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Dedicated To The Progress Of Served by Leased Wire of ihe " WILMINBTOM associated press And Southeastern North With Complete Coverage of Carolina State and National News NO. 226._ WILMINGTON, nTc., TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940 ESTABLISHED 1867. Nine Officials Of Coast Line 4re Advanced f \v. Brown, Now General Manager, Is Promoted To Vice Presidency are EFFECTIVE JUNE 1 Howard. King, Kendall, Brantley And Doss Are Among Men Advanced major promotions, all effec :,:e June 1 and all to be located in tv'mington, were announced yes lerdav by officials of the Atlantic (.Vast Line Railroad company. The announcement followed the v tuntary resignations Friday of J. v: perrjn. freight traffic manager, ,;d j‘ n. Brand, assistant vice rresident. Brown Promoted The advancements included the titction of f. W. Brown, now gen ital manager, as vice president in charge of operations by the rail • Vs board of directors at a meeting in New York on May 16. ilr. Brown will continue as general manager of the company. jl- Brown entered the service t,f the Atlantic Coast Line in birch, 1920, as assistant to the general manager and has been in ifiimington since that time. Other promotions were: V, H. Howard, now general pas .s iicer agent, to assistant passen gu traffic manager. F L. King, now superintendent of passenger transportation, to general superintendent of transpor H. II. Kendall, now superintend e.F -f freight transportation, to as nt general superintendent of transportation. J. B. Brantly, now assistant vice president, to general traffic man i.c-r. 8. J. Doss, now freight traffic vuiager. to general freight traffic manager. R. G. Hodgkin, now assistant freight traffic manager, to freight traffic manager. George P. James, now general passenger agent at Washington, D. to passenger traffic manager. ! fire promotions were announced b H. L Borden, secretary of the company, in New York, by F. W. Brown, general manager, and by >’ B. Brantly, assistant vice presi Ktf Local appointments were approved by C. McD. Davis, exec l've vice president. *w AMERICAN AIR BASES SUGGEST ) Proposed As Partial An SWer To Sunday’s Speech By Colonel Lindbergh t "'-'SHIXGTOX, May 20.—(iP>— l ment of now air bases in ''■rtf-iT, Hemisphere, under , r,'"nmon sovereignty of all 1 '''publics, was suggested ! ' il-' 1 ffir-ials tonight as a par ansv.-f-r iagt night's speech Charles A. Lindbergh. a:.' r'r* demanded an adequate "''■nsf of the hemisphere Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) JAEATHER Xi,r;i| r, FORECAST [ '! l'v q 1° lna: ,,{l,,Tly cloudy pre / 9 ’ ’ *• r *j (l thundershowers •".loraiiv f!,in("‘ Tuesday; Wednesday !,Inperatllreair’ nnt In u c h change in ' ■'•Til' 7^v(\°^,caI f^a,a for ihe 24 hours *• ln- yesterday). 1:30 a rn ,JemPerature Bl; >1; 7.3A bJ; "^a. 111. 72; 1:30 p. 3,liDinmInP- ni- "T; inaximum 82; nu-an 7:’.; normal 72. JWa m t.,Hamidity Tio'i" j,°\]]l :fjJ H- m- 83; 1:30 p. ^ Total f,,r Pr,,,,ipitat ;r": .,;.r ^our? mding 7:30 p. m.. "idiM. ' f' of the month T"li>s For Today :!lli“gton High Low i. .-— •' dif,a 4:26a "■‘■sonhoro lBlet 10:03P 4:38p - J;2°a 1:21a 1 minUCtl 0n Pa8e Three; Col. 5) -.v --— LONDON GI -r'ARES FOR THE WORST -- .Jt* * Up go more and more sandbags in a London sq uare as British soldiers feverishly prepare their capital for tlie long-threatened aerial blitzkrieg, feared by Britons to be nearer with every foot the Nazi columns advance toward the west. _, RFC Offers Credit Aid To Defense Industries COAL ACT UPHELD BY U. S. TRIBUNAL Rules That Congress Can Prescribe Price-Fixing, Marl Controls WASHINGTON, May 20.—<7P)— The supreme court, in a decisior upholding the bituminous coal act ruled 8 to 1 today that congress can constitutionally prescribe price fixing. marketing controls and oth er regulatory remedies to cure “chaotic conditions" in interstate industry. The act was passed in 1937 aft er an earlier regulatory law, called the Guffey coal act. of 1933, was ruled invalid. The aim of the legis lation was to curb the "over-pro duction and savage, competitive warfare” which, Justice Douglas said in today's majority opinion had “wasted” the bituminous coal inausu y. “Labor and capital alike were the victims," the opinion observed. “Financial distress among- operators and acute poverty among miners prevailed even during periods oi general prosperity. This history ot the bituminous coal industry is written in blood as well as in ink.' If the operators themselves ‘'had endeavored to stabilize the markets through price-fixing agreements,” Douglas commented, they “would have run afoul” of the Sherman anti-trust act. But he added that “what congress has forbidden by the Sherman