TWO_ FLEET COMMANDER REACHES SHANGHAI Hart Expected To Preside Over Meet To Consider Re assignment Of Zone SHANGHAI, Aug. 14.—(Wednes day)—m—Using a sea-going sub marine as a flagship, Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, arrived here this morning from Tsingtao amid Japanese demands for control of the British defense sector of the International settle ment. Britain’s decision to withdraw her troops from China will leave Rear-Admiral Moriji Takeda, com mander of the Shanghai Japanese naval garrison, as senior foreign officer, but Admiral Hart outranks him and as such it was expected he would preside over a meeting Thursday at which foreign defense chiefs will consider reassignment of the British zone. Those here who oppose the idea of Japan controlling the British sector, containing some of Shang hai’s largest business interests and best residential districts, hoped the American admiral would block the Japanese. Tang Leang-li, official spokes man for the Japanese-controlled Chinese administration at Nan king, echoed the Japanese mili tary when he expressed the hope that the United States would fol low Britain’s example by with drawing the Fourth marine regi ment stationed here. “The Chinese won’t tolerate” the transfer of the British sector to American troops, he said. 1 RELIEF AGENCIES AID STORM VICTIMS (Continued From Page One) prevent water contamination were badly needed at Beaufort. The 263rd Coast Artillery regiment of- the South Carolina National Guard, training at Fort Moultrie, was ordered home because, officers said, training no longer was possible at Moultrie because of the storm. The stor mover, tides apparently were receding toward normal In its wake, however, came torren tial rains inland that sent rivers ; surging out-of their banks and flood ing adjacent areas. ~ Asheville, N. C., appeared the ^hardest hit by high waters. The 'North Carolina highway department ^reported that only one rout from Asheville to the rest of the state was open, all the others being blocked, either by inundation or landslides. The Southern railway was blocked at Swannanoa tunnel near Ridge crest by a landslide aiid near Old Fort at the foot of the mountains by a washout. It was routing its traf fic by Spartanburg. ■; Flood waters in upstate South Carolina closed or threatened to "close 26 highways, State Highway Engineer J. S. Williamson reported. A cloudburst near Augusta, Ga., .swelled the Augusta canal, and, ^vhen a log jammed a water gate, "heater backed up over three or four ^blocks near the Union station. Harry ' TRaynes, meteorologist, predicted the ’.Savannah river would rise to 44 feet ! rat Augusta by tomorrow morning - Two cars of a Washington-Atlanta train were derailed near Toccoa, Ga.. , because of a washout. No one was hurt. More than 7 Inches of rain ] in the area in the last 24 hours, , Southern railway officials said, i w-ashed out a culvert. 1 WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, August 13. — (ff) ~ Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton-growing 'as and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec Alpena, clear_ 84 69 0.00 Asheville, cloudy- 73 68 3.72 Atlanta, cloudy - 84 71 0.5> Atlantic City, cloudy - 81 73 0.00 Birmingham, cloudy _ 87 71 0.08 Boston, cloudy_ 84 67 - O.Of Buffalo, cloudy- 83 70 0.49 Burlington, clear *- 78 69 O.K Chicago, cloudy — 88 72 0.01 Cincinnati, cloudy .— 93 72 0.0^ Cleveland, cloudy- 94 70 0.00 Denver, clear —:- 90 55 O.Or Detroit, rain - 87 71 1.05 Duluth, cloudy_ 85 65 0.OC El Paso, cloudy _ 80 59 0.00 Fort Worth, cloudy_ 97 76 0.00 Galveston, clear- 91 77 0.00 Havre, cloudy - 8fi 75 0.00 Jacksonville, cloudy _ 93 75 0.00 Kansas City, cloudy — 91 72 0.00 Key West, cloudy- 87 — 0.38 Little Hock, cloudy - 94 71 0.00 Los Angeles, clear — 81 63 0.0< Loui.vil!e. cloudy — 88 76 0.00 Memphis, cloudy- 90 74 0.79 Meridian, cloudy- 92 72 0.00 Miami, cloudy - 86 74 0.48 Minn.-St. Paul, cloudy 90 69 0.00 Mobile, cloudy _ — 75 0.00 New Orleans? cloudy _ 92 76 0.00 New York, cloudy- S3 71 0.08 Norfolk, cloudy- 87 80 0.05 Pittsburgh cloudy_ 92 69 0.07 Portland, Me., cloudy 85 58 0.00 Portland, Ore., clear _ 77 52 0.00 Richmond, cloudy — 87 72 0.00 St. Louis, cloudy_ 92 72 0.04 San Antonio, cloudy _ 98 75 0.00 San Francisco, clear . 69 51 0.0O Savannah, clear- — — 0.00 Tampa, raif!- 90 74 0.1‘ Vicksburg, clear- — — 0.00 Washington, cloudy . 