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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
TIDE WATER FIRM
WORKERS HON0RED
James Willie Thomas And
James Woodcock Awarded
15-Year Service Pins

James Willie Thomas bus opet~
ator, and James Norman Woodcock,
of the a shop, were awarded pins
representing the completion of 10
years service with the Tide Water
Power company at a safety meeting
of the transportation department
yesterday.
Other awards to be made at meet.
ings to be held during this month in
various sections of the area served
by the Tide Water are: Thomas
Hoke' Hall, engineering department,
five years; Norman Holmes Lar.
kins, Jr., service department, ten
years; Andrew Jennings HaIiss,
meter department, ten years; Hill
man Gam, storeroom, ten years;
Miss Helen Lowering, storeroom. ten
years; James Worth Johnson, cleo.
trio distribution, Is years; Cecil
Lawton Matthes, engineering de.
partment, IS years; Ernest Maxwell
Larson, electric distribution, 10
years.
Irwin Jones, five years; Herbert
Bordeaux, ten years; Ben Lock, ten
years, John Smith, ten years, John
Lewis, Is years, all of gas plant.
William James Haynes, five
years; Randolph Manley Fister, five
years; Frederick Allen Matthes, Jr,
five years; Archie Woodman Sid
bury, five years; Miss Marguerite
Newman Vann, five years.; Sam
Smith Earle, five years; Mrs.
Preshy Hurst Mills, ten years;
George Thornton Newton, Jr., ten
years, all of the general office.
Crawford Beck, Empy Williams
and Miss Muriel Joyce Pittman, five
years each, all of Whiteville or
Elizabethtown offices.
Mrs. Annie Laurie Brown, Wal
lace, ten years; Henry Martin, War
saw, Is years.
James Morton Davis, Keithly Will
lis and George Henry Perry, all OF
Morehead City, five years eacn.
Guy DeCamp, New Bern, ten
years.
Jack Silvy Howell, Arnold Harper
Fitzpatrick, Jr., and Roy Stanford
McFatter, all of Kinston, five years
each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Charles Nagel, Former
Cabinet Member, Passes

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5.-R-Charles
Nagel, secretary of commerce and
labor in President Taft's cabinet
and one of the midwest's most sue
cessful lawyers, died here today at
the age of 30 years.
Despite his age, Nagel had been
active in his legal business until
a week ago. His death at his home
vas attributed to cerebral hemor-
rhage.
Nagel, long connected with the
republican party in state and ma
tional a~fafirs, was often called the
father of the chamber of commerce
of the United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

ACIIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
Siam Clearance.
F,fe br1dqe across the Cape Fear
,1re1 ote HighWdy 90.
Free ccuseuay to Wrightsuille Beach
RrC9 eatiOn Cente7S
Mun1clpnl auditorium.
PreSe1 ration OF Old city and That
ian HdH
CiU1c Centre.
Organized Industrial services for VII
mingt0n.
Adequate school facilities for WI.
mington and Nea0 Hdnover county.
irutfic signals on streets OF Whining
ton.
Thirtyfoot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction of third lock and dam
betUeen Wilmington and FdyetteUtHe
ON the upper Cape Fe1r river.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Buchalter Loses Fight
To Auoid State Court

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-GP-Louis
(Lepke) Buchalter, racketeer, to-
day lost his fight to keep out OF
state court where he faces charges
in connection with the bakery and
flour trucking rackets.
Federal Judge William Bondy
after an extended argument, dis
missed a writ of habeas corpus
issued yesterday by Federal Judge
Murray Hubert which would have
prevented Lepke's appearance in
state court.
Judge Bondy based his action on
Attorney General Frank Murphy's
order that Lepke be produced TO,
pleading. The racketeer faces Il
years in prison on his conviction
in federal court on narcotics
charges.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
SEEKING
LEADERS OF IRA
Drive Waged To Head Oft
RebelliOus Action Ex-
pected very Soon

