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__ -- - ^ ^ _- . Dedicated to the _____ ^<>3rrJ0fe?'"IC*• -> ^ BBBTB |1M A' ■ hm n a mm JH Served by Leased Wire of the 'Sj THE ^__^^i|R!NEWS “= - — 1_Surras 0*©®^ (gtlW ©F g>E?@®t°)gIis AM15) IPIUIfAgyElE^a- Stale and National New, j !--"__ MINCTON, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 25. 1940 * * PRICE FIVE CENTS IASS RAIDS, BOMB LONDON i_ _L_ w -' 45 Of 800 Warplanes Downed, British Say,* Berthas Active Again NAZIS ATTACK PORTS * ————— British Air Resistance Is Growing Weaker, Says Berlin Report MANY VESSELS SUNK By the Associated Press BERLIN, Aug. 24.—Ger man sources asserted tonight that some of the harbor faci lities of the English naval port of Portsmouth had been left in flames today in heavy Nazi air raids over Britain and that the British had lost 50 planes to 18 for the Ger mans. The fire in Portsmouth was declared to have spread to the city proper. Airports in southeastern England, especially at Canter bury and Manston, were re ported raided “with success. At Yarmouth, the Germans claimed, warehouses were destroyed and fires started. “Almost All” Nazi sources said "weak” Brit ish fighter forces "were almost all shot down” in morning raids on the south of England, and that » __ ji_roidind SUUDC4UCiiWJ v**w -- - “ military objectives in the London vicinity “encountered no British fighter defense whatsoever.” Anti-aircraft fire was declared light and badly aimed. The Germans said they believed British fighter strength had been “considerably weakened” by re cent losses. Across the British Isles, said oth er authorized statements, British shipping was jammed helplessly in the west coast harbors, termi nals for trans-Atlantic shipments. DNB, German news agency, said photographic evidence proved that the first week of Germany’s “to tal blockade” had parly zed ship ping around the British Isles. Waves of twenty or more bomb ers and ten fighters were declared to have breasted the British south east coastal defenses during the day, sending a dozen British fight ers into the water after spectacu lar dogfights. Then, according to the German version, the bombers methodically blasted at airports and other military objectives in Kent, southeast of London. “Ef fective hits on hangars” was re ported. During the previous night, con stant, widespread attacks were re ported to have fired and damaged the west coast ports of Bristol and Avonmouth; Devonport, near Plymouth, and Great Yarmouth, on the jutting Norfolk coast. Arms factories and troop concentrations also were blasted. Cambridge, the university town 57 miles north of London, was specifically men tioned. A munitions factory at Banbury, north of Oxford, was said to have been set afire. Over 100,000 Tons Submarines, the high command reported, sank more than 100,000 tons of “enemy shipping space” in eight' days and a Nazi raider was declared to have dispatched the British “armed” merchantman Turakina in the Tasman sea. (A New Zealand announcement yes terday said the Turakina had not been heard from since she report ed she was under a raider’s fire Tuesday night.) DNB, official German news agency, further said that five (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) CABLE BRIEFS BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 25 — (Sunday) — —Air raid alarms sounded twice last night and early today in Bern and Geneva. The first alarm in Bern lasted 50 minutes. On several previous occas ions when alarms have been given in Switzerland, it was officially stated that British planes were crossing this little country toward Italian and German objectives, with sec ond alarms when the planes returned toward home. CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 24—(M— The British Middle-Eastern command issued the following communique tonight: “An enemy (Italian) working party about 100 strong was ob served and raided in the Fort Capuzzo (in Libya near the' Libyan-Egyptian border) area by a small patrol of officers. “A detached portion was sur prised and rushed with bayo nets. Ten were certainly kill ed and probably ten more. Seven prisoners were brought back. We had no casualties. On Aug. 23 an ineffective raid was carried out on the out skirts of Khartoum, in the Su dan, by a single aircraft. There was one civilian casualty.” LONDON, Aug. 24— (/P) — British airbases on the Island of Malta were attacked by "strong Italian bomber form ations escorted by fighters” be tween 10 a. m. and 1 p. m. to day, the Rome raido announced in a boardcast heard in Lon don. 1 The broadcasts said at least three British planes were de stroyed, but