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Allies, Turkey Boost Near East Forces
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JigDominions
wee Landed
It Suez Base
elief That New War Front
Will Be Opened In Cau
casus Heightened
ALKANS ARE ACTIVE
ugoslavia, Greece, Bulga
ria, Hungary Call Men
For Spring Training
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ISTANBUL. Feb. 12. (TP) Ar
fa! of a large contingent of Aus
aliiui and New Zealand troops at
,ez today and increased military
;tivjiv of four Balkan nations
listened the strong belief here
at a new war front will be open
either in the Caucasus or the
dkans this spring.
The landing of the Anzacs at
IPz—they were said here to num
r 30,000 — brought the total
rength of British, French and
■rkish forces in the Near East
nearly 1.000,000 men. Altogether
e three allies. Turkey being a
n-belligerent partner, are esti
ited to have a potential near
stern strength of 3,000.000 men.
Pilots Training
In addition to the Anzacs who
rived today it was understood
at Australian and New* Zealand
■ force pilots now training in
igland would join the Near East
•ces soon. The Anzacs were ex
cted to he moved to Palestine.
This military activity in the Near
ist was matched by similar action
the Balkans. Yugoslavia, Bul
ria. Greece and Hungary called
i men for "spring training,” while
(mania, whose oil is coveted by
rmary as well as by Britain and
ance, prepared to swell her army
1.600,000 by March 1.
In addition, advices from the
ontier town of Jesenice. Yugo
ivia, said that Italy was speed
si fortifications both in the Udine
Sion opposite Yugoslavia and in
p Brenner Pass zone oposite Ger
With Germany and the allies
ilemated on the western front.
Continued on Page Three, Col. 6)
rOFFORD OFFERS
WOUND 1 ND
ffer Of Tract Adjoining
)elgado School Made By
Davis And Matthes
The Spofford Mills, Inc., through
Holmes Davis and F. A. Matthes,
is offered to give the school board
operty adjoining Delgado school
>' a playground, Dr. John T. Hog
r<C ^airman of the board of edu
tio", said yesterday.
He said also that "as a result oX
conference with Mr. Davis,” the
®mittee named to select a new
one for Delgado school, will re
mroend that it be named in me
wy of Prof. Washington Catlett,
10 *ervt,d in private and public
leans here as teacher and supe
indent for 64 years.
program for complete renova
of the school property, financ
1 tough the assistance of WPA,
“°'v underway.
Hoggard said he wisher! to
a‘e Publicly the school board’s
•Continue,1 „„ page Four; Col. 4)
BLATHER
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lesilav- ,!!' extreme west portion
fatly colder Sday C 1 0 “ d y aDd
Jinee7r"i0»ical data tor the 24 hours
6 '•*> in m. yesterday).
1:30 a Temperature
■ 6(1 7!1 44; 7::i(J a- ">• 41; 1:3« P
initiii, 'S p' m- 49; maximum 61;
4»; mean 50; normal 48.
1:30 a r Hllmi<lity
• a- ?■% ®'l 7:30 a. in. 83; 1:30 p.
1 1 ,iu P- in. 52. *
Total for ..,*’recir>5tati‘>*»
r,f: tot'd!; °UI?. ending 7:30 p. m..
0 inches slnoe flrst of the month,
Tides For Today
i'mington - ^
,SOnbo,o Met-10:38a 4:42a
Sunrise 6 50.,. 10:50p 5:05p
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ntil|ued on Page Three, Col, 51
Salvation Army lassies like these aided the homeless in Albany,
Ga., where 22 were killed by a tornado. These Salvation Army workers
are shown laden with loaves of bread.—(Acme Telephoto).
Dixie Cafe Kitchen And
Portion Of Roof Burned
__ «i_
GREASE STARTS FIRE
Adjoining Buildings Are
Threatened But Are Not
Seriously Damaged
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The kitchen and real portion of
the roof of the Dixie cafe, 117 Prin
cess street were swept by a fire
that started last night about 7:20
o’clock when a pan of grease over
turned on a stove. Adjoining build
ings were not seriously damaged.
No estimate of the loss was avail
able last night.
