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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
THREE KILLED IN
TRAIN CAR CRASH
ON ROWLAND STREET
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found 1870 feet from the point OF
the collision.
The train did not pass over any
of the bodies, but the three deao
Young women were so badly
mangled that it was almost I'M
nossible to identify them, he AID
Miss Stanton was identified only
bv a letter she had in her pocket
..There was no cutlery as the
train struck Them" Chief Bullock
said in explaining that he did not
believe any of the occupants either
heard or saw the train.
Auto Demolished
The 1899 model Ford coach In
which they were riding was moth
inc but a mass of tangled wreck
.ee after the collision, the officer
said.
The voung girls were all men,
hers of prominent Chadbourn
families.
Miss Collier, who was in the
Ninth grade, was the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Collier. Her father
is a leading hardware dealer OF
chadbourn. Miss Elrod, who was
in the Tenth grade, was a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Elrod'
Besides her parents she is sur
vived by two sisters and one
brother.
All three bodies were taken tc
a funeral home here. Funeral ar
engagements had not been made to-
night, however.
Coroner D. w. Biggs, of Robe
son county, who made al investi-
cation of the accident this after
mon. said tonisht that he did not
n1an to hold any inquest into the
deaths.
Chief Bullock said that the At.
~,.ntic Coast Line through train
stonped for about 80 minutes be-
fore continuing on southwark.
The railroad crossing signal or
Moi, street here consists of a sci
of lights that flash on and off, Of
eioials said, but added that there
was no bell at the crossing.
parents of the two girls and Miss
e+onton were notified of theil
deaths late this afternoon and fu'
neral arrangements will be made
upon their arrival.
This was Miss Stanton's mrs
year as a teacher at the Chad'
bourn school.
persons in Chadbourn said yes
terdav that they understood th'
nartv of five was just out on {
Sunday afternoon pleasure d
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26

public works and the farm program
Mr. Roosevelt submitted TO col'
gress a budget totalling SS,424'VV8'
900, which, on the basis Of estimate
income would leave a deficit OF ~
ZIG, 900, 900 if all of his recommends
lions We're carried out. These 7"
Communications included mpos'A'
new taxes of .460, 900, 900 for natloaA
defense and reducing the capI'a'
funds of government corpora'lVH'
by $500, OOO, 900.
The Economy league called az
for the lending corporations w.
turn $500, 900, 900 to the treasu'"
terming it drawing on the ,
pluses'' of lending corporations ann am
suggested new taxes of S45l'VV''''"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
BY MORGAN nj. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-The re-
cent of the Russian army
against the M~annerheim line con
vinces the better Informed military
experts here that the original fail
ure of the Russians in Finland was
political-not military.
In short, Mr.. Stains famed secret
service, or OGPU, may have pulled
one of the classic boners of modern
history. AS one Of the experts put
it:
1.-THE OGPU knows how to chop
things off all right, but you can't
do that to hard-bitten facts-and get
by with it."
One of the outstanding American
experts in military affairs of north
eastern Europe has held the opinion
from the start that the Russians
YER not developing their maximum
military power in Finland.
He does not argue that the Rus
slams are a match for a major power.
But considering the Soviets' over.
whelming superiority in numbers, he
has felt that the Russian machine
could develop enough strength to
reach and crack the Mannerheim
line.
The Russians finally have done
that-a clean break through is an
other question.
Why The Delay
Why didn't they do it before?
Here's how the expert figures it
out:
Russian agents must have been
informing Stain and his military
advisers for many months on in
ternal conditions in Finland-mili-
tary, economic, and social.
If this information had been ac-
curate, these agents would have re-
ported back to Moscow that Finnish
capitalistic society was undoubtedly
strong and capable of a great deal
of resistance to communism; that
the economic condition of the peo-
pie was fairly sound, at least much
more solid than it was in Russia;
and that the military preparedness
of the Firms was such that only
smashing, trip-hammer o :
against the Mannerheim line, with
heavy losses, would carry through
a Russian assault.
But, says the expert, was this in.
formation conveyed to Stain and his
general staff? Nobody knows, but
apparently it was not.
For on December 3 the Soviet
press hailed the formation of a PEG.
ple's regime of Finland at Terijoki
on the Karelian isthmus. These
newspapers treated it as a ~foregone
conclusion that a new government
had been set up, and the people Of
Finland were rising against the IRE.
dictionary beasts in Helsinki, who
controlled the "old government"
The Russian government, argues
the expert, must have had wel-laid
plans for setting up a new govern
ment i Finland, and must have ex-
pected the people Of that nation to
back up a new government under
Soviet auspices, else it would not
nave allowed the Russian press to 60
Growing about it in advance.
That means the Russian govern
ment must have been enormously
INFORMED that ~capitalistic society in
FINLAND was tottering and that the
common people were ready to revolt
against it. The Soviet inner council
must have had some kind Of advice
a no more than a big show of
military strength. and isolated pres
sure here and there would be suf.
'11clent also to crack the highly-tout.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
Slash OF Rooseuelt's
Fund Proposals Asked

