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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
TWO LINERS BEGIN
MYSTERY VOYAGES
Britain's Queen Mary Fol.
lows Mauritania Out Of
New York Harbor

NEW YORK, March 81.
Two darkened ocean greyhounds
representing a $45,000,o 900 invest
ment and carrying 1000 jaunty
British tars raced through tranquil
waters tonight on mysterious voy-
ages expected to place them In
troopship service between Australia
and the Near East.
The s25, 900, 900, S~1,2S5-ton Queen
Mary, pride Of the British mer'
chant marine until the recent ad'
vent O fthe somnolent Queen Eliza
beth, hoisted anchors early today
to follow the IS, 739-ton, 10000, 00o
Mauritania in the trooper service
Reports from Long Branch, N. j..
said the Queen Mary passed there
heading south at % knots, %ghostlike
in her coat of a new hue of gray
The armed Mauritania, contain.
ing a power plant sufficient to sup
ply electricity for a city Of 10000
was also believed to be heading
south. Customs officials said she
cleared for Bermuda but pointed
out that she was at liberty to
change her destination at sea.
Each vessel has been placed on
Germanys shoot-on-sight list as an
armed raider. No arms were vist-
BILE on the Queen Mary as she
slipped down the harbor in full view
of morning ferry-boat commuters
from New jersey.
While British officials in New
York maintained a stony silence, the
most persistent report was that the
liners would go to Australia to carry
soldiers to the Near East.
The Queen Mary was an impress
sive sight as she nosed slowly into
the sun.lit Hudson from her 50th
street pier, leaving the Queen Eliza
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Short OF Satisfying Cross
Section OF Nations Po-
litical Opinion
y MINISTERS NAMED
Ex-Premier Daladier Will
Remain AS Minister Oh
National Defense
BY JOHN LLOYD

PARIS, March 21- Up The
quickly-created Paul Reynaud push
the war; cabinet of France headed
Immediately into trouble tonight,
with some doubtful head~shaking in
French parliamentary quarters as to
its chances of survival.
Acting rapidly to suit the demand
that France be spared a lengthy
period without a government, Rey-
maud, finance minister in Edouard
Daladier's regime, put al end to the
original cabinet crisis in a single
day but fell short of satisfying the
whole cross-section of French poll.
teal opinion.
Not Complete Union
It was neither a small, compact
government Reynaud produced nor
a complete. national union govern
ment to take in all parties from
right to left.
The new cabinet has % ministers
three more than the Daladier gov.
eminent which resigned yesterday,
and two powerful rightist groups are
not cooperating.
Much of the parliamentary furore
that brought On the fall OF the Dalai
der government vas for a small,
wieldly cabinet.
A possible sop to this demand
was Reynaud's creation within the
cabinet of a war committee" lade
up of himself, Camille Chautemps,
who retains the vice-premiership he
held in the previous cabinet; ex-
Premie" Edouard Daladier, who re.
mains as minister of national de-.
tense; George Mandel, new minister
of colonies; Lucien Lamoureux, new
minister of finance; and Raoul
Dautry, ornaments minister. Dau.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
|MORGENTHAU PLEASED
Revenue Received During
First 20 Days Shows
31.2Per Cent Increase

WASHINGTON. March 21-R-
Secretary Morgenthau, jubilantly re.
porting that income tax receipts
were running Comfortably ahead"
Of estimates, disclosed today that
collections in the first 20 days of
March totaled 1921, 900, DOC.
This was an increase of 31.2 per
cent over the $473, 900, 900 collected
in the similar period of last year.
The treasury secretary said fatty,
however, that there was mot a
chance" that the years excess over
estimates would equal the $3.50, 000,.
900 the President Roosevelt has said
should be raised from new taxes if
there is to be no increase in the
$45, 000, 900, 900 debt limit.
Will Restrict Bonds
To postpone the day when the
debt limit will be reached, Morgen-
thau announced that, beginning
April 1, sale of United States say.
ings (baby) bonds would be restrict
ed to individuals.
Heretofore, he estimated, corpora.
tons, banks, partnerships and other
group purchasers have been buying
rs to 80 per cent of the baby bonds
Bonds totalling $3,805, $751; 200 ir
maturity value have been sold.
Limiting the sale of the bonds will
tend to postpone arrival at the debt
limit because the bonds, unlike other
federal securities, bear no interest,
but increase in face amount over a
period Of ten years. Thus, when
the treasury borrows $75 by selling
a baby bond, it uses up $500 of its
borrowing power, because that it
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
HARRINGTON SPEAKS
Governor Hoey And Others
Take Part In Civic Mill
tary Ceremonies
BY JACK SHARPE

