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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
Shipyard Launches 229th
Vessel Here Yesterday

Mrs. Newbold T. Lawrence, wife
Of the general manager Of United
States Lines, Inc, of New York
sponsored the launching Of the
229th vessel, the S. S. Defender,
at the North Carolina Shipbuild-
ing company yesterday afternoon.
Named for a clipper ship built
by the famous Donald Mckay, OF
East Boston, Mass, in 1855, the
Defender is CO type ship. She
will be QUILTED for six passengers,
and provided with refrigeration for
cargo. Her completion date is set
for early in November, according
to the shipyard schedule.
The S. S. Defender is the second
vessel of her type to be built for
the United States Lines by the
Wilmington company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
STUDENT NURSES
TO RECEIVE CAPS

Nineteen student nurses of the
pre-clinical cadet class at the
James Walker Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing. will receive
their caps in exercises to be held
in the auditorium of the nurses
home Friday evening.
A candle ceremony symbolic of
the traditions handed down to the
nursing profession by Florence
Nightingale, "The Lady of the
Lamp" will be held during the
exercises.
Miss Clara L. Wright, director
Of the School of Nursing, will ad-
dress the class on "Appreciation
of the Nurses Cap and present
the class with their caps.
Members of the class are Miss
Norma Joyce Andrews, of Whining.
ton, Miss Julia Elizabeth Ash
worth, Wilmington, Miss Winifred
Coil Bell, Washington IN. c. Miss
Norma Elizabeth Dawson, Dunn,
Miss Ruby Mae Henry, Whining.
ton, Miss Majorie Faye Isenhower
Conover.
Miss Muriel Agnes Jackson,
Fayetteville. Miss Eleanor Earle
Johnson, Wilmington, Miss Made.
line Ozelle Mallard, Pollocksville,
Miss Dorothy Louise Peacock, Ere.
mont, Miss Evelyn Marie Price
Faison, Miss Julia Winifred Quinn,
Mt. Olive.
Miss Talitha Arson Rose, Colds.
boro, Miss Willie Frances Sholar,
Wallace, Miss Annie Laurie Swain,
Manchester, Miss Dorothy Jean
Tyner. Dunn, Miss CARMEL Wat.
kins, Raleigh, Miss Mary Evelyr
Whitfield, Mt. Olive, and Miss
pauline Wray, Tabor City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
UPSET STOMACHS
YIELD INCHES OF
GAS AND BLOAT

II was so full Of gas was afraid
I'd burst. Sour, bitter substance
rose up in my throat from my
upset stomach after meals. got
INNER-AID, and it worked inches
Of gas and bloat from me. Waist
line is way down now. Meals are
pleasure. I praise Inner-Air to
the sky" This is an actual testi-
monial from a man living right
here in Wilmington.
INNER-AID is the new formula
containing medicinal juices from
IL Great Herbs; these herbs
cleanse bowels, clear gas from
stomach. act On sluggish liver and
kidneys. Miserable people soon
feel different all over. So don't
60 on suffering. Get INNER-AID.
Sold by all drug stores here In
Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
Japs Will Cut Food
For Silkworms; Good
Bye Silky Hosiery!

TOKYO, Sept. 25-R)-So
sorry, ladies.
Japan Il worrying more about
food just now than about sup
plying silk hosiery and lingerie.
Tho Japanese Ministry of Ag-
riculture announced today plans
for further conversion of null
berry (silkworm-food) acreage
into human food production.
That doesn't leave much food
for silkworms. In pre-war and
pre-nylon days, Japan's null
berry trees filled 1,225, 900 acres
Of which 1,150, 900 has been or
Is being converted to food
crops.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
COOGAN FINED

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25-P)-
Pleading guilty to a charge Of be-
ing drunk in an automobile, JACKIE
Coogan was fined $25 yesterday
He was arrested Saturday while
asleep in his parked station wagon
The former child movie star, now
81, is scheduled for discharge this
week as an Army Air Forces OIL
Ger
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26

Ino ill effect during his 13-mllo
descent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
RECRUITING AIM
OF ARMY DETAIL

