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Dedicated to the __ PROGRESS. UT® ^ ■ ■■ ■ I'fBi Served hyLeased Wire of the Of Wilmington and I PJ P® BmI ■■ ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern N. C. II I I^H ^P W With Complete Coverage of _tgjnnKHg (^©OT &&3E) fg)|UlgA^M.iarg^ State and National News 12^-—---------WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1940 + + PRICE FIVE CENTS Trio Tries To Dynamite Plant F.B. L Probes DuPont-Ethy] Plant Affair [Three Men Make Getaway, Leaving Dynamite Near Gasoline Factory GUARDS INCREASED Sabotage Feared At Plant Where Blast Killed Three In April iBy The Associated Press) BATON ROUGE, La., July 6— Extraordinary emergency regula tions so rigid that company em ployes said “Franklin D. Roose velt himself won’t be able to get inhere now without a special pass” were put into effect today at the 820,000.000 duPont-Ethyl manufac turing plant following a dynamite scare. FBI agents and state and county police joined in the hunt for three men who reportedly fled upon dis covery last night, leaving from sticks of dynamite inside the plant fence under which they had bur rowed. Vital to Detense Officers late today were uncer tain whether the attempt was the crude u-ork of some “sorehead," - as Sheriff Newman DeBretton put it, or an effort of sabotage the huge plant here, vital in national defense as the source of a third of all the tetraethyl fluid used in the highest grade gasoline con sumed in the United States. The duPont company of Dela ware does not own the plant but operates it for the Ethyl Gasoline Corp., of New York. Adjacent to it lies one of the nation’s largest oil refineries, operated by the Stan dard Oil company, where much South American petroleum is re fined. Discovery of the attempt follow ed an anonymous telephone call to a night watchman from a man who said that while hunting frogs late last night, he discovered three tnen attempting to invade the Plant, The watchman investigated and found the hole and dynamite, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) WEATHER , forecast Pr; ™ Carolina: Mostly cloudy, show tr;;r;„ :-ay and in west and south cen coo]POrtl°ns Sunday; continued rather t!‘s°nlai Carolia; Mostly cloudy, show »»Vjta,aa°“tmaed rather co°* «unday *£»gical data for the 24 hours i:30 p. m. yesterday). ! -9n Temperature i, ■dsS.a-68; 7:30 a. m. 07; 1:30 p. minim' 7:30 p- m- 75J maximum 81; aimum 64; mean 72; normal 79. Vm Humidity *•»; 7:5-,a‘ ”• 72= 1:30 P' Tnt.i ^ Precipitation tX21-h0Ur£ending 7:30 p' m" 044 inches Smce first of tlie month* Tides For Today *»«■».. — .&* a Awonbnro Idle._’Vbba 3:02b ! Sim*: - 9:20p 3:llp o:07a? sunset 7:26p; moon ■-c '•*oa; moonset 9:03p. «^?INGT0N- July 6.—UP)—'Weath rainfli ’1," records of temperature and in /hi1 for ‘he 24 hours ending 8 p. m.. anii elspwheCiPil* cotton-growing areas Ashe*"]] . „ HlBh *‘ow Prec. Atlsnto ’ cloudy- 70 57 0.00 A S' cloudy- 64 62 0.91 C,™c City, clear .. 72 60 0.00 Ruffin,’ poudy - 75 5» 9-09 ChS,' 0 Par- 83 30 rin^g“’ clear- 89 62 0.00 »en«rat'i cloudy — 86 54 0.00 iCoit' C oudy- 35 31 °-nr top’1' clear- 82 63 0.00 tv, 0; cloudy- S3 64 0.15 Oalim,., orth' clear — 87 65 0.00 Jav!nn0";, <>Iear - 87 72 °-57 Csus r-l6’ ra,ln-83 70 °-31 Kev m C'ty' clear — 89 69 0.00 little a*'. cloudy — 86 79 0.01 hoi A„,k’ cloudy _ 73 - 68 0.02 l.oni«”nP!eR' clear_ 92 57 0.00 sCnV- e’ cloudy — 86 59 0.00 jffi118', cloudy- 73 70 0.10 Ckrl'l0"dy,- 83 73 0.19 W '’cleans. cloudy _ 82 72 0.33 Sorf„n?rk',c,Par- 83 60 0.00 Pittsh,,; Pl0udy- 79 58 0.00 5>»rtlM7h;,c,oady — 83 57 0.00 Siehnm n M,e" cloudy 78 42 0.00 St. v ?a> cloudy- 81 56 0.00 « cloudy- 89 58 0.00 ^nnnnh f0’, cloudy 74 58 0.00 Tam„"ak'c'oudy- 80 72 0.00 ivas -t"- 91 72 0.02 a c oudy . 83 58 0.00 13ton, cloudy . 