LUMBERTON, March Plum
berton's massive new 100000 ar
mory-auditorium was dedicated today
in an elaborate program that Tea
tured addresses by Col. F. c. Har-
rington, national WPA administra'
tor, and'Governor Clyde r. Hoey and
a parade that drew a crowd of from
5000 to 10000 spectators.
A civic and military theme key
noted the ceremony, both speakers
pointing to the possibilities of the
building in peace and in War-'lf 1t
comes" Military bands and national
guard units marched in the parade
with floats entered by clubs and civic
organizations o. Robson county,
Lumberton and other towns.
Great Event
One of the biggest events in the
history Of Lumberton, the celebra-
ton marked completion of the larg-
est armory built with WPA aid IN
the south. More than 1000 persons
filled the main auditorium for the
speaking program, and the crowd
packing the streets for the parade
was estimated by Mayor E. M. john
son at 5000 to 10000.
Distinguished guests were enter
tanned at a 100-plate dinner after
the armory ceremony, and an after
noon air show and a dance IN the
armory tonight rounded out the pro-
gram.
The building was pointed out by
Col. Harrington as evidence of tan
eible wealth created by work. n
he grouped it with other armorles'
hospitals and school buildings as "the
hest possible answer to that segment
of our ~citizenry who even today per
sists in informing us that VIA
workers do nothing but lean on their
shovels."
ut is becoming increasingly hard
for anyone to say that WPA workers
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
REBUKES CROMWELL FOR RECENT
STRONG ANTI-GERMAN, PRO-ALLY TALK

that if he did, stronger measures
would be taken.
Cromwell, husband of the
former Doris Duke, tobacco
heiress, was at his New Jersey
home, but Hull sent his telegram
to the American legation at o.
tawa, the minister's official resi-.
dence.
A tempest of congressional
criticism and demands for the
"unneutral" minister's recall had
followed the speech, which was
an emphatic condemnation of
the nazis and an expression of
desire for Allied victory as a
boon to the world. Senator Walsh
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
|Nazis Damage
Ships
During Raids
Furious Air Assault And
Sporadic Sub Attacks
Also Take 80 Lives
NEUTRAL VESSELS HIT
Denies German
Claims OF Having De-
stroyed Nine Warships
BY DREW

LONDON, March 21.-R-A Flu.
rious German air assault and spor'
adic submarine attacks hit II Brit
ish and neutral ships anf tex at
least 80 lives in the last two days,
late British reports showed tonight.
The 1,654-ton Danish motorship
Algier was t%orpedoed in the Atlantic
and sank in three minutes, 20 sur.
vivors who reached shore after 10
hours in a lifeboat said. Four crew
members and a woman passenger
were lost.
Mystery
The extent of damage in a Ger
man air raid on a British convoy
last night remained a mystery.
The admiralty said German
claims of having sunk nine war
ships and merchantmen were cir
excxess"; that three ships first re
ported bombed "now are safe; and
that two others were damaged but
reached port.
The latter five vessels were LISTED
respectively as: the Norwegian
svinta, 1857, tons and fora Elise
721 tons, the Swedish Ethiopian
1859 tons, the Norwegian Erlins
Lindoe, 1881 tons, and the British
Northern Coast, 1,211 tons.
Other casualties in the two-da.
campaign:
Bothal (Danish) 2,1o9 tons; Il
crew members lost;
Viking (Danish) 1,153 tons; II
crew members lost;
Barn Hill (British), five lost;
Albionic (British) 2,46S tons
burned after being hit by an incen
diary bomb;
Minsk (Danish) 1929 tons: SUM
by torpedo and shellfire.
A German bomber flew over the
Shetland Islands today but wa:
driven away by British pursuit
planes.
Five Killed
Five crew men were killed ant
six injured when another British
vessel, her name undisclosed, was
bombed Wednesday off the south
east coast.
The lone German raider vanished
from above the Shetlands wher
British rose to give chase. NJ
bombs were dropped.
Despite the toll of shipping, Bri
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

