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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
HOPE FOR

Brunswick countians have asked the state
to place a new value on child life.
Appearing before the school authorities
in Raleigh, a delegation has urged that suffi-
Gent money be appropriated for the employ
ment Of adult drivers for the county's school
buses, citing the death at Leland of little
RACHEL JONES under the wheels of a bus in
charge of a boy driver as an example of what
is to be expected if the present economy
policy is continued.
If the school authorities analyze the situa-
ton they will see that the death of one
child is more costly than any amount of
money involved in raising bus drivers pay
sufficiently to place experienced, competent
men behind the steering wheels of vehicles
engaged in transporting pupils to and from
school.
Arrived at this conclusion, they will see
to it that the rate of pay is fixed on a safety
basis, instead of the present economy basis.
This is one matter in which economy is
extravagant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
CORNERED

Because pellagra has levied heavy tribute
in the south, news that means have been
found to arrest it in the early stages is i'm
Medical Science, two physicians of California
and one from Cincinnati report experiments
with NICOTINE acid have been so successful
that they look to it for increasingly better
results as its use spreads in treating a dis.
ease which has taken many lives and sent
many other victims to hospitals and SAM
tariums for the insane.
DR.. Tom D. SPIES of the University of Gin
cinnati, whose special studies have been fin
anced by the RocKEFELLER foundation, report
ed one case of insanity which was cured in
1887 by nicotine acid. Thereafter the treat
ment was expanded so successfully that the
medical profession is hopeful it will control,
il not eliminate, the disease which in Dixie
has ranked close to malaria in weakening
manpower.
Pellagra is particularly insidious because of
the long period of incubation, and the diff.
Guilty Of diagnosing it during that period.
Victims grow "fidgity," are subject to severe
nervous shock from noises and complain that
sudden light hurts them-symptoms which
might spring from a dozen other causes. 1t
is only after the disease exhibits it's unmis-
taxable presence that doctors have known
what to work on. But with the present an.
nouncement that means of relief has been
found. it Is not too much to expect that
medical science will ultimately learn how
to differentiate it's premonitory SYMPTOMS
from similar early symptoms in other diseases
and SO attack it earlier than has been pos
sible heretofore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Against Reopening
Of 1CC Ruling Filed By South

ATLANTA, Feb. 9.-R-Southern
arguments against r%eopening of an
interstate commerce commission rul.
ing last November which established
regional freight rate parity on a
dozen commodities were mailed to
Washington today.
The I. c. C. ruled the south should
have the same rate as northern
(officialy territory in shipping such
things as electrical appliances, talo.
pottery, high grade paper, stoves
and stones. April 1 is set as the eff.
fective date.
Northern interests filed a series
of petitions seeking to reopen the
case on three principal contentious.
The arguments and the southern
answers in brief:
IA claim by the state Of New
Jersey in particular that the de.
cision Vas made while the ICC was
under political pressure"
Southern counsel said: $50 far as
the record shows, and so far as we
know, the case was tried without
any appeal to political influence.
To intimate that any member of
this uniformly recognized independ-
ent tribunal could be influenced by
matters outside the record is an I'm
warranted reflection"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
IMPROBABLE

ROGER BABsoN, who has never been accused
by his severest critics Of petting the admins.
~tration, is a firm supporter of the HULL re.
ciprocal trade agreements. IF the attack on
these pacts is not repulsed," he writes from
Washington, at will be a sorry day not only
for the United States, but for the world"
After reviewing the reasons for and the
PRONUNCIATION of the pacts, the noted econo-
mist cites the fact that our exports to coun-
tries with whom we have completed trade
agreements have increased by sixty per cent
while exports to non-treaty countries have
grown less than forty per cent as illustrating
their benefit; and closes his informative
article with these words:
THE New Deals record is full of broken
promises ana failures. For this reason, it
seems like mighty poor strategy for the re.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

"A claim that, since the freight
rate differential against the south
is not too high to prohibit southern
shipping into the north and vice
versa, the south should not have
rate parity, since the north needs
some help. 1t is contended that the
south is the more favored by climate,
cheap labor, etc.
Counsel for the southeastern
states answered by quoting COM
missioner Eastman in a 1881 de.
cision on the differential, as follows:
1T (the differential) is in open
conflict with the principle of equal.
ty of opportunity. Moreover, it is a
cruel doctrine"
3-Northern interests made the
contention of long-standing that the
cost of shipping was higher to the
railroads in the south than in the
north; that the density of freight
traffic per mile was less in the south
than in the north.
To this counsel answered: ut
cannot be shown that on any ade.
quate record the commission has
found that it costs more to haul
commodities in the south than in
the north"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
QUOTATIONS

