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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
BATTLE STILL RAGING
Both Sides Taking Heavy
Blows But Neither Able
To Deliver Knockout

BERLIN, April 14.-P-Cautious
disclosures by the German high
command idicated tonight that the
vast battle of the North sea still was
raging, with both sides taking heavy
blows but neither able to throw a
knockout punch.
According to this half-told story,
part of it previously disclosed, six
British ~destroyers have gone down in
the scattered, give-and-take fighting
between British and German sea for
ces for the past six days along the
coasts of Norway.
Other Ships Damaged
Besides, more formidable British
fighters, like the battle cruiser Re
noon, al aircraft carrier and a
Cruiser Of the Glasgow class are
listed as damaged
The Germans themselves previous
ly had acknowledged destruction of
their two fine cruisers, the Karlsruhe
and Butcher
Moreover, said today's high com
mand communicate, perhaps slgnifi-
cantly, ct is impossible at this time
to get a complete picture Of the to-
tai losses to the enemy or to our
own forces
There was every indication also
that today-six days after the Ger
man military machine suddenly
changed the whole aspect of the war
by moving into Denmark and Nor
way in a great power drive-the far
flung, intermittent conflicts at sea
were continuing
Ashore, meanwhile, the Germans
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15

"The government itself has
contributed perhaps the most dis
turbing of the implanted ele-
ments."
Regulations, he asserted, "can
do much toward bringing about
the detectives envisioned by
planners; on the other hand, it
can Illustrate planning objec-
tives."
Total principal public aids to
various forms of transportation
he listed as follows:
Motor vehicle: About $31,O00,-
600 1000 for highways and streets
from 1921 to 1887.
Waterway improvements and
related aids: $2,917,OOO 600 to
June 80, 1886, for river and har-
Dor improvements and mainte-
nance, flood control and other
non-navigation purposes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
Census Probe
Planned Here
By Darlington
Area Supervisor Promises
Full Investigation OF
Situation In City
TO COME HERE TODAY
Will Make Personal Check
Of AT Least Five Per
Cent OF Population

Following a clamor in Whining
ton regarding purported %inaccura-
cies in the current census, J. II.
Darlington, of Lumberton, area
supervisor, last night promised a
full investigation Of the situation.
He also reiterated his promise of a
complete and accurate count here.
ITS a little unusual that IA per
cent of the people in Wilmington
say they haven't been counted" he
said, "but there is no need for
worry.
every one will be counted"
Will Make Check
Esarrington said he and his as.
sistants will make a personal check
in Wilmington of at least five per
cent Of the population to insure
that no one has been missed.
The area supervisor said he will
arrive in Wilmington tonight for a
conference with Louis T. Moore,
manager of the chamber Of com
merce, regarding the reported in
accuracies.
1t all started when a sidewalks
survey by the Star-News revealed
that Sc per cent of those questioned
answered that they had not beer
tabulated, despite local enumerat'
ors' claims that so per cent had
been counted.
After this vas brought to light,
Moore took the matter in hand and
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15

Their public aids to offset the
effects of those already given"
1t appeared likely, the ICC
chairman added, that future as
sistance would perpetuate the
"conditions of uneconomic COM
petition which such aids have
created" For that reason he adj
vocated deliberate and calcu-
lated" planning to measure fu-
ture transportation needs.
planning in this sense"
Eastman continued, "has been of
limited extent, partly by reason
of the age of certain facilities,
the pressures which have pro-
duced others, and the multiple
ity of agencies providing facili-
ties in still others, and of rapid
chronological changes in some
cases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
GERMANS, FRENCH
BATTLE ON FRONT
Nazi Infantry Units Try To
Force Lines West Oh
Vosges Mountains

PARIS, April IA up German
infantry units tried again today to
force the French front lines in flu
rious fighting west of the Vosges
mountains but the French high com
mand declared they were repulsed
with losses.
The German troops We're support
ed by a heavy artillery barrage at
different points in the area roughly
between Bitche and Saareguemines.
French casualties We're not dis
closed.
The attack followed bitter fight
ing yesterday near the Luxembourg
frontier in which the Germans We're
reported to have thrown a full COM
pany of infantry at the French.
Continued on Page Three: Col, p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
.SS.16Monthly
AverageFixed
By Authority
Water, Heat, Cooking Fuel
And Electricity To Be
Provided For $5.34
TOTAKE APPLICATIONS
New Brooklyn Homes Pro-
ject Expected To Be o.
cupied By First OF June

