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Dedicated to the *-^--^;£^^^'7r~£‘>-.'**v Served by Leased Wire of the PROGRESS T KJC Cl raiCMllRi^ iCfiil^Jl Dflilkl 1AIC ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern N. C. ■ ■ ■ ■■ ^ ,1,3 PUBtiSHCO lv^»l B, ■ B M W %# state and National News —- __^HTtHlg £>©[%? <g(lW ©If am® (g>lL(gAgy ^11 Ifo L-— VQl- jJ—NQ- Hi—-_- »$$% WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1940 * " PRICE FIVE CENTS Greek Forces Push Into Albania British Troops Landed; Navy, RAF Are Also On Hand To Give Aid —- M ^ _ BAYONET CHARGE USED JJ Duce’s Invaders Find Going Difficult; Main Line Not Reached artillery is busy ATHENS. Greece, Nov. 2. *_(/P)_Greece’s hard-fighting mountain troops were report ed officially tonight to have captured a hill four miles in side Albanian territory after a furious bayonet charge against the Italian invaders and reliable reports said the Italians still have not reached the main Greek defense lines after six days of fighting. There was no information in Athens, however, on just how far the Italians have penetrated Greek territory on the Epirus sector, w'here they have concentrated their drive. Scant Gains Oil1 .Vl iiiv i cpt-'L 10 11 um uic Lium said the Italians had made scant gains in the last three days in this area despite repeated attacks with tank units along the road to Ioan nina (Janina), covered by heavy Greek artillery tire. This was said to be the only sector in which the Italians have made anything like a large scale offensive. At the right flank of the moun tainous front, near the Yugoslav border, Greece’s famous Evzone troops—which played a major role in the Balkan wars years ago— were said officially to have occu rred a hill in Albania overlooking Koritza. In the center sector, Greek troops were reported counter-attacking but no details of the action were known here. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) LONDON REPORTS NAZI PEACE BID Paper Declares Terms For warded To U. S. By Way Of France LO.NDOX, Xov, 3.—(Sunday)—UP) “■London newspapers reported to that Adolf Hitler has sent his Peace terms to the United States and one paper, the Sunday Dispatch, said they were: L The British Empire, being un defeated and unconquered, to re main as it is. . ■■ Europe, being conquered by ermar.y, to be regarded as outside 0 Britain's sphere of interest.” • he Dispatch said- these conditions ''we believed in Washington by the • meiican embassy in Paris and add j' tt!’al Hitler is willing to ‘‘sign a , eaJ' non-aggressi°n pact with and' B?ain ancl tlle United States” ‘ tr> agree to disarmament under conditions of equality' and ‘taking watus quo as the basis.’ ” WEATHER Xovih r. f°«ECA8T Gtor"i. I?r.olilla. South Carolina and dav “ air and continued cool Sun -'loncay fair. OlrtnLF- S- 'Vea*her Bureau Wdinc 7.oi°slca data Tor the 24 hours ,,J p. in. yesterday). 1:30 9 „ Temperature a. 70-% 08; 7:30 a- m- 64: 1:30 p. minimumP- m- 62; maximum 72; m 62! menu 67; normal 60. 1:30 a Humidity Si; 7-wj 7:30 a. m. 93; 1:30 p. m. '“u P- Hi. 58. .Total for ..^ecipitation ®77 inches •' ? ?nding 7:30 p- m-’ month „,0’. t0,taI since first of the 1 u-u inches. Tides For Today 'ril®in?t(m High . Low sion- a 7:08a hsonboro mi *. 12:29p 7:42p Jto Inlet -10:20a 3:51a Sunrise 10:36p 4:35p hseio-.. yla- sunset 5:18p; moon 'la: moonset 9:01p. C cl])p. i • etteviim r"er stage at Lay Ron,Hiued on Page Three; Col. 6) All Possible Help Will Be Given LONDON, Nov. 3 (Sunday).— UP>—A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, declared tonight that British troops have landed in Greek territory and that Britain will ‘‘honor” her pledge of aid to the Italian-invaded Greeks. “The navy is there, air sup port is being given, military ob jectives in Naples have been bombed and British troops have landed in Greek territory,” Alex ander said. ‘‘What we can do we will do.” vui juucuucis vaiuiuu The admiralty chieftain said “the road to victory is beginning to define itself. Even if it proves a long road we can afford time and our enemies cannot.” The address of the admiralty’s first lord, broadcast to the British Em pire, officially confirmed various re ports that British troops actually were on Greek soil but gave no fur ther Indication where they had been landed. He expressed once more Britain’s thanks for the 50 United States de stroyers sent to Britain in recent months in a trade for air and naval bases and said: “I shall be equally thankful for (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) NAZIS MINIMIZE RAIDS ON BERLIN RAF Hitting Non-Military Objectives; Many Fires Set In England BERLIN, Nov. 2.