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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
sLoVE, coURTsHIp
AND MARRIAGE
Weigh The Results
Carefully Before
'Confessing All
BY N r. AND GLADYS H.
GROVES
Noted Authorities on Marriage
Relations

"Shll I confess?" is one Of Ii
most troublesome, yet one Of Ia
simplest, questions that can plag9
a man or woman in love. III
tell, l may be Tilted; but il
don't tell, l shall be miserable,
goes the tale.
Exactly. If you don't tell, W.
will be miserable. Then WI:
about the misery of your s|ee.
heart if you do tell? You will 0
putting your burden off onto son,1
body who is not responsible Tor Il
and doing this in the name
love.
You say you won't feel hons
or loyal to your lover unless 70
tell whatever it is that is trouoI@
you. But does not the greater nl
esty lie in admitting to youlSt..
that you crave the emotional Until
of confessing, even at the Cost
destroying your lovers peace
mind? If you are truly loyal W.
you not seek your lovers DE-,
interests?
The question then becomes
What is for the best ln'eTes'
my lover?" Now we mus lnqo-'
as to the hidden fact that is W.
ging to be told. ..,,
If it is something that, In l's.
may affect the success OF the iA u.
riage, there is no room tor oO'''
1t must be told. =.
The case of the woman VINO u. u.
from her fiance the fact tha' ~
had been seriously i'll with !u'.,
culosis illustrates the need o. W.
Tossing whatever the other p w..
would benefit from knowing Ta,.
her marriage was followed WIZ. =.
a few months by her having " !;
to a sanatorium for an exte''. y
stay, the husband JuStl1la0ls =
he had been grossly deceived
What is over and done WIN .,
closed chapter that will no. ~,
any meaning for the proposed i' ~
riage, may we'll remain 0"s
elusive property Of the ps' nj
wondering whether to confess =
what the other person neeas -. !:
know should be told promp"5, h
he or she may be free 10 .t.~ N
a new decision as to the q0'
of marrying.
E X Is He (She) jealous
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Battleship Launching
Slated To Be Guarded

PHILADELPHIA, May 23.-P9-
Stringent precautions to keep pry'
ing eyes at a distance during the
launching June l of the 5o,ooo-ton
Washington, first batt!eshlp aadltl"h
to the United States navy since W.,
were disclosed today.
All shipping will be banned from
the Delaware river for two miles up
and down the stream for at least
two hours before and AFTER Tue
mighty floating fortress Sizes avn
the ways at the Phi.a"elpEla navy
yard.
New Jersey state police VIII pa
troll the opposite shore Of the river
only persons with passes viii DE du'
m1tted to the yard. photographers
will be limited in views they ma!
take.
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ALLIED PROGRESS

