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NO. 236- FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 18«T
Made In U. S.—For
Joe Rourk
Case Will
Be Aired
Charges Against Former
Chief to be Read at Com
mission Meet Tonight
FOUR CHARGES MADE
Mayor Bellamy Takes Ac
tion to Pave Way For
Showdown on Issue
Formal charges preferred
. ,ajnst former Police Chief Joseph
c" Rourk. who is contesting the
right 0f the new city council to
oust him. will be read tonight as
,he Wilmington Police and Fire de
partment civil service commission
meets in a special session at 8:15
o'clock in the council chambers of
the city hall.
The charges—four in number—
were communicated in writing to
the civil service commission late
yesterday afternoon by Mayor Har
grove Bellamy, thus paving the
wav for a showdown on an issue
which has held the municipal
building spotlight since last Satur
(j-v morning when the council
-relieved" Mr. Rourk of all duties
in tie police department.
Called by Carr
The special commission meeting
was called by Edward Carr, sec
retary of the board, acting in the
absence from the city of Dr. W.
Houston Moore, commission chair
man.
Tonight's meeting, Mr. Carr
said, will not be a hearing, but
rather the means by which the
charges are legally transmitted to
the former chief. The session, as
required by law. will be public.
Should the ex-chief wish for a
public hearing on the charges to
be read tonight—and he has indi
t rated that he would welcome a
hearing—the commission will be
required to set a date within tbc
next 30 days.
The nature of the chargee pre
ferred against Mr. Rourk is not
known, and will remain a civil
service commission secret until to
night.
Meanwhile yesterday, the police
department settled down to routine
once again, accepting orders from
Charles H. Casteen, acting police
chief, who served as assistant to
Mr. Rourk for three and one-half
years.
The department, to the man,
signed a pledge of allegiance to
Acting Chief Ca6teen and the new
city council.
The acting chief still continued
to occupy his assistant chief’s of
fice, while Mr. Rourk, in civilian
clothes, continued to occupy the
chief’s office. The latter, however,
issued no orders. 1
PROPERTY SEIZURE
BILL IS EXPLAINED
F. R. Says One Purpose Is
To End Irreconcilable
Strikes, Lockouts
WASHINGTON, June 3.— OF) —
President Roosevelt indicated to
fiay that one purpose of the ad
ministration’s new property seiz
ure bill was to end any irreconcil
able strikes or lockouts in the de
fense industries.
It is to be used in other situa
tions involving a stoppage of de
liveries, he said, but he cited just
one past instance as a reason for
the measure and that was a
.,lle Protracted dispute at
he Allis-Chalmers plant in Mil
waukee.
Under present law, he pointed
out, the government has authority
o take over a plant at which
ere is a refusal to supply the
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Extension Of Street Here
Assured By Road Official
Official assurance that South
font street would be extended to
* e ®unset Park yards of the
°rth Carolina Shipbuilding compa
"y was made yesterday by Dr. G.
sinno°°1m2’ state highway commis
„ . r for the third district, at a
is" unc,e in Kenansville with Add
Npb, ett' Sr- chairman of the
ClissioneTs'’" C°Unty b°ard °f C°m'
The new commissioner, accord
ing? Mr‘ Hewlett, is fully cog
Brnh, of the multiplied traffic
ems confronting Wilmington
j.j8 result of the new shipyard,
over "ei?tCrday gave the New Han
th=t ,^hairman “every assurance”
win state highway department
Eever??mpIete the project begun
eral monthe ago by the WPA
and later stopped by a shortage
of available labor.
Completion of the 33-foot road
way would give shipyard traffic
two arterial thoroughfares into
Wilmington. At present, S outh
Third street is carrying the entire
traffic load, and traffic experts
have predicted that o n ce yard
traffic reaches its peak volume
the lone thoroughfare would be in
adequate to handle the load.
“Dr. Gooding is quite familiar
with the location of the shipyard
and the traffic problems it pre
sents to Wilmington and the rest
of the county,” Mr. Hewlett said
upon his return here yesterday
afternoon.
“He promised that the state de
partment would act favorably on
the subject *
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Familiar sight in skies over green Malay jungles near Singapore are these American-made Lockheed Hud
son bombers of the Royal Australian air force, their sides marked with British target and letters “US.”
Standard Oil To Sell Gas To Japan;
‘Gasless Sundays’ Proposed For U. S.