The newest thing in the Amy
+oday is recruiting
According to three Army re.
,-,iting officers, who have es-
.ahlished new headquarters in
noom ,a 2O3 at the post office build.
no mo the Army wants honorably-dis.
M Mnha~eed veterans for membership
" the V.E.R.C., the Veterans En-.
lsted Reserve Corps, and also to
sien up 17-year-olds for the E. r.
re the Enlisted Reserve Corps.
The latter will be called for ser.
rice after they reach their 18th
birthdays.
Veterans signing up for the re-
.erve will file applications at the
heal office, and will be sent to
Fort Bragg for physical examina-
lion and final induction. Unless
.hev re uest immediate active
duty, they will be placed on in
.ctiye duty, to be called in case
n national emergency, at which
time they will be liable to service,
"for the duration and six months"
Men enlisting in the Regular
,rmv will serve straight three
year term.
Among benefits offered by en-
+ tment in the Reserve Corps is
the retention OF the same rating
held by a soldier at the time of
his honorable discharge from the
service. His longevity also will be
credited, if he re-enlists in this
corps.
Hours at the Army Recruiting
office will be 8 am to 5 pm,
six days week, Monday through
Saturday. First Sgt. Eugene T.
Harrell, OF Eure, has charge of
the local unit, which arrived to-
day from Durham. Under jurisdic.
tion of the Fourth Service Com
mand, First Sgt Harrell and two
assistant recruiters, T-Sgt. Eugene
Carr, of Bayonne, N j., and T-4
Norris S. Chester, OF Baltimore.
Nd. will cover five counties as
their recruiting territory. New
Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus,
pender and Onslow are counties
included, as we'll as nearby areas.
One recruiter will travel through
the district, speaking at civic club
meetings, and contracting dis
charged veterans who may wish to
sign into the reserve corps.
First Sgt Harrell, designated to
direct operations from the local Of
flee, is a Regular Army man, in
the service since 1882. Before the
United States became involved in
war he soldiered in Panama, the
Philippine Islands and China. In
F bruary, 1888, First Sgt. Harrell
became attached to the First
Army Infantry division.
This First Division became, lit
orally, the first combat troops to
enter Europe, and later fought
through North Africa, Tunisia, and
Sicily, and spearheaded the inva-
sion of France, continuing to bat
tie until We Day was proclaimed
in Europe. At that time, Sgt. Har-
rell was stationed within Czecho-
slovakia. He has total of 1874
points, but the Army wants him
in, so he has volunteered for Army
recruiting.
The array of ribbons First Sgt.
Harrell wears rivals that of the
fabulous Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr., and includes the Silver Star,
Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf
Clusters, S O ldier's Medal, Purple
Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster,
E.TO. ribbon with eight battle
stars, Bronze Arrowhead Tor par
tcipating in an initial assault at
tack. Good Conduct ribbon, Pre-
Pearl Harbor ribbon and Ameri.
can Defense ribbon, Combat Infan.
trymans Badge nd Presidential
Unit Citation with one Oak Leaf
Cluster.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
TO BECOME INVALID

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.- UD -
Special sugar coupons No. R-12O9
and R-330 which were issued prior
to April, 1945, by local ra.-on
eoards for special purposes such
as furlough and illness rations Will
become invalid after Oct. 5, the
Office of Price Administration an
hounced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
CANTEEN TO CLOSE

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25- R)
Ihe Hollywood Canteen, which pro
Vlded a touch if glamour for man\
a visiting service man during the
war years, will close Thanksglv'
mo Dav after three years OF en-
' ;ng but it's services will con
u y another form.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
NAMED TO COMMISSION

RALEIGH, Sept. 25-R)-Gov-
ernor Cherry today appointed W.
M. Shaw of Fayetteville as a
member of the Advisory Commos-
sion of the State Recreation Com
mission. Shaw replaces Miss Car
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
JUMPS 1s MILES

LONDON, Sept. 25.- G "A
parachute lump of 10000 meters
(68, 24l feet) by a Russian airman
wearing a specially constructed
suit and oxygen mask was report
ed tonight by Moscow Radio. The
report said the airman suffered
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26

About 80 million Of the 120
million automobile tires now in
civilian operation are synthetlcs.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Tadpoles Save Day
For Property Grew
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Film makers have found that
there's nothing to substitute for the
effect of light glimmering on water.
Usually if the body of water isn't
available. the effect is achieved by
the use of a flicker pan. About 8
by.6 feet, the pan is agitated either
by gentle rocking, or by the use of
wooden dowel pin suspended In
the water and drawn back and
forth to make the ripples Neither
of these tricks could be used for
shooting a scene from the deck of
showboat. for Abbott and Costel-
los THE Naughty Nineties," as
the setup of the camera made the
presence of propman beside the
little pan impossible.
A painful of tadpoles from the
Los Angeles, now with water in 1t
as it flows by the studio, did the
trick. They wriggled as the light
ray shot on the water, and the re-
hected ripples were photographed
nicely.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
LADY of Wit and Beauty
Bv R0salind Shafer

