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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
SHIPPING NEWS
ARRIVED
Tanker

Elizabeth Kellogg, 1886 tons,
from Philadelphia with cargo of
creosote oil to Taylor r-Colquitt COM
pany. Vessel to c. D. Maffitt and
company.
IN PORT
Tugs and Barges
Tug Comanshe and barges Lake.
wood, 476 tons, and Glenwood, 461
tons, loading creosote piling at Tay'
lor.Colquit company.
Dredge
Henry Bacon, U. s. army engi-
neers dredge, $3.50 tons, dredging
in anchorage basin.
Barge
Potomac, TAO tons, loading lum-
ber at J. Herbert Bate Lumber
company.
Chisolm, 74e tons. loading cross.
ties at Southeastern Shipping serv.
ice.
Cutter
Modoc, U. s. coast guard cutter,
docked at customhouse wharf.
Steamer
West Cobalt, 4,4S8 tons, unload
ing cargo of nitrate Of soda, Pryde
Forwarding company, agents.
Motor Tanker
vistula, 5,327 tons, discharging
cargo of gasoline and petroleum
products for the Standard Oil Co.
Hubert, $40 tons, loading cargo Of
lumber at the J. Herbert Bate Lum-
ber company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08

GUS OF MILK FED FRYERS
Giblets, lib 55c Breast, lb SOC
Legs, lb --45c Wings, lb SOC
BACKS and NECKS, lb ----19c
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08

victed recently on charges Of oper'
ating a lottery.
Pittman was fined ss5 and taxed
with the costs and Faison was tined
SIS and taxed with the costs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08

The, body Of Major John Andre
British soldier executed as spy In
American Revolutionary War days,
is inferred in Westminster Abbey,
London.
Evening star., 1940-10-20

High the Rockies Of Montono lies vetobIe fishermons
porodse Beautiful cold woter okes accessible only BY horse
bock hove been stocked with California golden trout
by the Montana Fish and Come Commission.
To the omost impossible osk Of pontne these
oke the commission turned TO the pone Trout will not sur
ona removed from their noturo cold voter hobot and
transporting neenes the trolls by slow truck and horse
back would hove resulted in foIure.
Dumped from pone, these fineeFlings swom owoy un-
homed-oter TO lure fishermen with rod ond reel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
LAW MAKERS PLAN
MEETING TONIGHT
Local Citizens Urged To Elk
press Views On Pro-
posed Legislation

Citizens of New Hanover county
who attend a mass meeting d. {
o'clock tonight in the superior court
room, will be given an ~opporlunlts
to express to their representatives
in the general assembly their WISHES
relative to legislation in the session
which opens January 1.
State Senator Roy Rowe, of Bur
eaw. who will preside, Representa-
tiyes John r. Morris and Jack Le-
Grand have called the meeting.
The trio reached the decision TO
hold the mass meeting they
met here some time ago to discuss
LEGISLATION they intend to introduce,
or support in the next SEES
sion.
All citizens who attend the mass
meeting tonight will be afforded the
opportunity of expressing their de-
sjres pertaining to future legislation
in the General Assembly.
I'm order to be prepared to repre-
sent our citizens in the legislature,
the trio said this week, ut is our de-
sire to be informed of their wishes"
There are, undoubtedly, a num-
Der of matters which we should con-
slider which have not yet been
brought to our attention." sponsors
of the meeting said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
CONTROL OF VOTE
COSTS CONSIDERED
(9uO 9Sgd uoIJ psnu!4uoO)

federal laws limiting political con-
tributions and expenditures.
The guess" as to cost OF the
presidential election came from
Senator Gillette D-Ia.) chairman
of a special senate committee set
up to investigate campaign expen-
ditures and complaints of political
abuses in the election of the presi-
dent, vice-president and senators.
Most congressman agreed that
they missed the mark when a law
was enacted last session limiting
for the first time the amount that
a national political party might
spend or collect in a campaign
year to S :, 1000, 900.
The intention was to limit each
presidential candidate to this total,
but when several national organi-
cations were formed to support
candidates, each could claim a sep
arate So, 1000, 900 total.
Senator Gillette has suggested
that congress require each candi.
date in the future to appoint a fiscal
agent responsible for all campaign
funds. Failure to comply or con-
troll funds could disquality the can.
didate for Office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
MARION HARRISS
GRANTED PAROLE
Continued from Bage Qpe)

