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V0^74-NO. 202___WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941_FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
Hull, Knox
UrgeMore
British Aid
Navy Secretary Says We
Cannot Allow Goods To
Be Sunk in Atlantic
termed 'OUR fight;
Secretary of State Avers
Safety of Hemisphere
Calls for Resistance
By J. C. STAKK
WASHINGTON, April 24.— ®—
rwo key figures in President
Roosevelt's cabinet called tonight
!or more active steps to aid Brit
)in, one of them declaring that
We can not allow our goods to be
sunk in the Atlantic” and the other
iemanding “resistance wherever
■esistance will be most effective.”
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
:aid in an address here that “ways
must be found” to insure that aid
•eaches its destination “in the
shortest of time and in maximum
juantity.”
“Our-Fight”
In an even stronger pronounce
ment in New York, Secretary of
Ihe Navy Frank Knox declared
"this is our fight,” that “we must
;ee the job through” and that “we
;an no longer occupy the immoral
ir.d craven position of asking oth
ers to make all the sacrifice for
ihis victory which we recognize as
so essential to us.”
•‘Our manhood and our self re
spect demand that we shall assume
our part of the burden,” Knox
aid.
Knox asserted that “Hitler can
not allow our war supplies to reach
Er.siand—he will be defeated if
they do” and he added with em
phasis:
"We cannot allow our goods to
be sunk in the Atlantic—we shall
be beaten if they do.”
Hull declared the safety of the
hemisphere caller for “resistance
wherever resistance will be most
effective”. It makes a vast dif
ference to us who wins the presnt
struggle in Europe — “the differ
ence whether we stand with our
backs to the wall with the other
four continents against us and the
high seas lost, alone defending the
last free territories on earth, or
whether we keep our calpe in an
orderly world.”
The secretary of state spoke be
fore the American Society of In
ternational Law in Washington and
his address was broadcast over the
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 3)
SINGAPORE BASE
IS STRENGTHENED
British Move More Men
And Machines in to Meet
Thrust by Land or Sea
SINGAPORE, April 24.——
Formidable new reinforcements of
Bien and machines landed at this
British far eastern stronghold to
<';>'• strengthening the defense of
Singapore and the Malay Penin
sula against a surprise thrust by
knd or sea.
They came in a big transport
as reinforcements for the main
why of the Australian Imperial
force which arrived here Febuary
"■ This time the public welcome
!.as less colorful and not so noisy;
Jr>e brass bands and singing were
Blissing.
But Australian-Manned bombing
Planes roared out to meet the
convoy 100 miles at sea and circl
et! overhead as the big troop-carry
lnS liner steamed through the na
'al base dock.
The new contingents included
■ansport services and other auxi
l^nes- With the troops already
J^aid by some observers to
Sflnnn *orerunners of an army of
"They will take up positions
on Page Five; Col. 1)
Treasury Presents Tax
Schedules To Lawmakers
3 RIC HARD L. TURNER
^SHINGTON, April 24.—Un
ite easury Presented its new
3- tax schedules to the house
srrt tv,and means committee today
ed nrough John L. Sullivan argu
jtit mPhatically against the sub
tax f°n °f a Payroll lax °r a sales
c„.,. or the proposed heavy im
Ss“ °n incomes.
terUOpVan faced the committee af
ky cretary Morgenthau, flanked
the assistants, had urged that
t elective $3,500,000,000 in
c0m e ,ln tax revenues be ac
by a billion dollar re
n in non-defense expendi
tures. He thought such a cut not
only highly desirable but clearly
possible.
As for the $3,500,000,000 in new
taxes, Morgenthau said it was a
“small price’ ’to pay for liberty.
There is a posibility, he asserted,
that "war may spread to this
country.”
The session opened the commit
tee’s public hearings on the new
tax bill... Spectators crowded the
big committee room, and included
the usual large proportion of rep
resentatives of business organiza
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 5).
