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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Coons-

Dyke direct each one. ALI of us
would go to the movies oftener.
Powells latest thin man. pic
ture, about year ago, was good,
but he wasn't up to his old fettle
as he is in this. It's really his pic
ture. Myrna is just his stooge, as
are McHugh and Lowe and the
others. 1t is Powell at his very
best and as 1 keep telling my wife,
it is the best Powell picture 1 ever
saw.
It's about an amnesia victim who
!. oh, well, why try to tell you
what it's about? Go and see it.
''He Stayed for Breakfast"
Loretta Young and elvyn
Douglas. Directed by AL Hall.
This kids Communism, but not
nearly SO entertainingly as did the
''Ninotchka." Loretta hides Doug
las, Communist, in her apart
ment, keeping him out of sight of
her husband, her suitor and the
police. Some amusing things hap
pen and you will laugh when they
do, but when amusing things are
not happening you can admire Miss
Young's gowns, wonder how she
stays so slim, or count the lights
in the ceiling. 1 did all three.
This probably will run into CEN
sor trouble in some of the stricter
provinces, since how can a film
heroine have husband, a suitor
and man in her apartment?
Coming Round the Mountain"
Bob Burns, chiefly, and some of
the other hill-billies. Directed by
George Archainbaud.
Better stay home. Qt's Burns
last under his Paramount con-
tract.) .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
SOVIET LEADER CALLS
FOR POWERFUL ARMY
Wants Force To Realize "Tremen-
dous Power And Bring Victory
With Little Bloodshed''

MOSCOW, Aug. 25.-RADefense
Commissar Semen Timoshenko in
pep talk to Soviet military COM
manders declared today 'it is our
duty to work incessantly SO the
Red army can realize its tremen-
dous power and bring victory with
little bloodshed."
Analyzing the three-day Moscow
military district maneuvers, Just
concluded, he said the war games
showed coordination between in
fantry, artillery tanks and avia.
ton was not bad"
Nevertheless, he exhorted the
commanders to continue to strive
to keep the army "at top pitch. !"
explaining that lin consideration
of recent wars our government
and Comrade Stain have demand
ed Of us this year the reorganiza
ton OF our work to utilize the ac.
tivity of all from the lowest to
the highest I
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
BY HUBBARD KEAVY
AP Staff Writer

AP Staff Writer
(Seeing them for vacationing
Robin Coons)
HOLLYWOOD.-"T Love You
Again." From a story by Oc-
tavus Roy Cohen, Directed by
w. S. Van Dyke. Princi-
pals William Powell, Myrna
Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund
Lowe and Carl "Alfalfa" Swift
zer.
My wife, who didn't see this
picture, accuses me of being toe
enthusiastic about it and wishes
l would stop trying to tell what
William Powell said in this or that
funny situation. But, she says, if
l must re-enact parts of it, how
about those where William was
making love to Myrna?
told her I couldn't initiate a
love-sick dove, or whatever it was
William was cooing like, but that
if she would name the night l
would take her to see d" Love You
Again" That is quite a compli-
ment, because l have willingly
seen only about four pictures a
second time in my entire life. If
my wife does not agree with me
(and that goes for anybody else)
about the entertainment merits of
this film, then I will willingly eat
these words. And not baked in a
cake, either.
This story is based on one
Cohen wrote, but it took fiv e
screen writer's to put it in its pre-
sent shape, plus the magic touch
of Director Van Dyke. It's too bad
they can't put the same five writ
ers on every story and have Van
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
AMERICAN HOSPITAL
IN CHINA DESTROYED
Eleven Persons Injured During A
Jap Air Attack on Institution
At Kweilan

CHUNGKING, China, Aug. a.
(RNJapanese bombs destroyed the
American Southern Baptist Mis-
sion hospital yesterday at Kwei-
Ian, capital Of Kwangsi province.
Central News, official agency Of
the central Chinese government,
reported today.
Eleven native patients and SER
wants were reported injured. The
building had been occupied tenn
porarily by the mission since it's
original plant was destroyed in a
Japanese air raid in December,
1888. >
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
ACTRESS HONORED

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25.-tREThe
hollywood studio club has chosen
Doris Davenport, film actress, as
the first winner of the new annual
award for the Most inspirational
extra OF the year" A trophy was
presented today. Miss Davenport.
an extra player since 1884, rose
this year from the $7.50-a-day class
OF performers to stardom, obtain
ing contract with Producer SAM
uel Goldwvn .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
Man About
Manhattan
! BvGeofqe tucker

