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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
WELCOME TO EASTERN STAR

Wilmington joins Wrightsville Beach in well
coming the grand chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star. 1t is a distinct honor to both
communities that this organization, the women
Of Masonry, should select this area for it's
important annual session, and should have
brought, in addition to its own membership,
distinguished guests from many distant places
for participation in the program and enter
tainment.
It is comforting to America, in these troub-
led days, when all nations are rocked by war
or threats of war, that the people of this great
nation are proceeding with their customary
habits even to the extent Of holding conven-
tons dealing with specific problems Of civic
and cultural life.
Even as German troops advance on Paris
and Italy makes the final plunge into the
conflict, North Carolina's grand chapter OF
Eastern Star women gather to perform their
high duties for the order.
It is in such manifestations of undisturbed
equilibrium that America shows it's solidity il
emergency. The Star is proud to extend the
hand Of fellowship to the Eastern Star and
congratulate it upon its fine example.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

troops will be able to throw them back. so con-
6dent are the Germans of reaching their OBJ
jective that MUssoL1NI has taken the last step
into the war for a slice Of the pie his mouth
waters for. But despite the dark outlook, the
carnage and waste that conquest Of Paris Will
entail, there is no reason to suppose the war
will end when Nazi troops enter its gates. II
France and England mean what their leaders
say the war will go on as long as there are
men to arm, ships to sail, planes to ny. Even
threatened with the possible invasion of Swift
erland by HITLER, which appears probable, and
the establishment of new battle areas, we must
assume that the two nations lighting Tor ex-
istence against such heavy odds will go On
until the exhaustion they are feeling extends
to the attacking foe.
Destruction of munitions, supplies, gaso-
line and transports behind the German lines
continues unabated by British air forces. Ger
many cannot maintain the pace of the last
month forever. She, too, must feel the loss OF
fighting men and supplies, which greatly ex'
ceeds her requirements. 1t is even possible,
though not likely, that this the "last quarter
hour" as WEYGAND calls it, may bring forth
the miracle. AS long as there is only defeat, and
not despair, in the Allied forces, there is hope.
Washington fought, and won, the Revolution
with platoons against regiments, because des-
pair never caught up with the Continentals.
Could it not be that the same spirit will be
France? And with the same ultimate result?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

Tightening Of the laws and strict regulation of
aliens allowed to enter this country.
Mr.. REYNOLDS has not had much support in
the past for his immigration crusade. His as
~sociates in the senate have failed to recognize
the menace, particularly of fifth column activi.
ties, contained in only partially restrictive and
inadequately upheld immigration statutes. Now,
however, with the war threat seen by every
body, it is possible that his associates in. con-
gress will heed his, words more carefully. He
wants aliens permitted to enter the United
States only on openly declared and closely
supervised business necessity. He wants all
aliens registered and watched. He wants moth
ing hat could not have helped to save Norway
and Holland and Belgium, if those govern.
ments had kept closer watch on HITLER's fifth
columnists. While we build our defenses we
have need, pressing need, to take warning
from them. We have need to see that aliens
are not again permitted to replace Americans
on relief ships, particularly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
AIR TRAINING SCHOOL
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
Now that we are giving much
time and thought to u National
Defense program, I would like to
suggest that all of our citizens get
busy and put forth every effort to
get a National Aviation Training
school at u airport, so that all
High school graduates in Whining
ton and southeastern North Caro-
lima, who would like to become pi-
lots could get free training, here,
in Wilmington.
I find a large number of High
school graduates in Wilmington
and nearby towns who would like
to have this training but r not
financially able to take it.
Our government is going to build
thousands of planes and each plane
will require at least three trained
men so if we have so, 900 planes
we will need Isl, 900 men, and 1
would like to e a large number
of them from this section of North
Carolina.
I have written to Senators Rob-
ert R. Reynolds and J. w. Bailey
about this matter; and now to get
results, I would urge every High
school graduate in Wilmington and
southeastern North Carolina, who
would like to take an aviation
course, for the defense of our coun-
try to write to Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, Senator J. w. Bailey,
and Congressman Bayard Clark
and ask them to do everything pos
sible to get us an Aviation Train
ing school, so that they any many
others could get this very necessary
training
Would also suggest that our bus
mess men, Wilmington Aero Club,
Chamber of Commerce, Junior
Chamber of Commerce, all civic
organizations and other citizens
wire or write our senators and con-
gressmen at once urging them to
do everything in their power to get
this school.
I'm Unity there is strength" so
let us all get busy and get Wilm-
ington a government Aviation
Training school before they are all
placed elsewhere.
Sincerely yours,
CARL REHDER
Wilmington, N. C.
June 10, 1910. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
ON TO PARIS

