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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26
The Rebel Leaders

Finally few facts began to drift
out Of the Cleveland dugout. A GER
tain number of the Indians, who had
q mutinous attitude toward Witt,
were dominated by Catcher Rollie
Hemsley. It has never been ex-
actly clear as to what players were
under the Hemsley banner. Hal
Trosky was known to be one Of the
leaders and Bob Feller was one Of
the signers Of the original slti-Vitt
petition. Teller since has had .
change Of heart, as have Mel Hard
er, JEFF Heath and Ben Chapman.
President Alva Bradley is receiv-
ing large share of the blame for
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26
SPEAKING OF
SPORTS
By ROBERT McSHANE
Released by Western Newspaper Union


LEW teams in the history Of big
league baseball have been given
so sound a spanking as have the
Cleveland Indians during the last
half Of the present season.
The chastisement hasn't been ad-
ministered by American league con-
temporaries as much as by the press
and radio Of the nation. Neverthe-
less, their suffering is just rs In
tense-maybe more SO, in that very
little sympathy is offered them.
Early in the season the Indians
rebelled against their manager, o.
car Witt. Details Of the rebellion
were few and for the most part were
not substantiated. When 1t first
broke out local newspapers made
light Of the Instruction. They print
ed what little they knew Of the af-
fair, evidently regarding the player
dissension as a temporary matter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26

Cuba shipped products valued at
$29, 355,177 to the United States in
the first three months of this year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26

More than three-fourths of the
foreign trade of Manchuria now
passes through the port of Darien.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26

I still stick with Johnson. One
answer Ia that Big Barney pitched
more shutouts and had more strike
outs than any pitcher in baseball
lib shutouts, If ! recall the exact
figures. And johnson had no chance
to ease up with a weak-hitting club.
Also every hitter in those days knew
a fast one was coming, but they still
couldn't hit the Big Train.
II guess johnson, with that rec
ord, gets the CALL" Dickey said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26
The Detroit Mystery

Here's another angle few fans fig
ure out. asked one Of the Tiger
stars how he accounted for Detroit's
sudden rise from sixth-place pick
to a pennant contender, and then the
mid-season slow-up prior to the final
surge.
Nature" he said. I'm the spring
we were afraid of Dick BartelPs legs
and Charlie Gehringer's legs and
back. But we happened to get a
damp spring which ran into June.
We had soft ground to work on until
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-26

failing to take a firm stand either
for or against the revolt when it
first broke out last June.
Scores Of newspaper scribes have
refused to pull their punches in de-
nouncing the Indians for their re-
bellion. Sports writer's are more or
less accustomed to friction between
manager and player. Often the
players have just grievance. But
usually they are willing to air that
grievance in an above-board man.
ner. The Indians weren't willing to
do that. Their secretive, underhand-
ed attitude irritated both the paying
public and the press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
APPROPRIATION FOR NYA

Despite the furore over the alleged com.
munistic tendencies of AUBREY WILLIAMS,
chief of the National Youth Administration
and of LEOPOLD SToKowsKI, orchestra leader,
planning a good will tour Of foreign capitals
with a youths orchestra, additions for which
we're sponsored by the NYA, the house rules
committee, wisely approved IS million dollars
for this administrations work.
A new head could be found for the NYA,
a new. conductor for the orchestra; but the
NYA could not be replaced, nor could the
among the most beneficient, helpful agencies
created by the ROOSEVELT administration.
There can be no question of the views
held by some house members, that Y lead
ership must be above suspicion, not only of
communism but of any form of unAmerican-
ism. NYA trains not only the hands of
youths in its ranks, but their thoughts as
making good Americans as we'll as good
craftsmen of all its trainees.
If it's present chief is in fact a communist,
or even if his dreaming is in unsafe chan.
nels, he ought to 60. If %SToKowsK1, great mu-
stefan that he is, is not a safe companion for
the young performers he is training, he too,
should be supplanted, even if the change
placed the orchestra under a less brilliant
mind.
But these things cannot be permitted to
interfere with the great service the NYA is
performing for the young people of America,
who, except for it, could not hope to fit
themselves for gainful adult employment. Be.
cause the committee recognized this fact it
approved the appropriation for it's continued
work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
CURB ON JAYWALKING