NEW YORK, Aug. Zo.-"e SoAA
hardly remember when we last
talked with a show girl who would
not give you an argument over
the slightest little thing. There is
one on Broadway who dances ID
club that features Spanish en-
tertainment, but if she is Spanish
we are a Chinaman. Her name is
Althea. That is the only name
she has. At least, it's the only
one she gives out. There is
wave of that sort Of thing Anna
bella, the movie actress, and Bo-
kage, the radio announcer. They
never use the double name. Al
thea is like that.
The reason We introduce Althea
into this thesis is because h
walks around town with monkey
in her hair. It is little pet mini.
ature monkey no larger than
canary and she claims an Argen-
tinian envoy gave it to her. Prob
ably he did. She is very proud OF
him (the mokey) She feeds him
cooked string beans and apples.
She has string around his neck.
The string is also around her own
not unlovely throat. 'Tootsie-pie, ,
as she uniquely calls the monkey,
rides in little cup in her coiffure.
From time to time he emits little
squeaks, which startle those who
do not know this jungle refugee is
there. She says this means moth
ing, but it is our opinion the little
fellow may be seasick from so
much bobbing up and down. After
all, when you ride around town on
a girls head-especialy girl
who knows lot of people and
who likes to wave to people and
talk, you are apt to get a good
shaking up.
But Althea says No. She says
she doesn't wear the monk in her
hair for EFFECT" either. We didn' t
say she did, but she probably
guessed correctly that we thought
it. Listen" said Althea, you
got pockets. If I had pockets l
would put Tootsie-pie in a pocket.
But I amt got pockets. I got to
put him somewhere, don't II"
She certainly is right about that.
She has to put him somewhere.
She can't leave him at home be-
cause he is the type Of monkey
that falls into fits of dependency
when left alone. And she can't
leave him in her dressing room
because he doesn't like the smell
OF grease paint. That leaves only
one QUITO tie string around
his neck and let him feather his
own nest.
OF all the monkeys on Broad.
way, and there are a lot of them.
we never saw one as small as
Tootsie-pie. His tail ic only about
two inches long. Can he hang by
it?" we asked.
Certainly he can hang by it.
What do you think this is?" said
Althea. For proof she let him
swing by his tail from her index
finger.
We didn't question Althea any
further as to the achievements OF
TINS little creature. When we
asked If he could swing by his tail
her attitude suddenly was that of
a mother whose child's capabili-
ties have been questioned. There
was a warning to the way she
said, Certainly he can; what do
you think this is?'
that's what we mean by saying
that all these show girls, even the
spanish ones, will give you an
argument over the slightest little
thing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
Are You Superstitious
. ABOUT
SPORTS?
BY RUTH FARRAR
NEA Special Correspondent

AP>SAoA PUuuNH
The whole athletic world is 50
shot through with superstition and
civilized voodooism that to spend
an hour with a group of athletes
before a big game, is worse than
living alone for a week in haunt.
ed house.
But it's paradise to man
like DR.. B. A. Cartwright Of the
University of Oklahoma, who COL
lects pet beliefs and queer qur4
of athletes and others. Here are
some samples from his findings or
the 'super-superstitious' world Of
sports:
A hockey player will 60 straight
through the ceiling if he catches
anyone putting a hat on his bed
There is no quicker way one can
lose his job than by laying his hat
for a fraction of second on the
mana gers bed.
Eight out of ten hockey play
ers put their left skate on first
for luck.
Neither love nor money coull
induce grid stars to wear any
piece of equipment into game
without first having worn 1t ID
practice.
Many football players a lw ays
tape a nickel. with head slce
up, on their uniforms before
game, thereby gaining the toss On
their opponents before the acHon
starts.
The team that loses the flrs'
blood in a football game Is sure
to lose the game.
Most athletes positively VIII ho'
permit picture of themselves "
be taken the day before a gams
Many baseball players from INT
lowliest bush Lacquer to 'nF
highest paid man in the malols
will not step on a white line "nD'
rounding the bases.
It is lucky for a baseball Team
to see a load of empty peer 0''
rels while en- route to a game
When a baseball team blows W
on the field, it is customary u.
the subs on the bench to cnangS
seats. To induce further good iu'n
some sluggers approach the plaH
with a piece of chewing gum S'u''
to the button on their cap.
If baseball players pass d nay i
wagon on the day of a Daseua. "a,
game, they tip their hats 10 II i''
luck. ,..
The placing of piece OF ola.' paw
cloth in the dugout of an oppO'
ing team will bring it defeat :,
1t is bad luck for an athle'e Nv -"
see cross-eyed woman ID "'
grandstand. ,,ck,
Tennis players believe II iuSeI ,..se1
to shave before every match WIZ
playing tournament tennis. ,r,it
Many basketball hotsho'S "4t .hoy
they pick up all the hairplns s.me. ,r,s
can find, especially before a s.a,s, s@,4,s
Midshipmen at the Unieo 'or o to
Naval Academy are SAID net't frsi
90 to a football game Wl'hou' T To.
giving a left-hand salnte " ,,,rs.
cumseh-a wooden Indian l5+ N,
head perched on a pedestal III "
yard at Annapolis. ,.,,,ap
Furthermore, ny mlaSl'-p, ,p,
will tell you that many se he.
have been lost by Navy team ,rsin
cause all the blinds in the saira vii"
were not pulled down "hlle !
through Baltimore.
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to their country's safety than if,
by maintaining England's naval
supremacy, they can keep Eng
lands enemy and our own from
the shores of the United States"
Breckenridge said that fifty
destroyers to England may be
worth 500 to us five weeks from
now because they may turn the
tide of battle against our declared
enemies" I
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-26
CONSIDERED AID

