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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
GERMANS CLAIM
TROOPS CONTROL
SOUTH NORWAY
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mar air bases in Denmark, Norway
and on Sylt were bombed last night
with apparently "highly successful
results" but that two bombers failed
to return. Authoritative British
sources said that about 20 German
aircraft were heavily bombed at
Stavanger and a number were be.
lieved destroyed or badly damaged
Far to the north, German sources
said, accommodating planes had dis.
covered large units Of the British
fleet approaching the ore port of
Narvik, apparently planning an ex.
tensive landing attempt in that Sec
tor.
German troops said Alpine troops
from Austria were ready to meet the
British at Narvik, already the scene
of two naval battles and repeated
bombardments by the British,
Troops Landed
British troops We're landed several
days ago at Harstad, IS miles north
of Narvik.
Recent German communicates
have made it clear that most of the
warfare has been carried to Norway
and its waters. The western front
has been quiet except for minor air
scuffles.
Neither side Is publishing losses
in men in the Norwegian campaign,
although the rival claims of trans.
ports sunk indicate they may be
large.
The first summary of German
claims came in a DNB compilation
from high command communicates
of losses repeatedly inflicted on the
British fleet.
These totaled 20 war vessels and
transports sunk or set afire under
circumstances which caused Ger
authorities to indicate they
We're lost.
In addition, the summary listed
% war vessels, including seven bat
tleships, damaged by bombs.
The list follows:
Sunk or set afire: Cruisers, S, de-
stroyers 7, submarines IA, trans
ports 3.
Struck or severely damaged-bat-
tleships 7, cruisers 8, airplane car
rier 1, transports 8, ~destroyers 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25

Apron imately 40 out of every 100
persons in England suffer from
nerves"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25

tacular bits Of ~pageantry ever wit,
messed in this resort city famed for
its conventions.
Stretching away from the pulpit
erected on the auditorium stage
were hundreds of desks accommo'
dating delegates from Latin Amer.
lea, Europe, Asia and Africa were
dotted through the congregation.
They rose in a group as a male
choir, in flowing gowns of purple
and white, entered the hall singing
the Hymn Of Alteration"
Behind the choir, two-by-two,
marched 50 bishops in cut-away
coats and striped trousers, singing
Bishop Hughes led them to their
seats upon the stage thanking the
choir, and the great pulpit sur
rounded by hundreds of hydran
geaS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
CANDIDATE OLIVER
MAKES CALL HERE
nec1ares North Cardinals In
surance System Has Be-
come Obsolete

-,.o,, 2, Oliver, Of Fuquay
candidate for the demo.
~,omiDation for state insaur-
,,mmissioner, sound-trucked
wilmington yesterday and after
H''' ,1infIary windup of popular
- an the streets, he leveled his
p.n,ical guns on his opponent,
r Bone.y, who has held the
insurance job for the past Is
years o,iro. was .ocomnanied
49, mi5set son and campaign
" tS-year-old Arthur Oliver,
n'a'l' tins the scales at just 80
pounds. ;s - rem,;n ~
Carolina, there must be a
| cleaning in Raleigh, and,
ya,;aIy in the insurance office"
the Fuquay Springs man.
So" North Carolinas insurance sys-
has become Anticipated and
'5'' ,,ota as a result of which the
Ds.,o are being victimized by slick
sr,,od out-of-state and foreign
VI, n,ranies The present incumbent,
'tr,nrh The recommendation Of suit
.h1o LEGISLATION to the general as
.a,bIv could have done much to re
saro the iniquitious practices to
-.b;cb po~licyholders have been sub
.,o,ad. But he has preferred to do
,o,hing but sit by and fiddle while
pome burns. He has become the
-,rnIe.iack of tweedle-dum and
tnaadIe.tee. If the people of this
s.,o- state choose me as their next
;ns,,rance commissioner, I pledge
,.on here today to everything in my
rower TO stabilize North Carolina S
;rsnrance system, elevating it to the
rig5est standards of efficiency. My
first sten shall be to recommend to
o,r general assembly progressive
LEGISLATION that will eradicate the
evils that have been allowed to
f,vrish under my opponents do
r.hing' policy he said.
oliver is a graduate of Wake For
Is, college and has practiced law
in FuQuay Springs for the past Is
wears. He has held several offices
of political ~preferment, and is a
former commander of his home town
post Of the American Legion, hav.
ing served as gunner's mate in the
World war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
ADVERTISEMENT
HAPPY RELIEF
!: rom PAINFUL
BACkACHE

