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Dedicated To The Progress Ot r-— WILMINGTON Served by Leased Wire oi the And Southeastern North ASSOCIATED PRESS Carolina With Complete Coverage ot ^ State and National News rrr T i_no. 205 —--—_________. I---'------- WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940___+ * ESTABLISHED 1867 Cost Of Three New Projects |b$M36,000 Important Undertakings In cluded In Large Rivers And Harbors Bill VETO THREAT LOOMS Widening And Deepening Of The Channel At And Below City Is Planned Cape Fear river improvements were given a bolstering “go ahead* signal yesterday as the senate vot ed approval o£ the $150,000,000 riv ers and harbors bill, which includes three Wilmington projects totaling $1,438,000. Approval of the measure was by a IO-to-29 vote. Backers of the bill here were notified of its passage by Senator .Tosiah W. Bailey, who has pushed enactment of a rivers and harbors measure for the past several weeks. Veto Threat Looms The house is expected to approve the senate-passed bill without any amendments, llovvc-'ver, the hitch lies in the fact that President Roosevelt may veto the measure. Earlier in the present congression al session, the President told Sen ator Bailey and the senate com merce committee that he would veto any large rivers and harbors bill. The measure, passed yesterday was drawn up by Senators Bailey and Shepard (D-Tcxas) as a substi tute bill and excludes all power : and flood control projects, which were, contained in the original bill. In all, there were 1C North Caro lina projects in the omnibus bill. The Cape Fear river projects in clude: (1) Cape Fear river at and be low Wilmington, channel widening, $675,000, with $50,000 annual main tenance cost. (2) Cape Fear river at and below Wilmington, channel deepening, $790,000, with $25,000 annual main tenance cost. (3) Northeast Cape Fear river, $73,000 for deepening and widening channel, with $3,000 annual main tenance cost. Under the projects the Cape Fear channel is to be widened from 300 to 400 feet with numerous bends in the river removed, and deepen ing the channel from 30 to 32 feet. The turning basin in the harbor is also to be widened from 600 to 800 feet. Also contained in the local proj * ects is a provision for providing a short cut channel of 12 feet • (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) ADVERTISING LAW : EFFECTIVE SOON I Regulates Legal Advertis [ ing, Defines Newspapers Which May Accept It 5 RALEIGH, April 25.— UP)—'Thad t Eu re, secretary of state, today r urged publishers of North Carolina ^ newspapers to comply with a new law regulating legal advertising and defining newspapers which may accept such advertising. The law, passed by the 1333 general assem [ bly, will become efective May 1. i- Under the measure, legal adver £; Using may be accepted only by . I newspapers with “general circula tion to actual paid subscribers,” ’ which have been published “at least one day in each calendar week for at least 25 of the 26 consecutive (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) . SAVE WHILE YOU SELL! National Want Ad Week, spon sored by the Association of Newspaper Classified Advertis l ing Managers, of which this t paper is a member, is now in . effect. 5 During this week we are of fering you a special low rate on your Want Ads. In other words we are willing to run your Want Ad 7 days for the 4 day price. So now is your chance Vi sell those don't wants quickly and economic j • ally. Call 2800 1 Star-News Classified Dept, Ask For Ad-Taker Germans Abap^^i Roros In Face Of British Drive "1 1 - * ' /■ ^ -*r_______ Retreat to lolga After Lightning Capture Of City ----- V TROOPS DIGGING IN i Retreat Believed Made Be cause Of Need For Hasty Fortification BRITISH ARE ACTIVE Heavy Artillery And Air planes Participate In Bit ter Fighting At Tolga STOCKHOLM, April 26.—(Friday) _-; p . Germans have abandoned r/1,.0, which they seized for a few ,'in,T ;n a dazzling exhibition of irttnin* war yesterday, and are 7'Xz in at Tolga. 15 miles to the b - in the Osterdalen valley, Swedis'n newspaper correspondents •.