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Evening star., 1940-01-13
Hy the Associated Press.

LEMONCOVE, Calf, Jan. 13.-
Twelve-year-old David Hobbs, who
got homestick at the Beverly Hills
mansion of Actress Ann Sothern and
her band-leader husband, Roger
Pryor. is back with his IL brothers
and sisters, playing around their
tent house on the bank Of the
Kakeah River.
They were swell to me, but I
just wanted to be home" said David.
Miss Sothern noticed the boys fine
appearance two years ago when she
saw him selling newspapers at a
Dallas, Tex, hotel where Mr.. Pryor's
orchestra was playing. She arranged
with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Hobbs, for him 70 I've at Beverly
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Big Battle Believed
Near on SoIIo Front

COPENHAGEN. Jan. 13 (P.-With-
drawal Of Soviet Russian troops
from part of Liinahamari, the Arctic
port of Finland's Petsamo district,
was reported today in Stockholm
dispatches. while Scandinavian cor
respondents said reinforcements of
Firms and Russians OH the Salia
front indicated imminence of a
major battle.
These dispatches said all except
cne Russian cruiser had left Lima
haman and the the Firms had cut
the road to Salmijarvi, also in the
Arctic area, thus complicating the
Russian service of supply.
In Southeastern Finland. on the
Karelian Isthmus, the Russians were
said to have set up loudspeakers
advising the Finnish defenders to
surrender within 48 hours, or the
Germans are coming"
10000 Reds in Salla Sector.
In the Salla sector, one report
from a Danish newspaper cor
respondent said, the Red Army had
at least 10000 men and had beer
bringing up more in the last few
days. He said the Firms also were
reinforcing and preparing an at
tempt to incircle the invaders.
A Swedish correspondent said
large numbers of fresh Russian
troops were being dropped by para
chute from planes.
Similar tactics were reported on
the Karelian 1sthmus yesterday, but
the Firms said their crack marks
men had picked of many of the in
vaders in midair and had over
powered the others as they touched
earth.
On other fronts little activity was
reported today, but some observers
said the Russian air raids on South
ern and Western Finland yesterday
indicated intentions to increase the
tempo of the war.
Communications Severed.
The raids severed Helsinki's tele-
phone communication with foreign
countries and put out of commission
the radio station at Lanti, go miles
north of HelSinki.
Turku (Abo), Southwestern Fin
nish seaport that is an important
arrival point for foreign men and
materials, was raided by 80 planes
and bombers ranged northward up
the Bothnian coast.
Damage was reported not extern
sive, although there were some
casualties.
The Red Army's communique
from the Leningrad military district
last night reported "a reconnoiter-
ing flight" scouting activities and
minor artillery action.
1t also noted clashes of military
units" in the Petrozavodsk direction,
which is in Russia north of Lake
Ladoga, but did not specify their
extent.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
English Ship Yard
Burning After Blast
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 13. - Firemen
fought flames which spread through
the Yarwood shipbuilding plant at
Northwich, Cheshire, today, after an
explosion which broke windows
within quarter-mile radius. OFF,
cials said TO sabotage was involved.
The blaze destroyed the main
building of the shipyard. Further
explosions hampered flremen.
Northwhich is about 30 miles
southeast of Liverpool in the west
ern part of middle England and is
situated on the River Weaver, q
tributary of the Mersey.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
bereaved Families
Of Miners Prepare
For Burial Of q
"a Victims Found;
OfficioIs Abandon Hope
Of Finding SO Alive
BY the Associated Press.

