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rWicaied To The Progress Of Served by Leased Wire of the WILMINGTON ASSOCIATED PBESS And Southeastern North With Complete Coverage of Carolina State and National News ^773^0 228 _ ★ ESTABLISHED 1867. FRANCE SA YS MEN HOLDING NAZI PUSH A T ALL POINTS; REICH STRENGTHENS FORCES BROAD ACT APPROVED Britain Transformed From Democracy To Dictator ship In Three Hours BRITISH ARE CHEERED BRITAIN ] LONDON, May 22.— (AP) Great Britain, achieving through the methods of de mocracy the result of vir tual dictatorship, tonight placed all her men and every thing they own at the com mand of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the war with Adolf Hitler’s legions. Proud of the democratic machinery which could ele vate the prime minister to a pinnacle of power as high as Hitler’s and yet retain the right to take it back, parlia ment rushed into law a far reaching act enabling the government to conscript all labor and property. King Signs Bill Commons pushed the bill through within two hours without a vote. The king signed it tonight. Within two hours and 45 minutes the whole job of completing the transition from democracy to virtual dictatorship was done. The first steps in this mo mentous transition were tak en beginning last Aug. 24 when the king was empow ered to issue decrees with the effect of law. Today orders in council, prepared even before the par liamentary process was un derway, gave immediate ef fect to laws setting up con trols under ministers cover ing labor, banking, agricul ture, transport, mining, war industries and export trade. War material and export indus :ries will be given absolute priority md labor will be drafted as re (Coniinued on Page Four; Col. 7) Germany Pours Men And Guns Into Battle Zone GERMAN? BY PRESTON GROVER BERLIN, May 22—OP)— Groping; for the narrow straits of Dover, short-cut to England, the German armies of Fland ers tonight poured me and guns into the battle zone they have cut into France, wary of counter-attack and arming for “the kill.’.. From several sources came evidence that Germany, in hardening its hold on Belgium and Northern France and the “sack” in which it is trying to hold up to 1,000,000 Allied troops, is also being bolstered against hard counter-attack from the armies now under General Maxime Weygand. The German command looks for heavy counter-attack from the south, and it appeared to be starting tonight when a French tank thrust was made in the vicinity of Laon. The Germans said it was beaten off, that ten French tanks were set afire and that 24 surren dered. At several points further north, too, the Allied forces which the Germans consider trapped put up stiff battle. “It may be that our present movements will come to a tem orary halt,” said General Wal ther von Reichenau, high com mander in the field. “Weygand has ordered every one to stand (Continuedo n Page Four; Col. 4) ABBEVILLE RETAKEN Paris Reports Main Contact Remains Along Somme, Aisne Rivers WEYGAND ‘SATISFIED’ FRANCE By HENRY C. CASSIDY PARIS, May 22.—(AP) — A new 200-mile Allied front along the Somme and Aisne rivers checked at least for the time being tonight the twin German drive on the English channel and Paris. The night communique of ilie French high command leported no fresh develop ments, except that the battle continued in northern France and Belgium, but the war ministry spokesman declared: ‘ Our troops are holding the German push at all points.” Abbeville Ketaken Against the masses of Al lied infantry spread west across the river valleys and north along the coastal plain, the Germans were reported to have sent ahead only light scouting forces during the day. Allied counter-attacks against the German advance guards accounted for retak ing of control in Arras and Abbeville. Although some German scouts were acknowledged to have driven deep into the French lines, the war minis try’s spokesman said the main contact remained along the Somme and Aisne rivers and the Escaut (Scheldt), running north into Belgium. Battle Ground Soggy Much of the great battle ground was soggy from yesterday’s rain and mechanized troops were meeting, dif ficulties. French spirits rose with new Al lied successes and a military spokes man declared: “Even the rumors are better to He referred particularly to rumors —not immediately confirmed — that Amiens and Sedan had been re taken. Already the recapture o£ strategic Arras and of Abbeville, the western-most point reached by the Germans, had been fofiqially an nounced. The nightly war communique summed up