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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
WILLKIE PLANS
DRIVE IN SOUTH
GOP Nominee To Make
Active Effort To Break
Democratic Ranks
BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY

COLORADO SPRINGS, COL,
.J,lv L Wi]lkie said
today he would make an active
campaign for votes in the "sol'd'
democratic south.
Willkie told reporters that while
his campaign plans were inde1ln-
tie. he would Undoubtedly make
a number of talks in the South
during the coming campaign.
The republican nominee, here for
a vacation with Mrs. Willikle, said
ne would spend today "Just read
ing and resting" He will attend
a barbecue tonight and motor to
Denver tomorrow for a conference
with Colorado republican leaders.
He will lunch with Mrs. Ruth Han
ma Mccormick Simms, who sup
ported Thomas E. Dewey for the
republican nomination.
On Sunday, Willkie will motor
over the Continental Divide to at
tend the annual fish Try ana Gun
nison county pioneer society get
together at Almont, in OF Colo.
races best trout fishing areas. He
accepted an invitation to attend
The opening of the Cheyenne, Wyo..
frontier days Rodeo July %.
The nominee talked yesterday
with Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colo
rado. Carr asserted that Wiilkit
would sweep the West in the No
vember election and a5ded to re
porters: I'm not kidding you.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
LORETTA YOUNG
TO WE'D Levi,
~ "~
ENGAGEMENT OF Film Star
+. To AID Man To Be An
nounced Monday

HOLLYWOOD July 11.-R-
Loretta Young, 27-year-old film
star, proposes to marry Tom
Lewis, SO, an advertising agency
executive, in about a month.
Friends disclosed that their en-
gagement will be announced at a
party Monday. Miss Young's 1880
elopement-marriage to Actor
Grant Withers was annulled.
Lewis has had no previous mar
Other Hollywood news:
Film Writer Norman Houston
sred Columbia Pictures Corpora
ton for 81 1000, 900 damages, charg-
ing that the picture, MIR. Smith
Goes to Washington" was based
on his story, Clown in Congress-"
Comedian Stan Laurel was sued
foy $16,264 in back alimony by
a former wife, Lois Laurel Brown.
Charging cruelty, Actress Mont
ca Bannister sued for divorce
from Writer Edward Cherokee, to
whom she became reconciled last
year after winning an interlocu-
tory divorce decree.
Producer-Writer-Directo B e n
Hecht offered Franklin D. Roose-
welt, Jr., a job as a movie actor,
asserting you've got Robert Tay-
lor and the other Hollywood boys
licked a mile for looks and per-
sonality."
Young Roosevelt, who had been
visiting his brother James,, a pro-
Queer, rejected the offer.
LIT looks too complicated" he
explained.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Canada Will Recruit
10000 More Soldier.

OTTAWA, July 11.-LP-canaa,
opened her first fu~ll-fledged recr,i,
ing campaigns today to get a. ooo
new volunteers for the Can,d;nN
active service force, full.timA 60,
diery for duty at home or oversoa.
and to train $1,000 militiamer a."
ing the early part of August
In broadcasts over the Canaa.
Broadcasting corporation networ,'
last night, Defense Minister ca, n
L. Ralston and Air Minister Maj.
C. G.. Power figuratively hunp .
men wanted sign on the air va,oS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
In Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD.-Al persons VINO
may be planning to visit Holly
wood hereby are warned that the
Ritz Brothers are at large again.
Proceed at your own risk.
1t makes no difference that Nov
leland is extensive in area and that
there really are only three Rites
These boys get around. They're
the gargoyles on the Union Station,
the corpses of Clover Club suicides,
and the whitewings at Hollywood
Park. They're the shirs in rub
berneck buses, the double-talking
panhandlers in front OF the Brown
Derby, and the talent scouts whoA
flag down an out-of-state automo-
bile in the middle of Hollywood
Boulevard and offer S.. 000-a-week
movie contracts to each of the
tourists.
At night clubs, they're the
thumb in your soup, the insulting
head waiter, and the chef with a
cleaver who goes around looking
for the patron who complained
about the steak. If you leave one
spot while they're singing a song
having taken over the floor show
for their own amusement-you're
likely to find them half an hour
later doing a strip tease in a joint
five miles away. The Ritz Broth
ers are not subtle workers, but
they're fast.
BY day, the comedians now are
where they are playing in a film
fairly safely isolated at Universal,
called Argentine Nights" They
were assigned a dressing room
bungalow adjacent to the studio
hospital as a rus to keep them
quiet. Jim, Harry, and AL immed
lately went next door to cheer the
sick with a few dirges, and discov
cred that the establishment is JUS
an infirmary and never has any in
patients.
VIGILANT AGAINST
RITZKRIEG
Since production has only jus
begun, the brothers have had little
chance to plan a Ritzkrieg agains
other companies on the lot, but ci
rectors and producers are griml!
vigilant. Everyone remember
what happened when the triumvi
rate invaded and demoralized goth
Fox. Not even the dignity of Oar
ryl Zanuck was safe from outrage
The occupation lasted three year
and was ended only by making
couple of pictures so bad that tn
Rites were ashamed to be seel
in them.
There was quite a bit Of story
trouble toward the last, but tn
brothers hung on until z a
called in Sol Wurtzel, his Class
generalissimo. Pack Up You
Troubles" and The Gorilla" fol
lowed. After the second disastrou
preview, Harry Ritz called hi
brothers together and said, Gen
tlemen, things have gone from bat
to Wurtzel." That night the.
slipped quietly owe the border o
Movietown City.
A few months ago, having BEEF
engaged for two pictures by Uni
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-NeWs Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel,
BY HENRY r

