Dedicated To The Progress Oi ~ , . .T~ mii Served by Leased Wire of the WILnlniTUI .nn ..... . . c , „ .. ASSOCIATED PRESS And Southeastern North „ . CaroUn. , “ Complel. Covei.ge oi Stale and National New* V£hi.2~NO. .2_6f___ * * ESTABLISHED 1867 Carol Seeks len To Meet Twin Threats Rumania Opens Its Prison Doors In Search For All Available Men NAZIS WILL NOT AID King And His Advisers Dis cuss Hungary’s Demands For Transylvania By ROBERT ST. JOHN BUCHAREST, July 3—IS*)—:Ru mania, almost despairing of the help she had expected from Ger many, opened her prison doors to night in a desperate search for every available man to meet threats from within and without her bor ders. It was announced that prisoners whose sentences would have been finished between now and Nov. 15, and those serving sentences of not more than six months for minor offenses, would he turned loose. On guard against violent anti Jewisli demonstrations which al ready had weakened the country internally, in her hour of grave outer peril, police in armored cars followed by truckloads of gendarmes paraded the main boulevards of Bucharest tonight. Dark News The news from Berlin^ that Ger many had backed away from the idea of giving formal assurances of help against any further attacks on Rumanian frontiers fell heavily upon officials who had hoped for a close tieup* with the Reich after renunciation of Franco-British ties. It came just as King Carol was ei’ing audience to three pro-Ger man politicians who are Transyl vanians—natives of the area which Hungary wants to regain from Rumania. I To Carol's palace went General Ion Antonescu, former war minister in the Goga (pro-Nazi) cabinet; George Bratianu, a dissident liberal leader, and Dr. Alexander Vaida Voevod, a former premier who in 1934 prophesied that the Nazi iron guard would some day lead Ru mania. Thus it appeared that the king, despite Berlin’s disclaimer of as surances of aid for Rumania, still "'as seeking urgently to come to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) GRIST IS NAMED THEATRES CHIEF Appointed City Manager; Bertram Goes To Royal; Autrey Stays At Bijou A new managerial setup for Wil hhngton Theatres, Inc., taking ef Mt following the death of George ■Bailey, and “conforming to the Poucies set up by Mr. Bailey be tre his death,” was announced yesterday. A. S. Grist, coming to Wilming on from Wilson, will be city man ger as well as manager of the Melina theatre. V. R. Bertram, °rmer manager of the Carolina, "it be moved to the RoyaL The (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) LWEATHER X0 i. „ FORECAST tts A h olina: Mostly cloudy, show 7liursfin,, scattered thundershowers riSin™ tay im<1 m east portion Friday, "“ftioanSaT Fri3ay and in wegt f'linct7r"!10gjca1' a far the 24 hours * P- m. yesterday). I-an „ Temperature to. Js.% 74; 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. toiaimin,Ti.p- m• 75; maximum 81; um 71; mean 76; norma! 79. I an „ „ Humidity to, 7". l-.jn- 90; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. '■ 7 30 p. m. 93. Total , Precipitation 0.26 inr, 24 ho"rs ending 7:30 p. m„ toonthow’ • to,tal since first of the t ’ v‘^o inches. Tides For Today ^''toington - SBJ£ l:,'0riboro Inlet_6:33a VZ iiaTfe, 5:05s; sunset V:27p; moon1? ■^a; moonset 6:39p. * Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) \ -— Spe»' l’V’^ -oft' 1-r: - Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawel! is shown speaking at the dedica tion ceremonies at the New Brooklyn Homes, negro low-rent housing project, here yesterday morning. In the left background is C. 8. Kornegay, a member of the Wilmington Housing authority, while on the right are J. E. L. Wade, city commissioner, and R. K. Creighton executive secretary of the Raleigh authority. Movement Of Ships Here Put Under C. G. Control - ★ All CRAFT INCLUDED Set-Up Less Drastic Than That At Ports Of Phila delphia, Baltimore The Port of Wilmington, along with other ports in the nation, is now under the control of the resi dent coast guard ship as regards movement of ships, both American and foreign, in an dout of the har bor, it was learned last night. The ports of Philadelphia and Baltimore have been placed under absolute military control for the first time since the World war. The setup in Wilmington, however, is somewhat less drastic. Must Get Permit It provides that any ship, regard less of nationality, must get per mission from a Washington ship ping bureau — through the com munication facilities of the cutter Modoc—before it can move in or out of