!
BARLEY, w. Va, Jan. 13.-Mine
families ever conscious of the danger
of losing their loved ones displayed
little hysteria while preparing today
for burial of the 80 men given up
for dead in the BARLEY No. Mine
gas explosion.
Stoically they made ready to claim
the victims as rescue crews dug
deeper into blast-torn corridors GOO
feet underground, no longer seeking
living men but the bodies of coal
diggers apparently killed in their
| tracks.
Rescue crews emerging from the
620-foot perpendicular shaft an
nounced "a bodies had been re-
covered from the explosion shat
tered rooms" along the entries fan
ming out two miles from the foot OF
the shaft.
Attempted Last Stand.
They told how one group of IA
trapped miners, equipped with can
vas sheets and wood for barricades,
apparently had attempted to make
a desperate last stand against the
deadly after-explosion gases.
The group was led by Lee Hall
43, one of the three foremen lost
in the blast that rumbled through
the diggings last Wednesday. Nine
of the bodies were huddled together;
a few feet away were three others
and still farther down the entry, two
more.
But "after damp"-the gases that
remain in a mine when an explosion
burns up the oxygen in the air
caught and killed the group.
None of the bodies had been
brought to the surface and only
three were identified. Rescuers
planned to move them to the foot
of the shaft for identification before
starting to bring them out today.
Finally breaking through to the
center of the blast scene after 3S
hours of tunnelling. workers yester-
day found only battered bodies and
abandoned hope for miners caught
farther back in the workings.
Air Held Insufficient.
Raymond E. Salvati, vice president
of the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal
Corp, who led rescue crews day and
night, declared penetration was
sufficient to eliminate any possibility
the men had escaped explosion gas.
"They are all dead" he added
"They would be dead even if they
had barricaded themselves. There
is insufficient air."
Weary rescuerS, however, Speeded
up their digging toward the en-
tombed, but many long hours of toll
remained ahead Slate falls and
dead air" continued to retard prog
ress. Oficials said it might be Sun
day or Monday before all bodies had
been removed.
This news thinned crowds per-
ceptibly about rope barricades at
the mouth Of the mine. All was
sadness and gloom in this little
West Virginia community suffering
the Nations worst mine disaster
since 1928, when 1876 men we're
killed at Mather, Pa.
Mine Inspector Collapses.
State Mine Inspector Hugh D. Love
OF McComas collapsed from ex-
haustion while participating in res
cue work and was carried to the
surface on a stretcher. Company
officials said his condition was not
serious.
For the third night since the blast
lights blazed in every miners home
Evening star., 1940-01-13

neuchi, Japanese Ambassador to
Washington. had broached to Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull on De-
cember % the question of tempo
rary arrangement pending further
trade treaty negotiations.
Mr.. Hull's answer, however, Dome!
said, should be interpreted that
the United States has no intention
OF starting any such negotiations.
Therefore," Domei continued, "it
is feared that Japanese-American
trade relations may be placed at
the mercy of public opinion in the
United States, which often adheres
to such reckless demands as prohi-
bition of exports to Japan and i'm
mediate expansion of the American
Navy"
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Desertions of Poles
From French Reported
By the Associated Press

by Cne ASS0clNteu FreSS.
BERLIN, Jan. 13.-DNB, the off,
cial news agency, said today that
Polish soldiers in the French army
were deserting and crossing the
western front lines.
They showed mo desire to fight
for England's prestige" it said, "the
more so because re-establishment
Of Poland is not expected and the
fight against Germany has shown
Itself 10 b hopeless"
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Norwoy's Cabinet Asks
SAG, ,000, 900 for Defense

Ey the Associated Press.
OSLO, Norway, Jan. 13-Nor-
ways cabinet asked Parliament to-
day for 100000, 900 kroner (about
SAC, 600 ,00O for defense, making the
Norwegian budget of 826, 900 900
(about $4,000, ,00O the largest in
history.
The cabinet proposed sharp in
creases in the income tax for this
and subsequent years. Reports in
dicated the maintenance of neu-
trality guards cost 5000 900 kroner
(about 81, $50 0OO monthly.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Flight From Boston
Accent-und Wife
Divorce Grounds
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mass, Jan. l3.-
Mrs. Emelle E. Hand told Judge
John V. Mahoney her husband
"had a wonderful personality,
but wouldn't stay sober and
left her and Boston for Chicago
because he was irritated by what
he termed "the Harvard accent"
of Bostonians.
She got her divorce.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Episodes in Lives
OF Artists on WMAL

Historical episodes in the lives
Of the artists who labored to
fashion the beauty of some of
the treasures of the Gellatly
Art Collection in the National
Gallery of Art will be re.
enacted by the Gross Roads
1heater Players tonight over
WMAL at 1880 o'clock.
The broadcast will be another
in the series for junior high
school students sponsored by
The Star with the cooperation
OF the National Broadcastins
Co. and the Board Of Education.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Summary of Todoy's Star

