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__ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1940 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
Men Are Shot
While In Jail
At Bucharest
‘Legionnaires’ Take Re*
venge For Slaying Of Co
dreanu Two Years Ago
LEADERS DISAPPROVE
Former Premier And Other
High Officials Listed
Among The Victims
BUCHAREST, Nov. 27—(TP)—Hot
heads of Rumania’s ascendant Iron
Guard slew 64, and perhaps more,
political prisoners in Bucharest's
Jilava prison today in bloody ven
geance for the killing of their
leader, Corneliu Codreanu, two
years ago.
Stern disapproval by both Pre
mier-Dictator Gen. Ion Antonescu
and the present Iron Guard lead
er, Vice Premier Horia Sima, was
expressed in a terse government
communique which officially an
nounced the unofficial purge after
several hours of silence.
Were Exhuming Bodies
The communique stated simply
that “some political prisoners”
were shot dead by “Legionnaires”
(Iron Guards) who were exhuming
the bodies of Codreanu and 13 of
his followers from the prison court
yard where they were buried dur
ing the late regime of King Carol.
It said those shot were "con
sidered principally responsible for
the crime against Codreanu and
other legionnaires under the last
regime.”
It did not give the number killed
or any other details, but unofficial
reports said there were 64. (A re
port carried in Berlin by DNB, of
ficial German news agency, said
that' even more may have been
slain.)
(Through the Rumanian censor
ship which was clamped on tight
early today, reports reaching Buda
pest through diplomatic channels
gave these grim details:
(A few hours before dawn, sev
eral hundred unidentified men
thrust their way into the prison
in the Transylvania foothills, seiz
ed the keys from the guards, and
swiftly unlocked the cells, one by
one.
Each Called Out
(Each prisoner they sought was
called out into the dimly-lit corri
dor and there shot dead without
ceremony.
(Some earlier reports had said
they were led to the brink of
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‘CURB’ON ARNOLD
DEMANDED BY AFL
Charges His Anti-Trust Di
vision With 'Destruc
tive Activities’
NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 27—Uti—
The American Federation of Labor
late today demanded a “curb” on
assistant attorney general Thur
man Arnold, charging his anti
trust division of the department
of justice with "unwarranted and
destructive activities against or
ganized labor.”
The Federation’s annual con
vention unanimously approved a
report asserting that the anti-trust
division had shown "malice” to
ward the AFL "alone” in its pros
ecutions of labor organizations.
At the same time the delegates,
coolly noting that a standing com
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 3)
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aval Board Plan-,:* Inspect Station Sites Here
_X . x ... _ _W
Seeking Field
For Possible
Dirigible Base
Captain Charles E. Rosen
dahl And Group Will Visit
City Next Week
REQUEST INFORMATION
Mayor Cooper Informed Of
General Specifications
For Suitable Site
Captain Charles E. Rosendahl
and a U. S. Naval board will visit
Wilmington next week on an in
spection trip to survey possible
sites for a lighter-than-air craft
station.
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper yes
terday received a request from
A. S. Farquhar, chief of staff,
headquarters Fifth naval' district,
Norfolk, Va., to furnish informa
tion on suitable sites in the Wil
mingon section.
Advised By Clark
“Captain Rosendahl will be in
Wilmington next week to confer
with you and others regarding the
proposed dirigible field, and he
will advise you later the day of
arrival,” Addison Hewlett, chair
man to the board of county com
missioners, was advised yesterday
in a wire from Congressman J.
Bayard Clark.
Mayor Cooper war informed by
Farquhar that a board will meet
in the near future to consider sites
and “it would be helpful if you
could send in descriptions of the
various sites which you consider
suitable.”
Mayor Cooper said naval offi
cials had listed such general speci
fications for a suitable site in the
Wilmington section as follows:
First, an area of approximately
640 acres, of shape preferably
square.
Second, general location, near
the coast, freedom from immed
iate adjacent populated area.s,
chimneys, and high tension wires,
sufficiently removed from airplane
operations to insure non-interfer
ence.
