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Dedicated To The Progress Of Served by Leased Wire of ih. | WILMINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS And Southeastern ori ^ With Complete Coverage of ^ar0 ipa__ Stale and National News __ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940_ " * + ESTABLISHED 186T X * " " * * ^ xxx XXX xxx F. R. Asks Stud ritish —-- *i_ __*_ London Wants ToBuy 12,000 More Fighters Nation’s Chief Says He Has Asked Board To Give Matter Consideration more PLANTS needed England’s Request Reveal ed In Address At Demo cratic Rally In Boston Bl' MAX BOYD BOSTON. Oct. 30.—(2P)—President r.oo'evelt disclosed tonight that he bad'asked the National Defense priorities board to give “most sympathetic consideration to a British request for permission to buy 12.000 additional planes in the United States. In a campaign speech, prepared for a nation-wide broadcast from a democratic rally •n the Boston garden, he said there vas a “steady stream of air planes'’ already flowing from this country to Britain. This he assert ed was responsible in part for the fact that the strength of the Royal Air Force was greaxer now than at the start of “three months 01 blitzkrieg in the air.” When the additional orders con templated by Britain were ap proved.-he said, they would bring England's present orders for ‘mil itary planes from the United States to more than 26.000. Requires New Plants "They will require still more new plant facilities,” Mr. Roosevelt continued, “so that the present program of building planes for mil itary purposes both for the Unit ed States and reat Britain will tot be interrupted. "Also large additional orders are being negotiated for artillery, ma chine guns, rifles, and tanks with equipment and ammunition. The plant capacity necessary to pro duce all this military equipment is and will be available to serve the needs of the United States in eny emergency.” Stephen Early, Mr. Roosevelt’s press secretary, told reporters the additional orders being negotiated lor artillery and other weapons "ere both for Britain and the United States. _ The President’s address came al the end of a day in which he hac traveled through Connecticut anc (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) WEATHER 1 forecast - orth Carolina: Fair to partly cloud\ Jnursclay and Friday followed bj otters in mountains Friday afternoor Bture ^ much change in temper ,,, F. S. Weather Bureau Jmn -!ro,°S'ical data for the 24 hours 7:30 p. m. yesterday). 1 Temperature f.*-,™- 59; 7:30 a. m. 61; 1:30 p ‘ :39 P- m. 69; maximum 77 * "lmum Jli; mean 66; normal 61. 1% Humidity f.SA- ”>• 91: 7:30 a. m.,98; 1:30 p “ •■83, * :30 p. m. 89. T„, . . Precipitation 09-, i„„ior 24 h0«rs ending 7:30 p. m. riunth total since first of the mmt“> 1.44 inches. Tides For Today Wilmington - *£ 1Ias»nboro Inlet __17:44a 1:23: Sunrise r oi 7:58p 2:01; kise 8-la; sunset 5:20p; moon Ua: moonset 6:15p. dSm Fear river s,a*e at Fay K.# feet^ 8t 8 a‘ m,» October 28» on Page Two; Col. 7) -- YACHT SQUADRON WELCOMED HERE Six Boats Arrive En Route From New York To Miami On Sponsored Cruise The Power Boat squadron, which is being sponsored on a cruise south ward from New York to Miami by the U. S. Coast Guard reserve and the American Power Boat associa tion arrived late yesterday afternoon at the Wrightsville terminal. The squadron stayed overnight at the terminal and -was scheduled to leave this morning for Southport for two days of Gulf stream fishing. A welcoming party from the Pro peller Club of the United States, Port of Wilmington, aboard Bruce B. Cameron’s boat Eight Bells, met the squadron north of New river and escorted it to Wrightsville Beach. The welcoming part was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams, Mr. (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) ARMY CODE OFFICE FIRE INVESTIGATED Flames Sweep Uncomplet ed Addition To War De partment Building WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—UP)—A fire which swept through an uncom pleted fourth-story addition to the war department, imperilling secret codes and damaging records, was under official investigation tonight. A board of five officers was in structed to investigate “all circum stances,” including the possibility of sabotage, a few hours after the flames were brought under control. Officials were inclined to the belief, however, that the blaze was of acci dental origin. Secretary of War Stimson was quoted as saying that (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) IJN. C. Engineer Obtains Defense Projects Data tu'oiPMllatlon regarding specific defens S relating to the national cievpir6 proSram which has been ^ by the Wilmington In hpjp ‘ commission was secured *ssis£terday by Cecil E. Bell, icr, .'industrial engineer, divis (tate commerce and industry, Bnd epartment of conservation Bell •°pment local r,pS31d aH data on proposed Honai j°J5cts dealing with the na 'or-.varH , nse Program will be b. c e~to toe new Washington, llie W of bis organization, ashington office, in charge i of Dean Blake Van Leer, of North Carolina State college in Raleigh, and J. T. Anderson, department head, will handle all matters in connection with the promotion of national defense projects in North Carolina. Information secured from the Wilmington Industrial commis sion, Bell said, will be placed in the hands of all agencies connect ed with national defense program in Washington with a view of ren (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) Six Missing Numbers May Bring Draft Legal Test .... ... ... - * PLAN TO CALL MEN Detroit Youth Contemplat ing Proceedings To Test Legality Of Drawing BY RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— UR - Facing a possible legal test be cause the great draft lottery end ed with six missing numbers, se lective service officials pressed forward today with plans for get ting the first contingent of con scripts into camp. It is to consist of some 30,00C young men drawn from regions where camp facilities are alreadj available. Officials intimated thal voluntary enlistments might covei that entire number, but beyonc that point, plans were to have 400, 000 in uniform by Feb. 28, anc 800,000 by June 15. Estimates were that this would involve an aver age of about 130 men from eacl draft area and about one out o: each 20 registrants. Capsules Missing When, after 17 hours and 31 min utes, the drawing of the now fami liar blue capsules from the lonj famous gold fish bowl was com pleted early today it was discover ed that six capsules and their num bered slips had been lost. The las draw was the 8,994th. It should have been been the 9.000th. Rejecting the theory that souven ir seekers among the many whose hands were thrust into the bow during the drawing might h a ve made away with the tiny cylin ders, officials began an immed iate recheck of their records tc (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) ACTION ON WATER PROJECT PUSHED Board Decides To Make Tour Of Toomer’s Creek And Other Points Today Steps toward securing a perman fent fresh water supply for Wil mington were taken by the city commissioners yesterday, follow ing a report by James E. L. Wade, commissioner of public works, that preliminary work for the filing of a WPA project is being carried out as speedily as possible. In connection with the plan to install a new pipe line for the city’s water supply from here to King’s Bluff on the upper Cape Fear riv er, the commissioners will make a tour of Toomer’s Creek and other points on the river this morning at 10 o’clock. Wade also informed the com missioners that WPA has cancell (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) Army Calls 984 Young Men From New England BOSTON, Oct. 30.—(/P)—In its first call under the selective service act, the U. S. army asked the six New England governors today for but 984 men for induc tion into service Nov. 18, out of the thousands whose draft num bers have been drawn. Major General Woodruff, com manding the first army corps \ area, sent to each governor an initial requisition for selection of men from the lists of pros pective trainees. General Woodruff explained that barracks at Fort Devens, Mass., to accomodate 630 men would be ready by Saturday night. SMITH’S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD Court Also Rules It Is Nol Larceny At Common Law To Steal Tombstone RALEIGH, Oct. 30— (5) — The state supreme court today uphelc a death sentence and in anothei case ruled that it was not larcenj at common law to steal a tomb stone. The two opinions were among 1! handed down by the court. Its ruling in the capital case se Friday, November 15, as the deatl date for Zedikiel Smith, convictec of the first degree murder of Wil liam Daniel. However, executive clemency might postpone the exe cution. Smith allegedly confessed thaj; h< killed Daniel with a brickbat anc wooden club and robbed him of $16 In the “tombstone” case, the tribunal reversed the conviction of Harvey Wooten in Sampsor county on charges of stealing £ (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) WILLKIE SEES WAR IF F. R.RENAMED Wants To Know If Peace Pledge Will Last Longer Than Money Promise BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.—(Jl—'Wen dell L. Willkie said tonight that on the basis of President Roose velt’s “past performances and pledges” the country “may expecl war by April, 1941” if the chiei executive is reelected. The republican presidential nom inee, addressing an applauding crowd in the fifth regiment ar mory, added to his prepared tex1 to say that Senator Carter Glass tD-Va.) had arisen from his sick bed in 1932 to assure' the country that Mr. Roosevelt would maintain a sound currency. Likening Glass’ statement to a speech this week by Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy saying that the President would keep the country out of war, Willkie asked: I “Are you kidding Joe Kennedy the same way you kidded Cartel Glass?” The audience cheered loudly. Perspiring freely in the warm hall, where an overflow crowc filled all 14,000 seats and jammed the aisles, Willkie said he wanted to know “whether his (Mr. Roose velt’s) pledge for peace is going to last any longer than his pledge for sound money.” “On the basis of his past per formances and pledges to the peo ple you may expect war by April, 1941,” Willkie declared. In his prepared text, he had written: “On the basis of his pasl performance with pledges to the people, why shouldn’t we expecl 1 war by April 1941, if he is re elected?” Previously in his speech, the nominee said that the chief execu tive' “had abandoned sound money’ in April, 1933 “five months aftei the third term candidate hac pledged himself to sound money.” The nominee had to "change his glasses midway of his speech be cause the pair he wore became covered with perspiration. Willkie promised to work for the “maintenance of peace in the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) DRAFT