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the end of the summer, and the
general understanding here is that
a mess fully as bad as the one dug
up last year in Louisiana is due to
be uncovered.
Several angles are involved, but
it is believed that the liquor
racket will provede the biggest
headlines. One distillery is al.
legged to have paid out close to
half a million dollars in com
missions" last year. So far, nc
income tax cases have popped up,
all hands having been tolerably
careful about listing their gains
for Uncle Sans tax collectors.
Before the federal investiga.
ton got started, a state investiga'
ton in Detroit indicted ISL per
sons, including ex-Mayor Richard
w. Reading, on charges of a graft
conspiracy in connection with
policy games.
Up to this writing, the star mem
bers of the New Deals brain trust
have not drawn cards in the admin.
istration's defense program-ex-
cept for the party Harry Hopkins
is playing as secretary of COM
merce.
Tommy Corcoran, most famous
of all brain trusters, is very much
out in the cold. Furthermore,
the National Resources Planning
Board-headed by Frederick De-
lano, and including such persons
as Gardiner Means and Charles
w. Eliot-has not been given any
thing to do. So far, at least, the
timer circle" New Dealers have
been pretty much out of the pic
ture.
About a month ago this column
told of a Cuban scientist who was
then in Washington warning the
administration that unless the U.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
BEHIND THE SCREEN AT
WASHINGTON

one
great military secret-the famous
airplane bomb sight-edged it's way
into the row over confirmation O.
Henry L. Stimson and Frank KNOB
as secretaries of war and navy.
One reason for the bitter-end de
termination of some senators tt
prevent Stimson's confirmation has
been belief that Secretary Wood
rings removal from the War De
partment was precipitatied by s
showdown scrap over the propo'
sition that the bomb sight be turned
over the England.
Woodring himself has taken nc
part in the fight, and the under.
standing is that his letter of resig.
nation-which those who sought tt
block confirmation are trying tc
get into the record-makes nc
mention of the bomb sight. Never.
theless, the charge is privately be.
ing made that the admins ration
did attempt to give the bomt
sight to the British and that il
was Woodring's refusal to yield
which brought the request for his
resignation.
The Military Affairs Commit
tee, which handled the Stimson
appointment, is on the whole a
pro-Roosevelt committee, and the
Naval Affairs Committee, which
considered Knox's case, is pretty
largely ti-Roosevelt.
Keep an eye on Michigan as the
likely spot for a new crooked-poli.
tics scandal to explode. A federal
grand jury is investigating things
there, and is likely to be at it until
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Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M. d

BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
us there any method of dissol-
wing kidney stones and gallstones
without an operation?"
This age-old inquirey, which is
repeated by thousands of human
beings a year, has always hereto
fore been answered by doctors
with a contemptuous NO" Lately,
however, there seems to be a
change of mind taking place.
The relation of diet to kidney
stones is very suggestive. Certain
geographical areas have long been
known as stone areas r lower
Egypt, India and in this country
Southern Florida and Southern
California. The tendency in these
regions is to eat a vegetable diet
and to spare meats and fats, cut.
has produced stones in the kidneys
experimentally in rats on a diet
deficient in Vatamin A..
Statistics Show Progress
In countries where education in
nutrition has received attention, it
can be shown statistically that
there is a marked reduction in the
incidence of bladder stone. T h e
figures of Thompson in England
for the last two decades of the
nineteenth century, as contrasted
with those of July from 1915 to
1881 show that there was only a
fourth as many cases seen in the
later periods. Desnos and Minet
have shown the same thing in
France. In Russia, on the con-
trary, where standards of living
are low, the incidence of bladder
stone in children is still high.
Twenty-one patients are report.
ed from a large American clinic,
who had "complet solution" oil
their kidney stones after being pu,
on a cours of treatment which in.
Guided clearing up any infection in
the kidneys, and maintaining ar
acid-ash diet with a high Vitamin
A content. The diet prescribed fol
those who have had surgical re
moval of stones has prevented re
currence. The acid-ash diet pre-
vents the precipitation in the kid
ney pelvis of alkaline salts from
which stones are formed. An acid
ash diet contains bread, corn, eggs
fish, meat, oatmeal and prunes.
The underweight person is thi1
for the simple reason that he doe!
not know the meaning of the wore
appetite. He has to work just a!
hard to eat without an appetite a!
the overweight has to work not tt
eat with an appetite. Note tina
these vacation diets. for under
weight begin with an appetizer
fruit or thin soup, which here hal
it's place in the dietary if any
where.
Breakfast: Grapefruit; oatmea
with cream and sugar; hot biscuit
with honey and butter; glass milk
Mid-morning: Cottage cheese
toast. ~
Lunch: Bouillon; creamed chick
en- on toast; endive salad wit
< French dressing; chocolate Gus
atrd with whipped cream; 2 who'll
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
ITALIANS CLAIM
GIBRALTAR RAID
Rome Says Duce's Planes
Flew 1000 Miles To
Deliver Attack

