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== THE SUNlM _ -NEWS Slat" and National News " ® B ™ Mpublished in,- _J I^IBiM VW wP Of Wilmington and L——— _ 1_ 3SITMII . P@BTgl?V ©F '£>®©®Eilg5g i&Mli) ISIMf AgijJ-BUg fefr Sontheastern N. C. Students Cry Against Nazi ‘Occupation’ German Signs Erected On Roads Leading Into In terior Of Bulgaria 50 RADICALS ARRESTED Red Leaders Tell Followers To Resist Nazis By Non Cooperation BY ROBERT ST. JOHN SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 22.— Nazi general staff officers in civilian clothes, their black military boots shining under their raincoats, began establishing themselves in Sofia this afternoon and from the oity’s lead ing hotel they peered quietly out at groups of angry students shouting against "the German occupation of Bulgaria.” On newly erected posts on the highways leading from the Ruman ian frontier toward the interior of Bulgaria, bright new road signs painted in German appeared. But up to late afternoon watchers along the Danube reported that no regular Nazi troop movement into this country had begun, although the river border is laced with Nazo pontoons. ■ (This troubled country may be< come the German high road to Greece and Turkey). 50 Arrested The police here arrested nearly 50 radical Agararian leaders with out explanation at almost the mo ment the first German officers ar rived. Additional anti-aircraft guns were mounted on the national hank building in the center of the city The British educational institute, which is connected with the British legation, hurriedly shut its door and its four British directors made haste to leave the country. The legation remains, although the minister has made it clear that continued diplomatic relations with Bulgaria depend upon “German movements.” To their tens of thousands of fol lowers the communist leaders were understood to have sent the word l y grapevine: “Resist the German invasion by non-cooperation propaganda, but not by force!” Students singing nationalistic soings paraded not only in front of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) REDS DENY HAND IN NEW TREATY Disclaim Any Active As sistance In Arranging Bui garian-Turkish Pact MOSCOW, Feb. 23. —(Sunday!— ((PI—A terse statement by Tass, of ficial Soviet Russian news agency, today disclaimed any active as sistance by the U. S. S. R. in arranging the recent Bulgarian Turkish non-aggression accord. The Tass statement said: “The Swiss newspaper basler (Basle) Nachrichten published a report alleging that the recent agreement between Bulgaria and Turkey was concluded with the active assistance of the Soviet union. Tass is authorized to state that this report does not corre spond to the facts.” The Bulgarian-Turkish accord, signed last Monday, has been re garded by some Balkan observers (Continued on Page Two; Col. fi) Huge Increase MKetail Buying Forecast For 1941 Total Sales Estimated At 50 Billions Cash Register Tallies 12 To 20 Per Cent Above Same Period In 1940 demands are heavy Fatter Pay Envelopes In Arms Industry Centers Basis For Increase BY FRANK MeMILLEN new YORK. Feb. 22.—(AT—Re tail buying tj Mr. and Mrs. Amer ■can Consumer aggregating $50, 000.000.000 or more was forecast today in merchandising circles for the full year 1941 as the tempo of store sales hit the fastest pace in eleven years. Merchants across the nation this week reported cash register dollar tallies averaging 12 to 20 per cent above the comparable 1940 period, with demand heavy for all types of staple goods. Wider employment, fatter pay envelopes in defense industry cen ters. economists said provided the basis for broadened store business that has now spread to even many remote rural shopping centers. Too Moderate Some executives thought an esti mate of retail sales in the vicinity moderate. They pointed out such a figure would represent a gain of only 1 per cent over last year’s Ho.500.000.000. The big question mark in the business ahead for the stores along main street was whether the de fense program, as it expands, would hamper production of con sumer goods. Right now the making of air planes. guns, ammunition, army clothing, motor trucks and tanks isn t interfering much with out turn of peace-time goods, but an other six months, business leaders say. may bring another story. Already there are some com plaints from manufacturers of houseware that companies making aluminum, brass, and cast iron Plates are rolling more and more heavy sheets used in armament industries, and less and less of .nc light sheets used in the mak in? of pots and pans. wo semi-official observers close 0 ,he administration in Washing (Continued on Page Two; Co!. 5) BRITISH ATTACK INVASION COAST Great Aerial Engagements Are Staged Over The Strait Of Dover LONDON. Feb. 22.