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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
By HUBBARD KEAVY
Associated Press Staff Writer
(Seeimg them for Vacationing

Robin Coons)
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.-'Lucky
Partners" S%creenplay by Allan
Scott and John Van Druten. Di-
rected by Lewis Milestone. Princi-
pals: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Col
man, Spring Byngton, Jack Car
son, Harry Davenport and Hugh
O'Connell.
Some folks said when this pic
ture was started that Ginger was
not the type for Colmen, and vice
versa, and that the combination
would result in a celluloid mess.
The airy and amusing piece de-
tails consequences of the purchase
of a sweepstakes ticket by Gin
ger and Colman, including (these
Green writer's think of everything,
don't they?) a platonic honeymoon
trip to Niagara Falls.
1t is very obvious from the be-
ginning that Colman, looking al
most boyish with his hair cut
short and wearing sweaters, will
win this lady of somebody else's
choice, even though she is wear
ing her hair black and in a cum
bersome manner Il Think down
her pretty neck in something that
I am told is a snood.
You know very we'll that the
dope she is engaged to marry does
not have an outside chance after
Colman turns on the personality,
but the dope, in the person of Car
son, stays in and pitches to COM
plicate matters and thereby amuse
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-From today's capi-
tai quiz:
Was the resign lion of Harry Hopkins as
secretary of commerce purely for reasons of
health or was it some political outgrowth of
the Chicago convention? If it was simply for
reasons Of health, then why now, when he has
been i'll for more than a year? .
Is the District of Columbia getting the rum
around from Congress on that move to give
district residents the right to vote and repre-
sentation in Congress? (The answer to this is,
And how!'o Will the $50, 900 residents of the
district ever get the franchise? Zone mans
answer: It's doubtful.)
Have the British really slowed down the
Nazis? military experts here are revising
their odds every day now, although the edge
still is that the British can't hold out.) Will
the Balka and Near-East muddle finally tilt
the scales in favor of the English? And was
a knowledge of the possibilities there what
kept Hitler from giving an order for that all
out Battle Of Britain which army and navy
men estimate would have cost him 400, 600 to
a million men to win?
AND WHAT OF HOOVER?
Is food relief for Europe really going to
become one Of the major political issues this
autumn and winter? If it does, how far will it
raise or diminish the political stature of our
only living ex-president, Herbert Hoover?
Why is it that all the polls being taken on
the November presidential election are almost
$3.50? Is the country really that way or is it
an effort on the part of the pollers or the
queried public to tread a middle ground until
there are more straws in the presidential
breeze?
Will the establishment of a United States de-
tense base in Bermuda make the island more
or less of a tourist mecca? Gocal snap ans
wers are that Bermuda will become more of
a tourist spot than ever before, since a good
many Americans will be stationed there and
their friends and relatives will 60 %visiting.)
MORE HOME TRAVEL?
Is it really true that one out of every nine
persons in the United States visited one or
more of our national parks last year and that
the number will be increased considerably this
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03

every potato, bean, beet, cabbage or other
edible food this country can grow. II home
owners or renters raise a few vegetables for
family consumption, that much more will be
available for others now facing famine.
If we may suggest a program for house
holders we urge that they grow what they
can, eat what they can, and can what they
can't.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Are You Superstitious
y ABOUT
TRAITS?
BY RUTH FARRAR
NEA Special Correspondent

