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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D

April is Cancer Control Month
as provided by Congress. In IS
states the Women's Field Army
Against Cancer is conducting an
active educational program.
Not very long ago cancer was a
taboo topic. Everyone knew it ex-
listed and nobody dared mention it.
Even now it is considered an I'M
pleasant word. But the fact that it
is an unwelcome or d~isagreeable
subject does not cancel the obliga-
ton Of the writer on public health
to discuss it.
The dangers which are present
for the speaker or writer before the
public on the subject are, first. that
he will make it disgusting and, sec.
ond, that he will create unnecessary
fear.
Needn't Be Present
The first danger need never be
present. Cancer is a clean disease
and not disgusting; in fact, one of
the points in the fight against it is
that it is so unobtrusive, it makes
itself known so little, that the early
stages are liable to be passed before
anything is done.
AS for the second danger, that of
creating unnecessary fear, time has
moved on so that we do not feel that
way any more. There is something
to be done for ANGER and the earlier
it is done, the more effective it is.
So we fell in drawing attention to
cancer-its danger and it's symp.
toms-we are not idly or %unneces.
sarily frightening you, because we
have something concrete and con
structive to offer in the way of cure,
which was not true a few decades
ago.
I like the distinction that has been
made between a health article that,
"scares you to life" If you are
scared to the extent that you have
something done to save your life. il
is a good thing to scare you a little.
Hopeful Example
A hopeful example exists in the
Cured Cancer Club, sponsored by
DR.. Anna c. Palmer, Of Milton.
Massachusetts,, who herself was
operated on for cancer in 1920
There were 29,195 people listed by
the American College Of Surgeons
in 1888 as cured of anc There
must be many more.
The Cured Cancer Club is open tt
anyone who is vouched for by his
physician as having been cured o.
cancer for at least five years. The
anplicant need only subscribe to the
statement, II am willing to b.
known publicly as a cured cancer
patient"
This column will discuss n Of
the phases of cancer once a weel
during the month of April. I do no
want to make the subject oppres
sive but feel that it is my duty tt
bring good Jews from the fighting
front of cancer control.
To aid in cancer control, edu
cational pamphlets on The Figh1
Of the Women's Field Army Agains'
Cancer" and "What to Know
What to Do About Cancer" are dis
tributed by the American Society
for the Control Of Cancer, so Madi
son Avenue, New York City, anc
may be obtained for ten cents
apiece.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
TT ART SOUP STOCK

IF Won want to make soup clear
and sparkling, strain the hot stock
through three thicknesses of cheese
cloth that have been rinsed In cold
water. Cool and store at once in the
refrigerator. When time to serve
skim off n fat and put a washed,
crushed eggsl:ell for each four cups
of stock. Heat slowly and boil three
minutes. Strain and serve i'm
m~cdiately.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

against this increase. In the house,
you can bank on Woodrum of Vir-
GINA and Taber of New York, but
the chances are the house will over
ride them.
1t is what is apt to follow the
farm bill that is important.
A move to boost the WPA appro-
prialion is gaining Roadway. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
Reds Believe Allies
Losers In New War

MOSCOW, April 11.OR-Great
Britain and France were accused
today by Izvestia, Soviet RUSSIAN
government newspaper, of having
forced" Germany's invasion OF
Scandinavia.
Although the newspaper l
events were developing and
"have not yet reached their logical
conclusion" it declared Germany
had benefited and the Allies had
lost by the new phase of the war
Undoubtedly the action OF Ger
man troops in Norway was pro-
voked by the previous actions OF
Britain and France, namely, the
violation of the neutrality and
consequently, the sovereignty OF
the Scandinavian countries, the
mining Of neutral Norwegian
waters, the banning Of export OF
ore and agricultural produce from
Scandinavian countries to Germany
the policy to transfer hostilitieS to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

Scandinavia and, consequently, the
policy of penetration troops from
the rear" said the paper.
Britain and France wanted te
undermine the Germans strategic
position and substantially improve
their own positions. Not desiring
to be in a worse situation, Ger
many was forced to take counter.
measures.
There is no doubt, further, thai
by strengthening her position il
Denmark and Norway, Germany
substantially improved her strate,
gic and economic positions and
just as substantially, undermined
the position of France and Britain
in the present war"
Another Interesting deduction,
~Izvestia said, a that the Allies
readiness to aid Finland was, il
reality, a u to get British ant
French forces into Scandinavia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
MENUS TO PLEASE MEN

