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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
UNITED STATES AND JAPAN
Durham Herald

How far is the United States prepared to
60 in the Far East and in what direction?
Japan has been, it appears, going as far
as it pleases her and in the direction of her
choice, subject, of course, to Chinese re-
sistance.
Currently, Indo-China, possession of the help
less Vichy French Government appears to be
Japan's immediate goal. 1t is denied at Tokyo,
but general impression is that the Japs nave
demanded the right to send troops through
Indo-China, which naturally means taking over
control.
Secretary of State Hull has recognized the
report to the extent of formally reminding
the japanese Government that the United
States attaches great importance to China
and anticipates maintenance of the status quo
in that area. At the same time he reiterated
this Governments determination to insist upon
it's rights in the matter of policing British
vacated segments of the international settle
ment of Sanghai.
Admiral Hart, ranking American spokesman
in that section, has stepped ashore from his
cruiser in Shanghai.
Outwardly, then, it appears as if the United
States is prepared to 60 as far in the Far
East as the protection of asserted rights de-
mands. And Secretary Hull probably correctly
estimated the feelings of the American public
when he advised the japanese Government
that open Intervention in Indo-China would
have an unfortunate effect upon public opin-
ion in the United States"
It seems to us, however, that if managers
of this Governments policy have decided thai
appeasement is out in dealing with Japan
which Secretary HulIs attitude suggests, Their
they are heading into the day when they will
have to match words with action.
Perhaps speak firmly and tread softly is
the best the United States can do pending q
Qualification of the Battle of Britain, since we
cannot well tie up our naval forces in the Far
East so long as the odds are against the Brit
ish standing off Hitler in the Atlantic.
But Japan soon may be ready to risk moves
that will compel us to cease speaking firmly
or tread just as firmly. And we ought to start
making up our mind now whether or not we
are going to soften our words or harden our
deeds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
q WILMINGTON
ALIENS REGISTER
Women Who Wed Aliens
After Sept. 1922 Also
Must Register

Twenty-eight aliens have beer
registered here to date under the
federal law requiring the finger.
printing and registration of all
foreign-born unnaturalized per.
sons, A. B. Bradshaw, secretary
to the civil service commission,
VINO has charge of the work, said
Thursday.
The tingerprinting and registra.
ton of aliens was started about
two weeks ago and the work is
scheduled to be completed within
another few weeks.
Bradshaw pointed out that
women married to aliens be-
ginning September 1922 and WHO
have not had their citizenship es.
taohshed are required to register.
he gave as an example a
woman, born in this state and who
has never left the United States
but who married an alien. who is
an alien herself.
The work is being carried on in
the p~ostoffice building here.
Harry E. Fales, superintendent
OF the New Hanover bureau of
ioenuflcation, said Thursday
that to date his department has
flngerprinted and registered 1874
aliens from New Hanover county
under . state law, q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-Coanty Government
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports n Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvile
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF city Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid-
err Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodnc.
zion through sustained1yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
United Industrial and Resort Pro.
motional Agency, supported BY one
countrywide taz.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of ndtive grape groping
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis sanotortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Scouters Sign Pledge
To Support Democracy

A number of Scouters in the
Cape Fear area council, Boy
Scouts of America, have recently
signed a patriotic pledge issued
under the auspices of the Citizen
ship Education service in coopera-
ton with Boy Scout officials and
IS other national organizations,
David l.. Lilies, scout executive,
said yesterday.
The pledge reads in part as fol-
lows: while recognizing the
urgent necessity for military pre-
paredness, we m deeply con-
WINGED that the paramount need in
national defense is the strengthen
ing and invigorating of democracy
in the United States. This we pro-
pose to do through our respective
programs of activity and educa-
tion."
Those Scouters in the council
who have not received copies of
the pledge may secure a CODY at
the Boy Scout headquarters in the
Southern building, Lilies said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Man bout