Want Level Area
Third, physical features, level op
susceptible of easy - grading, ab
sence of gullies and creeks, near
sea level, and adequate drainage.
Fourth, economic considerations,
water and power supply, trans
portation and communication fa
cilities, railroad spur onto station
required, proximity to adequate
housing for personnel, and availa
bility of necessary civilian labor.
“It would be preferable to have
the above information prior to the
meeting of the board,” Mayor
Cooper was advised, “and then
arrangements could be made for
a meeting of a delegation if nec
essary.”
According to an Associated
Press dispatch from Washington,
inspection of sites in North Caro
lina is part of a general study
being made of the entire Atlantic
coast, officials said, but no selec
tion would be made unless con
gress approved new dirigible con
struction. One official said diri
gibles would be “ideal” for the
neutrality patrol, and that con
gressional approval might be ob
tained for that reason.
North Carolina sites scheduled
to be inspected are near Moyock,
Shawboro, Elizabeth City, Hert
ford, Edenton, Columbia, Ply
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IrWantsBig Navy
henry ford
HENRY FORDCALLS
FOR MIGHTY NAVY
Industrialist Advocates
Fleet Powerful Enough To
Protect Both Shores
DETROIT. Nov. 27.—(Jv—Henry
pud declared himself today as a
“big navy” advocate.
A navy strong enough to protect
both shores of the United States
and equipped with “plenty of air
plane carriers,” he said, is one
of the most vital factors of Ameri
ta's defense.
The TT-year-old industrialist
made the statement while com
pleting plans with Rear Admiral
John Downes, for the establish
ment of a branch of the great
likes naval training station at his
River Rouge plant. Admiral Down
es is commandant o fthe ninth na
val district.
Explaining that young enlisted
men sent to the Ford plant from
the Great Lakes station would re
ceive three-months courses in vari
ous mechanical and technical
lines. Ford said they would also
be able to continue their academic
training.
"When they complete their
courses here.” Admiral Downes in
terposed, ‘‘they will go direct to
the fleet.”
Selected through qualifying tests
at the Great Lakes station, the
trainees will begin coming to the
1’ord plant on January 11. When
the program is fully developed it
h hoped to turn out 330 trained
electricians, machinists’ mates,
continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
a.OOOWONAVY
FUND ANNOUNCED
^ill Be Used To Provide
Facilities At Bases
Acquired From Britain
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — UP) —
A $*>0,000,000 allotment to provide
01 and other storage facilities and
* !p an(l Plane anchorages at the
„eiense bases recently acquired from
teat Britain was announced today
by Secretary Knox.
r At the same time, he disclosed that
".n ari‘aitional 31.908 naval and tna
[me reserves might be called to ac
,'e at any moment and had
een so a(lvised. He said that addi
1,na' reServes from New York and
l^^uuedju^Page Two; Col. 1)
Uty Commissioners Fail
T o AgreeOnTruckLane
dav f ?lty comrnissioners yester
ii ',u.ai ed to reach an agreement
f0I], mater of designating a truck
5idpLarounci the city for the con
pubuf!?,11 ?f the state highway and
The n°rks commission.
sesci„„C , board decided in special
leave kate ln the afternoon to
final = ,6 matter open and take
10 riv, , at its next meeting at
Kriday m°rning.
stounri ProPosed truck routes
'treek 1116 city on 10th and 11th
but tho jV,ere discussed at length,
toute b?“lgnation of a particular
tissimu.111 &l5le to all three com
out im ers’ could not be worked
Sev^,ed'ately
by ja 1 recommendations offered
5ioner nfES wade,‘ commis
of Public work, and W. Louis
Fisher, commissioner of finance,
failed for the want of either a
motion or a second. Mayor Thomas
E. Cooper, commissioner of public
saftey, said he was non-committal
in the matter.
At the weekly meeting of record
yesterday morning commissioner
Fisher reported he had received
word from A. F. Powell, of White
ville state highway commissioner
in this district, that the highway
commission will not select a truck
route for the city.
