AXIS FORCE NEAR
TOBRUK SHELLED
Greater Patrol And Artil*
lery Activity Reported
Around Salum, Egypt
CAIRO. Egypt, April 26.—(jP)
German-Italian troops concentrat
ing just outside Tobruk were shell
ed and scattered yesterday by the
garrison of that fortress lodged
menacingly against the seaward
flank of the Axis army, the British
announced today.
This was coincident with more
intense patrol and artillery activity
around Salum, Egypt, the frontier
town where the Axis drive east
ward has halted.
The RAF reported its fighters
guarding Tobruk had shot down
eight Axis planes there in one day
this week, raising the- toll at that
one spot to 44.
Bengasi, Libya, w-as bombed and
fires started, the RAF also an
nounced. and bombers returning
from that raid caused fires and
explosions in an Axis motor con
voy near El Argub, SO miles east
of Bengasi.
The British said their cleanup
campaign in Ethiopia was progress
ing, w-ith capture of Fort Mota,
north of Addis Ababa, and surren
der of several hundred Italian Col
onial troops and 12 Italian officers.
South African fighters pressed
nearer Pessie, strongly-held Italian
garrison 175 miles northeast of Ad
dis Ababa, despite road blocks cov
ered by heavy Italian gunfire.
PEANUT MARKETING
QUOTAS APPROVED
(Continued From Page One)
1.479, a percentage of 91 in favor
of quotas.
With the approval of two-thirds
of the peanut growers in North
Carolina and 1- other states where
peanuts are grown commercially,
marketing quotas will be placed
on the 1941, 1942, and 1943 crop,
and
Officials said farmers already
have been notified what their 1941
quotas will be.
The vote by counties, with the
first figure being ‘‘yes," votes in
each case, follows:
Beaufort, 83 and 31; Bertie, 1,786
and 191; Bladen, 436, 205; Bruns
wick, 24 and 28; Camden, 26 and
1; Chowan, 625 and 10 Columbus,
146 and 22; Craven, 9 and 0; Cum
berland, 40 and 9; Currituck, 14
and 0; Duplin, 2 and 1 Edge
combe, 1008 and 24; Gates, 787
and 10; Greene, 110 and 0; Hali
fax, 1,355 and 365; Harnett 5 and
10; Hertford, 1,094 and 76; Hoke,
4 and 1 Johnston, 51 and 5 Jones,
1 and 2; Martin, 1950 and 22;
Nash, 420 and 6; New Hanover,
25, and 0; Northampton, 2,268 and
368; Onslow, 9 and 0; Pamlico, 1
and 0; Pasquotank, 48 and 1; Pen
der 128 and 5 Perquimans, 750
and 4 Pitt, 681 and 10; Robeson,
40 and 15; Sampson 46 and 25;
Scotland, 2 and 0; Tyrrel, 52 and
6; Wake, 5 and 0; Waren, 68 and
3 Washington, 575 and 15; Wayne,
89 and 18; Wilson, 132 and 0.
E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive of
ficer at N. C. State college said
the main issue in the referendum
was the government diversion and
loan program. Last year’s record
peanut crop forced the government
to spend more than $10,0000 to di
vert surplus peanuts into oil in an
effort to stabilize prices.
In providing for the referendum,
however, congress provided that
there would be no diversion or
loan program unless crop quotas
were in effect. 3
GERMANS CLAIM
PRESSURE AT
ATHENS* DOOR
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sible leader was making predic
tions respecting Athens.
With Thebes, on the winding
road to Atnens, securely in Ger
man hands, another indication of
the tightening Nazi grip on Greece
was the reported occupation of the
islands of Samothrace, Thasos and
Lemnos in the Aegean sea.
Transports Arrive
For tnese sea operations Ger
man transports popped up in the
Aegean and there was much spec
ulation as to where they came
from. This phase was called an
other demonstration of the
thoroughness of the preparations
for the Balkan campaign.
