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Dedicated To T|*® P*°®r®5S ® Served by Leased Wire of the t ASSOCIATED PBESS And S°“n With Complete Coverage of .__ State and National News V0LJ2=-Na 267--—___ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940 * * ESTABLISHED 1867 100 Killed D afesg Mexican Election fwoAmerican Citizens Hurt As Riots Rage Thousands Injured As Rival Political Factions | Match Bitter Gunfire COUNT NEXT TUESDAY Both General Camacho And fis Rival, General Alma zan, Claim Victory BY BEN F. MEYER MEXICO CITY, July 7—UPt—Mex ico counted 100 or more slain and thousands injured, including two seriously wounded United States citizens, as rival political factions matched gunfire with each other and with soldiers and police today in the blazing, riotous climax to a bitter presidential campaign. While the casualties mounted, with the greatest number in Mex ico City itself, the count of ballots will not be made until next Thurs day, It then remains for the gov ernment to decide whether results will be announced before the offi cial figures are presented to the congress that meets Sept. 1. Both Claim Victory Both General Avilj Camacho, the irndidate backed by the present administration, and his rival, Gen eral Juan Andreu Almazan, claim ed certain victory while their fol lowers did bloody battle around the polling places. The estimate of more than 100 dead came from General Almazan. Mexico City police said a score cf persons died and 100 were in jured in this capital alone, and the toll was expected to go higher. Sl.ooiings were reported from var ious other cities, although in the north, near the United States bor der. the election was comparative ly quiet. The wounded Americans were Edward J. Mallen, Jr., of Daven port, Iowa, shot through the stom ach and believed near death and Leonard Durso, 18, a Georgetown nniversity student of Union City, N. J., who suffered a rifle bullet in the left side. Both were shot in riots in the heart of the capital. Rifles, pistols, machine guns, hand grenades and tear gas bombs were used freely in the fighting in (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) REPORT OF SHIP SINKING IS HOAX Radio Message From U. S. Destroyer elling Of At- ! tack Proves False Washington, July 7—w>—a Mysterious S.O.S. reporting th a t , S. Destroyer Barry had been struck by a German submarine an“ "’as sinking caused the gov ernment an anxious two hours to ay’ before it determined that the essage was strictly phoney, fucked up in the first place by Mackay radio, the S.O.S. said Sinking slowly, hit by German Amarine; water in hold; can •Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) r——______ LWEATHER l xorth,, forecast trs \t™jroIina: Mostly cloudy, show fsraiim! • a,ld Tuesday, rising tem Tuesrtn,, "est and central portions and in the mountains Monday. ffe'iSioal data for the 24 hours 6 -30 p. m. yesterday). 1:20 a „ Temperature to SO-8’- —A ,l8: 7:30 a. m. 09; 1:30 p. toininilim «- O’ m- "31 maximum 81; m 8a; mean 73; normal 79. 1:3(1 , - Humidity to. 65-l6; 7:30 a- m- 77; 1:30 p. ’ 1 -30 p. m. 74 Total f„r precipitation •'ll. . -4. hours ending 7:30 p. m., llH inehep Slnr'° first of the month, Tides For Today "ilmingie,. High Low feloa- 7:00a *ls°nboro inlet 12:02p 7:07p 0 In!,?t - 9:55a 3:50a ..Sunrise a.ftc„ 10:llp 4:02r “ nmonsetU9nf4e4p.7:26P: “°°“ '^'Oie.^S fee” ’“*** Fay' <C0Mmued on Page Three; Col. 2) ---- ■ ^5^° str Fatal Fair Bombing New York’s entire police force was mobilized and all known Fascists were ordered rounded up following explosion of bomb, found in British Pavilion at New York World’s Fair. The blast killed two detectives, critically injured two others. Above, victim is rushed to ambulance, while body of one dead detective lies under sheet in foreground. ... Hitler And Ciano Agree On Continuation Of War CONFER IN BERLIN German And Italian Lead ers Discuss Construction Of A ‘New Europe* ~* ROME, July 7—W)—In a tele phone message from Berlin, the diplomatic correspondent of Stefani, official Italian news agen cy, reported tonight: “High representatives of the two Axis powers have reached com plete agreement” regarding con tinuation and deve opment of the war and in relation to construction of a “new Europe.” The authoritative Fascist editor Virginio Gayda, commenting on the visit, said: “It is natural that in this new moment of European history Ger many and Italy should come to gehter again to perfect and har monize plans for initiatives and action. Union “Their rule is that of going to gether—in combat as in political solutions. Their political wartime comradeship now nears the con clusive task of construction through new trials of blood where in both are resolutely throwing their wi Is and all their inexorable forces. “No indiscretion today may be made regarding the new Italian German meeting in Berlin. Europe may only know that it has sub stantial reasons. It will mean, as proceeding meetings have meant, a new stretch on the combative, constructive road of new associated nations and their great chiefs. “The war