WASHINGTON, March II -
up - James H. R. Cromwell,
fledgling U. S. minister to Can
ada and husband of the worlds
richest girl" was publicly re-
buked by Secretary of State Hull
tonight for a strong anti German
pro-Ally speech.
Hull dispatched a telegram to
Cromwell saying that the speech
he made at Toronto Tuesday
violated standing instructions"
and was likely to "disturb the
relations between this and other
governments" The secretary
asked" the minister not to do it
again, and there were indications
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Fire Fighting
Equipment Is Advocated

The urgent need for additional
equipment for use in fighting fires
in Wilmington was emphasized last
night by Fire Chief J.. Ludie Groom,
following a recommendation by the
grand jury yesterday that such
equipment be purchased.
eff one of the more than $50
large oil trucks passing through
the city streets every day should
spring a Leak" Chief Groom said,
entirely helpless.
"There would be practically moth
ing we could do toward preventing
the fire from growing into a major
conflagration," the chief said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
National Guard Armory
Dedicated In LumbertOn
Flyer Is Drowned When
Plane Falls Into Lake

CHICAGO, March 21.-@-
An airplane burdened by ice
and beset by a snow storm
sank in Lake Michigan today
drowning one flyer but bringing
prompt rescue to his two com.
panions.
Orville Rose, 40, persisted in
the cold water before he could
be hauled aboard a tug. The
others, William Conrad, 81, and
Merle Hogan, 81, were brought
to shore and rushed to a hos
pitaI for treatment for shock
and exposure.
The men, all ~aviatOrs and all
residents of Detroit, left Detroit
at $50 a. m. today. They
stopped in South Bend, Ind,
and then took off for Chicago.
They were within four miles
or four minutes normal flying
time-of the Municipal airport
when Pilot Conrad brought the
mOnoplane down on the lake.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Senate 0kehs
Several Fund
Economy Advocates Are In
TuNRetreat AS Measure
Nears Passage
uALoAN%
R,d, Recesses Until Today
When Row Over Sugar
PAYMENTS Develops

r,sH1NGToN, March 21.-R-
WIN economy advocates in full
.,,sst the senate today advanced
~, hTlion.dollar farm bill almost
!, tho noint of passage, but then
s.sms snarled in a dispute over
.a, nayments and recessed until
marrow,
nr chamber approved, one after
,,+tg. increases its approprla-
sm, Ommittee had made in the
sms hill. To the unusual accom-
,rnent of a unanimous roll call
rp il endorsed s85, 600 for
M removal of farm SURPRISES
though distribution to the needy
and through export subsidies.
REA Loans Passed
Il also voted to direct the RFC
10 make $40, OCO. 900 of loans to the
rural Identification administration,
md approved a provision for $780,
100000 in loans to help farm ten
ants acquire farms of their own.
These loans are in addition to
he 1922 OO, 900 of appropriations
mtained in the bill. The latter
figure includes 1912, 900 900 to make
rarity payments-a purpose for
rnh the house had voted nothing.
The parity payments were ap-
lnyei yesterday. The Increases
ispte some decreases-boost the
mates farm appropriation more
tn $1,000 0 900 above that of the
ARe measure.
Toward the close of the day, Sen
iH Ellender (D-La) sought to
Place in the bill an amendment pro-
tdng that Louisiana sugar grow
s who increased their acreage
while quotas were suspended last
Hf should not be deprived of
'Nelt payments. A recess halted
! resultant dispute.
The $4,000, 600 loan item for ex-
ending rural electric lines caused
ID acFid exchange between Senator
lst (R'Ohio) and Senator Norris
uaGNeb), with numerous demo-
mats aiding Norris.
AS Tar as l know not a single
MA cooperative is meeting it's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
new BLOW DEALT !
TO LABOR BOARD
House Committee Proposes
Large Cut In Agency's
Appropriation

