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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
JUDGES PENSION
HIT BY COOPER
He Compares $500 A
Year With Teachers 81
Cents Per Month

GREENVILLE, April g Up -
Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Coop
er sound-trucked into Greenville to
day and told a large throng, "t Is
time lawyers put their minds to IN
terpreting laws and let farmers
merchants and mule dealers make
laws"
He pointed out tnat most of his
opponents for the democratic CUBE
material nomination are lawyers and
that he, in addition TO being mayor
of Wilmington, is a mule dealer.
Cooper began his sound truck
campaign yesterday and blared out
his campaign arguments today en-
route to Elizabeth City where ne
will address a meeting tonight.
Advocating elimination of the
sales tax through a reduction OF
one-half per cent each blennlum'
Cooper told the Greenville throns
there is no need for the state TO
take $4,000 from your pockets
through this iniquitous tax on pow
erty so long as those politicians IN
Raleigh have $50, 900, 900 to play
around with"
Cooper criticized the general as
sembly of 1889 for giving supreme
court Justice $500 a year for ex-
pense, saying, cit seems funny those
lawyers could, ~ subterfuge, in
crease pay of these men who get
$4,000 a year by $1,5Oo when teach
ers, who get less than $1,000 a year
were given only 81 cents a month
raise"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

tried praying, but that 1t dlun
seem 10 do any good. DeMille sale
he'd rehearse the youngster hll
self and went into the nursery
With great dramatic feeling he be
gan to intone:
Now I lay me down to sleep;
"I pray the Lord my soul
The kneeling Cecilia, hands clasp
ed. face turned beautifically heaV
onward, interrupted with a station
announcement:
"This is the voice of Cecil B. De
Mile, coming to you from Holly
wood now go on, grandpa
Hard To Train
Gals As Ladies
On the set of Pride and PreJu-
| dice, an amused technical advls
er was telling what a tough JOB II
is to make young actresses behaVe
like proper ladies of 1920. AS soon
as they feel at ease in a scene, the
Misses Ann Rutherford, Maureen
O'Sullivan, Heather Angel a n d
others begin to walk too briskly and,
worst of all, to collapse in chairs
and cross their legs.
While he talked, I kept glanclns
across the set at another visitor, a
gray-haired, solidly-built English
army officer. About the time I de-
cided I had neve seen him before,
he walked around a n d asked
whether 1 was trying to high-hat
somebody. That sent me into a flus'
ter of phony cordially while try
ing to place the guy. I W a S still
sparring when a man came up and
said, Mr.. Taylor, they'll be ready
for you pretty Don on Stage 1S."
It was an amazing job of makeup
especially without any plastic inlays
to change the contours of his face
For a few scenes in "Waterloc
Bridge" Bob Taylor had aged tc
4S with nothing but grease paint
gray hair and enough padding to
make him slightly thicker in the
body.
He opened his fur-collared over
coat and I got a flash of decora'
tons, campaign ribbons and insig
MIA. The colonel, I observed respect
fully, had been having quite a dis
tinguished career. Taylor S a i d
Yeah, it looks that way, when the
stuff's in sight. They went through
a stack of books this high to b.
sure that ali the medals and cam
paign bars were exactly right, but
I don't even unbutton my %overcoat
during the sequence.
Same way with my hair-the,
do my whole head instead of jus
the side, although 1 don't take of
my hat. I'm surprised they dom
undress me and paint an old wounC
on my thigh"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
At Last Bethany
Gets His Girl

You may be glad to know that
Ralph Belamy is about to win a gal
in a picture. Not for years, since he
took on his familiar characterize
ton as a safe, steady, reliable gent,
a paragon of all the duller virtues,
has poor MI. Bellamy tripped altar
ward in triumph at the fadeout. He
always just folded up his umbrella
and went back to Topeka.
= 4 4
In one of the Brown Derby booths,
a green little actress and an admir-
err were finishing a quarrel. "Okay,"
said the man, with a shrug in his
voice. But if you think you're
married to your art, why don't you
try suing it for non-support?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
Large Grab Catches
Reported At Beaufort