Thasos is about seven miles off
the coast of Grecian Thrace east
of Salonika; Samothrace is a few
milets northwest of the entrance to
the Turkish-controlled Dardanelles
—gateway to the Black sea—and
Lemnos is some 40 miles to the
southwest.
Germans continued to regard
Stuka attacks on British troop
ships in Greek waters as a highly
important phase of the campaign.
The day’s reports said at least
six merchantmen were severely
damaged by homing between the
Greek mainland and Crete.
Authorized Germans said there
still was no indication that the bulk
of the British expeditionary force
had made a getaway. 3
ROOSEVELT MAKES
CONVOY INQUIRIES
(Continued From Page One)
Included in this tentative list,
one legislator said, were 25 of the
senate’s republicans. Most of these
have been recorded as likely sup*
porters of a resolution by Senator
Tobey (R-NH) to put congress on
record against use of the navy to
guard the transportation of war
materials across the Atlantic.
The Tobey resolution is scheduled
to receive consideration next Wed
nesday by the foreign relations
committee, with indications that it
will be smothered there by an ad
ministration majority.
While some convoy advocates
had proposed that the measure be
carried to the floor in the hope
of defeating it decisively there,
such strategy was regarded as
unlikely in the face of the distinct
senate cleavage on the issue.
Similarly, some legislators were
said to take the view that if Presi
dent Roosevelt decided convoys
were necessary, it might be better
for him to order them on his own
authority rather than seek con
gressional action likely to be pre
ceded by lengthy, controversial
debate.
Senators divided sharply during
consideration of the lend-lease
legislation on the question of the
President’s authority to order con
voys, with administration leaders
generally contending he had such
power and opponents denying it.
Taking cognizance of this differ
ence of opinion, Senator Nye
(R-ND) has placed before the for
eign relations committee a pro
posal which would require con
gressional approval before con
voys could be ordered.
Senator Barkley of Kentuck, the
democratic leader, said he thought
both proposals would be voted
down when the committee meets
Wednesday. Some other members
said, however, that final com
mittee action, might be delayed
while a subcommittee investigates
the two measures.
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Plans To Raise Funds To Aid
Morale Program To Be Talked
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper said
yesterday that a meeting will be
held at the city hall at 10:30 o’clock
Tuesday morning of leaders of vari
ous civic and fraternal organiza
tions of the city to discuss plans
for the raising of a $5,500 fund to
aid a national fund of $10,000,000
“for overloaded defense areas.”
The meeting, Cooper said, will be
held in response to a request from
Walter Hoving of New York, presi
dent of the United Service Organ
izations.
Hoving’s telegram follows:
“To support urgent request by
President Roosevelt, Secretaries
Knox and Stimson, and others for
immediate civilian aid in morale
program national defense, please
call meeting local leaders and rep
resentatives YMCA, YWCA, Catho
lic Community service, Salvation
Army, Jewish Welfare Board and
Travelers Aid to lay plans and de
termine leadership for June cam
paign in Wilmington.
“Your quota toward national fund
of ten millions plus for overloaded
defense areas i $5,500. Your local
goal should also include needs for
local defense program, welfare ac
tivities, and local fund-raising costs.’’
Cooper said he had telegraphed
Hoving that he would be glad to
cooperate in the movement in every
way possible.
Navy Will Take Over
Floyd Bennett Field
NEW YORK, April 26. — tS*! —
Mayor F. H. La Guardia announced
today the Navy would take over
Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn,
which is expected to become the
New York base for the neutrality
air patrol.
Civilian occupants — 500 persons
receiving aviation training in the
Civil Aeronautics board program—
were given notive by Dock Commis
sioner John McKenzie to remove
their belongings by May 26.
The municipality owned airport
containing 327 acres of concrete
runways, a highway system and
radio and lighting facilities.
Former Vanderbilt Yacht
Sunk In Piraeus Harbor
NEW YORK, April 26.—UP)—A
CBS broadcast from Athens tonight
said a former cruising yacht of
Harold Vanderbilt, American sports
man, was sunk Thursday night in
Piraeus harbor by German Stukas
which killed and wounded many
civilians aboard.
