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Evening star., 1940-04-17
$16.750.
Just Off Mass. Ave.

1ndividually-built home of STONE and
brick construction, situated on beautifully
wooded lot adjacent to Westmoreland
Circle Center-entrance plan, living room
"a 6x14.6, wide paneled fireplace, lovely
dining room overlooking the garden, library
paneled in redwood, perfectly planned,
2nd floor, 3 bedrooms two of master size),
2 colored-tile baths. Maids room and
bath, insulated attic, slate roof. 2-car
matte heat WALNUT FLOORS, Venetian
blinds throughout. rock-wool insulation in
for the unusual, permit US to show you
this lovely home THOS. J. FISHER g. CO,
INC. d. $3.50, OR EVENINGS CALL MR..
Evening star., 1940-04-17
CHEVY CHASE BARGAIN.

Situated on a lovely wooded lot, on a
quiet street, west of Connecticut ave- be-
tween Chevy Chase and Columbia Country
Clubs this Cape Cod type home contains 8
extremely large rooms and 2 baths. with
bedroom and bath on main floor: built in
garage: oil hot-water heat. Sold for
S14,5O0 less than years ago, it is rare
bargain at present price Of $10,500. For
information call MR.. SHAFER, MA. 0S56,
Evening star., 1940-04-17

16 ROOMS, 4 BATHS.
furnished as a going business: 3-story and
basement brick. 25 It. wide; built in garage
Now producing excellent income to ownep
who is leaving city. Eve. phone AD. 542O.
L. T. GRAVATTE,
729 18th st. Realtor. Ma. 0753.
Evening star., 1940-04-17

$3.50 CASH-$35 MONTHLY.
PRICE, $4,250.
-CLosI,N ARLINGTON 10c BUS;
ed, beautiful lot 260. It. deep. District
77<0. 2V00lneS Decatur OLE.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
FARMS FOR SALE.

Mr.. UPPERvLLE, VA. AID. wH1TNEYs
Estate, 40 a.. old Arm. log cabin: view for
40 mi: ST ,450; terms. 80 a., nr: Warren
on hard close n on soub Rver
ESQ, terms. trade: n; E. RYoN CO.. 1916
Evening star., 1940-04-17

ATTENTION,
WORKING PEOPLE.
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY.
If you have 5000. / will lend you the
necessary cash difference. without in
dorsers. security or red tape, for fun down
payment on beautiful new brick or frame
home. near Bethesda. to room homes
priced from "a, $50 to S5 900, only $50 10
S45 per month pays back loan and includes
monthly payments M on house, also taxes
ing offer Is for limited time only. Com
plete details by appointment. Call MR.
TABLER personally, at Bradley af03
Evening star., 1940-04-17
GEORGETOWN.

SPLENDID buy for home. in section where
many homes have been recently renovated
Price. S4.25O.
ARENDEs REALTY CO..
1907 Wis. Ave. MI. 1925
Evening star., 1940-04-17
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE.

SPECIAL SPECIAL BARGAIN, WIS. AVE,
near M st. n.w.-Large store, warehouse
in rear. 25x202. Real location for your
business. 2 apis. above store. Act today.
NE. 1856. B. NJ. ODUM, 1927 Eye st. Nv.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
INDIVIDUALLY BUILT.
CHEVY CHASE, D. c.
DETACHED RRTCK

This desirable stone and brick home in
exclusive Chevy Chase Md. is truly worthy
lot 125 It. deep. this property IS complete
in every detail. The beautifully paneled
living room. complete recreation room and
desirable features The lovely dining room
with bay window will surely appeal. 3 large
and 2 complete baths make this home
unusually desirable. See this today. Call
Mr.. shearer. Hobart 4743. J. WESLEY
RIICHANAN
Evening star., 1940-04-17

CORNER APT,
2-story, "A ants of 2 rooms. kitchen and
bath each. Nice large rooms throughout.
Building in excellent condition. Price.
S45, 900. Call MR.. DOWNER Georgia 9012
Evening star., 1940-04-17

SPECIAL BARGAIN-DOWNTOW
Store, 5 apts.. rented; three-car brick
garage. Brokers' attention. ME. 1856.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE EQUITY IN sEVENTEE
room, four-bath corner brick for small
house OWNER, Box 273-A. Star.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
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III 11t 1IVO 81 IN. w.
Near Soldiers Home Very desirable
row brick house. containing 6 rooms, bath
automatic heat. front and rear porches.
Rental. S4a.50
BOSS & PHELPS,
1417 K ST. NV National 1900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
CHIEF GIVES VIEWS
British, French Abandon
Whole OF Norway Below
The Arctic Circle
NAILS REACH GRONG
Norwegian Officer Places
Full Blame OF His Forces
Plight On The Allies
BY THOMAS F. HAWKINS