WASHINGTON, Feb. 90 P
The National Economy league pro.
posed today that the federal budget
.or 1s4o-41 be balanced by cutting
s1,745.O 600, 900 from President Roasa
vets recommendations, for relief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26

dido the government will swing to his view.
Hopefully, this will be the official decision
at No. 10 Downing street, while there Is yet
time to stem the tide of Russian invasion
in Finland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
TOP O. THE MORNING

Apart from Thee all gain Is loss,
All labor calmly done;
The solemn shddoD OF Thy Gross
Is better than the sur.
From TODAY
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Church intermediates
Enjoyed Party

Mrs. o. c. Howell entertained
the boys and girls in her Sunday
School Glass at a party Friday
evening. Games were enjoyed
and a special feature of the eve
ming was a birthday celebration
for three members of the class
who had birthdays during the
week.
A birthday cake with lighted
candles conferred the table in the
dining room, and the Halloween
idea was carried out in the table
decorations.
Those having birthdays were:
Lorraine Goethe, Gilbert Richard
son and Philip Strunk.
Others attending the party
were: Jacqueline Doughty, Rosa
lie Nelson, Grace Torres, Odes
McKillip, Harry Sawyer, Caudius
Spencer, Ward Herrick, Rev. and
Mrs. o. c. Howell
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HISTORY OF APP.
STORY OF NEWS

Continued from Page One)
newspapers it serves. 1t is from
this source that The Citizen re-
ceives the bulk of the world news
which it publishes for its thou
sands of readers.
AP-THE STORY OF NEWS.
however, is more than a recital
of the evolution of one news or
ganization. Great names in
newspaper history fill the pages
of the book, which is primarily
concerned with recounting the
first-hand experiences of report
ers on the scene of world events
from the War of 1912 to the pres
ent day.
The book tells of the high-col-
Jared reporters who covered the
Civil War; of Lawrence Go
bright who wrote the story of
Lincoln's assassination; of Mark
Kellogg who trotted to death
beside Custer; of the men who
covered the famous Johnstown
flood; of Kiriloff who strapped
himself on a horse after being
shot in the lung and rode across
the strewn battlefields to report
the Russo-Japanese war; of the
men who covered the first World
War and of those now on assign
ment in the war-torn areas of
Europe and the Far East.
AP-THE STORY OF NEWS
also relates the development of
communications syste ms by
which the news is sped, as well
as the perfection of the modern
miracle" of newspaper science
by which a mechanism called
Wirephoto speeds news pictures
across continents within minutes
after they are snapped, to be
printed side by side with the
stories they illustrate.
The book, now available in
stores throughout the country,
was published by Farrar & Rine-
hart. It contains 500 pages and
80 full-page illustrations. Ad-
vance reviews have termed it
1.-THE outstanding non-fiction
book of the year..
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THE ANSWERS


l. 1889 production 100000
pounds.
2. The 35,000-ton Washington
will have four propellers, each
weighing $4,000 pounds.
3. No, the weaving is entirely
instructive.
4. The idea of an empire,
stretching from Berlin to Bagh-
dad. i''~-
5. British estimate: an aver
age of 400. ia PGrT LOr'I
6. China, $500; Japan, S,145.
z. December IL, 1887 ~
8. Estimate: 100000.
9. No.
10. About five miles, between
Russia's Big Diomede Island and
our Little Diomede in the Boring
Strait.
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MORE SIGNIFICANT
THAN MADE KNOWN

