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Served by Leased Wire of the - „ . „ Dedicated to the associated press a ■ viain progress With Complete Overage of H El fa lUf EZ PROGRESS State and National News mm m |^| ||B VW <3 OaH^aWra N T ^jTInlli fe®nnr <gQW ©F (PH?@<gE)gga AM 15) IPlUfAgMUlffg * WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, JULY 6,1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS Holiday s Fatalities Reach 390 Automobiles Bring Death Jo 239 Pleasure Seekers During Week-end PLANES KILL 130 Pennsylvania Leads Nation In Road Deaths Despite A Rainy Holiday By the Associated Press 0 A _ Dead on Arrival; p 0 A- - Deati on Arrival. . . . A1j long in 39 states of the union police jotted down the rou tj ie notation on desk blotters; be hind the routine lay the individual stories of at least 390 lives cut short as the nation celebrated the first two days of the 4th of July week-end Automobiles brought death to at least 239 pdeasure seekers; 151 died in airplane crashes, drownings, in shootings and other violent form of death. Traffic Toll Soars The traffic toll soared continu ally as traffic increased. In upstate New York, a man was killed by a stray bullet on a tar get range. . . On New York City’s teeming East side, a 12-year-old boy fell to his death from a five story ledge.He was the lead er in "follow-the-leader”. . . Fire works killed five. There were five deaths from fireworks, compared with two last year. One occurred in Missouri; in Tennessee, a 10-year-old boy died of burns after a firecracker was thrown into a large container of fireworks. Police sought an older boy in the death. In Pennsylvania, a celebrant was killed when a dy namite cap exploded. A 4-year old girl in Chicago suf fered fatal injuries when she bit into a torpedo thinking it was can dy. The torpedo exploded, tearing away part of her face. Despite a rainy fourth which cur tailed holiday traffic in the East, Pennsylvania led the nation in traf fic deaths with 20. Ohio and New York each reported 17 and Cali fornia, 16. Worst single tragedy was an au tcmobile-train crash at the Long Island railroad’s Mattituck (N. Y.) grade crossing Friday night, when ah automobile occupants were killed and a seventh was injured critically. Deaths by states: Alabama 10; Arizona 2; Arkansas 4; California 33; Colorado 1; Connecticut 2; Flor ida 7; Georgia 7; Illinois 24; In diana 15; Iowa 6; Kansas 3; Ken tucky 7; Louisiana 9; Maine 1; (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) ROOSEVELT CHECKS ON 11. S. DEFENSES I Returns To Washington Following Vacation At Hyde Park Home Washington, July &.—(£*)— Rested by more than a week In Me relaxing atmosphere of his Hide Park home, President Roose 'elt returned today to Washington and an immediate checkup on the situation of the nation’s defenses. A few minutes after his arrival, he was closeted with his immediate a visors on defense production and oreign relations. Reportedly, they Save him a detailed review of de velopments which he had followed v osely but in general outline while ne was gone. Among his conferees were Sunt an Welles, the acting secretary ot “ate, who gave him a report on oreign affairs, including the expul (Confinued on Page 3; Column 2) WEATHER V forecasts Hr* “ Carolina; Showers Sunday; ' ^; ay.Partly cloudy, slightly warmer, scattered showers. ,,, j®y C. S. Weather Burena) ecological data for the 24 hours e™ n£ 730 p. m. ysterday. . Temperature Sfi• 7 oi' “• 77; 7:30 »■ in. 80; 1:30 p. m. n?,’ P- m. 78; amximum 87; mini. “Urn ,6; mean 82; normal 79. iHumidity to. 7 o,,’ ™- 9°; 7:30 a. m. 86; 1:30 p. m. “> 7-39 P. m. 69. ,p . . Precipitation rn on'f.or the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. "■ 0.00 inches. Total since the first f the month 0.40 inches. Tides For Today 5 Tide Tables published by U. ' Coast and Geodetic Survey). Wilmington_ Tasonboro Inlet- r>':04a 11:19a 5:0(ia; sunset 7:2?p; moom e e.lip; moonset 3:02a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette on July 5, at 8 a. m., 9.41 (Continued on Page 3; CoJjmm 3) I HAPPY ENDING TO COURT BAT Marion Talley, famed operatic star, embraces her six-year-old daughter Susan immediately after a Los Angeles court awarded her sole _ custody of the child and a divorce from Adolf Eckstrom, her singing-teacher husband. Miss Talley was cleared of the multiple im i morality charges hurled at her by Eckstrom during the sensational trial.