the developments gen erally by saying merely: ‘‘Fighting continued in the north and in Bel gium. Nothing of importance to re port on the remainder of the front." The spokesman remarked infor mally that there had been "hardly any change along the front in 4 8 aours, but said that General Maxima Weygand, the Allied commander-in chief, was “really satisfied.” Heavy Fighting He added that there had been leavy fighting, with results un mokn, during the day between Val jncinnes and Cambrai (an area at tome points as near as 75 miles to he English channel). Germans continued to send out exploring parties in motorcycles and vhippet tanks, some of them cross ng the Somme in their movement oward the sea, the spokesman said. But, he remarked, they were quickly pounded up and there was no mass passage over the river. Some German scouting parties ilso wrere said to have progressed vest of Arras toward the channel. While new hope stirred the French public that the German drive to the channe' and to Paris would be halt ed ahead of disaster, Winston Churchill, the British prime minis ter, conferred here during the day (Continued on Page Four; Col. S) t Blamed For Disaster j; .. .. general Andrea Corap (above) was commander of the “Corap an, iv," blamed by French Pre mier Paul Reynaud for collapse of French defenses along the Meuse. Thai army, Reynaud said, was nearest defense positions, yet less Hum half its divisions reached them. Furthermore, bridges over Urn river were not destroyed, al luwing tile Nazis to speed deep inti, France. These “unbelievable mistakes,” the premier declared, “will he punished.” RULING ON BREACH OF PROMISE GIVEN Decision On Tax Rate For Vending Machines Also Handed Down By Court RALEIGH, May 22—UR—A wom an who has syphilis cannot main tain a suit for breach of promise, the stale supreme court held to day. In an opinion by Associate Jus tice W. A. Devin, the court pointed out that under a 1939 law, license to marry could not be issued in North Carolina until both prospec tive bridegroom and bride pro duced certificates showing them to be free of syphilis. The tribunal said that “if the plaintiffs condition was such os to prevent her lawful entry into the marriage relation, this would constitute a valid defense to any action for damages for breach of the contract.” The ruling was made in an ac tion brought by May Winders against Walter Powers in Pender county. The plaintiff alleged that Towers did not keep his promise to marry her. Superior Court Judge Henry L. Stevens, Jr., al (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) IJVEATHER v n forecast n.'iort‘1 Carolina: Considerable cloudi Th?' showers in west portion >irsday: Friday partly cloudy; little ,han?e m temperature. f„,!eteJr'1,°£ical da*a for the 24 hours "“tag 7:30 p. yesterday). , Temperature n, i.3-1?!' 67'« 7:30 a. m. 65; 1:30 p. 1 p. m. 77: maximum 80: n mu,n 63; mean 72: normal 72. ion Humidity in 40.a- “• 03: 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p. • ':o() 1»- m. 56. Tntai t Precipitation mine■ tnfM"4.hours p,,dir,s 7:30 P- m u.73 iu^1 since first of the month. Tides For Today Wilmington High Lo-vy glon .11:07a 6:05a P^sonboro Tni *. ll:37p 6:17p 0010 Inlet - 0:0la 2:59r Sunrise va™ 9:32p 3:03p rise9.*>1,..°-u°a- sunset 6:12p; moon %H vSset 7 :()4a. Pr 4eaUM»y 22—UP)—Weath• tainfan for te,aords. of temperature and "1 the nrin„. r4 hours ending 8 p. m„ and clsewlifr ,a cott°n-growing areas Station Asheville . High Low Prec Nt CIO ,vy —- 84 59 0.03 r'imin'h™udJ - 90 63 0.00 Ekicago XL °Udy - 92 99 0.01. I4'alius, ;ud7 — 89 53 0.00 },'«roit. ra y - 77 62 1.48 ■'"'■‘■Stan L--.. 81 56 0.05 Jacksonville 0.,dy --- 81 74 0.11 ’■■'He Ruet' !,P"P — 93 68 0.00 J,s Angeles Li" - 89 99 0.57 {•"“isvilie, P Par - 73 fil 0.00 la"", cloudv■ — 84 94 0-06 lv lllH' cloudv - 92 98 0 00 |ve"' Orlelng L:-.—- 87 97 0.00 |h; Vork Srain0Udy - 89 99 O'99 If clouL- 99 97 0:01 K,cSh cloudv'- I? 94 0.01 |s nL'"8 cloudv — II 94 ° 00 Is ?. lraUcia-o ‘4 61 0.00 llv clear ,0Udy 93 55 0.00 l\v, 'Won "I- 65 0 58 s & -TtfVri■* L j#Ealls For ‘No Third Term’ Pledge President Replies That He Has No Time For ‘Poli tical Statements’ STATEMENTS RELEASED Congress Works To Pro vide Millions Required For Arms Expansion WASHINGTON, May 22—(tf)—Alf M. Landon demanded a “no third term” pledge from President Roosevelt today as the terms of republican participation in any coalition defense directorate, and the president asserted, in a coldly polite reply, that he had no time for “political statements.” The exchange took place after Landon, republican