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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
TOP o. THE MORNING

In his manifestation to man, Satan
in three principal types:
Satan comes as a serpent. He begui1es and
fdScinates.
Satan comes as an angel OF light. He is
an evangelist of hd1f-iruths.
Satan comes as a roaring lion. He is q
brutal antagonist.
Here is q foe to fear. HoW can he be con-
Quered? There are no physical aCeapons to
take hi measure. There are no psychic
aoeapoms. There is but one Deapon-taith:
'Whom resist steadtast in the faith" j..
And the reason that faith is superior to the
pOeapons that are psychicaz and physical is
that faith brings Christ into the conflict, and
to Christ Satan is a defeated foe.
Roy L.. LAUR1N.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
CAN SOUTH RECOVER SOME
LOST POWER
High Point Enterprise

At Philadelphia in convention sembl the
Democrats of the Southern States surrendered
a power which enabled the region to veto the
nomination of any man for President. The
South could not nominate, but the rest of the
country couldn't nominate against the will of
the South.
The solidarity of the region politically ex.
tended past the elections to the nominating
conventions to sufficient extent to make that
two-thirds rule a political weapon of high i'm.
portance.
The two-thirds rule defeated a number of
vigorous aspirants before it was abandoned.
Woodrow Wilson probably never would have
been President had the Democratic convention
been able to nominate with a simple majority.
We have heard some mild complaining about
its surrender but no strong demand for recov-
cry of the old power of the South in the party
conventions. But a retrieval of a part of that
power is to be sought.
The two-thirds rule was abolished in 1896
but the same convention which abolished it
passed a resolution instructing the National
Committee of the party to formulate and recon-
mend to the 1910 convention a plan to improve
the system by which delegates are apportioned,
and in the resolution a finger was pointed d.
rectly at party strength in the various States
as a guide to formula.
It was understood that the South would re-
gain some of the power it was surrendering
when action was taken in accordance with that
resolution. Qulto OBVIOUSLY II is not Truly
democratic for Pennsylvania ordinarily to have
more votes in a Democratic convention than
Virginia and the Carolinas combined. Yet
under the present plan the Quaker State, rare
ly Democratic, does vote u men against the
ca Of those three consistently and strongly
Democratic States.
Vermont, with a corporals guard of Demo
Gratis normally, votes exactly the same strength
in convention that South Carolina votes, an
other patent inequity.
The Republicans worked out a formula te
give the membership of the G. o. P. a fairer
convention representation, doing it after pro
longed complaint over undue Southern power
in Republican conventions. The Republican
formula applied to the Democratic problem
would be acceptable to many,
At present each State has two votes for each
Congressional district and four for the State
at large. Under the Republican formula each
Congressional district is given one vote with
an additional vote in every district that gave
the party as many as 10000 votes in the pre-
ceeding Presidential or Congressional election
in addition each State has two votes at large
with three additional in case the State cast
it's electoral vote, or a majority OF 1t, for the
party nominee in the proceeding election.
Upon this G. O. P. basis or some other, the
South should recapture some of its surrender
ed power in the party convention. The sur
render was in the interest Of the building UP
of a truly national party. A fairer formula
for popular representation could not work
against that purpose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
VITAMINS IN GRASS

The American Chemical Society announces
that grass contains more vitamins than fruit
and vegetables,
But who wants to eat grass? There is moth
ing to prove that even NEBUcHADNEzzAR en-
Joyed the diet. Probably he ate it as children
endure spinach-something that can't be
lodged.
But the fact remains, and is chemically
proved, that vitamins abound in the off
scourings of the lawn mower. The chemists
nave learned that IL pounds of grass con
tain more vitamins than 24O pounds Of fruit
ana Vegetables-more in fact of these comes.
toies than the average person eats in a
year.
mat disposed Of, the chemists are now
turning their expert attention to ways to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
GAIN DAT GOOD NEWS?"

