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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
TRACKS TO BEACH
WILL Be REMOVED
TWP Sells 1900 Tons Of
Scrap Iron To Shapiro;
Starts Monday

Officials of the Tide Water Pow
er company yesterday announced the
sale Of their old Wrightsville Beach
cars and tracks to j. Shapiro, agent
Tor the Standard Iron and Metal
company, of Baltimore Md.
The amount of the purchase price
was not disclosed.
Power company officials said the
sale involved about 1900 tons of
scrap iron from the old rails and
not Including the scrap iron and
metal to be taken from the old beach
cars.
Work Of taking up the 16 miles
u rails on the single track from
me city limits to both ends of
NIlghtsville Beach will be started
0h Monday by Shapiro.
rover company officials said Sha-
pro had already started the work
oF "recking and removing the scrap
iron and metal from the six old
beach cars.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
DOCUMENTS' SHOW
Nazis Seek To Show In
vasion By British Was
Already Under Way
SAYS STATESMEN LIED
BY LYNN

BERLIN, April 27.-(P)-
Adolf Hitler, in a charac-
teristic stroke of lightning
diplomacy executed in the
resplendent setting of the
seat of Nazi state, sought
today to Justify his Scandi-
navian invasion to the world
with alleged secret war
guilt" documents attributed
to Britain and Norway, de-
clared the Reich at war with
the Morse kingdom and alb
solved Sweden of un-neutral
connivance with the Allies.
Within a few hours of pub
LEGATION a sweeping proclama-
tion from the Fuehrer, dated
Wednesday, proclaiming a
Estate of war between Ger
many and Norway, his for
|eign minister, Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, was telling the
assembled diplomatic corps,
German and foreign press
and high German army, navy
land air officials that Great
Britain and France began on
April 6 and Z to spread the
war to the north and the
German invasion of April 9
merely beat them to the Nor
wegian scene of battle.
From Captured Britons
Producing documents which, he
said, We're taken by the German
army from captured British officers.
from the Oslo foreign office and
from Allied consular and other
sources in Norway, Won Ribbentrop
Continued OH Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
Back
Third Term
Resolution
IN. c, For F. D. r. Group
Wins Governors Back
ing For Move
RESOLUTION DRAFTED
States rs Votes Virtually
Assured For F. R. If
He Wants Them

RALEIGH. April 27.-(P)-A COM
promise agreement virtually assur-
ING President Roosevelt of North
Cardinals 26 votes in the national
democratic convention - providing
his name is before the convention
was effected today by Governor
Hoey ana leaders of the North Car,
Dina for Roosevelt movement.
The advisory committee of the
movement. IN a meeting here today,
adopted a resolution urging the state
democratic convention to instruct
North Carolina delegates to the ma
tIonaI convention to vote for Mr..
Roosevelt, if his name is presented,
'until he is nominated or until his
name is withdrawn from the ballot
ing"
Meets My Approval
Governor Hoey, who recently is
sued a statement asserting that he
favored the candidacy of Cordell
HUI, said tonight the resolution
meets my approval and I will sup
port Its adoption at the state con-
yentiCn.'
Since the combined leadership of
the Hoey administration and the
North Carolina for Roosevelt"
movement represents almost all the
prominent democratic spokesman in
North Carolina, observers here ex-
pressed confidence that the state was
in the bag" for the President.
The North Carolina for Roose-
Welt advisory committee voted
unanimously to establish an organi-
zation in every county, and the 70
members present said reports from
all sections of the state indicated
that the people We're backing the
movement.
The Governor made it plain that
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28

act, Goodwin leaps from a plane
at 10000 feet supported only by a
set of canvas wings designed after
those of a bat. With these he
scars about in the air, opening a
parachute within a few hundred
feet of the ground to break his 80
mile-an-hour fall.
Tickets to the show were placed
on sale in downtown stores yes
terday afternoon and will be avail
able at the Red Cross sanatorium
railroad crossing and at the inter
section at the east end of the field
this afternoon.
Another feature of the program
before held in Wilmington
will be a plene-to-ground two-way
broadcast. Through transmitters
and receivers on the ground and
in the plane Goodwin will carry on
a conversation with an
on the field just prior to his bat
wing jump.
The conversation will be carried
to the crowds through a public
address system.
Before and after the show, planes
Continued OF Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
Naziis Move
Ahead so
Miles

