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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Forest Fires Raging
In Southeastern N. G..
MUCH DAMAGE IS DONE
Many Outbuildings Are Re-
ported Burned And
Homes Endangered

A dozen forest fires were either
raging or being brought under
control in this section last night
and although unestimated, dam
ages are expected to run into thous-
ands of dollars.
Strong winds which have pre-
vailed in this area for the past few
days famed the flames and in sew
eral sections fire swept ove sev-
eral miles of timberland, burning
everything in its path.
A forest fire here last night
threatened the Taylor-C olquitt Gre
osoting plant but was finally ex'
tinguished by workmen. The fire
was started from sparks which
were blown from a steam engine in
the yards, an engineer said.
With the help of a favorable wind
the blaze was brought under control
after it had crawled within a few
inches of the creosoted timbers.
Topping the forest fires outside
New Hanover county was a blaze,
which started Thursday near Wood
side in Onslow county, and swept
over a timbered tract on the north
ern side of U. S. highway II down
as far as Hampstead.
A number of dwelling houses were
endangered but none were burned
to any great extent. Several farm
outbuildings were destroyed.
A troop Of CCC boys fought the
blaze all day yesterday and late last
night had almost brought the flames
under control, an observer at Hamp'
stead said.
Thursday a forest fire swept over
a. large area in Bladen and Pender
counties, destroying a number OF
buildings neal Kelly and in the Ly-
on swamp sections.
Last night there were four 1or'
est fires burning in New Hanover
that were visible from the
CITY. Along the Carolina Beach road
a fire has been burning for the past
days. Tuesday afternoon n
flames burned a barn belonging TO
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
ITALIANS BOOST
DEFENSE WORK
Regulations Published For
Military, Civilian
Mobilization

ROME, April 5.-R-1talian de-
Tense preparations received a fur
Their boost tonight with publication
of regulations for complete or par
tial military and civilian mobiliza-
ton of the entire nation.
A new law adopted by the council
of ministers last Tuesday placed the
mobilization in charge Of the reor-
ganized supreme defense commits
sion headed by Premier Mussolini
and including members of the cab
met and the heads of all branches
of the armed forces.
Twenty-one articles of mobiliza-
ton, published and broadcast by
the Italian radio system, dealt main
ly~with technical aspects and work
of the supreme defense commission.
One salient provision made women
and children " Is years of age
subject to mobilization for work IN
anti-aircraft defense, factory work
and other enterprises essential to
the prosecution of war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06

LOS ANGELES, April 5.-R-
An autopsy surgeons finding that
Mrs. Lolita Davis, a woman "who
believed in the power of demons"
bled to death from slashed wrists
cast doubt today on 11-year-old
Chloe's fantastic account of how her
mother, two young sisters and baby
brother died violently.
Chloe, described by a police mat
ron as having "the face of an angel
and by a psychiatrist as 'the cruel
e%st-blooded, coolest individual I ever
met" had said she beat her 36-year-
old mother to death with a claw
hammer. She told police in matter
of-fact voice her mother had asked
her to do it. after having killed the
two little girls and beaten the boy
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
MURDERERS SAVED
BY JAIL, HIGH BAIL
Monsters Who Had Been
Fingered Are Placed
Safely In Jail

NEW YORK, April s. up -
Brooklyn's barking guns were 81
fenced and the lives of at least five
members of the borough's crime
syndicate, Murder, Inc, were saved
by Jail and high bail, the district
attorneys office disclosed tonight.
District Attorney William O'Ddwy.
err, tipped off that the mobsters had
been Fingered" for extinction, pick
ed them up shortly before the time
the underworld had set for their
execution, Burton Turkus, O'Dwy.
er's assistant, disclosed.
And it's my guess" Turkus add
ed, that none of these five would
want to be anywhere but in Jail
at this moment. If we lowered bail
to a dollar apiece, they'd prefer the
comforts Of Jail to the hazards of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06

RIIENOs AIRES, April s. Up -
The escape of three informed OF
ficers of the German pocket battle
shin Admiral Graf Spec was dis
closed tonight and one of them was
reported unofficially to have ALREADY
reached Germany with documents
of the scuttled man-o-War.
News of the escape of the officer
from their quarters in the naval
arsenal followed the disclosure that
several of the Graf Specs sailors
had disappeared from interior prov
inces.
More than 1000 officers and men
of The Graf Spec took refuge in
Argentina after scuttling their ship,
loser in a running battle with three
British cruisers, in Montevideo har-
bor last December II.
The Argentine government de-
creed that the crew be interned in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
" aterways
At Meeting
Louis T. Moore Is Elected
Vice-President OF New
Organization
HARDING IS PRESIDENT
Three Wilmington Repre-
sentatives Are Heard
AT Meeting

