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Dedicated To The Progress Oi ^ Served by Leased Wire of fhe WILMINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS And Southeastern North I aJ I With Complete Coverage of Carolina t State and National News P^Tri^NO- 230 ~ 3WS WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940 + ^ ESTABLISHED 1867. British Mass Guns, Troops Along Coast King Warns Defeat And Invasion By Germany | Will Bring ‘Darkness’ HIGHWAYS BLOCKED Former German Spy Falls Into Scotland Yard’s ‘Fifth Column’ Bag | BRITAIN LONDON, May 24—UP)—England rolled up the barricades of modern war tonight from her ancient Chan nel ports to the blue Irish Sea, forewarned on this bleak Empire Day by King George VI himself that defeat and invasion by Nazi Germany will bring “the descent of darkness” upon the ruins of Britain’s kind of world. The narrow old roads from the Channel’s high chalk cliffs inland, which haven’t felt the stamp of an invader’s boots for nearly ten centuries, were guarded closely, behind a secret massing of heavy naval, air and land forces in stra Roads Barricaded Real road barricades stood rea dy at vital spots, and motorists in the pastoral green of rural Eng land were stopped and made to show identity cards. Sharp German spy memories of 915 came flooding back as Cap tain Franz von Rintelen, imprison ed by the United States during the last war for sabotaging munitions ships, fell into Scotland ard’s “fifth column” bag along with more than a score other suspects. Rintelen, who came to England several years ago as a voluntary exile from Nazi Germany, only yesterday told newspapermen that it was “impossible” for Germany to invade Britain, despite British “lethargy.” The heart of governmental Lon guns and armed guards. One gun stood at the head of Downing Street, where Prime Minister Win ston Churchill lives. Another was planted near the foreign office. Army guards at public buildings were increased. COAimONCABINET DISCUSSION SPIKED G. 0. P. Continues To De mand F. R. Renounce Third Term Intention WASHINGTON, May 24.—1^>)— President Roosevelt spiked talk of a coalition defense cabinet today as Republicans continued to de mand that he renounce any third term intention. The chief executive, whose re nomination by the democrats—if he will take it—became more cer tain than ever during the day, told his press conference that any idea of a coalition cabinet was cock eyed. He said that all speculation about republicans going into his (Continued on Page Three) BITTER FIGHT IS UNDER WA Y WITHIN GHENT FORTS SMASHED Whole German Offensive Seems To Be Operating Fanwise Toward Coast ACTIVE IN AIR “GERMANY | BERLIN, May 24.— (AP) In a fast, savage offensive on the final outposts that stand between England and France, the Germans declared to night they were smashing to ward the “gates of Calais” and fighting the Allies hand to-hand in the streets of Ghent. While Nazi divisions smashed westward in Bel gium toward the English* channel, others pulled at the western end of the great net in which half a million to a million Allied troops are en meshed in northern France and Belgium. A moving line of steel which started northward from the Somme, pushed to a depth of more than 30 miles to reach the outskirts of Calais—gateway to Eng land just 22 miles across the channel from the chalk cliffs of Dover. The other German advance, westward across Belgium, smashed through the Scheld river fortifications into Tor nai and Ghent to draw tight er the net about the entrap ped British, French and Bel gian troops. It was not clear here whether Boulogne itself was in German hands, since it ap peared that the German ad vance had skirted the town to the east. In any case, it appeared cut off. (A French (Continued on Page Three) MANY CANDIDATES PREDICT VICTORY Mass Of People Are Go ing To Elect Him (By The Associated Press) . Most of North Carolina’s demo cratic gubernatorial candidates is sued predictions of victory last (Fr-i day) night, on the eve of the state primary elections. Addressing his fellow townsmen in Rocky Mount, Lee Gravely said: “To my friends throughout the state, I bring the positive prediction of vic tory, and I pledge to you and to all the people of this state that when I am elected governor I shall give to the duties of that office alle of my thought, energy and effort. ...” Tom Cooper, speaking in his home twon of Wilmington, declared: "The great mass of the people are going to elect Tom Cooper, for the other candidates have fallen into the er ror of similarity of platforms. A. J. Maxwell of Raleigh was con fined by illness to his home in Ra leigh, but his associate campaign manager, Ronald Wilson, predicted Maxwell would carry 60 counties, including wake, Cleveland, Forsyth and Buncombe. Wilson said J. M. Broughton of Raleigh would carry 21 counties, W. P. Horton of Pitts* (Continued on Page Three) CRITICAL STRUGGLE Allies Seek To Bar Germans From Footholds For Jump Across Channel USE HEAVY GUNS "trance PARIS, May 24.