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Evening star., 1940-06-23
] did not want to reod any
more II got out quickly

to be a big boy" Then sternly, ''Be quiet
You're soaring the gelding.'
Sonny began to wall. Il want him now. I'm
big nowv' His voice rose on a shril note and
the gelding, sensitive to each new alarming
sound, made leap into the air. squealed and
shook his head wickedy.
Take him to the house, Nancy Jim said.
"or we'll never get anywhere today
Lars's face was absurdly concerned. Com"
to kitchen, Sonny. Help me make pies
But Sonny was not interested in pies and
hung back stubbornly when l tried to lift him
down. GO with Mudder, Sonny. Lars make
you geding Fine pinto geldine"
The boys face cleared: he gazed at the big
man. will you, Lars? Honest and truly"
Sure, promised. I'VE start tomorrow.
So Sonny trotted back to the house with me-
Some time later | missed him, and when
failed to find him near the house | started back
to the corral. was half way when | heard a
crash. The men stood rigid and still, their faces
frozen with horror. Then came terrlflcd child
ish scream from the top of the doomed tree.
began to run :. . The men were clamb"rlng
over the fence they we're boosting Jim up
Evening star., 1940-06-23

the tree. A splintering sound laid a cold hand
on my heart and | shut my eyes. The branch
was coming down -.
Someone pushed me aside - Lars. Sonny"
his great voice doomed. "Yump Sonny. Ynmb
10 Lars!" A flash of blue overalls :. great
outstretched hands and Sonny was safe
There was a change in Lars from that day
| don't believe he had ever quite trusted us
Evening star., 1940-06-23

before Ic had stood alone guarding his sccrc
up with him. When he gave Sonny back t.
us. he also gave us his trust gave his life int
our keeping. never surprised that look
tense expectancy again. that still listening.
"A YEAR passed. A hot, blistering summtc
with alfalfa burning before it blossomed rang
$3.50
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
STATE CAMPAIGN
BEGUN BY COOPER
Candidate Indicates Better
Education Will Be Key
note OF Campaign

Mayor Tom Cooper began his
statewide sound truck tour yester-
day from the New Hanover High
school, the largest in the state, which
was built when Cooper was chair
man of the New Hanover board of
education, after indicating that
more and better education will be
a keynote of his campaign for gov
ernor.
Just prior to beginning his tour,
Cooper conferred in front of the high
school with a number of educators
and people interested in education.
During the conference Cooper
discussed the need for a better pay
schedule for the teachers of North
Carolina, especially the need for
raising the ceiling of the present
pay schedule and regarding teachers
who improve their ability through
further training and through SER
vice.
He also discussed with them the
need for a retirement fund for the
teachers of the state, the best means
of operating such a retirement fund
and legislation to make the teach
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
PLACE MINES
German Transport Is De-
stroyed With Loss OF 800
OF 500 Men Aboard
LIGHTHOUSES CLOSED
Fleet, Including Battleship,
Moves Out OF Baltic
Into Skagerrak

OSLO, April 9.-cTuesday)-P-
Alarming reports were received here
early today that a German armada
of 125 armed ships, including a pock-
ct %battleship and several heavy
cruisers, was approaching Nor
wegian shores, perhaps to strike
back at the British fleet which yes
terday mined Norwegian waters and
sunk a German troop transport
with the loss of 300 of. the 500 SOL
diers aboard.
The Norwegian admiralty ordered
every lighthouse on the Norwegian
coast BACKED out, and Norwegian
radio stations from the Swedish
coast to Bergen on the North Sea
were shut down.
Reliable sources said the armada
vas made up principally of trawlers
and coast guard ships, but also in
cluded either Of the 10000 ton
pocket battleships,. the Admiral Won
SCIeeI OF the LuGCZOW UOG11erly Ine
Deutschland), and several heavy
cruisers and many ~destroyers.
Moving Into Skagerrak
The fleet was just off the Danish
island OF Lesoe, these sources said,
apparently making slow progress
out of the Baltic into Skagerrak
along Norway's south coast because
of the lighthouse blackout. 1t was
presumed the German fleet did not
wish to approach the dangerous
shores in darkness.
The Copenhagen newspaper Poll
tiken reported in a special dispatch
from Oslo that the vanguard of 100
or more German warships had been
sighted approaching Oslo ford.
Erik Seidenfaden, special CORE
spondent for the Politiken, told of
flying over Skagerrak late yester-
day, and wrote:
II myself saw from a plane over
Oslo ford a vanguard of eight tor
Continued on Page -Four; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
.Nazi Planes.
Scapa
Flow Station
British Claim Third Raid
Within Month Does Not
Damage Shipping
TWO PLANES DOWNED
Civilian Buried Under De-
bris By Powerful Bomb
But Is Not Injured