—!/P»— Great 1 r'fv engagements reminiscent , "e m‘"hty battles of last Au . i,n " are fought hour upon hour an ,dy_ a.^.ove the Strait of Dover, i itish bombers swept over lac,.C anne! ln heavy force to at ,n th , Nazi invasion positions e trench and Belgian coasts. otle time more than 100 Ger an-r'iar<: ^rit'sh planes twisted Sy m the sky. and German iont 1PSv durin§ a Period of brii ■•unshine that alternated with —joined on Page Two; Col. 4) I “Australia Ready” Australia will take no initiative in shattering Pacific peace, says Act ing Foreign Minister A. W. Fadden, hut adds that the government is prepared for any emergency. Land : ing of Australian reinforcements »i Britain’s vital Chinese base at Singa pore brought Japanese denunciation as "a belligerent action.” NAZIS SAY BRITISH USING U. S. FLAC Claim Armed Merchant Vessel Sunk While Flying American Colors I BERLIN. Feb. 22.— (#1—The I German high command said to day an armed British merchant ship out of Canada, with her bel ligerent identity hidden under United States colofs, had been sunk by Nazi naval forces in the Indian ocean. Authorized spokesmen stressed gravest concern to Washington. “The question arises,” one au thorized source said, "whether the British are inspiring such flag swindling in the hope there will be an opportunity for devel opments between Germany and some neutral country.” The German communique made only the bare statement: “In the Indian ocean, naval forces sank an armed British merchantman. the Canadian cruiser, of 7.178 tons. The steam er, to conceal its nationality, showed a United States flag and had American colors painted on its hull.” Since the war began, all United States ships on the high seas have displayed large flags painted on their sides. “If the example of the Cana dian cruiser can be taken as an indication of the general trend,” a German spokesman said', “it behooves America to see to it that British armed merchant ships, through misuse of the (American) flag, do not endanger Americans’ freedom of the seas.” Authorized sources voiced sus picion that “an unfortunate mis take was exactly what Britain hoped for” in the alleged camou flage of the Canadian cruiser, which sailed out of Halifax and is registered in Lloyd’s as owned by the Canadian Tramp Shipping Company, Ltd. If every ship with an American flag must be suspected by Nazi sea raiders as being British, “a most unfortunate incident might occur,” it was said. * The German press also played up the reported r nking as a dan ger signal for America and as a sign of British weakness. 4 test Well At Proposed Marine Base Completed • -KSONVILLE, Feb. 22. —An ihe Tr'°f the speed with which survey,S' g"yernment is pushing i(ifj ;. the Proposed $15,000, i 10' °0:acre marine corps :t;f. training base south of ivai " f5 seen today with the ar Wjm°p more test-well drilling ilreari.,"‘a augmenting facilities 0ne y, on the scene. ' ' BUnrm "e11 located on the J. W. >f herpP1°Perty three miles south Slid imrn^as, caPPed yesterday, dn two ®dlately drilling began fee ° ° her holes, one at Para Hott L-'l and the Other at Had-, . on the New river. The I completed test-well was sunk by E. Dennis Blake, of Wilmington. The new equipment rushed here today is operated by the Luftis Drilling company, of Raleigh. No •immediate word was forth coming from tfc- drillers or Navy department engineers on the site as to what the first completed test-wfell produced. It was sunk to approximately 2 feet. While well-drilling operations progressed, surveying parties are continuing finding and fixing of property lines proposed to be in cluded within the huge military (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Three Solons Flay Measure To Aid Britain Senator McCarran Says Lease-Lend Bill Will Put U. S. Into War TAFT AIRS HIS VIEWS Administration Discusses Question Of Accepting 2 New Amendments BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—(A>)— Three opponents hammered at the administration’s British aid bill in the senate today, and one of them, Senator McCarran D(-Nev), pre dicted it would put the United States into war within 60 days after its enactment. Senator Trn (R-Ohio) said that the bill would put “the issue of , war” before