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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03

At the Tacoma Day Nursery club
party Thursday afternoon ct the
university-uniou club. Mrs. Donald
G. crawforth. club president.
named Mrs. Herbert Batteries
chairman for the orrsnixsti tons
spring cabaret dance TO be given
March 30 In the Crystal ballroom
OF Hotel Winthrop. Mrs Charles
schieusnsr win be in charge Of
tickets.
Thirty-four tables OF bridge were
In play at Thursdays party with
favors going 10 Mesdames n. NJ. A.
Williams, l.. " Tomphins. John
Gloor, l.. G. Hawks. Charles NJ.
Clark. l.. c. Kusch. Smith Camp
bell, Everett T. Smith. Carl H@g-
strom. W. c. Niemsyer, w. Grady.
X. y. ouiniivan and @. E. Nc
Masters.
During the tea hour, Miss bar.
bsrs Ann Reed. accompanied by
her mother. Mrs William n. Reed.
played a group Of violin selections
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03

The Arts and Science club met
Thursday II the womsn's club
house for an interesting AFTER
moons program. Mrs. Merle r.ssdy.
program chairman. presented Mrs.
A. =. Black. guest speaker. WIN
spoke on gardens from the time
Of srsndmother's hack yard garden
up 10 those Of the present day.
A second feature Of the AFTER
noon was the display IT basksts
made by patients 1t the vstsrans'
hospital
Mrs. Richard Boskoviteh and
Mrs. J. \. hsthesou poured 81 the
tea hour which followed and Mrs.
Ernest FerwolIs and Mrs.. John y.
Smith were hostesses for the AFTER
noon. The tee tsbis was covered
with . lace cloth and eentsrsd by
} charming arrangement u dsffo-
dis and narcissus IN = crystal bowi.
In hurricane lamps wers
II either end ef the table.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03

Ftrcrest Preschool viii entertain
at . dessert luncheon and card
party Feb. Q at / o'clock at the
home Of MrA w. e. sherman on
Dartmouth 1T. In Fircrest. Mrs.
Harvey Austermuhl u chairman
Of the affair.
Corinthiaa chapter. o. n. r., viii
entertain at q card party Friday
at q p. m. in the william r.
Dougherty Masonic hall at No. ssth
and Cheyenne.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
Miss eLlund 70 Arrange
Dsks Rho Gsmms Tee

Miss Evelyn Ekiund. Tacoma,
has been appointed by tina presi.
dent. Miss Clara rjsrmedsI Ia
coma. 10 make arrangements for
the Delta Rho Gamma siumnas tea
To be held In the Trinity lutheran
church pariors Immediately fol-
lowing tbs Pacific Lutheran col
lsge choir concert Sunday after
noon. Feb. II. At ESQ O'Clock.
Assisting chairman. Miss Enid
Blake. win direct the following
committees; Menu, Mrs. J. n.
Dahl. Misses Louise Williams, DiIls
Qusie. Alice Roe. Elizabeth Frils,
Elizabeth Dahl and Mrs. Olive
Healy; decorations, Misses Helen
Thrans. Albsrta sehHii and Mo-
yeiis Nagel, cleanup. Masses Enid
Blake. Alles Cook. Marie Wen
bsrg. Evelyn jacobson and oyidia
Hange.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
Stadium Sophomores 10
Give Annual Sweater Dance

Stadium high schools zOpho-
more class VIII hold Us annual
sweater dance. ihe Grounding
Hop" a. $50 Friday evening IN
the school gymnasium. The affair
viii bs the first dance u me new
semester
Music wfiI b. furnishsd BY
Bisckls Ehoads ard Ma orchestra
During intsvnission. entertainment
VIII include vocal solos By his.
Doris Nelson and Miss Bette
Browne; a duet By Mike Csidoxh
and Mlas Mildred Cock. ana = TAP
dance b. Jim Nyian6sr.
The entire stoosnt body IL IN
yiied 70 this dance. which u hsld
especially 70 introduces new stu
dents 10 tins schools social life.
Ladies Aid VII Meet
Beginning with IL o'clock
luncheon, the Hope Chapel LADIES' /
AID N1n meet on Wednesday. The
subject for dsyotlons. led BY Mrs.
A. q. schafsr. will BE-. Tins HUI
manity u the Lord Jesus" Mrs.
{. H. Williams viii talk on the
work Of the Womens employment
bureau. Mrs y Olson. the new
president. will preside. /
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
PIT. A. And Preschool
Activities OF The Week

