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I _ * gr< ^ SetlLrPw;;;,,hr And Southeaster. North With Complete Coverage of CarollM + *****4LJ *V4* Stale and National News VOL- 74—NO. 14__ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940 ’ * * ESTABLISHED 1867 THICK WEATHER HALTS GERMAN RAID ON LONDON 1 ^ ^ - -A - A A _ A_ _ A _ i i i iii ii. - ^ ~ _ * * * * * * * n * ^ x xirir Draft Registration Scheduled October 16 Fair Enough IWKH® j;EW YORK, Sept. 16-—Since that timc> about a year ago, when th< tiuzeus of California went to th< ijs t0 vote down mob confiscatior o{ private property and a furthei proposal to repeal the American form of government and elect a dic tftor i have intended to comb both the ,nd the Decla ration of Inde pendence for any mention of the words "democ racy" or "demo cratic." Procras tination is no mere hobby but more nearly an uccupation with me, so this task In not been ac complished until today, when I am a b 1 e to i e oort that the founding fathers, in their conserva tive wisdom, had no intention to found a democracy. On the con trary, they distinctly affirmed their determination ot "guarantee to every ttate a republican form of govern Etnt.” Nowhree in either docu ment will you find any reference to democracy, and the experiences of the Californians who, twice in three years, had to whip themselves into a swivet to save their sub-republic from destruction by the democratic process vindicate the judgment of those early patriots. Unlike us who thoughtlessly per mitted ourselves to glorify democ racy In the days of 1917-18, not paus ing to examine whreeof we prattled, and trio have continued ever since to praise the name of a system which would be fatal to our freedom, the founders ot the .ration pointedly rejected it. Democracy is not a rep resentative form of government, and, a reflection, the reasons become ap parent why the Nazis and Fascists ridicule us for our ignorance in ex tolling a system which we do not practice and would hate as fiercely as they do, should we try. When we say "democracy” we don’t know "hat we are talking about, but they do, and, giving us crdeit for more sense than we possess, they think «e must be crazy, when we are only ignorant. Victims Of Ballyhoo H'e have cnofused ourselves and Men victims to the ballyhoo of the Party which was in power during the hst World war and which used its ”*1 misnomer as an ideal and toe M. That party never has attempted Practice democracy, and, even r,w. in its trend to national social ist would not dareadvocate democ rat? except as a catch-word and in •he knowledge that the people never have paused to examine its meaning. live under a superstition that democracy is the guarantee of the republican liberties which exist no ’here else in the world but in this republic. The communists, naturally, have urged us toward democratic fol iies, knowing that it is unworkable ■n a land as vast nad having so 'arge a population as this one. That *as the reason why in California *”e c°mnuinist party and the com munist C. T. 0. indorsed and worked 'r a 15,000-word amendment to the ,,ate constitution which would have tJmed a dictator, abolished all rights hiarnateed and reserved only by e republican system and caused a Vhastiy brawl. The initiative and referendum was ^'r|ked upon as a sound reform 25 iears ago, and certainly the intent Continued on Page Pour; Col, 5) [WEATHER N'nrlh FORECAST Wnr i aroIina • Fair Tuesday and Union T»eSd"jaht'y cooIer in central *ri![[,|e2r,°;®S'eal data for the 24 hours ** 1 p. in. yesterday). Ho * Temperature ».Z:V-m 88: 7:30 »• m. 65; 1:30 J. HinimJ.J : ; P- m. 73; maximum 82, mum *>2; moan 72; normal 73. Mn „ Humidity ^;'74i m* 90; 7:30 a- in. 93; 1:30 p. m. M0 P. m. 73. Total Precipitation %,»■ tnt°„i ■hours ending 7:30 p. m., Uo jn'j|'al smce first of the month, Tides For Today *ih»i„,t„„ High How ‘6t<m -10:05a 5;00a Masonboro ini . 10:26p 5:25p 'Wo Inlet - 7:52a 1:47a 8«nriSp .... 