As Germany throws additional divisions in
to the drive on Paris it becomes more an.
parent that the French capital may fall. WEY-
GAND was called too late to the supreme com.
mand. England and France relied too long on
the neutrality Of Belgium and Holland to save
their forces in France from flank attack. Lon.
don delayed too long to depose CHAMBERLAIN:
and France DALAD1ER. Now, despite the gen.
Jus Of WEYGAND, who hastily formed a line
along the Somme and manned it with all
available troops, artillery, tanks and other i'm.
pedimenta needed to halt the Nazi onrush, ii
seems that the French capital must go the
way of other capitals overridden by the HrTLEr
blitzkrieg.
Paris has not fallen, but with Nazi tank
divisions forcing their way nearer as van
guard of an army of 1900, 900 soldiers, there
Is little reason to hope that opposing Allied
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
Editorial Comments
From Other AnqIes
STOP 1T, SENATOR!
Tampa Tribune

we are becoming increasingly concerned about
the daily speeches of Senator Pepper. Whatever
the merit in his plan for giving aid to the AL.
les' we can see neither sound judgment nor
SAFE influence In utterances which, made by a
eohlted states Senator, supposed to be close to
.he "hlte House. are disturbing, demoralizing,
hnammatory. We are confident they don't ex.
press the temper of President or people. .
Senator Pepper is turning on all the powers
OIL MS oratory In support of his proposal that
tnis country give or sell war equipment and ma.
terlal to the Allies. The wisdom of that plan is a
question of debate. To do it, obviously we would
nave to repeal our present neutrality act. And il
we remove our present neutrality status, and in.
tervene in Europe by giving the Allies a part OF
CUR own defenses, aren't we taking active part
in the confict-aren't we in the war?
Senator Pepper urges that we do this to "helr
destroy Hitler" Undoubtedly liberty-loving PEG
pie everywhere want to see Hitler destroyed
But suppose we do it and then Hitler isn't de
stroyed? Would not that make us much more
liable to attack?
Building our own defenses is not a violation
of neutrality; giving of our defenses TO a com.
blatant would be exactly that.
But we are not discussing specifically here
the Pepper plan for Intervention tnrouSh aban-
doning our neutrality and rushing to the rescue
of the Allies. We are concerned with the tone
and tenor of his Senatorial speeches. We think
they are calculated TO lolneHC aHo sP-o"o q ma
tional hysteria which may, through popular
clamor and craze. prove irresistible to Congress
and force us into the war.
The Senator says Hitler is now at war witt
us. That's putting us exactly in the position o.
the Allies, with whom he is actually at war ant
who are at war with him. Are we III 'na posi-
ton? Not yet. thank God!
Asked the direct question, by Senator Bailey
if he favored a declaration of war against Ger
many, Senator Pepper said no. Then senator
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

Bailey very logically asked the diff.
ference between a declaration Of wal
and the Intervention for which the
Florida Senator is so feverishly de.
claiming.
Senator Bone, toe, is alarmed
about oratorical incendiarism. He
said these speeches are "thrusting
this country closer and closer to the
hell of war; that "day by day we
sit here and allow this war fever to
be famed into fame"
We are not narrow i~solationists.
we are not supine p~acifsts: but we
are resolutely against getting into
this hell of war" unless and Until
we are compelled to do so to do.
TEND and protect our institutions
our homes, u women and chi,dran
That day may come, sooner or later.
or 1t may never come. But lot nc no+
hasten its arrival.
Just night before last we ~,
mere in Tampa $50 of cur bows ana
girls go forth from CUR high schoo,S
ahey nave a right to an Immediate
future of opportunity and low nd
hfe' not of tears and blood snd aoe.n
! We think Of them oe'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
REYNOLDS STARTS INQUIRY

