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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
GOVERNOR RIVERS BOWS TO GEORG1AS
HIGHEST COURT AND RESTORES MILLER

for the governor were averted
when the fifth circuit court of
appeals removed the case from
beavers hands before the lat
ter formally passed sentence.
Lawyer Rivers and Banker
Merchant Miller were personal
and political friends of long
standing when Rivers was elected
to his first term four years ago.
He soon named his fellow Lake
land, Ca, townsman to the
Sc, OOO-a-year highway chairman
ship this later was cut to $5,4O0
by a general executive economy
ORDER.
They broke last summer after
Rivers assumed control of state
highway funds in a state econo-
mic crisis and diverted some road
revenue to other purposes, in
Guiding payment of school teach.
eEs
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20

nor on a federal contempt charge.
Miller turned for relief to q. S.
District Judge Bascom beavers
court at Macon after the gov
ernor had used soldiers to block
execution of state superior court
orders restoring the chairman to
office.
Rivers declined to appear be-
fore Beaver, holding the affair
was purely a state question. The
federal judge upheld the findings
of the state court, ordering re-
> moval of the troops The cover.
nor defied this order and was ar
rested on the stage of a Macon
auditorium after he had finish
ed making a speech.
He was released on his own
recognition after a brief appear
ance before Judge Beaver. A
showdown and possible Jail term
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
ITALIANS MODIFY
PR0-CERMANT TONE
Circles Tend To Minimize
Tension Which Develop
ed Earlier In Week

ROME, April 19-R-Apprehen-
sion over Italy's position in the Eu-
ropean conflict subsidized today as the
Italian press modified somewhat the
belligerant tone of it's pro-German
treatment of war news.
Italian circles generally tended to
the tension which develop
ed earlier this week with speculation
as to Italy's readiness to enter the
var Immediately on Ger1nany's side.
The authoritative editor Virginia
Gayda asked in II Giornale D'Italia
what had developed in Italy's atti-
tude that was not already known.
"Where is the italian menace?" he
queried.
He advised the British against
"unwise maneuvers" and warned
Continued ON Page Five)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
Dutch Placed
Under Broad
Martial Law
Royal Decree Is Strongest
Since Civil Rights Guar
anteed 81 Years Ago
INTERNAL SAFEGUARD
Premier De Geer Declares
Netherlands Will Resist
Any Foreign Invasion
Bv J. REILLY O'sULLIvAN

THE HAGUE, April 19.-CP)-All
Holland was placed under martial
law tonight in a royal decree more
far-reaching than any since the
constitution guaranteed civil lights
to Netherlanders go years ago.
This action was taken to permit
more drastic measures against per-
sons within the nation who are I'M
periling Netherlands neutrality or
would endanger it's safety if Holland
were invaded.
Will Resist
It was invoked just after old
Premier Derek Jan De Geer, in a
broadcast to home and empire on
two sides of the world, had declared
that Holland would resist by force
of arms any attempt by a foreign
power to extend protective help
to the Netherlands.
Even before Queen Wilhelmina
signed today's all-embracing decree,
Holland had been dotted with hun
dreds of "islands'' of martial law,
at points which were important to
the country's elaborate and secret
system of land, sea and Water-line
defenses.
Authoritative Netherlanders said
that loyal, law-abiding citizens would
not be Inconvenience by the ex-
tension Of the state of siege to the
entire country, and that there Would
be little interference with normal
civil administration.
But spies, active belligerent-sym-
pathizers and foreigners c~onspiring
against the government will be
dealt with sternly.
Under the Cecree, the military
may take any action from imposing
a censorship to calling up civilians
at will for either military service or
labor.
Already, several announced meet
ings of national socialists Dutch
Nazis) have been prevented and po-
lice have conducted searches for
firearms and ammunition. Yesterday
such a search was conducted at the
Limbaugh castle of Count BaX of
Marchant Eft D'Ansembourg, Nazi
member of parliament.
De Geer, himself disclosed the
martial law decision in his speech.
He asked for calm, confidence and
faith in God, and said: above all,
in these times, it must be u first
duty to safeguard our neutrality.
I'VE have received assurances
from both belligerents hat they
will safeguard this neutrality of
ours. We trust today these assur-
ances can be relied upon.
But in any case we wish to
make it perfectly clear that we,
ourselves, are perfectly able as well
as determined to protect Jul neu-
trality.
81 wish to take this occasion to
point out that Holland, at any rate,
does not ask for, and is unwilling,
to accept the aid of any third pow
err to maintain it's neutrality
The premier repeated the offers
made by Queen Wilhelmina and
King Leopold of the Belgians of
the low countries good offices to
bring about peace. But he made it
plain that mo threats or allure
ments'' will swerve the Netherlands
from it's neutrality toward al
Sides"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
BUILDING IS EXAMINED
Find Adjacent Structure Is
Dangerous To Public
Using The Street

