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I Served By Leased Wire Of The . ASSOCIATED PRESS J ,4 4 dlVfi 4 A Dedicated To The Progress Of rasr i Jiiimington UlortiuiQ l?tar iw^NQ-142 — "—"7 « m ^7~_ ESTABLISHED 1867 HALF OF SUM CASHED HERE, SAYS OFFICIAL _ _ a. BANKS OPEN TONIGHT Amount Spent Here for Board, Other Necessities Totals About $125,000 BUSINESS IS BOOMING Bankers Stress That Spe cial Services Limited to Holly Ridge Workers The weekly payroll of the more than 20,000 civilian workers engaged in constructing Camp Davis, the army’s anti-aircraft firing center at Holly Ridge, was estimated at $500,. 000 by an official of the contractors last night. Of this amount, approximately $250,000 is cashed in Wilmington and one-half of this, $125,000, is being spent in the city weekly, it was said. The spending of this sum each week recently has speeded up consid erably the tempo of all lines of bus iness. The greater part of the money re leased here goes for room and board and meals at the various restaurants but the thousands of workmen are also spending considerable sums daily for gasoline and oil, clothes, tools and other essentials of their lives and trades. More Help Needed Evidence of the current prosperity note in Wilmington’s business life may be seen in the additional help being constantly needed by the mer chants and crowding of eating estab lishments early in the morning and late in the evening. The possibility of further increases in the weekly payroll total at Camp Davis in the weeks to come, will be largely dependent on weather condi tions and the availability of labor, the official indicated. For the convenience of the Camp Davis workers, all four of the banks in the city will remain open from 6 to 9 o’clock tonight, and longer if necessary. As no charge will be made for cashing Camp Davis pay roll checks, this service will be strictly an ac commodation. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) SOUTHPORT SUPPLY BASE IS INDICATED Navy Expected to Establish Station to Service Craft Using Waterway SOUTHPORT, Feb. 13 — Indi cations are increasing to point to what seems a certainity that the Navy will have a supply base at Southport for vessels plying the waterway, and also to which ves sels using the outside passage along the coast may come in to take aboard anything needed. Last week two boats of the Mosquito Fleet had trouble getting a considerable supply of aviation gas of a high grade. Other things needed were also unavailable. Monday of this week a local or ganization was notified by Wash ington that until arrangements were made, government vessels scheduled to arrive here and needing supplies of any sort, would advise the local organiza tion in advance of their arrival. This will permit of supplies being arranged for and ready when the boats come. Jap Thrust In Paci^, Feared By Australia America Asks Nationals To Quit Far East Sydney Officials Say War Has Entered State Involv ing Great Gravity MAVSTRIKESINGAPORE Japan May Act Simultane ously With New Thrusts In Europe by Axis By J. C. STARK WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—(AP)— The United States government sought anew today to induce Amer icans to leave the Far East as Australian officials at Sydney de clared that “the war has moved into a new stage involving the ut most gravity.” In the foreign diplomatic corps here there were two interpreta tions of the Australian statement. Some said they saw signs that Japan might strike soon toward Singapore, Britain’s great naval bastion in the Pacific, or toward the Netherlands East Indies. Oth ers felt the statement might be intended primarily for home con sumption; to stir the Australians to even greater efforts in the Brit ish-Axis war. No Late Advices The State department’s renewed advice to Americans to leave the Orient was said officially to indi cate no new concern on the part of this government over the situ ation in that area. Secretary of State Hull said he had no late ad vices from American diplomats to explain the concern felt in Aus tralia. The caution to Americans, he said, was merely a reinforcement of the advice given last October v'hen the government first started moving its nationals out of the Orient. In other diplomatic quarters, however, the belief was expressed that tlie Australian statement was based on late information indicat ing that Japan might be planning a move soon in the South Pacific. How imminent any such thrust might be was uncertain here but speculation centered largely on the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) AXIS DIPLOMATIC DRIVE IS RUSHED Reported in ‘Full Develop ment Throughout Mediter ranean and Balkans’ ROME, Feb. 13—(.3?)