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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-20
SLOAN WILL TAKE
OVER ARMOUR CO.

L. L. Sloan succeeded E. T.
Jones as local sales manager of
Armour & Company, meat pack
e1s, it was announced yesterday.
Sloan has been in the employ
ment of the Armour & Company
for the past 16 years, IL of which
have been in North Carolina at
Charlotte, Rocky Mount and Will
son. During the time he has been
in Wilmington, he has been presi-
dent of the Exchange Club, men,
Der of the Postwar Planning Com
mittee, a membe1. of the Institute
Of American Meat Packers, Chair
man of Board of the Fifth Avenue
Methodist church and an active
member of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Jones, who has served for the
past seven and a half years as
sales manager for Armour & Com
pany here, has been promoted to
assistant district sales manager
with headquarters at Huntington,
W. Va. Jones will go to the home
office in Chicago April 20 for a
month, prior to assuming his new
position.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-20
sHIPYARD REVUE
WELL RECEIVED

nresenting a fine array of tai
in music and comedy in a
'. Iorfl,l. fast-moving style, the
' I9.s edition of the INMATE Radio
- ,,o was given by the employees
North Carolina Shipbuilding
many before a large and ap-
curative curative audience at New Han
p.e sr High school last night.
O' rbo second performance, which
n w feature the broadcast of the
Wa '.aakIv shipyard radio program
WV, the stage, will be present
ed tonight
..nod more than in previous edi-
.; IL, ~ the show continued the high
p '.ndards of entertainment get by
s s,e wards performers. Highly va
Wv ID and with Master Of Cere-
INV onies Larry Drinard handling
tae first act in an exceptionally
Ind manner, this portion of the
S"D was highlighted with the
,;noing of Tommie McNair, ac-
ssnn63panied by Salty Robson, a
so,,ly vignette by Tina Myers, an
a oorobatic dance by Winifred Gun
@ @ and Joanna Corbett, and
ON Price in a nonsensical inter
I D The act reached its climax
nth +be launching of the S. S. Hi
The Hi-Mate MINISTRIES, consti-
,+ino the second act, were far
. , of last years in entertain
roon+ value with Louis E. Keith
handling the role of interlocutor in
IN able manner. Roy Sandlin,
Charley Taylor, Joe Grant and
PeI REGISTER were outstanding ex-
1onents of ebony humor with
Grant getting Oh of the best
hands of the evening with his
~sbipyard Blues" a bit of
r5vme and rytilm. Bob Page
SONG stylist, and Arthur Johns
basS solo drew well merited ap-
nlauso and the Shipyard Glee
.lnb formed a fine musical back
ground for the entire act.
with the comedy sprinkled from
bagjnning to end and the songs
well presented. the revue was ex-
ceptionally well staged. The COM
mittee in charge made the most
of the large amount of talent
available in the yard and the re-
s,l- ives a fine evening of enter
+ainNont
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Obituaries
OWEN C. JOHNSON

Funeral services for Owen c,
johnson, AZ, Of Wilmington Rt. 2,
who died yesterday at II a. m. at
James Walker Memorial hospital
after a short illness, will be held
from Yopp funeral home Friday
at 10 a. m. by the Rev. ]. S.
Davis and the Rev. G. w. Shepard.
Inte7ment will follow in Marble
Grove cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; three
sons, Norman A. and Clayton K.
Johnson, both of Wilmington, o.
c. Johnson, Jr., U. S. Navy; three
sisters, Mrs. ]. P May, of Ora
ham, Mrs. Lottie M. Johnson, OF
Saxapahaw, and Mrs. Ava Wood,
of Snow Camp; three brothers, w.
M. Johnson, of Martinsville, Va,
John M. Johnson, of Delco, and
Albert H. johnson, U. S. Army;
and stepmother Mrs. Sallie John
son, of Swepsonville.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-20
WEATHER

WASHINGTON, April 10. -R-weath-
er bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending 8 pm.
In the principal cotton growing areas
and elsewhere:
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MRS. MARTHA RICHARDSON