—Central Press Photo. 1,647 Register For Vote On School Bonds July 15 Four Are Scalded To Death In Georgetown GEORGETOWN, S. C., July 3. — (JP) — Four persons were scalded to death today while working at a paper plant. Those scalded were Buckie Montague Elliott, 30; Richard G. Cox, 24; Newitt Walter Coker, 30; and Tom Leon Nor ris, 25. They died almost in stantly. Inquests were ordered. PRICE-FIXING ROW" MAY BE SETTLED Question Of Enacting Leg islation Expected To Be Decided By F.D.R. WASHINGTON, July 5.—(#)—A usually well-informed member of congress said today that President Roosevelt probably would settle next week a controversy between administration officials and lead ers on capitol hill over the ques tion of enacting price-fixing legis lation. This informant said that Leon Henderson, chief of the govern ments price fixing set-up, was urg ing Mr. Roosevelt to recommend mandatory price-fixing to congress promptly. Henderson recently sai3 “the honeymoon is over” so far as voluntary government-industry cooperation to fix prices was con cerned. At the capitol, it was reported that some White House lieutenants wanted the President to delay any recommendation for price fixing. They believed, it was said, that the legislation would stir up a long senate controversy and prevent a projected rest period for the cham ber while the house is working on the new tax bill. The question of whether the leg (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) BOOKS ARE CLOSED Fate Of Improvement Pro gram To Be Decided In Majority Vote Election As registration for voting in the July 15 election on issuance of $500,000 in bonds for extensive school improvements closed yester day, H. G. Carney, chairman of the New Hanover board of elec tions, announced that 1,647 persons had registered. Challenge day has been set for next Saturday, July 12. This will be a majority vote elec tion and 18 polls in the county will be open from 6:30 to 6:30 election day. xtegisirauon >y rreuuca Registration by precincts for the election was as follows: First ward, 34; Second ward, First pre cinct, 86; Second ward, Second precinct, 108, Third ward, First precinct, 141; Third ward, Second precinct, 88; Fourth ward, 168; Fifth ward, First precinct, 59; Fifth ward, Second precinct, 60; Sixth ward, First precinct, 143; Sixth ward, Second precinct, 159; Cape Fear township, 50; Seven Mile Post, 16; East Wilmington, 121; Winter Park, 89; Seagate, 85; Masonboro, 41; Sunset Park, 158; and Federal Point, 41. The New Hanover board of edu cation has enumerated “four main” reasons for the bond issue. “(1) During the depression years prior to 1936, the school building program was necessarily abandon ed. With the return of better times and the school supplement, a coun ty-wide building program was launched. It needs to be completed at the earliest possible date. >“(2) The increased birth rate since 1935-36 indicates that the nor mal population of Wilmington would have increased the school population over 1,000 pupils within the next seven years. This alone (Continued on Page 3; Column 3) tgland, hyMay TalkPeace Correspondent Says Are In Pre-armistice Stage Of [Trading Views WAR IN FINAL STAGES British Pushing Drive From Iraq To Cut Off Syria From Turkey NEW YORK, July 5.—UP)—Britain and the Vichy government are in a pre-armistice stage of exchang ing views to ending the war in Syria, Martin Agronsky, National Broadcasting company correspond ent in Ankara, reported tonight in a broadcast from Ankara. Agronsky quoted authoritative British diplomatic circles as say ing the war in Syria is in its final and decisive stage. He quoted one reliable diploma tic source as saying that while cert tain armistice negotiations had not yet started, there has definitely been “an exchange of views be tween Vichy and Britain concern ing an armistice.” “Go Between” Active This source added, Agronsky said, that “a certain great neutral power whose identity I am not at liberty to disclose has so far been the go-between” but will not neces sarily appear in the final negotia tions. / (Informed sources in London said they had heard nothing about British-French pre-armistice ex changes.) Reaches Objective VICHY, July 5.