Newspapers / Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, … / Feb. 4, 1940, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
__■’ Dedicated to the *w p ™-M et we sss, ™ __s lu9tl5"« "v _I ^ kr V W kP Wilh Complele Cov"age of L-£—1 — '_jSjnrwig E^Enr emrv®FPB®aiaieii8 -amis jpyaSyil^ sna«.< N,tta»i n«. V0L_7h^°'t--WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1940 -ir -k ' PRICE FIVE CENTS I 20 Bombers Take Part In Attacks Battles Fiercest Over Eng land Since War Began; 4th Plane Hit SPECTACULAR CLASH One Of Four Nazi Bombers British Claimed Downed Falls Upon Land LONDON, Feb. 3.— ™ —Britain’s Royal Air Force, fighting to protect her vital sea lanes from Germany’s bomb blockade, today shot down three Nazi warplanes in the fieicest air battles over England since the war’s start. Late tonight it was reported that a fourth German bomber had been damaged so badly that it "probably did not reach home.” British observers estimated that at Fast a score of German bombers joined in the wave of attacks on British and neutral shipping up and down 400 miles of the east coast. “Nothing To Say” The admiralty late tonight had “nothing to say” regarding the re ports by DNB, official German news agency, that 14 ships—includ ing nine merchantmen, four Biiiish patrol boats and one minesweeper— were sunk during the day. Survivors of one plane attack on the 629-ton Norwegian freighter Tempo—landed with a story of hav ing been both bombed- and ma chine-gunned by three Nazi planes. At least four of her 14 crewmen were known to have died. The British airmen’s reply to the third German attack within a week on the island kingdom's food sup ply lines coincided with a fighting talk by War Minister Oliver Stan ley, his first since joining the cabi net last month. Stanley called upon Britons to fight “until Germany’s threat as a military power is laid forever.” His speech was followed by authorita tive predictions that 24-year-o’ds would be registered in April and called up for military service in May. This would add approximately 250,000 more men to Britain’s armed forces which Prime Minister Cham (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) 3 DIE, 7 HURT IN AUTO CRASH Two Fort Bragg Soldiers, Canton Man Lose Lives Near Asheville ASHEVITjLE. Feb. 3.—UP)—'Three persons were killed and seven in jured tonight when two automobiles collided head-on eight miles from here on the Asheville-Canton high way. Those killed were Adam Knight, 39, of Canton, driver of one of the cars; Private First Class Winston O. Brackett, 17tli field artillery, Fort Bragg, driver of the other car; and Private Harry J. Burnette, also of the 17th field artillery, Fort Bragg. The injured were Mrs. Adam Knight, wife, and Wallace Knight, Annie V. Knight and Jennie Rnby Knight, children of the dead man; Shirley Owen, 16, a friend of the Knights; and Privates Kay Jones and C. L. Burress, also of the 17th field artillery, Fort Bragg. Marty Die Aj^pleds Bomb Six Finnish Cities flannerheim Line Shelled By Russians 30 Dead Counted In Kuo pio, Rail-Line City Near Center Of Finland BIG GUNS BOOMING Finns Admit Red Artillery ‘Very Powerful’ But Are ‘Answering’ HELSINKI. Feb. 4— (Sunday)— (Ji—Finland's most terrible punish ment bv bombs in a little more than two months of Russian in vasion was reported early today, with a total of IS planes raiding one city alone and many other cities suffering deadly raids. First estimates of Saturday’s vic tims said at least 50 were killed and 100 wounded in the south half of Finland, but that was before the 7S planes, in three waves, made an evening attack on Kuopio, the. second of the day. City of 10,000 Kuopio, a railway city of some 10,000, is located in the great lake country of middle Finland. While these raids were going on. fcis guns of the Red army shelled the Mannerheim line from one end to the other, after two days of direct attack had been broken on the battlefield of Summa. In a raid earlier in the day, thirty people had been killed at Kuopio. Casualties from the second raid were not known, for the popu lace was huddled in air raid shel ters far into the night. Three Finnish fighting planes fought a fleet of twenty Soviet bombers in a spectacular air bat tle over Kerava, near Helsinki, late in the day. The Russians dump ed all their bombs and turned on their machine-guns. Residents of the town came out of air raid shel ters to see one Soviet bomber fall and the others turn tail and run. Chapel Bombed Ten People were killed when a 16-plane Russian squadron bombed a chapel at Sienajoki. At Pori, on the southwest coast, there were many dead and wound «d. Several others were killed at (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WEATHER V , FORECAST ‘ ort“ Carolina: Fair and somewhat (j-:1?1Sunday, increasing cloudiness i:. ni?ht and Monday, occasional V*!11!