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Evening star., 1940-09-12

British population has been lax
in their use of gas masks.
Both Have Gas Ready.
Well-informed military OBJ
servers claim that both the Ger
mans and the British have dig
stores of gases for use under des-
perate conditionS-the Germans
for the peak of their air attack
against the islands, and the Brit
ish to use against land invasion.
AS protection, the British au-
thorities have already distributed
100000 gas masks among their
people. They have rigged up
thousands of underground anti
gas shelters. One gasproof sub
way shelter in London can house
5000 people.
Phosgene is ideal for the Ger
mans to use at the peak of their
war because it has all deadly ef-
fects and mysterious presence at
tributed to war gases in popular
fiction, and not because it is
Evening star., 1940-09-12
German Surprise Expected
To Be Gas, Probably Phosgene
Almost Invisible, the Poison Is Well Suited
For Use on Civilians and in England

If the Germans use it first
and they were the first to use
chlorine in the World War-air
experts expect they will drop it
from the sky.
The purpose would not be to
decimate the population, as so
many people seem to think, but
to spread panic and fear when
panic and fear are already TAX
ing hold of the civilian popula-
tion.
PhOsgene the Favorite.
Phosgene would be the favor
Evening star., 1940-09-12

dropping poisonous material in
grain fields. They suggest the
Germans are preparing to use gas
and are "justifying" its use in
advance-just as Hitler Justified"
wholesale raids on London in ad-
Evening star., 1940-09-12
BY MORGAN M. BEATTY.

Associated Press Feature Service Writer.
When the Germans tell you
that they have a great surprise
in store for use against the Brit
ish, and the British admit the
peak of air war is not yet, it adds
up, for the military expert, to the
probable use of poison gas in the
near future.
And you you can bet one gas
that's coming will be deadly,
almost invisible phosgene.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
RESORTS.
VIRGINIA,

BRYCE'S HOTEL AND COTTAGES
In the Mountains of Virginia-24th Year
Reputation built on food and service All
sports Cool and pleasant American Plan
$3.50 Der day: SIS week Booklet
william r Bryce. Basye. Va. Box 15
ATLANTIC CITY, N. ].
Evening star., 1940-09-12
ences a sharp metallic taste in
his mouth.
Gas Mask La lAAoz EHantiua

Gas Mask Is 1000 Effective.
In an area as big as a room 10
feet square, lethal dose of phos-
gene is one-third of an ounce, if
the victim is exposed 80 minutes.
In higher concentrations, of
course, it is quickly fatal. Drops
of watery material form in lung
tissues, stop oxygen, and the VIC
tim suffocateS.
1t is well suited to use against
civilian populations also because
victims would be likely to run or
exert themselves. The slightest
exertion produces death almost
Immediately.
Phosgene is known to all mill
tary forces. The common gas
mask is 100 per cent effective
against it.
Military experts point to recent
statements of the German high
command accusing the British of
Evening star., 1940-09-12

London and Liverpool handle NOR
than half of Britains foreign trade
Evening star., 1940-09-12

vance by accusing the British of
barbarous bombing Of civilian
populations.
Evening star., 1940-09-12

British population has been lax
in their use of gas masks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22

and resettlement operations, if the necessary
funds are forthcoming.
There are today more than o'ooo'ooo Jews
who are faced with destruction IN european
lands. This tragedy represents a historic
challenge not merely to Jews but to all
Americans who take pride in their love OF
freedom and tolerance. Now more than ever
we must express through the highest con
~structive service the tradition OF bringing
succor and hope to the distressed and the
homeless whoever or wherever they may be
By supporting the Wilmington campaign we
shall give testimony Of our determination to
help build a better world of tomorrow for all
men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
THE ONLY WAY