selections. Special tribute viii be
paid to the past presidents Of
Whitman PIT. A. Mrs. Nd Bow
man IL IN charge OF the tea hour.
She viii Be assisted by Mrs. Floyd
Brassfield. Mrs. Ivan Parse, Mrs.
EiixAbeth Brennan and Mrs. Smith.
Mias Helen stsncsr and Mrs. Cum
ningham will pour. The Girl
Scouts will be responsible for the
decorations both In the Girl Scout
room and on the tea table.
Fern nm PIT. A. meets Thurs
day at p. m. In the school audi
forum with Mrs. Ray Davis pre-
siding. There viii b q simple
Founders day ceremony with can
dies lighted to the past. present
and future. Ruth Radford's play
ers viii present Hamburger
King" Mothers of Mrs. Coldis
Lahey's pupils will be hostesses
with Mrs. 4. G. Erickson ~ chair
man. Mrs. Kari Nelson II program
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29

that time be capable Of accomplish
ing there, which, while Egypt and
the Suez hold fast, will be in de-
creasing tempo.
Some of these fences are purely
British fences, some of them are
American fences as well. One thing
is certain-we shall not, when this
war is over, be living in the same
kind of a world in which we lived
in the halcyon days Of the 1920s, and
there will be many undeveloped
areas Of that world to which some
one, somehow, will have to bring
order and peace and trade. In this
work we may well bear a useful
part. Indeed, 1t is no less than our
duty to do so, within the sphere of
our interests and our competence.
1t ought not be forgotten, however,
that conditions in Britain may well
be such that her sea power cannot
operate from its accustomed bases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29

Of South Africa and IT'D Rhodesian
neighbors cannot long tolerate dis
order and disintegration In this
area. There Is the enormous ques-
ton OF India, Of its constitutional
future, of its security against at
tack. One could go on and on in
this fashion.
Many Fences to Mend.
To put 1t briefly, the trade and
well-being Of great part of the
world depend on the police of the
seas. on the ability of a strong sea
power to use the seas for conveying
to distant parts the troops and air
planes which may be needed to deal
with emergent situations. Once
Britain itself is freed from the
menace of full-scale German attack,
there will be many fences to mend
in many parts of the world-not for
getting, Of course, the Middle East
and whatever the Italians may by
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And just as we are now acquiring
from Britain certain base positions
in the Western Hemisphere which
will improve our strategical posi-
ton In the Atlantic, so there ought
to be no question that, in case Of
need, our great feet bases on the
Atlantic seaboard will be open to
British warships II her own fleet
bases become SO damaged by bomb.
ings as to be temporarily unusable.
The plain fact of the matter IL
that in the shattered world which
the war will leave us all these out
lying regions of which we have
spoken will be dependent upon
the masters of the sea, the United
States and Great Britain, for their
very hfe-unless they are to be al
lowed to sink back into chaos and
savagery. We should be thinking
of these things now.
(Copyrisht, 1910, New York Tribune, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29

itself2 1t is possible, Of course, dark
as the picture is.
May Reform "Fringes."
But what Is far more likely, in
such an event, is that British and
American sea power will be at work
reforming the outer regions of the
world. A Britain which cannot
take the offensive on the continent
with great army will be amply
able to do so. once the German
menace is past, with lesser armies
in various parts Of the world, Just
as Britain has done in every great
war In which she has fought these
past two centuries. There will be
much to do; much In which America
may well cooperate.
There will be, first of all, the
matter of the status quo In the
Pacific, the assuring of the safety
of important sources Of raw ma
terials and important areas of trade
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from falling into the hands of the
Japanese. We stand on guard there
now. Later on, more positive action
may be taken, not to bring about
war In the Far East, but to take
steps in insuring against its out
break.
There is the matter of the French
and Dutch and Belgian colonies. A
German defeat in the battle of
Britain may well bring about a
change Of heart on the part of the
French colonial authorities in some
places. Elsewhere, there may be
Germans to be expelled, as at
Dakar-a matter in which our in
terest is even greater than Britains.
There will be measures to be taken
to assure the orderly administration
Of the great Belgian Congo, and its
continued economic life, pending
some future decision as to the ulti-
mate fate of Belgium. The Union
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can hope, in equipment and training,
to match the German Army. Barring
an internal collapse of some sort In
Germany, Britain must find an ally
on the continent. as she has so often
done before, in order to attack Ger
many by land. But where Is that
ally to come from? Gravely may 1t
be doubted that France can be
counted upon for the purpose, or
any of the small conquered states.
The Balkans seem none too hopeful
a possibility. Russia alone remains
and he who counts on what Stain
will do in any given set of circum-
stances is the most wishful Of wish
full thinkers.
Are we, then, to envisage mere
stalemate, a mutual bombing horror
which will end in the gradual de-
struction of the means of produc-
ton, transport and distribution by
which modern civilization maintains
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World Fence Mending Expected
fWor StoIemote Develops
Eliot Sees British and American SEQ Power
Collaborating to Reform 'Fringes'

