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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
TRAPPED MINERS
MAY BE RESCUED
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through a heavy rock fall near the
section where the blast occurred.
About 80 men had been working in
passageWays close to that section
Raymond Salvati, vice-president of
the company said:
There seems to be no excuse for
the men Gin that section) not being
alive"
He said, however, it might take
10 hours to reach them.
Passageways ahead of the rock
fall, the company reported, appear
ed to be relatively free of debris.
But veteran miners-Who have
witnessed many of these disasters
persisted.
ut Looks Bad"
1T looks bad" said Carl J. Dick
eson, one of the rescue workers, on
a trip from the shaft. He added:
81 don't think there's much
chance"
The blast centered about a mile
and a quarter back in a corridor
that leads from the main shaft,
which is perpendicular. Cause of
the explosion has not been deter
mined, although state and u. S.
mine officials rushed here to make
an investigation.
Scores of miners and relatives of
the entombed men gathered near
the shaft opening and stood in a
cold drizzle, watching gloomily as
the eight rescue rev changed
shifts every 80 minutes. Each time
a crew came up, mine officials said
the workers were making good
progress"
Onlookers and rescue squads were
fed from a south kitchen manned
by Mrs. Alonza Barnett, 21-year-old
mother of four children, whose hus'
band was one of those still in the
mine.
The bodies recovered from the pit!
were identified as those of:
Roy Hyatt, 80, motorman, mar
ried, four children.
Roy Evans, Al, motorman, mar
ried, four children.
Charley Moffitt, AZ, negro, mar
ried, four children.
One man still unidentified.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
ARMY STALLED

HELSINKI, Jan. IL Up The
bulky BolsheVik army was still stall
led today on F'inland's icy frontier
and Helsinki milliners took advan-
tage of the situation to display new
spring hats.
How life goes on despite the hard
ships of Var in this city built on a
rock by its stubborn people is evil
denced by the hat displays. They
may also show that the Firms eN.
pect to be here when spring comes.
The spring hats do not blossom in
bright shop windows as they used
to. Their existence is discreetly
signalled by pictures of the new
finery pasted on rough boards which
protect shop windows against bomb
shock.
There are plenty of women still
here to be thinking about new spring
hats. This is a women's as well as
a mems val.
And there r other boar1ed-up
shop windows displaying illustra'
lions clipped from magazine adver.
tisements to indicate what may be
found inside-sylph-like forms en-.
cased in %corsets, pictures of grace
full legs in silk stockings.
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AIENISTS CLAIM
DURYEA is SANE
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manufacturer, in 1914. Should he
be detared sane, he might still
be trie for the Staying on an old
murder charge.
william j.. Cahill, assistant state
attorne, general opposing Duryea's
release, asked the, old man II his
previous statement that authorities
at Mattawan intended to keep him
there ultil he died, was a 'delu-
sion ora fact"
"a frt," asserted Duryea, con-
tinuine. with the claim that -four
doctors were Gin court to oppose
WI to keep me in Matteawan
until I die"
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EDISON APPROVED
FOR CABINET POST
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speech, free press and the right to
trial by jury"
Once he had put these observa-
tions on record, Borah explained
that he was not protesting the Edi-
son appointment, and the senate
without a record vote, promptly con-
firmed the nomination of the new
GUS other Presidential appointments.
Edison's recommendation aroused
a stir in congress when il vas first
advanced last week, and subsequent
ly he told the house naval commit
tee that if it contained possibilities
inimical to u democratic SYSTEM
he was opposed to it and made a
mistake"
During the day, the nomination
of Attorney General Frank Murphy
to be an associate justice of the su-
preme court was advanced a step
toward confirmation when a senate
judiciary subcommittee approved it
unanimously.
Along with Edison's nomination,
the senate approved these recent
Presidential selections:
James H. r. Cromwell, husband
of Doris Dukee, tobacco heiress, as
minister to Canada.
Daniel w. Bell as undersecretary
of the treasury.
John L. Sullivan as assistant sec
rotary of the treasury.
Breckenridge Long as assistant
secretary of state.
George S. Messersmith, former as
sistant secretary Of state, as ambas-
sador to Cuba.
John Cudahy, former minister to
Ireland, as ambassador to Belgium.
r. Henry Norweb as ambassador
to Peru.
Robert M. Scotch as minister to
the Dominican Republic.
Clarence e. Gauss as minister to
Australia, a newly created post.
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WARPLANE
|1o1NED ON FRONT
.,;ritv On Line Increases
AI r",1oving Series Of Pre-
~ n,wn Scouting Raids