The cook at the cafe said he was
cooking some potatoes in a pan ol
deep fat when it overturned and
quickly burst into flames. The
metal ventilator over the stove suck
ed the flame up and carried it to
the ceiling and roof.
Damage Concentrated
The damage was concentrated al
most entirely in the Kitchen. The
stove, large amounts of china,
glasses, foodstuffs and other prop
erty were destroyed.
Holes wefe burned in the roof in
the kitchen and in the storage room
to the rear.
When firemen arrived, tongues of
flame were eating through the com
position ceiling and through the roof
and appeared to be threatening to
start a major conflagration. It was
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 7)
COUNTY APPROVES
BOND RESOLUTION
Money For Schools, Home
Expected To Be Avail
able By April 1
A formal resolution calling for
the issuance of $86,000 in school
hu Iding bonds and $12,000 in coun
ty home bonds was adopted at yes
terday afternoon’s meeting ot the
county commissioners.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted. It stated the bonds are
being issued because it was found
(Continued on Page Four, Col. 6) .
Newspaper Advertising
Favored By U. S. Banks
CHICAGO, Feb. 12— (/P> —
Newspapers will receive more
than half of the advertising ex
penditures of the nation’s banks _
this year, results of a survey by
the Financial Advertisers as
sociation indicated today.
Thirty per cent of the banks
studied, the survey showed, were
increasing their appropriations
in 1940 while 05 per cent were
maintaining budgets set up in
1939 and only 5 per cent while
reducing them. Banks included
in the survey ranged from the
world’s largest institutions to
those with resources of around a
million dollars.
Banks in the 25 to 50 million
dollar class reported they would
use 64 per cent of their appro
priation in newspapers; those in
the 50 to 100 million dollar class,
54 per cent; those under 25 mil
lion, 56 per cent and those of
100 million or more, 50 per cent.
AUGUSTUS BONAUD
GIVEN PROMOTION
Named Forwarding Agent
At S. A. L. Headquarters
In Portsmouth, Va.
Augustus Bonaud, chief passen
ger agent in charge of the Wil
mington station of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad company, has
been promoted to forwarding agent
at S. A. L. headquarters in Ports
mouth, Va.
Mr. Bonaud said last night that
he will leave for Portsmouth the
latter part of this week.
He came here in 1920 from Sa
vannah, Ga., w'here he first started
in the employe of the Seaboard as
an office boy. He has been an
employe of the Seaboard for al
most 40 years.
Mr. Bonaud said that he will re
turn from Portsmouth after his
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 8)
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Germans And
Russians Sign
Trade Accord
Reds’ War With Finns May
Be Handicap In Meet
ing Needs Of Reich
PACT’S AIDsTHANGED
Soviets Need Spare, Substi
tute Parts For Gun Man
ufacturing Machines
BERLIN, Feb. 12—(IP)—Nazi Ger
many and Soviet Russia signed a
new pact today to speed up their
mutual trade—an agreement likely
to find Russia’s preoccupation with
the Finnish war a handicap in meet
ing the Reich’s stiff war needs.
As originally conceived by Ger
man and Russian leaders, the pact
was to give Germany a great share
of the vast raw materials of the
Soviet Union and to let Russia im
port the manufactured products of
highly-industrialized Germany.
Favored Germany
In early negotiations it was as
sumed here that the pact would be
of greatest advantage to Germany.
But since the day when German
Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop
visited Moscow last fall to sign the
German-Russian friendship pact
which changed the entire aspect of
European politics, Russia has her
self embarked on a war which
■oretrns-sire unust greatlSH5f6|r tip her*
munitions industry and provide her
self with precision instruments of
all kinds.
As a result, the Reich may have
greater difficulty in supplying the
Soviet with her industrial needs,
than will Russia in sending her raw
materials to Germany.
When the pact was first envisaged
it was thought that Russia would
need machinery chiefly for the pro
duction of consumer goods.
Now Germany is fighting for her
very existence and hardly can
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 6)
ROOSEVELT PLANS
VACATION CRUISE
Nation’s Chief Will Leave
This Week On Mid-Win
ter Vacation Trip
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — OP) —
President Roosevelt will leave this
week for a mid-winter vacation
trip w'hich is expected to develop
into a cruise in southern waters.