—(IP)—New fires and severe new damage in London were reported today by DNB, offi cial German news agency, as Nazi bombers kept up unrelenting day and night attacks on Britain. Air attacks were centered on the Woolwich distfict, in southeast Lon don, where a Royal arsenal is lo cated, and on southeast England, the agency .said. It reported two British fighter planes shot down. The day offensive, apparently, was a continuation of overnight air blows in which, the high command declared, British airports, harbors and industrial plants in southern England were raided. Hangars and fuel stores were set afire and numerous planes destroyed on the ground, its communique said, and harbors and industrial plants at tacked. The high command minimized a surprise British air raid on this capi tal which caught thousands of Ber liners in cafes and on the streets last night. -■ The Brtish fliers, it said, "as us ual, again attacked mainly non-mili tary objectives” and “most enemy planes were forced by strong defense fire to turn north or south.” m • . n i ROME CLAIMS GAINS Bomber Squadron Attacks Many Greek Cities As ‘Pincers Close’ MALTA ALSO BOMBED By the Associated Press ROME, Nov. 2.—The Ital ians sent their crack “Dis perato” squadron of bombers and fighters against Greece today, planting bombs from shore to shore of the invaded kingdom, and said the only peace the Greeks would get from them would be by the sword. “Italy has no intention of entering into peace negotia tions with Greece,” an au thoritative source said. “The Greek rejection of our ultima tum set the Italian military machine in motion. It will pro ceed to deal with the situa Pinchers Are Closing The high command reported that an Italian land pinchers was closing on the strategic northwestern Bmc town of Ioannina (Janina), both from the Kalamas river valley on the northwest of the town and from the Pindos (Pindus) heights on the northeast, which reach elevations above 7,000 feet. The locations of these columns . were not stated, but unofficially it has been said that they have pene trated the “Metaxas Line” of light 1 fortifications which are especially thick in the Kalamas valley. From this valley to the Quays of Salonika, Crete, Corfu and Patras the Italian bombers blasted away with explosive and incendiary bombs, ton upon ton of them. (The Rome radio broadcast a re port tonight that 100 Italian fighter ' and bomber planes had attacked the 4 British Mediterranean island of Mai- * ta during the afternoon, striking at 4 an aviation camp and naval base in ‘ “the most important Italian air ac tion since the outbreak of war.” (“Visible destruction” on the air continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) 1 RAF HITS TWICE i AT NAZI CAPITAL I _t Rail Centers Are Given * ‘Heaviest Bombing’ And * Power Plant Fired c s By the Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 2. — In two smashes at Berlin officially called the heaviest ever loosed by the 1 RAF, British bombers were declared J tonight to have repeatedly bombard ed three of the German capital’s main railway centers and left a mile-long blaze about a vital power station. One raiding wave, the air ministry < said, went into action shortly after 8 p. m. last night and stayed on the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) F\ • I_ %^ity Boara uescriocs Work On Water Problem ; r The city commissioners, in a public statement yesterday, re viewed the history of Wilmington’s water supply problem, described their efforts to solve it and asked for a sympathetic and cooperative attitude on the part of the public while efforts are under way to determine a water intake point “that is and will be free of salt.” The statement did not fail to point put that brackish water has been a problem here since the city first began using the Cape Fear river as a source or raw' water, and that although no stone will be left unturned to secure a WPA grant of 70 per cent of the cost, the remaining 30 per cent must * be borne locally. The statements follows: ( Prior to 1921-22, the City water ' intake was from the Northeast river at the Hilton plant. During those two years the city water ' supply was rendered unsatisfac- ! tory as the result of sewage con- ( tamination, high salft content, and ’ unpleasant colaration of the water. After an exhaustive study it was ' decided at that time to extend the ! intake to Toomer’s creek. Toom- i er’s creek was selected rather than Haynes, because the water in the I latter contained a high rate of 1 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) SPARK OF ITALO-GREEK FLAME I This is the spark Just before the Itaio-Greek conflict flamed. Radio photo above, just flashed to New York, shows Italian soldiers debarking at an unnamed Albanian port, just prior to invasion of Greece. (NEA Radiophoto).