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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
DOUBLE LINE UP

Last election day. 10,327 De-
troiters were forced to line up in
their old precincts, obtain transfer
cards and line up a second time
in their new precincts.
The legislature like those of the
past, probably will fight every ef-
fort TO divide Detroit into II
legislative districts instead Of
having the citys representatives
chosen at large.
But in 1912 the voters will pass
on the question of a constitutional
convention. If a convention is held.
the whole election system will be
moderniZed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

Gen. Hugh =. Johnso
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

record on the poll lists of the
voters party utilization.
This will preserve the secrecy
OF the ballot, inasmuch as cleo
ton workers seldom assigned
TO precincts in which they are
known" Distin explained.
Another bill would permit voters
who move between registration
deadline and election day to vote
in their former precinct for one
election.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Hundreds Killed
In London Raid

CONTINUED from Page One)
attack against the German-held
INVASION bases along the channel
coast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
MAY ENTER BULGARIA

These reports led Budapest
political circles to believe that
German troops would eventually
enter Bulgaria. possibly for a
thrust southwark against the
Greeks or to the southeast against
British Near East possessions and
the Suez Canal
At the same time, a great biz
card was reported raging in Ru-
mania hating railway traffic on
most lines. A string Of 140 car
loads of coal was said to have
been blown into the Black Sea
by a terrific gale which swept
the port of Constanza.
Reports from Bulgaria stated
the Sofia government denied the
presence of either German or Rus
sian troops in Bulgaria.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
100000 Germans
Expected Soon TO
Cross Hungary
BY GEORGE BALINT
~ New. serv,e. stan Correspondent

BUDAPEST, Dec. 2S.-Although
Hungarian authorities today in
sisted that only a temporary coal
shortage was behind the govern
ment restriction on railway travel.
reports from Bucharest stated
that 400, 900 German troops in $50
special trains would move over
the Hungarian lines en- route to
Rumania.
These troops will pass through
Hungary at the rate OF 90 trains
a day, it was reported, taking two
weeks for the entire transfer.
In addition, it was understood
Rumanian engineers had COM
pleted construction of Europe's
largest ferryboat one capable OF
carrying several thousand persons
per trip, for use on the Danube
between Giurgiu, Rumania, and
Ruse. Bulgaria,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

ROME, Dec. 2S.-Apparently
marking a joint Axis drive to pre-
vent the United States from send
ing war supplies to Great Britain
in American ships via ireland, the
Italian press today joined Ger
many in warning America that
such a move will involve it in the
European conflicts.
Italy's foremost Fascist organs
re-echoed the warning of the Ger
man press yesterday that Ameri-
can ships carrying war supplies
TO Britain via Ireland will be
sunk on sight.
Led by such newspapers as the
Popolo- Di Roma and the Giornale
DItalia. the Italian press warned
that the Irish move would consti-
tute an outright violation of
American neutrality and would
quickly lead the United States into
the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Rome Joins Berlin
In Drive TO Prevent
u. s. Aid to Britain
BY PERCY WINNER
Int'i News Service star Correspondent

the United States may suddenly
find itself involved in war with
Japan in the Pacific.
THE Axis powers" Gayda
wrote. "can immediately warn
the United States that the requi-
siti0ning of italian and Ger
man ships or use Of American
warships as conveys to Ireland,
no matter how verbally dis
guised, would be an open viola
ton of neutrality and would
signify the initiative Of the
United States In Intervention In
the war"
In one OF the most outspoken
articles he has yet penned on the
question OF the United States atti-
tude toward the conflict. Gayda
accused American intervention
lists" of trying to force the Rome
Berlin Axis to declare war against
the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
RISK LOSS OF SHIPS

The Popolo Di Roma warned
that any British attempt to use
Ireland as a bridge between the
United States and Britain would
Immediately involve both Ireland
and the United States in the war "
Germany has declared a
counter blockade against Great
Britain, including Irish waters"
the paper added.
ANY ships which attempt to
navigate this blockade zone run
the risk of being sunk. 1t Is in
admissible that a unilateral de-
cision on the port of the United
States should attempt to modify
the situation. The result would
be exposing American ships to
grave risk of being sunk"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

"Docks, alrdromes and sub
marine bases In occupied France.
including Bordeaux. Lorient and
lie Havre, were attacked by
Raj bombers last night" the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
Mother And
Her Daughter
Held By Jury
Child, Who Admits Shoot
ing Father Sunday, Still
In Detention Home
FBI INVESTIGATES CASE
Verdict Given By Coroner's
Jury After Probe Into
Canadians Death

