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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Noisy YuIe CeIebrdtor
PLACED on Probation

For celebrating Christmas with
a few shotgun blasts. Robert Cos
tello. %. of 5000 Baldwin avenue,
was given a delayed Christmas
present today by Judge Joseph A.
Gillis-siX months probation for
disturbing the peace =.
Police were called TO CoStello'S
home Christmas Day after he fired
his shotgun into the ceiling. Cos
tello ran upstairs and when the
police attempted TO follow him, he
threatened them with the gun. a
tear gas bomb finally persuaded
Costello to surrender.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
picture on Page -

Dismissed from the police de-
partmenj in disgrace and now
facing criminal charges, Patrol
man Thomas Urquhart today
begged that ne be allowed to do
nate blood TO the innocent man
he shot Christmas morning while
on a drunken spree.
Urquhart'S victim. Alexander
Rudy. a diShwaSher. is near death
in Receiving Hospital with a
bullet wound in his side. Three
officers have already given the in
iurcd man blood tranSfuslonS and
two Other donors are awaiting
call. UIquhart's blood IS the type
needed.
II took the police trial board
only 30 seconds after hearing tes-
timony to fire Urquhart yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

a broken neck received when
she fell against a radiator while
running back and forth between
her parents carrying kisses TO-
suited in the death Of 3-year-old
Gloria Schihl of - Military
avenue.
Gloria Was injured IN the living
room of her parents basement
apartment last night. She had
been playing with hrr father, Ber-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Lane Elected Head
OF Dem Servi(emen

Joseph r. Lane was elected
commander of the Democratic
Servicemen's League at the an
nual meeting held in the Detroiter
Hotel. Other officers elected were
John Maiullo. senior vice COM
mander: Howard Shea. junior
commander: Francis X. Leahy,
adiutant: Gerald ]. Foley. finance
officer: William a. Welsh, Judge
advocate: James Porter. post
chaplain; a. Petcf Kennedy, post
historian; Francis McAllister. SER
geant-at-arms, and DIR. Perry
Bernstine, post surgeon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
28 Waiting Witnesses
Change Driver S Plea

Informed that ~ witnesses were
waiting TO testify against him.
Harry Brazzell, 81. OF 30l7 Theo-
dore street. changed a not guilty
plea to guilty in a fatal accident
case involving the death OF a 10
year-old boy. lie will be sentenced
January 81 by Judge Thomas r.
Msher for leaving the scene Of q
fatal accident.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Black Book lseOpens
Mrs. Marion's Gifts to Children Again Studied as
Judge AlloVs More Evidence VIII
BY VERA BROWN

pioneer family from his father,
VINO owned large farms in the
eastern part Of the city
Judge Toms halted the trial
yesterday and attempted TO effect
a settlement out of court but in
dlcationS are that 1t will be APP
pealed TO the Supreme Court
Said Charles:
whatever the judge decides is
all right with me. I am executor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

The little black book in which
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Marion listed
large gifts of money to her chill
dren is again open in the court OF
Judge Robert NJ. Toms.
The Marion family dlvided
against itself. is contestinG the
will of the late Detroiter who left
the bulk of her million-dollar
estate to her six grandchildren.
Judge Toms. eXcoriatinC two OF
the sons, Thursday admitted the
will to probate Yesterday Judge
Toms allowed attorneys for
Francis and Edgar to reopen the
case for further testimony. Mrs.
Evangeline Griffin of Alden Park
Manor. to whose four children part
of the estate was left. and her
son Robert, rs, will be the Wit
ncsscs.
HEARS LETTERS READ
Mrs. Griffin yesterday heard
read in court many letters she
sent both her mother and father
during her married life
The little black book showed
that in 1887 the mother gave the
following sums to her children
.S139 600 to Francis: $4,000 10
Edgar: S122 600 to Charles. man.
ager of her estate. and 10 Mrs.
Griffin. 1913. 900. Edgar and Francis
are childleSs. Charles has two
children.
On his opinion, Judge Toms has
already criticized the two childleSs
sons. who charge that Mrs. Crit
fin used undue influence TO per-
suade her mother to make second
will and leave most of the money
to her grandchildren.
Charles is not a party to the
suit.
Mrs. Griffin testified that hei
son. Robert. has worked and IS
working now.
PICTURES OF MENICO
"He spent some time in
Mexico. I visited him there. He
has been showing moving pic
iures Of Mexico various places
and his grandmother was very
proud Of that. He. his wife and
baby are living with me"
Francis. who lives at 1911 Mary
land avenue. Crosse Poinie parl;
and Edgar who lives at Cos Uni
vcrsity place Crosse Pointc. ar,
investment brokers.
The estate came to the late
Adolph Marion. scion of Frenc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