that the Italian raiders “returned to base.” NEW YORK, Aug. 24—</P>— The National Boardcasting company said toiiight that both the Italian and British radios had reported that Adolf Hitler (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) GERMANS RENEW BALKAN DEMANDS Hitler Is Given Credit For Halting Collapse Of Negotiations By the Associated Press Germany was reported last night to have 'put the pressure on Ru mania again to bring about a set tlement of Hungary’s claims on Transylvania, which have threat ened to disrupt the precarious peace of the Balkans and hinder agricultural and industrial produc tion vital to Germany’s war ma chine. A conference of Hungarian and Rumanian delegates at Turnu Se verin, Rumania, broke down yes terday and both countries went on a virtual war footing. The delegates were unable to find a common ground for discuss ing the Hungarian claims on the huge province which once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire. As the delegates were leaving however, a new communique sud denly was issued, jointly express ing “hope that the negotiations will be resumed in the shortest time.’’ This communique was reported to have resulted from pressure (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) MANY HOMES STRUCK RAF Strikes At Germany's Gun Emplacements In Conquered France RAIDERS CHASED OFF By the Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 25.—(Sun day)—German air warriors, in their first direct assault against the heavily-protected city of London last night and early today, dropping great clusters of incendiary bombs which lit up this heart of the British Empire with the orange glow of flames. The furious and prolonged bombing scattered fires that enveloped whole buildings within a few minutes. Even after the raiders had gone and most of the fires had been subdued, a dense pall-, of smoke hung in the morning sky. The Nazi bombers kept up their work in sporadic at tacks on into the dawn but the big raid of the night was upon the city itself. That huge onslaught was the third time in 24 hours that Londoners had scurried for air raid shelters by alarms in the metropolitan area. In all, the greater London sec tion has been raided six times since August 15. Damage Not Revealed There was no estimate of casual ties or damage, but first reports said nothing of serious damage to military objectives. Early this morning, a northeast coast town was bombed, with con siderable property damage in three different districts and some dead and wounded. The intense attack upon London followed mass assaults against the Portsmouth naval base and south east England in which the air min istry news service estimated the Germans used 800 bombers and fighter planes. One screaming attack by a dive bomber who dropped a big incendi ary bomb in the face of the full power of the city’s defenses touched off the biggest blaze of the night marked by several fires throughout the city. As the din of battle sounded over head, the fire blazed fiercely. The flames got such a hold that within (Continued on Page 16; Col. 1) BRITISH ENRAGED BY LONDON RAID " 9 Four AP Writers Relate Experiences At Dover And At London BY WILLIAM H. MCGAFFIN LONDON, Aug. 25.—(Sunday)— UP)—“I hope to hell Berlin is blaz ing now,” cried a spectator earlj today as firemen battled a great blaze started by a German incendi ary bomb. “That’s right, they better gel something for this,” another watcher replied. “Yep, this war’s getting seri ous,” agreed a third. “It looks like indiscriminate bombing to me,” said another. 1 was just coming out of a west end restaurant when a German bomb whistled down and exploded. Fire flared up not far from me almost immediately. This midnight bombing, from a moonlit sky, was the first direct attack on London since the war oegan, but was the third on great er London in less than a day. (These references to the west end and to London proper were the only inklings of the raid’s location which escaped the British censor’s oan.) ' 1 BY DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, Aug. 25.—(^)—(Sun lay)—On the streets of air-raided London this morning I came upon (Continued on Page Three Col. I) \U. S. Offered Base In Bermuda LaGuardia Will Head ArmsBoard U S.