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* Dedicated To The Progress Of _ !■■■■■ ■■ - WILMINGTON ^ Served by Leased Wire of the And Southeastern North %nT ASSOCIATED PBESS Carolina 1 />! With Complete Coverage of ___—--- State and National News ------- WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1940 -2-ESTABLISHED 1867 . " " " * XXX XXX * Turks Push Preparations -* _ JL Rumanian Oil Areas Prepare For Air Raids Newspaper Publishes Ru mor That Russian-Turkish Army Talks Under Way NEW FORTS ERECTED 500,000 Turkish Troops In Area Guarding Strategic Dardanelles BUDAPEST. Hungary, Oct. 20.— Published reports of increas ing Turkish military preparations on the Dardanelles and blackout and air raid precautions in Ru manian oil districts and Bucharest tonight added fresh fuel to an un easy spirit sweeping southeast Europe. The Budapest newspaper Magyar Nemzet published a rumor that Soviet Russian-Turkish military talks were under way qt Adrian ople, the Turkish city which occu pies a vital corner between the Bulgarian and Greek frontiers. Athens reports said travelers from Turkey found railway lines to Adrianople jammed with troop trains, and an estimated 500,000 Turkish troops already in the area guarding the strategic Dardanelles. Build New Forts The Turks were said also to be busy with new fortifications, and also to be constructing new com munication facilities between Istan bul and Salonika, the Greek port which sometimes is called the “key to the Balkans.” There was no complete confir mation of these reports, but it was generally accepted by observers that the’ Turks were busily push ing their defense measures on the European side of the Dardenelles. On the other hand, Bulgaria, or dinarily quickly responsive to Turkish moves in the region of Adrianople, showed no signs of mo bilization despite reported Axis pressure. Greece, likewise, displayed no unusual alarm, although she was thoroughly on the alert. Neutral travelers arriving at Budapest from Bucharest said pas (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) TURKISH PAPERS FORECAST DRIVE Stress British Maneuvers Designed To Counter At tack On The Near East ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 20— VP) llle Turkish press, sighting war ^ouds for Southeastern Europe in Germany’s penetration of Rumania, Predicted today that the axis will attempt to drive through to the war East, and stressed Britisii maneuvers designed to counter it. The newspaper Aksam, recalling ■liat German troops arrived on the wene in Bucharest to 'train” Ru manian troops right after the •wolf Hitler-Benito Mussolini Bren 1er T’ass conference, suggested that 'Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) WEATHER By V. S. Weather Bureau v , forecast wth Carloina: Generally fair Mon jj1 ,a'ul Tuesday, slightly warmer Ihwtione northeast and north-central (\r ' • S. Weather Bureau (I,.IVn„ '-r''10"ica 1 data for the 24 hours s 1 :30 p. ni. yesterday), i.oii Temperature ji. y.a_m- 84; 7:30 a. m. 48; 1:30 p. . Juinim'nJ 'jS p- m- 5®.' maximum 68; . Jm 48; mean 58: normal 64. ].o„ Humidity . In 54. i *»• 73; 7:30 a. m. 79; 1:30 p. 1:30 p. ni. 68. 1 Total f Precipitation 1 >«ie t '1-1.hour« ending 7:30 p. m., t 0.13 jnc^al since first of the month, ( Tides For Today ] ^fflinetnn High How 1 gtou - 12:33a 7:00a Masoahn, , l:06p 8:44p ,Joro Inlet -10:26a 4:24a S .Sunrise a.*>o 10:46p 5:04p j Use s 3i„ ■~-a i sunset 5:31p; moon- , -5JP; moonset 10:51a. ' ""nvin,. i ei‘r „rlver stage at Fay- ] 8.o fep( ■ at 8 a. rn., October 18, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) 1 -- -- ■ m/K’ “Hello, Mummy.f e Well and Happy ...In America” “New York is lovely; we’ve been on picnics and pa rties”—“You’ll be glad to hear that Mitzi had three 1 puppies.” Little snatches of inconsequential gossip? Yes, but the gladdest sounds parents and children ever • < heard—part of the short-wave radio program' from re fugee children in New York to parents in London. Above, Kona and Neville Whitaker laugh for joy at th e sound of their parents’ voices. But it was too much for brother Allan, right. He’s dissolved in tears. Announcer is George Hicks. Nazis Claim 43 British Ships Sunk By U-Boats - * M 2 CONVOYS ATTACKED Commander Prien Credited With Bagging Eight Mer chantmen During Drive BERLIN, Oct. 20—Iff)—A power ful new submarine offensive un leashed by the German admiralty against British shipping and con voys was reported by the high command today to have raised a two-day total of sunken merchant men to 327,000 tons. Forty-three ships, said the high comm^id, were shot out of two convoys in two night devastating undersea activity. (British naval sources said “the Germans make these claims to an noy us. We ignore them.”) Prien Gets Eight The communique stressed suc cess particularly against Britain’s warship-protected convoys and credited Lieut.