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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
WOMAN IS KILLED
BY YOUNG BANDITS
Northumberland Also Injur-
ed During Reign Of Ter
ror At Kingsville, Tex.

KINGSVILLE, Tex, July 3-R-
A 48-hour reign of terror in which
a woman hostage was killed and
an aged nightwatchman wounded
critically ended on a lonely border
of the Great King ranch today
for two youthful desperadoes who
tried vainly to shoot it out with
officers.
Indentities of the slain gunner
were not known. Their fingerprints
were sent to Austin.
Mrs. ". E. Davis, IS, of Kings
vile, was shot through the head
as the bandits, who had ordered
her to drive them to Corpus
Christi, ran into officers block
aiding a highway.
Earlier, 77-year-old P. L. Barn
hill was shot through the stomach
after encountering the pair in an
alley here.
Deputy Sheriff E. E. Vickers OF
Edinburg related this sequence OF
events which ended in the killings:
The gunner reached the Rio
lGrande valley. Monday morning de-
~liberately crashing their heavy Sc
dan into a highway patrol car
-four miles north of Edinburg and
escaping into the roadside brush.
The patrolmen had been tipped to
watch for two men wanted for a
Nagogodches robbery.
Last night Barnhil ran into the
men. One fred at him, grabbed
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
RED UNION ASKED
BY LITHUAMANS
Soldiers Reported
To Have Urged Formal
. Union With Russia

STOCKHOLM, July 8. - Up -
Nearly 10000 Lithuanian soldiers
were reported tonight to have march
ed from the Kaunas garrison and
demanded formal union of their
country with Soviet Russia.
The correspondent of the Stock
holm newspaper Tidningen reported
from Kaunas that the soldiers con-
gregated in Kaunas' sports palace
and cheered Russian military speak
ers. The men were said to have car
ried huge portraits of Lenln n
Stain, Premier-Foreign Commlssar
Vyacheslaff Molotoff and Klementi
E. Voroshiloff, chairman of a Rus
sian committee of defense and for
mer war .commissar.
Officers attempted briefly to inter
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
1000 Killed h Nazi
Sub Sinks Prison Liner
French Liner Sunk
By Mine In Atlantic

BERLIN, July The
German press reported tonight
that the %, 124-ton French liner
ChampIain sank several days ago
when it struck a mine in the
Atlantic enroute to America
with many passengers. The re-
ports published here said all the
passengers we're saved but that
a few crew members drowned.
The Berlin papers which pub
lished the story quoted French
newspaper sources as saying
that the loss of the liner was an
nounced by the General Trans.
Atlantic line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
CITY TO OBSERVE
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
All Public Offices Will Be
Closed; Big Crowds Are
Expected Al Beaches

Today-164 years after the adop-
ton of the Declaration of INDIE
Observation-Disclosures will observe
the Fourth Of July with little fam
fare.
No speaking exercises, parades,
band concerts or nay OF those
affairs usually associated with the
holiday will be held, as far as
could be learned last night.
All city, county, state and federal
offices will take a full holiday,
as will practically all stores and
private offices.
The weathr man has added
something of a damper to the fes-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
MovementO fShipsF1ere
Put Under c.. c.. Control
Hungarian Reseruists
Are Called To Duty

BUDAPEST, July 3.-@-A
stream of Hungarian military
reservists poured into concen-
tration points along the Ruman-
ian frontier today for the third
successive day.
In the cities and towns OF
this country, which is demand
ing the return of Pennsylvania
from Rumania, air raid precau.
tions went forward. Anti-aircraft
guns were set up in the railway
yards of Budapest, vital key to
the country's communications.
The mobilization of thousands
upon thousands of men-s0me. 81
jears old - damned every high
way and railway line in the east
ern section of the country,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
GRlST IS NAMED
THEATRES CHIEF
Appointed City Manager;
Bertram Goes To Royal;
Aubrey Stays At Bijou


A new managerial setup for Will
,ilagton Theatres, Inc, taking ef-
Wv, W following the death of George
W, Bailey, and conforming to the
pvlicles set up by MIR Bailey be-
VIZ MS DEATH" was announced
Yesterday.
a g. Grist, coming to Whining
VII rom Wilson, will be city man.
csef as well as manager OF the
tarollna theatre. V. R. Bertram,
, roa,lef manager of the Carolina,
w." De moved to the Royal. The
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
ARE ITALIANS, NAILS
Arandora Star Torpedoed
Off Irish Coast While
En- Route To Canada