pended sentence of five years was
revoked.
The former deputy clerk W a S
charged with attempting to break
into the home of the Rev. E. W.
Halleck, where his estranged wife
was staying.
Also paroled by Governor Hoey
yesterday was R. L. Lane, who
was convicted in New Hanover
county in November, 1885, Of the
second degree murder of his wife,
and sentenced to 20 to 80 years in
states prison.
Judge John ]. Burney, who was
solicitor at the time the case was
tried, said last night that Lane, a
negro barber, had been drinking
at the time of the killing and had
delirium tremens.
Six other persons were given pa
roles yesterday by the Governor.
They are:
G. w. Brann, sentenced last May
in Person county to one year fol-
assault on a female; Halls Con.
ner, sentenced last March in For
syth to Is months for assault on G
female; Cooper Weber, sentenced
last September in Pitt to si1
months for drunken driving; Wal
ter P. Lloyd, sentenced in Novem
Der, 1889, in Alamance to seven tc
nine years for robbery with fire.
arms; John Tally, sentenced last
October in Henderson to pay a fine
of $50 or serve four months; Co.
lumbus Taylor, sentenced in Jan.
uray, 1896, in Iredell to five to
eight years for breaking, entering
and larceny. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13

army in Egypt was touched with
the same apathy that obviously
marked the Fascists in Albania.
AS reflections of public war mo-
rale, the Italian disasters in Al
banla and Egypt could be of more
importance than can be measured
by military yardsticks. They could
mean the beginning of the end for
Mussolini, if not Hitler.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
LORD LOTHIAN, So,
CLAIMED BY DEATH
CONTINUED from Page One)

(COnt10ue0 from rage OuGJ
vi a message expressing shock a
the death of his friend of a quarter
century.
81 am very certain that if he
had been allowed by providence tc
leave us a last message" MIR.
Roosevelt continued, "he would
have told us that the greatest Of
all efforts to retain democracy In
the world must and will succeed
Secretary Hull referred to the
diplomat, who came here four
days before the European wal
started in 1889, as "a true inter
prefer to us of his country at a
time when it was exceptionally i'm
portrait that both nations should
have a knowledge and understand
ing of their mutual problems and
interests"
Lord Lothian, a bulky, six-foot
man who retained the informally
of his years as a journalist, had
been i'll since Sunday, but his con-
dition had not been considered
serious until last night. Luther P.
Cudworth of Boston, c. S. B.. bach-
elor of Christian Science) attend
ed the diplomat, a Washington
physician also was called in and
notified the coroner of the death
Only a few hours before he died,
the ambassador had sent to a
Baltimore audience an appeal for
American aid for Britain, saying
it would insure victory over Nazl
Germany. The address was read
by Neville Butler, embassy coun-
sellor who becomes Lothian's tenn
porary successor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
EDEN MENTIONED

LONDON, Dec. 12.-(R-War
Minister Anthony Eden was men
toned prominently by some to-
night as a possible choice to sue
coed the late Lord Lothian as Brit
ish ambassador to the United
States.
A cabinet minister may be Sc
lected, a spokesman said, and the
eyes of many observers fell i'm
mediately on Eden, who received
an extremely favorable reception
On his visit to the United States
in December, 1888.
Furthermore, it was pointed out
the dapper war secretary enjoys
the support of all parties in the
British parliament. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
GREEKS CRUSH
RESISTANCE IN
TEPELENI AREA
Continued from Page Onc)

Wv O"CI
number Of prisoners and much wal
material was claimed.
To the northeast, the Greeks said
their troops occupied important
l-eights around Premet. This column
and the one nearer the coast ap-
parently were coordinating drives
aimed at the capture of Telepeni,
road junction 20 miles south of Tira-
ma, Albanian capital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
War Interpretive
Continued from Page One)

