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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-16
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Having qualified as Auxiliary Ad.
ministrator C. T. A. of the Estate of
George P. Gafford, deceased, this is
to notify all persons having claims
against said Estate to present the
same to the undersigned on or be-
fore the 18th day of December, 1910,
or this notice will be plead in bar
of their recovery; all persons in
debted to said Estate will please
make immediate payment.
This 18th day of December, 1889.
CLAYTON G. BELLAMY,
Auxiliary Administrator c.
T. A. of the Estate of
George P. Gafford, deceased.
EXECUTORS NOTICE
Having this day qualified as
Executor and Executrix of the last
will and testament Of John H.
Brown, all persons having claims
on his estate are hereby notified to
present them to the undersigned on
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INDEX

CLASSIFIED INDEX
announcements.
2-Automotive.
2.A-Auto Supplies.
3-Amusements.
4-Awnings.
S-Beauty Parlors.
S-Beer.
1O-Business Service.
11-Builders.
12-Builders' Supplies.
13-Boats.
1S.A-Booksellers. S%tationers.
14-Business Opportunities.
2O-Cleaners and Dyers.
32-Coal, Wood. Fuel Oil.
S3-Dairy Products.
Enhancing.
35-Drugs.
3S-Dry Cleaning, Pressing.
41-Eatables.
42-Eating Places.
4S-Feeds.
5O-Financial.
51-Florists.
52-For Rent.
52-A-Resorts.
55-For Rent. Apartments.
6O-For Rent. Rooms.
Groom and Board.
65-For Rent Houses.
70-For Sale.
73-Hardware.
75-Household Goods.
SO-Houses For Sale.
S5-Help Wanted, Male.
9o-Help Wanted, Female.
95-Insurance.
lOO-Instruction.
1O5-Lost and Found.
1l0-Livestock.
ll1-Miscellaneous.
ll2-Machinery.
l1S-Music.
l2O-Office Equipment.
1N-0ffice For Rent.
l25-Painting, Papering.
127-Printing.
lSO-Professional.
lT5-Personal.
lS6-Poultry.
l3s-Radio and Repairs.
loO-Real Estate.
loo-Seeds and Plants.
la6-Situations Wanted.
lo7-Typewriters.
loS-Shoe Repairing.
transporting Goods.
l5s-storage.
lbO-Trucks and Transfers,
11o-Wanted.
1SO-Legal.
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Help Wanted. Female

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sonality for telephone and can
vass work. Apply 1904 Market st.
after 7:30 p. m.
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Help Wanted, Male

IS Help Wanted. Male
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as investigator in making loans.
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start. Also want office man with
small amount of capital capable
of assuming charge. Salary dis
cussed at interview. State age,
phone number and business expe-
rience. No letters answered I'M
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Phone 631.
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Houses For Sale

WANTED TO BUILD - H u s E
to suit buyer. Lot located Market
Street Road and Montgomery Ave.
Will finance. A. E.. Cumber,
Phone 272.
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5rd & Market, Phones 1493-9207
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CLOSE OUT ON USED NESCO &
Florence Oil Cookstoves, and
Ranges. Jones. Furniture Co. Ii
South Front street.
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pny. 100 miles for Soc. Roberts
Used Car Exchange, SIT No. Bird
Street.
Evening star., 1940-11-12

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Box Spring to Notch
Evening star., 1940-11-12
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at this Founders Day
price! Wednesday only.

Gracefully designed Beautifully grained mahogany Solid top drawer
font Authentic Chppendoe hardware drowers boond
feet expensive curved front. Fine for office home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
INTERNATIONAL ANGLE
Says Mother Threatened To
Reveal He Was In U. S.
Without Passport
MAN APPARENTLY RICH
Inquest Slated To Be Held
| At Courthouse This Morn.
ing AT 10 O'Clock