Page. Page.
Amusements. Obituary --A-10
Bis Radio ---A-10
Church News, Real Estate,
B-6-9 B-1-4
Comics B-14-15 Society -. ALL
Editorials - AS Sports --A-12-13
Finance A-14-15 Woman's Page,
Lost, Found B-9 B-5
Foreign
Soviets bomb Helsinki in raids on
Southern Finland. Page Al
British warplanes fly over Austria
and Bohemia. Page Al
Japan's Army appeals to Konoye to
take premiership again. Page Al
Solidarity replaces Monroe Doctrine,
Cardenas holds. Page Al
Inter-American neutrality group
meets Monday in Rio Page A
Britain has given Germany war aim,
Goebbels declares. Page AS
Notionol
Reluctance to take initiative blocks
speedy Finn aid. Page Al
Families prepare to bury 81 coal
mine victims. Page Al
Navy flyer killed as torpedo planes
collide. Page Al
Wallace sees trade pacts as factor in
reconstruction. Page AS
A1ndavit charges Ford money backed
Homer Martin. Page Al
Washington and Nearby.
D. G. Appropriations Subcommittee
roster complete. Page Ais
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Brother of Greek Kinq
Is Seriously III
py the aAccociotad Draes

By the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 13.-Prince
Christopher, brother of the late King
Constantine of Greece, was reported
in serious condition today. Ill for
some time, the 51-year-old prince
has taken little food since Wednes-
day.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

Federal workers warned of possible
benefit cut. Page A-16
Third plan Of county government
studied for Fairfax. Page Ais
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Editorial and Comment

c. U. meets Miami, Terps face Duke
in ring here tonight. Page A-12
Louis "retires" from fried chicken,
but not from ring. Page ALA
Quit grid rather than buy winner,
says Chicago U. head. Page A-12
Farkas and Barber picked on writer's
All-America pro eleven. Page A-13
Evening star., 1940-01-13

(See NAVY, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-01-13

(See MINE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1940-01-13

(See LONDON, Page A-7)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10

LlVe cattle were dropped by para
cnutes to Italian soldiers in ETH
opla in order that they might have
fresh meat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
HITLER TO SPEAK
TO NATION TODAY
Continued From Page One)

bring peace in the north engaged
a large share Of official attention.
authorities in Vatican City said
Won Ribbentrop also would have an
audience with Pope Plus XII during
his Italian visit.)
Germany appeared to be moving
with utmost diplomatic caution to
forestall what authoritative sources
repeatedly have charged was an AL
lied maneuver to spread the war
by involving Scandinavia.
Quarters close to the foreign Of
flee were more guarded than at any
time since the beginning of the
European wal in their comment.
Per Evind Svinhufvud, Finland's
former president who arrived here
yesterday, remained in Berlin but
met no outstanding government
leaders.
Authorized sources admitted inter-
est in his presence but whether Of
ficials would take a direct hand in
the Finnish situation by comforting
with him remained unclear.
Svinhufvud planned to depart for
Italy tomorrow at a time when Won
Ribbentrop is starting his exchange
of views with Mussolini and Ciano.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
U. S. TO INSIST
ON REAL PEACE
Continued From Page One)

as their character of generating
hostility, animosity and conflict"
The French statement on the
Welles memorandum said:
After having conferred with Pre-.
mler Daladier, M. Reynaud gave to
Mr.. Welles the complete accord of
the French government on the
principles set forth in the memoir
andum.
Principles of Liberty
HE recalled that these principles
of liberty were among the things
for which the Allies are fighting
and that they are the same prin-
ciples which have m%otivated the
financial and economic agreements
between France and Great Britain
since the start of the war and a
ticularly that of Dec. 4 which con-
stituted the first step in Europe
toward an economic and monetary
organization founded on a regime
of liberty"
Welles devoted the last of his
official conferences in Paris to con-
versations with the heads of the
Polish government-in-eXile.
He spent more than an hour
with Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Po-
fish premier, and then had an ad-
ditional talk with August Zaleski,
finance minister. He flies to Lon
don tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
Scott, Durham File
With Elections Board

RALEIGH, March 9.-R-W'
Korr Scott. commissioner of agri-
culture, and Carl T. Durham, U. 5.
representative from the Sixth con-
gressional district, paid filing fees
to the state board of elections to-
day, so that they might run for
reelection.
Scott, resident of Haw River, will
be opposed in the democratic pri-
mary by C. Wayland Spruill of
Windsor, and Durham, a Chapel
Hill druggist, will be opposed by
Oscar Barker of Durham. Both
Barker and Spruill have filed
Deadline for filing with the state
elections board is 6 o'clock next
Saturday afternoon. To date, a
total of 81 candidates have paid
their entrance fees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
QUESTION UNANSWERED

