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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
RUMANIA BOOSTS
RAILROAD RATES
Continued From Page .One)

rail transport for her Rumanian
oil supplies as long as the Danube
river remains frozen.
Only grains were excluded from
the list of exports on which freight
rates were raised.
DR.. Clodius is coming here to
challenge Rumania's action in ban.
ming shipments of high test aviation
gasoline and lubricants which she
urgently desires for her air fleet.
Germany contends the decree was
in direct contradiction to a recent
arrangement to deliver approx.
mately 80 per cent of Rumanian
oil products to the Reich.
Britain and France, seeking to
reinforce their blockade of Ger
many by putting the economic
screws on strategic R m n a
brought pressure which resulted in
the ban.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
KOIVISTO AREA IS
CAPTURED BY REDS
CONTINUED From Page One)

sundays attacks, one Finnish Of
ficer said that is the basis of Fin
lands fight against far more num-
erous forces. To defend and tc
fall back gradually whenever neces-
sary to save men explained the
withdrawal from the first line, he
said.
He added this procedure could
go on for months. Even if the
Soviets take deserted Viipuri they
face new series Of defenses if
they choose to carry on the drive
toward Helsinki.
Russian bombers flew over parts
OF Finland again. Riihimaaki,
kouvola, Lahti, Hanko, Turku and
a number of smaller towns were
bombed yesterday. There were
four alarms in Helsinki, two of
them after dark.
The story of koivisto was told
officially in the terse opening sem
tence Of the high command COM
munlque.
"On the isthmus (of Karelia) our
troops have given up the Koivisto
Islands," it said. That was all.
Russian occupation of those
islands presumably eases the way
for attack upon Viipuri over the
frozen bay. The city now is under
heavy air and land fire. On Sat-
urday night the Russians an.
nounced occupation of the Koivis-
to Islands of Tiurimsaari and
Pllsaarl, whose loss the Firms
acknowledged only today.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
Star-News Program

Consolidated CityConnty Government,
under CounciLManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shous
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvine
Beach to Bald Head Island,
Extension OF City Limits.
S5.toot Cape Fear Riuer channel. arid
er Turning Basin. Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south Of Wilmington.
Paued Rluer Road TO Southport, vid
orion Plantation.
Deve1opmen ent of Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustaired-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
nlottondI Agency, supported BY one.
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities tor ,ohites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF ndtiUe grape gro1ctng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
The European
War Situation
(By The Associated Press)

\Dy Lie AoSUCldlcu lcSSJ
BERGEN. - Allied warships
sink two German vessels near
Finnish-Soviet border, reports
say.
KIRKENES, Norway. - Fin.
nish and Russian patrols battle
in Petsamo area, Finnish air.
craft seen in Arctic action for
first time since war.
HELSINKI. - Finnish COM
mand admits loss of Koivisto
Islands; Koivisto fortress be-
ieved now in Russian hands;
Firms say Red army attacks
Sunday repulsed with losses to
Russians.
ROME - Under.Secretary of
State Welles talks with Musso-
Eni, Foreign Minister Ciano;
goes to Berlin next for talk
with Hitler.
PARIS. - Thousands of Pari.
slams watch French aircraft
defenses drive off two German
reconnaissance planes.
BUCHAREST. Rumania in
creases railway freight rates
OH exports including oil shipped
to Germany.
LONDON. - Britain Ii ars
that governments plan for
crushing Germany calls for
"drastic" lowering of standards
of living.
LUXEMBOURG. - Observers
note columns of German in
fantry, cavalry, trains, trucks
OH the move.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
HOUSE VOTES FUND
TO KEEP CONTROL
CHECKS FLOWING

Continued From Page One)
bill, the house trimmed $4 4.O2O,7
off the Presidents budget esti-
mates.
Meanwhile, the senate passed
a $1O7.079.0O0 annual appropria-
tion bill for the state, commerce
and justice departments. This
was $2,585, ,00O less than Presi-
dent ROosevelt's budget esti-
mates, and $l46.66O less than
was voted by the house. The
measure now goes back to the
house for action on amend.
ments.
In a gesture of protest"
against Russia, Senator Lodge
R-Mass) sought to get the sem
ate to delete from this measure
$l7,50O for the maintenance Of
the United States ambassador to
Russia. Senator Vandenberg R-
M1ch) supported Lodge, but the
proposal was voted down with
out a record vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
KELLER ADVOCATE
RAIL WAGE BQN| |
Charges Regional Discriinii
nation In Pay OF Rail-
road Section Hands

