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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12

peasants, rifle club members ana
military school cadets responded TO
the governments call to join the
British Allies against the Nazls.
They took to the field with what
weapons were at hand, hastily
terrifying every possible defense
point not in German hands.
A late afternoon radio report
from the Norwegian commander at
Bergen said his forces had retaken
the city from the invaders and
were massing for an attempt to
recapture Trondheim, farther UP
the west coast.
Subsequent advices reaching Stock
holm said Bergen was in Nor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
DESTROYER LEAVES
FOR NEWPORT, R. l.
U. S. S. Roe Ends Three Day
Visit And Continues
Shakedown Cruise

The U. S. S. Roe, visiting here
since Monday afternoon, left short
ly after 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon for Newport, R. l., as a con-
tinuation of its shakedown cruise.
The ship was locked at the
Southeastern hip-ping service
Mharf at the foot of Castle treet
during IFS three day stay here.
The Roe made Wilmington It's
first port OF call while on its shake
down cruise from the Charleston,
S. c., navy yard under the auspices
o. the Propeller Club of the United
Stats, Port of Wilmington.
Officers Of the destroyer were
entertained at a dinner dance Mon
day night and a stag dinner Tues
day night at the Cape Fear Coun-
try CLUB. Special entertainment fea
lures were also provided for mem
bers of the crew.
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KING HAAKON FLEES
BEFORE NAZI RAID
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of Oslo, and cannonading
could be heard.
A naval battle between
British and German forces
outside the port of Trond-
helm was reported by the
Norwegian radio at Olesund.
British planes attacked
German warships in Trond-
heimfjord.
Norwegian m t e m e n,
some of them armed with
nothing but shotguns, raj
lied to the defense Of the ma
ton. They were reported to
have retaken the port of
Bergen, arrested the COM
mander of the fortress Of
Kongsvinger, near the Swed-
ish border and defeated Ger
man forces before Elverum.
The volunteers who ar
rested the Kongsvinger COM
mander just had returned
from Finland, where they
fought the Russians.
Elverum was bombed sew
eral times during Thursday.
Two persons were killed,
many hurt and numerous
buildings were set afire by
in%cendiary bombs.
Three planes raided the
town during the morning.
In the afternoon, nine planes
carried out attacks in sew
eral waves, dropping both
explosive and incendiary
bombs.
Kongsvinger also was
bombed.
German and Norwegian
troops were fighting at sew
eral points west Of Kongs
vinger, and at Eidsvold, hall
way between Oslo and Ha
mar.
The Germans, however
were masters of the major
portion of the railway be-
tween Oslo and Kongsvinger
Heavy detonations were
heard tonight from the di
rection of Kongsvinger.
Twenty persons were hurt at 81
verum, and the population still
was fleeing early today.
Norwegian sources said Elverun
was an open town. without fort
~resses.
Major Hoch-Nielsen, the com
mander of the kongsvinger fort
ress, was seized by the Norwegian
volunteers when he refused to Civ
them arms. The volunteers thel
helped themselves to the equipmen
they needed.
Earlier, Major Hoch-Nielsen hat
released the German prize crev
taken last autumn from the Amer
lean steamer, City of Flint, upol
orders from the German militar!
command.
Overalled workers, unframed
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GERMANY CLAIMS
THRUST MADE In
mick OF TIME
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naval and air actions in the Skag
errak, the Kattegat and the NORTH
sea.
DNB reported in a special bulle
tin that the German army at Der
gen, Norway, had captured five
British ships loaded with war sup
plies, including cannon, machine
guns and munitions.
The German press and official
dom seized upon this report as evil
dence of a British plan to attack
Germany from Norway and COM
plete justification for Germany's
thrust to the north.
"If German troops had not gone
up there in the nick of time and
in imposing force" authorized
sources said, "the English would
be there now and Germany would
be worrying about the defense Of
her northern border"
The British ships were sent to
Bergen ahead Of time, DNB said,
under the guise of laid for Fin
land The agency asserted the
supplies were to have been used
by a British expeditionary force
which was supposed to occupy Der.
gen.
Find New Planes
Germans also said that soldiers
who occupied Oslo found so new
American Curtiss planes which
they said would be studied closely
for any possible information on
construction.
(American sources said between
"30 and so" Curtiss pursuit planes
were shipped TO Norway in the last
few weeks for the Norwegian air
force but were Of an old design.)
General, littIe-broken German 81
le-ce on the air and sea was attri.
bu-ed 10 the demands on military
secrecy.
To divu.ge all details now
would Of course be giving valuable
Information 10 the enemy" DNB
Observed.
However, the agency earlier said
German naval forces Wednesday
nigh sank TWO Allied destroyers al
the vest ford approach 10 Narvik,
bringing to six the total sunk there
and followed with the report that
an aircraft carrier had been dam.
ageL in the North sea.
(Bricain has acknowledged the
loss Of four destroyers in naval
warfare off Norway since the be.
ginning Of the week, two Of them
at Narvik.)
Amid the reluctance TO say much
on actions at sea and in the skies
the Germans nevertheless declared
that additional German soldiers
were being Transported to Norway
in a movement they insisted was
being carried cut without hindrance
by the enemy.
Swedish reports on the contrary
said six or eight German transports
had been sunk in the Skagerrak
and one had fled into a Swedish
harbor but had been turned away.)
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SURVIVORS OF British
Destroyer Are Landed

