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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
ITALY TO PROTEST
BRITISH BLOCKADE
Four Ships OF Nazi Coal
Scurry Back To Port
After Deadline
BY CHARLES H. GUPTILL

ROME, March 2.-R-Britain's
blockade of German coal shipments
to Italy On italian vessels today
brought the promise of an Italian
diplomatic protest tomorrow to the
British government.
Four coal-laden Italian ships,
which left Rotterdam last night in
an effort to beat the midnight dead
line for British enforcement of the
blockade, returned today to the
Dutch port where they are tied up
with IL other Italian vessels which
were loading coal.
The Italian note is expected to
point out Italy's dependence on for
eign coal and to argue her rights
as a acknowledgement to enjoy free
access to commodities vital to her
national existence.
Informed circles also believed it
likely the protest would contend that
inasmuch as a large part of the coal
is mined by Italian labor and paid
for with italian funds it is not ex-
clusively a German product. Ital-
ians estimate Germany's equity in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
532 Allied, Neutral
Ships Sunk, Germans
Claim; Wall Extended
II SUBS LOST
Graf Spec, Two Destroyers
And Six Patrol Boats
Admitted Sunk
BRITISH SCORN REPLY

BERLIN, March 2.-(F-
The German high command,
summarizing the first six
months of the war, reported
tonight the destruction Of
532 Allied and neutral ships
|totaling 1,904,913 tons and
characterized the Nazi losses
as "small" by comparison.
At the same time t h e
communique disclosed a t
Germany had extended her
West Wall Notifications all
the way to the North Sea.
(Recent dispatches from
The Netherlands have re-
ported German troop move
ments along the Reich's
northwestern frontiers, a n d
some observers have express
ed belief that these opera
lions were connected with
the construction of new bor-
der fortifications.)
The high command listed
Germany's naval losses to
date as the pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Spec, two de-
stroyers-which were not
mentioned by name, six pa
troll boats or mine sweepers,
and II submarines.
Naval Losses Listed
Among British naval losses were
listed the %battleship Royal Oak, the
airplane carrier Courageous, the
auxiliary cruiser Rawalpindi, and
eight destroyers.
Listed as heavily damaged were
the battleships Nelson and Barham,
the battle cruiser Repulse and three
unnamed cruisers in addition to a
number of smaller vessels.
LONDON, March 2.-CR-Inform-
ed British quarters, commenting on
Germany's review of the first six
months of war, said tonight they
felt "the fantastic nature of the
claims made by the German high
command is so manifest that COM
ment at the moment is needless"
by The Associated Press,
The first six months of the new
European war have been almost
twice as disastrous as the CORE
spending period in the World War
Continued on Page Three. Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
ANCIENT MUMMY
FOUND in EGYPT
3,600-Year-OI Tomb OF
Psou Sennes Is Opened,
Fortune Revealed

CAIRO, Egypt, March 2.@P-
A kings ransom in gold and jew
els that for $500 years had graced
a Pharoah's mummy shone in the
fierce Egyptian sunlight today.
Archaeologists rejoiced in the
discovery and exploration of g
tomb some considered more i'm
portant to historians than Tut.
Ankh-Amen's-that of Psou Sennes
second king of. the 21st dynasty
and possibly one of Solomon's many
fathers-in-law.
Discovery of the tomb two weeks
ago and the opening of the royal
sa%rcophagus on February % in
the presence Of modern Egypts
ruler, King Farouk, crowned II
years of toll by the French Egypt
ologist Pierre Montet.
Working, for Strasbourg universe
ty Professor Montet grubbed pa
tiently for a decade in the sands
of San Ell Hagar, west of the Nile
delta site of the ancient city of
Tanis built by Rameses the Sec
ond as a holiday resort.
There under the great temple
built by Rameses, Montet found the
tomb entrance, a shaft four feet
deep, which led to an anteroom.
A short passage led the scientist
to the burial chamber, % feet long,
nine feet wide and nine feet high,
with walls of rose granite.
Inside the huge sarcophagus,
also of | Sc granite and carved
with symbolic figures of the dead
king and the god Osiris, lay the
body of. the man who ruled an en-
pire which was old and dying
when Homer sang of Troy, the
head encased in a mask of pure
gold and the body swathed in sill
yer gilt.
The prize. sought in vain by
Continued OH Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
Drop
Flares On
Berlin
BY DREW