Lieut.-Col. Johnson Greets Newest Cadre
Surrounded by staff officers, Lieut.-Col. Edwin H. Johonsou, commander of the Camp Davis station com
plement, war photographed at the Holly Ridge ACL depot yesterday afternoon as he watched the arrival of
the first troops to reach the camp via train transportation. Col. Johnson, center with riding crop, was told
by ACL trainmen that the cadre of 234 men from Camp Stewart, Ga., was the most orderly group of sol
diers the rail company had ever transported. With the colonel, left to right, were Lieut. John W. Thames,
transportation officer who accompanied the cadre from Stewart; Lieut.-Col. Clifford E. Jones, commander
of the 96th CAC regiment, to be built around the cadre received yesterday; Capt. E. J. Barnette, Camp
Davis press relations officer; Major D. B. Riggs, Davis motor transport officer, and Lieut, J. C. Crabb,
assistant transportation officer of the camp.
Force Of 234 Regulars
Arrives At Camp Davis
PASS [THROUGH CITY
Veteran Private Says To
day’s Soldiers Smarter
Than Those of 1917
BY KEN NOBLE
Take it from Pvt. William A. Craw
ley, your Uncle Sam’s new army is
going to be a fighting force without
peer in a world of armies.
And Pvt. Crawley ought to know,
for he has ceen wearing, with but
exception of three years in the early
20’s, the uniform of the United States
Army since 1914.
Pvt. Crawley (he has been a top
sergeant, but you know how those
things go—“up today, down tomor
row!”) was one of the 234 regulars
who arrived at Camp Davis yester
day from Camp Stewart, Ga., and en
route to Davis from Wilmington
a'boai'd a troop train, he told a few
tilings about Army life that might
surprise even a few colonels.
Smarter
For instance:
“The average man coming into the
Army today, both enlisted men and
selectees, ai-e a lot smarter than the
old-time soldiex'. They catch on
pretty quick.
“They learn to handle a gun in al
most no time, and most of ’em can
tear down a truck and put it back
together again blind-folded. Yep,
they’re pretty smart young fellers,
these new soldiers.”
Pvt. Crawley, who is neai'ing his
58th birthday, has seen more Army
service than most of his travelling
companions of yesterday have seen
birthdays.
Regulars—not selectees—were the
men who arrived at Camp Davis
yesterday; and Iregulars especially
trained for the job ahead of them
there: to train the thousands of
selectees soon to begin arriving at
the anti-aircraft firing center. Sinde
February, the cadre which moved in
to Davis yesterday has been receiv
ing instructions in the none-too-sim
ple business of making soldiers out
of civilians. Besides being good sol
diers themselves, the men who will
form the 96th regiment here must be
good teachers, too. A few of them,
according to their orders, will be
transferred into the 17th training
group.
The trip from Camp Stewart was
uneventful, but “pretty hot,” thelmen
agreed. They left there yesterday
morr*sng at 7 o’clock, and ai'rived at
Davis at 5 p. m., immediately being
whisked off to their spick-and-span
and readied barracks on K street.
When the train was boarded in
Wilmington by a party of news
papermen, the first question the sol
diers asked was “Does this place
(Davis) have buildings or tents?”
Told that all quarters at Camp
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
Southport ‘Eligible’
For Small Boat Base
WASHINGTON, April 24 —(fl>)
—Rep. Clark (D-NC) announced
tonight that Southport, N. C.,
had been listed by the Navy as
“eligible” for a section base for
small craft.
He explained that the actual
establishment of S|Uch a base
would depend upon the amount
appropriated and its importance
to the Navy in relation to avail
able funds.
He said the $50,000 aufhoriza-'
tion for the building of small
craft bases was before congress
and he hoped that when the
money is appropriated. South
port would receive an allotment.
BOND VOTE TALKED
AT JACKSONVILLE
Plans Started to Issue $50,
000 in Securities For
Water Improvements
JACKSONVILLE, April 24.—The
town board of aldermen tonight
discussed the issuance of $50,000
in bonds for water and sewerage
improvements and authorized John
D. Warlick, town attorney, to take
up the proposal with the Local
Government commission in Ra
leigh.
Mr. Warlick is scheduled to re
port at the regular meeting on
May 6 and if his report is favor
able, the board will probably set
a date for the vote on the issue
at that time.
R. F. Hill, superintendent of wa
ter and sewerage of the North Car
olina department of Health, ap
peared before the board and dis
cussed the great need of water
and sewrage extension in Jack
sonvill in view of the increase in
population because of the defense
program
The board named a committee
composed of Clyde Sabiston and
Hedrick Aman to investigate the
proposal to establish a fire zone
and set up water and sewerage
tapping fees. It was instructed to
report at the meeting on May
6. 5
WEATHER
FORECAST:
North Carolina—Mostly cloudy, pre
ceded by scattered showers in east por
tion, cooler in southeast portion Fri
day: Saturday partly cloudy, slight.y
warmer.
