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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Steel Expansion

Figures on steel production capacity in this
country, cited by Irving A. Olds, chairman OF
the board of the United States Steel corpora
to meet defense requirements without resort
ing to a plant expansion program.
The productive capacity of the entire steel
industry, Mr.. Odds said, is "a, 148, 900 net tons
annually. Estimating that British and other
export orders, plus the defense program, will
require 20, 900, 900 net tons a year, there will
be available $4,000, 900 tons each year for all
other domestic purposes.
It is at this point that the difference be-
tween the producers and those who believe
that plant must be promptly expanded comes
to a head. Is this capacity sufficient? In
reply Mr.. Olds points out that "a, 600, 900 net
tons is more steel than the industry produced
in the boom year Of 1929 and is close to total
production for 1910. moreover, the industry S
capacity will be increased by $500, 900 tons
during the year.
Mr.. Olds, like other steel men, is convinced
that the huge backlog of orders now on the
books is the result of fear of a shortage and
situation will smooth itself out as needs are
satisfied at present prices.
From these figures it seems obvious that
the reluctance of the industry to go head-over-
heels into a program of plant expansion is
justified. particularly since such a program
would place an additional strain on produc-
ton. The answer to a stringency, il one
should threaten, appears to be a workable
system of p~riorities instead of plant additions
on a large scale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01

it is worth emphasizing. It is experience and
trained thinking against unskilled opinion. And
the statements of these men are the more Inn
~pressive in view of the fresh revelation OF
German striking power which Was revealed
on the same day.
For General Marshall and Admiral Leahy
must have weighed the probability that Ger
many, with $4,000 first-line planes, outnum.
bers the British air force four to one. They
expect the attack to come this spring before
American production will begin to approach
top speed. They know, although they did not
mention the fact, that Germany has not begun
to bring its full force to bear and that Hitler
has many aces up his sleeve.
To Americans generally this can only bring
an increased determination to speed up pro-
duction for our own defense and to intensity
our effort to help Britain face this test. For
it is plain enough that every extra plane and
gun and piece of equipment shipped to a ma
ton fighting with it's back to the wall, as
Britain is, counts heavily in the final result.
There is no excuse for defeatism about
Britain's chances here as long as our top ex-
perts, with full knowledge of the facts, retain
their confidence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01

lines of a campaign that has written a new
bright page in Greek military annals.
Embattled Greece will sorely miss his gulo-
ing hand. It was his strong and competent
leadership which made it possible for the ma
ton to defend its existence against Italian az
g%ression.
For nearly five years, from 1896 until MS
brief illness, he held dictatorial power. From
the beginning those were years Of crisis. Eco
nomic problems demanded solution. It was
necessary to create a united people in a land
that had suffered for decades from bitter fac
tjonal strife. Foreign efforts to exploit dis
sension had to be combatted. Finally, Greece
must be made ready for the great struggle
then in the making.
How well he measured up to his opportunity
is best found in the record Of italian defeats,
first in Greece itself and from then on in Al.
bania, where the Duce's forces are steadily
retiring before an implacable foe and ulti-
mately must take the last hurniliating plunge
for home unless Hitler, sacrificing advantages
elsewhere, comes to their rescue with large
endorsements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Hitler, Too, Repeats

History repeats; why shouldn't Hitler? He
told his people that 1910 would be the decisive
year for Germany, the inference being that
the war would be won in that year. Now he
says that victory will be won over the British
in 1871.
In view of his inability to make good in
the first instance, We may wonder, but not be
surprised, at his hardihood in making another
forecast of the same sort. That he does renew
his prophecy is indicative, first, that he feels
the German people must have fresh pledges
of victory, and, secondly, that he needs re-
assurance, if only from himself. Hitler seems
to require a tongue-lashing every so often
to recruit his self-conceit.
What he says is not to be moderated. There
is no doubt that he will do all that he can
with his great army and air force and SUBJ
marine fleet to settle with Britain this year.
Everything is shaping in that direction. But
he passed up one opportunity to break the
British when France fell, and it is to be
considered that Britain is in a stronger posi-
ton to prevent defeat now than just after
Dunkirque.
Britain has suffered heavily from %bornbings
and ship sinkings, but has gone steadily on
increasing her equipment, enlarging both her
military and her industrial army, and has
struck such heavy blows at Italy in Africa
that the Nazis must come to Mussolini's aid
or see his whole military machine crumble
and his power fade away. The necessity this
fighting in the Mediterranean theatre has Gre
ated for Nazi help lessons Hitler's ability to
deliver a crushing blow against England.
So, it seems, from obvious facts that Hitler
sounded off on the anniversary of his Access
sion to power primarily to keep his gullible
followers from asking questions and then to
convince himself anew that he is always right.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Expert Testimony

