ffl RECRUITING
staff enlarged
ir Basden, Of Burgaw, As
fji To Duty In Wil
slg Bington Office
1 Ba'den, of Burgaw, chief
0sear i man, has been assigned
fCC"! with the local sub-station
c vaval recruiting serv
ile o- 3
of Basden marks the
time in the history of the lo
* .'ib-station that the recruiting
ls““cl has totaled three mem
iIS'. Deloach, boatswain mate,
E> ,jss and T. R. Talbert, ma
*1 t mate, first class, said the
addition was necessary
!‘lieve pressure of present over
’• naval recruiting work in
^teastern North Carolina.
^ new assignment will permit
recruiter to remain ir charge
<* i0Cal sub-station and the
ier two to circulate through the
* allotted in the counties of
f’ Hanover. Brunswick, Bladen,
!Lbus. Pende*, Duplin, and
f‘IS 0f Sampson, Robeson, and
kloW. _ . _
1 native of Pender county, Bas
first enlisted in the avy at
i-Tlocal sub-station on December
: |926, and has served aboard
I' u s. S. Oglala, mine layer,
framing and Arkansas, battle
* s, Blakeley. Mugford, and Mof
Kt destroyers.
Basden was serving with the
Caribbean sea patrol recently
‘”en ordered to the naval recruit
stool at Hampton Roads. Va., and
1‘, Raleigh district headquarters
’*ce for a short time under in
ductions from Lieutenant Com
ber McFarland W. Wood, of
>ter in charge. 1
GREW TAKES ISSUE
WITH JAP LEADER
(Continued from Page One)
he Japanese program the door
jtube shut nowhere and to none,
id this program envisages no
conquest, no oppression, no ex
ploitation. . . .
' The foreign minister knows the
American people stand for certain
lisss. among which, on one. hand,
ire their obligations and on the
other their rights.”
"The United States, Grew con
iced, must consider not only ‘‘ex
pressed intentions, regardless of
■he persuasive garb in which they
aay be dressed.” but ‘‘facts and
actions too.” 5
holly ridge camp
WORK PROGRESSING
• _
(Continued from Page One)
ice, is located between the store
of C. C. Hines and the railroad
tracks.
The contractors who are building
the camp, Grannis, Higgins,
Thompson and McDevitt com
pany, have opened offices in Wil
mington in the building formerly
occupied by the A. and P. Tea
company store on Market street
between Front and Second streets.
It is understood these offices are
only temporary and will be moved
to Holly Ridge as soon as office
buildings here are complete.
Meanwhile Onslov’ county as
signed four county police officers
to full time duty there.
Another building is being erected
three-quarters of a mile south of
Holly Ridge to serve the North
Carolina State Employment serv
ice as an office. Still another time
checker’s building is being erected
on the road which runs to Maple
Hill.
This road, it was learned yester
day morning from Lieut. Alden E.
Spees, will be closed after the
camp is built. During construction
it will be kept open for use but on
completion of construction it will
be closed to traffic and another
road will be built around the reser
vation to join U. S. Highway 17 at
a point south of the reservation.
Wednesday afternoon Col. Mont
gomery, construction quartermas
ter, conferred at Holly Ridge
with C. C. Hines, Capt. John Nel
son, state fisheries commissioner,
and four health officials relative
to sewerage disposal. An area along
the sound was toured in hope of
finding some point at which the
effluent from the sewerage dispos
al system could be dimped.
After the conference it was de
cided, due to the fact that a large
number of oysters are taken from
that section of the sound, that a
complete sewerage treatment plant
will be installed.
The effluent will be treated and
chlorinated before it is allowed to
go into streams which flow into
the sound, guaranteeing that nc
disease germs will come from the
sewerage plant into the sound.
A. C. L. Makes Progress
Forces of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad company were making
speedy progress yesterday in the
construction of a 50 car storage
track.
Relative to passenger transpor
tation from Wilmington to the
camp site here it was learned yes
terday that the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad has' agreed with army of
ficials to furnish "what service is
needed as needed” but to date
there has been no conference rel
ative to any bus service.
Buses would find it difficult to
get to the camp site here while
construction is in progress due to
the increased traffic anticipated on
U. S. highway 17, it was pointed
out, but such service may be in
stituted for the convenience of sol
diers after the camp is completed.
Between 300 and 400 men were
at work yesterday morning on the
camp site and other workmen were
being employed by private parties
doing building in the town of Holly
Ridge.
Work has been begun on a drug
store to be erected by the Smith
Drug company, of New Bern, and
work is expected to begin shortly
on a theatre to be erected for J.
B. Jenkins, theatre operator of
Maysville and Trenton, and Leo
Arringer. Pulley Brothers of Clin
ton are also expected to erect a
cafe in the town. In addition the
grocery store and filling station
operated by C. C. Hines, which
contains the postoffice, is to be
moved back from the ro- ’ and a
modem filling station is to be
erected there.