When you want to serve a llght
repast-a bridge luncheon, for ex-
ample - and there are men guests,
don't bring out a lot of frilly things.
Menus more like these will please
men,. Crab or shrimp salad, not DIS
cults, currant jelly, green olives and
orange sherbet; tomatoes stu1ted
with chicken salad and accompanied
by hot rolls, ripe olives and chocolate
cake,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
A
To A r

HOUSTON, Tex.-R-Latest in
social affairs: the burglary shower.
Burch Lee and his wife, Pat Nc
Nealy Lee, newspaper reporters,
werc victims of a proWler who stole
s4s from their apartment.
County officials, police officers
and friends tossed a party at which
the couple were showered with food
and household supplies to make up
the loss.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

ed to the farm bill was perfectly
simple.
In 1888 congress voted that the
farmer ought to get close to the
1909-14 average price on five basic
crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco,
and rice. 1t would cost too much to
give him full parity, so the goal
shot at is Is per cen of the 1909-14
average.
Although F. D. r. didn't include
any money for parity payments in
the current budget, he left tie
door open by saying that he hoped
market prices would go up to the
Is per cent level; said he wasn't
abandoning the idea of parity, and
that future events may call for
some appropriation to this end"
All the senate did was walk
through that door, egged on by sue
leaders as Senators Russell, Bank.
lead AMI Lee. On past performance,
it was even fairly moderate. Thus
For the 1889 fiscal year, congress
gave the department Of agriculture
S1,139, 1876, 900, icluding s212, 600, 900
for parity. For 1910, it voted $1,274,-
o95, 900, including 1925, 600, 900 for
parity. What the senate did was
raise a budget estimate of 1887, $780,
900 to 1922, 1854, 900, including s212,-
000, 900 for parity; in addition, it
authorized RFC to lend $50, 900, 900
for rural identification and farm
tenancy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
Carolina News
Shorts
by The Associated Press)

BEAUFORT Nineteen seagoing
members of the senior engineering
class at N. c. State college are on
a cruise aboard the U. S. survey
boat Beuse. The cruise, which be-
gan on the Cape Fear river below
Fayetteville Tuesday, will end at
Great Bridge. near Norfolk, To.
morrow night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
PROBE

NORTH WILKESBORO- Gov.
ernor I. M. Myers has been asked
to investigate the unexpected death
yesterday of Dave Hall, 80, who
dropped dead in the hallway of his
home. Myers quoted member of the
family as saying Hall left home Sat.
urday and did not return until yes,
terday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

dance numbers.
AS they didn't
say b a c k in
vaudeville days,
that pair C a n
really jive the
corn.
T h e sturdy
Oakie, of course,
used to be a hoof-
er, but the a
vel now is that
he can fit from
bow to bow with
such agility. Miss
Greenwood, at 46,
is as peculiarly
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
MAKING PERFECT TEA

Tea experts give three requisites
for making perfect tea. Measure n
tea leaves to each cup of
boiling water: add an extra tea
~spoonful. Use only fresh, boiling
water clubbing, not just hot) and
nour over the dry tea leaves. Steep
until the flavor you prefer Is obtain
ed-usually three to five minutes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
EXTENDS CALL

HICKORY-St. Stephens Luther.
an church has extended a call tc
the Rev. Herman Scherer, pastor
Of Bethany Lutheran church of
Baltimore, Md, to succeed the Rev.
J. l.. Summers, who resigned re.
Gently to become executive secre-
tary of the new southeastern district
of the Missouri synod.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

The Bell "Airacuda," an Ameri-
can plane, is called by some aviation
experts the first true battleship of
the sky. The plane has two pusher
1000 h. p. engines, enabling it to
travel $50 m. p. h. Armament in
cludes two rapid-fire cannon and
four machine guns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
chamberlain Retains
CHIEF War Position

