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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
WALLACE LINKS COP
WITH "APPEASEMENT''

Hastings, Neb.-Henry A. Wal
lace linked the Republican par
ty with "appeasement'' again this
week but cleared Wendell L.
Willkie, the party's standard
bearer, of the charge.
II insist that Republicans are
obstructing national defense, no
matter what their spokesman
say" the Democratic vice presi-
dental nominee declared in a
prepared address here at the half
way mark of his twoday, 500
mile tour through Nebraska.
Wallace did not mention Will
kie directly tonight, but at al
most every courthouse and town
square stop during the day he re-
iterated this quotation from his
first speech this morning at
Weeping Water:
"The Republican candidate is
not an appeaser and not friend
of Hitler. I'll say, too, that every
Republican is not an appeaser.
But you can be sure that every
Nazi, every Hitherto and every
appeaser is a Republican"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
MANY TAKEN OUT
OF BURNING DOCK

London. Two thousand resi-
dents of the London dock area
were removed by pleasure steam
ers Monday from their flame-cir-
cled homes in a little Thames
side version of the dramatic re-
moval of the British expedition
airy force from Dunkerque last
spring.
Police, afraid wardens and
home guards assembled the dock
workers families, in shelters
while the admiralty sent little
boats of the wartime emergency
service to carry them to safety.
The removal was completed on
Monday amid a rain of high ex-
plosive and incendiary bombs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

tied their son and daughter, Mr..
AL Barker and Mrs. Tim Goss
here Sunday.
Mr.. William Shoaf, Jr., is
spending this week with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Shoaf.
Mrs. Cynthia Vaught, of Chest
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
N. c. POPULATION
is NOW 1868, ia

Observation-Disclosures CEN
sus bureau returns showed gain
of 1874 per cent for North Caro-
lima.
The bureau said the 1910 figure
for North Carolina was 1868, ia
compared with 3,17O,276 in 1890.
Of the 100 counties in North
Carolina, 81 made gains, the larg-
est being 1856 per cent in Ala
nance county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
navy authorization measure.
For 1922 Warplanes

In addition to providing start
of the huge fleet, the bill car
ried funds for 1922 warpfanes,
modern mechanical equipment
for an army of 100000, and ba-
sic army equipment for 100000
more men.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

Farm income in North Carolina
for the first six months of 1910
is 20 per cent greater than for the
same period last year, reports
Russell P. Handy, junior statisti-
clan of the State Department of
Agriculture.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
Warrensville News

Mr.. and Mrs. C.. M. Stanley, of
North Wilkesboro, visited rela-
tives here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pine Barker Wis
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

nut Hill, spent last week with.
her sister Mrs. Charlie Biller.
Work on the new home of w.
H. Stanley is progressing nicely.
The rock chimney has been COM
pleted. The odd arrangement of
the built-up hearth and ash pan
have attracted much attention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
UNINSURED !
FIRE LOSS TOTALS
BUT $l,O14 in 49,
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from flue, 27; sparks from trash
fire, 2; sparks from adjoining chin.
ney, 2; c%arelessness, 60; grass and
trash, So; railroad engine, 1; oil
stove, II; heat from stove, 6; defec-
tive flue, 7; defective chimney. q
defective wiring, 1; short circuit, IL:
chimney burning out, 81; automo-
biles, IS; false, 81; unknown, Z; owe
heated electric motor, 6; overheated
furnace, 2; overheated flue, 4; over
heated boiler, 1; overheated stove.
pipe, 8; defective fireplace, 4; ex-
plosion, 2; leaking flue, 5; accidental
4; spontaneous combustion, 1; light
ming, /; telephone poles. 2; tree, Il
blind flue, l; motorcycle, i; smoke
in house, 4; wreck, /; street car, l:
out of city, 10.
In his report for December, Chief
Groom listed the total loss as amount.
ing to $%10,418.16, of which $9,95S.1e
a insured and $3.50 was uninsured.
Eighty-four alarms were answered
during the month. ,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
JAPANESE CABINET
CRISIS SCHEDULED
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NSoAACA1AuSu ho1AI "So o
would be reappointed foreign min.
lister to preserve the continuity of
talks he has been conducting with
United States Ambassador Joseph C.
Grew.
These quarters placed great en-
phasis on Nomura's efforts to reach
an understanding with the United
States on trade problems, which are
regarded with increasing anxiety as
the date of termination of the exist
ing commercial treaty between the
two nations Jan. 26 draws nea The
United States last July 26 gave the
required six months notice for term
mating the treaty.
Nomura, a former naval attache
at Washington, has many American
friends. and he is considered here to
have made progress toward improv-
ing Japan's relations with the Unit
ed States.
Domei said that Kensuke HORN
ouchi, japanese ambassador o
Washington, had preached to Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull on Dec.
20 the question of a temporary ar
rangement pending further trade
treaty negotiations.
Hull's answer, however, Dome
said, SHOULD be interpreted that, the
United States has no intention o:
starting any such negotiations.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
CARTER IS NAMED !
TRADE BODY CHIEF