ian. 11.-CP-Allied guns
one German reconnaissance
..dav during intensified aerial
' and brisk artillery eN-
m both sides, the French
' 5.s' Command reported.
ps ~;ccreased tempo on the west
.,,t followed a series of pre-
III .oontjng raids in which mill
..rrces said French advance
tafs penetrated German lines in
su.,, If prisoners and information.
ss% 'r,, dav vas marked by in
.'.d artillery activity on both
c'a and also fairly strong activity
s''s nth air forces" the general
o. ~ nisht comunique said. AN
s''. reconnaissance plane was
s.' = down within our lines
''Y wv Berlin DNB, official German
agency, said a French COM
NV broke the German line on
,.-,75arg, east of Forbach, but was
s+rsn back by conterattacking
yt &torcesl'
,.,ror work was proceeding night
sn3 day, leading to frequent, local
i7s1 clashes with the Germans and
,t.- several prisoners were brought
bark to french territory.
Military sources said places of
.s,a,i91 activity were regions i'm
r,eiiatelv east and west of the
Tosses MOUNTAINS. a chain within
France which parallels the Rhine
where it forms the boundary be-
tween France and Germany.
The Allied high commands morn
communique on yesterdays ac-
iri-v was limited to air operations,
Nothing to report during the
jght. Two enemy planes were
rouoht down within our lines
an. TO-
THE German high command in
9ntrast said TWO opposing planes
ere shot down while a German
lane was destroyed in { crash Uhile
lasing the invaders).
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BROAD SHAKEUP
In SOVIET ARMY
IS UNDER WAY
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infantry engagements in the Petro.
zavodsk sector"
The towns used in location of the
sectors are inside Soviet territory.
The communique did not say on
which side of the border the mill
tary activity took place.
The broadcast, which quoted a
communicate from Leningrad mill
tary headquarters. also told of an
artillery duel on the Kare!ian 18th
mus but made no specific mention
of fighting elsewhere on Finnish
soil.
ed by the broadcast, in locating Sec
tors where RECOMMENDING activity"
and Infantry engagements" occur
red were Repola, Ukhta and Petro-
zavodsk.
(Repola is about $50 miles north
of Lake Ladoga and about 20 miles
inside the Russian frontier. Fin
nish sources previously had report
ed fighting on the Sovietw side of
the border in this region. Ukhta is
approximately 100 miles due north
of Repola, also in Russia.
(P~etrozavodsk is located on the
strategically important Murrnansk
railway, east of Lake Ladoga and
about rs miles inside, the Soviet
border.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
{. L. Wilhelm Appointed
Red Cross Representative

Mrs. Ida B. Speiden, executive sec
rotary of the Red Cross chapter here,
was advised by National Red Cross
Headquarters yesterday of the APP
pointment of c. Leo Wilhelm, Of
Monroe, as field representative in
southeastern North Carolina.
Wilhelm, who succeeds Miss
Katherine Myers, retired last month,
will visit chapters and assist in pro-
motion Of various phases of Red
Cross work in the following count
les: New Hanover, Brunswick, Pen
der, Baden, Columbus, Duplin,
sampson, Robson, Cumberland, and
OnsloW.
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TRADE ACCORD ACT
EXTENSION URGED
BY SECRETARY HULL
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foreign deb had been raised, and
Hull was talking of money care
lessly and recklessly loaned abtoad
during the wild days of the TWEEN
ties" Knutson put il hat he was
endeavoring by implication, to in
dict the republicans who were in
control at that time.
I'm sorry,' said Hull, 81 had
hoped you would not be sensitive
about that
Produces Report
Again. when Rep. Treadway
R-Mass) complained that the trade
program had brought bad business
in New England, Hull produced a
report of the New England council,
an association of New England in
dustrialists and businessmen saying
business was generally brisk and
much improved. The secretary Sug-
gested that perhaps Treadway had
best debate the point with the
council.
TreadWay objected and said h
could produce witnesses from the
New England council who would
show the trade a9reementh program
had bad effect.
81 can see,' said Hull, whose
fencing with Treadway reminded
both of the days when Hull, too,
was a member of the committee,
that you are running true to your
old-time FORM
In addition to his general argu-
ment for the trade agreements pro,
gram for which he has been battling
throughout a long career in public
life. Hull let it be known that he
expected a big British purchase OF
agricultural products very soon, and
that import quotas had been at
tached to some of the trade agree
ments to avoid public criticism
that they offered insufficient pro
lection for American producers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
TEAMMATES or DlNNERDATEs
SIS. Tonic is the
choIce to increase the
appetite. boost energy

