Dedicated To The Progress Of -- WILMINGTON Served by Leased Wire of the j\nd Southeastern North ASSOCIATED PRESS Carolina With Complete Coverage of | ^_ State and National News 73—NO. 195 —---—-—_______ i( il —----- WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1940_ * * ESTABLISHED 1867 INegro Hovsg&fe Rents Announced $8.16Monthly AverageFixed By Authority Water, Heat, Cooking Fuel And Electricity To Be Provided For $5.34 JO TAKE APPLICATIONS New Brooklyn Homes Pro ject Expected To Be Oc cupied By First Of June \n average shelter rent of $S.16 ... •: nhiy per month, plus an aver se charge of $5.34 for water, heat. , ..king fuel and electricity, was an ,-d -ast night for New Brook ; a Hontt s. Wilmington’s housing IV for 246 negro families of :.\v income. The Ho •sine Authority of the Cm of Wilmington, which is de V-. king the project with the finan ss.stance of the United States « using Authority, said it was ex -j.,1 tenants would begin to oc c the project by the first of j Tnk.ttg of tenant applications will begin today, t Gross Rent $13.50 Gross rents, including all utility cm--. will average $13.50 per family j-r n. ttth for all charges. ($*.16 plus sihftt) and they will be divided into : goo groups—one at $12.00 i.en n, nth and one at $15 per month. Famines will be assigned to one or tut ether rent group on the basis of their ability to pay. About half of the dwelling units will i e assigned to each of the two rt mil gro v s j; Location of each dwelling unit will .■ whether it fails in the $12 group or tite $15 group, it was said, mm of the locations are more de • rabbi thin others, and these will take the higher rental. Income Maximum Is $800 For the $12.00 rental group, the majiniitm annual income limit for admission will be $600 per year; and for the $15.00 group, $800 per year. "It has been found that the aver age rents set up for the project are Mow the average rent now paid by tegro tenants of substandard hous ing in Wilmington,” said a state (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) SEAMEN TREATED FOR BURNS HERE \ ---— Three Injured In Boiler Biowback Aboard Ship En Route To Wilmington Three seamen, severely burned in a Teller biowback while their vessel •v';s at sea, were admitted to James talker Memorial hospital for treat ment shortly after their arrival in rr- yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred about ten ^ys ago as the ship, a 4.723-ton ves £i named the Abellen, wTas bound Wilmington with a cargo of creo s 'e oil for the Taylor-Colquitt plant fContinued on Page Four; Col. 6) WEATHER L * FORECAST , i'h Carolina: Fair Monday and L' ' - warmer Monday and in east 'r I portions Tuesday. o p. in. 50; maximum 59; 38; mean 48: normal 62. , . Humidity m. 52; 7:30 a. m. 62; 1:30 p. L '■ 1 ;30 p. m. 26. •, Precipitation h ■, ' r !"r, 24.hours ending 7:30 p. m., '"tal •',nce first of the month, inches. Tides For Today W’ilm;,, _ High Low -‘Winston - 3:13a 10:56s 3:45p 11:05p ■ mhoro Inlet _ 0:38a 7:19:' ‘ Saarj.. .... l:20p 7:39j ik,. ..... °-41a; sunset 6:43p; moon ->,a: moonset 0:52a. Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) -- ----A 1 Brit ^ looses A Dairy—Gains A Fish Market |j cicn^annAnrK K more than a vast dairy farm—and England was its best customer to the tune of SI60,000.000 last year. As long as Herr Hitler holds Denmark, John Bull will have to look elsewhere tor lus butter, eggs and bacon. But while losing the Danish storehouse, John Bull gained the great fish market that is Ireland. Germany has been the biggest buyer of fish—Iceland’s main product. Unless the Nazis can seize Iceland her entire fish output will g o to Britain. Left, above, barrels of Danish dairy products awaiting shipment. Right: barrels of fish oil at an Iceland port. Movement To Place N. C. In F. R. Column Started MEETING IS CONDUCTED Bellamy, Marshall Named Members Of Group; To Open Office RALEIGH, April 14. — UP) — A movement to place North Carolina solidly in the Roosevelt-for-President column was launched here today at a meeting of democrats, many of whom occupy high places in the state party's inner circles. At the meeting, which was se cretly called and received no ad vance publicity, a “North Carolina for Roosevelt” organization was es tablished, which will open head quarters in Raleigh tomorrow. John H. Folger of Mount Airy, former state senator, was named chairman of the organization, and State Senator John D. Larkins, Jr., of Trenton was elected secretary. Seeks To Throw Votes Aim of the organization, as out lined by Folger, is to throw the state's 26 votes in the democratic convention to President Roosevelt, if he decides to seek a third term. On the first balloting, however, the delegates would cast courtesy votes for Governor Hoey. “After the first ballot, we hope to deliver this state’s unanimous vote to President Roosevelt on every succeeding ballot, as long as his name is before the convention and as long as it appears likely that he will have a chance for nomination," said Folger. He added that the movement could not be described as a “draft Roosevelt" drive, since no pressure would be brought to urge Mr. Roose velt to run. “But the movement was started (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) DUTCH DEFENDERS MAINTAIN WATCH Rumors About Country’s Position Cause Tension In Many Circles AMSTERDAM, April 14.