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HOLLYWOOD* July 11.—<av
Loretta Young, 27-year-old film
star, proposes to marry Tom
Lewis, 38, an advertising agency
executive, in about a month.
Friends disclosed that their en
gagement wlil be announced at a
party Monday. Miss Young’s 1930
elopement-marriage to Actor
Grant Withers was annulled.
Lewis has had no previous mar
riage. •
Other Hollywood news:
Film Writer Norman Houston
sued Columbia Pictures Corpora
tion for $1,000,000 damages, charg
ing that the picture, “Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington,” was based
on his story, “Clown in Congress.”
Comedian Stan Laurel was sued
for $16,264 in back alimony by
a former wife, Lois Laurel Brown.
Charging cruelty, Actress Moni
ca Bannister sued for divorce
from Writer Edward Cherokee, to
whom she became reconciled last
year after winning an interlocu
tory divorce decree.
Producer-Writer-Director Ben
Hecht offered Franklin D. Roose
velt, Jr., a job as a movie actor,
asserting “you’ve got Robert Tay
lor and the other Hollywood boys
licked a mile for looks and per
sonality.”
Young Roosevelt, who had been
Visiting his brother James, a pro
ducer, rejected the offer.
. “It looks too complicated,” he
explained.
Lumberton Clubs Urge
Earlier Mart Opening
LUMBERTON, July 11.—Earlier
opening of Border belt tobacco mar
kets was recommended and a three
man committee to advise the U. S.
Tobacco association of this action
was named Monday night at a joint
meeting of the Lumberton service
clubs and civic organizations at Mc
Millan’s Beach.
K. M. Biggs, R. H. Livermore and
O. L. Henry were appointed to draw
up a resolution requesting the earlier
market opening on behalf of the
Lumberton Chamber of Commerce
and Agriculture, Merchants associa
tion, Kiwanis, Rotary, Minute Men
and Bachelor clubs.
Behind The Scenes In
Washington
WASHINGTON. — In announce
ments already made, this adminis
tration has laid down the outlines
of defense measures so sweeping
that they must, almost inevitably,
be followed by economic measures
of equally broad scope.
Within three days, for instance,
responsible authorities here pro
posed (1) an economic cartel to
market all New World export sur
pluses, at a cost which might run
to half a billion a year; (2) a four
billion dollar program of new naval
construction; (3) a matching army
expansion program, and (4) a sys
tem for universal training of young
men and women along semi-mili
tary lines.
These are in addition to defense
measures already begun. In legis
lation already passed, for instance,
the nation is committed to the
spending of around five billions.
Cost of the 50,000-airplanes-a-year
program has been estimated at
close to seven billions.
LOWER STANDARDS
OR HIGHER PRODUCTION
In view of the fact that these tre
mendous new expenses must be
borne by a nation already $40,000,
000,000 in debt, with an unbalanced
budget running back for the better
part of a decade, and with around
9,000,000 . unemployed, economists
here in Washington are saying one
of two things must be done:
Either the nation must accept a
very drastically lowered standard
of living—or it must find some way
of putting all of its productive pow
ers at work to capacity, raising its
national income so greatly that the
new expenditures can be absorbed.
That adds up to the conclusion,
now beginning to be expressed
freely both in and out of the admin
istration, that the effort to perfect
America’s defens-s is not a mere
matter of increasing the army and
navy, or of lining up the New
World nations in a common front
against aggression. It might in
volve internal changes—regimenta
tion, spending, planning, and so on
—so profound as to make the New
Deal to date look insignificant.
SAMPLE PLAN
SHOWS SCOPE
One sample, taken from just one
sector of the ‘‘home front,” will dc
as an illustration.
The Department of Agriculture
says there are today on American
farms more than three million men
who are either totally unemployed
or who exist on gross incomes (fo:
themselves and their dependents)
of less than $200 a year. Thes15
people live where soil erosion and
depletion are most advanced.
Hence the department has drafted
a tentative rural work relief pro
gram, aimed to give these 3,000,000
men jobs in a vast soil conserva
tion program.
WE AIN’T SEN
NOTHIN’ YET
This particular plan may never
come out of the hopper. The point
is that it represents the sort of
thing which this administration’s
experts are saying is going to have
to be done on many fronts, if the
nation is to rehabilitate itself for a
genuine defense of democracy.
Of course, a change in the war
picture might change all of this.
So, it goes without saying, could a
change in administration. But as
of today—given the existing situ
ation abroad and the existing ad
ministration in Washington—it is
accurate to say that the defense
measures so far suggested barely
scratch the surface. 1
The Himalayas, highest moun
tain range in the world, is one of
the youngest.