CHADBOURN, April 10. - Mrs.
Martha Richardson, IS, died at 4
pm. yesterday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Avant,
after a long illness. Funeral SER
vices were held Wednesday at
2:30 pm. from the Peacock funer-
al home in Chadbourn with the
Rev. W. L. 10y of the Chadbourn
Methodist church officiating. Buzz
al was in Rose Hill cemetery,
Marion, S. c.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Elizabeth Avant, Chadbourn;
three sons, w. E. Richardson, Co.
lumbia, S. c., Duke Richardson.
Marion S. c., and c. M. Richard
son, Hamlet, N. c.; one brother,
Charles Roberts, Mullins, S. c.;
and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie
Lewis and Mrs. Maria Skipper OF
Conway, S. C.
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KOHIMA SEIGE LINES
CRACKED BY BRITISH
Continued from Page One)

assault to relieve the garrison are
almost complete, it was announc-
ed in dispatches from Calcutta.
Tanks and mountains guns.
manhandled into position on hills
too steep for mules, were used by
the British.
CThe counter actions came as
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten,
commander in chief of the South
east Asia Command, and Maj.
Gen. George E. Stratemeyer of the
Eastern Air Command settled in
new headquarters far closer to the
Burma front than their former es-
Establishments in New Delhi. Mount
batten moved this week to Ceylon,
site of major naval base. Strate-
meyer and the U. S. Army Air
Force headquarters were estab-
lished in Calcutta, 300 miles near
er than New Delhi to the fighting
zones. Calcutta is separated from
Burma by the sprawling Gauges
Delta. Both these moves were part
of a long-standing plan for setting
up an Allied land, sea and ali
offensive to clear China's lower
fIank.)
Dispatches from two army OBJ
servers, one inside Kohima ane
the other with the relieving force
reported the Kohima garrison hae
held on against numerically SUI
perior Japanese force which at
tackled night and day.
The main attachments from Di
mapur have advanced to within
/, 1000 yards of positions held BY
the Kohima garrison in prepare
ton for the final nutcracker actor
} against the Japanese, it was an
nounced.
British mountain guns were re
ported in positions dominating enc
my batteries. From inside Kohl
ma, the other observer radioed tina
fighting had been particular.
heavy in the western part of thu
town. There British troops, II
strong defensive positions, wer'
steadily shelled from above b.
japanese 75-millimeter gNs. Al
japanese infantry attacks during
the past week, however, were de
clared to have been thrown bacl
with heavy losses.
British tanks clawed up 1000
foot slopes for the attack which
| knocked the Japanese from hill
positions northeast of 1mphal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-20

Norway's chief contribution to
the United Nations cause has been
the services of her merchant ma
rine-about 1000 ships.
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Only five-sixths of Ireland is
Eire-the balance is included in
Northern Ireland, politically a
member of the United Kingdom.
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tempted to make away with $27
in cash and a ladies necklace.
Ralph Vester Carter was placed
in jail after an investigation by
Sgt. j. R. Sellers and H. Hughes
in which it is alleged that he stole
5000 from E. S. Williams on Eas-
ter Sunday, April 8.
Margaret Car, Negro, was charg-
ed with shoplifting after it was al
legged that he stole a sweater
from Efird's department store yes
terday.
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AFL, CLIO DEMAND
PRICE CONTROLS
CONTINUED from Page One)

Whereas Murray suggested that
a one-year extension would be suf-
ficient now, with consideration for
further extension to come in ensu-
ing months, Green came out for
extension "without change for two
years after the war"
Joining the AFL-C1O proposal
was the railway labor executives
association, a third large group
which by and large has pursued
an independent course.
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THREE ARE ARRESTED

The following persons were ar,
rested last night and will be given
a hearing before Recorders Court
today, city police reports indicated.
Leon Walter Kelley, of Hope
Mills, alleged to have entered the
home of Mrs. Burke H. Bridgers,
1O2 South Third Street, and at
Evening star., 1944-05-27

there is enough quiet power in the
hero played by Gary Cooper to avert
effacement. Strength like that prob
ably makes DR.. Wassell doubly a
hero, at least in the eyes of those
who recognize the cyclonic power of
DeMille.
DR.. WaSselrs story impressed De-
Mile as the theme of his next pic
ture when he heard it related by
President Roosevelt in a fireside
chat more than a year ago. 1t did
not impress him so much, however,
that he chose to forego the DeMille
way in favor of it's hero's starkly
simple one of telling it. Patiently
he could not ignore the facts, but
there was nothing to prevent him
from accenting them in the most
vivid technicolor and through the
use of the handsomest and most
skilled actors and actresses he could
lay his camera on. One is never
allowed to forget that the story of
DR.. Wassell is also a picture by
DeMille.
- = =
The incident of DR.. Wassell's
heroism at Java-he stayed behind
with 10 wounded men and managed
to evacuate them all to Australia
in an almost impossible escape from
the Japs-is the natural high light
of DeMille's screen drama. But it
is by no means all. Through the
flash-back method it tells his whole
story as crossroads physician in
Arkansas, as medical research fell
low in China, as a shy, awkward
lover who left the initiative to the
girl of his dreams. The details are
never left unvarnished. That is not
DeMille's fashion. He varnishes
them with such glitter as that which
belongs to Laraine Day, Signe Hasse,
Carol Thurston and many others.
Moreover, unless DR.. Wassell was
guided by providence working for
DeMille he could not have done so
faithful job in giving the di-
rector everything he needed to work
with. Does this part of the drama
call for comedy? Then comedy it
gets. Or tragedy, or poignance, ter
ror, or something else. They are
always available at just the right
time.
Most realistic element of "The
Story of DR.. Wassell' is Cooper's
impersonation of the hero. He
keeps him realistically simple, gives
him the quiet force that clearly
would enable him to accomplish the
Evening star., 1944-05-27

