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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
NEW FRENCH CABINET

Fall of the DALADIER government in France
appears to have dated from the Russo-Finnish
peace. There had been strong opposition to
the governments delay in aid for Finland,
and when opportunity offered for a vote of
confidence so many members were absent that
DALADIER felt he no longer had the good will
OF frances parliament even though the vote,
as taken, was overwhelmingly in his favor.
The cry in France is for active prosecution
OF the war against the Nazis. Premier DA.
LADDER has been willing to play the waiting
game which Premier CHAMBERLAIN of Great
Britain had decreed for the Allies. This is so
contrary to French reasoning that the people,
the press, and the many party leaders OBJ.
viously could no longer abide it, and made it
possible for DALADIER to step out gracefully,
without the sting of a vote against him.
Probably before this edition Of the Star is
distributed to it's subscribers a new cabinet
whom the task has been assigned by Presi-
dent LEBRUN. 1t is equally probable that DA-
LADDER will be given the war portfolio in the
new cabinet. He seems particularly eligible
for the post because of his intimate knowl.
edge Of Frances military machine, which he
organized, and with other more aggressive
statesmen in the cabinet it is fair to suppose
that if it is Frances will to fight a war in.
stead of to hold back, he will chance the
strategy of her forces in the field.
Whether the cabinet change will affect
Frances relations with Great Britain in the
conduct Of the war, and so jeopardize its
outcome more than the past sit-down policy
has done, is still 10 be revealed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
PRESIDENT SILENT
ON FARLEY'S RACE
Continued from Page One)

Asked at a press conference wheth-
er the democratic convention might
draft the chief executive, Ickes re.
Piled:
you might want a girl to marry
you, but that is no assurance she
would have you"
Ickes said that Farley sis a fine
man" and that every citizen had
the right to for Presi-
dent. Jim can be depended on to
do the right thing" he added.
He declared a recent visit to Cali
fornia had demonstrated to him
that the state was Overwhelmingly
for a third term"
Stephen T. Early, President
Roosevelt's press secretary, told re-
porters there was mo reaction at
the White House to Farley's recent
declaration that my name will be
presented to the democratic con.
vention and that's that"
Meanwhile, Vice-President Garner
made out an affidavit formally en-.
dorsing a slate Of 4S delegates
running for him in California;
May 7 democratic primary.
Garner swore that he was "a can
didate o nomination by the demo-
cratic party for President of the
United States"
Whlle senator's opposing President
Roosevelt contended Farley had
thrown a big stumbling block in the
way of a third term drive, Roose-
welt supporters continued to insist
that the postmaster general would
go along if the chief executive
should run again.
Senator Holt (D-Wva) commented
hat the Farley declaration 'gives
the third term drive a Jolt"
IL IL hadn't been for Jim Far
ley Holt added, the first term
cessful." 'o0" s
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