BEAUFORT, April 9.0P-Alvah
Taylor of Sea Level reported today
that more than 80 boats of a
grabbing fleet had grounded in
shallow waters entering the COM
munity's small natural harbor last
week.
Crab cargoes are being unloaded
from large boats out in the sound
and ferried in to the docks aboard
small skiffs, he said.
Taylor said fishermen of the
community haG brought in ap-
proximately $4,000 pounds of crabs
valued at $4,000 during the week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

operations OF the
U. S. Maritime
Commission.
Under this en-
barge, the COM
mission is refus-
ing to charter U.
s. cargo vessels
to either Japa-
nese or Russian
a g e n t S. L S t
charter executed
to Russia was on
Dec. 1, 1889,
shortly after the
Finnish invasion
when an Ameri,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
RAL E G II
B r T FS
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By HENRY AVERILL

RALEIGH, April 9.-The second
weeks voting in the Sandhill Citi-
zens' gubernatorial straw vote saw
a considerable pickup on the part
of Lieutenant Governor w. P. Hor-
ton and Commissioner of Revenue
Allen j. Maxwell, while j. M,
Broughton and Tom Cooper, tied for
the lead on the first weeks returns,
did not fare so well.
In votes received curing the sec
ond week Horton was first, with 3
per cent, Maxwell and Broughton
trailing him closely with 10 per cent
each. Lee Gravely had Is per CEN,
Cooper and Paul Grady - per cent
each and Arthur Simmons contin.
ued to keep his record intact with
no votes at all.
For all ballots received during
the two weeks, Broughton led with
26 e cent against 2S per cent the
previous week., with Cooper in
second place, % per cent (compar-
ed with his first place tie at % per
cent the previous week.. Following
in order were Horton II, Maxwell
Is, GrGvely II and Grady r,
This campaign has not yet begun
to get J. M. Broughton down-at
least not in weight. Your reporter
saw him Monday morning, COM
mented on how we'll he looked.
Eyes, I've gained four or five
pounds-guess I'll have to take
some exercise" smiled the man who
has Travelled more than 10000 miles
over all sorts of North Carolina
roads in ar automobile in the la
couple of months.
By the way, Broughton did not
get to Ocracoke for the weekend
His son Melville, Jr., was partici-
pating in the state debating cham
pionships (was on the winning
team, incidentally and the candi-
da'2 would have gone too far inside
the family doghouse had he not
been present to his progeny per-
form.
Legislators ,who seek to discard
the states lethal gas chamber and
go ack to electrocution as the
method Of executing criminals ere
likely to have opposition next year
from the fellow who introduced the
death by gas" measure now in
force.
DR.. Charles A. Peterson, Spruce
Pines republican, has ;
his candidacy from the Thirtieth
senatorial district (Avery, Madison,
Mitchell and Yancey).
The district is almost always over
whelmingly republican, but Peter
son must first overcome the formid-
able party opposition furnished by
Jeter C. Burleson, Mitchelrs repre-
sentative in the 1887 and 1899
houses.
e. T. Bost, Jr., Of CabarruS can
be added to the veteran house mem
bers standing for reelection this
spring. He has formally tossed his
hat into the ring. He served in 1887
and 1899.
Another county hobs up with
managers of the same last name for
rival candidates. In Washington
John w. Darden is boss Of the Ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

OLLIE
(By The Associated Press)

PHILADELPHIA - With tremb
ling hands a bandit pressed a re
volver against Mrs. Edith Graff,
wife of a drug store proprietor
while a companion looted the cash
register.
II wish you wouldn't be so ner-
vous," Mrs. Graft remarked.
Hes got a right to be, lady,
said the confederate, stuffing S9'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

The supermarine Spitfire, Eng
Ii eight-gun monoplane fighter,
supposedly t h e fastest military
plane yet in large production, is re-
ported to be able to travel at a
maximum level speed of 1862 miles
an hour at 1880 feet. To climb
from sea level to L 1000 feet, car
rying full load, takes 4.8 minutes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
RIP VAN WINkLE, 1aln

B~LUEFIELD, W. Va. H.,
Compton went to bed and to,, |
sister not to disturb him. ~
Five days later the o6.,.,.
railroad worker aroused -nfs..
ly at a hospital to take non.s,
mont but failed to recogstla
bers of his family. -
Physicians said the long qb,n,
apparently resulted from An .
dental overdose of a seda",s W.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
In Hollywood

