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"jjjicaied To The Progress 01 --— WILMINGTON 4 Served by Leased Wire of lhe And Southeastern North ASSOCIATED PRESS Carolina 5^/ Wilh Complele Coverage of _._ ^ Slale and Nalional News I ,-^liIm 268 " -—-&......-. — —-- - * * ESTABLISHED 1867 I | :| REPORT ‘SUCCESSFUL ’ ACTION AGAINST NEW, POWERFUL RICHELIEU HITLER KEEPS QUIET Next Move Remains Secret As Planes And Subs Stab At British Isles AXIS TIES IMPROVED Ciano To See Hitler Again When He Returns From Scene Of Campaign i BERLIN, July 8.—(5*)—Where and how Adolf Hitler will hurl hia Nazi thunderbolts in Europe next stayed a secret tonight as German war planes and submarines continued stabbing at the British Isles and sea lanes. Not even Nazis usually in the know could say when the Fuehrer would give the word or what it would be. But they were cnofident of three things: That whatever Germany’s next step may be, it will be a blow aimed at Britain; that Hitler and Italian Premier Mussolini will see eye to eye; tha tneither of the Rome-Berlin axis partners is seeking or wants any help from France. May Pull Surprise As far as Germany is concerned, Hitler—and Hitler alone—is deciding the nation’s course in its reshaping of Europe. This time it looks as though he may surprise even those who think they know his mind. Whatever it is that Germany and Italy have up their sleeves, no an nouncement of it or how they hope to achieve it is likely to be made be fore Wednesday, when Italian For eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano will return from a two-day visit to the scene of the western campaign. Ciano, who conferred secretly with the Fuehrer here Sunday, is sched uled to see him again when he re turns. Dienst Aus Deutschland, Ger man news service with close official connections, said Ciano lated would be entertained successively by Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the Fuehrer’s chief aide; Rude If Hess, Hitler’s deputy for party af fairs, and Capt. Hans von Tscham mer und Osten, Prussian state coun cillor. Do Not Need Aid Of the possibility that France might join forces with the axis, in formde sources commented that Ger many and Italy are well able to settle their scores unaided and that Hitler’s permission to the French fleet to resist the British was an act (Continued on Page Three) Ex-Chief Of British Naval Intelligence Arrested In London LONDON, July 8—(/P)— Ad miral Sir Barry Domville, former director of British na val intelligence, was arrested with Lady Domville today un der the defense regulations. The admiral was taken to Brixton prison and his lady to Holloway prison. Nature of the charges was not disclosed, but it was reported that they would be interned. The admiral, who retired in 1936, went to Germany in 1937 to shoot chamois with Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Gestapo (secret police). Twice before he was a guest of Adolf Hitler. He was at Salzburg a month before the war was de clared last fall. He was chairman of the pro German organization, “The Link,” but some time ago an nounced that it had been dis solved. He is 62 years old. WOMAN CAPTURES NAZI IN ENGLAND Takes Armed Aviator Who Parachuted To Earth After Plane Downed LONDON, July 8. — UP)— An un armed British housewife put on her "fiercest frown” today and captured a German avaitor who parachuted from his disabled plane into her front yard and gave up his pistol when she demanded his surrender. His plane was shot down by Brit ish Spitfires in a fight over north eastern England. Mrs. Nora Cardwell’s husband, away from home at the time, said afterwards: "I think she did very well.” But Mrs. Cardwell, five feet, eight inches tall, didn’t want to make a "song and dance” over what she called “the affair.” She just marched up to the Ger man, demanded his gun and sent him hustling along to internment when help came later. “I was convinced he was a para chutist when I saw him floating to the ground,” she said. "I went straight to the telephone but it was out of order. So I told a boy to go on a bicycle for the police . (Continued on Page Three) DESTROYER IS SUNK Action Against Richelieu Continuation Of British Policy Of Seizure SHARP BLOWS TRADED England Estimates 1,760, 000 Men Are Ready To Beat Off Nazi Invasion LONDON, July 9— (Tuesdayl CT)—British sources today claimed a “successful” action by the British fleet to keep from enemy hands France’s mightiest battleship, the 35,000-ton