William H. Morrison, GA,
apparently wealthy member
of a prominent Toronto, Ont.
family, was shot to death at
the home of his wife, near
the intersection of the Ma
sonboro loop and Carolina
Beach highways, early yes
terday morning.
His 13-year-old daughter,
Zelda Deloris, told officers
she shot and killed her
father because he attacked
her mother.
International Angle
The Staying, which occur
red between 2:30 and 3 o.
clock, brought to light last
night a strange group of &C.
currences that pointed to a
case with an International
angle.
Deputy Sheriff Porter Da-
Wis, who together with other
officers investigated the
shooting, said that Morri-
son was brought to James
Walker Memorial hospital at
sos o'clock. He died about
the time he was admitted to
the hospital.
Coroner Asa w. Allen an
nounced last night that an
inquest into the death will
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
COOPER TO SEEK %
SLASH in RATES
Will Initiate Steps Toward
Reduction In Insurance
Charges Here

Calling attention to the extremely
low fire loss in Wilmington during
1899 Mayor Thomas E. Cooper last
night said he would initiate steps
looking toward a further reduction
in insurance rates here.
The mayor pointed out that the
total insured and uninsured loss on
buildings and contents during the
past, calendar year was only ST.
901.O3 {. The insured loss, $26,SS6.5o,
was the lowest for any Year on rec
ord.
mo complete inspection of the
city's fire fighting equipment has
been made by the National Board OF
Fire Underwriters since 1885, so far
as I am able to learn, but substan'
tial improvements in our equipment
have been made since that time
the mayor said.
Cooper also declared that in his
opinion there should be a genera
statewide reduction in fire rates al
least in first class cities and towns
He said he was informed that viii
mington's experience as to reduced
fire losses during the past year was
fairly typical among cities and
towns in the state. This fact came
to his attention while he was en-
gagged in making a study of the Will
mington fire loss situation, the
mayor said.
The mayor indicated that he
would seek a conference with Dar
C. Boney, state insurance commits
sioner if any property owner does
not receive satisfaction from insur
ance companies as to his rates.
There is a possibility of savings
of thousands of dollars for prop
erty owners in Wilmington, and of
many more thousands for owners
throughout the state, if the rates
can be reduced in line with the de.
clining fire losses, Cooper declared
The last biennial report Of the in
surance commissioner shows that ir
1887 fire insurance companies op
Continued on Page Ten; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
RUMANIA SEEKING
MILITARY ACCORD
Wants To Turn Balkan En-
tente Into Pact Against
Attack By Red.

BUCHAREST, Jan. 21.-R}-Ru-
mania is seeking to turn the Balkan
Entente into an outright military
alliance which would protect her
against attack by Russia or Hun
gary.
The government of King Carol, it
was learned from excellent sources,
opened it's campaign in this direc.
ton at a meeting on the frontier
last Friday between Foreign Minis
ter Grigore Gafencu and the Yugo.
slav Minister Alksander Cincar-
Markovic, and will throw it's full
energy into the diplomatic struggle
at the meeting Of the Balkan En-
tente Feb. 2.
The Balkan Entente, composed OF
Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece and
Turkey, was formed after the World
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
REVIVAL OF DIES
GROUP EXPECTED
Congress May Also Take
Action On Finnish Aid
Proposal This Week

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21- Up -
Virtually certain revival Of the Dies
committee and probable action on
aid for Finland highlight the con
gressional program for this week.
All legislative business will be laid
aside tomorrow when both house and
senate will pay tribute to the late
Senator William E. Borah at a state
funeral.
On Tuesday, however, the house
is scheduled to plunge into the ques
ton of re.establishing it's special
committee to investigate un-Ameri
can activities, headed by Repre-
sentative Dies (D-Tex). The commit
tee went out of existence January 3
Speaker Bankhead said recreation
of the committee vas almost a fore
gone conclusion, but there were in
dications that the committees pas
tactics would come in for some SHARP
criticism in debate on the question
Of re-establishing it..
Senator Brown (D-Mich) disclosed
that revised legislation to permit
financial aid to Finland was being
drafted by RFC experts, and said il
would be whipped into shape early
in the week.
Details were withheld but there
was talk that the revamped measure
MOntinued on Page Two Col ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
ITALY RECOGNIZES
WANG GOVERNMENT
Action Taken Before ia.
panese-C Controlled Rule
OF China Organized

