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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12

behind the virtually complete BIN
ish mine barrage that extends all
the way from the Pentland Firth
to Lands End. Those mine fields,
unquestionably heavily increased
since the fall of France, from a
supplemental protection against III
vasion.
Germany would have to engage
in slow and extensive mine sweep
ing operations to clear a path M
any points on the east coast o.
England selected for LANDING
operations. That such operations
could be carried out without OF.
lection by British air or navy
scouts seems improbable. ThoSs
mine fields add immeasurably "
British hopes of due warning Il
and when Hitler orders invasion.
The Dover strait air battle looh'
more like an indication Of lnlehs
ing Nazi sieze warfare agaln''
England than a possible prelude u
invasion. 1t is liked with German
claims that 6O9, 900 tons of BRITISH
merchant shipping e sent cow
within the last six weeks by Nd"
submarines alone.
# those cdaims are touhn".
ed, England still has more to lee-
from starvation than from lmrneu
late invasion probabilities. for az
of official warnings that may ~
uttered in London to keep the H'a
ton on a fighting edge
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
CRACKDOWN ON THE CRACKPOTs
Raleigh News and Observer

Nazi flags have ben making their appear.
ance in recent weeks on buildings in North
Carolina and elsewhere. It seems obvious that
most of them were prepared and unfurled by
people who think of themselves as jokers.
More serious and of more doubtful origin wa
the fake radio message on Sunday that a U. S,
destroyer had been sunk by a German sub
marine. If foreign agents or subversive agita.
tors are responsible for any of these acts,
officials will know how to deal with them.
There is-or should be-suficient law to take
care of those who think it is funny to make
Jokes at a time when too many of us have the
filters.
Mr.. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great
liberal, once said that freedom of speech did
not include the right to shout, :Fire!' in a
crowded theatre. Practical jokers are a plague
even in times of greatest peace and security.
They certainly have no legal right to play with
public fears now. Such fears are sometimes
unWarranted but they exist. To arouse them
further may precipate true invasion of civil
liberties and may also disturb whole commune
ties which should be calm in their participa-
ton in the national effort to make the nation
secure.
Crack pots who think they are funny can do
as much damage sometimes as fifth columnists
who by intent are traitorous. Nobody wants to
see a local fool who hangs a swastika flag on
a Legion hut or a city hall shot at sunrise.
But it would be no invasion of any joker's
liberties and would give the community a share
Of the fun if some of these jokers with public
fears were given time and place to finish their
merrymaking in a public Jail.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
The Tobacco Referendum

Governor Hoey believes that tobacco far
mers in North Carolina will ultimately profit
most by accepting a program of crop control
for three years. He stated his view in a radio
address from Raleigh on Wednesday night, in
which he urged the states growers to vote for
it in the referendum set for July 20.
The federal agriculture department had di-
vided it's proposal, which will be before the
growers on that date, into three divisions. First
it roposed three year CONTROL secondly, for
control in 1s41 only, and thirdly, for no control
at all. OF the three, Mr.. Hoey is sure that the
longer control period will be most beneficial.
There is something in this.
One year is a very brief period to prove the
merit or failure of any crop experiment. Even
three years is not long enough for complete
proof, but is an improvement over a single
year. If the growers really want to find out it
control is worth while, they can cone nearer
to that objective in three years than in one.
But the final decision is up to them They
may conclude that no control is what they
want; 60 ahead with unlimited planting and
take their chance of delivering a crop on an
uncrowded market and SO escape the low price
the governor forecasts will this de-
cision. The important phase of the forthcoming
referendum is that the growers take part in
it. Any decision emerging therefrom should re-
growers as can possibly visit the polls and
cast ballots. A minority decision will not pro-
perly meet the need.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
BY Robin CooNs.