act it can modify. Tt may do so by placing the machinery of price-fix ing in the hands of public agencies. It may single out for separate treatment, as it has done on va rious occasions, a particular indus try and thereby remove the penal ties of the Sherman act as re spects it. “Congress under the commerce clause is not impotent to deal with what it may consider to be dire consequences of laissez-faire (non interference). It is not powerless to take steps in mitigation of what in its judgment are abuses of cut throat competition. “The commerce clause (of the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) AGENCY IS PREPARED Martin Asks New Deal How It Intends To Finance New Arms Demands WASHINGTON, May 20—UP—'The RFC offered its credit facilities to industries which lack capital for expansion necessitated by the na tional defense program today, while on a conference of aircraft manufacturers came official word that for the present at least they needed no help. Jesse Jones, the RFC chairman, issued a staternc-- s ay i n g his agency was ready 1 cooperate with the banks in making secured loans for nation,'1 defense pur poses, by taking 75 per cent of such loans or underwriting 75 per cent leaving the bank carrying 25 per cent of the advance. Industry Prepared After conferring with the na tion’s principal aircraft builders in a hurriedly summoned session, Secretary Morgenthau told report ers the industry had sufficient cap ital, and enough skilled workers to meet the present demands of the defense situation, without sacrific ing labor standards. The development came as a sur prise to some officials who had beer scussing the possibility of RFC loans for the purpose of build ing additional plant capacity, or of having the government build new plants directly, retain owner ship, and lease them to private builders. This possibility apparent ly remained in the long-range pic ture. "The administration and the RFC hope to have the fullest co operation from banks in meeting whate -- credit demand there may be.” Jones said in a formal state ment. Meanwhile, a congress pushing the defense appropriations through ; top speed heard from Rep. Mar tin of Massachusetts, the republi iContinued on Page Three; Col 2) Americans In Lebanon Are Advised To Leave BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 21). — (/P) — United States Consul General E. E. Palmer tonight advised Americans in Lebanon and Syria “to give careful thought to the advisability of returning to the United States witli the least possible delay.” The same advice was given to inquirers at Jerusalem. Ap proximately 8,500 Americans are estimated to be living in the Holy Land. LOUVAIN LIBRARY GUTTED BY FIRE U. S. Correspondents Find Entire Population Of City Has Fled BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER WITH THE GERMAN WEST ERN ARMIES, May 20—UP)—Amer can newspaper correspondents, ’uests of Adolf Hitler, today saw ;he ruins of Louvain library, which was erected on Herbert Hoovei square by co-operation of numer ous American universities. The building had been gutted by ire. Its 700,000 volumes must be con sidered lost. All floors had been swept by the ilaze. No one seemed to be able to say ly whom or how the blaze had leen set. From the basement wisps of smoke still rose. Practically the entire population if Louvain, 41,000, had fled. The German military commander of ;he city, Lieutenant Colonel Engel nann, tried to form an emergency ;ity council with a fire captain and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Measure To Permit Vote On Longer Weed Quotas Is Approved By House WASHINGTON, May 20.—(fP) —The house passed and sent to the senate today a bill to amend the agriculture adjustment act to permit tobacco farmers to vote on the question of estab lishing tobacco marketing quo tas up to three years, instead of for one year as at present. The bill also amends the def inition of “carry over” of to bacco to exclude from consi deration tobacco of the 1939 and and 1910 crops purchased for the British trade and tempora rarily stored in this country. The bill also would authorize upward adjustment of the na tional marketing quota for any year by not over 20 per cent and make it possible to spread | over a period of two or three years adjustments required to eliminate a surplus supply The measure also would re peal the provision that any state marketing quota of flue cured tobacco cannot be less than <5 per cent of 1937 production, and substitute a provision that the national marketing quota for flue cured and burley tobacco for each of the three market ing years beginning with the 1941-42 market year cannot be reduced more than 10 per cent below the 1940-41 national mar keting quota. It