Suppose Britain holds out. Suppose
Germany attacks with full force,
and is beaten off, gives up the at
tempt to reduce the embattled
island What then?
We may well assume that Britain
alone cannot undertake the offensive
in her turn, except by air. 1t will
hardly be next year or the year
after that Britain, even with the aid
of the Dominions, will be able to set
an army on the continent which
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BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
Eliot

Much has been said and written
about dire results of Britain's down.
fall, but today, on the face of what
has been achieved by the assaulting
Germans so far, that downfall
though by no means impossible
appears somewhat less likely than
1t did in the black days following
the collapse of France. Let us look
at the other side of the picture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
URUGUAY TO WAR
ON TROJAN HORSE
Men And Women Called To
Voluntary Enlistment For
Military Training

MONTEVIDEO, June 19-Little
Uruguay called today upon her
two million people to destroy the
Trojan horse.
The government summoned all
men and women to voluntary enlist
ment for military training or for
women's auxiliary services.
Officials acted to sharply limit
the influx of so-called tourists"
The man-on-the-street took heart
from the approaching visit Of the
United States cruiser Quincy, due
tomorrow on a good neighbor tour.
Uruguay is the Achilles heel OF
South America. A parliamentary
commission just has issued a 49,
point indictment of Nazi infilltra-
ton. The commission said it dis.
closed a Nazi plan for military
occupation of the nation.
Disclosures from the report said
evidence had been found of a
scheme to make over Uruguay's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
HAC0W WILL MAKE
DEDICATION PLANS
Tenants To Be Moved
Into New Brooklyn
Homes Next Week

Plans will be made for holding
a dedication exercise for New
Brooklyn Homes, newly completed
low rent housing project, at a
meeting of the Housing Authority
of the city of Wilmington Friday
night.
Although no definite decision has
been made, preliminary plans call
for the dedication early in July.
Speeches will probably be made
by prominent white and colored
figures in the city and in the hous-
ing field.
The city commissioners, upon
the motion of j. E. l.. Wade, yes
terday approved such a dedication
ceremony and offered their full
cooperation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
LEADERS WE'D EN- ROUTE
TO ALGERS TO HOLD REGIME;
NAN BOMBERS RAID ENGLAND
AREA BOMBED
British Apparently Repay
Call Blow For Blow With
Attacks On Nazis
PLANES ARE DOWNED


LONDON, June 20.-CThursday)
R-The battle of England, thus
far being fought in the air, ragged
again today through sleepless hours
from midnight to dawn shattered
by the thunder of bombs and the
incessant barking of anti-aircraft
guns.
The Nazi air raiders came at ir-
regular intervals, wave after wave,
and ranged from the southeastern
coast north into Scotland. Sirens
shrilled warnings Eve in some Sec
tons of northwestern England
never before threatened from the
air.
Repay Call
And again. as yesterday British
bombers apparently repaid their
call blow for blow. with attacks on
Germany.
Roaring little British fighter
planes and anti-aircraft guns that
banged away at dark shapes picked
UP by search-light beams brought
down at least one of the German
aircraft and sent two others sea-
ward in difficulty, barely clearing
the housetops.
Townspeople stayed in Their
houses or scurried to air raid shell
tiers. All civil defense units stood
by their stations until dawn and a
spell of quiet that indicated the
| raid-or the worst of twas over.
Bombs exploded near a northeast
coastal town, and anti-aircraft and
| fighters battled off other raiders
from Scotland to south of London.
One of the raiding bombers was
shot down in Yorkshire.
The AFRAID alarm on the east
coast of Scotland was lifted after
half an hour.
The first alarms were sounded
just before midnight, Wednesday,
and a few minutes after midnight
the Bremen and Hamburg radio
stations went silent, probably in
dicating British airmen had been
detected on their third successive
1.ight-covered visit to Germany's
busy northwest industrial and
shipping section.
At three a. m. g p. m. E. S.
TO gunfire and exploding still were
heard in northeast England where
bombs were being dropped. The
sound of machinegun fire went on
for a considerable time after Brit
ish fighter planes took the air, and
the raiders also encountered heavy
opposition from ground batteries.
A powerful s%earchlight caught one
raider in it's beam and it made off
toward the sea with fighter planes
shooting tracer bullets in its wake.
The all clear signal was sounded
after three hours and a quarter in
one town in northeast England.
High flying planes were heard
repeatedly in southeastern England.
Planes Shelled
Sometimes the searchlights pick
ed out the dark forms of high
flying planes. Bursts Of shellfire
were seen around them.
One large force of enemy planes
crossed the southeastern coast of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
MACHINE IS WEAKENED
French Troops Retreat
From Forts OF St. Louis,
Hunique, Rosenau.
BY CHARLES S. FOLTZ, JR.