LONDON, July 3.-R-One thou
sand persons, most of them Italian
and German prisoners of war, were
reported tonight to have drowned
when 8. German submarine torpedo
sank the British liner Arandora Star
off ireland as it was taking 1,5O0
enemy aliens and others to Canada
for internment.
The luxury liner, stripped Of her
finery for prison-ship service, car
ried about 1900 ~internes and 500
guards. This presumably was the
second consignment of prisoners for
Canada, where the first contingent
arrived last week.
No Warning
It was attacked just after day
light presumably yesterday with
out any warning, and some of the
1000 survivors who reached Scotland
tonight said many prisoners were
killed in a mad fight for places in
the lifeboats. One estimate put the
number Of prisoners killed at 1858.
The water was filled with bodies
and debris, the witnesses related.
Hundreds were asleep when the tor
pedo struck and were unable to cope
with the stampede for lifeboats.
A. German communique had an
'nounced the sinking of the 15,501-ton
liner a few h o before the
bedraggled survivors reached a safe
harbor in a Canadian rescue vessel.
The Canadian vessel, first to an
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04

Project Here
Dedicated
Associate Justice Seawell
Principal Speaker At
New Brooklyn Homes
PRAISES UNDERTAKING
Saws 1t Is Monument To
Aroused Consciousness
Of Public Social Duty

Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawell,
of the North Carolina supreme court,
speaking yesterday morning at the
dedication of New Brooklyn Homes.
negro low rent. housing project, told
his audience the project was a monu'
ment to ian aroused consciousness
of public social duty 80. a monu'
ment to a new conception of the re-
lation of government to the social
life and needs of the people for
whom government exists"
Justice Seawell was the principal
speaker on a program held to OBJ
serve the completion of Wilmington's
first step toward caring for its ill
housed citizens.
Accomplishes Great Deal
The speaker declared the supreme
court has recognized the fact that
the slum clearance work is accom-
plishing a great deal in the direction
Of establishing a relationship be-
tween ignorance and crime and Is
endeavoring to remove the conditions
leading to this relationship.
"Simplicity of living under condi'
tons which are favorable to the
moral and peaceful existence and
development of society call for sim
plicity of government. It is quite
true that those who r least gov
erned are the most fortunate. But
when we are confronted with con-
gested conditions of living, more par
ticularly in very poplous towns, we
begin to realize that there are So
cial complications and social evils
that are far beyond the power OF
private agencies and institutions to
remedy, and which legal processes
are Intellectual to control.
Government certainly should keep
pace with these conditions" he said
ut should not be confined merely
to the dry cogs Of its operative ma
chinery. The people, I think. have a
right to look for something better;
That government itself may be call
ed on to aid, as far as it may, the
efforts of men and women every
where under it's broad aegis to live
in security, dignity and decency.
eff this Interpretation cannot be
given to the constitution" he said,
"then it is time to amend 1t by
those deliberate processes which
have been provided; to go down into
it's vital parts, its articles, and its
sections and its clauses, and to
write there, plainly and unmistaka'
bly,, those provisions which will make
it more adjustable to human prog
ress, which shall give to the 1ndi-
vidual a new security for life, lib
ertv and the pursuit Of happiness,
and which shall invest that boosted
declaration with a significance II
never had before.
"A Sad Thing"
I'm dealing with the increasing
complex social problems" he added,
at would be a sad thing if govern
ment v went to school. Govern
ment, if it fulfills its duty to the
people, cannot be bound up in a
hazy net Of distractions. 1t must be
more than a Declaration Of hide
pendence wrapped up in a Star
Spangled Banner. There must be an
approach to reality. Administration
is not a matter of stratosphere. 1t
must make contact with the things
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
ENGINEER IS KILLED
Total OF Air Raid
Casualties Raised To 20
Killed, 1877 Hurt
NAZI PLANES DOWNED
Range All Over
England, From Scotland
To Southern Coast