In this swift country, where time is the es-
sence of the contract, we have difficulty in
understanding the slow movement of British
mental and military powers. We wonder why
troops were not rushed in great numbers to
Norway as soon as word Of the Nazi invasion
reached London. We even berate the British
command and read a major blunder into the
deliberate methods employed to get a cam
paign against the Germans there organized
and under way.
But it becomes obvious, as time passes, that
the British command has a clearly drafted
program, and cannot be diverted from it, be-
cause it believes that in its fulfillment alone
can it win a decisive victory. Having cleared
the approaches to Norway, the British pro-
coed to land their expeditionary forces with
out the loss of d single man, and organize
for a showdown with the Germans. Taking
the field north Of Trondheim with a fully
equipped army, with supply lines firmly es
tablished, the march southwark is started,
with the purpose of meeting the foe in open
combat, aiming to make of that engagement
a second Gettysburg, or a second Saratoga
a turning point in the war.
The advantages or this are obvious. 1t
keeps the German command occupied with
plans for a counter-move to such an extent
that it cannot concentrate upon further ex.
pansion of its invasion to the south and east,
around Oslo and along the Swedish frontier,
If it is successful, and in view of preparatory
provisions for it, both in men and munitions
it should be, the moral effect upon the enemy
and the German people will be favorable tc
the Allies. The whole scheme of operations as
laid down in London is in the best English
tradition. And while it is not what we car
fully grasp or sympathize with, it has strong
support in precedent.
1t is the only way the British know how
to fight. They did not learn much from The
Indian wars of colonial days, or even from
lis in the Revolution. But it must be remem
bered that the British usually do a pretty
good job when they 60 warning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
A SALUTARY LESSON

There has been much adverse comment on
the defiant attitude of Georgia's Governor
RIVERS with respect to the removal of the
militia, and his failure to obey court orders.
But it may be as well that the episode came
up.
Governor RIVERS has had to learn at great
personal embarrassment that he is not SUI
preme, that he is merely q steward, and that
his position depends on the manner in which
he conducts himself in the performance of
his duties. 1t took the United States supreme
court to bring this home to him, but it is
worth while, if only as a demonstration that
the nations highest tribunal is still on the
job and capable of UNFOLDING and enforcing
the rights of the individual.
Other state executives might be tempted to
experiment with dictatorial powers not vested
in them. In fact the tendency has been in
this direction in recent years. The supreme
court ruling places a needed curb upon it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
By GLADWIN HILL

NEW YORK, April 21- Up Two
of Americas oldest institutions -
the a~fter-dinner speech and the pic
ture of the cop feeding the lost child
ice cream - underwent revolution
last week.
After all these years of soporific
after-dinner speeches, City Judge
Joe Hill of Dallas, an after-dinner
speaker himself, finally did some
thing about it. AS he rose to speak
he announced that anyone wishing
to leave right then would be pro-
vided at the door with a copy of his
remarks. Take a bow, judge.
The other hero Of the weeks
dizzy doings was Police Captain
Frank Rose of Omaha. He decided
that the traditional diet of candy
and ice cream that lost kids get in
police stations might undermine the
American stomach if carried much
further, and announced that he was
laying in, for the benefit of future
lost kids, a large stock of canned
vegetables and cereal.
There was plenty of other upside
down new in the weekly ~cavalcade
of cockeyed occurrences, wiz
One of the first arrests in a
Memphis safety drive was a man
whose bicycle had AZ e. count EN-
F.. lights and rejecting devices
on it. None of EN- worked.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Revolution Of
Speech Features Dizzy News

| A Los Angeles woman who writes
a column on How to Help Your
Husband Succeed" sued for separ-
ate maintenance, explaining that
you should stop before you made
your husband so successful he felt
he didn't need you.
New York State Police Captain
Stephen McGrath was unable to give
a scheduled lecture on safety be-
cause he was laid up-from an ac.
cident.
Los Angeles had a temperature of
So one day and a hail storm the
next, and at Mortified, Mimi, St.
Olaf college and River Falls, Wis,
Teachers had a football game.
Some Pittsburgh burglars not
only defied a watch dog and cleaned
out a store, but also carried off
the watch dog.
A Los Angeles murder trial was
interrupted because a mouse ran up
a jurors leg And a Spokane
woman who bought a sealed box at
an auction for IS discovered that it
contained three skeletons. A dollar
a skeleton.
A Milwaukee store proprietress
argued a holdup man down from
$40 to 81, and a Salt Lake City gas
station bandit refused to take any
thing when he found that the sta
ton was privately owned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Solons' Committee Deadlocked
On Big Items In Farm Measure