Horses skulls, at one time md
regarded as a protection as@r r.,.
in England. For 'ha' b,llt
son. such skulls oftern were
into church towers there.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
CHAMP
BY-YOUR-LEAVER

BY-YOUR-LEAVER
Jacob Thorkelson is one of the
best by-your-leavers in this Con
gress. There is an old custom ir
both Houses that when a member
does not wish to speak on t n
floor or cannot get the proper time,
he may ask for unanimous con-
sent ito extend my remarks in the
Congressional Record"
Lately Thorkelson has been fill
ing the Record appendix with
pieces. And it is all very futile
because back in the first Montana
district, the Republicans denied
him a denomination. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
In Hollywood
BY PAUL r

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD - Double fea-
lures, double roles, and d o u b | e
trouble r in the Movietown lime
light these days.
Advance information on the Gall
up poll, showing only 81 per cent
of ticket buyers opposing double
bills, disappointed but didn't sur
prise the industry. Previous sur
veys, less scientifically conducted,
have indicated m C h larger
majorities favoring single feature
programs, but nearly everyone
doubted their accuracy.
The Gallup figures also are dis
illusioning to blithe believers in
sold in the u. S. each week. C
"officials" estimates that about 85,-
900, 900 movie tickets are being
closer total is 81 900, 900, the poll
shows. The reason for this amaz.
ing difference is that the Produc-
ers Association was getting its
attendance figures from the De.
partment of Commerce was get.
ting its figures from the Producers
Association!
A well-known actor was called
in by Warner Brothers and asked
If he could step right into a dual
role. NO" he said, I'D need a,
least two weeks to take fencing
lessons"
In her next picture, Little
Nelly Kelly" Judy Garland will
play both a mother and daughter
And George Murphy will be {
father and son. This film wa.
chosen to carry Miss Garland int
mature, romantic roles. Although
younger than Mickey Rooney, she
has outgrown him and won't be
teamed with him again.
Orson Wells began shooting ant
starring in Citizen Kane" exactl,
a year after his arrival here. Ask
ed to come to the RKO gallery fo1
a portrait sitting the other day
he replied, "As producer and direc
tor, I'm much too busy to spent
an afternoon being mggued. Bur
as an actor, I'm delighted"
Low percentage billing on a loca,
markue: Forty Little Mothers"-
-Four Sons"
White Feather
Stuff
No matter what you've rear
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
N. E.. CUARDSMEN
READY FOR CALL
Raleigh Authorities Think
Summons Will Come On
September Is

RALEIGH, Aug. 28.-R-North
Cardinals National Guard stood
ready today to answer a call by
President Roosevelt for one year
of active duty.
Informed that the President had
signed the National Guard bill,
Adj. Gen. J. Van B. Nets assert
ed that the Tar Heel citizen-soldiers
could be mustered at a moment
notice.
Tentative War department plans
indicate that the states guardsmen
will begin active duty September
Is or 16. All units except the 252nd
coast artillery will be sent to Camp
jackson, S. C. The 252nd will go
to Fort Moultrie, S. c., and Fort
Screven, Ga.
Volunteers will be called soon to
increase the membership of the
state guard, which n o W totals
slightly more than 1000, by 20 per
cent.
Now that the legislation is sign
ed, Mr.. Roosevelt may summon
the guard to duty at any time.
The army high command, it is
reported, has set September Is,
tentatively, as the date for mobili-
cation of the first contingent.
That contingent probably will
number $4,000 officers and men,
but there has been no announce
ment as to the units from which
the men will be drawn. T h e r e
have been indications, however.
that those units probably would be
the thirtieth, forty-first, forty
fourth and forty-fifth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
Falkner Faces Trial
For Slashing Savage

