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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-22
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
BY BILL 0ARRIGUs

(By Bill Garrigus)
Long Bob Chase Of Short Wood
brook argues that we can blame
the state roads for the increas-
Ing number Of foods. Bob says
that highway gangs spread o lot
Of sand on the slippery, smooth
surfaced thoroughtares, that the
sand washes of quickly, fills up
the waters courses, and then we
have freshets. There's q lot to
Bob's theory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-22

perior merit to the plan, nobody
seemed able to find out about II.
Folks Speculated on thee unusual
style Of architecture for awhile,
then went back to the tried and
true structures built On-the-
square. Our most accomplished
builder, Mr.. Lloyd Fowler, never
adopted the Doctor Fowler meth.
Cd Of building. The Doc and
Lloyd were not related.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-22
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COuGAS

YOUR csILp's coughing at night
s.-caused by throat tickle" or ir-
Titation, mouth breathing, Or Q
eold-can often be prevented by
rubbing the throat and chest
with plenty Of Vicks VapoRub at
bedtime.
vAPoRUB's SWIFT poultice and.
yapor action loosefs phlegn1, re-
lieves irritation, clears air pas.
sages, tends to stop mouth breath
sleep. Try 1t. WVApoRUa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-22
dividend VOTED
BY CREDIT UNION
Newspaper Employees Unit
InstalIs Officers, Enjoys
Social Session

A dividend Of four and half per
cent was voted by the Waterbury
Newspaper Employees Federal Credit
union at the annual meeting satur-
day afternoon at Moose hall. Will
liam F. Harvey, OF The Democrat,
was elected president, succeeding
Michael w. Barrett Of The Ameri-
can.
Sound movies, including views Of
the sinking Of the Graf Spec, we're
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-22
PROGRAM PLANNED
FOR JEWISH HOME

The 18th anniversary of the open
ing Of the Jewish Home for the
Aged will be celebrated Feb. Is, with
a special program marking the OBJ
servance.
Jewish leaders from about the
state will be invited to take part In
the program. Men and women
prominent in local Jewry will also
participate.
The use Of too heavy an oil will
cause an automobile engine to over
heat,
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Vice President elect Henry Wallace gets Of the easy
going way Of life down below the Rio Gronde On his troves to
the Inauguration Of President Comoeho he met this smiling Mexcon
woy sell eggs the E Monte morket
A. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
CLAUSE IS ADDED
TO HATCH'S BILL
Measure Pas.
ses First Important
Test In House

WASHINGTON, March 27.-0P-
A clause forbidding national political
committees to spend more than
81, 600 900 each in any campaign was
added to the Hatch anti-politics Dill
todav as that senate-approved mea-
sure passed it's first house test.
The bill. which would curb polit'
jcal activities of state employees
Maid in whole or in part with fed
eral funds, was approved by a
house judiciary subcommittee after
Chairman Walter (D-Pa) had suc-
ceeded in adding the amendmen
limiting national campaign expenoi-
lures.
If written into law. the amend.
mont would hold expenditures OF
both the republican and democratic
national committees below the levels
of the 1885 presidential campaign
In that year, the republican com
mittee disbursed $s,O65,524 and the
democrats $5,030,S4S.
Walter told newsmen that $5'ooc,,
900 should be enough to finance W
the campaigning necessary to IN
form the voters. There was no use
having a corrupt practices act ne
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
WILL ADD $67,450,OOO
Solons Trample Economy
Forces And Boost F. RS
Recommendation
BY DONALD A. YOUNG

WASHINGTON, March 27-R-
Despite cries of how are you going
to pay the BILL" the house today
added $67,45O, 900 to next years ap-
preparations for the CCC and
the NYA.
Subject to final confirmation to-
morrow, the members ran roughshod
over economy forces, adding $50,OO0,-
900 to President Roosevelt's request
for $3.50, 600, 900 for Civilian Conser-
walton camps and tipping by ST.
100000 his request for $85, 600, 900
for the National Youth Administra-
ton.
Both increases, their sponsors said
would insure continuance of the 1871
NYA and CCC programs at their
present levels. The President had
asked for a flat SIS, 000, 900 slash in
NYA funds and elimination of 273
of the 1900 Geo camps.
Immediately after the CCC in
was approved tentatively by
a 1874 to 100 vote, Rep. Woodruff
(D-Va), leader of the house economy
bloc, told an attentive membership
that a tragic thing" had just oc-
Cured.
Asserting that the house had re-
versed it's previous policy of attempt
ing to live within budget estimates"
shouted:
eff we are now going to go ahead,
pell nell, and appropriate, then I
submit to you that it is honest to
decide somewhere how are you 60
ing to pay the bill? Are you going
to have a tax bill or are you going
to raise the debt limit and borrow
the money?
you know as well as I know that
the congress has no idea of doing
Continued OH Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
AIRPORT FARLEY
IS SLATED TODAY
Local Delegation Will Seek
Asphalt Runways, In
stallation OF Lights