LONDON, April 11-R-Prime
n'l,IS'er Chamberlain made it clear
=. me house Of commons today that
remained the supreme director
u 6fltain's war effort.
"e told the house he had agreed
" De Chairman. of the ministerial
%"iHlltee of military coordination
v" exceptional occasions.
wrist tIEst Lord of the Admiralty
n"'Ston Churcill as the senior serv-
ora. minister, he said. will preside
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

budget calls for approximately ST.
900, 900, 900 for this purpose; it is
figured this would keep an average
of 1926, 900 people on the rolls. Il.
ready Congressman Cochran of Mis-.
souri, has demanded that the appro-
priation be made big enough to
care for a million additional per-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
ADVERTISEMENT
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Stop Getting Up Nights

To harmlessly flush poisons and
acid from kidneys and relieve irri-
tations Of bladder so that you a
stop getting UP nights" get a IS
cent package of Gold Medal Haar-
lem Oil Capsules and take as di-
rected. Other symptoms of kidney
and bladder weaknesses may be
scant, burning or smarting passage
-backache-leg cramps-puffy eyes.
Get the original GOLD MEDAL.
Don't accept a substitute.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
$4,000 BEQUEATH

WAKE FOREST-Dr. Wayland
Mitchell of Lewiston has b~equeath.
ed $4,000 to the Anatomy depart
ment of the Wake Forest Medical
school. DR.. Mitchell, former state
senator and Wake Forest alumnus,
died in January.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

e will be
found to have
ditched economy
for good.
The senate's &C
ton in hiking the
farm bill did O
than just wreck
that one chance
for a big saving.
1t was a way
payer for more
~wreckage later.
y y u
parity Never
Abandoned
What happen
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
In HOLLYWOOD Medical Care
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, April ia n y
visitor who can crash the rehearsal
hall at 20th-Fox these days may
witness the acknowledgements
spectacle of over-stuffed J a c X
Oakie a n d limber-legged, lanky
Charlotte Greenwood practicing
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

News Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE
dust hasn't settled yet, but when it
does there is every chance that con.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

hinged as she was a quarter century
ago when she liked to smooth back
her hair with her right foot while
warbling, st Dreamt I Dwell in
Mar-ur-ble Halls" But she never
danced like this.
She never danced at all in pic.
lures, although this is her third
campaign since she tried the silent
muggies in 1918. While she was just
a Coincidence, they wouldn't let her
be funny. Later, having been &C
claimed as an actress, they wouldn't
let her act. Today, thanks to the
perspicasity of Daryl Zanuck.
she's doing everything. And loving
it. In this picture, THE Young PEG
pie" she plays the vaudevital moth
er of Shirley Temple and appears in
everything from baby clothes to a
hula costume.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

Trains operating on gasogene
Charcoal gas) have been installed
IN italian state lines. They require
Ga. pounds of charcoal per mile.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

I have eaten horse meat and found
it palatable, more so than venison.
I do not know that it contains any
more vitamins than other meats.
ADUEpTIcEMENr
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
Economy Almost
FriendIess

Real economizers are few, when
the farmer is concerned and it's
election year.. In the senate, only
Byrd of Virginia made a real fignt
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12


perspicasity of Daryl Zanuck,
she's doing everything. And loving
it. In this picture, THE Young PEG.
ple," she plays the v%audevital moth
er of Shirley Temple and appears in
everything from baby clothes to a
hula costume.
First Hit Stage
As Chorus Girl
Miss Greenwood is such a favo-
rite of the London theater that
many of us have thought of her as
an English actress. She's nc such
thing. Her father was a Philadel-
phia barber and her mother a hard
working American woman who be-
gan to support Frances Charlotte
when the child was /. Poverty
wasn't the only reaso Charlotte
couldn't dress attractively. At the
age of II she was 5 feet 8 inches
tall and was no more streamlined
than the automobiles of her time.
A sense of comedy was a compen-
SdlllS SIlI VI IdluIS, Dul NY Il
strange set of circumstances, in
volving a note to Ned Wayburn, her
first job-right after she had quit
school in the seventh grade-was i'll
a chorus. Showgirls wore tights in
those days, so Miss Greenwood was
fitted out with a set of leg and hip
pads, called "symmetricals." From
the waist down she looked like Lii
liam Russell. From the waist up she
looked like Charlotte Greenwood.
After one startled glance, Wayburn
ordered her into the floor-length
kimono of a Japanese maiden.
| She Wants To Do
Queen Elizabeth
She was a chorus girl in her next
show, but only in a comedy scene in
which she was measured by a mar,
yelling director. Next, as half of q
vaudeville sister act, she discovered
that audiences became hysterical
over her lugubrious songs a n d
double-jointed gestures. Came fame,
with three years at the Shubert in
$50 Long Lefty; then more must
Gals, plays, road tours, five years In
London.
She still can touch the palms of
her hands to the floor or stand erect
and place a foot on top of a refrige-
rator. She does such things each
morning just to keep in trim.
What Miss Greenwood most wants
to do, though, is play the role of
Queen Elizabeth. I think she'd be
swell in if
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

