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Dedicated To The Progress 01 PI “TP TP P WILMINGTON Jmd by Leased Wu e of the And Southeastern North A * * °rC 1A T E D P R E S S Carolina With Complete Coverage ot State and National News ^ --—----- WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940_ + + ESTABLISHED 1867 AZIS ESTABLISH NEW GOVERNMENT IN NORWAY; GERMANS EXTEND WARTIME ‘PROTECTION’ TO DENMARK; ALLIED WARSHIPS BOMBED FIGHT AFFECTS FUTURE Possibility Of Allies Get ting Aid To Norway De pends On Outcome WATCH WEST FRONT Chamberlain Pledges Full Support Of The Allied Armies To Norway By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, April 9— (AP) —A fierce naval battle was reported raging between Brit ish and German warships in the storm-tossed, fog - en shrouded North sea tonight with the possibility of the Allies getting immediate aid to invaded Norway resting on the outcome. Whether or not the British expected the nazi surge in Scandinavia to be followed immediately by an offensive on the western front, the war office and air ministry an nounced all leaves from the British expeditionary force and air force in France had been ‘stopped until further orders." Deny German Claims The British denied German announcements that the com bined British-French fleet had been heavily damaged by the German air force off (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) NORWAY MAY SEEK NAZI AGREEMENT Parliament Names Commit tee To Negotiate Accord With German Officials LONDON, April 10 (Wednesday). —UP)—Reuters (British) news agen cy, in a dispatch from Stockholm early today said the Norwegian par liament had named a committee of three members “with the aim of ne gotiating an agreement with Ger man authorities.’’ The committee was suggested by the government of Premier Nygaarsvold. Reuters said a Norwegian news agency dispatch disclosed Norway was ready to negotiate with Ger many. The agency said the parliament met at the small town of Blverum east o£ Hamar, to which the Nor wegian government was removed yesterday when Oslo was occupied by the Germans. Dr. John L. Mowinckel and Ivar Lykke, former premiers, and M. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) CAPITALS ARE SEIZED German Warplanes Report ed To Have Inflicted Dam age On Allied Fleet NORWAY OFFERS FIGHT Sweden Remains Untouch ed By Nazi Thrust; Dutch Cancel Army Leaves By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, April 9—(AP) — Adolf Hitler’s mighty Ger man army streamed today with speed and precision into Denmark and Norway by land, by sea and by air, seized the venerable capitals of Copenhagen and Oslo, brought about a new, nazi headed government in Nor way and extended the war time “protection” of the third Reich to two kingdoms, 3,750,000 Danes and nearly 3,000,000 Norwegians. Pouncing o n assembled British and French m e n o’war west of Bergen, Nor way, German warplanes were reported by the German high command to have dropped heavy bombs ‘'several times” on two battleships and two heavy cruisers, dealing out “heavy damage.” Norway Offers Fight Denmark met the invasion with disciplined non-resist ance; Norway met it with scattered fighting which the Germans termed “local” and “slight,” principally at Oslo. After the Norwegian capi tal had capitulated in mid afternoon, D. N. B., the of ficial German news agency, reported that the regime of Premier Johan Nygaarsvold had turned over its powers to a cabinet headed by Major Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian nazi leader, as premier and foreign minister. Quisling, in a radio proclamation at 8:30 p. m. (2:30 p. m. E. S. T.) called upon the people to cease resistance to the Ger man army and avoid “crim inal destruction of property,” and demanded that the Nor wegian army obey his “na tional government.” Quisling said he had taken over to “protect Norway.” Earlier the Nygaarsvold government had retreated to the Lake Hamlet of Hamar, north of Oslo, and half the population of the capital had (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) An Old Saying Heard Thousands of Times ... "I saw it advertised in the Star-News Want Ads .. In homes, offices and on the street you hear first-hand ev i dence which proves that peo ple rely daily upon Star and News Want Ads when they want to buy or rent. The Star and News’ thorough coverage and moderate rates enable you to reach most of the prospective buyers and renters for only a few cents a day. gw Call 2800 To Ilk Start Your Want Ad Ifpf; Charge It * * * ★ ★ ★ Construction - ± Permits Total $293,396 In Three Months Increase Of $172,417 Over Corresponding Period Last Year Reported THEATRE IS INCLUDED Inspector Yates Says Build ing Activity Is Definite ly On The Upgrade N'eiv construction and repairs in ■Wilmington curing the first quarter ,,r -140 showed an increase of $172, 417 0ver the ame period of 1939, j, iv. Tates, building inspector, said yesterday. Building permits issued during January, February and March of this year totaled $203,396, while the same period of 1939 amounted to {30.979. Of the permits during me nrsi quarter of this year, $116,339 was fur noil-residential construction, $18,200 was for residential construc ting and >7.025 was for construc tion