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City Optical company; John Carter,
president Of the Cape Fear Ship.
ping company.
E. S. Caps, traffic manager Of
the North Carolina lines: Mosley
Fonvielle, assistant secretary and
treasurer of the Cooperative Build.
ing and Loan association; j. Marion
James, owner of the James Book
store; H. G.. Latimer. Sr., presi.
dent Of H. G.. Latimer and Son In.
a company.
Retiring members of the board
of directors include: E. M. Berry,
manager Of the Carolina Insurance
company; J. M. Snow, president
and owner of the ESQ Service
center; Frank G. Harriss, Of Lord
and Harriss Insurance company:
H. A. Higgins, president Of George
w. Higgins Jewelry company; and
w. T. Benton, manager Of the City
Laundry company,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
IS BOOSTED
ON OCEAN HIGHWAY
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has been spent or is being spent
by the association IN behalf of
the Ocean Highway during the
1939-4O season.
Mr.. Fisher, in his annual report,
stated that the efforts of the as
ISOLATION have resulted in a traffic
increase of 20 per cent for Jan
uary as shown by a check at
Charleston, S. G.
From points throughout the ma
ton, he said, the association has
been receiving inquiries as to how
it has built up such an increase
Of traffic in so short a time.
"Our answer, of course, without
going into further details, has been
simply that the success of the as
sociation's efforts is due primarily
to the unselfish cooperation of our
entire membership, composed of
the finest group of men and wo-
men to be found anywhere" Mr.
Fisher said.
lures for the 1939-40 season, he
stated that $4,000 is being spent
on outdoor advertising, $4,000 on
travel bureaus, s10,500 in news
papers and magazines and S10,500
on map folders and distribution.
Outdoor posters advertising the
Ocean Highway have been placed in
the suburban areas of New York
and throughout New England, at
strategic points in Florida and all
up and down the artery Of travel.
The map folders are being dis
tributed by the American Automo-
bile association and through New
England and Florida bodies.
A total Of 1850 lines of paid ad-
vertising space in % leading north
err newspapers in IL cities in nine
states were run in November, De-
cember and January, and a total of
LAO lines of advertising were run
the same months in four national
lily circulated magazines. From jan
uary Is to April Is, a total of 21,-
500 lines of advertising will be run
in leading Florida papers.
MI. F1Sner SAID that puDl1clIy az
ticles in newspapers, magazines,
travel guides and books have been
received which, if paid for in ad-
vertising rates, would have cost
$40, 900.
Travel bureaus are operated at
New Brunswick, N. j., and Miami,
Fla, and each of these report a
record number of inquiries, he said.
Mr.. Fisher said that the asso-
citation has spent, since it's forma-
ton, in promotional work a total
of $135, 600, including that spent in
it's behalf by individual concerns.
The outlook for the future is
better than ever before, he stated.
He added that "the Ocean High
way has demonstrated itself to be
unquestionably the most valuable
single force for the good of the
coast, it's cities, communities and
business enterprises. 1t has brought
many millions Of dollars of new
money to the coast that otherwise
would have been spent in cities on
interior routes"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
LEWIS MAY HELP
SENATOR WHEELER
CLIO Leader Lauds Scion AS
Most Eminent Statesman;
Invites Him To Meet

