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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Hitler And Vichy

Sensational reports of a rupture in relations
between Berlin and vichy have not been borne
out. Undoubtedly there is considerable strain
between the two governments because of the
Laval affair, but SO far it has not produced
an open break.
Apparently these rumors arose from the
fact that Hitler had not replied to the pro-
posal carried to him on Christmas Eve by
Admiral Darlan special envoy for Marshal
Petain However it is pointed out in Vichy
that no answer is expected until next Friday.
If there is trepidation under the surface in
Vichy, outwardly there is calm.
This particular story, then apparently is
unfounded Nevertheless, it calls attention
once more to situation that bears directly
on the course of the conflict. Whatever de-
cision Hitler makes in regard to the Petain
regime will cast some light on events to
come. Obviously he holds the whip hand, but
Marshal Petain has some strong cards to play.
There is no force in France that can pre-
vent complete occupation Of the country by
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, Washington Daybook
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. Sometimes after
the new congress convenes, a six-foot-fve,
1900 0-pound bronze statue of the late Huey Long
will be unveiled in the national CapitoIs sta
tuary hail. but it may be that just half of
Louisiana's delegation to Congress will have
anything to do with this recognition and high
honor accorded the states onetme "kingfish.
BY federal statute, each state is allowed to
place one statue in statuary hall-once the
old chamber of the House of Representatives.
and a second in the Capitol corridors. After
Huey's death and during the regime of his
brother as governor, the legislature set aside
$4,000 for the bronze figure and Sculptor
Charles Keck of New York was commissioned
to turn it out
Capitol, Hueys gets the honored spot in the
hail. A few weeks ago it arrived and, draped
in an American flag, was placed its four
foot pedestal between representations of Will
liam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and the
senior Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin.
1t will be unveiled, so members of the old
Long groups still in Congress say, soon after
the first of the year. But here is where a
strange factor comes in. In the state political
battle between the Longs and the anti-Longs
in the November election, five "antis'' were
elected to the House. This splits the Louisiana
congressional delegation in half. The five new
members all are opposed TO Lne OlQ regime.
The two senators, John H. Overton and Allen
j. Elender both were elected during the time
when the Long machine was in power. They
were not up for reelection in November.
Three of the congressman elected in the Long
era were reelected in November These are
Representatives Overton Brooks Newt V. Mills
and A. Leonard Allen.
One of the leaders of Louisiana's Long op-
position said recently the new regime did not
plan to interfere with dedication of the statue
but would not participate in the ceremonies.
So it seems that the bronze 'kingfish -
right hand raised in a forceful gesture charac-
teristic Of those days when he took the Senate
floor and conducted his one-man flibuster,
will take its place in statuary hall.
Viewing the spot marked for the Long statue
one has to do no more than turn ones head to
view the distinguished company Huey will
keep there-Robert E. Lee of Virginia, Daniel
Webster of New Hampshire, John c. Calhoun
OF South Carolina, Henry Clay of Kentucky
Roger Williams of Rhode Island Confederate
President Jefferson Davis and a dozen more
If it hadn't been for President Roosevelt's
third inauguration dedication of the statue
already would have taken place while the old
Long delegation still was intact. Those in
charge OF arrangements were afraid the statue
could not be brought into the Capitol while
passages were blocked with Inauguration
stands When the statue arrived and was
brought in, it was too late to get the delega-
ton together.
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Rail Wage Increase

Wall Street commentators believe the rail
wage increase affecting some 10000 workers
and estimated to total about $7,0eO,0 600 year
was given prominence in published reports
possibly out Of line with the true importance
of the news.
The $7,o00,oo0 actually is only 0.36 per cent
Of the nations rail bill in 1899, one expert
points out, and the number of employees at
fected may be compared with total employ
ment in the industry averaging above 100000
persons last year.
So much for the industry as a whole. For
individual roads, most of them in the South
and Southwest, where earnings have been
most severely depressed in recent years. the
additional wage may be somewhat more i'm
portant. At best, however, in comparison with
the total payrols, the raise resembles the
proverbial drop in pail Of water.
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Reversing A Policy