Gen. Hugh =. hnson,
"America's Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
Labor 0verru|ed,
4 Million u. 5.
Job 10 Ford

The Ford Motor Company today
was rushing completion of its new
plant for manufacture of airplane
engines after the war department
tabled laboi's request that the
S6tnpany be refused defense con-
tracts for alleged violation of the
Wagner Act.
In announcing letting of a S22.-
100000 formal contract for con-
struction of the engine plant and
magnesium casting foundry in
Dearborn, the war department also
signed a $4,000, 900 order with the
Ford Company to produce "pigmy
trucks"
Defense Commissioner Sidney
Hillman had sought to block the
truck contract on grounds that the
Ford Company had violated the
Wagner Labor Act.
TO BUILD 1000 ENGINES
The engine plant and foundry
will be used to manufacture 1900
Pratt and Whitney type engines at
a cost OF S122 10000
In declaring work was being
rushed on the engine plant, Harry
Bennett, Ford personnel chief,
said:
I'VE believe We have not yiO-
lated the labor act. The govern
ment il the sole Judge as tn
whether we violated the act and
not An outside organization"
In Washington it was disclosed
the war department has served
notice that charges of Wagner
Act violation instituted by the
National Labor Relations Board
will not bar firm from defense
contracts.
COMPROMISE DUE
While adhering firmly 10 this
program in its procurement drive.
the department nevertheless let il
be known that some compromise
might be worked out as far as
future orders are concerned. The
policy was enunciated IN a state
ment issued last November %
and made public today from the
office OF the army quartermaster
general, Mai. Gen. K. B. Gregory.
which read:
The award Of war depart
ment contract under the de-
Tense program Ia not TO be CON-
sldered barred by the single
fact that proceedings under the
NLRB have been instituted. or
that findings of violation Of the
act have been made by the
NLRB."
NOT ARMY's JOB
High.ranking procurement Of
ficers explained il was not the
mission OF the war department
TO enforce labor laws: that the
arnys chief concern was to get
defense goods and tAet- MeFe-eeH-
fident the Ford Company would
deliver goods ordered from the
government
Asked concerning an order by
Secretary Stimson. Dec. 4. 1910,
directing all army procurement
officers 10 see that companies re-
ceiving defense orders complied
with labor laws. these officers eX-
planned that the Stimson order
was for guidance OF procurement
officers only.
They said they were not called
upon 10 pass upon the merits Of
complaints unless their examlna-
ton of the companys labor rec
ord made il appear the firm
would not be able 10 comply with
its government contract
a spokesman for Iiillman said
I'VE lodged a protest and we
were overruled."
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28

Like Robert Doo The memorable eoOd Mr. Chips Mo Scott from youth venerable age
i've touq'C Cheers 70 Miss hp"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-28
PICTURES OF MEXICo

"He spent some time in
Mexico. visited him there. He
has been showing moving pic
inres Of Mexico various places
and his grandmother was very
proud Of that. He. his wife and
baby are living with me"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
PEACH ORCHARDS
spot DAMAGED
Freeze May Prove Bene.
ficial For High Quail
ity Fruit

RALEIGH, March 28-CP-Win-
try weather over last weekend
"spot damaged" the North Carolina
peach crop but the freeze might
prove helpful for a high quality
fruit, Randall B. Etheridge, chief
of the agriculture department mar,
ket division said today.
From reports, received from the
peach belt" EtEeridge said, "the
Red Bird variety, trees planted in
low areas, and weak trees were
hard hit. However, the crop was
very heavily budded and generally
speaking the freeze might have
proven helpful as it furnished a good
thinning which will not be neces
sary later.
early reports from the Spartan
burg, S. c., area indicated a Il
per cent loss, which is equal to {
light thinning"
Prospects for strawberry produc
ton in both the Burgaw-Mt. Olivt
and Chadbourn-Tabor City area
were lowered somewhat as the ligh
bloom and the few formed berries
were killed outright. Etheridge said
The damage will also delay opening
Of the markets until about the las
Of April.
The outlook was still good 70
a "~big-per-acre production" Of straw
berries, Etheridge said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Lime Industry Probe
Launched At Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, March 28.-LP)-
Durham's city manager and Win
ston.Salem's commissioner of ac-
counts were called to testify today
before Trial Examiner E. r. Preston
Of the federal trade commission. The
hearing was part of an investlga-
ton of the lime manufacturing In
dustry.
c, E. Beatty, Charlotte's purchas-
ing agent, testified that in 1886 five
building material dealers submitted
IDENTICAL bids to the city council for
the city's supply of hydrated lime.
The five bidders names were put in
a hat and the one drawn was award
ed the contract. The next year, ac-
cording to testimony, Is identical
bids we're submitted.
Twenty-one southeastern compan.
les are alleged to be guilty of "un-
fair methods of competition and I'M
fair acts and practices in interstate
commerce."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Sen. Pepper Opposes
Probe Of Propaganda

