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Dedicated To ^^ieJ5^r®ss ^ # ^ Served by Leased Wire of lhe WILMINGTON . | ASSOCIATED PRESS And Southeastern ort if I With Complete Coverage of Car0^na ^I Slate and National News | ____WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1940 + ESTABLISHED 1867 GREAT BRITAIN SEIZES FIVE ITALIAN FREIGHTERS ■Jr -Ar ★ ★ ★ ★ 4r '4r xxx Xxx xxx xxx * - 50 Killed In Ru^v'in Air Raid On Finnish Town __* - _ Quits Politics lidisidii uf .Senator Vic Donaliey to retire from official life at end of •resent term, is construed in YVash Huton as a blow to democratic chances in Ohio, in the November elections. Donaliey is regarded as n almost magic vote-getter in the hkeye state and his absence from to ticket will he sorely missed. IAL BUSINESS ILL SHOW GAIN Harold Jeter Says Indus trial Census Will Be Com pleted By March 15 Volume of business in Wilming ton "will show a distinct gain in the census of 1340'' over previous counts, Harold Jeter, county cen sus enumerator, predicted last tight. However, Jeter added, no definite figures in regard to the volume are yet available. The figures now being gathered will not be released until late in the fall, after they have been tab ulated and compiled by the Bureau of Census in '.Vashington. In regard to the population cen sus, which will begin on April 1, Jeter said there is no way of know ing at this time whether Wilming ton will show any worthwhile gain. The business census is now nearly complete and will he entire ly finished by March 13, Jeter said. Outlying business houses are now being canvassed. He is assisted by H. Z. Clowe in the enumeration. REPUBLICANS WIN ELECTION IN IOWA Sixth Congressional Dis trict Holds True To Form And Names Goodwin DES MOINES, Iowa, March 5- — '—The Sixth Iowa district held rue to its republican traditions in convincing fashion today by electing ert K. Goodwin, youthful mayor J Redfieio. Iowa, to fill the unex re temi of the Late Congressman C. Dowell. 4Jron G- Allen of Des Moines, u °Cratic cai'didate who campaign „ri°n / New Deal platform, con t!“d defeat. °Ut of 21S Precincts tab I,./ ’ Go°dwin held a three-to-two 0VM Allen. Tile vote: Good"’in (R) 24,555. ^ <5- Allen (D) 15,316. ' '■ Klein (Ind.) 321. (in Page Three; Col. 2) --— LEATHER fcssFvSW.. Sesdav- Thnr«rttrem? west Portion farmer.’ ihrsday» faip and slight. f°r the 24 hours! P- m- yesterday). ,1® a. m 'tem.nenature *; 58; T-% ’ 1:3() a. m. 4S; J :30 n. Wll<munj 47. ^ “• .3°; maximum 61; ■ mean ->4 ; normal 51. »l* •.». 76 7n!;:li,y : »30 p. m. ':!;'- “• W: 1:30 p. »>1 for f4-r‘mmn lij) "“"J: total sS 7:30 p. inches s n<e first of month, W Ti"fS F»n Today mmgton High Low "«•>» M«‘ a* IS; t , - o :10a - ritaa8® 6-‘j,4n- 6:20p 12‘lln 'St 4 5Sa; n m'on«V:i-«:13p; '^'ItinueiJ p 00 pase Three; Col. 3) Scores Hurt; Shelter And Hospital Hit Two Hundred Bombs, AH Effective, Are Dropped By 32 Warplanes BITTER BATTLE RAGES Finns Bomb And Machine Gun Russians Attempting To Cross Viipuri Bay BY MAX HARRELSON HELSINKI, March 6 (Wednes day).—(A1)—At least 50 persons were killed and scores wounded in a small south central Finnish town yesterday when Russian planes exe cuted one of their worst bombing raids of the war. Five direct hits wrere scored on a hospital, and one bomb dropped on an airraid shelter. Dive Out Of Clouds The raiders, diving out of the clouds to 1,400 or 1,700 feet, swept over in two flights 50 minutes apart. Fifteen of the bombs struck in the vicinity of a military hospital and one big explosive missile went directly down the stairway from the top of the four-story building to the bottom. Twenty-five persons, nearly all of them women, were killed when a bomb hit the top of the air ray shelter. Two hundred bombs, all effective, were dropped in the raid by 32 planes just after a party of five for eign newspaper correspondents and photographers arrived in town. mir nancnrekl. fnrKl/le TV Q TT11 ft cy the town). The attack, a sample of the air warfare which Russia is pressing home, came as the Finns with their own airforce had bombed and ma chine-gunned Red army detach ments attempting to cross ice crusted Viipuri Bay. The Finns said they still were holding the Russians at the outskirts of that battered port. Troops Drowned Some Russian troops were drown ed and several tanks sunk in huge fissures of the ice of Viipuri Bay, opened up when bombs and artillery fired