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f Dedicated to the - ^ ^ ^ n ~ HHUHi I1H1 — __Served by Leased Wire of the THE mMIHIEWS r“” E©E?TT €I1W ©IF re©@E)igi3 AMIS) taLISASyiaIIstate and Nationat New. WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1940 + + _PRICE FIVE CENTS I fort Bragg red Dead In Crash loneycutt s Plane May Have Fallen Tugboat Crew Saw Craft fall In Flames At Mouth Of River SEARCH unsuccessful Brigadier General On Way From Bragg To Parley In Jacksonville BRUNSWICK, Ga„ Sept. 21.—(-S’) -l search for a missing Army plane which Brigadier General Francis \V. Honeycutt and two others were uakins a routine flight focussed to rHBt on a desolate area of Tide n;er swampland near the mouth of lie Suite river after a tugboi.'. i tir.d reported seeing a plane fall in flames there last night. About three score Army and Coast Guard planes scoured the section until dusk and the search was con tinued tonight by parties in small tats. ! Seen by Negro K, B. Burnham of Woodbine, Ga., relayed the report of a crash given to him by Albert Sullivan, negro member of the crew of a tugboat niiei was pulling a raft of logs dm the river when the incident occurred. Burnham said he and a party ot fiends contacted the tugboat about S miles east of Woodbine and 15 Biles sou tli of here, Sullivan said lie saw the plane tarsi into flames about 8:30 last tight and that it crashed some dis tance away, Burnham related. Crew men on the tugboat thought the plane probably fell into the marsh lather than in the river. Coast Guard and Army officials at Jacksonville said the location and time of the reported crash led them to believe it was the plane in which the Fort Bragg, X. C., commandant and his two companions left the fort ■i;e yesterday enroute to Jackson ville. Major H. A. Maloney, manager of go Jacksonville airport, said search es had been unable to find any trace '-e Plane from the air but that to growth was so thick and the “tohland so soft, it was likely the Pm could not be seen from above. Major gam Ellis, commander of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) SURPLUS FOODS WEEK WINNERS Marshburn And Son Take One First Prize, Mrs. Parker Another Winners in both divisions of the i urplug Foods Week contest were lI>nounced yesterday by the judging :(®mittees. the prize awards to grocers for e m°ft forceful display of Surplus Mmodities V. a. Marshburn and jh't’ and Chestnut, took first r_" prize of $15 and Mayhan's )focery’ 1814 Castle, was awarded !j,seC0T1!l Prize of $10. o Mrs. Edna W. Parker, 508 Mar street, went the first award of ^"Ucd on Page Three; Col. 7) WEATHER Xortb forecast fiav Bn/i "?f° ina: Generally fair Sun norrh r; .rIonrtay: slightly cooler in Portion Sunday night. data for t he 24 hours b p. m. yesterday). 130 o Temperature it. 8j. r'8; 7:30 a. m. 08; 1:30 p. HiiiimJ, JP- m. 75; maximum 88; um to: mean 76; normal 72. l-Jfi „ Humidity hi. 47- -• '00; 7:30 a. m. 93; 1:30 p. ‘•“0 p. ni. 75. Totai . Precipitation itiiio■ tn?1, “‘.hours ending 7:30 p. m., II) inches1 s,nee first of the month, (ides For Today "'ilm;„„ High How »ton - 1:05a 8:08a **asonboiY, T 1 . l:38p 9:14p u-'0(o Inlet-10:58a 4:56a ,8'aurise 11:11P 5:31P (its b-5,. (j0a; sunset 6:09p; moon «P: moonset 11:12a. 'ill,1™' river stage at Fay ’ ®t 8 a. m., September 19, dn Page Nine; Col. 3) Held For $100,000 Ram ^ Marc de Tristan, 3, son of the socially prominent Count and Countess Tristan, is pictured above. He was kidnaped by a thug who held up his nurse in Hillsborough, a fashionable suburb of San Francisco. The child is the grandson of Louis Cates, immensely wealthy West Coast socialite. F. R. Tightens Machinery For Draft, Army Buying -+_ CITES GAINS IN JOBS Post ■ Of Under-Secretary Of War To Be Created; Aviation Humming _ i BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Sept. 21.— (IP!—In two steps toward revitaliz ing America’s defense, President Roosevelt appointed a six-man ad visory committee today to help coordinate plans for conscription of manpower and approved a pro posal which would establish new controls for the Army’s vast pro curement program. In addition, he disclosed that employment in the nation’s vital aircraft industry had more than trebled since December, 1938, that the greatest percentage gain had been in 29 interior states, and that he expected the greatest future advancs in that same area. Have Been Helping Four members of the advisory committee have been helping with plans for the draft, whose director probably will be named next week, ever since conscription legislation was brought before Congress. The four are: Frederick Osben of New York, who was in charge of Red Cross work with the American army in (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 6) GUARD TO LEAVE FOR CAMPS TODAY Farewell Ball Given Men Of Five Army Units At Lumina BY LIEUT. W. H. HANCAMMON FORT SCREVEN, Ga., Sept. 21.