The presence of large numbers of aliens on
the liner Manhattan returning from Italian
ports has brought widespread complaint
throughout the country. The Manhattan was
sent to Genoa and Naples to evacuate Ameri-
cans caught in a potential war zone. The state
department issued an order that Americans be
given preference over all other nationals. On.
orators OF the Manhattan, however, let nearly a
Thousand aliens take passage on the score that
they mad purchased tickets before the order
arrived and could not be rejected as long as
their money was up,
Among the many persons here who have
joined the Star in protesting this action by the
liners executives is a man whose modesty in
slsts upon anonymity. He wrote Senator REy
NoLDs complaining of the injustice to Ameri
cans in the lines decision. In response Senate,
REYNOLDS has wired him that he has taken ,r
the night and will have something to say about
1t In the senate, hopefully this week.
Inc telegram from the senator, in part
reads: Am now directing inquiry to state de
partment as to number of refugees permittef
upon Liner Manhattan, and shall hope for on
portunlty to speak upon this subject this week.
Inc senator further notes that he has "pre
vlously protested in reference to the subject.
1t may be said, too, that Senator REyNo1p
has passed up no opportunity during his incum
bency to direct thought to the peril of 1oosel,
lntorced immigration laws and demanding
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

tions require the same kind oil
training and experience which
thoughtful citizens demand OF
professional workers in private
Employment.
When you go to a private physi.
clan you want one who is compa-
tent to do a good job. That is
what Uncle Sam expects of his
employees.
About 10000 persons receive
federal appointments each year.
The examination requirements are
practical. They are also stuff.
GENTLY high to obtain employees
fully competent to render salts.
factory service to the American
people.
When a person is appointed tc
a federal position, there are a
number of ways to get ahead.
These r not particularly differ.
ent from the requirements met
by successful individuals in pri.
vate life.
l. Do your present job well.
Countless individuals in the FEEDER.
al service hold high administra.
tive positions who not many years
ago were pounding a typewriter OF
adding columns of figures. They
did good work. Promotions follow
ed. Today they reap the reward OF
doing their first job better than
their competitors.
2. Prepare for the job ahead.
Some day. perhaps soon, the job
ahead will be vacant. Then the
boss will look around for someone
to fill it. The position may require
special knowledge; get this know
ledge. 1t may require training in
a business school or university;
get it.
Find out what you need to fill
the job ahead and prepare accord
ingly. Be ready when the oppor-
tunity comes.
3. Always be dependable. When
Elbert Hubbard wrote "a Message
to Garcia" he emphasized a daily
need in every American office and
work shop-dependability.
When you give your word, keep
it. When you + assigned to a
task, finish it in a satisfactory
way. Get a reputation for being
dependable and it will bring cash
returns and satisfaction returns.
4. Safeguard your health. An en-
ploye who is constantly reporting
sick is not much of a business as
set Modern competition requires
the services of energetic employees
capable of regularly doing a 1ull
days work. This is possible only
if an employe guards one OF ms
most precious possisslons-hls
health.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
Wilmington Artists -,
Will Display Won

The second annual exhiol'l' sr, !,
Wilmington artists will Ne Trssa
sored by the Wilmlng'o"
of Art. or a
tached to. Wilmington is e eli: .
to submit five paintings, ,osed
Water colors. A Jury comp 235s ;.
Miss Katharine Morris, s Ne Ms
pervisor, WPA Art program easnrt1
Hilda ogburn, director, G = Fed;
Art Gallery; and "illiaL rontar, ri
director, Raleigh Art +. G as hung
select the paintings 10 pG be ii
the exhibition. There VIII
prizes offered. II the vi
mington Museum Of Art. IN lime :: 2
cess street, by S~atuIa'y, at IL
III The show Will be hung vr q.
Ocean Terrace GslIsr r5: M H.s1
Vile Beach, and at me me, details
from July 1-3o. For to'' IL. t'oJepbG'
call at the Museum "a
406.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
ITALY PLUNGES IN