is not finished. Great Britain remains in the struggle with her uselessly menacing ru mors and her imperial resources. (Continued on Page Ten, Col. 7) DEFENSE LEADERS WILL MEET TODAY Representatives Of Local Groups Plan To Organize Coordinating Council Representatives of local military, business, professional and civic or ganizations will meet in special ses sion at the council chambers of the city hall tonight at 8:30 o’clock for the purpose of organizing a Local Defense Coordinating council. Persons representing the various organizations have been named by Mayor Thomas E. Cooper and Addi son Hewlett, chairman of the county board of commissioners, and have been requested to be at the meeting tonight. The action follows a recent recom mendation of the Wilmington Engi neers clum that persons from the various organizations of the city meet for the purpose of forming a de fense council. The list of persons announced Sunday will be supplemented from time to time, it was reported. » Three Raiding Planes Shot Down At Malta VALLETTA, Malta, July 7.— </P)—Three raiding aircraft were brought down within 12 hours over the weekend, a summing up of hostilyities showed tonight. In Saturday night’s raid two planes of a total of four were sent into the sea after bombs were dropped and machine-gun fire split the air with little ef fect. On Sunday two formations of five enemy aircraft each dropped several bombs. There was no damage to military objectives but some civilians were killed and wounded and several houses were destroyed. SEVERAL ITALIAN BASES ARE RAIDED CAIRO, EGYPT, July 7 -(* Successful demobilization of t h e French east Mediterranean fleet and unceasing aerial pounding of Italian land, sea and air bases in the Mediterranean and North Afri ca were reported today by the British. The operations over the week end were aimed at the Goal Prime Minister Churchill set up for the roayl navy and air force when he promised commons: “We shall take the necessary steps to main tain command of the Mediterran ean.’’ Since last Friday, the British middle east command reported, the royal air force has engaged i n these activities: Over Land scored direct bomb hits on two hangard arid .aj; her buildings at Catania, Sicily, start ing fires that could be seen 20 miles; smashed two grounded planes and ignited two oil tanks at Zula, on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea; bombed and mahine gun ned troops at Bardia, Italian East Africa. _ NEW BILLION DOLLAR BOOST IN TAXES MAY BE PROPOSED IN CONGRESS SOON BY JACK BELL WASHINGTON, July 7—W— A new $1,000,000,000 annual in crease in taxes may be pro posed, it was reported today, as companion legislation to the projected $5,000,000,000 boost in national defense outlays. President Roosevelt is ex pected to send a special mess age to congress by the middle of the week asking for $4,000, 000,000 in appropriations and contract authorizations for the army and $1,000,000,000 for the navy. Senator George (D - Ga.), a member of the senate finance committee, said it was his un v. derstanding that this huge new defense request would be link ed with a tax increase of $1, 000,000,000, although it was un certain whether the President would allude in his message to the financing of the new pro gram. George said he thought a maximum of $350,000,000 addi tional could be raised by ex cess profits taxes on corpora tions, which the President al ready has suggested to Con gress. The remaining $650,000, 000, he predicted, would have to be obtained from indivi duals and through miscellane ous so “In my judgment,” the Georgia senator told reporters, "we are going to have to start right away on the skeleton of a tax bill. It will have to be based on a thorough-going re vision of the tax system and it probably will take months to do the job right.”'' George’s prediction was in line with the contentions of many members of congress that the special $1,000,000,000 defense tax bill rushed through congress last month was only a "makeshift” and that an overhauling of the tax system would have to he undertaken | by congress to provide proper | financing for the enlarged de fense program. Although this will be a short work week—the plan is to re cess Thursday until after next weeks’ democratic convention congressional leaders hope to complete action on two cabinet appointments, the $4,000,000,000 naval expansion bill and the Hatch political practices mea sure. The senate will take up to morrow the nominations of Henry L. Stimson to be secre tary of war and Col. Frank Knox to be secretary of the 1 (Continued On Page Three; Col. 3) i FRENCH AIRPLANES ATTACK GIBRALTAR One Destroyer: In Bay Ap parently Struck During Raid On Fortress LALINEA,' SPAIN, July 7 -4®— Planes believed to have been French heavily bombed Gibraltar again Sunday morning' and appar ently struck one destroyer in the bay. Destroyers constantly patrolled the waters around the fortified rock to protect naval units against sub marine attack. Persons arriving here reported the fortress occupants are living in a state of constant