This heading the theme Of one of the finer
negro spirituals, is chosen to introduce the
fact that census emumerators in this district
have escaped ToBEY-fobia and are answering
all questions without reluctance; even the
personal questions respecting earnings and
such matters which Senator ToBEY claims are
unconstitutional and an invasion of the citi
zen's privacy.
1t is particularly good to receive this re
port from ]. H. DARLINGTON, census super
visor of this, the Seventh district, as il
proves that residents of southeastern North
Carolina have not been led astray by the
specious arguments put up by the New Hamp
shire senator, whose purpose, we believe
was solely to bring discredit, if he could, or
the administration under which the census
is being taken.
1t also proves that publicity devoted tc
the secrecy Of the census and the inviolability
of it's enumerators was effective, and that the
people of this area are not to be led astray
by false witnesses or false charges.
"The people," says Mr.. HARRINGTON, care
not listening to Senator ToBEY and are co.
operating with us to the fullest extent
Which is a feather in the cap of the people
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
NAZI PLANES BOMB
SCAPA FLOW BASE
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(COntlnueQ From rage One)
Royal Air Force fighter aircraft
and it is believed that a third which
was severely damaged by machine
gunfire and was last seen diving
towards the sea met with the same
fate"
Witnesses of the air battle said
the British fighter planes tore into
the raiding bombers like angry hor.
nets as the searchlights picked out
their targets.
Spectators described the battle as
the "grandest and most impressive"
yet seen in the series of German at.
tacks on the famous fleet anchor.
age in the Orkney islands.
The pursuit planes, each with
eight machine guns opened up at
full blast, broke up the formations
of the bombers in the high-altitude
battle.
(In Berlin, the official German
news agency, DNB, said that the
raid was successful and that sew.
eral heavy units were hit).
The German planes flew over the
Orkney Islands surrounding scapa
Flow in three waves to attack the
naval base. British fighter planes
with machine guns blazing, hurtled
upon the attackers, breaking up
their formation.
Residents of the area said the
Germans flew at tremendous
height"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
. RIGHT OR WRONG ABOUT PEOPLE
Do Gold Hands Mean
Warm Heart?

vessels contract the hands cool off
measurably.
But recent work at Cornell Uni
versity Medical School has shown
that the popular belief was dead
wrong. Delicate temperature meas
urements of the hands showed that
anger, anxiety, worry, and extreme
displeasure a temporary
shrinkage of the blood vessels and
make the hands colder. Cold hands
apparently do not signify a warm
heart.
The Cornell researchers found that
pleasurable emotions make the
hands warmer, and surely love
should be a pleasurable thing II 1t
is the genuine article and not a pass
ing infatuation.
Apparently there is no reason for
the swain thinking the girl Is in
love with him because her hands
are cold. Cold hands, in fact, may
mean instead that she is afraid, or
worried about being kept up toe
late.
Perpetually cold hands may mean
a thyroid disturbance or some dis
order of the heart or arteries.
The temperature changes in the
feet mean the same, but the changes
in the pedal extremities, naturally,
are only of academic or clinical In
terest.
Copyright, 1910, NEA Service, Inc
NEXT: Why is insanity in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
A GREAT ACTOR DIES