WASHINGTON, March 21.-tH-
The Labor Relations board, al.
ready under fire in congress lie.
cause of it's administrative policies,
was dealt another blow today when
the house appropriations committee
proposed a $4,000 cut in the 49,.
100000 appropriation recommended
for it by president Roosevelt.
The committee declared the board
to be "overstaffed," recommended
abolition of its economic research
division headed by David Saposs
and indirectly accused it of poor
personnel management by suggest.
ing reductions in salaries for lem.
ployes promoted too rapidly"
Alleged radical views on the part
Of Saposs have figured in the cur.
rent investigation of the board by a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

The department has only
one foam generator and about 500
pounds of powder. This would last
about ten minutes" Groom said.
The chief brought out that in
order to protect lives and property
in Wilmington, the fire department
needs at least six additional foam
generators, a truck to carry them,
and about five tons of powder.
He said all the necessary equip
ment could be purchased for less
than $500.
wilmington is the second larg-
est gasoline terminal in the United
States," he said, "but we are prob
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
CHANGE IN ROAD
SIGNS REQUESTED
Distinction OF North And
South On Highway II
Markers Is Asked

B. Whiteside, district engineer of
the state highway and public works
commission at Clinton, who handles
all road sign work in this section,
was requested yesterday by the
chamber Of commerce to make a
distinction of North" and "South"
on U. S. highway II markers with
in the city as a benefit to tourists
using the highway in north-south
travel.
The request was made upon the
receipt of a letter here by Police
Chief Joseph c. Rourk from w. H.
LEM, of St. townsville, N. T., who
stated that due to a confusion IN
the signs he Travelled to Jackson
vile, N. c., while intending to go
south, thereby causing him to trav-
ell 100 miles out Of the way.
LEM stated in his letter that q
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Tie European
War Situation
(By The Associated Press

(By The Associated Press)
PARIS. - Premier Paul Rey-
naud's new cabinet faces trou-
BILE.
LONDON. - Admiralty &C.
knowledges II British and neu.
trail ships attacked in two days
with 80 lives lost; Chamberlain
to revamp cabinet during par
liamentary Easter recess.
HORNUM, Island of Sylt.-
American correspondents view
British bomb damage; Germans
claim ayr raids ineffective,
NEW YORK. - Liner Queen
Mary follows Mauritania to sea,
probably to be British troop
ship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

D-Mass) added his voice to the
protests today, saying his views
were expressed by a Philips
Academy, Andover, Mass, pro-
fessOr, who wrote:
Some pressure must be
brought to bear to recall the
minister, or Washington author
tiles must disavow his remarks"
The letter was presented to the
senate foreign relations commit.
tee in the form of a petition by
Walsh along with a protest from
the Harvard university chapter
of the American Independence
league
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Re YNAuDS NEW FRENCH CABINET FACES TROUBLE
Wilmingtonians Request
Bailey To Seek Passage
OF RiVerS-HarbOrS Bill

Senator Josiah W. Bailey,
chairman Of the senate COM
merce committee, was requested
yesterday in a telegram by Will
mington firms and organiza.
tions interested in the develop
ment of the port here to do all
in his power to bring about
passage of a rivers and har.
bors bill at this session of con.
gress.
In the telegram they pointed
out the senator at the last
session of congress promised to
have a bill ready for passage
this past January and none has
been passed yet.
"The people here are looking
to you for relief" the telegram
to the senator said.
The text of the telegram:
1T now seems definite that
with the present progress the
river and harbOr improvements
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
Tax Collections
Amount To$621,0 600, 600
Income Tax Payments
Cut Into Idle Money

WASHINGTON, March 81 -
up - Annual income tax pay.
ments cut deeply into the idle
money of banks last week.
The Federal Reserve board
said That in the week ended
March 2O-while bank %depositors
were withdrawing cash to pay
their obligations to the federal
treasury-the amount of lendable
excess reserves of banks declined
$50. 000, 900 to a total of $780,
900, 900.
The decline temporarily check
ed a rising trend in excess re-
serves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

