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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Pershing's Son Will
Register For Draft

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-R-
Among the 1,107, 900 New York men
who will register tomorrow in the
nations first peace-time conscrip-
ton is Francis Warren Pershing,
only son of Gen. John j. Pershing,
who commanded the A. E. T. in
the World war.
Young Pershing, who is 81, said
he was willing to do anything-in-
GLIDING kitchen police-if and when
he is called for duty.
There's no reason in the world
why I shouldn't be called up"
he said. land there certainly is no
reason for me to get a good job
out of it. I really don't know any
thing more about the business of
being a soldier than the average
man Of draft age"
He said he was heartily in favor
or CONSUMPTION.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under Council-Manager Administrator.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck M Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, w1d'
err Turning Basin, with snip lanes tnto
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, 0ia
orion Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
mottonal Agency, supported BY one
countrywide tar.
ghipyards 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 native grape groW1ng
t~hroughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis S1ndtoriNm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Beset With Difficulties

The situation Of the United States economi
ally and financially is more and more bese
With difficulties as the European war pro
crosses. Conditions are ably summed up b,
he financial editors of the New York Heral,
Tribune thus:
While commodity prices were advancing
sharply last week, both stocks and bonds
gave ground. Indeed, the financial markets
generally indicated the presence of appre-
henslons that the United States might be
drifting into war. The stock market be-
came unsettled when the State Department
issued its warning to Americans, on Tues
day, to leave China, the Japanese Empire,
Manchukuo, Hongkong and French Indo-
emma. In the foreign exchange market I'm
expected strength in the Swiss franc was
interpreted as meaning that European ma
lions were repatriating American balances
through Switzerland because of fears of
possible American embodiment.
The Spectator in stocks, what with one
thing and another, is finding these days
that this is a very complicated world we
live in. He must first consult his judg.
ment as to h the pattern Of the war is
going to be, and then must satisfy him
self as to what companies are most ant
to profit from the particular type of war
that he envisages. But even this is not
the end. With the passage Of the excess
profits tax he must once more sort out
his potential purchases with the idea Of
ascertaining which groups are most Sc
verely hit by the new law and which es.
cape most lightly. All of which, of course.
takes no cognizance Of how much and what
kind Of further taxation may be expected
once the elections are out Of the way. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Editorial Comment
DELAYED, NOT DEFEATED
Raleigh News and Observer

The House of Representatives on last
Wednesday refused to pass a bill of great
interest to tobacco growers. The measure was
not defeated, but merely delayed. There were
1854 votes for the bill and 107 against it. Ordi-
narily that vote, which was along party lines,
would have resulted in the passage of the bill.
However, there was not time to get the bill
before the House under the regular procedure
before the beginning of a series of recesses
which are expected to continue until after
the election. In order to secure consideration
at all before the r%ecesses, proponents of the
bill were forced to resort to a motion to sus-
pend the rules, which requires a two. thirds
vote for adoption.
Refusal of the House to suspend the rules
does not preclude later action under the regu.
lar rules of the House, for which a majority
vote is sufficient for favorable action. Doubt
less the bill will be brought Up again after
the election, and passed.
The delay, however, serves to warn tobacco
growers just what they might expect under
a Republican administration and a Republican
Congress.
The bill is simple, although divided into two
parts. One would separate dark-fired and air
cured tobacco into two types, as they should
be. The other would change the base period
for flue-cured and hurley tobacco to 1934-'39,
a period much nearer comparable to the pres
ent than the 1929 period now used for COM
putting parity The effect, as far as flue-
cured tobacco would be to change parity
from 10 to % cents a pound, an equitable fig
ure.
Tobacco growers may and probably will re-
ceive favorable action on their bill after the
election, because every prospect is that the
Democrats will be returned to power. Should
the Republicans gain power in that election,
the vote on Wednesday shows the kind of at
tention which will be in prospect for tobacco
growers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Wrong Again

