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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
CITY FORESTS

n EFORESTATION in Massachusetts has
N been so successful that the state is be
coming an example for other states. But the
effort is more notable for its sponsorship
than for it's extent. The job is being done
by cities, 1O7 of which have forests of thei1
own.
The city forest movement received greatest
impetus in 1924 when Merrimac purchased 8
tract of woodland. In six years the tract has
been paid for by the crop and the mun1clpa
treasury holds $4,533 in excess Of all expenses
Adams has the largest town forest, 6,72l
acres, and Westfield is owner of the mos
profitable, looking for a profit of $4,000.
The Boston Globe, discussing reforestation
thinks a municipality has an advantage OF q
ing timber, it comments, requires the great
er part Of a lifetime and, of course, perma
nent ownership OF the land ~
The Globes estimate of the time required
to produce commercial timber is based on the
slower growth of northern trees. Southern
pine natures in much less than a lifetime
BY forcing, slash pine may be cut profitably
in eight years. Left alone it is ready for thu
axe in fifteen years. In this the South has
an advantage over the Old Bay state. Ant
it has moG standing timber which could b.
turned into city forests.
Wilmington is admirably situated for {
forest project. Pine fills many an acre tina
could be so utilized. Converted into a park
and adjoining acres planted, che city would
have a new source of revenue in a few years
and provide a beauty spot which men woult
come miles to seas they once did KAT1sHA't
elbow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31

ficult to find a place in which 1t would ne
more proper to say, Easier said than done"
Certainly, also, there might be no objection
to the senator's suggestion that we propose
to Great Britain that if she will buy American
farm products, this government will give her
credit on her war debt in some attractive ratio
on the amount of her purchase. AS senator
Bailey says, if we gave as a prize a piece OF
war debt with every British purchase OF farm
products, we would lose nothing because even
in peace Britain announced she never intended
to pay it. It is improbable that Britain is par
ticularly interested in paying it now When her
needs are immediate and tangible.
Greatly needed is some system under which
Britain and other of our warning customers
could consume our goods. But .Oughly speak
ing that depends on their raising the cash or
our giving them the goods. If we give them
the goods, we will be helping them pay for
the war. Even if we give them tobacco. we
will be freeing their cash to buy guns. And if
this country is going to embark on any large
scale giving away program, it would be better
to give away at home than abroad. OF course,
we could hardly give away all the tobacco at
home. But it would be better to bear the pain
of change to other crops and bear the cost out
Of the federal treasury than to use equal funds
to finance a giving of the tobacco to Britain
or any other warning nation which would free
their resources to purchase Of military sup
plies.
Suggestions certainly are needed from sena-
tors and everybody else in this dilemma. But
no farmers should govern their planting on
hopes lifted by suggested possibilities. Reality
stands closer than possibility. This is a time
for both the United States government and
the farmers of North Carolina to think about
living at home as the only alternative in a
warning world to sending their treasure abroad
in the inevitable process by which ultimately
our men will follow our treasure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
DISCRIMINATORY A T