* snow in west portion. •AUn Carolina: Fair and somewhat S3? Sunday; Monday mostly weir" oc.casic»!ial light rain in north* (]aj; P°rtlon Sunday night and Mon tnrnn'^-roi°*’C;l* data for the 24 hours « <:u0 p in. yesterday). i.«n Temperature tt. 3R-8-®* 23; 7:30 a* m- 39 ’ 3:30 P minim,’,J™ P* m* 3S; maximum 42; Um 33 >’ mean ;,0; normal 47. i.aa Humidity a. 34- 41; 7:30 a. m. 6S; 1:30 p. '•» p. in. 20. Tofoi , , Precipitation Bone-fotfi24-hours ending 7:30 p. m., tone.' t0ta smce first o£ the month, Tides For Today Wilmin., High Low nmmgton - 6:46a 1:24a HasonW . 7:04p 1:55p uoro Inlet - 5:02a 31:07a Suntiw. 5:10p 11:17p ii$p ± a-; ‘ 'ha: sunset 5:45p; moon • ; moonset 2:47p. - leather V 1 '-N - * ebruary 3.— UP) — am] Pflinf neau rec°rds of temperature *P. m a l4for the -4 hours ending lug nPn’ Jn ',lle Principal cotton-grow Static^ S a,ld elsewhere: MtviHo i High Low Free. Atlanta 44 43 tuxj Atlantfe Fr?udy ,- 43 20 0.00 Boston £ dear — 38 13 0.00 Buffalo n„ d,y - 29 1« «».00 Chicago J, ,ldy - 20 8 0.00 ShaiUnaH °U|dy - 41 10 0.00 Dallas l l doudy — 44 8 0.00 Den^ Ci?udy - 44 38 0.53 Detroit’ d oudy - 50 20 0.00 11 Da o ?r ,- 40 17 0.00 Calveston c/!udy - 54 38 (1.00 J?etsonviiiPC eaf- 51 45 '*> Kansas r,’ d,oar — r>0 32 o.oo Key \yf£ty\ cl°utly . 31 20 0.08 .Little Ko('kC ??r 1- 03 54 O.Qt1 Los Anepk’ do.udy - 34 24 0.03 Louisvili ea', rain — 57 54 0.83 JlaniOhio ’ r.i Vdy — 38 13 0-00 Jlianij doudy- 42 24 0.00 Jew Orleans “V- 08 49 0-00 ve"’ York i ?ar — 50 37 0.00 i?rtolk, clear011 y " 15 a0° u'tteburgk ^ - 39 49 0-00 i'tiafi,1® — 30 u o.oo J'ciiinon i i’ dear - 24 43 0.00 4 Lou” ’ dear - 43 10 0.00 5 Antonio T-- 31 12 «•" san Drand£„ T V 51 54 °-4<J Snnah 1°- doudy 94 54 0.03 ifnipa, elpor - 53 25 0.00 XfsWngton --— 58 38 0.00 ‘Dnington’ 'ear — 39 18 0.00 ° °n' cl(:ac — 42 19 0.00 -!- .Q& ---^ Picture? J&, flow Many Finns Are There? --—-- I _____ Now you see them, now you don’t. The Russians evidently didn't see the Finns blended like these seven wliite-clad soldiers hidden by the foliage and snow background on the Petsamo front in northern Finland. Arrows will help you spot them in this exclusive puzzle picture by Eric Calcraft, N|SA staff photographer now operating with Finnish forces in the north. Illinois Democrats File F. R. ’s Name In Primary IRON LUNG FUND DRIVE IS OPENED Artificial Respiration De vice To Be Displayed At Local Postoffice Wilmington’s Iron Lung, funds to purchase which are being raised in a campaign sponsored by the Civitan club, arrived in the city yesterday and plans are being made to put it on display in the lobby of the post office sometime this week, Alan A. Marshall, chairman of the commit tee in charge of the campaign, an nounced last night. For some time an initial gifts cam paign has been quietly conducted in the city and plans have been com pleted, Marshall said, to begin wag ing a general campaign for funds sometime next week. “We are going to wage a general campaign for funds with which to purchase this iron lung because we want every person in Wilmington (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) NEGROMARAUDER HITS BABY HERE Several Homes Terrorized By Sudden Appearance; Police Hunt Him A negro who police officers saic was apparently crazy, drunk oi doped created pi.nic in the south ern sector of the city last night as he ran into seven or eight white homes, and then dashed out. In only one instance did he harm anyone, officers said. That was at 717 South Sixth street where, Chief Joseph C. Rourk said, he struck a two-year-old baby in the head (Continued on Page Eight; Co>. 8) "dewey files himself Balloting Slated April 9, One Of First In Nation On 1940 Issue SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 3.— — Petitions to enter President Roosevelt in the Illinois presiden tial preference primary were filed today, but they afforded no answer to the moot question of whether the Chief Executive would seek a third term. The unheralded action was taken by Chicago democratic leaders shortly after Thomas E. Dewey en tered the primary and his state spokesman challenged other repub lican contenders to got into the race. 14,000 Signatures The petitions for Mr. Roosevelt, bearing 14,000 signatures, were brought to the office of Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes. They shed no light on the President’s in tentions, however, because they were not accompanied by the cus tomary signed statement of can didacy. Hughes predicted the President’s name would be printed on the bal lot submitted to voters in the April 9 primary—one of the earliest in the nation. He concluded that a signed certi ficate—required by law from can didates for nomination or election —would not be necessary in the preferential referendum because such a vote is purely advisory and does not bind delegates to the national conventions. However, he told reporters that the question of placing Mr. Roose velt’s name on the ballot would be decided officially at a meeting of the state certifying board early in March. Members of the board are Hughes, Gov. Henry Horner and State Auditor Edward J. Barrett, all democrats. The petitions were circulated and signed by members of the Chicago democratic organization in ward (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Pennsylvania Democrats Urge F. R. Third Term BY TOM REEDY Associated Press Staff Writer HARRISBURG, Pa., Peb. 3.