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yOL, 74--NOJ14-__-WILMINGTON, N. C„ MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
Nazi Planes Make A nother Effort To Bum London
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Firemen Seek
[Fo Check Big
fires' Spread
treat Numbers Of War
planes Pass Over British
Capital At Intervals
ground guns active
Many Planes Turned Back
At Thames Estuary And
Jettison Bomb Loads
LONDON, Jan. 12.—(fPI—The Nazi
air force made another attempt to
burn London tonight, showering
down high explosives and incendi
aries on certain districts while
scores of regular firemen and aux
iliary fire service men. aided by
hundreds of civilians, risked their
lives to prevent the spread of
flames.
Great numbers of planes passed
over the city at intervals to the
accompaniment of violent anti-air
craft fire.
Spread Operations
Raiders also spread their oper
ations over other parts of England,
attacking a southwest town for
tome hours while the ground de
fenses tried to drive them of.
Reports said scores of Nazi
planes were turned back at the
Thames estuary and jettisoned
jheir loads in the marshes under
ihe heavy anti-aircraft fire.
The incendiaries which dropped
on one town in the Thames estuary
were reported to have done little
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quickly controlled.
A dozen incendiary bombs fell
or. houses in a town near London
and were quickly extinguished.
.Auxiliary territorial service girls
and volunteer watches helped ex
tinguish these bombs.
Start Early
The raiders began coming over
early in the evening while the cap
ital was still clearing away the
debris of last night’s four-hour raid
Which, due to the quick work of
hundreds of citizens, fell in fire
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PLANE PRODUCTION
DELAY IS CLAIMED
O’Mahoney Avers Work Is
Held Up Because Of
Aluminum Shortage
WASHINGTON, Jan 12.—(®—
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) as
serted today that the production of
warplanes “has been seriously de
layed” because of a shortage of
aluminum which he attributed to a
policy of “keeping supplies down
in order to keep prices up.”
O’Mahoney said that the justice
department’s anti - trust action
against the Aluminum Company of
America provided an “illustration
of the relation of economic con
centration to national defense.”
"Whether or not this company
h.as engaged in monopolistic prac
tices as alleged by the depart
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WEATHER
FORECASTS
-'orth Carolina: Generally fair Mon
'•ay: Tuesday considerable cloudiness,
possibly followed by light rain in the
™°untains. some* hat colder in north
Tuesd*** pordons Monday night and
,, 'By C. S. Weather Bureau)
.j J,eteorological data for the 24 hours
ainR i :.'S0 p. m. yesterday.)
B , Temperature
, 1 a. rn. 34; 7:30 a. m. 29; 1:30 p. m.
■ maximum 52; minimum 29; mean
normal 40.
... Humidity
m. 74; 7:30 a. m. 79; 1:30 p. m.
7:30 p. ni. 45
T Precipitation
n nr,.8' ,for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
inches. lota! since first of the
®°nth 0.77 in hes.
) (V Tides For Today
fftoJ0111 T,fle Tables published by U. S.
\ ' am- Geodetic Survey.)
\r5u . High Low
'Unnngton . 9:47a 4:30a
MasnnK , 10:03p 5:12p
asonboro Inlet .. 7:27a 1:16a
Vlln . „ 7:48p 1:52p
fru\r rise ':,sa; sunset 5:24p: moonrise
| -njV. moonsel 7:06a.
i apH *‘ar river stage on Jan. 12,
; a- n,M 10.70 feet.
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Dies
JAMES JOYCE
JAMES JOYCE, 59,
AUTHOR, PASSES
Writer Of ‘Ulysses’ Suc
cumbs In Zurich Hospital
Following Operation
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ZURICH Switzerland Jan. 13.
— (Monday) —(#)—James Joyce,
Irish author, whose “Ulysses” was
the center of one of the most bitter
literary controversies of modern
times, died in a Zurich hospita
early today despite the efforts oi
doctors to save him by blood trans
fusions. -
t He" would have been <• 59 years
old Feb. 2.
Joyce underwent an intestinal
operation Saturday afternoon at the
Schwesternhaus von Rotenkreu;
hospital.
For a time he appeared to be
recovering. Only yesterday his son
reported him cheerful and ap
parently out of danger.
But during the afternoon the
writer suffered a sudden relapse
and sank rapidly.
He died at 2:15 a.m. (8:15 p.m,
n c + ^
His wife and son were at the
hospital when he died.
Joyce was born in Dublin, Feb.
