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Evening star., 1940-02-10
Woman Who Fell Off Train,
In Tunnel Recovering

Miss Marie Murphy, "a, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who had a close brush
with death yesterday when she tum-
bled off train passing through a
tunnel into Union Station, was re-
ported recovering today at Emer-
gency Hospital.
DR.. William Marberry said her
condition was good this morning.
Miss Murphy was on train bound
for Florida which was passing
through the tunnel into the station.
While walking toward the back of
the train she was thrown off, ap-
parently through door which was
unlocked.
After rolling along the right of
way for some distance, she picked
herself up and walked half mile
through mud and cinders to. reach
the tunnel entrance.
She was given first aid and sent to
the hospital.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
500 Czech Leaders
Seized by Germans

PRAGUE, Feb. 10 (P.-Reliable
reports that 500 to 600 leading
Czechs have been put into "protec-
tive custody" by German authori-
ties were interpreted in political cir
cles today as a step aimed at pre-
serving order.
Among those reported arrested
were Joseph Thruhlar, leader of the
Sokol (national Czech patriotic
movement), Premysl Samai, chan
cellor of zecho-Slovakia under
President Thomas Masaryk, and
about 120 former officers of the
Czech Army.
Most Of those held were said to
be Prague residents.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Explorer Tells of 26 Days
Captivity by Jungle Sovoges
Dr.. Moberg First
White Man to Visit
WiIds of Guionu
By JOHN ]. DAILY.

Stories of a strange land where a
white man had never before pene-
trated were brought to Washington
yesterday by DR.. Goesta Moberg,
Swedish explorer, who made study
of the Indians in the interior of
French and Dutch Guiana, near the
Brazilian border, for the Swedish
Royal Ethnographical Museum at
Stockholm.
At the chronological division of the
Smithsonian Institution, where many
of his prize exhibits are being ex-
amined by the experts, DR.. Moberg
told how the Boschnegers Qiterally
bush Negroes), natives of the Guiana
jungles, had held him captive for
26 days and how he survived on
native bread and water for three
perilous days and nights.
Nevertheless" DR.. Moberg said,
"the result of my trip is good. 1t
counts 1900 ethnographical, zoologi-
cal and chronological objects of diff
ferent kinds" Those objects, rang
ing from poisonous darts to the
sleeping and burial hammocks of the
Indians are spread out in an Office
room on the top floor of the Ma
tional Museum.
Shot Rapids In Canoes.
With seven Boschnegers, a strange
brand of savages, who acted as pad
dlers of his two canoes, DR.. Moberg
started from the port of Cayenne, on
the Atlantic Coast of French Guiana,
and worked about 400 miles up the
Maroni River to places a white man
had never seen. To get there, in
native canoes about 80 feet long and
almost as narrow as an ironing,
board, the explorer and his seven
stalwarts had to shoot more than so
rapids all of them loaded with dis
aster. Only the skill of the Bosch
negers, whose ancestors escaped from
slavery in the beginning of the last
century, saved the expedition.
Because the Boschnegers know
every inch of the river and are
familiar with most of the inland
territory - all jungle-land - they
have a contempt for the white man,
according to DR.. Moberg. They come
in contact with him as bearers Of
communication from the French
penal colonies and even the colonies
of the English and the Dutch just
north of the Equator.
Because they know that the white
man in that part of the world is
absolutely dependent upon them,
they take every advantage, accord
ing to the explorer. If they want
to do away with an enemy, all that
is necessary is to tip the canoe and
the victim Is eaten alive by the
strange fish that inhabit the jungle
rivers.
Abandoned by Guides.
After he had gone past the last
white mans habitat, DR.. Moberg
reached the strange territory he
tells about-where only the wild
men wander. He was 18 days on
the way to the first Indian village.
Shortly after that, while exploring
a tributary of the Maroni River,
the Aruoua River, the Eoschnegers
left DR.. Moberg to his own resources
and it almost cost him his life.
AS an explorer who has been
three times across the Sahara Des-
ert and nine times across Africa,
life in the great wild spaces is noth-
ing new to DR.. Moberg. In his '45th
year, DR.. Moberg has been an ex-
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Bride, Is, Decides 10 Quit
Jail for Fathers Home
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VINCENNES, Ind, Feb. 10.-A 13-
year-old girl who left school and
her fathers home last month to
marry a w. P. A. worker decided
yesterday to return to both and not
see her husband for three years.
Dorothy Jean Harrell's decision
was prompted by the filing of a
charge of incorrigibility against her
and officers plans to get court
order sending her to the home of
her mother, Mrs. Ophia Halmke, at
Bicknell.
Mrs. Halmke and the child-bride's
husband, James Harrell, 81, also Of
Bicknell, are charged with giving
false information in obtaining a
marriage license for Harrell and the
school girl. Harrell Is in jail here.
His bride refused to leave the jail
to return to the home Of her father,
Homer Foster, until she was in
formed that the prosecutor of nearby
Pike County, where her father lives,
had sworn out q warrant charging
her with incorrigibility.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Streaming
To Lhasa for New
Lama's Enthronement
6-Yeor-OId Chinese Boy
Takes Place as Buddho's
Vice Regent Feb. n

