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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
r. Urges Prayers
For Reign OF Right

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-R)-Presi
dent Roosevelt, in a letter read to.
day at special services in the Ply.
mouth Church of the Pilgrims called
for prayers that the day may be
fastened when the kingdoms Of this
world shall become the kingdom of
God, and the reign of moral force
shall supplant brute strength in the
government of men,"
The services marked the transfer
from the former Plymouth Church
to the Plymouth church of the Pill
grims of a piece of the original Ply
mouth Rock, traditional landing spot
of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass.
The two churches, both in Brook
Ign, were consolidated several years
ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Chemical Firm Buys
Land For Arms Plant

CLIFTON FORGE, Va, Dec. 21.-
R-Curtis Brown, president Of the
Clifton Forge Chamber of Commerce,
said the Triton Chemical company
had signed deeds for a location at
Glen Wilton, about six miles east Of
here, for a plant intended for the
manufacture of explosives.
Brown said options were exercised
yesterday and deeds signed by the
company with the Glen Wilton cor
poration. Of which w. w. thinner
man is president, in the amount of
$12, 900, and with c. M. Reynolds and
wife in the amount Of $12, 500.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
WINTER BEGINS:
WEATHER IS MILD
Continued From Page One)

shortest day of the year is really
a lot Of bunk, according to the
weather bureau here.
OF course, it was shorter by a
few seconds, but that is all the
difference in the day before it or
today.
But actually and officially yes
terday was the beginning of win
ter.
You wouldn't have guessed it by
looking at the thermometer here.
At 1:30 a. m. it read 56; at 1880
a. m. 50; at 1870 p. m. it had
scared to SO and at 1880 p. m. it
was standing at SIS degrees. The
prediction was that this morning,
shortly before sunrise it would sink
to its lowest point, but that would
be a healthy ~ degrees.
The sun rose at TIA a. m. yes
terday and set at 5:07 p. m. Today,
the figures show, it will do the
same thing. Of course, there is a
difference. Yesterday was shorter
than today, but so little is the
difference it is less than a minute
and the official figures show no
difference. 3
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-tR-Winter
came in like a lamb today-to the
delight of millions of Christmas
shoppers and holiday travellers.
The change of seasons at 5:55 D.
m. central standard time was marked
by mild weather in most sections of
the United States.
The midafternoon temperature in
Chicago, for instance, was "A. In
North Dakota and Montana, in the
western belt plagued by cold and
snow storms as early as Armistice
Day, readings were more than Is
degrees above normal, with a peak
Of Sc at Great Falls, Mont.
Thousands Of Americans passed
through Chicago's transportation
hub. Rail, air, and bus lines reported
that extra equipment was placed in
service to handle the throngs, bound
Tor the most part for their home
towns. Highway patrolmen reported
heavy traffic on the roads.
M. D. Fife, station master at
Chicago's union depot, terminal for
four railroads, stated that he hadn't
seen anything like it" in a decade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
BY DREW

LONDON, Dec. 21.-R0Ex-
~'ctation of a new, formidable
threat of invasion from the air was
widely supported tonight by re-
sensible military and air sources
who declared that Germany would
send over an enlarged Luftwaffe
and thousands of parachute troops
IN an attempt to beat Britain to
ner knees before Spring.
The air correspondent of the
SeL-lnformed Sunday Times said
mat the new threat as forecast
N Lord Beaverbrook comes more
panty from the air." an opinion
oacked by neutral and British air
sources. Lord Beaverbrook, minis
Ter OF aircraft production, warned
Britain this week against letting
down her guard. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Biz German Guns
Shell Dover Coast

DOVER, England, Dec 21.-H9-
The big German guns of Cap Girls
Nez opened fire across the Straits
of Dover shortly after 9 p. m. g
o. m. EST.), breaking a weeks ST.
lence.
The Smelling was heavy. Towns on
the Kentish coast were shaken by
the crash of the shells, coming at
3-minute intervals for a quarter of
an hour.
There Were no casualties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
GREEKS ADVANCE
ON TWO FRONTS
Continued From Page One)

