davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-30

Reports from rural sections OF the
east indicate that the present drought
is SO prolonged that it has affected
the quail.
Farmers and others who have Wis
tied sections CT HaYnctt, Columbu:
and other n2ighboring ountieS, re-
Jnrt that in many places the qual
are actually dying for lack OF Watei
with others so weak as to be IN
great danger of succumblng.
Governor Clyde r. Hoey isn't say
ing anything about it-obViously he
Wouidn but rs safe bet tina
nc is campaigning for RooscVcltS
reelection with much more cnthuSl-
asm since John l.. Lewis came Out
for Wendell Willllie.
Like many other Tar Heel Demo
Gratis, the governors chief complain
against FDR has been the Presidents
failure f. az IN the famous sit
down" strikes, and they have beer
fearful that Roosevelt might seek T.
appcasc the Go leader with prem
iscs of fayOrS after recollection.
State Treasurer Charles NJ. John-
son, who is due IA speak an the radl.
Friday MINT is said 10 be planning
a blast at Lewis which will very &C
curateIy reflect tho opinion OF tn
group to which the governor belong
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Third TrYsting Couple
Slain, Battling trenton

By the Associated Press.
TRENTON. n. J.. Nov. 18-Wlth
buCkshot pellets as their only clues,
police today pressed a search for
the perpetrator of Hamilton Town
ships third dual Staying in slightly
more than two years
The pellets were taken from the
riddled bodies of Mrs Carolina
Morconi. 24-year-old mother, and
Ludovicum J. Kovacs, 25-vear-old
unmarried neighbor and w. P. A.
clerk. both of whom met death
Saturday night as they sat in a
parked car off Cypress lane.
Township Police Chief Richard
P Brettell said there were many
indications the case was linked with
two previous mysterious dual slay-
mgs on desolate Duck Island" bor-
dering the Delaware River below
Trenton about miles from the Cy-
press lane spot.
In both the other cases. trysting
couples were shot fatally from point
blank range as they sat in parked
cars Mercer County Prosecutor
Andrew J. Ouch. who offered the
facilities of his office in the attempt
to track down the slayer, asserted
I'VE apparently have a madman
here, Just like Clevelands mad
butcher
Evening star., 1940-11-18
BY RALPH INGERSOLL.

have just returned from London flying through the Nazi
aerial blockade to Lisbon thence to New York by Clipper
England IA 10 of London spending the
nights going from shelter shelter and the days talking to
eminent officials and cabinet ministers and going the city
and its defenSes and by
dom OF action and used it best knew how.
Four days spent with the R. A. F. visiting the commanding
officers the communicative fighter the bomber
the talking literally young pilots
have fought through the aerial b their squadron leaders, their
commanders their wing commanders day at the
experimental station where planes and captured planes
tried and tested morning looking Germany
through the R. A F magnfyng aerial photographs of
bombed military ObeCVe taken 10000 feet in the air visited
the field from which the mysterious and terrifying OF BanS
launched the dread night fighter that striking
down to five bombe night from 20 1000 feet in the
300 miles hour the pitch black dark the machines
take off with no lights to guide them.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Berserk Slayer Identified
As Asylum Fugitive
By TIE Associated Press.

DN l!'t SSSOCldIeO Press.
VINTON, Iowa. Nov. lathe
gunman who went berserk near
Luzerne, Iowa. last week and killed
another man besides himself was
identified by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation today as August Mel
son, about SO. an escaped insane
hospital inmate from New Mexico.
Sheriff J. B. Franklin said a report
ne received from Washington showed
the man to have been committed to
a Las Vegas N MeX) insane hos
pital after his arrest at Silver City.
N. Mex, June 6, 1886. on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon. He
escaped in July 1887, and never was
apprehended.
Nelson Killed himself and Arthur
Knoke, 80, early Friday on the Knoke
farm near Luzerne after terrorizing
the family for II hours. Two other
persons were injured. One of the
latter. Mrs. John Liddle %. a sister
of Mr.. Knoke. was reported to be in
serious condition today in a Cedar
Rapids hospital.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Big Nazi Home Program
Killers Plan for Peace
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 18.-In a decree
made public today Adolf Hitler made
known a gigantic Nazi home-build-
ing program for the postwar years.
The preamble to the decree, signed
by the German Fuehrer, reads:
THE successful outcome of this
war will present a task to the Ger
man Reich which can be fulfilled
only by an increase in the popula-
ton. 1t is necessary that holes
which are made by the war in the
body Of the nation be closed by an
increase in the birth rate.
THE building of new German
homes is condition for healthy
families with many children.
THE Fuehrer will appoint a COM
mission who will begin Immediately
to make plans for the erection of
100000 homes in the first postwar
year" the preamble said.
The homes must be built so that
the social group for which they are
intended will be able to pay rent or
make payments on them without
straining themselves financially,
the decree said, adding that 80 per
cent of the houses built must have
a large liveable kitchen, three sleep
ing rooms, a shower bath and bal
cony.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
40 Pct. Of Goal
Reached, Chest
Reports Show
S816,336 Pledged,
Volunteers Tell
Fourth Luncheon

