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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
PROPELLER CLUB
SEEKS PROJECTS
Group Renews Efforts For
Wider Turning Basin And
Other improvements

The Propeller club of the United
States, Port of Wilmington, last
night renewed efforts to secure
widening of the anchorage basin,
reflected buoys at Masonboro in.
let, and more equitable freight rates
out IF Wilmington. 1t also complet-
ed arrangements for the visit Of
the U. S. S. Roe, new naval de.
stroyer, here from April 8 to II.
The club, in monthly dinner ses.
sion at the cape Fear Country club,
also heard T. R. Jones, superintend.
ent of the Standard Oil company
terminals here, make an appeal for
further advancement of facilities of
the Port of Wilmington.
The club appointed the following
committee to promote efforts to.
wards securing the widening of the
turning basin and the lengthening
of the anchorage basin as a means
of enabling the Port Of Wilmington
to maintain it's leadership in port
facilities along the South Atlantic
seaboard: E. Fleet Williams, Roger
Riley, and Peter B. Ruffin.
A committee composed of George
Rountree, Jr., Roger Riley, Julian
Morton, and Mike Brown was named
to contact the Norfolk divisional
headquarters office of the U. S.
coast guard in regard to the estab-
lishment of reflected buoys at
Masonboro inlet as a further aid to
navigation interests.
A resolution urging the renewal
of efforts to secure more equitable
freight rates by rail and truck out
Of the Port of Wilmington to other
points in this and nearby states
was also adopted by the club.
The club perfected details of ar
engagements for the visit of the U.
S. S. Roe, new naval destroyer,
which is making Wilmington it's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
HATCH AMENDMENT
BEATEN IN SENATE
Proponents OF Bill Pound
Tenaciously Toward Ar
!. Early Showdown

WASHINGTON, March 13-R-
Proponents pounded tenaciously to-
day toward a senate showdown g
the Hatch bill to circumscribe the
political activities of state employees
paid with federal funds.
They listened unmoved to a warn
ing from Senator Minton (D-lnd)
that passage of the measure would
destroy the democratic party"
Opponents failed in an effort to
attach to the bill an amendment by
Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) to make
it unlawful for any person to con-
tribute more than $1,000 a year to
any candidate or campaign commit
tee.
The vote was As to SO. with 30
democrats and Senator LaFo'lette
(Prog-Wis) supporting the amend
ment and % democrats voting
against it. A solid bloc of repub'
lican votes provided the margin TO
defeat the proposition.
Minton took this occasion to tell
democratic supporters of the Hatch
bill that they were helping the re"
publicans play a smart polltlcal
game that would wreck a democratic
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14

called to the White House cabinet
officers and technical experts con
cerned with the war orders. There
was no immediate word as to what
was said at the conference.
The day saw numerous other de.
velopments resulting from the re-
lease of American military planes
and reports of Allied pressure on the
administration to sidetrack army and
navy orders. They included:
The army disclosed the release for
foreign sale of a second high speed
fighter, a Lockheed P-3S two-motor
|@interceptor pursuit craft credited
with a top speed Of APO miles an hour
in a test flight. A Curtiss P-40 fight.
err was released earlier.
The navy said permission had
been given to sell foreign nations
four of its new planes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
|GUNTHER ASSERTS
DANGER NOT OVER
Sweden's Foreign Minister
Hints AT North Coun-
tries Defense Accord

STOCKHOLM, March 13- Up -
Foreign Minister Christian Gunther
warned tonight that the danger is
not over" for Sweden and limited at
a possible defense alliance OF the
north countries as a result Of Fin
lands peace with Russia.
Addressing a special meeting of
the Swedish parliament, Gunther
said the question Of strengthening
cooperation among the northern
sountries should be submitted to IAN
unbiased examination"
T. At the same time he disclosed
final Russian peace terms to Fin.
land differed from those first sub.
mitted by Russia and which Sweden
passed on to Finland.
The ceding of the eastern Finnish
area about Salla's battiefields and
the Kuusamo areas, and the pro.
posed new railway connecting Rus
STA with the Swedish border, he said,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
SOVIETS SEIZE VIlPURi
Finnish City Taken In Two
Hour Assault Shortly
Before Armistice
BRITAIN IS ASSAILED
Kremlin Satisfied Dictated
Peace Greatest Blow To
London In Century