WASHINGTON, Feb. st- (7-
Regional discrimination in the Va;a
paid to railroad section hands WI
charged today by Leo E. Keller {
Detroit, research director Of d,
Brotherhood of Maintenance Of WE
Employees.
He appeared before the Railta'
| Industry committee set up ur!s
the Wages and Hours Act to aF!s
for an increase in the uinim.1
| wage on railroads from 80 70 y
cents an hour.
The first witness for the WORKER
since the hearings opened teO v
Keller testified that average noun
wages for section workers on 70 I'LL
roads for which statistics Vs'
available were 40.4 cents an hour y
better in every region except y
south, where the figure was 52t y
southwest 35.1.
Furtf ermore, he said, ral.''1|
running north and south pay G.-
rates in the north than in the s'-'
and he presented pay maps o.
roads to illustrate.
Wage differentials are not OK
ON the financial conditions o. I
railroads, he argued, nor on '-4l
ences in work. sit is a MN'|
regional proposition" Keller saD :.
Noting that one road (L0us'-
and Nashville) paid II CHIEF
rates with a range of II GEMS ,
asked, "how can a road be w"
one mile-po and rich at ano'A'
Contending that the reaaS'
minimum wage increase Vouu
only one per cent to the to'4 ~
road payroll, Keller presented .n'
purporting 10 show that W.
cent of railway employees a''.
earned 40 cents or more anu
those roads on which all eil.",
were paid less than 40 cents uIu !.
Z per cent of the railroad oOsD-
The railroads presentauVH Il
concluded with the testimony
H. Talboys, manager of the f"A,. NJ
equipment department oL
waukee machinery firm 'A"
company sold maintenance ~
ment to railroads on easy 'sInr +.l
gardless of their condition anu I'd
out extra charges for credit
carriers have argued that A;
wages might force tur'"s
chanization. with resulting '''
employment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not necessar1-
~ endorse any article appear
;ne In this department. They
renresent tho views Of the In
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all commune
cations must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords. though the letter may be
signed as the writer sees TIT.
The Star-News reserves the
tight to alter any text that for
anv reason is Objectionable.
letters on controversial sub
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
Editorial Comments S
From Other Angles
NO PEACE ABDICATION
Wilmington (Del.) News

The newly-revved rumor that Chancellor
Hitler is ready to abdicate contribution to
peace is no easier to credit than it has been
in the past. This is one case where seeing Is
believing But it does serve to raise once more
the question Of what conditions the Allies
would insist upon before they would agree to
accept an Harmistce and negotiate a peace with
Germany.
One would say at once that change in the
present German government would be the first
thing upon which the Allies would insist be-
fore they would agree to lay down their arms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
AMMUNITION SEIZED

MOSCOW, Feb. 27- (Tuesdav)-.
.H'-The Soviet high command an
nounced today that more thao <.
ooo,ooo cartridges and 10000 shells
mad been captured from retreating
rims In the Koivisto fortress area
Inc island of Koivisto, the Rus
SANS declared, also yielded 26
rihnlsh defensive Notifications, in
Guiding Is iron and. concrete ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
Onslo,u Man Employed
As N. {. Prison Ga'

RALEIGH. Feb. 26.-tP'-,Nrr' WA
H. H. Wilson of Central p' ,,,-..
day employed B. Franz era
Jr., of onslow county as ,s disa
to succeed w. E. King ""e sntv y
a heart attack while oH
terday. cbpris
Morton, %, is a son Of s,,rty. s4r-y
Frank Morton of OnsioW -
tillery forts. and two ..;.:sn Gos,1s:s +
and four stores of ammaA'"
Drezie1Dns, 5Monday the Finn. s5n5'5s: ,.5oa 3D.
Koivisto area all had 0'.r ners j.
Five Finnish tanks %v, s,rt:...lt d
stroyed during futile c. e'' 'con1tt
tacks Monday, the so.t s,, hta'
nique said, and addllI''
cations were smashed ,es w.
Nineteen Finnish airp-'4,s dor,
said to have been sAo' '"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
TOP O. THE MORNING

In going to the help of q dro1rnng man,
the rescuer may become so exhausted that
all he can do is to hold up his subjects head
until help q1riUes from some other source.
SO, in the realm Of prayer, one has to hold
ON to the soul of friend and, in spite Of Ntte,
wedriness and exhaustion, refuse TO let it go.
MURIEL LESTER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27

