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Jap-French Showdown Is Delayed
Vichy Envoy
Does Not See
jap Minister
Failure Of Ambassador To
Keep Appointment Pro
long’s Far East Crisis
henry gets order
Observers Believe Japs
Are Hesitant To Resort To
‘Forceful Action’
TOKYO. March 2— (Sunday)—(01
-The failure of the French am
bassador to keep a scheduled ap
pointment with the Japanese for
eign minister prolonged today the
crisis in Japan’s mediation be
tween French Indo-China and
Thailand, made more acute by an
e.vpired ultimatum.
Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat
suoka waited at his residence for
sis hours, from 4 until 10 p. m.,
last night, for ambassador Charles
Arsene Henry to keep an appoint
ment which authoritative quarters
had hinted might end in accept
ance of Japan's final terms,
Hope For Postponement
But the conference did not oc
cur, and observers said they be
lieved this development indicated
a French hope of postponing a
showdown.
It was presumed Ambassador
Henry had received last-minute in
structions from the government at
Vichv which at least postponed his
anticipated talk with Matsouka.
Consequently Japan still was not
officially informed of Vichy’s final
decision despite authoritative
hints, widely displayed in the
press, that the French had agreed
to the basic terms of Japan's com
promise proposal, made in an ulti
matum which expired at midnight
Friday, Tokyo time.
Observers believed the Japanese
"ere hesitant to resort to the
'Continued on Page Four; Col. 4)
WINANT GREETED
BY KING GEORGE
Goes Halfway Across Coun
try To Welcome New U. S.
Envoy To His Court
LONDON. March 1.—(iP)—King
VI swept stiff diplomatic for
ma,ity asi<ie today and went halfway
aaross England to greet the new
'-niteti Stales ambassador to his
“urt. John G. Winant, with a
hearty handshake.
'lie meeting place was a wind
a"e,lt railroad platform between
Lentlon and Bristol. Winant, the
*’!,ISS-V ex-governor of New Hamp
' ll t- landed at Bristol afjter flying
‘ 1 nee the Atlantic to his new post,
hi.I, Winant came his assistant,
enjamin Cohen, and President
a™es Bryant Conant of Harvard
nn.\risity. who is on a government
to collect scientific informa
y 'or American defense needs.
•'Pi lice in the uniform of a field
JL'imiinied on Page Two; Col. 2)
DOG HERO OF DISASTER
Hailed as a liero of the Georgia plane disaster is Tige, the dog pic
tured above. He led N. V. Hansell, New York civil engineer, one of the
injured passengers, to the farmhouse of L. T. Lee. There a rescue party
was organized. Posing with Tige before the propeller of the wrecked
plane is Frances Sims, Lee's step-daughter. (NEA Telephoto).
Foes Of Lease - Lend Bill
Attack Ex - Envoy Bullitt
CHARGE PROPAGANDA
Also Claim F. R. Could
‘Give’ Any Portion Of
Navy To British
BY RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, March 1.—(iP)—
Foes of the lease lend bill insisted in
the Senate today that despite re7
strictive provisions President Roose
velt could “give” any portion of the
Navy to the British, and, moreover,
could consolidate the American and
British fleets. ( _
With these statements, they
coupled an attack on William -C.
Bullitt, former ambassador to
Prance, for, they said, making prop
aganda speeches in this country, and
for asserting in a recent address
that the opponents of the bill were
suffering from “political dementia
praecox."
“Ought To Know”
“Of course, Mr. Bullitt ought to
know,” said Senator Wheeler (D
Mont.). “I (he stressed the “I”)
have never been under observation.
I have never been in a hospital for
the treatment of nervous diseases.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
Many Homeless In Greece
As Result Of Earthquake
ATHENS, Greece, March 2. —
'Sunday)—up)— More than 19,000
?e!_sons were said to be homeless
“Sy in Larisa as a result of a
■went earthquake which shook
‘ wthern Greece yesterday.