LONDON, April 12.-.(Friday)-CP
Survivors of the British Destroy
err Gurkha, sunk in the North sea
by the power-diving German bomb.
ers, were landed yesterday in a
north Scottish port. Fourteen of
tho crew went down with the ship.
The rescued crewmen said their
gunners kept firing at wave upon
wave of the German attackers until
the decks of the ship were awash.
Seventy German prisoners also
were landed under strong guard.
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BRITISH SINK Is
GERMAN VESSELS
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of such operations. One of
these reports said British
warships appeared to be
landing men from outer o.
lofjord; others told of con-
tinued naval action at Trond-
helm, in the Skagerrak and
elsewhere. For the time be-
ing, the reports were &C
copied with reserve by neu-
trail observers.
Road To "Victory"
To Churchill, first lord of
the admiralty and director
of strategy of all the British
armed services, the navy's
feats of the last two days
ARE worthy of any in our
history" and have put the
Allies on the high road to
victory" This he pugnaci-
ously proclaimed to a wildly
excited house of commons to-
day.
This rejoicing nation, COM
pairing the heavy German
sea losses with a total of
four sunken British Destroy
ers, was willing to believe
him.
Churchill's statement of
British naval victories since
Sunday, while not precise in
details, nevertheless gave
Britain this general compari-
son of battle results:
German losses: Four
cruisers presumably includ-
ing the .Bluecner and Karls-
ruhe, sunk by Norwegian
guns, and two hit by air
bombs. This is nearly half
of Germany's cruiser
strength.)
"A number of destroyers"
Zone is known to have been
torpedoed at Narvik.)
Several" U-boats Zone,
destroyed by H. M. S. Zulu,
mentioned specifically.
NEARLY a dozen" troop and
supply ships, sunk or cap
tured in the Skagerrak and
Kattegat gateways to the
Baltic, in the North Sea or
in the Norwegian ore port
of Narvik.
Damaged: - The battle
ship Scharnhorst.
British Losses
British
GloWworm, sunk by two Ger
man destroyers.
Destroyer Gurkha, sunk
by aerial bombs.
D~estroyers Hunter and
Hardy, lost in battle of Mar
vik Wednesday Churchill
did not mention these, but
the admiralty has conceded
their loss).
Damaged: Battleship Rod
ney, battle cruiser Renown,
cruiser Aurora, and at least
two destroyers.
Today Germany broadcast
a claim that it's bombers had
badly damaged a British air
craft carrier and a cruiser
IN the North Sea and that
two more British destroyers,
or a total Of six, had been
sunk at Narvik.
Standing against thie uroo,rrn
ed mere were radio reports that a
naval battle between German and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-12
LIST OF ELECTION
REGISTRARS AND
JUDGES ANNOUNCED
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street; Mrs. j. B. Williamson, IS
South Eighth street; Mrs. r. S. Nc.
keithan, 10 South Eighth street;
Miss Frances Eden, 500 Ann street.
FOURTH WARD, Tileston school,
Fifth and Ann streets; l.. G.. LIE.
Gwin, 419 South Fifth; P. w.
Bethea, PIG South Third; S. NJ.
Creech, sos South Second.
FIFTH WARD, first precinct, fire
station, Fifth and Castle streets;
Mrs. H. F. Waters, 215 Queen; K.
S. Mallard, 709 South Eighth; A. E.
Milburn, 416 Castle.
FIFTH WARD, second precinct,
William Hooper school, 40 Meares
street; F. D. Steljes, PA Meares
street; H. L. Herren, 1112 South
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wegian hands but that IL.
resses at the entrance Of The ~ II.
Dor still were held by the o. ID
The Bergen commander
tn invaders were masstrs -.
forces around Trondheim Wy
From the north, N,.
troops were advancing son,,
in the hope of cutting off r'
troops operating between I'm y
helm and the Swedish borao. 1''
TIL Norwegians were
methodically blasting orj %.
make German advances S;.,
and to cut off Nazi forces ~
in possession of Norwegian :.
tory. :"
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Germany has reopened tn e
bridges over the Vistula river de-
stroyed by bombing early in the
Polish war.
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in modelling in European wars-yet he wants
the United States o be prepared for de-
fense His foreign policy is SAFE and
SOUND.
WILLKIE STANDS FOR FAIR PLAY
FOR EVERY AMERICAN, RICH OR POOR
BLACK OR WHITE, JEW OR GENTLE.
Evening star., 1940-06-19

