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Dedicated To The Progress Ot If ♦ ^ A - Served by Leased Wire of the /*srH Humragton Horning JHar jss? VOfT74—NO. 53___WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 ~ J ~ ESTABLISHED 186) FASCIST ARMY GAINS GROUND IN SOUTHERN SECTION OF COUNTRY ITALY SEEKS EPIRUS Strong Troop Concentra tions Are Reported On Both Sides Of The Front GREEKS CLAIM GAINS Large Quantities Of Aban doned Italian Arms And Equipment Captured BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, (At The Greek Frontier) Oct. 31—<•£■>—Italian troops were reported tonight to have gained ground in the southern sector of their thrust into Greece but to be unable to crack the strong Greek resistance in the north. Reports received here said the Italian columns attempting to smash their way into Epirus toward the strategic town of Ioannina (Janina) had made progress, although their gains were declared to be less than the 50 kilometers (30 miles) claimed by some Axis sources. loannina Is Goal loannina appeared to be the im mediate Italian objective since it is an important operating base for the Greek' army in the southern sector and contains supply depots and mili tary hospitals. Border observers said strong troop concentrations could be seen on both . sides of the fr6nt indicating that the Italians were planning an of fensive in the north (presumably from Corizza in Albania eastward toward Phlorina and Kastoria). Yesterday and today the Italians brought up motorized forces and as signed them to points all along the northern front. The Greeks claimed 100 Italian prisoners had been taken to Phlo rina. Peasants on the shores of Lake Prespa near the juncture of the Greek-Albanian-Yugoslav fron tiers heard continual machine-gun firing almost at hand and an artil lery barrage in the distance. STORM HEIGHTS ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 31.—(API— In their first major counter-attack of the new war with Italy Greek soldiers were declared today to have stormed the gloomy heights north of loannina (Janina) and pushed back the invading fascist troops. The town—strategically impor tant because of its supply depots and its location, some 30 miles from the Albanian frontier and an equal distance from the coast— was thus relieved temporarily at least from what had been before a slow but continuous Italian ad vance by two columns. Hill Recaptured Specifically claimed in Greek re ports were the re-capture of a hill which had been the scene of heavy action and the seizure of large (Continued on Page Twelve, Col. 5) JAPAN ABANDONS KWANGSI PROVINCE Approximately 7,000 Troops Have Sailed From Haiphong, Indo-China ___ HANOI, French Indo-China, Oct 31. — (ZP) — Japanese troops have abandoned Kwangsi province, in Southern China, and nearly 7,OU(J already have sailed from Haiphong, Indo-Chine, to a destination that was not disclosed. They retired by way of the north ern border of Indo-China, Jnto which other Japanese detachments had marched more than a month ago to gain a lodgement in French terri tory and a new position from which to strike at China. (The Japanese withdrawal from Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi, has been described by the Japanese command as voluntary, with the ex planation that the city was of no essential value now that Japan has bases in Indo-China. (The Chinese claim that it was anything but voluntary; that the Japanese campaign in Kwangsi pro vince notorious for its epidemics — cost the invaders'74,000 men through death, injury or illness; that the whole affair was a heavy blo\w to Japanese prestige,} A A A AAA A ^ AAA AAA Chamberlain En Route To America S .A ■- T Leaves Home! Id Effort To Regain Health Former Prime Minister And Wife Are Believed Go ing To California doctor ordered trip Has Been In 111 Health For Months And Underwent Operation July 29 LONDON. Oct. 31.—(fl)—Former Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain was understood tonight to have left England because of the state of his health and to be on the way to California. The word of his departure from England came through a trust 1 worthy source from Birmingham. ' How he was traveling was not dis closed. and there was nothing . to i suggest how soon he might arrive in "the United States except a ru mor that he and his wife had been at sea for about 10 days. Friends in Birmingham, the in dustrial town where he was born and lived in the stiff punctilio sug gested by the famous umbrella with which his personality has been associated in the public mind declined to say what route he had taken or where he would land. Ordered By Doctor They understood