ROME, Jan. 21.-R-1taly today
officially announced virtual recog-
milton of a Japanese.controlled gov
eminent of China under Wang
Ching-Wei even before it was
formed.
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano of Italy was disclosed to
have offered Wang "comradely col
laboration" in a telegram which
predicted "China with her great
neighbor, Japan, will find a new
era of prosperity and friendship"
Wang, former Chinese premier
ousted from Generalissimo Chang
Kai-Shek's regime a year ago, re-
piled that he appreciated "the full
value of Count Ciano's message.
Chinese circles in Rome indicat-
ed Chiang's government would
seek an explanation from Ciano.
They said the telegram might re-
suit in a rupture Of diplomatic re-
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21.-
(APeBrunette Mary McElroy
killed herself today after seven
tragic years of broOding over
what she termed unjust punish
ment of the men who kidnapped
her in 1888.
Police said she had taken her
own life. They found a note
penned in ink in the handwriting
of the slender 32-year-old daugh-
ter of the late H. F. McEIroy,
stormy Pendergast political ma
chine leader, who was Ousted
as city manager last spring.
The note said:
"My four kidnapers are prob
ably the only people on earth
who don't consider me an utter
fool.
"You have your death penalty
now-so-please-give them a
chance"
1t was signed MARY McEl.
roy"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22

While no official comment was
forthcoming, the note was in
%terpreted in some quarters as
referring to her known attitude
OF sympathy toward the fate of
the four men who abducted her.
Dwight Brantley, head Of the
Kansas City office of the feder-
al bureau of investigation, said
he had mo comment" when he
was asked about reports that
Miss McElroy recently had un-
dergone renewed questioning by
FBI agents about the kidnap.
ing.
Clarence Stevens, one Of the
men sought by federal agents
as a member of the McElroy
kidnapping gang, still is at large.
Two of the other three kid
napers, Walter and George Nc
Gee, brothers, are serving life
sentences i'm the Missouri peni-
Tertiary. A third member of the
gang, Clarence Click, who liy'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
ATTACKS REPULSED

HELSINKI, Jan. Fl. - up - The
Finnish army announced today the
repulse of Soviet Russian attacks on
the Karelian Isthmus with "heavy
casualties suffered by the invaders.
1t also reported the capture of "a
few enemy strong points" in the
lower part of the eastern front while
private advices from above the Arc
tic circle said the Russian forces
which had been retreating after cut
ting nearly halfway across FINLAND
had braced SO miles from the bor-
der against the pursuing Films.
Civilians Killed
AS cloudy skies brought relief to
the Firms today from the almost
daily pounding by Russian bombers,
the high command said two civilians
were killed and % others hurt in
yesterdays raids and it charged d
hospital marked with Red Cross EN-.
blems was bombed.
It said that from enemy airmen
who fell into our hands yesterday II
is clear that air bases situated in Es-
tonia are being used at least for all
raids on southwest Finland"
Russia gained the right to estab-
fish bases in Estonia as well as or
Latvian and Lithuanian soil in a Sc
ries of pacts last year. 1t was the
failure of negotiations for a similar
pact with Finland for bases and 9th
err concessions which led to the Rus
sian-Finnish conflict.
In reply to the Russian air wal
the Films said they had shot down
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
OFFER YOUR IDEA NOW
First OF New Year Consid-
cred Fine Time To Con-
slider City's Future