ROME, March 9-CP-The appar-
ent settlement of Italy's sharp dis
pute with Great Britain over ship.
ments of German coal left still un-
answered tonight the important ques-
ton of what Italy would do now to
get coal supplies.
There was nc immediate official
Italian reaction on the British de.
cision to release 13 Italian Golfers
but Informed sources said the coal
supply question was certain to be
discussed by German Foreign Minis
ter Joachim Won Ribbentrop in con-
ferences starting tomorrow with
Premier Mussolini and italian For
eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.
1t was said there was the possibili-
ty of a suggestion that Germany di-
vert her coal shipments by rail to
Italy to solve the problem.
1t was said authoritatively that
further italian action in the dispute
was likely to be Influenced largely
by the nature of Britain's formal re-
ply to Italy's protest against the
seizure of her coal ships. The reply
was expected here tomorrow.
Meantime sources close to the gov
eminent, weighing the significance
OF the visit of the German foreign
minister, predicted that Italy's nom
belligerent policy would be continu-
ed.
Seeks Joint Front
The impression prevailed among
diplomats that Adolf Filters aide
would sound Premier Mussolini on
ltaly's place within the Rome-Berlin
alliance after six months of war and
seek a joint front in view of reports
that the allies might attempt to send
troops to Finland's aid through
Sweden.
These observers believed that Won
Ribbentrop, scheduled to arrive at
10 a. M, a a. m. EST tomorrow,
would confer with Mussolini on all
aspects of the international sit.
uation including the Finnish-Rus.
sian peace maneuvers, but they were
mystif1ed by the announcement hat
the Nazi envoy would have a private
audience with Pope Plus VII Mon.
day.
Diplomats assumed that the pontiff
would not fail to confront Won Rib.
bentrop with reports of mistreat.
ment and execution of Catholics in
German-occupied Poland.
CThe Polish ambassador to the
Holy See recently issued a pamphlet
charging that German authorities
had tried to "exterminate" Catholic
Poles by mass executions. Germany
denied the charge.)
Government sources described
o Ribbentrop's visit as "a normal
contact and exchange of views on the
treaty of alliance between Rome
an Berlin.
Most observers doubted Ribben-
trop would try to enlist II Duce's aid
in arranging peace between Finland
and Russia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10

troops from battle positions in
France or from training camps in
England for a Finnish "~adventure'
Especially when We are faced by
800 German divisions" as one we'll
informed person put it.
There is, however, great popular
clamor in England for such inter-
vention. Even in circles close to
the foreign office, it is frequently
pointed out that French action in
regard to Finland has far out
stripped British diplomacy.
Moreover it is believed in London
that the French attitude toward
Sweden and Norway borders on
definite antagonism (these coun-
tries, fearful of their w direct in
Movement in war, have SHE'D away
from sending real armies to help
Finland).
French leadership in d~ispatching
a n expeditionary force to the north,
perhaps by sea to the Finnish
coast, might mollify British mill
tary OPPOSITION to %full-dress inter
vention. Assured that France would
furnish most Of the troops, con
veyed by British transports and de-
stroyers, military men here prob.
ably would look on. the "%adventure''
in a more favorable light.
A Busy Day
Entirely aside from the Finnish
matter, tomorrow will be Great
Britain's busiest Sunday since Sep
TENDER 8, when war was declared.
A representative of Prime Minis
ter Neville Chamberlain, or perhaps
even Chamberlain himself, will
greet Sumner Welles, President
Roosevelt's fact-finder. on his ar
rival from Paris in the afternoon.
Welles will have conferences with
Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary
Lord Halifax, and the opposition
leaders, Clement R. Attlee and Ar
thur Greenkod for labor, and Sir
Archibald Sinclair for the liberals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
GARDEN CONTEST
GETS UNDER WAY
Continued from Page One)