An average shelter rent of $S.16
nav family per month, plus an aver
srs charge OF 1874 for water. heat,
cooking fuel and electricity, was an
ro7noad last night for New Brook,
i'm Homes, Wilmington's housing
rroieer for 246 negro families of
l5w income,
The Housing Authority of the
Civ Of Wilmington, which is de-
yeoping the project with the finan-
c;aI assistance Of the United States
Housing Authority, said it was ex-
rected tenants would begin to &C.
cupv tie project by the first of
June. Taking of tenant applications
will begin today.
Gross Rent $3.50
Gross rents, including all utility
costs. will average $3.50 per family
per month Tor all charges. (32.16
plus y5.34 and they will be divided
into only Two groups-one at $1,000
Der month and one at SIS per month.
Families will be assigned to n or
the ether rent group on the basis of
their ability TO pay.
About half of the dwelling units
will be assigned to each of the two
rental groups,
Location Of each dwelling unit will
determine whether it falls in the $12
group Or the $15 group, it was said.
Some OF the locations are mor de-
srab.e than others, and these will
take tie higher rental.
Income Maximum Is $500
For the $1,000 rental group, the
maximum annual income limit for
admission will be $500 per year; and
t9r the $500 group, $500 per year.
1T has been found that the aver
age rents set up for the project are
below the average rent now paid by
negro tenants of substandard hous-
Ing in Wilmington" said a state
Continued on Page -Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
Y. M. C.A.CAMPAICN
WILL OPEN TUESDAY
J. Wilson Smith, OF Char
lotte, Will Address Work
ers At Meeting Tonight

Workers in theh Y.M.C.A. mem
bership campaign will meet at 6:15
o'clock tonight at the associations
building to hear j. Wilson Smith,
of Charlotte, make ar inspirational
address. This meeting will be pre-
liminary to the opening Of the &C
tual drive on Tuesday morning.
After the drive opens, the group
will meet each evening to hear re-
ports on the progress being made.
Special rates for summer member
ships will be offered and a bonus
will be awarded the winning teams.
J.. N. Brand, Jr., general chair
man, said last night that he felt
certain that a splendid example of
interest and loyalty will be demon
strated at the dinner meeting when
(Contiuued IN Page Three: Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
ITALIANS BELIEVE
WAR WILL EXPAND
Authorities Think All Euro
pean Countries Will Be
Drawn Into Conflict

ROME, April 14.-P-Authorlta-
tive Italians today expressed the be-
lief that all countries of Europe, IN
GLIDING Italy, would be drawn lnto
the "a
From n newspaper, II Messag'
zero, came a warning to neutrals
that they now know what way TO
follow, implying that it was the way
of Denmark in accepting Germanys
protection"
Giovanni Ansaldo, newspaper Writ
err who often speaks the mind OF
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
Nazis Sink Six English
Destr0yers In North Sea
Three Meatless Days
Are Planned In Ital,

ROME, April IA. - Up - Italians
were notified today that beginning
April "a they will have three meat.
less days a week instead of two.
The sale of meat, or its serving
in restaurants, will be forbidden on
Wednesdays, as well as Thursdays
and Fridays.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
HOUSE WILL TAKE
UP LABOR ISSUE
Is Scheduled To Consider
Question Oh Amendment
Of Labor Legislation

WASHINGTON, April IL Up -
The house will come to grips this
week with one of the most con-
t%roversial questions of the session,
whether to amend the New Deals
basic labor legislation-the Wagner
act and the Wage-Hour Law.
The legislative calendar approved
Continued on Page Three; Col. AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
SEAAIEN TREATED
FOR BURNS HERE
Three Injured In Boiler
Blowback Aboard Ship En-
Route To Wilmington

Three seamen, severely burned IN
a boiler bloWback while their vessel
vas at sea, We're admitted to James
Walker Memorial hospital for treat
ment shortly after their arrival in
port Yesterday afternoon.
The accident occurred about ten
Gays ago as the ship, a 4~.723-ton YES
sci named the Abellen, was bound
lot Wilmington with a cargo of creo-
Sote oil for the Taylor-C olquitt plant
continued on Page Four; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15
WEATHER

