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Hull Program
Approved On
216-168 Vote
Continuation Resolution Is
Sent To Senate, Hear
ings Planned Monday
THREE YEAR EXTENSION
Republicans Aided By Scat
tering Of Democrats,
Battle Legislation
By RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23— (/P) —
The house gave the administration
its first great victory of the session
tonight with a vote extending the
reciprocal trade agreements program
for a period of three years.
The continuation resolution, pass
ed 216 to 168, goes next to the sen
ate, where the finance committee
plans to begin hearings on Monday,
with Secretary Hull as its first wit
ness.
The republican leadership fought
the legislation to the end, assisted
by a scattering of democratic mem
bers from farm and cattle sections
particularly. These members have
been in rebellion against the pro
gram on the ground that tariff re
ductions effected under it have in
jured the producers of their dis
tricts.
Triumph For Hull
In addition to being a victory for
the administration, the vote was in
the nature of a personal triumph for
Secretary Hull, and one which soma
thought might increase his prestige
as a potential democratic presi
dential nominee.
Hull issued a statement tonight
saying?
“I am, and I am sure the support
ers of the program everywhere are,
immensely gratified at the vote.”
Hull had fought for such a. pro
gram for years before he became
secretary of state in the Roosevelt
cabinet. Arguing that a revival of
world trade depended principally on
the elimination of such trade bar
riers as high tariffs, he obtained
congressional approval for a three
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NLRB PROBE BODY
GIVEN MORE FUNDS
House Votes Another $50,
000 To Continue Spe
cial Investigation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— UP) —
Without a word of debate, tha
house voted today to give another
$50,000 to its special committee
investigating the Wagner act and
the national labor relations board.
Chairman Smith (D-Va) disclosed
later that the first $50,000 the
house appropriated last year “al
ready has run out.”
“We will use this new money
to complete our inquiry into ac
tivities of the labor board and to
r the other things the resolu
tions which created th< commit
tee calls for,” Smith said.
He referred particularly to sec
tions which instructed the Investi
gators to determine what effect the
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County Board To Push Airport Paving Proposal
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Drainage And
Top-SoilWork
|$ Completed
Chairman Hewlett Says Ap
plication Will Be Made
Jo WPA From Project
QUARRY MAY BE USED
Two Paved Runways Would
Be 1,000 Feet Long
And 100 Feet Wide
With a complete drainage system
installed and top-soil work com
pleted, the New Hanover county
board of commissioners is now plan
ning to go ahead with its original
plans of paving runways at Blue
thenthal airport.
Addison Hewlett, Sr., chairman
of" the board, said yesterday that
an application will be made to the
Works Progress Administration for
the project, although no definite
action has been taken as yet.
Would Re-open Quarry
Under the plan, he said, the
county will re-open its old rock
quarry, which was used to pave a
majority of the roads in the coun
ty, and furnish a greater portion
of the mterials needed itself.
This plan was hit upon this week
after the county commissioners had
been technically turned down on
their request for the use of equip
ment by the state highway and
public works commission.
The highway commission told
members of the board in Raleigh
earlier in the week that at the
present it seems impossible for it
to furnish any equipment for use
at the airport here. Record snows
and ice in the Piedmont and west
ern parts of the state have caused
considerable damage to the state's
roads, tne commission informed
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WORK IS STARTED
ON SEAPLANE BASE
Thirty-Five Negro Youths
Engaged In Construc
tion Of Base Here
Mrs. Julia B. Hussey, NYA super
visor fo- New Hanover county, re
ported yesterday that work has been
started on the NYA seaplane trse
Project at the foot of Greenfield
street.
About 35 colored youths ranging
from 18 to 24 years of age are en
Psed in the work, the initial phases
of which include cabinet shop work.
The seaplane float will be 10 feet
y 22 £eet with gangplanks. Mrs.
ussey expressed the hope todai'
At two additional sections, 10 feet
! 22 £eeC could be built at a later
Ate, giving the float a total size ..f
» feet by 22 feet.
About six weeks will be required
“r completion of the project, Mis.
