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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BRIDGES ARRESTED
ON u. S. WARRANT
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hearing in 1899, was served in the
office of his attorney, Richard l.
Gladstein.
He was released on $4,000 cash
bond posted by Louis P%uccinelli.
The warrant was served by Earl
A. Gushing, inspector for the Unit
ed States department of immigra-
ton and naturalization, which has
been transferred from the juris-
diction of the Labor to Justice
department.
The warrant charged Bridges
'has been found in the United
States in violation of the immigra-
ton laws and is subject to
be taken into custody and deported
pursuant to the law"
The new hearing will be on what
U. S. Attorney General Robert
Jackson has described as new
and additional evidence" complied
by the Federau Bureau of Investi-
cation in a 2,500-page report.
In the previous hearing the is
sue was confined to whether
Bridges was a member of or af.
filiated with the communist party
at the time deportation proceed.
ings were begun in March, 1888. 1
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10 ARE ARRESTED
In TRAFFIC DRIVE
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Mrs. E. H. Toler, of 1923 Wool-
colt avenue.
Mrs. C. W. Aman, of Carollna
Beach: Albert Solomon, OF aoo
Church street; Mrs. w. H. Jones
of Sunset Park; Mary Bell Bul-
luck. of SIG Market street; MISS
Leila Humble, of Forest Hills,
Mrs. F. R. Jordan, Of Wrightsboro'
L. o. Gore, of 6 spofford Mills
others arrested were: w. D.
Campbell, of 9 North seventn
street, passing red stop light az
18th and Market streets; Wllila1l'
Hussey. of East Wilmington, dou-
bic parking on Market. between
Water and Front; Lloyd w. BOT
deaux, of 212 South Sixth street,
double parking on Market, between
Second and Third; and Col. G.. r.
Owens, of Masonboro Sound, pass.
ing red stop light at 18th and
| Market streets :
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SHIPYARD RAILROAD
WORK STARTS SOON
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Atlantic Coast Line officials last
night reported about 1000 feet OF
the track had already been laid
and further operations were await
ing the finishing of dredge films
and grading work.
The installation of several
switches for the project was be-
gun within the past fey days.
About six miles of the track WILL
criss-cross in and out of the ship
yards proper, ACL officials said.
Dennis also reported that, ef-
fective last midnight, Workmen al
the shipyards were placed on three
shifts, one from 8 am. until 4 pm.
another from 4 pm. until mid
night, and one from midnight until
8 am.
Two pile drivers will be placed
into operation today, n during
the morning and the other in the
afternoon. Five more pile drivers
are being shipped here, Dennis
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Large Snowfall Reported
In Smoky Mountains Park

BRYSON CITY, Feb. 14.-R-A
12-inch snowfall in the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
are traversed by the Clingmans
Dome highway "a reported Fri
day afternoon by Harley Breed
love of Smokemont, in charge of
keeping the roads cleared . dur
ing bad weather in the National
playground.
Six inches of snow had fallen in
Newfound Gap, Mr.. Breedlove re-
ported.
The snowfall in the Park began
about 10 o'clock Thursday night
and continued until early Friday
afternoon. 5
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INVESTIGATION OF
SHIPPERS DEATH
IS PLANNED HERE
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formation and belief and the ar
rest in the case was made by Of
ficer L. B. Rourk, on October l
at the home of the defendant.
Skipper, who suffered several Sc
we're knife wounds in the stomach
and lower abdomen, had been a
patient at the James Walker Me-
mortal hospital off and on for the
past four months, investigating Of
ficers said.
Coroner Allen said he would
shortly announce the date for hold
ing the inquest.
Skipper is survived by his wild
w: two small children, Richard
and Landrick; his mother; two
sisters. Mrs. C. L.. Peterson, OF
Wilmington; and Mrs. j. M. Whal-
en-, of Norfolk, Va; and tt e e
brothers, O. B. Skipper of Norfolk;
R. E. and H. l.. Skipper, OF Will
mington.
The Yopp Funeral home is in
charge of funeral arrangements,
which will be announced later. l
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AT LONG LAST

