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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

1t is perhaps just as well that
President Roosevelt didn't send H.
R. Cromwell in place of Mr.. Welles
to Europe to discover a way for
peace. Mr.. Cromwell isn't well
enough schooled in the language of
diplomacy to refrain from express
ing his true convictions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

The time is coming when the
registration of finger prints of every
citizen will be required. It is the
best Identification known and about
the only Identification about which
a question of some kind cannot be
raised.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

A local Democrat in commenting
on the vote in congress on the
Hatch bill, said yesterday, that the
Republicans shouldn't be given too
much credit for voting for a law to
keep all the Democratic jobholders
out of politics.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

If at the close of the World war
Germany had been treated by the
vlctors as Germany has treated Po-
land the present war would not have
happened. There are many who
believe that the armistice was pre-
maturely declared.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

While some question Secretary
HulPs trade agreements, no one
questions his honesty and his sin
certify. Secretary Hull at no time
has trimmed his actions to the yard
stock Of political expediency.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

We'd like to know what Confucius
would say about some of these say
ings so freely imputed to his veneer
able self.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04
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TEN YEARS AGO-193O
The Richland bank closed its
doors upon order Of the board of di-
rectorS. F.
The. grade school baseball team
finished their first season by win
ming all four games. Some of the
players were Walt MECHANISM, Bill
Hembree, Jack O'Neil, Leroy Mad
dox. Lester Brown, Bill Graves and
Harold LEM. a,.s T.. ..-. ..........
The city was then engaged in
working on the continuation of
Fruitland street in the Garden
Tracts. A discussion of the city,s
street lighting system was held by
the council.
Immediate action was being dis
cussed toward putting the Highland
pumping plant and was assured by
the federal reclamation board, who
had a representative at a recent
meeting in Kennewick.
There had been $1346 in cash and
pledges turned in so far to the COM
munity chest campaign fund.
T.. S. Mcdonald, who had spent
several days in the Pasco hospital
recovering from injuries in recent
accident, was home. Il"
A. T. Belair had installed a neon
sign for his bakery.
Miss Leone Skeen had accepted a
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

There are few things that create
q greater feeling of relief than to
get the feeling that the family bus
has a flat tire and to discover, on
getting out and making tour of in
spection, that all four tires are up.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

Among the things we should be
thankful for in this country, To-
cal man said yesterday, is that the
Lord made the Atlantic ocean as
wide and as deep as he did.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

AL that can be said bo.,
In admiration for the PiS S peen ssh
respect for their courage s and b
10 Olay Otheim. accordns
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

One of the grestest of truths is
the simple homely truth that no
really smart person will live beyond
his means or buy things that he
cannot afford. There is always a
pay day, and pay day worry has a
way of taking all the joy out of the
pleasures that one cannot afford.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04
Tnarsaay: April 1. ~,

Hitler says God is on ,,,,
Stain says there is nns s Side an.
thinks Rev. Croft, Got'
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

position with the Three River.
Growers association,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

at doesn't prove anything when
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

"It's the certainty of death and
taXes-and license tags" says Cliff
Turner.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-04-04

meantime file an income tax report
that tells 1t all"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
SIX PERSONS Die
in PLANE CRASH
Craft Becomes Tangled In
Shrouds OF Stunt Mans
Parachute In Arkansas

MARIANNA. Ark. Oct. 20.-P
Six persons were killed near here
today as a sightseeing plane be.
came tangled in the shrouds of a
stunt mans parachute and plunged
500 feet to the earth.
The plane had gone aloft carry.
ing the pilot and four passengers
to get close up of the parachute
Jump, when the shrouds caught
the wing, causing the pilot to lose
control.
Sheriff S. C. Langston said the
dead were:
Paul Nalejawa, about 80, o1
Browerville, Mimi, the parachute
jumper.
George Zorn, the pilot, about 30
of Greenville, Miss.
Lawrence De Marke, about 80, a
Mariana laundry owner, passen'
ger.
Paul Bowie, about IS, a passen'
ger, former marshal at Brickeys.
J. M. Cook, about 55, a pas
senger, plantation owner VINO
lived near Mariana.
Joe Campbell, about u, OF For
rest City, a passenger.
L, J. Dupuy, a Mariana photo
grapher who witnessed the accl-
dent, declared that Nalejawa
Jumped from plane piloted by
Dick Robertson at an altitude Of
about 5000 feet and that Zorn' S
plane, carrying passengers taken
aloft OF get close view OF the
stunt, began slowly circling the
descending parachute.
"All of a sudden" said Dupuy'
"a wing of the plane became tangl,
ed in the parachute about 500 feet
above the ground. The parachute
jumper was tossed across the
plane and was dangling helplessly
from the side of the machine as
it crashed to earth. Everyone in
the accident was killed instantly" ="
Although the air show, held at a
private field, was billed as "Ace
Continued on Page Three: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
TROJAN HORSES
LISTED BY DIES
Says Reds Have Obtained
Tremendous Influence
In u. S. Government

