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rT Dedicated to the f PROGRESS Of Wilmington and Southeastern N. C. THE SUNilitt -N INS _ -gjSfwiE ©f Aiate oiufAgmiEigyg Served by Leased Wire of the ASSOCIATED PRESS With Complete Coverage of State and National News VOL.3—NO-—L--- ---- 'T,<y£°^ "-TON, N. C., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS - A A A A 1 Po Valley Disorders Continuing Radio Correspondent Says Germans Have Taken Over Several Points NOT YET CONFIRMED Three Italian Generals Re ported Slain At Milan And Turin NEW YORK, Jan. 25.— (IP) — Winston Burdett, CBS correspon lent in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, re ported tonight that reports from Italy said three Italian generals were killed and several hundred persons were wounded today in rioting in Milan and Turin and smaller cities in the Italian Po valley. Cabled To U. S. Burdett s information was cabled to New York anc broadcast here by CBS. He said foreign diplo matic sources in Belgrade were in formed the three Italian officers were slain by intervening German troops during street riots in Milan. (About three hours after the broadcast, the Associated Press had not received any information on the reports from its correspondents in heavily-censored Italy or in neigh boring countries.) Burdett said the reports stated the disorders, grave and far-reach ing, began 24 .hours ago and were continuing tonight. The information reaching Bel grade, Burdett reported, said Ger man forces took the main hand in fighting the disorders. Italian sol diers were said to have taken part ■ in the street fighting though it was not clear, Burdett added, whether ■ they were on the side of the regime or the / insurgents or both. German troops, Burdett said he had been informed, have occupied Milan’s railroad station, telephone central office and post office. He said they are reported also on sen try duty at major Milan factories. According to diplomatic dispatches reaching Belgrade, Burdett added, three Italian generals were killed (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) GREEKS REPORT MORE CAPTURES Six Italian Planes Shot Down During Raid On City 01 Salonika ATHENS, Jan. 25.—UP)—Greek soldiers captured more than 100 prisoners in “successful local ac tions’’ in Albania and six Italian planes were shot down over the front and during a raid on Saloni ka, the Greek high command re ported tonight. All Greek planes returned safely, it was said. The communique gave no details on the day’s fighting. The Greek ministry of home security said some damage and “a few casualties among the civil ian population’’ resulted from the raid on Salonika. The ministr> also said Italian planes "unsuc cessfully” machine gunned a vil lage on an island in the Aegean sea. (Reports from Bitolj, Yugoslavia, said the Italian air force was in creasing its activity in Albania and a large formation of Fascist planes was said to have attacked Greek positions. (Greek reports received at the Yugoslav border said the main (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) ! LONDON RAIDLESS F3R SIXTH NIGHT Lone Nazi Raider Drops Explosives On West Coast Town LONDON, Jan. 26.—(Sunday)— —A lone air raider dropped two high explosive bombs on a town on Kng land’s west coast during the night— the first evening air attack any where in Britain after a lull of four nights. There were no serious casualties, it was reported, but some property t Continued »n Face Three: Col. 4) A " " ~ A ^ ^ ^ 'K 'K "K ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Iron Guards Offered Chance To Efid Own Lives Antonescu Is Planning Executions 'Mass Punishment’ Will Be Meted Out If Rebels Refuse Offer SIMA’S FATE UNKNOWN Chief Of Extremists Said To Have Been Caught Or On Way To Russia -- by ROBERT ST. JOHN BUCHAREST. Rumania. Jan. 25 General Ion Antonescu. Ru mania's victorious dictator, offered the leaders of the Iron Guard re bellio ntoday the bleak alternative of suicide or mass punishment” at the hands of the state. Their chief. Vice Premier Horia Sima, was reported variously as under arrest or in flight across Soviet Russia, but he and his as sociates were summoned by the premier to this strange self-judg ment: ‘‘Y'ou Rebels” . , You rebels! 11 you are true Iron Guardists punish your self with true legionary punish ment (and that by tradition is sui cide) or otherwise you may be sure that I shall apply mass punish ment myself.” (First it was understood in Bu charest that Sima had been taken into custody. The subsequent sug gestion that he might have found refuge in Russia was interesting in the. light of Antonescu’s earlier assertion that hold-out rebels had been under Communist influ ence.”) Tonight, rumors still flew as to Sima s whereabouts. A photograph sent to newspapers here for pub lication represented that he had been arrested with se- eral other Iron Guardists in a sleeping car in the provinces in possession of 3,500.000 lei (the lei, ow unquoted in foreign exchange, was worth a fraction of a cent). The picture showed him with the Other Guardists. Newspaper edi (Continued on Page Two; Co). 