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i(wi > "I" iJ*- ^'tV\OAci\ I VOL. 74—NO. 104___ ;_WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1941_ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 GERMAN PRESS FLAYS F. D. R.’S BRITISH AID TALK + A + ★ A A X x x xxx xxx xxx xxx * - Adolf Hitler Promises Men Victory In ’41 Says War Must Go On To Destruction Of The ‘Re sponsible Elements’ DENIES WORLD GOAL Many Nazi Papers Charge F. R. With ‘Co-Respon sibility’ For War BY ALVIN J. STEINKOPF BERLIN, Dec. 31.— UP) —Adolph Hitler promised his fighting men and the people of the reich today that 1941 will bring them total vic tory and, on a nod from his gov ernment, the German press re leased a torrent of caustic denun ciation of President Roosevelt's fireside talk on helping the British. The explosive editorials were timed to coincide with two New Year’s messages from the fuehrer— one to the soldiers and the other to all the Nazi party members— and with others from Hitler’s chief lieutenants. Refering to Germany’s national “Go.t Mitt Uns” slogan, Hitler as sured Germany that the Almighty is on their side and will stay there if the people keep their courage and faith. With words exceeding even his usual cigor of expression, he denied that Germany or Italy would attempt to conquer the world. Apparently dropping his former theme of destruction of the British empire, the ruehrer did declare that the war must go on to de struction of the "responsible ele ments.” ROOSEVELT’S STATEMENT President Roosevelt said: "The Nazi masters of Germany have made it clear that they not only intend to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Eu rope and then to use the resources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world.” He also said: “I believe that the Axis powers are not going to win this war. I base that belief on the latest and best information.” 1 F. R. NOT MENTIONED I Hitler did not mention Mr. Roose velt. That was left to the press. But he did say that accusations he 1 intends a world conquest were “infamous lies.” Here are excerpts from the mes sage of Hitler and his chief lieu tenants: Hitler—(to the fighting forces): | “1941 will bring completion of the (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 7) ROADS ARE CUT AT HOLLY RIDGE Work Started On Several Permanent Buildings At Firing Center HOLLY RIDGE, Dec. 31—Work was started here today on several permanent buildings which will constitute the Wilmington Anti Aircraft Firing Center and the lay out for other structures on the camp site was staked off. Roads were also being cut across the camp reservation today to al (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) War . Interpretive BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON The seventeenth month of the war in Europe opens this New Year’s day with grim portents from both London and Berlin that it will be fought to a finish; that 1941 will see the crisis, the begin ning of the end. The arch foes who personify the British-Axis struggle, Prime Min ister Churchill and Adolf Hitler, have given victory pledges to their people and announced that there will be no peace without victory, without utter destruction of one or the other and all he stands for. ‘“Peace?”’ said Churchill, glow ring at the wreckage left by Ger man bombs in the city of London. “When we have beaten them.” “Now this war will be carried on to its ultimate consequence—,” Hitler thundered in a New Year’s (Continued on Page Five; CoL 4). V ) n r\ ry r\ n r\ ^ Greeks Oust Italians From Heights Near Klisura 500Fascists Are Captured In Campaign Reinforcements Are Beaten Back And Italian Tank Attack Is Repulsed MANY CRAGS TAKEN Better Weather And Wide spread Activity Of War planes Aids Greeks ATHENS, Jan. 1—(Wednesday) —(S’)—The Greek army pounced on enemy reonforcements and cap tured 500 prisoners in disloding Italians from heights near the key town of Klisura, in central Albania, a spokesman declared early today. The reinforcements, the spokes man said, had been rushed to the Klisura sector to halt the Greek advance on that mountain junction of the road leading to Valona, Ad riatic port now the main objective of the Greek offensive. xanKs Kepuisea A general headquarters commu nique reported the repulse of a tank attack by the Italians on an undisclosed sector. One. tank, eight guns and other material were taken, the commu nique said, and reported in addi tion that two Italian airplanes were ■shot uowh dn Tuesday. In the coastal sector north of Chimara, Greek’s army of the snows was reported to have cap tured all the fortified crags after an anguished five-day battle. Capture of the 500 near Klisura brought to 1200 the number of pris oners taken within the past few days, the spokesman pointed out. “You read last night’s commu nique about the Italian battalion captured with its commander and his entire staff, in all 700 men with equipment, this occurred in the Drinos river sector,” he said. “Other units of our troops re pulsed the enemy after stiff re sistance on his part on heights