•_ ^ ■>'. __ War And Defense Orders Push Trade To New Peak - ★ FACTORIES EXPANDING Defense Levies Cut Down Huge Profits Made By Steel Companies _ By FRANK MacMILLEN NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—(A*)—This reek, more clearly than at any ime since the world struggle be an, was the force of war and de ense on American economy made pparent, as business boomed to ecade-long records and the flood ide of third quarter corporation eports set in. Here were some of the high ;ghts: Billions In Orders 1. Probably for the first time a history, an American industrial orporation reported $1,000,000,000 f unfilled orders on its books, tethlehem Steel Corp., helped by :s big shipbuilding division, set he mark. 2. U. S. Steel Corp., reporting or the first nine months of the ear, gave graphic illustration of he meaning of high defense levies, s it revealed taxes were $62,746, 71 for the period, nearly as great s its net profit of $69,418,070. 3. The demands of the arms pro (Continued on Page Three; CoL 3) ONDON DEFENSES BEAT OFF RAIDS Quietest Night’ In Many Weeks Enjoyed; Plane Losses Summarized By The Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 3.—(Sunday)—OP) -Raid-weary England, Scotland and Vales enjoyed one of the quietest ights in weeks last night and early oday as the German and Italian aiding squadrons, beaten back from jondon time and again yesterday, ;ave the bomb-battered British a est. Fast-striking early raiders, one of ,'hich machine - gunned London treets for the first time, thinned >ut quickly and the all-clear signal vas given before midnight. Early reports showed that with he exception of a tew districts in Southeast England, the British were ;etting a sound sleep. During the daylight raiding yes erday, however, six persons were :illecl in fe southeast town by high (Continued on Page Three; Co1. 5) N. C. DRAFT QUOTA FIXED AT 15,613 Credit For Guardsmen Is To Be Passed On To Local Boards WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. —UP)— National draft headquarters today sent state selective service organi zations the necessary data and a formula for determining the num ber of men each local draft board must supply by next June for a year’s military training. The information included the esti mated number of men each state already has contributed to the na tion’s armed forces, and which they will be permitted to deduct from their gross manpower quotas under the draft proposal. The gross and net quotas for each state, together with the number of men already in the National Guard and other branches of the armed forces include: State Gross National Other Net Quota Guard Br’es Quota N. C. __ 49,424 4,384 29,427 15,613 S. C. __ 25,804 3,708 16,139 5,957 The quotas cover the period through June 30, 1941. Precise figures were used as to the number of National Guardsmen in ‘ each state but only estimates of the state's contributions to other branches of the armed forces were employed. More exact figures are to be transmitted later, officials said, as soon as the Army, Navy and Ma rine Corps determine to which states their enlisted personnel should be >. • . ‘ ureuiieu. The figures showed the 4S states and the District of Columbia would be asked to furnish a total of 789, 000 trainees by next June 30. In addition 11,000 trainees are to be called from Puerto Rico, Hawaii and possibly Alaska, officials said. This would, give the United States 1,946, 277 men in its armed forces, in cluding the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. To help state organizations deter mine each local board’s quota na tional draft officials suggested that they ' divide the local board’s num ber of -registrants by the number of registrants in the state and then multiplying the resulting fraction by the state’s gross quota. The gross quota is the estimated num ber of men each state will have in-the armed forces next June 30, (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) He Will Not Run Again; Seeks Re-Election Now Only To Help Save U. S. WILLKIE STATES CASE He Charges F. R. New Deal Is Leading U. S. Away From Democracy ‘METHODS ARE WRONG’ BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY NEW YORK, Nov. 2.