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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12
Close Schools
AT Fife, Roy
Mdy Pass Peak OF
Flu Epidemic Soon

Fife high and grade school
foined the list Of county schools
closed by colds and "nu" Wednes-
day and eill remain closed until
Monday. school officials told the
health authorities.
In city schools there were some
hopeful signs. Assistant supt.
Mont J. Downing noted Wednes-
day. While an average increase
Of about one per cent In absences
was apparent some schools showed
fewer out. The high schools
showed q jump from 24.1 10 Il 3
per cent on the sick list. city
wide average was around 1874 per
cent at the latest check. The city
and oounty's student populations
Of high school age generally
seemed hardest hit BY the wave
of colds. though Industrial plants
and stores also were feeling some
effect.
The Puyallup school system,
largest outside the eity OF Ia
coma. had IL per cent absent out
OF 1000 pupils. Nurse Ruth Rob
ertson reported.
Roy high school was another
closed Wednesday. AL athletic and
social activities were Cancelled. and
plans made TO stay closed until
Monday.
Nearly Over
DR.. Lee Il. Powers. city health
officer. said he expects TO see the
peak Of the epidemic Of colds
reached this week.
IF there had not been so much
attention called to the epidemic
in the SOUTH he said. q doubt
wed have noticed 1t up here"
DR.. Powers said he believed
many Of the school absences were
due to parents keeping children
home with mild colds which ordin-
srily wouldn't have interfered with
their school attendance. He agreed,
though. that keeping them home
probably is the best thing for
them.
Some Workers III
The Tacoma smelter and North
ern Pacific car shops, both of
which have large crews at work,
said they had many men home
with colds and influenza this week
and the week before. The ship
yard reported its crews not af-
fected enough 10 notice.
Three large department stores,
Rhodes Brothers, Peoples Store and
The Fisher Co, all said they had
suffered some inconvenience from
colds hitting several persons at
once in one department but gen
orally were not bothered
Closing Explained
A principal reason for closing of
country high schools while city
schools remain open is that they
are dependent upon state attend
ance money to pay their high costs
of transporting students IN school
busses. When sbsentees run higher
than 80 per cent the revenue loss
in rural schools becomes too heavy
to bear.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12
Must Re Aggressive

Senator Roden, who left Tacoma
to 90 to Alaska so years ago,
gave the principal address in
which he charged Tacoma bust
ness men with not being suf-
ficienty aggressive in going after
Alaska business. He assured the
audience that much had been done
to build up good will between
Alaska people and Tacoma people,
including Tacoma firms, but
Alaskans, he said, are realists, and
will do business only on COM
petitive terms.
Many of the speakers conferred
chief praise for improvement of
Alaska relationships of Tacoma
firms upon Charles c. Garland.
veteran chairman of the commit
tee. to whose personal interest and
efforts was due much of the credit
for the mutual help and coopers-
ton exchanged between Alaska
centers and Tacoma.
Good Market
Speakers also pointed out the
fast growing development of
Alaska rs a market. duv 10 the ex-
pension OF defense bases.
Ralph Loman asserted that the
government Is now spending upon
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12
Improvement in Share
Market Ascribed 10 I'D.

WEDNESDAY,
Industrial ....1sl.se mp e-se
Ran .ss.es unchanged
Utility .1e.02 eff e.es
es stocks 49,. .4sls4 MP e.e7
stock sales Wednesday rose 10
$4,000 shares from $4,000 Tues
day. Curb stock sales were 1856
600 shares against l4ei 200 Tues
day.
NEW yoRK- stocks advanced
Wednesday in moderately active
Trading.
Improvement in the share
market WAS sscribed to President
Roceevelts message to q meeting
Of the Economic club Tuesday
night In which the president in
dicated that industry and govern
nsnt were partners in the er1sis
and said:
In tAss Joint effort there
msst 10 provided proper re-
ward for labor. proper incent-
I've for easerpriss, and
proper return on Investment"
The market also had In its
favor several Unexpectedly good
dividend actions, record electricity
output. high rate of steel oper-
ationa. improved oil statistics and
rsaffirmation OF tin plate prices
for the first quarter of next year
By the leading producer.
Steel shares. early leaders. rose
to gains ranging to more than a
point snd then lost part of the
rise. Rails had small gains while
coppers and utilities generally
were steady.
Quotations courtesy Dean Wiffsr a
Co. Warrington Bldg. members
New York Stock IxcnAnse)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12
Investment Trusts
N. Y. CURB STOCKS

