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—^Td^catedToThe Progress Oi Served by Leased Wire of the WILMINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS And Southeastern North I | | || | J 1 I I I A| I With Complete Coverage of Carolina State and National News WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1940 * -fr ESTABLISHED 186T _-X- _ _ _ ^ ————— NAZIS EMPLOY 2,000 TANKS IN BIG DRIVES ALONG WEYGAND LINE NAZIS HURDLE SOMME Push Power Offensive Aim ed At Encirclement Of Paris From West STREETS ARE MINED BERLIN, June 6— (-£“) —Veteran German blitz divisions hurdled the Somme under a storm of fire today in a power drive aimed at encircle ment of Paris from the west, and German dispatches from the front said tonight they were fighting from door to door and tree to tree against the French defenders. Germany's “pioneers”—engineers —struggled in a hail of fire from French machine guns and 75’s for three hours before succeeding in laying a pontoon bridge at Pont Remy, a few miles southeast of Ab beville. Then veteran tank crews, rein forced by some new troops of Ger many’s Panzer divisions, sent their mounts charging into the French positions while German artillery laid down a curtain of fire. Gain Heights The Germans gained heights dominating the south side of the river but were encountering bitter opposition. The front dispatches said they were forced to watch every cellar window, every rock, bush and hedge for machine-gun nests and French colonial troops who swarm ed out on Indian files of Germans and attacked with rifles, bayonets and knives. “They had to be shot down sing ly,” said a DNB dispatch from the fighting scene. The streets were strewn with concealed mines. Interspersed with, the roar of heavy artillery was the constant rattle of machine guns.” The Germans described the French as hotly defending "heavily fortified field positions” against “fierce pursuit” which went “con siderably south.” The main force of the German of fensive was on the German right wing, aimed at encirclement of Paris from the west and severance of the lifeline between Great Bri tain and France. Immediate Objectives Immediate objectives apparently were Dieppe and Le Havre on the French northwest coast, and pos sibly beyond to Cherbourg, which the Germans bombed last night. If they succeed in driving such a coastal wedge, they will force Brit ish assistance to detour to southern French ports and' crack the effec tiveness of the British-French al liance. A second drive is aimed northeast of Paris in the Soissons -area, ap parently the intended left wing of a pincers movement against Paris. Tonight some Germans were bet ting Paris would surrender within two weeks. Except for authorized but unof ficial reports that German armies were striking “into the heart of France” there was scant word of operations along the 200-mile Wey gand line, other than in the coastal regions. Details Slow At the outset, however the Ger mans had emphasized that details of the offensive might be slow in coming. _,1 Warns Of Nazis British ambassador to the l". S„ the Marquess of Lothian receives honorary degree of doctor of Laws at Columbia university in New York. Addressing the graduating class, he warned that a German victory would bring the Nazis I “thundering to your doorstep.” GERMAN BOMBERS FLY OVER BRITAIN Cause Air Raid Alarms From Durham County To East Anglia Section LONDON, June 7—(Friday)— —German warplanes for the second time in 24 hours ranged the British coast last night and this morning, causing air raid alarms from Dur ham county in the northeast to Suffolk and East Anglia on the southeast, a spread of 250 miles. The air ministry said the planes “crossed the coast at several points during the night” but mentioned no bombings. All clear signals were sounded after periods of an hour to an hour and a half in a number of the areas. One plane was seen to circle high over a number of Yorkshire vil lages. but headed out to sea when the antiaircraft guns began bark ing. Besides Yorkshire, air raid warn ings were sounded in a tow-n in Durham, and in Lincolnshire, Suf folk and East Anglia. STRUGGLE CONTINUES Nazis Advancing On West: Flank Move Within 75 Miles Of Le Havre MILITIAMEN PREPARED PARIS, June 6—UPV—Stubbornly fighting French, thrown back on their right and their left by a sav age German offensive along the Somme and Aisne, launched coun terattacks at dusk tonight and the struggle was reported continuing through the night. The French counterattack was launched on their right or east flank where the (Terman infantry, preceded by masses of tanks and supported by artillery, had pushed south from the Ailette river in the Soissons sector and taken a foot hold in the World-War contested ridge of Chemin - des - Dames just north of the Aise. Storm German Positions French troops, in the gathering darkness, stormed the new Ger man positions. The struggle was r eported in military dispatches still to be under way at midnight. The French counter-thrusts took advantage of the German practice of relaxing their pressure hi In the German thrusts, before which the French recoiled earlier today at both ends of the Weygand line, 2,000 tanks were used. The roar of the battle could be heard 30 miles behind the firing line—or in places, nearly half-way to Paris. The French defense was de clared “magnificent” by the high command, even as it acknowledged withdrawals made necessary by the N^zi attacks. Move on Le Havre On the west flank German ad vance elements made a march to taling nearly 17 miles from the region of Abbeville. This was a push to the Eresle river along the Channel coast as part of a south westward