Reports from the earthquake
ne said Larisa was wrecked,
‘Wings tumbling down as the
drtn moves.
. ^le Prelect at Larisa in an ap
, a f°r help telegraphed authori
|Lb in Athens that nearly two
?(lnm °f city’s population of
J ruu were driven into the streets,
j asuaities, he said, were not yet
ej mined but other sources said
e violence of the shock indicated
they would be heavy. The people
were abed when the temblor came.
The government dispatched sev
eral relief trains to the city.
The prefect’s telegram said:
“Strong earthquake caused seri
ous damage at Larisa. Many
houses collapsed and a majority
of others ready to collapse.”
Troop detachments tore at.the
wreckage to rescue the imprison
ed. Many of the city’s streets were
filled with debris. The telephone
and telegraph buildings were
among those damaged. A hotel
was destroyed.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. i)
Gayda Forecasts New
Turn In European War
ROME, March 1.—(/P)—Vir
ginia Gayda declared today that
“without a doubt’’ Bulgaria’s ad
herence to the three-power al
liance is a preliminary to “‘that
new political and military phase
of the war which is getting un
der way with the approach of
spring.”
Calling it another step in eras
ing British influence from Eu
rope, the authoritative Fascist
editor said it should be a warn
ing to “the more responsible
men of Washington who would
like to assume the attitude of
arbiters of European destiny.”
The Vienna signing, lie said,
“confirms the isolation of Greece
in the Balkans. He recalled Bul
garia's claim on Greece for an
Aegean sea outlet through
Thrace and added that Greece
has to answer to Bulgaria for
many misdeeds following the
second_ Balkan war.”
WEATHER
FORECAST
North Carolina. South Carolina and
Georgia: Generally fair and warmer
Wednesday, Monday increasing cloudi
ness.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.)
Temperature
1:30 a. m. 29; 7:30 a. m. 28: 1:30 p. m.
39 : 7:30 p. m. 40; maximum 44; mini
mum 27; mean 36; normal 50.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 49: 7:30 a. in. 43; 1:30 p. m.
29; 7:30 p. in. 37.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. in. 0.00 inches. Total since first of
the monih 0.00 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low*
Wilmington -12:26a £:48a
12;50p 8:00p
Masonboro Inlet-10:20a f:.^a
10 ;34p 4 :34p
Sunrise 0:39a: sunset 6:09p: moonrise
9:06a : moonset 10:24p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on March 1; at 8 a. m., 9.60
feet.
(Continued on Page Fifteen; Col. 2)
ManyCarolina
RailWorkers
Get Pay Hikes
Annual Increases Of Ap
proximately $600,000 Go
To 4,200 Employes
A. C. L. IS INCLUDED
Minimum Wage Order For
Nation’s Railway Workers
Becomes Effective
RALEIGH, March 1,—Approxi
mately 4.200 workers employed by
the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard
Air Line and Southern Railway
systems in North Carolina and
South Carolina received pay in
creases totaling approximately
$600,000 annually when the mini
mum wage order of the nation’s
railroad workers became effective
today, according' to Stephen R.
MacRae, acting regional director
of the Wage and Hour Division,
U. S. Department of Labor.
It is estimated that 70,000 work
ers throughout the country wer?;
affected by the wage order and
wage increases fptaled more than
$70,000,000 annually. *
Graham Chairman
The order was issued by Gen
eral Philip B. Fleming, adnr'ni
strator, on the recommendation of
the railroad carrier industry ap
pointed under the Fair Labor
Standards act. Dr. Frank P. Gra
ham, president of the University
of North Carolina, is chairman of
the railroad carrier committee,
which- made its recommendations
after extensive investigations and
public hearings.
“This $600,000 in wage increases
to Carolinians will go to the lowest
paid workers in the industry, ar.d
for this reason almost 100 percent
of it will be immediately rebec ted
in retail sales, doctor and dentist
bills, and other local business,”
Mr. MacRae said. Not five per
cent of the total will go outside of
the two states in the opinion of
Mr. MacRae. The increases will
be divided almost equally between
workers of the two states.
