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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-02
Rick Benny Picture Will
men At Carolina Monday
/, Chaos On Western
vi Plains As Car-Lover
Turns Cowboy

automobile is here to
'- M rTfs was Jack Benny's pro-
.&' .aont following his rough
gl1cSl 5orseback interludes in
t5.ns' Benny Rides Again" the
Buck md screen comedians ven
:aalO :~ A., the vide open spaces,
.r re, WI. viii be presented here Mon
2-'. =, +be Carolina theatre.
"a y. a. Benny's aversion to horses
W. VARIOUS. amounting to a pho
D0I However, for the sake OF his
5a' and in the interests of film
all Lotion. he consented to being
9foa aosraohed for the first time in
Pao'J jifa aboard a bronco, albeit
1' .afpst. mildest one the studio
as ~ corral. Several days OF
co ..o,,rfan exercise were involved
cl0s +be making of the picture.
r rIr'7 we're sufficient for Jack
la'' BENNY. who AYERS his in
0', an of sticking to his 1923 Max
ri in the future.
,.porses are too nervous MIR.
,.,n, opjnes. They are so ner-
Y', +bev make me nervous.
,.,, don't trust themselves, how
~. .boy expect anyone else to trust
S ,1Ioreover. they have a way of
,,..iro their heads and favoring
vs., ''' rider with a contemptuous
.Isro They may serve their boss,
5r+ they sheer at him. They re-
lind me of Rochester.
' Horses, as d means of trans
,r..+ion. are inferior to the auto
~abiIo the railroad train, the air.
..np and the kiddie car. A plush
.s,t on a railroad car is wearing
~, the ~sacro-iliac. but not nearly
-, mich as is the spinal column OF
, starving pinto.
ANYWAY I hate horses, so there.
+ oraypd one once at Santa Anita,
~sbt nm the nose. The horse stood
- fine until they moved the start
no cate. Then it collapsed
1ps9jte his diatribe against the
.,-ire equine category, Mr.. Benny
,nfessed that he enjoyed himself
rring the making of Buck Benny
Rides Again" And he cherishes
his t~en.gallon hat as a memento OF
ne time when he stood-off the cat
If rustlers, and followed the
muck wagon in the best tradition
i Hopalong Cassidy and his pals.
ATS chaos on the Western plains
tUo.fsted. ten-fngered Jack
Penny. phantom rider of Fred AL
len and lone ranger of the Seven
Delicious Flavors, bites off more
han he can chew and comes to
rue it in Buck Benny Rides
l.sain. It's love in bloom which
drives Jack to forsake his pent-
muse for a pommel and Maxwell
In a mustang-love for lovely FL
.l Drew who draws a line be-
geen Western he-men and all the
rest Of mankind when it comes to
0ve. Jack goes West to prove
worthy, and before he's
trough it's the deer and the ante
0pe who are looking for new
ZONES.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-02
ROYAL TO SHOW
AMUSING MOVIE
Pat O'Brien And Edward Ar,
mold Starred In Slight
ly Honorable

Rated one of the seasons most
sophisticated and amusing film sto-
ries of scandal in high places, Waiter
Wanger's Slightly Honorable" with
ward Arnold, Ruth Terry and Brod-
erick Crawford, will open Wednes-
day at the Royal theatre through
United Artists release.
Cast on the Wanger theory of 'the
best available players for even the
smallest roles the film features a
lineup of supporting talent that in
cludes Alan Dinehart, Claire Dodd,
Phyllis Brooks. Janet Beecher. Ber-
nard Nedell. Douglas Dumbrille. Eve
Arden, Douglas Fowley, John Shee-
han and many others.
1t introduces a new personality
to local audiences, Ruth Terry, the
Little Cupcake" of Hollywood. Miss
Terry is the 1S-year-old actress Wan
ger pulled out of nowhere and pIac-
ed in the leading role opposite Pat
O'Brien. Although this is her first
major screen role, advance reports
claim the Irish miss handles her
assignment like a veteran, and more
than holds her own in the face of
real acting competition. Ruth is cast
as Ann Seymour, a vivacious and
lively night club entertainer, who
adopts Pat O'Brien as her man"
when he rescues her from a man
handling admirer.
Special shorts include bill of
Rights" in Tecnnicolor, a Loony Car
toon "Porky's Movie Mystery"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-02
'Tower Of London Is
Billed AT The Bijou