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-LR-
OPPOSITION to a proposed senate
Investigation of foreign war prop
sganda came to light today with
a statement by Senator Pepper 3D.
Fla.) that it might cast seeming
iiscredit on Allied war aims.
Pepper was absent yesterday
when the senate foreign relations
committee unanimously approved a
resolution by Senator Clark ID
MOI calling for a seven-man in
,uirv into activities of foreign
agents aimed toward influencing
United States neutrality in the
European war.
The audit committee must act on
. proposed $4,000 appropriation
before the senate can consider the
resolution.
Il think the people of the United
States are sufficiently intelligent to
be able to distinguish generally be-
tween truth and propaganda with
out congress becoming a wet nurse
for them" Pepper told reporters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
HIGHWAY DEATHS
RISE 10 PER CENT
February, Short In Days,
Proves Long In Deaths
With 2,17O

CHICAGO, March 2S.-R-Feb-
ruary. short in days, was long in
traffic deaths this year.
The national safety council re-
ported there were 2,170 deaths in
February, a 10 per cent increase
over February, 1889.
Not since March. 1897, has any
month shown so sharp an upward
trend IN highway fatalities.
Traffic deaths for the first two
months Of 1910 totaled 1880, com
pared with 1850 in the same mon his
Of 1889, a five per cent increase.
Fourteen of the 40 states whose
February records were tabulated
had death totals below those Of
February, 1899; % had i~ncreases
and three no change.
Reports of cities showed a 2 per
cent increase in traffic deaths over
February, 1899. Deaths in cities
under 10 900 and in rural areas
rose about IA per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
700 JAPS DROWN,
CHINESE REPORT
Invaders Were Attempting
Counter Attack Across
Ula River
~cvoNc March o. I'D,

uoNGKONG, March Is Up -
n.oU-ning of 700 Japanese soldiers
,,bo attempted to cross the Ula
liver in a counter-offensive against
NO City of Wuyuan in Suiyuan
sroviuce was reported today by the
CENTRAL News, official Chinese
agency.
.,norted occupation Of the city
ras+erday, the Chinese saying they
sod captured it after five and one
hoIf days of battle, and the Japan.
AGO. saying they had retaken it
sfter a voluntary withdrawal Feb.
20.
Central News said today the JAP
,npse we're massing reinforcements
m the Ula river north of the city
Sm- were unable to cross even with
the support Of artillery and aerial
barrages'
The 700 drownings resulted from
sinking of several boats by Chinese
fire. the agency reported, adding that
renegade Chinese divisional COM
mander and four of his japanese
advisers had been captured.
The Chinese agency also reported
hat on the Island Of Hainan off
.he southern coast Infatuated Chi.
nese citizens Joined Chinese troops
in killing about $50 japanese who
,urned more than 80 villages.
ABOUT 100 Of these, including a
japanese garrison commander, were
,iIled at Tanhsien, where the Jap
,nese burned more than 300 homes,
he Chinese said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