HOLLYWOOD, July 11.-Produ-
Ger Ben Hecht sat at his Office desk
today and wondered what movie
producers find to do with their
time. He went even further than
wondering.
"The time'H come" he said,
propping his slippered feet on The
desk and putting at his cigar,
when there'n be no more produ-
GERS in the picture business. When
a little more bad luck comes to
the business, they'll be done away
with. 1t won't be easy, since the
producers will have to fire them
selves, but it'll come. -"
Hecht, large and puckish and
very good-humored about the whole
thing, seemed to be doing his best
to look like a caricature of a pro-
Queer, even to his blue sports shirt,
his loudly striped socks, and the
old felt hat he kept on his head.
But his office didn't look bu~.
The walls weren't covered W h
production charts, and no sccre-
taries and Office boys popped in
with breathless messages. There
wasn't even a book on the book
shelves. There was one phone,
and it didn't ring more than cnce.
Producer Hecht, it should be re-
membered, has long had it in for
producers in general. He is produ-
cling and directing his own story,
Before I DE-" and Long Fair
banks, Jr., his star, is also asso-
ciate producer.
"As a producer" Hecht said,
1--WE already given myself a story
and a director, and that's all there
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CoumctlManagcr Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
ShoUs.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvine
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Dtd'
er Turning Basin, NTH ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pdved River Road to Southport, Vtd
Orton 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 tar.
Shipydrds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for schites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape 0rouotn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
BY KIRKE l., SIMPSON

In the darkest hours for Britain
during the World war, the express
sion "cheerio" became a national
slogan of mistaken morale, just
as the 'thumps-up" gesture oil
British tommies amid today's even
darker portents is an ironic de-
fiance of Nazi and Fascist salutes.
British war leadership of tn S
day, however, is at obvious pains
to dispel any thought in British
minds that delay in the full de-
velopment of the German attack
on England lessons the certainty
that it will come. Cabinet spokes-
men, from Prime Minister Church
ill down, insistently reiterate, in
effect, that paradoxical American
ism, " cheer up, the worst ic yet
to come"
The warning by the undersecre-
tary for war, Sir Edward Grigg,
that an attack might come in "sev-
eral places at dawn" falls into that
class. Presumably he meant any
odWu, not a particular QdWu.
Draws Attention
His remark was obviously intend.
ed to keep public attention center
ed on the fear of invasion tn a t
haunts British pillows for the first
time in many generations. That
fear has a definite asset value for
the beleaguered nation because it
keeps Britons on the constant alert.
Yet there are many Circumstance
still suggesting that a German
attempt to invade England would
be the ultimate victory move of
Nazi strategy, not the first stroke.
1t also seems highly probable that
when and if invasion is tried, Dow
er Strait, the narrowest stretch of
the English channel, must be the
main point of assault. There alone
are there obvious possibility Of a
Nazi bridge-head being established
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12

is to it. Doug has even less than
to do. Yesterday we had big doin's,
Had to choose a tootsie for a dance
sequence. Doug rushed to the stu.
dio, and I joined him, and we chose
one. Then we went home-nothing
more to do.
Having worked as a writer I'm
der at least 20 producers, I think
80 per cent of them might as well
be dropped in the Pacific Ocean,
Then we'd get pictures a lot bet
ter that cost half as much. AS a
writer I've always fought to keer
the gonfalon of the writers at least
somewhere in sight. If books were
produced as movies are, the most
important name on them would be
the printers. My hamminess de-
mands more attention"
Hecht, whose previous producing
has been done in New York where
he put out two good ones" ("The
Scoundrel' and Crime Without
Passion'') and 1.-TWO bad e s.
("Once in a Blue Moon and Soak
the Rich'') says working in Holly
wood is tougher on the ego-there
are too many people around who
know more about picture-making
than he does.
Before I Die" is the story of a
group of people on a rainy night
in New York City. Hecht is fond OF
rain, says it makes people look run
down at the heel and more init
mate. The action of the film is con-
centrated within 10 hours and most
Of the sets are decidedly n%on-colos-
sal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Interpreting The War