poME, July 1s.-R-The Italian
,:an command stated today that
nls If its formations made a
o's If over 1000 miles to bomb
nls pr;+ish military and naval base
c;braltar yesterday, where the
ono, and other military objec-
t a5ss'v we're said to have been bonn
he'd 'efectively"'
0' lpenorts from Gibraltar yester-
h spid a bombardment by uni
a Certified aircraft had taken three
aei, Reports from La e a,
esein said seven were killed.)
Gibraltar is about 1000 m $
Rome. The communique said
l noil aiaht was carried out lin spite
~ unfavorable weather conditions"
The communique also claimed
-:.1ino of a British submarine in
tha eastern Mediterranean and an
aerial attack on a British freighter
n,hicb attempted to pass through
w. Gratis of Sicily and was 80
had1v hit she had to be abandoned
by her crew
stefani. official Italian n e w S
,oencv reported that the AZ, 100-ton
pritish battle cruiser Hood and
the aircraft carrier Ark Royal
wore underdoing repairs at the
bombed arsenal at Gibraltar. Ste
fani said the 2,O0O-mile distance
covered the round trip.
The agency said there were four
raids. two in the morning and two
in the afternoon; that considerable
damage was done, and that high
columns of smoke and flames were
seen rising from the arsenal.
The agency, citing the bombing
nj a Is, OO0-ton oil tanker headed for
Malta as an indication of the block
AIDES effectiveness, said Italian
planes had been hammering at the
island and securing the sea to pre-
vent tankers and supply ships from
reaching the island.
Damage to planes and supplies,
Stefani said, virtually has ended
Malta's value as a base for Brit
ish attack on Italy. Military ex-
perts at the same time said Malta,
bombed more than so times, prob
ably also was in need of shells for
anti-aircraft batteries.
This was believed to have been
the reason for the British decision
to risk running the Italian blockade
with five big freighters-a move
which led to the British-Italian ma
val battles in the Mediterranean
ten days ago. 4
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THREE
therefore, that no license could
legally be issued to such person."

