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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
GIBSON SENTENCED
TO DIE MARCH IS
Judge Frizzelle Sends Will
mington Negro To Gas
Chamber For Attack

Simon Coochie) Gibson, 22-year-
old negro, is scheduled to die in
the states gas chamber in Raleigh
on March Is for the criminal as
sault of Mrs. Gladys Barnes, white
woman, here on the night Of July %.
Gibson was sentenced in superior
court yesterday morning by Judge
J.. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill, fol-
lowing the return of a verdict OF
guilty Thursday night.
For the first time since the ne
gro was arrested and charged with
the crime, he broke into tears.
Asked by Judge ] Paul Fritz
zelle if he had any statement to
make, Gibson said: II just want to
say I didn't do it."
The condemned man turned with
tears in his eyes and pointed at
the crowd Of negroes in the gal.
lery at the rear Of the courtroom
and said, 1.-THE man I'm taking the
rap for may be up there right
now"
After being sentenced to die and
returned to his cell to await trans
portation to the state prison at Raj
eigh, Gibson re-affirmed his state
mont of innocence, and added, 81
didn't do it but I'm willing to &c
down for it."
It was presumed that by Ego
down" Gibson meant take the death
penalty.
Tears came to his eyes as he sat
in his cell and thanked W. L.
Farmer and Addison Hewlett for
their fight for his life. "They done
good" he said.
He also extended his regards to
District Solicitor David Sinclair
with words: HE done all for me
the law would let him do. May God
be with him."
With the statement that it was
his last opportunity to speak to
Continued on Page Three, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
MRS. BORAH PRESENT.
Famous Idaho Legislator,
Suffered Cerebral Hemor-
rhage Few Days Ago
LEADERS VOICE GRIEF,
Death Ends One Oh Longest,
Most Colorful Careers
In u. S. Politics

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-R-
Death removed Senator William
Edgar Borah, the indomitable
Lion of Idaho" from the nations
council tables tonight.
Stricken down by a cerebral
hemorrhage at the age of IA, the
famous republican legislator passed
away in a coma and very peace.
fully" at 8:45 p. m, EST, his
aides said.
Mrs. Borah-the beloved MARY"
for whom he repeatedly called in
his last illness-was present in the
Borah apartment home when the
end came. In constant attendance
since the illness first struck the
senator down Tuesday, she was
in another room when a nurse not
ed the approach of death.
Doctor Summoned
The nurse called her to come to
the bedside, and the doctor was
summoned, but before he arrived
the senator was dead.
Miss Cora Rubin, the senator's
secretary Of many years, who also
was at the bedside, said death oc-
CURED as if it happened while he
was asleep"
Word of the death spread through
the capital swiftly. Miss Rubin i'm
mediately called the White House
and President Roosevelt was in-
formed.
Secretary of State Hull, who as
a senator from Tennessee had serv-
ed in the senate with Borah, ex.
pressed his grief, as did many 9TH
er leaders.
The republican leader of the sens
ate, Senator McNary Of Oregon
with Borah's junior colleague from
Idaho, D. Worth Clark, arrived at
the apartment within a few MIN
utes after announcement Of the
death.
The cerebral hemorrhage occurs
red about the time the gray-man.
ed veteran statesman suffered a
fall at his apartment here Tues
day morning. 1t was not known
whether the hemorrhage caused the
fall or resulted from it. i
Called For Wife 4
The senator was unconscious
when Mrs. Borah found him lying
on the floor of his bathroom. He
CONTINUED on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
SWEDISH STEAMER
IS SUNK BY SUB
Crew OF IS Rescued After
Vessel Torpedoed Off
Coast OF Scotland

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 2O.-(Saturday)
B-Torpedoing of the 6,685.ton
Swedish steamer Pajala off Scot
land was disclosed early today by
her owners. It was the second
Scandinavian steamer reported
sunk in the last two days by sub
marines.
The crew of IS was rescued and
taken to a Scottish harbor.
A cable to the owner said the
steamer was torpedoed without
warning on Thursday and sunk in
rs minutes. She was en- route to
Sweden from Buenos Aires with a
cargo of corn. .
The other Scandinavian ship
sunk, also on Thursday, was the
1,S31-ton Canadian Refer, of Dan
ish registry, bound for the Mediter-
ranean from Los Angeles. The crew
of rs was rescued. The Danish ra'
dio said she was sunk by a German
off Cape Finlsterre,
Spain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
Many Entries Received
In Civic Plans Contest
Lawmakers Get Peek
Al New Secret Plane