Closing Prices Furnished by
Dean Writer a Comuany
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12

Reported-English aviation trade
advices are that about $500 Amer
ican-made airplanes are now in
use in Great Britain. They run
from old transport liners and train
ing ships to heavy long-range
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12

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WAN lED-Mature reliable woman.
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pensation Call Main 474a
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-12

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
OPPOSE
40 CENT PAY RATE
Claim Highway, Waterway
Traffic Cutting Heavily
Into Revenue

WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, Up -
Southeastern railroads, fighting eff
forts to establish a 40 cent mimi
mum wage level in the railroad in
dustry told a wage-hour admins
tration committee today that high
way and waterway traffi> was cut
ting heavily into the carriers reve-
nue..
J. G. Kerr, chairman of the
Traffic Executive association in the
southern territory, presented the
southeastern carriers case against
any boost in the base Of pay level.
Testifying before a committee
set up by the wage-hour admins
tration to represent the carriers,
employees and the public, Kerr de-
clared that the competition from
the government subsidized federal
barge lines bore more heavily upon
the southeastern railways than
upon those Of any other section.
Discussing truck competition
using newly developed highways in
the south, Kerr said:
with the completion of these
highways, the railways have met
| Continual on Page Four, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20

GIVEN PLANS
FOR BUILDING
Rep Short Will Sound
Keynote At Republican
Gathering On April II

CHARLOTTE. Feb. 19.-(R-
The state republican convention
will be held here April II. The
cal for the convention was is
sued today by Jake F. Newell.
state chairman,
Rep. Dewey Short R-Mo.)
will be the keynote speaker.
Newell announced a republic
can committee of seven or
eight re. ,ublican congressman
would be here March IL to
study southern farm problems.
Every effort viii be made,
Newell said, to have a large
and representative group of
Carolinas farmers here to pre-
sent their needs.
1.-THE next session of congress
may find the republicans in con-
troll" he said. Gwen if it does
not. it certainly would be of
advantage to the southern
farmer to have 8 strong minori'
ty familiar with the farm needs
of this section"
''This is the first time" New
ell added, that either party has
interested itself in farm prob
lens to this extent and I hope
that all farmers, big and little,
democrats and republicans, will
be present."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
POINTS TO DISSENSION
Peace Advocate Stops In
Wilmington Following
Lecture In Miami

''There is internal d~issension in
Germany and it will eventually rise
to the top" asserted Baron Frary
Won .Blomberg, international secre-
tary of the World Fellowship Faiths
organization, as he stopped at the
Cape Fear hotel last night. He is
touring this country speaking in
behalf of world peace, and is now
en- route to Boston following a lee
ture in Miami several nights ago.
"The prospects for peace in Eu'
rope are very bright" he sald'
land I know positively that the
German people as a whole are
strongly opposed to fighting"
Relative of Kaiser
Baron Won Blomberg has just
returned from a visit to Germany
and to his distant relation, Kaiser
Wilhelm, now in exile in Door:l, the
Netherlands.
1.-THE Kaiser is now 81. is enjoy
ing good health, and is firm in his
belief that peace should be reacheo
Immediately" he said. 80.
The baron said during his visit
to Germany recently, he talked with
people throughout the country ano
of every social plane. "They are all
bitterly opposed to fighting. L saw
mothers with tears streaming down
their cheeks when their children
left for the front and I saw boys
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
POSITIONS
RAlDED BY NAILS
Detachment Repulsed With
Losses After Assault
West OF Saar River

PARIS, Feb. 49, R German
forces raiding repeatedly on the
western front attacked French
lines for the third successive day
today.
Tonight's high command COM
muniuue stated that a German de-
tachment was repulsed with some
losses after an assault west of n
Saar river. Previous raids had been
reported beaten off Saturday n
Sunday in the Moselle valley.
Whether the local attacks were
intended as a preparation for a
larger offensive or were designed
simply to cause wear and teal on
the French front was not Known,
The French kept on the alert,
however, with their w patrols
exploring German dispositions.
Heavy cannonading rumbled
along the extreme northern part
of the western front a S French
batteries pounded the German
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
WILL OPEN THIS FALL
OF Purcell Structure
To Start After Bids
Are Accepted 4
TO BE LARGE HOUSE
10 Incorporate Every Mod
ern Feature In Enter
tainment World