— (IP) — Holland’s defense forces were keyed to special watchfulness tonight to prevent being taken unaware by any moves of belligerent powers. Various rumors about this coun try’s precarious position in “the storm corner of Europe” caused ten sion in many circles but, in gen eral, the public displayed no uneasi ness. Official sources expressed indigna tion over rumors abroad that there was an imminent threat of action by one or the other of the belligerents which might spread the war to the lowlands. They called them either ill-considered or malicious. Radio programs throughout the country were interrupted Saturday night for a special broadcast of a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6). — British Plane Downed On Nazi-Dutch Border THE HAGUE, The Nether lands, April 14.—(/P)—A Brit ish bomber was shot down in an air battle between several British and German planes on the German-Netherlands fron tier, authoritative sources re ported today. The bomber crashed on the Netherlands side of the border, strewing wreckage over a wide area. Its occupants w'ere be lieved to have been killed. Neth erlands military police estab lished a guard at the scene, near Babherik, Gelderland pro vince. One eye-witness account said five planes were engaged in the battle at a high altitude. Y.M.C. A. CAMPAIGN WILL OPEN TUESDAY J. Wilson Smith, Of Char lotte, Will Address Work ers At Meeting Tonight Workers in theh Y.M.C.A. mem bership campaign will meet at 6:15 o’clock tonight at the association’s building to hear J. Wilson Smith, of Charlotte, make an inspirational address. This meeting will be pre liminary to the opening of the ac tual drive on Tuesday morning. After the drive opens, the group will meet each evening to hear re ports on the progress being made. Special rates for summer member ships will be offered and a bonus will be awarded the winning teams. J. N. Brand, Jr., general chair man, said last night that he felt certain that a splendid example of interest and loyalty will be demon strated at the dinner meeting when (Continued on Page Three: Col. f>) MANY LUTHERANS TO ATTEND MEET Leaders From Throughout U. S. Will Be Present At Board Sessions Here Prominent members of the Luth eran church from as far south as Florida, the Great Lakes in the north and as far west as Colorado will convene here Wednesday, April 17, for the quarterly meeting of the Board of American Missions of the church. The delegates will meet at St. Paul’s Lutheran church at the invi tation of the congregation, the Rev. Walter B- Freed, pastor of the local church, and Louis Hanson, a mem bei of the board. This board cares for the work of expanding the influence of this branch of Protestantism by plant ing new churches and caring for them until they are able to support their own work. To develop these parishes as fast as possible the board has set up a department of Evangelism, which employs a full time clergyman who is sent into congregations to stimulate personal witnessing on the part of the lay membership. Financial problems (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) HOUSE WILL TAKE UP LABOR ISSUE Is Scheduled To Consider Question Of Amendment Of Labor Legislation WASHINGTON, April 14— (JP> — The house will come to grips this week with one of the most con troversial questions of the session, whether to amend the New Deal’s basic labor legislation—:he Wagner act and the Wage-Hour Law. The legislative calendar approved (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Census Probe Planned Here By Barrington Area Supervisor Promises Full Investigation Of Situation In City TO COM? HERE TODAY Will Make Personal Check Of At Least Five Per Cent Of Population Following a clamor in Wilming ton regarding purported inaccura cies in the current census, J. H. Barrington, of Lumberton, area supervisor, last night promised a full investigation of the situation. He also reiterated his promise of a complete and accurate count here. “It’s a little unusual that 14 per cent of the people in Wilmington say they haven’t been counted,” he said, “but there is no need for worry. “Every one will be counted.” Will Make Check Harrington said he and his as sistants will make a personal check in Wilmington of at least five per cent of the population to insure that no one has been missed. The area supervisor said he will arrive in Wilmington tonight for a conference with Louis T. Moore, manager of the chamber of com merce, regarding the reported in accuracies. It all started when a sidewalk survey by the Star-News revealed that 86 per cent of those questioned answered that they had not been tabulated, despite local enumerat ors’ claims that 80 per cent had