Bv George 6

NEW YORK, Sept. 6-Last night
a well known but loud-mouthed
MAGAZINE writer came into Tony's
and began waving to people right
and left. He does this to attract
attention to himself. Suddenly he
held up the ends of his necktie and
said. "see this tie 1t belongs to
Noel Coward"
started to say, THAT'S nothing.
I've got on a pair OF shorts that
belong to Elliott Roosevelt" But
didn't. It would have entailed some
explaining. The Presidents son
doesn't know that I borrowed a
pair of his shorts one hot summers
afternoon. If he did he might want
them back, and I would hate to
part with them because I like my
clothes loose, and these, which are
blue, dangle to my knees. Elliott
is a big boy.
Some months back n Of my
friends shared an apartment with
Roosevelt on 58th street. After a
trek through town with this
friend, which left us pretty damp
and limp, we went up to his
apartment for a shower to cool off
go ahead and help yourself to
some fresh under linen" he said.
'I'm out, but Elliott's got plenty,
and he won't mind"
That's the whole story. We
thought we'd return them, but
that seemed silly after a while,
and they did come in handy.
However, if Mr.. Roosevelt, who
will read this in his home town
of Fort Worth, Texas, demands his
rights, We'll wrap them up and,
with real regret, send them to him,
A man from Pittsburgh wants to
know whatever happened to Frank
Butler, who made quite a name for
himself writing for the newspapers
and acting in plays around the turn
of the century. That's a little be-
fore my time, boys, but Irving
Hoffman supplies a nice little
story about Frank, although he
doesn't know where Frank is to-
day.
Frank was in a road company
with a young actor named John
Barrymore. Before the show got
to New York Frank was fired for
INSTRUMENTATION. Hurrying to New
York, he obtained a job as dra-
matte critic on the old Morning
Telegraph, and when the show got
to Broadway there was Frank, in
a reviewers seat, waiting to get
even! 1t was a pretty bum show
and Frank PANIED it unmerciful-
ly. That, Frank said, was the
sweetest triumph of his career
Woody Herman, who is pretty
close to the top among young band
leaders, is only Is years old. Peo-
pie who would like to verify this
may easily do SO by remembering
that his full name is Woodrow Will
son Herman, which certainly Oates
him. Recently he wrote a n e W
song which the coffee growers of
the Latin countries will probably
appreciates: '"The Coffee Bean Con-
ga" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
WATKINS, BROWN
GIVEN SENTENCES
Eight Months On Roads
Melted Out For Looting
Autos Al Beach

Eight months on the roads for
seven counts of larceny and re-
ceiving were melted out to two
young men in recorder court yes
terday morning as they entered
guilty pleas to charges they stole a
number of articles of value from
automobiles at Wrightsville Beach
in recent weeks.
Those sentenced yesterday were
James Arthur Watkins and Robert
Brown, both of New Hanover coun-
ty.
The pair waived preliminary
examination on four additional
counts in which it is alleged that
the property stolen was worth
more than $40, making these Of
lenses felonies instead of mis-.
demeanors.
The men also appealed to sup
erior court from the sentences i'm
posed in the eight misdemeanors.
Charles Braun, of Charlotte, ar
rested with Watkins and Brown
by officers who have been investl-
eating a series of robberies at the
resort for some time, waived pre-
|liminary examination on a charge
he stole an cupboard motor al the
resort. His bond was set at SzU'
Ralph Guy, of Mt. Olive, also
charged with theft of an outboard
motor. also waived preliminary
examination and was bound 10
superior court under bond of s3OO'
Cleave Lewis, also of MI. owe
likewise held on a count OF steal'
ing an cupboard motor, waived pre-
liminary examination and was
held under bond of 5000.
Bob Black, held on a similar
charge, also waived hearing ana
was held under 5000, Black Is
from St%atesville.
Watkins and Brown were heio
under 500 bond in each OF lne
misdemeanors and a total OF s'0O
in the felonies.
Trial of Burnell Damon, negro
arrested on two charges OF idl,
ceny and receiving in connecIon
with theft of merchandise RON
parked automobiles in the cly,
was continued until today unoe'
hopdc tota1Iipc $500.
He was charged with steanns
bed spreads, sheets and piNv"
cases, valued at S45.10 from une
car Of M. F. Barnhill, parked d.
Second and Grace streets.
In another warrant, ne N
charged with the theft OF 10 men
sport shirts from the car o. nc
bert P. Smith, while the au'oin4
bile was parked on Secono s
between Princess and CheS"''
streets.
Police said that a majority
the stolen merchandise was
Lonnie Tew, 12o South Eign'n
street, charged with assault ON
female, drew a nolle PROSE- WIZ
leave and two traffic ordllah;'
violators who parked incorrecuy
the downtown section OF me
were assessed one-thlrd Oh
court costs each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Date Of HACOW Bond
Sale Is Postponed

