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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-14

In July auto accidents caused twice many
deaths in Britain German bombs. But Hitler
appears to be doing his best to wipe out the dis
crepancy
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-14

Germany denies she has any duty to feed the
people of occupied territories her idea being to let
(King) George do it,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-14

Colonel Lindbergh is more happily situated in
he air than on the air.
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Washington
Merry
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Weather condition: Cloudy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
ROBBINS CLEARED
IN JONES DEATH
Brunswick Coroner's Jury
Decides School Bus Ac-
cident Unavoidable

Rachel Valerie. six-year-oh L.
land school child fatally injured
whel she was u over by a school
bus near Colonial plantation Wed
nesday afternoon, came to her
as the result of an unavoidable &C.
cident, a Brunswick county coroner's
jury found last night.
The jury, impaneled by Coroner
John G. Caison, met at WOODBURY.
at 7 o'clock.
The jury exonerated Charlie Rob
bins. II, a student at Leland High
school and driver Of the bus which
struck the child as she was running
across the road to her home.
Funeral services for the child
were held from the residence yes
terday afternoon by the Rev. ]. d.
Withrow. Interment was in Wood
murn cemetery.
In ADDITION to her parents, the
girl is survived by three sisters,
Edelyis, Janice Fay and Barbara
Jane Jones, and by two brothers,
Evander Ray and Charles Allan
Jones.
The coroner's jury was composed
of E. A. Ganey, Charlie Skipper,
Pate McKeithan, E. M. Peterson, w.
.. Anderson and F. o. Simmons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
CONVICTION
UPHELD BY COURT
Magistrate Capshaw, Ac-
cused Or Being Fixed
Removed From Bench

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-P-The
conviction of James j. Hines, a
fallen Tammany district leader I'M
der a 4-to-8 year sentence for acting
as the political front" for the
Dutch Schultz policy racket, was
affirmed unanimously today by the
appellate division of the state SUI
preme court.
At the same time Magistrate HUI.
lon Capshaw, n of the jurists
claimed by the prosecution to have
been fixed or improperly influence
ed by the old boss, vas removed
from the bench.
Martin w. L%ittleton, counsel for
Hines-who was convicted specific
ally of conspiracy in the operation
of a lottery-made immediate prepa-
rations to take the case to the state
court of appeals. the last stop on the
road up to the United States SUI
preme court itself.
"Of course" Littleton said, "the
appellate division in this case was
an intermediary court. 1t did not
matter who won; Mr.. Dewey dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
could have appealed from a re-
v~ersal."
Dewey. whose victory in the case
had brought him national attention,
made no comment.
Hines himself was out of town,
and arrangements were made to re-
new his bail and permit him contin-
ued freedom. A big, bulky, hard
handed politician, he was the last
member of a local dynasty founded
in the 1905 by a blacksmith-father
who got his start by obtaining the
business of shoeing the city's horses.
Until his Indictment and his sub.
sequent conviction last Feb. rs
Hines had been one of the most pow
erful men in the city, having been
regarded for a time, said a proba,
ton report made public when sen
tence was passed, as the dispenser
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
FREEZE SPREADS
DEATH IN SOUTH
Misery And Financial Loss
Are Reported From
Texas To Virginia

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 26-(PCA
southland which habitually takes it's
winters mild was scourged today by
racking cold that spread death,
misery and financial loss from
Texas to Virginia.
While relentless frigidity smashed
records for intensity and duration,
]forecasters could promise no general
relief before Sunday and predicted
only relatively higher temperatures
then.
Human suffering fell heaviest on
the poor in the cities where even the
best dwelling are not built to with
stand sub-zero and near-zero ccndl-
tions. Retail business was slowed to
a walk as housewives left home on
" of necessity, and construction
work virtually was suspended.
Texas, FFlorida and Gulf coast
farmers could not as yet estimate
the millions lost when freezes bit
savagely into fruit and vegetable
crops. Further to the north livestock
accustomed to %wintering with little
or no shelter froze and starved in
snow-covered fields Dr. Inadequate
sheds.
The south contributed an unusual
ly high per centage of the mounting
list of deaths charged to exposure,
cold-bred fires, ~ice-caused traffic &C
cidents and other weather-connected
tragedies.
Still incomplete reports showed 90
on the winter fatality list for this
week and these added to PSI previ-
ously reported to make a total Of 339
chargeable to the protracted cold
wave.
The Red Cross and regular relief
agencies carried fuel and food to
thousands OF homes, many showed
in and i'll prepared for the most
severe winter of a generation.
Tens of thousands of rural fami-
lies. particularly in the billy regions
of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and
Kentucky were isolated and while
the food and fuel situation was not
believed acute among them, there
was concern lest illness and injury
find them without access to medical
aid.
The deep south temperatures in
major cities ranged from 10 below at
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Third Battering In Vain At
Finnish Lines Within
Kollaanjoki Sector
MAKE MANY ATTACKS
Company After Company
OF Red Army Is Cut To
Pieces Near Lake Ladoga

