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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
WEATHER
FORECAST

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;, i'h Carolina: Partly cloudy cool
str east and central portions Friday
'Duay generally fair.
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e ''o9 p. m. Yesterday.
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h. ~ a. IN. 81; 7:30 a. m. Sc; 100 p.
lnjni,o ~ p. m. 70; maximum IS;
mum I'll; mean 70; normal So.
len Humidity
b, Il, d IN. 70; 7:30 a. M. 81; 1:30 q.
Oh 1870 p. m. 30.
roto, Precipitation
hone. Tor a hours ending 7:3O D. M,
none total since first of the month.
Tides For Today
Wilmington s High a Low '
'"ooro Inlet 6:15a 0:o1a
'Se IA. 0;54a; unset 6:36p; moon
moonset 4:53p.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Trade Your Household
Stow Always For A
New Spring Outfit

Here are a few of the things
you can sell for cash, easily
and quickly, through Star and
News Want Ads.
Used Refrigerators, Bedroom
Suites, Desks, Dressers, Chairs.
Dining Room Sets, Lamps, Gas
and Oil Stoves, Pianos, Radios.
Victrolas, Rugs, Studio Couches,
Tables, Sewing Machines, Wash.
ing Machines, Vacuum Clean
erS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-05
Ildes For Today

%stteyiIie rear river stage at Fay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
British Speedboats
Repealed by Heavy
Guns, Nazis Say
Vessels Were Creeping
Near Flanders Coast,
High Command Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Oct. 3l.-The German
high command reported today Nazi
artillery on the Flanders coast had
repealed British speedboats creep
ing close to shore under cover of a
thick North Sea haze and probably
had destroyed one.
Describing German air raids on
Britain, it said explosions and fires
had been observed in industrial
plants and docks on both sides of
the Thames, and that British west
coast ports and Central England
armament centers, especially at Co.
ventry, had been successfully at
tackled.
The high command said the Brit
ish lost IS planes yesterday and
acknowledged loss of five of it's
own.
German officials reported wintry
weather conditions drove British
bombers home early after scattered
raids over Germany last night.
Unfavorable weather also limited
the German air force to more or
less hit and run" raids by indi-
vidual planes which picked objec-
tives at random in attacks on Eng
land, they asserted.
While operations were restricted,
these sources said scattered air fights
developed which cost the British 10
planes to three German losses.
The official German news agency,
DNB, reported today that Nazi long
range guns on the French coast had
shelled the harbor of Dover yes
terday afternoon,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Japan Said to Have Lost
ia, 900 Men in Campaign

CHUNGKING, Oct. 81 LP,.-The
Central (ChineSe) News Agency re-
ported today that the japanese cam
paign centering around Manning in
KwangSi Province had cost the in
vaders $4,000 men through death,
injury or illness.
The japanese were estimated to
have employed about ll4,000 troops
in the operations. Kwangsi is no.
torious for its epidemics and illness
was said to have been responsible
for the greatest havoc among the
japanese forces.
Japan's gains have in no way
matched the cost Of the Kwangsi
campaign, the agency said, espe-
cially now that her troops have
withdrawn from Manning, an &C
ton hailed here as "a heavy blow"
to japanese prestige
Reports from Hong Kong said
Chinese troops re-entered Manning
Tuesday and received a jubilant
welcome from flag-waving crowds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Mead 10 Introduce =.
Retirement Measure
With Some Chances
Continued Cooperation
With Romspeck Pledged
By Senator

Senator Mead, Democrat, of New
York, who is slated to take charge
of civil service retirement legislation
in the coming Congress if Senator
Nicely is elected Governor of West
Virginia, announced today he will
reintrodUce the Nicely Ramspeck re-
tirement bill with some changes
early in the session and work
earnestly for its passage.
Senator Mead himself is in a con-
test for reelection with Representa-
tive Barton, Republican, as his
opponent.
AS former chairman of the House
Post Office Committee, Senator Mead
for years has co-operated with
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee, in putting
through the merit and retirement
systems. He today pledged his con-
tinued cooperation with Repre-
sentative Ramspeck 'in furthering
such meritorious legislation"
In the coming session, Senator
Mead said, Il shall do my utmost
to maintain and strengthen the in
dependence and autonomy OF the
civil service system and thereby
keep it a separate activity of the
Government. In this respect I am
as strongly in favor of a similar
status for local and State civil serv-
ice systems. Federal, State and
local pension systems established
and maintained for the benefit of
public employees must be protected
and l shall vigorously oppose any
legislation which would eliminate or
reduce any benefits payable under
such systems"
Il have been assured by Senator
Wagner" Senator Mead added,
that his bill amending the Social
Security Act is in no way intended
or designed to repeal existing pen
sion systems affecting public en-
ployes or to wipe out the accrued
rights of employees in such systems.
Senator Wagner emphatically stated
that he introduced this bill for
study purposes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
French Envoy Denies
Accord With Nazis on
Islands Near u. 5.
No Permanent Peace
Settlement Proposed,
WeIIes Informed
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