-■rcrted early today. T'.. German retreat was ascribed p;e need for hasty fortification, , rich the terrain at Roros does not British Advance Another cause also appeared to be ; British advance south in the ludhrandsdalen valley to the west, threatening to outflank the Ger mans' extended positions. The correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dageus Nyheter reported - the British have broken through - S'jjren. and are now in position here to Uock any German advance hem Roros, or up the Gudbrandsda en valley to reinforce German-held irondheim on the west coast. These British troops, after land ne; at Andalsnes, south of Trond leim, took a northern route to itoren, where they repulsed a Ger man force from Trondheim, and per :aas prevented their striking a more filing blow at a British force from (anises to the north of Trondheim. The British then turned and unit 'd with some of the Norwegians re reading through Roros in the Oster Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) WON LIBRARY FLOORS PLANNED Application Of Coating Is Scheduled To Be Start ed Next Week The 'Wilmington Public library, -,;-l en the third floor of the Wool k-n building on Princess street, will Probably move into the library room )n hie second floor of the city hall P'hen refinishing work on the floors •s completed, J. E. L. Wade, city -ommissioner of public works, said Yesterday. The work was approved at the meeting of the city board Wednes - v and is scheduled to start early m-xt week and is expected to take S ’-eral days for completion. It con ^’ontinued on Page Two; Col. 2) WEATHER v FORECAST ,A°rth Carolina: Cloudy and some tied with scattered showers J‘ extreme east portion, warmer in ( I'orti,,n Friday; Saturday consid cloudiness, showers and cooler 1". r;.r,nntains, slightly warmer in east rortion. ‘ ;If tcorological data for the 24 hours Ulr‘g ' :;jC p. m. yesterday). 1 Temperature 50; 7:30 »• m- 51; 1:30 p. ; 1 : 7’-30 p. m. 58; maximum 62; lmum 46; mean 54; normal 65. Humidity , a. in. SI; 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p ‘ -30 p. m. 78. 1 , Precipitation 7:1 for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. T'*t»l since first of the month inches. Tides For Today _ 0H7fah Maso,,b“‘-» Inlet _lV“fa 4:10i 10:45p 4:16r r . ,1 r, o:^a^ sunset 6:52p; moon' ' - Ai-i2p; moonset 9:19a. l3.»5Pfe^ear r,ver sta»e at Fayetteville iC^inut'il on i>age xwo; Col. 3] ALLIES WITHDRAW Detachments Forced From Hard-Won Positions In Lillehammer Area MORE MONEY ASKED Manpower In Britain Is In creased With Arrival Of Canadian Troops LONDON, April 25.—CP)—Allied detachments withdrew today from hard-won positions in the Lilleham mer area of Eastern Norway under the weight of the German north ward thrust from Oslo while in Britain the opposition in the house of commons clamored for more money, more planes more guns. It was the second British retreat in two days. A war office communique report ed quiet in the far north on the Narvik front, where British and Norwegians have been advancing slowly toward the snow-drifted ore shipping port held by the Germans, and an ominous post-pattle calm at Steinkjer, 50 miles north of Trondheim, where the Nazis are "digging in” north of the ruined town, after blasting the British out. Battle For Railroad The full force of the German on slaught fell on Allied troops In the Lillehammer area where the rival armies contended for command oi the railway running southeast from Dombas into the Gudbrandsdalen, a 100-mile-long valley which forms a gateway to Oslo. Lillehammer itself is 90 miles north of Oslo. Stockholm reports said the Germans had reached Rin gebu, 30 miles beyond Lilleham her and 50 miles airline southeast of Dombas, where Allied troops have been air-raided. Manpower in Britain was aug mented by the arrival of an undis closed number of fresh Canadians and the first contingent of New foundlanders—the latter in Mufti Some 30,000 Canadians already art in Britain. Also at home, spurred by Brit ish alarm over “fifth column” ac tivities in neutral states, the gov ernment grappled with the problen of an ideological spring cleaninf of communist elements and listenec to commons’ charges of "muddling’ in prosecuting the war. Considering Measure Sir John Anderson, minister foi Home Security, told the lower housi he was conside ’ing stringent meas ures against subversive elements including the communist party ant semi-fascist organs, and would in tern even M. P. s if “desirable.” (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3, NATIONAL DEFENSE PLANS I EPUSHEC Steps Are Taken To Sea Vital Harbors Against Marauding Subs WASHINGTON, April 25.