— (fP) —Wendell L. Willkie, address ing the last major rally of his presidential campaign, said to night that the Roosevelt ad ministration has been leading the nation down a road “paved with good intentions” to the “destruction of our democra tic way of life.” The republican nominee asked before a mass meeting of his supporters in Madison Square Garden where the conflict lay between himself and President Roosevelt. He replied to his own question by saying: Solemnly Said n is, ana 1 say u solemnly ana with full understanding of the ter rible meaning of the words—it is that for nearly eight years our government has been carrying us step by step down a road that leads to the destruction of our dem ocratic way of life. $ “That road is paved with good intentions.” Willkie, who came back to New fork today after a 34-state, coast to-coast campaigning tour, asserted that he believed with the New Deal in collective bargaining, wage-hour legislation, social security, relief, aid to Great Britain and a power ful national defense. He declared, however, that New Deal methods “are not the meth ods of democracy.” Instead, he said, the New Deal stands for: “The unlimited spending of bor ro-wed money—the piling up of bureaucracy — the usurpation of powers reserved by the congress— the subjugation of the courts—the concentration of enormous authori ty in the hands of the executive— the discouragement of enterprise— and the continuance of economic dependence for millions of our citi zens upon government.” Willkie asked the support of all who believe “in the principles of American freedom,” and said that he had repudiated at the start of the campaign “certain men and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) N. C. METHODISTS WILL MEET HERE Annual Conference Will Open At Fifth Avenue Church Wednesday The North Carolina conference of the Methodist church will open its annual sessions here at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening, No vember 6, at the Fifth Avenue Methodist church. At the opening session delegates will hear the annual historical ad dress, to be delivered by the Rev. C. D. Barclift, host pastor, who will discuss the subject, “Some Interesting Episodes in the Life of the Fifth Avenue Methodist church.” Conference members will assem ble Thursday morning for the of ficial organization of the confer ence and to enter upon the anual business sessions. Bishop Clare Purcell will be the presidig officer. The Rev. Mr. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) Both Parties Predicting Victory NEW YORK, Nov. ^-(/Pi National chairmen of the two major political parties tonight predicted substantial victories for their respective presidential candidates in the general elec tion next Tuesday. Here are their formal claims: For Franklin D. Roosevelt, at least 427 electoral votes — pre dicted by Edward J. Flynn, chairman of the democratic na tional committee. For Wendell L. Willkie, at least 324 electoral votes — pre dicted by Joseph W. Martin, Jr., chairman of the republican na tional committee. It requires 266 electoral votes to elect. The electoral college will cast 531 ballots. N. C DEMOCRATS STAGING RALLIES Broughton Says One Vot< Counts Against Lewis And Willkie WAYNESVILLE, Nov. 2. — U: here in Haywood county where hi pitched his primary campaign les than eight months ago, Governo Nominate J. M. Broughton returnei today to make “a bargain day” of fer to North Carolina democrats: “With just one vote Tuesday,” hi assured them, “you can get rid o John L. Lewis and Wendell Wilikii simultaneously.” RALEIGH, Nov. 2.-AS9—Nortl Carolinians must vote on an avei'agi of about 1,421 a minute next Tues day is as many ballots are cast a: officials expect. This rapid-fire balloting may be necessitated by a presidential vot< which Chairman W. A. Lucas oi the state board of elections “guess ed” would climb to a record-break ing total of 900,000. Polls will be open from sunrise tc sunset—varying in time betweer 6:31 a. m. to 5:04 p. m. at Elizabeth City, and 7:03 to 5:36 at Murphy giving the electorate 10 hours anc 33 minutes in w'hich to vote. The state has 1,916 precincts— (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) REDS MASS ARMY FACING GERMANS Seven Air Fields Reportec Hastily Built Along Rumanian Border . By the Associated Press BUCHAREST, Nov. 2. — S’oviel Russia has concentrated thirty-one divisions of troops and three bri gades