MOSCOW, March 14.-cThursday.
-R-The Russian military COM
mand early today announced its
troops, in a two-hour assault just
before Yesterdays armistice, had cap
tured the city of Viipuri, which goes
to Russia anyway by the peace
treaty with Finland.
While the Soviet people and press
hailed the peace treaty as a great
triumph for Joseph Stalin's policy
of peace and a s%hattering blow te
British and French 'imperialist'
plans to spread the war over all Of
Europe, the Leningrad military COM
mand issued this communicate:
18th March: At Z a. M, after two
hours of stormipg, the Soviet troops
occupied the town Of Viipuri. On
other sectors of the front there was
nothing important up to IL noon
At ~ noon Leningrad time hostili'
ties ceased on all sectors of the front
in conformity with the peace treaty"
Siege Started Feb. "a
The Russians laid siege to Viipuri
Immediately after the fall Of the
Koivisto forts on Feb. "a.
The Kremlin made no effort to
conceal its satisfaction that the die
tated peace with Finland vas the
greatest defeat to Great Britain in
a century.
Not only did the Soviet gain in
territorial and military advantage by
its treaty with Finland, but also Sc
Continued on Page Four)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Hore-Belisha
Flags Allies
For l%naction
Ousted British Minister Al.
lacks Failure To Send
Troops To Finland
REBELLION THREATENS
Lloyd George Adds Somber
Warning To Former War
. Chiefs Criticism
BY DREW

LONDON, March 13.-F-Former
War Secretary Hore-Belisha angrily
challenged the allied excuse for in.
action" in the dispatch of ~large-scale
aid to Finland during a stormy ses'
sion today of the house of commons
which showed the markings Of a
full-fledged parliamentary rebellion
against Neville Chamberlain's gov
eminent.
In the dismal light of the Finnish.
Russian peace, the volatile minister
whom Chamberlain fired on January
s demanded a review of the govern
ment's "whole conduct of the war
with Germany, and denounced as a
pure te~chnicality" the allied stand
that troops, although ready, could
not be sent to Finland until Finland
formally asked for them. The troops
never were sent; Finland made peace
instead.
Adds Warnings
White-maned David Lloyd George
added somber warning to Hore-
Belisha's cutting criticism, and dis
gruntled conservatives and liberals
appeared to be uniting with opposi'
ton laborites around the two states
men.
The commons approved 1872 to 2 a
request for 700, 900, 900 pounds ST.
500, 900, 000) for var purposes.
This vote was despite a plea of the
leftist firebrand, J. McGovern, for an
attempt to end the war before the
tremendous slaughter begins" He
declared his independent labor party
proposed there should be an arms
tice and world conference at the
earliest possible moment.
Reliable sources reported that a
full debate on the war situation
would be held March 10 with Cham
berlain presenting a general review
and replying to questions of an
aroused house of commons.
TOO Late"
Hardly had Hore-Belisha demand
ed such debate before he was Joined
by Lloyd George who intoned: 1T
is the old trouble-too late. Too late
for Czecho- Slovakia. Too late for Po-
land. Certainly too late for Finland.
"It is always too late or too little
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Release OF Fast American Warplanes
To European Nations To Be Probed

Senator La Toilette Prog-Wis
asked a senate investigation to de.
termine whether foreign orders had
delayed delivery of ornaments to
the United States army and navy.
Reports circulated that the rea.
son the Allies are in a hurry for
planes is that their combined output
now is less than half that of Ger
many.
Charles Edison, secretary of the
navy, and Louis Johnson, assistant
secretary of war, denied that "pres-
sure" had been brought to side.
track American military orders to
speed planes for the Allies, but
added that the navy had "~adjusted
schedules" by request without de-
laying it's WI new planes.
"We are taking care that the ma.
tional defense is not interfered with
in any way" he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
GOVERNMENT LEADER
ASKS ABSOLU7E UNITY;
RUSSIANS HAIL PEACE
Scandinauians Wonder
If Finland Gambling
On Help From Germany