The White House declined to
comment on the trip. It was
learned on good authority, how
ever, that the President would dis
close details at a press conference
tomorrow.
Since he had made it an annual
custom to take a fishing trip
around February, it was assumed
he would again use a navy cruiser
and sail southward along the At
lantic coast. or • possibly enter the
Gulf of Mexico.
One reason for the secrecy sur
rounding the trip, it appeared, was
the fact that belligerent war ves
sels have been reported in the
Caribbean from time to time. Mr.
Roosevelt himself reported last fall
that a submarine had been sighted
off Miami, Fla., and another near
Key West, Fla.
_‘Horse-And-Buggy’ Radio
Ancient transportation meets modern communication in this make
shift radio station rigged in an chi Russian stagecoach pictured above.
Used as radio headquarters by Russians, coach was part of booty
captured by Finns at Siionmssalmi.
shepherd Loses Battle
In Atlanta GG Tourney
OTHER FIGHTS SLATED
a v ■■■■ 1 ’
‘Red’ Beard To Go Against
A. D. Ragna, Champion
Of Columbus Club
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 12.—J. P.
Shepherd, of Raleigh, featherweight
champ on the Wilmington Star
News Golden Gloves team, lost a
close decision to Johnny McGrath,
of Pensacola, Fla., in a cagey ex
hibition of boxing in the opening of
of the annual Southeastern United
States Golden Gloves tournament
here tonight.
Other fights scheduled tonight
ire:
Henry Gilliken, welterweight
champ of Wilmington, will fight
White, of Pensacola.
Vance “Red" Beard, Fayetteville
lad who placed on the Wilmington
team, will meet A. D. Ragna, 160
pound champion of the Columbus,
3a., Enquirer and Ledger team.
A crowd of approximately 7,000
fans had gathered in the Atlanta
3ity Auditorium to watch the 203
simon-pures battle for honors to
night. The first matches got under
way at S o’clock.
Throughout the first round, both
Shepherd and McGrath -were cau
tious and fought a careful fight.
Shepherd landed often with his left
book to the stomach, while Mc
3rath depended on his right.
McGrath, a crawty boxer, wor
ried Shepherd with his left hook
while counting up points with his
right, w'hich failed to disturb Shep
herd. Shepherd, fighting what was
perhaps the smartest fight of his
career, continued to belt McGrath
with hard lefts to the stomach, and
count with rights to the head.
Throughout the third round both
boys changed their tactics and
threw away caution shown in the
earlier tilts. McGrath was receiv
ing blow for blow, with Shepherd
continuing to use his left jab at its
best. It was the first round in
which neither boxer had full ad
(Continued oil Page Three, Col. 7)
Cooper Is Endorsed
By Rail Conductors
A unanimous endorsement of
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper’s can
didacy for governor of North
Carolina was passed in a res
olution at the meeting of the
Rocky Mount division No. 535,
Order of Railway Conductors,
yesterday in Rocky Mount, ac
cording to a telegram received
from J. W. Hollowed, secretary
and treasurer of the organiza
tion.
CHIANG S FORCES
OPPOSED BY WANG
Troops Landed On Coast Of
Fukien And Engage Gen
eralissimo’s Army
SHANGHAI, Feb. 13—(ZP)—(Tues
day) — A Chinese army supporting
former Premier Wang Ching-Wei
has landed on the coast of Fukien
province and is fighting the forces
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek,
Japanese military authorities here
stated today.
Without mentioning where the
troops came from, the Japanese said
they had landed Monday at an un
named spot “with the cooperation of
the Japanese army and navy.”
The Japanese, who are supporting
Wang in his program to form a new
central Chinese government in co
operation with Tokyo and in opposi
tion to Gen. Chiang’s Chungking
regime, called the force the “peace
and national reconstruction army."
This army, the existence of which
has not been mentioned before was
said to have captured the town of
Shaoan, in Fukien province near the
Kw'angtung border. The Japanese
hinted the force was about 50,000
strong.
