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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Looking Forward

Tomorrow Wilmington, in concert with such
parts OF the world as use the same calendar,
WILL welcome a new year. The advent of every
year is an occasion for serious contemplation
Df past accomplishment and future POSSIBLE
ties, but none in the memory of the oldest
citizen has called for deeper study of what
has gone before and what lies ahead, both for
individuals and for this nation.
We are face to face with a great crisis = the
greatest, President Roosevelt says, since Ply
mouth Rock and Jamestown. Our ability to
meet 1t with credit depends no more upon our
governments decisions than upon our individ-
ual cooperation in the great task of rearma.
ment and the earnestness with which we bear
our part in that task.
For Wilmington, the coming year seems
rich in opportunity. It remains only for Will
mingtonians, as individuals and as a unit. to
move forward with its opportunity to reap
The full benefit available through national de-
tense and through service in behalf of national
defense. 1t is said that Wilmington may de-
anltely count on a greater measure of pros
perity than the city has enjoyed for many
years because of the defense projects to be
launched in this area. 1t behooves us. then
10 look well to our conduct, lest we count that
prosperity only in dollars and cents and forget
that true prosperity has more than monetary
value.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Ford And Labor

The fight of a labor clique on the Ford Mo-
.r Company, with the intention to prevent
it from participating in the rearmament pro-
gram because Of its controversy with workers,
is to be condemned in the strongest terms
1t the Ford company, with its tremendous
plants, experience, skill and interests is to he
barred from defense contract awards because
it has, or feels it has, a complaint against
labor board decisions, national defense is tic
be placed under a heavy handicap.
1t may be that the company is In be con.
sured for its labor position. If it is there orc
tribunals already set up with authority :,
deal with that and legal processes ,v.iI,h,e
for adjustments. To arbitrarily close the doors
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports n Industrial Shoes.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvi1le
Beech to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Did-
er Turning Basin. with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Tia
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustdined-yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
tiomal Agency, supported BY one county,
Wide tao.
shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
adequate hospital .ilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis sanatorium,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Resignation Of Grady
Accepted By Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Dec. 80 -R-
President Roosevelt accepted today
the resignation of Henry F. Grady,
assistant secretary of state.
Grady was elected president of
the government-controlled Amer
lean President Steamship line la
ter in the day, it was announced
in San Francisco. Former Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo is chair
man of the board of the company.
In his letter to the President,
sent on Saturday, Grady said that
personal considerations ~necessitat.
ed his returning to private life,
but added that "Of course l am
at your command at any time and
for any service I can render you
and the country" S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
THREE ROAD JOBS
SUBMITTED TO WPA
Projects Call For Improve
ment Of Highways That May
Have Military Value

RALEIGH, Dec. 3O.-RHThree
projects calling for the improve
ment of certain North Carolina
highways which might be of stra-
tegic value in the event of war
have been submitted to the WPA
and the federal bureau of public
roads, Chief Highway Engineer W.
Vance Baise disclosed today.
At the same time, Baise said
that the state planned to assist in
improving as much as possible OF
the 1900 miles of North Carolina
highways which the War depart
ment has designated as "strate.
gic."
The three projects o under
consideration all call for widening
work, on U. S. No. % in Rocking
ham county, from Reidsville to the
Guilford county line; and on U. S.
route ! in Vance county, in the
vicinity of Henderson.
Baise estimated that $1O,O 600, 0C
would be required to improve all
of the 1900 miles of strategic"
roads and emphasized that at pres
ent only $40, 900 had been allotted
by the federal government for ma
tional defense roadwork in North
Carolina.
Governor Hoey said, however,
that in addition to this allotment,
the WPA had approximately $780,,
900 which might be used for the
work. He added that a portion Of
the 1000, 900 which he allotted re.
Gently from the highway fund sur.
plus might go into the improve.
ment of the strategic" roads.
Baise said it would take a long
time Ito improve OF build the 1,20C
miles on the strategic defense high.
way for this state, but we are
going as far as we can, with state
and WPA money"
A meeting of state highway en-.
gineers and WPA officials was held
here Saturday to discuss plans for
the work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Hollywood Sights and Sounds
BY ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.-I saw
an old friend the other day that ]
hadn't seen in a long time. The
reunion was startling and dismay.
ing in a way but at the same time
encouraging.
The name: THE Birth of a Ma.
ton"
The passing of time is never
kind to movie ''epics." Movies
made five years ago already are
antiquated in some respects; the
early talkies are -1useum-pieces;
the last films of the silent" era
seem quaint and strange exhibits
of long ago. And Birth" is a
cinemat:c relic of Is years ago
the very first, and most spectac.
ularly influential, of the American
screens "colossals."
Only students of the screen
should look at it today-students
and those who remember it fondly
as a thrilling experience when they
first saw it in 1915 or the years
Immediately AFTER.
The latter must bring their mem.
cries with them, memories n
only OF the film but Of the times
in which it was born and travelled
its path to glory. Those were
times without the distractions and
alleged amusements that charac-
terizes our turbulent today, times
when going to the movies" meant
going to a nickelodeon-there were
no palaces of the cinema" no
radios, no television. no talkies.
When you went to the moves
then you saw three or four or five
one-reelers, two-reelers, maybe on
special occasions a three or four
reeler.
And then came to your town, in
the "legit" .theater or the local
opera house, "The Birth of q Ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31