on the attackers coming west in an attempt to encircle the city, unofficial Finnish reports said. The Finnish high command said fighting still w'as in progress among the rugged inlets at the mouth of (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) U. S. Inspecl Freighter Oi HALTED ATSOUTHPORT San Luis Allowed To Con tinue After Two-Hour Vis it By Customs Agents The Honduran motor vessel San Luis, which discharged a cargo of sugar here yesterday, was inspected by customs service officials on sus picion” at Southport yesterday after noon after she had cleared from Wil mington. John Bright Hill, collector of cus toms, last night did not divulge the nature of their “suspicions" and only said that they were not confirmed. Stopped By Coast Guard Upon orders of the customs service, a Coast Guard patrol boat from Oak Island stopped the outgoing freighter and stood by while customs officials gave the vessel a two-hour inspec tion. Mr. Hill said that their inspection revealed that everything was in or der and that the San Luis was allow ed to continue on to her destination at Havana. The ship cleared South port at 4:45 o’clock yesterday after noon. , .. Under present neutrality laws, all foreign vessels must undergo a rigid inspection at every port of call. Mr. Hill said that the San Luis arrived with her cargo of sugar late Satur day and that customs officials were unable to inspect the ship be or vpqfprfl n V The 479-ton freighter’s cargo of 17,000 bags of sugar was consigned to the Cape Fear Shipping company. ^ - freak ice storm cripples east_|| . The most crippling storm of freezing rain and wind to hit the New York metropolitan area in 25 years inflicted untold damage to trees and homes, wrecked power lines, felled miles of telephone wires anil put 1000 fire alarm boxes in the Bronx out of commission. Typical destruction, caused by rain freezing as it landed, is pictured above, where a Rutherford, N. J., power-line pole has crashed down from the weight of ice on wires. SALE OF COUNTY BONDS SCHEDULEI Money From County Horn And School Issue Will Be Available On April 1 Following approval of the issn by the Local Government comr* sion in Raleigh yesterday, J. A. Oi rell, county auditor, predicted th money from the sale of $98,000 i county home and school bonds wi be received by April 1, or possibl sooner. Of the bond issue, $86,000 will b in school bonds and $12,000 will b county home bonds. They will be placed on sale a Raleigh on March 19 and Orre predicted the county will get a unusually good interest rate, pos sibly as low as two per cent. The funds are to be used for n pairs to various schools throughoi the county and' for improvement at the county home. The bond issue represents th county’s credit leeway for the fii cal year—two thirds of the amour by which the county’s debt was di creased during the year just pas The school bonds were requeste last summer when the school boar drafted an improvement prograr for several school buildings. :s Honduran i ‘Suspicion’ Censors Threatened By Blue Pencil Shortage LONDON, March 5. —VP> —A sudden shortage of blue pencils for censors threatened to hold up the war tonight. Officials of the British press and censorship bureau vainly coinbed stores for new supplies. The crisis was averted when a big stock of the instruments essential to word destruction was found in the storerooms of London university, where the censorship bureau operates. Pageant Of Foods Opens I Before Large Crowd Here ; ANOTHER MEET, TODAY Miss Chambers Explain; Preparation Of Many Excellent Dishes A near capacity audience was on hand yesterday afternoon for the 11 opening session of the “Pageant of 1 Poods'’ cooking school, sponsored f by the Star-News, at the New Han over high school auditorium, e The second in the series of four e meetings will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. t Miss Ruth Chambers, conductor 1 of the school, was introduced by a Jack Hope, editorial writer of The - Star-News, who in turn was pre sented by James L. Allegood, ad s' vertising manager, who welcomed t the ladies present to the second s annual cooking school. Miss Chambers immediately made 0 everyone present feel at home with i- her friendly, get-acquainted man t ner of “Good Afternoon,” and then '■ proceeded with her opening of a - four day series of lectures on the 3 “Pageant of Foods.” 