Richelieu launched at Brest but still not completed for service with the fleet. There was no indication of the scope of the engagement, nor whether it was connected with the loss of the 1,760-ton British des troyer Whirlwind, which was sunk by a submarine yesterday. The action against the Richelieu —presumably sunk, seized or dam aged—was said to have taken place early yesterday. A more detailed account of the action was expected later today. Continuation of Seizure The operation was described as a continuation of the seizure of French warships started last week to prevent fulfillment of the armis tice pacts between France and Italy and France and Germany. Under those terms the French fleet would have been assembled in French ports and placed under control of Germany and Italy. Prime Minister Churchill has told commons he had no faith in Axis power promises that the ships would not be used against Britain. The Richelieu was the nearest completed of France’s newest class of four mighty warships intended to dwarf the 26,500-ton Dunkerque and Strasbourg. Both of them were damaged in last week’s fight off the Algerian coast. Although the Riche/ieu had been launched, it was understood her armament had not been completed. Other ships of her class still in complete are the Clemenceau, Jean Bart and Gascogne. The two nearest completion, the Richelieu and Jean Bart, were re ported in German hands after the Germans occupied France’s Atlan tic coast. Fast Vessel The Richelieu went down the ways at Brest in January, 1939. Her speed exceeded 30 knots and she was armed with four 15-inch guns, 16 six-inch quick firing guns, and 18 smaller guns for defense against aircraft. The Richelieu’s armor included a waterline belt 16 inches thick, and deck armor eight inches thick. The first British naval action to round up the French fleet came in a surprise move last Wednes day. Churchill announced that most of the French warships were seized or put out of action, or bottled up. Because of wartime precautions there has been no authoritative in formation recently on the where abouts of the Richelieu. The most recent word came last week. At that time it was said the battleship had put out from Brest into the Atlantic, possibly on a trial run. 4 Meanwhile bomb-battered Brit ain announced last night the loss of the destroyer Whirlwind, traded Germany blow for blow in war from the air, and estimated that (Continued on Page Three) Japan sTroopsMayMove Upon Hongkong Colony -- - Carl Bowman Held On Hit-Run Driving Count HICKORY, July 8—(fl>)—Carl Bow man, 24, was bound over to superior court tinder $2,000 bond today on charges of manslaughter, drunken driving and hit-and-run driving growing out of the death Thursday night of Hubert Eugene Vail, 32. Deputy Sheriff Glenn Allen said the principal witness in the case was Carl Hysinger of Salisbury, who was a hitch-hike passenger in Bowman’s truck, and, the officer said, told the story of running over Vail be cause he was "conscience-whipped.” QUARREL OVER ROAD Japanese Ministries To Study British Rejection Of Latest Demands TOKYO, July 9— (Tuesday)— Wi lt is quite possible that continued refusal of Britain to close the Bur ma road to China may result in armed Japanese action against the British crown colony of Hongkong, persons close to the Japanese gov ernment declaved today. The war, navy -and foreign min istries scheduled immediate emer gency conferences to discuss the British rejection yesterday of Ja panese demands that this last link between the Chinese nationalist forces and the outside world be shut off. “Drastic Action” Looms Reliable sources said the Japan ese would take “drastic action” if the British stand were not chang ed. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita yesterday told British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie that his reply was not satisfactory and urged him to advise London to re consider. The Japanese press unanimous ly asserted that "an understand ing” with the United States and Russia preceded Britain’s rejection of the Japanese demand and re peated previous charges that the (Continued on Page Three) u i * * * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ Wallace Proclaims Tobacco Quota . - - ^sseSSm^k.. -r ~ I 556,000,000 Pounds Limit May Be Hiked Plan Increase To 618,000, 000 Pounds If Three Year Plan Approved WILL VOTE JULY 20 Marketings In 1941 Will Be Uncontrolled If Quotas Are Disapproved WASHINGTON, July 8—(IP)—Sec retary Wallace proclaimed today a flue-cured tobacco quota for the 1941-42 marketing year of 556,000, 000 pounds with the proviso that the quota be increased to 618,000, 000 pounds if growers approved by referendum marketing quotas for three years. Wallace set the referendum for July 20. Growers will vote on: 1. Adoption of marketing quotas for the three-year period, 1941 through 1943. 