Ussev expressed the hope yesterday
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IWEATHER |
* w. FORECAST
Md Caro'*na: Mostly cloudy
rain • armer Saturday, followed by
noon a 'l'eSt porti&n Saturday after
lion. t£5 ,ln east and centl'al por
iay< "unday, slightly colder Sun
,°®fsl0git;al data f°r the 24
ndmg 7:30 p. m. yesterday).
1 ,n Temperature
P. m, 4j.®’ !7:30 a. m. 32; 1:30
p‘ m- 44; maximum
19, urp 31; mean 40; normal
1-m Humidity
a- »■ 88; 1:30
D> * *30 p. m. 60.
Mol ^J^cm^ending 7:30 p.
£im °f
(Prom Tld,es For Today
D. 8. Coast'de Tab!es Published by
and Geodetic Survey).
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ta“»~'*« IS
Sunrise c-d7 8:53p 2:41p
"°onrisM.rm„ a; su“set 6:03p.
'•“Up; moonset 7:23a.
feet*16 Fear river stage, 19.72
lt0nti’1Ued Page Two; Col. 6)
Speaks Tonight
NEWMAN R. THURSTON
EXCHANGE LEADER
WILL SPEAK HERE
Representatives From Caro
linas Clubs Will Honor
[Thurston Tonight
The vanguard of the expected 130
representatives of all Exchange
clubs in the Carolinas began arriv
ing in Wilmington last night for the
meeting today in honor of Newman
R. Thurston, of Grand Rapids, Ohio,
president of the National Exchange
club, who arrive this morning for
an official visit to the city.
Mr. Thurston will speak tonight
at 7:30 o’clock at a banquet in his
honor at the Cape Fear hotel, using
as his subject, “Tangible Assets of
Life.”
This will be the first official visit
to Wilmington by a national presi
dent since the local Exchange club
was founded 19 years ago. It will
also be Mr. Thurston’s first southern
visit in his official capacity.
The meeting of the clubs here to
day will be the highlight in the his
tory of Exchangeites of the Caro
linas. An elaborate program has
been planned for the meeting, which
will open at noon today with regis
tration at the Cape Fear hotel. The
meeting will close Sunday morning
with a visit to places of interest ir.
Wilmington and vicinity.
He will be introduced tonight by
J. H. Fussell, state Exchange presi
dent, who will be introduced by C. S.
Lowrimore, president of the Wil
mington club.
Reservations for the affair have
been made by Exchange clubs in
Burlington, High Point, Raleigh,
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N. C. BEEKEEPERS
SELECT HUGGINS
Wilmington Man Is Named
President At Annual
Meet Of Association
F. D. Huggins, of Wilmington, was
elected president of the North Caro
lina State Beekeeper’s association
at the closing session of its annual
meeting in the customhouse yester
day afternoon.
Other officers elected were: vice
president, C. C. Thompson, of
Mountain Park; secretary-treasur
er, F. B. Meacham, of Raleigh:
and executive committee members,
C. I. Sams, of Raleigh; and G. E.
Curtis, of Graham.
Date and place for the next an
nual meeting will be decided at a
(Continued on Page Three)
William Strickland Not
Figure In Burgaw Case
On January 27 The Wilmington
Morning Star published a report
from its correspondent in Burgaw
stating that William Strickland, of
Burgaw, had been committed to jail
under $1,000 bond, on a charge of
forcibly entering one of the dormi
tories of the colored High school in
the northern part of the city.
The story said that Strickland was
alleged to have entered the apart
ment of one of the colored teachers.
The Star yesterday learned that this
report was entirely incorrect and
gladly prints this retraction of the
entire story, with apologies to Mr.
Strickland.
Magistrate A. C. Blake, of Bur
gaw, said yesterday that another
man was arrested on the charge re
ferred to and that Mr. Strickland
had nothing to do with the case.
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Soviet Army
Makes Gains
On Finn Line
Thrusts Forward At Sever
al Points But Loses 3,
000 Men In Battles
DEFENDERS USE FORTS
Several Factors Favor Fin
land’s Army As It Con
tinues Great Resistance
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS
HELSINKI, Feb. 23.—IIP)—The
Russia narmy thrust forward at sev
eral points along a jagged 30-mile
front in an intensified drive through
the western half of the Mannerhein
line today, but at tremendous cost,
losing nearly 3,00 Okilled in a single
day’s bitter combat.
