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Served By Leased Wire Of The T“” Z7T Dedicated To The Progress Of associated press p , , P ~ WILMINGTON With Complete Coverage Of , , „ , . „ , , „ „ And Southeastern North Slate and National News p .. _ Carolina VOI^74—NOI_2Q.5_____WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 | WHAT THE U. S. MEANS BY “DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS” —v. - -hit - —- - — """"""“™““""""———— x^iy wonder held by Wilmingtonians as to what Uncle Sam means by “defense preparedness” is forcefully answered by this striking photograph of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc, for many years based in Wilmington harbor, and, according to reports, scheduled to be transferred soon to duty elsewhere. The Modoc, docked in front of the Wilmington customs house yesterday after undergoing extensive motor overhauls and work in the New Orleans navy yards, has been fitted with powerful new weapons—a five-inch cannon in the bow, effective range, 22,000 yards; a new rapid-fire three-inch stern gun, a “Y” depth-charge gun just aft of mid ship, and several reinforced mounts for heavy caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. With its new armament, the cutter is said to be superior in fire-power to even the latest type destroyer. The Modoc is expected to proceed from Wilmington sometime this week for Norfolk and Boston for further equipment preparing her for the new assignment. -Star-News Photo by Humphrey --★ -:- +-—— - School Bond Issue Vote Is Authorized By County - + WOULD TOTAL $500,000 Isaac Bear Grammar School Would be Converted into a Junior High A $500,000 special bond election for "urgently needed” expansion of the New Hanover county school system was authorized yesterday by the board of county commis sioners. Advised by a delegation repre senting the board of education that the county’s school facilities would be "hopelessly inadequate” to properly handle the anticipated in crease in student enrollment ex pected by the beginning of the fall semester in September, the com mission, without a dissenting vote, instructed County Attorney Mars den Bellamy to prepare the neces sary election resolutions and no tices lor adoption at next week’s board meeting. Election in June It was indicated that the election ''Ould be set for sometime in June. Proposed in the expansion pro tram were: Conversion of the Isaac Bear Pammar school into a Junior High (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WEATHER X’., FORECAST: Pjirt'iv ' Carolina ami South Carolina— i Penriirl change in tem ure Tuesday and' Wednesday, eo(lfnie°7rPmgical data for the 24 hours Uf; !'• m. yesterday). 133 L. S. Heather Bureau) 1Temperature: r in -t 5si 7:30 a. m. 57; 1:30 toiuim, m -V°° p- 081 maximum 78; mum mean 05: normal 66. i ■ Humidity m 'S).a; 77: 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. -■i :30 p. ni. 36. * T„t„, r Precipitation: ft. a no ;Pr.the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. the „ .(ota! since the first of "math 2.65 inches.. ft. Tides For Today: Coast u,’, ^,d.e Tahles published by U. S. st aad Geodetic Survey), tyilminrrt High Low nnungton- 11:48a. 6:58a. ^sonboro Inlet- 9:22a. 3:27a'. «seU7f.lSe ■"> —5a.; sunset 6:54%.; moon Jia-: moonset 9:43p. Tim1'" Pear river stage at Fayette teet. April 28' at 8 a- "*•. 14.45 'Continued ou Page Two; Col. 4) Town in Southwest England Is Raided A SOUTHWEST COAST TOWN IN ENGLAND, April 29. (Tuesday)—(/P)—A German air attack described by some observ ers as one of the heaviest ever in this area blasted this town ' r several hours earlier today. Starting late at night, the raid ers were over the town almost constantly' despite a violent anti-aircraft b“rrage. First indications were that casualties were relatively light, however, considering the sever ity of the attack. BALLOON SCHOOL MEN TO ARRIVE First Soldiers Are Slated To Reach Camp Davis To morrow Morning Following in rapid succession the announcement by the War de partment that- the T7. S. Army’s first Balloon Barrage school will be established at Camp Davis and the arrival here of ranking officers to command its various elements, the announcement was made last night by Davis headquarters that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) MODOC IS FITTED WITH NEW GUNS Many Wilmingtonians View Powerful New Arma ment Aboard Cutter With new armament said to give her fire-power superior to that of any destroyer afloat, and schedul ed soon to be fitted with even more weapons, the Coast Guard cutter Modoc lay fast to the cus tomhouse dock here yesterday taking on great quantities of sup plies in preparation for assignment in a new field of operations. Throngs of Wilmingtonians, to whom the Modoc is no novelty, flocked to the waterfront yester day afternoon to view the cutter’s new armaments, including a five inch bow cannon said to have an effective range up to 22,000 yards _a full 10,000 yards advantage over the heaviest cannon carried by any destroyer known. An iden tical gun is mounted in the aft of the cutter. The new armaments were mounted during the cutter’s mo tor-overhaul stay in New Orleans, from whence the vessel returned to Wilmington Saturday night. In addition to the new five-inch bow cannon, the Modoc has been fitted with a new three-inch rapid fire aft cannon, a “Y” depth-bomb gun and re-enforced mounts for a number of .