NUMBERS The Star today continues publica tion of the names and numbers o) local men drawn in the draft lottery in Washington Tuesday. Yesterday morning it printed the names of the first 288 men in the city and the first 39 in those parts of the county outside the city limits in the order in which they were drawn in the draft. This morning’s list of names oi men on the city list therefore starts with unofficial local order number 289. The first name on the county list will have local order number 40. They were drawn in the tirst numbers taken from the goldfish bowl in Washington Tuesday. This means that the men whose name appears first below in the city list wi". be the 289th man to be call ed before his draft board and that the man whose name appears first below in the county list will be the 40th to be called before the county draft board. When the men are called before the draft board they will be classi fied, and those who are found to be eligible for service will be called for (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)) British Bomb Berlin During Snow Storm Large Electrical Works Hit; Raids On Other Cities Start Oil Fires BREMEN ALSO RAIDED Nazi Planes Forced To Jet tison Bombs In Fields In Raids On Britain 9 LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wl—Planes roared over Berlin in a blinding of the British Royal Air Force show storm last night and sent high explosives and incendiaries crashing earthward in the pals light of parachute flares, the air ministry said today. A large electrical ’••orks was hit, the British pilots reported. They also started fires at oil plants at Madgeburg, Homburg , and Sterkrade, the ministry said. . A thick mist froze on the planes . over the North Sea and Westerr Germany on the long flight to the f~Lct vinnn no v\itnl nt-Vinw in/lup trial centers. The weather thicken ed as they moved eastward anc snow began faling, sticking tc windshields and sifting into t h < cockpits. Blind Flying The men were reduced to blinc flying, hopeful that the weathei would break before they reachec Berlin. Instead it got worse, sc that they were barely able to picl out their objectives. “Still we managed to find oui target,” one pilot said. Other raiders swooped down or Bremen and Wilhelmshaven, Ger many, and on Der Helder, Ymui den and Flushing, Holand, anc Ostend, Belgium, attacking ship yards and docks. (In Berlin, informed sources saic 15 persons were kiled by RAF bombs in various Dutch localities.) Other planes attacked railwaj communications, searchlights bat teries, airdromes and anti-aircraf1 gun positions. The ministry sic two Brtish planes were lost ir the operations. The air ministry’s news service said the British attacked 29 enemy airdromes in Germany, Holand, Belgium, and France, and started fires at 14 of them. BOST WILL SPEAK AT RALLY FRIDAY Veteran Writer Will Make Principal Address At Democrats’ Meet W. T. (Tom) Bost, veteran state political writer and dean of Raleigh newspapermen, will be the principal speaker at a New Hanover demo cratic rally at the courthouse Friday night at 8 o’clock, Aaron Goldberg, chairman of the county democratic executive committee, announced yes terday. Mr. Bost, who for years has kept in close contact with politics, will (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) War Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON The real purport of Italy’s un provoked assault on Greece re mains as obscure as British strat egy to cope with that development. There are certain effects, however, that are clearly discernible. ' The Axis move in Greece fur ther lessens for England the ap prehension of German invasion. II also seems convincing evidence that no German-Italia- mass ail attack on England is being planned. Italian prticipation in German air raiding over Eng’and looks like a mere symbol of Axis solidarity. Italy will be too busy on her ex panding war fronts to spare any substantial part of her air power for use elsewhere. Much of that Italian air power was idle prior to the attack on Greece. It will row be urgently (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2). ITALIAN DRIVE SLOWED DOWN BY DEFENDERS FIGHT IN MOUNTAINS * Italians Turn Two-Pronged Drive Toward Ioannina And Important Road PLANES INACTIVE Italy Promises Not To Bomb Athens If Greeks Will Not Attack Rome ATHENS, Greece, Oct. SO.—1W)t Italian invaders began a two-prong ed drive' today through the moun tains toward the lakeshore indus trial city of Ioannina (Janina), 30 miles from the Albanian border, but made little progress against the fierce Greek defenders. Under cover of an artillery bar rage, the Italians attempted one tljrust from the northwest. Stubborn Greek resistance plus tortuous mountain terrain, which all but stymied the Fascist mechanized pow ov tiroes ronnrfprl tn havft mar!ft tTlfi going difficult. Nearer the coast, a second drive was pointed toward a highway lead ing to the city ruled a hundred years ago by the conquering Ali Pasha, “Lion of Janina,” but here, too, no considerable gains were reported. Drive On Salonika (Reports reaching Sofia from the Bulgaria-Greek frontier said still an other Italian force attacking across Northern Greece had drjven 30 miles towards Salonika, so-called key port to the southern Balkans.) Greek advance guards withdrew slowly from the immediate vicinity of the frontier to their main de fenses in the strongly fortified Me taxas line, some distance back, in accordance with prearranged plans, neutral military observers said. The Italians were said to still be far from this line. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) NAZIS GIVE FULL SUPPORT TO ITALY Spokesman Says Nation 100 Per Cent On Side Of II Duce In Balkan War ' BERLIN, Oct. 30.—(iP)—Germany is 100 per cent on the side of Italy in the conflict with Greece, an au thorized foreign office spokesman said today. Italy’s action, it was stated, is a manifestation of the axis policy against England, and Italy and Ger many are inseparable in their aims. The German press echoed these views, chorusing "the Greek delu sion.” The newspapers said Greece tried to play a double game of con niving with England while pretend ing to be a friend of Germany. They also recorded with interest that the United States under-secre (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) ITALIANS CAPTURED Number Of English Soldiers Landed, Amount Of Equipment Not Revealed • GREEKS WOUNDED Italy Mobilizes All Vehicles And Rushes Troops And Material To Front BY J. W. GALLAGHER SALONIKA, Greece, Oct. 31— (Thursday)— UPI — British troops have landed on Greek islands from troop transports guarded by war ships of the British Mediterranean fleet, it was learned authoritative ly today. The number of British troops in volved and the amount of equip ment could not be stated, nor could the location of the islands where they made their landings. Late last night it also was learn ed that Greek troops holding the Italian offensive on their northern frontier had taken 800 Italian pris oners. Italy Checked Italy’s war machine, operating in the mountains less than 100 miles northwest of this strategic city, was reported here to have been held by the stout defense of the crack Greek Evzone troops. Taking advantage of the lack of Italian air activity, Greek military authorities mobilized every vehicle with wheels and rushed soldiers and material to the front in a manner reminiscent of the Paris taxicab army of 1914. The first Greek soldiers wounded in the early action have begun to arrive at the base hospitals here, +U~ -- , „ 1 + : 41 far are considered surprisingly few. Here in Salonika, the people al ternately watched the sea, hoping for the approach of British war ships, and the skies, in fear of the arrival of Italian bombers. The public is calm and orderl*. The streets are filled with a great coming and going of military ve hicles and in the shops and cafes the public is expressing enthusiasm for Britain and a determination to defend this country. All sorts of motor cars—not ex cepting taxicabs—are in military service, carrying men to the front tc defend the Metaxas line—a line against which the people here de clare that the Italians are making little progress. I arrived here after crossing the Greek and Yugoslav borders by railway handcar and freight can all regular passenger traffic hav ing been cut off. (The British admiralty announced the British navy, swiftly carrying promised aid to Greece, had mined approaches to important ports on both the east and west coasts of Greece. The announcement said portions of the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras had been mined and that a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Nazi Envoy To Turkey Will Report To Hitler ISTANBUL, Oct. 30—CP)—Fran von Papen, crafty German ambassa dor of two great wars, left Turke; unexpectedly today for Germany. Presumably Von Papen will re port to Adolf Hitler on Turkey’ position and her intentions in th war which, at long last, has enterei southeastern Europe through Italy’ Invasion of Greece. (It was 25 year ago this coming December that Voi Papen was sent back to German from the United States on the stat z department’s representation that he - hdd indulged in “improper activities r in military and naval matters,” Hit ler named him ambassador to Tur - key in April of 1939, but he failed > to prevent Turkey from entering i into a .mutual assistance pact with 1 Britain.) 3 Von Papen’s recall to Berlin comes 3 at a time when the Turkish press 1 is declaring that “we are whole r > (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) TwoCrewmen AndN egro Killed In A. C. L. Wreck LAKE ALFRED, Fla., Oct. 30 —(SI—Two crewmen and a negro were killed here today when the Atlantic Coast Line’s “Tampa Spe cial,” Northbound express for New York, hit an open switch. The dead: Ernest Graham, of Tampa, Fla., the engineer, Sam W. Knowles, fireman, also of Tam pa, and an unidentified negro who was riding in the cab. Only one passenger, Ecfea Me Cullough, negro woman of Haines City, Fla., was taekn to a hospital The extent of her injuries was not disclosed. Other injured included: J. R. Touchton of Jacksonville, Fla., ex press messenger and Arthur Page, negro waiter of Washington, D. C. The locomotive and three bag gage cars of the nine-car train (Continued on Page Three; Cal*S| STARTING FIRST Pk ofiTIME D RAFT IN AMERICA’S HISTORY Here is the impressive scene in Departmental Auditorium, YVashingto n, as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew out the first draft capsuli from the huge glass bowl in the lottery to determine order in which draft ees will be called. Lieut. Col. Charles Morris holds the blindfold over tin secretary’s eyes. The first capsule was opened by President Roosevelt (lef t) who extracted number 158. Second from left is Maj. Edward S. Shat tuck.—(Phonephoto.) _
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