he sought sun shine on doctor’s orders. This ambiguity at the passing from England of a sick old man— whose policy at Munich made the word "appeasement” an epithet to his critics over the world—seemed clearly explained by the fact that he must cross a hostile ocean. His health has been uncertain for months: on July 29 he was oper ated on for an abdominal difficul ty and he has suffered, too, from gout. In these recent nights of German air raids the clamor, and j the tragedy behind it, have been hard for a tired man of 71. Chamberlain’s three-year serv I ice as prime minister ended with (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) BOARD INSPECTS TOOMER’S CREEK Survey Preliminary Move Toward Study Of Pro posed Pipe Line’s Course Continuing their efforts to give Wilmington a new and permanent supply of fresh water, the city commissioners yesterday travel ed up the Cape Fear river for an inspection of Toomer’s Creek and ! ^‘e river generally: i They left at 10 a. m. from the 5°°t of Grace street on a boat owned '°y Dr' W. T. smith and during the j nwminj made a thorough study of Toomer’s Creek, which is being re paired so that when fresh water is available in the river it may be used again until the new pipe line to the new source of water is ready. It will take months to complete (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WEATHER . FORECAST pij.vf, Carolina: Mostly cloudy and i, "?rmer' scattered showers in rrwJ’','1fl:i5’- Partly cloudy Saturday .wi by showers over east portion. ,By C. S. Weather Bureau eadinle07r.0an0gical data for the 24 hours b p. m. yesterd’ay). i.ofi Temperature to 'S.3'.1”- 1:30 a. .n. 59: 1:30 p. minimup- m- 63 ■ maximum 69; ““ 06; mean 62; normal 61. I 'm „ Humidity to. '6o.3; ?'• 91: 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p. *' 7-30 p. m. 72. Total t „ Prec'Pitation hone- r, ‘4. hours ending 7:30 p. m.,' 1.44 inches* Smce *irst of the montl1’ Tides For Today Na -Jff S "»“*» am_H5S SS Sunrise r m 8:51p‘ 2:51p u Use S c J j2a: sunset 5:20p; moon * JJd: monoset 7:07p. etUrfluFear rirer stage at Fay 8.5 ffc| ’ at 8 a. m., October 30, Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) Officials Study Water Supu|#5&> - vy Wilmington’s city commissioners. left to right, James E. L. Wade, ; commissioner of public works, W. Louis Fisber, commissioner of finance, and Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, commissioner of public safety, are shown at Toomer’s Creek where yesterday they went , on an inspection tour in an effort to study the best means of giving the city a fresh water supply. (Photo by Rod Sparrow). Methodist Conference T o OpenHereOnNovember PLANS UNDER WAY Bishop Clare Purcess Will Preside; Approximately 700 Persons To Attend Plans for the second annual ses sion of the North Carolina Confer ence of the Methodist church, which will be held at the Fifth Avenue Methodist church here Thursday, November 7 through Sunday, No vember 10, are now under way, local Methodist leaders said last night. Bishop Clare Purcell, recently as signed to the leadership of Metho dism in Eastern Carolina, will pre side over the conference as presi dent. 700 To Attend Approximately 700 members of the conference are expected to attend the annual session of the body, which comprises the New United Methodist church in North Carolina. This session represents the 104th annual session of the former North Carolina Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South. At the last session of the body in Fayette ville November 8-12, 1939, the body was united with the Protestant Methodist conference and the Meth odist Episcopal Conference. The Wilmington meeting next week there fore is the second annual session. The Rev. C. D. Barclift, pastor of Fifth Avenue church, is the Confer ence host pastor and the Rev. W. A. Cade, for the past five years district (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) F, D. R. DEDICATES HEALTH INSTITUTE Declares Government Does Not Intend To Socialize Medical Practice BETHESDA, Md„ Oct. 31.—W— President Roosevelt declared to day that “neither the American people nor their government in tend to socialize medical practice any more than they plan to so cialize industry.” This pronouncement was made in an address delivered at the ded ication of the new $4,000,000 plant of the National Institute of Health a government research agency near this suburb of the national capital. The institute includes the national cancer institute. Speaking from the high portico of the administration building to federal and state officials and a crowd seated in rows below him, the chief executive held up the family doctor as a bulwark of the nation and espoused “a partner ship” of “federal, state and local health and medicine.” “In American life,” he said, “the family doctor, the general practitioner performs a service, which we rely upon and trust as a nation. “No one has a greater appre (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Nazi Invasion Ports Bombed By RAF Again Germany’s Westernmost Naval Base At Emden Also Attacked By Planes LONDON RAID LIGHT Murky, Rain-Laden Skies Jake Most Of Sting Out Of German Assault LONDON, Oct. 31.