DY OHATGAE0 D. OA1A, JNs
GENEVA, Switzerland, June l9
-R-German mechanical armies,
taxed by cross-country dashes but
supported by un~contested air SUI
periority, were reported tonight to
have sent advanced elements down
the Ain valley, to within 20 miles
OF Lyon.
CA German radio broadcast,
picked up by NBC, said the Ger
mans had reached" Lyon, some
200 miles north of Marseille and
the Mediterranean
Machine Weakened
Reports brought by refugees new
ertheless indicated the possibility
that the German war machine was
so near exhaustion that the French
might successfully defend Lyon,
their third largest city, a manu-
featuring center whose normal pop
ulation is about $40, 900.
The defense of Lyon fell, in part,
to comparatively FRESH troops
from the now virtually abandoned
Maginot line. The last skeleton
garrisons of the great fortresses
on the Rhine north of Basel with
drew today.
The forts of st. Louis, Hunique,
Village Neuf and Rosenau fired
their last volleys at German posi-
lions in Baden at 2:45 am. and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
BELLIGERENTS WARNED
Tells Germany, Italy To
Keep Hands Off Allies
Land In Hemisphere

WASHINGTON, June 10 -tRE
The United States cautioned and
Italy to keep hands off British,
French and Dutch possessions IN
the Western hemisphere today and
then omoved to array the 81 Amer
lean republics in a great united
front for military and economic
defense.
Without waiting for disclosure Of
the terms which Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini will demand of
France as the price of peace, the
state department made known that
Secretary Hull had sent notes to
Berlin and Rome on Monday de-
claring the United States was op-
posed to transfer of any posses
sions in this hemisphere from n
non-American power to another.
Notes sent
The notes were sent to the Amer
lean embassies in Berlin and Rome
for communication to the German
and Italian governments soon after
word reached Washington that the
new French government had
sought to negotiate an armistlce
which might involve the future OF
French territorial possessions.
The views stated in the notes,
constituting a reaffirmation of the
Monroe Doctrine, were the same
as those set forth in a resolution
which has been approved by both
branches of Congress but is now
pending in the Senate again for
consideration of minor house
amendments.
Summer Welles, Assistant Secre-
tary of State, Disclosed that this
government had proposed that all
the American republics meet soon
n extraordinary session IN view
Of European war developments. Al
though he said the agenda had
not been formulated, he added.
that it probably would include a
proposal, now virtually ready for
President Roosevelt's study. for
disposal of export SURPRISES in this
hemisphere. This proposal was un-
derstood to embrace a plan for
marketing Latin-American exports
through a United States financed
CORPORATION, designed to bolster
hemisphere economy against the
challenge of he Nazi barter system.
Important Place
The timing Of the notes to Ger
MANY and Italy and the proposal
Of a Pan-American conference in
d;cated that defense of the hemi-
snhere also would have an i'm
nortant place in the discussions.
Thirteen nations already have
replied to the suggestion for a con-
ference and Welles indicated that
their answere were favorable. The
other seven ar expectd to rply
by tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the administrations
latest move to give material aid
lto the Allies met with opposition
on capitol hill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
Red Soldiers
To Nazi Line
Sent From Bessarabian
Frontier With Ru1nania
To German Border
ARE MOVED IN POLAND
German Motorized Col
umns Are Being Sent Toi''
Eastern Prussia

