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FOUR.__ i Published DaUy Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-New* At The Murchison Building R, B Page, Owner and Publisher Telephone All Department* DIAL 3311 Entered as Second Class Matter at Winning Z SC Postoffice Under Act of Congress *** of March 3, 1879_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES MY CARRIER ~ Payable Weekly or in Advance Comb ma ster New* tion {Sag jg » s ifaws rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News_ -- BY MAIL ™ Payable Strictly In Advance Comblna Star News tion l Month .9 -75 $ -50 $ -90 t 2.00 1.50 2.75 • Months .<00 300 5,50 I year . 8.00 6.00 10.00 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News (Daily Without Sunday) *"* 1 Month .$ .50 6 Months ..,.$3.00 2 Months . 1.50 12 Year .6.00 (Sunday Only) 1 Month .$ .20 6 Months .$1-25 2 Month* .65 1 Year . 6.00 Card of Thanks charged for at the rate ot 25 cents per line. Count five words to line. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing In The Wilmington Star THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1940 Star-News Program Consolidated City-County Government under Council-Manager Administration. Publio Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Arena for Sports and Industrial Shows. Seaside Highway from Wrightsvtlle Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of City Limits. 35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wili er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into industrial sites along Eas(em bank south of Wilmington. Paved River Road to Southport, via Orton Plantation. Development of Pulp Wood Produc tion through sustained-yield methods throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Pro motional Agency, supported by one county-wide tax. Shipyards and Drydock. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for whites. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING Just at this time we who live in the United mates have some special causes for thanks giving. To begin with, our country is at peace . . . Think of what the people of London have been undergoing day and night for weeks and months. If we could really understand with any degrees of fullness the leaning of war, and then the meaning, we would flock to our churches on Thanksiving Day and praise God for his goodness in giving us peace and for sending into the world . , . the Prince of Peace. There are millions of people in Europe to day u>ho cannot write a. letter without its be ing censored, who cannot listen to a radio with out special permission, who cannot read papers or books that have not been censored, who can not attend a church service unless the service has been authorized by the govenmental au thorities, who cannot, do one of a thousand things unless permission is given by the govern ment. Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” . • , Civil and religious liberty are more precious than life itself. If we under stand all this, we would throng to our churches on Thanksgiving Day and praise God for the freedom, wherewith He has made u.s free, not only in the political sense of that v)ord but in its deepest spiritual sense. DR. WALTER LINGLE in ‘‘Talks on Timely Topics Thanksgiving As citizens of the United States we have a great deal more to be thankful for than appears on the surface. There came a time in the infancy of the Colonies that the people set one day aside for giving thanks and showing appreciation to God for their deliverance from oppression. 'Jl We owe it to ourselves and to Jehovah to observe that custom today with the same singleness of purpose, the same high motives. Again, we are delivered from oppression. : with our thankfulness for that we have need 5. to reflect that our present freedom can sur , , yjve only so long as we deserve to be free. So long as we retain in our own hands the reins of government, we shall have cause for Thanksgiving. It is cause for thanks that wc can think and speak and act of our own free will, with none to say us nay, so long jas we stay within the law and do not jeopardize the rights of others. It is cause for thanks that we are sovereigns in our own right and can walk with dignity >- »* land respect. It is cause for thanks that we ' may worship as we please, vote as we please, that our homes are safe from search and seizure. It is cause for thanks that the masses of the people are giving more and more thought to governmental problems in the solution of which their future ie wrapped up. With all the anxiety, the uncertainty of the times, we are fortunate people. We can even celebrate a day of thankfulness to the Al mighty, without interference