and repairs. New Theatre Included Included in the figures for March of this year is the new theatre building to be erected on North Front street, which will amount to something over $100,000. l'ates said these figures are somewhat above normal and will not continue their sensational rise throughout the year, but added that notwithstanding the theater and other large construction, building in Wilmington is definitely on the upgrade. Included in the 1940 figures ate four store units being built at 117 (Cnutinued on Page Two; Col. 5) WAR’S SPREAD BAD NEWS TO BUSINESS American Investors Own $154,000,000 In Danish And Norwegian Bonds WASHINGTON, April 9. —— The spread of war to Denmark end Norway was bad news for most American business today, but eco nomic experts in the Commerce de partment said England might turn to the United States for some of the lar.f- bacon orders formerly placed In Denmark. -- a icsaci cAiciii, — United States might furnish some of the butter and eggs for which the Danes were famous. The chief blow to American busi ness. ?hey said, was the potential cutting off of a special kind of Scan-, dinavion wood pulp vital to the, rayon industry. Japan’s rayon in-; dustry may be similarly affected. American investors own about 1^9,000,00© of Danish bonds and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) weather" 1 FORECAST •N" tl; Carolina: Fair, slightly warm Pr 'm interior Wednesday; Thursday 1!i'Teaming cloudiness, showers in west porti.,n Thursday afternoon or night, warmer on the coast. 'Meteorological data for the 24 hours ct)ding 7;30 p. m. yesterday). Temperature i;o0 a m. 62; 7:30 a. m. 55; 1:30 p. ,l!: 65: 7:30 p. m. 62; maximum 67; nu.umum 54: mean 60; normal 60. Humidity * 1 a. m. 92; 7:30 a. m. 57; 1:30 p. 111 ::N 7:30 p. m. 44. Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., ; ‘ total since first of the mouth, inches. Tides For Today n. . High Low " lliTllngton ..___ li ;33a 6:46a VB, 11:54p 6:37p Sor|horo Inlet _ 9:12a 3:19a 9:26p 3:25p r -nns. 5:47a; sunset 6:39p; moon L ‘:JOa; moonset 9:25p. i ntniii Fear rlver sta&« at Fay I,ev,ue. 50.65 feet. Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) --- MARITAL HARMONY Two years ago Barbara Stillwell, of Chicago, met swing band leader Jan Savitt at a singing audition. She got a job as his secre tary. Her present job is being Mrs. Savitt. Above, they gaze fondly at each other after their recent marriage at Peekskill. N. Y. Italy Believes Germany Has Won Tactical Point -L. DUCE TOLD OF MOVE Rome Convinced There Is No Danger Of Italy’s In volvement In War ROME, April 9.—(J9—Belief that Germany had won a major tacti cal victory by invading Denmark and Norway was linked in the comment of authoritative Italians tonight with the conviction that there still was no immediate dan ger of Italy’s involvement in the war. The official Rome radio news broadcaster put the general Italian view of Adolf Hitler’s stroke in Scandinavia this way: “First Round” “The war between Germany and Great Britain and France started this morning. The first round was won by the Germans when they stole a march on the Allies and occupied Denmark.” German Ambassador von Macken sen informed Premier Mussolini of Germany’s latest move in a call at 7 a. m. (Authoritative sources in Berlin intimated that I! Duce had no advance knowledge of the Scan dinavian coup.) Virginio Gayda, v/Tio often speaKs for Mussolini, said in II Giornale d’ltalia that there was no rgason to dramatize the new phase of the war. Signs of apprehension visible among Italians in the streets were lacking in government quarters, where it was said that Italy would continue its wait-and-see attitude until its own interests became in volved. Scandinavia, like Finland in its war against Russia, was con sidered too far away for repercus sions to reach Italy. Italian and foreign observers alike failed to share the anxiety felt in the Balkans that General Maxime Weygand's Allied army in the Near East might be drawn into the war by the opening of a new fighting front in the north. WHITEVILLEBOND ISSUES APPROVED Proposal To Issue $15,000 In Sidewalk Bonds Is Passed, 248 To 40 WHITEVILLE, April 9. — White ville's voters voted 248 to 40 today in favor of issuing $15,000 in bonds for sidewalk improvements in the city. Voting was extremely light. The funds will be used for further paving of sidewalks here at the petition of the property owrners. -W. R- McRacken was registrar in the downtown precinct with Miss Carrie Taylor and Ramon Heath as judges. J. E. Gilmore served as registrar in the uptown precinct with Mrs. D. H. Horton and Sam Baldwin as judges. Danish Naval Vessel Docks At Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 9.