RALEIGH, Feb. IA. - Up -
Noah Monroe Brock, 104-year.o old
Davie county Confederate veter.
an, finally is going to be put on
the pension rolls of the state
without asking.
The house committee on pen.
sions today reported ~favorably a
bill by Moore of Davie to pay
Brock 1866 pension for 1910 and
to put his name permanently on
the rolls.
Brock, who saw service in sew
eraI of the North Carolina
battles of the War Between the
States, last year raised 200 bu.
shells of corn-that was alI-on
the small tract of land OH which
he lives in Davie. He has never
asked welfare or pension assist
ance, despite the extremely mod
est circumstances in which he
lives.
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FOUND BY

A trackwalker for the Southern
Pacific railroad discovered the appar-
ent attempt to wreck the westbound
Pacific Limited. He found all spikes
and angle irons removed from a "a
foot section of track, leaving it held
in place by a single bolt.
Repairs we're made quickly, and
the limited went through on schedule.
The scene was about 240 miles west
of the spot where the railroads
streamliner City Of San Francisco
was wrecked Aug. -, 1889.
Twenty-four persons were killed
and 108 injured in that pile-up, at.
tributed to realignment of a rail.
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Threatened Strike OF Workers.
OF Vermont Railroad Avoro,

management Of the Allis,cb.,n.
iAsnufacturins company ws a..aes'
ported sc oser together" "tt fe'
series of conferences in W sa,st
ton They arranged to meet eSs'Ias
Saturday with William s T tIa'i
sell. defense production mane .uS
Allis- Chalmers Milwaukaa 'r ns'
iclc for A>arlv four weeks bon p1'N
Of a STRIFE. has s45, 900, Ooo ' IL
tense orders, principally m i' q
cry Tor Warships. 1t empIovs 4
600. One of the chief issues ~ y
derstood to be the unions den,.9
for a union shop. Da
Optimism was expressed =.
the possibility of early settlew. W.
OF a strike at the Vanadium Nv
poration's plant at Niagara F W.
N. Y. The management and
Go UNITED Mine Workers aar, ~.
to a conference Monday. The W.
ion is asking wage increases W. W.
plant, employing 400, was de+er.'
I contracts for alloy steel.
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PROBE OF DEFENSE
CONTRACTS SLATED
Investigation of system OF
Letting Jobs Planned by
House Committee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-G -
investigation of the whole system
of letting defense contracts was
planned by the house military COM
mittee today after disclosure that
q member of a New York firm
holding an 81, O00, 900 construction
contract draws a $1,000 salary as a
member of the Army's CONSTRUCTION
Advisory committee,
Francis Blossom, 70-year-old SEN
Tor partner in the firm of S~anderson
and Porter, New York city, is a
member of the advisory committee
which submits the names of three
contractors qualified to handle a
construction job to the chief of on
struction of the Quartermast.r's
corps.
A witness before the military com
mittee today, Blossom said he sa"
nothing improper in his participat'
ing in his firms $1,114,700 fixed fee
for building a shell loading plant
at Elwood Ill, and at the same time
drawing his government salary.
He said the advisory committee
had not taken any part in the choice
of Sanderson and Porter for tht
job, and that he had written Score
tary Stimson saying he would no
participate in any discussion o
S;anderson and Porter's qualifiea
tons for government contracts.
After the hearing, Chairman Ma.
(D-Ky) called an executive session
of the committee which he latel
said was for the purpose of plotting
the course Of an investigation. H
said full details" of contract lettin,
would be- gone into.
Blossom said he came to his Wash
ington post at the invitation o
Brig. Gen. C. D. Hartman, thel
chief of construction. and vas un
der the impression when he tool
the job that he was Ito get n
salary at all or be a dollar:a-year
man."
He added that in mid Decembe
the checks began to drop into m,
mali at the rate of $125 weekly
and he assumed that his pay begal
when he took the oath. He toll
the committee his service in Wash
ington cost him as much as he "go
out of" the job.
Blossom said he never had seen
copy of the contract for the Elwoot
plant and did not know it's terms
Another Of the firms partners, Har
rison Smith, he said, was handling
the matter.
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MISSION LEAVES