alarm, with residents spending many hours in air raid shelters. The Aircraft Carrier Ark Royal, whose planes joined in the attack on the French battleship Dunker que last week, arriving with sever al other vessels. It was reported here the Ark Royal lost two planes • xi_it_xi- a __x;_ 1A1 U1V iivi liU A UVVIVill Squadrons Re-armed GRENOBLE, FRANCE, July 7— (fl)—Two French air squardons, dis armed by the armistice, have been re-armed and have joined German Italian aquadrons in attacks on British Gibraltar, the French navy ministry disclosed today. Its communique, published in Le Petit Dauphinois, said the French squadrons and Axis planes had bombed British warships in Gib raltar harbor, including some that attacked the French fleet at Mers Elkebir July 3. “At least one large British war ship” was hit, it said, dispatch declaring that French The same newspaper published a losses in the Mers El-Kebir action, taken by the British to prevent delivery of France’s surrendered fleet to Germany and Italy, were believed to total 1,000 dead, miss ing and wounded. There were only 200 survivors from the battleship Bretagne, and 200 were killed or missing and 150 were wounded aboard the battle ships Dunkerque and Provence and the Flotilla leader Mogador, the same dispatch said. (The Bretagne was blown up and the Dunkerque, Provence and Mo (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 4) Germans Push Plane Raids Upon England Series Of Attacks Last ^Through Sunday Until Early This Morning FIVE PERSONS KILLED At Least Four Of Invading Planes Shot Down By British Fighters LONDON, July 8.—(Monday)— (S’)—Thousands of Englishmen who sought peace and quiet on week end jaunts to the countryside found instead that they were un bidden witnesses to a deadly phase of the battle for England—a day long series of German bombing raids that lasted through Sunday until early today. Fascinated spectators felt the earth shake with the blasts of high-explosive and delayed-fuse bombs which the Germans shower ed down on widespread areas. They cheered to the echo as British fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns shot down at least four of the enemy in flames off the south east coast. Five Persons Killed At least five persons, including a policeman, were killed by the German bombs, and a number suf fered Injuries. Homes were splinter §d«-and ..tbe delayed-action missiles added a new peril. The German planes penetrated the English coastal defenses in small groups, then split up into still smaller unite of three or four and engaged in spectacular dog fights with British pilots. The sky was starry with vivid flashes of gunfire. The noise of bombs and anti-aircraft cannon provided a steady undertone for the shriller crack of machine guns and the high whine of racing mo tors and screaming struts. The air ministry said one Brit ish plane was lost. “A German plane of the fighter type was moving in an easterly direction,” one witness said. “We saw another plane high above it go into a dive and plunge like a stone for several thousand feet. Then there was the stutter of ma (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 5) BRITISH TORPEDO FIVE NAZI SHIPS Vessels In Convoy Are At tacked By Submarine Off Coast Of Norway LONDON, July 7.—'(5>)—The Brit ish submarine Snapper torpedoed five German ships in convoy off the coast of Norway, the admiral ty reported today. The communique: Our submarines continue to ha rass and inflict serious losses upon German sea communications with Norway. H. M. submarine Snapper (Lieu tenant W. D. A. King, D. S. O., R. N.) sighted a convoy of supply ships escorted by an armed traw ler and aircraft. The Snapper attacked and hit two ships with torpedoes. The rest (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 6) DISCLOSES HIS PLANS TO FARLEY BUT HEAD OF PARTY IS SILENT Decides _PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT _ WillkieAndMcNaryWill Discuss Campaign Plans TO MEET IN CAPITAL Friends Of Senator Do Not Expect Him To Make Vigorous Campaign WASHINGTON, July 7— UP) — Wendell L. Willkie, coming to Washington tomorrow to talk cam paign plans with , his running-mate Senator McNary and others, is likely to find the senator ready to give unlimited advice, based on a long career in politics, but reluc tant to undertake any extensive campaigning •himself. Friends of the senator say he would prefer to confine his own campaign activities to a few radio speeches, by contrast with the vig orous electioneering, which Willkie said several days ago he hoped McNary would assume. Move On Chicago Meanwhile, the headquarters staff of the democratic national committee moved on to Chicago to ^Qir o Hrro rtno nf tVia /I nm nnro tlb national convention convening there July 15. Later in the week, Senator Wag ner (D-NY) will go to Chicago with a rough draft of the party platform. It is his expectation, after his arrival at the convention city, to hold an almost continuous series of informal conferences with groups interested in various plat form statements. As with the republicans, a row is expected to arise over the party declaration on foreign affairs. But with pro-Roosevelt forces in con trol, it is considered a certainty that this will end in a complete affirmation of what the adminis tration has \id and done. To offset McNary’s conceded ap peal in the agricultural areas— he was a cc-author of the famous McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, which was vetoed twice by repub lican administrations—some party leaders were suggesting Secretary Wallace or Chester C. Davis for the democratic vice presidential nomination. Wallace has headed the agricul ture department throughout the (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 4) Forty German Planes Downed In Fortnight -. i? .ti-j... I,. LONDON, July 8.