DUBLIN, Jan. 5.-LR-Ireland's
police and militia hunted tonight
for key men of the doutlawed Irish
republican army to head off re-
bellious action which Justice Min
lister Gerald Boland said was fear
ed very soon"
Boland in addressing the senate.
which passed a bill putting addi-
tional teeth in a previous measure
giving the government power tc
intern persons suspected of Of
lenses against the state, declared
1--WE are afraid these men mean
to do something very soon if al
lowed and that is why these bills
are so urgent"
Explaining the police search fol
hidden arms which might be used
in an outbreak, Boland said:
"We cannot get the guns. We dc
not know where they are although
we are trying to get them. But
we do our best to hold key mel
who might lead this movement
More than a million rounds Of
ammunition were stolen recently
from a Dublin army arsenal. Po-
lice said the theft was engineered
by members o fthe I. R.. A, whose
aim is the u%nification of ireland
by violence. Only part of the loot
has been recovered.
Government officials voiced fears
that the I. r. A. was planning 6
coup in Dublin or an attempt tt
GUST the British from Northern
Ireland (Ulster) forcibly.
Across the Ulster border. 5000
special police which were placed
IN duty at the start of the wal
are available to combat any dis.
orders. Ulster authorities are
searching for arms depOtS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Man bout

By George Tucker

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Times
change and opinions undergo a
metamorIhosis, no less among
critics than with anyone else. 1t
was last September a year ago, l
believe, that a strange, jerky,
wacky revue called H~ellzapoppln
opened, and all but two of the
critics PANIED it. They said it was
dull. They said it was old stuff.
They couldn't be bothered much.
But this thing just happened to
be one of those great, instantaneous
hits that the public loved, and it
earned a fortune for Glen Olsen
and Chic johnson, it's stars and its
producers.
After a year on Broadway, Olsen
and Johnson-Without missing a
performance, announced a new
version of Hellzapoppin-but with
one or two simple variations it re-
manned, substantially, the same
slap-happy, pie-throwing mardi
gras of a year ago.
This time, however, the critics
We're very generous with their
praise. If you were here for the
original opening, and if you could
have read the controversy between
one critic who loved it and the
rest who despised it, this change
ef attitude would, to say the least,
attract your attention. And SO the
question naturally rises, if it was
lousy last year, what makes it so
good this year? That's a question
that only the critics themselves
can answer.
The shortest street in all New
York is Edgar street, which is
SO tiny that it hasn't got a single
number. Edgar is the connecting
link between Trinity Place and
Greenwich street . This was
overheard in the lobby of the Cap
itol: Boy: "Where do you want to
sit?' Girl: ooh, get the bal
cony; my eyesight's good, ever if
your pocketbook isn't" Mar
gle Hart, now queen of the bur
lesque strips, earns an income in
excess Ct $4,000 a year. So great
a favorite is she with burlesque
patrons that she is known as "The
Poor Mans Garbo."
Advice to song-Writers: "All roads
lead to Rome, so the one you
should take is the n nearest tc
you"
Quotation: THE Hotel Algon-
quin is the. warmest spot in the
coolest city in the world."-Jim
Tully.
Perhaps the incest fire place in
Manhattan (this is strictly my own
opinion) is the one at the Fairway
Yacht club, SIND street and East
River. 1t is a huge, open thing
giving off the deep warmth of
great burning logs, but what makes
it so unique is this:
The Yacht Club itself is in a
building that has IA stories. But
the club only occupies foul or five
ol THESE slolIeS. olllCe they Soulu
not have a chimney rising four
teen stories, they designed this
fireplace to have no chimney at all.
1t is therefore governed by a Sc
ries of electric drafts, which draw
up, then down again and out into
the open. Just imagine a business
chart during the middle-depression
years, when gains and losses were
alternately recorded, and you will
understand how it works. I doubt
if there j. another like it to be
found anywhere.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
NURSE APPOINTED

NORTH BAY, Ont, Jan. 5.-'f'-
The board Of governors of inc
Dionne quintuDlets today appoln}eu
Miss Leiona Dubeau, Toronto, d.
nurse of the Dafoe hospital staff al
Callander. The board accepted th0
resignation of Nurse Louise GIFT.
veau, who was said to have WlsleH
to leave for some time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
State Not Liable For
Forged Signatures On
Checks Of Unemployed

RALEIGH, Jan. 5-R-Attcrney
General Harry Mcmillan ruled to-
day that the State of North Caro-
lima was not liable for unemploN-
ment compensation checks on which
the names of payees had been
forged.
The ruling was requested by State
Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, who
said that "a number" Of such for
geries had been discovered in the
vicinity of Wilmington.
Mcmillan held that the banks in
which the check. were cashed,
financial loss due to the forgeries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Aduentists Ask F. r. To
Withdraw Appointment OF
Representative To Pope

