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II / Served By Leased Wire Oi The - ASSOCIATED PRESS Dedicated To The Progress Of With Complete Coverage Of WILMINGTON Slate and National News ^ Southeastern North __ £ _ Carolina vot774-—NO. 266 — --1 Z ZZ- FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 president Raps Senator Wheeler For Disclosure - M.---.---_ MILITARY secret Mr. Roosevelt Hints Ice land Move May Be Fol lowed By Others APPROVES retention Chief Executive In Accord With General Marshall’s Selectee Plan By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, July 8.— p _ President Roosevelt made it clear today that the uncertain line separating the Eastern and Western Hemi spheres would not be consid ered the eastern boundary of American defense activities. In a press conference statement which followed the American occu tarion of Iceland, the President said (Here were points beyond that line which might become of terrible im portance to this country. He had stopped, he said, trying to deter mine just where the line ran. The chief executive met reporters toward the close of a day which had seen the White House, through his secretary, Stephen T. Early, reprove Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.) for saying last week he had information that Iceland would be taken over by this country. Early took the position that ■Wheeler had disclosd military infor mation and at his press conference, Mr. Roosevelt said he thought the case spoke for itself. President Cautious As for the reasons behind the Ice land move, the President said he could not reply categorically to a question whether he knew of any German intention to establish a base upon the island. In a war, he said, one puts one’s self in the position of the other fel low, and asks what action would be taken in a given set of circumstan ces. Sometimes action taken was based upon information, he said, and sometimes not. “Do you think the other fellow is likely to make any move toward the Azores or Cape Verde islands,” he *as asked. Hr. Roosevelt’s reply was that he could not prognosticate. In a recent speech, he stressed what he consid ered the importance of those Atlantic islands to the defense of this coun try. Questioning swung to the recom mendation of General George C. Mar shall, the Army chief of staff, that selectees and National Guardsmen be retained in service beyond their (Continued on Page Five, Col. 2) »! ING NEXT’ AVERS WHEELER Montanan Labels Adminis tration Occupation of Ice land Preliminary to War WASHINGTON. July 8.—CD—Sen ior Wheeler (D-Mont) asserted to day that the administration had arranged United States occupation Iceland because it wanted “to us into a shooting war” and realized that it had to have “a hell JJ9 series of incidents to get this Congress to declare war.” “e made these remarks at an ™ormal press conference at which he also said he was informed that Iceland already had been occupied "Wen he forecast the move last week. Wheeler said his prediction ^9S based on letters he had re eu'ed from parents saying that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Byrnes Takes Oath As Court Justice WASHINGTON, July 8.—MB— Jj1 the presence of President Roosevelt and several guests p na . James Byrnes of South ,arol*na took oath of office to ay as an associate justice of ‘he Supreme court. .Crowded into Mr. Roosevelt’s h'te house office were mem rers of Congress and the Cab ,„e.’ ^U,)rrrne court justices, sidents of Byrnes home state South Carolina and members 01 his own family. Chi'? °,atb. "as administered by of ,.stice Richard Whaley Clai™* C”'ted States Court of servo a" oId friend who had -befl Wlt,h Byrnes »n the House the s: r* !be new justice went to Southa member 01 the *** Carolina delegation. I ' Germans Angered By Move Nazi Press Labels U. S. Oc cupancy of Iceland “Stab In Back” , BERLIN, Wednesday, July 9—(IP) —The mouthpiece of the German Foreign office, Deutsche Diploma tisch Politische Korrespondenz, to day viewed the United States entry into Iceland as a stab in the back of a European community which it said was struggling with Bolshev ist! for preservation of western civilization. Its. comment was the first from competent German quar ters on the Iceland situation. The Boersen Zeitung, Berlin's leading financial paper and the only other publication to comment, called the United States action “the brutal rape of a small European people." It also said, “Herr Roosevelt en tered the operations zone of this war and consciously set foot on the battlefield where the sharp-shooting is going on. The responsibility lies with him.” The Boersen Zeitung is known to have excellent connections at the Wilhelmstrasse. • Icelanders Greet Force REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 8.