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_ —_ Ssrved By Leased Wire Of The 4 ■*■ 4 rflt+t' ♦ 4 k ( Total Net Paid Htlmttt0tnn Utanmuj mat VOL. 74—NO. 273___■ . WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Army Considers City As Center For New Depot [TO SERVE MANEUVERS Choice Lies Between Wil mington, Columbia, S..C.; Big Payroll Involved Location of a gigantic fresh fruits J vegetable procurement depot in Wilmington in conjunction with the (all maneuvers of 400,000 U. S. troops s seen as likely last night with word that Capt. J. A. Roberts would arrive here before Sept. 15 to “look ever the situation.’’ Columbia, S. C„ if also bidding for the supply depot. Figuring in dollars and cents what tl,e produce supply project would mean to the city and to nearby farm ers could not be definitely determin ed' but it was said that it would run into thousands of dollars, with $100, (iiio in salaries alone going to civil ian workers, employed during the three month period, and operating expenses. Buyers at the market, should it be located here, would have govern mental authority vested in them to spend up to $100,000 in cash on the open market during any one period for fresh supplies such as potatoes, oranges, apples, lemons, beans, ten der greens of all sorts and other vegetables that go to round out healthy meals for the soldiers while they are at actual war maneuvers in the field. Surplus Bread In addition to the produce market, buyers have already been vested the power to purchase all the surplus bread that can be turned out in all Wilmington balftries. This buying would mean an average of 50.000 loaves of bread daily for a period of at least ID days, or until such time as the regular army field bakery could be set up for the production of between 100,000 and 200,000 loaves of field bread daily. Wilmington, alone would have based here some 425 enlisted men and 50 officers during the maneu vers, these in addition to the neces sary 150 civilian workers that it will require if the procurement de pot is opened. The enlisted men in clude. 125 white and 300 colored. An idea of the produce that will be purchased though the market here is the fact that the soldiers will re (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) DAVIS REACHES FULL STRENGTH Arrival of 500 Selectees to Give Anti-Aircraft Center 20,000 Complement Camp Davis will reach its full strength of 20,000 officers and en listed men at noon today with the arrival of 500 New York selectees for assignment to the 96th Coast Artillery, anti-aircraft regiment, it Ras announced last night. Arrival of the group shortly be fore noon today will boost the payroll at the camp to better than 51,000,000. the greater part of which finds its way into Wilmington des pite the fact that the training cen ter is located in Onslow county, BO miles north of the city. The million-dollar figure includes the pay of 900 civilian workers at the camp, and under the current expansion program it is said that the civilian staff will be increased f° 1,200 men and women. First From Bragg The first troops for Camp Davis Jere sent from Fort Bragg last " ay. These were assigned to the station complement as a cadre ground which additional arrivals 'ere given their training. ..Since then, there have arrived at inter -tfmtinued on Page Three; Col. 2) WEATHER y __ .. FORECAST Varolina: Pair in interior, r ’ with showers along the coast, tun nu<!,l C00’ Thursday, Friday sunny 8111 Warm. lit tiv 1' 8- Weather Bureau) J^'eMulogical data for the 24 hours mS 7:39 p. m. yseterday). t , Temperature fs ™ '1 m. 79; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m. bluin'P- m' 10; maximum 88; mini um 70; mean 79: normal 77. i.in Humidity «*. 7°">■ 94: 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. DJ’ 7;30 p. m. fig.. T<w=i , Precipitation p m *ri n7or *,le 24 hours ending 7:30 of 2| ,np!‘es. Total since the first thc month 3.14 inches, rp Tides P°r Today S p m Tale Tallies published by TJ. - ast and Geodetic Survey). Wilmington- ^9a M«sonboro Inlet- fi'na 12:20a Rum.; . 6:39p 12:29p j ’l l - ’le 3:38a; sunset 6:52p; moonrige 1J’ moonsel 6:05p. vil'lem «Car river sta*e »* Fayette 9.15 feet. /Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Army's Morale High, Says Fort Bragg Major CHAPEL HILL, Aug. 20.