HELSINKI, Jan. ~27.-(Saturday)
-LR-The fate of four Soviet divls-
ions, which have been fighting al
most ceaselessly all week In n
icy wilderness north of Lake Lado-
ga, early today was approaching de-
cision, Firms reported, with two dl-
visions possibly shared eyoadb hope
Of help.
The latter two units were caught
far from their base in the region
of Kitela; a third division has been
battering in vain at Finnish lines
near Kollaanjoki and the fourth, at
lacking at Aittojoki, is reported COM
posed of the remnants Of large forces
shattered some weeks ago at Agla'
jarvi and Tolvaparvi.
Launch Attacks
Victims Of the coolest winter In
sixty years, trying to cope with the
merciless guerrilla tactics of Fin.
lands fleet ski fightrs, some of these
troops are still able to launch at
ldCh dlLCl dILdSh AL q AA
to recue their trapped comrades and
then fight their own yay out OF
threatening disaster.
Week-long attack withaut quar-.
ter found company after company
Of the Red army cut to pieces north
east of Lake Ladoga, the Finnish
command announced, with Finnish
redoubst Everywhere retained"
With Soviet dead declared by the
Firms to have been counted in the
hundreds" the furious assault pene-
trated the eastern shorts of the lake
itself. Under a heavy artillery bar.
rage, the Russians were sent in
waves against the Bastions of Fort
Mantsi, island stronghold command.
ing a coastal corner of Finland.
Like the other attacks, the Firms
said, these we're repulsed 1.-THE enemy
leaving more than 100 dead before
our positions"
A Finnish communicate told the
grim story of the destruction of long
Russian cavalry columns. 1t drew a
terse word picture of the carcasses
of more than 400 horses prawled
in the snow.
1t is in this area that the Rus.
slams, in attacks at various points,
have tried all week to cut a flank
ing twain behind the Mannerheim
line.
Artillery Quiet
Up just above the arr Fin
nish waistline, north of the Arctic
Circle, dispatches from the field
described a sudden hush in Rus.
sian artillery fire combined with un.
usual activity on the highway east
of Markajarvi. 1t was to this towr.
that 100000 Russians retreated after
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
BRITISH BELIEVE NAVY AND AIR FORCE
SOLVING NAZI DRIVE ON UPPLY LINES

occurred Jan. 18, damaged the
royal gunpowder plant at North
Waltham and killed five men.
Police said they found no evi.
dence of sabotage in this case.
Sinking by submarine of the
1,3OO-ton Norwegian steamer
Gudveig in the North Sea with
a loss of 10 men was disclosed
when seven survivors were land.
ed in a Scottish port. The Lat.
Wan steamer Everne, 4,484 tons,
also was reported sunk by a
submarine shortly after leaving
the English port of Blyth. The
crew was rescued.
The third victim was the Nor.
wegian steamer Songa, 1856
tons, formerly known as the
Ada, sunk by a submarine in the
Atlantic last Monday while on
the New York; Rotterdam run.
Her crew of rs reached the Irish
shore today, IL in a lifeboat and
the others on a trawler: She
was under charter to the Cos
mopolitan Shipping lines Of
New York
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Low Of About
70 Degrees Is
Slated Today
No Rain Or Snow Expected
In Wilmington And The
Vicinity Today
MERCURY SETS MARK
Reading Of 20 Degrees Be-
low Zero Is Recorded
AT Laurel Springs