—UPI—A British drive from Iraq bases to cut off Syria from Turkey was reported today to have reached its first ob jective, the town of Kamechlie on the Turkish-Syrian frontier. Military dispatches to Vichy said the town itself had not fallen, but reported that forces of consider able strength were being used in the thrust, based at Mosul, in the heart of the Iraq oil fields. From Kamechlie the Mosul rail way, which the British troops fol lowed, skirts the Turkish-Syrian border 250 miles. Farther to the south, British troops pushing up the Euphrates were reported to have captured Deir-ez-zor, French desert post (Continued on Page 3; Column 2) NAZI PEACE OFFER IS SEEN BY EDEN Believes Internal Condi tions In Germany Will Force Proposal LEEDS, Eng., July 5.—®—Inter nal conditions in Germany will force Adolf Hitler during the Rus sian campaign to make a new peace offer to Britain, foreign sec retary Anthony Eden predicted to day. Eden rejected In advance the anticipated offer, which he said, would be a false gesture. Addressing an outdoor meeting here. Eden linked the unexplained flight to Scotland of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, with conditions in Germany. “However little the German nen ple may be encouraged to specu late or reflect,” he said, “there are some who begin to see perils ahead and are correspondingly al ready anxious and perplexed.. “Resultant confusion of though! finds expression in a strange vari ety of ways, including the para chute descent of a deputy fuehrer on a Scottish farm. We shall no doubt see stranger happenings be fore we are through with the men who rule Germany ” (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) NYA Manual Arts Training Center Will Be Opened Monday Afternoon The first group of 75 young men officially will begin work at the Wilmington National Youth Admin istration manual arts training cen ter, located three and one-half miles from Wilmington on the Car olina Beach road, at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon when appropri ate exercises have been arranged for the occasion. Invited to attend the dedicatory ceremonies are Governor J. M. Broughton, Congressman J. Bay ard Clark, Col. Frank McCherry of Washington, D. C.. national ad ministrator of defense training: an John A. Lang, State' NYA admin istrator, General James B. Craw ford, commanding officer of Camp Davis, and representatives of the city and county, and other organi zations. Harold H. Jeter, area NYA su pervisor, in charge of the training project and the local NYA offices also said that private citizens al so are invited and urged to at tend. The class which begins Monday will study electric welding and sheet metal work. In connection with the formal opening, Mr. Jeter issued the following statement: These young men are all between the ages of IS and 21, and are of strong physic with a high degree of educational background. They do enter into actual production and the use of regular tools employed in the shipbuilding industry. Ma terials which they will use ale be ing furnished by various govern mental agencies, and the products made will be returned to those agencies a± no extra cost to them. The shop for this work is located at the NYA Center on the Carolina Beach highway just 3 3-10 miles from the City Hall. Half of these young men will live at the Legion Stadium and the other half will live at home until the completion of the dormitories which are now being rushed and should be ready by the middle of August. Those of the youths who live at the Sta dium will receive complete subsis tence' including recreation, medical attention, food, lodging, etc., and in addition will receive $12 per month spending money. Those liv ing at home will not receive sub sistence but will receive $24 per (Continued on Page Two; CoL 8) NAZIS CLAIM GAINS * Fighting Apparently Con tinuing In Minsk Area And Reds Hold City DNEPR IS OBSTACLE High Command Claims Sev eral Thousand More So viet Prisoners Taken BERLIN, July 5.