-Canadian Joint De fense Board To Meet First In Ottawa __t first base selected Bermuda Governor Offers Air-Naval Area For 99-Year Lease By the Associated Press HAMILTON. Bermuda, Aug. 24. -The Great Sound of Bermuda will be made available to the Unit ed States for an air base and pos sibly for a naval base, on a 99 year lease, Major General Denis Bernard. Governor of Bermuda, informed a special session of this British colony’s assembly today. The legislature first had re ceived assurances that the unprec edented step would have no effect cn Bermuda’s status in the British empire. First Base Named (This was the first specific indi cation of where United States bases on British territory in the Western Hemisphere might be es tablished. iBritish Prime Minister-Churchill told the house of commons last Tuesday that Britain was discuss ing such bases with the United States and Foreign Minister Lord Halifax told the house of lords that agreement already had been reached "in principle” with Wash ington. (It was intimated then, that Ber muda, Newfoundland and points in the West Indies all might become sites for United States bases for western hemisphere defense.) A memorial sent to the govern or for transmission to Lord Lloyd, British secretary of state for colonies, declared that "the people of Bermuda are deeply dis turbed lest some new conception of American hemispheric defense (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) TOBACCO PRICES CONTINUE FIRM Average Uf About ZO Cents Believed Set During Opening Week Opening Tuesday with prices av eraging over 2o cents, the Border Belt tobacco markets of North and South Carolina went through the first week of sales with only a slight decline. ■•'ales supervisors and warehouse "iop throughout the helt described tl‘0 week as one of the most suc eessful in years and the prices as unusually high.’’ Viwy predicted also that these fOot-s will continue for several weeks an<l possibly throughout the season. The 1940 season opened with Puces generally two to four cents ’-''Or than during the same period (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) [weather Xorll ,• T'OKECAST dav si (rarohna; Tartly cloudy Sun tains vr ,nd*y. showers in the moun SoU Tlay.a£temoon. clou,],. Uurohna and Georgia: Partly • fe«aday and Monday. Wdin-C-r“,l1[,sical data for the 24 hours - 1 ,J'l p. m. yesterday). X:3o a Temperature Hi. k>.a'-?' d; "'-30 a. m. 73: 1:30 p. hiininium no 1,1 m- 781 maximum 85; 1 60; mean 77; normal 77. l:3o „ ..Humidity hi 04-7o„' 931 <:30 a. m. 85; 1:30 p. • ' -30 p. ni. 71. Xotai f Precipitation Hone- tori -hours ™ding 7:30 p. m„ 16.0S inches Smce flrst of the month Tides For Today ^■mington „Hish Low 3lawaboro Inlet . .. 106f£ li»UlPjCn?:40a; s,lnset 1(i':47p; moon’ JllP, moonsct 12:26p. tZ AuT at Fay‘ Continued on Page Two; Col. 4J Britain’s “Graveyard” For Nazi Raiders Workmen bring the wreckage of another Nazi air raider to one of the dumps in southeast England where the scrap of German aircraft is carted. The wrecks represent thousands of pounds worth of useful materials for conversion into new parts. Photo cabled from London to New York. Oleander Apartment Work Wi 11 Be Started Next Week TO CONTAIN 72 UNITS Modern Living Quarters, In Spacious Park-Like Grounds Planned Construction of five buildings tc contain 72 modern apartments ir a park-like, 20-lot area in Oleandei for the New Hanover Housing cor poration, of Wilmington, will begir the first week in September, ii was announced here yesterday by Roy L. Goode, president of th( Goode Construction corporation, Charlotte general contractors. The apartments will constitute the largest privately financed res idential project in Eastern North Carolina, representing an invest ment of more than $300,000. Four Incorporators Incorporators of the firm which will own and operate the property are: Dr. John T. Hoggard, Wil mington physician, Leslie N. Bon ey. Wilmington architect, J ohi Marshall, Wilmington newspaper man, and Roy L. Goode, Charlotte contractor. The Goode Construction company has during the past two years served as contractors for similar apartments built at Lynchburg and Petersburg* Va., Knoxville, Term., Columbus, Ga. and Raleigh and Charlotte, N. C. “We will be able to use all the experience gained in previous building jobs of this type on the project here,” Goode said. “Corrections and improvements will be incorporated at the begin ning and Wilmington will be able to boast of an apartment that is modern in every respect and beau tifully situated in grounds that will be kept in perfect condition. The need for such apartments is ob vious in Wilmington.” The plans drawn by' Leslie N. Boney, local architect, were highly praised in their final preparation by the regional architect for the Federal Housing Administration at Atlanta, Ga., Goode said. The project is being financed in part by a loan from the Union Cen (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ORTIZ IS GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE Argentine Congress Votes 170 To 1 To Refuse His Resignation BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 24.