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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
PLAN WORKOUT

East Lansing. Mich. oct Is -
ms Preparing for their first
night battle since 1880, the spar
tans Of Michigan State were sche-
duled to 90 through two-hour
workout tonight under the lights
In preparation for their gridiron
tilt Friday night aeainst Temple
in Philadelphia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
IN TIP TOP SHAPE

Ann Arbor. Mich. Oct 16-INS
Repeatedly in tip-top shape for
their battle Saturday with the
stalwarts of Illinois, the Univer-
sity Of Michigan drove through an
other stiff workout today. All
American Tom Harmon and Bob
Westfall were again slated to lead
the Wolverine attack, according
to Coach Fritz Crisler. who look
cd for victory and q chance 10
avenee the Is to drubbing hand
ed the Wolverines last year By IL
linois
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
GRAND SLAM VICTORY

Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Oct. Is 49,
ms Wayne University's varsity
cross country squad held a grand
slam" victory over Central State
Teachers College today with a s.
~ decision. In a separate clash.
the frosh teams tied at 2S all.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
DETROIT YOUTH
ONE Of VICTIMS

Five fatalities Tuesday marred
the otherwise perfect opening day
for the small game hunting sea
son, as thousands OF hunters in
the lower peninsula bagged the
limit OF pheasants, rabbits, ruffed
grouse, prairie chickens. sharp
tails, woodchock and fox squirrels.
Only one of the victims. 19.
year-old University Of Detroit stu
dent, died Of hunting accident.
-l{e-was-k!llad-h shotgun blast
as his companions attempted to
rescue him from a bog. Three
others were killed in an automo-
bile accident at Horton, near Jack
son, and another hunter died OF a
heart attack.
The conservation department at
Lansing reported perfect hunting
weather throughout the state. An
all-night rain Monday aided hunt
ers by freshening the ground, per-
hitting full use of dogs, and rid
ding some trees OF dense foliage.
Nineteen-year-old Dean Joslin OF
Detroit, pre-medical student,
was shot near the heart when
Richard LaBlanc. Is, one OF three
companions, extended his gun,
muzzle first, toward Joslin who
had become mired in a bog near
Wampler's Lake on the jackson.
Lenawee County line.
LaBlanc told DR.. Jason B.
Meads, Jackson County coroner.
the gun discharged when he lost
his footing. The coroner said no
inquest will be held.
The traffic victims, all OF Jack.
son, were Yell Clark. 80; Edward
Matthews, 2S, and Ernest Marsh,
SO, an uncle Of Matthews. Impact
Of the crash hurled all Of the
men into a farmyard.
Clare PATTERSON, 30, or Wander
cook Lake. was critically hurt. A
hound in Clarks car was uninjur-
ed
The heart attack victim was
Henry Heikkinen. SO. OF Big Ira
verse Bay. who died near Calumet.
John Jackson, 80. Of Lansing.
suffered slight face wounds when
he was sprayed by shot from the
gun of Richard Trezona. his COM
panion, who did not see him in
the line OF fire as he shot al a
pheasant he had flushed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
COL. BROWN HEADS
LOCAL ENGINEERS
Succeeds Maffitt AS Presi
dent Of Club; Other
Officers Installed

Colonel Earl I. Brown was Install
ed last night as president of the Will
mington Engineers club at it's first
annual banquet meeting at the Cape
Fear hotel.
Col. Brown succeeds M'Kean Maj
fit, the clubs first president, who
reviewed the history of the organi-
zation and it's achievements of the
past year in the main address of the
evening.
Other officers installed were:
Carl J. Josenhans as vice presi.
dent, succeeding j. T. Hewitt; b.
w. Mango and H.. G. Roebke as di.
rectors, succeeding A. L. Jones and
G. M. Shigley. c. A. Williams, Sec
retary-treasurer, who was elected to
a two-year term of office, was the
only old officer retained.
Mr.. Maffitt reviewed the first or.
ganizational meeting when SO per.
som met and signified their inten.
tons to join the club and traced the
clubs development to the present
time when there are LOG paid mem.
Continued on Page Four, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
RESCUE WORK PUSHED
Explosion Occurs In Mine
OF Pond Creek Pocahon-
tas Coal Corporation

