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Dedicated to the ____ PROGRESS ^1 I1H 1IMIAVM Served by Leased Wire of the Of Wilmington and I HP Cl I iUI HISO^W P ■ |JE|Jlfl2 ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern N. C. I I S H| PuettiSs TS^- |^hVV W With Complete Coverage of afWK ^©OT 6IW ©if [^©@15)1563 AMB> iPICBAgmiklg^ State and National News __WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1940 _ * * _ PRICE FIVE CENTS Rumanians Tighten Nazi Ban Press Raps Germany’s WarJThreat List Of Products Banned As Exports [To Nazis Being Drafted break seems near Dr. Clodius, Nazi Envoy, Is Refused Interview By Trade Chiefs BUCHAREST, April 13—L&)—Ru nacia maintained tonight her virtual embargo on exports to Germany while the nation's press lashed out at the Reich. As German-Rumanian relations ap parently were speeding oward a cris is, Bucharest heard reports from German sources that the Soviet Rus sian government had handed a note, its contents undisclosed publicly, to the Rumanian minister at Moscow. 5-Hour Session The Rumanian cabinet economic council met for five hours but failed . to reach an agreement on the com plete list of products which will be banned for export. The council ad journed until next week without lift ing the order forbidding the loading of freight cars and river barges with oil, wheat and other products for the Reich. i It was expected that immediate ^ economic demands might be forth coming soon from Germany. Rumania's embargo came after ' Germany had forbidden the exporta tion to Rumania of many articles, including metallurgical coke, vital to the Rumanian ore industry. Rumania's foreign minister, Grig ore Gafencu, disclaimed any know ledge of the Moscow note. However, there were reports that it protested ( a number of incidents on the Ru- ^ (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) e 1 HARRIDGE SEES ' BANNER SEASON: -- j American Loop Prexy Happy i Over Showing Made Bv Rookies 1 By WILL HARRIDGE President, American League CHICAGO, April ,.13.— UP) — En- 1 husiastic over the splendid show- ; ,!1? made in 1939 by such first year ] men as Ted Williams, Charles Kel- i /■ P seph Gallagher, James Tabor, i Marius Russo and Atley Donald, i enran league club owners and ; managers are making a supreme ef " this year to display an unus- ; ■’ large number of new players 11 Jha hope of uncovering other * !ljy outstanding stars. mere en league rosters today in rhe names of 50 players who trjllr'd in the minors in 1939. Many 'f thern will be hailed as major ’ rs within two or three yar?' while some are expected to distinguish themselves in 1940, At •Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) ^WEATHER | v FORECAST ' 1 ': r -. I i ii a : Fair to partly i../ •“ •: 1 ‘i•• • y and Monday with ris ^ 'jmperature. f , w /•-:|rolina, Georgia, Florida: • :r; ny with rising temperatures. :al data for the 24 hours “,fcf ' ’(j P- m. yesterday). T cmperat ure I„ /’■; 7:50 a. rn. 35; 1:30 p. : . ' ' " P- ni. 45; maximum 62; '1 mean 4-S; normal 61. 1 -n Humidity JB ■ , a- !"■ 85: 7 ::i(l «• rn. 60; 1:30 p. • ' :*0 p. m. 40. Total f Precipitation jfi( ,1 -J hours ending 7:30 p. m., uionti, ’ : i ot''11 since first of the • J inches. Tides For Today ^’iln, High Low - 2:17a 10:00a SlaS'"‘h'"'" Inlet ...... IfZ .^Unriec r...<) 12:12p 6:34p r.'vp sunset 6:42p; moon moon set 0:03a. 0""nu,‘,l °n Page Three; Col. 4)1 ■-------.-* ___Britons Bomb Nazis At Stavanger This remarkable picture, taken from a Royal Air Force bombing plane, shows English fliers in the act of bombing Germans in the Nazi-occupied airport at Stavanger, Norway. At the upper right may be seen four low-flying British lumbers. The British planes both bombed and machine-gunned Nazi craft and set fire to a huge gasoline storage plant. This picture, passed by the British censor, was flown to London and then flashed by radio to New York. Nazi Envoy In New York Says Hitler Wants Peace w IE ‘EXPECTS’ IT SOON Conciliatory Declarations Made By New Commerce Agent To U. S. By HENRY PAYXTER NEW YORK, April 13.— OP) — termany expects peace in the near uture and plans to enter into an eonomic arrangement with the Jnited States based upon the Hull eeiprocal trade policy, her newly .ccredited diplomatic commercial epresentative said today. Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, ommercial counsellor to the Ger nan embassy, said Germany was lopeful of a peace that wrould lermlt commercial expansion and irosperity throughout the would, lis purpose here is to prepare the vay for an economic settlement >etween Germany and the United States, he said, adding: Nothing Of Allies “I am hopeful of peace soon lecause Germany is not going to LSk anything of England or France except free access to raw naterials on a competitive basis ,nd free trade and foreign ex :hange throughout the w’orld dong the lines of the Hull plan. “A major step in such a trade arrangement v,-ould be the provi Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) NAZI-RED MEXICO PLOT IS CHARGED Dies Calls On F. R. And Hull To State U. S. Deep Concern WASHINGTON, April 13— CT> — Rep. Dies (D-Texas) asserting that he had information of a Russo-Ger man plot to set up a puppet govern ment in Mexico, called on President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull tonight to declare that any such attempt would be regarded as a violation of the Monroe doctrine. ‘‘The President and secretary of state should say to the world,” the house invesigator told newsmen, ‘‘that the Monroe doctrine not only bars armed intervention but pro hibits outside powers from setting up puppet governments in the west ern hemisphere.” Dies, chairman of the committee inquiring into un-American activi ties, declared that Germany and Russia were violating “the spirit if not the letter of the Monroe doctrine by indirection.” “They are sending thousands of agents and smuggling arms and am munition into Mexico for the purpose (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) 19 File In Local Races, A. B. Rhodes Unopposed ---~~k -- ADRIAN D. RHODES With 12 offices to be filled, 19 can didates filed with the New Hanover county board of elections during the past week, and of the 12 jobs there -will be only six contests. I With the exception of three county commissioner seats, the two lower house of the general assembly seats and constable of Wilmington town ship, all those filing with the elec tions board are either incumbent or unopposed. Those filing were: Register of deeds, Adrian B. Rhodes, now incumbent. Lower house of the general as sembly: R. M. Kermon, Robert S. LeGwin, John R. Morris and Jack Q. LeGrand. Morris and LeGrand served during the 1939 term. Repulican candidates for these of fices are J. A. Bodine and H. Ed mund Rogers. Candidates for three seats on the county commission are. L. J. Cole man and Merritt are incumbent. There will be no contest in the nomination of justices of the peace (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) 34-38 LOW SEEN BY WEATHERMAN Heavy Frost Is Predicted; Farmers Fear Damage Will Be Great With a low temperature of 34 to 3S forecast for today, yesterday’s chilling winds will continue to sweep through the city today, the weatherman forecast last night. It will be fair all today and will be slightly warmer during the day with a probable maximum of 55 degrees. Heavy frosts were forecast for this morning and farmers through out the county said yesterday such a frost will do considerable dam age to crops. It will not be knowm, however, they said, until after the cold wave exactly what .he damage will amount to. Coverings for crops were placed into use by many farm ers yesterday in an effort to pre vent damage. Warmer temperatures are pre dicted for Monday and succeeding days and the weather man said this morning's frost will probably be the last of the season. RALEIGH, April 13. — (#) — Or chardists here anxiously examined their fruit trees today for possible damage caused by the coldest April day in the 53-year history of the Raleigh weather bureau. R. W. King, peach growrer, said he would not be able to tell for several days whether his crop had been hurt. A. B. Harless of the state department of agriculture said he suspected damage had been done by the 29-degree minimum temperature, but that it would take a change in weather to de termine definitely. Other growers and farm experts said there was a possibility that cotton might have been damaged. Cotton has just been planted in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) Nazi Attack Is Rapped By F. D. R. ‘Powerful’ Must Respect ‘Weak’ If Civilization Is To Survive INVASION CONDEMNED He Pays High Tribute To Norwegian And Danish Peoples WASHINGTON, April 13.—I®— President Roosevelt, in a forma! statement today, condemned Ger many's invasion of Denmark and Norway, and declared that if civili zation itself is to survive “powerful neighbors” must respect the rights of small nations to independence. The President’s statement, first formal expression of this govern ment’s attitude toward the Nazi blitzkrieg into Scandina-via, was handed to reporters at the White House. It said: Once More Marching “Force and military aggression are once more on the march against small nations, in this instance through the invasion of Denmark and Norway. “These two nations have won and maintained during a period of many generations the respect and regard not only of the American people, but of all peoples, because of their observance of the highest standards of national and international con duct. “The government of the United States has on the occasion of recent invasions szrongly expressed its dis approbation of such unlawful exer cise of force. “It here reiterates, with undi (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) NAZI DEFENDANT ENDS OWN LIFE Claus Ernecke, On Trial In Sedition Case, Is Found Hanged Yesterday NEW YORK, April 13.