WASHINGTON, Jan. 49, up
Senators and representatives
got a peek today at some of the
army's secret new planes and
aviation equipment.
Fighting planes credited with
40O-mile- n-hour speeds and a
30-ton experimental bomoer were
included in a $40, 0O0, 600 exhibit
at Boiling field which officials
termed the most comprehensive
of its kind in history.
1t was arranged by the War
department to give congress an
idea of what is being turned out
under the $500, O00, 900 air corps
expansion voted last year.
Several hundred specially in.
vited official visitors saw enc
pursuit plane bristling with ten
machine guns, another armed
with a cannon, and bombers of
the type that have flown repeat
eddy to South America and re-
turn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
.Japs' Canton
Line Defenses
|AreCrumbhng
Invaders Suffer One OF
Most Serious Setbacks
OF War With China
CHINESE PRESS FIGHT
Japs Pushed Back so Miles
Since Retreats Started In
Kwangtung Area

HONGKONG, Jan. 90 (Satur-
day)-LR-Japanese outer defenses
Of Canton, South China's largest
metropolis, were reported by the
Chinese to be c%rumbling today fol-
lowing one of the most serious set
backs inflicted on the invaders in
the two anu one-half year old war
The Chinese said a ring of stee:
virtually had been completed arounc
Canton, normally a city Of 10000
population which fell to the Japa-
nese in October, 1888, and which
has been used by them as a base
for extensive operations in South
China.
Japanese Pushed Back
The Japanese have been pushed
back so miles since a series of re
treats in Kwangtung province fore
ed them to begin a retreat from
Yingtak, important communication
center on the Canton-Hankow rail
way 80 miles north Of Canton, tn
Chinese declared.
The pursuing Chinese were salt
to have established lines forming
an arc, with their right, or west
ern wing, only IS miles from Can
ton and their center and left n
miles away.
The Japanese, for several day.
have maintained silence on thell
Kwangtung campaign. They &C
knowledged a week ago that som
of their forces were withdrawing
from the northern area of thu
province after completing wha
they said was merely a drive tt
mop up remnants of the Chinese
army there.
High Chinese sources in Hong
kong admitted their successes wer'
achieved only by great casualtie!
numbering between $4,000 and 20,
900 Chinese troops. They said {
moderate estimate" Of japanese
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20

were described by British skip
pers who were freed from the
Graf Spec when she put into
Montevideo harbor last month
after a running fight with three
British cruisers. Later the pock-
ct b%attleship was blown up by
her captain, who then shot him.
self.
1t was said here the last con-
tact between the Altmark and
the Graf Spec occurred Decem-
Der 8. less than a week before
the battle of Uruguay. At that
time the Altmark flew the Nor
wegian flag and bore the name
OF a vessel of that nationality.
The new warship was devel-
oped under cover in pre-war
Germany and kept hidden I'M
til the start of the war, to.
nights informant asserted.
Especially built as an auxili-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
M0T0RIST KILLED
WHEN AUTO SKIDS
Adolph Greeble, So, New.
ark, Loses Life In Acct
dent Near Rowland

ROWLAND, Jan. 10 - AGolph
Greeble, So, of Newark, N. j.. was
killed here early this afternoon
when the car he was driving skid
ded on the slippery pavement and
crashed into a light pole during a
snowfall.
Minnie Papari, another occupant
of the car, suffered a broken hand
and shock in the crash and was car
ried to a Lumberton hospita. for
treatment.
The car was demolished If the
crash. After striking the light pole
and breaking it into three pieces, il
continued for about so feet before
stopping.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
Mercury Will
Plunge To Is
Degrees Mark
Approximately One-Fourth
Of Inch OF Snow Falls
Following Rain, Sleet
ROADS A DANGEROUS
Low temperatures Expect
ed To Continue For Two
Days; Skies To Be Fair