I the Misses Day, Hasso and Thurs
ton. The former becomes Mrs Was
sell. Beautiful, talented Miss Hasso
Is a Dutch nurse in love with a
Dutch flyer, loved by wounded boy
in Wassell's escape group. Miss
Thurston plays native girl, fas-
cinatingly named Three Martini,
slavishly devoted to another of the
wounded men.
This pactice of never stopping
with one of anything when three
are possible makes The Story of
DR.. Wassell'''a a long picture, consid-
erably too long.
1t does not hide the fact, how
ever, that the hero is a captivating
character in the best American ira
dition. Nor that whatever modesty
the Republic may have shown in
honoring DR.. Wassell has been Law
ishly made up by Mr.. De Mile.
\ X "
The United States Coast Guard
makes its proper and much more
modest curtsy to DR.. Wassell by
sending its Curtis Bay Training
Station band to the Earle as its
stage headliner this week. It is a
very talented aggregation that has
been assembled there, its members
recruited from many name bands
OF prewar distinction. It's 12-minute
contribution to the bill is one of
the liveliest items Harry Anger has
found this season. Rufe Davis, the
comedian, and Eileen and the Roxy
cites take bright care of the remain
der of the half hour.
Evening star., 1944-05-27

heroic deed which won the NAVY
Cross. He is shy in love, brave in
battle, resourceful in adversely, stub
bornly disdainful of red tape, droll
companionable, wise and Iovable in
his human relations. All this he is
in Cooper's every infection, express
sion and gesture and it gives reality
enough to the character to keep it
simple when the picture goes most
grand.
DR.. Wassel's background of peace
and war in the east is made to
order for De Mile. The latter gives
him chance for spectacle beyond
anything he has ever had before.
He deals with such phenomena as
dynamiting bridges, bombings of
hospitals and strafings of refugee
ships. This war has brought these
forms of violence to the most chal-
lenging proportions De Mile has
ever faced. He meets the challenge
fully. His bombings, blastings,
strafings are brought off with ter
ror and destructiveness which the
originals cannot have surpassed as
spectacles-not at least without dis
appointing De Mile.
X X
In spite of many such passages in
it, THE Story of DR.. Wassell" is not
unrelievedly war picture. Mr.. De
Mile saw to that with the eye of
a master of what the public is re-
puted to want. Three tales of ro-
nance run through his loose-leaf
plot That provides one each for
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Lightning Does Strike Twice

suddenly, FTancle raises her head,
listening. Someone is singing
Molly Malone" in the distance, and
coming closer. She scrambles into
the kitchen, runs to the door, and
pulls 1t open. Outside, pretending
to be surprised at having his song
interrupted, stands her father
Johnny Nolan-otherwise Jimmy
Dunn, looking very little older than
he did 10 years ago, and still as
handsome, with the same infectious
grin
This is an old game between
Francie and Johnny. He sings
Molly Malone" as he comes up
the stairs, and she tries to get the
door open before he can finish the
song.
He is in high spirits. A singing
waiter by profession, but seldom
employed, he suddenly has a job
and he feels good as he tells
Francie about it. She gets out the
ironing board to press his walters
apron, and he says, half to him
self and half to her, "You know,
a day like this is like somebody
givin' you a present, everything
just right" q.5-
AS he says the line, the scene
is cut and Jimmy turns to to Direc-
tor Kazan. With this my first
day in the picture" he says with a
grin, Would it be all right with
you If I said that line twice-or
maybe three tinnes?"
released by the North American
NEWSPAPER Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showino