The yacht, sailing under the name
of Haras, had Just pulled away from
the docks with a load of civilians
trying to return to their island
homes, the CBS correspondent said,
when six Stukas dived within 50
yards of the deck. One bomb burst
in the vessels hold.
Fire quickly swept the craft, he
said, and men, women and children
were killed and injured.
CRONIN A WHIZ—
EXCEPT IN OUTFIELD
WASHINGTON — Gabbing about
Joe Bordon’s versatility the other
day and talking of other great play
ers who could handle virtually any
position — Wagner, Ruth, Slsler,
Bresnahan, Ott — Clark Griffith of
the Washington Senators said: “I
know of only one real good player
who couldn’t play just any spot.”
Then he told a tale about his son
in-law, Joe Cronin, Boston Red Sox
manager.
Cronin, Ivhile managing Washing
ton in the early 1930’s, became dis
gusted at the brand of flychasi-g he
was gettfig and vowed he’d go out
and show ’em how. But it was pretty
horrible. Cronin caught nothing and
promptly moved back to shortstop.
“He was a bum in the outfield,"
laughed Griff.
RED FACE DEP’T.
CHICAGO UP)—Perhaps the most
embarrassed of all rookies over their
debuts in the major leagues was
shortstop Lou Stringer of the Chi
cago Cubs. He made four errors.
However, he made a double and a
single and the fans liked him.
New British Plane Is
In Full Production
LONDON, April 26.— —The
British announced tonight that a
new super-fighter, better than the
trusted Spitfire or Hurricane, was
in full production. It is the “Ty
phoon”, with a speed of more than
400 miles an hour, a 2,400-horse
power Sabre engine and arma
ment of both cannon and machine
gun.
New Englanders Parade
For Confederate General
MACON, Ga., April 26.—<A>)—Two
battalions of Uncle Sam’s new sol
diers, right out of New England, pa
raded in honor of a Confederate gen
eral today while their band swung
into "Dixie.”
As the city observed Confederate
Memorial Day, the regular weekly re
view of the eighth and 14th battal
ions at Camp*Wheeler was dedicated
to the memory of Confederate Gen
eral Joe Wheeler for whom the camp
was named.
Stewed rhubarb, chilled and
mixed with cubed pineapple, seed
ed white cherries or sliced bananas
gives a new spring dessert treat.
'3 Years $20,000 Fine
Joseph Schenck, chairman of
the board of 20th Century-Fox Film
Corp., leaves federal court in New
York after he was sentenced to three
years in prison and was fined $20,
000 for income tax evasion. He was
convicted of defrauding the govern
ment of $223,000 in income taxes.
O’NEILL WORKING
ON 9-PLAY CYCLE
Newly - Completed Drama Is
Withheld Until He Can
Attend Rehearsals
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.—
(The Special News Service)— In
a rambling white house 25 miles
from the sea he loves so well,
Eugene O’Neill is busily working
again on his cycle of nine plays.
So engrossed in this task is the
brooding O’Neill that a newly-com
pleted play of his has been with
held from production for well over
a year because the famed Pulit
zer prize playwright refuses now
to allow any of his new dramas
to be staged unless he is present
at rehearsals.
Since he moved to California
three years ago, O’Neill has fin
ish two plays, “The Iceman
Cometh” and “Long Day’s Jour
ney Into Night.” But their produc
tion, unless he changes his present
plans, must wait until he is fin
ished with his cycle of nine.
The idea for “The Iceman
Cometh” came when he was in the
middle of the cycle, so he quit on
that project and did a fast—f o r
O’Neill—job on finishing the single
play.
It is known that when he start
ed to write the cycle O’Neill had
in mind an American setting with
the plot telling the story of several
generations of an American fam
ily.
O’Neill, so he has said, has al
ways dqne his best work while liv
ing quietly, apart from other lit
erary figures and the distractions
of the city.
The present O’Neill home, which
he and his wife planned in 1937
when they moved from the home
they had at Sea Island Beach, Ga.,
is of modest size although it suits
the playwright’s needs.