Above and beyond its specific recommends
tions for broad and constructive changes in
the nations monetary and credit policies, the
special report Of the Federal Reserve system
is important because it proposes termination
Of some of the vast powers vested in the
President during the depression.
In the past all such suggestions have come
from sources outside the administration and
have been steadily resisted. It is not a long
time since there was a major debate in con-
gress over the issue of extending the Presi-
dents power to deva1ue the dollar further.
The President has retained, though he never
used it, authority to issue up to $4,000, 900, 900
in greenbacks- he has been roundly criti-
cized on that score. Now the three subscribing
groups of the Federal Reserve system unite
in advocating that these emergency powers
be ended.
Whether this program has administration
support is not quite certain, for silence is be-
ing maintained on that point. However, this
is the first time that the Federal Reserve
board, the presidents of the IL Federal Re-
serve banks, and the Federal Advisory council
have produced such Joint report" 1t would
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the Germans, step that would be followed
by the establishment of a government that
would cooperate" on the lines laid down by
Hitler But in the remnants of the French
navy, and in the armies in French North
Africa and Syria, Vichy has means of COM
batting the threat of occupation.
If Hitler has serious intentions of pushing
through Spain to lay seige to Gibraltar, in
order to close the western Mediterranean to
the British fleet, he must bear it ever in
mind that the French territory in North Africa
borders on Spanish Morocco. Marshal Wey-
|gand's troops, joining hands with the British,
might wreck any German plan to close the
straits. For this reason, among others, Hitler
may consider it wiser to keep on dealing
with Marshal Petain.
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' Editorial Comment
COVER OVER OUR HEADS
Charlotte Observer

1.-THE dictators and bad men in Eruope have
not given me very much uneasiness as to
the peace of our country says one Open Fo-
rum letter writer.
President Roosevelt evidently had people of
that view in mind when he said, in his latest
address to the Nation: 1--WE well know that
we cannot excape danger, or the fear of it, by
crawling into bed and pulling the cover over
our heads"
Any one can immuniZe himself against wor-
Try or uneasiness about what the 'dictators
and bad men" Of Europe have done, are
doing and intend to do by making it fixed
rule for long while to ignore all the vitality
important facts of recent history, disregard
all that those bad men" have done and said.
ignore all that the best informed and most
patriotic men in this Nation and the world
have said,
But, fortunately or unfortunately, ignoring
facts does not destroy them or eliminate them
or make them less than facts
And one fact that will not be rubbed out by
the process of ignoring it is that in France and
Belgium and Holland and Denmark and Nor
way not SO long ago, while those nations were
yet enjoying sovereign independence, there
were too many people who persisted in saying
in effect: THE dictators and bad men in
Europe have never given me much uneasiness
as to the peace of our country
They were saying so two years ago and
even less than year ago.
But the tragedy of it is that Hitler was not
halted or impeded in his program of con-
quering those nations and making slaves of
their peoples merely because the threat of
conquest and slavery did not give some
Frenchmen and some Belgians and Dutchmen
and Norwegians and Danes much uneasi-
ness"
Hitler was glad to have them feel that way
about it-glad to have them ignore the truth.
And the more of them the better he liked it.
And just so he is the more pleased today the
more pople in this country there are who
hold to that attitude s
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be strange if Mr.. Eccles, who as chairman
of the system has almost invariably seen eye
to-eye with the President were to lend his
influence to this report without knowing how
the land. lies.
In any event, congress will have before it
a number of recommendations designed to
give the system the tools it needs to deal
with the financing of the defense program. A
federal agency with the authority contemplate
ed in this report should be able to combat
inflationary tendencies and make provision for
transition back to normality when the enaer-
gency is met.
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ARMY'S BUILDING
ISDECENTRALIZED
Nine Construction Zone Quar-
termasters Are Appointed
By War Department