90 74 0.00 Wilmington, cloudy _ 84 76 0.00 GERMANS BELIEVED USING BIG CANNON AGAINST BRITAIN (Continued From Page One) 3. British bombers could soon locate and “make things warm” for the gun crews. “It would be surprising if naval and military authorities are not already taking steps to deal with what is merely a nuisance,” By water wrote. Germany’s “big Bertha” bom bardment of Paris began March !3, 1918, and lasted until August before French mathematicians and aerial scouts located it. The huge gun fired every third lay because of the wear on the :annon, hurling 303 shells into Par s which killed 256 and wounded 530. One shell struck the Paris bhurch of St. Gervais killing and naiming 156 Good Friday worship ae’rs. 1 ITALIANS ACCUSE GREEKS OF HAVING NEW LAND DESIGNS (Continued From Page One) renounce British guarantees of her Independence and territorial integ rity. The ‘suggestion” followed a bitter Italian press attack against Greece, iharging her with responsibility for :he beheading of Daut Hoggia, an Albanian “patriot,” and fueling of 3ritish warcraft fighting Italy in ;he Mediterranean. High diplomatic sources said Pre nier General John Metaxas received he “suggestion” from the Italian :harge d’affaires at a meeting this norning attended by the German ninister and already had answered 'no.” After the meeting Metaxas hur led to the palace for a long audience vith King George II. Metaxas also conferred with the British minister. The United States ninister, Lincoln MacVeagh talked rith one of the premier’s aides at he foreign office. PUNS TO BOOST ARMY POSTPONED (Continued From Page One) who some day may—God forbid— be called upon to defend their country,” Burke added. Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd, the army’s assistant chief of staff in charge of per sonnel, told the house military committee that the time required by Congress to 'debate the con scription issue had forced a post ponement of the objective of 900, 000 men under arms until Jan. 1. Originally, and presupposing the speedy passage of the necessary legislation, he said, the army schedule called for the drafting of 400.000 trainees on C'ct. 1. Trainees plus mobilized National Guards men and regular army compon ents would have produced the 900, 000 figure. The revised schedule, he said, called for 75,000 trainees on Oct. 15, 50,000 more on Nov. 1, 65.000 on Nov. 15, 100,000 in early December and about 98,000 j,ate that month. Given Right-of-Way Already approved by the senate, the legislation enabling the presi dent to muster the militia for a welve-month training period, was given the right-of-way in the house during the day by its ruies com mittee. And a joint housesenate committee on taxes heard repre sentatives of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States and tu^ xtorcnoirtf mann. facturers assert their views on the proposed excess profits tax. For the chamber, Ellsworth C. Alvord, urged that legislation per mitting manufacturers to deduct the cost of plant expansion for de fense purposes over a five y »ir period be enacted as a sepa/ate bill, with the excess profits levy postponed so it would be simplified and improved. Carl N. Osborne of the N. A. M. asked that the excess profits tax be carefully drawn and specifically put forward as an "emergency” measure, not a per manent one. Downtown, meanwhile, Arthur B Purvis, chief British purchasing agent, announced that the United States had agreed to supply Great Britain with 1,300 to 1,400 fighting planes monthly, beginning • in the “late 1941.” The British had want ed 3,000 a month beginning next January, but William S. Knudsen, in charge of defense production, suggested the changed schedule. Intense Debate In its third day, the senate’s conscription debate had lost none of its intensity of feeling, but most senators had obviously begin to feel they had heard all the argu ments and were waiting principal ly for the opportunity to vote. The attendance was slim, and consist ed mostly of senators opposed to the bill, intently listening to Wheel er. Wheeler asserted that the army men wanted conscription whether or not it was possible to get enough men by voluntary enlist ments. “It is clear,” he shouted, “that the general staff’s desire for con scription is not based on the needs of the present crisis but on utiliz ing