! Isaac at the we'll. She's doing a
two-shot" "a film name for two
figures in a camera, says Greer,
holding her water jar on her shoul-
der, and looking not at Isaac at all,
but at her audience"
| Complimented on her beautifully
terraced rustic gardens, Greer
answers, Yes, we've helped nature
here and there with a well-turned
spigot." She deplored the dryness of
the garden stream, reduced by the
heat to a slight amber trickle over
its rocky bed. 1T looks like leaky
beer truck, doesn't it?" she said.
Home Setting Perfect.
The home, which she has built
carefully with her mothers collabo-
ration. is a perfect setting for the
pair, yet its sturdy English country
style doesn't make it too feminine
for Naval 1t Richard Ney, Greer's
husband, to feel at home in when
he has leave from the South Pa
cidc. There are pair Of large green
velvet upholstered sofas beside the
large English-paned windows fac
ing the gardens. White chintz drapes
printed in large deep red roses and
dark green leaves enliven the pleas
ant room. It's CHEEKY, handsome,
comfortable.
/ Greer had a notable scholastic
career as a young girl. at the Uni
versity of London and Grenoble.
She presided over a bureau of re-
search findings before she went on
the stage.
She had lot of repertory theater
experience in Birmingham, later
starred for three years in London,
in hits like Noel Coward's plays.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
HOLLYWOOD.

There have been two roses
named for me-" said Greer Carson.
as we ate rum cake and drank tea
in her pretty parlor. "one, the Mrs,
Miniver, and the other, Greer Gar
son.
Now as you'd expect, the Mrs.
Miniver behaves properly and blooms
beautifully. in true size and color.
season after season. The Greer
Carson" and her eyes fell in mock
shame, 'bloomed all over the place
with terrific splendor Next season
it spraWled around, put out few
off blooms, and relaxed. l some
times wonder if the rose growers
really made a true estimate OF the
both of u.s."
OF course, that's just fun. Nobody
gets four nominations and an acad-
emy award who hasn't steady
competent work to recommend her
1t would be better TO 60 along with
Greer's mother, Mrs. Nina Carson
who figures that Greer could have
been anything she wished.
Has Wit and Beauty.
Here is woman who rightly
should be famous as a wit, as we'll as
an actress and beauty. l wouldn't t
like to get in range of her clever
ness if I had been foolish enough to
offend her; she has that true red
headed. green-eyed temper. though
no temperament, and can give quite
a ladyllke tongue lashing on occa-
sion.
Greer finds fun in anything and
everything. Frail from childhood,
she uses up a terrific lot of energy;
she can't help responding to an ap-
preciative audience. of one or of
thousands. A wonderful mimic, she
will dress her face with a mustache
with a gesture, deepen her voice and
initiate a pompous old gentleman
With a flutter of her hands she
provides imaginary fluff and ruff1es
for some mincing prude about whom
she's telling story. She limits in
terviews stringently because she's
been battling frail health for years,
and gives out so vigorously that she
is tired afterwards.
Among the charming ornaments
in her living room is a pair of Stat
fordshire figures, of Rebecca and
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Blends Return in DrOves
BY Sheiiah Graham

sent-minded moment I referred to
her as blond. Diana corrected me
quickly-and humorously.
After reading the story that Faye
Emerson had decided to cut out the
yellow dye she had been using (be-
cause Of the naughty girl parts she
had played in pictures) 1 hurried to
her studio to see how she looked in
brown hair. But like most girls who
have enjoyed popularity as a blond,
Faye did not make the change from
blond to brunei completely. She
merely toned down the bright yellow
to dark yellow, and is much prettier
as honey blond.
June Duprez who almost otter
ally) starved in Hollywood during
her years as brunei, was persuad-
ed by Cary Grant to dye her hair
blond for test in None But the
Lonely Heart" She got the part.
But instead of sticking with the
color that brought her success, June
has now gone back to her own black
hair. Before stating that this was a
good or bad idea I'll wait until see
the brunei June in her new pic
ture. Ten Little Indians"
Have you noticed how many of
the new stars are naturally blond ?
I'll 60 out on yellow limb and tell
you those believe are in this cate
CORY.
Miss Caulfield Blond.
know newcomer Joan Caulfield
is, although she has had to tighten
her light tresses bit for the cam
era. June Allyson is natural
honey blond. although she, too, has
aided nature for the same reason.
Gloria de Haven is a blond-I
think. And I'm sure of Angela
Lansbury. June Haver is a blond.
So are Dorothy MCGUIRE, Eleanor
Parker and Virginia Mayo 1'm not
absolutely sure of the last named
LADY,. Evelyn Keyes is a blond, al
though not SO blond as she seems
to be.
And lots of the well-established
big stars are in the blond class
Greer Carson, Ingrid Bergman,
Joan Fontaine. Betty Cradle, We
ronica Lake. Betty Hutton, Lana
Turner, Alice Faye, Ann Sothern
dllu DcIUc bdtlS. OOIIlc Oh LIl6Se are
natural blonds; some not. I'll avoid
trouble by letting you guess.
Well-known brunets, like Irene
Dunno and Barbara Stanwyck, have
recently joined the blond brigade.
And even Claudette Colbert has
lightened her hair considerably.
And here's Mervyn LIE Roy again
to throw in his 2 cents worth on
the subject I've never had any
confidence in this 'brownette' craze Il
Mervyn tells me. And by the way
he is only interested in blonds for
his picture, The Robe" 1T was
just due to the girls craving tenn
porary change Watch for blonds
to return in droves as the popu-
larity of our blond screen stars con-
tinues. AS you know. movie stars
do more to dictate feminine appear
ance than any other group and I
predict that you'll soon see Is
blonds for every brunei"
/ Is he right, girls?
/ tReleased by North American Newspaper
AlianceD
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Further Notes on Music