The generations come and go, but the lnstl-
buttons of our government have survived
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes OF u. >.
Supreme Court.
We are forced to destroy people innocent OF
this war, people we have no reason to nate as
a Kyosti Kallio OF f1nlano.
The cause of Finland in its present struggle
against annihiliation is arousing the American
people to an understanding Of the realities OF
the Communist aggression.-Maj. Gen. John r.
Organ, U. S. Army
We are an example to the entire world tnat
people and children of people from all parts
of the world can live together in peace and
build a great nation-Mayor Fiorella LaGuardla.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
MILLER's SIDE
Wilmington Wrestling Fans:

I have spent rs years in the
wrestling ring and ~ years In pro-
noting matches in the principal
cities Of the United States. l am
an American Legionnaire, a Worlds
war veteran and I have fought for
this country and for liberty and jus.
tice under this flag the same as all
your loved ones have done: about
two years ago, I went to work at
Ethel.Dow and Austin Construction
Co. to make a honest living for
my wife and me.
About a year ago I started pro-
noting in this city to help the
American Legion, giving them 10
per cent, just to use their name. !
paid rent and advertising, lights.
and other expenses. I have worked
hard and built up the wrestling and
sports game in Wilmington. l was
instrumental in bringing Jim Brad
dock here for Tuesday night. ]
have telegram as evidence. I wish to
lIldLh II6 1OCdl [adiCA1SoA ASSAoAAs
Post No. 10. for freezing me out
and taking away my way of max.
ing a living for my wife and me.
We have both worked and sacrificed
to make the wrestling game here
for the Wilmington fans.
I will still remain a wrestling
promoter for my friends in Will
mington, but, will De obliged to start
all over again and start my own
arena, in the future.
I will endeavor to bring the most
outstanding light, and heavyweights
in the world independently to Will
mington.
In my professional days when I
considered the worlds cham
pion and wrestled Stanley Zybiesco
for Gene Tunney IN July 80, 1890
at White Plains. N. Y the total re.
ceipts amounted to $4,000 which
was turned over to charity.
In my time l have made a mil
lion and a half dollars. l have lived
and given away to the deserving the
blind, poor and crippled, all I have
had. I am a poor mar now, but
happy to have my health. I thank
God for all this.
Regards to my friends,
MIKE MILLER, Promoter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Movement To Abolish
Mills Third Shift
Planned By Committee

BOSTON, Feb. 9-LP-A move to
have the third shift" abolished
from the textile industry through
out the country was planned today
by a committee of 16 labor and man
agement representatives at a con-
ference with James T. Moriarty,
state commissioner of labor and in
dustries.
The group decided to ask the
Massachusetts interstate compact
commission to urge similar commits
sions elsewhere to aid in abolish1ng
the third shift" created in several
states to meet restrictions on con
tinuous working hours.
Moriarty assured the group that
he would not impose any restric-
tions on the industry which would
prevent business from coming into
Massachusetts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Sales Of Department
Stores Show Increase