Instead of the usual dime, you
plunked out a buck or more. In
stead of the usual mechanical pi-
ano for accompaniment to the un-
Keeling, you heard a full symphony
orchestra that Travelled with the
film. You saw a "roadshow'' NOV
ie-an dyou loved it.
Today Birth" seems, as the
juniors might put it, very corny.
Lavish as it was for its time. its
spectacle-value long since has been
topped in many lesser productions.
Its romance is too, too romantic,
its pathos is bathos, its acting :.
well, we have to remember that
pantomime has its limitations and
requires over-satement.
Its sub-titles, which explained
motives and plot developments,
were mastery in their day. CDid
you weep when Little Sister
jumped over the cliff to escape
Gus, the Renegade? Of course you
did-and this subtitle comforted
you: For her who had learned
the stern lesson of honor, let us
not grleve that she found sweeter
the Gates of Death.")
But / said at the start that this
reunion was encouraging, too. And
SO it is. The entire picture is a
reminder not only of what a cour.
ageous pioneer, David Wark Crit
fifth, accomplished despite the
screens previous limitations, but
also of the vast technical progress
the screen has made in the years
since, in photography especially.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Man About Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Miss
Bright Eyes, put down that nail
file and take some letters:
Mrs. Lynn Garrison, Louisville,
KY: l have it straight from the
doorman of the Waldorf, who sees
her every day, that Mrs. o. o.
Mcintyre has never left New
York, and that she still lives al
the same apartment at 29O Park
Avenue. She goes out every after
noon with her dog for drives, the
same as she did when O. o. was
alive. I know he used to say he
looked forward to the day when
he could retire to provincial
scenes, and I believe he thought
he meant it, but his friends say
wild horses couldn't have dragged
him away from Manhattan, not if
he had lived to be a Methusela.
In a way Mrs. Mcintyre is like
that too; I doubt that she will ever
live any place except in New York.
J. L. Harvey, Saratoga, N. Y:
The sign language used by Miss
Helen Craig in Johnny Belinda
is authentic. She mastered it thor
oughly before the play opened. I
believe this is the only drama in
20 years where the central char
acter doesn't speak a word. Yet,
everything she says" is under
stood perfectly. Sitting through
this play is much like attending
classes in sign language. When
you come out you can almost carry
on a conversation in it.
James E. Mayo, Milwaukee,
Wis: Harry Carey may h a e
identified himself as a westerner
by his films, but he was born in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Quotations

This is not a world that can be saved by
professional humanitarians.-Clarenc Pickett,
Quaker relief worker.
The distribution of intelligence is not mark
edly variable in any large group taken at
random throughout the civilized world.-Pro
F. c. Bartlett, Cambridge.
II we want peace we must be stronger than
tnose VINO want war. Admiral H. r. Stark.
chief Of naval operations
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31