Two other fields of battle kept
Chinese spotlights today. In Kwang
si province in the south the Chinese
laid claim to victories over the Jap
REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS LAUD LINCOLN,
ATTACK DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
(By The Associated Press)
Republican notables celebrat
ed Lincoln day yesterday with
speeches in many cities ex
tolling the Civjl war president
and, usually, condemning the
New Deal.
The orators included three
avowed candidates for the
party’s presidential nomination,
Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, Senator Taft of Ohio,
and Senator Bridges of New
Hampshire, and while they re
frained from pressing their
candidacies, their expressions
on current problems were
searched with care by politi
cal observers.
Taft, at Greensboro, N. 0.,
asserted that “if the New Deal
were licensed to proceed in
the 1940 elections,” forces would
be unloosed which would car
ry the nation inevitably to “a
modern streamlined totalitarian
dictatorship.’’
From Dewey, at Portland,
Ore., came a statement that
the last seven years had seen
a “constant erosion of capi
tal.” A capital outlay of $36,
000,000,000 would have been
necessary to offset wear and
tear on industrial plants and
equipment, he asserted, while
only $29,000,000,000 had actual
ly been spent for this purpose.
The New Deal, he added, to
tally fails to recognize this
factor.
Bridges told an Oklahoma
City audience that Lincoln
would deplore “the economic
power of the government over
its citizens as a trend toward
making the citizen a ward of
the state in the guise of be
nevolent paternalism.”
A democrat, and one to
whom presidential aspirations
are widely accredited, Senator
Wheeler of Montana, made a
Lincoln day speech at Jersey
City, N. J. He said the coun
try was engaged in “economic
and social warfare,” of a type
that “destroys the souls and
the moral fibre of a people.”
The nation needs, he asserted,
“to catch just a bit of the
light which was in .the mind
of Lincoln.”
Former President Herbert
Hoover laid down a series of
ten “musts” for the country.
It “must,” he said, among
other things, abandon a "na
tional drift toward statism,”
adopt “the concept that it is
only through steadily increas
ing productivity of the nation
that we can make progress,”
turn from "government spend
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 3)
anese in a hard-hitting counter-of
fensive, while the Japanese told of
gains in the extreme northwest, in
Inner Mongolia.
Official Chinese military d i s
patches received at Chungking said
the Chinese had reoccupied the
Town of Pingyang 50 miles north
east of Nanning, Kwangsi capital,
on Sunday and nearby Wutning the
day before.
As a result, the Chinese said, the
recent Japanese offensive in this
regie n threatening the Chinese
southwestern '‘lifeline” supply
routes has been checked, and the
invader? are said to have been put
on the defensive in the Nanning
area.
The Japanese countered such
claims by saying their forces had
“successfully concluded” an attack
on 34 Chinese divisions. They said
Chinese in the Pingyang area were
“almost annihilated.”
PUSH SUMMA
AREA BA TTLE,
BOMB VJIPUR1
w _ '
Gunnar Hockert, Star
Finnish Runner, Loses
Life Fighting Soviets
HELSINKI, Feb. 12. — W> —
Gunnar Hockert, who set new
world’s records for the 3,000
ineter and two-mile runs at the
1936 Olympics in Berlin, was
reported today to have been
killed yesterday in fighting on
the Karelian Isthmus, t
Hockert was the second fa
mous Finnish athlete to lose his
life in the war with Russia.
Birger YVasenius, ace speedskat
er, was killed in action in De
cember while leading a ski
patrol across frozen Lake La
doga.
Hockert set a new' world’s
record of 8:14.8 in winning the
3,000-nieter run at Berlin, racing
home ahead of a field which
included his fellow countryman,
Taisto Maki, now in the United
States on an exl.ibition tour to
raise money for Finland. He
broke the record of 8:18.4 set
by Henry Nielsen, of Denmark,
in 1934.
Hocliert’s mark for the two
mile was 8:57.4 seconds—almost
a second better than the record
set by Don Lash of the United
States in June, 1936.
‘SECRET’ POLICE
METHODS FLAYED
High Court Reverses Con
viction Of FlarNegroes
Sentenced To Die
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12— UP) —
The supreme court spoke out sharp
ly today against "secret, inquisitor
ial” police methods in reversing the
conviction of four Florida negroes
sentenced to death for the robbery
slaying of a white man.