Nine Southern states, including North Caro-.
lima, have taken up arms against three basic
schedules of freight rates affecting t%ranspor
tation of livestock with the purpose of get
ting them on a level with rates from the
West. The effort, which will be fought out
before the Interstate Commerce Commission,
will seek equalization of rates to southern
producers. The complaint will be aimed at
rates on livestock shipped from the South to
Northern territory, from the West to the
South, and from the West through the South
to the North.
Mr.. WALTER MCDONALD, chairman of the
Southern States Livestock Steering commit.
tee, at a conference in Atlanta, declared the
rates from the South to Northern markets
are thirty per cent higher than those from
the West. He alleged discrimination and
charges from the West into the South and
into Northern markets. These accessorial
charges, which include prices for bedding
feed, %stopover and concentration privileges
he declared, run Southern states as high as
$50 per cent more than other sectional rates
Here is another illustration Of the hap
hazard manner in which the freight rate
structure has been built. Correction is clearly
indicated, the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion cannot well refuse readjustment without
opening the way for severe censure, even for
a charge of prejudice against the South. It
is such conditions which appeared to justify
the claim that the South is the No. 1 eco.
nomic problem of the AUTHORIZATIONS of
which the South was the victim, not the
cause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
VEGETABLE PRICES
BOOSTED in STATE
Green String Beans Reported
Virtually Unobtainable
In Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 30.-CP-Crop
killing freezes that penetrated into
southern Florida hoisted wholesale
vegetable prices in North Carolina IN
some instances 200 per cent today
Charlotte produce dealers said Tar
Heel housewives already had felt the
pinch of higher prices.
One large jobber said green beans
we're virtually unobtainable, but thaI
pickings in south Florida before the
freeze were quoted by telegraph IT,
day at between four and five dollars
a bushel, whereas they sold q WeeA
ago at from 5000 to s2.25 a bushel'
He said green cabbage almoSI
overnight had advanced from SZO u
$50 a ton. English peas and squash
he said, were not to be had. He sau
North Carolina job5ers were told th9
celery crop in central Floriaa Hau
been almost wiped out.
One produce handler said the Char
lotte area alone received about o,W'V
bushels of string beans a week from
Florida points. But he said HUE
hope was held for more shipments
for at least 60 days. He said ne"
paintings were already started, bu'
that about two months would DE le
CURED to mature the crop. The South
Carolina and Georgia bean crops
usually are not available before
May Is.
North Carolina jobbers were quo.
ing prices on oranges today abou' "
per cent above last weeks figures
No shortage is anticipated III
greens such as mustard, spinach anu
because these harder veSel%
bles are obtainable from lower Sou'n
and withstood freezes,
One produce spokesman said Nor'"
would feel keenly the Iree@0
because almost all winter gree"
vegetables and citrus fruits consuIn'
ed in the state were produced III
Florida, although Rio Grandc N2H',
grapefruit is generously iInpot'e"
Little California produce, he SAID u
brought to North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
Funeral Services Are
Held For Mrs. McCrau

Funeral rites for Mrs. Olivia E
McCraw, 81, who died in a loca
hospital Sunday afternoon after an
extended illness, were held from the
home of her daughter, Mrs. L. B
Flanagan, 1913 North 23rd street.
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
Burial followed in the Oakdale
cemetery.
Active %pallbearers were George
Walsak, John Tienken, Donald
King w. R. Lutes, William j
Brown, and Charles K. Williams.
Honorary pallbearers were
Claude O'Shields, DR.. Duncan Nc
Eachern, DR.. B. l.. Bass, DR.. Har
lee Bellamy, DR.. Graham B. Bare
foot, E. M. Dewey, c. l.. William
son, G. G. Beekman, Leo E. Sykes,
]. S. Davis, N M. Johnson, c. E.
Brown, Harry E. Payne, and K. w.
Price.
Mrs. McCraw was a daughter of
the late James H. Wright and Mary
E. Warren Of Washington, N. c.,
and was a lifelong member of the
Presbyterian church.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Chris H. Buttelmen, and Mrs.
Lawrence B. Flanagan: one son,
Thomas E. McCraw, all of Whining.
ton; one sister, Mrs. A. O. Kafer.
of Florence, S. c.; one brother.
Julius A. Wright, of Waycross,
Ca; and two grandchildren, Mary
Wright and Tom McCraw of viii.
mington, and several nieces and
nephews.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
Man bout

Bv GEORGE Tucker

NEW YORK, Jan. 3o.-Gregory
Taylor, back from an lS,ooo'mlle
honeymoon through South America
tells an interesting tale Of those
|interned German sailors who were
on the Graf Spec. They're going to
work on farms, and receive $40 a
month. although this money Will
not be paid to them personally. 1t
will be set aside in the interest OF
the German government. Nice
government.
While he was there Taylor
talked with some of these lads, and
one. a blond kid about IS, seemed
especially morose and downcast.
Don't be like that" Taylor urged
him. You're lucky. You won't be
killed. You'll live here in safety.
with plenty Of good food, and a nice
place to sleep Think Of all this
freedom, and think of all these
pretty girls 49,.
With that the fellow broke out
laughing, then quickly recovered
himself. "See," he said in a wits
per, but in excellent English, were
mot supposed to laugh. But were
tiekled to death. I wouldn't go back
if they paid me -. None of us is
ever going back But we cant
say that. We aren't supposed to be
happy or even smile . That's why
all these fellows seem so sad"
On this trip Taylor, who is a New
York hotel nan (St. Moritz) flew
clear across the continent -. When
he went over the Andes he had to
keep an oxygen tube in his mouth
/. All the trans-Andes planes are
equipped with them.
How do the people live dowr
there: "Marvelously WELL" he says
1.-THE fruit and the fish are wonder
full, but the meat isn't as well curet
as ours. But you can go hogwil6
On a dollar. l visited a ranch ir
Brazil that took US three days t.
ride across, and then we didn't see
all of it . Thousands of acres Of
vineyards, thousands of head Of cat
tie Everybody working anc
everybody eating"
Well, what about this bridegroom
business; that's a new role for vol
to play, isn't it?
Have you ever seen a Greek grin
Mr.. Taylor is a Greek. He used tt
pad around the decks of a mackere
boat in the Aegean -. "Well," says
he, the brides from Egypt. I never
saw her until she came to visit the
Fair last year, but her family and
my family are old friends You
know how these things go We
just decided to get married"
This honeymoon required a days
and covered $4,000 miles through
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and most
of the other countries -. The finest
hotel he found was in Buenos Aires
He did some fishing but didu't
have much luck He took thou
sands Of pictures, of which the still.
shots were bad but the movies were
wonderful Movies of old ruins
which reveal something Of a lost
civilization.
THAT South America is all right
says Taylor, who heretofore thought
only Europe would suffice. with
this war, we sure ought to make a
lot Of new friends"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
QUOTATION

