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Dedicated to the ,,. r Served by leased Wire of the PROGRESS TUC CTAP-MITWC associated press Southeastern N. C. " " I " ,-B-^ " ■ W ** State and National New. — __ .■€i|W.®F.I?^®®BB83 &MI») IPILEA8MlSlfte? I __ „ -S ^ WILMINGTON, W. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1940 jr _PRICE FIVE CENTS Turks Feel Move Means New Attack Subject Of Conversations Between Nazi And Red Is Not Disclosed BULGARIA IS ALARMED Turkey Declares Readiness To Fight If ‘Vitally* Threatened By Axis By the Associated Press BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Soviet Rus sia’s Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotoff was expected tonight to arrive here next Tues day upon invitation of the German government “to continue and broaden the constant exchange of opinions'* between Germany and Russia. It was considered certain that Adolf Hitler personally will re ceive the visiting minister, who never before has traveled outside Russia, and engage him in a broad discussion of the war and its re percussions since Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop visited Moscow in August, 1939, to sign the non-aggression pack be tween the two countries. Conjecture on Topics Observers believed these topics were on the agenda. 1. Effect of the triple military alliance recently signed by Ger many, Italy and Japan. 2. Germany's position in Ru mania where it has Nazi troops “guarding oil wells.” 3. Italy’s attempted drive into Greece. 4. Status of the Balkans and the . Near East—both of which now are brought closer to the edge of war I by Italy’s offensive from Albania. Strict silence was observed in of ficial circles and the German press ’ concerning the visit. Its announce ment was heralded by the official German news agency, DNB, as one of importance “in foreign politics.” CIANO TO ATTEND ROME, Nov. 9.—(A5)—Italian For eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano is expected to go to Berlin within - the next few days, foreign circles , reported tonight, to attend three way discussions among Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia. TURKS TO FIGHT ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 10.— I (Sunday)—(A3)—Turkey hopes for . “benevolent” Russian neutrality : (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5). YUGOSLAVS MASS MEN ON BORDER Turk Press Urges Nation To Stand Firm Against r Axis Pressure BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. Nov. —(^[—Yugoslavia took swift mea ! sures to reinforce troop concen trations along her Southern fron tiers tonight through fear the Ital ian - Greek conflict may boil over onto this nation’s soil. By many strategists the valley in Southern Yugoslavia in which 1 Bitolj (Monastir) is located is con sidered the more natural military highway for the drive to Salonika, Greece, than are the narrow moun tain defiles Italy thus far has chos (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) SCHOOL BOARDS SESSION PLANNED Southeastern District Will Hold Annual Meeting In Fayetteville, Nov. 21 i FAYETTEILLE, Nov. 9 — t Three acknowledged leaders in state educational circles will speak before members of the North Car ■ olina School Board association, of 1 Southeastern district, when they s gather here Thursday, November s 21, in annual convention, it was - announced today by John Mar i shall, of Wilmington, Southeastern district president. i Addresses will be made by State - Senator H. E. Stacy, of Lumber - ten, past president of the State School Board association, and by i Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of Chapel (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) RAF Bombs Munich Hall As Hitler Speaks Fires Are Set k Fuehrer fas Talking British Bombers Also Hit Heavy Blows At Duce’s Motor Factories GREAT DAMAGE DONE Yards, Ports In Germany, Holland And France Hit In ‘Heaviest’ Raid Bv The Associated Press LO'nDN. Nov. 9 — British homb?’exploded last night on the Munich beer hall where Adolf Hit er exhorted his Nazi old guard, in far-away Northern Italy and upon many another vital center „f the Axis war effort, qualified sources announced today. A whole series of explosives— "a stick”—was declared by the Britii.] Press association to have Started a big fire in the Munich cellar, where all the top command of the Nazi revolution has as sembled with Hitler to hear him declare that Germany would never quit without victory. "Overshot Mark” The Press association puncti liously described this hit as an inadvertence; said the stick had overshot its mark. The air minis try’s official communique was even more restrained. It an nounced: ‘‘A strong force of RAF bombers attacked railway stations and goods (freight) yards in the city of Munich.” Despite this official reserve, the press and public exulted that the Royal Air Force had kept Hitler’s speech off a scheduled broadcast; had carried its bombs 600 miles to the city that is the very home end birthplace of Naziism. The Press association observed that the raiders really were after (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) LONDON HEAVILY ATTACKED AGAIN Several Nazi Raiders Shot Down During Sporadic Raids On England Oy The Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 10.