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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31

The Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd,
with headquarters in London, and
deposits OF some 200 million dollars,
has $50 town branches, 75l village
branches, and 5000 banks for school
children.
Los GatoS, California is Spanish
for the cats" So-namcd from the
wild cats in the vicinity when the
place was founded.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31

>'ugyjc Gates and
..,-GuG some time 4,
.e. d, Chimney Rock,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31
Mrs. IIuSketh Improving.

. &. ij">kcth. who under
.u.na'iun a week ago in
.....- hospital in Baltimore.
"sprovlng. according TO
RI .ru LIr. IIuSkcth, who IS
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31

reaction.
Slma said that 1T would be en-
tirely unreasonable for Britain to
make any sort of protest in connec-
ton with the arrest"
The British ambassador, Sir Rob-
OFT Leslie Craigie, intends to see
Foreign Minister Matsuoka soon and
is expected to enter a strong pro-
test It was stated authoritatlVeiy.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31

Shanghai has a section given over
to bird dealers. who are extremely
well patrOnized.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31

Cary Page Boyd is visiting his
cousin, Bobby Boyd, in Erwin this
week.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-07-31
Japan Will Reject
British Protest

Continued From Page Onel
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
REQUEST FOR FISH
IS FILLED BY u. S.
City To Receive Generous
Supply" For Re-Stock-
ing Greenfield Lake

Representative J. Bayard Clark
yesterday advised the chamber of
commerce here that a request for a
supply of minnoWs and small fish
for restocking Greenfield Lake is
being filled by the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries.
No definite amount was named,
although Congressman Clark said
it would be a generous supply"
The supply of fish will be sent
to James E. L. Wade, city commits.
sioner OF public works, who has
agreed to report the results Of the
planting of fish on the third year
after the shipmen is received.
A QUESTIONABLE in connection
with the shipment was mailed to
the chamber of commerce and was
filled out and returned yesterday.
The city has already met all the re
quirements of the bureau of fisher.
les in the Restocking of streams.
The bureau has made available q
large quantity of all species of fish
for distribution throughout the Unit.
ed States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
EARLIER THAN USUAL
Entertainment For Official
Opening Talked Al Meet
OF Trade Body

Carolina Beach will officially open
for the 1910 season on Saturday,
May 25, the resort chamber of COM
merce decided at a meeting in the
town hall last night.
Robert Plummer, president, pre-
sided over the session.
The decision to officially open the
beach earlier this year than has
been the custom in the past was
reached after members of the trade
body pointed out that all rooming
houses, hotels, amusement places
and concessions will open before the
first of June.
Last year a large influx of visitors
was experienced at the beach in
midway. One member reported
that several persons have already
started going in the surf.
Several different forms of enter
tainment for the official opening
were discussed, including vaudeville
acts, street dances, parades, and
other features. However, all action
was deferred until the return Of A.
L. Mansfield, chairman of the events
committee, who will submit plans
for the opening at the next meeting.
Several of the business establish
ments at the beach are already
open and all are expected to be open
for business by the middle of May.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
Carolina Beach Decides
To Open Season May Is
AL Working On Plan
To Boost u. S. Income

WASHINGTON, April 25-tR
William Green aroused the in
terest of the mon' poly commit
tee today with a disclosure that
the AFL is working OH a plan
to increase national income by
$4,000, 100000 a year and to
create jobs for most of the I'M
employed.
Reticent about exact details,
the Federation president said his
organization was "now giving
careful study to a proposal
which after further analysis and
consideration L hope l will be
in a position to place before the
country as a practical program
for unemployment and as a real
istic approach to our immediate
problem"
Senator King D-Utah), who
was presiding, said he hoped
Green would hurry in with de-
tails because this committee
will die before very long"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
Boost Orders
For American Planes

WASHINGTON, April Is up =
Great Britain and France have
sWelled their pending orders for
American war planes to we'll be-
You'd 1000, it was indicated today
by an announcement that the Allies
in the last two weeks have placed
aircraft and engine contracts aggre-
eating 5000, 600, 900.
The announcement came from of
ficials of the Allied purchasing mis-
sion who said large quantities of
speedy Curtiss and Bell pursuit
planes, Douglas bombers and en-
gines of three types We're included.
The latest purchases, it was esti-
mated by airmen in touch with the
negotiations, represent nearly 1000
planes and an ~undisclosed larger
number of Allison, Wright and Pratt
and Whitney motors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