BY the Associated Press.
LHASA, Tibet, Feb. 10.-Thls
normally placid capital of the land
of the Lost Horizon teemed today
with pilgrims coming from every
quarter of Tibet for the enthrone-
ment of a new Dalai Lama. pro-
visionally set for February %.
The center Of interest was the
Potala, magnificent, storied 17th
century fortress palace of the Dalai
Lama. where 6-year-old boy is
scheduled to be Installed as the 14th
person to hold the title of "Budda's
Vice Regent on Earth"
Chief Candidate From China.
The principal candidate of three
for the post as Tibets highest re-
ligious and secular ruler is Lingerh
Lamutanchu, or Lingerh the Divine
Child, who came from the plains Of
Koko Nor, in Far Western China.
The Chinese government has rec
commended that he be chosen with
out the usual drawing of lots, and
that the others merely be desig-
mated living Buddhas.'
Gen. WI Chung-hsin, China's Of
fetal emissary to the enthronement,
was busy today attending audiences
with Tibetan lay and ecclesiastical
officials. He also visited three great
monasteries outside the city to dis
tribute butter, tea and aims among
the II 900 Lamas who live in them.
Boy Serene Amid Bustle.
Lamutanchu said to have been
born at the exact instant the old
Dalai Lama died December II, 1888.
was in residence at Norbhulingka,
bejewelled summer palace of Tib-
etan rulers.
He was serene and complacent
amid all the hustle, but appeared
nevertheless to be brightly inter-
ested in the proceedings.
Political observers see his selection
as a probable move strengthening
China's vague authority over Tibet.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Byrd Near South Pole

The American Antarctic Expedi-
ton flagship Bear was reported yes
terday to be near the South Mag
netic Pole on a 600-mile cruise In
quest of scientific knowledge. A
message to the Navy from Rear ADJ
miral Richard E. Byrd, retired,
leader Of the Governments expedi-
ton, reported the veteran cutter
rode out two 70-mile-an-hour gales
of q forbidding coast lacking har-
bors or places to anchor.
Evening star., 1940-02-10

Rogers forced a roll-call vote on q
motion to recommit the bill with an
amendment that before January /,
1941, open competitive examinations
must be given in accordance with
the Civil Service Act and rules
which was again defeated, 212 to 112.
All afternoon a hectic partisan
political battle ragged. Chairman
Ramspeck bitterly assailed the Re-
publicans, saying it was their real
purpose to refuse to extend the
civil service until after the coming
election In the hope that they could
elect President, win control of
Congress and then blanket in an
army of their own political patron
age appointees.
Mr.. Ramspeck said competitive
examinations would cost about So
OO0, 900 and that not single person
would be separated from the Gov-
ernment pay roll.
Evening star., 1940-02-10