There is no reason at this time to believe
the miracle has been performed, but the fact
that the German thrusts toward Paris and the
channel have stood practically still for Y
has retaken Arras is a good omen at least.
It shows that the Allies at last are fight
ing on H11LER's terms and meeting blow with
blow. We dare not hope that this is the dark
ness before dawn, which inevitably yields to
the sunrise. But it is something that the Ger
man high command, which has sent the Nazi
forces ahead at a minimum Of rs miles a day
heretofore, acknowledges that it has been ITEM
p~orariIy" stopped. Paris, which would have fall
en- two days ago if the customary advance had
been maintained, is still untaken, and London,
which would have been within bombing dis,
lance in even less time under the old NaZl
momentum, has not heard the drone of enemy
bombers.
The German swing northward through Bel
xium had for its object not only the taking OF
channel ports but the separation of English
and Belgian forces from the French army to
the south. The movement has come perilously
hear to accomplishment. Achieved, 1t would
leave from a half million to a million soldiers
without support or supplies, to cut to pieces
by the HITLER juggernaut. But it has not been
fully achieved.
The first step General WEYGAND took, wher
he assumed command, was to organize his
counter offensive with the same objective in
mind for the foe; that is, to throw a line across
the top Of the German spearhead and so cut of
the Nazi northern force from supplies and re
Inducements pouring in over seized railroads
and highways and leave Won RE1cHENAU with
out support. 1t is too soon to assume that this
is possible of being carried out. But it has
been started and for three days the Germans
have been checked. The Allies are fighting
with the advantage that their supplies are no
Immediately threatened and that new divisions
are constantly arriving on the battle line
whereas HITLER is exhausting his stock OF case
line and munitions many times faster than h
can replace them in the tremendous effort t
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD, May 23.-I al
ways knew if 1 hung on IN g
enough I'd get a Big Idea for the
movies. And here it is-the idea
that will save SO much money and
time the studios will be able to sell
the dishes and give away the pic
lures.
I'm sitting with a bunch of the
boys in a Warner Bros. laboratory.
We're waiting to hear Bette Davis
and Charles Boyer do a love scene
over a stretch of some 5000 miles,
via telephone. Major Nathan Lev.
inson, the sound expert, and Ana
tole Litvak, the director, are there
to see that it comes off. Miss Davis
is summing herself in Hawaii. where
it's 10 am, and Mr.. Boyer is not
summing himself in New York,
where it's q pm. (E.D.S.T.) and
probably showing. Miss D and Mr..
B made a picture called All Ihls,
and Heaven Too" and then skipped
town, after which the studio dis
covered with alarm that a section
of sound track had been marred in
the laboratory, necessitating re-re-
cording.
Well, none of us really believe it,
accustomed as we are to these hor-
rible hazards of picture making
and their ingenious solutions in the
publicity department. We don't
really believe, for instance, that
the sound track ever was
scratched, and we don't really be-
lieve that any words Miss D or Mr..
B can transmit via trans-oceanic
telephone will be worth recording.
Not Miss DIS, at any rate. Mr.. BIS
might get by because Mr.. B fire.
quently sounds as if he spoke over
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, May 23-Over in the block
long munitions building, whose architecture is
early goth Century ~whitewashed barracks, the
army boys have torn from their books that ven
cradle saying, You can't beat the Dutch
On the nice clean page they have inserted,
there is a warning to Future Generals: The
way those fifth columns work beats the Dutch. "
Sitting down the reports of the Nazi's five-day
blitzkrieg of Holland, the army experts have con-
cluded that the fifth column again has proved
itself the most valuable weapon developed in
modern warfare.
The secret magic with which the Nazi hordes
over-ran Holland, although the Dutch had been
preparing" for such an emergency for years, can,
say the army men, be summed up in two words:
Internal combustion.
For example, from the very outset of the Ger
man invasion, snipers took a toll of Dutch SOL
diers from the roofs and windows of buildings
even in the well policed cities of The Hague,
Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Two Cops On Duty
When the sixth column, or parachute troops,
arrived at one of the main airports near Rotter-
dam, only two civil policemen were on DUTY
the only logical conclusion being that some one
in the army had ordered all troops away from
the airport at the zero hour.
In several of the principal cities, the ar raio
alarm system went completely haywlfe' eHen
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Star-News Program

Consolidated otty.County Government
under CouncilMandger Administrations
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
shous.
Seaside Highuoy from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5.Foot Cape Fear Riuer channel, wtd'
er Turning Basin, t1ith ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Rood to Southport, oia
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prod4e-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial n Resort Pro-
motional Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tdr.
shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center TOR Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for 1chites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse TOR Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0roptng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sandtortAm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Gov. Hoey To Address l..
N. E. State GraduN'''

RALEIGH, May 23.-lP- Nv,
nor Hoey will deliver the 06. I
reate address to the $50 men'D".
N. C. State colleges 49, gIa ~
class, on June 3, in I'l1oi'"
dunn. II, +.
The graduation exercises NM,
underway June ? with the A
mencement sermon, delivered Il.
Rev. John Rodman Williams ID!
lanta, Ca, a native Of sailI0''
a State college alumnds' ,;..tt
The General Alumni T,,,t
will meet in business SESSION q
Candidates for the presiaeD.s 4
succeed Col. George W. oii' i
Wilmington are D. W. s 1se
Weldon and r. NJ. Cure nj ~
ton. Thirteen classse OF ALUM"
have reunions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