Meanwhile, a committee appoint
ed by R. B. Page, chairman of the
executive committee of the Wil
mington Defense Council, started
plans yesterday for the erection of
a recreational building to be used
by camp workers and soldiers here.
It is expected that the building
will be erected on the area behind
the city hall at Fourth and Prin
cess streets.
H. R. Cavenaugh, member of the
committee, said last night that
they met and discussed plans and
that O. G. Foard, architect, is ex
pected to have plans for the struc
ture ready by this morning. Caven
augh said that he wiT work on an
estimate of the cost today. W. R.
Dosher, is chairman of the com
mittee.
The plans and specifications for i
the building will be presented along
with a request for necessary funds
for its erection at a joint meeting
of the city and county commis
sioners Monday I
TWO ARE INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
J. H. Ganey And W. L. Hobbs,
Of Delco, Are Hurt In
Car-Truck Crash
Two persons were painfully but
not seriously injured in a head-on
car - truck smash about 11:45
o’clock yesterday morning at the
end of the Brunswick river bridge,
state highway patrolmen reported.
J. H. Ganey, of Delco, was ad
mitted to James Walker Memorial
hospital for treatment of severe
lacerations of the forehead and
tongue, and W. L. Hobbs, of Delco,
suffered minor body bruises and
lacerations, investigating officers
said.
They were injured, officers said,
when a car operated by Hobbs and
a truck driven by James D. Wil
liams, negro, of Leland, collided
head-on, with heavy damages to
both machines resulting.
Ganey was an occupant of the
car driven by Hobbs, and was re
leased from the local hospital aft
er receiving treatment.
State highway patrolmen said
Williams was arrested on charges
of reckless driving with i-iuries to
persons and damages to property
resulting and failure to have a
state driver’s permit.
The Hobbs car was proceeding
toward Wilmington and the truck
operated by Wiliams had just en
t red the bridge, headed out of
town, when the smash occurred. 1
GERMAN PLANES
CARRY ITALIANS
INTO ALBANIA
(Continued (torn Page One)
that Germany was providing only
the planes and the pilots, but these
were said to have gone to Italy in 1
response to urgent pleas from Pre
mier Mussolini. Italian Alpini
made up the bulk of the air-borne
reinforcements, it was understood.
Carry 20 Men Each
Military sources said that each
Junkers carried 20 fully-equipped
men on the short hop across the
Adriatic to near the battle lines
and that each would cross several
times a day.
In the Norwegian campaign, un
der similar weather and terrain
conditions, the Nazi transports
utilized frozen lakes for landing
fields.
The Greek drive has left only
Valona and Durazzo as ports cap
able of handling large-scale, sea
borne reinforcements for the bat
tered Fascists.
Valona and Durrazo frequently
are bombed by the British Royal
Air Force in cooperation with the
Greeks.
On Albania’s peaks the temper
ature ranged as low as 22 below,
Fahrenheit. Greek sentries were
ordered changed every half hour
to keep them from freezing to
death.
The Greeks, like other modern
soldiers engaged in war against
the white background of snow,
wore sheets for camouflage.
“Despite bad weather,” said one
front dispatch, “Greek columns
are continuing their advance, es
pecially in the central sector
where, after heavy artillery fire,
they reached Klisura.
“The Italians abandoned 1 their
positions, where they had been
fighting for three days, and left
in the hands of the Greek troops
abundant war material and quite
a few prisoners.”
But at Klisura as well as at
Tepeleni the Greeks refrained from
entering the reportedly abandoned
towns. Instead, Greek army chief
tains massed their heavy artillery
and poured shells over the towns
into hastily entrenched Italian po
sitions in the background hills. 1
U. S. SPEEDS UP
AID TO BRITAIN
(Continued from Page One)
as many tactical planes — bombers,
pursuit ships and certain observa
tion craft—as the Army did during
November, it was said. Actual num
bers were not disclosed, on the
ground that this was valuable mili
tary information.
Aside from the administration’s
policy of all aid “short of war,” one
of the reasons the British received
such a preponderance of America’s
warplane production was the Army’s
action in exchanging current produc
tion for later model ships.
Last spring, for instance, the Army
agreed to let the British buy some
of the Curtiss P-40 pursuit ships it
; xd ordered. The Army’s original
order, greatly reduced, was filled by
the last of October. Thus virtually
all production of P-40’S is now going
to the British.
At the time it reduced its own or
der of this type plane, however, the
Army placed orders with the Curtiss
"Wright company for great numbers
of modem ships embodying lessons
learned in the European war. Deliv
eries of one type of these are sched
uled to start in February, of another
in April. __
EMPTY STOCKING
REACHES $1,094
(Continued from Page One)
button to the Empty Stocking fund
today. It is only through the gener
osity of the more fortunate people
of Wilmington that these boys and
girls can realize the joys of Christ
mas.