paper which read: Chloe. where
are you? Baritones driving me
crazy The gimmick was part of the
promotion for Spikes new record OF
Chloe" incidentally, Tin Pan Alley
calls the Latin tune "Babalu' the
Cuban Chloe" since it has the
same plaintive searching quality ir
it's lyrics.
Dizzy Gillespie. one of the tor
trumpeters in the business, chosen
best on that instrument in the
Esquire poll, is tootling with a small
band at the Three Deuces on Fifty
second street. :. Expected to plague
the public in the same remunera-
tive manner as Music Goes Round
and Round" is new daffodilly
called please No Squeeza da Ba-
mana" an Andrews Sisters diver
sion picked up for the juke parade
by their manager. Lou Levy.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Madeleine Went to War
Bv Fred Barton

The Elsie Janis of this war is a
bright, blond Hollywood girl named
Madeleine Carroll. But where Elsie
of World War I merely sang and
danced. Madeleine of War lis en-
tertalnlng consists of individual
service to wounded men.
She has been overseas Is months
At first she was a hospital worker
at 6lst Station Hospital in Foggia
Italy For four and a half months
she has been riding a hospital train
from SaarSbourg to Vlttel and Nam
cy; occasionally there have been "a
TO 48 hour runs to some port city
where the wounded are loaded
| aboard hospital ships bound home
Three to four hundred war;
wounded men ride every train. She
figures she has helped look after
Is 900 men.
Many of them, of course, are
hastily wounded. Yet they don't
cry. Madeleine says Americas Army
has very few crvbabies. The Ger
ann prisoners are the ones that
cry she says scornfully. Our
own wounded. especially the surgi-
cal cases. show an amazingly high
morale When man has had a
leg shot off and that leg is ampu-
tated. he starts to get we'll They
complain, she says. far less than a
patient with trench foot or mild
fever.
She Dresses Simply.
Madeleine Carroll wears the Red
Cross hospital workers uniform in
hospitals and an Army nurses bat
tie dress on the hospital train. She
dresses simply. carries no name
tags, does nothing cute to call at
tention to herself Sometimes a
bashful youngSer will say, Are you
really Madeleine Carroll?" She
sometimes smiles and answers,
Don't let them kid you"
Her pay is the standard S125 a
month and meals. She buys her
own uniforms.
To enter hospital work she had to
sign away her Hollywood career
while overseas: thinks she will never
go back to the movies. Yet she
is human enough to enjoy being
recognized. Recently an Older SOL
dier-she is surprised how many
older men there are in the Army
put out his hand as she approached.
How nice to be served by the Prin-
cess Flavia," he said
Try to picture these hospital
trains Men come in from battle.
They're wounded. They bleed They
suffer. They itch. The hospital
train is made up of three hunks on
each side, which is efficient but not
Evening star., 1945-05-06
He's Always a Discovery
By Villa Martin