FORECAST
r-NPIth Carolina: Fair Monday and
a1ISaay, warmer Monday and in east
''' central portions Tuesday.
en meteorological data for the "a hours
~0"is ':5O p. m. yesterday.
1.oo Temperature
i'21 a, m. 40; 7:30 a. IN. Al; 100 p.
t n % 80 p. m. IS; maximum 50;
~"'inufA 50; mean As: normal 60.
10, Humidity
N ' @C a. m, 81; 7:3O a. m. 81; 80 p.
=" ~ 7:30 p. m. 2G.
r, Precipitation
nnolai Tor "A hours ending 7:3O D. m.
13 3@c total since first of the month,
10 inches.
Tides For Today
'""IlnSton -- 3:13a 10 STA
Masonho,o 3:45p Hoop
Snnri. 1:20p 1882
rise %ui u 5;41a; sunset GASP; moon
N'7'a; moonset O:52a.
''O0'lnued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15

Served by Leased Wire Of the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
With Complete Coverage OF
State and National News
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-15

'N'"'lnued on Page Three; Col. p
Evening star., 1940-03-10

but they should also prove invalu-
able aids to surgeons faced with
emergencies at night during air
raid blackouts. and to operators
working In suburban homes estab-
lished as hospitals in the event OF
evacuation Of city hospitals"
The retractors, angular In shape,
bend" the light toward the operat-
ing field. There is no diffusion as
would be true Of ordinary glass. This
is true, said Dr.. Bayer, because the
plastic material has the property Of
carrying light by internal refrac-
tion." In other words, the light par
ttcles bounce back and forth in the
tube, but are not emitted until they
strike q ground surface at point
Evening star., 1940-03-10


which light from q 10-cent flash
light bulb in q detachable handle is
"piped," without reflection, into the
operating field.
DR.. Jerome l.. Bayer Of New York,
who exhibited them, said the In
struments eliminate the necessity
Of hospital Lighting" and that in
front-line surgery they can be used
by simply plugging them In to an
electric socket on field ambulance.
Already In Use.
Declaring the retractors already
were in use by Great Britain and
France in the war area, DR.. Bayer
said, in an interview:
Their use for emergency opera
tions in the war field is apparent,
Evening star., 1940-03-10

best suited to directing the Lint
into the open wound.
Detxactoe II UnbeeakabIe.
It's . mystery to Dr.. Bayer, and
70 the inventor Of the instrument,
Edwin A. Neugass Of New Orleans,
why the ground surface does the
trick-but it does.
The plastic retractor Is unbreak-
able You can bounce it on the
door. It can't conduct electricity,
and 1t can't conduct heat, 50 it can
be left in the body during the oper-
alton without harm to the patient.
It will be important in civilian
surgery, DR.. Bayer said, because,
along with having non-refiection
properties, 1t can illuminate what
Evening star., 1940-03-10
New Flashlights Of Surgery
Prove Value in War Zone
Retroetors Pipe Light Into Wound
For Work at Front Or in BIuckout

today to the New England Hospital
Association.
They are surgical retractors-in-
struments used to keep wounds open
to light during surgery-but instead
OF being made Of metal they are of q
transparent, plastic material through
Evening star., 1940-03-10

people viii remember long and
gratefully"
DR.. Wang added that the loan is
another fitting demonstration that
justice is on the side Of China"
which, he said, has for more than
two years been putting up q life
and death struggle for principles
dear to all American hearts"
DR.. Wang said the Chinese gov
ernment did not attach as much
Importance to the timeiiness of the
new United States loan as did q
Japanese spokesman who termed 1t
"an act not friendly toward Japan"
A pocket edition Of "AHefn Kamnf"
Evening star., 1940-03-10

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, March 9-New flash
lights Of surgery" described as
opening q new field for surgeons
operating at the front line in Eu-
ropes war zone or In cities subject
to air-raid blackouts were exhibited
Evening star., 1940-03-10
SIC, ,000, 900 U. S. Loan
Hailed by Chinese

By the Associated Press.
.CHUNGKING, March a. DR..
Wang Chung-hui, Chinese foreign
minister, declared today that in
making a loan Of $40. .000, 900 to his
nation, "the United States had again
shown friendship which the Chinese
Evening star., 1940-03-10

heretofore have been designated q
the dark spots Of surgery, because
no type Of illumination would reach,
these blind spots"
He mentioned specifically the gan
bladder and the spleen.
Evening star., 1940-03-10

Butter making at home is being
revived In England because Of the
war.
Evening star., 1940-03-10

A pocket edition Of "Mein Kampf"
Is being published In Germany.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Farms Worth Billion
,4sS96
Left 10 Mortgagors
By Depression
U. S. Agencies, Bonks
And Insurance Firms
Seek Buying Tenohts