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return each year for brief but
intensive study of the latest dis
coveries and new methods which
are constantly being developed
in the field of crime prevention
and detection.
The primary purpose of the
school is not to train policemen
but to train men who can train
policemen. In other words, these
graduates of the NPA are teach
ers who go back to their own
cities and states and there set up
police schools modelled on the
lines of the NPA here.
A Trained Reserve
That is the primary purpose,
but it is a secondary result
that caused me to dip into the
academy and find out what it's
all about. And that result is that
by means of the academy, the
FBI has built up a reserve of
more than 500 trained men, who,
if the emergency arose, could be
thrown into the breach as special
or temporary agents.
Suppose tomorrow that the ma
tional defense program or the Sc
lective service program should
suddenly need policing by a force
far greater than the already
strained personnel of the FBI
could supply. Oman Hoover
would have them in a minute.
It's no elementary course in
criminology that the NPA dishes
up. The subjects covered are far
too numerous to list, but they in
clude such things as the develop
ment of latent fingerprints, lab
oratory work, training with sub
machine guns, how to make raids
and arrests, how to conduct
Searches, jiu jitsu defense, how to
block roads and bottle up escap-
ing criminals, fifth column in
vestigations, sabotage inveStiga-
tions, general crime prevention,
the care and use of firearms-in
fact, almost everything conceiv-
able under the heading of police
work.
Take Examinations
The men keep notebooks. take
examinations, work out crime
problems, attend lectures and
motion pictures and dig in on
reading assignments. Their in
structors are from the staff of the
FBTs own academy. There is no
tuition, but transportation and
expenses of the men have to be
paid by their departments or
civic groups.
The men have to be under As
years old and full-time members
of a state, county or city police
force. Application for their at
tendance at the NPA must be
made by the police force in
which they work. Seventy-five
percent of the graduates either
have had promotions or now are
conducting schools in their own
bailiwicks.
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=: SOCIETY =:
Junior Women
Held Party

Regular semi-monthly card
party for the Junior Woman's
Club of this city was held at the
clubhouse on Division street last
Thursday afternoon, with a good
attendance out to enjoy the
games played.
Hostesses for the affair, as an
nounced by Mrs. joseph Lopez,
president, were Misses Marjorie
GWynn and Louise Ketchum.
High score winner was Mrs.
Maurice Scammons and Miss
Margaret Neff received consola-
ton prize.
Those attending were:
Miss Louise Hawkes., Mrs.
Lopez, Mrs. Arthur Sheppard,
Jr., Mrs. Gilmore Parks, Mrs.
Jack Delaney, Miss Juanita DON
go, Miss Betty Allshouse, Miss
Annabelle Moffat, Miss Ramona
Lopez, Miss Edith Moffat, Miss
Ada Rodriguez, Mrs. Scammons,
Miss Katherine Ybarmea, guest,
Miss Marguerite Page, Mrs. Ray
mond Curry, Mrs. Merrill Rob-
ertS.
Miss Clara Yates, Miss Ann
Deliano, Miss Lelanette Roberts,
Miss Edna Roberts, Mrs. Andrew
Elwood, Miss Phyllis Adams,
Miss Neff, Miss Geraldi n e
Knowles. Mrs. Frederick Whit
man, Miss Lois Pinder, Mrs.
Jack Eady. guest, Mrs. James
Gould, Mrs. Gladys DeLozier,
guest, Miss Benildes Remond,
Miss Wilma Alfonso, Mrs. Alicia
Boeyen, guest, Miss Isabel Kelly
and Miss Frances Ellsworth.
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knights OF MART
! Announce Dance

Slated to be the biggest and
gayest event of October is the
Halloween masquerade ball to
be staged at the Habana-Madrid
Club, Friday night, under aus
pices of Order Knights of Marti.
The event is to be a costume
affair and every one attending
is asked to come out in any kind
of makeup from "Dogpatch"
style to gala decorations. The
committee in charge is endeav-
oring to make this one of the
biggest affairs of this kind and
fun-Seekers are promised an en-
tertaining night.
Prizes for prettiest, funniest
and most appropriate costumes
will be awarded during the eve
ming.
Halloween iavors, such as
serpentine, horns and hats, will
be distributed among those at
ending the ball.
Although no floor show is
scheduled for this night, it was
announced that a miniature cou-
pie, Louis Santana and Carload
CaSado, will do the rhumba.
Sergio and Lena, popular dancers,
may also give a demonstration
as to how the rhumba is danced
the real Cuban way.
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'RAMPARTS FILM
OPENS AT MONROE