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-(R-Rep.
Martin Dies, Texas democrat, re-
viewing in book published today
the two-year investigation of his
committee on un-American activi.
ties, charged that the communist
party had obtained tremendous
patronage and influence in our fed
eral government.
"When we reflect" he comment.
ed, that the communist party is
nothing more nor ,less than a for
Feign-controlled conspiracy aimed at
the destruction of our form of
government, the story Of Stains
infiltration into official Washing
ton must be viewed in it's true
light as one of the major political
scandals of American history"
Dies charged in the book, "The
Trojan Horse in America" Dodd,
Mead & Co., New York;, that Com
munist Trojan horses"
tions which he said always denied
communist control-had been set up
to Ibid" for American youth, for
the unemployed, for negroes, and
had penetrated labor unions and
government itself.
He said that s'Trojan horse"
groups often invited distinguished
American citizens to address them
Continued on Page Three: Col, g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
British Guns,
Planes Attack
French Coast
Raj Believed To Have
Dropped $4,000 Bombs
On Invasion Ports
LONDON BED
Southwest England, Liver
pool Area And Important
Midlands Raided

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-(R)-Britain'
bombers and big guns joined tonight
in a furious bombardment of Nazi
springboards of invasion across the
channel as mild weather and calm
sea kept alive the peril of German
attack.
Judging from the ear-splitting
blasts and the brilliant flashes from
across the hazy waters, observers
were convinced that not only war.
planes but also warships and land
batteries were hammering at the
sGerman-held coast.
100 A Minute
IAN avalanche of bombs was un-
loosed by British raiders at a rate
estimated by watchers on the Kent
coast to be 100 a minute" the au.
Ithoritative British press association
[reported.
rThae unbroken: rumble OF terrific
explosions reverberated up and down
the channel like thunder"
The RAF' must have dropped at
least $4,000 bombs on channel "in
vasion ports" between and 9:3C
p. m. Il and $3.50 p. m, E. S. T.),
the agency said.
Clusters of parachutes dropped by
the bombers burned brightly above
the dense gray mist covering the
sea. Flaming, multi-colored anti-air
craft shells shot up so thickly that
the sky appeared sprinkled with
tinsel.
Crowds on the English shore ig
nored the danger to come out and
watch the spectacular battle al
though the firing was so intense il
ratified dishes on this side.
Bomb Guns
The terrific bombardment began
just after dusk and apparently was
centered against German heavy can.
non emplacements near Cape Girls
Nez.
Earlier the admiralty reported a
successful stab far above the Arctic
Circle by the Royal navy's torpedo
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
IS FULL RESTITUTION
Twenty Eight Division
Roadmasters On Line Will
Direct The Payments
N. e. GETS BIG PART
More Than 1884 Will Go
To Employees In The VIII
mington District

ATLANTA, Oct. 2O.-R)-The re.
gional office here of the federal
Wage-Hour division said today that
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad
would start the job of distributing
$3.50, 900 in back pay to 6,469 main.
tenance-of way employees tomorrow.
This amount. the announcement
stated, is the difference between the
wages the company paid the en-
ployes from October "a, 1888, to May
81, 1910, and the wages that should
have been paid under the fair labor
standards act.
The railroad, which operates in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
agreed to make full restitution"
after court action had been taken by
the federal agency and employees, the
regional office said.
Twenty-eight division roadmasters
of the line will direct the payments.
Their paymasters will make trek
totalling some 5000 miles to take
the money to employees on various
lines.
Distribution of the money is sched-
uled to be completed by the latter
part of next week.
Among the cities from which $4,000
to more than $1,000 will be paid out
to various employees are Petersburg,
Va.,; Rocky Mount, Parmele, Fay
etteville and Wilmington, all in
North Carolina; Charleston, s. c.;
Savannah, Ca; Troy, Ala, and
Perry, Jacksonville, Sanford, Lees
burg, Dunnellon, Trilby, Tampa,
Lakeland and Palmdale, all in
Florida.
Less than $4,000 but more than
$4,000 will be distributed from Dill
Ion, Florence, Sumter and Orange
burg, all in South Carolina; Jesup,
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
2 CONVOYS ATTACKED
Commander Prien Credited
With Bagging Eight Mer-
chantmen During Drive

