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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
Governor Brcker i'm Conferences With City Officials from
Cleveland Toledo, Akron, and Industrial Centers-
Winter Drains Heavily on State Highway Dept

for $560,782 for relief supplies fur
nished in 1899 and has been running
in debt at the rate of $150,000 a
month this year. Columbus owes its
merchants more than 100000 for food
furnished for relief and does not have
the funds with which to pay.
Cleveland is going to submit an 80
mill levy on March 27 for operating
purposes and Columbus will probably
be compelled to do the same thing, in
order to take care of the increasing
deficits
In Cleveland the Federation of La
Dor has agreed to support the levy at
the special election, on the promise
that salaries will not be cut.
Akron is also facing a battle in
council over a salary ordinance before
City Council fixing maximum and
minimum wages.
Columbus, with notoriously low
salary schedule for it's city employees
and relief workers, is doing nothing
about wages, city officials contending
they cannot afford to make any in
creases. In Columbus, welfare work
ers in the charity department, admin
istering relief, receive $50 and 500 a
month and many of them are women
who have had special training for
this work
State officials do not consider the
Cincinnati situation as offering state
problem. Governor Bricker said City
Manager C. o. Sheriff. was doing a
good job" in handling the relief prob
lem in the Queen City.
Cincinnati has its own distinctive
relief program, equaled nowhere else
in the United States. It's relief work
ers get 25 cents an hour, and no rent
money is provided if one member OF
the family is able bodied In spite OF
vigorous protest against this system
voiced by labor through The Chronicle
A. F. of L. organ in Cincinnati, there
are those in high places who would
condone the Sheriff. policy on the
ground that it "saves money"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
Labor Heads To Attend
College OF Preachers

New York City (ILNS) - Several
labor leaders have accepted invitations
to attend the third annual conference
on Capital and Labor, to be held March
$40 at the College of Preachers of
the Protestant Episcopal Church Ac-
ceptances include John P. Frey, presi-
dent, A. F. of L. Metal Trades Depart
ment; Fred Hewitt, editor, Machinists'
Monthly Journal; Elmer E. Milliman,
secretary treasurer, Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employees; Frank
Morrison, secretary-e emeritus, A. F. of
L.; Myles S. Warfeld, president, Or
der of Sleeping Car Conductors;
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
(By Ohio Labor Meas Service)


Columbus, Ohio. - Two important
decisions handed down by the Ohio
Supreme Court last week will serve
as a stimulus to Ohio's building in
dustry. One removes the last barrier
to Cincinnati's $13,510000 housing
program, while the other relieves the
legal log jam in the states ten-mil-
lion-dollar institutional building pro-
gram.
By four-t three decision the court
authorized writ of mandamus to is
sue compelling City Manager c. O.
Sheriff., of Cincinnati, to carry out a
contract with the Federal Housing
Authority, approved by City Council,
for the Winton Terrace and English
Woods housing projects. Sheriff. had
refused to sign the contract and had
attacked the constitutionality of the
Ohio Housing Act and the validity of
the Cincinnati contract authorized by
Council.
In sweeping opinion, four judges,
Chief Justice Carl " Weygandt, Ar
thur H. Day, Charles B. Zimmerman
and Roy H. Williams, sustained the
Housing Authority, while Judge E. S.
Matthias, William Hart and George
Myers joined in dissenting opinion.
n woo not n pae+icap decision T,,doac
Day and Williams, who voted for the
majority opinion, are Republicans
while Judge Myers, who voted with
the dissenters, is a Democrat
The minority contended that the
setting apart of slum clearance areas
in cities removed these districts from
municipal and state control and turned
them over to the federal government,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08
Labor's Purchasing Power
[. M. Ornburn's Radio Topic

Washington, D. G. (1LNS). = On
Monday, March II, l. M. Ornburn,
secretary treasurer, Union Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor, will speak on
"Labor's Purchasing Power" over the
National Broadcasting Company's
Blue network from $50 to GAS p. M,
E. S. T.
The Union Label Trades Depart
ment urges all members of organized
labor and their friends to listen in on
this broadcast If possible, read this
announcement to all labor meetings,
the department asks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-08