STOCKHOLM, May 3.-P)-The
expeditionary armies of the Allies
today abandoned the whole of Nor
Norwegian central command, left to
hold the line against the massive
German war machine almost without
bullets, bitterly gave up the fight
and sued for an armistice to nego.
tate peace in the central area.
From the little town of Grong, on
the Steinkjer-Namsos front above
in a startling two day withdrawal
and reembarkment, Acting Norwe.
gian Commander Col. O. B. Getz
sent word Of the surrender in an or
der of the day surcharged with dis
illusionment.
Nazis Read Grong
German forces later were reported
to have reached Grong and to have
made contact with the Norwegians,
with all fighting reported stopped.
Getz, at the reported instigation
of a majority of his officers, decided
to ask for the armistice for the
whole Trondheim area after the AL.
lies left. He did not, however, speak
for the Norwegian government.
which alone has power to sue for
peace for the country as a whole,
ard so far has made no such move.
He placed full blame for his plight
on the Allies.
l. THE British and French-for rea-
sons unknown to us-have given up
helping us in our fight and have
withdrawn their troops from Nam.
$685." he said.
I'VE stand today alone against the
entire German war machine, already
|outflanked and encircled on the line
which the British and French should
be holding -. without aid from out.
side :. with only enough ammuni.
ton for one day 80. without planes
ana other necessary war materials.
And further fighting would only
lead to destruction, without serving
any military purpose.
Notifies Germans
Il therefore am notifying the Ger.
man military command to establish
contact toward establishing peace in
the Tronddlag area (all the area both
north and south of %Trondheim), as
as has been done in the southern
part of the country.
1T is my heavy duty as acting
commander of Tronddlag to give
this notice to the soldiers under my
command"
To this, Colonel Getz added:
1T was an incomprehensible &C.
ton on the part of the British and
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
BLADEN GIRL HELD
ON Staying COUNT
Mary Harrellson, OF Eliza
BEETHOVEN RID, Charged
With Killing Baby

ELlZABETHTOWN, May 3-Mary
IIarrellson, 21-year-old unmarried
white woman, of El~izabethtown
RID, is in the custody of officers
in a Lumberton hospital on a
charge of killing her day-old baby
by sticking a safety pin into its
head, Sheriff H. M. Clark an
nounced today.
She is being held without privilege
of bond.
Officers said the girl confessed
here following a coroner's inquest
today that she stuck the pin into
the baby's head, born at about 7:3O
o'clock this morning, and placed 1t
under the wagon shed Of her faith
er's barn and left it to die.
j. w. Harrellson, the girls father
called officers to his barn early this
morning, saying he had found a dead
baby there. Sheriff Clark, his depu.
ties and the coroner went to the
scene for an investigation. Both
the girl and her parents at first de-
MED any knowledge of the dead in
FAINT and physicians were called to
scene to make an investigation, Off
GERS said.
After they arrived, the girl con
fessed to the crime. At that time
the father, who claimed he was ig
norant of his daughters condition
took his gun and attempted to shoot
his daughter and himself, but was
intercepted by the officers and placed
in Jail for s~afekeeping.
DR.. E. c. Bennett and r. S. Gro
martie performed an autopsy and
traced the pin into the brain of the
infant, which weighed about seven
pounds.
The coroner's jury found that the
child came to it's death as a result
of a safety pin being stuck into the
mole of it's head and ordered Mary
Harrellson held for an investigation
by the grand Jury,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
UNREST HITS REGIME
Announces Aban-
donment OF Namsos, Cen
trail Norway To Nazis
BY EDWIN STOUT

LONDON, May s. Up - Great
donment of Namsos and central Nor.
way to the 'Germans-an acknowl.
edgement that added new force to
unrest surging within the very foun.
dalton of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain's government.
A communique telling of the end
of the campaign to wrest southern
Norway from the Germans said AL.
lied troops still in the far northern
Narvik area repulsed German count.
erattacks Wednesday and Thursday.
It mentioned no operations there
today.
Attacks Quickened
Coming as it did within a day of
the abandonment Of Andalsnes, to-
nights announcement quickened at
tacks on the Chamberlain govern
ment even from within it's own
ranks.
Clement Davies, member Of the
liberal nationals who support the
government declared:
1.-THE country can not be properly
organized until the government
goes"
Davies told Of a meeting with a
group of colleagues who thought
the same way he did and decided to
work against any vote of confiden e
during "the biggest crisis we ever
had to face"
The terse war office communicate
announcing the Namsos withdrawal
during last night after a day of un-
certainty in which Britons already
had heard the news from Sweden
and Germany, said the "reem-
barkation vas carried out with COM
plete success and without loss"
Norwegian reports said a German
air bomb killed 80, wounded COY.
1t said the abandonment of the
Namsos front, north of German-held
Trondheim, was carried out "in &C
cordance with the general plan of
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
English Soldiers Leave
Nams0s For Trip Home
ARE In LOW SPIRITS
Embarkation Proceeds In
Excellent Fashion De-
spite Nazi Air Raids
BY ]. NORMAN d

NAMSOS, Norway-(By Courier
to Grong, Norway)-May 2 CThurs-
day, 1880 P. M.)-CP-I am en-
barking tonight aboard a British
destroyer after a prisoners fur
tive glimpses of the Allied with
drawal from the Namsos sector.
A British officer tells me calmly
that the troops destination is
England"
This sailing takes place after
an all-day air attack on ruined
Namsos.
The British Tommies going
aboard their ships appear down in
the mouth about it all. They want
a further chance to fight. They
landed here, ready for war, only a
couple of weeks ago.
My impression is that the en-
barkation proceeds in excellent
fashion, in spite of the bombs.
I am told the troop departure
Continued on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

They attempted to form a
united front and sought a set
Element covering all the oil
lands.
The Mexican government, on
the other hand, held that set
Elements could be reached with
the companies individually and
was against making the con-
troversy an international diplo-
matte incident. Tonight's de-
velopments appeared to indicate
a break in the united front.
1t was understood the agree
ment with Consolidated involved
the delivery of Mexican oil to
that company.
In Washington. Jesus Silva
HerZog, general manager of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
ADDRESSES GATHERING
Says Candidates Should
Stop Voicing Blanket Con-
demnation Of New Deal

WASHINGTON, May 3. - Up -
President Roosevelt asserted to.
day that presidential and congress
sional candidates ought to stop
voicing blanket condemnation OF
the Administrations acts and spec.
ify their own programs.
Addressing a gathering of demo
cratic women from the south por.
tico of the White House, he de-
clared:
1--WE say in an election year to
candidates for President and vice
president, and to 'would-be' sena.
tors and representatives, Quit
condemning each and every act OF
this administration and tell us just
how you would change the laws
if you were in power"
Attend Institute
The women standing on the
damp White House lawn below
him have been attending a ma.
tional institute of government ar.
ranged by the democratic nation.
al committees women's division.
Officials estimated that there were
more than 5000 of them on the
lawn.
Keeping silent on the third term
question, the chief executive pro.
pounded several queries to candi-
dates as to how they would balance
abandon any New Deal social wei
fare project.
He then added:
II recognize the horrid dilemma
ing to put certain types of candi.
dates into the coming six months
He said the real, honest and fun
damental question on election day
no matter who the presidential nom
inees are, is going to be this:
do you wish to employ for ysu1
bus line chauffeurs who wrecked
the previous bus line by driving the
old buses into the ditch OF by going
to sleep at the wheel-or are you
going to continue the present policy
OF employing active, wide-awake
chauffeurs who are inspired with
the thought that their duty is to be
polite to the passengers and see to il
that they reach their destination IL
comfort and complete safety"
Attorney General Jackson, speak.
ing before the women tonight at E
forum, said that administration cri
tics were "little short of ridiculous
when they charged that the govern
ment is destroying business"
He said that a tabulatfon Of {
years profits Of 2,480 companie:
showed that the average profit O
the public utilities in the group was
SO per cent and of trade corpora
lions 11.3 per cent.
What rate of profit do they Nhe
critics. think our economy can af
ford to pay these corporations an6
what is a fair rate of profit with in.
terest rates at their present leve,
and employment and national income
down." he asked.
Some critics say, he told the WON.
en-, that the Wagner act and the
w%age-hour act are evidence of ad-
ministration hostility to business. On
this CORE, he commented:
I'VE still have stone age mental.
ties who think that the way to lift
bushes sis to keep labor down."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04

The Mexican reply has been
delivered in Washington and is
being decided and translated
for publication Sunday MORN
ing. It is understood that Mex.
leo has rejected the idea of
arbitration, fatty.
In State department circles
it was sail that regardless of
the reported settlement with
Sinclair, the diplomatic contro.
versy with Mexico would be
continued.
The belief was expressed here
that the { partment would con-
tinue to demand prompt in
Identification for others involved
or submission of their problems
to arbitration,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
PARTIAL SETTLEMENT OF u. S-MEXICAN
OIL LANDS SEIZURE DISPUTE REPORTED