The minimum wages established
for truck lines was 36 cents an
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BRITISH CONTINUE
JUBALAND DRIVE
Capture Of 9,000 Fascist
In Italian So
maliland Reported
CAIRO. Egypt, March 1. — UP)—
The capture of an aggregate thus
far of 9,000 Fascist troops in Italian
Somaliland and a further British
thrust up the Juba to occupy Bar
dera. 160 miles from the river's
mouth, was announced today by Brit
ish general headquarters.
The advance was declared to have
given the British control of all the
upper Jubaland, and a cleanup of
scattered units in this vast area was
pursued.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
‘No Censorship’
Permanent status for the office of
government reports was approved
by the House committee on execu
tive expenditures after the office’s
director, Lowell Mellett, above, as
sured members administration plans
no censorship.
KELLIHAN KILLED
IN AUTO WRECK
Jack T. Worley, Of Chad
bourn, Is Charged With
Reckless Driving
One man is dead and another
was being held in New Hanover
county jail last night on a charge
of reckless operation of an auto
mobile resulting in death, as a
result of an automobile crash on
the Gordon road; near the county
airport, yesterday morning.
H. P. Kellihan, 30, of Cerro
Gordo, died at 7:40 a. m. in a
local hospital of injuries received
in the crash.
Jack T. Worley, 23, of Chad
bourn, allegedly driver of the car,
is being held in default of $1,000
bail, pending the outcome of an
inquest ordered by Coroner Asa
W. Alen for 10 a.’ m. Monday in
the grand jury room of the court
house.
State highway patrolmen said
Kellihan was fatally injured when
the automobile in which he was
riding with Worley struck two pine
trees after failing to take a curve
in the Gordon road. After str.king
the trees, the patrolmen said, the
car continued 150 feet down the
Gordon road and stopped in a ditch
to the left of the highway.
Kellihan, who occupied ihe right
rear seat of the auto, suffered a
skull fracture and died wi*hin a
few minutes after being rushed to
the hospital, officers said.
State highway patrolmen ex
pressed the belief the car was
traveling from 55 to 60 miles an
hour when the accident occ i red.
The right rear wheel was knocked
off and the entire right side of
(Continued on Page Fifteen; Col. 2)
Fort Fisher Development
Proposed To Park Service
RALEIGH, March 1—(A>>—Plans
for development of four historical
areas in North Carolina have been
suggested to the National Park
service.
Under the proposed arrange
ments—submitted by Col. Joseph
Hyde Pratt, president of the North
Carolina society for the preserva
tion of antiquities, and Dr. C. C.
Crittenden, secretary of the State
Historical association— the park
service would take over and ad
minister four sites:
Fort Fisher in New Hanover
county, built by the Confederacy
to guard the mouth of the Cape
Fear river.
Bentonville battleground i n
Johnston county, where the forces
of General Joseph E. Johnston
and William T. Sherman fought a
three-day battle, March 19-21, 1865.
The' Bennett place in Durham
county, where Johnston surrender
ed to Sherman on April 26, 1865.
The Alamance battleground in
Alamance county, where Gov
ernor Tryon defeated the regulars
on May 16, 1771.
Pratt and Crittenden appeared
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
HA TION DOUSES LIGHTS
IN FEAR THAT BRITAIN
MAY OPEN AIR A HACK
Bulgarian Move May Mean
Real Showdown In Balkans
VIENNA, March 1.—(/P)—Bul
garia joined the Gwman-Italian
Japanese Axis today in a seven
minute ceremony believed to
mean the approach of a final
showdown with all the Balkan
nations.
t)nly Greece, Turkey and Yu
goslavia among the Balkan coun
tries now remain apart from the
lengthening Axis, and neutral ob
servers believed that events al
ready were exerting pressure on
Yugoslavia, which is considered
friendly, to sign the one-for-all
and all-for-one treaty.
