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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
FORMER PRESIDENT
OF FINLAND DIES
Kyosti Kallio, 81 Passes
After Heart Attack In
Helsinki Station

HELsINKI, Finland, Dec. 19.-R
-Kyosti Kallio, who broke his health
in leading Finland's lost cause
against the Russians in 1889, died to-
night of a heart attack in the arms
Of the country's greatest military
leader, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim,
just as he was saying farewell to
Helsinki and to public life.
A few hours beforehand, Risto Ryti
had been elected his successor as
president, and Kallio, ill and tired at
81, had been driven to the railway
station with his wife through streets
ringing with the cries of Godspeed
from tens of thousands. He was 60
ing home to the country.
On the platform a company of SOL
diers was drawn up in his honor. He
paced smartly to the end of the line
in the last act Of what Helsinki had
planned as it's goodbye to him.
He smiled; said goodbye, thanks
for everything" Then he gasped,
thrust a hand to his breast and tot
tered.
Baron M%annerheim caught his sag
gins body.
Mrs. Kallio already was in the
waiting train. A group Of officers
took in her husbands body, and the
crowd was hushed.
It had been a moving and exhaust
ing day for Kallio. After the for
malities of Ryti's election there had
been a reception at the presidential
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20

his press conference. ut is of the
highest importance that military
posts be in a good neighborhood
or that they be bettered if condl'
tons are not good"
Without identifying the localities
by name, Stimson said he found
on an inspection visit to Fort Ben
ming last month that there was
great room for Improvement IN
one of the nearby towns in all
sorts of ways" -,
In the town nearest the big post,
the site of. the army's infantry
school and headquarters for both
an armored division and a motor
lied infantry division, Stirnson salo
rents had mounted threefold since
the recent defense expansion start
ed.
This worked a great hardship,
he said, on young officers with
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
SEAB0ARD, L.
TRAINS COLLIDE
Passenger Engineer Killed
And Ten Passengers
Are Injured

ZEPHYR HILL, Fla, Dec. 19-
R-A Seaboard Air Line passenger
train, the Sunbeam, and an Allan
tic Coast Line freight train col
lided at a right angle crossing
near here early today, killing the
Sunbeam's engineer and injuring
10 of the passengers and crew.
Engineer Benjamin ]. Green,
about so, of Tampa, Fla, was kill
ed in his cab and Porter Isaac
George, also of Tampa, was injur-
Continued on Page Six; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
DELAY OCCUPATION
Paper Says CivEt
Traffic Halted In Bren-
ner Railroad
DUCE ASKS AID
Greek Columns Are Con-
tinuing Advance Despite
The Cold Weather

STRUGGA, Yugoslavia, cat tn
Albanian Frontier), Dec. 19.-R-
Military sources reported tonight
that fleets of German-piloted junk
ers air transports were ferrying
Italian reinforcements across the
Adriatic to the Albanian battle
front, as Germany's aid to her
hard-pressed ally.
Concurrently, Greek forces,
fighting in cold so fierce that hum
dreds of their Fascist foemen were
reported found frozen to death,
were said by front dispatches to
have forced Italian withdrawal
from the strategic Albanian towns
of Klisura, Tepeleni and Palermo.
Delay Occupation
The same advices said, however,
that the Greeks followed their Gus.
tomary tactics of DELAYING occupa.
ton until dominating heights near.
by had been mopped up, lest the
Italian rearguard entrap them.
The assignment of German
transports to carry troops to Al
bania-if true-would represent an
application of the o familiar
%blitzkrieg technique of troop move
ment, worked so successfully in
Poland, Denmark, Norway and the
low countries.
"a Swiss newspaper, LIE Demo.
crat of Delemont, reported from
a good sourc at Zurich" that
commercial freight a civilian
passenger traffic had been sus-
pended on the Bremen railway
line, which connects Germany and
Italy, to permit passage of Ger
man divisions enroute to Italy.)
The report of Junkers trans
ports in Italy's service indicated
CONTINUED on Page Seven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
US. Planning To Improve
Morals Near Army Camps