If any Americans are competent to judge
whether or not Britain can win this war they
will be found among the ranks of such men
as Gen. George c. Marshall, chief of the army
staff, and Admiral William D. Leahy, former
chief of naval operations and now ambassador
to France. These are our top experts in mill
tary and naval affairs; they possess the fullest
possible knowledge of the facts and the ex.
~perience to judge them.
It is extremely encouraging, therefore, to
have each of these experts express indepen-
IDENTIFY the belief that Britain can and will win
the war with the material assistance which
the United States is able to give. Their state
ments more than offset the opinions recently
expressed by Colonel Lindbergh before a con-
Igressional committee. We repeat this because
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
"A Strong Man

IT Is clear now that Premier Metaxas of
Greece used his opportunities with a skill that
deserves to be called genius. He carried out
a program of social legislation while he Gre
ated employment on public projects. He i'm
posed a stern discipline on the nation. He
made propaganda Ineffective. And, while he
did his best to avert war, he saw to it that
Greece had an effective army and a powerful
ally when the decision was forced upon her.
Compared with all this, Premier Metaxas'
contribution to the successful strategy followed
by Greek forces is of lesser Importance. Yet
II 4, credited with laying out the main out
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty-County Governme nt
Under CounciLManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
dnd Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shoes.
Seaside Ht0hTay from Wri0htsUtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear Ripsr channel, .ptd-
er Turning Basin, With ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, pio
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustained-yteld methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial md Resort Promo.
taonal Agency. supported BY one county.
ascide tar
shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital ~iAties for ,ohites.
Junior High School,.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF nattve grape 0rotetn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
LEADER OF BUND.
AIDES SENTENCED
Rural Judge Rules There is
No Room in This Country
For Anti-Semitism

NEWTON, N. j., Jan. 31.-LR-A
rural judge who ruled there was mo
room in this country" for anti-Semi-
tism today sentenced Wilhelm Kunze,
national leader of the German-Amer-
lean bund, and eight associates to
serve one year to IA months in
prison.
Two of the nine were fined 81, 900
each and the others $1,000 each.
Three speeches made at the bund's
Camp Nordland in nearby Andover
last June led to their Indictment I'm
der New Jerseys race hatred" law.
They admitted the addresses. defend
ing them as permissible while attack
ing the statute as unconstitutional,
but Judge John c. Losey had over
ruled their plea in demurrer.
The bald, specialized judge of the
Sussex county court then set bail at
So, 900 each pending an appeal which
defense counsel said would be taken
to the United States supreme court
if necessary.
Bail was posted for Kunze, Au-
gust Klapprott of Andover, the
bund's eastern regional leader; Mat
thias Kohler, Irvington, state bund
treasurer, and Paul Schnaarschmitt
Paterson, Camp Nordland trustee.
Sheriff Denton J. Quick said, how
ever. that the following five were
lodged in the county Jail for the
night, bail failing to arrive before
the county clerks office closed:
The Rev. John c. Fitting, Union
City, state bund secretary.
Leonard D. Clark, writer for a
bund publication.
Carl Schipphorst, Glen Rock, camp
trustee.
Richard Scheile, Paterson trustee.
George Neuppert, Cliffside Park,
trustee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Jan. 31-Thoughts
while reclining in a harber's chair
F. 80. This barber is okay. He
looks like Edgar Allan Poe. ..
He says he once belonged to the
French Foreign Legion and helped
fight the Riffs in Africa. Prob.
ably he is lying, but then he talks
easily and what he says doesn'1
require any answers.
But he certainly looks like Poe,
Poe was a great poet. i
never quite got over the thrill Of
entering his room at the Univer
sity of Virginia. The Univer.
sity is proud Of that little cubby'
hole on the Lawn. But Poe
never took a degree from the Uni.
versity. . He was fired fo1
gambling.
Despite their sensitive and &C.
centric souls, poets r rude te
I4C11 SO1ltClllPO1 dIlcS. . j.. . byron
denounced Wordsworth as a "goh
of puddle worms" and he never
missed an opportunity to lift his
voice against that dirty little
backyard Keats" -. Even Shell
ley, whom Byron grudgingly ad.
mired, is on record as having as
sailed himself for failing to see
through Byron as others have
done"
Well, they wrote great poetry
and that is enough. They hac
their nets and, as Francis Hacket1
would say, they knew how to catch
the stars. 49,.
Francis Hackett is the redoubt
able b%iographer of Henry VIII anc
his six wives. And what g
time he has had of it. Finally
he left Ireland, and went to Den
mark and married a snowflake
Then he wrote a book calico
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
CORNELIUS GRAHAM
SENTENCED TO DIE
Whiteville Negro is Convict.
ed of the Ax-Slaying of
Jenkins Robinson

