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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
JAPS CELEBRATE
EMPIRE FOUNDING
26OOth Anniversary Of Dy.
nasty Brings Message
From Pope

TOKYO. Feb. 11.-(Sunday)-
R-Japan celebrated today as the
2600th anniversary Ct the founda.
ton Of the empire and establishs
ment of the worlds Oldest dynasty,
which japanese revere as 'the line
unbroken for ages eternal"
Emperor Hirohito, 124th Of the
line, was the heart of deeply relig.
ious and %fervently patriotic observ.
ances in which 10000, 900 japanese
in the empire stretching from Kan.
chaika to the equator turned their
faces toward the palace in Tokyo.
(From Vatican city Pope Plus
sent the emperor an anniversary
message expressing hope for an
end to Japan's war with China in
these words: I'VE are asking God
that external hostilities may cease
and the illustrious Japanese people
may again enjoy the splendor Of
true greatness.")
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
ALLIES TO PRESS
WAR TO THE END
British, French Leaders
Say Victory Will Bring
Real Peace
BY J.. C. STARK

LONDON, Feb. 10.-R)-Britain
and France, ~reiterating their deter
mination to crush forever German
threats to their concept of world
supremacy, issued a blunt new dec
laration against a patched up"
peace today as they watched with
interest President Roosevelt's latest
diplomatic moves in the European
Addressing a public gathering at
Bristol, Air Minister Sir Kingsley
Wood sternly emphasized the Allies
intention to fight on to "a real peace,
not a patched up pact that would
leave Europe once again the sub
ject of assault and violation"
1--WE and our allies" he declared,
"are determined to secure the world
against the possibility of the repe-
tition of atrocities and inhumani-
ties which have repealed and shock
ed mankind"
Almost simultaneously a semi-of-
fetal note was issued in Paris warn
ing that the constant peril' of Ger
many must be crushed "before the
world to come takes shape by agree
ment."
The note said France would vel
come U. S. Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles on his forthcoming
European faet-finding tour, ordered
by President Roosevelt, but COM
mented coolly on the state depart
ment's announcement of informal
diplomatic conversations with neu-
trails with a view to reducing arma-
ments and promoting Sound and
lasting peace for all nations"
ENGLAND and France" the Paris
note said, "are now seeking by vic
tory of their aims to obtain ma
terial and positive guarantees OF
peace without which no stable or
g~anization of international relations
could be established ..."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Mayor LaGuardia Not
Presidential Candidate

NEW YORK, Feb. 10-R-May-
or LaGuardia said today he
to make it absolutely clear 1 am
not a candidate" for President OF
the United States in 1910.
He said he thought he could 90
this nv making this statement:
"The politicians are absolutely
useless and worthless"
Municipal government is my IN.
terest." he told a conference Oh
Young people studying the admin
~istration of New York city. EVERY
one will understand that before this
campaign is over"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
TWO ARMED BOATS
Sunk BY GERMANS.
British Admit One Ship
Sent Down By Nazi
Aerial Torpedoes

LONDON, Feb. TO- up Great
pritain acknowledged tonight the
ping of two armed trawlers-one
%, aerial torpedoes-with the loss of
~ ~ lives in Germany's latest air as
.oult Yesterday on North Sea ship.
0:ne Four other vessels were badly
damaged.
Germany claimed the raiders sank
.uo British patrol" boats and sank
~ destroyed six other vessels.
The admiralty announced the
ravlers Robert Bowen, 290 tons,
and Fort Royal, 351 tons, were
a'nk Four officers and Is men went
down with the ships.
experimenting this announce
wont. informed sources said the
Fort Royal was struck by torpedoes
d,mped by the Nazi airmen after
bombs failed to find their mark.
skipper John Moore of the trawler
1ovdock brought his crippled vessel
into port with a story of a similar
attack. Moore said the Germans
lined bombs about his craft with.
out result.
FINALLY" he continued, "they let
On with a torpedo which struck us
glancing blow and nearly lifted
rs out of the water"
"Three of us were on the bridge
and I grabbed a rifle and let the
first of the two attackers have 20
shots. We must have hit one for it
made off, leaving the other to fight
il out with us"
One Nazi plane was shot down in
the raids and the British claimed
two others had been damaged.
The extent of the attack was made
Main with the arrival of the dam.
aged merchantmen Cliftonia, 3,106
IONS. Boston Trader, 81 tons. and
the Dredger Foremost, BOG tons.
Two of the Dredger's crew rel lost
when a lifeboat capsized after she
had been bombed.
Today the admiralty described as
without foundation a report from
Tonder, Denmark, that a British
varplane dropped four bombs today
on sylt, German island base in the
North Sea.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
U. S. SENDS BIDS
TO PEACE FARLEY
Continued From Page One)