Winter in all it's blustery fierce
mess returned to Wilmington yes
tprdav and sent the mercury .tumb'
ling toward a new low for the sea
son amid a swirl of snow-flakes,
rain and sleet.
Weatherman Paul Hess predicted
last night that the temperature
would slump to a low of II or Is
degrees early this morning, setting
q new record for this winter.
Approximately one-fourth inch OF
snow fell here yesterday afternoon
following a short rain and sleet that
made an icy sheet over streets and
highways in this section and added
another hazard to traffic.
Roads In Icy Condition
Miss Minnie Payne, in charge OF
the Carolina Motor club office here:
said yesterday that she had been
advised by the Charlotte office that
the roads between here and Charles
ton are in an icy condition. North
bound tourists stopping over here
last night indicated they would
wait over a few days before chanc'
ing the trip on northern roads.
Mr.. Hess said that the cold wave,
which originated in the midwest
and Rockies and hit here yesterday
would probably continue without
much let-up for two or three days,
There will be a slight moderation
in temperature about noon today
however, he said.
Previously the low temperature
record for Wilmington this winter
was q degrees, recorded late in De
cember. The all-time low record for
the city is 50 degrees, recorded on
February IA, 1899.
A high temperature Of 46 degrees
was recorded yesterday about noon
but shortly thereafter the mercury
started its tumble and at $50 O'Clock
last night had touched the % de
Continued on Page Three, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20

had not been reported for more
than a month and it was pos
sible she might have reached a
German port. The British de-
scribed the ship as a tanker"
A British statement charged
food on the auxiliary was "scarce
and bad" a quart of water was
ratiOned to each man daily for
drinking and washing, the pris-
Oners were forced to sleep on
vermin-ridden mattresses, and
British officers were Inundated
before East Indian crewmen.
Authorized sources in Berlin
asked how the British knew
about conditions on the tanker
if they had not seized her. These
sources also said the cleanliness
of German ships was known
throughout the world.
The British, however, said
conditions on the prison ship
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
COMBINATION RAIDER AND SUPPLY SHIP
WAS AUXILIARY VESSEL FOR GRAF SPEC

airy for Germany's 10,OO0.ton
pocket %battleships, she appear.
ed in the guise of an innocent
merchantmen on the high seas
but actually, the source here
said, she carried three six-inch
guns hidden behind shutters,
plus an anti-aircraft gun.
In addition to the armament,
the Altmark allegedly is equip
ped with a large number of
prison cells designed to confine
the crews of merchantmen
sunk by the Altmark or the
Warship it was accompanying.
The Altmark, flying flags of
various nationalities, was re-
ported seen in South Atlantic
trade routes by merchantmen
who did not suspect her identi-
ty, and met German and neutral
tankers at designated locations
during her cruise with the Graf
Spec.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
LONG INDICATES
SPECIAL SESSION
Louisiana Governor Hints
That He May Summon
Lawmakers Today

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19.-lP-
Governor Earl K. Long, using the
sudden unpredictable tactics of his
brother, the late Huey P. Long
indicated today that he might cal
the legislature into special session
tomorrow.
Only two hours before his prin
cipal campaign foes in Tuesdays
gubernatorial primary announced
they had joined forces in hopes O.
unseating him in the runoff pri
mary February 20.
tits too cold to campaign any
way" the governor said graphically
80 we might as we'll take care Of
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
Swedes Help
Firms Battle
Fleeing Reds
Many Swedish Volunteer
Pilots Fight Swarms OF
Soviet Warplanes
SOVIET BOMBERS BUSY
Bitter Fighting RACES At
Markajarvi, so Miles
From Red Frontier
BY WADE WERNER

HELSINKI, Jan. 19-LR-Season'
ed Swedish volunteer pilots in in
creasing numbers tonight aided the
Firms in h%arassing the retreat OF
40, 1000 Soviet troops, fighting back
step by step toward their border in
the deadly cold of the Arctic Circle.
These blue-eyed airmen were pit,
ted against swarms of Soviet planes
which, official Finnish sources say
have reached a total of $50 in one
day. Waves of Russian bombers
have struck repeatedly at both
northern and southern Finland for
several days. Today, Helsinki's PEG
pie spent an hour in AFRAID shell
tiers while ainti-aircraft batteries
fought off raiders.
Airmen Take Toll
The Films announced tonight that
the Swedish filters were taking a toll
of Soviet troops. From Rovaniemi,
important west Finland junction on
the railroad which the Soviet armies
had hoped to reach from h SAlla
sector, Thomas F. Hawkins, AS
ISOLATED Press war correspondent,
said the Swedish filters were active
in engagements both in the Salla
rea and north of Lake Ladoga.
Swedish volunteer land fighters,
he said, also were pouring into the
fighting on the northern fronts
There are about a thousand Swed-
ish volunteers now in Finland, along
with about a hundred Finnish-Amer-
leans and some Norwegians, Danes
and Italians
The Swedes are well-equipped
with their own skis, heavy sheep.
skin coats, guns and trucks and
have their own commanders. A mum.
Der of them are housed in barracks
Continued on Page Three, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
|BEDACHT IS HEARD
ATBR0WDER TRIAL
Swears He Saw Communist
Leader On Business
Trips To Moscow

