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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
MCDONALD OFFERS
SCHOOL PROGRAM
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roads, there must be a small trick
ling somewhere for the Schools" he
said.
And in addition, DR.. Mcdonald
said he favors federal appropriations
for support of schools. He took as the
basis for the statement the fact that
northern metropolises must recruit
new residents from the southern and
western parts of the country to pre-
vent their population being depleted.
| These people are educated at the ex-
pense of the southern and western
states, he said, but they use hat
education for the enrichment of the
northern cities to which the migrate.
"It is only right that the federal
government take some of this money
from these northern cities and turn
it back to the states from whence
came the people who produced it.
Second IN his program for educa-
tional advancement was the balanc-
ing of curricula in schools of the
state.
He quoted figures showing the
large majority of students studying
foreign languages and higher mathe-
matics-subjects which will be of no
use to them unless they enter a col
lege. He mentioned, too, the rela-
lively small number of students en-
rolled in agricultural and vocational
courses.
In discussing adult education as a
possible future forward step to be
taken by schools in the state, the
speaker paid tribute to the Roosevelt
administration and it's achievement OF
teaching so $1,000 North Carolina ill1t-
| crates to read and write.
The third plank in Mr.. McDonald's
platform of advancement was I'M
provement of Institutional facilities.
Under this head he listed: More n
better classroom materials, reductic1i
Of teacher loads, and restoration CT
expert supervision in state moo
Fourth, he advocated increased
salaries for teachers, protection OF
teachers tenure and retirement ar
rangements for instructors in every
school in the state.
Tn his discussion of the Nofth
Carolina school picture IN general
he stated there are several un1aVor'
able angles to be considered, anon
them: Excessive teacher loads Sinai
salaries, eight month terms in many
sections, and restricted currlcula.
In conclusion, DR.. Mcdonald plead
ed with the parents and acher
Lets forget what we have done IN
the past; let's look forward toward
greater things in the future
At the conclusion Of DR.. McDon'
AIDS remarks, Mrs. Everett made a
short talk, consisting mainly CT ok
pressions of appreciation to the
members of the council for their
gracious and courteous treatment
during her stay here and a plea TO
continue the type of work being done
in the schools Of the county.
The speaker was introduced by
John Marshall, president OF the
| Southeastern District School Board
association, and a member Of the
New Hanover board.
Mrs. w. P. Roudabush, president
Of the county council, extended
thanks to both Mrs. Everett and
DR.. Mcdonald for speaking at the
PIT. A. meetings and others who
aided in making the program sue.
cessful.
At the close of the meetings, a
reception for the speakers was held
in the cafeteria Of the school.
About 600 people were present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
INVENTOR DIES

VENICE, Fla, Jan. II. - up -
Harry Norton Marvin, II. inventor
and president Of the Biograph COM
pany in the early days of the motion
picture industry, died here today.
An associate of the late Thomas A.
Edison, Marvin invented a drill used
in mining and recently had perfect
ed an automatic radio tuning sys-
tenn,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Funeral Services Held
For Miss Mary Mcmillan

LUMBERTON, Jan. 12.-Funeral
rites for Miss Mary Elizabeth MIC
MILAN, 80, who died at her home IN
Howelsville township yesterday,
were held from the home this morn
ing.
Burial followed in the family GENE
terry.
She was said to have been the
last member of her family.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12.-tR-Sen-
ator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana
tonight accepted an invitation to
speak before the annual convention
of the United Mine Workers of
America in Columbus on January %.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
A Three Days
Cough is Your
Danger Signal

ed even Yen, II other medicines have fail
you may get relief now with
d%evilulslon. Chronic bronchitis can
tress4lao9p II your chest cold is not
taxi. and you cannot afford to
less M d chance with any medicine
goes pGeent than CreomuIsion which
to to- bo f1lght to the seat of the trouble
r pb1 help loosen and expel germ laden
and Tsm and aid nature to soothe
ronc HheaI raw, tender, inflamed
Crsor.ai mucous membranes.
reSoIssotmulsion blends beechwood
TIM ote oy special process with other
# itl.e teSted medicines fc: coughs.
NJ oi'.alns no narcotics.
sell nave tried, tell your dr,Igeist; to
tba you a bottle Of Creom11lsioIn With III
like understanding that YOU r to
coupb me way it quickly alIays the
yo usn, Permitting rest and s1sen W. or
See the he 70 have your money back.
the mat mat the name Creomulsis,n i is On
Inc n nuetle and you will get the genu-
Nn.ucta and the relief you want.
Sts:1kEOMULSION
"S0ushs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, January 10 R -
Weather bureau records of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending 8
p. M, in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
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Evening star., 1940-12-29