to bring proposals concerning arma-
ments and commercial policies to
the attention of every government
that is disposed to take any interest
in them.
The soundings among neutral "a
tons on postwar problems, Hull
emphasized, are entirely distinct
from the rowing assignment Sum.
ner Welles, undersecretary of state,
will undertake in Europe at the re.
quest of President Roosevelt.
Welles will leave on February II
for visits to Rome, Berlin, Paris and
London "for the purpose of advis-
ing the President and the secretary
of state as to present conditions in
Europe" He will go first to Rome
but has not yet announced the or
der in which he will visit the CAPT.
tails of the belligerent nations.
AS to the discussions on postwar
problems, Secretary Hull pointed
out that the United States has con-
sistently attempted to keep alive
basic ideas relating to a stable in.
ternational relationship.
The keystones Of the policies, he
said, are the progressive reduction
of ornaments, and the adoption of a
liberal economic policy as the only
means of avoiding autarchy and
economic totalitarianism.
The United States, Hull declared,
hoped to see every nation that is
not already doing SO adopt that
program so that when a peace con
ference does meet there will exist
a definite understanding, and even
commitments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

RALEIGH - Governor Hoey's
decade of Progress committee
drafted preliminary plans today for
improvement of North Carolina
agriculture and industry during the
next 10 years.
The keynote of the meeting, held
in the governors office and attend
ed by 80 committee members. was
sounded by DR.. Clarence Poe Of
Raleigh, farm leader, who said the
opportunity for progress in agri-
culture and industry parallels the
public school situation when Aycock
became governor"
DR.. Frank P. Graham, president
of the University of North Carolina
and chairman of the committee,
was unable to attend because he
is i'll with influenza. DR.. Poe was
named acting chairman until DR..
Graham can assume the office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Electrical Research
Offers New Wonders
BY GEORGE H. BUCHER
President, Westinghouse Elec. and
Mfg. Co.

Mfg. Co.
The year has seen important
strides in the electrical field, and in
the Identification oil industry. Many
industrial plants, including several
large steel mills, are producing bet
ter, cheaper products because of
the 1889 electrical equipment that
operates and controls t h e m.
Throughout the country, electrical
systems are giving more reliable
service because of lightning re-
search and the introduction of self
protecting "lightning-tested" trans
formers.
The new fluorescent lamps, intro
duc>l at the New York Worlds
Fair, are rapidly finding their way
into homes, factories, business estab-
lishments and offices, bringing bet
ter and more efficient light. An
other kind of electrically produced
Observation-Disclosures major
use during the year in the tenderi-
cation of beef. Westinghouse engi-
experimentally introduced a
new kind of heating and air-condi-
tioning system in thu company's
plant at Emeryville. California. BY
reversing the principle of %air-cool-
ing, the engineers use the cool out
door air to heat the building in the
winter time; a system that may
have wide application throughout
the country. During the year seve
raj new alleys of considerable i'm
portance have been produced. One,
"K-42-B", containing nickel, cobalt,
chromium, titanium, manganese,
silicon, carbon and iron, may prove
spectacularly useful at high tempe
natures. 1t is stronger at 100 de-
grees than carbon steel at room
temperature.
We are fortunate to live in a
try where the national emphasis is
so effectively centered on construc-
ton and better living, and where
the output of the country's labora-
tories and factories raises the stand
ard of living instead Of destroying
it. The business of the Westing-
house company has been very good
in 1899, and we expect that the pre-
sent high level will be maintained
into 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Woman Files Complaint
Or Gambling Place Here