of mechanized equipment ir Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina travelers said today upon their ar rival her^ from the provinces which Russia acquired from Rumania Iasi summer. The Russians have massed 20 in fantry divisions, 11 artillery anc (Continued on Page Three; Col. C) War Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON The second World war was only 427 days old as October ended, but it already has carded a .grisly trail of destruction and disaster across Continental Europe unmatched in recorded history. Nation after nation has succumbed to force or threats; some have lost their national identity. More than one hundred million dwellers on that continent have been brought under the domination of alien masters. Half a million square miles of territory are under alien flags. Yet the essential fact of the war at this time is that Britain’s island fortress remains unconquered, and the bulldog grip of the British navy remains unbroken on all the deep seas that wash the shores of tragic Europe. Nazi-Fascist expectancy of a short war is a shattered dream after 14 months of conflict. And while Brit ain endures, the axis-mapped new order in Europe remains also an un realized dream. There is a deadly menace for the axis in the long war for which the European stage is being reset. Brit ain has still to reap the full benefit (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) ‘VOTE OF CONFIDENCE' If Given By ‘The People’ At Polls Tuesday He Will Fight On CONTINUE NEW DEAL BY MAX BOYD CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.— (/P)—President Roosevelt said tonight that the “storm” now raging over the world was the true reason why he was run ning for a third term and that “when that term is over there will be another President.” In his “final national ad dress of the campaign,” a nation - wide broadcast from Cleveland’s public auditorium, he said “no personal ambition of any man could desire more” than “the great privilege of being your President.” Appealing to the nation to give him a “vote of confi dence” next Tuesday, the President said: umi __ * _ _l J.I1CIC io CL glCCLVj -vim i raging now; it makes things ) harder for the world. And that storm, which did not start in this land of ours, is ! the true reason that I would like to stick by these people of ours until we reach the clear, sure footing ahead. “We will make it—make it > before the next term is over. “We will make it; and the world, we hope, will make it, too. i “When that term is over ' there will be another Pres ident, and many more Pres ■ idents in the years to come, . and I think that word ‘Pres ident’ w,ill be a word to cheer the hearts of common men | and women everywhere.” Tens Of Thousands Tens of thousands of wildly cheering men, women and children stood in a cold wind to see the President pass in an open car on the way from his special train to the auditorium. Thousands more were massed about the huge audi torium, which was jammed. Mrs. Mildred Jaster, Ohio’s na tional democratic committee wom an; former Senator Robert J. Bulk ley and Charles Sawyer, demo cratic national committeeman, rode with him to the hall. A tremendous burst of applause greeted the President’s appear ance. It continued for more than three minutes, when Mr. Roose velt signaled for quiet, and in some sections of the hall went on after he began speaking. There wa booing in the crowd l when the President declared that Representatives of “the forces of dictatorship in our’ own land,” which he identified as the com munists on one hand and "the girdlers” on the other, were voting without exception against the New Deal. Loud cheering greeted his decla (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) , U. S. NAVY SQUAD NEAR MARTINIQUE Strategic French Base Is Closely Watched By British As Wei) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— W>) — Breaking an official silence on ac tivities of American warships ill the Caribbean sea, the Navy de partment said today that the At lantic patrol force was now carry ing out "scheduled exercises’’ in that strategic area. The patrol force of eight de stroyers and six patrol-planes, un der command of T.ear Admiral Hayne Ellis, left Key West, the announcement said, for training and patrol operations in the Guata namo-San Juan-Culebra island sec tor. While there was no elaboration of the navy's announcement, it was learned that the patrol force’s (Continued on Page Three; CoL 3)
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