WASHINGTON, May g. Up
"A partial settlement of the
long and bitter dispute over
Mexico's seizure of American
oil lands was reported tonight
from Mexico City and the re-
port seemed to be confirmed by
developments here.
Dispatches from Mexico City
said that the Consolidated Oil
company (Sinclair) had reach
ed a settlement with the Mexi-
can government.
The Sinclair properties were
among the American lands ex-
propriated on March Is, 1898.
In the long dispute that follow
ed, the American companies
sought return of the oil fields
or prompt compensation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
AREA FORCE
DESERTED BY ALLIES.
DECIDES TO GIVE UP
Germans ReadyToR Resist
Quick Stroke By Britain

day of the concentration of a
British and French battle fleet
at Alexandria.
Authorized sources emphasized
however, that it is up to Pre-
mier Mussolini of Italy to decide
what to do about the Mediter.
ranean situation.
Whatever his decision, it was
said, Germany then will fulfill
her obligations.
Germans asserted their atten.
ton also was directed unceas.
ingly toward the Netherlands,
Belgium and Scandinavia as
possible places for British &C.
ton.
In this atmosphere Germans
said their motto is: wherever
Britain strikes, we will strike
back doubly hard.'
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
CHADB0URN MEN
HURT in WRECK
Clyde Edmund, Rudolph
Dove Hurt When Train
Strikes Automobile

CHADBOURN, May 3-Two young
men injured here early this morn
ing when their car was struck by
an Atlantic Coast Line train at the
Chadbourn crossing were reported
resting very welr' at Columbus
county hospital in Whiteville to-
night.
They are:
Clyde Edmund, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Edmund, and Rudolph
Dove, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Dove, both of Chadbourn.
Edmund suffered severe leg in
juries and decorations of the head,
and Dove sustained a compound
fracture of the leg and decorations
of the head.
The attending physician said Ed
mund was so badly hurt that it
may be found necessary to ampu-
tate n of his legs.
Edmund was the driver Of the
automobile, occupied by Love, which
was demolished in a collision with
a tank a of al Atlantic Coast
Line railroad switch engine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
House Orders
Further Study
Of Big Issue
All Prospects OF Wage.
Hour Law Revision At
This Session Vanish
VOTE IS EOS TO us
Result Both Victory And
Defeat For Leaders OF
Administration

WASHINGTON, May 3.-(R-Al
n~rospect of wage-hour law revisions
Of This session Of congress vanished
today when the house voted to di
rect its labor committee to give
further study to the question.
The decision climaxed a week Of
noisy and angry debate on proposed
changes.
The house had adopted amend
ments, one at a time, which would
have exempted many hundreds Of
thousands of workers-the exact
number was in furious dispute -
from the provisions of the law. Then
it surveyed its handiwork in its en-
tirety and found it bad.
Votes
A roll.call vote of I'll to III undid
all that had been done and rejected
the amendments as a whole. A sec
ond vote, 205 to 175, recommitted the
entire subject to the house labor
committee for further study and
commentators.
Under the prevailing situation,
leaders had no expectation that the
committee could complete it's work
in time for action before the ses.
sion's scheduled June adjournment,
The result was both a victory
and a defeat for administration
leaders in congress. The latter had
vigorously opposed the sweeping
amendments which were written in
to the bill in the course of the de-
bate. Their victory lay in the fact
that in the end these amendments
were rejected.
Last Minute Effort
But, the administration forces had
endorsed a series of milder changes,
most of them proposed by the
Wage-Hour Administration itself.
Chairman Norton (D-NJ) and her
colleagues of the labor committee
made a last minute effort to obtain
approval of these by opposing the
motion to recommit-but lost.
Today's discussion was of a piece
with the debate which had gone
before. Rep. Parsons (D-Ill), pre-
siding, beat an almost constant
TATTOO with his gavel in a usually
vain effort to maintain order.
one speaker who was heard, how
ever, was Rep. Mccormack ID
Mass.
This is the most disgracefu'
spectacle I have seen in my twelve
years in the house." he shouted
inns is not a congress but g
chaotic group of men,"
No one disputed his remark.
Center of Row
In particular, the controversy
cehtered upon an effort by Rep
narden D-NC) to exempt a serie!
VI 1arm processing operation!
llom the law which sets a mini
mum of 80 cents an hour and ;
maximum of AZ hours weekly.
Earlier in the week, the Bardel
einehoments had been approved
Slngly and beaten collectively. Blu
o0e 10 an unusual parliamentar.
Continued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Fears OF War
Spread Move
Into Greece
|Large-Scale Italian Concen-
trations In Dodecanese
Islands Reported
ATHENS IS CALM, ALERT
Tension In Yugoslavia Be-
comes More Acute Because
OF New Developments
BY EDWARD KENNEDY