New York and played football at
NYU on the 1898 Varsity. He and
Deems Taylor were classmates.
Carey was also a champion shot
putter. Somebody ought to per-
suade him to write his memoirs.
He is the most fascinating talker
I ever listened to.
VIM. Alexander, Ft. Worth,
Texas: Probably that particular
story isn't true, though it wouldn't
surprise me if it were. William
Saroyan is one of those fellows
who attract legends. They spring
up around him everywhere he
goes. He is a likeable egoist. Err
est Hemingway once told him,
Being simply an Armenian isn't
the only talent necessary for sue
cess in writing" And later at a
party, surrounded by satellites,
Margaret Lindley cried, In fu-
ture generations, people will speak
of plays, dramas, and Saroyans."
She said this in praise Of his dis
tinctive comedies. But about that
time a rude voice bawled: May
be so, but they still don't call 'em
Shakespeares." Saroyan is only
80. He is a horse for work. He
thinks San Francisco is the great
est city in the world.
Mrs. w. w. Henderson, New Or
leans, La: I have forwarded your
Interesting letter to Pierre v a n
Paassen and I know he will appre-
ciate it. He is back in town at the
moment, between speaking en-
gagements. This war has called
attention to his qualities as a lee
turer. He has so many speaking
engagements he practically lives
on trains. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Cancellation Of Trains
Announced In Rumania

BUCHAREST. Rumania, Dec.
30.-REThe Rumanian railways
announced tonight cancellation for
an indefinite period of all trains
except three expresses and 10 local
trains.
No official explanation was gi-
en-.
No tickets are being sold to Bu-
dapest, Belgrade or Sofia.
All plane traffic also was STOP
ped
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
SHIT DISMISSED

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.-Li'-A
$1O5, 900 Islander suit brought "
Frank Wallace against James I'M
ony, business agent for film Ae'i''
Mae West, was dismissed TO-DAY W.
a technicality. The court heiu ,"'
Wallace, who married Miss West
Milwaukee in 1911, was NOT d
dent Of this county and had H
posted bond required from hoA'l'''
dents filing such an action.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
(This is the last of three articles on
Education and National Defense.)
BY JACK sTINNETT

BY JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The evolution TAX
ing place in education under the impetus o
national defense is not just a spontaneous
burst of patriotism in the chests of modern
educators.
1t is a planned program, still a little hit-or.
miss perhaps, because Of the speed with which
it had to be set in motion, but a planned pro-
gram, nevertheless.
The Office of Education of the Federal Sc.
curity Agency, under the direction Of Com.
missioner John W. Studebaker; the National
Education Association; Congress; state and
city boards Of education, and numerous other
agencies and individuals have acted as the
spurs. The program is now taking definite
shape.
The latest development is a 50, 1000. 600 prof.
ect in witch 81 engineering schools in IS
states, the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico are offering $50 intensive courses to turn
out within a few months $4,000 industrial de-
signers, inspectors and supervisors. These
skilled men of tomorrow's defense industry
will be selected by the colleges. Their tuition
will be paid from government funds.
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Only a few months older is the exchange of
students and professors between the United
States and IL Of the 81 Latin-American repub-
lies. This phase of hemisphere defense and
intellectual cooperation" already has borne
fruit either in actual or definitely planned ex-
changes between the United States and Brazil,
Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pan
anna, Paraguay, Peru nd Venezuela.
A little older still is the nationwide voca-
tional school program. In offering short
courses of intensive training to both students
and adults it already has turned hundreds of
thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers
into defense factories.
The National Education Association and the
Office of Education have been issuing bulle-
tins hand over fist to instruct every one from
kindergarten teacher to college president in
the practical ways which education may adapt
itself to meeting defense needs.
Commissioner Studebaker in public address,
es, pamphlets and the official journal of his
office, has given the green light to the entire
profession and through his department and
many other education agencies is trying to gel
all the way out to the educational grass roots
with practical suggestions for changing the
three RS into Defense with a capital D.
The education Offices radio scrip ex-
mand for radio scripts and record transcript
tons for schoolroom use. In the last two
months they have supplied requests running
into the thousands. The titles run something
lie this: LET Freedom Ring!" a dramatiza.
ton of the backgrounds of civil liberty; Free
dom on the March," a dramatization of the
settlement of the Northwest Territory; Amer.
leans Alp; I'm An American; This New
World OF Peace; Making Democracy Work.;
and IA Century of Pan-Americanism."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
PARCELS LOST