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AGREEMENT OUTLINED
Negotiations Made ‘With
Full Knowledge’ of U. S.,
Other Governments
FLEM1NGTON, N. J., June 3.—
(-I’>—The Standard Oil company (New
Jersey) outlined to stockholders to
day details of an agreement to sell
additional supplies of oil to Japan
“negotiated with the full knowledge
of the American. British and Nether
lands East Indies governments.”
W. S. Farish, president of the
folding coiggany with interests
wherever the world gets its oil, read
a prepared statement to the annual
meeting with the preface that the
question of oil shipments to Axis
powers had been raised and the con
cern wished to explain its program.
Owns Interest
The New Jersey corporation, which
meets in this rural borough of 2,700
residents, explained it owned 50 per
cent interest in Standard Vacuum
Oil company, with Far Eastern head
quarters in the Netherlands East
Indies.
Parish’s statement continued:
“About six months ago this af
filiate joined with a Dutch-Briti' h
oil company, a major producer of oil
in the Netherlands East Indies, in
special arrangement, over a limited
period, to sell Japan additional sup
plies of oil and ordinary oil products.
100 Octavne Aviation gasoline, for
example, was excluded.
“The agreement was negotiated
with the full knowledge of the
American, British, and Netherlands
East Indies governments.
“Up to date, the Japanese have
not taken delivery of the full quan
tity of products they bargained for.”
Parish said Standard oil has mar
keted oil in the Orient for more than
50 years and ‘‘even today, notwith
standing increased deliveries to
Japan under terms of the special
sales agreement, the total movement
of oil from the Dutch East Indies
to Japan, including shipments of the
Dutch British company, as well as
those of Standard Vacuum company,
are much smaller than Japan im
ports currently from other sources
of supply.”
He said the New Jersey concern at
all times endeavored to adhere stnc -
ly to the policy of the United States
the United States main
tains normal relations with another
country, Standard Oil company (New
jersey) must also maintain normal
relations. If the company on its own
initiative, undertook to establish em
bargoes on shipments of oil from
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Japan Sending Food,
Commodities to Nazis
TOKYO, June 3.—(A5)—Japan
is supplying Germany with 1,
500 tons of essential foodstuffs
and commodities every day, in
formed sources declared today,
and efforts are being made to
increase this traffic despite a
recent 500 per cent advance in
freight rates to Berlin on Soviet
Russia’s trans-Siberian' railway.
The shipments from Japan,
Manchoukuo and Japanese-oc
cupied sections of China have
been going out steadily for sev
eral months, these sources said,
as Germany has sought to mini
mize effects of the British sea
blockade by trading through her
Axis partner in the Far East.
Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Ger
man economic expert, is confer
ring with Japanese officials to
expedite the shipments.
(In Berlin, authorized Nazi
sources said Dr. Wohlthat was
in Tokyo to negotiate a far
reaching extension of German
Japanese economic relations.)
NAZI-VICHY BASE
ACCORDREPORTED
London Chronicle Says It
Provides For Joint Use Of
French Naval Stations
LONDON, Wednesday, June 4.—
(fP)—The London News Chronicle,
quoting London sources, declared
today a collaboration agreement be
tween Vice Premier Admiral Jean
Darlan, of France, and Adolf Hit
ler provided for the joint French
German use of six French naval
bases.
The newspaper also said “Ger
many already is using Dakar,
French West Africa, as a submar
ine base and U-boats from there
have practically blockaded the Cape
Verde islands.”
The six French naval bases, the
newspaper said, were:
Sete, on the French Mediterran
ean coast between Marseille and
the Spanish frontier; Beirut,
French-mandated Lebannon; Al
giers, Algeria; Casablanca, Morocco;
Villefranche, on the French Riviera
between Nice and the Italian fron
tier; and Dakar.
Under the terms of the Hitler
Darlan agreement, the newspaper
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WEATHER
FORECAST:
- North Carolina—Showers in the morn
ing followed by clearing and much
warmer moving eastward to the coast
by late afternoon or evening Wednes
day. Thursday partly cloudy.
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
(By B. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 71; 7:30 a. m. 08; 1:30
p. m. 73; 7:30 p. m. 72; maximum 79;
minimuni 67; mean 73; normal 73.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 93; 7:30 a. m. 93; 1:30 p. m.
81; 7:30 p. m. 83.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m. 0.00 inches; total since the first
of the month 0.60 inches.
Tides For Today:
(From Tide Tables published by IJ.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Eow
Wilmington - 4:44a.
5:30p. 12:14p.
Masonboro Inlet- 2:16a. S :47a.
3:08p. 9:27p.