hartley, W. v, Jan. 10.-H9-
Two men were known to DE deas
and IS others were reported trapped
tonight two and a half miles under
ground after an explosion in the
BARLEY No. 1 mine Of the PonC
Creek Pocahontas Coal corporation
The bodies of two men were
brought to the surface. 1t wa as
sumed they were discovered on the
edge of the blast zone which covered
a large section of the mine.
45 Men Escape
Mines department officials said
about 125 men were in the operation
when the explosion occurred about
$3.50 p. m. EST) but that As had es-
capped.
Reports at Z p. m. tonight were
that rescue crews had gone in about
one mile, but had little hopes OF
reaching any of the trapped men be-
fore midnight.
Eight rescue teams from Barley
and nearby towns in this rugged
southern West Virginia coal mine
area 140 miles south of Charleston
were on duty. One U. S. bureau of
mines car was enroute from Eckman
and another from Pittsburgh.
r. E. Salvati of Holden, w. Va,
vice president of the company, Who
came here to direct rescue opera
tions, issued a statement saying Al
men had made their way to safety,
two were dead and IS were in the
mine.
One of the dead was identified as
Charles Moffit, 48.
Three Sections Affected
The blast affected three sections,
but Salvati expressed the hope that
in at least two sections had been
able to set up brattices and escaped
death.
He kept in touch with crews
through the mine telephone system
and reports were that while rescuers
encountered heavy slate falls, dam
age was not as great as at first ex-
pected.
Salvati expressed belief it would
Continue don Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
WARNING
GIVEN BY STARK
Tells House Group Of Pos
sibility That Hemisphere
Nay Face Invasion

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-R-
Admiral Harold E. Stark warned
the house naval committee today Of
a distinct possibility" that the
western hemisphere might face an
attack by a coalition of foreign ma.
tons.
Meanwhile, the appropriations
committee approved, with slight ex.
ceptions, the defense and neutrality
outlays authorized by President
Roosevelt in his proclamation OF a
state of limited national emergency
at the outbreak of the European
war. 1t recommended a deficiency
appropriation of s267,197 ,908 to en-
able the army, navy, coast guard
and bureau of investigation to carry
out increased duties under that
proclamation until June 80.
The committees report included
testimony by Rear Admiral S. M.
Robinson, chief of the bureau of
engineering, that throughout his 80
years experience the navy had been
making mistakes in shipbuilding
Continued Oh Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
Troops
Surround New
Red Division
Hurl Remnants OF Routed
44th And 163rd Divis-
ions Back Into Russia
BATTLE AT KUKKAMMO
.Suomussalmi Section Clear.
ed Oh Reds For The First
Time Since War Started

HELSINKI, Jan. 1O.-R-Finnish
troops in central Finland were re-
ported to have surrounded a new
Soviet division today after hurting
the remnants of the routed Red
army's 44th and 163rd divisions
back into Russia east of Suomus.
salmi.
This third Russian division wa.
reported trapped at Kukkammo,
about 60 miles south of the recent
victories at Suomussalmi.
Set Up Positions
The Firms set up positions along
80 miles of the Russian frontier
east of Lake Kianta and Suomus.
salmi. This covers four points al
which Finland has thrown the in
vaders back on their own soil.
A Finnish communique said that
a Red army battalion had been dis.
persed northeast of Lake Ladoga
with the enemy leaving 1900 dead on
the field" The Firms took 40 pris
Ioners.
rat Suomussalmi our troops, ad
vancing in the direction of Raate
have reached the frontier and clear
ed the area of enemy troops" the
communicate said.
Associated Press Correspondent
Thomas F. Hawkins, with the Fin
nish army at Raate, reported the
Russians in full flight as the Firms
drove right up to the border in
cleaning up operations.
1t was the first time the Suomus'
salmi sector had been cleared OF
Russians since the war started.
Hawkins, recounting the huge war
stores left on the battlefield by the
fleeing Red army said that evidence
on the bodies of the dead Russians
indicated the 44th division was one
of the Red army's crack units en-.
gagged in the Polish campaign.
He found the town of Suomussalmi
completely demolished by savage
warfare, with only blackened chin.
Continued OH Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
CUNTS MAY SHOW
AT WORLDS FAIR
Papa And Mama Dionne
Favor Trip To New York
Exposition Next Year