"ASI1lIN1lON N1dICu Gl.-Idplldl DdrDeT.
shop:
Barber: Good afternoon, Senator, good aft
ernoon."
Senator: "Humph! I guess So"
Representative Calling across from another
chair): Hello, Senator. Seen the afternoon
papers? Somebody close to the President has
been talking. Says the President definitely has
made up his mind and told him absolutely he
will run for a third term
Sen. (snorting): Not a word of truth in it."
Barber: That's what I 49,"
Rep. What makes you say that, Senator'S
Sen.: plain as the nose on your face. What
could he gain by letting that out now? Best
strategy in the world to keep his mouth
shut. By CAD, that's good politics."
Barber: But don't you think :"
Rep: well, that's kinda the way I feel
about it. 1 tell you, this busting the third term
precedent doesn't scare me. 1 don't always
agree with the President-not by a long shot.
But 1 haven't any complaint generally. Look
over the last seven years. They add up all
right to me-"
Sem: m
Barber: Yeah, but -"
Rep: "If a man makes a good record and
his character is the best, why should we throw
him out just because our grandpappies didn't
like the third-term idea? And that goes for a
republican as well as a democrat. Yessiree, if
Roosevelt wants a third term, it's sure all right
with me and he can talk about it whenever
he wants to-"
Sem: Sounds to me like you're on the band
wagon, nah friend. Now, I'm not and I don't
care who knows it. I told FDR, himself. I told
the press. And last month told the folks back
home-spoke to 1000 ~people-biggest turnout
we ever had. There was plenty of applause,
plenty. But, in all fairness, [ can't say that
it was so much for what I said as just for
me. I'm doing all right back there this year. l
won't have any trouble next election, no mat
~, ,rIi,I. NOV 41o -,;,J I1-uyc for raci1or -
Barber: But what I want to know :"
Sem: A for the Presidents telling anybody
about his thirG-term ideas, don't you believe
it. What could be gained, except by gentle
men of the opposition, like MYSELF"
Rep: 81 guess you're right. Senator"
Barber: Il think so, too, but .."
Sem: certainly I'm right. Best political
strategy I've seen in my 40 years as a servant
Of the people. Couldn't help a soul but the
opposition if he cam out either way now. An
other thing, it would damage our prestige
abroad. Foreign nations aren't going to pay
any attention Well, not much, anyway.
to a President of the United States who is
going out Of office and will have nothing Of
ficially to do with foreign policies after that.
But if they don't know. Well, that's something
else"
Rep: every enlightening, Senator, very en-
tightening"
Barber: II always say =.
Sen.: tits not necessarily very erudlte. Just
elementary political reasoning. Takes a little
common sense thinking. That's all. l tell you,
if I were FDR, 1 wouldn't say one WORD until
the convention had nominated me for a third
term"
Rep: IT believe you're right. Well, l have
an appointment. See you again some time Sen
ator. G'bye."
Sen. Ito barber): "What were you saying,
young man?' 81
Barber: II forget now what it was. 1uess 1t
didn't matter, anyway"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
under CouncilManager Administrator
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highoay from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear Rtver channel. ~4d'
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes INTO
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, MA
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Neoro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm emit OF ndtive grape 0ro1tng
hrouqhout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis SdnGtortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
GETS IT, OFF HIS CHEST

JAMES A. FARLEY will be placed in nomina.
ton at the democratic national convention in
Chicago. Announcement that he will be a can
didate seemed to bring the postmaster gen.
eral great relief. He had shielded his secro+
too long for comfort, and is probably sleenine
better since he got it off his chest.
If the customary procedure is followed ,t
Chicago, however, there will be no particu1ar
significance in getting his name before the
convention. Many other names will be men.
toned in the same way. The "~favorite SON.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
DAMAGE II
SHIPS IN ATTACKS
Continued from Page One)

tain felt that the expected German
counter-blow for the allnight raid
on Sylt had failed to develop.
Inc nation turned to it's first
holiday weekend of the spring as
parliament started the easter recess
during which Prime Minister Cham.
oerlaln Is expected to revamp his
CABINET in response to Criticism
within his own party as we'll as
from the opposition.
In the lobby of parliament in.
formed sources predicted a new
government lineup would be an.
nounced within a week.
fefore recessing until April 2, the
mouse OF commons heard blunt
words spoken of two leading cab.
met members, chancellor of the
exchequer Sir John Simon and Sir
samuel Hoare. lord privy seal.
Liberal G%eoffery Mander declared
that 1T is widely felt throughout
tne country that the chancellor of
'he exchequer and the lord privy
seal are heavy liabilities both at
nome and abroad"
Ar mlnister Sir Kingsley Wood
ana supply minister Leslie Burein
were mentioned as likely to be dis.
placed by Chamberlain by a shake.
up from which a smaller war cab.
met may emerge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
BAILEY REQUESTED
TO SEEK PASSAGE
OF WATERWAY BILL
Continued from Page One)

seems that everything has been
done that can be done until the
bill now with your committee
has been passed by congress.
again we wish to urge you
to bring out some bill that will
include the small projects so
badly needed by this section
and by North Carolina as a
whole.
"We people realize the fact that
a generous government during the
past several years has not been
overly generous in our section. The
life and property of this section and
eastern North Carolina depend on
adequate waterway facilities.
In studying Jul facilities in
&C mparison with those of other
places it is very obvious that we
have never received the same pre-.
ferred treatment that other places
have received. 1t is our hope and
expectation that with you as chair.
of the committee concerned
with waterway improvements we
will receive the regard so long de-
served.
"The people here are looking to
you for relief.
with bes5 wishes and assurance
of our continued support"
The telegram was signed by Will.
mington chamber of commerce.
Wilmington Port Traffic associa.
ton, Wilmington Port commission,
Wilmington Iron Works, North
carolina Line, Diamond Steamboat
and Wrecking company, Whining
ton Terminal Warehouse company,
Stone lowing company, Cape Fear
shipping company, Alexand der
Sprunt and Son, Heide and com.
pany, Wilmington Oil and Fertilizer
company, Norfolk, Baltimore and
Line, Wilmington Star.
News, and Cape Fear Terminal
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
WHAT ONE PORT HAS DONE