RALEIGH, July 11.-Sure sign
that the silly season is on is the
heated discussion in news column
of the possibility that the North
Carolina Supreme court justices
will wear robes from and after
their re-convening for the 1910 fall
term late in August.
Among the inalienable rights
guaranteed to all Americans is that
to dress al scientifically as they
choose. Justices Stacy, Clarkson.
Schenck, ct al, should be allowed
to traipse around in long skirts if
they want to. They still won't look
any worse than a Bald = headed
Skinner with a red fez or an over
stuffed Legionnaire in a 40 and 8
smock.
In robes, bathing suits or trous-
ers, the jurists will still seem in
effably bad interpreters of n
common law and the statutes, in
the eyes of the losing lawyers.
North Carolina gets three differ
ent sets of highway fatalities every
month, and they never agree. The
Board of Health puts out one, the
Highway Patrol another and the
Highway Safety Division still a
third, and if ever the trio had the
same figures it would be nothing
short of a miracle.
Explanation of the differences is
quite plausible. The B o a d of
Health reports deaths when and as
it receives certificates from the
counties, regardless of the date OF
accident or injury. The Patrol re-
ports only the fatalities which oc-
cur in accidents investigated by its
members. The Safety Division
waits until it gets all possible in
formation from all available sour
ces before making its monthly pro-
nouncements.
Still, the three different reports
are a bit confusing to the general
public. not in the know as to why's
and Wherefores, and it seems that
something could be done about it.
Special Bulletin for the Raleigh
News and Observer: The North
ECarolina-for-Roosevelt headquar-
tiers have been closed. State Sen
ator John D. Larkins, Jr., shut
them up after a visit here on the
eve of going to the Chicago con-
vention.
The N. and o. "closed" them
right after the state convention and
again after the primary, but some
how or other DR.. Mcdonald and
Senator Larkins just wouldn't be
convinced of it.
North Cardinals Probation Com
mission is wondering w it's
work will reach a point where
there will be something like a bal
ance between the number of those
put on probation each month and
those going 'off probation" for one
reason or other.
So far the Commission had ham
died, in its approximately two and
half years of existence, some 1000
cases, or which about 1900 are
still "active''-that is to say there
are about that many probationers
now under supervision.
When the system was first set
up it was obvious that there would
be few going "of" probation and
many going on, but some of these
days there will be a levelling out
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
to where one about equals the 9th.

to Wnere one about equals the 9th.
er.
Commissioner Harry Sample
says that from 100 to ITS proba.
TONERS r now being added
monthly, while only about so pro-
baton sentences are expiring, or
otherwise being ended, in the same
time.
Average or revocation of proba-
ton is now about one in ten, Mr..
Sample estimates.
Present outlook is that June high.
way deaths did not exceed 50 by
many, if any, as compared with n
killed on the highways in June Of
1889. The Safety Division looks for
a reduction for June of approxi.
mately 80 per cent, which would
make the record for the year show
a decrease of almost IS per cent
from last.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Lumberton Clubs Urge
Earlier Mart Opening