In a special order adopted yes
ter1ay afternoon by the board of
E.ty commissioners, the work of
diminishing the old Purcell build
:ng, On North Front street, was
ordered stopped Immediately by the
Contractors on the grounds that
further demolition work may cause
the c9lapse OF the adjacent build
irg at - and "a North Front
street.
The or5er was issued at the rec
ommeadatlon Of o. G. Foard, who
Yesterday morning was appointed
acting building inspector because
d the illness of ]. W. Yates.
Issues Statement
Following an inspection of the
building adjacent to the Purcell
building Foard issued the follow
Statement:
u recommend that the city or
OR all demolition operations to the
adjacent building to the south be
g21p'I Immediately and not re-
Slme1 until the city is assured
t2s, the hazard has been removed
f9acd made the investigation in
company with City Engineer j. A.
L2lsnlin and his report made aft
eE3ar1s vas as follows:
As per your request of present
qdle' made an inspection this
morning If the building at number
= North Front street, accom-
panel by the city engineer. Espe-
TIA, attention was given the front
am south walls which adjoin the
Us1ol,lon Of the building to the
"4.A, which is to be the site of a
'E| theatre building.
There is evident at the south
n.S1 corner Of building number %
= d disturbance of the static con-
''.QA u these walls. This evidence
= 10 be seen in a series of cracks
!" me brlckwork above the third
,..0S level They originate in a Sc
,''S Oh Old cracks extending down
n..I INTO a series of new cracks,
~"'s" at some places follow the
mot&f joints but in other places
'~s'F through both the common
'''"'lhued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
DECISIVE BATTLE LOOMS

STOCKHOLM, April 10. - Up -
reports from Norway
said tonight that British reinforce
ments were arriving every hour in
the Norwegian waistline, north of
Trondheim and reiter.
ated that a decisive battle seemed
to be shaping up between German
troops and Norwegian defenders
joeined by the British eXpeditionary
forces.
Some Swedish correspondents, re-
porting through Storlein, railway
village just inside Sweden, said the
British reinforcements were arrv-
ing along a 15-miie line from
Steininkjer, at the head of tortuous
Trondheim Fjord, north to Namos.
Clash Unavoidable
All circumstances, said these res
porth, showed that a decisive en-.
counter seemed unavoidable in the
vicinity of Steinkjer.
Norwegian authorities said the
fight might well start at Stiklestad,
south of Steinkjer, a palce famous in
Norwegian history. At Stiklestad
the king, St. Olaf Haraldsson, "a
killed in a war against peasants nj
1880, A. D.
Continued on Page Three: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
Building Razing
Ordered Halted By City
Leland PIT. A. Group
Plans To Meet Monday

LELAND, April 19.-The Leland
Parent-Teacher association study
group will hold it's last meeting of
the year on Monday afternoon, April
%, at $3.50 o'clock in the school.
The discussion will be on youth
guidance and will be led by MI. Gar
rett and Mr.. Withrow. An open
forum discussion will follow on the
topic, How Can PIT. A. Aid in
Youth Guidance"
Mrs. W. C. Biggs, president, has
asked that everyone Interested at
tend. The rooms at the school will
be open for visits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
Fear Hungary
Is In Danger
OF Nazi Drive
Government Is Taking Spe-
cial Precautions Against
Possible Invasion
NEW PLOT DISCOVERED
Move To Overthrow Yugo-
lavia, Turn Nation Over
To Nazis Uncovered