COPENHAGEN, March 49,
ZAP - Scandinavians asked
themselves tonight if Finland,
in submitting to a stern peace,
was gambling on German help
against further Soviet encroach-
ments.
Only time will answer the
question as to whether the Rus
so-Finnish peace involves some
form of German guarantee for
the new borders of Finland. And,
Scandinavians said, if such a
guarantee exists the realistic
Firms must know that it will
never be effective unless it is
in Germany's interest.
Mixed relief and anxiety was
Scandinavia's emotional reaction
to the drastic terms of the treaty,
giving the whole Karelian 18TH
mus, the shores of Lake Ladoga
and the Gibraltar" peninsula of
-Hanlo into Soviet hands, facili-
tating Soviet transport by land
and air and rail to Norway and
Sweden.
There was relief that Scandi-
navia, for the, moment at least,
has been saved from becoming a
battle-ground of Allied Russian
German war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Miss Coleman Addresses
Baptist WOmen'S Meeting
Weues Confers With
David Lloyd George

LONDON, March 13.-(APe
Sumner Welles, winding up a
four-day fact-finding visit in
London, talked so long today
with David Lloyd George, Brit
aims World war prime minister,
that his closely packed schedule
was disrupted.
What they talked about was
a secret as have been the rest
of the conferences held by the
undersecretary of state on his
swing through Europe to obtain
information for President RoOse-
welt.
When Welles and Lloyd
George stayed together beyond
their allotted time. the American
ENJOYS other appointments were
postponed till later in the day.
Welles rounded out his visit
with a chat with Prime Minister
Chamberlain over the dinner
table at Number Ten Downing
Street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14

homa. While a cub he covered
single-handed the disastrous Shaw
nee, Oklahoma, flood, working "a
unbroken hours on an injured leg.
His interest in crime reporting
started with covering the capture
and prosecution of the Okesa train
robbery gang, last of the big south
western gangs to use the methods
of the James boys and the Youngers.
For several years then he was in
business before returning to journal.
ism on the Daily Oklahoman in time
to handle a series Of big mail fraud
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
New Washington Writer
Wilmington Star

One of Americas outstanding
newspapermen joins the Whining
ton Morning Star today as Wash.
ington columnist for it and the AP
Feature Service. He is Jack Stin.
nett, who goes to Washington with
eyes and ears sharpened from a
a dozen years Of covering everything
from kidnapings to night clubs.
Stinnett succeeds Preston Grover,
who has been assigned by The AS.
sociated Press to Europe.
The new writer of the Washing.
ton Daybook started newspaper
work. in 1924 after studying at the
Universities of California and Okla
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
By EDWARD e. BOMAR

WASHINGTON, March 13.-R-
The release of 4O0-mile-an-hour
army fighting planes to European
b~elligerents resulted today in a con-
gressional inquiry.
Secretary of War Wcodrlng was
asked to appear before {. house mill
tary affairs subcommittee early
next week to explain a war oepaft,
ment policy which has permltteu
American manufacturers to sen
duplicates of some of the air corps
newest war planes to Great Britain
and France. Major General George
c. Marshall, chief of staff, also Will
be asked to testify.
President Roosevelt also turneu
his attention to problems arising
from Allied war orders-prooiens
which have developed differences
among some of his advisers. he
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
lis UNHAPPY PEACE
Tanner Says Talks Looking
To Alliance With Sweden
And Norway Planned
MINISTER THANKS U. S.
Some OF Fiercest Fighting
OF War Took Place An
Hour Before Peace
By LYNN