A delegation Of county, WPA and
aeronautic officials will go to Ra'
leigh today to confer with officials
there in connection with a WPA
project for the laying of asphalt
runways and the installation of
lights at the Bluethenthal airport
here.
The group is composed of Addison
Hewlett, chairman of the county
commissioners; L. j. Jordan, area
WPA supervisor; Charles Green, as
sistant to Jordan; and Lewis L. Mer-
rift, Wilmington civil engineer.
They will be met in Raleigh by H.
#. Perkins, district Civil Aeronau-
tics authority official.
They will discuss with WPA Off
Gals in Raleigh the plans for the
airport here.
Present plans call for the laying
of two 1OO0-foot runways and one
21OO-foot runway and the installa-
ton Of ground lights to make pos
sible the use Of the field at night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
House Hikes Next Years
Funds For
Several Indicted On
Wire Tapping Charge

TULSA, March 27.-LR-The
county attorney, a former po-
lice commissioner and an I'M
disclosed number of others were
indicted by a federal grand jury
today on charges of "wire tap
ping in connection with a re.
cent oil workers strike.
County Attorney Dixie Gilmer
posted $1,5OO bond. He said: II
have been indicted for doing
my duty" Floyd Rheam, the
former police commissioner, de.
clined comment.
Whit Y. Mauzy, U. S. dis
trict attorney, said the indict-
ment charged that Gilmer,
Rheam; William Kelly, a po-
liceman, and others did ''con-
spire with each other and
with earn Gordon and others
... to intercept interstate and
interstate communications, with
out being authorized by the
senders thereof, transmitted
through and over telephone,
and divulge and publish the ex-
istence, contents of such
intercepted communications"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Fierce TestifieS Mills
Admitted Killing Hudson
Large Newsprint Plant
Planned In Tennessee

A A, Tenn,
March 27.-R-Walter C. john
SON., secretary of the Southern
Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton, said tonight a syndicate
soon would announce plans Tor
establishing a $4,000, 900 news
print mill near Chattanooga. q.
The mill would manufacture
newsprint from southern pine
wood pulp. Former Gov. Cor
don Browning of Tennessee
heads a syndicate which pro-
poses to build another mill near
Savannah, Tenn.
'This undertaking has been
brewing for nearly four years."
johnson said. "The financing
of the project, which will
amount to approximately s5,-
OOO, 900 is now in sight and
details concerning the UNDER
taking will be announced within
the next few weeks"
johnson said the mill would
be located in the Tennessee
valley, within 100 miles OF
Chattanooga, and would use
IVA power. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
U-Boat Sinks
Ship At Large
English Base
Sub Penetrates Orkney Is
lands Station, Destroys
Norwegian Vessel
Raj CLAIMS NEW GAINS
Second Soviet Freighter Is
Caught In British Block
ade Net Al Hongkong