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 20
Saturday. Up Numerous mem
bers Of the British and French
colonies moved out of Budapest last
night and early today because of
in Allied quarters that Hun
gary was in LANCER of German in
vasion.
Although Hungarians discounted
such rumors as alarmist, the govern
ment appeared to be taking special
precautions.
Searchlights swept the sky over
Budapest throughout the night and
AFRAID protection squads patrolled
the streets.
Correspondents Leave
Among the departing Britons were
newspaper correspondents, w h G
moved their headquarters to Bel
grade. There also was a report that
some documents of the French lega.
ton had been taken to Belgrade. A
speedy truck stood in the courtyard
Of the British legation, ready for
the rapid transfer Of documents,
should this seem necessary.
While there is also considerable
concern over the safety of Yugo'
slavia, Belgrade is regarded as less
cut off than Budapest in case Of a
sudden thrust.
The British and French sources
which gave credence to the rumors
said that Hungary is attractive to
Germany as a key position in the
Balkans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
APPLICATIONS
FOR HOMES FILED
Housing Project Tenant Sc
lection Staff Is Expect
ed To Be Increased

Forty-three negro families had ap'
piled last night for tenancy in New
Brooklyn Homes, low-rent housing
project being built by the Housing
Authority of the City of Whining
tor.
For the past two days applications
have been coming in about as rapid
" as they can be handled, William
Burnett, manager of the project said.
1t is expected that the tenant selec-
ton staff will be increased during
Continued on Page Five)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
German Warplanes Bomb
British Transports
INSPECTION

RALEIGH, April 19.-GP-A fact
finding committee representing the
engineering council for professional
development today inspected de.
partments in the N. C. State college
engineering school. The council
credits curicula in schools of en-
.gineering throughout the nation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
PLOT DISCOVERED

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, April 10
Up -Yugoslavian authorities an
nounced tonight they had discovered
a plot to overthrow the government
and turn the country over to the
nazis and informed former Premier
Milan Sto%yadinovic, friend of Ger
many in a lonely and inaccessible
mountain hamlet.
Police raids on the homes Of hun
dreds of Germans were disclosed, in
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
WEATHER
FORECAST

yo,a FORECAST
rains Carolina: Cloudy, occasional
cpntroI la morning, cooler in east and
inc taa portions, Sunday fair with ris-
snJfngy egroo,ogicaI data for the "a hours
'''0 p IN. Yesterday.
La temperature
n. y. d; m. Is, 1870 a. m. IS; 1:3O p.
mjDi,on, '"iD p. m. 70; maximum "A
u Oh; mean 10; normal GO.
1.2o Humidity
h. =. . ~ H. 49, 100 a. m. so; 1:3O p.
''oo p. m. 81.
Totol Precipitation
$50 inolor a hours ending 7:3O y. m.
MoDtI i"CHeS total since first of the
Fro, Tides For Today
s. Cogsl,tt Tide Tables published by U.
ana Geodetic Survey,
NIlminqtoo High Low
s''o - SOFA 3:O0a
Suuriyoa1 met --- 5:56a
$40 n Boa; sunset SAP; moonrise
d moonset 4 :25a, ~ AD0o"i''e
ear river stage. i2.35 feet.
''o On Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
NAVAL BATTLE RACES
British Reinforcements Dis
embarking North Of Ma
Ii Held Trondheim
ENGLISH NEAR HAMAR
Germans Reported Moving
In Large Amount Oh Mo-
tor Equipment

GOTEBORG, Sweden, April 10
R-Indications of new naval action
in the Skagerrak came from off
shore today when six heavy detona-
lions, possibly caused by %torpedoes,
were heard here.
Buildings on the Swedish west
coast rocked as if in an earthquake.
The first of the explosions was
herad at 5 a. m. and they continued
until 10 a. M, when ca~nnonading
still was in progress. The success
sive explosions moved in a southerly
direction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20
NEGRO FOWL

Although the feathers Of silkies
may be either white or black, their
skin always is black. They r the
Negroes among fowl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-20

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

figure how it can be done smoothly.
Some administration experts point
out that those South American
holdings would almost certainly
have to be sold in the United States
since the Latins couldn't get hold
of the Necessary foreign exchange.
American investors would have to
be persuaded somehow that the
investments would be good buys
which might be a little difficult.
Probably $700,000,000 is in South
American government bonds. which
except for Argentina-aren't con-
sidered too solid. Mexican and Bo-
livian appropriation acts don't en-
courage U. S. investors much. Ex
change restrictions which often
keep investors from taking out their
profits are another depreSSant.
Beyond that, the British basket
contains some important items.
About 40 per cent of the total is
invested in Argentina, largely in
railways, public utilities and meat
packing houses. There are heavy
oil investments in Mexico, Vene-
zuela and Colombia. Brazilian util-
tiles and Chilean nitrate properties
are also extensively held.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
ABOMlNABlE HOUSING
IN Ell CENTRIC