the country within six months, and Senator Capper (R Kan) asserted that it would give the President “complete war mak ing powers.” ' Discuss Amendments While the senate worked through an extraordinary Saturday after noon session in order to hasten action on the bill, administration supporters discussed among them selves the question of accepting two amendments—one suggesting that the President consult legisla tive leaders from time to time on operation of the British aid pro gram, and another naming Brit ain, Greece and China as the countries to be aided under the bill. Three of those in charge of the measure—Senators Barkley (D Ky), George (D-Ga), and Connally (D-Tex.) said, however, that there was no present plan to accept fur ther revision of the bill, which al ready has been amended by the house and the senate foreign rela tions committee. George told reporters that any additional amendments might have an adverse "moral effect.” He said the changes might be in (Contiuueil on Page Two; Col. 5) HOPE ABANDONED FOR ALFONSO XIII Extreme Unction Adminis tered As Ex-King’s Con dition Grows Worse ROME, Feb. 23.— (Sunday)—LP)— Extreme unction was administered late last night to Alfonso XIII for mer king of Spain, as his condition grew worse. A person close to Alfonso’s suite said death "may be a question of minutes—it mdy be a question of hours.” Alfonso sat in a chair in his hotel room, awaiting the crisis. He was too weak to be moved to his bed. At the ex-king’s own request, the Spanish jesuit priest, Ulpiano Lopez, was summoned to administer the last rites of the church. Seeing the members of his family (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Partly cloudy and continued cold Sunday and Monday. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological d'ata for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.) Temperature 7:30 a. m. 35; 7:30 a. ni. 30: 1:30 p. m. 49; 7:30 p. m. 40; maximum 53; mini mum 29; mean 41; normal 40.. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. 59; 1:30 p. m. 32; 7:30 p. m. 44. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p m. 0.00 inches. Total since first of the month 2.52 inches. Tides For Today (From Tide Tables published by D. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High Low Wilmington - 7:48a 2:02a 8:05p 2 :51p Masonboro Inlet- 5:54a 11:58a S:00p _p Sunrise 6:48a; sunset 6:03p; moonrise 4:59a; moonset 3:59p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Feb. 22, at 8 a. m., 11.25 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Coi ' SOLDIER SONS i x' a «i°r. liatf,e » ora way Oi Arkansas has two sons in the Arm\ | Naturally she’s proud of them, and here she admires their photos Forrest Caraway, left, is on duty with the infantry in Alaska, (apt. Paul Uu-away, who also is in the infantry, is a law instructor at West I oint. Both graduated from the military academy. City Manager Plan Vote Date Will Be Set Soon CARNEY RECEIVES BILL Meeting Of County Elec tions Board Will Be Held Monday Or Tuesday Definite date—sometime in March—for the special city elec tion on the issue of changing Wil mington’s municipal govern ment to the city manager type will be determined tomorrow or Tuesday as the county election board meets. Announcement of the election board meeting was made last night by H. G. Carney, board chairman, who yesterday re ceived a certified copy of the legislative enactment calling for the special election. The certifica tion came from Secretary of State Thad Eure. Will Advertise Date The county board, composed of Carney, Robert Strange and J. H. Niggel, will order public adver tisement of the election date. Un der North Carolina law govern ing special elections, the date must be advertised for four con- - secutive weeks, a fact which will1 tentatively fix the voting day late in March. The election will be conducted by the- city election board, and will culminate a lengthy contro versy between advocates of city managership and proponents of the present commission form of government. Sponsorship of the city manager campaign has been in the hands of the Wilmipgton Junior Chamber of. Commerce., To bring the issue to a vote, the Jaycees began last November cir culating petitions memorializing the state legislature to call a spe cial Wilmington election to deter mine the controversy. East month the Jaycee petition, bearing 2,400 names, was present ed to Reps. Jack Q. LeGrand and John Morris, New Hanover coun ty general assemblymen now in session with the legislature in Ra (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Southland Company Announces Pay Hike William Block, president of the Southland Manufacturing Com pany, of Wilmington, yesterday announced a voluntary wage in rnease of 10 pe- rent for all em ployes of his oinrt factory. The increase, which becomes effective Wednesday. February 'JO, covers approximately the 400 employees. FRANCE REJECTS JAPS’ PROPOSAL Call On Vichy to Cede One Third Of Indo-China Provinces To Siam VICHY, France. Feb. 22.