— UP)—United States naval forces ar rived here amid a display of excite ment and hearty welcomes. The first signs of the convoy’s appearance -were noted from a tall church steeple by watchers who re layed the news to persons gathered in the streets. # Icelanders asked one another, “can these be Americans?” The new arrivals saw the country at its best. Faxa bay was smooth under a lazy breeze, while soft summer showers occasionally ob scured the mountains. Soon the sun routed the remaining clouds and the full beauty of the land was dis closed. LIGHTNING HITS BEACH COTTAGES Three Dwellings, Station Wagon Struck as Weather Continues Unsettled Apparently wearying of the sport of dumping large quantities of just plain rain on local citizens, the Weather Man yesterday added sound effects and a spectacular light display to the show. During a severe electrical storm just before noon, three cottages at Wrightsville Beach were report ed struck by lightning, with result ing fire Causing slightdam age to one. The beach fire department quickly quenched the blaze which occurred when the electric- meter of the Edgewater cottage, ownd by Bill Creasy, was hit. Lightning also struck a station wagon parked in front of Robert’s (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) is Now After Hitler -_ / i wo united Mates revenue cutters—or at least that s what they were when flying the Stars and Stripes— are doing yeoman service for the Royal Navy these d ays, having been fitted with powerful five-inch guns The ships are on patrol duty in the North Atlantic T hey were transferred to Britain this past spring under terms of the Iend-lease law. SUNDAY MOVIES ACTION SLATED Council Expected to Ap prove Blue Laws Repeal On Third Reading Today Fate of the proposed city ordi nance to permit Sunday moving pic ture;-, athletic contests and bowling, is expected to be sealed when the city council meets this morning. The measure already has passed two readings by the council over the determined opposition of Wil mington ministers, and if passed again will become law- Most ob servers consider it improbable that the bill will -fail to pass the third reading. The Wilmington Ministerial as sociation has adopted a resolution in favor of submitting the question of an “open Sunday” to a popular vote. This, the ministers contend, could be accomplished in connection with a proposed water works ex pansion election at no extra cost to the community. * Proponents of the bill insist that it would contribute greatly to the improved morale of soldiers station ed in the surrounding area by pro viding wholesome forms of amuse ment for them to participate in, thereby discouraging the patroniza tion of less desirable establish ments. Those opposing the measure base their arguments on religious and moral grounds. Should the bill pass, the opera tion of motion picture houses, bowl ing alleys and athletic games will be permitted after 2 p. m. on Sun days. Mrs. Gladys Helms Killed In Charlotte Accident CHARLOTTE, July. 8.—CP>—Mrs. Gladys Helms of Charlotte was killed and four were injured tonight in a traffic accident 13 miles from here on the York road. Those hurt were her husband, Curtis Helms, Paul Kissiah, Mrs. Berry Warrick Slack, all of Charlotte, and Manuel Patrick Berger of Pensacola, Fla. Richard Whitney Paroled; Served 3 Years, 4 Months OSSINING, N Y„ July 8.—(A>1— Richard Whitney, five times presi dent of the New York Stock Ex change) and now convict 94,835 at Sing Sing prison, will be free Au gust 11 to begin life anew. He will return to his native Mas sachusetts. _ The three-member ate parole board interviewed him for 15 min utes today, studied a pre-parole r - port which included a favorable recommendation from the judge who sentenced him for misuse oi $214,000 worth of securities, ana then announced: “We believe that Richard Whit ney is a good parole risk. and[his release is not incompatible witn the welfare of society.” On August 11—10 days after his 53rd birthday—Whitney will have served three years and four months, the statutory minimum less time off for good behavior, of his five to 10 year sentence for first degree larceny. Meets Requirements Th former society broker, meet ing a requirement that very pa rolee be assured of a future home and employment, will become man ager of a country estate whose chief revenue is from the sale of milk. The estate is 100 miles from Boston but was not further iden tified. He was born in Beverly. In rural surroundings to which he is no stranger despite his long years in New York’s Wall Street, Whitney will live with his wife and their unmarried daughter, Alice, 22, and will receive “salary and his ‘keep’.” (Continued on Page Five, Col. 6) WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina and South Carolina Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thurs da(Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By TT. s. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 78; 7:30 a. in. 79; 1;30 p. m. 84 - 7-30 p m. 76: maximum 84; min imum" 75; mean 80; normal 79. Humidity: _ „ „„ 1-30 a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m. 75; 7:30 p. m. 90. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 n. m„ 0.11 inches: total since the first of the month. 3.83 inches. Tides For Today: High low Wilmington -MM* ^Ta. Masonboro Inlet —JJla- 1:51a. Sunrise 5:08a.; sunset 7:26p.; moon rise 8:04p.; moonset 6:00a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8 a. m. July 8, 14.49 feet. | (Continued on Page Five, Col. 5) i . Leavenworth Penitentiary Strike Quickly Quelled (By The Associated Press) The government broke a strike of prisoners at Leavenworth peniten tiary yesterday by sending the ring leader to Alcatraz, Atlanta, Terra Haute, Ind., and other Federal prisons. James V. Bennett, Federal prison director, said, in announcing the settlement that "the institution (Leavenworth) is returning to nor mal routine.” The strikers, who were making shoes and brushes for the Army, were said to have protested against their working hours. Justice depart ment officials said in Washington that the hours had been increased from 39 to 44 a week. Ship Discussions In New York, the Seafarers Inter national union (AFL) offered to pro vide crews for three strike-bound vessels if the owners would discuss the question of war bonuses with Washington officials. The union re MISSING WOMAN RETURNS HOME Mrs. Maude Spivey, Star, Reported Missing From Beach, Is Located Mrs. Maude Spivey, who had been reported missing since being separated from friends Saturday night at Kure’s beach, returned to her home in Star, N. C., Monday night, Chief DeWitt Reynolds of the Star police department, reported last night. Mrs. Spivey was reported to have said that her money had been lost or stolen after she was separated from her'friends and that she had pawned her ring to obtain fare home. It was reported Sunday that Mrs. Spivey went to Kure’s Beach with a party of friends for the week-end. The rep .ft said the group was sit ting in a parked car, when Mrs. Spivey said she was going to get a soft drink and that her friends remained in the car all night await ing her return. The first request for a police search for her came from the Star police department, indicating that the party returned to Star before reporting the incident. Mrs. Spivey’s husband, father, sister and brother came to Wil mington Monday to ask that the police inaugurate an. intensive search for the woman._1 fused to supply crews, after the sink ing of the American freighter Robin Moor, unless the men were guaran teed additional War bonuses. Workers and representatives of the Western Cartridge company, Al ton, 111., were scheduled to resume contract negotiations in an effort to avert a strike. The dispute involves 550 smokeless powder workers. De mancte include recognition of the AFIj chemical workers union as a collective bargaining agency, wage increases from a minimum of 60 cents an hour to a minimum of 85 cents, ana a union shop. A strike by the AFL United Auto workers closed the Muskegon, Mich., plant of the Sealed Power Corp., which makes engine parts for tanks, submarines and trucks. The em ployes quit work in a dispute over wages and a union shop contract which has been under consideration by the Defnse Mediation board. Cur rent wages were not disclosed. Approximately 400 electricians quit work at the government’s Charles town, Inci., ordnance works, threaten ing a delay in completion of the third smokeless powder production line. A spokesman for the AFL Electrical Workers union said there was no strike or dispute and that the men had left their jobs to take others at higher wages. The wage rate is $1.31% an hour compared with $1.50 an hour being paid at nearby defense