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 31-After de-
.liberating three hours and IS min
utes, a Columbus county superior
court jury here today found Corn
elius Graham, Whiteville negro,
guilty of first degree r der in the
ax-slaying of Jenkins Robinson,
negro, or November 10.
Judge John j. Burney, of Will
mington, after hearing formal mo-
lions by defense counsel Detlaw
Sanderson and Joe W. Brown. e n
fenced the negro to die in the
state gas chamber.
Following arguments of state an
defense counsel, Judge Burney
started charging the jury at 11:1o
am, and the case was given tn
the jury at ITO pm. Following
lunch the jury started its delibera.
tons at lao p. m, and returned
its verdict at ASS o'clock.
Due to illness, Delwood Weaver
was unable, to make an argument
to the jury and District Solicitor
David Sinclair gave the only iurv
plea for the prosecution.
Graham was the second person
to be sentenced to death in court
here this week.
A guilty verdict was returned in
48 of 40 cases here at this weeks
term of court. Solicitor Sinclair ac-
cepted a not guilty verdict in =
case charging highway robbery
} against q Tabor City negro when
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
NOT ONLY COLLIE TOWNSHIP
Raleigh News And Observer

One local bill which deserves Statewide an
plication is that offered by Senator James H.
Clark of Bladen, which would require the muf.
ling of loudspeakers in Collie Township of Bla-
den County between the hours of 9 o.. m. and
% a. m. Collie Township, which is beside White
Lakes resort area, may be a region which de-
serves this special protection, but is certainly
is not a township which needs it more than all
others. In this age of voices out of the air no
one would wish to interfere with the listening
of his fellow citizens. But there is no reason
why listeners should disregard the sleep and
serenity of other people.
though some persons, firms and corpora
nons seem not yet to have discovered it, the
science OF radio has so advanced that it is
possible to turn the volume down as we'll as up.
Alter y O'Clock at night and before 8 o'clock
IN the morning persons who are only interest
ed IN listening, and not intent upon creating a
pubic disturbance, can regulate their radios
in such a manner tat they can hear and their
nelghbors can also sleep. If they do not dc
ut, some law for the State, like that Senator
Clark is seeking for Collie Township, should
require it.
Neither this Legislature nor any other car
~legislate the people of North Carolina into
good manners or consideration for their fel
lows. But it ought to see to it that the noises
of our North Carolina life shall not be tuned
to the volume desired by those who are mos
l~careless of the peace and happiness Of thei1
lnaishhorS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Gov. Edison Refuses
To Extradite Burns