THE MOBILE ItmeS OIL Nalcn L
1 that 40 vessels called at Mobile port in
February. The significant thing about the
r;n,eo article is that so many ships regularly
call there that the arrival of 1lo-the aver
o is nearly four a day-is given but a
aozor lines of TYNE, 1t is treated as mere
routine news. Even the fact that the figure
exceeds that for the same month last year
Mobile port is on the way up. Advances in
it's are taken for granted. we sus-
pect the only thing that could stir more than
nassing interest would be some sudden drop
in tonnage. Then everybody would howl to
high heaven to know why. But as long as
the customary increase continues, 1t IS ac'
corded a line or two and forgotten.
This shows what can be done for a port
when a united people set out to put 1t ahead
A few years ago Mobile had a dead port, and
consequently was a dead city. 1t had no in
dustries of consequence, no business that
Welded genuine or sizeable profits. 1t was
slipping back fast. Then, because a few lead
ers realized that it must pass completely out
of the picture unless something was done to
revive it, a movement to create port facill'
ties which would attract and set
the machinery of business and industry hum
ming, was launched.
After a whirlwind campaign, the legislature
was prevailed upon to extend a ten million
dollar credit for port improvement. Facilities
we're built for the accommodation of ships
and their cargoes and builders
went to work. Slowly, ships began to make
Mobile which had previously gone to New
Orleans and other Southern ports. Industries,
benefiting by new rate structures the port
builders established and permitted to acquire
new land created near the terminals with
dredgings from the port basin and channel
at advantageous prices, began to function.
The city in all it's business ramifications be-
gan to take on new life, with result that Mo-
bile now accepts the arrival of 40 ships
in the short month as a matter of course. No
body, not even the harbor master or the port
authority, gets excited.
So greatly has the city prospered from the
impetus port development brought that the
bridge and causeway across Mobile bay, which
was counted a gift from heaven when new
and it came about the same time the port
was revived-is outmoded, and a tunnel I'm.
der Mobile river is being constructed at a
cost Of four million dollars for the better &C.
commodation of highway traffic which has in.
creased in proportion as the city has driven
ahead. Instead Of a six-mile drive to the Old
bridge, traffic will leave and arrive at the
foot Of Government street, Mobiles main tho.
roughfare, without going a foot out of its
way.
In less than twenty years Mobile has risen
almost literally from the grave, because its
leaders saw an opportunity in port develop.
ment and had the energy and courage to
cash in on that opportunity.
Mobile had nothing to start with that Will.
mington lacks. With similar energy and cour.
age and unity, Wilmington may 90 as far
or farther, toward economic security. Its
progress will be as great whenever it's leader.
ship undertakes as good a job.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Robbin Coc,e.