—UP) —A “free and open” primary was ordered tonight by Pennsylvania’s democratic state committee, which voted to avoid all endorsements rather than chance an open split over the candidacy of Senator Joseph F. Guffey for re-election. The action came through sus pension of a 10-year-old rule re quiring that the state committee endorse a ticket in advance of a primary election. In two days of pre-convention caucusing, leaders were unable either to agree on Guf fey or on a substitute. The convention, after less than 30 minutes discussion, voted the open primary 87 to 22. Senator Guffey, who had remained in his hotel room, hailed the move as “in telligent and far-seeing action.” “I am well pleased,” commented Guffey, who had announced he’d run no matter what the convention did. There was enthusiastic unanimity on one subject—President Roosevelt for a third term. By a rising, shouting vote the democrats adopted a resolution "insisting” that he run again. Cheers greeted every men tion of his name. Guffey, one of the earliest of the third-term advocates, reiterated he would campaign solely on his rec (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) ONLY FIVE RACES SCHEDULED HERE Register Of Deeds, Three Commissioners, Con stable On Ballot After the supreme court’s deci sion Friday that sheriffs and cor oners in North Carolina shall serve four year terms henceforth, there will be only five elective offices to be filled at the county election on May 25. These offices, and their present holders are as follow: Register of deeds, Adrian B. Rhodes: county commissioners, Ad dison Hewlett, chairman, Reuben Roebuck and Dr. James M. Hall:, and constable, William Henry Ez Other county officers, Including the remaining county commission ers, recorder, solicitor, and clerk of court, will be filled at the elec tion in 1942. City offices, consist ing of mayor, commissioner of fi nance and commissioner of public works, will be elected in 1941. The question concerning the sheriff and coroner terms was de cided by the supreme court after a long argument concerning their terms of office and the amendment to the state constitution changing their terms from two years to four years. Some opponents to the four year term based their arguments on the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) JAP WAR CRITIC FORCED TO QUIT Benefits From China War Will Outweigh Losses, Tokyo Declares TOKYO, Feb. 3.—iff)—Benefits from Japan's projected ‘‘new order” in China, War Minister Shunroqu Hata declared" tonight, will more than make up for any sacrifices in cluding the lives of 100,000 officers and men he said Japan already had lost in the war. In reply to the criticism of army policy in China by Takao Saito, mem ber of the house of representatives, Hata said the army regards the war with China as a “sacred cam paign.” The war minister said the Chi nese war was “entirely different from the so-called aggressive wars wherein the strong prey upon the weak” because peace will be restor ed to the Orient after the “pro-Com intern and anti-Japanese govern ment of China” is crushed. It is a matter of “profound re gret,” Hata said, that there are some who “entertain some doubt as to our objective in China." Saito, who questioned plans to set up a Japanese sponsored gov ernment in China, resigned from his political party, the Minseito, to day and the house disciplinary com mittee is considering further action against him. Already his speech has been stricken from the official rec ord. Saito invoked similar storms in 1935 and 1938 by questioning the army’s influence in Japanese policy. Rumania’s Arms Pact Falls Flat Balkan Powers Apparently Look To Various Big Nations For Aid TREATY SEEMS ‘OUT’ Rumania May Give Nazis Oil For Guarantee On Red Invasion By ROBERT B. FARKER, JR. j BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 3. (fP)—The four members of the Balkan entente—last surviving Eu ropean alliance for the defense of small nations—recognized tacitly tonight that each one must look individually to big powers to keep them out of Europe’s war. Sources close to the Yugoslavian, Rumanian, Turkish and Greek del egations o the entente confer ence here confirmed that their for eign ministers, meeting