The apparent high pressure effort to
sell Ell Centre, along with other cities of
California, on a federal slum clearance
project under pretense that it is a ma
tional defense requirement, leaves us
cold
We must admit, unwillingly, that we
are open to criticism in the matter of
rental dwellings in Ell Centro-but we
can see no real emergency in that situa-
ton. There is nothing in it to warrant
this community in accepting something
it once turned down for very good rea-
son-the slum clearance project some
state officials attempted to impose upon
the community.
When the cry Of national defense en-
ergency' comes from George c. Kidwell,
director of the state department of in
dustrial relations, and Carey McWil-
liams, chief of the division of immigra-
tion and housing, we naturally look with
suspicion upon their motives. For they
were involved in the upstate attempt to
bring about an eastSide slum clearance
project here which neither civic leaders
nor tenants wanted
Their declaration that "overcrowded
conditions =. shacks and novels :. :"
exist in defense areas" including Ell Cen
tro gives an impression of a deplorable
situation which does not, in fact, exist on
any scale justifying such description.
Had they been more moderate in their
criticism, we might have agreed with
them. Admittedly, it is hard for a new
conner to Ell Centre to find an attractive
rental dwelling at reasonable rates. Ad-
mittedly, many of our landlords are un-
necessarily careless about the upkeep of
their properties. Admittedly, it would
be far better if there We're more attrac-
tive homes here, to be rented to such per-
sons as officers stationed at the 18th Cav
airy camp north of Seeley.
But in all that there is nothing ap-
preaching an emergency which endan-
gers national defense You might as
well say spot of dust on the wing of
an airplane makes it useless.
On the whole we're inclined to agree
with Mayor Robert Hatton that there is
no trouble in Ell Centro's housing situa-
tion that natural growth and development
even now manifest to a casual observer
will not take care of.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
DISCIPLINE FOR
TRAIN CREWS
wall Street Journal)

(Wall Street Journal)
Pennsylvania Railroad tells the follow
ing story: An engineman reported for
work January %, 1889, in a condition
which his fireman and train conductor
recognized as drunkenness. The assistant
yardmaster took him to a doctor who pro-
nQunced him intoxicated The company
ordered him discharged for violation of
Rule G. The man had previously-in
1935-been discharged for intOXication,
but renstated on promise of reform.
Again in 1897 he was discharged for the
same offense, and again reinstated upon
similar promise.
He appealed from the company's order
of dismissal to division of the National
Railroad Adjustment Board. The divi-
sional board consisted of five representa-
tives of the railroads and five representa-
tives of the engine and train service
brotherhoodS This board deadocked
and called in referee. On November II,
1910, it ordered reinstatement of the en-
gineer with unimpaired seniority rights
and back pay from March |, 1889
1t apparently based its decision-the
railroad states-on the fact that the com
pany dated its dismissal order on Feb
ruary 2, 1899 but did not issue it until
February 21, 1889, the implication being
that it had made up its mind before in
quiring into all the facts The railroad
made an immediate investigation on Jan
uary % and another on February 13 and
IA before issuing its order on February
81 This despite the fact that no claim
was made before the board that the en-
gineman had not had fair trial of his
case at the hands of the company
The company further points out that
there is a law in the state within which
the enginemans duty lies making it
felony for railroad to continue employ
ment Of an engineer convicted of intoXi-
cation.
Such is the Pennsylvania story.
What is the story of the divisional board
of the National Railroad Adjustment
Board? This newspaper feels sure that
the public would like to know
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
ADOLPH'S
LONESOME ROAD
(Riverside Press)

CRiverside Press)
Hitler has to win that war against
Britain, if for no reason than the size
of the German national debt.
He has been using half of Germany's
income for predatory war, expecting to
make good with the loot of conquered
countries and especially by enormous pen
alties and assessments against Britain
And now, because of the superhuman
resistance of the British people, aided a
little, we must admit, by this country, he
must see the great prize beginning to slip
away from him and the day of reckoning
looming ahead down the road he has choS-
en-.
Hitler is said to have sunk 80 to 40
billion dollars in this piratical enter
prise, garnished with wholesale murder
And the more countries he takes over,
the more insolvent he becomes. For he
quickly improverishes his victims and
puts a blight on their productive power,
while always he expands German re-
sources and credit on larger schemes of
conquest.
1t is risky route the fuehrer is fol-
lowing, and the German people if it is
in any way possible should be telling
this power saturated egotist to give a
good look down that lonesome road be-
fore he travels On much farther
We believe Hitler has already met his
Waterloo in London. If Britain has real
ly stopped him, we are looking now at
the beginning Of the end. 1t may take
a long time to mop up, but John Bull is
patient and tenacious.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
on GOING TO WAR