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-(REThe
army decentralized the supervision
of its $1,137, 900, 900 emergency
building program today in an ef-
fort to speed construction of camps
and other work.
Officials have said that some
army work is lagging...
Nine constructing zone quarter
masters were named, each to have
charge of a territory correspond
ing to the corps areas in con-
tinental United States.
Major General Edmund B. Greg
ory, quartermaster general, sum-
moned them to a conference here
Wednesday with Colonel Brehon B..
Somerveu of the engineering corps
who is in charge of construction.
Direction of building operations
was decentralized similarly during
the world war. At the start of the
present defense building program
supervision was concentrated in
Washington.
The zone constructing quarter
masters, their headquarters a n d
the areas to which they have been
assigned include:
Major R. G. Richards, Boston;
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, Massachusetts,, an
Rhode Island.
Major J. H. Burgheim, Balti-
more; Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, and the District of Co.
lumbia.
Colonel H. L. Green, Atlanta
Tennessee, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
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The Old Congress-And The
New

It was the fate of the 10th congress to
watch over and take part in vast trans
formation in American life. When it opened
its session of 1856 days the nation was preoc-
cupied chiefly with the problems of peace.
Its last months were devoted almost exclusive
ly to girding the nation for defense and securi-
ty in a war-torn world.
In positive achievement and in the scope
and impact of the legislation it passed, this
congress must rank among the most import
ant in our history. The Inauguration Of mill
tary conscription, the authorization of two
ocean navy and an enormously expanded
army and air force mark an abrupt change in
American policy and American currents of
thought.
These steps, plus the decisions authorizing
increased aid to Britain and appropriations
and authorizations Of federal funds to the
staggering amount Of $27 721 900 900 will vital
ly affect the course of American life and
government for years if not for generations
to come.
This congress also has been notable for its
devotion to duty and its early appreciation of
the serious nature of the crisis. Its persistent
refusal to adjourn played an important part
in getting defense measures and appropria-
tons approved with little loss of time.
The new congress, which is now in its swad-
ding clothes, has the weighty responsibility
of carrying through to completion the tasks
which its predecessor began. Its major duties
in the days Immediately ahead will be find
ing ways of financing the vast expenditures
which have been authorized, of checking the
spending Of these funds, and of making the
|readjustments which our radical shift in ma
tional detectives demands. It is up to it to
pass the taxes and make the economies now
imperative, to approve the legislation which
will put and keep the full energies of the
nation behind the defense program.
And it finally will be its duty to decide
how far aid to Britain will be carried in the
months ahead, how we will face the perils
that the year will bring. That is responsible
ty to tax the wisdom, the heart, the courage
and the conscience of the best of men and
the nations hopes and prayers are with the
new congress as it buckles down to its tasks.
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. Hollywood Sights And Sounds
BY ROBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5.-This
quaint, historic town at the lend
of the traiP' may have been the
end of the out-of-town preview
trail as well.
For eight years now, ct irregu-
lar intervals, representative por-
tlons of Hollywood have taken to
the rails and airways to converge
on selected cities throughout the
country in the interest of some
particular movie premiere and
good will' in general.
While crowds in Santa Fe, N. M,
braved a goodly snowfall Ito some
visitors surprise it was not corn
flakes. but the real article) and
hordes of blanket-wrapped Indian
peddlers squatted near their street
fires of sweet-smellirg Juniper, the
movie man behind the works said
1t was the last of his company's S
junkets.
S. Charles Enfield, a Warner
vlce-president, thought the movies
should look for something new.
Each of these junkets is SO
good" he said later, ''it becomes
Increasingly tougher 20 top the
last. That's why we'd better Quit"
But still later, en- ro ,te home,
Mr.. Enfield wasn't so sure. He
was thinking, he said, about some
pictures coming up. = was think
ing. in particular, about the movie
on Sergeant York" He was think
ing, he said, about a sort of ''un-
written understanding" with tn
governor of Tennessee concerning
a premiere at Nashville. And there
We're suggestions or requests from
mason City, Ia, from Butte, Mont,
1rom Leavenworth, Kas., and At
lanta, Ca, among other places, in
regard to movies in which each
mad particular local interest.
But we ought to stop some
hme," ne said, speaking for the
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. Man About Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER
MA ssviess Ina