2, 1882, into a family of some
consequence but poor economic re
sistance and before the author was
out of his teens poverty was upon
them.
The family’s social deterioration
and some of the bitterness anc
embarrassment Joyce felt at its
successive downward steps were
set down in his first novel “A
Portrait of the Artist as a Younf
Man” which appeared in 1916,
This novel revealed the beginnings
of that experimentation in words
and technique which were to at
tain fruition in “Ulysses” and slot
over as most critics felt in the
chaotic passages of “Finnegans
Wake” his last work.
Joyce as befit the son of ar
Irish gentleman who was also e
Roman Catholic, attended Cion
gowes Wood college and Belvedere
college Dublin both Jesuit insti
tutions and took his degree a'
Trinity college.
He had a faint smattering o:
medicine which served him well ir
“Ulysses” but his interests were
essentially literary.
Padraic Colum, the Irish writei
and a fellow student at Trinity,
said once that Joyce was notice
able among the students who fre
quented the National library at the
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Italians Flee
™1
Victory Means Break Of
Whole Italian Front In
Central Albania
ACHIEVE DRIVE’S GOAL
Fascists Driven Out Of
Klisura Continue Their
Northward Retreat
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 12.
—UP)—The capture by Greek soldiers
of the mountain village of Tepeleni,
which the Greeks claimed meant a
definite break of the whole Italian
I front in central Albania, was re
ported tonight in Yugoslav border ad
vices.
The frontier reports said the little
town fell with hardly any fascist re
sistance and that the main Italian
army was fleeing to the mountains
northwest of Tepeleni.
Achieve Drive’s Goa!
The fall of Tepeleni, if verified,
means the Greeks have achieved the
object of a two-pronged offensive
against Tepeleni and Klisura, 10 -
miles eastward of Tepeleni. Klisura '
was captured Friday.
(Tepeleni is 55 miles south of the '
important fascist port of.Valona, on )
the Adriatic sea^ and is connected
with that city by t. highway btiilt
by the Italians during the World
war.)
Border reports said the Greeks en
tered Tepeleni from the south and
encountered little resistance. i
The city already had been evacuat- <
ed by the Italians, it was said.
The Greek captors of Klisura were
reported yesterday as driving on
ward toward Berati, 30 miles north
of that town.
(With the good road connecting
Tepeleni and Valona, the Greeks ap
parently will use Tepeleni as a ]
springboard for a fresh drive in Va- j
Iona.)
ITALIANS RETREAT j
ATHENS, Jan. 12. — taP) — Italian „
troops driven out of Klisura when
the Greeks took that Albanian town (
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CAPT. KIRKPATRICK
VIEWS CAMP DAVIS;
■ (
Contractors, Representa- i
tives Report Work Con- ;
tinues At A Rapid Pace 1
Camp Davis, the Army’s new 1
anti-aircraft firing center at Holly i
Ridge was given a “routine in
spection” by Captain Kirkpatrick, ]
of the Quartermaster corps in ]
Washington, D. C., yesterday,
Lieut. Col. Albertis Montgomery ;
construction quartermaster said t
last night.
Col. Montgomery said that there
were no new developments at the :
camp yesterday, and that work ap
pears to be progressing satisfac
torily.
Contractors representatives said
i last night that work continued on 1
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Wheeler Says Approval Of British Aid
Bill Will Mean ‘Open Warfare’ For U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—«l—
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) said
tonight that if congress approved
the administration’s bill empower
ing President Roosevelt to send
vast quantities of war supplies to
the “democracies” it would mean
“open and complete warfare” for
the United States.
Discussing the legislation on the
American Forum of the Air (MBS),
Wheeler added that the form of
the bill “definitely stamps the
President as war-mnidea.”
Senator Lee (D.-Okla.) speaking
in support of the measure, con
tended that the United States’ only
chance of escaping war was to
send aid to England.
“England,” he said, "ie the only
barrier between America and a
baptism of blood.
“Hitler is at war with America
today. He is making war on us
economically, politically and mor
ally. Only one obstacle prevents
him from making war on us in a
military sense, and that is Eng
land.
‘If England is willing to furnish
men to fly the planes we should be
willing to furnish the planes. Sup
pose it does take our wealth. That
is not a6 precious as the blood of
our boys.”
The forum discussion furnished a
pretaste of what is expected to be
prolonged senate debate on the
measure which would give the
President broad powers to transfer
military equipment to Great Brit
ain, China, Greece and other na
tions opposing the Axis.
Under plans of democratic lead
ers, the house will act first on the
legislation. Its foreign affairs com
mittee is scheduled to begin hear
ings tomorrow with Secretary Hull
as the first witness. Chairman
Bloom (D.-N. Y.) said he was pre
pared to go ahead with the hear
ings despite an effort by the mili
tary affairs committee to win the
right to consider the bill. The lat
ter committee voted Saturday to
attempt to take the measure away
from the Bloom committee to
which it had been assigned. The
house will vote tomorrow on the
military committee’s request.
Bloom said his committee’s hear
ings should be completed Thurs
day, in which case leaders said
there was a possibility the house
might act on the legislation by the
end of the week.
In the senate, opponents were
talking of lengthy hearings by the
least three weeks of debate in the
foreign relations committee and at
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Judge Burns Nazi Flag
Declaring she was acting as she hoped ‘any true American patriot
would,” Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, of San Pedro, Cal., burns a
small Nazi flag which precipitated a court row. The flag was brought
into court by a seaman charged with assault after the asserted display
of the flag in a private home.
Reds Have Not Consented
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ToNaziTroopMovements
RELEASE COMMUNIQUE
Moscow Says Has Not Been
Informed On New Move By
Germans In Bulgaria
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—Iff)—Soviet
tussia has not consented to any
lassage of German troops into Bul
;aria nor has she been informed
f such a move if it has occurred,
t was announced officially late to
light.
A special communique distrib
ited by Tass, official Soviet Rus
ian news agency, was broadcast
ly the Moscow radio at 11 p m.
3 p.m., E. S. T.), an hour ahead
if the usual news bulletin.
consent not Asaea
The Tass statement, in denial of
oreign press reports, asserted Ger
nany never has asked Russia’s
:onsent to the entrance of German
oldiers into Bulgaria and Bulgaria
iever has approached Russia with
in inquiry regarding the passage
if German troops through her bor
lers.
A similar communique was is
ued at the time of the entry of
he Germans into Rumania last
all.
Russia and Bulgaria traditionally
lave maintained close and friendly
■elations as “sister Slavic” nations.
(Tass denials of reports allegedly
jublished outside Russia usually
lonstitute the Kremlin’s method of
naking its position known by indi
rection rather than by a direct
itatement.
(With German tro'ops stationed
m the Danube river across from
Bulgaria, there has been specula
;ion as to whether Germany asked
ler pact partner, Russia, to per
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Cameron Is Named
Vice Chairman Of
Defense Committee
Bruce B. Cameron has been
named vice-chairman of the
executive committee of the
Wilmington Defense Council,
R. B. Page, chairman of the
committee, announced yester
day.
Mr. Cameron has been serv
ing as a member of the com
mittee for several weeks.
The group has charge of
co-ordinating efforts for the
various defense projects and
also handling the problems
arising from the location of the
projects in this vicinity.
RIVENBARK KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Horse Branch Man Loses
Life When Automobile
Hits Pike’s Creek Bridge
BURGAW, Jan. 12.—Coy Riven
bark, about 35, of Horse Branch,
about five miles northwest of Bur
gaw, was instantly killed this after
noon about 2:30 o’clock when an
automobile in which he was riding
struck Pike’s Creek bridge, south
of Burgaw.
F. S. Royal, of Chinquapin, alsc
an occupant of the car, was slightly
hurt in the crash which blocked
traffic on the highway for some
time
Officers quoted Royal as saying
Rivenbark was driving the car but
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 7)
Interpretive
By EDWARD E. BOMAR
In the joint German-Italian air
attack on a British convoy in the
narrow straits of Sicily, there is a
suggestion that the combined Axis
forces may attempt to carry out a
project at which Italy unaided
failed dismally—to cut the Medi
terranean in two.
From present indications, how
ever, the odds seem to be that
Nazi help immediately in sight is
‘too little and too late” to do much
more than keep Italy in the war
until Germany’s prospective su
preme bid for victory, against Brit
ain in the spring.
Three Objectives
Three possible objectives of the
joint Italian and Nazi air forces in
the Mediterranean, aside from sup
(Continued on Rage Three; CoL 3)
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Large Liner!
Aground Off
Florida Coast
Liner Manhattan, With 200
Passengers Aboard, Not
In Immediate Danger
CUTTERS GO TO SCENE
No Abnormal Weather Re
ported As Craft Grounds
Off Lake Worth Inlet
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan.
12.—iR)—The liner Manhattan, of
the United States lines, bound from
New York to California with 200
cruise passengers went aground
off Lake Worth inlet early tonight.
The ship was reported in no im
mediate danger.
Two coast guard cutters—the
Mojave from Miami and the Vigi
lante from Fort Pierce—were or
dered to the scene, five miles north
of here.
Investigate
Earl Wallace, boatswain in
charge of the coast guard’s Pea
nut Island station, and five guards
men went out to the vessel in a
small boat to investigate. Wallace
said the master told him the ship
just needed to be pulled off.
Apparently the ship grounded
about 9:00 p.m. (EST). .
The coast guard said there was
no abnormal weather in the area
nor was there any information as
to how the ship came to ground.
The coast guard cutters Vigi
lante and Mojave were dispatched.
The coast guard said the ship
drew 33 feet of water and officials
knew of no reason she might be
so close into land in the area.
Needs Assistance
The only information the coast
guard had of the Manhattan’s
plight was a terse message from
the master:
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CHURCH DAMAGED
BY FLAMES HERE
Fire Results In Consider
able Loss At St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Structure
Fire caused by sparks from a stove
Clue damaged the St. Matthew’s Lu
theran church, at 921 North Fourth
street, to the extent of several thou
sand dollars yesterday morning.
The blaze was. discovered in the
attic of the church while the Sunday
school was in session at 10:27
o’clock. However, all persons man
aged to get out of the church with
out being injured.
Fire Chief J. Ludie Croom said
that the fire had made considerable
headway by the time firemen arrived
on the scene. The blaze, he said,
was in between the ceiling and the
roof.
The entire roof was destroyed but
most of the blaze was confined to
that part of the church.
The Rev. Carl H. Fisher, pastor
of the church, said that the damage
was so great that the church leaders
(Continued on Page. Three; Col. 7)
Landon Says Willkie’s
Present Stand Would
Have Cost Nomination
TOPEKA, Jan. 12.—(/P)—Alt
M. Landon, commenting on Wen
dell Willkie’s modified approval
of President Roosevelt’s "lend
lease” arms bill, said tonight “if
Mr. Willkie had revealed that to
be his position before the repub
lican national convention he
would not have been nominated.”
Willkie’s position is “essential
ly the same as Mr. Roosevelt’s,”
the 1936 republican pretidential
nominee said. “That is, we must
get into the war if necessary to
help England win.
“If Mr. Roosevelt had revealed
that to be his position before the
election, he would not have been
re-elected.”
Landon was head of the Kan
sas delegation at the G. 0. P.
national convention in Philadel
phia last June and helped swing
the state’s 18 votes to Willkie on
a crucial ballot.
LIQUOR VOTE BILL
MAY BE OFFERED
Measure May Be Intro
duced In North Carolina
Legislature This Week
RALEIGH, Jan. 12— UP) —Bills
which would call for a statewide
referendum on liquor, create a 12th
congressional district, and provide
a certain taxation exemptions for
homesteads may be introduced in
the general asembly this week.
Highlight of the week’s sesion,
however, will be the introduction
of a record-breaking tax-appropri
ations program, which has been
drafted by the advisory budget
commission and which will be
turned over to the law-makers at
noon on Tuesday.
After a week-end’s rest at home,
the legislators will resume their
deliberations at 8 o’clock tomor
row night, and committee appoint
ments are expected to be an
nounced at that time by Speaker
O. M. Mull of Shelby and Lieut. -
Gov. Reg Harris of Roxboro.
One source said that dry mem
bers of the assembly have colla
borated on a bill calling for a state
_SJ — AM UnllAr anH
that the bill would be ready for in
troduction by Wednesday. The
measure will be backed by signa
tures of some 30,000 Tar Heels,
which have been obtained by Cale
K. Burges of Raleigh, leader of the
united dry forces.
Senator Stringfield of Cumber
land was said to be ready to intro
duce a bill allowing certain tax
exemptions for homesteads. A con
stitutional amendment adopted in
1936 gave the legislature the power
to exempt homesteads—homes oc
cupied by their owners—up to $1,
000.
A bill to give more “power and
dignity” to a state interracial
commission may be introduced by
Senator Gray of Forsyth.
Representative Volger of Meck
lenburg was quoted in Charlotte
as saying that the legislature would
receive a state-wide bill, to give
municipalities the power to ex
tend their city limits, providing the
municipalities were in position to
supply water, sewer, fire protec
tion and other services. At present,
the legislature alone has the
power to extend city limits.