Close Watch
Upon Sweden
Little Country Moves Into
Center OF Nazi Diplo-
matte Attention
ALLIED PRESSURE SEEN
Reich Claims British Bomb
ing Towns Of No Mill
tary Importance
BY LOUIS p,

BERLIN, April 25.-R-sweden
moved tonight into the center OF
German diplomatic attention.
Authoriz -. sources expressed Nazi
apprehension that the largest Scan
dinavian state, and the only one
still neutral, is under pressure from
Great Britain and France.
These persons said categorically
that Germang has no designs on
Sweden. Nevertheless:
Must Be Prepared
I'VE must be prepared for all even
Qualities, Of course" they added.
Thus Sweden was put into Ger
man diplomatic perspective while
the official news agency and the
high command were %stressing what
they said was the British bombing
of open, undefended towns of no
military Importance" and implying
that this sort of thing will be re-
paid, bomb for bomb" should it
continue.
The open towns which the Ger
mans say were bombed are a viii
lage in Schleswig-Holstein and a
sea resort on the island Of Sylt.
CLondon denied the c~harges).
Otherwise, German official
sources drew a northern military
picture which showed German rein.
forcements racing north toward
Tropdheim on two railroads while
German troops sealed Steinkjer,
further north, by occupying impor-
tnta roads and passes; strong AL.
lied detachments, pressing the Ger.
mans mort hof Narvik 7hile British
warships toss shells into that Arctic
port; German planes bombing AL
lied transport columns and scatter
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

for enforcing the neutrality of
the United States.
The temporary White House
made only a bare announcement
that the documents had been
signed, leaving it up to the
State department to make public
the texts.
Earlier this month, the chief
executive had extended the "Com-
bat ZCne," which American YES
sells are forbidden to enter, to
include all waters adjacent to
Norway. He also took action to
insure that Norwegian capital,
credits and property in this
country would not fall into Ger
man hands.
At the same time that the
President was attaching his
signature to the proclamations
and executive order, mimic war
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
WORK ON LIBRARY
FLOORS PLANNED
Application OF Coating Is
Scheduled To Be Start
ed Next Week


The Wilmington Public library,
stl.l on the third floor of the Wool
YIN building on Princess street, will
PROBABLY move into the library room
On tile second floor of the city hall
When refinishing work on the floors
IS completed, J. E. L. Wade, city
commissioner of public works, said
Yesterday.
The work was approved at the
meeting Of tie city board Wednes-
Jay and is scheduled to start early
next week and is expected to take
several days for completion. 1t con.
''Ontlnued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
NORWAY PLACED ON LIST OF EUROPEAN
BELLIGERENTS BY F. r. PROCLAMATION

fare was in progress almost in
his own back yard.
Through woods and along
highways adjacent to the little
white house, crept a detachment
of mechanical cavalry - two
scout cars and fifteen motor
cycles with side cars, all fully
manned - which was sneaking
up on detectives in maneuvers
Of the third army area.
The maneuvers c entered
around Fort Benning, Ga, forty
miles away. The ATTACKERS"
who stepped at a filling station
not far from the Presidents
cottage, apparently to await ire
Inducements" seemed to be at
tempting to take a vital rail-
way Junction at Manchester,
Ga, five miles southeast of
Warm Springs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
CUNMAN IS SLAIN
AFTER u WOUNDED.
Dies In Blaze OF Gunfire
In Burlington, Ia, After
Resisting Police

BURLINGTON, Ia, April 25.-
GP-An apparently deranged gun
man died here today in a blaze of
gunfire in a busy downtown street,
precipitated by the mans resistance
to arrest.
A dozen persons were wounded,
four of them seriously.
Sheriff Harry Hunt said the gun
mar was Henry Reeb, SO, who is
believed to have killed himself after
officers tried for two hours to drive
him out of a building with tear
gas and gunfire.
Reeb, unmarried and unemploy-
ed, started the shooting the sheriff
said, when he resisted officers who
attempted to serve an insanity war
rant on him in a second story
apartment.
Sheriff Hunt said he believed
Reeb ended his life after a bullet
Continued on Page l6; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