The Ramparts We Watch. a
full length feature picture of the
March of Time, will be shown at
Monroe Theater Tuesday and
Wednesday, October % and %.
With a cast of 1400 recruited
from real life, ''The Ramparts
We Watch" portrays an Amer
lean town during the years
1914-18.
In bringing back that America
of the first World War DAYS. in
recreating it as it really was,
March of Time has made a
motion picture unlike any other
ever produced.
It's story is that of real Amer
lean people in a typical Amer
lean town. 1t tells how the
events of those historical days
affected community which
might be any American COM
munity.
Woven into the story of. their
lives during this cataclysmic Pc
Rod is the world background of
war and politics portrayed by
the great men and women of the
time. also playing their real life
roles.
This picture with another
feature "Millionaires in Prison"
is expected to draw a capacity
crowd on both Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
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FOCAL POINTS OF
2 MAJOR WORRIES

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would. Practically nothing stands
there now. A skeleton gunboat
force. couple of destroyers and
one light cruiser in the huge
floating drydock comprise the
existing force.
The floating strength that
made Singapore No. l offensive
naval station has been transfer
red to the scene of war in the
Mediterranean.
Each night, therefore. wise
army and navy heads offer
thanks for the air force.
I saw evidence of at least 200
300 fighting planes and bombers
at Singapore, and you hear ru-
mors that a strong detachment of
Hurricane pursuit planes (per-
haps 5000 has been cached in hill
side hangers.
Coastline Bristles
/ Singapore hasn't been wasting
its time. It's coastline bristles
with barbed wire Every quarter
mile along its palm-studded
beaches squats a concrete pill
box. Tank traps cape along its
shore. Enough food is stored to
last through years siege.
The little colony of Hongkong
is in desperate predicament. AL
most useless to Britain, it still
would be nasty weapon should
it fall into the hands of an enemy.
Seven miles long, it has a nor
NAL population of 100000 which
is now swelled by 100000 hun
( cry Chinese war refugees.
/ Britain holds part of the main
land, but 20 miles northwest is
the Japanese-controlled border
and so miles beyond is Canton,
teeming with japanese planes
and mechanical troops.
/ Fearing japanese attack, Hong
kong is on a 24-hour 'alert"
status.
Prepared To Fight
/ Every white man under SIS
drills one day a week. OF these
there are $500. Not many, but
they're prepared to, shoulder
rifles beside Hongkong's 1000
regular soldiers. The harbor
mouth mas been heavily mined.
! l saw few military planes at
Hongkong-not much landing
space is available-so the colony's
defenses are static ones. A jap
anese attack would mean attrition
and great hardShips. Yet you
| see no signs Of weakening.
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|Hemingway's For Whom
Bell Tolls" Is Described
AS Extraordinarily Simple
BY JOHN sELBY. APP Book Review Writer
TOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. BY Ernest Hemingway;
lScrihners S27Sl.