— An advance detachment of the first battalion of the 252nd Coast Artillery arrived here tonight to make ar rangements for the arrival of the battalion Monday. Units of the battalion, which is under the command of Major J. B. McCumber, of Wilmington, include the battalion headquarters battery of Wilmington, and detachments of Battery A, Wilmington, Battery B, of Lumberton, and a medical detach ment from Greensboro. Wilmington’s National Guards men will begin to leave the city today, headed for various camps and one year of intensive train ing in the regular army. Headquarters Battery and the Regimental band of the 252nd Coast Artillery were scheduled to leave at an “early” but unan nounced hour this morning for Fort (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Census Shows Population \ Now Totals 131,409,8811 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(A»)— ] The Census -bureau announced to night that the population of the United States on April I was 131, 409,81. This was a gain of 7 per cent since 1930—-the smallest per centage increase in any decade of American history. The 48 states and the District of Columbia reported 8,634,835 more residents than they did 10 years ago, but individual states had wide ly differing stories. By percentages, Florida gained the fastest of the states, 27.9 per cent, while South Dakota lost the most, 7.5 per cent. The District of Columbia, where the number of government workers has doubled, outpaced all the states with a 36.2 gain. In actual numbers, California gained the most, 1,196,437, and Kansas lost the most, 81,862. The 7 per cent national gain was less than half the ratio in any pre vious decade. Census Director Wil liam L. Austin said this was due to a declining birth rate and a virtual stoppage of immigration during the last 10 years. From 1910 to 1920, the gain was 14.9 per cent, and rom 1920 to 1930 it was 16.1 per cent. Austin said many sociologists had predicted that, eventually, the (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 3) Vi French-Jap Parley Ends In Dispute Indo-China Officials Say [Tonkin Not To Be Made Jap Army Base FRENCH ‘MAY FIGHT/ Petain Government Has Told Colony To Reach Accord With Japs HONGKONG, Sept. 22 (Sunday). — (JP) — An authoritative dispatch from Hanoi, French Indo-China, said today French-Japanese negotiations on Japah’s demand for military priv ileges in that French colony had again been broken off, and that all the Japanese mission planned to leave today. London, Sept. 21.—(£>)—Reuter’s (British) news agency reported to night from Saigo, Indo-China, that French negotiations with Japan over Japanese military advantages in that colonial possession have broken down. By The Associated Press HANOI, French Indo-China, . Sept. 22.—(Sunday)—A new complication disturbed the touch-and-go situation over Japanese demands for mili tary rights in French Indo-China today when authoritative French sources declared they would refuse to let Japan make Tonkin a mili tary base. These sources said they were ready to honor their word and give Japan the military facilities provid ed in the Vichy-Tokyo understand ing but would balk at anything meaning Japanese military occupa tion of Tonkin. lilts SLaieiuem. lunuweu a new setback in the critical negotiations after earlier hope that an amicable settlement impended. While Maj.-Gen. Issaku Nishi hara, chief of the Japanese mili tary mission, sulked in his hotel room at Haiphon, where he went this morning, several of his subor dinates returned her? and were be lieved to be ready to renew the conversations. Japanese nationals who left Hanoi environs last night remained aboard ships in Haiphong harbor but it was reported that Japanese from Southern Indo-China had left Saigon aboard ships bound for an undisclosed destination. Although French sources wel comed the United States’ renewed expression of concern over Indo china’s status quo, a spokesman said it was recognized that Wash ington could not go so far as to threaten Japan. However, he said, a further American expression would be of “utmost importance.” French sources said the French army in Indo-China would prefer to go down fighting rather than submit to too humiliating terms. Need Huge Force They estimated that Japan would need 300,000 men to- conquer all this East Asian colony and de clared that if France resisted with the full cooperation of the Chinese army, Japan would find her fight ing front stretched out 1,000 miles. The colonial government an (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) MAN, 30, FOUND SHACKLED, BEATEN Trail Of Blood Traced , From Highway Back Into Mountains TUXEDO PARK, N. Y„ Sept. 21.— ; UP) — A young man, about 30, his ! legs shackled with old-fashioned handcuffs and his head apparently j bludgeoned, was brought unconscious i tonight to the Tuxedo Memorial hos- i pital State police said that apparently ! he had made his way painfully from mountains near Southfields, N. 1 Y., to a highway where he collapsed j and was discovered by a Southfields ' resident. They were able to follow his trail of blood about a half-mile into the , mountains. , Dr. David Tolmie, who attended ] the man, said that his skull had l (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) New Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, the Texas banker who joined the Reconstruction Finance Corp., under Herbert Hoover and became its chairman during the Roose velt administration, is sworn in as Secretary of Commerce, in Washing ton. The President smiles his approval as Justice Stanley Reed (right) gives the oath. Jones will retain his RFC post. Egyptian Premier Urged To Declare War On Italy ■ ■" . — ■ CABINET MEMBERS ACT British Forces Bombing Invaders At Sidi Bar rani, Menastir CAIRO, Egypt, Sept, 21.