alone to augment their own war
materials with purchases in this
country.
The proclamations signed
here today took no note of Ger
many's invasion of Denmark,
and the White House had no.
thing to say about the chances
that similar documents pertain.
ing to Denmark would be be is.
sued.
A third proclamation, follow
ing the precedents invoked last
fall when the European conflict
began, barred Norwegian sub
marines from American ports
and territorial waters.
Backing up his proclamations,
the chief executive prescribed i'll
an executive order regulations
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
". 0. SAUNDERS. Sc,
BROWNS in CANAL
Former Colorful Elizabeth
City Editor Loses His
Life Near Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, April 25.-R-
w. o. Saunders, Sc, former Eliza
beth City IN. c. editor, who once
c~ampaigned for more comfortable
summer dress for men by p~arading
along Elizabeth City's main street in
pajamas, died this afternoon in the
plunge of his automobile into a ca.
nal south of Norfolk. -
The pajama parade of the color
full individualist, author and editor
occurred on July %, 1929, when he
appeared on the street clad in a
pale blue slumber suit, straw hat
and sandals. He was arrested and
Immediately freed by the mayor
who thereupon proclaimed that
people of Elizabeth City could dress
as they pleased so long as they ad.
hered to decency.
DR.. L. c. Ferebee, Norfolk coun.
ty coroner, said after an ~investiga'
ton that Saunders probably suf'
fered a heart attack or some other
type of stroke before his ear drop
ped into the Is feet of water. He
said drowning was the direct cause
of death, however.
A negro truck driver said Saun'
ders' car, moving north toward Nor
folk, ran about 100 feet along the
shoulder of the highway before it
dived into the canal about 25 feet
to the left of the road. The body was
recovered two hours later.
Saunders was travelling alone.
The body was taken to Elizabeth
City tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
TROOPS DIGGING IN
Retreat Believed Made Be
cause Of Need For
Hasty Fortification
BRITISH ARE ACTIVE
Heavy Artillery And Air
danes Participate In Bit
ter Fighting At Tolga

STOCKHOLM, April 26.-(F'rlday)
-q-The Germans have abandoned
poros which they seized for a few
I,nrs in a dazzling exhibition OF
ifc5rning war yesterday, and are
[oqfrg in at Tolga, Is miles to the
r,,,-t in the Osterdalen valley,
Swedish newspaper correspondents
reported early today.
The German retreat was ascrlbed
IN the need for hasty fo~rtificatlon'
rStch the terrain at Roros does not
favor,
British Advance
Another cause also appeared to be
British advance south in the
GulbrandsdaIen valley to the west
threatening to outflank the Ger
mans extended positions.
The correspondent of the Swedish
newspaper Daeens Nyheter reported
lat the British have broken through
Il Storen, and are now in posltlon
here TO block any German advance
from Roros, or up the Gudbrandsda'
en- valley to reinforce German-held
Trondheim on the west coast.
These British troops, after land
me at Andalsnes, south of Trond-
helm, took a northern route to
Storen, where they repulsed a Ger
nan force from Trondheim, and per
haps prevented their striking a more
:e.ling blow at a British force from
NamsCs to the north of Trondhelm.
The British then turned and unit
I'd with some OF the NorWegians re
heating through Roros in the Oster
Continued on Page Two; Col. AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
NATIONAL DEFENSE
PLANS ARE PUSHED
Steps Are Taken To Seal
Vital Harbors Against
Marauding Subs

WASHINGTON, April 25.-CR)-
The national defense program o
ed forward today with plans to
seal the nations vital harbors
against marauding submarines In
time of war and to increase n
shooting range of three battleshlps.
The navy disclosed it had asked
for bids on parts for huge nets to
he stretched across harbor mouths
the moment war is threatened. The
nets. suspended by floats and held
in position by chain and anchors,
would foul the propellers, rudders
~ore1evating fins of submarines that
sttemnted to steal into the harbors.
The cost of the nets was esti-
mated at $22, 100000, of which ST.
mn ooo already has been made
available. The nets will be fabri-
Gated at the Mare Island, Calf,
navv var The navy has measured
al principal harbors on the two
coasts Of the continental United
(coptinued on Page Five; Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
ALLIES WITHDRAW
Detachments Forced From
Hard Won Positions In
Lillehammer Area
MORE MONEY ASKED
Manpower In Britain Is In
creased With Arrival OF
Canadian Troops

