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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
Funds Needed
To Meet HUGE
Defense Costs
Leaders OF Both Parties In
House Polling Member
ships On Question
ARMS OUTLAY liked
Doughton Ayers Defense
Taxes Should Be Levied
Before Session Ends

WASHINGTON, May 27.-P-
Indications multiplied tonight that
congress might increase taxes be-
fore adjournment to pay in part for
the big new national defense pro-
gram.
Leaders of both parties in the
house were reliably reported to be
quietly polling their memberships
on the question. The chairman of
the house and senate committees in
charge of revenue legislation on
ferred during the day. The treas
ury was said to be nearing the
completion of a study of the prob
lem and possibly formulating rec
concentrations on it.
Defense Outlay Boosted
Meanwhile, $32, 900, 900 was added
to the prospective defense outlay.
President Roosevelt asked congress
for that sum to train civilian avi-
alton pilots. Accompanying his re-
quest was a letter from the budget
bureau saying that the civil aero
nautics authority was prepared to
undertake Immediately a program
contemplating preliminary training
for $4,000, secondary training for
5000 and advanced training for
40, 900 within the next fiscal year.
While congress awaited a deci-
sion on the tax question, it was
learned that Chairman Doughton
CD-NC) of the house ways and
means committee vas asc~ertaining
the sentiment of house democrats
on the subject, and that Rep
Treadway of Massachusetts, rank
ing republican member of the com
mittee, a doing the same thing
among the republicans.
Doughton conferred during the
day with Chairman Harrison Cd
Miss of the senate finance CON-
mittee and Rep. Cooper D-Tenn),
chairman of the ways and means
subcommittee on taxation. Later
Doughton told reporters that de-
Tense taxes fought to be levied"
before the session ends. If Presi-
dent Roosevelt asked for his opin-
ion, he added, that would be his
reply.
was so near at hand, Doughton
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
PRINCE WILHELM IS
FATALLY WOUNDED
Grandson OF Former Kaiser
Dies Following The Bat
tie OF Flanders

BERLIN, May 27-R-Prince
Wilhelm of the Hohenzollerns, a
grandson of the former kaiser, has
fallen on the field of battle.
The Prince, who gave up his
royal prerogatives for love, was
a first lieutenant at the head of
a company. He died Sunday of
abdominal wounds received May
% in the Battle of Flanders.
Just before his death in a hospit-
al near Brussels he received the
Iron Cross, symbol of valor now
as in the days when the House OF
Hohenzollern ruled Germany.
He was the oldest son of former
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
and was the second of the house
to die in the war. Prince Oscar,
a cousin, fell in Poland.
In 1888 he married Dorothea Van
Salviati, whom he met when both
were students. at Bonn. She is an
ardent Nazi. The year before the
marriage he promised the ex-kai-
ser he would not take the step
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
WATCHES ITALY
LIE Temps Says II Duce's
Hour For A Decision
Is Approaching
WILL SPEAK
FRANCE

PARIS, May 28.-(Tues-
day. (AP) The French
cabinet met until after mid
night last night following a
day in which the Allies were
hammered by a terrific Ger
man offensive which forced
them to give ground in Elan
ders and which yielded only
to French counterattacks
along the Somme on the
south side of the Nazi CORR
dor to the sea.
1t was only learned that
the cabinet considered both
military and political sub
jects, but the Paris press
was -devotjng increasing at
tention to the prospect of
Italy's imminent entry into
the war.
The important newspaper
LIE Temps said Italy's "hour
for a decision is approach
AT the rate at which the
current battle is expanding
and decisive hours approach,
the politics of the neutral
countries, or rather the non
belligerents, tend to become
precise. Mussolini will
hardly delay any longer his
decision"
Reynaud to Speak
Premier Reynaud will address
the country at $3.50 am. (2:30 am.
it was announced.
The violence of the German at
aimed at the Allied forces
ccrnered in coastal Belgium and
northern France, were hardly less
than the fercest battles at Verdun
in the world war. The Allies there
were forced to take up a new stand
defending the English Channel.
To offset somewhat the N a
gains in the north, where at num-
erous points they crossed the river
Lys, last water barrier on the way
to the Channel, the French central
army in the Somme sector, south
of the NaZi salient to the sea, ham,
mered the Germans back to re-
gain several villages.
Continued on Page -Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