The Russian penetration at one
point reached to within ten to 12
miles of Viipuri—to the vicinity of
Naykki lake, roughly four miles
northwest of the amara railway sta
tion, where fighting began Thurs
day, according to today’s communi
que.
Costly Advance
If this meant that the Soviet ad
vance was part of a major offensive
to celebrate today’s 22nd anniver
sary of the forming of the Red
army, it was a costly one, F-nd one
which failed to win Viipuri, as the
Reds had suggested they might do
to celebrate the occasion.
The Russian dead, said the com
munique, approximated two battal
ions -about 2,000 men—in one sector
and 8200 in another in the fighting
on the isthmus.
The widened front and the indica
tion of the slight Soviet advance to
ward Viipuri, together with the fact
this was acknowledged by the
Finns, might seem to present a
highly serious picture for the defend
ers, but there were several additional
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PROJECTS CONTEST
PRIZES AWARDED
Final Five One-Dollar Prize
Winners Are Announc
ed By R. B. Page
The awarding of prizes in the
Star-News civic improvements sug
gestions contest was concluded yes
terday with tHe announcement by
R. B. Page, publisher, of five addi
tional $1 prizes.
Winners are H. F. Newkirk, Jr.,
Herbert W. Slack, Arthur Xanthos,
W. W. Storm and F. D. Weaver.
Others To Be Printed
Prizes to the $25, $15, $10 and 15
$1 prize winners will be mailed out
in a few days. It is planned to print
all worthy suggestions not winning
prizes in groups from time to time.
H. F. Newkirk proposed:
Marina Needed
“In my opinion, we as a communi
ty would fill a "crying” need, if we
provided a strong, well lighted
municipal dock for the accommoda
tion of visiting private yachts. As
matters stand now, there are but
few responsible captains’ with a
private yacht in their command,
that will risk their charges and take
(Continued on Page Three)
Seeks Divorce
ALICE FAYE
ALICE FAYE FILES
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Actress Charges Cruelty,
Does Not Make Ali
mony Request
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 23.—(^*)—
Alice Faye, blonde film actress,
filed suit for divorce today against
Tony Martin, radio crooner. She
charged cruelty.
Her two-page complaint alleged
that for 18 months, Martin “in
flicted grevious mental suffering"
upon her, causing her “to become
physically and mentally ill.” Such
treatment, it added, “was without
cause or provocation” on her part.
It included no request for al^«
mony and made no mention ot
any property settlement.
Filing of the blonde actress’ suit
bore out her declaration that “it
was inevitable” she and Martin
should part, and gave weight to
Hollywood’s axiom about long dis
tance marriages seldom being suc
cessful.
XICl UUCi & LdLClllCIi L Ul ltU5C
night is so similar to those of
Dorothy Lamour and Bette Davis
and Binnie Barnes and Madeleine
Carroll, some of recent memory,
that they might have come from
the same stencil.
Alice said, “Tony’s a grand per
son, but we simply didn’t have
a marriage.’’
Tony, who didn’t catch on In
the movies the way Alice did, has
been away for months at a time
for stage and radio engagements.
He ha6 been a traveling troubadour
almost continuously since he and
the blondest of the movie charm
ers were married in September,
1937.
“We did our best to make a
go of it,” added Tony in Miami.
“There doesn't appear to be any
thing else but a divorce.”
And so it always goes—"inevit
ably”—with Hollywood wives who
are separated from husbands by
miles and oceans.
Lamour made a similar state
ment when she officially broke up
with Herbie Kay, musically busy
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Hore-Belisha
Urges Allies
To Fight Reds
Ousted British War Minis
ter Calls For Real Moves
Jo Save Finland
CELEBRATION STAGED
Crowd Acclaims Men Who
Won Rio Plata Victory
Over Graf Spee
By ROBERT E. BUNNELLE
LONDON, Feb. 23.—(5>)—G r e a t
Britain and her French ally, feinting
cautiously at Germany in western
Europe, were exhorted boldly to
night by Leslie Hore-Belisha, ousted
war minister, to make real war on
Soviet Russia on land, air and sea—
to save Finland and to shorten their
own ordeal by fire.