"ASHlNGTON, Dec. 19.-R-
luce government agencies joined
ives today in a move to improve
tt eo. conditions" and curb pro-
srlhg in the vicinity of certain
Hpeellcally criticising conditions
WINS near Fort Benning, Ca,
sn,, s'ary Stimson announced he
eorns s name a community service
srna 'llttee to cope with all prob
nd affecting the army's morale
seneral welfare.
IND SdFiectlve service headquarters
tstiouu le federal security admits
asrl"a We're cooperating Stimson
D ;DosSed' in an organized effort
,ont s.pfove health and sanitation,
Epb Sol vice, and prevent unduly
ads, rents in areas not directly
M military control.
/ b ane army has and is getting
~ type Of men," Stimson told
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
WEAT HER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Rain, warmer or
the coast Friday; Saturday Cloudy ran
along the coast.
By q. s. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending $40 p. m. yestreay).
Temperature
1.30 a. m. 40; 7:30 a. m. SO; 1:3O p. m
81: 1870 p. m. 81; maximum 81; mini
MIN 81; mean As; normal 4S.
Humidity
1.::3o a, m. "A; 7:30 a. m. 80; 30 p. m
70; 7:3O p. m. "a.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours, ending 7:3O p.
600 inches. Total since first OF the
month O.43 inches
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U. 5
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ------------ l:54a S:a3a
2:02p 9:35p
Masonboro Inlet ------- IL :34a 5:32a
---p 6:07p
Sunrise 7:13a; sunset 5:O6p; moon
rise II lip; moonset IL :l4a.
River stage at Fayetteville, n. e.,
at 8 a. M, Dec. IS, 11.5 feet.
Continued on PagASeven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
Army Units Will Leave
For Newfoundland Soon

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-4R-An
%undisclosed number of army units
will leave New York for New
foundland early next month, to
garrison the northermost of the
Atlantic naval and air bases being
acquired from Great Britain.
Announcing this today, the war
department disclosed that the
troops would sail for the outpost
even before shore Accommodations
were ready for occupancy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20

LONDON, Dec. 1~9.-R-Winston
Churchill gave this pre-Christmas
warning to the British nation to-
day: watch from hour to hour
the danger and menace" of Ger
man invasion.
'tIt would be a disaster if any
one supposed that the danger, the
supreme danger, the mortal dan
gers, are passed." he declared to
the House of Commons, recesslng
for these wartime holidays.
"They are not! The winter
season offers some ivantages to
an invader. . . 1t would be a very
great lack of prudence, a lack OF
prudence amounting to a crime,
if vigilance were relaxed in our
armies at home"
The prime minister used this oc-
casion to express hope that Brit
ain, "still only a half-armed nation
fighting a fully : armed nation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
Anti-Aircraft Base Work
Progresses Att oodR
Britain Plans Ship
Construction In u. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-R
Given a hearty $50 Ahead"
signal by United States au-
thorities, Great Britain tonight
pushed forward with an ambit-
ious program Of cargo ship con-
struction in this country, ex-
pected to cost at least $780,
900, 900 in its early stages, and
perhaps many times that sum.
Informed United States Off
Gals said that as a first step,
60 ships would be built by the
Todd Shipbuilding and Dry
dock interests, 80 of them at
Portland, Me-, and 80 at Rich
mond, CAL, in the San Fran
cisco Bay area.
These ships, designed to plug
some of the gaps left in the
British merchant marine by
HitIer's submarines, are to be
410 feet long, of $500 tons each,
and with a speed of 10 or IL
knots. They r expected to be
finished in a year or Is months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
EMPTY STOCKING
REACHES $1,000
More Contributions Needed
To Fulfill All Demands
/ Upon The Fund

j. The Star-NeWs Empty Stocking
fund went beyond the $1,000 mark
yesterday, but with only five days
remaining until Christmas many
more contributions will be needed to
make possible a visit by Santa Claus
to the homes of all the unfortunate
boys and girls who are expecting
aid from the fund.
The total to date is 81, 094.93.
Requests upon the fund are con-
siderable more in number than in
former years and unless there are
further donations hundreds of chill
dren will not be cared for at Christ
mas.
You can help prevent the sorrow,
heartbreak and establishment OF
many youngsters by making a contri-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
Churchill Warns Britain
A6ainStGerm

would in 1941 become well-armed
with the help of Americas great
supplies" and to detail the British
conquest of the Italian armies Of
Egypt.
1.-The British army" he said.
has at last had an opportunity Of
showing it's quality"
The year 1871, he predicted, will
see British troops in action lin
other theaters on terms of mod
crate equality in numbers and IN
equipment, if not in defense of the
British Isles themselves"
Churchil's warning Was not the
first of an invasion before spring;
his minister for aircraft produc-
ton, Lord Beaverbrook, ard others
have foreshadoWed it.
Until after Christmas moon,
tides and weather in general are
Continued on Page -Four; Col. 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
U. S. SPEEDS UP
AID TO BRITAIN
English Getting More Fight
ing Planes From Plants
Than Army Receiving