STOCKHOLM, April 20. -
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. receiv-
ed here from Oslo early today
said the Fornebu airport had
been badly damaged by British
bombers and that all workers i'm
the community had been ordered
out to repair and enlarge the
field, which already had been
found too small for heavy Ger
man transport planes.
STOCKHOLM, April 27.-[R
Adolf Hitler's war machine, adj
vancing steadily along the rocky
roads of central Norway, was
reported tonight to have sped a
mechanical column so miles
over steep mountain trails i'll
an amazing thanking movement
which threatened Allied soldiers
ill two sectors of the front be-
low important T%rondheim.
The fully equipped Nazi mo
tor units, covering the SO miles
in less than "a hours, climbed
the mountains from Tynset,
well south of the advance Ger
man column at Roros, and
thrust northwestward to Kvik-
he and thence to Inset. This
put them about Is miles south
of Allied concentrations at
Storen. And from Storen it is
Continued OH Page Three; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
DANUBE POLICING
OFFER REJECTED
Rumanians And Yugoslavs
Turn Down Proposal
BY Hungarians

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 27,
-F-A Hungarian proposal for
joint policing of the iron gate sec
ton of the Danube by all the Da-
nubian countries received a cold re-
ception in Bucharest and Belgrade
today.
The scheme for international con-
troll of the vulnerable 73-mile
stretch of the Danube, which Ger
many has accused the Allies Of at
tempting to block by dynamiting,
was sent yesterday to Yugoslavia,
Rumania and Bulgaria.
Yu~goslavia and Rumania previous
" refused German offers to police
the section of the river where it
forms their boundary between Mol
davia and Turnu-Sererin. Hungary
expressed willingness to permit Nazi
gunboats to patrol the Danube.
Today Rumania and Yugoslavia
were reported to have turned down
the Hungarian suggestion because
they already have given assurances
of their determination TO prevent
sabotage or shipping delays in their
replies to the German proposal of
April Is.
Both in Bucharest and Belgrade
it was felt the Budapest scheme
would infringe on Rumanian and
Yugoslavian sovereignty as much as
the Nazi policing plan, and since
Germany is Danubian country the
proposal would mean participation
of a ~belligerent in the international
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
HANCOCK TO BACK
DRAFT F. R. DRIVE
He Lines Up Solidly With
IN. e. For Roosevelt
Move In State

REIDSVILLE. April 81 Up -
Frank W. Hancock, Jr., of Oxford,
former U. S. representative, align-
ed himself solidly tonight with the
Draft Roosevelt" forces, by assert
ing that THE people want Roose-
welt"
Speaking here at a rally of Young
Democrats of the fifth congressional
district, Hancock, a member of the
Federal Home Loan Bank board,
said:
"All that his enemies can say
against the Presidents return Is
that it has never been done before.
Continued on Page Two; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
NEGRO IS SOUGHT
FOR ATTACK HERE
J. S. Hale, Waterman, Is
Beaten Over Head And
Pockets Looted

Police were searching this morn
ing for an unidentified negro mar
who brutally attacked J. S. Hale, 81.
night Waterman at the J. Herbert
Bate Lumber company, at about
o'clock last night.
Hale told police he was preparing
to punch his clock at 8 o'clock
when the negro appeared from the
darkness and ordered him to put up
his hands.
The night Waterman said he turn
ed and al and the negro pursued
him, caught him around the throat,
knocked him down and beat him on
the head with his pistol while he
went through his pockets.
Hale suffered severe wounds on
the head as we'll as bruises on the
legs and arns
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
Naziis Claim
New Success
In Sea W ar
British Cruiser Put Out OF
Commission, Another
Damaged Badly
TRANSPORTS FIRED
Bombing Planes Active In
Attempt To Halt Land
ing OF Troops