The Housing Authority of the
City of Wilmington has changed
the tentative date for the sale Of
bonds to finance permanently its
housing projects from September
until sometime in October, it was
announced yesterday.
The bonds, which will be the
first to be sold by any housing
authority in the state, will be sold
through the local government COM
mission, it was announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
HOLLYWOOD Sights And Sounds
By Robin CeoNs.

somebody to prove his glands are
functioning, and will be running
over here in a minute" Fred quip-
ped.
I think Benny probablc has the
best sense of timing since the days
of Buster Keaton and Fatty
Arbuckle. They were really tops.
But timing today, in talking pic
lures, is even more difficult than
it was in the silent days. And I've
often wondered how some of Ben
ny's laugh lines get over when
they're translated into a foreign
language.
OF course, the studios don't
have to worry much about that
any more. Another thing the war
has done is to eliminate sweep
stakes tickets, which is a break for
me.
About five years ago I wrote
script or a picture. called 1.-THE
Winning Ticket" My wife took il
as a bunch and bought one of the
things. I yelled my head off-and
she won ten thousand bucks.
haven't heard the end of it yet.
l hope I never write anything
called THE Million Dollar Bank
Robbery" 1t might give her more
ideas.
Another thing I've cut out is act
ing in pictures. l used to like to
do a scene-just an extra or a
bit-in anything I had a hand in
writing. But not since "Vivacious
Lady"
You'll remember that this pic
ture had Ginger Rogers and Jim
my Stewart in it. And maybe
you'll remember the conductor on
the train. I played the conductor.
l played it II times. Seventeen
straight takes-sweating and
straining-until the boys and girls
couldn't hold back any longer, and
burst out into roars of laughter.
The first take had been good! 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
BY ERNEST PAGANO
Of Paramount Studio
(Unreelimg For Vdcationing

1LOOOLH COOIS
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. g. I see
by the papers that my old friend
P. G. Wodehouse still is a prisoner
Of war, in Germany. If "Plummy'
is performing with his customary
eclat, you'll probably find him
immersed in some swimming pool,
despite the obvious difficulties and
horror of his position. "Plummy"
is like that.
First time I met him was when
I was writing "Damsel in Dis
tress' for Fred Astaire. We were
handed the job in collaboration.
We had separate offices and the
only time we saw each other was
in a swimming pool. "Plummy"
had a passion for dunking the
body into a pool. We'd splash
around, talk character and story
for a while, and then adjourn to
our private cubby holes.
Eventually we'd emerge, each
having written the same sequence,
Then we'd put them together, and
somehow the story came out. l
guess George Stevens made it a
good picture despite our work.
=
I'm working for Mark Sandrich
now, over at Paramount. He's pro-
ducing and directing Love Thy
Neighbour" the Fred Allen
Jack Benny-Jack Benny-Fred Al
len production Cor however they're
going to bill it,.
You ought to meet Allen, if you
haven't already. He's one of the
great wits of history, and the fast
est man on his feet I've ever
heard. He drips gags all day long,
and most of them are funny.
The other day Allen got on the
set early, and Mark asked him if
he had see Jack.
Hes borrowing sweat from
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Would To God I'd Done It!

Years ago, while draw bridges were still
operated by hand, a bridge tender on the Erie
railway opened his bridge for a coal barge.
At the approach of a friend he paused while
closing it to chat. The day being warm and
the conversation pleasant he would turn the
crank and pause to mop his brow and chat
and crank and chat and mop and chat again,
forgetting that an express train was due to
cross the bridge at any moment.
Sharply game the whistle Of the approaching
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
Approves HACOW
Landscaping Contract

The United States Housing Au.
thority has approved the awarding
of contract for landscaping Charles
T. Nesbitt courts to Howard-Hick.
ory company, of Hickory, H. r. EN-
DRY, executive director of HACOW,
announced yesterday.
Work of t~opsoiling the grounds of
the housing project site, placing flag
stones On rear walks and planting
shrubbery will begin in the near
future, he said, but due to seasonal
needs, grass probably will not be
planted until spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
TOP o. THE

on, that the picture of the Christ
Were painted clearly ON the WdH
OF every living room on earth,
Where n could neUer fail at all
To see Him there-His gentle eyes
Following n throughout the days;
Surely those eyes Mould influence
A tamily's manners, Words, and ways.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
LUMBER REPORT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. -tR-
The National Lumber Manufacturers
association reported today that lum-
Der production for the week ended
August 81 stood at 70 per cent of
the seasonal weekly average of 1929
and shipments were so per cent of
the average 1929 weekly shipments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07
PLAN ISSUED