from a fuehrer. Our Defense Effort When the defense program was first taking form, the Star published a series of editorials pointing out the unprotected state of the North Carolina seaboard, its need for major defenses and Wilmington’s and the whole southeastern area’s potentialities both for aiding the de fense program and capacity for service in the rearmament effort. In these articles the advantage of establish ing a network of military roads, radiating fan wise from Wilmington to coastal and interior military posts and to inland production areas was indicated. They also dealt with the area’s availability for training bases for land and air forces, or shipyards, for submarine and torpedo boat bases and refuges. Shortly after publication of this summary, Lieut. Col. George W. Gillette, then engineer for the war department in this district, pre pared for the Star-News a map of the Caro linas showing the principal industrial and agri cultural centers in the two states, the areas available and peculiarly adapted for defense projects, and the exposed condition of the coast. In an accompanying article Colonel Gil lette explained the situation with detailed and illuminating accuracy. Since then the war department has announc ed that it will create an anti-aircraft training base in the Holly Shelter area where at least 10,000 men will be stationed. There are indica tions that Bluethenthal airport will be utilized as quickly as it can be put in condition as a training base. The WPA has already earmark ed $35,000 for immediate application on this project, that work need not stop while larger amounts are being set aside for completion of the work. It seems quite possible that a marine and naval training post will be located in southeastern North Carolina, with Southport and Fort Caswell favored as the site. A ship yard is among the possibilities. Thus it is apparent that the campaign to participate in the defense program is bearing fruit. But there are other matters that need the concerted effort of a forward-looking citi zenship, if we are to bear our full burden and realize on our greatest opportunities in the national emergency. Among these is the deepening of the Cape Fear river channel to at least 35 feet, so that this waterway may function at 100 per cent both for commerce' and for defense. This is one project on which Colonel Gillette, out of his great experience, designated as an invalu able asset—an asset the government can ill afford to overlook. Supporting his view is the fact that the Cape Fear ie an ideal hideout and supply base for torpedo boats and sub marines, once its depth is sufficient to guaran tee safe passage for these fleet vessels. Another project is a highway system which will meet all requirements for fast and cafe transport of mechanized war equipment and for the speedy movement of supplies. The ad dition of shoulders to existing roads will not serve the purpose, especially as most bridges bear the notice ‘‘maxium load six tons.” Heavy artillery could not be moved over them. It is easy to foresee what would happen to 10-ton tanks. These are things which Wilmington’s lead ership must concentrate upon as essential to efficient defense. There must be no easing of the effort to see that we are enabled to carry on with complete success in a future which will demand of every community its full capacity for service. Axis Anti-Climax By its admission that no more acquisitions to the Axis bloc are expected lor the present, Berlin has capped with an astonishing anti climax the diplomatic campaign that has en gaged Adolf Hitler since mid-summer. It is almost incredible that all the conferences and all the publicity and all the talk of a "new order” have come to nothing more than the meager result*; thus far accomplished. For what has Hitler gained? He has a pact with Italy and Japan that is supposed to be an alliance, but since it was signed Mussolini has gone to war with Greece and neither Germany nor Japan has taken up his quarrel. Clearly the arrangement is extremely loose when two of the partners can decide for them selves whether or not they are obliged to go to the aid of the third. This three-power pact has now been extend ed, it is true, to three nations that have ac cepted the leadership of Germany, Italy and Japan in reorganizing Europe and Asia on new lines. These states are Hungary, Ru mania and Slovakia, and they add 33,000,000 persons to the quarter of a billion claimed b> the three equals. But all are German pup pets and were German puppets before Hitler started on his travels. To get their signature on the dotted line was no achievement at all. All this activity, then, was merely stage setting. But now that the