^m/kctTh01 I «-», Leased Wtr.oHi, WIIHINCTOH ASSOCIATED PBESS A”d S°Sr 01 i Wilh ConPlele Coverage of Stale and National News y^73__NO. 151---- WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940 + + ESTABLISHED 1867 British Battleshios Patrol Arctic Ocean fessels Near Soviet Port Of Murmansk Warships Believed Seeking | To Prevent German Trade With Russia SCANDINAVIA WORRIED Reds’Arctic Navy Reported Placed In Complete Pre paredness For War by ELMER W. PETERSON COPENHAGEN, Feb. 22. — LP> — Dispatches from northern Norway tonight definitely establishing that a number of British warships are lyins- in wait off Finland’s Arctic coast and the Russian port of Mur mansk produced fresh trepidation in Scandinavia where it was feared new incidents might threaten the northern countries' neutrality. Some Scandinavian papers also said French warships had joined the British warships, possibly for the purpose of intercepting Ger man-Eussian sea comeback making use of Norwegian territorial waters. Threat Recalled It was recalled that following the Altmark incident, in which a Brit ish boarding party raided a Ger man steamer in a Norwegian Fjord anti took off British prisoners, the French and British expressed dis satisfaction with the way German ships evade the blockade through Norwegian waters, and threatened to take steps to stop it. Because of the unusual configu rations of Norway’s shores, the Germans are able to navigate most of the way from Russia's ice-free port of Murmansk to the Baltic without going outside territorial waters. Any new naval activity in Nor wegian waters might face that country with new decisions decided ly embarra; sing to her effort to of fend neither Allies nor Germans. (Informed London quarters said there was reason to believe a Brit ish naval detachment recently had been in the vicinity of Petsamo. Finland's Arctic coastal region which is in Russian hands, near the Murmansk region). The Soviet commissar of naval affairs, Admiral Nikolai Kuznet (Continuecl on Page Seven; Col. 4) BEEKEEPERS OPEN MEET HERE TODAY C L. Sams, H. W. Weather ford And H. J. Cary Will Speak At Sessions The North Carolina State Bee ^eper's association and the state ^keepers will hold their annual ra«ting in the customhouse today, "hh the opening session to get unfler way at 9:30 o’clock. Among the convention’s leading speakers will be C. L. Sams, ex ensmn apiarist of the N. C. State eSe extension service; H. W. eatherford, extension apiarist of Vernon Hills, Va.; H. J. Cary, of (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) .WEATHER N forecast uerl Idar0l>na: Fair and contin not a„t Fnday; Saturday fair and 1 quite SO cold. hoSlet!”?Iosical data for the 24 nding 7:30 p. m. yesterday). 13 Temperature p. m_ *•.™- 40; 7:30 a. m. 36; 1:30 5o- mi-',i p' m- 45; maximum 49.’ I1:Um 33; mean 42; normal Humidity P- m 4a4.m7-.*8; 7:30 a- m- 90; 1:30 ’• 7 -30 P. m. 56. Tot u , Precipitation ®-. nit0rt2r4f f°U‘'S end*n8‘ 7:30 p. month . 1 Slnce £*rst of the ’ inches. Tides For Today - »“f 4L3™ “»»w„ ;:•» .Sunrise 6 4*=,• 8:02p 1;53p t,Se^3P; moo^t:^1110011 Pi0aetteviljeear22r2nVfeeet. ^ at )—1The knife-slashed body of Miss Eula Gipson, 28-year-old beauty operator, was found today near a night club on the outskirts of Joplin. A truck driver with whom the woman was seen last night was being held for questioning. Darst Urges Furtherance Of Christian Brotherhood SPEAKS AT BANQUET Freed Discusses Operation Of National Conference Of Christians, Jews The furtherance of Christian brotherhood for the redemption o£ the world from sin, war, hatred, and racial prejudices was urged by the Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, bishop of the East Carolina diocese for the Episcopal church, in an address before the annual Brother hood banquet last night at the Ma sonic Temple. Bishop Darst appealed for the uniting of forces o£ Christianity to lighten the dark places and bring the peace and beauty of God to negelcted souls everywhere. Approximately 125 persons in at tendance were asked by Bishop Darst to become “keenly conscious of their responsibilities and privi leges of this high hour of human hstory” and rise up and build the world anew on the forces of Chrs tian brotherhood. Freed Introduces Darst The Rev. Walter B. Freed, pas tor of St. Paul’s Luehtran church, who introduced Bishop Darst, dis cussed the operation of the national conference of Jews and Christians, an organization set up for the pur pose of promoting better under standing between members of dif ferent faiths. “Christians of today,” Bishop Darst said, "are lifting their eyes above pettiness and are hearing the call of the great teacher of .men, who implored his followers to rise up and follow him, the only way to peace, fulfillment, and realization of the dream o fthe kingdom of God “Are we ready, willing, big enough to face the tasks of today? Only through God may we overcome the forces of selfishness, sin, greed, and hatred, and bring about the love, beauty, and fulfillment of the hopes of men,’’ Bishop Darst said. Harry Solomon was the toast (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 5) Eight Persons Hurt In London Explosion LONDON, Feb. 22.