WASHINGTON, N. C., April g.
R-The North Carolina Waterways
Association, whose purpose will be
to improve waterways on the coast,
navigable streams, control Of beach
erosion and flood and malaria con-
troll, was organized here today at a
meeting of more than $50 interested
persons.
Edmund H. Harding, secretary OF
the Washington chamber of COM
merce, was elected the associations
first president. Other officers are:
Miles l.. Clark of Elizabeth City.
DR.. D. J. Rose of Goldsboro, DR.. Ben
F. Royal of Morehead City and
Louis T. Moore of Wilmington, vice
presidents, and Aycock Brown OF
Beaufort, secretary and treasurer.
W. O. Huske of Fayetteville, May
or J.. H.. Mcmillan Of Edenton, O.
L, Williams of Swan Quarter, Josh
l.. Horne Of Rocky Mount and r.
Bruce Etheridge of Raleigh, direc'
tor of the North Carolina depart
ment of conservation and develop
ment, we're named to the board OF
directors.
In an address, Rep. Graham A.
Barden of the third district stressed
the cooperative efforts Of army en-
gineers in waterway development;
the Importance to the state and ma
ton of the fish and shell fish IN
dustry of North Carolina and said
that waterway development was dl'
rectlv connected with the prosperity
of the state.
A letter was read from Rep Lind
say C.. Warren of the First district
asserting that no concerted effort
had ever been made in North Caro-
lima to push waterways legislation
and that he heartily approved OF
such an organization as the North
Carolina Waterways Association.
Other speakers included Paul A.
Grady, a candidate for governor; Dr.
D. J. Rose Of Goldsboro, who en-
phasized the Importance of the eraol-
cation of malaria in eastern North
Carolina; DIR. Ben F. Royal, chair
man of the Morehead City port COM
mission; R. Bruce Etheridge, direc'
tor, and T. S. Johnson, chief engl-
neer, of the state department OF con-
servation and development; Captain
John A. Nelson, state commissioner
of fisheries; State Senator D. B.
Fearing of Manteo; H. E. Boyd, traf'
fic manager of the Port of Whining
ton; W. o. Huske Of Fayetteville;
R. B. Page, publisher Of the Will
mington Star-News, and Col. Earl l.
Brown, retired U. S. engineer al
Wilmington.
The movement for the organlza'
ton of the association was Launched
a few weeks ago by Aycock Brown
Beaufort newspaper correspondent
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
LEPKE IS GIVEN
ADDITIONAL Time
Is Given From 30 Years
TO Life In Sing Sing
For Extortion
By S. WHITE

NEW YORK, April 5-R-Louis
CLepke) Buchalter, a young-old man
of 43 whose career symbolized and
paralleled the rise and fall of Amer
lean industrial gangsterism, today
drew another in a series of SEN
fences almost certain to mean that
he will never again be a free man
in this life.
Already under a 14-year federal
term for heading a 10000, 000-a-
year narcotics syndicate-a sideline
to his older vocation as a racketeer
he was sentenced in state court to
from 80 years to life in Sing Sing
for extortion in the bakery and
trucking industries. This penalty
will become operative only after
Leavenworth has done with him.
For more than two hours he lean
ed against the courtroom rail, his
ayes shining at first and then going
cold and still, as the sentencing pro-
c%eedings went forward and while
General Judge John Freschi read
the probation departments report.
It was a strange biography a
sort of anatomy of crime as en-
bodied in one nan to whom various
prosecuting officials over the years
had attributed an almost incredible
catalogue of villanies:-
1t showed a five-time loser-the
. 81 US
series Of many arrests, a life spent
in violence and in an aura of sud-
den death for % successive years.
And it was filled, too, with the acrid
nomenclature of the underworld of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Precincts
Re-Aligned
For Primary
More Equitable Distribu-
ton OF Voters Will
Be Achieved
BOOKS OPEN APRIL II
New Registration Will Be
Taken For Balloting
On May Is