8:13p 2:06p ,lse 6 Tin. ">7a; sunset 6:16p; moon p- moonset 6:45a. «tCevmc river st“ge at Fay 10.2 feet' at R a* m., September 13, t0n,Jnued on Page Ten; Tol. 6) t- ———— A Conscription Bill Is Signed By Roosevelt Says Nation Marshalling Strength To Avert Fate Of Weak Nations COOPERATION URGED Nation’s Chief Says ‘Ameri ca Stands At Cross Roads Of Its Destiny’ By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. —— President Roosevelt signed t he draft act today, fixed Oct. 16 as registration day for 16,500,000 of young Americans now subject to compulsory military training, and asserted that the United States was marshalling its strength to avert “the terrible fate of nations whose weakness invited attack.” In addition, the chief executive called upon the governors of the states to provide suitable places for the registration, urged local election officials “and other pa triotic citizens” to man the regis tration boards and asked employ ers to give their affected employ ees “sufficient time off” to pre sent themselves and fill out the forms. Volunteer Provision Mr. Roosevelt, moreover, em phasized a section of the act and a phase of the building up of the army which received much dis cussion ni congress—the voluntary enlistment system. All between 18 and 35, inclusive, he said in a for mal statement, will be offered an opportunity to volunteer for a one year period of service and train ing, and those who offer them selves—provided they are suitable —are to be accepted before any others are selected. Thus an influx of volunteers, from any particular area would reduce the quota of men conscrip ted from that area. ine new law use;* icquucs all who on Oct. 16 have attained the 21st anniversary of their birth and have not passed the thirty sixth year must register. A nation al drawing by lot will determine the order in which questionnaires will be mailed to the men. On the basis of the questionnaires, local boards will place the men in var ious classifications—those available for immediate service, those de ferred because of dependents, etc. Will Select Men The local boards will select suf ficient men from among thofie available for immediate service to fill the quota for the area. Those so selected will undergo physical examinations and, if they pass, will be inducted into service for one year. (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) ------ U. ■a'^o ^eady Camps For Nation’s Citizen Army 1-iC#.*’? .c.-1 America on guard! Bayonet fixed, eyes ahead, m outh determined, this modern American doughboy sym bolizes the national resolve to prepare the U. S. for all eventualities. Sgt. Arthur Schworzel, above, Army regular at Fort Dix, N. J., demonstrates what the fin ished product should look like after hundreds of thou sands of civilians all over the nation complete the y par of military training called for by the recently passed conscription bill. Fort Dix wil lbe one of the largest draft cantonments. Guard Mobilized Here; Recruiting Is Planned MEN TO BE EXAMINED Company I Scheduled To .Leave Sunday Morning For Year At Jackson Wilmington’s approximately 450 national guardsmen—called to the colors for a year’s active service for the first time since the World war—were busy last night making preparations for about 10 days in camp here and for final recruiting activities before leaving for their camps in Georgia and South Caro lina. Company I, 120th infantry, under the command of Captain J. Er nest Cheek, received its travel or ders yesterday, it was learned last night. The company will leave Wil mington Sunday morning at 7:40 o’clock for one year’s training at Fort Jackson, near Columbia, S. C. Battery A and Headquarters bat tery, 252nd coast artillery, and Company A 105th Medical regi ment, had not received definite or (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) Reynolds To Inspect Isles Leased By U. S. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Sept. 16. —(/P)—Senator Robert R. Rey nolds of North Carolina rested here today preparatory to an aerial inspection tour of British islands where the United States has obtained leases for naval and air bases in exchange for 50 over-age destroyers. The senator is the ranking member of the senate military af fairs committee and a member of the foreign relations and terri tories and insular affairs com mittee. He said he would remain here a few days to recuperate from a cold in his iiead and chest be fore flying first to Cuba, where lie would inspect the naval base at Guantanamo Bay. From there he planned to go to Jamaica, Trinindad. other British islands, to the Panama Canal Zone, and finally to Rio De Janeiro and Buenos Aires, returning next month by steamship. SECOND NATIONAL GUARD CALLS MADE War Department Orders 35,700 More Men Into Service On October 15 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. —Uft— The war department made its sec ond call on the national guard to night in its expanding defense pro gram, ordering 35,700 men into the federal service on October 15. Approximately 60,500 guardsmen were inducted into the army to (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) 6,693 Local Men Slated To Register For Draft —— - — Taking the United States war department’s calculations as a,, measuring rod, there are approxi mately 6,693 men in New