——A tiny arm of the tiny' Danish navy lay in port here today awaiting instructions from the Danish minister at Wash ington as to its status before venturing to sea. "Obviously we could not leave port without knowing what our status would be while at sea,” said Captain Knud L. Hansen, ruddy - cheeked shipper of the three-masted naval training ship “Danmark” with its lb officers and 120 cadets. The vessel was scheduled to sail for home tomorrow after an absence of 10 months. ROTC INSPECTION PLANNED FRIDAY Major Kenneth Althaus, Of State College, Will View High School Unit The annual federal inspection of the New' Hanover High school Re serve Officers Training Corps unit will be held Friday morning, be ginning at 8:45 o’clock. Major Ken neth Althaus, of N. c. State college, will be the inspection officer. Major William Van Dyke Ochs, professor of military science and tactics at the school, said last night the cadet unit is now in better shape than ever before, and he predicted it will reach its greatest heights of achievement this year. “After three years,” he said, "we have reached our peak.” The major issued a cordial invi tation to the public to be present at the inspection. It will be held in front of the school, in the ROTC drill field at Thirteenth and Ann streets, and in Pembroke Jones (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) F. D. R. Wins Over Garner; Dewey Gains President Scores 5 To 1 Victory Over Vice Presi dent In Illinois VANDENBERG TRAILING Early Returns Give Dewey 2 To 1 Lead Over Sena tor In Nebraska (By the Associated Press) President Roosevelt defeated Vice President Garner by a margin ranging above 5 to 1 in yesterday’s presidential primary balloting in Illinois, while on early returns Thomas E. Dewey was running 2 to 1 ahead of Senator Vanden berg (R-Mich) in Nebraska. Julius Smetianka, manager of the Garner anti-third term forces in Illinois, conceded defeat but nev ertheless said he thought the size of the Garner vote made him a “very strong contender.” Returns from 1,561 of the state’s 8,336 precincts gave Roosevelt 208, 626 and Garner 38,314. Thomas E. Dewey, running un opposed on the republican side, gathered a large percentage of his party’s vote in his bid for the en dorsement of Illinois republicans. Returns from 1,667 precincts gave Dewey 131,621. Nebraska returns were fragmen tary. but as far as they had gone, showed Dewey repeating his Wis consin success of last week, when he won that state’s 24 republican delegates from Vandenberg. Other returns gave Senator Burke (D-Neb), seeking renomina tion, a lead over Governor R. L. Cochran. Hyde Sweet (R) was run ning well ahead of Charles A. Da foe (D) for a Nebraska seat in the house. in Illinois, meanwhile: Harry B. Hershey held a long lead over Lieut. Gov. John Stelle in their race for the democratic gu bernatorial nomination. Senator James M. Slattery (D), seeking nomination for the post to which he was appointed on the (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) HOLLANDDECREES NEW PRECAUTIONS Leaves Of Absence Of All Army And Navy Person nel Are Cancelled THE HAGUE, April 9. — UP) — The Netherlands government, aft er a special cabinet session devoted to developments in Scandinavia, decreed today “precautionary meas ures” more sweeping in scope than those issued January 15 when Bel gium and the Netherlands feared violation of their neutrality. The cabinet began a second spe cial session tonight following aft (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) __A Scandinavian Chronology (By The Associated Pres.) APRIL 5—Britain and France hand Norwegian and Swedish ministers notes, contents undisclosed, which give rise to fresh alarm in Scandinavia. APRIL 6—Norwegian Foreign Minister Koht says Norway “will at once be at war’’ if free shipping in Norwegian waters is interfered with; authorized Berlin spokesmen say week-end is auspicious one for “Anglo-French and other activity directed against neutrality of Scandinavian area.’’ APRIL 8—Allies lay mines in Norwegian territorial waters to halt iron ore shipments to Germany; Germans predict “tre mendous” reverberations; Norway protests mine-laying as viola tion of international law, demands their removal; German fleet steams through Skagerrak, British sink one troopship. APRIL 9—Germany invades Norway and Denmark; Allies promise full support to%-Norway, which elects to fight; Allied German warships and planes engage in major battle in North sea; Denmark accepts German thrust without a struggle._ Roosevelt And Advisers Study Nazis’ New Moves NO ACTION IS TAKEN Chief Says He May Issue Proclamation Applying Neutrality Act WASHINGTON, April 9.— <-T> — President Roosevelt, after hurrying back to the capital tonight, con ferred with his advisors on Ger many’s lightning strokes in Scandi navia but took no immediate actijn to invoke the neutrality act anew or extend the combat area from which American ships are barred.. At a press conference aboard his special train this afternoon, the President had said he might Issue shortly a proclamation applying the neutrality act, with is provisions for "cash and carry” trade, to Nor way and Denmark. However, the word was passed at the Wvhite House later that no proclamation would be issued to night. Whether it would be issued tomorrow or later was not stated. Met By Hull The President was met at his special train by Secretary of State Hull, Underseeretary Sumner Welles, and Louis Johnson, assist ant secretary of war. They held a long conference. lr me neutrality act wwe to Norway and Denmark it would put exports to those nations on a “cash and carry” basis, -would bar loans to them and invoke other re strictions. On the train, the President told reporters gravely that the events of the last 48 hours would undoubtedly cause a great