RALEIGH, Aug. 28.-R-R o y
W. Falkner, private in the Hender-
son National Guard unit, will be
tried before a general court-mar-
tial in Henderson Friday, Adj.
Gen. J.. Van B. Nets announced
today.
Falkner is charged with cutting
the throat of Sgt. ]. E. Savage of
Wilmington while the state guard
was encamped in Mississippi. Saw
age was not critically hurt.
Lieut.. Col. Marion B. Fowler of
Durham will be in charge of the
court-martial, and Major Edward
F. Griffin of Louisburg will be
the judge advocate. Major Tho
mas S. Kittrell of Henderson has
been appointed defense counsel.
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signed, the board had laid plans
to reduce all clothing styles to a
few simple patterns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
Electric Power Output
Drops Below Near Record

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-PEElec-
trio power output in the week end
ed Aug. "a dropped back from the
n~ear-record figure of the previous
week, the Edison Electric Institute
reported today.
Production of 2,570, 618, 900 kilo-
watt hours was down IA per cent
from the 2,6O6, 1872, 900 in the week
of Aug. II, but was 80 per cent
above the outturn for the same
week last year.
1t was a contraseasonal decline
after two months of almost steady
expansion. Utility circles attrib-
uted the setback in part to wide
spread cool weather which tended
to curtail use of electric fans and
other hot weather accessories in
the electric appliance line.
The Associated Press index of
electric power production, W h
1929-30 taken as 100, declined to
1903 from 1924 the previous week.
1t was 1917 a year ago. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29

rio with this comment: 1.-The story
is stupid, trite ana unfit for film
ing. Besides, we have, just finished
a picture along. the same lines"
. And then there's the anecdote
about a writer who submitted a
screen play which was 30 bad that
the studio rewrote it before send
ing it back.
Don Ameche- will have the top
role in western Union," but he
won't be shown inve ting the tele-
graph. He'll be a renegade. e.
Burgess Meredith, who was to
have appeared on Broadway in
Young Man With a Horn" which
was shelved, now toots a trumpet,
along with Fred Astaire, in Sec
ond Chorus" Neither actor c a
play the instrument.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29

Just Too Bad
They're telling it about that a
studio executive rejected a scena-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29

amount imported from Breat
Britain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
BARUCH APPROVES
DEFENSE SET UP
SAYS Descendant OF War
Industries Board Is
Meeting Situation

NEW YORK, Aug. 28-R-Ber
nard M. Baruch, World war chair
man of the war industries board
believes today's descendant q
that organization, the national &c
Tense commission, seems to be
coming to grips with the situa'
ton"
He writes the foreWard to ar
article on the World wal boaro
which. Fortune magazine presents
to give industrial leaders "a tho
rough understanding of the steps
that had to be taken to mobilize
American industry for wal in l9l1
and 1872
TIE old boards activities were
described as ranging from reno
ceiling basic industries to chang
ing women's fashions.
Baruch comments: Except for
a few minor change, the economic
mobilization of Nazi Germany was
consc1entiou sly built in imitation
of the similar American system
born of our World war effort and
the work of our war Industries
board"
The article, prepared by James
L.. Tyson in cooperation with men,
bers of the Harvard history de-
partment, points out in part:
l. in 1918, the automobile indus
try was directed to curta1l its pro-
ductlon rs per cent from the pre-
vlous year in order to lessen its
demand On the steel industry,
whose entire output was needed
for munitions;
2. To conserve steel and other
materials, fuel. transportation and
labor, the wal industries board linn
tied ordinary building operations
for non-war purposes to structures
costing not more than $500 or ad-
ditions of not more than 2 900,
unless special permission was OBJ
tanned;
3. In order to break the artifi-
cially inflated price set by the
lutte monopoly in Calcutta, h e
board ordered silver shipments to
India stopped, thus threatening to
create such a serious panic in In
dian currency that within 48 hours
jute prices dropped to a satisfac-
tory level:
4. At a time when the open mar
ket price Of copper was 1914 cents
a pound and going higher. t h e
board induced the copper industry
to sell the government all the cop
Der it needed for the army and
navy at 1857 cents a pound;
s.. In order to obtain adequate
supplies of nitrates needed for
munitions, the board persuaded
the government of Chile, then neu-
trail, to confiscate the closed Ger.
man nitrate plants and sell their
entire stock to the United States
government at a price about 40
per cent under the market;
6. To conserve both fabrics and
labor and to reduce the strain on
the textile industry, the board ar
ranged through the French ambas-
sador to have the Paris style arbi-
tiers make short skirts and narrow
er frocks fashionable;
7. To reduce still further the pro-
duction of civilian goods, the board
persuaded the shoe industry to re-
duce the number of styles and Ii
init thu colors of shoes to black,
white and one shade of tan;
g.. By the time the armistice was
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29