BERLIN, Oct. 20-RHA power
full new submarine offensive un-
leashed by the German admiralty
against British shipping and con.
voys was reported by the high
command today to have raised a
two-day total of sunken merchant
men to $4,000 tons.
Forty-three ships, said the high
command. were shot out OF two
conveys in two night devastating
mdersea activity.
British naval sources said "the
Germans make these claims to an
noy lis. We ignore them.~
Prien Gets Eight
The communique stressed sue
cess particularly against Britain's
warship-protected conveys and
credited Lieut.. Comm. Guenther
Prien alone with bagging eight
merchantmen totalling 50,5O tons.
In all, it said, II merchant ships,
totalling 10000 tons are known so
far to have been sent to the bottom
in an attack yesterday in which
Prien's U-boat took part.
OF 81 British ships reported sunk
in the communique day earlier,
26 were said to have been sunk by
submarines stalking through the
shield of warships shepherding zig
gag lines of British merchantmen.
(These reported figures dwarf
even April, 1917, the darkest month
of the World war for Britain at
sea, when 1876 ships of almost 6OO,-
0OC tons total were sunk in 80 days.
Gn two days, the Germans have
reported sinking more than 10
times as many tons as the British
acknowledged in the whole week
ending Oct. 6, the British admir-
alty's latest tabulation. In that
week, it said t'enemy action"
sank ten merchantmen totalling
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Cooper Will Cooperate
In n. c.. Progress Plan

Commanding the ten years of
progress campaign for North
Carolina launched at meeting in
Raleigh last Friday, Mayor
Thomas E. Cooper last night pledg-
ed his cooperation in seeing that
the movement receives the fullest
cooperation in Wilmington.
Mayor Cooper pointed out that
the plan calls for the appointment
in each of the. states counties of
committees for seventeen individ-
ual lines of advancement. He said
he was certain able committees
would be selected for this COM
nunity. @
The decade of progress" move
ment was launched under til
auspices of the Southern Cover
,nors' conference. and last Fridays
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Rumanian Oil.
AreasPrepare|
For Air Raids
Newspaper Publishes Ru-
NOR That Russian-Turkish
Army Talks Under Way
new FORTS ERECTED
100000 Turkish Troops In
Area Guarding Strategic
Dardanelles

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 90
Ip-published reports of increas-
ing Turkish military preparations
on the Dardanelles and blackout
and air raid precautions in Ru-
manian oil districts and Bucharest
tonight added fresh fuel to an un-
easy spirit sweeping southeast
Europe.
The Budapest newspaper Magyar
Nemzet published a rumor that
Soviet Russian-Turkish military
talks were under way at Adrian
ope. the. Turkish city which occu-
pies a vital corner between the
Bulgarian and Greek frontiers.
Athens reports said travellers
from Turkey found railway lines to
Adrianople jammed w i tn troop
trains. and an estimated 100000
Turkish troops already in the area
guarding the strategic Dardanelles.
Build New Forts
The Turks were SAID also 10 De
busy with new Notifications, and
also to be constructing new COM
munication facilities between lstan-
bul and Salonika, the Greek port
which sometimes is called the ''key
to the Balkans"
There was no complete confir-
nation of these reports, but it was
generally accepted by observers
that the Turks were busily push
ing their defense measures on the
European side of the Dardenelles.
On the other hand, Bulgaria, or
dinarily quickly responsive to
Turkish moves in the region OF
Adrianople, showed no signs of mo-
bilization despite reported AXIS
pressure.
Greece, likewise, displayed no
unusual alarm, although she was
thoroughly on the alert.
Neutral travellers arriving at
Budapest from Bucharest said pas
Continued OH Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
SNOW CAUSES DEATHS
Snowdrifts Maroon $50
Automobiles In Blue Ridge
Mountains OF Virginia
by The Associated Press