1 In her opening lecture she show 3 ed how to make an English grill, leg of lamb Francais, Swedish meat balls, Chinese vegetabels, an interesting dish of Armenian origin called pirags, a Panama salad, roast Canadian style bacon, and a new and easier way of making French fried potatoes prominent on th6 day’s menu. However, they, like all the other recipes on the program, were well suited to the American taste and the methods of the American home maker. Then, just to show our true colors, Miss Chambers said, there’s that good old American favorite, apple pie, as the star dessert. One of the new things about this pie is its crust, she said. Miss Chambers based her opening lecture on lessons around recipes, new cake methods, lessons in buy ing, and closed with a grand ex hibition of culinary art. The program starts off with a pork shoulder roast, the first of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Hoey Considers Case Of Kelly, Hanfords RALEIGH, March 5. — <fP) — Governor Hoey tonight studied the case of Roy Kelly, Ralph Hanford and Wade Hanford, scheduled to be executed Friday for slaying two officers in Bur lington. Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said he expected no decision until tomorrow. Kelly and the Hanfords were convicted of first degree mur der in the slaying of Sheriff M. P. Robertson of Alamance county and Police Officer Sonny Vaughn of Burlington, allegedly during a robbery. Attorneys for the three ap pealed yesterday for commuta tion, contending that the “brain man,” George Smith, had turned state’s witness with a plea of second degree murder that saved him from the gas chamber. F.D.R. ADVOCATES NEW HATCH BILL Voices Opinion As Senate Begins Battle Over Plan To Extend Act WASHINGTON, March 5.— — President Roosevelt stepped into the battle over the Hatch act today, renewing his plea of last year that :he law's prohibition against po litical activities by federal em ployes be extended to a large army of state workers paid out of federal funds. While the President voiced his opinion at a press conference, the senate was beginning a battle over legislation by Senator Hatch (D NM) to write such an extension into the law. Senator Chandler (D-Ivy) sup ported Hatch, warning that there (Continued on Page Five: Col- 6) Large Hanged At LaGuardia Airport Burns MUiion-JJolIar rire sweeps Through Block-Long In completed Building OTHERS PROTECTED Five Firemen, Airport Man ager Escape Burial Be neath Mass Of Metal NEW YORK, March 5.— (JP) —A million-dollar fire late today swept an incompleted block-long hangar at l LaGuardia field, the city’s new $40,- j 000,000 municipal airport. , The hangar, valued at $1,250,000, ( was under lease to Transcontinen- i tal and Western Airways and was < to have been put in operation late 1 this month. It was the center one * of a bank of three. ‘ Early tonight, while red-hot steel slabs from the roof and sides of the | vast sprawling building still were crashing heavily to earth in thin showers of sparks it appeared that the initial peril to the two adjoining hangars, of similar size and cost, had been averted. I LaGuardia Present Among other officials at hand was Mayor LaGuardia, who led the long campaign for the construction of the great airport, which was built by WPA labor and is near the New York World’s fair grounds, at North Beach, Queens. While an official statement as to the cause of the fire awaited in- , vestigation, William H. Peters, a WPA laborer, said it had sprung up as a “small blaze” in a paint lock er. Police Inspector John La Ga renne said it appeared accidental. No airplanes were inside. The flames apparently leaped di rectly from the paint locker to the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) TOBEY CONTINUES ROW OVER CENSUS Raps F. D. R. For “Obtrud ing Himself” Into A “Legislative Matter” WASHINGTON, March 4. — OP) — Accused by President Roosevelt of making a "political” row about 1940 census questions, Senator Tobey (R NH) struck back tonight with a charge that the President was dis playing “poor taste” by “obtruding himself” into a legislative matter. Tobey is leading the fight to delete questions about personal income from the census on the ground they are an invasion of privacy. Asked about this at his press conference today, the President said: “The whole thing is a political move. Everybody accredited to con gress knows that is the sole mo tive.” He said he wondered whether any