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If the IS miles of kidney tubes and filters
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years. They give happy relief and will help tn
waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
GUFFEY CAPTURES
CONTROL OF PARTY
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N\SUiltIIiuSu lTUEQ rage UISJ
would proceed to "reorganize" the
party for the November campaign
against the republicans, eliminating
all the elements Of discord."
Lawrence and Guffey had been
political friends for rs years.
The senatorial contest over.
Swallowed an otherwise ~1istless pri-
mary in which the democrats cast
almost a half-million votes for Presi.
dent Roosevelt, and the republicans
wrote in the names of Thomas E.
Dewey, Governor Arthur H. James
and others on the preferential
Presidential ballot. Dewey, with s.
700, topped James, in second place,
6-to-1.
The republicans, with a lead of
a half million in registrations, out
polled the democrats.
The registration was 2~,572,10o re-
publicans and 2,o46,129 democrats.
With only 1928 districts missing,
the thre democratic senatorial candi-
dates-William N. McNair, former
mayor of Pittsburgh, was far behind
the leaders-polled 729,939 votes.
The republican total-also with a
tagging third candidate-was 910,S1O
with 546 districts missing.
The republican organization slate,
headed by Jay Cooke of Philadelphia
for the U. S. senate, swamped in.
dependent opposition.
Cooke, a%nalyzing the vote turnout,
asserted the wide margin between
the democratic and republican votes
cast assures proof that the citizens
of this state are continuing to re.
ject the New Deal in the same
thorough way they started to do il
in 1888" After the Guffey-Law,
renee split two years ago, the re-
publicans regained control of the
state government.
Cooke, great grandson of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
DRIVEN
OUT OF STEINKJER
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the locomotive and one car of the
entire train were left intact.
Preceding the bombardment, ma.
chine-gunning Nazi planes sped on to
Roros, swooping low over the town
with their guns chattering full blast.
Two persons were wounded before
the panic stricken populace could
reach cover
The fighting at Steinkjer died
down early to11y, with Allied sour
ces reporting their main front by no
means broken. The Norwegian chief
of staff told correspondents that,
while the advance Allied positions
had been made untenable by the
strongly-prepared attack, the slight
German advance was no great or
immediate danger to the Allied
forces.
Steinkjer is 50 miles northeast of
Commanded Trondheim and about
equidistant from the British land
ing point, Namsos, to the northwest.
Some 5000 residents of Steinkjer
were made homeless by the severe
battering aimed at the town by OPP
posing forces. A German air and
artillery attack in advance of the
Nazi offensive against the Allied
Norwegian positions caused the
worst damage, leaving virtually all
of Steinkjer in ashes.
However, the Allies were reported
to have succeeded in pushing
through several thousand men south
east to a point near German-held
Lillehammer after a precarious trip
along the railroad from Andalsnes
with German planes in hot pursuit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
BRITISH BOMB FIVE
NAZI PLANE BASES
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in London military circles at from
S, 800, 900 to 5000, 900.
The German counter-blow al
British troops in the Trondheim
sector was delivered, according tc
"a war office communique, "by a
considerable number Of German
troops landed from ships within
Trondheim ford"
Sharp Fighting"
"There was SHARP fighting" the
communique stated, before the
British troops reestablished then
lines. Earlier Stockholm reports
said British advance units had haG
to retire from Stenkjer, on Trond
helm fjord.)
Official word was lacking on the
status of the operations near Lille
hammer, far to the southeast.
To halt the flow of unshaker
German divisions into Norway
however, the R. A. F. struck a
Stavanger, Oslo, and Kristiansand
Norway; Aalborg, Denmark, anc
at the German island of Sylt, of
southwest Denmark. Twice, more
over, they attacked German ships
Westland airdrome on Sylt, con
venient base for German attacks OF
transport shipping along the coas'
of Norway and against the Allied
line Of communication within tina.
country, received the attention O.
Ia large force of long-range bombers
A British account said one hangar
was hit several times and another
believed to have been damaged
ably by the British planes, which
darted over the airdrome from al
directions to confuse the ground
batteries.
While the main body of bombers
dared heavy fire over the island
another plane assaulted naval
auxiliaries off the shore.
1t dove from 1000 to 1,500 feet,
despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, and
bombed one Of the ships.
ut disappeared" said a laconic
pilots report.
Aalborg was visited for the fourth
time. Apparently it was prepared
for the attack.
High level bombing attacks
were made and numerous hits were
observed on the airdrome," said the
pilots. There was a bright moon.
At Stavanger, pilots who return.
ed said they believed they had de.
stroyed or damaged badly most of
the twenty German planes scatter.
ed around the airdrone. Runways,
too, were hit; so was the ALREADY
crater-pitted' surface Of the often
bombed air field.
The Kristiansand raiders concen.
trated their bombs on the airport
runways and buildings. Bomb bursts
were reported at the edge of one
runway, between the runway and
hangers, and within so yards of
the main hangers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25