Merely a name, if even that, to the younger
generation of drama-lovers, WILLIAM FAvER-
SHAM, whose death at u followed a coronary
embolism on Sunday, was the matinee idol
of all idols at the turning of the century.
Now, he is dead in a cheap rooming house
near the mansion he owned in his heyday.
The manner Of his passing is all too famil-
lar among actors who climb to popularity
only to fall by the wayside when their brief
hour is passed. There is something about the
artistic temperament, so necessary to histrionic
success, which makes a proper regard for
this worlds good impossible. With money
pouring in, realization that evil times may
follow seems never to enter the minds of
stage heroes and heroines. Few indeed hoard
even a modicum of their earnings against the
day when their stars have faded.
FAvERsHAM was no exception. Under the
FRoHMAN management, appearing with Mrs.
F1sKE and MAuDE ADAMS, always in demand
and compensated far above the average even
for stars, ranking with the DREws and the
BARRYMoREs, the fact that adversely might
overtake him probably was furthest from his
mind.
One by one of his treasures, even his home
went to pay the piper, when he was no longer
sought for leading roles. He asked admission
to a home for actors, where he cultivated 8
small garden for his keep. Then, a few weeks
ago, he entered a cheap rooming house, where
he went the way of all flesh, all but forgotten
by the people whom he had thrilled by the
quality Of his performance and by his strik
ing appearance and personality. It is a sac
commentary on the transformers of thespian
fame.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
GERMANS OBSERVE
TWO NEW MOVES
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manian detention of a fleet of barges
which the Germans charged were
laden with British dynamite to block
the vital Danube waterway.
It appeared that the Reich's au'
thorities have decided to let the in.
volved neutrals have their say be.
fore disclosing what Germany de.
cides to do.
The first German official reaction
to the mining was that it was IAN
exceedingly far-reaching decision,
the consequences of which nobody
can forsee," coupled with the predic'
ton from an authorized source that
the effects would be tremendous
Then came the ominous stand Of
German officialdom that "icily cold
Germany watches these develop
ments. Icily cold Germany watches
the unfolding of this drama. 1clIy
cold Germany her WI de-
cisions to meet the situation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
DYNAMITE BARGES
SEIZED ON DANUBE
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fleet near Giurgiu, Danube river
port whence Germany ships mucn
needed Rumanian oil supplies.
Aboard were tons Of dynamite.
Germans alleged the British
planned to blockade the spot In the
Danube known as the Iron Gate ny
SINKING the barges and wrecking the
narrow channel where the river cuts
through the Carpathian barrier be-
tween high cliffs. The Iron Gate
is 2SO miles up river from Giurgiu."
Official British quarters, acknowl-
edging the barges were loaded with
explosives. insisted they were to be
used only for destroying Allied
river craft in ease of a German in
yasion of Rumania.
The only official British state
ment on the matter was a COM
munique saying merely that Ru-
manian authorities had seized two
cases of firearms which a British
barge captain had neglected to de-
care In passing CuSloIIlo.
The British aim was reported In
Germany, who keeps a close watch
over Rumania through Gestapc
agents, to be blocking of the Iron
Gate with sunken barges and blast
ing of the narrow artificial channel
through which all river shipping
must pass.
Two hundred Rumanian and Yu'
goslav soldiers armed with machine
guns tonight were guarding the
gateway where the Danube forms
the boundary between Rumania a~
Yugoslavia. Giurgiu was turned int,
a military zone by the Rumania1l
army which banned all entries with
out special permits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
SINKING OF NAZI
TROOP TRANSPORT
COSTS 800 LIVES
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the British submarine until the ex.
plosion of a torpedo against the
ships hull. Other survivors said
they thought the submarine was
Norwegian until they say the tor
pedo streaking through the water.
Norwegian fishermen who were
nearby, however, declared the Brit
ish submarine signalled the Nazi
ship to halt before it sank her.
When the Rio De Janeiro at.
tempted to flee out of range the
submarine loosed %torpedoes, the fish.
ermen declared.
As the stricken vessel heeled un'
der the impact of the first torpedo.
German soldiers started jumping
into the Icy waters of the Skager.
rak.
Norwegian boats closed in to res.
cue the men struggling in the
water, when a second torpedo
struck the troopship, spraying a
wide area with wreckage and kill
ing many of the Germans. Uni
forms on the Germans included
those Of the infantry, cavalry and
air corps. Identification tags gave
names, rank and military units of
many Of the dead. Most Of them
appeared to be between 20 and ~
years old.
A Norwegian patrol plane flying
over the scene sped shoreward for
AID and many fishing craft were
sent out from Lillesand and Aren
dial,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CounciLManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and 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, U'd'
err Turning Basin, 10ith ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved Riuer Road to Southport, vid
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustoined-yieM methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyurds 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 groOinc
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sandtorinnr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09