H. G.. Carney, chairman Of the
New Hanover county board of
elections, yesterday announced the
realigning of wards and precincts
in preparation for the May rs pri.
maries and subsequent general
elections.
AS provided by law, the elections
board will meet this morning at
the. county courthouse to appoint
registrars and judges, and to make
other necessary arrangements for
the conduct of the primaries.
New Registration
Under the new registration al
ready ordered by the elections
board, all voters must visit the
polling place in their ward or pre-
cinct and register. The books will
open at 9 a. M, Saturday, April
27, and will close at sunset, Sat
urday, May II.
The registrars will be at their
polling places each Saturday be-
tween the hours Of 9 a. m. and
sunset, during the entire period OF
the registration. All other days,
Sundays excepted, within the dates
given, the registrars will register
all eligible voters who may apply
to them.
On Saturday, May IS, the regis
trars will again be found at their
respective polling places for the
purpose Of hearing any challenges
of registrations that may be Of
fered.
On election day, Saturday, May
rs, the polls will be open from Z
a. m. to Z p. M, provided, however,
that no poll shall remain open
after sunset
The changes in precincts and
wards, designed to bring about a
more equitable distribution of
voters and to make voting as con-
venient as possible, are officially
described in the formal election
notices on page five Of this issue
of The Morning Star.
The changes were made by the
board Of elections, composed of
Chairman Carney, Robert Strange,
secretary, J. H. Nigel, the repub-
lican member, during a session
also attended by Aaron Goldberg,
chairman of the New Hanover
democratic executive committee,
Sheriff C. David Jones and John
Marshall. No changes were made
Continued ON Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Patricide Is
Ruled To Be
Unsuitable
Girl, Is, Says She Shot
Father AS He Threat
ened Her Mother
SHOWS NO EMOTION
Widow OF Wealthy Cana
dian Testifies He Was
Choking Her AT Time

Zelda Deloris Morrison became
entirely free yesterday afternoon
as a verdict Of justifiable homicide
was returned as her trial on a
charge of killing her father came
to a close in New Hanover county.
juvenile court.
"In this and all previous presen.
tations Of the evidence" Juvenile
Judge Thomas A. Henderson said,
IT have found that Zelda has adj
mitted freely and readily that she
shot her father.
Orders Her Acquittal
IT find the homicide justifiable
and hereby order her acquittal."
Highlight Of the trial was when
Zelda took the stand and told the
court she shot her father when he
treatened to cut her mothers
tongue out.
II don't know whether T loved
him or not. I haven't the slightest
idea whether I loved him or not"
said the 13-year-old girl.
The child displayed little emo.
ton, while she was seated next to
her sister Grace, and while she
was testifying on the stand.
Grace took the stand in the late
afternoon and said she was asleep
when the shooting took place. She
said Zelda walked into her ROOM.
replaced the rifle in the corner,
and stated: IT think I hit him."
Mrs. Morrison told the court she
was on her knees before her hus-
bands chair when he attempted to
choke her and threatened to cut
her tongue out If she revealed that
he was in the United States under
illegal circumstances.
Believed Him Spy
She has %contended throughout
the investigation of the shooting
that her husband was an interna-
tional spy. However, Investigations
by federal authorities revealed no
basis for the statement.
Other witnesses introduced in
cluded Zelda's school teachers and
several of her young classmates.
They all told the court she was q
nice girl" Report cards were pre-.
sented showing that Zelda's grades
at the Sunset Park school are
above average.
The trial was concluded at about
4:45 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
TWO DIES AGENTS
ARE ORDERED HELD
Charged With Conspiring
To Deprive Com
munist OF Rights

PHILADELPHIA, April 5.-R-
Two agents for the Dies committee
and a Philadelphia police lieutenant
were ordered arrested today on
charges of conspiring to deprive a
communist political candidate Of his
constitutional rights in a raid on
communist headquarters here.
Federal District Judge George A,
Welsh directed United States Com.
missioner J. H. Mallory to issue war
rants for George F. Hurley and
Chester Howe, representatives of
the congressional committee ~investi-
eating un-Americanism, and Police
Lieutenant Albert Granite.
At an open hearing, earle Reeve,
communist candidate for the United
States senate from Pennsylvania,
contended that during the raid Tues
day he was refused the right to sum-
mon a lawyer.
Reeve charged the two Dies COM
mittee investigators, Lieut.. Granite,
and David E. Jameson, state deputy
secretary of revenue, were leaders
Of the raid. Judge Welsh refused to
approve a warrant for Jameson be-
cause of lack of evidence.
The judge declared the 'fundamen-
tai principle" involved in the way the
raid was conducted mace it neces-
sary to send the case to the federal
grand jury as the first step toward
having the supreme court decide
on how far raiders seeking evidence
of "un-American activities may go.
The communist candidate asserted
none Of the papers and records con-
fiscated in the party headquarters
were subversive to the government.
Judge Welsh rejected a suggestion
from counsel for Reeve that some &C
ton be taken against Rep. Martin F.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Interned Graf Spec Men
Escape From Argentina