near Klisura. Five hundred sol diers and officers, belonging to fresh troops Italy sent in order to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) FOOD SITUA1 )N IN EIRE SERIOUS Agriculture Chief Says Sup plies Of Imported Food May Be Halted DUBLIN, Dec. 31. — 1The food position of Eire is rapidly becom ing more serious, Agriculture Min ister James Ryan warned in a broadcast from Dublin tonight. Stressing the danger of a short age, Ryan said, “I am quite posi tive that within a very rhort peri od supplies of imported food may be cut off entirely. “If we are to survive the dan gers that lie ahead, all essential (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) WEATHER forecast North Carolina — Mostly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday followed by rain Thursday and in the mountains late Wednesday or Wednesday night, slightly wTarmer Wednesday. (By TJ. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.) Temperature 1:30 a. m. 43; 7:30 a. m. 37; 1:30 p. m. 56; 7:30 p. m. 50; maximum 58; mini mum 37; mean 48; normal 47. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 78; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. 40; 7:30 p. m. 66. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p m. 0.00 inches: total ' since first of the month 2.92 inches. Tides for Today (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _a 7:11a 12:26p 7:40p Masonboro Inlet _10:15a 3.50a 10:28p 4:26p Sunrise 7:18a; sunset 5:14p; moonrise 9:48 a; moonset 9:21p. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 a. m., Dec. 26, 11.2 feet. v .(Continued on Page. Two; Col. 8) 1 HERE’S HOW BLUETHENTHAL AIRMEN | —- V ' ^b ■ '—- — . —■ ■■ ■ ' ■ " ■ — . ........ ' - Here is Bluethenthal airport, located on the Gordon road, as it looks today to visiting airmen. One of the 3,000 feet ong, 100-feet wide runways has been covered with a rock base and the dotted lines show where the other two runways are to be constructed. The east-west runway will be 3,000 feet long and 100 feet wide, the north-south stretch will be 2,150 long and 100 wide and the northeast-southwest runway will be 3,000 by 100 feet. In the distance the hangar, which will be moved 600 feet to the west, can be seen, and in the foregrounds one can discern Smith creek which ambles along not far from the field. Work of building the runways is expected to be completed by March 1, the present project being carried out by WPA at a cost of approximately $200,000. (Photo courtesy Pennington Flying Service^_ ITALIAN FACTORY ! DICTATOR CHOSEN Nation Takes Action To Tighten Her War Econo my Another Notch ROME, Dec. 31. —(AO—Italy tight ened her war economy another notch today by establishing a vir tual dictatorship over her indus try. This all-powerful post fell to 45 year-old Renato Ricci, minister of guilds and veteran Fascist party stalwart. He will have the final say in the handling and distribu tion of all raw materials and will determine which products are to be turned over to the Army and which may be left for civilian con sumption. The announcement of the strict control over industry followed by four days the appointment of Giuseppe Tassinari, minister of ag riculture, as dictator of food with control over production and con sumption, exports and imports, and distribution to both civilians and the armed forces. Still another decree, published to day in the official gazette, clamped down severe contol on the slaugh ter of cattle and hogs. The live stock section of the National Fed eration of Provincial Consortiums was assigned the task of determin (Continued on Pace Two: Col. 5) Airport Runways Paving May Be Finished March 1 SPENDING $200,000 | Force Of 180 Men Engaged In Grading Runways And Working At Quarry BY SAM RAGAN Staff Writer) An almost barren savannah that was good bird-hunting territory thirty years ago is finally—after fifteen years of manicuring — be ginning to look like an airport. I am referring to Bluethenthal Airport, located a hop and a skip out of Wilmington on the Gordon road—and when the present face lifting job is over it will be about as nice a field to glide a plane into as you will find in this section. There has been a lot of talk about Bluethenthal Airport recent ly—talk that Uncle Sam’s Army might want to use it for defense purposes. Whether the boys in khaki will use the field, I don’t know, but currently $200,000 is be ing spent to give New Hanover county an airport that will meet just about any requirements. I went out yesterday to have a look at what’s going on at the field and found something like a hun dred men working. They were (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Defense Council Will • Convene Here Today A meeting of the executive committee of the Wilmington Defense Council was called for this morning at 11 o’clock in the Cape Fear club, corner of Second and Chestnut streets, by R, B. Page, general chairman, yesterday. Members are B. B. Cameron, Julian Fields, A1 Jones, Chief of Police J. C. Rourk, Sergeant J. R, Smith, W. M. Hewlett, W. D. McCaig, J. Holmes Davis, Louis T. Moore, Fred Willetts, the Rev. Walter B. Freed, F. P. O’Crow ley, J. N. Alexius, Sheriff C. David Jones, Chairman Addison Hewlett and other members of county board, Mayor Thomas E. Cooper and other members of city board. TRAINING AVAILABLE RALEIGH, Dec. 31.