(Meteorological data for the 24 "hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 65; 7:30 a. m. _ 68; 1:30
p. m. 77; 7:30 p. m. 71; maximum 79;
minimum 62; mean 70; normal 60.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 95; 7:30 a. m. 8o; 1:30 p.
m. 56; 7:30 p. m. 87.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m. 0.00 inches; total since the first
of the month 2.15 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington - 9:05a. 3:59a.
9:28p. 4:12p.
Masonboro Inlet- 7:01a
Sunrise 5:29a.; sunset 6:51 p.; moon
rise 5:07a.; moonset 6:12p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on April 24, at 8 a. m., 10.95
feet.
(Continued on Page Five; C^Nl)v,
BUILDERS’ LOBBY
SPENDING BARED
Loftis* Secretary Testifies
In His Damage Suit
Against A. G. C.
CHARLOTTE, April 24.—(#)—’Tes
timony that thousands of dollars
were paid out by the Carolinas
branch of the Associated General
Contractors for lobbying purposes
and for various types of “campaign
expenses” was introduced today in
the $200,000 damage suit of V. P.
Loftis, Charlotte contractor,
against the contractors’ organiza
tion and its officers.
The testimony was presented by
Mrs. Ethel Brown, secretary of
Loftis at the time Loftis was ex
ecutive secretary of the Carolinas
branch of the Associated General
Contractors.
On cross examination by John
M. Robinson, one of the attorneys
for the defendants, Mrs. Brown
said that Norman Shepherd got as
much as $5,000 for lobbying and
that considerable sums also went
to Harry Buchanan for similar
purposes. She said that expendi
tures from certain funds of the
Associated General Contractors’
accounts were heaviest during the
time the legislature was in session.
She said upon further cross-ex
amination that Jack Blythe re
ceived a check for $1,000 and that
Joe Blythe got one for $500. The
witness said that this money was
for “political campaign expenses.”
Sometimes, she said, the money
was paid out in cash and some
times checks were made out to
“cash.”
E. P. Mitchem,' vice president
of the Loftis Contracting company,
testified that he tried to settle the
controversy between Loftis and
prominent contractors who were
officers of the A. G. C. and that
Edwin Jones told him that it was
no use for Loftis to try to buck
the whole industry.
R. Lewis Patton, vice president
of James J. Harris Insurance com
pany, told of his company discon
tinuing writing performance bonds
for Loftis. He said he talked with
Fred N. Thompson and Earl Whit
ton, Charlotte contractors, about
certain “rumors” which were al
leged to have been heard about
Loftis.
Loftis resigned as executive sec
retary of the A. G. C. to become
a general contractor. After his
resignation, he was expelled from
membership in the contractors’ as
sociation. In his suit, brought in
superior court here, he contends
that the action of the contractors’
association and individual officers
of the association injured his busi
ness.
He charges that the contractors
(Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) !
W omen V olunteers Plan
Housing Survey In City
With more than 300 women volun
teers scheduled to participate, an ex
haustive house-to-house canvass of
Wilmington and New Hanover coun
ty, to determine the exact number
of houses, apartments and rooms
available for rental purposes, will be
made Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week.
Planned as the most complete sur
vey of its kind ever undertaken in
this area, the house-to-house count
will be under the supervision of the
Homes Registration bureau of the
Housing Committee of the Wilming
ton Defense Council. Primarily, it
will be to compile authentic data on
rentals for use of the Army and the
BigMarine'
Base Work
Is Started
Lieut.-Commander Madison
Nichols Named Officer
In Charge of Project
100 MEN BEGIN WORK
Start Erecting Temporary
Quarters (or Contractors
Near Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, April 24, — As
scheduled, work began today on the
U. S. Marine Corp’s new $14,575,000
ba- five miles south of here on the
New river, and simultaneously the
Navy department announced the ap
pointment of Lieut .-Commander
Madison Nichols as officer in charge
of the base.
Approximately 100 workmen, most
ly carpenters, this morning began
the work of erecting temporary
quarters for the contractors in the
proposed tented area at Jarman’s
station two miles south of Jackson
ville just off the highway leading
to Wilmington.
