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70-Acre Tract Adjoins
Sunset Park On South;
Carolina Pier Included
OFFICES ARE LEASED
Will Be Located In Old
W. H. Sprunt Residence,
Third And Grace
6 TO 8 WAYS PLANNED
Location and acquisition of
the site for the shipyard
which will build 24 ships in
Wilmington in 24 months
was announced yesterday by
Captain Roger Williams, vice
president of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company, in a telephone
conversation with The Star
News.
The site, he said, will con
sist of the northern undevel
oped portion of the property
now held by The Texas com
pany and an undeveloped site
to the north of that tract,
now held by the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey.
It will extend, it was
learned from Bruce B. Cam
eron, vice-chairman of the
Wilmington Defense Council,
from the southern boundary
which will be on The Texas
company property, almost to
Central boulevard of Sunset
Park.
Funds Are Approved
Meanwhile from Washington an
Associated Press dispatch said the
House appropriations subcommittee
quickly approved President Roose
velt’s request for $313,500,000 for
the construction of 200 new cargo
ships.
And from Raleigh came word of
the incorporation of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company, a
subsidiary of the Newport News
Shipbuiding and Drydock company,
which will build the 24 ships here
for the U. S. Maritime commission.
And from Washington came an
other dispatch confirming the pre
vious announcement of the New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company, that Wilmington is
among the sites which have been
selected as those at which the car
go ships will be built.
The announcement on the loca
tion of the site said it will consist
of about 60 or 70 acres of land and
will include the old outfitting pier
used by the old Carolina shipyards
in the days of and immediately aft
er World War 1.
“We are getting almost ready to
go,” Capt. Williams said. There are
a few corporate matters to be at
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 4)
MACRAE ASSISTED
IN GETTING YARDS
World War Survey Find
ings Used To Show Lo
cal Site Best Place
Timing and a good memory
played a big part, apparently, in
bringing the Newport News Ship
building and Drydock company to
Wilmington to erect ways to build
24 ships here in the next 24 months.
Hugh MacRae, Wilmingt-n agri
culturist and realtor, recalled
some time ago that during World
Uar, Homer Ferguson, president
jf the Newport News Shipbuilding
ind Drydock company, had made
i survey of the South Atlantic coast
'or the federal government and
lad reported that Wilmington was
he best place on the South Atlan
ic coast to build ships and that
he site of the old Carolina Ship
'ards was the best location in Wil
nington.
When efforts were begun here to
secure shipyards in the present
■mergency, he secured from Fer
guson a letter in which he said
hat his findings during World War
: were as outlined as above.
Then came the word the New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
lock company was the recipient of
i contract for building 25 ships for
she U. S. Maritime commission
(Continued on Page Three; Col. II
Hitler, II Dace To Confer Today
Greek Sub
Sinks Third
Big Vessel
Yugoslavians Hear Italians
Sending Reinforcements
To Greek Front
NEW DRIVE IS SEEN
Athens Reports Capture Of
1,000 Prisoners From
Top Roman Regiment
By the Associated Press
BERN. Switzerland, Jan. 18.—
Amid portents of stepped-up German
"aid for Italy, diplomatic quarters
here heard reports today that A lolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini, with
their chief military, diplomatic and
economic advisers, -would hold a
full-dress conference tomorrow.
Whether it foreshadows a German
move in the Balkans, a thrust at
Gibraltar or simply additional Ger
man air aid from Italian—and per
haps Rumanian—nases was a mat
ter of speculation.
Not Confirmed
Neither Koine nor Berlin con
firmed officially that such a meet
ing was set, rut diplomatic sources
said they expected no confirmation
until it is over, possibly Monday.
The Brenner Pass, Alpine setting'
for several Axis conclaves, is re
garded ;.s the likely scene. Musso
lini, however, may go to Germany
this time, it was suggested, to re
pay Hitler's visit to him in Florence
last Oct. 28—the day Italy's inva
sion of Greece began.