stage has been set, in full view of the audience, the management announces that the performance is not ready to begin. We had expected a scene showing Bulgaria joining the happy party, or perhaps Spain, or something equally eloquent on the subject of the strength of the Axis. Nothing on that order, we now learn, is immediately in prospect. Doubtless the author is determined to go forward with the production one way or an other. We can permit ourselves, however, a momentary feeling of relief. Whatever comes next, we can feel that it might have been worse. Citadel vs. Davidson Wilmington’s American Legion post is spon soring a football game on Saturday afternoon which promises to be quite the best gridiron contest ever held here. The Citadel and David son teams have performed well this season. Spectators are assured such an exhibition as they ordinarily would have to travel many miles to see. In urging a large attendance it is pertinent to point out that this will in effect be a test game—not so much on the field as in the stands. The guarantee to file players is large. Other costs necessarily have piled up. There is no way of meeting the heavy expense except through the music of the turnstiles at en trances of Legion field. If this music is rollicking and snappy there can be other games, in the future. But if it is like a dirge, there will be no major football in Wilmington for years to come. The Legion post cannot afford to obligate itself to pay any more deficits. It is not as if you were asked to make a gift to a good cause. Here you are asked to invest in first class entertainment. There will be value received for every ticket you purchase. You cannot do better, in celebrating Thanksgiving afternoon, than by joining the throng headed for Legion field and the Citadel Davidson game. It will be to Wilmington’s credit if the revenue from the game is large enough to create a balance on which to lay the founda tion for more than even better football in the future. WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—Already Washing ton is talking about 1944 as if it were just around the corner. The political prognosti cators are burning midnight juice and slinging ink from Page 1 to Classified trying to guess the future of Wendell L. Willkie and the part he will play in the Republican party in the coming years. Let’s leave that to the Pol. Progs. Really, they don’t know much more about it than we do, as most of them will admit. The shape of things to come will mold the future of the Republican party (and the Democratic party, too) and of Wendell L. Willkie, but— IF Mr. Willkie is nominated for the presi dency again in 1944, he will be upsetting another Republican apple-cart (and one that has been running smoothly for 86 years) be cause he will be the first defeated candidate in the history of the party ever to have been nominated for a second try. Not only that, but if Mr. Willkie should even be considered as a serious contender for the nomination by next convention time, he will be kicking over a precedent that has been broken by only two men in either of the major parties since pre-Civil war days. • * • DEMOCRATIC EXCEPTIONS Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bry an both were nominated on the Democratic ticket three times. Bryan, of course, never won the election. Cleveland did twice and although he was a defeated candidate when he was nominated in 1892, this was somewhat offset by the fact that he had been President for four years before his defeat. These are the two exceptions and both were Democrats. Let’s look to the roster of defeated Republican candidates. The first candidate of the Republican party as we know it today was Gen. John Charles Premont, Indian fighter, California hero, and veteran of a dozen western ventures that had made him a national figure. James Buchanan beat him in 1856 and although B'remont re mained in the limelight a good many years (he was territorial governor of Arizona and he was nominated by a rump convention of Re publican radicals at Cleveland in 1864 but withdrew in favor of Lincoln when he was convinced his candidacy might split the party vote), he never really counted as a political force after his defeat. James G. Blaine, defeated by Cleveland in 1884, stayed in the picture long enough to become Benjamin Harrison’s Secretary of State, 1889-’92, but when Harrison was de feated he turned to international law. TOOK COURT POSTS William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes went on from defeated candidacies to become chief justices of the Supreme Court, a position which precludes political activity. Former President Hoover and Alf M. Landon are, of course, still on the political