One of the bloodiest and most dra-
matte periods in all history. the
lighting 18th century, will reach the
screen when UniversaI's "Tower of
London opens Tuesday at the Bijou
'leatre.
4 year in the making, the new
mama offers Basil Rathbone in per
\2s his strongest role as the dia,
osls Richard III, Infamous Crook.
luck king, and includes some of
li'lyWood's ablest dramatic players
IN It's cast of hundreds.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Reciprocal Trade
Resolution Approved
By House Group
Vote on Controversial
Measure Is l4-l0; Now
Ready for Consideration

e, the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee today approved bill renew
ing authority for the administration
to negotiate reciprocal trade agree
ments.
Members said the vote to report
the bill favorably was IA to 10, with
one member voting present.
The committees action makes the
measure-one of the sessions most
controversial proposals-ready fol
House consideration, but when II
will be taken up will depend on
the wishes of the leadership.
Authority under which the Presi-
dent, through the State Depart
ment, now negotiates trade treaties
expires June 12 The pending meas
ure would extend it for three years
from that date.
The Ways and Means Committee
only recently completed its hearings
on the bill, which has aroused
strong Republican and some Demo-
cratic opposition. Secretary Hull
leading exponent of the reciprocal
treaty method of lowering tariffs
testified the system should be con-
tinued both as an immediate help
to the development of international
commerce and as an eventual aid to
the creation OF world peace.
Opponents included various trade,
labor and agriculture groups, which
argued that American markets were
adversely affected by lowering tariff
barriers.
The National Grange opposed and
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton defended continuation of the
authority. Opponents said that If
they were unable to end trade agree
ments entirely they would attempt to
subject them to ratification by the
Senate.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
British Volunteers
To Leave This Week

LONDON, Feb. 8 (P.-The first
contingent of British volunteers may
be off to Finland next week. Unoff1-
'cjal reports said hundreds OF ap-
plicants were being enrolled by the
Finnish Legation to leave as soon as
possible.
Only men over q years old-out-
side the classes likely to be called
this year for Britain's Army-are
free to go. The British government
has taken no formal part in the
work, which is being supervised by
Firms here.
British volunteers will be in addi-
ton to warplanes and other ma
terial already on the way from
here to Finland. Foreign Under
secretary R. A. Butler yesterday
affirmed in the House of Commons
that Britain, realizing "the urgency
of this matter" was taking every
measure short of actual interven-
ton to get material aid to the
Firms quickly.
George Gordon Vereker, former
counselor of the British Embassy
In Moscow, was appointed British
Minister to Finland yesterday, sue
ceeding T. M. Snow.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
| Radio Pot o. Gold
|Foces Lottery
Investigation

The Federal Communications
Commission today sent to the De-
partment of Justice report on two
radio programs with the view to
having them tested in the courts to
decide whether they are lotteries.
One is the POT O. Gold" program
which is broadcast on Tuesday eve
nings. The Communications Act
prohibits the broadcasting of any
advertising or information concern
ing lottery.
The commission has been flooded
with a number of complaints against
the Pot O. Gold program, which
awards a prize of $1,000 each week.
The winner is selected by spinning
a hand on a dial which selects a
telephone directory. Another spin
ming selects the page and another
the number on the page which
determines the name and the phone
number.
The other case which was sent to
the Justice Department involved a
program of a bakery at Wichita
Falls and Big Springs. both in Texas.
The latter case involved a so-called
mystery woman, who, it was an
nounced, would call at various
homes. If the householder called
upon was able to produce a loaf of
bread made by the bakery IS would
be paid for it.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
DC. Job Insurance Amendment
Threatened From Two Sides
National Interests Hit Liberalization
Of Benefits; 1Looseness' in Bill Cited