' In welcoming Bulgaria into the
alliance, German Foreign Minis
ter Joachim Von Itibbentrop pre-.
dieted that other states would
join the movement which he said
now represents a hundred million
of the most powerful peoples on
earth.
Greece was not mentioned in
today’s ceremony in Vienna’s
historic Belvedere Palace, but
Von Ribbentrop declared, “the
power of England is to be op
posed and smashed wherever it
shows itself,” — and Greece is
Britain's lone ally, engaged in
war with Italy, the first Axis
partner.
Turkey’s position was not fully
clarified, but some quarters said
the -recent Turkish-Bulgarian
non-aggression pact might well
(Continued on Page Two; Col: 4)
RAFReadyTo Rain Bombs
On Germans InBulgaria
MINISTER IS LEAVING
Bulgaria’? Entrance - Into
The Axis Is Termed A
‘Hollow Victory’
LONDON, March 1—(A*)— British
sources said tonight that the Royal
Air Force “is just as likely to
bomb German troops in Sofia as
in Wilhelm shaven,” repeateuly
raided Nazi North sea naval base
This declaration, for the t i tr e
being, was unofficial; the British,
with traditional caution, said they
had no formal confirmation of the
entry of German troops in Sofia
on the heels of Bulgarian signature
of the Axis tri-power pact.
Minister Leaving
However, news of the departure
of British Minister George W. Ren
del from Sofia was expected hour
ly
“There is no question,” said an
authority, “of his remaining in
Sofia with German troops parading
ing past his front door.”
Bulgarian signature of the' three
power Berlin-Rome-Tokyo pact
was classed by one spokesman as
a “hollow victory for the Axis.”
“It is apparent,” he said, “that
there is not much fight in a coun
try which has sold its soul for
peace.”
It, was evid.ent .that the British
had sympathy for Bulgaria; that
they, pqt hpr in a different street
even from Denmark, which did not
try to stop the. German invaders
last spring.. ,
No Leniency
In some quarters it was stated
flatly that Bulgaria, with the dif
ferent examples of Greece and Ru
mania before her, should not ex
pect any leniency from the British.
General pleasure was expressed
with the new Turkisn-Britisn
agreement effected by Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, but de
tails were withheld, for reasons of
security.
Officials denied reports that
Britain had sent a last minute ulti
matum to Bulgaria, ■ calling upon
her to forswear any intention of
(Continued on Page Two; Co!. 1)
Army Orders
WASHINGTON, March 1. — UP) -
Army orders:
LIEUTENANT COLONELS
James F. Butler, Inf., Fort Bragg,
to Camp Fort.
William D Tipton, Oc„ Fort
George G. Meade to Columbia, S. C.
MAJORS
Wilbur E. Dunkelberg, Inf., Fort
Jackson, to Fort Bennnig.
Lloyd H. Gibbons, Inf., Fort Jack
son to Fort Benning.
John F. Holland, Inf., Fort Bragg
to Fort Benning.
Albert K. Stebbins, Jr., Inf., Fort
Bragg to Fort Benning.
CAPTAINS
William L. Stiles, Mac., St. Louis,
to Charleston, S. C.
Luther Wilson Gray, Me., Res..
Washington, to Charleston, S. C.
i
Rising Temperatures
Are Predicted Here
Slowly rising temperatures
were predicted for today for
Wilmington, in the grip-of cold
weather for the past few days.
The forecast last night called
for a low early this' morning of
25 degrees and said today would
see slowly rising temperatures,
with increasing cloudiness.
Tonight is expected to be still
warmer, with the uprising mer
cury to continue into Monday.
Fresh northwest winds, which
added to the discomfort of the
cold yesterday, are expected to
diminish this morning and to be
come northerly today.