The first of a New Year is an ex-
cellent time to consider the future
of your city and what can be done
to make it a bigger and better COM
munity during tie next u months.
Will. this thought in mind, the
Star-News is urging every person in
Wilmington and southeastern North
Carolina who is interested in the
future of the city and territory to
submit Immediately his or her idea
of projects which should be pushed
to successful conclusion in an effort
to make the community grow.
Prizes Offered
To encourage thinking along these
lines, r. B. Page, publisher of the
Star-News, is offering a prize of $25
to the person who suggests the best
project, SIS for the second best pro-
ject, $40 for the third best project
and 81 to each and every person
suggesting a project that is tncor-
porated in the Star-News program.
A number Of projects have been
received but a call for additional
ones is made today as it is the
thought of those in charge of the
contest that the program should be
a broad one, representing the
thought of people from all sections
of the city and from all classes.
The program Of projects, which
has been pursued by the news
paper in the past, along with a lis.
o fachieved projects, may be found
on the editorial page and may prove
Continued on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
Destroyed
North Sea;
/ Lives Lost
Merchant Ships Are
Kant To Bottom Or DAM
[,ged As Warfare RACES
|uB IS BELIEVED SUNK
Shipping Suffers
ma Roth East And West
Coasts OF England

rnDoN. Jan. 2~1.-R-Britain's
/. acknowledged fleet loss of the
/. with Germany was disclosed
;sv with an admiralty announce
r., tbat the destroyer Grenville
/ hAen sunk in the North Sea by
vino ny rorpedo with the probable
KS Of 81 lives.
Elsewhere, ten merchant vessels
,ro renorted sunk or damaged by
lines EXPLOSIONS, collision and fire
ora of the worst Sundays for
bipping in weeks.
Ejgbt of the crew of the 1,4S5-ton
Estroyer were known to have been
EaIed. IS we're given up for dead,
hal 11S were saved.
Sub Believed Sunk
Nm the credit side of the British
maritime ledger, however, was a re
Ert by the crew Of the Norwegian
kerchantman Notos that a subma'
he attacked her unsuccessfully and
BAY have been sunk.
Reaching a northern port today
BE- crew said the submarine at
bGked off Scotland Saturday.
A loud explosion and dense smoke
lddenly came from the submarine
|hich disappeared. The explosion
Jas heard after a torpedo passed
be bow Of the Notos.
The crew had taken to lifeboats
but returned to the ship when the
kbmarine failed to reappear.
Merchant shipping suffered of
10Th the east and west coasts Of
England, in the Mediterranean anC
\ the North Sea.
A distress call from the Italian
|ner Orazio, 1860 tons, revealed
be was ablaze in the Mediterranean
|lth, first reports said, 600 pas.
COntlnued OH Page Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
CHILL CLAIMS
ATTACK
WIFE HOME
Pennsylvania Girl
Shoots Father After
Series Of Quarrels

,. /. PENNSYLVANIA GIRL = =
V~ILLANOVA, Pa, Jan. 81
R-A 19-year-old High school
girl slipped into a church today,
knelt by her mothers side Ind
whispered:
1--WE just shot father"
The girl, identified by Police
Captain William E. Shaffer as
Frances Baran, Lower Merton
High school senior, was jailed
on charges of aggravated assault
and battery.
Physicians said the father,
Joseph, 81, was struck in the
cheek by a bullet from a .S2
calibre revolver. They added he
would recover.
The police captain said the
shooting climaXed a series OF
family %Quarrels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
Civic Proposal Contest
Considered Most Timely
Crippled Woman Hit
By Auto, Picked Up,
Dumped Into Alley