However, Fisher said he was in
formed, if the city commissioners
will select a route and will confer
with Powell in Whiteville Dec. 2,
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CAPTAIN BOSENDAHt,
JAPAN MAY MAKE
DEMAND ON DUTCH
Will Ask Apologies For
Series Of Alleged Injuries
In East Indies
TOKYO, Nov. 27.—(#1—Japan
soon will make a formal demand
on the Netherlands for apologies
and compensation for Japanese
victims of a series of alleged in
juries and affronts in the Dutch
East, Indies, it was predicted to
day by Domei, Japanese news
agency with close government con
nections.
me agency saia r oreigu iviuub
ter Yosuke Matsuoka would call
the Netherlands Minister, General
J. C. Pabst, to the foreign office
for this purpose and also would
demand guaranties for the future.
(The Japanese have been de
manding important economic con
cessions in the oil and rubber-rich
Dutch East Indies since the Neth
erlands was occupied in the great
German offensive through the low
countries last spring.
(The Dutch islands, now in a
weakened and relatively isolated
position, have been called by Japa
nese leader^ part of the “greater
East Asia” over which Japan pro
poses at least an economic leader
ship.)
Domei listed the following al-'
leged incidents involving Japa
nese:
A Dutch policeman assaulted and
seriously injured a Japanese resi
dent and his wife while they were
being examined at a police station.
The Japanese consul at Batavia
already has protested.
ITALIANS RESORT
TO AIR ATTACKS
Planes Seek To Break Up
Greek Preparations For
Further Assaults
ROME, Nov. 27—(#!—Reforming
their own battle lines in Albania,
the Italians said today they had
resorted to air attacks to break up
Greek preparations for further as
saults, slashing at highway junc
tions, bridges and troops and mo
tor columns.
While acknowledging a raid on
Turin, the nation’s chief industrial
city, on the northeastern plains of
Piedmont, the high command
countered recent British accounts
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WEATHER
forecast
North Carolina: Fair and colder
Thursday; fair Friday, continued cold.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday).
Temperature
1:30 a. m. 65; 7:30 a. m. 53; 1:30 p. m.
53; 7:30 p. m. 48; maximum 55; mini- ,
mum 48; mean 52; notmal 53.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 95; 7:30 a. m. 99: 1:30 p. m. ,
77; 7:30 p. m. 83. 1
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 1
0.06 inches. Total since first of the 1
month 1.86 inches. i
Tides For Today .
(From Tide Tables published by C.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low 1
Wilmington _ 8:48a 3:24a ]
9:05p 4:00p j
Masonboro Inlet- 6:3Sa 12:13a
6:51p 12:53p
Sunrise 6:57a; sunset 5:03p; moonrise c
5:56a; moonset 4:51p.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C.,
at 8 a. m., Nov. 25, 9.8 feet.
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j
ureeks Claim
Italy’s South
Front Broken
Crush ‘Systematically
Fortified’ Position Before
Town Of Pogradetz
BRITISH PLANES HELP
RAF Claims Highly Suc
cessful Raids On The Al
banian Port Of Valona
ATHENS, Nov. 27.—The Italians’
stubborn resistance on the south
ern sector of the Albanian front
with the aid of reinforcements of
fresh troops and planes sent from
Italy was declared tonight in mili
tary dispatches to have been
broken after fierce fighting.
The Greeks, said a government
spokesman, thus were “advancing
in a quite satisfactory manner,
mopping up the terrain.”
Before the town of Pogradetz,
Albania, which lies some 20 miles
to the north of the strategic and
captured Albanian base of Koritza,
the Greeks crushed a “systema
tically fortified” opposition, he
added.
British Planes Helps
“Thanks to British aviation the
reinforcements intended to bolster
the Italian troops tin that areaX
have been unable to reach their
destination.” ,
Further Greek advances were
claimed generally in the northern
and central sectors.
A British Royal Air Force com
munique said “highly successful
raids” had been made yesterday
on the Albanian port of Valona,
on the Adriatic and opposite the
Fort, of Otranto, from which Ital
ian troops and supplies presum
ably had been sent.