Mrs. Grace r. Morrison, held BY
a %coroner's jury in connection with
the fatal shooting of her husband
William H. Morrison, wealthy Tors
onto, Ont, native, at her home on
the Carolina Beach highway early
Sunday morning, was released
from custody early last night under
bond of $4,000.
Her ~13-year-old daughter, Zelda
Deloris, was being held at the New
Hanover detention home last night
in default of a bond Of $4,000, set
by the %coroner's jury yesterday
after it had ruled that Morrison
"came to his death as a result Of
a wound inflicted by a rifle bulls
let fired by the hand of either Zel-
da Morrison or her mother, Mrs.
William H.. Morrison"
Mrs. Morrison's bond was re.
duced from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t was
signed by her brother, F. H. Ras>
bury. -.
Daughter Admits Shooting +
The daughter had freely admit.
ted the shooting, saying she shot
her father because he threatened
her mother.
Adding to the further mystery Of
the case last night was the disap-
pearance of papers in the Morrison
home and reported by officers to
have been written in code.
Agents of the FBI were reports
ed last night to be investigating
the case after witnesses testified at
the inquest yesterday that Mrs.
Morrison told them that her hus-
band vas an international spys
These statements were made by
Charles Lamont, of Carolina Beach,
who brought Morrison to the
James Walker Memorial hospital
some time after the shooting.
Officers were also investigating
the life of the man, who evidence
Continued OIL Page Three, Col. ~ |
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
HULL AND LOTHIAN
TALK T0BACCOBA
Secretary Calls Ambassa-
doris Attention To Plight
OF u. S. Producers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-B-
Secretary Hull called in the British
ambassador, Lord Lothian, today to
talk over with him Britain's refusal
to purchase American tobacco.
Officials would not say, after the
long discussion, whether Hull hat
asked the lifting of the British re
strictions, but it was understood he
had called the ambassadors atten-
ton to the plight of American to
bacco producers who had counted
on a normal British market. =
Officials here sympathize with the
fact Britain is seeking to conserve
her foreign currency for the prose.
cution of the war, but they are not
sympathetic to the fact that Brit.
ain, possibly for political reasons,
is turning to Turkey for her sup
plies of tobacco.
Soon after talking with the am
bassador, Hull went home to head
off a cold. He said he wanted to
conserve his energies in expectation
of appearing Wednesday before the
senate banking committee which
will examine the question of a loan
to Finland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
|B0RAH IS H0N0RED
BY F. D. R., OTHERS
State Funeral Is Held Ii
Washington; Burial Plan
ned Thursday In Boise

WASHINGTON, Jan. % R -
President Roosevelt and other ma
tional leaders bowed in grief today
elder statesman, Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho.
Senator Glass (D-Va) and many
another brushed tears from their
eyes in the hushed half-gloom of
the senate chamber as congressional
chaplains prayed over the slate
gray, steel casket containing the re-
mains of the man who came out of
the west 33 years ago to win fame
in some of history's most momen-
tous debates.
After the ceremony the doors
were locked, and the body lay in
solitude, except for an honor guard
of policemen, until the time came at
6:10 p. M, EST) to start the long
journey back to Idaho, where burial
will take place Thursday in Boise.
Aside from the solemn grandeur
of the scene-floor and galleries
packed with black-clad diplomats,
legislators, judges and Borah's
friends from private life-the cere-
money itself was simple.
Mrs. Henrietta Dagger Plum,
well-known Washington singer,
opened the service with the hymn,
LEAD Kindly Light" There was
no accompaniment.
"I am the resurrection and the
life, saith the Lord" began the
house chaplain, the Rev. James
Shera Montgomery. The senate
chaplain, the Rev. Re Barney Phil
lips, then read a lesson from the
18th chapter of st. John and the
eighth chapter of Romans.
Another song by Mrs. Plum,
"Abide With Me-" and a prayer, in
Guiding a supplication for Mrs. Bo.
rah and the late senator, concluded
the service. The Rev. Mr.. Phillips
raised his hand over the casket in
a blessing.
Throughout the ceremony, Sena-
tor Borah's desk, near the rear of
the chamber, stood empty, with a
Continued OH Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
UNITED STATES PROTESTS TO BRITAIN
OVER LENGTHY DETENTION OF VESSELS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-@
The United States has ex-
pressed to Great Britain Its
serious concern" over the treat
ment British authorities are &C.
cording American shipping in
the Mediterranean area, par
ticularIy at Gibraltar.
This was disclosed tonight
when the state department made
public an aide memoire, handed
to the British ambassador Sat-
urday, which protested that
American ships at Gibraltar
we're being detained three times
as long as. British contraband
authorities hold Italian ships
there.
The aide memoire, appending
q list of nine American ships de-
tanned by British authorities at
Gibraltar between November Is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23