—CP)— The Argentine congress rejected to night the resignation of Roberto M. Ortiz, ailing president of the repub lic. The vote was 170 to 1, only the in dependent senator Mariaz Sanchez Corondo voting to accept the resig nation. Senator Benjamin Billafane, who had announced htat he would follow Sanchez Sorondo, disappeared when the voting began. The senate and chamber of depu ties acted in a joint session after the President had tendered his resigna tion because of an army land pur chase scandal. Socialist Senator Alfredo Palacios, chairman of a committee investigat ing the land deal, told the congress (Continued on Page Three; *Col. 7) GUARDSMEN BACK FROM MANEUVERS Hundreds Gather At Sta tion Here To Greet Two Companies Two companies of Wilming ton’s national guardsmen, fresh from the “battlefields” of Louisi ana and Mississippi, where they have been going through maneuv ers during the past three weeks, arrived in the city this morning aboard a special train. They were scheduled to arrive at 11 o’clock, but the train did I (Continued on Page 16; Col. 5) F. R. Names Jesse Jones To Take Hopkins’Place WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—W— President Roosevelt asked Jesse H. Jones, 66-year-old Texan and Federal loan administrator, today to take over the post of secretary of commerce, succeeding Harry L. Hopkins in the cabinet. Announcement of the offer was made by the White House in mak ing public a letter of resignation from Hopkins who saia that be cause of his health he felt he should not contfnue in the! office. Associates of Jones presumed he would accept, but there was no direct word from him. He was out of the city and was said to have the offer under advisement. Hopkins was understood to have no plans for the immediate future except to rest. There were'reports, however, that he might take the position of librarian at the Hyde Park, N. Y„ library built to house the President’s official papers and expected to be opened next sum mer. The 50-year-old former relief ad ministrator who stepped into the cabinet shoes of Daniel C. Roper in January, 1939, has suffered from a stomach ailment for two years. He and Mr. Rosevelt have been close friends for many years, and, in accepting the resignation, the president told him, “You may re sign the office—only the office— and nothing else. Our friendship ] will and must go on as always.” ' In making public the correspon- i (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) WPA CHALLENGES WILLKIE’S CLAIM GOP Nominee Asked Three Questions On Backing Up Statement WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—HV The Works Projects administratior challenged Wendell Willkie toda; to follow up his criticism of hi WPA employment record by an swering these questions: “1. Is the WPA hiring too man: people? "2, If so, how many should wi fire? “3. Specifically, in what place: should they be fired?” Howard Hunter, -acting WP/ commissioner, posed the question: in a statement after the Republi can nominee reiterated in N e v York that WPA had increased its rolls by 90,000 in July and con tended that the administration wa: seeking “to pack the relief rolls’ for political reasons. Hunter declared that Willkie had been misled into repeating “a per fectly stupid and inaccurate state ment.” As for the question of an in crease in WPA employment be fore election day, Hunter said “This matter, need not further be in the realm of rumor or predic tion.” “The exact facts,” he continued, “are that WPA employment . . . for September will be held to an average of 1,700,000 and during October, the month immediately preceding the November 5 elec tion, maximum WPA employment will be 1,800,000 persons.’ Hunter said these quotas were in “exact line” with the testimony given by Colonel P. C. Harring ton, WPA commissioner, in esti mates presented to congress last April. “It should be noted,” Hunter continued, “that WPA employment during September and October will (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) WILLKIE AND F. R. DEBATE-IN PRINT Nominees Take Issue Over New Deal Labor Policy In AFL Journal WASHINGTON, Aug. 24— (JP) ■ — President Roosevelt and Wendell J. Willkie took sharp issue in print ;oday over the New Deal’s labor policies. The democratic and republican presidential candidates stated their news in the current issue of the \merican Federationist, official nonthly magazine of the American rederation of Labor. President Roosevelt declared his