—(#)—Through cloud and mist the Royal Air Force dropped tons of explosive and fire bombs overnight on the German invasion ports of the Low Countries and on Germany’s westernmost naval base in Emden, the air min istry recounted today. It totaled up the pilots’ reports to reach this summation: Flushing, once the main North continental port of entry for ves sels from England: more than an hour of raiding set a huge fire between docks that could be seen 55 miles out in the North sea; the Walcheren canal, between Flushing and Middelburg, and the inner and outer havens bombed heavily; Fire Started Emden; Bomb bursts observed on the quay of the main waterway and in the big V-shaped harbor to the east of the main entrance; “one very bright fire started and other fires in the area were seen to spread rapidly; on aircraft at tacked a nearby railway junction and here, again, a large fire oc curred;” Antwerp: Explosions and fires in the harbor area; Ostend: Quays and ship berths torn up just after the Germans had repaired the damage done in pre vious bombings. Pilots flying back from this over night foray reported seeing debris thrown high in the air and said that frequent explosions indicated that every other bomb or so hit a target. Cherbourg was bombed in the daylight, and official sources said dockside structures were hit and that one stick of bombs was drop ped among four German torpedo boats about 20 miles offshore. The German high command said Nazi artillery on the Flanders coast had driven off British torpedo boats which approached the shore in a thick haze. The Germans said one probably was destroyed.) WEATHER AFFECTS NAZIS LONDON, Oct. 31.—OP)—Murky, rain-laden skies took much of the sting out of the German air siege of England tonight after a day of desultory raids in which the Nazis dived beneath the clouds to bomb and machine-gun widely separated areas. Defying the nearly “ceiling zero” weather, a few bombers came over London for the 55th night attack and the capital’s anti aircraft guns lifted one of the heav iest barrages of protective fire heard in recent weeks. A southwsterly gale blew across the Strait of Dover, favored route of the Nazi Luftwafee, and driving rain squalls made flying well-nigh impossible. During the early part of the night raid on London single planes were heard overhead but in most cases each dropped only one bomb then scurried out of the havy bar rage stabbing the blackness. Stephen Early, Secretary To F. D. R., Apologizes To N. Y. Negro Policeman WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.— UP! — Stephen Early, secretary to Presi dent Roosevelt, issued a statement tonight apologizing to a New York negro police officer and the police commissioner there “for having had any part” in what he de scribed as a ‘regretable” alterca tion Monday night. The presidential secretary pre faced his apology with the asser tion that “I do not believe that I did anything wrong in this inci dent.” Early encountered a police de tail in a lower level of the Penn sylvania station in New York while attempting to gain permission for a group of White House employes and newspapermen to board the special presidential train bound from New York to Washington. The next day James Sloan, a 42 year-old negro patrolman, report ed that he had been kicked in the abdomen. Early said in his state ment that he did not ‘attack or kick any officer.” The text of Early’s statement follows: “In certain republican quarters political importance is being attached to an unfortunate altercation which took place be tween a detail of New York city policemen and myself on Monday night, last. “As i part of my official duty, I was endeavoring to obtain permis sion for a group c f about 35 news papermen and others to board the z train on which they had to return t0 their places of duty in Washing ton. I showed my credentials. All of the people in the group also had official credentials to board the train. It was essential for them that they get on that train before it left. Unfortunately the po lice had received instructions to let nobody pass under any circum stances. I was doing my best to identify this group r id to convince the police that it was imperative and proper for this party to pass through the police line before the train left. “During the discussion there was a great deal of jostling and shov (Contiinued on Page Eight; Col. 5) Congresswoman Seriously 111 Congresswoman Caroline O’D^iy, democratic candidate for re-election as representative-at-large from New7 York, is reported seriously ill at her New York city home. Sixty-five yeafrs old, Mrs. O’Day has been a member of congress since 1928 PREVETTE NAMED TO WPA POSITION Lumberton Man Appointed District Manager To Suc ceed L. J. Jordan Here RALEIGH, Oct. 31.