plorer since 1920, and says he never
had time to get married.
Unless the war in Europe gets a
little too serious around Sweden,
when he might be called to the
colors, DR.. Moberg intends to go
back this summer to the Sahara
One of his books-"The Land of
Fear"-deals with the central point
of the Sahara Desert, place called
Hoggar. He has written four 9TH
ers, The Land of Adventure" about
the Sudan; Among Touareg Chief
tains and Negro Sultans," "On Ad-
ventures Path in Africa" and with
the French Foreign Legion"
Ten black scorpions and two
cobras got into this explorer S
blankets and his pullovers during
eight days in the Sahara Desert.
With all that, he still believes the
grandest life of all is to be far
away from civilization.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
y. ). Considers Sale
Of Old Naval Ships
To NeutraIs
Unused Army Artillery
Also Considered for
Disposition Abroad
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The administration is considering
selling old naval vessels as well as
unused Army artillery to neutrals,
1t developed yesterday, after Presi-
dent Roosevelt had confirmed that
disposal of some surplus material
was under study.
Upward of a score of old destroy
ers. submarines, mine layers and
other craft already bear "for sale
sign. Although outmoded for most
modern naval warfare, they are
considered comparable in military
value to Navy aged craft which
Great Britain has put back into
service to combat submarines.
Discussing the White House con-
ference Thursday on munitions
sales, Mr.. Roosevelt told reporters
he doubted this Government should
sell surplus arms to Finland be-
cause of the undeclared war with
Soviet Russia, but mentioned no
objections to sales to Norway and
Sweden, neutral neighbors of the
Firms.
Without naming them, he said
a number of neutrals had inquired
about the possibility of buying sur
plus American arms.
He went on to say that the Army
had inherited from the World Wal
a number of British 75-millimetel
field guns which are not SO good as
its $500 French-design guns, ano
suggested they might be disposed
of. He noted also that the Wal
Department still has about 100000
pairs of surplus shoes left over from
the World War.
AS to ships, he said that in 1918
the Navy sold a number of Civil
War craft, although many persons
contended they should not be ad-
judged surplus.
After the Presidents press con-
ference, Lewis Compton, new AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy, min
imized, in talking with reporters, the
likelihood that the Navy would care
to sell any ships. However, official
reports listed the old light cruiser
Rochester, two destroyers, six sub
marines, a mine layer and nine
other light craft for sale as of last
June 80.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Vote Of Confidence
In DaIadier 10 Cap
War Debate Today
Premier Will Speak at
Close Of Deputies
Secret Session
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Feb. 10.-Todays secret
debate of the Chamber of Deputies
on the conduct of the war will be
followed by a public session and a
vote of confidence on the govern
ment of Premier Edouard Daladier
parliamentary circles asserted.
M. Daladier. it was learned, in
tends to speak at a public session
Immediately after the secret debate
A vote will follow his address.
Eleven former Communists, who
saved their seats in the Chamber by
resigning from the party, were alb
sent today, having decided to leave
the secret session for fear any leak
concerning the discussions would be
blamed on them.
Speed Of Debate Criticized.
Mild criticism-and that rarely
gets past the censor these days-was
expressed in some quarters because
the Chamber of Deputies began its