James A. Wilson, International Labor
Office; Giles B. Courtney, secretary
treasurer, Virginia Carolinas Typo
graphical Conference.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
and Spanish Will
Sign Vast Trade Treaty

ceutical products, books and news
papers from continental France.
The pact, reached in long confer
ences between Count Casa Rojas,
the Spanish foreign ministry's direc-
tor of political affairs, and Herve
Alphand, Frencl, director of foreign
trade, will be signed formally Tues
day.
A pact along similar lines between
Spain and Great Britain was ex-
pected shortly.
A British commission, like the
French, has been here for several
months discussing terms.
A hint that Frances purchases
largely would be for wartime needs
was contained in the announcement
of the nature Of the Spanish ex-
ports.
The statement also said that the
agreement inaugurated permanent
collaborati6ns' between the two gov
ernments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
IRA Gates, AZ,
dies in AUTO
Florida Editor Was Once
Associated With News
papers Here

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 13-LR- Ira
F. Gates, At, Bradenton newspaper
man, died of a heart attack at the
wheel of his automobile, Southbound
from Tampa, tonight as it rounded
a curve south of Ruskin and col.
lided with another car.
County Traffic Officer I. ]. Diaz at.
tributed the death to the heart at.
tack, saying there were no bruises
on the body and apparently no in
ternal injuries.
Gates was a native of North Caro-
lima and had worked on newspapers
in Greenville, Durham and Wilmil.g g.
ton before coming to Bradenton in
1925 to be managing editor Of the
Bradenton Herald. He held that posi-
ton until 1888, when he became
editor of the Manatee River News
published in Palmetto.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
CAR0LINAS ADMEN
TO GATHER HERE
Raleigh Convention Picks
City As Place Of
Summer Session

The midsummer meeting Of the
Carolinas Advertising Executives
association will be held in Whining
ton next July, the exact dates to be
announced later by officials Of the
organization.
The decision to hold the gathering
in Wilmington was made on the
closing day of the mid-winter session
yesterday in Raleigh. The meeting
was closed as the delegates were en-
tertained at a banquet held by the
Raleigh News and Observer and the
Raleigh Times.
Outstanding speakers during the
session included Col. Leroy Heron,
advertising manager of the Wash
ington Cd. c. Star, and Saxon w.
Holt, Jr., advertising manager of the
d. Fender Stores, of Norfolk.
During yesterdays business meet.
ing, officers were reelected for the
year 1910 as follows:
M. F. Murdaugh, Of the Durham
Herald-Sun, president; N. E. Brown,
Continued on Page Two; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
HARRIS0N'S PLAN
CONSIDERED DEAD
Economy Bloc Now Plans
To Prevent Increasing
Of F.R. Budget

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - Up
Supporters of the Harrison plan to
create a joint congressional budget
making committee conceded today
that it was dead for this session,
but senate economy advocates made
it clear they would wage a vigorous
fight to prevent any increase in
President Ro~osevelt's budget.
Senator Harrison (D-Miss), chair
man of the senate finance commit
tee, proposed creation of d special
| committee of - senators and -
representatives to study President
Roosevelt's spending and tax esti-
mates and make recommendations
to congress.
The senate approved the proposal
unanimously last Wednesday, but
house leaders have indicated antag-
onism to it, c%ontending that regular
house committees already were far
advanced in study of appropriation
needs.
Subsequently, the house appropri-
atoms committee instructed it's sub
committees to hold expenditures
within the Presidents budget esti-
mates.
This action generally was con-
sidered as a counter-proposal to
Harrison's plan, and persons close
to Harrison said today he was con-
WINGED the house would not accept
his proposal. The Mississippian
was represented, too, as having de-
cided against carrying out an ear
lier plan to set up a separate 12-
man senate committee, and to be
hopeful, instead, that the senate
would adopt the same idea as the
house committee and put a ceiling
on spending.
Economy-minded legislators said
that they would make their fight on
the basis of holding spending down
to the $S,4oO, 600, 900 total proposed
by Mr.. Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14

MADRID. Jan. 13.-LR- Conclu-
sion of a new French Spanish trade
agreement, which authorities said
was expected to restore commerce
almost to the 1885 level of two bill
lion francs about s45, 900, 000) was
announced tonight.
The announcement was made, at
a reception at the French embassy
to celebrate successful elimination
of the negotiations started several
months age.
Exact terms of the pact were lack
ing, but it was learned it provides
sterilization of each country's i'm
ports with exports.
France will buy iron, lead, zinc,
mercury and pyrite. Spain will buy
French wheat and phosphate from
North Africa, rice from Indo-China,
and automobiles, chemicals, pharma-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
10 NURSES HERE
GRANTED LICENSE
James Walker Grads Pass
State Examinations;
246 Licensed


RALEIGH, Jan. 13-R-Licenses
to practice nursing in North Caro-
lima will be issued to 246 of the 1927
applicants who took examinations
here November $40, Miss Bessie M.
Chapman, secretary of the North
Carolina board of nurse examiners,
announced today.
The board also granted registra-
ton, by reciprocity, to 81 nurses
who We're registered in ether states
Miss Chapman said.
Highest grades in the examina'
ton were made by Mildred N. Stall
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
THREE KILLED, 20 HURT
Russian Radios Threaten
Finnish Capital With
Destruction
OTHER CITIES ARE HIT
By WADE WERNER

HELSINKI, Jan. 49,
(AP) - Russian bombs fell
close to the United States
legation in suburban Gran
kulla today when Red army
warplanes engaged in their
first raid of 1910 on Hell
sinki.
The Grankulla district
where many foreigners took
up temporary residence after
the Soviet invasion, was jolt
ed severely by the detonat-
ing bombs.
Twelve 300-pound bombs
fell in the Espoo district
close by Grankulla, but no
deaths were reported there.
In Helsinki, however,, two
men and one woman were on
a death list made public late
tonight and 20 others, in
Guiding nine women, were re-
ported injured from the 40
bombs rained on the city by
the raiders.
Finnish officials said at least 400
Soviet planes, the same number
that participated in far-ranging
attacks yesterday, took part in to-
days raids throughout Finland.
Helsinki escaped yesterdays
raids, but this a a perfect bomb
ing day, with high clouds which
permitted the Soviet filters to dis
appear at will and dodge defensive
fire.
More than 100 bombs were dump
e. on twice-raided Hyvinkaa, rail-
road junction some 80 miles north
of Helsinki. The explosives for the
most part fell wide Of their mark,
causing only one death, injuries
" IL p0lsoLo ollo eoAiio pAopoAey
damage.
Karis, on the Helsinki-Turku
railway, also was raided.
When the sound of the raiding
planes died away Russian broad
casts, apparently emanating from
Moscow, went on the air threaten
ing Helsinki with complete destruc-
ton.
With today's raids, military OBJ
servers drew the conclusion that
the Soviet high command was seiz-
ing every opportunity in favorable
bombing weather to strike terror
into Finland's civilian population to
offset failures on the warfront.
The Finnish high command in a
communique said more than 400
Russian airplanes participated in
yesterdays attack but that
damage was relatively slight. Only
two persons were reported killed
and ten wounded.
In Southwest Area
The raids were directed chiefly
against southwest Finland and
FIJI nish Notifications on the Kare-
liam isthmus.
An enemy attack on Aittajoki,
on the eastern front north of Lake
Ladoga, was repealed. Finnish
troops on all fronts destroyed u
Russian tanks and three armored
cars, the communique added.
Swedish and other Scandinavian
correspondents in the field report
NOntinued nm PAGE Three: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
% MINERS DIED
INBARTLEY BLAST
All Hope Abandoned For
Others AS 51st Body
Is Brought Up

hartley, w. Va, Jan. 13.-R
The silent, saddened survivors of 81
men known dead or given up fol
dead today received the last pay en-
velopes of the victims of the nations
worst mine disaster in more than q
decade.
The go lost their lives last Wed
nesday when an explosion roared
through the branching tunnels of
the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal
corporations No. 1 BARLEY mine be-
meath this village deep in the rich
West Virginia bituminous belt.
The pay checks were distributed
as some of the 81 bodies recovered
were brought to the surface by grim
faced, exhausted rescue workers,
who have .labored four nights and
three days in the dangerous gas
filled depths.
Company officials said % bodies
had been brought up today and TAX
en- in ambulances to emergency
morgues at Jaeger, IL miles away,
and WEIGH, 20 miles. Families of
the victims remained in their homes,
where company officials advised
them concerning funeral plans.
Bodies of the remaining victims,
it was believed, would be found in
the Main Six heading, one of the
many work sections branching off
from the main tunnel. A hosting
gear continued bringing up bodies
tonight.
Those not killed in their tracks
by the explosion died of deadly
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
City:s Fire Losses Cut
Under ooperAndC Groom

The annual fire loss in Whining
ton for the past three years has
been running less than one-fifth of
the yearly fire loss for the preced-
ing f%our-year period. =.
The reduction in fire loss in the
city to the lowest in the history
Of the fire department during the
past three years has resulted since
Themes E. Cooper became mayor
and commissioner of public safety
and. J. Ludie Groom became fire
chief in 1887. = ~
For the third consecutive year
since Fire Chief Groom took charge
Of the department and Mayor Coop
er inaugurated his modernization
program for the. department, the
city's yearly fire losses have drop
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
S. Embassy Escapes
AS Planes Drop More
Bombs Upon Helsinki
|FLAY FOREIGN PRESS
Nazi Reorganization Talk
Draws Angry Answer
From Soviet Army
CLAIM Firms BEATEN

MOSCOW, Jan. 13.-(AP)
The Soviet Russian army
command declared tonight
that animal fear before the
prospect of a military bloc
between Germany and the U.
S. S. R." had inspired what
it described as foreign re-
ports that German military
instructors were reorganiz-
ing the Red army. It said the
report was a "stupid, extra
ordinary lie."
The long statement assert
ed also that only 900 Rus
sian soldiers had lost their
lives in the Finnish campaign
and these casualties were
due to the sudden cold which
set in, rather than to the
action of Finnish troops"
On the other hand, the
war review issued by the
Leningrad area militia airy
headquarters through lass,
lofficial Soviet news agency.
declared Finnish troops have
lost not less than 1000 killed
and wounded.
Brutal Films"
1t declared, further hal foreign
gossipers carefully pass in silence''
the fact that members of the Fin
nish Schultz corps brutally killed
their wounded" so they could not
talk to Russians who might capture
them.
To the night communique telling
of bombings of some railway june
tons and military detectives" was
added the review of the second
three-weeks period of hostilities in
Finland" This insisted hat in hat
period nc substantial changes took
place at the front"
The review included a vehement
condemnation of fabrication and
slanderous inventions regarding the
Soviet troops" by the foreign press.
The statement said that foreign
agencies had alleged that in the
Suomussalmi sector in middle Fin.
land the 44th Soviet division lost
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
F. R. Presses
Finn Aid
Plans

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-R
- Assurances came from the
White House today that the
question of possible financial
aid to Finland would be thresh-
ed out on Monday when Presi-
dent Roosevelt cOnfers with
democratic congressional lead
ers.
At the same time, there we're
reports OH Capitol Hill that the
treasury would advise that from
the purely fiscal standpoint,
there were nc objections tc a
loan. The opinion of Secretary
Morgenthau and of Jesse Jones,
federal loan administrator. have
been asked by the senate bank.
ing committee.
The White House made known
that Mr.. Roosevelt would sick
to clarity the Finnish question
after noting reports of some
differences of opinion over
whether the executive or the
congress should take the initia-
tive.
Mr.. Roosevelt said yesterday
that he had asked congressional
leaders to work out the problem
on a non-partisan basis. Several
of the leaders promptly ex-
Continued on Page Two; Col. ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
Cabinet
Quits Over
J.. S. Treaty
Former Premier Konove Is
Urged To Take Over;
He Refuses
REDS AIDING CHINESE
Movement OF Supplies Is
Continuing By Trucks,
Rail And Camels