oONTLESS thousands of men and
81 women can testify to the benefits
III IT, ionic has brought them.
con lle lacts are simple because of all
a a' lont etecting the human body
I low blood count is most deceptive.
ana you ieel rundown -. lack a keen
sPpellte -. have lost weight -. don't
s sMu up until YOU restore those pre-
>'tuS fed-blood-cells back to normal.
NEED s,9's. Tonic may be just what you
b beaH TO get you on the right road to
N an and u happiness again.
tro nT o'S.S. Tonic you go after the
nuuole IN two ways. first YOU increase
d due appetite and better YOUR stomach
the eI food making better use of
Naterv Uu you e~at-secondly, thin, weak,
aas;a blood is made rich and red
~01 Trr mus . giving you a boost in energy.
SUNNY 11 49, which any drug store can
PEST pp . No no ethical dealer will sug-
a two , substitute, The big 20 OF. size is
ing In the purchase price as $ s ~ =
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12

Next steps In Education" will
be the subject of an address by DR..
Ralph w. Mcdonald, associate di-
rector of the University of North
Carolina extension division, before
the New Hanover County Council OF
Parents and Teachers in the New
Hanover High school auditorium to-
night at s o'clock.
DIR. McDonald's address will come
as the concluding lecture in the
series opened here at the Isaac
Bear school Wednesday afternoon by
Mrs. Ruth Wick Everett, field Sec
rotary of the North Carolina Edu.
cation association. A reception in
honor of Mrs. Everett and DR.. Nc
Donald will follow in the school
cafeteria.
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GRANTED

SANFRANCISCO. Jan. 11.-5'-
The spreme court today granted
the safe a hearing on its appeal
fromln appellate court decision re-
versig the conviction of Martin
M. Syder, former husband of Ruth
Ettig stage and radio ringer, on
a barge of attempted murder.
Snyer was convicted of shooting
NH Alderman in Miss Fittings
hhe Oct. Is, 1888. Miss EttlEs IS
NV Mrs. Alderman
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
ON
USE OF GAS TAXES
ASKED BY WAYNICK


from highway money and still puts
up q fight 10 keep the money avail
able for diversion.
They know he said, referring
10 thgse who kept up the diversion
principle, that as long as the truth
about diversion can be distorted to
make it appear a Robin Hood oper-
alton on a sleek Industry instead of
the ritIing of the pockets of poor
Old John Doe, flivver driver, the
search for fatter pocketbooks will
be ~lethargic."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
WOMAN PERISIiES

TACOMA, Wash. Jan. 11.-CP-
Miss Inaz Townley, so. a retired
school teacher, ran back into her
tlaZng home today to rescue hec
pet dog and was burned to death.
Firemen found her body and that OF
the dog among the ruins.
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NAMED LIBRARIAN

PRINCETON, N. j., Jan. lip
Trustees of Princeton university
today appointed Julian P. Boyd. Ii
brarian and editor of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, as univer-
sity librarian,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
RESTRICTIONS frightened

PARIS, Jan. 11-LP-France's re-
s~tricti0ns on meat were frightened
today by a revised decree establish
lMs Friday as a completely meatless
Gay and prohibiting the sale of beef,
veal and mutton on Mondays and
TUESDAYS,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12
A. e. L. Seeks To Close
Lumber Bridge Station