Hun's telegram to the young
diplomat, who has been at his
post only two months, said:
Public discussion of contro-
versial polices of other govern
ments, particularly with govern
ments engaged in war, without
the prior knowledge and per-
mission of this government, is
not in accord with such (stand-
ing) instructions"
Hull sent his telegram after
receiving this afternoon an Of
ficial text of Cromwell's address
and examining it.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
MORRISON TRIAL
SCHEDULED SOON
Henderson Says He Will
Not Accept Guilty Plea
In Staying Case

Juvenile Judge T. A. Henderson
Yesterday set for trial early next
week Zelda Deloris Morrison lnuioe.
ed by the New Hanover couhey
Grand Jury for the murder Oh hei
ea+her William H. Morrison,
wealthy Canadian, on the night OF
January 81 at their home no '"'
Carolina Beach road.
Judge Henderson declined TO nal nam,
tho axact day on which the trial Will
he opened, saying there are
.neles to be investigated before
hand. tho
zelda is to be represented at the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

for the Port of Wilmington, ap.
proved by the board Of engi-
neers and passed by the lower
house of congress, are tempo
rarily doomed.
"The people of this entire
section were expecting the
turning basin and the Cape
Fear river to be widened and
deepened this year. Our as
sumption that this would be
done was in accord with infor-
nation received from you dur
ing the last congress. 1t was
our understanding from you at
that time that the bill might be
expected to pass last January
and that we might reasonably
expect the work to be done from
appropriations made during the
last congress.
From our investigation it
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
PRESIDENT SILENT
WFARLEY'S RACE
likes Says No Candidate In
Running Can Control
Enough Votes

rrIr.
mr. ",AsHlNGTON, March 21.-R-
,s a4e Inc White House maintained
1,sas on Postmaster Genera!
h, S a tarley's active candidacy
W.T. presidency, Secretary Ickes.
MA "Atae-llne third term advocate,
IN quay that no candidate now
hs running could control enough
,omts 1910 capture the democratic
sss mentioned Farley, Vice-Pres.
hs aalhef and Paul V. McNutt,
NN'l security administrator.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
CORRESPONDENTS
VIEW RAID SCENE
Only Two Of Buildings Seen
At Sylt Show Signs OF
Extensive Damage
BY ALVIN j. STEINKOPF

HORNUM, Island of Sylt, March
21.- Up Three American news
papermen ferried to this German
air base by Field Marshal Hermann
Goering's own plane and by special
train from the mainland across the
Hindenburg dam, tonight viewed
the results Of a 6-hour British bomb
ing raid.
Only two of the buildings which
we saw showed signs of extensive
damage. We did not see evidence of
direct hits on hangers, nor were
we able to discover, on our inspec-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
WEATHER

N,b FORECAST
a sboosrollna; Mostly cloudy, scat
eeton SDG Psts1s, slightly colder west
FAs. '''aS; Saturday, fair and
ftag S::ss0I0glcal data for the "a hours
l.. p; m. Yesterday.
l@ temperature
! %; 7:so %; $50 a m. so; 1:3O p.
Faiaun, 40 40 p. m. 40; maximum s.;
10 mean 50: normal IS.
$50 Humidity
4 IS; 7.am0' %; 7;30 a. m. 81: 1:30 D.
Total fl, Precipitation
fsse; tots, q hours ending 7:3O D.. NJ,
II Inches since first of the month,
F'pnstsp '''1 High Low
'"aboro Inlot 9:00p gasp
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Evening star., 1940-08-07
Wire-Tapping Bill
Considered by Senate

Legislation to legalize. wire-tap-
ping by the Department of Justice
in investigating sabotage, espionage,
treason and seditious conspiracy was
before the Senate today after ap-
proval by the House yesterday.
The legislation would require spe-
cific authorization by the Attorney
General before wires could be
tapped. and any evidence obtained
other than that sought under the
proposed law would be barred from
the courts.
Assailed by Representative Scha-
fer, Republican. of Wisconsin as a
Legislative Stain monstrosity,"
which would permit F. B. I. agents
to "enter every home with a tele-
phone" the bill had the approval
of Attorney General Jackson, who
told the House Judiciary Commit
tee that its objective was clearly
commendable"
The department employed wire
tapping in limited field until re-
cent months, when decisions by the
Supreme Court held that it was
barred under the Federal Communi-
cations Act.