RALEIGH
BRIEFS
Star-News Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL
RALEIGH, July 11.—Sure sign
that the silly season is on is the
heated discussion in news column
of the possibility that the North
Carolina Supreme court justices
will wear robes from and after
their re-convening for the 1940 fall
term late in August.
Among the inalienable rights
guaranteed to all Americans is that
to dress as eccentrically as they
choose. Justices Stacy, Clarkson,
Schenck, et al., should be allowed
to traipse around in long skirts if
they want to. They still won’t look
any worse than a bald - headed
Shriner with a red fez or an over
stuffed Legionnaire in a 40 and 8
smock.
In robes, bathing suits or trous
ers, the jurists will still seem in
effably bad interpreters of the
common law and the statutes, in
tiie eyes of the losing lawyers.
North Carolina gets three differ
ent sets of highway fatalities every
month, and they, never agree. The
Board of Health puts out one, the
Highway Patrol another and the
Highway Safety Division still a
third, and if ever the trio had the
same figures it would be nothing
short of a miracle.
Explanation of the differences is
quite plausible. The Board oi
Health reports deaths when and as
it receives certificates from the
counties, regardless of the date oi
accident or injury. The Patrol re
ports only the fatalities which oc
cur in accidents investigated by its
members. The Safety Division
waits until it gets all possible in
formation from all available sour
ces before making its monthly pro
nouncements.
Still, the three different reports
are a bit confusing to the general
public, not in the know as to whys
and wherefores, and it seems that
something could be done about it.
Special Bulletin for the Raleigh
News and Observer: The North
Carolina-for-Roosevelt headquar
ters have been closed. State Sen
ator John D. Larkins, Jr., shut
them up after a visit here on the
eve of going to the Chicago con
vention.
The N. and O. “closed” them
right after the state convention and
again after the primary, but some
how or other Dr. McDonald and
Senator Larkins just wouldn’t be
convinced of it.
North Carolina’s Probation Com
mission is wondering when its
work will reach a point where
there will be something like a bal
ance between the number of those
put on probation each month and
those going “off probation” for one
reason or other.
So far the Commission had han
dled, in its approximately two- and
half years of existence, some 4,000
cases, or which about 2,900 are
still “active”—that is to say there
are about that many probationers
now under supervision.
When the system was first set
up it was obvious that there would
be few going “off” probation and
many going on, but some of these
days there will be a levelling oui
to where one about equals the oth
er.
Commissioner Harry Sample
says that from 100 tb 175 proba
tioners are now being added
monthly, while only about 50 pro
bation sentences are expiring, or
otherwise being ended, in the same
time.
Average or revocation of proba
tion is now about one in ten, Mr.
Sample estimates.
Present outlook is that June high
way deaths did not exceed 50 bj
many, if any, as compared with 71
killed on the highways in June oi
1939. The Safety Division looks foi
a reduction for June of approxi
mately 30 per cent, which would
make the record for the year show
a decrease of almost 15 per cen1
from last. 1
WILLKIE PLANS
DRIVE IN SOUTH
GOP Nominee To Make
Active Effort To Break
Democratic Ranks
by william b. ardery
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.,
July 11—UV-Wendell L WiJlkie said
today he would make an active
campaign for votes in the solid
democratic south.
Willkie told reporters that while
his . ampaign plans were indefin
ite, he would “undoubtedly make
a number of talks in the South
during the coming campaign. '
The republican nominee, here for
a vacation with Mrs. Willikie, said
tie would spend today “Just read
ing and resting.” He will attend
a barbecue tonight and motor to
Denver tomorrow for a conference
with Colorado republican leaders.
He will lunch with Mrs. Ruth Han
na McCormick Simms, who sup
ported Thomas E. Dewey for the
republican nomination.
On Sunday, Willkie will motor
over the Continental Divide to at
tend the annual fish try and Gun
nison county pioneer society get
together at Almont, in one ot Colo
roac’s best trout fishing areas. He
accepted an invitation to attend
1he opening pf the Cheyenne, Wye.,
frontier days Rodeo July 23.
The nominee talked yesterday
with Gov. Ralph L. Carr ot Colo
rado. Carr asserted that Wiiikie
would sweep the West in the No
vember election and added to re
porters: "I’m not kidding you.”
During 1938, London had 7060
fires. Only seven persons lost
their lives through being trapped
in burning buildings during that
year.
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD.—All persons who
may be planning to visit Holly
wood hereby are warned that the
Ritz Brothers are at large again.
Proced at your own risk.
It makes no difference that Mov
ieland is extensive in area and that
there really are only three Ritzes.
These boys get around. They’re
the gargoyles on the Union Station,
the corpses of Clover Club suicides,
and the whitewings at Hollywood
Park. They’re the shills in rub
berneck buses, the double-talking
panhandlers in front of the Brown
Derby, and the talent scouts who'*!
flag down an out-of-state automo
bile in the middle of Hollywood
Boulevard and offer $5,000-a-week
movie contracts to each of the
tourists.
At night clubs, they’re the
thumb in your soup, the insulting
head waiter, and the chef with a
cleaver who goes around looking
for the patron who complainec
about the steak. If you leave one
spot while they’re singing a song
—having taken over the floor show
for their own amusement—you’rt
likely to find them half an houi
later doing a strip tease in a join!
five miles away. The Ritz Broth
ers are not subtle workers, bul
they’re fast.
By day, the comedians now are
where they are playing in a filrr
fairly safely isolated at Universal
called "Argentine Nights.” They
were assigned a dressing roorr
bungalow adjacent to the studic
hospital as a ruse to keep therr
[quiet. Jim, Harry, and A1 immed
iately went next door to cheer th(
sick with a few dirges, and discQv
ered that the establishment is jus
an infirmary and never has any in
patients.
VIGILANT AGAINST
RITZKRIEG
Since production has only jus
begun, the brothers have had littli
chance to plan a Ritzkrieg agains
other companies on the lot, but di
rectors and producers are griml;
vigilant. Everyone remember
what happened when the triumvi
rate invaded and demoralized 20th
Fox. Not even the dignity of Dar
ryl Zanuck was safe from outrage
The occupation lasted three year
and was ended only by making i
couple of pictures so bad that th
Ritzes were ashamed to be seei
in them.
There was quite a bit of stor;
trouble toward the last, but th
brothers hung on until Z a n u c
called in Sol Wurtzel, his Class 1
generalissimo. "Pack Up You
Troubles” and “The Gorilla” fo!
lowed. After the second disastrou
preview, Harry Ritz called h i
brothers together and said, “Gen
tlemen, things have gone from ba
to Wurtzel.” That night the;
slipped quietly over the border c
Movietown City.
A few months ago, having beei
I engaged for two pictures by Uni
NASSAU PLEASED
ABOUT WINDSORS
Tiny British Colony Near
Florida Coast Awaits
New Governor
NASSAU, Bahamas, July 11.—<•5’)
—This tiny British colony, recovered
from the first surprise of the Duke
of Windsor’s appointment as gover
nor-general, speculated today on the
permanent effect on the Bahamas’
political life and tourist industry.
"The announcement of this ap
pointment sent a great surge of
excitement over the community and
the general reception of the news
was a feeling of jubilation,” said
the Nassau Daily Tribune in an
editorial.
"Today, however, the community
is asking itself many questions.
What are the diplomatic implica
tions of this move? How will it af
fect the political and industrial life
of the colony? Is the government
house good enough for him? Will
the legislature and press lose any
of their rights to criticize the chief
executive of the colony during his
tenure of office?”
As Bahaman governor, responsible
Only to the colonial office, the for
1 mer British king will not have tc
worry about local opinion.
The Bahamas legislature, which
1 has been in existence for 212 years,
is one. of the few in the empire
' with power to dictate internal fi
nancing, subject to the governor’s
veto. The colony has no income or
land taxes, which probably accounts
mainly for an influx of wealthy im
t migrants during recent years.
The legislature has held tradition
ally to import duties as the mosi
equitable method of taxation. Since
virtually everything here is import
ed, the evy amounts to a genera:
sales tax.
versal, the Bitz Brothers began tc
look like incorrigible rebels wher
3 they walked out of roles in “The
1 Boys From Syracuse.” But an ar
; bitration committee upheld then
1 when it developed that they hac
been promised leading parts anc
’ that these parts weren’t.
- So now they’re in “Argentine
5 Nights,” and the Ritzes are the
1 principal characters without ques
r tion. It’s a zany piece about three
' heart-of-gold screwballs who are
3 trying to get jobs for a girls’ band
3 The opening shows a convention o:
• Ritz creditors, assembled in a the
i ater, who look on as if hypnotizec
f while the singing, clowning trie
f evacuate the cuties and instru
ments during a rousing productior
1 number called “The Spirit of 77-B”
- (a clause of the Bankruptcy Act). 1
Canada Will Recruit
40,000 More Soldiers
OTTAWA, July
opened her first full-fledged recrui
ing campaigns today to get 4a ,,oo
new volunteers for the Canadi
active service force, full-time sol1
diery for duty at home or overseas'
and to train 37,000 militiamen'diir'.
ing the early part of August.
In broadcasts over the Canadian
Broadcasting corporation network
last night, Defense Minister t'ol j
L. Ralston and Air Minister Major
C. G. Power figuratively hung *
"men wanted” sign on the air waves
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