idministration was “willing to be udged—as to future policy—by past performance.” “The achievements of the ad ninistration since 1933,” he said, Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) f-—-; Army Draft Bill Vote Likely Soon Ballot This Week Seems Certain; Many Senators Rap Long Debate LIMIT AGREED UPON Senator Byrd Demands Day And Night Session Un til Vote Taken WASHINGTON, Aug. 24— UP) — Protesting that delay in defense preparations was menacing nation al security, Senator Byrd (D-Va) demanded tonight that the senate “stay in session day and night un til a vote is obtained” on the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory mil itary training bill. In a statement, the Virginian al so called on defense chieftains for an explanation of why “the plac ing of orders for delivery of mech anized military equipment is lag ing.” Nation Should Know “If red tape is to blame,” he said, “the country should know it. If the blame is due to inefficient bureaucratic administration, it should be known. If it is due to the" refusal of business enterprise to accept contracts from the gov ernment, we should know it.” Prospects for a final vote next week on the Burke-Wadsworth bill brightened when the senate agreed to restrict debate on a pending amendment. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the democratic leader, obtained : unanimous agreement that no sen ator should speak more than 15 minutes on a proposal by Senator Lodge (R-Mass) to limit to 800,000 the number of conscripts who might be placed under training at any one time. But Barkley told the senate that he had been unable, in private conversations, to get all senators to agree to curtail their speeches on the bill'itself and for that rea son would not seek to set an hour for the final vote. He predicted to reporters, however, that the bill would pass by a comfortable mar gin by next Thursday at the la test. Barkley proposed his agreement after four republican senators— Gibson of Vermont, Austin of Ver mont, Lodge of Massachusetts and Gurney of South Dakota — had urged speedy enactment of draft legislation. The Burke-Wadsworth bill would require the registration of all men from 21 through 30 years of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) FBI WILL PROBE HARRY BRIDGERS Attorney General Jackson Orders Hoover To Get Facts On Alien WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—— The Justice department, acting on a senate committee recommenda tion, bega today an investigation to determine whether Harry Bridg es, West Coast CIO maritime lead er is subject to deportation under recently enacted legislation. A majority of the senate immi gration committee recommended the inquiry as a substitute for a house-approved bill which would require expulsion of the labor lead er. Attorney General Jackson, in an nouncing the new inquiry, said that J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion, was on the west coast pre pared to start work on the case. Jackson’s announcement came shortly after Chairman Kind (D Utah) of the senate immigration committee, declared - Bridges should be deported to Australia, his native land, immediately be cause his presence in the United States was “hurtful.” King declared, in a minority re port on the committee’s recom mendations, that there was “am (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) War Interpretive BY EDWARD E. BOMAR The appearance of a Nazi sea raider in the South Pacific hints resumption of this colorful phase of naval warfare on a more ex tensive scale. With the British fleet occupied in home waters and Mediterrane an, and in escorting convoys, Ger many is in such an advantageous position to harass commerce far and wide that it is slightly puz zling that the opportunity has not been Used to a greater extent. The explanation accepted by na val men is that the Nazis have subordinated everything for the time being to the attempt to con quer England. If they fail before -! the onset of autumn weather, Brit ain’s foes may be expected to turn to high sea raiders and all other means to tighten the “total block ade#” The prospect must be inviting to daring spirits in the idle Ger man navy. Cruisers and armed merchantmen as well as U-boats may now be sent around Scotland into the Atlantic from Norwegian ports with far less risk of encoun tering enemy warships than when they were active last fall and win ter. In the World war, the raiders had to steal out ip thick weather and in disguise through a tight (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
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