scene, but conventions since their defeats have passed them by with little more than a nod of cour tesy. On the Democratic side, since 1860, there have been Stephen A. Douglas, who died shortly after Lincoln’s first inaugural; Gen. George B. McClellan; Horatio Seymour and Horace Greeley, who were beaten by Grant; Samuel J. Tilden, defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes in the famous contested election; Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, the brilliant Union general, who was defeated by Garfield; and Alton B. Parker, who lost to Theodore Roose velt in 1904. In nearly every instance, these men “retired to private life’’ after their po litical Waterloos, as did James M. Cox, the Dayton, O., publisher, and John W. Davis, the New York attorney. A1 Smith’s defeat in 1928 has brought in its wake only his well known “walks” of succeeding years and a split with the party to which he had given life-long allegiance. * * * This ie the record that Mr. Willkie has to look back upon. He may, of course, become the Republican Bryan or Cleveland, but if he does he’ll have to smash another Republican precedent—one that is probably even more firmly established than those he broke when he ran away with the party nomination in Philadelphia. 5 « Thanksgiving | | 11 — — .. ■ ■ toiimfimM The Editor’s LETTER BOX The editor doe* r.ot necessarily endorse any article appearing in this department. They represent the views of the individual readers. Cor respondents are warned that all communications must contain the correct name and address for our records, though the latter may be signed as the writer sees fit. The Star-News reserves the right to alter any text that for any reason is ob iectionable. Letters on controversial subjects will not be published. OLD SAINT IS NEARLY HERE With November nearly gone And December almost on, We make lists of friends so dear For cards sent far and near. The lights and windows show With all their gleam and glow, That horns and skates can sing Whene’er they hear his ring. Of course the dolls are there All dressed and smiling rare, The guns and firecracks shout When Christmas is about. Old Saint Nick gets lots of fun With mail from every one, Keeps working day and night His orders must be right. The cakes and pies awake For this their yearly bake, And fruits and candies say They too are on their way. Our streets will crowded be With shoppers—you and me, There’s wrapping to be done For each and every one. And now’ his smiling face Comes down our fire place. Leaving all this message so dear Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. EMILY LEE FISHER OUR ROADS To the Star: Access to the sea is New Hanover’s chief claim to distinction and its main source or reason for revenue. To shorten the distance to the sea and make a boulevard of our “road to Mandalay” is a sound in vestment. Last week a national road builder made several trips to Wrightsville and approved the following sugges tions: 1. —The "get-away” from the city is slow and costly. Citizens who are interested should drive out to about 19lh and Castle and see how easy it now is to make a straighter and safer road to Wrightsville and Ole ander. 2. —Drive down to McClurfiber’s Station and see what a hundred yard "cut off” or connecting link between the new and the old high way will do in making a straight road from Bradley's Creek to Wrightsville bridge. It will cost only a few hundred dollars and make unnecessary the mutilation and widening of the scenic drive. 3. —The curve at Seagate has a cross road and a school house which take the joy and sometimes the driver out of drivving. The cross road should cross two • hundred yards south or towards the city. 4. —Both entrances to the "cut off” to the Ocean Highway and Holly, ridge should be maiked and beau tified. All of which will not only save money but make money for the com munity. LINDSAY RUSSELL, KEA ServiceT I»9 1 ' ' ' " l^mmm——— Man About Manhattan | - ——■ By George Tucker ■■—■* NEW YORK, Nov. 27—My sec retary, Asia, speaks: Dear GT: The Plaza publishing people called to say they were sendng you a new crossword puzzle book. , . And Washington telephoned to say your Social Se curity Number was 057-10-2784. . . They didn’t mention your draft number, and neither did I. . . Did I do right? And, oh yes. . . . Billy Rose dropped in to ask about you and to say he was sure burlesque was dead. He said he didn’t have any thing against the good, and I am quoting him, hard-working people employed in what’s left of bur lesque any more than the engi neers had personal grudges against the drivers of horse cars. But he went on to say the Ameri can people had decided that pay dirt was to be found