81 64 0.00 ----Zi ^WORLD’S LARGEST SUBMARINE SEIZED BY BRITISH one *,,*c*1 marred British seizure of large sec tiort of French fleet in British ports to prevent its falling to Germany. “Misunderstanding” aboard the 2,800-ton French submarine Surcouf, above, world’s largest undersea craft, resulted in death of one British seaman, one French officer, and wounding of four. War Department To Ask Compulsory Training MOTORIST HUNTED IN KIDNAP CASE Girl, 19, Picked Up On Highway, Badly Beaten And Thrown Out FBI agents and New Hanover county officers tonight were search ing for an unidentified white man who a 19-year-old white girl told them this morning forced her into his car near Myrtle Beach, attacked her, and brought her into North Carolina. The girl remained in a hospital here tonight suffering from a broken jaw and other mouth and throat in juries sustained when the man beat her with his fists, according to her statement. If caught, police said the man may be charged with violation of the Lindbergh law and possibly the Mann act, but the latter charge can not be determined, they said, pending further investigation. The girl told officers she was walking along Ocean Drive, about 18 miles north of Myrtle Beach, when a car stopped and its driver asked if she wanted a ride. When she refused, she told police, he got out of the car, hit her with his fist, and forced her into the car. She said she woke up later in a tourist cabin "somewhere on the road,” and the man threatened to kill her. She did not know, because she was unconscious, if she had been crimi nally assaulted. Later, when they drove near Wil mington, her captor beat her again, she said, and threw her out of the car onto the pavement. She was picked up by a passer-by and brought into Wilmington and placed in a hospital. AVIATION GROUND COURSE AVAILABLE Non-College Training Pro gram May Be Instituted In Wilmington Pendleton Edgar, of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Atlanta, Ga„ in Wilmington yesterday, said it is quite probable that Wilming ton may be included in the fall quota of assignments of the CAA’s non-college pilot training program. (Continued on Page Four; Col. 6) NEW YORK TAKES LEAD Navy Plans Sea-Going Ver sion Of Hitler’s Pan zer Divisions (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July — The War department has decided to urge compulsory military training, it was authoritatively reported today, but will recommend changes in leg islation now pending in congress. The army high command is to give its dpimons to a "senate com mittee next Tuesday and at that time, authoritative sources said. Will approve in principle the Burke Wadsworth bill providing for regis tration and selective training of all men from 18 to 65: $21 A Month One change, it is understood, will be a suggestion that those in train ing receive $21 a month — the initial pay of volunteer professional soldier — rather than a nominal stipend of $5 a month or so. Word of the high command’s at titude on this major armament is sue shared attention among de fense developments with reports that the navy was organizing a (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) F. R. AND FARLEY TO CONFER TODAY Decision On Third [Term Will Be Made, Some Observers ,Think HYDE PARK, July 6—W—Frank lin D. Roosevelt and James A. Far ley are to face one another across a library desk at the temporary White House tomorrow in a con ference of top-rank political im portance. It will bring together two men whose names will be placed in nomination at the democratic na tional convention. White House officials said that “Bib Jim”, the democratic nation al chairman, merely wanted to talk over with “The Boss” plans for the opening of the convention in Chicago July 15. But persons who know Farley well had little doubt he was aim ing also at a Showdown on the third term issue. The President already has more than twd-thirds of the convention delegates pledged or semi-pledged (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) Local Defense Council To Be Formed Monday The organization of a. Local De fense Co-Ordinating council will be the principal item of business at a special meeting called for 8:30 o’clock Monday evening, July 8, in the council chambers at the city hall. The action follows a recent re commendation of the Wilmington Engineers’ club that representa tives of local military, business, professional, and civic organiza tions be requested to meet for the purpose or organizing such a council. Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, com missioner of public safety, on be half of the city, and Addison Hew- | lett, chairman to the board of coun- 1 ty commissioners, on behalf of the :ounty, yesterday asked the follow- . ing to attend: Lieut. Col. George W. Gillette, ; Wilmington district army engineer, ( representing the Wilmington Engi leers club; Lieut. Col. James deB. ( Walbach, senior instructor, coast , irtillery, representing the United , States Army; Col. R. S. McClelland . rommanding officer, 252nd. coast j irtillery, representing the nation- \ il guard. 1 Wilbur R. Dosher, postmaster, (Continued on Page XVo; Col. 2) NATIONAL GUARD HEADS FOR CAMP Three Units Of 252nd Are Jo Spend 21 Days At Fort Moultrie The national preparedness pro gram affected Wilmington directly this morning at 7 o’clock when three local national guard units left for Fort Moultrie, S. C., where they will encamp for three weeks— one week longer than usual. The units and their commanders are: Headquarters Battery, Cap tain James E. Holton, Jr.; Battery A, Captain C. D. Cunningham;jand the band section, Lieutenant Wil liam F. Burns. All are of the 252nd Coast Artillerry. Colonel R. S. McLelland and his staff will accompany the units. The heavy column will move out of the city at 7 o’clock, followed by the light column at 8 o’clock. They will arrive at State Park, near Myrtle Beach, at noon today and will set up an overnight en campment there. The troops, traveling in transport trucks, will arrive at Fort Multrie Monday noon. They will return to Wilmington on Saturday, July 27. Captain Holton yesterday ex pressed thanks to employers of his troops for allowing them to be away from their jobs the extra week without penalty. The members of Headquarters battery attending the camp, in ad dition to Captain Holton and First Lieutenant Kenneth M. Corbett, are: Sergeants: Phillip B. Platt, Per cy C. West, Edgar H. Divine, Ed gar H. Divine, Edward R. Blake, Ernest R. Shinn, Edward M. Haw kins, Herber W. Hewlett, Almon G. Adams, Emmett M. Allen, Wil liam J. Farrow, Curtis Johnson, Walter B. McCary. Corporals: Oscar Herring, Jr., George C. Jackson, Francis G. Johnson, John C. Pittman, Sterling S. Shue. Privates First Class: Leon F. Andrews, Jr., Benjamin M. Brown, John E. Farmer, Harold A. Gibson, Hildreth C. Henderson, Winston H. Gray, Jr., Edward G. Maxwell, Lloyd G. Page, Grady M. Proctor, Benjamin D. Walker, James P. Wheeler, Privates: James L. Andrews, (Continued on Page Three, Col. 3) DECLINE IN JOBS REPORTED IN N.C. Fiscal Year Of Record Prosperity Ends With Prospects Dimmer By NOEL YANCEY , RALEIGH, July 6.— (fl) —North : Carolina has just completed a fiscal rear of almost unprecedented pros- < verity but there were indications to- i lay it was slightly apprehensive i ibout the immediate future. Showing conclusively that indus- 1 rial activity, employment and wages i vere at a high level all last year, i md up to a few weeks ago at least, vas the department of revenue’s fis- ( :al year-end report of collections. < This report showed that 1939-40 s ax “take” was $76,004,841.68—a cool . 6,428,252.18 more than the state t ver before collected in a year. As result the state began the new 1 iscal year with a surplus of more t han $7,000,000 in its general and 1 tighway funds. f Since rates for sales, income, gaso (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) WAR BULLETINS REFUGEES Msw YORK, July 6. — m— Offers to care for children flee ing warring Europe came tonight from business firms, private schools, religious organizations and wealthy individuals as the first boatload of child refugees from England neared American shores. SPECIAL CAMP fort McPherson, Ga., July 6—(/P)—Officers and enlist ed men here today made final preparations for arrival of busi ness and professional men en rolled in a special citizens mili tary camp arranged as a part of the nation’s defense plans. “FALSE NEWS” LONDON, July 5.