3) BYRNES REPORTED CHOICE FOR COURT South Carolinian Is Said To Be Ready To Accept McReynolds.’ Post WILLIAM B. ARDERY w,,ASHINGT0N- Jan- 25.—(J’l— ti -informed senate sources said that President Roosevelt had •'^ted Senator James F. Byrnes t (--arolina to succeed James - McReynoys as an associate ,,lce of ^e supreme court. •w. Roosevelt said yesterday he icidedSe)uC!ed an aPPoir>tee, but that the name would not (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) I WEATHER Xorti, r f,1>keCAST "H fnllinvnii'"1-13 : ■ “lc«'asing clomli 3" ling in laln .Monday and bc 10011 or njtri.f , r Vorti" Sunday after ,,’rt'1n warmer in east ‘tv. colder in interior Mon Soath c„ J* siiglitlv Illl l'('asing elondi fc,t‘ons. noWin!""’1-111 oast and south rSI Portionextreme north i'Slitly colder i ' ?,v ; Monday showers, ..he interior. (■Moteorohi„;S "rather Korean) dlng7:-'i0n ,lai!l for the 2-1 hours v P ut yesterday.) I;!?1 a. ui. 5cPe4n‘>nrat,lre It m lu. 40; 1:30 p. m. |um In: iiieaii ' l,,a»>siuin 61; mini 3,1 normal 46 l.1 30 a “umidity r “30 p.'m' pi "0 "• w- 36; 1:30 p. m. L^otal for , Precipitation Itom Cl"?s-" tZ? m<:i"s 7:30 P- ">• r 1 “37 inches Slnce first ot the Lf'001 'lido-aH1,r To<lay I a« and Geodetices^JvevS)hed ')y U' S' | ^Ogton High Low Pb0“ Inlet »=*£ 4:07p IW - 4:00a 12:30a l t,;l3a: sunset 5°3P6n 1:07p I 'a' “"onset 5 08p 3 P' moon r^uTr- sta«« at Fayette Nhuea 01' p I " PaSe Two; Col. 4) __“PADDLE-CAR” GETS ARMY TEST No plaything, but a Bantam car—raft-propelled, with paddles on its rear wheels—the sea-going freak above undergoes its first Army test at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. At the steering wheel is Lieut. Col. John A. Considine, commander of the Sixth Cavalry and designer of the strange device. A sailor mans the rudder. British Armored Cars Reach Dema; Italians May Have Abandoned Town HALIFAX PLEADS FOR MORE HELP New Ambassador Confers With Hull; Battleship Leaves U. S. Port WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.—(*— Viscount Halifax, Britain's new ambassador and member of the British war cabinet, said today that the greatest aid the United States could provide his embattled homeland was speedy “mobiliza tion of your great industrial strength and its translation into action in supplying us with the ships and supplies we need.” The tall envoy’s statement was made to reporters after he had talked for more than an hour with Cordell Hull, secretary of state— a talk which Halifax said covered the whole range of international affairs of vital interest to the two nations. Viscount Halifax had an oppor tunity for an even longer discus sion of the same subject with President Roosevelt when the chief executive shattered all precedent by meeting the incoming envoy last night on tne presidential yacht Po tomac in Chesapeake Bay. The King George V, England’s latest battleship, brought Lord Hal ifax to the United States. It was disclosed today that high Ameri can naval officials were given op portunity to inspect the newest British development in dread naughts. Those Who went over the ship last night were Secretary of the Navy Knox, Admiral Harold R, Stark, chief of naval operations, and Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, the President’s naval aide. Major General Edwin M. Watson, presi dential secretary, also visited the ship. The George V upped anchor to day and headed for the open sea, having spent only a little more than 21 hours of the 24 it might have I (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) FIND PLANES BURNING RAF Aids Attacks Deeper In JJbya And Across Ethiopian Border (By The Associated Press) CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 25— British armored cars, having fallen upon and broken an Italian tank column, were reported tonight to have reached Derna, Libya, 175 miles beyond the Egyptian frontier, un der circumstances suggesting that it had been abandoned by the Fascists. No Resistance During the day they met no re sistance so far as could be learn ed. The Italian tanks were dispers ed yesterday. While troops and guns were be ing advanced along the coast road west of Tobruk as fast as trucks could carry them, armored cars and light mechanized units swept past Martuba airdrome, which the Italians had been occupying only three nights ago. Beyond stating that operations were “proceeding satisfactorily’’ the British command gave little (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) 15 LOCALNURSES PASS N. C. EXAMS Marie Emily McCrary Put On Honor List; James Walker Graduates RALEIGH, Jan. 25.—MV-Miss Bessie Chapman, secretary of the North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners, announced today that 306 persons passed examinations here November 5-7, and would be granted licenses to practice nurs ing in the state. . The highest grades were made by Ester Aileen Hinshaw, graduate (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Liquor Ref erendum Bill Will Cause Hot Battle BY CHARLES .W. DANIEL RALEIGH, Jan. 25.