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. Up -
The general conference Of Sew
enth-Day Adventists has asked
President Roosevelt to WITHDRAW
the appointment of a personal rep
resentative to the Vatican and
thereby safeguard the principles of
separation of church and state"
The request was submitted in a
letter J. L. McElhany, president of
the conference, made public today.
Several other religious groups
also have expressed dissatisfaction
with Mr.. Roosevelt's designation of
Myron Taylor to work with the
Vatican in behalf of peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5. - Every
writer for films has had the eX-
p%erience of being cornered by some
well meaning nan or woman and
asked, with an air of engaging
frankness, why he writes such
trash.
with all the wonderful things
that have been written" they say,
"why DO you write such trash?'
If you mention Mr.. Smith Goes
to Washington, Farewell to Arms,
A Star Is Born, Goodbye Mr.. Chips
or any other outstanding film, it
turns out that they haven't seen it.
On further inquiry you discover that
what they really mean is why don't
you do Five Little Peppers Abroad or
The ordeal Of Richard Carvel-in
fact, any book that happens to have
been their own particular favcrite OH
fast learning to read.
The answer to this question, al
though simple, is one that they sci.
dom IRE able to understand. It in
wolves the realities of cost and pro-
fit-a subject too sordid for art
lovers of this kind since time first
began. They persist in confusing
the production of motion pictures
with the writing of books and plays,
and even with the graphic arts. Ali
these arts I contained in motion
pictures but they find their outlec
only through their acceptance -
the People-people with a capital 2,
Which as we all know is different
from the Bes- People with a big B.
Pi.tures, like everything else in
this world, have to be paid for and
they are very expensive to make,
The picture producer, unlike the
book publisher and the art dealer
must of necessity aim at a very
large audience, and even then he
is gambling on getting back the
sheer cost of his product. If he
ever aims at that special, educated,
articulate audience alone, he is
doomed.
In fact, it is encouraging that
the quality and standard of pic
lures can be held so high when its
2uu1ence must be SO vast, This art
loving, trash-hating minority always
have an answer: Why not make pic
lures for Z special audience and re-
lease them throughout the country
in a chain of special houses. They
want houses now! Houses where
they can all sit together and sec
something really worthwhile. If the
writer should attempt to go into the
cost of operating a ~theater, they
reach for their hats.
l venture to say that there are
as many sincere, intelligent people
engaged in the motion picture bust
ness as in any business one coulc
name-and they have a tremendous
love and enthusiasm for that bust
ness. But they realize that primarily
1t belongs to the people-tflat it lives
by their appreciation and languishes
by their Indifference.
There are no patrons in pic
tures-there are no limited editions
or subscription societies to keep the
pot boiling for very long. The mo-
ton picture business stands or falls
IN tic ol,1s+,- IL .-- -
is essentially a child of democracy
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
WASH|NG7ON
DAYBOOK
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Harry Hopkins has
finished a year as secretary of commerce dur
ing which he has seen a start made toward his
goal of increasing the national income. He is
troubled now with faulty health which takes
away the energy he would like to use in his
work.
Al the same time the second term of office
of his President is drawing near an end, and
he has only a remote prospect that a succeed
ing President would seek to continue him as
secretary.
Therefore,, it is conceivable that Hopkins
may be the first of the cabinet to get ready
to should off his job and move into a private
occupation.
Nobody in Washington ever would say that
Hopkins was backing away from his job un-
der such circumstances. Of all the new deal
colony he is among the top rankers for hare
work and long hours. But a sample OF his
present state of mind popped up a while back
at the peak of the European war emergency
"Wha a hell of a time for me to be sick,
was the gist of his m He has been
confined to his home much of the time fol-
enjoyed little of the vitriolic good health that
made him the joy of headline writer's in the
early days of the new deal.
Better Than 1888
He has just issued his first annual report
in which he describes an increase in the ma
tional income of 81, 900, 900, 900 during the year
to a new total of $40, 900, 900, 900. 1t is not quite
SO high as that of 1887 nor 1929, but is a
comforting increase over 1888. OF course, it
would be far too much for him to claim that
he or his department or the government was
responsible for it. In his first speech as secre
tary of commerce he told a Des Moines, Iowa,
audience that increasing the national income
was the way to bring back prosperity and
preserve democracy.
Il have never belonged to the school OF
thought which holds that merely dividing ur
the present national income would provide a
decent living for all,' he said. ga rising ma
tional an objective worth striving
for because to me it means good homes, a de-
cent education and a genuine security for the
families of America"
Presidential Ambitions Gone?
At the time he made the speech, Hopkins
was being pushed forward by his friends as
a. presidential prospect. He helped along the
movement by re-establishing Iowa-a goot
state-of-origin for candidates-as his home
state. He promised himself and the public he
would make a home for himself and his little
girl, Diana. His maiden speech" as commerce
secretary was. made there. Then came the de
luge.
His health folded up and has not blossomee
since. He still does a goodly days work a
home, operating through a corps Of confiden
tial assistants to reorganize the department
and direct at least part of it's activities south
ward into the safer trade zone of the Latil
Americas.
Finding an acceptable place in private in
dustry should not be hard, for during thu
past year many business men who once bark
ed at his policies have since learned to COM
in to counsel. With lessened responsibilities
probably his health would brighten. One thing
however, seems fairly certain. He has writer
the ending of his own personal political his
tOry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Star-News Program