RALEIGH, Jan. 11.-R-Follow,
a hearing here today, Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winborne took
under advisement an application of
tne Atlantic Coast Line railroad to
close its station at Lumber Bridge,
Robson county.
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NAIL PLANES
SCOUT ENGLISH AND
SCOTTISH COASTS
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man crew of the 1,571-ton British
ship Leonard Pearce, had been res
cued after a collision.
A Reuters, British news agency,
dispatch from Rome sale. the sunk
en- Italian ship was the 5,123-ton
Traviata.
Crowds on shore witnessed the
sinking of the Italian vessel while
only d mile away a German plane
was attacking a British trawler.
The trawler was damaged but was
able to proceed under its W
power.
81 Rescued
Thirty survivors and the British
pilot were rescued from the Italian
ship.
Crowds lined the cliffs Of one
east coast resort to watch a bomb
er attack a small steamer several
miles from shore. 1t burst into
flame, and a lifeboat took off the
crew. British fighters drove off the
attacker.
One Nazi echelon attacked a
trawler off the Scottish coast, dam
aging it with bomb %splinters and
machine-gun bullets. The attackers
were driven off by royal air force
fighters. A third group dumped
several bombs harmlessly ear a
sandbank off the Norfolk coast.
Three air force fighters were re-
ported to have chased off and dam
aged d Heinkel bomber as it cir
cled 50 feet over three cargo YES
sells. The plane dropped several
bombs without hitting anything,
as it sped homeward.
The determined Nazi reconnais-
sance drew sharp anti-aircraft fire
at sich important points as the
Firth of Forth, the Humber es-
tuarN, South Shields, Newcastle-on-
TYNE and the Thames estuary, or
Moro. 1t was the first Nazi visit to
the lTyneside, important shipyards
area.
Souvenirs
Chunks of shrapnel sprayed the
STREETS in some localities, although
no air raid sirens walled a warn
Ing, in conformity with the gov
erhmnet's decision to sound alarms
only when an actual raid is deem
ed imminent. Householders quickly
gathered up the splinters as SOU
Yenirs.
Military experts pointed out that
Isuch reconnaissance in the past
has preceded attempts to bomb the
Firth of Forth, Scapa Flow and to
SOW magnetic mines from the all
off the coasts. Therefore they be,
lieved today's activity signalized
a third German effort to cripple
British shipping and lessen what
Prime Minister Chamberlain has
called "the memorable pressure of
Il Bitish seapower.
The first phase of the German
flint on the British fleet was by
submarine; the second by deadly
drifting mines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-12

The Island of Trinidad contains
a pitch lake over 100 acres broad.
In SO years the lake has yielded
more than 5000, 900 tons of asphalt.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-07-05
l.vE FREEMAN - COMING
TENNIS CHAMP >.

TENNIS CHAMP -.
lost week we told you some
.;nr Of the 19-year-Old Jewish
mis- DIayer from the Coast who
heing grOOmed as a fOrthcOm-
\ Davis Cup Star. We've more
Law on the line for you today
orcerning the technique and abb
Il Of this Pomona College sOph-
more who ranked twenty-secOnd
the national listings last sea-
an and who looms as another
Pene LacOste. (LacOste, you will
scaII. has been the only Jewish
ennis player on any Davis Cup
eam.)
freeman reached the tennis
ourts through thoroughly nat
ral route. His rapid rise to fame
rogresses from ping pong to bad
hinton to tennis in six shor t
ears. At the age of ID he won a
ew small trophies as a table ten
is menace. BY the time he was
eventeen, only two years ago, he
vas garnering gold and silver tro-
bhies. He has more than a hun
lred cups.
But table tennis w as child's
bay and Dave turned to badmin-
on as more strenuous fare. IF
Eou've never played this sport
which is rapidly becoming a fav-
bite winter indoor paStime-get
h out Of your heads that it's a SIS
VS. game. It's strenuous, ia S t,
bnd requires plenty of skill. Some
consider it more arduOus than ten
hiS.)
And it was only two years ago
hat Dave came out of the West
bn unknown quantity at this game
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-07-05

There will be a good deal of
concern in this country over the
position of $500 American Jews
in Palestine, now that the war has
closed in around the Holy Land.
A JTA dispatch from Jerusalem
indicates that the American Con-
sulate there has been making in
quiries among American residents
as to whether they want to be
evacuated. Another news agency
reports that the Consul General is
trying to arrange to have Dollar
liners call at Basra, seaport at
the head of the Persian Gulf, to
pick up Americans.
With the Mediterranean closed,
and the Red Sea a theatre of war,
Basra remains the only cOmpar-
atively safe way out of Palestine.
Even this is a route hardly to
be contemplated with equanimity.
Evacuation this way m ans a
thOusand-mile overland journey,
first to Bagdad across the Syrian
desert, then down the Tigris-Eu-
pirates valley to BaSra. At best
this is dusty and uncomfortable
trip; under the conditions in which
large transport of refugees
would have to make it, in mid
summer, with families including
infants and small children,
through one of the pest-f 80
the world, it would be apI
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JEWS IN
SPORTS
By MoRR1s WE1NRR