—(A>)—C. C. McGinnis, WPA state administra tor, announced today the appoint ment of W. Joe Prevette of Lum berton as district WPA manager, with headquarters in Wilmington. The district is composed of New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen, Pen der, Robeson, Columbus and Scot land counties. Prevette, who was construction engineer of the district, succeeds L. J. Jordan, who resigned to ac cept a position with a firm in Ten nessee. No successor has been named to fill Prevette’s former post. PRAISED BY WADE James E. L. Wade, city com missioner of public works, said last night that he was “delighted” to hear of the appointment of Pre vette as district WPA supervisor to succeed L. J. Jordan. “He’s done a splendid job as construction engineer in the dis trict and I’m sure that the work in the district will be carried for ward,” Wade said. ROBERT H. M’NEILL FLAYS BROUGHTON Republican Candidate For Governor Speaks At Rally Of The Party Here Robert H. McNeill, of Statesville, republican nominee for governor, last night denounced J. M. Brought on, democratic nominee, as “temper amentally unfit to be the governor of all the people and do equal justice to all, regardless of race or party.” McNeill was the principal speaker (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) War _ Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON The stand of little Greece, great ly outmatched in numbers and modern fighting gear by her Ita lian assailant, is doing more than stir world admiration. It is rais ing an imponderable question as to German-Italian strategy. Just as their Spartan ancestors more than 24 centuries ago put up a brave defense against a Persian host at the Pass of Thermopylae, Greeks of today are holding up Italy’s advance. Every hour they can gain is of vital consequence. It brings British help that much nearer, and diminishes by that much Italian and Axis military presitge. The same factors that temporar ily balked Xerxes’ Persian war chariots at Thermopylee in 480 B. C. and gave Leonidas’s hand (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) , ITALY SAYS ADVANCING Claim Gains Beyond Kala mas River Despite Rain, Mud, Stiff Resistance FEW ROADS AVAILABLE Fascist Planes Reported To Have Bombed Troop Transports At Patras ROME, Nov. 1.—(Friday)—CS*)— Italian troops have penetrated Greece from the seaside as well as from the Albanian land frontier, the official Italian news agency Stefani reported early today. Other reports from the front said that in four days of war against Greece, the Italian army had ad vanced beyond the Kalamas river, five miles from the Albanian border, despiie rain, mud and stiff Greek resistance. Aided By Aviation Stefani’s frontier correspondent also mentioned inclement weather and difficulties of terrain, but said the Italians were pressing ahead, reinforced by aviation. So far, the correspondent report ed, only the Greek rear guard has been encountered in territory favor able to Greek-laid ambushes. He said the Greeks were also blowing up bridges as they withdrew. In general, however, he said the Italian-occupied area was a rugged land having “no trace of roads,” necessitating transport of every necessity on foot or with long strings of pack mules. Augmenting a high command an nouncement that Fascist forces had reached the Kalamas river “at va rious points,” the newspaper Lavoro Fascista's war correspondent said troops which jumped off from the border towns of Kakavia and Petrat had crossed the stream. The main force apparently was moving down the highway which threads through the mountains from Kakavia to Ionnina (Janina), indus trial town on a lake of the same name 30 miles south of the border. The Greeks are resisting “in some spots and in some cases stiffly,” the correspondent of the Turin news paper Gazzeta Del Popolo reported, but generally are falling back to their main prepared positions and confining their activities to harass mg Italian communications. In addition to the land operations, the high command said its air force flew through dirty weather to bomb loaded troop transports at the port of Patras and the Lepanto naval base on the Gulf of Corinth, a bar racks at Metzovo pass, in western Greece, and highway junctions in the Kalamas valley. The identity of the troops aboard the bombed vessels was not disclos ed. (Salonika dispatches said British transports were reported authorita tively to have landed troops on un disclosed Greek islands.) In the air operations the high com mand reported several .