Do you believe fat people are
invariably good-natured, that red
headed people are always high
tempered, that quiet people are
more intelligent than their row.
dir brethren?
Many people do, says r. B. A.
artwright of the University of Ok
lahoma. DR.. %artWright, who has
spent 80 years gathering more
than $4,000 popular American su-
perstitions, finds these are some
of the common beliefs about per-
sonal traits:
A flat hand indicates a good dis
position.
A weak mind and a strong bac
60 together. %
A high forehead is a sign Of in.
tellignce.
Narrowness between the eyes is
the sign of a sneak.
Blends are not as Trustworthy as
brunets.
A square jaw indicates will pow
err.
Slender, sensitive hands indicate
artistic ability.
Long thumbs indicate a STUBBORN
disposition.
A protruding chin is a sign OF
pugnacity.
A pointed elbow is a sign Oh d
sour disposition.
People with green eyes are nov
to be trusted.
A person with black eyes has
very hot temper.
If your fingers do not fit closely
together, it is a sign you are d
spendthrift.
People with long, thin ears can
keep a secret.
A small mouth indicates stnsi'
ness; a large mouth indicates gen
crosby.
A dimple in the chin means
devilment within.
Teeth set far apart indicate q
strong impulse toward wandering
or travelling.
If you look old while young you
will look younger as the ear
come on.
A homely baby will become "
beautiful woman or a handsome
man.
Badness is caused by an ex'
cessive use of the brain.
old hands indicate an atfecuon'
ate nature. iii
A child born on "Wednesday VII
have a good memory.
To tickle a baby's feet will cause
it to stutter. -,
If a child talks before 1t WalA''
it's tongue will be its ruin. .
The young lady who sits "lul
her thumbs resting inside her haiu
will be dominated by her husoan.
while if her thumbs are exteiue0
she will rule the household
If the lines on a Woman's loie
head bend at the ends, she IS"
scold.
If you believe many of these ~
perstitions, it's time to stop DIV
reconsider. Two Columbia Unl'ei
sity professors who spent lou
years digging up research 10 90
plode superstitions, have anhou
that most of our firmly grouhue.
beliefs on personal traits afeN
true.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
TOP o. THE

Some have proved it Ger and Ger,
1t cannot be denied,
A blessing shared With others
Is a blessing multiplied.
A feast of a0hich no guest partakes
Is al11dys Incomplete;
Blu a blessing shared with others
Is a blessing dou6ly sweet.
+ NELLIE GooDE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
NEW PORT

BERLIN, Sept. 2.-LR-(Via ra-
dlo)-The German wireless said
today that new port facilities, in
GLIDING six piers, a deeper harbor
and mechanical facilities, a r e
nearing completion at Belmorek.
Soviet Russia's White sea terminal
OF the canal connecting with the
Baltic
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Crude Bomb Explodes In
Irish Air Raid Shelter

BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
Sept. 2.-R-A small crudely fash
Toned bomb exploded in a crowd
ed public air raid shelter in the
center Of Bel>t tonight, sending
out thick clouds of smoke but cans-
ing no injuries. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
AME

JAMES
KANNAPOLIS, Sept. 2.-GR-Mr.
and Mrs. James Smith, who live
on James street, announced the birth
of a son, James Michael James. Mrs.
Smith is the former Miss Moleyn
James.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03
Gathering OF Masons
Planned September is

CHINA GROVE, Sept. 2.-R-
Masons of Cabarrus, Rowan and
Sanly counties will meet here
Sept. 16. Thomas j. Harkins, state
grand master, will be among state
officials attending. j
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03

Occupants of automobiles esp.
cially those in swift-movlng cio' y,
cars, very rarely are strucA
lightning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03

Hurricanes which blow at a rate
OF W miles an hour exert a p. IS
sure OF 80 pounds a square foot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-03

year? Is that an indication that the
war has done more for the See
America First" idea than all the
advertising campaigns ever waged?
Are our mutual discussions of de.
tense with Canada going to develop
into n of the most vital and far.
reaching alliances into which this
country ever has entered? Will it
mean the end of United States neu-
trality? Or did neutrality end two
years ago when President Roose-
welt, at Kingston, Ontario, promis-
ed Canada and the world that the
United States will not stand idly
by if domination of Canadian soil
is threatened by any other en-
pire?" Or did it really end when
President Monroe proclaimed his
doctrine?
ANIMALS IN WAR?
Is it honest-to-goodness that in
this day of mechanical warfare,
horses play as important a part in
blitzkrieg as they did in the DAYS
when the Light Brigade made it's
famous charge, and that Hitler
used than 100, 900 dogs in his
drive TO the channel and demon
strated to the British that in the
matter OF using dogs for military
purposes they made one of their
major unpreparedness errors?
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
u. S. DEFENSE:
Fall In