—(AP) — French troops, standing dog gedly at the extreme west ern rim of the republic in a great and bloody show down, were declared official ly tonight to be holding the English channel port of Bou logne against the Nazi rush to the sea. Just to the northeast, in the equally vital region of Calais, other Allied forces closed desperately with Ger man light units. The last Allied word on Boulogne tonight was by a French war ministry spokes man, who announced French troops still were holding the o rvo Inef Horm Q n Qvm_ ored columns. The Germans never had directly claimed the capture of Boulogne, say ing, rather, that German armored columns had brush ed past it on the way to Ca lais. However, at one point earlier in the day a London announcement assumed the city had fallen. Capture of Boulogne is not essential to the advance of armored columns on Ca lais. The critical struggle to night was to bar the Ger man legions from footholds necessary to spring across the channel at England. For, across only 20 miles of water from Calais and 26 miles from Boujogne lie the cliffs and fields of England—upon which no invader has tramp ed in the long march of nine centuries. Use Heavy Guns While fighting raged within sight of the Strait of Dover, the main Allied forces—separated by a cor ridor 30 miles wide through which the German mechanized forces pushed toward the sea— brought out their greatest weapon, heavy artillery, in an effort to cut down the long, thin German line by crossfire . On both sides of that corridor (Continued on Page Three) NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If You Fail To Receive Your Sunday Paper ’Phone 2800 Star-News Circulation Dept. Before 10 A. M. (After that time our delivery service is closed) Star-News Circulation Dept. K a « rs. « ^ « a North Carolina Stages Vote Today 450,000 Ballots I Expected To Be Cast In Primary SEVERAL RACES Polls In 1,913 Precincts Will Open At 7 A. M., Close At 7 P. M. unusual campaign Number Of Democratic Candidates For Gover nor Establishes Record iBy the Associated Press) North Carolinians will go to the polls in 1.913 precincts today to write the end to a precedent-set tins primary campaign. Partly doudy weather, without showers, is predicted by Raleigh Weather man H. E. Kichline. The polls will be open from 1 a m. to 7 p.m. Governor Hoey ?r.d election officials have esti mated that total vote will be about 450,000. Predict Victory Unualified predictions of victory were issued last night by most of the candidates. Democratic nominations to be decided are for governor, lieuten ant governor, auditor, secretary of state, insurance commissioner, ag riculture commissioner, and con gress from the third, fourth, sixth, eighth and 11th districts, as well as legislative, county and town ship posts. I The democratic nomination for state and congressional posts is euivalent to election. Republican nominations at stake are for governor, lieutenant gov ernor and some few legislative, county and township posts. Although campaigns have been "aged actively for the last four months, little state-wide interest (Continued on Page Three) I SPAWNING SHRIMP I SUPPLY REDUCED I Unless Layoff Effected, ■ Fishermen May Find ■ Themselves Out Of Luck ■ NEW ORLEANS. May 24—UP)— H L'niess shrimp fishermen of the ^B Atlantic coast take a two-month layoff, they may find themselves ^B out of luck where the catch is H concerned. & Such is the opinion of two ac H Wtic biologists of the United II “’a'es Bureaus of fisheries, Milton ■ Lindner end William W. Ander ^B son. ^B ln a report on the present status of the Atlantic shrimp fishery, ^B ®ade public here today, the two B (Continued on Page Three) B y, forecast ^B ilsv , | Jr"li,lll: Partly cloudy Satur M I'xtrcm ..T.v, scattered showers in H (,ast portion Saturday, rising ^B S;itii]',ji|r* Sunday and in Mountains ^B enlnU.V'^'"logical data for the 24 hours H. o • oh p. nt. yesterday). B ■ ■,, Temperature ■ ti, "f,'1; 7:30 a. m. 75; 1:30 p. ■ ninitm.m >'• 72: maximum 84: IB ‘ hi. mean normal 73. B ! :;"a t ■ in. 5S i a. in. 86: 1:30 p. ^B 1 -jO p. in. 7o. Bh Total f „ Precipitation I f'.Oii ij,.Ior .