(which could permit the swift ferry
ing to England of the mass forces
and heavy mechanical equipment
that successful invasion would re
quire.
If that is true, it does not appear
possible that the water transport
necessary for such a movement
could be assembled anywhere
along the German-held coasts OF
France, Belgium, Holland or Nor
way without detection by British
air scouts OF submarines. Perilous
as England's situation is, it does
not follow that the Germans can
achieve invasion by surprise.
Actually, the intensifying Ger
man air and submarine campaign
against British shipping and the
danger of a Nazi effort to seize
Ireland and thus encircle England
by a starvation blockade are pro-
badly of much more immediate
concern to British leadership that
invasion prospects. The new triple
purpose British mine barrage from
the Orkneys to the coast of Green
land is evidence of that.
1t represents an effort to prevent
German forces from Norway from
reaching the Emerald isle. At the
same time it is designed to re-
duce the number Of British naval
and air units required for effective
patrol in so wide a stretch of sea.
Using Straits
The obvious fact about the re-
cent air action in the Straits of
Dover is that British conveys still
are using those narrow waters, al
though Germany holds the French
coasts less than a score of miles
away. The fighting was witnessed
from the famous chalk cliffs Of
Dover, apparently.
It is to be assumed that the con-
.oy attacked by the Germans was
passing along the English coast
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
DISEHBARK

LA LINEA, Spain, July 11-LR-
British military authorities at
Gibraltar yielded to a public demon.
stration and finally permitted 1900
refugees from Morocco. largely Brit
ish, to disembark today under 4'day
permits, according to reports reach
ing this border town. The demon
stration was reported to have been
staged by civilians, soldiers and po'
licemen Of Gibraltar. The authorities
at first prohibited the disenbark'
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Man About i

-ev GeoFQe tucker

NEW YORK, July ll-1ts a
funny world and not a very
big one either e. Sometimes you
run into people you've never seen
before. and if they impress you,
YOU sort of fix them in your mind
You sort of catalog them,
engrave them on your memory -.
Then you 60 away -. and later
maybe months later maybe
years, you run into them
again, They seem familiar 80.
They tug at something in y ur
memory And then you recall
them Very often it goes like
that.
One day last summer I was
coming up from the South and !
got on a plane in Washington -.
There was a blue-eyed girl or the
plane who carried a book in her
lap It was Escape" thenovel
from which the film has b e e n
made There was also a man
on the plane whom everyone knew
|. He had a big smile, and a big,
white carnation in his lapel .
And he was talking about
the World Fair 80. OF course, he
was Grover Whalen 80.
He was talking to the girl, and
to other people, even to me, and
finally, afterwhile, the plane came
down at Newark and the last / saw
of Whalen he was climbing into a
car Along with the other pas
sengers, and the blond girl. I got
into a coach that the airlines pro.
vided and was driven into Man
haitian.
Yesterday I walked into mid.
town restaurant and saw Tom Wal
Ter, Of Paramount, sitting at a
table with a girl with blond hair
and blue eyes He said, This
is Grace Mcdonald, and I want
you to know her because she has
just made a, picture for us, and
she is leaving shortly for Rye, New
Hampshire, to act in a play, and
1 want you to be able to say that
you knew her before she became
great and famous"
Yes, it was the girl who was
talking to Grover Whalen. a n d
trying to read Escape" on the
plane Il never did finish it,"
she said. II tried all summer but
something always happened"
Well, what about this Rye,
N. H., trip? we asked Rye is
another stop on the ever growing
summer barn theater circuit.
cts a play about three people
who love each other very MUCH"
she replied, land I'm so excited
I know this shrimp salad will
give me heartburn"
When Miss Mcdonald talks
about acting she forgets food, she
forgets fashion, she forgets every
thing -. Maybe you saw her in
Very Warm for May You
will remember her in a picture,
Dancing on a Dime" That is
her style 80. She sings and dan.
ces If she could become the
Marilyn Miller of the theater she
would be completely happy -.
But she realizes that dramatic act
ing, after all, is her final objective.
Grace's dad is well known
around town. He is an executive
on a film trade paper But
he spells his name Mcdonnell ...
Hers is Mcdonald She lives
only one block from the Fair, but
has never seen it Because
I've been too busy, honest"
This play she is doing in Rye
is Private Confusion" and it was
written by Hardie Albright, tn
actor-author. I'm tickled to death
about it because it will give me
a chance to work with some real
honest to goodness actors" S h e
says. "And no matter what the
reviewers say, no matter how
much they dislike me, I know
that I'll learn a lot" 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
1,O78,0OO AIDED