aggregate. Prime Minister Church
i'll prepared parliament for an
nouncement that three or more
Italian divisions had been swiftly
gobbled.
That would mean substantially
a sixth at least of Marshal Grail
ani's once powerful striking force.
Add in probable Italian casualties
and stragglers and a quarter or
more of his entire army seems to
have been put out of action in
four days.
Authoritative figures on Grazi-
ani's full strength are lacking. II
has been estimated at from $50,
600 to $50, 900 men all told. The
cream of it unquestionably was
posted at the now lost Sidi Barrani
spearhead and has been destroyed.
Those divisions were the cutting
edge of the Italian thrust at the
suez canal. They were shock
troops, native and Italian. Their
loss is irreparable because re-
placements cannot be sent from
Italy to Africa through Britain's
frightened Mediterranean blockade
British reports a general retrea'
by remnants of the Italian advance
forces i'll Egypt sound plausible
Thousands of troops u%nquestion-
ably were scattered westward from
Sid Barrani to the Libyan border
along the slender but exposed IS.
mile Italian supply line. The bulk
of them necessarily were work
troops, however, not fighters. They
were there to maintain Essential
and difficult service for the front.
Prolonged resistance to a west
ward lunge by the victory-flushed
British and their free French
allies seems impossible. The 1tal-
ian retreat route probably is badly
cluttered by wreckage of the shat
tered advance army and its sup
porting service. To bring up fresh
shock divisions against tn a
Misunderstanding situation and I'M
der fire of British bombers and
long range naval guns would be
difficult, even if GRAHAM has such
fighting units to call upon.
There is still lacking, however,
a vital piece in the picture puzzle
of Italy's new defeat. There is as
yet no adequate explanation of
Italian surrenders mounting into
big figures.
Months Of inactivity under diff
ficult desert conditions may have
eaten into the Italians fighting
spirit. If the British succeeded in
achieving a complete surprise,
then disruption of the Italian Or
ganization would be a contributing
factor. Yet neither explanation
could cover all the ground.
1t is also improbable that the
British could have brought an
overwhelming superiority in num-
bers into action. What seems far
more likely is that the Italian
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13


ulations in the city and county re-
garding the collection of garbage
and trash from private property
by private individuals.
DR.. Elliot read a letter from
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, who
cited a recent ruling Of the city at
torney who holds that enforcement
of garbage collection regulations
must be carried out by the health
department and is not a duty of the
city police department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
BOARD TO ENFORCE
AUTO CAMP LAWS
Continued from Page One)

in the county in the near future
will be tested by the health depart
ment at the request of the property
owners, he said
Owners of property along the
highways leading out Of the city
r to be fully advised as to the
details of county health rules, the
enforcement of which will be rig
idly carried out, said DR.. Elliot,
who cited the trailer camp prob
lens that developed almost over
night some time ago at Fort Bragg
and near Fayetteville.
The health board also discussed
the matter of enforcement of reg
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
INWARD BOUND

INWARD BOUND
Tug and Barge
Tug Cadimus and barge Wauke-
shau, 2,227 tons, from Port Tampa
with cargo sulphur for Heae and
company.
Tankers
W. W. Mills. 4,351 tons, from
Smith Bluff with cargo gasoline for
Cape Fear Terminal company.
Gulfking, 4,093 tons, from Port
Arthur with gasoline for the Gulf
Refining company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
RESIGNS

CAPETOWN, Union of South Afri-
ca, Dec. 12.-R-General J.. B. M.
Kertzog, who quit as prime minister
Of the Union of South Africa when
parliament rejected his plans to keep
the dominion out of war, resigned
from parliament today as a result of
another rebuff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Shipping News
ARRIVED
Cutter

IT. S. C. G. cutter Modoc, l,29O
tons. from cruising along coast.
7 cked at customhouse wharf with
I,ie,t. Commander Belford in CON-
mand.
IN PORT
Tanker
Esso Boston, 1854 tons, from Bay
town. with cargo gasoline for Stan
dard Oil company.
Tug and Barge
Tug Warbler, 1850 tons, with
wrecking barge, Chapman, 40 tons,
working on steamer Severance. yes
sell to C., D. Maffitt and company,
agents.
sandborn, 423 tons, C. D. Maffitt
and company, agents.
Steamers
Gtal.) Villarperosa, 1921 tons,
held in port account of war.
Severance, 1858 tons, with sur
phur, in distress, C. D. Maffitt and
agents.
Bar Dredge
Comstock, 1000 tons, U. S. Army
bar dredge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
PLEADS GUILTY

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-R-Edward
P. Jones, one of the three .ones
brothers accused by the government
c. being the negro policy kings of
Chicago, pleaded guilty in federal
court today to a charge of evading
$198, 1877 in taxes on his 1888 in
rome.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-13
Williams To Charge Jury
In Railroad Case Today

Judge Clawson L. Williams will
charge the jury in the cases of
Thelma Louise Williams and Doro-
thy Elizabeth Mallette, VS.. T. S.
Neal and the Southern Railway
company at $50 o'clock this morn
ing in New Hanover superior court.
Court was adjourned about $3.50
o'clock last night after the COM
pletion of arguments by opposing
counsel. 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
FavorinE Opposing
Occupa- Ocr,lpa-
Fife Dog Will
Continue Career