—UP)—A 24 hour search for Claus Gunther Ernecke, 36. missing defendant in the trial of 17 men accused of plot ting to overthrow -the United States government, ended today in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment house, two blocks from his home. Apparently terrified by threats against his life, and fearful of the outcome of the trial in federal court, Ernecke, a German-American bundsman and former trooper in the New York national guard, had hanged himself. Medical examiners sai l he had been dead at least 36 hours. Federal agents and detectives had been hunting him since yesterday when he failed to appear for the trial ses sion and Judge Marcus B. Camp bell, forfeiting his $7,600 bail, had issued a bench warrant for his ar rest. Ernecke’s last appearance in court was on Wednesday when the government’s chief witness, Dennis (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WORLD BULLETINS AGREEMENT HARLAN, Ky„ April 13.— i/P)—Approximately 1,300 strik ing Harlan county miners agreed late today to return to work Monday, Secretary-Treas urer George Titler of the Dis trict United Mine Workers’ union (CTO) announced. TRADE TALKS WASHINGTON, April 13.—(A3* —Two months of American-Al lied discussions of trade prob lems arising out of the Euro pean war gave promise of pro ducing little more than intima tions that the British will im pose no additional restrictions on purchases of American goods. MARKERS RALEIGH, April 13.—(/P)— Historical markers will be plac ed along a route which Hernan do De Soto, Spanish adventurer and explorer, is supposed to have taken through North Caro lina 400 years ago. SUNK LONDON, April 13.—wp>—A German transport, near Hague und, has been sunk by the Nor wegian destroyer Draug, which imprisoned 67 men from the Nazi ship, a Rueter (British) news agency report from Stock holm said today. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) * British Fleet Blasts Narvik's Captors In Daring Raid On Fjord NAZI TROOPS MOVE UP New Expeditionary Force Landed; Drive Toward Oslo Is Begun DEFENDERS-BATTLING STOCKHOLM, April 13— (AP)—German today landed new expeditionary troops in southeast Norway and be gan a brisk drive northward toward Oslo in fierce fight ing with Norwegian de fenders. Refugees from the region reaching Stockholm said that throughout large areas in this part of Norway civil ians had fled, leaving their homes to be fought over by the opposing armies. Refu gees poured into Sweden. The newly-landed Ger mans, commandeering buses and motor cars, smashed their way through a hastily formed defense ring which the Norwegians had built around Oslo to prevent the Germans from augmenting the forces which captured the capital Tuesday. Iron Ring Smashed The Germans, according to refu gees arriving here, smashed the Norwegian ring between Holen, 25 miles south of Oslo, and Moss, 10 miles farther south, on the east side of the Oslo fjord. The invaders were heading northward. The Norwegians fought hard but unsuccessfully to repel them, at one point dynamiting a bridge as the first German bus crossed a stream. To prevent just such a maneuver the Norwegians had built their ring to isolate' German occupied Oslo in a semi-circle from Moss to Holen, east to Mysen, northward to the Romerike region 40 miles north of Oslo and then south to Tyri fjord and Vikesund, about 30 miles west of Oslo. Tonight the Germans were said to hold all the area within this (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) GERMANS TORPEDO NORWAY STEAMER 30 Survivors Of Crew Of 32 Say Blast Came Without Warning LONDON, April 13.—OP)—Sur vivors who were landed today re ported that the 5,128-t.on Norwegian steamer Tosca was torpedoed and sunk without warning by a subma rine while she was steaming to the aid of the torpedoed 9,076-ton Swe dish tanker, Sveaborg. The Tosca was carrying a general (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Nazis Claim Hold Not Broken BY ALVIN J. STEINKOPF BERLIN, April 13. — (/P) — Germany challenged the full powers of her foes tonight to break her steadily - reinforced hold on Norway and Denmark as she consolidated her gains amid furious British thrusts from the air and acclaimed the sinking of two British subma rines by her own warbirds. “The German position in Scan dinavia is impregnable against the mightiest blows the enemy possibly can deliver,” authorized commentators proclaimed. Their cry of defiance came at the end of a day in which main developments recorded by Ger mans included: 1. Warplanes cruising over the North sea surprised two Brit ish submarines as they came to the surface and sank them at the same time. Claim York Sunk 2. DNB, official news agency, took cognizance of reports abroad that the 8,250-ton British cruiser York had been sunk. It said it was as sumed that the York was the vessel (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) NAZIS REPULSED 'INW r ATTACK Infantry Stabs Savagely At French Positions Near Luxembourg By JOHN H. MARTIN PARIS, April 13.