LONDON, July 4.-CThursdaye
R-The first German bombing of a
moving train in Great Britain killed
the engineer with bomb fragments
in the climax of prolonged raids un-
leashed by the Nazi air force yester-
day and last night against the Brit
ish Isles.
Seven persons were reported killed
and II wounded in the days aerial
attacks, putting the 24-hour total OF
air raid casualties at 20 dead and
1877 wounded
British anti-aircraft guns and
fighter planes brought down six and
damaged four of the German bomb
ers that roared solo and in waves
in the day-long raids yesterday and
last night.
Passengers Escape
The, only passengers on the bomb
ed train were two women and two
children.
1T was a miracle that we escaped
and I put it down to our presence
Of mind in crouching near the floor"
said one of the women, Mrs. P. Stew
ard.
The toe of her right shoe was
blown off. The train was filled with
fragments Of flying glass.
Mrs. Steward said she heard two
explosions, then saw a plane swoop
down. A number of bombs were
dropped along the tracks.
The sixth Nazi plane to fall was
shot down in the evening by a Brit
ish fighter over southeast England,
the air ministry announced.
The raiders ranged all over Eng
land, from Scotland to the southern
coast in an accelerated prelude to
the expected invasion. The casual
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04

have withheld its approval if
1t had found Knox to be an
''interventi0nist." Question
ing had revealed him to be in
favor Of moral and ec0n0m-
ic" aid to the Allies by Ameri-
can citizens and not by the
American government, the
statement said. It added that
he was opposed to any action
which would involve this coun-
try in the war.
On the senate floor, Senator
Barley .(D-Ky) announced
that the Knox nomination, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
Rumania Opens Its Prison
Doors In Search For All
Available Men
NAILS WILL NOT AID
King And His Advisers Dis
euss Hungary's Demands
For Pennsylvania
Rv ROBERT ST. JOHN

BUCHAREST, July 2-lR)-Ru-
mania, almost despairing Of the
helm she had expected from Ger
many, opened her prison doors to-
night in a desperate search for
every available man to meet threats
from within and without her Dor
ders.
It was announced that prisoners
whose sentences would have been
finished between now and Nov. IS,
and those serving sentences of not
more than six months for minor
o%ffenses, would be turned loose.
On guard against violent anti
Jewish demonstrations which al
ready had weakened the country
internally, in her hour. of grave
outer peril, police in armored cars
followed by truckloads Of gendarmes
paraded the main boulevards OF
Bucharest tonight.
Dark News
The news from Berlin that Ger
many had backed away from the
idea of giving formal assurances
of help against any further attacks
on Rumanian frontiers fell heavily
UPON officials who had hoped for
a close tieup with the Reich after
renunciation of Franco-British ties.
1t came just as King Carol was
giving audience to three pro-Ger-
man politicians who are Transyl-
vanians-natives of the area which
Hungary wants to regain from
Rumania.
To Carols palace went General
Ion Antonescu, former war minister
IN the COCA (pro-Nazi) cabinet;
George Bratianu, a dissident liberal
leader, and DIR. Alexander Vaida-
Voevod, a former premier who in
1884 prophesied that the Nazi iron
guard would some day lead Ru-
mania.
Thus it appeared that the king,
despite Berlin's disclaimer of as
sufances Of aid for Rumania, still
was seeking urgently to come to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
BY RICHARD L. TURNER

BY RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, July 3-Re
Another S., 900, 900, 900 defense
programme finance the first
great stride toward a $4,000
plane air force and to Duy
tanks and guns in mass pro-
duction quantities = is to be
laid before congress next week..
The plan was approved to-
day by President Roosevelt
and his immediate lieutenantS
of the defense organization. 1t
approved by congress. 1t will
run the session'art total defense
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
ANOTHER 5000, 600, 900 DEFENSE PLAN
WILL BE SENT TO CONGRESS NEXT WEEK

that of Henry L.. Stimson as
secretary Of war = approved
of the galleries, Senator Con-
mittee-would be brought up
next Monday. To the applause
of the galleries, Sena or Con-
nally (D-Tex) objected TO- the
delay, asserting 'the senators
were elected to do business"
After approving the Knox,
nomination, the committee
considered and approved a
house bill az horizing the ex-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
authorizations and appropria-
tions above $40, DOC, 000, 900. :

