
fund.
Very sincerely,
MRS. T.. o. ELLIS
Executive Secretary.
MAY II, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
Man bout
Manhattan
BY George Tucker

NEW YORK, May 19-Mr. Ogden
Nash once wrote a poem about a
taxi driver. He was the incest taxi
driver in New York. He always
had change for a S. bill. He al
ways said "Ma'am" to ladies, and
Sir" to men. When his customers
asked him not to drive SO fast
he always said, "Oh, that's all
right; I'll be glad to slow down"
He didn't smoke or chew. He never
sassed policemen. In fact, he was
the best taxi driver in the world.
The only trouble was that he never
made any money. The money was
made by the tough taxi-drivers,
who snarled at strangers and
shortchanged nice old ladies.
I do not know Mr.. Nash per-
sonally, but if l ever meet him I
am going to introduce him to a
party named Joe Bananas. Joe is
a bellman at the Hotel New York
err, which is a highbrow way Of
saying bellhop. If Joe worked at
any other hotel he would be a
bellhop. But at the New Yorker
that word is discouraged because
it is said to be lacking in dignity.
Sometimes Joe Bananas is the
despair of his fellow bellmen be-
cause he refuses to take tips from
nice old ladies. "Oh, that's all
right, ma'am," says Joe. Il love
to carry bags" When Joe refuses
to take tips like this, it makes the
other bellmen appear callous and
%grasping.
Joe sometimes refuses to take
tips from honeymooners, too. And
he eve takes tips on Holy days.
Joe is Spanish and a good Cath.
olic. His last name isn't really
Bananas. People call him that be.
cause his last name is practically
unpronounceable. He is certainly
a valuable man to have in a met.
ropolitan hotel because he speaks
all the Latin tongues fluently and
understands Greek, Russian and
German. He has been a bellhop
IS years and a bellman for ten
more years. The Is years were
before he went to the New York.
er.
If you know New York you will
remember this hotel is quite a
little waikiki you are carrying
heavy bags-from the Pennsylva.
mia Railroad station. This is some.
times a distressing business for the
other bellmen, because Joe is still
shy about accepting tips, even at.
ter this long haul. The other day
he lugged two heavy valises over
to the station and put a nice old
gentleman on the train. When he
got there the nice old gentleman
gave Joe a 50-cent tip. Joe said,
"Oh, thank you, sir, and here is
20 cents change. Thirty cents is
more than enough for the small
service I have been able to render
vou."
But it this is at times Just a wee
bit trying on his c~onfreres, it is a
point that wins many friends for
Joe among the customers. Through
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20

lions plants, to prepare for adequate de1ense
against invasion, there can be no complaint
But in the transition it will be vastly 10 our
national advantage to do away with expendl'
t,,res not directly affecting the governments
efficiency, which are draining the private
pocket books of tax payers.
Let expenditures for defense be as heaVS
az necessary. but let's try to cut the gross
cost of government, that the cost OF prepared
ness be not too heavy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
The Editors
letter. BOX

The editor does not necessari.
" endorse any article appear.
in this department. They repre-
sent the views Of the individual
readers. Correspondents a r 9
warned that all communications
must contain the correct name
and ~7dress for our records.
though the latter may be signed
az the writer sees fit. The Star.
News reserves the right to alter
any text that for any reason is
objectionable. Letters on con-
reversal subjects will not be
published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20

his long service as a bellman, he
has worked up a Clientele" that
run into the thousands. People
from all over the United States,
when they stop at the New Yorker,
ask for Joe Bananas.
This is a fine thing for Joe. 1t
means he seldom has to stand in
rotation-that is, in line, and take
his turn with the other beilmen.
He always is being pulled out of
line and sent up to some new ar
rival who remembers Joe from
previous visits. It mean that Joe
continually is being offered new
tips. 1t is plain to see Joe could
easily lay by a nice nest egg if
he we're commercial in his atti-
tude toward life. But Joe always
has the right change in his pocket.
oh, no, sir, I couldn't take a
quarter. Fifteen cents is more than
enough"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
STRANDED CRUISER
SIGHTED BY NAILS
Ship, Guarded By Planes,
Listing Heavily Off North
ern Norwegian Port

BERLIN, May 19- Up The Of
fetal German news agency reported
today that nazi air scouters sighted
a heavy enemy cruiser stranded off
Bodo, northern Norway.
The cruiser was listing, heavily
and was guarded by enemy planes
and one destroyer, DNB said.
The wreckage of a transport of
25, 900 tons or more was discovered
today off the Netherlands port of
Flushing, DNB said. The ship ap-
parently had been broken in the
middle hit by a mine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
E X QUESTIONABLE "
Brides and Grooms'
REN ARRIVES