the harbor. Similar arrangements either have been or will be made in ports throughout the country. This arrangement is an- out growth of a system set up by the President of the United States (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) CITY TO OBSERVE INDEPENDENCE DAY AH Public Offices Will Be Closed; Big Crowds Are Expected At Beaches Today—164 years after the adop tion of the Declaration of Inde pendence—Wilmington will observe the Fourth of July with little fan fare. No speaking exercises, parades, band concerts or nay of those affairs usually associated with the holiday will be held, as far as could be learned last night. All city, county, state and federal offices will take a full holiday, as will practically all stores and private offices. The weathr man has added something of a damper to the fes (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) Hungarian Reservists Are Called To Duty BUDAPEST, July 3.— (/P> —A stream of Hungarian military ~ reservists poured into concen tration points along the Ruman ian frontier today for the third successive day. In the cities and towns of this country, which is demand ing the return of Transylvania from Rumania, air raid precau tions went forward. Anti-aircraft guns were set up in the railway yards of Budapest, vital key to the country’s communications. The mobilization of thousands upon thousands of men—some 50 jears old — jammed every high way and railway line in the east ern section of the country^ DETAILS OF WEED SET-UP DEMANDED Wallace Asked To Reveal Program Before Opening Of Markets On Aug. 8 WASHINGTON, July 3— (3>) — Senator George (D-Ga) urged Secretary Wallace today to an nounce details of the new tobacco program before the Georgia and [Florida markets open August S. The senator said he pointed out J to the secretary that growers would (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) ¥ NegroHousing Project Here Is Dedicated - ■ ■■ ■ Associate Justice Seawell Principal Speaker At New Brooklyn Homes PRAISES UNDERTAKING Says It Is Monument To Aroused Consciousness Qf Public Social Duty Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawell, of the North Carolina supreme court, speaking yesterday morning at the dedication of New Brooklyn Homes, negro low rent housing project, told his audience the project was a monu ment to “an aroused consciousness of public social duty ... a monu ment to a new conception of the re lation of government to the social life and needs of the people for whom government exists.” Justice Seawell was the principal speaker on a program held to ob serve the completion of Wilmington’s first step toward caring for its ill housed citizens. Accomplishes ureat ueai ”The speaker declared the supreme court has recognized the fact that the slum clearance work is accom» plishing a great deal in the direction of establishing a relationship be tween ignorance and crime and is endeavoring to remove the conditions leading to this relationship. "Simplicity of living under condi tions which are favorable to the moral and peaceful existence and development of society call for sim plicity of government. It is quite true that those who are least gov erned are the most fortunate. But when we are confronted with con gested conditions of living, more par ticularly in very poplous towns, we begin to realize that there are so cial complications and social evils that are far beyond the power of private agencies and institutions to remedy, and which legal processes are ineffectual to control. "Government certainly should keep pace with these conditions,” he said. ••It should not be confined merely to the dry cogs of its operative ma chinery. The people, I think, have a right to look for something better: That government itself may be call ed on to aid, as far as it may, the efforts of men and women every where under its broad aegis to live in security, dignity and decency. "If this interpretation cannot be given to the constitution,” he said, “then it is time to amend it by those deliberate processes which have been provided; to go down into its vital parts, its articles, and its sections and its clauses, and to write there, plainly and unmistaka bly, those provisions which will make it more adjustable to human prog ress, which shall give to the indi vidual a new security for life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness, and which shall invest that boasted declaration with a significance it never had before. “A Sad Thing” "In dealing with the increasing complex social problems,” he