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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Behind The Scenes In
Washington

White House announcement of a
plan for an economic union of
North and South America symbol
ICES this governments conviction
that the United States is entering
a new and perplexing world order
profoundly unlike anything it ever
dreamed of before.
This plan for an International
cartel to handle all new world ex
port SURPRISES is based on a the
ory expressed roughly as follows:
Hitler is going to dominate Eu.
rope. The immediate menace to
America will be economic rather
than military, although the two are
tied together. To meet this menace,
this nation must do a number of
very expensive and complicated
things wholly aside from building
up its army and navy.
This theory may be wrong-va.
rious people in Congress believe it
is. If it is right, the answer now
proposed may be wrong - even
some New Deal planners think it
is. Nevertheless, it represents DOM
inant administration thinking.
PALM OUTLINES
ARE NOT NEW
Although FDR sprang the idea
before the plan had been perfected,
the broad outlines of the program
are not new. Two years ago the
Agriculture and State Departments
began intensive studies of the chan.
ces for a closer economic tie-up
between North and South America.
with an eye to the increasing eco
nomic penetration by the totali-
tartan states
Following their studies, a broad
interdepartmental committee rep
resenting nearly all of the major
governmental departments and
bureaus took over the job. Fur
Their studies were made by still
another group composed of repre-
sentatives of the U. S. and various
Latin American governments and
of private business.
Upshot of all of this was a con-
viction that there was a great deal
that the U. S. could do, but that
it would be pretty expensive.
The United States now buys
about $500, 600, 900 worth of South
American agricultural products
each year. If money were avail
able for internal development on
the southern continent, this total
could be increased substantially
and U. S. exports would go up &C.
cordingly. We could, for instance,
get most of rubber, cinchona,
kapok, tea, cocoa, camphor and
tropical hardwoods there if we
could finance expanded production
of those goods.
HITLER WOULD
SPEND PLENTY
But that, according to theory
prevailing in Washington, only
scratches the surface. For if this
country buys 400 millions in South
America more than three times
that much. If Hitler is going to
run Europe, that wad of purchases
will be in his hands.
In the first place, it is argued,
a one-man-controlled barter trade
on such a scale would mean eco
nomic penetration of Latin Amer.
lea with a vengeance followed
or accompanied by political pene.
tration. In the second place, it is
held that much of the normal U. S.
export trade to Europe could be
frozen out which would make it
all the more necessary for this
country to find new markets.
Out of all of this grew the plan
for a gigantic cartel, or economic
union - based on the belief that
only in that way could the vari.
ous new world nations carry on
their necessary trade with a Hit
ler-dominated Europe on anything
approaching equal terms.
NEXT: What the new world
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Butter And Margarine
Rationed In Britain

LONDON, July 9.zlP-Great
Britain ordered today a joint but
ter and margarine ration of six
ounces per week. Previously butter
had been rationed at four ounces
per person a week, and margarine
was not rationed at all.
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HAZARD

HAZARD
SALT LAKE CITY-Jack White,
17-year-old caddy at Salt Lake
country club, didn't mind golf balls
whizzing around but bullets, well,
that's different.
Jack was only vaguely aware of
a blue uniformed m a shouting
from a hilltop as he approached
the twelfth tee. Then two bullets
whistled past his head.
Jack learned, almost too late,
that the officer, looking for an es-
capped convict, had been shouting
at him and fired after the caddy
ignored his command to halt. ]
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SU~PERSTITIONS

Ball players r a superstitious
gentry, but not more so than the
golf pros. For years Bobby
Jones would play only with balls
stamped in black. Tommy
Armour held out for green mark
ings while Dick Metz uses only
Red tees. Billy Burke always
smokes the same number of cigars
to a round.
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OUCH, DOC

GALLUP, N. M.-White doctors
have been handicapped in treating
Indians emergency Eases because
it took so long to figure out what
ailment the red man was trying
to describe. Mostly, the Indians
grunts sounded like a series of
"Oh-h-h-n-n-n'.
A medical interpreters school
has been opened at the Fort Def
ance hospital to help solve the
problem.
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FELLER'S FEARS

Somebody asked Bob Teller to
name the five most dangerous hit
tiers in the American league. -.
He listed Charlie Gehringer, Taft
Wright, Rip Radcliff, Joe DiMag-
gio and Ted Williams. Honor
able mention: Jimmy Foxx, Bobby
Doerr and Joe Gordon.
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RALEIGH
BRIEFS
.Star-News Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
RY HENRY AVERIL