ace on a crowded street.-the earth's most
democratic abode OF royalty. A few miles
away was teeming, busy. rather shabby
Rotterdam. Valiantly Hollands Army
fought to save this rich prize-and hope
lessly. For this resistance the punishment
was terrible. To this day there has been
no adequate account of what happened
to Rotterdam-city of peace-loving,
money loving storekeepers-in one dread
full night.
1t was one of the great cities of the
world. Over large part of its crowded
business district the NaZi airmen carried
out literally the threat Of their leader to
leave not one stone on top of another.
There the terrible dive bombing" was
introduced. Some accounts say quarter
of a million men, women and children
were crushed in the ruins.
All over Holland showers of steel
helmeted troops rained from the skies
upon the green countryside. 1t was the
extreme eXemplification. of parachute
warfare of which an example had been
given in Norway. Too late the govern
ment learned that the whole nation had
been honeycombed with Nazis, ready to
give haven to these murderers from the
clouds.
In little less than fortnight Hitler's
legions had accomplished what the world
had expected would require several
months. One of the earth's proudest,
cleanest, richest, most honorable and
most ancient nations vanished as the
uuartermoon over the Maastricht Bridge
became a yellow cartwheel above the
spires of Amsterdam.
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BeIqion Collapse

simultaneously with the attack on
Holland, the Nazi legions were launched
against heroic, long-suffering Belgium
rich little land of art and learning
whose fate has been to serve as a battle
field of Europe. .
In 20 years Belgium had largely re-
covered from the ravages of the last
World War. Her demolished cities, uni
versities and cathedrals had been rebuilt.
Unlike her northern neighbor, Belgium
had a tradition Of war. Along her
eastern frontier she had built what was
thought to be an impregnable wall, an
extension of Frances Maginot Line. The
Mas River and the newly-built Albert
Canal constituted second presumably
impossible line of defense.
Belgium had remained strictly neutral.
Her widowed young King had turned a
deaf ear to all appeals to Join the allies,
to take up the glorious role Of his dead
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Italian Reverses
Rome dreamed of empire.