POWELL ACCUSED
IN LIBEL ACTION
John P. Cooper Is Also
Named In Charges By
Ex-UCC Employe
RALEIGH, March 1—(/P)—Charles
G. Powell, chairman of the Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion, arid a subordinate were placed
under $250 bond each today on libel
'h'.rges brought by Malcolm M.
* tung of Durham, a former UCC
employe.
Young was dismissed December
31 for “inefficiency” after serving
as field representative for more
than two years.
Young swore out a warrant be
fore Magistrate E. H. Chappell in
Durham, and came tc Raleigh this
morning to place the paper in the
hands of Wake County Sheriff
Numa F. Turner.
Notified of the charges by tele
phone, Chairman Powell and John
P. Cooper, the other defendant,
came to the sheriff’s office to post
bond. They were accompanied by
Adrian J. Newton, chief UCC com,
sel. Cooper is field supervisor of
the .UCC.
The libel case is scheduled, to be
heard before Magistrate Chappell
in Durham Thursday.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. ~i)
BOMBING THREATENED
Is Eleventh Sovereign State
Nazi Forces Have Over
run Since 1938
NEW QUESTIONS SEEN
Future Of Greece, Turkey
Uncertain; Internal Dis
turbance Feared
SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 1.
— (/P) — Germany occupied
Bulgaria today—the eleventh
sovereign state she has over
run since 1938—and tonight
the entire country doused its
lights in fear that Britain
might make good at any mo
ment on a threat to bomb
Bulgaria if Nazi soldiers were
allowed in her borders.
The coming of Adolf ‘hit
ler’s legions in gray - green
battle dress by plane, armored
car and truck raised grave
questions as to the future of
Greece in her war with Italy,
and of Turkey under her still
passive alliance with Britain.
Fear Riots
But the first and gravest
questions to Bulgarians were
the fear of internal disturb
ances as a result of the Ger
mans’ entry and of British
bombardment from the dark,
skies without further notice.
The former was seen in the
issuance of carbines to all po
licemen and the stationing of
Bulgarian troops along the
frontiers and at strategic
points.
The latter was made plain
by the blacking out of ali
cities and the erection of ad
ditional ' anti-aircraft guns
atop the tallest buildings.
British Minister George W.
Rendel last Thursday warned
Bulgaria that to join the
Axis would be to invite Brit
ain to “attack Germans on
Bulgarian soil without any
formal declaration”. of war.
RAF May Attack
With Sofia only a half-hour by
bomber from Salonika, Greece,
and only two hours from the Brit
ish base at- Crete, many Bulgar
ians felt that at any time, the
Royal Air Force might attack
communication centers to impede
any German march against
Greece.
Observers declare^ that.British
bombardment of the pontoon
bridges over which the Germans
crossed the Danube into this coun
try and attacks on the narrow
mountain passes and the tunnels
of the interior could seriously alow
the Nazis and give time-for bring
ing British troops from Afrida.
Minister Rerrdel already has in
timated that the oil fields of Ger
man-dominated Rumania also are
(Contijiued on l'ase Fifteen; Col. 1)
Greater Wilmington Move
Is Started By Committee
The launching of a Greater .Wil
mington Forward Movement was an
nounced yesterday by the reorgani
zation committee of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce, of which Har
ris Newman is chairman.
Newman, unanimously elected gen
eral.chairman of the movement, said
it is designed to do three things:
(1) To inform the public of the
reorganization plan and the distinct
advantages of the formation of a
modern, streamlined chamber of
commerce attuned to present day
needs.
(2) To conduct a series of busi
ness clinic meeiings at which 1,200
business and professional interests
h
will be invited for the purpose of
conducting a thought survey from
which a militant program of work
for the new chamber will be devel
oped.
(3) To place in operation an ef
fective plan to that an adequate
budget may be provided for the new
chamber of commerce.
H. A. Marks, it was announced,
has accepted th§ chairmanship of
the educational division which,
through its efforts, will inform 'the
residents of this community of the
new chamber of commerce, its pur
poses and plans.
(Continued on Page Two; Co!. 3)
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