— UP)—Avia tion training financed by the federal government as a part of the national defense program is available at N. C. State college for 60 youths, Prof. L. R. Parkinson, head of the depart ment of aeronautical engineering, an nounced today. STATE’S BANKERS TO AID DEFENSE Credit Resources Will Be Placed Behind Develop ment Of Factories RALEIGH, Dec. 31.—UP)—North , Carolina bankers, in a move which may mean additional large-scale industrial expansion in the state, announced today that the full weight of their credit resources would be placed behind the “legiti mate” development of Tar Heel factories to meet the demands of the defense purchasing program. The announcement was made by the State Bankers association, which said that a committee on “bankers national defense loans” had been appointed to meet “all legitimate” demands for credit in connection with industrial develop ment under the defense program. A statement issued by the asso ciation said the committee “has been set up to assist the Federal Reserve bank in carrying out the task assigned to it by the national defense commission of making what amounts to a complete in ventory of the manufacturing plant facilities of the nation, and mak ing available to purchasing offi cers of the Army and Navy the facilities of these plants to supply (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) CROWDS IN LONDON GREET NEW YEAR WITH CRY OF ‘TO HELL WITH HITLER’ LONDON, Jan. 1.—(Wednes day)—UP)—in the unrelenting darkness of the blackout but with the crash of German bombs misisng, New Year revellers gathered today in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral and greet ed with cries of “to hell with Hit ler.” The merrymakers clambered over hose lines and, surrounded by charred structures of build ings set on fire in the terrific Nazi assault Sunday night sang “Aulci Lang Syne” with smoke blackened firemen still on duty. Londoners in the fashionable West End cheered and sang as the old year passed on. The great ring in Piccadilly— its blazing lights of former years extinguished for the war had its revelers but most of the bomb-wearied residents remain Year. Through the night, search lightsand anti-aircraft guns were idle in the peace which Briton knew was only temporary. Bib Ben’s 12 calm notes tolling the hour echoed through the city’s streets. The New Year began without a sign of German activity over Britain, apparently because of a continuation of bad weather which grounded bombers Mon day night. The Dover Strait pathway of bombers—was cloudy and foggy. Behind the blackout curtains and double doors, night clubs were jammed with cheering, sing civilians and members of the armed forces, and there was many a quiet home celebration. Hardly noting the “truce, if such it was, the government busied itself with steps to com pel every Briton to participate in defense work against fire bombs of the sort with which German raiders wrought so much havoc in London Sunday night. Announcirg this intention, Herbert Morrison, the minister of home security, nevertheless urged the people not to wait for “all that,” but immediately to form a civil defense home guard so that not a single building in British towns would be left un watched. “Compulsion,” he said in a ra dio broadcast, “will apply to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) F. R. Raises Possibility Of British-United States Materials-Arms Trade WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—(ff») —The possibility of receiving payment in raw materials for some of the war implements that may be loaned or leased to Great Britain was raised today by President Roosevelt, as congress squared away for a battle-royal on the whole lease-lend program. At a press conference, Mr. Roosevelt said that rubber, tin and other commodities might prove acceptable repayment for American fighting machines sent to England and destroyed beyond repair by Nazi bombs. The prin cipal problem just now, he indi cated, was drafting legislation which would assure the return of the implements or their equiv alent in other goods. He thought it would prove partiqularly difficult to include language covering the details of future contingencies, and was in dined to believe that general provisions would prove the most workable. A little earlier the President’s secretary, Stephen T. Early, told reporters that Mr. Roosevelt probably would discuss the lend ing-leasing plan in his annual message to the new congress, to be delivered in person on Mon day. But, he added, Mr. Roose velt probably had not decided whether to go into detail or cover the subject in a general way. In any event, he added, the entire proposal would be put before congress soon after the session begins. The day also brought a strik ing development in the aid-to Britain program with the an nouncement that England had purchased three new flying boats (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Josephus Daniels Lauds Mexican-U. S. Relations FEELING IS CLOSER Editor-Diplomat Plans To Return To Mexico Post Within A Month BY W. JOYNES MacF ARE AN ' RALEIGH, Dec. 31. —UP)—Jose phus Daniels, a dyed-in-the-wool newspaper editor though he is am bassador to Mexico, clipped papers today at his old editorial desk as he described relations between the United States and Mexico as “the best they have ever been.” The 78-year-old editor-diplomat said he would return to his poet within a month, and plans to write two more volumes of his remi niscences. “Feeling Is Closer” “The feeling between Mexico and the United States is closer and relations are better than ever be fore and growing better all the time,” Daniels said. “This is also true of the United States and rela tions with all countries south of the Rio Grande.” The “good neighbor” policy of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, followed by the Ha vana agreement, Daniels said, “has brought about a continental, solidarity that had been the dream of statesmen for 100 years.” “I am quite confident,” he said, “that future relations between the United States and Mexico will be more cordial, cooperative and friendly than rhey have been. “President Cardenas, who retired recently after six years of service, and President Camacho, recently inaugurated, and the leaders of thought" in Mexico have shown an earnest desire to cooperate in the truest spirit in the good neighbor policy and it is strengthening all the time. “Too long did the people of the United States and the people of Pan-American countries have their eyes turned exclusively to Europe. They understand now it is first and foremost that this hemisphere see eye to eye and work together. “I am certain 1940 will see a cementing of relations such as en visioned by Bolivar and Monroe and other statesmen of a century ago.” As he talked of international af fairs, the blunt-nosed scissors that (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) Mexico Makes Payment To U. S. For Damages WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—(/P) —Mexico today made its seventh payment of $500,000 on the settle ment of approximately $5,000,000 to United States citizens for per sonal and property damages dur ing revolutions between 1910 and 1920. The half-million dollar check was presented to Secretary of State Cordell Hull by Dr. Francis Castillo Najera, Mexican ambas sador, before an audience of photographers and reporters in the secretary’s office. The ambassador also presented a check for $24,400 to the secre tary representing interest due in the settlement. ____ - ---- NEW YEAR GIVEN NOISY \ XOMI All Governmental Office! In City Plan To Observe Holiday Today New Year was ushered in witl the bang of fire-crackers, the blow ing of horns, singing and cheerinj in Wilmington last night—and thi whole program went off without thi slightest tinge of formality. However, with that part over, thi city prepared for the usual quie observance of the holiday today. Several of the churches welcomec in the New Year with watch serv ices last night, and others arrang ed for special services this morn ing. All governmental offices, city county, state, and federal, plan ned to close today, while a large number of the retail stores weri slated to observe at least a hal holiday for their employes. The local branch office of the Carolina Motor club, Miss Minnie A. Payne, manager, said, will be open today from 9 a. m. until ‘ p. m., for those persons who de sire to secure their 1941 state autc tags. All the banks of the city, ABC stores and general offices of the At (Continued on Page Four; Col. 7) 500 Victims Of German Sea Raiders Are Rescued SINGAPORE, Malay States, Jan. 1—(Wednesday)—DPI—Five hundred men, women and children landed by German commercial raiders Dec. 21 on the Emarau Island of the Bismarck Archipelago have been rescued by an Australian ship and taken ta Australia, it was an nounced officially today. The rescued persons included British, French and Norwegian na tionalities. There were 70 women and seven children in the group. Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, commander-in-chief of Britain’s China station, said the situation was not as alarming as it first ap peared as the survivors came from ships over several months and not \ from a sudden wave of sinkings within the last few weeks. The passengers and crewmen were from the following ships: Ragitane, Holmwood, Notou, Ring wood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster, Vinni, Turkaina and Komata, it was said. The admiral said both the Brit ish and Australian navies were “well aware of the activities ol the raiders and appropriate meas ures are being taken.” He said that in view of the vast expanse of ocean to be covered it might take some time to bring the raiders “too book” but that they would be accounted for eventual ly. ' 4
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