It is on a 100-acre farm which
rolls across a high ridge and is
two miles from any highway
where there is thick traffic.
Fences suround the house and the
only entrance is by a private road
—measures he has found neces
sary to privacy.
O’Neill gets up at 6 a.m. and is
working at 7. Mrs. O’Neil is the
only one who is allowed to disturb
him in his study and sometimes
he gets so engrossed in his writing
that he won’t answer when she
knocks at the door. So she paces
up and down the hall outside for
a few minutes and then knocks
again.
He writes steadily until 2 p.m.
when he turns his copy over to a
stenographer to be typed. He
writes in tiny but graceful script
so that stenographers have little
trouble in reading his words.
He first outlines a play and then
rewrites the outline several times
before taking that as his frame
work and starting the actual
scenes and dialogue.
Like Ernest Hemingway, who
said that he once spent ten full
days perfecting a paragraph of 110
words in his "For Whom the Bell
Tolls”, ‘O’Neill writes only with
great effort and his words do not
come easily to him.
O’Neill drifted into writing for
the theater not only because his
father, James O’Neill, was a fa
mous actor, but also because in
his days at 6ea and wandering
around the waterfronts of the
world he was a devoted reader
of Jack London, Kipling and
Joseph Conrad.
KJ IN dll lias aiwap now «
mystic affection for the ocean.
When he finally ended his wander
ings, he settled down in a beach
hoiee at Provincetown, Mass., on
the tip of Cape Cod, and it was
in the famous Provincetown play
house that some of his first ef
forts were played.
In 1915, while O’Neill was still
in his 20’s, the Provincetown
theatrical group — headed by
George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell
and Robert Edmond Jones—moved
to a tiny theater in Greenwich
village. Their first selections for
production there were O’Neil’s
one-acters—chosen for the dual
re«on that they were considered
excellent and were inexpensive to
put on.
Only a little more than a de
cade later, his “strange interlude”
became a 423-performance broad
way hit.
Now, even, 25 miles from the
Pacific, he misses the ocean. A+
Sea Island, he often swam in the
surf for hours at a time, attaining
the precious solitude he spoke of
in one of his earliest published
works, a poem “free,” printed in
1912—
“Weary am I of the tumult, sick
of the staring crowd,
“Pining for wild sea places
where the soul may think
aloud.” 3
BOMBERS LAND
MANILA, April 26.—(iP>—An
American made bomber destined for
British UEe was landed here today
by an American crew which flew it
across the Pacific ocean over the
commercial air route. It was the
third* such warplane brought to Ma
nila by American fliers. A British
crew will fly the ship to Hongkong
or Singapore.
TWO KILLED
NORTH BAY, Ont., April 26.—
OB—Two unidentified members of
the Royal Norwegian Air Force
were killed here today when the
plane in which they had been
searching for a companion avi
ator, believed downed in the bush
district near Mattawa, plunged in
to the dense bush of a swamp three
miles south of this city. The mo
tor was buried five feet in the bog.
M3 light combat tanks for U. S. Army roll out of American Car and
Foundry Company at Berwick, Pa. Plant formerly made subway
cars, now has contract for $70,000,000 worth of these tough babies.
JEFFREY EXPLAINS
HOUSING SITUATION
(Continued From Page One)
proximately 1.400 of these skilled
workers will have to be brought
into Wilmington from the outside,
and these will probably all have
families who will have to be housed
locally.
The new marine base at Jack
sonville will also cause an influx
of officers of whom it is antici
pated that at least 100 will have
families and will desire to live
in Wilmington.
It is fully realized that there
are not enough homes and apart
ments in Wilmington at the pres
ent time to care for this need.
However, plans are under way for
the construction of several hundred
units by private investors and with
in a short time any deficiency in
the number of units which is not
made up by private capital will
have to be taken care of by the
Federal Government. One way in
which Wilmingtonians may ease
this situation is through the con
version of spare bedrooms and
other rooms into apartments. An
F. H. A. Insured loan can be ob
tained for this purpose.