and a kid who was beginning to
show an aptitude with the tennis
racket. At that time, in tourna-
ments in Philadelphia, those who
watched h m closely were con-
WINGED that they saw symptoms of
excellence.
Last year, while still a Junior
performer, this Pasadena young
ster returned to New York. On
that occasion there was no I'M
certainty about his high-geared
play at badmintOn. He had irOned
out the rough spots, prOfiting by
his knowledge tn a t tennis had
yielded him in the National Junior
championships at Culver, Indiana.
He won the junior title two years
ago and last year was succeeded
by his chief rival on the Pacific
Coast, Ted Shredder.
No other American performer
with the tennis racket and bad
minton bat has ever scaled the
heights Freeman has attained. He
was a star of the first magnitude
in the national badminton cham
pionshipS in New York last year.
His blend of tennis and badmin-
ton was smooth, according to the
experts, and in the recent shut
tlecock championship at Seattle
Freeman was the whole show, ia
king no fewer than three national
championships.
lie is so strong at both games
that the Californian looms as the
OverpOwering force in any cham
piOnship at either game. 1t is al
SO interesting to observe tn a t
Freeman trOunced Hank PruSOff
at badmintOn in the Iatter's home
town, thereby retaliating for the
defeat suffered at Forest Hills
last season at the hands of the
lad who went on to rate thirteenth
HI CuO NdCAOudlSs
BY the way, the record books
also reveal that Davis Freeman is
the first Californian who has
achieved the highest. honor in this
respect. He has made a record at
badmintOn which few can equal
and which only one other player
i'm the country has been able to
equal thus far. Freeman m a d e
grand slam in singles and doubles.
The only player to do that hith-
ertO was Mrs. Del Barkhuff then
of Seattle and now of Honolulu,
who did the triple victory back in
1887, when this national event
was inaugurated in Chicago.
At a recent badminton tourna-
ment, Dave was awarded the top
seeding, as champion, in singles,
He took that event with scarcely
any formidable opposition, sue
cesfully defending his crown as
there was no opponent capable of
taking him into camp.
And here you have the reasons
for it. He's amazingly fast on
his feet, quick of anticipation and
durable for a long session. Speed,
stamina and sense - three prere-
quisites of the tennis player.
Freeman has m d e it evident
that he has what it takes in bad
ninton and tennis to rate as ma
tional champion and to justify his
sponsors predictions that in him
we have a future Davis Cup play
er and what is more the first Jew
ish Davis Cup player in America.
Judge Hardy, former interna-
tionaI Davis Cup team captain
who is pushing Dawes tennis as
piratiOns wrote in the U. >. Lawn
Tennis Journal only last month:
Freeman has shown remark
able ability to round out his ten
mis- stronkes. This makes him par
ticularly dangerous in the fore
court, repeatedly turning defen-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-07-05

College next fall, will be making
the grand tour this summer. If
you're a tennis enthusiast and live
in or near any big city in the
country it will be worth your
while to learn when your section
al championships are held. The
grand tour calls for entries in all
of them. And if you take our tip
and get to see Davie F. you'll
be watching the future United
States Tennis Champion.
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Americans In Palestine
By ROMAN SLOBODIN

have made up their minds to stick
it out.
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the world, it would be apl
But it is not likely thu
American Jews in Palest
make this journey. For t
part, those who still rema
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sive shots into scoring ret
UNFOLDING the slogan of
Walter L. Pate, attack
net"
In concluding this secOr
articles on Dave Freema
remind you that this 10
yOungster, who will be
his Junior semester at
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-05

and as deeply loved and respected by all Will
mingtonians as by his immediate parishioners.
Under his care and guidance last year, the
team from this district was exceptionally sue
cessful in the regional tournament at Atlanta,
and three of it's members moved up to the
national finals in New York.
This year Father Manley will be missed. But
it is possible to perpetuate his influence, to
continue the high standards he established.
Wilmington can bear no better testimony to
his memory than in supporting and eucourag-
ing the Golden Gloves to which he gave so
much of his time, thought and undoubted
genius for youth leadership.
The Star-News and the Brigade Boys club,
joint sponsors of the district tournament, feel
a double obligation to carry on at the high
level he established, for the credit of the area
and in tribute to him. 1t is the hope to have
as large a class of local competitors as last
year, and to develop equal talent. This can be
accomplished best if the amateur boxers in
this territory train as co~nscientiously as when
he guided them and if the community at large
gives them it's moral backing.