roid weather continued to camp in
Wilmington last night and the wealth
er bureau predicted a low of 20 to %
3oorees would be recorded this morn
inc shortly before sunrise.
Earlier in the day it had been
predic!ed the mercury would drop
TO 70 CT Is degrees during the night
hut with the thermometer standing
at q degrees at 7:3O p. m. and with
only a five to seven degree drop in
sight. the prediction was modified.
Here To Stay
But cold weather is apparently
here to stay for awhile, the weather.
men said, and whereas the city need
not fear rain or snow in this area
today, citizens may we'll brace them
selves for a continued cold spell
Early Yesterday morning the mer-
curry dropped to 1875 degrees, the Sec
ond lowest temperature recorded
here this winter.
Most of the snow which fell here
Thursday night had disappeared last
night but ice was to be found
wherever there was exposed water.
The highest temperature recorded
yesterday was 80 degrees. The mean
temperature for the day was rs de.
grees, q below the normal mean of
Is degrees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
TWO BELIEVED
TRAPPED FAR
FROM N AID
Russian Commanders,
Enlisted Men Giuen
Medals For Bravery

MOSCOW, Jan. rs. - up -
Medals have been conferred upon
891 commanders and members of
the rank and file of the Red
army who especially distinguish
ed themselves in battle against
Finnish white guards" lass, Of
fetal Soviet Russian news agency
announced tonight.
The presidium of the supreme
Soviet of the u. S. S. X. award
ed the order of the Red banner
to the eighty-first mountain in
fantry regiment for Exemplary
execution of battle ORDERS and
for "valor and courage display
ed by its personnel in fighting
the Finnish white guards"
Seven soldiers and command
ers were decorated simultan-
eously with the order OF Lenln
and the medal of the gold star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Front Street Work To Be
COMPLETED Weeks
Woman Is Indicted For
Murder Of Her Mother

FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. &C.
R)-Mrs. Evelyn Irvine, mother
of two young Children, was in
dicted today by the Franklin
county grand jury for "wilful
murder" of her mother, Mrs. B.
B. Jeffers, on January 10. Bond
was fixed by Circuit Judge Will
liam B. Ardery at $4,000.
The Indictment said Mrs.
Irvine caused her mothers
death by Striking, beating and
wounding her with a blunt in
strument."
Mrs. Jeffers, 70, was found
beaten to death in the basement
of her home on her 5O0-acre cat
tie and tobacco farm near
Frankfort.
Sergeant Kelley Berger of the
State Bureau of Investigation
said Mrs. LETTERS had been beat
Ell to death with a flatiron and
ashes thrown over her body.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
BY ROBERT e. BUNNELLE

LONDON, Jan. &c. (AP) -
British conviction that the navy
and air force are finally solving
the problem of German assaults
upon the empires vital supply
lines was boIstered today by a
food ministry order doubling the
bacon and ham ration.
This development was closely
followed by official announce
ment of the conclusion of an &C.
onomic and financial agreement
with the Greek government, de-
tails of which were not immedi-
ately disclosed.
Britain previously had pledg-
ed aid. to Greece in the event of
aggression threatening her i'll
dependence.
Despite the better situation in
imported food supplies as re.
Elected by the relaxation in ra-
tioning, three more neutral ship
losses we're revealed with the
landing of 81 survivors at Scot
fish and Irish ports. Eleven
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
COLD RETARDS WORK
Crushed Stone Applied And
Spreading Of Asphalt
To Begin Monday

Work of paving Front street is
being held up at the present by cold
weather but, if the weather modi-
fies, it is anticipated the project
will be completed two weeks from
Monday, j. E. L. Wade, city COM
missioner of public works, said YES
terday.
Crushed stone has been applied to
the street from Orange to Chestnut
street, Wade said and, weather per-
hitting, spreading of asphalt will be
commenced on Monday.
Heavy Coating
First, he said, four inches OF
asphalt will be placed over the cen
ter section of the street froT which
the street a tracks have been
moved and on which the crushed
rock has been placed.
When this is completed, another
layer of asphalt, two inches thick
will be applied I'VE the center.
Then the entire street from gut
ter to gutter will receive a two.inch
coat of asphalt.
If weather permits the beginning
of paving Monday, Wade said, it is
anticipated that the four blocks
from Orange to Chestnut wilt be
opened to travel a week from Mon
day.
Work will be carried on night and
day, he said.
The paving is to be carried out al
a cost of $4,000. The entire pro-
iect, part of the expense of which
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
laps Say End.
Pact Will
Not Hit Plans
Will Not Alter Program For
Establishment OF New
Order In China
OFFICERS GIVE VIEWS
Idea OF Giving State De-
partment Control OF
Trade Supported
BY CLARK LEE