LONDON, March 27.-B-The
unwelcome news that a wide-rang-
ing German submarine had pene.
trated the precincts of closely guard
ed Kirkwall, big British blockade
base in the Orkney Islands, to sink
the ~3,794-ton Norwegian freighter
Cometa, brought the undersea war
sharply back home to Great Britain
tonight.
1t was a day Of other bad news at
sea, offset, to some extent, by glow
ing accounts of British air successes
over the western front and the North
Sea.
Soviet Ship Caught
Moreover, today brought the news
that a second Soviet freighter, the
Vladimir Mayakovsky, allegedly
loaded with metals and bound from
the United States west coast to
Vladivostok, had been caught in the
British blockade net at Hangkong.
In response to queries prompted
by the current world interest In AL
lied-Soviet relations, a foreign Of
flee spokesman was quick to say
that Soviet-British relations had not
been strained in any way by the
seizures.
"AngloRussian relations are nor
mal," this spokesman insisted. IN.
Maisky, (the Russian embassador)
has had several talks with the min
istry of economic warfare about the
detention of the ships, but that is
ALL"
The Kirkwall contraband control
base, in or near which the Cometa
vas torpedoed, is a bay on the
northeast side of the Orkney Island
called Mainland. This is north of
Scapa Flow, where the battleship
Royal Oak was sunk by a submarine
early in the war, sand which was
raided heavily recently by Nazi
bombers. Numerous neutral ships
on northerly routes have been hail
ed into Kirkwall for examination
during the war.
Crew Saved
The crew of the freighter, number
ing 81, was saved. The ship was en-
route from Bergen to Buenos Aires.
Qn Bergen, the newspaper Aftenblad
bitterly assailed the British for TAX
ing the ship into the contraband base
after the British consul at Bergen
had given her all-NorWegian cargo
a "clearance.D
CONTINUED on Page Four; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
AIRPLANE RELEASE
POLICY APPROVED
u. S. Manufacturers Pre-
pare To Handle Orders To-
falling $1,0O0,0O0,0OO

WASHINGTON, March 27-LP-
The administrations new policy of
releasing late model warplanes for
export won the general approval of
an inquiring house committee today,
and American manufacturers i'm
mediately prepared to handle pro-
spective Allied orders totalling ST..
900, 900, 900.
Secretary of War Woodring, ex.
planning and defending the policy
before the house military commit.
tee, asserted it had been formulated
by the War department without
coercion or pressure from anyone"
"As long as I am secretary of war,
I am not going to be pushed around"
he assured the committee bluntly, in
denying he had had any friction"
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
COURT DISMISSES
APPEAL OF FLYNN
Mel owell County Man Is
Scheduled To Die April
II For Staying Wife

RALEIGH, March IT, R-The
state supreme court today dismissed
the appeal of Lee Flynn, AZ, from a
first degree murder conviction in
Mcdowell county last January.
Flynn, sentenced for the Staying
of his wife, Mae Flynn, will be ex-
ecuted in the Central prison gas
chamber April IL unless Governor
Hoey intervenes.
In one of seven decisions-one of
the smallest number ever to come
down on an opinion day-the court
said it found no error in Flynn's
case.
In the only other state case de-
cided, the court ruled in an opinion
by Associate Justice Michael
Schenck that "six years is the great
est length of time which may elapse
between the birth of an Legitimate
child and the institution of a valid
proceeding against it's reputed father
to establish the paternity of the
child"
The state had appealed to the SUI
preme court from the acquittal of
E. H. Killian in Catawba county in
a proceeding brought upon a war
rant charging wilful neglect and re-
fusal to support his illegitimate
child.
The supreme court upheld the SUI
perior court in acquitting Killian
under a special verdict holding that
the child was born August 5, 1880,
the son of e. H. Killian and Mae
Hollander; that Killian paid medical
and other expenses incident to the
birth and for the child's support I'm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
INorth Berlin
Sky Reddened
By Big Flames
Many Firemen Believed Ia
Have Confined Fire To
One Large Building
STORES BURN
Observers Say Plant Was
Formerly The Bergman
Electricity Works
BY PRESTON GROVER

BERLIN, March 2S-CThursday)
-R-A fiercely blazing fire in a
closely guarded military supply plant
Redeemed the skies of the thinly in
habited outskirts of north Berlin
early today.
Starting late last night in a wood
en- warehouse of an Industrial plant
at Wilhelmsruh, six miles from the
center of Berlin, the blaze persisted
this morning though apparently con.
fined by a great mobilization of fire
fighting apparatus to the one build
ing.
Plant Not Named
DNB, official German news agency
in reporting the blaze did not men,
ton the name Of the plant. Obser-
vers, however, said it was the Berg
mann Electricity Works, which is
understood to have been converted
to manufacture of war materials.
The intense red reflection Of the
blaze against the clouds and the
manner in which it flared up fierce
ly from time to time caused obser-
vers to believe powder stores were
burning.
Police secrecy intensified this be-
lief.
DNB, without confirming reports
that the plant made machinegun
ammunition, only said the fire start
ed in 'highly inflammable material"
The rapid rise and fall of the
flames caused early reports to be
circulated that frequent explosions
were occurring, but there were no
sounds of loud blasts.
Reporters Refused Details
Reporters were refused details by
a Gordon of tight-lipped military
police.
Stringent wartime laws against
Continued on Page -Four; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Farley Named
Resolution Pledging Votes
Carried On Voice Vote
By 1900 Delegates
MOVEMENT IS GAINING
~. Delegates So Far
Chosen For National Con-
yention Rooseveltian