RALEIGH, July y. j.. M.
Broughton, next governor of North
Carolina despite objections to this
statement by G. o. P. Nomine
McNeill (your reporter forgets his
first nance, is optimistic Of the
chances for good business for the
next few years.
He made this plain this morning
in an address to the North Carolina
Merchants Association at Elizabeth
City.
In spite of the horrible TRACE
dies of wal daily being enacted
and the shocking consequences
that ensue, there may reasonably
be predicted for the merchants OF
this state and nation a period Of
notably prosperous business for the
next several years." he said in a
speech prepared for delivery at the
meeting.
After adverting to the fact that
North Carolina has no munition,
air plane, tank or armament plants
he added:
1T does have hundreds of indus
tries that will be directly and bene-
ficially affected by the enormous
program of expenditure for de-
tense. . There are, thereforev,
many grounds for encouragement
and even optimism, outweighing
some of the discouragements and
gloom that have resulted from the
European collapse"
Outstanding speakers for the
North Carolina Automobile Dealers
Association, to be held at Blowing
Rock July % and % have been an
nounced by Mrs. Bessie B. Phoen-
tx, executive secretary to include
N. c. Dezendorf, vice president Of
the General Motors Acceptance
Corporation; Chester H. Gray, di-
rector of the National Highway
Users Conference; Pyke johnson,
executive vice president Automo-
bile Manufacturers Association;
and James Dalton, editor of Motor
magazine.
Even stocks of cigarettes and to-
bacco actually on hand in retail
stores as of July l were subjected
to the increased Federal levies
which went into effect in connec-
ton with the new national defense
taxes.
Many folks who had to pay in
creased prices for their cigarettes
on the very first day of the tax
thought that the retailers were get
ting the extra profit for them
selves; but the Internal Revenue
bureau here advises that every re-
taller with tobacco stocks on hand
was required to take inventory and
pay the increased taxes.
Speaking of cigarettes and tobac-
co., figures show that six of the
leading tobacco companies spent
$27, 1919, 1856 in national advertising
of their products during 1889.
This was practically the equiva'
lent of one-fourth the cash received
by North Carolina farmers for all
the tobacco they grew during that
same year. Value of the 1889 to-
bacco crop in North Carolina was
$123, 1868, 900.
The advertising figures r from
the Bureau of Advertising Of the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association; the tobacco value fig
ures from the State of Agriculture.
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BUSHES NOTE

The Yankees drew SO, 1876 people
in two days and one night in Philly
more than the Pills have drawn
there all season. Also, Gin
cinnati concessionaires sold 5000
bottles of soft drinks during a re-
cent double header. Coach
Harry Mehre plans to fly the U. Of
Mississippi gridders to Boston Or
their game with Holy Cross.
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MOVING NIGHT

NORFOLK, Va.-Police nabbed
a couple of men they said were
furnishing a new residence in a
novel and somewhat illegal man
ner.
They were hauling furniture in
the dead of night by taxicab from
a retail storage warehouse. On the
second trip the. cops moved in.
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BACK AGAIN

Hannibal, Missouri, which h a S
been a bit shy of champs since it
turned out Mark Twain, thinks it
has another in Robert Butch)
Howell who recently played 27O
holes of golf in one day. He
averaged IS strokes per round, two
over par, and wore out six caddies
along the way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD.-More studio sets
have been closed to visitors lately
than ever before-not that temper
ament is raising it's silly head, but
because a good many English and
French players n so emotionally
frazled by war news that they
couldn't endure distractions.
At RKO, for instance, they're
taking no chances on some chatty
visitor asking Charles Laughton,
How does it feel to be a Britisher
playing the role of an Italian?"
Laughton and Carole Lombard
are co-starring in an untitled pic
ture version of the Sidney Howard
play, They Knew What They
Wanted" in which the overstuffed
actor is a California grape-growing
Italian-one of the thousands of
good citizens who live in Napa
county. In spite of such an innoc-
uous characterization, there was
some discussion of changing the
screen nationality of Tony to Por-
tuguese. But they already had shot
some spaghetti-eating scenes which
really should be preserved for pos
terity, and Laughton had labori-
ously acquired an Italian accent,
THEY CAN'T KNOW
WHAT THEY WANT
When I got on the set, Laughton
was in no mood for talking about
the war or anything else. He ex-
planned that he had a splitting
headache because they'd been do
ing a shouting scene all day. Also
he was engaged in trying to re-
trieve a pair of shoes from under
a bed. A back view of Tiny Laugh
ton in bright blue pajamas is quite
a sight.
Miss Lombard, who was only a
voice in the scene, sat on the side
lines between takes and heckled
the actor and dictated to her Sec
rotary. She was wearing a snug
blue sweater and looked fine.
In this story, she is a tough little
hash-slinger who answers a matri-
monial advertisement and eventu-
ally, after some torrid dalliance
with the ranch foreman, Bill Gar
gan, becomes Tony's wife. There
have been long conferences with
the Hays Office, and one of the
latter's most surprising decisions
is that the picture cannot be called
They Knew What They Wanted"
I suppose they'll come out of it
with "Clinging Vine" or maybe
Grapes of Laugh"
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BLACKOUT COMES
TO PIX ALSO

