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ped!:?tfd to the _ ___ _ .. 1 ■ — 11 p„K^i.T THE "NEWS t?™Wpi^ emit h eastern N. C. " " ■ W0%m 1^ l;,rpublished VnV _1 li K WW W W Complete Coverage of ~ ___ taiTIMUl (^©G&T ©QW©(f TO@@®[l^gS [g)|UgA8ai^rgV^ state and National New VOL. 11-2^3----- WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 3. 1940 X X pmrp ftvf r'PVTa Hitler States War M ns To Welles Domination Of Central Europe Seen Jje Is Also Believed T® Have Said Britain’s Might Must End THEY talk at length F, R. Envoy Also Confers With Schacht, Ousted Economics Chief By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, March 2. — (iP> — Adoll Hitler zealously argued Nazi Ger many's case for a new place in the sun in a 94-minute session today nth Sumner Welles in which in formed sources said he pledged the jeich to fight until she felt secure b a vast central European "living ijace’ and had untrammeled ac cess to raw materials. Amid a great show of an ‘‘invin cible will to victory” in the nation to add to the information the American is sifting for Presdent Roosevelt, the fuehrer was portray ed as pledging a battle against the Allies until: S Hitler’s Claims 1. Germany has unchallenged po litical domination extending through Bohemia ■ Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary on the southeast and, through German-occupied Poland on the east. Great Britain and France pro mise not to stir up the Balkan nations on the south and Scandi navia on the north. 3. Germany's war-lost colonies are returned and the so-called Eng lish “stranglehold” on the world economic structure is broken. For the United States itself there mas the snecific infnrmatinn that improvement in German-American relations was most desirable. Welles hid behind an affable smile his reaction to the talk in the palatial chancellery but on the German side quarters close to the government seemed completely sat isfied with the results of the con ferencei Information had been given to him painstakingly, it was said, for belles came to Berlin with a repu tation of being a good reporter who could be depended upon to carry h^ck to his chief a factual state* ®ent of his impressions. *^ter important meeting with lter’ t^e American underscore (Continued on Page Three, Col. 2) [weather v,„. _ forecast lantti-j^arol‘I!a: Mostly cloudy and It »a,r,.tr°^casi0nal i'ght rain, slight. fon"ralhnt”!rPOrti0n SUnda5’: MUe? JjfjT°liDa: .Cloiidy and un liizhtlv ,.An °9casi°nal light rain. Sa%; Monday fJ*st'central P°rtt°“ ata for the 24 hours ‘ '•«» p. m. yesterday). 1-3(1 , Temperature * «7• ,j4: ":30 a. in. 55: 1:30 p. •inimiim "v>. p' 111: maximum 07; i “• niean 60: normal 30. 1:30 a m crHu,m.!dity *•$1: 7-Si , ' a- m- 87; 1:30 p. 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" 10 0.00 l»o Lv“ls- cloud” ~ Xi 38 0.0(1 VJ^fchco e!,.;;- 70 4 5 0.79 S , ‘'.doudv - I14 S3 0.01 *HU,' cloudv — l- 'll 0.00 %J*ton. ’rain" ' [f1 0.W doudv'- n 3 0.57 ' * I’7 *j2 0.00 Knitting For 150 Too busy knitting clothes for th< 150 children now living in hei chateau near Paris to stop even foi photographers, Screen .Star Made leine Carroll is pictured in Neu York where she recently arrive! from France. She will start knit' ting clubs in America to make clothes for French children. F. D. R.’S NAME ‘ PUT ON BALLOl Test Of F. R.-Garner Vot< Strength Is Scheduled For April 9 SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 2— (-T —The last apparent legal obstacli to a test of strength between Presi dent Roosevelt and Vice-Presiden Garner in the Illinois presidentia preference primary was removed to rln The state certifying hoard decidec to place Mr. Roosevelt’s name or the April 9 primary ballot. Tin members ruled that petitions filet by Chicago democratic leaders t< enter the chief executive in the con test were valid although they wer< not accompanied by a signed state ment of candidacy. WASHINGTON, March 2.— UP) - Senator “Honest Vic” Donahey ol Ohio, regarded as one of the demo crats’ best vote getters, announced today he would retire from the senate at the end of his present term. The lanky, gum-chewing senator who has spent 35 years in public life, declared he wanted to quit "foi a much needed rest and the pres ervation of my health.” Donahey, 66, recently declined tc run as a "favorite son” candidate for the democratic presidential nom ination. Third term supporters hac hoped Donahey would make the race and then turn the Ohio delega tion over to Mr. Roosevelt if he should seek renomination. The Ohioan declared today thal he had “endeavored to »o conduct my public and private acts that I (Continued on Page Three, Col. 1) Finns 4im 34th Division E 'Annihilated’ Tank Unit Wiped Out North Of Lake Ladoga While On Rescue Mission VIIPURI STILL STANDS Defenders Declare Soviet Forces Held At Bay Along Isthmus BY VVADE WERNER HELSINKI, March 2—tS’)—Fin land’s stalwart fighters tonight marked up another smashing defeat to the Red army in the cold fast ness northeast of Lake Ladoga, while the defenders of Viipuri held i at bay ponderous Russian forces storming the very gates of the an cient key city on the Karelian Isthmus. This time, the Finns announced, it was the 34th Moscow tank bri MOSCOW, March 3.