TORONTO, Jan, 10.-R-Visitors
to the New York Worlds Fair next
summer may get a peek at the club
by Dionne quintuplets on the site Of
the Soviet pavilion which won't be
there.
Papa and Mama Dionne are alb fol
showing the little girls at the fail
but some opposition has developed
amongst their guardians.
1.-THE Worlds Fair is nibbling, but
we have had no direct proposition
yet" Percy D. Wilson, official guar"
dian for the Ontario government an6
member of the CUNTS board of guar
dams, said today.
Another guardian, Judge j. A. Val
in of North Bay, commented:
"They won't go to New York with
my consent. It's too risky. We
shouldn't let them out of the coun-
try"
Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On
tario said the decision was UP to
the board of guardians and DR.. Allan
Roy Dafoe, the quintuplets' physi-
clan. DR.. Dafoe would have moth
ing to say until a definite bid was
forthcoming from the fair.
Henri St. Jacques, Olivia Dionne's
attorney, said he believed it likely
the famed sisters, who will be six in
May, would go to the fair, possibly
between mid-May and mid-June.
1t would. be the first trip out OF
Ontario province for the q~uintuplets
who made their initial iunket from
their Callander home last May to
come to Toronto TO see the King and
Queen.
Reports from New York said fair
officials wanted the sisters for their
1910 main attraction. They would
be housed on the site of the multi
million dollar Soviet exhibit, one of
1895 biggest drawing cards, which
will be missing this Year.
The ornate marble and granite
Russian building and it's towering
stainless steel statue of a worker
holding aloft a giant red star are
being bundled up for shipment back
to Moscow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11

voted last year. Woodrum was
understood to have made the
motion which led to today's &c.
ton.
The resolution approved by
the senate was offered by Sem
ator Harrison (D-Miss), who
said it would help start a re-
trenchment program which
might lead eventually to a bal
anced budget. Under it, a SEM
ate-house committee of "a men,
bers would study the Roosevelt
spending and tax recommends
tiOns in 60 days.
The resolution passed on a
voice vote, without audible dis
sent, but some expect it to die
in the house. In that case, Har.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
DIXIE SOLOMS
PLAN TO KILL
1T IN TIE
Plans For Protection
Of Industrial Plants
Disclosed By Hoover

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-(R
Plans for the protection of 43O
vital industrial plants against
sabotage and espionage we're
disclosed today in testimony by
j. Edgar Hoover before a house
appropriations subcommittee.
Revealing other secrets of the
nationwide spy hunt of the fed
eral bureau of investigation,
Hoover said reliable informants
had made complaints of sabotage
against certain large ocean lin
ers.
In support of a $1,475, 900 de-
ficiency for the FBI, approved
by the appropriations committee
today, he also told the commit
tee OH Nov. 80 that plans for al
experimental army bomber had
been stolen-but recovered-from
a west coast aviation factory.
Four days later, FBI Off
Gals said, the case was closed
with the sentencing of a Los
Angeles man to six months i'll
Jail for the theft, from the
Douglas aircraft plant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
HOUSE GROUP ERECTS BAR AGAINST
INCREASES IN ROOSEVELTS BUDGET

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-R
Led by all embattled economy
tie, Rep. Woodrum D-Va), the
house appropriations committee
was reported today to have
erected a bar against increases
in the Roosevelt budget, while
the senate voted a sweeping
fiscal study.
The house group, it was said,
voted to forbid its subcommit-
tees to increase the sum total
of any money bill beyond the
amount recommended by the
White House. This, it was ex-
planned, would hamper attempts
by legislators to tack on such
appropriations as the $225, 00O.-
900 for farm parity payments
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
EXPECTED
Rankin Says Measure At
tack On White People OF
Southern States
AMENDMENTS DOWNED
Bill Seeks To Stop Lynch
ings By Imposing Penal
ties On Officers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-LR-
The house approved n of its per-
ennial election-year favorites, the
anti-lynching bill, today and sent
it to the senate where an unyield-
ing southern filibuster a set to
kill it.
The vote of 252 to 131 followed
a discussion in which Rep. Rankin
(D-Miss) asserted that the measure
was nothing but the renewal of a
vicious attack on the white people
of the southern states" coming not
from the republicans, he said, but
from the democrats.
Amendments Dawned
All southern efforts to amend the
measure were crushed, under a
massive voting combination Of re-
publicans and democrats from the
north and west. The same fate met
an effort by Rep. Hoffman (R-
Mich), %inveterate foe of the CLIO, to
attach provisions intended to re-
strict picketing.
The single change accepted was
offered by the author of the mea-
sure, Rep. Gavagan (D-NY). who
represents the district of which
New York city's teeming negro sec
ton, Harlem, is a part. He proposed
the elimination of language making
the bill inapplicable to any violence
resulting from a labor disturbance.
Gavagan explained that the provi-
sion was unnecessary because the
bill coul dnot possibly be inter-
preted as applying to labor situa-
lions.
The bill-denounced by southern
ers as impractical, unenforceable
and unconstitutional and upheld by
its supporters in the antonyms OF
those wcrds-seeks to eliminate
lynchings by imposing penalties on
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
Answer
Warning
|Of Blitzkrieg
R,;d Bases On Island OF
Svk And Important Hell
goIand Anchorage
FOUR BATTLES
Air Ministry Says One Brit
ish Plane Lost In Short
Running Fight