Civil war financier, topped all candi.
dates with more than $50, 900 votes.
Guffey's total vote approached
400, 900.
Returns from TIT of the 3105 dis
tricts in the state gave:
Guffye-384 ,425.
Jones-295, 905.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25

Richard the Lion-hearted of Eng.
land is said to have invented tarr.
ing and f~eathering as a punishment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
NEBRASKA VOTING
PROBE IS ORDERED
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$17,9O1 figure simultaneously re-
ported by V~andenberg leaders.
At the same time, Dewey leaders
in Wisconsin, where he also defeat
ed Vandenberg, reported expendi-
lures of $25,884, while Vandenberg
hackers set their figure at $16,194
in official reports to the secretary
of state.
Senator Gillette would give no
faintest intimation as to just which
candidate or candidates were involv-
ed in the complaints from Nebraska.
1.-The committee is sending investi-
gators into Nebraska for the pur-
pose of inouiring into expenditure of
money in connection with that
states recent primary" he said,
particular reference will be made
to the presidential campaigns
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
N SAILED

CLEARED AND SAILED
Motor Vessel
City Of Salisbury, 279 tons, light
for Jacksonville after discharging
cargo of petroleum products at the
Southeastern Shipping service docks.
IN PORT
Dredge
Henry Bacon, U. S. army engi.
neers dre9ge, dredging in the intra'
coastal waterway.
Barge
Monocacy, TAO tons, loading cargo
of lumber at the J. Herbert Bate
Lumber company.
Yacht
Semloh, $50 tons, undergoing over
hauling on Stones Railway before
proceeding north.
Steamers
Volobba, 1888 tons, and Luigi,
2,554 tons, loading cargoes of scrap
iron. Cape Fear Shipping company,
agents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-25
METHODISTS OPEN
GENERAL MEETING
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Municipal auditorium, presided over
by Senior Bishop Edwin Holt
Hughes of Washington, D. c., and
assisted by Bishop James H
Straughn Of Baltimore and Bishop
Adna Wright Leonard of Pitts
burgh.
1t was the first general confer
ence since 7,S56,OOO members OF
the Methodist Protestant church
and the two Methodist Episcopal
churches cast aside their century.
old estrangement and merged into
a single organization at Kansas
City a year ago. And it's opening
service was one of the most spec.
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 pint 459 Sclt Herring
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
House Built of Plastics
Presents Many Changes