LONDON, April 9 (Tuesday).-
R-German w%arplanes dropped in
%cendiary and high explosive bombs
in their third raid within a month
last night on Britain's Scapa Flow
naval base, the air ministry report
ed early today. At least two Ger
man planes were shot down, the
British said, and a third was be-
lieved brought down before the at
tack ended.
The raid, which came while the
Allies stood fast in their defiant
mine-laying in Norwegian territorial
waters despite vigorous Norwegian
protests, resulted in no damage to
shipping, the British added.
Civilian Escapes Injury
A civilian was buried under the
debris caused by a high explosive
bomb, a communique added, but
suffered no injury beyond shock.
The statement issued by the air
ministry and the ministry of home
security said:
During a raid on Scapa Flow
yesterday evening a number of in
cendiary and high explosive bombs
were dropped. Nc damage was
caused to warships or other ship
ping.
ga civilian was buried under
debris by a high explosive bomb
but sustained no injury beyond
shock. There were no other casual
ties.
Small fires were started in the
heather by the incendiary bombs
which fell on the moorland and the
roof of an outlying farmhouse was
damaged by the fire Of high explo-
sive bombs which fell near. No
other damage to property was
caused.
Planes Shot Down
1T is now known that two of the
enemy aircraft which took part in
the raid were shot down by the
Continued OH Page Four: Col, 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
BR0OME INSPECTS
HOUSING PR0JECTS
Regional Director OF USHA
Satisfied With Progress
On Local Units

John P. Broome, director of the
United States Housing A~uthority's
Region Four, of which Wilmington
is a part, paid a brief visit to Will
mington yesterday and visited the
two local low-rent housing projects
under construction here.
Broome, who arrived in the early
afternoon from Kinston, which has
recently organized a housing au-
thority, expressed satisfaction with
the progress of the two local prof.
ects. He left for Charleston late in
the afternoon after comforting with
DR.. W. Houston Moore, chairman,
and H. r. Emory, executive direc-
tor, of the local authority.
Upon his arrival in the city,
Broome conferred with DR.. Moore
and Emory. The two local officials
then escorted him to New Brook.
lyn Homes, 246-unit negro develop
ment, where he conducted an in
spection under the guidance of Les
lie N. Boney, architect. Later the
party inspected construction work
at. Charles T. Nesbitt Courts, 216-
unit white perfect, under the guild
ance of James B. Lynch, architect.
After the conference with
Broome, Emory said a rent sched-
ule for New Brooklyn should be
ready for announcement within a
few days, after which tenant selec.
ton will begin Immediately.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
OLD RIVER ROAD
WORK ADVOCATED
For improvements
Made To Powell By The
Chamber Of Commerce

Another appeal for improvements
of the old River road between Will
mington and Southport was made to
A. F. Powell, Jr., district commits
sioner of the state highway and pub
lie works commission, in Whiteville,
Yesterday by the chamber of COM
merce here.
1.-THE improvement Of the highway
is justified from industrial, agricul-
tural and tourist viewpoints" the
letter from the trade body stated.
Recently $ 1900, 900 was appro-
priated for road improvements in the
state, with a certain amount or
about one half of the total set asite
for recognized federal and state
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
SHORE GUNS ARE BUSY
Cruiser Included In One OF
Four Ships Seeking 10
Enter Oslo Fiord
AIR BATTLE REPORTED
Norway Snaps Telephone
Communication With Re-
mainder OF The World
NAZIS INVADE