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, April Cecil
DeMille's admitted oneness with
Cod which prompted Charles
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
BEHIND THE SCENES
TN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The
"moral embargo which the admin
istration has pronounced against ag
gressor nations extends even to the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

Laughton to eX-
claim "How cozy'!
h a S enhanced
t h e producers
prestige within
his own family.
Other evening,
while visiting his
daughters home,
DeMille was told
that his 4-year-
old ~granddaugh-
ter, Cecilia, was
flatly refusing to
say her prayers.
Her explanation
wds that she had
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

Eggs are laid at the rate of 76(
every second by the hens in thu
United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

can steamer was Cndileleu " ldhe
oil from San Francisco to Vladlvo-
stok. Since then, two other appllca-
tions have been refused.
At first it was given out that the
government didn't like to have its
ships traipsing Oil to far ports I'm
der alien control when a war was
on. This wasn't wholly convincing,
since charters to places farther
than Vladivostok are being execut-
ed: so o it is quietly admitted
that the moral embargo is the cause
of it.
RIDICULE HEADS
CONGRESSIONAL SHOW
A little untimely ridicule headed
off what would have been one of
the most gaudy congressional shows
of the year.
Congressman William T. Schultz
of Indiana had demanded a con-
gressional investigation of sooth-
sayers, tea-leaf readers, fortune tell
ers, mediums and what-not in Wash
ington. He had things all fixed; the
investigation was going to start
just when Blackstone, the magician,
was filling a local theatrical en-
gagement. A friend of Schultz,
Blackstone was going to appear be-
fore the committee and expose the
tricks of the soothsayers' art, with
personal demonstrations.
Just before it was to happen,
however, some newspaper printed a
story remarking sarcastically that
congress, which was in a trance
anyhow, was Sping to investigate
the rcfessional&trance-addicts. The
story made Schelte and his fellow
committeeman sd SORE they dropped
the whole thing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

Smoking was called drinking" by
early English tobacco users.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

into his pockets. Hes gettir.
ried next week" : "ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10
PINCH HITTER

= AANoAA
NEOSHO, Mo. - A doctor met
Census Taker John L. oliver at the
door of the Roy Wecklin home. He
rushed oliver inside and put him
to work boiling water in prepara-
ton for delivery of a baby.
week.-Mrs. son arrived safely but
Oliver won't get id for listing
him. Only births before April 1 are
recorded.
well setup, while Representative
Wilbu1 Darden is heading the
Broughton brigade.
Of ali the gubernatorial candi-
dates, A. J.. Maxwell is the only one
who has ever carried a union ar
The commissioner Of revenue was
a member of the Typographical un-
ion while he worked on numerous
newspapers in the east. He contin-
ued his membership as long as he
worked at the printing trade.
Broughton headquarters has ex-
banded its clerical force and John
tPeele, publicist-in-chief, has been,
he says, pushed off the m~ezzanine."
He now has a sanctum of his own
on the very first floor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

Another county hobs up with
managers of the same last name for
rival candidates. In Washington
John w. Darden is boss of the Ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-10

E. T. Bost, Jr., Of Cabarrus can
be added to the veteran house mem
bers standing for reelection this
spring. He has formally tossed his
hat into the ring. He served in 1887
and 1899.
Evening star., 1940-07-28
Best Snapshots
Of the week in
The Stars
Amateur Contest

Contestonts receive 81 for
eoch photo published with the
weekly S. prize winner. All
photos published will be con-
sidered at the end Of the con-
test for The Stor's four SIS
grond owords. Winners Of the
9rond owords will compete in
the national owords poyinq
$4,000, including erond prize
worth $500. Photos must
have been token otter Nay II,
1910, to be eligible. Photos ore
not returned. Do not submit
negatives.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