her taking American ships into
the combat area, and her inter-
ference with American mails.
In addition, Secretary Hull
called the British ambassador,
Lord Lothian, to his office today
and drew his attention to the
plight of American tobacco
growers as a result of Britalns
refusal to buy American tobac-
co. although for political rea-
sons, she is increasing her Or
ders of Turkish tobacco.
The aide memoire, after re-
calling that this government
had already protested British in
reference with cargoes moving
from n neutral country to an
other, said:
TN addition, it now regrets
the necessity of being forced to
observe not only that British
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23

interference, carried out under
the theory of contraband con
troll, has worked a wholly un-
warrantable delay OH American
shipping to and from the Medi-
terranean area; but also that
the effect Of such action ap-
pears to have been discrim-
natory.
"Since ample time has elapsed
to permit the setting up of an
efficient system of control, it
would seem that the present
situation can no longer be as
cribed to the confusion attend
ant On early organization diff
culties."
The aide memoire went on to
say that American vessels pro-
ceeding to neutral ports have
CONTINUED OH Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
|Nazis Place
Near Rumania
Forces Will Police Railroad
Passing Through Rus
sian-O Occupied Poland
REDS AGREE TO MOVES
Also Gives Germany Per.
mission To Supervise Oil
Fields In Section
BY EDWARD

BUCHAREST, Jan. ,22.-CP-Re-
belliousness of train crews on the
line linking Germany with Rumanian
wheat and oil has forced the Reich
to send an armed force to police the
railway through Russian Poland and
the first troops already have reach
ed the Rumanian border.
Russia agreed to the occupation of
more than 200 miles of the line by
German troops, according to official
information received here from both
Berlin and Moscow.
Russia also was reported to have
agreed to let German technicians SUI
pervise operation of oil fields in Rus
sian-occupied Poland in order to
speed up production of much-needed
oil for the Reich's army and all
corps.
Berlin Complained
The use of a German military force
to
was understood already has result
ed in withdrawal of some Red army
troops, was reported agreed upor
after Berlin complained that ship
ments were slow and sometimes lost:
and that the crews were rebellious
and inefficient.
1t is understood here Rumania
has been assured the new agree
ments do not mean a big concentra-
ton of German troops near her Dor
ders.
Some diplomats pointed out, how
ever, that the presence of German
soldiers, even as railway police,
might be used to bring pressure on
Rumania.
1t was understood that Russia has
withdrawn some troops from the
region.
The line occupied by the Germans
runs from Cernauti, in Bukowina,
Continued on Page Three, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
GROUP APPROVES
DIES RESOLUTION
Plan To Reestablish Com.
mittee Clears Its First
Legislative Hurdle

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - up -
A resolution to reestablish the house
committee on un-American activities
cleared it's first legislative hurdle to-
day despite fresh criticism of the
committees methods and a charge
that it's chairman, Rep. Dies D-Texl
had actively associated" with a "fel
low traveller" of the Christian front,
The house rules committee unani-
mously approved the resolution and
put it on the calendar for house
consideration tomorrow. Leaders
said it's approval by the house wa
virtually certain. The Dies commit
tees authority expired Jan. 8.
Rep. Hook D-Mich) linked Dies
name with the Christian front, II OF
whose members have been arrested
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
County Board Will Issue
Bonds
Soviet Plane Losses
Believed To Be- Great

HELSINKI, Jan. 22.-LR-
Finland's chief of air raid ore
cautions today estimated that
Russia has lost two warplanes
and six airmen for each Fin.
nish civilian killed during the
past week by q riattacks al
though the Films counted 6,667
bombs dropped outside the war
zone.
Despite the rain of bombs,
the officer said, only Is civil
ians yer killed and 100 wound
ed.
The number of bombs drop
ped was more than three times
greater than the number in the
previous week." he reported,
but the number killed was n
less than the previous week and
the number of wounded only
slightly larger"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
WILL TOTAL 900
Bsllamy Is Authorized To
Make Final Arrangements
For Sale OF Securities