Homes of the not too far distant
future are destined for some revolu
tionary and logical changes. accord
ing to predictions made by Alden q
Dow, Michigan architect, who has
already gained nationwide recogni-
ton for his modern functionally de-
signed homes. Dow emissions
houses constructed almost entirely
of plastic materials as develop
ment in the near future. There will
be no cracked walls in the homes
constructed of these materials be-
cause surfaces will be broken up
into small units and sealed together
with an elastic material, thereby al
lowing the natural movement of the
building frame.
These small units will be of geo
metric form, combinations of which
will form the design of the building
that is, dimensions will be in terms
of units rather than feet and inches.
Doors will be so many units high
and wide, windows will be merely
transparent units, while ventilators,
radiators, light fixtures, radios and
other accessories will be available
in sizes interchangeable with these
units. 1t will be easy to add to these
new buildings because one system
of construction will apply through
out. An addition will merely require
so many standard unit frames and
the necessary units to cover it and
line it.
Other advantages claimed for the
new materials include their good in
sulation against heat and electricity.
Houses built of them, it is said, will
be cooler in summer and warmer in
winter. In addition they will consti-
tute an extremely low fire hazard,
and be resistant to most acids.
Plastic blocks need no seasoning.
They are completely waterproof,
cannot warp or lose their shape.
They will not, like wood, be attacked
by insects, nor like most other ma
terials, be subject to decay and dis
Indignation "In building with them,
wastage-heretofore a big cost fac
tor-will be eliminated" states Mr..
Dow.
These and many other advantages
CT using plastics for building pur-
poses have been indicated for some
time but the difficulties of molding
large pieces suitable for use in this
field have, until recently, hindered
extensive application in this direc-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
Hand Painting Of China
Stages Current Revival

China painting, an accomplish
ment boosted by almost every young
woman around 1900 when it was at
its peak, is coming back, says Mrs.
Jessie L. Wood, Michigan artist.
"China painting is being taught in
the schools and more space is being
devoted to it in the art magazines,
says Mrs. Wood, veteran teacher
of china painting, but now painter
in oils. 'But in 1900 we did mostly
flowers. Now the work is In con-
ventional designs.
cts true there were some hor-
rible things perpetrated in the name
of art by some of the china paint
ers, but probably. the fad served
good purpose in arousing an interest
in art and making the young girls
appreciate paintings they saw. Min
eral paints are used and china is
difficult medium on which to work
because of its rapid drying. The
painting was dried in kilns and the
colors were always changed by the
heat. Some results were lovely. I
still have a set of china and many
painted pieces from that time"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
KNIGHTS OF THE HIGHWAY

So quietly and gradually has the
giant highway transportation indus
try grown that few of us realize the
imprint it has made on American
life. Occasionally we hear stagger-
ing statistics which inform us that
more than six and half million
people are employed either directly
or indirectly in this industry, or We
may learn that over three million
truck drivers earn and spend more
than $4,OOO,OOO,000 a year and oc-
casionally we read of the dependence
on motor vehicles of more than As
900 communities not served by rail
but all of these and many other
items of the kind do not really tell
the human Interest story OF this
great industry.
A driver for one of the big inter-
state hauling companies, which OPP
crates a large fleet of Fruehauf
trailer units, summed it up when he
said, 1--WE drivers have language
and a code Of our own and it would
be mighty fine thing if JAIL drivers
had our same code, If not all OF our
language. What he meant by the
code was that a truck driver will
never pass another driver in trouble.
If you, Mr.. and Mrs. Passenger Car
Driver, are in difficulty on the road,
or have had an accident, the chances
are 80 out of 100 that the man who
stops and gives you first aid and
helps you get your car back on the
road and running again will be a
truck driver. This is part Of the
code.
In addition, MISUNDERSTOOD
signal system of blinking lights will
tell you, if you are initiated, when
it is safe to pass and when it is bet
ter to hold your position in line.
The truck driver will give over to
the right when you want to go by.
His safety record is outstanding in
spite of the tremendous number OF
vehicle-miles he piles up and while
he may not always use Harvard
English, the truck driver by and
large is the real knight of the high
way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
Good Care of Clothes
Will Cut Living Costs

