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Dedicated To The Progress 0! N PI ,, T j Qr. *«. tnti miictii . Served by Leased Wire of the WlLHIniTOR „ ^lfl nnppi , , „ ASSOCIATED PHESS And Southeastern Nortli n . . r . r • . With Complete Coverage of Urolina State and National News — _ • k - _ _ ■ ■ VOL 74-NO. 41__ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940_ + * ESTABLISHED 1867 IS. TO CALL 800,000 MEN TO ARMS BY JUNE 15 A - ala ala ala - ^ i 1 I 1 t 1 ... _ __ * " " " " " " * * XXX XXX xxx British Smash At French ‘Invasion Coast’ ____ _ J& Bombardmenl Shakes Kent; Berthas Roai British Planes Make Day light Raid On Nazi-Held Naval Base At Brest LONDON HAS LET-UF Long Lulls Between Bombi Mark 41st Consecutive Attack On The City LONDON, Oct. 17,.—Ml—British bombers knifed through a soup: fog tonight to smash at the Frencl •invasion coast” with a heav; bombardment that shook the Ken nsh shore on this side of the chap pel. The detonations rumbled acros ,he channel like the .steady roi oi thunder. A light southwestern wind was blowing across the caln channel waters during the attack The Germans open?' up earl; in the night with a bombardmen of their own, from coastal batter ies in the Dunkerque area. Brest Bombed In a rarely accomplished broad daylight raid, British pilots weri declared to have heavily bombei the Nazi-held French naval base o Brest, and from the ~>over coas England’s big guns made the chan nel unsafe for Germancraft. Two batteries of British artiller; erupted against a single Germai torpedo-carrying E-boat, ringing the vessel with water spouts front falling shells until it sped off fo: home in a rising shower of spray The attack on Brest, made b; planes of the coastal commanc over a now-familiar air trail caused “extensive damage” to thi base's vital power station, the ail ministry announced. It followed the same pattern o night assaults a few hours earlie; on the German naval base at Kei where fires were said to h a v i sprung up, and on the ports o: Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhavei -both bombed many times before (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) NAZIS BOAST AIR DEFENSEWEAPON Reports The Use 01 Supei Searchlight To Blind Noc turnal British Fliers BERLIN. Oct. 17.—W—German: boasted a new air defense weapoi -a super searchlight to blind noc turnal British fliers—while report! oi havoc wrought by the incessan bombardment of England piled ui tonight. BNB. official German news agen c>'. claimed for the light a sort o: candle-and-moth attraction. Bo blinding are its rays, DNI said, that the light seems to mak< an attacking plane fly directly int< German defense positions and anti aircraft guns. The light was used successful!: “St night against a British bomb (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) WEATHER By U. s. Weather Bureau ,■ FORECAST o';”1’ Carolina, South Carolina am coni ?a , £ienerally fair and continue 001 Friday and Saturday. m By F. S. Weather Bureau endin„2r?loeicaI dat* for the 24 hour i o H'jO p. m. yesterday). 1' Temperature m,'ffl. 54i 7:30 a. m. 52; 1:30 t ftiniim, -i? m- 59; maximum 69 al; mean 60; normal 65. 1 .on „ Humidity ft 37. 7,?' 67; 7:30 a. m. 86; 1:30 I ' 7:30 p. m. 72. Total , „ Precipitation none- ,!?r,-4 hours ending 7:30 p. m 6.13 inched1 SinCe £irst o£ tlie raont£ i Tides For Today Tfilmin-., „ High Lo’ “8ton - 10:59a 5:52 Masonbor, 7 , . 11:14p ' 6:28| ! oro Inlet _ 8:32a 2:29 Suntka r.io 8:48p 2:57 hie 7-iV 8-19a; sunset 5:35p; moon °P: moonset 8:15a. cttevm- £ river stage at Fay feet. ’ " * *■ m., October 15, 8.2 ^“Miniied OU Page Five; Col. 5). 39,476SoutheasternN. C. j Men Register For Draft i. -— *_ NINE COUNTIES REPORT 1 H. G. Carney Says Meeting Of Local Board May Be » Held Tomorrow Uncle Sam last night had the i names of 39,476 young men be tween the ages of 21 and 36 from . Southeastern North Carolina ready ; to file for possible call for a year’s l service in the United States army. ! Yesterday final tabulations on, : the number of men registered for i military service in the nine coun ties of this section were made. The results were as- follows: New Hanover, 6,173; Brunswick, 1,817; Onslow, 2,105; Columbus, 5,322; Bladen, 2,978; Pender 1,942; Robeson 9,063; Sampson, 5,385; Duplin 4,681. Smooth Registration From all counties came reports that the registration went off with J. I*1_L_3_IaaoI UUl> a UlkVll — draft boards in each were mak