landlocked provinces and that the
officers be requested to give their
word of honor that they would not
attempt to flee the country. Most
Of the officers refused to do this.
The government now is reported
to be planning to intern the officers
on Martin Garcia island in the Rio
De La Plata and keep them under
strict military guard.
One of the escaped officers is be-
lieved to have been the third in
command Of the Graf Spec. The
date and manner of their escape
was not Immediately learned.
Two of the seamen who eluded
Argentine authorities were seized at
Santos, Brazil, when they disem-
barked from the Italian steamer
Neptunia. They will be returned
here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
PR0VACATUERS'
BLAMED FOR PLOT
Attorney Says Defendants
Are Innocent
Victims

NEW YORK, April 5.-LP- An
accusation that "provacatuers in the
employ of the communist government
Of Russia and the communist party
Of New York; had built the govern
nnent's case was made by defense
counsel today in the trial Of II men
charged with seditious conspiracy
TO overthrow the United States gov
eminent.
In his opening statement to the
jury, Leo Healy, attorney for II of
the defendants, declared them to
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Dress Parades
Cancelled At Academy

WEST POINT, N. Y, April SIP
Dress parades at the U. S. Military
Academy which have attracted
thousands of persons each Sunday
afternoon will be discontinued.
Brig. General Jay l.. Benedict,
academy superintendent said spec.
tators have shown "a thoughtless or
malicious regard of public property,
and also he felt the cadets should OBJ
serve Sunday as a day of worship
and rest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Dryden NAMED TO
HIGH ARMY POST
Fort Bragg Commandant
To Be Deputy Chief
OF Staff OF Army

WASHINGTON, April S. - Up -
Secretary Woodring announced to-
day selection Of Brigadier General
William Dryden as deputy chief of
staff of the army, effective June 1.
Dryden commander of Fort Bragg,
N. c., will succeed Brigadier Gener-
al Lorenzo Gasser, who retires May
81 on reaching the statutory age
limit of 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Denies Child
Guilty OF Slayings

into Inconsistencies. Chloe said she
not only obeyed but also carried out
her mothers suggestion to finnish
killing the boy.
Late today ~blue-eyed Chloe start
led police officials and a psychiatrist
with this volunteered statement:
ooh, yes, there is something I for
got to tell you yesterday-while
mother was begging me to hit her
with the hammer she asked me for
a razor blade. I got one and gave it
to her and watched her slash her
wrists"
She had not been shown the
autopsy report at the time.
DR.. Frank r. Webb said he found
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Fair, cooler in
southeast portion Saturday; Sunday,
increasing cloudiness and somewhat
warmer probably followed by rain.
Temperature
l;5D a. m. 66; 7:30 a. m. go; 1:3O p.
N: %; 7:30 p. m. 50; maximum 81;
minimum IS; mean 10; normal SO.
Humidity
l5o a. m. 70; 7:30 a. m. 90; 1870 p.
Ill., Il; 7:30 p. m 80.
Precipitation
Total for "A hours ending 1880 p. m.
WV inches; total since first Of the
month 600 inches.
Tides For Today
IRON Tide Tables published by U.
p Toast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
wilmington S:53a 3:49a
!, 9:15p 4:O3p
''Ssonboro Inlet ------- 6:53a 0:43a
7:OSp - Sop
Sunrise 5:52a; sunset 6:36p; moon
tis o:l0a: moonset 5:46p.
uMASHINGTON, April s. up -
leather bureau records of temperature
anu rainfall for the "a hours ending s
:, m, in the principal cotton growing
ssIeas and elsewhere:
NT9t1rn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Chair Apartment
Hunters Find The
Best Locations

Those prospective tenants
who watch Star and News
For Rent Want Ads find out
about the best vacancies
FIRST. Rental agents and
property owners offer de-
scriptions Of their choice
listings regularly in the For
Rent columns of this news
paper.
What desirable property do
you now have vacant and
for which you wish a ten
ant? The quickest and most
economical means Of rent
ing is to list your vacancies
in the For Rent columns to-
day. Discount for 8 and 7
time insertions. Ads appear In
both the Star and News for
single price.
Call 28OO To
Start Your Want AID
Charge It
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
RUSSELL SQUABBLE
in anti CLIMAX
Mayor La Guardia's 1940-
Al Budget Made No APP
preparation For Job

