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Court Upholds |. E.. {.
Plan 10 Reorganize
Northwestern Line
Holders Of $4,000, 1000
In Stocks Are Ruled
Without Equities
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Sept. Federal
Judge John P. Barnes approved to-
day the Interstate Commerce Com
mission plan for reorganization of
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road under Section 77-B of the
Bankruptcy Act.
Objections had been made to the
plan by the railroad and by common
and preferred stockholders on the
ground they would lose their invest
ment.
The plan provides for recapitaliza-
ton of the properties without repre-
sentation of the present common and
preferred holders in the new COM
pany. Their holdings had an es-
timated value of $50, 100000.
Stockholders without Equity.
Judge Barnes, in 53-page
opinion, agreed with the I. C. C.
that the equities of the common and
preferred stockholders have no
value"
The court saw mo warrant in the
evidence for disappearing the COM
missions limiting of the capitaliza-
ton of the new company to $449,-
974, 309, or for increasing the
capitalization to $705, 153, 1872 or to
any sum in excess of S449, 974 ,309."
Fees asked by attorneys repre-
senting the various parties totaled
1882 ,082 and the I. c. c. had allowed
fees of s442,844 Judge Barnes re-
duced that figure by $6,366, cutting
the fees asked by the Reconstruct
ton Finance Corp. from s21, 1866 and
approved by the l. G. C. to SIS 5000.
He then approved the fees listed.
Concerning the I. c. c. finding
that the stockholders equities had
mo value" the court said further:
THAT finding is Overwhelmingly
supported by the evidence and the
court is forced to conclude as did
the commission that stockholders
should not participate in the alloca-
ton of securities"
The Northwestern filed reorgan-
ization petition in the Federal Court
June %, 1885. 1t is one OF the Ma
tons oldest and biggest railroads,
with more than 10000 miles of track
in nine Midwestern States and with
connections to the West, Northwest
and parts of Canada.
Capitalization Reduced
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Miscellaneous Markets.


Additional New York markets as COM
piled by the Associated Press:
CCFFEE-Spot. quiet. Santo No. f. 6ss-
e: Rio No. :. 5is Cost and freight Of
ferings included Santos Bourbon IS and IS
at $4,000. Santos No. ID" futures.
closed unchanged to , lower. Sales. $500
bass, September. 5 2sn: December. 5.46n;
March 565n. Pic No. : "A" futures, un-
changed No sales.
WOOL TOPS-Futures steadied on spot
house buying and short covering and closed
10 points higher to lower TODAY. Octo-
her 81, 5b: December@2. SD; March. ss.9b.
Spot. standard tops. 1910.
COCOA-Futures closed 8 higher Sales,
255 tons. December, 4.42; March, Assn.
RAW STLK-Futures No. I closed Lea
lower: sales. 100 bales; october. 252hb;
November; 2-51 y: December, 2.51iz.,
sr; sales. $3.50. 600 pounds: September.
Q son: December. 9.64-6S: March. $50;
spot. No l Western light native cows l IN
CRUDE RUBBER-Futures closed SO
lower: sales; No. l standard, 132 con-
1s.a7-1a.O3; March. 1s.sob; smoked ribbed.
spot. 1q1Qn
Bid. Nominal
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. Sept. l 1.-THE Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index OF 35
commodities today advanced TO 1907.
Previous cay. 71.72: week ago, Ills;
month ago 6a.4s: year ago. "a 80.
High 75,"s 1875 44's7 1914
Low $3.50 637s $3.50 41.44
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The Richmond report added that
cumulative sales in the fifth dis
trict for the first seven months of
the fiscal year beginning February
l were up per cent and in WASH
inetOn "a per cent.
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. Sept. IL lP.-National
Association OF Securities Dealers. Inc:
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Sept. 11.-Prepared by
Fitch Publishing Co.:
Initial
Pc Stk Of Pay
Rate. Rod record able
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
BRITISH WARSHlPS
HUNT FOR RAIDER
Crew OF Carnarvon Castle
Confident They Damaged
Nazi Vessel In Battle

MONTEv1DEO, Uruguay, Dec. 8
-R-Confident that their adver-
sary also had been damaged and
would be caught and smashed, the
crew of Britain's battered 20, 1872
ton auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon
Castle left the search of the South
Atlantic today to Their British war
ships.
While the Carnarvon Castle re-
manned laid up here getting new
plates to close the shell holes in
her hull, the 7,580-ton British
cruiser Enterprise and anthel
warship in the vicinity of the 80
minute battle Thursday were said
to have taken up the chase.
Some of the Carnarvon Castles
crewmen were sure the German
raider already had been caught.
Her commander, Capt. H. M. H.
Hardy, said ''the German ship I'M
doubtedly suffered much more
damage" than his and some re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
British Resume Attacks
On Dusseldorf Plants

LONDON, Dec. 8.-R-British
hiers, who raided the industrial
Rhineland city Of Dusseldorf for
twelve hours Wednesday night,
roared back last night, the air
ministry said today, and bombed
blast furnaces, steel works, gas
works, railway yards and the
quays used by heavy shipping.
When the raiders had turned
homewards, the ministry said,
they could see far behind them a
blaze which experienced crews de-
clared was the worst they had
seen in Germany since the Raj
attacks began.
Brest, too, was given its worst
pounding of the war, the air minis
try news service declared. Incendi-
aries fell on infantry barracks and
the buildings between them and
the naval barracks, and high ex-
plosives rained down on the po1/
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
OFF AFRICAN COAST
Another Call Indicates Brit
ish Steamer Torpedoed
In Same Section

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-(R-A @
boat-disguised raider-attack on the
Norwegian motor tanker Hidlefjoro
off the west African coast was indi
Gated tonight in a distress sigma
picked up by MacKay Radio which
also reported the torpedoing of g
British steamer along the same
coast.
MacKay said it received the follow
ing message from the Hidlefjord:
1000 -. Hidelfjord -. being fired
on by mysterious ship. -" The time
of the attack was given as 7:10 p
m. (EsT).
The Hidlefjord, 1859 tons, gave hel
position as less than 100 miles south
west of Monrovia, capital Of Liberia
on the west African coast.
"Torpedoed"
The Empire Jaguar's message,
MaKay said, a relayed by a Brit
ish station, and said: ISIS -.
British SIS. Empire Jaguar tor
pedoed." The time of attack was
$40 p. m. (EST).
The "ssS" signal indicated an at
tack by a submarine, MacKay said'
The British vessels position was CIV
en- as approximately 100 miles north
east of Dakar, seem of the attempted
free French" landing by Gen
Charles De Gaulle several weeks ago.
Dakar is on the coast Of French
West Africa.
The Empire Jaguar is not listed in
Lloyd's register. A number of boats
recently launched or acquired by the
British - some of them from the
United States-have been given an
''empire' designation.
Earlier in the day the 4,07O-ton
former French freighter Djurdjura,
sailing under British colors, signalled
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
MORE MONEY NEEDED
Only $240 Received AS
Time For Santa's Annual
Visit Approaches

The mail bags are full of letters to
Santa Clause these days. They come
from many children. Some of the
children writing letters r not as
fortunate as the little girl in the
above picture appears to be.
But like this little girl, all the
writer's of these notes to old Saint
Nick are hopeful that they will be
remembered on the night of Christ.
mas.
AS this picture indicates, little
Mary is confident that her letter will
get results.
Have Hope
There is not so much confidence in
the letters that underprivileged boys
and girls of Wilmington are writing
to Santa Claus in care of the Empty
Stocking fund. But they do have
hope-a hope that is just as alive as
that Of Mary. 1t is to fulfill this
hope and to keep the spark of hap
piness burning at Christmas that the
Empty Stocking fund was created.
To date S240.43 has been contribut-
ed, but this is only a mere start to
what will be needed to grant the
simple wishes of the hundreds OF
,oor children of Wilmington and
New Hanover county this Christmas.
The letter that these unfortunate
children write do not ask for much,
inst a remembrance, a simple toy
that contains all the joy in the world
for that child.
Without this slight remembrance
there II sure to be h~eartbreaks IN
Continued on Page Three; Col. %
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
STORES ARE CAPTURED
Thousands Jam The Streets
In Athens And Cheer
Army On To Rome
MEN CONGRATULATED
Triumph Means That En-
tire Italian Line On From
tier Has Collapsed

ATHENS, Dec. s. Up Greek
troops marched into A~rgirocastro.
last italian base on the Albanian
frontier from which Italy intended
to overrun Greece, it was officially
announced today.
The announced surrender of the
ancient city set off tremendous
victory celebrations throughout
Greece. Thousands damned the
streets shouting and singing.
Premier General John Metaxas
and high officers appeared at an
open window Of general staff head
quarters here to wave to crowds
cheering the Greek army ION to
Rome"
Play Interrupted
In n theater showing a new
revue lampooning the Italians, the
play was interrupted while an actor
announced the news. The audience
cheered while the band swung into
the national anthem.
The capture of Argirocastro re.
moved the Italians remaining air.
drome in southern Albania, and the
Greeks said fierce italian attempts
to prevent huge military stores from
falling into Greek hands were I'M
successful.
The nearest italian air bases now
are at Valona and Berat. The for.
mer is on the Adriatic coast up
which the Greek army is advancing
after the capture of Porto Edda,
and the latter is not far inland and
is a site of Albanian oil production.
The ~retreating Italians are being
harassed by the Greek cavalry and
bombed and machine-gunned by air.
planes, latest reports from the front
said.
Troops Congratulated
Generalissimo Alexander Papagos,
congratulated by Premier General
Metaxas, thanked the premier and
issued a general order congratulate
ing the units which occupied Argi.
rocastro.
Church bells pealed throughout
Athens to celebrate capture of this,
the last Of Italy's invasion bases on
the Albanian frontier. 1t signaled
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09

A monkey, newly arrived from Cal
cutta, India, that has played hide
and-seek about the streets of Will
mington for two days, turned Santa
Claus yesterday and crawled down
the chimney Of Lieut.. Col. William
VanDyke Och's home at 302 South
Third street.
Saturday the monkey was seen
scampering about the vicinity of
Front and Church streets, but he
couldn't be caught.
The next time he was seen was
yesterday morning when neighbors
looked out of their windows and saw
the little fellow dancing around the
roof Of Col. Och's home.
Several persons volunteered to help
in the capture and city firemen were
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
.Q-Boat Reported Smelling
Motor Tanker
Greeks Take Positions
Near Radokal Village

STRUGA, Yugoslavia (Near
Observation-Disclosures Border, Dec.
8.-R-Greek forces have cap.
tured strong Italian mountain pc.
sitiOns near the village of RADIO
kal, near the Yug0slav border.
and have gained an opening to
advance west through the
Shkumbi river valley toward
Elbasani, it was reported here
tonight.
The Greeks were said to have
suffered heavy losses.
They also were said to have
cleared the way for an advance
to the northeast to attack Lin,
just across the Yugoslav border.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
MacRae Offers Big Tract
ToTenneSSeeU University

a tract of 125 acres at Linville
W.T. 0een offered by Hugh MacRae,
,r, -4.l''agton agriculturist, too the
sst. ns.sl(y of Tennessee for the
sDs a;Ollshment of a school of human
,,s Slleerlng where leaders can be
s Ss,aea to develop the human and
'%aunities.
p hug olfer was made recently
ya ai Mr.. MacRae addressed the
ts vlile, Tenn, Rotary club at
him. INVITATION of DR.. James D. Hos
m n president of the University
III aSs night Mr.. MacRae said that
ID suea will probably be develop
tc;.p- conference by university Of
sca slS This winter and that if they
i. sp' the offer the school might
'N1fted next summer
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Missing Monkey Captured
.AtHOme OfCOlOnel OchS

called. But the elusive monk decid-
ed that December 8 is just as good as
December "a to climb down chin
neys, SO down he went.
But there he was bottled. One fire
man went inside the house and plac-
ed a basket in the fireplace and an.
other started the monk down the
chimney from the roof. The monkey
finally fell in the basket and was
captured and returned to its owners.
c. D. Maffitt, agent for the Black
Condor on which the 500 monkeys
arrived from India and also for the
cargo, said last night that he hadn't
been advised of the additional
monkey, but that if this one turns
out to be one of the cargo that he
will be shipped on to New York for
lodging in the zoo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
BRITISH FINANCIAL
PLAN IS PROPOSED
Thomas Wants To Cancel
Biz War Debt For Control
Over Some Colonies

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. R -
Santor Thomas ID Utah) pro-
posed today that the United States
cancel Great Britain's $4,000, 0OO,-
900 war debt in return for temper
ary control over some of Britain's
possessions in the Western Henri
sphere.
His suggestion was made while
other senators we're insisting that
the United States require adequate
collateral from Britain for any fu-
ture loans or credits that might
be extended to her.
Thomas, a member Of the senate
foreign relations committee, said
that an exchange such as he pro.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
LAST FASCIST
BASE NEAR FRONTIER
AND CONTINUE CHASE
Navy Chief Quits;
Two Generals Are Killed

ROME, Dec. s. up -Italy's
overhauling Of her topmost COM
mand spread to the navy today
when it's chief of staff joined two
of the army's highest officers on
the retired list.
At the same time, it was dis
closed that an unexplained air
crash had killed at least two
more Italian generals.
Resigned was Admiral do.
menico Cavagnari, navy chief of
staff, who also was u~ndersecre.
tary of the navy-tPremicr Mus
s0lini himself holds the naval
portfolioEanl had been regard
ed as high in ii Duce's conf
dence.
Those killed were Generals
Pietro Pintor and Aldo PelIegrini,
the latter of the air force and
both members of the Italian
French armistice commission.
A communique, named only the
two generals but said all aboard
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
War
Interpretive
RY EDWARD E. BOMAR

The resignation" OF ltaly's
naval chief of staff, following the
shifts in top commands of the land
forces, suggests inevitably that ne
may be a scapegoat for Fascist
failures at sea.
Although the record of the 1tal-
ian navy in this war has been no
more glorious than that of tn e
army, its current weakened state
stems chiefly from the decision to
undertake the i%ll-starred invasion
of Gteece, for whichPremie r Mus
solini himself cannot escape prl-
mary responsibility.
Decisive Bearing
The backfiring of that attempted
blitzkrieg unloosed on II Duce's
sea forces and now personally
upon the commander, Admiral
Cavagnari, a train of consequences
which promise to have a decisive
bearing on the outcome of the war.
Foremost of these was the Brit
ish occupation of the Greek island
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Many Letters Received
By Empty Stocking Fund
Many Americans Arrive
From Troubled Orient

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8.-R
"A throng of 1,342 Americans,
most of them women and chill
dren evacuating a troubled ORR
ent, arrived here today express
ing reluctance at leaving hus-
bands and fathers across the Pa
cific.
Of the group, which arrived
aboard the liner Washington, 9O4
Were wives and children of
American naval personnel, order
ed to return to the United
States because of tension be.
tween this country and Japan.
Others were families of Army
men, and some were civilians
from the Shanghai area return
ing here at the urgent advice of
the government.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
|Nazi Planes
Bomb London
For 9 Hours
Assault Ends "A Hour
Period In Which No Air
Raid Alarm Sounded
HOMES ARE SMASHED
Germans First Use Flares,
Then Fire Bombs And
High Explosives

LONDON, Dec. 9.-(Monday) -
RAA violent 9-hour overnight Ger
man air assault ended early today
as fog closed in to cover the new
gaping wounds of the great city.
Londoners, who had A hours oil
quiet shattered by mass bombing
that started early last night, re-
sumed the tragic poll of dead and
wounded, smashed homes, shops
and hospitals.
The thunder of anti-aircraft guns
died down as rescue workers la.
bored in the debris.
The Germans worked with all
their customary trappings-firs t
flares, then fire bombs, then high
explosives. !
(Berlin sources said many Ger
man bombers set out for London
soon after nightfall and glided with
motors silenced to take the capital
by surprise. They said the bombers
arrived over the city before sirens
could be sounded and the ii r S t
warning Of attack came when
flares were dropped.)
The British Press association
said bombs crashed on a number
of districts in and around London"
Residences Demolished
Both residences and business
houses were demolished in the al
ready bomb-scarred capital.
The nurses home of a children's
hospital was hit by a time bomb,
the British reported, but there was
no casualties.
It was believed that casualties
in general would not be high de-
spite the heavy raid.
The technique of the Germans
was mindful of the devastating
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Draft POLICIES
RULING PROPOSED
Cleveland Agent Wants
Decision Regarding Men
With Working Wives

CLEVELAND, Dec. S.-R-Wil-
liam r, Fairgrieve, selective service
aDeal agent, announced tonight he
would ask a national ruling on draft
policies concerning men with work
!ng wives,
The district board Of draft appeals
here ruled yesterday that such men
are Immediately available for mill.
t2ry service, holding the guide to be
dependency rather than marriage
only.
Fairgrieve dissented on the ground
that the present emergency is not
sufficient to warrant such policy.
He said he would send his request
70 Adj, Gen. ellison D. Light, Ohio
slectiye service director, asking that
It be forwarded to Clarence A. Dyk'
tFa, national director.
Fairgrieve seeks specific definition
Of national policy on these two ques-
tons:
Should local selective service
l9aFdS automatically defer any mar
Tied man at this time, even if his
wife works for her support, unless
me man has special qualifications
winch the Army can particularly
Use?
should local boards continue the
present policy of deciding cases
strictly on dependency-that is, II
wy husband contributes the majo-
'ere OF support to his wife?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09

The tract lies near the lake in
Linville, is on U. S. highway 221
and within sight of Grandfather
Mountain.
The idea for a school of human
engineering was conceived by MI.
MacRae following a talk by DR..
Hoskins to the graduating class at
Tennessee last June. In this talk
DR.. Hoskins said that salvation
for Tennessee must come from
within, from within the individual
and from within the community.
Further that the individuals and
the communities do need help in
the form of leadership just as in
dividuals who are ill need The
services of a physician. And still
further, that this help can come
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Action Taken
When Cruiser
Nears Vessel
British Seamen Board Idar.
wald And Bring The
Flames Under Control
SHIP BELIEVED SUNK
Location OF Incident Re-
ported Within The Pan
American Neutrality Zone

WASHINGTON, Dec. s. Up -
The Navy department reported to-
night that the German freightel
Idarwald was scuttled and set Attire
by her Nazi crew off Cuba at the
approach of a British cruiser.
The English tars were said tc
have boarded the flaming vessel after
it was abandoned by its own men,
brought the flames under control,
downed the swastika flag and hoisted
the British ensign. The British
cruiser Diomede is known to have
been in the vicinity.
Reports conflicted, however, as to
the ultimate fate of the freighter.
The Cuban navy reported that the
British warship torpedoed her but
officials here had no confirmation of
this. There also was no word i'm
mediately as to what became Of the
crew.
Within Zone
A spokesman indicated that the
exact location Of the action had not
been established definitely so far
but that it was within the Pan
American neutrality one. State de-
partment officials were watching
the situation closely but there was
no comment on the neutrality angle.
The Navy was understood to be
obtaining additional reports but Of
ficials were reluctant to make them
public until an authenticated &C
count of the affair can be obtained.
SHIP BELIEVED SUNK
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. S.-R-
The blockade-running German
freighter Idarwald was intercepted
in the Caribbean Sea by a British
cruiser today and either scuttled by
her crew or sunk by a torpedo.
While reports were in conflict, the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09

the military plane, including
"some members of the c0nmis-
sion - apparently besides Pintor
and Pellegrini-Were killed Sat.
urday on a flight from Rome to
Turin, Italy's northern industrial
center.
General Pintor, 60, a distin-
guished artillery officer who was
promoted to army corps general
in 1887 and later commanded an
army corps in Libya, was presi-
dent of the armistice commits
sion.
Like Pintor, Gen. Pellegrinl,
81, was a veteran of the Libyan
war of 1868. A flier in the
late Marshal Italo Balbo's good
will flight to Chicago in 1888, he
headed the office of air traffic
and civil aviation in the air min
istry at the time of his death.
This was the second time that
- ~ I~.- 1~I
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina, South carolina ana
Georgia: Fair, not much change In
temperature Monday; Tuesday partly
cloudy and warmer.
(By D. s. Weather Bureau)
Temperature
1:30 a., m. 81; 7:30 a. n. so; 80 p. m.
52. maximum g.; minimum 4S; mean
So: normal so.
Humidity
1:30 a, m. SO; 1880 a. m. 81; 1:3O p. m.
GA; 7:3O p. m. s..
Precipitation
Total for "a hours enGing 1870 p. m.
600 inches. Total since first OF the
month O.29 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ----------- 5:2la IS:loa
6:51p - sop
Masonboro Inlet - 3:34a 9:49a
3:55p 10:04p
Sunrise 7:O6a; sunset 5:O3a; moonrise
2 :O0p; moonset 2:13a.
River stage at Fayetteville, n. C.,
at 8 a. M, Dec. 4, 9.8 feet.
fContinued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
MANY NANPLANES
SMASH AT LONDON
Bombers Subject City To
One OF Heaviest Attacks
Since September

BERLIN, Dec. 9-Monday)-R
German bombers subjected Lon
don overnight to one of the heav-
lest attacks since September, in
formed sources said early today.
From all airports in German
held Holland, Belgium, and
France. chains of German bomb
ing units roared off against the
British capital.
They began their attack early
in the night, it was said, gliding
down on the capital with silenced
engines for a surprise raid.
A limited number of British
planes attempted to fly into Ger
man territory last night, informed
quarters said.
Shortly after flying over the
western frontier, the British were
subjected to heavy anti : aircraft
fire and were forced to dispose OF
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