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CALL FOR BIDS FOR SALE OF
ErCTATE

Sealed bids will be received by
the undersigned Receiver of The
Tropical Building & Investment
Company, for the sale of the re-
naming real estate in said Re-
ownership, consisting of twelve
parcels or lots of land. up to and
including the 25th of February, A..
u. 1910. Full description and in
request.
The right to accept or reject any
or all bids is hereby reserved.
RAYMOND r. LORD. Receiver
County Court House.
jan25-29; feb1-6-9-12-14 -17-21-2
1910
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Carnations were so called be-
cause the original species were of
a flesh color (carnis, of flesh.
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Timekeeper: Berkowitz; scor-
ers; H. Smith of Key West, Suzy
Lagett of Redland; referees:
Ed. Woodson and Bob Saunders.
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Ore y &ehrzA BY ros ssss ss1rr

YESTERDAY: Sue wants to
fall in love Uith Bob, but can't.
Meanwhile PatSy'S ertTdUdgances
are creating strained situation
in the Davenport home.
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LEGALS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA,
IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY.
IN CHANCERY.
CASE NO. 1880
MARIA DE SILVA SHUMAN,
Joined by her husband, w. /.
-SHUMAN,
t-f Plaintiffs,
VS.. Foreclosure of Mortgage.
WALTER PAUL SHEPHERD
eft al
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Kew West
THE WEATHER

Observation taken at 7:30 a. M,
18th Mer. Time .,~1.
Temperatures "s
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LEG AIS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA,
IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY.
IN CHANCERY.
n. THOMPSON and A. NJ.
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VICHY PLANS NO
FURTHER PARLEYS
Continued From Page One)

Negotiations now are concerned
with creating between France
and Germany an atmosphere OF
mutual comprehension and to have
this policy ratified by public opin.
ion," and with seeking methods oil
applying the principle of collabor-
alton already agreed upon, h e
note explained.
The results, it added, show that
this is the only way in which
the French government can act"
The note, which followed a cabi-
net meeting, said Laval had dis
cussed with Goering a policy of
complete collaboration between
Germany and France.
1t added a criticism of the ac-
tons and propaganda of General
Charles de Gaulle, leader of
free French forces which, it de-
clared, "a creating a difficult at
mosphere in France, contrary to
the new spirit created by the
meeting last month between Adolf
Hitler and Chief of State Marshal
Philippe Petain.
Laval, on his return from Paris,
heard that the de Gaulle forces
are fighting a full fledged" war
in Gabon, French Equatorial Afri-
ca. with Petain forces there.
Laval Immediately saw Petain
a cabinet meeting ensued, and the
official note was issued.
The report on conditions in Ga.
bon came from General Tenu,
commander in chief of the French
forces at Libreville, who assured
the government that nothing"
will make the besieged capital of
Gabon surrender.
Gen. Tenu declared in his tele-
gram that the de Gaulle forces,
who are pledged to carry on the
war against the Axis powers, are
being aided by the British in a
full fledged' war against tn e
French colony.
DO the British people know that
their ships, planes, bombs a n d
gold are being used by Gen. de
Gaulle against Frenchmen?" Gen.
Tenu asked.
He declared that women, chill
dren and missionaries were killed
and wounded in a daylong bonn
bardment of Libreville, and said
the city was running out of food
and medical supplies because of
a tight British blockade. 4
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PRESIDENT MOURNS
SENATOR'S DEATH
Continued From Page One)

committee on foreign relations In a
time of world crisis when his leader
ship will be greatly missed.
81 personally mourn the loss of a
friend of so years standing on whose
loyalty l could always depend. My
heart goes out to you in deepest
sympathy in which Mrs. Roosevelt
joins"
= Hull, with whom Pittman worked
closely in formulating legislation to
carry out the administrations for
eign policy, said he was "grieved and
; distressed beyond measure"
1T was a privilege and an honor
to have had his friendship and to
have been his colleague for many
years. Hull said. He devoted his
lifetime to unselfish and unstinted
public service and we all have been
truly fortunate that during these
critical years the chairman of the
senate committee on foreign rela-
lions has been in the skillful hands
of a man of the outstanding attri-
butes of leadership and keen intel
lect possessed by Key Pittman."
From Uvalde, Tex, Vice-President
Garner tele9raphed Chesley w. Jur-
ney, senate sergeant at arms, in
structing him to make arrangements
for a delegation to attend funeral
services in Nevada. Jurney said it
was probable that the % members
of the foreign relations committee
would be appointed as delegates and
asked to meet in Nevada, since few
of them now are in Washington.
The senate was in recess until
Tuesda. but those attending the fun
eral Were expected to leave here to-
morrow and arrive in Reno, New,
Thursday, Jurney said.
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Old Church Building
Demolition To Berlin