pective employee was a COM
munist or bundster was stipu-
lated in the legislation.
Another Reynolds amend
ment accepted by the senate
provides that not more than 10
per cent of the employees of a
firm engaged in interstate in
dustry shall be aliens, except
where the supply of citizens is
inadequate.
In addition to banning strike
breakers and labor spies, the
La Toilette bill outlaws, as OPP
pressive labor practices, the
use of armed guards outside
the employers premises except
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28

by employers, such as the use
of strikebreakers, industrial
spies and industrial munitions.
However, the current wave
of apprehension over fifth col
umns" prompted the senate to
embrace heartily an amend
ment by Senator Reynolds d.
NC) prohibiting employers in
interstate commerce from hav-
ing communists or bund men,
bers in their employ"
The penalties for wilful in
fraction Of this amendment
would be a $500 fine and
five years in prison. No method
for deteCcng whether a pros
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
WAR INTERPRETIVE

Channel from the Somme estuary
to the Calais area would split the
war itself in two. 1t would leave
France and Britain fighting virtu-
ally separate defensive battles in
the west against a victory-fushed
and powerful enemy.
The Battle of the Bulge" in
Flanders has become the battle of
the gaps. Each side says it is
steadily narrowing vital spans Of
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
Britain'S Flanders Army
Facing Grave Situation
Secret Weapon May Be
Tank-C Carrying Planes

NEW YORK, May 27.-lP-
The secret weapon mentioned
by the German high command
as a threat against the Allies
was reported here to be a fleet
of airplanes capable of trans
porting 30-tOn tanks to the
scene of battle, the Herald
Tribune says.
The newspaper says the in
formation was revealed by a
German who left his country
shortly before the war began
last fall and is now living here.
The planes are said to have a
wing spread of 200 feet and
mount four motors of 1900
horsepower each.
The planes, the informant
said, m constructed as a huge
shell with a trapdoor at the
bottom. Explaining how they
operated, he said that a tank
or a light field artillery piece
a rolled under the fuselage,
then raised through the trap
door by means of a portable
hydraulic lift.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
STRAWBERRY FETE
OPENS IN WALLACE
Many Civic Club Members
Attend The 'Preview'
Ceremony

WALLACE, May PA "preview'
of Wallace's Sixth annual Straw
berry Festival was offered here to-
night as representatives from civic
clubs rom throughout Eastern
North Carolina looked on.
Norman Y. Chambliss, director of
the festival, presided and introduced
Mayor Aubrey Harrell, who well
coined the visitors to the opening
show, which like the entire festival
was based on the theme, Making
North Carolina Strawberries Famous
for Quality
E. C. ~Sanderson, of the Wallace
Lions club, sponsors of the 1910 festi-
val, welcomed the civic clubs to the
show and James E. L. Wade, of Will
mington, gave the response.
Tonight's entertainment features
included a floor show on a stage
erected in the tobacco warehouse
here, with a dance following.
One of the leading attractions to-
night was the strawberry exhibit by
the N. G. State college experiment
station and the extension service, I'M
der the direction of H. w. (Pop)
Taylor, extension marketing special
list, including colored movies taken
from scenes on the Wallace berry
o,ofio- roorEof tho vnori~on Cta.
ton and berry field in Duplin.
Tomorrow afternoon a pet parade
will be held at $3.50 o'clock with a
children's matinee following. Tues
day night the Junior king and queen
of the festival will be crowned. They
are Johnny Powell and Bobby Carr.
A fashion show will be held Wed
nesday night.
Growing of the king and queen
by Governor Clyde r. Hoey Thurs
day night will highlight the week
long festival. David Newton Hen
derson and Mary Wellons Knowles
will rule over the festival following
the coronation. Judge Henry l..
Stevens, of Warsaw, will introduce
Governor Hoey.
Civic clubs from Eastern Carolina
represented here tonight were the
Lions from Burgaw, Clinic, Fauson,
Goldsboro, Kinston, Wilmington, Ro-
leigh, Wilson and Fayetteville. Ro.
tary, Kiwanis and Civitan clubs from
Continued on Page Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
LEGISLATION BARRING REDS AND NAILS
FROM INTERSTATE INDUSTRY is PASSED