Community Chest volunteers AZ
their fourth report luncheon today
were able to show total Of S8l6,-
33605 or 40.8l pei cent Of quota. The
total represented gifts from 59538
contributors.
Both the Group Solicitation Unit
and the Metropolitan Unit were we'll
over the average for the whole re-
port. Group Solicitation reported
4456 per cent of quota and Metro
politan Unit was able to report 44.66
per cent of quota.
A number of District officials al
tended the report luncheon and
Library of Congress, was principal
speaker.
At Full Pace Today.
The drive was being conducted at
full pace today. and all reminders
of the need for Chest funds to
carry forward private agency well
fare work in l94l were in place.
These included sidewalk stencils,
flags, posters and special displays
in department store windows and
the lobbies of more than so Govern
ment buildings.
A Streetcar bearing huge posters
featuring the red feather emblem
on its sides moved through the city.
Among business houses giving
window space to the appeal were.
The Hecht Co. Jelleff's. Inc;
Lansburgh & Bro. Woodward &.
Lothrop Palais ROYAL. S. Kann Sons
Co. julius Garfinckel & Co and
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Co.
A special committee composed Of
W K Utteridge, Federal Housing
Administration H. D. Locking
procurement division, Federal Works
Agency; George Upman. Farm
Credit Administration, J. H. Steven
son, Department of Agriculture. and
J. Fetridge. Social Security Board,
arranged the Government building
displays
Buildings containing panels in
I4uut Aulll4lIISlI Il dlIOIl anu oOuNll
Buildings Department of Agricul-
ture, Civi! Service Commission. De-
partment of Commerce, District
Building. Federal Housing Admins
tration, Vermont avenue and K
street NV: Federal Power Com
mission, Federal Trade Commission.
General Accounting Office. Gov
eminent Printing Office. Depart
ment Of Justice Department of
Labor, Munitions Building. Navy
Department, Naval Hospital Ad-
ministration Building. North and
South Interior Department Build
ings, Work Projects Administra-
ton, Reconstruction Finance Corp,
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
Post Office Department. Securities
and Exchange Commission, State
Department. Railroad Retirement
Board, Tenth and U streets NV.
and Third and c streets NV: So
cial Security Board, Census Bureau.
Veterans Administration and Annex
No. !, War Department.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Hitler Sees Suner
And Ciano; Squeeze
Play Foreshadowed
Spain Expected TO Take
More Active Port in
European War
hv The A.NOCIated Press


BERCHTESGADEN. Germany.
Nov. l8.-German diplomacy
brought the foreign Ministers OF
Germany. Italy and Spain together
today in this city near Adolf Hit
ler's Bavarian Mountain retreat,
where many conferences of far
reaching import in the past have
been held
Hitler talked to the Spanish dig
nitary at tea in the Fuehrer'S
chateau and conferred later. and
separately, with the Italian visitor.
The talks will continue tomorrow.
Spanish Activity Expected.
Observers interpreted the visit of
the Spaniard. Ramon Serrano Suner,
as indicating that Nationalist Spain
now is definitely in the axis camp
and apparently ready to take more
active part in developments.
Bern diplomatic circles re-
ported axis plans for drives on
Greece and Gibraltar were TO be
discussed by German-Italian and
Spanish leaders,
Count Ciano's arrival came as
no surprise following the visit to
Hitler in Berlin last week of Soviet
Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyach-
eSlaff Molotoff.
Axis representatives it was point
ed out, always have conferred i'm
mediately after conferences with
third parties.
Informed sources said Count
Ciano besides learning all about
Molotoff S visit at first hand also
can bring first-hand information to
German leaders on Premier MuSSo-
lini's talks last week with Ru-
manian Chief of State Gen. Ion
AntoneScu.
RibbentrOp Meets Both.
Won Ribbentrop met both visitors,
Serrano Suner in the Berchtes-
gaden station and Count Ciano in
Salzburg. City. army and party
dignitaries in both places also greet
ed them.
The Italian and Spanish Foreign
Ministers were guests of Won Rib
bentrop at luncheon in Fuschl
Castle, near Salzburg, after which
Baron Alexander Won Doernberg.
See BERCHTESGADEN, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1940-11-18
u. S.Worships Caused Scutt|ing
OF Nozi Ships, Mexican Reports