—(IT*)— The national defense program mov ed forward today with plans t seal the nation’s vital harbor against marauding submarines ii time of war and to increase th shooting range of three battleships The navy disclosed it had askei for bids on parts for huge nets t be stretched across harbor mouth the moment war is threatened. Th nets, suspended by floats and he! in position by chain and anchors would foul the propellers, rudder orelevating fins of submarines tha attemnted to Steal into the harbors The cost of the nets was esti mated at $22,000,000, of which $2, 000 000 already has been mad available. The nets will be fabri cated at the Mare Island, Calif, navy yard The navy has measure all principal harbors on the tw coasts of the continental Unitei (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2 uermansKeep Close Watch Upon Sweden Little Country Moves Into Center Of Nazi Diplo matic Attention ALLIED PRESSURE SEEN Reich Claims British Bomb ing Towns Of No Mili tary Importance JY LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, April 25.— <#) —Sweden moved tonight into the center of German diplomtaic attention. Authoriz ; sources expressed Nazi apprehension that the largest Scan dinavian state, and the only one still neutral, is under pressure from Great Britain and France. These persons said categorically that Germang has no designs on Sweden. Nevertheless; “Must Be Prepared” “We must be prepared for all even tualities, of course,” they added. Thus Sweden was put into Ger man diplomatic perspective while the official news agency and the 1 high command w'ere stressing what ' they said was the British bombing of “open, undefended towns of no military importance,” and implying that this sort of thing will be re paid, "bomb for bomb,” should It continue. The open towns which the Ger- j mans say were bombed are a vil lage in Schleswig-Holstein and a sea resort on the island of Sylt. . (London denied the charges). Otherwise, German official sources drew a northern military picture which showed German rein forcements racing north toward Troadheim on two railroads while German troops sealed Steinkjer, further north, by occupying impor tnta roads and passes; strong Al lied detachments, pressing the Ger mans nort hof Narvik ' Thile British warships toss shells into that Arctic port; German planes bombing Al lied transport columns and scatter (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) GIUNTA PREDICTS WAR WILL SPREAD Fascist Sees Conflict Of ‘Peoples Against World Of Hoarders’ : ROME, April 25.—<iP)—A fascist leader’s conviction that the war will spread until it is a conflict of “peo ples against the world of hoarders” was given today to Italy's chamber of fasces and guilds, along with his classification of Great Britain and France as powers unfriendly to i Italy. Benito Mussolini listened to the * speech, by Francesco Giunta, old line fascist and former vice-presi | dent o fthe defunct chamber of depu ties, which the chamber of fasces and guilds replaced. It will be a war of "have not” na (Continued on Page 16; Col. 4) JUST A TUMBLE-DOWN HOUSE Its foundations undermined by the reeent heavy rains, the home of Hyman Vogel, in Pittsburgh. Pa., starts to crumple. Shortly after cracks, indicated by arrows, appeared . . . . . . the $12,000 structure rapidly disintegrated, collapsing into the heap of tangled wreckage seen above. Position of side wall at left shows house almost turned over in its fall. W. 0. SAUNDERS, 56 DROWNS IN CANAL Former Colorful Elizabeth City Editor Loses His Life Near Norfolk NORFOLK, Va., April 25.—W— .V. O. Saunders, 56, former Eliza >eth City (N. C.) editor, who once campaigned for more comfortable cummer dress for men by parading dong Elizabeth City’s main street ir >ajamas, died this afternoon in th< rlunge of his automobile into a c;c tal south of Norfolk. - The pajama parade of the color hi individualist, author and editor recurred on July 23, 1929, when lu tppeared on the street clad in i rale blue slumber suit, straw ha md sandals. He was arrested ant mmediately freed by the mayor vho thereupon proclaimed tha reople of Elizabeth City could dresr is they pleased so long as they ad tered to decency. Dr. L. C. Ferebee, Norfolk coun :y coroner, said after an investiga cion that Saunders probably suf cered a heart attack or some other cype of stroke before his car drop red into the 18 feet of water. Hi raid drowning was the direct causi of death, however. A negro truck driver said Saun lers’ car, moving north toward Nor !olk, ran about 100 feet along thi shoulder of the highway before i lived into the canal about 25 fee :o the left of the road. The body wai recovered two hours later. Saunders was traveling alone. The body was taken to Elizabetl Jity tonight. COLORFUL FIGURE ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., Apri 25.