Rome dreamed OF empire.
She saw her way to it by crushing a
nondescript nation of black men.
She saw her way to it by ''stabbing In
the back" the country which had been
her most loyal friend for a generation
France, already hopelessly beaten.
The majority of her people-like the
majority of people everywhere-loved
peace and had no dream of world en-
pire. They wanted to work, build homes,
raise families and play games.
Rome sought to realize her dream of
empire by neutrality-suspicious. adequate
planning or preparations
Shattered the conquest Of a supposed-S
Dyeoms ly weak neighbor by the
same sort of tactics Hitler
had used in Norway and Holland.
She has suffered so far at the hands
OF Greece one of the most humiliating
defeats in history. Her African forces
have been driven from Egypt by the
British.
Romes dream of empire is vanishing
now. England may, or may not be, in
a position to whip Germany. Many
persons believe she is in . position to
tear Italy to shreds.
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armies were lined up In fields red with
graves of the flower of its youth who had
perished there in the first World War.
France had known terrible sufferings.
Her cities had been destroyed, her fields
changed to deserts her people starved.
France had come out of the first
World War victorious, but bled white and
heavily in debt. Her people were sick of
war. They had fortified themselves with
alliances against, the possibility of
resurrected Germany. Between them
selves and this possible foe they, had
erected a line of Notifications such as
the world never had known before-an
accomplishment of military engineering
which dWarfed the Imagination. Few
observers who saw the Maginot Line ever
had expressed the slightest doubt but
that it was impregnable. Moreover, the
French army supposedly represented the
last word in military science.
With such defenses, France had settled
down to the ways of peace, prosperity
and-if current accounts are to be cred-
llCQ-olOlIl dilO 81 d1S. 1iSIC Woo oo-
mittedly a shortage of aircraft cannon
and tanks. Was this because some one
had blundered? Was it because the
great French people had decided that
there were goals in the world more
worthwhile than were to be reached by
devoting all surplus to means of resist
ing ones enemies In world of suspicion
and hatred?
Almost simultaneously with the fall
of Belgium the incredible happened.
Panzer divisions had bro
Ponzer ken through the sup
Divisions posedly impregnable de-
fenses. They had found an
unguarded gap. The French armies were
fighting desperately, but retreating.
The flame -belching tanks were sweep
ing everything before them. Dive bomb
ers were devastating. the countryside.
Roads and bridges were so crowded with
refugees that troops and supply trains
we're paralyzed.
In the face of point blank cannon
fire, the tanks came on. Iron fingers
penetrated far into the country behind
the lines and got a choking grip on
strategic cities The iron hordes were
on their way to the Channel. The
French commander in chief was re-
moved. The easy-going government of
Edouard Daladier fell. Frances greatest
living soldier-reactionary, militaristic
Gen. weygand-was hastily summoned
to save the situation. He could do
nothing. The old, cranky, puritanical
Petain, hero of Verdun 40 years earlier,
became head of the government.
Paris was declared an open city to
save it from destruction. Perhaps this
was the first notice to the world that
France was doomed. that her leaders
| realized she could hsht no longer. The
| Masinot forts collapsed like stacks Of
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Invasion of Norwoy

Early in April the world struggle took
en entirely unexpected turn.
Newspaper headlines screamed on an
early April morning that Hitler had
staken over" Norway and Denmark. The
batter, with a total army hardly the size
of an American regiment, had been
conquered in a night. There had been
only token show of resistance. 1t was
rich little land whose barns were
overfowing with the fodder and grain
Germany sorely needed.
The case Of Norway was not so simple.
German forces had, it seemed taken
over several strategic points with hardly
a shot-through plain treason on the
part of agents planted among the Nor
wegian people, some of whom had at
tanned positions of considerable RESPONSE
bility.
But mountainous, sea-washed Norway
did not seem, from the map a coun-
try that anybody could conquer in a
few days. The Norwegian Army was
unconquered and loyal British and
French help was quickly forthcoming.
The story is so sad one would like
W oleCO w lldlll, ODllVlOuS 10 the
true strength of Germany, sent into
the Arctic land where the SHOWS of
January still fingered far
British into April, an inadequate,
Debocle poorly equipped, poorly
provisioned army with
no experience whatsoever in north
ern warfare. This army was lucky to
escape with its skins Many of its
soldiers found only graves under the
northern SHOWS.
In few weeks Norway was as thor
oughly conquered as Denmark, and the
world had learned for the first time
something of the military strength and
uncanny cunning of the tyrant of Ger
many. In fear and trembling, the rest
of the world awaited the next act in the
most unbelievable drama in the his
tory of the world. 1t was not long in
forthcoming.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Review Of TWELVE Historic Months Totooon Warfare That Shook the World
Ageression's Course
Across Europe
In Retrospect
By Thomas r. Henry.
Valiant Finland
By Thomas r. Henri