-A hours ending 7:30 p. m. ■ month 0 73s sillce first of the IB (From .i"T,’<*es , l>r Today *^l S- Coast- At „fahles published by U ■ °ast “"4 Geodetic Survey). H "hfflitlgton HiKh Low ■ , Bl0n - (1:23a 7:40a ■ ^®sonboro Inlet 12:44p 7:55 V ll,lct -10:38a 4:34a ^B .Sunrise s (., 11:0<>p 4:39p || ,h* 1,1 -r^'moonA'VTAiT;1^1^ m°°n 1 lt'Jnt“IUed on Page Xwo, Col. 7) NEW HANOVER READY Partly Cloudy And Some what Colder Weather Is Forecast For Today THREE RACES HERE Registration Amounts To 9,958, Vote Is Expected To Total 7,500 New Hanover’s democrats and republicans will vote today on their party nominees for office, local and state, and a primary vote of 7,500 fias been predicted by political ob servers. The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Partly cloudy and somewhat cooler weather has been forecast cy weather bureau officials. Due to the lack of opposition en countered by most county officials, :he governor’s race and other state cffices are drawing most of the at tention. Three Candidates Four persons are candidates for Psew Hanover’s two seats in the state house of representatives, rhere are five candidates for the three posts on the board of county commissioners and two candidates [or the office of constable in Wil mington township. Many state officials have pre dicted that a vote of 450,000 will be cast in the state today. While four cf the state offices are narrowed down to only two candidates, the fnr thp cnihernatorial nomin ation broke all precedents in North Carolina. There are four candi dates for the democratic nomin ation for lieutenant-governor. The complete slate of state of fices is as follows: For Governor—Thomas E. Coop er. L. Lee Graveley, Paul Grady, Wilkins Perryman Horton, A. J. Maxwell, Broughton and Arthur Simmons. For Lieutenant Governor—R. L. Harris, W. Erskine Smith, Dan Tompkins, and L. A. Martin. For Secretary of State Thad Eure (incumbent) and Walter Mur phy. For AuditorGeorge Ross Pou (incumbent) and Charles W. Mill er. For Commissioner of Agriculture C. Wayland Spruill and W. Kerr Scott (incumbent). William B. Oliver and Dan C. Bon ey (incumbent). (Continued on Page Three) caswellaviation CAMP IS SOUGHT Efforts To Get Air Training Base Pushed By South port, Wilmington Eforts to secure the establish ment of one of the ten or mpre army aviation training camps recently proposed by President Roosevelt at Fort Caswell were pushed yesterday by officials at Southport and the chamber of com merce here. Letters were written by Louis T. Moore, of the chamber of com merce, to Senator Robert R. Rey nolds, H. H. Thomas, manager and S. O. Chase, owner of the Caswell Beach corporation. In the letter to Senator Reynolds, it was pointed out that the present properties and buildings at Fort (Continued on Page Six, Col. 6) -M [louse Okehs Enlargement Of Air Corps Approves Unlimited Ex pansion Of Army Branch By Vote Of 361 To 1 BILL GOES TO SENATE Roosevelt Announces Ex tensive Program For Training Pilots WASHINGTON, May 24—(£>—By a vote of 391 to 1, the house today approved an unlimited expansion af the army air corps a few hours after President Roosevelt had an lounced a broad plan for training 50,000 pilots to man the cockpits af the nation’s future fighting planes. Meanwhile, however, the senate aaval committee imposed a top of L0.000 planes upon the navy’s air strength, in recommending pass age of a measure authorizing the expenditure of an estimated $2, !00,000,000 for the naval air corps ind its bases ashore. The maxi num was fixed, it was said, so ;hat the navy would have to ask songress for approval when the ime comes to exceed that number af fighting ships. Bill uoes 10 oenaie The army air corps bill, which row goes to the senate, would sus pend the army air corps’ present egal maximum of 6,000 planes un ;il June 30, 1941. It also would eermit the army to train an aver age of 8,500 pilots annually, as compared with 2,500 at present, and allow 6,000 air corps reserve officers to be on active duty simul :aneously. In addition the legisla ;ion would permit the army to dis charge “fifth column” suspects arpong its civilian employes re gardless of civil service restric tion.s The senate naval committee act ed on the naval bill after Rear Ad miral John H. Towers, chief of the naval air corps, had said the Uni ted States has “far and away the oest naval air force in the world.’ However, Senator Byrd (D-Va had interpreted filgures presented ear lier by Towers as indicating the navy had no more than 500 up-to ;he-minute planes. Chairman Walsh (D-Mass sug gested that t)he earlier testimony ne suppressed because it presented “a very bad picture” for national lefense, but the committee reject ed the suggestion. The bill authorizes the navy to ncrease its roster of pilots to 16, 100, besides boosting its air strength to 10,000 planes. Walsh old reporters it was estimated hat an outlay of $1,200,000,000 would be needed to attain this two fold goal, which the navy hopes to reach in four years. Governors Will Aid In addition to revealing his pro gram for training pilots, Mr. Roos evelt disclosed an expectation that the governors of the 48 