ing plans for opening permanent offices and preparing to send out call orders immediately folowing the national draft lottery in Wash ington. H. G. Carney, chairman of the New Hanover county board of ' elections, and a member of the Wilmington draft board, said yes terday that a meeting of the board i members will probably be held tomorrow morning, at which time . a chairman will be elected and a : permanent board office set up. He said that no definite author 1 ity on setting up an office has been . received so far but that the local i board hopes to commence getting . its office in operation by Monday. The local draft boards, appointed . by Governor Clyde R. Hoey, are . composed at: Board No. 1 for the City of Wilmington—H. G. Carney, (Continued on Page Two; ^Col. 5) STRIKE SAN PEDRO, Calif., Oct. 17.—(S) — More than 100 longshoremen staged a two-hour sitdown strike on the deck of the Japanese freighter 1 Onoe Maru today because of what 1 they said they considered a slight to the American flag. Minister# Indicted For — Failure To Register BOSTON, Oct. 17.— (/P) —Less than 18 hours after the close of conscriptioh registration, two Back Bay ministers were indicted by a federal grand jury today on a charge of knowingly failing and neglecting to register in ac cordance with the provisions of the selective service act. The indictments were be lieved to be the first in the country of that nature. War rants were not issued but U. S. Attorney Edmund J. Brandon said the ministers — the Rev. Keith C. Kanaga, 25, assistant pastor of' the Mount Vernon Congregational church, and the Rev. Harry H. Kruener, Si, pastor of the First Baptist church — had assured him they would be available for question ing or summons at the court’s convenience. EUROPEAN RELIEF STUDIEDBY F. R Big Consignment Of Flout May Be Sent To Non Belligerent Spain WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.— UP) - President Roosevelt canvassed th problem of American relief for Eu rope with state department am Red Cross advisers today and i was reported that a large consign ment of flour might be sent t non-belligerent Spain. At the White House conference with the President were Secretar; of State Hull, Undersecretary Sum ner Welles and Norman Davis chairman of the American Eei Cross. It was described official! as relating to the “refugee” ques tion but complete secrecy was ob served as to what phases were dis cussed or whether any decision; had been reached. Usually well-informed source; (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) ---; VETS’HOSPITAL CEREMONY HELD N«w $1,500,000 Facility At Fayetteville ls Dedi cated By Officials FAYETTEVILLE, Oct. 17.—Ca»)— The federal government’s new $1, 500,000 veterans facility, which in cludes a 307-bed hospital and re gional offices of the veterans ad ministration, was dedicated here to day with ceremony and a parade. The principal speaker was Col. George E. Ijams, of Washington, assistant administrator of the Vet erans administration, who stressed the need of national unity in sup pressing subversive movements. "We ought to return to their mas ters abroad,” he said, “those repre sentanves or suDversive movements who would destroy us from within.” ‘‘Our old enemies of 1917,” he told the audience of several thousand persons, ‘‘the advocates of the theory that might makes right, are attempt ing once more to impress their will upon those nations who are not strong enough to resist.” ’ Governor Hoey made a brief talk. The personnel of the facility was introduced by J. S. Pittman, the manager. A banquet was held to night for the visitors. Col. Terry A. Lyon was toastmaster. A parade which included several units from nearby Fort Bragg pre ceded the dedication ceremony. Representatives of veterans organ : izatoins made brief talks. They in cluded R. Dave Hall of Belmont, 1 American Legion; Bryan Crosby of t Hickory, Veterans of Foreign Wars; . Norwood S. Westbrook, of Wilming ) ton, Disabled American Veterans; E. J. Sharpe of Kannapolis, Spanish > American Veterans, and C. J. Turpie r of Charlotte, Military Order of the - World War. [ TRUCKS ARRIVE - NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Ut)—The . British Broadcastin gcorporation, . in a broadcast picked up here by . NBC, said tonight that the first ; contingent of 200 trucks over the Burma Road was reported to have ! arrived in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province after an ‘‘un eventful” journey. 