mon money and postal system, a
common defensive force, and free
trade among themselves.
AS each free country goes down
the drain, Austria, Czechoslovakia,
Poland, and now, for all practical
purposes, Finland, STREET and his
plan get increased attention.
PLAN PICKS UP
NEW FOLLOWERS
STREET started out as a man with
an idea and a lot of pertinacity. He
still has both, but in addition he has
acquired quite a following.
The idea has taken hold, both in
the United States and abroad. One
Of the big public opinion-testers re-
Gently told STREET he estimated that
between two and five million Ameri-
cans now favor the plan. The for
NAL organization which is boosting
the plan, the Inter-democracy Fed
eral Unionists, numbers 140-odd
separate local communities scatter
ed over the country.
The nations STREET proposes to
group in this union would include
the United States, England, Ireland,
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Swed-
en-, Norway, Finland, France, Swi--
zerland, Canada, the Union of South
Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Any other nation could join, pro-
vided it established democracy by
giving it's people a bill of rights
similar to that Of the United States.
CONGRESS WOULD RULE
OVER UNION
The union would be governed by
a. two-chamber congress much like
our own, with a certain number of
senators from each nation and rep
resentatives chosen, say, on a basis
of n for each million Of popula-
ton in the country represented.
That would give the United States
a greater representation than any
other affiliated country.
All the colonies and possessions
owned by the member nations would
become the property of the union,
just is the western lands held by
the 10 American colonies became
the property Of the federal govern.
ment.
STREET figures there'd be no more
war, with such a nation, because
nobody would be strong enough to
fight it; besides, any nation that
wished could join easily enough and
thus get in on the prosperity he fig
ures would be the joint heritage of
all members.
Streit's organization isn't doing
any lobbying for the plan in Wash
ington. The idea is that if the move
ment is to succeed, it must do so
in grass-roots style, by it's appeal to
the people; if enough of them go
for it, congress will get in step any
how, and if they don't there's no
S wasting time on lobbying.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Five Prisoners Giuen
Paroles By Gou. Hoey

RALEIGH, March 2S.-R-Gov-
ernor Hoey announced parole Of
five prisoners today.
They were: Ralph Cline, sentenc-
ed in January 1899 to two years
for larceny in Catawba county;
George Pate Locklear, given 10
months in Robson for drunken
driving and false %pretense: Ply
mouth Carter, convicted of resisting
an officer and serving IL months
imposed in November; J. K. Nc
Call, sent up from Burke in Decor
Der fo- eight months for assault IN
a female; and Odell West, who
started serving a 6O-dsy sentence
for assault OH February IS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Supplies For State
Bureau To Be Bought

RALEIGH, March 2S.-CR-The
division of purchase and contract
announced today that bids would ne
opened April II for supplying the
of investigation with two
sub.marchine guns, n sound de-
tector, one tear gas outfit, one
psychograph, and 2,o45 pistol cart
ridges.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
IL. &. Wells Terms Chamberlain
Government Utterly Mcompetent

LONDON, March 2s.-R-H. G,
wells called the British govern.
ment grossly incompetent TODAY
and said Prime Minister Chamber.
ialn and Foreign Secretary Lord
Halifax were "just playing about
with the war"
The historian-novelist, speaking
to the British Students Congress at
Leeds university, said the govern.
ment publication, "T h e British
Case" was calculated to damn us
utterly in the eye Of America and
all neutral countries and even in the
eyes Of our ally, France"
Wells said the publication show.
ed that I'VE are fighting for the
British empire and imperialism
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Blackburn To Address
Carolina Cotton Men

CHARLOTTE, March 28.-CP)-
N c. Blackburn of New Orleans
President of the National Cotton
Compress and Cotton Warehouse as
ISOLATION, will speak tonight before
the annual meeting of the Carolinas
Warehouse association.
The Carolinas association, OF
Which Thomas N. burst of Column
'ia, s. c., is president, was expect
ed to discuss legislation in the Caro-
mas affecting the cotton ware
mouse business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

More Road Building
Is Urged By Grauely

SWAN QUARTER, March 2S.-
Cpl. L. Gravely, candidate for the
democratic gubernatorial nomina.
ton, said that when road bonds
were issued for the state highway
system, it was agreed that county
seats should be connected by the
most direct routes.
"That today" went on, remains
the moral obligation of the state
and building should be continued to
that end as revenues and the con
ditions of the highways in other sec.
lions of the state will permit"
Later he commented that "the
great fishing industry is in a serious
condition and is rapidly approach.
ing the point where it needs govern
mental assistance"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

and that IF this is the stuff for
which We are fighting, then it is
foolish to fight.
Everybody knows our govern.
ment is grossly incompetent and
yet no n dares attempt it's re-
placement. Why is there this nv.
sterical trust in and loyalty to the
government? All the lack Of conf
dence in the spirit of our people is
psychologically different only in de.
gree from what is happening in Ger.
many.
THE Germans. adhere to Hitler
because they fear complete chaos if
his gang breaks down."
10 avoid catastrophe Wells urg.
ed a single economic control for the
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