Since democracy was realized in the nine.
tenth century, we must consider the PROPOSE.
ton that possibly democracy belongs to that
century and may not be able to sustain itself
in the twentieth century.-Dr. Harry r. Rubin,
professor Of German history, Yale university.
Adhering to our traditional position, our first
task is to re-establish policies which will as
sure our peace in a disordered world-policies
which will restore real unity and security at
E.. Dewey, G. o. P. candidate
for President.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
Bagley Will Address
Kiwanis Club Today

"Health Through Exercise" will be
the subject of an address by Arthur
r. Baeley, physical director of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance com.
navy. at the meeting of the WHINING.
ton Kiwanis club at the Cape Fear
hotel today.
Rob Romeo will have charge of
,be program. J. W. Grise will give
q o,,iz on Kiwanis and H. M. Roland
viii speak on the Raleigh vocational
guidance meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
TOP o. THE MORNING

Il am draning near the close of my career,
I haze been perhaps the most voluminous
author OF my day, and it is a comfort for me
to think that I haze tried to unsettle no
mans faith, to corrupt no MANS. principle,
and that I haze Writtem nothing which on my
deathbed I should nuish plotted out"
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
Hollywood
Sights 4nd Sounds
Nv Robin Cooas

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30.-Movie
medicine has taken some interest.
ing strides Up the ladder Of anthem
ITCHY since the old days when real
doctors could chuckle at the tech
nique Of reel ones.
Hollywood never goes into a fic.
tional operating room now with.
out taking along a technical ex-
pert who knows his scalpels and
anesthetics. That's why, when a
movie actor has Operated" in a
picture, the audience needn't have
the uncomfortable suspicion that
he's sewn up a saw Or his cigaret
case inside the patients" wound.
1t isn't done. Cinema surgery is &C.
cording to medical Hoyle.
The surgical cycle of a few years
back-movie after movie in which
the drama centered on the quick,
tense motions Of a cinema doctors
hands in closeup over a cinema
PATIENTS forgotten at least tenn
porarily. But medicine and the op.
Grating amphitheater survive, hap
PLY, as film material in OCCASION
al pictures. Medicine, if not the
operating room, will be back With
a bang in THE Magic Bullet" the
story of DR.. Enrich, and until
then-there is always that young
DR.. Kildare.
It's a visit to the new Kildare
films set that prompts today's at.
tention to movie medicine. The
overseer technical directory there
is young DR.. Gilbert Lee, who has
been guiding Kildare (Lew Ayres)
and Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore)
through all their medical prob
lens since the series began three
pictures ago. Lee, with his MD.
from the University of Minnesota,
alternates private practice with his
movie duties, and is pleasantly ex-
cited about the speed with which
new discoveries in medicine and
surgery are reflected.
"Dr. Kildare's, Secret" third Of
the series, used sulfapyridin prom.
inently in treatment Of a patient,
and the new n has a plot in
volving use Of "insulin shock" to
cure a mental disorder.
1t is the Kildare makers boast
that in three Of the films already
marketed they've had but one
medical squawk. This came from
a local doctor who protested that
the "malnourished baby" in
young DR.. Kildare" couldn't pos
sibly have been suffering from
malnutrition, looking as healthy as
it did. DR.. Lee came right back
with the records: a special permit
obtained for camera work by a
baby victim of the disorder.
Interest in medical matters has
spread among the cast and workers
OH the films. The prolific author,
Max Brand. started it all by his
own delvings into medical lore for
fiction. Barrymore, who has been
In sickbeds enough to sharpen an
already active interest, is a con.
firmed reader of medical tones,
and Ayres is forever popping up
With some question or bit of odd
cleaned from personal
Harold Bucquet, the direc.
Tor, has accompanied DR.. Lee on
w tours, so far, Of medical cen
tiers.
The new film, incidentally, has
an interesting sequence showing
now movie-writers let circumstances
after cases. Old DIR. Gillespie of the
piece, long wheelchair-bound by a
supposedly incurable disease, is CIV
en- a ray of hope. And why? Be.
cause Lionel Barrymore, in person,
Is getting better and scarcely needs
ms wheelchair any more. Next
hiioare, If Barrymore feels like it,
old Or. Gillespie can walk - a
cured man"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
CONFER