WASHINGTON, July II. -fn-
The American Red Cross said to-
day that 1,o7s,o 900 French, Dutch
and Belgian refugees have been aided
since May 10 with funds and sun.
plies sent from this country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
TOP O. HI

There is no more priceless possession that
a godly heritage, and there is no greater
service that a family can render to God,
than the transmission OF that heritage to
the next generation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Shipping News
CLEARED N SAILED

CLEARED AND SAILED
Barge
Harold, 100 tons, for New York
after loading cargo of lumber al
the J.. Herbert Bate Lumber COM
pany.
IN PORT
Steamer
(Italian) Villarperosa with part
cargo Of scrap iron.
Barges
Woco-Pep, 1910 tons, discharg-
ing cargo Of gasoline for the Cape
Fear Terminal company.
Monocacy, TAO tons, loading cargo
of lumber at the ]. Herbert Bate
Lumber company.
Yachts
Ruth King, so tons, at Maffitt's
pier at 'Wrightsville Beach under
command Of Capt. Brooks.
Drifter, SO tons, locked at
Vrightsville Beach.
Steamer
Agwistar, 1921 tons, %discharging
cargo of nitrate of soda, Pryde For
warding company, agents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
INWARD BOUND
Motor Vessel

(Swedish) Anita, 1,40S tons, from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and San
tos with cargo Of fertilizer mate
rails. Heide and company, agents.
Tanker
Chilbar, 5000 tons, from Houston
with cargo Of gasoline for the
Shell Oil company. Cape Fear Ship
ping company, agents.
Tug and Barge
Tug Cadimus and barge Derwent,
1854 tons, from Port Tampa with
cargo phosphate rock. Heide and
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01

if there is basis TO the allegations,
those in possession Of facts that
could establish such moves as a
reality. would not submit 10 having
their actions barred to the wrath Of
a people who, ii they Know their
own minds, are as much opposed to
entering this war as they are TO any
thing imaginable. That would make
an inquiry an abortive affair, with
only half truths, if that much, yield
ed to the white light OF publicity.
Whatever may DC at the bottom
of the charges made by the Ger
mans, the chief benefit to us here
in America should be that we re-
double our determination not to al
low officials here or anywhere else
TO draw us into 4 war that would
spell disaster, and probably collapse,
to our national institutions Of free
!gn, TO say NOt!iuG Of the misery
and the cost in human lie and re-
sources that would inevitably follow.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01
TODAY IN HISTORY

l775-Gcn. Gage mustcrs 5000
British hoops il Boston to suppress
any rebellion Daniel Boone begins
the building o. historic Stuckade fort
at DUuuysooroUgh, KY.
lTGG-.J!i,cy Inclp5 and Nathan
:cl CONAN Ouy >lN million acres Of
land, Gtue,ce County, n. Y, ICr a
million dollars.
lT9y-rirst meeting Of Congress
under tuc Constitution, in New York
City-ultuting had been called for
March /, but quorum, 80 members,
10 start nOuH,c. did not show up Til
this day: Senate few days later.
1672-Tne Iron Mountain Railroad
opens from st. Louis to Little Rock.
l89G-Allhough war with Spain
declared this very month so little
prepared Was the country that the
regular army numbered less than
10000 men.
1922-First day Of national coal
strike inVolL ms half million men.
193J-United Sta;es officially re-
cognizes the Franco government in
Spain.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01
A New Minister

Churches Of Henderson extended
a fitting welcome last night to Rev.
w. D. McInnis, incoming pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church, and
most Of the congregations were rep
resented in the gathering that filled
the new preachers house Of worship.
1t is becoming custom that has
grown up in Henderson Of holding
these union services to extend the
hand of fellowship to ministers ar
irving here to begin their duties in
the community. For one thing, it
IS heartening TO a stranger among
strangers, and enables him and the
strangers to become acquainted.
Then it brings together Christian
people and helps to level out de-
nominal barriers. which happily are
slowly but surely becoming less and
less pronounced anyhow,
Those who heard Mr.. McInniS
Sunday night were much impressed
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01
ANSWERS.