WASHINGTON, Jan. u. -R-
Talk that John L. Lewis may get
behind Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.)
the democratic presidential nomi-
nation increased tonight when Lewis
praised him as a "moss eminent
statesman and invited him to
address the United Mine Workers
golden anniversary convention at
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. %.
The CLIO leader told Wheeler that
among the delegates you will meet
many personal friends whose con.
fidence you have retained through
out the years of your public SER
vice."
Wheeler, who has been generally
regarded as a potential candidate
for the democratic nomination, ac-
cepted the Lewis invitation.
Questions that were asked in the
capital tonight were:
Does the invitation signify that
Lewis is convinced President Roose-
welt will not run for a third term,
or is II meant to Express dlSSatlS
faction with recent policies Of the
Roosevelt administration? Will
Lewis actually endorse Wheeler for
the nomination, or is he simply
making a general gesture indicat-
ing the kind of man he would like
to see in the presidency?
The Mine Workers. convention is
expected to make some sort of poll
teal pronouncement. In 1886 the
union swung behind President
Roosevelt as the greatest humani'
tartan of our tines and opened its
Golfers to the democratic campaign
organizations, making contributions
and loans totalling almost $500, OO0'
Of late, however, Lewis has been
highly critical of some New Deal
policies, including the handing Of
the relief situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
BRITISH AIRMEN
ATTACK GERMANY
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English coast secuted in the
fourth successive day of such
flights.
No bombs we're dropped on
land, but the German filters omi-
nously kept up the aerial survey
of London's outskirts, the south
east coast and the Suffolk, Nor.
folk and Yorkshire coasts.
Today was the 47th birthday
of Germany's air minister, Field
Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goer-
ing, and the British press de-
scribed the raids as his "ceIe-
bration." They called 1t a
"flop."
Over the Thames three British
Spitfires struck from the clouds
at a lone raider which appeared
to have been hit and was last
seen trailing smoke and heading
out to sea with the chaser planes
in pursuit. Persons on the Kent
and Essex sides of the estuary
saw the fight, with shells burst
ing near the raider.
The plane which reached the
Suffolk coast was a HeinkeI. An
other Heinkel flew over York
shire. A Dornier Flying pencil"
a bi-motored bomber with an I'm.
usually long and marrow fuse
lage, was seen near the Norfolk
coast. She was believed to be Il
minelayer.
British fighter planes and an
ti-aircraft guns were reported to
have forced all the raiders out to
sea.
Other developments in the
speeded.up German-Rritish air
and sea war included a flight of
British planes over Helgoland
and new disclosures of damage in
yesterdays German raids on
shipping.
The air ministry announced
that the royal air force had made
successful scouting flights last
night over western and north
western Germany as well as
over German seaplane bases in
HelgoIand Blight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
FOR TRAPPED
MINERS ABANDONED
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has the death toll in a mine disaster
been higher. The all-time record is
361 killed in the Monongah, W. Va,
explosion of 1907.
Governor Homer A. Holt and rep
resentatives of the Workmen's com.
%pensation office came here to aid
in the settlement of. compensation
claims and the company announced
the victims pay checks-due tomor-
row-would be distributed to the
families.
Until 4 a. m. today the company
had held hopes Of finding so or 60
of the miners alive, but the crews
broke through then to the center of
the blast area and found five bodies.
That meant, crew leaders said, that
all in the area probably had been
killed instantly.
Salvati said Al of the men appar-
entity had been trapped far back IN
the Main 6" heading, a tunnel lead
ing horizontally from the perpen-
dicular shaft; 40 in two entryWays
branching from the heading; n
two close to the shaft.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
RED AIRMEN MAKE
VIOLENT RAIDS
ON FINN CITIES
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through France from Spain, Italy
and the Balkans, all vitality concern
ed over Soviet Russia's intentions,
vas made by an official spokesman in
Paris. From Spain, observers said.
are coming German and captured
Russian guns, which blazed at each
other in the Spanish civil war.
Scandinavian nations, however,
are in the front rank of Fin1and's
helpers. Sweden and Denmark al
ready have sent organized contin-
gents of volunteer fighters).
Open Twin Attack
While workers set about repairing
the capitals shattered long-distance
lines, to points abroad, war cores
pondents with Finland's Arctic
army reported that the Russians,
armed with books of instructions on
how to ski, had begun a tremen-
dous twin attack from the Salla and
Petsamo fronts, seeking to pene-
trate Finland from the icy north.
So far, however, they had man
aged to build strong Notifications in
only one salla district town in the
north. Southwark to below Suomus-
salmi in Finland's narrow waistline,
the frontier is clear of any appreci-
able enemy forces.
It was in the SHOWS at the edge
of this waistline that Finnish armies
cut to pieces the 163rd and 44th Red
army divisions.
Today's Finnish communicate gave
no indication of any progress for
the Soviet Arctic push, merely saying
that all land fronts were quiet yes
terday. 1t said one Russian plane
was shot down Thursday.
New evidence of the peculiar Ell
fectiveness of the fighting efficiency
of the white-shrouded Finnish woods
men came in the course Of an 800
mile trip by Thomas Hawkins, Asso-
ciated Press war correspondent with
the. Finnish armies in the field.
Hawkins drove for as much as two
hours without seeing any sign of an
army until halted by a sentry who
| slipped silently from the woods on
skis.
He crawled on hands and knees
through the low entryway of a wig
wan hidden in a s~now-coated forest
to find the headquarters of the VIC
torious Finnish Suomussalmi CON-
mand. Inside, the colonel sat on
the straw-covered ground of a car
let blanket with radio and field tele'
phones at his side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
CIVIC PROJECT
CONTEST OPEN