present secret debate on the conduct
of the war without awaiting return
of members who are in the fighting
forces.
Concerning the speedy start OF
the discussions, now in their second
day, Premier Daladier said it was
imperative to drain the abscess'
and get on to a decision which
either would reinforce the Deputies
confidence in him or replace him
with somebody else.
Deputies Took Initiative.
The Chamber took the initiative
in calling the secret meetings with
out specific request from the gov
ernment. M. Daladier then insisted
that the matter be cleared up by
immediate sessions.
A government communique last
night said the first days talk, "de-
voted to the organization of ma
tional defense, resulted in profound
discussions which proceeded without
the slightest incident In an unani-
nous sentiment of vigilant patriot
ism and French concord"
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Soviet Is Reported
Fastening Defenses
On Turkish Frontier
Fear of Allied Attock
On Oil Fields Seen
In Speeded Work
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Feb. 10.-Soviet Rus
sia was reported today pushing con-
struction of fortiflcationS on her
Caucasian frontier with Turkey to
defend her rich oil fields against
possible British French Turkish at
tack.
Informed military sources said
such information had reached the
Turkish government. 1t was be-
lieved to have been gathered by
Turkeys military intelligence serv-
ice.
Military Roads Being Built.
According to these reports, several
hundred thousand workers have
been drafted by the Red Army to
build military roads near the Rus
SIAN Turkish frontier and strength
en- border defenses.
They said DR.. Fritz Todt, credited
with a part in the building of Ger
many's Siegfried Line, had visited
the Russian side of the line in an
advisory capacity.
Rumanian sources reported few
weeks ago DR.. Todt had inspected
Russian works across the frontier
from Cernauti, Rumania. which
many military experts regard as the
most likely point through which
allied forces might attempt to enter
Poland.
Germans Departure Speeded.
Turkey, meanwhile, was speeding
the departure of 100 German tech
nicians dismissed from government
advisory posts.
Their discharge from the war and
navy ministries, following Turkish
confiscation Thursday of the Ger
man-owned Krupp shipyards on the
Golden Horn, was ascribed to ex-
posure of Nazi plot for sabotage
and terrorism in the Near East.
A Soviet warning to mariners that
minefields have been laid off Rus
sia's Black Sea ports was repeated
by consular authorities with notice
that it is now obligatory to take on
Russian pilots inside Russian
waters.
Turkish military authorities have
said an allied attack on Russia's oil
fields, among the most productive
in the world, would be accompanied
by combined fleet action, especially
against the big oil port of Batum.
Army Chiefs Meeting Reported.
In this connection, significance
was attached to reported meeting
of British and French naval leaders
with Gen. Maxine Weygand, COM
mander of French forces in the
Near East, and 1t. Gen. Sir Archi-
bald P. Wavell, chief of Britain's s
Middle East" command.
Turkish sources have stressed the
military benefits that would result
from seizure of the Caucasian oil
fields and have declared the allies
foresaw the possibility that, in the
event of a British-French-T Turkish
attack, Russia might try to reach
the Dardanelles to cut off access to
the Black Sea.
Enlistment of Arab sympathy for
the allied cause was reported re-
liably here to be the chief point OF
discussion in the meeting between
Gen. Weygand and Gen. Waveu in
Cairo.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Question Box Follows
Picture at Y. N. G. A.