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) Extensive City Housing Survey Will Start Today Members of the Home Registra tion Bureau of the Housing com mittee of the Wilmington Defense council met with colored civic lead ers and Captain F. T. Folk, billet ing officer for Camp Davis, at the Williston Industrial High school yesterday and discussed plans for the negroes’ part in the emergency house-to-house survey scheduled to start today. The purpose of the study is to determine the number of rooms, houses and apartments for rent in New Hanover county. Captain Folk said that at least 50 or 60 negro noncommissioned officers will arrive for duty at Camp Davis by May 15, many of them with their families, and it is imperative that suitable quarters be found for them immediately. Mrs. Thomas J. Gause and Mrs. C. D. Maffitt represented the hous ing group, and Professor Frede rick J. Rogers, Williston princi pal, spoke for the colored group. Augusta Cooper, a service work er for the county welfare board was appointed chairman of the colored workers. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) New River Oil Terminals AreDestroy ed By Flames _ _X -: Yacht Is Seized And Crew Held for Probe HAVANA, April 28.—(/P)— The yacht Ezgoin flying the American flag and carrying papers showing registry at Key West, Fla., was seized by the Cuban navy tonight and its crew of three men and a woman were brought here for investigation by immigration authorities. The yacht was run into Ba tabano by the gunboat Cuba from the south coastal waters between Cuba and the Isle of Pines. The crew refused to make any statement until permitted to see a U. S. consulate official here. FAYETTEVILLE FIRE TAKES LIVES 8F 3 Another Occupant of Down town Apartment Is In jured When it Burns FAYETTEVILLE, April 28.—(A>)— Fire swept through a down-town apartment building early today kill ing two men and a four-year-old girl and injuring at least one other occupant. Cecil Beard, 26, a Fort Bragg ci vilian employee his daughter Bar bara and Charles B. Holbrook about 30, of High Point, also em ployed at Fort Bragg were trapped and burned to death. Mrs. Margaret Beard wife of Ce cil suffered a broken leg when she leaped out of a second-floor window after dropping an infant child to Frank Speight who was standing below. The fire in the apartment lo cated above and adjoining Asa Holmes ’ stables about a block from Fayetteville’s historic old market building was discovered by Johnny Greene and Ira Fox, who lived in the building about 2 a.m. They gave the alarm and ten ants began to leave the blazing (Continued on Pag* Three; Col. 1) LOSS IS SET AT $75,000 Jacksonville Concern Lev eled by Fire Started By Pumping Machine JACKSONVILLE, April 28.— Starting from a small pumping en gine, fire this afternoon swept through the plant and storage ter minal of the New River Oil com pany here, leaving in its wake a loss estimated at $75,000. Three 100,000 - gallon gasoline tanks, all filled, were caught in the fire, which was fought for two hours by Jacksonville volunteers assisted by equipment sent here from Camp Davis, small skiffs and rowboats tied up at docks near the terminal were destroyed as flaming gasoline cov ered a large surface-area of th river after the tanks burst from the intense heat. B. J. Holloman, owner of the New River Oil company, said that the storage tanks had been filled only a few days ago. He suffered minor burns about the face and hands while assisting local volun teers combat the blaze. No one else was reported hurt. The fire originated, Holloman said, with a small gasoline pump ing engine inside the plant yard. The blaze, fed by gasoline, quickiy spread to the main storage tanks and raged completely out of con trol for two hours. 1 NICHOLS ARRIVES AT JACKSONVILLE Will be in Charge of Con struction of Large Marine Base in Onslow County JACKSONVILLE, April 28.— Lieutenant Commander Madison Nichols, officer in charge of the construction of the Marine base near here, . arrived today to as sume charge of the project for the Navy department. Lieutenant Commander P. F. Carter, in charge of the Fifth Nav al district out of Norfolk, Va., is (Continued on Fags Three; Col. 6) CRETE BELIEVED NEXT OBJECTIVE OF NAZI FORCES CLASH NEAR SALUM North African Front Re sumes Center of State In Mediterranean Theatre DESSIE IS CAPTURED Only Two Major Centers Of Italian Resistance Re main Within Ethiopia CAIRO, Egypt, April 28.