The northeast states shivered
again yesterday on the second day
Of a premature cold wave and
counted five auto deaths caused
by snow, while the midwest en-.
joyed normal weather and the
south basked in sub-tropical con.
ditions under cloudless skies.
Snow in New Jersey, which led
to the deaths of four motorists
Saturday when their car skidded
at Fort Dix, also caused the death
Sunday of a Rutgers university
senior as his auto overturned in a
fresh fall.
Snow In Mountains
Although the southeast report.
ed "all clear and balmy" snow
drifts from Saturday marooned $50
automobiles in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia. Most Of the
cars were carrying football fans
from the Virginia-VMI game to
their homes.
Eastern Pennsylvania dug itself
out of the heaviest October snow
fall in history, Philadelphia re-
cording 20 inches and Reading one
inch, while Pittsburghers' teeth
chartered in 25-degree tempera-
ture.
The national capital had an inch
of snow, and ice damaged trees
and shrubbery.
Upper Morris county in New Jer-
sey suffered a severe snowstorm
that covered roofs, shrubbery and
roads in a blanket of white that
was frozen for time by 26-degree
weather that later modified.
New York City saw the mercury
hit a new record low for the Sec
ond successive day as it dropped to
"a degrees at 12:45 a. M, EST,
with slightly warmer weather fore
cast for Monday.
Meanwhile, from Georgia to
Louisiana temperatures ranged in
the high seventies, and at Jackson
vile, Fla.,E white linens were in
order as the thermometer touched
IS degrees.
Clear skies and blazing sun bless
ed Iowa and neighboring states
with conditions approximating that
at Jacksonville. The temperature
to 80 degrees at Sioux City,
Ia., and at Des Moines to 73 de.
grees, six above normal for the
date.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
Italy Levels Heavier Propaganda Guns
AtGreece, Turkey; Duce Views Troops

ROME, Oct. Ominous
Balkan rumblings and reports Of
Russian Turkish military prepara-
tions found Premier Benito Mus
solini inspecting his troops near
the Yugoslav border today while
Virginio Gayda, authoritative Fas-
cist editor, leveled heavier pro-
paganda guns at Greece and Tur-
key.
This is Mussolini's second in
spection of Italy's northern forces
in recent weeks. He spent five
days recently with his army OF
the Po in maneuvers around
Padua.
The duce landed his own tri-
motored plane at the airfield OF
Ronchi del Legionari, the town to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

which he was brought for treat
ment at a military hospital during
the World war when he was injur-
ed by the accidental explosion OF
a trench mortar. It was from this
town that Gabriel d'Annunzio
marched to occupy Fiume.
Leaving Ronchi by motor train
Mussolini rode to Sappiane, 18
miles north of Fiurne where he
was received by the Duca di Ber-
gamo, commanding the eighth
corps. Ill Duce inspected 5000 men
there, examined 148 cannons, and
stood on podium as Bersagiari
sped by on motorcycles.
After watching a sham battle he
was driven by automobile to the
small village of San Pietro del
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
HOEY ASKS STATE
TO NOTE NAVY DAY
Says People OF This Coun-
try Should Be Strong
Mentally, Physically

RALEIGH, Oct. 90 Up Cover
nor Hoey, in statement tonight
urging North Carolinians to observe
Navy Day next Sunday, said it was
Of prime importance that the people
of this country be Strong mentally,
physically, morally and SPIRITUALITY
His statement follows:
''The Navy league of the United
States will sponsor the observance Of
Navy Day this year on October II.
This date was selected because it is
the anniversary Of the birth Of the
late President Roosevelt, in recotsni-
ton Of his great contribution to the
navy, first in the writing of the
naval history Of the war of 1872 and
later in his leadership in building for
the American nation an adequate
navy for that period.
October, as we recall, is the
month in which the American navy
was founded in 1775 by the conti-
mental congress, and this day should
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
Northeast States Shiver
In Premature Cold Wave
Fair, Continued Cool
Weather Slated Here

