The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-10
Along Broadway
Ru WAL TER WINCHELL
By WALTER
NOTES OF A NEWsPAPERMAN

up financial pages have denied one OF our
items. We could fill a book with examples Of
space-wasters who denied our tlrsts that
were confirmed The exciting new book,
Southern Exposure" contains this: 1T was
not until April of 1914 that Walter Winchell-
ever on the alert to expose dlsruptlonlsts-
revealed that the Khan was going deeper under
ground-hiding behind the name American
Keystone Foundation and other aliases. l ask
ed Colescott (the Khan leader at that tlne)
about this, and on May 4th he replied: AS
usual when speaking about the Klan, Mr.. Win
che1l is wrong. The Klan has not disbanded
and has no intention of doing So.
A month later according to Southern Elk
posure'D Winchell was proven to have been
right as usual. In a copyrighted story by
Fred Moon in the Atlanta Journal it was
revealed that the Klan's imperial offices were
empty and that Colescott had sold his At
lanta home and retired to Miami. Colescott
explained that a kanvocation COT April 29
had voted unanimously to suspend the consti-
tutional laws OF the Knights of the Ku Klux
Khan and to order the disarmament OF all pro-
visional klans. Colescott made it clear, how
ever, that the Khan is dead"
The new book goes on to offer evidence
proving that the Khan continued operating
under aliases.
The N. Y. Times foreign newsboy, Harold
Calender, comes up with an incredible slice
of irony that is another illustration OF the
topsy-turvy state of the world: DeGaulle is
now backed by the same elements in France
that had once backed Petain!. . Behind the
Scenes: The producers o. comedies always
seat loud daughters next to critics at first
nights. But we doubt if this maneuver hood
winks any aisle-sitters . The COP has
been revived. 1t has come back from the same
grave the Democrats dug for themselves.
Ben Grauer's fluff gave this reporter the
giggles On the last broadcast. There have been
many amusing fluffs on the radio. One OF our
favorite tang tonguelers concerns the announc-
err who wanted to say do you want a civil
service job?"-which came out: do you want
a chivil jervis sob?'. Frances Perkins nifty
description of FDR: HE was the rich mans
friend and the poor mans brother"
London's Yorkshire Post tells about the ham,
my playwright who sent a pair of ducats for
the opening of his new revue to Winston
Churchill. lone Of these tickets ne wrote,
SIS for you, and the other Tor a 1rleno' Il
you have one"
Churchill replied: II am very sorry I will be
unable to attend on the first night, but I will
he present On the second, if there is one"
Critic John Mason Browns literary lace:
"Praise has never made anyone unhappy. we
like it even when we do not beleVe IT,. we
tire of it only when it is bestowed too long
on other people. 1t is a music we do not 3D.
iect to have played oef-stage. Although IL may
shame our consciences and insult our mlnds,
it does ne damage to our ears. So long as
we remember that it sings the song not OF
what We are but of what we wish we were,
if probably does not hurt US"
When Oscar Wilde visited the USA, he heard
an industrialist Dragging about the miracle
of the invention of the telephone. 1t caused
Oscar to flip: The value of the telephone
is the value of what two people have to Say.
Wavne-Andrews' tome. 1.-The battle for CHI
cago" Harcourt. Brace, comes up with an
item we are putting in our dropoead He
The author reveals that Hitler's own news
naner. the Voelkischer Beobachter, halled a
midwest rag for it's purely American thinking
and feeling"
Several newspapers controlled by one Family
have been flirting with bigots for many years.
It's pages have contained many sneers ABOUT
aliens. But here is the debunker: Inc man
who founded that newspaper dynasty was d
FOREIGNER! He was born in Canada!
The apologists for American Re-Actlonlsts
denv that the OUTFIT mas any ColllieE.io WV
the discredited America First COMMITTED. lhey
blab that the Firsters never INDUCED IN po-
litical action such as the Re-Actlonlsts are
now undertaking.. But page AL OF ~Ohoer
Cover quotes an America First leader: we
we're all ready to enter politics when Pearl
Harbor came along. Our plan was to nave
every city block catalogued by names OF fam
lilies and the number in each family. We were
already selecting our block captains. AT cleo
ton time our idea was to ask them to vote
for our candidates. That's the way Lam
many Hall worked it and that's the way we
intended to get into power"
In short, American Action is merely follow
ing a plan blue-printed by America First.
incidentally, "Under Cover author John
Roy Carlson's latest sizzling expose. The
Plotters, rips into the Communists. The tome
reveals that Communist chief VIM. z. Foster
admitted that he is trying to recruit veterans
to fight for Communists. Several years ago,
the Justice Dept issued a report stating that
communists here are planning to overthrow
our government via violence. Now a Com.
munist leader c~onfesses that he is planning
10 use ex-soldiers to fight (the word fight is
very importantly to replace the American
form OF government with Communism