The new moon of last January
rose in sky glittering with Arctic
stars over as strange scene as his
tory has knoWn-a battle to the
death between white-clad warriors
en- stage of f1r-forested hills drifted
high with snow and Steel-blue lakes
swept clean by boreal winds in a
temperature of 80 below zero.
A nation of free men, poor and ILL
equipped, was fighting for home and
national existence against an un-
calmly. laundering monSter-Finland
against Russia.
Finland was fighting at home.
Her soldiers knew every inch of the
tangled paths through the fir woods
and the marshes. Russia was fight
ing with conScript army in an I'M
familiar land. But in the relative
military strengths of the two an
tagonists there was no comparison.
The world watched, strangely
fascinated. There was almost uni
versal sympathy for Finland. But
more significant, even, than the fate
of this brave little country was the
fact that the Russian bear, long an
enigma behind the darkness of its
closed borders, was revealing itself
In its true ight-a stumbling, fat,
half-blind, short winded, Weak-hit-
ting giant. Her military strength
meant little in the world-either for
Germany or for the Allies.
For Europe was locked in a life-and-
death struggle between a revived un-
scrupulous, unbearably arrogant Ger
many and the democratic nations of
the west, France and
lull Before England. Russia, it had
The Storm been thought, might hold
the balance. Thus far
there had been no open fighting.
Hardly thousand men had been killed
In a war, already four months old
which everybody realized was bound
to be the most titanic struggle in his
tory A few days before, French and
German soldiers actually had held
Christmas parties above ground in plain
sight of each other without exchanging
shot.
Most of Europe was in blackness as
q precaution against air raids. Many
more persons had been killed in traffic
accidents in London and Paris, due to
these blackouts, than by enemy bullets.
Another significant feature of the
Finnish campaign was that, for the
first time, war had been brought into
the open. Armed men actually were
fighting -affording preview Of what
the main show might be like later on.
There were high hopes for Finland,
and almost no assistance. AS had been
generally predicted, the vastly superior
forces OF Russia brought about a col
lapse of the valiant little Finnish Army
In the end-and democracy had suf-
fered another crushing defeat.
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Battle of Britain
England fights on alone.

England ugnLS on alone.
The terrible winter of biting fog is
upon the green island-the land of
Shakespeare and Newton. the land of
Americas mother tongue, the land of
Westminster Abbey
Not since the civil wars has she known
shot fred in anger between foeman
on her own soil. Night after night the
flends of the sky rain death upon her.
Large sections of London, Manchester,
Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, South
ampton, Nottingham, Coventry are in
ruins. She is in the grip of suffocating
darkness. Her people are on shortened
rations and hiding in burrows like hunted
rabbits. Every full moon over Trafalgar
Square Is q moon Of death.
Across the narrow Channel and on
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BHtzkrieg in Holland

For a century Holland had been at
peace.
The first new moon of April rose over
a low, green land whose matronly gray
hair of fog was diademed with the lights
of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague
Delft, Maastricht, Utrecht, Leyden and
HARLEM. 1t looked down on land of
barns bulging with fruits of a fat har-
vest, of church spires whose hourly
chimes sang hymns of illuminated store
windows laden with the glittering gems
of the Indies and the silks of Cathay.
Already the rich land had suffered
staggering blows from the tempest Of
war. Business was ruined. More than
q half million of Hollands sons were
In uniform-red-faced awkward country
boys from the cold iceland marshes,
Evening star., 1940-12-29