The New Hanover county board
Of commissioners, at it's weekly
meeting yesterday afternoon, voted
10 issue a total of $500 in bonds
for general school improvements
and new construction at the county
home.
Bonds for the school improve
ments would total $500 and the
county home work would amount
70 $1,000,
The board authorized Marsden
Bellamy, county attorney, to take
the matter up with the county's
bonding attorneys in New York city
and make the final arrangements
Tor sale of the securities.
Further Action Slated
Addison Hewlett, Sir, chairman
o. the board, said last night that the
necessary resolutions and other mat
lefs relative to the issuance of the
WontInued on Page Five, Co. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
a., s;canR Red
ader Also
$4,000
New York Federal Court
Jury Finds. Him Guilty
OF Passport Fraud
PLEADED FOR FREEDOM
Was Accused OF Borrowing
Names, Affixing Them
To Passport Visas
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

~ Sv41l1L111I1 ~ vv11l1I
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-R-Earl
Russell Browder, the Kansas-born
American communist leader, was
convicted of passport fraud in fed
eral court today and sentenced to 4
years in prison and fined 50, 900.
The jury Of II men and a young
woman deliberated only As minutes
on the verdict after hearing Brow
der himself in a singular summation
plead for his freedom for more than
an hour. No other defense was of
fered.
Brushing aside his attorney,
George Gordon Battle, Browder took
the floor with the statement that he
was a correspondence school law
yer.
Motion Denied
The sentence was pronounced i'm
mediately after the jury was polled
and a defense motion for delay was
denied. 1t specified that 2-year SEN
fences on each of two counts must
be served consecutively. The maxi
mum prison sentence would have
been 10 years.
Browder, a perennial candidate
for political office, was the COM
munist candidate for president in
1886 and is now a candidate for the
seat in congress vacated by the re.
cent death of Rep. Sirovich D-NY).
He was scheduled to speak to-
night at a communist rally billed
as a Lenin memorial meeting.
Browder presented a defenseless
case after acknowledging at the
outset that he had Travelled incog-
nito to and from conferences with
Soviet leaders in Moscow.
Borrowed Names
He was accused specifically of
borrowing the names of three other
men and affixing them to passport
visas.
This was done, his attorney ex.
planned, because as a widely known
agent of, the Soviet Union Browder's
travels through Europe would be
beset by danger if his true identity
became known.
Browder's conviction in federal
court came only several weeks after
Fritz Kuhn was found guilty in a
state court and sent to prison for
Continued on Page Three, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
CIVIC RETIREMENT
PROPOSALS SOUGHT
Ideas For Development OF
City And Area Welcom-
ed In Contest Here

Realizing Wilmington and South
eastern North Carolina should take
advantage of their many opportun'
tiles, the Star.News is preparing a
new, extensive program for the de-
velopment of the city and section,
recobnized as being potentially
among the best in the state and
south.
In drafting this program, this
newspaper is calling upon the citi-
zens of Wilmington and this section
to submit, what in their opinion,
ideas that would promote the gen
eral welfare and prosperity of the
entire area.
A large number of persons have
submitted proposals for develop
CONTINUED on Page Five, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
BLAST STARTS FIRE
Many Survivors OF Orazio's
Sinking Escape In Bor-
rowed Lifeboats

MARSEILLE, France, Jan. %
Up - Survivors of the burning
Italian liner Orazio told tales of
escape in borrowed l%ifeboats on a
stormy sea when 4S were landed
here today.
The ship was a gigantic torch on
the Mediterranean 38 miles off here
yesterday morning after a myster-
ious pre-dawn explosion. The fire
burned all but two of the vessels
lifeboats.
But rescue vessels which speedily
answered distress calls sent owe
their own lifeboats and Italian of
ficials said all Alp passengers were
believed saved and most of the crew
of 231.
Shaken By Blast
The Orazio, it was disclosed, was
shaken by an explosion in the engine
loom at 5 a. M, and then almost in
stantly was in flames from bow to
stern.
Enginemen who best might have
helped explain whether the explosion
was due to engine trouble or pos
silly to sabotage were reported dead
killed instantly by the initial
blast.
II think about four or five were
trapped in the engine ROOM" said
Second Officer Giorello.
In Paris, an official statement in
dignantly denied what was termed
a German insinuation that a French
CONTINUED on Page Three, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
S0VIETS LOSE 800
TROOPS IN
Reds Make Another Fruit.
less Attempt To Crack
Mannerheim Line