—Fascist com mentators declared tonight that an Axis diplomatic offensive is "in full development throughout the Mediter lanean and the Balkans” now that ■ Pain and Italy have reaped a new accoid and, it is understood, have in termed France of their decisions. these commentators indicated that yesterday’s consultation between tenner Mussolini and Generalissimo tanco, followed today by a confer mee between Franco and France’s te o. state, Marshal Petain,* had Jtne connection with Axis plans for ,,‘g sPring military offensive, t is certainly not only aimed at enlarging jts (the Axis’) sphere cf ^Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 2) -- ■ > r ___^_* Sidelights knight Defense Boom Town — 1 - ■ _ Two months ago Holly Ridge had *8 inhabitants. Today the little hamlet has blossomed into a boom towtr of 5,000, all because a 510,000,000 anti center, Camp Davis, is being built there. Bed space is pretty scarce, but many of the workmen find rest in this 50c-a-night hotel (upper left). For relaxation, a couple of the boys toast the defense work with a little beer. And then there are country stores equipped with pool tables such as this one- But more aware than anyone else of the town’s growing pains is Postmaster C. C. Hines (top right), who used to handle a heavy run of 30 letters. Now between 3,000 and 4,000 letters pass through his hands daily. GERMANY SEEKING BALKAN PASSAGE Reported Anxious to Move jTroops Through Yugo slavia and Bulgaria BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 14.— (Friday) —UR—Reports that Germany is seeking passage for German troops through both Yu goslavia and Bulgaria in order to get at Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean shores reached dip lomats here early today as Yugo slavia’s premier and foreign min ister began "request” conferences with the Nazi leadership in Ger many. uipiomausis wun usuany reli able sources of information in gov ernment quarters said Premier Dragisa Cvetkovic and foreign min ister Alksander Cincar-Markovic will discuss passage of German troops from Rumania through the Yugoslavian railway junction of Nis, thence by rail down the Var dar river valley toward Greece and the important Aegean seaport of Salonika. There were unconfirmed reports that King Boris of Bulgaria might follow the Yugoslavs to Germany today. In any event, Sofia dispatches said that Bulgaria, with Italian and German backing, now is trying to get British-allied Turkey to prom ise not to fight if the Germans start through Bulgaria toward the Dardanelles. An indication Turkey was not prepared to fight to prevent the Nazi armies reaching Greece and the Mediterranean through Bui garia and Yugoslavia was seen in an announcement that Nazi-con trolled Rumania had agreed to (Continued on Page Three; Col- 4) Senate Committee Okehs Lease-Lend Bill, 15 To 8 WiL^ICHARD L- TURNER Washington, Feb 13._(ip_ mitt enate Foreign Relations com 15 L sapfr,oved the lease-lend biU, s, ° 8h,today and urged its pas nof oWlth an a6sertion that it "is saw T'a^ ™easure, but a practical war?“ard aimed at keeping out of a formal lftport to the sain tu t*le, cornmittee majority heat h^6 wefare of the nation can basin E served a foreign policy Principles0^6 tW° fUndamental The United States must strive in all ways reasonably possible to stay at peace with all the world; and the United States must, in its own interests, supply effective ma erial aid to those countries whose defense is vital to our defense.” “Your con^mittee believes,” the report added, “that within the terms of H. R. 1776, as amended, provision is amply, safely and con stitutionally made that the foreign policy of the United States 6'nall contniue to be guided by these two principles. (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 2) Eight Title Battles Set For GG Tourney Tonight - w FAVORITES TO FIGHT Roanoke Rapids and Lum berton Will Be Seeking Team Championship Eight championship fights in the Open division and four in the Novice class are on tap for to night’s finals in the Fifth Annual Star-News-Brigade Golden Gloves tournament at Legion stadium. All of the top favorites of the early rounds of the tournament and the popular scrappers of form er years will be battling for all they are worth in tonight’s final round of fist slinging. Roanoke Rapids and Lumberton will be battling it out for the team championship trophy, with Wil mington given an outside chance of coming through for the prized cup, Wilmington’s popular Snooky Swann will meet Lumberton’s Douglas Baxley for the bantam weight decision. Other top bouts include Bob Moore ana Red Beard’s set-to in the middleweight division. The championships finals will be as follows: Open Division FLYWEIGHT — Donald Raj Lane, 114, of Wilmington, vs. Ben nett Kirby, 111, of Lumberton. (Continned on Page Ten; Col. 5) WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Mostly cloudy with showers Friday and in extreme east por tion Friday night; colder Friday night and Saturday anC in west portion Fri day. (By IT. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.) Temperature 1:30 a. m. 40; 7:30 a. in 38; 1:30 p. m. 57; 7:30 p. m. 55; maximum 59; mini mum 37; mean 48; normal 48. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 74; 7:30 a. m. 89; 1:30 p. m. 83; 7:30 p. m. 93. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.01 inches. Total since first of the month 1.07 inches. Tides For Today (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High Low Wilmington-11:42a H:28a _ 7:00p Masonboro Inlet- 9:22a 3:18a 9 :52p 3:42p Sunrise 5:58a; sunset 5:55p; moonrise 9:08p; mqonset 8:33a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Feb. 13, at 8 a. pi., 10.30 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) Force at Camp Jackson Will Be Boosted Soon FORT JACKSON, S. C„ Feb. 13. — (/P) — Post officials an nounced today that Fort Jack son would b» increased in March and June from the present 32,500 officers and men, to 43,000. This increase^ they said, will be due to the activation of 18 ad ditional units and the assign ment of selective service men to the 18th division and the 102nd cavalry regiment. The 102nd cavalry regiment of New Jersey, which is now sta tioned at the post, will receive 258 selectees from New Jersey around March 1. BRITAIN’S ERITREA DRIVE PROGRESSES British Columns Besieging Cheren Improve Their Positions in Hills CAIRO, EGYPT, Feb. 13—(A>)— New progress in the 3-column Brit ish drive to cut Italian Eritrea to pieces was reported today by the middle eastern command, and the Royal Air force told of a bombing offensive extending from the Island of Rhodes to the Eritrean front. British columns besieging Cheren, which commands the ap proaches to Asmara, the Eritrean capitol, were said to have im proved their positions in the hills covering the town by successful (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) LENNON AND SMITH REPLY TO GARDNER Answer County Commis sioner Who Expressed Op position to Pay Boosts Judge Alton A. Lennon and So licitor Winfield Smith, of record er’s court, yesterday, in a state ment read in open court, replied to Harry Gardner, county com missioner, who recently expressed opposition to their requests for sal ary increases. The statement, addressed to the citizens of New Hanover county, follows in full: ien days ago we gave notice to the people through the press that we would ask our representa tives in the legislature for an in crease in our respective salaries, and at the same time we set out in detail our reasons for the re quest. This public notice through the press was an unusual proce dure and one not heretofore prac ticed, but we believed it to be the only method that should be used in our democratic form of government. Bvery citizen in New Hanover county was invited to ex press any opposition he or she might have to this legislation. “On Tuesday of this week our representatives informed us that only three people had expressed any opposition to the legislation, one of whom was Honorable Harry Gardner, a member of the Board of County Commissioners. “We have read with much in terest the article appearing on the front page of the Wilmington Star, dated February 11, wherein at a County Board meeting, Commis sioner Gardner bitterly opposed the salary increases we had re (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) State’s $163,600,000 Tax Bill Is Passed By House RALEIGH, Feb. 13—(AP)— North Carolina’s tax bill; 'designed to raise a record-shattering sum of $163,600,000 during the next bien nium, won unanimous approval in the house of representatives today, and was sent to the senate. The measure, which actually is a group of amendments to the continuing revenue act, would make these two basic changes in the state’s tax structure: L—Exempt from the sales tax all foods bought for home con sumption. , 2.—Give cities and counties 75 per cent of the state-collected in tangibles tax. At present, the lo cal units get only 60 per cent. Paradoxically, although those two changes could seem to have the effect of cutting receipts, the new tax measure is expected to bring in enough money to finance the largest spending program in the state’s history. This is ex plained in the fact that* better business conditions are swelling (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) , Army Appeals For Housing In Wilmington Officers Say 1,200 Homes And Apartments Needed In City and Vicinity SHORTAGE IS PROBLEM Persons Having Housing Asked to List Offer with Lieutenant Sutherlin Wanted, in and near Wilmington, 1,200 homes, apartments and rooms, for Army men and their families. That, in effect, was the plea last night of the Camp Davis head quarters staff, temporarily located here pending military possession of the Army’s new anti-aircraft firing base at Holly Ridge. Of course, not all the 1,200 com missioned and non-commissioned officers are here but already the housing shortage is causing the Army more than a slight head ache, for within the next 60 days living quarters must be found for that many officers, non-coms and their families. x&yuig xu ncip The Wilmington real estate board, the chamber of commerce and other agencies are trying to help the Army solve the problem, but even so more help is needed by the men now here and charged with arranging for accomodations for others yet to come. Anyone in or near Wilmington having a house to rent, or an apartment or furnished rooms in a private home, has been invited by staff headquarters to list their offer with Lieut. John Sutherlin, housing officer, located in the base ment of the Wilmington postoffice. Listings should be made in person rather than via the telephone in order to minimize possibility of error. At the present time there are less than 100 commissioned officers and non-coms here, yet the housing problem is considered “acute” by (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) — FRANK L. DUNLAP DIES IN FLORIDA Funeral Services for State Highway Commissioner Planned Saturday RALEIGH, Feb. 13.