father. He remembered, 1914 There
would be no such needless suffering in
Belgium again. he resolved, and his
people agreed with him.
The westward advance of the Germans
was almost as rapid as was that in
Holland. The supposedly
Fote of impregnable forts crumbled
FIonders like paper. 1t was as in
comprehensive to the world
as to Belgium herself. Regiments of
crack troops were annihilated before the
onrushing tide. England and France
rushed troops into Flanders-to their
own undoing.
Nobody dreamed of the strength of
the blow Hitler had launched. One
morning less than a week after the in
vasion started, Louvain was being bonn
barded-lovely Louvain less than 20 miles
from Brussels, site of one of Europe s
oldest and proudest universities and of
one of the most beautiful libraries on
earth which had been destroyed by these
same Germans in 1914 and rebuilt with
American money. They heard the cam
nonading in Brussels and did not know
what it meant, so swift had been the
stroke. Around Louvain a British and
French force fought hopelessly and with
drew with the Belgium Army, still fight
ing hopelessly toward the sea.
Brussels fell without blow. Splred
Antwerp was captured. The broad roads
were impossible with confused, fright
ened refugees-old men, women and
children staggering under heavy burdens
toward the French frontier All was in
unutterable confusion. Then came the
final blow. Peace-loving, self-willed King
Leopold surrendered his Army. The Brit
ish and French expeditionary forces were
caught in the jaws of formidable trap.
This was the end of Belgium. It was
erased from the war as effectively as
Holland had been few days before. 1t
was hopeless for the decimated, made
quately armed English and French to
fight on. Could they save themselves?
The miracle of Dunkerque was England s
answer. Under the ceaseless lombard
ment of German warplanes at least two
thirds of the "lost" British Army was
carried across the Channel in a hastily
improvised armada of fishing boats,
pleasure yachts, small sailboats. All the
equipment of the expeditionary force
was lost.
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the shores Of the Norwegian fjords and
Dutch bays is massed the full might Of
Germany, ready to strike. but afraid.
They know what awaits them on the
English and Scotch beaches fate which
must bring pallor to the cheeks even Of
the best disciplined and most fanatical
Of Hitler's cannon fodder
Can England hold out? There are
three months of black winter ahead-a
sort of winter, of which
EnoIond's few Americans can have
Fortitude any conception. The coun-
try is on Spartan rations.
Half the income of the people is required
to meet small part Of the current costs
of defense. Losses in property-there is
no attempt to conceal it now-have been
terrible. The constant air raids, the
never-ending threats of sudden death,
the loss of sleep, are tearing at the
nerves of the populace. But Hitler must
realize now that a victory over them
can be had-if at allAonly at such a
price as will wreck his own country for
a generation.
LII lilc slccll GllsllSl COuIlll ySluc ~
the grave of Shakespeare, who wrote:
This England never did, nor never
shall
Lie at the proud foot of conqueror.
Germany is not fighting an army in
England. She is fighting, in the final
analysis, a people united in resolution
and suffering as no people have ever been
before.
There will be no dishonor able peace.
There will be no armistice with slavery.
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arp-bargaining clerks from Rotterdam
stores. They were ill at ease in uniform
There was no war spirit or military pride
in Holland. The lovely city parks had
been torn up to build bomb shelters.
Dynamite had been planted to blow up
the dykes from the Zuieer Zee to the WAL
River, across sandy pine barren, in
order to split the country in halves in
the face of an invasion from the east.
But there was no real expectation OF
war. Germans, Englishmen and French
men wandered freely about the land
Dutch and Germans fraternized freely
along the border of low sandy hills,
few hundred yards beyond which
stretched the echeloned, painted
concrete emplacements of the northern
extension of the Siegfried Line.
The moon was in its first quarter above
the great bridge over the Mas at
Maastricht, quaint old
Dutch Catholic city where brown
D;soster robed monks with long,
black boards rode bicycles
through medieval streets, when the tides
of war broke out of the east. May had
come.
The Dutch Army had never planned
to make more than gesture at Defend
ing the eastern half of the country.
The frontier posts, deliberately with
drawn from sight of the border months
before as safeguard against incidents,
fired a few shots according to schedule
and withdrew. The real defense was to
be between the Zuider Zee and the Waal,
where, it was expected, the German
troops could be held back for months
from the great fortress of Holland
Amsterdam. Rotterdam, the Hague and
Utrecht-where was piled in warehouses
no small part of the wealth of the world.
And then Holland learned the terrible
truth. Its walls of water were less than
walls of paper. Hitler's iron cavalry
rolled on into the green lowlands. The
citizen army, whose science of war was
20 years old, but not tested under fire,
fought heroically and helplessly-as such
armies always do. The iceland farm
boys knew how to die-not how to fight
This will decide the fate of Europe
for a thousand years, Hitler is reputed
to have said as he launched his divisions
across the Mas.
Probably he himself was astounded by
the speed and ease of the conquest
Aghast, the world looked
Rotterdam on. Within four days
Demolished German troops were in
the Hague, beautiful
capital of Europe's richest land. The
royal family fed from the white, low pal
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cards. The iron arms of the German
octopus gripped the entire country.
A humiliating armistice was signed.
1t was concluded under the most dra-
matte possible circumstances, in the
very sleeping car in which the allies had
imposed their will on Germany in 1918.
Symbolically as well as actually, the
Reich was revenged. More than two
thirds of France was left under German
occupation-to starve to death or perish
of scourges during the terrible, wet
winter now at hand.
The light of the world has gone out
1t may be long time before the torch
of France will flare again in the troubled
darkness Of selflshness and unresson.
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Fall Of France

After, crouching behind wall for eight
months the Nazis had been drawn into
battle with the French Republic, whose