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■ _— mm I I Served By Leased Wire Of The I ~ ~ - ■ I ASSOCIATED PRESS Dedicated To The Progress Of m 1 With Complete Coverage of WILMIMGTOl! I I Stale and National News And Southeastern North . ■ -- Carolina ■ vOLjir^----WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 NA TION IS SCHEDULED TO GO INTO HITLER’S NEW EUROPEAN ORDER __+ ___ Threats Of World-Wide Conflagration Increase LONDON, Feb. 14— <M — Fear of world-wide conflagra tion involving a German in vasion of Britain timed with thrusts at Suez and Gibraltar and a Japanese grab for Sin gapore increased among diplo matic and military authorities tonight. Invasion of this island re- . mained the No. 1 consideration in discussions of a possible plan of grandiose proportions to seize at one swoop three of the world’s most strategic posi tions — Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore—while the German army and air force try to break England. Despite cont'nuous and grow iig alarms in the Balkans and tension in the Far East, Brit ons remember well that all surface signs pointed to a Nazi thrust toward southeastern Europe just before Adolf Hit ler launched his overpowering drive into Norway and through the lowlands and France last April and May.. The gradual tightening of British censorship is viewed by foreign observers as one sign that '.he British are not allowing the present clamor in the Balkans to divert their at tention from the perils of an invasion of England. Not since Nazi bombers hammered Coventry and sub marines ranged tin North At lantic in packs last fall has it been so difficult to assess—for publication—the British em pire’s position. Other indications that Britain expects to deal with plenty of trouble are the army’s re (Continued on Page Three; Col. 51 Plan To Block Transfer Of Warships Is Drafted + - Six Vessels Believed Sunk by Nazi Raider __— FUNCHAL, Madeira. Feb- 14. C/P) — More than 106 survivors landed here today reported that six ships were believed sunk when a German raider, probably a pocket-battleship, attacked a British convoy steaming north ward betwen Madeira and The Azores. (The Germans have announced that six ships were wrecked last Sunday in a convoy off the Por tuguese coast. An attack on an other convoy, in mid-Atlantic, was reported by the German high command yesterday in which 14 ships were destroyed. A line between Madeira and The Azores is about 700 miles south west of Portugal.) The -survivors, four of whom were taken to hospitals, said the raider hurled salvoes of shells into the convoy for half an hour and then sped over the horizlm. BRITISH TAKE TWO TOWNS IN AFRICA Froops Have Advanced 130 Miles Into Italian Soma liland from Kenya CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 14.—CffI— British imperial troops have ad vanced 130 miles into Italian So naliland from Kenya, military ;ources indicated today in announc ng the fall of the Fascist towns pf Afmadu and Bulo Erillo. Five armored cars were taken at Afmadu, where a heavy raid :y the South African airforce had put most of the garrison to flight pefore British ground forces ar rived, a communique stated, and our cars were seized at Bulo Eril o. At Bulo Erillo, it was said, Ital an resistance was strong. (The loss of Afmadu already had (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) CONFERENCE IS HELD Score of Senators Prepare To Stage Battle Against Lease-Lend Plan By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(51—A strategy meeting of senate critics of the lease-lend bill revealed to day that an amendment prohibit ing the transfer of any part of the navy to England would prob ably be offered by none other than Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, democratic chairman of the Naval committee. Nearly a score of senators gath ered late in the day in the tiny, subterranean office of Senator Johnson (R-Calif.) in the oldest part of the capital, discuss- -t pro cedure, delegated Senator Clark, (D-Mo.) to make the first speech in opposition to the lease-lend bill in the senate next week, and talk ed about amendments which the group would support. Surprise The fact that Walsh attended the meeting came as more than a (Continued on Page Two; Col- 1) SEVEN MEN KILLED ! IN FACTORY BLAST "" Explosion at Du Quoin, 111., Blows Debris Over Quar ter of Mile Area DU QUOIN, 111., Feb. 14.—UPl All seven men at a plant manu facturing liquid oxygen explosives for coal mining were killed today in a bast so terrific it blew debris over an area of a quarter of a mile and hurled one of the bodies 250 feet. The explosion, wrecking the plant of the United Electric Coal companies’ Fidelity mine and dam aging several auxiliary buildings, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) DRIVEN INTO CORNER Turkey Serves Notice By Press That it Stands Ready to Fight NAZI TROOPS ACTIVE Large British Diplomatic Mission Leaves Bucharest By Special Train BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 14. (iP)—A source close to Premier Dra gisa Cvetkovic said tonight that Yu goslavia would accede to Adolf Hit ler’s wishes after the return tomor row of her statesmen from a confer ence with the Fuehrer. This country is expected to accept what were described as compara tively favorable terms in order to keep out of active warfare. These terms, while not yet known, are ex pected to call for active participation by Yugoslavia in Hitler’s "new or der” for Europe Driven Into Corner Thoroughly informed sources in terpreted the Yugoslavs’ journey to Germany as meaning that the gov