THE smell of carrion is too strong for Mus
soLINI longer to stay way from the feast
With the Allied armies battling almost at the
gates of Paris against the Nazi war machine
IL DUcE summons his people to the public
squares and proclaims war by microphone OF
France and Great Britain.
AS long f%oreseen, he waited to take the steI
until Nazi victory seemed assured. He has no
taken up arms for a cause sacred to Italy. 1t
ally was not endangered, nor was she likely tt
be dismembered by any peace that might fol
low HITLER's war of conquest. Fact, with HIT
LER in position to dictate peace terms tt
France and England it is very probable that
Italy would be rewarded for the nuisance
service MUssoLINI has rendered the reich etel
since the war began. But this is not enough
He must rattle the saber, shake the spear
and send legions into whatever battle is left
to fight in the hope of greater gains.
Never in the history of the world, certain
ly not since the earliest dawn of civilization,
has man played such a contemplate part, as.
signed himself such a despicable role, in the
drama of warfare.
Now, Italy is at war with the Allied nations.
It would be silly to think that the presence
Of Italian troops in battle lines, of Italian
planes in the sky, of Italian submarines in the
Mediterranean, is not a factor in the shaping
Of coming events. He is not a great foe, alone.
But he has the power to lend a hand in cary
ing the carcass of Europe. And he has elect
ed to do that very thing.
Italys decision probably will send all of
southeastern Europe into war. The Balkans are
finder, ready for the torch. Just where Russia
will stand is not apparent. But Russia wants
Bessarabia, and Bessarabia might easily be
threatened by Italy in the days to come. 1t is
not to be supposed that STAIN will sit idly by
and see his choice bit of the spoils go to an
other. This injects a strange complication into
HITLER's war scheme. He can ill afford to lose
an ally as potentially powerful as Russia.
MUssoLINI, by stepping in, makes quick de.
cisions at Berlin and Moscow essential. How
much the present arrangements between the
two capitals will have to be revised is specul-
alive, but some %revamping seems inevitable.
Present interest, of course, centers in the
effectiveness of MUssoL1NTs forces and where
he will direct his attack. Also, there is deep
interest in England's naval dispositions in the
Mediterranean. If Great Britain has the
naval strength in the disputed sea she is sup
posed to have, it should be able to strike a
telling blow against Italy itself and, if neces-
sary, completely unsole the Italian boot. That,
too, is a matter of speculation only.
The end is not clear, but that it is not far
distant is undisputable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

jORWAH

giving perfectly with the head,
lines. The day of the Nazi nya,
sion of Holland, Walter Wanga
received IA, 900 feet of back,
ground film recently shot in An
sterdam-probably the last move
record of that city as it was, And
Wanger's other production, John
Ford's 1.-THE Long Voyage Home,
was grimly suggestive: a mt1i'
tons boat approaching England,
subjected to enemy air.bOmb1g,
Escape" the Norma Sheare.
vehicle, was in line, and "EoI
Sons" and the completed "Morta
Storm" There was current taS
cination in Il MARRIED. a Nazl
the story of a girl who did. ! saw
no war, except of the domestic
type, on the set. The America
wife Joan Bennett and Nazl hli'
band (Francis Lederer) were quar-
reling over the Nazi girl, FRED
(Anna Stem. Miss Sten, back Oh
the screen, after long absence
plays a Hitler fan, and Miss Bea'
nett is reciting an improvlsed lln'
erick to taunt husband Ledefei,
It's about a young Nordic nafne'
F'rieda, always quoting the "o'''
of the leader
Lederer. one of the Maj spies
of the film confessions OF SANE
returns to pictures after a Season
i'll mo Time for Comedy. Ills ,
a different Nazi type this time IL
says. Once upon a time Lt1'''
was leader of a world pe''
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS?
Lederer had mo Time for Co~'
edy'' but Hollywood has plenty ~
all the war talk. Comedy Is S, n'
we need now. That is what hoc
wood said when the war S'aIs4
and the screen is keeping its "o',
with THE Boys from SyTacas,s NJ,
Dancing on a Dime" Inc W. "
lain Still Pursued Her IVY 4~
orite Wife" ''Turnabout'' "Ray'@ a.
on the River The Doctor laa+
a Wife '"No Time for Comeo'
Many Girls and SO OH'
But there is Victory" Gtsa:
Field when ID W. \.
close 10 the news, although c ~, i
riod is 1910. The Joseph Cg 5r.,,
romance is set in the Ne'ne.a
East Indies, cynosure Of ln,s,D 4
tional eyes since the lhVSsi .ss,,.
Holland. So the war IS 4 .....
even though its set is one o. "'F
cal peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
Man bout
Manhattan
BY George Tueker