—(Sunday) —(/P)—The capture of the rail way station and the southern part of the strategic Finnish city of Viipuri was reported early today by the Russian ar my, which has been seeking to capture Viipuri for more than a month. gade which was trapped in a snow shrouded labyrinth — so easy to march into, so deadly when phan tom ski troops suddenly close the exits — where the formidable 18th Soviet division recently met its doom. On Rescue Mission 1 The 34th tank brigade had been attempting to come to the rescue of tho 18th division. But it was caught, the Finns said, encircled i and finally annihilated, meeting the same fate of the division its mission was to save. Thus tonight another frozen bat tlefield, with some 2,050 Russian dead, lay northeast of -Lake Ladoga, another ghostly monument to the 1 strategic skill of Finnish generals 1 and phantom troops. Destruction of the 34th brigade ■ was no easy task. Numerically inferior to the in vading force and vastly inferior in weight of motorized equipment, the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) BETTER HOMES’ DRIVE PLANNED —— Mrs. Burton Of N.H.H.S. i Faculty Named Leader Of Organization - i Mrs. A. P. Burton, home econo mics teacher at the New Hanover High school, has been appointed ; local chairman of “The Better • Homes in America’’ campaign, spon- , sored by the Carnegie-Purdue Foun dation, with national headquarters at Lafayette Indiana. The purpose of the organization is to coordinate the various agencies, educational and social, civic and religious, towards definite and speci fic yearly and long-time goals for home improvement. | "The Better Homes in America” movement, which is an education (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Eighth Candidate Files ForN. C. Governor Race : ___ 3 RALEIGH, March 2—(iP)—A demo cratic gubernatorial field twice as large as any in North Carolina's his tory seemed likely today when Ar thur Simmons of Burlington formal ly entered the race by paying a fil ing fee of $105 to the state board of elections. Simmons was the fourth democrat to file. Others are J. M- Broughton and A. J. Maxwell of Raleigh and Lieut.-Gov. W. P. Horton of Pitts boro Pour others have announced they will run, and if all should file the field of eight would be twice as large as the record of four. They are Mayor Thomas E. Cooper of Wil- J mington, Paul Grady of Kenly, L. L. Gravely of Rocky Point and Bryant 1 Thompson of Hamlet. j For years, the governorship was c alternated between the eastern and t western sections of the state, and un> der that tradition—which may be a broken at the will of the voters—the t governor elected this year would f come from the east. Simmons comes from a politically v western county, and Thompson from a “a county near the imignary line which divides the east and the t (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) I ( ‘Scarlett O’Hara’ Wins ‘Oscar’ Vivien Leigh, British actress who played the role of Scarlett O Hara m the movie version of "Gone With the Wind,” is shown at Hollywood holding the gold “Oscar” awarded her by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in recognition of her choice as best actress of 1939. With her is Producer David 0. Selznick, winner of the Irving Thalberg award as producer of GWTW. (NEA Telephoto.) W. C. Peterson Is Fatally Hurt When Hit By Auto - *_ N. J. CALDER DRIVER ABC Agent Not Arrested, Pending Inquest Set For Tomorrow William C- Peterson, formerly a partner in the Peterson-Rulfs shoe Srm here and since retired, was fatal ly injured last night about 9:15 3'clock when he was struck by a car triven by Neil J. Calder, ABC en forcement officer, near the intersec don of 17th and Orange streets. He died within a few minutes after peing taken to a hospital. No Charged Preferred Calder was not arrested and no ■harges had been preferred last night pending the outcome of the coroner’s nquest, to be held Monday morning it 10 o’clock. Calder told police he was driving lorth on 17th street when Peterson ■an toward the middle of the street rom the curb on the east side. Al hough there were no eyewitnesses, police said he was apparently run ling across to avoid a car coming rom the opposite direction. Peterson’s death appeared to have peen caused by head bruises, pos libly a fractured skull and probable urther internal injuries. An investigation by police reveal Pd a small dent on Calder’s left ender and a spot of blood in the itreet about 25 feet past the inter action. TORNADO STRIKES EVANSVILLE, IND. jirl, 9, Killed And 12 Persons Hurt; Property Damage Is Great EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 2.