|. Governor Richard CasWell, of
Edenton. He first became governor
by appointment December 10. l716
10 serve until the meeting of the as
Sembly. When the assembly met he
was elected 10 one-year term. He
was reelected 10 two more terms.
Three onG-year terms during a
seven-year period was all the con-
stituticn would allow. After four
more years he was eligible again and
was elected to three more terms,
making in all six years and four
months. Governor T. j. Jarvis, under
our present constitution, served the
longest time. AS lieutenant governor
he succeeded Governor Vance Feb
ruary 5, 1879, completing one year
and eleven months Of the Vance
term, and then was elected to four
year term, making in all five years
and eleven months.
2 On July /, 1881, the State took
over all prison camps, o. established
prison Can''1F for all chain gangs.
3. In 1887. Senator Abbott, who
was in tic United States senate from
1868 to 1871, died in Wilmington on
October S, 1881, and was buried in
the United States National Cemetery
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01
I asaHsay # II
TopAI"S ANNIVERSARIES

l742-Sumucl Bard, New York
,ohysician- professor, one Of the most
eminent OF his day, born in Phila-
delphia. Died March 24, 1921.
lGOl-Wiilium +. Lynch, explorer
of the Dead Sea and the Jordan
.tivcr. noted Confederate command
cr, born at Norfolk, Va. Died Balti-
more. Oct. II. 1868.
James McCosh, Scottish
clergyman and professor, president
of Princeton. 1868 TO 1887, under
whom the university attained great
ness, born in Scotland. Died at
Princeton. n. j., Nov. Is, 1894.
l823-Smon 3. Buckncr, Confcd-
crate Acknowledgement, Kentucky
governor, candidate for Vice Prcsi-
dent. born III Hart Co., Ky. Died
Jan s, 1911.
1896 Edward a. Sothcrn, famed
American actor, whose four children
all went on the stage. born in Eng
land. Died there. Jan 20, 1881.
l852-EdWin \. Abbey, famed
American artist, illustrator and
,,,r'"Hri,t 'r2int"r of BoStOn'S Quest
of the Holy Grail" born in Phila-
delphia. Died August l, 1911.
1883---Lon CLANCY. actor, 1.-The
man with Il thousand faces" born at
Colorado Springs. Colo. Died in Los
Angeles, August IS, 1880.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-01
Greeting 10 the Ladies

Henderson Is host today, tomor-
row and Wednt-o Gay to the ladies OF
the Woman's Missionary Society Of
the North Carolina Methodist Con-
ference, and the hand and heart Of
the community is extended to them
in the wish that their Sojourn will
be pleasant and profitable, and that
they will derive much inspiration
from their gathering and fellowship
for carrying on the work in which
they are engaged.
These ladies are representatives
of a militant group throughout the
eastern half of the State who are
constantly active in Gurthering the
cause Of Christianity at home and
abroad. They happen to be OF the
Methodist faith, but all the other
denominations have similar orgarj-
cations whose aims and objectiveS
and the same. Their true mission is
not primarily to spread the doctrines
of MethodiSm alone, but first and
foremost the dissemination OF the
gospel of righteousness and OF eter-
nal life. 1t is in that spirit, as we'll
as the fact that they are cur guests,
in which they are received into
Christian homes OF the city.
Salvation OF world in sin is the
whole sum and substance OF the
teachings OF Jesus, and his last
great command to his followers was
to go and teach throughout all the
world. The principle OF missions
cannot be separated from the doc
trine OF the church, because the next
and first step for the Individual after
he embraces the faith is to conse-
crate himself to the propagation OF
the ideals that have become a part
OF his purpose in life.
Unfortunately the missionary eff
fort has ali too much been looked
upon as woman's part of Christian
ity. The command was no more tc
them than to men. But many mer
have been content to contribute
financial support to the church anc
leave the rest TO the women. Tha
they have accepted the challenge
and are carrying on as only Womer
can is everlaStingly to their credit
1t is always the good fortune o
any community TO have in its midS
for even a few days Il group Of sin
cere, conSecrated church folk. Suct
a community is better for having
the experience, and IN that sense
Henderson will be rewarded by thu
coming Of the Methodist ladies. l
is happy, however, to have the Drivi,
lege Of being host to its visitors a
this time because OF who they are
what they are and what they repre-
sent.