Hanover county between the ages of 21 and 35 who will have to register for the army draft. However, only 167 of these will be drafted this year. The war department figures that men between the ages of 21 and 35 make up 14 per cent of the population. The county’s total pop ulation according to the 1940 cen sus is 47,811 and simple multiplica tion gives 6,693 as the number ot men in the draft age. About one in 40 or 400,000 out of 16,500,000 will be drafted for army service this year. So by dividing 6,693 by 40 it is deducted that 167 men in this age range will go into khaki this year. For every volunteer in the coun ty the draft quota wiU be cut by one. ___^ Castor Bean Production Experiments Are Planned In Wilmington Section With the disclosure yesterday that experiments in the growing of castor beans are planned :n this section, the possibility that a new industry may be developed in southeastern North Carolina ap peared. R. Holzcker, chemist and repre sentative of ’ifoburn Industries, Inc., of Brooksville, Fla., and B. H. Sullivan, an associate of M. O. Dunning, Washington, D. C., said yesterday that the company has started preliminary surveys in this section to learn if climate and soil conditions will permit the profit able growth of the plant. castor bean, to determine its if fectiveness on truck crop pests. Arrangements have been made with Geoige Trask, true farmer here, tc plant several acres in the plant and to study its growth, Mr. Holzcker said. Trask will also make tests of the insecticide and study its effectiveness. The experiments with the insec ticide are expected to b complt d within a few months but those dealing with the production to the bean, will require about one and one-half years, Holzcker said. Holzcker and Sullivan said also if the growing1 of the castor bean plant is found practical here, a processing plant will be guilt in this vicinity, in which the various products made from the castor bean will be manufactured. Num bered among these, in addition to the new insecticide, are oil and a number of by-products. The underlying purpose in the entire research, they said, is to at tempt to restore the castor bean to the position of prominence it held in this country for m a ny years through the re-introduction of its products. (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 7) ( BODY OF BANKHEAD TAKEN TO JASPER Brief Impressive Funeral Rites Are Held In House Of Representatives WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. — UP) —Escorted by President Roosevelt and sorrowing congressional col leagues, the body of Speaker Wil liam B. Bankhead was taken to night to his home town of Jasper, Ala., for burial tomorrow. Official Washington gathered in the chamber of the house of rep resentatives at noon for brief, im pressive funeral rites over the flower-covered casket of the late speaker. Half an hour before the serv ices the house elected majority leader Sam Rayburn of Texas to the speakership by acclamation. Then, with Senator Pittman (D Nev), president pro tempore of the senate, Rayburn presided over the funeral ceremony. Throughout the service the pres ident solemny watched the gray casket. Behind him sat Mrs. Bank head, heavily veiled; Senator John H. Bankhead and Colonel Henry M. Bankhead, brothers of the speaker; and 'the speaker’s daugh ters, Actress Tallulah and Mrs. Eugenia Hoyt, both in black. The members of the cabinet and dip lomatic corps and Associate Jus tice McReynolds of the Supreme Court also attended. The galleries, to which admis sion was by special card, were packed. Long before the service started the capitol was surrounded by a heavy police guard. The Rev. James Shera Mont gomery, chaplain of the house, prayed, “O blessed Lord God, the memory of this scholarly Chris tian gentleman we will not know ingly allow to die out of our ach ing hearts. He loved the good, the beautiful and the true and saluted a greater future for his brother man.” Rayburn told the funeral com pany: “I stand here in great hu mility with the knowledge of my poor limitations to follow in the footsteps of one as great and fine.” Republican leader Martin of Massachusetts said Bankhead was a “strong partisan” but added that he accorded complete fairness to the republican minority. “A fine life is ended,” he said. “A great American has passed on to the reward that comes for a life of service.” A double male quartet from St. Margaret’s Episcopal church sang. The Rev. William S. Abernethy, (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 5) j L- ■ I Italians And British Fight Within Egypt Troops Meet In 110 to 120 Degree Heat; Italian Losses Heavy BRITISH BOMB TRUCKS Almost All Egyptians Re moved From Regions Threatened By Fighting CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 16.