Soft dainty prints and brightly colored prints
in all over designs and some with plain colored
skirts and printed waist. Many darling styles to
choose from. Sizes 8 to Is years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
First Hit Stage
AS Chorus Girl

hula costume
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

New styles in self conforming up-lift styles
in plain satins and lace trims in white and tea
rose. Also deep coup shape" styles for stouts.
Evening star., 1940-10-04

Grafton. The latest Of these Is a
Miss Energy Contest" sponsored by
the Employing Bakers Association,
announced yesterday. 1t will select
local girl between the ages of 16
and Is to represent this city in a
contest for Miss Energy of the
United States" to be held in Chicago
at the convention of the Master
Bakers Association, beginning Oc-
tober IL.
miss America" q Judge.
Miss Frances Marie Burke, Miss
America Of 1940," who will be a
special attraction at the show on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
the next week, will serve as one of
the judges in the selection. Health
as we'll as beauty is to be considered
in making the choice. Those plan
ming to enter the Miss Energy con-
test here are applying to Alfred
Stern, the show director, at suite 4,
Tower Building, where applications
are to be received until Monday.
After then they may apply at the
food show until Wednesday after
noon, when registrations will be
closed. Preliminary contests will be
conducted at the show on Wednes-
day and Thursday afternoons and
Evening star., 1940-10-04

the finals are to be held Thursday
night.
Miss Bette Grace Tucker, former
Follies star, will assist in running
the contest.
Other contest features include
selecting show queen from five
girls, each of whom represents one
of the five large store groups par
ticipating. including Capital Food
Stores, District Grocery Stores,
Goodwin Food Stores, NATIONWIDE
Service Grocers and the United Food
Stores.
Beginning at the shows first mat
Evening star., 1940-10-04
Officials Expected
AT Opening Of
Food Show Monday
Miss Energy Contest
One Of Several Slated
For 6-Doy Exhibition

A number of officials and civic
leaders are expected to be on hand
for the opening Of the food show at
7:30 pm. Monday in the Riverside
Stadium.
The show, under auspices of the
Independent Food Distributors of
the District of Columbia, Inc, is
expected to be the largest affair of
its kind ever held in Washington,
five large grocery store groups hav-
ing Joined for the first time for the
show.
Many contests will help enliven
the show during its six days of op-
Evening star., 1940-10-04

inee Tuesday a baby contest will be
held for those less than q year old,
while on Wednesday a similar con-
test will be held for those more than
year old, but under 2 and on Fri
day for those from to years. The
schedule for the latter contests was
changed some from the original
plan by the show management, due
to other program features. Finals
to select the grand baby" Of the
show from the other winners will
be held october IL.
There are to be many awards to
Evening star., 1940-10-04
Tax Appeal Is Filed
BY Head of D. 6. Board
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Oct. 4-The chair
man of the District of Columbia
Board of Tax Appeals found posi-
tions reversed yesterday when he
became an appellant before the
Maryland State Tax Commission.
Chairman Harry o. Levin said
10 V. Morgan, resident of Bethesda,
Md, had appealed imposition of a
State income tax on his S7,750 salary.
Mr.. Morgan is one of 78 Mary
landers receiving Federal salaries
who claim exemptions from Mary
lands income levy on grounds cor
responding officials in the State gov
ernment are not taxed. Maryland
law exempts such officials as we'll as
State judges. In brief filed with
the commission, he argued the tax
violated the Federal Constitution in
discriminating" between similar
Federal and State salaries.
Evening star., 1940-10-04

show patrons, with grand award
listed for each night and for each
afternoon.
Other contests and features also
are to be on the program. Their
exact nature is to be announced
later by the show management.
Evening star., 1940-10-04
Cat Catcher Nobs 700