one vessel, which he identified as
Destroyer 233. and the German ship
Rhein. He reported that another
of the vessels was Destroyer 210.
Capt. H. Fromke of the German
ship Idarwald previously had de-
clared that his vessel was chased"
by one destroyer to point within
miles of the port of Tampico.
Capt. j. Schurt of the German
freighter Phrygia ordered his ship
scuttled, saying that one of four
warships sent up flares ordering
him to surrender. The German
captains said they believed the war
ships we're British.
Newspapers here today printed
articles saying that the scuttling
Of the Phrygia was hasty.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
RH the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. Nov. ia Mex
ican gunboat captain has reported
officially. said dispatches from Tam
pico today, that United States neu-
trality patrol vessels and not
enemy Warships caused Ger
man merchant captain to scuttle
his ship and frightened three other
Nazi vessels back into Tampico
Harbor Friday night.
The Mexican naval officer, 1t.
Cuauhtemoc Perez Zavala, was said
also to have advised the Mexican
Navy that one of the United States
ships-all destroyers-had entered
Mexican territorial waters.
The lieutenant said he drew his
gunboat, the Queretaro, between the
Evening star., 1940-11-18
8-Floor Plunge Kills
Ex-Morqon CO. Doctor

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.-Dr. Henry
T. Lee, 68. who for 16 years was
physician for the j. P Morgan &
Co. fell or jumped to his death
yesterday from the eighth floor Of
a hospital where he had been under
treatment for a nervous ailment.
Police said a note addressed to
his sister, Mary R. Lee of Plainfeld,
N. j., was found in the retired
doctors room. She has been living
here since he entered the hospital
more than five months ago
DR.. Lee was listed In the social
register.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Pope Expected to Make
Peace Plea November "a
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY. Nov. 18-Pope
Plus XII will broadcast on Novem-
Der "a an important speech, in which
he is expected to appeal again for
peace. prelates said today. The
speech will be delivered immedi-
ately after he celebrates mass in
St. Peters Basilica.
The pontlff has proclaimed the
day-neXt Sunday-a day of special
prayers for peace.
His speech, in italian, will be
broadcast by the Vatican radio sta
ton at about 1890 am. $3.50 am,
E. S. t., on wave lengths 1894 and
1906 meters, with summaries in
English, German, French and Span
ish to follow at 1880 am.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Lewis, Given Ovation
Nearly an Hour Long,
To 0uitin Day or So
President Asks for Unity
And Support of Leaders
If c. |. o. Is TO Endure
Bv ]. 4. FOX,
star Srstf Core SpOnGent

ATLANTIC CITY. Nov l8-JOhn
L Lewis. given nearly an hOur-lOng
ovation as he opened the c. / o S
national convention today. called on
c. I. o. unions for unity among
themselves and confidence in their
leadership. If the c. I. o. IS to
endure
Dramatically. he told the dele
gates, Il won't be with YOU long. !
have done my work. In Just a DAY
or so III be out of the Office which
I occupy"
Mr. Lewis got a long and noisy
reception when he first appeared on
the platform, but it was mild. COM
pared TO the demonstration set of
when he was introduced.
For nearly an hour many of the
delegates. armed with noise makers.
cards and signs, paraded around the
hall chanting We want Lewis. ="
singing the c. I. O. song, Solidarity
Forever and beating on the long
tables. Mr.. Lewis made an unsuc-
ceSSful attempt TO halt the Outburst
after it had been under way a half
hour. but a blaring loud speaker in
front of the hall kept delegates
gong.
Mr. Lewis asked the delegates to
give q break to whOmever they
name to succeed him, adding, He'll
need it"
Philip Murray. q vice president Of
the c. I. o.. is slated to be the new
president.
Warns Against Disunity.
Mr.. Lewis announcement that he
would step out came a moment after
he had vigorously asSailed William
Green president Of the American
Federation Of Labor. as old Lady
Green in New Orleans" and to whom
he passed the lie for a published
statement in which the Federation
president linked Mr.. Lewis with the
Communist element of the c. 10.
In an long valedictory. to
which the delegates listened in close
attention. Mr. Lewis warned against
diSunity and told the members If
you consume your time in criticism
See c. I. O., Page A-3D
Evening star., 1940-11-18
William A. White Wins
Award Of Publicity Men
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-William
Allen White, chairman of the Com
mittee to Defend America by Aiding
the Allies, was selected yesterday to
receive the 1910 award of the Ma
tional Association Of Accredited Pub
licity Directors for the most dis
tinguished service in the whole field
of public opinion formation"
The award will be presented the
Emporia, KanS., editor November 27
The committee cited Mr. White s
formation of the committee and his
use of its activities Ito develop public
opinion on the subject of preserving
democracy in the United States by
supporting its defenders abroad"
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Arnold Delays Stort
OF Glass Trust Cases
By the Associated Press.