LONDON, April 25.-LR-Allied
attachments withdrew today from
hard-won positions in the Lilleham-
mer area of Eastern Norway under
the weight of the German north
ward thrust from Oslo while in
Britain the opposition in the house
of commons clamored for more
money, more planes more guns.
1t was the second British retreat
in two days.
A war office communique report
ed quiet in the far north on the
Narvik front, where British and
Norwegians have been advancing
slowly toward the snow-drifted ore
shipping port held by the Germans,
and an ominous post-pattle calm
at Steinkjer, so miles north OF
Trondheim, where the Nazis are
digging in" north of the ruined
town, after blasting the British out
Battle For Railroad
The full force Of the German on
slaught fell on Allied troops in the
Lillehammer area where the riva
armies contended for command oil
the railway running southeast from
Dombas into the Gudbrandsdalen, q
10O-mile-long valley which forms g
gateway to Oslo.
Lillehammer itself is 80 miles
north of Oslo. Stockholm reports
said the Germans had reached Rim
gebu, 80 miles beyond Lilleham'
her and SO miles airline southeas'
of Dombas, where Allied troops
have been air-raided.
Manpower in Britain was aug
mented by the arrival of an undis'
| closed number of fresh Canadians
and the first contingent of New
foundlanders-the latter in Mufti
Some 20 1000 Canadians already are
in Britain.
Also at home, spurreG by Brit
ish alarm over fifth column &C
tivities in neutral states, the gov
eminent grappled with the problem
of an theological spring cleaning
of communist elements and listened
to commons charges of "muddling'
in prosecuting the war.
Considering Measure
Sir John Anderson, minister TO-
Home Security, told the lower hous
he was conside ing stringent meas
ures against ~subversive elements
including the communist party an
semi-fascist organs, and would in
tern even M. P.'s if desirable"
Continued on Page Five; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
By DOUGLAS b. N

By DOUGLAS b.. CORNELL
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, April
25-R-A Presidential prOclama-
ton added Norway today to the
list of European belligerents and
another declared the intention
of the United States to remain
neutral in the Scandinavian ma
tion's war with Germany.
Automatically, President
Roosevelt's action put Norway
on a "cash and carry basis SO
far as obtaining war supplies in
the United States was concern
ed. She must pay cash for any
such supplies and carry them
away in non-American vessels.
Germany, France and England
already are on a cash and carry
basis, although tn Allies SUPER
ior sea power permits them
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
Truck Load Of Berries
Sold On RosehiH Mart

ROSEHILL, April 25.-The first
solid truck load of strawberries was
sold on the Rosehill market today.
Prices ranged from IS to Sc with
some fancy berries bringing $3.50.
The fruit is reported to be of ex-
cellent quality.
Several out-of-town buyers are
scheduled to arrive Saturday and the
market will be opened officially on
Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
Cost OF Three
New Projects
Important Undertakings In
cluded In Large Rivers
And Harbors Bill
THREAT LOOMS
Widening And Deepening
OF The Channel At And
Below City Is Planned

Cape Fear river improvements
we're given a D%olstering 'go ahead
signal Yesterday as the senate vot.
ed approval of the $50, 900 900 rlv.
ers and harbors bill, which includes
three Wilmington projects totaling
$1,43S,0O
Approval of the measure was by
a 40-to-29 vote.
Backers of the bill here were
notified of its passage by Senator
Josiah W. Bailey, who has pushed
enactment of a rivers and harbors
measure for the past several weeks
Veto Threat Looms
The house is expected to approve
the senate-passed bill without any
amendments. However, the hitch
lies in the fact that President
Roosevelt may veto the measure.
Earlier in the present COMPRESSION
al session, the President told Sem
ator Bailey and the senate COM
merce committee that he would veto
any large rivers and harbors bill.
The measure, passed yesterday
was drawn up by Senators Bailey
and Shepard (D-Texas) as a substi-
tute bill and excludes all power
and flood control projects, which
were contained in the original bill.
In all, there were 16 North Caro-
lima projects in the omnibus bill.
The Cape Fear river projects in
cIude:
% Cape Fear river at and be-
low Wilmington, channel widening,
$675 900, with $4,000 annual main
tenance cost.
(2) Cape Fear river at and below
Wilmington, channel deepening,
$3.50 900, with $3.50 annual main.
tenance cost.
(3) Northeast Cape Fear river,
$73, 900 for deepening and widening
channel, with $4,000 annual main
tenance cost.
Under the projects the Cape Fear
channel is to be widened from 300
to 400 feet with numerous bends
in the river removed, and deepen
ing the channel from 80 to 80 feet.
The turning basin in the harbor is
also to be widened from 600 to 500
feet.
Also contained in the local prof.
ects is a provision for providing
a short cut channel of IL feet
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
FIGURE