— Ml — Italian soldiers marching into Egypt in a swiftly-developing desert battle for empire are fight ing British advance troops in 110 to 120-degree heat and thus far have suffered heavy losses from the withering British fire, it was officially reported tnoight. The British, who at first offered little ressitance when Marshal Graziani began the offensive from Italian Libya, apparently have sud denly stiffened, military informa tion indicated. Motorized Units Clash Battles between British and Ital ian motorized units in the desert took place in the almost unbear able heat, with the combattants limited in some cases to scant sup plies of water. The main Italian force appeared to be consolidating its position around the border Port of Salum on the Mediterranean but strong elements of fighting vehicles have engaged British advance units near Buqbuq, a coastal town about 25 miles east of Salum on the road to Alexandria. A British .communique which told of -contact of the advance forces said British bombers swoop ed down on the big motor trans ports leading the Italian advance near Buqbuq, sending the vehicles up in flames which could be seen 40 miles away. Tank trucks carry ing gasoline were special targets. The Italians were said to be keepnig clsoe to the shore line. Bombers Downed Italian planes supportihg the motorized drive across hte desert ran into stiff opposition, the Brit ish said. British fighters shot down six enemy bombers, it was report ed, and three others were listed by the British as probably destroyed. One British plane was lost. RAYBURN ELECTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE Texas Democrat Is Named Successor To Bankhead Without A Contest WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— (fl — A genial Texas democrat, Rep. Sam Rayburn, was elected speaker of the house of representatives by acclamation today—the second man in history to win the post without a contest. The only other man to do so was the one he suc ceeded, William Bankhead of Ala bama. This unique feature of their elec tions was the result of the fact that Bankhead and the man he fol lowed to the chair, the late Joseph Wellington Byrns of Tennessee, (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 5) j HUGE ASSAULT CUT TO LONE BOMB BLASTS _* English Informants Say Invasion Attempt By Nazis Beaten Off LISBON, Sept. 16.—UB—Brit ish informants arriving here by plane from London delared today that a small scale Ger man attempted at a landing somewhere along the English coast last week was beaten off with heavy losses to the would be invaders. They were unable to give the exact time and place but asserted they were convinced * of the accuracy of their infor mation. ('Last Friday Dr. Charles F. Bove, former Paris surgeon, declared at Jersey City, N. J. that the Germans had tried to invade England several times and bad failed.) (A British military source said Friday night there had been “absolutely no attempt at invasion in any size, shape or form.”) “British coastal artillery and small patrol craft played hav oc with German barges,” one of the British informants said here, “and not a single Ger man reached land alive. “Scores of bodies are report ed still being washed up on our shores.” » AIRPORT MEETING SLATED TOMORROW '« --- County Board And Avia tion Committee To Talk Plans To Promote Field A meeting of the county board and the aviation committee ap pointed several weeks ago will be held at the courthouse Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, following a motion to that effect yesterday afternoon by the county commis sioners. At this time plans will be formu lated for the promotion and devel opment of Bluethenthal airport. The projected modernization pro gram at the field has started. Work crews are now busy at the county rock quarry removing ma terial in preparation for the laying of runways. The Ideal Plumbing company, of Wilmington, was awarded a $1,231 contract for the installation of fix tures at the new buildings at the county home, as bids on the work were opened and read at the meet ing. Other applicants and their pro posals: W. W. Way and Son, $1,265; B. R. Drynan, $1,368; A. E. Cumber, $1,434; and R. C. Lucas, $1,865. Bids on the installation of heat ing equipment will be invited for next Monday’s meeting. A sum of $5,000, a budgeted ex pense, was granted to the school board as a capital outlay. The question of the county’s tak ing part in the expense of paving Tenth street was turned over to the school board for consideration. L J. Coleman reported to the board that many residents of the county had questioned him as to where they could obtain free seeds for use in planting their gardens. Addison Hewlett, chairman, sug gested that those desiring seeds call at the office of Mrs. L. O. (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 6) LARGE FIRE STARTED Appearance Of Raiders Brings Out Heaviest Anti Aircraft Fire Of War N A ZIS HIT MIDLANDS Channel Mist Turns Into Fog, Moon Blotted Out, Sea Becomes Choppy BY EDWIN STOUT LONDON, Sept. 17.