The Industrial Commission has
received an appeal from a Hickory
lawyer, asking it to intervene in a
most unusual case.
1t is set out that an employee
suffered a hernia as result Of an
accident, was sent to a hospital
for a remedial operation, was dis
charged as cured and returned to
work. Shortly afterward the hernia
broke down and back to the hospi-
tai he went. Once more "cured"
he returned to his job only to have
the same disability occur again.
A third time he underwent
an operation and soon thereafter
his physicians pronounced him
ready to 60 back to work.
This time the employer announce
ed that there was no job open for
the employee (who had been in
the firms employ for Is years.)
The employee, incidentally. receive
ed full and adequate compensation
on each of the three occasions he
was in the hospital as the result
of his hernia.
Now that the man has no job
directly as the result of his in-
juries, it is contended by him and
his lawyer an appeal has been
made to the Industrial Commits
sion for assistance. The employee
feels he should either have his job
or more compensation. The en-
ployer probably feels there's NO use
putting a man back to work when
it appears almost a certainty he'll
soon be a casualty again.
Chairman T. A. Wilson says he
doesn't know anything the Com
mission can do about it, though he
is personally very sympathetic to
the employee. Wilson is proud,
however, of a passage from the
Hickey lawyers letter which
read:
Lawyers, as well as laymen and
laborers, look upon your board as
a sort of guardian of their rights"
I'm view of all the nasty things
that are usually said about is, that
are usually said about us, h a t
sounds might good" said Wilson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
In Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD-There are quite
a few highly-paid intellectuals
around town who like to practice
contemptuous wise-crackery at the
movie business. With a couple of
mots and an off-color epigram they
can tell you just what's wrong with
pictures. By 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning they'll be wallowing again
in cliches and musty plots, mean
while praying that no dawning of
executive intelligence will c e a r
away Hollywood's delightfully."- re.
munerative insantities.
Ben Hecht is one Holly
wood wise-guy who is not a hypo-
critic. He has written his share of
trash at a $4,000 weekly wage, and
he has done a good deal of un-
grateful swapping at the hands that
feed him caviar. But he also is
willing to assume responsibility
and work without salary to try to
prove the validity of his critic
isms.
A HEIGHT OF
A PICTURE ar4 ra+t
He's trying it now with a pic
ture tentatively titled Until
Die" Original story by Ben
Hecht; adaptation by Ben Hecht;
screen play by Ben Hecht. Co.
producers are Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., and Ben Hecht. The director
is Ben Hecht. Bebore it's finished,
Ben Hecht will play a role in it.
This is what you could call a
Hecht of a picture.
Hecht has no respect for ex-
ecutives, and believes that all
they do is collect huge amounts
for tasks which could be and usu-
ally are reformed by secretaries.
I'm New York." he said, Il was
paid a princely sum of writing,
a handsome salary for directing,
and $25 for producing. That was
just the right ratio"
SEES MUCH
BUNGLING
In making Before I Die" at Co.
lumbia, for Columbia release, he
is receiving no salary at adjust
an eventual slice of the profits OF
the picture. Thus he has plenty OF
incentive to do a good job at low
cost, and a free hand from begin.
ming to end. Hollywood could save
millions and get infinitely better
results, he believes, if one man
were allowed to follow through on
each production. Hecht says that
writer's r the only people who
know how their stories should be
directed, and directors should have
all the authority now vested in pro-
ducers.
Heckt probably is extra critical
of Hollywood because he sees so
much of its bungling. AS a good
writer, he works on a lot of bad
picture-jobs which have been
hacked to pieces by hack SCRIP
blers, who is turn have b e e n
driven crazy by conflicting orders
from meddling executives. When
things get SO mixed up that no.
body knows what the score is, they
called on Ben Hecht. The once
shelved, half-scrapped tumble o +
celluloid called Il Take This
Woman" starring the unhappy
Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamar,
was a good recent example. That
wasn't exactly an Academy
Award production when it finally
attained some plausibility a n
continuity. 3
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manufacturers special close-outs of
tnelr regular 15c and 19c styles, lace
trimmed and tailored styles with double
crotch. Regular sizes only.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
British Send 5000
Soldiers To Gibraltar

MADRID, Spain, July 19.-LR-
An Algaciras dispatch by Cifra,
Spanish news agency, said today
that three British transports, arriv-
ing at Gibraltar from the Atlantic,
had landed 1000 troops with full
equipment while LOO more remain.
ed aboard,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20

Bright and gay printed styles in small
and large designs in wrap-a-rounds and
plain colors in crinkle crepe in Upper
styles. Sizes IA to so. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20

wheat mullins with butter; glass
milk.
Mid-afternoon: Glass IL milk and
IL cream.
Dinner: Two poached eggs on
mashed potatoes; buttered lima
beans; lettuce salad with dress
ing; entire wheat bread with but
ter; apple tart; coffee with cream.
Evening: Eggnog.
Approximate value-4,0 600 cal
cries, 4
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RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY N AVERILL

BY AvEII1AL
RALEIGH, July 19.-There is a
growing impression in wide awake
political circles that Durham's
many-times Representative Victor
S. Bryant must be given serious
consideration in any analysis of the
race for Speaker of the 1941 North
Carolina House.
Despite the fact that the Bull
City legislator cannot turn a hand
in his own behoof, there is much
sentiment for his selection; accord
ing to reports coming over tn e
Raleigh grapevine radio - reports
which unquestionably contain
much more than a mere modicum
of accuracy.
According to these ''thought-wav-
es" the ace is likely to wind up
as strictly a case of Odus Null
Cleveland county patriarch and
political power, and Bryant, who
lost two years ago to Libby Ward
by a scant two-vote margin.
The general prediction has beer
that George Uzzell of Rowan would
be the man to beat" in n e x
January's caucus; but the wise
guys claim that there is unyieldins
opposition of the most potent sorr
to the urbane Salisbury lawmaker,
Uzzell is marked as an active advo
cate of Labor with a capital Il"
Extremely powerful interests
therefore, will be lined up in opposi
ton to him, it is said.
An alien cannot be issued a lie
ense to sell beer in North Caro-
lima, the Attorney Generals ofic'
has informed the Brewers ant
North Carolina Beer Dealers Com
mittee in reply to a query from
that unit.
The A. G. Cited Section Sill Is,
of the Public Laws Of 1889, which
sets out the requirements which
person must have before a licens'
to sell beer shall be issued. It pro
vides that among other things
there must be IAN accurate state
ment made by the applicant tina
he is a citizen and resident of tn,
State of North Carolina"
IAN unnaturalized person resid
ing in this state is not a citizen
the ruling continued, land I advise
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20