This revealing and vigorous
speech was delivered by the forth
right, unchastenell Hore-Belisha to
his parliamentary constituents at
Devonport on a proud day for this
island at war.
Heroes Hailed
The greatest crowd since the cor
onation, with scarcely a glance a
the inscrutable and dangerous sky,
jammed London’s old streets from
Westminster t othe Guild Hall to ac
claim the men who won the Rio
while Winston Churchill, first lord
of the admiralty, spoke with mingled
sxultation and sober warning of
"this hard and novel war” at sea.
King George himself came to
Horseguards’ parade to review and
decorate the men of the cruisers
Ajax and Exeter—and widows of
the dead.
Beneath the morale-building blare
of bands and beat of drums, the war
went grimly on at Its curious tempo.
British warplanes were disclosed to
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ROSE ADDRESSES
WfflTEVlLLE MEET
Members Of Columbus Le
gion Post Celebrate Its
Tenth Birthday
WHITEVILLE, Feb. 23.—White
ville’s American Legion post cele
brated its 10th anniversary with a
turkey dinner here tonight, with
Junius K. Rose, of Greenville, com
mander of the State Department of
the Legion, delivering the principal
address of the evening.
R. L. Sholar acted as master of
ceremonies at the session, which was
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WPA Starts Construction
Work At Robeson Schools
Work of erecting or improving
buildings at seven Robeson county
schools was started this week by
WPA forces, L. J. Jordan, area su
pervisor, said last night.
At some of the schools, he said,
the new construction is to enlarge
the present facilities, while at
others new buildings are being
built.
Work on three of the buildings
got under way the first of this week
and the ground work of the other
four has been started.
Mr. Jordan also announced that,
except for a few minor details, the
new armory at Parkton has been
completed and will be formally open
ed within the next few weeks.
Principal work to be done on the
project is minor ground construc
tion, he said.
Pledges Louisiana Clean-Up
Turning from his smashing ballot victory over Gov. Earl K. Long,
brother of the late Huey Long, Louisiana's next Governor, Sam Hous
ton Jones, 42, declares his objectives will be to “restore constitutional,
democratic, decent government and to put Louisiana on a sound fi
nancial basis.” The Lake Charles attorney is pictured with his wife
as he heard of his triumph.
Excess Weed Sales Levy
Enforcement Demanded
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RESOLUTION ADOPTED
Action Taken At Confer
ence Of AAA Officials,
F armer-Committeemen
RALEIGH, Feb. 23.—(iP)—A reso
lution calling for strict enforce
ment of a 10-cent a pound penalty
on tobacco sold in excess of mar
keting quotas was passed today at
the closing session of a three-day
conference of AAA officials and
farmer-committeemen.
The resolution was endorsed aft
er J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad
ministrator, had "warned that the
record-breaking tobacco crop grown
last year would affect prices of
this year’s crop.
Price Outlook
“It would appear,” said Hutson,
"that prices for the 1940 crop
would be somewhere near those for
the 1939 crop.”
The assistant administrator warn
ed that if quotas were exceeded this
year, or if the world consumption
of tobacco should drop, allotments
for 1941 might be smaller than
those for 1940.
“If growers plant well within or
below their 1940 allotments, and if
world consumption is maintained
at present estimated levels, the
acreage allotments for next year
probably will be as large as those
for this< year,” Hutson said.
An increase in the domestic con
sumption of tobacco was cited by
Hutson as a “favorable factor” in
the flue-cured tobacco situation. He
said domestic consumption in the
last seven years had' been at a
record level — approximately five
per cent above that of the corre
sponding period in 1939.
The use of cigarettes has increas
ed 5.3 per cent over the same pe
riod last year, he added.
