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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

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lington staff, headed by a colonel, occasional
trouble.
For years, it has become the traditional
right of the men who are to rest in Arlington
to select the site of their interment.
The General Chooses
Almost any warm, sunny day, you can see
on the paths of Arlington old men or old cou-
pies strolling about, cycling this view or that
with the object of selecting their plot. Once
in a while, conflicting selections are made. To
find a solution to these often calls for all the
diplomacy that the staff can summon.
There was one old general, long retired, who
spent months selecting his site. Almost every
day when the weather was good, he and his
wife would go to Arlington and tread the paths
and search for their cemetery plot.
At last they found it, and the colonel, after
considerable manuevering, managed to assign
it to them. The old couple were delighted and
chief cause of their delight was a beautiful
old elm that spread over a corner of the plot.
They Liked That Elm
Throughout the spring and summer and fall,
they would go to the cemetery and sit in the
shade of their tree and enjoy their view Of
the Potomac and distant Washington.
They came to be we'll known to the Arlington
staff. For the general and his wife, the staff
came to have a genuine affection.
Imagine the colonel's horror, when he discov-
cred during a casual early spring inspection,
that the generals tree had disappeared. 1t
had developed blight and the foresters had re-
moved it.
The colonel went into action, routed out a
details of huskies and searched the Virginia hills
until he found a big elm that matched the
generals. Transplanting it was a whale of a
sob, the colonel recalls, but he got it done.
Tho rro,,r1 la~oa41. ~ l-E-- H.
general and his lady made their next visit.
The colonel and I are happy to report that
the generals elm is now one of the finest
in Arlington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

Next: Facts and fancies about
the eyes, ears and teeth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

While this indicates that HITLER has little
to expect from his good friend" in
the Kremlin, it also shows that the rest of
the world has no reason to look for honest
help there. Always and in all crises, STAIN
is STALIN-and nobody else.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
BIG CELEBRATION HELD
Show Stolen By Thousands
Who Paid $20APlatet
In Many Night Clubs
BY HILL

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-(P-In an
atmosphere of uncertain prospects
New York's seven million plunged to-
night into a cacaphonous hail-and
farewell to the New Year and the
Old.
The Sunday New Years Eve die
nothing to hamper the jubilation, be
cause the calendar coincidence lee
the city TO ignore the customary
a, m. curfew and-for a special $10
bar DEMONSTRATION was sail right
over into Mondays drinking hours.
AS usual most New Workers cele-
brated in private parties. but az
usual the show was stolen by the
200, 00O-odd who elected to pay up te
$40 a plate in the city's 1,417 night
clubs, augmented by 20 optimistic
last-minute new ones.
The cautious price sale-the tor
was $40 in the palmy days-indl-
Gated the scope Of the celebration
Although the White Way bonifaces
predicted a 1920, oOo, 900 celebration
(the usual $5,O00,00O over their pre-
vious years estimate) night life has
not been the same since the overflow
ering bulk of the Worlds Fair loom
ed u plast spring. and the stock mar
ket, to which the night clubs art
geared financially, has not beer
booming.
From the official city's point Of
view, it was just another New Years
Eve-midtown, plate-glass windows
boarded, a fireman at every midtown
box to thwart false alarms, and l.
500 nightstick-less cops humoring the
crowds in the Times Square area.
It was the ~gadget-iest New Years
Eve in history Press agents outdid
themselves in thinking up Wacky
goods and services for their clients
to provide. One restaurant installed
two telegraph wires for sending New
Year greetings. A night club in
stalled a barber for early-morning
tonsorial treatment; another offered
Continued on Page Tenn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
REDS, JAPS MAKE
FISH RIGHTS PACT
Troublesome Russian-Japa
nese Issue Apparently
Settled For One Year