—(/P)—Two bombs, believed to have been planted by Irish republican army terrorists, exploded tonight In London’s west end. Fight persons were injured se riously by one explosion in busy Oxford street, main westt end artery. Windows in three stores were smashed. The second blast wrecked a men’s lavatory at the Marble Arch, at Oxford street and Hyde Park. No one was injured there. Police believed the bombs were intended to renew the "terror campaign” which preceded the execution of two I. K. A. zealots at Birmingham on Feb ruary 7. M’CREA’S REMOVAL TO BE REQUESTED Governor Dickinson Will Be Asked To Oust Indicted Wayne Prosecutor DETROIT, Feb. 22.—i,000,000-a-year base ball pool. Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson, whose one-man grand jury inquiry into relations between metropolitan law enforcement officers and the un derworld resulted in the indictment, announced today his intention tc make the request to the governor. McCrea, Fred W. Frahm, format Detroit police superintendent, and Harry F. Colburn, the prosecutor's chief assistant, were accused, with (Continued on Page Four) CHARLESTONGROUP GIVEN CLUB FACTS Men, Planning To Form Or ganization Similar To Brigade, Visit Here Information in preparation for the opening of a boys’ club in Charleston was gathered here yesterday by a group of four Charleston, S- C-, civic leaders who conferred with local men connected with the Brigade Boys’ club. The Charlestonians were: H. J. Slocum, archaeologist. Earl B. Halsall, instructor in the Charleston High school. - Simmons V, H. Waring, real estate. ' Cummings Gibbs, attorney. They had as their guests at the Cape Fear hotel at a luncheon yes terday afternoon Wilbur Dosher, Harry Solomon, Charles Dushan and Luther Raney, all connected with the operation of the local boys’ club. Plans have been in progress in Charleston, they said, for sever-1! years toward the institution of a club similar to the Brigade. They were interested in its plan of organization, its establishment, its budget, its method of finance, and its system of operation. This information was supplied by the local boys’ club leaders. Interest in boys work in Charles ton, they said, has been at a low ebb for many years, but since the recent reorganization and rejuvena tion of the Boy Scouts there, that interest has been revived and the boys club plans are now going steadily forward. They aim to devote the club main ly to the use of the South Carolina city's underprivileged youth, al though the admission of at least several privileged boys will be necessary. All were firm in their belief that the operation of a club in Charles ton would be decidedly beneficial to the city as a whole, and'they had words of praise for the leaders in the work here, They left early yesterday afternoon for Charleston. TWO CANDIDATES TURN DOWN COOPER’S ONE PRIMARY, JOINT DEBATE OFFERS RALEIGH, Feb. 22—(/P)—1Two democratic gubernatorial candi dates have rejected proposals by Thomas S. Cooper for a first primary in which the winner takes all, and for a ban on po litical speech-making except at joint debates. Consequently, it is virtually certain that Cooper, mayor of Wilmington, will make a sound truck tour of the state in his campaign for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. Several weeks ago. Cooper wrote letters to five candidates asking them to agree to his proposals. He made it clear to reporters that, unless all five endorsed the suggestions, he would conduct a sound-truck campaign. The two candidates who have made public their replies to the Wilmington mayor are L. Lee Gravely of Rocky Mount and Lieut. Gov. W. P. Horton of Pittsboro. Gravely said he was willing to meet aspirants in joint de bates, but that he had made speaking engagements which would preclude the possibility of limiting his addresses to such debates. As for the leader in the first primary being declared the party’s nominee, Gravely said “it is very easily possible that the leading candidate in the first primary will receive less than one-third of the total votes cast." Horton said his plans to speak throughout the state would not be changed. H- asserted that the democratic nominee should be ‘‘chosen in the most repre sentative manner possible," and added that this would require a second primary, unless a can didate polled a majority of votes in the first. Cooper apparently had forseen that his proposals would be ve toed, for he wrote the attorney general’s office recently inquir ing whether he would have to . pay state and local taxes on sound-truck equipment. Attor ney General Harry McMulIan re plied yesterday that such equip ment, if used in a political campaign, was not subject to tqx. Besides Cooper, Gravely and Horton, the democratic, guberna torial candidates are J. M. Broughton of Kaleigh, Paul Grady of Kenly and A. J. Max well of Raleigh. At least three of the aspirants —Cooper, Horton and Brough ton—made