BERLIN, April 27-GP- German
bombing planes, in extensive forays
over Norwegian waters today, put
one British cruiser out of commits
sion and damaged another, set
afire two British transports and
sank a third, DNB, the German
news agency, reported tonight.
Earlier, the high command issued
a communique claiming the capture
of some 400 British and Norwegian
officers and men during the past
five days campaigning, including
an English staff commander who
was carrying POLITICALLY and mill
tarily important British operations
orders and documents"
First Official Word
This was the first official word
way, kept secret until now for mill
tary reasons.
The cruiser the Germans claimed
to have put out of commission was
attacked off Andalsnes, Allied troop
landing port south of Trondheim.
1t vas said to be carrying anti-air-
craft guns. The other cruiser was
declared hit off Narvik, ore port o
northern Norway which is being
held by a small German force.
One of the transports was said to
be carrying a cargo of 40 tanks.
The high command said the first
encounter between German and
British troops, at Lillehammer April
1928, resulted in the capture of
nearly 200 prisoners, among them
the staff commander, and dispersal
OF the rest of the British force,
which left arms and equipment
behind"
In an engagement near Steink.
jer April %, another English land.
ing detachment" was thrust back
and two of it's officers and so men
taken captive it declared. North Of
Narvik yesterday, German noun
tain troops were reported to have
taken 144 prisoners while routing a
Norwegian battalion.
LONDON, April Of Up The
Netherlands trawler Willy, lat tons
is believed to have been sunk by a
mine 40 miles north of the Dutch is.
Continued OH Page Eight; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
Declares War On Norway
AS His Armies Advance
Toward Main Allied Unit
NAZI CHARGE SCORNED
Capture Of Brigade Staff
Is Officially Denied
By War Office
SNOW SLOWS BATTLES
BY ROBERT

III
LONDON, April 27.-@
The Allies, doggedly cling
ing to a foothold in Norway's
rocky midrift, tonight put
British infantrymen and rug
ged French Alpine "Blue
Devils" with light artillery
and fighting. planes to the
tough task of securing bases
and communications lines for
coming reinforcements before
trying to fan out in a south
ward offensive.
Tentative Thrusts
A neck of tentative thrusts which
saw British and Norwegian COM
mands forged to pull back advance
attachments under h deadly
pounding of German mechanical
forces and bombing planes ended
with the situation resolved into a
llSnClQS race lOi duNdIlldSe III SSll@
trail Norway, in the sector around
German-held Trondheim, west coast
harbor.
With no outward show of pertur'
hation, the British admitted, I'VE
lost the first trick. But the wal
office, today, offset continued re
ports of British inability to pierce
the hard German lines around Trond'
helm with these announcements:
1. The position around Steinkjer
so miles north of Trondheim, where
| early in the week British advance
attachments had to retreat, is "un'
changed and British patrols nov
have captured some" German pris'
oners.
2. Far down the Gudbrandsdalen
valley more than 100 miles below
Trondheim and some 80 miles south
of the Allied concentration point OF
Dombas, the Allies in the kvam
area have driven off a heavy Ger
man attack with considerable en-
envy loss" German pressure at this
Continued on Page Two; Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
Grandi Indicates Italy
May Yet Enter War
IL DUCE HEARS HIM
Another Fascist Chieftain
Hints AT Involvement
In Days To Come
By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

ROME, April 27.-GP-For the
third time in as many days an i'm
portant Fascist leader today limited
at Italy's involvement in the Euro
pean war but failed to indicate If
or when she might abandon her
acknowledgement stand.
Count Dino Grand, president of
the chamber of fasces and guilds,
told the cheering members Of the
chamber that the Fascist empire
is not and knows it is not on the
edge of this conflict of peoples"
Mussolini ListenS
Listening to Grand vas Premier
Mussolini, who also heard addresses
in a similar vein by two other
Fascists, the veteran leader, Fran.
cesco Giunta, and the undersecre-
tary of the interior, Guido Buffa.
rini-Guidi, Thursday and yesterday.
The Grandi address closing the
chamber session was prominently
displayed by the controlled Italian
press.
At the same time the newspapers
published without comment Ger
man Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop's declaration in Berlin
that Germany had proof that Brit
ain had planned to extend the war
to Norway.
The failure of an airplane bring
ing documents from Berlin to ar
rive on schedule caused the Ger
man ambassador, Hans-Georg Won
Mackensen, to call off a press con.
ference. He had invited correspond
ents to receive a statement in con-
/cron+rad nm Dora E;pht. fol w
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
WEATHER