in a two hour session today, found their na tional interests too strongly di vergent to permit extension ol their anti-Bulgarian pact to save them collectively from the warring big powers. No Action Likely Foreign Ministers Grigore Cafen cu of Rumania, Sukru Saracoglu of Turkey, Alksander Cincar-Mar kovic of Yugoslavia and Premier General John Metaxas of Greece were understood to recognize frank ly the impossibility of making any important decisions whatsoever at this conference. t,ven me xugosiav-Kumanian plan for “economic neutrality" was understood to have petered out to mere “suggestions” which each na tion might adopt if it wished. Speaking at a banquet closing the conference, Cafencu repeated Rumania’s belief that Hungarian and Bulgarian differences with Ru mania could be settled in a “suit able form of regional agreement” including those two powers and the four Balkan entente nations. He declared, however, that the entente manifests its right to “na tional territory.” This was inter preted as meaning such a regional agreement would not entail terri torial revision—basic demand for Hungarian and Bulgarian consent to negotiate. Both Hungary and Bulgaria have refused consistently to con sider a.iy negotiations except di rectly with those powers upon whom they have made territorial claims. Both Gafencu and Cincar-Mar kovic pai ' tribute to “Italy’s ef forts to maintain peace in south eastern Europe.” Neither speaker mentioned any of the belligerent powers. Reds Are Watching The way the eyes of the large powers are focused on the confer ence was shown in Moscow by the assertion of Pravda, communist party organ, that Great Britain. France and Italy have selfish de signs in the Balkans, seeking through “increasing diplomatic in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) COLD WILL EASE UP SLIGHTLY HERE Low Of 25 This Morning, With Rain, Perhaps Snow, Tonight Wilmingtonians, still shivering from the drop to 19 degrees early Saturday morning that came along with hard, cold winds, were prom ised a weather menu not so cold today—the mercury was scheduled to drop to around 25 just before sunrise this morning. Yesterday’s fair skies will give way to “partly cloudy” — in the words of Weatherman Paul Hess of the U. S. meteorological bureau atop the customhouse. Rain, possibly some snow, may fall here tonight. The maximum reading yesterday was 42 degrees and the mean for the day was 30 — 17 degrees below normal. Berlin Says 32 Vessels Sunk By Nazi Warplanes During Past Six Days BERLIN, Feb. 3.—WB—The German official news agency re ported tonight that far-reaching Nazi air raiders today sank 14 ships in a blazing climax to a week of mass attacks on British ami neutral shipping. Three Nazi planes were destroyed. The day’s reported toll made a total of 32 ships—23 merchant men, eight British patrol boats and one minesweeper — which the Germans said have been sunk in the aerial forays which began last Monday and have ranged the entire length and breadth of the North Sea. The Germans said all the sunken merchantmen were eith er armed or convoyed. (They have contended that all such ships were subject to attack.) (The British announced that two, possibly three, Berman planes were shot down today. In London the loss of only one ship was reported up to midnight, however. It was the 629-ton Nor wegian freighter Tempo. At least four of the Tempo's crew of 14 were killed.) In addition to the ships sunk today, the Bermans reported nine ships were sunk last Monday and a like number on Tuesday. DNB said three German planes were lost as a result of air bat tles and anti-aircraft fire. Besides those ships definitely reported sunk, the German news agency said "numerous” addi tional armed merchantmen were damaged, some “heavily.” The day’s raids were the third extensive Nazi forays against British shipping this week. Eighteen ships, the Germans claimed, were sunk last Monday and Tuesday but not all these were admitted by the British. The German high command reported nine ships were sunk in the North Sea on Monday and the same number on Tues day—when Adolf Hitler was promising the British and French "the war they wanted.” In Monday’s bombing and ma chine gun attacks the Germans said seven “enemy - convoyed armed merchant ships” and two patrol vessels, totalling 21,378 tons, were sunk. Tuesday the Nazi high com mand reported that “again sev en armed commercial ships were sunk” in addition to two Brit ish patrol boats. Big Dutch Freighter Fired By Mine Blast AMSTERDAM, Feb. 4. — (Sunday)—(/P)—Radio messages from the 5,825-ton Dutch steam er Laertes early today told of a successful fight by 100 crew men against fire--which- Swept the ship after the vessel had sent an “S 0 S” saying she had struck a mine in the Eng lish channel. Late messages said the Laer tes was