BY DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON, March 2-(R-Ger-
man air raiders struck sporadic.
ally at North Sea shipping today
and the British air force reported
its scouts had drawn anti-air-
craft fire by dropping flares and
pamphlets over Berlin as the
sixth month of the war ended
with threats of wholesale aerial
bombardments still unfulfiIIed.
Gaping its announcement of
the exploits of British reconnais-
sance planes, the air ministry de-
clared that Royal Air Force fight
r had dOwned two German air
craft on the western front, one a
Dornier bomber which fell in
French territory and the other a
Messejschmitt which dropped be-
hind the Nazi lines.
The rattle of machine-gun fire
and the thunder of anti-aircraft
batteries, echoing along Britain's
coasts shortly after dawn, her.
aided the new forays by German
bOmbers, but there were no i'm
mediate reports of new sinkings
of merchant ships.
lin Berlin, DNB, official news
agency, announced that Nazi
planes had T'sunk or extensive.
ly damaged several British
ships under convoy this morn
ing. but the location of the raids
was not discIosed).
Fight Off Planes
Fishing boats and trawlers RI
ported fighting off German plane
With machine-guns, and at one poin
he off-shore firing was so intens
t vas audible - miles inland.
The 2,277-ton Italian ship Mira
which put into an east coast POI
the afternoon, reported sk
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
thousand zaleas Planted
Around Greenfield Drive

With work progressing at a rapid
pace, the Greenfield Park Improve
ment committee hopes to have the
first portion of its program to beau
tify Greenfield Lake drive COM
pleted by April l, it was announced
yesterday.
Already the work of the commit
tee is making a pleasing appearance
in that section near the northern
entrance at Fourth street.
Here the committees workmen
have laid out winding paths along
the lake side of the road. The
paths, which have a clay base and
a sand top, are to be strewn with
pinestraw shortly. They are Dor
dered with hundreds of young aza-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03

RALEIGH, March 2-R-A demo-
cratic gubernatorial field twice as
large as any in North Cardinals his
tory seemed likely today when Ar
thur Simmons Of Burlington FORMAL
ly entered the race by paying a nj
ing fee of $105 to the state board OF
elections.
Simmons was the fourth
to file. Others are J.. M, Broughton
and A. J. Maxwell Of Raleigh n
Lieut.. Gov. w. P. Horton OF Pltts-
boro.
Four others have announced they
will run, and if all should tie tue
field of eight would be twice as large
as the record Of four. Tney are
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
F. D. RS NAME
PUT ON BALLOT
Test OF F. R. Garner Vote
Strength Is Scheduled
For April 9

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 2.-H'
The last apparent legal obstacle
to a test of strength between Presi'
dent Roosevelt and Vice-President
Garner in the Illinois presidential
preference primary was removed to-
day.
The state certifying board decided
to place Mr.. Roosevelt's name on
the April 9 primary ballot. The
members ruled that petitions filed
by Chicago democratic leaders to
enter the chief executive in the con
test were valid although they were
not accompanied by a signed state
ment of candidacy.
WASHINGTON, March g. Up
Senator Honest Vic" Donahey of
Ohio. regarded as one of the demo
Gratis best vote getters, announced
today he would retire from the
senate at the end of his present
term.
The lanky, gum-chewing senator,
who has spent IS years in public
life, declared he wanted to quit for
a much needed rest and the pres
~ervation of my health"
Donahey, 66, recently declined to
run as a "favorite son" candidate
for the democratic presidential NOM
nation. Third term supporters had
hoped Donahey would make the
race and then turn the Ohio delega-
ton over to Mr.. Roosevelt if he
should seek denomination.
The Ohioan declared today that
he had "endeavored to 80 conduct
my public and private acts that l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
EIGHTH Candidate Files
Form c. Governor Race

Mayor Thomas E. Cooper Of Will.
mington, Paul Grady Of Kenly, L. L.
Gravely Of Rocky Point and Bryant
Thompson Of Hamlet.
For years, the governorship was
alternated between the eastern and
western sections of the state, and un-
der that tradition-which may be
broken at the will Of the voters-the
governor elected this year would
come from the east.
Simmons comes from a politically
western county, and Thompson from
a county near the imignary line
which divides the east and the
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03

lea bushes, which, it is expected,
will be in bloom within the next
few weeks.
All along the right side of the
road as one enters from Fourth
street. this path winds in and out,
following to some extent the con.
tour of the lake shore.
The bank of the lake itself has
been greatly improved. Since the
floodgate has been lowered, lowering
the level of the water two feet,
workmen have dredged around the
edge of the lake, throwing the ma
terial on the bank, so that when the
water is raised again the lake will
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
BETTER HOMES
DRIVE PLANNED
Mrs. Burton OF N.H.H.S.
Faculty Named Leader
OF Organization