And this is the best Hungarian
restaurant this side of the Danube.
I'VE been in the U. S. IS years and
just try and get me out. was one
of the founders of the Hungarian
American theater. My fsvorite per-
formers are Sophie Tucker a n d
Phil Baker. just love Sophie. My
favorite tunes are Melancholy
Baby and Down BY the Old Mill
Stream Yep, I love those old re-
lies. But when I hear Old Man
Mose,' when hear that crazy,
jumping thing, I just have to do
something abuot it. There's devil
ment gets in my feet and I have
to CO.,
She can spin you many a yarn
| if you have time to listen. About
the time, for instance, a perfume
was named for her, and when, at
16-that was SO years ago-s h e
played the part of a ''nagymana, :"
which means grandmother, on
the Budapest stage and had to use
extensive makeup to look the part.
'I'n always remember that make
up; I was the most wrinkled old
crone you ever saw when I got that
makeup on"
The bells of the old dual mon
archy's temples on Sunday morn
ings still chime fairy valentines in
her ear, and when she thinks of
The Marriage Market" or of the
time she played the stupid girl in
THE Mouse-trap Peddler" a fluff
of nostalgia floats idly past h e r
nose.
'Well, fiddlesticks!" explains
Mama" 1T was fun.
''But I got a remedy for the
blues when they catch up with me.
It's this and she points to feet.
''This-and Old Man Mose,' 4
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NEW YORK, Jan. S. Mama"
Thury is a gal with the glow Of
the Budapest cafes in her eyes and
the footloose urge of 20 jitterbugs
in her feet.
She is rs years old, but that
doesn't keep her from leaping to
her feet when the strains of "Old
Man Nose" rise above the clatter
of the goulash dishes every night
at Zimmerman's Hungaria and
throwing herself into a spasm of
rhythmic gyrations that are the
amaZement of all.
When Mama" wants to write a
letter she signs herself Ilony Kon-
yeseny ThLry (Thury is her mar
ried name). She was three weeks
old when Lee turned Traveller
into the yard of a certain court
house at Appomatox, Va. Her
husband was a bell maker in
Hungary and still is a tool maker.
They have one son who is AZ, an
other 40, and a daughter who her
self has a daughter of 70.
Mama" is easily the spryest Of
the lot.
''I've been smoking for so
years." she says, land how silly I
was not to start earlier. Makes
the time pass better when you're
riding in taxicabs."
AS the dancing star of a cafe
floor show, she must also find time
to keep house for the family, cook
breakfast, relax a little and keep
abreast of the times. Maybe 1 get
five hours sleep at night. I know
I never get more than that"
AS you can see, siesta is not one
of 'tMama's" habits.
''Well," says Mama" ''this is
a good life. This is a good land
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towns most hardened preview-hop-
ping studio. "Of course-if there's S
la real demand we'll, we'll
probably acquiesce."
Mr.. Enfield, accused of being an
old abandoned acquiescer in such
matters, wore a twinkle in his eve.
You may draw your own conclu-
sions.
This junketing dates back to a
special train sent across country
in 1892, celebrating the musical
"42nd Street." The junket, Enfield
now admits, departed with some
apprehension regarding its recep-
ton by depression-ridden, down.
hearted. citizenry already familiar
with the breadline. AS he recalls
it, the reception was "wondrful !"
Nobody booed, and people in %
cities cheered.
That was the real beginning, but
the idea burst into furious flower
with the Dodge City" ening in
Kansas a couple Of years aso-an
idea born when Enfield and Grad.
well Sears, Warner sales manager,
were stranded in the little town by
a snow storm for % ours, got
acquainted with townsfolk, and
promised to come back with the
movie they'd be making about the
town.
They had some junketing exper-
fence to Weaverville, Calf,
(where they had to wire theater
for sound) and to Columbia City,
Ind, but the Dodge City trip ex-
ceeded all expectations in crowd
drawing, bally-hoo, and goodwill.
That called for another to Vir-
ginia City and Reno, New, and for
another c"Fighting 69th") in New
York City, and most recently a
trek to South Bend, Ind, for the
Rockne film 4
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Star.News Program