So demoralized and embittered by internecne
feuds is the Democratic party that it cannot
present a common front against u.s. On the
other hand our ranks are closed in har.
monous understanding of the great task be.
fore us-Jchn D. Hamilton, chairman, national
G. O. P. committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-An important
Washington military authority told us when
the war first started that the moment Britain
and France began organizing an expeditionary
force in the Near East you could bank on one
thing-Italy was on the Allied side.
His reasoning was this: France and England
never would risk sending expeditionary
force to the Near East as long as Italy re.
mained a threat to the line of communications
through the Mediterranean. An expeditionary
force whose supply lines could be cut off on
short notice by Italy would be in an extremely
vulnerable position, even if it were granted
that the combined BritishFrench fleets soon
could liquidate the italian fleet.
Now France and England have organized a
force in the Near East variousy reported at
900 to 100000 men. 1t doesn't wholly prove
the case. however, for only about 10000
Australians and New Zealanders are really
"expeditionary." The others are mostly native
troops
Pertinent Question
Washington's best story-Republicans will be
telling it lot during the campaign:
A doctor, engineer and economist were argu.
ing about whose was the oldest profession.
Mine said the doctor. "The Lord cast
Adam into deep sleep, removed a rib and
made Eve. That the worlds earliest sur.
gerry. You can't beat that"
"Even before ADAM" retorted the engineer
"the Lord found only chaos, and from it
created the moon, stars, sun and separated
the land from the water. That was an engineer.
ing job
"Yeah," drawed the economist, 'but who
created chaos?"
West Virginia Peace
Peace has been installed in the world in
spot, at least modified peace Senators
Rush Holt and Matthew M. Nicely Of West vr-
ginia appear to have suspended their bitter
tong war while they combine forces to beat
down opposition in the coming primary.
Holt is running for reelection and Neely
plans to run for governor. 1t isn't so much that
they like each other better but that they dis.
like their common foes more.
1t is almost a political phenomenon for they
have been the bitrerest enemies in the Senate.
Neely campagned for Holt in 1884 to make
him the "baby" senator. Holt had to wait five
months to take the oath Of office because he
wasn't of senatorial age, 80, when elected.
Barely had Holt entered the Senate when
he protested Nicely was hogging the patron.
age, especially in WPA. He opened a harrage
in the Senate that lasted four months He
campaigned against Neely when the latter
sought reelection in 1886. They probably
haven't spoken hundred words to each other
since.
Such formidable opposition has arisen against
Holt in the primary and against Neely's fol.
lowers that they had to act. Neey's plans for
running for the governorship are subject to
change. He could let Holt fight it out for him.
self If he chose, for Neelys term still has two
years to run.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27

1t takes two tons of rose petals
to make one ounce of altar of
roses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
Dutch Jittery?

u S. officials are not panicked by any threat
that may be carried in Japan's denunciation Of
it's commercial treaties with The Netherlands.
Some observers hastily concluded that Japan
was opening the way for a drive southwark
into The Netherlands East Indies, rich in oil,
rubber, tin and other military essentials.
Three years ago. Dutch officials ordered
something akin to blackout in Batavia, Java,
because of a mere rumor They probably are
jittery now. But U. S. officials suspect that
Japan is plenty busy. Moreover. they suggest
that the japanese, masters in imitation, may
be trying to stage the kind of war of
nerves. employed by the United States
in denouncing the U. S.-Japanese commercial
treaty,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
New York
Scene
BY GEORGE ROSS