Work of demolishing the old Lu-
Their Memoir | building at Sixth
and Princess streets to make way
for a modern new religious ed
cation structure for the St. PauIs,
Lutheran church will be started
tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, it
was announced last night.
The new building, which will be
erected on the S me site Of the
old structure. will cost approx
mately $1,000.
Church officials have estimated
that it will require six months to
tear down the old building and to
complete the new structure.
L. J. Coleman is the contractor
for the building. 2
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JOHN HENRY KIRBY

HOUSTON, Tex, Nov. 10.-R-
John Henry Kirby, who built one of
the largest lumber businesses in the
United States, died last night. He
would have been 80 years old next
Saturday.
Backed by eastern capital, he &C
CURED timberlands, logged them, and
built a business which grew into the
Kirby Lumber company with capital
stock of $10,0 DOC, 900, and reputed as
sets of more than $40, 900, 900.
The depression of the early thir-
ties struck him, and on May 9, 1898,
he filed a bankruptcy petition, list.
ing assets of $12,995,360 against
$12,276,171 in liabilities. He speci.
fled in a statement that only his
personal affairs and fortune were
involved.
Funeral services will be held here
at 3 p. m. tomorrow.
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robson INDIANS
TO GIVE PAGEANT
Will Depict Early Life, Devel'
opment Of Race At Penn
broke Dec. 81

PEMBROKE, Nov. 1O-The In
dams of Robson county, whose
physical and cultural distinctions
have long interested historians Oh
North Carolina, will present d
nageant to depict the early life
and development of this unusual
segment of a race-the original
Americans-on December 5, 6 and
Z.
/; The pageant will be presented IN
fhe gymnasium Of Indian State
Normal School at Pembroke, spon-
sor of the production. Many of the
performers in the all-Indian cast
are residents of Pembroke Farms
farming project of Farm security
Administration, which with the U.
S. Office of Indian Affairs is as
sisting.
One of the theories Of origin OF
the Robson County Indians is that
they are descendants of the lost
Colony settlers at Roanoke Island,
a theory based on the fact that
many of the Robson County In
dams have the same names as the
Roanoke Islanders, and the fact
that early Scotch settlers reported
these Indians practiced a differ
'ent type of farming from surround
ing Red Men.
! Miss Ella Deloria, Indian eth
,nologist of the Office of Indian At
fairs, formerly of Columbia uni
4versity and author of several text
books on Indian languages, said
the theory of the Lost Colony con-
nection will not figure in the page
ant because of the absence of any
authentic support for the theory.
/. The pageant will depict progress
sively the life of the Indians be-
fore the coming of the whites, the
first contacts with the whites, then
the big milestone in their develop
ment when State Senator Hanil-
ton Mcmillan obtained schools for
them in 1885.
Among Robson Countians as
sisting in the production are the
Rev. Martin Luther Lowrie, the
Rev. S. A. Hammond, and Marvin
Carter.
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A. F. L. AND C.. |. O.
OPEN CONVENTIONS
Continued From Page One)

(NOItlLucu from rage OQe)
however, for a week of preliminary
conferences.
Preparations for a gala celebration
Of the CLOS fifth anniversary may
be somewhat dimmed for partisans
of John L. Lewis since he assured
a radio audience on October rs that
if President Roosevelt were returned
to power, he would retire as CLIO
president.
ALL leaders heading south for
their 6oth annual convention have
indicated that Lewis retirement
probably would be a signal for the
.reopening of AFL-CIO conferences
looking toward a reunion of the la
Dor movement.
One of them said it would be a
golden opportunity" to heal the
breach and that the federation would
make plans to return to the peace
conference table as soon as possible,
perhaps before Christmas.
On the CLIO side, some hackers of
President Roosevelt in the campaign
said that the group of AFL and CLIO
leaders on the national defense COM
mission labor policy committee might
supply the necessary push to get the
two sides talking again about peace.
A draft Lewis movement was re-
ported underway in the CLIO, but
some of his closest associates said
he would insist on stepping out of
the leadership of the organization he
founded.
They said there was strong senti-
ment for Philip Murray, now a vice
president, to head the CLIO in the
event Lewis did retire.
Should Lewis resign he still would
be a major figure in the CLIO
t through his presidency of the
United Mine Workers, one of the
largest CLIO unions. The CLIO post
paid him no salary.
An indication that the AFL might
launch a campaign against racket
eering came in an address today by
John P. Frey, a vice president, who
told the metal trades convention at
New Orleans that "the time has
come when our position should be
made clear, definite and emphatic so
that our trade union membership
and the public will know that we
are determined to prevent any form
of r~acketeering."
The AFL executive council is I'M
derstood to have given consideration
to this question at a recent meeting
land may make some Recommendation
to the convention.
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SUPERIOR COURT
TO OPEN TUESDAY
No Session Is Held Today Due
To Observance Of
Armistice Day