TOKYO, Jan. 14.-(Sunday)-R
The japanese cabinet Of Premier
General Nobuyuki Abe resigned to
day, and it was reported reliably but
unofficially that the war minister
Shunroku Hata, would be the new
premier.
Abe's resignation was connected
closely with relations between Japan
and the United States.
konoye Refuses Bid
The prospect that Hata would be
premier ros after japanese army
and governmental leaders, including
Abe and the war minister himself,
apparently had failed to prevail
upon Prince Fumimaro Konoye, for.
mer premier and now president OF
the privy council, to head the gov
eminent again.
Previously General Hata had de.
clared his ineligibility because of
tradition against active army men
taking office.
Japan's 37th cabinet collapsed
after a stormy four and a half
months of life. Observers said the
main reason was the nations dissat-
isfaction with what was regarded
as the governments failure to i'm.
prove relations with the United
States.
Despite the cabinets announce
ment that the Yangtze river would
be opened to third power trade and
the settlement of numerous bombing
cases. leaders charged that Abe had
failed to placate the United States.
of
the Associated Press)-Unchecked
by Moscow's involvement in Europe,
Russian supplies are moving by rail,
motor truck and camel caravan
across the deserts and plateaus of
Central Asia into China.
The roads of remote Sinkiang
province, the fabulous Turkestan
of merieval %chroniclers and geo.
have been connected with
Chinese-built highways in Shensi
and Kansu provinces to form the
great northwest route, over which
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
252ND REGIMENT
TAKES TO FIELD
National Guard Encamps
On River Road, South.
OF Wilmington

Seeking to increase the efficiency
of the reserve forces of the United
States, the army has ordered all
national guard units to take a
week of field training.
At the present time the 252nd
c. A, N. C. N. G., regiment, less
the first and second provisional
battalions, is encamped about five
miles south of the city on the
river road which runs south from
the oil terminals at Sunset Park.
Here the men are going through
practice warfare. Tents r pitched
and camp is set up as it would be
in time of war. Guns are placed on
base line and gun problems are
figured out. The only thing which
differs from real warfare is there
is an absence of the booming of
guns and the screaming of shells.
Past experience has shown the
men know how to place the p%rojec-
tiles in the gun and to back them
up with powder bags. Therefore
this is eliminated from the field
training, but all else is carried out
on schedule. Communications lines
are strung, firing. problems are
worked out, camp routine is main
tanned.
An interested spectator at the
field training camp is Brigadier-
General J. Van B. Nets, adjutant
general of North Carolina.
The troops composing the con
tingent in the field camp are the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
AirSC0utS
Fly Across
Nazi Nation
London Claims Warplanes
Dropped Leaflets At
Vienna, Prague
NAzI PLANE DOWNED
Belgian Soldiers Ordered
To Rejoin Units As
Defense Measure

LONDON, Jan. 13-R-Britain's
air force answered persistent Garman
reconnaissance flights and attacks
on shipping with "the greatest sur.
yev flight" of the war during the
night and today.
Both sides appeared to be setting
the stage for future aerial on
s%laughts.
Fifth Day In Row.
As German planes lodged along
the east coast of England for the
fifth successive day, the air ministry
announced that British aircraft had
made mass scouting flights ovet
Austria and Bohemia dropping prop
Uganda leaflets in the vicinity of
Vienna and Prague and reconnoiter.
ing extensively in eastern Germany.
1t was the first time in the war
that British planes had been report
ed over the newly annexed parts of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14

ped to less than one-fifth of the
average fire loss for the preceding
four year period.
The record low in insured and
uninsured fire losses in the city
during the last three years is at
tributed largely to the efficient
supervision of the department by
Fire Chief Groom and the provi-
sion for modernized equipment and
facilities made possible through the
efforts of Mayor Cooper.
The city's fire department has
been provided with an up-to-the-
minute vocal fire alarm system,
needed additional fire fighting
equipment for the firemen, includ-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
Announcement

To facilitate the prepare
ton of social reports for The
Sunday Star-News editions,
the deadline for delivery Of
such items to the newspapers
will, effective this week, be
moved up from 6 p. m. to 3
p. m. Saturday afternoon.
This change is made in the
interest of a better prepara-
ton of society items.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-14
CIVIC RETIREMENT
PROPOSALS MADE
Many Suggestions Received
In Contest To Draft
Project Schedule

Although many have been receive
ed, all readers of the Star-News hav.
ing suggestions for the newspapers
program Of projects for the benefit
of Wilmington and southeastern
North Carolina have been invited to
submit them and compete for the
cash prizes being offered.
The contest is being conducted to
learn what projects, in the opinion
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