WASHINGTON, Sept. b. I'm
A proposed plan of reorsai'I"
for the Alabama, Tennessee ao
ern railroad reducing capi'aiiN"
from 1902, ss7 to ss,5o2.66t ana q" =,
nual fixed charges from S-5V'',' v.
$751; 900 was issued today D! ann,
Walsh, an interstate comlhsi
mission examiner
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-07

menace to civilization this era of dictator
ships has created. Mussolini is purposely left
out of this consideration as too weak to in
fuence the outcome of such a struggle, as
was Carol, the wastral king of Rumania.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Big British Sub
Presumed Lost as
Arrival Overdue

LONDON. April II. (UP)-The ad-
miralty said today that the submar-
inc Thistle was overdue and pre-
sumed lost.
Thistle is a 1890 ton submarine,
completed in May, 1899, with
normal complement of SO officers
and men.
She was or the same class as the
submarine ThetiS. which sank off
the English west coast last year
with the loss of about 100 of those
aboard. Since, Thetis has been rails
ed, reconditioned and, it was un-
derstood, is back in service.
The admiralty communique an
nouncing Thistles' presumed loss
said that she had been operating
in the North Sea.
The Thistle was the fifth sub
marine whose loss was admitted by
the admiralty since the European
war started. Seahorse, Starfish and
Undine had been lost in the vicini-
ty of Germany's Helgoland naval
base in the North Sea and OXley as
the result of an accidental eXplo-
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Hill1tnIer Death
Reports Denied

BERLIN, April II. CUP)-The
propaganda ministry denied en-
phatically today that Heinrich Him
mler, chief of the secret police, had
been shot in Copenhagen.
Anyway, he has not been in Cop
enhagen," the ministry said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
GoebbeIs Declares
War in Decisive
Stage in North

BERLIN. April II. CUP)-The
war has entered decisive stage
Dr. Paul Joseph GoebbelS. German
propaganda minister, said in a
speech at the Berlin Sports Palace
tonight.
Goebbels spoke at a gathering
marking the conclusion of the VIM
ter relief campaign.
THE success of the armed forces
in taking Danish and Norwegian
neutrality under German protec-
ton puts them in a position to
lead the war to 4 successful con-
clusion, \, he said.
Every German knows that in this
war our whole future is at stake
War was forced on the German
people and they are determined to
defend their rights and secure their
national existence.
There is no doubt that the pluto
cratic War-mongerS, if they could,
would destroy the German people,
rob it of its possessions. and split
it into little parts.
The map of Pemier Paul Rey-
maud of France shows sufficiently
how the British and French plutoc-
racies want to split up Germany to
destroy her.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Germans in Narvik Cut Off from All
Supplies, Retreat Menaced by Guns,
Sea Lanes Dominated by Enemies

the two great Swedish ore centerS,
far above the Arctic Circle, after
escaping with the last Norwegian
troops and refugees from Narvik
and keeping as near as I could to
the scene of action, in the frontier
area on both sides, sometimes using
skis.
The situation as it appears as I
telephone to Stockholm is that the
whole German occupation force in
the Narvik area is completely cut
off from contact with the main
German forces by land and sea-
Their sole hope of supply in the
inhospitable Arctic SHOWS is the
airplane
BY a desperate fight along the
railroad line to Sweden a small
detachment of the Germans have
reached the frontier Ten of these
at least have crossed into Sweden
to be interned.
The remainder of the Germans
may try to fight their way along
this road. leaving a small suicide
party on Rombak Heights to cover
their retreat into Sweden.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
BY PETER c. RHODES