Lord Lothian, British ambassa.
dor, conferred with Secreatry of
State Hull on, means to settle
the differences arising from
British restrictions against
American shipping.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
STATEMENT

Senator George (D.-Ga.) de.
manded that President RoOse-
welt state his position on a third
term, warning that continued
silence would be disastrous" to
the party.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
SCOTT WILL PEA

COATES, Jan. 3O.-(P1-A9rlcul'u,
al Commissioner w. Kerr Scott WIN
speak here Thursday night at a met,
Ing of the Better Farming cluO
the Coates High school
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31

PKUPUSES HUSFTTAL
President Roosevelt, on his
58th birthday, proposed that the
government build hospitals for
needy areas in an experimental
program to cost $500, 600 to
$40, OOO, 900. Birthday balls were
held throughout the country to
raise money for infantile paraly.
sis sufferers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
v TREATIES

Spokesman for three women's
organizations urged extension OF
the reciprocal trade agreement
program before the house ways
and means committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
The Day In Washington
(By The Associated Press)

Wy Thu 115o0curco 11S117
The house appropriations COM.
mittee slashed farm funds 81
per cent under last year and 20
per cent under administration
recommendations in reporting a
$634,374,256 supply bill for the
agriculture department..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
OPPOSES LOAN

Senator Harrison (D..Miss.)
opposed the proposed $50, 600
loan to Finland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-31
NEEDED

Secretary of the Navy Edison
said "crushing weapons" were
needed in view of developments
abroad. He urged the house
naval committee to approve the
81, 300, OOO, 900 fleet expansion.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Europe Draws Hasty Lines Against
Trojan Horse Tactics Of Germany

agents of the German GestapC
secret pollcel who are believed
certain to be posing as refugees and
circulating in west end society.
Within the last "a hours Britain
Sweden. Switzerland. Jugoslavia
Rumania and Turkey had taken
special precautions against Trojan
horse" agents
Both Hungary and Bulgaria show
ed alarm at the arrival of strong
groups OF German tourists" all
young men of military bearing.
French newspapers began de-
manding that the government take
additional precautions. particularly
against men formerly affiliated with
the now outlaWed Communist party.
Trojan horse" activity was made
acutely dangerous because of the
scores of thousands of refugees
in all European countries from Aus
trla Germany. CzeChoslovakia and
Poland
II Is generally believed that among
these refugees are thousands Of aC-
tive operatives of the GeStapo.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Torpedo Survivor
Declares Bremen
Sunk With $1,000

] LONDON, April l8. ,UP)-Eg-
ward O. Rydningen. Norwegian sur
vivor Of a torpedoed British ship
i asserted to interviewing newspaper
men today that the giant German
liner Bremen had been sunk Will
$1,000 German troops aboard IN
Norwegian waters.
RydninGcnS statement was not
confirmed. The loss of the Bremen
IN circumstances similar to those
related by RydninCcn. had been re-
ported perSiStently last week and
firmly denied by Berlin.
Rydningen said that a previously
prepared letter found in pocket
of the Bremen captains uniform
end saying that he had arrived
safely" had been forwarded to Ger
many by Norwegian authorities.
1T was assumed that Rydningen
meant that the captains body had
been foundD
Rydningen was a survivor OF the
London steamship Stancliffe. which
the Germans torpedOed off northern
Scotland last Friday.
Rydningen declared that he had
been shipvrecked five times. He
said nc was finally taken aboard a
German submarine because ]
could speak a little German"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
U-Boot Sunk. Air
Transports Hit