Stage.
National-'Lovers and Friends:
2:30 and $50 pm.
Catholic U. Theater-"Sing Out,
Sweet Land: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Broadw Rhythm: 10
am, l, 3:55, $50 and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1915, $40, sos and
9:05 pm.
Columbia a up in Mabers
Room: Ills am, l, $50, 4 .35, 6:25
$40 and 9:55 pm.
Earle-"The Story of DR.. Wassell"::
9:55 am, 1880, 3:45, Gas, $40 pm
and 1910 am. Stage shows: 1915
$40, $40, 9:10 pm. and 1910 am.
Little Private Life of Henry
VIII: 11:15 am, 1:25, 3:25, $50
7:35 and 9:45 pm.
keith's-"A Chip Off the Old
Block: 1870 am, 1:35, $40, 5:45
750 and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan-"Man From Fris-
CO..: 1l:10 am, lis, 800, $50, 7:35
and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Gaslight": II am, 1:40
AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Hey, Rookie: 2:30, $40
750, 1870 pm. and 1;1O am.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN
ASA
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
They say lightning never strikes
twice in the same place, but you
couldn't prove it by James Dunn
Back in 1881 he became star over
night, along with Sally Eilers, in a
picture called bad Girl" For the
next four years he was one of the
most popular leading men of the
screen. Then something happened.
Dunn gradually slipped from the
hmelight. Only minor movie roles
came his way.
Today lightning is striking again
for Dunn-and on the very same
lot where he made bad Girl" Up
comes a best-seller called "A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn" and everybody
agrees that only one actor could fit
into the top role of Johnny Nolan,
singing waiter of the story. A
couple of dozen actors were tested.
but in the back of all minds was
James Dunn. He seemed typed for
it as though the author had him
in mind. And the tests proved
VltdU Dulul WdS t1lE OIl6
-and only-man for the part.
Lightning had struck twice in the
same place.
Now we find Dunn making his
first scene in the picture. The set
ting is the small second-floor fiat
of the Nolan family in a Brooklyn
tenement one Saturday afternoon
in 1915. The set is built on high
platform. When the camera looks
out of the kitchen window, it sees
the areaway below. Down there,
pushing its way up through the
cement, grows the tree that gives
the story its title.
AS Director Ella Kazan, imported
from Broadway, calls for rehearsal
the camera is looking out of the
kitchen window. On the fire escape
just outside, sits 13-year-old Francie
Nolan-played by Peggy Ann Gar
ner-reading a book. 1t seems to
be wonderfully sad book. There
are tears in her eyes as she reads,
meanwhile munching peppermint
drops.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Wars Tycoon
Hits Movies in
Nets Picture

MAN FROM FRISCO" Republic Pic
tuTe. starring Michael O'Shea and Anne
Shirley. directed by Robert Florey. At the
Metropolitan.
Evening star., 1944-05-27

THE STORY OF DR.. WASsELL." a
Cecil B. De Mile production starring Gary
Cooper, Laraine Day and Siene Hasso, di-
rected by Mr.. De Mile. screenpay by Alan
lie May and Charles Bennett based upon
an original story by James Hilton. At the
Earle.
The Cast.
DR.. Corydon M Wassell $780, Gary Cooper
Madeline ----~------------- Laraine Day
Bettina .-------- Signe Hasso
hopkins tHoppy1 --------- Dennis O'Keefe
Three Martini -------- Carol Thurston
1t. Dirk van Dasl- Carl Esmond
Murdock ------------ Paul Kelly
Anderson (Andy) Elliott Reid
commander Bill GoSsfns --- Stanley Ridges
tommy y=-~----------.r-- Benny McEvoy
alabama Oliver Thorndike
Plng Philip Ahn
Ruth .----- -------~---.B Barbara Britton
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Three Being Cast
HOLLYWOOD

AL Ybarra has been appointed art
director and James Patrick and Phil
Paradise, have been signed to dc
the production designing by Pro-
ducer Sol Lesser, for "Three's a
Family" which goes before the
cameras next month under the di-
rection OF Edward Ludwig. The
film adaptation of John Golden's
longrun Broadway play, thus far,
has Charlotte Greenwood and
Charles Ruggles cast in important
roles. 1t will be released through
United Artists.
Evening star., 1944-05-27

fashion Of any innovator. even un-
der stress of war, he antognizes a
whale of a lot of people who have
been building ships their own way
for long time. This Is somewhat
fresh story material. 1t even looks
like newsreel stuff what with the
chaps chickering's with management
and labor and lot of photography
showing giant machinery, great
shipways. unfinished hulls and the
like.
Against this background, O'Shea
look like chap who might be fight
ing his way through tradition to do
a desperately needed war job Re-
public's script writers were not con-
Evening star., 1944-05-27

tent to leave him alone. however,
they had to bring In Ann Shirley.
Gene Lockhart, and numerous other
persons who interrupt the ship
building aspect of the story to
bring into it romance and other
conventional elements Of the screen
drama.
They are good enough. each OF
them In their ways. but their ten
dency to smother the dynamic man
Is not as much to the advantage
of Man From Frisco" as the pro-
ducers so smugly assumed. Their
good idea could have been executed
much better. j. C.
Evening star., 1944-05-27