With legislation still pending be-
fore congress for the first United
States military draft since World
war days, the army has announced
its preliminary plans for a citizens
training program, should the Burke
Wadsworth compulsory military
training bill become law.
Testifying before the house mill
tary affairs committee, Brig. Gen.
William E. Shedd, assistant to the
army chief of staff, declared that
II the CONSUMPTION legislation passed,
training for 400, 900 men would begin
on October /, this year, and for
400, 900 more next April l and an
additional 100000 October /, 1941.
Registration of all U. S. male citi-
zens between the ages of 18 and "a
would take place September l, this
year but only those between 81
and As would be liable for active
service. The other age groups would
be used for home defense purposes.
First draft would probably call to
the colors men without dependents
between the ages of Fl and 81. Cen
eral Shedd said fatty in part of his
testimony that never in time of
peace" would legislation require
men with dependents to enter mill
tary training.
While the senate military commit
tee started the compulsory training
legislation on the road with a de-
cided majority for the approval of
the measure a real legislative fight
looms on the floor of both house and
senate. Typical of the opposition
faced by the measure is the attitude
of Senator Norris lind. -Neb.) who
has raised his voice against the leg
islation with the statement il would
gradually transform the United
States into an international bully"
bent on the destruction of other ma
tons.
Only present member of the SEN
ate who voted against u. S. en-
trance into the World war, Norris
claims that the effect of military
training on American youths would
have a tendency to make them even
tually recognize no ideal except
that of military force"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
Busybody Decides It's
Improper CIassifcafion

Having been classified as mari
time workers, these employees we're
able to work as many hours a day
or a week as they desired. They
had union contract with the COM
pany to that effect. 1t is a matter
OF record that the employees. did
work sometimes twelve hours a day
and seven days a week-and they
were reaping the harvest of busy
times because the demand for their
product was extraordinary while the
government building program was
continuing. The workers had no
quarrel with their employer, yet
they went on strike.
Why? Some busybody in the wage
hour administration decided that the
works of the Smoot Sand & Grav-
ell company were improperly CLASH
fed. They were not maritime work
ers-not entitled to work all of the
time they desired-and they had to
be reclassified The result was that
most OF the workers found them
selves restricted TO AZ hours per
week. The net effect of this, of
course, was to cut their wages, and
the men had no hankering for that.
AS these lines are written, the
conclusion is not yet in sight. II
is always difficult TO get a bureau
crat to rescind an order. To do so.
Of course, is admission that the bu-
reaucrat was wrong. That is not
an admission which any one in gov
eminent office is in hurry TO make.
In the meantime, thousands of 9TH
er workers are unable to work and
earn, because a union leader filed a
complaint with the wage-hour adj
ministration.
l have gone into this case in de-
tail because it so thoroughly exem-
plifies the fallacy OF broad govern
mental rulings. 1t demonstrates be-
yond o shadow of a doubt what
can and usually does happen when
a national government horns into
fields where il does not belong
where government attempts to regu-
late the private lives Of individuals.
Strike Directs Attention
To a Serious Problem
This particular case is of more
than ordinary importance in another
way. Doubtless you have heard of
the defense program, that great hys-
terical drive TO defend ourselves
from something that is due to strike
us on next Tuesday-or maybe II is
on November 5. Anyway, about S15,-
600, 900, 900 has been appropriated for
building up our national defense, and
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
THE WAR:
Dice Are Cast

When England's foreign secretary
Viscount Halifax replied to Adolf
Hitler's 'last chance peace offer"
he left very little doubt as to the
firm intention of the Churchill gov
eminent to resist until the last any
attempted invasion by Germany, for
In part of his address he declared:
-. we realize that the struggle
may cost us everything, but, just
because the things we are defend
ing are worth any sacrifice, it is a
noble privilege to be the defenders
OF things so precious we shall
not stop fighting until freedom for
ourselves and others is secure"
Back came Berlin with bombs
plus bombast. AS widespread aerial
raids were launched up and down
the British coast, official German
circles let it be known that the
talking was over and henceforth
facts must now speak"
Just what shape these facts"
would take was not announced by
the Nazi high command but London
believed that a "stagger system" of
increasing air and naval attack day
by day until it would be capped by
a general offensive in conjunction
with wholesale attempted landing
Of troops would be attempted by
Hitler'S forces.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
Cost of Var