front, and on an Italian airfield.
By land-Greek infantrymen,
hammering at the gates of Tepe.
leni and Klisura, were said to have
taken two villages and two strate.
GIGS heights in the Tepeleni area,
overcoming cold, stubborn Italian
resistance and strong barbed wire
barriers. An Italian colonel and
two battalions were said to have
been captured in fierce fighting
around Tepeleni.
By sea-a naval communique to.
day said a Greek destroyer force
preceded the British battleship.
cruiser-destroyer Armada which
was reported yesterday to have
pushed into the lower Adriatic
Dec. 10 and shelled Valona, Italy's
port of entry into southern AL
bania. The Greeks said their de-
stroyers penetrated the Adriatic as
far as the island of Saseno, at the
entrance to Valona harbor, on the
night of Dec. 1916 without en-
countering any signs of the
enemy"
Air Vice Marshal John Henry
|D'Albiac, commander of the Raj
in Greece, expressed satisfaction
with the progress of the air war.
British fighters, he said, have
established n of the best records
made anywhere during the war
and British bombers have fulfilled
their tasks despite weather handi.
caps encountered nowhere else in
Europe
D'Albiac summarized the Raj
record thus:
Fighters-39 Italian craft de.
stroyed and IL probably destroyed;
one Raj pilot killed and n mis-
ing.
Bombers-7O raids carried out,
100 tons of bombs dropped, nine
aircraft lost.
On Valona alone, he said, the
Raj has made 10 attacks and
dropped $4,000 pounds Of explo-
sives. On Durazzo, another of
Italy's main Albanian ports, he
said there had Leen eight raids
in which $1,000 pounds Of bombs
were dropped.
The Italian air force, on tn e
other hand, has been ineffective
and ~misdirected, D'Albiac de-
clared, and had shown signs of
confusion and indecision.
He cited constant shifting of Ital-
ian planes from n point to an
other. He said he had been inform
ed that the Italians already had
transferred a number of planes
from Albania to Africa since the
British desert campaign began.
1T is not so much material de-
struction that counts in bombing
attacks" Albiac asserted, las dis
organization of trains, warehouse
facilities and so forth which causes
delay and confusion"
He laid the British success to
good fighting spirit and perfect CO.
ordination during air combat. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Pnuate Is Sentenced
In Staying Of Chum

foRT DIX, N. j., Dec. 21.-R-
fF'Vate Victor A. Pirelli, %, was SEN
eaced BY a summary court martial
quay to 80 days confinement and
'@S Oh t~Wo-thirds of one months pay
a'ef a military inquiry of the fatal
n0O'ng Of Pirelli's chum, Private
EDWARD A. Zenobi, 10.
Plrell: was acquitted Of one mill
a. charge of "willfully, feloniously
VI o~hlawfully' killing the Wood
4nle' N j., soldier, but convicted
NJ second charge of violating tie
,vuA article of war through "careless-
y olscharging a As calibre revolver
s'a disregard of an order that no en-
.%'eu man is permitted private am
hlnition
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Miss Sold Is Feted
On 8Oth Anniuersar,

NEW YORK, Dec. 21-R-Had-
assah, Women's Zionist organiza-
ton Of America, cabled a birthday
gift of $25, 900 today to Miss Hen
rietta Sold, Palestine, American
born founder of the organization.
to be used to protect the welfare
of the people there during the war
crisis.
Parties in honor of Miss Szold's
80th birday were held today in 46
states where Hadassah has chap
tiers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Franco Raises Taxes,
Some By IS Per Cent

MADRID, Dec. 21-R- A new
law boosting taxes for Spaniards
in practically all fields and Great
ing new taxes on the purchase of
such articles as salt and soap will
be published in the official bulletin
tomorrow.
Taxation on industry will be in
creased in some cases by Is per
cent. Profit taxes will go up by
eleven to Is per cent anc taxes on
stock dividends by six TO II per
cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Deanna Durbin Will
Wed Paul Or June !