Some diplomatic advices said the
dictators might meet in either
Munich or Salzburg.
ON THE YUGOSLAV - ALBAN
IAN FRONTIER, Jan. 18.—CZP)—
Greek sources reported today that
tile Italians are bringing up strong
reinforcements on all sectors of the
Albanian front, including large
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 5)
ITALIANS LASH
OUT AT AMERICA
German Spokesmen, How
ever, Say Germans
Won’t Be Provoked
BERLIN". Jan. 19.—(Sunday)—UP)
~~ Karl Megerle, chief editorial
mouthpiece of the foreign office,
-ava notice today to the United
States in an editorial in the Boersen
Zeitung that. Germany would not
let itself be provoked” no matter
how hard America tried to pick a
'luarrel.
B.v The Associated Press
ROME, .Jan. 18.—The charge that
the United States already is "carry
:r|g out war against the Axis powers
•Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
WEATHER
v FORECAST
Hen0* Carolina: Cloudy, followed! by
j mucl1 nobler Sunday and Sun
• uiglit; Monday fair, continued cold.
Kiii° « \ Carolina: Partly cloudy, con
nX?0iy colf,er Sunday and Sunday
coh' ’ Mondfly fab*, continued rather
b.v l . S. Weather Bureau
rn.i;'e,eap°logical data for the 24 hours
cnanis ‘ :30 p. m. yesterday.)
i Temperature
5S - 4' ,n* 58; 7:30 a- in- 52; 1:30 p. m.
m' J • I’.Y P iQ • • 52 < maximum 60; mini -
1 ’J-: mean 56; normal 46.
i Humidity
81; 7:30 a. m. 1)0; 1:30 p. m.
,;30 p. m. 70.
. Precipitation
inn i or -4 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
hionth i w'- Total since first of the
*ln t-lo niches.
(It. .„.Tides For Today
oni ihle Tables published by C. S.
roast and Geodetic Survey.)
k'ji, . High Low
ibnington - 2:16a 9:34n
- 2:38p 10:05p
Msonboro Inlet__a 6:13a
. . 12:34j> 6:39p
‘se . :17a: sunset o:29p; moonrisi
- '"oonset 11:14a.
river sta*e at Fayette
* *0.3 feet,
‘Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
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_SITE OF NEW SHIPYARDS AS SEEN FROM AIR
Here Is the site of the shipyards to be constructed by the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, a subsidiary of the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock company, at a cost of S 1.000,006 to $5,000,000 to build 24 ships hi 24 months^ar’S cost of approximately $1,750,000 each. The site runs
from the northern undeveloped portion of the property owned by The Texas company, in the background, including the old refitting pier of
the Carolina Shipyards, to Central Boulevard of Sunset Park, seen in the foreground. From the river the site runs back to the railroad, and is
served by water, highway and rail facilities, the latter being just west of the road which leads from Central Boulevard to The Texas company
terminals. Selection and acquisition of the site was announced yesterday by Capt. Roger Williams, vice-president of the Newport News Shipbuild
ing company, in a telephone conversation with the Star-News. (Photo courtesy of John Spni.nan, Camera Shop).
BRITISH PLOTTING
ETHIOPIAN REVOLT
Military Commission Now
Operating ‘In Heart Of
Duce Territory
KHARTOUM, Anglo - Egyptian
Sudan, Jan. 18—(/P)—A British mili
tary misson has been working in
the heart of Ethiopia since last
July training and arming thou
sands of tribesmen for a fight
against the Italians, it was dis
closed officially tonight.
This disclosure came less than
a week after it became known that
little Haile Selassie, dethroned by
the Italian conquerors of Ethio
pia five years ago, was receiving
a constant stream of tribal revolu
tionary agents in Khartoum, only
300 miles from Ethiopia.
There have been estimates that
200,000 Ethiopians were active in
guerrialla fighting in the interior.