TOLEDO. Nov. 18.-The arrival of
Thurman Arnold, Special Assistant
Attorney General in charge of anti
trust suits, delayed for "a hours to-
day the scheduled trial of the Gov
ernment's suit against II major glass
container manufacturers and 102 in
dividual defendants.
Mr.. Arnold indicated he desired
a one-day delay to examine records
in the anti-monopoly case.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Bruise Found on Temple
OfDeud Skute Champion

BY the Associated Press.
OSLO. NORWAY cyia Berlin. Nov
IA post mOrtem today revealed
a bruise on the left temple of Skat-
ing Champion Staksrud whose body
was found in shallow water not far
from where he disappeared Noyem-
Der 10
Staksrud a member of the party
Of the Norwegian Nazl leader
Vidkun Quisling. suffered a broken
Jaw when he was assaulted several
months ago.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Motive Sought in Death
OF Girl Thought Suicide
By the Associated Press.

DOVER, N. j.. Nov. Estate
police sought today to find a motive
for the death of Dorothy Miller, IT.
by bullet wound which Detective
Joseph Meade said was self inflicted.
The Dover High School senior, in
the upper bracket of her class scho-
lastically, was found mortally
wounded on a couch at her Rock
away Township home early yester-
day. She died last night in the Dover
General Hospital.
Detective Meade said he learned
the girl, who earlier had cared for a
neighbor's children, shot herself
with her brothers shotgun.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Wilson Gets Two-Year
Contract as Cub Pilot

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 18-Jimmy Will
son, 40-year-old hero of the 1910
World Series. returned to the major
league managerial ranks today when
he agreed to a two-year contract to
pilot the Chicago Cubs
Earlier story on Page A-16.)
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Saw Record of Battle.


l spent 40 continuous minutes
looking through the windshield
sights of British pilots, plaStering
Nazi planes with machine gun fire
in actual combat in the air-I was
seeing the film exposed in the
camera guns that Synchronize with
the machine guns of the British
fighters. and so make a permanent
documentary record of every shot
fired in actual combat.
I was going over the battlefield
of the battle for London. The pilots
who fought IN it, the officers who
directed them. civilians and civilian
off1cials-policemen. flremen, A R.
P. WardenS, aircraft spoilers, the
journalists who were there and saw
Continued on Page Alb. Column O.
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Luftwoffe Took London, Lost Ii
In September by Falling to
Follow Up, IngersoN Says

HgerSO editor OF the PM returned
England and uncenSored articles Uhtch
ri be published article; the wH
appear
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Man, 50, Is Accused
OF Attempting TO
Poison 5tepdaughtei'
Mailing Of Deadly Candy
Loid TO Woshinetonion;
Faces Court Friday

A 69-year-old Washington man
will face charges of attempting to
kill his step-daughter by means of
a deadly poison in a 1-pound box Of
chocolate-covered cherries. when he
IS brought into the Arlington County
Police Court Friday morning.
According to warrant sworn by
CommonWealth's Attorney Lawrence
w. Douglas, the man is Frederick
Degges, a carpenter. who lives at
1914 D street Sc. He was released
under 81 500 bond Friday night.
The warrant charges that Mr
DeggeS cid attempt TO administer
poison in food to Velma Dunham
with intent her. the said Velma
Dunham. to kill felOniously."
Detective Sergts. Hugh Jones and
John Saunders of the Arlington
County Police Department arrested
DeggeS Friday. They said he denied
any knowledge of the incident He
was taken into custody in Washing
ton and waived extradition to Vir-
ginia.
Poison Reported Inserted.
The intended victim of the poison
Sergt. Jones said, is the wife of a
naval petty officer who lives in the
5000 block of North Washington
boulevard in Arlington.
The candy consisting of hard
chocolate coating over a cherry sus-
pended in a thick sirup had been
punctureG with small holes and the
poison, in broken up pill form, in
serted inside, police said. Police be-
lieve the chocolate had been re-
sealed with the aid of hot blade,
The contents of the candy had
turned green around the poison pei
lets and a few pieces had broken
open, supposedly because of chemical
action, police asserted.
Detective Jones declared Mrs. Dun
ham received the candy through the
mails on November 5. but that she
was suspicious and refused to eat it.
No sender was indicated on the
package. but police arrested Degges
CSee POISON CANDY. Page ABB
Evening star., 1940-11-18
Summary Of Todoy's Stor
Woshinoton and Vicinity.