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EXTENSION OF ALLIES’ BLOCKADE SEEN
AS STEP TO HALT GERMAN IRON TRAFFIC
By ELMER W. PETERSON
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 23.—
</P>—Allied action in thrusting
an arm of the blockade against
Germany into the Arctic off
northern Norway, Finland and
Soviet Russia was interpreted
here tonight as possibly aimed
primarily at halting German
transport of high grade iron
ore from Kirkenes, northern
. Norwegian port.
Scandinavian commercial cir
cles said they believed a sec
ondary motive was the block
ing of any effort by German
vessels which may be taking
refuge in Murmansk, Russia’s
ice-free port in that region, to
get back to Germany.
(Authoritative British sources
in London declined to discuss
Scandinavian advices that Al
lied warships had begun a
blockade of Arctice waters off
Murmansk. The admiralty said
any comment might give in
formation to the enemy. French
officials said they had “no
information.’’)
Scandinavians shrugged off
rumors that the British in
tended to land troops and
equipment in the Petsamo area
—occupied early in the Finnish
Russian conflict by Russ.an
forces—as an aid to Finland
on the grounds that weather
if no other factor would be
against such a procedure.
Likewise there was no sup
port for rumors that a clash
with thr Soviet Arctic navy
already had occurred.
Both Norwegian and Swedish
iron ore is loaded at Kirkenes,
a modern little port with a
good harbor.
Commercial circles pointed
out that as a rule ships must
proceed outside territorial
waters there, on account of
the weather, before gaining the
shelter of the numerous islands
dotting the Norwegian coast
line.
They said they believed the
British intended to safeguard
their own shipments of ore
from Kirkenes while trying to
I
check the flow of supplies to
Germany.
Meanwhile, with Baltic Sea
transport stopped by ice, Ger
mans were reported busy ship
ping Swedish high grade ore
from Narvik, on the west coast
of Norway. From Narvik Ger
man ships have the protection
of Norwegian territorial waters,
merging into Swedish and Dan
ish waters en route to Ger
many.
While German imports from
Kirkenes are not extensive,
Scandinavians said it was rec
ognized that all high grade ore
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Hope Short, Alabama
Quadruplet, Succumbs
JASPER, Ala., Feb. 23.—(/H
Hope Short, one of Alabama’s
41-ilay-old quadruplets, died
about 7 o’clock tonight.
The infant’s death was at
tributed to bronchial pneu
monia.
Hope had been under an oxy
gen tent and had been re
ceiving g'ucose injections since
yesterday.
, Condition of the other quads
—Faith, Charity and brother
Franklin—was reported excel
lent. All weigh about four
pounds. The babies weighed ap
proximately three pounC,. each
when they were delivered Jan.
14 in a coal-miner’s shack near
Nauvoo, Ala., by the light of a
kerosene lamp.
MME IS VUlfcD
BY LONGSHOREMEN
Plan To Walkout Here And
Other Ports Unless Pay
Demands Met
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 23.
(fP>—Longshoremen wroking coast
wise boats at eight Atlantic and Gul:
ports voted today to strike at mid
night Saturday, unless their demand:
for a pay increase are met, it wa:
learned from James L. Bernard
maritime labor board representa
five.
Bernard, who came here frorr
Washington to act as mediator
said the longshoremen, member- ol
the International Longshoremen’:
association (AFL), were seeking t<
equalize their pay with that re
ceived by deep sea and intercoast
al longshoremen.
Deep sea and intercoastal whar:
workers get from 10 to 15 cent:
an hour more, the maritime laboi
board representative said.
Ports affected by the threatene:
strike were listed as Wilmington
N. C., Charleston, S. C„ Savan
nah, Ga., Jacksonville, Fort Pierce
Port Everglades, Miami and Tam
pa, Fla.
Bernard said he had schedule:
a meeting with representatives o:
the longshoremen and coastwis
shippers tomorrow and hoped t:
be able to work out an agreemeni
between the two groups to averi
the threatened tieup.
The longshoremen’s contract ex
pired last September and negoti
ations for a new one have beer
in progress since.
Bernard said the maritime la
bor board volunteered to mediate
the dispute and both sides ha:
[accepted the offer