2. Adoption of quotas for 1941 only. 3. Rejection of quotas. A two-thirds majority vote will be necessary for adoption of quo tas. The 556,000,000-pound quota is ten per cent less than that in effect for the 1940 crop. The 618,000,000 pcund quota is the same as that for 1940. J. B. Hutson, assistant adminis trator of the agricultural adjust ment administration, said the 618, 000.000-pound quota plus the nor mal production on the increase pre viously made in allotments for small farms actually meant a total quota of about 650,000,000 pounds. “This quota”, Hutson said, ‘‘com pares with an estimated level of world consumption of United States flue-cured tobacco prior to the out break of the war in Europe of around 775,000,000 pounds. There fore. if the 618,000,000-pound quota plus the increase for small farms is maintained for the four years, 1940 through 1943, it will mean pro duction at a level about 100,000,000 pounds below the present estimat ed world consumption level and should result in elimination of the surplus of about 400,000,000 pounds which resulted from the extremely larwp inoo’» Large Supplies Hutson pointed out that as th£ current marketing season opened, “rowers were confronted by the 'urge supplies remaining from 1939 and further complications of the export situation. Indications were, 1“ said, that buyers for the trade "ith Great Britain and continental European countries would not oper ate in this year’s market unless some arrangement similar to the Purchase and loan plan of 1939 "as put into effect. Such arrange ments, he said, would not be made unless growers adopted marketing Quotas in the referendum. d quotas are disapproved”, he said, “marketings in 1941 will be ’“controlled as in 1939 and th**3 he no price protection for this tears crop”. Balloting in the referendum will he secret. Local committees will designate polling places. Three lo cal growers will be in charge of ’ each polling place. Any bona fide owner, operator, tenant or share cropper who receives a share of he proceeds of the 1940 flue-cured °hacco crop will be eligible to vote, 4 '■ 1 11 '**» LWKATHER I v. ,, o forecast Mosrin Carolina and South Carolina: "'(■(LI.11(1 >'> light scattered showers day esUajI and in west portion Tues tMinre°7rl0g.iCal (lata for the 24 hours ® * ;-i0 p. m. yesterday). 1-oa n Temperature h "® '7™k71l 7:30 a- m. 71; 1:30 p. '“idiriiiim «a p' m- 76; maximum 85; um 63; mean 76; normal 79. 1-in Humidity in. 8j 7 ■■!!!■ 88: 7:30 a- m- 83; 1;3° P ’ 1 -30 p. m. 72. Tnhi „ Precipitation iioiic ■1.hours ending 7:30 p. m., (.44 inches Slnce first of the month> Tides For Today "■'lmiiwon IliffH tow »con -12:25a 7:53a 1Ias°nt)oro ini . 12:57p 8:04p UOro Inlpt-10:49a 4:38a „Sunrise a.r. ll:P2p 4:57p te 9'4(i»- 'Uu ' sunset 7:26p; moon ’ ua. moonset 10:23p. (f,ontinu-d nn paee ThreeJ i Young Rookies Receive say*®?* “You are the vanguard of the able-bodied men of this nation, gladly submitting to discipline and training for a brief period that yon may be secure in your freedom,” Col. Julius Ochs Adler told a unit of C. M. T. C. youths at Plattsburg, N. Y. military training camp Above, the color guard gets regimental and American flags, gifts of Col. Adler. Jones Is Named Leader Of Local Defense Body -+ _ Defense Co-Ordinating Council Organized At Meeting In City Hall Wilmington took a step in the di rection of protecting itself in case of emergency last night when the Lo cal Defense Co-ordinating council was organized and Sheriff C. David Jones was placed at its head. The council was formed at a meeting in the city council chamber. Jones will appoint an executive committee to complete the organiza tion of the council and will announce his appointments within a few days. The executive committee will in turn appoint sub-committees to carry out the work of the organization. The membership of the council was appointed by Mayor Thomas E. Coop er and Addison H. Hewlett, chairman of the county board, at the request of the Wilmington Engineers’ club. 252nd Regiment Begins Gan Practice Wednesday CHARLESTON, S. C., July 