Bids on the construction of the
new motion picture theatre planned
here by Wilmington Theatres, Inc,
Cape Fear hotel, it was announced
last night by George w. Bailey,
lessee.
Plans and specifications h
been placed in the hands of con
tractors, Mr.. Bailey said.
Razing of the old Purcell build.
ing, at 1918 North Front street,
will be started shortly after accept
ance of bids and "all speed posi-.
BILE will be used" in completing the
new theatre on the property.
Will Open This Fall
1t is scheduled to be ready for
opening in the fall of 1910.
AS to the size and specifications Of
the new amusement house, Mr.. Bal
ley said it will compare favorably
with the finest show houses through
out the southeast. 1t will be larger
by far than any now in Wilmington,
seating 1880 persons. The Carolina,
now the largest IN the city, seats
about 900.
It will occupy the entire tract
now covered by Bakers pool room,
Wulff's News stand, and Honnett's
Jewelry store. During the razing of
the present building and construc-
ito nof the new theater, the jewelry
store will be removed to the build
ing at Front and Market streets,
formerly occupied by the American
Bank and Trust company. And upon
completion of the new structure, the
store will be moved back to quar-.
tiers in the theatre building. j..
Mr.. Bailey said last night the
theatre, a name for which has no
Continued On Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
Sixth British
Destroyer Is
Sunk By Naziis
Daring, With Isl Officers
And Men Aboard, Sent
To Bottom By Sub
MEN ARE SAVED
Nation Continues To Praise
Rescue Oh Prisoners
From Altmark
BY ROBERT E..

LONDON, Feb. 10 R Britain
today acknowledged loss by torpe-
do of the destroyer Daring with 1877
men, but kept up a triumphal cho'
rus praising the swashbuckling res
cue of British prisoners from the
German prison ship Altmark in de-
fiance of Norwegian neutrality.
Sixth destroyer lost. by Britain in
the war, the Daring was the 2Sth
of Great Britain's naval craft to go
down in the intensifying warfare on
the sea. Fourteen losses of the
British fleet were capital ships, de-
stroyers or submarines. Latest cas-
ualties before the Daring we're two
armed trawlers, Bowen and Fort
Royal, sunk by an air raider Feb. 9.
Five Men Saved
Nine officers, including her COM
mander, S. A. Cooper, and 14S men
went down with the 1,375-ton OAR
ing, the admiralty disclosed, and
one officer and four seamen were
picked. up.
A sister ship of the destroyer
Duchess, lost earlier in the war.
the Daring's main armament includ'
ed four 4.7-inch guns, seven smaller
guns and eight 81 inch torpedo tubes
She was built in 1882 at a cost OF
about s1,125,0 900 and was capable OF
the exceptional speed of 1872 knots
The admiralty did not disclose
when or where the Daring was sunk
Germany reported the destroyer
a part of naval forces guarding a
convoy, was sunk yesterday. At the
same time, the German command
declared, it's navy sank an undis-
closed number of merchant steam
ers and tankers in attacks on three
other convoys).
Neutrals Study Incident
While Britain cheered the action
of her naval forces in the Altmark
episode, neutrals on the fringe OF the
western war weighed the lmplltl-
cations of the precedent set by the
British destroyer Cossack's invasion
of Norwegian waters. Great Brit
ain termed the affair a move OF ur'
gent naval necessity.
Morway's foreign minister, Halv'
dan Koht, announced at Oslo that
the incident might lead to an ap-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
LINES TOTAL 225 MILES
New Application For 60
Miles OF Extensions Filed
By Project Directors