to see Mr. Mel Ballerino and he took me to see
Mr. Wood"
Sam Wood had a part for little girl who
didn't look too prosperous. After one scene
with Betty. he ordered Rangers of Fortune
rewritten for her.
On the lot Betty was, personally, sensa
ton. She liked everybody, catered to nobody.
couldn't be spoiled.
At home the child's cheerful and incisive
realism plus the wonder of what she has
done - keeps her in the captains position.
She budgets the money. Her eight weeks in
Rangers of Fortune netted her $3.50. When
talked with Betty, three weeks after shooting
closed. she showed me her bank book - IN
her name She still had an even $500!
'How do you do it," asked.
She ratified off items: Thirty two fifty rent,
two-fifty light bill; those are the worst things.
1t costs to live
How about food?"
Five dollars week. thought of the five
mouths to feed, and she noticed my expression
Evening star., 1940-10-13

II@ETTY," said to the child who had
just stolen the picture Rangers of
- Fortune right away from Fred
MacMuray and Patricia Morrison, when you
started earning this money, weren't you
tempted to buy lot of clothes?"
Why" inquired Betty. Il wasn't going
anywhere"
Quite frankly the starlet quoted me costs on
her unique private wardrobe:
DeSS. .............. .Sl.5U
Coat .................$ SIS
Shoes. .$Z.OO
3pair socks ......$ 80
Didn't you buy some underthings?"
yes" She showed thirteen-year- -old's
normal embarrassment
well, how much? Fifty cents set?"
MY! Not that much
'Twenty-hve?"
Betty grinned. You can put down twenty
five if you want to- Two SETS"
Betty explained that was all she needed.
Il just wear my dress to the studio and back,
Evening star., 1940-10-13
SELF STARTER
What does it a movie to live? $1250 a week,
according Betty Brewer whose invasion Of Hollywood
reads like THE Grapes of Wrath h-with happy ending
by Lupfon a. Wilkinson

and can wash and iron things at night and
have them fresh next morning" When per-
mitted she still wears her faded denim overalls
a one garment wardrobe she much prefers
Director Sam Wood, of Good bye Mr. Chips,
Our Town and Kitty Foyle fame, says of the
new young actress, "Her personality is 50
clear, so fortnight and alive. that it comes
to the directors hand readymade"
In Rangers of Fortune Betty plays pert
youngster who cracks the whip over band of
outlaws of screen Betty is more amazing.
Her determination, grit and decisions pulled
the Brewers, a family of five, out of the Grapes
of-Wrath economic class
How did you folks happen to leave Joplin.
Missouri" l asked
well" - Betty's brown eyes are deep and
clear; she talks in steady. busiresslike way
Papa was working in place where they
melt lead. 1t isn't 50 good for health. He
wasn't feeling good when he worked, and.it
got 50 he only had work about one week out
of five. We had an aunt in Sacramento. She
Evening star., 1940-10-13

prised when Betty
told the chauffeur,
grandly, Right
around the block. "
(Next day a basket
of food arrived. and,
at Christmas another
basket with a warm
note. Tears came to
Betty's eyes when
she told me. Think
of it! She didn't for
get u.s.
How did you get
in the movies?" l
asked Betty.
We'll, Mr.. Tim
Whelan took me to
see Mr.. Arthur Jacob
son and he took me
Evening star., 1940-10-13