NEW YORK, April 9-CTuesdaD
The New York Times early today re-
ceived from it's Copenhagen corre-
spondent advices that the Germans
had occupied that city.
At 1915 a. m. EST the Associated
Press had been unable to contact
it's Copenhagen bureau since 9:4I
D. m. last night.)
The Times correspondent, Svend
Christensen, also reported thai three
cruisers had landed troops at Mid
dlefart, Denmark, Immediately oc'
cupying the adjoining streets.
He also reported German troops
crossed the Danish frontier"
STOCKHOLM, April 9-(Tuesday)
Up High authoritative quarters
early today confirmed reports that
four foreign warships had attempted
to force an entrance into Oslo Fjord,
water gateway to the Norwegian
capital.
The invaders were reported re.
pulsed by shore batteries.
These quarters said that one OF
the attacking ships was a heavy
cruiser.
The attack took place about 1890
a. IN. (6:30 p. m. Monday, EST), ard
was over within a short time.
Heavy Fire
The engagement was marked by
heavy bursts of cannon fire.
Thereafter the invaders were said
to have retired into the darkness.
Some informants said the warship
attack a accompanied by an air
battle above the darkened gorge be-
tween Norwegian fighting craft and
unidentified foreign warplanes.
Details of the air battle were not
at once known but apparently the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
Sinking Of Nazi Troop
Vessel Costs 800 Lives
NAVAL BATTLE LOOMS
British Submarine Signaled
Transport To Halt Be-
fore 1t Destroyed Her

ARENDAL, Norway, April s.
CP)-The sinking of the German
mystery transport Rio De Janeiro
off Norway's coast today with the
loss of 800 of the 500 Nazi army
men aboard gave rise tonight to
speculation whether the largest sea
battle of the war was in the MAX
ing.
Naval observers wondered wheth-
er there would be a great clash be-
tween the British blockaders and a
German fleet of between 80 and 100
vessels reported moving toward the
Skagerrak, narrow arm of the
North Sea between Norway and
Denmark.
Speculation Heightened
Such speculation was greatly
heightened by the confusion of re-
ports of naval action, most of which
were not borne out.
No confirmation could be obtain
ed Of reports received at Lillesand,
down the coast from here, that two
German submarines had attacked an
armed British vessel off the coast
and that one submarine and the
British ship had been sent to the
bottom.
Nor was there confirmation of the
report that two German subma-
rines had been sunk,
Sounds of heavy firing out at sea
were reported by residents along
the shore of the ~Skagerrak during
the day.
Telling of the sinking of the Rio
De Janeiro, the surviving lookout
was quoted as saying he did not see
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
Graf Spec Officers Are
Confined By Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, April S.-R9-
All the officers of the scuttled Ger
man pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spec were herded aboard the Argen-
tine naval transport Pampa today
as a precaution shortly after dis
covery that at least eleven officers,
who have been quests" of the Ar
gentine government since Deem
her, had disappeared.
Last Saturday the government,
indignant over the escape of three
officers, ordered the remaining of,
ficers and the higher ranking mem
bers of the crew confined to the
Martin Garcia naval base in the
river Plata, 80 miles from here.
The naval ministry announced the
officers, including Captain Walter
Kay, the Germans ranking officer,
had been removed from a naval ar
senal to the ship. Later they will
be taken to the naval base.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
.NAX ARMADA NEARING
AFTER ENGLISH
SINK TROOP TRANSPORT
The European
War Situation

(By The Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM - Authoritative
quarters confirm report that four
foreign Warships attempted to
force an entrance into Oslo
Fjord, water gateway to the Nor
wegian capital, repuIsed by shore
batteries; Norwegian planes also
fight off foreign warplanes;
identity of attackers nit ascer-
tanned in darkness.
OSLO-German naval armada
off Danish coast apparently
headed for Norwegian waters,
reliable reports say; British sub
marine sinks German transport
off Norway's southern coast few
hours after Britain sows mines
in Norwegian territorial waters,
800 German soldiers, 80 horses
lost when ship sinks; Foreign
Minister Koht protests mining,
demands removal of mines "at
once"
LONDON-Britain stands fast
or mine-laying, official broad
cast says Is German ships trap
ped by mines; admiralty and air
ministry reported unsuccessful
German aerial attack Oh Scapa
Flow naval base.
BERLIN - Germans report
several hits scored in Scapa Flow
raid; government takes role of
"icily cold" observer of Allied &C.
ton in NorWay's waters and de-
tention of dynamite-Iaden British
barges in Ruinania.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09