LONDON. Jan. 10-P-Fast new
pritisb bombers struck back today
h. cprmany's air and sea strength,
aiding German air bases on the
vorth Sea Island of Sylt and an i'm
nortant Helgoland anchorage in
swift reply to the first warning OF
The Wanted nazi "blitzkreig."
The crash of antiaircraft fire,
vivid flashes, the dancing pencils
of searchlights and the roar of many
nlanes told observers on the nearby
Danish coastline and islands of the
first battle over Sylt, shortly before
dawn.
Residents of the Danish town of
iTonder said they believed the Brit
lis hbombers, in day-long attacks,
had scored hits on the Hindenburg
|Causeway which connects Sylt with
1.-The mainland.
They said three bombs fell in the
Ineighborhood of the causeway early
lin the afternoon and that one Of
them appeared to have struck it. All
train traffic from Sylt to the main
land was stopped.
Stage Four Battles
Reports from various sources In
Dictated there were at least three
battles over Sylt and one at sea,
above Helgoland Blight. The Sylt
battles were before dawn; at 9 a.
M e a, m. E. S. IT, and between
|S;3O and 6 p. m. (9:30 a. m. to -
moon, E. S. T.) the air fight over
tine sea was believed to have occur.
|ied about l p. m. q a. m. E. S. IT,
The air ministry announced one
British plane had been lost in a half
hour running fight "far out over the
North Sea" when an r. A. F. forma-
'on met a number of long range
herman fighters. 1t said, however,
''ontInued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
LECTURES OPENED
BY MRS. EVERETT
Calls For Organized Effort
On Part Oh Major Edu-
cational Agencies

Speaking to approximately l,5O0
teachers, parents and friends at the
Isaac Bear school yesterday after
noon. Mrs. Ruth Wick Everett, field
secretary of the North Carolina
Education association, said an or
ganized effort ca the part OF the
three major educational agencies Is
needed in North Carolina today.
educational Interpretation was
the subject of her lecture, the first
of a series of four which will be
given here this week to the Parent
Teacher associations.
"Never before i'll the history of
education in North Carolina has
there been such a great need for
the organized efforts of the three
leading educational agencies in u
state: the congress of Parents and
Teachers with 10000 membership,
the state school board association
with a potential power of 1850
members, and the North Carolina
Educational association with its
largest membership in its history,
over 1 S,O00," Mrs. Everett said.
What these three agencies must
do is to first inform themselves of
the actual needs of the schools in
the state, to show that these needs
are backed by facts and figures and
take this information to the public
who pays the bills, she said.
She urged local and state sup
port, along with federal aid, for pub
lie education.
"What you as parents and teach
ers think and do about schools is
the important step in education"
she declared.
The needs of education in North
Carolina should be decided in the
local situations through a survey
made by a citizens planning COM
mittee, Mrs. Everett stated, this
committee to be composed of repre-.
~sentatives from business, profes.
Continued on Page Four. CO1. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
Two Killed, IS Trapped
In Barley Mine Blast
Soviet Air Commissar
Is Relieved Of Duties

MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (AP) -
Mikhail M. Kaganovich, commits
sar for Soviet Russia's aviation
industry, has been relieved of
his duties and transferred to
another post" the official lass
news agency ANNOUNCED tonight.
His successor is M. Shakhurin.
Shakhurin is a newcomer
among the cOmmissars.
Appointed as assistants to
Shakhurin were Y. A. Yakovleff,
chairman of the credentials COM
mittee of the %all-union congress,
and Prof. Voronin, long recognize
ed in Russia as an authority in
airplane construction and design.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
FOR FARM
GOODS APPROVED
State Board Plans To Aid
In Establishment Oh
Marketing Centers