also provided for uniform adjustment of farm allotments during the next three years in the same proposition that the national quota is ad just? ’ The bill would amend the penalty provisions of the law to facilitate and insure collection of penalties imposed on tobacco in excess of quota. The house also passed and sent to the White House a bill to prohibit the exportation of tobacco seed and plants except for experimental purposes. Similar legislation, passed by congress last year, was vetoed by President Roosevelt, but sponsors expressed confidence that this measure would not meet the same fate. They contended it was neces sary to put a stop to foreign production of domestic type to bacco in competition with do mestic production. REICH SEEKING TO ISOLA TE, WIPE OUT MIGHTY BRITISH ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE BRITISH AIRMEN BUSY Reported Doing Steady Damage To Bases And Communication Lines LOSE 16 AIRPLANES English Troops In Belgium Dropping Back Before German Drive . ... 1 ■■■ .. 1 "* ""'i BRITAIN LONDON, May 20.—(/P)— Britain’s airmen, outnumber ed but claiming superiority, plane for plane and man for man, tonight were reported doing steady damage to sup ply bases and communication lines of the Germans driving to channel ports for an at tack on England. An air ministry bulletin said fighter patrols of one Royal Air Force group had brought down more than 50 Heinkels, Dorniers, Junkors and Messerschmitts Saturday and Sunday, “with less than half that number of casual ties to themselves.” Attack Oil Tanks A detailed account of Sat urday bombings of oil stor age tanks near Hanover and railway junctions at Cologne, said a “strong formation” at tacked oil tanks at Misburg, and roads and bridges behind the German lines at Gemb loux, Givet, Dinant and Na mur on the Belgian front. The midnight attack on the oil tanks lasted two hours and the raiders reported “at one stage in the operations seven bombs were seen to fall diagonally across the target and three big explosions im mediately followed. Several huge fires were seen to break out.” Still Burning The raiders said that on their way home they saw the oil tanks bombed on Friday at Bremen still were “well alight.” In the railway junction attacks. 36 bombs dropped on one point, the ac count said, with “several direct hits . . • causing extensive damage.” One end of a bridge over the Sam (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) CANADA TO RAISE ANOTHER DIVISION Prime Minister King Says Approval Of Creation Of New War Ministry OTTAWA, May 20— (IP) —Prime Minister Mackenzie King said to night in the house of commons that Canada has more than 100,000 men on military duty, 23,000 in England, and will undertake to raise a third division for service. The prime minister reported that the first division in Europe will be followed by another of 24,045 men. More than 9,600 are engaged in cost defense, 16,000 are assigned to various depots, 1,665 are guarding vital centers and more than 6,000 are at miscellaneous tasks, he said. The Canadian air force has 1,389 officers and 10,926 men. Outlining a war program involv ing $700,000,000 war expenditures for the fiscal year—$2,000,000 a day—the prime minister asked approval of ; creation of a new ministry of na- < tional defense for air, i He’s France’s New War Chief Gen. TJaxime Weygand, forme commander of Allied army in Nea East, wlio was made chief of Frencl general staff and commander-in chief of military operations. Thi places him over General Gamelii in actual conduct of war. WAR ENTRY PLAN! PUSH _BY_ITALY Many Believe Its Entri Into Conflict Is Merely A Matter Of Time BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK ROME, May 20.—UP'—Italy swum her w-ar preparations into a nev high rpeed tonight as the feelim grew stronger in many Italiai minds that her entry into the con flict merely was a matter of tira and new demonstrations agains Great Britain and France brok: out. The war department ordered thre< days of air raid drill and blackout: in Rome province as well as a Terni, 45 miles northeast, when (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4! SHIFT DIRECTION German Offensive Toward English Channel Eases The Threat To Paris PINCHERS SHAPED FRANCE PARIS, May 20.