A motion picture, Builders of To-
morrow" one of series of adult
educational pictures under auspices
of the Central Young Mems Chris
tian Association, was shown last
night in the building at 1876 G
street NV.
AS customary in the series. q
question box" was conducted fol-
lowing the picture. Last nights
speaker was DR.. Robert E. Ansley
of the Vocational Guidance Division,
National Youth Administration, who
answered questions propounded by
those who saw the picture.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Policeman Kept Busy
With Traffic Crashes
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOMERS, N. Y, Feb. 10.-Sent to
investigate one highway collision,
State Policeman Thomas Darby
found four on his hands before he
left the scene.
Collision No. / involved q sedan and
truck on an icy curve. The sedan
left, then bus came along and hit
the truck. Another truck later piled
up against the bus and, while Darby
was Strengthening that out q coupe
hit the second truck.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Senute Confirms Earle,
Gray and Dreyfus

Former Gov. George H. Earle of
Pennsylvania was confirmed with
out delay by the Senate yesterday as
Minister to Bulgaria, for which
President Roosevelt nominated him
a few days ago.
At the same time, the Senate ap-
proved David Gray of Florida as
Minister to Ireland; Louis G. Drey-
fus, jr, to be Minister to Afghanis-
tan as well as Iran.
The reappointments of Mariner
s. Eccles and Chester C. Davis as
members of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve Board like
wise we're confirmed.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
British Warp|anes
Rise 10 Meet Ship
Believed German
Sinking Of Two Nozi Subs
CIoimed as Price for
Beoverburn Sinking
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 10-British
fighting planes went up today to
intercept an unidentified plane, be.
lieved to be German, which appear
ed of England's east coast.
In the war at sea torpedoing OF
the Canadian Pacific freighter Beav-
erburn was a victory that apparent
ly cost Germany two submarines.
The admiralty announced late last
night single British destroyer had
sunk two U-boats as they attempt
ed to attack convoy.
The announcement followed state
ments attributed to an officer Of the
destroyer, which escorted a rescue
ship to a west English port with
survivors of the 9,874-ton Beaver
burn, sunk off Southern Ireland, ap-
parently Monday.
Scottish Steamer Sunk.
The admiralty did not say when
or where the fight occurred or iden-
tify the destroyer. 1t was disclosed,
however, the 5,406-ton Scottish
steamer Chagres, another member
of the convoy, later was sunk by
mine.
The report brought total German
submarine losses to an unofficial
total of at least 40, half or more OF
the number believed in operation at
the start of the war.
Germany broadcast last night
report by its official news agency,
DNB, that eight British or British
conveyed ships had been sunk or
totally wrecked by German planes
yesterday, and that one German
plane had been lost.
Six Ships Attacked.
British fighters shot down one
German bomber yesterday and re.
ported two others had been DAM
aged. British sources said only six
ships were attacked, only one hit
directly, and none sunk. The Brit
ish have disputed previous German
claims that 80 British or neutral
ships were sunk in air raids last
week
The British contended their planes
were markedly superior to the at
tackers, saying that since January
! ten German bombers had been
shot down along the British coast
without the loss of a single Defend
ing craft.
/ Torpedoed 10 days ago, the 1906
ton Netherlands tanker Ceronia
limped 400 miles to British port
despite hole amidships big
enough for train to pass through"
A lifeboatman, describing the voy-
age last night, said the two ends Of
the ship were held together only by
twisted wreckage, but the crew
managed to bring her in.
More Ships May Defy Blockade.
Naval sources at Rio de Janeiro
predicted yesterday that some of the
II German merchant ships still in
Brazilian ports would attempt q
dash to Germany soon through the
British blockade.
Since January six German mer-
chantmen have stolen out of Bra
lillian ports and have not been re-
ported since They include the Koe-
nigsberg, which sailed from Beiem;
the Sac Paulo, from Cabadello; the
Wolfsburg. from Recife; the Bahia,
from Sac Salvador, and the La CO.
runa and Santos, from Rio de ia.
neiro
The II remaining are: The Nor
derney, at Belem the Uruguay, at
Recife; the Antonio Delfino, Maceio
and Bollwork, at Sac Salvador: the
Wakama, at Rio de Janeiro; the
Barbitonga, Dresden and Windhuk.
at Santos, and the Montevideo and
Rio Grande. at Rio Grande.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
J. J. Hill, Grain Dealer, Dies

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 R.-
John j. Hill, SO, once one OF the Ma
tion's leading grain dealers and an
outstanding figure in the move to
stem the Chicago wheat market
crash 81 years ago, died yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-11-03

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
Farm Finance Planning
Urged By FSA Chief

Now is the time to plan your
farm financing for 1941, according
to William M. CHM, supervisor Of
the rural rehabilitation division of
the Farm Security administration in
Brunswick and New Hanover coun-
ties.
Those farmers in the Wilmington
section who wait until the last min
ute to get in their applications for
a 1941 loan may find it too late
to be of greatest benefit, CHM said
yesterday.
The FSA is now ready to receive
applications for new loans, he said,
at room II, basement Of the post
office building. Interested farmers
may write to the FSA, car of
box 1857, Wilmington.
Loans and technical help in agri-
cultural problems are made avail
able by the government to low in
come farmers who are honest hard
working citizens. They can secure
a family size farm either through
ownership, share-cropping, or cash
renting.
Brunswick county applicants will
be served at the county farm
agents office at Supply every Wed
nesday morning from 10 to u
o'clock.