8 —UP)—The 252nd Coast Artillery, North Carolina National Guard, which arrived this me :ing by motor convoy at Fort Moultrie, will begin preliminary practice Wednesday with 155 millimetre moDUe coast defense rifles at the Marshall reservation. Sub-calibre firing will begin the latter part of the week, and service ammunition will be used next week. The guns were put in firing position by the guards men this afternoon. Remove your gloves before read ing the newspaper on the street car or bus as printers’ ink will smudge them. GermansoeizedLeHavre Ahead Of Their Schedule PLANES BOMBED Cm Mrs. Pat Wylie, Visitinj Here, Tells Of Nazi At tacks On French Port Germans planning an attack or Le Havre, France first dropped pamphlets advising the resident! when they would arrive, Mrs. Pa Wylie, wife of the American con sul at the French seaport, wh( returned to this country a few weeks ago, said here yesterday Mrs. Wylie, is visiting Mr. anc Mrs. Louis Orrell at their hom< at 318 Orange street. Tells of Bombings Recounting the terror of t h« “blackouts” and the two bombings she experienced before she fled L« Havre for Paris, Mrs. Wylie said that although she did not see the pamphlets, numerous residents told of having picked them up aftei they had been dropped by Germar planes. “But they got there two day: ahead of the announced date,” she said. There were 22 people killed ir the first air raid on Le Havre, Mrs Wylie said, the first raid cominj on May 19 and the second the nex1 day. She left for Paris on May 21, continuing on to Italy .where she and her son boarded the liner Man hattan, a vessel delegated for the evacuation of Americans, for the United States. “There wasn’t any panic amonj the people at all during the bomb (Continued on Page Three) it College Leaders Uphold Selective Training Bill NEW YORK, July 8—(^—Presi dents and representatives of 22 men’s colleges and universities voted unanimously today to support the : Burke-Wadsworth selective training and service bill now before congress. After endorsing the compulsory ; service measure; the educators voted ■ at a conference to petition the war 1 and navy departments to extend R. ' O. T. C. and naval reserve training units to those colleges which'do not now have them’ and which ‘ are : ‘■qualified and ready to have them.” *->■ France Nears Totalitarian Form Of Rule Premier Petain Is Expected Jo Head New Dictator Type Of Government LEBRUN WILL RESIGN Vichy Spokesman Says France Does Not Plan Hostilities Against Britain GENEVA, July 8.—CiP)—Nazi-van quished France, th^ cradle of re publican freedom in Europe, appear ed tonight on the threshold of a vir tual totalitarian dictatorship headed by Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the man who surrendered to Germany. Dispatche sfrom Vichy, seat of the German-mastered French govern ment, said the 84-year-old premier would head a new regime under the fuehrer-like title of "chief of state”— but without the personal power of Adolf Hitler. Lebrun May Quit These davices also forecast the resignation of President Albert Le brun to make way fro a new Nazi Fascist government undre Petain, the World war ‘‘hero of Verdun” who capitulated to Nazi legions in mid June, As' described in the censored French press, Petain would take “only the title of executive power”— presumably as a figurehead — under this arrangement, with the govern ment dominated by a triumvirate consising of General Maxine Wey gand, former Allied commander-in chief; former Prmeier Pierre Laval, and former Labor Minister Adrien Marquet. The reshaping of France’s long time republican government into the totalitaria nmold was expected to be gin Wednesday or Thursday at a meeting of the French parliament in Vichy. Travelers from France said many of the conquered nation’s republican leaders were so “dazed by defeat” that they mnaifested little interest. The French press described the new constitution as “corporative”— a term Fascists apply to Mussolini’s Italian government. .liiiprcstseu Premier Petain was said to have been ‘‘tremendously Impressed” by reconstruction plans for Spain mapped out by his old pupil, Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco, and that when discussing France’s post war problems with his aides, the aged marshal frequently declared: “But we must have his (Franco’s) power.” Since Petain became head of the French government, upon the resig nation of Premier Paul Reynaud, who refused to capitulate to Ger