Under re-apportionment con
forming with the 1940 census fig
Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Italian Warplanes Chased
From Five Bases In Libya
CAIRO. Egypt Jan. 12.—UD—
Fresh British guns hauled across
the Libyan sands joined the shell
ing of the besieged Italian seaport
base, Tobruk, tonight under the
constant protection of British avia
tors who reported Italian planes
have been chased from five air
bases in eastern Libya.
The new artillery came 70 miles
from the Bardia region where it
had played a major role in soften
ing Italian defenses for the final
British-Australian attack on that
captured Fascist base.
Tobruk, with a garrison believed
smaller than the nearly 45,000
troops who were killed wounded
or captured in Bardia, had been
caught in a ring of British steel for
five days with the defenders’ re
treat cut off.
\
British military observers say
now that Marshal Rodolfo Grazi
ani, Italian commander in Libya,
must fight in the future without his
air eyes as the Royal Air force
they declare has seized command
of the air.
An RAF communique tonight told
of more attacks on the Italians in
Libya and a raid by the fleet air
arm on Palermo on Sicily’s north
ern coast.
The RAF said fighters maintain
ing a constant patrol in eastern
Libya reported “Derna, Martuba.
El Tmimi and El Gazala were all
clear of enemy aircraft except for
a considerable number that were
unserviceable” and that the Bom
ba seaplane base, between To,bruk
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
Says Assumes
Stand ‘With
Modification
Plans To Fly To England
Soon For Private Survey
Of World Situation
SEES U. S. EMERGENCY
Says Measure Should Grant
Powers To The President
For ‘Fixed Term’
By CHARLES E. HARNER
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.- UP—Wen
dell L. Willkie declared today he
favored “with modification” Presi
dent Roosevelt's “lend-lease” arms
bill, and announced he would fly
soon to England for a private sur
vey of the international situation.
He asserted the bill should grant
powers to the President “for a
fixed term, not too far in the fu
ure,” and that congress should not
be “harried” in its passage.
The defeated republican presi
dential candidate expressed the be
lief the nation faced an emergency
under which “extraordinary pow
ers must be granted to the elected
executive.”
Issues Statement
His announcement was contained
in a 1,200 word statement given
to newspapermen in his office in
the hotel Commodore and amplified
through questions and answers at
a press conference.
Concerning his trip abroad. WiU
kie made it clear that he would go
solely as a private citizen, and said
he sought personal contact with
the situation abroad “just as I did
when I was practicing law and
wanted to know the facts of a
case.”
He disclosed that he had applied
for a passport three days ago di
rectly to secretary of State Hull,
and had received the secretary’s
approval within three hours. He
said he intended to travel to Eu
rope by clipper, would stay in
England two or three weeks, and
would probably return to the prac
tice of law when he came back.
‘The so-called ‘lend-lease’ bill,
now before congress,” said Will
(Continued on Page Three; Cot. 6)
CARDENAS’ LAWS
WILL BE REVISED
Special Session Of Mexican
Congress Slated To Be
Held Next Month
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12.—(iW—
Conservative revision of much of
the basic legislation adopted during
the Cardenas administration will
be approved in February’s special
session of congress, legislaliva
leaders predicted today.
In calling the February session.
President Manuel Avila Camacho
made public a list of bills he will
submit for enactment.
Politicians asserted the broad
scope of the projected legislation
indicated the President had de
cided to embark with little delay
on his oft-predicted conservativa
“consolidation” of former Presi
dent Lazaro Cardenas’ program.
Marked for revision were tha
general law of labor, the civil ser
vice code, the law of national edu
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
ITAUANSDAMAGE
BRITISH WARSHIPS
Says One Seen Sinking
And Another Hit From Air
In The Mediterranean
ROME, Jan. 12.—Iff)—In the con
tinuing German-Italian Mediterra
nean offensive against Britain’*
naval might, the Italian high com
mand reported today that a Brit
ish cruiser was “seen sinking” af
ter an torpedo attack and another
cruiser was hit from the air.
One of two Italian torpedo boats
which attacked an imposing array
of British ships, the Italians said,
was sunk but their torpedoes left
a cruiser in a sinking condition
and two destroyers with flames
leaping up.
The bombed cruiser was the
fifth British warship reported hit
in two days and was marked up
as a German score. It was said
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