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21.-(R-De
anna Durbin and Vaughn Paul, as
sociate film producer, will be mar
ried in a church wedding June Z.
The announcement was made to-
night by the singing stars parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Durbin, at an
engagement party for the couple
attended by ESQ guests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Sharp Home Building
Pickup Noted By FILA

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-R-
The FILA said today that increases
as much as 1855 per cent in new
home construction had been regis
tered in areas where the National
National Defense program has ac-
CELEBRATED industrial activity.
Administrator Abner H. Ferguson
said in a statement that these new
homes were being financed by FILA
insured loans Through the estab'
lished machinery of private builders
and private lending institutions"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
Boy, is, Is Held
In Staying Of Warden

REDWOOD, W. Va, Dec. 81
R- Fred Hobart, 44-year-old
game warden, was shot and killed
today when he sought to question a
16-year-old farm boy about his
hunting license, State Trooper B.
F. Mclaughlin reported.
Mclaughlin said that Herbert
Dale Milan had been placed in the
Nicholas county Jail at Summers
vile pending investigation of the
officers Staying.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
DOUBLE OR III

SCIO, Ore. Six Scio residents
born on Christmas Day and tired of
being 'short changed" on gifts, de-
cided on a joint birthday party hop
ing their friends would be generous.
The friends ignored the party
Too near Christmas" one said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
By The Associated Press

BERLIN. Dec. 22.-(Sunday) -
Strong Nazi air formations swept
rer Britain overnight and, accord
ns to authorized sources, had ex-
ellent weather to aid them in
smashing at military detectives
and supply centers.
Fires and explosions were re-
wrted after the first waves poured
over South and Central England.
British fliers struck twice at Ber-
lin Friday night in a major raid,
the Nazi high command announced
Saturday. 1t said the British flew
ever the center of this capital and
dropped both explosive and fire
limbs.
Six persons were killed and II
injured, a communique reported,
and the Dom (Protestant) cathe-
iral was hit and damaged-to the
extent Of 1900. 900 marks (about
100000, said the Reich church
ministry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-22
AND PORT
CITY HARD HIT
continued From Page One)

~ he said with a gesture al
ne broken homes
more had been parties all
i,nd the district, some in air
" shelters and others in homes.
,alo tbe sirens sounded most oil
Nasa aeople stayed in their houses,
te sd pis it would be just another
ssht night
rser they were dead on the
l.nnents or peering sadly into
..cked homes. The wounded had
'.sn taken to hospitals. Children
X, clutched cheap toys in the
I'D.
rirpnen worked in the tenement
..sckage. There seemed little
WIZ that anyone below was alive
N.Y. .Ss bomb had been a big one.
T., thew worked, pathetic memen-
'.,s Of the party were shoveled
WV into the street-a bag of Christ
y.s candies and a red and white
ss,,re of Santa Claus.
There probably were $50 people
=. The tenement at the time the
.,,h fell. The number of dead
,.nnot now be released.
German fliers had bombed a
,ondon apartment house earlier
!, the day. causing an undeter-
lined number of casualties there.
a, thev renewed the assault on
n. CITY tonight on this, the longest
,;sbt Of winter, raiders were re-
,arted crossing the southeast coast
:. great height in at least two
waves,
liverpool and other Merseyside
.,yns we're assaulted for the Sec
md successive night. The Nazi air
,uacks-which followed by "a
hours heavy British raids upon
Bsrlin-extended from the English
,nsnnel to the Irish sea.
German planes darted over the
LIVERPOOL area at the rate of one
|, minute. beginning the attack
shortly after dark.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
TO INVESTIGATE
DEATH OF SEVEN

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 30
The Coroner's officer began an
investigation today of patent
medicine which may have caused
the deaths of seven persons.
An order was issued for an ex-
tended inquiry into the death of
Leona Keirich, a tuberculosis pa
tent who was said to have taken
the medicine. The California Stale
Medical Board will conduct the
investigation and make an analy-
sis of the medicine.
Coroner Nance said that at least
seven deaths have occurred among
patients taking a medicine sup
posed to aid tuberculosis sufferers.
Most medical authorities say that
tuberculosis cannot be aided by
medicine.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
DantesAtop
High Tower

NEW YORK, April 30-Roy Yost,
So, OF Manhattan, who said he hoped
to get a parachute jumping job at
the New York Worlds Fair, chose
the top of the TOO foot Trylon Tow
er to make a demonstration today
Yost kept the police and more
than 100 workmen in suspense as he
danced and did other antics for more
than an hour before yanked back to
safety. He was then arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
ApafhyIs
Shown in
Primaries
Small Percentage Of Vof-
ers in Massachusetts,
Going o Polls

BOSTON, Mass, April 30.-Only a
small percentage of the states g.
100000 voters were drawn to the
booths today in the Presidential pri-
mary which is featured mainly on
the question whether the Old Age
Pension Group is backing Dewey
for President, without his authorize
ton. to break into the semi-official
unpledged Republican slate.
william McMasters, is leader of
the Old Age Group
On the Democratic side, the slate
is pledged to Postmaster General
James A. Farley and he is conceded
a victory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30