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - Up
The pace of United States aid to the
British has been stepped up, authori-
tative sources disclosed today, to the
point where Britain for the time be-
ing is obtaining many times more
fighting planes from American lac
tories than the United States Army
is getting.
Britain receive dprobably 10 times
Continued. on Page Seven; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
War
Interpretive
BY r X L.. SIMPSON.

BY KIRKE L.. SlMfSON
Amid a hubbub Of predictions on
both sides of the Atlantic that the
Nazis will launch a gigantic at
tack on England within months,
Prime Minister Churchill sounded
a significant note parliament.
He made it abundantly clear that
Britain is being geared for an Of
ensive of her own in 1871; not
merely for defense. He radiated
supreme confidence in England's
ability to Withstand any blow Ger
many may strike by land, sea or
air, and to hit back effectively.
A still ''half armed" Britain
would become a well armed ma
4(Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
FASCISTS FLEE
Reported To Have Aban-
doned Palermo Bay In Re-
treat Toward Chimara
PRISONERS TAKEN
Papagos Claims Large Part
OF Italian Forces AL
most Disbanded'

ATHENS, GREECE, Dec. 19.-R)
A government spokesman an
nounced tonight that the Italians
had abandoned Palermo Bay, on
which Porto Palermo is situated,
in retreating toward Chimara.
The Fascist-held town of Kllsura
was under fire, he added, and
the Italians also YER pushed back
to the outskirts of Tepelinl.
The Greek commands nightly
communique reported that over the
whole fighting are an aggregate
of more than 600 prisoners had
been taken.
Fighting Continues
It read:
Fighting continued successful
ly.. The enemy despite stiff re-
sistance was dislodged by bayonets
from his positions, leaving in our
hands more than 900 prisoners and
a large number of automatic wea-
pons and other materials.
1.-THE activity Of enemy aviation
was directed today even against
hospital installations despite con-
spicuous Red Cross signs. Our avi-
alton was active on military OBJ
jectives."
At one point along the central
front, the spokesman added, two
officers and go men were captured
and at another in the north one
officer and $50 men were seized.
In some areas where they had
constructed artillery emplace-
ments, the Italians offered ener-
getic resistance, the spokesman
said. He remarked that in places
the snow was four to five feet
deep.
"Despite these difficult condi-
TONS" he continued, reports
which we are receiving say our
army is maintaining the initiative
and that its morsle remains high
beyond praise"
Italian counter-attacks failed,
the spokesman added, despite the
arrival Of fresh troops even during
the operations.
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Continued on Page Four; Col. 81
Nazis Demand Radical
Changes In Vichy Setup

are expected to include some known
as Laval's political enemies.
Petain, it was said, would an.
nounce the changes in a radio speech
to the nation, probably Saturday.
Further cabinet meetings are to be
held Friday and Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
LIFE WILL TAKE
ORION PICTURES
Photographer Elisofon Will
Attend Annual Christ
massive Party

a series Of pictures, expected to
u published in an early issue of
- nle magazine, will be taken at
4s christmas : eve party to be
nssea Tuesday for the approx
f Ea.ely $50 persons employed or
-' rN at the Orion plantation.
nllot Elisofon, staff photogra-
ssr 1or the Life magazine, will
1--WE Monday afternoon to take
'N'ufeS Of the annual event al
Vontlnued on Page Six. Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-20
ssDEMORALIZED"

ATHENS, Dec. 19.-RHGeneral
Alexander Papagos. Greek Com.
mander-in-chief, told rs army in
general order tonight that a
large part Of the Italian forces
had been almost disbanded and
demoralized," and appealed to the
Greeks to persist until they throw
the enemy into the sea-"
Referring to his first general or
Continued on Page Four; Col. 81
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eun'lnued on Page Six; Col. y
Evening star., 1940-10-12
Spain Resumes Diplomatic
Relations With Chile