LUMBERTON, July 11.-Earlier
opening of Border belt tobacco mar
man committee to advise the U. S.
Tobacco association Of this action
was named Monday night at a joint
meeting of the Lumberton service
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12

During 1888, London h a d 1000
fires. Only sever persons lost
their lives through being trapped
in burning buildings during that
wear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12

erS at work to capacity, raising its
national income so greatly that the
new expenditures can be absorbed.
That adds up to the conclusion,
now beginning to be expressed
freely both in and out of the admin
istration, that the effort to perfect
Americas defenscs is not a mere
matter of increasing the army and
navy, or of lining up the New
World nations in a common front
against aggression. 1t might in
volve internal changes-regimenta'
ton, spending, planning, and so on
so profound as to make the New
Deal to date look insignificant.
SIMPLE PLAN
SHOWS SCOPE
One sample, taken from just one
sector of the home 'front.'" will dc
as an illustration. -.
The Department Of Agriculture
says there are today on American
farms more than three million men
who are either totally unemployed
or who exist on gross incomes Go:
themselves and their dependents)
of less than 5000 a year. These
people live where soil erosion ana
depletion are most advanced.
Hence the department has drafted
a tentative rural work relief pro-
gram, aimed to give these 5000, 900
men jobs in a vast soil conSerVa-
ton program.
WE AMT SEN
NOTHIN' YET
This particular plan may never
come out of the hopper. The point
is that it represents the sort of
thing which this administrators
experts are saying is going to have
to be done on many fronts, if the
nation is to rehabilitate itself for a
genuine defense of democracy.
Of course, a change in the war
picture might change all of this.
So, it goes without saying, could a
change in administration. But as
of today-given the existing situ-
alton abroad and the existing ad-
ministration in Washington-it is
accurate to say that the defense
measures SO far suggested barely
scratch the surface. !
The Himalayas, highest noun
lfoIn pnnco Io fho yryor1I ;e ~ ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12

clubs and civic organizations at Nc
Millan's Beach.
K. M. Biggs, R. H. Livermore and
0. L. Henry were appointed to draw
up a resolution requesting the earlier
market opening on behalf of the
Lumberton Chamber Of Commerce
and Agriculture, Merchants associa-
ton, Kiwanis, Rotary, Minute Men
and Bachelor clubs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-12
Behind The Scenes In
Washington :

WASHINGTON. - In announce
ments already made, this admins
tration has laid down the outlines
Of defense measures SO sweeping
that they must, almost inevitably,
be followed by economic measures
of equally broad scope.
Within three days, for instance.
responsible authorities h e e pro-
posed Cd an economic cartel to
market all New World export sur
pluses, at a cost which might run
to half a billion a year; (2) a four
billion dollar program of new naval
construction; 90 a matching army
expansion program, and "a a sys-
tenn for universal training of young
men and women along semi-mill-
tary lines.
These are in addition to defense
measures already begun. In legis.
lation already passed, for instance,
the nation is committed to h G
spending of around five billions.
Cost of the SO, 000-airplanes-a-year
program has been estimated al
close to seven billions.
LOWER STANDARDS
OR HIGHER PRODUCTION
In view of the fact that these ire.
mendous new expenses must be
borne by a nation already $40, 900,
0O0, 900 in debt, with an unbalanced
budget running back Tor the better
part of a decade, and with around
5000, 900 unemployed, economists
here in Washington r saying one
Of two things must be done:
Either the nation must accept a
very drastically lowered standard
of living-or it must find some way
of putting all of its productive pow
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
Two CandidatesHave
Ended Their Tasks
Continued From Page -

there are no storm troopers or Sc.
cret police to look over our Shout
ders as we mark our ballots.
After the ballots are counted, the
real rulers Of this country will have
had their way. After the ballots
are counted, the United States will
still be united. There can be no ar
guments about the essential fact
that In our desire to remain at
peace by defending our democracy,
we are one nation and one people"
Wilkes Last Words
Willkie spoke during a midnight
to a. m. rally at the Ritz theater
here.
II cannot say anything to you,
he said, about how well I have led
this crusade. But I can say this to
YOU, that no man In history has ever
felt deeper sense Of obligation to
the cause he has led than I do at
this time.
I'VE believe this cause is the most
sacred cause in the world, the pres
ervation Of the free life in America
And that free way of life can be
preserved only If we become a
united people. We must win, we
must win this cause. call upon
you and the millions of other Amer
leans to carry this crusade to the
point where we can again preserve
the liberties of the country"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
IALCORN OPPOSES
PLEA OF PETERS
Defendant In Conspiracy
Trial Asks Parole Other
Waterburians Apply