ernment of Yugoslavia had been driv en into a corner as a result of Bul garia’s bowing to German wishes and Russia’s non-intervention policy in the Balkans. An informant said that the re gency council in a few days would discuss the terms brought back from Germany and then formulate Yugo slavia’s answer. Turkey served notice through her controlled press .that she stands ready to fight in the Balkan crisis because she cannot be disinterested toward any German invasion of Bul garia. A British military mission com pleted an inspection of Turkey’s de fenses on the Bulgarian frontier and Adolf Hitler stepped up the prepara tions of his Balkan army of 600,000 men in Rumania. Obviously inspired, the press decla rations from Istanbul were inter (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) ITALIAN DEFENSES BROKEN BY GREEKS Heavy Artillery Bombard ment Ushers in Major Of fensive in Albania ATHENS, Feb. 14.—1The Greeks were reported officially to night to have broken through Ital ian defenses at many points in an offensive along the entire Albanian front which was ushered in by 48 hours of almost continuous artil lery bombardment. The British air force also pre pared the way with large-scale bombings which the RAf called (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) War. Interpretive By KIRKE L. rIMPSON Whatever the intentions behind current Axis maneuvers, military and diplomatic, Britain appears de termined to force the issue in Southeastern F pe. British classification of Rumania as "territory under enemy occu pation,” has that look. It makes Rumanian oil wells legitimate ob jectives for British bombers. All that is lacking is a rout for RAF bombers without violati- - some body’s neutrality. Possible Air Route That route may be provided overnight, if Bulgaria Yugo slavia yield to reported Nazi pres sure to permit passage of German troops toward Albania. Turkish in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) ARMY ORDERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—W Army orders today: Lieutenant Colonel* Clarence M. Reddig MC, Den ver, to Charleston, S. C. Philander C. Riley, retired, Fay etteville, to duty, Fort Bragg ,» • X ^ ^ * VC ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ] ipyard Railing Work Starts Soon I Greeting Her Royal Guests .Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt greets the Grand Duehess of Luxemburg ami iier husband Prince Felix, as they arrive at the White House in I Washington for a three-day visit. With the royal couple was their 21 year-old soil. lean hereditary Grand Duke of the little country now oc cupied by Germany. Investigation Of Skipper Stab-Death Slated Here PASSES IN HOSPITAL Police Say Wounds Were Inflicted by James Rich, 22, On October 1 _ Coroner Asa W. Allen last night announced plans to conduct an in ouest into the death of Richard Skipper, 38, a painter, of 912 South Second street, who died at 6:05 o'clock last night in James Walker Memorial hospital after a four month’s illness. Police headquarters quoted the attending physician as saying that Skipper’s death was attributed to severe stab wounds in the stomach allegedly inflicted by James Rich, 22, a plumber’s helper, of 913 South Fifth street. Serving Sentence Rich is now serving a 12 months road sentence on charges of as sault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill with serious in juries resulting, police re cords dis closed, in connection with the case. Rch allegedly stabbed Skipper during an argument on the night of October 1, 1940, at the corner of Fourth and Dawson streets, po lice reports revealed last night. Found guilty of charges of as sault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill with serious in juries resulting, early in December in recorder's court, Rich was sent on December 20 to the Columbus county prison camp at Whiteville to begin serving a year on the roads, according to police records. Officer J. C. Long swore out the warrant against Rich on in _(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) L Local School Sets Job Placement Mark Here’s a school which had 94 graduates — and 94 job place ments. H. M. Roland, superintendent of schools, said yesterday a re recent Defense Training school here enrolled 112 men and boys, graduated 94, and placed all of them in jobs as ship carpenters, welders, sheet metal workers, draftsmen, form builders and concrete pourers. 19 ARE ARRESTED IN TRAFFIC DRIVE Police Charge Many Motor ists With Parking at An gle on Third Street Police headquarters last night reported the arres+- of 19 persons on charges of viola' ng the traffic laws in the downtown section. The following were arrested on charges of parking at an angle on North Third street, between Chest nut and Grace, where parallel lines are marked prohibiting angle parking: James Mears, of 308 North Sixth street: Roland Perry, of 106 North 17th street; Mrs. T. R. Jones, of Forest Hills; M. L. Meyland, of 1506 Ann street; L. A. Pichon, of 614 Orange street; Mrs. H. M. Neil, of Winter Park; Mrs. W. J. Henry, of 411 South 16th street; (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Spofford Announces Ten Per Cent Wage Increase A ten per cent increase in wages for all employes oi Spcfford Mills Was announced last night by J. Holmes Davis, Jr., president of the company. . The increase, effective Monday in all departments of the factory, _ 1 £° to 450 employes. As far as is known here, this is the first cotton mill wage increase in this section. The mill is now operating con tinuously with three eight-hour, five-day shifts. In