—®— Four Saadist party members of the Egyptian cabinet resigned to night to enforce the party demand for a declaration of war against Italy. Premier Haasan Sabry Pasha sought to fill their places with men who would support the government policy of no war declaration at present. Greater Cooperation Observers doubted that the Saad ist action would precipitate a war declaration but expressed belief it would compel greater cooperation of Egyptian defense forces with the British. The resignations followed a speech by Ahmed Mahar Pasha, the party leader and president of the chamber, who asserted, “It is now the duty of every Egyptian to rise to the occasion by rallying around the banner of the defend ers of our fatherland, regardless of whether we are fully prepared Erom a military point of view. “Britain’s help will enable us to become a force to be reckoned (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) mninm > min ■ m * am 1K13IAW3 AYVA11 KIDNAP CONTACT Ransom Ready For Thug Who Abducted Child On Friday By The Associated Press HILLSBOROUGH, Calif., Sept. 21. ‘There has been no contact with he kidnaper.” Those words came through the Iread silence of the lie Tristan lome today, 24 hours after three 'ear-old Marc, scion of several vealthy families, was abducted by i man who left a demand for 100,000 ransom. The money was ready, to be >aid for the safe return of the ittle boy, son of Count and Coun ess Marc de Tristan, socially >rominent members of this exclu sive neighborhood. A friend of the parents said late oday they were “bearing up sur irisingly well,” and were “just sit ing around hoping for some sort 'f a contact to be made.” The kidnaper, who signed the ansom note as "unconventional ec entric,” had a free hand to open legotiations with the family. Po ice and federal agents withdrew rom the case at the family’s ur Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) NEW DEAL RELIEF POLICY ATTACKED Willkie Says F. R. Wants To Keep People On WPA Permanently SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.—Ml —The New Deal was accused by Wendell L. Willkie, republican presidential nominee, today of de siring to “keep the perople per manently on relief.” Addressing street crowds during a daytime automobile tour, the re publican presidential nominee said that was one of the differences between his ideas and those of the present democratic administration. “I want to put them (the people) to work at good wages in Ameri can industry.” Relief rolls “have always gone up in election years,” Willkie charged. “I see the process al ready commencing. I see this pow erful government bringing pressure on those below as to how they should vote.” Willkie asserted that if he were elected president no citizen would be taken off the relief rolls until he had a job. Willkie urged street audiences to vote in the November election even if they wanted a third term for President Roosevelt. Flanked by two score motorcycle policemen, Willkie stopped his long motorcade on palm-lined Mission street to declare: “I hope you will vote for me, but if anybody in this crowd wants to vote for Franklin Roosevelt for a third term, he should be sure to vote this fall. “You owe an obligation to vote. You are citizens of the greatest country in the world, and you should exercise your obligation to determine its problems.” The nominee said he was “de lighted to come to an area which voted overwhelmingly the last time Continued on Page Nine; Col. 2) War Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Just about 5:46 a. m. (London time) tomorrow morning, Septem ber 23, summer comes to a formal end in Western Europe. That is the appointed hour this year of the autumnal equinox, when night and day exactly divide the 24-hour span. And this year, as not in more than three centu ries, Britons around the world are praying for early winter-bred storms to secure England certain ly, against a German invasion. It was unseasonal July storms in 1588 that broke up Spain’s “Great Armada” when England .is last stood perilously close to in vasion. In the wake of that blow, Britian’s incomparable seamen, Drake and his fellows, drummed that armada down the English channel with their guns to utter destruction. Three centuries and a half later, equinoctial gales vex that same channel and are sweeping the shallow North Sea into tumbling water barriers to Nazi invasion of England. More powerful than Brit ain’s mighty war fleet, they are already blunting German hopes of (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 4) i f. Invasion Ships Heavily Bombed London Raid Is Termed Lighter By the Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 23— (Sun day)—Individual Nazi raiders unloaded bombs on London last night and early today for hour after hour in the 15th consecu tive all-night assault. One raider, attempting to pierce the London barrage of anti-aircraft guns came crash ing to his doom. There was an explosion and a tremendous flash as his bombs burst with the impact, but the site was declared to be an open space. Other raiders spread an arc of incendiary bombs around three sides of the city. Fires quickly broke out. Auxiliary firemen were reported to have subdued them. Observers said the German air activity appeared, however, to be lighter than formerly. One big