In a Lincoln’s birthday session,
the court found that confessions ob
tained from the prisoners through
five days of continuous grilling, even
if unaccompanied by physical mis
treatment, violated their constitu
tional right to "due process of law. ’
The circumstances were such, the
court said, as to fill the prisoners
with "terror” and "the haunting
fear of mob violence was around
them.”
The unanimous opinion was read
in the hushed chamber by Justice
Black, whose appointment to the
bench was the centre of an angry
controversy because of his one-time
membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
He rcknowledged at the time that
he was once a Klan member but
added that he resigned.
Black slowly and solemnly de
clared :
"Today, as in ages past, we are
not without tragic proof that the
exalted power of some governments
to punish manufactured crime dicta
torially is the handmaid of tyranny.
"Under our constitutional system,
courts stand against any winds that
blow as havens of refuge for those
who might otherwise suffer because
they are helpless, weak, outnumber
ed. or because they are non-con
forming victims of prejudice and
public excitement.
"Duo process of law, preserved for
all by our constitution, commands
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 5)
Soviets Throw Several Di
visions Into Fray After
Brief Week-End Lull
USE ARTILLERY, TANKS
Finns Claim Attacks Re
pulsed, Estimate 72 Rus
sian Tanks Destroyed
By WADE WERNER
HELSINKI, Feb. 12.— (TP) —
Throwing several divisions into the
fray after a brief week-end lull
which followed 10 days of contin
uous bitter fighting, the Russian
army smashed heavily tonight at
the Summa sector of the Manner
heim line.
As the Russians returned to the
assault with new fury, their heavy
artillery began a long range bom
bardment of the battered seaport
of Viipuri, 20 miles behind the
battle front.
Artillery, tanks and aircraft
supported the Russian infantry in
the new Summa sector offensive,
which the nightly Finnish com
munique said was launched yes
terday and was continuing unabat
ed tonight.
Strike Center, Flank
While the main attack thundered
against Summa, the Russians
struck simultaneously at the center
and the east flank of the Karelian
Isthmus front.
Near the River Vooksi, north
east of Summa, 150 tanks sup
ported the Russian assaults, while
at Taipale, near the shores of
Lake Ladoga, a four-hour barrage
preceded a heavy artillery attack.
The Finns said both attacks were
repulsed and estimated that 72
Russ’an 1 uks had been destroyed
in the day’s fighting—the greatest
one-day bag since the war began.
The Russians were also said to
have been repulsed in attempts to
outflank the Mannerheim line by
advancing across the frozen sur
face of the Gulf of Finland and
Lake Ladoga. Shore batteries scat
tered the attackers at both points,
the Finns reported.
The Finns said the Russians had
suffered “heavy losses” on the
Isthmus front, but again refrain
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 4)
BRITAIN, TURKEY
MAKE TRADE PACT
England To Exchange War
Materials For Tobacco
And Dried Fruit
LONDON, Feb. 12.—<iP>—Britain
today announced a new trade ac
cord with friendly Turkey would £o
into effect Feb. 19 in an effort to
boost commerce between the two
nations.
Britain hopes to oust Germany
from her position as the leading
salesman to Turkey and Turkey's
best customer as part of the Allies
< -onomic warfare against the Reich.
Under the new pact, which is tp
run a year and subsequent one-year
periods unless a signatory termi
nates it with at least three-months
notice, Britain will send airplanes,
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 8)
German Vessel Believed
Sunk When Cruiser Nears
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Wakama Broadcasts SOS
But Two Rescue Ships
Find Nothing Afloat
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 12 —
(.S’)—The German freighter Wa
kama, laden with oils and other
products on a gambling chance of
running the British gauntlet to
Germany, was believed by shipping
circles today to have been sunk or
scuttled when she encountered a
British warship.
The 3,771-ton vessel, which slip
ped out of Rio de Janeiro harbor
last midnight, broadcast an SOS
this afternoon, and shortly after
ward two rescue ships which raced
to the scene reported they found
nothing afloat.
(Continued on Page Three, Col. 5)
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