Sen. Hiram Johnson may be right or
he may be wrong when he says the Unit
ed States is undoubtedly going into the
European war. But, whether right or
wrong, he has given the people something
to think about. 1t is:
How far are we willing to go to insure
British victory? Are we willing to
fight, if that is necessary?
We might as we'll think of it now-for
IT the war lasts many months, the deci-
sion will have to be made Part of it
may be in the making now, embodied in
the proposal that the United States con-
voy merchant shipping half way across
the Atlantic. The proposal is receiving
serious consideration in Washington. Yet
1t might lead directly to war if this coun-
try set an armed guard over ships bound
for Great Britain
There is no international law that
would recognize the neutrality of such a
convoy once it was beyond the territorial
waters of the United States. :, There
could be no complaint if a U. S. destroyer
were torpedoed under those circum-
stances.
Such a convoy, in fact, would, not be
short of war 1t would be war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
SHINCTON

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. = You
don't realize how tremendous the
governments preparedness cam
paign really is until you compare
expenses now with those run UP
during the first World War,
Then you discover that the United
States today is actually spending
money as fast as it spent it during
the first year of its war effort %
years ago.
For the I2-month period which
began last July and ends on June
80. l94l, the government will spend
a little more than Sl2,058,000, 900.
This doesn't include the cost of
the draft, which will run the total
considerably higher.
First full fiscal year of the last
war effort began July /, 1917, and
ended June 80, 1918. In that per-
iod, the u. S. government laid out
a total of sl2,697 600, ,OO0-practically
the same as this years expenditures
when the draft costs are figured in
NO GUESSES
ON NEXT YEAR
Noteworthy is the fact that spend
ing before the 1917 war year had
been insignificant, compared with
the spending that has preceded the
current arms campaign. In the year
ending June 80. 1887, for instance,
the total spending was $l,977,000,-
600; the year before that it was
34,000,000 and the year befoSe
that, S760000,000 On the other
hand. in the fiscal year that ended
last June 80 the government spent
$8,998, 100000. In the year before
that it spent s9,268 100000; in the
year before that the total was ST.
691 100000.
Nobody in authority here is even
giving a guess about the total that
may be spent next year. Certainly
it won't be under this years figure,
and it will very probably be sub
stantially above it. Whether it will
touch the 1918 level of $l8,50O, ,0O0,-
900 may be open to question.
BRITISH STILL HOLD
AMERICAN SECURITIES
Despite its eagerness to help the
British, the administration seems
to be settling into the position
that there's no sense talking about
killing the Johnson act (which
bars loans to Britain until the
British have fully mobilized all
their resources to buy goods in the
U. S.
That means the British have got
to think about selling their securi-
ty holdings in the new world. No
one knows exactly what these come
to; current guess is that British
investments in the United States
amount to better than S2,25O,OOO,-
600, with. probably an equal sum
invested in Canada and somewhere
between $4,000, 100000 and s5,OOO.-
100000 in Mexico and South Ameri-
ca.
It's easier to say that these hold
lngs must be liquidated than to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
by Willis Thornton
Those Dutch Are So Stubborn

intact in the water OF Great Brlt-
ain, the Dutch East and West In
dies and Dutch Guiana.
A smaller part is to be spent for
the maintenance of Dutch legions
in England and Canada. This mon
ey is independent of what the
Dutch East Indies are spending on
their armed forces.
Perhaps not in dozen guesses
could an American figure how the
Dutch government expects to raise
the money. 1t is raising 1t by ask
ing patriotic Dutchmen scattered
around the world to impose volun-
tarily a considerable Dutch income
tax upon themselves.
If this should prove Disappointing,
then the government proposes to
use a small part of its gold stock
for budget purposes.
And here again comes proof OF
the wonderful faith of the Dutch
officials in the future of their
country They say they want to
hold on to most of their gold stock:
1-As cover for Dutch bank notes
in circulation.
2-As provision for the post war
needs of a country once mere free.
So it may be the OLD saying will
have to be changed. Let's word it:
You can't beat the Dutcl!'