Mrs. A. P. Burton, home econo-
mics teacher at the New Hanover
High school, has been appointed
local chairman of 1.-THE Better
Homes in America" campaign, spon-
scred by the Carnegie-Purdue Foun-
dation, with national headquarters
at Lafayette Indiana.
The purpose of the organization
is to coordinate the various agencies,
educational and social, civic and
religious, towards definite and speci'
fic yearly and longtime goals for
home improvement.
THE Better. Homes in America"
movement, which is an education
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
W. c. Peterson Is Fatally
Hurt When Hit Bv Auto
Postal Receipts Here
Show is p. c. Gain

If postal receipts are as re.
liable all index to business as
economists say, Wilmington Ell.
joyed a veritabIe boom during
February.
The local postofice took in
$17,18O during last month, as
compared with $13,962 during
February, 1889.
The increase in receipts over
the same month of last year was
16 per cent, Postmaster w. r.
Dosher figured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
F. D. R. RETURNS
TO WHITE HOUSE
He Raps Congress On Its
Rejection OF Panama
Canal Project

WASHINGTON, March 2. -P)-
President Roosevelt returned to the
capital tonight to tackle domestic
and international problems after a
Central American cruise during
which he inspected the defenses of
the Panama Canal.
Immediately on his arrival it was
announced that he had signed the
bill under which the resources of
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03

MOSCOW, March 3.-(Sunday)
-tR-The capture of the rail-
way station and the southern
part of the strategic Finnish
city of Viipuri was reported
early today by the Russian ar
my, which has been seeking to
capture Viipuri for more than a
month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
Tank Unit Wiped Out North
Of Lake Ladoga While
On Rescue Mission
VIIPURI STILL STANDS
Defenders Declare Soviet
Forces Held Al Bay
Along Isthmus
BY WADE WERNER

HELSINKI, March 2.-CR-Fin-
lands stalwart fighters tonight
marked up another smashing defeat
to the Red army in the cold fast.
ness northeast Of Lake Ladoga,
while the defenders Of Viipuri held
at bay ]ponderous Russian forces
storming the very gates of the an
Gent key city on the Karelian
Isthmus.
This time, the Firms announced.
it was the 34th Moscow tank bri-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
Ildes For Tndoy

Feather bNGION, March .. up, -
Ind raint bureau records of temperature
J, H., in n ior the "A hours ending {
ass' And M me principal cotton-growine
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
WEATHER

w., FORECAST
rs ssttn carolina: Mostly cloudy and
r t'' Vance, occasional light rain, Slight
gop nIlrler IN central portion Sunday
s snuHy generally fair.
sTrS,1r with occasional light rain.
Sr sad.iE cooler in central portion
'A4SF' Monday fair.
.adip,, so 1.50glca data for the "A hours
-'Ns 1870 p, M. Yesterday.
In Temperature
b. 4. d.; m, ii; 7;30 a. IN. So; 30 n.
niDimrr,, 'eo p. IN. 81: maximum 81
D o.; mean 50; normal so.
In Humidity
h. q. 4; m N. s.; 7:3O a. m. 81: 1;3o n.
w. $50 p. m. rs. p
Toto, Precipitation
+, nome ;'f tot - hours ending 7:so p.
|Asae. '''al since first of month,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03

by The Associated Press
The first six months of the new
European war have been almost
twice as disastrous as the CORE
spending period in the World War
Continued on Page Three, Col. y
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
Deddline on 1910 Tax
Pdy1nents Is Saturday

Big Horn county taxpayers
have until S pm. Saturday to
pay the first half of 1910 taxes
on real estate and all of the
personal property assessment to
avoid payment of penalty and
interest, County Treasurer WAL
ter Hammer stated this week.
The county official said that
unless payment of the first in
stallment of the 1910 tax bill is
made before the deadline date
a 2 per cent penalty will be
added and interest on delin-
quent payment will be charged
at the rate of two thirds of l
per cent a month.
The county treasurer reported
no figures available to date on
this years tax payments, but he
estimated the payments were
being received at ABOUT the
same rate as a year ago.
He urged taxpayers to mail
payments to the treasurer's Of
flee, If possible, and said pay
mentS placed in the mail be-
fore the opening Of business
Monday would not be classed
delinquent.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
Women Killed
In Auto Wreck