—Iff) —Despite all the rumors to the contrary, the morale among soldiers now in camps is, on the whole, exceptionally good, Major James W. McNeer, pro vost marshal of Fort Bragg, told delegates to the American Legion’s Tar Heel Boys’ State at the University here today. “Among the 65,000 soldiers and officers now stationed at Fort Bragg there have been very, very few suicides, and, according to official estimates there have been only 93 de sertions out of every 10,000 sol diers,” he declared. SOUTH AMERICANS SLASH AT NAZIS Argentina Demands Politi cally-Active Press Attache Appear (or Questioning BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 20.—(-?’)—A congressional committee investigating anti-Argentine activi ties insisted today that Gottfried Sandstede, German embassy press atache, appear before it for question ing after Sandstede refused on the grounds of diplomatic immunity. While the capital speculated on a report that the German ambassador. Edmund von Thermann, had been recalled to Berlin—a report the em bassy denied—there was another in cident of renewed friction between the two governments. Erich Otto Meynen, German charge d’affaires, protested, to the foreign office against newspaper pictures purporting to show the burning of documents in the German embassy courtyard. Despite the embassy’s denial of von Thermann's recall, Argentine foreign office sources initmated they expect ed some change in German diplo matic setup here. Lacks Immunity In an exchange of notes with the foregin office the congressional com mittee contended Sandstede was not entitled to diplomatic immunity be cause he was a salaried employe of a commercial firm and had been called to testify in that capacity. Meynen said the embassy court yard pictures appearing in the pro democratic afternoon newspaper, La Critica, did not show burning docu ments “but merely leaves and branches of trees the gardener had pruned.” There also were reports in diplo matic circles that von Thermann’s successor already had arrived from Berlin. TO BUILD PLANTS WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—m —Jesse Jones, federal loan ad ministrator, announced today the government would build, at a cost of $52,000,000, alumi num plants in Arkansas, New York, and the Bonneville dam area. NEW NAZI BATTLESHIP IN ACTION—According to the official Nazi caption with this photo, which was flashed by radio from Berlin to New York, a new German battleship is shown firing her 15-inch guns at sea. The turret arrangement is similar to that on the battleship Bismarck, sunk by the British on her maiden cruise in May. TOBACCO HOLDS ABOVE $30 MARK Unfavorable Weather Cuts Volume, Though Prices Consistently Good Despite heavy rains throughout the Border Belt yesterday, sales were very satisfactory with some markets reporting • the highest av erages for the season. The Fair mont Tobacco Board of Trade re ported sales of 1,081,658 pounds for an average of $30.50 and a total of $329,874.01, to lead all other markets. The top basket price reached $59.00. Approximately 2,200 .tobacco growers realized profits on the Whiteville market as the town was crowded with visitors and the mer chants were extremely busy. The same high level of prices continued throughout the day with an oc casional pile of wrappers shooting up to $55 to $58. Hundreds of farmers were averaging around $40 per hundred on their entire sale ranging from 5 to 8 piles. No tags were turned as the auctioneers moved 890,000 pounds with an av erage of $30. The quality of the golden leaf dropped sharply on the Tabor City market, but prices held up very well. 204,420 pounds were sold for an average of $28.53 per hundred. Common grades were sky high and some farmers re ported prices were “highest they ever received for trash,” running as high as $36. Quality leaf hit a new high of $50, but the volume diminished as marketing moved up stalk from lugs and primings to leaf and tips. Rain interferred with sales and deliveries on the Chadbourn mar ket with 101,972 pounds cleared for an average of $29.40. The high est basket price reached during the day was $47. 1 VALTIN ASKS PARDON SACREMENTO, Calif., Aug. 20.—(/P)—Jan Valtan, author of the book “Out of the Night,” applied to Gov. Culbert L. Ol son today for a pardon as a step in his tight against de portation to Germany. Proposed Truck Route Here Wins Endorsement Openly endorsing the Junior Chamber of Commerce's proposal before city council that a separate truck route be established through Wilmington to help relieve down town traffic problems, Dr. Guy Gooding of Kenansville, district highway commissioner, said through the Junior Chamber that he would lend his every effort to the j^-oject. A member of the Jaycees report ed that Dr. Gooding said the state highway commission would bear the expenses of paving whatever sec tions of the proposed route that were in need of such repairs. First plans for such a- route — customary in most