II Rover. the part police dog
belonging TO A. o. Hoffman at
Fife. chewed up a neiehboring toy
fox terrier last April, the assault
must have been provoked. accord.
ing TO the decision Of Justice
Blanche Funk Miller.
Rover, through his owner. went
on trial for his life Monday morn
ing in q justice court session
which brought together at least a
dozen witnesses and three attor-
neys.
Neiehborhood wrangline over
Rover has been going on since
April when the terrier owned by
Mrs James Rich died after a fight
with him. Mrs. Rich. incensed by
her dogs death, went to Attorney
II. +. Broomell, who called Hoff.
mans attention TO a state law re-
curing the killing within IS hours
Of any dog which has DESTROYED
another domestic animal.
Hoffman defied the order and
appeared in court to defend him.
self and his dog. Attorney Berth
E. johnson defended him.
After hearing very little testi.
mony about the actual dog fight
and much on both sides about the
character Of Rover, Justice Miller
dismissed the case.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
Tacoma Woman Dies
On Spokane Visit

A sudden attack of infantile
paralysis brought death Monday
morning in Spokane TO Misc Max
Inc Porter. 25.year-old Tacoma
woman, a dispatch from that city
reported.
Miss Porter, who lived with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. William r.
Porter. At s405 So. Park ave. had
gone TO visit In Spokane last
wednesday. A card from her
written on Thursday reported her
feeling well.
II was learned only sunday
night she had become IN and had
been placed In an isolated ward in
the Spokane hospital. Her mother
went to Spokane by plane Sunday
night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
One N sw Case Of
P oliomyeliiis Here

One new case. diagnosed as a
mild case Of poliomyelitis. with no
paralysis. was in the isolation ward
at the Pierce county hospital Mon
day. DR.. Norman Z. Msgnussen.
county health officer. reported.
Victim was Bertha Lyons. "a, OF
Roy.
Donald Kellogg. 10. Of Route Z.
Box 627. Tacoma. was placed under
observation in the hospital. but
had not yet been diagnosed as a
polio" case.
The doctor reported one of the
earlier patients. Mrs. Frances Pease
of Route 1. Box $50, spanaway. as
sufficiently recovered to send home
Monday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
New Iron Luna
Arrives Here
Machine Gift of
Tocomu Union Men

Health officials expressed the
belief Monday Tacoma was best
equipped of any northwest city for
iron lungs" as a fine late model
respirator was donated to Pierce
County and the county hospital.
A gift from all the truck drivers
in the city. the 1850 device
brought from Boston. Mass, was
unloaded and taken to the hospital
a. the eleventh unit in the anti
poliomyelitis battle.
Bought by Unions
The respirator WIS bought by
the Transfers and Chauffeurs
local No. SIS, Garage Employees
local No. 46l. and the Bakery,
Laundry Il Dry Cleaners and Food
Sales Drivers local No. 567 Of
Tacoma.
The respirator WAS purchased
through the Shaw Supply Co. and
arrived by railway express Sstur-
day, to be used FOR whatever
purpose Is deemed BEST by the
county commissioners and hospital
officials" according to a state
ment from Harry U. satterlee,
secretary Of the Transfers group.
Satterlee, with C. NJ. Dahlager.
organizer, and John Jacobs. bust
ness agent OF local 313: Roy We'll
fringer. secretary OF local 567,
and Ed Quinn, secretary Of 4el,
made the presentation Monday to
the county commissioners and DR..
Burton Brown, superintendent Of
the hospital.
we,l-Equlpped Now
The machine was taken to the
isolation ward where seven lungs
are occupied currently. Tacoma,
In addition to two owned by Ia
coma General hospital, one owned
by the Elks, and the new respirs-
tor. has been given the use Of
respirators from kelso, Yakima,
Boston. the University of Iowa,
San Francisco. Portland. and
chest respirator" from New York.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23