presidential candidate in 1936, had lunched with the chief executive at the latter’s invitation. There had been specu lation that the luncheon might lead to a “coalition cabinet” or some other form of joint democratic-re publican direction of the huge re armament program. Issues Statement After the luncheon, Landon is sued a typewritten statement to a great cluster of reporters sur rounding him in a nearby hotel third-term movement — a move lobby, saying that republican lead ers could not at present enter into any coalition arrangement without making themselves a party to the ment which he held to be incom patible with democracy’s “basic principles.” At the same time, he explained that his statement was not the re sult of the luncheon conference as his proposal had not been made to Mr. Roosevelt directly, and the third term had been discussed in only a casual and “off-hand” man ner. The Landon expression was shown to the president, and the White House statement was quick ly prepared. “The president regrets,” it said, •that he has no time, just now, to give to the preparation of political statements. He is too busily en gaged with problems of far great er national importance.” The statement also said that Mr. ^Continued on Page Five, Col. 1) DRAINAGEPRt ' IS STARTED HERE Will Reclaim About 40 Acres Between Green field Lake And River A $16,440 WPA project, providing for draining and reclaiming more ' than 40 acres of city and county ' property, is now under way at ^ Greenfield in the vicinity of the , small creek running from the lake ( to the Cape Fear river. 1 City officials have estimated the work will increase the value and us- , ability of the 40 acres of land ap- J proximately 100 per cent. , In addition to making the land | usable and available, it will also act , as a mosquito and malaria control ( project. 1 The expense is being borne by j the city, the county and the WPA . and the work is scheduled for com- ^ pletion in about four months. The project was obtained shortly - after the management of the Tay lor-Colquitt Creosoting company re- ■ ported that water from the creek was backing onto its land and dam aging the logs and timbers stored there. The project provides for the re moval of bends and shallow spots from the stream and for the in stallation of flood gates at its mouth. The gates will automatically close the mouth of the creek when the river rises and will open when the tide falls, preventing the backwa ters from flooding over the creek bank. J. E. Li. Wade, city commissioner of public works, has estimated the work will increase the value of the city and county’s property in that area many times the amount of money spent in the drainage work. King’s Brother Wounded The Duke of Gloucester (above), brother of King George VI of England, has suffered injuries to both hands in a bomb explosion. The duke has been in France, act ing as a liaison officer between the British and French troops Cause or location of the blast were not disclosed. ANTI-ESPIONAGE PLAN PRESENTED F. R. Wants To Shift Im migration Service To The Justice Department WASHINGTON. May 22—UPI—In 3 reorganization message marked 'urgent,” President Roosevelt sent to congress today a plan to shift the immigration and naturalization service from the labor to the jus tice department so that authorities may "deal quickly” with spies and saboteurs. (D-Tex) of the house committee on unAmerican activities introduced a bill to bar all alien Nazis, Fascists and Communists from the country and to deport any now here, along with aliens whom police certify to ae revolutionary agitators. The president said that when he nad presented the last reorganiza tion plan to oongress, he had not planned to submit another reorgan ization plan at this session but that ‘the startling sequence of interna lional events which has occurred iince then has necessitated a re view of the measures required for he nation’s safety” and that ‘‘this las revealed a pressing need” for ;he transfer. “Much can be said for the re ;ention of these functions in the lepartment of labor during normal imes,” the message continued. "I im convinced, however, that tin ier existing conditions the immi gration and naturalization activit es can best contribute to the na lional well-being only if they are flosely integrated with the activ ties of the department of justice.” The step is aimed at “those tliens who conduct themselves in i manner that conflicts with the )ublic interest,” the message said, >ut “does not reflect any intention o deprive them (aliens generally) if their