bomb smashed several shops and jarred an underground public shelter in which hundreds of persons were sleeping. j iv.:—— Aft The British Press Association said raiders on the northeast coast early today were driven away by heavy anti-aircraft fire and had to jettison their bombs in the sea. Bombs also were hurled in east and north London, in Surrey and on the northwest coast. The Press Association reported several per sons were killed in a northwest town. For London it was the 15th con secutive all-night assault, renewed with fresh vigor after a dajf of isolated action during which two major daylight thrusts at the cap ital were beaten off, one by coastal anti-aircraft and the other by Brit ish fighter planes which turned back a wave of 50 Messerschmitt fighter-bombers over the southeast coast. Edwin Stout, an Associated Press staff man having a late dinner in a restaurant, telephoned his office at 9:30 p.m. that proceedings had (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) AXIS EYES TURN TO GREEKS, TURKS Nations May Be Forced To Showdown On Relations With Britain (By The Associated Press) ROME, Sept. 21—Fascist spokes men indicated tonight in the after math of the latest Rome-Berlin con sultation, that the Axis may call for a showdown from Greece and Turkey, the last harbors for British influence in southeastern Europe. Turkey still has a defensive al liance with Great Britain; Greece still has a British pledge to protect her independence. From Virginio Gayda, frequently Mussolini’s sounding board, came the strongest indication that Greece and Turkey may be asked to make plain their positions. The axis powers, Gayda wrote in II Giornale d’ltalia, are ready to support conciliation and respect for legitimate interests, but they “require final clarification of still pending problems and attitudes still in doubt.” Gayda promised also /that the war against Britain “will develop with ever-more intense energy and (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 8) TRAIN IS DESTROYED ‘80 To 90 Per Cent* Oi Nazi Gas Plants Have Been Attacked HUGE FIRES SIGHTED By the Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 22.—(Sun day)—Tire mightiest attack yet made on German invasion fleets and harbors across the English Channel was opened last night by British bombers in a clear and star-lit sky. For miles the Nazi - held French coastline was alive with the light of exploding bombs. The British concentrated on Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne. That whole area appeared to be one long mass of fire. It was a resumption, at even heightened fury, of night - long assaults against German ships and barges jammed beam to beam in clusters of 50 and more in the harbors of the channel and North Sea. Attack After Attack Attack after attack .on the ports from Boulogne and Dunkerque, fate ful town of escape for the British army trapped in Flanders, on up the coast to the tidal bases of the low countries left devastation and flame astride quays, merles, channels and docks, officials said. Three hour-long raids were made on Dunkerque alone, where the pi lots found the greatest concentra tions of German troop vessels. Other raiders penetrated interior Holland, Belgium and Germany itself and the pilot of one came back to describe an attack from 800 fc«t on a supply train near Munster. Two big bombs hit the train, front and rear. “The engine was lifted up into the air and blown to bits and frag ments of the wrecked train shot up as high as the attacking aircraft,”, the official account said. The government declared that the British raids, night after night, al ready had encompassed between 80 and 90 per cent of all Germany’s gasoline plants. Last night the air ministry’s news service issued the most ex tensive account yet of the RAF's night flights, detailing the bomb ings, port by port. Its narrative: “Dunkerque: The port, already heavily damaged in previous night attacks, was subjected to three sep arate raids, each of about one hour’s duration. In the first, which (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) GERMANS claim FACTORIES HIT ‘Berlin Also Says U-Boats Sunk 14 Merchantmen; RAF ‘Balked’ j _ < By the Associated Press BERLIN, Sept. 21.—The Nazi air fleet, still hammering its heaviest blows against London, inflicted se vere new damage to “war-essen tial” targets, the high command reported today. While the German planes were carrying out night attacks on Lon don Friday, the official neWB agen cy, DNB, said, Nazi fighter planes and a “surprise” anti-aircraft bar rage balked two British counter raids on Berlin far short of their goal. Particularly the center of Lon don, west of the big bend of the Thames river, suffered from the German air blows, the high com mand said, and frequent hits were scored on the big Royal Albert docks. Again, it said, the sky over Lon don glowed with new bomb-lit fires as well as the embers of flames which have smouldered for days. German air attacks continued on London throughout this afternoon, informed sources said, with bombs of the heaviest caliber falling in the region of the Thames elbow. Damage must have been “consid erable,” these sources caid. Besides the center of London, the communique reported, “war (Continued on Page; Nine Col. 1) (
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