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is both unworthy
Of the military title this country bestowed
,,non him and of his American citizenship.
For he has lived so long abroad and absorbed
so much of the ideologies anita g%onistic to DEM
ocr.cv that he can no longer honestly be
called an American.
Again. in a radio address on Monday night,
he gave concrete evidence that he no longer
thinks as an American. He complained hat
dissatisfaction is rising among u.s." Who, we
ask, is doing more to spread dissatisfaction
than he? Who among us has done more 70 en-
courage a fifth column?
We agree with him, as all Americans do'
that our defenses are weak and our deot
great, but we part company with him When
he proclaims that our leadership is incompe-
tent or that we are not capable of meeting
his trade.
AS evidence of Mr.. Lindbergh's myopic view
of present-day America, we cite his remarks
concerning our success in alternating the most
powerful military nations of Europe and Asia"
It is obvious that his reference is to Germany
and Japan. AS he sees it, they are the most
powerful military nations of these two CONT
nents. But he is wrong. The strongest military
nation of Europe is Britain, as witness Ger
many's failure to more than dent her defenses
in more than a months intensive bombing.
Granted that from the invasion of the Low
Countries to the fall of France, Germany was
the strongest military power on the Continent;
hut MT povu Prifaip's defense has grown
stronger under the most gruelling attack any
nation was ever subjected to and her offensive
campaigns, coupled with her blockade, have
been so effective that the Germans are now
seeking a new field of operations in the Bal
kans as the only possible means of escape
in. No, Mr.. Lindbergh, we have not alienated
the strongest military nation in Europe. Brit
ain is our closest friend.
And if he has Japan in mind as the strong
est military nation of Asia, he is as far wrong
as in thinking Germany strongest in Europe.
Japan is the most arrogant nation in Asia,
but can she properly be designated the strong
est when, after three years of warfare, with
her superior equipment, she has failed to
conquer China? She has overlooked much of
China, to be sure, but is nevertheless begged
down there with little hope either of extrica-
ting herself or of defeating the armies under
Chiang-kai Chek. And, as it happens, we have
to raise an issue between the United States
and the Tokyo government has been the act
Of Japan alone: 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-Q. I maintain legal
in Omaha, Neb. Do 1 have to return
there to register?
A. No. You can register in any district in
which you happen to be on October 16.
@. I have been married seven years.
My wife works and is self-supporting. I
have no other dependents. Will 1 be con-
scripted ahead of married men who sup
port their wives?
A. Not necessarily. As I have pointed out
before, there is a tendency on the part of
%selective service officials to skip the DEGREE
Of dependency altogether and I happen to
know that if some Of them had the entire re-
sponsibility of interpreting the draft act, they
would defer ALL married men with prob
ably the exception Of those who are not even
selt-supporting) They simply feel that for the
psychological and moral good of the country,
1t Is better not to disrupt marital relation
ships unless conditions become more critical
than at present. These officials at the moment
are in the majority and it is likely that this
loose Interpretation of the dependency
clause in the law will prevail.
G. I am the father of three children.
My wife died a few years ago and there
Is no close relative who could take care
of the children. My wife's will left the
children (all minors) sufficient incomes
to make them independent of my earn
lnGS. But II L were called into service,
l don't know what would happen to our
home. Do you think I will be called?
A. l don't think you will be. I refer you
to the answer to the previous question. If
the demand for manpower far exceeded the
supply, you probably would have to come into
the service, but at present the supply of man.
power is adequate and I know it is the intent
Of national s~electfve service officials not to
work any drastic hardships on the American
home. This Is another of those problems that
will have to be solved by your local board and,
as in every borderline case, you have the
right of appeal.
@. I won't be Fl until next year. Do /
have to register then?
A. The President, under the law, is empow-
cred to order additional registrants whenever
the need demands it. Since no one knows
what next year will bring, it is impossible
even to guess at the answer to this question:.
II world conditions continue critical, it Is Ike
ly that the President will order registration
each year for the approximately 1~.OOO,OOU men
who come of age every u months.
@. If I am In the second or third class,
what are INV chances of being cOnscript-
ed?
A.. So slight under the present law ana pres
emf conditions, that you need not give 1t an
other thought. In the World war, when the
final age limits were IS to As dnstead OF the
nresent q to IS inclusive), there were more
than "a million men registered IN the third
draft. There were less than 100000 men In
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Bicycling Bootleger Given
Four Months On Roads Here