SHANGHAI, Jan. 26.-GR-Japa-
nese army officers in China say
that the ending of the United
States-Japanese commercial treaty
today can not alter their program
for the establishment of "a new
order" in this country.
They assert that no matter what
economic pressure the United
States may bring in the treatyless
period ahead their program, which
has meant harm to Americans and
infringement of their treaty aights,
must go on even if this means
frontal conflict with the United
States.
Dictates Policy
Since 1881 the japanese army
has dictated the empires policy re-
specting China. If it's attitude is
unchanged, experienced observers
here see little chance for a Japa
nese-American agreement to replace
the old treaty, since there would
be no assurance that promises made
by the Tokyo government to re-
spect American interests would be
carried out by the army in China
The treaty's last day passed with
out any notable Japanese-Americar
developments here.
Army officers freely discuss the
possibility that gradual Tightening
of the economic ere on japan
by the United States might leac
to war between the two countries
On the other hand, however, the
more conservative Japanese navy
which would have to do most Of
any fighting, dismisses the ques-
ton Of a Japanese-American wal
as extremely unlikely.
China In Middle
And in the middle of the tangled
situation is the third party, China
whose hopes for victory over Japar
now rest to a large extent on the
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
STARTS
SPECULATION
Confers With Men Lewis
Denounced As Planning
Third Term Boom

WASHINGTON, jams 20 Q -
President Roosevelt started a fresh
wave Of political guessing today by
holding a conference with two mel
whom John l.. Lewis denounced last
fall on the grounds that they Glitter
tanned "secret plans to launch a
third term boom"
The two are Norman M. L1ttell'
assistant attorney general; a q
Marshall E. Dimock, second assist
ant secretary of labor. They visited
the White House in company WIN
Oscar L. Chapman, assistant secre'
tary of the interior. Upon emerging
they would a nothing to reporters.
The politically-wise Immediately
recalled that last October the CLIO
chieftain loosed a blast at a western
progressive conference" which he
said Littell and Dimock were seek
ing to hold in Salt Lake City.
Warning labor's non-partisan
league, which he heads, to have no
thing to do with the conference, he
said labor had not been given a
chance to offer a Legitimate Iro'
gram for the meeting.
Other reasons for Directing to the
conference, he said, was the slight
to Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) and
"other great liberals of the west who
have not been consulted and who
are slated to be excluded from the
conference" In addition, he cited
what he termed "the secret plans to
use the conference to launch a
third-term BOOM"
The White House conference to-
day raised the following questions:
1. Was it a gesture of reply tc
Lewis prediction this week that a
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
DRIVE ON JOBLESS
PROBLEM IS
Demands Oh Workers And
Farmers For Campaign
Backed By Wheeler

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 26. -P-
Demands Of labor and agriculture
for a government-backed war on I'M
employment-termed "America's No.
1 problem"-received strong backing
today from Senator Burton K.
Wheeler as he turned aside queries
whether he would be a democratic
presidential a%spirant.
President Roosevelt, who has not
acted on pleas by the congress Of
industrial organizations and the
national grange, for a general con-
ference with Industry on unemploy-
ment, also was implored by Wheel
er to declare his third term inten-
lions Immediately.
Wheeler told the jubilee CONVEX
ton of the CLOS United Mine Work
ers of America that only through
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27

but the government asserted the
problem was merely one of i'll
ternal distribution.
Sharing attention with the
food situation on the home front
was a terrific explosion in a
power station supplying the Lam
cashire Steel corporation at IT.
lam, one of the largest steel
plants in England.
The entire roof of the build
ing, Is by 60 feet, was blown
away and debris blocked a near
by railway.
Police, Investigating the blast,
said that no sabotage was in
volved and declared faulty cleo
trical apparatus might have
been to blame.
The explosion was the second
in western England within a
fortnight, however, and the war
office warned the public today
that sentries posted at vulner-
able points had orders to fire
if challenges went %unlleeded.
The previous explosion, which
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
other creWmen from the two yes.
sells were missing.