been counted. After this was brought to light, Moore took the matter in hand and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) GERMANS DISCUSS F.D.R. STATEMENT Say If He Is Looking For An Aggressor He Ad dressed Wrong Nation BERLIN, April 14— <£’>—Author ized German sources, commenting on President Roosevelt’s statement yesterday condemning the Nazi in vasion of Denmark and Norway, de clared today that “if Mr. Roosevelt is looking for an aggressor it is evident he addressed the wrong na tion.” These quarters expressed the opinion that no country desired more than Germany to localize the war, adding it was in her military interest to have a short front. (Mr. Roosevelt in a formal state ment yesterday declared that if civilization is to survive the “rights of smaller nations . . . must be re spected by their more powerful neighbors.”) “The Altmark incident, then the British mine laying in Norwegian (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) EASTMAN CONTENDS AID TO CARRIERS RESULTS IN SURPLUS OF FACILITIES WASHINGTON, April 14.— (AP)—Joseph B. Eastman, chair man of the interstate com merce commission, contended today that public aids to trans portation, totalling many bil lions of dollars, had resulted in a surplus of facilities, and had proven, in many instances, of “little public benefit.” His comment was contained in a four-volume report on public aids to rail, water, highway and air carriers. The study was be gun several years ago when Eastman was federal coordina tor of railroads. Furthermore, Eastman said, these aids “have set up reper cussions felt in many parts of the transportation structure, and created a demand for fur ther public aids to offset the effects of those already given.” It appeared likely, the ICC chairman added, that future as sistance would perpetuate the “conditions of uneconomic com petition which such aids have created.” For that reason he ad (vocated “deliberate and calcu lated” planning to measure fu ture transportation needs. "Planning in this sense,” Eastman Continued, “has been of limited extent, partly by reason of the age of certain facilities, the pressures which have pro duced others, and the multiplic ity of agencies providing facili ties in still others, and of rapid technological changes in some cases. “The government itself lias contributed perhaps the most dis turbing of the unplanned ele ments.” Regulations, he asserted, “can do much toward bringing about the objectives envisioned by planners; on the other hand, it can frustrate planning objec tives.” Total principal public aids to various forms of transportation lie listed as follows: Motor vehicle: About $31,000, 000,000 for highways and streets from 1921 to 1937. Waterway improvements and related aids: $2,917,000,000 to June 30, 1936, for river and har bor improvements and mainte nance, flood control and other non-navigation purposes. Railroads: $1,443,000,000 through 1935, divided as follows: $1,282,000,000 “to secure the construction” of the roads, and $161,000,000 from the World war to 1936. Air transportation: $64,654,000 public aid to scheduled air car riers in air mail subsidies; $55, 777,000 for airways, airway serv ices and airports; and $56,500, 000 for aids to non-scheduled us ers of airways and airports. "There is basically a surplus of transportation facilities,” Eastman said. “When to this condition is added the fact that agencies which attempt to pay their way are for; ed to compete with agencies which do not, a serious situation, most severely felt by the railroads, results.” 1 EXPEDITION EN ROUTE TO HELP NOR WEGIANS; ENGLISH HOLD NAR VIK GERMAN TROOPS FLEE Sharp Fighting Is Reported At Number Of Points In Southern Norway GERMANS "HOLD OSLO Favored By Snow, Norwe gians Forming Front Northeast Of Capital STOCKHOLM, April 14.—(S’)—The Norwegian news agency reported to night H at the British were definitely masters of Narvik, having sunk every German warship in that Arctic Norwegian harbor while German troops fled into the hills northeast of the city. The Norwegian agency said it was not yet known whether British troops had landed at Narvik after the successful naval attack Satur day. It said most of the 1,400 Germans who seized Narvik in a coup Tuesday knew the surroundings intimately from having served on German ore ships visiting there for a number of years. Shall) flighting ivages Sharp fighting was reported at a number of points in southern Nor way tonight, and Swedish authorities said they had disarmed and interned 3,000 Norwegian soldiers who crossed into Sweden southeast of Halden, on the southernmost border. Swedish correspondents reported heavy fighting tonight at Skarnes, 40 miles northeast of German-held Oslo. (Exchange Telegraph, British news agency, said a well-organized Norwe gian defense had thrown the Ger mans back at Skarnes tonight and that the Germans also were hurled back at Elverum, Jamal and in the Mysen sector. (The Germans took the town of Eidsvold, north of Oslo, during the day, the British agency reported, but said ski-wearing Norwegians were putting up a successful defense against the German mechanized units in several places.) Favored by a snowstorm which hampered the Nazi air force, Nor (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) ITALIANS BELIEVE WAR WILL EXPAND Authorities Think All Euro pean Countries Will Be Drawn Into Conflict ROME, April 14.