—(Tuesday) _(#)_Thickening weather on which Britons long have counted as an autumn ally forced the German air raiders early today to break off an intensive night bombing at tack on London three hours ahead of the usal quitting time. By 2 a. m., the steady proces sion of raiders, which had brought out the heaviest anti-aircraft fire yet heard in the London area, thinned out to an occasional dron ing motor and sporadic b o mb blasts. At 2:41 a. m., the all-clear sounded. Fire Controlled One great fire broke out in cen tral London but it was quickly controlled. The alarm, which began in th s foggy duck at 8:09 p. m. yest: - day, was marked by a steady pr i cession of Nazi planes more nu merous than before, but it enu J . after six hours and 32 minutes — second shortest of the 10 conse. u tive night raids on the British cap ital. During the same period the Ger mans struck extensively innt he Midlands, the northeast and else where in England. The British, having withstood the punishment of daylong bombings and cross-channel shelling from, German cannon, expressed convic tio that their own heavy bomb blows on the continental coast had set back Adolf Hitler’s proposed invasion plans. Hot Fight While it lasted, the G e r man night raid was a hot fight. Anti-aircraft shells burst above the low clouds which concealed the invading planes and dimmed the moon over London. A number of houses suffered hits from high explosive and incendi ary bombs in the Midlands, where one German plane fouled a bal loon barrage cable and crashed. The night’s battle in London be gan the moment the evening alarm sounded. Immediately, anti-air craft batteries roared into a full (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 7) FRANCE IN DANGER OF LOSING COLONY Agreement Permitting Ja pan To Land Troops In Indo-China Expected HANOI, French Indo-China, Sept 16.—W)—France was believed in well-informed quarters here to night to be in imminent peril ot losing French Indo-China to Jap an. French officials admit privately that negotiations—already approv ed in principle by Vichy and Tok yo—are likely to result within & few days in agreement permitting Japan to establish perhaps 25,000 troops on Indo-China soil. Authoritative French, Japanese and foreign sources say this may prompt China to send her own sol diers across the colonial frontier and precipitate a conflict which might mean the beginning of the end of France’s 60-year rule of this east Asian territory of 230,000 square miles. In all quarters, official and ci vilian, the conviction is expressed that only the United States could prevent Japan from gaining a pos sibly unshakeable hold, but fear of arousing Japanese feelings has prevented Indo-China authorities even from soliciting such aid. French sources said that a mis sion had been sent to the United States last July, but that both it and the government here had fail ed to obtain warplanes and other material sought in the United States. 4 Germans Report Flight OverLondonByGoering BERLIN, Sept. 16.—(#>—An nouncement of a flight over Lon don by Reichs-Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, personal director of the air siege of England, gave dramatic emphasis today to a heightened tempo of daylight raids on the British capital. Goering’s trip, which authorized quarters said was made last night in one of Germany’s biggest and newest bombers which he piloted himself, shared interest with diplo matic developments which many observers believed might soon bring Spain into the war as anj ally of Germany and Italy. Landing back at his headquar ters in an undisclosed village in Normandy, northwestern France, Goering was quoted as saying: "I am glad I made my air force such a strong weapon. It was the decisive force in Poland and Nor way and undoubtedly it will play a similarly decisive role in the war with England.” Goering, a World war ace and former commander of the Rich tofen circus, has been in personal command of the aerial assault on (Continued on Page Xen; Col. 2)
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