HELSINKI, Jan. 22.-P)-To the
accompaniment of loudspeaker
broadcasts that the Germans were
coming and would kill all Films"
Russia's Red army was reported in
military dispatches today to have
lost 900 troops in a fruitless attempt
to crack T;.nland's Mannerheim
line.
(Nazis in Berlin Immediately re.
piled that Germany's position re-
manned friendly toward the Rus.
sian cause but strictly that of an
observer.'O
Heavy fighting was reported
northeast of Lake Ladoga in the
direction of Kitila, Kollantjoki and
Ilimantsi with the Russians leaving
more than 900 dead on the battle
Continued on Page hreeT, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23

and December Is. pointed out
that they were held an average
OF 1874 days each, whereas
Italian ships were held all aver
age of only four days, and de-
manded assurances that the ex-
animation Of American ships be
speeded up. The present situa-
ton was declared to discriminate
against American shipping.
Since the proclamation of the
area which keeps American
ships out of north European
waters, Gibraltar has become the
chief port of examination OF
American ships by British au-
thOrities.
The protest was another in a
series Of representations made
recently by the United States
OIL such matters as Britai"'s
blockade of German exports,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
NLRB RULES OUT
FORD PAMPHLETS
Order Company AT Somer-
vile To Cease Distribu-
ton Oh Literature

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22- Up -
Declaring that freedom of speech ia
a "qualified and not an absolute
right" the National Labor Relations
board announced today hat it had
ordered the Ford Motor company OF
.Somerville, Mass, to distribu.
ton of literature having a "coercive"
effect on employees.
Ford pamphlets distributed to EN-.
ployes C O n a propaganda"
which d%isparaged labor organiza.
CONTINUED on Page Three, Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
Approximately $50 Saved
When Italian Ship Burns
Greek Ship Reported
Sunk By German Sub

LISBON, Jan. %. - R - The
Greek freighter EkatontarchOs
Dracoulis, 5,329 tons, tonight was
reported torpedoed and sunk by q
German submarine $50 miles OIL
the Peniche coast of Portugal
yesterday.
1t was believed six of the crew
of % were killed.
An Italian ship rescued IL in
one lifeboat and a Spanish
freighter picked up 10 others in a
second IifebOat,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
SCHOOL DAMAGED

TRYON, Jan. 22.-PeFire, orig
mating in the attic and caused ap-
parently by a short-circuited cleo
trio wire, destroyed the old wing of
the Mill Spring school building, Is
miles east of here, early this after
noon. The loss, estimated at $40, 900,
was partly covered by insurance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
WHITM0RE HEADS
CHARITIES HERE
Minister Reelected Presi-
dent AT Meeting Of
Board OF Directors

DR.. J.. Harry Whitmore, pastor OF
the Church of the Covenant, was re
elected president of the Associated
at a meeting of the board
of directors in the office of Mrs. l.
o. Ellis, executive secretary, yester
day afternoon.
Other officers elected were:
Alan A. Marshall, vice-president;
CONTINUED OH Page Five, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-23
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
Sorth Carolina: Cloudy, snow in in
A. ana rain mixed with snow on
W. coast; slightly colder Tuesday :
n n5duleSgay partly cloudy and contin-
eD neurological data for the "a hours
s ''9o p. m. yesterday.
Lon Temperature
m '9e d; m. 50; 7:30 a. IN. 20; 1:30 p.
mi,; ~, 80 p. m. 40: maximum 4S;
N"A'Hul %; mean SO: normal 46.
In Humidity
m '' Se a. N. 81; 7:30 a. m. Sc: 1:30 D.
ILL., 20 1880 p. m. Sc.
fatal, Precipitation
mona no.Si LOT a hours ending 7:3O D. m,
a. loFal since first Of the month,
Tides For Today
Wiln+, E.gh Low
"seoh ------ S:30a 3:0Sa
A's'n'oro Inlet e's:s oo9p
rise sua IT'S, 7;15a; sunset 5:34p: moon
'iP; moonset 5:43p.
wesfEseh. lANGToN, January %. -R-
and roia bureau records of temperature
So, m ; ;n for the "A hours ending
areas u ard u the principal cotton-growing
STAT STAT; ana elsewhere: