Newspapers / Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, … / March 25, 1941, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Served Bv Leased Wire Of The Dedicated To The Progress Of ASSOCIATED PBESS y WILMINGTON With Complete Coverage of And Southeastern North Slate and National News t' Carolina VOL- 71—NO- ___ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Large Shipyard Trades School Will Open Here BEiNG PLANNED BY NYA £jty is Designated As One of Eight Regional Head quarters in U. S. WILL TRAIN 1,000 MEN Estimated $60,000 Will Be Spent in Constructing School’s First Unit Designation of Wilmington as one , tbc eight regional headquarters in ...e States for National Youth Ulminist ration apprentice training I hoolf for shipyard trades was an nouiiced here yesterday afternoon by ' . n LarS. North Carolina state VY.i administrator, and Harold M. ]r:?r Wilmington district NYA di ' The school, work on which will be , within two weeks, is to he lo Yed on a M-aere site one and three miles south of Wilmington -ho Carolina Beach road. Ye estimated $60,000 will be spent \Y V in constructing the first ,f" |he school, dormitories and Yv!;shm'S where, ultimately 1..000 ••••-rent ire mechanics — the pick of vy\ w.-nicl and vocational schools ' ’-He central and south Atlantic ■ - will be taught fundamentals ;■ chilli ai d trades. Ollier Schools The other regional schools in me ;r:,i„:,ia program being undertaken ; u;,. \'YA for the U. S. Maritime , ' mmi^ion are to be located in Bos .Jacksonville, Fla., Houston, TeN Portland. Me., and Seattle,, Wash. , , , land on which the school is • „ i,e built was leased yesterday by ■ e board of commissioners of New 1 in no cor county from the trustees of • . Iranian's Friend Society for $1 •vir years. However, the commis indicated a disposition to nego • a» with the Society trustees to ef an early purchase of the tract, an provided in the lease. Tlw school, Administrator Lang ?aid. will be maintained by the NYA working in the “closest collabora te," with the technical and engi jeering staff of the North Carolina jl.ia milding company, whose yards are now under construction near the s ir ■! site. As quickly as aprentices are trained in fundamental shipyard . , sheet metal and heavy metal la'i-ation, welding and forging, and machine lathe operation—they will be absorbed by the shipyard as regu lar employes. During the students school training period, an estimated So days, the aprentices will receive (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) CREEKSREPULSE FASCIST ATTACKS Italians Suffer Heavy Loss es in Attacks Near the Viosa River ATHENS. March 25.—(Tuesday)— ffi—Greek troops fighting in Albania inflicted heavy losses on Italian units in repulsing a series of fascist at tacks yesterday near the Viosa river, a government spokesman declared early today. The Italians lost about two-thirds Of the troops they threw into these attacks, the spokesman said. Fifty Italians were captured, he added. "The Italians displayed great de ter,dilation despite heavy losses and succeeded in approaching our lines, ha said. “But our men used hand frenados and charged with bayonets (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) WEATHER FORECAST Wth Carolina: Partly cloudy, lightly colder Tuesday; Wednesday generally fair. (By r. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours enJing 7:30 p. in. yesterday.) , Temperature J:30 a. m. 52; 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 p%m. 7:30 p. m. 61: maximum 68; mini Irium 51; mean 60: normal 55. . Humidity a. m. 87; 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. m. W: ,;20 p. m. 84. Precipitation iotal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 in. 0.32 inches. Total since the first 1 (he month 2.14 inches. Tides For Today C,’1’0111 Tide Tables jfublished by U. S. ast and Geodetic Survey.) \Vii,v High Low 'hnungton_ 8:08a ° :48a h.,nnl 8:28p 3:llp s°nboro Inlet_ 6:14a a Rlll . 6:28p 12:15p i - l,ris'e 6:00,t: sunset 6:27p; moonrise nioonset 4 :43p. ( Fear river stage at Fayette * on .March 24, at 8 a. m„ 5> feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) British Are Using Air-Borne Infantry In African Drives CAIRO, Egypt, March 24.— WP)—Air-borne infantry, an in novation adopted by Gen. Sir Archibald P. VVavell from the Germans, is being used in a rap id mopping up of Italian out posts in Somaliland and Ethi opia, the British announced to day. “Outlying centers of adminis tration, some of which are 400 miles from our lines of commu nication, are being taken over by air borne troops, accompa nied by political officers,” said a communique issued from South African headquarters at Nairobi, Kenya Colony. The statement added that “some sick women and children already have been evacuated.” Berbera, capital of British Somaliland, and Mogadiscio, capital of Italian Somaliland, from which British thrusts are being pushed into southern and eastern Ethiopia, are more than 600 miles apart. It was assumed that air transports were being used to occupy the whole vast shoulder of East Africa which juts into the Indian ocean and the Gulf of Aden between those two cities. BETHLEHEM STEEL STRIKE IS CALLED Action Taken Following Dispute Over Election by Independent Union BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 24. —OP)—A strike was called late to day at the huge Bethlehem Steql company plant where 18,000 em ployes have been working on de fense contracts aggregating more than $1,000,000,000. An hour after members of the CIO’s Steel Workers organizing committee were ordered out, groups of pickets began marching outside each of the plant’s six main gates. Chief of Police Ernest Stocker said there was “no trou ble and everything is very quiet.” The pickets made no attempt to prevent anyone from crossing their line. The strike was called at 5:30 p.m. (EST) by Howard Curtis, SWOC district supervisor in a dis pute over an election by an inde pendent union. Curtis said the “billet” and sev eral other departments have been “closed.” But that he was unable to determine until later tonight how many employes left their jobs. Announcing the strike call, he declared: “There will be mass picketing when the 11 o’clock shift is sched uled to go on.” He asserted that approximately 5,000 men, who reported for work at 4 p.m., were in the plant when the strike call was issued. The company—working on more than a billion dollars of defense orders —employs 18,000 men here. The CIO union had announced that it would withdraw its mem bers unless the Employes Repre sentative Plan, an independent or ganization of employes, decided not to go through with an an nounced election of its own col lective bargaining representatives. The ERP announced earlier to day that the voting had begun as scheduled. Curtis said the strike was or dered when SWOC committeemen, working on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift, reported they saw “evidence of voting.” 1 Senate Passes British Lease-Lend Appropriation By Vote Of 67 To 9 WASHINGTON, March 24.—(B— The senate passed the $7,000,000, 000 lease-lend appropriation bill to day by a national-unity vote of 67 to 9 and plans were laid to fly it tomorrow to President Roosevelt, vacationing in the Caribbean. The action came after less than two hours’ discussions and the op position did not so much as offer an amendment. The debate, in fact, consisted largely of state ments of position from some of the many senators who had voted against the original lease-lend au thorization bill, but for the appro priation. Among these were Senators Adams (D.-Colo.), Vandenberg (R. Mich), Brooks (R.-Hl), Willis (R. Ind) and Taft (R-Ohio). For the most part they said that since help ing England and other nations re sisting the Axis powers had been approved by congress, it was the Yugoslav] Axis ARE CALLED TRAITORS British Legation Crowded With Serbs Who Want to Join Allied Forces BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. March 24. —UP— Yugoslavia’s leaders, called traitors and threatened with death for their submission, depart ed by special train tonight for Vienna to sign up the country with the German-Italian-Japanese mili tary alliance. The train, guarded by 50 secret agents, departed from a suburban station in an atmosphere of grav ity, and upon the faces of the emissaries — Premier Dragisa Cvetkovic and Foreign Minister Cincarmarkovic — there were no smiles. Public Barred There were no flags, no bands, and the public was barred from the platform. Attaches of the British legation announced almost at the same time that it was crowded with Serbs who wanted to enlist in the Allied forces. Vice Premier Vladimir Macek, head of the country in Cvetkovic’s absence, stayed behind to try to deal with the internal disorder clearly threatening the country. Both the British and Greek min isters warned Yugoslavia against joining the Axis, but it could not be immediately learned whether Britain intends to sever diplomatic relations upon conclusion of the Vienna ceremony expected at noon tomorrow. “A Hostile Act” The Greek minister was under stood to have informed Yugoslavia that Greece considers her adhesion to the Axis ‘‘a hostile act” since such an alignment would provide the dispatch through Yugoslavia of war materials for the German and Italian armies if not actual troop transports. In Athens the Greeks broadcast ing in Serbian declared they were convinced Yugoslav citizens repu diated their government’s move. It was understood that a protocol may be attached to Yugoslavia’s copy of the pact whereby Ger many and all previous signers of the tripartite agreement would agree to respect Yugoslavia’s pres ent frontiers. (Continued on Page Six; Col. 5) NAZIS SAY MORE SHIPS DESTROYED Claim 126,000 Tons Sunk By Submarines Support ed by Battleships BERLIN, March 24. — (IF) — The Germans officially reported today the destruction of at least 30,000 addi tional tons of British shipping, and issued an avowed eye-witness ac count of how a long earlier “cat and mouse” drama had ended in the sink ing of 126,000 tons by U-boats sup ported by battleships—a new raiding technique. The Nazi story of the war at s-a thus was In two sections. The first, dealing with current ac tions and issued by the high com mand itself, declared that U-boats op erating in the North Atlantic had just knocked out 27,500 tons; that two small ships aggregating 2.500 tons had been sunk by reconnais (Continued on Page Six; Col. 5) duty of the national legislature to provide funds for giving that policy effect. The $7,000,000,000 