Miss Pauline SpecK of Miles
City, Mont, was killed Sunday
afternoon in an automobile &C
c1dent on the Decker Birney
road. The wreck occurred in Big
Horn county and is being inves-
tigated by Sheriff Henry H. Ul-
rich and Patrolman Tom Stark.
Miss Speck was killed almost
instantly when she was pinned
beneath the car she was driving
after it went out of control on
a curve, overturned, and
smashed into a tree at the side
Of the road, it was stated.
H. v. Cross, owner of the car,
who was riding with Miss Speck,
was not injured.
Passing motorists stopped and
helped to raise the car from
Miss Speck's body, but she was
dead when taken from under
the car, officers said. A physic-
ians examination disclosed that
she had died almost instantly
apparently from Suffocatior
caused by the pressure of the
car on her chest. No bones were
broken, the doctor said.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
Urqes Purchase
Of Christ1nds Sedls

Mayor Miriam B. Ransier to-
day endorsed the 1910 Christmas
Seal campaign of the Mon
tana tuberculosis association
through which money is raised
to fight tuberculosis. Her state
ment follows: .
with a deep sense of official
duty and with whole-hearted
communication as a private citi-
zen, I hereby endorse the pur-
chase of Christmas seals as a
means of raising funds for the
control of tuberculosis.
II hope our citizens will buy
as many seals as possible this
year and that every greeting
card, letter and. gift that goes
out from Hardin will carry these
little stamps, atesting that our
community is doing It's part in
a great national effort.
Buyers Of Christmas seals in
Montana in 1899 made it posi-
BILE to test more than 10000 of
our young people and their as
sociates for tuberculosis. The
tests given discover the disease
at an early period when cure
is comparatively easy.
IT am glad to give my earnest
support to the Christmas seal
campaign and to recommend
it as a worthy cause for our
community support"
"(Signed) Miriam B. Ransier
Mayor"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
LIST MEMBERS
OF RED CROSS
Incomplete List OF
Big Horn County
Contributors Given

Totals for the annual Red
Cross roll call, to Wednesday
noon, are $574.43 turned in, and
525 members.
Reports from Hardin are
nearly complete, though there is
still some work to ne done
here, but reports from other
districts in the county have, in
many cases not yet been turned
into phe county office, or are
incomplete.
Mrs. E. L. Jacobson, chairman
for the Hardin district, said
Tuesday night that $442.08 had
been received at that time, rep
resenting 403 members.
Other reports are as follows:
Lodge Grass, $83.05, 70 men,
bers; Decker, $13, IS members;
Corinth, SASS, 4 members; Two
Leggdns, 1925, 8 members; H.
e. o. club, $3.50, one member;
Hallway, $40, 10 members.
The local chapter OF the Red
Cross recently received a tele-
gram from Governor Roy E.
Ayers, which read, During this
national emergency I ask that
the Red Cross roll call be car
ried forward with utmost dill
gence to the end that we may
show a solid front In our de-
tense program. I commend your
worthy efforts heretofore made
and hope you may enroll every
adult citizen of your chapter"
The local chapter emphasized
the Importance of membership
I'm the Red Cross and urges all
adults not contacted to send in
contributions to the chapter at
Hardin either by mail or in per-
son. Membership cards and but
lions will be sent Immediately
to those who mail money to the
Red Cross fund.
A partial list of membership
In the hundred per cent honor
roll has been turned i'm. Mem
bership requirements specify
that all employees in business
firms or offices where there are
two 3r more persons working
must enroll in the Red Cross.
Honor roll firms whose names
have been turned in so far in
clude the First National Bank,
Big Horn County bank, w. G.
woodward company, Sibley Drug
company, Hardin Meat market,
Hardin Drug company, Big Horn
Implement company, Chambers
grocery, Linthacuri's service
station, Bill Faber, contractor,
Continued on Back Page)
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
HARDNESS IS
LIONS GUEST
Lions And Ladies' Attend
Meeting And Banquet
MonddY Night

District Governor and Mrs.
Thomas A. Hardness of Mis-
soula were honored guests of the
Hardin Lions club at their reg
ular Monday night meeting held
in the banquet room of the Ma
sonic temple. More than twenty
five Lions and their wives at
tended the dinner.
J. Gayle Sawicki presided at
the meeting and the program
was in charge of Dave L. Egnew
who acted as master of cere-
monies.
In addressing the Lions and
their wives Mr.. Hardness told
pf the work of Lionism that he
has experienced. He told OF
several Lion activities and also
announced that the 1871 district
convention vii be held in Ga
cier National park i'm June. Lo-
cal members were invited to at
tend.
Group singing was led by the
Rev. r. N. England. The pro-
gram included stunts by the
members and several musical Sc
lections by high school students
under the direction of A. R.
Hegre, music director in the
local school systems.
Students participationg in the
program were Marilyn Kelly, La
Nell Boughton and Everett Bull
lis,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
CHILDREN LOSE
lives IN fire
Mchdel Babies Die
In Bluze Which
Destroys Home