states, meeting at Duluth early in June, would get actively behind the de fense program. He had discussed (Continued on Page Three) ---^ M-Day Is Mother’s Day “Women should take part in defending the home,” declared Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, of Freehold. N. J., pictured at New York meeting where she announced plans of the National Legion of Mo hers of America for teaching its 2,000,000- members to shoot, as defense against parachute troops invading the United States. Severe Earthquakes Kill 249, Injure Many In Peru -- ■ — x _ THOUSANDS HOMELESS Many Victims Buried Under Of Scores Of Wrecked Buildings LIMA, Peru, May 24— (S’) —A series of violent earthquakes rocked Peru today causing a heavy death toll and leaving thousands homeless. Crippling communications ob scured the full extent of the dis aster but reports trickling in tonight placed the dead at 249 and the in jured at more than 3,000. Seventhy dead were counted in Lima alone and it was feared addi tional victims were buried under debris of scores of wrecked buildings. Callao Hard Hit Callao, Lima’s seaport six miles away, was the hardest hit. The death toll there was put. at 150, with 1,100. Almost every building in Callao was reported collapsed or cracked and the whole population was camp ing in streets and plazas. The shocks started with a one minute tremor in the early afternoon. The population rushed panic-stricken (Continued on Page Three) ITALIAN VESSELS j DELAY SAILINGS Reports Circulate In Rome That Allied Concessions Are Too Late’ ROME, May 24—<ff>—Sailings of three Italian liners—possibly need ed for troop transport—were post poned tonight as reports circulated in Italy that allied concessions in tended to keep Italy out of the war . had come “too late.” Today was the 25th anniversary of Italy’s entry into the world war on the side of the Allies. Now she is linked to Germany by a “pact of steel,” and all signs point to her entry into the war soon against the Allies. The official announcements of the postponement said it was pure ly a routine matter. New dates were booked but reports were widespread that these meant little. Two of the liners were the ,Rex and the Augustus, scheduled (Continued on Page Three) " 1 WAR INTERPRETIVE BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press Writer The stark outlines of what could become a tremendous Allied dis aster grow clearer hour by hour. Unless the Allies can break the trap closing upon perhaps a mil lion soldiers in Flanders that vast body of men mhy have to be sur rendered to Germany to save it from useless slaughter. Yet the key to the confused situ ation still is the narrow Cambrai Peronne gap through which passed the German thrust to the English channel. At that breach Paris re ports desperate counter attacks hammering from north and south; but there is an ominous lack of de tail in the French accounts. Closing the breach would turn the tables on the German forces north of the Somme and west of the Cambrai - Peronne bottleneck. (Continued on Page 6; Col. 4) SEfZUREOF BELGIAN ARCHIVES BY NAZI PARACHUTE CORPS OFFICERJS REVEALED By LOUIS P. LOCHNER wiTH THE GERMAN ARMY, May 24.—(AP)—The story of how a daring parachute corps officer rushed straight to the Belgian foreign office when Brussels fell and seized ar chives which “will make the world prick up its ears, was told to me today by an au thentic German military source. Among the parachute jump ers who landed in the vicinity of Brussels, I was told, was a dashing officer who m peace time served in Adolf Hitler’s chancellery as a liaison man to the foreign office. He also was an assistant chief of prot ocal. As soon as the Belgian cap ital surrendered he rushed into the city with the first troops and headed for the Bel gian foreign office. Thus, 20 minutes after Brus sels capitulated, the secret archives of the Belgian gov ernment were in German hands. I was not surprised. The Polish and Norwegian cam paigns showed that the Ger mans consider diplomatic booty quite as important as booty of materials. (Today in Berlin a spokes man declared it was “not im possible” that revelations of Belgian and Dutch connivance in Allied war plans would be published in a manner simi lar to those allegations made following the German invasions of Poland and Norway.) Hard Hay Today the German armies put in one of the hardest days of its offensive, drawing nar rower and narrower the pocket into which they have maneuv ered the combined British Belgian-French northern army. The bulk of the German force is only 20 miles from the Belgian coast. The German drive is relent less. Whoever we encountered (Continued on Page Three) Be Sure And Cast Your Vote In The Primary Today |
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