I, The Farm Credit Adnainistra-
!. t$on, a multi billion dollar agency
tor making loans to farmers, Is
steering a netD course to keep
debt-ridden formers from losing
their land. Behind this policy
which Is being argued pro and
con-is q startling story OF ,Dhdt
happened to farm creditors dur
ING years OF deep depression.
Here Is the background story.
The Valley settler., 1940-06-07

BIDs*******
Committee Trotostant Community
OF
buldtn (94 cubic yards of Garth from inc
walls buildings, cftr tho Garth has boon
removed.
removed from under
ms and spread Of the rd on the
All Garth removed shall be taken
the wost side Of the oud1nG d DC
far os the alley"
in the bcsomnts after the
pirs to the roman
retaining walls she'll be OF
shall SMOOTH poc1od
inches dicmor st their smallest end They sh1l
be
nd pinned prevent Slipping
mctoricl oquron
spocfiod No cdd1t11
Building
Will the contract or Payment m, until
and its accept
Committee.
Building reject and Gil
L.. Chairman
Community Church, Box 1885, Palmer
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22

The Tiremen broke out of their
long batting slump as they club
bed two GAINESVILLE hurlers for
eleven hits. Lefty Elwell had the
distinction of being the first bat
ter of the current season to hit
a ball over the right field fence.
Elwell's drive just cleared the
foul pole marker as it barely
dropped over the barrier. Clyde
Taylor pitched five-hit for new
ark.
GRIDIRON-At this writing
it feels like football weather is
already here, but the local sea-
a full month. However, our New
ark Wildcats began football
son will not be opened for almost
practice August Goth. The Cats
should be a hard nut for most
teams they meet this year, to
crack. The Wildcats have a vet
eran line left over from last
year and the backfield already
looks promising. If the Cats can
only pick up where they left off
last year, Newark is going to
have a nice little eleven. If the
Wildcats have a lot of bad luck
this year blame it on the opener
which is dated Friday, the 18th
of September, 1910.
RENAISSANCE = 1t doesn't
seem so long ago that this column
was wailing over the fact that
the bowling season was over,
but it has been three months. Now
the Palace bowling opens on Au-
gust 18th and once again all the
lovers of this grand game begin
to smile again. 1t won't be long
now until the 1940-41 bowling
season will be in full swing once
again. 1t may be my magma
tion, but / think the face in the
above cut is smiling more than
ordinary.
OHIO-If the Cincinnati Reds
win the National League pen
nant, the Cleveland Indians win
the American League champion
ship, and the Columbus Red Birds
win the American association
race or wins the playoff our
great state will be indeed the
talk of the happy baseball
world. If all that happened,
Ohio would be sure of a world
series winner with either Cleve-
land or Cincinnati and maybe
Columbus could win the little
world series. One of these years
some of we Newark fans must
root for the poor Toledo Mud
Hens. Toledo is in Ohio, you
know.
LUCK-The tennis world re-
ceived a lucky break the other
day. Adrian Quist of Australia,
considered one of the healthiest
men in amateur tennis, failed to
pass the physical test for army
service. At that l believe Quist
was really the one who should be
considered lucky.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22

the world safe for democracy.
What then is this one to be for ?
Let US stop listening to propa-
ganda that we cannot avoid war,
and instead tell ourselves that
we CAN avoid it. For it CAN be
done. l will say further, and in
all earnestness, if we are to have
a draft law, let it first of all
take those of age of 65 and come
down the age scale. You know
as we'll as l just how long it
would take the country to be-
come "peace conscious" then. We
would all fight anytime, / think,
if the U. S. were to be actually
invaded, but going outside, even
within the Western hemisphere,
is quite another matter. Why
can't we all be just a little sane
in weighing the evidence before
us and try to understand that
just such propaganda as we have
before US now in the press and
on the radio led us directly into
the World war. Are we going to
let it do the same thing to us
again?
HAROLD L. MEEK, age "a
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22
|Americanism of Ohio
State Fair Praised
By Governor Bricker