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. - up -
The federal reserve board estimat.
ed today that department store sales
in the week ended February 3 were
9 per cent larger than in the cor
responding week last year.
In the week ended January ~
sales had been 4 per cent higher
than a year ago, and for the four
weeks ending February 3 averaged
8 per cent more than the similar
period of 1889.
For the week ended February 8,
gains over a year ago by federal re-
serve districts were: Boston IA,
New York 8. Philadelphia Z, Cleve-
land z, Richmond 8, Atlanta 10, Chi
cago 20, st. Louis 16, Kansas City
l., and Dallas 6 per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not n~ecessar1-
" endorse any article appear
Ing in this department. They
represent the views OF the IN
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all communi-
cations must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords, though the letter may be
signed as the writer sees ut.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that for
any reason il objecttonabl Die.
Letters on controversial sub
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Man bout
Manhattan
Bx GEORGE tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Blue Bar.
CON-. . Sometimes he's happy. -.
Sometimes he's blue. =. He's got 13
men to look out for, IS salaries to
meet -. Then, what's left, he gets.
-. Yes, sir, sometimes he's happy,
80. Sometimes he's blue. -. His dis
position depends on you. .
That's what the song says
That's what Blue says :. Blue Bar.
ron, the band leader, who never play
ed in a band and couldn't if he want
ed to -. Blue Barron, old Cleveland
boy -. Old Ohio U. boy -. Kicking
around Athens, Ohio Kicking
around the campus of Ohio U. ..
He went to school with Sammy
Kay -. kicking around Cleveland
-. Kicking around those Cleveland
streets off Lake Erie That's
Blue -. That's his home town ..
Must be mighty cold there now, with
that lake freeze.
Blue Barron Sometimes he
mates you sometimes he loves
you go. but then he hates you .
because he loves you That's
right 49,. That's the song, but it's
Blues song now He heard it
when Vincent Youmans first came
up with the melody, and bulging
Irving Caesar wrote the lyrics for
it. They wrote it for "Hit the
Deck Blue couldn't get over
it -. He couldn't shake it off
Neither could Henry Thies, old Gin
cinnati boy 80. Old Coney Island
boy -. Henry Thies and his band
Henry never would leave Gin
cinnati for long 80. He didn't want
to come to New York He used
to be happy too, sometimes He
used to hurt you when he would
play Sometimes I'm Happy" 1t
was his signature, his tag But
Henry is dead now, and his men are
scattered here and there.
1t doesn't seem believable, but
it's true . Blue never heard e
play that song . And when he or
gained his w band, it seemed onlv
natural to take the song he loved
best for his own signature He
got a lot of letters from people who
remembered Henry when he first
played it that way, and thew asked
him why? Some of them seemed to
resent it a little, and that's under.
standable Others were glad
1t brought back sometime +ben
thought they would never hear
again.
Yes, sir, sometimes Blues happy
Sometimes he's blue-e-e-e
When he got out of Ohio U. he
was earning his bread by bookine
bands -. He was a booker He'd
book o for one-nighters or for a
month go. He'd book you on Broad.
way, or in a crossroads hall
About that time the big cornor,
tons and the b~rcadcastine com
panies began handling the BOOKINGS
themselves 80. That made it tough
That left the small-frv 10
shoe-stringers, off by themselves
Blue didn't want to lose out ~
made him blue to think that he
might lose.
So he organized his own band
It was Blue Barron's band re-
he couldn't book. he would at least
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Warmer Temperatures,
Rain Forecast TODAY

Steadily rising temperatures and
occasional rain are included on the
weather menu for Wilmington to-
day, according to { report by
weather bureau officials last night.
Although a low temperature of At
degrees was forecast, weathermen
sail that it was doubtful if the mer-
curry will fall that low.
Moderate to fresh southerly winds
shifting to the north, will pre-
dominate today. Tonight may be
slightly cooler, weathermen said.
Yesterday temperatures ranged
from a low of 40 degrees to a high
Of 81, with the mean seven above
the normal of At degrees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

have something for the other fellow
to book So he just owned the
band, and went around with it, but
the public never saw him. He didn't
appear with the band. Some other
fellow stood up n front and waved
the baton.
But there came a night when the
man who waved the stick became
ill, and Blue went on He's been
there ever since You couldn't
pry him off that stand with a crow
bar That's how it is now .
That's Blue, old Ohio U. boy .
Old classmate of Sammy Kay's . .
Old Cleveland boy He's happy
now Sometimes he's happy
Sometimes he's blue-e-e . His dis.
position depends or you-u-u
-. You've been mighty nice to him,
with your letters and your atten-
ton -. He's on N.B.C. and on Blue
bird records, and in the Green Room
OF the Hotel Edison . Blue Barron
! the Green Room He'll be
there till April Then the long
maui through the south Big
towns and little towns College
towns and tank towns 49,. Then back
10 this town -. And if it rains, why
lat all right He eve minds
=. the rain from the skies . If
ne can e -. a song in your eyes
-. Yes, Sir, Blue Barron, old Ohio
U. boy ... Old Cleveland boy -.
He's a New York boy now And
sometimes he's happy 49,. This is
n of those times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Editorial Comments
From Other AnqIes
THE MARKET REMAINS
Greensboro News