MADRID, Oct. 12-The Spanish
government observed the 449th an
niversary of Christopher Columbus
discovery of America today by an
nouncing a resumption of diplo-
matte relations with Chile.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco S
government severed relations with
the South American nation on July
l6 of this year as the result of a
dispute over the Embassy's shelter
ing of II Spanish loyalist refugees.
(Officials of the Chilean min
istry of Foreign Relations ex-
pressed surprise at the Madrid
announcement and said they had
received no official information
of such move. They speculated
on whether the announcement
constituted an invitation to ex-
change ambassadors rather than
an already accomplished recon-
ciliation)
Evening star., 1940-10-12
Run1Qni0-7 rial for Britain
Hitler Held to Have Scored Vastly
lmportont Success in Occupying Country
Turks served notice, sis guarded by
mn nm

Turks served notice, "is guarded by
100000 bayonets.'
Sanctioned by Soviet?
Now the point of this is that Tur-
key, which has been taking its lead
from Russia, would never Tin my
view have ventured to make such
a defiant threat had it not been
sanctioned by the Soviet I find
support for that viewpoint in the
fact that the Muscovite Amba ssador
conferred with the Turkish Pre-
mier not long before the broadcast
This doesn't necessarily mean that
Russia is preparing to join the
Turks and oppose the axis by arms
at this precise juncture. 1t does
mean, to my mind, that the Soviet
is bitterly antagonistic to these NaZi
moves in the Balkans and that there
certainly is a possibility of war be-
tween Russia and Germany.
Stain and Hitler are matching
wits in a historic drama which has
taken them right to the verge of
war. Both OF them are opportu-
nists, and their actions will be i'm
PEELED by circumstances. I believe
that Stain will go just as far as
seems at all feasible in an effort to
halt Hitler, though probably not
even the Bolshevist leader can say
at this moment whether he should
strike now or hold his hand for a
more favorable moment, and blink
at Hitler's operations.
Invasion Feeler?
However that may be, the attitude
of Russia is of vast Importance as
the axis offensive begins. Both
Germany and Britain recognize this
and are making efforts to win the
support of Stain.
It's long hop from the Balkan
mountains to the tight little Isle
of Wight off England's south coast,
but I think we must associate these
two spots with the Berlin announce
ment that a German torpedo boat
f1otilla has fought an engagement
off the island with British light
forces.
There are no details to enable
formation of studied judgment of
what such an operation means. The
Germans apparently haven't en-.
tirely abandoned the idea of in.
Evening star., 1940-10-12
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

With Hitler's military occupation
Of strategically- placed Rumania, We
can say that the great axis offensive
in the battle of the Mediterranean
is under way and that the NaH
Fuehrer has scored a vastly impor-
tant success.
He has by series of crafty po-
litical schemes and threats-and
without firing a shot-secured a
vital military, air and naval base for
further operations in the bloody
struggle which is beginning.
But what is of even greater mo-
ment is the fact that he has at the
same time acquired outright the
Rumanian oil which will act like a
blood-transfusion on his waning
supplies. Without oil the modern
military machine cannot run and
Germany's acquisition of this sup
ply is hard blow to Britain.
dare say this was one of the
developments which British Premier
Churchill foresaw in his grim
prophesy before the House of Com
mons early this week:
Long, dark months of trial and
tribulation lie before US. Not only
great dangers but many more mis-
fortunes, many shortcomings. many
mistakes, many disappointments,
will surely be our lot"
Others May Be Dragged In.
That this new offensive is going
to produce trial and tribulation, !"
not only for England, but for the
other fellows as well, there can be
no manner of doubt. 1t is going to
be fierce and desperate struggle
which is likely to drag numerous
other countries in as a matter of
self preservation.
AS the conflict starts to rumble
down through the Balkans-that
cockpit of Southeastern Europe
which has been a battle ground for
untold centuries-one of the most
significant developments to my mind
rests in that Turkish official broad
cast last night, warning the Ger
mans that any attempt to make a
thrust across Turkey and Syria
would be met with very strong re-
Sistance."
This road across Anatolia," the
Evening star., 1940-10-12
Roosevelt
lContinued From First Pag

on the special train some 20 min
utes in advance with the explana-
ton that 10000 people were at the
Akron station and clamoring for
sight and sound of the Chief Ex-
ecutive. The 10000 were there all
right, packed in the station like
matches in box, overflowing up
and down the tracks, hanging from
a highway overpass, and even sus-
pended from light poles.
They knew what they wanted-a
speech by the President-and they
got it. Extemporaneous and late for
the first edition headlines of the
morning papers. it sent newsmen
scrambling to throw of new leads
for their stories when Mr.. Roosevelt
stood on the back platform and told
this crowd:
For many years, we in the United
States have managed to keep out
of trouble in other continents and I
am confident that in the future we
shall be able to avoid being brought
into war through attack by some
body else on the Americas. But I
also believe, and I think most Of you
do too, that the best way to avoid
an attack Is to be ready to meet one.
And that = why In the steel
Evening star., 1940-10-12
Old Georgetown Road
Work Is Halted on
Issue
Threots Of LeeoI Action
By Property Owners
Again Delay Project