the present crisis to saddfe conscription on the country in or der that it can maintain a large standing army in peace time with out so much confused discussion, and in order to heighten the pres tige of the army with the public, to make the public military-mill ed, and to line it up behind the army.” As had other opponents of the bill, Wheeler urged that basic ar my pay be raised from $21 to $30 monthly, to place it on a par with C.CCwages. He also joined other foes th'' 9,\ir<' in that conscription would destroy d«i muci utj. “The integrity and institutions of he United States are indeed gravely threatened,” he said,, “and it is the bill now before you, and the hysteria which bred it, which creates that threat. “If you pass this bill, you slit the throat of the last democracy still living—you accord to Hitler his greatest and cheapest victory to date. On the headstone of Amer ican democracy he will inscribe— ‘Here lies the foremost victim of the war of nerves.’” 2 ASHEVILLE FACES WATER SHORTAGE (Continued From Page One) nect with the main lines from the watersheds. Since no water was coming into the reservoirs tonight, these users apparently were without water. or a time today the Bee Tree reservoir dam was threatened by high water, but the flood began to recede about 5 p.m. Many Homeless Scores of families were forced from their homes and rail and highway traffic was virtually par alyzed in western North Carolina as swollen mountain streams in undated bottomlands, swirled over bridges and threatened to spread over low-lying towns and indus trial plants. Heavy rains that sent mountain streams rushing from their banks continued intermittently tonight and weather officials said the crest of the flood was yet to come. The French Broad river at Ashe ville was three feet above bankful stage early this afternoon and still rising with the crest of five feel expected sometime tonight. Residents of Biltmore, suburb of Asheville, were being evacuated late this afternoon and a number of homes along the Swannanoa riv er were reported washed away. Slides and floodwaters blocked highways at many points through >ut this area and local hotels guest homes and motor courts vere filled to capacity with strand id travelers. ^ I ' Tobacco Prices Advance On Markets In Georgia Averages Apparently Better Than 18.43 Cents Set Dur ing Opening Sales VALDOSTA, Ga„ Aug. 13.—(.'Pi Bright leaf tobacco prices moved skyward today as buyers bid brisk ly for medium grade stock. Unofficial reports indicated a steadily strengthening market, with averages apparently better than the 18.43-cents-a-pound set for the first two days of sales. At Waycross the Journal-Herald reported a "definite upturn” with medium quality grades and lugs bringing advanced prices, and the average “well above the 20-cent mark.” The range was from four to 28 cents a pound, with the bulk go ing for from 20 to 26 cents. Sales Manager Joe Spence at Pelham reported early sales today averaging about 19 cents. Yester day the market moved 342,510 pounds at an average of 18.64. The range was from six to 29 cents a pound A scarcity of good tobacco and heavy offerings of low and medium leaf were reported from Hahira by Sales Manager W. R. Salter Today’s sales ranged from six to 28 cents a pound, with the bulk at from 18 to 20 cents. Yesterday’s official report showed 283,036 pounds sold for $52,965.25—an aver age of 18.71. The Tifton market appeared firm, with an average near 20 cents and a range from five to 34 cents a pound. Yesterday 831,238 pounds yielded $171,829, an average of 20.55. EXCESS PROFITS TAX DELAY ASKED (Continued From Page One) legislation permitting defense con tractors to deduct from their tax able income the full cost of new plant installations. Meanwhile, Alvord argued, the pending 25 to 40 per cent excess profits tax, with which plant amor tization is joined,z could be sub jected to "simplification and im provement.” This, he said, was more essential than speed. Carl N. Osborne, vice president of the M. A. Hanna company, Cleveland, and vice chairman of Nam’s government finance com mittee, came out for an excess profits tax applicable to this year’s earnings. He said, however, that the tax should not be made per manent because it involves "in equities.” Both Alvord and Osborne testi fied at a joint hearing of the sen ate finance and house ways