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 31.-R-
Following the example of his pre-
decessor, Governor Charles Edison
refused today to extradite Robert
Elliott Burns, Georgia's much-pub-
licizad fugitive.
Edison, in a letter to Governor
Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, said
he considered "a finality" the pre-
vious denial by former Governor
A. Harry Moore of a similar re-
quest. Moore, whose term expired
Jan. 20, declined to order Burns
returned to the southern state after
conducting a public hearing on the
request.
The fugitive, who twice escaped
from Georgia prison camps, now
resides at Union Township, Union
county, and operates a tax IN
vestigating service at Newark. He
expressed delight with Edison's de-
cision, and said he would live to
show his worthiness of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Miss Mary L. Cantwel
Injured in Accident

The condition of Miss Mary Luz
cas- Cantwell, secretary to James
E. L. Wade, commissioner of pub
lie works, injured in ar accident
at the city hall, was reported
fair" last night by attendants at
James Walker Memorial hospital.
Miss Cantwell was painfully but
not seriously injured about 4:45
O'clock yesterday afternoon when
she fell down a flight of stone
stens at the north side entrance to
the police headquarters at the city
hall.
Members of the family reported
she was suffering principally from
shock and bruises and an x-ray
taken by the attending physician
revealed no Commissions or frac-
lures. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
. Man About Manhattan

Il Choose Denmark" and decided
to live the rest of his life there
49,. Then the Nazis came, ano
now he is on Madison avenue, in
New York.
The other day I wrote to two
ladies near Sparta, New Jersey,
and asked for permission to fish
on their property. The r .uest was
a mere Formally as I have been
there often, and 1 asked if there
was any particular book they would
like to read. I said 1 would
bring it along when I came. !
think Francis Hackett would not
be annoyed to know that they
asked for II Choose Denmark
Hundreds Of pictures adorn this
barbershop, depicting the growth
of barbering in all lands, from
ancient times. Surgery is an
outgrowth of barbering. AL
the early BARRIERS were surgeons
as well, and one can imagine the
grisly horror of being nicked by a
blade that had, shall we say, Just
taken off some doughty old sea-
mans leg.
When I got into this chair
picked up a magazine, and some.
one had gone through it and drawn
a handlebar moustache on every
picture in it. Even the little
children and the models have
moustaches. ... Wonder what
possesses people to do this?.
Everyone runs amuck with a pen.
Gil now and then I suppose.
Well, they're bringing me out OF
this. My cheeks are as smooth
as a puppy's ear. I've got a
hair trim and a shine. Now all
I've got to do is pay for it.
PS: Guess who just climbed into
the next chair?
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
. Editorial Comment
JANUARY 30, 1888
Asheville Times

It was a soft and misunderstanding world
which eight years ago today received the
news that venerable Marshal Won Hindenburg
had commissioned Adolf Hitler as German
Chancellor.
There was some mild apprehension in Paris
and London, the British chiefly concerned,
however, over the possible setting up Of a
similar National Socialist regime in France.
But the Berlin correspondents fastened to
add what seemed 10 them and the heads of
the German Republic an important reserva-
ton to the Fascist leaders, success in winning
great power.
President Hindenburg had surrounded Hitler
with a Cabinet of conservatives" chief
of whom was Franz Won Papen, German sab
otage expert in America in the early days
Of the World War, yet surely a conservative
and also commander of the Army and thu
Prussian police. A few lines told that Hitler
had brought General Goering into the cabinet.
In spit of the Munich beer = hall Putsch,
for which he had served a year Of a FIVE
year sentence, it was said in Washington and
most other world capitals that Hitler had
SWOIu 10 OUey uG COlSuLuLOQ ana PROBABLY
would do so. Furthermore, a new rule pro.
vided for the succession Of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court to the Presidency, in
stead of the German Chancellor. And had not
Hitler the year before raised his voice for
constitutionalism when he objected that Par
Lament could not extend the term of the Ger
man President?
Thus it seemed still a good world, despite
the world depression. Germany had forgiven
Hitler'S early resort to violence. Power usu-
ally brings with it a SOLDERING sense of re-
sponsibility. Great Britain favored a liberal
policy toward a Germany struggling with the
aftermath of war and bankruptcy; the British
were disposed to make large concessions for
Europe's peace. Moreover, the heaviest bur-
dens of the Versailles Treaty, against which
the Austrian corporal had rallied and threat
ened, had been removed. The old order of
affairs would surely return to this best of all
possible worlds.
Three years later, his army strong enough
to paralyze the French into %inaction, Hitler
reoccupied the Rhineland. Five years later
he broke his pledge to Mr.. Chamberlain, in
vaded and plundered Bohemia. Six years
later he struck in Poland even while Polish
ENJOYS were on the way to confer with him,
and the second World War was begun.
And all those fateful years after January,
1888, Winston Churchil's had been virtually
the only clear and insistent voice warning the
world against the ideas, policies and ~fanatical
ambitions of the new German Chancellor. But
Churchill, never very popular, regarded as
brilliant but unstable, warned in vain.
Thus, a world incredulous refused to see
any signs that an era was ending that day of
January, 1888. Hitler himself had taken pains
tn Civ uJorrino Vat ha Io,,lf1o,, cLro~l1
perceived that his prophecies Of blood flowing
in Germany, of heads rolling in the sand, or
of treaties torn up by his own hands-that
all this would be dismissed by the world at
large as the mouthings of a petty dema.
gogue. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
Bill to Require State
To Assume Debt Planned