This new novel of Ernest Hem
ingway's is not, as most of his
work has been, like a view
snatched between two tunnels.
For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a
full-length novel in which four
great days and one great love
both bear fruit and end greatly.
Like most fine novels, it is ex-
traordinarily simple. 1t is merely
the story of a young American
fighting in Spain for the Stain
evil against the Hitler-Mussolini
evil. The young Americans name
is Robert, and he has been a year
in Spain. Then one day he is
given an assignment by one of
the Russian commanders; it is to
blow bridge, and it is probably
hopeless. Soberly the young
American slips into the noun
tains and makes contact with a
guerilla band there.
The band is made up of mag
nificent people such as the rock
like wife of the titular COM
mander, and of other people like
other people the world over. 1t
also contains Maria, who has eS-
capped from the fascists after un-
mentionable indignities, who is
lovely and honest and true. For
the purposes of matchmaking
Robert and Maria must love at
once and intensely, and this they
do.
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! There must be an end. AS
would be expected, it is an I'M
pleasant end which solves moth
ing, and leaves the larger issue of
the Spanish civil war just where
it began, and the pitiful band
just where it was before, only
with little hope for itself. The
book is no tract, excepting that
because it is written from the
communist side its pull is eXerted
in that direction. It's pull is the
stronger, too, because of its
beauty.
And its beauty is strange
thing. The writing is, for num-
Der of reasons including Heming-
ways more mature outlook, less
staccato and hammered than most
of his writing in the past There
is a great deal of blood and some
thunder, but this is not always
inserted to knock the readers
eye out-oftener it is in key and
fitting, because this is war The
Spanish scene is vivid to the
author. 1t is strange and rather
pitiful that expatriation at the
formative stage has made Hem
ingway write better of foreign
lands than of his own. But one
must do what one can.
There may be technical reasons
why some will not agree that this
is HemingWay's best novel. For
this reader the statement is true.
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possible, for it's going to be a eos.
tune affair. Six prizes, of good
value, for most beautiful, comical
and outstanding nature, will be
awarded.
A prize waltz will afford an
opportunity to exhibit some beau
tiful dancing and the couple
chosen will be rewarded, it was
stated. Quite a few door prizes
of varied and interesting con-
tents will be also drawn.
The ball is to be held at the
Rainbow Room of the La Concha
Hotel, the night of October 31st.
Theone Lloyd is chairman of
the dance and in charge of all
arrangements. Any one desiring
tickets or information is request
ed to call at 570-J evenings.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Four marriage licenses were IS
sued at the office of Raymond r.
Lord, county judge. last weekend
to the following couples:
William Joseph Goodwin. -.
of the navy forces here. and
Lenora Richardson. q. Of Louis
vile. Melvin Sawyer. 43, sea
man here. and Jessie Mae Phil
lips, A. Peace justice Franklin
Arenberg performed marriage
rites for these two couples over
the weekend.
Walter F. Trunks, 3, of the
navy, and Cecilia Thompson, -
Julius Villareal, Jr., %. and Olga
Grace Tynes, Is. Peace Justice
Enrique ESqC::-.aldo, Jr., was 10
perform these marriages, accord
ing to license indication.
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Players Halloween
Ball Opens Season

Key West Players are working
hard to put on one of the most
entertaining and enjoyable dances
given in this city for long time,
and this morning announced
that ''if the number of tickets
already sold was an indication
of the attendance, the event
will indeed be one of outstanding
nature.
Groups of couples are arrang-
ing parties while others will at
tend alone in an effort to CON
ceal their identity as long as
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Norway Fears Winter

STOCKHOLM.-Swedes spon-
soring a drive for 700 tons of
clothing for needy NorwegianS.
declare 10000 are without
homes as a result of the war
and may be compelled to spend
the winter in tents and roughly
constructed huts.
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CHOOSY THIEF

GAINESVILLE, O.-Mrs. Cleo
Newsom complained to police of
a milk thief so impudent he plan
ned his menu. He faxed orders
for the milkman to leave whip
ping cream, and took that, too.
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NEW LUNCHROOM
OPENS ON FLEMING

Announcement is made on
page one TODAY of the opening of
new lunchroom and ice cream
parlor in this city.
It will be called Lula's Lunch
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Christian Service
Society To Meet

Women's Society of Christian
Service of Fleming Street Metho-
dist Church will hold its monthly
business meeting tomorrow eve
ming, Tuesday, at 7:30 o'clock at
the church, it was announced
today.
All members and ladies of the
church have been asked to at
tend this meeting.
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To be continued

Room and Ice Cream Parlor, To-
Gated at 1924 Fleming street.
Menus will specialize in Chill
con Carne, Hot SouSe. Conch
Chowder and all kinds of sand
witches and soft drinks.
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|Thf Rad 70 SIAM LON
1 by E2HA wchtnT f1AnSoo
BY NitA WVhiee tiAn3on

YESTERDAY: More prisons
er than q guest, Lynn Britton 70
setting out by motor car to Utsit
the court of a potOerfuI MongoI
prince. Her guard Is a hand
some, American educated Mon
gol called Tenlu DARN; their
chauffeur, noW beating his head
in the dust before Lynn, Is an
eUiI-looking felIoU tOho yester-
day, in the garb of q pilgrim,
frightened Lynn badly.
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CHANGE MEETING NIGHT

Key West Players an
nounced a change of meeting
night. The group will assem-
BILE on Thursday evenings
instead of Tuesdays. as here
tofore. Next meeting. Thurs
day. October "a.
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