—{&)—German advance units, fighting forward an average of 25 miles a day in the two-week-old war with Soviet Rus sia, were reported authoritatively tonight to be in contact with the main Stalin line on the Dneir river in the region of Orsha, about 300 miles west southwest of Moscow. Authorized sources announced the location of this thrust and contact (which normally means fighting be tween patrols) a few hours after the high command reported: “East of Minsk, the river Dnepr was reached.” But in the Minsk area itself, 120 miles to the rear, fighting appar ently was continuing, for a com munique spoke of encircled troops there, and the capture of Minsk had not been announced officially. Highlights Report The Dnepr river thrust highlight ed a high command report which told of military operations in the east “proceeding according to plan,” of further progress by Germany and her allies from the Arctic to the Galician plain of Sovietized Poland. (The fact that the Dnepr is so deep and wide as to be navigable for its entire 1,400-mile length from the swamp forest lands of Smolensk province to the Black sea makes it a serious obstacle to conventional military operations.) In addition to 180,000 Soviet prisoners already declared taken, the high command said several thousand fell into Nazi hands south of the Pinsk marshes when “scat tered enemy detachments were en countered by our reserves at sever al points and destroyed.” (The fact that German troops in volved in this sizable operation are identified as reserves indicates large Red army units may be operating against German bases behind the front which Nazi armored and mo torized columns have arched in the shape of A huge bow aimed at Mos cow.) Aided By Hungarians "Our Hungarian allies have tak en Kolomyja and Stanislawow," the high command said, referring to sister towns on the Galician plain below east slopes of the Carpath ians. “In the Baltic, pursuit of the beaten enemy has been continued.” German and Finnish units mov ing east from Finland were said to have made “further progress de spite great difficulties of terrain (granite cliffs, timbered hills and swamps) and stubborn enemy resis tance.” Informed sources said the forces had advanced along the coast to the Liza region. Smolensk, important rail junction lying on both sides of the Dnepr 50 miles above Orsha, has been a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ITAUANS RELEASE AMERICAN CLERK Officials Refuse To Tell Why Consular Worker Was Arrested, Jailed ROME, July 5.—<-5>>—Detention of an American consular clerk for four days in San Vittore prison at* Milan was disclosed today vfth his release by Italian authorities, who refused to telT why he,was jailed. The consular clerk, Raymond Hall of New York, was arrested July 1. Ninety minutes after his arrest his wife returned from several days in the country, found him gone and ap pealed to American authorities. Milan police told Consul Lester L. Schnare, who inquired that day as to Hall’s wherebaouts, that there was no information. It was not un til Schnare asked at the prison itself that he discovered Hall was held there, incommunicado. The American embassy had sent a note to the foreign office urgently requesting an investigation. After Schnare found Hall was in prison, a second note was sent. Hall and other consular emplyoes must leave Italy by July 14, under a government order paralleling a similar order for expulsion of Ital ian consular staffs in the United States. Asked why Hall was arrested, fas cists said they had no information. REDS CLAIM NAZIS BEA TEN IN OFFENSIVE NEAR LA TVIA; GERMANS HIT STALIN LINE German Plane Is Downed During Raid On Moscow NEW YORK, July 5.—W— The Soviet official communique tonight reported that Moscow had had a one-hour air raid to day—the first daylight raid of the war—according to a radio broadcast heard here by CBS. Russian fighter planes shot down a German Junkers 88 bomber during the raid, the com munique was quoted as stating. The announcement as hearthby CBS was broadcast by the Brit ish radio. The British radio’s full report of the Moscow communique as heard by CBS follows: Moscow communique just received here states that during Moscow’s first daylight air raid, which lasted for an hour this afternoon, a Junkers 88, flying in the direction of Moscow from the southwest, was shot down by Soviet planes.” There was no indication in the broadcast whether the Russian capital actually was bombed for an hour, as suggested, or wheth er the city merely had a one hour alarm during which1 Ger man planes failed in an attempt to reach the city. Atmospheric conditions over the Atlantic prevented the usual radio communication between Moscow and New York by which Moscow correspondents and the Russian news agency, Tass, dis patch the daily communiques fully. British Bombers Score Hits On Lille Factories LOSE THREE PLANES Germans Believed Putting More Planes Into Air On Western Front LONDON, July 5.