— 5*)—A tornado, preceded by heavy ain and hail ripped through the lorth industrial section of Evans 'ille this afternoon, killing a 9 ear-old girl and injuring at least 2 persons. , Josephine Daugherty died in the ,'reckage of a two-story frame i lome. Her mother, Mrs. W. C. : iaugherty, 25, was injured danger- ■ usly and four younger Daugher y children were hurt. : The tornado came from the west nd skipped northeastward through ] lie city, striking with its hardest 1 irce in the industrial section. ] Weather bureau officials said the ’ rind reached a velocity of 48 miles 1 n hour. [ Several homes were twisted off i leir foundations and demolished, Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Postal Receipts Here Show 16 p. c. Gain If postal receipts are as re liable an index to business as economists say, Wilmington en joyed a veritable boom during February. The local postoffice took in $17,180 during last month, as compared with $13,963 during February, 1939. The increase in receipts over the same month of last year was 16 per cent, Postmaster W. R. Dosher figured. ANCIENT MUMMY FOUND IN EGYPT 3,600-Year-Old Tomb Of Psou Sennes Is Opened, Fortune Revealed CAIRO, Egypt, March 2.-MJP)— A king’s ransom in gold and jew els that for 3,600 years had graced i Pharoah’s mummy shone in the tierce Egyptian sunlight today. Archaeologists rejoiced in the discovery and exploration of a tomb some considered more im portant to historians than Tut Ankh-Amen’s—that of Psou Sennes, second king of the 21st dynasty and possibly one of Solomon’s many fathers-in-law. Discovery of the tomb two weeks igo and the opening of the royal sarcophagus on February 28 in the presence of modern Egypt’s ruler, King Farouk, crowned 10 rears of toil by the French Egypt ologist Pierre Montet. Working- for Strasbourg universi :y Professor Montet grubbed pa tently for a decade in the sands if San El Hagar, west of the Nile lelta site of the ancient city of ranis built by Rameses the sec md as a holiday resort. There under the great temple milt by Rameses, Montet found the :onib entrance, a shaft four feet leep, which led to an anteroom, t. short passage led the scientist o the burial chamber, 22 feet long, line feet wide and nine feet high, vith walls of rose granite. Inside the huge sarcophagus, tlso of 1 se granite and carved vith symbolic figures of the dead ling and the god Osiris, lay the lody of the man who ruled an em >ire which was old and dying vhen Homer sang of Troy, the lead encased in a mask of pure ;old and the body swathed in sil er gilt. The prize, sought in vain by (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) 532 Allied, Neutral Ships Sunk, Germans Claim; Wall Extended * - * - ADMIT 11 SUBS LOST Graf Spee, Two Destroyers And Six Patrol Boats Admitted Sunk BRITISH SCORN REPLTf BERLIN, March 2.—(/P) The German high command summarizing the first sis months of the war, reported tonight the destruction oi 532 Allied and neutral ships totaling 1,904,913 tons and characterized the Nazi losses as “small’' by comparison. At the same time t h ( communique disclosed t h a 1 Germany had extended he) West Wall fortifications al the way to the North Sea. (Recent dispatches f r o rr The Netherlands have re ported German troop move mpnt.s nlnno- t/hp TfpinVi’s northwestern frontiers, a n c some observers have express ed belief that these opera tions were connected with the construction of new bor der fortifications.) The high command listed Germany’s naval losses tc date as the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, two de stroyers—which were not mentioned by name, six pa trol boats or mine sweepers, and 11 submarines. Naval Losses Listed Among British naval losses were listed the battleship Royal Oak, the airplane carrier Courageous, the auxiliary cruiser Rawalpindi, and eight destroyers. Listed as heavily damaged were the battleships Nelson and Barham, the battle cruiser Repulse and three un-named cruisers in addition to a number of smaller vessels. LONDON, March 2-—(/Pi—Inform ed British quarters, commenting on Germany’s review of the first six months of war, said tonight they felt “the fantastic nature of the claims made by the German high command is so manifest that com ment at the moment is needless.” (By The Associated Press) The first six months of the new European war have been almost twice as disastrous as the corre sponding period in the World War (Continued on Page Three, Col. 7) F. D. R. RETURNS TO W E HOUSE He Raps Congress On Its Rejection Of Panama Canal Project WASHINGTON, March 2- —OT— President Roosevelt returned to the capital tonight to tackle domestic and international problems after a Central American cruise during which he inspected the defenses of the Panama Canal. Immediately on his arrival it was announced that he had signed the bill under which the resources of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) British Drop Flares On Berlin BY DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, March 2—(/P)—Ger man air raiders struck sporadic ally at Nortli Sea shipping today and the British air force reported its scouts had drawn anti-air craft fire by dropping flares and pamphlets over Berlin as the sixth month of the war ended with threats of wholesale aerial bombardments still unfulfilled. Capping its announcement of the exploits of British reconnais sance planes, the air ministry de clared that Royal Air Force fight ers had downed two German air craft on the western front, one a Dornier bomber which fell in French territory and the other a Messejschmitt which dropped be hind the Nazi lines. rru „ .... le__i.l_ --£i_ and the thunder of anti-aircraft batteries, echoing along Britain's coasts shortly after dawn, her