LONDON, April 18. UPp-Tht
slr ministry said today that r. A. F
planes last night scored a hit or
. German submarine off the Nor
"eglan coast. attacked a German
supply ship and twice bombed Sta
Vanger airport.
Ihe ministry reported That three
planes failed to return from tho
raids.
The ali ministry reported great
activity by L A. F.. bombing planes.
The attack on the submarine was
low level bombing assault and r.
a. r: airmen reported they observed
one hit on it.
direct hits on Stavanger airport
winch had been bombed repeatedly
py the r. A. F. and yesterday BY
iieet units were reported in the
latest raids.
BOMBS were seen to explode along
the runways of the airdrome R. A. F.
pilots advised. and also burst among
transport planes parked on the
southwest side of the airbase.
The first attack on the airbase
lasted for more than an hour. III,
air ministry said. In addition to
planes believed to have been des-
troyed on the ground two twin
engined airplanes which assembled
to fight the British bombers were
Thought to have been shot down.
The reference to the bombing of
transport planes was believed TO
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Dispatch Says Last Of
Pocket Battle ships Lost

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 18.
tUP)-A dispatch to the newspaper
SvenSka Dagbladct from the Nor
wegian frontier reported today that
the 10000 ton German pocket bat
tleShip Luetzow Deutschland had
gone aground off RiSSa. in the
OeSenfjord near Trondheim
The dispatch added only that the
LuCtzow had grounded during
operations"
Confirmation of this report might
mean that Germany had lost the
last of its three formidable pocket
battlcships. The Admiral Graf Spec
was scuttled at Montevideo, Uru-
quay. Britain asserts that its sub
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

LONDON. April Is up All
Europe from London and Stockholm
% Bucharest and IStanbul took
emergency precautions today against
Trojan Horse activities by enemy
or potential enemy agents.
What constituted a Europe-wide
scare was due to the tactics which
Germany used in its invasion OF
Norway. of flltering men into the
country IL advance. II was now
realized with startling clarity that
such tactics had been used as a
matter OF routine technique in Aus
ira and Czechosloyakia as we'll as
i, NorWav and Denmark.
Br.tasnS Scotland Yard, II yas
learned. has reached into the draw
ING rooms of smart MAYFAIR tor
society women 10 act as counter eS-
pjonace operatives against women
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Belgians Rushing
Frontier Defenses
Against Germany

BRUSSELS. Belgium. April IS.
tUP)-Belgian troops are rushing
1ortiflcation along a As mile front
FACING Germany. it was understood
today. Numerous civilians have beer
evacuated. some houses have been
blown up because they obstructeG
gunfire and several roads have beer
closed.
The front affected extended north
from the Luxembourg frontier to
tne Eupen district. facing German
AK La Chapelle tAachenl.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

reported fighting the Norwegians
near Roeros, 10 miles southeast OF
Trondheim on the Trondheim Oslo
railroad.
An official Swedish newspaper
agency dispatch from Oestersund
Sweden. said that although Ger
man troops controlled the railroad
from Trondheim to the frontier
there were indications that Nor
wegians might be still holding the
Hegre Fort about 25 miles east OF
Trondheim on the railroad.
Norwegian mobilization in north
Troendelag province. north OF
Trondheim. was reported to be pro-
crossing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

marine Spearfish struck the Admiral
Scheer with more than one torpedo
April IL. Germany recently changed
the name of the Deutschland to
LuetzowD
Fighting was reported in progress
both north and south of Trond-
helm. on the Norwegian west coast.
1t was reported that big Ger
man Junkers transport planes had
landed 400 men on the ice near
Namsos. strategically important
railroad junction 100 miles north of
Trondheim, and that the troops
were proceeding Southward by rail-
road train and highway.
A small German detachment was
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
British Refuse
Indian Demands

LONDON April IS tUPl-Great
Britain refuses to accept the inde-
pendence demands of the All India
National Congress led by the Ma
hatma NJ. X. Gandhi. Sir Hugh
ONelll. under secretary for India.
told the House Of Commons today.
If the congress carries out its
threat of a civil disobedience CAM
palcn against Great Britain. the
government will take full measures
to counteraCt It. ONeill said.
He said the government CoulG
not accept the congress demand tor
independence because compliance
would mean complete severance OF
India from the empire