The Maryland State koads Com
mission has stopped work on the
long promised improvement of Old
Georgetown road in Bethesda fol-
lowing threats of legal action by
adjacent property owners to enforce
rights-of- claims.
A letter advising the Montgomery
County Board of Commissioners of
the commissions decision was re-
ceived today from Commission Chief
Engineer Wilson T. Ballard. The
project got under way this week
following a series of conferences
between the commission and Bank
OF Bethesda over the right of way
issue.
Mr.. Ballard said the commissions s
reasons for ceasing work at this
time included the threats of injunc-
tions against the roads body which
may influence others to take SINH
lar action, and these other parties
may further ATTEMPT to force or
continue such attempted injunc-
ton"
Agreement Recalled.
Mr.. Ballard cited a conference
with the Bank of Bethesda's s Board
of Directors Thursday afternoon in
which the bank officials agreed on
continuance of the work in front of
their property providing the COM
mission agreed TO examine the titles
and property Lines and thereafter
acquire by negotiation or condemna-
tion whatever of their lands and
rights had been taken.
The commissions unwillingness to
proceed, Mr. Ballard wrote, was
based on the reason that the con-
tractor, if forced to stop by injunc-
ton proceedings, would suffer losses
and that the owners of abutting
property may also suffer great in
convenience and hazard if the prof.
ect is completed prior to agreement.
President Thomas E. Hampton Of
the Montgomery County Board of
Commissioners said he had received
notification from Mr.. Ballard advis-
ing him that work would be discon-
tinued but had hopes settlement
could be reached within the next
few days and that work could be re-
Sumed next week.
Committee Aiding.
The right of way question was be-
ing handled by the State Roads
Evening star., 1940-10-12
Peace
Continued From First Page.)

stroke against the Netherland In
dies and the Malay Peninsula she
would Immediately hamper the
United States by cutting off a large
portion of its tin and rubber i'm
ports and would delay American
preparations for any possible par
ticipation in the European war.
Strategically, the situation would
become little short Of stupendouS
from the American and British
points of view. The Russians might
be able to patch up one of their
temporizing deals, but their posi-
ton would suffer almost equally.
Chiang's Position.
If Chang Kai-shek were to ac-
cept any scheme presented to him
by the japanese, it would probably
mean the end of effective Anglo
American cooperation for the
maintenance of a friendly and in
dependent China and the protec-
ton of their mutual and important
interests in that part of the ex-
treme Orient. An essential feature
of any such a bargain from the Jap
anese point of view would be an
understanding to the effect that
China would in no way interfere
with the japanese in case of an
East-West war. Thereafter, main
tenance of European rights in China
and elsewhere in the Far East would
depend entirely upon the ability of
the armed forces of the United
States and Great Britain to defend
them. Under the existing circum-
stances and with no major diver
sion in China itself, they might find
it impossibly difficult to do so.
So far Chang Kai-shek has ex-
hibited a magnificent realism in
dealing, or rather in refusing to
deal, with the Japanese. If the
United States and Great Britain,
with the tacit cooperation of Rus
sia, continue to support him NOR
ally and materially, there is no rea-
son to believe that he will make a
deal with Japan at the present time.
(CopyriGht 1910. Chicago Daily News. Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-10-12

Commission as Old Georgetown
road is State highway, Mr.. Hamp-
ton explained. However a commit
tee of local residents is working
with the commission to reach an
amicable settlement at the earliest
possible date, he added, and the
county board will then render every
assistance possible
Whether this will mean dedication
for the right of way must be secured
from each of more than 100 prop
erty owners between the Bank Of
Bethesda and Charles street, a few
blocks beyond Alta Vista, could not
be determined Immediately. No esti-
mate was available as to how many
property deeds for that area contain
clause providing that the right of
way revert to the original owner
after abandonment of the old street.
car line, which was discontinued
several years ago.