pass. The lubberly owner said he
didn't need one. because he was
just going to make run OF a
couple Of days to town the fell
low on the dock said was over
that way"
Before Suffer jagged him and
his boat as a menace to naviga-
ton and civilization, the yachts
man explained he'd just bought
the boat the day before. Seemed
somebody had discovered oil on
his Montana farm and given him a
check for 500, 900 earlier that
week.
A big hulk OF a jowal young
1rishman, Hogan declared he could
see said yachtsman's point, when
Suffer had finished.
Hogan said that "a hours after
he'd first heard of the coast guard
he was in 1t,
Appears he was kicked out of
the army aviation corps reserve
for wrecking plane at the end
Of so hours flying. But he still
thought he was pretty hot pilot.
So he joined the Brazilian revo-
lutionary air force as a captain.
But he had to get from Galveston
to New Orleans to collect trans
portation money. etc.
He therefore started boarding
ships in port. asking for a job as
workaway. One of the ships he
tried was a coast guard cutter and
Hogan, not knowing there was
any difference between a steam
schooner and a battleship, asked
there, too. Boats were just boats,
migawd" he says now.
Result was that he enlisted as
a seaman. and at the end of eight
months of soojee. he sat for the
entrance examination to the coast
guard academy in Connecticut.
Never did find out what became
OF the revolution in Brazil.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
u. S. Army Plans
Not To Be Changed

WASHINGTON-H Ugh army
sources said Monday that United
States military plans viii be I'M
altered as result Of German mill
tary successes, but will continue 10
be based on tried and proved"
tactics
Military strstegists have COM
pleted an analysis of reports of the
Battle OF France. They conclude
that the Germans showed new
teehniques in modern warfare, but
developed nothing sensational m
the way Of tactics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23

RiehHiiik koiftS'
But instead of our doing the
question asking. it was he who
started firing first. After a bit
he admitted he was stranger to
these parts, so We inquired.
why. l just got back from a
tour of duty in the Antsrctic-yep,
was in the Ulysses for six months. y
The Ulysses: That's the famous
Norwegian whaling vessel, isn't it?
The one the United States stations
a coast guard officer aboard every
season to keep tabs on the legality
of operations
"Well. yes and no. She she's not
Norwegian - technically. She's
American registry. but of her crew
of 232, only seven are Americans.
Just dummy u. S. corporation to
take advantage of our whaling
laws. etc.
THE Ulysses is a huge steamer;
she was formerly sister ship 10
the American navy collier Cysops
which mysteriously disappeared at
sea with all hands-and thereby
gave birth TO many an argument
and some superstition"
Gee. That must be some voyage.
I remember there was spread
of fine pictures in Life about a
year ago.
Eyes, it was wonderful experience
but l wouldn't want ii again,
thanks. But those pictures in Life
they were taken by the skipper
OF the ATLANTA. -. a.. 80.
"And speak OF the devil--meet
Lieut.. w. c. Hogan, captain of this
ship"
"well. I suppose you two fellows
are talking about the Ulysses and
the South Atlantic whaling. huh
Then here's one for the Book: Only
five coast guard officers have ever
had that duty--and We two find
ourselves shipmstes!"
Then the Earning took a turn
for length. you may be sure.
suffer told about how the Ulys-
ses ran aground and ripped her
bottom during his trip. That meant
three weeks of shoreside exploring
at Durham. South Africa. while she
was drydocked.
The thing which struck in Ho-
sans crsw was the fact he'd run
out OF cigarets during the long
voyase-hsd to roll shay tobacco
into papers. stin dislikes the
thought
Funny what memories will re-
main brightest after such a truly
memorable and fascinating adyen-
ture?
Somehow or another, the trend
OF bullfest shifted. suffer told
with gestures and some choice
language) the following pointed
lite yarn:
He was acting boarding officer
at Los Angeles. He overhauled and
boarded one particularly fast yacht.
The owner gave him some srgu-
ment Suffer explained he was a
coast guard officer. What's the
coast guard >" says the yaehtsman,
Suffer says he couldn't even open
his mouth for Is minutes.
/ Well. there WAS considerable
pslsver in the same vein. Then
! Suffer noted the yacht had no CON-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-23
Deputy Returns
From Midwest

Deputy U. s. Marshal J. P. VAR
60, accompanied by Officer Walter
Aiken of the police department,
has returned from Ell Reno, Okla,
where he delivered three prisoners
to the federal reformatory.
The prisoners included two who
were convicted in federal court
here and sentenced by Judge Jere-
miah Neterer last month on Dyer
act charges. They were Robert
Wiley and Orval Nickel, who were
sentenced to serve 1S months and
three years. respectively. The third
prisoner was Ralph Ramey. parolee
from Ell Reno, who was convicted
of carrying a concealed weapon.