operations. Marines from the Philadelphia Navy yard, with the approval ot labor anci management, entered the strikebound Keasbey and Mattison company at Ambler, Pa., and re moved materials required in con struction of the Navy department annex in Washington. ' Pickets made no effort to halt the detachment. The AFL-Unit^d Tex tile workers struck June 27- seeking a closed shop and a wage increase from 58 to 70 cents an hour. Lease Agreements Made For Defense Facilities WASHINGTON, July 8. — (2P> — Jesse Jones, federal loan administra tor, announced today execution of lease agreements, involving more than §32,000,000, for the expansion of defense manufacturing facilities The largest of the .agreements, ex ecuted by the Defense Plant cor poration, was W'ith the Nash-Kelvi nator corporation, Detroit, to pro vide plant and equipment to make aircraft parts at Lansing, Mich., af a cost of $15,150,744. This is in ad dition to a previous commitment ol $8;433,860 for that plant._ President Approves Keeping Troops, Guard Beyond Year WASHINGTON, July 8.— <#> — President Roosevelt today approved continuing a portion at least of the selective service army and National Guard in the active service beyond the one year for which they were originally called to duty. To muster all out at the end of that time, he said at a press confer ence, would result in impairing the efficiency of the nation’s armed out posts in both the Atlantic and Paci fic. But whether men not involved in those outposts should be released after a year, he did not say. To that extent he thus approved the proposal of General George C. Marshall that the term of service be extended. A second Marshall pro posal, that legal restrictions limiting the service of the draftees and Na tional Guard to the Western Hemis phere and American possessions, he thought of less importance. He had given up, he said, trying to deter mine where the hemispheric bound ary line ran. ‘ I Asked whether he planned to send a message to Congress requesting legislation along the lines of Mar shall’s proposal, Mr. Roosevelt re plied that he thought Congress understood the problems involved pretty well. The selectees and guardsmen, Mr. Roosevelt explained, have been dis tributed among regular Army units for training in line with the plan followed in fTie World war. Among the units containing these men, he continued, is an anti-air craft detachrilent in Hawaii, so that at the end of the one-year service a large portion of the unit might have to be brought home and replace ments would have to come from raw material. The same situation applies in Alaska, Panama, Bermuda, Trinidad or Newfoundland, he added. A measure to defer men over 28 from selective service, already passed by the Senate, is scheduled for House consideration tomorrow. GERMAN LOSSES MOUNT AS RUSSIAN DEFENSES HOLD A GAINST A TTA CKS NEW PHASE HINTED Berlin Hears Nazi Army About to Begin Second Great Offensive ENORMOUS LOSSES Vichy Report Tells of Tre mendous Costs Germans Paying For Assault' By The Associated Press BERLIN, July 8.—The bit terest _ fighting yet encoun tered in the Nazi-Soviet war was reported unfolding on the Russian plains tonight as the German infantry stormed tricky and deceptive defenses which, Nazis said, had been prepared for years by the Soviet army leaders; The German high command de voted just one sentence to the Rus sian campaign, and that is cus tomary when the fighting is hard and great isSues are at stake. The daily communique said simply: “Operations on the Eastern front are proceeding on schedule.” (Military circles in Vichy, capi tal of unoccupied France, heard that the German drive against Rus sia had been virtually stopped for four full days. Enormous German losses were given as me reason. (There were unusual delays in communication between New York and Berlin Tuesday, although service to other European capitals was not interrupted, this dispatch was delayed in transmission for more than three hours. Although the high command threw but little light on what was happening at the front, other Ger man war reports provided German readers with fuller accounts. The difficulties which the Gemans are meeting were stressed. Hint Second Phase Some observers, however, felt that behind the high command’s silence was an indication that the second phase of the smash against Russia was developing, with fresh troops preparing a new surprise for the Red army. One propaganda company reporter spoke of several Nazi armies being moved for a secret task. The army was