and Mrs. Mann received formal
invitation to join the dread cult.
The snake doctors who brought the
invitation carried poisonous horned
vipers and antelope horns full of
secret snake medicine"
DR.. Mann, no novice at such cere-
monies, accepted the invitation with
some trepidation. In 1914, while
collecting insects in the Fiji Islands
on Harvard fellowship, DR.. Mann
was initiated into a secret order of
cannibal warriors. He went through
the whole rite, and never revealed
any of the secrets, although he
baked at being tattooed with the
lodge emblem of blue frigate bird,
because the dye was extracted from
a decomposed fish.
Writing of his more recent Afri-
can experience, DR.. Mann said:
TT proved to be a real ordeal.
We were initiated at night and in a
weird three-hour ceremony we were
told the passwords. signs and the
symbolism of the various fetishes.
Then, the next morning we were
taken into a secret clearing in the
forest. We passed through five
palm-leaf portals to get to the meet
ing place. There the gil. or wor-
shipful master. and his right-hand
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Woman, 20, Defends Cash
Helps Capture Robber

Twenty-year-old Anita Peters
yesterday afternoon helped police
capture colored robber who fled
after knocking her into the show
window of a delicatessen at 106 H
street NE during struggle to
snatch money from the cash reg
lister.
Posing as a customer. the robber
gave an order which Miss Peters
turned her back to fill. The man
leaped over the counter toward the
cash register. Miss Peters grappled
with him.
Frightened the man fed, while
Miss Peters sent pedestrians and
police after him. He was captured
at First and G streets NV, and
identified by Miss Peters, police
reported.
The 26-year-old man probably
will be charged today with assault
with intent to rob.
A sneak thief some time yester-
day stole wallet containing s45
in cash and a $40 District of Co.
lumbia check from the coat of
Walter A. Sellers of 1899 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, operator of
a gas station at Second and H
streets NE. The theft occurred
while the coat was hanging in the
Office of the filling station, police
we're told.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Sirkis Murder Trial
Hears Two Defendants

Two young colored men, Latham
Daniel, %, and John D. Butler. q,
on trial in District Court today for
the alleged murder of Herman Sir
kis, 42-year- liquor dealer, shot
on February 26 in his store, 1921
Deane avenue NE. gave their ver-
sions of the holdup in which the
Government says the proprietor was
killed.
Butler denied that he had a gun
and told of decoying a delivery boy
out OF the premises by a fake tele-
phone call for liquor delivery.
The defendant testified that he
walked around the counter, got the
money, left the store and heard
shooting behind him. Daniel said
the man CMr. Sirkis) shot at him.
Butler, crosse-examined, conceded
he and Daniel had planned the rob-
berry seevral days before, knew the
gun was loaded and had said to
police officers, after the alleged
crime, that he wouldn't have a gun
unless it was loaded. Butler told
the prosecutor that, after the rob-
berry, he waited for Daniel and they
drove away and later divided the
money equally.
Evening star., 1940-06-19