Because he didn't let well enough
alone, a bicycling b%ootlegger yes
terday found himself starting on a
fcur-month road term.
It all started Monday morning
when radio patrol officers reported
a negro on a bicycle, carrying
liquor, had eluded them. The Of
ficers chased the man but during
the heat of the chase he broke
two jars of whiskey, abandoned
his bicycle and escaped.
The bicycle was taken to police
headquarters and officers figured
the case was over.
But Monday night Clyde Newell,
negro, of 712 North Sixth street,
showed up at Headquarters and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Registration Day

The United States is today engaged in its
first peace-time registration for ~selective mill
tary service. From Maine to California and
Florida to Washington, draft boards are list.
ing men between the ages of 81 and IS, to serve
as need arises in the armed forces during the
most crucial emergency in our national his
tory.
Thus we advance a step in national defense.
with industry humming, shipyards and plane
factories busy. on the task Of implementing
America to meet any military crisis that may
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16

inquired about his b~icycle-the one
seized in the chase.
A few questions led to more
questions and in the end Newell
was locked up in jail on a charge
of violating the liquor laws.
Yesterday morning in recorders
court it developed that Newell IS
listed on an FBI circular as being
wanted for escaping from prison
though he displayed what he
termed IAN honorable" discharge
from a state prison camp.
Judge Lennon heard the testi-
mony, found the negro guilty and
sentenced him to the road term.
He also ordered the bicycle con.
fiscated and condemned to be sold
according to law. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. Is After
thoughts, mostly irrelevant, on the
debut of Jimmy Roosevelt's
"soundies:"
This is where we came in. This
is where the movies came in, too.
It's a little different. Then it was
in arcades where your grandpa
stopped over and peeped. He put
in his penny or his nickel and he
got an eyeful of this and that
until grandma, most likely, pulled
at his coat-tails and said why-I-
never, etc.
Now it's going to be in cocktail
lounges, bowling alleys and h e
like, and grandpa won't have to
stoop. He'll just sit there and guz-
zle or bowl and put in a dime an3
the flickers and music will be right
there on a screen in a jukebox.
The screen is II 3-4 by % IL in
ches, and you can see the pictures
all right if you don't get farther
than about 80 feet away.
For the more or less formal un-
yelling of the instrument Jimmy
had readied his first reels SUBJ
jects a little less than three min
utes each. (You puts in yer dime
and you gets what's next on the
IRELAND likes it. Or if you don't
like it, you can look the other
way.)
No great stars for the big screen
came out of the old peep-shows.
There was Annabelle the Dancer
and some prizefighters and assert
ed 'hot" dancers, but that was
before the screen took to Mary
Pickford and Broncho Billy An
derson and became colossal.
Maybe the soundies will t urn
over some talent to the biggies.
In Jimmy's first reel there's Joy
Hodges, who has done some full
screen movies, and there's Bernice
Parks, who was in the stage hit
"Meet the People," and there's
Carmen p'Antonio, the dancer who
burns things up at the local Pi-
rates Den. They're nice little
pictures, nicely staged and all that.
After applauding the gadget,
which is ingenious, some of us
skeptics wondered what is the cry
ing need they fill. They give three
minutes of movie for a dime, and
you a get two or three hours OF
movie Cat some houses) for a dime
plus a nickel. You can get the
music in current juke-boxes (which
are supposed to be replaced gradu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
T SITUATION
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
In addition to the inconvenience
to the users of city water in their
homes and the cost of securing
suitable drinking water as well as
water for cooking purposes during
the period in which the TONERS
creek water supply is sc salty as
to render it unfit for these pur-
poses, and almost useless for 9TH
er purposes, the water pipes, heat
ing plants and other water appur-
tenances in the homes will be SUBJ
ject to thousands of dollars worth
of damage.
There will also be substantial
damage to water facilities Of in
dustrial plants from this source.
This expense will, of course, fall
upon the owners. The situation has
arisen before, in the not far distant
past, yet no effective action on the
part of those in authority was TAX
en- with a view to avoiding the
present condition. There is abso-
lutely no excuse for the existence
of the present condition of the Will
mington water supply. The con-
sumers who pay their bills should
be reimbursed for all the expense
incurred in securing a suitable wa
ter supply during the present in
excusable state of affairs.
When this condition arises the
second time within a few years,
the first thought of our authorities
is the expenditure of possibly $1,000
for a survey of the possibilities Of
securing water supply from under
ground. What about u own city
engineering department and water
department officials? They should
by all means be capable Of mak>
ing this survey without extra cost
to the tax payers. 1t would appear
to a novice that there has been
ample time to have had this fea-
ture looked into by our own ex-
perts before the second catastro-
phe arose. 1t is wondered what will
be the reaction of our powers
That Be" if all the water consum-
ers should demand reimbursement
for additional expense incurred in
securing suitable drinking and for
cooking water. as well as for 9TH
er purposes during the present fail
ure of the City supply. The writer
is keeping a record Of his extra
expense in this connection.
The voting population Of Will
mington will probably remember
this occasion for some time to
come. They should,
A CONSUMER
Wilmington, N. c.,
Oct. IS, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
IN MEMORY OF REVEREND
JOHN BENNERS GIBBLE