encircling movement which however, did not put that invading wing any nearer to Paris. It did take the Nazis within 75 miles of Le Havre. On the east, Nazi troops ad vanced six miles to the Aisne heights, within 60 to 70 miles of this ancient capital — a capital which tonight reflected a more and more warlike atmosphere. Militiamen, with red, white and blue arm bands and armed with rifles, stood at the alert in the streets for parachutists and fifth columnists. British Warplanes Help French Bomb Nazi Lines PRODUCTION BOOSTED English Craft Pour Ex plosives Into Industrial ly Valuable Ruhr Area LONDON, June 6 —(#)—Britain’s army in overalls was pledged to day to gear up war industries for the full equipment of the next Brit ish fighting force that takes the field—in France or in England. As the whole nation was fitted into the program of rushing the heavy war industries to arm re formed divisions, the fliers of the R. A. F. carried on doggedly Bri tain’s reduced share in the defense of France Airmen Aid France While their home countryside along 270 miles of English coast thundered with the bombs of Ger man air raiders, the British air force struck blows for France be hind the battle line. The air ministry reported ex plosives poured into Germany’s in dustrially valuable Ruhr valley, bombings that lit huge fires in the oil supply tanks the Germans seized at Ghent, Belgium, and raids on German troop and supply lines backing up the Somme River battlefront. Six German planes were claimed downed. One British plane was ac knowledged lost. • •, C CANADA’S FUTURE STUDIED BY U. S. British Government May Move To Dominion If Hit ler Wins In Europe WASHINGTON, June 6.—(5>t—One o£ the greatest problems in American history is thrust before the United States by the possibility that the British government, if Hitler wins, may move to Canada and continue the fight against Germany from there. Officials have been pondering it for some time, especially since Hit ler’s conquest of Flanders and the threats of invasion of the British Isles. Prime Minister Churchill’s statement this week that Britain would continue to fight from the em pire overseas if ousted from the British Isles strengthened their be lief that such a possibility existed. It also confirmed them in reluc tance to believe that Britain might surrender her fleet in case of defeat to escape wholesale air bombing of the British Isles. Officials here regard Canada as th* (Continued on Page Two, Col. i) A Sale Of Navali Airplanes To Allies Jlated America Makes Fifty Craft Available For Imme diate Transaction OTHER SALES studied Senator Pepper, Who Ad vocates Aid For Allies, Pleased By Move WASHINGTON. June 6—UP)—’The United States navy tonight made fifty „£ ;ts warplanes available for immediate sale to the Allies, now locked in a life-or-death struggle with Germany. Whether this move would be fol lowed speedily by other assistance to the hard-pressed British and French was not officially announc ed but it was known that this gov ernment. which has received urg ent pleas from the Allied capitals, considering selling surplus world war material, including ri tes, machine guns, artillery and. ammunition. Bombers Included Xavy officials said that the 50 planes were Curtiss scout bombers, single engine seaplanes acquired it- the as*/ in the past two years aid especially adapted to dive bombing. It said the planes were being Horn to Buffalo, N. Y., to be turn ed in to the Curtiss Airplane com pany on future deliveries of new planes "of a superior type, equip ped with leak-proof tanks and arm or." The company will be free to sell the turned-in planes to the Al lies. The announcement said the planes being turned in were from “various naval aviation reserve squadrons." The navy said the turn-in was in accordance with an agreement wth the manufacturer, and added: These airplanes are temporar ily in excess of requirements due lo the fact that many of the re serve aviators normally attached to the reserve squadron have been ordered to Pensacola (Florida) as instructors on account of the large expansion of training at that place. "It is expected that the remaind ® of these planes at reserve bases "ill be similarly turned in as re placements are received.” Replacements Ready Maval officials said that replace •nents for the planes turned in to % were almost ready, and that additional craft from the naval re *®'es ":ouid not be turned in until ‘"Placements for them were ready. WEATHER v FORECAST tfir.ii ' Carolina; Partly cloudy, scat i °"'ors in the mountains; not dav J* *arm in central portion Fri shiwers“r 11 r 8 a y scattered thunder •nding I1 data for the 24 hours k ' -“u I1- ni. yesterday). . . 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ERWIN EDUCATION TERMED LINE OF DEFENSE Erwin Points To Its Part In Drive Against Isms In The United States “No great nation has ever been completely destroyed by external force but only through disintegration from within,” Clyde A- Erwin, state superintendent of public instruction, told the 348 teachers of agriculture at their annual meeting at Carolina Beach yesterday. “We must consider education as a secondary line of defense,” he said, “because it is through education that we will form our bulwark against the isms that would destroy our democ racy.” Vocational education must be in tegrated with the whole system of education so that the entire program of education will serve toward the uplifting of the people as a whole, Erwin said. In speaking of what our civiliza tion will make to the world of to morrow, he outlined the historic value from the great -nations of the past. Prom Egypt has come the sciences and