The mission, picked up from men
who knew the Ethiopian country
and dialetcs, was made up of a
handful of British staff officers and
instructors.
With a convoy of arms and am
munition, the men slipped by the
Italian border guards and patrols
last July.
Despite tropical rains still falling
in some parts and making travel
more difficult, they trekked 500
miles into the interior and estab
lished camp somewhere in the
jungle clad mountains around Lake
Tana.
Addition To Wilmington j
Hotel To Cost$100,000\
BUGG REVEALS PLANS
7-Story South Wing Will
Contain 50 More Rooms;
Architects Busy
Plans for the erection of an ad
dition to the Wilmington hotel cost
ing approximately £100.000 were
announced yesterday by E. B. Bugg
owner and operator.
The new south wing, to be seven
slories high and containing from
40 to 50 rooms, will be constructed
on the adjacent lot on the Front
street side, Bugg said.
Entirely Modern
The addition will provide addi
tional hotel accomodations in keep
ing with Wilmington’s progress
and will be the very latest in hotel
building and equipment.
In discussing the details of the
, , • , _■ _ : -j
consiruciion pians i^ugg saiu, j.
am trying to help keep hotel facili
ties ample for the many new
comers expected to visit our city
in the near future.”
The firm of Lynch and Foard
has been employed as architects
for the project and Bugg expressed
the hope that bids would be ready
within about 10 days for submis
sion to the contractors.
The addition, to be 35 feet wide
and 100 feet deep, will be of struc
tural steel and brick construction,
an absolute fireproof structure, with
reinforced concrete floors.
A store, 35 feet wide and 100
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
Administration Building
At Camp Nearly Finished
Occupation of Camp Davis at
Holly Ridge will probably begin
early this week when government,
contractors’ and engineers’ person
nel begins moving into the huge
administration building there, it
was learned yesterday.
Col. Albertis Montgomery, con
structing quartermaster, said yes
terday his office is not yet ready
to move into the new quarters but
plans to move his offices and those
of the contractors and engineers
have been in the making for some
time.
The interior of the administra
tion building, which is 208 feet
long with four wings 125 feet long,
was begun yesterday. Steam heat
has already been installed and
work is progressing at a pace that
indicates occupation may be start
ed Monday.
Simultaneously, construction was
started on the first two of five
canteens, which will be equally
spaced about the area, and prep
arations were being made to start
building a cafeteria for serving
meals to employees.
The cafeteria, it was explained,
will be operated by the contrac
tors on a cost basis to accomo
date the thousands of workers who
at present, have inadequate facili
ties for dining.
Pains were being taken on the
plans, it was said, and that indi
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Thai Forces Beaten
Back In Indo-China
SAIGON, French Indo-China,
Jan. 18.—(/P)—The French Indo
China government announced to
day it had stemmed the Thai
(Siamese) advance in western
Cambodia by throwing back a
complete battalion of 750 troops
who have been advancing along
the road to Sisophon.
On the fronts to the north, the
Thai invaders shelled Savunne
nakhet and bombed Pakse from
the air. Earlier 1,000 Thai troops
were reported repulsed west of
Pakse
The French announced that
the two Italian warships sunk
yesterday by the French Asiatic
squadron in the Gulf of Siam
were destroyers. (Thailand had
14 destroyers).
DIVE-BOMBERS HIT
AT MALTA AGAIN
Berlin Reports Claim Also
Airdromes In England
Bombed
VALLETTA, Malta, Jan. 19. —
(Sunday)— (A1) —German Junkers
bombers attacked this British Medi
terranean island stronghold for
three hours yesterday afternoon.
Five bombers were reported shot
down and a reliable source said
another might have been brought
down.
In three days of raids on Malta,
the Nazis have nearly equalled the
total civilian damage caused by
Fascist aviators in eight months.