of jogging through the bush in
palm-shaded hammocks slung from
poles balanced on the heads of four
native boys.
The native medicine men were not
at all hospitabie.
The visitors, whose presence was
resented, were received in ave-
inspiring silence. An interpreter,
however. managed to break the ice
by explaining the reason for the
visit-the collection of live animals
not intended for eating purposes.
This aroused the curiosity of the ma
tives. to whom all animals are just
so much beef" for the cook pots.
Too, the medicine men are in
trigued by two flags which the Wis
itors posted before their hut-the
banners of the Explorers Club and
the Women Geographers. DR.. Mann,
through his interpreter, explained
about the societies and somehow
managed to get across the impress
sion that they were pretty exclusive
outfits.
The medicine men were impressed.
They held a solemn pow WOW and
concluded that the visitors were
sufficiently distinguished to be
members of their own society. Dr..
Evening star., 1940-06-19
D. {. Man Gets Life Term
In Staying Of Woman
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 19.-Santo
Ruggeri, 81, of Astoria, Long Island,
N. Y, and John A. Lagana, 81, of
Washington were sentenced today to
life imprisonment for the murder
of an elderly housekeeper five years
ago.
The two men pleaded guilty May
to the murder of Miss Winifred
Agnes Flannery, 81, a housekeeper
for 1t. Comdr. John S. Morrison, re-
tired United States naval officer,
during an attempted robbery at the
Morrison apartment May Is, 1885. b.
At their trials before a three Judge
court Ruggeri and Lagana said they
were hired by Giuseppe Guida, 48,
Washington produce merchant, to
rob the apartment after Mrs. Effie
Hattie Smith, SO, former tearoom
proprietress of Philadelphia and
Washington, told Guida that Morri-
son kept large sums of money in his
apartment. Guida was convicted of
first-degree murder last week, while
Mrs. Smith is awaiting trial.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Strange Snake Cult Initiates Dr.. and Mrs. Mann

. Once again DR.. William M. Mann
has joined lodge of jungle savages
with secret and mysterious rites.
@ On this occasion, however, the
washington Zoo director was accom-
panied by his wife, and the initiation
centered about a theme somewhat
less disturbing than cannibalism.
"a Snakes, rather than cannibals,
played leading roles when DR.. and
Mrs. Mann were ushered into the
Serpent Society of the Maho tribe of
the Liberian bush in West Africa,
where DR.. Mann is collecting an
hnals.
:. Word of the honor conferred on
the leader of the Smithsonian Fire
stone expedition has just been re-
ceived at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. While DR.. and Mrs. Mann were
properly impressed with the rituals,
their friends here are inclined to
think they joined the lodge for busi-
ness reasons.
= Members of the Serpent Society, in
That particular part of Liberia have
access to information and specimen
sources not available to less favored
individuals. The explorers arrived
At the jungle village after five days
Evening star., 1940-06-19

man explained to us the value,
medicinal and magic, of SO different
plants. We learned how to protect
ourselves from snake bite, how to
cure snake bite and how to get rid
of an unwelcome guest by putting a
certain leaf in the fire that is heat
ing his bath water"
From this point on the instruc-
tions became secret indeed. DR.. and
Mrs. Mann were told of potent
magic which will cause thief, or a
debter who will not pay, to wither
and die. This presumably is a va
ration of the dreaded magic which
once was worldwide and still plays
part in voodoo rites.
To Mrs. Mann alone, as the only
woman initiate into the society, was
explained an even more useful bit
of magic. If it works she will be
able to win any kind of an argu-
ment. She was given the title of
"Yangwa" and presented with the
horn filled with the sacred snake
medicine. DR.. Mann was presented
with the live snakes used in the
ceremony and added them to his
collection which he will bring back
to the United States
The party Is expected to sail for
home late this month.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Roosevelt and Farley
Favor bankhead
As Keynote Speaker
Borkley to Be Urged
As Permanent Chairman
OF Democratic Convention
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June l9-National
Chairman James A. Farley reported
today that both he and President
Roosevelt favored Speaker William
B. Bankhead for keynoter of the
Democratic National Convention.
Mr.. Farley said he would recon-
mend that Speaker Bankhead be
named temporary chairman and
keynote speaker when the Arrange
ments Committee meets here to-
morrow.
He added that he would also sug-
gest that Senator Alben Barkley of
Kentucky be recommended for
permanent chairman.
Il discussed this with the Presi-
dent" Mr.. Farley stated at a press
conference, "and he has agreed.
I would assume that considera-
ton will be given TO Senator Robert
Wagner OF New York for chairman
OF the Resolutions Committee"
Senator Wagner held that posi-
eAoii oo li4C 4ooO COllNCIlllOll AL
Philadelphia
The Committee on Arrangements
for the national convention, to open
here on July Is, will meet tomorrow
to choose the keynoter and other
convention officials and to recon-
mend a permanent chairman.
Mr.. Farley declined to comment
on the presidential nomination
Asked what effect swiftly changing
European developments would have
on the fall campaign. he said
Il don't think that any one can
give an honest answer"
Mr.. Farley reported that the Ar
rangements Committee probably
would meet here again on Thurs
day, July II, and that the Ma
tional Committee would meet on
the following day.
He planned to come here on July
! and to remain until the conven-
ton ends,
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Princeton Is Named
In Col. Fosters Will