recent years, Spofford Mills has given Wilming ton one of its best payrolls, offi cials said. Army May Stage Summer Games In Carolina Area -JtjUMBIA, s. C., Feb. 14— UP)~ e announcement today by Lieut, general Hugh A. Drum that the first °lmy 'vou'd hold large-scale summer maneuvers "somewhere in the south” r! ,taken here to indicate that they Fn t d*6 Sta,sed 'n the area between r ra8S, X. C., and Fort Jack son. n<3,heSe are the onIy tw0 southern pral b under the jurisdiction of Gen arm 1U.n’’ wll° commands the first rnr’y ,With headquarters at Gover r‘or s Island. N. v Plans for spring maneuvers, for which post officials are working to obtain trespass rights on 250,000 acres in Richland, Ker shaw and Fairfield counties. A huge mapping project of the area between Bragg and Jackson has also been made at a cost of approximately $30, 000. A high-ranking officer at Jackson said it was almost assured that the first army maneuvers “will be held between Columbia and Fort Bragg. There are only three corps in the first army, two of them in the north, which leaves only the first corps as (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) mmo m Will Employ 300 Workers Length of Time Needed to Lay Six Miles of Tracks Depends on Grading RAILS SHIPPED HERE Atlantic Coast Line is Con structing Turn-Off from Its Belt Line The job of laying six miles of railroad tracks at the North Caro lina Shipbuilding company’s ya’.ds at Sunset Park at a cost of ap proximately $150,000 is expected to be started in about thr»a weeks, J. E. Dennis, representative of the shipyard contracting firms, said last night. From 200 to 300 workmen will be employed on the project, the length of which will be dependent on the completion of grading oper ations at the shipyards, Dennis said. Building Turn-Off The Atlantic Coast Line railroad company is now building a turn off from its belt line into the ship yards between Central and South ern boulevards at Sunset Park. The turn-off track into the ship yards will branch out into five tracks wide and then into a leader track, seven tracks wide. Filling in operations for the turn off track will be begun by the dredge Cherokee during the week end, possibly Sunday morning, Dennis said. Rails are being shipped here from Ohio, special switches, turn offs, and crossings from Cincin nati, and switch and cross ties are being furnished by the Gulf State Creosote company. Tracks will be laid as each sec tion of the grading work is com pleted for the project, which will cost about $150,000, not counting the cost of filling in operations of the dredge, Dennis said. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) BRIDGES ARRESTED ON U. S. WARRANT West Coast Labor Leader Accused of Having Been Member of Red Party SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 14.—(fl) —Harry Bridges was arrested to day on a Justice department war rant charging him with having been a member of an organization advocating violent overthrow of the United States government. The west coast longshoremen’s leader, an Australian, was cited to appear March 31 for his second deportation hearing. Bridges, cleared of communist connections in a Labor department (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) WEATHER FORECAST North Caroliun and South Carolina: Generally fair, colder east anc? central portions Saturday; Sunday fair and continued cool. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.) (By U. 8. Weather Bureau) Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 15, 1941. Temperature 1:30 a. m. 52; 7:30 a. m. 55; 1:30 p. m. 58; 7:30 p. lft, 51; maximum 59; mini mum' 49; mean 54; normal 48. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 100 : 7:30 a. m. 100; 1:30 p. m. 84 : 7:30 y>. m. 92. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. .85 inches; since first of month 2.52 inches. Tides For Today (From Tide Tables, published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High low Wilmington _12.07a 7:20a 12:32p 7 :48p Masonboro Inlet-10:10a 4:0Sa 10:45p 4:30p Sunrise 6:57a; sunset 5:56p; moonrise 10:15p; moonset 9:13a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayettevilh on Feb. 14, at R p. m., 10.25 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) i i American “Eagle” Reported Killed Edwin Ezell Orbison, above, re garded as one of the outstanding pilots of the Eagle Squadron of Americans flying for the R. A. F., has been reported killed in action. He is from Sacremento, Calif., and was a student at the State college there. ENGLISH ’CHUTE TROOPS CAPTURED ■ - . >• Reported to Have Landed In Italy With Plan to Blast Waterworks ROME, Feb. 14—l/PI—The capture of a group of heavily-armed British parachutists said to have floated down through the moonlnight on southern Italy with the intention of dynamiting the regional water works and communications system was claimed today by the Italian high command. They landed Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the high command reported, in the pro vinces of Calabria and Lucania— where the Apulian aqueduct, the biggest in the world, runs to supply 2,677,000 Italians with drinking water—but all were captured ‘‘be fore they could cause the serious damage which they intended.” How many were taken into custo dy was not announced—the com munique merely describing them as ‘‘nuclei of parachutists armed with machine guns, hand grenades and explosives”—but it was stated that in a clash during the capture an Italian civilian police deputy and a citizen were killed. (The Rome radio, however, gave a more circumstantial account, saying