WASHINGTON, April 81. - up -
After a month of negotiation, a SEN
ate-house committee was reported to-
day to be virtually d~eadlocked on
major items in next years farm bill.
The senate approved the annual
agriculture department supply bill by
adding about $500, 000, 900 to the to-
tai previously voted by the house.
Seven senators and three represen-
tatives were appointed to comprom-
Use differences.
Since then, the group has been
meeting periodically - sometimes
twice daily - without getting any
Where. The house members were re-
ported to be t~enaciously protesting
each of 113 changes made by the
senate, nearly all of them increases,
and the senators to be insisting upon
the increases as a minimum needed
to carry out the farm programs.
Although the senate has numeric.s
supremacy on the conference COM
mittee, each side has only one vote
on disputed items.
Senator Russell D-Ga), floor lead
er of the senate bill and head of its
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
THEY NEED YOUR HELP

In the months since the outbreak of hos
tilities in Europe, We have witnessed a
shocking assault upon small nations and par
ticularly upon minorities in the path of war.
The ruthless notification of conquered Pc
land has been characterized by widespread
brutality against both Christians and Jews.
The reports that have reached the outside
world, despite the wall of rigid censorship
that surrounds the distress areas, have told
Of indescribable horrors and savage attacks,
of wholesale executions and mass explosions.
Innocent women and children have been herd
ed into concentration camps, or driven from
their homes to live in the fields in no-man's-
lands on the fringes of civilization. No one
knows how many thousands have persisted as
the result of disease and violent death.
The tragic plight of millions caught in the
grip of war and oppression places a solemn
responsibility upon all Americans to extend
the hand of sympathy and compassion to the
innocent victims of mans inhumanity to
man. We who are blessed with peace and de-
mocracy are fortunate in the opportunity to
serve humanity and to rescue from destruc-
ton those who pray for the coming of a
new day Of enlightenment.
On April ID the Wilmington United Jewish
Appeal opened its campaign for funds to
bring immediate relief to Jewish war suffer
ers, to aid refugees in their temporary Ravens
in Europe and South America, to promote
immigration and settlement in Palestine and
the adjustment of refugees in the United
States. The campaign is part Of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas
Needs which represents the Joint Distribution
committee, the United Palestine Appeal and
the National Refugee Service, Inc. These
agencies have aided in the rescue, ~resettle
ment and rehabilitation of the victims of re
ligious and racial intolerance. In the present
crisis these organizations are faced with
many farreaching emergency tasks. Many
years of experience and the institutions they
have established in the past have placed them
in q position to carry out large-scale relief
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22

you know what happens when
Henry Aldrich tries hard.
Just to show how little incidents
lead to big movies, here's the story
of the genesis of the new Aldrich
yarn.
Two summers ago Don Hartman,
the screen writer, was vacationing
up in Canada, at Banff and Lake
Louise. On the street he was ap.
preached by a lad selling pencils
Hartman took out a nickel; oblig,
ingly, but the boy said mo, a
quarter-this is an On-to-Alaska
pencil
Intrigued, Hartman learned there
really was a gentleman Gr
Detroit) whose interest in Alaska
and in youngsters promoted a plan
to make Alaskan vacations posi-.
BILE for boys who would work for
them.
Hartman filed the note away in
memory, and when he and Cliff.
ford Goldsmith, playwright of
what a Life" got together to
%concoct a sequel, there it was:
Henry would work for an Alaskan
vacation, and Henry, naturally,
would get into troubles
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-CoNnty Government
under CounciLMandger Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
SEo1cs.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsuiue
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension Of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, tctd-
er Turning Basin, 1cith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pared Riuer Road to Southport, tta
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through Sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for 1chttes.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape groWin9
Throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
-by Robin Coo