—W—Gover nor Broughton and a large num er of state officials will attend tin funeral in Wadesboro of Frank L. Dunlap, chairman of the state highway and public works com mission, who died late last night at Welaka, Fla., of a heart at tack. The services will be held at 11 o’clock Saturday morning at the Calvary Episcopal church. Dunlap was on a 90-day leave of absence from his duties as com (Continued on Page Five; Col. i) War Interpretive By K1RKE L. SIMPSON Despite the elaborate window dressing provided for the Musso lini-Franco conference there are no real signs that Mussolini or anyone else expects important mil itary developments to flow from the meeting immediately. The Balkans still are the prime centre of interest. German movs on that game board point increas ingly to southeastern Europe, not Albania, Africa or the Mediter ranean, as the scene of the next dramatic war development. A command appearance by Yu goslavian government leaders in Germany, presumably to be told the role they are expected to play in what is coming, headlines the news. Whether it means that both Yugoslavia and Bulgaria are to (Continued on Page Eleven; Col. 2) Camp Davis Troops Will Be Stationed On Permanent Basis The eight Coast Artillery anti aircraft regiments to be formed at Camp Davis will be stationed there on a permanent basis, ac cording to present plans. According to an article in the latest issue of the Army and Navy Journal, the regiments will be formed with personnel largely obtained from selective service trainees. The regiments will be activated April 15 with cadres from various Regular Army anti aircraft regiments and will then be filled in with draftees to full strength. A recent allotment of grades and ratings authorizes 84 enlisted men for the overhead at the camp. Col. J. B. Crawford is acting commanding officer of the camp pending naming of a commander which, under tables of organiza tion, would be a major general. Lt. Col. S. L. MeCroskey is plans and training officer. GREEKS ADVANCE TOWARD VALONA Push Accompanied by Gen eral Attack Over Central Par? of Front ATHENS, Feb. 13.—UP)—A three mile advance toward Valona in the bitterly contested southern coastal region of Albania, accompanied by a general attack over a broad central sector where the Italians also yielded ground, was reported in Greek dis patches today. Greeks said that their repulse of the counter-attacks in the past month had caused the fascists to fall back to the defensive and prepare a new line running from Valona to Berati. This apparently means the Italians intend to abandon all the Tepeleni area, where Greek fighters have in filtrated along the mountain ridges until they are on both sides of that key town, Greeks said. The Italians stubbornly defended their positions in heights about Va lona, on the Adriatic coast, it was re ported, but suffered severe losses from an intense artillery bombard ment and yielded before Greek bayo net charges. The Greeks previously have been reported near the southern side of Valona Bay, which is about eight miles wide. (British artillery bat teries have been shelling the city, say dispatches from Yugoslav border points.) Berati, through which the new line was reported to run, is about 30 miles northeast of Tepeleni and 45 miles south of Tirana, the capital. GERMANS DESTROY 13 ARMED SHIPS Nazis May Be Gathering Resources for a Violent Drive on British Craft • BERLIN, Feb. 13.—(Ml—The de struction of 13 armed merchant men by German warships in the At'antic was officially announced today under circumstances sug gesting that the Germans were gathering their resources for the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) City Manager Vote Bill Approved By Legislature RALEIGH, Feb. 18—Without a dissenting vote, the state senate to day ratified the bill providing for a special election in the city of Wil mington on the city manager form of government. The motion to ratify the measure was made by Senator Roy Rowe, of Furgaw. Opens Way For Vote By its action, the senate set in motion the machinery by which the citizens of the Port City will decide some time next month whether or not the city will continue function Ing under its existing commissior government, or adopt the city mana ger type of municipal operation. Probably not later than Monday of next week, and possibly before that date, the ratified bill will be sent to Secretary of State Thad Eure for signature. Representatives Jack LeGrand and John Morris of New Hanover coun ty presented the measure to the lower house early this week. It was passed through that branch of the (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. i>
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