the disclosure that representatives
of powerful national business inter-
ests had come to Washington pre-
pared to wage fight against ap-
proval of the bill, on the arguments
that the proposed new benefit pay
ment plan would be too extreme"
and that its adoption might estab-
lish it as model" which later
might be forced on the States.
Corrections in Prospect.
On the other hand. several key
omcials-in sympathy with the
move to extend much more liberal
benefits to the jobless-agreed nu-
merous features of the bill were
loosely drawn" or needed "clarifi-
cation" or might result in in
equities" They voiced belief cor
rections could be made in the draft
without destroying desired objec-
tives.
Acting independently of national
business interests, Lawrence E. Will
liams. president of the Washington
Board of Trade. today requested
delay in action on the bill to permit
Evening star., 1940-02-08
France Has 275,000
In Near East Army,
Paris DiscIoses
Gen. Weyeond
Arrives in Egypt to
Inspect Defenses
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 8.-Authorized French
sources disclosed today that France
has 275,000 troops concentrated in
the Near East under the command
of Gen. Maxine Weygand.
These sources said this figure COM
pared with a German estimate of
10000 and a Russian of 100000.
Gen. Weygand, 72-year-old former
chief of the French general staff and
Marshal Foch's right-hand man in
later stages of the World War, is in
Egypt inspecting British and Egyp-
tian defenses. 1t. Gen. Sir Archi-
bald P. Wavell is the British COM
mander in chief of Middle Eastern"
forces.
Wcygand to Head Allied Force.
Previous French statements have
made it clear that should the war
spread to the Near East Gen. Wey-
gand would command the allied
forces. These presumably would in
clude in addition to the British
command of perhaps 100000 men
the Turkish Army, already at a
strength of 100000 and capable of
considerable expansion. Turkey has
mutual aid pacts with the allies.
Gen. Weygand arrived at Cairo
yesterday by air from Syria, where
most of his command is concen-
trated. He was accompanied by Ad-
miral Jean Esteva, commander in
chief of the French Mediterranean
fleet. The French asserted their
visit had no special significance.
Since the outbreak of the war
Egypt broke diplomatic relations
with Germany and has intensified
training an army begun three years
ago with the aid of British mill
tary mission.
Prepare for Any Eventuality.
Confirmation that France and
Britain were preparing powerful
army in the Near East was given
semi officially in Paris January %.
In terming Russian "guesses" that
100000 men were concentrated in
Syria under Gen. Weygand mani
festly exaggerations," statement
said:
THE allies will have in the Near
East at the necessary moment suf-
flcient men to face any eventuality."
French asserted the army was de-
signed to cope with any German
thrust southeast into the Balkans.
Gen. Weygand only two weeks ago
conferred in Ankara on Turkish
collaboration with the allies.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Feb. Germany
acknowledged today the loss of
236,957 tons of shipping since the
beginning of the war, but declared
that her enemies and neutral coun-
tries had lost ,493, ,431 tons.
Germany's losses were given as
AZ ships and enemy and neutral
losses as at least 400 ships sunk
up to the end of January. =
In addition, 1854 neutral merchant
men were taken to German ports to
be disposed of in prize court pro-
ceedings, said high command COM
munique.
The high command said that all
354 ships had been brought into Ger
man ports. but that figures on how
many we're later released ARE not
readily available" Some were known
to have been freed.
Germany's losses were put at 49,
1876 tons of shipping confiscated at
the outbreak of the war in enemy
ports; 1926 tons seized and 14l,-
SIS tons scuttled to avoid seizure.
The high command and other Of
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Hull Admits
RussiaMayHave
Violated Pact
Recognition, However.
Hinges Not Wholly
On 1t, He Asserts