Sunrise 5:01a.; sunset 7:20p.; moon
rise 1:59p.; moonset 1:24a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on June 3. at 8 a. m., 9:45 feet.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
COMMITTEE MEETS
Petroleum Men Make Sug
gestions in Face of Short
age Expected July First
WASHINGTON, June 3. — (IP) —
Rigid restrictions on the use ot oil,
including “gasless Sundays,’’ were
suggested today by a committee of
the petroleum industry, in the face
of an acute shortage expected by
July 1.
In a report to Secretary Ickes,
defense petroleum coordinator, the
oil men pledged their support “to
any extent” to meet the anticipated
emergency, and thus ward off a
menace to the preparedness driv^,
Shortage in Hast
The shortage is expected on the
eastern seaboard, hub of defense
production. It results from the trans
fer to British service of 50 of the
approximately 250 tankers of Amer
ica’s coastwise fleet and the ex
pected transfer of others.
“There will be sinkings and we
will have to replace them,” Ickes
told the oil men as the report was
being read to him.
The committee, formed by the
American Petroleum institute at
the request of the Office of Produc
tion Management, suggested that
temperatures of homes heated by oil
could be lowered during winter. A
general reduction of five degrees
throughout the nation, it added,
would effect a 10 per cent saving
in fuel.
Also, the report added, many fur
naces now using oil might be con
verted to coal.
“Any restriction that may be
necessary by reason of national de
fense should be shared equitably by
(Continued on Page Three; Col, 2)
BYRD ASKS F. R.
TO OUST PERKINS
Senator Says There Were
31 Strikes Against Arms
Plants on May 31
(By the Associated Press)
Senator Byrd (D-Va) called
upon President Roosevelt yester
day to remove Miss Francis Per
kins as secretary of labor or to
take from her department the
power to certify strikes to the de
fense mediation board.
Addressing the senate in Wash
ington, he said that on May 31
there were 74 strikes against in
dustries supplying army and navy
(ontinued on Page Three; Col. 4)
U. S„ Vessels Will Handle
Part Of British Cargoes
WASHINGTON, June 3.—(A>)—In
a new move to strengthen Britain’s
Atlantic life-line, the United States
Maritime commission announced
today that American vessels would
henceforth handle all British ship
ping services from Canada and
the United States to Australia and
New Zealand.
“This will release a dozen Brit
ish vessels for Great Britain’s own
war effort,” said an announcement
from the commission.
The arrangements for the shift
were made by the commission’s
division of emergency shipping and
the British supply council for North
America. ^ ,
The neutrality act forbids Ameri
can vessels to carry supplies to
Britain, because it is in a war
zone, and President Roosevelt has
indicated he has no plans to ask
changes in the act.
However, such vessels are not
forbidden to go to Australia and
New Zealand. Putting them into
such service and shifting British
vessels to the task of carrying
supplies to Great Britain or other
war zones strengthens the British
lifelines without modifying the neu
trality act.
During the day Britain’s urgent
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War May
Move Into
Syria Soon
Mass Movement of German
[Troops, ‘Tourists’ Into
Country Reported
FREIGHTERS ASSIGNED
Will be Used to Carry Men,
Guns From the Port Of
Constanta to Syria
ANKARA, Turkey, June 2.—(De
layed).—<iP)—Reports of mass Ger
man troop movements into Syria, fol
lowing up infiltrations by “tourists,”
threw that French-mandated region
into sharp focus today as a possible
zone of armed conflict.
Unofficial sources here and in In
stanbul gave this account of the
Nazi thrust into the Levant states:
Recently numbers of Germans in
civilian clothing and with Bulgarian
passports went through Turkey to
Syria. Since their papers were in
seeming order, Turkey let them pass.
Troops Land
Then 500 German soldiers with ar
mored cars and mobile field guns
landed last Thursday at Latakia, di
rectly opposite the British Island of
Cyprus.
Now a dozen freighters flying
swastika flags have been assigned
to carry German troops and heavy
military equipment from Rumania’s
Black Sea port of Constanta to
Syria.
The plan is for them to stop off
in Italy’s Dodecanese Islands and
then run the British naval patrol at
night. The whole trip can be made
in a week, it was said here.
(Authorized Nazi sources in Berlin
said of the Syrian landing reports,
"it is unthinkable that this corres
ponds to the facts.”
(However, they intimated that
France would be conceded the "sa
cred right” of defending her terri
tory against the British. This was
in line with a blast from the French
controlled Beirut radio, accusing the
British of preparing an attack on
Syria, and with dispatches from
Vichy telling of increased tension
betw'een the former Allies.)