—UR—British heavy bombers were reported of ficially today to have scored direct hits upon important steel and en gineering works at Lille against increasing opposition to their smashing - raids upon German-oc cupied northern France. The communique which an nounced the raid pointed out that the bombers were accompanied by a strong fighter escort, it acknowl edged, however, that the raid upon Lille and another upon German shipping cost the British three fighters to two German fighters shot down. Increasing Activity A sharp Friday night raid upon the industrial English midlands in dicated the Germans were putting more bombers, as well as more fighters, into the air on the west ern front, which had been domi nated by the RAF since the start of the Russian-German war. The raid upon Lille was part of a continuous attack upon German held territory. It followed a strong night assault upon the Brest har bor, where heavy bombs were said by the British to have straddled the German battleships Scharn (Continued on Page Two; C’. 3) GREATER DEFENSE SPENDING LOOMS Budget Director Smith Pre dicts Billion-a-month Rate By September WASHINGTON, July 5. —UP)— Harold D. Smith, budget director, predicted today that expanding de fense expenditures would reach a rate of $1,000,000,000 a month by September. This acceleration, he said, should make good recent estimates that de fense costs this fiscal year will be $15,000,000,'>00. Reviewing the last fiscal year (which ended June 30), Smith said $6,274,000,000 was spent for defense. The spending rate was $807,000,000 in June. "I have just spent three and a (Continued on Page 3; Column 5) Army Intends To Buy Food In Dixie States ATLANTA, July 5.—(ff>—The fourth corps area quartermas ter headquarters has been au thorized to spend $17,928,261 for subsistence supplies during Ju ly, August and September in communities close to camps in eight southern states. Col. W. F. Riter explain ed that this authorization, re ceived yesterday from Major General E. B. Gregory in Washington, covers purchases of food, ice and other commodi ties not stored in quartermas ter depots at Atlanta and New Orleans. This corps area quar termaster headquarters will be feeding nearly 500,000 men be fore expiration of the period covered by this authorization. N. Y. MILK STRIKE HANGS IN BALANCE Representatives Of Thou sands Of Producers Meet With Owen D. Young VAN HORNESVILLE, N. Y„ Ju ly 5.—(J*—Representatives of ap proximately 55,000 farmers ship ping milk to New York city, where the supply has been sharply cur tailed by a five-day-old strike, de termined tonight to discuss tomor row with New York’s governor, Herbert H. Lehman (D) what they termed a "unified plan of action” to obtain higher prices. This action followed a six-hour conference behind closed doors with Owen D. Young, retired in dustrialist, who invited representa tives of six farmers’ organizations to confer with hipn on a plan that he said he believed farmers can obtain "a living price.” Spokesmen of four groups attended. The conferees, a spokesman said are hopeful of reaching an agree ment unaer leadership of the for mer board chairman of general electric company, who has advo cated a federal mediation board to determine fair prices for produc ers Young, whose three dairy farms in this rich milk producing area in central New York have participat ed in the stoppage that has result ed in a deputy sheriff’s death, the dumping of milk and other violence announced continuation of the con (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Moore Calls For Boost In Hospital Facilities The ever-growing population of Wilmington and its environs, created through an influx of sol diers and workers on various de fense projects in this area, has made necessary an “immediate” increase in hospital facilities here. Dr. W. Houston Moore, declared yesterday. “The situation here was acute before this area began growing so rapidly,” Dr. Moore said, "and the tremendous increase In popula tion has created a condition that we cannot hope successfully to meet unless our hospital