RALEIGH, Jan. 10. The
state board of agriculture today
adopted plans for cooperation with
communities in establishment of
grading stations and marketing cen
tiers, and approved a proposal for
a label to designate quality farm
products.
A "plan of procedure" for help
ing communities with marketing
provided that need for centers be
determined on the basis of local
requests and representation, pro-
duction statistics, buying agents
available, and surveys and~recom-
mendations of federal-state research
agencies.
The agriculture department was
authorized to furnish general super
vision and certification of grades
and standards for the markets and
to supply daily marketing informa-
ton.
The board also endorsed plans for
a colosseum" at the State Fair.
Continued on Page Four, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
PROTESTS AGAINST
MURPHY RECEIVED
Senator Burke Says Several
Have Been Filed With
Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 Up -
A number of protests against the
appointment of Attorney General
Frank Murphy to the supreme court
have been filed with the senate
judiciary committee, Senator Burke
(D-Neb) said today.
Burke, who is chairman of a sub
committee named to consider the
Murphy appointment, said he would
call this group together tomorrow
morning to go over the protests. He
added that if there was ANY sub
stance to these complaints" the
committee probably would hold a
hearing.
Most senators predicted prompt
confirmation for Murphy, however.
They recalled that the red-haired
former Michigan governor won sen.
CONTINUED on Page Four, Col. 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
new BUS STATION
IS OPENED HERE
Winbourne And Self Con-
graduate Wilmington On
Modern Terminal

Marked by appropriate ceremonies,
Wilmington's new and modern bus
terminal was formally dedicated and
opened to the public yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock.
Following the opening exercises,
the new station was placed into use
and the present bus stop at the
Cape Fear hotel was abandoned.
In a telegram to Mayor Thomas
E. Cooper, Stanley Winborne, state
utilities commissioner, and r. o.
Self, director of motor vehicle trans
portation, congratulated the city on
the new bus terminal. The wire
read as follows:
Congratulations to Wilmington on
new bus station facilities, due in a
great measure to your untiring eff
forts. Congratulations to your as
sociates, Agent Hooker and Build
er E. B. Bugg."
Officials Of the city. county and
the three major bus companies op-
Grating in the Wilmington section
participated in the opening ceremo-
MES for the station which was erect
ed at a cost Of about $4,000.
Bus line, city, and county Off
Gals were guests at a luncheon held
at I o'clock yesterday afternoon at
the Wilmington hotel. Several short
talks were made by the officials at
tending.
Two inspectors from the state
utilities commission in Raleigh, C..
B. Wade and J. W. Smith, attended
the formal dedication and opening
exercises this morning.
A large crowd attended the cere-
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11

rison may suggest that a H.
man fiscal committee be set
up in the senate alone.
At the White House, mean
while, members of the house
democratic steering committee
conferred with President Roose-
welt. One of the legislators said
the President emphasized that
congress should not exceed his
budget estimates which would
call for record defense OUTLAWS
but for reduced expenditures
for other activities.
Discussing Mr.. Roosevelt's
budget in the senate, Senator
Adams (D-Colo) told his col
leagues that the President with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11
The European
War Situation
by The Associated Press

L~ONDON-British raid Sy1t
and important HeIgoland anchor
age, engage in North Sea air
battle in drive against revival
lied Nazi sea attacks; report
II British, two German fight
ers dOWned; Germans say three
of nine British craft shot down
over HelgoIand Blight.
HELSINKI-Finns say third
Russian division trapped; Red
army driven back across front at
four points; 200 Russians killed,
40 taken prisoner on central
front.
- r umania
ready to settle long-standing diff
ferences with Hungary but says
territorial cession out; diplomats
predict agreement soOn on
Italian-backed plan to shelve
territorial dispute until Euro
pean war ends.
PARIS-Air activity resumes
on western front with clearing
weather; artillery, patrol clashes
on northern flank.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-11

a twinkle in his eye, has again
outsmarted congress-"
"The budget contains mate
rial CUTS" Adams continued,
waving his arms, "but the fig
ures r such that if congress
raises them it either will have
to break through the present
$45, 900, O0O, 900 debt limit or
raise new taxes.
The President has cut certain
items that are very dear to the
heart of congress. For in
stance, there was a $40O, 0O0,-
600 cut for agriculture, $780,
100000 for relief, SIS, OO0,0 900 for
the, --.ational youth administra-
Continued OH Page Two; Col. 81
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