KIRUNA, Sweden, April II. CUP)
by Telephone to Stockholm)-A
German force of between 1000 and
$500 men today faced the choice of
annihilation, surrender or a fight
ing retreat into Sweden from Mar
vik, the Norwegian iron ore port
and the northern outpost of the
German occupation army.
German troops and British forces
were reported fighting in the streets
of Narvik.
A small German force had fought
its way across the rugged snow
covered mountains to the Swedish
frontier.
The main German force is based
on the Bluff Rombank Heights,
across the Fjord from Narvik, its
line of retreat covered by the big
guns of British Warships.
The way from Narvik to Sweden
is dotted with German and Nor
Wegian dead lying in the snow.
More than 1000 German, Norweg-
ian and British dead lie at the
bottom of Narvik harbor.
The harbor itself is the grave
yard of some 40 German, British
and Norwegian Warships and Ger
man, British. Norwegian and neu-
tral merchant ships.
My information is that among
these ships is British cruiser.
1 have reached Kiruna, one of
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Norway Severed by German Advance
As Invaders Move Toward Test With
Allied Expeditionary Landing Parties

STOCKHOLM. April II up
German troops were reported in
press dispatches today to have cut
completely across Norway from
Trordheim to the Swedish frontier
and to have struck northWard
against stiff Norwegian resistance
toward the NamSoS zone, where the
newspaper Allehanda said British
forces had landed
Three important developments
indicating am early clash between
the Allied eXpeditionary force in
Norway and the German forces at
TrOndneim-Were reported by the
newspapers Aftonbladet and Ale
handa in dispatches from the from
tier.
Developments were:
l.. German troops pushing out
from Trondheim along the 5e-mile
railroad to the Swedish frontier
continued to the border district
of Storlien despite resistance by
NorWegians both north and south of
the railroad German air trans
ports from Denmark reinforced the
Trondheim forces.
2. The Norwegian forces at the
fortified town of Hegra, on the
railroad west of Trondheim, con-
tinued to hold out and, although
Isolated were fighting back against
the Germans while Norweglans re-
mforcements attempted to break
through to relieve them.
3. German troops from Trond-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Cruiser Destroyed,
Nazis Announces:
Two Others Hit

BERLIN. April II. CUP)-The
German radio claimed today that
German planes had sunk one Bri-
tish cruiser and seriously damaged
two others off the Norwegian west
coast.
In the course of an air attack off
the Norwegian west coast at noon a
British naval force was dealt an
other heavy blow" the German ra-
do said.
"Cne British cruiser suffered a
direct hit from bomb of heaviest
calibre and sank Immediately. Two
other cruisers were hit by total
of three heaviest calibre bombs"
The bombs did SO much dam
age that the ships probably will not
survive return trip to British
harbor," the radio announcer said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
'JugosIavia Orders
Foreigners 0usted
For Protection

BELGRADE, JugoSlavia, April IT,.
P)-Police authorities today or
dered extensive measures through
out the country against foreigners
regarded as undesirable. The meas
ureS are to be completed within 10
days. In some quarters it was estl-
mated that as many as two thirds
of the foreigners in the country
might be expelled.
In many towns in the province
of Vojvodina, which has a large
German minority, it was reported
that the police had ordered house
to house combing for foreigners.
Police orders are for quick
countryside revision of permits of
sojourn of all foreigners. Those
held TO be undesirable are to be
expelled on brief notice
1t was understood that those who
remained would be deprived of their
passports and would receive in
stead certificates, which would for
bid them to travel throughout the
interior.
Foreign agents were blamed by
newspapers for many recent in
cidents in numerous towns. inciud-
ing the distribution of leaflets
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-17
Woman Lawmaker
Urges Firm Stand
For Greenland

WASHINGTON, April II. ;UP)--
Rep. )dith Nourse Rogers. r.. Mass.
advocated in the house today that
the United States very definitely"
notify all European countries. in
cluding Britain. that it would re-
sist any attempt to occupy Green
land.
She advocated a temporary Unit
ed States protectorate for the Dan
iSh colony.
The United States is preparing to
open consular office in Iceland
and thereby establish direct rela-
tons with that former Danish area.
1t was announced last night that
Secretary of State Cordell Hull has
replied favorably to the suggestion
OF prime minister, Hermann Jonas
son, that Iceland wished to enter
into direct relations" with the
United States. Prior to the German
INVASION of Denmark. IcelandS aft
fairs here were cared for by the
Danish minister and Il special trade
commissioner in New York.
Iceland proclaimed its complete
independence of the Danish crown
last week after the German occu-
patton of Denmark.