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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
REVEALS DIFFERENCE
South Got $50 Per Capita
To $94 In Central, 500
In Northern States

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL Up -
Senator Bailey (D-NC) said today
that an analysis of federal relief ex-
penditures from April 8, 1885 to De-
cember 81, 1889, showed that $5S per
capita was spent in the 10 southern
states as against 1914 in u central
states and $500 in sever eastern
states.
Bailey said the analysis showed
that S11, IT'S, sol, $50 had been distri-
buted by 80 governmental agencies
in various forms of relief and work
relief during the period.
Tabulated by Gilmore
The figures were obtained from
government agencies and tabulated
by Volt Gilmore, formerly head of
the Carolina political union of the
University of North Carolina, now
temporarily attached to Bailey's
staff.
Maryland, ss9, So4, sos; Virginia,
$121, 635, 512; North Carolina, $141,-
252, 596; South Carolina, 1927, 006, IT'S;
Georgia, $40, 361, 1898; Florida, $142,'
6S2, 1884; Alabama, $165, o2o, o39; Mis-
sissippi, $14O,554,3 1852; Louisiana,
$147, 402, 312; Texas, $345, TAI, 922;
Arkansas, STAT, 724 ,313; Tennessee,
$146,18S,7 1856; Illinois, $741, 2o7, $50;
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
FIVE GERMANS KILLED
B riton Reaches Bridge,
Sends Nazi Vessel
Hard Aground
|CAPTIVES TAKEN OFF
BY j. C. STARK

LONDON, Feb. 17.-(F-
A conquering British destroy
er came home tonight with
300 Britons rescued from the
Nazi prison ship Altmark,
leaving the German prison
vessel rammed fast in the
ice and rocks off a Norwegian
ford after a defiant and
furious fight on the very
shores of a frightened neu-
trail nation.
Like a chapter from the
exploits of Drake or Nelson,
a boarding party from H. M.
IS. Cossack, one of at least
three British destroyers in
volved, swarmed over the
decks Of the dingy 12,0O0-ton
Altmark, freed the seamen-
prisoners taken months ago
|by the now-scuttled Admiral
|Graf Spec and killed five
Germans and wounded five
others.
The officer-leader of the
boarding party sprang eight
fleet to the lower deck of the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
DEFENSE PARADE
TO OPEN STREET
Front Repaved At No Cost
To City; Event Slated
For Tuesday

The program for the observation
of National Defense week and the
formal opening of Front street was
announced yesterday by J. e. L.
Wade, city commissioner OF pubic
works. The affair is scheduled for
Tuesday, February 20.
All national guard units in the
city, headed by the 252nd regimental
band, will take part in a street
parade. At the conclusion of the
parade, a street dance will be held
on Front between Princess and
Chestnut.
A reviewing stand will be erect
ed in front of the %postoffice n a
ribbon across the street will be
cut when the parade passes, off,
cially opening the street.
Taking part in the ceremony Will
be city and county officials, Off
Gals of the West Construction COM
pany. C. C. McGinnis, state WPA
administrator, has been invited to
take part.
e The parade will move from Front
and Orange up Front street to Red
Cross, east on Red Cross to Third,
and south to Third to Walnut,
where it will disband.
The dance will start at 9 o'clock
and will continue until midnight.
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
BIG DIRICIBLES
ASKED BY NAVY
Subsidies For Commercial
Air Lines Recommended
By Special Board

WASHINGTON, Feb. H. up -
Construction of more naval dirigibles
and government aid for commercial
airship lines was recommended to-
day by a special navy board.
Large lighter-than-air craft have
military and commercial POSSIBLE
ties which the United States alone
can exploit because of it's virtual
monopoly of non-inflammage helium
gas, the two-man board reported to
Secretary Edison. Its members were
Rear Admiral Ernest ]. King and
Captain Garland Fulton.
Urging a resumption of American
airship developments which were in
terrupted by the loss of the naval
dirigibles Akron and Macon, the
board recommended:
A five-year, SO, 900, 900 naval pro-
gram, involving construction of a
650-foot dirigible which congress al
ready has authorized, and ten or
more non-rigid "blimps."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Bailey Says Relief Fund
Spent Mostly In North
BIanton Will Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon

The Rev. Sankey Lee BlantG.l,
pastor of the First Baptist
church, has been selected to de-
liver the baccalaureate sermon
before members of the 1910 Sen
ior class of the New Hanover
High school, it vas announced
yesterday by Mrs. b.. P. Brock,
sponsor of the baccalaureate
service.
The baccalaureate services
nave been scheduled for Sun
day, May rs, probably at the
Greenfield stadium where they
were held last year. There r
375 students in this years grad
uating class and, with relatives
and friends, the audience could
not be seated i'll any auditorium
available here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Naziis Term
Boarding
Crime
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER

Dy LOOlS I. LOCE11NIIG
BERLIN, Feb. 18.-(Sunday)
@-Dark hints of revenge for
the British attack on the Ger
man steamer Altmark were
published by an indignant Nazi
press today.
Wrathful official quarters
took a grave view of the act.
"The crime in Gjlessingfjord
presents us with an entirely.
new state of affairs in war pol
icy and war technique, the eff
fects of which cannot now be
foreseen in the slightest de-
gree" ragged Adolf Hitler's own
newspapers, VOlkischer BeO-
-bachter.
IF old idiots and tiny GRIM
inal minds were not at the
helm in England, then they
would know that national So
cialist greater Germany has
the habit of striking back.
'They would know that the
tragedy has filled the entire
German people with a single
determination: We will present
an accounting"
The more reserved Berlin
Borsen Zeitung declared that
the memory of the brave, I'M
armed German sailors who died
twill continue to flame within
us and demand expiation."
"War on Neutrals"
The Lokal Anzeiger describe
he incident as "a declaration {
var on neutrals."
A blunt declaration that nor
nations now must sho'
whether they are ~"strictly neutral
vas published by the Essener M
.ional Zeitung, which is close
Field Marshal Hermann Goering.
This murder shows by wha
Methods England wants to involv
Neutral states in the war with Gel
Many" it said. "The outrage o
he Altmark ought to open tn
yes of the neutral countries a
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18

RALEIGH, Feb. 17.-lR,CA pro-
posal to place tobacco control on a
three-year basis was endorsed unanl-
mously here today by a group OF
bankers and tobacco men from SIX
states.
The group, which included presl-
dents Of six tobacco warehouse asso-
Citations, voted to ask congress to
amend the control act so as to allow
a growers referendum in July on
the question of continuing control
through 1943.
At present a referendum is held
each year, and the result OF the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
STORM TO BRING
30 M.P.H. WINDS
Temperature Will Rise And
Rains Are Likely Here
During The Day

The mercury, which stood at 4S
degrees at 1880 o'clock last night, be-
gan to rise slowly during the early
part of the night and Paul Hess,
m~eteorologist, predicted it would hit
a high of As degrees before morning.
A storm which yesterday morning
was central near New Orleans, he
said, will probably bring rain to hi
section today or tonight, with fresh
to strong winds.
The strongest wind expected here,
he said, is about 80 miles per hour
Yesterday a maximum tempera-
ture of 48 degrees was recorded. The
minimum recorded yesterday morn
ing was "a degrees, which gave a
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Spec s Altmark
Boarded, Crew Put
To Rout In Battle
NAILS PLOT REVENGE
Most Vigorous Protest
OF War Is Filed With
Norway Officials
NEUTRALITY BROKEN
(By The Associated Press)

OSLO, Feb. 17.-British in
vasion of a Norwegian ford
in a daring raid on the Ger
man prison ship Altmark
filled Norway tonight with
alarm for the delicate bal
ance Of her neutrality and
with resentment over the dis
regard Of her sovereignty.
She protested vigorously
to Great Britain against the
action of the British Destroy
er Cossack in forcing her
way in the darkness last
night into Gjessingfjord
Closing Fjord) under. orders
of the British admiralty to
free the Altmark's prisoners
with or without permission
of the Norwegian govern
ment."
The Altmark was strand
ed firmly in ice and rocks of
Gjessingfjord, a natural har-
Dor 60 miles south of STAY
anger. The government had
not decided what action it
would take concerning the
vessel but political circles ex-
pressed belief she would be
interned especially if it were
Continued OH Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Bankers, Growers Urge
E. Year Tobacco Control

yote-which. determines whether the
size of the tobacco crop will be limit
ed by AAA quotas applies only to
the following year.
Tobacco farmers and warehouse
men, meeting after the joint ses-
sion with the bankers, said they
believed control was absolutely
necessary in farmers were to re-
ceive profitable prices for their CROP.
The tobacco men also asked that
a farmer be allowed to grow less to.
bacco than his quota this year,
without having his voluntary reduc:
ton affect his quota for 1941.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~

were: American Merchant, Ameri-
can Banker, American F ar m e r,
American Importer, American Ship
per, American Trader and Ameri-
can Traveller, all of about 1000
gross tons. Except for the Presi-
dent Harding, a veteran Of the
North Atlantic passenger and cargo
service, all are cargo ships.
With passage of the revised neu-
trality act, U. S. Lines ships were
withdrawn from the transatlantic
service, but the Washington and
Manhattan now are in the New
York-Italy trade, and the firms
eleventh vessel, the President
Roosevelt, is in Bermuda service.
The sale was authorized by. the
U. S. maritime commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Eight IL. S. Lines Ships
Belgian Company