—(IP)— France rejected today a Japanese sponsored proposal which reliable informants said was a demand that approximately one-third of the western Indo-China provinces of Laos and Cambodia be ceded to Thailand (Siam.) Informed sources, in the midst of Far Eastern tension of which the ■ Indo-China-Thai dispute is only a nebulous segment, said the government had decided it would prefer to let border hostilities be resumed rather than accept peace terms so severe. (French-Indo China and Thai land ended their sporadic warfare with an armistice signed on Jan. 3i aboard a Japanese cruiser. Jap anese mediation of the dispute be gan shortly thereafter in Tokyo, but it has bogged down. (Japanese radio advices in dicated the French rejection of the Thailand demands followed a meeting of the supreme council of (Continued on Page Two; Col. <) Stirling Talk Is Expected To Draw Big Crowd Here Admiral Yates Stirling, interna tionally known naval’authority,, and former chief of staff of the United States fleet, will speak on the sub ject, "The Challenge Across the Pa cific.” at 8:15 o’clock Monday evening in the New Hanover High school auditorium under the allspices of Wilmington post No: 10, American Legion. Advance ticket sales and increas ing interest . in the importance of Japanese question in the Pacific indicate an audience of at least 1, 000 persons Admiral Stirling will speak at 11 o’clock Monday morning at the High school, where he' will be received To itinued on Page Two; Col. 61 ADMIRAL STIRLING I -★, Arms Project Land Prices Probe Pushed Fees Of War Department Land Agents Are Slashed For Second Time NINE TRACTS STUDIED Were Purchased As Sites For Arms Plants And Army Proving Fields WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— UP) — A searching undercover investiga tion of land prices charged the government for defense projects was disclosed today in an an nouncement that for the second time fees of war department land agents had been slashed. The • justice department indica ted the investigation centered on nine scattered tracts' bought un der pressure for speed for such purposes as sites for arms plants and army ordnance proving grounds. “Exhorbitant” Fees Commercial agents were em ployed by the quartermaster gen eral to obtain these tracts by di rect purchase. It was the fees paid some of these .agents that were reduced, with Norman M. Littell, assistant attorney' general in charge of . the justice depart ment’s lands division, contending that they were “exhorbitant.” Paul M. 'McCord, • Indianapolis, I land agent in the acquisition of ! some 60,000 acres in southern In i diana for an artillery proving I ground, agreed, at a . conference with officials to reduce his fees from 6 1-2 to 3 1-2 per cent. At the same time Willis N. Co val, president ’of the Union Title company. Indianapolis, .agreed to a flat fee of $50 as an abstract charge for each of some 600 tracts purchased, irrespective of size. Previous charges 'ranged up ward to $820. it was stated. Fees Reduced Earlier the fees and charges of agents buying land, for an arms plant ' at Burlington, Iowa, were reduced from 6 1-2 to 3 1-2 per cent for all expenses.' The fees as well as prices paid for sites for the nine projects for whicli agents' were employed haye been under investigation for several week-s, Littell said, indica ting that other downward revis ions were in prospect. Included in. the, nine were an ordnance plant site at Weldon Springs, Mo., and a shell loading plant at LaPorte* Ind., but-Littell declined' to disclose the full list. In the twelve months ending next June 30, the war department is undertaking the purchase of 3, 980,000 acres estimated, to cost $47,260,000. The bulk of the land was ob tained through condemnation or from the interior or other govern ment departments, out the quar I termasteT-general’s office' decided : (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) i ' ' __ Army Orders WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The War Department released the following or ders yesterday, dated Feb. 19. BRIGADIER GENERAL Haislip, W. 1-1., General Staff Corps, to duty as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-l. Washington, D. C. COLONELS Gunner, M. J., (Inf.), relieved detail as a member of teneral Staff Corps, At lanta, Ga., to 5tli Division, Ft. Cus ter, Mich., March 15. Vachon, J. P., Inf., New Haven, Conn., to 43d Division, Camp BlancVing, Fla.. March 6. McMurdo, H. B., Med. Corps, Chicago. 