-Ov NODOtN CCHS@
HOLLYWOOD, March 21.-Gower
Gulch, the local street corner COW
boy rendezvous which broke into
the headlines with a shooting re.
Gently, has about one chance in
$500 of contributing a cowboy star
to pictures.
Bob Tansey figures it that way,
and Bob has been around cowboys
and pictures a long time. He writes
cowboy pictures, directs them, pro.
duces them, has acted in them.
Sometimes he writes, directs and
produces, all at the same time. In
his typewriter now are five new
movie stories, to each of which he
gives his literary attentions as its
deadline for production approaches.
Bob, a lean and wiry chap, can
dream up western" plots between
races at Santa Anita. He's been in
the game for "a years.
1.-THE cowboy extra has about one
chance in 1000 even to get to fea-
tured roles" says Bob. And when
they want a star, they usually don't
take a cowboy. They take a fellow
who a sing, who's go~od-looking,
and a play a guitar and look like
a cowboy, and then they teach him
to ride-enough to get by, anyway"
That's nothing new, however. The
first Of the screens cowboy stars
was G.. M. "Broncho Billy" Ander-
son. Terry Ramsaye, the film his
%torian, relates the legend of Bron-
cho's debut in "The Great Train
Robbery" Broncho Billy, according
to the story, was thrown from a
horse the first day of shooting and
took the train back to New York.
He returned to finish the movie,
but had no more to do with horses
for a while.
Just as the first "Westerns" we're
shot in the wild plains of New Jer'
sey, so cowboy stardom has not
vi lIuSli 1Oll 1Lo SllSlO oAA
gins. w. S. Hart, successor to An
derson and longtime ruler of the
movie West, was a stage actor who
became a "cowboy'-and a real one
for the movies.
Tom Mix was a Westerner all the
way, with a full past of range adj
venture before he hit pictures, and
Ken Maynard, out of Texas, came
to movies from a wild-West circus.
But they didn't find Gene Autry
in Cover Gulch. Genes from Tex.
as, and he knew his way about,
but they picked him off the air.
Bill Boyd used to be d straight"
actor before he fell into "Hopalong
Cassidy" and George O'Brien was
in an Academy award picture ("Sun.
rise") long before his Drawn was
placed in the saddle. The Ivy league
contributed Dick Foran and Charles
Starrett to the leading man ranks,
and they-two surprised Fasteners
were booted, in short order, up
INTO the SADDLE. Randolph Scott, at
home now in frequent Western
roles, halls from Virginia. The
movie Vests Tom Keene was
George Duryea - imported by De.
Mile from the stage where he'd
such outdoor pieces as "Abie's
Irish Rose" John Wayne, from U.
s. c., fitted naturally into Western
But the boys all learn to ride.
even II they don't know a bit from
a stlrrup when they start. Riding
isn't everything these days - not
wnen the range is supposed to he
FULL of crooners.
ana when a cowboy star can
O get by on his riding, there's
always Cover Gulch. There are
a hundred right smart trick
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Man bout
BY George Tucker
BY George tuekel

NEW YORK, March 81. - On
Broadway, song pluggers are thick
or than flies in fly time. You can
close your eyes and reach out your
hand and touch one. Let's touch
three or four now and see what
we get.
we get Bob Stone right off the
hat. We get Norm Foley, and Mack
lcoldman, and Eddy Wolpin. They're
on the job tonight, as all song
nluggers are on the job every night.
We get Stone, Foley, Goldman
and Wolpin because this happens
70 he their night to have dinner
at our hotel. Tomorrow they'll go
to some other hotel, but don't let
that bother you. Four other song
nlugsers will be here to take their
place.
A song plugger's dream Of heav-
en- is a major plug" "a song
played by a dance orchestra be-
tween 5 o'clock in the afternoon
ana one ClOSh LII LIN
over either NBC or CHS.
Let's say you work for a firm
that has published a song called
elbow Were Your Dreams Last
INight?" OF course there isn't any
song by that name. This is just to
illustrate a point.
The more times you get that
song played over the two major
bradcasting companies, the more
money you make. Either of these
networks hits an audience of mil
lions. When a million people listen
to a song, some of them are going
to buy it. The more times it is
played, or plugged" the higher
the sales charts climb.
So, every night around dinner
time the song pluggers move il
on the hotel dining rooms where
the big dance bands play. Usually
they are alone. They come in an(
sit down and kill a lot of time ovel
dinner, checking up on their owr
numbers, checking up on the oppo
sition.
That's what Bob Stone is doing
right now. He is checking up. He
is sitting so close to the orchestra
stand that he could reach out ant
pull Blue Barron's leg. Mr. Barron
is the orchestra leader. Stone rep
resents the Sam Fox publishing
firm, and the song he is working
on is "Tumbling Tumble Weeds"
Four or five tables away are
Mack Goldman, of the Harms com
pany, and Norm Foley, who repre-
sents Witmark. Goldman is inter
ested in I'm A Little Dutch Gar
den." Foley wants to hear MAKE
Love With a Guitar"
Finally, there is Eddy Wolpin
Mr.. Wolpin is a Chappell man, anG
he has a couple Of winners just
now. When he hears the orchestra
play call the Things You Are" ii
makes him yer happy. When he
hears do I Love You," that makes
him happy too. If he can remain
reasonably happy throughout most
of the week, his company will.
prosper, and indirectly he will, too
This may not seem fair to you
but money behind a song will make
it just as quickly as talent. If you
have a number that is a beauty
and another only half as pretty
the proper exploitation will make
a hit of the mediocre song while
the really beautiful n dies. That's
why song pluggers are important
That's why, if you are a composer
it is important to have them or
your side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Broughton Committee
Named For Caldwell

hALElGH, March 21.- Up e.
B. Denny of Gastonia. manaeer Of
llis y. M Broughton for governor
announced the appoint.
meht tonight of a 12-man commit
eohouct Broughton's CAM
pa,gn IN Caldwell county.
T. Az" OF the committee are E.
A''eh' B: F. Williams, L. A. Dy.
No., a. G.. Foard, F. H Caffey,
r Solorth' Finley German, W.
Saapehter, P. l.. Poovev Nat
Wall. Aaee ana l.. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
TOP O. THE