By The Associated Press
BERLIN, Jan. 18.—Daylight
dive-bombings of two airdromes on
Malta, Britain’s fortified Mediter
ranean island, and on two others
in Southeast England were report
ed by informed German sources to
night.
Nazi Stukas, accompanied by
their own and Italian fighter es
corts, were said to have scored
heavily on the British and mid
Mediterranean stronghold with
bomb hits on hangars, barracks
and runways.
The attack on Malta lasted seven
hours, German sources said. They
added the British put up a “wild
defense” which failed to hinder the
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 6)
BENNIE BISHOP,
30, DIES HERE
First Fatality To Result
From Injuries At Camp
Davis Site
Camp Davis had its first fatality
yesterday when Bennie Bishop, 30,
of near Jacksonville, died in Bul
luck hospital at 12:40 a. m. of
pneumonia caused by injuries suf
fered earlier in the week when he
was run over by a tractor.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 3 o’clock from the
home of Tom Ketchum, father of
the widow. Interment will be in
the Justice cemetery, at Southwest,
near Jacksonville. The Rev. Hill
Edwards, of Jacksonville, will of
ficiate.
Bishop is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Ketchum Bishop, a
daughter, Judie Calvin Bishop, and
a son, Louis Bishop, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Bishop, of Hol
ly Ridge, a brother Burton Bishop,
of Holly Ridge and four sisters,
Mrs. Vera E. Shepard, Jackson
ville; Mrs. Elma D. Boyd, New
port News, and Jessie L. Bishop,
of Holly Ridge.
Active pallbearers will be Hor
ace Gurganous, Cecil Gurganous,
Louis Justive, Lewis Walton, Stacy
Walton and Sidney Hamby.
CAPITAL THRONGS
AWAIT INAUGURAL
President Roosevelt Will
Take Third Term Oath
On Monday
BY RICHARD U. TURNER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.— W>) —
Thousands of folks—political lead
ers and lesser party workers, ar/i
people great and humble,—crowd
ed into Washington today bent
upon taking a spectator’s part at
least in the third inauguration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They thronged the hotel lobbies,
from fashionable places to dollar
a-night walkups, and overflowed in
to the tourist camps and houses
bearing the familiar sign, “tour
ists.”
They stood about the street cor
ners watching for celebrities and
uttering little gasps of delight when
they uncertainly thought they had
one spotted. They peered into
passing limousines and excitedly
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
!'Kennedy Backs British
Aid But Not F. R. Bill
NEW YORK, Jail. 18.—UP)—
Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring am
bassador to Great Britain, urged
tonight that the United States
“give the utmost aid to Eng
land,” but said he did not feel
the nation’s immediate danger
justified passage of the “lease
lend” bill in its present form.
He declared that this country’s
aid to Britain “should not and
must, not go to the point where
war becomes inevitable.”
The “lend-lease” bill, he said,
conferred upon President Roose
velt "authority unheard of in
our history,” and he commented:
“I am unable to agree with
the proponents of this bill that
it has yet been shown that we
face such immediate danger as
to justify this surrender of the
authority and responsibility of
the congress. I believe that after
the hearings have been com
pleted there will be revealed less
drastic ways of meeting the prob
lem of adequate authority for
the President.”
Once a bill had become law,
Kennedy said in an address over
the nationwide Red network of
the National Broadcasting com
pany, it was the duty of every
American to “rally behind the
President.”
Regardless of what this na
tion’s foreign policy should be,
he said, "we must go ‘all out'
for rearmament.”
“It is only in this way,” he
said, “that the American people
can realize their national policy
of secjurity and their desire to
help England. The more we re
arm, the larger our arsenal, the
more we shall have available for
England. There is no need to
fear if we prepare.”
Kennedy asserted that “a just
peace at this time does not ap
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
‘FLU’ CONTINUES
TO RACE IN N. C.
Charlotte Preacher Refuses
To Suspend Services;
Cities Hard Hit
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 18. — (iP) —
Cities and communities throughout
the state continued today to fight
the influenza epidemic by keeping
schools closed and restricting public
gatherings.