alded the new forays by German bombers, but there were no im mediate reports of new sinkings of merchant ships. (In Berlin, DNB, official news agency, announced that Nazi planes had T'ssunk or extensive ly damaged” several British ships under convoy this morn ing. but the location of the raids was not disclosed). Fight Off Planes Fishing boats and trawlers re ported fighting off German planes with machine-guns, and at one point the off-shore firing was so intense it was audible 12 miles inland. The 2,277-ton Italian ship Mira, which put into an east coast port during the afternoon, reported she (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ITALY TO PROTEST BRITISH BLOCKADE Four Ships Of Nazi Coal Scurry Back To Port After Deadline By CHARLES H. GUPTILL ROME, March 2.—(A5)—Britain’s blockade of German coal shipments to Italy on Italian vessels today brought the promise of an Italian diplomatic protest tomorrow to the British government. Four coal-laden Italian ships, which left Rotterdam last night in an effort to beat the midnight dead line for British enforcement of the blockade, returned today to the Dutch port where they are tied up with 12 other Italian vessels which were loading coal. The Italian note is expected to point out Italy’s dependence on for eign coal and to argue her rights as a non-belligerent to enjoy free access to commodities vital to her national existence. Informed circles also believed it likely the protest would contend that inasmuch as a large part of the coal is mined by Italian labor and paid for with Italian funds it is not ex clusively a German product. Ital ians estimate Germany’s equity in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Thousand Azaleas Planted Around Greenfield Drive With work progressing at a rapid pace, the Greenfield Park Improve ment committee hopes to have the first portion of its program to beau tify Greenfield Lake drive com pleted by April 1, it was announced yesterday. Already the work of the commit lee is making a pleasing appearance in that section near the northern entrance at Fourth street. Here the committee’s workmen rave laid out winding paths along Ihe lake side of the road. The iiaths, which have a clay base and i sand top, are to be strewn with jinestraw shortly. They are bor iered with hundreds of young aza lea bushes, which, it is expected, will be in bloom within the next lew weeks. All along the right side of the road as one enters from Fourth street, this path winds in and out, following to some extent the con tour of the lake shore. The bank of the lake itself has been greatly improved. Since the floodgate has been lowered, lowering the level of the water two feet, workmen have dredged around the edge of the lake, throwing the ma terial on the bank, so that when the water is raised again the lake will (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) OVER BELGIUM SOIL ‘Act Of Aggression’ Hit By Belgians In Quick Ber lin Protest GERMANS OPEN FIRE BRUSSELS, March 2.—(IP) —Two Belgian army planes were shot down over their homeland today in a clash with a German bomber which the government quick ly protested to Berlin as “a grave violation of Belgian neutrality and an act of ag gression.” One Belgian pilot was kill ed and another was wounded m Lilt; ciasn. The incident, announced in a communique, was followed swiftly by a series of unre lated accidents in which four other Belgian planes crashed and one pilot was killed, mak ing the day the worst in the nation’s aviation history. Within a short time after the issuance of the communi que, German Ambassador Vicco Karl Von Buelow-Sch wante, obviously disturbed, hastened to the Belgian for eign office. Is Kept Waiting He was kept waiting 45 minutes before he was admitted to For eign Minister Paul Henri Spaak. He was with Spaak for about 10 minutes, and after his departure (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) U.S. PLANES FIND SOUTHGATE SAFE British Ship Had Flashed SOS Saying Sub Was Attacking Her WASHINGTON, March 2— <iP) — A new mystery of the war at sea developed today when the British Freighter Southgate was found ap parently safe after flashing word that she was being attacked by a submarine within the American neu trality zone. Naval patrol planes located the 4,862 ton vessel off Puerto Rico and reported there was "no apparent damage.’’ Left unanswered were the ques tions whether a belligerent submar ine was operating on this side of the Atlantic and had actually attacked the Southgate, or whether the mes sage of distress early last night rep resented merely the latest of a series of baseless maritime scares that have 'Continued on Page Three, Col. 8) A Bale of Rent Receipts Equal "Nothing"... Monthly Payments On Your OWN HOME equal SECURITY Have you found out how little it will cost to own a good home? Turn now to today’s Classified Real Estate and Building Fea ture Page that will offer you some of the finest home buys in this section then consult a realtor. If you already own your own home and are think ing of renovating then consult with the Building Supply Men Listed There. Watch The Real Estate Want Ads Every Day
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