Forty-four cases-a number OF
which are sex crimes-are docket
ed for trial at the November crimi-
nal term of New Hanover superior
court which will open here Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock.
Judge Clawson Williams, of San
ford, will preside over the term.
There will be no session of court
today in observance of Armistice
Day.
While a majority OF the cases
to be tried at this term are of a
minor nature, there are nine cases
involving burglary, criminal as
sault, carnal knowledge of a fe-
male and attempted criminal as
sault.
Among the cases listed for trial
are:
John Henry Rodgers, burglary
and criminal assault; Walter
James Lucas, criminal assault, In
dia Mobley, maintaining a NUS
ance by allowing negro men and
white women to congregate at her
house for immoral purposes; In
dia Mobley, being a vagrant by
being an inmate of a %disorderly
house; Maude Taylor, being a va
grant by being an inmate of a
disorderly house; Leroy Casteen,
carnal knowledge of a minor fe-
male; Ernest NARROW, carnal
knowledge of a minor female; Err
nest Groom, criminal assault; Da-
vid Kelly alias David Keith, crimi-
nal assault; and Walter Sudbury,
Jr., criminal assault.
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GEORGE r.. LEWIS

CLINTON, Nov. 1O.-Funeral
services for G George Roosevelt
Lewis, 80, who died at his home
in Halls township Saturday morn
ing at $3.50 o'clock, were held from
the late residence this afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Bernice Bass conduct
ed the services. Interment fol-
lowed in the family cemetery.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Matte Coley Lewis, t w O
daughters, Jurdie and jamie e
Faye Lewis, his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Charlie Lewis and five broth
ers and four sisters. 2
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C. r. SPOONER

Funeral services for c h e S
Richard Spooner, SO. retired cloth
Ter, of 1928 South Fifth street, who
died Saturday morning after a
long illness, were held from the
Yopp funeral home yesterday after
noon at 4:30 o'clock.
The Rev. c. D. Barclift, pastor
of Fifth Avenue Methodist church,
and the Rev. Leon M. Hall, of
Dunn, conducted the services. In
terment followed in Bellevue GEM
etery.
Pallbearers were: Active-C. E.
Bender, D. A. Meier, C. H. Bush,
Joe H. Curtis, Walter H. Blair and
R. c. Fergus; honorary-Dr. W.
Houston Moore, John A. Orrell,
j.. T. Hawkins and L. G. Wolff.
Members of Fifth Avenue Metho-
dist church, members of Live Oak
Camp No. 6, Woodmen of tn e
World, members of George Wash
ington Council No. 81, JOUAM,
had charge of the services at the
graveside.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Geneva Spooner, of Whining
ton, a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Lee,
of Savannah, Ca, two sons, c.
Howell Spooner and W. Ernest
Spooner, of Wilmington, a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Pearl Lee, of Savan-
nah, Ga, two sons, c., Howell
Spooner and W. Ernest Spooner of
Wilmington, a sister, Mrs. Pearl
Parker, Of Portsmouth, a., and
a brother. L%auraine Spooner, of
Wilmington. Twelve grandchildren
and several nieces and nephews
also survive. 2
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THOUSANDS DIE IN
RUMANIAN TEMBLOR
Continued From Page One)

ern, which was reduced to a pile
of rubble amid screams of the dy-
ing.
More than 100 convicts e e
killed in a destroyed penitentiary.
Campina, a thickly populated oil
town about 100 miles northwest of
the capital was reported "in
ruins" with refinery chimneys
toppled and fierce fires started in
plants, including those of Romano
Americana, a subsidiary of Stan
dard Oil Company of New Jersey.
Ploesti. another oil production
center closer to Bucharest, was
hard hit.
Hospital trains moving over a
dislocated railway system sought
to reach Focsani and Galati, two
of the hardest hit cities where
death tolls were believed consider
able. Focsani, about 100 miles
from Bucharest, was the epicenter
of the quake.
A direct report to the Associated
Press from Brasov, historic Ger
man Transylvanian city, said hun
dreds of roofs and large buildings
collapsed killing some, injuring a
great many
Under the glare of powerful anti
aircraft searchlights pulled up by
German army units, steel-helmet-
ed soldiers and other workers ear
ly today still were digging bodies
from wrecked buildings and homes
in Bucharest and many other cit
les.
Panic gripped the citizens who
dared not return to their homes
tonight for fear of fresh shocks
and collapsing of weakened build
ings.
They wandered in the streets,
BACKED out as an air raid pre-
caution since German troops
moved into the country, or sought
safety in the fields and woods.
The royal palace had it's win
dows broken and walls cracked
throughout, but 19-year-old King
Mihai and Queen Mother Helen
were out of the shaken area, at the
summer palace in Sinaia.
Rumanian army headquarters
was damaged.
Windows cracked and ceilings
fell in the United States legation,
but U. S. Minister Franklin M.
Gunther was out of the danger
zone at his villa in the Carpath-
ians.
The United states legation said
a preliminary check indicated that
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Obituaries
w. A. BROWN