large cities where the main highway leads through the heart of the downtown area—was brought before the coun cil yesterday by Claude O’Shields, president of the Junior Chamber. Mr, O’Shields, speaking in behalf of the entire 'organization, said that the group considered the present route on Third street constituted “a menace to life and property” and that action to alleviate the hazfrd be taken as soon as possible. No Action Taken Although no action was taken by council, Mayor Hargrove Bellamy told Mr. O’Shields and a committee that appeared with him, that the city had been giving such a plan a thorough study and that the Jay cees could rest assured that their proposed route would be given care ful consideration. Other members of the committee were Richard A. Shew Robert Dan nenbaum and Robert Montgomery. “Third street',’ Mr. o’Shields told the couricil members, “is one of our most congested traffic arteries, and I believe the passage of large trucks, especially those carrying (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Bellamy to Confer With Federal Agency In Washington Today Mayor Hargrove Bellamy will confer in Washington today with Col. M. E. Gilmore, director of the defense public works division of the Federal Works Agency re garding certain municipal needs to meet the needs of the growing “defense” population of this city. Among requests which are-ex pected to top the list are those for a water and sewer extension project and additional facilities to take care of educational require ments on a greatly expended school enrollment this year. The Mayor is expected to base his arguments on the fact that the city has grown in the last year from a 35,000 population to a cur rent figure of 70,000 and an antici pated total of 80,000 by the first of the year. ^ f President Asks End To Navy Shipyard Row By The Associated Press New efforts to settle the 13-day shipyards strike at Kearny, N. J., came to naught yesterday, and Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, of De troit, threatened to call upon “the might of government’’ to end a street car and bus transportation tie-up in his city. In Washington, John Green, president of the CIO Shipyard Workers union which is striking against the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock company, at Kearny, announced after a two-hour con ference with the hnanagement that attempts to settle the dispute had failed. Green said he was calling upon President Roosevelt to act. Earlier in the uay, the white house made known that the Chief Executive had asked both sides to put the importance of national defense above their differenes. The Kearny concern has con tracts for $493,000,000 worth of Navy and merchant Marine ship building. , After a conference with L. H. Korndorff, the shipyard company president, Green said: “We were not able to agree on anything.” This failure revived speculation that the government might accept an offer of the company to turn over the strike-bound plant to the navy. Detroit Strike The Detroit strike, called early in the day as the result of an AFL-CIO jurisdictional dispute, forced some 400,000 office and fac tory workers to seek emergency means of getting to their jobs. Union-spokesmen said that the strike was called by the Amalga mated Association of Street Elec trical Railway and Motor Coach Operators of America (AFL to enforce a demand that the union act as sole bargaining agent for the operators of the municipally owned transportation system. The demand, which has been contested by a rival union, the State, County and Municipal Work ers of America (CIO), was reject ed by Mayor Jeffries, who con tended the AFL union was in ef fect demanding a closed shop. 2 STATE REVENUE HEAD RE-NAMED Governor Broughton Ap points Maxwell for Fourth Term as Finance Chief RALEIGH, Aug. 20.—(®—Gover nor Broughton today reappointed Allen J. Maxwell commissioner of revenue for a term expiring Jan uary 1, 1945. With the appointment of Max well, the governor quieted persis tent rumors that Maxwell would be appointed head of a new divi sion of tax research and that some one else—the rumors suggested Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill —would be placed at the head of the state’s revenue department. Maxwell was one of several can didates who ran against Governor Broughton in the Democratic gub ernatorial primary last year. Max well ran third in the primary and threw his support to Broughton afterwards, probably influencing W. P. Horton of Pittsboro, who (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) NO APPEASEMENT WITH JAPS, EDEN Foreign Secretary Avers Britain Will Not Tolerate Further Moves South By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 20.