and means committees on a proposal by the house tax subcommittee t enact an excess profits levy, pro vide defense plant amortization, and repeal the Vinson-Trammell act’s 8 and 7 per cent limits on the profits from warships and mil itary aircraft. Both objected to details of the proposed profits tax and Alvord, unlike Osborne, declared that the levy should not in any case apply ,to this year’s income. Despite objections raised by var ious interests to the excess profits proposal, Chairman Doughton (D NC) predicted to newsmen that a measure along the lines laid out by the subcommittee would be ready for the house by next week. Doughton said that bill drafters were having some difficulties in wording the complicated tax but forecast that they soon would have completed their job. 1 SEVERAL HIGHWAYS CLOSED BY RAINS (Continued From Page One) small bridges and covered highways with a foot or more of water. Rain was reported as still falling at Newland late this afternoon but had ceased in Asheville. Chief Highway Engineer W. Vance Baise hurried to the damaged districts and telephoned here that repair efforts, wherever permitted, had already been launched. Damaged roads were being patrol led heavily tonight, he said, for the protection of unwary motorists. The following detailed report of Ninth Highway Divisional headquar ters at Shelby and the Tenth district headquarters at Asheville was re ceived here last this afternoon: N. C. 26 closed between Woodlawn and Linville, with water over the road at Woodland. N. C. 104 between Spruce Pine and Red Hill closed on account of slides. U. S. 70 blocked east of Asheville and at Swannanoa and Grovestone, with bridge out between Black Mountain and Ridgecrest. U. S. 74 blocked two miles east of Asheville at Swannanoa river. U. S. 25 open between Asheville and Hpridprcrimrlllo U. S. 64 under water at Plsgah Forest west of Hendersonville. U. S. 23 under water at Canton and Clyde. U. S. 23 and 19 under water west of Dillsboro. N. C. 280 under water at Mills river between Asheville and Brevard. U. g. 64 blocked at Fairfield; also in three places between Franklin and Highlands. N. C. 107 blocked in two places be tween Sylva and Cashiers. U. g. 19E blocked at Micaville. U. S. 19 closed between Barnes ville and Johnson City, Tenn., and blocked by slide between Ingalls and Cranberry in Avery county. All hi^iMKgys out of gpruce Pine and Nsflvland were said to be impas sable. i OBITUARIES CHARLES BOYD MAGILL Funeral services for Charles Boyd, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mag ill, who died Monday, were held yesterday afternoon. WOODS INFANT Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woods, of Mercer avenue, who died yesterday morning, will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock. The services will be in charge of Mrs. W. T. Devane, of the Castle Heights church. MYRA L. CHAUNCEY Funeral services for Myra Lovelle Chauncey, 26, who died early Mon day morning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. AV. Chaun cey, at Lake Waccamaw, were held at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon from the late residence. The Rev. C. A. Jones, of Tabor City, assisted by the Rev. N. P. Adams, of Hallsboro, conducted the services. Burial followed in the Lake cemetery. In addition to her parents, she is survived by one brother, Winfield Chauncey. Jr., and two sisters, Miss Pauline Chauncey and Mrs. Richard E. Stone. MRS. MARY MILLETTE CHADBOURN, Aug. 13.—Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann Millette, 82, who died at 3:20 o’clock yester day morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Early Millette, in Chadbourn after a short illness, were held at 3 o’clock this afternoon from the late residence. The Rev. I. T. Newton, assisted by the Rev. Donald Myers, both Baptist ministers, conducted the services. Burial followed in the Chad bourn cemetery. Active pallbearers were: George Blake, Herman Blake, Wil liam S. Edmunds, Garland War ren, Ralph Koons and R. C. Bowles. Honorary pallbearers were: Frank Wooten, Dr. J. F. Blake, Dr. W. F. Smith, Dr. W. B. Walton, E. Britt, C. L. Tate. Wayne Bailey, W. M. McArthur, J. H. Land, Sr„ J. J. Hendren, Dr. W. F. Yates, J. R. Blake, John Yates, Dick Yates, V. E. Smith, M. D. Edmunds, Dr. J. E. Koonce, B. H. Collier and Elroy Bailey. MRS. EMMA V. MINTZ Funeral