Dr. Luther Little, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Charlotte,
declined to meet with the health
department’s request to suspend
Sunday services and said that reg
ular meetings would be held tomor
row “in order to worship and tc
pray for the sick and suffering.”
He said that City Health Officer
Dr. G. L. Rea’s request that people
not attend services tomorrow be
cause of the influenza epidemic
“singled out and advised against”
the churches.
Although the Charlotte Minister
ial association voted yesterday tc
keep churches open for adults, a
number of religious institutions in
the city and county called off serv
ices.
In some places health authorities
expressed the view that the epidemic
was reaching its peak. However
there were no comprehensive sta
tistics available and the number of
eases had to be roughly estimated.
Schools were still closed in
Greensboro and Guilford county but
the health authorities there thought
that the epidemic in that area was
definitely past the peak. The situa
tion was described as ‘‘much bet
ter.”
The health authorities in Char
lotte estimated that ten per cent of
the city’s 100,000 population was
down with the flu. Schools here
were closed until Jan. 27; childrej
under 16 were barred from theaters;
many public meetings were cancelled
or postponed, and most of the
churches decided not to hold serv
ices tomorrow.
The epidemic appeared to be
crowing worse at Gastonia. Health
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 3)
Norway Town
Heavily Fined
For Sabotage
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 18.—(/P)—
Because of sabotage in Nazi-held
Norway, German authorities
have fined inhabitants of the
Vestopland district 100,000
crowns, banned all public meet
ings for two months, and insti
tuted an s p. m. curfew, it was
reported tonight from Oslo.
(The last quotation of the Nor
wegian crown was April 8 when
it was listed at 22.72 cents).
Meanwhile members of the
Norwegian supreme court recent
ly dismissed because they had
reached the “retirement age” got
orders from German authorities
not to leave their homes for a
month without special permis
sion.
This step was taken because
of their opposition to occupation
authorities and the Norwegian
Nazi party of Vidkun Quisling,
the report said.
HULL AND WILLKIE
TO TALK MONDAY
Knudsen Says F. R. British
Aid Plan ‘AH Right
With Me’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.— UP) —
President Roosevelt threw the files
on the State department’s informa
tion on European conditions wide
open today for Wendell Willkie,
leaving soon for Europe.
At the same time, he said he
would be glad to have a personal
conference with Willkie—an offer
which the latter promptly said
would be accepted.
Details of the meeting remained
to be arranged, but it was expect
ed that it would be held tomorrow
when Willkie comes here to s.je
Hull.
The chief executive directed j
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) I
Nazi Flag Ripped Down
From ’Frisco Consulate ;
By ALLAN STEWART
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18.—W)—
An American sailor ripped a huge
swastika flag from its staff at the
ninth-story offices of the German
consulate today- while thousands of
spectators stood in the street and
cheered.
The action, which Consul Gen
eral Fritz Wiedemann immediately
reported to the German Embassy
in Washington, climaxed a morn
ing of unrest around the building
at 26 O’Farrell street, just off Mar
ket.
The flag was being flown in
observance of the 70th anniversary
of the founding the German Reich.
The sailor was identified by Po
lice Capt. Joseph Walsh as Harold
James Sturtevant, 22, recently a
fireman on the destroyer Craven. «
He and a companion, E. G. Lackey, f
23, of Charlotte, N. C., seaman, t
first class, formerly on the destroy- t
er Perkins, were charged with mali- t
cious mischief and held for the U. t
S. navy. Four other young men j
who participated were released, r
Sturtevant and Lackey were on
shore leave, awaiting mustering out s
of service. They were in civilian e
clothing. £
The crowd began forming short- t
ly after the Nazi emblem was un- I
furled when the consulate opened.
As the morning advanced the crowd (
grew larger until an estimated 2,- c
000 person were gazing at the four l
by eight foot flag. 1
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)