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for your suggestions. And will
pay you for them. The prizes
are $40, SIS, $3.50 and 81 for all
ideas, below the tops, which ri
accepted. The contest which
started the other day, is bearing
good fruit, but there must be
many more suggestions than
have already been submitted.
You have until January 20 to
contribute your thoughts on this
vital subject, but it would be
wise to be prompt. So, why not
write your letter today? or
bring it in personally.
If you write, address the Con-
test Editor.
The Star News will judge
your suggestions. There is no
board of judges to disagree With
in itself and make a choice dill
ficuIt
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
DEFENSE FUND
PASSED BY HOUSE
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N. ", proposing a cut from $1S,'
600, 900 to 50, 900, 900 in the fund
for winter army maneuvers. HIS
amendment was defeated SO to tO'
Because Of the measures nature,
the house vote was regarded, how
ever. as giving little indication OF
what congress- attitude will be to-
ward the $3.50, 900, 900 increase In
defense spending asked by Presl'
dent Roosevelt and toward the navy's
request for approval Of a $1,SOO,O0o,
900 new fleet expansion program.
Already some sentiment has de-
welcomed in the senate for diverting
part, or all, of the proposed $46o,'
600, 900 increase to farm payments
The navy program has drawn
criticism from Chairman Walsh
n.-Mass.) of the senate naval az
fairs committee who asserted IN a
statement tonight that the avy
was asking authorization for a
huge. future construction program
when it had not yet started to bullo
a. single combat vessel under the $l'
900, 900, 900 navy act Of 1888.
The real question at the preseh'
time, Walsh said, is to get more
ships actually under construction
rather than to increase a paper
navy.
Meanwhile, the navy's chlef OF
operations, Admiral Harold r. STARK
gave the house naval ommlttee
new reasons why he said the ~
900, 900, 900 authorization bill shoulo
be speeded through congress.
limiting that the navy may wan
to build cruisers bigger than tne
10, OOO-ton limit set in the now de.
funct London naval treaty, ne sa'o
that the navy believed existing
legislation restricted its construc-
ton to treaty sizes for all categor'
les except battleships.
The $1,000, 900, 900 program "oulu
authorize construction OF ~ ne"
vessels, none of which would pe
%battleships. Stark explained nat the
navy was short on aircraft car
riers and cruisers"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Directors Are Elected
For Oakdale Cemetery

