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DISTRICT scout rally planned Will Be Held In February With Preliminaries At IUirgaw, Finals Here p,v,. 1. Liles, Scout executive, 0.1 at the monthly court of .■ Boy Scouts of the Wil jn_:, district in the superior t. .1,1 last night that the dis .. . C . ,y rally will be held in Feb viih the preliminaries sched iiurgaw on the first Friday I ' . .. ,, mil and the championships p ^yll,,;i .cton on the fourth Friday in February. Ip. called attention to Feb r,,al.y !soil.c the anniversary month c B-.y Scouts, the organization ,,, Faiu HI years old. He urged ov,;" u ur to try to go up for at , ....' advancement during the . . V T. c.ur the court and paid tribute to Carolina Beach troop, which . , I almost 100 per cent in attend ... members of the court ,r, o !i! won Leo Sykes and R. C. J[. ': or. i; . C'iim advancement trophy v .mid to Troop 9 for the Troop 32 ranked second and , ,p 21 third. Avoids at the court were as fol I, So and class — Earl Mobley', i Xetvbold, Brent Marshall, ti iris, John Hearn, and George j, .;i>: First class—David Banner mi und Jack West; star rank— tv in Hi P. Troutman, Jr., Harold I : vi. c, Andrew Myers and Robert ( Facie palms—Jasper Need ■lain Frunze), and Fred Sternber ■■.:■ (silver). yp :v badges were awarded the allowing: Joint Codington, Donald Gibbs, Pa 'a ml ' Gibbs, Hooper Johnson. Bill Lassiter, Harry Smith, Bill st .var. George Daugherty, assis Scoutmaster, W. P. Jones, S. T.master, H. W. Winkle, Lewis S-. it s. Earl Mobley, William P. Troutman. Jr., Jasper Needham. | 8. B. Reynolds’ Home Is Damaged By Fire F:re of undetermined origin dam an i a part of the home of R. B. Thyroids, of 10S North 13th street, yts-erday morning, Fire Chief J. I I, : ;:.' Croom reported. The alarm was turned in at 9:51 I a. in., and Chief Croom said that I v.htn the firemen arrived that the I iv.,:' of the house was ablaze. An | i i yer apartment, occupied by A. J. »re. Jr., was damaged, but out of damage from water, the ■ i , r part of the house escaped. Firemen answered three other | alarms yesterday. At 10:23 a. m. It. y were called to extinguish a mass fire at 10th and Kidder streets. I At 11:15 a. m. they were called to I extinguish a blaze on the roof of I tiie home of George McGary, 914% I Princess street. An alarm to Ninth and Castle I streets at 3:39 ;j. m. turned out to I be false. GREEK DESTROYERS ATTACK VALONA (Continued From Page One) ;;n supply ships sunk off Bar Jan. 3 by British or Greek warships). Dispatches from the central Al banian front claimed Italian de fenders of Klisura, east of Tepe leni. had been endangered by Greek capture of a 5,500-foot peak north of the town and to the rear of the fascist positions. Day-to-day reports continued to bring slow increases—usually of a hundred of more—in Greek claims of prisoners taken, with reports of the booty of Italian war materials mounting just as steadily. A Greek spokesman asserted (hat five officers were among 222 captives taken yesterday. The Greeks were reported to have come upon many wounded Italian soldiers who were left be hind in precipitate withdrawals of their comrades. 4 D is reported that in 12 states there are laws against driving too slowly. Will Speak Here f RC,\- Homer McMillan, D. D„ of Atlanta will arrive in the citv w LIU.8" d a, 'naas meeting of the Presbyterians of Wilmington at resbytenan church tonight at 8 o’clock. Dr. McMillan is bvter/an church vv n As^e',nbly’s Ho.n,e Missions in the Southern Pres riod nf , ' ■ ltla rl';!* a,,d varied experience extending over a pe the relathm ot the ", tl*"al,f,ed to speak on the subject of missions and t relation ot the gieat home mission enterprise to the life and welfare ot the nation, it was said. The public is invited to hear Dr. McMillan WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—ppi—Weath er bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending S p. m.: Station High Low Prec. Asheville, cl- 46 16 0.00 Atlanta, cl - 48 30 0.00 Birmingham, cl _ 53 32 0 00 Boston, cl - 30 14 0.00 Charlotte, cl_ 39 22 0.00 Chicago, cd - 31 24 0.00 Cleveland, cd _ 32 19 0.00 Detroit, cd _ 30 18 0.00 Fort Worth, cd_ 47 __ 0.00 Galveston, cO_ 62 50 0.12 Jacksonville, cd_ 55 47 0.87 Kansas City, rn_ 36 24 0.00 Little Rock, p c_ 51 31 0.00 Los Angeles, cd_ 66 52 0.06 Memphis, p c- 53 28 0.00 Miami, cl - 75 64 0.00 Mobile, el - 61 40 0.00 New Orleans, p c_ 62 4S 0.00 New York, cl_ 32 12 0.00 Norfolk, cl_ 37 28 0.00 Richmond, cl _ 40 21 0.00 St. Louis, cd_ 34 25 0.00 San Francisco, rn_ 59 51 0.74 Savannah, p c_ 42 38 0.14 Washington, cl _ 39 27 0.00 Wilmington, cl_ 46 29 0.00 War Interpretive (Continued From Page One) the war in effect; and that disaster awaits Germany if she strikes to retrieve the situation, either against England or in the Balkans. Possibly Significant In contrast with that British at titude, an Italian cabinet