England's biggest wartime budget
was announced as the heaviest taxes
in British history were introduced
to meet the demands Of the govern
ment's war program.
Income taxes were boosted to 42h
per cent and experts declared that
this in connection with other in
creased taxes would demand that
Britain surrender almost 70 per cent
OF all normal income to finance the
fight against Germany and Italy.
u. S. residents of those states inn
posing a sales tax of Q and per
cent who are inclined to grumble as
they lay down the pennies may take
whatever comfort they can from the
news that the British now pay a
purchase tax" ranging from IL to
1914 per cent on entertainment,
beer, wine and tobacco. Rate on
non-luxury items is IL per cent of re-
tail prices.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
POLITICS.:
No Moth Balls

While the bunting of both major
political conventions is safely
packed away in moth balls for an
other four years, the 1910 presiden-
tial campaign is beginning to warm
up and Is taking on the aspects of
the most spirited campaign contest
since Woodrow Wilson defeated
Charles Evans Hughes in 1916.
Biggest news on the Republican
front is the announcement that Wen
dell Willkie has chosen August II
as the date and Elwood. Ind, (his
birthplace) as the place. to be of
hcially notified that he is the G.. o.
p. presidential nominee.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02

1t represents the full flower Of the
American system of private enter
prise-or did represent that princi-
pie to most of us.
Lately, however, the Smoot Sand
& Gravel company has been much
in the public prints of the city of
Washington. 1t was in the news
because its $50 workers went on
strike. When those workers quit,
the cessation practically stopped
construction in the city, which is to
say that the strike suddenly choked
of the supply of materials for all
new federal government buildings.
This was no ordinary strike, not
the usual walk-out. That's why the
name of the Smoot Sand & Gravel
company gained a place in the sun.
small as is the business when COM
pared with other great corporations.
This strike was, in effect, a strike
against a federal law-the wage
hour law-the fair labor standards
act as 1t Is most appropriately
named.
The details substantially are as
follows: employees of the concern
have been classified as maritime
workers, because they operate
barges and tugs and cranes and
such like in connection with the
movement of the sand and gravel.
This movement begins in the Po-
tomac river and, of course, carries
through to the site Of the building
construction.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
N A M E S
in the nerOs

q Halle Selassie, long a name-in-the-
news while his native Ethiopia was
under invasion by Italy's Benito
MussOlini, popped back into the
spotlight with the announcement
that he was returning 20 Africa from
London 70 direct his nations fight
for freedom.
q. When told that an Italian had quot
ed him as saying that Britain would
lose the war, George Bernard shaw,
world famous author, bristled,
branded the story as untrue, burst
out with the statement that II don't
know whether Britain Is going 10
lose the war. even with the help Of
God"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02

There is no reason
for anyone outside
OF the city of Wash
ington having any
knowledge of the
concern. 1t operates
within the national
capital community,
serves its clients sat-
isfactorily, as far as
/ know. and goes on
its way much as any
legitimate business
operates in the Unit
ed States. Moreover,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
Cause for Fear in War
And Macy Department.

Around the war and navy de-
partments these conditions are Gre
ating considerable fear. Army and
navy officers, charged with the lob
OF expanding the services, are say
ing privately that there will not be
supplies in anything like sufficient
quantity unless the labor that is will
ing to work is allowed to produce
as far as it desires. This means.
OF course, elimination of the racke-
teers whose salary as labor leaders
depends upon how much trouble can
be created among the workers. I'm
less they can find conditions upon
which to base a strike call, everv
now and then, labor officials are
deemed not to be doing their lob.
Thus, as a rail fence guess. I am
looking forward to quite a few
strikes
And thus, again, the business of
the country is in the middle between
the upper and neither millstones. All
OF the war contracts are being
awarded in a manner that amounts
to a command from the federal
government The owners of the
plants are not being hurt; don't
get that idea. They will make a
profit. But the owners are being
told what to do while the work
ers are being assured that this In q
land Of the free.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg.
WASHINGTON, d. C..