FORECAST
N'ft4 Carolina: Fair Sunday and
poooahI' Monday, slowly rising tenn
south Carolina: Fair to partly cloudy
tt arnray and Monday, slowly rising
chronological data for the "a hours
- : ':50 ?. m. yesterday.
"a, Temperature
m '@9 a m 80; 7:30 a. IN. so; 100 p.
MIN W, go p. m, So; maximum 81;
"'iI'lom 40; mean So; normal 66.
lam Humidity
m 9 T' d, IN. 81; 7:30 a. m. 81; 1:30 D.
T." 90 $50 p, m. go.
.ro4,, Precipitation
oo la for "A hours endin 7:3O o, M,
2@aa inoReS; total since first of month,
Tides For Today
Wilmington q High a h1w
M~ssonho 2:54p 10:12p
NaS0Hooro Inlet O:29a 6;42a
Sunris, 12:51p 6:55p
rise Su6 6,5ss 5:26a; sunset esp; moon
''loai moonset IL lila.
>N'"''nued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
NORWAY DENIES
NAZI CHARGES
U. S. Legation Says Nation
Sought Only To Pre-
serve Neutrality

WASHINGTON, April 27.-LP--
The Norwegian legation tonight de-
MED Nazi charges that Norway and
Great Britain had an agreement for
the occupation of Norway by Allied
forces prior to the German invasion.
'There has at no time existed any
agreement or understanding between
the Norwegian government and any
other powers" the legations state
ment said, sin regard to cooperation
Of any kind having for it's object the
use of Norwegian territory, military
or naval forces or other facilities in
the present struggle.
"Since the beginning of the pres
ent war and until the recent inva-
sion of her territory by Germans,
Norway has had only one desire,
namely, to maintain her strict neu-
trality at all costs. The incidents
involving the City Of Flint, the Alt
mark and other casts amply proved
this contention"
CHICAGO; April 81 Up The
Norwegian minister to the United
States, Wilhelm Munthe De Mongen-
stierne, said tonight that today's
German white book contained "th
same alibi which Germany used for
the invasion of neutral Belgium in
1914"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28

>V'"'inued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28

LONDON, April Of Up The
Netherlands trawler Willy, lat tons
is believed to have been sunk by a
mine 40 miles north of the Dutch is
Continued OH Page Eight; Col. p
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Fairs Ride Facilities
Increased for 1910

WORLDS FAIR. N. Y. May 25.-
The huge transportation systems on
the grounds at the Worlds Fair of
1910 in New York have been per-
fected and simplified so that this
summers inflow Of guests can travel
comfortably and quickly.
Last seasons successful cavalcade
Of buses, tractor-trainS, motor chairs.
hand-propelled chairs and launches
which served $4,000 900 visitors have
been revamped, enlarged and re-
painted for the 1910 fair, which
opened May II.
There are two new 10-cent bus
routes. one leading directly to the
south entrance of the Great White
Way and another providing a two
way traffic along the Avenue of La
Dor. with station at the New York
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Dance in 6Oth Year

ROCKY MOUNT. N. c., May as
The Goth annual June german, one
OF the Nations oldest annual balls.
Will be held here on June IA this
year. The dance. long a tradition
In North Carolina, begins at HIS
at night and continues until 5:15
am. by which time the sun is
shining. After that, according to
custom. the younger dancers pile
into automobiles and go to the
beach for the week end.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
The Travellers Notebook
California and the West Loom Large in Summer
Vacation Plans; Phrases Useful South Of
The Border, and How to Say Them