utterance “solemnly reaffirming” Fascist fidelity to the Berlin-Rome Axis and the will to fight to a finish is possibly significant. It was timed to offset Rome’s admission of the fall of Bardia, yet it was clearly aimed at defeatism in Italy of un known strength. The Rome version of the Fascist disaster at Bardia hardly squares with known facts as reported by neutral eye witnesses on the spot. These eye witnesses concur in British reports that the Italians surrendered on a scale that em barassed the victors. War apathy among Italian con scripts in Africa, Greece and Al bania has been as important a factor in reshaping British plans toward a 1941 decision in the war as the military succerres achieved. It was the factor that spurred Prime Minister Churchill to broad cast an appeal to the Italian people to throw off the Nazi-Fascist yoke and oust Mussolini. Nor can the surrender of 30,000 Italian troops assigned to a “sui cide stand” at Bardia be account ed for in any other way. From all indications there were relative ly few casualties in either the Ital ian or British ranks before the surrender took place. Same Lesson That was the same lesson of low Italian army morale learned by the British at Sidi Barrani and by the Greeks in Albania. There are signs that British leadership in West Africa anticipates a similar experience at Tobruk, far west of Bardia and already under British gunfire. Add it all up, and it is clear that the back of Italy’s army in Africa has been broken. It has lost, by British count, close to 100,000 men and half its equipment and stores. Its offensive power is gone, its defensive capacity doubt ful and no German or Italian help reach it except by air. Churchill’s promise to shred Italy’s African empire to tatters is being made good, whether the British press on to complete an nihilation of Graziani’s army in Libya of halt to strike elsewhere Moreover, much of the British air force in West Africa has been set free by British victories there for use elsewhere. It is certain to be heard from in Albania and the Ariatic and probably in Bulgaria and Rumania if Nazi maneuvering in the Balkans breaks >'iwn the protection that Bulgarian, Yugo slavia and Turkish neutrality now affords to the Rumanian oil re sources which are so vital to Ger many’s war machine. The British report that tonnage losses in the North Atlantic are falling, not rising, whether due to weather conditions or increased naval escorts released from Medi terranean service. Whatever the explanation, the fact only adds to British confidence of turning any winter invasion of England into a Nazi disaster. 3 AREA BOY SCI r BANQUETS! FED Gathering Of Council Will Be Held At Cape Fear Hotel Thursday Night The annual banquet meeting of the Cape Fear area council, Boy Scouts of America, will be held at 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening at the Cape Fear hotel, David L. Liles, scout executive, announced last night. Scout leaders and parents who plan to attend are urged to call Scout headquarters, Southern build ing, by phone, dial 9720, and tick ets will be sent to them by Scouts, Liles said. me Jriev. sanxey Bee Blanton, pas tor of the First Baptist church, will be the principal speaker. The Beav er award will be made to four of the Council’s scouters and the Scouters Training award to another. Liles said officers for 1941 will be installed at this meeting and re ports on 1940 activities veill be giv en. Wilmington Scouters and Scouts will be hosts to representatives from nine counties in Southeastern North Carolina. Executive board members will meet at 6:30 o’clock to elect officers and accept reports for 1940. All mem bers of the board are requested to be present. All interested persons are invited to attend. Tickets are on sale at Foy-Roe company and Scout headquarters. BULGARIA LOOKING TO REDS FOR WAR OR PEACE ANSWER (Continued From Page One) along with great quantities of pon toon bridge materials, have arrived in Rumania from Germany. ■Watching developments closely, the Turkish assembly extended mili tary service to all classes now mobilized another year. Turkey is reported to have 400,000 men along Bulgaria's southern frontier ready to march in to meet any German thrust. Still unperturbed, the Bulgarian high command granted many offi cers and soldiers leaves to observe the Greek Orthodox Christmas. Bul garia is credited with having only 100,000 of its army of 500,000 under arms. ITALY DETERMINED TO STAY IN WAR (Continued From Page One) efficient,” declared Virginia Gay da, fascist editor who usually voices the thoughts of Premier Mussolini. “Victory must belong to the Axis.” Not until today did the high command give the Italian people the news of the British capture Sunday of Bardia, strong Italian base in Eastern Libya. The high command communique stressed the courage of the defend ing forces and omitted any men tion of British claims that their advance mechanized units had penetrated Libya to a point south of Tobruk. The government announced a $2,000,000,000 budget for the com ing year, exclusive of probable war costs. Italy already has a bud get deficit of about $1,402,000,000 for the past fiscal year. The cabinet, in a meeting at which Mussolini presided, adopted a resolution "solemnly reaffirm ing” Italy's adherence to the al liance with Germany and the tri partite pact and declared Italy’s determination to fight on. 4 MANY ARE KILLED IN LONDON ATTACK Germans Stage One Of Long est Daytime Raids On Capital In Weeks LONDON, Jan. 7.—UP)—Waves of fast fighter-bombers gave London its longest and most destructive daytime attack in weeks today and killed and wounded a number of persons in the capital. Bombers caused several casual ties in a heavy assault on an indus trial midland town and other raid ers, taking advantage of better fly ing conditions after being balked last night by snow and dirty weather, struck hard at East An glia and the southeast coast. But despite severity of the Lon don raid residents of the capital continued their shopping and rou tine tasks and Prime Minister Churchill and First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander calmly surveyed damage caused at Trin ity House and in the London Tower district in the “fire raid” of Dec 29. A number of persons were killed and wounded in London when a line of bombs fell across a street. A street car was blown off its track, injuring eight persons. The spire and main part of a Baptist church crashed. A motor show room and a bank were demolished. trapping a number of persons in the wreckage. In another London section, four soldiers were injured when a gas main caught fire. The raiders attacking the mid lands town demolished several houses in a suburb and killed or wounded several persons, it was reported. The Luftwaffe used its machine guns in many attacks. BRITISH USE U. S. PLANES IN LIBYA (Continued From Page One) both in the desert war and in Greece. They said they regarded ■‘future prospects” with “more than reasonable confidence.” They realize, however, some of 'icers said, that there still is a ong air struggle ahead in this arena. Despite the overwhelming supe riority of the* British in the air iere, the Italian air force remains 5 power to contend wifh, and there is always a greater danger of the rntry of German aviation in this Iheater of combat. Italian planes shot down from ihe air or by anti-aircraft guns since the war began in the Medi terranean area have passed the 100 mark while British losses here are about 80. air. chiefs said. Officers added that terrific dam age and demoralization have been inflicted on the Italians in a total of 1,827 bombing raids carried out under the air command here. 4 Jo Relieve A Misery BB CP^666 LIQUID.TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS Sale of DINNERWARE 3,600 Pieces of Odds & Ends Many Different Patterns An Accumulation from a Domestic Pottery On Sale Gift Shop 2nd Floor One Group at Bread and butter H V plates, salad plates, “ i coupe soup plates, Each Piece j fruit dishes, tea cups and saucers, cereal dishes, sugar dishes, and cream pitchers. One Group at Breakfast and dinner plates, small mixing bowls, small platters. Each Piece One Group at 25c | Mixing Bowls ——————— One Group at 15c 10 inch platters, salad bowls, mixing bowls, gravy boats. One Group at 29c Covered dishes, 12 inch platters. One Group ai 39c 14 inch platters Sale Starts This Morning I Clearance of 330 Pairs Of SUEDE AND SUEDE COMBINATIONS *1.49 BROKEN SIZES ODD LOTS UNUSUAL COMBINATIONS 124 pairs in black suede and suede combinations, from AAA to C widths. 8 Pairs, size 4!/2 14 " " 5 19 " " 5>/2 14 " " 6 12 " " 6K 16 " " 7 i i6 " " m 9 12 " " 8 11 " " 8lA 3 ' " " 9 206 pairs brown suede and suede combinations. Also i a few pairs of all leather. i AAA to B Widths £ Pairs, size 4!/2 22 " " 5 20 " " bVz 19 " " 6 21 " " Wz 27 /# ,# 7 30 " " 71/2 28 " " 8 20 " " 8!/2 10 " " 9 J SALE 1000 Pairs Stockings 2 *1 59c Pr. - Here’s the special you’ve been waiting for. An an nual January promotion of beautiful hosiery at the special price of 2 prs. for $1.00. ^ In this special group we have all different weights, 2-thread, 3 thread, 4-thread, in an i array of gorgeous shades. Make your selections early this year so that you won’t be disappoint ed as were so many last year. j JANUARY ! Sale BOYS' Suits WITH GOLF PANTS WITH lcn: pants *10* -.. YOU PAY FOR A SUIT WITH ONE PAIR PANTS AND GET A PAIR FREE TO MATCH YOUR SUIT For this sale only, we make this special offer. You pay for a suit with one pair pants and get a pair to match free. There are several hundred suits to select from in the season’s most desirable styles and mate rials. Suits with two pairs golf pants or two pairs slacks.
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