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-LR-The
United States Lines today sold
eight of it's idle transatlantic ships,
including the 1%3,869-ton President
Harding, to a Belgian corporation
for a reported sum of about a..
600, 900.
President John M. Franklin, of
the U. S. Lines confirmed the
sale, but declined the disclose the
price.
The purchasing firm was identi-
fled as the Societe Maritime An
versoise. The ships start operations
between New York and England,
France and Belgium within a few
weeks.
The sever other vessels sold
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
F. D. R. TO INSPECT
DEFENSES
Presidential Cruiser Will
Arrive At Canal Zone
Early Today

ABOARD U. S. S. LANG AT SEA.
Feb. 17.-R Via wirelesseLifting
the veil of secrecy surrounding his
cruise, President Roosevelt announc-
ed through an aide today that he
would arrive at the Canal Zone early
tomorrow for an inspection of the
defenses on the Atlantic side of the
Panama Canal.
Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, the
Presidents secretary and military
aide, said Mr.. Roosevelt would con
fer with Commanding General Van
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Exhorts Defenders To
Hold Firm, Declares
Help Is Coming
Five TOWNS BOMBED
Firms, However, Report
Many Russians Killed
On Other Fronts
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS

HELsINKI, Feb. H. 9 Fin
lands grizzled supreme commander,
Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim,
fonight treasured the nation that
foreign help lis coming continually
Ind eyhorted the Mannerheim Line
defenders to hold firm to the new
.befenses to which they have with
drawn under the weight of the Red
17.day offensive.
This stirring appeal by the 49,
year old supreme commander, who
spoke confidently of every possibili-
ty of victory" followed reports of a
Finnish victory on the
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
REPORT
SAINI0 CAPTURED
Station Only Four
Miles From Viipuri;
Smile Advance

MOSCOW, Feb. 1S.-(SundayS
FR-Russian troops pounding inces-
Eantly upon the Finnish Mannerhelm
Line in a drive on Viipuri, second
city, today claimed the cap
flre of the station of Sainio, four
miles southeast of their objective,
and said the enemy was being pur-
Eued OF the entire front.
The Red army communicate thus
the present Soviet lines as
a rough triangle, with the
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
SEND OIL
BY new ROUTES
Allies Heartened, However,
By Slackening Of Flow
OF Rumanian Oil

BUCHAREST, Feb. 17-LP)--Al-
lied trade agents, fighting the flow
of Rumanian oil for Germany's war
machine, reported the movement
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Delay In Purchasing A
Home May Cost You
Several Hundred
dollars

Better business conditions COM
bined with the war are likely
to send home prices upward.
Improved business has brought
on increased demand for homes,
and the war has prompted
price increases in the basic
home-construction materials.
Play safe and investigate today's
home offerings listed in the
Classified Section. Consult with
local Real Estate Dealer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
Democrats
Will Meet
On July Is
Names Date For 3
Weeks After COP Has
Picked Nominee
OHIO TO BACK F. D. R.
Wheeler Not To Oppose
Roosevelt In States
Where Name Filed
by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
Political developments y~ester-
day:
July Is Was selected by Chair
man James A. Farley as the date
for the democratic national con-
vention at Chicago.
Senator Wheeler announced he
would not seek democratic dele
gates in any primary where
President KOoseyelt's name is
entered.
q. The Ohio democratic organiza-
ton declared that the President
should have support OF the
states convention delegation if
he seeks denomination.
Petitions were filed to place
the Presidents name On the Ne
braska primary ballot April 9.
Senator Taft announced he
would not enter the Wisconsin
presidential primary.
Senator Wheeler Of Montana, in
statement widely interpreted a
meaning he was determined not t
De drawn into any stop Roosevelt
movement, said last night that h
would enter no primaries where tn
Presidents name is before the vol
ers.
This announcement by Wheeler
who has declared his own avails
oility if the President does not see
1 third term and has contended MI
should not be drafted, cl
NAKED a day of varied political de
velopments, including the %selectio
If July Is as the date for the demo
cratic national convention in Chi
cago.
Wheeler told reporters at Wash
that he had made this de
cision because he had mo desire t
split up the liberal and progressiv
forces of this country'''-a divisio
he said might cause the nominatio
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Occasional rain,
fllshtly warmer Sunday; Monday
cearlng, colder in west portion
south Carolina: Rain, slightly warm
IL sunday; Monday generally fair,
FVlaer IN west portion.
Meteorological data for the "a hours
'Auins ':30 p. m., yesterday.
,,,o Temperature
Icy a m. So; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:3G p.
u; y; $50 p. m. 43; maximum As;
minimum "A; mean Al: normal As.
,o Humidity
l%o a. IN. 81; 7:30 a. m. SO; 1:3O p.
Ill., Is; 7:50 p. m. 6S.
Precipitation
lotal for "A hours ending 7:30 p. M,
son total since first of the month,
0V inches.
Tides For Today
MI. High Low
Wilmington 5:11a - :O1a
."dsohboro Inlet 2:24a 9:22a
sn 3:13p 9:3sp
,is su1rise 6:54a; sunset 5:59p; moon
'Ne LIP; moonset 2:32a.
Wv mAsHINGTON, February 17.-R-
tDr ra'ner bureau records of tempera-
iun ana rainfall for the "A hours end
Prov = p M, in the principal cotton
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-18

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LETTER-OUT
STAR FLASHES
By Bruno
Fontoine Fox


It's little than breezy
GENTIAN-INNATE INFORM.
R) DECOLOR-COOLED (not warn)
DENTATE-NETTED
Cd PAINTER-ENTRAP
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Body Of Yours
JAMES w. BARTON, NJ. d.
COD LIVER OIL FOR
TIT ,CERATTVE COZ TITS

ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
write often about mucous COLTS
an inflamed condition of the lin
ing of the colon or large intestine.
In this condition there are loose
stools and diarrhea, and mucous
coats the wastes from the intestine.
The cause of mucous colitis is be-
lieved to be nervousness and emo
tional disturbances such as worry,
anxiety and mental conflicts. BY
trying to acquire calmness of spirit
and eating soft foods that will not
irritate the lining of the colon,
many of these patients obtain relief
from their symptoms.
What is called Lucrative colitis,
where the lining of the colon is
greatly inf1amed and liberation
present, the symptoms may be so
severe that surgery is necessary to
obtain relief. For years, mild anti
septic enemaS have been used once
or twice a day, and sometimes oil
enemas, which were left in the
colon overnight. What may prove
of much help in severe cases is
enemas of cod liver OIL
For years cod liver oil has been
used as body builder and to fight
infection in the body. Lately it
has been used with great success
III deep wounds and also in infect
ton of bone.
DR.. H. Gainsborough in the Lam
Get, London, reports his results of
using cod liver oil enemas in six
cases of Lucrative colitis. The pa
tients were given foods rich in food
value and containing little bulky
waste or flbrous material. Meat
and eggs are examples of these
high calorie, low residue" foods.
Before using the cod liver oil
enemas, patients were given COM
plete rest in bed and starch and
opium enemas to reduce the diar-
rhea and irritability of the colon.
These starch and opium enemas
kept the colon so quiet that the
patients were able to hold the cod
liver oil enemaS in the colon all
night. This gave the cod liver oil
all these hours to help heal the ul-
GERS and raw surfaces. At the be-
ginning of the treatment the pa
tent was able to hold the cod liver
oil enemas only short time and
they were given during the day.
Later they were given at bedtime
and held by the patient till morn
ing. The beginning dose was two
ounces at time, gradually increas-
ing up to eight ounces.
Three of the six patients whose
illness had lasted 3, 6 and Is months,
respectively, were cured and have
remained cured for two years. One
patient suffering for IL years re-
manned we'll Is months and then
relapsed; another suffering six
years relapsed after Is months but
was cured after further use of the
cod liver oil enemas. The sixth pa
tent was not helped.
The cod liver oil enemas may not
always cure but they shorten the
length of illness and relieve pain.
NEUROSIS.
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some illness although medical
tests do not reveal it: Do you
sometimes feel compelled" to
do things you know to be fool
ish? Send for this interesting
booklet on neurotic conditions
entitled "Neurosis" NO. 1887,
inclosing 10 cents to cover cost
of handling, mention The Eve
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the Bell Library, Post Office Box
IS, Station o, New York, N. Y.
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BY Edgar Rice Burroughs