fund, the na tion’s largest peacetime appropria tion would provide, among other things: $2,054,000,000 for aircraft and ac cessories. $1,343,000,000 for ordinance and ordinance supplies. $1,{550,000,000 for the purchase o£ miscellaneous agricultural and in dustrial articles. Lesser sums were included for tanks, for repairing and outfitting belligerent vessels in American ports, for building or otherwise ac quiring factories or factory sites for the manufacture of war sup plies, and for the expenses of ad ministering the act. Beyond this breakdown, the de tails were withheld from congress. Adams, who as chairman of the senate’s subcommittee on deficien Reported Held By British Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, above, ormcr premier of Yugoslavia and irominent pro-Axis leader, has been banded over to British authorities >y the Yugoslav government, ac cording to British sources in Egypt. Earlier Yugoslavian reports stated :hat Stoyadinovitch, who had been in custody for over a year as a pos sible Yugoslav “Quisling,” had been banished to Greece. MARTIN WILL KEEP GOP CHAIRMANSHIP Agrees to Continue in Post After Committee Rejects His Resignation WASHINGTON, March 24.—(A>)— Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, agreed today to remain as chairman of the i> publican national committee after the committee had voted unanimously to reject his resignation. Becase of his duties as house minority leader, however, Martin said he would need a salaried assist ant or executive director to do the main chores at the committee. He added he already had the power to name such a man and probably would do so in a few weeks, al though he had no one in mind at this time. Harrison Et Spauger, national com mitteeman from Iowa, and State Chairman Arch N. Bottitt of Indiana and Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, were mentioned, among others, for the post. The committee, meeting for the first time since the Novem ber election, avoided policy discuss ing and devoted its sessions solely to organization problems. William K. Knowland, member from California, was elected chair man of the executive committee to succeed Sinclair Weeks, of Massa chusetts, who was made treasurer in place of C. B. Goodspeed, of Illi nois. The latter resigned because of ill health. Weeks has been assistant treasur er as wen as executive committee chairman. Know-land, assistant publisher of the Oakland, Calif., Tribune, a for mer state senator, and youngest member of the national committee, was named executive committee* chairman to give the west one of the high committee posts which some members felt were too heavily con centrated in New' England. The ex ecutive committee has all the pow ers of the national committee except authority to make appointments and call conventions. Legion Officers Conclude Meeting at Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE March 24.—(ffl —Service officers of the North Car olina Department of the American Legion concluded today a discus sion of the problems of rehabilitat ing World War Veterans. The various steps which the fed eral government has taken to aid the Veterans were outlined by T. O. Kraable of the Veterans Bureau. Also taking a leading part in the discussions were Paul Noel!, state service officer, and Judson Dera mus, chief attorney for the Veter ans facility. 5 cy appropriations, was floor mana ger of the bill, said in the course of the debate that to make such things public would “advertise Britain’s needs.” As one of those who voted against the lease-lend bill but was ready to support the appropriation, Adams gave the senate a state ment of his position. “I voted against the lease-lend bill,” he said, “I thought and I still think that it was unsound in principle and apt to bring not only danger but catastrophe and disas ter to my country. “However, since it has become law, I regard myself as much bound by the lease-lend bill in its legal requirements as those who voted for it. It is presented here on the premise that congress hav ing laid down the policy should, and I think must, implement the bill by providing adequate financ ing.’ " * Reds Give Turks Pledge Of Aid If They Are Attacked By Nazis; Germans Mass Troops In Italy _._ w •ir - NAZIS TO KEEP ORDER 18 Divisions Reported in Fascist Nation to Prevent Separate Peace ALL ARE INFANTRYMEN Observers’ Moves Watch ed; Foreigners Banned From Northern Italy" BELGRADE, March 25.—(Tues day)—(fl—Foreign military observ ers heard reports tonight that there now are eighteen or twenty German infantry divisions in Italy —to keep internal order and to forestall any attempt by Italy at a separate peace. The troops were said to have filtered into the country under the cover of the strictest military se crecy. Informants said emphati cally that they were infantrymen —despite Italian denials and Ger man explanations that a certain number of ground troops have been sent in to service large Ger man air units admittedly operat ing in Italy. Follow Earlier Report These estimates of German strength in Italy today followed an earlier report of the presence of four German divisions in north east Italy near the Yugoslav bor der. The United States government and others were informed of the earlier report, but no confirmation of it has been made except the acknowledgment in Rome that German fliers and airforce ground crews were in Italy. The observer who reported the four divisions said the German troops were promptly dispatched to the south, being scattered along highway routes and ^railroads. Some were sent to Sicily for trans portation to Tripoli to join Italian forces, he added. Movements of all potential ob servers in Italy have come under strict control and all foreigners seeking to pass through northern Italy have been refused pass ports. 