EOR all Wilmingtonians who hold safety I'M
L %portant, announcement by the police tna'
measures are to be taken to stop JaywalKlng
and pedestrian signaIcrashing is as welcome
as the appearance of springs first buds.
To many it will be a revelation OF startling
significance, that scores afoot are as lndlHer'
emit to traffic rules created for their security
as if they had never heard Of them. But that
is the fact.
The Star stationed reporters at signal-pro'
tected intersections to check violations. In
ten minutes at Front and Chestnut, II Jay
walkers were counted; and 20 in the same
period at Front and Princess. There were ~
violations of other traffic rules at Front and
Chestnut during the ten minute interval, and
50 at Front and Chestnut.
Chief of Police RoURK believes that If peo'
pie afoot will not take care of themselves,
the police will have to care for them, and is
so worked up over the lamentable situation
revealed by the Star investigation that he
will follow a brief campaign of education
with severe measures to bring offenders into
line for safety. If the means he employs seem
harsh, it is to be remembered that obedience
to the rules will exempt every person from
their application.
AT the sam time, safety zones at the mid
die of blocks in the business district, where
pedestrians would have right of way over We
hicular traffic, such as exist in many cities,
would go a long way toward stopping jay
walking.
Now that the police are to end this accident
hazard, it would appear the proper time to
repeal the rule permitting drivers to make
right turns on the red light, as a further
means of safety on the streets. The menace
created by this custom is no less than that
of jaywalking and signalcrashing.
To make the campaign for safety truly eff
%fective, it should be stopped promptly and
effectively. When this is done, and pedestrians
are compelled by alert police officers to walk
within the law, Wilmington will become a
safer dwelling place.
The two reforms should be put into effect
together.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
WILLETTS HITS THE MARK

1t was not an arrow in the dark that FRED
WILLETTs launched at the meeting of the Bet.
ter Business club on Monday night. The tar
get was bright, the shot a bulls eye.
Wilmington, he said, has as good opportuni-
ties as California or any other place, if only
we could get rid of the defeatist attitude"
1t is a pretty we'll established fact that de-
featlsm is responsible for whatever failure
wilmington has experienced in it's effort to
get ahead at a faster, surer pace. Excess
contentment with things as they are has
tended to interrupt our progress toward
things as they might be.
TO change this order, Mr.. W1L1Errs pro.
posed, in his able address before the energetic
and ambitious business club that closer CO.
operation between city and county govern.
ments and business men be established for
the good of the community and it's economic
advancement.
Even a pat on the back now and then when
something worthwhile is suggested or &C.
complished could be administered without too
much embarrassment, he believes; a view
with which we are heartily in accord, know.
Ing that a little shoulder-sla piping, even if
undignified, is a stimulating performance
Certainly it is capable of better results than
scowling disapproval.
What Mr.. WnLETrs wants, and what the
Stdr-NeWs has repeatedly urged, is complete
unity among all groups upon a program Of
progress, a pulling together for the things
winch will send the city ahead, economically
culturally, spiritually, educationally. This car
come about only by burying defeatism once
and for all.
opstructlonist tactics cannot turn the trick
Away with them!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
BAILEY ROMIS HELP

In his letter to the Star-NeUs, Senator
BAILEY voices a strong hope that he may be
able to do something about Wilmington's
river and harbor needs at this session, through
the revampe bill his commerce committee is
now working on, and explains that while the
selection of projects to be considered for ap-
preparations is in the hands of war depart
ment engineers, the fact that North Carolina
projects call for less than two million dollars
is decidedly in their favor.
1t is, he says, the big projects proposed for
many sections in the original bill, that stand
in the way of any appropriation at this time,
leaving the impression that if these are either
eliminated or substantially reduced, a little
thing like two million dollars for this state
would have a chance of approval. 81 shall
do my part" he writes, "but the responsibility
does not rest altogether upon me-"
For some months it has been realized that
North Carolina, and Wilmington in particular,
could not expect enough money to put it's
fully on it's opportunity in commerce. The
President had made it known that he would
not sanction a large appropriation at this
time. But it is something to know that Sen
ator BAILEY is using the full weight of his
influence to get what he can for the state.
and that there is a possibility that work to
improve our harbor and channel will he
done without waiting action by a later ses-
sion of congress.
Half a loaf cannot appease our appetite for
water-borne commerce, but it at least will
be better than no bread at all. It cannot fail
to help if what pressure we can bring to
bear is directed toward the engineer corps to
see that the Wilmington project is among the
fortunate ones to survive the whiting the
m committee is to do on the original
bill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
USING THE WATERWAYS
New Bern Sun.RecOrd

Returning from a Washington meeting of
the National Rivers and Harbors congress,
North Carolinians have suggested the forma-
ton of a waterways association for the pur-
pose of unifying various interests supporting
They see in such an organization a very much
strengthened appeal for public interest and sup
port, and added recognition for North Caro-
linas waterways beyond the borders of the
state.
The matter was recently discussed by the
Port-Traffic association, the Wilmington Port
commission and representatives Of the Cham
Der of Commerce in that city. That gathering
promptly expressed Wilmington's interest and
any organization meeting which may be held.
With that much progress made, it is expect
ed that a meeting of all communities interested
will be held in the near future for the pur-
pose of organizing a North Carolina Water
ways association. New Bern is one of the COM
munities named as a central point at which
the meeting might be held. 1t will be, pri-
marily, an eastern Carolina organization.
All must admit that great possibilities for
of the waterways. There is no reason why the
transportation facilities furnished this state by
nature and once so highly important in the
development Of the state could not continue to
contribute to that development if North Caro-
linians were united in their support. For a
number Of years that state has been contribut-
ing to the support of port cities in adjoining
states.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27