—<if>)— Advance units ot a British armored division were reported in contact with Axis forces near Salum, Egypt, tonight as the North African front resumed the center of the stage in the Mediterranean war theater. German-Italian units, British , headquarters said, made little or no | progress with the spearhead they ; have establishd six miles inside the Egyptian frontier, and in East Africa Axis forces suffered another setback with the fall of Dessie, Ital ian-Ethiopian stronghold. xroops unier uessie : British troops entered Dessie Sun I day after a few hours of tough fight , ing at Kombolchia Pass, 14 miles south of the Plateau city, informed military circles said. (This supported London reports that the town was taken by forces operating from the British-held capi tal, . Addis Ababa, although Dessie had been attacked from all sides.) The pass was declared to have been fortified strongly and fiercely defend ed. Britons said the Fascists ’ oke under repeated attacks and yielded the summit just as Italian reinforce ments were sighted. The British were said to have charged down the road and turned the reinforcements’ forward march into a precipitate retreat. With Dessie captured, there re mained in Ethiopia only two major centers of Italian resistance, Gondi.r 250 miles northwest, of A.fldis Ababa and 190 miles northwest of Dessie, and Jimma, (correct) 160 miles southwest of Addis Ababa. EeGaullists Ready (A British-Free French move to assure uninterrupted use of the Ad dis Ababa-Jibuti railroad was indi cated in reports from Vichy, France, that De Gaullists supported by mechanized units of the British were poised at the southern border of French Somaliland, between British Somaliland and Eritrea on the north. A De Gaullist airplane dropped leaflets urging the colony, of less than 50,000 population, to join Free French forces fighting alongside the British. Only about 1,100 French men were said to be in the colony.) Elsewhere on the African front, the British continued to hold Tobruk, Libyan stronghold around which the Axis forces moved in their capture of Saiutn. I Resigns Charles A. Lindbergh LINDBERGH QUITS ARMY AIR CORPS Resigns as Colonel Because F. R. Implied Certain Things About Loyalty NEW YORK, April 28.—<£>)— Charles A. Lindbergh resigned today as colonel in the United States Army air corps reserve because, he said, his Commander in Chief—President Roosevelt—had implied certain things about “my loyalty to my country, my motives and my character.” Thus, the thin young man who at 25 historically flew the Atlantic, be came a world hero, and rose at once irom captain to colonel, beseeched his government at 39 to return him to private life because he had “no honorable alternative.” In a letter to President Roosevelt, Lindbergh took exception to “implica tions” he said the President uttered concerning him at last Friday’s press conference. In this conference the chief execu tive criticized the flier and others who say the Axis powers would de feat Great Britain. The president compared them to appeasers of Rev olutionary and Civil war days who insisted that defeat was imminent and that peace should be sued for promptly. The president thus "clearly im plied,” Lindberg wrote, "that I am no longer of use to this country as a reserve officer.” He told his commander that he (Continued oji Page Three; Col. 1) MOPPING-UP GREECE Fall of Island Would Spell Danger for British In Egypt and at Suez ALLIES ARE BLASTED Germans Say Troops Are Poised for New Tasks In Larger Sphere BERLIN, April 29.—(Tuesday!— Ml—The Greek island of Crete, new seat of the government which fled from Athens, apparently will b«, the next objective of the German army after the mopping-up cam paign on the Greek mainland and in the Peloponnesus is completed Adolf Hitler’s newspaper, Voel kischer Bcobachter, answering British claims that the English fleet still would be able to domi nate the Southern exit of the Ae gean sea from bases on Crete, lends weight to this belief. Great Danger Crete, in German hands, also would spell great danger to British strongholds in Egypt, such as Alex andria, Port Said and the Suez canal, it was pointed out. Military reports said that Ger man troops cooperating with the “Reich’s naval forces,’’ occupied the Greek islands of Samothace, Lemnos and Thasos, but did not reveal whether German surface craft succeeded in entering the Mediterranean, or whether sub marines played a part in the ope rations. German bombers blasted British and Greek troops racing across the Peloponnesus for possible escape by ea yesterday, and German ob servers declared that Adolf Hitler's army was poised for new tasks in a larger sphere. These new tasks were not spe cified. A military spokesman, how ever, said action in the Meditr ranean theater would continue. Conquest of Greece was regarded here as just a phase of a larger plan now unfolding. British shipping losses off Greece were said to total 287.000 tons, or 25,000 tons more than were lost in - debacle a year ago. (Lloyd’s has listed 443,904 tons of ,.,.ug lost in the Dunkerque withdrawal, of which 280.556 were British and the remainder were under allied flags.) Those tallies were chalked up by Nazi bombers in the last 11 days and another 400.000 tons ol shipping was claimed to have been damaged. Week-end British shipping losses were set at 13 ships totaling more (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Jacksonville Oil Terminal Burns Sending billows of dense, black smoke a mile high, fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the terminals and plant of the New River Oil company at Jacksonville. Damage was unofficially placed at S75.000, to uiaUd the blaze one of the most costly in Onslow county history
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