Approximately 225 miles Of cleo
trio power lines have been completed
in Brunswick and Columbus coun-
ties under the original REA con-
tracts which called for expenditures
of about 5000 900.
All work under the first contracts
has been completed by the con-
tractors. However, and application
for about 60 miles Of extensions have
been filed and officials of the Bruins
wick.C Columbus Rural Identification
corporation hope to have this work
finished this coming summer.
Schools Wired
Representative H. H.. Thomas, a
member of the board Of directors,
said last night that all white schools
in Brunswick county have been
wired, with electric lines set up in
their areas.
About go per cent Of the lines
were built in Columbus county, with
southern Columbus being almost en-
tirely electrified from the county
line to Tabor City and to Fair Bluff.
In Brunswick county, lines were
completed from highway II to Ash,
covering the entire section.
The new application for funds
would just about complete all plans
for establishing electric lines on side
roads in that section, Mr.. Thomas
said.
Work on providing electric lines
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
MAURICE HINDUS
SPEAKS. TONIGHT
Well Known Author And
Lecturer Will Be Intro
duced By H. M. Roland

Maurice Hindus, author and lee
tarer, who is termed lone Of the
Oestlnformed American citizens on
world affairs" will speak at the
new Hanover High school auditor
lunl tonight at $50 o'clock.
his subject will he, what Next
In Europe?"
Mr. Hindus will be introduced by
u NJ Roland, superintendent of
'ew Hanover county schools.
olllclals Of the Community Forum
snleA is sponsoring the appearance
Aste Oh Mr.. Hindus, announced last
a'sA' that single tickets may be
secured at the door tonight.
IN addition to being a well-known
a''ef' Mr.. Hindus is a brilliant and
ndllc speaker. Because of the
aAuSual large demand for speaking
easements, he has agreed to a
united lecture tour 50 as to give a
W%ontinued on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
REP Projects Completed
In Brunswick, Columbus
Entire Town Mourns
Death OF Old Doctor

STANTON, ILL.,, Feb. 49,
R-The entire town was in
mourning today for the funeral
of DIR. David l.. Bley, 86-year-
old country doctor who was
present when probably half the
population was born.
Mayor William d. McBrien
ordered a suspension of all
business activities for more
than an hour and schools were
closed. Masonic lodge members,
most of whom DIR. Bley brought
into the world, officiated at the
services.
81 guess old Doc. Bley was
present when half of the town
was BORN" said Mayor Nc
Brien. The population is about
$500 and more than 1000 per.
sons were at the funeral.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
VIOLENCE FEARED
in LOUISIANA VOTE
Bloodshed May Underscore
States Verdict Or Long
Machine Today

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.-Pe
T~hirty-five hundred National Guards
men stood to their arms tonight
amid mounting fear that bloodshed
will underscore Louisiana's verdict
on the Huey Long machine in to-
morrow's runoff primary for the
governorship.
Governor Earl K. Long modified
the soldiers today and said they
would be used against the poll
watching jackson Brigade" if that
organization of World war veterans
starts trouble"-trouble he predict
ed would flare in New Orleans.
The brother of the slain Huey
seeks the democratic nomination
equivalent to electromagnetic ire
form" candidate Sam H o u S t o n
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
City Becomes
Part Of Front
In New Move
Division Is De-
,troyed By Firms North
east Of Lake Ladoga
LOSE TANKS
LARGE Amount Of Booty Re-
,arted Taken By Little
Country's Defenders
D, THOMAS F. HAWKINS

By THOMAS +. MA i>iH0
c1NKI Feb. 10 Up Russian
..+ynerv tonight dropped shells
.,rularlv into Viipuri, now a de-
ss;,o mart of the front as a result
:, Soviet penetration into the Man
,srbejm fortified zone. a reliable in
tormant said.
sTbis does not mean the city is
IN danger of capture, but that 1t
,ou is definitely a part of the
'front.'" the informant said.
Division Destroyed
Shortly before an official COM
munioue had told of the completed
destruction of the 18th Red army
division northeast Of Lake Ladoga
BY Finland's ghost-like fighters who
for weeks parried and thrust until
$4,000 Russians were dead or cap
tured.
The same communique which an
nounced this major victory said
Soviet attacks against the new Fin
nish Karelian Isthmus positions, to
which the battered Mannheheim line
army had been compelled to with
draw, had been repealed.
With the Russians continuing
their unrelenting attack, Finnish
spokesmen said their new positions
were sound" despite the enforced
withdrawal.
The Russians lost the equivalent
Vi one battalion and six tanks in as.
sauts on the Firms new positions
at the southwestern end Of the line,
the communique said.
The Russians new positions from
west Of summa toward Muolaa pre-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
CLIPPER TERMINUS
Goes On Record As
Favoring Suggestion By
Senator Reynolds