the contest and then start GETTING
your ground ready for planting
which must not be less than 20 feet
by 20 feet in size.
Don't plant your seeds until the
last Of March or the first of April,
I'm your garden you can plant
all vegetables or vegetables and
flowers.
Now, be sure to enter. If you
90 not have space enough at your
home just borrow some ground from
one OF your neighbors and tell them
thai later on you will give them
some vegetables from your garden
or a bunch of flowers.
Now it is up to each one of YOU
TO enter this contest and when you
start you must be determined to win
one of the cash prizes and the Star
news cup for your school.
L remember being at the launch
Ing of a big ship several years ago
and when the men removed the
ropes and poles that held the ship
IL failed to move. The crowd stood
dumb founded and the band stop
ped playing and no one could un.
derstand why the ship did not move
Then a ~12-year-old boy rushed
through the crowd and threw his
weight against the bow of the ship
ana the ship smoothly glided into
the water while the crowd yelled and
the band played.
Now, that boy knew he could
Start that ship and I know each one
OF o can plant a garden.
start now, you will enjoy work.
ing in it and you will be proud to
win S.. So or 50, and the cup for
your school.
Il will be mighty happy if the
principal of your school will phone
me tomorrow and tell me that the
largest number yet have entered the
school garden contest and Mr.. R. B.
Page who donates the prizes will
ne happy too. I am depending on
you.
"Sincerely your friend,
Carl Render, director"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
BRITAIN FREES
ITALIAN GOLFERS
Continued From Page One)

ed rivers until after the British ex-
port blockade went into effect.
Informed sources pointed out
quickly, too, that settlement of the
coal dispute left the way open for
resumption of British-Italian financ.
ial and commercial talks in Rome.
Victory For British
These sources thought these talks
would continue now with British
coal offered-and accepted-as pay
ment for agricultural and heavy H.
dustrial products desired from Italy
by the British.
AS far as could be learned tonight
the 10 Italian ships still were at the
~contraband control base in The
Downs and it was thought they
would wait until daylight before pro.
ceeding on their way.
The controversy saw registered a
formal and stiff protest from Italy
but there has been no overt action
against Britain since the first of the
ships were seized a week ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
'Nauigators' To Hold
Revival Series Here

A unique program on Christian
Education will be presented at the
Salvation Army hall Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock, by a group Of
sailors known as THE Navigators."
The group will appear here under
the leadership Of Dawson Trotman,
a Christian layman of California,
and under the sponsorship of the
Wilmington Bible Conference asso-
citation,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10

Captive lions, although not well
muscled like those living in the
wild state, develop more beautiful
names.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
Propeller Club To Plan
Entertainment For Roe

Arrangements for the visit of the
U. S. S. Roe. new naval destroyer,
here from April 8 to II will be dis
cussed at the monthly dinner meet
ing of the Propeller Club of the
United States, Port of Wilmington
at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening.
March 10, at the Cape Fear Coun.
try club.
Entertainment features for the
officers and the crew and other de.
tails of the visit of the Roe, which
is making Wilmington its first port
Of call while on it's shakedown
cruise, will be discussed at the
meeting, David S. Harriss, secre-
tary-treasurer, announced yester-
day. All members are urged to at.
tend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
Exports OF U. S. Cotto,
Near 5,ooO,ooo'RF DBL. a,..

American sTn aoN March 9.-a
SEASON. ,a'"" ne exports of cotton ,s1,
mark this week for the e ,,'VV'oals
c c,,,nt 1897 as substantial quoa, a',
unfavorable war factors '0u despil,
The Agriculture den,r
ported today that total avn ,.nsAt re.
August 1 to March ? +poFts from
Coo bales, an increase NJ 't CO. 4.S7S.
over foreign shipments in PET re cent
lespoholng period last seaso we cor
bales ron = the week tota,ed 1gs am am
n olSs compared with ll5,ooo in VIZ
pn rresnn week and 1000 in in me
corresponding week a Year . III The
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10
2 MORE TOWNS

MOSCOW, March 1O-(Sunday)-
@-The occupation of two towns on
the western coast of the Gulf of Vii
puri was reported today by the Red
army.
The Russian communique on yes
terday's fighting in the Viipuri Sec
tor said the gulf towns of Karppila
and Ruhela had been captured as
well as the Islands o. Porkansaari
and Puispansaari in Viipuri gulf.
The town of Repola, northeast of
Viipuri on the railroad line from the
ancient Finnish port of Serdobol, al
so vas captured, the communicate
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10

inc Giant aIaoo water lilies furnish I,,,
r aG0q 15a the i huge siz-foot leaves walk aai