A woman resident of North Mac
Rae street demanded yesterday
that police break up a gambling
palace operated in the vicinity by
a negro.
1t goes on at all hours of the day
and night, she complained, and
furthermore, her husband is a fire.
quent visitor.
The woman added that he often
loses his entire pay check.
She said she was going to ap-
pear before the grand jury if some
thing isn't done about it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

ed in from nearby Cordele, Valdosta,
Thomasville and cambridge to
preserve order and assist in rescue
work within the stricken city.
Dozens of doctors and nurses
came by train and plane from Ma,
con, Atlanta and other cities under
direction of the Red Cross. That
organization ordered its medical di
rector, DR.. William de Kleine, tc
the scene from Washington afte,
an appeal from L. r. Terrell, chair.
man of the Albany chapter. Stone
Crane and Mrs. Beatrice Vines
disaster relief workers also were
sent in by the Red Cross.
Cots and Blankets
Hundreds Of cots and blankets
were hurried in from the army's
big base at Fort Benning, Ca, and
Francis Shurling of the nationa.
emergency council said that body
would make an immediate survey
to determine what further federal
aid might be required.
Tourist and commercial traffic
was routed around the city, which
was impossible to automobiles in
the storm zone. Trains, bound tc
and from Florida, were held up as
much as two hours while tracks
were cleared.
Mrs. Kirk Wagenseller, of Will
mington, received a wire from hel
mother, Mrs. T. V. Thompson, who
resided in the Gordon hotel, one o.
the several downtown building!
most severely damaged, saying tina
she escaped injury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
News Photographer
Freed By Recorder

BESSEMER, Ala, Feb. TO-
R-Disorderly conduct charges
against Pete Little, Birmingham
News photographer arrested for
taking a picture on a Bessemer
street, were dismissed today by
City Recorder S. Palmer Keith,
Jr.
mo matter how Objectionable
this action (the picture) may
have been to the policeman"
Keith said, "the officer had no
legal charge on which to make
an arrest interfering with the
freedom of the press"
Little said he was arrested
after swapping a picture of a
Bessemer policeman using a
blackjack on Clyde Dyer, Jr.,
employee Of a firm engaged in
installing meters for a city,
owned electric distribution sys-
tenn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Nazi Suggestions
Rejected By Rumania

BUCHAREST, Feb. 10.-P-Re-
lection Of official German "sugges-
tions'' that Rumania denobilize
most of her 100000 men under
arms so they could work in fields
and factories to produce goods for
the reich was reported today by
authoritative sources.
At the same time the government
decreed a Is per cent export tax en-
petroleum products to give a new
boost to the nations rearmament
program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Elon To Celebrate
Golden Anniversary

ELON COLLEGE, Feb. 10.-lR-
Elon college will open tomorrow a
three-day celebration of its golden
anniversary year.
At the opening session tomorrow
morning DR.. w. p. Few. president
of Duke university, will speak on
1.-THE Church and Education"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
2 FEARED DEAD
in ALBANY, GA,
Continued From Page One)

the hundreds and slicked away al
most the entire top floor Of the st.
Nicholas hotel.
Finally, it dropped heavily into a
negro residential section along the
muddy Flint river and moved a
death. pocked path through flimsy
houses before it moved on into sui
len, rainy skies to the north and
east, leaving a swath of destruction
roughly Is blocks long and four
wide.
Godsent was the hour OF the
storms arrival because only a hand
full of the towns $4,000 population
was in the battered downtown area.
Twelve hours later a Saturday aft
ernoon crowd Of thousands would
have been in the winds path.
Bodies recovered late this after
noon included those Of II negroes,
most of them killed in their homes
near the river, and n white wom-
an, Dora Belle SILVER, 80, crushed
in her home on Oglethorpe avenue.
City Manager c. @. Wright said
he understood three other white
persons and another negro had been
killed, making a death list of ~, but
he had been unable to verify this
report late tonight.
A crew of more than FOO rescue
workers cleared narrow lanes for
ambulances through debris-choked
downtown streets and searched for
the bodies of possible additional vic
tins in the wreckage.
The city's single, 50-bed hospital
swiftly was swamped by the first
flood of injured and the high school
gymnasium, the First Methodist
church, the city auditorium and a
negro high school auditorium were
converted hastily into emergency
hospitals. Tonight about 200 Of the
more seriously injured had been
put into beds in these places, but
only a few were reported critically
injured. An estimated 800 others re-
celved emergency treatment in hos
pltals or homes for minor injuries.
Five Million Dollars
q. C.. Hamrick, income tax inspec-
tor for the internal revenue bureau,
inquired property loss at about s5,-
100000. Some city officials placed
damage between IS, 900, 900 and &c..
100000, and Wright said he feared
the toll would be $4,000, 900 to 49,
100000, including stocks.
In the path of the wind were
downtown telegraph and telephone
OFFICES and disruption of these
lines left the town virtually cut off
LOT several hours. AS emergency
crews brought communications
pack into play and the news of the
tragedy spread, relief forces moved
swiftly.
Governor E. D. Rivers and sew
eral aides quickly drove down the
l'o miles from Atlanta. Safety Com
missioner Lon Sullivan moved in
With state troopers to keep neces-
safy traffic moving and to bar the
pain of curious thousands.
four national guard companies,
eotallng about 300 men, were order
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Dropped In Gutter,
Purse Is Swept Away