2 Episcopal Church Takes Step Toward Liberalizing Marriage, Divorce Laws KANSAS CITY, Oct. 17.—GD—The , Protestant Episcopal church, after > more than 15 years of discussion, took its first step today toward r liberalizing its stringent marriage 1 and divorce laws. J The house of bishops adopted > and sent to the house of deputies ’ a proposed new canon which would permit divorced persons who re marry to receive the church’s blessing. This would not be given, however, until one year after the remarriage and then only upon re commendation of ecclesiastical au thorities. The measure still forbids Epis copal ministers to marry divorced persons, thus requiring that such marriages be performed by ■ civil authorities or clerics of another faith. Under present church law, de scribed by some bishops in the debate which preceded the 6 to 26 vote of approval as “merciless and cruel”, only the remarriage of an innocent party in a divorce ( granted for adultery is sanctioned. Concurrence in the new canon by the house of deputies was con sidered unlikely by some delegates who said strong opposition was known to exist in that body among both lay and clerical mambers. The suggested new canon for mally charges the clergy with greater responsibility toward at tempting to correct family diffi culties. | (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Turkey Warns Axis Powers Against Push Says They Will Find Nation ‘Resembles Neither Hol land Nor France’ NAZIS BOOST PLANES Nazi Ambassador To Rus sia Understood To Have Talked With Molotofl ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 17.—Iff) —The official Turkish radio said in a broadcast tonight that if the Axis powers attempt to drive through Turkey or Greece to Egypt and the Suez they will find that Turkey “resembles neither Hol land, Belgium nor France.” The commentator accused Ger many and Italy of trying to con quer Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece by various methods and said they had demanded that Greece give up her British guar antee or “she will be made to re gret it.” Receives Ministers Premier-Dictator John Metaxas of Greece received the German and Italian ministers at Athens to aay, me Droaucasi said, out iaueu to say what happened. Commenting, on the movement of German troops into Rumania, it asserted: “In case of an Italian attack upon Greece, in which Bulgaria might later join, Germany may wish to have a strategic point of advantage from which to check a Russian move. “Finally, it may be planned to get to Egypt and the Suez through Greece and Turkey. This last pos sibility seems to us farfetched, be cause it is extremely difficult. “Our resistance in the Dar danelles in the last war is recalled and there is no doubt our resis tance this time will be even strong er. “Want Short War” “Just as we depend on our army, our terrain also has a special pro fit for us; for instance, motorized troops can only move with diffi cutty here. And the axis powers want a short war, not a long one.” In view of Turkey’s defiant stand, considerable significance was seen in a conference planned here shortly by British Balkan dip lomats with Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen, ambassador to ^Turkey, their host. The British minister to Bulgaria already is here and envoys from Yugoslavia and Greece are on the way. NAZIS BOOST PLANES BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 17. —German circles said tonight that 150 Nazi bomber and fighter planes already are in Rumania and 150 more are expected tomorrow, accompanied by 800 pilots, me chanics, ground crewmen and in structors. The disclosure followed closely (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) War . Interpretive BY KIBKE L. SIMPSON Climatic factors at both ends of Britain’s long battle line, from England to Egypt, are working in her favor as she braces to meet the winter strategy of her Axis foes. In western Europe, chilly Octo ber rains, admittedly hampering aerial warfare for both Sides, gave bomb-blasted London a period of relative peace on Wednesday night, although the Germans returned to the attack later. Bain In Egypt In Egypt the rains have come. During the next two months, it is not too little but too much water that is apt to complicate Italian hopes of cracking th« British block ade at the Suez gateway. Moving mechanized war machines over soggy ground is perhaps a more difficult business than military operations in mid-day tempera tures above the 120 degree mark. It may be that having waited this long to wa^p his army in Egypt (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) A Rockefeller Registers Rich man. poor man — all are leveled in the democracy of Amer ica’s selective service law.' Here’s Winthrop Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller, as, with clerks and mechanics, somebodies and nobodies, he registered in New York for the draft. PRODUCTION BOOST URGED BY W1LLK1E Candidate Says New Deal Contributed To War Rath er Than To Peace ST. LOUIS, Oct. 17.