—UP)—On charges of “spreading false news,” the French government at Vichy has ordered the arrest of four prominent French jour nalists, all of whom already have left France, it was reliably reported in London tonight. MOTORISTS LONDON, July 6.—(/P)—Brit ish motorists must dismantle their automobiles and hand over parts of the motor to authori ties if ordered to do so, a minis try-of transport order said to day. SURVIVORS LA CORUNA, Spain, July 6.— —Three fishing boats reached here today with 18 survivors of the Panaman ship Santa Marga ritaJunlistejJiL JJoyds), which was torpedoed by a German submarine off this port Tues day, Twenty-one of the crew are missing. WEAPONS GALWAY, Eire, July 6.—(/P> Sawed-off shotguns were amor a considerable number of wen ons confiscated by authorities i late today in an inspection ot luggage of persons intending to board the United States nner / Washington. AVIATION DENVER, July 6.—(A5)—As a defense measure the government must cease “economic regula tion” of the civil aviation indus try, Captain Gill Robb Wilson, president of the National Aero nautic association, said today. CZECHS NEW YORK, July 6. —(A3)— A cablegram from Edeiard Belies, former president of Czechoslo vakia, indicated today that the Czechoslovak army was prepar ing to aid in the defense of the British Isles. " " I CHINA-JAPAN WAR ENTERS 4TH YEAR Japanese Grasp Appears To Be Weakening ; Tokyo Claims Win Near SHANGHAI, July 7.—(Sunday)— ; TP)—The Chinese-Japanese war went ( nto its fourth year today, with the 2nd not yet in sight. Diametrically opposed answers ire given by Japanese and Chinese ' luthorities to these questions: 1 How long can the war last? 1 Can Chungking survive if Japan . doses free China’s remaining sources 1 >f foreign munitions supplies? < Is Japan bogging down at home i md in China? Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese general- , ssimo, says that if the war is end ng, it is ending in Japan’s defeat. Japanese military sources say ‘this remnant government at Chungking is collapsing. The war is ilready over.” ,, In an effort to discredit the Chungking government, the Japa lese opened negotiations Friday with ts Nanking puppet government for j 'readjustment of Sino-Japanese rela- . ions, establishment of a new order j n Eastern Asia, and ending of the ‘ iino-Japanese incident.” 1 As the third year of the war end- £ d, the Japanese forced French In- i lo-China to close the railway to outhwest China, over which, the X apanese claim, Chungking was get- t ing vital munitions. I This route as a lifeline to Chung- r ing faded, but a Japanese demand t hat the British similarly close the 0 turma overland route met rejection f rom London. d This action of the British consti- fl (Continued on Page Two; Col, 4) y Complete Understanding Marks Demobilization, British Officer Says * - * - BERLIN HAILS HITLER Conqueror Given Napoleon ic Welcome On Return; British Raids Rapped MANY CIVILIANS DEAD BERLIN, July 6. — (/P) — DNB, official German news agency, said tonight that of 191 British air raids on Hol land, 90 per cent of them were on cities and villages “where no military objec tives are located.” (In Amsterdam, Air Corps Gen. Friedrich Christiansen, German military commander in Holland, had charged that the character of British bombing attacks proved that Britain was obtaining infor mation from t)utch terri tory.) 103 Persons Killed DNB’s statistics showed the raids had killed 103 persons, injured 47, destroyed 83 homes, two schools and three hospitals and damaged two churches and 176 dwellings. In seven cases, the agency said, British fliers bombed and machine gunned trains with civilian passen gers. Food bureaus are being established by German military authorities in oc cupied French territory to confiscate and apportion all food, agricultural roducts and semi-finished goods, DNB reported in a Paris dispatch. It said the bureaus were set up “in the interests of a just and continuing supply of foodstuffs in occupied fer etory.” In addition, all business establish ments must continue operating, and employes are forbidden to quit or strike. BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, July 6.