Revelation of the actual details of the Turko-
British agreement, under which Great Britain
will take more Turkish tobacco to the exclus-
ion Of the American product, provides hope
that the situation created in our own tobacco
growing area will not be as serious or as
permanent as at first believed.
Do not get the idea, though, that the Daily
News is trying to minimize the seriousness Of
this situation. Buyers for British companies
were withdrawn from the bright leaf markets
last fall; and purchases upon their return
were financed by the American government
which is waiting to get that leaf off it's hands
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Mrs. Cora Lee Kye, IS,
Dies In Local Hospital

Mrs. Cora Lee Kye. 65, wife of
Sergeant Lee Kye, of Winnabow,
died in a local hospital yesterday
after a short illness.
Mrs. Kye, formally Core Lee Beck.
is survived by her husband: two
sons, Lee, Jr., Of 10 esboro and Raw
Kye of Winnabow; one brother.
captain H.. S. Beck of Winston-Sa.
lem; and four grandchildren,
The remains will lie in the parlor
OF HarrelPs Funeral home until
Sunday. pending arrival of rela-
tives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Cooes.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 9.-Wiuiam
Haade, the ex-steel worker who
stands six-feet-three and weighs
230 pounds, is in "Arouse and Be.
ware" the Wallace Berry picture
of Civil war times There's
a scene in which an actor has to
smash a 12-foot log through a
shattered window in order to
break through and fight Berry.
49,. Two prop men couldn't carry
the log, but Haade, given the job,
picked it up alone and did the
smashing 80. His reward: Beery
conks him with an axe; Haade has
been acting ever since Norman
Bel Geddes took him off a con.
s%truction job to play a stage lead.
i. =. The play folded in two weeks,
but brought it's hero three screen
About five years ago Mildred
Cram wrote a short novel, For.
ever" which Janet Gaynor prompt.
ly bought for SIS, 900. Janet has
cherished the film rights ever
since.
It must be quite a yarn for pic
lures. Norma Shearer has Offered
Janet as much as $4,000 for il,
and Janet has had other offers
But she's keeping it-for Janet
Gaynor.
At least one actor is off the
list of m%ail-order beauty contest
judges. It's John Howard, who
has done yeoman service in that
cause year after year-but no
more. He won't even judge one
for his home town, Cleveland
Ohio. Reasons: the judging is done
by portraits, and portraits do lie
Besides which, if 1 may say So
contest-judging is n o. the sur
est ways for al actor to get De-
hind the eight-ball as far as the
non-winners (and their famllles)
are concerned.
Beulah Bondi is an excellent
character actress. When CONVERSE
ton swings to swell-heads, MISS
Bondi recalls the time she was
starting, a girl of 20, in stuart
Walkers stock company. Young
actor there, pouting owe his pafV
over one of numerous THINGS
an actor can pout about, threat
ened to walk out on Walker
Walker held up a glass of water,
stuck his little finger therein, helu
his wet finger up. "You see INV
drop Of water here?" he asked 'h'
rebel. YES? Now do you see tns
glass of water-and how little lha'
drop is missed?" Miss Bondi say
she always thinks of that glass u
water when anyone pays her
compliment .
Christopher Martin, a New Mex
lean of Mexican ancestry, is .
dark, fat and jovial man, one
Leo Carrillo's followers in the ne"
version Of 1.-The Dove" In real lNe
counts Carrillo his o"
friend also.
; One day Carrillo came to Chflss
saw Chris's 12-yeai.V
grandson on crutches, the ai'
math of infantile paralysis ~
sent the boy to a hospital, pau
he bills and "only t0ua',
said Chris, my grandson com
home and throws his cru''N'D
away"
And so-says Chris-"For
GARLIC I would die-I and oil
'amily."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

shock troops to assault the one posi-
ton on which the New Deal is economically
impregnable-its foreign trade policy"
There is not much to be added to that,
except to forecast that the DEwEYs and the
TAFTs and the GANNErTs will go blunderingly
ahead in their fight to discredit the present
trade policy, as they have in the past.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

A bird building its first nest ,'nd.
if separated from others of lis AI 4.
produces one built exactly AID,
ancestors have built for huN"
OF years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
TOP o. THE N