The will Of the late Col, Reginald
Love Foster, U. S. A., retired, leaves
a considerable" estate to Princeton
University if his heirs leave no de-
scendants.
The will, filed yesterday in District
Court, made no estimate of the
estate pending an inventory.
Col. Fosters two sons, Reginald
Hayden Foster and Murray Foster,
sr., were left the estate in trust
with the Washington Loan & Trust
Co. during their lifetime.
If there are no direct descendants
Of the sons. the will provides that
the property go to the children of
the testator's brother, Macmillan
H. Foster, and, if none of these are
living when the trust ends, to
Princeton University. The sons are
named executors.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
"a Special Scout Car
Crews 10 Investigate
Traffic Accidents
Special Equipment to
Be Carried in Plan
To Promote Safety

In his drive to check trafnc
crashes Inspector Arthur E. Miller,
head of the Accident Investiga-
ton Bureau of the Police Depart
ment, today revealed he had di-
vided the city into six accident
beats, to be covered by IA specially
equipped scout cars
The first beat will consist of
the seventh and eighth precincts;
beat No. 2, the sixth and tenth
precincts; beat No 3, the ninth and
twelfth precincts; beat No. 4. the
fifth. fourth and eleventh precincts,
and beats Nos. and 6, the first,
second, third and thirteenth pre-
cincts.
There will be four of these acci-
dent cars from am. to pm.
four from pm. to midnight, two
from midnight to am. two from
10 am. to 6 pm. and two from 6
pm to am.
With personnel trained in &C
cident investigation work, the cars
will carry tape lines. Photographic
apparatus, flares, frst-aid equip
ment and blankets for the injured
Each cruiser will have four charts
on which to draw diagrams of any
accident it may investigate. One
of the charts will be concerned
with accidents on avenues, an
other with accidents on circles, a
third with intersection accidents
and fourth with accidents occur
ring between intersections.
I'VE expect that the crew of each
OF these cars will handle about
three accidents per shift" Inspec-
tor Miller explained. adding that in
the last three months alone there
were 1,500 accidents In the Dis
trict.
Asked when the work would begin.
the inspector replied he hoped "as
soon after July as possible"
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Continues debate on defense tax
bill.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders bill to enable Red Cross relief
ships to visit war zone.
House:
Considers 194l farm appropriation
and sugar bills.
Military Committee opens hearings
on national home defense bill.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Flag Display July 4
By Business Houses
And Citizens Urged
Plans for Capitals
Celebration Are Reported
Virtually Completed

Display of the American flag and
other appropriate decorations on
July is being asked of Washington
businessmen by the committee ar
ranging the local Independence Day
observance. Civic groups also are
being urged to bring the desirability
of placing flags in front of homes to
the attention of their memberships.
Copies of a proclamation by the
District Commissioners are being
distributed by the committee Call
ing attention to the evening program
on the Monument Grounds. the
proclamation states, in part:
All who can do so are urged to
participate in this ceremony, in
which the residents of the Nations s
Capital will unite in affirming their
allegiance to the flag and their de-
termination to stand together in
support of the principles of liberty
and justice bequeathed to us by our
forefathers.
Arrangements for the celebration
here virtually are completed, the
committee indicated yesterday. when
it decided further formal gatherings
of the group would be unnecessary.
Washington I. Cleveland, chair
man of the Subcommittee on Seat
ing. reported at s session in Wesley
Hall, .1703 K stIest NV. that 10000
seats will be- available to the public
at a charge of Is cents each for the
Monument Grounds program, at
which Secretary of the Interior
Ickes will be the principal speaker.
Vice Chairman Melvin c. Sharpe
presided and heaM reports from the
various subcommittee heads that
plans for fireworks. lighting, amph-
dcation, traffic control, broadcasting
and participation of military units
were being worked out smoothly.
Evening star., 1940-06-19

One of the first Howard B. Bradbury.
persons to be employed by the CO.
operative firm, Mr.. Bradbury is a
member of the Rotary Club, the
District Veteran Druggists Associa-
tion, the Board of Trade and the
District Pharmaceutical Association.
He lives at 1903 Crittenden street
NV.
Other officers named by the stock
holders were William Herbst and
Frank B. Upton, first and second
vice presidents, respectively; Ralph
A. Judd, treasurer; A. V. Burdine,
secretary, and Norman D. Parker,
assistant secretary. Elected to serve
with the officers as members of the
Board of Directors were F. T. Some,
w. T. Kerfoot, L. F. Bradley and D.
L. Maxwell.