to prevent theft of articles in
transit and the employment in
a labor dispute Of private
guards known to have been
convicted Of homicide or as
sault with a dangerous weap-
on.
Meanwhile, with a unani-
nous chorus of "ayes," the
house speedily approved Pres
ident Roosevelt's plan to shift
the immigration service from
the labor department to the
Justice department in order to
Continued on Page Three; Col. 6
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
BRITONS IN ITALY
ADVISED TOT LEAVE
Hundreds Of u. S. Citizens
Storm Shipping Offices
Seeking Passage Home

ROME, Gay u Up With war
fever flaming throughout pro-Ger-
man Italy, the British embassy to-
2yht advised inquiring nationals to
f-iorn home unless they had urgent
reasons for remaining.
Embassy officials made it clear
they did not issue a genera notice to
DEitIs1 citizens in Italy. They said
l'ey were telling persons who asked
'f advice that it was better to leave
lie country now, especially if they
"ad families. British newspaper cor
respondents also said their employers
tu'lSed them to be prepared to leave.
meanwhile, hundreds of Americans
SoIr0ed shipping offices and sought
F'sSase nome in beIated response to
we ADVICE given by the United States
"4'ohlatlc officials that they leave
ds soon as possible.
NHtlEu states inner Manhattan
@saN taking on board at Naples
s0'1. -'vo0 Americans who will sail
lF New York soon.
About 800 others were unable to
wv passage and waited for the Unit
" States liner President Harrison,
@,ecled to said from Genoa June 2.
another chance-pessimists said it
w. d SIM one-remained in the liner
~''."Slon' She is expected to sail
,.'l italy June Is but the belief was
ny +'sSsea that the Washington might
.o. De able to complete her next
'"Fo voyage to Italy before this
'N'SF became a belligerent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
CONTINUED on Page Four; Col. y

WASHINGTON, May 27-R-
Sweeping legislation barring
communists and "Nazi bund"
members from jobs in inter-
state industry, and forbidding
employers to use "strikebreak-
ers" or resort to other "op-
pressive" labor practices, was
passed by the senate today ON
a vote of Al to 20 and sent to
the house.
introduced by Senator La
Toilette (Prog.-Wis) as a re-
suit of a long investigation by
the senate committee on civil
liberties, the measure was orig.
inally aimed solely at "abuses'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
MANY REFUGEES FLEE

GENEVA, May 27. - Up - Count
De Rouge, secretary general of the
League of Red Cross Societies, re-
ported today more than 5000, 900
refugees are in flight from northern
France, Belgium, the Netherlands
and Luxembourg, presenting the
world "the greatest refugee problem
it has ever known"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
FINED

NEW YORK, May 27.-P-Fines
totaling $40, 900 were imposed to-
day upon the Bausch & Lomb com
pany and three of it's officers who
pleaded no defense to an indictment
charging violation of the antitrust
laws.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
BY KIRKE L. P
Associated Press Writer

Germany's iron clutch is hourly
tightening in Flanders to do more
than threaten the Allied armies
there with a grim prospect of sur
render or slaughter. 1t is menac-
ing if it has not already gripped
the bonds that have united France
and Britain in common strategy
against the Reich.
Allied failure to break soon that
Nazi stranglehold on the English
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
INTEND TO WE'D

LOS ANGELES, May 27.-LP)-
Comedian Benny Rubin, Al, and Bea-
trice Dollinger, "a, filed notice to-
day of intention to wed and said
the ceremony would take place FIJI
daV
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
With Complete Coverage Of
State and National News
Evening star., 1940-05-25