and the fifth in agricultural and
industrial production.
"In this achievement the State
Fair has played the heavy role.
It's liberal premiums for the best
produce of field and factory have
consistently stimulated individual
effort toward perfection. This
striving for perfection has result
ed in establishment of the agri-
cultural college at Ohio State
University-now the largest agri-
cultural college in the world; es-
tablishment of the Ohio Agricul-
tural Experiment Station as the
fifth to be established in the ma
ton, and launched a youth move
ment on the farms and in the
schools which no fifth column can
ever divert from the opportunities
of individual rights preserved in
the ideals of AmericaniSm.
''In this 80 years of faithful
service many departments of the
Ohio State Fair, especially its
livestock departments, have be-
come the greatest and most i'm
portant in America.
"Our state owes a debt of graft
tude to those citizens whose en-
ergies make possible this annual
Ohio show; to those men and wo-
men who annually encourage
more than 10000 boys and girls
to enter State Fair competition"
With war and the specter of
famine spreading over much OF
the world, Governor Bricker said,
"the demonstration of Ohio's abil-
ity to produce" to be seen at the
State Fair Gifts this exposition to
a new pinnacle of Importance in
the nations program of prepared
ness. In the productive capacity
of our land lies the key to our Sc
curity-security based upon abun-
dance Of food, raw materials for
clothing, shelter, fuel, pharmaceu-
ticals and chemurgic articles vital
to the daily life and employment
of a confident people.
"This Goth Ohio State Fair has
been planned to fit the times
times demanding reinsurance and
faith in our ability to make the
most of our resources. 1t is yours
to be inspired by, and from which
to go forward. AS the Governor
of this state, I am proud to invite
your attendance. I shall be hon.
ored to greet you on the fair
grounds"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22

while it is under way in Colum-
ous, August "a to 80.
"The State Fair is as American
as baseball and hot dogs. With
all its mixture of interests, its
carnival air and its noisy bally-
iaoo, it is fundamentally the one
great annual show of agricultural
and industrial produce where
keen competition tightens the
handspring of progress.
founded by far-sighted pioneer
agriculturists who believed Ohio
soil and Ohio farmers could pro-
duce as well and as abundantly
as those of any other state, and
that the importance of new strains
and new processes should be made
generally known at short inter-
walls the Ohio State Fair has for
30 successive years been Ohio's
show window.
"It has been, not only an expo
sition of things which men grow,
or breed, or make with their
hands, but also of the people who
have made this state ranking 35th
in area. the fourth in population
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22
LEGAL NOTICE


BENJAMIN G. Harris, whose place
of residence is unknown and can
not be ascertained, will take no
tice that on the fifth day Of Feb
ruary. 1910, Georgia Fatig, as Ad-
ministratrix of the estate of Han
nah Elizabeth Harris filed her pc
tition against him in the Probate
Court of Licking County, Ohio, the
same being Cause No: S2S1 IN sara
Court, for the sale of certain real
estate of which Hannah Elizaoetn
Harris died seized and therein de-
scribed, to-wit:
Being in the State Of Ohio,
County of Licking and City of
Newark and being inlot number
twenty nine hundred seventy-four
(2974 in EVeretts Addition to the
City of Newark, according to the
plat thereof on record in the Re-
corder's Office of said Licking
County, Ohio, to which reference
is here made for more particular
description.
The prayer of said petition is for
the sale of said real estate and for
other eanitsaS55ie relief.
Said Defendant is required to an
swer said petition on or before the
31st day of August, 1910, or judg-
mant will be taken against him.
GEORGIA FATIG,
AS Administrators of the Es-
tate of Hannah Elizabeth
Harris, deceased.
RANDOLPH & JOHNSON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Jy 11-18 A 1-8-1522
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22
HANOVER
eileen Galbraith)

Mr.. and Mrs. Noble Wright,
of Indiana, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Miles and family, Of Lock,
spent the week end with A. T..
Wright.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Simco
spent Friday in GAINESVILLE.
Francis Nethers spent the
week end with her mother, Mrs.
Bertha Nethers.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Warthen
and daughter called Saturday
evening on Mr.. and Mrs. H. L.
Osborn and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Harris, Mr..
and Mrs. d. w. Galbraith and
children, Dale and Eileen, New
ark, Mrs. Cora Hoyt, Hanover,
aud Mary Jane Bourner, Hunt
ington, West Virginia, enjoyed a
picnic supper at Horns Hill
Thursday night.
Emma Jean Burkholder spent
Thursday evening with Mary Ell
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-08-22
The Mail Bag
ON CONSCRIPTION

Dear Editor:
l would like to add a few
words to those already express
ed recently in your paper about
the conscription bill now pend
ing in Congress.
Hitler will have had his way
if any such legislation passes.
We will then be headed straight
toward militaristic state. This
will be the first step. Let no one
be foolish enough to think that
this legislation is intended only
for our present so-called emer-
gency. 1t will take each new
class of 21-year olds each sue
ceeding year. If this then is to
be it's effect, what have we, as
a democracy, to fight for against
dictatorship and militarism We
will be such a state ourselves.
/ should think that all of our
generation would realize by now
the futility of war. We are reap
ing the fruits of the last one
now. That one was to have made