In Seattle
IsDroppinq
Census, So Far Taken,
Shows Decrease of
17,000Under 30

SEATTLE, April 80. - All civil
agencies today appealed to citizens
to make sure they have been counted
in the census that is now being
taken
The Chamber of Commerce re-
reals that it has been told that the
count now stands at 349,053 or nearly
1000 under the 1880 census figures.
Mayor Langlie said that unless the
population is found larger it will re-
suit in an amount of nearly $1,000
600 in city gasoline and liquor tax
ALLEGATIONS alone during the next
10 years.
The Red Cross, now conducting
the annual roll call has offered aid
and this has been accepted
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
HOUSE WORKING
ON CHANGES IN
WAGE. HOUR ACT
Exemption Of Certain Sal
aired Workers from
Overtime, Is Up

WASHINGTON, April 80. = The
House has approved tentatively an
amendment to the wage and hour
law to exempt certain salaried work
ers from overtime provisions of the
act.
This action followed House post
ponement until later in the week of
all decisive votes on the controversial
wage hour amendments
The new amendment was offered
by Republican Representative Hoff-
man of Michigan. Hoffman said the
amendment would apply only to
workers who are paid regular salar-
les. He said such a change would
relieve employers of the burden of
paying overtime during certain rush
seasons of the year, and that the
time could be balanced off during
the slack seasons.
Among the amendments rejected
was proposal by Representative
Buck of California to exempt from
provisions of the act, farm cooper
ative organizations for the purpose
of processing and handling farm
products. Buck said that the amend
ment would place the small West
Coast growers on an equal footing
with the larger growers. Buck ex-
planned that under the terms of the
existing act packing plants main
tanned on the farms of the larger
growers are exempt from the pack
ing and processing regulations.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
ELECTION

Primary election polls will
remain open until Z o'clock
this evening.
Polling places in Juneau are:
Precinct l, F'irehall; Precinct
2, Gross Building on Franklin
Street; Precinct 3, Barlow
Building on Willoughby Ave-
nue..
No registration is necessary
in order to vote. To qualify a
person must be a citizen, Il
years of age or over, have
lived in the Territory one year
and in the precinct 80 days.
Because of the length OF the
tickets, the first election re-
turns are not expected before
10 or IL o'clock tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
new RULING
IS MADE BY
WAGE BOARD
Term Retail Sales Is Ex-
planned Exemption
Is Set Forth

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Act-
ing on reports received from in
spectors, attorneys and others in
the field force, on the manner in
which the administration of the
Fair Labor Standards Act can best
be practically adapted to business
practice and custom, Colonel Philip
B. Fleming, Wage and Hour Di-
vision, U. S. Department of Labor,
has issued instructions to all field
forces, containing a new rule to
determine whether an establish
ment is retail establishment
and as such specifically exempt
from the requirements of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, it was an
nounced today.
The term retail sales" means
sales to individual consumers, the
inspectors have been instructed.
"a sale for industrial or bust
ness purposes as distinguished from
private consumption, is not re-
tail sale" the inspectors have been
advised.
"A retail establishment is one
in which so percent or more OF
the dollar value of total sales are
retail sales"
This should clarity the coverage
of many merchandising establish
ments about which there was some
doubt" Colonel Fleming said. "It
sets a definite criterion by which
to determine what commercial es-
Establishments are retail and what
CONN ercial establishments are
wholesale"
Heretofore, if more than a
minor part of an establishments
business was wholesale, it had been
treated as a wholesale establish
ment.
Through the use of this new
"yardstick" against which a firms
business will be measured in de-
termining coverage of the law, the
Wage and Hour administration took
its second step within the month
to clarity the application of the
Fair Labor Standards Act to the
wholesale field. Petitions for re-
definition of the terms executive"
administrative" professional and
outside salesman" as they are
used to describe categories of en-
ployees under the Fair Labor STAN
dards Act in the wholesale distribu-
tive trades, were the subject of a
weeks hearings which closed yes
terday, before Harold Stein, Assist
ant Director of the Hearings
Branch, who had been designated
by Colonel Fleming to preside.
Upon assuming office as Admins
traitor, Colonel Fleming announced
his intention to advise, as prompt
ly as possible, business, labor and
the public generally of the manner
in which the law would be admin
istered in what heretofore has been
as borderline or twilight
zones. The action announced today
clarifying the Administrator con-
cept of a retail establishment" and
the re-eXamination of the defini-
tons executive ETC., in the whole
sale distributive trades, are part of
that program.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
BIG BATTLE
NOW FACING
Rep. PARTY
Fiqhf Predicted Over Plank
Regarding Keep
Out of War"