Men come right out directly witt
a bald-faced lie.
Women, in contrast, seldom lie dt
rectly but make evasive answers
misleading gestures, and in genera
send others off on a false trail with
out coming out in the open with a
tangible lie.
M ms lies are easier to detect
since they are crude, while wonlerIS
lies are made with much finesse and
mostly by implication so it is dill
cult to trip them up, The ultimate
result, of course, is that it is more
difficult for the actual truth to De
extracted from a woman.
Women may not be bigger llaIS'
but apparently they are better ones
These modern lie detector lhS'lu'
ments are their nemesis. for 'he
sensitive record tape trips up ls
oblique lie of a woman just as feau'
lily as the direct lie Of the hlaH'
Hardened liar and nervous amateur
both meet their match IN IAes'
machines, just as the man liar ilee'
more than his equal when ne He'
to out-mislead his better hal'
Next: Does 1t Pay to KNOW a LW'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 26.-It's easier to get
by with murder than it is to get a bill through
Congress.
According to the International Association of
Police Chiefs, if you commit a murder and the
murder is discovered, you have from one
chance to ten to one in four depending on
what city you're in) Of getting away with it.
If you are in Washington and in Congress,
you have about one chance in 25 of getting a
bill written into the statute books as an hon
est-to-gospel law.
At a recent session of Congress, there were
nearly Is, 5000 bills introduced. Of these, a few
more than 700 got the Presidents John Han
cock and went into the statutes to help or
hinder you and me and Joe Doaks.
The Directors
Considering that there have been 76 Con.
crosses, each sitting for a couple of years, that
may seem like a Internal number of laws. 1t is.
But consider that a vast number Of these were
private Z bills-measures which gave some
worthy widow a lifetime pension-or provided
Federal aid to a small districts river system
or did this and that for some individual or
little group.
These bills are numberless, and, to cope
with them, the house has an oojectors' com
mittee, composed of three Democrats and three
Republicans. One objection from the Directors
generally is enough to make a measure worth
less than the paper it was written on.
In the Senate, bills can be introduced only
in the last two hours Of any legislative day.
The catch is that if business is rushing, a legis-
lative day may last for months Of calendar
days.
Bills introduced in the Senate are referred
to one of the 81 standing committees by the
Vlce-President. The committee may refer it to
a omm There are hearings, redrafts,
recommendations, majority and minority re-
ports the committe Of the whole, and the in
terminable wait for it to show up on the cal
endar (unless the steering committee prescribes
that it should have preference over everything
else).
A lot of bills go to committees and never
come to light again.
Both Houses Debate 1t
In the Senate, bills are introduced by being
read. In the House, they merely are dropped
into a hopper by the Speakers desk. to be
gathered up by the house parliamentarian and
assigned to committee. Many disappear into
that hopper as into a grave.
Once a bill gets up on the floor, it has to
stand a Joe Louis barrage. In the House a de.
bate on a bill is limited to one hour and amend.
ments must be germaine. In the Senate, there's
no limit on debate (hence the filibuster) and
amendments can be made on any subject under
the sun. The anti-lynching amendment is a
favorite method of making the tail of the kite
SO heavy the kite won't rise.
If the bill is lucky enough to get by one
House, it has to 80 to the other. Differences of
opinion in the Houses generally are settled
in a joint committee, the reports of which are
undebated. Then, if the bill passes, it's ready
for the Presidents signature-or veto.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilM anuger Admanastrataom'
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and lndust4aa'
Shous.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5.1oot Cape Fear River channel. tc1d+
er Turning Basin, Nth shtp lanes anto
Industrial sites along Eastern banh
south OF Wilmington.
Pared Riuer Road to Southport, Wd
orion plantation.
DEVELOPMENT OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yte1d methods
throuohout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial n 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 groUtng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdnatortunt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Man Arrested And Two
Stills Seized In Raids

One person was arrested, two
stills and quantities of mash were
seized in raids conducted yesterday by
ABC agents and Alcohol Tax Unit
investigators of the treasury de.
partment here in the section back of
the delta between t h g Carolina
Beach and River roads.
James Lanier, negro, was arrest
ed on charges of possessing a n d
manufacturing non-taxpaid whiskey
and will be tried today in recorders
court.
Officers reported the seizure OF
two 100 gallon capacity copper stills
and II barrels of mash in two raids
in the section. One Of the stills was
in operation at the time of the raid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Father Begley Speaks
To Civitans At Beach