of surprise 1--WE have the things we need
most, every day" she assured me.
"How about amusement"
I'VE go to ten-cent movie Saturday after
noon all Westerns They're swell"
Thae's much outdoor play. and the family
listens to ball games On the radio. And
music. You know. said Betty. there are lots
of pleasant things you can do right at home.
Woouse some people just like to run around"
Betty helps with sweeping, beds. dishes,
"and keeping Clean" She explains. I'm the
strongest one in the family"
Il certainly think you'd have felt like
cutting loose and spending some money"
said. Its marvellous you've saved five hun
dred dollars"
WELL" said Betty. I'D look silly if 1
hadn't. How do know they'll have another
picture for me? I'm laid off now. amt T."
Edvcotion.Bovnd
HE ''ain't'' reminded me- In all this NOV
ing around, how about schooling?"
These boards of education attend to that.
They sort of run you down.
What are you going to do if you don't get
more picture work."
Whether get it or not" said Betty, I'm
going to have education"
learned that Betty is studying hairdress-
ing. She also takes singing lessons, but admits,
with flashing smile, MY voice mayn't be
much" Among her hopes stated with as near
an approach to wistfulness as her sturdy heart
allows, is TO learn about fixing home right"
Slightly dazed, fired one more question:
Did you find acting difficult"
Il was little scared. But Mr.. Wood made
it easy He explained to me - it isn't what
you say that matters, but how you feel.'
when Sam Wood heard the line, he threw
up his hands: Some actresses don't learn that
in twenty-five years.
After a gap, Betty's one-pictue deal was
succeeded by term contract. dropped
around to the set of The Round Up - poor
Miss Morisons in that, too - to offer Betty
my congratulations
How much are you making now?"
''Seventy-fve week" she said. beaming
1T sounds like cut, but I've six months
guar 'ntee."
And what do you save?"
Well "a worried look Il try to put
twenty-five in the bank each week, but l
don't always exactly make it"
SOL Now you're spending nearly fifty dol
lars a week.
"What!" Betty was deeply shocked. "You
must think I'm crazy. You see, under my new
contract, half of all make goes into trust
fund. So I really only get thirty y-seven-ffty
week."
Out of that comes support for a family of
five and not always exactly" SIS week in
the bank!
ANY new clothes?" asked weakly.
What for?"
staggered away. to think about where l
and my friends might be if we had run our
lives as sensibly as Starlet Betty.
Wild life in Hollywood!
Tks End
y
Evening star., 1940-10-13

wrote things weren't 50 good there, either.
but figured they couldn't be worse"
You were the one who decided to come
out?"
YES" (She was eleven then.) I'VE had
j1Ioppy. So We Just joined the Other ja3oppies."
The amt's husband had a bad winter.
There were no Sacramento jobs for Brewer.
That was when Betty started taking sister
Ilene (the two were then eleven and nme)
singing at picnics - self-mvited - and other
places where the cops wouldn't chase them.
This led. finally, to two songs at a banquet
given by the Governor of California. Their
denim oveIalls were always clean; Betty and
IIene delivered their hillbilly ballads with
fortnight air; they were selling entertain
ment)
How did you like the Governor S banquet"
1T was pretty awful for me. was too
scared to eat fast, knowing I'd have to sing
before all those people. The walters kept
putting food in front of me, and then taking
it away before l could begin to eat it. l nearly
cied.'
Had you been actually hungry much?"
Aqute unforgettable look darkened Betty's
eyes. Then she laughed quick: "Hah! 1t
isn't so bad. You get 50 you just sort of forget
about eating, and then it isn't bad"
What did you eat, when you did eat?"
"Spuds!" said Betty bitterly. "Spuds and
beans
Betty burned with the feeling that the
Brewer family had to rise above spuds and
beans - and empty plates Their second win
ter approached, and winters are cold in north
ern California. BY hook or crook Betty man.
aged to save stake of quarters and dimes.
The old jaloppy was tinkered into running
shape.
Did you have the movies in mind when
you came to Los Angeles?" asked.
oh. I'd thought about it, but it was just
wild idea. Mostly, it would be warmer here
- and things couldn't be worse"
Trouble with Sonny Boy
lHE Brewer family found bottom-rent shell
ter huddled in backyard shack; on the
other side of the fence was the rear wall of a
Hollywood night club. This was meat to
Betty She and Ilene would climb over the
fence at night, slip around to the front of the
club - and go hillbily by the entrance. Life
was complicated by Sonny Boy, now eight,
who insisted on adding his voice. Hes 50 lit
tle We got chased oftener on account of him."
One night the cops really got them. but
Mary Pickford came out of the club just then
and said. Officer, III be responsible Ill take
these children home. Miss Pickford was sur
Drised when Rettv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
1hESbOrting
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Spinning The Sports Wheel
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

Jack Doyle quoted against Detroit winning the American League pennnt Greenbg went the and schooboy Rowe was an uncertain Once again rain gave the Yankees
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 Charley Clare the New Haven golfer from Race Brook who set
 record at Waterbury has peddled insurance well during
 general agent for big Bay State company will handle the Elm
 City office He averaging better than $lOoOoo
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 apart The Idea to ougues the Major and you o he will take
 you his
 picks College shade a (
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