The State Department admitted
in a letter to the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee today that this
Government has had several occa-
sions since 1888 to believe that
Russia was not living up wholly to
obligations made when the Soviet
regime was recognized, but advised
the committee that maintaining
diplomatic relations is not wholly
contingent on those obligations"
Secretary of State Hull was reply
ing to the committees request for
his views on the Vandenberg resolu-
ton, seeking to have the President
report to the Senate whether the
Soviet government has fulfilled the
agreements entered into at the time
it was recognized by the United
States.
The letter contained arguments
for retaining diplomatic relations as
means of seeking adjustment and
correction of agreements which this
country may feel have not been fully
kept. The following is significant
excerpt:
although the agreements Of
November 16, 1888, between the
two governments were concluded
simultaneously with the estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations
between them, the maintenance
of diplomatic relations has not been
made wholly contingent as the
wording of the resolution would ap-
pear to indicate, on the fulflllment
by the Soviet government Of the OBJ
legations set forth in those agree
ments Whenever this Government
has cause to believe that another
government has failed to live up to
agreements with it, it is accustomed
to make use of the very channels
which exist by virtue of diplomatic
relations, in order to bring this fail
ure to the attention of the other
government, to endeavor to effect
an adjustment of resultant diver
gencies of views and to attempt to
prevent similar differences from
tdhllle pldSC Al VIC 4ueoiC'
Vandenburg Cites Flint Case.
Senator Vandenburg, Republican
of Michigan promptly issued state
ment taking issue with the depart
ment's belief in the value of retain
ing diplomatic relations. and citing
the experience of the American Am
bassador in the case of the City OF
/ Flint, the American merchant ves-
sci which was taken into a Russian
port by German prize crew and
taken out again before it was
finally returned to its own crew by
Norway.
The State Department" Sem
ator Vandenherg declared, politely
convicts Moscow of two definite
breaches in the Litvinoff pledges
prior to the disclosures of the Dies
Committee and the Department of
(Coo DTICCIAN Dooo AdA
Evening star., 1940-02-08
French Turn Back
Russian Protest on
Paris Office Raid
Surrender of Documents
Seized by Police Is
Demanded by Moscow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS.
PARIS. Feb. 8.-The French
government was reliably reported
today to have refused to consider a
Soviet Russian protest against po-
lice raid Monday on the Russian
commercial Office in Paris.
Sources close to the foreign Of
flee said the protest lodged by So
Wet Ambassador Jakob Surits could
not be entertained, as neither the
trade representatives nor the COM
mercial Offices had diplomatic i'm
munity.
Three Russian commercial agents
were held during the raid, foreign
Office sources said, but later were
released.
1t was disclosed that Immediately
after the raid Surits demanded the
government release the agents and
return the seized documents.
Informed sources said the Soviet
envoy was told that diplomatic i'm
munity for the agents expired last
December 81 with the French Rus
sian trade agreement and that the
offices, even under the agreement,
never had had extraterritorial priv
ileges.
The reason for the raid was not
disclosed officially, but some sources
said they believed the action to be
part of the governments campaign
to wipe out Communist propaganda
in France.
The cabinet last September 26
outlawed the Communist party in
France and forbade propaganda of
the Communist International.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Tweedsmuir's S Condition
Causes Grave Anxiety

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Feb. 8.-The condition
of Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor Cen
eral of Canada, is causing grave
anxiety" said bulletin issued to-
day from Government House.
Lord Tweelsmuir, 64, suffered q
conclusion of the brain Tuesday
morning when he fell in his dressing
room.
Today's bulletin said:
"His excellency spent restless
night and his condition this morn
ing gives rise to grave anxiety on ac-
count of his increasing weakness. !"
The bulletin was signed by DR..
Jonathan Meakins of Montreal, DR..
Gordon Gum of Ottawa, the Gov
ernor Generals personal physician,
and 1t. Col. Colin Russell
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Former Ambassador
Dodd Is Critically III
Al Round Hill Home
Historian in Coma From
Pneumonia; Oxygen
Is Administered

DR.. William Edward Dodd, his
torian and former Ambassador to
Germany, is critically i'll at his
Round Hill (vaD home, his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alfred Stern, disclosed to-
day.
She said that he contracted pneu-
monia last night and now is in
coma. A local physician, working
under direction of DR.. Theodore j.
Abernethy of Washington, has been
administering oxygen.
For the past year DR.. Dodd has
been suffering from paralysis of the
throat, she stated, but has not been
confined to his home
At the bedside were the diplomats
son, William E. Dodd, jr., and Mr..
and Mrs. Stern. They said that they
had little hope for his recovery.
DR.. Dodd, a former president of
the American Historical Association,
has been engaged since his retire
ment as Ambassador in writing q
projected four volume history of the
South. One volume has been pub
lished, but work on the second has
been delayed recently by his poor
health.
The educators career as American
envoy to Berlin, from 1888 to 1887,
was stormy He sailed for Germany
welcoming his assignment to do
trying work" He left Germany
with chilly farewell.
After his return, German Ambas-
sador Hans Dieckhof protested that
Mr.. Dodd had made "unheard-of
insults" to the Reich.
AS Ambassador, he created stir
by protesting, while on vacation
here, about the acceptance by his
Charge d'Affaires, Prentiss Gilbert,
of an invitation to attend Nazi
party congress.
From Berlin he warned of
dictatorship" plot in the United
States, backed by an unidentified
American millionaire.
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Rockville, Nd, Scoops Boston
On Emerson Stomp; War Is On
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A new stamp war broke out to-
day involving Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, Mark Twain, Postmaster Cen
eral Farley, couple Of Congress
members and six cities.
Take the affair Emerson first:
The Scent Emerson stamps were
sent to post onices throughout the
Nation with instructions that they
were not to go on sale until after
Boston started selling them on Feb
ruary 5.
That is the usual case with COM
memoratlve stamps. Some city Is
given the honor Of selling them first
Evening star., 1940-02-08
400 Allied and Neutral Ships
Sunk, Nozi Command Claims
354 Taken in for Prize Proceeding, Reich
Chiefs Soy; Admit ~ Germun Vessels Lost