Funeral rites for Wade Anders
Brown, AZ, of 1909 Nun street, who
died Friday night of gunsho t
wounds suffered last Sunday at
his home, were held from Calvary
Baptist church yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
The Rev. Earl L. Bradley con-
Quoted the services. Interment fol-
lowed in Oakdale cemetery.
Pallbearers we're: Active-John
Colley, R. ]. Holiday, George w.
White, M. E. Billiard, L. L. Wright
and E. E. Dye; honorary-Meek
Horrell, J. M. Henry, Jr., c. L.
Covil, L. T. c. Skipper, A. w. Al
len, Kenneth Sherman, Leon Gar
riss, Paul J. Proctor, R. L Church,
z. E. Murrell, j. c. Rogers, L.
B. Swami, E. w. Jenkins, K. w.
Price, and c. Mob. Wilson.
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GEORGE MAY TAKE
PITTMAN'S POST
Continued From Page One)

may hold two chairmanships.
If Harrison decided to make the
change, then George would be in
line for craftsmanship of the finance
committee when Senator King
(D-Utah), who outranks him but
was defeated this year, leaves tn ,
senate in January.
George would not comment on his
possible elevation to the foreign re.
lations post other than to say that
he would be "happy to serve under
Senator Harrison on the foreign re.
lations committee as 1 have been
happy to serve under him on the fl.
nance committee" Harrison was ont
of the city.
Although the 1898 incident placed a
strain on relations between George
and the President, the senator has
supported the administrations gen
eral foreign policies, and has served
as one Of the chief legislative con-
facts for Secretary of State Hull.
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CITY TO OBSERVE
PEACE ANNIVERSARY
Continued From Page One)

N0OAASiSAuOu T1Ul11 L * OuCJ
will the banks and grocery stores
OF the city. In announcing that
they will be closed, the grocers,
said that they will remain open
all day on Wednesday of this week
instead of the usual halliday.
Speakers in the schools of the
county at the chapel periods on
Armistice Day will be: R. Gregg
Cherry, New Hanover High school;
the Rev. j. F. Herbert, Hemen-
way; DR.. Edwin F. Keever, Tiles
ton; the Rev. R. H. %Satterfield,
Forest Hills; the Rev. j. L. Da-
Wis, Wrightsboro; Fred Willets, at
William Hooper; Robert Strange,
Cornelius Harnett; George Jeffrey,
Washington Catlett; c. D. Hogue,
Sunset Park; Walter Blair, Caro-
lima Beach; E. F. Troy, Winter
Park; j. B. Edwards, Bradleys
Creek; and o. F. Cooper, Isaac
Bear. 2
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CHAMBERLAIN DIES
AT COUNTRY HOME
Continued From Page One)
fame of being responsible for
the fall of the British Empire,
but unfortunately an eyentful
political career was marrcd
at its height"