Do your part to see that there are
no empty stockings in this city and
county on Christmas morning.
You may make a contribution
either through J. Henry Gerdes,
treasurer of the fund, at the Peo
ples Savings Bank and Trust com
pany, or at the Star-News offices.
All contributions will be acknowl
edged.
ihe tund to date:
Previously acknowledged_ $882.43
A Friend_ 5.00
Janie Ann & Teenie_ 5.00
Employees Freight Claim
Dept. A. C. L. R. R_ 13.25
Empli ees Vice Pres, and
Gen. Mgrs. Office, A. C.
L. R. R._ 4.60
Employees Trans, and Tele
graph Office, A. C. L.
R. R__ 5.35
Employees Legal Dept., A.
C. L. R. R. __ 8.50
Employees Auditors Dish.
Office, A. C. L. R. R. ... 8.00
Employees Auditors Dis.
Time Keeping, A. C. L._ 7.25
Dor Nell and Edward Pitt _ 2.00
Beth and Virginia_ 2.00
Efird Efficiency Club_ 15.00
Sandy _ 5.00
Judy_ 1.00
The Texas Co. Terminal
Employees_ 7.75
Employees of Freight Traf
fic Dept. A. C. L. R. R. __ 12.10
Employees of Nat’l. Biscuit
Co., Bread and Cracker
Dept. - 10.55
Employees of U. S. Engi
neer Office_ 9.15
A Friend_ 1.00
Home Room 213 N. H.
H. S.- 1.25
A. Mj B.- 3.00
K. M. C... 1.00
St. Magdaline’s Guild St.
James Church_ 1.00
Gene_ 5.00
Three Old Men_ 3.00
Wrightsville Beach Volun
tary Fire Dept._ 6.38
Mrs. A. M. S._ 1.00
A Friend _ 1.00
Employees Auditors Receipt
Office A. C. L._ 22.37
A Friend_ 20.00
Home Service Stores_ 25.00
Total-•__$1,094.93
WEATHER
(Continued from Page One)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19. — (JP) —
Weather bureau records of temperature
and rainfall for the 24 hours ending
8 p. m.:
Station High Low Prec.
Asheville, cd- 46 30 0.00
Atlanta, rn- 45 36 0.00
Birmingham, rn_51 41 0.23
Boston, cl- 39 25 0.00
Burlington, cd_ 33 23 0.00
Charlotte, cd_ 48 33 0.00
Chicago, rn _ 40 33 0.09
Detroit, cd_ 38 28 0.00
Fort Worth, p c __ 62 41 0.00
Galveston, cC _ 66 56 0.40
Kansas City, p c- 42 34 0.01
Bos Angeles, cd_ 65 51 0 44
Memphis p c- 59 44 0.02
Miami - 78 75 0.02
New Orleans, cd_ 54 54 0 00
New York, p c- 40 31 0.00
Norfoll , cd_ 47 34 0 00
Richmond, cd_ 48 23 0.00
St. Louis, p c- 49 35 0.01
San Francisco, cd_ 66 44 0.00
Savannah, rn_ 56 42 0 00
Washington, cl- 45 29 0.00
Wilmington, cd_ 54 37 0.00
BRITAIN MAY ORDER
3 BILLION WORTH
OF AMERICAN ARMS
(Continued from Page One)
studying five or six plans, among
them a proposal for a defense
“high command ’ headed by secre
taries Stimson and Knox and Wil
liam S. Knudsen, production chief
of the defense commission.
While it was expected that there
would be some greater, centrali
zation of authority, Early indi
cated that establishment of a cen
tral purchasing agency was un
likely. A reporter said he assumed
that the army and navy would not
be deprived of their contractual
powers, and Early replied that he
thought the assumption was well
taken.
At present, thje army and navy
each contracts for its own needs,
although all contracts are cleared
through the defense commission.
However, the commission has only
advisory powers.
It was reported that much of
a lengthy cabinet session today
was given over to expressions from
the various members of their views
on what might be done to ex
pedite the defense program. No
decisions were reached, it was in
dicated, although no cabinet of
ficer would discuss the meeting.
Reports circulated in official
quarters that Knudsen probably
would be given the chairmanship
if the President approved the idea
of a three-man defense high com
mand with the secretaries of war
and navy as two of the members 5
U. S. PLANNING TO
IMPROVE MORALS
NEAR ARMY CAMPS
(Continued from Page One)
modest pay, and “moral conditions
in one of these neighboring towns
were an even worse influence.” 5
PROMISES COOPERATION
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 19.—
<iP)—Governor Frank M. Dixon said
today military authorities at Ft.
Benning, Ga., would be “given every
cooperation by the state” in control
ling any vice conditions at Phenix
City, Ala., across the Chattanoochee
river from the tremendous army
post.
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