Among the wars dynamic figures.
the one most overlooked by the
movies has been the production
genius. the chap who can take a
Government order and revolutionize
an industry in order to meet a
desperate national need. There
have been several such characters
who have been called to the atten-
ton of the public by the daily press
and magazines. The movies climb
aboard the wartime tycoon band
wagon in Man From Frisco" Re-
public production starring Michael
O'Shea, which opened yesterday at
the Metropolitan. We are regretful
to report that they not only are late
but rather dull about it. The
basic idea of telling just what one of
these electric characters is like de-
generates abruptly into routine
cinema romance. In love, such a
man looks like any other guy in
the movies, whereas in his tycoon
phase, he might have turned out
much more attractively.
Ships happen to be the speciality
OF the chap impersonated by OShea
in Man From Frisco" He knows
how badly they are needed and he
knows how to revolutionize the
processes of producing them. In the
Evening star., 1944-05-27

ADJUSTMENTS. A
Evening star., 1944-05-27
DR.. WasselpS Heroic StOry
Becomes Epic DeMille Opus
Ry Jay CARMODY.

Comdr Cordon Wase Naval hero of the retreat from Java
simple Cecil DeMle of motion picture noorously
otherwise Yet the of the the film technique
Story WHICH
The result which probably
spectacle
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-23
Women In Cheering Section
Learn Valuable Lessons

They don't dare monopolize the
conversation when there are men
around. And their greatest social
asset isn't the ability to talk in.
telligently or put over a funny
story. The women who have social
charm are the ones who know how
to listen and when to laugh. That
a form or roofing, too.
STICK BY HIM
1t may be necessary for a WON.
an to be her husbands helpmate
but nothing she ever does to keep
the family going brings her as
much credit from her husband as
her readiness to stick by him
through good times and bad, al.
ways having enough faith to egg
MIN on with THE breaks have
been against you-but just wait
you'll show en-"
So if the girls who are students
at Slippery Rock don't learn any
thing else during their college ca
reers but how to be confident, sue
cessful rooters, they will be well
trained for life. An d that goes
whether they make a career o:
business, society or marriage-o1
a combination of all three.
| Copyright, 1914, NEA Service, Inc
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-23
By RUTH M1LLETT

AT Slippery Rock College in
pennsylvania this year there are
only nine men students and everv
one OF them is on the basketball
team = which leaves women stu
cents the responsibility for cheer
ing the team.
That ought to give the goods
OF Slippery Rock valuable exper-
lence: For cheering the team" is
the lifetime work OF women. In
war their main job is to boost
morale which is just another
form of cheering the team.
When they 60 into the business
world the women who get along
with a masculine boss and men
workers are those w h applaud.
admire and encourage everything
the men do. You certainly have
Mr. Smith eating out of your
hand woman employee tells the
man working at the next desk
>uch tactics, which keep her pop.
ular in the office, are nothing
more or less than the applause
OF well-trained rooter.
Socially. of course, women are
always in the cheering section.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-23
UNC Colds Initiated
Into Woman's Society

CHAPEL HILL. Dec. 22.-Eight
University Of North Carolina co.
eds have just been initiated into
The Valkyries, high-ranking wom-
ems honorary society.
Members are selected on a has.
is Of unselfish service, character,
scholarship and loyalty.
Those initiated were Betty
Sweat, Corinth, Miss; Tharon
Young, Boone; Shirley Hartzell,
Bristol, Va; Patricia Hughes
Bluefield, W. VA Mrs. Jane,
Hoover, Chapel Hill; Margaret
Morton, Hopkinsville, KY; Mary
Payne Jet, Norfolk, Va, and
Edith Owens, Dahlonega, Ga.
Old members are Nancy Jane
King, Bristol, Tenn, president;
Betty Lou Cypert, Washington, D.
c., vice-president; Elizabeth Wig.
gins, Huntsville, S. c., secretary
Jean Rankin, Port Washington, N.
Y, treasurer, and Ann Hodges,
Raleigh; Wynnette White, St. Pet.
ersburg, Fla; Kitty Kelly, Syla.
cauga, Ala, and Sara McEachern,
Clinton.
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