The reports here said that the Ger
man air force would seek to keep
open a lane of safety for its troops
from the Balkans to Syria, and that
once established in Syria the infan
try and air force could threaten
Iraq, Palestine and Cyprus simul
taneously.
Observers here already have told
of seeing as many as 200 German
planes in the Aleppo area, near the
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BERLIN DAMAGED
DURING RAF RAID
Bombers Spread ‘Whole
Circle of Fires’ in Center
Of German Capital
LONDON, June 3.—(#)—The
Royal Air Force spread “a whole
circle of fires” in the center of
Berlin last night with a compar
atively small flight of warplanes,
the air ministry reported today,
and raked the Kiel canal yester
day with bombs and gunfire di
rected at Nazi shipping.
It was the RAF’s 46th raid on
the German capital, and the stories
of returning pilots indicated that
it was sharp and punishing. A
single British bomb was declared
to have started five big fires.
Bombers ranging inland over
Germany through ice and storm
clouds loosed fire bombs and ex
plosives on Duesseldorf, in the in
dustrial Ruhr.
The total affect of the attack on
Kiel shipping was obscured by the
fact that the diving planes had tc
take cover in clouds after each
swoop. A direct hit was claimed,
however, on ona ship in the canal
and an “enemy” ship was report
ed sunk off German-occupied Nor
way. 1
Britain And Axis Seeking
Preliminary Position For
Major Middle East War
The Battle Line In Egypt
I Australian soldiers watch as a captured enemy ammunition dump is
blown up somewhere on the northwestern African desert. Unable to
use tlie ammunition, they destroyed it before it could be recaptured.
Axis Agrees On Plan To
Meet Uo S. Intervention
Star Editorial Ordered
Read to Davis Troops
The Wilmington Morning Star
editorial of June 2 compliment
ing Camp Davis troops for their
orderly conduct in Wilmington
over the week-end was included
yesterday in the official camp
bulletin upon order of Brig.
Gen. James B. Crawford.
The editorial was ordered read
to all batteries and detachments
“at the earliest opportunity.”
Signed by Capt. Shelly P.
Myers, Jr., CAC, camp adjud
ant, the order said, in part:
“This editorial has been the
source of keen gratification to
the commanding general. He
extends the thanks to every
member of this command who
has helped to make so favorable
an impression on the people
of Wilmington.”
COUNTY PLANNING
BUDGET HEARINGS
Increase in Estimates For
1941-42 Fiscal Year Is
Expected to be Made
The New Hanover county board
of commisioners will begin 1941-42
budget hearings early next month,
it was anounced yesterday by Addi
son Hewlett, Sr., chairman.
In advance of the hearings, depart
ment heads will be requested to sub
mit preliminary budget estimates
for board consideration.
Although no official comment on
budget matters has been forthcom
ing from courthouse circles, the pre
diction has been freely expressed
that the forthcoming budget will be
materially larger than the 1940-41
schedule. Adiditional clerical help in
many departments, occasioned by
defense program projects concentrat
ing in this area, are understood to
be one of the major reasons for the
anticipated upward budget trend.
The ’41-’42 budget, when adopted
probably in late July, will be retro
active to July 1.
11,664,000 Tons of Ships
Destroyed By Germany
BERLIN, June 3.—®—Since the
beginning of the war, German
armed forces have sunk 11,664,000
tons of enemy shipping, the DNB,
official neks agency, said today.
Its totals showed that since Feb
ruary, 1941, with the exception of
the especially successful monih of
April, the Germans sank a round
total of 730,000 tons monthly. It
compared the daily total to a 9
mile string of freight cars, each
holding 15 tons of material.
(British figures on Allied losses
for the same period were 5,961,004
tons lost), 1
PARLEY’S MAIN TOPIC
Said to Have Discussed
Plans to Follow New Cy
cle That Is Opening
ROME, June 3.— (/P) —Premier
Mussolini has agreed with Reichs
fuehrer Hitler on a plan to meet
American intervention in the war,
and this was the one main object of
their conference at Brenner Pass
yesterday, Fascist sources indicated
tonight.
La Stampa of Turin, said that
the Duce and the Fuehrer examin
ed “all aspects of the situation with
its imponderables and its prospects”
and that as a result “no surprise
is possible; everything is calculated
up to the last consequence.”
The authoritative Fascist editor,
Virginio Gayda, taking a similar
tack, said the Axis leaders had
“discussed new plans to follow a
new cycle which is opening im
mediately” and were ready for ac
tion against the United States if
that country should enter the war.