BUCHAREST, June 20 (Thurs-
day)-(R-Government circles re-
ceived reports today that a large
number of Russian troops are being
transferred from the B~essarabian
frontier with Rumania to the Ger
man-Russian border.
These circles said more Russian
troops were being concentrated on
the frontier in Russian-Poland op-
posite the frontier with German-pro-
tected Slovakia.
Germans Move Troops
German motorized columns are be-
ing sent to East Prussia, opposite
the Baltic states where Russia re-
Gently sent huge forces in a military
occupation, it was reported.
(Unconfirmed reports of German
troop movements in East Prussia al
so have been circulated in the Bal
tic stateB.)
Projected government changes to
accord with international situation
changes were said in diplomatic
quarters to be held in allegiance pend
ing the new Russian minister's ar
rival.
These quarters said government
circles then might obtain more def
mite indications of the actual status
of relations between Russia and
Germany.
Mihai Manoilescu, former finance
minister and a close friend of Corne-
liu Zelea Codreanu, slain iron guard
leader, was reported due to arrive
from Germany today with 200 self
eviled iron guard leaders.
The pro-Nazi iron guardists final
ly have been given permission to re-
turn. Many Of them fled the coun-
try last fall when King Carol was
purging the iron guard. Codreanu
was killed with several followers in
that purge.
Government circles said their re-
turn, together with the Kings in
terview yesterday with Horia Sima,
an iron guard leader, was the result
of a desire to ~'intensify national
unity"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20

pan is asking the axis powers
for a continuance of the status
quo in the 281, 900 square miles
of Indo-C China, or desires a
''blank check" from Germany
and Italy, to use as she will.
Japan is linked to the axis
powers by an anti-C Communist
pact.
When Japan asked Germany
about the Dutch East Indies,
Germany said she was "unin-
terested" in the problem, and
some people interpreted that
as an invitation to Japan to
take any action she desired.
At any rate, the Tohokai, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20

Within 20 Miles OfLv0n
Bordeaux Is Bombed
Four Times By Nazis

BORDEAUX, June 2O-tThurs.
day. VIA Radio - BOr-
deaux, provisional capital of be-
Ieaguered France, was bombed
four times a little after 1870 a.
m. r:30 p. M, +. s. L. We'd
nesday).
Newspaper correspondents
were forced to take refuge in a
cellar during the raids.
They heard the German planes
sweeping over the open city at
low attitudes, b m b the
streets and buildings jammed
with refugees.
The thunder of exploding
bombs came just as the towns
people, waiting for word OF an
armistice, had begun to hope
they had found refuge and were
safe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
i. s.. Moves To Unite II
Americas In Great Front
Many American Ships
Are In Mediterranean

NEW YORK, June 49,
(AP) A dozen American ships
were still in the Mediterranean
and Black Seas tonight, either
steaming for home or prepar-
ing to quit the waters closed
to U. S. shipping by Italy's en-
trance into the war nine days
ago.
Nine are American Export
Line vessels carrying some $50
passengers from the war zone.
The others are Lykes Brothers
freighters.
Five other American Export
Line ships in the U. S.-Medi-
terranean service were safe on
the high seas, bound for home.
Of these, three sailed from
Mediterranean ports before
Italy declared war and two,
eastbOund then, turned back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20

stood, was accompanied by
recollection of the friendly re-
lations between the three pow
erS.
A reliable source disclosed,
moreover, that Germany has
reiterated to Japan that she
will not ask for the return of
Japan's inundated islands,
stretching many miles east Of
the Philippines, above the
equator.
These islands, the Marshalls,
Carolines and Mariannes, were
inundated to Japan under the
treaty of Versailles.
1t is not known whether ia
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
JAPANESE FACTIONS URGE GOVERNMENT
TO OCCUPY RICH FRENCH INDO-CHINA

fiuential political party, urged
the government to occupy In
do-China: first, because it is a
major channel of munitions
supply for the Chinese central
government, Japan's Asiatic
enemy, and second because the
collapse Of the French govern
ment allegedly casts Ind0-Chi-
ma loose without control.
The majority faction of the
Seiyukai, another strong politi
cal group, likewise urged ia
pan to "settle" various i'm
pending problems in the south
Continued on Page TwO)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-20
VISITING FLIERS
TO H0LDPR0CRAM
Show At Airport Sunday
Added To List OF Week
End Festivities

Another attraction was added to
the festivities planned for the visit
of the Carolina Aero club this
weekend with the announcement
last night that the visiting pilots
will hold an air program at Blue
thenthal airport on Sunday after
noon beginning at 3 o'clock.
The Wilmington Aero club and
the Wilmington Junior Chamber OF
Commerce are sponsoring the visit
of the state organization and have
made all arrangements for the 9TH
er entertainments, but the program
Sunday afternoon will be under the
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