speeches tonight. Cooper, addressing the Wash ington, N. C., Rotary club, said the public had been misled “as to the amount of money re quired for a teachers’ pension fund.” Approximately 20 years ago, he said, he obtained pass age of a bill by the general as sembly which provided pensions for New Hanover teachers. “This pension fund is still in (Continued on Page Two; CpF* Rumania Calls Reserves And Bans Exports Many Of 200,000 Men Sum moned For March 1 Or dered To Report Now NAZI DEMANDS LOOM Country Hopes To Stave Off Showdown In Allied German Struggle BUCHAREST, Feb. 22—(AO—Ru mania, showing increasing concern ever the possibility of war in the spring, today increased her armed forces and published a sweeping de cree banning the export of a long list of raw materials and manufac tured goods “necessary for the na tional defense.” Many of the 200,000 reserves who originally were called for March 1 were ordered to start reporting im mediately for service with the na tion’s armed forces. These already number 1,400,000 men and, with the latest call, a virtual state of mobil ization will be in force by March 1. Air Gasoline Barred Oil and wheat—Rumania’s chiei exports—were left out of today’s de cree although it was confirmed au thoritatively that delivery of avia tion gasoline and lubricants abroad previously naa Deen Dannea. It was learned that large internal purchases of commodities in which Rumania is deficient — mainly by Germany—and the Allies’ delay in furnishing new stocks led to issu ance of the decree. Specifically forbidden were ex ports of Iron, steel, lead, aluminum, copper, fur, leather, charcoal, wool, cotton, rayon industrial chemicals and all manufactures in which these materials are used. The government, meanwhile, wa reported hoping to stave off a show down in the increasingly tense Al lied-German struggle for a major portion of its oil exports by offer ing Germany the entire govern ment’s legal share of the product of Allied and neutral owned corpora tions at Ploesti. Will Make Demands With the arrival Monday of Dr Karl Clodius, German economics ex pert, the nazis were expected tc make sharp demands that Rumania fulfill her promise to sell German y 1,680,000 tons of petroleum in 1940. Short of expropriating the output of the Allied-owned fields in Ru mania, which raises the spectre ol a French-British blockade or out right intervention by the westerr powers, government circles saw little chance of furnishing Germany’s en tire quota. The government, however, is en titled to 650,000 tons of oil annually from the foreign operators and could (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) WEED MARKET ACT EXTENSION TALKED Farmers Will Be Given Op portunity To Study Pro gram Amendments WASHINGTON, Feb. 22— <#) — Flue-cured tobacco farmers of th’ south were told today they would be given ample opportunity to study proposed revisions in their market ing quota program before congress is called upon to consider them. This word came from Representa tive Cooley (D-NC) after congress men from tobacco states met again today to consider the proposec changes. The chief amendment would per mit farmers to vote on whether they were willing for the control program to be extended over a three-yen period. The amendment, drafted by Representatives Warren, Barden, and Clark, North Carolina demo crats, would provide for farmer elections on a marketing quota pro gram extending either two or three years as well as for the one year provided under the existing farm act. “We want to get the farmer’s sentiment on these proposed changes beAorq^^ij; amendments are intro | (('onh'— . *on Page Two; Col.6) RED SOLDIERS MOVE NEARER VIIPURI GOAL FINN FORTS TAKEN Army Has 22nd Birthday Without Announcement Of Mannerheim Line Fall FLEET ENDS GAMES Soviet Union Also Paying Strict Attention To De fense In The South MOSCOW, Peb. 23—(Friday)—> Six freed American prisoners, in cluding Harold E. Dahl—remnants of the American section of the International Brigade which fought for republican Spain in the civil war—were turned over by military guards to United States Consul John N. Hamlin tonight. They expected to embark on the American Export liner Exiria for New York Saturday. To Take Later Ship Two others, Conrad Stojewa of California, and Alf Abdreasen, nat uralized American from Norway, are expected to take a later ship. Besides Dahl, those given into United States care here were Law rence Fant Doran of Los Angeles: (Continued on Page Four) 85 CARRIER BOYS DELIVER THE STAR AND NEWS TO 60,000 READERS DAILY Aside from the thousands de. livered by the Carriers, many more are sold on the streets and at newsstands—this thor ough distribution enables you to sell and rent almost any thing and at small cost through classified ads. In no other way can you hope to tell thousands of Star-News Subscribers what you have fop sale or rent except through these inexpensive Want Ads. Also don’t forget to read the bargains and services offered daily in the classified columns. Dont' Miss the “T” Values In To» day’s Want Ads