newspaperman present had any sta tistical information he wanted to hide from the government. The chief ex ecutive quickly added that he had nothing to hide and believed none of the newspapermen had. One reporter asked about the cen sus question “have you ever been (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Wants $90,000 A New York school teacher foi orty-seven years, Mrs. Theodor: j. Woodward presented the citj pith a $90,000 bill. Unless she re eives that amount she will sue nd add her pension benefits. Sin harges that “because of politica manipulation” in 1908 she has beei imited to substitute teaching mosl f her career. GERMANS ACCUSED OF SLAYING POLES jovernment Of Former Na tion Claims Nazis Exe cuted Schoolboys PARIS, March 5.—W—The Polisl ;migre government, in an advanc •esume of data which is to go inti i "white book,” tonight accused th< Herman conquerors of executini schoolboys, men and women ei nasse as part of a deliberate cam jaign to exterminate the nativi )opulation of Poland. (The German government previous y has denied Polish charges of mas ixecutions in the occupied regions). The official communique cited ; ong list of alleged atrocities an< railed them "worthy of the wors yrants of antiquity.” Among the crimes the emigre gov n-nment said had been committe vere: The shooting at Bydgoszcz of 13 Polish schoolboys, 12 and 13 year >ld. "Massacre” at the same place u o the end of December of 6,000 Pol sh men and women. Deportation from Gydnia of 35 Dolish hostages and their execution tfter they were forced to dig thei >wn graves. Among those execute! vere listed the burgomaster, the por superintendent, chief judge of th listrict court and the manager o ;he local Bank of Poland branch. The Polish government also de dared the Germans had installei nachineguns in clioirlofts in som :hurches to terrorize the congrega tons. Citing alleged instances of inter 'erence with religious services am :he closing of churches, the Pole; charged a statue of Christ in om :ase was taken from a church am :ast into a bonfire. Wayside crosses and chapels hav; aeen removed in many place :hroughout western Poland, it wa illeged. The monument to the Polish hero Kosciuszko, and the statue of Wood :ow Wilson at Poznan have been de nolished, tonight’s paper asserted. The European War Situation (By The Associated Press) LONDON—Britain seizes five Italian ships in coal-blockade net; announces $1,200,000,000 war loan, plans to develop trade in United States and South Amer ica; government’s Palestine pol icy evokes labor demand for vote of censare in commons. MOSCOW—Russia reports cap ture of town northeast of Vii Puri, two islands southwest of city. HELSINKI— Finnish planes bomb Red army forces crossing Gulf of Finland ice to encircle Yiipuri; battle for ancient port reaches city’s outskirts. With the British expedition ary force in France—B. E. F. communique reports German capture of British prisoners in raid, British retake post tempor arily lost to Nazis. PARIS—Polish emigre govern ment accuses Germans of exe cutions en masse in campaign to exterminate Poles, Act Answers Sharp Protest On Blockade Steps Up Economic War* fare Against Nazis By Announcing Big Loan WILL BOOST EXPORTS Italian Ships Escorted Into Contraband Control Base Off Deal By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, March 5— UP)—Britain today seized five Italian ships, at least two of them laden with Ger man coal, in emphatic answer to a sharp Italian protest and stepped up other phases of her economic I warfare against Germany by an nouncing a £300,000,000 (about $1 , 200,000,000) war loan and launching a determined campaign to increase her own exports. Despite Italy’s pointed warning of a severe strain on political and economic relations between the two powers by the newly enforced coal blockade, the Italian ships were es corted into the contraband control base off Deal, southeastern Eng land, while a search was underway for other coal-bearing ships which slipped out of Rotterdam. Four Ships Loading | In all, 12 Italian ships have left Rotterdam in the last two days and four more are loading. They were taking on their cargoes in the Netherlands port when the British seizure order went Into effect March 1. Today’s moves to further strangle German exports were accompanied t by Chancellor of the Exquequer Sir , John Simon’s announcement that ] lists for the new war