HELSINKI, March 13.-P)-Fin.
land, mourning it's peace with the
grief of the ~vanquished, vas given
hope tonight of saving it's indie
pendence and protecting its shorn
borders through the prospect of a
defensive pact with Sweden and
Norway and was exhorted by its
government to. rise from it's Estate
of m~utilation" through unity.
Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner,
after a national broadcast to the
people, told the foreign press that
conversations looking to a defensive
alliance with the two large Scandi-
navian states, already arranged but
HALTED by the war, would be started
soon., The initiative in this, he said.
came from Finland.
Earlier, with their mourning etch.
ed black against a background of
softly falling snow, the Firms had
heard Tanner declare that Ffnland's
defense against Russia had founder
ed on the "unwillingness or inabili.
ty" of Sweden and Norway, land
behind them the western Allies,) to
send troops or allow troops to cross
their soil. E
1--WE Are Too Small"
Call that can be said against u.s."
he added, sadly, "is that as ma
ton we ire too small"
The defensive alliance, if it is
effected, would be intended to pro.
tect the independence and bounda-
ries of Sweden, Norway and Finland
from aggression-mainly, it is pre-
sumed, Russian or German.
Tanner, to the newspapermen,. de.
MED that the western powers had
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
F. r. Ayers Reds Should
Let Firms Live In Peace

nations to the maintenance of their
integrity against attack by superior
force"
Some observers believed the word
yet" in this sentence indicated a
belief on the Presidents part that
later developments in struggling
Europe might clarity the right of
which he spoke. Whether it was
intended to signify that some day
Finland's losses would probably be
restored was not stated, however.
His remark about the right to
Continued on Page FOur)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
MANNERHEIM SAYS
FINLAND HAS PAID
Leader estimate 100000
Reds And $4,000 Firms
Slain In War

HELSINKI, March IA (Thurs1
day. Up Field Marshal Baron
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim in a final
order, of the day declared bitterly
early today that Finland has paid
to the very last penny any debt we
may have owed to the west"
The aged leader, who estimated
that 100000 Russians and $4,000
Firms were slain in the 105.day-warI
ending yesterday, said however,:
I'VE are produly conscious of the
historic duty which We will continue
to fulfill: Defense of that western
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Qp-
President Roosevelt served notice,
in effect. today that Russia should
let what remains of Finland live II
peace and not try to swallow it up
now that its defenses are weakened.
In a formal statement, the Presi.
dent said that the people of the
Baltic republic "have o the moral
right to live in everlasting peace
and independence in the land they
have so bravely defended"
The President also said that 1.-The
ending of this war does not yet
clarity the inherent right of small
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
URGE
MO0RlNC BASINS
Dne Of Six Proposed Sta.
lions Would Be Located
At WrightsviIle Sound

army engineers in a report to con-
fless Yesterday recommended the
instruction of six mooring basins
me ~lhtracoastal waterway from
@sauloft' N. c., to the Cape Fear
hSllmated cost of the navigation
movements is $4,000
Lieut. Col. George Gillette, district
my engineer, said here last night
!nS proposed location of the six
uins basins are as follows:
st s.s0oro' New River, stumpy
M Myrtle Grove Sound, Cape
river and Wrightsvilie Sound.
h.. confessional action on the pro-
,as Is expected within the next few
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Step To Win
Friends
Is Indicated
Germany Agrees To Supply
Italy With Most Of Coal
Needs By Rail
WAR BUDGETS OKEHED
Russian Trade Group May
Go To Rome Soon To
| Start Work On Treaty
Ry RICHARD G. MASSOCK

0NE. March 13.-R-Russia
|rs authoritatively reported to
rgbt to be following up her sue
csssful conclusion of her war with
Finland by initiating trade nego
tations with Staly in an attempt tt
WI friends in the south.
The new negotiations were re
ported impending after a day ir
which Germany agreed to supply
Italy with most of her coal needs
.by rail to circumvent the British
blockade, and in which the fascist
chamber approved army and navy
Budgets totaling $37S, 600, 600.
Group May Visit Rome
Authoritative sources said a Rus
sian trade commission, which has
headquarters at Milan, may come
Rome shortly to start negotia-
|ions for a new treaty. The head
G the commission was reported al.
leady to have left for Moscow for
final Instructions.
There was speculation at once
THAT definite move might be under
way for Improvement of Italian.
Russian relations such as German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
|DPntrop was reported to have urged
IN his conferences here with Pre-.
|nler Mussolini early this week.
The German agreement dims the
prospect of Italy obtaining coal
prom the United States because of
|hlsh shipping costs, informed Ital-
Fan quarters said.
edneral Ubaldo soddu, under-sec-
Felary of war, introducing the de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
STUDENTS ENTER
GARDEN CONTEST
Fifty Youngsters At Corne.
Illus Harnett Sign Up
For Annual Event