-Comm. Guenther Prien alone with bagging eight merchantmen totalling 50,500 tons. In all, it said, 17 merchant ships, totalling 110,000 tons are known so Ear to have been sent to the bottom in an attack yesterday in which Prien’s U-boat took part. Of 31 British ships reported sunk in the communique a day earlier, 26 were said to have been sunk by submarines stalking through the shield of warships shepherding zig zag lines of British merchantmen. (These reported figures dwarf even April, 1917, the darkest month of the World war for Britain at sea, when 196 ships of almost 600, )0C tons total were sunk in 30 days. (In two days, the Germans have reported sinking more than 10 times as many tons as the British acknowledged in the whole week ending Oct. 6, the British admir alty’s latest tabulation. In that week, it said “enemy action” sank ten merchantmen totalling (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Two Air Raid Alarms Are Sounded In Bern BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 21. (Monday)—(A1)—Two air raid alarms sounded in Bern, the Swiss capital, last night and early today. After a 50-minute alarm late last night, the sirens sounded again at 12:19 a. m. (6:19 p. m. EST). Other alarms were sounded in Zurich and Central Swiss cities last night. The alert periods usually indicate that British bombers are going to or returning from raids on Italy |. ROOSEVELT FA] LY HOST TO ROY) IT Earl Of Athlone, Others Spend Day At President’s Hyde Park Home HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 20.—fJP) —Members of the governing families of the British empire, the Grand duchy of Luxembourg and the United States assembled with complete in formality today at President Roose velt’s Hudson valley home. At the luncheon table with the chief executive were the Earl of Athlone, Canada’s governor general and an uncle of King George VI of England, and Grand Duchess Char lotte of Luxembourg. Earlier, Mr. Rosevelt had attend*’, morning worship at ivy-clad St. James Episcopal church. With him in the family pew were Princess Alice, wife of the governor general and granddaughter of Queen Vic toria; her daughter, Lady May Abel Smith, and the President’s 86-year (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) SIX PERSONS DIE ■ IN PLANE CRASH i _____ 1 Craft Becomes Tangled In Shrouds Of Stunt Man’s Parachute In Arkansas j MARIANNA. Ark.. Oct. 20.—Ml i Six persons were killed near here i today as a sightseeing plane be- * came tangled in the shrouds of a , stunt man’s parachute and plunged j 500 feet to the earth. 1 The plane had gone aloft carry ing the pilot and four passengers , to get a close up of the parachute , jump, when the shrouds caught , the wing, causing the pilot to lose ] control. Sheriff S. C. Langston said the dead were: j Paul Nalejawa, about 30, of ( Browerville, Minn., the parachute ] jumper. 1 George Zorn, the pilot, about 30, of Greenville, Miss. ! Lawrence De Marke, about 30, a 1 Marianna laundry owner, a passen ger. Paul Bowie, about 35, a passen- ■ ger, former marshal at Brickeys. J. M. Cook, about 55, a pas senger, a plantation owner who lived near Marianna. Joe Campbell, about 22, of For rest City, a passanger. L. J. Dupuy, a Marianna photo- l grapher who witnessed the acci dent, declared that Nalejawa jumped from a plane piloted by Dick Roberson at an altitude of about 3,000 feet and that Zorn’s plane, carrying passengers taken aloft ot get a close view of the stunt, began slowly circling the ' descending parachute. “All of a sudden,” said Dupuy, “a wing of the plane became tangl- 1 ed in the parachute about 500 feet . above the ground. The parachute t jumper was tossed across the ^ plane and was dangling helplessly 7 from the side of the machine as h it crashed to earth. Everyone in the accident was killed instantly.” d Although the air show, held at a private field, was billed as "Ace (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Italy Levels Heavier Propaganda Guns At Greece, Turkey; Duce Views Troops ROME, Oct. 20.