GREENVILLE, S. G. R.-Mark
Gupton, gatherer of stray cats for
biologists and medical Laboratories,
taught up 700 in a week. then de-
'lared that the cat population of
% county had hardly been touched.
Evening star., 1940-10-04

REFLECT ON shows three young
who will compete for the title of SHOW Queen the
to be held October to II in Riverside Stadium auspices
of the Independent Food Distributors of the District Columbia
Inc Shown looking the mirrors from left to right are Mrs
Evening star., 1940-10-04

Dorothy Parker Hahn, Miss
Good Will; Miss Alice Stats,
Miss Capital" and Miss Toni
Mann, Miss Nation Wide"
Each previously has won top
honors in other beauty con-
tests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
WAR GAMES RATED
ARMY MILESTONE
Dixie Games First Time In
Peace That Unified Guard
Has Seen Real Action

CAMP BEAUREGARD, La, Aug.
19.-R AS airplanes rained flour
bombs" here, army officers today
declared they considered the cur
rent national maneuvers a milestone
in American history because, for the
first time in peace, a unified National
Guard had been cast into action.
Officers pointed out that a third
Of a million soldiers in the
field in the four maneuver e of
the country, here and in the states
of New York, Washington and Wis
consin.
While differences in the senate
and house drafts of legislation au-
thorizing mobilization of the National
Guard delayed final congressional
action on the measure, Lieutenant
General Stanley D. Embick, in COM
mand of the third army maneuvers
here, said:
''This particular period is a mile.
stone on the long road which our
army has Travelled. For the first
time in peacetime history, all four
armies are in the field, regulars, Ma
tional Guardsmen and selected re-
servists."
In less tense times, it was stated,
training periods consisted of annual
two week encampments of regiments
or parts of neutrality-suspicious.
ed by weekly drills of companies or
their equivalent the rest of the year.
But since units of regiments might
be scattered over several states, even
during those annual encampments
they we're not always brought to-
gether and had to maneuver in their
respective territories.
Now the regiments have been col
lected in the four maneuver areas
to train with regular army troops
who have been in the field since
last autumn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
TWO MEN KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
Philip LeTourneau And AL
ton Morrison Die In Ac-
cident Near Canton

CANTON, Aug. 19.-tR-An air
plane crash atop Beaver Dam
mountain near Canton, today kill
ed Donald Philip Letourneau, 10,
and Alton Vance Morrison, %, both
of Toccoa, Ga. =.
Letourneau, married only f o u r
months ago, was the son of R. G.
L~etourneau, the road machinery
manufac turer nationally k o W n
through his combination of reli-
gious activities and his business
enterprises.
j. A. Sullins of the North Caro-
lima state highway patrol a d
several persons saw the airplane
60 into a nose dive and crash. The
mountain is about 8 miles from
Canton.
Besides his widow, young Lee
t%ourneau is survived by his pa
rents, a sister and four brothers.
The youth was employed. in his
fathers plant, opened here l S t
year. Friends reported he was en-
route to Jefferson City, Tenn, with
a supply of parts for one of the
Letourneau plants when the private
plane crashed. Poor visibility in a
rain caused the crash. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-20
BY RUTH MILLETT

It is easy for a woman to get
into a Righteous Rut.
The woman who is in a Right
eous Rut expects her husband to
feel eternally lucky and grateful
because she is a fine housekeeper
and a conscientious mother.
She makes friends only t h
women pretty much like herself,
deciding smugly that anyone who
doesn't think as she thinks or as
she acts isn't my sort"
She doesn't say, Perhaps there
is another side to the story" She
condemns without investigation.
/. She laughs at anyone whose
ideas or way of living she can't
understand.
She not only doesn't take any
part in any activities outside her
home, she belittles the woman
who does.
SHE'S CONTENT
TO STAND STILL
She thinks and says that t h G
woman who keeps pace with hel
husbands advancement in the way
she runs her home and in her in.
terests is putting on airs"