screamed day II night, throw.
ing the cities into utter confusion.
In Amsterdam, the water supply
system-that vital artery which is
the first objective of saboteurs-
washed out completely.
In The Hague, the heart of the
Dutch government, there was an up.
rising which took on the aspects of
an organized revolution.
Hour after hour, parachute troops
were reported landing in localities
where, strangely, Dutch troops
weren't.
And most significant of all, the
Nazi invasion of Holland wasn't even
off the griddie before England
started a nationwide cleanup of
aliens.
There's one thing more, though
this occurred in Belgium. Army
officers who fought in World Wal
L looked over the collapse of Ma
muir, and the apparently Ineffective
resistance Of the outer forts of
Liege and ran back through the
pages of memory.
Kaiser Had Trojan Horse
There, they found the stories Of
the fall Of these two great fortress
es in 1914, and reports current
then that a fifth column had
been working for months WITH the
German high command to bring
about their capitulation. A former
intelligence officer recalls thai Ger
man imperialists, months before
August, 1914, bought large estates
near these f~ortresses, and showed a
great prediction for building cement
tennis courts. 1t wasn't discovered
until Belgium was a shambIes that
the tennis courts were cement
slabs 80 feet deep, and really hidden
emplacements for big guns that bat
tered the forts into heaps Of crush
ed rock,
The conclusion here is that hat
%"secret weapon Of Hitler's is M more
than this same fifth column. The re-
port mat the men in Fortress Eden
Emael suddenly discovered their ma
chile guns and small cannon would
ho' "ork was the clue. Somewhere
among those 1000 men who threw
up their hands in surrender must
nave heen dozens Or even scores
wy walked the Nazi glory road in
s'eao OF the trail to prison camps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
IN H SAME HARNESS

1t is not fully apparent what effect it can
have on the worlds destiny, but it must mean
something that King VICTOR EMANUELE of Italy
has conferred on HERMAN GoERING the right to
call him cousin.
The right goes with the bestowal of some
sort of horse collar on HITLER's air chief. Per-
haps it shows that the two are ready to work
in the same harness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

that, In Germany the reichstag is subject only
to H1TLER's orders.
But, so far as authority is concerned, WINS
TON CHURCHILL is as absolute today IN London
as HITLER is in Berlin. And that's among the
wars strongest, let us hope h%appiest, by-pro-
ducts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
GUIDES

RALEIGH, May % Up The
WPA State Writers project is pre-.
pairing city guides for Greensboro,
Asheville, Winston-Salem, and Ra'
State Supervisor E dwi n
Bjorkman said today. The project
plans to issue soon a volume of
North Carolina Folk Tales" and
one called People in Tobacco"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

win before they are consumed, and REINFORCE
ments are slowed down.
Premier REYNAUD of France told his nat1on
that if the Germans can be held for a month
the foundation of an Allied victory Will
have been laid. AS matters stand now II Will
require much less time than that, IT WEYGAND
is able IN carry out his counter offensive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
TOP % THE MORNING

"What is the ua1ue OF this e~state?" said q
gentleman to another With Whom he Wds rid
ina, as they passed a fine mansion surrounded
by fair and fertile fields.
II don't knoao achat it is va1ued at, l knoC
aChat it cost its late possessT."
"Hoa1 much?"
His SOUL
From "The Kings Business"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
Man bout