ATHENS, May 3.-R-Arrival
of a British-French battle fleet in
Alexandria and reports of large
scale Italian naval, air and army
concentrations in the Dodecanese
islands switched southeastern Eu-
ropes anxiety over possible spread
of the war sharply to Greece to-
day.
Athens itself was calm, but alert.
In Turkey, the Allied fleets ar
rival at its Egyptian base was
greeted as new evidence that Brit
ain and France are determined to
fulfill their obligations in the Near
East, which include a mutual as
sistance treaty with Turkey and
guarantees of the independence OF
both Greece and Rumania.
Push Preparations
There was no outward show of
belief either in Greece or Turkey
that war is imminent, but both
tcountries-pursued their defense
preparations.
Reports received in diplomatic
quarters of Italian reinforcements
in the Dodecanese remained with
out official confirmation but gen
orally we're given credence.
Opinions varied as to whether
the Italian move had been taken
to counter the Allied naval opera
tons and the emergency measures
put into effect in Egypt yesterday,
or whether it was planned first and
precipitated the British-French &C
ton.
Tension in Yugoslavia, which
had diminished a little with Ital-
ian diplomatic assurances of the
past few days that there was no
reason to fear an Italian thrust,
became more acute as a result of
the Mediterranean activities.
However, all of southeastern
Europe was too wearied by recur-
rent war scares to show much
emotion.
To Inspect Front
Defense preparations in Greece
were pushed resolutely. King
George II and his general staff will
leave shortly for an inspection
tour of frontier Notifications.
These include the "Metaxas
line," constructed along the Alban-
ian frontier in the north after
Italy's occupation of Albania in
April of last year.
The fortific ations were built I'm
der the direction of Premier Jan
Metaxas, Greece ''strong man."
But, even if Greece can rely on
her "Metaxas line" to the north,
there is no such line of defense be-
tween her and the Dodecanese is
lands.
Italian-owned since Italy took
them from the Ottoman Empire
in the Balkan War of 1912, they
lie along the Turkish side of the
Aegean sea, 400 miles air line
northwest of Alexandria.
Key point in the new Italian
military and naval concentrations
is said to be the Island of Rhodes,
Continued on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
Mexican Petroleum Distribution

Mexican Petroleum Distribution
agency, announced he had con-
cluded contracts with three
United States companies for
sale of Mexican petroleum pro-
ducts. The contracts would
amount, he said, to an aggre-
gate of $4,000, 900 spread over
four or five years.
Silva Herzog named the First
National Oil Corporation of
New York city as one of the
companies now willing to buy
Mexican oil. He declined to
name the other two.
Some time ago Secretary of
State Hull urged Mexico to
arbitrate the whole oil expro-
priation issue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
D. r. Calls On Critics
TO Offer Own Program
u. S. To Hike Power
Of Cavalry Brigade

WASHINGTON, May 3.-(R-
The war department. announced
an intention today to increase
materially the nobility and COM
bat power of the seventh calvar
brigade, the army's only substan-
tial mechanical unit similar to
Germany's new "blitzkreig' for
ces.
More than 1900 men, 80 light
tanks and a motorcycle troop
will be added to the brigade
which it is planned ultimately to
expand to a full division. Many
of the increases will be only on
paper for the time beng, how
ever.
The iron cavalry brigade, nor.
mally stationed at Fort knox,
KY, is scheduled to figure promi-
nently in hits months regular
army field maneuvers in the
south.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
On Chamberlain
Government Increasing
King Haakon Reported
To Haze Left Norway

LONDON, May 3-R-King
Haakon of Norway, was report.
ed tonight to have left all un.
disclosed Norwegian port aboard
a British warship with British
troops for the northern part of
Norway.
The Daily Mails diplomatic
correspondent, Wilson Broad
bent, said the Norwegian Mon
arch could have sought refuge
in London but that "he prefer
red to remain with his govern.
ment and the British forces
which have taken up new posi-
lions around Narvik."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-04
ALLIED WARSHIPS
REACH ALEXANDRIA
Allies Prepare For Possible
Extension OF War To
The Near East

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May g.
tH9-A British and French war fleet
arrived this afternoon at this
strategic east Mediterranean port
at the mouths of the Nile and near
the entrance to the Suez Canal.
Superseding the mid-Mediterran-
can British Island of Malta in i'm
portance, Alexandria was put in
readiness for any eventuality as the
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