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-That Third
Term Question may remain up in
the air, but around Park Avenue
there is no doubt but that Brenda
Frazier still holds office as the First
Lady of Cafe Society. AL efforts to
supplant her have failed, to the cha
grin of press agents and doring de-
butantes.
Brenda's term as No. / Glamor
Girl around here automatically end
ed last New Years Eve and new
candidates came forward for the
much-coyeted honorarium.
There was Mary A. Steel, who is
tall and blonde, and Patricia Plum
kett, who is tall and blonde, and they
ran we'll ahead of the others.
In fact, they raced to a photo fin
ish in the annual debutante sweep
stakes. But even the negative was
inconclusive, because somewhere in
phe picture, a dark horse was shown
to be forging ahead of the others.
Or should I say a dark filly, who
happened to be Brenda, involuntari.
ly entered in the debutante race for
1910? 1t looks as If that girl is go
ing to be the glamor belle until she
weds, a step she Is reported to have
contemplated several times, without
result.
At the moment, Brenda is summing
herself in Nassau, which is why
photos of her against a zebra strip
ed background at Ell Morocco or
white tablecloths at the Stork, are
rather scarce. But her absence does
not seem to have given Mary or
Patricia any particular advantage.
They just can't hope to be the
Debutante of the Year while Brenda
prefers to remain single. Poor girl,
she's got to be glamorous whether
she likes it or not.
Talent Scouting
Should Begin At Home
Gus Edwards has discovered more
footlight, satellites than anyone else
in the song and dance world. But
he always will rue the day when he
failed to spot in his own household
one of the brightest stars on the i'm
mediate horizon.
To this day, he bushes when he
recalls the time, about eight years
ago, when his adolescent niece, Joan
EDWARDS, approached him about q
career on the stage. Probably the
fact that Joan was born and edu.
Gated In the heart Of New York in
fluence Uncle Gus.
None Of his proteges stemmed from
the Big Town and he was firm in
the belief that stars did not rise in
the metropolis. So he counse11ed her
tactfully that she should study to
teach music in high school,
Joan obediently enrolled at Him.
ter College for such a lifeworlx h,,t
while she matriculated, things he.
came economically uncertain at
home. So she went forth ,,nder We.
rious pseudonyms and sang with
bands for modest stdpends.
On one of these sneak excursions
Paul Whiteman heard her. Hearinu
her voice once was enough for him,
The King Of Jazz promptly signed
her up. Joan went back to her real
name. forsook her prospects as a
schoolmarm.
If Uncle Gus, the Talent Find.
er, has a family crimson face these
ldays, that's the reason.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
BIG CROWDS VISIT
NEARBY BEACHES
Practically All Inns And
Other Establishments
Open For Business

wrightsville and Car Of n a
Beaches, blessed with sunny SKIES
and warm temperatures, yesterday
played hosts to unusually large
crowds of preseason visitors.
The resorts began to take on
the atmosphere Of summer as the
strands became dotted with bathers
and the boardwalks with large
numbers of fully clothed weaker
souls.
Practically all the hotels, inns
and other business establishments
are now open and ready for busl-
ness.
Many worthwhile improvements
have been made at both beaches
and both will soon be ready Tor
their formal openings. Carolina will
open on May %. Wrightsvllle's
opening date has not yet been an
nounced.
Outside fishing also opened to
some extent yesterday as several
Continued OH Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
80 MILES FROM PARIS
French Expected To Know:
Soon Whether Nazis Will
Drive Toward Ports
NAILS SUFFER LOSSES
FRANCE

PARIS, May 19.-(AP)-
France tonight named an
adopted son, General Max
ime Weygand, generalissimo
of the Allied armies in place
Of Maurice Gustave Gamelin
and called upon him to halt
the German biitzkrieg which
an official spokesman de-
scribed as the greatest Of
fensive of modern warfare"
Weygand, a 73-year-old
general, known during the
World war as the SHADOW
and right hand man of Gen.
eralissimo Foch, was given
command of Allied forces in
"all theaters of operations"
as German light units pound
ed at the gates of the tex
tile manufacturing city of
st. Quentin, 80 miles north
of Paris.
One Phase
The fight on the outskirts
of St. Quentin was one phase
of a German push which the
French expected to tell with
in "a hours whether the
Nazis would drive on toward
the channel ports or turn
southwark down the Disc
river valley toward Paris.
In the St. Quentin sector
the Germans hurled a motor
lied army corps, estimated
at about 10000 men at least,
into a fierce battle between
Guise and Landrecies. The
French high command re-
ported COnlgnC CnaC us troops
"are opposing stubborn re-
sistance to the enemy in
that area.
The high command said
Allied fighters and anti-air-
craft guns had inflicted
heavy losses during attempt
ed bombing raids.
Native OF Brussels
General Weygand, a native OF
Brussels who became a citizen Of
France at the age of 20, was taken
from his post as commander Of
the French forces in the Near East
to succeed Generalissimo Gamelin
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
RAIDS
TAKE 100000 LIVES
Third OF Dutch City De-
stroyed Before 1t Sur
rendered Ia Germany