BANGOR, Me-, March 27.-P,-
Maine democrats joined the Roose'
welt third term movement today,
pledging their national convention
votes to the President should he
seek reelection, with National
Chairman James A. Farley their
second choice.
The resolution pledging the votes
to Roosevelt was carried on a
voice vote by the 1900 delegates to
the state convention with compar-
atively few mays" registered.
Supporters of Vice President John
N. Garner had worked in pre-con'
vention activity for an "open-mind-
ed" unpledged delegation.
Action Follows Address
The conventions action followed
by a few hours an address by Far
ley, an avowed candidate for the
nomination, in which he praised
the administrations accomplish
ments and lauded Mr.. Roosevelt
as "a great democratic President"
The latter remark was an interi
lection in his prepared text.
Democrats in New Hampshire
Names neighbor state, two weeks
ago pledged their eight convention
votes by an overwhelming margin
to President Roosevelt.
Alaska had chosen six delegates,
all Roosevelt-pledged. Thus all "a
delegates so far chosen for the
democratic convention are Roose.
veltian, but there is strong Farley
sentiment in the group in case the
President does not run.
The total number of votes in the
convention will be LOO.
The Roosevelt-pledge resolution Of
the Maine convention, presented by
Ernest L. Mexican of Augusta,
long an active party leader, set
forth that Our founders in the
constitutional convention of 1887
manifested their intention that a
President of the United States
should be elected for a third term,
if the electorate so desired. :"
Refers to Crisis
Referring to the world crisis
caused by wars, it further stated
that people of the United States
desired peace and SHOULD have
during the next four years a Pres
ident who is able to accept and
deal with trying and grave prob
lens, and a leader whose efforts
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

to the diplomatic situation, car
ried an article attacking what it
termed the imperiaIistic record OF
France in Tunis and IndO-China
and that OF Great Britain In
Egypt and the Far East.
In contrast, it said the U. S. >.
X. never had suppressed the
sovereign rights of small coun-
tries but, instead, was their
friend and protector.
The communist organ Pravda,
meantime, said rnat proposals
for a defensive alliance between
Finland, Norway and Sweden
was arousing %idignation amongst
the people of those countries. IA
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
BLAST ON FRENCH
BOAT KILLS SEVEN
Several Others Missing Aft
er Explosion On De-
stroyer Near Morocco

PARIS, March 81 Up An x
plosion of unstated origin aboard the
~1,37S-ton French destroyer La Rail-
leuse was announced by the naval
ministry tonight to have killed seven
men, with several others missing.
(The Italian news agency, Stefani,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
DEATH PENALTY ASKED
Five Others Testify Against
hampstead Man In Pen
der Superior Court

BURGAW, March q. Six wit
.sses for the state testified IN
Fender county superior court here
Today as the trial of George Mills
s!gearlold Hampstead white man,
taigei with the shotgun and AK
taying Of w. A. (Bill) Hudson
sger'old Hampstead recluse, on
February A, got under way.
District Solicitor David Sinclair is
wing the death penalty.
All Of the morning session was
aiea up with the selection OF a
Imam jury for trial of the case
nh all but two of a special venire
= S9 men being examined by the
%lnrneys.
Pierce Testifies
fesentation of evidence began
\ $50 o'clock this afternoon, with
y chief witness this afternoon be-
y d. L. Pierce, special agent OF
VIC Nate Bureau of Investigation,
W read a confession allegedly
n.y. by Mills and testified that
sls admitted after lengthy ques-
llas that he shot the aged fish
s'F' beat him over the head with
* and robbed his pockets of Sill.
'sfees testimony was given aft
al hour and a half had been
~' In arguments on the compe
w. OF the confession. The jury
sent out and several state
~N as to circumstances leading
" and surrounding the confess
were heard by Judge J. PAIL
W.. Of Snow Hill, who finally
M. s'ed the confession into the
'N0ler NJ. 0. Pope was the first
AutjOn.,
""ilutd on Duno E,o,vr.. Cn1 ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