only in clean shows, with the result that smut and nudity practically were bank rupt in this country. * * * Well, just after Billy left who do you think walked in? ... Yep, I. Herk. . . He said, “If that guy Billy Rose has been in here run ning down burlesque,” and I am quoting, “he’s insane.” He said all you have to do is look at the line of customers in front of the Gaiety. . . The Gaiety is a bur lesque house that carries on all the time, and he wants me to ask you what is the difference between burlesque strip tease and the strip tease in Billy’s floor show at the Diamond Horseshoe?. . . I told him I would. That was a nifty about the drunk in the elevator. . . That cop friend of yours in front of the building says Pat O’Brien is the darling of the police force. . . He says all the cops who can get off always meet him at the station when he comes in. . . He says they like Cagney and Humphrey Bogart too. . . . Well, who doesn’t? . . . You should have seen the crowd hanging around. Cagney at the Lambs the last time he was here. * * * The mayor is continuing his drive against dirty magazines on the newsstands. . . I’m dying to know what you think about "Su zanna and the Elders.” . . And about the Fair closing. . . Oh, yes, the Hartmans just called to thank you for that nice notice you wrote about their show at the Ver sailles. . . And John Buckmaster says if you think his imperson ation of H. V. Kaltenborn is good, wait till you see him work out on Lowell Thomas. . . Please tell him I told you what he said when you see him. Frank Case called and said he was sending you a copy of his new book. . . Ditto Ernest Hem ingway. . . Wonder what he’ll do with all that money the movies are paying him? . , . That man who sells ties was in again today but I told him you had a tie. . . Kay Kyser called. . . He wants to know why you haven’t been over to the Waldorf to see him. I told him you’d been out of town, but would positively get over soon. . . Please do, honey . . . Bob Jervis called and wanted you to indorse a new brand of gin. . . I nixed that in a hurry. . . There’s a cable for y'ou under your old hat on the radiator. . . May be important. . . Be sure and look at it. . . In your recent essay on band leaders and comics who fly their own planes you omitted the name of Wayne King. . . The list also includes Rocheser (Jack Benny's stooge), and Clarke Dennis. That’s all now. . . . Asia. Hollywood Sights And Sounds *" By Rob bin Coons- — HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27—It’s Hol lywood’s oldest and truest story and it can’t be told too often— both for producers and for the dis couraged young ones about town who think the gates will never open. Chapter No. 2,345 in the contin ued story, which might be called “Second Chance,” is about James Craig. Young, tall, dark and hand some, Craig couldn’t get a look inside Hollywood. He heard about the actors who got in by going to New York and he took the same road. He got into the stage show, “Missouri Legend,” and it worked —right away he was signed up by a movie company. Being signed was onl;- the first step. The second was getting to act, which he did in a number of 12-day quickies. Step No. 3 brings in “Kitty Foyle,” in which he has one of the two important support ing roles to Ginger Rogers. Direc tor Sam Wood picked him be cause he felt the lad had some thing — “looks like Cary Grant, make-up, and he ought to have a here”6" ^e're giving it to him * * * Denr^-s °Torer man in the film is our conr °rgan’ chaPter 2,331 in Metro nnnUed, Story' Contract at ners ’sol k;, contract at War Sres 1nl°rk but not in b‘S that ston’d °?kS and Personality that stood out even in the bad ones shone when given half a chance: Result : “Kitty Foyle.” And there is Ginger herself— who had as many ups and downs before her real recognition as changes of hair-do and hair-color. (The latter is red ’--w, dark red.) It’s easy to forget—seeing Gin ger now with her dancing acco lades, her dramatic and . comedy accomplishments — that as re cently as 1933 she was just one of the “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” and before that she was a rather innocuous leading lady or ingenue as uncertain of her future as the young ones now about town bumping their heads on the gates. * » * Today’s discouraged youngsters can keep their chins up by keeping mental company with some of yes terday’s small fry: With Gable, when his ears were ■oo big and they said he couldn’t let; With Garbo, when they gave her i part simply because they could lot get the director, Mauritz Stil er, to make a movie without her; With Laurence Olivier, who had i contract here and even made some pictures but was marked off is a dud: . With Astaire, whose first test put him down classically, as ‘slightly bald and can dance a lit ;le.” With Ty Power, who couldn’t, Fair Enough The Star wishes ■, to know that vie :;:s ions expressed m c.