NEW YORK, June 10. EVERY
night at 9:43 and sometimes in the
afternoon around 4:34 Walter
Huston gives himself a shave.
Many men shave once each day
and sometimes twice a day, but
where actor Huston has it on the
rest of mankind is that he must
do this in addition to the private
shaves he has at his hotel or in
the confines of his own bathroom.
Shaving was part of the ritual
laid down by playwright William
Saroyan when he wrote Loves
Old Sweet Song" and when Wal
ter Huston read the script and
got ready for Broadway he touched
his chin gingerly and admitted
that he always has suffered from
sensitive skin.
Nevertheless, each night on the
stage of a Broadway theater an
intimate little scene is enacted
during which huston washes his
face, then comes out of the bath
fcoHi anu gives MS lace a Senef-
Gus lather. He is good in these
scenes-always has been. He talks
while working up the lather,
using his brush awhile, then rub
bring in the lather and working
it with brush again.
Those who recall the play "Dods-
WORTH several years ago will re-
call a scene in which Houston play
ed again another of those curiously
commonplace yet comic episodes
which are a part of every mans
daily life. 1t never failed to get
applause. 1t was simply that Hus-
ton took off his pants. He would
lower his suspenders, inhibition
them. and look at them as if
wondering whether they were
worth picking up. He always went
off stage with the pants still lying
just as they fell in the center of
the stage. Often little things like
this make certain plays memora-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11
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
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
s5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, 1oid-
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport. Via
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency. supported by one,
countrywide tao.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed o the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities 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., 1940-06-11
The Editors
BOX

The editor does not n%ecessari-
" endorse any article appear.
in this department. They repre-
sent the views Of the individual
readers. Correspondents a re
warned that all communications
must contain the correct name
and -7dress for our records,
though the latter may be signed
as the writer sees fit. The Star.
News reserves the right to alter
anv text thut for any reason is
Objectionable. Letters on con.
reversal subjects will not be
published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-11

BILE. When Huston, on opening
night, came out rubbing that lather
into his face, everyone who had
een him in "DodsWorth'' knew
that this would be a scene to
remember.
Those who remember Yorkville
as it was during the later twenties
and again as it was a year or so
ago will recognize the change that
has again come over this ancient,
deep seated German settlement
in Manhattan. During prohibition
and up until the middle thirties
Yorkville was a postcard version
Of the Student Prince''-a neigh
borhood of pleasant beerhalls
adorned with stag antlers and saw
dust floors, and where 20 Tanen-
baum" was nightly chorused by
shouting villagers in leather
britches and foaming tankards of
beer.
But when the Bund rose and
Fritz Kuhn grew into something
of a Swastika figure in America,
Yorkville became the hub of the
uniformed German activities in
the east. They paraded in their
sambrown belts and their brown
shirts. They held picnic Shoots"
and. they made speeches under gi-
gantic portraits of Adolf Hitler.
But when Fritz Kuhn's secret
love life was aired in the courts
and he went to Jail, the snowy
part of the Bund's activities SUBJ
sided, and Yorkville became less
prominently identified with the
Swastika movement. Today the
old German taverns are going in
for Spanish dancing and forms of
entertainment that are not of the
Berlin variety. The Hitler senti-
ment still persists, but the young
er bucks of the Bund no longer
parade or swagger along the side
walks shouting Hell, Hitler" The
atmosphere is tense, and a little
subdued. Yorkville is. always has
been, and always will be German.
Many of its citizens would be better
pleased if they could return to the
easy, sawdust floor frivo1ity of the
Gays they knew before Hitler be-
came Hitler 2