other crewmen from the two yes.
sells were missing.
The new rationing order, ef-
fective Jan. 20, increased to eight
ounces the amount of bacon or
ham allowed each person per
week, and was greeted jubilant-
Iy by the press with such head
lines as Navy Brings Home the
Bacon" Rationing of bacon,
ham and sugar was begun on
Jan. s.
Eggs and bacon or eggs
and ham" are British breakfast
table musts. Most bacon and ham
II imported.
ElatiOn over this evidence of
ADEQUATE pork supplies was
tempered somewhat by reports
of a shortage of fresh meats
probably in February-under the
government butchering program,
adopted recently as a prelimi-
nary to rationing of these COM
modities.
Butchers complained they
were unable to supply the trade,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina. South Carolina,
georgia and Florida: Fair Saturday
anu sunday with slowly rising tenn
Nefature in west and central portions.
meteorological data for the "a hours
'nuihg 7:SO p. m. Yesterday.
Inn Temperature
l'9 81 a. m. "a; 7:30p. m. 10; 1870 p.
m 10 $3.50 p. IL. IS; maximum 80
"iliuhl le; mean %; normal 46.
,,oo Humidity
m 30: %, a. m. 81; 7:30 a. m. Is; 80 p.
Ill., 81 7:N p. m. 30.
r. Precipitation
n ~ aotal for a hours ending 7:3O o. m.
nav mon.L inches; total since first of the
month 515 inches.
Tides For Today
& 'rrtom Tide Tables published by U.
" 'oast and Geodetic Survey.
Wilmington liza $500
Aas0nboro Inlet 9:29a 3:2oa
svn, 10 :01p 2:50p
,is s aorlnse 7:13a; sunset 5:37p; moon
''V'p; moonset S:15p.
Weath nanllNNGTON, January 90 (P) -
and ra;. bureau records of temperature
IN m '"iltall for the "a hours ending s
areas III The principal cotton growing
S Stss and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
THOMAS IS NAMED
TO SUCCEED B0RAH
Former United States Sena.
tor Appointed By Gov
ernor Oh Idaho

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 26.-R-Gov.
G. A. Bottolfsen tonight appointed
former U. S. Senator John W.
Thomas, republican, to the senate
seat left vacant by the death OF
William E. BOrah.
Thomas, former Idaho republican
state chairman and former Idaho
national committeeman for his par
ty, accepted Immediately.
~ am deeply appreciative to Gov
ernor Bottolfsen for the opportunl-
ty to attempt, in my humble BEST to
carry on Senator Borah's program
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
The European
War Situation

(By the Associated Press)
MISUNDERSTANDING fight,
ing northeast Of Lake LadOga
finds Red army companies u
to pieces; pieces; Soviet Dead
Firms say, counted in the
hundreds"
PARIS-German and French
artillery engage in long duel
as French scouts report signs
of possible offensive.
LONDON-British food minis
try doubles bacon and ham ra-
tom; 40 survivors of three neu'
trail ships land at British ports.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
PHILIPPINE LINER
SINKS OFF JAPAN
President Quezon Is Lost
After Going Aground On
Treacherous Reefs

TOKYO, Jan. 27.-(saturdaySR
The %8.341-ton Philippine liner Pres
ident Quezon was reported by the
Japanese steamer Ukishima Maru to
have sunk stern first todap several
hours after going aground on treach-
erous reefs of Tanegashima Island,
southern Japan.
Radio advices from the Ukishima
Maru said that all the crewmen and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
STATE SHIVEKS

CHARLOTTE, Jan. &c. - Up -
North Carolina shivered today in a
cold wave that sent temperatures
tumbling far below zero in the noun
tains.
The lowest temperature to be re-
ported was from a CCC camp at
Laurel Springs, on the Blue Ridge
mountain parkway. The unofficial
Continued Oil Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-27
Renting
A Dependable
Source Of Revenue
40 APIS.

Mrs. Tom Nichols of ia Nun
ST., had a very profitable ex-
perience with a Star-News
Rental AID. She placed a 45c
For Rent Ad last Sunday
and rented her apt. immedi-
ately. She was still receiving
calls as late as Friday from
people desiring to rent her
apt. Mrs. Nichols says 1--WE
received well over so calls
from u Sunday Ad and so
far as we are concerned
Star-News Want Ads are
'unbeatable'r'
TWO ROOM APARTMENT
for rent, close in. Phone
2S73-R.
You still have time to list
your vacancies for Sundays
edition . . and don't for
get that For Sale Want Ads
are the quickest, most eco
nomical means of bringing
buyer and seller together.
BUY : RENT : SELL
WITH WANT ADS
Call Start Your
Ad Charge 1t
Washington Journal., 1940-10-11
Glcinc Na6rt1ten

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in SEEM Oorf lanote uns Sri. Warga-
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