CASTOR Henry Haye, the French
Ambassador, today brought to the
State Department denials that the
Vichy government, which he repre-
sents, had entered into any agree
ment with Germany for granting
either civilian or military privileges
to the Nazi government in the
French colonial possessions-includ-
ing those in the Western Henri
sphere.
At the same time, he told Under
secretary of State Sumner Welles
that ReichSfuehrer Hitler, in his
conversations with Marshal Petain,
the French Premier, had not made
any proposal for permanent peace
settlement between the conquered
and the conquering nation.
The insistence by the Ambbassa-
dor that France is retaining COM
plete sovereignty over her possess
sions probably will serve to stay this
country from invoking the Act of
Havana and occupying French ter
ritories in the Western Hemisphere.
This step was contemplated if de-
velopments should indicate that the
Petain government had taken a step
endangering the French control over
these possessions.
Vich Reply Awaited.
The Ambassador told the press,
after talking with Mr.. Welles for
more than half an hour, that he
expected momentarily reply from
Vichy to the request for informa-
ton on the implications Of the
Petain-Hitler conversations made
last Thursday by President Roose-
welt.
However, Mr.. Henry Haye indi-
Gated that the information he gave
Mr.. Welles this morning would be
at least the substance of the Petain
response to Mr.. Roosevelt's inquiry
He said that although he had tel
egraphed Mr.. Roosevelt's communi-
cation a week ago, it had been
garbled in transit and he had re-
peated the message by a new cable
48 hours ago.
Last night, the Ambassador said,
he received a dispatch from Vichy
emphasizing that no peace proposal
at all had come from Germany, with
instructions to communicate this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Howard U. Man Named
On Health Defense Unit

DR.. Russell A. Dixon, dean of the
Howard University Dental School
here, will be a member of the Coun-
Gil of National Defense's new Sub
committee on Negro Health, creation
of which was announced yesterday
DIR. M. o. Bousfield, director Negro
Health, is chairman. The other
members are:
Mrs Mabel x. Staupers, executive
secretary, National Association OF
Colored Graduate Nurses, New
York; A. w. Dent, superintendent OF
Flint Goodrich Hospital, New Or
leans: DR.. A. N. Vaughn, surgeon,
Homer Phillips Hospital, st. Louis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Court Approves Sale
OF Old Hotel in Baltimore
IN the Associated PICS.

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE. Oc,. 31.-Sale of
the old Rennert Hotel was upheld
yesterday by Judge Joseph N. Ulman,
who asserted the city used dis
cretion" and reasonable diligence
to protect the interest Of the tax
payer" in disposing Of the property.
Judge Ulman affirmed the sale in
dismissing two injunction suits at
lacking validity of the transaction.
His action cleared the way for the
purchaser to establish a parking lot
on the site of the old downtown
hosiery.
The purchaser was Scott B. APP
pleby of Washington, who agreed to
pay the city $4,000 for the hotel,
to pay l94l taxes based on the pur-
chase price and TO make improve
ments of at least $40 00O.
The injunction suits. filed by
bidders whose offers the city re-
jected, commended the sale was made
on an illegal contract, that the city
failed to notify competitors of the
sale and refused to consider a sub
sequent higher offer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Franz Won Popen Leaves
Turkey on Berlin Trip