Among the persons elected to the
board of directors of the Oakdale
cemetery at a meeting of lot owners
Monday were H. NJ. Kendall, w. B.
savage and w. M. Hewlett, it was
announced last night.
Other members are: F. H. Fechtig,
president; Murray G. James, vice.
president; w. H. Yopp, secretary
ana treasurer: Vader MCGOWAN,
superintendent; Howard A. Penton,
CHAIRMAN Of finance committee; and
T. D. Marlborough, chairman of the
OuAdlng and grounds committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
National Progressiues
Plan Active Campaigns

MADISON, Wis, Jan. -. @R-
Former Governor Philip F. La Fol-
lette, who returned yesterday from
a vacation in Mexico. said today the
national progressives OF America
would seek to elect several u. S.
senator's and representatives to con-
gress this year.
La Toilette announced the forma-
ton of NPA here in April, 1898. He
is directing its affairs.
He said the new party would have
tickets in several states of the Far
West and Far East but that it
would be premature to name them
now,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
EZ-7RooPER TELLS
Of SHOOTING GIRL
pouian,in Franklin Takes The
stand At His Trial On
Manslaughter Charge

,nT-CH CHUNK, Pa, Jan. H.
In testimony punctuated by a
mans sobs, a heavy-shouldered
who once wore the gray of
pennsylvania state police told
49,. of killing a 14-year-old
schoolgirl when she brandished "a
.:.,olp that turned out to be a
tN. .
THAT gun looked real to me-"
.,some, dark-haired Benjamin
r,,rklin, 80, declared at his trial
murder and manslaughter
charges for the Staying of Joan
Stevens last June 5.
Ia described the victim, a sew
..b Grade schoolgirl in the near
IT, mining town of Nesquehoning,
a rouged and painted young
',5c,, who talked of gangsters and
t.rk holdups and threatened to
"s,ov your -- brains out"
CONSPICUOUS in the crowded
.o1rrroom were two mothers
rrsnklin's and the girls. Mrs.
,,.rv Franklin, 70, showed no
emotion. but Mrs. Mayme Stevens,
srathed in mourning, sobbed, cried
and clueked reproval.
~ob, heavens she exclaimed.
oot, those dirty cops"
II was Joan's promised "tip" on
. robbery plot, Franklin related,
that led him to pick her up that
fatal June night in a police car.
In the front seat were Franklin
and Private Edward ]. Swatji. The
Girl stepped into the rear. She re-
fused 10 give her name. They halt
Cd in a dark street.
As the officers pressed her for
information about herself and x
amined With flashlights a map
importing to show a holdup plan,
the girl suddenly pulled a gum"
Franklin said, and commanded
them to drive her to nearby Lans-
ford.
Then followed, he said, the threat
to his life.
The 2OO-pound defendants pretty
wife, Pauline, IS, watched intently
as her husband crouched on the
witness stand and demonstrated
how he ducked low in the front
seat and fired "to protect my own
life and that of the man who was
with me"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
lBARRA UPRISING
FAILS IN ECUADOR
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-'elu Where ringleaders Immediately
'0usAt to expand their forces.
ASeh as infantrymen were being
summoned from the capitals garri-
10 quell the movement, however,
sioup OF sergeants and soldiers
ny Sergeant Tomas Osorio cap
aieu The rebel heads. Civilians i'm.
mediately fled.
casualty was Humberto Larrea,
a'ioh sublieutenant, who was
Souilued by an infantry patrol while
ment aid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
WON'T BE LONG
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan.
@R-Leaving a liquor store
after a $50 holdup, a bandit
needed a negro delivery boys
plea to leave his emptied pocket
book because it has my girls
picture in it,"
He took the wallet and that
of the proprietor from his pock-
ct, dipped them in water to re-
move fingerprints, tossed them
on a counter, fled.
The proprietor was surprised
a minute later to find three, in
stead of two, pocketbooks on
the counter. The third contained
the bandits picture, a St. Louis
address and a social security
number.
Police said it wouldn't be long
now.