in contact with the Stalin line at many points and the German air force was operating far beyond it, smashing at the road to Moscow, raining bombs on Rus sian reinforcements and attempt ing to pulverize any fortifications visible from the air. The German news agency DNB said that German and Rumanian troops had broken stubborn resist ance of the Russians on the Bes sarabian front and thrown the de fenders back as far as the Dnestr in some places, taking many pris oners and much war material. The Dnestr is the boundary between Bessarabia, which Russia got from Rumania a year ago, and the Ukraine. It was reported today that in the 4-day period from July 2 through July 5, a total of 584 tanks and 550 guns was brought in by the Ger mans. Rail City Destroyed The railway city of Zhitomir, ly ing in the Stalin line region and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) -, Litvinov Appeals For Aid Former Red Foreign Minis ter Asks U. S., Britain To Continue Fight BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW, July 8.—Maxim Lit vinov, returning to the public stage from which he vanished just before the fateful Russian-German pact in 1939, appealed to his old friends, the British people by radio tonight to strike at Hitler untiringly so as to give the Nazis no respite while they are engaged with Russia. The former foreign commissar spoke in English to both the British and American people. After declaring that it "was only Great Britain and her dominions, with the active support of the Unit ed States of America, which were bearing the brunt of the struggle against Hitler” prior to the attack on Russia, Litvinov said that the Red army was now “bearing the shock of Hitler’s powerful war ma chine.” "They are compelling him to throw more and more forces from the west to the east,” he said. "The English people are enjoying a cer tain respite after 12 months of in cessant bombardment, but it is now more important that Hitler should not have a moment’s respite, that he should be disappointed in his hope of a pact of truce in the west. "Each blow struck now will be more effective than ever.” Litvinov said that “the single greatest task” confront Britain, Russia, and the United States “is to wage this struggle against the common foe to the bitter end.” Litvinov, for most of the 1930’s a leading champion of the League of Nations and of the principle of collective security, declared in a bitter excoriation of Hitler and Naziism that the Nazis never kept a promise. FOUR SWEDISH SHIPS ARE SUNK Long Range Nazi Air Raid fer Pounces on British Convoy Off Africa NEW YORK, July 8.—UP)—De struction of four ships carrying the neutral flag of Sweden and of a Danish freighter flying the Red Dus ter of Britain was disclosed in mari time circles today. Sweden has now lost 102 vessels. A long range German plane pounced on a British convoy of 70 ships off the African coast and sank 1,770-ton Swedish freighter. Her crew of 18 was saved by a British freighter on the convoy. Other Swedish shins sunk were the Stig Gorthon, 2,241 tons, destroyed in the North sea, crew saved; the Calabria, 1,227 tons, with three crew men missing and presumed killed, and the 1,392-ton freighter Taberg, sunk in the Atlantic with only six survivors. The Irene Maria, 1,862 tons, a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Germans Renew Raids; Little Damage Reported (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Wednesday, July 9.— German warplanes subjected widely scattert points' in Britain to desul tory bombings early today, inter spersing their high-explosive and in cendiary missiles with fluttering leaflets proclaiming: “The battle of the Atlantic is being lost.” The propaganda-slanted raids, CIO Raps Government For Use of Soldiers WASHINGTON, July 8. — UP) — Twenty-four hours after the close of a tumultou? CIO legislative con ference, CIO headquarters issued an announcement today that the meeting had endorsed unanimously the view of its leaders in condemn ing use of federal troops in strikes. The announcement said a reso lution had been adopted approving the stand taken by CIO President Philip Murray, President R. J. Thomas of the United Auto Work ers and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers “in em phatically condemning the us& of armed forces to break strikes.'