many more Ameri cans to think about the ptentiali ties of the war in Europe, and he expressed the view that that would be a good thing. While a number of senators called on the people to remain calm in the face of the spread of the war, and to maintain their resolution to stay out, it became increasingly clear that the repercussions in this coun try would be swift. Army To Ask Funds For one thing, well-informed con gressional sources predicted that the United States army would ask (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Nazis Deny Rumors Of Bremen Sinking BERLIN, April 19 (Wednes day—— (/P> —German authorities today said they knew nothing concerning rumors circulated in Amsterdam that the liner Bre men had been sunk. Such reports, they said, were “tendentiously spread by the enemy to bring a reaction from us.” GERMANS OCCUPY MILITARY BASES Air Force Conducts Raids On Allied Warships From Newly-Won Airports BERLIN, April 9— ta?)—'The Ger man air force, raiding from newly won Scandinavian airports, tonight was reported by the high command to have struck a heavy blow at com bined British and French naval units on the stormy North sea while the Nazi army reported the occupation of all important military bases m Denmark and Norway on the same day those neutral countries were in vaded. A high command communique said the air raid on the allied warships occurred off Bergen in the northern most area of the North sea. It gave this report: “On the basis of radio reports so far, the following first partial results have been established: Two battle ships were each hit directly by bombs of heavy calibre; two heavy cruisers likewise struck by direct hits; one ship, listing heavily, lies motionless and another is burning. “Great oil patches cover the sea.” (British official reports said no battleships had been hit but that two cruisers received “very slight” damage.) (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) ALLIES PUSH PLAN TO HELP NORWAY Move Swiftly To Bring Mil itary And Naval Aid To Invaded Country PARIS, April 9.—(fP)—France and Britain moved swiftly today to bring military and naval aid to invaded Norway. A French foreign office spokes man emphasized that the war as sistance from the Allies W'ould be as complete as possible, although the details remained a national de fense secret. The semi-official Telefrance agen cy said; “The necessary measures from a military and naval point of view have been taken. They explain themselves in the combats which are occurring off the Norwegian coasts. They will explain themselves by (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) t FEAR OF QUICKLY SPREADING WAR HITS SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE’S NEUTRALS BELGRADE, April 9.— W>— Dread of a quickly spreading war gripped the neutral nations of southeastern Europe today as tlie German invasion of Scan dinavia was coupled with re ports that the Nazis had de manded the right to police the Danuble and that the Allies were preparing to strike in the Black sea area. Authoritative quarters said Germany was pressing Ru mania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Hungary to accept a strict Ger man guard along the entire navigable length of the great international river by which the Reich imports vast quantities of oil, grain and other supplies. It was learned from these same sources that seven Ger man army divisions numbering about 100,000 men now are quartered at Bruck, a German frontier station on the Buda pest-Vienna railway. With another 108,000 German troops reported at Krakow, in Nazi-occupied Poland, informed military quarters expressed the opinion these forces could easily be used if the need arose in southeastern Europe. One explanation of the pres ence of the Nazi troops at Bruck was that they were Prussian units sent there for a “rest” from war activities. It was understood that Hun gary was not prepared to re fuse Germany’s demands for police powers on the Danube in view of a reported offer by Ber lin to keep its gunboats in the middle of the river and not al low their crews to land. In formed quarters said, neverthe less, that such a move by Ger many would be at least a tech nical violation of Hungary’s neutrality. Rumanian gunboats were de tached from the Black Sea force for Danube patrol duties as an aftermath of the detention by Rumanian police of British barges which Germans charged with carrying dynamite to de stroy the narrow Danube chan nel through the “'Iron Gate” gap in the Carpathian moun tains. Amid German allegations that the British barge “plot” was a flagrant breach of Rumanian neutrality the Rumanian gov ernment was reported to be making diplomatic representa tions in London. Oil circles have long under stood that French and British petroleum companies in Ru mania were ready to plug or blast their wells and to destroy their refineries in ' 3e Ger many invaded the country. Bulgarian officials denied a report that German river police were already guarding the Bul garian bank of the Danube, which forms two-tliirds of the Bulgarian • Rumanian frontier, but it was understood that Bul garia had agreed to the Ger (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
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