—(jP)—Wendell L. Willkie tonight called production "the only road to peace” and said “we must produce more and more and more” in order to reinforce Great Britain. He declared in a prepared speech uiai uc agiccu *»*»■** vj. basic international objectives of this administration at the present time.” But, he asserted, the administration has contributed to war rather than to peace by failing to view produc tion as the American role in world affairs. “War is not the road to peace,” he said. “Appeasement is not the road to peace. Production is the road to peace—and the only road to peace.” Describing Britain as “the rim of freedom far out beyond our shores,” the republican presidential nominee said the United States could not send an expeditionary force over there because "we have no such force.” "We are not helping the way we ought to help, the way we must help,” he said, "if we are not to be left utterly alone in this bloody and barbarous , world. . . . “We must produce more and more. We must produce airplanes. We (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) STIMSON SAYS FUTURE RESTS UPON HITLER ir —■ N. C. Health Officials Begin Making Blood Tests Of Registrants RALEIGH, Oct. 17— W) — Truckload after truckload of human blood was brought to the state laboratory of hygiene here today as health officials began the tremendous task of determining the percentage of syphilitics among Tar Heels who registered yesterday for the military daft. By mid-afternoon, between 40,000 and 50,000 blood speci mens had been received, and there were hundreds of other packages at the postoffice still to be delivered. The blood tests for syphilis were offered on a voluntary basis for all persons register ing, in counties which have a public health organization. In dications tonight were that as many as 100,000 men within the draft ages either already had taken tests or intended to take them. Government Not Ydt Ready To Order Compulsory Evacuation Of Capital ; London, Oct. 17.—liB—Britain’s gdVerritaent is staying in London, informed parliamentary sources dis closed, today, and is not yet ready to order compulsory evacuation of the bomb-strafed capital. The same sources, however, con veyed anew the government’s de sire that “the more people who can leave London without interfering with their business the better” and, in the house of commons, the minis ter of health disclosed an “ominous increase” in the rvartime spread of cerebro-spinal fever. Malcolm MacDonald, the minister, said gravely that this “should make us pause in contemplation of the coming winter.” (Cerebro-spinal fever is cerebro spinal meningitis, also called camp fever. It has been a common mili tary disease. The precise cause of its rise in wartime is not known, BRITISH LEADERS STAY IN LONDON but it is presumed to come trom crowding, such as in air raid shel ters and in other intimate contact. The disease is attributed to an or ganism in the nose and throat, pre sumed to be air-borne.) No reason was given for the semi official reiteration of the govern ment’s determination to stay in Lon don, on this 41st day of unbroken air siege. The parliamentary cor respondent of Reuters, the British news gaency, merely wro r: "There is no question of the government leaving London. On the contrary, they intend to stay here.” He added: "There is no question of any compulsory evacuation at present.” The board of trade, which cor responds to the United .States de partment of commerce, announced later that its offices for the regis to the Grand hotel at Llandudno, Wales. Dutch Ship Attacked Off Coast Of Spain NEW YORK, Oct. 17.