—(Monday) UP)—The Times today said the air ministry reckoned that “40 German airplanes have been brought down in the past fort night and that some 2,500 in all have been destroyed by British forces alone since the war began.” “It was calculated on Friday that 74 Italian airplanes had been destroyed, mostly in air fights, since Italy entered the war. In addition 30 had been heavily damaged and probably out of commission.” 252ND UNITS CAMP AT MYRTLE BEACH Regiment Will Move On To Fort Moultrie Today To Begin Training MYRTLE BEACH, S. C., July 7.— <iP) — The National Guard units o£ the 252nd regiment, coast artillery, encamped here today enroute to Fort Moultrie for three weeks’ training. The some 1,000 troops are under command of Col. Royce S. McLellan of Wilmington, N. C. The units comprise batteries A of Wilmington, B of Lumberton, N. C., C and D of Greensboro, N. C., E of High Point, N. C., and also a combat unit from High Point, Service battery of Whiteville and a medical detachment. The soldiers will move on to Ft. Moultrie tomorrow. LEAVE CITY Three local units of the 252nd coast artillery left yesterday morning at 7 o’clock for their annual three weeks encampment at Fort Moultrie, S. C. The units stayed overnight at State Park, near Myrtle Beach and will arrive at Fort Moultrie at noon today. They will return to Wilming :on on July 27. The units and their commanders ire: Headquarters Battery, Captain Tames E. Holton, Jr.; Battery A, Captain C. D. Cunningham; and the land section, Lieutenant William F. Burns. Col. R. S. McLelland and his staff iccompanied the units. Germany And Greece Sign New Trade Pact LONDON, July 6.—(jP)—Reuters, 3ritish news agency, reported from Athens today the signing of a new sconomio agreement between Ger nany and C .'eece, under which im >ort and export quotas will be in ireased. _ Vi J TALK AT HYDE PARK Farley Will Not Reveal When President Is Point Jo Make Announcement SIDESTEPS QUESTIONS More Than Two-Thirds Of Convention delegates Pledged To Third Term HYDE PARK, N. Y„ July 7—(#>— President Roosevelt has made his historic decision on the third term issv.e. He disclosed it today to James A. Farley, National democratic chairman. Bvu Farley would not say whether Mr. Roosevelt had determined to attempt to shatter the third term precedent or leave the Wb'te House next January. The chief executive made h i s decision ki own to the man who has beer for years one of his ablest political aides, but Farley merely told reporters: “Full Knowledge’* 'I had a very satisfactory talk vith the President a 1 I have full knowledge of his thoughts and what he has in mind. But I will not discuss it with any individual.” Nor would l.e give any hint when M- Rc 'sevelt might reveal to the nation what he was going to do abo a third term. He said 5. was up to the Presi dent to make any announcement r' the ti: <* his choosing. Farley fended off every effort by reporters to learn whether the third term announcement would come before the democratic con vention, opening in Chicago a week from tomorrow, or whether the delegates would know the Pi In dent's views in advance of the nominating speeches. Three times the democratic na tional chairman repeated that ne had had a satisfactory talk with the chief executive, both from his own, and, he thought, the Presi dent’s point of view. He said they had gone into every phase of the “present day political situation and the future of the party,” but that (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) REDS HIKE FORCE IN SEIZED LAND Pour Additional Armed Di visions Into Rumania’s Lost Territories BUCHAREST, July 7— (Passed by censor)—(#)—Soviet Russia poured additional armed divisions into Rumania’s lost northern terri tories tonight to strengthen motor ized troops which completed the occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina July 3. Reports from the new frontiers said Soviet soldiers and equipment still were arriving. Officially it was declared that “all is quiet’’ along the border, with Rumanian troops not involved (Contiued on Page Three; Col. 8) Thousands of Dollars Profii Offers CASH PROOF of Star-News Want Ad Results , . . Almost any family and firm in Wilmington can make additional money by using Star News Want Ads. . . . 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