TOP o. THE MORNING
God Eno11S, and loCes, and cares
Nothing this truth can DIM;
And does the very best for those
Who leaUe the choice With Him. Ii
LOS ANGELES,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-05
Great Britain Hears
France Declare War
CONTINUED From Page u

tagne and Provence were in the
Oran battle. According to Church.
ills reports, either the Dunkerque
or the Strasborg was heavily dam
aged and beached. The other
fought its way out Of the harbor
but the British pursued and tor
pedoed It and Churchill said al
though 1t apparently had reached a
French port, 1t would be out OF
commission for months. Either the
Bretagne or the Provence was sunk
at Oran and the other was heavily
damaged. It was believed burned.
Taken without Fight
The Courbet and Paris, according
to British sources, were taken over
without a fight In British ports
where they were stationed. The
Lorraine was at Alexandria, strong
British naval base. along with four
French cruisers and although the
situation there still was not made
clear, Churchill said those ships
cannot be permitted to leave the
harbor."
Also sunk at Oran were the
Commandant Teste, one Of Frances
two airplane carriers 10000 craft
built in 1929, carrying 20 planes, 6S6
men and mounting 80 small guns
and two unidentified destroyers.
France had left, possibly the bat
tleship Dunkerque or Strasbourg,
which escaped from Oran with sew
eral smaller craft; the aircraft car
rier Bearn, Of 22,l46 tons and
possibly IL Of her IS cruisers (two
are known to be In British ports
and four are at Alexandria,
In addition to the two battleships
and two cruisers seized at British
ports, Churchill anpounced> that
some" submarines, including the
2,8s0-ton Surcouf, largest in the
world; eight destroyers and approx
imately - smaller but extremely
useful" mine-sweepers and anti
submarine craft had been taken,
mostly at Portsmouth and Ply
mouth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-05
Britain, France May
Break All Relations
CONTINUED From rage /,

sary to keep them from British hands
and the French government was SAID
to have ordered French ships to re-
sist the British and attack British
shipping. British ships or planes
approaching within IL miles OF the
French coast were ordered fired on,
1t was reported.
The French government was pre-
pairing, meanwhile, to revise the con-
stitution and substitute the slogan
labor, family and country" Tor the
traditional liberty, equality, frater-
nity." This task was said to have
been entrusted to Pierre Laval,
friend Of Germany and Italy, both
of whose constitutions as well as
those of the United States and Por-
tugal were being studied for features
to be incorporated in the new French
document.
Attack ON Britain Near
The German attack on Britain was
believed near, and London reported
the first German mass diving attack
by Stuka planes. The attack was
made on the naval base Of Portland
and London reported II persons
killed and three minor naval craft
sunk. Four German planes were shot
down yesterday and one Dornier fly
ing pencil today.
The German high command
claimed heavy damage in the raid
on Portland and asserted four 5000
ton troop transports were sunk and
damage inflicted on nine others and
one battleship. 1t also claimed the
sinking of a British submarine OF
Norway.
Three submarines have reported
sinking 85,543 tons Of British ship
ping and, In addition, the sinking
of the 5,500-ton merchant ship Har-
tlepool, southwest Of Portland, and
of q 12,000-ton tanker and an 5000
ton merchant ship sailing in convoy
was claimed.
The British announced 10000 chill
dren would be removed from east
and northeast coast towns over the
weekend because Of imminent fears
Of invasion attempts.
In the far east Japanese soldiers
made a raid in the French conces-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-05

"a report from Madrid today said
that after the British initial sue
cesses at Oran, two British battle
ships were forced to withdraw be-
cause q French submarine counter
attacked. This report said the bat
tie continued all Wednesday night
without apparent advantage to
either side. A possible explanation
for the slight British losses was
given by italian sources in Rome,
which said the French ships did not
have steam up to operate the tur-
bines and could not fire their heav-
lest (13-inch) guns. These dis
patches said the British ships stood
back out of range Of the French
small guns and bombarded the
French ships)
Many Ships At Sea
Although approximately half
Frances IS cruisers, one airplane
carrier and some Of the 81 French
destroyers and 100 submarines still
were unaccounted for, the score
against the French navy, fourth
largest In the world, stood today as
follows:
France had: The battleships
sometimes called battle cruisers)
Dunkerque and Strasbourg, each
26,500 tons; the battleships Bretagne
and Provence, 22,189 tons each; the
old (19ll-12) battleships Courbet and
Paris, 22,l89 tons; the battleship
Lorraine, Of 22,189 cons.
These were the seven capital
ships. az
The Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Bre.