HOLLYWOOD. April 21.-It is
customary for movie directors to
discourse glibly on their current
pictures as th,.r personal favor
1tes'' on characters therein as the
most intriguing, most this, most
that. When Jay Theodore Reed
(pIain Ted outside the credit titles)
gets enthusiastic about Henry Aid
rich, 1 make an exception and be-
.lieve it's straight from the heart.
Here why-a story Ted tells on
the set where he's putting Jackie
Cooper through another set of Hen
ry Aldrich's tribulations.
Ted, who used to direct Mary
Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
in silent epics, is a father. One of
his boys. Jim, is about Henry AL
drich's age.
One day, Ted was in his back
yard, taking the earned leisure OF
a Woodworking paterfamilias, when
ominous sounds from the heavens
caused him to look skyward. An
a~irplane was diving low over his
house, in tactics doubtless amusing
to the pilot but alarming to a
home-owner. Again and again the
machine roared down, zoomed up,
circled around, dipping and salut-
ing. Angrily, Ted was ready to call
the sheriff when the performance
was discontinued.
Some hours later, son Jim ap-
Deared, very CHEEKY. well, dad,
did you see me-"
"See you?" said puzzled Ted.
Then light broke. "Were you with
the insane guy in that plane?"
NO, dad. I was the guy" said
Jim.
And then Ted Reed learned that
son Jim had earned his pilots IL
cense-when Ted hadn't known the
boy ever had been up in a plane.
That, of course, has nothing to
do with Henry Aldrich. Ted Reed
wasn't talking about Henry AL
drich at the time. But you can
put two and two together.
Il like Henry" said Ted, "be-
cause he's such a great character.
He's a kid who tries hard, and
that's where his troubles start. If
he'd only sit down and relax, and
quit trying, he'd never get into
trouble. He's not a character who
depends on situations to be inter-
esting. We don't have to figure up
situations to put him in. Just tnrn
Henry loose, and right away he's
in a situation-one that comes out
of his own character"
Henry's adventures this time
center about a desired vacation
trip. The boy of What a Life"
is trying hard;" object, to carr a.
trip to Alaska. There's a philan.
thropist in Chicago Moroni Olsen)
VINO cooperates with deserving boys
toward this end, and Henry-but
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Man About

Bv GEORGE Tucker

NEW YORK, April 22.-This col.
umn frequently is accused of devot-
ing too much attention to trivia, but
today we are going to do something
really worthwhile. We are going to
explain-and this should be valu-
able information to fair visitors
how a stranger in New York can rec
ognize a drug store when he sees
one.
This isn't quite as simple as it
sounds. Not by eyesight can this
trick be turned. Because New York
drug stores look just like depart
ment stores and carry almost as
many items.
A brief stroll through the one at
50th and 7th avenue this morning
yielded this inventory: bathroom
scales, 1920 -. electric clocks, $1.49
and $40 . wrist watches, $1.49
$3.50 and $3.50 -. waffle irons, $1.27
. overnight bags, $1.98 (black Or
tam cellophane umbrellas, SOC
. =. mems neckties. 29s three for sly
|. mems leather wallets, CSC .
ashtrays, 15c -. smoked sun glasses,
25c, CSC, $1,49 briar pipes Gust
received, menD, 29c golf Stacks,
1920, $3.50 . . sport shorts, $1.29,
$2.9S -. shaving brushes, $1.98 :. .
electric razors, $3.50 roller
skates, $500 fountain pens, 81
to IS (pen and pencil sets, $40 to
$12) -. books (Rebecca, Gone With
the Wind, Hunger Fighters, etc.), 25c
to $1.98 ... birthday and greeting
cards, stationery, sc to $500 =. sun
lamps photographers! get yourself
a health-giving Florida sun tanD,
$3.50 -. electric heating pads, $1.9S
X. . . bamboo fishing rods, $4.20 .
Chinese grass slippers (made in
Japan, 29c Navajo blankets
(made in New Jersey, $4.75, and cos
metics. tobaccos and two lunch coun-
tiers C'please pay when served'').
y i y
Now, obviously, a stranger set
down in the midst of so much mer-
chandise would not know whether
he were at Macy's or Walgreens. And
asking seldom does any good; the
walters and clerks are busy and have
no time for small talk. If you are
lucky, you may recognize certain
brands of codliver oils on the shelves,
in which case the guess is that you
are really in a drug store.
Won NAV even. if YOU are extreme
ly lucky, spy a sign which says Pre-
scriptions," but that is only an out
side chance. The space demands in a
Manhattan drug store are too mex
orable to permit street signs, and
even in those stores that do have a
prescription sign the chances are
that over it Will be hung another
saving, Films Developed, s hour
service"
The one way that I have discov-
cred that you can be certain about
New York drug stores is to walk
up and ask the cashier to change a
bill for you. The bill proffered should
be of the largest denomination pos
sible. If she accepts it with a scowl,
and eyes you sus]piciously while press
ing a secret button which is a signal
for some minor official to hurry up
and examine the bill, you're not in
a drug store.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22

conferees, said that if no way out
was seen I'VE might just ~re-enact
last years farm bill. 1t was a pretty
good one"
Representative Cannon O-Mo)
spokesman for the house members of
the joint committee, said things are
going along all right but there are
lots and lots of different items to
consider"
The biggest senate increases We're
$212, oOo, 900 for parity payments to
farmers complying with crop control
programs and $50, 900, 900 for disposal
of farm SURPRISES, including the
stamp plan for distributing food
to needy persons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Denver Society Woman
Signs Aboard Freighter
As Student Navigator