added, “it would be a sad thing if govern ment never went to school. Govern ment, if it fulfills its duty to the people, cannot be bound up in a hazy net of abstractions. It must be mfire than a Declaration of Inde pendence wrapped up in a Star Spangled Banner. There must be an approach to reality. Administration is not a matter of stratosphere. It must make contact with the things (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) FRENCH WARSHIPS OPPOSE BRITISH EFFORTS TO KEEP FLEET OUT OF NAZI HANDS ENGINEER IS KILLED 24-Hour Total Of Air Raid Casualties Raised To 20 Killed, 197 Hurt NAZI PLANES DOWNED Raiders Range All Over England, From Scotland To Southern Coast LONDON, July 4.—(Thursday)— (S’)—The first German bombing of a moving train in Great Britain killed the engineer with bomb fragments in the climax of prolonged raids un leashed by the Nazi air force yester day and last night against the Brit ish Isles. Seven persons were reported killed and 77 wounded in the day's aerial attacks, putting the 24-hour total of air raid casualties at 20 dead and 197 wounded . British anti-aircraft guns and fighter planes brought down six and damaged four of the German bomb ers that roared solo and in waves in the day-long raids yesterday and last night. Passengers Escape The only passengers on the bomb ed train were two womarfi and two children. "It was a miracle that we escaped and I put it down to our presence of mind in crouching near the floor,” said one of the women, Mrs. P. Stew ard. The toe of her right shoe was blown off. The train was filled with fragments of flying glass. Mrs. Steward said she heard two explosions, then saw a plane swoop down. A number of bombs were dropped along the tracks. The sixth Nazi plane to fall was shot down in the evening by a Brit ish fighter over southeast England, the air ministry announced. The raiders ranged all over Eng land, from Scotland to the southern coast in an accelerated prelude to the expected invasion. The casual (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) RED UNION ASKED BY LITHUANIANS 10,000 Soldiers Reported To Have Urged Formal Union With Russia STOCKHOLM, July 3. — (iP) — Nearly 10,600 Lithuanian soldiers were reported tonight to have march ed from the Kaunas garrison and demanded formal union of their country with Soviet Russia. The correspondent of the Stock holm newspaper Tidningen reported from Kaunas that the soldiers con gregated in Kaunas’ sports palace and cheered Russian military speak ers. The men were said to have car ried huge portraits of Lenin and Stalin, Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotoff and Klementi E. Voroshiloff, chairman of a Rus sian committee of defense and for mer war commissar. Officers attempted briefly to inter (Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) -J Safe In The Land Of The Free | Happy are these four British refugee youngsters as they excitedly “man” the rail of their ship, gliding up the Hudson river. They were among 233 passengers recently landed in New York from the Holland America liner Volendam, which arrived unexpectedly, flying the British flag._ 1,000 Killed When Nazi Sub Sinks Prison Liner _,_ ARE ITALIANS, NAZIS Arandora Star Torpedoed Off Irish Coast While En Route To Canada LONDON, July 3— (-£>>—One thou sand persons, most of them Italian and German prisoners of war, were reported tonight to have drowned when German submarine torpedo sank the British liner Arandora Star off Ireland as it was taking 1,500 enemy aliens and others to Canada for internment. The luxury liner, stripped of her finery for prison-ship service, car ried about 1,500 internes and 500 guards. This presumably was the second consignment of prisoners for Canada, where the first contingent arrived last week. No Warning It was attacked just after day light (presumably yesterday) with out any warning, and some of the 1,000 survivors who reached Scotland tonight said many prisoners were killed in a mad fight for places in the lifeboats. One estimate put the number of prisoners killed at 968. The water was filled with bodies and debris, the witnesses related. Hundreds were asleep when the tor pedo struck and were unable to cope with the stampede for lifeboats. A German communique had an nounced the sinking of the 15,501-ton liner a few hours before the bedraggled survivors reached a safe harbor in a Canadian rescue vessel. The Canadian vessel, first to an (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) French Liner Sunk By Mine In Atlantic BERLIN, July 3. —