mathematics including geometry, the precision of which is probably best illustrated in the pyramids. From Greece tve get beauty as ex pressed in architecture, sculpture, poetry and paintings. The story of Rome is one of organization as brought out by roads, viaducts, aquaducts, law and order including the Temple of Justice. Prom the He brews comes the history of religion and religious philosophy. Our na tion is leading the world in indus trial efficiency, said Mr. Erwin, men tioning the fact that at present we are able to excel all nations in any ordinary industrial enterprise even to the laying of brick. Only agriculture has been allowed to continue on a hit-or-miss basis which means that the farmers in .he past have been content to accept the grass on a thousand hills to graze their herds. They have persisted in depleting the soil on their farms and have discarded them for fresh ones. Only in the last few decades have we begun to make progress in agri culture, Mr. Erwin said- At the (Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) BROUGHTON SEES PROSPERITY WAVE Says Coastal Defense Pro gram Should Aid East ern North Carolina ELIZABETH CITY. June 6— W— Speaking- today at Elizabeth City’s potato festival, J. M. Broughton, democratic nominee for governor, said the United States, while sup porting the President’s defense pro gram stood equally firm that the youth of the nation should not be slaughtered in a European war. The speaker said that the senti ment in this country had rallied vig orously to defend the American shores “but is not prepared to inter vene in any European war.” Brough ton predicted a greater development of waterways, harbors and airplane bases under the coastal defense pro gram would bring a “wave of pros perity” to eastern North Carolina. Miss Marie Anderson of Perqui mans county was crowned queen of the festival at a ball tonight. I fk£k* ization ’ <v Pro-Allies UnitPerfected Speaker Scheduled To Pre sent Case Of Allies At Meet Tonight RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Call On F. R., Congress To Help Britain, France With Supplies A meeting of the pro-Allies group formed at a meeting at noon yester day in the superior courtroom will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at the same place and a prominent speak er, whose identity could not be learn ed last night, will present the case for the Allies. A permanent county unit of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was formed yester day by a crowd filling two-thirds of the room. Resolutions were adopted calling on the President and congress to help the Allies in their war with Germany by immediately furnishing them with war supplies. Petition Circulated Petitions, bearing the resolution, were being circulated throughout the county yesterday afternoon and it was reported yesterday that more than 1,000 persons had signed, they were to be mailed to the President for his consideration. Dr. John T. Hoggard was appoint ed chairman of a committee to se lect a speaker and to make arrange ments for tonight’s meeting. Few young men Conspicuous by their absence from the meeting were young men of Wil mington who would be drafted first to fight in the event the United States should become embroiled in war. In all. there were probably no more than 10 present who wmuld be enlisted in the first draft. The meeting was presided over by W. D. MacMillan, who Wednesday was elected temporary chairman of a preliminary organization formed at the chamber of commerce. He told of receiving “a call from Chapel Hill” requesting that a unit of the Committee for the Defense of America by Aiding the Allies be formed here and of subsequent ef forts to get the organization under way, including the calling of the meeting held this afternoon. He read a resolution passed by the New York unit of the organization which pointed out that the securi ty of the United States is threatened by the war abroad, that the outcome of the war will affect the lives of generations to come in Amercia, and that the Allies must win if democra cy is to be saved. The resolution he read also urged congress to make available to the Allies as many planes as possible without weaken ing the national defense program, that $100,000,000 be made available by the government for the aid of re fugees of Belgium and The Nethei lands and other invaded nations, and that any measure short of war be taken to aid the Allies in their fight with Germany Members of the temporary or ganization formed Wednesday re ported that several hundred signa tures have already been placed on copies of the resolution passed by the temporary group yesterday. Mrs. John T. Hoggard moved that the women of the city back the action of the men by wiring the congressional delegation urging (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) Calls On F.D.R. President of the American Fed eration of Labor. William Green arrives at the White House to pledge his organization’s support to the nation’s defense program. He advised President Roosevelt that up to 300,000 skilled but unemploy ed workers on Federation rolls are available for industrial expansion. HOUSING PROJECT CONTRACTS GIVEN Springer Company Award ed Contract To Supply Coal For Units Here --■*' _ *•< Contracts for> the operation of the two low-rent housing projects were awarded at a meeting of the Hous ing Authority of the City of Wil mington yesterday. The Springer Coal company was awarded the contract to supply stoker coal for both the New Brook lyn Homes and the Charles T. Nes bitt Courts, their bid being the low of $5.09 per ton. Boiler insurance for both projects was awarded to the local board of