—<£>>—Adolf Hit ler came back from his conquests to day to ride across a vast carpet of flowers and hear the tumult of a (Continued on Pafe Three; Col. 5) MEXICOTOVOTE ON CHIEF TODAY Scattered Bloodshed May Be Forerunner Of Vio lence During Vote MEXICO CITY, July 6—W—Mex co’s angry presidential campaign rnded tonight in an atmosphere of growing tenseness, scattered blood shed and fear of major disorders n tomorrow’s election. Late in the day, one newsboy vas shot and killed and four other versons were wounded in front of ;he union headquarters here of the vorkers of the marine department. They had shouted “Viva Alma :an!—thus demonstrating in behalf >f the anti-administration candi iate for president, General Juan Vndreu Almazan. The group of boys had stoned he building, which displayed pho ographs of Manuel Avila Cama :ho, the administration candidate. 3olice arrested one man in the Jnion headquarters and rescued ither occupants from a mob of toys. The incident occurred on the fvenida Bucareli, Mexico City’* (Continued on Page Four; Col. 6) Nazi Raids Staged In Relays LONDON, July 7.—(Sunday) —(/P)—German planes flew in relays over a northeastern area of England early today after an undetermined number of civilians had been killed in two German air raids late yester day. Several of the latest wave of raiders were spotted by search lights, and anti - aircraft fire drove them back seaward. In yesterday’s raids, three persons were reported killed in an attack in southwest Eng land and a joint communique of the air and home security ministries also said: “Enemy aircraft crossed the south coast late this afternoon and dropped some bombs. Cas ualties were small in number but included a few persons kill ed.” By the Associated Press LONDON, July 6.—British war planes hammered a double blow at Italian and French seapower today in far-ranging attacks. At home, she enrolled another 300,000 men in her constantly ex panding armed manpower, poised now for invasion. “Successful action” by naval and Royal Air Force planes against Italian warships in Tobruk, Libya, was announced by the admiralty. It said other units of the fleet air arm also had raided an air (Continued on page Three; Col. 1) RUMANIA BEGINS DRIVE ON JEWS New Pro-Nazi Chief Says Jews And Reds Disloyal During Red Grab By the Associated Press BUCHAREST, July 7 — (Sun day)— “Minor incidents” which have been ended were disclosed officially today to have occurred in connection with Jews and other minority groups to Russian occupied Bessarabia. The announcement by the In terior Ministry followed the accusa tion last night of Premier Ion Gigurtu, head of Rumania’s new pro-Nazi government, that Jews had been disloyal in the country’s “last hour of trial.” “The cession of Bessarabia and in particular, the transfer across the Prut river into Bessarabia of the Jewish minority and certain communistic elements was effect ed with some minor incidents,” the ministry’s communique said. “These were, however, liquidated through energetic measures and the tact of our officials.” Of the alleged Jewish disloyalty, Gigurtu declared: “We will never forget ...” While he spoke of a “minority,” it was said in his behalf that his denunciation was of the Jewish people. The Premier told the country that the government had “decided in the future to collaborate in close contact with all those minorities (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) War Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON The European war stage has ieen reset somewhat through Brit 5h elimination of the French fleet s a potential menace, but there 3 little to indicate that German trategy for the Battle of Britain ad been greatly influenced. On the contrary disclosure of the thereabouts of the important nits of that fleet implies that Herr [itler and his Italian ally had in o way counted