Dogs sizes in satin Iastex and wool
r'nehs IN all wool and lastex and wool.
1ssa shades. Sizes small, med. and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
WEED FESTIVAL

WILSON,, July 19.-R-Plans
are being completed for the fourth
annual North Carolina tobacco ex-
position and festival August 1924.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20

So far away is the planet Pluto
from the earth that our most pow.
erful telescopes show it only as a
point of light.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-20
Belgian War Prisoners
Released By Germany

BERLIN. July 19.-R-Adolf
Hitler ordered the release today of
all Belgian prisoners of war except
commissioned and non-commissioned
officers.
From Brussels, DNB, the German
news agency, reported that members
of the fugitive Pierlot government,
which refused to recognize King
Leopold's capitulation, had been for
hidden to return to German-occupied
Belgian territory.
S. pushes/a broad program of new
world defense and economic col
liberation, Nazi-Fascist fifth col
umnists will presently be in con-
troll in Cuba. This man has since
returned to Cuba. In a letter just
received he says:
1.-THE fifth column problem here
is worse than I was thinking when
I was in Washington" 4
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So far, your Raleigh reporter
hasn't heard even a good word for
the nomination of Henry Wallace
as FDR's running mate.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
French Still Not Cooperating
Cabinets Attitude Held Changing in Britoin's
Favor; Lovors Wings Believed Clipped

the running as Marshal Petain's
successor.
The Question Of Commitments.
Any concession that the vichy
patriarch" may have made to Ger
man demands Tuesday is still hid
den from us. However, an i'm
portant point to stress is that the
attitude Of the United States is
likely to have carried great weight
In the juncture last October 26, on
the very day Marshal Petain met
Hitler message of President Roose-
velt was received in Vichy to the
effect that any military assistance
lent by France to Germany might
set in motion the Habana agreement
OF last July. There is some reason
to believe that, more than a fort
night ago, the line was drawn tighter.
Were the Vichy government, in
its dealings with the Nazi empire,
to enter into fresh commitments
extending beyond those to which it
subscribed last June under the
armistice convention, all the odds
are that Franco American relations
would not remain as they are today.
Admiral Leahy, the American
Ambassador. will be in France on
December %. That this country
will never recognize the new order"
OF HltlerS doing will be once more
explained.
From the above it can be inferred
that the question at issue between
the Petain government and Ger
many bears less on the person of
Laval than on the policy which
Laval had made his own, and Hit
Ter wants to be continued under
one form or another.
Lavars Wings Clipped.
Laval may not loom very big if
an understanding about the
methods of application" mentioned
on October "a is to be reached. On
the contrary, he will receive every
encouragement from the German
authorities and perhaps prove bold
enough to set up, against Vichy,
some kind of Paris commune" if
Marshal Petain remains adamant.
Eventually, Berlin will be in posi-
ton to make use of Laval against
Vichy in the same manner as Vichy,
rather timidly, makes occasional use
of Weygand against Berlin. But,
whatever happens, Laval, the man
to whom Marshal Petain said curtly,
last Friday night (another authentic
detail cabled here) You have de-
ceived me. Get out" is hencefor-
ward branded by the German inter-
vention in his favor as a new Seyss-
Inquhardt or as new Quisling be-
fore the whole French people; it
seriously curtails his ability to
make mischief.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-12-20

smphed procedure vsas 10000 children
the number for which transportation available.
conditions have resulted
examination visa applicants Most of
conue remote from their abodes
Identification verifcaon
exercise unusual discretion
conss obliged the interests the United States They
practice special vigilance with the possibility
in the gse refugees might be muggled into this country
either immigrants visitors.
The State Department proud Of the performance of its
grapped problem
considerable self sacrifice
quota lists the extent 1000 refugees
recommended qualifications typical
the situation within the limits OF existing law They reflect the desire
the fullest effect the Governments traditional policy
asylum religious and political refugees But indicated
henbefore cited will before considerably number
immigration restrictions Meantime State activities
ameloate the refugee problem continued
ton The gravity Of the realized by all but there
nnumerabe complexities and which frequently make
impossible to afford relief speedily wide scale desired
Evening star., 1940-12-20