Lieut. Commander Nichols is ex
pected to arrive here the first of
next week. Meanwhile, his represen
tative will be Lieutenant Smith, ex
pected to reach here sometime to
day.
Other Developments
Other developments today includ
ed the announcement of Jack Blythe,
president of Blythe Brothers of
Charlotte, as project manager, and
Paul N. Howard, general superin
tendent of the same firm, as gener
al superintendent of the project.
T. L. Harrison, president of the
Harrison-Wright company, in charge
of the electrical work on the base,
arrived here this morning and
pushed plans for the setting up of
temporary quarters for the project
contractors at the tent camp at Jar
man’s station.
The tented area is being prepared
for the temporary accommodation
of from 5,000 to 6,000 Marines sched
uled to arrive here about the first
of July.
General project contract, the
award for which was announced
earlier in the week, it was said here
today, will be known as contractor’s
contract No. 4750, Marine barracks,
New river.
Howard, general superintendent
of the project, said this morning
quantities of equipment were en
route to the base and that work of
clearing the site of the tented area
would begin tomorrow. A number of
engineers, and employment officers,
representing the North Carolina
State Employment service and the
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 3)
DEFENSEPROJECT
STRIKE IS ENDED
1H f
Union Accepts Compromise
Wage Proposal on Na
val Housing Job
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 24.—
—A strike of 1,800 AFL construc
tion workers which halted work on
a $4,000,000 Navy defense project
ended today with acceptance by
the unions of a compromise wage
proposal drafted by the Navy de
partment.
The strike lasted only eight hours
and affected only the two 600-unit
naval housing projects near the
destroyer base and the naval train
ing station.
The 11th naval district, which
announced the settlement, said the
workers in four crafts — electri
cians, roofers, painters and floor
layers — would receive a wage
boost of approximately 10 per cent,
beginning tomorrow.
The Navy rejected, however, a
demand of the San Diego building
trades council that the pay in
crease be made retroactive to Jan
uary when the prevailing age
scale as established for other
crafts on defense projects.
The settlement proposal origin
ally called for establishment of
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 5)
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany in locating their personnel.
Plans for the survey were revealed
yesterday as representatives of 12
Wilmington women’s organizations
met with Mrs. Thomas J. Gause and
Mrs. Gladys Proctor, representing
the Housing committee. Organiza
tions represented yesterday, and
whose members will cooperate in
the survey next week, were the
Parent-Teachers’ Association, the
Catholic Daughters of America, the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy, the Daughters of the Revolu
tion, the American Legion auxiliary,
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 4)
Germans Are Hurled Back
At Thermopylae, Use Big
Artillery Against Allies
_ w --
NAZIS MAKE CLAIMS
Declare British Lines of Re
treat to Egypt From
Greece Crippled
MANY VESSELS SUNK
Radio Says Not One Eng
lish Soldier Has Re-Em
barked from Greece
BERLIN, April 25.—(Friday)—Iff)
—British lines of retreat to Egypt
from Greece have been consider
ably crippled by the luftwaff, Ger
man commentators said early to
day after the German high com
mand claimed destruction of ap
proximately 89,600 registered tons
of shipping space in Greek waters
in the last three days.
All these ships, it was said, were
held in readiness to carry the Eng
lish expeditionary corps and val
uable equipment out of Greece.
(A British radio commntator in
a broadcast heard in New York
said “not one British soldier has
re-embarked from Greece.”)
Athens Not Taken
Although Athens has not yet
been taken by the Germans, ac
cording to the latest military in
formation available in Berlin, re
sponsible quarters voiced the opin
ion that the Greek incident nev
ertheless must be regarded as
practically closed.
It was pointed out that German
troops still are an appreciable dis
tance from the Greek capital and
approaching it in the most method
ical manner.
To the question as to when Ath
ens would be occupied, a spokes
man said the military leadership
would not be mislead into making
mistakes by any “significant ques
tion of prestige.”
The German army was described
in the Berlin press last night as
pushing on methodically towards
Athens "by way of Thebes,” about
35 miles northwest of the capital,
with orders to occupy it without
harming its ancient and splendid
monuments.
These reports, not bearing the
cachet of the high command, said
the highways and railways to the
north of Thebes were in full con
trol of the grey-uniformed Wehr
macht.
The high command’s daily bul
letin, however, said merely that
at Thermopylae, the historic pass
some 100 miles north of Athens,
“we succeeded in breaking into
positions which were situated in
especially favorable terrain.” Thus
th high command did not confirm
the report by other German
sources of yesterday, and implied
in the Thebes report of today, that
the Nazi army had broken through
Thermopylae and opened the gate
to Athens.
i Tanks Taken
The command bulletin did say
that thirty British tanks were tak
en between Lamia and Larisa,
north of the pass, and DNB, the
German news agency, declared
that ae one large British camp
hundreds of tanks and munition
trucks and many 3-inch guns had
been captured, as wel las several
thousand British soldiers.
There was no official announce
ment as to how the high command
proposed to capture Athens with
out damaging the classic relics of
antiquity, although on newspaper,
The Deutsch Allegemeine Zeitung,
remarked: “The Acropolis stands
in the midst of war, spared by the
German air force.”
No such scruples protected the
Athenian port of Piraeus, and ev
ery military dispatch indicated that
Stuks were droning over it like
angry hornets.
“Make the British retreat as
costly as possible,” remained the
order to the air force, and it con
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 2)
Dear Is Named President
Of Newspaper Publishers
NEW YORK, April 24.—UR—The
American Newspaper Publishers
association completed its 55th an
nual convention today after nam
ing Walter M. Dear, pumlisher
of the Jersey City Journal as presi
dent, succeeding John S. McCar
rens, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Linwood I. Noyes, Ironwood
(Mich.) Globe, was elected vice
president; Norman Chandler, Los
Angeles Times, secretary, and
William G. Chandler, Scripps-How
ard newspapers, secretary.
The membership ratified and af
firmed a declaration on national
defense approved last February 24
by representative of the Anpa, the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, the National Editorial as
sociation and a number of regional
publisher groups.
Grim British Forces
Fight Nazi Machine
At Close Quarters j
LONDON, April 34.—WP>—Bat
tered but grim British imperial
forces fought the German war
machine at close quarters to
night — apparently around the
historic pass of Thermopylae—
to bar the way to Athens against
an onslaught expected to grow
greater at any moment.
The British public, warned
with progressive insistence for
several days to expect reverses
in Greece, hoped anxiously that
its embattled troops, pressed be
tween the Germ, .ns and the sea,
could be saved to fight again.
Details of the fighting were
meager, but an authoritative
British source said the British
were holding their positions at
Thermopylae, where Leonidas
and his Spartans died in battle
with the Persians 2431 years
ago.
This source said there was no
basis for reports that the Brit
ish flank had been turned and
it was “very doubtful’’ if the
Germans had taken the island
. of Lemnos.
RAF ATTACKS TWO
NAZI BATTLESHIPS
Steady Blows Are Believed
Jo Have Put Scharn
horst Out of Action
LONDON, April 24.—(#>—British
bombers attacked the 26,000-ton
German battleships Gneisenau and
Scharnhorst at Brest last night for
the 12th time, and the Bitish press
association said tonight these
steady blows were believed to have
put the Scharhnhorst out of action
“for some months.”
"The Gneisenau is understood to
have been hit amidship in an
easier raid,” the news agency
said.
In reporting these attacks on
the two sea raiders the air minis
try did not claim direct hits. Full
observation of the bomb explosions
was impossible, it said.
Fires were started in the dock
areas of Brest and at Le Harve,
however, and direct hits were re
ported registered on an important
power station at Ibbenburen, in
northwest Germany, in a daylight
raid.
The Dutch island of Terschelling
was attacked, Nazi troops were
machine-gunned, and three Ger
man ships off the coast were hit
and probably destroyed, the min
istry’s communique related.
One bomber was lost in the day
light operations.
Northward across the channel
from Brest, Nazi bombs heaped
more damage and death on the
port city of Plymouth, England,
which has attacked for the third
straight night. At least twelve
persons were killed.
Colombian Army Plane,
With 14 Aboard, Missing
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 24.—
I/P)—The Army announced tonight
that a tri-motored Army plane
with 4 persons aboard is missing
on a flight from Caucaya to Tara
paca, in extreme southeastern Co
lombia.