LONDON. Dec. 30.-OP-Ordinary
letters and parcels posted in the
United States for Britain between
Nov. II and II and between Nov. 1S
and Dec. 6 have been lost Through
enemy action the British general
postoffice announced today,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
TOP o. II

-Four joys Mary held
Her baby's smile, the day
She found Him in the temple
Among the rdbbis gray,
The feast He blessed at Cana,
The palms that stre1ced His Wdy;
Her greatest jcy-the day she fell asleep,
And found again her Son, hers noD to keep.
Lining Church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Fair Enough

The Star wishes it's readers
to know that views and onin.
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author and
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
HEALTH

Commissions Studebaker has issued a sew
en-point health program that already has been
adopted in thousands of grade and high
schools. Seventh point of the program is es-
tablishment of camps, a new phase of the
health education movement which some pre-.
dict will become its most important.
Under direction of the Offices library serv-
ice and the American Library Association,
both city and school libraries are revising
their stocks to meet defense needs. Nearly
all were caught short on the mushroom
demand for books on machine tools and de-
sign, aerodynamics, explosives, air raid pro.
lection, first aid and naval architecture.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
THE WEATHER

Ypsilanti and vicinity: Fair and
slightly warmer tonight and Wed
nesday. gentle variable winds. ac-
cording To- the L. S. Department OF
Commerce Weather Bureau. De.
troit.
Highest temperature this date In
last 6s years IS in 1895: lowest IS
In 1877.
Highest temperature Monday "a:
lowest 81; mean Sc; lowest Monday
night So.
Relative humidity Monday at
Z 30 a. m. 80 per cent: 1880 p m.
70 per cent; 1880 p. m. "a per cent;
1880 a. m. today 30 per cent
peratures at a. m So. at I
a. m. So: at s a. m. 81: az Q a. m.
622: at 10 a. m. So.
Barometer al 1880 a. m. today
station: 1915 millibars (2946 inch.
esq sealevel: lO20.3 millibars go.
~ inches).
The sun sets today at 1903 and
rises Wednesday at s.
The moon sets today at 1888 p
m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
Al Rogers Wins Pixies
Peak Labor Day Contest

Colorado SPRINGS. CGo.. Sept. 3
up AL Rogers. Colorado Springs.
who for the past four years had
come within seconds OF winning the
Labor Day Pixies Peak auto race.
reigned today as king OF the 22nd
annual classic.
Rogers goaded his sleek speed
ster up Il miles of twisting, tortor-
uous mountain highway Monday in
IS minutes and 56.9 seconds TO
snatch victory from his ancient
rival and perennial winner OF the
race-Louis Uhser OF Colorado
Springs.
Unser finished second in 16 min
utes and seconds and Phil Shafer
OF Des Molnes was third in IL min
utes and 2 seconds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
j. s. DEsTROYERs
GIVEN ENGLAND

-fGentihued- frea-P age-9Relu -
against freedom of the individual
is nearer the Americas than ever
before.
The threat of the airplanes,
bomb. tank and machine gun is
just as close to us today. he said,
as was the threat TO the pioneer
OF the arrow. tomahawk and knife
they supplanted. But America
needs the spirit of the pioneer.
the President declared, plus
conviction that there are no divi-
sions among It's people"
I'VE this hour" he said. must
have absolute national unity for
total defense"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
DEBATE STARTED
ON DRAFT TODAY.
PASSAGE LIKELY
(Continued from PAGE .onel