Mr.. Roosevelt talked the pro-
gram over with his advisors,
while the senate naval COM
mittee was voting . to 5 70
approve the nomination of Col.
Frank Knox as his secretary
of the navy, the second Of two
republican cabinet appointees
to receive committee endorse
ment in as many days.
On behalf of the commit ee
majority, a statement was is
SUI Sat the group would
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
DETAILS OF WEED
SET-UP DEMANDED
Wallace Asked To Reveal
Program Before Opening
OF Markets On Aug. 8

WASHINGTON, July 3 Up -
Senator George D-Ga) urged
Secretary Wallace today to an
nounce details of the new tobacco
before the Georgia and
Florida markets open August s.
The senator said he pointed out
to the secretary that growers would
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
WEATHER

yo,. FORECAST
ers ;''aa Carolina: Mostly cloudy, show
Thurahd scattered thundershowers
fis siprsaay and in east portion Friday,
portisen temperature Friday and in west
'''on Thursday. ~
en GGhineaseorological data for the "a hours
':oo p. m. yesterday.
Lon Temperature
h., . a. m: "a; 7:3O a. m. p; 1870 D.
HMM, ':5o p. m. 70; maximum 81
'um II; mean rs; normal 70.
In Humidity
h, -. d; m. 30; 7:30 a. m, 81: 1870 D.
~ $50 p. M. 90.
Toto, Precipitation
02sN aa ior a hours ending 7:3O D. M.
haonthh nches; total since first Of the
'A'n' 0.26 inches.
Tides For Today
Wilmington High aEagl Low Low
Iasonho,. ~, 9:20p 3:58p
Doro Inlet --- 6:33a O:44a
sis sua Z :sss SODA: sunset 7:27p; noon,
-fa' moonset 6:39p.
continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-04
REFUSES
JAPAN'S DEMANDS
Standing Firm Against Re-
quest To Close Chinese
Military Supply Road

TOKYO. July 3 -tR- Britain
was reported authoritatively to.
night to be standing firm against
.Japanese damands for closing OF
the motor road from Rangoon'
British burma, to ChungKlhg:
China-''The road to Mandaiay
over which military supplies
have been passing to the Chinese
armies of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-Shek.
defeated France already has
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
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>~0n'lnued on Page Two; Col. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
MAURITANIA IS
 SAILING CANAL

Cristobal, c. Z., March 26-(UP)- The British liner Mauretania start ed through the Panama Canal at 9:45 a. m. today and was expected to continue across the Pacific to Australia to pick up troops.
 The transit of the Canal was ex- pected to require about eight hours.
 The body of Charles Ainsworth, 68, ships carpenter who died this morning, was brought ashore before the armed liner started through.
 The huge gray ship, which left New York Thursday for an unan-' nounced destination, 12 hours before it's larger sister, the Queen Mary, anchored in Cristobal Bay last night with all except her running lights extinguished. In peace time trade she carries 1,500 passengers. She is but a year old.
 After transit of the Canal, the Mauretania was to stop at Balboa on the Pacific side for oil and water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26

A funeral cortege, winding slowly from South Elm street through North Elm street, today brought about the arrest of John Sharon, 24, of oe Hill street, on charge of obtaining money by false pre-. tenses.
 Tt was this way" explained De- tective Lieut.. Edward McElligott, arreSting officer. T was riding down Eeet Main street and when got to Stanley Park I had to stop for the funeral. By the way, in all my life I've only seen one or two funeral procesSions going up North Elm street, although a lot of them go down and over South Elm street to the Italian church. Only one or two going up, however"
 Long Funeral
 ''Well, anyway, it was a long funeral, and I'd been waiting there for about five minutes when mo- ticed a car coming down North Elm street and stopping at the corner of East Main. The fellow driv- ing the machine noticed me, too, and began to act queerly. He be- gan to back up, so as not to get in the line of my vision. When he backed up, I moved up as far as I could so I could get my eyes on him again. He couldn't move any further back because of the car be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
LECTURE TODAY
 ON NOVA SCOTIA
Dr. Cumming, Tourist COm- missioner, Speaks for
 Harrington Agency