WASHINGTON, April s.
AP)-The national labor rela-
tions board won n of the big
gest victories of its history to-
day when the supreme court re-
fused to review a board order
directing the Republic Steel COR
poration to reinstate and pay
back wages to thousands of
participants in the bloody '1it-
tie steel" strike of 1887.
The order was upheld last
Nov. 8 by the third circuit court
of appeaIs at Philadelphia and
thus the supreme court, in
turning down the company's
petition for review today, per-
mitted the order to stand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
May Give New
Puzzle Clues
Backers Of Third Term Are
Challenged By Gamers
Supporters In Illinois
DEWEY FACES BATTLE
Lieut.. Governor John STEELE
Proclaims Himself Gov
ernor OF Illinois

WASHINGTON, April s. () -
Primary balloting tomorrow in Illi-
nois and Nebraska may give the
country new clues to the 1910 presi-
Dental puzzle.
In Illinois, Thomas E. Dewey is
unopposed in the republican pri-
mary, hackers of a third term for the
President are challenged by the sup
porters of Vice President Garner.
In Nebraska it is the Roosevelt
slate which is unopposed; Dewey
forces there must see if they can re-
peat the victory they scored over
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of
Michigan in the Wisconsin primary
voting last week. ~
Want Big Totals
Therefore. Dewey men in Illinois
are concentrating on rolling up a
vote of a size sufficient to justify
their contention that Illinois is
drifting away from the democratic
party. Nebraska democrats, know
ing that the total of the votes cast
for the President will be set against
the combined Vandenberg-Dewey
ballots by those who seek to gauge
the trend of politics winds, are equal
ly anxious to I'll up a big total of
Roosevelt ballots.
Capital politicians were inclined to
the belief that the quarrel within
the Illinois democratic state admin
lstratlon would have little effect on
the presidential primary. Lieutenant
Governor John STEELE, "~insurgent"
candidate for the gubernatorial nom
nation, proclaimed himself acting
governor because, he said, he desir-
ed to relieve the ailing Governor
Henry Horner "of the duties which
he cannot PERFORM"
Horner, challenging this, issued a
statement that 81 was elected gov
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
PERMISSION GIVEN
FOR COASTAL FAIR
Sheriff Jones Will Act As
Judge Oh Girl Shows,
Gambling Joints

The county commissioners yester-
Gay granted Coastal Fairs, Inc, per-
mission to stage an exposition here
IN l94O but added an exception in
the contract regarding girl shows
and gambling joints.
The board provided that should
any gambling joint or strip-tease act
De introduced on the midway, it,
along with the entire fair, will be
closed up.
w. A. Peschau, secretary of
Coastal Fairs, Inc, told the board
that a committee from the Ameri-
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
IS CLOSED TO PUBLIC
New Ship, Built In Charles
ton, Is Tied Up At
Southeastern Docks

Within 10 minutes of the SEIZED
uled time, the U. S. S. Roe, the U.
S. navy's newest destroyer, arrived
at the Southeastern Shipping Serv-
ice docks here yesterday afternoon.
The destroyer at first intended to
tie up at the customhouse wharf,
but a last-minute radio message
from naval headquarters in Wash
ington ordered it to dock elsewhere,
the main reason being that naval
authorities thought the facilities
were better at the Southeastern
wharf.
Closed To Public
And shortly after the ship ar
rived, a statement was issued by
L eutenan t~-Commander R. M
Scruggs saying that the public
would not be allowed to go aboard
the destroyer.
cts not that we wouldn't be glad
to have them," he said, "but general
visitation on all navy ships has
been stopped since the war started
I'm sorry, but there is nothing
I can do about it. It's navy ORDERS"
he said.
The officers and men were enter
tanned with a dinner dance at the
Cape Fear Country club for the Of
ficers and a dance at the Cape Fear
armory for the men.
The dance at the armory was
open to the public and the dinner
dance at the club was open to mem
ro-4,oJ nm PsUa Four. FOL dl
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
REFUSES TO REVIEW NLRB ORDER
AGAINST REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION

peace" with the SWOC and that
the decision would lead to 900
per cent organization in all the
Republic plants"
The corporation has pending
in federal district court at CIeve-
land a suit for $500, 900 in
damages against the CLIO and
affiliates for extraordinary ex-
penses it said it incurred during
the strike.
The courts action today in
cluded refusal to hear a petition
by a group of unions of Repub-
lie employees known as the "Cen-
trail Council of Steel Plants" for
Continued OH Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09