The 1910 Star-News school garden
contest definitely got under way yes
terday with the entry of SO school
children from Cornelius Harnett
school in the contest, Carl Render,
originator and director of the contest,
announced last night.
The first entries came after the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Reading The Want Ads
Star and
News Readers

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Bargains in Poultry Supplies.
Two 260-egg capacity incuba-
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Why pay high prices for good
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
CLAUDE TOWNSEND
DIES IN robson
Former Clerk OF Court Was
Oldest Living Graduate
OF Trinity College

LUMBERTON, March 13.-Claude
B. Townsend, SO, Oldest living grad
uate Of Trinity college, now Duke
university, and former Robson
county clerk of court, died at his
home here tonight following a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14

yOr+h FORECAST
ksrnerr Caroljna: Cloudy with rain.
hqrsd,re east and central portions
+ east nor friday partly cloudy, cold
kin syssg7f .sS data for the q hours
p; IN. Yesterday.
l&N = temperature
b Il. d. m. "di 7:3O a. M 3G. On ~
fhimum ~ ~ ,. IN. ~; maximum 43:
90 mean Al; normal 20
l&N Humidity
\ 90, 7.alnl m q; 7:30 a. m. sG. IN -
''9o p. IN. 80. '0' LOU y
Total f., Precipitation
l@ Inches 4 hours ending 7;3o n. M.
Fonth, ass total since first If ti,o
'''i High Low
h. - 1:05a S:4Oa
f'S0nbOro JnIo4 Tsp 7:4Op
H. INIT ------ 0 :44a 4:5Sa
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%'tteville, ' u river stage at Fav-
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Continued on Page Seven; Col. ]
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Social Activities
And News Notes
From StauntOn

STAUNTON, Va, Dec. 7.-Mr.
Henry H. Hamilton has arrived from
Wilmington, Del, to spend some
time with his mother, Mrs. H. H.
Hamilton, at Aspen Hill, her home
near Staunton.
Miss Margaret Kent Bell has gone
to the University of Maryland to
visit her sister, Mrs. Robert E. Wusor
and also will spend some time in
Washington before returning to her
home here.
Mr.. Theodore R. Deverick has re-
turned from a trip to Washington,
where he met Prof James Heen
Wong, who arrived there recently
from Honolulu. He was accom-
panied on his return by Prof. Wong,
who is his guest for some time.
Miss Alma Elliott is in Washing
ton to spend some time with rela-
tives.
Mr.. Sterling Boiling has returned
to Staunton after spending several
DAYS in Washington with friends.
The Misses Mary Reed and Ellen
Addison spent several days in Wash
ington with the formers parents,
Col. Walter J. Reed, U. S. A, and
Mrs. Reed, and again are at Stuart
Hall, where they are students.
Mrs Hubert Landes, who has been
visiting Washington for several
weeks, has returned to her home
here. During her absence she ac-
companied Mr.. and Mrs. William
Edinger on a trip to New York and
PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

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Items of Interest
From Rockville

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. Mrs.
Adrian L. Brunett was hostess to
a few friends at bridge Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. j. S. Parsons have
returned to Rockville after visiting
relatives Of Mr.. Parsons in johnson
City, Tenn.
Mrs. Ohio H. w. Talbot enter
tanned the Burden Bearer Circle
Of Kings Daughters in her home
in Rockville Tuesday.
Mr.. F. Bache Albert has returned
from visit with his son-in-law
and daughter, 1t. and Mrs. Robert
Williams. in New London. Conn.
Mrs Alexander Somervell of
Prince Frederick was recent visitor
in the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, DR.. and Mrs. William A.
Linthicum.
An airplane just put into service
In Russia can carry go passengers.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

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