SEATTLE, Jan. 21.-(AP)cA
motorist struck a crippled, IL
year-old woman today, loaded
her, unconscious, into his auto.
mobile and six blocks away
dumped her into a puddle Of
water i'll an alley where she was
found some time later. She was
not expected to live.
The woman, Mrs. Edith Cakes,
who walked with the aid of a
crutch, was struck at a street in
tersection. The crutch, her spec
tacles and keys e found at
the crossing.
William E. hartman surren-
dered to police and Traffic In
vestigator A. j. Ruth said he adj
mitted he was the driver of the
automobile that hit Mrs. Cakes.
hartman said he put Mrs. Cakes
in his car to take her to a hos
pital but became frightened. He
was charged with leaving the
scene of an accident.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
British Trade
Bans Watched
By New Deal
Restrictions Threaten To
Deprive U. S. Farmers
OF Export Markets
KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT
M h Irritation Against
London's Policies Is
Shown In Capital
BY OVID MARTIN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-R-
Administration officials are watch
ing with growing concern British
imposition of import and shipping
restrictions that threaten to de-
prive American farmers of export
markets upon which they are de-
pendent for economic security.
In her effort to defeat Germany,
Great Britain not only has shut
American agricultural products out
of German markets, through use
of the naval blockade, but is clos
ing the doors Of her own markets
Back of the British action is a
desire to conserve foreign exchange
in this country for purchase Of war
materials and to strengthen eco
nomic' and political ties with Allied
and friendly nations in Europe and
with empire countries by obtain
ing farm products from them.
Keen Disappointment 80
Although officials here a well
understand the British viewpoint,
the restrictions on purchases OF
farm products from this country
have been a keen disappointment.
They have come, too, on top of
such matters as Britain's censor
ship of American mails, the forcing
of American ships into British ports
they are forbidden by their own
country's Law to enter. and Brit
aims refusal to recognize the Amer
lean neutrality zone.
The whole has created consider
able irritation, and while there has
been no comment from the state
department, semi authoritative ex.
pressions undoubtedly have made
clear to the British embassy tina
American public opinion is being
adversely affected.
The British trade program has
hit hardest American producers O.
tobacco, cotton, wheat and fruits
The volume of American farm
goods moving abroad started de.
clining after the war started anc
in November, the latest month fol
which complete figures are avail
able, it was the smallest for thai
month since the drought year OF
1884.
"This situation is likely to con
tinue through much of 1940," the
(Continued on PAGE Ten. Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
McELROY KILLS HERSELF AFTER
BROODING OVER RESULTS OF KIDNAPPING

said showed Miss McEIroy's
right hand had held and fired
the death weapon.
Her body was clad in a gray
Longing suit, Stacks and jack
ct. A pair of dark glasses COW
cred her eyes.
Her death was the tragic end
of seven narrowing years, be-
ginning with her kidnapping in
1888. Then followed the trial of
three of her four abductors; her
successful appeal to the COVER
o to commute the death SEN
tence of one of them; the GUST
ing of her father as city man.
ager in the breakdown of the
Pendergast machine last spring
and finally her fathers death
last summer.
Both the maid and HI. F. Nc.
Elroy, DR., her brother, told po'
Continued on Page Two, Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22

ed on the farm where she was
held prisoner, was released in
1888 on conditional Communication
after serving part Of an eight
year sentence.
Police found a small calibre
pistol identified by Henry f.. Nc
Elroy, Dr., as his sisters, on
the floor near the divan in the
sunroom where Miss McElroy's
maid, Mrs. Inez Strange, dis
covered her mistress body short
ly after 9 o'clock this morning.
A police examination disclos.
ed powder burns on the dead
girls right hand. The right side
of her face also was burned by
powder, indicating, officers said,
the gun had been held close to
her head when the fatal shot
was fired.
The bullet penetrated her head
just forward of and near the
top of her right ear. Police
made paraffin tests which they
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
BODY OF NAVASSA
NEGRO IS FOUND
Weston Apparently Drown
ed o. Froze To Death;
Companion Sought

Coroner John G.. Caison, of Bruins
wick county, reported last night
that the body of Fred Weston, ne
gro, who was lost while on a hunt
ing trip in the Cape Fear river with
a companion Friday afternoon, was
found late yesterday afternoon
about a mile below Navassa on the
banks of the Cape Fear.
Weston apparently died from &C
cidental drowning or may have froz-
en- to death, Coroner Caison said.
There were no marks of foul play,
he said.
The negro left Navassa with an
other by the name of Bryant about
5 o'clock Friday afternoon on a
hunting trip down the river and ap-
Continued OH Page Two, Col. u.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22
Slight Climb In Mercury
Is Expected Here Today

After hitting a new low for
the season Saturday, the mer-
curry yesterday began a slow
rise toward normal and wealth
ermen threw an optimistic note
into their forecast last night
with the prediction that today
will be slightly warmer.
Early Saturday morning the
mercury skidded to q record
low of II degrees but yesterday
fell 10 lower than % degrees.
Weathermen predicted that