By George tucker

IN y w O4t4A AAeJ
every day this corner is asked
for names of reliable literary and
musical agents. These letters come
from all sections of the country.
Last week there were 10 such re-
quests. Today there are four, and
Yesterday there were six. Today's
queries are from New London,
Conn; Baton Rouge, La, and Elk
hart, Ind. These people have writ
ten songs, or magazine pieces, or
both.
To save time and trouble I am
going to list several reliable agents.
with their addresses. But I
must tell you that most reliable
agents are difficult to approach.
1t sometimes is necessary to have
letters of introduction. There is
sound common sense behind these
precautions. One of the limitations
of agency work is that authors
whose material is returned sue
agents frequently for plagiarism.
Dozens of suits come to light ev-
cry day. If a man in Wyoming
writes a story about a train wreck
involving a ~cross-eyed engineer,
and has it turned down, he may
be on the lookout for other sto-
ries of a similar nature. Should
he later on read a story about an
other cross eyed engineer, he
might institute suit on grounds of
plagiarism. Does this seem unrea-
sonable? Maybe so, but it happens
every day.
In any case, if you want to
write for the movies, a man to
get in touch with is Jacob Wilk
of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc,
West 44th street, New York City.
You'd better write him a letter
before you send any manuscripts.
If you write fiction for maya
zines, you might try Dorothy Lewis
of the VIM. Morris Agency, RKO
Bldg, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C.
For magazine stories and plays,
Leah Salisbury is an excellent
agent. Her office is in the Sardi
Bldg, west 44th street, N. Y. C.
Jean Dalrymple is another who
prefers to work for the films and
magazines. Her office is in the
Claiming Bldg, east And street,
New York.
AS for music agents, I never
heard of any. 1t is practically i'm
possible for any outsider or per-
son unknown to get a popular song
published. If there is a single clos
ed market in the United States,
it is Tin Pan Alley. All I can
suggest is that you write to any
of the leading music publishing
houses-Robbins Music Corp, for
instance-and ask their advice.
1t is a waste of time to submit
songs to ranking orchestra lead
ers. They are swamped with hun
dreds of songs every week. Kay
kyser gets thousands, and so does
Orrin Tucker. These of necessity
are returned promptly with po-
lite form letter Of rejection.
But if you must write to some
orchestra leader, l would recon-
mend that you choose one who is
not in the limelight, one who is
on the way up but who has not as
yet reached the big time. Once an
orchestra reaches the top his life
and his time are no longer his
own. He is plagued by the locusts
of the trade. Song pluggers de-
scend on him in droves. AS a re-
suit, he barricades himself behind
a wall of front men''-buffers,
so to speak. Keep away from the
top men in the business. Reach
for the little fellows, and hope
that, if they listen to you, they
some day reach the top.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

Charles, Edward, George, Hen
ry, John, Joseph, James, Robert,
Thomas and William are the 10
most popular male a e S in
America.
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of genius but you write such eccen-
trio stun. it is impossible to sing it,"
Premiere Failure.
No amount of explaining and
training, however, could make the
singers grasp the significance of the
work as Wagner saw it The pre-
miere was a failure in spite of the
care lavished on its production.
Heard for the second time the public
began to like it and it was soon on
the way to success with several de-
mands for it at other theaters in
Germany.
Somewhat heartened by its accept
ance in his homeland. Wagner de-
cided to try it out in Paris where
interest on the part Of the opera d.
rectors and even the Emperor await
ed 1t. But it was destined to one of
the worst receptions ever given the
hearing OF a great worx. Wagner
WAS in part responsible for he must
have annoyed the singers. the or
chestra. the regisseur and the direc-
tors with his instructions and his in
sistence on having his own way.
Rehesrsals dragged out indefi-
nitely. The ballet which Wagner
consented to interpolate in the
Venusberg scene could not be
visualized by the ballet master in
any appropriate style. In all OF
Paris could not be found the II
French horns needed for the frs,
act and Wagner had to accept the
saxophones and saxhorns supplied
by the terrible man, Sax" The
conductor could not understand the
tempt and the nuances, nor were
the singers adequate. Wagner was
at the point of Withdrawing the
opera entirely but the Emperor re-
fused permission. desiring him to
"forgo" his request After 164
rehearsals and an outlay of 100000
the opera finally was given.
Fist Fights in Audience.
The story Of that performance is
well known. How the aristocratic
clique, known as The Jockey Club,
allowed not one scene to pass with
out hOOting and whistling their
derision. how the uproar continued
undated, with fist fights, some of
them lasting quarter of an hour,
are now matters of history. This
debacle of his cherished hopes
might have left Wagner a broken
man and ended forever his desire
for composition.
He was disheartened and dis
mayed. but unconquered. He knew
that in the prayer he had written
for Elizabeth, the stirring Pilgrim S
Chorus" the lovely "Oh, du, mein
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holder Abendstern." the orgiastic
revels at the Venusberg, the story
which. set in the romantic sur
roundings of medieval Germany. is
full of drama with its final redemp-
ton of Tannhauser when. beside the
bier of his beloved and lost Eliza
beth. he kneels and bids Saint
Elizabeth, pray for me-" he had
written a. masterpiece. And so it
remains to this day. It was the
first OF Wagner's operas to be given
in America. where it has remained
a prime favorite ever since.
Two Men Stood Beside Him
Wagner was the subject of con.
troversy among musicians all his
life. They vacillated between ad.
miration and criticism of him.
They formed circles in which his
unique style became an inspiration
and other circles designed to COM
bat what they believed to be his
perniciOus influence on music.
Verdi heard a performance Of
"Tannhauser" in Paris and said.
THE man is crazy" Berlioz wrote:
Wagner is turning our singers into
goats. 1t seems impossible to dis
entangie this Tsnnhauser, al.
though he previously had said. "A
man who could. twice over, write
words and music for an opera, must
be exceptionally gifted"
One of his greatest admirers was
Debussy, who made a deep study
Of his works, yet he. too, changed
from admiration to dislike and
wrote in his caustic way of Wag-
ner's operas: Either the music gets
out of breath running after q char
acter or else the character sits down
on a note to allow the music to
catch up with him" throughout
his life. however, two mel. List
and Won Bulow, great artists both
and both seriously sinned against
by Wagner, stood unfiinchingly be-
hind him. That their faith was
justified has been agreed by the
whole world.
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Nelson to Give Forum Talk
Defense Chief to Open New Series
Of Proeroms Arranged by The Stor