The church has lost from its ranks
A churchman through and through.
The people have lost a friend
Who was loyal, kind, and true.
He was a disciple of The Master
He was a friend to everyone
And he has faithfully earned
Our dear Lords words, We'll
done"
Well miss his happy smile
And those words of comfort and
cheer
He had for all he met
Which made him to us, so dear.
We must not think of him as dead
But living a richer and fuller life,
Still serving His Saviour he loved
In that land beyond all strife.
A Friend
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Man About
Manhattan

piest event of an entertainment ma
ture that has happened in New
York in many a day was the re-
turn of two little Mexican girls
from their wanderings in South
America. Their names are Joyita
and Maravilla.
About two years ago they were
introduced one night on the floor
of our favorite New York restau-
rant, Ell Chico, and the effect on
the audience was electric. Every
body sat stock still and stared.
The reason for this wasn't hard
to ascertain. First, they sis
tiers and they were pretty as pic
lures. Second, they revealed a SUI
perb sense of comedy. Third, they
sang Mexican songs in a manner
so provocative that at the end, in
stead of applauding everybody
cheered.
I suppose you would call it per-
sonality. You can find p e r
girls, if you look for them, and
perhaps truer voices, if you listen
closely. But there is an undefin-
able gaiety and effervescence to
these kids that is rare and de-
lightful.
Then they went away. Months
later I received a page from a
Spanish newspaper. Their faces
were like flowers in a stubble of
print. It developed that in Rio, in
Buenos Aires, and in fact every
where, the same clamor rewarded
them. I often asked Benito Colado
why he didn't bring them back.
Happily, he has.
They tell me, though, that hur-
rying after them is one Senior Mat
tos. a coffee king, who wants to
marry Maravila, the taller of the
two. They tell me he piloted his
plane to Mexico City and then, in
the old courtly manner of the Dons
begged permission of Maravilla's
mother to sue for her hand.
Presumably, this permission was
granted. The Senior, at any rate, is
expected hourly.
Another happy event was the re-
the 13-year-old film actress, who
the 1-year-old film actress, who
obtained her first glimpse of this
island from the windows of a STRAIT
oliner.
Betty is another of those inn
probable children who, somehow,
just "growed." She isn't very large
for her age, and by Hollywood
| standards she isn't beautiful. But
personality-here is a quality that
surrounds her in chunks. You pos
itively don't believe. it until you
see her. The newspaper boys have
promptly adopted her, and so did
the cast of Louisiana Purchase"
which was my very first Broad
way show and it was wonderful
and l have autographed pictures
by Victor Moore-oh he's wonder
ful-and Miss Zorina and Mr.. Gax-
ton and almost everybody"
Betty is being groomed as a dra.
matte Juvenile. She arrived in town
with a political button larger than
a saucer pinned to her chest, a
TACT that probably worried Para
mount officials a little, although
they didn't say so. In any case
She refused fatty to take it off,
exclalming, I'm not for any par
ty- I'm for AMERICA"
IN case you're trying to place
.nis amusing youngster, she's the
K1o VINO appeared opposite Fred
MacMurray in Rangers of For
tune She has quite a story to
tell. 1t has one of those Cinderella
gle to it. Her Ather only a
little while ago was on relief. :.
Nobody had ever heard of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
The Editors
BOX