‘"> are those of the may not always ■ " i with its position.—';' h/;-5 BY WESTBROOK. pEGU_R NEW YORK. X'," o" pears that the un ' ’< fakers of the Americ of Labor have pas.-. / , ; ^ feral, impersonal c nd . graft and racketeer officials at their coni er° ■' ,.l;v• Orleans. If they fa 1 of their own number c.. 1 ;; eye and denounce hit ' ; as a gangster to the labor move - ■ ■ ...Fx' put the whole natioi tire rank and file - the •. ; ' on warning that their ret ’^t: - fake. Because mart V 1 so stupid and venal the rest are so insured , (. E . Browne's kind ship I confidently ; . f ; ' will not even n ent n his much less tell him to The gangster r'.w-C’. of the union of i ovie and amusement employees, r r, • ' office in the American i-'eri- ■ ' of Labor being tweith V ' dent and a member of cutive council. Ironically, it ., posed that this earn' ex' H’ council be empowered t out of the A. F. 0f l. of Browne's type. Closely Related ; 'Browne's union is so c lated to the Capone or ivy of inveterate, profession that it is impossible to c where the union ends and the ■ begins. In fact, there ;; no - demarcation. They overlap Browne's union, and Browne’:. *. self acquired his job ouk. a;-, the unsolved but not very iieaniv deplored assassination of his decessor in the union racket Chicago. Mr. Tommy Maloy. , low, brutal criminal vhos-: fur.era: Browne attended. William Green, president cf:; A. F. of L.. and Joseph Paths its general counsel, are ir.vcivre With Browne, both having indorse, his notorious administration. : •• withstanding the fact, well kr v to them, that he had named • his personal representatives, v full powers, two criminals of » Capone mob in Chicago who r.sv-r worked a day at any legitimate occupation and a third tint,-:: rath eteer in St. Louis. Padway, in his role of lawyer, collaborated, it hire, with Willie Bioff, the s - crook of the Browne gang, in un.... negotiations in California and dorsed as “a very splendid port” the account of his stews:: ship, which Browne delivered o the last national convention of 'it? racket, although in that report Browne took occasion to defer.: this vicious parasite whose record by that time was well known Padway. Green also indorse: Browne’s leadership iri that con vention—a fact which shows where he. too, stands on racketeering :■ labor unions — and sided Browne’s racketeer apporr.tee John Nick, when the rank and fit of the St. Louis union went - the public courts in desperate: to get the crook off their necks “Settled” “I worked with your preside:. (Browne) on the St. Louis s:w tion,” Padway said to the de.e gates at the convention • Browne's racket, "and your rep indicates that that was settled sat isfactorily by him.” What sort of talk was this it'", a man who is a lawyer, an & judge and an officer of the e ■ ■ and national counsel of the Aw-’ can Federation of Labor, when . record showed that Browne s Pf sonal crook had racketeerea grafted and persecuted the and file workers of the local. • > ing "worked with your pK>£~ on the St. Louis situation way must have known toe - ^ of the case, and yet his ch.. . • was such that In- couM : a national union convei say only that, "your rep. 11 ^ cates that that was setu<-< faetorily by hint. If Green and Paciway hace»--. reply to these facts they ~ neglected an opportunity to that reply in circumstances, New Orleans convention. would have guaranteed tllC r‘;. tional circulation of their Taking one consideration • another, it seems m«*t *j that the A. F. of I., v--.ll . positive stand against gang-- " the labor movement and a-1" able that they will name - ; personally. Would Mr. ■ .orSt; denounce a man whom he 1 five months ago on the s - of facts that exist today -a showed his positive colla • with a mob of underv.oi sters? And would Mr- ,j„.e :j who was a judge in Milwaukee, now repudiate .. in whom so recently he sr terms ot joyous [ “ " . Browne is not the on.} ’lV(r;: who should be _b:,r be. But because of and official position ■ preference for cm' and criminal of! a will be the test c Recent studies that the disease 1 turning fluid bio1! •. yb sludge" which plugs i eauses the heart to - —'—5( of !.'•* even get extra work n time he was trying: v.s' With Ann Sheridan. '••• “washed up” afteo iu :;. : but stayed to fight it ' With Betty Grab /: just a “campus cub' who heard the sound ° j options with dizzy fi ' V .; • These and many ' 0 . , goodly company. To b e. . j longs the continued sloii
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