at its height"
Weakened by months of illness.
Chamberlain had fallen into g
coma before death came at $50
p. m, Q1:30 a. m. E.S.T.) Sat
urday. =.
Britain, learning only today Of
his death, was deeply grieved
Weeping women gathered before
many news signboards and solemn
men remembered the man who
once held out to them a promise
of peace in u time"
A small, saddened congregation
at st. Michael's church, adjacent
to Chamberlain estate, prayed
for him at vesper services tonight
and heard the Rev. H. R. P. Tring.
ham say in euology:
blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called the chill
dren of God and no one has worked
harder for u peace. Although his
work seemed a failure it was a
grand failure
For several days Chamberlain,
had lain gravely i'll in his country
home, Heckfield house, near this
Hampshire town, and had been sc
deeply in coma before death came
that he probably never knew that
King George vi and Queen Eliza.
beth had spent an hour at his bed.
side during the week.
With him in his old farmhouse
when he died were his wife ano
two sisters.
His rambling, two-story home,
standing behind a grove of tall
larches in the heart of the Hamp.
shire countryside, had been cam.
outlaged to hide it from German
airmen. e.
Yet, recently, seven bombs were
dropped close to it, at least one
only 40 yards away.
Chamberlain's final illness be.
gan last August, after he had beer
succeeded as prime minister by
Winston Churchill but while hi
still remained as Lord Presiden'
OF the council in Churchill's innel
cabinet.
He underwent an abdominal op
GRAFTON and, although he returned
briefly to his duties, it was appar
ent that his health was broker
ard his resignation last month hae
been expected.
So secret Vas his death kept fol
the first hours that the congrega
ton of st. Michaers prayed thi.
morning for the recovery of lou,
neighbor." Only as the service.
ended did the worshippers, among
them a company of home guard;
attending an Armistice Sunday
commemoration of the shattered
peace of 1918, learn that IN
prayers were in vain.
1t was understood that Cham
%berlain's body would be taken t
London within the next day O
two and there already is talk o
burial in Westminster Abbey, il
whose crypts lie in the remains o
many of Britain's great.
Chamberlain was NJ
prime minister from 1887 nti
May 10, 1910, years which encom
passed the Munich peace" an
the first nine months after tn
Hateful declaration of war which
chamberlain broadcast, to tn,
world Sept. 3, 1889. On the da,
he resigned, Germany invaded tn
low countries and began the swift
Western campaign which o
France her liberty and Britain he,
J one strong ally. 2
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MOLOTOFF LEAVES
FOR BERLIN TALK
Continued From Page One)

minated in the signing in August
of a non-aggression pact between
Germany and Russia.
The announcement of the trip,
said it was in response to last
years journey" of Won Ribben-
trop and was being undertaken,
lin order to continue and broaden
the constant exchange of opinions
through new personal contact with
in the frame of the friendly rela-
tons between the two countries"
BERLIN, Nov. 10.-The Nation
al Zeitung' boldly stated tonight
that the Turkish problem lay with
in the scope of the Russian-Ger-
man conference opening early this
week in Berlin with the arrival of
Premier-Foreign Commissar WA
cheslaff Molotoff from Moscow.
Considering the nature of the
German press such an assertion
took on the appearance of a semi
authorized statement that Germany
intended to have the c~onferees do
something about Turkey which is
pro-English in sentiment.
Every statement of the press
about what would evolve from the
conference was tempered, how
ever, by the cautionary suggestion
that nothing too revolutionary in
nature should be expected. Rath.
er it declared, there should emerge
a strengthening of the r e a d y
warm relations" between Ger
many and Russia.
ROME, Nov. 10.-R-Rome-Ber,
lin Axis activity began tonight to
build up what foreign observers
here saw as a part of a plan tc
extend the war against Britain tc
other parts of the Balkans and the
Eastern Mediterranean particular.
ly French-mandated Syria.
At the same time, Virginia Gay.
da, often the editorial spokesman
for Premier Mussolini, indicated
in an article in II Gionnale d'Ital-
la that the war against Greece,
would be speeded up. He said that
British aid to Greece makes lie.
Ultimate more intensive Italian ac.
ion in the air."
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER J.,

there were no American.
the casualties. 'S anong
ni ploesti, oil production CENT.
hnn north of Bucharest 'er s.
hard hit, as was Campjra vas
nearby oil center, Tit5 another
cnlmneys toppled and refinery
started in plants, i]ncI,I65Ice tire,
OF Romano-Americana g 55se
larry of Standard Oil a su6Sid.
New Jersey. 0''ipaAy Of
br susAle ea,,t trscss and c~ols,o,.,
way traffic throughout P,H 81 rail
ana railroad officials triaS "iEaania,
cally to get in touch with afarti'
OF trains whose fate WI. Scores
known. Was In
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11

Rev. J.. B. Seasons conducted the
the family cemetery.
She is survived by four daugh-
tiers, Mrs. w. B. Austin, Mrs. j.
B. McLamb, Mrs. o. S. Straughn
and Miss Eta Barber, and by
four sons, Franklin, Alphonso, Jas
per and Elmer Barber. A brother
Pate Pope and two sisters Mrs.
Margaret Barefoot and Mrs. Nit
tie McClenny also survive. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
Alto ACCIDENT

Automobiles operated by Mrs.
Hattie Mae Boss, of Charles L.
Nesbitt courts, and an unldentl-
fled negro were involved in a
collision at Fourth and Hanover
streets last night with damages
to both cars resulting. police re-
ported. Mrs. Boss said that the
negro jumped from his car and
ran after the collision.