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Promi-
nent Republicans forecast the Plat
form Committee will have the big
gest battle ever over the phrasing of
the Keep Out of War" plank.
This opinion has resulted follow
ing a series of talks with Convention
Keynoter Gov Harold Stassen of
Minnesota
Leaders of the Republican Party
here disclosed that there are diff
ferences of opinion over the precise
position which the party should take
on foreign policy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
PEACE PROGRAM
FOR Z FACTIONS
OF TEXAS DEMOS
Roosevelt and Garner
Groups Get Together
on AmieabIe Terms

AUSTIN, Texas, April 30.-A peace
program has been agreed upon be-
tween the leaders of the Roosevelt
and Garner factions seeking control
of the Texas delegation to the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
1t has been agreed that the dele
cation should be instructed for
Garner; that the Roosevelt Garner
Administration be endorsed and that
it will not participate in any stop
Roosevelt movement.
Texas has as votes in the National
Convention.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
MIGRANT Farmer Problem
Now puzz|er;; California
May Have Last Laugh YET
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, April 90. A
slew of capitalites are sitting
around biting their finger nails,
waiting to see what the census
has to report on the migrants
You could live IN any one of
two dozen states and think this
report a minor item, but don't fool
yourself.
Let's take Oklahoma, for ex-
ample. (There's really no particular
reason why we should, except that
John Steinbeck has populariZed
the conception of migrants from
that state). Ever since the Grapes
made the nation migrant conscious,
Oklahoma has been privileged to
laugh UP its sleeve at California.
We are getting rid of lot of
surplus labor-a burden of relief
at the expense of California.
Ha -ha," the Oklahomans might
say.
Mind you, l says they MIGHT
say. This is purely hypothetical
item. And since I know what they
do say, I'm not putting it N here.
Tn only saying that they might
well say that But when the re-
ports are in, California may have
the last laugh.
Why?
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
OPPOSE WOMEN
BEING PASTORS
OF METH0DSTS
General Conference Re-
ieCfs Petitions Seek
ing Full Status

ATLANTIC CITY, April 30 = The
Committee on Ministry of tn e
Methodist General Conference has
rejected by a vote of 46 to 26 Pc
titions seeking full pastoral status
for womens
Tie Methodist Church now or
dams women and allows them to
administer the Sacrament, and
perform marriages, but does not
permit them to become pastors or
members of the General Confer
ence.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
DENY BOMBING
HOSPITAL ship,
NORWAY COAST
Ndzi Airmen Said 10 Be
Observing Interna-
ti0naI PdCts

BERLIN, April 80. German
authorities deny that their air forces
had bombed Norwegian hospital
ship off Alesund The denial was
issued in response to Norwegian
report that five persons had been
killed and a large number injured
in the bombing attack.
The Germans said their airmen
were observing international agree
ments strictly and were not attack
ing either hospitals or hospital ships
when they were marked properly
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
NARvIk IS
BOMBED BY
BRITISHERS
German Artillery Smashed
-Nazis Clinging 10 Ma
chine Gun Nests

STOCKHOLM, April 30.-German
troops in Arctic Narvik, with their
artillery smashed, are reported to be
'clinging to the shoreline in machine
gun nests under heavy bombardment
of British naval forces.
Advices from Riksgransen, Swed-
ish border station on the iron line
from Narvik, said the German forces
have lost all mountain artillery posi-
tiOnS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-30
new PHYSICIAN FOR
JUNEAU CLINIC ON
STEAMER Mckinley

DR.. Sam Rubley, accompanied by
Mrs Rubley, sailed north from Sc
attic today on the steamer Mount
Mckinley enroute here to join the
staff of the juneau Medical and
Surgical Clinic.
Formerly of Loganport, Ind, DR..
Rubley is an eye, ear, nose and
throat specialist.