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Feb. Ia
British diplomatic mis-
sion left by special train from
blacked-out Bucharest shortly be-
fore midnight enroute to the Port
of Constanta.
One hundred and forty six Brit
ons and members Of Allied diplo-
matte missions were aboard the
special 10-car deluxe train, which
will take the passengers to the
dockside at Constanta to board
the Turkish steamer Izmir for
Istanbul.
A woman with a German pass
port was aboard the train. For
years she had taught English in
the Bucharest schools.
More than 100 English men and
women refused to go and were left
under the protection of the Unit
ed States legation.
The United States, Chinese anc
Turkish ministers waved goodbye
at the station.
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LEASED

MARION, N. c., Feb. 14.|R-
The leasing of the bankrupt Nc
Dowell Furniture Factory here by
the Broyhill Manufacturing inter-
ests of Lenoir was announced to-
night. Within two weeks the factory
will employ $50 men. The factory
went bankrupt last August and
has been closed for three months,
months. 5
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CIO Walkout Official
Booked on Flag Charge

CARTERET, N. j., Feb. AID
Neil Brant, CLIO field reprcsen'
tative who is directing a strike
which has halted work on S3O5,V@
in defense contracts at the Foster
Wheeler corporation plant, was
booked tonight as a violator OF al
old New Jersey law concerning Oh
lenses against the flag.
Police Recorder Michael ReSko
said Brant was charged with ml'
tilating and defling the American
flag by placing it on a table ana
striking it with a mallet and also
by resting hands and leaning on
it at the union meeting at winch
the strike was called. The charges
constitute a misdemeanor undeI
the law, revised in 1887, and are
indictable.
Joseph Zyzdik, employe Of the
closed Foster Wheeler plant VINO
attended the meeting WEDNESDAY
night, preferred the charge.
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SEVEN MEN KILLED
in FACTORY BLAST
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shook homes in Du Quoin, five
miles away. Fire followed the ex-
olosion. The rhine proper was not
damaged.
The dead, several of them de-
capitated we're:
A. L. Barker, SO, superintendent
of the plant; James Thornton, u,
employed at the mine since it be-
gan operating IL years ago; Lyle
Cook, 35, and Russell Cook, 81,
brothers; John Bailey, Is, Nelson
Todd, "a, and John Rappusi, 30.
All lived in Du Quoin.
Mine officials said Rappc-i, Bal
ley and Todd were unloading lamp
black cartridges from a freight
car and passing them to the other
men in the pant when the blast
occurred.
They were unable to explain
what caused the SCATTERING deton-
alton. The lamp black cartridges
themselves are harmless but be-
come a powerful explosive when
soaked with liquid oxygen. l
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PLAN TO PROHIBIT
TRANSFER OF ANY
WARSHIP DRAFTED
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mild surprise to those who have
kept tab on the development q
the lease-lend controversy. The
word that he would throw his pres
tige as chairman of the naval COM
mittee behind the amendment in
question was almost a sensation.
Other amendments were under
consideration and the participants
reported the group to be in rather
general agreement in backing
them. These included a fiat pro-
hibition on the use Of naval YES
sells to escort ships to Britain,
and on sending American mer-
chant ships into the war zones.
Another amendment would re-
strict American assistance to
countries which would be speci-
fcally named in the bill. Such a
change was urged by Wendell l..
Willkie, in his testimony before
the foreign relations committee
this week.
Walsh himself was non-commit-
tai about the possibility of his pre-
senting the naval amendment, but
others who attended said that he
was expected not only to do 50
but to make a speech supporting
the proposal.
To Propose Amendment
From Walsh came only the word
that an amendment would be pro-
posed which would prohibit any
interference with the navy" A
reporter asked his opinion Of the
controversy between Willkie and
Secretary Of the Navy Knox, in
which the former proposes that
five or ten ~destroyers a r1onth be
sent to Britain and the cabinet
officer insists that they can't be
spared.
Knox ought to know" Walsh
said bluntly. IF he doesn't know,
! don't know who does"
Those who attended in addition
to the senators mentioned were
Senators Thomas (R.-Ida.), LaFol-
lette (Prog-Wis.), Shipstead (R.-
Mimi, Gillette (D-Ia.), Taft (R-
Ohio, Willis (R.-Ind.), Clark ID.
Ida.), McCarran D-Nev.,, Capper
(R-Kas.), Tobey (R-N. H., Wheel.
err D-Mont.), Nye (R-N. D.,
Brooks (R-1ll.), and Bulow (S-SD),
Senator Tobey later made pub
lie a telegram to President Roose'
welt asking that he clear up wha'
he termed 'befuddlement"
the Willkie and Knox statements
on destroyers.
(Stephen Early, presidential sec
rotary, said yesterday there wa:
mo controversy between the Pres
ident and the secretary. of tn
navy or Mr.. Willkie." Early also
said the destroyer question prob
ably would be under study fo1
some time because Of the many
elements that enter into the pic
ture.") l
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BY The Associated Press)