specifically that 19 para chutists had been seized along with another group of unstated size. (The wireless account said the British, carrying maps of the dis trict, had taken over some farms in the area, preventing the peasants from giving an immediate alarm in their attempt to “blow up and damage chinfly the hydraulic works built by the fascist regime.” (One parachutist broke his leg in descending, it was stated, and was almost immediately captured by Italian police, having been “abandoned by the others.” (“Soon,” the account went on, “the alarm was given and the (other) parachutists, who had (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) J Closed Senate Meet To Hear Reports Asked) Proposal is Prompted by Shadows of New Crisis in Europe and Asia JAP THRUST IS FEARED Australia Says it Will Face Any Crisis With Delib erate Purpose BY J. C. STARK WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(An— Deepening shadows of a possible new crisis in Europe and Asia led to a proposal in the senate today for an extraordinary r’--ed session to hear confidential diplomatic re ports on world conditions. Taking note of the possibility that Japan might be preparing to strike against British and other interests in the Far East in con junction with new Axis moves in Europe, Senator Wiley (R.-Wis.) called for the executive session of the full senate next week to hear Secretary of State Hull and other officials. Lacks Support The move, however, lacked ad ministration support and demo cratic leaders sajd there was little chance iiat such a session would be held. They said it was doubt ful that the motion would reach a vote in the senate but if it should, they expressed confidence it would be defeated. Wiley said the senate should have a full report on world condi tions from high officials, with spe cial reference to the Near and Far East, in connection with its consideration of the lease-lend bill. “Are Adolf Hitler and his as sociates, Japan and Mussolini, at tempting another war of nerves?” the republican senator asked, "or is there a synchronized, coordi nated movement in process where by when Hitler opens his spring offensive in the Balkans, Japan will attempt some move against British interests and perhaps our own interests?” In raising these questions Wiley reflected a view widely held in diplomatic quarters that Hitler was seeking Japanese cooperation in a coordinated plan of action in both Europe and Asia this spring. Opinion differed, however, on whether Japan would risk a pos (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) MANAGER ELECTION BILL IS ENROLLED Chairman of Elections Body Scheduled to Receive Copy Tuesday RALEIGH, Feb. 14— Chairman H. G. Carney, of the New Hanover county board of elections, is ex pected to receive early Tuesday morning a duly certified copy of the law authorizing Wlimington to vote on the city manager issue. The bill was formally enrolled and ratified this morning. Representative John R. Morris, of New Hanover, immediately re- j quested Secretary of State Thad 1 (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) LEGISLATURE GETS BILLS TO TIGHTEN WAGE-HOUR LAW, REDISTRICT SENATE By JOHN PEELE Raleigh, Feb. 14.—</p>—The legislature today pressed toward final adjournment, speeding ma jor legislation to enactment and receiving Broughton-backed bills to redistrict the senate and to tighten the maximum hour law. Introduction of the senate’s re apportionment measure rounds out the redistricting program. The legislature has already carved a 12th congressional dis trict in western North Carolina. A bill to reapportion the lower house has passed that body and now awaits senate action. A pro posal to streamline judicial dis tricts has been shelved. The senate redistricting Mil, in troduced in both houses, changes the set-up in 11 of the 33 sena torial districts in the state. The west would gain one senator. Mecklenburg and Guilford would elect a senator apiece. The senate also got a bill to eliminate exemptions from the present maximum hour law, in accordance with the majority recommendations of a wage-hour commission. Employes, working overtime, would be paid at time and one-half their regular pay under the legislation. Governor Broughton has endorsed the bill. In the house Representative McEachem of Hoke sent up a similar measure. Rejecting pleas to postpone consideration, the senate ap proved on second reading a bill to levy a 50-cent “crash tax” on automobiles to pay for hospitaliza tion up to 21 days of highway accident victims. The vote was 30 to 10. Several senators said they favored passing the measure out of regard to the late Dr. Long, of Halifax, who introduced it. The LeGrand bill to make sub versive or fifth column activities misdemeanors on first offenses and felonies on second convic tions was passed by the senate without debate and ordered rati fied into law. Similar approval was given a measure to set up a state-wide marketing system as recommended by Governor Broughton. Another Broughton - sponsored bill, creating a new department of motor vehicles, also won floor approval in the senate. The lower house passed and sent to the senate a much-buf feted measure by the Mecklen burg delegation to give rights of eminent domain to bus compa nies seeking to acquire sites for union terminals in cities of more than 30,000 population. Such sites would have to be approved bythe utilities commissioner. Senator McBride of Hoke set the stage fqr enactment of the [Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) %
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