WuSHTn9rUH uHu VTOTnI1y.
Increase in totals in Commounity
Chest expected. Page Al
Entire Maryland town goes on auc-
ton block Saturday Page "A
Sanitary Grocery Store strike COM
promise plan expected. Page B-1
Bandits 60 on robbery spree but
get little cash Page B-1
Machinists protest new Navy Yard
wage schedule. Page B-1
District Baptist Convention opens
tonight. Page B-13
Evening star., 1940-11-18

See ATHENS, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1940-11-18
From Press to Home
Within the Hour

Most people in Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
evening and Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1940-11-18

Fair and slightly colder lowest about
"a tonight: tomorrow fair with mod
crate temperatures. Temperatures to-
day-Highest, 81, at 2 pm; lowest,
~. at am.
From the United States weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page A..
Evening star., 1940-11-18

See c. I. O., Page A-3D
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Season S Initial
Fires Hit Oregon

PORTLAND - The first heat
wave of the 1910 season resulted
Thursday in an outbreak of forest
fires at scattered points.
A forest fire spread over GAO
acres of cut-over land in the
vicinity of Glenbrook. in southern
Benton county. and 200 CCC
youths and volunteers were sent
TO battle il. The fire threatened
good stands of green timber. 1t
was whipped by steady wind and
burned out OF control.
Three forest fires burned in the
Klamath basin following tempera-
lures up TO 81 degrees. Two small
fires were reported near Chemult,
Ore, by klamath Forest Protec-
tive association. One 400-acre
blaze in the Deschutes National
forest was fought by CCC youths
and loggers.
Several hundred CCC youths.
stationed at Camp Wiciup near
Bend, Ore. were called to fire
lines. A timber fire in the Wicki-
up reservoir basin on upper De-
schutes river, 40 miles south OF
Bend. broke over fire lines and
ragged out of control.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Behind the Ticker
By Lichty

conditions Spinners largest
buyers of July cotton; taking adj
vantage OF low prices Con-
sumption of raw silk continues
downward.
War spurs mining of quicksilver
Egg storage volume rising;
seasonal Butter supplies, too,
heavy British cocoa control
experiencing difficulty in selling
its surplus Wool tops firm on
war department bookings; fears
hold of British overhanging offer
ings OF New Zealand and Austria
Ian new clip Coffee offerings
from Latin America continue large.
News-Bits-B. F. Goodrich Syn
thetic Liberty rubber tires is Of
fering OF kind in this country q.
All Ford and General Motors Cana
dian plants operating on munitions
orders Republic Steefs Buff
falo plant working at 100 per cent
of capacity Military figures
say it takes about two and one
half years to build a 16-inch gun
and carriage Y. S. army placed
an educational order" for 10000
gas masks especially adapted for
civilian use.
War department to double out
put of Garand semi-automatic
rifles; present output 200 daily E.
Remington Rand closed noiseless
typewriter plant because of huge
inventory positions; company in
position to handle armament bust
ness Westinghouse Electric
has about $4,000 employees protect
ed under a s1O9, 50o,o 900 group-in-
surance policy =. American Cya-
namid will build a $500, 900 factory
at Wallingford, Conn, for produc-
ton of resins for plastics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Uhe Tacoma Qimes
Almanac
q D@(
~ NEXT MONTH
THIS NON tn

New FIRST Pull Last
Moon Quarter Moon Quarter
July S June "a june 10 June 81
Washington's forecast - Fair
Thursday might and Friday;
slightly cooler in the north and
extreme east portions Thursday
night; moderate northwest wind
off the coast and gentle variable
over inland waters.
Rainfall in Tacoma for the "a
hours ending at a m. Thursday,
rore; since June /. 81 inch, a
shortage of SO inch; since Jan. l,
10 q inches, a shortage of 70 'Een.
Wind at a. m. Thursday. south
west II m. p. h; barometer at
1922 and steadily rising, .06.
Sun rises at Ala a. m. Friday
and sets at SOC p. m.
Tacomas weather on June Is.
1929-Cloudy, no rain. maximum
temperature 20 degrees and mini
mum 81. Highest wind velocity
Is m. p. h. from the west.