There's a tidy amount of pin
money to be picked up by thrifty
wives right in Friend Husbands
clothes closet. Not in the pockets
of the suit he will wear tomorrow,
however, but merely in the care of
the same
Since most of the nations 81 AGO.
600 wives take care of their hus-
bands clothes anyhow, they might
as well save from $40 to 500 year
on hubby's wardrobe yet keep him
better groomed than ever by follow
ing a few simple rules, according
to Tony Williams, a New York de-
signer who creates wardrobes for q
goodly section Of the nations best
dressed men,
Suits last from rs to 40 per cent
longer and hold their creases better
if they are always hung, preferably
on shaped wooden hangers, he points
out. Suits are made of wool not
only because it is an exceptional in
sulator against both heat and cold
but because it springs back into
shape when allowed to hang, he ex-
planned.
Trousers should always be hung
from the bottom, if possible. Their
weight helps pull them back into
perfect shape 1t is also worth the
trouble to brush the dust and dirt
out of trouser cuffs before hanging,
he declares.
A press will last longer if the suit
is allowed to hang for a day after
pressing, as this sets the crease
firmly. Suits themselves will last
longer if they get days rest be-
tween wearings, even If the Old Man
has only two outfits.
When sending the Mister's shoes
to be repaired, it is well to remem-
Der that rubber heels are not only
more comfortable and longer wear
ing than leather, but hold shape and
remain trimmer. A survey re-
veals that IS per cent of the nations
males prefer them anyhow.
BY keeping sharp eye on Hub
by's ties and occasionally pressing
them and removing a spot, wives
can help him always to have the
fresh appearance of man who is
definitely on his way to success.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12

Planted acreage on National For
est lands will pass the million acre
mark this spring. January 1, 1910,
it stood at 946,574 acres, including
131,7O7 acres planted in 1889. In
the last years the U. S. Forest
Service has been able to make use
of considerable relief labor, particu-
larly CCC workers, and the forest
paintings have averaged more than
100000 acres a year. This yearly
average is greater than the total of
the planting before 1885, about
100000 acres.
On the average it takes about $50
trees to plant an acre-about $12 an
acre.
With a million acres planted, the
Forest Service estimates there are
still about 3 " million acres in need
of planting on. the National Forests,
primarily because fires have Destroy
ed the forest cover, leaving no seed
trees of natural reproduction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12
Stories of Horatio Aiger
Are Popular at Harvard

Harvard men seem to be the only
ones around Boston who still read
the stories of Horatio Alger Jr. The
newsboys, about whom Alger used
to write, are little interested. At
the Burroughs Newsboys' foundation
in Boston the members prefer Tar
Fan.
Alger, who died in 1899 at Natick,
Mass, at the age of 81 years, was
graduated from Harvard in 1852.
The Harvard library has about rs
titles, many the gift of the author,
writes Mary Elizabeth Prim in the
Boston Transcript. They circulate,
too, and are slowly gaining in popu-
larity. Records show that the books
seldom went out in the 1920s, but
have been in demand during the last
few years.
The librarians can't figure whether
this is due to loyalty to a fellow
alumnus or belated interest in the
methods of the newsboys and others
in the street trades about whom
Alger wrote with such gusto. All
Alger's lads had one thing in COM
mon. They made lot of money
and made it quickly. The Alger
heroes were honest and eager, but
they certainly got the breaks.
There was invariably rich, kindly
old gentleman to make them junior
partners.
There are number OF Ayers
books in the Boston Public library,
including his Harvard class ode, but
none of them circulates. Several
are in the rare books collection. !.
The public library in Chelsea,
where Alger was born, has not a
single title of his on the shelves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-12

Motorists who carry liability insur-
ance not only should know the
amounts of the coverage limits, but
they also should understand exactly
what those limits mean. For ex-
ample, let it be assumed that mo-
torist carrying a standard limit
SIS, 000-$10, 900 policy is involved in an
accident in which more than one per-
son in the other car is killed or in
jured and a judgment of $4,000 is
rendered against the assured. AS
sumo further that, as frequently &C.
curs-three persons are injured and
judgments in their favor are rem
dered in the amounts of 81 900, $4,000
and 81, 1000. The assured carrying
SIS, 000-$10, 900 liability policy must
pay $4,000 of the $1,000 judgment
himself because the policy sets forth
definitely that the limit for one per-
son cannot exceed $1,000. Motor
lists should know that this is not a
''trick" feature nor is it found in the
policy Of any single company. It is
standard in all liability policies.