Fair skies and continued
cool temperatures are on the
weather menu for Wilmington
and vicinity today, weather
bureau officials forecast last
night. ~s-,s ''7''.---'
A low temperature of 40 de-
grees is predicted for early this
morning.
Weather officials said that
there will probably be a light
frost in this section but that
it will not be enough to be of
any damage.
terday's temperatures
ranged from a high of 68 to a
low of 48 degrees, with the
mean six below the 64-degree
normal. At 10 o'clock last night
the temperature was AZ degrees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

meeting was held in Governor
Hoey's office and in the hall of the
house of representatives with DR..
Frank P. Graham, president OF
the University of North Carolina,
presiding.
Lines of endeavor for which COM
mittees will be set up in each
county are as follows: Feed and
foodstuffs; LIVESTOCK, dairying and
poultry; grading and farm market
ing; new industries; health; educa-
ton; public forum; public libra
ries; housing; transportation and
communication; identification;
tourists; Identification of homes
and highways; farmer score
cards; state planning land mineral
Continued on Page Three; Col. @
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
ROOSEVELT. FAMILY
HOST TO ROYALTY
Earl OF Athlone, Others
Spend Day At Presidents
Hyde Park Home

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 20.-(P)
Members of the governing families
of the British empire, the Grand
duchy of Luxembourg and the United
States assembled with complete in.
formality today at President Roose-
velts Hudson valley home.
At the luncheon table with the
chief executive were the Earl of
Athlone, Canada's governor general
and an uncle of King George vi of
England, and Grand Duchess Char
lotte of Luxembourg.
Earlier, Mr.. Roosevelt had attendHi
morning worship at ivy-clad St.
James Episcopal church. With him
in the family pew were Princess
Alice, wife of the governor general
and granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria; her daughter, Lady May Abel
Smith, and the Presidents 86-year
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
War
Interpretive
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR

German claims of U-boat sue
cesses and intensified naval fight
ing around the British Isles sug-
gest strongly that Great Britain
may be sending reinforcements to
Egypt at the risk of weakening
home defenses.
Nazi surface vessels and sub
marines appear to have become
bolder recently, their activities at
testing the purpose to take ad-
vantage of any shift of British
naval forces to the Mediterranean
and to force as many warships as
possible to stay home.
With the danger of an early in
vasion diminishing, Britain c n
risk the dispatch Of limited land
Continued on Page Three; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
NaZiS Claim 43 British
Ships Sunk By U-Boats
Two Air Raid Alarms
Are Sounded In Bern

BERN, Switzerland, Oct. II.
(Monday)HPeTwo air raid
alarms sounded in Bern, the
Swiss capital, last night and
early today.
After 5O-minute alarm late
last night, the sirens sounded
again at 1919 a. m. (6:19 p. m.
EST.
Other alarms were sounded
in Zurich and Central Swiss
cities. last night. The alert
periods usually indicate that
British bombers are going to
or returning from raids on
ItalY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21

Carso, 80 miles from Fiume to
review another division. He return
ed to Ronchi by motor train and
took off for Rome in his plane.
Italian warplanes flew $500
miles and bombed an important
British oil center on Bahrein is
land in the Persian gulf, the high
command reported.
Heavy formations started "enor-
nous fires'' by blasting oil pipe
lines, refineries, deposits and fuel
tanks on the island yesterday, a
communique said. All planes re-
turned safely.
Bahrein is the principal island
of an archipelago off the east'coast
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
U. S. COURT TERM
OPENS HERE TODAY
Lengthy Criminal Docket
Will Be Heard During
First Part OF Week

The fall term of United States
district court will open here this
morning at 10 o'clock with Judge
l. M. Meekins, of Elizabeth City,
presiding,
A lengthy criminal docket involv.
ing a varied number of law infrac-
tions will be heard the first of the
week. Forty cases involving\ 60 or
70 defendants, are scheduled to go
before the grand jury today,
1t is expected that the criminal
docket will be completed by Tues
Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
BIG TASK OF GETTING
MONEY TO 6;469 MEN
TO BE STARTED TO-DAY
A. c.. L. Office To Start
Making OUT Checks Today

Pomeroy Nichols, treasurer
of the Atlantic Coacl Line Rail-
road company, said last night
that the work of making out
checks totaling $260,000 maxi
ing up the federal minimum
wage to 6,469 maintenance en-
ployes will be started in the
next two or three days.
The checks will be distrib-
uted a few days before the
regular payday op October 80,
he said. 1t is expected that
some Of the employees will re-
ceive their checks on October
"A, when the third year of the
Fair Labor Standards Act be-
gins and when the maximum
work week without overtime
is reduced from AZ to 40 hours.