1 START ON NEGRO HUT IS DELAYED City and County Commis sioners Postpone Award Of Materials Contract Further delay in beginning of construction on the $10,000 negro soldiers recreational hut, to be fi nanced jointly by the city and county, was occasioned yesterday as the city and county boards of commissioners deferred for one week action on awarding contracts for materials. At the same time, the joint boards tentatively accepted a recomendation of a sub-commitee of its membership that the colored soldiers’ hut be built on board of education property on the south east corner of 10th and Church streets, opposite the Williston col ored school. The hut will be an exact replica of Woodrow Wilson Hut, now nearing completion at Fourth and Princess streets, for use of white soldiers on leave in Wilmington from Camp Davis. Motion to delay awarding of con tracts for building materials came from W. Louis Fisher, city finance commissioner, with the seconding by George Trask, county commis sioner. The bids were opened and received by a joint meeting of the two commissions last week. Indirectly, the deferment result ed from an announcement by Ad dison Hewlett, county board chair man, that the Federal government was dispatching a representative to Wilmington to discuss with the city and county officials possible use of federal funds for soldiers’ recreational facilities. The repre sentative, J. W. Faust, represent ing the office of Paul V. McNutt, is expected here Friday or Satur day. There was the implied thought present at the meeting that feder al funds might be sought to erect the building. The two boards also deferred ac tion for a week on a recommenda tion of Sheriff David Jones and Mayor Thomas Cooper that the county permit use of two basement rooms of the new courthouse build ing for a detention jail for Camp Davis soldiers. The mayor and sheriff were delegated last week to survey possible guardhouse sites. The two rooms proposed for tne guardhouse are presently occupied (Continued on Page Six; Col. 6) Jimmy’s ‘In The Army Now’ James Stewart, 1940’s No. 1 man of the movies, produces a snappy salute, just after getting his uniform at Fort MacArthur, Calif., for a year’s service in the army. Stewart, who put on 10 pounds to gain admittance to the army, took a salary cut from $6,000 to $21 per month. First Camp Davis Cadre Of750Men Arrives Soon A Camp Davis Building Work Holds Fast Rate CAMP DAVIS, March 24. — Buildings were completed here last week at the rate of one every 33.8 minutes, according to compilations of R. H. Wattin ger, general superintendent for contractors, who reported his compilations to the office of the constructing quartermaster. Superintendent Wa ttinger based his figures on eight-hour days of 480 minutes, with a total of 26,402 carpenters days during the week on houses only. During the third week in Feb ruary the peak building was reached when a house was com pleted every fifteen and half minutes. During the peak week the operations were based on 35,600 carpenter days, Superintendent Wattinger’s report revealed. Wallace Man Fatally Hurt in Auto Accident TARBORO, N. C„ March 24.—(P) Andrew C. Giddings, 39, of Wal lace, N. C., and Phoebus, Va., was fatally hurt and seven other persons ijured late today when their car skidded and struck a tree two miles north of here. The injured were his wife, three children, an aunt, Edith Giddings of Phoebus, and Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Anderson of Wallace. All had been to Wallace to at tend the funeral of an infant of the Giddings’. Giddings worked at the Newport News, Va., shipyards. Commerce Body’s Funds Drive Is Well Received A response described as “en couraging and enthusiastic” was evident last night as a corps of volunteer solicitors seeking to raise a minimum fund of $15,000 for the reorganized and expanded Wilming ton Chamber of Commerce report ed first-day results of their two week campaign. From business, industrial and professional sources, the volunteers advised Harriss Newman, chair man of the Greater Wilmington Forward movement, the reception to the drive was “most encourag ing.” ‘We’re going to hit our mark if the pace set today is maintained,” Chairman Newman said last night. There was no immediate figure available of the total sum pledged during the opening day of the drive. Results will be posted at a luncheon today at noon at the Cape Fear hotel. SCHEDULED APRIL 10 Camp’s Strength Expected To Be Near Capacity of 20,000 By Mid-June The first major contingent of soldiers to occupy Camp Davis—a cadre of 750 militarymen from Fort Bragg, Fayetteville—will arrive in Holly Ridge on April 10, a spokes man for Davis staff headquarters announced last night. The cadre—in military parlance a unit around which a