— (Sunday)— German raiders returned to the serial assault on London shortly be fore dawn today after subjecting the Empire capital to a heavy attack ™'iy last night and then giving Londoners a few hours of peace a:i'! uninterrupted sleep. liie customary nightly air raid T o off around midnight to a Kriou of extraordinary quiet and clear” was given. 1 had been for a time a thun ®rolls attack—loosed at the earli !""r yet known here—and bomb ft'oiitinuea on Page Two; Col. 6) WEATHER W forecast fsji,,n', a.rolina: Mostly cloudy, oc rtmw Sunday night and in niitr.,1 ' 10'! Sunday and in east and Kf ami Monday. Warmer in er a 1 MM11 n|l portions Sunday, cold Wernooti Gmn 'v<“st Portion Monday rai,i<Vll/ai'"'i,u,: Clomly, occasional Sitnja'v ni ;v "‘-lit and in west portion SontlaV a'\v rasl a,u* south portions extreme' r ,’>lr"”,r Sunday, cooler in mrllnvesf portion Monday. („* | s Weather Bureau enjj-^.'‘Weal data for the 24 hours b 1 t p ni. yesterday). 1 2/1 n temperature m 7m; 7:30 a. m. 37: 1:30 p. "tninii.r ■ • m. 52; maximum 60.; 01 "•<: mean ts: normal 58. 1:2(1 , , . Humidity *i. 4] V1- 'J'! 7 :.;0 a. m. 73; 1:30 p. ' 1p. m. no. ,T=ts! f0r Frceipitation h,, total -bours coding 7:30 p. m., inches Mnce £lrst o£ t£ie month. Tides For Today "Kinston High Low , 0 11 .. 6:03a 12:52a a10Dlioro In,- 6:28p 1:2°P Inlet - 4:16a 10:26a J«nrjsp r .m 4:38P 10:43P 'Ma; sunset 5:12p; moon ' * ’ "'"onset 2:35a. ,ftlcvilleI9e4rfeetVer SU|fe at Fay‘ 'ln,ln'ied on Page Three; Col. 5) GOP Chief Quits JOHN D. M. HAMILTON HAMILTON^QUITS HIGH GOP P0S1 Man Willkie Replaced With Martin Resigns With out Explanation WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. —Wl John Hamilton resigned today a: executive director of the Republi can National committee, a post he held since Joseph W. Martin be came national chairman last July He gave no reason for his res ignation in a letter to the com mittee. However, Martin, accept ing the resignation, wrote that “J can appreciate fully your desire to retire and resume your business career.” Hamilton’s letter asked that the resignation take effect immediate ly and told Martin that “I have enjoyed working with you as the chairman.” Wendell Willkie announced the appointment of Martin as chair man a few weeks after the Phil adelphia convention and at the same time said that Hamilton, who managed the 1936 campaigr for Alf. M. Landon, would serve as executive director. Hamilton’s $25,000-a-year salary was contin ued, Martin serving without pay. ) CONVOY SINKING DENIED IN LONDOb Japs Report Big Canadiar Liner Bombed; Queen Elizabeth To Sail LONDON, Nov. 9.— (JF) —The ad miralty announced tonight that “a number of ships” escaped from a German surface raider last Tuesday when it fell upon a convoy in mid Atlantic. A communique declared that “the enemy’s claim to have- an nihilated this convoy” is not true. "Owing to the necessity for main taining wireless silence, no other de tails are yet available,” the com munique said. (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. — Bombing by German planes of the 26,032-ton liner Empress of Japan, a British (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Free French Land Force In Africa Vichy Government Admits Bitter Battle Raging In Gabon Area SAYS PORTS BOMBED Gen. de Gaulle’s Men Are Striving To Open Up Path For British By The Associated Press VICHY, France. Nov. 9.—“Free French” troops carrying on the 1 war against the Axis powers un der Gen. Charles de Gaulle, are engaged in bitter fighting at Ga bon, French Equatorial Africa, the Vichy government acknowledged today. The government’s statement said the men landed near Libre ville under the guns of light Brit ish ships which for several days had been cruising along the Gabon coast. British planes bombed the port before the troops went ashore, the French said. Open New Route? The activity was interpreted here to mean that de Gaulle’s forces hope to open a new west to-east route from the Gulf of Guinea to the Egyptian Sudan for the British. Communications between the outside world and portions of the French territory south of the equa or have been cut off, officials said. They declared the operations there were less important than un successful action of th British and d Gaulle’s men against Dakar, French West Africa, Sept. 23-26. The French government’s ad mission that troops had landed came after Gen. Auguste Nogues, ; military iommander of French . Morocco, and Admiral Jean Es ; teva, resident general, conferred with French Minister of Finance Yves Bouthillier and other cabi net ministers, presumably on French African matters. . (The French radio, in a broad cast heard in New York by NBC, said Vice Premier Pierre Laval had left France for Tome “on a special diplomatic mission.”) 4 BIG FRENCH SUB SUNK BY BRITISH Admiralty days Undersea Craft Tried To Sink British Warship LONDON. Nov. 9.