Shlpgd1d S.
= ...:"nxe OF Port Fdc11fleS,
3 Ade0unt, 'v-SD1tal FdclHfles.
A~nneLnt20n OF .--Hbu7tS
Ue1roumfnf OF Fort Cds1ell as
HedUh RrS0ft.
& ptomotion OF Canning Industfy
!. C,tL Expansion Commission
s !uniOt CoNege.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

and I, for one, am content that ii
remain that way,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Robbin Coos
BY DWIGHT TAYLOR

BY DWIGHT TAYLOR
(The screen writer, son of the
stage star Laurette, and author
of "The Gay Diyorcee," "When
Tomorrow Comes" the screen
play of FOB. Detroit and 9TH
er works, tells-for vacationing
Robin Coons - why he writes
trashy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
Nozis Soy British
Will Sink Vessel

The dispatch did not specify
which Boston was referred to in the
charge. The German consulate at
Boston Mass. said there must b.
some mistake" and suggested the
report had come from Boston Eng
land.
Authoritative quarters in Lon
don described the report as a
fantastic lie and warned that the
President Roosevelt should beware
of a German submarineJ
THE assault is to be carried out
when the ship is returning to the
United States full of American sub
jects-Women and children the
news agency DNB said. 1t said the
Germans NATURALLY would be blam-
ed in spite of their total innocenSe." "
The President Roosevelt left New
York Friday for Galway Ireland
equipped to accommodate more than
1000 American refugees.
Admiral Erich Rao'der grand adj
miral of the German fleet, warned
the United States last October that
the U. S. liner rOquoi. returning to
New York with 534 refugees. was
to b. sunk. United States naval
units sped to seq to meet the IrO-
quOis but the ship reached home
without incident.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
German Leaders
Press Attack

was being continued that the trap
ped allied armies in the north were
being pushed into Il constantly
narrowing area or cut into smaller
sectors
German air attacks continued on
air fields in the Paris area and ON
allied roads and other Communica-
tionS lines south of Rheims as we'll
as against allied troop movements,
the communique said. The Ger
man air forces also renewed attacks
ON the French and Belgian coastal
halborS Still held by the enemy,
blasting the Dunklrk port Sc heavily
that the hadbOr equipment there
went up in flames. the C0mmunl-
que said.
The enemy air losses yesterday
totaled 73 planes including -
dOWned in the air battles and l5
by anti aircraft guns. the communi-
que added
Allied planes also were charged
with continuing aimleSS lombard
mentS against military object
ives III western Germany. The high
command said these did little dam
age
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27

BERLIN, May 27-UP) Author
lied German quarters said today
that signs were increasing hourly
that the British planned some
manipulation to harm the American
steamship President Roosevelt" and
to throw the blame on Germany Ito
arouse war fever in the United
States"
Earlier the official German. news
agency D. N. B. had warned the
United States of "dastardly Brit
ish plot, to sink the President Roose-
Velt on its return journey from
Ireland with Americans fleeing the
war zone.
Authorized quarters said that the
German government had communi-
Gated with the United States en-
bassy in Berlin regarding the Presi-
dent Roosevelt and that it was
hoped that by tomorrow details of
the communication could be dis
closed
The news agency SAID its in
formation came from credible quar-
ters in Boston, and charged that
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill seeks to "entangle the
American people in The war by
criminal methods" by ordering the
ship sunk and blaming it on Ger
many.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27