—Iffl—Ominous Balkan rumblings and reports of tussian-Turkish military prepara ions found Premier Benito Mus olini inspecting his troops near he Yugoslav border today while firginio Gayda, authoritative Fas :ist editor, leveled heavier pro laganda guns at Greece and Tur :ey. . This is Mussolini’s second m pection of Italy’s northern forces a recent weeks. He spent five > ays recently with his army of he Po in maneuvers around : ’adua. _ i The duce landed his own tri aotored plane at the airfield of ’ lonchi dei Legionari, the town to : which he was brought lor treat ment at a military hospital during Lhe World war when he was injur ed by the accidental explosion of i trench mortar. It was from this ;own that Gabriel d’Annunzio marched to occupy Fiume. Leaving Ronchi by motor train Mussolini rode to Sappiane, 18 miles north of Fiume where he was received by the Duca di Ber jamo, commanding the eighth :orps. Ill Duce inspected 9,000 men here, examined 148 cannons, and itood on a podium as Bersagliari ;ped by on motorcycles. After watching a sham battle he vas driven by automobile to the imall village of ^San Pietro del Carso, 30 miles from Fiume to c review another division. He return- j ed to Ronchi by motor train and ^ took off for Rome in his plane. r Italian warplanes flew 2,800 j miles and bombed an important j British oil center on Bahrein is land in the Persian gulf, the high l: command reported. t Heavy formations started “enor- t mous fires’' by blasting oil pipe- \ lines, refineries, deposits and fuel n tanks on the island yesterday, a a communique said. All planes re- p turned safely. Bahrein is the principal island v of an archipelago off the east coa.st r (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) . ( British Guns, Planes Attack French Coast lAr Believed To have Dropped 15,000 Bombs On 'Invasion Ports’ .ONDON BOMBED outhwest England, Liver pool Area And Important Midlands Raided LONDON, Oct. 20.—(iP)—Britain’s ombers and big guns joined tonight l a furious bombardment of Nazi pringboards of invasion across the hannel as mild weather and a calm ea kept alive the peril of a German ttack. Judging from the ear-splitting lasts and the brilliant flashes from cross the hazy waters, observers .'ere convinced that not only war ilanes but also warships and land atteries were hammering at the lerman-held coast. 100 A Minute “An avalanche of bombs was un oosed by British raiders at a rate stimated by watchers on the Kent oast to be 100 a minute,” the au horitative British press association enorted. ^Tt» unbroken rumble of terrific xplosions reverberated up and down he channel like thunder.” The RAF must have dropped at east 15,000 bombs on channel ‘‘in vasion ports” between 7 and 9:30 ». m. (l and 3:30 p. m., E. S. T.), he agency said. Clusters of parachutes dropped by he bombers burned brightly above he dense gray mist covering the ea. Flaming, multi-colored anti-air raft shells shot up so thickly that he sky appeared sprinkled with insel. Crowds on the English shore ig lored the danger to come out and ratch the spectacular battle al hough the firing was so intense it at tied dishes on this side. Bomb Guns The terrific bombardment began ust after dusk and apparently was entered against German heavy can ion emplacements near Cape Gris Jez. Earlier, the admiralty reported a uccessful stab far above the Arctic lircle by the Royal navy’s torpedo (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) U. S. COURT TERM OPENS HERE TODAY -engthy Criminal Docket Will Be Heard During First Part Of Week The fall term of United States istrict court will open here this lorning at 10 o’clock with Judge . M. Meekins, of Elizabeth City, residing. A lengthy criminal docket involv ig a varied number of law infrac- 1 ons will be heard the first of the reek. Forty cases involvings 60 or 1 5 defendants, are scheduled to go efore the grand jury today.. * It is expected that the criminal ocket will be completed by Tues- * 'Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) War Interpretive BY EDWARD E. BOMAR German claims of U-boat suc esses and intensified naval fight ig around the British Isles sug est strongly that Great Britain , lay be sending reinforcements to Igypt at the risk of weakening ' ome defenses. Ngzi surface vessels and sub larines appear to have become older recently, their activities at :sting the purpose to take ad- J antage of any shift of British ' aval forces to the Mediterranean ' nd to force as many warships as [ ossible to stay home. With the danger of an early in- 1 asion diminishing, Britain can sk the dispatch of limited land 1 Continued on Page Three; CoL 4) '] BIG TASK OF GETTING MONEY TO 6,469 MEN TO BE STARTED TODAY A. C. L. Office To Start MakingOutChecksT oday Pomeroy Nichols, treasurer of the Atlantic Coacl Line Rail road company, said last night that the work of making