Consolidated CttyCounty Government
Nnder CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck end Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and industrial Shous.
Seaside Hi0h,cay from WrightsvtAe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, oid
er Turning Basin, soith ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Rood to Southport, vio
0rton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustatnedyield methods through.
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
tional Agency, supported by one county
1oide tar.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina. developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital ~iNties for aohttes.
Junior High School.
Tobdcco Warehouse for Erpovt Buyers.
Development Of native grape grosoing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sd,,dtortnns.
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Number Of Patients In
Vets Hospital Increases

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-tR-The
number Of patients treated in veter-
ans hospitals increased more than
eight per cent in the 1910 fiscal year,
Brig. Gen. Frank r. Hines veterans
affairs administrator, told congress
today.
The total hospitalized was 2S3,2O2.
On the last day of the year there
were 56,841 patients, an Increase of
2,724 over those on June 80, 1889.
Less than one-fourth of the veter.
ans were treated for disabilities
growing out Of military service, and
more than one-half of all patients
were neuropsychiatric cases, Hines
said in his annual report.
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Insurance C00rdinat0r

AS the magnitude of the defense effort be.
comes more and more apparent there is an
increasing demand for coordination in tn c
many fields of activity bearing upon that ef
fort. Among the more recent appeals for a
is that heard in the insurance
field, for whose services the New York Herald
Tribune says there is "crying need.", This
newspaper states the case thus:
Insurance men are wondering whether
the Administration will take any action
on the crying need for an insurance CO.
ordinator to speed up insurance require
ments and procedures pertinent to nation
al defense. Although some observers
queried were ignorant of whether Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been advised Of the
need, the problem is regarded in insur-
ance circles as of vital interest to both
the defense program and the insurance
business. It is understood that some in
surance men are contemplating advising
the President by letter. The discussion
was started last week when ''The Insur-
ance Field" trade publication, pointed
out in an editorial that the need Of such
coordinator is obvious because of the
duplication of effort, overlapping of au-
thority or mere lack of understanding Of
those placed in positions of authority in
Washington to deal with insurance mat
ters affecting the defense situation. 1t was
pointed out that in the surety business,
for example, forms and procedures of in
surance approved by one governmental
bureau or agency have been discarded
by another; the War and Navy Depart
ments frequently have divergent views on
the question of ample insurance protection
or the form it should have, and contractors
and suppliers Of defense material often are
unable to figure on sustained and ade-
quate insurance coverage which would re-
lieve them of fear and indecision...
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, Quotations

We have no hatred for them as people, nor
contempt for them as soldiers, however much
we may feel those sentiments for their pres
ent rulers. London Times on the Italian de-
feats.
Popular elections express the will OF the
people, but back of that will must be the true
democratic spirit which alone can save us
from the excesses of the rule Of force-Chief
Justice Charles E. Hughes.
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SUBJECT TO LAW

RALEIGH, Jan. 5-lR-Judge w.
c. Harris has ruled that the Ma
tional Life Insurance company OF
Montpelier, VT, is subject to the
state unemployment compensa-
ton law through it's general agency
plan as operated in North Caro-
lima under its general agent, c. Z.
Wimbish of Greensboro.
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Special Courses Begin
At N. {. State Today

RALEIGH, Jan. s. Up - Ten
special courses of engineer train
ing for national defense will be-
gin tomorrow at N. c. State college
for about 200 high school graduates
with special qualifications for tech
nical work
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Roanoke Rapids Textile
Worker Dies In Crash

WELDON, Jan. 5-R-Lynwood
Harris, 35-year-old textile worker
of Roanoke Rapids was killed when
his automobile overturned on a
highway near here today. A COM
panion, James Coltrane of Will
liamston, was injured.
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TOP o. THE MORNING

Many aHege that there is too much need
aohere they Nue for them to give to foreign
missions. 4 Southern rector announced that
as he acas doing missionary aoork IN neglected
parts OF the country, he a0oMld be glad to take
money from those opposed to foreign missions,
and use it there. He mever received dollar !
From "FORWARD'
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= Fair ENOUGH

The Star wishes it's readers
to know that views and opin-
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author and
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor.