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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09

series OF blOnOle pictures
and his Job in future produc-
tons is ms sure as death and
taxes.
To be a star In Hollywood,
one has to be able to do just
about anything the boys can
write into a script and Daisy
takes them all in turn with
such success that he Is now
enjoying a greater following
than any dog since Rin-Tin-
Tin.
Rud Weather wax, who
trains Daisy for each film in
which he Is 10 appear. SAYS
he is quick to learn and never
forgets anything he is taught.
When the Tailwaggers had
their first annual award party
last year TO name the out
standing canine actors of
1889, Daisy walked off with
the female" award. II al
most Immediately came TO
light that Daisy was a gen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09
You Nerer Can Tell!

gentleman actor has 70 go u
handle. but. Ike most movie
stars. he doesn't care just 50
long as the bones keep CON-
ing in.
Perhaps the least said
about Daisy's family tree the
better as he will tell you
-. 1T amt no Sequoia" /.
But, after all, it isn't where
q guy came from that counts
-. it's where he's going.
Daisy is proud of the fact
that he cost his owner. Rem
ME Renfro, but fifty cents !;
but he is even more proud
that Rennie now carries an
insurance policy on him which
reads "s25. 900"
He began his movie career
with Paramount in IF I We're
King" and right off the bat,
he stole the show by tripping
up the star. Ronald Colman.
II wasn't in the script but
he did il so effectively that
Director Frank Lloyd decided
to leave ii in the script.
When Daisy first became
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09

Chester Morris. Douglas
fowley ond Buck Jones ore
shown here in q scene from
Republics w O CONS West
word, current ottroction OF
the Shell theoter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09
Fonianne Gives Till
Il Hurts The Nazis

LOSDON-Actrese Lynn Fon-
tame contributed $500 in behalf
az actors Of the United States
toward the purchase OF wsrplsnes
for Great Britain, the ministry Of
aircraft produetion announced
today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09

Two of Hollywood outstanding
young players. John Shelton and
Ann Rutherford. win b seen In
Keeping Company"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-09
VETERAN

Although Carol Adams who
makes her screen debut in Para
mounts Dancing on a Dime IS
only ls years old. she has been
dancing professionally for is years
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
REYNAUD AGREES
TO REGIME TEST
Yields To Demand That He
Reinforce His Political
Position Or Resign

PARIS, April A. Up Premier
Paul Reynaud, yielding to a radl-
cal-socialist demand that he rein
force his political position or re-
sign, agreed tonight to a second
test of his "win the war; govern
ment in the chamber of deputies.
The premier approved the cham
her party groups request for a gen.
eral debate under two conditions;
first, that it come after a secret
senate session scheduled for next
Tuesday; second, that it be before
the legislators ecess to attend
provincial council meetings, PROB
ably at the end of next week.
Political sources said the radical
socialist deputies. who form the
second largest group in the cham.
Der and are well to the right OF
the numerically dominant soclalls1
group, are anxious to see if the
premier can increase his majority
over the clear majority of bal
lot he obtained on March ~, just
after he took office. Since ther
enough deputies have changed thell
stand to give him a paper ma]orlt!
of II votes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
FUNDS ALL0CATED
FOR ROAD REPAIRS
Hoey Appropriates Five
Million From Surplus For
Improvement Program

RALEIGH, April A. Up Sky
rocketing tax receipts enabled Gov
error Hoey to allocate $4,000, 900
from the highway fund surplus to-
day for use in improving both pri-
mary and secondary roads in North
Carolina.
The governor announced the allo'
cation at a press conference this
afternoon, and simultaneously dis.
closed he had definitely deter
mined" there would be no diversion
of highway funds to the general
fund this year.
Hoey said returns from the state
income tax, which are headed for
an all-time record. virtually had as
sured a large surplus in the gen
eral fund at the end of the current
fiscal cal Increased receipts from
the state tax on gasoline and from
the sale of automobile license plates
will assure a highway fund surplus
of more than $500, 900 on June so,
he added.
The s., 900, 900 turned loose for
highway work will be spent half on
primary roads and half on secon.
Diary roads, he said. The highway
commission, which will meet here
tomorrow will be charged with the
responsibility of determining the
roads to be improved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
HENDERSON TOPRESIDE
Year-Old Girl Is
Charged With Staying
Father On Jan. Il

New Hanover county's first Jul
venile murder trial in many years
will open this morning at 10
o'clock in the superior courtroom
when Zelda Deloris Morrison, 10, is
called to answer a chargeoof STAY
ing her father, William H. Morri-
son, wealthy native of Toronto,
Canada.
7. A. Henderson, who as clerk OF
superior court is also juvenile
Judge, will preside at the hearing.
The shooting occurred on the
night of January q in a small
frame house about five miles from
the city. on the Carolina Beach
road.
Held By Jury
Both Zelda and her mother, Mrs.
Grace Morrison, were ordered held
by q coroner's jury in an inquest
shortly after the shooting, but the
grand jury at the last term of SUI
perior court released Mrs. Morrison
and ordered Zelda held.
She was called for trial before
Judge John J. Burney during the
same term of court, but the case
was remanded to juvenile court
for trial before Judge Henderson.
Zelda is being represented by At
torneys Aaron Goldberg and w. L
Farmer. She, her sister Grace and
their mother are still living in the
house where the shooting occurred,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
MERCY MURDERER
IS GIVEN LIFE TERM.
Margaret Cowan, H-Year-
Old Former Nurse, Sem
fenced For Staying

ALLENTOWN, Pa, April 4:-N'
A gray-haired, ~77-year-old 1orinel
nurse calmly and stoically received
a. life sentence today for the mercy
Staying" of a sister in a n nos
pital.
Miss Margaret Cowan of Quaker
town had nothing to say either
when a jury of six men and SIX
women announced its verdict or When
Judge Richard W. Iobst pronounc-
ed the sentence, but told deputies
as they led her from the courtroom:
ct would rather have gotten the
electric chair"
Elderly Miss Cowan had testified
"our Heavenly Father" told her to
kill Mrs. Louella Saeger, 81, a pa
tient in the Allentown state mental
hospital for two years, last August
Is. She said she gave her sister
cupcakes treated with narcotic tic
lessen the pain" and then fired
two shots into her body "to make
sure she was dead
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
WATERWAY MEET
SCHEDULED TODAY
Association Scheduled To
Be Formed At Washing
ton, N. C., Session Today

Between 10 and Is Wilmington
businessmen interested in the de-
velopment of waterway improve
ments and shipping ara planning Z
leave this morning for a meeting OF
shippers and others in Washing
ton, N. c., this afternoon at !
o'clock for the purpose of organic
ing a North Carolina Waterways as
ISOLATION.
Three Wilmingtonians will speak
on the program. They are:
Lieut.. Col. George Gillette, dis
trict army engineer; r. B. Page,
publisher of the Star-News; and H
E. Boyd, ST., traffic manager OF
the Wilmington Port Traffic asso'
citation.
Others who have announced plans
to attend the meeting are: j.. T.
| HERS, manager of the Wilmington
Port commission; c. D. Hogue, N
l.. Foy, Horace Pearsall, members
of the commission; Addison Hew
lett, ST., chairman of the New Han
over county board of commission
ers; the remainder of the county
board; Peter Browne Ruffin, H. V
Comfy, the remainder of the county
board; Louis T. Moore, Max Gregg
| representatives from the city board
| Several local shippers have MOI
definitely arranged to attend the
session.
Aycock Brown, Beaufort newspa
perman, who mailed out invitations
to over 200 persons and initiated
the movement, will act as tempo
rary chairman at the meeting.
r. Bruce Ethridge, director of the
| department of conservation and de
velopment, has urged that all per
sons interested in the development
and protection of the states water
ways attend.
The movement grows out of E
strong need for coordination of eff
forts in North Carolina for i'm
provement of waterways and alliet
projects, those who have laid tn
groundwork for the session con
tend.
Other states, it is pointed out
have created similar organization
and as a result have been able t.
bring to bear a united front whe1
presenting their needs to congress
With a strong organization be
hind various local and genera
! CONTINUED on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
BOOST IN RELIEF
funds IS SOUGHT
House Committee Begins
Hearings On Roosevelt
Estimates For WPA

WASHINGTON, April 4. - Up -
An Immediate increase of $3.50, 900,
pv0 IN relief funds was sought in
the senate today shortly after a
Mouse appropriation subcommittee
pesan secret hearings on President
1'ooSeHelt's estimates for WPA for
The year Starting July 1.
Senator Pepper D-F1a) proposed
tae additional appropriation, assert
Ihg it was necessary to prevent real
suffering between now and June 80
congress voted $1,477, 900, 900 for
.WPA last year.
Meanwhile, Colonel F. G. Harring'
}oA' commissioner of the Works Pro
Iects Administration, appeared be
lore the house group behind closed
'ooFS and gave it an outline of the
unemployment situation. Committee
f'lelnoers said later the $9S5,G00,00 l
Rhlch President Roosevelt recon-
}mended TO run the WPA for the
year starting July 1 would provide
poF about 1000, 900 persons. Thai
Eoald represent a reduction of about
ov0'0VO from the total on WPA rolls
this month.
Al the conclusion of the openins
SESSION with Harrington, acting
rAalrman Woodrum D-Va) TOLD
is"snen the WPA head gave M
pHaleatlon that the administration
"Uad recommend any increase fol
relief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
ATTACK ON TRADE
ACCORDS BEATEN
New Efforts To Clamp Con-
qressional Restrictions
On Program Fail

WASHINGTON, April A. Up -
New efforts to clamp congressional
restrictions on the administrations
reciprocal trade program failed to-
day, and leaders predicted a final
vote tomorrow on legislation to con-
tinue the program for three lore
years.
An amendment which would have
required majority approval of both
houses of congress for all trade
pacts with foreign nations, and one
which would have required approval
by a majority of the senate had no
better luck than an earlier proposal
for two-thirds senate ratification.
The first, by Senator O'Mahoney
(D.Wyo), was rejected A to SO, and
the second, offered by Senator
Adams {D-Colo), was turned down
by a 46 to "a count.
With that issue out Of the way,
Senator McCarran (D-Nev) led an
unsuccessful effort to write into the
law a prohibition against reducing
the tariff on any competitive COM
modify to a point where shipments
could be brought into this country
at a cost below the American cost
of production. The vote was AZ
to SO.
(Under the program the admin
istration may reduce tariffs as much
as so per cent in return for conces-
sions from other nations.)
Meanwhile, opponents marshalled
support for a last-stand fight to
limit the extension of the program
to one year instead of three.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Propaganda
Is Denounced
By Senators
Canadian Officials Plea
For U. S. Involvement
In War Is Discussed
INVESTIGATION ASKED
Vandenberg Orders SPEEDY
Investigation OF Nazi
White Book Charges

WASHINGTON, April 4.-R-
A Canadian officials plea for
United States involvement in the
European war stirred angry denun'
Citations of propaganda" today.
during which Senator Holt Cd
NVa) described James H. r.
Cromwell, American minister to
Canada. as a 'tea hound" diplo-
mat "who paid $4,000 for his
job"
Holt read the senate excerpts
from an address yesterday by On
tario's attorney general, Gordon
Conant. Conant said that Canadi-
ans should "do everything within
our powerato enlist the active sup
port of the United States in the
cause of the Allies"
"But I don't hold the Canadian
people any more responsible for
that statement" Holt shouted,
than the American people are re-
sponsible for the statements Of
Jimmie Cromwell"
Supported Allies
Cromwell recently made an ad.
dress supporting the Allies in their
war against Germany. The talk
drew a rebuke from Secretary Of
State Hull.
(Holt's reference to $780, 900 was
to the contribution Cromwell made
to the democratic campaign chest
in 1860
Before Holt took the floor Sena.
tor Vandenberg (R-Mich) had urg-
ed the senate to order a speedy in.
vestigation of Nazi white Book
charges that American diplomats
had engaged in war mongerins &C.
tivities.
The Michigan senator suggested
in a formal statement that such
an inquiry be conducted by a spe-
cial seven-member investigating
|committee, proposed by Senator
Clark (D-Mo) to look into all war
propaganda activities. Clark's reso-
luton won approval of the foreign
relations committee last week but
Continued OH Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Trial OF Morrison Girl
To Be Held Here Today
Nazi Charges Branded
As False By Wenes

WASHINGTON, April 4.-(R
Sumner Welles, undersecretary
of state, tonight branded as "tan.
tastic nonsense German charges
that he and French Premier
Reynaud then finance minister)
recently discussed a map depict
ing French plans to "whittle
down. the territory of the Reich.
In Berlin, a German spokes.
man had said that Welles, Presi-
dent RoOsevelt's fact : finding
emissary to Europe, had been
guilty of dad taste" in posing
for a photograph in front of the
map with Reynaud.
German sources had said the
picture showed Welles had talk
ed over "the fantastic wish
dreams of the western powers"
to reduce the Reich. The picture
was said to have appeared in a
French illustrated magazine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
MAURITANIA
REACHES HONOLULU
Ship Completes An
other Link In Her Secret
Trans-P Pacific Voyage

HONOLULU, April 4. - Up
Great Britain's great liner, the
Mauretania, reached Diamond Head
at 2:4O p. m. today (7:10 p. m. EST
on her secret trans-Pacific voyage.
The Mauretania, which left New
York March 20 and passed through
the Panama Canal into the Pacific
a week later, vas reported ap.
preaching Honolulu last night, but
the veil of secrecy resembling war.
time censorship prevented report.
ers from learning of her exact
whereabouts until she was sighted
by g lookout.
The liner will stop here to take
on fuel and water before resuming
her trans-Pacific voyage, presum.
ably to New Zealand or Australia
to pick up troops.
Newspapermen and photographers
were refused access to the terrific
rial pier, which was crowded with
U. S. customs officers and police.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
House Passes
Slashed Army
Measure
Sends $7S4,999,o94 APP.
preparation To Senate,
Sets New Speed Mark
NO ROLL CALL HELD
Half OF Fund Earmarked
For Pay, Food, Clothing
And Transportation

WASHINGTON, April 4-LR-An
overwhelming house vote sent a
1854, 999, 1894 army appropriation bill
to the senate today and established
a new speed record for disposal OF
the sessions II regular supply bills.
In approving the huge defense
measure without a roll-call, the
house not only sustained its appro-
priations committee in slashing $751;
357, $50 from the amount recon-
mended by President Roosevelt for
the army, but trimmed off an add
tional $1,000, 900 intended to buy
more land for Fort Knox, KY.
Less Than Current Fund
AS finally approved, the measure
carried $66, 474, ISL less than the
army had for the current fiscal year.
1t brought the total voted by the
house in the II regular money bills
to s6,12O, 133,9 32. Three deficiency
bills passed by the house this ses-
sion increased the appropriation
total to $685. 1T023. The senate
already has boosted several bills sub
s%tantially above the figures approved
by the house, and the annual relief
appropriations is yet to come.
Representative Cannon (D-Mo.),
second ranking member of the ap-
preparations committee, told the
house it was the first time since the
elimination of so-called "lame duck
sessions of congress that the house
had disposed of it's quota OF regular
appropriation bills so early in the
year.
The Missourian remarked that the
house had cut the Presidents budget
deeper than ever before.
Almost half of the huge fund voted
today was earmarked for pay, food,
clothing, and transportation OF the
expanding army and for new con-
struction at military posts.
S1O3, 71O, 900 For Munitions
In dQQlLlOI1, IllC I1OoouiS
approprimately $103,710,0o0 TO-
munitions, including $61,250,0oo fol
so-called "critical' items OF equip
ment such as an~ti-aircraft artillery.
tanks, anti-tank guns, semi'auto
matte rifles and heavy artillery;
s12, 900 900 for seacoast defenses, IN
Guiding fixed and mobile coasta
guns, and s1S, 500, 900 for new motor
vehicles for the regular army anc
national guard.
The bill carried a total OF $l65'-
1852, 1852 for the air corps, but thai
included funds for only 81 new
planes. The army originally re
quested mppey for 1876 planes, most
ly for a rotating reserve" but the
War department agreed that the
rapidly expanding productive capac
itv of the nations aircraft industry
made a large plane reserve uneces
sary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Discuss
Against Nazis
British Leader Says Conf
dent OF Winning Because
Hitler Missed Bus
new STEP IS TAKEN
British Claim Lone Patrol
Plane Scattered Six Ger
man Bombing Craft

royDC.;. April A. Up Prime
Minister chamberlain today ordered
secret session of the house OF
,,,mons for next Thursday for de-
to.o an the worldwide economic
n.rtare bv which the Allies are
,sa;;n~ Jc drain the lifeblood out
Of CUT enemy
Sgpaking outside the house he de-
c,,ra6 he was ten times as conf
dent now of winning the war as he
no, when the conflict broke out
because Adolf Hitler missed the
his" in failing to launch a blitz-
kri:g last September
New Step Taken
4 new step in the economic of
tensive was taken with establish
ment of The English Commercial
Corporation, Limited" to deal with
~nertrals. particularly in southeast
en Europe, to divert vital goods
trom Germany and capture markets
for Britain.
In the continuing war in the
skies, the British reported a lone
flying boat on patrol yesterday at
tackled and scattered six German
~warplanes over the North Sea,
shooting down one and damaging
one so badly it landed in Norway
where the crew vas informed.
The angular prime minister Opt.
Continued on Page Three, Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05

An action that is expected to
mean considerable more visits to
Wilmington by southbound yachts
announced here yesterday by
the Propeller club of the United
States, Port of Wilmington, which
informed that the Hurricane
Exclusion Warranty area a been
extended from Morehead. City to
Southport.
The action means that Inland
waterway Vessels on the way south
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05

LOS ANGELES, April A.
(R-PoIice Captain Edgar Ed
wards said today 11-year-old
Chloe Davis had admitted she
hammered her mother to death
and smashed her three-year.old
brothers skull with the ham,
mer to "quieten him."
Police began questioning the
girl after the mother, Mrs. Lo-
Iita Bjorkman Davis, and
three of her four children were
found dead in their home. The
children were Daphne, 10. De-
borah Ann, seven, and Marquis,
three.
Chloe, suffering from a head
injury, told police her 36-year-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05

and former Grand Rapids,
Mich, resident, left for work.
Unblinking, calm, pausing
occasionally to direct sympa-
thetic gIances at her sobbing
father, Chloe earlier had told
Policewoman Rose Pickerel and
DIR. E. Edgar B. Speak she
awakened because Of a "lot Of
racket"
Il asked mother what was
going on" Chloe said, "and
she told me demons were after
all of US and that she was 60
ing to kill all us kids, then
kill herself"
A transcript of the child's
answers to questions of Miss
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
HOLT CALLS CROMWELL TEA HOUND AMBASSADOR
N. J. Survey Discloses
Newspaper Advertising
Favored By Housewives

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.,
April 4 up Professor Frank
Hutchinson of the Rutgers uni
versity department of Journalism
said today a survey of 286 New
Brunswick and Highland Park
housewives showed that nine out
of ten believed newspaper adver-
Using more helpful to them than
radio advertising.
The survey by journalism stu
dents also indicated, Hutchinson
said, that SO to 81 per cent of
housewives found newspaper adj
vertising helpful in shopping, and
that 81 to SO per cent were aided
by the advertisements in keep
ing up" with latest styles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05

old mother killed the children
and then set fire to herself
and forced the girl to strike
her with a hammer until she
stopped talking"
After several hours of ques-
tioning, Edwards said, the girl
changed her story that Mar
auis was dead when she awak-
ened, and that she found her
mother striking her young sis
tiers.
Edwards said the girl admit
ted hitting her brother as well
as her mother, but denied
striking her sisters.
Chloe said the killings oc.
Cured after her father, Barton
Davis, grocery store employe
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
T OS ANGELES Girl ADMITS SHE KILLED
MOTHER. AND BROTHER WITH HAMMER

Pickerel and DR.. Speak in
cluded:
Daphne was in the bath
tub. Marquis was dead OH the
kitchen floor. Deborah also
was on the kitchen floor.
Mother. said she, was going
to kill me, too. Then mother
started hitting at me with the
hammer. I started wrestling
with her, and got the hammer
away.
Mother tried to set fire to
my hair, but il wouldn't burn.
Then she set fire to her own.
"She lay down on a mattress
in the hall, and her nightie
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Record Defense Budget
Is Approved By Soviet

MOSCOW, April 4.-P-The SUI
preme Soviet, Russia's parliament,
concluded it's sixth session today aft
err unanimously approving a record
defense budget and a constitutional
amendment Incorporating the Karelo'
Finnish region as the 18th republic
of the Soviet Union.
The legislators also amended the
constitution to provide for the for
nation of new regions within the
Turkmen, Kirghiz, Ukranian Tadiik,
Kazakh and Byelo-Russian repub'
lies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
DIES GROUP TAKES
REDS DOCUMENTS
Are Placed In Record After
Judge Asked That No
Use Be Made OF Them

WASHINGTON, April 4. G -
The Dies commAtee placed seized
communist documents in its Official
record today a few hours after Fed
eral Judge George A. Welsh had re-
ouested at Philadelphia that no use
be made of them until he could pass
on a netition to recover the papers.
Judge Welsh granted communist
party attorneys a hearing tomorrow
on their petition to o the ooc-
nontinued on Page Three, Col. o
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
The European
War Situation
(Rv The Associated Press

by The Associated Press
LONDON. - Secret commons
sessions called for Thursday;
Chamberlain taunts Hitler.
PARIS. - Reynaud agrees to
cabinet test; new decree against
communism drafted.
BERLIN. - Germany claims
new air success against conveys.
MOSCOW. - Supreme Soviet
makes Karelian territory. 18th
Soviet republic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Yacht Insurance Section
Extension To Help City

which may be held up to await the
"official" end of the hurricane sea-
son from July Is to November IS,
will be able to proceed as far as
Southport and also come to Will
mington.
Lieut.. Commander LorAin Ander.
son, who was sent to New York
some time ago by the Propeller club
to investigate the possibilities of
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~