battery or regiment is formed—will be com posed of seasoned regular Army veterans who have been initiating selective service draftees into the arts of soldiery at Fort Bragg dur ing the past several months. Reaches Capacity In June Their arrival will boost to well over the 1,500 mark the number of officers and men W'ho will occupy the anti-aircraft firing center 30 miles north of here by mid-April, inasmuch as by that date there will be some 500 commissioned officers and more than 250 non-commis sioned officers on duty with the temporary staff headquarters in Wilmington. By mid-June, it was indicated last night, the camp’s strength will be close to its capa city of 20,000 men and officers. Barracks and other facilities to accomodate well over twice 1,500 men and officers are already com pleted at the camp, and by April 10, the constructing quartermaster (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) The fund-raising campaign swung into action yesterday morning with an “early bird” breakfast at the Cape Fear, all 135 of the volunteer solicitors being present to receive last-minute instruction. Divided into teams and assigned regular prospects, the workers will comb the city and county by the drive’s end two weeks hence. “Our volunteer workers report that everyone contacted today was most receptive and anxious to help,” Newman said. “The common-sense of every progressive businessman tells him that the program outlined for the reorganized chamber of commerce will bring thousands of extra dol lars a year to Wilmington and New Hanover county, hence, it is j no great difficulty to secure gen erous contributions,” the chairman [said > FORCES ARE INCREASED Russia Places More Troops Opposite German Masses In the Balkans REDS HALT NAZI OIL Rumanian Army Being Mo bilized and Sent to Posi tions on Prut River ANKARA, March 25.—(Tuesday) Soviet Russia gave Turkey early today a pledge of benevolent and helpful neutrality in case the Turks are attacked by Germany, and im mediately was reported to have increased her armed forces on both land and sea opposite the German military masses in the southeast of Europe. Thus the Soviet Union took her first concrete step to influence the course of the war since the Ger man-Russian agreement of August, 1939, pact which immediately pre ceded the conflict. Now she has acted to bar further Nazi pene tration southeast, along her west ern borders. Oil Supplies Hit It also was reliably confirmed that Russia has halted all sup plies of oil to Germany since the beginning of March. The publication of the friendship agreement in effect assures Tur key of full Russian material aid against German troops should Tur key be plunged into war to de fend the Dardanelles, vital water gateway between the Mediterrane an and Black seas. That Germany was acutely aware of the fast-changing Russian attitude was seen in reports from German - occupied Rumania that that little kingdom’s army again was being mobilized and sent to positions on the Prut river fron tier facing Russia. The Soviet command then was said to have increased her troops on the land frontier and her naval forces at strategic Black sea ports. Diplomatic quarters here be lieved also that Russia and Turkey deliberately timed the announce ment of their friendship pact to coincide with the departure of Yu goslav ministers for Vienna to sign with the Axis. Last Act The same sources viewed the declaration as the last act before the curtain goes up on Germany’s offensive against Greece in east ern Thrace—and perhaps against Turkey and the strategic Darda nelles. Russia’s cutting off of oil to Ger many was seen as a potentially heavy blow since Rumanian crude oil produces an inferior grade of lubricating oil, a pressing need for the Reich’s air fleet, navy and mechanized units. The Turkish press, commenting Dn Russia’s stand toward German domination of Yugoslavia, declared “Russia is certainly now using the most friendly language toward (Continued on Page Two-; Col. 1) GERMAN SOLDIERS STRAFED BY RAF Attack Troops at Cher bourg as Follow-Up to Heavy Raid on Berlin LONDON, March 24.—UP)— A low-level machine-gun strafing of German troops on early morning parade near Cherbourg was an nounced by the air ministry today as a follow-up to the 10,000 fire bombs and heavy explosives dropped by night on Berlin. Attacks on objectives in western Germany, the Low Countries and Continental “invasion ports” also were recounted. A Blenheim bomber of the coastal command returning home from a morning attack on the Nazi-held coast dived to within 100 feet of the Germans and heavily machine gunned them as they paraded past their barracks on the main street of Barfleur, near Cherbourg, offi cials said. This same Blenheim, the air min istry said, bombed the Cherbourg docks and “dived and dealt effective ly with light gun positions on the outer mole.” The Germans, their own aerial offensive against England held to a minimum by bad weather, struck at the southeast Kent coast in a pre dawn attack and made sporadic daylight forays Monday against southwest England and South Wales. One Nazi fighter was down ed off the south coast, the govern ment announced.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 25, 1941, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75