The communique said bombs hit
a big ship which appeared to be
sinking as the planes retired, and
that damage was also inflicted on
quays, the dock area and airport
buildings, despite heavy anti-air
craft fire and the presence of fas
cist fighting planes.
(An Italian high command com
munique said “enemy aircraft
bombed Valona without causing
casualties or damage.”)
The Greek high command limit
ed its communique to the state
ment that Greek troops “continue
with success in Albanian terri
tory” and listed six abandoned
Italian planes as part of the ma
terial seized in the Koritza area.
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U. S, REDS SEEK
BETTER RELATIONS
Negotiations Aimed At Im
proved Understanding
Revived In Capital
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — UP> — ’
Negotiations aimed at a better under
standing between the United States
and Soviet Russia were revived to- .
day coincident with indications of re- (
newed diplomatic interest here in the j
Far-Eastern situation. ]
Constantine Oumansky, Soviet am- (
bassador, called on Sumner Welles, !
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Toy Planes With A Serious Purpose
Dive-bombing, which plays such an important part in modern military technique, is one of the subjects
closely studied by U. S. Army flying cadets at Randolph Field, Tex. Above, four fledglings hold model
bombers to illustrate progressive position of plane in dive-bombing operation. White thread to model bat
tleship mark’s pilot’s line of sight. Instructor at righ t checks up on the student-pilots.
16 States Note Thanksgiving Today;
Stores, Public Offices Close Here
GRID GAME SCHEDULED
Several Churches Will Hold
Special Services; Fair
Weather Forecast
Wilmington will celebrate
Thanksgiving today in the usual
manner by closing up shop and
hovering over the festive board
in true Turkey Day style of old.
Business will be put aside for
the day, with practically all stores
to be closed together with the
banks, schools, city, county and
federal government offices.
The public library and the ABC
stores will also be closed.
Fox Chase
Many local nimrods will shoulder
guns through field and wood in
search of quail, deer and turkey
ind in nearby Brunswick a fox
;hase will be run with several
Wilmingtonians joining in the hunt.
The top attraction on schedule
'or today will be the New Hanover
High school-Oxford Orphanage foot
ball game at Legion stadium at
!:30 o’clock. The game will be for
;he benefit of the Masonic Or
bhanage.
me weatrier is eriietiai uc
dear and crisp in true Thanksgiv
ng manner and in general the day
vill be one of relaxation and
imusement for the populace of
iVilmington.
Several churches in the city plan
o observe Thanksgiving with spe
dal services this morning and to
light. The Temple of Israel, First
Christian and Fifth Avenue Metii
idist churches will hold a union
lervice, while the other churches
vill hold separate services of
hanksgiving.
The Rev. Walter B. Freed will
ireach on "America, Bless God"
it services at the St. Paul’s Luth
eran church at 8 o’clock this morn
ng. Dr. A. D. P. Gilmour will
ireach at the First Presbyterian
hurch at 8 a. m., and the Rev.
!. L. Blanton will speak at 7 o’
Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Boost In Advertising
Forecast By Jordan
ATLANTA, Nov. 27.—(AP)—
Clarence L. Jordan, executive
vice president of N. W. Ayer
& Son, Inc., advertising agen
cy, asserted here today that
more advertising would be
placed in newspapers in 1941
than ever before.
Jordan explained in an in
terview that in depression years
national advertisers sought a
thinly spread coverage, but
that now it was imperative that
they intensify campaigns in lo
cal markets—a job, he said,
that only newspapers can do.
He declared that the war in
Europe had failed to interfere
with intelligent and scientific
advertising, and pointed out
that the Ayer office in London
had earned more in the past
10 months than in any other
10-month period since the
branch was established.
British psychology in the
face of Nazi assaults, he said,
calls for “business as usual.”
ANTI-PARKING LAW
REPEALED BY CITY
Action Taken After Large
Delegation Appears At
Meeting Of Board
The city commissioners yesterday
repealed the ordinance' against the
parking of automobiles on paved
streets between 1 a. m., and 6 a. m.,
after a delegation had appeared be
fore the board and requested that
such action be taken.