DENVER, April 21.-P)-A g.
year-old Denver society woman was
signed aboard a freighter as fourth
mate and student navigator.
Mrs. Mary P. Converse, grand
mother and world traveller, plans to
leave Tuesday for New York to
board the freighter S. J. Lucken-
bach, sailing May 81 for Seattle via
the Panama Canal.
Mrs. Converse received her fourth
mates license last fall and is study
ing for a third mates classification.
She has made three other trips as
student navigator.
Navigation became her hobby a
few years ago when she and her hus-
band, the late Harry c. Converse,
sailed their w yacht.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
"BARNACIES

WASHINGTON, April 21.- up -
Rep. Engel R-Mich) said today that
New Deal political henchmen''
We're fastened like barnacles' to
such federal relief agencies rs the
CCC. In a statement issued through
the republican national committee,
ne asserted that the $3.50, 900, 900
CCC appropriation which the house
approved was $4,000, 900 more than
requested in the budget. There was
no explanation for the additional
money, he said, unless it was ito
increase the number of political en-
Iployes."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
TOP o. THE MORNING

Fill Thou my life, 0 Lord, my God,
IN every part qCith praise;
That mn achole being may proclaim
Thy being and Thy Wdys.
Not for the lip Of praise alone,
Nor cen the praising heart
I ask, but for q life made up
OF praise in every part.
HoRATIUS BONAI
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
Natures Best
Baby Food Is
Mothers Milk
BY RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT,
NJ. D., DR.. P. III.

There have been many attempts
to construct baby foods to equal
mothers milk. While a number Of
these have been successful in nour.
ishing babies, none have equaled
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22

does not need any modification. 1t
is automatically supplied under tie
stimulus of sucking when a regl'
lar routine of breast feeding has
been established. 1t is clean. whole.
some and free from deleterious Or
ganisms.
It is well-known that breasted
babies are less susceptible to illness
and recover much more readily than
the artificially fed. The digestive
processes of the breast-fed baby are
much less easily upset than those
fed on the bottle. The teeth Of
breasted babies, if the mother her
self has been properly nourishei,
are on the whole better than those
of artificially fed babies.
If it is necessary to give supple.
mentary feelings, the physician
should determine this and prescribe
the proper notifications. 1t IS
recognized that all babies are not
alike, but all babies should be Un-
der the care of a doctor who undeI'
stands infant feeding and should lie
periodically examined by hin.
Any changes in feeding should
be directed by the physician rs a.
rule, the best guide as to whether
the baby is being properly nour'
ished is the weight chart when
should be carefully kept the cary
years of a child's life. Any marhtl
deviation from the normal grown
curve in a baby should receive ~
tention on the part of the nAEsf
clan and it's cause determined.
There is a distinct ~adVanta2e y
the mother herself in nursing heE
own baby. The stimulus IS L.
lures way to regulate her own
organs and bring them back 10 nor
NAL size and position much more
readily than if she resorts to aftiF'
cial feeding for the baby.
Furthermore, there is a psyche
logical advantage to the mother
which is often lost sight Of whfn
she does not nurse her baby. hel'
ularity Of breast feeding usoa".
brings comfort and a sense Of vel
being to the mother and is the ''-
ginning of good habits on the p"'
of the baby. Breast feeding Is ha'''
raj, wholesome and the best lie p.0
lection the baby can have IN 'N0
first few months.
NEXT WEEK: DR.. Boz p'
cusses Children's Diseases Ill
Columns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22

mothers breast
milk in all is
qualities. The fact
that some motA-
ers have difficulty
in supplying this
milk is no reason
to doubt its value.
Breast milk is
the perfect food
adapted for tie
normal IN
a n d development
of the baby. 1t is
the cheapest food
available. In nor
NAL cases it is al
WAYS q V and