ish-French warmongers who at
tempted to fan the flames of war
in northeastern Europe"
The lass statement quoted the
Soviet government as saying that
it saw no substantial ground for
France to object to Surits ON the
score of the telegram, but that
since France had raised the
question of confidence in him, he
was being relieved of his duties.
The French ambassador, Paul
Emile Magyar, left Moscow early
last month OIL the grounds of i'll
health.
The army organ, the newspa-
per Red Star, without reference
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

MOSCOW, March 27.-R-
Russians appeared tonight to
have taken Frances demand 1or
the recall of Soviet Ambassador
Jakob Surits, and the Kremlln's
acquiescence, with good humor.
Newspapers limited their ac'
counts of the affair to the state
ment published by lass, the Of
ticiaI news agency, which SAID
France had objected to the word
ing of a telegram which surlts
signed for transmission to Joseph
Stain Oh the occasion OF the
RussO-Finnish peace.
This telegram reJolced IN inc
failure of "the plans Of the bflt-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
TRADE PACTS VOTE
NEARS IN SENATE
Will Decide Issue OF Sub
hitting Accords To SEN
ate For Ratification

WASHINGTON, March 27.-R-
Leaders of both sides anxiously
and apprehensively counted votes
today as the senate neared a close
decision on the question of submit
ting trade agreements to the senate
for ratification.
One republican senator took a
poll, which, he said, showed that
the senate stood AZ for such a re-
Continued OH Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
new FINN CABINET
BEGINS HUGE JOB
Leaders Start Rebuilding
Small Nation Or Ashes
Of Unhappy Peace

HELSINKI, March 27.-R-Fin-
land made a start tonight toward
rebuilding the nation on the ashes
of an unhappy peace.
Premier Risto Ryti's wartime cab
met resigned, to be succeeded i'm
by a coalition ministry
under the same leader and dedicat-
ed to the sole task Of reconstruct
ton.
The new cabinet differs from
that which led the country through
3h months Of war chiefly in that
it includes members Of all major
parties and several ministers with
active political affiliations. They
were selected because Firms gen.
Continued on Page Three: Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
ACCEPT FRANCES DEMANDS FOR
RECALL OF ENVOY WITH GOOD HUMOR

recent lass statement said So
Wet Russia must regard such an
alliance as aimed at the U. S. 5.
r. and in contradiction of the
Russo Finnish peace treaty.
Pravda said the alliance pro-
posal was "a plan by the incen-
diaries of war to trap again the
escaping n%eutrals."
WORKERS. the newspaper ad-
ded, regarded the plan as a pro-
jected bloc against Russia, born
under pressure from the British
and French.
Continued on Page Three; Col, 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
Tell II To
A Want AID Taker

And she'll tell it to the $4,000
readers Of the daily Star and
News Tell what you have
to rent or sell. A Want AID 10
an inexpensive means Of let.
ting thousands know Of what
you have to offer-and among
those thousands are many who
want and probably need what
you have for sale or rent.
Place your ad today on our
special Is day rate (15 words
Is days in both the Star and
News for $4.50).
Call $500 To
Start Your Want Ad
Charge It.!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
WEATHER

.sN,4, FORECAST
a@prsdssIn Carolina: Mostly cloudy
sstsr ray and Friday, probably light
&ietSdsr showers, slightly warmer
followed by colder in the
'D'alns Friday.
saars 97l .Sd data for the "a hours
''0o p: m. yesterday.
La Temperature
! 81. m; 80; 7:3O a. m. Al; 100 p.
'S ~ p. m. IS; maximum "a
%; mean so; normal Sc.
10 Humidity
g., m. N, 81; 1870 a. m. 81; 1:3O p.
''o p. m. 10.
Total tou Precipitation
!, So,lor "A hours ending 7:30 p.
! total since first of the
= III inches.
ildes For Today
Wilmington High Low Low
'"aboro rn, 1852 s:5op
+, inlet --- II :26a 5:23a
v y o:ooa; sunset 6:3Op; moon
h. ~ moonset 9:44a.
'ea On Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28

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