out checks totaling $260,000 mak ing up the federal minimum wage to 6,469 maintenance em ployes will be started in the next two or three days. The checks will be distrib uted a few days before the regular payday op October 30, he said. It is expected that some of the employes will re ceive their checks on October 24, when the third year of the Fair Labor Standards Act be gins and when the maximum work week without overtime is reduced from 42 to 40 hours. The payments will be over a 5,000 mile trek by railroad and in six states. The payments are the result of an inspection by the Wage and Hour division, U. S. De partment of Labor, which re vealed that the railroad was showing payment of the mini mum wage on its books by charging employees rent for box cars and other housing whether they occupied them or not, and with deductions for other goods 2nd services deemed improper by the divi sion. The inspection revealed that many of the domiciles car (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) JNortheast btates bhiver In Premature Cold Wave ----k Fair, Continued Cool Weather Slated Here - i Fair skies and continued cool temperatures are on the weather menu for Wilmington and vicinity today, weather bureau officials forecast last night. . ~' ‘ ' A low temperature of 40 de grees is predicted for early this morning. Weather officials said that 1 there will probably be a light ■ frost in this section but that ] it will not be enough to be of any damage. Yesterday’s temperatures 1 ranged from a high of 68 to a < lo\u of 48 degrees, with the mean six below the 64-degree i normal. At 10 o’clock last night ( the temperature was 44 degrees. 1 ‘TROJAN HORSES! : LISTED BY DIES _ ( c Says Reds Have Obtained \ Tremendous Influence* ‘ In U. S. Government < - c NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—(d5)—Rep. £ Martin Dies, Texas democrat, re- c viewing in a book published today i ■he two-year investigation of his c committee on un-American activi- t ties, charged that the communist party had obtained "tremendous c patronage and influence in our fed- e sral government.” “When we reflect,” he comment- 5 2d, ‘that the» communist party is 4 nothing more nor dess than a for- 1 3ign-controlled conspiracy aimed at ' the destruction of our form of 1 government, the story of Stalin’s nfiltration into official Washing- 1 ton must be viewed in its true J ight as one of the major political ^ scandals of American history.” ' Dies charged in the book, "The c rrojan Horse in America” (Dodd, dead & Co., New York), that "com- 1 nunist Trojan horses”—organiza- t ions which he said always denied ' :ommunist control—had been set up 0 o “bid” for American youth, for * he unemployes}, for negroes, and sad penetrated labor unions and e overnment itself. v He said that "Trojan horse” a roups often invited distinguished c American citizens to address them ' S (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) d SNOW CAUSES DEATHS * Snowdrifts Maroon 150 \utomobiles In Blue Ridge .Mountains Of Virginia (By The Associated Press) The northeast states shivered igain yesterday on the second day >f a premature cold wave and :ounted five auto deaths caused >y snow, while th£ midwest en oyed normal weather and the outh basked in sub-tropical con litions under cloudless skies. Snow in New Jersey, which led o the deaths of four motorists iaturday when their car skidded ,t Fort Dix, also aused the death Sunday of a Rutgers university enior as his auto overturned in a icau xd.li* Snow In Mountains Although the southeast report d “all clear and balmy” snow rifts from Saturday marooned 150 utomobiles in the Blue Ridge fountains of Virginia. Most of the ars were carrying football fans rom the Virginia-VMI game to heir homes. Eastern Pennsylvania dug itself ut of the heaviest October snow ill in history, Philadelphia re ording 2.2 inches and Reading one ich, while Pittsburghers’ teeth hattered in a 25-degree tempera ure. The national capital had an inch f snow, and ice damaged trees nd shrubbery. Upper Morris county in New Jer ey suffered a severe snowstorm hat covered roofs, shrubbery and oads in a blanket of white that fas frozen for a time by 26-degree feather that later modified. New York City saw the mercury it a new record low for the sec nd successive day as it dropped to 4 degrees at 12:45 a. m., EST, fith slightly warmer weather fore ast for Monday. Meanwhile, from Georgia to .ouisiana temperatures ranged in he high seventies, and at Jackson ille, ' Fla.,', white linens were in rder as the thermometer touched 5 degrees. Clear skies and blazing