~ AAAA0O
If the war has done little else
TOR pictures, it at least has re.
minded movie-makers of the dra'
matte effectiveness Of the blackout
Back in the pre-censor and Vor
Stroheim days there vel occa'
sions when a darkened screen,
maybe showing the glowing tips
of cigarets, proved almost shock
ing.
In this Lombard-Laughton film
there is a sequence in which the
actress urges the reluctant Gargan
to go walking in the vineyard. He
is somewhat treasured by the
fashlight she carries, but pretty
soon she drops it. Blackout. The
song of a hooking bird is heard.
Spook pictures have been max.
ing good use of the device, and
at the beginning of Ghost Break.
ers" Paulette Goddard is shown
(by recurrent flashes of Legitimacy
packing to 60 to Cuba. Funny
things also happen in the dark.
and in Little Men, there's a Sc
quence in which Jack Oakie SNUG
giles a baby into a hotel without
benefit of illumination. waterloo
Bridge" which is a wartime story
anyway, starts with a presen-day
blackout in London.
Low-key lighting is probably
used in most of that film, and all
Hollywood finally seems to be ac-
knowledging that less light makes
for greater artistry and realism
There's no reason why, when a
man comes into a dark room and
lights a candle, the place suddenly
should assume the brilliance OF a
Hollywood premiere.
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Cbe OeakwoodRQse
BY lloyd Carr @

ing to the younger man with him.
Dane was plain-lo looking young
man. sandy haired and pale
skinned. He extended a thin. moist
hand and Tom shook it briefly.
Then in single file they moved to-
ward the body.
Tom Steps Out.
They heard the front door open
again and Dane turned and beck
oned to the man who entered. Tom
noticed that. he carried stretcher
of some kind. He crossed the store
quickly and silently and put the
stretcher down alongside the body.
When they started to pick Steve
up Tom, leaning heavily. almost
YEARLY on his cane, stepped outside
the Office. He felt a sentimental
lump rising in his chest at the
thought Of Steve being taken away;
it was like having some part of
himself removed, some part that
he'd always taken for granted, like
his eyes or hands; maybe more like
his feet because Steve had always
seemed so much like great, i'm
movable rock, dependable and
permanent, supporting.
For the first time in over an hour
he thought again of the telegram
he'd received last night-the
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strangely urgent telegram from
Steve asking him to come to San
Francisco Was it for this, he Won
dered? Was it because Steve had
had premonition of death? Then
with a quickening of his heart mus
Giles he remembered the detail that
had prompted him to dash to the
airport-Steve's refusal to answer
the long distance call
Mr.. Callahan"
1t was Dane who spoke his name
softly from the office door. He
crooked a finger and Tom, frown-
ing, followed him inside. Davis was
standing beside the body which now
lay face up on the stretcher. He
looked at Tom sharply, search
ingly.
Did I understand you to say,
Mr.. Callahan, that your father died
OF heart attack" he said.
Find Skull Injury.
Yes, certainly" Tom replied
Davis tone angered him. The man
seemed to be trying to trap him in
oOliiC way. Ii. SIdllUS WdS IIclt
half an hour ago. Said there was
no doubt about it."
Davis bent down and parted the
-streaked hair above Steve
Galatians left ear. Didn't DR..
Cranky think this might have had
something to do with your fathers
death?" he asked
Tom shot quick glance at Dane
who was looking at him express
sionlessly Then he stepped for
ward and looked closely at the spot
indicated by Davis. Steve Gala
han had obviously been struck a
violent blow on the head: the skin
was broken, though scarcely at all
bloody, and the dent left by the
apparently heavy and rounded
weapon was extremely deep, indi-
eating that the bone was fractured
Tom Strengthened up, his face
pale. His hands felt cold and damp
as he looked from one face to an
other All three men stared at him
silently, waiting for him to say
something. But he couldn't speak.
He looked at the wound again, I'M
believingly. He was certain that it
hadn't been there when Cranky ex-
amined him-hoW could it have
been? How could Cranky have
helped but find it when he ran his
fingers over Steve's head?
But the doctor examined him."
Tom said futilely.
Perhaps we'd better call DR..
Cranby?" Davis suggested.
Tom Senses Suspicion.
Tom again caught the suspicion
in the mans voice. He was asking
the question to see what Toms
reaction would be.
"Of course we'd better" he
snapped. He turned toward the
phone.
I'll do it for you. Mr.. Callahan"
Dane said. With quick movement
he picked up the instrument.
Whats the NUMBER"
Tom felt a surge of anger but
restrained his impulse to snatch
the instrument from Danes hand.
In nat voice ne gave the number,
then waited while the connection
was made
DIR. Cranky. please" Dane said.
There was a pause then during
which Dane, listening to the voice
at the other end, glanced signifi-
cantly at Davis VERY WELL" he
said after a moment. I'll call
later He put the phone back on
the desk. Went out on a call an
hour or so ago and hasn't returned"
he said. Hes late for two office
appointments already. They don't
know why he hasn't called"
Copyright. 1910, Chicago Daily News Inc
Continued tomorrow Further
mystery intimately involving Tom,
is developed.
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Democratic Luncheon Rally

The National Democratic League
will hold luncheon rally" at 100
pm. tomorrow in the Senate Once
Building restaurant, 1t was an
nounced by Hugh v. Keiser, presi-
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