—Newspaper warnings that Britain’s newly-dis. closed arrangements for possible trade with Japan might be con sidered appeasement brought hur ried insistence from authbmative quarters tonight that the govern ment was not retreating in the least from its stand against ag gression in the Far East. ■ Recalling Foreign Secretary An thony Eden’s recent declaration< that kid glove diplomacy was in the discard, these sources said Britain was “standing absolutely in line with the United States and Netherlands governments and not receding a single inch from the stand taken when Japanese as sets were frozen.” • At the same time, these sources (Continued on Pa^fe Three; Col. 1) EAST’S GASOLINE RESERVE DOWN TO 10-DAY SUPPLY Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Discloses Sit * uation Alarmingly Acute; Predicts Harsh Regulations WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—I#)— Federal authorities reported today that the Eastern oil shortage had finally reached the acute stage, that reserve stocks had diminished to a ten-day supply and that the situation was “perilous.” Ralph K. Davies, deputy petrol eum coordinator, said stocks dropped 893,000 barrels last week, as the diversion of tankers to the British service made its conse quences apparent. Davies hinted that more drastic measures than the present limited rationing might be necessary. He also denounced as near - sighted prophets” those who had called the shortage “phony.” “We must conserve gasoline stocks now to avoid a drastic short age this winter when our tankers must be used to haul fuel oils un less people are to be left to freeze and our defense industry shut down for lack of power,” he said. Gasoline in storage in the East ern area last week totalled 20, 476.000 barrels, he said, of which about 14,000,000 were unavailable for use because they were at the bottom of tanks, filled with sludge, or in process of refining. The re mainder, 6,476,000 barrels, consti tute only a ten-day supply. Continuing, he gave these sta tistics on the situation: Gasoline inventories dropped 893.000 barrels last week. Heating and fuel oils in storage are 1,400,000 barrels less than a year ago this time. Heavy industrial oils are some 2.500.000 barrels less than a year ago, with the demand for them up ten per cent. An average daily shipment of 461,500 barrels from Gulf coast (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) REDS COUNTER-ATTACK WITH AIR-BORNE TANKS; HITLER CLAIMS GAIN __ a, w —- 1 NAZIS CITE ADVANCE Special Communique Tells of Crushing Defeat of So viet on Three Fronts By the Associated Press BERLIN, Aug. 20.—A crushing defeat of the Russians around Go mel on the central front, with de struction or capture of parts of 25 Red army divisions and two brigades of air-borne troops, run ning to a total of 78,000 prisoners, was reported late tonight in a spe cial communique from Adolf Hit ler’s field headquarters. While earlier accounts from the front pictured the Red army as near catastrophe in a bitter battle in the Ukraine for the bridgeheads of the lower Dnieper, the spot light suddenly was snmea m me previously - ignored central sector with this briei announcement: “In the area around and north of Gomel, a battle has taken place which ended in a crushing defeat for the Soviet army. “Part of 17 infantry divisions, one motorized, two tank and five cavalrjv divisions, as well as two brigades of troops landed from the air were defeated, destroyed or taken prisoner. “Seventy-eight thousand prison ers, 144 tanks, 700 guns and two armored trains fell into our hands.” South of Smolensk Gomel is about 170 miles south of Smolensk and 140 miles north of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine. Twenty - five Russian divisions would total 375,000 or more men, while the two air-borne brigades would number possibly 5,000 or more. In addition to the 78,000 captives claimed at Gomel, German mili tary quartet's said 330,000 Russians had been taken prisoner thus far in the Ukraine. In that southern sector oi deep est German penetration, the Rus sians were said to have counter attacked with large tank forma tions to relieve the German pres sure so that sizable Soviet units could withdraw to the east bank of the broad Dnieper. The high command reported suc cessful attacks on the bridgeheads with destruction of 65 tanks. The dispatches from the front described the Red army bridge heads as tew and far between, and the high command has said as much. Dive - bomber attacks on boatloads of fleeing Russian