—(#)—The Brit ish admiralty announced tonight that the French submarine Ponce let had been sunk in an engage ment \jith British naval forces off French Equatorial Africa. The admiralty denied flatly a Vichy announcement that a Brit ish naval squadron has shelled Li (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) County Legislators Are To Call Mass Meeting By ROD SPARROW New Hanover county will be re resented in the general assembly which Convenes on Jan. 1 by a lawyer, a former farmer and law enforcement officer, and a theatre operator and businessman. •Yesterday these three—Jack Q. LeGrand and John R. Morrs, re presentatives, and Roy Rowe, of Burgaw, senator—conferred in Le Grand’s office on legislation they plan to introduce or to support during the session of the general assembly. At the conclusion of their meet ing they agreed, if the public de sires it, to hold a public meeting in the courthouse a month prior to the opening of the general as sembly, at which time they would listen to public discussion of pro 1 posed legislation and would re ceive from the public an expres sion of its desire on any matter it may desire to discuss. At such a meeting, they said, they would be listeners only and would take no part in the discus sions to insure that the sentiments of the meeting were those of the public and not those of the repre sentatives alone. Many matters were discussed during the afternoon but no defi nite action was taken on any of them, pending the gathering of public opinion on the various mat ters discussed. One of the first matters dis cussed was the proposed legisla tion t0 give port authorities in the state the same sort of power now held by housing authorities which, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) LEADERS OF NORTH CAROLINA METHODIST CONFERENCE HERE Here are ten of the leaders of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist church being conducted at Fifth Avenue church. Top row, left to right: the Rev. John Russell, New Bern district superintendent; the Rev. Tom Grant, conference secretary; the Rev. VV. A. Cade, superintendent of the Wilmington district; the Rev. B. B. Slaughter, Elizabeth City district superintendent; and the Rev. C. D. Barclift, pastor of the host church: lower row: the Rev. H. I. Glass, superintendent of the Raleigh district; the Rev. W. V. McRae, superintendent of the Fayetteville district; Bishop Clare Purcell, presiding bishop; the Rev. L. C. Larkin, superintendent of the Rocky Mount district; and the Rev. A. J. Hobbs, superintendent of the Durham district. _ ! F. R. RE-ELECTION CHEERS CHURCHILL Prime Minister Praises Greeks, Warns Britons Of Perils Ahead (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 9—Prime Min ister Winston Churchill described the re-election of President Roose velt and the assurance of greater aid from the United States as a message of “great encourage ment and good cheer” today, but he left no doubt in British minds of the big job ahead. And even as he spoke in praise of the Greeks and of the “succes sion of melancholy disasters and terrible assaults and perils” which Britain has suffered, there was noticeable in London an under current of uneasiness over Tur key’s position towards the Italian Greek conflict. In the first official expression of British satisfaction at the result of the United States election Tues day. Churchill also said the British were “deeply touched” by the “words of kindness and good will and promises of aid” spoken by Wendell L. Willkie, republican presidential candidate. TATE IS NAMED COI BROWN AIDE Engineer Corps Captain Is Transferred To Post In Wilmington The transfer of Captain Ferdinand J. Tate, Corps of Engineers, at Vicksburg, Miss., to Wilmington was announced in Army orders issued yesterday at Washington, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Col. E. I. Brown, Wilmington dis trict army engineer, said last night Capt. Tate is being transferred here to be his assistant. He said he understood the orders call for him to report here about Dec. 1. Carolinian Found Dead In Auto In Maryland TOWSON, Md„ Nov. 9. — UP) — Charles Mack Hair, 24, of Pineville, N. C., was found dead in his auto mobile at nearby Lansdowne last night with a bullet wound in his head, Baltimore county police re ported today. Police Chief Oscar M. Crimes and State’s Attorney Lawrence Ensor said Leslie Jamison, 32, of Baltimore, a fellow-employe of Hair at a motor transfer company, was being held for questioning. Clarkson Urges State Ballot On ABC Stores TALKS TO METHODISTS Pastors’ Assignments* Are To Be Announced Dur ing Tonight’s Session BY BOB MATTHEWS Enactment of legislation by the 1941 General Assembly providing for a statewide referendum on the liquor issue was urged by Herriot Clarkson, of Charlotte, associate justice of the state supreme court, in an address before the North Carolina conference of the Metho dist church in session last night at the Fifth Avenue Methodist church. Justice Clarkson’s appeal follow ed action taken by the conference Friday in a business session in approving a report submitted by the board of temperance and call