ELIZABETH CITY, N. c., April
25.- up w. o. Saunders, who
drowned today near Norfolk, Va,
was associated with the Elizabeth
City Independent for nearly 80
years, and his name was a house
hold word in Eastern North Caro-
lima.
The Independent, a weekly news
paper known widely for its humor
and frank presentation of news, had
much more than a local circulation.
Saunders, as editor, for many years
was a storm center of the communi-
ty, and was involved in many libel
suits.
The author, editor and journalist
was born in humble circumstances
in Perquimans county on May "a,
1884. His family moved to HEREFORD,
the county seat, when Saunders was
a child. At II he obtained his first
job on the Tar Heel, a weekly news
Continued on Page Five. Col. 4)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
CIUNTA PREDICTS
WAR WILL SPREAD
Fascist Sees Conflict OF
Peoples Against World
OF Hoarders'

ROME, April 25.-CP-A fascist
leaders, conviction that the war will
spread until it is a conflict of "peo-
pies against the world of hoarders'
was given today to Italy's chamber
of fasces and guilds, along with his
classification of Great Britain and
France as powers unfriendly to
Italy.
Benito Mussolini listened to the
speech, by Francesca Giunta, old
line fascist and former vice-presi-
dent 0 fthe defunct chamber of depu-
ties, which the chamber Of fasces
and guilds replaced.
It will be a war of have not" ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
EVANS TO SPEAK

WINSTON-SALEM April 25- H9
Walter M. Evans, attorney for
the Retail Merchants association of
Virginia, will speak on the Con
sumers' Cooperative Movement
Monday at the annual Convention of
the North Carolina Association of
Insurance Agents.
Officers of the North Carolina Re
tail Merchants association will be
the guests Of the insurance agents
hear the speech. The convention
will open here Sunday afternoon
and last through Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
SHOCKED

ROCHESTER, N. Y, April %
LR-George Hammer 45, utility line
man, was shocked so severely when
he touched an open II, 000-volt
switch that the gold rims of his
glasses partially melted and brand
ed circles about lis eyes. His con-
dition is critical.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
TWENTY KILLED

LONDON, April 25.-P-The adj
miralty disclosed today that 20 men
were killed or died of wounds and
20 o were wounded while on du-
ty with the ~battleship Rodney and
the destroyers Hotspur and Eclipse
in recent actions off Norway,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
ADVERTISING LAW
EFFECTIVE SOON
Regulates Legal Advertise
ing, Defines Newspapers
Which May Accept 1t

RALEIGH, April rs R-Thad
Eure, secretary of state, today
urged publishers of North Carolina
newspapers to comply with a new
law regulating legal advertising and
defining newspapers which may
accept such advertising. The law,
passed by the 1889 general assem-
bly,, will become effective May /.
Under the measure, legal adver-
Using may be accepted only by
newspapers with general circula-
ton to actual paid subscribers"
which have been published Eat
least one day in each calendar week
for at least 25 of the &c consecutive
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
SIGNS BILL

WASHINGTON, April 25.-CP-
President Roosevelt signed today a
bill providing for automatic reap
portionment of the 435 seats in the
house on the basis of the 1910 cen
sus. The reapportionment will be
effective in 1912,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26
WEATHER

FORECAST
Nofth Carolina: Cloudy and
GAaC unsettled with scattered showers
MI extreme east portion, warmer in
a arII portion Friday; Saturday consid-
in n'ple cloudiness, showers and cooler
NAM IN fountains, slightly warmer in east
nLteleorological data for the "a hours
""s ''@o p. m. yesterday.
10, Temperature
m 'S9 a. m. so; 7:30 a. M. 81; 1:3O p.
r.; oU' 7:30 p. m. IS; maximum 81;
4-llum 46; mean 81; normal 65.
10, Humidity
.2) a. m. 81; 7:30 a. m. IS; 1870 p.
~ I:30 p. IN. Is.
T. Precipitation
no ro.aI for q hours ending 7:30 p. M,
231 t9tal Since first of the month,
Tides For Today
Wilmington o:5ia SOFA
Nasonh,.. Hip :23p
'0"ooro Inlet --- 10:13a 4:1Oa
,fr% So4Tise 5:2Sa; sunset 6:52p; noon p
49, '"Zp; moonset 9:19a.
1895 feet. Tag "' haSe''e''iie
~ol.'lhued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-26

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-12

today had preliminary military operations
almost completed launch
dispatches from Rome indicated the Italians