— (A1) —The Dutch freighter Oscilla, 6,34i tons, reported she was “being gunned” within 30 miles of the Spanish coast, near Cape Espichel, a message picked up tonight by Mackay radio, said MAK1 INUVlIVIdLK 10 Says Majority Of Housing Facilities For Army Will Be Ready Dec. 15 DIVISIONS PLANNED Clarence Dykstra Takes Oath Of Office As Direc tor Of Selective Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. -MV Secretary Stimson disclosed a con scription schedule today which would call 800,000 men to the col ors by next June 15 and added that beyond that date “only God and Hitler'’ know what will be the con ditions that govern the rate at which the men will be summoned to service. The first group of draftees, a contingent of 30,000, will be sent to the training camps about Nov. 18, he said, adding that 60,000, _n. />n OAO Tnn WUUJU. gu UU "W)VVW -- 3; 90,000 on Jan. 15, 160,000 on Feb. 10, 00,000 on March 5, and 200.000 on June 15. At the same time, the cabinet officer said Wendell L. Willkie, the republican presidential nominee,, had been “misled into making statements that were neither fair nor accurate” on the provision of housing for the troops. A “great majority” of the new housing fa cilities planned for an army of 1.200.000 would be ready by Dec. 15, he added. New Divisions Planned Stimson also told of plans for forming two new armored divisions next June, the third and fourth of that type toward an ultimate goal of ten. One will have its head quarters at Pine Camp, N. Y., and the other at Camp Beauregard, La., he said, and each will con sist of about 11,500 men. He an nounced that a $6,000,000 contract had been let for new housing at Pine Camp. As the conscription program gets into full swing, national guard units not yet «mobilized are to be called to active duty. Stimson said that eight divisions and some other units of guards men—about 126,000 officers and men all told—would be mobilized between January 3 and January 19. He did not say which units these were. Remaining national guardsmen about 4,000 in all, will be called on February 3. 5,700 In Camps About 5,700 guardsmen already are in camps for a year’s train ing. Under war department plans, conscripted men will be distributed among regular army and national guard units faf training. Preliminary figures indicated that the total draft registration (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) UUNttt IKUU3 USE BURMA ROAD Traffic Resumed On High way Despite Threat Of Bombardment CHUNGKING, Oct. 18.—(Friday)— UP)—China’s trucks of war are roll ing again on the Burma road under the threat of iminent Japanese bom bardment. At the stroke of midnight traffic was resumed across the border wilh British-controlled Burma after a three-month closure by the British in a futile appeasement gesture to ward Japan. Instead of using the three months to seek a settlement of the three year-old China war—or "China Inci dent” as the Japanese call it—Ja pan won, with pressure on French Indo China, nearer bases for an aerial offensive against China and the great highway itself. Now Japanese heavy bombers are only two hours at most from the Burma road at their Hanoi base. The Japanese have threatened to close the road with bombs. Facing this possibility, Chinese la bor squads were drawn up today at (Continued on Page Two; Col. t Warren, Others Dedicate Coast Guard Air Station BY HOKE NORRIS ELIZABETH CITY, Oct. 17.—W —North Carolina’s first Coast 3uard air station—a 294-acre land ing field, cavernous hangar and spotless barracks—was dedicated ’.ere today to the peacetirre safety sf men who go down to the sea in ships and to the wartime defense jf America and its institutions. Thousands of persons flocked to the $2,000,000 base, four miles south of Elizabeth City, for the iedication. They heard the princi pal.address by Rep. Lindsay C. Warren, making his last public speech as a member of congress from the First district, and they watched with wonder the zooming of 16 navy fighting planes whicn roared across the field just as the Elizabeth City High school band struck up “The Star Spangled Ban ner.” It was almost as much Lindsay Warren’s day as it was the Coast (Continued on Page Three; CoL 2) Russians Keep Black Sea Historically, when trouble brews in the Balkans, Russia sits up and takes notice. _ So now, Soviet troops and their leaders are alert in the vital Black sea area. Pictured above, in an observation post near the port r of Odessa, are left to right, Capt. P. Pavliuchenko, a ba ttalion commander; Marshal S. Budenny, Deputy Com t missar for Defense; and Lt. Gen. Kurdiumov.
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