— (JP) —TV. O. Saunders, win drowned today near Norfolk, Va, was associated with the Elizabetl City Independent for nearly 31 years, and his name was a house hold word in Eastern North Care lina. The Independent, a weekly news paper known widely for its humo and frank presentation of news, hai much more than a local circulation Saunders, as editor, for many year was a storm center of the commun: ty, and was involved in many libe suits. The author, editor and journalis was born in humble circumstance in Perquimans county on May 24 1884. His family moved to Hertford the county seat, when Saunders wa a child. At 17 he obtained his firs job on the Tar Heel, a weekly news (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4 Carolina Beach Decides To Open Season May 25 -★ ______ EARLIER THAN USUAL Entertainment For Official Opening Talked At Meet Of Trade Body Carolina Beach will officially open for the 1940 season on Saturday, | May 25, the resort chamber of com I merce decided at a meeting in the I town hall ^ast night. Robert Plummer, president, pre j sided over the session. | The decision to officially open the I beach earlier this year than has | been the custom in the past was | reached after members of the trade body pointed out that all rooming ' houses, hotels, amusement places and concessions will open before the first of June. Last year a large influx of visitors was experienced at the beach in mid-May. One member reported that several persons have already started going in the surf. ■ ! Several different forms of enter : tainment for the official opening were discussed, including vaudeville ■ acts, street dances, parades, and ■ other features. However, all action ‘ was deferred until the return of A. : L. Mansfield, chairman of the events • committee, who w’ill submit plans 1 for the opening at the next meeting. Several of the business establish ments at the beach' are already 1 open and all are expected to be open for business by the middle of May. , EVANS TO SPEAK , WINSTON-SALEM, April 2b— '-T —Walter M. Evans, attorney for l the Retail Merchants association of ) Virginia, will speak on the “Con - sumers' Cooperative Movement” - Monday at the annual Convention of the North Carolina Association of - Insurance Agents. Officers of the North Carolina Re * tail Merchants association will be ■ the guests of the insurance agents 5 to hear the speech. The convention ‘ will open here Sunday afternoon and last through Tuesday. ; SIGNS BILL 5 WASHINGTON, April 25.—GP>~ President Roosevelt signed today a I bill providing for automatic reap (. portionment of the 435 seats in the house on the basis of the 1940 cen sus. The reapportionment will be ) effective in 1942. AFL Working On Plan To Boost (]. S. Income WASHINGTON, April 25—m —William Green aroused the in terest of the mom poly commit fee today with a disclosure that the AFL is working on a plan to increase national income by $10,000,000,000 a year and to create jobs for most of the un employed. Reticent about exact details, the Federation president said his organization was “now giving careful study to a proposal which after further analysis and consideration I hope I will be in a position to place before the country as a practical program for reemployment and as a real istic approach to our immediate problem.” Senator King (D-Utah), who was presiding, said he hoped Green would hurry in with de tails "because this committee will die before very long.” GUNMAN IS SLAIN AFTER 12 WOUNDED Dies In Blaze Of Gunfire In Burlington, la., After Resisting Police BURLINGTON, la., April 25.— UP)—An apparently deranged gun man died here today in a blaze of gunfire in a busy downtown street, precipitated by the man’s resistance to arrest. A dozen persons were wounded, four of them seriously. Sheriff Harry Hunt said the gun man was Henry Reeb, 36, who is believed to have killed himself after officers tried for two hours to drive him out of a building with tear gas and gunfire. Reeb, unmarried and unemploy ed, started the shooting the sheriff said, when he resisted officers who attempted to serve an insanity war rant on him in a second story apartment. Sheriff Hunt said he believed Reeb ended his life after a bullet (Continued on Page 16; Col. 3) REQUEST FOR FISH IS FILLED BY U. S. City To Receive ‘Generous Supply” For Re-Stock ing Greenfield Lake Representative J. Bayard Clark yesterday advised the chamber oi commerce here that a request for a supply of minnow s and small fist for re-stocking Greenfield Lake is being filled by the U. S. Bureau o Fisheries. No definite amount was named although Congressman Clark saic it would be a "generous supply.” The supply of fish will be sen to James E. L. Wade, city coinmis sioner of public works, who ha: agreed to report the results of tin planting of fish on the third yeai after the shipmen is received. A questionnaire in connectior with the shipment was mailed t( the chamber of commerce and wa: filled out and returned yesterday The city has already met all the re quirements of the bureau of fisher ies in the re-stocking of streams The bureau has made available i large quantity of all species of fisl for distribution throughout the Unit ed States. Allies Boost Orders For American Plana WASHINGTON, April 25.