Robin. I'D like to know what you
have to say about it. It certainly is
bad state Of affairs when one who
doesn't even belong in this country
and is a robber to boot, talks about
honesty and tries to drive out one
whose family is one of the oldest
and best. Take that and that!"
These two blows from the bill of
Welcome Robin were not much like
his feeble attempts the day before.
Bully felt these. He suddenly be-
came aware that he was getting
more than he bargained for. Bully
is no coward. What were two hard
blows! He simply shook his head
as II they annoyed him and went
At Welcome Robin twice q hard Is
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ByFronk Beck
By WiIlord
By Mormon Marsh
By Button

before. But 1t was quite useless.
Welcome Robin had his strength
this morning. Besides he was fight
ing for his rights. In spite of all he
could do, Bully was hustled back
across the barnyard until he got a
chance to fly. And you may be sure
Welcome Robin followed him and
pulled out a tall feather as Bully
darted into his home under the
caves of the barn.
Mrs. Bully Jared no better with
Mrs. Robin. All about in front of
the carriage house were feathers,
and few of them belonged to We'll
come or Mrs. Robin. We'll eat In
peace now, I think" said Welcome
to Mrs. Robin. And they did.
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where Bully and Mrs. Bully were
quarreling. The instant they caught
sight Of Welcome they stopped fight
ing and with one accord pitched on
him like two little furies.
"You haven't got Sammy Jay to
fight your battles for you now"
shrieked Bully, "and I'm going to
teach you that you can't come
around here and take the food out
of the mouths of honest people!"
Bully said this just as If he really
believed what he was saying. "You
don't belong here in winter anyway,
and you can just 60 back down
South where you do belong or starve
to DEATH"
rs that so?" snapped Welcome
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caves of which they had a comfort
able home and at once began to
quarrel over the choicest bits.
Now Welcome Robin knew well
enough that that food had been put
there for Mrs. Robin and himself
and he didn't propose to allow two
impudent, quarreling, noisy Spar
rows to eat it. He hadn't forgotten
their treatment Of him the day
before. This morning he was quite
a different person. Plenty to eat
before he had gone to bed and q
good long, undisturbed sleep had
made a very different person in
deed Of Welcome Robin, and he
was quite ready and eager for q
light f9r bis rights q he new down
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japan Expects Wealth
From Whale Fishinq

There's gold in them thar
whales" translated into Japanese,
is the opinion of Toxic whaling in
terests this season. AS whalers start
ed for the Antarctic they expected,
with Germany and Britain too busy
to send fleets south, to almost domi-
nate the whaling country.
Whale oil is being quoted in Eur
ope at $225 ton, nearly three times
last seasons rate, and scarcity
looms. Some whaling concerns ex-
pect to make small fortunes within
a year.
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Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS

by 1dOhNlON w. DUnUESSs
Do you know what it means to
catch a tartar? Go ask Bully the
English Sparrow. Bully knows. He
knows all about it. 1t means to
attack some one who surprises you
by proving more than a match for
you. Well, Bully the English Spar
row with the aid of Mrs. Bully drove
the Robins away from the food one
morning when they were so weak
with hunger and cold, and Welcome
and Mrs. Robin might have persisted
if Sammy Jay hadn't seen what was
going on and driven Bully and Mrs.
Bully away. 1t made Bully so angry
that he sulked all the rest of that
day. It wasn't that Bully and Mrs.
Bully needed that food. They didn't.
They were fat and well fed. Every
day they impudently helped them
selves to all they wanted from the
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food of the hens and pigeons. It
was just Bully's natural meanness
that made him sulk.
That night Welcome and Mrs.
Robin spent in the carriage shed,
and a most comfortable place they
found it. Early the next morning
Farmer Browns Boy poked his head
in to see if they were there, and the
minute he saw them he withdrew,
for he wanted them to feel quite at
home and not in the least uneasy.
Right in front Of the carriage house
he scattered crumbs and seeds Just
as he had done the day before.
Hardly was his back turned when
Bully and Mrs. Bully few down from
the roof Of the barn, under the
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Points for Parents

BY EDITH THOMAS WALLACE.
When punishment is necessary 1t
should tolloD Immediately after the
ofenSe.
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Mother: You must stay here in
your room for awhile because you
hit the baby. Grandma will tell
you when you can come out. I'm
going to the store"