NAPLES, May 19.-lP-lI' rs:.
ian liner Rex, with a s.'an y,s
senger list, arrived TO-DAY li0'r ns,:s:
York on schedule. having ,ri,sos;
British-controlled Glpfal"' ,ar.rs'
having been halted by the str., ID
band control. 1t was lns s%-,gls'
the Rex had escaped 6ein5
there since the war started.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
GLOVE, CoURTsHIp
AND MARRIAGE
Dare To Question
Your Own Love And
That Of Your Lover
BY ERNEST r. AND GLADYS h
GROVES
Noted Authorities on Marriag
Relations

is this love?" the young grl
ask, all eager and earnest i
am crazy about him and he tetl
that way about me. But how cal
we tell if it's the real thing!
This is love-" the older boy!
say, definite and serious. but how
do we know if it will last?"
Some would scorn those who 20
not know their own mind" Man?
believe that, if love is real ana
lasting, it brings its own certalnT
with it. Being sure is BEN!
right" they would say, and "
doubt is to deny there is any love
Yet only unthinking people o.
those so optimistic they run "
meet or Man Trouble and WEI
come him as a friend, can ne'a
doubt. The surest of Their Nt
might seem to be the ones VIZ.
jump into marriage after known:
each other three days, three TeFA
or three months or so. YET ue,,
s~nap-romances are notorious,
short-lived. I'VE married III .
hurry, and then we hated III a. t.
hurry" is often the secret verdE'
of those so sure Of Their l0'
that they rushed into marTlaSt
Actually, those who are no.'
truly sure do not try 10 pi ,,,
their love by letting theIAST u,
be stampeded into marriage t .%:
dare to question their OWE ~"
ans that of the lover.
The difference between a pa+
ing love, or infatuation, ana d i S.,
ing love that grows deeper W. W..
time, cannot be told at the . IL.
breath of passion or passlon's VT.
love. Even if we could Sepo'
physical desire from pefso.o-r.
craving, it would never be ca, s,r :,
tell in advance whether any p e,.,
ocular John and Mary know ~ CO.. Z
other well enough to be a'N
count on staying in love .,s~.
They may not even kho" Nh
selves. Mary may deVelop d,
interests, a different klnd , ", D
Effectiveness that means no''l-n' NJ.
John; or he may become n Mar
like what he now is that ~ 0rl
he is practically a stfahs'' ,,orly,
by letting their love gro" nj.
while they test out Their 1%, N:
sibilities of growth, can JONI Iors.
Mary find out if This Is
and if it will last.
fnr
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
TOP % THE MORNING

o soul play 1OeN the 5eW notes g1Ven 1hee:
The Master needs thee for Lite's Symphony.
B.. T. Williams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
EAlE- 10

RIO DE JANEIRo Nay Gs,al
A decree by fIes -,i,att0t
Vargas today extended app' Iorea'
Brazil's neutrality laws to ,n,ba.,s
Holland, Belgium ana LI "5 onr o
They previously had ap c,.oar Brs:D'
Germany, France ana VIC"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20

1t would take 30 olll a51nce, "
electrons to make an
| cordinq to estimates
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20

May H., 1910.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-11-07

Expertly tailored skirts in gored,
pleated and smartly detailed styles
in the seasons newest cOlOrs.
Evening star., 1940-09-14
Federal Net Crowns
At Stake in Play on
Potomac Courts

c. Alphonso Smith and Willie
Herbert were favored to win tennis
championships of Federal employees
today as they took on Allie Ritzen-
berg and Margaret Keever, respec-
lively, in final round matches at Po-
tomac Park. The mems title joust
was to start at 2::30 o'clock with
Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. Keever be-
ginning play half hour later.
Semiflnals in mixed doubles also
were scheduled with Smith and
Peggy Keyser Smith meeting Mrs
Keever and John Smith, and George
Herbert and his wife facing Char
lotte Decker and Allie Ritzenberg.
Ritzenberg was the only singles
finalist extended yesterday, Frank
Shore pressing him to IS, Ga
scores. Smith had little more than
a workout in walloping Allies
brother, Hy, 81, 81. Both woman
contenders won in pretty much the
same manner, Mrs. Herbert repuls-
ing Mrs. Smith. 50, 60. and Mrs.
Keever stopping Dorette Miller, So,
6-3. The only mems doubles match
resulted In 50, 6+3 victory for
Smith and Shore over Ernie Me
meyer and Art Simmons.
Evening star., 1940-09-14
Dad to See Lyons in Major Tilt
First Time as Chicago Honors
78-Yeor Vet With IS, ,OOODoy'

years ago because Of an ailing right
arm, but courageouslv continued
without complaint and regained
some semblance of his oldtime zip
only last year He is regarded as
one of the headiest pitchers in he
majors
Lyons never played with any
other team. major or minor. since
leaving Baylor University and join
ing the White Sox back IN 1929
He has won 231 games. including
no-hitter against Boston in 1926.
Helpful to Mats Hudson.
He always has been a good hitter
and a remarkable fielder, playing
an entire season without an error.
Of all the batters he's faced he
rates Al Simmons. now a player
coach with the Athletics, as the
toughest Always a great competi-
tive player, he took pride in pitch
ing to the tough ones, and that
went for Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Iris
Speaker and the other great slug
ging stars.
Lyons always has been willirg to
help other hurlers overcome pitch
ing mistakes. Only this year when
young Sid Hudson OF the Washing
ton club had won only of II
starts. Manager Bucky Harris of the
Nationals asked Lyons if he would
give Hudson a few pointers. Lyons
obliged-and Immediately Hudson
started winning streak.
Last year when John Righey of
the White Sox lost IL games in a
row Lyons spent an afternoon in
the stands observing mistakes Rig
ney apparently had been making.
Immediately thereafter Rigney, TOO,
started a winning streak.