underwriters and contracts between the Authority and the City of Wil mington for water and sewer service were approved at the standard city rates. Other bidders on the coal contract were: Thorpe Coal and Builders Sup ply company, $5.20 per ton; North Smith Coal company, $5.30 per ton; McKee Brothers Ice and Coal com pany, $5.60 per ton; Keith Brothers, $5.75 per ton. The bids were opened on 250 tons more or less for the white project and 300 tons more or less for the negro project. However, it was esti mated that approximately 1,200 tons of coal will be used a year by both projects. All bids were made subject to fluc tuation in prices. The boiler insurance covered $15, 000 on each project, with three boil ers at each. TOBACCO FARMERS MAY VOTE JULY 20 Will Ballot On Three Ques tions In Accordance With New Changes WASHINGTON, June 6—(#)— Members of congress heard today this year’s farmer referendum on flue-cured tobacco quotas probably would be held July 20. This year the growers will vote on three questions in accordance with amendments to the program (Continued on Page Two, Col. 2) Italy Ready For II Duces War Decision Call May Be Expected Soon Unless Reynaud’s Talk Impresses Chief HOSPITAL CARS READY Shopkeepers And Others Are Warned To Observe Blackout Orders ROME, June 6—(#)—Italian fas cists, ordered tonight to be ready at any time for nationwide mass meetings to hear Premier Musso lini's decision on war at the side of Germany, awaited their leader’s evaluation of French Premier Reynaud’s suggestion that a peace ful solution might yet be found. None knew when the summons to the public squares throughout the land might be given II Duce’s verdict, but public and private in dications were that, unless Rey naud’s speech had impressed him, the call might be expected soon. “Very Important” Referring to Reynaud’s declara tion that “there are no peoples with whom France cannot settle by peaceful means divergences of in terests which appear to oppose them,” one of the best informed fascists cautiously commented that it was “very important.” This source would hazard no fur ther comment, saying that Pre mier Mussolini’s reaction was the only important one in Italy. The impression prevailed, how ever, in some lesser political cir-' cles that Reynaud’s conciliatory at titude might have come too late. Meanwhile, three trains of 15 rail road cars each, painted with Red Crosses, stood on sidings in Rome, ready to speed away to succor bombing and battle victims if need be. Third-class coaches were made over into hospital cars. Two trains also stood ready to rush British and French diplomats to the fron tier. Warning Shopkeepers, porters and house holders were warned of three month jail terms and $100 fines for failure to observe blackout orders when the time comes. Even such illumination as the permanent lights burned before sacred images on Italian streets would be doused. A special law gave guards or ders to shoot persons trying to evade border control. Instructions went out to all branches of the fascist party, in cluding children’s and women’s or ganizations, to be ready to don uniforms at any time for Piazza Venezia mass meeting to hear Mus solini announce, perhaps, that the nation which fought at the side of the Allies in the World War now is at war against them. The party members were told the rally probably would be held on few minutes notice to avoid giv ing the potential enemy any un necessary warning. There was no indication when Mussolini would speak. Such quiet readiness orders as were given out tonight sometimes come days or even weeks ahead of time, the latter being the case in 1935 when Italy invaded Ethiopia. REYNAUD ASSERTS FRANCE WILL CRU SH DREAM OF NAZI HEGEMONY IN EUROPE PARIS, June 6—(If)—Premier Paul Reynaud, speaking to the people of France tonight sub sequent to a cabinet revision which put him in supreme command of the war effort, declared that “hundreds” of German tanks had been de stroyed in the Nazi offensive on the Somme, and added sol emnly: “The dream of German heg emony in Europe is going to break against French resist ance! ** Apparently referring to the United States, Reynaud said, “Let all spectators of the dra n . ma of the battle of France un derstand and let them under stand quickly, for the stake is immense and their time is measured.” France has been seeking war materials in the United States. Of Italy’s demand for French Mediterranean posses sions, Reynaud said: “There are no peoples with whom France can not settle by peaceful means divergencies of interests which appear to op pose them. I have said this publicly. I repeat it.” The premier announced that his war cabinet was reduced from eleven members to eight. They are Reynaud, his vice Premier Henri Petain; Ca mille Chautemps, Louis Marin, Jean Ybarnegaray, Georges Mandel, Georges Monnet, and Raoul Dautry. Raising his voice but once —to praise the “heroic resist ance’’ of the Allied troops in Flanders — he spoke of the times when he had been forc ed to bring bad news to the republic, and said that this time he could give reasons for hope in a final victory. These, he said, were the “three facts:’’ The escape of the French and British troops in Flanders; The failure of the German bombing raid on Paris to break civilian morale; The development of the bat tle of the Somme — a battle which he declared, on the auth ority of General Maxime Wey gand, was going “sat*factor ily” for the French. He mentioned especially General Weygand’s new de fense system against the Ger man motorized units, saying that it was this defense that (Continued on Page Two, Col. 2)
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