Wy AAC ASSOSAosCN AASSSJ
A threatened walkout of en-
ployes of the Rutland Vt.) rail
road was averted, at least for a
time, and progress was reported
in government efforts yesterday
to settle strikes at two concerns
holding major defense orders.
President Roosevelt appointed a
special board to investigate the
dispute between the railroad and
its 1900 employees voer a wage
cut. His action, taken under the
National Mediation act, has the
effect of barring a strike for at
least 60 days.
Under the law, the board has 30
days in which to make a report.
Another 30 days must elapse be-
fore any strike a take effect.
The railroad employees had voteo
to strike at 6 p. m. (EST) yester-
day.
Repres entatives of the CIO-Un;t.
ed Automobile Workers and the
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
THREE MEN JAILED
FOR SABOTAGE TRY
Are Charged With Attempted
Sabotage Against Southern
Pacific Railroad

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-R-
The federal bureau Of Investigation
announced tonight the arrest OF three
men in California, charged with at
tempted sabotage against the South
ern Pacific railroad by the removal
Of spikes from tracks near Tolle'
Calf, on Feb. 8.
The announcement said the three
had confessed to the charge and also
to n of attempted extortion OF $50,-
900 from the railroad company.
The men, said the FBI, removed "A
spikes from the tracks. Tolle is To-
Gated about So miles from Sacra-
mento.
The men were arrested at Sacra-
mento, the FBI said.
The bureau said the three were:
Bernal Culver Carter, 20; Kenneth
Alexander Lennon, 20; Owen Bertlen
McHenry, 80, all of Sacramento
They were described as pin-setters in
a bowling alley.
The announcement said that FBl
agents, assisted by railway police and
local authorities, found in McHenry's
possession an iron bar, a heavy
wrench, chisel and a sledge hammer
with which the FBI said the spikes
were removed.
In seeking $4,000 from the rail
road, the FBI said, the men threat
ened to damage the company's prop
erty if their demands were not met.
FBI officials declined to say
whether the extraction Of the spikes
was connected with the attempt at
extortion.
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CONVICTIONS SET ASIDE

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. A.
R-The Illinois Supreme Court set
aside the convictions of three men
on malicious mischief charges to-
day because the Cook County (Chi-
cago) Criminal Court allowed the
jury to hear a ''vitriolic ilaran-
que defining the aims of the
Silver Shirts, an organization de-
scribed by the court as 'anti-
jewish" S
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b. e. JR.