Donate Pietraroia, also known as
Dan Peters. who is serving a two 10
i've year sentence at Wethersfield
as q result Of his conviction in the
Waterbury graft trial, appeared be.
fore the Board Of Pardons at the
prison yesterday. Governor Ray
mond e. Baldwin presided.
Peters, who is suffering from dia-
.betes, said he could receive better
treatment home, but States At
torney Hugh M. Alcorn asserted
that Peters looked much better than
at any time during the nine month
trial. Peters was convicted Of ac-
cepting money for imaginary truck
ing services.
Three others who are serving SEN
fences imposed In Waterbury APP
peared before the board. They were
Thursa Scott, sentenced In october,
1888 to q seven to ten year term for
manslaughter; John Anderson, who
Is serving q 40 to IS year term for
robbery with violence; and Dennis
J. Mccarthy, who is serving a 20 TO
80 year term as habitual criminal.
-Four and a half years were cut
from the minimum sentence Of
George Dirga, "a, Of New London,
serving 10 to rs years for armed
robbery, while Desiree J. Corrigan,
of Southbury, was granted a par
don to prevent his deportation to
Canada. Corrigan served reform
atory sentence in 1917 for theft in
Orange and has lived an exemplary
life since his release, the board was
told.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
WILLKIE STILL
KEEPS STRENGTH
Continued from Page y

(C0ntlnueu from rage ~
date and his wife arrived. Willkie
smiled, waved his hat, but did not
speak.
After he voted, Willkie returned
to his headquarters In the hotel
Commodore.
In his final appeal, before a Ritz
theater crowd and a nation wide
radio audience, Willkie said that a
"sree way OF life can be preserves:
In America only If we become q
United people"
"For 7 10 years we have had
discord, and we are having discord
at a time when We look across the
seas and see that 1t was diScord
and weakness from within that
caused the democracies Of Europe 10
collapse before totalitarianism," he
continued. Il can't say anything 10
you about how well ] can or have
led this crusade, but ! can say this
10 you: That no man In all the
history OF time has ever felt a
deeper dedication or sense Of obi
cation to the cause that he has led
than feel TO this cause that ]
lead.
And we must win. we must win
this cause. I call upon you and the
millions OF other Americans .
to carry this crusade TO the point
where we then can begin to save
America and preserve the liberties
Of this great beloved country OF
ours"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
MAYOR HAGUE IS
new JERSEY issue

Trenton, N. j., November 5. -
CUP - Sixteen Presidential cleo
tors and the prestige of Jersey City
Mayor Frank Hague's Democratic
machine were at stake in New Jer-
sey'S election today.
Registrations totaled 2,362,926,
largest In history. Polls were open
from 7 q. m. TO 8 p. m. The fore
cast was for cloudy weather. mild
temperatures. President Roosevelt
carried the state by 364.i28 votes In
1895. Democrats forecast a similar
majority for him today; Republicans
predicted q 100000 majority for Wen.
dell L. Willkle.
Hudson County. seat OF the
Hague machine, was expected 10 pile
up It's customary overwhelmingly
Democrats vote, IN spite OF recent
federal and state legislative invests
cations OF alleged election frauds
and the attempt hy william n sew.
ell. Republican superintendent OF
elections. 10 purge the registration
lists OF illegal voters, OF which he
estimated there we're 60yOON
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
WOMAN BACKER OF
ROOSEVELT FINED
She Tore Down Posters OF
WiIIkie, Because ROose-
welt Posters Suffered