. Gayda wrote in his II Giornale
D’ltalia:
“This is a time of action. The
meeting of II Duce and the Fue
hrer is itself action.
“England, with urgent voice, is
calling for American aid. The Axis
powers can oppose to this vast re
serves of military and political
forces of European and world ef
ficiency and substantial prospects
of defense and offense.”
High Fascists believed Hitler and
Mussolini had agreed on the next
move in the war. II Telegrafo of
Leghorn, Foreign Minister Count
Ciano’s newspaper, said that results
would be seen within the next few
months.
SUB SHELLS SHIP
LISBON, June 3.—(jP)--Survivors
of the Portuguese fishing steamer
Exportador said here tonight that a
submarine of unidentified national
ly fired nearly 50 shells into their
vessel 140 miles off the Portuguese
coast, killing two and seriously in
juring three others of the crew
of 24.
Improvement of Highways
Near Marine Base Talked
RALEIGH, June 3.— (JP) —The
federal government may spend $2,
500,000 improving and building roads
in the vicinity of the marine base
near Jacksonville, it was announced
here today.
Plans for the work—which may
include improvements to two exist
ing routes and construction of a
new road—were discussed by state,
naval and marine officials at a
luncheon given by Governor
Broughton at the executive man
sion.
Commander C. H. Cotter, of Nor
folk, in charge of construction at
the marine base, explained that of
ficials wanted the plans ready for
immediate execution when the
money became available.
U. S. 70 and N. C. 24 between
the base and Morehead City would
be improved expeciaily in thp
strengthening of bridges on Route
24; and a new road would be built
from Jacksonville, through the
marine barracks and across New
river, connecting with.U. S. 17 near
Folkstone.
Cotter explained that officials
were especially anxious to improve
the Jacksonville-Morehead City
routes because Morehead City was
an embarkation point and adequate
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LONDON IS SILENT
Transport Carrying Ger*
man Troops Reported
Shot Down
PLANES GO TO SYRIA
Germans Deny Landing At
Latakia; Weygand At
tends Vichy Meet
(By The Associated Press)
Britain and the Axis appeared last
night to be struggling desperately
for position in a last preliminary to
a major war expected soon to set
the whole of the Middle East aflame.
On London’s side was an atmos
phere of such urgent silence, an air
of reserve so marked as to suggest
to some observers in Britain that
Imperial forces might already have
moved against Vichy - controlled
French Syria, the key area of the
developing test.
Plane Downed
Late in the day, the British an
nounced, a German troop-carrying
Junkers plane of the type used in
the aerial invasion of Crete was shot
down off Malta, the fortified British
island lying about at mid-Mediter
ranean just south of Italian Sicily.
This action, in an area well to the
west of the British Imperial defenses
now so imminently threatened, could
have been connected either with an
attack on Malta itself or with the
developing Nazi offensvie eastward.
For their part, the Germans took
the attitude as to the Middle-East:
Wait and see. But a Nazi spokes
man declared roundly that should
French “Sovereignty” be attacked
by tlie English in Syria Germany
was quite willing to concede to Vichy
the “sacred right and duty” to fight
back.
Planes Dispatched
A report tvhich could not he con
firmed circulated in Vichy,. France,
that 150 army planes had been dis
patched to Syria during the past
few days.
There were persistent ana circum
stantial reports that big detach
ments of German troops were enter
ing Syria behind groups of “tour*
ists” and that aside from 500 sol
diers landed by sea last Thursday
at Latakia—just 70 miles from the
British Mediterranean island of
Cyprus—A dozen freighters had been
made ready to transport German
troops and equipment from the
Black sea port of Constanta In oc
cupied Rumania to Syria.
The Germans denied the Latakia
landing and so, too, did the Vichy
government’s colonial authorities. In
Vichy itself Marshal Philippe Petain’s
cabinet met twice, and General
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USO DRIVE OPENED
BY F. R. MESSAGE
Says Recreation Important
Because of Part in Total
Defense Program
NEW YORK, June 3.—«t—Presi
dent Roosevelt declared tonight,
that “because recreation is part
of our total defense program, it is
the first concern of every citizen,”
in a message opening the $10,765,
000 campaign of the United Service
Organizations for national defense.
The President’s message was
read by Paul V. McNutt, Federal
Security administrator, as part of
a nation-wide program carried on
all three major radio networks.
Army and Navy heads spoke
from Washington; Charles P. Taft,
assistant to McNutt as coordinator
for health, welfare and related de
fense activities, from Indianapolis;
McNutt from Los Angeles, and Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey,
national chairman of the cam
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