TOKYO, Dec. 1.--lR-The for
eign office announced today that {
temporary one-year agreement hat
been concluded in Moscow concern.
ing Japan's fishing rights in Rus.
sia's Far Eastern territorial waters
one of the most troublesome O.
RuSsian-Japanese issues.
Japan had sought a long-tern
agreement and her acceptance O.
the limited pact represented {
concession. Russian Foreign Com.
missar Vyacheslaff Molotoff hat
said Russia was willing to con.
clude a long-term pact if japan
met certain undisclosed conditions
but apparently this was not done
The new agreement, negotiated
in Moscow by Ambassador Shige
nori Togo, also provides for pay
ment by Manchoukuo, Japan!
pr~otectorate. of the final install.
ment of 6,00O,0 900 yen (about ST.,
404, 0O0) due on the former Chinese
eastern railway.
Russia's share in this strategic
1,O000-mile railway across northern
Manchuria, constructed by czarist
Russia by agreement with the van.
lshed Chinese empire, was sold by
Soviet Russia to Manchoukuo, witt
Japan acting as intermediary, ir
1885.
Manchoukuo had withheld fina.
payment pending settlement of 9th
er issues. Hitherto Japan had in
sisted she could not interfere with
Manchoukuo's stand in the matter
TIL Moscow agreement thus re.
moves for the time being two OBJ.
stacles to closer Japanese-Russiar
understanding, which has been de.
veloping since the truce of Sept. II
ended their four-months-old unde
clared war on the Manchoukuo.
Outer Mongolia border.
The fisheries question has beer
a troublemaker for several years
Japan's rights to fish in certain
defined areas off the Siberian
coasts, fixed annually as the result
of auctions for such Fishing lots
held in V~ladivostok, spring from
the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
which ended the Russian-Japanese
war. They YER confirmed by tn,
1925 treaty by which Japan recog
nized the Soviet regime and we.
regulated by long-term agreement,
until 1886, when Russia refused 1,
extend the pact expiring at tn,
end OF that year because of ia
pans conclusion of an anti-com.
munist pact with Nazi Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
Mercury Will
To Is
Here
|kies Will Be Partly Cloudy
With Possibility OF
Snow o. Rain
E0LD WAVE IS BROAD
lew Crops Above Ground
And Damage To Them
Expected To Be Small

! The new year is expected to
linz Wilmington its coolest wealth
1 of the season today.
EWeathermen forecast last night
Hat the temperature will drop to
hout % to IS degrees, the lowest
/ this winter, early this morning.
In addition, the forecast for Will
and vicinity today is part
cloudy skies and possibly snow
II rain tonight. If the snow arrives,
he meteorologist said, it will not
,e of any great intensity.
The previous low figure was 20
recorded on Christmas
morning.
Yesterdays low temperature was
3 degrees and the maximum 81,
living a mean of AZ in comparison
b the days normal of Al.
The wintry blasts in Wilmington
be only a part of one Of the cold
BIT waves to strike the nation for
kme time. Temperatures of zero
Id below were recorded in sew
al midwestern sections of the ma
bn Yesterday. Although warmer
eather is expected in Whining
about Tuesday, the remainder
the country's cold sections are
Rnheted with snow, the heaviest
the winter.
Few crops are above the ground
this time of year and the dam
Continued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
RUSSIA LOSES
MANY TROOPS
IN BIG BATTLE
The European
War Situation

By the Associated Press)
H~ELSINkI-Finns announce
Russian division ''for the most
part destroyed" in two-day
battle OH eastern front, report
capturing much war material;
Russian bombers raid at least
six Finnish cities.
MONTEVIDEO - German
freighter Tacoma, facing alter
native of internment, sails un.
certainly from Montevideo,
threatened with capture by
British.
BERLIN Nazis stress that
1910 will bring great test for
Germany.
~LONDON-Britain may add
10000 0 men to army to make
total of $500, 900 in anticipa-
ton of intense land warfare.
PARIS-Western front quiet
after nO-man's-iand skirmishes
in snow.
TOKYO-Russia and Japan
conclude temporary one.year
agreement on Japanese fishing
rights in Russia's Asiatic wat.
ers, settling n of the most
troublesome Russian. Japanese
problems.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
New Year Welcomed
BV New YOrk'S Millions
England Gives New
Year Silent Welcome