Most Of us, II we were to 60 out and
buy q new house tomorrow, would
insist on tiled floor and tiled walls
in the bathroom. Yet those of us
who live in houses without tiled
baths hold back from transforming
the plastered or painted walls to tile,
overcome with the prospect of clut-
ter and confusion while it is being
done.
Well, here's a thought for you.
The tile-setting operation need not
be such q nuisance. There is tile on
the market, real vitreous (porcelain)
tile, that can be set easily and quick
ly. The secret Of its use is self
locating, waterproofed foundation
sheet, made of long wood fibers,
compressed under tremendous pres
sure. which is fastened to the exist
ing wall. This foundation sheet is
grooved every 1Ha inches and the
tiles (sized in multiples of / n inches)
are glued between grooves. Special
white hydraulic cement is used to
fill and point the joints between in
dlvidual tiles. That Is all.
This particular tile is not new.
More than 5000, 900 square feet of 1t
have been installed by the founda-
tion-sheet method in the last 10
years. Ten years would seem to take
the risk out of an unconventional
method Of application, wouldn't it?
One Of the advantages of this in
stallation method Is a big saving in
weight. The foundation sheet tiled
walls weighs only 31a pounds a
square foot, compared to 16 or more
pounds for conventionally set clay
tile. This means that no extra sup
ports for the wall are required in
ordinary home construction.
Also, the foundation sheet itself
provides insulation as part of the
tiling process, particularly attrac-
tive point If yours is a bathroom
that does not heat up too quickly
Of winters morning. The wood
fiber backing has sound
Evening star., 1940-05-25

and must be left behind if you move.
The apartment chimes come with
ivory, bronze or white covers and
you can take your choice of colonial
brass escutcheon or round brass
plate trim. The inside housing
measures 67s inches high, 4 inches
wide. and 23s inches deep. Cost is
about SO.
There are also electric chimes to
be installed in apartment kitchens
or Railways. They operate on ordi-
nary bell wiring from the house
transformer. These can be con-
nected to two doors, as the non
electric chimes cannot. One note
sounds for one door, two notes for
the other door. The one-door chimes
cost about 81, tWo-door chimes So.
Easy to Tile the Bath.
Tiled bathrooms have long been
the mark of an up-to-date house.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Anocostio Citizens Ask
Porkinq Ban Removal

Removal Of the parking ban on
Nichols avenue between Good Hope
and Howard roads Sc. was asked
by the Anacostia Citizens Associa-
ton at its meeting last night. Lor-
EMO w. Thompson presented the
motion, stating that the restrictions
had not relieved the trafIic situa-
ton and are deterrent to business.
Mr.. Thompson, in reporting from
the Streets and Highways Commit
tee, moved that Sixteenth street Sc.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
STAR WASHINGTON D. G., SATURDAY, 25

effect that helps stop the transmits
sion OF plumbing noises.
The tile itself is made Of porcelain
on rust-resisting ingot iron. The
back of the tile also is porcelain,
but the surface is roughed so the
glue will bind to 1t. The hydraulic
cement used to point the joints be-
tween tiles may be colored to match
or contrast with the tile shades,
without losing any Of the holding
properties.
The tiles are made In q wide range
OF solid and variegated colors. They
range in size from 11a-inch squares
to 6-by-l2-inch sizes. Many install
lations use the small-sized tiles as
frames for windows and doors, which
blend we'll with the walls and never
need to be painted.
X n 4
For further information. about
products described here write the
Misses Ducas and Gordon, 23O
West Forty-first street, New York
City, and inclose stamped, self
addressed envelope.
Evening star., 1940-05-25

be extended to join up with Fair
lawn Park. This was approved by
the group.
On the motion Of Frank F. Tew,
a letter to the District officers was
authorized deploring the offensive
odor of the Anacostia River and
asking that conditions be 'remedied
Violations Of building restriction
lines by several service stations was
cited by the group and rubbish ac-
cumulating alleys in the area in
the area were also asked to be in
vestigated.
The meeting, presided over oy
Robert J. Hellmuth, was held In the
Anacostia High School.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Paint
Paint
Continued From First Page.)
approximately 300 to $50 square feet,
two coats.
Chimes for Apartments.

approximately SUU 10 S0U square leet,
two coats.
X X X X
Chimes for Apartments.
Have you been envying your friend
in the suburbs her attractive door
chimes that replaced a jangling
doorbell? Have you thought, because
you live in an apartment, you could
not have a melodic announcement
that some one has come to call?
Well, you can. Door chimes for
apartments now are on the market.
Small two-toned, non-electric
door chimes are available for the
apartment house door. An operating
handle is mounted outside, the
chime set inside on the center
panel of your door, A turn of the
handle sounds two perfectly tuned
chime notes. There is no wiring to
be done, no maintenance necessary.
An handy man can install the
chimes in few minutes. by drill
ing and tapping a steel door for a
machine screw using heavy type
lOck-washer under the machine
screw head, or by using drive screw
or self-tapping screw with a lock-
washer under the head The chimes,
of course. become part of the door
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Stocking Shortage May Lost