A fight will cause the color
to fade and upset digestion.
Not so many realize, however,
that as our emotions or moods wax
and wane they change the tenn
perature of our hands and feet.
This is done by the automatic ex-
pansion or contraction of the blood
vessels near the surface of the
body. All of the skin, as we'll as
hands and feet, has the tempera-
ture changed in this way by our
feelings of the moment.
When the blood vessels expand
the hands get warmer. When the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
ON
DAYBOOK
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, April 8.-secretary of the
Navy Charles Edison is seeing rare sights. A
crack spy couldn't see half as much. A COB,
working his eight bells on the same ships,
won't see one-third as much.
Secretary Edison is, so to speak, in the
crows nest during one of the greatest maneu'
vers the Pacific fleet has put on. And the
Pacific is heart and soul of the United States
navy.
Sailing from San Pedro the other day, after
checking that new breakwater which makes 1t
possible for the big ships to come within mailing
distance of the off-shore cutters, the Secretary
plunged into the middle of one of those U. s..
Nays maneuvers that must forever be a mys-
terry to the people who foot the navy bill. He
was aboard the navy flagship Pennsylvania,
called the "big flag by the boys who chew our
salt water, because it's the floating castle of
Admiral James O.. Richardson, commander of
the United States fleet.
He'll See All Ships
The Pacific fleet maneuvers are known as
PROBLEM 81" which may not mean that the
navy has come of age. But no matter what
Secretary Edison is going to have a chance
to get his sea-legs.
That's the way the navy planned 1t. In mid
Pacific, he'll transfer from flagship to light
cruiser, to %airplane carrier, to submarine, to
what-have.you. He'll see the great attack on
Hawaii In chart-room and on the bridge, he'll
observe every move in one Of those holy OF
holies'-a great fleet maneuver.
At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the battles
over, he'll inspect the largest army force that
the United States has stationed anywhere off
the continent-25, 900 men.
He'll come back to the United States on the
U. S. S. Nashville, one of the newest and latest
and fastest of the navy's light-heavy cruisers
but not until he has sat through the "critique"
and heard the admirals praised or hanged to
yard-arm for the way they did their jobs.
Will He Resign?
In the vicinity Of San Francisco, he'll inspect
the Great Almeda supply base, the r. o. 7. c.
at the University of California. He'll go from
there to San Diego to inspect the navy's big
gest land air station; the destroyer base; the
big marine base; and the vast San Diego naval
training station.
He'll return to Washington with his head
full of the knowledge of actual naval operations
more full than the heads Of a dozen
or so secretaries of the navy-for Mr.. Edison
is conceded by many to be one of the best
we've had.
But his first observation of the inner work.
ings Of his department may also be his last.
Capital chaff has it that soon after he returns,
he will resign his cabinet post and enter the
race for governor of the state of New Jersey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
FOREIGN WARSHIPS
SEEK TO ENTER
GATEWAY TO OSLO
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invading planes were driven off by
the Norwegians.
Reports of the engagement could
not be confirmed at once in official
quarters.
Difficulties in obtaining details Of
the fighting were heightened by the
fact that Norway snapped telephone
communication with the rest Of the
world except for Estate calls"
Persons who tried to place long
distance calls to the Norwegian
capital wer told that only these Of
fetal calls would be handled.
All telephone connections with
Oslo were ended, apparently by Nor
wegian censorship shortly after an
air raid alarm Of one hour was lifted
at 1870 a. m. $3.50 p. m. Monday
EST.
The nationality Of the foreign
warships reported driven from Oslo
Fjord was not known here.
Within the past "a hours both
British and German warships had
been reported near the Norwegian
coast.
The battle apparently took place
early today shortly after Norway
ordered all coastal lighthouses dark.
ened and radio stations silenced.
These emergency precautions were
taken when reliable sources in Oslo
had reported a German armada Of
125 ships including a pocket battle.
ship and heavy cruisers in the Kat
tegat, apparently headed toward the
Norwegian south coast.
The fleet was said then to be at
Lesoe off Denmark a little over q
hundred miles from Oslo Fjord.
Fleet Entering Skagerrak
The Skagerrak, strategic water
way between Denmark and Norway
and connecting the North sea with
the Baltic, gives access to Oslo
Fjord.
This narrow arm Of the sea-, but
70 miles wide, was the scene Of the
most famous naval encounter Of the
World war, the Battle of Jutland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
ROE
ARRIVES HERE
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bers and their guests. A large
crowd attended.
The ships officers will be enter
tanned tonight at the club at a stag
dinner given by the members of the
Propeller club.
Boarded By Delegation
A delegation composed Of city of
ficials and members of the Propeller
club went down the river and
boarded the Roe there and accom-
panied her into port.
The 3OO-foot ship, painted the
grey-blue found on all navy ships
nowadays, was piloted up the river
by Captain Harold st. George, Of
the Cape Fear Pilots association,
and she slid into the dock without
a hitch. A group of crew members
were sent ahead to aid in docking
the boat.
She will leave here Thursday.
The Roe was only recently com
pleted in Charleston and Whining.
ton is her first port of call.
The officers Ire Lieut. Command
er R. NJ. Scruggs, commanding;
Lieut.. H. o. Parish, executive Off.
Ger; Lieut.. R. L. Nolan, Jr., engl'
neer officer; Lieut.. W. C. Norvell,
gunnery officer; Lieut.. Gg) D. B.
Wood, Jr., first lieutenant; Ensign
o. B. Wiseman, communications of
ficer; and Ensign C. J.. King, stores
officer.
George W. Bailey announced al
Wilmington theatres will be open
to the officers and men of the Roc
if in uniform.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09