The plane left Caucaya, also
known as Puerto Leguisamo. in
South Central Colombia, at 9:15
a.m. Tuesday, and has not yet
reached its destination, the com
munique said, expressing a belief
it was forced down in the jungle.
Colombian warplanes and river
boats on streams which are the
headwaters of the Amazon are
seeking the lest transport, which
carried Captain Jorge Bernal, pi
lot; Customs Police Chief Sixto
Lopez Lleras and his wife and a
number of Army officers. 5
W ork On Defense Housing
Projects To Begin Soon
With a low bid of $897,900 tenta
tively accepted pending approval
of the United States Housing Au
thority, construction on the two
housing projects here for families
of non-commissioned Army offi
cers is expected to start early next
week.
The T. A. Loving company of
Goldsboro was low of 12 bidders on
the twin-project—a 90 unit project
for colored families in the vicinity
of 13th and Dawson streets, and
a 284 unit project on the north
shores of Greenfield Lake for white
families.
The bids were opened at noon
yesterday in the offices of the
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ENGLISH ARE RESISTING
British Losses ‘Extremely
Light’ But Nazis Lose
Many Infantrymen
PIRAEUS IS ATTACKED
Many Women and Children
Killed When Refugee
Vessel Is Bombed
ATHENS. April 24.—CP)—Hurled
back when they attempted to storm
the historic pass of Thermopylae
with infantry, the Germans today
brought up the heaviest artillery yet
used in the Balkan campaign and
shelled the British-Greek positions.
The stoutness of the British resist
ance was indicated by the fact that
the Germans brought up 6-inch guns,
which require elaborate emplace
ments, instead of using the mobile
artillery previously employed in t,ie
campaign.
Ambulance drivers returning from
the front said the British losses
around Thermopylae had been “ex
tremely light” but they understood
that a German attempt to force the
pass with infantry cost the invaders
heavily.
Piraeus Attacked
Meanwhile, German dive bombers,
darting down in the rays of the set
ting sun tonight heavily attacked
Piraeus, the Port of Athens, bomb
ing a ship which was taking on re
fugees.
The ship immediately burst into
flames and the government, identify
ing it as the 2,295-ton Hellas, a con
verted yacht, said many of the wo
men and children boarding it for
sanctuary from the war in Greek is
lands were killed or wounded.
Another steamer, said a home se
curity ministry communioue, was
damaged heavily off the Greek island
of Kea and two hospital ships, both
with conspicuous Bed Cross mark
ings, were sunk.
There were no casualties aboard
the hospital vessel Polikos, sunk at
Methone, the communique said, but
a few of the crew of the hospital
ship Andros sunk at Loutra were
reported killed or wounded.
Strike Other Cities
Centering its raids on Greece’s
southern coast and the clusters of
islands off it, the ministry said, the
German raiders also struck at
Corinth, Aigina, Elevsis and Megara.
It said anti-aircraft frie brought
down three Nazi bombers.
Air-raid sirens had been silent
for most of the day and civil
administration was f u n c tioning
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 5)
BRITISH OUTLOOK
IN AFRICA BRIGHT
Say Axis Descriptions Of
Tobruk as Beleaguered
City ‘Misleading’
CAIRO, April 24.—<£>)—British
sources, claiming the initiative in
increasing ground sorties on the
Libyan-Egyptian frontier, tonight
said Axis descriptions of Tobruk
as a beleaguered city were “mis
leading.”
It is two weeks now since the
Axis drive toward the Suez tailed
off at Salum, just inside the Egyp
tian frontier, and with a steady
growing strength the desert vet
erans at General Sir Archibald
P. Wavell’s headquarters here
viewed the situation with confi
dence and some optimism.
This outlook was strengthened
today by reports from Ethiopia
which told of British South Afri
can forces routing Italian defen
ders from mountain barricades
before Dessie, 140 miles northeast
of Addis Ababa, in the fiercest
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Housing Authority of the City of
Wilmington, and immediately tak
en to Washington, D. C., by Henry
Emory, HACOW director, for
USHA approval.
Unlike the Nesbitt and Brooklyn
housing projects, the two to be
built for Camp Davis non-coms'
families are two and four-family
dwellings of modern, simplified de
sign. The white project has been
officially named Lake Forest, while
the colored project will be known
as Hillcrest.
Before leaving for Washington
and a conference with Housing Au
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