“enemy'’ planes were shot odwn and that one Italian craft failed to return. BERTH SEARCHED SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico., Nov. 31—UP)—The U. S. army transport Hunter Liggett, with 1,200 air crops officers and men r’ oard, was de layed t o hours in docking today while her berth v-s search for “heavy objects” reported dumped there some time ago by a German freighter. After dragging e very inch of the slip’s bottom, coast guard boats brought up only a sack of potatoes. Then the trans port proceeded to her berth. 2 Greek Ships Shell Italian Troops On Border Of Albania LONDON, Oct. 31. — m — A Reuters, British news agency, dispatch from Corfu tonight said Greek naval unit^j heavily shelled an Italian advance positios on the Greek border for an hour this morning. The news agency said the shel ing was witnessed by a large number of people from the coast of Corfu, Ionian sea island which lies off the Greek-AIbanian bor der. It said the naval guns opened up at 7 a. m. (midnight, E. S. T., Wednesday) and blasted away for a full hour. DRAFTEES TO GET QUESTIONNAIRES Work Of Mailing Them To Local Men Is Expected To Be Started Next Week Young men in Wilmington and New Hanover county whose num bers were called in the army draft lottery in Washington Tuesday will probably begin receiving their questionaires about the middle of next week, Glfenn J. McClelland, chief clerk in the city draft board office here, said last night. No questionnaires will be mailed out to draftees until the official list of order numbers for the draft have been received here. Upon receipt of the order list, the numbers will be assigned to the registration cards of the men they have on file here, On receipt of the official list, it was said, draft office workers will begin assigning the order numbers to the cards in the files of the two boards, after which the sending out of questionnaires to all regis trants will begin. Questionnaires will be sent to registrants in the order in which their numbers were pulled from the goldfish bowl in Washington Tuesday and will be mailed out at the rate of about 25 per day. At that rate, Glen McClelland, (Continued on Page Twelve, Col. 4) WILSON LEARNS OF HIS NO. 158 Seaman Returns To City And Finds He Was First Man Drafted In County Harold O. Wilson, of Wilming ton, route two, learned last night for the first time that he was the No. 1 man drafted for army serv ice Tuesday from New Hanover county. A seaman, Wilson was en route, to Charleston, S. C. aboard the State Port when his number—158 —was'pulled from the bowl in Washington by Secretary of War Stimson. It was not until he got back into Wilmington la^t night and caled his father that he discovered he held No. 1 honors. George Swinson, 0f Castle Hayne was the first man to be drafted from Wilmington. Wilson will be aboard the State Port docked at the foot of Ann (Continued on Page Twelve, Col. 6) --I Greeks Tell Turks Help Not Needed At Present ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 31.—(JP>— The Greeks have told the Turkish government that they can hold out against the Italians without this country’s help, authoritative quar ters here said today. They added that Turkey would en ter the war only “in case of a Bul garian attack on Greece or if Tur key’s national interests are en dangered.” Nevertheless, they said, this coun try has promised all possible aid to Greece even though that aid does not take the Turks to the point of becoming belligerents. All this—the brief story of what jnust have been a series of feverish diplomatic soundings and exchanges —was disclosed by semi-official in formants while the official Turkish radio took one more fling at the Italians. , Italy, said the b »iadcast, is up against an important test of her military power, but has not "shown up brilliantly.” Discussing British aid to Greece, the announcer remarked that what was needed from the Greek stand point was an RAF bombing cam paign on Italian air bases, and air attacks on “Italian cities, including Rome.” To such raids, he threw in, (Conjjpued on Page Eight* Col. 5)
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