'Tuas the hour When one in Sion
Hung for LOVES sake ON the cross;
When His brow 1ras chill Nth dying
And His soul Was faint With loss;
When His priest1y blood dropped doWnWard
And His king1y eyes looked throneUard.
QUOTED by REV. JESSE HALsEY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

rioers who'll double for a star at
the drop of a SLOUGH hat.
However, when it m to star.
ION for the stunters - that's one
chance in $500.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

1 do not believe anyone not a citizen Oh FIN
land has any right to question her d11lcult ae-
cision.-Senator Robert M. LaFollette' ii.
prog, Wis.,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Capital barber
shop:
Barber: Good afternoon, Senator, good af
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Defense

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1940-06-03
|Shipbui|ding Workers
Back al Jobs After
Three-Day Strike
Agree to Company Plan
For Poy Roises Pending
Further Negotiations
nv the Associ.t.d pr.s.

BY the Associated Press.
KEARNY, N. j., June 3.-Thous-
ands OF workers ended in the huge
yards of the Federal Shipbuilding
& Dry Dock Co. today a three-day
strike which had delayed construc-
ton Of six United States warships.
Some 400 came back at midnight
and then 5000 more returned for the
$50 o'clock shift. The remainder of
the 5000 employees report back for
the evening shift. The sudden walk
out Thursday midnight halted work
on two cruisers and four destroyers,
part OF the Nations defense pro-
gram.
Agree to Company Plan.
Members of Local 16, Industrial
Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers Of America &C. I. o., the
employees agreed yesterday at mass
meeting to accept a company pro-
posal for 2la to cents an hour SAL
ary increases, pending further ne
gotiations.
John Green, national president of
the union, who announced the vote,
said employees would go back to work
ito avoid charges of obstructing the
national defense program"
In addition to the warships, three
cargo vessels and two tankers, also
units of the augmented defense pro-
gram, are under construction at the
yards. Union spokesmen previously
had said naval construction would
not suffer because of the walkout
since, they claimed, work was well
ahead of schedule.
Four Points Remain.
A union statement said four points
remained to be settled: A 10-cent-
an-hour salary increase, one-week
vacations after years employment
and two weeks after three, a union
Evening star., 1940-06-03
Orchestra Leader Liqht
Hurt in Crash

BY the Associated Press.
IPSWICH, Mass, June 3-One
man was killed and Enoch Light,
34-year-old Danbury (Conn) Or
chestra leader, and three other men
were seriously injured yesterday in
a head-on automobile collision near
here.
The dead man was Perley D.
Eaton, %, of Boston. Mr.. Light suf-
fered fractured skull, shoulder and
ribs. State police at first reported
he had been killed.
The others injured are: Fowler g.
Hayes, 30, Of Jackson Heights, N.
Y, and Arthur lombard, 80, New
York, both passengers with Mr..
Light, and Dominic K. Murphy, 20,
Of South Boston, Mr.. Eaton's COM
panion.
Evening star., 1940-06-03
HoIton Arms Graduates
IS Students TODAY

Holton Arms School will graduate
As girls this afternoon in the school
auditorium in the closing phase OF
its three-day commencement which
yesterday saw the awarding of spe-
cial prizes to honor students.
After the presentation of diplomas
by Mrs. J. M. Holton, principal, a
senior class reception will be held
on the campus: A banquet tonight
concludes graduation exercises.
An award yesterday went to Peggy
Davis of Kansas City, Mo-, for being
the outstanding athlete of the school
year. Frances Acher of Winter
Park, Fla, received the alumnae
Evening star., 1940-06-03

prize for being the outstanding
senior.
Two Washington girls received
honors for their work on the school
annual. They were Margherita
Stirling, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
w. Calhoun Stirling, and Alice
Lalor Molten, daughter of the late
Capt. Robert P. Molten and Mrs.
Molten.
Miss Davis and Mary Katherine
Schutts of Lake Charles, La, grad
uate this afternoon magma cum
laude.
At the conclusion of awards yes
terday seniors dedicated their class
tree on the school grounds.