CLINTON, Feb. lab. E. Lock-
amy, Jr., five-month.old son of Mr..
and Mrs. B. E. Lockamy, ST., of
Halls township, died at 9 o'clock
this morning in Pittman hospital at
Fayetteville after a brief illness.
Funeral services will be held at
8 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from
the Kener Methodist church, with
the Rev. B. H. Houston officiating.
Burial will follow in the Kener GENE.
terry.
In addition to his parents, the in
FAINT is survived by his grandmother,
Mrs. II. B. Jordan.
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PITT ON BLACKLIST

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-LP- 1ne
steamship Lovcen, under chaftsi
to the American rescue ship mis-.
sion, which planned 10 tranSpol'
$50 Spanish Loyalists from casa
blanca, French Morocco, to Mex
co the latter part of this mon'H'
was placed on the British olacA,
list today.
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X MARY HI. HOLDER

ST. PAULS, Feb. 14.-Mrs. Mary
Hannah Holder, 70, died this morn
ing at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. F. Martin, in Laurinburg.
Funeral services will be held at
II o'clock tomorrow morning from
st. Pauls Presbyterian church, with
burial following in the church ceme-
terry,
sister, Mrs. Josephine Smith, of
sister, Mrs. Josephine Smith, of
Greensboro; two daughters, Mrs.
Martin, and Mrs. Anderson Britt, Of
Lincolnton; and four sons, D. P. and
Thomas Holder, of ST. Pauls; Sted-
man and Gordon Holder, Of Balti-
more, Md.
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E TERRITORY

LONDON, Feb. 14-LR- Brit
ain announced tonight that begin
ming tomorrow German-dominated
Rumania would be regarded as
territory under enemy occupa-
ton" and warned traders that all
goods of Rumanian origin or own
ership would be liable to seizure.
A ministry of economic warfare
statement said the Balkan King
dom, with which Britain severed
diplomatic relations last Monday
would be regarded as IAN enemy
destination for contraband pur
poses."
This action followed by a few
hours a board of trade ban OF
J trading with Rumania. It wa'
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q

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb.
14.-R-Prime Minister Peter
Fraser said today that New Zea-
lands war cabinet a giving
hourly attention to the situation in
the Pacific ocean, which he said
showed continuing deterioration OF
the utmost gravity.
He spoke in comment on dis
patches rom Australia reporting
a similar statement yesterday by
leaders of that sister dominion. l
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MRS. VIRGINIA C. CREE

TAMPA, Fla, Feb. IA Up -
Mrs. Vir ginia Carol Cree, ga, of
Salisbury, N. c., wife of the Rev.
Arch C. Cree, who recently retired
a pastor of the First Baptist church
there after II years, died unexpect.
eddy here tonight =. few hours after
arriving n Tampa for a visit.
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BOOM BUSINESS

ST. LOUIS, Feb. IA Up -
While being held up and robbed
of $40, Charles w. Lewis, fill
ing station attendant, asked:
CLOVIS business?"
"Fine," the robber replied,
sI'm making about S10O a
day"
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THREE KILLED

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-B-Po,;oo
tonight found three men dead and .
fourth dying on the bowerv wbers
they apparently had drunk from .
bottle containing a variety of LIQUOR
known as Smoke mixture 20
wood alcohol and water.
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BRITISH LOSSES

LONDON, Feb. 14.-R-The adj
miralty announced tonight that
British naval personnel losses since
the wars start totalled 12,346, in
Guiding 3,444 killed, 70 who died of
other causes, 1850 wounded, 6,040
missing and ia taken prisoner.
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CANDIDATE

CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb ),
-(RARomulo Gallegos, a noVeaS.
and head of the federal dlsl1',
administrative council, announce
today he would be a candidate III
president in the April elecuon
the first time in % years an ltus
pendent candidate has sough' "N'
office.
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made a punishable offense ito
have commercial, financial or other
intercourse or dealings with or for
the benefit of any person in that
territory" y,
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Obituaries
WALTER G. KRIYITSKY

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-R- In
the presence of only a dozen per-
sons-including his widow, Tanya
the body of Walter G. Krivit-
sky, who was found shot to death
Monday in his Washington, D.. c.,
hotel room, was cremated today.
There were no funeral services
for the man whose death brought
charges that he had been hound
ed and bounded" by Soviet secret
agents. Officially, his death was
listed as suicide.
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ADVOCATES BILL

J. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-LR-
William D. Mitchell, attorney-gen-
-eral in Herbert Hoover's cabinet,
advocated passage of the
1ease-lend bill.
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HUGO GUST

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-R-Hugo
Quist, who trained and managed
Paavo Nurmi, famous Finnish
runner, and Sonia Henie, Norwe-
gian skating champion and mo
ton picture actress, was found
dead in his bed at the Hotel Edi-
son today. He was so years old.
Friends said he had been suf-
fering from the flu but had refus-
ed to see a doctor.
Quist became almost as famous
in this country as Nurmi when he
brought the Phantom Finn to the
United States for a series Of races
after the 1924 Olympics. He also
trained Miss Henie after she turn
ed pro five years ago and was as
sociated with her until about two
years ago.
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YUGOSLAVIA IS
SLATED TO ENTER
HITLER'S ORDER
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preted in Balkan capitals as Turkeys
mo" to Axis efforts to win a pledge
from Ankara to keep still in the
event the Nazis make their expected
thrust through Bulgaria to get to
Greece and the Mediterranean.
Other signs of the mounting I'm
easiness in southeastern Europe were
seen in a u on clothing stores
(perhaps evidence of a fear of war
inflation) in Sofia, Bulgarian capital,
and a Greek call for reservists. AS a
result of the wild buying, the Bull
garian commissariat of supplies
closed the Sofia shops for three days.
There was official silence concern
ing the doings of Yugoslav Premier
Dragisha Cvetkovic and Foreign Min
lister Alexander Cincarmarkovic, who
flew to Germany yesterday at Hit
ler's call.
The Yugoslav public expected big
things to come out Of the German
visit of their leaders-possibly ad
herence of their World war-born ma
ton to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Troops Active
Activity of German troops in Ru.
mania-many of them massed along
The Danube opposite the Bulgarian
border-was given additional signifi
canoe by the fact that the Danube
now has opened to navigation. AL
though. there still were ice floes, un-
seasonal warmth started traffic g
month ahead of schedule.
In Bucharest, Rumania's capital
long line of German military con
voys rumbled through the black.
ed-out streets overnight while
rJazi and Rumanian fighter planes
patrolled the skies.
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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Feb. II. - (AP) -
Weather bureau records of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending S
p. M, il the principal cotton growing
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

In Death Valley it often is 120
degrees in the shade day after
day. q.
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Mount Mitchell Under
Ten Inches of Snow

BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. c. Feb.
14.-PHMt. Mitchell, 20 miles
north of here, was under ten inches
of snow tonight.
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STEP CLOSER

BERLIN, Feb. 14-CB- Yugo-
slavia was reported tonight to
have moved a step closer to CO.
operation with the Axis after a
conference between her leaders of
state and Adolf Hitler at Berch-
tesgaden this afternoon.
Beyond the bare statement that
the Yugoslav premier, Dragisa
Cvetkovic, and his foreign minis
ter, Alexander ~Cincar-Markovio,
had talked Sin friendly spirit"
with Hitler and German Foreign
Minister Won Ribbentrop, the au-
thorities remained silent.
But from well-informed quar-
tiers came declarations that Yugo-
slavia was approaching vital de-
cisions."
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The average age Of greatest ''
tainment for boxers is 70