upon it in planning 13 next phase of their stupendous ffensive. It is now clear that razi-Italian insistence upon surren er and internment of the French eet, under Axis pledges that it ould not be turned against Eng land, was a political, not a mili tary move. It was designed obviously to pro mote friction between shattered France and her ally, still defiant England. It has done just that, leading to the first armed clash between French and British forces ' since the end of the Napoleonic 1 era. < Behind wrathful German and* Italian comment on the British ac- < tion can be discerned a wholly dif ferent actual Nazi-Fascist reaction. I It is one of exultation that what s must now be regarded as an Axis t plot to break the spirit, as well i as the fact, of Franco-British unity t (Continued on Page Five; CoL t) STRASBOURG ESCAPES ___________ 9 Gunboat And Destroyer Are Sunk In Mediter ranean By British FRENCH ARE BITTER CAIRO, Egypt, July 6.—• (JP)—The French fleet in Alexandria was stated to night to have been demobiliz ed' without difficulty. Colonel Salisbury Jones, until lately chief British liai son officer in Syria, said in a broadcast at Cairo that thanks to the bonds of friend ship formed between the British and French crews the demobilization of the French fleet in Alexandria has been carried out without difficulty in a spirit of com plete understanding. LONDON, July 7.—(Sunday)-J(.ir) —A Reuters, British news agency, dispatch from Vichy, France, to day quoted an Algiers dispatch as saying the French battleships Dun kerque and Provence and the de stroyer Mogadar lost 200 killed and 150 seriously wounded in the nav al battle with British warships last Wednesday. The dispatch also said there were only 200 survivors from the French battleship Bretagne. Her normal complement was 1,133 but she was in port at the time of the battle and probably many of the crew were ashore on leave. The four ships were reported ashore as a result of the fight. It was said engineers were studying means of refloating them. (By The Associated Press) GRENOBLE, France, July 6—The French government assembled every weapon at its command today to defend the last remnants of its fleet from the unceasing British pursuit, and a period of a strange, unequal naval warfare between the bitterly estranged former Allies seemed clearly foreshadowed. Both Germany and Italy freed France temporarily from the armis tice obligation to disarm in the Medi terranean—so she could fight the British navy—and even as this de cision was taken it was acknowledg ed that two more French warships had gone to the bottom. The 1,969-ton gunboat Rigault do Genouilly was torpedoed—without warning, the French said—off Al giers, and the 1,367-ton destroyer (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) ISLAND BLOCKADE AROUSES CONCERN F. R. Suggests Asia And Europe Keep Conquer ing Nations Out WASHINGTON, July 6.—W)— The possibility of joint Pan-Ameri can action with regard to the re ported British blockade of Martinique arose today. At a press conference, Secretary Hull said that this and other Ameri can governments carefully were studying reports that British war ships had hemmed in the French Caribbean island to prevent the de parture of a French aircraft carrier. He added that they now lacked in ormation on which to base any gen ;ral theory. Machinery set up by Pan-American conferences at Buenos Aires in 1936 ind at Lima in 1938 provides for temisphere consultation in the event >f world peace disruption or of any hreat to American nations. HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 6-—<J9P» —President Roosevelt suggested to lay that Europe and Asia apply the irinciples of the Monroe Doctrine as i means of reaching agreement on he disposition of possessions of con* [uered nations. He took the position that Euro iean, Asiatic and American nations hould get together in their respec* ive spheres and settle problems nvolving territorial possessions mong themselves, instead of allow (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5J