services for Mrs. Emms V. Mintz, 61, of 605 South 16tl street, who died at 3:45 o’clock Mon day afternoon in a local hospital after a long illness, will be held ai 5 o’clock this afternoon from the Yopp funeral home. The Rev. F. S. Johnston will con duct the services. Burial will follow in the Oakdale cemetery. She is survived by her husband F. L. Mintz; four daughters, Misses Geneva M., Emma Dorothy, Marga ret E., and Mary Lou Mintz; foui sons, Norman, Fred L. Jr., S. A. and Arnold P. Mintz; and one broth er, L. F. Garrison, all of Wilming ton. Active pallbearers will be: Arthui I. Maynard, Louis W. Harrison, John F- Wolf, W. R. Hadley, George W Gore, and David J. Padrick. Honorary: Dr. David R. Murchi son, Dr. J. W. Hooper, Dr. G. B. Barefoot, W. T. Brown, N. J. Owens and W. A. Wylie. NAZI AIRMEN WIDEN RANGE OVER BRITAIN (Continued from Page One) canes were said to have been brought down as against the loss of eight German Messerschmitts. Dover is at the mercy of German bombing squadrons and its British defenders have been “driven out of the air,’’ German sources declared joyfully tonight. Among British airports attacked, the Germans listed Detling, Odiham and Farnborough. They said two airport buildings and planes on the ground were destroyed at Detling while 20 planes were wrecked and burned at the other two, and numer ous buildings set afier by bombs. The ports and Quays in Bourne mouth and Plymouth, munitions works in Exeter and Bristol, and petroleum tanks in North Killing ham were listed by the German radio as additional targets heavily dam aged. The radio reported that 12 barrage balloons were shot down at Folke stone. Ticiciianimen sunk Two merchantmen of 15,000 tons each and two patrol boats were de clared to have been sunk by air bomba as they moved out of the Thames Estuary. The great Portsmouth naval base again was pelted with bombs today and the raids on south coast ports have been so effective, these sources declared, that it will be almost im possible for the British fleet to operate in the channel. Besides pounding English shore points for the third successive day, the swarms of German bombers and fighters today crowded steadily in land to a point where they threaten ed the defenses of London Itself, nazis asserted. Eastchurch, half way up the Thames toward London, was one of the main targets as the nazi raiders went into their 72d hour of almost steady bombing and gunning of is land strong-points. German reports indicated that since 15 minutes after midnight this •norning, when Walsend, near New :astle, was bombed, there had been i constant series of bombing raids ipparently moving ever farther in and. GERMANS CONTINUE RAIDS ON BRITAIN (Continued from Page One) essentials as the admiralty da scribed the fight: One small German vessel was rammed; another fired on “almost point blank” by machine-guns and attacked with hand grenades; two larger Nazi ships machine-gunned ‘at ‘very close range;” a German “E-boat,” or mosquito torpedoboat put under fire in two running bat tles; a German plane attacking from above set ablaze. The significant term "larger vessels’ ’was not amplified. 2 Meet Attacks The British, fighting with the curiously calm ferocity which al ways have shown when this seat of empire has been threatened, went up to meet the aerial offen sive with everything they had. They claimed an ever-growing making the figure 57 early tonight against an acknowledged loss of nine defending planes. Then, turning a moment from the crisis here at home, they an nounced that British fliers had successfully attacked the Germans from Jutland to the Bay of Biscay. In this series of day and night attacks on Germany and Nazi-held territory — attacks sent home in some instances “in spite of ice and cloud”—the British conceded the loss of 16 planes. Nevertheless, they said, they bombed 17 Nazi airdromes, the Nazi seaplane base at Borkum, the Nazi-held harbor at Denhelder on the Dutch coast, various docks and munitions plants. But all of this, however destruc tive it may have been to Ger many, was only a side issue to the great showdown here at home— the Nazis’ air attacks which al ready are sweeping the southern coast and now threaten to extend in force to the cargo-choked west coast. All of these western ports were officially acknowledged to be "pretty full,” and it was conceded that area might