Father Michael ]. Begley, rector
of the Immaculate Conception church
at Carolina Beach was the PRINCIPAL
speaker at Monday nights meeting
Of the Carolina Beach Civitan club.
speaking extemporaneously, he re-
clteo a number Of humorous stories
n added new definitions to SOM
old ones.
Tom Benge and his ukelele pro.
Vloed a brief musical interlude.
cameron Sinclair was welcomed
INTO the club as a new member.
rams we're discussed for the an
nlVersary meeting, which is to he
nelo on April 10, at which time
arthur Cundy, international secre.
lary OF civitan will be the principal
speaker.
Z. G. vanlandingham, the newly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
The Editors
LETTER BOX

rhe Editor does not n~ecessar1'
~ endorse any article appear
in this department. They repre-
sent q vic WIS of the individual
readers. Correspondents a g
war.,e. that all communications
must contain the correct name
and address for u RECORDS,
thouyb the | ter may be signed
as 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., 1940-03-27
Second Check Will Be
Sent to Madame Chang

The second check repies ID
Wilmington's contribution
the relief of Chinese war or nam "a
for S25 - will be for"@foeu ,ril
Madame Chang Kai-Shek or Nv w
1. it was a~nnou'"'d yestetu"'
Miss Susan E. Hall. ..os
The first check, for SLOW vie.
forwarded several weeks Az ~ ~
Hall said the drive for fumes VII"
continued,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
-Bv Robin Cooas.

HOLLYWOOD, March 26.-Of the
Paramount lot, that day seemed like
any other halmy one in Spring
sunny, warm and sleepy. On the
Paramount lot, that day was like
no other anywhere, for Cecil Blount
DeMille was starting a picture.
1t seemed a little odd that the
skies did not open. the earth trem-
BILE, and the sun dip from it's course
in salute. But even DeMille can't
have everything, and the boys and
girls of the lot did their best. It's
true that pictures get started in
Hollywood almost every day. When
DeMille pictures get under way,
however, that is something else
again.
Mr.. DeMille, attended by his re-
tinue, arrived Upon the set betimes
aid plunged with vigor into the
epochal task ahead. Actors Gary
Cooper, Preston Foster and Monta-
que Love Gall of whom can get
along perfectly well with practi
cally no direction at all) were soon
ranged about the set in their ap.
pointed places, neutrality-suspicious.
ably breathlessly-the Word. 1t
came, and Cecil Blount DeMille's
65th epic, North West Mounted
Police" was off.
The Master was modestly dressed
for the occasion. Brown leather
boots, polished to a sheen, green
sports suit; blue-green shirt; pre-.
oominantly pink tie; red carnation.
The Master applied himself
genially, earnestly, seriously. The
retinue applied itself, too.
Followed by his staff, the Master
went to lunch. He walked
fully. as always, a step ahead of
his followers. (There is a legend,
probably untrue, that the Master
Will pass an earthquake should
any man presume to step ahead of
him.)
At the DeMille table C~reserved),
in the commisary, a large bouquet
OF red, cellophane-wrapped roses
Walted-tribute from gracious Mrs.
DeM1lle. Mr.. DeMille's chair is
throne-like, with arms. The other
chairs are chairs.
The Master dallied not over his
~sustenance. Within the hour he was
back on the set. The stage soon
bore more than a passing resemb.
lance to the Grand Central Station
at 3 p. m. Aside from the workers
there, n the DeMille staff and re.
tlnue, there We're visitors. Work pro.
ceeded amidst the confusion.
There were rehearsals, the take.
then a new set-up for close-ups.
Mrs. DeMille arrived with a pretty
young guest. She never misses an
opening day" of a DeMille movie.
Mr. DeMille welcomed them, seated
them returned to the battle.
Aside from most of the news
writer's in town, there were .Jeanie
MACPHERSON, DeMille's longtime
GA years. film editor. There were
Slim Talbot, Cooper's standin. and
JACK MOSS Cooper's There
was Edwin Maxwell, actor turned
dialogue director. There were agents
ana press agents and DeMiIle,s
lielu secretary" who stood close
Wy ana took notes. There were as.
49,; ants and associates and just
plain stooges.
" anu tnere was I, creeping quiet
~ away, awed by the wonder of If
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27
New York Port Official
Makes Tour of Har0or

S. C~umberledge, general sups,
intendent of the Port of Ne" LUZ
Authority yesterday MADE a 'oul
the harbor and was then taken "A
a tour of the city and its enV4!OHs,
The New Yorker was gul'eu u"
his tours by Collector OF custom
John Bright Hill and ], l, mr.
manager of the wilmington II"
commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27

suited DR.. j. Lar
son, author of
Lying and Its
Detection to find
what this expert
had to report.
DIR. Larson cit
ed a great deal
of material which
can be summed
up by saying that
it is difficult to
say which sex
does the o ~
ing because they
do an entirely
different kind of
lying.