offensive looking character. Joined
a growing assemblage Of hoodlums
held for questioning about Brook
lyn's crime combine.
He was identified as Frank (Ltttle
Frankie) Galluccio, AZ, who carved
a crease in Capone's face in a dance
hall brawl and thus made a name"
in gangland history.
Galluccio and Ralph (The Cap
tain) Sprizzo, A, were picked up
Yesterday as Yagrants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

tered for questioning, and planned
to shoot them through the window.
O'Dwyer withheld further details
Of the plot, adding only that Le-
vine and Maffetore, whose wagging
tongues originally broke" the case
against the Observation-Disclosures
syndicate, had been removed to an
other h~ide-away.
The man who put the scar on
"Scarface" AL Cpone, a scholarly, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Man Who SCARED
CAP0NE IS JAILED
New York D. A. Reveals
Gunman Tried To Rub
Out Two Informers

NEW YORK, March rs Up -
District Attorney William O'Dwyer
disclosed today that gunner seek
ing to silence two prize informers
in the investigation Of Murder, Inc,
intended to assassinate them in
their Manhattan hotel hide-away.
The Kings county prosecutor
said the mobsters had taken a room
directly acros the courtyard well
from the quarters where Abraham
(Pretty Boy) Levine and Tony (The
Duke) Maffetore had been seques.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
u. S. Doctor Succumbs
To Typhus In China

PEIPING, China. March 2s.-P
Doctor Leonard Fiske Wilbur, 49,
o of former United States r
tarv of the navy, Curtis Dwight
Wilbur. died Of typhus fever at his
post at the American Board Mission
hospital in Taiku, Shansi province
on March "a, according to belateo
reports reaching Peiping.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
British Naval Officer
Convicted Of Talking

LONDON, March rs Up "A
naval officer was convicted today
in court martial of careless talk"
as the admiralty drove against
gossip which might aid the enemy.
He was deprived of his commission.
Details of the offense were not made
public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Bracktown Is Winner
In Hunters Class

PINEHURST, March 2S.-R-
Breakdown, four-year-old gelding
owned by Clarence Vogt of West
port. Conn.,, won the blue in the
working hunters and middle and
heavyweight hunters classes of the
23rd annual Pinehurst horse show.
Champion hunter honors went to
Sauntering, bay mare and four
year-old hunter owned by Mrs. Ru'
fus C. Finch, of Rumson, N. ].
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
JOINS FARLEY

CHARLOTTE-Paul r. . Younts,
Charlotte postmaster and president
Of the National Association Of Post
masters, left today for Washington,
where he will join Postmaster Cen
eral James A. Farley on a 12-day
tour of state conventions Of post
masters.
They will arrive in Asheville April
9 and will go to Canton, where Far
ley will dedicate a post office. Far
ley will dedicate post offices at
Lenoir and S%tatesville the next day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

t h e democratic
nations renewed
consideration of
Cla n C e K.
STREETS ''Union
Now plan.
More than a
year ago, STREET.
proposed his plan
for a union of
democratic coun-
tries, the peoples
Of which e to
be bound togeth-
er by a common
citizenship, a com.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Behind The Scenes
In Washington

WASHINGTON, March 28.-The
peace forced upon Finland, which
will reduce her to zero as a future
military factor in Europe, forces on
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
FARLEY TO SPEAK

STATESVILLE - Postmaster
General James A. Farley will speak
at a Ninth District Young Demo
Gratis rally here April 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

NEWTON DIES
ROXBORO-William Ira Newton,
Sc. former mayor, died yesterday.
Funeral services were held today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
EASTER EGG

EASTER EGG
SPRING HOPE-1t being Easter
season, a pimento red hen in the
yard Of J. A. Morgan decided to do
something special. She laid an egg
the shell of which was half white
and half tan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
Carolina News
Shorts
(Ry The Associated Press

ELKIN-June Rose of Greenville,
state commander, will speak at an
American Legion banquet here to-
morrow night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

In the days of Julius Caesar silk
sold for its weight in gold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
DO YOU KNOW

That the first Fire Insurance
company in America was a Mutua!
TO-, organized by Benjamin Frank
lin in 1852?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29

There are Indications that Gideon
Boswood, who got in the hair OF
the department of conservation n
development on several occasions
during the 1889 assembly, will come
hack to the house this year unop-
posed. Ed johnson, perennial lead
or of n of Currituck's bitter fac
lions. is said to have decided to
quit politics.