proceeding at half speed after the crew, which at first took to the boats, had climbed back on board and put out the flames. No one was re ported hurt. A tugboat was on its way from Flushing to help the crippled steamer. The Laertes, owned by the Navigation Com pany Oceaan of Amsterdam, was on its way here from the British contraband control base at Weymouth. FARM BLOC SEEKS TO RESTORE CUTS Senator Glass Sees Little Chance Of Substantial Budget Reduction WASHINGTON, Feb. 3— </P> — Despite deep cuts in President Roosevelt’s spending requests, Sen ator Glass (D-Va.), a leading econo my advocate, said today that there was little chance for “any substan tial reduction in the total budget.” The 82-year-oid Glass, chairman of the senate appropriations com mittee, told reporters that “people like to spend money too well—spec ially when they are spending other peoples’ money.” While Glass w'as talking, the sen ate farm bloc was organizing for an attempt to add hundreds of millions of the house-approved $722,001,0-4 farm bill, and Glass said it was un likely that the house figure could be retained. Besides restoring some house reductions, the senate farm (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) FRANCE AND U. S. PROTEST BOMBING Jap Plane Attack On Rail Line Owned By French Causes ‘Surprise’ PARIS, Feb. 3—(IP)—Government spokesmen voiced “indignant sur prise’’ today at reports that Japa nese warplanes had bombed a train on the French-operated Kunmigg Hanoi railway in southwestern China and said the matter would be “taken up” at once with Tokyo. Five Europeans were reported killed in the bombing, which de stroyed 100 yards of track and wrecked a bridge over which the train was passing. Most of these victims were believed French, al though details were lacking. Premier Daladier conferred with the Japanese ambassador, presum ably regarding the incident. Authorized , quarters said the bombing was a surprise, because France had been given to under stand by Japanese officials that attacks on the railway, which have occurred several times in the past, would not be repeated. This was in response to French protests in Tokyo% The ' railway extends from Kun ming, capital of Yunnan province, to the French Indo-China port of Haiphong by way of Hanoi. Twenty-seven Japanese planes were reported to have participated in the raid Thursday afternoon. (There were unconfirmed reports placing the total killed an'd injured as high as 100.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.— (IP) — The United States has made in formal representations to the Japa nese and French governments against activity on the Haiphong Yunnan railway which were held to be detrimental to American in terests. Authoritative sources disclosed today that the American ambassa dors in Tokyo and Paris during re cent weeks “had brought to the attention of the Japanese and French governments the interest the United States has in the rail way linking French Indo-China and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Stanley Bluntly Answers British Peace Advocates NEW CASTLE-ON - TYNE, Eng land, Feb. 3—CYP)— Giving a blunt answer to advocates of peace nego tiations, War Secretary Oliver Stan ley declared today that the war must go on to end forever the power of Germany's "to inflict upon the world the misery which twice in our life they have done.” Vehement in his first speech since taking office, Stanley said that a halt now would bring “no lasting peace but only a troubled truce,” with “no assurance for the present and no se curity for the future.” “Within a few months, at the most within a few years,” he said, "we should find we had not won peace but had sacrificed victory.” Britain, he said, is ready to "grasp with both hands at a peace which is both secure and honorable,” but only victory can assure such an end to the conflict. Stanley singled out Gen. J. B. M. Hertzog, former prime minister of the union of South Africa, as one of the advocates of peace and an "apo logist” for Adolf Hitler. Hertzog went out of office Sept. 6 after losing a campaign for a sep arate peace with Germany, and was defeated recently when he revived the issue in the union parliament. Stanley said "distance had lent enchantment” to Hertzog’s views on (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Buy A Home With Rent-Size Monthly Payments Talk to a few of your friends who are buying their homes, and ask them how much they pay per month. Then talk with a Real Estate broker about your own home requirements. A brief investigation will convince you that in the long pull it is cheaper, to BUY . . . and a lot more pleasant. See the homes advertised in today’s Want Ads. Star-News Classified A
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 4, 1940, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75