—(£)—After 16 days of law-making, leader- of the 1941 General Assembly said today the work of the session was one third finished, and forecast that a state-wide liquor referendum bill would be introduced this week. Both Speaker Mull of the house ar.d senate pace-setters said they believed the session would be con cluded before Easter..” We ought to be through in about six more weeks,” Speaker Mull said. I think we’ve made pretty good progress in both houses to date and I know of nothing that can set us back very much at present.” The liquor bill, expected to be in troduced in the house either Mon day night or Tuesday, probably will carry the signature of half a dozen or more representatives. Prospective signers come from po litically strategic sections of the state, ranging from the mountain counties as far east as Duplin, home of Representative Quinn who said this week I will be in favor of any dry bill that is introduced.” The bill, responsible observers say, will call for a referendum on the proposal to outlaw the manu facture and sale in the state of any spiritous, vinous, fermented (Continued on Page Eighty Col. 6) GERMANS REPORT HITS ON WARSHIPS Two Battleships Damaged, Cruiser Bombed, Says Berlin Dispatch (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 25.—The German warplanes which have gone to the aid of Italy in the Mediterranean basin were credited by informed German sources today with dam age to two British battleships and a cruiser in a “successful attack” on a convoy west of Crete. The high command said merely that “several bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber on three heavy English naval units were clearly observed,” but other sources were more specific. They said a heavy bomb struck the stern of one battleship; that two bombs damaged the bow and starboard of another battleship and that a heavy cruiser also was struck. The Italian high command in Rome reported the engagement thus: “German air corps bomber for mations late yesterday afternoon attacked an enemy naval squadron in the Central Mediterranean. Ac cording to first reports, an enemy heavy cruiser appears to have been hit astern with a heavy cali ber bomb.” Nothing was said about participation by Italians planes; hence, apparently none was there. The Italians did claim that one of their submarines had sunk the 7,472-ton British auxiliary cruiser (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) SUB IS SIGHTED BY PACIFIC SHIP SSS Message From Arcadia Not Clear; Says Sub ‘Shelled Man’ LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25—t®— Mackay radio reported tonight it had picked Up an "SSS” message (sub marine sighted) from a United States ship, the Arcadia, which read: “SSS 34.19 north, 133.12 west. Shelled unknown man.” This would place the submarine less than 1,000 miles off the Cali fornia coast between Santa Barbara and San Francisco. Nothing- further was heard from the Arcadia to explain what was meant by shelling "unknown man,” Which the operator said was correct. A yacht named Arcadia, 578 gross ions, was reported sold by its Ameri can owner last year to Stuart B. Playfair of Toronto, Canada, where (Continued on Page Two: Col. 4) 8,400 Draw Camp Davis Pay Checks One-Sixth Of Total Given Pay Each Day Of Week To Avoid Delay MORE WILL GET JOBS More Than 11,000 Work ers Are To Be On Job By End Of This Week Approximately 8,400 persons were employed last week in vari ous types of work at Camp Davis, anti-aircraft firing center under construction at Holly Ridge, it was learned last night. A representative of the paymas ter’s office at Camp Davis reported that number of workmen received checks during the past week. 1400 Each Day The total number of pay checks indicated that an average of 1,400 persons daily received their week ly wages. The paymaster’s office pays off one-sixth of the workmen there each day of the week Mondays through Saturdays to avoid delay and confusion occasioned by long waiting lines and to expedite pay roll details with greater dispatch. During the coming week the number of persons employed at Camp Davis is expected to mount to more than 11,000. 1 COAL AVALANCHE ENTOMBS STOKER Rescue Squads Work In Vain To Save Man In Sub-Basement NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—(A*)— Scores of police and firemen worked frantically and vainly to day to stem an avalanche of buck wheat coal which trapped and then suffocated John Seery, 32, a stoker who stumbled into the huge hopper in the sub-basement of the New York Life Insurance company building. For four hours they worked as the black tide inched higher, snap ping or crushing a half-dozen de vices used in an effort to sustain life. Working in relays, 50 firemen and policemen shoveled coal stead ily; but each time they appeared to be gaining, a new pile came slithering down. At one time the workers got a rope beneath Seery’s shoulders, but tons of coal slipped and snapped it.. Stripped to the waist and black ened and choked by the dust, they succeeded once in getting Seery’s head and shoulders into an invert ed barrel. The barrel snapped like a match box. The emergency squad shored up part of the bir. and formed a bas-i ket brigade to carry away the coal. Acetylene torchc ate into the side of the hopper. Father W. J. Farricker, disre garding cautions of police and fire (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) RECAPTURED NAZI SEES HITLER WIN Consul In New York Posts Bond And Frees Flier Who Fled Canada OGDENSBURG, N. Y., Jan. 24 —UR—A 26-year-old German pur suit pilot, who predicted a “knock out blow” against England in March and British capitulation by September, left for New York City tonight after escaping two days ago from a Canadian prison train. The slim, smiling light-haired flier, Baron Franz von Werra, boarded a train after his release on $5,000 bond posted by the Ger man consulate in New York City. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) HOLDING DOWN PAUL REVERE’S JOB Doing their bit for national defense, Miss Crocker Snow, left, above, and Miss Emily Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts’ governor, are shown in the Chelsea, Mass., information center during exercises testing efficiency of civilian spotting of “enemy bombers” in New England and New York. Contracts To Construct Shipyard To Be Awarded WILL BE LET SOON Shipbuilding Co. Official Says Builders Have Al ready Visited Site Contracts will be issued within the next few days for construction of the Wilmington shipyard facili ties which will construct 24 cargo vessels at an estimated cost of $1,750,000 each, within 24 months after the contracts for the work have been signed, an official of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company said here yesterday. Contractors Visit Site Several contractors have gone over the ' site with an engineer furnished by the company during the past few days, the official said. The North Carolina Shipbuilding company, a subsidiary of the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, which recently re ceived a charter of incorporation in Raleigh, will build the vessels for the U.. S. Maritime commission. The official paid, the exact date for the starting of work on the project had not been definitely determined as yet. Contractors, who plan to submit bids on the, project, during the past few days have inspected the site consisting of the northern un developed portion of the property now held by the Texas Oil com pany and an undeveloped site to the north of that tract, now held by the Standard Oil company, of New Jersey. During the past week the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, it was learned, laid most of the preliminary ground work for the issuing of bids on parts of the project and awarding of contracts in the immediate fu ture. Other officials of the company ^rp expected to arrive in the city shortly to work out final details (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)1 506,000 TO GET SHIPYARDS WORK Labor Department’s Figure Does Not Include Jobs On Cargo Vessels WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—(ffl— The Labor department estimated today that about 506,000 new jobs would be created by June, 1942, as the result of government contracts already made for ship-building— a figure which does not include a multitude of additional workers needed for the proposed emergen cy ship construction progrhm or private projects. The department, reporting to the defense commission, said that 126, 000 workers were employed in con struction of government vessels in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) CROSS ASKS U. S. FOR MORE SHIPS British Minister Declares U-Boat Threat Can Be Beat—With Help LONDON, Jan. 25.—UP1—Shipping Minister Ronald Cross, in a trans Atlantic broadcast to the United States, declared tonight that Brit ain can beat “the U-boat threat” but “we must have your industrial support.” Cross, whose job it is to assure Britain ships for her urgently need ed supplies, dwelt at length on Britain’s reliance on sea - borne commerce for survival and her (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Bullitt Declares Britain Can Win If U. S. Helps WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 .—UP)— Declaring that the United States is faced with a “terrible, terrible ur gency,’’ William C. Bullitt told the House foreign affairs committee to day that if this country stepped up its production of military equipment to war-time levels Great Britain could defeat Germany. But if Britain falls, the tanned, baldish former ambassador to France said, invasion of the West ern Hemisphere is "almost certain” and encirclement of the United States by totalitarian powers is as sured. The foremost of a half dozen wit nesses to testify today in behalt of the administration’s British aid bill, Bullitt read a prepared statement and then settled himself in a chair for nearly four hours to answer searching questions covering almost every aspect of the diplomatic world* As his testimony ended, Bullitt picked up the leather brief case from which he had drawn innumer able papers—including a letter ftom former Premier of France Daladier to President Roosevelt—arose, faced the committee and declared solemn ly: “I feel this a terrible, terrible ur gency. I feel that the skipper has set the course of our ship. All of you gentlemen are officers and those of (Continued on Paee Three; Col, 21
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