! which caused some casualties but were declared to have done little damage in the midlands, east Anglia, the southwest and northeast Scot land, were apparently in response to Britain’s incessant and heavy bomb ing of German territory on the con tinent. That campaign, hammered home by hundreds of planes, was directed last night at targets in northern France and Germany, including the Nazi naval base of Wilhelmshaven. British pilots eluded Germany’s new floating anti-aircraft batteries to blast their objectives. ("Flack” ships, or ships whose sole mission is to guard against planes, have been used by both the British and the Germans. In some cases they have been out-moded war ships, re-fitted merchant ships or trawlers heavily armed with anti aircraft batteries. Their use has been mentioned briefly in dispatches. The RAP’s attack on western Ger man bases, airfields, factories and communications, day and night, since June 11, gained in intensty authori tative statements disclosed. Attacks on German naval bases (Continued on Page Five. CoL 4) ' (V NAZIS DRIVEN BACK Red Communique Claims Berlin, Rumanian Troops Retreat In Disorder BITTER FIGHTING Enemy Tank, Artillery, Air Attacks Repulsed On All Fronts Say Russians By The Associated Press MOSCOW, Wednesday, July 9.—The Red army today an nounced it had launched a series of counter - attacks against German forces at many points along a 1,000 mile front stretching almost from the Black sea to the Baltic, successfully driving the invaders back in disorder in big tank, artillery and air plane battles. At the southern end of the long front Soviet troops, said a commu nique of the Soviet Information bu reau, “carried out a counter-attack against Rumanian and German troops, driving • them back in dis order beyond the Prut,” the river border between Bessarabia and Ru mania proper which the Germans crossed several days ago. In the vicinity of Balti in the cen ter of Bessarabia, apparently the scene of the bitterest fighting here, the Germans withdrew in disorder ‘‘throwing away arms and equip ment,” said the communique. At other points, particularly at Ostrov, in the Baltic region near the Estonian border, at Polotsk, • to the south, and in the Novograd Volynski sector, locale of the main German thrust toward lev and the' Ukraine, Russian troops ‘‘support ed by artillery, tanks and aircraft made a number of powerful count er-attacks, holding up the enemy advance,” the communique stated. Nazi-Repulsed In the Novograd-Volynskl region, where the Germans have been pounding hard for several days, the Russian forces battled especially fiercely, stubbornly repulsing a large German offensive by tank units, the Soviet statement said. Fierce fighting continued on into Wednesday in the area about Polotsk near the Latvian border, with the Germans trying to en trench themselves on the northei 1 banks of the Dvina river, big artery which flows into the Baltic and forms a main Russian defense barrier. This attack was centered at Borkovichi, which lies 20 miles northwest of Polotsk. Vessels of the Russian northern fleet, with air force cooperation, “made a successful landing for co operation with the Red army," the communique said, without stating (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) GAUSESERVICES SET FOR TODAY Business Manager of Coun ty Schools Dies Follow ing Heart Attack Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock for Thomas J. Gause, business manager of the New Hanover county school system for the past 20 years, who (lied at his home yesterday morning after a few hours illness. The rites will be conducted from the late residence at 514 Market street, with Dr. J. Harry Whitmore, Rev. Alexander Miller and Rev. Ed win F. Keever ofiieiating. At the time of his death, which resulted from a heart attack suf fered Monday night, Mr. Gause was 59 years old. H. M. Roland, superintendent of schools, said Mr. Gause worked late Monday in the office of the board of education, finishing up his reports for the fiscal year just ended. Mr. Roland paid high tribute to Mr. Gause and the work he has done in connection with the school system for the last generation. He was charged with administraton of buildings and grounds and with su pervision of the bookkeeping divis ion of the school system. J. R. Hollis, superintendent of the New Hanover welfare depart ment, said he had learned with re gret of the death of Mr. Gause, with whom he served in France as a member of the American Expedi tionary Force during the first World war. Prior to the entry of the United States into that conflict in April. 1917, Mr. Gause had been for years (Continued on Page Five. CoL (£
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