ISTANBUL, Oct. 81 (P)-Franz
Won Papen, crafty German Ambas-
sador of two great wars, left Turkey
unexpectedly yesterday for Germany.
Presumably Won Papen will report
to Adolf Hitler on Turkeys position
and her intentions in the war which,
at long last, has entered Southeast
ern Europe through Italy's invasion
Of Greece.
cit was 25 years ago this COM
ing December that Won Papen
was sent back to Germany from
the United States on the State
Departments representation that
he had INDUCED in improper &C
Invites in military and naval mat
tiers" Hitler named him AM
bassador to Turkey in April of
1899, but he failed to prevent
Turkey from entering into a
mutual assistance pact with
Brittany
Won Papen's recall to Berlin comes
at time when the Turkish press is
declaring that I'VE are wholehearted-
ly with the Greek nation" and sug-
costing that this country tender all
possible aid to Greece.
1t was learned that Won Papen's
family is remaining in Turkey, indi-
eating he would return shortly. Re-
ports from Ankara said he saw Pres
ident Ismet Inonu recently.
The official Turkish radio said last
night that Italy apparently had
attacked Greece independent of
Germany as a matter of prestige.
The announcer predicted that the
italians would retain Salonika if
they captured it, but would turn over
Eastern Thrace to Bulgaria. This,
he added, would protect Italy's
northern flank for a new advance
southwark"
Turkish newspapers have warned
Bulgaria not to intervene in the
Italo-Greek war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Japan Withdraws
All lis Forces From
Kwangsi Province
Chinese Soy Invaders
Lost $4,000 Troops in
Manning Campaign

By the Associated Press.
HANOI, French Indo-China, Oct.
31.-The Japanese Army has with
drawn all its forces from Kwangsi
Province, Southern China, and four
big transports carrying nearly 1000
men already have sailed from
Haiphong, Indo-China, carrying the
vanguard.
Whether they will be taken home
or be returned to the China war on
some other front has not been dis
closed.
The japanese Army announced
Monday it was abandoning Manning,
capital of Kwangsi, because 1t had
lost its value as a base of operations
since France permitted Japan to
occupy aviation and other bases in
Northern Indo-China. From these
bases Japanese planes already are
blasting at the Burma road, China s
main channel for outside war sup
plies.
The withdrawal from Kwangsi
was made across Indo-China s
northern border, across which part
OF the japanese Kwangsi army had
swept in September to seize Langson
and gain its first foothold in French
territory.
Since october % a steady flow of
trains has been bringing japanese
from Langson to the port of Hal
phong, some of them with artil-
lery and munitions. Authoritative
sources say some $1,000 japanese
still are in the Langson area wait
ing to be removed.
Following up the Japanese the
Chinese have advanced to the Indo-
China border and reoccupied Lung
chow, last important station on the
Chinese side.
(ChineSe assert that the Jap
aneSe abandonment was the re-
suit OF a strong Chinese often
sive launched about October 20
and was not voluntary" as the
japanese claim)
Hajime MatSumiya, special jap
aneSe Ambassador to Indo- China,
has gone to Saigon, the colony S
chief commercial center, on an in
veStigation trip. Matsumiya is head
of a mission which came from To-
kio to seek closer economic rela-
tons with IndO-China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Merchant Chuses Thief;
Second Loots Store

Max Zarin, proprietor of a store
at 1901 New Jersey avenue NV,
was listed today as victim of two
robberies.
While he was In his store about
8 o'clock last night, young colored
boy came in and stole four pairs of
overalls from the counter. Mr.. Zarin
set out in pursuit of the thief.
Hardly had he gotten out of the
door when a second colored boy
dashed into the store, grabbed s25
from the cash register, and ran in
the other direction.
While Mr.. Zarin was trying to de-
eide which to chase, they both got
aWaV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
| Woshington's
| Watch Not
|Photogenic
BY the Associated Press.


Sh-h! Don't breathe 1t to soul,
but after all these years George
Washington's watch turns out not
to be photogenic.
Selective service officials, it seems,
originally planned to use the G.
Washington timepiece in making the
pictorial record of the CONSUMPTION
lottery numbers which will be pre-
served for posterity. The watch was
to have been placed alongside the
numbers as they were photographed.
Sort of patriotic historical touch,
so to speak.
Photographers looked over the
Washington watch and then looked
down their noses. The chilly YER
dict was that neither the hands nor
the hour markings would photo
graph well. So officials went to a
local jeWeler and purchased a watch
which was photographed with each
number to record the exact time of
its selection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Crash With Auto Ends
FotulIY for Horse

A collision yesterday between a
runaway horse and an automobile
ended fatally for the animal.
The horse was drawing a wagon,
driven by Robert jenkins. 81, COL
ored. of 305 F street S.W, near
Fourth and Crittenden streets NV
1t became frightened and ran away
At that intersection, the animal
ran into an automobile driven by
Merle Cole, 638 Independence ave-
nue. S.W. The automobile was bad
ly damaged and Mrs. Catherine Cole,
the drivers wife, was slightly in
jured. 1t was necessary to destroy
the horse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

"Sure," he smiled, "the money
would be nice. It's the highest offer
ever made us-$1 500 more than
we've ever been paid, in fact. But
we've found something more i'm
portant."
He's settling down in Hollywood
busy perfecting a new routine he
calls The Chaco" for a South Amer
lean musical film. He's a dance
director, with ambitions for a career
as full-f1edged director.
AS for Yolanda, she's immensely
happy" being a mother. 1t would
require year, she said, to polish up
their routines, and that's a long
time"
Besides" and she gave Frank,
jr., a loving look, I'm going to be
very busy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Democrats 10 Hold
Victory Dinner
Night
Mrs. George M. Morris
To Give WiIIkie Talk
On Radio Tonight

Confident that President Roose-
welt will be reelected, Democrats in
the District will gather at Demo-
cratic victory celebration" at 8 pm.
Tuesday at their local headquarters
in the Burlington Hotel. The cele-
bration will be under auspices of the
National Democratic League of the
District of Columbia, of which Hugh
v. Keiser is president. The league
also has arranged to hold a pre-
victory luncheon" in the Burlington
at 1870 pm Saturday.
Mrs. Judson Earl McChesney is
chairman for Tuesday nights affair
and Mrs. Arthur Clarendon Smith,
vice chairman. Mrs. J. Nelson
Anderson is chairman in charge Of
speakers and general arrangements.
Other committee chairmen for the
affair include Mrs. John H. Simon,
tickets; Mrs. Walter H. Maloney,
music; Mrs. Martha Carter, refresh
ments. and Mrs. Hugh H. Groves,
publicity. Arthur Clarendon Smith
will be master of ceremonies.
Serving as hostesses will be Mrs.
Ann Sheila Wright. Mrs. Enice
Blake Thomas and Miss Inez Justus,
assisted by other committee chair
men. Among Democratic groups
joining in the celebration will be
the Women's National Democratic
Council. headed by Mrs. FLOYD L.
Cook, and the local Democratic
Club of New York, headed by Mrs.
Eva Steiner.
Election returns are to be posted
during the evening by Capt. Edward
Everett, assisted by j. Leo Kolb.
At tbs O'Clock tonight, Mrs.
George Maurice Morris will speak
over Radio Station VOL In one of
a series of 5-minute addresses being
broadcast under auspices of the
Willkie Washington Committee.
The Willkie Washington Commit
tee will keep open house" tonight
at its headquarters, 727 Fifteenth
street NV, for persons to listen to
political speeches, including the one
to be delivered by Wendell L. Will
kie. the G.. o. P. candidate, at Cam
den, N. j., it was announced.
Some 500 persons from Washing
ton last night attended the Repub-
hcan rally in Baltimore to listen to
the speech there by Mr.. Willkie
The trip was made by specially
chartered buses which left the WILL
kieMcNary Campaign Club head
quarters in the Woodward building,
Fifteenth and H streets NV, late
yesterday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Husband Under Sentence.

Husband Under Sentence.
BroWder, a native of Kansas, Is
under sentence for passport fraud.
He is now at liberty pending action
on an appeal granted him by the
Supreme Court.
Mrs. Browder had asked leniency
on the ground that she was the wife
of a native-born citizen of the
United States and the mother of
American-born offspring, but the
Board of immigration Appeals held
that had mo bearing upon the ques-
ton of her deportability."
She disclosed that she had last
entered the United States in the
fall of 1888 by train from Canada
and intended to remain here per-
manently although she did not then
have a valid immigration visa.
One possibility remained for
further delay. The Attorney Gen
eral said Mrs. Browder could move,
prior to her deportation, to reopen
the hearing if she had further evil
OCiISC W p1ONuSC I1C IlOGCO, INV
ever, that his opinion was based
on the respondents own testimony
describing her surreptitious entry in
1888" and that she had not chal-
lenged either the Appeals Boards
finding of fact or its conclusion of
law.
Secretary to Browder.
The denial for leniency was based,
Mr.. Jackson said, on the Alien Reg
istration Act of 1910, which per-
mits the Attorney General to
suspend deportation of aliens I'M
der certain circumstances, but not
in cases where the aliens are men,
bers of or affiliated with organiza-
tons which advocate violent over
throw of the Government.
Mrs. Browder testified, the APP
pealS Boards opinion said that she
assisted her husband as a secretary
and by doing research for his writ
ings and speeches and that she
lived from 1919 to 1888 in Moscow
under the Communist regime"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Able 10 Resist Alone
Greece Is Reported
To Have Told Turks
Semi-OfficiuI Sources
In Ankoru Soy Every
Help Is Promised
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct 81
Greece has informed the Turkish
government she can resist Italian
pressure alone, Semi-off1cial sources
In Ankara asserted today.
These sources declared Turkey
would enter the war only "in case
of a Bulgarian attack on Greece or
II Turkeys national interests are
endangered"
However, Turkey cannot remain
diSinterested in developments in the
eastern Mediterranean, they said,
and has informed the Athens gov
eminent she will give Greece every
help possible, even if she does not
enter the war.
Italy Seen Facing Test.
The official Turkish radio, in a
discussion of the Greek campaign,
said Italy was facing an important
test of her military prestige, but
thus far has not shown up bril-
hantly."
The announcer declared that the
best way for Britain to aid Greece
was by bombing Italian air bases,
protecting Greece against air at
tacks, and also by attacking Italian
cities, including Rome"
The announcer said the italians
seem especially sensitive" to air
raids.
The radio asserted that Italy ap-
parently had attacked Greece indie
pendently of Germany as a matter
of prestige.
while Hitler was trying to me-
diate between France and Italy" it
said, Italy suddenly attacked Greece
in an effort to prove to Germany
that Italy can act on her own in
itiative.
Loss of SalOnika Feared.
ITALY also wants what territory
she can occupy in Greece to make
sure she will be rewarded for her
efforts in the war at the side of
Germany"
The commentator predicted that
the Italians would retain Salonika
If they were able to seize that vital
Aegean port, but would turn over
Eastern Thrace to Bulgaria, which
has been agitating for such an out
let to the Aegean.
Meanwhile Turks awaited the re-
suits of the sudden trip home Of
the German Ambassador, Franz Won
Papen, who left yesterday preSum-
ably to report to Adolf Hitler on
Turkeys situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31.-Frank
Nichols, jr., not yet months old, is
costing his parents $4,000 week
But
Believe me-" says his father, "he's
worth every dime of it."
In public life Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Nichols, ST., are VeloZ and Yolanda-
who never took a lesson in their lives
but became the Nations highest paid
ballroom dance team.
They retired temporarily last
January in anticipation of Frank,
jr.s arrival, which took place July Is
Today Veloz made it permanent.
We'll never dance professionally
again, he said.
On his desk lay an offer for
farewell appearance" at Chicago
theater at $4,000 a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
1000 Troops Reported
Surrendering to China

HONG KONG. Oct. 81 P.-Two
thousand Chinese troops recruited
by the japanese in Eastern Shan
tung Province were reported by the
Central (ChineSe) News Agency to-
day to have surrendered to the forces
of Generahssimo Chang Kai-shek.
To demonstrate their new loyalty
to Chang, the agency said. the
troops later participated in an attack
on japanese positions near Kiaochow
Bay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Bomber Sinks Steamer,
German Radio Declares

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 P.-The
German radio, in broadcast heard
here by c. B. S., reported today that
a heavy German bomber sank the
5,702-ton British steamer Starstone
in the Atlantic west of Ireland.
The German high commands
communique today announced a
German plane had sunk a 5,OO0-ton
freighter about 1870 miles west of
Ireland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

Topic of Conversations.

eminent.
Topic of Conversations.
He said the conversations between1
the French and German officials
had concerned the condition OF war
prisoners and other matters for i'm
proving the relations between the
two governments under the existing
armistice situation.
The Ambassador was vigorous in
his denial of reports that the Ger
mans would have the use Of the
French African colonies in making
war against Great Britain.
The particular problem Of Mar
Unique remains a thorn in Franco
American relations. The problem Of
this West Indian island was UNDER
stood to have figured in the Welles-
Henry Haye conversations, but the
solution is still far off.
While the Ambassador was talking
with Mr.. Welles, Secretary of State
Hull was at the White House to
confer with the President. At his
press conference later, Mr.. Hull de-
scribed the talk with Mr.. Roosevelt
as routine.