—(A5)— Across the northern plains of France Adolf Hitler’s men in rolling armor — 60,000 strong in the advance guard —battered westward tonight on a new tangent, the Eng lish channel as their goal. The shift of direction of this steel-plated spearhead of five mechanized divisions eased the threat to Paris after the vanguard had thrust to within 80 miles of the French capital. New Objective r The new objective—besides the oft - mentioned aim of . bases for direct attack on the * British Isles—apparently was 1 to drive an iron wedge be ■ tween the main French forces ' defending Paris and the Brit I ish-Belgian-French armies in r Belgium. (Berlin reports estimated that a successful drive to the r sea might isolate 300 000 r .British soldiers on the Allied northern flank.) Northern Allied a r m i es were forced to drop back to intercept the threat, while the main body of French ’ troops fought to stem the German advance. These move ments recalled the “race to the sea” at the start of the ’ World war which left the Allies in control of the chan nel. Future Uncertain Whether Germany definitely had abandoned the idea of strking at Paris remained uncertain. (Reports reaching Basel, Switz (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) i WAR INTERPRETIVE BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press Writer) The fate of Allied armies in Flan ders hangs perilously on the con fused battle along the western flank 3f the huge salient Germany has 2arved into northern France in a dozen days and nights of fighting. Whether massed French forces holding the road to Paris at the depth of the pocket and along its southern flank forced the Nazi at lacq to veer westward, or whether ;he shift conforms to German grand strategy is not clear. There can be no doubt, however, that Berlin has now staked hope of quick and crush ing victory on the effort to break through to the channel between Maubeuge and St. Quentin and cut the Allied armies in half. Berlin claims already to have pierced this front to the Cambraipe ronne line, the old Somme battle area of the World war. If that is true, the German westward drive has already dangerously undermined the Allied lines in Flanders and is (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) German Drive Shows War Is On Streamlined Basis (Editor’s note: J. Norman Lodge, 40-year-old Associated press staff writer who won the Crox de Guerre for his part in the World War, tells how mod ern warfare methods have rev olutionized the old rules of fighting. Lodge went to Europe in March. He saw fighting at Narvik and Namsos, Norway, in the German invasion of Scandinavia and was taken to Scotland on a British trans port when the Allies abandon ed Namsos.) BY J. NORMAN LODGE LONDON, May 20—(ft—1Tear Uf our old military textbook—mod' :rn warfare has gone streamlined, nostly air-streamlined. The ancient idea that artillery preparation must precede an in fantry advance, that supply and ammunition trains must follow up the advances to provision troops adequately, even that hospital troops are necessary, is about as useless as last month’s map. The modern method, especially the tactics being pursued by the attacking Germans is, according to a neutral military observer, as in tricate as a Colgate football man euver and just about as efficient. The German method might be described as a naval battle on land. After choosing the objective or country to be attacked and invad- i (Continued on Page Three; Col, 3) 1 CREATE BIG ‘SACK’ German Army Headed To ward Noyon, Only 50 Miles North Of Paris PUSHING OFFENSIVE ~ I GERMANY __ BERLIN, May 20.—(/P)— Germany’s blitzkrieg troops pushed deeper into France today by capturing the city of Laon, 75 miles northeast of Paris, while, in the west, Nazi warriors created a huge “sack” which they sought to close and trap thousands of Allied soldiers. The German high com mand in a special communi que declared that the German warflag “is flying from the citadel of Laon” and that the Germans had advanced to the canal connecting the Oise Aisne rivers, 6 miles south west of Laon. Headed Toward Noyon Thus, with new ground gained on the eastern edge of the German pocket in France, the Nazis were head ed toward Noyon, only 50 miles north of Paris. Both Laon and Noyon were held by the Germans during most of the World war and Noyon then was destroyed by heavy bombardments. In the west, where the German army swung toward the English channel in an at tempt to isolate and destroy the British army of 300,000 in northern France, an autho ritative source pictured the “sack” as follows: The Sack The bottom is the Belgian city of Charleroi, on the Sambre river. The northern part of the "mouth” is Cambrai, France, 35 miles southeast of Tournai and 55 miles southwest of Charleroi. Many Belgians and French and perhaps British are believed al most surrounded in the “sack.” DNB, the German official news agency, saw in the possible closing of the "sack” a repetition of the Kutno battle in the P o 1 i s h cam paign last Stptember where the Germans reported bagging 170,000 prisoners. The Germans called Kutno one of the greatest destructive battles of all times. 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