troops, moreover, were said to have splotched the river with countless dead. Fight New Positions The German strategy was be lieved to be not only to chase the Russians to the eastern bank, but also to keep them from taking new positions there. German strat egists said the Russian position, even on the eastern side of the lower river, would not be tenable long, because there is little pros pect of retreat. To the southeast of the big bend in -the river the sea of Azov is less than 100 miles away, only a short push for the German forces which already have driven 6 0 0 miles through the Ukraine. Duke of Kent Will Visit Roosevelt on Week-End WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—OW —The state department an nounced today that the Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI of Great Britain, would spend the coming week-end with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park and return with him to Washington Monday. The duke, who has been tour ing Canada, will arrive by air plane at LaGuardia Airport, New York, Saturday. They will go immediately to Hyde Park. The party will return here Monday for dinner at the White House. BRITAIN SEES LONG RED WAR Soviet Assurances Given Hopkins Reaffirm Faith in Ability to Hold Nazis LONDON, Aug. 20.—(A'—Official optimism in Washington and Lon don over Russia’s chance in the struggle with Germany is based on three assurances given to Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter Churchill by Harry Hopkins during their Atlantic conference, it was reported reliably tonight. The assurances which emerged from Hopkins’ conference with Russia’s Premier Joseph Stalin on his recent visit to Russia were these: 1. Nazi efforts to raise a fifth column within Russia have failed; 2. Despite the terrific blows of the German armies, Moscow has been able to maintain unbroken communications between general headquarters and the three field army groups; 3. Soviet industrial expansion in the past five years has been on such a scale that even if the Ger mans hold the Western Ukraine the Russians will be able—with some American and British help for immediate needs—to equip new armies and organize new air for mations for the duration of a long war. Explaining failure of a German fifth column in Russia, an inform ant declared, “There were numer ous Nazi spies and fifth columnists in Russia at the outbreak of the war,” he said. “These were al lowed to work until the OGPU (Russian secret police) had the information it needed. Then they were shot.” “Stalin, like Hitler, is the real war leader of his nation,” the in formant said. “He maps the grand strategy of the campaign and leaves it to the army commanders to carry out.” Although the Soviet government was said to have been hesitant at first to accept British promises of aid, Moscow now is reported con siderably impressed by the mes sage from Roosevelt and Churchill. Hopkins is believed to have im pressed Stalin with Britain’s con (Continued on rage Three; Col. 2) French Deny Surrender Of Fleet In Wooing U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — UP) — Contending that the Vichy govern ment had been unjustly accused of planning to surrender the fleet and Atlantic naval bases to Germany, Gaston Henry-Haye, French ambas sador, sought today to repair the strained relations with the United States resulting from new evidence of Franco-German collaboration. What success he had was not im mediately apparent for Secretary of State Hull declined to make any com ment on their conference. It was believed, however, that the ambas sador was told that future Franco U. S. Press Praised For Honest, Accurate News Dissemination BOSTON, Aug. 20.—W—.Ameri can press associations are th^ fair est and finest news gathering and news disseminating agencies in the world, Lowell Mellett, administra tive aid to President Roosevelt, says'in an article written for the September issue' of the Atlantic monthly. Mellett says that press associa tions and the American radio have set a standard of truthful report ing that hgs caused their reports to be believed, and nothing except a sudden change to dishonesty can take that advantage away from them. American relations depended upon the acts of the Vichy government in carrying out its collaboration decis ions. Henry-Haye said he called on his own initiative to give Hull an expla nation of Chief of State Petain's speech last week in which the an gered marshal spoke of collaboration with Germany as “a long term labor” and said the French must turn them selves "toward broad perspectives which can open up a reconciled conti nent.” In telling newsmen