ficial sources. in reporting that al
lied and neutral merchant shipping
losses were approaching 100000
tons, contended Germany's counter
blockade effectively was Tightening
up on Great Britain.
There was no comment, however,
on the fact that the British and
French Navies largely had swept
German shipping from the high
seas while British ships were striv-
ing to maintain commerce and that
consequently there we're many more
targets for German submarines and
warplanes than for the allied navies.
German quarters, however, con-
cluded from the announced figures
that the record established an in
creasing effectiveness on the part OF
the German sea war.
CThe German figures are
higher than from other sources.
An Associated Press survey
showed 928,104 tons of allied and
neutral merchant shipping were
sent to the bottom by mine, tor
pedo, shell or aerial bomb or
(See NAVAL, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1940-02-08

and philatelists value highly stamps
and letters from the first day" post
ofiices.
But philatelists discovered to their
horror some Of the Emerson stamps
in the mails before the sale started
In Boston.
They bore postmarks Of Salt Lake
City, Harrisburg, Pa; Rockville, Nd,
and Summerville, S. G.
Bootleg stamps" shouted one
group Of collectors.
But valuable neverth eless," said
another school.
While the Post once Department
(see STAMPS, Page A-14J
Evening star., 1940-02-08
Wide Police Raids
Charged by Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (P).-The Soviet
Union has accused French police of
widespread raids against Russians
and Russian agencies in Paris and
has demanded surrender of docu-
ments allegedly seized from the
Soviet trade Office there.
Tass, official Russian News Agency
announced both the raids and a
resulting diplomatic protest in q
communique last night.
The communique charged that,
besides the raid on the trade Of
flee, police also searched the prem
ises of Intourist, an organization
which assists foreign travel in Rus
sia, a former Soviet school, and
residences of certain members of
the trade mission.
Protest Lodged Monday.
Tass said the raids came last
Monday morning on verbal instruc-
tions of the prefect of police" The
Russian Ambassador to Paris, Jakob
Surits, lodged protest with the
French foreign Office Monday after
noon.
About 100 men in civilian attire
rushed" into the Office of the Rus
sian trade representative, Tass de-
clared. Members of the trade mis-
sion who arrived for work in the
midst of the search were taken to
their homes, where searches also
were made. Filing cabinets and
safes were reported broken open
at the trade office.
The Tass announcement said
Surits, the envoy, demanded
through two staff members that
police clear out of the trade office
and return papers taken from places
of safe-keeping. The police, it was
said, refused.
Surits was reported to have sent
representatives to the place as soon
as he heard of the raid. He got
wind of it despite the raiders pre-
caution of switching off the Offices
telephone service.
Recalls ARGOS Incident.
The Soviet protest offers a strik-
ing parallel to the sensational, but
now all-but-forgotten ARGOS Incl
dent" which led to the severance of
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and the U. S. S. r. on May
"a, 1927.
On May IL, British police, under
orders from the late Sir William
Joynson-Hicks, then home secre-
tary. raided the London headquar-
ters of ARGOS, Ltd, the Soviet trad
ing company, on search for sub
versive documents. Sir William, who
died in 1882 as Viscount Brentford,
was administrator of the British de-
fense-of -the-realm act at the time
of the raid.
No announcement was made of
the nature of what, if any, evidence
was seized. The U. S. S. RS great
est foreign trade in the preceding
year bad been with Great Britain.
The raid touched of demonstra-
tions in Moscow where paraders
carried caricatures Of the late Sir
Austen Chamberlain, then British
foreign secretary and q halt brother
Of the present British prime minister