CONTINUED from Page One)
reached Friday or Saturday. The
arguments for and against con-
scription were expected to dupli-
cate the general tenor OF those
aired in the Senate before It APP
proved the Burke Wadsworth
measure after three intensive
weeks of debate.
Major Clashes Seen
The major clashes were looked
for on those sections Of the modi-
fled House bill which differ from
the version passed by the Senate.
The biggest difference is on the
age limits fixed. The House bill
would make all male citizens or
prospective citizens from 81
through "A subject to registration
and liable for military service. An
approximate total OF $4,000, 900
men thereby would be affected.
The Senate version would restrict
operation of the draft to the 12,-
100000 from 81 through 30.
Both Houses also disagree on the
maximum number CT conscripts
to be permitted in service~at one
time The House bill figure. is
100000, whereas the Senate
voted for 100000. A compromise
agreement on this point. however,
was not regarded as difficult.
Contention on Industry
e On the ether hand. considerable
contention was locked for on the
question whether the CONSUMPTION
bill should carry provision en-
powering the government 10
draft" industry. whenever it re-
fused to agree on terms for arm
ament orders vital to defense
needs.
The Senate-approved bill incor-
porated draft industry amend
ment, sponsored by Senators
Overton (D-La) and Russell ID
GA, which would authorize the
government to institute condem-
nation proceedings against recall
citrant firms and assume owner
ship of their plants.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
Calendar of Social Events

TODAY
entertained by Mr. Mrs Eugene Strang
Lake Meet with Mrs Charles Maeke Ann Arbor
1890.
Auxiliary O'clock Landy Hail. executive
meeting.
Capsule Club S o'clock, with Mrs. Walter Wright
Tyne Pedro Club 1880 with Mrs Edward Hezerman sr
and Professional Women, 1880 with Miss Russela
Wardroper.
Ypsant Foreign this evening
nsGAR Hail. r,,r,.,sn.
Lutheran Ladies' Aid Society postponed week
Rebekahs number 2O meeting O'clock Odd
Fellow Hall
Huron Temple Pythian Sisters s O'Clock, X. p Hall
Baptist aWomens Union, o'clock at church
Ypan Aerie FTaterna Order Eagles o'clock hall 7lia
n. Huron st.
THURSDAY
with Mrs. Bertha Meier and Mrs Carl Hagman.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03

Washtenaw Golfers and their
friends had a very delightful time
at the golfers Labor Day party
at Washtenaw Country Club. Fifty
eight couples enjoyed a delicious
chicken dinner and entertainment
which was followed by dancing
A band of four pieces. Ann Ar
Dor. provided soft dinner music,
after which pupils Of Mrs. Mac F.
Begole performed their graceful
dances with case and perfection.
Millicent Zeeb and Marilyn Sturm
did a Dutch dance and Marilyn
Begole. "Danse Joyeuse," Marilyn
Scheels number was "Raggeiy
Ann" and Joan Sturm's Air de
Ballet" The entertainment was
thoroughly enjoyed by the group
Miss Lucille Spindler played the
accomplishments.
Prizes for the tournament and The
two ball foursome. during the day
were awarded during the dinner.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
Fine Points in Bridge
By SHEPARD BARCLAY

playing at hearts, to get rid Of his
diamond losers.
Where the side reached g.
Spades as above. there was no diff
ficulty at all to the play. After
dropping trumps. South runs his
hearts and discards all Of North's
diamonds, then ruffs one Of
South's losing diamonds with the
single trump remaining in dummy.
The funniest bidding went as
above to a certain point. South's
4-Spades. after bidding hearts
twice was meant to show his ga
distribution. But North thought 4,
the 4-Spades was a mere ace
showing cue-bid. so returned to
hearts.
Peculiarly. If North had tried
the crazy bid of 6-No Trumps. to
shoot for a top. he probably
would have made 1t, since East
would have been likely to lead a
club. thereby setting up the club
X for the twelfth trick. The only
slam made on merit strictly. how
ever, Ia In spades.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
UPPER PENINSULA
-HASE|FTEEN-NEW
PARALYSIS CASES

Continued from Page One)
is being built by Lincoln B. Frazier
and Frank Kramer, both OF Mar
quette.
The state-owned airplane station,
ed at Newberry TO assist in NOV
ing paralysis cases was credited
Saturday with saving the life OF
five-year-old Arthur Palmer OF
Newberry.
The boy was placed in port
able respirator, taken by ambu-
lance to the Newberry Airport and
flown to Marquette by Grant Ket-
ties, Lansing pilot.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-03
BUSINESS MAN PASSES

MI Clemens. Sept. 2 Fred ".
Krauseneck, II. pioneer business
man and former city official. died
at his residence Monday after a
long Illness. He formerly served
as alderman and was secretary
treasurer of the old volunteer fire
department. He was the oldest
director of the Mt. Clemens Saw
'gs Bank.