civil liberties or otherwise o impair their legal status.” In the senate, Majority Leader iarkley of Kentucky said a resolu ion would be offered to make the hift effective immediately and liminate the usual 60-day delay. Senator Reynolds (D-NC) suggest 'd that the transfer was proposed lecause of the way Secretary Per :ins’ deportation proceedings igainst Harry Bridges, West Coast :iO leader, were “whitewashed.” Rumania Calls 300,000 More Men To Army Move Reflects Fears Rus sians May Advance On Bessarabia Province BROAD MOBILIZATION King Carol Cancels An niversary Celebration Scheduled For June 8 BUCHAREST, RUMANIA, May 22—I#)—Rumania today called up 300,000 reservists and sent most of them to the Soviet frontier, in a virtual general mobilization which reflected fears that the Russian army might move soon on the Rumanian province of Bessarabia. It was an action which brought this oil-rich kingdom’s defenses to what the general staff called “The highest state of preparedness.” Some observers said they saw in it an indication of deterioration of Russia’s 9-month-old friendship with Germany. They insisted the Rumanian strengthening of the frontier was carried out with the approval, if not the counsel, of Germany. uwostaii ui v inio Bessarabia was Russian before 1918. King Carol followed up his call to- the colors with a proclamation demanding that the nation "work strenuously and hold steadfastly to its patriotic duty.” He cancelled celebrations sche duled for June 8, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his en thronement, declaring the money would be better spent on guns to defend Rumania’s frontiers. The story behind the reinforce ment of the Bessarabian frontier, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) ALLIES ARE FLYING PLANES TO EUROPE Bombing Craft Going From U. S. Factories To Bat tlefields Of Continent WASHINGTON, May 22—Ml— Bombing planes, it was disclosed today, are flying under their own power from the backyards ot American factories to the battle fields ot Europe. The flights can not be made di rectly from the United States, be cause of the neutrality law. In (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) WAR INTERPRETIVE_ BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press Writer In her hour of direct peril, Brit ain has invoked fire to fight fire. With scarcely a murmur of pro test, she has abandoned her an cient and treasured trappings of constitutional democracy for one man rule. Never in British history since Francis Drake and the British sea dogs of that day drummed Spain’s ‘great armada” down the Channel to establish Brittania’s rule of the wave has England stood in such peril. To meet the crisis and hurl defiance in the teeth of her victory fiushed Nazi foe, England has moved grimly to clothe her own man-of-the-hour and Hitler’s arch foe, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with powers as great as those of his enemy. That is the effect of the act con scripting all Britain’s man-power, her vast wealth and her war-mak ing resources of every kind and placing them under direct govern ment control. Its unchallenged acceptance by Parliament means that the British bulldog has set himself for a fight to the death, unshaken by succes sive military disasters in Norway, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) Byrnes Raps Lindbergh’s Views On Foreign Policy REPLIES TO SPEECH Senator Recalls American Airman Accepted Deco ration From Hitler WASHINGTON, May 22.—CP)— Striking back at Col. Charles A. Lindbergh for his criticism of Roosevelt administration foreign policy, Senator Byrnes (D-SC) as serted tonight that Lindbergh was “no more qualified” to speak on the subject than “Wrong Way Cor rigan or any other aviator who may fly the Atlantic ocean.’’ He added that “fifth columns are already active in America” and that "those who consciously or unconsciously retard the efforts of this government to provide for the defense of the American people are the fifth column's most effective fellow travellers.” Official Reply Byrnes’ address, prepared for de livery over the radio was consid ered the administration forces’ of ficial reply to the speech in which Lindbergh called last Sunday for an end to “hysterical chatter of calamity and invasion,” decried what he considered meddling in Europe and urged a “definite poli cy” of defense. Byrnes said President Roosevelt had a “definite policy of defense already formulated” and had stated it “time and again.” The senator said that “Mr. Lind oergh” (nowhere in the manuscript af the speech