age success and claims many dis
tinguished members. Tennessee,
who really is Thomas Lanier Will
liams Che changed it so it wouldn't
sound like William Lyon Phelps, is
related to Sidney Lanier, famed
Southern poet, and John Sewer.
Tennessee pioneer. His grandfather
was a distinguished Episcopal min
lister.
More Than Words.
Williams says plays-all theater-
are made Of plastics, and the use of
light, color, form and mood are as
much Of tool to a playwright as
words. Writing play, he thinks
in terms of all of these elements at
once.
OF course, there1l be a movie of
Mr.. Williams story of mother love
That's sort of poetic justice, for he
began writing the play in Holly
wood about year ago. Under con-
tract to Metro for $3.50 a week, he
was turning out little masterpiece
intended for Lana Turner.
The movie executives were very
nice about the story; they kept say
ing it was wonderful. On the last
day, one came into Tennessee's Of
flee and he felt like any other young
man on the verge of a raise.
The executive was there to fire
him
They tried to let me down easily,
saying they thought my talents
more suited to Margaret O'Brien
than Miss Turner said Tennessee.
He writes so continually that he
has been known to go into a tele-
graph Office to send a message, pick
up paper and begin a short story,
then leave, having forgotten why
ne was there in the first place.
The South is his favorite locale
because he thinks the South is the
most dramatic part of America.
One of his plays that have not
reached Broadway, You Touched
Me-" adapted from a D. H. Law
renee short story, will be produced
by Guthrie McClintic in the fall
AS soon as the critics dinner has
been held May 13, Tennessee will 20
to Dallas to work with Margo Jones,
assistant director of his play.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
A Screen Writer Speaks
By Jay Carmody

CarnOdv
Dore Schay better good will ambassadors Hov
wood sends periodically Washington run of actors and
actresses pleasant enough people the pretty
good TO meet writer from the cinema capital almost
plain writer but there nothing plain schary
scrue saying would
the first to admit it himself
Mr. schary vino used to be old himself but will
not mention after having had many
really graduate writer He produces pictures which he helps
write with his coIaboraor Allen Rkn
Seeing YOU picture which sought combine the elements
and around the theme the returning
soldier who might be victim of sychoneuos other words it
undertook make think with feelings
they have had while watching Ginger Joseph Gotten
play the roles of two madusted humans he battle aued
sergeant OF Marines
Explains Purpose Producer.
poducer-wrters last picture always provides the entering
wedge himself and the and I'll Be Seeing You
I'VE something
Mr. schary said modey when the subject introduced Re
habtaon is the second biggest problem Of the moment Winning
the first the subject restoring the returned
serviceman to normal fe think Hollywood do much better
job
the types of produced then the gangster
hm 1t did not exactly gory to be sure but pictured the LIE
glamour,
profit They could not fail to have their appeal to the bitter d
moned ervcemen who could find of adjusting dis
located and domestic life such as they found upon their
had the effect making criminals returned but
he does think either that they represented the best possible
treatment of the countrys most acute problem
The should be helpful medium in the handling of the
problem problem
simple,
matte we'll Our notion m Mr. Rkns that the latter
the important to be tackled by the writer and
a Versatile Writer.
who versatile written
Boys Young
like cinema dramasts who complains the that
keeps the writer secondary position in the
is all right with him that have built
tremendous drawing the box Office He
that directors
They
have created for themselves.
He is pleased be the writer's
that they filling the role
possibly the which includes
The number only constantly quality.
1t includes Preston Sges Sidney Buchanan Maj
Robinson Dudley
number of Others although he
Schay.
When the interviewer the blank of
how much completed
Mr.. Schary nonplused
Eight or 10 perhaps"
He thinks much
made by literary fellows have making
not allowed themselves to develop
1t sounds plausible Moreover it quite point likely
to occur only cinema author of the Scharey quality
Still in
he wanted to vail about his fate Mr. Schary might
miserable about
ton several biography
Washington, Simon Bolivar liberated
Il still think the thing
urbane But understand
produced at least why that
would have been $4500O00 which money
and Is lot of
still thinks
have
o
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Today's Schedules
Sing Out, SWee,

NATIONALS Sing Out, sweet
Land $50 pm.
CAPITOL-"National Velvet:
1:20. 4:10. 7 and GAS pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6:25
and 9:l5 pm.
COLUMBIA-"A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn: l35, $3.50, $50,
7::30 and $50 pm.
EARLE-"Bring on the Girls:
2:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 2:20, 4:45,
7:05 and 9:25 pm.
KEITH'S-"Belle of the Yu-
kon":: 1::35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35
and 9:35 pm.
LITTLE-"Roberta":: l, $40,
5:15, 7::25 and $40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"God Is My
Co-Pilot":: /, 2::35, 4:25, $40.
$40 and 10 pm.
PALAC E-"Here Come the
Waves: 1855, sos, Sis, 7:3O
and $40 pm.
P1X-"Going My Way: 1:10,
1925, $50, 8:l5 and $40 pm
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Continuous from ! pm.