The county commissioners went
on record yesterday as favoring the
action Of Senator Robert R. Rey-
nolds in proposing Wilmington as a
terminus for a transatlantic air mail
line.
Chairman Addison w. Hewlett said
although such a plan is not likely
to materialize in the near future, the
board feels that any such move
would be definitely advantageous to
Wilmington and New Hanover
county.
W. wish to thank Senator Rey-
nolds for his efforts in the behalf
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
M0NSEES SPEAKS
ON DOLE, SLUMS
Visiting> Official Says Di-
rect Charity Perpetu-
ates Poor Housing

Mere doing out of charity only
serves to perpetuate the slums, Carl
Henry Monsees, chief of the field
service for the National Association
of Housing Officials, warned mem
bers of the board Of city commits
sioners and the Housing Authority
Of the City of Wilmington at an in
formal luncheon here yesterday.
Monsees, now on a tour Of USHA.
aided housing projects in the south,
came here Yesterday al the invita-.
ton of H. r. Emory, executive di'
rector, and the members Of the
housing authority to visit the local
projects and discuss problems OF
housing and slum clearance.
The dole perpetuates the slums,
Monsees said, because the charity
recipient has just enough money tc
rent the class of structure which
goes to make up the slums, and
slum property owners find profit
in providing houses which will suit
the reliefer's purse.
In general, Monsees said, those
engaged in public housing recog'
nize the fact that housing as pro-
vided by USHA-aided programs is
not the answer to all problems. He
pointed out that there exists income
groups both above and below the
scope Of the USHA-aided programs
which present challenging prob
lens in housing.
Just above the public housing
programs reach, Monsees SAID
there lies a stratum Of hard-Work'
ing, self-respecting people who are
supporting families and in many
cases trying to acquire homes on
incomes of 500 to $125 monthly
The incomes Of these people are
too high for admission to public
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
Won lOmber9S Saws
Nazis Opposed To War
King GUSTAV Auerts
Government Crisis

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 19.-(R
King Gustaf was believed to
have averted a possible govern
ment crisis in Sweden by a
declaration to the people sup.
porting the Swedish govern.
ment's policy of giving no d.
rect military aid to Finland.
He told his people that, as
much as he regretted it, the
government had no alternative
but to turn down Finland's re.
quest for such help.
Immediately after the kings
statement, leaders of a group
which was campaigning against
the government gave up the
fight with the assertion they
could not go against the king.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
McG innis Will Take Part
In Street Program Here
IS SCHEDULED TONIGHT
Front Street Will Be Re.
Opened, National De-
Tense Week Observed

C. C. McGinnis, of Raleigh, state
administrator of the WPA, notified
city officials yesterday he will be
here to take part in the re-opening
of Front street and the National De-
Tense week observance planned for
tonight.
The federal works agency official
will cut the ribbon formally opening
the street and will take part in the
short exercises planned by J. E. L.
Wade, city commissioner of public
works.
Parade To Form
The ceremony is scheduled to start
at S:15 o'clock when the parade,
consisting of all national guard units
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
NORWAY SERVES NOTICE SHE MAY PUT
BRITAIN ON TRIAL IN ALTMARK CASE

OSLO, Feb. 10 -(R-Accus-
ing the British government Of
acting in "open conflict with
principles which it has itself so
often proclaimed" Norway
served notice tOnigh she might
put Britain on trial by taking
the Altma-k case before the
League of Nations cor some
other tribunal"
The indication of this jittery
~neutral's course in the contro-
versy arising from the rescue
of 300 British prisoners from
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-20
HULL TRADE PLANS
DEBATED BY HOUSE
Democratic Solons Praise
Policy As Foundation
For Eventual Peace

WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, Up -
The debate on the Hull trade
treaty program began today in
the house, where democrats praised
the policy. as a foundation for
eventual peace and republicans
charged the administration with
turning over the American markets
to poems and coolies"
The charge of ~"'log-rolling'' was
bounced from democrats to repub-
licans and back again and long
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