One, uno, OO-no: two, dos, dohs:
three. tres, trehs; four. cuatro,
KWAH-troh; five, cinco, SEEN -ko;
six. seis, sais; seven, siete, see-EH-
ten; eight, ocho, OH-cno; nine,
nueve. noo-EH-veh; 10, diez, DEE
chs; 20. veinte, VAIN-teh; 30, trein-
tab; 40, cuarenta, kwah- rem -tah;
so, cincuenta, seen-KWEN- -tah: 100,
Glen, see-EN; 200, doscientos. dahs-
see-EN-tohs; 500, quinientos, kee-
nee-EN-tohs; 1000. mil. meel.
p. S. to Notebook" last week on
President Roosevelt's phrase, "see
the Adirondacks for . dollar:
1t Is next to impossible to list
completely the scenic landmarks
that come into view in slow
motion about-face atop Whiteface
Mountain, but with q compass,
printed on paper, divided into 36
equal divisions and with the traveller
pivoting counter-clockwise from zero
(south). these outstanding points of
interest may be spotted easily:
Between points l and 2 may be
seen the State of Vermont; at 2,
Keene Valley and Giant Mountain,
1852 feet above sea level: at point 3,
Hurricane Mountain, 3687 feet. and
the Green and White Mountains;
at through s, Jay Mountain Range,
$500 to 3,60l feet; at 8, Rocomoon-
shine fire station. 2,162 feet: Lake
Champlain, and the Jay Mountains;
between 9 and 10, Wilmington, Lake
Champlain and the Green and
White Mountains: between II and
II, Lake Champlain, Fern Lake,
Mount Terry, 2,081 feet: between IA
and Is, village of Dannemora and
Dannemora Mountains 2,2l2 feet:
between Is and 16, Silver Lake, Lyon
Mountain, 1910 feet: Montreal and
Mount Royal, Chazy Lake; between
16 and II, Union Falls; at II,
Chateaugay, Standish and Lower
Saranac River, between II and point
18 18 is due north) Saranac River
flow.
Between 10 and 20 (swinging to-
ward the west). Loon Lake, Gold
smith Range, 1,400 to 2,400 feet:
between 20 and 81, Loon Lake
Mountain. 1855; De Bar Mountain,
3.305. and New York State Game
Preserve: point 81, village Of Ver-
montsville; at o. Rainbow Lake:
between % and "a. villages of Bloom
lngdale and Gabriels, st. Regis
Lakes. Osgood Pond; between "a
and Is, st. Regis Mountain. 1882.
and st. Regis Lakes; at Is, Lake
Clear and St. Regis Mountain: be-
tween Is and Is, Upper Saranac
Lake: between q (due west) and 28
Middle Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake.
AT %, Oseetah Lake or Miller
Pond. Stoney Creek Mountain. 2,800,
ana Mount Morris. 3,163: between
28 and %, Ampersand Mountain
1882: at 20, Lake Placid and Hawk
Moose and Buck Islands; between
80 and 81, village of Lake Placid
and Mirror Lake; at 80, John Brown
Farm, Long Pond. Connery Pond.
Little and Big Cherry Ponds, Indian
Pass, Wall Face Mountain. $500:
between 80 and SO, Mount McIntyre
1875; at 80. Mount Golden, 4,713,
and Avalanche Pass; at "a, Mount
Marcy. 5.344, and Haystack Noun
tain, 1918: between "a and s.
Saddle Back Mountain, 1880; at as
Gothic Mountains, 4,738; between
50 and 0 70 is due south, the starting
poln0. Nipple Top Mountain, I, $40,
and Mount Dix, 4,s42.
Evening star., 1940-05-26

The fare Is Is cents for adults and
Is cents for children. The musical
horns Of these trains again play q
musical phrase. but the phrase is
longer than that Of last year.
From the boat landing along the
Great White Way launches operate
on Liberty Lake to and from both
the south entrance 'of the Great
White Way and the Florida Build
ing. In addition to this ferry serv-
ice, which is 10 cents, there is 4 35-
cent sightseeing tour on the lake.
Pedal boats in new and gayer COL
ors are on hand egain for Liberty
Lake pleasure seekers. The price
Is Is cents per person for a 20
minute ride. A shuttle service from
all automobile parking fields to fair
entrance gates is operated by Grey
hound at S cents per passenger.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
State Building on the Great White

State Building on the Great White
Way.
There is a new launch landing on
Liberty Lake to accommodate Wis
itors to the Great White Way and
transportation to the Florida Build
ing is facilitated by new arrange
ments for both bus and launch traf-
fic
New bus stations are located at
the Florida Building, Avenue of La
Dor, Court of Peace, Electrified Farm
and the South Gate. The stations
at the Independent Subway en-
trance and the New York State
Building are enlarged.
Greyhound has 100 buses and 20
tractor-trains in operation for the
1910 fair.
There operate over the seven To-
cent routes which checkerboard the
fair and have 38 stations, over sight
seeing tours which take about As
minutes. and over sightseeing tours
which are shorter.
The numbers on the l0-cent bus
routes are the same as those OF
Evening star., 1940-05-26

last year. except for the two new
routes. This is for convenience of
the visitors who were familiar with
last years system. Buses marked
with even numbers circle the grounds
clockwise, while those with odd
numbers travel counter -clockwise.
Markings in addition to the num-
bers will show the destination of
buses.
The three-quarter-hour sightsee-
ing tour costs so cents and buses
start from seven different points on
the fair grounds. Tractor trains
leisurely traverse the grounds over
a total route OF about seven miles.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
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worries about where to 60 what to how to get
the most for your vacation money. Simply tell us when
Evening star., 1940-12-09
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Evening star., 1940-12-09
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