McKeesport, Pa, November 5 -
(UP)-Mrs. Annabelle Devlin, 38, q
supporter of President Roosevelt,
went to Jail for 80 days today rather
than pay a $25 fine and costs for
tearing down Willkie posters and
slapping one Of two men who were
lacking up the signs.
Mrs. Devlin was taken before Po-
lice Magistrate Fred Bradley by
two men, Alex Vernyi and Simon
Harrington, who said she tore down
Willkie posters at a polling place as
fast as they could put them up, and
slapped Vernyi when they remon"
strated.
The woman claimed she tore
down the Willkie signs because
Roosevelt signs had suffered SIM
liar fate.
Anyone here for Roosevelt
doesn't have a chance" she said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05

Continued from Page y
continued. 'the question on which
we all finally pass judgment through
the hal,St u AMPLY this; W''n's:
do I think Is the candidate test
qualified to act as President, or
Governor, or Senator or Mayor Of
supervisor or county commissioner
during the next term?'
1T Is that right. the right to. de-
termine for themselves who should
be their own officers OF government
that provides for the people the
most powerful safeguard Of our de-
mocracy. The right to place men
In office, at definite, fixed date for
a specific term. is the right which
will keep a free people always free
I'VE have more faith In the col
lective opinion Of all Americans than
In the individual opinion Of any one
American.
"Your will Is a part OF the great
will Of America. Your voice Is a
part Of the great voice OF Amer
lea.
Democracy Is not just a word
to be shouted at political rallies and
then put back into the dictionary
after election day.
Living, Human Thing
1T is a living thing - a human
thing - compounded Of brains and
muscles and heart and soul. The
service Of democracy Is the birth
right Of every citizen. the white and
the colored; the Protestant, the
Catholic, the Jew, the sons and
daughters Of every country in the
world. who make up the people OF
this land. Democracy Is every man
and woman who loves freedom and
serves the cause Of freedom.
"After the ballots are counted, the
real rulers Of this country will have
had their way, as they have had
1t every two years or every four
years during our whole national ex-
istence.
after the ballots are counted, the
United States of America will still
be united"
Mr.. Roosevelt concluded his CAM
paign without ever having mention
ed his Republican rival, Wendell L.
Willkie, by name.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
23,O78 VOTES CAST
UP TO One O'CLOCK
Continued from Page y

The last stages OF the campaign
were marked by circulation Of In
hammatory racial and religious pro-
paganda. Washington Hill and
Brooklyn residents were indignant
at receiving circulars charging that
some Of the Democratic candidates
were Catholic and prejudiced
against Irish, Italian and other
racial groups. Today the mails were
flooded with cards and circulars
claiming that a vote for Roosevelt
was q vote for war.
Congress Fight Watched
Great interest was being evinced
in the Congressional fight between
Congressman J. Joseph Smith, DEM
ocratic veteran Of three terms, and
Frank T. Johnson, Republican.
Fighting for the probate Judge"
ship are the incumbent, Patrick
Healey, Democrat, and Attorney
Maurice Wrenn, Republican.
In the 18th district, the Sena-
torial candidates are Attorney MI
chael v, Blansfield, Democrat, and
Harold B. Post, Republican.
IN the 10th district, the Senatorial
campaign is between Senator Ed
ward p. Egan, Democrat and
Franklyn Barringer, Socialist Re
publican.
Battling for the Representatives
posts are Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney,
Democrat, and Attorney John Men,
brine, Democrat, opposed by An
gelo Possemato, Republican, and
Edward Mraz, Republican.
The voting was still extremely
heavy at press hour.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-05
LYMOUTH FIRM
AWARDED $552
Eagle Lock Company
Loses Decision In Suit
Based On Sale OF Tools

The Oildex Corporation, of Ply
mouth, bankrupt, was awarded $522.-
so and costs from the Eagle Lock
Company, also of Plymouth, in a
memorandum Of decision filed by
Judge John F. McDonough, Of the
court Of common pleas, today.
The action was brought by Milton
w. Goss, trustee for the bankrupt
concern. Goss claimed that the
Eagle Company sold tools and dies
owned by Oildex, and asked $1,000
damages.
Motions to set aside verdicts in
two other actions were denied by
Judge McDonough and Judge Miles
r. McNiff. They were the cases Of
DR.. John Wertheimer against the
Waterbury Savings Bank, in which
the plaintiff was awarded $2,250
Oct. Is; and Mrs. Nellie King
against the Waterbury Savings
bank, in which the plaintiff won $500
Oct. %. Both actions were based on
falls.