did the title “Colo nel” appear) had accepted a deco ration from Hitler. He went on to inquire: “When Mr. Lindbergh says, ‘no nne wishes to attack us,’ is he au thorized to speak for Hitler or tfoering? Can the American people, n the light of recent history, ac cept the assurance of this : oung gentleman that if we do not ask :or war it will not come to us?” Takes Issue Byrnes, chairman of the senate ; laval appropriations subcommittee, i (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) _ Dutch Minister Says Nazis Fired On Queen W ASHINGTON, May 22— (/P) — Hr. Hiexader Loudon, mg Netherlands minister, asserted tonight that nazi snipers in sur rounding houses had fired upon yueen wnineinuna and ner family in their palace gardens and that nazi authorities had is sued orders to "extinguish the House of Orange at any cost.” Commenting on reports that Hollanders had expressed re sentment over the queen’s flight to England, the minister said that “fifth column” agents had spotted every move of the royal family anil that it became impos sible to protect them in their own country. The move to Lon don was understaken at the urging of authorities, he said. “What can a queen in the hands of the enemy do for her country?” Ur. Loudon remarked. "Ask Mr. Schuschnigg (the former Austrian chancellor.” ITALY CELEBRATES AXIS ANNIVERSARY Notes Military Pact Birth day Amid Indications Country Will Enter War BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK ROME, May 22—W)—Press de clarations that Italy’s ‘pact of steel' with Germany had held British warships in the Mediterranean and French soldiers on the Italian irontier while the Nazi war ma chine smashed through the low countries into France highlighted ;oday the celebration of the first mniversary of the Axis military illiance. It was a celebration held amid nounting indications that Italy night soon enter the war. King Vittorio Emanuele gave tc Marshal Hermann Goering the ight to call him cousin—by con erring the highest Italian decora ion, the collar annunziata on Adolf iitler’s air chief—and the news capers unanimously felicitated the illiance. One extremist organ, II Resto lei Carlino at Bologna, exulted ever German successes, forecast hat Italy would take from Britain he Mediterranean island of Malta, tnd declared: . .Every bayonet in the back cf a fugitive Englishman avenges nfamies suffered by humanity.” By speaking of certain known levelopments under the alliance ind saying that “others will be mown at a meye opportune time” he newspaper II Piccolo obliquelj suggested that secret activity be tween the axis powers already was .inder way y NAZIS CLAIM EX-KAISER REFUSED OFFER! FROM BRITISH TO TAKE HIM TO ENGLAND By LYNN HEINZERLING RHENEN, The Netherlands May 22—tm— Kaiser Wilhelm, German authorities said todaj, turned down an oBer of the British government to take him and his family to Britain “in protection” when the Nazi army came this waj' in its march toward Amsterdam. Ten miles to the west of this little town, where one of the fiercest battles of the occupa tion of the Netherlands too place the former German Monarch sat in his home at Doom, and heard *4 again—for the first time since 1918—the roar of battle. He could not have missed the scarlet glow in the evening sky. Some houses here still were burning today. When resistance was stilled, the German army units rumb led through the main street of Doom, pausing to leave a guard at the former Kaiser’s gate. TOWN SHOWS FAILURE RHENEN, The Netherlands, May 23— (Thursday) — </P) — Dutch soldiers chose to fight it out from house to house against a swift-moving German army in this little town of southern Holland, and the charred walls and still-smoking ruins show how they failed. Perhaps the hardest fought battle on the German march from the frontier to Amsterdam unrolled here and along the Grebbe line, with its water de renses, a few miles to the east. We walked through this un happy little community between Arnheim and Utrecht and one building which seemed untouch ed was the town church, its < tower rising high above the i smoking, crumbled remains. 1 The business district of the 1 city of perhaps 8,000 population 1 was only a heap of brick. Prac tically every house on the road 1 leading to Grebbe hill outside the city was a skeleton, with tulips and Mowers of spring add ing a grotesquely gay touch. A little street car stood on the main street ready to set forth wherever possible, but there (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5)
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