LONDON, Jan. i. - New
Year's)-{AP)-The new year
sneaked into Britain without
sight or hardly any sound.
The g vernment's wartime
"sssshhh'' was applied to 81
rens or anything that might be
mistaken for an air raid alarm.
This put the damper on the
usual scream of ships whistles
from English and Scottish
docks.
LOndOn's blacked-Out Plea
dilly was crowded with merry
makers and soldiers on leave,
who couldn't see their hands in
front of their faces. Bars were
allowed to stay open until a
quarter after twelve, instead Of
the usual 10 p. m. And in hon.
or of the occasion, swank
night clubs and hotel bathrooms,
for the first time since the war.
reinstated the rule: Evening
dress or uniform required"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01

while the Gedez, Menderes and
other rivers flowing into the
Aegean sea caused havoc around
Smyrna.
Rivers still are rising with
more serious losses feared in
the next "a hours.
Billiards continued in north
eastern Turkey, covering the
entire earthquake area with a
thick coat of snow. Tempera-
lures remained many degrees
below zero Fahrenheit in some
sections.
Reports from Erzincan City,
which suffered worst, said when
the first relief train arrived
hordes of hungry, half-crazed,
half-frozen survivors attacked
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
Nazi Supply.
Ship Leaves
Montevideo
Moves Out And Anchors
Just Inside Breakwater /
AS Darkness Falls |
z
FLIES BATTLE FLAG
-. Z
Tacoma's Course Uncertain
With British Warships |
Lying Off Coast

MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 81 Up -
The German steamer Tacoma, which
acted as a sea-going sentinel for
the self-destruction of the German
pocket battleship Admiral G r f
Spec, moved out toward sea tonight
before expiration of a Uruguayan
deadline for her departure, but
anchored at darkness just inside the
harbor breakwater.
Her course, with British warships
outside the harbor, was uncertain.
The Uruguayan government had
issued a 24-hour ultimatum giving
the Tacoma until 8 a.. M, tomorrow
morning C a. M, E. S. T.) to leave
port or be interned for the duration
Of the war, ruling the ship had act
ed as an auxiliary to the Graf Spec
in standing by while the battleship
was blown up by her master just
outside Montevideo harbor, tw Q
weeks ago.
Flies Battle Flag
Captain Hans Know, master OF
the ~S,26S-ton Tacoma, ordered the
German navy's battle flag run up
shortly after 4:30 p. m. (2:30 p.
M, E. S. T.) and, with this banner
and the nazi swastika flying, she
weighed anchor at 4:43 p. m.
An hour later, as darkness gather
ed over the port, the Tacoma drop
ped anchor again, her next move a
puzzle to observers ashore.
Two or three Uruguayan port tug
boats which were easing the Tacoma
out steamed away, leaving the YES
sci in the custody of the third tug.
The Tacoma's stack was still smok-
ing as night fell.
At 10 p. m. e p. m, E. S. T.) the
Tacoma was still anchored a FEY!
hundred yards inside the outer
breakwater through which ships
must pass to reach either the open
sea or the river Plate, the latter the
route to Buenos Aires.
Sources usually well-informed ex-
pected the Tacoma to sail after mid.
night and try to reach Buenos Aires,
where, it was said, Argentina would
Continued on Page Tenn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
J. 6. DACAS HELD
IN WADDELL CASE
Coroner's Jury Orders That
Driver OF Automobile
Be Detained

A coroner's jury Investigating the
highway death of John Waddell, a.
year-old negro, recommended yester-
d. T afternoon that J. George Dagas,
of Beach Haven, N. J., driver Of the
car which struck the aged negro on
highway II in Brunswick county
Saturday afternoon, be held for
grand jury investigation, Coroner
John G.. Caison, of Brunswick coun-
ty, reported.
Bond was set at $1,000.
Five witnesses were heard at the
Continued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
[|!NS SMASH SOVIET DIVISION ON EASTERN FRONT
Coolest Weather Slated Today
City Of Joliet's Master
Tells OF Mid Sea e
OF Grew Of Bri nin