Mrs. Otis Wilkins reported to po-
lice yesterday that while standing at
the corner of Second and Princess
streets she dropped her pocketbook
into the gutter, and before she could
retrieve it the water had swept it
into a drainhole.
AS the drain empties beneath the
docks at the foot of Princess street,
police said little can be done to re-
trieve the pocketbook.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
ADVERTISEMENT
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
RUSSIAN DRIVES
FAIL, Firms SAY
Continued From Page One)

added u Russian tanks in two days
to the scrapheap of modern weap-
ons launched against Finland's in
dependence. Unofficial reports say
more than $50 Red army tanks
have been smashed or captured
since the war began on November
30 and more than $50 planes
downed.
Equally important, foreign mill
tary observers said, is the fact
that foreign pursuit planes actual
ly are beginning to arrive for the
defense of Finland.
Finnish flying men have estimat-
ed that with 300 modern fighting
planes they can demoralize the
Russian bombing squadrons with
the same effectiveness with which
their phantom ski battalions have
deployed against the motorized di-
visions Of the Red army.
The Finnish artillery, meanwhile,
has played an Lnsung but increas-
ingly important role in keeping the
Russian troops where they were at
the beginning of the struggle.
With great economy of ammuni-
ton, the Finnish batteries have
been silencing Soviet big guns, a
few every day. Finnish officers say
this precision is due to a new and
improved artillery chart devised by
General Vilho Nenonen, in COM
mand of Finnish artillery.
He is a former minister of de-
tense and a brilliant mathematician
whose achievements in the science
of ballistics are recognized inter-
nationally.
With the Nenonen chart, Finnish
gunners say they can accomplish
with one shell what ordinarily
takes three.
Repairing Planes
In the air the Firms are skill
fully repairing and putting into
use many captured Soviet planes.
An official announcement tonight
gave this account Of the Finnish
airmen's achievements at sea:
Eight Russian warships and one
submarine sunk since the start of
the war, and others damaged"
Finland's story Of the tremen-
dous fighting on the Mannerheim
Line battlefields was combined to-
day with the announcement that
the high command had confirmed
the death of a Soviet divisional
commander, one Colonel Borisoff,
in a battle northeast of Lake La
doga on Thursday. The army's
communique said he was in COM
mand of the eleventh Russian dl-
vision. On this front, moreover,
the Firms announced these Russian
losses:
800 killed.
go trucks and two tanks Destroy
ed.
"A large quantity" Of infantry
weapons captured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Carolina
Ne1us Shorts
(By the Associated Press)

RALEIGH-Governor Hcey to-
night appointed Walter H. Wood
son of Salisbury to the state board
of elections, to fill out the unex-
pired term of the late George Nc
Neill Of Fayetteville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
FIDELIS CLASS

FIDELIS CLASS
The Fidelis class of the First
Baptist church will meet Mon
day night at 8 o'clock with Mrs.
j. G. Middleton of BrOokwood.
All members are urged to at
tend,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
MUSICIANS

RALEIGH - Nearly 50 young
North Carolina musicians have ap-
piled for positions on Leopold Sto.
kowski's All-America Youth orches-
ira, State Youth Administrator John
A. Lang said today.
The deadline for submitting ap-
plications is next Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
PARKS

TONOPAH, New Up The old
ghost mining towns OF Rhyolite and
Belmont, Nevada, will become state
parks if the state government fol-
lows a recommendation from Nye
county commissioners.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