Unless the government permits
manufacturers to raise prices,
Japan's silk stocking shortage may
last long time. Manufacturers in
TOXIC say that silk prices have risen,
electric power is scarce, and workers
are deserting stocking mills for n1u-
milton plants.
Evening star., 1940-05-25

Bedrooms are bound to be expen-
sive because good springs and mat
tresses are expensive. However,
since twin bed size springs and mat
tresses, as we'll as the smaller beds
themselves, cost as much as full
sized ones, it is possible to save with
the purchase of full-sized bed.
Further savings are made in the
number of blankets, sheets and bed
spreads needed.
Here is very attractive room in
maple with ample dresser space and
dressing table making it adequate
for your own bedroom or delightful
as guest room. It's complete cost
Is $l8802, which dresses it for sum-
mer with sheer washable draperies,
dresser skirt and washable cotton
rugs.
The walls are old ivory colored.
the color in chintz and other tex
tiles is soft old blue and the rugs
and design in the curtains and bed
spread are in a pale pink. The
lamp bases and flower bowls are
of deep blue glass, the dresser bot
ties are milk glass and the flower
prints note the pink and blue color
again.
Evening star., 1940-05-25

This is the fourth OF q series OF
pictures and articles prepared by
Margaret NoDeH and Epening
Star photographers to aid those
about to, establish a home or to
returnish eriSting homes. Stress
,p'U be laid on economy of er-
penditure 1Dith no sacrifice OF
good taste. The series DiH con-
time each Saturday in the Real
Estate Section OF The Star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-06
e YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Oct. 5-lT-Cotton
futures were steady today in the
face of fairly active hedge selling.
Final prices were l to S points up.
The increase in hedging Was at
tributed to a sharp increase in spot
sales in southern markets, which
yesterday equalled the correspond
ing day last year for the first time
this season. Trade, mill and spot
interests furnished the bulk of sup
port. Reports to the trade indicated
busy cloth mills were buying direct
from producers in many cases and
cotton merchants were not build
ing up substantial stocks.
Worth street reported satisfac-
tory cloth business during the week
although turnover was restricted
by the Jewish holiday.
Exports Friday 100 bales; seas
on so far ISL, 635. Port receipts 49,
BIT season so far 1,056, 624; port
stocks 1887, 433.
Range follows:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-06
FOREIGN

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 lP The
free Argentine peso continued the
Improvement today which started
earlier in the week on news the ma
ton had arranged a $40. 000, 900 loan
from the U. S.
The peso advanced 40 of a cent
to 1856 U. S. cents.
The Swiss franc also maintained
its forward stride with an addition
of OF of a cent at 23.06 cents. The
Canadian dollar added is cent at
IS 3-S cents.
Closing rates follow (Great Brit
ain in dollars; others in cents):
Canada-Official Canadian control
board rates for U. S. dollars: buying
10 per cent premium, selling IL per
cent premium, equivalent to dis
counts on Canadian dollars in New
York of buying 9.91 per cent, selling
900 per cent?.
Canadian dollar in New York open
market IA SIS per cent discount, or
S5.37 IL U. S. cents.
Europe - Great Britain, official,
bankers foreign exchange committee
rates., buying 4.02, selling S4.04;
open market, cables 4.04; Germany
40.00N; b%enevolent) 1910; Finland
2.00N; Greece .6S; Hungary 19.50N;
Italy SOC; Portugal 4.01: Rumania
.4SN; Sweden 1885; Switzerland
2 1906; Yugoslavia 2.35N.
Latin America - Argentine, Off
cial 29.77; free 1855: Brazil, official
sos; free, sos; Mexico 20.75N.
Far East-Japa9 23.4S; Hongkong
1929; Shanghai 5.62.
(Rates in spot cables unless other
wise indicated).
N-Nominal.