A treat for travel lovers is in store this afternoon when D. T. Harrington & Sons are sponsoring talk by pr. Melville Cumming, tourist commissioner of the Pro- vince of Nova Scotia. The affair will be held in the form of cocktail party at the Waterbury Country Club from 5 to 6 o'clock and colored motion pictures will also be shown of the beautiful country in Nova Scotia.
 Dr. Cumming is in New England from March 26th to March S0th during which time he is visiting the leading travel agencies in the vari- ous cities. He is former head of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and also former secretary of agri- culture for the Nova Scotia govern ment. He will describe the beauties and advantages of trip to Nova Scotia in the summer and his talk will prove of intense interest to cruise lovers who are invited to at- tend the gathering.
 Several city officials will attend to met Dr. Cummings and hear his resume of the fascination which Nova Scotia holds for numerous travellers. The D. T. Harrington travel agency has been most for tunate in being honored by Dr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
SPECTACULAR FIRE
 AT WORCESTER

Worcester, Mass, March 26-(UP) - A spectacular $200.000 fire that destroyed the three-story Wright Wire Company building today broke out again in an adjacent structure soon after firemen reported they had controlled the flames.
 Marshaled by a general alarm. firemen battled for two hours be- fore reporting the blaze under con- trol. The second outbreak, in the Walker Coal & Ice Company build ing, caused about $10,000 loss.
 Fireman Arvo Salmonson suffered severe hand and foot burns.
 Freezing weather coated ladders and pavements with ice. hampering flrefighters. The fact that a high wind had died was credited with keeping heat t- tossed embers from igniting structures over wide area.
 Flames leaped sky high, attract ing thousands of sightseers. Extra police details were called to ire lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
Youth BIames Arrest
 On Funeral Cortege
Alert SIeutl "SpOts" Bogus Check Passer in Traffic Lineup" as Funeral Passes Intersection

hind him, SO we just looked at each other while the funeral wound by. This took up five more minutes.
 When the procession finally passed, I jumped out of the car and told the driver, sharon, to pull over, and then questioned him. I had a warrant for his arrest in my pocket all the time, but I wanted to get his story.
 "There was a lot of stun in the back of his car, a golf bag, an ann plifler, and other things. I asked him what he was doing with all that stuff, and he told me he was going to deliver them"
 Bogus Check
 "'All open, like that2' l asked him. His story got fishier, then, so I brought him in on a warrant charg- ing that he passed 8 bogus check for $l6.50 at Browns clothing store, 128 North Main street, last Feb. 3.
 Tt seems he may have stolen the car he was riding in because the owner said he'd been looking for il for the last day and Q half, and when I called him and told him we had 1t at headquarters, he said he'd get a warrant"
 A passenger of Sharon was also arrested and held for questioning.
 Sharon will be arraigned in city court tomorrow,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
Unique Idea Offered m V.NA. Campaign
Memorial Day Plan in Which Donor Will Receive Record of Service Rendered Suggested by C. J.
 Allen = Appeals Broadcast

to live than to have to take time out and be miserable because some germ caught me. Naturally, in spite of our knowledge of disease and its prevention there comes the inevitable day when 1t seems to be our turn to be sick but the point is, we don't need to have many turns:
 ''The visiting nurse needs, in addition to the preparation given by the school of nursing, an educa- ton in the prevention of disease or to put 1t another way, in the promotion of health and this part of her job is health teaching. These visiting nurses who work in this hospital without walls must have just three tools. First good head, filled with sound knowledge of public health nursing, second, a heart that has a limitless capacity for sympathetic understanding and third, pair of skillful hands. With these three tools, countless misery and suffering can be alleviated."
 Mrs. Purinton said:
 Thirty years ago when the Visiting Nurse association was or- ganized in Waterbury, one nurse was attempting to do all of the nursing in the homes of the sick of the city who could not afford full time nurse. This limitation of service to those who had no ma terial resources was the accepted thing, not only in Waterbury but in many other cities where 1isit- ing Nurse associations were .egin- ming to come into existence.
 To-day in Waterbury, s visit ing nurses are visiting the homes not only of the poor but of the rich and not only of the sick but also the well. The fact that one person has more of this worlds goods than another does not mean that the rich know best how to take care of themselves and the poor do not. The trained public health nurse today has been especially educated to help maintain better standards of health for the entire community. She tries to prevent illness from occurring and in so doing helps to make life safe and happier for all individuals whom she serves"