of his confer ence with Hull, the ambassador as serted that there was nothnig in the Petain address to justify an assump tion that “we intend to surrender the fleet or take new military steps.” France by necessity, he said, had to do some things which might not entirely please the United States. But he adde'd that the leaders of France were as good Frenchmen as could be found anywhere and that his one desire was to maintain the long-existing friendly relations with the United States. He said he had shown Secretary Hull a collection of American press cartoons and articles which he de scribed as “insulting” to Marshal Petain. The ambassador said that since his arrival here a year ago the French government has “been accused of doing many things which have not been done,” citing as examples the surrender of the. fleet and naval bases. > NAZI ACTION FOILED _ ! Russians Claim Re-capture of 5 Towns Held by Ger mans in Center Sector - i By The Associated Press 4 MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 21. —The Russians reported today that airborne tanks laden with Red arrpy infantrymen landed deep within the German lines and dealt' a slashing blow in a continuing series of counter-attacks while a similar Nazi stratagem was crush ed by Soviet “exterminator’* squads. Red Star, the Soviet army news paper, said these Russian counter attacks ou the central front al ready had broken three German defense lines and recaptured five population centers, the flying tank troopers and foot soldiers sailing down to decide the issue at the third German line. The Soviet Information bureau, while ignoring this account said the Germans landed large para chute forces and three tankettes behind the Russian lines at an un disclosed place but that the whole party was smashed. The communique listed the ma jor battle areas as Novgorod, Kin gisepp and Staraya Russia, all in the Leningrad defense zone from the Estonian border to the Lake Ilmen region about 140 miles south of Leningrad; Gomel, in the cen tral zone where Red Star told of success; and around Odessa, the big Ukraine port on the Black sea in the sector where the Germans have made their deepest gains. (A special communique from Adolf Hitler's headquarters late Wednesday claimed the smashing of 25 Russian divisions in a gi gantic battle around Gomel, with capture of 78,00c prisoners, many tanks, guns and two armored trains. It tended to confirm the Russian flying tank story, saying two brigades of air-borne Russians were defeated or captured.) Naval Action The navy paper, Red Fleet, said also that the Hango base domi nating the entrance to the Baltic sea was staving off repeated Ger man-Finnish attacks and had made counter-raids capturing islands surrounding that southwestern tip of Finland. In the central land area, not otherwise identified, the forces of General Konev have been advanc ing for three days, Red Star said. First, tlie Russians threw tanks, planes, artillery and infantry into a titantic assault which drove the Germans out of front lines and routed them a second time when (Continued on Pago Three; Col. 5) PETAIN DECREES PROVINCIAL RULE Orders Nation Under Me dieval Type Government; Politics Banned VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 20.—<••?)—Chief of .State Marshal re tain today definitely ordered reor ganization of France along medieval provincial lines. He instructed the national council, charged with the reorganization, to create virtually autonomonous pro vincial regimes, ruled by governors whose authority and prestige would be incontestable. The new setup, as outlined by the marshal, carries out one of his lav orite ideas of "centralized decentrali zation,” or authoritative local gov ernments subject to the central gov ernment only for general policies. His letter told the committee that the head of each province "will be a governor, a high personality repre senting the chief of state,” the pro vincial council, he said, will be a sim ple advisory body and “in no case shall it be transformed into a politi cal assembly.” Youths Accused of Cuban Bombing Are Released HAVANA, Aug. 20—UP)—Urgency court today released for lack of evi dence four youths detained in con nection with one of four"bombings here Monday night. The court said there was no other 'accusation than that of the proprietor of one of the bombed es tablishments, and that poljce labora tory tests showed existence of no nitrate on the hands or clothing of the four youths. Three of them had been held in jail, the fourth, lie cause of youth, in custody of . hi* parents. h
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