Last night Mayor Thomas E.
hooper instructed the police force to
bring a halt to their campaign of
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
In the confusing babble of Brit
sh debate over the war outlook,
me thing stands out:
Mr. J. Bull, the typical Briton,
yants action, immediate, aggres
;ive action, against his German
talian foes. Greek successes
igainst an Italian invader have
vhetted his appetite for victory. ,
ifazi-Fascist bombing of England
las just made him angry and i
ager to hit back hard.
The mass of Britishers wants to
ie done with defensive warfare
nd get to the business of attack
it whatever cost. There is a sin- '
ster portent in that for Messrs, i
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V
PLYMOUTH REJOICES
Washington Offices And
Wall Street Markets Will
Be Open As Usual
(By The Associated Press)
It’s Thanksgiving today in 16
states which disregarded the letter
but not the spirit of President Roose
velt’s proclamation — that "we give
thanks of our preservation” from the
“calamity and sorrow” which has
befallen others.
The principal celebration will be at
Plymouth, Mass., where a re-enact
ment of the Pilgrims’ first Thanks
giving will be presented. The tradi
tional last - Thursday - in - November
will be observed in all six of the New
England states and the weather
bureau promised an old-fashioned
snow storm to go with it.
utner states
The other states having Thanks
giving today, instead of last Thurs
day as the President proclaimed, are
Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa,
South Dakota, Pennsylvania and
Nevada.
Men called into the arm^r under
the selective service program appear
ed to be the principal sufferers from
the dual Thanksgiving situation
(after the turkeys). Draftees from
Pennsylvania and Kansas, for whom
last Thursday was just a turkey-less
weekday at home, will find them
selves encamped today in adjoining
states where the celebration is all
over.
Government offices in Washington
and the markets in Wall Street will
be open as usual but the “second
Thanksgiving” will see a number of
football games, including three in
states where it’s just plain Thurs
day.
Dies Committee Reveals
Handbook On Reds’ Work
WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.—MV
rhe Dies commitee made public
onight a 900-page handbook on
nmmunism containing documents
o show that the communist party
ilanned to oppose any “imperialist
itar” by impeding activities of bel
igerent nations.
Containing 231 exhibits, without
ommittee comment, the “red
iaper” traced communism from
he first manifesto to comparative
y recent observations on the cur
ent European struggle.
One of the exhibits, which the
ommittee said was taken from
The Communist,” a magazine pub
ished by the United States branch
f the party in 1934, quoted the
xecutive committee of the com
nunist international as urging pre
parations “for the transformation
of the imperialist war into civil
war.” i
The quotation continued: 1
“In addition to increased agita
tion, the communist party must a
by all means in their power insure
the practical organization of mass i
action, preventing the shipment of ;
arms and troops, hindering the1
executive of orders for belligerent 1
countries, organizing demonstra- 1
tions against military maneuvers, <
etc., and must intensify political
educational work in the army and i
the navy.” i
The document showed that the :
communist party at first condemn- i
ed the Nazi invasion of Poland, I
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British Warships Chase
Italian Force Homeward
LONDON, Nov. 27.— W —The
British Mediterranean fleet attacked
a big Italian force at “extreme
range” somewhere in the vicinity
Df Sicily today, the admiralty an
nounced here, and the Fascists
ivere declared to have fled for their
aase under pursuit.
In the RAF’s offensive, British
jombers were said officially to
lave sunk a 7,600-ton German tank
>r this afternoon off the Frisian
islands—which lie in the North Sea
>ff the German and Holland coasts
—and to have “successfully st
acked” a second fuel carrier.
The air ministry said the planes
ised aerial torpedoes, diving to
vithin a few feet of the sea before
•eleasing them. This mode of st
ack was similar to that which the
British said they used effectively
•n the Italian fleet in the naval
4.
base ot Taranto, southern Italy,
Nov. 11.
The first official story of tha
action in the Mediterranean said:
“Information has been received
that our naval forces in the Medi
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