were to be examined later"
Laval held very definite views as
to what those methods ought to be-
He does not conceal it any more !;
as vice president of the Council he
made up his mind to stake the future
of France upon the probability of a
full German victory as he saw It,
Had he been left free to follow his
own will. France today would be in
the thick of the fight, by the side
of Germany.
The first time Laval tried to win
the Ministerial Council to that line
of action-it was as early as last
July-Gen. Maxine Weygand ex-
claimed: "You seem to enjoy fouling
your own nest" There are indica-
tions that lately Laval was deeply
disturbed by the plight of Italy. But
instead Of retracing his steps, he
insisted all the more the speedy
conclusion of the full agreement with
Berlin, left in suspense since october
26. To his own undoing he lost all
sense Of prudence.
Cabinet Attitudes Change.
Marshal Petain's outlook is rather
different although the best observers
on the spot hesitate to describe it
as very stable. At Montoire, Hitler
did his best to impress him with a
description of the military resources
available to him against England
Che had done the same with Premier
Mussolini, in the Brenner interview.
last March, and the old soldier went
out of the meeting more or less con-
vinced that Great Britain was
doomed.
However, fortnight later, he was
not so sure that the Fuehrer had
all the trump cards. Diplomatic re-
ports have it that Gen. Huntzinger,
French Minister of War and Ad-
miral Darlan, French Minister OF
Marine, were present on Tuesday
when Herr Abetz had his two-hour
conversation with Marshal Petain
and that both of them emphasized
the impossibility for the land and
sea forces to be otherwise than neu-
tral. Admiral Darlan has been
known for his anti-British leanings
since the summer, but he is be-
lieved. now, to have veered somehow.
And Gen. Huntzinger must be re-
garded, after the departure of Laval,
as the most outstanding personality
of the cabinet He played a great
part in the preliminary negotiations
which led to the agreement with
Turkey in October, 1889. Last May,
the army under his command gave
a good account of itself in the area
Of Montmedy. Sooner or later he
and Gen. Weygand clearly will be in
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Du Pont Will Expand
PIastics Research Unif
y tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 20.-E.
I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. an
nounced today expansion of its
laboratory at Arlington, N. j., to
make 1t one Of the largest plastic
research centers in the world.
Arnold E. Pitcher, general man.
ager Of the plastics department,
said the new facilities would be
utilized in the development Of new
types Of plastics with increasing
attention" to the use of the material
in national defense.
The program calls for construction
Of a two-story building, to be ready
for occupancy by May /, 1941, which
will increase the present establish
ment's size by Is per cent.
Evening star., 1940-12-20

throughout Britain there will be
ordhe Hitler civizaion-
going This what the Germans
to tell Marshal Pean
In the meantime the dove its Berlin patiently
waiting Herr Hitler go" signal!
gulibe will be difficult because
Americans him lately believed and
relatively mpoant the beginning liberia
Evening star., 1940-12-20

tracts totaling $l6,074,942 awarded
by the Bureau of Supplies and Ac-
counts, the remainder being for mis-
cellaneous supplies. A Washington
firm, the Worthington Pump & Ma
chinery Corp, was given an order
amounting to $54,298. Another or
der of S59,980 for turbine blading
was placed with the Washington
headquarters of the Westinghouse
Electric e. Manufacturing Co.
Evening star., 1940-12-20

On October "a.
Adolf Hitler and
Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain
met in Montoire
and agreed about
the principle of
Franco German
cooperation. 1t
meant that the
Vichy govern
ment was willing
to lend a hand
in building up
the new Eu-
ropean or de r."
But the" methods
nf anDlicotinr1n
Evening star., 1940-12-20

SSNSA ~ VI.
ern m en- t bu-
reaus, boards and
com m i S S l o n S
may lead to the
" ng into
forthcoming ap-
preparation bills
by Congress Of
virtually t h e
o a m e reStrlc-
tions.
When a Chief
Executive vetoes
a bill affecting
fun d a m e ntal
rights of the
Evening star., 1940-12-20
License Bill Passed

The Senate yesterday passed a
bill already approved by the House
authorizing the issuance of license
to Lou Davis to practice chiropratics
in the District. This sends the
measure to the President for sigma
ture.