well be next. 1 Southampton — normally about 180,000 population—was the most important city officially acknowl edged to have been hit by the raiders, but bombs also feil on the Isle of Wight and on “several" RAP airdromes in southeast Eng land. At one of these a “number” of casualties were acknowledged. It was the fourth successive day of unending attack and, adding the 400 to 800 raiders that ap peared last Thursday in a bloody overture of what has come since, it raised to a total of about 2,000 the number of German pplanes that have struck in the fosur days of big scale fighting. This time between 400 and 600 Nazi craft—bombers and fighters —loosed their projectiles of death, pounding particularly aacross the 80-mile defense "corner” between the estuary of the Thames—which leads to London—and the Sussex Hampshire coast, and striking along a 200-mile stretch of the channel. This broad attack upon the chan nel coast, across but 20-odd miles of water at some points from the Nazi-held French coastline, went on Tuesday evening in a screen of low clouds which hid most of the activity from the silent ob servers on the ground. But that it was a large-scale combat was made clear beyond question in the echoing roar of many motors. Now and tthen a plane could be seen to burst into flame and spiral into th^. sea, or into some anxious little backwater village near <he coast. Air raid warnings were put into effect over a big area, including even the inland gunnery stations —one of which was within half a mile of a Nazi bomber which fell with her bomb racks still partly loaded. Mobile batteries and strong troop concentrations were scattered about and ready, from the coast to several miles inland. Modern barricades, intended to block the invader but to permit free move ment of the defenders, were thrown up along all roads. 1 ----—— FRANCE INDICTS itswarmakers (Continued From Pa?e ^ intended to create social diSon, international revolution. ' r Bitterly. Petain added that causes of Frances pUght * yet disappeared; would not ■ pear until there is dlsa> „ ‘ a chant. „ men. se °l Enemies of the state he n, still were operating in the ^ pied part of France, and he :"0"’' ed the nation there would be shortly to wipe out the "tre ' > executive agents who. he * prevented some of his me4 from bearing fruit. cdsjhi He promised that the mm which started among ilicu with the shift from parliament? authoritarian regimes would' - scend” to embrace all those '* should be carrying out the orders but because of "income i" or treason" are not doing so. The reference tied in with r.P.„ ... ucmtiuueuuu prefects. with charges that men in manvV partmental public posts are nor ' operating with the new regim? * THUMBS DOWN ON BEETLE HITCH HIKERS NEW YORK, Jap eetles, which can fly only'f, miles, have been hitching rides airplanes. To forestall them U. S. Department of Agricilh has posted inspectors at La Gia dia airport to see that none oft pests come into New York on t sengers’ clothing or baggage, - German airplane factories have an estimated production 0f s planes per day. r MOODY . . . IRRITABLE? • Don’tglve in to sympto- 1 matic periodic pain and dis- trx comfort. Take CHI-CHES- Ph TORS PILLS as directed. Ab- cl solutely safe. No drugs nor hi narcotics. Have helped thou- j sandsofwomenresign KAi Y/i. from "The Look-of- auP ^ the-Month League", and up j I i » i i < — The Development I Of Youth | Centers Around The Home, School j and Church POR OVER A HALF MILLION BOYS the J. first opportunity for PRACTICAL APPLICA TION of their teaching is on a newspaper route. Here they lay the foundation for the days when they will be the heads” of their own home, have a voice in America’s democratic method of educa tmn in the school, and carry forward the banner of religion in the churches without which no free country will long retain true liberty. j; Far more than being public servants as news dispensers, as advertising mediums, as educational I j and entertaining instruments, reflecting public opinion, etc. American Newspapers provide the finest mental, physical and business training pos- § sible for school boys. |l !j| Any Man of Today who sold or delivered ill newspapers Yesterday will proudly pro c aim the yalue of his first business ven ture as a Newspaper Boy. Wilmington Star-News 1

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