The editor does not necessarily
endorse n article appearing IN
this department. They represent the
views Of the individual readers. Cor.
respondents r + that all
communications m u st contain the
correct name and address for u
records, though the latter may De
signed az the writer sees fit. The
Star.News reserves the right to alter
any text that for any reason is OBJ
iectionable. Letters on controversial
subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
REDS BARRED
CITY, Mo-,

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Oct, IS
state supreme court to.
day barred candidates of the com.
munist party from the November
election ballot in Missouri. TIL e
court ruling upheld secretary of
state Dwight Brown who recently
excluded the communist candidate
on the ground their party did not
exist legally in Missouri. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
COMMITTEE FORMED

LINCOLNTON, Oct. 5.-RLn
Lincoln county advisory comnalt...
for professional and service piI
jects of the WPA has been forllle"'
M. T. Leatherman is chairman
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
TOP % THE MORNING

Thu cruel thorns, Thy shameful cross,
Procured us heavenly croWns;
our highest gains spring from Thy loss
our healing from Thy mounds.
IRON DAILY FOOD
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
RUDISILL SPEAKS

LINCOLNTON, Oct. 15.-LF'-
Justice Rudisill, Newton attorhe5'
spoke at a Lincoln county oeiii'
cratic rally tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-16
Then, like that, the

Brewers. . . . Then, like that, the
movies got her.
It's still. all a sort of wonderful
dream Those things no 10 n 6 e r
happen in fiction, because they're1
out of date, but every one ii a
while they do in real life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-15
H-YEAR -0LD
 TROLLER SEES
 BOAT GO DOWN
Melvin RandIe of Tenakee Loses All When
 Boat Sinks

Melvin E. Randle, "A. lost all his earthly possessions except the cloth ing on his back when his trolling beat, American motorship 30K347 sank Monday in Kaufman Cove Prince of Wales Island, the elderly troller has reported to the Collect or of Customs here.
 Randle said his boat was rammet by an unidentified seiner at Ret. chikan three weeks ago. After set ting out on a trip to Tenakee his boat began to leak and his contin ued calking only seemed to make the seams open wider
 After his boat went down, Randi was brought to Juneau by Brocl Berry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-15
Father-D r-Daughter
 Banquet Will Be
 Tomorrow Night

At o'clock tomorrow evening the Rainbow Girls will hold their fa- ther-Daughter banquet at the Scot tish Rite Temple Miss Maydelle George, Worthy Advisor, will be tcastmistress and following the din- ner a 7:30 o'clock meeting and in itiation will be held in the lodge room
 Arrangements for the dinner are in charge of Elizabeth Tucker, Grace Berg, Zaida Carlson, Pat Shaffer and Joan Hudon. A program has been planned by Dorothy Tors and Betty Nordling and decorations will be in charge of Violet Paul, Beverly Lievers and Erna Meier.