Fred Allen Michael, 10 months,
and his two-weeks-old brother
lost their lives i'm a fire which
totally destroyed the home OF
their parents, MIR. and Mrs. Fred
Michael on Thanksgiving morn
ing.
Mr.. Michael, who Is employed
at the Holly Sugar company's
factory here, was at work, and
Mrs. Michael had been visiting
for a few minutes with a nei-
ghbor, Mrs. Vernon Long, when
the blaze was noticed.
Mr.. Long and Harry Hender-
son attempted to break into the
house, but were turned back by
the flames at one door. The
other door to the building was
locked, and a bed had been
pushed against it, making a
rescue impossible.
The origin of the fire was
not definitely known.
The Hardin Fire department
was called, but was unable to
reach the two children until
they were dead. Mrs. Adam Hell
Ter sent in the alarm from the
West End service station.
Funeral services were held in
the German Congregational
church here Sunday, and inter-
ment was in the Hardin ceme-
terry.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
President Endorses
Seal Sole Cu1npuiqn

In organizing the best pos
sible defense, the American
people should make provision
to fight tuberculosis, President
Roosevelt said recently in en-
dorsing the annual Christmas
Seal campaign of the National
Tuberculosis association.
In m it airy preparedness,
President Roosevelt said tuber-
culosis, a communicable disease,
which kills more persons be-
tween the ages of IS and As
than any other disease, might
interfere with mastering the
best possible n1anpower.
1.-THE National tuberculosis
association and its affiliated
state and local organizations
can render service of inestim-
able value to public health of
ficials throughout the country
in handling the problem of tu-
berculosis as it is disclosed from
the physical examinations OF
recruits" said President Roose-
welt, therefore the 34th annual
nationwide Christmas Seal sale
of the tuberculosis associations
takes on added significance this
year. It should receive more
than ever before the fullest pos
sibel support of all the people
of our country.
From now until Christmas
day, we as individuals, by gen.
erous purchase of the seals, can
do our part to help the tuber-
culoSiS associations free us from
the deadly menace of this COM
municable disease. We know
from past experience that our
dollars will be well spent in be-
half of the public good"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-11-28
Room Discusses
Livestock Show

James E. Roam, assistant sup
ervisor of the local Farm Secur-
ity Administration office, adj
dressed the Kiwanis club at its
regular Wednesday luncheon on
the subject of the Little Inter-
national Livestock show, which
is held annually at the state col
lege at Bozeman.
Mr.. Roam was co-manager OF
the show held last year.
This show" he said, lis pat
termed after the International
Livestock exposition which is
held each year in Chicago, and
is produced by the agricultural
department of the State college.
The show Is held in conjunc-
ton with the annual conven-
ton of the Livestock Associa-
ton of Montana.
1.-THE purposes" he added,
"are to offer opportunities to
agriculture students to become
acquainted with livestock and
livestock activities, to give train
ing and experience in coopera-
ton to each student and to
give opportunities to win prizes
for participation"
MIR. Roam also outlined the
activities and purposes of the
state show herd, which is made
up of prize-winning livestock.
This show herd is offered to
county fairs and other organtza-
tons for show purposes, with
the idea of promoting sales of
Montana livestock for breed
ing purposes.
Out-of- town Kiwanians pres
ent were Carl D. Adams of Sid
ney and T. M. Gilkerson of
Bozeman. Dan Davis of Bill
lngs was a guest of Kiwanian
Kendall Wolcott.
Song leader Willard J. Scott
introduced a new song, Gail Hail
America" written by a mem
Der of the Ottumwa, Ia, XII
! wants club.
A special meeting of the Har.
din Kiwanis club will be helc
Sunday, December 1, at 200 o
m. in Sullivan hall. At thai
time the 1941 lieutenant-gov.
ernor elected of District C, J. A
Cat" Thompson of Livingston
viii De present. Also ATTENDING
this meeting will be Montana
District Governor John A. Keere
OF B!lllngs. All Kiwanians are
urged to be present.
The meeting of December 4
will be under the direction OF
Willard J. Scott, song leader.