BERLIN, May 27. CUP) - The
high command said today that mass
German attacks. aided by devaStat-
ing aerial bOmbardment. squeezed
the trapped allied armies into Il
small target in Flanders today and
SlaShed deep wedge into the
enemy front near the famous world
war battle-ground of Ypres.
The German advance north OF
Menin approached close to Ypre5
after making deep indentation
in the enemy front west of the
LyS river, the communique said.
This advance indicated increased
pressure on The Belgian forces On
the enemy left flank in an attempt
ed turning movement that threat
ened to surround the French city
OF Lille and push the Allies back
to the User river in the northwest
corner of Belgium.
The Ypres drive also appeared
designed to cut off the Belgian
channel ports of Ostend and Zee
brugge, which have been held b.
the Allies under constant German
aerial bombardr:ent.
In addition the high commanG
said, German troops are attacking
northeast of Lens and in that Sec
tor repulSed counter attacks by
French colonial troops.
Lens is IN the center Of The
northern loop drawn around per
haps 100000 allied troops by the |
German swing to the channel port, .
of Boulogne and Calais. Last week ,
the Germans claimed occupation OF
Vimy ridge, extending from Lens |
to GravelineS on the channel coast |.
and said they were thrusting east |
ward from the ridge to cut up the |
rear communications Of the trap |
ped allied armies.
The communique did not indicate
any sensational gains for the Ger
man forces, but said that the pres
sure of the sweeping Nazi offensive
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27

PARIS. May 27. CUP)-Gorman
armies are attacking the Allies in
two sectors of the western front
with the greatest ferocity and utter
disregard to frightful losses, 4 hi1h
military source said today.
II was admitted that during the
night Allied troops had retired from
their river Escaut line in the Valan-
. cienneS sector after inflicting ter
rible losses on the attacking Ger
mans.
In the Menin sector on the Bel
gian-French frontier, along the Lys
river. the Allied troops held against
extreme German pressure, eXe"ted
as in the ValcncienneS area vita
disregard to loss it was asserted.
In the English channel fighting
il WAS SAID. the Allies still i;eld
Calais this morning under contin-
uous German airplanc bombing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
Paris Says Nozis
Losing Heavily

It was admitted that the Ger
mans had taken the Citadel of
Eoulogne, which Allied troops bad
held stubbornly while the Germans
held the town proper
After taking the Citadel, a mill
tary informant said, the Germans
turned their attack toward Calais,
swinging northWard along the coast
The Allied troops retired during
the night to a pre- established line
in the ValencienneS area, it was
said, only after inflicting enormous
losses on the Germans throughout
ycterday The retirement was ef-
fected, it was said, because the high
command considered the position
Of its troops too exposed, in view of
continued attacks.
Reports said that the Germans
were throwing strongly armed forces
into the fighting lavishly. and 1t
was indicated in all reports that
they were paying Furnishing price.
A military informant described
the losses as unprecedented i'll the
river Lys fighting where the Ger
mans were attacking the army of
the north. composed of British,
French, Belgian and remnants Of
Dutch divisions.
The Germans were concentrating
their attack on the northern ARM,
it was said, driving into the AL
lied lines at many points along a
wide front with enormous quantities
of tanks and infantry while awe
bombing airplanes swept down from
| the Sky.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
Tiny yFi|ipino
Held for Assault

BRAWLEY May 27 = Policapio
Alarcon, height 5 feet three inches
nd weight ll5 pounds. was arrested
at the federal labor camp here this
week end on charge of assault
and battery
He was arrested after a family
fight disturbed other occupants of
thc camp and taken to the county
Jail at FL Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
Cub Scouts TO
Receive Awards

Holtville's Cub scouts of Cub pack
141 will receive awards at an
achievement council Tuesday night,
according to Hugh Wilcox, scout
executive.
The council will be at the gram
mar school and will start at 7:30
Wilcox said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-27
FOUND GUILTY;
SENTENCE DELAYED

John w. Harlan was found guilty
of assault Monday and will be SEN
fenced Tuesday in Ell Centro police
court. Harlan was accused Of slash
ing George Harlan tno relation)
in the finger with a knife during
an argument