—<iP>—German in fantry stabbed savagely today at vital French positions near the Luxembourg frontier under a screen of artillery fire but the de fenders beat them back and cut them down in the tangled barbed wire of no-man’s rand, the French high command announced tonight. The night French communique did not disclose the strength of the attacking force, but it did say the thrust was preeded by a violent preparation of German artillery and that it ■went forward under a pro tective barrage. It was at the barbed wire barrier between the lines that the German attack was halted, the French re ported. No estimate of casualties was made. Earlier in the day artillery and machine gun fire was reported heavy at various points along the Rhine and to the east, and the French said their troops attacked successfully a German position be tween the Sari- river and the Vos gues mountains. - Fighting near the Luxembourg frontier has flared intermittently between the German village of Perl (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Hundreds In City Report Enumerators Missed Them Louis T. Moore, manager of the chamber of commerce, said last night more than 100 people have been into his office and reported they have not been counted in the current census, despite the fact enumerators here claim they have tabulated more than 80 per cent of the population. And the 100 callers, Moore said, will aggregate more than 500 peo ple when their families are in cluded. “It is apparent there are hun ireds of people -will be missed in the census," he said, "and the chamber of commerce is going to continue ts campaign for an accurate count.” Moore’s report came a day after i check by reporters of The Wil nington Star-News had showed that cut of approximately 100 persons in :erviewed in a "sidewalk survey,” inly 14 had been counted. i The trade body manager said Wil mingtonians from all sections of the city, both white and colored, have complained that they hr ve not been counted. J. H. Barrington, area supervisor, of Lumberton, has been summoned to come to Wilmington to investi gate the situation and to determine where the inaccuracy lies. Moore said no efforts will be spared in the effort to see that the city gets its just deserts in the census. He asked that all persons in Wil mington who have not been tabu lated in the count, call at his office in order that their names may be recorded and in order that they will not be missed. All persons missed thus far and who have called at the office have been recorded, Moore said, and their numbers run into the hundreds. PORT IS RECAPTURED Man o’War Leads The Way As Destroyer Flotilla Renews Attack BRITISH SHIPS SAFE By ROBERT BUNNELLE LONDON, Apri 113—(AP) Great Britain threw the overwhelming might of her navy today against the Nazi captors of Norway’s ore port of Narvik and announced she had sent seven German destroyers to the bottom of the rocky bay and narrow inlet there in the second sea assault on that focal point of northern war within four days. Even while King George VI and the British govern ment were assuring King Haakon of Norway and his people that Allied help against the German invad ers is coming and coming soon, the great battleship Warspite, rebuilt veteran of Jutland, was leading a pow erful flotilla up narrow Nar vik fjord, smashing a Ger man coastal battery and then sinking Nazi destroyers be fore and behind the town, killing perhaps a thousand German seamen. The admiralty confidently predicted this daring victory would “clarify the situation on this part of the Norweg ian coast.” Troops Not Mentioned It did not say whether any Brit ish troops were landed, although at least one Stockholm radio report stated this to be a fact. Fleeing men, “possibly German (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) LOW COUNTRIES FEAR INVASION Dutch And Belgians Seem To Believe ‘Critical’ Moment At Hand THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, April 13. —<JP)— The Netherlands faced tonight its most critical period since the outbreak of the European war—with its armed forces fully alert to strike back at any inva sion, new strategic areas under mar tial law and the government reiter ating its vow to maintain a policy (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If You Fail To Receive Your Star or News ’Phone 2800 Star-News Circulation Dept. Before 10 A. M. for Star 8 P. M. for News (After those times our de livery service is closed for the respective papers.) 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