about that Richard Greene enlist.
ment mess, which reflected SO
harshly on him, here r the facts:
The charge that the actors pa
triotic gesture was a publicity
stunt was made graduitously by
an officer of a regiment to which
Greene did not apply. Geene did
90 to the colonel of the Seaforth
Highlanders, was encouraged in
his ambition TO become all officer,
took and passed a physical exam
nation, and now is signed Up
subject to 24-hour call - for as
signment to an officers training
camp. He will remain in Holly
wood until summoned. Because his
orders may come at any mo-
ment, he cannot undertake a n
major roles in pictures.
l have no personal knowledge
of the inner motives or the in
tensity of patriotism felt by vari-
GUS British actors. But l do know
that most of them have b e e n
wronged and Inundated by ma
licious gossip and distortion of
facts. q
Just Too Bad
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expected here today to take
cleveland county's centenn;a S@'' II
bration. uial cele
The thousands of nan.
Ing. the celebration waro oAs attend.
gather ga s.',, this afternoon f fss . asked s,ss!. t
IN which the county,s h %prosrsn
leaders were paid tribpfa historica
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
Roosevelt Will Enter
State Only A Few Feet

RALEIGH, Aug.
President Roosevelt dedicated the
Great Smokes National Park at
Newfound Gap Monday he will get
only a few feet into North Carroll
ma.
The speakers stand has been
built on the North Carolina-Ten-
nessee line.
Mr.. Roosevelt will enter the
park from Tennessee, return to
that state after his speech and
take a train for Charleston, S. c.,
where he will inspect the navy
yard.
Our wild canaries" really are
goldfincheS or thistle birds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
In Washington

While Bruce Cation vaca-
tons, other members OF NEA
Services Washington staff
pinch-hit for him.
WASHINGTON - The boys or
congressional hill are doing a lo'
of talking about CONSUMPTION YER
sus voluntary en1istments to build
up an army. A study of enllstment
figures for the first six months OF
1910 presents some interesting
points.
You might wonder, for in
stance, which states-on the basis
of enlistments-are most military
minded. Figures show they are
Kentucky and Texas. Their en-
listments, running 10 per cent OF
eligibles, were in the van for the
country.
Still going on percentages,
southerners are more belligerent
than their northern hnsmen. The
states which contributed 8 per
cent we're North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,
Oklahoma and Colorado.
NEVADA WARLIKEE:
NO
The least warlike states, on the
basis of these enlistments, r sur
prising. Ohio showed only 2 per
cent. Nevada, considered the pink
of the shootinest, scrappiest Wild
West, also showed only 2 per cent.
Out of it's estimated 101, 900 people,
only IS went to be soldiers in I'm
Gle Sans army.
The states with the biggest pop
ulations and with four of the five
largest cities in the country pre-
sent the following percentages:
New York, 4; Pennsylvania, z;
Illinois, 3, and California, d..
There are several explanations
why strictly rural states, as a
rule, show better enlistments than
the more metropolitan states. One
of the surmised causes is that
young men in cities get better
wages than those on farms.
Also, gravel and excitement
promised by the army have a
stronger lure for the farm youth.
Taking actual figures of enlist
ments for the first six months OF
the year, Pennsylvania leads all
the states with Tall; Texas comes
second with 6648; and New York
third with 5471.
Men used to toting shootin'
irons all their lives are the men
from the west. But statistics show
very few of them have been lured
into the army by posters. They
have stuck to their farms and their
ranches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-29
Gou. Hoey, Max Gardner
Attend Cleveland Meet

SHELBY, Aug. 28.-RJ-Governor
Hoey, former Governor o. Max
Gardner and Cameron Morrison were