sun bless :1 Iowa and neighboring states ith conditions approximating that t Jacksonville. The temperature [imbed to 80 degrees at Sioux City, i., and at Des Moines to 73 de rees, six above normal for the ate. Cooper Will Cooperate In N. C. Progress Plan commending me ten years of Drogress” campaign for North Carolina launched at a meeting in Raleigh last Friday, Mayor rhomas E. Cooper last night pledg :d his cooperation in seeing that he movement receives the fullest looperation in Wilmington. Mayor Cooper pointed out that he plan calls for the appointment n each of the.state’s counties of :ommittees for seventeen individ lal lines of advancement. He said le was certain able committees vould be selected for this com nunity. The “decade of progress” move nent was launched under the luspices of the Southern Gover iors’ conference, and last Friday’s meeting was held in Governor Hoey’s office and in the hall of the house of representatives with Dr. , Frank P. Graham, president of I the University of North Carolina, presiding. Lines of endeavor for which com mittees will be set up in each county are as follows: Feed and foodstuffs; livdstock, dairying and poultry; grading and farm market- 1 ing; new industries; health; educa- < tion; public forum; public libra- i ries; housing; transportation and 1 tommunication; electrification; s tourists; beautification of homes ind highways; farmer score 1 :ards; state planning ; and mineral s (Continued on Page Three; CoL 6) IS FULL RESTITUTION Twenty - Eight Division Roadmasters On Line Will Direct The Payments N. C. GETS BIG PART More Than $7,834 Will Go To Employes In The Wil mington District ATLANTA, Oct. 20.—(iP)—The re. g'ional office here of the federal Wage-Hour division said today that the Atlantic • Coast Line railroad would start the job of distributing $260,000 in back pay to 6,469 main tenance-of-way employes tomorrow. This amount, the announcement stated, is the difference between the wages the company paid the em ployes from .October 24, 1938, to May 31, 1940, and the wages that should have been paid under the fair labor standards act. The railroad, which operates in North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir ginia, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, agreed to make "full restitution” after court action had been taken by the federal agency and employes, fhe regional office said. Twenty-eight division roadmasters of the line will direct the payments. Their paymasters will make a trek totalling some 5,000 miles to take the money to employes on various lines. Distribution of the money is sched U1CU IU UP part of next week. Among the cities from which $5,000 to more than $12,00 will be paid out to various employes are Petersburg, Va.,; Rocky Mount, Parmele, Fay etteville and Wilmington, all in North Carolina; Charleston, S- C.; Savannah, Ga.; Troy, Ala., and Perry, Jacksonville, Sanford, Lees burg, Dunnellon, Trilby, Tampa, Lakeland and Palmdale, all in Florida. Less than $5,000 but more than $3,000 will be distributed from Dil lon, Florence, Sumter and Orange burg, all in South Carolina; Jesup, (Continued en Page Three; Col. 1) HUtI Abhb MAIfc TO NOTE NAVY DAY Says People Of This Coun try Should Be Strong Mentally, Physically RALEIGH, Oct. 20.— <2P> —Gover nor Hoey, in a statement tonight urging North Carolinians to observe Navy Day next Sunday, said it was of prime importance that the people of this country be “strong mentally, physically, morally and spiritually-’’ His statement follows: “The Navy league of the United States will sponsor the observance of Navy Day this year on October Tl. rhis date was selected because it is :he anniversary of the birth of the ate President Roosevelt, in recoftni :ion of his great contribution to the navy, first in the writing of the naval history of the war of 1812 and ater in his leadership in building for :he American nation an adequate lavy for that period. “October, as we recall, is the nonth in which the American navy vas founded in 1775 by the conti nental congress, and this day should (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) JEHOVAH’S SECT TRIAL SCHEDULED light For Witness To De liver Literature To Be Tested In Robeson Today L.UMBERTON, Oct. 20.—UP)—The ight of Jehovah’s Witnesses to listribute religious literature will be riven its first test in North Caro ina tomorrow in Robeson county ucerior court. E. D. Orrell of New York, alleged eader of the crusading religioue ect which has encountered trouble (Continued on Page Threes CoL **
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