Captain. Herbert S. Olsen,
C"and it's a good Norw 9gian
name, too") Of the freighter City
OF Joliet, now in port here dis
charging a cargo of nitrate of
soda, told an interesting story
last night of the mid-sea rescue
of the crew of a British tanker
loaded with highest gasoline
which had been torpedoed and
set afire by a German subma.
rine.
I'VE were about 200 miles off
the French coast" he said, land
were headed for LIE Havre from
Corpus Christi when we sighted
a pail of smoke on the horizon.
At first We thought it was a
cruiser laying down a smoke
screen but later decided it was
a burning tanker"
When the City of Joliet drew
closer. the captain said, it re-
ceived a radio message from the
American Standard Oil tanker r.
G.. Stewart, saying it had picked
up the crew from the tOrpedOed
and burning British tanker.
The radio message added that
the r. G. Stewart did not have
sufficient water and food to ac-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
DEFENDERS HUNT REDS
Soviet Air Raiders Spread
New Death And Terror
In Several Areas
GUN HOSPITAL TRAIN
Large Supply OF War Ma
terials Taken By Firms In
Lake Kianta Sector
BY LYNN

HELSINKI, Dec. 81. - Up - The
Finnish high command announced
tonight that Red Russia's 163rd
division had been cut to pieces and
for the most part destroyed in a
bitter two-day battle on the eastern
frontier. and that the Soviets lost
thousands of men.
There are about $4,000 men in a
Soviet infantry division.
Tanicky remnants of the Red di-
vision scattered through the forests
near Lake Kianta and were pursued
by Finnish cleanup squads, the
Finnish command reported.
Air Raiders Busy.
Russian air raiders elsewhere
spread new death and terror. Red
machine gunners splattered a hos
pital train with lead, the Firms an.
nounced officially, and fired on a
CLEARLY marked Red Cross am.
bulance'' from the air.
In southern and western Finnish
cities many people spent the last
day Of the year in air raid shelters
as bombs rained down.
The defeat of the Russian 163rd
division was announced in an army
headquarters communique tonight
simplifying a previous communique.
The second communicate read:
"On land: Fighting in the Lake
Kianta country in the Suomussalmi
Commune on the eastern frontier
resulted in a great victory of our
troops on Dec. 20 and 80.
"The enemy's 163rd division was
definitely cut up and for the most
part destroyed. Remnants of the di-
Continued OH PAGE Tenl
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
THIRD MAN TO ENTER
To Take Leave OF Absence
From Post A State Reve-
nue. Commissioner

RALEIGH, Dec. 31.-(P)-Allen J.
Maxwell formally entered the North
Carolina gubernatorial race today,
and announced that he would take a
leave of absence without pay from
his post as state revenue commits
sioner.
Maxwell was the third entry in the
campaign for governor. Other an
nounced candidates are Lieut.. Gov.
W. P. Horton of Pittsboro and ]. M.
Broughton of Raleigh. All are demo
Gratis and all supported Governor
Hoey in the primaries Of 1886.
At least seven other democrats
have let it be known that they are
seriously considering entering the
race. They are Mayor Thomas E.
Cooper of Wilmington, W. E.. Fen
ner of Rocky Mount, Lee Gravely of
Rocky Mount, Willis Smith of Raj
eigh, DR.. Clarence A. Poe of Raleigh,
D. L. Ward of New Bern and H. D.
Stacy of Lumberton.
Large Field
If a total of five candidates file,
the democratic gubernatorial field
will be the largest in the states his
tory. The democratic nomination is
equivalent to election.
Maxwell was a candidate for gov
ernor in 1882, and received 102, 032
votes in the first primary. His demo
cratic opponents were J. c. B,
Ehringhaus and Richard Fountain
and Ehringhaus subsequently was
elected chief executive.
In a %3,500-word statement today
Maxwell outlined a platform for what
he termed a "balanced program Of
progress" in North Carolina, and as
serted that many planks in his 1885,
MOntinTed on Page Ten)
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rising due to bitter cold and the
inability of relief expeditions to
get through to many stricken
regions.
In the flood regions human
beings, livestock and homes
were swept away by swollen
streams, which destroyed crops
and left tens Of thousands
homeless camping in the fields
in the cold.
In the Adrianople district the
Martha river, famed in history,
was a swirling. torrent, causing
heavy damage along both sides
of the Turkish-G Greek border.
Streams flowing into the sea
of Marmora in the Bruza region
likewise were over their banks,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 81.
- Up - Floods today inflicted
new loss of life and widespread
damage and suffering on Tur-
key, already heavily stricken by
Wednesdays disastrous earth
quake in the northeastern prov
inces.
The floods, caused by heavy
rains, struck areas some 700
miles west of the earthquake
zone, the districts of Smyrna
and Brusa, in Asia, and Adrian
ople. on the European side, be-
ing most severely hit.
Meanwhile the death toll in
the quake stricken provinces,
especially Erzincan, already es-
timated at 10000, was reported
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
ROBERTO ECHNER,
CCC HEAD, DIES
Passes AT Army Medical
Center In Washington
After Months Illness