EDENTON-The Associated Press
was completely in error when it
distributed a story January 81 in
which it said that Branning Perry,
town councilman, had been cited
by his brother, Game Warden Glib
Perry, to appear before a magis-
trate because the councilman
bought some fish out Of season.
Framing Perry did not buy game
fish out of season and he was not
cited to appear before a magistrate
and fined.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
TO MEET MONDAY

The Cape Fear council No.
"A of the Daughters of America
will hold its regular meeting
Monday night at 8 o'clock in
the J. o. U. A. M. hall. All
members are urged to attend,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
City Briefs

ILL
Friends of Miss Elizabeth
Mallard will regret to learn
she is i'll at James Walker Me-
mortal hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
NEW OFFICE

RALEIGH-An office of the fed
eral social security board will be
opened in Goldsboro about March
1 to handle old age insurance
claims from Johnston and Wayne
counties, District Manager Stacey
W. Wade said today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
GOODWILL TOUR

CHARLOTTE - Fifty persons
composing a goodwill tour designed
to bring more tourists to western
North Carolina will leave Charlotte
and Asheville Tuesday morning
and join that night at Augusta, Ga.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
"NOTHING"

MOSCOW, Feb. 10. Up - 10
nights communique of the Lenln-
grad military headquarters:
Nothing of Importance at n
Soviet airplanes made reconnals-
sance and bombing flights"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
A SERVICES

bEACH SEIC VICES
The Rev. j. Leon Malone will
hold church services at the Lit
tie Chapel on the Boardwalk ut
WI1ghtsvllle Tuesday night
at 1880 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-15
NAILS HAIL GAINS
Capitulation OF Holland l. Is
Viewed As Unique Mill
tary Achievement
CRUISERS SUNK
GERMANY

BERLIN, May 14.-(AP)
|Germany's thunderous war
machine crushed The Meth
erlands tonight and beat a
bloody path along World war
battlefields through Belgium
to the ramparts of France.
Capitulation of Holland
(ordered and acknowledged
by the Dutch commander-in-
chief, with the exception of
the southwestern province of
Zeeland), after five days of
|blitzkrieg, was hailed by the
Germans as "a unique mill
tary achievement"
German authorities said re-
sistance continued in Zee
land, blaming skepticism of
the local Dutch commander,
but said negotiations are
being conducted" to end hos
tilities there too.
Rotterdam Surrenders
The German high com
mand announced that sur
render of Rotterdam, once
great Netherlands seaport,
had preserved it from de-
struction by dive bombers
and armed forces.
Rotterdam is within the
quadrangle of the "Holland
fortress" which The Neither
lands had counted upon de-
Tending at all costs.
The Germans also an
nounced sinking by aircraft
OF two enemy cruisers and a
destroyer off the Dutch coast
and the firing of two other
ships and damage of yet an
other.
"In north Belgium" the
German command announc-
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-15
HOLLAND ENCIRCLED
Troops Ordered To Halt
Firing Except In Islands
On Southwest Coast
OIL STORES FIRED
HOLLAND

May IA
(AP)-Bomb-b blasted and en-
circled, The Netherlands high
command tonight ordered it's
troops to cease fighting the
German invader everywhere
except in the fringe Of low
islands on the Kingdoms
southwest coast.
The order. was given by
General Henri Gerard Win
kelman, commander-in-chief
of the small Dutch army
which for five days took all
the punishment the German
army could administer.
Highest Representative
Hollands queen and gov
ernment, in leaving the
country, had made General
Winkelman their highest
representative and empower
ed him to make any military
decisions he considered neces-
sary. He had supreme power,
therefore, to issue the cease
fire" order.
The government had fled
to England with Queen Will
helmina. From there she will
rule The Netherlands pos
sessions, an empire Of $780,
1000 square miles and a pop
ulation of 100000
But the proud, rich moth
erland, with $500, 900 people
and a territory of 12,70O
square miles, has fallen in
the war between Germany
and England and France
from which she tried so hard
to stay aloof.
Fighting still was going on
tonight in the iceland
islands, valuable to Germany.
as submarine bases from
which to attack England.
But General Winkelman
told his army elsewhere to
cease fighting in order to
"save the civilian population
and prevent further blood
she'd"
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