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-R- Max
Bedacht, a squat, grazing veteran
Of 20 years in the communist move
ment, swore today that he had seen
Earl Browder in Moscow on "busi'
ness trips during periods when the
government claims the communist
leader was travelling in stealth on
false passports.
T%estifying in providers trial on
charges of using passports obtain
ed through false representations,
Bedacht said obliquely-but was not
allowed to say directly-that this
"business'' was that of the Internal
ional communist organization.
He showed the same apparent re-
luctance exhibited by other party
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
F. D. R. DISCUSSES
FAMILY WELFARE
Saws Mere Handouts From
Federal Treasury Not
Solution To Problem

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 R -
President Roosevelt told the White
House conference on children in a
democracy tonight that "mere hand
outs from the federal treasury" ard
not the permanent solution to thd
needs of the American child and its
family.
81 agree with you that public as
sistance of many kinds is neces.
sary," he said in a discussion of the
conference report, which recon.
CONTINUED OH Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
The European
War Situation
(By The Associated Press)

(Dy lIC f1SoONldCSu AASoPf
MOSCOW-Russian commune
que reports Finnish Battalion
"annihilated," numerous Finnish
casualties suffered in patrol
clashes.
HELSINKI - Swedish vO'Ull.
teer pilots aid Firms in harass-
ing retreat of 10000 Russians in
Arctic Circle.
STOCKHOLM - Owners dis
close two Scandinavian steamers
tOrpedOed Thursday.
combination supply and slave"
ship carried 800 prisoners of
nazi Raider Admiral Graf Spec,
reliable source says.
COPENHAGEN - Danish
house declares neutrality must
be maintained" her indepen.
dence defended.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
BY HAROLD X. L

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 10
(APeA secretly-built warship-
a combination raider, supply
and prison ship, was reported
tonight to have been the auxili-
airy vessel which accompanied
the Nazi raider Admiral Graf
Spec over three oceans and car.
ried 300 prisoners under condi-
lions which British captives
said recalled the days of slave
traders"
A reliable naval source here
declared the Graf Specs auxili-
airy was the "Altmark," a dis
guised 12,00O-ton vessel capable
of making rs knots. She ap-
parently has reached a secret
haven with her seamen prison.
ers, this source indicated.
In London, the British charg-
ed the Graf Spec supply ship
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Fair Saturday and
SSunuay, slightly colder on the coast
saturday, slowly rising temperature
meteorological data for the "A hours
sAuAs $50 p. m. Yesterday.
1.o Temperature
''So a. m. "A; 1880 a. m. 45; 1:3O o.
m M 81, ego p. m. 81; maximum 46
"~iiHum q; mean SO; normal 46.
Ion Humidity
m -1 ,on, a; m, 50; 1870 a. m. 81; 80 p.
H. i"' $50 p. m. SO.
ro., Precipitation
Mo Iolal for "A hours ending 7:3O o. m.
m mmu tL%nches; total since first of the
"onlh l5 inches.
rE,on Tides For Today
4 rra9nl Tide Tables published by U.
'0ast and Geodetic Survey.
stoh ------ 5:4Sa Il ga
MasOrhu COOP 1:2Op
"'S'n''r' Inlet --- 3:2sa s:5sa
rise suI 1.Ea 7:l6a; sunset $500; moon
1oVp' moonset 2:53a.
wp maHtIshlNGTON January 19- Up -
ing q gnu rainfall for the "a hours end
CROWN D. m, in the principal cotton
Statione areas and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-20
Don't Postpone
Buying A Better Car