NEW YORK, April 5.-R-The
controversy over the seating-and
unseating-of Bertrand Russell as
professor at City college ran into
anti.climax today when it de-
veloped that Mayor LaGuardia's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06

Wits House, the house having
previously approved an identical
measure. Besides being a triumph
for the President in what had been
heralded as perhaps this congress
sional sessions biggest test, the
result also elated Secretary of State
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06

Both North Carolina sena-
tors, Josiah w. Bailey and
Robert r. Reynolds, Joined the
democratic majority in voting
against the one-year extension
backed by Vice President Gar
ner and supported by the re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Reciprocal Agreement Pro-
Gram Is Extended For
Three Years
G, 0. P. PUT TO R0UT
Hull Is Elated; He Says
Act Is For Best Ma
tional Interest
Rv John w. HENDERSON

WASHINGTON, April 5.-R)-
The senate, by a vote of AZ to 81.
rossed a three-year extension Of
he trade agreements program to-
dsv, thereby giving President Roose-
yet a major victory over Vice
President Garner, who had striven
IN limit the bill to one year.
The senate's action sent the key
administration legislation to the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
WPA Will PAY
Every z Weeks

WPA workers from now on will
be paid every two weeks instead
Of twice month. State Admin
istrstor Carl W. Smith announced
Wednesday.
The change. however. means
only = simplification OF bookkeep-
ing. he explained. and makes no
change in total WPA pay since IL
is figured on an hourly basis.
Project workers will be paid for
40 hours in four-week period
instead OF 100 hours in a month.
In King. Pierce and Spokane
counties. where WpA pay is
highest, the workers pay for four
weeks will be sss and $3.50 for
unskilled classes. s63 so for inter-
mediate. $3.50 for skilled and
$3.50 for professional and tech
meal
The administrator announced a
state WPA quota for July Of
$4,000 workers. around half the
total at the winter high mark.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
Gov. Martin losses Hat Into
Ring, Seeking a Third Term
Chief Executive. Native Son of State.
Abondons Ideo of u. S. Senotorship

Others mentioned for the Re
publican nomination q oppose the
successful Democratic nominee
were Frank Burns. Seattle Rufus
Woods. wenstchee; Chaplin n
Foster. Chehsls editor: O. H.
Woody. okanogsn. J Warren
Kinney. Seattle; sam J. Humcs
Seattle. and A. r. colhurn. Spo-
kane. Burns and Humes have an
nounoed their candidacy.
Martin Native Son
Martin 70 the first native horn
governor Of Washington. lie Was
raised in Cheney. Wash. on his
fathers farm. His early interests
were milling. creamery and general
store enterprises.
He attended the University Of
Washington. joined Sigma Ma
fraternity. and after graduation
continued in business in Cheney.
His father. Frank NJ. Martin,
died several years ago and left
his son a fortune reputed to be in
excess Of 81 600 900.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11

Former Indiana residents from
Ill parts % Washington VIII gather
fer the Gath annusl reunion and
picnic Al Point Defiance park sun
day. Aug 4 Il vas snnounce6
Wednesday ~ r. L. HIb<riy.
Olympus. viee president a the
state fsae-ier secissy.
Registration win n<xsn ~ 10 =
~ with . basket dinnev scheduled
fef nrcn A program. featuring nn-
saesi numbers ard speeches ~
prauisent former inaisn&ns wsll
start ct } a'ciork
Officers ~ tse xfuur laefude
Grant rsutlsr. rseema. president:
rref. walter 4 Davis. rxroma.
secretary. ard Mrs. Ffsnh Cism.
Olympia. assistant secretary
Arrangements for re picnic are
h~snr msas ~ Mss raul retsrsrn
sna itlh~riy All natives 1t indiana
ard their families are invited 10
attend
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thursday rifesess Ne. 10. rosn~
munitv shurvh. Program. ausIt So
essi ard spssksrns Harmony Ma
10. X G. hall ain ard nsseie sta.
4 p m: hawthorne Ne ~. Ladies'
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hall esss "a Tsepms say acssth
tim Nc. . at FSs t.reve sshccll
snash rFslfss M. I. meets "a
=. w. Tuit No. /. II EAnsss bell.
p, m.
Friday rssn lfu Ma I. a rsuh-
house. ssd and ~ Yakima ave-,
isssgush No /. 81 Orange hall. =
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hall tioess Broadway. . p NJ.
conducted ny ene af The rewassua
clubs, everybody wsioames