RALEIGH, Jan. 31-R-Senator
Funderburk Of Union county plans
to introduce a bill in the legisla-
ture Monday night which would
require the state to assume all OF
the bonded indebtedness incurred
BY counties prior to 1881 for road
building.
The state took over maintenance
OF virtually all roads in 1881, and
many counties have claimed since
that time that the state should pay
than Tor eeUntx-hui1t hishuays.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
DATE EXTENDED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-R-
Secretary Wickard announced to-
day that the date for acceptance
of warehouse bids on storing gov
eminent owned cotton had been
extended from February II until
mot later than Iaxah A."
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01

evidence tended to show that the
Prosecuting witness, a South Caro-
lima white man, vas unable to
remember any details involving
the case.
Solicitor Sinclair said that he
will remain in Whitevile over the
weekend to make arrangements
for the trail of the sensational
Ward death" insurance case at
next weeks term of criminal court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
ARRIVES

NEW o R Jan, 5I'I 5;rpct
Edward Robert Peacock a-riys
of the Bank of England, . hi
today on what he SAID "'T l;o,,id,t
ried special mission % oo ,ptry 4
British holdings in this cont y
provide immediate pay
war purchases
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-01
TOP o. THE MORNING

To the nations led dstrdy
Thine eternal love display;
Let Thy truth direct their aUdy
Till the world be thine.
E. CHURTON.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-20
BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY Americas Card Authority

The requirements for opening bids in the 194l Culhertson System have, in certain cases, been reduced. For example, an opening bid may be made in six-card major (but not a .ninor) suit with only two plus honor tricks in the hand. With six-card minor suit, you still need two-and.one-half to bid.
 These requirements apply to any position from first to fourth hand.
 East,s opening bid on todays hand made use not only of this newly reduced requirement., but also of the new provision that single ton in the hand Is counted as Q "plus value"
 The four-heart contract was easy. South took two spade tricks and East ruffed a third spade. The ace of cubs put dummy In. and the three of hearts was led. North played low and East played Sa1e by finesslng the seven-spot. The play of the ace would have cost him the contract, if North had had both heart honors.
 North-South could not profitably have sacrificed at four spades, be- cause East could have ruhed two clubs, and . tllree-trick set would have given East-West 800 points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-20
Hubby May Grumble At Family Routine But Hear Him Squawk When You Try To Change It

for a week, letting your husband lead 8 bachelors life while you are gone.
 You'll find if you start to break the routine that there will be plenty of grumbling - more thar you've ever heard before. MEN LIKE
 SECURITY
 Men like the security of follow ing 8 set domestic pattern as well as women do-probably better, con- sidering the number of dissatisfied wives there are trying to get a kick out of face creams.
 But men don't like to admit 1t. They think that to be completely masculine they have to grumble about household bills, wonder out loud what a woman does all day, and pretend that it is the bachelor who doesn't have to telephone any, one when he is going to miss dinner who is the lucky guy.
 But vary their routine the slight est-and listen to them kick. Home life? They love it.