many, the semi-Fascist Croix De Feu (“Cross of Fire”) organization of Col. Francois De La Rocque had re portedly gained powerful influence among army, navy and air force of ficials. Meanwhile, a French spokesman in Vichy was quoted as saying that France planned no hostilities against Great Britain, although the Petain government has broken off diplo matic relations with her former ally over Britain’s attack on the French fleet to keep it from German hands. Resolution Approved Havas, French news agency, re ported from Vichy that a large num ber of deputies had aproved a war guilt resolution. Po'ice Guard Her Against Killer ill Mrs. Marjorie Rosser, of Jackson Heights, L. I., switchboard operator at the Britisii Pavilion in the World’s Fair, who received warn ing of the recent bombing which killed two New' York policemen, is under 24-hour police guard. Follow ing the bomb explosion, an un known man phoned her home, threatened to kill her. REGISTRATION BILL OPPOSED BY KUNZE Caustic Criticism Greets Bund Leader At Hearing Before Sub-Committee WASHINGTON, July 8—(B— Caustic criticism greeted G. Wil helm Kunze, German-American bund leader, when he appeared be fore a senate judiciary sub-com mittee today to protest a bill which, he said, would force the bund out of existence. Senator Connally (D-Tex), chair man of the sub-committee, com mented that effect of the bund was to arouse prejudice and race ha tred. “I know many thousands of pa triotic and loyal Americans of Ger man blood,” the Texan said, “and [ believe that organizations like yours are doing them more harm than anything else that could possi bly happen.” At one point in the hearing, Kunze testified that the bund had no membership list because of fear of persecution and boycott of its members if the list became pub lic. “I think that if we’d put about a dozen of you in jail, maybe you’d (Continued on Page Three) ROOSEVELT TALKS WITH FLEET CHIEF AS HE PREPARES NEW ARMS REQUESTS WASHINGTON, July 8—W— Admiral J. O. Richardson, commander of the fleet, arriv ed in the capital unannounced from Hawaii and was a White Honse caller today as Presi dent Roosevelt worked on the final draft of his new defense requests, expected to call for expenditure of $5,000,000,000. what purpose had bronght the commanding officer of the navy’s fighting force secretly 5,500 miles from the fleet’s pre sent base was not disclosed. He merely told reports that he dis cussed “routine fleet matters” with t|ie President. Since the collapse of France, there has been increasing spec N illation that the fleet might re turn to the west coast to be nearer to the Panama Canal, or perhaps be transferred t o the Atlantic. In response to questions, however, Richardson said he knew of no disposition to shift the warships from Ha waii. Admiral Richardson’s visit afforded opportunity for the President to discuss with him the naval projects to be includ ed in the rearmament recom mendations. These projects, together with the army’s requests, were gone over during the day a^ a White House conference attended by Louis Johnson, acting secre # tary of war; Lewis Compton, acting navy secretary, and Harold Smith, budget direct or. It was indicated afterward that the President’s message recommending the new pro gram probably would go to congress tomorrow. There was a possibility, however, that fi nal navy estimates might de lay it until Wednesday. In either event, the message will arrive in the midst of busy legislative activity on other de fense matters. It is the intention of Senate leaders, once the cabinet no minations of Henry L. Stimson and Col. Frank Knox have been disposed of, to call up the house - approved $4,000,000, 000 naval expansion bill. The army and navy high commands will testify before the senate military committee tomorrow on the question of compulsory military train ing, and are expected to en dorse it. The navy expansion bill, proposing 200 additional war ships to make the fleet strong enough to meet simultaneous threats in the Atlantic and Pa cific, was formally reported today by the senate naval af fairs committee. (Continued on Page Three) Tell It To A Want Ad Taker And She'll Tell ... what you have to rent or sell to the 50,000 readers of the Star and News. Among the great mass of people who read the Want Ads every day it’s easy to find some one who will buy or rent whatever you have to offer. Dial 3371 Star-News Classified _
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