Donald Mari Nelson, co-ordinator
OF all national defense purchases,
and administrator of the new Priori-
ties Board, tomorrow night will be
the first speaker of a new series
of the National Radio Forum, ar
ranged by The Star. The program
will be broadcast over a coast-to-
coast network of the National
Broadcasting System.
The program, from 1920 to IL
O'Clock, will be heard locally through
Station WMAL.
Mr.. Nelson, an executive vice
president of the Sears, Roebuck Co.
in Chicago when named to head the
Procurement Division of the Treas
ury, was appointed to the Defense
Commission by President Roosevelt
last June.
He holds one of the most i'm
portant posts in the whole defense
set-up, and must help to pass upon
the vital question q priority for
the vast volume of defense orders
cleared through his office.
A native of Hannibal, Mo-, Mr..
Nelson graduated from the Uni
versity of Missouri with the class
of 1911. He entered the Sears,
Roebuck Co., and rose rapidly in
that organization.
Mr.. Nelson, formerly active in
the administration of old N r. A..
here, came to Washington in 1884
to serve on the Industrial Advisory
Board. He later was made special
assistant to S. Clay Williams, once
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Masked Bandit Gets
SITS in Midnight
Ho|dup Of Store
Wife Of Proprietor
Menoeed With Gun;
Other Shops Robbed

A masked bandit early today OBJ.
tanned more than SITS from a gro.
Gerry store at 1925 Fourth street NV.
The man entered the store shortly
after midnight and approached Mrs.
Bluma Goldsman, wife Of the pro.
prietor. M. c. Goldsman. He carried
a revolver and his face was masked
by two handkerchiefs.
Hand over your money" he or
dered. Mrs. Goldsman did not move
fast enough and he renewed his or
der, waving the gun at her. She
gave him the cash and he fed.
In the store at the time were her
14-year -old daughter Faiga, a stu
dent at Mcfarland Junior High
School, and two employees of the
store, Clinton Davis and Mike
Simms.
Other Robbery Victims.
Other robbery victims last night
and yesterday were:
Harry Belson, As, proprietor Of a
grocery store at 401 K street NV,
forced to hand over $l2 by two COL
ored men, one Of whom had q gun.
Thomas Irving. 81, manager of q
laundry at 2l50 P street NV. held
up and robbed of $50 by a young
colored man armed with a revolver.
The holdup occurred about 8 pm.
The thief escaped on foot.
James E. Neal, manager of 4
parking lot at "a G place NE. rob-
bed of $40 by two colored men, one
Of whom had a gun.
Jewelry Stores Entered.
Two F street jewelry stores were
reported entered Friday night or
early yesterday morning. Philip
Frank, Inc, of 812 F street NV.
reported that thieves got $426 worth
of watches and jewelry when they
removed paneling on the front Of
the store, which is being repaired.
Paul Blanstein. manager of tho
Swope Jewelry Store, lila F. street
NV, told police five watches were
taken after a show window was
smashed.
The Model Fur Shop, 1903 @
street NV, reported that a musk
rat coat valued at SIPS was taken
from the store on the night OF
November 8. -.
The loss of passport was report
ed by Mrs. Aisle Babcock. 3700
Cumberland street NV, who told
police it was in a metal box which
also contained $25. It was taken
some time this month. she said.
Lavinia Dunn of Ills Twelfth
street NV. told police colored man
snatched her purse containing $40
last night as she walked near her
home.