loan would , open March 12 and a government white paper promising efforts to \ obtain the “greatest volume of ex port trade possible” to bolster Eng . land’s financial and economic de fenses. The loan is to be for 15 to 19 , years at three per cent and will be issued at par. It will be redeem t able at par on Oct. 15, 1959, and I the treasury may redeem the issue (• in whole or in part any time after Oct. 15, 1955. Ten per cent of all subscriptions j are payable upon application and the balance on April 15, 1940. Sub* ’ (Continued on Page Five; Col. *) PALESTINE JEWISH : QUESTION REVIVED Labor Opposition Of House t Of Commons Calls For Vote Of Censure i_ ' LONDON, March 6. — (Wednes ' day)—UP)—Great Britain’s newest restrictions on Palestine’s Jews to ’ day precipitated a demand from ' the labor opposition in the house ’ of commons for a vote of censure ; against the government—the first ' of the war. Debate later today on drastic re strictions promulgated on the sale of land by Arabs to Jews threaten ed to cut the government majority to an abnormally small figure. It ' was recalled that the government margin was only 88 votes last May 17 in favor of adoption of a white paper which declared it was not part of British policy that “Pales tine should become a Jewish state." The vote of censure will be mov ed by Laborite Philip Noel-Baker when he opens the debate on the new land restrictions in commons this afternoon. He will ask the house to vote that the government acted without authority of the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) WANT ADS GO TO HOT HOME BUYING PROSPECTS.... Want Ads "talk" to prospec tive home-buyers during their leisure hours while they are • seriously thinking of buying or building a home. Among the 50,000 readers of the Star and News there are many good prospects who want to buy a home. What Have You To Offert List Today For Results Call 2800 To Start Your Want Ad Charge It t BRITISH CONSTABLE HURT AS POLICE BREAK UP NEW RIOTING IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, March 5.—VP) Stones flew in strategic, long troubled Jerusalem today and one British constable was injur ed as police broke up fresh Jew ish demonstrations against new British laws restricting the trans fer of land from Arabs to Jews. Windows were broken in Jaffa Road and in a theatre. Police imposed a curfew from 3:30 p. m. to 1 a. m. on the Jew ish quarters of Jerusalem city of Tel Aviv. Miss Henrietta Szold, of Bal timore, and a group of leaders of the Jewish Women’s council presented a memorandum on the land of laws to British au thorities, who will forward it to London. The latest demonstration fol lowed disturbances of last Sat urday when 14 British police and a number of Jews were acknowledged to have been injur ed. An 18-year-old university student injured in Tel Aviv died today. The clashes Saturday began when crowds gathered and ston ed police stations. (In Rome, a reliable informant from Jerusalem gave an uncen sored account of demonstrations late last month in Palestine He said the largest disturbance was at Tel Aviv, where cavalry troops were summoned and charged the crowd with sabers. About 140 Jews and scores of police were hurt. More than - "v 15,000 Jews took part ia the Tel Aviv protest. A British censored dispatch from Jerusalem on February 29 stated the Jews paraded the streets of Tel Aviv with banners proclaiming “we won’t submit.” The dispatch further said no po lice were in evidence and the demonstration was unchecked. (Other disturbances occurred in Jerusalem and Haifa, the Rome informant said. About 45 Jews and 16 police were re ported hurt in Haifa when po lice stopped an attempt to burn a courthouse.) The main demonstrations fol lowed upon Secretary for Colo nies Malcolm MacDonald’s an nouncement of the new land laws in the house of commons. (Such restrictions were de manded by Arabs, and long de nied, during the three years of Arab-Jewish bloodshed in the Holy Land beginning in 1936. Now, with Palestine a vital mili tary sector in preparations for possible warfare in the Near East, the British have gone to great lengths to appease the numerically preponderant Arabs despite Jewish contentions Oat the restrictions will prevent de velopment of their promised nat ional home. Jewish immigration also has been stringently curtail ed for months.) --- t
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