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 @ -
Robert Fechner, So, director OF the
Civilian Conservation Corps since
it's inception, died today.
Death, attributed to a compllca
ton of cardiac and pulmonary all
ments, occurred at the army medl
cal center here where Fechner hac
| been undergoing treatment for nor
than a month.
His widow, the former Clare
Dickey of Clinton, Iowa, and a sis
ter. Mrs. Walter E. Boney of Savan'
nah, Ga, survive.
Tentative arrangements were for
funeral services on Tuesday, with
burial at Arlington National GENE
terry.
Fechner was attending q labor
meeting at Plainfield, N. j., when
he received a surprise telephone call
from the White House on March z,
1898, to come to Washington to take
over ian important job for the gov
eminent" He did not know at the
time, friends said, that the Presi-
dent had selected him to head the
first emergency relief effort Of the
administration.
Despite a heavy cold and Mrs.
Fechner's insistence that he remain
at their Boston, Mass, home under
a physicians care, Fechner came to
Washington. The late Louis Howe,
secretary to the President, acquain-'
ee him with Mr.. R~oosevelt's plan
upon. his arrival. Recognizing that
Fechner was ill, Howe insisted that
he retire to a hotel room and not
undertake his task until fully re-
covered.
Fechners enthusiasm could not be
checked, however, and from a sick
bed he. directed organization Of the
CCC in which $4,000 young men
49,. CONTINUED. on Page Tenn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01

CO osod of guests
lie City of Joliet
re-, them. I'VE were
hea0- their home country,
so we k 'em," Captain Olsen
said. "There was "a Chinese and
II English. If they had been
Japanese we would left them but
Chinese are all right"
From the commander of the
r. G.. Stewart, Captain Olsen
learned that the destroyed tanker
was the M. F. Inverliffey. He
learned, too, that the submarine
commander had signaled the
British tanker in advance by fir
ing several warning shots. After
firing seven shots and the tanker
still refused to stop, the sub
captain radlOed III you don't
stop we will strike you with
the next" The tanker stopped.
The sub then contacted the
American tanker and informed it
that it would have to take the
crew from the British ship,
which it did without delay. The
captain of the torpedOed ship
remained after the crew left and
fNnvHrrnI NV Dn~4 TnvHN
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
FLOODS INFLICT NEW LOSS OF LIFE,
SUFFERING, WIDE DAMAGE ON TURKEY