facilities are just about doubled.” “Before the present emergency arose,” Dr. Moore continued, “it had been decided that the patient capacity at James Walker Mem* . % orial hospital was inadequate, and plans had been formulated for an addition which we thought would take care of the situation. “However, with the population of the Wilmington area so vastly increased, we have found it neces sary to revise those plans to the extent that contemplated improve ments will cost four or five times as much as we first had in mind, if we are to take care of all those who apply to us for treatment. "In view of the fact that the national emergency is largely re sponsible for the population growth, which is estimated at 20, 000 persons, we feels that it would be unfair to ask the citizens of (Continued on Page 8; Column 5) J NAZIS SLOWED DOWN Soviet Communique Says Troops Have Taken Initia tive Near Ostrov TANKS DESTROYED Reds Claim Reich Troops' Attempt To Cross Dvina River Beaten Down MOSCOW, Sunday, July 6.—(£>— Russia today claimed a victory over German mechanized forces in a big counter-offensive near the Latvian border and officially de clared the Nazi drive in the Baltic states and White Russian areas had slowed down considerably be cause of heavy losses. While Red army soldiers battled the German invaders on the outer fringes of the Stalin line deep in side White Russia, the Soviet com munique disclosed the Russians had taken the initiative in the vicinty of Ostrov, a station on the i Dvinsk-Leningrad railroad 15 miles east of the Latvian frontier. Nazis Thrown Back The communique declared the Germans were thrown back from the town of Ostrov itself and add ed: “Our troops destroyed hundreds of the enemy’s tanks in this sector and a large proportion of his mo torized infantry.” A German attempt to force the Dvina river in the Polotsk sector was thrown back by a “resolute, counter-attack,” the war report said, while the Red army counter attacked or held its ground stub bornly in the Lepel, Borisov and Bobruisk sectors of the European wide front. “The fighting revealed in these sectors that the enemy has con siderably diminished his activity in view of the heavy losses sus tained,” the communique said. (Polotsk is 80 miles east of the Latvian city of Dvinsk and is an important railroad junction, one line leading to Moscow. Ostrov is about 200 miles southwest of Len ingrad, indicating the Germans had made progress in the drive up the Baltic states toward Rus sia’s second city.) Fresh Attack The Germans yesterday made a fresh attack on Novograd Volyn ski, 140 miles west of the Ukrain ian capital, Kiev, and fierce fight ing is in progress in that battll field, the Russians said. Fighting in the Tarnopol area cf the southern front also was fierce, the communique said, and (Continued on Page 3; Column 1) ‘FIFTH COLUMN’ ' GAMES PLANNED Cadets Training At Clent* son College Plan To ‘Take’ Anderson Friday ANDERSON, S. C„ July 5.-(A>>— Colonel William L. Roberts, acting commander of the Fourth Corps area Reserve Officers training camp at nearby Clemson college announced today that college stu dents undergoing training at t h e camp would take the city of Ander son next Friday in what is be lieved to be the first fifth column maneuver ever staged in the Unit ed States. A battalion of cadet “fifth col umists” in civilian dress will filter into Anderson 24 hours in advance of the attack, and at the zero hour will' “seize” public buildings, power, communications and trans portation centers as has been done in European fifth column coups. A fully armed uniformed force will move against the city at the same moment to complete the first war game of this type ever direct ed at an entire city in this coun try, and the maneuver will be con sidered completed as soon as the combined forces have "seized con trol” of the Anderson county court house, the city hall, water works, power plant, telephone exchange, newspaper and radio offices and have set up a simulated concentra tion camp for public officials who have either civilian, police or mili tary type duties. About 459 columnists, Col. Roberts said, will don caps and belts for f eir coup but otherwise will be unarmed. Approximately 800 <rthers will advance into the (Continued on Page 9f Column
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