of unfair labor practices and
ordered it to disestablish certain
dominated" unions and to re-
employ with back pay workers
declared to have been discharged
for union activity.
William F. Donovan, a district
director of the CLOS Steel Work.
r Organizing Committee
which called the strike in May,
1887, after Republic and other
independent steel producers had
refused to bargain with the union
said at Cleveland that the
courts order was 'the greatest
victory ever achieved by organ
lied labor" He predicted that
the company would "maA
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
REYNOLDS URGES
BAN ON MEXICANS
Would Restrict Number Re-
siding In U. S. To Number
OF Americans In Mexico

WASHINGTON, April SLIP
Senator Reynolds (D-N.C.) proposed
legislation today which would re-
strict the number of MeXicans resi-
dent in this country to the number
of Americans living in Mexico.
Asserting that thousands of Span
ish loyalists had migrated to Next
since the Spanish civil war with
a view to entering the United
and participating in COM
munist activities, Reynolds said
Mexico had become VIRTUALLY a
of Soviet Russia"
Reynolds said that Mexicans were
"usurping" jobs that should be held
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09

Labor board officials said
that a plan was underway for
putting a staff of checkers in
the field within two weeks to
work on back pay claims of ap-
proximately 5000 men. Both the
labor board and the company
said that most of the former
employees affected by the REIN
statement order had already
been re-employed. Therefore, the
company added, today's decision
will not Involve any serious
unemployment problem"
The order against Republic.
the largest Reinstatement case"
ever decided by the board, said
that the corporation was guilty
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
Destroyer Roe Arrives
For Three-D Day Call Here
Germany Is Rushing
Soldiers To Baltic

LONDON, April 9.-CTuesday)
-R-The Daily Mails Amster-
dam correspondent reports that
Germany is rushing troops to the
AsItic, adding that neutral OBJ
servers in Berlin saw troop
trains leaving the Stettiner sta
ton for the Baltic garrisons Of
%Stralsund, Swinemuende n d
Stettin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
DYNAMITE BARCES
SEIZED ON DANUBE
Nazis Charge British With
Plot To Blow Up Mar
row River Gateway

BUCHAREST, April S.-lP-De-
tention of a fleet of dynamite-laden
British barges, charged by Germans
with being designed to blow up a
narrow Danube gateway and block
a German supply line, today electri-
fled southeastern Europe with the
fear war soon might spread to this
quarter of the world.
Rumanian police, acting on a tip
said to have been supplied by the
pro-Nazi Iron Guard, halted the
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Partly cloudy and
Slghtly cooler preceded by showers
n, ~ northeast and extreme east portion
tuesdays; Wednesday fair, slightly
warmer in west portion.
meteorological data for the "a hours
enolhg $50 p. m. yesterday.
Temperature
~ a. m. 50; 1880 a. m. So; 1:30 p.
m M %; 7:30 p. N. 66; maximum II;
NIHIlnum 60; mean Sc; normal go.
Humidity
l 90 a, m. 70; 7:30 a. m. 100; 80 p.
~' u; 1870 p. m. II.
Precipitation
az notal for "A hours ending 7:30 p. NJ,
0S9 iinchhes; total since first of month,
Tides For Today
Wilmington 10 H 955a Icy low
Masoa IL :14p coop
"aSonboro Inlet - 8:39a 2:40a
rfs auaf!se 5:48a; sunset 6:39p; moon
''ola; moonset 8:30p.
'0On'inued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
ship SINKS AFTER
VIOLENT EXPLOSION
zoo Men Lost When Uni
Identified Craft Goes Down
Off Coast Oh Norway

LONDON, April 8.-R-A Reu-
ters (British) dispatch from Oslo
tonight said possibly 200 men were
lost from an unidentified ship
which sunk after a violent explo-
sion about noon today off Lillesand
or NorWay's southern coast.
Continued on Page -Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
GERMANS OBSERVE
TWO new MOVES
Decisions On Min
ing Of Scandinavian Wa
tiers, Seizure OF Barges

BERLIN, April S-QP-The Ger
mar government tonight played the
part of an "icily cold" observer of
the two latest dramas in the Euro
pean war-Allied mining of Scan
dinavian territorial waters and Ru-
Continued on Page Four; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-09
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