WASHINGTON. - Probably, not
one Of the readers of this column
eyer have heard the name Of the
Smoot Sand & Gravel company.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02

Now that thuana Lava and Estonia
a turns In new direction Reports indicate
espeo seeing
sources that King Carol
the
another "grab"? - -e Wv ~,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-02
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Farnhan, F. Dudgeon
Congressional Attention Centers
On Plan for sPeacetime Draft:
Air Battles Rage Over England

N0TE-when opinions columns.
Of
Released Me- Union
Evening star., 1940-10-27

When you eat too much-or bolt your
food - you usually suffer fer it! For
there's nothing like quick eating to
turn your stomach sour" You get a
bad taste in your mouth and you feel
generally "sickish" and upset
Next time unwise eating makes YOU
feel bad gives you sour stomach,
acid indigestion or heartburn - give
"JEsTs" chance to prove how help
full they can be.
'JEsTs" act almost Instantly to give
you fast relief by reducing the tenn
porary excess acid in your stomach.
Evening star., 1940-10-27

This amused Don, and he slapped
Carl on the shoulder with a parting.
Don't get sore. but | think it's so
much limburger''
Carl went home. to find a small
parCe-post package on the bureau of
his clearinghouse room =. His con-
hdence restored by Don's Joking, he
opened the package with unalarmed
curiosity.
Eight metal cylinders little larger
than fat fountain pen had been care
fully slowed in wooden box Held to
the box cover by neat stcker was a
note. 1t read as follows:
k0rl SChnrmdnn:
These hermfie pencils hare been
timed TO ignite at ? AM Of the 18Th
inst. You wiH conceal them in the
plant of the Ar-Nar Corporation
as tOlOUs.:
A. In the pant shop behind
packing cases, tUO.
B. In the wing storage shed ad-
joining the nam assembly room
and, specifically, IN q closet Where
Wing dope cans are stacked, twO.
{. In the man office bniidng
basement Where The unit UtH bnn
its way into the large gas conduit,
one.
d. In the large gasoline storage
tanks between Nos. 3 and 4 hang
ars, three.
Refusal or failure on your part
to carry ont these instructions wiH
be suitably dealt With. - He'll,
Hitler!
/ HE note had no signature and was
typewriter on fine bond paper. Now
that it had come, Carl found himself
not very frightened. 1t seemed much
less of blow, somehow. than if Air
Nav had fired him. A man had an
answer to a message ordering him to
set an airplane factory aire. 1t was
easier to answer that than the whis-
per: Born in Germany" Either
man believed in liberty or he did not,
CONTINUED on pose ~
Io-27-4e
Evening star., 1940-10-27
||E!I5I!kIE!5QZ| = ;I;;:;;:;;:;:
Relax!

Al my life | been hog
~ healthy and bull-strong,
L u so | guess wouldn't
know how to sympathize with
anybody who had anything worse
than the hiccups.
But I'm bothered, some, by
the number of folks who have
stomach trouble.
In the first place. it hurts my
business. | haven't got hardly
anything on my menu which
wouldn't lay you out cold if you
already had two strikes on your
digestion.
You know what think causes
a whole lot Of upset innards?
Worry! Watch a man when he's
eatln' If he hears some dlsturbin'
sound he quits chewin'. If he
hears it again he lays down his
knife and fork. If it keeps up, he
pushes back his stool and reaches
for the check.
When man comes in here all
wrlnkled up like a prune from his
eyebrows to his scalplock, say
to myself, "Wally, get somethln'
soothin into him" Then | sug-
gest scrambled eggs and a glass
of milk.
Tellin' worried guy not to
worry is like tellln' a toothache
Evening star., 1940-10-27

not to ache. The other night a
nearsighted little guy inched his
elbows onto the counter and Il
gave him my sCramblcd-eggs
speech. He took 'em without
known ne had said yes.
"Somethin' on your mind?" |
asked him a little later.
"Yes i guess So" he an
swered. "I'm thinking out a PROB
lem. I'm a psychologist. you see.
and I've just finished a book on
overcoming worry. And now Pm
wondering if the publisher is
going to like 1t. D"
About that time, outside, a
motorcycle cops siren squalled
like a hyena with the cramps
And my customer pushed his
half-fnished plate away and left.
Then it began to rain. | see a
spot on the roof where the rains
leakin' through . Then | start
thlnkln' about my new car that
I'd just washed standin' out
there in the open, with the win
dows down, too And that re-
minds me of the next payment
on the car that's comm due to-
morrow ...
Just a minute. please. think
I'll go scramble myself a couple of
eggs!