ilorthWard. Estimates of the num-
oer OF ships steaming into the
Skagerrak varied from 80 up to 100.
Inc torpedoed Rio de Janeiro was
described by the Norwegian news
asency as plainly a transport ship
ana Scandinavians wondered for
what purpose the men and horses
aooard were intended.
Inc mine fields which British
SHIPS planted off the Norwegian west
coast this morning were heavily
guarded by British warships to-
hlght' and if the Germans actually
were planning to attempt to remove
.hem a tremendous sea battle was
in prospect.
the mine fields reach 80 close
that British ships guarding them
could be seen plainly from the shora
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
HEAVY RAINS END
FOREST FIRE WAVE
Flames Cause Damage Run,
ming Into Several Hundred
Thousand Dollars

A "godsend" in the form of hear,
rains ended the devastating svaa,
Of forest fires throughout N.
Southeastern North Carolina sect,o,
early yesterday morning and wea,
led fire-fighters said last night tina,
they hoped it meant the end Of III,
flames that for the past week bav.
caused damages running into sew,
eral hundred thousand dollars,
Most of the fires had Bee,
brought under control late SUNDAY
but the parched woods were ,tyn
live finder for a flying spark Until
the rains came.
Fire wardens contacted in the sn,
rounding counties we're unable lac,
night to give any definite figure nm
the actual damages from the fire.
but all agreed that the recent
blazes were the most serio,,,
spring fires encountered in many
years."
Columbus Fire Warden Bill Ed.
monds said that a rough estimate
of the damages was 1900 acres Of
timber land destroyed the past
week. This figure, he said, does
not include a number of fires AZ
yet upreported.
One of the largest fires in Collin.
bus county was at Delco SATURDAY.
with approximately 4,50O acres oi
wooded land being burned over.
| Considerable damage was caused In
the southern end Of the county the
past weekend, Edmonds said, with
forest fires destroying a great
amount Of personal property, most.
ly outbuildings.
Edmonds said that Velton Tatum.
who was arrested for starting fires
a few days ago, will be given a
hearing before the Columbus coun.
ty recorder today. Warrants have
been drawn for two other persons,
who have not been apprehended,
he said.
w. l.. Jessup, fire warden Of ons.
low county, said that the rains
were a ~"godsend." Although a ma.
jority Of the forest fires had been
brought under control Sunday, the
rains yesterday decreased the haz.
ards and further dangers of fire
considerably.
Jessup stated that he had no.
had time as yet to check the &C.
tual damage but hoped to have
some definite figures within two or
three days. He also said that war.
rants will be issued for two or three
persons charged with starting fires.
A good many of the fires along
highway II were apparently started
by tourists, he said, as several Of
the blazes originated from grass
alongside the highway.
Several thousand acres OF wooded
land were burned in Onslow during
the past week.
Fender, Brunswick and New Han.
over counties all reported yesterday
that the fires, which have been
raging for some time, have been
practically extinguished by the
rains.
Fire wardens said that they
hoped continued April showers'
would further decrease the fre
hazards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
SHIP SINKS AFTER
VIOLENT EXPLOSION
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The agency said SO men wer'
saved.
Rescue craft hurrying to the
scene after the explosion founa
scores of men fighting for Their
lives in the sea which was covered
with blazing oil, the dispatch added
The ship had vanished.
sixteen survivors were rescued
oy a naval vessel, which also recoV'
cred 10 bodies.
Other ships rescued u men and
recovered 8 bodies.
huge crowds gathered on tho
waterfront at Kristiansand when
the sinking became known, Reuters
said.