ing for the state legislature to pro vide for a referendum on the li quor question. Final Session Today The final session of the confer ence will open at 9 o’clock this morning with the annual love feast, to be led by the Rev. J. H. McCracken and the Rev. J. H. Shore. Bishop Clare Purcell, of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) *v n nifiT\ oiHiir u. b. anir sum AS ITJITS MINE Tar Heel Believed Dead In Blast Off Coast Of Australia WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(HP)—Tile United States government sought further information today on the sinking of the American freighter City of Rayville before considering whether to take any action. The 5,883-ton freighter, owned by the maritime commission and leased by the U. S. lines, was blasted by an explosion about 1C miles off the Australian coast last night while en route from Adelaide to Melbourne. All of the crew except the third en gineer succeeded in escaping in life boats. ' (Dispatches from Sydney gave the missing man’s name as James Bryan, 22, of Norfolk, Va., but maritime commission records listed the ship's third engineer as Mac B. Bryan, Randleman, N. C.) Secretary Hull told a press confer ence today that preliminary infor mation indicated the vessel had struck a free mine, but that there (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) GERMANS CLAIM MORE SHIPS SUNK Munich Bombing On Night Hitler Spoke Admitted; Damage Minimized By The Associated Press BERLIN, Nov. 9—The RAF picked Munich for its bombs on the night Adolf Hitler addressed the annual rally of old-time Nazi leaders, the German high command confirmed today, while reporting the sinking of eig’ 1 more British ships in the air blockade. The time of the British raid on Munich last night was not disclosed, but informed sources said it was “sometime after’’ the Fuehrer had addressed the party faithful on the 17th anniversary of the unsuccess ful 1923 beer hall revolt. The commemoration was marred last year by explosion of a time bomb which wrecked the Buerger brau beer hall, a Nazi shrine. Ger mans charged it was planted by British agents. The Fuehrer escaped by minutes that time. Eight persons were killed. Wreaths w'ere placed on the graves of these eight today, as wTell as on the graves of the 23 killed in the 1923 putsch, by Gauleiter Adolf Wag ner on behalf of the Fuehrer. The high command announced that its dive bombers, commanded by General Field Marshal Kessel ring, had scored two hits on a 10 000-ton British cruiser—the second so attacked in twro days—and sunk six more merchant ships totaling (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) 15,000 Italian Troops Annihilated By Greeks By The Associated Press ATHENS, Nov. 9.—Italy’s Cen taur division of perhaps 15,000 men—one of the best known units of the Fascist forces—was report ed today to have been so hope lessly entrapped by the Greeks in the Pindus mountains that its sur render was imminent. Greeks said the Fascist troops were without food and with lines of supply cut. Military informants said hun dreds of the division’s men and its commanding general already had been taken prisoner. The Greeks said the Italians, in attempting to take a road leading southward to the strategic Greek town of Ioannina, had gone so deep into the mountains as to per SEN. VANDENBERG RAPS UNITY ,AN GOP Leaders Show They Will Fight New Deal As In Past WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-—UP)—De claring- that there must be no “rub ber stamp unity” in congress, Sena tor Vandenberg (R-Mich) said today that republicans had a duty to main tain “critical vigilance" toward ad ministration actions. The Michigan senator told report ers that both major parties should drop partisan politics in the interest of “total preparedness,” but added: "We do not w'ant unity in the sense of totalitarian government in which the voice of all opposition is silenced.” It appeared, meantime, that the first post-election dispute in con (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) CHAMBERLAIN IS SINKING RAPIDLY Wife Called To Bedside At Midnight; Bombs Fall Near Home LONDON, Nov. 10 (Sunday).—CP) —Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, wife of Britain’s seriously ill fcrmer prime minister, was called suddenly to his bedside at midnight (6 p. m. E. S. T.). It was learned today that within the past fortnight German bombs have fallen within the grounds of (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) mit a break in their own communi cations. Big Italian guns and much war material were said to have been dumped into a ravine to prevent their seizure. LONDON, Nov. 10.—(Sunday)— UP)—Italy’s crack Centaur division of 15,000 men trapped by Greek troops in the Pindus mountains was reported annihilated, a Reu ters, British news agency, dispatch from Athens said today. Two infantry regiments and one of artillery forn'ied the Italian divi sion cut off from the main Fas cist forces. A great number of the trapped (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
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