the relief crew, shouting for
bread and other aid.
Two trainloads of gravely
wounded which leI Erzincan for
Ankara were halted by quake
damage to railways and by
snow. The trains were waiting
on the tracks while soldiers
worked to clear the way.
Reports said many persons
had become deranged as a result
of earthquake experiences.
One survivor reaching Anlkara
from Erzincan said that "Erzin-
can is no longer a city but a
great metropolis whose tombs
are constituted by heaps of ruins
covered by snow; hundreds of
bodies still are buried under the
Wreckage."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
F. R. BUDGET MAY
SURPRISE S0L0NS
Funds For Flood Control,
Rivers, Harbors Work
Reported Slashed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-R-
Congress, meeting wednesday, may
be in for a painful surprise when
President Roosevelt sends up his
annual budget the following day.,
Reliable reports reaching Capitol
Hill indicate that last minute WELD
ing of the chief executives budg-
etary pruning knife has cut deeply
into the sections containing prof.
ects dear to every congressman's
heart-flood control, rivers and
harbors, reclamation and the like.
Taking off a slice here and an
other there, the President was said
to have made a total reduction
substantial enough to bring his
recommended government expendi-
lures below $4,000, 600, 900, in spite
Continued on Page Tenn
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
NAZIS' THOUGHTS
FAR FROM PEACE
Leaders Declare That New
Year Will Bring Great
Test For Germany

BERLIN, Dec. 31-LP-Peace In
1910 appeared farthest from the
thoughts of German leaders tonight
as the old year drew to a close.
On the contrary, nazi chieftains
stressed that the new year would
bring a great test for Germany and
expressed determination to fight
through to victory regardless Of
sacrifices that may be necessary"
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels, in a radio speech, called
1889, which saw Europe's face radi-
cally changed, the greatest, proud
est year of the nazi regime"
at was a German year in Eu-
ropes history he said. This war
Continued on Page Ten)
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MaxwellFo rmallyEnters
&c.
Maxwell Second Man
To Make Second Try

RALEIGH, Dec. 31.-(AP)-
Allen j. Maxwell is the second
man to seek the governorship
a second time, since North
Carolina began the primary
system in 1916.
The other was O. Max Gard
ner of Shelby. He was defeated
in the democratic primary of
1920 by Cameron Morrison,
but ran eight years later and
won without opposition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
LDPAPALPALACE
|LEVELED BY FIRE
me OF Most Notable Rem
aissance Monuments In
Rome Is Destroyed

|ROME, Jan. 1.-(Monday)-LP-
pre- destroyed the papal palace OF
be Cancelleria, n of the most
obIe renaissance monuments in
'ome, today.
From an artistic standpoint, the
PISS was inestimable.
thousands of new years merry
pEahers gathered on the Corso Wit
Continued on Page Ten)
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Four Oaks Youth Is
Accidentally Killed

: SMITHF1ELD, Dec. 81 Up -
Lonnie James Ayers, Is, of Four
Oaks, was accidentally shot and
killed yesterday while hunting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
ACTION DIES

LONDON, Dec. 81 - Up - Sir
Frank Benson, famed Shakespeare
can actor, died today at the age of
81 after more than so years on the
stage,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
WEATHER
FORECAST

w.,
[SofIh carolina: Considerable cloudi-
ms Monday and Tuesday, possibly
;st+, snow flurries in the interior,
neurological data for the "a hou1s
~ ''oo p: m. Yesterday.
on Temperature
aS. a. m, So; 1870 a. m. 80; 1:3O p.
Eri NJ, '@o p. IN. A; maximum 81;
"uln 81; mean 40; normal Al.
.ao Humidity
| "A. d: m ~ ~; 7:30 a. m. So: 80 D.
"' $50 p. m. 68.
iToto, Precipitation
me- ats a hours ending 7:3O p. M,
66 'nc 1oeal since first of the month,
Tides For Today
|i%'minston ------- 2 Algh s ES%
esonboro 2:45p :1O:10p
'D0oro inlet - O:15a 6:22a
49,, p BOP 6:52p
ke lis ':loa; sunset SLIP; moon
lisp; moonset 11:31a.
ttt tape Fear river stage at Fay
e.tIer hNolON, December 31.-B-
ii foqnfea1 records of Temperature
b m: 1or the "a hours ending