111., to Area Service Command, Camp Forrest Tenn., March 15. LIEUTENANT COLONELS Fray, J. M., F. A., detailed a member General Staff • Corps, Headquarters Atlanta, Ga., March 15. Bradley. O. N., (Inf.), relieved from de tail General Staff Corps, Washing ton. D. C., to staff and faculty, In fantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga. Feb. 23. McCarthy, L. J.,' Inf, Hartford, Conn., to 43d Division, Camp Blanding, Fla., March 6. Danforth, G. L., F. A., Stamfqrd, Conn, to 43d Division, Camp Blenc’ing, Fla. March G. Wells, W. H., Inf., relieved detail in Organized Reserves, Louisville, Ky. to office of Director, Bureau of Pub lie Relations, Washington, D. C.; pre vious orders revoked. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Tried In Slaying Charged with the slaying of his 17-year-old daughter’s fiance, Joe Villanueva, 21, as the boy and girl returned from a dance, Frank Lu cente told the Los Angeles court that he shot in self-defense. The daughter, Lillian, however, testified that her father killed the boy with out warning. EXPERTS SEE NAZI FOOD SHORTAGES U. S. Economists Believe Shortage May Be Felt Within Six Months WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— m — A conclusion that Germany is fac ing the prospect of serious short ages of essential foods within six months has been reached by gov ernment economists. This opinion, it was learned to day, is expressed in a report pre pared by Dr. Frederick/Stauss, agriculture department econo mist, which correlates the confi dential and other information the government has been able to se cure on the German situation. It was prepared primarily for infor mation of the White House and defense officials, and has not been given general circulation. The prospective shortages, the report said, are in mea’s, fats, vitamins and minerals— foods described as necessary to main tain, the striking power of Hitler’s military forces and the efficiency of workers in his war industries. Deficiencies were said to be de veloping due ra the British block ade, a decreasing domestic out put, and depletion of reserves built up before the war. “The fat situation is most criti cal,” the report continued. “By mid-1941 most of Germany’s fat reserves will be used up, with Holland and Denmark no longer able to supply appreciable quan tities. Current supplies, including imports, will then be only about half cf pre-war—while present ra tions require 80 pe cent of pre war quantities. “Deficiencies of vitamins and minerals may not damage health immediately or visibly, but they tax the nervous system of work ers, who already have to endure lack of proper clothing, insuffi cient heat, and all the nervous strains that g<^ with war itself. The effects of malnutrition may be postponer, but workers’ effi ciency and staying power will de cline.” 4 Reynolds Is Flayed For Stand Against Lend Bill RALEIGH, Feb. 22.-W-U. S. Senator Robert R. Reynolds ot Asi eville, -who recently took a stand against the pending lease lend bill allowing aid to Britain, was denounced in the state house of representatives today as a man who had brought disgrace to North Carolina. In an unusual departure from legislative procedure, Representa tive Grady Withrow of Rutherford county rose on a “point of special order” and flayed Reynolds in a manner seldom heard on the floors of the general assembly. In his speech, delivered in an emotional tone, he did not mention the junior senator by name, but he asked that Reynolds’ name be inserted in the house journal, to gether with a statement declaring that Representative Withrow ex pressed ‘disapproval” of the junior senator's stand on the Brit ish aid bill. Withrow, after gaining the floor, said, ‘‘we have in Washington a man whom I helped put there, and I want to apologize for it.’’ “North Carolina,’’ he continued, “has been disgraced in the Ameri can union during the last lew days. . .I’d say that the man who (Continued on I’age Two: Col. Ii| S'
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