—UP)—Authorita tive Italians today expressed the be lief that all countries of Europe, in cluding Italy, would be drawn into the war. From one newspaper, II Messag gero, came a warning to neutrals that they now know wliat, way to follow, implying that it was the wav of Denmark in accepting Germany’s “protection.” Giovanni Ansaldo, newspaper writ er who often speaks the mind of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) -- North Sea Corked -... ' -. Area in black shows a part of the Allied mine field, extending from Bergen to the Dutch border and half way down the Kattegat. The white strip in the Skaggerak represents a channel 20 miles wide through which Sweden may move her ships. GERMANS, FRENCH BATTLE ON FRONT Nazi Infantry Units Try To Force Lines West Of Vosges Mountains --— PARIS, April 14.— (IP) —German infantry units tried again today to force the French front lines in fu rious fighting west of the Vosges mountains but the French high com mand declared they were repulsed with losses. The German troops were support ed by a heavy artillery barrage at different points in the area roughly between Bitche and Saareguemines. French casualties were not dis closed. The attack followed bitter fight ing yesterday near the Luxembourg frontier in which the Germans were reported to have thrown a full com pany of infantry at the French. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) GERMAN DOOR IS MINED London Announces Admiral Scheer Has Been ‘Suc cessfully Attacked’ SUPPLY VESSELS SUNK Most Of German Losses At tributed To Action By British Submarines B; EDWIN STOUT LONDON, April 14—(iP)—Anotht of Germany’s prized pocket battle ships, the Admiral Scheer, has been “successfully attacked,” and at least 23 German transport and supply ships sunk or captured, the British admiralty announced tonight. The matter-of-fact but prideful communique topped off its earlier announcement that a British mine field had been boldly laid in the Baltic sea at Germany's very back door and the disclosure by the Brit ish Broadcasting company that ex peditionary forces are en route to German-invaded Norway. Listing 10 German troop and sup ply ships sunk, four captured, two scuttled by their own men, and four others hit by torpedoes, the ad miralty said these did not include the seven sunk in the Arctic Nor wegian Port of Narvik. Control Narvik Exchange Telegraph, a British news agency, reported confirmation that the British were in control of Narvik as a result of Saturday’s at tack, in which the admiralty said seven German destroyers were sunk. These were in addition to the de stroyer and seven supply ships re ported sunk in the earlier British raid on Narvik Wednesday. The Exchange Telegraph report said the German forces had fied from Narvik eastward. Most of the German losses listed in the admiralty’s communique to night were attributed to British sub marines. Some of them had been named in previous reports of German losses, including the Rio De Janeiro, sunk (Continued on Page Three, Col. 3) Nazis Sink Six English Destroyers In North Sea BATTLE STILL RAGING Both Sides Taking Heavy Blows But Neither Able To Deliver Knockout BERLIN, April 14.—(iP)—Cautious disclosures by the German high command idicated tonight that the vast battle of the North sea still was raging, with both sides taking heavy blows hut neither able to throw a knockout punch. According to this half-told story, part of it previously disclosed, six British destroyers have gone down in the scattered, give-and-take fighting between British and German sea for ces for the past six days along the coasts of Norway. Other Ships Damaged Besides, more formidable British fighters, like the battle cruiser Re noon, an aircraft' carrier and a “cruiser of the Glasgow class" are listed as damaged The Germans themselves previous ly had acknowledged destruction of their two fine cruisers, the Karlsruhe and Blucher Moreover, said today’s high com mand communique, perhaps signifi cantly, “it is impossible at this time to get a complete picture of the to tal losses to the enemy or to our own forces" There was every indication also that today—six days after the Ger man military machine suddenly changed the whole aspect of the war by moving into Denmark and Nor way in a great power drive—the far flung, intermittent conflicts at sea were continuig Ashore, meanwhile, the Germans (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Three Meatless Days Are Planned In Italj HOME, Api'il 14. — (/P) — Italians were notified today that beginning April 24 they will have three meat less days a week instead of two. 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