— (IP) - Great Britain and France havi swelled their pending orders fo American war planes to well be yond 4,000, it was indicated toda; by an announcement that the Allie in the last two weeks have placei aircraft and engine contracts aggre gating $200,000,000. The announcement came from oi ficials of the Allied purchasing mis sion who said large quantities o speedy Curtiss and Bell pursui planes, Douglas bombers and er gines of three types were included. The latest purchases, it was est: mated by airmen in touch with th negotiations, represent nearly 2,00 planes and an undisclosed large number of Allison, Wright and Prat and Whitney motors. Truck Load Of Berries Sold On Rosehill Mar ROSEHILL, April 25.—The firs solid truck load of strawberries wa sold on the Rosehill market todaj Prices ranged from $5 to $G wit] some fancy berries bringing $G.5C The fruit is reported to be of ex cellent quality. Several out-of-town buyers ar scheduled to arrive Saturday and th market will be opened officially 01 Monday. SHOCKED ROCHESTER, N. Y„ April 25 CP>—George Hammer 45, utility lint man, was shocked so severely whe: he touched an open 11,000-vol switch that the gold rims of hi glasses partially melted and brand ed circles about his eyes. His con dition is critical. TWENTY KILLED LONDON, April 25.—(JP)—The ac miralty disclosed today that 20 me. were killed or died of wounds an 20 more were tvounded while on dt ty with the battleship Rodney an the destroyers Hotspur and Eclips in recent actions off Norway. NORWAY PLACED ON LIST OF EUROPEAN BELLIGERENTS BY F. R. PROCLAMATION ) _ 5 By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 25—UP)—A Presidential proclama i tion added Norway today to the ’ list of European belligerents and 5 another declared the intention ' of the United States to remain neutral in the Scandinavian na tion’s war with Germany. Automatically, President ; Roosevelt’s action put Norway on a “cash and carry” basis so far as obtaining war supplies in [ the United States was concern | ed. She must pay cash for any such supplies a*id carry them J away in non-American vessels. Germany, France and England I already are on a cash and carry basis, although t'i Allies super 1 ior sea power permits them alone to augment their own war materials with purchases in this country. The proclamations signed here today took no note of Ger many’s invasion of Denmark, and the White House had no thing to say about the chances that similar documents pertain ing to Denmark would be be is sued. A third proclamation, follow ing the precedents invoked last fall when the European conflict began, barred Norwegian sub marines from American ports and territorial waters. Backing up his proclamations, the chief executive prescribed in an executive order regulations "S ^ / for enforcing the neutrality of til? United States. The temporary White House made only a bare announcement that the documents had been signed, leaving it up to the State department to make public the texts. Earlier this month, the chief executive had extended the “com bat Zone,” which American ves sels are forbidden to enter, to include all waters adjacent to Norway. He also took action to insure that Norwegian capital, credits and property in this country would not fall into Ger man hands. At the same time that the President was attaching his signature to the proclamations and executive order, mimic war __ - —— fare was in progress almost in Ills own back yard. Through woods and along highways adjacent to the little white house, crept a detachment of mechanized cavalry — two scout cars and fifteen motor cycles with side cars, all fully manned — which was sneaking up on objectives in maneuvers of the third army area. The maneuvers centered around Fort Benning, Ga., forty miles away. The “attackers,” who stopped at a filling station not far from the President’s cottage, apparently to await “re inforcements,” seemed to be at tempting to take a “vital rail way junction” at Manchester, Ga., five miles southeast of Warm Springs, » T TM Attend The l^ape rear harden Olub bprmg rlower bhow today * r. » n i _.1 _
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