All of the workers in this can
vass are volunteering their serv
ices in order to furnish the Wil
mington Housing committee with
an accurate picture of the condi
tion in Wilmington today and it
is urged that all householders co
operate to the fullest extent in tire
answering of the questions in ordei
that the work of the canvassers be
facilitated.
After the canvass has been com
pleted anyone who may happen to
be overlooked is requested to tele
phone' their listings to Mrs. Maf
fitt, dial 5917. or Mrs. Gause. dial
3670.
Nazis Still Lack Labor
For Its War Economy
WASHINGTON. April 26.—GP>—
The Commerce department said to
day that Germany still lacked the
needed labor for its war econonf’
despite the use of more t^an 2,000,
000 foreigners.
Surveying the Nazi situation in
its foreign commerce weekly, the
department said that an agreement
recently had been made under which
60,000 Italian farm labors would be
made available to German agricul
ture this summer and that meas
ures had been taken to draft French
laborers from the occupied zone.
DROPS MAIN DEMAND
BOMBAY, India, April 26.—UP)—
Mohandas K. Gandhi declared to
night that his all India congress
(Nationalist Party) has dropped
temporarily its demand for the
independence of India and wants
only “freedom of the speech and
the pen.”
Hints Convoy Aid
Calling upon America to “make
good our promise to give aid to
Britain,” Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox tells the American
Newspaper Publishers convention in
New York that if America allows its
war supplies for Britain to be sunk
en route "we shall be beaten.” |
Test Of Giant Bomber
Expected To Be Delayed
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 26.
—<JP)—The Evening Outlook says
that “from all available information”
it appears impossible for the giant
Douglas B-19—which the company
says is the largest airplane ever
built—to take off on a test flight
before July.
Earlier information had indicated
the test might be made next month.
The newspaper says that the
craft’s 82 tons is too heavy for the
four-inch, 3,000-foot asphalt runway
and that a concrete runway 200
feet wide and 4,000 feet long, vary
ing in depth from six to nine inches,
must be poured before the takeoff.
Fugitive Minister Taken
By Atlanta Authoriti,,
ATLANTA, April 26. — (p,
Claiming that he was planning ^
surrender after 28 years as a fu.
tive when arrested here by cih'
detectives, a free Method!,
preacher today awaited return to
Iowa where he is under a 12-year
sentence for wife slaying.
The gray-haired man said he «•»
the Rev. Charles Arthur Rigby u
was arrested Friday by Detec*’,-.'
C-,.L- faylor and J- M. Austin
while claimmg a letter at a DQ
office. He told newsmen today j
his 25 years of itinerant evanse‘
lism since he walked away frL
Anamosa reformatory in 1913
He said he was a former furni
ture polish salesman and that* he
had served 19 months of the sen
fence imposed at Cedar Rapi(is
when he escaped. It was in I9ig
after coming south from Chicago’
that he took up evangelistic wori-'
he said.
9,719 Killed And 8,391
Missing In War At Sea
NEW YORK, April 26.-(®_Xhe
war at sea nas claimed 9.719 known
deaths since hostilities began m
September, 1939, and another 3,.
391 persons have been reported
missing, a check of Associated
Press records revealed tonight.
A total of 1,500 ships of all na
tions have been reported lost for
an aggregate tonnage of 5,659,214.
Submarines, warplanes and war
ships sent 773 vessels to the bot
tom, including naval craft, and
mines took an additional toll 0f
240 ships lost from other or im
known causes totaled 487.
SCHEDULE REJECTED
BUFFALO, N. Y.. April 26.—lp,
—Employes of the Curtiss-Wright
Corporation airplane division nave
rejected a working schedule re
arrangement which would enable
the plant to increase the wort
week to six days, a company ex
ecutive said todya. The firm em
ploys 12,000 producing fighter
planes for the United States and
Great Britain.
I wish to thank the voters of Wilmington
who supported me in the city primary of
April 21st. As this was my first venture
in the political field, I will always cherish
your memory.
_ LOTT M. NOBLE
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