LONDON, May 19.-tR-At least
100, 900 people were killed and a
third of Rotterdam destroyed when
the Germans bombed that Neither
lands seaport before its surrender,
a Dutch legation communicate from
Paris, as quoted by British news
agency dispatches, said today.
Two squadrons of German bomb
ers with delayed action bombs flew
over Rotterdam in close formation,
the communique said, dropping a
deadly cargo of heavy bombs that
"ploughed a veritable furrow of
destruction"
Scenes reminiscent of Dante's
Inferno ensued, with fires and
explosions Everywhere" the COM
munique related.
Bombing operations were con
Quoted from an estimated 1850
feet.
Buildings ove an area of more
than five square miles were de-
stroyed, the communique added.
"A moderate estimate" it con-
tinued, lis that in this monstrous
work of destruction, horrifying as
a nightmare and absolutely with
out precedent, at least 100, 900
people must have perished."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
Minister Asserts
Nation Must Wait Until
Mussolini Speaks
ITALY

ROME, May 19.-LR-Italy must
say and will say her word in Euro
pean events, and only awaits 1.-THE
order of the day." Count Galeazzc
Ciano, foreign minister, told the
Italian people today as air raid pre-
cautions we're ordered for areas in
the northern part of the country,
facing France.
Italy cannot remain a stranger to
events in European life" Ciano said
in a speech at Milan, but the people
must wait until Mussolini speaks to
know what to do next.
"Not A Stranger"
"Italy Of the Ethiopian undertak-
ing and victories in Spain is not d
stranger nor a it be a stranger to
events in European life in which
Rome must and will say it's word"
he continued.
Ciano spoke briefly on the first an
niversary of the signing of "the pact
Of STEEL" the Italian German mill
tary alliance.
While Ciano was speaking in Mi
Ian a rumor circulated in Rome that
Premier Mussolini was planning to
speak tomorrow night from his bal
cony at the Palazzo Venezia.
1t was in the spirit of her vic
tories, Ciano said, that Italy was
Fastening, these new tasks for
which it will be called"
These tasks, he said, were dictated
by "the necessity of finally achieving
our ASPIRATIONS"
To Keep Faith
Italy, he said, in what appeared
to be a reference to the alliance
with Germany, intends to keep
faith in her engagements and like
wise her greater destiny"
Ciano said he knew the people
Continued on Page Tenn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
HULL FAILS TO TALK
Assistant Secretary OF
State Reads Chiefs Manu-
script On Trade

WASHINGTON, May 80 Up -
The pressure of keeping in touch
with developments abroad prevent
ed Secretary Hull from delivering
a radio address tonight which in
cluded a message from President
Roosevelt saying that peace hopes
depended upon liberal economic
policies.
The secretary was notified to ex-
pect an important telephone call
from Paris, presumably from Am
bassador William Bullitt, at the
time he was to have gone on the
air. Breckenridge Long, assistant
secretary of state, read his chiefs
manuscript for him.
Message Cabled
It developed later that the ex-
pected communication from Paris
came by cable. and "a given to Hull
at his home. Its nature was not dis
closed but a state department
spokesman said it was nothing SEN
sational" and explained that fire.
quent messages were being exchang-
ed in these times.
The speech was in celebration Of
foreign trade week. Mr.. Roosevelt's
message said that the promotion of
inant purpose of the foreign policy
liberal economic policies would on
tinue to be "a vital part and a DOM
of the United States"
I'm this way, and in this way
alone, can the United States con-
tribute to the economic reconstruc-
ton of the world when the destruc-
ton now going on shall have ceas-
3D." the President declared.
Hull warned that if the doctrines of
"totalitarian autarchy"-"so omin-
ously spreading today"-became
widely dominant in international
trade relations mankind would be
plunged into a period of chaos and
impoverishment, and, inevitably, in
to moral and spiritual decay"
The principles underlying the adj
m~inistration's trade agreements
program, he asserted, "offer the only
possible basis On which the econo.
mic life of the world a be success
fully rebuilt when the present wars
are over"
The trade agreements program
provides a means of bargaining with
the other countries for reciprocal
tariff reduction.
Detailing dislocating effects of the
European war IN American com.
merce and agriculture, the secre-
tarv said difficulties now being ex.
perienced in obtaining Essential i'm.
ports" provided an "-unanswerable
REPUTATION to those who indulge in
reckless assertions that our coun
try can isolate itself from the rest
of the world and prosper"
He said it was Americas duty to
itself to make every appropriate
contribution toward the establish
ment of stable peace and orderly
| international relations.