.... just because you can't
afford a NEW Car.
Wilmington's reliable dealers
are offering today many BAR
gains in good "Used' Cars that
have been traded in on 194s
models.
They invite you to cone
around and get behind the wheel
of one of their good late model
used cars and discover for
yourself the pleasure of driving
a "Used'' Car in New" Car
condition.
See Today's Classified
Evening star., 1940-03-25

ready. at its own expense, to handle
the programs for the public in
limited areas.
Europe has had television for three
years. America has been getting
ready to push ahead Of what Europe
has done, but the Federal Communi-
cations Commission has interposed
its influence so as to establish the
precedent of its alleged power over
the merchandising Of receiving sets.
Congress never delegated such
authority to the F. c. c. but assump-
ton Of power is the habit of govern
mental commissions nowadays. Con-
gress has not yet walked up to the
fact that it is no longer the law
making body. The F. c. c. now
must be added to the S. E. C. and
the Labor Board as having trans
gressed the powers of Congress in
Interpretation of statutory authority
Reproduction rights reseryed)
Evening star., 1940-03-25

comes to this
desk a psyche
logical explana-
on of W hy
Roosevelt m ay
not seek re-elec-
ton. The elder
statesman in
question believes
t he President
shrinks from
ending his po-
litical career lin
diminuendo" in
stead Of that
&C r e S c e n d o"
which has, with
Evening star., 1940-03-25

new industry. Some persons IA
miliar with the recent inventions
think an industry is about to be
built that will attract much capital
and afford much employment. Radio
broadcasting could never have been
brought to its present stage If q
governmental commission had in
sisted first on passing on what is
or is not the right kind of a receiving
set or what the sets should cost or
who should have them or how they
might be used.
The actual order of the F. c. c.
refers to permission previously
granted for commercial sponsorship
of television after September next
But the Radio Corporation Of Amer
ica. for instance, which has devel.
oped the latest technique in tele-
vision, was not going to furnish
CONNER cial programs for the pres
ent, anyway. and was merely getting
Evening star., 1940-03-25


a single inter- Frederic william vile.
ruption, marked his continuous
30-year quest for office. The G. o. P
Nestor envisons F. D. r. astride thu
same dilemma which finally per.
turbed Calvin Coolidge into "choos.
Ing not to run" again for the
presidency, and is convinced that
like the canny Vermonter. the
New Yorker will In due course
possibly not until the eleventh hour
reject the crown.
X y \
How Cal Reckoned.
Coolidge, according to my ex-
solon informant, could have been
renominated and probably reelected
in 1925 But Cd he could not have
been renominated without oppo-
sition; ca he could not have been
reelected by his 10000 1924 ma
jority; 90 this would not have suited
Coolidge's book; % he was accus-
toned, every time he ran, to climb
ing to greater heights than before;
(5) were he again to become Presi-
dent, every one would know that
was the end of it, and that he would
spend four years in sliding down
hill; 90 his chart of life would
therefore be in diminuendo and not
crescendo. and CD he "chose" not
to throw the machinery out Of gear
because Of this realization.
RO0sevelt's Parallel Career,
My Republican Solomon, wise In
politics beyond most men of oul
time, has reached the conclusion
that Roosevelt, keenly concerned for
his place in history. is moved by
identical considerations. The Presi-
dents star, too, has been consist.
emily In the ascendant Only when
he ran for Vice President in 1921
has he known the dregs of defeat
Like Coolidge, he won election after
election by augmented majorities
He carried New York for Governor
in 1928 by 10000; in 1890 was re.
elected by 725,000. In his first try
for the presidency in 1892, Roose-
welt had popular majority OF
1000, 900. In 1886 he was reelected
by 100000.
g" If F. D. R. tempts fate a third
time, not even the headiest New
Dealer believe he could roll ur
anything near either his 1882 OF
1896 vote. Most Democrats thinl
he would win. but, between the op.
position Of anti-third termers ane
conservative Democrats, Roosevelt
might even have difficulty in squeez.
ing through at all Should he b<
victorious on less than the usua
scale, would the temperament of thu
politically spoiled darling Of Hyd,
Park relish "diminuendo," such a!
Coolidge stunned, particularly WITH
the prospect that his next Congress.
or two might consist of q Republican
House and Democratic Senate?
A Barbour Cromwell Bout:
Jimmie Cromwell. whom Secretar,
Hull spanked for talking out Of